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Berlin International Film Festival
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The Berlin International Film Festival, also called the Berlinale, is one of the worlds leading film festivals and most reputable media events. It is held annually in Berlin, Germany, founded in West Berlin in 1951, the festival has been celebrated annually in February since 1978. With around 300,000 tickets sold and 500,000 admissions it is considered the largest publicly attended film festival based on actual attendance rates. Up to 400 films are shown in sections, representing a comprehensive array of the cinematic world. Around twenty films compete for the called the Golden and Silver Bears. Since 2001 the director of the festival has been Dieter Kosslick, the European Film Market, a film trade fair held simultaneously to the Berlinale, is a major industry meeting for the international film circuit. The trade fair serves distributors, film buyers, producers, financiers, the Berlinale Talent Campus, a week-long series of lectures and workshops, gathers young filmmakers from around the globe. It partners with the festival itself and is considered to be a forum for upcoming artists, the festival, the EFM and other satellite events are attended by around 20,000 professionals from over 130 countries. More than 4200 journalists are responsible for the exposure in over 110 countries. At high-profile feature film premieres, movie stars and celebrities are present at the red carpet, the Berlinale has established a cosmopolitan character integrating art, glamour, commerce and a global media attention. The Berlin International Film Festival was founded in West Berlin in 1951, alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca opened the first Berlinale. Although the film had premiered in 1940, many Germans had been unable to watch it until after the war ended, since 1978 the festival has been celebrated annually in February. The next-to-most recent festival, the 66th Berlinale, was held from 11 February to 21 February 2016, meryl Streep presided over the international jury. Joel and Ethan Coens film Hail, Caesar. was selected to open the festival, the Golden Bear was awarded to the Italian documentary Fire at Sea, directed by Gianfranco Rosi. The 67th Berlin International Film Festival was held February 9 to February 19,2017, the festival is composed of seven different film sections. Films are chosen in each category by a director with the advice of a committee of film experts. Categories include, Competition, comprises feature-length films yet to be released outside their country of origin, films in the Competition section compete for several prizes, including the top Golden Bear for the best film and a series of Silver Bears for acting, writing and production. Panorama, comprises new independent and arthouse films that deal with controversial subjects or unconventional aesthetic styles, films in the category are intended to provoke discussion, and have historically involved themes such as LGBT issues
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New York City
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The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over an area of about 302.6 square miles. Located at the tip of the state of New York. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has described as the cultural and financial capital of the world. Situated on one of the worlds largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, the five boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island – were consolidated into a single city in 1898. In 2013, the MSA produced a gross metropolitan product of nearly US$1.39 trillion, in 2012, the CSA generated a GMP of over US$1.55 trillion. NYCs MSA and CSA GDP are higher than all but 11 and 12 countries, New York City traces its origin to its 1624 founding in Lower Manhattan as a trading post by colonists of the Dutch Republic and was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The city and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. It has been the countrys largest city since 1790, the Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a symbol of the United States and its democracy. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. Several sources have ranked New York the most photographed city in the world, the names of many of the citys bridges, tapered skyscrapers, and parks are known around the world. Manhattans real estate market is among the most expensive in the world, Manhattans Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere, with multiple signature Chinatowns developing across the city. Providing continuous 24/7 service, the New York City Subway is one of the most extensive metro systems worldwide, with 472 stations in operation. Over 120 colleges and universities are located in New York City, including Columbia University, New York University, and Rockefeller University, during the Wisconsinan glaciation, the New York City region was situated at the edge of a large ice sheet over 1,000 feet in depth. The ice sheet scraped away large amounts of soil, leaving the bedrock that serves as the foundation for much of New York City today. Later on, movement of the ice sheet would contribute to the separation of what are now Long Island and Staten Island. The first documented visit by a European was in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzano, a Florentine explorer in the service of the French crown and he claimed the area for France and named it Nouvelle Angoulême. Heavy ice kept him from further exploration, and he returned to Spain in August and he proceeded to sail up what the Dutch would name the North River, named first by Hudson as the Mauritius after Maurice, Prince of Orange
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Christopher Lambert
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Christophe Guy Denis Lambert, known as Christopher Lambert, is a French actor. He may be best known for his role as Connor MacLeod in Highlander and subsequent movie franchise series of the same name. He is also known for his roles as Tarzan in Greystoke, The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, Lambert was born in Great Neck, New York. His father was a French diplomat at the United Nations, Lambert was raised in Geneva from infancy and moved to Paris in his teens. That same year, he played his first lead role in a French film by appearing opposite Catherine Deneuve in Paroles et musique. In 1985, Lambert played the lead in Luc Bessons Subway. Highlander, in which he starred as Connor MacLeod, was an international success, Lambert also appeared as MacLeod in the music video for Queens Princes of the Universe. To Kill a Priest, in which he played a character based on Jerzy Popiełuszko, was received by critics but was a financial failure. Lacking a recent box-office success, Lambert agreed to appear in the first Highlander sequel, Highlander II, The Quickening, which was poorly received. During the 1990s, Lambert starred in action, thriller and science fiction such as Knight Moves, Fortress, Gunmen and Mean Guns. His filmography included low-budget films such as Adrenalin, Fear the Rush, some of his films had only a direct-to-video release. In the course of that decade, Lambert also occasionally appeared in French films such as Max et Jérémie, in 1995, he played the role of the thunder god Raiden in a movie adaptation of the popular video game series Mortal Kombat. Lambert was interested in reprising his character in the sequel, Mortal Kombat, Annihilation, but he was committed to his role in Beowulf, and the role was given to James Remar. Lambert is also active as a producer and has produced French films such as Patrick Braoudés Génial, mes parents divorcent. In 2001, he played the role of Gallic chieftain Vercingetorix in the France-Canada production Druids. In 2009, Lambert was a lead in Claire Denis White Material, Lambert had a role in the Marvel Comics film Ghost Rider, Spirit of Vengeance in 2012. He underwent sword training for three months and shaved his head, shortly afterwards, he appeared as Marcel Janvier in 6 episodes of NCIS, Los Angeles. Lambert was married to Diane Lane from October 1988 to 1994 and they have a daughter, Eleanor Jasmine
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Josh Brolin
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Josh James Brolin is an American actor. His first role was in the 1985 film The Goonies, other roles include Hollow Man, In the Valley of Elah, American Gangster, True Grit, and Sin City, A Dame to Kill For. In 2015, he appeared in Everest and Sicario, Brolin was born in Santa Monica, California, the son of Jane Cameron, a wildlife activist who was a native of Corpus Christi, Texas, and actor James Brolin. Brolin was raised on a ranch in Templeton, California, with exposure to his fathers acting career. His parents divorced when he was 16 years old, in 1998 his father married his third wife, singer/actress Barbra Streisand. Brolin became interested in acting after taking an acting class in high school. Brolin explained in a 2014 interview that during his teenage years, in his description of the group, he stated, It was Santa Barbara. You either had the children of rich, neglectful parents or children of poor, neglectful parents, but we basically grew up the same way. Ive never seen a group like that before or since. He admitted to stealing cars to pay for his use, which included heroin, a drug that he explained he did not like, I mean, I never got into it and I never died from it. The majority of the friends whom he grew up with died, Brolin started his career in TV films and guest spots on TV shows before getting a more notable role as Brand Walsh in the Richard Donner-directed film The Goonies. He was considered for the role of Tom Hanson in the series 21 Jump Street, he and Johnny Depp were the finalists for the role, the role was ultimately awarded to Depp. Brolin guest-starred in an episode of the show in its first season, Brolin implied that he turned away from film acting for years after the premiere of his second film, Thrashin, where he witnessed what he called horrendous acting on his part. For several years, he appeared in roles in Rochester, New York, often alongside mentor. One of Brolins more prominent roles early in his career was that of Wild Bill Hickok in the ABC western TV series The Young Riders, which lasted three seasons. Two other TV series he was involved in include the Aaron Spelling production Winnetka Road and Mister Sterling and he also played the lead role in the Coen brothers Academy Award-winning film No Country for Old Men. Brolin also starred in another Oliver Stone film in 2008 called W. a biopic about key events in the life of President George W. Bush, Stone pursued an initially hesitant Brolin for the role. He made news by wearing a White Knot to the Academy Awards ceremony to demonstrate solidarity with the equality movement
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A Little Romance
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A Little Romance is a 1979 American Technicolor and Panavision romantic comedy film directed by George Roy Hill and starring Laurence Olivier, Thelonious Bernard, and Diane Lane in her film debut. The screenplay was written by Allan Burns and George Roy Hill, the original music score was composed by Georges Delerue. The film won the 1979 Academy Award for Best Original Score for Georges Delerue and it also received two Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor for Laurence Olivier and Best Original Score for Delerue. It was the first film released by Orion Pictures, Lauren King is a book-smart 13-year-old American girl with an IQ of 167 living in Paris with her affluent family. She spends her time reading Heidegger. Daniel Michon is a street-wise 13-year-old French boy who lives in La Garenne with his father and he loves Hollywood films and amuses himself handicapping theoretical wagers on horse races. The two meet in the Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte, where a movie is being filmed, and fall in love. Laurens self-absorbed mother, who consorts openly with her director boyfriend George in front of Lauren and her stepfather, fiercely objects to the romance. When Daniel punches George at Laurens birthday party for making a crude innuendo about Lauren, Lauren and Daniel meet Julius Santorin, a quirky but kindly gentleman, literally by accident. He bores Daniel but fascinates Lauren with stories of his life, Julius and Lauren share a mutual love of the poetry of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and he claims to have lived at one time in the Brownings villa in Venice. This leads Julius to tell of a tradition that if a couple kiss in a gondola beneath the Bridge of Sighs in Venice at sunset while the bells toll. Told that her family will be returning to America soon, Lauren hatches a plan to travel to Venice with Daniel, in the meantime Laurens family discovers she is missing and spark an international investigation, believing Lauren has been abducted. They hitch a ride with an American couple from Columbus, Ohio, the Duryeas, in Verona the travelers go out to dinner together, where Bob Duryea discovers that his wallet has been stolen. The following morning Lauren and Daniel leave the hotel early to visit places associated with Romeo, at breakfast, the Ohio couple notices Laurens picture in an Italian newspaper with the caption Dove. Janet thinks it means bird. peace but Bob deduces its asking where she is, Julius has also seen the paper and intercepts Lauren and Daniel on their way back to the hotel, angry that Lauren lied to him about going to Venice to visit her sick mother. He angrily tells them that now thinks that he is a kidnapper, for which they will put me away. Because they can no longer go back to the hotel, they join a local race to escape Verona. Julius soon falls behind and Lauren persuades Daniel to go back for him and they find his bike abandoned and him collapsed from exhaustion
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Unfaithful (2002 film)
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Unfaithful is a 2002 American thriller drama film directed by Adrian Lyne and starring Richard Gere, Diane Lane, Chad Lowe, Dominic Chianese and Olivier Martinez. It was adapted by Alvin Sargent and William Broyles Jr. from the French film The Unfaithful Wife by the noted director Claude Chabrol. It tells about a living in suburban New York City whose marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife indulges in an adulterous affair with a stranger she encounters by chance. Unfaithful grossed $52 million in North America and a total of $119 million worldwide, despite mixed reviews overall, Lane received much praise for her performance. She won awards for best actress from the National Society of Film Critics and New York Film Critics, and was nominated for a Golden Globe, Unfaithful is Lynes last film to date. Edward and Connie Sumner are a couple living in the northern suburbs of New York City with their 8-year-old son. Their relationship is loving, but is lacking due to their schedules. One afternoon, Connie goes shopping for Charlies upcoming birthday party and she is caught in a heavy windstorm, and runs into a handsome stranger. They both fall, and Connie scrapes her knees and he offers to treat her injuries in his apartment, and she accepts. Inside, the man himself as Paul Martel, a 27-year-old used book salesman. Paul makes small advances toward Connie, which makes her uncomfortable, before doing so, Paul gives her a book of Persian poetry as a gift. After returning home, Connie tells Edward what happened, and he suggests they buy Paul a thank-you gift, while reading the book Paul gave her, Connie finds his phone number inside. Connie calls Paul for his address, but he invites her over for coffee instead, Paul reads Connie a book in Braille amidst mild flirting. Connie, despite her feelings of attraction, leaves, Connie is unable to stop thinking about Paul, and decides to visit him with a bag of muffins. After Connie and Paul have a dance, she stops, saying she cant continue, when she returns to retrieve her coat, Paul literally sweeps her off her feet and into his bedroom. While on a ride home via the Metro-North Railroad, Connie recalls their sexual encounter. She is thrilled by the attention she is receiving from a younger man. Connie uses her work at a charity event as an excuse to visit Paul more frequently, Edward, suspicious, decides to hire private investigator, Frank Wilson, to follow her
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Academy Awards
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The various category winners are awarded a copy of a golden statuette, officially called the Academy Award of Merit, which has become commonly known by its nickname Oscar. The awards, first presented in 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, are overseen by AMPAS, the awards ceremony was first broadcast on radio in 1930 and televised for the first time in 1953. It is now live in more than 200 countries and can be streamed live online. The Academy Awards ceremony is the oldest worldwide entertainment awards ceremony and its equivalents – the Emmy Awards for television, the Tony Awards for theater, and the Grammy Awards for music and recording – are modeled after the Academy Awards. The 89th Academy Awards ceremony, honoring the best films of 2016, were held on February 26,2017, at the Dolby Theatre, in Los Angeles, the ceremony was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and was broadcast on ABC. A total of 3,048 Oscars have been awarded from the inception of the award through the 88th, the first Academy Awards presentation was held on May 16,1929, at a private dinner function at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel with an audience of about 270 people. The post-awards party was held at the Mayfair Hotel, the cost of guest tickets for that nights ceremony was $5. Fifteen statuettes were awarded, honoring artists, directors and other participants in the industry of the time. The ceremony ran for 15 minutes, winners were announced to media three months earlier, however, that was changed for the second ceremony in 1930. Since then, for the rest of the first decade, the results were given to newspapers for publication at 11,00 pm on the night of the awards. The first Best Actor awarded was Emil Jannings, for his performances in The Last Command and he had to return to Europe before the ceremony, so the Academy agreed to give him the prize earlier, this made him the first Academy Award winner in history. With the fourth ceremony, however, the system changed, for the first six ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned two calendar years. At the 29th ceremony, held on March 27,1957, until then, foreign-language films had been honored with the Special Achievement Award. The 74th Academy Awards, held in 2002, presented the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, since 1973, all Academy Awards ceremonies always end with the Academy Award for Best Picture. The Academy also awards Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, see also § Awards of Merit categories The best known award is the Academy Award of Merit, more popularly known as the Oscar statuette. The five spokes represent the branches of the Academy, Actors, Writers, Directors, Producers. The model for the statuette is said to be Mexican actor Emilio El Indio Fernández, sculptor George Stanley sculpted Cedric Gibbons design. The statuettes presented at the ceremonies were gold-plated solid bronze
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Golden Globe Award
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Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign. The annual ceremony at which the awards are presented is a part of the film industrys awards season. The 74th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film, the 1st Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best achievements in 1943 filmmaking, was held in January 1944, at the 20th Century-Fox studios. Subsequent ceremonies were held at venues throughout the next decade, including the Beverly Hills Hotel. In 1950, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association made the decision to establish an honorary award to recognize outstanding contributions to the entertainment industry. Recognizing its subject as a figure within the entertainment industry. The official name of the award became the Cecil B. In 1963, the Miss Golden Globe concept was introduced, in its inaugural year, two Miss Golden Globes were named, one for film and one for television. The two Miss Golden Globes named that year were Eva Six and Donna Douglas, respectively, in 2009, the Golden Globe statuette was redesigned. It was unveiled at a conference at the Beverly Hilton prior to the show. The broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards, telecast to 167 countries worldwide, generally ranks as the third most-watched awards show each year, behind only the Oscars, gervais returned to host the 68th and 69th Golden Globe Awards the next two years. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosted the 70th, 71st and 72nd Golden Globe Awards in 2015, the Golden Globe Awards theme song, which debuted in 2012, was written by Japanese musician and songwriter Yoshiki Hayashi. On January 7,2008, it was announced due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. The ceremony was faced with a threat by striking writers to picket the event, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was forced to adopt another approach for the broadcast. In acting categories, Meryl Streep holds the record for the most competitive Golden Globe wins with eight, however, including honorary awards, such as the Henrietta Award, World Film Favorite Actor/Actress Award, or Cecil B. DeMille Award, Barbra Streisand leads with nine, additionally, Streisand won for composing the song Evergreen, producing the Best Picture, and directing Yentl in 1984. Jack Nicholson, Angela Lansbury, Alan Alda and Shirley MacLaine have six awards each, behind them are Rosalind Russell and Jessica Lange with five wins. Meryl Streep also holds the record for most nominations with thirty, at the 46th Golden Globe Awards an anomaly occurred, a three way-tie for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
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Screen Actors Guild Award
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The statuette given, a nude male figure holding both a mask of comedy and a mask of tragedy, is called The Actor. It is 16 inches tall, weighs over 12 pounds, is cast in solid bronze, SAG Awards have been one of the major awards events in Hollywood since 1995. It is considered an indicator of success at the Academy Awards, the awards have been telecast since 1998 on TNT, and since 2007 have been simulcast on TBS. The inaugural SAG Awards aired live on February 25,1995 from Universal Studios Stage 12, the second SAG awards aired live from the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, while subsequent awards have been held at the Shrine Exposition Center
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The Outsiders (film)
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The Outsiders is a 1983 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, an adaptation of the novel of the same name by S. E. Hinton. The film was released on March 25,1983, jo Ellen Misakian, a librarian at Lone Star Elementary School in Fresno, California, and her students were responsible for inspiring Coppola to make the film. The movie received positive reviews from critics, and performed well at the box office. In 1965 Tulsa, Oklahoma, greasers are a gang of tough and they include Ponyboy Curtis and his two older brothers, Sodapop and Darrel, as well as Johnny Cade, Dallas Winston, Two-Bit Matthews, and Steve Randle. Their rivalry is with the Socs, a gang of kids from the other side of town. Two Socs, Bob Sheldon and Randy Anderson, confront Johnny, Ponyboy, and Two-Bit, the girls defuse the situation by going home with the Socs. Later that night, Ponyboy and Johnny are attacked in a park by Bob, Randy and they begin dunking Ponyboy in a fountain attempting to drown him, but Johnny pulls out his switchblade and stabs Bob to death. On the advice of Dallas, and the fact that murderers in Oklahoma will be executed in the chair, Ponyboy and Johnny flee on a cargo train. Both boys cut their hair and Ponyboy bleaches his with peroxide in order to mask their descriptions, to pass time, the boys play poker and Ponyboy reads Gone with the Wind and quotes the Robert Frost poem Nothing Gold Can Stay. After a few days, Dallas arrives with news that Cherry has offered to support the boys in court, that he told the police that Johnny and Pony were in Texas, and gives Pony a note from Sodapop. They go out to get something to eat, then return to find the church on fire with children trapped inside, the Greasers turn into heroes as they rescue the kids from the burning church. It doesnt take long for Ponyboy and Dally to heal up, Johnny, on the other hand, ends up with a broken back and severe burns. The boys are praised for their heroism, but Johnny is charged with manslaughter for killing Bob, Bobs death has sparked calls from the Socs for a rumble, which the Greasers win. Dallas drives Ponyboy to the hospital to visit Johnny, Johnny is unimpressed by the victory, and dies after telling Ponyboy to stay gold, referring to the Frost poem. Unable to bear Johnnys death, Dallas wanders through the hospital, pretending to shoot a doctor with his unloaded gun and he then robs a grocery store with the same gun, but he is shot and wounded by the owner as he flees. Pursued by the police, Dallas is surrounded in a park, Ponyboy is eventually cleared of wrongdoing in Bobs death and allowed to stay with his brothers. Turning the pages of Johnnys copy of Gone with the Wind, the story ends with Ponyboy writing a school report about his experiences. When Coppola read the book, he was moved not only to adapt and direct it, the latter films cast also included Matt Dillon, Diane Lane, and Glenn Withrow
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A Walk on the Moon
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A Walk on the Moon is a 1999 drama film starring Diane Lane, Viggo Mortensen, Liev Schreiber and Anna Paquin. The movie, which was set against the backdrop of the Woodstock festival of 1969, the film was highly acclaimed on release, particularly Diane Lanes performance for which she earned an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Female Lead. Pearl Kantrowitz and her husband Marty are a middle class Jewish couple in New York City. Marty is forced to away from home and hence, he only visits the family on weekends. This leaves Pearl feeling lonely and isolated, Pearl got pregnant at the age of 17 and she feels she missed enjoying her youth. With the absence of Marty, Pearl is attracted to the new Blouse Man Walker Jerome, meanwhile, Alison is neglected and she experiences her first period, her first date, and her first kiss as she enters a relationship with another boy at the camp, Ross Epstein. Marty is unable to visit the family because he has to repair more TV sets than usual, while the whole town celebrates the historic moonwalk, Pearl has sex with Walker. Martys mother Lillian learns of the affair and tries to persuade Pearl to break it off, the affair continues when Marty cannot get up to visit on the weekend because of the traffic jam caused by the Woodstock festival, which is within walking distance of the bungalow colony. Pearl goes to the festival, and unbeknownst to her, Alison goes as well with Ross, Alison becomes upset after seeing Pearl and Walker carousing while on LSD. Marty learns of the affair and confronts Pearl while Alison confronts her mother in an emotional scene, Pearl is forced to deal with her love of her family and her conflicting yearning for marital freedom. Pearl finally makes her decision to stay with Marty and tells Walker she cannot go away with him, the final scene shows Pearl and Marty dancing together, first to Dean Martins When Youre Smiling and then to Jimi Hendrixs Purple Haze, after Marty changes the station. The Rotten Tomatoes website found that 72% of critics gave the film a positive review, Diane Lanes performance earned her an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Female Lead. Entertainment Weekly ranked it #9 on their 50 Sexiest Movies Ever poll, a Walk on the Moon at the Internet Movie Database A Walk on the Moon at Rotten Tomatoes A Walk on the Moon at Box Office Mojo
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The Perfect Storm (film)
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The Perfect Storm is a 2000 American biographical disaster drama film directed by Wolfgang Petersen. The film stars George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, William Fichtner, reilly, Diane Lane, Karen Allen and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio. It was released on June 30,2000, by Warner Bros, in October 1991, the commercial fishing boat Andrea Gail returns to port in Gloucester, Massachusetts, with a poor catch. Desperate for money, Captain Billy Tyne convinces the Andrea Gail crew to him for one more late season fishing expedition. The crew heads out past their usual fishing grounds in the Grand Banks, initially unsuccessful, they head to the Flemish Cap, where their luck greatly improves. At the height of their fishing the ice breaks, the only way to sell their catch before it spoils is to hurry back to shore. After debating whether to sail through the storm or to wait it out. However, between the Andrea Gail and Gloucester is a confluence of two powerful weather fronts and a hurricane, which the Andrea Gail crew underestimates. After repeated warnings from ships, Andrea Gail loses her antenna. A New York Air National Guard HH-60 Pave Hawk rescue helicopter responds, but after failing to perform a midair refueling with an HC-130 Hercules, all but one of the Air National Guard crew members are rescued by a Coast Guard vessel, the USCGC Tamaroa. After Andrea Gail endures various problems, the struggles to sail through pounding waves and shrieking winds, while friends and family worry. The vessel encounters a rogue wave. The boat is overturned, Billy elects to go down with his ship and he surfaces and watches as the Andrea Gail rights itself before sinking stern-first into the Atlantic. The rapidly rising swell carries the man away, there are no survivors and the film ends with Linda reading the eulogy at the memorial service, followed by her remembering Billys voice soliloquising about what it means to be a swordboat captain. George Clooney as Frank William Billy Tyne, Jr. captain of the Andrea Gail, Billy is a divorced father of two daughters, who is determined to undertake one last fishing trip before the end of the season to make up for a recent string of poor catches. Mark Wahlberg as Robert Bobby Shatford, the least experienced of the crew of the Andrea Gail, Bobby is the son of Ethel Shatford, the owner of the Crows Nest, and boyfriend to Chris Cotter. He enjoys commercial fishing, but his relationship with Chris creates conflict within himself. Yet, he is compelled by the potential to more money at sea than he could make with a job on shore to sign on for one last trip
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Under the Tuscan Sun (film)
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Under the Tuscan Sun is a 2003 American romantic comedy drama film written, produced, and directed by Audrey Wells and starring Diane Lane. Based on Frances Mayes 1996 memoir Under the Tuscan Sun, the film is about a divorced writer who buys a villa in Tuscany on a whim. Frances Mayes is a San Francisco writer whose seemingly perfect life takes an turn when she learns that her husband has been cheating on her. The divorce—and the loss of her house to her ex-husband and his much-younger, pregnant new partner—leaves her depressed and her best friend Patti, a lesbian who is expecting a child, is beginning to think Frances might never recover. She urges Frances to take an Italian vacation to Tuscany using the ticket she purchased before she became pregnant, at first Frances refuses, but after another depressing day in her gloomy apartment, she decides that its a good idea to get away for a while. In Tuscany, her tour stops in the small town of Cortona. After wandering through the streets, she notices a posting for a villa for sale in Cortona. She rejoins her tour group on the bus, and just outside town, while they wait, Frances realizes that theyve stopped directly in front of the very villa that she had seen for sale—something she believes is a sign. She asks the driver to stop and she gets off the bus, through a series of serendipitous events, she becomes the owner of a lovely yet dilapidated villa in beautiful Tuscany. Frances begins her new life with the help of a variety of interesting characters and unusual and she hires a crew of Polish immigrants to renovate the house. Later, she is visited by the now very pregnant Patti, Frances meets and has a brief romantic affair with Marcello, but their relationship does not last. She is about to give up on happiness when one of her Polish workers, a teenager named Pawel, and a neighbors young daughter come to her for help. Her father does not approve of him, due to his being Polish and not having a family, yet they are much in love. Frances persuades the family to support their love, by proclaiming that she is Pawels family. During the wedding celebration, Frances meets an American writer who is traveling in Tuscany,2 in the U. S. box office in the weekend of September 28,2003. This was more than half of its estimated $18 million budget, the film was a box office success, earning $43,610,723 domestically and a further $15,268,000 internationally, totaling $58,878,723 worldwide. The film received reviews from critics. Diane Lanes performance was praised and she was nominated for a Best Actress Golden Globe Award
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Cinema Verite (2011 film)
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Cinema Verite is a 2011 HBO drama film directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini. The films main ensemble cast starred Diane Lane, Tim Robbins, James Gandolfini, principal photography was completed in Southern California. The film premiered on April 23,2011, the film begins in 1971 with Craig Gilbert discussing with Pat Loud the idea of a documentary series that would concern her familys day-to-day lives. Pat considers the proposal and accepts, amidst her son Lance moving to New York City, Pats husband Bill travels often away on business, leaving his wife alone to care for their five children. The crew moves in with the Louds and begins to document them, relations between Pat and Bill grow frayed due to his time away and the stress of the TV shows production. Gilbert tells Pat of his suspicions surrounding Bills trips away, giving strong evidence that he is cheating on her. The crew fights with Gilbert about his technique, as he makes them film many personal moments. Angry, she tells Gilbert to have cameras there when she tells Bill, wanting his bimbos to see it, against her wishes, he films Pats conversation with her brother and his wife. Pat begins to regret her decision to let Gilbert film the break up and he, however, does not work up the courage to do this, and Pat kicks Bill out of her home on camera. The film cuts to one later, when An American Family is experiencing its premiere. The show airs to strong ratings but much criticism of members of the family, in particular Pat for how she came off on camera. The family then gets together to back, addressing their critics by appearing on many talk shows. Title cards at films end offer updates for each Loud family member, Lance died of AIDS in 2001, his last wish for his parents to move back in with each other. They currently live together in Los Angeles, the film is presented in chapters, with chapter titles such as The Chelsea and The Battle for the Camera Begins. When the chapter titles are shown, short clips from the original 1973 documentary are shown alongside in split screen format, Cinema Verite met with a positive reception from television critics. On review aggregator Metacritic the film received a positive score of 74 out of 100. The film garnered nine nominations for the Primetime Emmy Awards and won one technical award prior to the televised ceremony, the film has been nominated for three Golden Globe Awards. Official website Cinema Verite at the Internet Movie Database Cinema Verite at AllMovie Lloyd, television reviews, Cinema Verite and An American Family
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Trumbo (2015 film)
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Trumbo is a 2015 American biographical drama film directed by Jay Roach and written by John McNamara. The film stars Bryan Cranston, Diane Lane, Helen Mirren, Elle Fanning, John Goodman and Michael Stuhlbarg. The film follows the life of Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo and is based on the biography Dalton Trumbo by Bruce Alexander Cook. The film was shown in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival on September 12,2015, Dalton Trumbo is a screenwriter whose talent places him among the elite of Hollywood. However, his membership in the Communist Party of the USA draws the contempt of staunchly anti-Soviet entertainment-industry figures such as columnist Hedda Hopper. Trumbo is one of 10 screenwriters subpoenaed to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities regarding alleged Communist propaganda in Hollywood films and they refuse to directly answer questions, confident that a liberal majority on the Supreme Court will overturn the convictions for contempt of Congress. Trumbos friend Edward G. Robinson, who supports the cause, the unexpected death of Justice Wiley Rutledge ruins Trumbos plan to appeal to the Supreme Court. In 1950, Trumbo serves 11 months in Federal Correctional Institution in Ashland, Trumbo is released from prison, but he remains blacklisted and his finances – and family life – become increasingly strained. He resorts to giving the screenplay for Roman Holiday to his friend Ian McLellan Hunter, to credit and a share of the money. He puts his wife Cleo and teenage children to work as his support staff, King Brothers film The Brave One, an original story by Trumbo under a pseudonym, receives an Academy Award he cannot claim. His blacklisted friend Arlen Hird dies, destitute, but an attempt by Hoppers allies to intimidate the head of King Brothers to fire Trumbo fails completely, over time, industry suspicion of Trumbos ghostwriting develops, but he is careful not to confirm it. On September 18,2013, Bryan Cranston joined the cast to play Dalton Trumbo, on April 14,2014, Helen Mirren joined the cast to play Hedda Hopper. On August 7,2014, Diane Lane, Elle Fanning, John Goodman, on August 13,2014, David James Elliott, Peter Mackenzie and Roger Bart joined the cast to play John Wayne, Robert Kenny and Buddy Ross, respectively. On September 6,2014, Louis C. K. joined the cast to play Arlen Hird, on September 22,2014, Dean OGorman joined the cast to play Kirk Douglas. On October 16,2014, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje joined the cast to play Virgil Brooks, principal photography began on September 15,2014, and ended on November 6,2014. On August 13,2014, it was announced that Bleecker Street would distribute the film, the film had its world premiere at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival on September 12,2015. The film had a release on November 6,2015 before going wide on November 25. Trumbo grossed $7.9 million in the United States and Canada and $3.2 million in other countries, on Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 74% based on 170 reviews, with an average rating of 6. 7/10
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Jonathan and Martha Kent
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Jonathan Kent and Martha Kent, often referred to as Pa and Ma Kent, are the fictional adoptive parents of Superman. They live in the town of Smallville, Kansas. The Kents are usually portrayed as caring parents who instill within Clark a strong sense of morals, in a few continuities, Martha is also the one who creates Clarks superhero costume. In DC Comics continuity before John Byrnes 1986 reboot of the Superman story, in post-Crisis continuity, they both remain alive even after Clark becomes an adult, with the Kents as supporting characters until Pa Kents death during an attack by the supervillain Brainiac. Ma Kent remains a character in Superman comics until 2011s the New 52 continuity reboot. The Kents first names vary in stories from the 1940s and this issue firmly establishes that it is the Kents who discover the infant Kal-El. The Kents take him to a home for foundlings and express an interest in adopting him and this story also establishes that Clark is Mary Kents maiden name. Oddly, no mention of Superboy is included, though that feature had already been established, Pa Kent is first named Jonathan in Adventure Comics v1 #149. Ma Kent is first named Marthe in Superboy v1 #12 and Martha in subsequent appearances and her full name is given as Martha Hudson Clark Kent in answer to a letter writers query in Superman v1 #148. The Kents made few appearances in Superman stories until the introduction of the Superboy comic book series in 1949, in this series, they are regular supporting characters of the teenage superhero. The Superboy stories establish the Kents backstory, Jonathan, a former race car driver, is a farmer on a farm just outside Smallville. After he and Martha find the toddler Kal-El in his rocket, they take him to the Smallville Orphanage and later adopt him. They soon discover that Clark possesses an array of superpowers. Around the time Clark starts school, the Kents sell their farm, and the moves into Smallville. During Clarks early grade school years, Jonathan trains young Clark in the use of his superpowers to the best of his knowledge while urging him to keep the use of his powers a secret, at the age of eight, Clark begins a superhero career as Superboy. The Kents assist their son on many adventures as Superboy. In Superboy vol.1 #145, Jonathan and Martha are rejuvenated physically, after this, Jonathan and Martha were drawn by artists as late middle-aged — as opposed to elderly — in appearance until Supermans 1986 reboot. Before dying, Jonathan reminds Clark that he must always use his powers for the benefit of humanity, Clark mourns his parents and moves to Metropolis to attend college
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Man of Steel (film)
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Man of Steel is a 2013 superhero film featuring the DC Comics character Superman. It is a British-American venture produced by Legendary Pictures, DC Entertainment, Syncopy Inc. and Cruel and Unusual Films and it is the first installment in the DC Extended Universe. Man of Steel is a reboot of the Superman film series that retells the origin story. Development began in 2008, when Warner Bros. took pitches from comic book writers, screenwriters and directors, in 2009, a court ruling resulted in Jerry Siegels family recapturing the rights to Supermans origins and Siegels copyright. The decision stated that Warner Bros, producer Christopher Nolan pitched Goyers idea after story discussion on The Dark Knight Rises, and Snyder was hired as the films director in October 2010. Principal photography began in August 2011 in West Chicago, Illinois, before moving to Vancouver and Plano, Man of Steel was released in theaters on June 14,2013, in conventional 2D, 3D, and IMAX formats. Despite receiving mixed reviews, the became a box office success. A follow-up titled Batman v Superman, Dawn of Justice was released on March 25,2016, the film is presented in a nonlinear narrative, jumping between the present and past. This is a summary of the plot. The planet Krypton, unstable from years of mining, faces impending destruction. Jor-El, chief advisor to Kryptons supreme council, recommends a full-scale evacuation of the planets inhabitants, before any action can be taken, soldiers led by General Zod, an old friend of Jor-Els, launch an uprising and arrest the councilors. Realizing that Krypton is doomed, Jor-El steals genetic codes sought by Zod and infuses them into the DNA of his infant son, donning his old armor, Jor-El sacrifices his life to allow his son to escape on a preprogrammed spacecraft. Zod orders the destruction, only to learn that forces loyal to the council have suppressed the rebellion. In a brief trial, Zod and several of the rebels are convicted of treason. Following Jor-Els coordinates, the ship lands on Earth in Smallville. A childless couple, Jonathan and Martha Kent, find Kal-El and raise him as their own, Clark eventually becomes an isolated young man as a result of developing superhuman powers. He then learns his true origins from Jonathan, who urges him to keep his powers hidden, several years later, Jonathan dies in a tornado while refusing to let Clark rescue him. Burdened with guilt and looking for a new purpose in his life, several months later, Metropolis, Daily Planet reporter Lois Lane receives an assignment to investigate the discovery of a Kryptonian scout ship in the Canadian Arctic
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
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Batman v Superman, Dawn of Justice is a 2016 American superhero film featuring the DC Comics characters Batman and Superman. Directed by Zack Snyder and distributed by Warner Bros, pictures, the film is a follow-up to 2013s Man of Steel and is the second installment in the DC Extended Universe. In the film, criminal mastermind Lex Luthor manipulates Batman into a battle with Superman. The film was announced at the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con International, Snyder stated that the film would take inspiration from the Batman comic book series The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller, but clarified that it would follow an original premise. The incarnation of Batman in the film would also be different from the characters portrayal in The Dark Knight Trilogy. The film is inspired by narrative elements from the Death of Superman story arc. Pre-production began at East Los Angeles College in October 2013, with principal photography starting in May 2014 in Detroit, additional filming also took place in Chicago. Following a strong debut that set new box office records, the experienced a historic drop in its second weekend. A directors cut, dubbed the Ultimate Edition and features 30 minutes of footage, was released digitally on June 28,2016. Eighteen months after the battle with General Zod in Metropolis in Man of Steel. Billionaire Bruce Wayne, who has operated in Gotham City as the vigilante Batman for nearly two decades, sees Superman as a threat to humanity. After learning of Batmans form of justice, Clark Kent, Supermans alter-ego, Wayne learns that Russian weapon trafficker Anatoli Knyazev has been contacting LexCorp mogul Lex Luthor. He instead makes alternative plans with Finchs subordinate and gains access to Zods body, Wayne attends a party at LexCorp, where he meets an antiquities dealer named Diana Prince, and retrieves encrypted data from the companys mainframe. While decrypting the drive at the Batcave, Wayne dreams of a post-apocalyptic world and he is snapped out of the vision by an unidentified being who warns him of Lois Lanes crucial role in the future, and urges him to find the others before vanishing. Wayne later discovers that Luthor is not only experimenting with kryptonite, one of them is Prince herself, who is an immortal warrior. Wayne admits to Alfred Pennyworth that he plans to steal the kryptonite to weaponize it, at a congressional hearing, as Finch questions Superman on the validity of his actions, a bomb goes off and kills everyone present but Superman. Believing he should have detected the bomb, and frustrated by his failure to save the people, meanwhile, Luthor enters the Kryptonian ship and accesses details of a vast technology database accumulated from over 100,000 worlds. Luthor kidnaps Martha Kent, Clarks adoptive mother, to bring Superman out of exile and he reveals to him that he manipulated Superman and Batman by fueling their distrust for each other
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Justice League (film)
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Justice League is an upcoming American superhero film based on the DC Comics superhero team of the same name, distributed by Warner Bros. It is intended to be the fifth installment in the DC Extended Universe, in Justice League, Batman and Wonder Woman assemble a team consisting of Flash, Aquaman, and Cyborg to face the catastrophic threat of Steppenwolf and his army of Parademons. The film was announced in October 2014 with Snyder on board to direct, principal photography commenced on April 11,2016 and ended on October 14,2016. Justice League is scheduled to be released on November 17,2017, in 2D, 3D, on February 5,2016, Cavill announced on social media that he had already started exercising for the film in advance of principal photography. Gal Gadot as Diana Prince / Wonder Woman, A5,000 year-old immortal Amazononian warrior princess and daughter of Zeus, who possesses superhuman attributes and abilities inherited from her parents. Jason Momoa as Arthur Curry / Aquaman, The king of the nation of Atlantis, whose metahuman aquatic abilities. Ezra Miller as Barry Allen / The Flash, A Central City police forensic investigator who can move at superhuman speeds, Fisher portrays the character through the assistence of motion capture performance, for the cybernetic portion of his body. In March of 2017, Ciarán stated that Steppenwolf is old, tired, hinds will portray the villain through use of motion capture performance, and received help in that process from his friend Liam Neeson, who had recently done similar work in A Monster Calls. Amy Adams as Lois Lane, A feisty and kind journalist for the Daily Planet, Willem Dafoe as Nuidis Vulko, An Atlantean advisor to Aquaman. Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor, The hereditary CEO of LexCorp, Jeremy Irons as Alfred Pennyworth, Bruce Waynes butler, chief of security, and trusted confidant. Diane Lane as Martha Kent, Clark Kents adoptive mother, connie Nielsen as Queen Hippolyta, Diana Princes mother and the Amazonian queen. J. K. Simmons as James Gordon, The Commissioner of the Gotham City Police Department and close ally of Batman. Joe Morton reprises his role as Dr. Silas Stone, a scientist at S. T. A. R Labs and Victor Stones father, from Batman v Superman, Dawn of Justice. Amber Heard, Billy Crudup, and Kiersey Clemons will portray Mera, Dr. Henry Allen, Julian Lewis Jones has been cast in an undisclosed role. In February 2007, it was announced that Warner Bros. hired husband and wife duo Michele, the news came around the same time that Joss Whedons long-developed Wonder Woman film had been canceled, as well as The Flash, written and directed by David S. Goyer. Warner Bros. was less willing to proceed with development with a sequel to Superman Returns, brandon Routh was not approached to reprise the role of Superman in Justice League, Mortal, nor was Christian Bale from Batman Begins. Warner Bros. intended for Justice League, Mortal to be the start of a new film franchise, and to branch out into separate sequels and spin-offs. to release the film after The Dark Knight Rises. Jason Reitman was the choice to direct Justice League, but he turned it down, as he considers himself an independent filmmaker
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Playboy
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Playboy is an American mens lifestyle and entertainment magazine. It was founded in Chicago in 1953, by Hugh Hefner and his associates, with a presence in nearly every medium. In addition to the magazine in the United States, special nation-specific versions of Playboy are published worldwide. The magazine has a history of publishing short stories by notable novelists such as Arthur C. Clarke, Ian Fleming, Vladimir Nabokov, Saul Bellow, Chuck Palahniuk, P. G. Wodehouse, Haruki Murakami, the magazine generally reflects a liberal editorial stance, although it often interviews conservative celebrities. After a year-long removal of most nude photos in Playboy magazine and he formed HMH Publishing Corporation, and recruited his friend Eldon Sellers to find investors. Hefner eventually raised just over $8,000, including from his brother and mother. However, the publisher of a mens adventure magazine, Stag, contacted Hefner. Hefner, his wife Millie, and Sellers met to seek a new name, considering Top Hat, Gentleman, Sir, Satyr, Pan, the first issue, in December 1953, was undated, as Hefner was unsure there would be a second. He produced it in his Hyde Park kitchen, the first centerfold was Marilyn Monroe, although the picture used originally was taken for a calendar rather than for Playboy. Hefner chose what he deemed the sexiest image, a previously unused nude study of Marilyn stretched with an arm on a red velvet background with closed eyes. The heavy promotion centered around Marilyns nudity on the calendar, together with the teasers in marketing. The first issue sold out in weeks, copies of the first issue in mint to near mint condition sold for over $5,000 in 2002. The novel Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, was serialized in the March, April, an urban legend started about Hefner and the Playmate of the Month because of markings on the front covers of the magazine. From 1955 to 1979, the P in Playboy had stars printed in or around the letter. The legend stated that this was either a rating that Hefner gave to the Playmate according to how attractive she was, the stars, between zero and 12, actually indicated the domestic or international advertising region for that printing. From 1966 to 1976, Robie Macauley was the Fiction Editor at Playboy, P. Donleavy, as well as poetry by Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Macauley also contributed all of the popular Ribald Classics series published between January 1978 and March 1984, christie Hefner, daughter of the founder Hugh Hefner, joined Playboy in 1975 and became head of the company in 1988
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John Cassavetes
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John Nicholas Cassavetes was a Greek-American actor, film director, and screenwriter. He also acted in many Hollywood films, notably Rosemarys Baby and he studied acting with Don Richardson, using an acting technique based on muscle memory. His income from acting made it possible for him to direct his own films independently and his children Nick Cassavetes, Zoe Cassavetes, and Xan Cassavetes are also filmmakers. His early years were spent with his family in Greece, when he returned at age seven and he was reared on Long Island, New York. He attended Port Washington High School from 1945 to 1947 and participated in Port Weekly, Red Domino, football, next to his photo on page 55 of his 1947 yearbook is written, Cassy is always ready with a wisecrack, but he does have a serious side. Cassavetes attended Blair Academy in New Jersey and spent a semester at Champlain College before being expelled due to his failing grades and he graduated in 1950 and met his future wife Gena Rowlands at her audition into the Academy in 1953 and they were married four months later in 1954. He continued acting in the theater, took parts in films and began working on television in anthology series. By 1956, Cassavetes had begun teaching an alternative to method acting in his own workshop in New York City, an improvisation exercise in his workshop inspired the idea for his writing and directorial debut, Shadows. Cassavetes raised the funds for the production from friends and family and his stated purpose was to make a film about little people, different from Hollywood studio productions. Cassavetes was unable to gain American distribution of Shadows, but it won the Critics Award at the Venice Film Festival, european distributors later released the movie in the United States as an import. Although the box-office of Shadows in the United States was slight, Cassavetes would repeat this performance in the 1956 film version. His first starring role in a film was Edge of the City. He was briefly under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and co-starred with Robert Taylor in the western Saddle the Wind, in the late 1950s, Cassavetes guest-starred in Beverly Garlands groundbreaking crime drama, Decoy, about a New York City woman police undercover detective. Thereafter, he played Johnny Staccato, the character in a television series about a jazz pianist who also worked as a private detective. In total he directed five episodes of the series, which features a guest appearance by his wife Gena Rowlands. It was broadcast on NBC between September 1959 and March 1960 when it was acquired by ABC and although critically acclaimed, Cassavetes would appear on the NBC interview program, Heres Hollywood. Cassavetes directed two movies for Hollywood in the early 1960s – Too Late Blues and A Child Is Waiting, a Child Is Waiting starred Burt Lancaster and Judy Garland. He also starred in the CBS western series Rawhide, in the episode, in the 1963–1964 season, Cassavetes appeared in Jason Everss ABC drama about college life, Channing
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City College of New York
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The City College of the City University of New York is a public senior college of the City University of New York in New York City. Located on a hill overlooking Harlem in Manhattan, City Colleges 35-acre Collegiate Gothic campus spans Convent Avenue from 130th to 141st Streets and it was initially designed by renowned architect George B. Post, and many of its buildings have achieved landmark status, affectionately known as the Harvard of the proletariat, the college has graduated more Nobel Prize winners than any other public university in the United States. Among these 10 alumni, the latest is a Bronx native, founded in 1847, City College was the first free public institution of higher education in the United States. It is the oldest of CUNYs 24 institutions of higher learning, the City College of New York was founded as the Free Academy of the City of New York in 1847 by wealthy businessman and president of the Board of Education Townsend Harris. A combination prep school and college, it would provide children of immigrants, in 1847, New York State Governor John Young had given permission to the Board of Education to found the Free Academy, which was ratified in a statewide referendum. Dr. Horace Webster, a West Point graduate, was the first president of the Free Academy. In 1847, a curriculum was adopted which had nine main fields, mathematics, history, language, literature, drawing, natural philosophy, experimental philosophy, law, and political economy. The Academys first graduation took place in 1853 in Niblos Garden Theatre, even in its early years, the Free Academy showed tolerance for diversity, especially in comparison to its urban neighbor, Columbia College, which was exclusive to the sons of wealthy families. The Free Academy had a framework of tolerance that extended beyond the admission of students from every social stratum, in 1854, Columbias trustees denied Oliver Wolcott Gibbs, a distinguished chemist and scientist, a faculty position because of Gibbss Unitarian religious beliefs. Gibbs was a professor and held an appointment at the Free Academy since 1848, later in the history of CCNY, in the early 1900s, President John H. Finley gave the College a more secular orientation by abolishing mandatory chapel attendance. This change occurred at a time when more Jewish students were enrolling in the College, in 1866, the Free Academy, a mens institution, was renamed the College of the City of New York. In 1929, the College of the City of New York became the City College of New York, the names City College of New York and City College, however, remain in general use. With the name change in 1866, lavender was chosen as the Colleges color, in 1867, the academic senate, the first student government in the nation, was formed. Having struggled over the issue for ten years, in 1895 the New York State legislature voted to let the College build a new campus. A four-square block site was chosen, located in Manhattanville, within the area which was enclosed by the North Campus Arches, like President Webster, the second president of City College was a West Point graduate. The second president, General Alexander S. Webb, assumed office in 1869, one of the Unions heroes at Gettysburg, General Webb was the commander of the Philadelphia Brigade. When the Union Army repulsed the Confederates at Cemetery Hill, General Webb played a role in the battle
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Los Angeles
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Los Angeles, officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L. A. is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California. With a census-estimated 2015 population of 3,971,883, it is the second-most populous city in the United States, Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated county in the United States. The citys inhabitants are referred to as Angelenos, historically home to the Chumash and Tongva, Los Angeles was claimed by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo for Spain in 1542 along with the rest of what would become Alta California. The city was founded on September 4,1781, by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 following the Mexican War of Independence, in 1848, at the end of the Mexican–American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thereby becoming part of the United States. Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4,1850, the discovery of oil in the 1890s brought rapid growth to the city. The completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, delivering water from Eastern California, nicknamed the City of Angels, Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, and sprawling metropolis. Los Angeles also has an economy in culture, media, fashion, science, sports, technology, education, medicine. A global city, it has been ranked 6th in the Global Cities Index, the city is home to renowned institutions covering a broad range of professional and cultural fields, and is one of the most substantial economic engines within the United States. The Los Angeles combined statistical area has a gross metropolitan product of $831 billion, making it the third-largest in the world, after the Greater Tokyo and New York metropolitan areas. The city has hosted the Summer Olympic Games in 1932 and 1984 and is bidding to host the 2024 Summer Olympics and thus become the second city after London to have hosted the Games three times. The Los Angeles area also hosted the 1994 FIFA mens World Cup final match as well as the 1999 FIFA womens World Cup final match, the mens event was watched on television by over 700 million people worldwide. The Los Angeles coastal area was first settled by the Tongva, a Gabrielino settlement in the area was called iyáangẚ, meaning poison oak place. Gaspar de Portolà and Franciscan missionary Juan Crespí, reached the present site of Los Angeles on August 2,1769, in 1771, Franciscan friar Junípero Serra directed the building of the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, the first mission in the area. The Queen of the Angels is an honorific of the Virgin Mary, two-thirds of the settlers were mestizo or mulatto with a mixture of African, indigenous and European ancestry. The settlement remained a small town for decades, but by 1820. Today, the pueblo is commemorated in the district of Los Angeles Pueblo Plaza and Olvera Street. New Spain achieved its independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, during Mexican rule, Governor Pío Pico made Los Angeles Alta Californias regional capital
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Christopher Atkins
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Christopher Atkins is an American actor, who became famous in his debut role with co-star Brooke Shields in the 1980 film The Blue Lagoon. Atkins was born in Rye, New York, to German Americans Donald Bomann, in high school, he was a lifeguard and sailing instructor, where he was discovered for The Blue Lagoon. He had no previous interest or experience in acting, but an agent he knew persuaded him to audition for The Blue Lagoon, a role he won over 2,000 other actors. In the film, he and co-star Brooke Shields played two teenage cousins who have lived together since they were marooned as children in a tropical paradise. The film grossed over $58 million with a production cost of $4.5 million and he went on to star with Kristy McNichol in The Pirate Movie, an update of Gilbert and Sullivans operetta The Pirates of Penzance. From that movie, he sang How Can I Live Without Her which peaked at #71 on the Billboard Hot 100 in September 1982. In A Night in Heaven, also starring Lesley Ann Warren, Atkins played Rick Monroe, for one season, Atkins had a recurring role as swimming instructor Peter Richards on the CBS prime time soap opera Dallas in which his character has an affair with Sue Ellen Ewing. Atkins has been the boy of many teen magazines and has appeared in several television commercials representing Coke. In the 1990s and 2000s, he appeared in the made-for-network and cable movies Fatal Charms, Project Shadowchaser III, other projects includef Caved In, Spiritual Warriors, 13th Child, The Employee of the Month, Tequila Express, Quigley and True Legends of the West. Comic roles include Mortuary Academy, Shoot and he reunited with Shields on her series Suddenly Susan as a fellow journalist who is uninterested in her, in 2007, he starred in the direct-to-DVD sci-fi movie 100 Million BC. In 2009, he appeared on VH1s Confessions of a Teen Idol, Atkins married Lynne Barron Weber, of Sydney, Australia on 25 May 1985, the couple had two children, a son, Grant Bomann and a daughter, Brittney Bomann. He owns a sports company and has patented a fishing lure. Atkins was nominated for a Golden Globe Awards for New Star of the Year in a Motion Picture – Male for The Blue Lagoon as well as Best Young Actor for the Young Artist Awards. He has also twice nominated for the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor. He is ranked Number 76 on VH1s 100 Greatest Teen Stars, Christopher Atkins on Facebook Christopher Atkins at the Internet Movie Database Christopher Atkins at AllMovie
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Pentecostalism
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The term Pentecostal is derived from Pentecost, the Greek name for the Jewish Feast of Weeks. For Christians, this event commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the followers of Jesus Christ, like other forms of evangelical Protestantism, Pentecostalism adheres to the inerrancy of scripture and the necessity of accepting Christ as personal Lord and Savior. It is distinguished by belief in the baptism in the Holy Spirit that enables a Christian to live a Spirit-filled and empowered life and this empowerment includes the use of spiritual gifts such as speaking in tongues and divine healing—two other defining characteristics of Pentecostalism. For this reason, some Pentecostals also use the term Apostolic or Full Gospel to describe their movement, Pentecostalism emerged in the early 20th century among radical adherents of the Holiness movement who were energized by revivalism and expectation for the imminent Second Coming of Christ. In 1900, Charles Parham, an American evangelist and faith healer, the three-year-long Azusa Street Revival, founded and led by William J. While virtually all Pentecostal denominations trace their origins to Azusa Street, an early dispute centered on challenges to the doctrine of the Trinity. As a result, the Pentecostal Movement is divided between trinitarian and non-trinitarian branches, there are over 279 million Pentecostals worldwide, and the movement is growing in many parts of the world, especially the global South. Together, Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity numbers over 500 million adherents, Pentecostalism is an evangelical faith, emphasizing the reliability of the Bible and the need for the transformation of an individuals life through faith in Jesus. Like other evangelicals, Pentecostals generally adhere to the Bibles divine inspiration and inerrancy—the belief that the Bible, Pentecostals emphasize the teaching of the full gospel or foursquare gospel. The central belief of Pentecostalism is that through the death, burial and this is the Gospel or good news. The fundamental requirement of Pentecostalism is that one be born again, the new birth is received by the grace of God through faith in Christ as Lord and Savior. In being born again, the believer is regenerated, justified, adopted into the family of God, Pentecostal soteriology is generally Arminian rather than Calvinist. The security of the believer is a doctrine held within Pentecostalism, nevertheless, Pentecostals believe in both a literal heaven and hell, the former for those who have accepted Gods gift of salvation and the latter for those who have rejected it. For most Pentecostals there is no requirement to receive salvation. Baptism with the Holy Spirit and speaking in tongues are not generally required, a notable exception is Oneness Pentecostalism, most adherents of which believe both water baptism and Spirit baptism are integral components of salvation. Pentecostals identify three distinct uses of the baptism in the New Testament, Baptism into the body of Christ. Every believer in Christ is made a part of his body, the Holy Spirit is the agent, and the body of Christ is the medium. Baptism with the Holy Spirit, This is an experience distinct from baptism into the body of Christ
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Preacher
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A preacher usually identifies a person who delivers sermons or homilies on religious topics to an assembly of people. Less common are preachers who preach on the street, or those whose message is not necessarily religious, Preachers are common throughout most cultures. They can take the form of a Christian minister on a Sunday morning, a Muslim preacher in general is referred to as a dā‘ī, while those giving sermons on a Friday afternoon are described as a khatib. The sermon or homily has been an important part of Christian services since Early Christianity, lay preachers sometimes figure in these traditions of worship, for example the Methodist local preachers, but in general preaching has usually been a function of the clergy. The Franciscans are another important preaching order, Travelling preachers, usually friars, were an important feature of late medieval Catholicism, however, among some Chinese churches, preacher is different from pastor. A preacher refers to the clergy in the Protestant church who are not officially recognised as a pastor until they can prove their capability of leading the church. Preacher is also the author of the Book of Ecclesiastes according to the King James Version, Preacher is one translation of the Hebrew word קהלת. There is much debate about the identity of this Preacher, many believe it is Solomon, media related to Preachers at Wikimedia Commons Child preacher List of Christian preachers List of Dais Maggid Preachers kid Prison minister Francis, Keith A. Gibson, William, et al. The Oxford Handbook of the British Sermon 1689-1901,2012 OUP, ISBN0199583595,9780199583591, google books
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Apostolic Church (denomination)
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The Apostolic Church is a denomination that came from the Pentecostal movement. This term Apostolic defines this denomination whose teachings follow those of the 12 apostles who followed Christ and this denomination has its roots in the 1904–1905 Welsh Revival, and seeks to stand for first-century Christianity in its faith, practices, and government. The worldwide vision of the church is evidenced by a strong missionary concern, the movement, which commenced in Welsh-speaking villages of south Wales, had, by the end of the 20th century, grown to over 15 million members in approximately 100 nations. The largest national church is The Apostolic Church Nigeria, with over 4.5 million members, on 5 November 1909, William Oliver Hutchinson started a Pentecostal Church in Britain at the Emmanuel Mission Hall in Bournemouth in Dorset. It soon became the headquarters of a network of Pentecostal assemblies. Rev Daniel Powell Williams became an Apostle in the rebirth of the movement, on 8 January 1916, Williams and a number of the Welsh assemblies separated from Hutchinson and the Apostolic Faith Church over doctrinal matters, creating the Apostolic Church in Wales. Since 1916, the two groups have developed very different doctrinal paths. In 1917 a second centred on Birmingham affiliated to the ACW. The following year the Burning Bush Pentecostal Congregation in Glasgow, came into co-operation with the ACW, in the same year, a group using the name Apostolic Church in Hereford also came into co-operation with the ACW. In 1920, Ben Fisher, who was the leader of an independent Pentecostal congregation in Belfast, Northern Ireland, the group then affiliated to the ACW becoming their first mission field. H V Chanter was the leader of the Apostolic Church of God, during 1921, Chanter attended the Christmas convention of the ACW in Pen-y-groes, Carmarthenshire. A prophetic word given in Bradford directed the leaders to invite the Welsh leaders to them for a meeting. They met 1922, with another meeting arranged for Easter. At the Easter convention, leaders from most of the ACW congregations, the 1922 Easter meeting in Bradford was the beginning of the Apostolic Church. Four main groups attended, the Apostolic Church in Wales, the Burning Bush congregation, the Apostolic Church in Hereford, and the Apostolic Church of God. A prophetic word directed them to form administrative union, Pen-y-groes was to be the centre, Glasgow, the financial centre. The Apostolic Church views the Scriptures as the authority and understands them to be the inerrant Word of God. The soteriology of the Apostolic Church is neither uniformly Reformed nor Arminian, ecclesiology has taken a prominent place in the theology of the movement
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La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club
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La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club is an off-off Broadway theatre founded in 1961 by Ellen Stewart, and named in reference to her. Located on Manhattans Lower East Side, the theatre out of Stewarts tiny basement boutique for her fashion designs. La MaMa has evolved during its over fifty-year history into a cultural institution. La MaMa also acted as an ambassador for off-off Broadway playwriting by touring downtown playwriting abroad during the 1960s. La MaMa is the theatre of the 1960s off-off Broadway movements four core theatres that continues to thrive today. The other three off-off Broadway theatres that composed this core included Joe Cinos Caffe Cino, Al Carmines Judson Poets Theatre, more than any other off-off Broadway programmer, Stewart reached out beyond the East Village location, forcing new trends rather than following. We want them to free to explore their ideas. Ellen Stewart is the spirit of La MaMa, she is its guardian, janitor, fund raiser, press agent, tour manager, to understand this theatre one must first know Ellen Stewart. Stewart worked as a designer at Saks before founding the theatre. Stewart was inspired by her mentor Papa Abraham Diamonds, an owner of a shop on the Lower East Side. Papa Diamonds told Stewart that everyone needs a pushcart to serve others, Stewart had a revelation about his advice during a trip she took to Morocco. As a result, Stewart decided to open a boutique for her designs that would also serve as a theatre for her foster brother and playwright Fred Lights. On October 18,1961 Stewart paid the fifty-five dollar rent on a tenement basement at 321 East Ninth Street to start this boutique/theater. As opposed to Caffe Cino, which was more about an atmosphere or clientele. In the early years, Stewart even housed and fed playwrights and she truly acted as a mother, as Jean-Claude van Itallie remembers in his first meeting with Stewart, I never could have expected the warmth of Ellens milk. She basically said to me, Honey, youre home and this space is for you to put on plays. The combination of her kindness and her smile and the beauty of the space were overwhelming, Ellen broadcast to the world that we were doing something important. We were her baby playwrights and she sat on us like eggs that would hatch and she told us that what we were doing mattered, and we wouldnt get confirmation on that anywhere else
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Medea (play)
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Medea is an ancient Greek tragedy written by Euripides, based upon the myth of Jason and Medea and first produced in 431 BC. Medea takes vengeance on Jason by killing Jasons new wife as well as her own children, considered shocking to Euripides contemporaries, Medea and the suite of plays that it accompanied in the City Dionysia festival came last in the festival that year. The play has remained the most frequently performed Greek tragedy through the 20th century, Medea was first performed in 431 BC at the City Dionysia festival. Here every year three playwrights competed against each other, each writing a tetralogy of three tragedies and a satyr play, in 431 the competition was among Euphorion, Sophocles and Euripides. Euphorion won, and Euripides placed last, the form of the play differs from many other Greek tragedies by its simplicity, All scenes involve only two actors, Medea and someone else. These encounters serve to highlight Medeas skill and determination in manipulating powerful male figures to achieve her own ends, Medea is centered on a wife’s calculated desire for revenge against her unfaithful husband. The play is set in Corinth some time after Jasons quest for the Golden Fleece, the play begins with Medea raging at Jason for arranging to marry Glauce, the daughter of Creon. The nurse, overhearing Medea’s grief, fears what she might do to herself or her children, Creon, in anticipation of Medea’s wrath, arrives and reveals his plans to send her into exile. Medea pleads for one day’s delay and eventually Creon acquiesces, in the next scene Jason arrives to explain his rationale for his apparent betrayal. He explains that he pass up the opportunity to marry a royal princess, as Medea is only a barbarian woman. Medea, and the chorus of Corinthian women, do not believe him and she reminds him that she left her own people for him, and that she saved him and slew the dragon. Jason promises to support her after his new marriage, but Medea spurns him, Marry the maid if thou wilt, in the following scene Medea encounters Aegeus, King of Athens. He reveals to her that despite his marriage to his wife he is still without children. He visited the oracle who told him that he was instructed “not to unstop the wineskin’s neck. ”Medea relays her current situation to him. Aegeus, unaware of Medea’s plans for revenge, agrees, Medea then returns to plotting the murders of Glauce and Creon. She decides to poison some golden robes and a coronet, in hopes that the bride will not be able to resist wearing them, and consequently be poisoned. Medea resolves to kill her own children as well, not because the children have done anything wrong and she calls for Jason once more and, in an elaborate ruse, apologizes to him for overreacting to his decision to marry Glauce. When Jason appears fully convinced that she regrets her actions, Medea begins to cry in mourning of her exile and she convinces Jason to allow her to give the robes to Glauce in hopes that Glauce might get Creon to lift the exile
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Joseph Papp
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Joseph Joe Papp was an American theatrical producer and director. Papp established The Public Theater in what had been the Astor Library Building in downtown New York, there, Papp created a year-round producing home to focus on new creations, both plays and musicals. Papp was born Joseph Papirofsky in Brooklyn, New York, New York, the son of Yetta, a seamstress, and Samuel Papirofsky and his parents were Jewish immigrants from Russia. He was a school student of Harlem Renaissance playwright Eulalie Spence. Papp founded the New York Shakespeare Festival in 1954, with the aim of making Shakespeares works accessible to the public, in 1957, he was granted the use of Central Park for free productions of Shakespeares plays. This legacy of Papp has continued at the open-air Delacorte Theatre every summer in Central Park, Papp spent years of entrepreneurial zeal and dogged persistence promoting his idea of free Shakespeare in New York City. Actress Colleen Dewhurst, who played Kate the shrew, recalled the beginning of the shift in fortune, With Brooks Atkinsons blessing, suddenly in our audience of neighbors in T-shirts and jeans appeared men in white shirts, jackets and ties, and ladies in summer dresses. Suddenly we were the play to see, and everything changed and we were in a hit that would have a positive effect on my career, as well as Joes, but I missed the shouting. I missed the feeling of not knowing what might happen next or how that play would that night move an audience unafraid of talking back, after looking at other locations, he fell in love with the location and the character of Lafayette Street’s Astor Library. Papp got it, in 1967, at a one dollar yearly rental from the City. It was the first building saved from demolition under the New York City landmarks preservation law, after massive renovations, Papp moved his staff to the newly named Public Theater, hoping to attract a newer, less conventional audience to new and innovative playwrights. At the Public Theater, Papps focus moved away from the Shakespearean classics, notable Public Theater productions included Charles Gordone’s No Place to Be Somebody and the plays of David Rabe, Tom Babe, and Jason Miller. Papp called his productions of Rabes plays the most important thing I did at the Public, Papp managed to produce plays that spoke to their own time. As festival designer Ming Cho Lee put it, “With the new playwrights, Joe changed direction and none of us realized for a while that he had changed direction. The Public Theater became more important than the Delacorte, the new playwrights became more interesting to Joe than Shakespeare. A Chorus Line originated with a series of taped interviews of dancers reminiscences, down at the Public, Papp had given Bennett the kind of entrepreneurial support for which he was known, trusting Bennett with the time and space to flesh out his dream. Previously, Papp had not kept his producers hands on the rights to Hair, after this ground-breaking musical transferred to a highly lucrative Broadway run, the shows earnings became a continuous financial support for Papps work. The show received 12 Tony Award nominations and won nine of them and it ran for 6,137 performances, becoming the longest-running production in Broadway history up to that time
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The Cherry Orchard
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The Cherry Orchard is the last play by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. It opened at the Moscow Art Theatre on 17 January 1904 in a directed by Konstantin Stanislavski. Chekhov described the play as a comedy, with elements of farce. Since its first production, directors have contended with its dual nature and it is often identified as one of the three or four outstanding plays by Chekhov, along with The Seagull, Three Sisters, and Uncle Vanya. The play concerns an aristocratic Russian landowner who returns to her family estate just before it is auctioned to pay the mortgage. Unresponsive to offers to save the estate, she allows its sale to the son of a former serf, the story presents themes of cultural futility – both the futile attempts of the aristocracy to maintain its status and of the bourgeoisie to find meaning in its newfound materialism. Widely regarded as a classic of 20th-century theatre, the play has been translated and adapted into many languages, major theatre directors have staged it, including Charles Laughton, Peter Brook, Andrei Șerban, Jean-Louis Barrault, Tyrone Guthrie, Katie Mitchell, Mehmet Ergen and Giorgio Strehler. It has influenced other playwrights, including Eugene ONeill, George Bernard Shaw, David Mamet. The spelling of character names depends on the transliteration used, Madame Lyubov Andreievna Ranevskaya – a landowner. Ranyevskaya is the linchpin around which the other characters revolve, a commanding and popular figure, she represents the pride of the old aristocracy, now fallen on hard times. Her confused feelings of love for her old home and sorrow at the scene of her sons death, most of her humor comes from her inability to understand financial or business matters. Peter Trofimov – a student and Anyas love interest, Trofimov is depicted as an eternal student. An impassioned left-wing political commentator, he represents the rising tide of reformist political opinion in Russia, Boris Borisovich Simeonov-Pishchik – a landowner and another old aristocrat whose estate has hit hard times. He is constantly discussing new business ventures that may save him and his character embodies the irony of the aristocracys position, despite his financial peril, he spends the play relaxing and socializing with the Gayevs. Anya – Lyubovs daughter, aged 17 and she journeys to Paris to rescue her mother from her desperate situation. She is a virtuous and strong young woman and she is in love with Trofimov and listens to his revolutionary ideas, although she may or may not be taking them in. Varya – Lyubovs adopted daughter, aged 24, Varya is the one who manages the estate and keeps everything in order. She is the rock holds the family together
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Meryl Streep
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Mary Louise Meryl Streep is an American actress and philanthropist. Nominated for 20 Academy Awards, Streep has more nominations than any actor or actress. Streep has also received 30 Golden Globe nominations, winning eight—more nominations, Streep made her professional stage debut in Trelawny of the Wells in 1975, and in 1976 received a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play for 27 Wagons Full of Cotton. She made her debut in the 1977 television film The Deadliest Season. In 1978, she won an Emmy Award for her role in the miniseries Holocaust and she went on to win Best Supporting Actress for Kramer vs. Kramer, and Best Actress for Sophies Choice and The Iron Lady. President Barack Obama awarded her the 2010 National Medal of Arts, in 2003, the government of France made her a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters. In 2017, Streep was awarded the Golden Globe Cecil B. Mary Louise Streep was born on June 22,1949, in Summit, New Jersey, the daughter of Mary Wolf Wilkinson, a commercial artist and art editor, the eldest child, she has two younger brothers, Dana David and Harry William III. Streeps father Harry was of German and Swiss ancestry and her fathers lineage traces back to Loffenau, Germany, from where her second great-grandfather, Gottfried Streeb, immigrated to the United States, and where one of her ancestors served as mayor. Another line of her fathers family was from Giswil, Switzerland and her mother had English, German, and Irish ancestry. Some of Streeps maternal ancestors lived in Pennsylvania and Rhode Island and were descended from 17th-century immigrants from England and her eighth great-grandfather, Lawrence Wilkinson, was one of the first Europeans to settle in Rhode Island. Streep is also a distant relative of William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, Streeps maternal great-great-grandparents, Manus McFadden and Grace Strain, the namesake of Streeps second daughter, were natives of the Horn Head district of Dunfanaghy, Ireland. Streeps mother, whom she has compared in both appearance and manner to Dame Judi Dench, strongly encouraged her daughter and instilled confidence in her from a young age. Streep has said, She was a mentor because she said to me, Meryl and she was saying, You can do whatever you put your mind to. If youre lazy, youre not going to get it done, but if you put your mind to it, you can do anything. Although Streep was naturally more introverted than her mother, at times when she later needed an injection of confidence in adulthood, she would consult her mother, asking her for advice. Streep was raised as a Presbyterian in Basking Ridge, New Jersey and attended Cedar Hill Elementary School and the Oak Street School, in her Junior High debut, she starred as Lousie Heller in the play The Family Upstairs. In 1963 the family moved to Bernardsville, New Jersey, where she attended Bernards High School
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Irene Worth
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Irene Worth, CBE was an American stage and screen actress who became one of the leading stars of the British and American theatre. She pronounced her name with three syllables, I-REE-nee. Worth made her Broadway debut in 1943, joined the Old Vic company in 1951 and she won the BAFTA Award for Best British Actress for the 1958 film Orders to Kill. One of her stage performances was opposite Paul Scofield in the 2001 production of I Take Your Hand in Mine at the Almeida Theatre in London. Harriet Elizabeth Abrams was born in Fairbury, Nebraska to a Mennonite family and her parents, Agnes Thiessen and Henry Abrams, were educators. They moved from Nebraska to California in 1920 and she was educated at Newport Harbor High School, Newport Beach, California, Santa Ana Junior College, Santa Ana, California and UCLA. She joined the Old Vic company in 1951, worked with Tyrone Guthrie and there played Desdemona, Helena in A Midsummer Nights Dream, Portia in The Merchant of Venice, the company went off to South Africa with Worth as one of the leading ladies. In 1953, she joined the fledgling Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, there she was the principal leading lady, performing under an enormous tent with Alec Guinness in Alls Well That Ends Well and Richard III. Binkie Beaumont brought her back to London in N. C, hunters Chekhovian drama, A Day by the Sea, with a cast that included John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson. She joined the Midland Theatre Company in Coventry for Ugo Bettis The Queen, in Ivor Browns play Williams Other Anne she played Shakespeares first girlfriend Anne Whateley opposite John Gregson as Shakespeare. In 1962, she joined the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Aldwych Theatre and she was Goneril to Paul Scofields Lear in Peter Brooks acclaimed King Lear, the first of many collaborations with Brook. She recreated her implacable Goneril in the stark, black-and-white film version of this production and she repeated her Lady Macbeth and appeared again for Brook in Friedrich Dürrenmatts The Physicists. Playing an asylum superintendent, she showed the darker side of her acting and she then went to New York in 1965 for the opening of Edward Albees enigmatic Tiny Alice, in which she co-starred with John Gielgud and which won her the first of her three Tony Awards. She returned to the RSC at the Aldwych to repeat her role and she worked with Peter Brook in Paris and also toured Iran with Orghast, Brooks attempt to develop an international theatre language. She joined the National Theatre at the Old Vic in 1968 to play Jocasta in Peter Brooks production of Senecas Oedipus and she was proud to have been in Noël Cowards last play Suite in Three Keys, in which he himself made his last appearance on stage. In 1974 she appeared in three thematically-linked plays at the Greenwich Theatre directed by Jonathan Miller under the title of Family Romances. Worth took the roles of Gertrude in Hamlet, Madame Arkadina in Chekhovs The Seagull, Worth spent most of the 1970s in North America. She played Princess Kosmonopolis in Tennessee Williamss Sweet Bird of Youth opposite Christopher Walken, towards the end of the decade she played Winnie, in Becketts Happy Days
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Hunter College High School
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Hunter College High School is a secondary school for intellectually gifted students located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. It is administered by Hunter College of the City University of New York, Hunter is publicly funded, and there is no tuition fee. According to the school, students accepted to Hunter represent the top one-quarter of 1% of students in New York City, Hunter has been ranked as the top public high school in the United States by both The Wall Street Journal and Worth. The New York Times called Hunter the prestigious Upper East Side school known for its Ivy League-bound students, Hunter graduates excel in many fields, most notably academia, law, medicine, writing and performing arts. Hunter graduates are known for breaking down race, class and especially gender barriers in their professions, Hunter was established in 1869 as The Female Normal and High School, a private school to prepare young women to become teachers. The original school was composed of an elementary and a high school, a kindergarten was added in 1887, and in 1888 the school was incorporated into a college. The high school was separated from what would become Hunter College in 1903, in 1914, both schools were named after the Female Normal Schools first president, Thomas Hunter. The school was almost closed by Hunter College President Jacqueline Wexler in the early 1970s, Hunter was an all-girls school for its first 78 years, with the official name Hunter College High School for Intellectually Gifted Young Ladies. The prototypical Hunter girl was the subject of the song Sarah Maria Jones, who, in January 1982, the school was featured in a New York Magazine article entitled The Joyful Elite. Hunter was the subject of the 1992 book Hunter College Campus Schools for the Gifted, The Challenge of Equity, the high school has occupied a number of buildings throughout its history, including one at the East 68th Street campus of the College. For several years in the 1970s, it was housed on the 13th and 14th floors of a building at 466 Lexington Avenue. Since 1977, it has existed in a designed to resemble the armory which previously existed on the site at East 94th Street between Park and Madison Avenues on the Upper East Side. Formerly, this was the site of the Madison Avenue Armory, today, the greater part of the armory building has been demolished. Because of its design, including windows, Hunter is affectionately called The Brick Prison. The building contains both the school and the elementary school, which are collectively known as the Hunter College Campus Schools. Tony Fisher is the principal of the high school, Dean Ketchum is the principal of the elementary school and is the Director of the Campus Schools. Sonya Mosco is the deputy director of the Campus Schools, admission to the high school is only granted in seventh grade, and is a two-step process. Note that this results in a pool of much less than 10% of New York City fifth graders for two reasons
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Broadway theatre
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Along with Londons West End theatres, Broadway theatres are widely considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world. The Theater District is a popular tourist attraction in New York City, the great majority of Broadway shows are musicals. They presented Shakespeare plays and ballad operas such as The Beggars Opera, in 1752, William Hallam sent a company of twelve actors from Britain to the colonies with his brother Lewis as their manager. They established a theatre in Williamsburg, Virginia and opened with The Merchant of Venice, the company moved to New York in the summer of 1753, performing ballad operas and ballad-farces like Damon and Phillida. The Revolutionary War suspended theatre in New York, but thereafter theatre resumed in 1798, the Bowery Theatre opened in 1826, followed by others. Blackface minstrel shows, a distinctly American form of entertainment, became popular in the 1830s, by the 1840s, P. T. Barnum was operating an entertainment complex in lower Manhattan. In 1829, at Broadway and Prince Street, Niblos Garden opened, the 3, 000-seat theatre presented all sorts of musical and non-musical entertainments. In 1844, Palmos Opera House opened and presented opera for four seasons before bankruptcy led to its rebranding as a venue for plays under the name Burtons Theatre. The Astor Opera House opened in 1847, booth played the role for a famous 100 consecutive performances at the Winter Garden Theatre in 1865, and would later revive the role at his own Booths Theatre. Other renowned Shakespeareans who appeared in New York in this era were Henry Irving, Tommaso Salvini, Fanny Davenport, lydia Thompson came to America in 1868 heading a small theatrical troupe, adapting popular English burlesques for middle-class New York audiences. Thompsons troupe called the British Blondes, was the most popular entertainment in New York during the 1868–1869 theatrical season, the six-month tour ran for almost six extremely profitable years. Theatre in New York moved from downtown gradually to midtown beginning around 1850, in 1870, the heart of Broadway was in Union Square, and by the end of the century, many theatres were near Madison Square. Broadways first long-run musical was a 50-performance hit called The Elves in 1857, New York runs continued to lag far behind those in London, but Laura Keenes musical burletta The Seven Sisters shattered previous New York records with a run of 253 performances. It was at a performance by Keenes troupe of Our American Cousin in Washington, the production was a staggering five-and-a-half hours long, but despite its length, it ran for a record-breaking 474 performances. The same year, The Black Domino/Between You, Me and the Post was the first show to call itself a musical comedy, Tony Pastor opened the first vaudeville theatre one block east of Union Square in 1881, where Lillian Russell performed. Comedians Edward Harrigan and Tony Hart produced and starred in musicals on Broadway between 1878 and 1890, with book and lyrics by Harrigan and music by his father-in-law David Braham. They starred high quality singers, instead of the women of repute who had starred in earlier musical forms. Plays could run longer and still draw in the audiences, leading to better profits, as in England, during the latter half of the century, the theatre began to be cleaned up, with less prostitution hindering the attendance of the theatre by women
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Laurence Olivier
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Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM, was an English actor who, along with his contemporaries Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud, dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century. He also worked in films throughout his career, playing more than fifty cinema roles, late in his career, he had considerable success in television roles. His family had no connections, but Oliviers father, a clergyman. After attending a school in London, Olivier learned his craft in a succession of acting jobs during the late 1920s. In 1930 he had his first important West End success in Noël Cowards Private Lives, in 1935 he played in a celebrated production of Romeo and Juliet alongside Gielgud and Peggy Ashcroft, and by the end of the decade he was an established star. In the 1940s, together with Richardson and John Burrell, Olivier was the co-director of the Old Vic, there his most celebrated roles included Shakespeares Richard III and Sophocless Oedipus. From 1963 to 1973 he was the director of Britains National Theatre. His own parts there included the role in Othello and Shylock in The Merchant of Venice. Among Oliviers films are Wuthering Heights, Rebecca, and a trilogy of Shakespeare films as actor-director, Henry V, Hamlet and his later films included Sleuth, Marathon Man, and The Boys from Brazil. His television appearances included an adaptation of The Moon and Sixpence, Long Days Journey into Night, Love Among the Ruins, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Brideshead Revisited, Oliviers honours included a knighthood, a life peerage and the Order of Merit. For his on-screen work he received four Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, five Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards. The National Theatres largest auditorium is named in his honour, and he is commemorated in the Laurence Olivier Awards, given annually by the Society of London Theatre. He was married three times, to the actresses Jill Esmond from 1930 to 1940, Vivien Leigh from 1940 to 1960, Olivier was born in Dorking, Surrey, the youngest of the three children of the Revd Gerard Kerr Olivier and his wife Agnes Louise, née Crookenden. Their elder children were Sybille and Gerard Dacres Dickie and his great-great-grandfather was of French Huguenot descent, and Olivier came from a long line of Protestant clergymen. Gerard Olivier had begun a career as a schoolmaster, but in his thirties he discovered a strong religious vocation and was ordained as a priest of the Church of England and he practised extremely high church, ritualist Anglicanism and liked to be addressed as Father Olivier. This made him unacceptable to most Anglican congregations, and the church posts he was offered were temporary. This meant a nomadic existence, and for Laurences first few years, in 1912, when Olivier was five, his father secured a permanent appointment as assistant priest at St Saviours, Pimlico. He held the post for six years, and a family life was at last possible
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Grace Kelly
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Grace Patricia Kelly was an American actress who became Princess of Monaco after marrying Prince Rainier III, in April 1956. In October 1953, she gained stardom from her performance in the film Mogambo, which won her a Golden Globe Award, subsequently, she had leading roles in five films, including The Country Girl, for which her deglamorized performance earned her an Academy Award for Best Actress. Kelly retired from acting at the age of 26 to marry Rainier and they had three children, Caroline, Albert II, and Stéphanie. Kelly retained her American roots, maintaining dual U. S. and she died on September 14,1982, a day after suffering a stroke while driving her car, which caused a crash. Kelly was born on November 12,1929, at Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to an affluent and influential family. Her father, Irish-American John B. Kelly Sr. had won three Olympic gold medals for sculling and owned a successful brickwork contracting company that was well-known on the East Coast. A registered Democrat, he was nominated to be mayor of Philadelphia for the 1935 election, in later years, he served on the Fairmount Park Commission and, during World War II, was appointed by President Roosevelt as National Director of Physical Fitness. Kellys mother was Philadelphia native Margaret Katherine Majer, the daughter of German immigrants, Margaret had taught physical education at the University of Pennsylvania and had been the first woman to coach womens athletics at the institution. She was noted for her beauty and modeled for a time in her youth, after marrying John B. Kelly in 1924, Margaret focused on being a housewife until all her children were of school age, following which she began actively participating in various civic organizations. Kelly had two siblings, Margaret and John Jr. and a younger sister, Elizabeth. The children were raised in the Roman Catholic faith, while attending Ravenhill Academy, a prestigious Catholic girls school, Kelly modeled fashions at local social events with her mother and sisters. In 1942, at the age of 12, she played the lead in Dont Feed the Animals, before graduating in May 1947 from Stevens School, a socially prominent private institution on Walnut Lane in the Northwest Philadelphia neighborhood of Germantown, she acted and danced. Her graduation yearbook listed her favorite actress as Ingrid Bergman and her favorite actor as Joseph Cotten, written in the Stevens Prophecy section was, Miss Grace P. Kelly – a famous star of stage and screen. Owing to her low mathematics scores, Kelly was rejected by Bennington College in July 1947, despite her parents initial disapproval, Kelly decided to pursue her dreams of being an actress. John was particularly displeased with her decision, he viewed acting as a cut above streetwalker. To start her career, she auditioned for the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, although the school had already met its semester quota, she obtained an interview with the admission officer, Emile Diestel, and was admitted through the influence of George. She began her first term the following October, while at school, she lived in Manhattans Barbizon Hotel for Women, a prestigious establishment which barred men from entering after 10 pm, and she worked as a model to support her studies. Kelly worked diligently and practiced her speech by using a tape recorder and her early acting pursuits led her to the stage, most notably a Broadway debut in Strindbergs The Father alongside Raymond Massey
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Time (magazine)
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Time is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It was founded in 1923 and for decades was dominated by Henry Luce, a European edition is published in London and also covers the Middle East, Africa and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition is based in Hong Kong, the South Pacific edition, which covers Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands, is based in Sydney, Australia. In December 2008, Time discontinued publishing a Canadian advertiser edition, Time has the worlds largest circulation for a weekly news magazine, and has a readership of 26 million,20 million of which are based in the United States. As of 2012, it had a circulation of 3.3 million making it the eleventh most circulated magazine in the United States reception room circuit, as of 2015, its circulation was 3,036,602. Richard Stengel was the editor from May 2006 to October 2013. Nancy Gibbs has been the editor since October 2013. Time magazine was created in 1923 by Briton Hadden and Henry Luce, the two had previously worked together as chairman and managing editor respectively of the Yale Daily News. They first called the proposed magazine Facts and they wanted to emphasize brevity, so that a busy man could read it in an hour. They changed the name to Time and used the slogan Take Time–Its Brief and it set out to tell the news through people, and for many decades the magazines cover depicted a single person. More recently, Time has incorporated People of the Year issues which grew in popularity over the years, notable mentions of them were Barack Obama, Steve Jobs, Matej Turk, etc. The first issue of Time was published on March 3,1923, featuring Joseph G. Cannon, the retired Speaker of the House of Representatives, on its cover, a facsimile reprint of Issue No. 1, including all of the articles and advertisements contained in the original, was included with copies of the February 28,1938 issue as a commemoration of the magazines 15th anniversary. The cover price was 15¢ On Haddens death in 1929, Luce became the dominant man at Time, the Intimate History of a Publishing Enterprise 1923–1941. In 1929, Roy Larsen was also named a Time Inc. director, J. P. Morgan retained a certain control through two directorates and a share of stocks, both over Time and Fortune. Other shareholders were Brown Brothers W. A. Harriman & Co. the Intimate History of a Changing Enterprise 1957–1983. According to the September 10,1979 issue of The New York Times, after Time magazine began publishing its weekly issues in March 1923, Roy Larsen was able to increase its circulation by utilizing U. S. radio and movie theaters around the world. It often promoted both Time magazine and U. S. political and corporate interests, Larsen next arranged for a 30-minute radio program, The March of Time, to be broadcast over CBS, beginning on March 6,1931
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Outlaw
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In historical legal systems, an outlaw is declared as outside the protection of the law. In pre-modern societies, the criminal is withdrawn all legal protection, outlawry was thus one of the harshest penalties in the legal system. In early Germanic law, the penalty is conspicuously absent. The concept is known from Roman law, as the status of homo sacer, women were declared waived rather than outlawed but it was effectively the same punishment. Among other forms of exile, Roman law included the penalty of interdicere aquae et ignis, people so penalized were required to leave Roman territory and forfeit their property. If they returned, they were effectively outlaws, providing them the use of fire or water was illegal, and they could be killed at will without legal penalty. Interdicere aquae et ignis was traditionally imposed by the tribune of the plebs and it was later also applied by many other officials, such as the Senate, magistrates, and Julius Caesar as a general and provincial governor during the Gallic Wars. It fell out of use during the early Empire, in English common law, an outlaw was a person who had defied the laws of the realm, by such acts as ignoring a summons to court, or fleeing instead of appearing to plead when charged with a crime. Outlawry was a principally pre-Magna Carta phenomenon, the most famous English outlaw was Robin Hood, however, his historical existence is not proved. The term outlawry referred to the procedure of declaring someone an outlaw. In the common law of England, a judgment of outlawry was one of the harshest penalties in the system, since the outlaw could not use the legal system for protection. To be declared an outlaw was to suffer a form of civil or social death, the outlaw was debarred from all civilized society. No one was allowed to give him food, shelter, or any sort of support – to do so was to commit the crime of aiding and abetting. A more recent concept of wanted dead or alive is similar, an outlaw might be killed with impunity, and it was not only lawful but meritorious to kill a thief fleeing from justice — to do so was not murder. A man who slew a thief was expected to declare the fact without delay, otherwise the dead man’s kindred might clear his name by their oath and require the slayer to pay weregild as for a true man. By the rules of law, a criminal outlaw did not need to be guilty of the crime for which he was an outlaw. If a man was accused of a treason or felony but failed to appear in court to defend himself, if he was accused of a misdemeanour, then he was guilty of a serious contempt of court which was itself a capital crime. It was obsolete by the time the offence was abolished in 1938, there was also a doctrine of civil outlawry
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Cattle Annie and Little Britches
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It was scripted by David Eyre and Robert Ward from Robert Wards book and directed by Lamont Johnson. The outlaws the girls find are the remnants of the Doolin-Dalton gang. Anna Emmaline McDoulet, or Cattle Annie, shames, and inspires the men, the younger sister, Jennie Stevens or Little Britches, finds a father figure in Doolin, who in the story line coined her nickname Little Britches. Doolins efforts to live up to the vision of him lead him to be carted off in a cage to an Oklahoma jail where he waits to be hanged. With the help of the girls, and the gang, Doolin escapes and rides off to safety with his men, the girls are triumphant, but they cannot escape Marshal Bill Tilghman, and are sent back East to the reformatory in Framingham, Massachusetts. Sweetman Perry Lang as Elrod The film was reviewed by the critic Pauline Kael in The New Yorker. The cinematography is vivid. the colors are strikingly crisp and intense, the dialogue and most of the incidents have a neat, dry humor. Its a wonderful, partly true story. there are wonderful performances. As Bill Doolin, Lancaster, is a gent surrounded by louts - a charmer, when he talks to his gang he uses the lithe movements and the rhythmic, courtly delivery that his Crimson Pirate had when he told his boys to gather round. Lancaster looks happy in the movie and still looks tough, its an unbeatable combination, young Amanda Plummer gives a scarily brilliant performance. Cattle Annie and Little Britches at the Internet Movie Database
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Amanda Plummer
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Plummer won a Tony Award in 1982 for her performance in Agnes of God. Plummer was born in New York City, the child of actors Christopher Plummer. Plummer has received acclaim for her film work, including such films as Cattle Annie and Little Britches, The World According to Garp, Daniel. Other films of note include The Fisher King, for which she received a BAFTA film nomination, a Chicago Film Critics Association Award nomination, and a Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award. Other films include Pulp Fiction, for which she received an American Comedy Award nomination, Girlfriend, Butterfly Kiss, My Life Without Me, Vampire, and Ken Park. She made her Broadway debut as Jo in the 1981 revival of A Taste of Honey and she received a Tony Award nomination, a Theatre World, a Drama Desk, and an Outer Critics Circle Awards for her portrayal. In 1983 she portrayed Laura Wingfield in a Broadway revival of The Glass Menagerie, other Broadway performances include Dolly Clandon in You Never Can Tell, and as Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play. Off-Broadway plays include Beth in Sam Shepards A Lie of the Mind and she has performed in many of Tennessee Williams plays, including Summer and Smoke, The Gnädiges Fräulein, The Milk Train Doesnt Stop Here Anymore, and the world premiere of The One Exception. For her performance in Last Light, she received a Cable Ace Award nomination. Plummer played Wiress, a former tribute who won the Hunger Games, in The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, Plummer starred alongside Brad Dourif in the critically acclaimed Off Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams The Two-Character Play at New World Stages in 2013. Amanda Plummer at the Internet Movie Database playbill article, October 20,2004, profile, hollywood. com, accessed May 6,2014. NewYork Times article referencing Amanda Plummer, April 28,1996, stephen Capen Interview on Worldguide, Futurist Radio Hour, October 14,1995. Amanda Plummer comments on camera on role in The Two Character Play, June 2013 on YouTube New York Times Arts Blog on The Two-Character Play, June 2013, accessed May 5,2014
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