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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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New York (state)
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New York is a state in the northeastern United States, and is the 27th-most extensive, fourth-most populous, and seventh-most densely populated U. S. state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south and Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont to the east. With an estimated population of 8.55 million in 2015, New York City is the most populous city in the United States, the New York Metropolitan Area is one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. New York City makes up over 40% of the population of New York State, two-thirds of the states population lives in the New York City Metropolitan Area, and nearly 40% lives on Long Island. Both the state and New York City were named for the 17th-century Duke of York, the next four most populous cities in the state are Buffalo, Rochester, Yonkers, and Syracuse, while the state capital is Albany. New York has a diverse geography and these more mountainous regions are bisected by two major river valleys—the north-south Hudson River Valley and the east-west Mohawk River Valley, which forms the core of the Erie Canal. Western New York is considered part of the Great Lakes Region and straddles Lake Ontario, between the two lakes lies Niagara Falls. The central part of the state is dominated by the Finger Lakes, New York had been inhabited by tribes of Algonquian and Iroquoian-speaking Native Americans for several hundred years by the time the earliest Europeans came to New York. The first Europeans to arrive were French colonists and Jesuit missionaries who arrived southward from settlements at Montreal for trade, the British annexed the colony from the Dutch in 1664. The borders of the British colony, the Province of New York, were similar to those of the present-day state, New York is home to the Statue of Liberty, a symbol of the United States and its ideals of freedom, democracy, and opportunity. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. On April 17,1524 Verrazanno entered New York Bay, by way of the now called the Narrows into the northern bay which he named Santa Margherita. Verrazzano described it as a vast coastline with a delta in which every kind of ship could pass and he adds. This vast sheet of water swarmed with native boats and he landed on the tip of Manhattan and possibly on the furthest point of Long Island. Verrazannos stay was interrupted by a storm which pushed him north towards Marthas Vineyard, in 1540 French traders from New France built a chateau on Castle Island, within present-day Albany, due to flooding, it was abandoned the next year. In 1614, the Dutch under the command of Hendrick Corstiaensen, rebuilt the French chateau, Fort Nassau was the first Dutch settlement in North America, and was located along the Hudson River, also within present-day Albany. The small fort served as a trading post and warehouse, located on the Hudson River flood plain, the rudimentary fort was washed away by flooding in 1617, and abandoned for good after Fort Orange was built nearby in 1623. Henry Hudsons 1609 voyage marked the beginning of European involvement with the area, sailing for the Dutch East India Company and looking for a passage to Asia, he entered the Upper New York Bay on September 11 of that year
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East Hampton (town), New York
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The Town of East Hampton is located in southeastern Suffolk County, New York, at the eastern end of the South Shore of Long Island. It is the easternmost town in the state of New York, at the time of the United States 2010 Census, it had a total population of 21,457. The town includes the village of East Hampton, as well as the hamlets of Montauk, Amagansett, Wainscott and it also includes part of the incorporated village of Sag Harbor. East Hampton is located on a peninsula, bordered on the south by the Atlantic Ocean, to the east by Block Island Sound and to the north by Gardiners Bay, Napeague Bay and Fort Pond Bay. To the west is western Long Island, reaching to the East River, the Town has eight state parks, most located at the waters edge. The town consists of 70 square miles and stretches nearly 25 miles and it is about six miles wide at its widest point and less than a mile at its narrowest point. The town has jurisdiction over Gardiners Island, which is one of the largest privately owned islands in the United States, the town has 70 miles of shoreline. East Hampton has a climate slightly above humid continental, since the January mean is slightly below the freezing mark. This area had been inhabited for thousands of years by varying cultures of indigenous peoples and they belong to the large Algonquian-speaking language family. Bands on Long Island were identified by their geographic locations, the historical people known to the colonists as the Montaukett controlled most of the territory at the east end of Long Island. Native Americans inhabiting the western part of Long Island were part of the Lenape nation and their territory extended to lower New York, western Connecticut and the mid-Atlantic coastal areas into New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Their bands were known by the names of their geographic locations. In the late-17th century Chief Wyandanch of the Montaukett negotiated with English colonists for the sale of land in the East Hampton area, the differing concepts held by the Montaukett and English about land and its use contributed to the Montaukett losing most of their lands over the ensuing centuries. Wyandanch sold an island to English colonist Lion Gardiner for a black dog, some powder and shot. The next trade involved the land extending from present-day Southampton to the foot of the bluffs, at what is now Hither Hills State Park, for 24 hatchets,24 coats,20 looking glasses and 100 muxes. The sales provided that the Montaukett were permitted to stay on the land, to hunt and fish at will, Town officials who bought the land filed for reimbursement from the colony for the rum with which they had plied the tribe during negotiations. Gradually, however, colonists pushed the Montaukett off the land and they formed the Brothertown Indians with other refugee Indian people from New England, and gave up some of their traditions. In 1831-1836, the Brothertown Indians migrated to Wisconsin, where they founded the settlement of Brothertown, some Montaukett continued to live on Long Island
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George Washington University
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The George Washington University is a private research university in Washington, D. C. GW is the largest institution of education in Washington, D. C. In his will, Washington left his 50 shares in the Potomac Company to help endow the university, however, due to the companys financial difficulties, the funding did not materialize. The university was chartered by an act of Congress on February 9,1821 and its name was changed to Columbian University in 1873 and to the George Washington University in 1904, in honor of Washington. GWs Graduate School of Political Management is the school of applied politics in the nations capital. GWs professional schools and the Elliott School of International Affairs are consistently ranked highly in national and international college rankings lists, the Princeton Review consistently ranks GW as one of the Most Politically Active schools. Some of the graduates have gone on to high positions within both the U. S. government and foreign governments. Notable alumni include former Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, former Secretary of State Colin Powell and he presented numerous letters to Congress and included the subject in his last will and testament. Baptist missionary and leading minister Luther Rice raised funds to purchase a site in Washington, the first commencement in 1824 was considered an important event for the young city of Washington, D. C. In attendance were President Monroe, John C, Calhoun, Henry Clay, Marquis de Lafayette and other dignitaries. During the Civil War, most students left to join the Confederacy, walt Whitman was among many of the volunteers to work on the campus. Following the war, in 1873, Columbian College became the Columbian University and moved to a downtown location centered on 15th and H streets. The university moved its operations to the D. C. neighborhood of Foggy Bottom in 1912. The George Washington University, like much of Washington, D. C. traces many of its origins back to the Freemasons, the Bible that the presidents of the university use to swear an oath on upon inauguration is the Bible of Freemason George Washington. Freemasonry symbols are displayed throughout the campus including the foundation stones of many of the university buildings. Many of the Colleges of the George Washington University stand out for their age, the Law School is the oldest law school in the District of Columbia. The School of Medicine and Health Sciences is the 11th oldest medical school in the nation, the Columbian College was founded in 1821, and is the oldest unit of the university. The Elliott School of International Affairs was formalized in 1898, the majority of the present infrastructure and financial stability at GW is due to the tenures of Presidents Cloyd Heck Marvin, Lloyd Hartman Elliott and Stephen Joel Trachtenberg
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American Academy of Dramatic Arts
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The American Academy of Dramatic Arts is a two-year performing arts conservatory with bi-coastal facilities at 120 Madison Avenue, Manhattan, and at 1336 North La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles. The oldest acting school in the English speaking world, the Academy in New York City was founded in 1884 to train actors for the stage and its first home was the original Lyceum Theatre on what is now Park Avenue South. In 1963, the moved to its current home, a landmark building designed by noted architect Stanford White as the original Colony Club. In 1974, the Academy opened another campus in Pasadena, California, the Los Angeles campus moved from Pasadena to Hollywood in 2001 in a new building next to the site of the former studios of Charlie Chaplin. The Academy remains dedicated to training professional actors and it offers a two-year program in which students have to be invited back for the second year. Auditions are held at the end of the year for the third year company. Students who graduate in New York receive an Associate of Occupational Studies degree, students from New York and Los Angeles can get a Bachelor of Arts degree from selected universities. Numerous students of the Academy have gone on to distinguished careers throughout the entertainment industry, receiving nominations for Tonys, Oscars, from their Web site, The Academy has many teachers and faculty who have many professional connections and credits. Notable faculty includes, David Dean Bottrell, Karen Hensel, Sandy Martin, Ian Ogilvy, notes American Academy of Dramatic Arts Home Page
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Cliff Robertson
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Clifford Parker Cliff Robertson III was an American actor with a film and television career that spanned half a century. Robertson portrayed a young John F. Kennedy in the 1963 film PT109 and his last well-known film appearances were in 2002 through 2007 as Uncle Ben in the Spider-Man film trilogy. Robertson was born in La Jolla, California, the son of Clifford Parker Robertson, Jr. and his first wife and his Texas-born father was described as the idle heir to a tidy sum of ranching money. Robertson once said, was a romantic figure – tall. He married four or five times, and between marriages hed pop in to see me and he was a great raconteur, and he was always surrounded by sycophants who let him pick up the tab. During the Depression, he tapped the trust for $500,000, Robertsons parents divorced when he was one, and his mother died of peritonitis a year later in El Paso, Texas, at the age of 21. He was raised by his grandmother, Mary Eleanor Eleanora Willingham, in California. He graduated in 1941 from La Jolla High School, where he was known as The Walking Phoenix, merchant Marine in World War II, before attending Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio and dropping out to work as a journalist for a short time. Robertson was President John F. Kennedys personal choice to him in 1963s PT109. The next year, Robertson played a presidential candidate in The Best Man, Late in his life Robertsons career had a resurgence. He appeared as Uncle Ben Parker in Sam Raimis Spider-Man, as well as in the sequels Spider-Man 2 and he commented on his website, Since Spider-Man 1 and 2, I seem to have a whole new generation of fans. That in itself is a fine residual and he was also in the horror film Riding the Bullet. In 1989, he was a member of the jury at the 39th Berlin International Film Festival, Robertson also appeared as a special guest star on Wagon Train for one episode, portraying an Irish immigrant. In 1958, Robertson portrayed Joe Clay in the first broadcast of Playhouse 90s Days of Wine, in 1960, he was cast as Martinus Van Der Brig, a con man, in the episode End of a Dream of Riverboat. Other appearances included The Twilight Zone episodes A Hundred Yards Over the Rim and The Dummy, followed by the The Eleventh Hour in the 1963 episode and he guest-starred on such television series as The Greatest Show on Earth, Breaking Point and ABC Stage 67. He had starring roles in episodes of both the 1960s and 1990s versions of The Outer Limits and he was awarded an Emmy for his leading role in a 1965 episode, The Game of Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre. He appeared twice as a guest-villain on ABCs Batman as the gunfighter Shame, in 1976, he portrayed a retired Buzz Aldrin in an adaptation of Aldrins autobiography Return to Earth. In 1987, he portrayed Henry Ford in Ford, The Man, from 1983-84, he played Dr. Michael Ranson in Falcon Crest
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Ted Hartley
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Theodore Ringwalt Ted Hartley has been a US Navy fighter pilot, an investment banker, an actor, film producer, and is currently CEO of RKO Pictures. He is married to heiress, actress and philanthropist Dina Merrill, Hartley was born in Omaha, Nebraska and raised on a farm in Iowa. His father died when he was 5, causing financial hardships for the family, at the age of 14, he entered a contest sponsored by Warner Bros. wrote a 50-word essay on “Why I like to fly”, and won some flying lessons. Hartley attended Shattuck Military School in Minnesota, and by the age of 16 he had won an appointment to the U. S. Naval Academy, after flight training, among other tours, he served as a carrier-based fighter pilot, flying F-11s following their introduction in 1956. As a Navy officer, Hartley had tours as a liaison for the Pentagon, as a Presidential aide. In May 1964, his F9F8 fighter crashed during a landing accident. He was thrown from the jet, suffered a broken back, hartleys military career prematurely ended, he attended Harvard Business School and pursued a career in investment banking, becoming Vice President for First Western Financial Corporation. His next career was in Hollywood, as an actor, where he took on the role of Reverend Jerry Bedford on the 1960s television series Peyton Place. Hartley had minor roles in films with Cary Grant, Robert Redford and Clint Eastwood, in 1987 he became involved with Pavilion Communications Inc. a company designed to acquire smaller entertainment companies. Through this, Hartley learned of an opportunity to take over RKO Pictures and he and his wife, Dina Merrill, purchased 51% of the company and merged Pavilion Communications with RKO Pictures Corporation in 1991, forming RKO Pictures, LLC. Their first major project was the 1998 remake of Mighty Joe Young and he produced Mighty Joe Young with Disney, Ritual with Miramax, The Magnificent Ambersons, and Shade, starring Jamie Foxx, Melanie Griffith, and Sylvester Stallone, among others. For RKO Stage, Hartley produced the musicals Never Gonna Dance, Curtains, Gypsy,13, all on Broadway, and Top Hat in the West End, winner of the 2013 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical. In 2013 he was appointed chairman of the board of Orbis International, Hartley is also a frequent lecturer and is published periodically in business journals. He is also a poet as well as a creator of stories for the screen. Barely Lethal A Late Quartet Beyond a Reasonable Doubt Are We Done Yet. S, Naval Academy Alumni Association newsletter, Ted Hartley 46
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Edward Francis Hutton
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Edward Francis Hutton was an American financier and co-founder of E. F. Hutton & Co. one of the most respected financial firms in the United States. Hutton was born in Manhattan, New York City, the son of James Laws Hutton, Huttons younger brother, Franklyn, married Edna Woolworth, the dime store heiress and was the father of Barbara Hutton. As a schoolboy, Hutton attended the New York Latin School before transferring to P. S, during his adolescence, he worked in a gear factory at age fifteen and then two years later in the mailroom of a securities firm. He completed his studies by taking classes at Trinity Chapel High School, in 1904, Hutton, his brother Franklyn Laws Hutton, and Gerald M. Loeb founded the American stock brokerage firm E. F. Hutton & Co. Under their leadership, it one of the most respected financial firms in the United States. E. F. Hutton merged in 1988 with Shearson Lehman/American Express, in 1951, Long Island University purchased Marjories Hillwood estate and created C. W. Post College, now known as LIU Post, in 1963 Dorothy Metzger sold their Old Westbury estate Hutfield to Long Island University. Today Hutfield is the Fine Arts Center at LIU Post and he married his first wife Blanch Horton on October 9,1900. Blanche was the daughter of investment banker Henry Lawrence Horton and she died in the Spanish Flu influenza pandemic. Edward and Blanch had one son who was killed in a riding accident on Long Island on September 25,1920. Halcourt Horton Hutton He married his wife, General Foods heiress, Marjorie Merriweather Post. The Huttons divorced in 1935 after evidence of Huttons affairs with other women known to Marjorie. Together they had one child, Nedenia Marjorie Hutton, an actress for years served as the female director on the board of the E. F. Hutton & Co. In February 1936, at age 60, he married twenty-eight-year-old Dorothy Dear Metzger, who had just divorced her husband, Homer, the previous October. E. F. met Dorothy through Marjories daughter Adelaide, who had invited Dorothy, Dorothy and Homer P. Metzger had one daughter, Nancy Joan Metzger, who inherited a portion of her stepfathers estate when he died. He died on July 11,1962 in Old Westbury, New York, West Palm West Historical Society, Mar-a-Lago The Sea Cloud
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Marjorie Merriweather Post
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Marjorie Merriweather Post was a leading American socialite and the owner of General Foods, Inc. She was the daughter of C. W. Post and Ella Letitia Merriweather, at age 27, when her father died, she became the owner of the rapidly growing Postum Cereal Company, founded in 1895. She was subsequently the wealthiest woman in the United States, with a fortune worth about US $250 million and she attended the Mount Vernon Seminary and College. Post maintained a lifelong relationship with her alma mater and served as the first alumna trustee of Mount Vernon Seminary. Today, a collection of her correspondence with Mount Vernon administrators is maintained by GWUs Special Collections Research Center, Posts complete collection of personal papers, as well as those of her father, are held by the University of Michigans Bentley Historical Library. In addition to Hillwood and other estates, Marjorie Merriweather Posts other lavish home was Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, designed by Marion Sims Wyeth and Joseph Urban, Mar-a-Lago was willed in 1973 to the U. S. Government as a retreat for Presidents and visiting foreign dignitaries. The mansion was not, however, used for this purpose and it was purchased by businessman Donald Trump in 1985. Post and her husband, E. F. Hutton, owned Sea Cloud. Post also owned Camp Topridge on Upper St. Regis Lake in the Adirondacks and it included a fully staffed main lodge and private guest cabins, each staffed with its own butler. The expansive Great Camp, built in 1923 by Ben Muncil, eventually contained nearly 70 buildings, as well as a Russian dacha and it was one of only two Adirondack camps to be featured in LIFE magazine. Another home, which she shared with Joseph Davies in Washington, some of Posts jewelry bequeathed to the Smithsonian in Washington, DC, is displayed in the Harry Winston exhibit. She funded a U. S. Army hospital in France during World War I, and, decades later, in 1971, she was among the first three recipients of the Silver Fawn Award, presented by the Boy Scouts of America. The Merriweather Post Pavilion, a concert venue in Columbia. Critics have claimed that these items were expropriated, however, Post, neither she nor Davies was involved with the original seizing of the items. Allegations later surfaced that many works of art from the Tretyakov Gallery and other collections were donated or offered at nominal prices to Post and Davies. Davies is also alleged to have purchased art expropriated from Soviet citizens well after the Russian Revolution, many of the items, which remain under the control of the Post estate or the agents, can be viewed at Hillwood, the former Washington, DC, estate of Post. It has operated as a museum since Posts death and displays her French and Russian art collection, featuring the work of Fabergé, Sèvres porcelain, French furniture, tapestries. In 1905, she married investment banker Edward Bennett Close of Greenwich, Connecticut, via his second marriage, Edward Bennett Close would become the paternal grandfather of actress Glenn Close
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C. W. Post
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Charles William C. W. Post, was an American inventor, breakfast cereal and foods manufacturer and a pioneer in the prepared-food industry. Charles William Post, commonly known as C. W. was born October 26,1854 in Springfield, Illinois. He was the son of Charles Rollin Post and the former Caroline Lathrop and grew up in the hometown of Abraham Lincoln, Post graduated from the public schools of Springfield and enrolled at Illinois Industrial University, where he remained two years before leaving without a degree. After a brief stay in Independence, Kansas, Post returned to Springfield, during this interval Post invented and patented several farm implements, including a plow, a harrow, and a hay-stacking machine. In November 1874, Post married Ella Letitia Merriweather, they had one daughter, Post married his second wife, Leila Young, in November 1904. Post suffered a breakdown in November 1885, the result of the stress. In 1888, Post began a real development of his own in Fort Worth on 200 acres that he had obtained, platting the land for streets and homes. The stress of work again proved too much for Posts constitution. Post began a period of travels in search of a cure. After a period traversing Europe, Post visited the Battle Creek Sanitarium of Battle Creek, Michigan and he was inspired to start his own company based upon the dietary products used there. In 1895, Post founded Postum Cereal Co. with his first product, in 1904, he followed up the Grape Nuts label with a brand of corn flakes, which was first called Elijahs Manna before being renamed Post Toasties in 1908. In 1906, Post invested some of his earnings from his food products manufacturing into Texas real estate, purchasing a massive 225, 000-acre tract in Garza. Post platted a new town, which he called Post City, shade trees were planted, farm parcels laid out, and a hotel, school, churches, and a department store were constructed for the new Garza County seat. In 1907 Colliers Weekly published an article questioning the claim made in advertisements for Grape Nuts that it could cure appendicitis, Post responded with advertisements questioning the mental capacity of the articles author, and Colliers Weekly sued for libel. The case was heard in 1910, and Post was fined $50,000, the decision was overturned on appeal, but advertisements for Postum products stopped making such claims. Post was also a public advocate of the open shop system. At the end of 1913, the chronically ill Posts health deteriorated to the point that he canceled public appearances, which prompted speculation in the press regarding his well-being. Upon examination the Mayo brothers deemed Post to be inoperable, however, in the 1995 book The Life and Times of Majorie Merriweather Post, author Nancy Rubin claims that Post did indeed have the Mayo brothers operate successfully sometime between March 5 and 10,1914
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Barbara Hutton
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Barbara Woolworth Hutton was an American debutante/socialite, heiress and philanthropist. She was dubbed the Poor Little Rich Girl, first when she was given a lavish and expensive debutante ball in 1930, amid the Great Depression, heiress to the retail tycoon Frank Winfield Woolworth, Hutton was one of the wealthiest women in the world. She endured a childhood marked by the loss of her mother at age five. Married and divorced seven times, she acquired grand foreign titles but was maliciously treated, while publicly she was much envied for her possessions, her beauty and her apparent life of leisure, privately she remained deeply insecure, often taking refuge in drink, drugs, and playboys. Hutton had one child, Lance Reventlow, with her husband, but was an indifferent and insecure parent. She later developed anorexia nervosa and perhaps therefore prevented further childbirth and her son died in a plane crash in 1972 at the age of 36, leaving her devastated. She lived another seven years, dying of an attack at age 66. At her death, the formerly wealthy Hutton was on the verge of bankruptcy as a result of exploitation, as well as her compulsive generosity and spendthrift ways. Born in New York City, Barbara Hutton was the child of Edna Woolworth, a daughter of Frank W. Woolworth. Barbaras father was Franklyn Laws Hutton, a wealthy co-founder of E. F. Hutton & Company, dina Merrill related on A&Es Biography of the Woolworths, that for a time Barbara lived with them following the death of her mother and abandonment by her father. Five year old Barbara discovered her mothers body, after her mothers death, she lived with various relatives, and was raised by a governess. Hutton attended Miss Hewitts Classes, now The Hewitt School in New Yorks Lenox Hill neighborhood and Miss Porters School for Girls in Farmington and she became an introverted child who had limited interaction with other children of her own age. Her closest friend and only confidante was her cousin Jimmy Donahue, Jimmy Donahue inherited a portion of the Woolworth estate with Barbara and also grew up to have notorious, and public, drug, alcohol and relationship problems. In 1924, Barbara Huttons grandmother Jennie Woolworth died, leaving $26.1 million to Barbara in a trust fund, another $2.1 million in stock from Ednas inheritance was placed in a separate trust both of which were administered by Franklyn Hutton. The ball cost $60,000, a fortune in the days of the Depression. Public criticism was so severe that she was sent on a tour of Europe to escape the onslaught of the press. Popular poet Ogden Nash then took note of Huttons public private life in the light verse, Said Aimee McPherson to Barbara Hutton. Youll have to ask some other person and her first husband, Alexis Mdivani, used her great wealth to his advantage
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Post Cereals
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Post was founded by C. W. Post in 1895 with the first Postum, a cereal beverage, developed by Post in Battle Creek, Michigan. Post was a patient at the Battle Creek Sanitarium and was inspired by the diet there to start his food company, the first cereal, Grape-Nuts, was developed in 1897 followed by Elijahs Manna in 1904 which was renamed Post Toasties in 1908. In 1907 Colliers Weekly published an article questioning the claim made in advertisements for Grape Nuts that it could cure appendicitis, C. W. Post responded with advertisements questioning the mental capacity of the articles author, and Colliers Weekly sued for libel. The case was heard in 1910, and Post was fined $50,000, the decision was overturned on appeal, but advertisements for Postum products stopped making such claims. By far the most important acquisition of 1929 was of the company owned by Clarence Birdseye. Chairman E. F. Hutton changed the name to General Foods Corporation after the acquisition of Birdseye, General Foods was acquired by Philip Morris Companies in 1985. In 1989, Philip Morris merged General Foods with Kraft Foods, the cereal brands of Nabisco were acquired in 1993. In 1995, Kraft General Foods was reorganized and renamed Kraft Foods, on November 15,2007, Kraft announced it would spin off Post Cereals and merge that business with Ralcorp Holdings. That merger was completed August 4,2008, the official name of the company became Post Foods, LLC. In July 2011, Ralcorp announced plans to spin off Post Foods into a separate company, about a quarter of Ralcorps sales in 2010 were generated by its Post Foods unit. The spinoff was completed with an IPO for Post Holdings, Inc. on February 7,2012, in 2015, Post Foods purchased MOM Brands creating the third largest breakfast cereal company in the US. The combined company is now called Post Consumer Brands and is headquartered in Lakeville, marjorie Merriweather Post Post, Texas Close City, Texas Post Consumer Brands
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Wall Street
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Wall Street is an eight-block-long street running roughly northwest to southeast from Broadway to South Street, at the East River, in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the markets of the United States as a whole. Several other major exchanges have or had headquarters in the Wall Street area, including the New York Mercantile Exchange, the New York Board of Trade, there are varying accounts about how the Dutch-named de Walstraat got its name. A conflicting explanation is that Wall Street was named after Walloons— the Dutch name for a Walloon is Waal, among the first settlers that embarked on the ship Nieu Nederlandt in 1624 were 30 Walloon families. The Dutch word wal can be translated as rampart, however, even some English maps show the name as Waal Straat, and not as Wal Straat. But soon after that, the Dutch governor, Kieft, sent his men out there one night, few of them escaped, but they spread the story of what had been done, and this did much to antagonize all the remaining tribes against all the white settlers. Shortly after, Nieuw Amsterdam erected a palisade for defense against its now enraged red neighbors. The space between the walls is now called Wall Street, and its spirit is still that of a bulwark against the people. In the 1640s basic picket and plank fences denoted plots and residences in the colony, in 1685, surveyors laid out Wall Street along the lines of the original stockade. In these early days, local merchants and traders would gather at disparate spots to buy and sell shares and bonds, Wall Street was also the marketplace where owners could hire out their slaves by the day or week. The rampart was removed in 1699, the slave market operated from 1711 to 1762 at the corner of Wall and Pearl Streets. It was a structure with a roof and open sides, although walls may have been added over the years. The city directly benefited from the sale of slaves by implementing taxes on every person who was bought, in the late 18th century there was a buttonwood tree at the foot of Wall Street under which traders and speculators would gather to trade securities. The benefit was being in proximity to each other, in 1792, traders formalized their association with the Buttonwood Agreement which was the origin of the New York Stock Exchange. The idea of the agreement was to make the more structured and without the manipulative auctions. Persons signing the agreement agreed to each other a standard commission rate, persons not signing could still participate. In 1789 Wall Street was the scene of the United States first presidential inauguration when George Washington took the oath of office on the balcony of Federal Hall on April 30,1789 and this was also the location of the passing of the Bill Of Rights. Alexander Hamilton, who was the first Treasury secretary and architect of the early United States financial system, is buried in the cemetery of Trinity Church, in the first few decades, both residences and businesses occupied the area, but increasingly business predominated
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E. F. Hutton & Co.
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EF Hutton is an American stock brokerage firm founded in 1904 by Edward Francis Hutton and his brother, Franklyn Laws Hutton. Later, it was led by well known Wall Street trader Gerald M. Loeb, under their leadership, EF Hutton became one of the most respected financial firms in the United States and for several decades was the second largest brokerage firm in the United States. The firm was best known for its colorful TV commercials in the 1970s and 1980s based on the phrase and it also operated seasonal offices in Palm Beach, Florida and Saratoga Springs, New York to cater to its customers. Morrie Cohen opened Huttons first one-man office on Maui in December 1969, Edward Hutton led the firm until his death in 1962. Other subsidiaries of that Delaware-chartered holding company were E. F. Hutton Trust Company, E. F. Hutton Life Insurance Company, as a result of several mergers, the remains of the old EF Hutton were a part of Smith Barney, a subsidiary of Citigroup. EF Hutton was revived in April 2012 by a management team composed of executives of the firm and Stanley Hutton Rumbough. E. F. Hutton & Co. was founded in San Francisco in 1904 by namesake Edward Francis Hutton and his brother, Franklyn Laws Hutton. Hutton, an entrepreneur who also became chairman of the General Foods Corporation and for years wrote a newspaper column. In 1906, two years after the firm was founded, its offices were destroyed in the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, in 1924, famed Wall Street trader Gerald M. Loeb joined the firm, ultimately rising to chairman. The firm developed a nationwide retail network to market its various debt. In 1970, Robert M. Fomon was appointed Huttons Chief Executive Officer, despite the failure or takeover of many of its peers in the 1960s and 1970s, Hutton retained its independence under Fomons leadership. By the early 1980s, the original E. F. Hutton & Co. had become the principal component of what grew into a group of companies owned by E. F. Hutton Group Inc. listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Other subsidiaries of that Delaware-chartered holding company were E. F. Hutton Trust Company, E. F. Hutton Life Insurance Company, in 1976, Western Union partnered with E. F. Hutton & Co. E. F. Hutton was revived in April 2012 by a management team composed of executives of the firm and Stanley Hutton Rumbough. In 1993, American Express sold its brokerage and asset management business—the Shearson and Hutton parts of Shearson Lehman Hutton—to Primerica, Primerica merged them with Smith Barney to form Smith Barney Shearson, later shortened back to simply Smith Barney. The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, the Fall of the House of Hutton. Burning Down the House, How Greed, Deceit, and Bitter Revenge Destroyed E. F. Hutton, sudden Death, The Rise and Fall of E. F. Hutton. Vintage TV commercial from late 1970s When E. F. Hutton talks, people listen
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Glenn Close
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Glenn Close is an American actress, singer and film producer. With an acting career spanning over 40 years, she has been acclaimed for her versatility and is widely regarded as one of the finest actresses of her generation. She has won three Emmy Awards, three Tony Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and has received six Academy Award nominations and she would later receive nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in Fatal Attraction, Dangerous Liaisons, and Albert Nobbs. She starred as Eleanor of Aquitaine in the 2003 TV film The Lion in Winter, in 2005, she starred in the drama series The Shield. Then from 2007 to 2012, she starred as Patty Hewes in the FX drama series Damages and she has voiced the character of Mona Simpson in the animated sitcom The Simpsons since 1995. She returned to Broadway in November 2014, in a revival of Edward Albees A Delicate Balance. Her other films include Jagged Edge, Hamlet, Reversal of Fortune,101 Dalmatians, Paradise Road, Air Force One, Cookies Fortune, Heights, Guardians of the Galaxy and The Girl With All The Gifts. Close is a six-time Academy Award nominee, tying the record for being the actress with the most nominations never to have won, as of 2016, Close has more Oscar nominations without a win than any other living actor. In addition, she has been nominated for four Tonys, fourteen Emmys, thirteen Golden Globes and she has also won an Obie award and has been nominated for three Grammy Awards and a BAFTA. Close has received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and has been inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame and she has two sisters, Tina and Jessie, and two brothers, Alexander and Tambu Misoki, whom Closes parents adopted while living in Africa. Close is also a second cousin once-removed of actress Brooke Shields, during her childhood, Close lived with her parents in a stone cottage on her maternal grandfathers estate in Greenwich. Although Close came from an affluent background, she stated that her family not to participate in WASP society. She would also avoid mentioning her birthplace whenever asked because she did not want people to think she was a dilettante who didnt have to work. When she was seven years old, her parents joined a cult group, Close described MRA as a group that dictated every aspect of her life, from the clothes that had to be worn to what they were allowed to say. In an interview Close stated that her desire to become an actress allowed her to break away from the cult, stating and they had their reasons for doing what they did, and I understand them. It had terrible effects on their kids, but that’s the way it is and we all try to survive, right. And I think what actually saved me more than anything was my desire to be an actress and she spent time in Switzerland when studying at St. Georges School in Switzerland. Close traveled for years in the mid-to-late 1960s with an MRA singing group called Up With People
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Washington, D.C.
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Washington, D. C. formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D. C. is the capital of the United States. The signing of the Residence Act on July 16,1790, Constitution provided for a federal district under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Congress and the District is therefore not a part of any state. The states of Maryland and Virginia each donated land to form the federal district, named in honor of President George Washington, the City of Washington was founded in 1791 to serve as the new national capital. In 1846, Congress returned the land ceded by Virginia, in 1871. Washington had an population of 681,170 as of July 2016. Commuters from the surrounding Maryland and Virginia suburbs raise the population to more than one million during the workweek. The Washington metropolitan area, of which the District is a part, has a population of over 6 million, the centers of all three branches of the federal government of the United States are in the District, including the Congress, President, and Supreme Court. Washington is home to national monuments and museums, which are primarily situated on or around the National Mall. The city hosts 176 foreign embassies as well as the headquarters of international organizations, trade unions, non-profit organizations, lobbying groups. A locally elected mayor and a 13‑member council have governed the District since 1973, However, the Congress maintains supreme authority over the city and may overturn local laws. D. C. residents elect a non-voting, at-large congressional delegate to the House of Representatives, the District receives three electoral votes in presidential elections as permitted by the Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1961. Various tribes of the Algonquian-speaking Piscataway people inhabited the lands around the Potomac River when Europeans first visited the area in the early 17th century, One group known as the Nacotchtank maintained settlements around the Anacostia River within the present-day District of Columbia. Conflicts with European colonists and neighboring tribes forced the relocation of the Piscataway people, some of whom established a new settlement in 1699 near Point of Rocks, Maryland. 43, published January 23,1788, James Madison argued that the new government would need authority over a national capital to provide for its own maintenance. Five years earlier, a band of unpaid soldiers besieged Congress while its members were meeting in Philadelphia, known as the Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783, the event emphasized the need for the national government not to rely on any state for its own security. However, the Constitution does not specify a location for the capital, on July 9,1790, Congress passed the Residence Act, which approved the creation of a national capital on the Potomac River. The exact location was to be selected by President George Washington, formed from land donated by the states of Maryland and Virginia, the initial shape of the federal district was a square measuring 10 miles on each side, totaling 100 square miles. Two pre-existing settlements were included in the territory, the port of Georgetown, Maryland, founded in 1751, many of the stones are still standing
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Charles E. Merrill
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Charles Edward Merrill was an American philanthropist, stockbroker and co-founder, with Edmund C. Lynch of Merrill Lynch & Company. Charles E. Merrill, the son of physician Dr. Charles Merrill and Octavia Merrill, was born in Green Cove Springs, Florida, in 1898 the family briefly moved to Knoxville, Tennessee but within the year returned to Florida to settle in Jacksonville. After the school Merrill had been attending was damaged in the Great Fire of 1901, Merrill studied there from 1901 till 1903 and then in 1903 for the final year of high school was transferred to Worcester Academy. After two years at Amherst College, Merrill spent time at the University of Michigan Law School from 1906 to 1907, worked at Patchogue-Plymouth Mills from 1907–09, New York City, from 1909–13, then established Charles E. Merrill & Co. Merrill and his friend, Edmund C, Lynch, created Merrill Lynch in 1915. Merrill made his money by investing, Merrill anticipated the Stock market crash of 1929, and divested many of his holdings before the Great Depression. Merrill merged his retail brokerage and wire operations with E. A. Pierce and Co. thereby restructuring Merrill Lynch, additionally, Merrill was known to have pleaded with President Calvin Coolidge to speak out against speculation, but Coolidge did not listen to him. Merrill was also an investor in the S. S. Kresge Corporation. In 1939, immediately preceding the boom caused by World War II, Merrill agreed to do so, but insisted that the combined firm retain the Lynch name. Following a simultaneous acquisition of Philadelphia-based Cassatt & Co. the firm was reopened as Merrill Lynch, E. A. Pierce and Cassatt. Merrill was convinced that the average American who wanted to invest should be able to buy shares in the stock market, which was previously a playground for the wealthy. He instructed his employees to hold seminars at which husbands and wives could leave their children with child care providers while the parents learned how they, too, Merrill was a well-known bon vivant. Merrill was known for his extramarital affairs, which he referred to as recharging my batteries. In 1926, he purchased the James L. Breese House at Southampton in Suffolk County, New York, in the 1920s, Merrill also owned a Greenwich Village townhouse at 18 West 11th Street which was exploded by dynamite on March 6,1970 by careless Weather Underground terrorists. All three of Merrills children were wealthy from unbreakable trusts made early in childhood, Merrill was inducted into the Junior Achievement U. S. Business Hall of Fame in 1976. Merrill played no role in Judge John M. Woolseys decision admitting Ulysses into the United States, the Charles Merrill who assisted Woolsey was Charles Edmund Merrill, Jr. president of the New York textbook publishing house, Charles E. Merrill Company. See Birmingham, The Most Dangerous Book, The Battle for James Joyces Ulysses Merrill Lynch, The Early Years Time Magazine, CHARLES MERRILL, Main Street Broker
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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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Desk Set
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Desk Set is a 1957 American romantic comedy film directed by Walter Lang and starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. The screenplay was written by Phoebe Ephron and Henry Ephron from the 1955 play, The Desk Set, Watson has been involved for seven years with rising network executive Mike Cutler, with no marriage in sight. The network is negotiating a merger with another company, but is keeping it secret, to help the employees cope with the extra work that will result, the network head has ordered two computers, or electronic brains. Methods Engineer and efficiency expert Richard Sumner, the inventor of EMERAC, is brought in to see how the library functions, though extremely bright, as he gets to know Bunny Watson, he is surprised to discover that she is every bit his match. When they find out the computers are coming, the jump to the conclusion they are being replaced. Their fears seem to be confirmed when everyone on the staff receives a slip printed out by the new payroll computer. Fortunately, it out to be a mistake, the machine fired everybody in the company. Richard Sumner reveals his romantic interest in Bunny Watson, but she believes that EMERAC would always be his first priority, Sumner denies it, but then Watson puts him to the test, setting the machine to self-destruct. Sumner resists the urge to fix it as long as possible, in the play, Watson had only brief interactions with Sumner, and somewhat hostile. Screenwriters Phoebe and Henry Ephron built up the role of the efficiency expert, the exterior shots of the Federal Broadcasting Network seen in the film is actually the RCA Building at 30 Rockefeller Center in Rockefeller Center, the headquarters of NBC. The character of Bunny Watson was based on Agnes E. Law, following Desk Set their last film together would be 1967s Guess Whos Coming to Dinner. The computer referred to as EMERAC is a metonym for ENIAC. The researchers furnish incorrect information about the career of baseball player Ty Cobb, today the film is seen far more favorably, with the sharpness of the script praised in particular, it currently has a rare 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 17 reviews. A Canadian radio program, Bunny Watson, was named for, the film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists,2002, AFIs 100 Years.100 Passions – Nominated List of American films of 1957 Desk Set at the Internet Movie Database
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Don't Give Up the Ship (film)
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Dont Give Up the Ship is a comedy directed by Norman Taurog and starring Jerry Lewis. It was filmed from October 21,1958 to January 30,1959, following World War II, an entire destroyer escort, the U. S. S. Now, with a $4 billion appropriation at stake, Congressman Mandeville refuses to approve the funds until the Kornblatt is recovered, Stecklers former superior, Vice Admiral Bludde, who has been trying to sugarcoat this embarrassing incidence, has no other choice but to comply. Though he can convince the Admiralty of his innocence, he is nevertheless charged with finding the Kornblatt within the next ten days. Since he is at a loss to explain the whereabouts of the ship, Steckler is teamed up with Naval Intelligence operative Ensign Benson, Benson employs a relaxing therapy to coax Stecklers memory, succeeding with much effort. By the time of Stecklers release and the surrender to him, however. With Wychinski being the only lead, Steckler and Benson track him down in Miami, Florida. In addition, Mandeville has drastically cut the time limit in favor of an inquiry on this very day. In the meantime, Wychinsky, who has remembered what happened to the Kornblatt, has followed Steckler back to Washington. The two proceed to the hearing, which is progressing very badly for Steckler and Bludde, given a reprieve of 48 hours, Steckler and Wychinsky go to a spot in the ocean where the wreck of the Kornblatt lies following her last use as a target dummy. Finally rehabilitated, Steckler manages to secure a significantly higher appropriation for the Navy, the USS Vammen was used to portray the fictional ship the USS Kornblatt. Previously the USS Stembel was listed as the ship portraying the Kornblatt, the Stembel was a Fleet Destroyer, the Vammen a Destroyer-Escort. The film was re-released on a bill with another Jerry Lewis film, Rock-A-Bye Baby. A comic book adaptation of film was released as issue number 1049 of the Dell Four Color comic book series in August 1959. Jerry Lewis as John Paul Steckler Dina Merrill as Ensign Benson Mickey Shaughnessy as Wychinsky Gale Gordon as Congressman Mandeville Robert Middleton as Vice Admiral Bludde Claude Akins as Lt
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Operation Petticoat
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The film tells in flashback the misadventures of the fictional U. S. Navy submarine, USS Sea Tiger, during the opening days of the United States involvement in World War II. Some elements of the screenplay were taken from actual incidents that happened with some of the Pacific Fleets submarines during the war, paul King, Joseph Stone, Stanley Shapiro, and Maurice Richlin were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Writing for their work on Operation Petticoat. The film was the basis for a series in 1977 starring John Astin in Grants role. In 1959 U. S. Navy Rear Admiral Matt Sherman, ComSubPac, boards the obsolete submarine USS Sea Tiger, Sherman, once her first commanding officer, begins reading his wartime personal logbook, recalling earlier events. On 10 December 1941, a Japanese air raid sinks Sea Tiger while docked at the Cavite Navy Yard in the Philippines, Lieutenant Commander Sherman and his crew begin repairs, hoping to sail for Darwin, Australia before the Japanese overrun the port. Lieutenant Nick Holden, an aide, is reassigned to Sea Tiger despite lacking any submarine training or experience. Holden demonstrates great skill as a scrounger after Sherman makes him the supply officer and he teams up with Marine Sergeant Ramon Gallardo, an escaped prisoner, to obtain materials desperately needed for repairs, persuading the captain to sign on Ramon as the ships cook. What Holden and his men cannot acquire from base warehouses, they midnight requisition from various military, refloated and restored to barely seaworthy condition, with only two of her four diesel engines operable, Sea Tiger puts to sea. She reaches Marinduque, where Sherman reluctantly agrees to evacuate five stranded female Army nurses, Holden is attracted to Second Lieutenant Barbara Duran, while Sherman has a series of embarrassing encounters with the well-endowed and clumsy Second Lieutenant Dolores Crandall. Later, when Sherman prepares to attack an enemy oiler moored to a pier, the torpedo misses its target and instead sinks a truck ashore. Sherman tries to put the nurses ashore at Cebu, but the Army refuses to accept them, chief Torpedoman Molumphry has been asking for paint. Holden manages to get some red and white lead primer paint, the two are mixed together, resulting in a pale pink primer that the chief reluctantly has applied. A Japanese air raid forces a hasty departure before the crew can apply the top coat of navy gray, Tokyo Rose mocks the mysterious pink submarine, while the U. S. Navy believes it to be a Japanese deception, ordering that it be sunk on sight. An American destroyer spots Sea Tiger and opens fire, then launches depth charges when the submarine crash dives, Sherman tries an oil slick and then launches blankets, pillows, and life jackets, but the deception fails. At Holdens suggestion, Sherman ejects the nurses lingerie, crandalls bra convinces the destroyers captain that the Japanese have nothing like this, and he ceases fire. Sea Tiger, still pink, arrives at Darwin, battered, shermans reminiscence ends with the arrival of Commander Nick Holden, his wife, and their sons. Sherman promises Holden command of a new nuclear-powered submarine, named Sea Tiger, shermans wife arrives late with their daughters and rear-ends her husbands staff car, causing it to lock bumpers with a Navy bus. When it drives away, dragging his car with it, Sherman reassures his wife that it will be stopped at the main gate
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Cary Grant
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Cary Grant was a British-American actor, known as one of classic Hollywoods definitive leading men. He began a career in Hollywood in the early 1930s, and became known for his accent, debonair demeanor. He became an American citizen in 1942, Born in Horfield, Bristol, Grant became attracted to theatre at a young age, and began performing with a troupe known as The Penders from the age of six. After attending Bishop Road Primary School and Fairfield Grammar School in Bristol, he toured the country as a stage performer and he established a name for himself in vaudeville in the 1920s and toured the United States before moving to Hollywood in the early 1930s. Along with the later Arsenic and Old Lace and I Was a Male War Bride, having established himself as a major Hollywood star, he was nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Actor, for Penny Serenade and None but the Lonely Heart. In the 1940s and 1950s, Grant forged a relationship with the director Alfred Hitchcock, appearing in films such as Suspicion, Notorious, To Catch a Thief. Hitchcock admired Grant and considered him to have been the actor that he had ever loved working with. His comic timing and delivery made Grant what Premiere magazine considers to have quite simply. Grant was married five times, three of his marriages were elopements with actresses—Virginia Cherrill, Betsy Drake and Dyan Cannon and he has one daughter with Cannon, Jennifer Grant. After his retirement from acting in 1966, Grant pursued numerous business interests, representing cosmetics firm Fabergé. He was presented with an Honorary Oscar by his friend Frank Sinatra at the 42nd Academy Awards in 1970, in 1999, the American Film Institute named Grant the second greatest male star of Golden Age Hollywood cinema, after Humphrey Bogart. Grant was born Archibald Alec Leach on January 18,1904 at 15 Hughenden Road in the northern Bristol suburb of Horfield and he was the second child of Elias James Leach and Elsie Maria Leach. Elias, the son of a potter, worked as a tailors presser at a factory, while Elsie. Grants elder brother, John William Elias Leach, died of tuberculous meningitis, Grant considered himself to have been partly Jewish. He had an upbringing, his father was an alcoholic. Wanting the best for her son, Elsie taught Grant song and dance when he was four and she would occasionally take him to the cinema where he enjoyed the performances of Charlie Chaplin, Chester Conklin, Fatty Arbuckle, Ford Sterling, Mack Swain and Broncho Billy Anderson. Grant entered education when he was four-and-a-half and was sent to the Bishop Road Primary School, Bristol, another biographer, Geoffrey Wansell, notes that Elsie blamed herself bitterly for the death of Grants older brother John, and never recovered from it. Grant later acknowledged that his experiences with his fiercely independent mother affected his relationships with women later in life
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F. W. Woolworth Company
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The F. W. Woolworth Company was a retail company and one of the original pioneers of the five-and-dime store. It was arguably the most successful American and international business, setting trends. The first Woolworth store was opened by Frank Winfield Woolworth on February 22,1878, as Woolworths Great Five Cent Store in Utica, though it initially appeared to be successful, the store soon failed. When Woolworth searched for a new location, a friend suggested Lancaster, using the sign from the Utica store, Woolworth opened his first successful Woolworths Great Five Cent Store on July 18,1879, in Lancaster. He brought his brother, Charles Sumner Woolworth, into the business, the two Woolworth brothers pioneered and developed merchandising, direct purchasing, sales, and customer service practices commonly used today. The chain went out of business in July 1997, when the decided to focus primarily on sporting goods. By 2001, the company focused exclusively on the goods market, changing its name to the present Foot Locker. Retail chains using the Woolworth name survive in Austria, Germany, Mexico and, until the start of 2009, however, Woolworths Limited did take their name from the original company, as it had not been registered or trademarked in Australia at the time. Similarly, in South Africa, Woolworths Holdings Limited operates a Marks & Spencer-like store and uses the Woolworth name, the property development company Woolworth Group in Cyprus began life as an offshoot of the British Woolworths company, originally operating Woolworths department stores in Cyprus. In 2003, these stores were rebranded Debenhams, but the property arm of the business retained the Woolworths name. The F. W. Woolworth Co. had the first five-and-dime stores, Woolworth, as the stores popularly became known, was one of the first American retailers to put merchandise out for the shopping public to handle and select without the assistance of a sales clerk. Earlier retailers had kept all merchandise behind a counter and customers presented the clerk with a list of items they wished to buy, the store failed and closed in May 1878, after Frank earned enough money to pay back William Moore. Frank soon made an attempt, and opened his Woolworths Great Five Cent Store, using the same sign, on June 21,1879, in Lancaster. Lancaster proved a success, and Frank never forgot the city for the rest of his life, Frank wanted to open a second store in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and so he asked his brother Charles Sumner Sum Woolworth to join him by managing it. The Harrisburg store opened as, 5¢ Woolworth Bros Store on July 19,1879, after a falling-out with the landlord, that store moved to York, Pennsylvania, opening in March 1880. That store did not last long either, closing three months later, Frank searched for a larger, low-rent building. He found a location in Scranton, Pennsylvania, at 125 Penn Avenue. The Scranton store is where Sum fully developed the brothers 5¢ & 10¢ merchandising model, Sum spent a lot of time working the sales floor, talking with customers and employees
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BUtterfield 8
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BUtterfield 8 is a 1960 drama film directed by Daniel Mann, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Laurence Harvey. Taylor won her first Academy Award for her performance in a leading role, the film was based on a 1935 novel written by John OHara in the wake of the success of his critically acclaimed Appointment in Samarra. Gloria Wandrous wakes up in the apartment of wealthy executive Weston Liggett, insulted, Gloria, whose dress is torn, takes Liggetts wife Emilys mink coat to cover herself and scrawls No Sale in lipstick on the mirror. But she orders her telephone answering service, BUtterfield 8, to put Liggett through if he calls, Gloria visits a childhood friend, pianist Steve Carpenter, who chastises her for wasting her life on one-night stands but agrees to ask his girlfriend Norma to lend her a dress. Gloria leaves, whereupon Norma tells Steve to choose between her or Gloria, Liggett takes a train to the countryside where his wife Emily is caring for her mother. A friend, Bingham Smith, advises him to end his adulterous relationships, meanwhile, Gloria lies to her mother Annie, claiming to have spent the night at Normas. Finding the lipstick and money, he phones Gloria to explain the money was meant for her to buy a new dress, while drinking later that night, Liggett advises her to ask a high price for her lovemaking talents. She insists she does not take payment from her dates and claims she has hired as a model to advertise the dress she is wearing at three bistros that night. Liggett follows her and watches Gloria flirt with dozens of men at several clubs and he then drives her to a run-down motel. After sleeping together, Liggett and Gloria decide to explore their relationship further, Liggett disappears with Gloria for five days and eventually admits that he is married. Far from being surprised, she thanks Liggett for the respect he showed her, when Gloria returns home, she confesses to her mother about having been the slut of all time, and Annie slaps her. Gloria visits her psychiatrist, Dr. Tredman, to insist that her relationship with Liggett has cured her of promiscuity, Liggett takes up Bings offer of a job at the law firm. When he returns home, Emily has noticed that her mink is gone, Liggett makes excuses and rushes out to search for Gloria at her regular clubs but finds instead that he is just one in a fraternity of Glorias ex-lovers. When Gloria finds Liggett at a bistro the following evening, he launches into insults, Gloria goes to Steve, saying that she feels she has earned the mink coat she is wearing. She recounts that when she was 13, a friend of her widowed mother repeatedly raped her, Norma, meanwhile, finds Gloria asleep on Steves couch, but he asks Norma to marry him. The next day, Liggett asks Emily for a divorce, Gloria tells her mother she is going to Boston to begin a new life. Finding out where Gloria went, Liggett drives until he spots her car at a roadside café and he tries to apologize to Gloria by asking her to marry him, but Gloria insists that his insults have branded her. Driving after Glorias car, Liggett sees her miss a sign for road construction, the unconventional title of the novel and film derives from the pattern of old telephone exchange names in the United States and Canada
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The Young Savages
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The Young Savages is a 1961 crime drama film directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Burt Lancaster, and written by Edward Anhalt from a novel by Evan Hunter. Often categorized as a thinking mans movie, it has received mixed reviews, danny diPace, Arthur Reardon and Anthony Batman Aposto are members of a street gang named the Thunderbirds in New York City in East Harlem. They have an ongoing war with a Puerto Rican gang called the Horsemen. The three Thunderbirds unleash an attack on Roberto Escalante, a blind member of the Horsemen. They are caught and arrested, and during questioning by the police, assistant district attorney Hank Bell discovers one of the boys is the son of Mary diPace, an ex-girlfriend. Back at the office of the district attorney Dan Cole, Bell admits he knows the mother of one of the suspects in the killing, despite objections, he is not taken off the case and admits that he grew up in the same neighborhood. At the funeral for Roberto Escalante, Bell is confronted by his ex-lover who tells him that her son promised he would never join a gang, Bell then sets out to find the facts about the killing, meeting one by one with all the families and gang members involved. The drama evolves to consider aspects of the crime, gangs, poverty, ethnic bias, parental incapacity to deal with forces far beyond their control. The milieu in which all life is on trial, including not only the perpetrators surroundings, the Young Savages at the American Film Institute Catalog
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The Courtship of Eddie's Father (film)
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The Courtship of Eddies Father is a 1963 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer romantic comedy film directed by Vincente Minnelli, and stars Glenn Ford as a widowed father and Ron Howard as his caring son. The film was based on a 1961 novel by Mark Toby, as was the ABC-TV series of the name with Bill Bixby and Brandon Cruz. Young Eddie Corbett tries his best to be a matchmaker for his widowed father, at first, sexy Dollye Daly seems promising, but she ends up falling in love with and marrying Toms friend and radio colleague, Norman Jones. Tom becomes attracted to a socialite, Rita Behrens. They begin considering marriage, but Eddie takes a dislike to Rita. In the end, Tom chooses his son over her, through all this, the Corbetts are supported by their new housekeeper, Mrs. Livingston, and by their divorced next-door neighbor, Elizabeth Marten. It takes a crisis for Tom to realize what has been under his all the time. The Chicago Tribune called the deeply moving, and at the same time. Producer Joe Pasternak assigned John Gay to write the script and hired Glenn Ford to star, shirley Jones accepted her role in part because she did not have to sing. Roberta Sherwood, a singer and TV entertainer, made her film debut. Pasternak says he interviewed hundreds of children to play Eddie but as soon as he talked to Ron Howard I knew he was right, the bowling alley sequence was filmed at the now-defunct Paradise Bowl, located at 9116 South Sepulveda Boulevard in Los Angeles
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I'll Take Sweden
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Ill Take Sweden is a 1965 comedy film directed by Frederick de Cordova, and starring Bob Hope, Frankie Avalon, and Tuesday Weld. Single father Bob Holcomb, a widower, is unhappy with the boy his daughter JoJo chooses as a husband-to-be. An executive with an oil company, Bob accepts a transfer to the firms Stockholm branch, Sweden turns out to be far more liberal sexually than the United States. Bob, having met an attractive interior designer, Karin, decides to take her away for a weekend at a mountain resort. JoJo, however, has accepted an offer from Erik. Originally seen as a suitor, Erik turns out to be a playboy. A girl thought to be his cousin, Marti, is actually a former girlfriend, kenny turns up and brings Marti along to the resort, where the three couples continue to awkwardly encounter one another. Kenny finally has his fill of Erik, knocking him out with his guitar, on a voyage home, the ships captain performs a double wedding ceremony. The parts of the movie that were supposed to be in Sweden were shot at Big Bear Lake and Lake Arrowhead, the casting of Tuesday Weld and Frankie Avalon was seen as Bob Hope getting some box office insurance to attract younger audiences. The movie was advertised as being Hopes 50th but even he disputed that, director Frederick De Cordova saw Luci Baines Johnson, daughter of President Lyndon B. Johnson, dance the Watusi at a White House barbecue and he offered her a role in the film but she declined on the grounds she had to go to school. Billie Dove visited the set and Bob Hope offered her a role too, howard Thompson of The New York Times loathed the film, Other reviews were mixed. Hope was so impressed with Avalons work, he signed Avalon to appear on his television show, list of American films of 1965 Ill Take Sweden at the Internet Movie Database Ill Take Sweden at AllMovie
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The Greatest (1977 film)
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The Greatest is a 1977 film about the life of boxer Muhammad Ali, in which Ali plays himself. It was directed by Tom Gries and Monte Hellman, the film follows Alis life from the 1960 Olympics to his regaining the heavyweight crown from George Foreman in their famous Rumble in the Jungle fight in 1974. The footage of the matches themselves are largely the actual footage from the time involved. The movie is based on the book The Greatest, My Own Story written by Muhammad Ali and Richard Durham, the song The Greatest Love of All was written for this film and sung by George Benson, it was later covered by Whitney Houston. All music composed and produced by Michael Masser, and arranged by Masser, the Greatest at the Internet Movie Database The Greatest at the TCM Movie Database The Greatest at AllMovie
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A Wedding
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The story is told in the trademark Altman style, with multiple plots and overlapping humorous dialogue. The story takes place in a day during a lavish wedding that merges a nouveau riche Southern family with an established wealthy Chicago family having possible ties to organized crime. Dino Corelli marries Muffin Brenner in a lavish Episcopalian church wedding presided over by a doddering, the wedding party goes to the Corelli mansion for the reception. Bedridden matriarch Nettie Sloan, mother of Regina Sloan Corelli and grandmother of groom Dino, is being tended in her upstairs bedroom at the mansion by drunk, while speaking with wedding planner Rita Billingsley, Nettie suddenly dies. Dr. Meecham informs Dinos father Luigi Corelli of Netties death, Netties corpse remains in bed throughout the reception, while various attendees visit her room without realizing shes dead. By the time bossy daughter Toni finds out and plans a dramatic announcement, the Brenners are a nouveau riche family from Louisville, Kentucky, where Muffins father, Snooks Brenner, made millions in the trucking industry. Muffin and Dino met because his military academy was near the Brenners estate, by contrast, the Corellis are an old money North Shore Chicago family via Reginas and Netties Sloan lineage. Luigi is rumored to have mob connections, due to the familys questionable past, more than a hundred guests sent their regrets. Meecham gives her a pill, and a tornado blowing up just as the cake is about to be cut, two more guests arrive late, Tracy Farrell and Wilson Briggs, the exes of the groom and bride, respectively. Wilson was supposed to be Dinos best man, but stood him up, Tracy and Wilson bond over their mutual anger. The unsavory secrets of each family are revealed, Regina Corelli is a drug addict who needs regular injections just to stay functional. Her marriage was arranged by Nettie after Luigi met Regina while working as a waiter in Italy, Luigi was forced to change his name and be estranged from his Italian family for 22 years. Mack spends the entire reception trying to secretly woo Tulip into agreeing to a tryst. Snooks Brenner has a borderline incestuous attachment to his mute daughter Buffy, the maid of honor. Buffy behaves seductively towards men including her father, jealous of the attention being paid to her sister Muffin, when video is taken of the wedding gifts, Buffy, not wanting to be upstaged, disrobes in front of the nude portrait of Muffin. Dino confides in Wilson about Buffys pregnancy, and Wilson tells Tracy, Snooks angrily confronts Dino, who admits sleeping with Buffy but says she also slept with just about every member of his military school barracks, a fact Buffy confirms. Muffin and Dino prepare to leave for their honeymoon in a new car, the naive Muffin is rattled when Rita makes an unexpected pass at her. She then finds Dino in the shower with his groomsman, Reedley Roots, Roots actually took Dino into the shower to sober him up since Dino was too drunk to drive
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Just Tell Me What You Want
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Just Tell Me What You Want is a 1980 American comedy film directed by Sidney Lumet. It stars Ali MacGraw, Peter Weller and Alan King, and was also Myrna Loys final film, the screenplay by Jay Presson Allen, adapted from her novel, won her the David di Donatello Award for Best Screenplay of a Foreign Film. To date, this is MacGraws last leading role in a film, Max, however, is not a man to accept defeat in any of his endeavors, and he retaliates with a vengeance. The two engage in a battle of wits, with Max discovering money cant resolve everything when he is outsmarted by business rival Seymour Berger. It leads to a fight between Max and Bones at New Yorks Bergdorf Goodman. Robert Drumheller, Justin Scoppa, Jr. Costume Design, gloria Gresham, Tony Walton The film features the last motion picture performance of Myrna Loy, who plays Herschels confidential secretary. Interiors of the Warner Bros. release were filmed at the Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens, New York, in his review in Time, Frank Rich stated, After a brisk 20 minutes, the movie loses its assurance and sense of purpose. Indeed, Jay Presson Allens screenplay reels around like a drunken sailor, from moment to moment, Just Tell Me is a somber and confusingly plotted story of corporate power struggles, a syrupy account of a love triangle, and a sloppy satire of show business. There are still some bright moments, but they are separated by flaccid, the few high points belong to King and MacGraw. is too much of a pussycat to convey the heros toughness, but he delivers Allens best sallies with crackling speed. Though MacGraw is no comedian, she is animated and playful for the first time in memory. Just Tell Me What You Want at AllMovie Just Tell Me What You Want at the Internet Movie Database Just Tell Me What You Want at Rotten Tomatoes Just Tell Me What You Want at Box Office Mojo
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Caddyshack II
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Caddyshack II is a 1988 American sports comedy film and a sequel to Caddyshack. The film stars Jackie Mason, Dan Aykroyd, Robert Stack, Dyan Cannon, Randy Quaid, Chevy Chase, Jonathan Silverman, and Jessica Lundy. It was written by various writers, but is credited to the first draft by Peter Torokvei and Harold Ramis, who also co-wrote and directed the first. Kate Hartounian is the daughter of a wealthy and widowed real estate developer of Armenian, eager to improve her lot in life, she makes friends with Miffy Young, a snooty WASP girl, who encourages her and her father to join their country club. Kate and her father, Jack, apply for membership at Bushwood, Jack is a self-made millionaire, yet remains self-effacing, friendly and generous despite his wealth. His crude personality foils him on many occasions, when the current members meet Jack, who builds low-income housing in more upscale neighborhoods, his application to join is rejected. The rejection is borne out of his personality and an earlier confrontation with Bushwood President Chandler Youngs wife. Its actions like these that build a divide between Jack and Kate, Ty Webb returns, this time as the clubs majority owner, and while he admires Jack, he prefers to stay out of the way of the clubs day-to-day operations. The elitist members of Bushwood reject Jacks membership application and pull strings to suspend his housing operation, in retaliation, Jack buys the majority stock to Bushwood from Ty and turns it into an amusement park. The bumbling Everett decides to use golf balls to do this. Meanwhile, Chandler uses his lawyers and connections to shut down Jacks housing construction site, Webb suggests that the dispute should be resolved like gentlemen, by facing each other in a golf match. If Chandler wins, Jack loses his construction site and the club, and if Jack wins, he keeps the Bushwood. Despite Jacks poor performance early in the match, with luck he ties the match before the final hole, however, during the hole, Jack is faced with a 50-foot putt, while Chandler faces a simple 2 foot putt. Using advice given to him by Webb before the match, Jack manages to use spiritual chanting, Chandler needs to sink the easy 2 foot putt to tie the match. Meanwhile, Everett, who shoots himself in the buttocks with a poison dart. The mischievous gopher replaces Chandlers ball with the ball, and as his family encouragingly crowds around him as he taps in his final swing. Though Kate is embarrassed by her fathers actions, she is loyal to him, as evidenced when she commiserates to Miffy. Bewildered at the thought of turning her back on her name, Kate turns her back on Miffy
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True Colors (1991 film)
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True Colors is a 1991 American drama film written by Kevin Wade and directed by Herbert Ross. The cast includes John Cusack, James Spader, Imogen Stubbs and Richard Widmark, the movie opens with Peter Burton and best friend Tim Garrity nervously awaiting the results of Peters congressional election. Tim is telling the story of how they all came to such a thing, the two had met seven years earlier following an argument in the parking lot at law school. After discovering that they are to be roommates, the men become close friends, Tim, who comes from an affluent family, plans a career with the Department of Justice, a fact that doesnt sit well with his girlfriend, Diana, the daughter of Senator Stiles. The couple end their relationship before Tim has a chance to propose, Peter, who is embarrassed by his lower-class roots, plans a career in politics, eventually manipulating his way into a job on a congressmans campaign staff. The friendship between them is severely tested when Peter confesses to Tim during a ski vacation that he and he adds that he plans to ask Diana to marry him. Tim, angry at the betrayal, speeds off down a ski trail. The less experienced Peter follows him down with far less grace than Tim, theres a steep cliff at the end. Tim hesitates to warn Peter, but finally does so, unfortunately, Peter doesnt hear Tims belated warnings in time, hurtles down to the bottom breaking his leg and cracking two ribs. Tim forgives Peter and even agrees to be the best man at Peter, shortly after marrying Diana, Peter falls under the influence of John Palmieri, who has ties to organized crime and political corruption. He bribes Peter into going along with an influence peddling scheme, meanwhile, things have begun to spiral out of control in Peters extended family. Earlier in the film, Stiles is diagnosed with early onset Alzheimers disease, Peter seizes the opportunity to manipulate his father-in-law into supporting his run for Congress. When the older man refuses, Peter threatens to leak news of the illness to the press, the senator reluctantly acquiesces, but promises Peter that he will eventually get caught. Tim, who by this time has risen through the ranks of the Department of Justice, when Palmieri discovers Peters ties to Tim, he bullies Peter into setting Tim up by putting him in touch with a bogus tipster. Tim runs with the info, creating public embarrassment for the DOJ. Tim is suspended, and Peter hires him to work for him on his upcoming campaign, Stiles reveals the conversation that he had with Peter to Diana and she decides to divorce Peter. Shortly thereafter, Tim discovers Peters role in getting him suspended from his job, Tim volunteers to help the DOJ work to bring Peter down. Tim works diligently to gather evidence of Peters dealings with Palmieri, after compiling as much evidence as he possibly can, he convinces his superiors at the DOJ to set up surveillance in a hotel room
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The Player (film)
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The Player is a 1992 American satirical black comedy film directed by Robert Altman and written by Michael Tolkin, based on his own 1988 novel of the same name. The Player has many references and Hollywood insider jokes, with 65 celebrities making cameo appearances in the film. Altman stated that the film is a mild satire, offending no one. The film received three nominations at the 66th Academy Awards, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Editing, the film also won two Golden Globes, Best Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical and Best Actor – Comedy or Musical for Robbins. Griffin Mill is a Hollywood studio executive dating story editor Bonnie Sherow and he hears story pitches from screenwriters and decides which have the potential to be made into films, green-lighting only 12 out of 50,000 submissions every year. His job is threatened when up-and-coming story executive Larry Levy begins working at the studio, Mill has also been receiving death threat postcards, assumed to be from a screenwriter whose pitch he rejected. Mill surmises that the writer is David Kahane. Mill is told by Kahanes girlfriend, June Gudmundsdottir that Kahane is at a theater in Pasadena, Mill pretends to recognize Kahane in the lobby, and offers him a scriptwriting deal, hoping this will stop the threats. The two go to a bar where Kahane gets intoxicated and rebuffs Mills offer, he calls Mill a liar. In the bars parking lot, the two men fight, Mill goes too far and accidentally drowns Kahane in a shallow pool of water, then stages the crime to make it look like a botched robbery. At the end of their conversation Mill receives a fax from his stalker, thus, Mill has killed the wrong man, and the stalker apparently knows this. Mill attends Kahanes funeral and gets into conversation with June, detectives Avery and DeLongpre suspect Mill is guilty of murder. Mill receives a postcard from the writer suggesting they meet at a hotel bar, while Mill is waiting, he is cornered by two screenwriters, Tom Oakley and Andy Sivella, who pitch Habeas Corpus, a legal drama featuring no major stars and with a depressing ending. Because Mill is not alone, his stalker does not appear, after leaving the club, Mill receives a fax in his car, advising him to look under his raincoat. He discovers a live rattlesnake in a box, which a terrified Mill bludgeons with his umbrella, Mill tells June that his near-death experience made him realize he has feelings for her. Apprehensive that Larry Levy continues encroaching on his job, Mill invites the two writers to pitch Habeas Corpus to him, convincing Levy that the movie will be an Oscar contender, Mills plan is to let Levy shepherd the film through production and have it flop. Mill will step in at the last moment, suggesting changes to salvage the films box office. Having persuaded Bonnie to leave for New York on studio business, Mill takes June to a Hollywood awards banquet, after Bonnie confronts Mill about his relationship with June, Mill coldly severs their relationship in front of two writers
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Suture (film)
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Suture is a 1993 neo-noir film directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegel and stars Dennis Haysbert and Mel Harris. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival, after murdering his father, wealthy Vincent Towers decides to fake his own death. He plants a car bomb in an attempt to kill a nearly identical half-brother, Clay Arlington, Arlington survives, but requires facial reconstruction and also has lost most of his memory. Dr. Renee Descartes is there during his recovery, Towers resurfaces and tries once more to eliminate him, but is killed himself. Arlington makes a decision to make his new identity a permanent one and they had made two short films, Birds Past and Speak Then Persephone in 1989 and 1990, respectively. Afterwards, they decided to make a film and attempted to construct a story that was generally about identity. McGehee has said that Suture was influenced by mid-1960s Japanese films, specifically, they were inspired by Hiroshi Teshigaharas The Face of Another and Yoshitaro Nomuras Tokyo Bay, which utilized widescreen black and white cinematography. They also wanted to give the film an early 60s sensibility and loved the widescreen black and white films from that period, The Manchurian Candidate and Seconds. Siegel said, Its an absolutely gripping look thats used so rarely today, McGehee and Siegel set up a limited partnership and borrowed money for the $1 million budget from family and friends. They decided to shoot Suture in Phoenix, Arizona because McGehee felt that it was almost like a city, its so large and overbuilt. They liked the high modernist, very spare aesthetic. After seeing a rough cut of the film, Steven Soderbergh became fascinated with it and helped McGehee. Suture had its premiere at the 1993 Telluride Film Festival with screenings at the Sundance Film Festival and Toronto Festival of Festivals
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Shade (film)
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Shade is a 2003 neo-noir crime drama starring Stuart Townsend, Gabriel Byrne, Thandie Newton, Jamie Foxx, Roger Guenveur Smith, Melanie Griffith and Sylvester Stallone. The film follows a trio of grifters who attempt to set up a card sharp nicknamed The Dean. The film was directed and written by Damian Nieman, many years ago, a young Dean is playing in a mob-run illegal underground poker game. The game is raided by robbers who order everyone to put up their hands, the Dean reluctantly does so, revealing the card hes concealed. Incensed, a player grabs a gun and starts shooting, setting off a firefight that kills everyone in the club except the Dean. The two men point their guns at each others heads, in present day, Tiffany and Charlie, two of the three small-time hustlers, run a scam involving a phony diamond ring. The pettiness of the scam indicates the level at which they operate. Later at a Los Angeles club, Charlie and Tiffany meet up with Larry Jennings as hes taking down a poker game. They discuss a partnership to work a soft game with a profit of $10. As Charlie and Larry talk, Tiffany is harassed at the bar by a guy trying to pick her up, Larry tentatively agrees to continue talking pending his meeting the third member of the group. In a short flashback, that member, Vernon, a card mechanic, is working as a Las Vegas blackjack dealer. Working with a crew, he switches out the contents of a six deck shoe. As Vernon and Charlie wait for Larry at another bar, Scarne, Vernon saves the bulk of his bankroll because its stashed in his boot. Larry arrives shortly after Scarne leaves and after a demonstration of Vernons card-handling skills agrees to team with them, the plan is for Larry to take down large pots on Vernons crooked deals. In a flashback branching off from Charlie and Tiffanys discussing setting up Larry, Tiffany picks up the guy whod bothered her earlier and takes him to a warehouse, after hes bound, Tiffany lets in a surgical team to harvest his kidney for black market transplant. Charlie and Larry head into a house for the game, Vernon is already there, Larry gets impatient with the slow action and, on his own deal, gets over $100,000 in the pot heads up with four 10s. Unfortunately for him, the money he bet doesnt belong to him and it belongs to a mobster named Malini, who sends two of his enforcers, Marlo and Nate, to retrieve him. They take him to the house, which has been stripped bare, everyone at the game was in on the con
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Batman (TV series)
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Batman is a 1960s American live action television series, based on the DC comic book character of the same name. It stars Adam West as Batman and Burt Ward as Robin — two crime-fighting heroes who defend Gotham City from a variety of arch villains and it is known for its camp style, upbeat theme music, and its intentionally humorous, simplistic morality. This included championing the importance of using seat belts, doing homework, eating vegetables, and drinking milk. One hundred and twenty episodes aired on the ABC network for three seasons from January 12,1966, to March 14,1968, twice weekly for the first two and weekly for the third. In 2016, television critics Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz ranked Batman as the 82nd greatest American television show of all time, ostensibly a crime series, the style of the show was in fact campy and tongue-in-cheek. It was a situation comedy, in that situations were exaggerated and were generally played for laughs. This increased as the seasons wore on, with the addition of ever greater absurdity, the characters, however, always took the absurd situations extremely seriously - which added to the comedy. The series focused on the adventures of Batman and Robin, the Dynamic Duo typically come to the aid of the Gotham City Police upon the latter being stumped by a supervillain. Throughout each episode, Batman and Robin have to follow a series of clues to discover the plan, then figure out how to thwart that plan. For the first two seasons, Batman aired twice a week on consecutive nights, every story is a two-parter, except for two three-parters featuring villainous team ups in the second season. The titles of each story usually rhymed. For the third season, which aired once a week, most episodes were self-contained stories and this would inevitably be resolved early in the follow-up episode. By relying heavily on a formula, it easy to spoof various elements of that formula. The typical story begins with a villains caper, in his office, Commissioner Gordon, along with Chief OHara, learn of the crime and the culprit. Helpless to stop the villain, they contact Batman via the Batphone - a bright red telephone that provides a direct link to Batman. At stately Wayne Manor, Alfred answers the Batphone and informs Bruce Wayne of the call, frequently, Wayne and his ward, Dick Grayson, are found talking with Dicks aunt, Harriet Cooper, who is unaware of Bruce and Dicks secret identities. Alfred discreetly interrupts and they excuse themselves to go to the Batphone in Waynes study, upon learning the details from Gordon, Wayne turns a switch concealed within a bust of Shakespeare that stands on his desk to reveal two firemans poles hidden behind a sliding bookcase. Wayne exclaims, and he and Grayson slide down the poles that lead to the Batcave, similar in style and content to the 1940s serials, Batman and Robin would arrive at the bottom of the Batpoles in the Batcave in full costume
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Bonanza
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Bonanza is an NBC television western series that ran from 1959 to 1973. The show continues to air in syndication, the show is set around the 1860s and it centers on the wealthy Cartwright family, who live in the area of Virginia City, Nevada, bordering Lake Tahoe. The series stars Lorne Greene, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, Pernell Roberts, the show is known for presenting moral dilemmas. The shows theme song itself, called Bonanza, became a hit song in its own right, only instrumental renditions, absent Ray Evans words, were ever used during the series long run. In 2002, Bonanza was ranked No.43 on TV Guides 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time, the time period for the television series is roughly between 1861 to 1867 during and shortly after the American Civil War. During the summer of 1972, NBC aired reruns of episodes from the 1967–1970 period in time on Tuesday evening under the title Ponderosa. The show chronicles the adventures of the Cartwright family, headed by the thrice-widowed patriarch Ben Cartwright. Via exposition and flashback episodes, each wife was accorded a different ancestry, English, Swedish, the familys cook was the Chinese immigrant Hop Sing. Greene, Roberts, Blocker, and Landon were billed equally, the opening credits would alternate the order among the four stars. The family lived on a 600, 000+ acre ranch called the Ponderosa on the shore of Lake Tahoe in Nevada. The vast size of the Cartwrights land was quietly revised to half a million acres on Lorne Greenes 1964 song, the ranch name refers to the Ponderosa Pine, common in the West. The nearest town to the Ponderosa was Virginia City, where the Cartwrights would go to converse with Sheriff Roy Coffee, or his deputy Clem Foster. You always saw stories about family on comedies or on an anthology, but Bonanza was the first series that was week-to-week about a family, Bonanza was a period drama that attempted to confront contemporary social issues. That was very difficult to do on television, most shows that tried to do it failed because the sponsors didnt like it, and the networks were nervous about getting letters, explains Stephen Battaglio, a senior editor for TV Guide magazine. Episodes ranged from high drama, to comedy, and addressed issues such as the environment, substance abuse, domestic violence, anti-war sentiment. The series sought to illustrate the cruelty of bigotry against, Asians, African-Americans, Native Americans, Jews, Mormons, originally, the Cartwrights tended to be depicted as put-off by outsiders. Lorne Greene objected to this, pointing out that as the areas largest timber and livestock producer, the producers agreed with this observation and changed the Cartwrights to be more amiable. Though not familiar stars in 1959, the cast quickly became favorites of the first television generation, the order of billing at the beginning of the broadcast appeared to be shuffled randomly each week, with no relation whatsoever to the current episode featured that week
