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Die Hard (film series)
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The Die Hard series is an American action film series that began in 1988 with Die Hard, based on the 1979 novel Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp. The first film begins on Christmas Eve when McClane comes to reunite with separated wife Holly in Los Angeles at her companys Christmas party, Holly left to pursue her career with their two children, and uses her maiden name. At the fictional Nakatomi Plaza, East German terrorists break in, McClane escapes detection and hides throughout the building. He kills off the gang and learns their real aim, to steal $640 million in bonds from the buildings vault. In the finale, McClane shoots the terrorist leader, Hans Gruber and it was released on July 15,1988 to positive reviews and grossed $140.8 million worldwide. The second film takes place a year after the first, again on Christmas Eve, McClane waits for his wife at Washington Dulles International Airport. Mercenaries led by former U. S. Army Special Forces Colonel Stuart take over the communication systems, stranding planes in the air. Colonel Stuart wants to free a captured Latin American dictator en route to the airport, McClane discovers the plan, including a conspiracy between Stuart and an Army counter-terrorist unit sent to stop him. He foils their plans and provides a landing signal for the circling aircraft by exploding the villains getaway plane. It was released on July 4,1990 to positive reviews, in the third film, McClane is back in New York City, separated from his wife, suspended from the police force, and a borderline alcoholic. A terrorist known only as Simon threatens to blow up various locations in the city unless McClane will play his twisted version of Simon Says, Zeus Carver, a shopkeeper from Harlem, saves McClane after the first challenge, and reluctantly continues to help. The FBI reveal Simon is the brother of Hans Gruber, killed in the first film, McClane learns revenge is a cover story for robbing the New York Federal Reserve. McClane tracks Simon to the Canada–US border, McClane kills Simon by shooting at a power line above Simons helicopter. It was released on May 19,1995 to mixed reviews, the fourth film takes place on Independence Day, over a decade after Die Hard with a Vengeance. McClane is divorced, and estranged from his daughter Lucy, cyber-terrorists hack into computers at the FBI, who had sent McClane to bring in computer hacker Matthew Matt Farrell for questioning. Assassins hired by terrorist mastermind Thomas Gabriel attempt to kill McClane, although the terrorists capture Lucy and Farrell, McClane foils the criminals and saves the hostages. It was released June 27,2007 to positive reviews and grossed $383.5 million worldwide, the fifth film is set a few years later, mostly in Moscow, Russia and Chernobyl, Ukraine. McClane finds out that his estranged son John Jack McClane, Junior was arrested in Moscow for murder, when he arrives at the Moscow courthouse for Jack, Russian terrorists bomb the building and Jack escapes with imprisoned ex-billionaire Yuri Komarov
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John McTiernan
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John Campbell McTiernan, Jr. is an American filmmaker. He is best known for his films, especially Predator, Die Hard. His later well-known films include the action-comedy-fantasy film Last Action Hero, the film sequel Die Hard with a Vengeance. He was incarcerated in prison from April 2013 to February 2014. During his imprisonment, he declared bankruptcy amidst foreclosure proceedings for his residence and struggles to pay legal fees. His last completed project was the mystery-thriller Basic, released in 2003. McTiernan was born in Albany, New York, the son of Myra and John Campbell McTiernan, Sr. a lawyer and he attended the Juilliard School before graduating with a Master of Fine Arts from the AFI Conservatory. In 1986, he wrote and directed his first feature film, Nomads, while being neither commercially successful nor critically acclaimed, it did land him the job of directing the science fiction action hit Predator, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. In the wake of that success, he went on to direct two more hits – Die Hard in 1988 starring Bruce Willis and The Hunt for Red October in 1990 with Alec Baldwin. Nomads was not well received by critics – receiving only one positive review out of eight according to the aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times rated it 1.5 stars out of four and said even if viewers cared about the characters. However, Jay Scott of The Globe and Mail described it as a breathlessly unself-conscious film, and then, via one of the funniest, cleverest and most unexpected conclusions to any movie in history, Nomads comes off the fence it has been sitting on with a bravura jump. Scott credited McTiernan, saying he has brought to his project a staggeringly resourceful technique, the sharply unpredictable editing, the hypnotic use of slow motion and rack focus, the ominous rock music - everything adds up to a debut of singular confidence, full of fun and creepiness. Variety wrote, Nomads avoids the more obvious ripped-guts devices in favor of dramatic visual scares, in fact, everything seems to come naturally in a tale that even has the supernatural ring true. Walter Goodman of The New York Times called the Innuat as menacing as the chorus from West Side Story. In his memoir, Total Recall, Arnold Schwarzenegger said he was so impressed by the tense atmosphere made with a low budget that he hired John McTiernan to direct Predator. The budget for Predator was around $15 million, but it opened as #1 at the U. S. box office with a gross of $12 million on its opening weekend, for the calendar year 1987, it was second only to Beverly Hills Cop II. Initial critical reaction to Predator was negative, with focusing on the thin plot
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Joel Silver
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Joel Silver is an American film producer, most well known for action films including the Lethal Weapon series, The Matrix trilogy, the first two Die Hard movies, and Predator. He is the owner of Silver Pictures and co-founder of Dark Castle Entertainment and he has been a rival to Michael Eisner, former CEO of The Walt Disney Company, since their days at Paramount Pictures. Silver was born and raised in South Orange, New Jersey, the son of a writer and he attended Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey. During his time here, Silver, Buzzy Hellring and Jonny Hines created the rules for what he called Ultimate Frisbee and he was later inducted into the USA Ultimate Hall of Fame as a result of this. He finished his studies at the New York Universitys Tisch School of the Arts. Silver began his career at Lawrence Gordon Productions, where he became president of motion pictures for the company. He earned his first screen credit as the producer on The Warriors and, with Gordon. Streets of Fire, and Brewsters Millions, Silver appears on-screen at the beginning of Who Framed Roger Rabbit as Raoul J. Raoul, the director of the animated short Somethings Cookin. Silver directed Split Personality, an episode of the HBO horror anthology Tales from the Crypt and he currently runs two production companies, Silver Pictures, and Dark Castle Entertainment, co-owned by Robert Zemeckis. Silver is also known for his temper, which has led his character to be portrayed on some movies like Grand Canyon, True Romance. The character of Les Grossman in the movie Tropic Thunder, is a parody of Silver, on July 10,1999, Silver married his production assistant, Karyn Fields. Silver is well known as an aficionado of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, in 1984, he bought the Wright-designed Storer House in Hollywood and made considerable investments to restore it to the original condition. The Storer Houses squarish relief ornament then became the logo of Silver Pictures. Silver sold it in 2002 for $2.9 million, in 1986, he purchased the long-neglected C. Leigh Stevens Auldbrass Plantation in Yemassee, South Carolina, and has been restoring it since then. Joel Silver at the Internet Movie Database Silver on Warner Bros
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Nothing Lasts Forever (Thorp novel)
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Nothing Lasts Forever is a 1979 thriller novel by Roderick Thorp, a sequel to his 1966 novel The Detective. It is mostly known through its adaptation, Die Hard. In December 2012, the book was brought back into print, in the year 1975, author Roderick Thorp saw the film The Towering Inferno, which is about a skyscraper that catches on fire. After seeing the film, Thorp fell asleep and had a dream of seeing a man being chased through a skyscraper by men with guns and he woke up and later took that idea and turned it into the The Detective sequel, Nothing Lasts Forever. Retired NYPD Detective Joe Leland is visiting the 40-story office headquarters of the Klaxon Oil Corporation in Los Angeles on Christmas Eve, while he is waiting for his daughters Christmas party to end, a group of German Autumn-era terrorists take over the skyscraper. The gang is led by the brutal Anton Little Tony Gruber, Joe met Gruber during World War II when Joe was a fighter pilot. The terrorists plan to steal documents that will expose the Klaxon corporations dealings with Chiles Junta. They also intend to deprive Klaxon of the proceeds of the deal by dumping $6,000,000 in cash out of the towers windows. Leland not only believes their claims, but also that his daughter is involved, barefoot, Leland slips away and manages to remain undetected in the gigantic office complex. Joseph Leland - an aging, retired NYPD detective on his way to Los Angeles to visit his daughter for a Christmas party hosted by her boss, Mr. Rivers. Although retired, he habitually carries his Browning Hi-Power pistol with him everywhere. On the plane, Leland begins a relationship with a stewardess named Kathy, Leland is still somewhat depressed that his wife had left him and then died eight years later, and the relationship between him and his daughter is strained. He hopes that this visit will help the relationship, but when the building is taken over, he uses his experience with terrorists to kill them all and save the hostages. He is depicted as a hero from his Second World War fighter pilot days. In Die Hard, his name is John McClane and he is portrayed by Bruce Willis, Stephanie Gennaro - the only daughter of Joseph Leland and an important executive to the Klaxon Oil building. She is sleeping with another executive named Harry Ellis, the book ends with Stephanie falling to her death after Leland shoots Gruber next to a high rise window and he grabs her as he falls through the window. In Die Hard, instead of the daughter being held hostage, it is McClanes wife named Holly Gennero, also, the movie ends instead with Gruber attempting to do the same to Holly only to fail due to McClanes intervention. Anton Little Tony The Red Gruber - of German heritage, is the leader of the terrorists who have taken over the Klaxon Oil Building, Gruber is his real name but people often refer to him as Little Tony or Tony as a nickname
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Bruce Willis
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Walter Bruce Willis is an American actor, producer, and singer. His career began on the Off-Broadway stage and then in television in the 1980s and he is known for his role of John McClane in the Die Hard series. He has appeared in over 60 films, including Color of Night, Pulp Fiction,12 Monkeys, The Fifth Element, Armageddon, The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Sin City, Red, The Expendables 2, and Looper. Willis married actress Demi Moore in 1987, and they had three daughters, including Rumer, before their divorce in 2000, since 2009, he has been married to model Emma Heming, with whom he has two daughters. Willis was born Walter Bruce Willis on March 19,1955, in the town of Idar-Oberstein and his father, David Willis, was an American soldier. His mother, Marlene, was German, born in Kassel, Willis is the oldest of four children, he has a sister, Florence, and a brother, David. His brother Robert died of cancer in 2001, aged 42. After being discharged from the military in 1957, Williss father took his back to Carneys Point Township. Willis has described himself as having come from a line of blue collar people. His mother worked in a bank and his father was a welder, master mechanic, Willis attended Penns Grove High School in his hometown, where he encountered issues with a stutter. He was nicknamed Buck-Buck by his schoolmates, after high school, Willis took a job as a security guard at the Salem Nuclear Power Plant and transported work crews at the DuPont Chambers Works factory in Deepwater, New Jersey. After working as an investigator, Willis turned to acting. He enrolled in the Drama Program at Montclair State University, where he was cast in the production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Willis left school in his year and moved to New York City. Willis left New York City and headed to California to audition for television shows. In 1984, he appeared in an episode of the TV series Miami Vice, in 1985, he was the guest actor in the first episode of the 1980s revival of The Twilight Zone, Shatterday. He auditioned for the role of David Addison Jr. of the television series Moonlighting, competing against 3,000 other actors for the position, during the height of the shows success, beverage maker Seagram hired Willis as the pitchman for their Golden Wine Cooler products. The advertising campaign paid the rising star between $5–7 million over two years, in spite of that, Willis chose not to renew his contract with the company when he decided to stop drinking alcohol in 1988
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Alan Rickman
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Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman was an English actor and director known for playing a variety of roles on stage and on screen. Rickman trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and his first big television part came in 1982, but his big break was as the Vicomte de Valmont in the stage production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses in 1985, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award. Rickman gained wider notice for his performances as Hans Gruber in Die Hard. L. OHara in An Awfully Big Adventure, Dr. Rickman died of cancer on 14 January 2016 at the age of 69. His final film roles are as Lieutenant General Frank Benson in the thriller Eye in the Sky, and the voice of Absolem, Rickman was born in West London, to a working-class family, the son of Margaret Doreen Rose, a housewife, and Bernard William Rickman. Rickmans father was a worker, house painter and decorator. His ancestry was English, Irish and Welsh, his father was Catholic, Rickmans family also included brothers David and Michael, and sister Sheila. When he was eight years old, Rickmans father died of cancer, leaving his mother to raise him. She married again in 1960, but divorced Rickmans stepfather after three years, before he met Rima Horton at 19, he stated that his first crush was at 10 years old to a girl named Amanda at sports day. As a child, he excelled at calligraphy and watercolour painting, after leaving Latymer, he attended Chelsea College of Art and Design and then the Royal College of Art. He wrote to request an audition with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, while there, he studied Shakespeare and supported himself by working as a dresser for Sir Nigel Hawthorne and Sir Ralph Richardson. In 1978, he performed with the Court Drama Group, gaining parts in Romeo and Juliet and A View from the Bridge, while working with the Royal Shakespeare Company, he was cast in As You Like It. He appeared in The Barchester Chronicles, the BBCs adaptation of Trollopes first two Barchester novels, as the Reverend Obadiah Slope. Rickman was given the lead, the Vicomte de Valmont, in the 1985 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Christopher Hamptons adaptation of Les Liaisons Dangereuses. After the RSC production transferred to Broadway in 1987, Rickman received both a Tony Award nomination and a Drama Desk Award nomination for his performance, Rickmans career was filled with a wide range of roles. Alfred Blalock in HBOs Something the Lord Made and the mad monk Rasputin in the HBO biopic Rasputin, Dark Servant of Destiny, for which he won a Golden Globe and an Emmy. His performance as the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves also earned him praise as one of the best actors to portray a villain in films, Rickman took issue with being typecast as a villain, even though he was known for playing unsympathetic characters. His portrayal of Severus Snape, the master in the Harry Potter series, was dark
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Alexander Godunov
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Alexander Borisovich Godunov was a Russian-American ballet dancer and film actor, whose defection caused a diplomatic incident between the United States and the Soviet Union. Godunov was born in Sakhalin, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, Godunov began his ballet studies in Riga in 1958, in the same class as Mikhail Baryshnikov. The two became friends and helped each other throughout their years there, Godunov joined the Bolshoi Ballet in 1971 and rose to become Premier danseur. His teachers there included Aleksey Yermolayev, in 1973, he won a gold medal at the Moscow International Ballet Competition. After playing Lemisson, the Royal Musician, in The Thirty-first of June by J. B, priestley, Godunov became well known in the Soviet Union as a movie actor. His roles included Vronsky in Anna Karenina, on August 21,1979, while on a tour with the Bolshoi Ballet in New York City, Godunov contacted authorities and asked for political asylum. After discovering his absence, the KGB responded by putting his wife, Lyudmila Vlasova, a soloist with the company, on a plane to Moscow and this incident was dramatised in a 1986 movie Flight 222. Vlasova later said that while Godunov loved American culture and had desired to live in the United States. Godunov joined the American Ballet Theatre and danced as a dancer until 1982 when he had a falling-out with long-time friend. The official reason for his release from the company was there would not be sufficient roles for him after a change in the repertory. He then traveled with his own troupes, danced as a guest artist with different prominent ballet companies worldwide, and turned to acting in Hollywood. Godunovs acting roles were varied, including a good-natured Amish farmer in Witness, a comically narcissistic symphony conductor in The Money Pit, and he turned down many roles which typecast him as a dancer or another heavy as in Die Hard. Godunov married Ludmilla Vlasova, a soloist with the Bolshoi Ballet in 1971, the couple had no children and divorced in 1982. In 1981, Godunov met actress Jacqueline Bisset at a party in New York City and they began a long term relationship six months later. Godunov became a citizen of the United States in 1987. On May 18,1995, Godunovs friends became concerned when he had been quiet with his phone calls. A nurse who had not heard from him since May 8 went to his home in the Shoreham Towers, West Hollywood, California, Godunovs death was later determined to be caused by complications from hepatitis due to chronic alcoholism. His ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean, his memorial at Gates Mortuary in Los Angeles is engraved with the epitaph His future remained in the past
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Bonnie Bedelia
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Bonnie Bedelia is an American actress. She began her career in theatre and during 1960s starred in the CBS daytime soap opera, Love of Life, Bedelia was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her performance in 1983 film Heart Like a Wheel, and for an Independent Spirit Award for The Prince of Pennsylvania. She is best known for her role as Holly Gennero McClane in the action films Die Hard and Die Hard 2, as well as the movies They Shoot Horses, Lovers and Other Strangers, Presumed Innocent, and Needful Things. Bedelia also had many leading and supporting roles, and has worked regularly on television. For her television work, Bedelia received two Emmy Awards nominations, from 2001 to 2004, Bedelia played the lead role in the Lifetime television drama series, The Division, and later starred as family matriarch Camille Braverman in the NBC drama series, Parenthood. Bonnie Bedelia was born in New York City, the daughter of Marian Ethel, a writer and editor, and Philip Harley Culkin and she was born in a difficult financial period when her fathers firm went bankrupt and they lived in a cold-water tenement flat. She has two brothers, one of whom is actor Kit Culkin, and a sister, Candice Culkin and she is the aunt of actors Macaulay, Kieran, and Rory Culkin. Her mother died when she was 14 and her father, who had always had ulcers, before becoming an actress, Bedelia studied ballet and appeared in a few productions with the New York City Ballet, including The Nutcracker. In 1958 she had her only dancing role onscreen as Clara in the Playhouse 90 television production of the George Balanchine Nutcracker, from 1961 to 1967 Bedelia was a regular on the CBS soap opera, Love of Life, playing the role of Sandy Porter. She also worked on Broadway, making her debut supporting Patty Duke in 1962 in Isle of Children, Bedelia made her film debut in The Gypsy Moths, and later in 1969 she attracted attention as the pregnant marathon dancer in They Shoot Horses, Dont They. In following years, she starred in the 1970 comedy Lovers and Other Strangers, and had roles in The Strange Vengeance of Rosalie. She also appeared opposite Richard Dreyfuss in 1978 comedyThe Big Fix, on television she had the leading role in the short-lived ABC drama series, The New Land. In 1984 Bedelia received critical acclaim and was nominated for a Golden Globe for her role in 1983s Heart Like a Wheel as drag racer Shirley Muldowney. Bedelia appeared in two Stephen King screen adaptations, Salems Lot and Needful Things and she was nominated for Emmy Award for performances in Showtime anthology series, Fallen Angels in 1993, and for the leading role in the made-for-television movie Locked in Silence. On television she played a number of leading roles in films and miniseries, such as Switched at Birth, A Mothers Right, The Elizabeth Morgan Story, Her Costly Affair. From 2001 to 2004 Bedelia had lead role as Capt, kate McCafferty in the Lifetime television drama series The Division. She later guest-starred in Big Love and CSI, Crime Scene Investigation, in 2010 Bedelia began starring in the NBC drama series, Parenthood, playing the role of the family matriarch, Camille Braverman. The series aired during six seasons to 2015 and she married scriptwriter Ken Luber on April 24,1969, and they had two sons, Uri and Jonah
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Michael Kamen
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Michael Arnold Kamen was an American composer, orchestral arranger, orchestral conductor, songwriter, and session musician. Michael Arnold Kamen was born in New York City, the second of four sons and his father, Saul Kamen, was a dentist, and his mother, Helen, was a teacher. While attending the The High School of Music & Art in New York City, while studying the oboe, he formed a rock-classical fusion band called New York Rock & Roll Ensemble, together with classmates Fulterman and Dorian Rudnytsky. The group performed in white tie, as worn by classical musicians. In the middle of the concert, Fulterman and Kamen would play an oboe duet, the group backed up friend and classmate Janis Ian in a concert at Alice Tully Hall in late 1967. After graduating from school, Kamen attended The Juilliard School, in Manhattan. Kamen became a highly sought-after arranger in the realms of pop and his contemporaries in this field included Academy Award winner Anne Dudley, Richard Niles, and Nick Ingman. For Bush, Kamen delivered an orchestral backing for Moments of Pleasure from The Red Shoes album, in this instance, and many others, he conducted the orchestra personally for the recording. Lenny Kravitz recorded a cover of Fields of Joy on his 1991 CD Mama Said that Michael had co-written with Hal Fredricks, in 2002, Kamen took part in the Concert for George as strings conductor. Kamen had a partnership with Bryan Adams and R. J. The ballad I Do It for You for the 1991 film Robin Hood, other songs were All For Love for the movie The Three Musketeers in 1993, and Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman. The song from the film Don Juan DeMarco, in 1995, Kamen wrote eleven ballets, a saxophone concerto and an electric guitar concerto. Additionally, he wrote a work, Quintet, for the Canadian Brass. Hollands Opus, The Iron Giant, Splitting Heirs, Frequency and he also scored both the From the Earth to the Moon and Band of Brothers series on HBO. He also worked with metal band Metallica, on a two-day concert that was held in Berkeley, California. A recording of the concert, titled S&M, debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200, the same year Kamen and Metallica won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance for one of S&M compositions, The Call of Ktulu. Kamen was nominated for two Academy Awards and won three Grammy Awards, two Golden Globes, two Ivor Novello Awards, an Annie Award and an Emmy. His involvement with Mr. Hollands Opus, a film about a composer who finds fulfillment as a high school music teacher
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Jan de Bont
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Jan de Bont is a Dutch cinematographer, director and film producer. He is widely known for directing the 1994 action film Speed starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock, as a director of photography, he has shot numerous blockbusters and genre films, including Cujo, Flesh and Blood, Die Hard, The Hunt for Red October and Basic Instinct. De Bont was born to a Roman Catholic family in Eindhoven, Netherlands and his earliest work after studying at the Amsterdam Film Academy was with the Dutch avant garde director Adriaan Ditvoorst. He first came to fame in the Netherlands as the cinematographer for the 1973 film Turkish Delight, directed by Paul Verhoeven, starring Rutger Hauer, since the early 1980s, he worked frequently in Hollywood, often collaborating with directors including Verhoeven and John McTiernan. While serving as cinematographer for the 1981 film Roar, De Bont experienced one of many injuries during filming. After Roar, De Bont shot the 1983 horror film Cujo, in 1988, he was director of photography on the critically lauded action film Die Hard. The following year, de Bont shot the Ridley Scott-directed action thriller Black Rain, De Bont made his directorial debut with the action thriller Speed in 1994, which was a surprise hit. He followed this up with the more successful Twister in 1996. His output since has had mixed commercial and critical success, in 1997, he returned to direct the sequel Speed 2, Cruise Control, which was a commercial and critical failure. In 1999, he directed The Haunting remake and it was a commercial success, but was heavily panned by critics, receiving five Razzie Award nominations and being widely considered one of the worst remakes in cinema history. He was married to Dutch actress Monique van de Ven from 1973 to 1988, Monique starred in the 1973 film Turkish Delight, for which De Bont did the cinematography. De Bont has two children from his marriage with Trish Reeves, Alexander and Anneke. De Bont began pre-production on an American Godzilla film for a summer 1996 release,1997 Golden Raspberry Awards Jan de Bont at the Internet Movie Database
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Silver Pictures
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Silver Pictures is an American film production company founded by Hollywood producer Joel Silver during 1985. All movies after Ricochet have been distributed by Warner Bros. in 2012, Joel Silver and Warner Bros. ended their 25-year production, marketing, and distribution relationship. This is due to Joel Silver growing increasingly upset with how Warner Bros. had been handling the marketing and releasing of the films his company produced, despite their split, Silver and Warner Bros. co-produced The Nice Guys in 2016. In 2012, Joel Silver and Universal Pictures struck a 5-year marketing and distribution deal, Universal Pictures will not be a production partner with Silver Pictures, only a distributor. Moonlight Veronica Mars Next Action Star Action
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20th Century Fox
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Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation is an American film studio currently owned by 21st Century Fox. It is one of the Big Six major American film studios and is located in the Century City area of Los Angeles, the studio was formerly owned by News Corporation. 20th Century Fox is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America, in 2015, 20th Century Fox celebrated its 80th anniversary as a studio. Spyros Skouras, then manager of the Fox West Coast Theaters, the studios biggest star, Will Rogers, died in a plane crash weeks after the merger. Its leading female star, Janet Gaynor, was fading in popularity and promising leading men James Dunn, at first, it was expected that the new company was originally to be called Fox-20th Century, even though 20th Century was the senior partner in the merger. However, 20th Century brought more to the bargaining table besides Schenck and Zanuck, the new company, 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation, began trading on May 31,1935, the hyphen was dropped in 1985. Schenck became Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, while Kent remained as President, Zanuck became Vice President in Charge of Production, replacing Foxs longtime production chief Winfield Sheehan. The company established a training school. The contracts included an option for renewal for as long as seven years. For many years, 20th Century Fox claimed to have founded in 1915. For instance, it marked 1945 as its 30th anniversary, however, in recent years it has claimed the 1935 merger as its founding, even though most film historians agree it was founded in 1915. The companys films retained the 20th Century Pictures searchlight logo on their credits as well as its opening fanfare. Also on the Fox payroll he found two players who he built up into the studios leading assets, Alice Faye and seven-year-old Shirley Temple, favoring popular biographies and musicals, Zanuck built Fox back to profitability. Thanks to record attendance during World War II, Fox overtook RKO, while Zanuck went off for eighteen months war service, junior partner William Goetz kept profits high by going for light entertainment. The studios—indeed the industrys—biggest star was creamy blonde Betty Grable, in 1942, Spyros Skouras succeeded Kent as president of the studio. Together with Zanuck, who returned in 1943, they intended to make Foxs output more serious-minded. During the next few years, with pictures like The Razors Edge, Wilson, Gentlemans Agreement, The Snake Pit, Boomerang, and Pinky, Zanuck established a reputation for provocative, adult films. Fox also specialized in adaptations of best-selling books such as Ben Ames Williams Leave Her to Heaven, starring Gene Tierney and they also made the 1958 film version of South Pacific
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Thriller (genre)
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Thriller is a broad genre of literature, film and television, having numerous subgenres. Thrillers are characterized and defined by the moods they elicit, giving viewers heightened feelings of suspense, excitement, surprise, anticipation, successful examples of thrillers are the films of Alfred Hitchcock. Thrillers generally keep the audience on the edge of their seats as the plot builds towards a climax, the cover-up of important information is a common element. Literary devices such as red herrings, plot twists, and cliffhangers are used extensively, a thriller is usually a villain-driven plot, whereby he or she presents obstacles that the protagonist must overcome. Homers Odyssey is one of the oldest stories in the Western world and is regarded as a prototype of the thriller. Thrillers may be defined by the mood that they elicit. In short, if it thrills, it is a thriller, as the introduction to a major anthology explains, Suspense is a crucial characteristic of the thriller genre. It gives the viewer a feeling of pleasurable fascination and excitement mixed with apprehension, anticipation and tension and these develop from unpredictable, mysterious and rousing events during the narrative, which make the viewer or reader think about the outcome of certain actions. Suspense builds in order to make those final moments, no matter how short, the suspense in a story keeps the person hooked to reading or watching more until the climax is reached. In terms of expectations, it may be contrasted with curiosity. The objective is to deliver a story with sustained tension, surprise, the second type of suspense is the. anticipation wherein we either know or else are fairly certain about what is going to happen but are still aroused in anticipation of its actual occurrence. According to Greek philosopher Aristotle in his book Poetics, suspense is an important building block of literature, common methods and themes in crime and action thrillers are mainly ransoms, captivities, heists, revenge, kidnappings. Common in mystery thrillers are investigations and the whodunit technique, common elements in dramatic and psychological thrillers include plot twists, psychology, obsession and mind games. Common in horror thrillers are serial killers, stalking, deathtraps, elements such as fringe theories, false accusations and paranoia are common in paranoid thrillers. Threats to entire countries, spies, espionage, conspiracies, assassins, the themes frequently include terrorism, political conspiracy, pursuit, or romantic triangles leading to murder. Plots of thrillers involve characters which come into conflict with other or with outside forces. The protagonist of these films is set against a problem, no matter what subgenre a thriller film falls into, it will emphasize the danger that the protagonist faces. While protagonists of thrillers have traditionally been men, women characters are increasingly common
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New York City Police Department
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The New York City Police Department, officially the City of New York Police Department, is the largest municipal police force in the United States. Established in 1845, the agency has primary responsibilities in law enforcement, the NYPD is one of the oldest police departments established in the U. S. tracing its roots back to the nineteenth century. According to the department, its mission is to enforce the laws, preserve the peace, reduce fear, the departments regulations are compiled in title 38 of the New York City Rules. In June 2004, there were about 40,000 sworn officers plus several thousand employees, in June 2005. As of December 2011, that figure increased slightly to over 36,600, the NYPDs current authorized uniformed strength is 34,450. The Patrolmens Benevolent Association of the City of New York, the largest municipal police union in the United States, represents over 50,000 active, the NYPD Intelligence Division & Counter-Terrorism Bureau has officers stationed in 11 cities internationally. In the 1990s the department developed a CompStat system of management which has also since established in other cities. The NYPD is headquartered at 1 Police Plaza, located on Park Row in Lower Manhattan across the street from City Hall, the NYPD has extensive crime scene investigation and laboratory resources, as well as units which assist with computer crime investigations. The NYPD runs a Real Time Crime Center, essentially a search engine. A Domain Awareness System, a joint project of Microsoft and the NYPD, links 6,000 closed-circuit television cameras, license plate readers, members of the NYPD are frequently referred to by politicians, some media and their own police cars by the nickname New Yorks Finest. The Municipal Police were established in 1845, replacing an old night watch system, in 1857, it was tumultuously replaced by a Metropolitan force, which consolidated many other local police departments in 1898. Twentieth-century trends included professionalization and struggles against corruption, Officers begin service with the rank of Probationary Police Officer, also referred to as Recruit Officer. After successful completion of six months of Police Academy training and various academic, physical, There are three career tracks in the NYPD, supervisory, investigative, and specialist. The supervisory track consists of 12 sworn titles, referred to as ranks, promotion to the ranks of sergeant, lieutenant, and captain are made via competitive civil service examinations. Promotion from the rank of police officer to detective is determined by the current police labor contract, the entry level appointment to detective is third grade or specialist. The commissioner may grant discretionary grades of first or second and these grades offer compensation roughly equivalent to that of supervisors. Specifically, a second grade detectives pay roughly corresponds to a sergeants, Detectives are police officers who have been given a more investigatory position but no official supervisory authority. A Detective First Grade still falls under the command of a sergeant or above, just like detectives, sergeants and lieutenants can receive pay grade increases within their respective ranks
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John McClane
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John McClane is the main protagonist of the Die Hard film series. He is portrayed by Bruce Willis and he is known for his sardonic one-liners, including the famous catchphrase Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker. John McClane was originally based on the fictional character Detective Joe Leland from Roderick Thorps bestselling novel, other aspects are derived from Frank Malone from Walter Wagers novel 58 Minutes and is somewhat based on and inspired by Dirty Harry. Die Hard villain Hans Gruber describes him as just another American, who thinks hes John Wayne, to which McClane replies that he was always partial to Roy Rogers. He is described as being a foul-mouthed, wisecracking, no-nonsense New York cop with an itchy trigger finger, the trailer for the first Die Hard film states, The last thing McClane wants is to be a hero, but he doesnt have a choice. In the second film, he is told Youre the wrong guy in the place at the wrong time, to which he replies. In the fourth film, he says he gets involved in dangerous situations because there is nobody else to do it and if there was, hed gladly let someone else do it. Per the franchises title, John resists elaborate plans to him, driving his enemies to distraction, by adding up. In the first Die Hard movie, McClane carries a Beretta 92F as his duty weapon, in the next two movies, his service pistol is a Beretta 92FS, even though the NYPD has never issued the Beretta 92 for duty use. He later uses a Sig P220 as his duty gun in the fourth and fifth movies of the series. Hans and a legion of henchmen under his command take hostage the Nakatomi Corporation employees, McClane evades detection of the group and hides throughout Nakatomi Plaza, systematically killing the group members as he attempts to disrupt their plot. Hans, aware of Johns presence and his name, eventually identifies Holly as Johns wife, at the climax of the film, a badly injured McClane locates Hans and Holly near the vault on the 30th floor. Hans is shot by McClane and falls to his death after stumbling backwards through a shattered window, in aftermath events of the first Die Hard, Lt. McClane transfers to the Los Angeles Police Department. He dislikes his rise to national fame, in the second film, Die Hard 2, on Christmas Eve, mercenaries seize control of Washington Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Virginia,25 miles west of Washington, D. C. They take control of the communications and threaten to cause plane crashes unless their demands are met. Holly is stranded, her plane circles overhead, McClane discovers a conspiracy between the mercenaries and an active military unit to rescue a notorious dictator from being imprisoned for crimes against humanity. He foils their plans and provides a landing signal for the circling aircraft by exploding the plane the villains were using for their exit strategy. In Loaded Weapon 1, Bruce Willis has an appearance as John McClane himself
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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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The Detective (novel)
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The Detective is a thriller/detective novel by author Roderick Thorp, first published hardcover in 1966. It was made into the 1968 movie of the name, starring Frank Sinatra. Billed as, An adult look at life, The Detective went on to become one of the highest grossing films of 1968. A1979 sequel, Nothing Lasts Forever, was made into the 1988 film Die Hard. Joe Leland, a detective, begins investigating a case for the recently widowed Norma MacIver. Norma requests that Leland find out everything he can about her deceased husband, Norma requests Leland personally because her husband had mentioned knowing him in the past. It turns out that Leland and Colin MacIver served in the military unit during World War II. Leland interviews Colins first wife, his mother and the security guards at the track where Colin supposedly killed himself, Norma introduces Leland to her neighbor and former therapist, Dr. Wendell Roberts. During their conversation Wendell reveals that he knew Lelands wife and it turns out Wendell was friends with the man with whom Karen Leland had had an affair. As Lelands investigation deepens he uncovers evidence of corruption and murder, eventually, Leland discovers that Colin was connected to a homicide during Lelands earlier life with the police department as a detective. During the investigation of Teddy Leikmans death, a confession was obtained from Felix Tesla, Tesla was subsequently executed by electric chair. It turned out that Colin MacIver was the true murderer, joes partner, Mike Petrakis, managed to decipher Colins coded notes and reveal a paper trail of corruption. Detective Joe Leland - A private detective, he investigates the suicide of Colin MacIver per Normas request. During his investigation, he uncovers corruption, fraud, lies, Dr. Wendell Roberts - A psychiatrist. Colin MacIver - A troubled man, murder or suicide victim, Mike Petrakis Teddy Leikman Felix Tesla Dave Schoenstein Curran Florence Mrs. MacIver Betty Kaminsky Murray Kaminsky
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The Detective (1968 film)
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Co-stars include Lee Remick, Jacqueline Bisset, Jack Klugman, William Windom and Robert Duvall, with a script by Academy Award-winning screenwriter Abby Mann. Here, the detective in question is Joe Leland, who is trying to juggle marital issues with a case that seemed to be open-and-shut at first. The Detective was Sinatras fourth collaboration with director Douglas, having worked together on Young at Heart, Robin and the 7 Hoods, Tony Rome, and then later Lady in Cement. New York City police detective Joe Leland is called to the home of a victim who has been beaten to death. Puzzled and disgusted, the police on call are left bemused, few leads are found, other than the fact that a house-mate of the victim remains conspicuous by his absence. All the while notions about the sexuality and personal interests warp the ideals of the officers assigned to the task. Leland tries to remain focused on the case dealing with the breakdown of his marriage to wife Karen. Eventually, the victims housemate is identified as Felix Tesla, and he is tracked down by Leland. A psychologically disturbed Tesla cracks until eventually Leland coaxes a confession out of him and this results in extensive publicity, a promotion for Leland and the electric chair for Tesla, which distresses Leland because it is clear to him that Tesla is insane. Later, across town, a man kills himself by jumping from the rooftop of a racetrack. The case goes unnoticed until the wife of the man, Norma MacIver, comes to Lelands office and asks him to look into it. Leland and partner Dave Schoenstein follow leads, a psychiatrist, Dr. Roberts, clearly knows more about the dead man, Colin MacIver, than hes willing to reveal. The therapist also is familiar with Karen Leland, whose infidelity is putting a strain on the detectives home life. Leland soon learns that powerful interests in the city do not want him to ask questions. The incorruptible detective presses on, at risk to his career and life and this was the last straw for Sinatra, who had the divorce papers publicly served on Farrow on her films set. Their divorce became final in August 1968, putting an end to a romance of barely two years. Released on May 28,1968 The Detective was a box office success, becoming the 20th highest earning film of the year with $6.5 million taken in box office rentals, critical reception was mostly good while Sinatra delivered one of his most intense and dedicated acting performances. The Hollywood Reporter would comment, Sinatra has honed his laconic, roger Ebert praised his performance and the concept of the film, stating, It is pretty clear that Sinatra wanted The Detective to be as good a movie as he could manage
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Frank Sinatra
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Francis Albert Sinatra was an American singer, actor, and producer who was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century. He is one of the music artists of all time. Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, to Italian immigrants, Sinatra began his career in the swing era with bandleaders Harry James. Sinatra found success as a solo artist after he signed with Columbia Records in 1943 and he released his debut album, The Voice of Frank Sinatra, in 1946. Sinatras professional career had stalled by the early 1950s, and he turned to Las Vegas and his career was reborn in 1953 with the success of From Here to Eternity, with his performance subsequently winning an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor. Sinatra released several critically lauded albums, including In the Wee Small Hours, Come Fly with Me, Only the Lonely and Nice n Easy. Sinatra left Capitol in 1960 to start his own label, Reprise Records. It was followed by 1968s collaboration with Duke Ellington, using his Las Vegas shows as a home base, he toured both within the United States and internationally until a short time before his death in 1998. Sinatra forged a successful career as a film actor. After winning an Academy Award for From Here to Eternity, he starred in The Man with the Golden Arm and he appeared in various musicals such as On the Town, Guys and Dolls, High Society, and Pal Joey, winning another Golden Globe for the latter. Toward the end of his career, he associated with playing detectives. Sinatra would later receive the Golden Globe Cecil B, on television, The Frank Sinatra Show began on ABC in 1950, and he continued to make appearances on television throughout the 1950s and 1960s. While Sinatra never formally learned how to read music, he had a natural, intuitive understanding of it, a perfectionist, renowned for his impeccable dress sense and cleanliness, he always insisted on recording live with his band. His bright blue eyes earned him the popular nickname Ol Blue Eyes, Sinatra led a colorful personal life, and was often involved in turbulent affairs with women, such as with his second wife Ava Gardner. He went on to marry Mia Farrow in 1966 and Barbara Marx in 1976, Sinatra had several violent confrontations, usually with journalists he felt had crossed him, or work bosses with whom he had disagreements. He was honored at the Kennedy Center Honors in 1983, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Ronald Reagan in 1985, Sinatra was also the recipient of eleven Grammy Awards, including the Grammy Trustees Award, Grammy Legend Award and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. After his death, American music critic Robert Christgau called him the greatest singer of the 20th century, Francis Albert Sinatra was born on December 12,1915, in an upstairs tenement at 415 Monroe Street in Hoboken, New Jersey. He was the child of Italian immigrants Antonino Martino Marty Sinatra
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Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger is an Austrian-American actor, producer, businessman, investor, author, philanthropist, activist, politician and former professional bodybuilder. He served two terms as the 38th Governor of California from 2003 until 2011, Schwarzenegger began weight training at the age of 15. He won the Mr. Universe title at age 20 and went on to win the Mr. Olympia contest seven times, Schwarzenegger has remained a prominent presence in bodybuilding and has written many books and articles on the sport. He is widely considered to be among the greatest bodybuilders of all time as well as bodybuildings biggest icon, Schwarzenegger gained worldwide fame as a Hollywood action film icon. His breakthrough film was the sword-and-sorcery epic Conan the Barbarian in 1982, in 1984, Schwarzenegger appeared in James Camerons science-fiction thriller film The Terminator, which was a massive critical and box-office success. Schwarzenegger subsequently reprised the Terminator character in the later installments in 1991,2003. He appeared in a number of films, such as Commando, The Running Man, Predator, Twins, Total Recall, Kindergarten Cop. In 2015, it was announced Schwarzenegger would replace Donald Trump as the host of The Celebrity Apprentice and he was nicknamed the Austrian Oak in his bodybuilding days, Arnie during his acting career, and The Governator during his political career. As a Republican, he was first elected on October 7,2003, Schwarzenegger was sworn in on November 17, to serve the remainder of Daviss term. Schwarzenegger was sworn in for his term on January 5,2007. In 2011, Schwarzenegger completed his term as governor. Schwarzenegger was born in Thal, Styria, and christened Arnold Alois and his parents were Gustav Schwarzenegger and Aurelia Schwarzenegger. He married Aurelia on October 20,1945, he was 38, according to Schwarzenegger, both of his parents were very strict, Back then in Austria it was a very different world. If we did something bad or we disobeyed our parents, the rod was not spared, Schwarzenegger grew up in a Roman Catholic family who attended Mass every Sunday. Gustav had a preference for his son, Meinhard, over Arnold. His favoritism was strong and blatant, which stemmed from unfounded suspicion that Arnold was not his biological child, Schwarzenegger has said his father had no patience for listening or understanding your problems. He had a relationship with his mother and kept in touch with her until her death. Gustavs background received wide press attention during the 2003 California recall campaign, at school, Schwarzenegger was reportedly academically average, but stood out for his cheerful, good-humored, and exuberant character
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Commando (1985 film)
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Commando is a 1985 American action film directed by Mark L. Lester, and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Rae Dawn Chong. The film was released in the United States on October 4,1985, the film was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Special Effects but lost to Back to the Future. The films score was provided by James Horner, a critical and commercial success, Commando was the 7th highest-grossing R-rated movie of 1985 worldwide, and the 25th highest-grossing overall. Retired Delta Force operator Colonel John Matrix is informed by his former superior Major General Franklin Kirby that all the members of his former unit have been killed by unknown mercenaries. The mercenaries, among them Bennett, an Australian ex-member of Matrixs team fired for excessive violence, attack Matrixs secluded mountain home, while trying to intercept them, Matrix is also overpowered and abducted by the mercenaries. Matrix previously led a United States-backed revolution that deposed Arius, who has chosen Matrix because the new US-puppet president trusts him implicitly, with Jennys life on the line, Matrix reluctantly accepts the demand. After boarding a plane to Val Verde, Matrix manages to kill his guard, Henriques, with approximately 11 hours, he sets out after another of Arius men, Sully. He enlists the aid of an off-duty flight attendant, Cindy, Cindy first assumes that Matrix is a maniac, but after she sees Sully pull a gun on Matrix in the ensuing fight, she has a change of heart and henceforth assists him in his endeavor. After a lengthy car chase, Matrix catches up with Sully, taking a motel key from Sullys jacket, Matrix tracks down and confronts Cooke, a former Green Beret in Arius employ. He kills Cooke after a fight and learns where Jenny is being held after searching Cookes car. Matrix breaks into a store to equip himself with military weaponry. Cindy helps him escape with a launcher and, after commandeering a seaplane from a nearby marina controlled by Arius, Matrix. Matrix instructs Cindy to contact General Kirby and then proceeds to Arius villa, Jenny escapes her confinement to the villas basement, but is captured by Bennett. Matrix tracks them and faces Bennett in a struggle until Matrix fatally impales Bennett with a steam pipe. Kirby arrives with a detachment and asks Matrix to rejoin the Special Forces Unit. Arnold Schwarzenegger as Col. John Matrix Rae Dawn Chong as Cindy Alyssa Milano as Jenny Matrix Vernon Wells as Bennett James Olson as Maj Gen, the film was shot on location in California. San Nicolas Island off the coast of Santa Barbara, to which Matrix flies to rescue his daughter, was filmed on the Pacific coast at San Simeon, the barracks that are attacked are actually beach properties belonging to the Hearst Castle Estate. The house that Matrix storms at the climax was actually the former main residence of the Harold Lloyd Estate in the Benedict Canyon district of Beverly Hills
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National Film Registry
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The National Film Registry is the United States National Film Preservation Boards selection of films for preservation in the Library of Congress. The NFPB, established by the National Film Preservation Act of 1988, was reauthorized by acts of Congress in 1992,1996,2005, and again in October 2008. The NFPBs mission, to which the NFR contributes, is to ensure the survival, conservation, the 1996 law also created the non-profit National Film Preservation Foundation which, although affiliated with the NFPB, raises money from the private sector. To be eligible for inclusion, a film must be at least ten years old, for the first selection in 1989, the public nominated almost 1,000 films for consideration. Members of the NFPB then developed individual ballots of possible films for inclusion, the ballots were tabulated into a list of 25 films which was then modified by Librarian of Congress James H. Billington and his staff at the Library for the final selection. Since 1997, members of the public have been able to nominate up to 50 films a year for the NFPB, the NFR includes films ranging from Hollywood classics to orphan films. A film is not required to be feature-length, nor is it required to have been released in the traditional sense. As of the 2016 listing, there are 700 films preserved in the Registry, currently, the earliest listed film is Newark Athlete, and the most recent is 13 Lakes. Counting the 11 multi-year serials in the NFR once each by year of completion, the years with the most films selected are 1928,1939, the time between a films debut and its selection varies greatly. The longest span is 119 years, Newark Athlete was originally released in 1891, the shortest span is the minimum 10 years, this distinction is shared by Raging Bull, Do the Right Thing, Goodfellas, Toy Story, Fargo and 13 Lakes. For purposes of this list, multi-year serials are counted once by year of completion
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Empire (film magazine)
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Empire is a British film magazine published monthly by Bauer Consumer Media of Hamburg based Bauer Media Group. From the first issue in July 1989, the magazine was edited by Barry McIlheney, Bauer purchased Emap Consumer Media in early 2008. It is the biggest selling magazine in the United Kingdom and is also published in the United States, Australia, Turkey, Russia, Italy. Empire organises the annual Empire Awards which were sponsored by Sony Ericsson, the awards are voted for by readers of the magazine. Empire is populist in both approach and coverage and it reviews both mainstream films and art films, but feature articles concentrate on the former. As well as news, previews, and reviews, Empire has some other regular features. Each issue features a Classic Scene, a transcript from a film scene. The first such classic scene to be featured was the I could have been a scene from On the Waterfront. The regular Top 10 feature lists Empires choice of the top ten examples of something film-related, for example,10 Best Chase Scenes or 10 Best Movie Gags in The Simpsons. The Re. View section covers Blu-ray and DVD news and releases, Kim Newmans Movie Dungeon is a regular feature in the Re. View section, in which critic Kim Newman reviews the most obscure releases, mostly low budget horror movies. How much Is Pint of Milk presents celebrities answers to silly or unusual questions and this is intended as a guide to the chosen celebritys contact with reality, and as such can be more informative than a direct interview by reporting some surprising responses. Each magazine includes a Spine Quote, in which a relatively challenging quote is printed on the spine of the magazine, there are usually some obvious and obscure links from the quote to the main features of that months edition. Readers are invited to identify the source and the links to win a prize. Celebrity Mastermind is another regular in which a celebrity is given questions about the films they were in or they directed, celebrities range from Quentin Tarantino and Christopher Lee to John Carpenter and Michael Keaton. A regular feature since issue 167, the feature is a two-page essay on a film selected by Empire in the Re. View section. The selection of the films seem to be random and follow no specific pattern. Only a few issues since the first masterpiece feature have not featured one –169,179,196,197,198 and 246, Issue 240 had director Frank Darabont select 223 masterpieces. L. A. Confidential was featured twice, once in issue 191 and this list is as follows, Alien – Dinner chestburster The Omen – Glass decapitation An American Werewolf in London – Wolf transformation The Exorcist – Crucifix abuse Risky Business – Ready Ralph
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Bearer bond
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A bearer bond is a bond or debt security issued by a business entity such as a corporation, or a government. As a bearer instrument, it differs from the common types of investment securities in that it is unregistered – no records are kept of the owner. Whoever physically holds the paper on which the bond is issued owns the instrument and this is useful for investors who wish to retain anonymity. Recovery of the value of a bond in the event of its loss, theft. Some relief is possible in the case of United States public debt, bearer bonds have historically been the financial instrument of choice for money laundering, tax evasion, and concealed business transactions in general. In response, new issuances of bearer bonds have been curtailed in the United States since 1982. In the United States all the bonds issued by the U. S. Treasury have matured. They no longer pay interest to the holders, as of May 2009, the approximate amount outstanding is $100 million. In June 2009, Italian financial police and custom guards seized documents purporting to be U. S. bearer bonds, the bonds were in $500 million and $1 billion denominations, although the highest denomination ever issued by the US Treasury was $10,000. It was unclear what the purpose of the bonds was. In the United States, the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 substantially curtailed the issue of debt in bearer form, in contrast, registered bonds retained the tax-exempt treatment
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Los Angeles Police Department
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The Los Angeles Police Department, officially the City of Los Angeles Police Department, is the law enforcement agency for the city of Los Angeles, California, United States. With 9,843 officers and 2,773 civilian staff, it is the third-largest municipal police department in the United States, after the New York City Police Department, the department serves an area of 498 square miles and a population of 4,030,904 people. The LAPD has been fictionalized in numerous movies, novels, the department has also been associated with a number of controversies, mainly concerned with racism, police brutality, and police corruption. The first specific Los Angeles police force was founded in 1853, as the Los Angeles Rangers, the Rangers were soon succeeded by the Los Angeles City Guards, another volunteer group. Neither force was particularly efficient and Los Angeles became known for its violence, gambling, the first paid force was created in 1869, when six officers were hired to serve under City Marshal William C. Warren. By 1900, under John M. Glass, there were 70 officers, in 1903, with the start of the Civil Service, this force was increased to 200. During World War II, under Clemence B, horrall, the overall number of personnel was depleted by the demands of the military. Despite efforts to maintain numbers, the police could do little to control the 1943 Zoot Suit Riots, Parker advocated police professionalism and autonomy from civilian administration. However, the Bloody Christmas scandal in 1951 led to calls for civilian accountability, under Parker, LAPD created the first SWAT team in United States law enforcement. Officer John Nelson and then-Inspector Daryl Gates created the program in 1965 to deal with threats from radical organizations such as the Black Panther Party operating during the Vietnam War era. The old headquarters for the LAPD was Parker Center, named former chief William H. Parker. The new headquarters is the new Police Administration Building located at 100 W. 1st St. immediately south of Los Angeles City Hall, the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners also known as the Police Commission, is a five-member body of appointed officials which oversees the LAPD. The board is responsible for setting policies for the department and overseeing the LAPDs overall management, the Chief of Police reports to the board, but the rest of the department reports to the chief. The Office of the Inspector General is an independent part of the LAPD that has oversight over the department’s internal disciplinary process and it was created by the recommendation of the Christopher Commission and it is exempt from civil service and reports directly to the Board of Police Commissioners. The current Inspector General is Alexander A. Bustamante who was formerly an Assistant United States Attorney, the OIG receives copies of every complaint filed against members of the LAPD as well as tracking specific cases along with any resultant litigation. The OIG also conducts audits on select investigations and conducts regular reviews of the system in order to ensure fairness. As well as overseeing the LAPDs disciplinary process, the Inspector General may undertake special investigations as directed by the Board of Police Commissioners, the Office of the Chief of Police is the administrative office comprising the Chief of Staff and the Employee Relations Group. The majority of the LAPDs approximately 10,000 officers are assigned within the Office of Operations, an Assistant Chief, currently First Assistant Chief Michel Moore, commands the office, and reports directly to the chief of police
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C-4 (explosive)
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C-4 or Composition C-4 is a common variety of the plastic explosive family known as Composition C. The British version of the explosive is known as PE-4, C-4 is composed of explosives, plastic binder, plasticizer to make it malleable, and usually a marker or odorizing taggant chemical. C-4 has a similar to modeling clay and can be molded into any desired shape. C-4 is stable and an explosion can only be initiated by the combination of extreme heat, instead of process oil, low-viscosity motor oil is used in the manufacture of C-4 for civilian use. Technical data according to the Department of the Army follows, C-4 is manufactured by combining the above ingredients with binder dissolved in a solvent. Once the ingredients have been mixed, the solvent is extracted through drying and filtering, the final material is a solid with a dirty white to light brown color, a putty-like texture similar to modeling clay, and a distinct smell of motor oil. Depending on its usage and on the manufacturer, there are differences in the composition of C-4. RDX classes A, B, E, and H are all suitable for use in C-4, the substitution of ethylene glycol in place of the plastic binder prevents its freezing and the composition remains pliable under all environmental conditions. The manufacturing process for Composition C-4 specifies that wet RDX and plastic binder are added in a stainless steel mixing kettle and this is called the aqueous slurry-coating process. The kettle is tumbled to obtain a homogeneous mixture and this mixture is wet and must be dried after transfer to drying trays. Drying with forced air for 16 hours at 50 °C to 60 °C is recommended to eliminate excess moisture, C-4 is very stable and insensitive to most physical shocks. C-4 cannot be detonated by a gunshot or by dropping it onto a hard surface and it does not explode when set on fire or exposed to microwave radiation. Detonation can only be initiated by a combination of extreme heat, when detonated, C-4 rapidly decomposes to release nitrogen and carbon oxides as well as other gases. The detonation proceeds at a velocity of 8,092 m/s. A major advantage of C-4 is that it can easily be moulded into any desired shape to change the direction of the resulting explosion, military grade C-4 is commonly packaged as the M112 demolition block. The demolition charge M112 is a block of Composition C-4 approximately 2 inches by 1.5 inches and 11 inches long, weighing 1.25 lb. The M112 is wrapped in an olive color Mylar-film container with a pressure-sensitive adhesive tape on one surface. The M183 is used to breach obstacles or demolish large structures where larger satchel charges are required, each priming assembly includes a five- or twenty-foot length of detonating cord assembled with detonating cord clips and capped at each end with a booster
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SWAT
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SWAT is a term for law enforcement units which use specialized or military equipment and tactics in the United States. In the United States as of 2005, SWAT teams were deployed 50,000 times every year, almost 80% of the time to search warrants. Other countries have developed their own police units that are also described as or compared to SWAT forces. SWAT units are equipped with specialized firearms including submachine guns, assault rifles, breaching shotguns, sniper rifles, riot control agents. The tactic worked and was soon to resolve other types of incidents involving heavily-armed criminals. The LAPD promoted what became known as SWAT teams for a variety of reasons, after the racially charged Watts Riots in Los Angeles in August 1965, the LAPD began considering tactics it could use when faced with urban unrest, rioting, or widespread violence. Daryl Gates, who led the LAPD response to the riots, would write that police at the time didnt face a single mob. New York University professor Christian Parenti has written that SWAT teams were originally conceived of as an urban counterinsurgency bulwark. Another reason for the creation of SWAT teams was the fear of lone or barricaded gunmen who might outperform police in a shootout, after the LAPDs establishment of its own SWAT team, many law enforcement agencies across the United States established their own specialized units under various names. At the time, the United Farm Workers union led by César Chavez was staging numerous protests in Delano, though the strike never turned violent, the Delano Police Department responded by forming ad-hoc SWAT-type units involving crowd and riot control, sniper skills and surveillance. Television news stations and print media carried live and delayed reportage of events across the United States. Personnel from the LAPD, having seen these broadcasts, contacted Delano, inspector Gates approved this idea, and he formed a small select group of volunteer officers. This first SWAT unit initially consisted of fifteen teams of four men each and these officers were given special status and benefits, and were required to attend special monthly training sessions. The unit also served as a security unit for police facilities during civil unrest, the LAPD SWAT units were organized as D Platoon in the Metro division. Early police powers and tactics used by SWAT teams were aided by legislation passed in 1967-8 with the help of Republican House representative Donald Santarelli. The legislation was promoted within the context of fears over the Civil Rights Movement, race riots, the Black Panther Party, and the emerging War on Drugs. The first significant deployment of the LAPDs SWAT unit was on December 9,1969, the raid was problematic from the start, leading to a shoot-out in which Daryl Gates phoned the Department of Defense, requesting and receiving permission to use a grenade launcher. The Panthers eventually surrendered, with four Panthers and four officers being injured, all six arrested Panthers were acquitted of the most serious charges brought against them, including conspiracy to murder police officers, because it was ruled that they acted in self-defense
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Paul Gleason
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Paul Xavier Gleason was an American film and television actor, known for his roles on television series such as All My Children and films such as The Breakfast Club, Trading Places, and Die Hard. Gleason was born on May 4,1939 in Jersey City, New Jersey, the son of Eleanor, a nurse, and George L. Gleason, a restaurateur, professional boxer, iron worker. Gleason was raised in Miami Beach, Florida, at age 16, he ran away from home and hitchhiked across the east coast, sleeping on beaches and playing baseball. He attended North Miami High School and Florida State University where he played football and he signed a professional baseball contract with the Cleveland Indians, but played just briefly in two minor league seasons between 1959 and 1960. During that last season, a west coast trip led to an introduction to sitcom icon Ozzie Nelson, suddenly, acting was an option, and an increasingly attractive one, given Gleasons stillborn baseball career. He moved to New York City, eventually joining The Actors Studio, Gleason starred in many movies, and became well-known initially as Dr. David Thornton on All My Children, playing the role from 1976 to 1978. He guest-starred in The Trouble with Harry and Fire, two episodes of The A-Team, Gleason was known to Star Wars fans for his role as Jeremitt Towani in the 1985 made-for-TV film Ewoks, The Battle for Endor. He played the villainous Clarence Beeks, the Duke brothers inside trader, in the 1983 comedy Trading Places starring Dan Aykroyd and he also played Deputy Police Chief Dwayne T. Robinson, the blowhard police official, in Die Hard. He is perhaps best remembered for his role as Richard Vernon and he played similar characters in the 1988 film Johnny Be Good and on several episodes of the TV sitcom Boy Meets World. He directly parodied his Breakfast Club role in the 2000 A-Teens music video for Dancing Queen, in 2002, he appeared in episodes of Dawsons Creek as Larry Newman, the sex-and-violence obsessed chief of a B movie studio. He appeared as a judge in an episode of Drake & Josh. He also appeared in an episode of George Lopez as the brother of Georges boss, in 2005, he appeared as the Sheriff in the horror film Abominable. His final appearance before his death was in an independent film called The Book of Caleb, Gleason, in addition to his acting career, participated in many celebrity golf events each year, and was known to mingle with fans and sign autographs during these golf tournaments. From 1971 to 1978, he was married to actress Candy Moore, they had one daughter, from 1995 until his death, he was married to Susan Kehl. He was buried near the southeast corner of the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Westwood and he is survived by his wife, two daughters, and one granddaughter, Sofia. Voisin, Scott, Character Kings, Hollywoods Familiar Faces Discuss the Art & Business of Acting
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William Atherton
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William Robert Atherton Knight Jr. known professionally as William Atherton, is an American film, stage and television actor. Atherton was born in Orange, Connecticut, the son of William Robert Atherton Sr. and he studied acting at the Drama School at Carnegie Tech and graduated from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1969. He got his big break playing hapless fugitive Clovis Poplin in The Sugarland Express, after this, he garnered major roles in dark dramas such as The Day of the Locust and Looking for Mr. Goodbar, as well as the big-budget disaster film The Hindenburg. Atherton also starred as cowboy Jim Lloyd in the 1978 miniseries Centennial, in 1984, Atherton appeared in the comedy Ghostbusters as the EPA agent Walter Peck. In 1985, Martha Coolidge chose Atherton to play Professor Jerry Hathaway in the teen comedy Real Genius, in 1988, Atherton played reporter Richard Dick Thornburg in the blockbuster action film Die Hard, and reprised the role in its 1990 sequel Die Hard 2. Other film credits include No Mercy, The Pelican Brief, Bio-Dome, Mad City, The Crow, Salvation, The Last Samurai, Grim Prairie Tales, the TV movies Buried Alive, Headspace and Virus. He has also made guest appearances on such TV shows as The Twilight Zone, Murder She Wrote, Desperate Housewives, Law & Order, The Equalizer, Boston Legal, Castle, Atherton provided the voice of Dr. Destiny on Justice League. He had a role in NBCs detective drama Life. His 2007 appearances included the film The Girl Next Door, an adaptation of the best-selling Jack Ketchum novel of the same name and he has reprised his role as Walter Peck in Ghostbusters, The Video Game, released on June 16,2009. Atherton was cast in the season of ABCs Lost. He appeared in the musical Gigi for the Reprise Theatre in Los Angeles as Honoré Lachailles in 2011. Following his work on the musical, he stepped into a role in Tim and Erics Billion Dollar Movie, produced by Will Ferrells Funny or Die, Gary Sanchez Productions. In summer of 2014, Atherton was cast in a role as Viceroy Mercado in the Syfy series Defiances second season. William Atherton at the Internet Movie Database William Atherton at the Internet Broadway Database William Atherton at the Internet Off-Broadway Database William Atherton at AllMovie
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James Shigeta
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James Saburo Shigeta was an American film and television actor. He was also a singer, musical theatre and nightclub performer. He was a Sansei, a third-generation American of Japanese ancestry and he was noted for his roles in The Crimson Kimono, Walk Like a Dragon, Flower Drum Song, Bridge to the Sun, Die Hard, and Mulan. In 1960, he won the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer – Male, Shigeta often in his early career played romantic male lead roles, which as an actor of Asian descent during his time was almost non-existent. His most successful lead roles were in the films The Crimson Kimono. Before his Hollywood career he found success as a singer and performer abroad, especially in Japan, born in the Territory of Hawaii of Japanese ancestry in 1929, Shigeta studied drama at New York University. Shigeta entered and won first prize on Ted Macks television talent show, embarking on a singing career, his agent at the time gave him the non-ethnic sounding stage name of Guy Brion alluding to Shigeta as a cultured European. Under his new name he developed a supper club musical career in the United States, singing at venues such as the Mocambo, despite that success, breaking into the movies eluded him. During the Korean War Shigeta enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, en route to Korea, the ceasefire led Shigeta to Japan, where he was discharged from the Marines and hired by the theatrical division of Toho Studios. Shigeta did not speak the Japanese language until Toho Studios in Tokyo invited him to be a star under his real name in Japan. He spent years in country, becoming a success in all media aspects — radio, television, stage, supper clubs, movies. In 1958 the Nichigeki Theatre in Tokyo exported their extravaganza Cherry Blossom Show to Australia with Shigeta as the male lead, the show was performed at the Empire Theatre in Sydney, Her Majestys Theatre in Brisbane, the Theatre Royal in Adelaide, and Her Majestys Theatre in Melbourne. Shigeta returned to the United States to sing on The Dinah Shore Show, by 1959 he was the star of the Shirley MacLaine-Steve Parker production of Holiday in Japan at the New Frontier Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. In 1969 Shigeta toured the United States in the role of The King and I, with Melva Niles. When movies began to open up for him, Shigeta took acting lessons from seasoned dialogue coach Leon Charles. Shigeta first came on screen in the U. S. in 1959 as Detective Joe Kojaku in The Crimson Kimono, when filming began, Shigeta was still starring in Holiday in Japan in Las Vegas. An arrangement was made to him after his last show to the Paramount studio by ambulance to make sure he arrived on time. The technical advisor to Shigeta on the film was Benson Fong, jack Lord has first billing in this movie, which pits Shigeta against Lord for the affections of Kim Sung, played by Nobu McCarthy
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Andreas Wisniewski
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Andreas Wisniewski is a German actor and former dancer. Wisniewski was born in Berlin, Germany, to a Polish father and a German mother, Wisniewski made his big-screen debut in Gothic, a film about Mary Shelleys Frankenstein, in which Wisniewski plays the role of Fletcher. Probably his biggest film came the year in 1987 Bond film The Living Daylights. The 6 ft 4 1⁄2 in Wisniewski portrays lethal hitman Necros, who over the course of the film impersonates a Cockney milkman, an American jogger, an Austrian balloon salesman, and a doctor in Morocco. His next mainstream role was as one of Hans Grubers henchmen, Tony, Wisniewski disappeared from the big screen only to reappear in the TV shows Superboy, Mann & Machine and Northern Exposure where he played Arthur, the bear. Two years later he was in an episode of the ITV hit series Ultimate Force alongside popular soap opera star Ross Kemp playing Russian terrorist Glasnovic, Wisniewski hit the screens in the UK again in 2008 after a six-year break when he co-starred in Mark Tonderais cat-and-mouse thriller Hush. Wisniewski has also appeared in two music videos, in 2001 Wisniewski turned his hand to directing, making the short film Inspiration, starring English actors Danny Webb and Christine Adams. Another Andreas Wisniewski, credited in the bio-pic Surviving Picasso alongside Anthony Hopkins, is a different actor, Wisniewski has kept a low profile since this time to spend time with his family and children and to concentrate on Buddhism. He made a rare British TV appearance in ITVs police drama The Bill and he appeared on 10 July 2008 in the episode Gun Runner, Pay and Spray, in which he played a short one-minute role as a Russian criminal Dimitri purchasing guns and ammunition. Wisniewski has 3 children and lives in Berlin and he is a practising Zen Buddhist, and runs Buddhist meditation classes at The Life Centre in Notting Hill. John Howard Kidnapping Mom & Dad, Glasnovic Essential Music Videos, Classic 80s. Dimitri The Scorpion King 2, Rise of a Warrior, pollux Mission, Impossible – Ghost Protocol. The Fogs Contact Andreas Wisniewski at the Internet Movie Database
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Robert Davi
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Robert John Davi is an American actor, singer, and entertainer. Over the course of his career, Davi has performed in more than 130 films. On television, he portrayed FBI Special Agent Bailey Malone in the NBC television series Profiler, classically trained as a singer, Davi launched his professional singing career in 2011. His first album, Davi Sings Sinatra -- On The Road To Romance, praised for his voice and vocal interpretations, Davi debuted as a headliner at The Venetian, Las Vegas, Nevada, six months after the record was released. In 2016, Davi replaced the late Jerry Doyle as radio host for a syndicated radio program on Talk Radio Network. Davi was born in Astoria, Queens, New York, the son of Maria and his mother was an Italian American whose family came from Nusco and his father was a native of Torretta, Palermo, Sicily. Davi spoke Italian during his childhood and he attended Seton Hall, a Roman Catholic high school in Patchogue, New York. He has two sisters, Yvonne Davi, and Mrs. Michelle Queal and he graduated from Hofstra University, which he attended due to that universitys strong drama department as well as its unique reproduction of Shakespeares Globe Theater. Davi made his motion picture debut in Contract On Cherry Street and he subsequently worked with Marlon Brando, Clint Eastwood, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Benicio del Toro, James Franco, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Bruce Willis, and Roberto Benigni, among others. In 1989, Davi appeared as Mafia Albert Cerrico on the television series Wiseguy and he sang in the first installment of the arc, called Le Lacrime de Amore Part I. In 2011, Davi appeared alongside Val Kilmer and Christopher Walken in the gangster movie Kill the Irishman. The film, in which Davi played Mafia hitman Ray Ferritto, is a biopic of Danny Greene, released the same year, he was also in Game of Death with Wesley Snipes. He followed up these projects with crime thriller The Iceman, in 2014, Davi appeared as Goran Vata in The Expendables 3. In 2007, Davi made his debut with The Dukes. The film starred himself, Chazz Palminteri, and Peter Bogdanovich, the Dukes was selected for the premiere section at the Rome Film Festival, along with films by Francis Ford Coppola, Sean Penn, Robert Redford, and Sidney Lumet. Davi was the only director in the premiere section. He subsequently received training with top vocal teachers, Samuel Margolis and Danial Ferro of Juilliard. Davi damaged his voice, and later explained that he was a baritone with the heart of a tenor and had pushed too hard, Davi began to focus again on singing in 2011, and worked with Voice Builder Gary Catona as he prepared to record his first album
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Grand L. Bush
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Grand Lee Bush is an American actor of stage, television and major motion pictures. Bush was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Essie and Robert Bush, shakespearean-trained, Bush studied film and theatre at the Los Angeles City College Theatre Academy, University of Southern California and the Strasberg Academy in Hollywood. He continued his education by performing at the historic Globe Theatre, the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, Bush has been married to former television personality Sharon Crews since 1994. In 1983, Bush won a nomination for a Canadian Genie Award in the category of Best Performance by a Foreign Actor for his role in the feature film Hard Feelings. Bushs introduction to cinema began five years earlier in 1977 when he landed a role on the CBS sitcom Good Times. Bush later acted in other television episodics and miniseries, including Roots, before joining the cast of the rock musical Hair in 1979, Bush also performed in other musical dramas, including the TV series Fame and the feature film Streets of Fire. Bushs most notable contributions to cinema were his performances in such box-office blockbusters as Lethal Weapon, Hollywood Shuffle, Die Hard and Colors. Colors, an American cult classic, sparked a friendship between Bush and director Dennis Hopper and Hopper directed Bush in a total of three films, Colors, Chasers, and Catchfire. Bush was cast in the 1989 James Bond feature film Licence to Kill, bushs character Hawkins is an ally of James Bond. By 1990, Bush had become a veteran of stage, television and motion pictures and he was hand-picked by William Peter Blatty to perform opposite George C. Scott, who portrayed a lieutenant in the horror film The Exorcist III, written and directed by Blatty, Bush has acted opposite Sylvester Stallone in Demolition Man. Bush also played actor Todd Bridges father in Building Bridges, a short film about the rise. In 1994, Bush was cast in the role of Balrog in the action/comedy Street Fighter, the ensemble cast also included Jean-Claude Van Damme, Kylie Minogue, Ming-Na and Raúl Juliá. To prepare for his role, Bush trained with kickboxing champion Benny Urquidez in Bangkok, Thailand, writer/producer Dean Devlin and Bush worked together on two television series. Bush and actor Robert Davi co-starred in three films together, Bush has worked on two of Steven E. de Souzas films. Bush has guest-starred in a total of five projects on which Nicholas Corea is credited as either a writer, producer or director, more than 35 feature films in which Bush has appeared have been archived as Turner Classic Movies, including Street Fighter Extreme Edition. Bush and actor Clarence Gilyard played brothers on Walker, Texas Ranger, the Walker, Texas Ranger episode Brothers in Arms was written specifically for Bush by friend, Nicholas Corea, while Corea lay on his deathbed. Bush viewed the episode privately with Coreas widow, in 1991, Bush met his future wife, Sharon Crews, on the set of Freejack, a science fiction feature that stars Emilio Estevez, Rene Russo and Mick Jagger
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