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Dorothy C. Stratton
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Dorothy Constance Stratton was the director of the SPARS, the United States Coast Guard Womens Reserve during World War II. She is the namesake of the Coast Guards third National Security Cutter, Stratton was born in 1899 in Brookfield, Missouri. She graduated from Ottawa University in 1920 and received her Masters degree from the University of Chicago and she received a Ph. D. from Columbia University. She served on the board for the Womens Army Corps V Corps Area. In 1942, she took a leave of absence from Purdue and joined the WAVES, and was commissioned a lieutenant. In late 1942, she was ordered to Washington, DC to the office of the Commandant of the Coast Guard to organize the Coast Guard Womens Reserve and she developed the name SPARS using a contraction of the Coast Guard motto Semper Paratus and its English translation Always Ready. She was appointed its first director with a rank of lieutenant commander, Stratton continued in the post until 1946 and rose to the rank of captain. As director, she oversaw over 10,000 enlisted women and 1,000 commissioned officers and she left the Coast Guard in 1946 shortly before the SPARS were demobilized. For her service she was awarded the Legion of Merit, after the war, Stratton served as director of personnel for the International Monetary Fund. In 1950, she became executive director of the Girl Scouts of the USA. In 1958, she appeared as a guest challenger on the TV panel show To Tell The Truth, Stratton died in West Lafayette, Indiana at the age of 107. She was interred at Grandview Cemetery next to her parents, the Women Officers Professional Association named its Captain Dorothy Stratton Leadership Award in her honor. Created in 2001, the award is presented to an officer of the Coast Guard who shows leadership and mentorship. In 2005, the Ottawa University Alumni Association awarded its Outstanding Achievement Award to Stratton, in 2008, the Coast Guard named its third National Security Cutter the USCGC Stratton in her honor. In 2016 the National Womens History Project selected Stratton as one of its honorees for National Womens History Month for her public service, the Atlantic War Remembered, An Oral History Collection. Obituaries in the news Purdue University Obituary Dorothy C
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Vancouver
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Vancouver is a coastal seaport city in Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the most populous city in the province, the 2016 census recorded 631,486 people in the city, the Greater Vancouver area had a population of 2,463,431 in 2016, making it the third largest metropolitan area in Canada. Vancouver has the highest population density in Canada with over 5,400 people per square kilometre. With over 250,000 residents, Vancouver municipality is the fourth most densely populated city in North America behind New York City, San Francisco, and Mexico City according to the 2011 census. In that census, Vancouver was one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities in Canada, Vancouver is classed as a Beta global city. In 2014, following thirty years in California, the annual TED conference made Vancouver its indefinite home, several matches of the 2015 FIFA Womens World Cup were played in Vancouver, including the final at BC Place Stadium. From that first enterprise, other stores and some hotels quickly appeared along the waterfront to the west, Gastown became formally laid out as a registered townsite dubbed Granville, B. I. As of 2014, Port Metro Vancouver is the third largest port by tonnage in the Americas, 27th in the world, the busiest and largest in Canada, and the most diversified port in North America. While forestry remains its largest industry, Vancouver is well known as an urban centre surrounded by nature, archaeological records indicate the presence of Aboriginal people in the Vancouver area from 8,000 to 10,000 years ago. The city is located in the territories of the Squamish, Musqueam. They had villages in various parts of present-day Vancouver, such as Stanley Park, False Creek, Kitsilano, Point Grey, the city takes its name from George Vancouver, who explored the inner harbour of Burrard Inlet in 1792 and gave various places British names. The explorer and North West Company trader Simon Fraser and his became the first known Europeans to set foot on the site of the present-day city. In 1808, they travelled from the east down the Fraser River, perhaps as far as Point Grey. The Fraser Gold Rush of 1858 brought over 25,000 men, mainly from California, to nearby New Westminster on the Fraser River, on their way to the Fraser Canyon, a sawmill established at Moodyville in 1863, began the citys long relationship with logging. It was quickly followed by mills owned by Captain Edward Stamp on the shore of the inlet. This mill, known as the Hastings Mill, became the nucleus around which Vancouver formed, the mills central role in the city waned after the arrival of the Canadian Pacific Railway in the 1880s. It nevertheless remained important to the economy until it closed in the 1920s. The settlement which came to be called Gastown grew up quickly around the original makeshift tavern established by Gassy Jack Deighton in 1867 on the edge of the Hastings Mill property
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British Columbia
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British Columbia is the westernmost province of Canada, with a population of more than four million people located between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. British Columbia is also a component of the Pacific Northwest and the Cascadia bioregion, along with the U. S. states of Idaho, Oregon, Washington and Alaska. The first British settlement in the area was Fort Victoria, established in 1843, subsequently, on the mainland, the Colony of British Columbia was founded by Richard Clement Moody and the Royal Engineers, Columbia Detachment, in response to the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush. Port Moody is named after him, in 1866, Vancouver Island became part of the colony of British Columbia, and Victoria became the united colonys capital. In 1871, British Columbia became the province of Canada. Its Latin motto is Splendor sine occasu, the capital of British Columbia remains Victoria, the fifteenth-largest metropolitan region in Canada, named for the Queen who created the original European colonies. The largest city is Vancouver, the third-largest metropolitan area in Canada, the largest in Western Canada, in October 2013, British Columbia had an estimated population of 4,606,371. British Columbia evolved from British possessions that were established in what is now British Columbia by 1871, First Nations, the original inhabitants of the land, have a history of at least 10,000 years in the area. Today there are few treaties and the question of Aboriginal Title, notably, the Tsilhqotin Nation has established Aboriginal title to a portion of their territory, as a result of the recent Supreme Court of Canada decision. BCs economy is diverse, with service producing industries accounting for the largest portion of the provinces GDP and it is the endpoint of transcontinental railways, and the site of major Pacific ports that enable international trade. Though less than 5% of its vast 944,735 km2 land is arable and its climate encourages outdoor recreation and tourism, though its economic mainstay has long been resource extraction, principally logging, farming, and mining. Vancouver, the provinces largest city and metropolitan area, also serves as the headquarters of many western-based natural resource companies and it also benefits from a strong housing market and a per capita income well above the national average. The Northern Interior region has a climate with very cold winters. The climate of Vancouver is by far the mildest winter climate of the major Canadian cities, the provinces name was chosen by Queen Victoria, when the Colony of British Columbia, i. e. the Mainland, became a British colony in 1858. The current southern border of British Columbia was established by the 1846 Oregon Treaty, British Columbias land area is 944,735 square kilometres. British Columbias rugged coastline stretches for more than 27,000 kilometres and it is the only province in Canada that borders the Pacific Ocean. British Columbias capital is Victoria, located at the tip of Vancouver Island. Only a narrow strip of the Island, from Campbell River to Victoria, is significantly populated, much of the western part of Vancouver Island and the rest of the coast is covered by thick, tall and sometimes impenetrable temperate rainforest
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West Los Angeles
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West Los Angeles is a term for two residential and commercial areas in the city of Los Angeles, California, mapped differently by different sources and on opposite sides of the Interstate 405 Freeway. Each of them lies within the larger Westside region of Los Angeles County, the borders of the official West Los Angeles Neighborhood Council correspond closely to this second definition. Specifically, its district stretches from the 405 freeway in the east to Centinela Avenue in the west and Wilshire Boulevard in the north, in 2003, a Los Angeles Times correspondent noted that, The meaning of the term West Los Angeles varies widely. Some use it to describe the entire Westside including Santa Monica, Venice, sections of West L. A. run the gamut from stylish Cheviot Hills to a cluster of generic homes east of Bundy Drive. Her report on the meaning of West Los Angeles also included Rancho Park and its density of 13,319 people per square mile, about was average for the city of Los Angeles but among the highest densities for the county. The percentage of Asian people is high for the county and the area is highly compared to both City of Los Angeles and County of Los Angeles averages. Mexico and Iran are the most common places of birth. Notably,49. 8% of residents 25 and older have a four-year degree, the percentages of never married males and never married females are among the countys highest. Its density of 12,061 people was average for the city of Los Angeles. It had a high percentage of white people compared with the county at large,76. 7%. Others ethnicities were Asian,11. 4%, Latino,5. 3%, black,2. 3%, and other,4. 1%. The median household income in east Mapping L. A. area was $86,403 in 2008 dollars, the percentage of households earning $125,000 and up was high for the county. Median age of residents was 38, old compared with other locality in the city, the average household size was 1.9, low for both the city and the county. 51% of residents rented their living quarters, and 49% owned them, the percentage of widowed men and women was among the countys highest. Iranian and Russian were the most common ancestries, the east Mapping L. A. area was highly educated, with 60. 4% of residents 25 and older holding a four-year degree, a higher ratio than found in the rest of the city or the county. The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services SPA5 West Area Health Office serves West Los Angeles, Los Angeles Police Department operates the West Los Angeles Community Police Station at 1663 Butler Avenue. Los Angeles Fire Department Station 59 at 11505 W. Olympic Boulevard serves the area, West Los Angeles is part of the Los Angeles Unified School District. Middle schools are Emerson, Palms, and Webster, High schools are Hamilton High School, Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies, University High School and Indian Springs Continuation, both on the same site
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California
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California is the most populous state in the United States and the third most extensive by area. Located on the western coast of the U. S, California is bordered by the other U. S. states of Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona and shares an international border with the Mexican state of Baja California. Los Angeles is Californias most populous city, and the second largest after New York City. The Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nations second- and fifth-most populous urban regions, California also has the nations most populous county, Los Angeles County, and its largest county by area, San Bernardino County. The Central Valley, an agricultural area, dominates the states center. What is now California was first settled by various Native American tribes before being explored by a number of European expeditions during the 16th and 17th centuries, the Spanish Empire then claimed it as part of Alta California in their New Spain colony. The area became a part of Mexico in 1821 following its war for independence. The western portion of Alta California then was organized as the State of California, the California Gold Rush starting in 1848 led to dramatic social and demographic changes, with large-scale emigration from the east and abroad with an accompanying economic boom. If it were a country, California would be the 6th largest economy in the world, fifty-eight percent of the states economy is centered on finance, government, real estate services, technology, and professional, scientific and technical business services. Although it accounts for only 1.5 percent of the states economy, the story of Calafia is recorded in a 1510 work The Adventures of Esplandián, written as a sequel to Amadis de Gaula by Spanish adventure writer Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo. The kingdom of Queen Calafia, according to Montalvo, was said to be a land inhabited by griffins and other strange beasts. This conventional wisdom that California was an island, with maps drawn to reflect this belief, shortened forms of the states name include CA, Cal. Calif. and US-CA. Settled by successive waves of arrivals during the last 10,000 years, various estimates of the native population range from 100,000 to 300,000. The Indigenous peoples of California included more than 70 distinct groups of Native Americans, ranging from large, settled populations living on the coast to groups in the interior. California groups also were diverse in their organization with bands, tribes, villages. Trade, intermarriage and military alliances fostered many social and economic relationships among the diverse groups, the first European effort to explore the coast as far north as the Russian River was a Spanish sailing expedition, led by Portuguese captain Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, in 1542. Some 37 years later English explorer Francis Drake also explored and claimed a portion of the California coast in 1579. Spanish traders made unintended visits with the Manila galleons on their trips from the Philippines beginning in 1565
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Gunshot
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A gunshot is the discharge of a firearm, producing a mechanical sound effect and a chemical gunshot residue. The term can refer to a gunshot wound caused by such a discharge. Multiple discharges of a firearm or firearms are referred to as gunfire, the word can connote either the sound of a gun firing, the projectiles that were fired, or both. For example, the statement gunfire came from the street could either mean the sound of discharge. It is better to be a bit more specific while writing however, the sound of gunfire or we came under gunfire would be more descriptive and prevent confusion. In the latter phrase, in particular, fire is more commonly used, a typical muzzle blast generates an impulse sound wave with a sound pressure level of 140db or louder. A “snap” or “crack” caused by the boom that occurs as a projectile moves through the air at supersonic speeds. Gunfire can be confused with other sounds that can sound similar, such as firework explosions, the sounds may be heard at greater distances in the direction of bullet travel than behind or beside the firearm. Urban areas typically exhibit diurnal noise patterns where background noise is higher during the daytime and lower at night, firearm muzzle blast may be masked by ambient noise during daytime, but may be detected at greater distances during the quieter hours of darkness. A popular urban gunfire locator system typically uses six to ten audio sensors per square mile for trilateration, a silencer can be attached to the muzzle of a firearm to decrease the audio signature of high velocity gas released from the muzzle when firing the weapon. The sound of firing is only decreased and is still considerable, silencers attached to the muzzle will not reduce the sound of high velocity gas released from other locations like the gap between the cylinder and barrel of a revolver. A muzzle silencer is similarly ineffective in reducing the snap of a supersonic bullet, use of silencers is rare in United States crimes
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Peter Bogdanovich
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Peter Bogdanovich is an American director, writer, actor, producer, critic and film historian. He is part of the wave of New Hollywood directors, which included William Friedkin, Brian De Palma, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Michael Cimino and his most critically acclaimed and well-known film is the drama The Last Picture Show. Bogdanovich also directed the thriller Targets, the screwball comedy Whats Up, the comedy-drama Paper Moon and the drama Mask. His most recent film, Shes Funny That Way, was released in 2014, Bogdanovich was born in Kingston, New York, the son of Herma and Borislav Bogdanovich, a painter and pianist. His Austrian-born mother was Jewish whose family moved from Vienna to Zagreb, Croatia in 1932, while his father was a Serbian Orthodox Christian, in the early 1960s, Bogdanovich was known as a film programmer at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Bogdanovich also brought attention to such forgotten pioneers of American cinema as Allan Dwan, Bogdanovich kept a card file of every film he saw between 1952 and 1970, with complete reviews of every film. Bogdanovich was influenced by the French critics of the 1950s who wrote for Cahiers du Cinéma, before becoming a director himself, he built his reputation as a film writer with articles in Esquire. These articles were collected in Pieces of Time, with his wife Polly Platt, he headed for Los Angeles, skipping out on the rent in the process. Intent on breaking into the industry, Bogdanovich would ask publicists for movie premiere, at one screening, Bogdanovich was viewing a film and director Roger Corman was sitting behind him. The two struck up a conversation when Corman mentioned he liked a cinema piece Bogdanovich wrote for Esquire, Corman offered him a directing job which Bogdanovich accepted immediately. He worked with Corman on Targets, which starred Boris Karloff, Bogdanovich later said of the Corman school of filmmaking, I went from getting the laundry to directing the picture in three weeks. Altogether, I worked 22 weeks – preproduction, shooting, second unit, returning to journalism, Bogdanovich struck up a lifelong friendship with Orson Welles while interviewing him on the set of Mike Nicholss Catch-22. Bogdanovich played a role in elucidating Welles and his career with his writings on the actor-director. In the early 1970s, when Welles was having financial problems, in 1970, Bogdanovich was commissioned by the American Film Institute to direct a documentary about John Ford for their tribute, Directed by John Ford. The resulting film included interviews with John Wayne, James Stewart and Henry Fonda. Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg and others, much of the inspiration which led Bogdanovich to his cinematic creations came from early viewings of the film Citizen Kane. In an interview with Robert K. Elder, author of The Film That Changed My Life, Bogdanovich explains his appreciation of Orson Welles work, It’s the first modern film, fragmented, not told straight ahead, jumping around. It anticipates everything that’s being done now, and which is thought to be so modern, It’s all become really decadent now, but it was certainly fresh then
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Playboy
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Playboy is an American mens lifestyle and entertainment magazine. It was founded in Chicago in 1953, by Hugh Hefner and his associates, with a presence in nearly every medium. In addition to the magazine in the United States, special nation-specific versions of Playboy are published worldwide. The magazine has a history of publishing short stories by notable novelists such as Arthur C. Clarke, Ian Fleming, Vladimir Nabokov, Saul Bellow, Chuck Palahniuk, P. G. Wodehouse, Haruki Murakami, the magazine generally reflects a liberal editorial stance, although it often interviews conservative celebrities. After a year-long removal of most nude photos in Playboy magazine and he formed HMH Publishing Corporation, and recruited his friend Eldon Sellers to find investors. Hefner eventually raised just over $8,000, including from his brother and mother. However, the publisher of a mens adventure magazine, Stag, contacted Hefner. Hefner, his wife Millie, and Sellers met to seek a new name, considering Top Hat, Gentleman, Sir, Satyr, Pan, the first issue, in December 1953, was undated, as Hefner was unsure there would be a second. He produced it in his Hyde Park kitchen, the first centerfold was Marilyn Monroe, although the picture used originally was taken for a calendar rather than for Playboy. Hefner chose what he deemed the sexiest image, a previously unused nude study of Marilyn stretched with an arm on a red velvet background with closed eyes. The heavy promotion centered around Marilyns nudity on the calendar, together with the teasers in marketing. The first issue sold out in weeks, copies of the first issue in mint to near mint condition sold for over $5,000 in 2002. The novel Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, was serialized in the March, April, an urban legend started about Hefner and the Playmate of the Month because of markings on the front covers of the magazine. From 1955 to 1979, the P in Playboy had stars printed in or around the letter. The legend stated that this was either a rating that Hefner gave to the Playmate according to how attractive she was, the stars, between zero and 12, actually indicated the domestic or international advertising region for that printing. From 1966 to 1976, Robie Macauley was the Fiction Editor at Playboy, P. Donleavy, as well as poetry by Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Macauley also contributed all of the popular Ribald Classics series published between January 1978 and March 1984, christie Hefner, daughter of the founder Hugh Hefner, joined Playboy in 1975 and became head of the company in 1988
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Playboy Playmate
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A Playmate is a female model featured in the centerfold/gatefold of Playboy magazine as Playmate of the Month. The PMOMs pictorial includes nude photographs and a poster, along with a pictorial biography and the Playmate Data Sheet, which lists her birthdate, measurements, turn-ons. At the end of the year, one of the twelve Playmates of the Month is named Playmate of the Year, currently, Playmates of the Month are paid US$25,000 and Playmates of the Year receive an additional US$100,000 plus a car and a motorcycle. In addition, Anniversary Playmates are usually chosen to celebrate a year of the magazine. In addition, casting calls are held regularly in major US cities to offer opportunities for women to test for Playboy, the Playboy photographers and Hugh Hefner then select which models become Playmates. The Playmate of the Year is chosen personally by Hugh Hefner, according to Playboy, there is no such thing as a former Playmate because Once a Playmate, always a Playmate. Marilyn Monroe, who was featured in the first issue, was the one to appear as Sweetheart of the Month. The first model called a Playmate of the Month was Margie Harrison, Miss January 1954, generally a woman may appear only once as a Playmate, but in the early years of the magazine, some models were featured multiple times. Marilyn Waltz and Janet Pilgrim are tied for the most appearances, Margie Harrison and Marguerite Empey are the only other women to appear more than once as Playmates. Under current law in most US jurisdictions, publishing pictures of a model younger than 18 would be a felony. However, in the years of the magazine, laws regarding corruption of a minor were less well established. Several playmates – including Nancy Crawford, Donna Michelle, Linda Moon, Patti Reynolds, Elizabeth Ann Roberts – whose pictorial was called Schoolmate Playmate – posed when she was sixteen. Hugh Hefner and Roberts mother were arrested as a result, in more recent years, Ursula Buchfellner posed for the German edition of Playboy when she was sixteen and subsequently posed for the American edition when she was eighteen. Dutch Playmate twins Karin and Mirjam van Breeschooten appeared at age seventeen in their countrys edition of Playboy in June 1988, at eighteen, the youngest – i. e. last born – Playmate, as of April 2015 is Alexandra Tyler, born May 9,1994. Some women have become Playmates in their 30s, rebecca Anne Ramos is the oldest Playmate to date, appearing in her shoot at the age of 35. First Playmate, Margie Harrison in the issue of Playboy. Marilyn Monroe, who was featured in the first issue, was the one to appear as Sweetheart of the Month. First Playmate who was not an American citizen, Elsa Sorensen was a citizen of Denmark, youngest Playmate ever featured, Elizabeth Ann Roberts appeared at age 16
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Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story
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Death of a Centerfold, The Dorothy Stratten Story is a 1981 American made-for-television biographical film directed by Gabrielle Beaumont. It is a dramatization of the life and the murder of Playboy Playmate of the Year Dorothy Stratten. The movie was aired on NBC on November 1,1981, two years later the same story was developed by director Bob Fosse in his movie Star 80, starring Mariel Hemingway and Eric Roberts. The New York Times critic John J. OConnor praised the movie, saying, Jamie Lee Curtiss Dorothy is a thoroughly understandable, if not sympathetic figure. People magazine also praised the film, saying, Jamie Lee Curtis is just right as Stratten, Movie critic Leonard Maltin described the film as exploitative. Death of a Centerfold, The Dorothy Stratten Story aired on NBC, when the film was broadcast a second time on NBC in the summer of 1983, it fared better by finishing 4th in the ratings. The movie was first issued on VHS on September 1,1998 and it was later released on January 25,2010 on DVD. Death of a Centerfold, The Dorothy Stratten Story at the Internet Movie Database
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Star 80
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Star 80 is a 1983 American film about Playboy model Dorothy Stratten, who was murdered by her husband Paul Snider in 1980. The film was directed by Bob Fosse, and stars Mariel Hemingway, Hugh Hefner sued the producers of the picture, stemming from his disapproval of how he was depicted in the film. In accordance with the wishes, Dorothys mother is never mentioned by name in the movie. Other names were changed due to legal concerns. The film was shot on location in Vancouver, British Columbia and Los Angeles, California, the story is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning Village Voice article Death of a Playmate by Teresa Carpenter, the films title was taken from Sniders vanity license plates. Star 80 was the movie based on the murder of Stratten. It was preceded by the 1981 television film Death of a Centerfold, The Dorothy Stratten Story in which Jamie Lee Curtis portrayed Stratten, and Bruce Weitz portrayed Paul Snider. Roberts was widely praised for his performance, earning the Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor, Star 80 was the last film to be directed by Bob Fosse. He charms her into letting him take her to her high-school prom, Dorothys mother is immediately suspicious of Paul, particularly his attempts to ingratiate himself with Dorothys younger sister. At the dance, quick-tempered Paul stabs her snide ex-boyfriend with a pocketknife, afterwards, however, he wins over Dorothy with his attention and flattery, until finally he gets her to agree to pose nude for Polaroid photographs. He then sends the pictures to Playboy, after forging Dorothys mothers signature on an age consent form, Playboy invites Dorothy to come to Los Angeles to pose for a professional photographer. Playboy founder and publisher Hugh Hefner is taken with Dorothys beauty and innocence and she then becomes Playmate of the Month for the issue of August 1979 under a new name, Dorothy Stratten. Paul pressures her into marrying him, which Dorothy agrees to and she is named Playmate of the Year for 1980, and begins an acting career with small film and television roles. Paul begins spending money they dont have, going as far as to purchase a Mercedes with the vanity license plate STAR80 and he squanders more of her money on failed business ventures and is evermore eclipsed by Dorothys success, making him feel dejected. Paul begins coming to the Playboy Mansion, with or without Dorothy, at a party at the Mansion, Dorothy catches the eye of movie director Aram Nicholas, whom Hefner wheedles into letting her read for a part in his upcoming film. Paul is convinced that Aram is sleeping with her, and harasses her at home and he hires a private investigator to follow her, who tells him that Dorothy and Aram are indeed sleeping together. Paul begs Dorothy for one last chance, but she insists that she is going to leave him. Disregarding Arams plea for her to not see Paul again, she agrees to one last surreptitious meeting with her husband at their house
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Californication (song)
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Californication is the Red Hot Chili Peppers fourth single and sixth track from their 1999 seventh studio album, Californication. The song is mainly about the side of Hollywood and the export of culture through the movie industry. The song begins Psychic spies from China try to steal your minds elation, Kiedis says in his book Scar Tissue that he got the inspiration for the line from hearing a woman on a New Zealand street ranting about psychic spies in China. The phrase First born Unicorn refers to Dorothy Stratten, whose life was covered in the book The Killing of the Unicorn and it is notable for its sparse combination of guitar and bass notes in the main riff, Frusciante drew inspiration for the song Carnage Visors by The Cure. In Kiediss book, Scar Tissue, the author reveals that the band had difficulty in putting the song together. Kiedis had written the lyrics, which he felt were some of the best he had ever written, the Red Hot Chili Peppers Greatest Hits album uses a slightly different version of the song. Most notably, the first chorus is extended, the reason for this alternate versions appearance on the album is unknown. For the pre-chorus Frusciante then strums a combination of Am and Fmaj7 chords for 12 measures until the chorus when he strums the chords C-Gmaj7-Dm9-Am then C-G-Dm9, after the second chorus a 16-measure guitar solo is played by Frusciante who changes the key to A Major. After the solo, the key back to the original A Minor. John Frusciante, sporting a hairstyle to that he favored during the Blood Sugar Sex Magik era, runs through Hollywood, dodging celebrities. Chad Smith snowboards in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, then he falls off a cliff and lands on a train. Anthony Kiedis swims in the San Francisco Bay, surrounded by sharks and women, he then surfs on a back and suddenly jumps into the front seat of a convertible car. Flea runs through Sequoia National Park, saving a bear from a hunter, riding a mining cart, Frusciante enters a film studio, where he interferes with the productions of a space movie, a pornographic film, and a Leonardo da Vinci biopic. In the meantime, Smith skysurfs, and Frusciante rides the Da Vinci flying machine prop from the studio, Kiedis then leaps off the dragonfly and lands brutally on a giant garden. Prompt, upon which the video ends, intercut with all this is live-action performance footage of the band, which remains in a picture-in-picture insert till a band member catches an item shaped after the bands asterisk logo. This causes the live-action footage to fill the screen for a few seconds, until the part of the song begins. The video itself contains many homages to video games of its time, the music video is similar to some games that were mostly sandbox/open world-based gameplay. The music video for Californication is the groups most watched on YouTube, Californication is the bands third most performed song and has been performed at almost every show since 1999
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Red Hot Chili Peppers
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Red Hot Chili Peppers, also sometimes shortened to The Chili Peppers or abbreviated as RHCP, are an American funk rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1983. The groups musical style consists of rock with an emphasis on funk, as well as elements from other genres such as punk rock. When played live, their music elements of jam band due to the improvised nature of much of their performances. Currently, the band consists of founding members vocalist Anthony Kiedis and bassist Flea, longtime drummer Chad Smith, in 2012, they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The bands original line-up, originally named Tony Flow and the Miraculously Majestic Masters of Mayhem, featured guitarist Hillel Slovak and drummer Jack Irons, alongside Kiedis, because of commitments to other bands, Slovak and Irons did not play on the bands self-titled debut album. Slovak performed on the second and third albums, Freaky Styley and The Uplift Mofo Party Plan, as a result of his friends death, Irons chose to depart from the group. After short-lived replacements at guitar and drums, John Frusciante and Chad Smith joined in 1988, the line-up of Flea, Kiedis, Frusciante, and Smith was the longest-lasting and recorded five studio albums beginning with Mothers Milk. In 1990, the signed with Warner Bros. Records. This album became the bands first commercial success, but Frusciante grew uncomfortable with it, after two temporary guitarists, Dave Navarro joined the group in 1993 and played on their subsequent album, One Hot Minute. Although commercially successful, the failed to match the critical or popular acclaim of Blood Sugar Sex Magik. Navarro was fired from the band in 1998, Frusciante, fresh out of drug rehabilitation, rejoined the band that same year at Fleas request. The reunited quartet returned to the studio to record Californication, which became the bands biggest commercial success with 16 million copies worldwide. That album was followed three years later by By the Way, and then four years later by the double album Stadium Arcadium, after a world tour, the group went on an extended hiatus. Frusciante announced he was leaving the band in 2009 to focus on his solo career. Klinghoffer, who had worked both as a sideman for the band on their Stadium Arcadium tour and on Frusciantes solo projects, the bands tenth studio album, Im with You, was released in 2011 and topped the charts in 18 different countries. The band released their studio album, The Getaway, in 2016. The album was produced by Danger Mouse, marking the first time since 1989s Mothers Milk that the Red Hot Chili Peppers had not worked with Rubin, and topped the charts in ten different countries. Red Hot Chili Peppers were formed in Los Angeles by singer Anthony Kiedis, guitarist Hillel Slovak, bassist Flea, and drummer Jack Irons, all of whom were classmates from Fairfax High School
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B.C. Women's Hospital & Health Centre
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Womens Hospital & Health Centre, an agency of the Provincial Health Services Authority, is a Canadian hospital located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, specializing in womens health programs. It is the facility in Western Canada dedicated to the health of women, newborns and families. It is a hospital and major provincial health care resource. BC Womens employs more than 1,000 full and part-time staff, formerly Grace Maternity Hospital, BC Womens Hospital & Health Centre has been caring for BC families since 1927. It provides health services that address the needs of women of all ages. Womens is the largest maternity hospital in Canada with over 7,000 babies delivered every year and it provides training for providers across the province. BC Womens Hospital & Health Centre was founded in 1994 when Grace merged with the Womens Health Centre of the former Shaughnessy Hospital. Under the Provincial Health Services Authority, BC Womens Hospital & Health Centre has a mandate to serve women, babies, only 43 percent of patients reside in the Lower Mainland, while 57 per cent of patients live in other areas of B. C. With many specialized womens health services not available anywhere else in the province, on October 25,2006, Felicia Simms delivered conjoined twins at BC Womens Hospital & Health Centre. They are believed to be the first ever conjoined twins born in British Columbia, canadas first set of sextuplets, four boys and two girls, were born at the hospital on January 6 and 7,2007. They were in the 25th week of gestation when born, or approximately 3 months premature, aurora Centre closed in August 2011. There is a new Heartwood program in its place, official website BC Womens Hospital & Health Centre Foundation
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Centennial Secondary School (Coquitlam)
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Centennial Secondary School is a high school located in Coquitlam, British Columbia, established in 1967, the centennial year of Canadian Confederation. It is part of School District 43 Coquitlam, Centennial has approximately 1300 students and is structured on a semester system. In addition to programs, it offers special programs such as Football, Computer Game Design, Culinary Arts, Automotive Technology, a Hockey Academy. The school will close in 2016 and be replaced by a building closer to the grassy field. Centennial Secondary School was built in 1966, a year before the centennial of Canadas founding and it was completed one year after adjacent Vanier Elementary opened in 1965. Its running track was completed soon after on an empty grassy field, on January 31,2013, Centennial reduced its number of vice principals to two, likely because of the low number of students currently enrolled in the school. It is unknown if this is permanent, centennials music department offers concert and jazz bands and choirs. The theatre department offers varying programs including Shabooya, Metfest, Centfest, the music department works together with the theatre department to put on a major production every year. The 2009 production of Grease was well received by the local community, Centennial is one of two secondary schools in the district to offer summer learning credit courses, the other being Gleneagle Secondary. Most core courses are available, especially those required for graduation, students may take up to two courses with a refundable deposit of $100 each. Courses can be face-to-face or a combination of online and traditional learning, since the 2009-2010 school year, Centennial has been offering a hockey academy program to boys and girls. The program gives students three hours of time on ice a week and two hours of off-ice instruction for four credits towards graduation. While hockey programs are common throughout other school districts in North America, Centennial Secondarys original school building, constructed in 1967, is currently being replaced with a newer building located on the same site. Once construction is complete, the old building will be demolished, the new building was designed by Graham Hoffart Mathiasen Architects, and will have a capacity of 1250 students. The school will have a kitchen, shops for metal, automotive and carpentry. Design features include classrooms with walls, flexible learning spaces for student-teacher collaboration. The cost of the new school is $49-million, and includes construction of a new Neighbourhood Learning Centre that will house youth programs, the project was initially announced by the province in 2009. Detailed plans for the replacement were presented to the public on January 17,2012
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Coquitlam
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Coquitlam /koʊˈkwɪtləm/ is a city in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada. Coquitlam, mainly a city, is the sixth-largest city in the province and is one of the 21 municipalities comprising Metro Vancouver. The current mayor of Coquitlam is Richard Stewart, the Coast Salish people were the first to live in this area, and archaeology confirms continuous occupation of the territory for at least 9,000 years. The name Kwikwetlem is said to be derived from a Coast Salish term meaning red fish up the river, explorer Simon Fraser came through the region in 1808, and in the 1860s Europeans gradually started settling the area. Coquitlam began as a place-in-between with the construction of North Road in the century to provide Royal Engineers in New Westminster access to the year-round port facilities in Port Moody. The District of Coquitlam was incorporated in 1891, by 1908, a mill town of 20 houses, a store, post office, hospital, office block, barber shop, and pool hall had grown around the mill. A mill managers residence was built that would later become Place des Arts, over the next two years, several contingents of French Canadian mill workers arrived from Quebec, and Maillardville was born. Named for Father Edmond Maillard, a young Oblate from France, maillardvilles past is recognized today in street names, the Francophone education system and French immersion programs, French-language guides and scouts, and celebrations such as Festival du Bois. Following World War II, Coquitlam and the rest of the Lower Mainland experienced substantial growth that continues today. The opening of Lougheed Highway in 1953 made the city more accessible, in 1971, Coquitlam and Fraser Mills were amalgamated, which gave the city a larger industrial base. The mill closed in 2001, and is now rezoned into a residential area, Coquitlam is situated some 10 to 15 km east of Vancouver, where the Coquitlam River connects with the Fraser River and extends northeast along the Pitt River toward the Coquitlam and Pitt lakes. Coquitlam borders Burnaby and Port Moody to the west, New Westminster to the southwest, Burke Mountain, Eagle Ridge, and 1,583 m tall Coquitlam Mountain form the northern boundary of the city. Coquitlams area,152.5 square kilometres, dwarfs the other communities in the Tri-Cities, like Vancouver, Coquitlam is in the Pacific Time Zone, and the Pacific Maritime Ecozone. Coquitlams geographic shape can be thought of as a tilted hourglass and these older residences, with larger property dimensions, are increasingly being torn down and replaced with newer and larger homes. The Austin Heights area contains Como Lake, an urban fishing and recreation area. It also contains Mundy Park, one of the largest urban parks in the Metro Vancouver area, in 1984, the provincial government sold 57 hectares formerly attached to Riverview Hospital to Molnar Developments. Shortly afterward, this land was subdivided and became Riverview Heights, the remaining 240 acres of this still-active mental health facility has been the subject of much controversy between developers, environmentalists, and conservationists. Coquitlam Town Centre, was designated as a Regional Town Centre under the Metro Vancouver’s Livable Region Strategic Plan
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Dairy Queen
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Dairy Queen, often abbreviated DQ, is a chain of soft serve ice cream and fast food restaurants owned by International Dairy Queen, Inc, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway. International Dairy Queen, Inc. also owns Orange Julius and Karmelkorn, the first DQ restaurant was located in Joliet, Illinois. It was operated by Sherb Noble and opened for business on June 22,1940 and it served a variety of frozen products, such as soft serve ice cream. The companys corporate offices are located in the Minneapolis suburb of Edina, the soft-serve formula was first developed in 1938 by Douds, Iowa-born John Fremont J. F. Grandpa McCullough and his son Alex. They convinced friend and loyal customer Sherb Noble to offer the product in his ice cream store in Kankakee, on the first day of sales, Noble dished out more than 1,600 servings of the new dessert within two hours. Noble and the McCulloughs went on to open the first Dairy Queen store in 1940 in Joliet, while this Dairy Queen has not been in operation since the 1950s, the building still stands at 501 N Chicago St. as a city-designated landmark. Since 1940, the chain has used a system to expand its operations globally. In the US, the state with the most Dairy Queen restaurants is Texas, International Dairy Queen, Inc. is the parent company of Dairy Queen. In the United States, it operates under American Dairy Queen Corp, IDQ is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway. At the end of its fiscal year 2014, Dairy Queen reported over 6,400 stores in more than 25 countries, about 4,500 of its stores were located in the United States. DQ was a pioneer of food franchising, expanding its 10 stores in 1941 to 100 by 1947,1,446 in 1950. The first store in Canada opened in Melville, Saskatchewan, in 1953, the red Dairy Queen symbol was introduced in 1959. The company became International Dairy Queen, Inc. in 1962, in 1987, IDQ bought the Orange Julius chain. IDQ was acquired by Berkshire Hathaway in 1998, Dairy Queens were a fixture of social life in small towns of the Midwestern and Southern United States during the 1950s and 1960s. The companys stores are operated under several brands, all bearing the distinctive Dairy Queen logo, in the 1970s, most restaurants were Brazier locations with a second floor for storage, recognizable for their red mansard roofs. As of the end of 2014, Dairy Queen had more than 6,400 stores in 27 countries, including more than 1,400 locations outside the United States, the largest Dairy Queen in the United States is located in Bloomington, Illinois. The busiest store in the United States is in Rosedale, Maryland, the largest store in the world was built in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The busiest store in the world is located in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, so-called Limited Brazier locations may additionally offer hot dogs, barbecue beef sandwiches, and in some cases french fries and chicken, but not hamburgers
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Los Angeles
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Los Angeles, officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L. A. is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California. With a census-estimated 2015 population of 3,971,883, it is the second-most populous city in the United States, Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated county in the United States. The citys inhabitants are referred to as Angelenos, historically home to the Chumash and Tongva, Los Angeles was claimed by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo for Spain in 1542 along with the rest of what would become Alta California. The city was founded on September 4,1781, by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 following the Mexican War of Independence, in 1848, at the end of the Mexican–American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thereby becoming part of the United States. Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4,1850, the discovery of oil in the 1890s brought rapid growth to the city. The completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, delivering water from Eastern California, nicknamed the City of Angels, Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, and sprawling metropolis. Los Angeles also has an economy in culture, media, fashion, science, sports, technology, education, medicine. A global city, it has been ranked 6th in the Global Cities Index, the city is home to renowned institutions covering a broad range of professional and cultural fields, and is one of the most substantial economic engines within the United States. The Los Angeles combined statistical area has a gross metropolitan product of $831 billion, making it the third-largest in the world, after the Greater Tokyo and New York metropolitan areas. The city has hosted the Summer Olympic Games in 1932 and 1984 and is bidding to host the 2024 Summer Olympics and thus become the second city after London to have hosted the Games three times. The Los Angeles area also hosted the 1994 FIFA mens World Cup final match as well as the 1999 FIFA womens World Cup final match, the mens event was watched on television by over 700 million people worldwide. The Los Angeles coastal area was first settled by the Tongva, a Gabrielino settlement in the area was called iyáangẚ, meaning poison oak place. Gaspar de Portolà and Franciscan missionary Juan Crespí, reached the present site of Los Angeles on August 2,1769, in 1771, Franciscan friar Junípero Serra directed the building of the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, the first mission in the area. The Queen of the Angels is an honorific of the Virgin Mary, two-thirds of the settlers were mestizo or mulatto with a mixture of African, indigenous and European ancestry. The settlement remained a small town for decades, but by 1820. Today, the pueblo is commemorated in the district of Los Angeles Pueblo Plaza and Olvera Street. New Spain achieved its independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, during Mexican rule, Governor Pío Pico made Los Angeles Alta Californias regional capital
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Playboy Bunny
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A Playboy Bunny is a waitress at a Playboy Club. More recent Playboy Clubs have also featured Bunnies, in cases with redesigned costumes based on the original bunny suit. Name According to Hugh Hefner, the Bunny was inspired by Bunnys Tavern in Urbana, Bunnys Tavern was named for its original owner, Bernard Bunny Fitzsimmons, who opened for business in 1936. Serving daily food specials for a mere thirty-five cents, as well as ten-cent draft beers, Bunnys catered to locals, one of those students was Hugh Hefner. Hefner formally acknowledged the origin of the Playboy Bunny in a letter to Bunnys Tavern, the Bunnys Tavern usage of the outfit is considered a variant of Showgirl. Costume The costume itself was conceived by Playboys director of promotions, Victor Lownes, designed by Zelda Wynn Valdes, originally the ears were taller and the ensemble lacked the trademark bow tie, collar, and cuffs. First unveiled publicly in an episode of Playboys Penthouse, it made its formal debut at the opening of the first Playboy Club in Chicago on the evening of February 29,1960. The Playboy Bunnies were waitresses who served drinks at Playboy Clubs, there were different types of Bunnies, including the Door Bunny, Cigarette Bunny, Floor Bunny, Playmate Bunny and the Jet Bunnies. To become a Bunny, women were first carefully chosen and selected from auditions, then they underwent thorough and strict training before officially becoming a Bunny. Bunnies were required to be able to identify 143 brands of liquor, most dating or mingling with customers was forbidden. Customers were also not allowed to touch the Bunnies, and demerits were given if a Bunnys appearance was not properly organized, a Bunny also had to master the required maneuvers to work. These included the Bunny Stance, a posture that was required in front of patrons, the Bunny must stand with legs together, back arched and hips tucked under. When the Bunny is resting or while waiting to be of service and she must sit on the back of a chair, sofa, or railing without sitting too close to a patron. This maneuver allowed the Bunny to serve drinks while keeping her low-cut costume in place, strict regulations were enforced by special workers in the guise of patrons. The Playboy Bunny outfit was the first service uniform registered with the United States Patent, the costume was made from rayon-satin constructed on a strapless merry widow corset teddy. Satin bunny ears, cotton tails, collars with bow ties, cuffs with cuff links, black sheer to waist pantyhose, a name tag on a satin rosette was pinned over the right hip bone. The uniforms were made for each Bunny at the club they worked in. Whenever the club was open there was a seamstress on duty
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Playboy Club
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The Playboy Club was initially a chain of nightclubs and resorts owned and operated by Playboy Enterprises. The first club opened at 116 E. Walton Street in downtown Chicago, Illinois, United States, each club generally featured a Living Room, a Playmate Bar, a Dining Room, and a Club Room. Members and their guests were served food and drinks by Playboy Bunnies, the clubs offered name entertainers and comedians in the Club Rooms, and local musicians and the occasional close-up magician in the Living Rooms. Starting with the London and Jamaica club locations, the Playboy Club became international in scope, in 1991, the club chain became defunct. On October 6,2006 a new club was opened in Las Vegas, in time the Las Vegas club closed on June 4,2012, the Macao club closed in 2013 and the Cancun club closed in 2014. In May 2014 the Commerce Casino in Los Angeles opened a Playboy themed lounge consisting of gaming tables, petersburg, FL, Lansing, San Diego, Columbus, OH, Lake Geneva, WI and St. Louis. There were Playboy Club resorts in Jamaica, New Jersey, the last American location before Playboy Club Las Vegas opened was Lansing, Michigan, located in the Hilton Hotel, which closed in 1988. International Clubs existed until the 1991 closing of the Manila, Philippines Club located in the Silahis International Hotel, in 2010 International Clubs were opened in Macao and Cancun but in time the Macao Club closed in 2013 and the Cancun Club closed in 2014. Manila was the only Club ever to be featured in Architectural Digest, during the last three months of 1961, more than 132,000 people visited the Chicago club, making it the busiest night club in the world. Playboy Club membership became a status symbol, only 21% of all key holders ever went to a club. At $25.00 per year per membership, Playboy grossed $25 million for every 1,000,000 members, the Rabbit-headed metal Playboy key was required for admission to a club. They were presented to the Door Bunny, through most of the years, a strict dress code was enforced. In 1965, Hugh Hefner sent Victor Lownes to London to open Playboys British casinos, in 1981, the casino at 45 Park Lane was the most profitable casino in the world, and the British casinos contributed $32 million to the corporation. The Playboy Club in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, had a ski slope and was one of the first to install a chair lift and its Playmate Bar featured the Russ Long Trio and its showroom was managed by Carlo Cicirello. The 32-piece house orchestra was headed by Chicago pianist, Sam Distefano, the Lighter Side Trio entertained at all of the Playboy Clubs from 1972 to 1975, led by Joe DiPietro, with Douglas Brett and Charles Raimond. On October 6,2006, Playboy opened a new Playboy Club in Las Vegas, the new club at The Palms, with its prominent neon bunny head, had casinos, bars, and a restroom with pictures of Playmates on the walls. The club closed in June 2012, australian women were invited to Sydney to audition for the iconic Playboy Bunny role and for positions as singers and dancers at the Playboy Club. A minimum of five women were chosen to travel to Macao for a contract as a Playboy Bunny
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Century City, Los Angeles
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Century City is a 176-acre neighborhood and business district in Los Angeles Westside. Outside of Downtown Los Angeles, Century City is one of the areas most prominent employment centers. The district was developed on the backlot of film studio 20th Century Fox. There are two schools, but no public schools in the neighborhood. Important to the economy are the Westfield Century City shopping center, business towers, the land of Century City belonged to cowboy actor Tom Mix, who used it as a ranch. It later became a backlot of 20th Century Fox, which still has its headquarters just to the southwest. The following year, in 1957, they commissioned a development from Welton Becket Associates. Of America, also known as Alcoa, for US$300 million, herrscher had encouraged his uncle-in-law to borrow money instead, but once Skouras refused, he was out of the picture. The new owners conceived Century City as a city within a city, in 1963, the first building, Gateway West Building, was completed. The next year, in 1964, Minoru Yamasaki designed the Century Plaza Hotel, five years later, in 1969, architects Anthony J. Lumsden and César Pelli designed the Century City Medical Plaza. Century Citys plaza as it appeared in the early 1970s can be viewed in several scenes of still another Fox film, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes. The 2000 U. S. census counted 5,513 residents in the 0. 70-square-mile Century City neighborhood—or 7,869 people per square mile, the Southern California Association of Governments estimates that the daytime population amounts to 48,343 on a working day. In 2008, the city estimated that the resident population had increased to 5,934, in 2008, the median age for residents was 46, older than average for the city and the county. The percentage of residents aged 65 and older was the highest for any neighborhood in Los Angeles County, the percentages of widowed men and women and of divorced men were among the countys highest. Military veterans accounted for 11. 9% of the population, a rate for the city. The neighborhood was considered not especially diverse ethnically, with a percentage of white residents. The breakdown was whites,82. 5%, Asians,8. 6%, Latinos,4. 4%, blacks,1. 4%, and others,3, 0%. Iran and Canada were the most common places of birth for the 25. 5% of the residents who were born abroad—a low percentage, the median yearly income in 2014 was $95,135, a high figure for Los Angeles
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Hugh Hefner
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Hugh Marston Hefner is an American mens lifestyle magazine publisher, businessman, and a well-known playboy. Hefner is a native of Chicago, Illinois and a former journalist for Esquire and he is best known for being the founder and chief creative officer of Playboy Enterprises. A self-made multi-millionaire, his net worth is over $43 million due to his success as the founder of Playboy magazine, Hefner is also a political activist and philanthropist active in several causes and public issues. He is a World War II veteran, Hefner was born in Chicago, Illinois on April 9,1926. He is the first child of Grace Caroline and Glenn Lucius Hefner and he had a younger brother, Keith. Hefners mother was of Swedish descent, and his father had German, through his fathers line, Hefner has stated that he is a direct descendant of Plymouth governor William Bradford. He has described his family as conservative, Midwestern, Methodist and he attended Sayre Elementary School and Steinmetz High School, then during World War II, served as a writer for a military newspaper in the U. S. Army from 1944 to 1946. After graduation, he took a semester of courses in sociology at Northwestern University. While he was working as a copywriter for Esquire, Hefner left in January 1952 after being denied a $5 raise, the first issue, published in December 1953, featured Marilyn Monroe from her 1949 nude calendar shoot and sold over 50,000 copies. After the Charles Beaumont science fiction short story The Crooked Man was rejected by Esquire magazine in 1955, the story highlighted straight men being persecuted in a world where homosexuality was the norm. After the magazine received letters, Hefner wrote a response to criticism where he said, If it was wrong to persecute heterosexuals in a homosexual society then the reverse was wrong. In 1961, Hefner watched Dick Gregory perform at the Herman Roberts Show Bar in Chicago, based on that performance, Hefner hired Gregory to work at the Chicago Playboy Club, Gregory attributes the subsequent launch of his career to that night. On June 4,1963, Hefner was arrested for promoting obscene literature after an issue of Playboy featuring nude shots of Jayne Mansfield was released, the case went to trial and resulted in a hung jury. In the 1993 The Simpsons episode Krusty Gets Kancelled, Hefner guest-voiced himself, in 1999, Hefner financed the Clara Bow documentary, Discovering the It Girl. She defined an era and made her mark on the nation, Hefner guest-starred as himself in a 2006 episode of Seth Greens Robot Chicken on the late-night programming block Adult Swim. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for television and has several movie appearances as himself. In 2009, he received a worst supporting actor nomination for a Razzie award for his performance as himself in Miss March, on his official Twitter account he joked about this nomination, Maybe I didnt understand the character. A documentary by Brigitte Berman, Hugh Hefner, Playboy, Activist and he had previously granted full access to documentary filmmaker and television producer Kevin Burns for the A&E Biography special Hugh Hefner, American Playboy in 1996
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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV series)
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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century is an American science-fiction adventure television series produced by Universal Studios. The series ran for two seasons between 1979 and 1981, and the pilot episode for the series was released as a theatrical film. The film and series were developed by Glen A, inspired by the success of Star Wars, Universal began developing Buck Rogers for television, spearheaded by Glen A. Larson, who had a production deal with the studio. Initially, Larson and Universal had planned on making a series of Buck Rogers TV movies for NBC. The pilot for Larsons other science-fiction series, Battlestar Galactica, had been released theatrically in some countries and in key locations in North America, Universal then opted to release the first Buck Rogers TV movie theatrically on March 30,1979. Good box-office returns led NBC to commission a series, which began on September 20,1979. The production recycled many of the props, effects shots, and costumes from Battlestar Galactica, which was still in production at the time the pilot for Buck Rogers was being filmed. For example, the vehicle was made for the Galactica series. The Terran starfighters were also concept designer Ralph McQuarries original vision of the Colonial Vipers, the new series centered on Captain William Anthony Buck Rogers, played by Gil Gerard, a NASA/USAF pilot who commands Ranger 3, a spacecraft that is launched in May 1987. Due to a malfunction, Buck is accidentally frozen for 504 years before his spacecraft is discovered adrift in the year 2491. The combination of gases that froze his body coincidentally comes close to the commonly used in the 25th century for cryopreservation. He learns that civilization on Earth was rebuilt following a nuclear war that occurred on November 22,1987. The series followed him as he tried to fit into 25th-century culture, in many respects, this version of Buck Rogers was more similar to James Bond or Steve Austin than Nowlans original character, and Buck would often go under cover on various covert missions. Buck is aided in his adventures by his friend and sometimes romantic interest, Colonel Wilma Deering and he is also assisted by Twiki, a small robot or ambuquad, as they were known. Twiki was played mainly by Felix Silla and voiced mainly by Mel Blanc using a voice very similar to the one he used for Barnyard Dawg. He was capable of understanding Twikis electronic language, and was carried around by him. Theo was a member of Earths computer council and one of the planets scientific leaders, during the first season, Buck and Wilma took their orders from Dr. Elias Huer, played by Tim OConnor, the head of the Defense Directorate. Some episodes suggested Huer was the leader of the entire planet, the series chief villain was Princess Ardala, whose goal was to conquer the Earth while making Buck her consort
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Fantasy Island
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Fantasy Island is an American television series that originally aired on the American Broadcasting Company network from 1977 to 1984. The series was created by Gene Levitt, a revival of the series originally aired on the same network during the 1998–99 season. Before it became a series, Fantasy Island was introduced to viewers in 1977 and 1978 through two made-for-television films. Roarke was known for his suit and cultured demeanor, and was initially accompanied by an energetic sidekick. Tattoo would run up the bell tower to ring the bell. To announce the arrival of a new set of guests at the beginning of each episode and this line, shown at the beginning of the shows credits, became an unlikely catchphrase because of Villechaizes spirited delivery and French accent. In later seasons, he would arrive in his personal go-kart, sized for him, from 1981 to 1982, Wendy Schaal joined the cast as a beautiful brown-eyed blonde assistant named Julie. The producers dismissed Villechaize from the series before the 1983–1984 season, which ended up being its last, lawrences personality was exactly the opposite of Tattoos in many ways. For instance, Lawrence was also responsible for the bell ringing, a Grumman Widgeon aircraft was used for the series. Just prior to the landing, Mr Roarke would address his assembling employees with the phrase Smiles everyone. As each visitor exited the plane, Roarke would describe to Tattoo the nature of their fantasy, Roarke would then welcome his guests by lifting his glass and saying, My dear guests, I am Mr. Roarke, your host. This toast was usually followed with a smile but sometimes his eyes would show concern or worry for a guests safety. Very little is known about the man known as Mr. Roarke and it is not clear if that is his first, last, or only name. Although most guests know him as Mr. Roarke, many close to him, including past lovers, have referred to him only as Roarke. He is the owner and proprietor of Fantasy Island. Roarkes actual age is a complete mystery, in the pilot film, he comments how the guests who come to his island are so mortal and there are hints throughout the series that suggest Roarke may be immortal. In one episode he calls on Helen of Troy to help a woman whose fantasy is not going as planned and she says to him. Where Roarke replies 300 years or more and this shows us that Roarke is in fact immortal and not human
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Americathon
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The film also includes appearances by Jay Leno, Meat Loaf, Tommy Lasorda, and Chief Dan George, with a musical performance by Elvis Costello. In search of leadership, Americans elect Chet Roosevelt as President, Roosevelt, a cosmically inspired former governor of California, proves to have little else in common with Teddy Roosevelt or FDR other than his name. Roosevelt, an man who quotes positive affirmation slogans, stages a number of highly publicized fund raising events. Real money comes in the form of loans from a cartel of Native Americans, led by billionaire Sam Birdwater, in desperation, Roosevelt hires a young television consultant Eric McMerkin to help produce a national raffle. Instead, they decide that the only way enough money can be raised to save America is to run a telethon, dorothy Stratten appears, uncredited and in a brief non-speaking role, in a Playboy bunny style outfit during a scene where Meat Loafs character donates blood. The Del Rubio triplets can be seen performing America the Beautiful behind several posing bodybuilders, john Carradine was to have played Uncle Sam in this film, but his scenes did not make the final cut edit. Director Neal Israel has a cameo as a protesting Rabbi holding a sign reading The President Is A Yutz. In a scene where Eric McMerkin is reading a list of Government Approved performers, peter Bergman and Phil Proctor were members of the satirical comedy performance group Firesign Theatre. To promote the movie, in 1979 Ted Coombs roller skated across the United States and back, a photo novel of the film was also released in 1979, and the musical soundtrack was released on both vinyl and audiocassette by Lorimar records. The film was available on VHS and laserdisc in the 1980s by Lorimar Home Video. The home video rights passed to Warner Bros. in the late 1980s as part of their purchase of Lorimar, Warner Home Video made the film available in January 2011 on DVD in widescreen format as part of their Warner Archive Manufacture-on-demand collection. In 1984, New York City public radio station WNYC sponsored a marathon of American music dubbed Americathon 84, cliques of Native Americans becoming wealthy. Nike becomes a multinational conglomerate. Exercise clothing, a fad in the mid 1970s, becomes exceedingly fashionable, worn in place of suits, vietnam becoming a major tourist attraction among Asias wealthy and powerful. The depletion of US crude oil production, which, according to Hubberts Peak theory, was underway for several years at the time the film was made. An America with a dollar and heavily in debt to foreign lenders. Network television dealing with taboo subjects accepted as normal. The films official coming attractions trailer includes the quote. see Americathon at your local theater before you see it happening in your own front yard, Americathon at the Internet Movie Database Americathon at AllMovie Americathon at Rotten Tomatoes Where Are All the Films About Economic Apocalypse
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Roller disco
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A roller disco is a discothèque or skating rink where all the dancers wear roller skates of some kind. The music played is modern and easily danceable, historically disco but in modern times including almost any form of dance, the concept originated as a fad in the 1970s when the disco craze was at its height, peaking around 1980 and inspiring several roller-disco magazines. Also, it experienced a revival in the early 2000s, especially in the mid-eastern United States. Roller discos are popular among older children and young teenagers. As in other discos, special effects such as fog machines, Roller Boogie, a film about roller disco Skatetown, U. S. A. In an episode of Malcolm In The Middle, we learn that Malcolms father, in Roller Disco, an episode of That 70s Show, Jackie Burkhart and Fez take part in a roller disco competition. Four years later, in an episode called Angie, it is revealed the leading character, in the Diamond Jack episode of Threes Company, Jack attends the Venice Roller Rink, where he meets his blind date named Rita. In The Young Ones series 1, episode 2, Mike converts Ricks room into a roller disco In CHiPs season 3, episodes 1 and 2, in Muteking, The Dashing Warrior, Muteking, the protagonist, practice the Roller Disco. Jam skating Canvas Club is closed, Roller Disco has moved to Renaissance Rooms in Vauxhall. Please use www. rollerdisco. com as a reference
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Skatetown, U.S.A.
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Skatetown, U. S. A. is a 1979 American comedy film produced to capitalize on the short-lived fad of roller disco. The film features many TV stars from the 1960s and 1970s, among them Scott Baio, Flip Wilson, Maureen McCormick, Ron Palillo, patrick Swayzes leading role as the skater Ace was his first movie performance. Also in the cast are Sydney Lassick, Billy Barty and Playboy centerfold model Dorothy Stratten, one evening at a Los Angeles-area roller disco called Skatetown, U. S. A. A rivalry between two skaters culminates in a contest, the prize for which is $1000 and a moped. After a game of chicken played on motorized roller skates, the two become friends. The film includes many short, broadly comedic and slapstick subplots set between long roller skating sequences and musical performances, filming was done mostly at the Hollywood Palladium, built in 1940. Its sprawling blond hardwood dance floor, chandeliers and soap bubbles blown by a machine from the Lawrence Welk Show can be seen in sundry scenes, some exteriors were shot on Santa Monica Pier and at nearby Venice Beach. Patrick Swayze, who had roller skated competitively as a teenager and was a dancer, did his own skating. April Allen, Swayzes uncredited roller-skating partner in the movie, had won the championship in womens free skating seven years earlier. Twenty-nine years after filming, Maureen McCormick recalled, Like a disco, many people were open about it. McCormick wrote that she fell back into severe cocaine addiction during production, Scott Baio later recalled, I have blocked that movie from my memory, it was so bad. That was that time where Xanadu and Roller Boogie and all that crap was coming out. That was one of things where they sent me the script and I said no. I mean, they offered me a lot of money, and finally I said, Well, hell. And it was… You know, sometimes money isn’t everything, I mean, it was bad shooting it. I’m trying to think of any real stories that I have and it was just a guy making a film who didn’t know how to make a film. And I don’t even know what the story was, dave Mason is featured as a performer in the roller disco, playing himself. Mason sings the movies disco-tinged theme song Skatetown over the opening credits and he is also shown performing I Fell in Love along with a cover of his own 1968 Traffic hit Feelin Alright. S. A
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Galaxina
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Besides its homages to and parodies of science fiction mainstays Star Trek, Star Wars, and Alien, this film also pokes fun at Western movies. It won the Audience Award at the 1983 Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film, a film viewed by characters within the film is a clip from the Eastern bloc film First Spaceship on Venus. The clip is used in the film because it was also a Crown International Picture, in the year 3008, the crew of the Intergalactic Space Police cruiser Infinity is on patrol duty in deep space. The ship is captained by the incompetent Cornelius Butt and his crewmen, his first officer, robert Buzz McHenry, Maurice, a black humanoid alien with pointy ears and bat wings, and Sam, an Asian man who quotes Confucius. Also aboard is Galaxina, a voluptuous blonde android servant, and Rock-Eater, while the Infinity hides behind an asteroid, a suspicious looking bird-like ship flies by, and Buzz decides to pursue it. They try to question the pilot, a mysterious masked figure who rudely terminates communications. The two ships exchange laser fire but the bird-ship gets away, after the encounter, Galaxina serves a dinner of chicken-flavored food pills to Captain Butt, Thor and Buzz. The three men are stunned by her beauty, and Buzz receives a shock when he touches her buttocks. Tired of the pill-food, Captain Butt decides to eat an alien egg confiscated from a prisoner, the egg sickens him, and he coughs up a baby alien creature that quickly scurries away. The trip will take the Infinity 27 years to complete, requiring that the crew enter cryogenic sleep, before doing so, they make a quick stop at an asteroid brothel. Galaxina remains in charge of the ship while the crew are in stasis, while alone, she reprograms herself to become more human. She learns to talk and disables her electrical defense mechanism and she visits Thors sleep chamber periodically, embracing it and telling the sleeping Thor that she loves him. Later, the baby alien visits Butts chamber and tampers with the controls, when the crew awaken at their destination, Butt emerges from his pod an old man with shaggy gray hair. Thor is seduced by Galaxina and he falls in love with her, although she lacks the proper hardware to have sex, she assures Thor that these components can be ordered from the android catalog. Thor can only fantasize about Galaxina until they return home and get her modifications, the ship reaches Altair One and lands. Knowing that the aliens are hostile to humans, Galaxina volunteers to go look for the Blue Star while the others stay on the ship. She walks into town and enters a restaurant, and discovers that this means the restaurant serves humans as food to alien creatures. There she finds Ordric, the figure the crew encountered earlier
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They All Laughed
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They All Laughed is a 1981 film directed by Peter Bogdanovich and starring Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, John Ritter, Colleen Camp, Patti Hansen, and Dorothy Stratten. The movie was based on a screenplay by Bogdanovich and Blaine Novak and it takes its name from the George and Ira Gershwin song They All Laughed. A romantic comedy, They All Laughed is set in New York City, largely filmed outdoors on the streets, the detectives eventually wind up romantically pursuing the women, who turn the tables on them. They All Laughed is an updating of La Ronde, both in tone and theme, the film is also a candid look at love and sex in New York City in the early 1980s. Detective John Russo attempts to cheat on his girlfriend, country singer Christy Miller, with a taxi driver he calls Sam. Russo has met the taxi driver en route from a meeting at which he was assigned to follow Angela Niotes, detective Charles Rutledge falls in love with Dolores Martin, whose husband has also hired him to spy on her. Charles is cautioned against this infatuation by his buddy Arthur, feeling slighted by Russos infidelity, Christy throws herself at Charles, but she ultimately falls in love with Doloress extramarital paramour Jose. Russos pursuit of Angela leads him to fall in love with her and he is grief-stricken when her husband and she return to Europe, but the two women have arranged that Sam will take her place and nurse his broken heart. Dolores does fall for Charles and they plan to marry when her divorce is final, Audrey Hepburns son plays the part of Jose, though the part of her son in the film is played by Glenn Scarpelli. Bogdanovichs real-life daughters portray John Russos daughters, who along with Arthur, are enlisted to win Angela Niotess trust, more implicitly, Arthur, who acts primarily as a facilitator to the others romances, is portrayed by one of the films screenwriters, Blaine Novak. Indeed, the theme of secret love surfacing is pervasive throughout, to try to make a personal picture, but not a personal picture like an indie prod. I wanted to hide it, like the old filmmakers in the system did. The film was financed by a division of Time, Inc. I didnt do any research about detectives, said Bogdanovich, I never even went into a detectives office, but that didnt matter to me. Thats not what it was about, that was just the disguise I hung my hat on, Audrey Hepburn’s story in the movie is Audrey Hepburn’s story in life, said the director. She was living with a man, her husband, he was cheating on her. The movie was shot on location in New York during the spring, Bogdanovich would often write scenes and give them to the actors just before they were shot, to give the movie a feeling of freshness. I fell in love with it on Last Picture Show, in fact, I wrote a couple of country songs
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Private investigator
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A private investigator, a private detective, or inquiry agent, is a person who can be hired by individuals or groups to undertake investigatory law services. Private detectives/investigators often work for attorneys in civil and criminal cases, official law enforcement tried many times to shut it down. In 1842, police arrested him in suspicion of unlawful imprisonment, Vidocq later suspected that it had been a set-up. He was sentenced to five years and fined 3, 000-francs, Vidocq is credited with having introduced record-keeping, criminology, and ballistics to criminal investigation. He made the first plaster casts of shoe impressions and he created indelible ink and unalterable bond paper with his printing company. His form of anthropometrics is still used by French police. He is also credited for philanthropic pursuits – he claimed he never informed on anyone who had stolen for real need, after Vidocq, the industry was born. Much of what private investigators did in the days was to act as the police in matters for which their clients felt the police were not equipped or willing to do. A larger role for new private investigative industry was to assist companies in labor disputes. Some early private investigators provided armed guards to act as a private militia, in the United Kingdom, Charles Frederick Field set up an enquiry office upon his retirement from the Metropolitan Police in 1852. Field became a friend of Charles Dickens, and the latter wrote articles about him, in 1862, one of his employees, the Hungarian Ignatius Paul Pollaky, left him and set up a rival agency. In the United States, Allan Pinkerton established the Pinkerton National Detective Agency - a private detective agency - in 1850, Pinkerton became famous when he foiled a plot to assassinate then President-elect Abraham Lincoln in 1861. Pinkertons agents performed services which ranged from undercover investigations and detection of crimes, to plant protection and it is sometimes claimed, probably with exaggeration, that at the height of its existence, the Pinkerton National Detective Agency employed more agents than the United States Army. Allan Pinkerton hired Kate Warne in 1856 as a private detective, during the union unrest in the US in the late 19th century, companies sometimes hired operatives and armed guards from the Pinkertons. In the aftermath of the Homestead Riot of 1892, several states passed so-called anti-Pinkerton laws restricting the importation of private security guards during union strikes. Pinkerton agents were hired to track western outlaws Jesse James, the Reno brothers, and the Wild Bunch, including Butch Cassidy. The Pinkerton agencys logo, an eye embellished with the words We Never Sleep, many private detectives/investigators with specialized academic and practical experience also work with defense attorneys on capital punishment and other criminal defense cases. Many others are insurance investigators who investigate suspicious claims, before the advent of no-fault divorce, many private investigators were hired to search out evidence of adultery or other conduct within marriage to establish grounds for a divorce
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Murder
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A murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse, especially the unlawful killing of another human being with malice aforethought. This state of mind may, depending upon the jurisdiction, distinguish murder from other forms of unlawful homicide, manslaughter is a killing committed in the absence of malice, brought about by reasonable provocation, or diminished capacity. Involuntary manslaughter, where it is recognized, is a killing that lacks all but the most attenuated guilty intent, in most countries, a person convicted of murder generally faces a long-term prison sentence, possibly a life sentence where permitted. In many common law jurisdictions, a convicted of murder will receive a mandatory life sentence. In jurisdictions where capital punishment exists, the penalty may be imposed for such an act, however. The modern English word murder descends from the Proto-Indo-European mrtró which meant to die, the Middle English mordre is a noun from Anglo-Saxon morðor and Old French murdre. Middle English mordre is a verb from Anglo-Saxon myrdrian and the Middle English noun, the elements of common law murder are, Unlawful killing through criminal act or omission of a human by another human with malice aforethought. Killing – At common law life ended with cardiopulmonary arrest – the total, with advances in medical technology courts have adopted irreversible cessation of all brain function as marking the end of life. Сriminal act or omission – Killing can be committed by an act or an omission. of a human – This element presents the issue of life begins. At common law, a fetus was not a human being, life began when the fetus passed through the vagina and took its first breath. By another human – In early common law, suicide was considered murder, the requirement that the person killed be someone other than the perpetrator excluded suicide from the definition of murder. With malice aforethought – Originally malice aforethought carried its everyday meaning – a deliberate, Murder necessarily required that an appreciable time pass between the formation and execution of the intent to kill. The courts broadened the scope of murder by eliminating the requirement of actual premeditation and deliberation as well as true malice, all that was required for malice aforethought to exist is that the perpetrator act with one of the four states of mind that constitutes malice. The four states of mind recognized as constituting malice are, Under state of mind, intent to kill, thus, if the defendant intentionally uses a deadly weapon or instrument against the victim, such use authorizes a permissive inference of intent to kill. In other words, intent follows the bullet, examples of deadly weapons and instruments include but are not limited to guns, knives, deadly toxins or chemicals or gases and even vehicles when intentionally used to harm one or more victims. In Australian jurisdictions, the risk must amount to a foreseen probability of death. Under state of mind, the doctrine, the felony committed must be an inherently dangerous felony, such as burglary, arson, rape. Importantly, the underlying felony cannot be a lesser included offense such as assault, as with most legal terms, the precise definition of murder varies between jurisdictions and is usually codified in some form of legislation
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A Farewell to Arms
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A Farewell to Arms is a novel by Ernest Hemingway set during the Italian campaign of World War I. The book, published in 1929, is an account of American Frederic Henry. The title is taken from a poem by 16th-century English dramatist George Peele, the novel has been adapted for the stage, initially in 1930 and subsequently, for film in 1932 and 1957, and as a television miniseries in 1966. The novel is divided into five books, in the first book, Frederic Henry, an American paramedic serving in the Italian Army is introduced to Catherine Barkley, an English nurse, by his good friend and roommate, Rinaldi, a surgeon. Frederic attempts to seduce her, and their relationship begins, Frederic doesnt want a serious relationship, but his feelings for Catherine slowly start to grow. On the Italian front, Frederic is wounded in the knee by a mortar and sent to a hospital in Milan, the second book shows the growth of Frederic and Catherines relationship as they spend time together in Milan over the summer. Frederic and Catherine fall in love as Frederic slowly heals, after his knee heals, he is diagnosed with jaundice but is soon kicked out of the hospital and sent back to the front after being discovered with alcohol. By the time he is sent back, Catherine is three months pregnant, in the third book, Frederic returns to his unit, and soon discovers morale has severely dropped. Not long afterwards the Austrians break through the Italian lines in the Battle of Caporetto, due to a slow and hectic retreat, Frederic and his men go off trail and quickly get lost, and a frustrated Frederic kills a sergeant for insubordination. However, after seeing and hearing that everyone interrogated has been killed and he heads to Milan to find Catherine only to discover that she has been sent to Stresa. In the fourth book, Catherine and Frederic reunite and spend time in Stresa before Frederic learns he will soon be arrested. He and Catherine then flee to Switzerland in a rowboat, after interrogation by Swiss authorities, they are allowed to stay in Switzerland. In the final book, Frederic and Catherine live a life in the mountains until she goes into labor. After a long and painful birth, their son is stillborn, Catherine begins to hemorrhage and soon dies, leaving Frederic to return to their hotel in the rain. The novel was based on Hemingways own experiences serving in the Italian campaigns during the First World War, the inspiration for Catherine Barkley was Agnes von Kurowsky, a real nurse who cared for Hemingway in a hospital in Milan after he had been wounded. He had planned to marry her but she spurned his love when he returned to America, kitty Cannell, a Paris-based fashion correspondent, became Helen Ferguson. The unnamed priest was based on Don Giuseppe Bianchi, the priest of the 69th and 70th regiments of the Brigata Ancona, although the sources for Rinaldi are unknown, the character had already appeared in In Our Time. Biographer Reynolds, however, writes that Hemingway was not involved in the battles described, because his previous novel, The Sun Also Rises, had been written as a roman à clef, readers assumed A Farewell to Arms to be autobiographical
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Mariel Hemingway
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Mariel Hadley Hemingway is an American actress and author. She began acting at age 14 with a Golden Globe–nominated breakout role in Lipstick and she is also known for her leading roles in Personal Best and Star 80, as well as in the TV series Civil Wars, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination. Amid mental health struggles, Hemingways star faded in the 1990s and she has also starred in and co-produced videos about yoga and holistic living. She published a memoir in 2002, and another, Out Came the Sun, Hemingway was born in Mill Valley, California, the third daughter of Byra Louise Hemingway and Jack Hemingway, a writer. Her sisters are Joan Hemingway and Margaux Hemingway, Margaux, who was an actress and model, died of a barbiturate overdose at age 42 in 1996. Her paternal grandparents were Hadley Richardson and Nobel Prize–laureate novelist Ernest Hemingway and she was named after the Cuban port of Mariel—her father and grandfather visited the village regularly to go fishing. Her middle name was her paternal grandmothers, Hemingway grew up primarily in Ketchum, Idaho, where her father lived, and where Ernest had spent time as a sportsman and writer before he died there of a gunshot wound. She spent part of her adolescence in Los Angeles and New York City, Hemingways first role was with her real-life sister Margaux in the film Lipstick, in which they played sisters. She received notice for her acting and was nominated as Best Newcomer for the Golden Globe Award that year and her highest profile role came with her role in Woody Allens Manhattan, a romantic comedy in which she plays Tracy, a high school student and Allens lover. Just 16 during filming, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, in her memoir, Out Came The Sun, Hemingway alleged that Allen attempted to begin a sexual relationship with her shortly after filming was completed, when she had turned 18. In Personal Best, she played a bisexual track-and-field athlete in a noted for some explicit lesbian love scenes. In connection with Personal Best, she appeared in a pictorial in the April 1982 issue of Playboy and was on the cover. She starred as Dorothy Stratten in Star 80, a film about the Playboy models life and her breast implants were removed years later after they had ruptured. She was also featured in Superman IV, The Quest for Peace as Lacy Warfield, subsequently released additional footage showed an expansion of her role. She also co-starred in the 1991–93 ABC series Civil Wars and she quit the series, which only lasted eight more episodes before being cancelled. In 1996, she had a role in the British TV movie September. She has said she formed a big connection with the gay and lesbian community after Personal Best and she is currently the host of Spiritual Cinema, a monthly television show dedicated to spiritual films. She has begun hosting a series of yoga practice videos Yoga Now, in October 2013, Hemingway received a humanitarian award from the San Diego Film Festival for her role in the documentary
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Jamie Lee Curtis
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Jamie Lee Curtis, Lady Haden-Guest is an American actress and author. She made her debut in 1978 by starring as Laurie Strode in John Carpenters Halloween. Curtis other notable films include Blue Steel and Freaky Friday, for which she received her third Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress - Musical or Comedy. For her role in the television series Anything But Love, Curtis received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy. Curtis received her first Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie for her performance in the television film, Curtis currently stars in the comedy horror series Scream Queens on FOX. Curtis is the daughter of the actress Janet Leigh and actor Tony Curtis and she is married to actor, screenwriter, and director Christopher Guest, 5th Baron Haden-Guest. Her 1998 book Today I Feel Silly, and Other Moods That Make My Day made the best-seller list in The New York Times and she has appeared in advertisements and is a blogger for The Huffington Post. Curtis was born in Santa Monica, California, to actor Tony Curtis and her paternal grandparents were Hungarian Jewish immigrants and two of her maternal great-grandparents were Danish. Curtiss parents divorced in 1962, after which her mother married Robert Brandt, Curtis has an older sister, Kelly Curtis, who is also an actress, and several half-siblings, Alexandra, Allegra, Benjamin, and Nicholas Curtis. Curtis attended Westlake School in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills High School, returning to California in 1976, she attended the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. She considered majoring in social work, but quit after one semester to pursue an acting career, curtiss film debut occurred in the 1978 horror film Halloween, in which she played the role of Laurie Strode. The film was a success and was considered the highest grossing independent film of its time. Curtis was subsequently cast in several films, garnering her the title. Her next film was the horror film The Fog, which was helmed by Halloween director John Carpenter, the film opened in February 1980 to mixed reviews but strong box office, starting Curtis as a horror film starlet. Her next film, Prom Night, was a low-budget Canadian slasher film released in July 1980 and that year, Curtis also starred in Terror Train, which opened in October and was met with negative reviews akin to Prom Night. Both films performed well at the box office. Curtis had a function in both films - the main character whose friends are murdered, and is practically the only protagonist to survive. Curtis later appeared in Halloween II, Halloween H20,20 Years Later and Halloween, Resurrection, as well as giving a voice role in Halloween III
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Bruce Weitz
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Bruce Peter Weitz is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his role as Sgt, michael Mick Belker in the 1980s TV series Hill Street Blues for which he won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 1984. Weitz was born in Norwalk, Connecticut, the son of Sybil, a homemaker, and Joseph Weitz, Weitz appeared in the 1998 film Deep Impact and also appeared in the films Half Past Dead and El Cortez. His guest appearances on television include NYPD Blue, Quincy, Midnight Caller, Sisters, Superman, The Animated Series as Bruno Mannheim, JAG, The X-Files, The West Wing and he portrayed Anthony Zacchara on General Hospital from 2007 to 2012. Weitz married actress Cecilia Hart in 1971 and they were divorced in 1982, shortly after which she married actor James Earl Jones. In 2001, Weitz was named mayor of Reseda, Los Angeles
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Bob Fosse
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Robert Louis Bob Fosse was an American dancer, musical theatre choreographer, director, screenwriter, film director and actor. He won eight Tony Awards for choreography, more than anyone else and he was nominated for four Academy Awards, winning for his direction of Cabaret. Fosse was born in Chicago, Illinois on June 23,1927, to a Norwegian American father, Cyril K. Fosse, and Irish-born mother, Sara Alice Fosse, the second youngest of six. He teamed up with Charles Grass, another dancer. They toured theaters throughout the Chicago area, after being recruited, Fosse was placed in the variety show Tough Situation, which toured military and naval bases in the Pacific. Fosse moved to New York City with the ambition of being the new Fred Astaire and his appearance with his first wife and dance partner Mary Ann Niles in Call Me Mister brought him to the attention of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. Fosse was signed to a MGM contract in 1953 and his early screen appearances included Give A Girl A Break, The Affairs of Dobie Gillis and Kiss Me Kate, all released in 1953. A short sequence that he choreographed in the latter brought him to the attention of Broadway producers, although Fosses acting career in film was cut short by typecasting, he was reluctant to move from Hollywood to theater. Nevertheless, he made the move, and in 1954, he choreographed his first musical, The Pajama Game and it was while working on the latter show that he first met the rising star whom he was to marry in 1960, Gwen Verdon. Verdon won her first Tony Award for Best Actress in Damn Yankees, in 1957 Fosse choreographed New Girl in Town, also directed by Abbott, and Verdon won her second Leading Actress Tony. That year he also choreographed the film version of Pajama Game starring Doris Day, in 1960, Fosse was, for the first time, both director and choreographer of a musical called simply Redhead. With Redhead, Verdon won her third Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical, Verdon starred in Sweet Charity in 1966, with Fosse again the choreographer-director, and she starred in Chicago in 1975, with Fosse as director and choreographer. Fosse performed a song and dance number in Stanley Donens 1974 film version of The Little Prince, according to AllMusic, Bob Fosse stops the show with a slithery dance routine. In 1977, Fosse had a role in the romantic comedy Thieves. Notable distinctions of Fosses style included the use of turned-in knees, the famous Fosse Amoeba, sideways shuffling, rolled shoulders, with Astaire as an influence, he used props such as bowler hats, canes and chairs. His trademark use of hats was influenced by his own self-consciousness, according to Martin Gottfried in his biography of Fosse, His baldness was the reason that he wore hats, and was doubtless why he put hats on his dancers. He used gloves in his performances because he did not like his hands, some of his most popular numbers include Steam Heat and Big Spender. The Rich Mans Frug scene in Sweet Charity is another example of his signature style and his first, Sweet Charity, starring Shirley MacLaine, is an adaptation of the Broadway musical he had directed and choreographed
