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Glendale, California
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Glendale /ˈɡlɛndeɪl/ is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Its estimated 2014 population was 200,167, making it the third largest city in Los Angeles County and it is located about 8 miles north of downtown Los Angeles. Glendale lies on the end of the San Fernando Valley, bisected by the Verdugo Mountains. The Golden State, Ventura, Glendale, and Foothill freeways run through the city, Glendale has one of the largest communities of Armenian descent in the United States. In 2013, Glendale was named LAs Neighborhood of the Year by the readers and editors of Curbed. com, Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery contains the remains of many noted celebrities and local residents. Grand Central Airport was the point for the first commercial west-to-east transcontinental flight flown by Charles Lindbergh. The area was inhabited by the Tongva people, who were later renamed the Gabrieleños by the Spanish missionaries. Rancho San Rafael was a Spanish concession, of which 25 were made in California, unlike the later Mexican land grants, the concessions were similar to grazing permits, with the title remaining with the Spanish crown. In 1860, his grandson Teodoro Verdugo built the Verdugo Adobe, the property is the location of the Oak of Peace, where early Californio leaders including Pio Pico met in 1847 and decided to surrender to Lieutenant Colonel John C. Verdugos descendants sold the ranch in various parcels, some of which are included in present-day Atwater Village, Eagle Rock, in 1884, residents gathered to form a townsite and chose the name Glendale. Residents to the southwest formed Tropico in 1887, the Pacific Electric Railway brought streetcar service in 1904. Glendale incorporated in 1906, and annexed Tropico 12 years later, Brand loved to fly, and built a private airstrip in 1919 and hosted fly-in parties, providing a direct link to the soon-to-be-built nearby Grand Central Airport. The grounds of El Miradero are now city-owned Brand Park and the mansion is the Brand Library, Brand partnered with Henry E. Huntington to bring the Pacific Electric Railway, or the Red Cars, to the area. Today, he is memorialized by one of the main thoroughfares. The citys population rose from 13,756 in 1920 to 62,736 in 1930, the Forest Lawn Cemetery opened in 1906 and was renamed Forest Lawn Memorial-Park in 1917. Pioneering endocrinologist and entrepreneur Henry R. Harrower opened his clinic in Glendale in 1920, the American Green Cross, an early conservation and tree preservation society, was formed in 1926. In 1964, Glendale was selected by George Lincoln Rockwell to be the West Coast headquarters of the American Nazi Party and its offices, on Colorado Street in the downtown section of the city, remained open until the early 1980s. In 1977 and 1978,10 murdered women were found in, the murders were the work of Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, the latter of whom resided at 703 East Colorado Street, where most of the murders took place
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Teen idol
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A teen idol is a celebrity with a large teenage fan-base. Teen idols are generally young but not necessarily teenaged, often teen idols are actors or singers, but some sports figures and even political figures also have an appeal to teenagers. Some teen idols began their careers as actors, like Leif Garrett, Lindsay Lohan, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Raven-Symoné, Kenan Thompson, Kel Mitchell, Hilary Duff. The idols popularity may be limited to teens, or may extend to all age groups, many teen idols are targeted for adults for nostalgia purposes. With the advent of television, teen idols were also promoted through programs such as American Bandstand, The Ed Sullivan Show, todays teen idols have spawned an entire industry of gossip magazines, television shows, YouTube, and whole television channels such as E. Many American teen idols achieve cross-over success internationally, however, this list is not limited to American artists alone with some such as Japanese popstar Kusumi Koharu. Ha^Ash and RBD in the 2000s and 2010s, in Spain, La Oreja de Van Gogh, Miguel Bose, Mecano and Hombres G all enjoyed teen-idol status. Even in the music field, a British-Chinese violinist Vanessa-Mae became the first teen idol in that category. The kind of idolizing following Liszt drew in Europe would not be followed for several decades, geraldine Farrar, American opera singer, had a large following of young women nicknamed Gerry-flappers in the early 20th century. However, he claims that many males were also at his sold-out concerts. He was also possibly the first popular singer to have a vehicle created for him. Frank Sinatra, whose career is often linked to his appeal to bobby soxers, is also regarded as having been amongst the first teen idols. Even crooners like Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra were still considered idols, actors Edd Byrnes and Troy Donahue and other artists deliberately cultivated a idol image, like Paul Anka. Anka initially modelled himself on a generic type, the teen idol carried on the process. Of changing the image of male youth, from wild to mild, by providing a cleaner, more wholesome image of masculinity than that of the previous eras rebellious rockabilly heroes. Post-war teens were able to buy relatively inexpensive phonographs — including portable models that could be carried to friends houses —, rock music played on 45s became the soundtrack to the 1960s as people bought what they heard on the radio. Their parents worried about their attraction to artists who were edgy, faces on magazines fed fans, fans buy records, see films, watch TV and buy fashions. Marketing of the teen idol generally focuses on the image, the teen idol is structured to appeal to the pre-teen and young teen female pop audience member and children in general
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John Connor
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John Connor is a fictional character of the Terminator franchise. In the narrative of his universe, John Connor is a messianic figure who will lead the Resistance to defeat an empire of robotic Terminators amassed by Skynet following Judgment Day. With foreknowledge from his parents, John fends off Terminator assassination attempts in the second, in the fourth film, John fights with the Resistance in a post-apocalyptic setting after Skynet has taken over. In The Terminator, John is mentioned and is the basis of the film, the Terminator is attempting to kill Sarah Connor because she will be his mother, but does not make a physical appearance. However, at the end of the film, Sarah is shown to be pregnant with John, John makes his first true appearance in Terminator 2, Judgment Day which takes place in 1995, played by Edward Furlong. He was a 10-year-old juvenile delinquent living with foster parents while his mother was at a hospital for the mentally insane, one day, while in an arcade with a friend, the T-1000 and the T-800 - a reprogrammed android sent by Johns future self, fight over him. This starts a sequence where the T-800 and John try to lose the T-1000. Later that night, his mother out and he and the T-800 go to save her. John teaches The Terminator how to be like a human and he teaches him sayings like hasta la vista, baby. Also, John Connor is briefly seen as an adult, played by Michael Edwards, in this battle scene, his face is heavily scarred. Dalton Abbot, also played John as a toddler in a dream sequence, the alternate ending for Terminator 2, Judgment Day depicts Sarah Connor alive and well on August 29,2029. John Connor has become a U. S. senator and father to a daughter in a world where Skynet was never able to start its war on humanity. While Sarah states that Judgment Day has been averted, John accepts that he still has a destiny to make a difference, in Terminator 3, Rise of the Machines, which takes place in 2003, John Connor, portrayed by Nick Stahl, is now a young adult. John has been living off-the-grid after the events of the second film and his mother eventually developed terminal leukemia and died. In the film, John crosses paths with Katherine Kate Brewster and he is attacked by a T-X Terminator, which was sent from the future. Unlike its predecessors, the T-Xs objective was to terminate his future officers as secondary targets because Johns location was unknown, when it encounters John it changes its priority to focus entirely on him and Kate. A protector T-850 is also sent back in time to protect John and it is via the radios in this bunker that John begins to organize the resistance. Since Judgment Day, John has been broadcasting radio messages to both the Resistance forces and surviving refugees in an effort to maintain morale and hope, the story features a new character named Marcus Wright, and a younger Kyle Reese
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day
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Terminator 2, Judgment Day is a 1991 American science-fiction action film co-written, produced and directed by James Cameron. The film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick and it is the sequel to the 1984 film The Terminator, and the second installment in the Terminator franchise. A second, less advanced Terminator is also sent back in time to protect John, after a troubled pre-production characterized by legal disputes, Mario Kassar of Carolco Pictures emerged with the franchises property rights in early 1990. This paved the way for the completion of the screenplay by a Cameron-led production team, the production of Terminator 2 required a $102 million budget making it the most expensive film made up to that point. Much of the massive budget was spent on filming and special effects. The film was released on July 3,1991, in time for the U. S, Terminator 2 was a critical and commercial success and influenced popular culture, especially the use of visual effects in films. It received many accolades, including four Academy Awards for Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, Best Makeup, in 1995, John Connor is living in Los Angeles with foster parents. Skynet sends a new Terminator, designated as T-1000, back in time to kill John, the T-1000 arrives under a freeway, kills a policeman and assumes his identity. Meanwhile, the future John Connor has sent back a reprogrammed T-800 Terminator to protect his young counterpart, the Terminator and the T-1000 converge on John in a shopping mall, and a chase ensues after which John and the Terminator escape together on a motorcycle. Fearing that the T-1000 will kill Sarah in order to get to him and they encounter Sarah as she is escaping from the hospital, although she is initially reluctant to trust the T-800. After the trio escapes from the T-1000 in a police car, in addition, it would create machines that will hunt and kill the remnants of humanity. Finding him at his home, she wounds him but finds herself unable to kill him in front of his family, John and the Terminator arrive and inform Dyson of the future consequences of his work. They learn that much of his research has been engineered from the damaged CPU. Convincing him that these items and his designs must be destroyed, they break into the Cyberdyne building and retrieve the CPU, the police arrive and Dyson is shot, but he manages to trigger several explosives, destroying the lab and his research while sacrificing himself. The T-1000 relentlessly pursues the trio, eventually cornering them in a steel mill. The T-1000 and the Terminator engage in combat, with the advanced model severely damaging its adversary. The T-800 is seemingly shut down until its emergency back-up system brings it back online, the T-1000 nearly kills John and Sarah until the T-800 appears and shoots it into a vat of molten steel with an M79 grenade launcher, destroying it. John tosses the arm and CPU of the original Terminator into the vat as well, as Sarah expresses relief that the ordeal is over, the Terminator explains that to ensure that he is not used for reverse engineering he must also be destroyed
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Independent Spirit Awards
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The Film Independent Spirit Awards, founded in 1984, are awards dedicated to independent filmmakers. Winners were typically presented with acrylic glass pyramids containing suspended shoestrings representing the paltry budgets of independent films, in 1986, the event was renamed the Independent Spirit Awards. Since 2006, winners have received a trophy depicting a bird with its wings spread sitting atop of a pole with the shoestrings from the previous design wrapped around the pole, Film Independent Members vote to determine the winners of the Spirit Awards. The awards show is held inside a tent on the beach in Santa Monica, California, the show is broadcast live on the IFC network, as well as Hollywood Suite in Canada and A&E Latin America. The 32nd Independent Spirit Awards ceremony, hosted by Nick Kroll and John Mulaney, was broadcast live on IFC on Saturday, official website Film Independent Film Independents channel on YouTube Film Independent at the Internet Movie Database Independent Spirit Awards at the Internet Movie Database
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Jeff Bridges
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Jeffrey Leon Jeff Bridges is an American actor, singer, and producer. He comes from a prominent acting family and appeared on the television series Sea Hunt, with his father, Lloyd Bridges and brother, Beau Bridges. His other films include Tron, Jagged Edge, The Fabulous Baker Boys, The Fisher King, Fearless, The Big Lebowski, Seabiscuit, Iron Man, Tron, Legacy, jeffrey Leon Bridges was born on December 4,1949, in Los Angeles, California. He is the son of show business parents, actor Lloyd Bridges and actress and his older brother, Beau Bridges, is also an actor. He has a sister, Lucinda, and had another brother, Garrett. His maternal grandfather was an English emigrant from Liverpool, Bridges and his siblings were raised in the Holmby Hills section of Los Angeles. Growing up, Bridges shared a relationship with his brother Beau. He graduated from University High School in 1967, at age 17, Jeff toured with his father in a stage production of Anniversary Waltz. After graduating from school, Bridges moved to New York City. Also, after turning 18, Bridges joined the United States Coast Guard Reserve, Bridges made his first screen appearance at the age of almost two years in The Company She Keeps in 1951. In his youth, Bridges and brother Beau made occasional appearances on their fathers show Sea Hunt, in 1969, he played Cal Baker, a Jobs Corps crew member, in the TV series Lassie episode Success Story. In 1971, he played the lead role Mike in the TV movie In Search of America and his first major role came in the 1971 film The Last Picture Show, for which he garnered a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He co-starred in the 1972 critically acclaimed boxing film Fat City. He was nominated again for Best Supporting Actor for his performance opposite Clint Eastwood in the 1974 film Thunderbolt, in 1976, he starred as the protagonist Jack Prescott in the first remake of King Kong, opposite Jessica Lange. This film was a success, earning $90 million worldwide, more than triple its $23 million budget. One of his roles was in the 1982 science fiction film Tron, in which he played Kevin Flynn. The same year, he starred in Kiss Me Goodbye. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1984 and he was also acclaimed for his roles in the thriller Against All Odds and the crime drama Jagged Edge
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Pet Sematary Two
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Pet Sematary Two is a 1992 horror film directed by Mary Lambert. The screenplay was written by Richard Outten and it is the sequel to the 1989 film Pet Sematary. The film stars Edward Furlong, Anthony Edwards and Clancy Brown, following the accidental death of his mother Renee during production of her latest film, thirteen-year-old Jeff Matthews and his veterinarian father Chase move to the town of Ludlow, Maine. Jeff learns about the Creed family, and about the cursed Indian burial ground and his friend Drews dog, Zowie, is fatally shot by Gus Gilbert - Drews stepfather, who also happens to be the town sheriff - for chasing Guss pet rabbits. Complicating matters is the fact that Gus was in love with Renee 20 years ago, ever since she turned him down to marry Chase, Gus has been venting his ire on everything and everybody around him. Jeff and Drew bury Zowie at the Indian cemetery, in order to bring the dog back to life and it works, with some side effects, Zowie is uncharacteristically fierce, and the dogs eyes have an unnatural glow to them, even in daylight. Gus grounds Drew for skipping school to bury Zowie, Chase treats Zowie for his gunshot wound, which refuses to heal, even more bizarre is the fact that Zowie has no heartbeat. Chase sends a sample of Zowies blood to a lab and it turns out that Zowies cells have completely deteriorated and are no different from those of a dead canine. Jeff goes to the pet cemetery on Halloween for a night of horror stories, the still-grounded Drew goes along on his moms orders, she wants to get even with Gus for repeatedly and unfavorably comparing her to Renee. Gus comes to the looking for Drew. He beats up his stepson after chasing off all the other kids except Jeff, Gus rips up a gravemarker and is about to hit Drew with it when Zowie appears and fatally mauls Gus, whom the boys subsequently bury at the Indian cemetery. Gus returns to life, he now moves stiffly and rarely speaks, Gus becomes increasingly crude and sadistic, sexually assaulting Drews mother and brutally skinning his pet rabbits for supper. Zowie breaks out of the clinic and kills three cats, before entering Chases home and attacking him, injuring his arm. A day later, Jeff encounters school bully Clyde Parker - who is about to sever Jeffs nose using the wheel-spokes of his own motorcycle when Gus shows up and he sends Jeff home, then murders Clyde as Drew looks on. Gus traps Drew inside their house with the savage Zowie, Drew escapes through a window just as his mother arrives home. Guss police car chases them down the highway, he kills them both, by forcing their car into a collision with a truck. Afterward, Gus drags Clydes body off to the burial ground. That night, Jeff decides to reanimate his mother by using the Indian burial grounds power, Gus exhumes her corpse, and brings it to Jeff at the burial ground
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Young Artist Award
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The 1st Youth In Film Awards ceremony was held in October 1979, at the Sheraton Universal Hotel in Hollywood to honor outstanding young performers of the 1978/1979 season. The 38th Annual Young Artist Awards ceremony, honoring young performers of 2016, was held at the Alex Theatre in Los Angeles, the scholarship program is funded exclusively by donations including contribution from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The Young Artist Awards are presented annually by the Young Artist Association, originally known as the Youth In Film Awards for the first twenty years, the name was officially changed to the Young Artist Awards for the 21st annual awards ceremony in March 2000. Originally held in the autumn in its years, the awards ceremony has traditionally taken place in the spring for more than 20 years. The original Youth In Film Award was a statuette was similar to a miniature Oscar, a gilded figure of a man holding a laurel wreath instead of a sword and standing upon a relatively large trophy style base. The current Young Artist Award statuette, is a figure displaying a Five-pointed star above its head, candidates considered for nomination must be between the ages of 5 and 21 and are usually submitted for consideration by producers or by the young artists agent and/or manager. Submissions are traditionally due by the end of January to mid-February and nominees are announced about one month later at an annual nomination ceremony, winners are selected by members of the Young Artist Association. Today, the Young Artist Association has a board of over 125 members composed of journalists, agents. Winners are selected by ballot of all associated with the Young Artist Association as well as former nominees. The various Young Artist Awards categories have evolved extensively since the first awards were presented, after the ceremony is the annual banquet dinner and then dancing with live musical entertainment often provided by talented young musical artists of the day. The first Youth In Film Awards were presented in October 1979 at a ceremony held at the Sheraton Universal Hotel in Hollywood. Subsequent venues over the years have included the Ambassador Hotels Coconut Grove, the Globe Theater, the Beverly Garland Hotel and the Sportsmens Lodge
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Kathy Bates
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Kathleen Doyle Kathy Bates is an American actress. Bates began her career on the stage, and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Play in 1983 for her performance in night, Mother. She rose to prominence with her performance in Misery, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. She won another Emmy Award in 2012 for her portrayal as the ghost of Charlie Harper on CBS comedy series Two and a Half Men, Bates was born in Memphis, Tennessee, the youngest of three daughters of homemaker Bertye Kathleen and mechanical engineer Langdon Doyle Bates. Her paternal grandfather was lawyer and author Finis L. Bates, One of her Irish great-great-grandfathers, who immigrated to New Orleans, Louisiana, served as President Andrew Jacksons doctor. She graduated from White Station High School and from Southern Methodist University and she moved to New York City in 1970 to pursue an acting career. She was nominated for a Tony Award in 1983 for her role in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play night. The stage production ran for more than a year, mcNally specifically wrote the play for Bates and F. Murray Abraham, who had to drop out and was replaced by Kenneth Welsh. The play was filmed as Frankie and Johnny, starring Al Pacino. She succeeded Amy Irving in the Off-Broadway production of The Road to Mecca in 1988, Bates first feature film role was in the 1971 Miloš Forman comedy Taking Off, in which she sings an original song Even Horses Had Wings. Bates next feature was the Dustin Hoffman film Straight Time, in 1977, Bates made her Soap opera debut as Phyllis on NBCs soap opera The Doctors. From 1983 to 1984, she played prison inmate Belle Bodelle on All My Children and from 1984 to 1985, in 1990 she would appear again with Hoffman in Warren Beattys Dick Tracy as a stenographer. She appeared in films like The Morning After and Summer Heat and she then landed the role of obsessed fan Annie Wilkes, who holds her favorite author captive, in the 1990 thriller film Misery, based on the Stephen King novel. Bates received her first Academy Award nomination for that role, winning Best Actress, soon after, she starred with Jessica Tandy in the acclaimed 1991 movie Fried Green Tomatoes, based on the novel by comedic actress Fannie Flagg. In 1995 Bates played the character in Dolores Claiborne, a film adaptation of another Stephen King novel. In 1997 Bates played Molly Brown in James Camerons Titanic, based on the 1912 sinking of the RMS Titanic, the film went on to earn more than $1.8 billion in box-office receipts worldwide. For this performance, she received her second Academy Award nomination, in 2002 she received her third nomination, for About Schmidt. More recently, she and Terry Bradshaw played the parents of Matthew McConaugheys character in the 2006 film Failure to Launch, Bates was featured in an uncredited cameo in the miniseries of Stephen Kings The Stand
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A Home of Our Own
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A Home of Our Own is a 1993 drama film directed by Tony Bill, starring Kathy Bates and Edward Furlong. It is the story of a mother and her six children trying to establish a home in the town of Hankston. Frances Lacey, a widow, works at a factory that produces potato chips and she is fired when one of the men gropes her, and she hits him in return. The same day, her son is brought home by the police, for stealing change from payphones, shortly after this, Frances decides that Los Angeles is not the place to raise a family. She packs the kids up, sells everything they cant carry and she figures shell know where shes going when she sees it. Their meager resources get them as far as Hankston, Idaho, with winter approaching, the Laceys work hard to make the house habitable. Frances finds a job as a waitress in the shop at a bowling alley in Hankston. Murray inadvertently burns the house down in the dead of winter, the family is picking through the charred remains of the house when Frances finds their meager savings in a blackened jar. Hope is reborn for Frances, but eldest son Shayne angrily demands a reality check, when rebuilding seems impossible, Mr. Munimura arrives with professional town folk and supplies to rebuild. Whether stubborn independent Frances likes it or not, rebuilding has started as Mr. Munimura gives her a comforting hug, Frances relents, but true to character, she states that all will be paid back. Toys, clothes, and blankets are provided for the children. Frances only lets them build the house as far as it was before the fire. Shayne, narrating, says that it took six months to finish the rest of the house, and four years to pay everyone back. Even though he hated Idaho at first, he lives there. Kathy Bates as Frances Lacey Edward Furlong as Shayne Lacey Clarissa Lassig as Lynn Lacey Sarah Schaub as Faye Lacey Miles Feulner as Murray Lacey Amy Sakasitz as Annie Lacey T. J. Lowther as Craig Lacey Soon-Tek Oh as Mr. Munimura Tony Campisi as Norman A Home of Our Own at the Internet Movie Database A Home of Our Own at Rotten Tomatoes A Home of Our Own at Box Office Mojo
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Pecker (film)
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Pecker is a 1998 American comedy-drama film written and directed by John Waters. Like all Waters films, it was filmed and set in Baltimore, the film, starring Edward Furlong, examines the rise to fame and potential fortune of a budding photographer. Pecker, so named for his habit of pecking at his food, stumbles into fame when his work is discovered by a savvy New York art dealer. Peckers pictures, taken with a cheap Canon Canonet 28, are grainy, out-of-focus studies of unglamorous subjects, unfortunately, instant over-exposure has its downside. Roreys efforts to turn Pecker into an art sensation threaten to ruin the low-key lifestyle that was his inspiration and he abandons his trusty old rangefinder camera for a new, full-featured Nikon N50. Pecker finds that his best friend, Matt, cant shoplift anymore now that Peckers photographs have increased his profile, shelley, Peckers obsessive girlfriend who runs a laundromat, seems especially distressed when the press dub her a stain goddess and mistake her good-natured pin-up poses for pornographic come-ons. When his family is dubbed culturally challenged by an overzealous critic, Peckers mother is no longer free to dispense fashion tips to the homeless clientele at her thrift shop. Peckers grandmother, Memama, endures public ridicule when her experience with a statue of the Virgin Mary is exposed on the cover of a national art magazine. Tina, Peckers fag hag older sister, is fired from her job emceeing go-go dancing at a gay bar because Peckers edgy photographs chronicle the sex practices of the clubs patrons. Instead, he forces New York art collectors to come to Baltimore to see his latest photographs, Pecker is then asked what he plans to do next. He replies that he would like to direct a film, critical reaction to Pecker was mixed, but tended toward the positive. It holds a 52% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 44 reviews and it holds a 66 out of 100 based on 24 reviews on Metacritic. In his review for the Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert noted a tension between the gentler new Waters and his anarchic past. In the scenes in the strip bar, for example, we keep waiting for Waters to break loose and shock us. The miraculous statue of Mary could have provided comic possibilities, the soundtrack was released on September 22,1998 by New Line Records. Happy-Go-Lucky Me – Paul Evans The Love Chase – Stewart Copeland Im a Nut – Leroy Pullins Memamam – Stewart Copeland Uh
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American History X
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The film was released in the United States on October 30,1998 and was distributed by New Line Cinema. The film tells the story of two brothers from Venice, Los Angeles who become involved in the neo-Nazi movement, the older brother serves three years in prison for voluntary manslaughter, changes his beliefs and tries to prevent his brother from going down the same path. The film is told in the style of nonlinear narrative, made on a budget of $20 million, the film grossed $24 million at the worldwide box office. Critics mostly praised the film and Nortons performance, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, in September 2008, Empire magazine named it the 311th Greatest Movie of All Time. High school student Danny Vinyard receives an assignment from his history teacher Mr. Murray to write a paper on any book which relates to the struggle for human rights, knowing Murray is Jewish, Danny writes his paper on Adolf Hitlers Mein Kampf. A few years prior, Danny and Dereks father Dennis Vinyard was murdered by drug dealers after being sent on a call to fight a fire in a drug den. In a television interview conducted after Denniss death, Derek erupts in a long racist tirade, shortly thereafter, Cameron Alexander and Derek form a white supremacist gang called the D. O. C. As a skilled player, Derek is reluctantly dragged into a 3-on-3 game against several members of the Crips in which the prize is control of the recreation center basketball courts. After winning with his friends, Derek leads a gang of skinheads to attack a supermarket owned by a Korean that included African-American. Dereks mother Doris invites Murray, whom she is dating, home for dinner, Derek is given a job in the prison laundry and assigned to be the partner of Lamont, a black man who is serving six years for the putative assault of a police officer. The pair later develop a rapport from their love of basketball. Derek joins the Aryan Brotherhood, but after about a year, as punishment, he is restrained, beaten, and sodomised in the shower by the Aryan Brotherhood members, Derek recovers and is visited by Sweeney, whom he asks for help to be paroled. Sweeney informs him of Dannys involvement with neo-Nazis, and warns that he is on the path as Derek. Derek further distances himself from the Aryan Brotherhood and spends the remainder of his time in prison alone, finally realizing the error of his ways, Derek leaves prison a changed man. Upon arriving home, he finds that Danny has a D. O. C, tattoo and tries to persuade him to leave the gang. After leaving the party, Derek tells Danny about his experience in prison, the next morning, Danny finishes his paper, which reflects on why he had adopted Nazi values and why they were deeply flawed. Derek gets ready for a meeting with his parole officer, Derek walks Danny to school before his meeting, and on their way they stop at a diner. Sweeney and a police officer tell Derek that his friend Seth Ryan, Derek arrives at the school and mourns for Danny
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Edward Norton
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Edward Harrison Norton is an American actor, filmmaker and activist. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards for his work in the films Primal Fear, American History X and Birdman and he also starred in other roles, such as Everyone Says I Love You, The People vs. Larry Flynt, Fight Club, Red Dragon, 25th Hour, Kingdom of Heaven, The Illusionist, Moonrise Kingdom, The Grand Budapest Hotel and he has also directed and co-written films, including his directorial debut, Keeping the Faith. He has done uncredited work on the scripts for The Score, Frida, Norton is president of the American branch of the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust. He ran in the 2009 New York City Marathon to raise money for the Trust and he also raises money for charity through Crowdrise, a social networking community for volunteers and a micro-donations fundraising platform. In July 2010, Norton was designated as the United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for Biodiversity by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, on July 2,2014, Norton was elected chairman of the board of trustees to Signature Theatre, a not-for-profit theater company in New York. Norton has been on Signatures board since 1996 and served as the co-chair of the Capital Campaign during the building of the Pershing Square Signature Center, Norton was born in Boston, Massachusetts and raised in Columbia, Maryland. His mother, Lydia Robinson Robin, a teacher of English, Norton has two younger siblings, Molly and Jim, with whom he has professionally collaborated. He graduated in 1987 from Columbias Wilde Lake High School, where his classmates included New York City Council member Mark Levine, after graduation, Norton worked in Osaka, Japan, consulting for his grandfathers company, Enterprise Community Partners, and speaks some Japanese. He appeared in an EFL textbook, Only in America, used by Nova and he moved to New York City to star in the Off-Broadway theater, breaking through with his 1993 involvement in Edward Albees Fragments, at the Signature Theatre Company. In his film debut Primal Fear, Norton played Aaron Stampler, a boy charged with the murder of a Roman Catholic Archbishop. The film is an adaptation of William Diehls novel, ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly wrote, Norton gives a performance thats fully the equal of Geres – hes as slyly self-effacing as Gere is slyly ostentatious. Despite the mixed reviews, Norton won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and that same year, Norton played lawyer Alan Isaacman in The People vs. In 1998, he played Derek Vinyard, a reformed neo-Nazi, in the film American History X, David Denby of The New Yorker noted that he gives Derek ambiguous erotic allure, the film received positive reviews and grossed over $23 million worldwide at the box office. His performance earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, later, Norton starred with Matt Damon in Rounders, which follows two friends who urgently need to earn enough cash playing poker to pay off a huge debt. In David Finchers 1999 film Fight Club, Norton played an unreliable narrator who feels trapped in his white-collar position and it is based on Chuck Palahniuks novel of the same name. To prepare for the role, Norton took lessons in boxing, taekwondo, Fight Club premiered at the 1999 Venice International Film Festival. During promotion for the film, he said, I feel that Fight Club really, probed into the despair and paralysis that people feel in the face of having inherited this value system out of advertising
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Little Odessa (film)
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Little Odessa is a 1995 American crime drama film written and directed by James Gray, in his directorial debut, and starring Tim Roth, Edward Furlong, Moira Kelly and Vanessa Redgrave. The film earned a Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival and it also earned admiration from French master Claude Chabrol. The film follows the relationship between a father, Arkady Shapira, his terminally ill wife Irina, and his two sons, Joshua and Reuben. Joshua, the elder, is a hit-man for the Jewish-Russian mafia in Brooklyn, after things go sour Joshua executes a man at a phone booth, which angers the mafia. Alla asks Reuben if he has seen Joshua anywhere and the three go together to see a movie, eventually Reuben takes Joshua home to see his parents again, but Arkady kicks him out. Joshua then meets up with friends who have captured a man who assaulted the mafia, Joshua, the next day, when Reuben is riding his bike, two men push him to the ground and tell him that Joshua is a dead man. With the mafia looking for him, Joshua stays at Allas, two mafiosi who are looking for Joshua search Allas neighborhood. Reuben finds out one of Joshuas accomplices where Alla lives and rides there on his bike to warn his brother. One of the mafia finds Alla outside hanging out washing and shoots her before escaping, Reuben finds Allas body and shoots the second would-be assassin. Joshua arrives on the spot and sees somebody behind the sheet that Alla had hung out to dry, without warning one of Joshuas gang members shoots this person through the sheet, believing he is one of the men looking for him. When he looks behind the sheet, he sees that he killed Joshuas brother Reuben and he runs off before Joshua can show up. Afterwards Joshua takes his brothers body, wrapped in the sheet, natasha Little Odessa at the Internet Movie Database Little Odessa at Box Office Mojo Little Odessa at Rotten Tomatoes
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Brainscan
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Brainscan is a 1994 horror science fiction film starring Edward Furlong, Frank Langella, Amy Hargreaves, Jamie Marsh, and T. Music was composed by movie composer George S. Clinton, a lonely boy named Michael Brower lives an isolated existence in his absent fathers mansion. Michaels mother was killed in a car accident, which also injured his leg. He spends his spare time stalking his crush, a typical girl-next-door named Kimberly, a huge fan of horror films and video games, Michaels only friend is a similar-minded misfit named Kyle. Kyle tells Michael about a new, ultra-realistic game called Brainscan, intrigued, Michael sends away for the first disc. The game begins strangely, with a screen informing him that the experience has much in common with hypnotic suggestion. During his first experience with the game, Michael is encouraged to act as a murderer by the games host. In-game, Michael murders a stranger and takes his foot as a trophy, later, he is horrified to discover that his victim in the game was a real person, and that the same murder also happened in the real world. Kyle begs Michael to let him play the game, and Michael angrily rebuffs him, later Michael is tormented by Trickster, who exits the game and plays a song by the musical group Primus in Michaels bedroom. Because he is a witness to the earlier murder, Trickster tells Michael he must kill Kyle. Michael doesnt remember Kyles murder and calls his house, the phone is answered by a policeman, Detective Hayden. Michael becomes paranoid that he will be sent to jail and he is also continually annoyed by the presence of Trickster, who refuses to leave his home. Trickster ultimately instructs him to kill Kimberly, at nightfall Michael sneaks into her room, but refuses to hurt her. Trickster reveals that he is actually the part of Michael. He possesses Michael, the struggle of which wakes Kimberly, Kimberly tells Michael that she loves him, which allows him to break free from his own inner darkness. At the last minute, the Trickster materializes and opens the bedroom door, Detective Hayden enters and shoots Michael dead. He discovers that the experience was a fantasy. After a short tantrum, ranting at the game for his experiences, he excitedly realizes that Kyle is still alive
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The Grass Harp (film)
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The Grass Harp is a 1995 American comedy-drama film based on the novella by Truman Capote, the screenplay was the final work of Oscar-winning screenwriter Stirling Silliphant. The film was directed by Charles Matthau, and starred Piper Laurie, Sissy Spacek, Walter Matthau, Edward Furlong, Piper Laurie won the Best Supporting Actress award from the Southeastern Film Critics Association for her work on the film. He soon discovers that the Talbo household is anything but normal, to escape Verenas oppression, Dolly, Collin, and Catherine run away to an old tree house in the woods. Their rebellion sparks a series of events that change their lives, a controlling entrepreneur with most of the town in her pocket, Dollys sister. An orphan sent to live with Dolly and Verena, a quick-witted house maid and Dollys friend. Walter Matthau as Judge Charlie Cool, a former judge attempting to find meaning in his retirement years, Dollys love interest. The effeminate town barber and gossip, jack Lemmon as Dr. Morris Ritz. A con man who charms Verena, sean Patrick Flanery as Riley Henderson. Collins friend and eventual competitor for the affections of Maude, joe Don Baker as Sheriff Junius Candle. Colins father, who leaves him with Dolly and Verena after the death of his wife, ray McKinnon as Charlie Cool Jr. The Grass Harp feature film was based on Truman Capotes 1951 semi-autobiographical novel of the same name. The screenplay was written by Stirling Silliphant and Kirk Ellis, silliphants prior credits included In the Heat of the Night, The Towering Inferno, and The Poseidon Adventure. The film was directed by Charles Matthau, son of Walter Matthau and it was filmed on location in Wetumpka, Alabama. The Los Angeles Times review called it a film and one that celebrates rebirth and renewal. Variety called it a sensitive screenplay adaptation and noted the films ensemble cast. Despite generally good reviews, the film did poorly at the box office, with an estimated budget of $9 million, the film grossed only roughly $1.5 million in ticket sales. Official website New York Times review of The Grass Harp The Grass Harp at the Internet Movie Database The Grass Harp at AllMovie The Grass Harp at Rotten Tomatoes
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Before and After (film)
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Before and After is a 1996 American crime drama-mystery film based on the 1992 novel of the same title by American writer Rosellen Brown. The movie was directed by Barbet Schroeder and starred Meryl Streep as Dr. Carolyn Ryan, Liam Neeson as Ben Ryan, Edward Furlong as Jacob Ryan, and Julia Weldon as Judith Ryan. In a small western Massachusetts town, Dr. Carolyn Ryan and their world is shattered when Sheriff Fran Conklin tells them that Martha Taverner has been killed and witnesses saw Jacob with her just before she died. When he asks to speak with Jacob, the realizes that hes not in his room as they thought. Conklin asks to look at Jacobs car, but Ben refuses, when Conklin asks Judith where Jacob is, Ben demands the sheriff get a warrant. When Conklin leaves, Ben inspects Jacobs car, finding clothes and he burns the clothes and cleans the jack before the police return. When he tells Carolyn what he has done, she is afraid that Ben may have destroyed evidence that could help them find Jacob, the Ryans plaster the town with signs trying to find Jacob, but the town ostracizes them, assuming Jacob is a murderer. Postcards start to arrive from Jacob, over the course of five weeks, he sends postcards from all over the country. Carolyn is convinced that hes been kidnapped and wants to alert the police, Ben remains wary of disclosing anything, insisting they must keep the postcards a secret. Eventually Jacob is caught and brought home to stand trial. For the first several days, he is catatonic, only speaking aloud to enter his plea at the arraignment and he speaks to Judith in their treehouse when she asks him if he really traveled all over the country. He explained that he would take the train to the Boston airport once a week and he would explain that he had just returned from a vacation there but forgotten to mail the postcards to his parents, and he did not want them to think hed forgotten them. The travelers would mail the cards for him when they arrived at their destination, the family receives a harassing phone call from one of the townspeople. Ben playfully toys with the caller, but offers a defense of his son. Touched by his fathers sincerity, Jacob opens up and explains what happened and he had been fighting with Martha when she revealed that she was pregnant, in addition to the fact that she had been sleeping with several other boys. They made up, but while they love in Jacobs car. Unable to free the car through a variety of methods, they decided to try to one end of the car up while they packed snow under the other end. Their fight reignited and got violent, Martha swung a crowbar at Jacob and missed him by an inch
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Meryl Streep
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Mary Louise Meryl Streep is an American actress and philanthropist. Nominated for 20 Academy Awards, Streep has more nominations than any actor or actress. Streep has also received 30 Golden Globe nominations, winning eight—more nominations, Streep made her professional stage debut in Trelawny of the Wells in 1975, and in 1976 received a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play for 27 Wagons Full of Cotton. She made her debut in the 1977 television film The Deadliest Season. In 1978, she won an Emmy Award for her role in the miniseries Holocaust and she went on to win Best Supporting Actress for Kramer vs. Kramer, and Best Actress for Sophies Choice and The Iron Lady. President Barack Obama awarded her the 2010 National Medal of Arts, in 2003, the government of France made her a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters. In 2017, Streep was awarded the Golden Globe Cecil B. Mary Louise Streep was born on June 22,1949, in Summit, New Jersey, the daughter of Mary Wolf Wilkinson, a commercial artist and art editor, the eldest child, she has two younger brothers, Dana David and Harry William III. Streeps father Harry was of German and Swiss ancestry and her fathers lineage traces back to Loffenau, Germany, from where her second great-grandfather, Gottfried Streeb, immigrated to the United States, and where one of her ancestors served as mayor. Another line of her fathers family was from Giswil, Switzerland and her mother had English, German, and Irish ancestry. Some of Streeps maternal ancestors lived in Pennsylvania and Rhode Island and were descended from 17th-century immigrants from England and her eighth great-grandfather, Lawrence Wilkinson, was one of the first Europeans to settle in Rhode Island. Streep is also a distant relative of William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, Streeps maternal great-great-grandparents, Manus McFadden and Grace Strain, the namesake of Streeps second daughter, were natives of the Horn Head district of Dunfanaghy, Ireland. Streeps mother, whom she has compared in both appearance and manner to Dame Judi Dench, strongly encouraged her daughter and instilled confidence in her from a young age. Streep has said, She was a mentor because she said to me, Meryl and she was saying, You can do whatever you put your mind to. If youre lazy, youre not going to get it done, but if you put your mind to it, you can do anything. Although Streep was naturally more introverted than her mother, at times when she later needed an injection of confidence in adulthood, she would consult her mother, asking her for advice. Streep was raised as a Presbyterian in Basking Ridge, New Jersey and attended Cedar Hill Elementary School and the Oak Street School, in her Junior High debut, she starred as Lousie Heller in the play The Family Upstairs. In 1963 the family moved to Bernardsville, New Jersey, where she attended Bernards High School
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Liam Neeson
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Liam John Neeson, OBE, is an actor from Northern Ireland. In 1976, he joined the Lyric Players Theatre in Belfast for two years and he then acted in the Arthurian film, Excalibur. Between 1982 and 1987, Neeson starred in five films, most notably alongside Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins in The Bounty and Robert De Niro and he landed a leading role alongside Patrick Swayze in Next of Kin. He rose to prominence when he starred in the role in Steven Spielbergs 1993 Oscar winner Schindlers List. Empire magazine ranked Neeson among both the 100 Sexiest Stars in Film History and The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time. Neeson was born in Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, the son of Katherine Kitty Neeson, a cook, and Bernard Barney Neeson and he was raised as a Roman Catholic and was named Liam after the local priest. He said growing up as a Catholic in a predominately Protestant town made him cautious, the third of four siblings, he has three sisters, Elizabeth, Bernadette and Rosaleen. At age nine, Neeson began boxing lessons at the All Saints Youth Club, Neeson first stepped on stage at age 11 after his English teacher offered him the lead role in a school play, which he accepted because the girl he was attracted to was starring in it. He continued to act in school productions over the following years, Neesons interest in acting and decision to become an actor was also influenced by minister Ian Paisley, into whose Free Presbyterian church Neeson would sneak. Neeson has said of Paisley, He had a magnificent presence and it was acting, but it was also great acting and stirring too. In 1971, Neeson was enrolled as a physics and computer science student at Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland, at Queens, he discovered a talent for football and was spotted by Seán Thomas at Bohemian F. C. There was a trial in Dublin and Neeson played one game as a substitute against Shamrock Rovers F. C. After leaving the university, Neeson returned to Ballymena where he worked in a variety of casual jobs and he also attended teacher training college for two years in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, before again returning to his hometown. In 1976, Neeson joined the Lyric Players Theatre in Belfast where he performed for two years and he got his first film experience in 1977, playing Jesus Christ and Evangelist in the religious film Pilgrims Progress. Neeson moved to Dublin in 1978 after he was offered a part in Ron Hutchinsons Says I, Says He and he acted in several other Project productions and joined the Abbey Theatre. In 1980, filmmaker John Boorman saw him on stage as Lennie Small in Of Mice and Men and offered him the role of Sir Gawain in the Arthurian film, Excalibur. After Excalibur, Neeson moved to London, where he continued working on stage, in small budget films and he lived with the actress Helen Mirren at this time, whom he met working on Excalibur. Between 1982 and 1987, Neeson starred in five films, most notably alongside Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins in 1984s The Bounty and Robert De Niro and Jeremy Irons in 1986s The Mission
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Universal Parks & Resorts
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Universal Parks & Resorts, commonly and also known as Universal Studios Theme Parks or solely Universal Theme Parks, is the theme park subsidiary of NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast. The subsidiary, headquartered in Orlando, Florida, US, operates Universal theme parks, Universal Parks & Resorts is best known for attractions and lands based on famous classic and modern pop culture properties from not only NBCUniversal but also other companies, for all of its parks. The popularity of Universal Studios Hollywood had lead Universal to another parks in Florida, the theme parks were owned by Seagram through the ownership via Universal Studios. In 2014, approximately 40. 1+million guests visited Universal Studios theme parks and it is a major competitor of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, and SeaWorld Entertainment. In 1990, Universal Orlando Resorts opened to the public in Orlando, Florida, in 1999, Universal Orlando had expanded into a vacation resort, with the opening of Islands of Adventure theme park, a Floridian version of the CityWalk district complex, the series of hotels. Volcano Bay Opens 2017 Construction was already underway when Universal Orlando officially announced the project, costa Caribe Aquatic Park, Salou, Spain Wet n Wild Orlando A chain of entertainment, dinning, and shopping districts located at various Universal Parks & Resorts worldwide, except Singapore. See the main page, click here Universal Studios incorporates replicas of attractions, the pages linked above contain comprehensive lists of the attractions and lands at Universal theme parks. Most of the attractions and lands are based on Universal licenses, incidents at Universal parks List of licensed properties at Universal Parks & Resorts Walt Disney Parks & Resorts, Universal Parks & Resorts well-known competitor
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T2 3-D: Battle Across Time
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T2 3-D, Battle Across Time is an attraction at various Universal Studios parks around the world including those in Florida and Japan. The version of the show at Universal Studios Hollywood closed in 2012, the initial planning for T2 3-D, Battle Across Time began in the early 1990s. It was originally developed for Universal Studios Florida, with producers pushing for an installation in Universal Studios Hollywood during development. The original attraction cost a total of $60 million, with a total run time of 12 minutes, the film alone cost $24 million, making it one of the most expensive films per minute in the world. The attraction opened in the Hollywood area of Universal Studios Florida on April 27,1996, additional venues were later announced for Universal Studios Hollywood and the upcoming Universal Studios Japan theme park. Construction for the Hollywood venue forced the closure of Fievels Playland and An American Tail Theatre, the attraction opened on the Upper Lot of Universal Studios Hollywood on May 6,1999. The Terminator stage was used for the annual Halloween Horror Nights event, with The Rocky Horror Picture Show. At Universal Studios Japan, the attraction was added as one of the attractions in the New York section of the park. It opened to the public on March 31,2001, california-based firm Technifex provided special effects and show equipment for the attraction. In late 2012, Universal Studios Hollywood announced that their version would close on December 31,2012 and it was later announced Despicable Me, Minion Mayhem would replace the attraction. The queue features dozens of monitors that show a series of video segments about the latest innovations. Just before entering the auditorium, guests pass an unmanned kiosk where they pick up a pair of safety visors for use during the main show. The pre-show is hosted in the Miles Bennett Dyson Memorial Auditorium by Kimberley Duncan and other Cyberdyne Systems Directors of Community Relations, here, the audience stands and views a promotional video about Cyberdynes numerous technological innovations, which includes several references to the Terminator universe. However, footage from the old pre-show, like the parts with John and Sarah Connor interrupting the presentation to warn the guests, remain. Guests are ushered from the auditorium into a large theater that seats 700 where they are to see a demonstration of Cyberdynes newest creation. Once guests are seated, they are told to put on their safety visors to watch a demonstration of the Terminators in action, however, John and Sarah arrive and disrupt the proceedings, followed by a T-1000 Terminator from the future, whom they engage with automatic-weapons. Kimberley Duncan is killed by the T-1000 while attempting to stop it and he takes John back through the portal and into the future war between humans and machines, with the T-1000 in pursuit. After defeating it, John and the Terminator make their way across the war ravaged landscape as they head towards Skynet, along the way, they are chased by a Flying Hunter-Killer, four mini Hunter-Killers, and a Terminator endoskeleton
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Detroit Rock City (film)
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Detroit Rock City is a 1999 American comedy film directed by Adam Rifkin and written by Carl V. Dupré. It tells of four boys in a Kiss cover band who try to see their idols in concert in Detroit in 1978. Comparable to Rock n Roll High School, Dazed and Confused, The Stöned Age and it ultimately took its title from the Kiss song of the same name. The film was shot at Cedarbrae Collegiate Institute in Scarborough, Toronto, other Ontario locations include Copps Coliseum, Hamilton, Ontario. In Cleveland, Ohio, fall of 1978, a woman is relaxing at home. While sipping a red wine and reading while humming The Carpenters Weve Only Just Begun, when she discovers the record being Kiss Love Gun album and a secret cache of Kiss albums, she is revealed to be ultra-conservative when she says Kiss, the devils music. Meanwhile, four teenage boys in a Kiss cover band named Mystery practice the Kiss song Rock. Later, the woman from the beginning races up to the house where the boys are hanging out. She is revealed to be his mother, Mrs. Bruce, later discovering the tickets, she burns them and has Jam transferred to a Catholic boarding school. The three remaining boys hear a radio contest for tickets to the show and Trip ends up winning them, the boys then plan to rescue Jam from the boarding school. Under the guise of pizza delivery for Father Phillip McNulty, the Catholic priest who serves as the chaplain and rector, when he interviews Jam, the three boys deliver it and succeed in drugging him. With him drugged, he tells Jam that he can leave, with them reunited, they set off for Detroit in Lexs mothers car. The enraged Kenny pulls over, pulls Hawk out of the car, upset by Kennys behavior, Christine leaves. Using improvised weapons like a belt with a Kiss buckle, a chain, and drumsticks. They win and, after leaving Kenny and Bobby tied to the guardrail with Kiss makeup on, continuing on their way, they come upon Christine and offer her a ride to the city. Upon arrival, the boys discover that Trip did not stay on the phone long enough to give the station his information. Back outside, Lex notices that the car has been stolen and they suspect Christine, who they left in it. Hawk then suggests that they go their ways in order to find Kiss tickets, and agree to meet in the same place in an hour
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Animal Factory
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Animal Factory is a 2000 crime drama film about life in prison, set in San Quentin. Ron Decker, a man convicted for drug possession, is sent to prison where veteran con Earl Copen takes Decker under his wing. Over the next few days, Copen helps Decker out by getting him jobs, food. However, after large inmate Buck Rowan attempts to rape Decker in the bathroom, Decker stabs Rowan in a fight involving Copen, Rowan signs a statement claiming Decker and Copen are responsible and their cells are stripped and they are restricted to them. Because of the stabbing, Deckers attempt at a sentence is denied. Meanwhile, Copen manages to get word out Rowan is snitching, the case against Copen and Decker is thrown out as the victim and main witness is dead. Shortly after their release, Copen tells Decker he plans to escape, Decker escapes in one truck, Copen however stays behind, unable to jump into the truck after the appearance of one of the prison guards. Hosspack Antony Hegarty makes an appearance as a prisoner performing at a musical night in the prison. Animal Factory was filmed at Holmesburg Prison in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, filming was completed in 30 days, two days longer than originally scheduled. Buscemi employed hundreds of prisoners from Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility, the prison that replaced Holmesburg Prison in 1995, the film is based upon the novel of the same name by writer Edward Bunker. Bunker, who has a part in the film, also co-starred alongside Animal Factorys director Buscemi in Quentin Tarantinos Reservoir Dogs. The film received positive reviews, it was highly praised at the Sundance Film Festival. It currently holds an rating of 81% at Rotten Tomatoes based on 33 reviews. Animal Factory at the Internet Movie Database Animal Factory at AllMovie Animal Factory at Box Office Mojo Animal Factory at Rotten Tomatoes Animal Factory at Metacritic
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Mexican people
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Mexicans are the people of the United Mexican States, a multiethnic country in North America. Mexicans can also be those who identify with the Mexican cultural and/or national identity, the Mexica founded Mexico-Tenochtitlan in 1325 as an altepetl located on an island in Lake Texcoco, in the Valley of Mexico. It became the capital of the expanding Mexica Empire in the 15th century, at its peak, it was the largest city in the Pre-Columbian Americas. It subsequently became a cabecera of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, today the ruins of Tenochtitlan are located in the central part of Mexico City. In 2015,21. 5% of Mexicos population in Mexico self-identify as being indigenous, there are about 12 million Mexican nationals residing outside of Mexico, with about 11.7 million living in the United States. The larger Mexican diaspora can also include individuals that trace ancestry to Mexico, the Nahuatl language was a common tongue in the region of modern Central Mexico during the Aztec Empire, but after the arrival of Europeans the common language of the region became Spanish. Mexicano is derived from the word Mexico itself, in the principal model to create demonyms in Spanish, the suffix -ano is added to the name of the place of origin. Another hypothesis suggests that Mēxihco derives from the Nahuatl words for Moon and this meaning might then refer to Tenochtitlans position in the middle of Lake Texcoco. The system of interconnected lakes, of which Texcoco formed the center, had the form of a rabbit, still another hypothesis suggests that it is derived from Mēctli, the goddess of maguey. The term Mexicano as a word to describe the different peoples of the region of Mexico as a group emerged in the 16th century. In that time the term did not apply to a nationality nor to the limits of the modern Mexican Republic. The document stated, el venturoso descubrimiento que los Mexicanos han hecho, Mexican politicians and reformers such as José Vasconcelos and Manuel Gamio were instrumental in building a Mexican national identity on the concept of mestizaje. The word has somewhat pejorative connotations and most of the Mexican citizens who would be defined as mestizos in the sociological literature would probably self-identify primarily as Mexicans, in Chiapas the word Ladino is used instead of mestizo. White Mexicans are Mexican citizens of full European descent, another group in Mexico, the mestizos, also include people with varying amounts of European ancestry, with some having a European admixture superior to 90%. Because of this, the line between whites and mestizos has become rather blur, and the Mexican government decided to abandon racial classifications. Intermixing would produce a group which would become the majority by the time of Independence. However, at its height, the immigrant population in Mexico never exceeded twenty percent of the total. Many of these came with money to invest and/or ties to allow them to become prominent in business
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Russians
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Russians are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Eastern Europe. The majority of Russians inhabit the state of Russia, while notable minorities exist in Ukraine, Kazakhstan. A large Russian diaspora exists all over the world, with numbers in the United States, Germany, Israel. Russians are the most numerous group in Europe. They are predominantly Orthodox Christians by religion, the Russian language is official in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan, and also spoken as a secondary language in many former Soviet states. There are two Russian words which are translated into English as Russians. One is русские, which most often means ethnic Russians, another is россияне, which means citizens of Russia. The former word refers to ethnic Russians, regardless of what country they live in, under certain circumstances this term may or may not extend to denote members of other Russian-speaking ethnic groups from Russia, or from the former Soviet Union. The latter word refers to all people holding citizenship of Russia, regardless of their ethnicity, translations into other languages often do not distinguish these two groups. The name of the Russians derives from the Rus people, the name Rus would then have the same origin as the Finnish and Estonian names for Sweden, Ruotsi and Rootsi. According to other theories the name Rus is derived from Proto-Slavic *roud-s-ь, the modern Russians formed from two groups of East Slavic tribes, Northern and Southern. The tribes involved included the Krivichs, Ilmen Slavs, Radimichs, Vyatiches, genetic studies show that modern Russians do not differ significantly from Belarusians and Ukrainians. Some ethnographers, like Zelenin, affirm that Russians are more similar to Belarusians, such Uralic peoples included the Merya and the Muromians. Outside archaeological remains, little is known about the predecessors to Russians in general prior to 859 AD when the Primary Chronicle starts its records and it is thought that by 600 AD, the Slavs had split linguistically into southern, western, and eastern branches. Later, both Belarusians and South Russians formed on this ethnic linguistic ground, the same Slavic ethnic population also settled the present-day Tver Oblast and the region of Beloozero. With the Uralic substratum, they formed the tribes of the Krivichs, in 2010, the worlds Russian population was 129 million people of which 86% were in Russia,11. 5% in the CIS and Baltic countries, with a further 2. 5% living in other countries. Roughly 111 million ethnic Russians live in Russia, 80% of whom live in the European part of Russia, ethnic Russians historically migrated throughout the area of former Russian Empire and Soviet Union, sometimes encouraged to re-settle in borderlands by the Tsarist and later Soviet government. On some occasions ethnic Russian communities, such as Lipovans who settled in the Danube delta or Doukhobors in Canada, after the Russian Revolution and Russian Civil War starting in 1917, many Russians were forced to leave their homeland fleeing the Bolshevik regime, and millions became refugees
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Saturn Award
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The award was initially, and is still sometimes, loosely referred to as a Golden Scroll. The Saturn Awards were created in 1973 and are the oldest Award ceremony dedicated to science fiction, fantasy. The physical award is a representation of the planet Saturn, with its ring composed of film, the Saturn Awards are voted upon by members of the presenting Academy. The Academy is a organization with membership open to the public. Its members include filmmakers Jeff Rector, Rich Correll, Tom De Santo, Mark A. Altman and Irwin Keyes, among others. Although the Award still primarily focuses on films and television in the fiction, fantasy and horror categories. There are also awards for lifetime achievement in film production. The 42nd Saturn Awards were held on June 22,2016, in Burbank, the Saturn Awards are often criticized for having a broad and inconsistent definition of genres, as well as for nominating and awarding movies not related to sci-fi, fantasy or horror. Hugo Award Scream Awards Official website Saturn Awards 2009 at FEARnet Saturn Award at the Internet Movie Database
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Pasadena, California
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Pasadena /ˌpæsəˈdiːnə/ is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. As of 2013, the population of Pasadena was 139,731. Pasadena is the ninth-largest city in Los Angeles County, Pasadena was incorporated on June 19,1886, becoming one of the first cities be incorporated in what is now Los Angeles County, the only one being incorporated earlier being its namesake. It is one of the cultural centers of the San Gabriel Valley. The city is known for hosting the annual Rose Bowl football game, the original inhabitants of Pasadena and surrounding areas were members of the Native American Hahamog-na tribe, a branch of the Tongva Nation. They spoke the Tongva language and had lived in the Los Angeles Basin for thousands of years, Tongva dwellings lined the Arroyo Seco in present day Pasadena and south to where it joins the Los Angeles River and along other natural waterways in the city. The native people lived in thatched, dome-shape lodges and they lived on a diet of acorn meal, seeds and herbs, venison, and other small animals. They traded for fish with the coastal Tongva. They made cooking vessels from steatite soapstone from Catalina Island, the trail has been in continuous use for thousands of years. An arm of the trail is still in use in what is now known as Salvia Canyon. When the Spanish occupied the Los Angeles Basin they built the San Gabriel Mission and renamed the local Tongva people Gabrielino Indians, today, several bands of Tongva people live in the Los Angeles area. The Rancho comprised the lands of todays communities of Pasadena, Altadena, before the annexation of California in 1848, the last of the Mexican owners was Manuel Garfias who retained title to the property after statehood in 1850. Garfias sold sections of the property to the first Anglo settlers to come into the area, Dr. Benjamin Eaton, the father of Fred Eaton, much of the property was purchased by Benjamin Wilson, who established his Lake Vineyard property in the vicinity. Wilson, known as Don Benito to the local Indians, also owned the Rancho Jurupa and was mayor of Los Angeles and he was the grandfather of WWII General George S. Patton, Jr. and the namesake of Mount Wilson. Berry was an asthmatic and claimed that he had his best three nights sleep at Rancho San Pascual, to keep the find a secret, Berry code-named the area Muscat after the grape that Wilson grew. To raise funds to bring the company of people to San Pascual, Berry formed the Southern California Orange and Citrus Growers Association and sold stock in it. The newcomers were able to purchase a portion of the property along the Arroyo Seco and on January 31,1874. As a gesture of good will, Wilson added 2,000 acres of then-useless highland property, at the time, the Indiana Colony was a narrow strip of land between the Arroyo Seco and Fair Oaks Avenue
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Boys & Girls Clubs of America
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Boys & Girls Clubs of America is a national organization of local chapters which provide after-school programs for young people. BGCA is tax-exempt and partially funded by the federal government, the Clubs former president, Roxanne Spillett, received a base salary in 2011 of $455,829 with an additional $116,000 bonus and $1.2 million in deferred compensation and retirement. The first Boys Club was founded in 1860 in Hartford, Connecticut by three women, Elizabeth Hamersley and sisters Mary and Alice Goodwin, in 1906,53 independent Boys Clubs came together in Boston to form a national organization, the Federated Boys Clubs. In 1931, the organization renamed itself Boys Clubs of America, as of 2010, there are over 4,000 autonomous local clubs, which are affiliates of the national organization. In total these clubs serve over four million boys and girls, Clubs can be found in all fifty states as well as locations in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and US military bases. In total, Boys & Girls Clubs of America employ about 50,000 staff members, the Chronicle of Philanthropy ranked Boys & Girls Clubs of America number one among youth organizations for the 13th consecutive year, and number 12 among all nonprofit organizations. The Boys & Girls Clubs of America is the charity of Major League Baseball. Denzel Washington, a club member, has been the spokesperson for Boys & Girls Clubs of America since 1993. As of 2012, Boys & Girls Clubs of America served some 4 million youth through club membership and these people came together in 1956 to create the Boys Clubs of America, Herbert Hoover, 31st president of the United States William E. Hall, U. S. Medal of Honor recipient Albert L. Cole, CEO. of Readers Digest James A. Farley, United States Postmaster General Albert C
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Tim Roth
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Timothy Simon Tim Roth is an English actor and director. He made his role in the 1982 television film Made in Britain. He garnered critical acclaim for his role as Myron in the 1984 film The Hit, Roth gained more attention for his performances in The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, Vincent & Theo and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. He later earned international recognition for appearing in Quentin Tarantinos films, such as Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Four Rooms and The Hateful Eight. For the historical drama Rob Roy, Roth won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and he made his directorial debut with The War Zone, for which he received numerous accolades. Roth attended the Strand School in Tulse Hill, as a young man, he wanted to be a sculptor and studied at Londons Camberwell College of Art. Roth made his acting début at the age of 21, playing a white power skinhead named Trevor in a 1982 TV film titled Made in Britain. He played an East End character in King of the Ghetto and he played a shy young man in the 1984 Mike Leigh film Meantime. In 1985, he appeared in the television film Murder with Mirrors and he played an apprentice hitman in Stephen Frears The Hit, earning an Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Newcomer. In 1989 he had a role as the buffoonish lackey Mitchell in Peter Greenaways The Cook. In 1990, he starred as Vincent van Gogh in Robert Altmans Vincent & Theo, Roth and other young British actors of the time, such as Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Daniel Day-Lewis, Bruce Payne, and Paul McGann, were dubbed the Brit Pack. Roth was cast as Mr. Orange in Quentin Tarantinos 1992 film Reservoir Dogs, in 1994, Tarantino cast him as a robber in Pulp Fiction. They also collaborated in the 1995 film Four Rooms, where he played Ted and his role as Archibald Cunningham in Rob Roy earned him the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role as well as an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor, a Golden Globe nomination. In 1996, he starred in Woody Allens musical comedy Everyone Says I Love You and he also starred as Danny Boodman T. D. Lemon 1900 in The Legend of 1900, and in the same year and he made his directorial debut in 1999 with The War Zone, a film version of Alexander Stuarts novel. In 2001, he portrayed General Thade in Tim Burtons Planet of the Apes, Roth was the original choice for the role of Severus Snape in the Harry Potter film series, but he turned it down for Planet of the Apes. He was considered for the part of Hannibal Lecter in the 2001 film Hannibal before Anthony Hopkins returned to reclaim the role and he appeared in Francis Ford Coppolas Youth Without Youth and Michael Hanekes Funny Games, then starred as Emil Blonsky / Abomination in The Incredible Hulk. From 2009 to 2011, he starred in a series on Fox called Lie To Me and he played Dr. Cal Lightman, an expert on body language who assists local and federal law organisations in the investigations of crimes
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Maximilian Schell
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Maximilian Schell was a Swiss film and stage actor, who also wrote, directed and produced some of his own films. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the 1961 American film Judgment at Nuremberg, born in Austria, his parents were involved in the arts and he grew up surrounded by acting and literature. While he was a child, his family fled to Switzerland in 1938 when Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany, after World War II ended, Schell took up acting or directing full-time. He appeared in numerous German films, often anti-war, before moving on to Hollywood, Schell was top billed in a number of Nazi-era themed films, as he could speak both English and German. For his role as Vladimir Lenin in the film, Stalin. On stage, Schell acted in a number of plays, in Schells private life, he was an accomplished pianist and conductor, performing with Claudio Abbado and Leonard Bernstein, and with orchestras in Berlin and Vienna. His elder sister, Maria Schell, was also a noted Hollywood actress, about whom he produced the documentary, My Sister Maria, in 2002. Schell was born in Vienna, Austria, the son of Margarethe, an actress who ran a school, and Hermann Ferdinand Schell. Schells father was never enthusiastic about young Maximilian becoming an actor like his mother, however, Schell was surrounded by acting in his early youth, I grew up in a theatre atmosphere and took it for granted. I remember the theatre, as a child, the way most people remember their mothers cooking, acting was all around me, and so was poetry. I made my debut in the theatre at the age of three, in Vienna, the Schell family was forced to flee Vienna in 1938 to get away from Hitler after the Anschluss, when Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany. In Zurich, Schell grew up reading the classics, and when he was ten, Schell later attended the University of Zurich for a year, where he also played soccer and was on the rowing team, along with writing for newspapers as a part-time journalist for income. Following the end of World War II, he moved to Germany where he enrolled in the University of Munich and studied philosophy and art history. During breaks, he would return home to Zurich or stay at his familys farm in the country so he could write in seclusion, My father and my uncle hunt deer there. I like to walk through the forest by myself, Schell then returned to Zurich, where he served in the Swiss Army for a year, after which he re-entered the University of Zurich for another year, and later, the University of Basel for six months. To me it is more important. To admire and feel and be stimulated and inspired, art comes out of chaos, not out of a mechanical analyzing. So as soon as I made up my mind, there was no sense any more in continuing to study and it is like an award, it does not mean anything in itself
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Vanessa Redgrave
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Vanessa Redgrave, CBE is an English actress of stage, screen and television, as well as a political activist. She is a 2003 American Theatre Hall of Fame inductee, and she also received Tony nominations for The Year of Magical Thinking and Driving Miss Daisy. On screen, she has starred in scores of films and is a six-time Oscar nominee and her other nominations were for Morgan, A Suitable Case for Treatment, Isadora, Mary, Queen of Scots, The Bostonians and Howards End. Among her other films are A Man for All Seasons, Blowup, Camelot, The Devils, Murder on the Orient Express, Prick Up Your Ears, Mission, Impossible, Atonement, Coriolanus and The Butler. Redgrave was born in Greenwich, London, the daughter of actors Sir Michael Redgrave, laurence Olivier announced her birth to the audience at a performance of Hamlet at the Old Vic, when he said that Laertes had a daughter. She was educated at the Alice Ottley School, Worcester, and Queens Gate School, London and her siblings, Lynn Redgrave and Corin Redgrave, were also acclaimed actors. Vanessa Redgrave entered the Central School of Speech and Drama in 1954 and she first appeared in the West End, playing opposite her brother, in 1958. In 1960, Redgrave had her first starring role in Robert Bolts The Tiger, in 1961, she played Rosalind in As You Like It for the Royal Shakespeare Company. In 1962, she played Imogen in William Gaskills production of Cymbeline for the RSC. In 1966, Redgrave created the role of Jean Brodie in the Donald Albery production of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and she won four Evening Standard Awards for Best Actress in four decades. In 2003 she won a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance in the Broadway revival of Eugene ONeills Long Days Journey Into Night. In January 2006, Redgrave was presented the Ibsen Centennial Award for her work in interpreting many of Henrik Ibsens works over the last decades. Previous recipients of the award include Liv Ullmann, Glenda Jackson, for this, she won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Show and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play. She reprised the role at the Lyttelton Theatre at the Royal National Theatre in London to mixed reviews and she also spent a week performing the work at the Theatre Royal in Bath in September 2008. She once again performed the role of Joan Didion for a benefit at New Yorks Cathedral of Saint John the Divine on 26 October 2009. The performance was originally slated to debut on 27 April, but was pushed due to the death of Redgraves daughter Natasha, the proceeds for the benefit were donated to the United Nations Childrens Fund and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. Both charities work to help for the children of Gaza. In October 2010, she starred in the Broadway premiere of Driving Miss Daisy starring in the role opposite James Earl Jones
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Anthony Edwards
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Anthony Charles Edwards is an American actor and director. Additionally, he has appeared in movies and television shows, including Top Gun, Zodiac, Miracle Mile, Revenge of the Nerds, Planes. Edwards was born in Santa Barbara, California, the son of Erika Kem, a painter, and Peter Edwards. He has two sisters, Heidi and Ann-Marie, and two older brothers, Peter and Jeffrey. Edwards was encouraged by his parents to attend college before pursuing his interest in acting, Edwards early work included a co-starring role in the TV series It Takes Two with Richard Crenna and Patty Duke Astin as his parents and Helen Hunt as his sister. He made a cameo in the hit 1982 film Fast Times at Ridgemont High as Stoner Bud. In 1984, he starred in the hit comedy film Revenge of the Nerds playing the role of Gilbert Lowe. He reprised the role of Gilbert for a few scenes in the sequel Revenge of the Nerds II, Nerds in Paradise. It was Edwards role as LTJG Nick Goose Bradshaw alongside Tom Cruise in the 1986 film Top Gun that brought his first widespread public acknowledgement and his character, who died in an aviation accident, was among the most prominent and popular in the film. He appeared as an ill patient in Hawks alongside Timothy Dalton. He starred in the Cold War era comedy Gotcha. as a student who gets wrapped up in spy antics. He starred in the 1990 movie Downtown with Penelope Ann Miller and he also played widowed veterinarian Chase Matthews, father of Edward Furlongs character, in the horror film Pet Sematary Two, a sequel to the film Pet Sematary in 1989. In 1992 and 1993 he played Mike Monroe in ten episodes of Northern Exposure, Edwards best known role is as Dr. Mark Greene on the long-running TV series ER, whom he portrayed from its premiere in 1994 to the end of the 8th season in 2002. The series also afforded Edwards his first opportunity to direct, Edwards desire to pursue directing led to his request to be written out of the series. He reportedly earned $35 million for three seasons on ER, which made him one of televisions highest-paid actors, Edwards and his co-star George Clooney were the ones who suggested doing an episode of ER live. The fourth-season premiere, Ambush, was performed twice, with an East Coast. Edwards has not won a Primetime Emmy, though he has nominated four times. He won a Golden Globe Award For Best Performance by an Actor-In a TV Series after being nominated four times, and he has two Screen Actors Guild Awards
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Clancy Brown
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He also voices Alec Ryder in Mass Effect, Andromeda. Brown was born in 1959 in Urbana, Ohio, and had an older sister and their mother, Joyce Helen, was a conductor, composer, and concert pianist. Their father, Clarence J. Bud Brown, Jr. helped manage the Brown Publishing Company, from 1965 to 1983, Bud Brown also served as a congressman, and later as Chairman of the Board of Brown Publishing. The family operated the business until 2010, Brown graduated from St. Albans School in Washington, DC, as his family lived there much of the time while his father was serving in Congress. He played on the team there and later earned a scholarship to Northwestern University. Due to his height, deep voice and large frame, Brown is often cast in the roles of villains or authority figures. His career tends to alternate among mainstream television and cable, major studio and independent movies, Brown is known for his role as the Kurgan in the 1986 film Highlander, his role as Capt. He also played a role in Flubber as one of the henchmen that get harmed by uncontrollably bouncing sports equipment. In 1989, he appeared in the action thriller Blue Steel, in 2001, he played a magical character credited as The granter of wishes in the Hallmark version of Snow White. In 2007, he played the Viking leader opposite Karl Urban in Pathfinder and he starred in several independent films in 2008, The Burrowers, screened at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2008, and released in the United States on DVD in April 2009, and The Twenty. He appeared in Steven Soderberghs 2009 film The Informant, opposite Matt Damon in which he played an attorney. He also portrayed Alan Smith in Samuel Bayers 2010 remake of the horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street, in 2011, he starred in Cowboys & Aliens alongside Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford and Olivia Wilde. He is cast as the voice of The Goon in the animated feature film. He also stars as Albert Marconi in the adaptation of the David Wong novel, John Dies at the End. Brown was a regular on the science fiction series Earth 2 from 1994 to 1995. Brown was notable as the sinister preacher Brother Justin Crowe in the HBO series Carnivàle, though the series only ran for two seasons, Carnivàle has attained a cult popularity and his performance was applauded by critics for showcasing a new side to his acting talents. He also starred in the Showtime production In the Company of Spies, Brown also appeared as the frontiersman Simon Kenton, the key to Americas westward expansion, in the 2000 Kentucky Educational Television production A Walk with Simon Kenton. Kenton resembled Brown in stature and is buried in Browns hometown, Brown most recently appeared as Hart Sterling, founding partner of fictional law firm Sterling, Huddle, Oppenheim & Craft in ABCs The Deep End
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Aerosmith
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Aerosmith is an American rock band, sometimes referred to as the Bad Boys from Boston and Americas Greatest Rock and Roll Band. Their style, which is rooted in blues-based hard rock, has come to incorporate elements of pop, heavy metal, and rhythm and blues. They were formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1970, in 1971, Tabano was replaced by Brad Whitford, and the band began developing a following in Boston. They were signed to Columbia Records in 1972, and released a string of gold and platinum albums, beginning with their 1973 eponymous debut album, followed by Get Your Wings in 1974. In 1975, the broke into the mainstream with the album Toys in the Attic. Two additional albums followed in 1977 and 1979 and their first five albums have since attained multi-platinum status. Throughout the 1970s, the band toured extensively and charted a dozen Hot 100 singles, by the end of the decade, they were among the most popular hard rock bands in the world and developed a loyal following of fans, often referred to as the Blue Army. The band did not fare well between 1980 and 1984, releasing the album Rock in a Hard Place, which was certified gold, Perry and Whitford returned to Aerosmith in 1984 and the band signed a new deal with Geffen Records. After a comeback tour, the band recorded Done with Mirrors, the band also became a pop culture phenomenon with popular music videos and notable appearances in television, film, and video games. Their comeback has been described as one of the most remarkable, additional albums followed in 2001,2004, and 2012. Since 2001, the band has toured every year, except 2008, Aerosmith is the best-selling American hard rock band of all time, having sold more than 150 million records worldwide, including over 70 million records in the United States alone. The band has scored 21 Top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, nine number-one Mainstream Rock hits, four Grammy Awards, six American Music Awards, and ten MTV Video Music Awards. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001, in 2013, the bands principal songwriters, Tyler and Perry, were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 1964, Steven Tyler formed his own called the Strangeurs—later Chain Reaction—in New Hampshire. Meanwhile, Perry and Hamilton formed the Jam Band, which was based on free-form, Hamilton and Perry moved to Boston, Massachusetts in September 1969. There they met Joey Kramer, a drummer from Yonkers, New York, Kramer knew Tyler and had always hoped to play in a band with him. Kramer, a Berklee College of Music student, decided to school to join Jam Band. In 1970, Chain Reaction and Jam Band played at the same gig, Tyler immediately loved Jam Bands sound, and wanted to combine the two bands
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Livin' on the Edge
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Livin on the Edge is a song by American hard rock band Aerosmith. The song was written by Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, and it was released in 1993 as the first single from the bands commercially successful album Get a Grip. In the UK, the peaked at #19 on the British pop chart in April 1993. The song is one of Aerosmiths most successful attempts at tackling social issues and it reflects on the sorry state of the world, religion, racism, among other things. However, the lyrics in the song also suggest that the world is worth living in. The lyrics also contain a reference to the Yardbirds song, Mister and it is also considered another anti-conservative message with the lyrics Theres something right with the world today, and everybody knows its wrong. According to the bands autobiography Walk This Way, the song was inspired by the 1992 Los Angeles riots, directed by Marty Callner, the video was praised for its groundbreaking theatrical scenes and special effects. The video featured acting by the young Edward Furlong, Livin on the Edge has always remained a staple at Aerosmith concerts ever since its release. During the Get a Grip Tour, lead singer Steven Tyler would often sing a portion of She Cried before going into Livin on the Edge. Dramatic performances, often involving Tyler screaming There aint no life nowhere and then breathing heavily over a bright light, Livin on the Edge was famously performed at the 1993 MTV Video Music Awards, the 36th Grammy Awards, and at Woodstock 94. Additionally, the performed the song as part of its set at the United We Stand benefit concert held in Washington D. C. shortly after the September 11 terrorist attacks. The song received critical acclaim and won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal for the year 1993. The popular video for the song earned the band a Viewers Choice award at the 1993 MTV Video Music Awards, the video was also voted Best Video by Metal Edge readers in the magazines 1993 Readers Choice Awards. The song was parodied by Weird Al Yankovic as Livin in the Fridge on his Alapalooza album Bob Rivers has done a version for his show as Growin in the Fridge on his website. Metalcore band Atreyu covered the song on their Covers of the Damned EP, Livin on the Edge was used as the theme song for the first four seasons of Historys reality television show Ice Road Truckers, from 2007 to 2011. The song is playable on the video game Guitar Hero, Aerosmith and is available as DLC for Guitar Hero 5 and Guitar Hero. The music video was featured in a showing of the Beavis and Butt-Head episode At the Sideshow, before being replaced by Rock On by Michael Damian. It was parodied by Al Yankovic as Living In the Fridge The song is also the song for Supertalk Mississippis The JT Show
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Get a Grip
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Get a Grip is the eleventh studio album by American rock band Aerosmith, released on April 20,1993 by Geffen Records. Get a Grip was the bands last studio album to be released by Geffen before they returned to Columbia Records, get a Grip featured guests including Don Henley, who sang backup on Amazing, and Lenny Kravitz, who offered backup vocals and collaboration to Line Up. This also made it their third album with US sales of at least five million. Two songs from the album won Grammy Awards for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, the album was voted Album of the Year by Metal Edge readers in the magazines 1993 Readers Choice Awards, while Livin on the Edge was voted Best Video. So the band went back to more songs with collaborators such as Child. Many songs were written and recorded for the album that were used as b-sides or never released. Dont Stop and Head First were released as b-sides, as well as Cant Stop Messin, other songs were listed on the official Aerosmith website in the late 1990s. In 2005, Aerosmith A&R man John Kalodner confirmed the existence of several of the songs above, as well as Trouble, Strange,13, Deuces Are Wild was possibly recorded again during these sessions. Several songs are listed on copyright repertoires, including Aint Gonna Break My Heart, Good Thang. These songs can be traced to the year 1991, reworked versions of Devils Got A New Disguise, Deuces Are Wild, Lizard Love, and Legendary Child have since been released on various albums and soundtracks. Immediately after Amazing, a snippet of Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well, tyler says, So from all of us at Aerosmith to all of you out there, wherever you are, remember, the light at the end of the tunnel may be you. The music then fades out. M. C. on Walk This Way, in his interview he compared Livin on the Edge to a Bon Jovi song and feels that a problem with the album comes from the outside songwriters/collaborators. Ben Mitchell called the soft and shallow but considered Eat the Rich. An animal rights group objected to the cover of a cows pierced udder, but it was confirmed by Aerosmith to have been computer-generated
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Alicia Silverstone
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Alicia Silverstone-Jarecki is an American actress, producer, author, and activist. She starred in the comedy hit Clueless, which earned her a deal with Columbia Pictures. She has continued to act in film and television and on stage, for her role in the short-lived drama comedy Miss Match, Silverstone received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy. A vegan, Silverstone has endorsed PETA activities and has published two nutrition books, Silverstone was born in San Francisco, California, the daughter of Deirdre Didi, a Scottish former Pan Am flight attendant, and Monty Silverstone, an English real estate agent. She grew up in Hillsborough, California and her father was born to a Jewish family and her mother converted to Conservative Judaism before marriage, Silverstone had a bat mitzvah ceremony. Silverstone began modeling when she was six years old, and was subsequently cast in television commercials and she attended Crocker Middle School and then San Mateo High School. Her first credited acting role was on The Wonder Years, starring Fred Savage, in the January 8,1992 episode Road Test and she won two awards at the 1994 MTV Movie Awards for the role—Best Breakthrough Performance and Best Villain. Silverstone made some movies in her early career, including Torch Song, Cool and the Crazy. These were hugely successful for both the band and Silverstone, making her a household name, Clueless became a hit and critical darling during the summer of 1995, and as a result, she signed a deal with Columbia-TriStar valued between $8 and $10 million. As part of the package, she got a three-year first look deal for her own production company, Silverstone had other three film releases in 1995—Le Nouveau monde, Hideaway and The Babysitter. The French drama about Americans Le Nouveau monde saw her play the love interest of a French boy, in 1996, she starred in the direct-to-video thriller True Crime as a catholic school student searching for a murderer of teenage girls. Her next role was Batgirl in Batman & Robin, Silverstone won a Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actress, but received a Blimp Award at the Kids Choice Awards for the role. Also in 1997, the first movie by Silverstones production company, in the crime-comedy, she played a neglected young woman who stages her own kidnapping to get her fathers attention, only to be actually kidnapped by a car thief. The film only grossed US$14.5 million in North America, Silverstone starred as the female lead in the romantic comedy Blast from the Past, directed by Hugh Wilson and co-starring Brendan Fraser, Christopher Walken, and Sissy Spacek. Critical response towards the film was mixed, while it made a modest US$40 million globally, the New York Post noted in its review that Silverstone proves wrong anyone who gave up on her because of her ill-fated turn in the awful Batman and Robin. She’s quite believable as a chick whos seen enough of life to give up on romance. In Loves Labours Lost, a adaptation of the William Shakespeare eponymous play directed by Kenneth Branagh, Silverstone played the Princess of France. She also starred as one of several disgruntled bank employees trying to rob the bank in the independent comedy Scorched, co-starring Rachael Leigh Cook, Woody Harrelson
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Truman Capote
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At least 20 films and television dramas have been produced of Capote novels, stories, and plays. Capote rose above a childhood troubled by divorce, an absence from his mother. He had discovered his calling as a writer by the age of 8, Capote began his professional career writing short stories. The critical success of one story, Miriam, attracted the attention of Random House publisher Bennett Cerf, Capote earned the most fame with In Cold Blood, a journalistic work about the murder of a Kansas farm family in their home. Capote spent four years writing the book aided by his lifelong friend Harper Lee, a milestone in popular culture, In Cold Blood was the peak of Capotes literary career. In the 1970s, he maintained his celebrity status by appearing on talk shows. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Capote was the son of 17-year-old Lillie Mae Faulk and his parents divorced when he was four, and he was sent to Monroeville, Alabama, where, for the following four to five years, he was raised by his mothers relatives. He formed a fast bond with his mothers distant relative, Nanny Rumbley Faulk and her face is remarkable – not unlike Lincolns, craggy like that, and tinted by sun and wind, is how Capote described Sook in A Christmas Memory. In Monroeville, he was a neighbor and friend of author Harper Lee, as a lonely child, Capote taught himself to read and write before he entered his first year of school. Capote was often seen at age five carrying his dictionary and notepad and he was given the nickname Bulldog around this age. Capote received recognition for his work from The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards in 1936. In 1933, he moved to New York City to live with his mother and her husband, Joseph Capote, a Cuban-born textile broker. However, Joseph was convicted of embezzlement and shortly afterwards, when his income crashed, of his early days, Capote related, I began writing really sort of seriously when I was about eleven. I say seriously in the sense that other kids go home and practice the violin or the piano or whatever, I used to go home from school every day. In 1935, he attended the Trinity School in New York City and he then attended St. Joseph Military Academy. In 1939, the Capote family moved to Greenwich, Connecticut, and Truman attended Greenwich High School, where he wrote for both the schools literary journal, The Green Witch, and the school newspaper. When they returned to New York City in 1942, he attended the Franklin School, an Upper West Side private school now known as the Dwight School and that was the end of his formal education. While still attending Franklin in 1943, Capote began working as a copyboy in the art department at The New Yorker, years later, he reminisced, Not a very grand job, for all it really involved was sorting cartoons and clipping newspapers
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The Grass Harp
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The Grass Harp is a novel by Truman Capote published on October 1,1951 It tells the story of an orphaned boy and two elderly ladies who observe life from a tree. They eventually leave their temporary retreat to make amends with each other and other members of society, not wanting to take up his incomplete first novel, Summer Crossing, Capote began writing The Grass Harp in June 1950 and completed it on May 27,1951. The novel was inspired by memories of his Alabama childhood, specifically a tree house constructed in the 1930s in a walnut tree in his cousin Jennys backyard. This large tree house, accessible by a spiral staircase, featured cypress wood construction and a tin roof. Capote spent time in this house with his cousin Sook or other childhood friends such as Nelle Harper Lee. The novel was inspired by his cousin Sooks dropsy medicine. She took the recipe for it to the grave, despite Jennys wanting first to patent the recipe, Capote completed The Grass Harp while he was vacationing in Taormina, Sicily. Linscott thought that the ending was weak because, once the characters were up in the tree house and he asked Capote to rewrite the ending, and Capote made some changes in it, but he did not completely rewrite it. Truman Capote initially wanted to title the novel Music of the Sawgrass and it was Bob Linscott who gave it the title The Grass Harp. The story begins with Collin Fenwick losing his mother, and then his father, Catherine, the servant, also lives in the house and gets along, for the most part, only with Dolly. Dolly is famous for her medicine, which she makes by going out into the woods with Catherine and Collin and they then got to an old treehouse, which is propped up in a Chinaberry tree. One day, after Dolly has an argument with Verena, Dolly, Collin and they go to the treehouse in the Chinaberry tree, and decide to camp out there. Verena, meanwhile, informs the sheriff of her sisters disappearance, the Sheriff organizes a search party, during the course of the novel, others come to live in the treehouse, such as Judge Cool and Riley Henderson. In a climactic event, a confrontation among the search party, after Judge Cool discusses the situation, everyone agrees that it was a pointless struggle, and old relationships are invigorated once again. The story ends with how a grass harp, gathering, telling, Collin Fenwick, An orphaned boy who takes up residence in a China tree with Dolly. When the story opens he is 11 years old, but he is 16 years old for the majority of the narrative, Collin serves as both the protagonist and narrator of the novel. Dolly Talbo, Aunt of Collin, she takes up residence in the China tree and her character is based on Trumans older cousin, Sook Faulk. Verena Talbo, Dollys sister, she urges the Sheriff of the town to investigate the disappearance of her sister Dolly, morris Ritz, A man who woos Verena, and is popularly believed to open a factory with her but soon runs away with her money
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John Waters (filmmaker)
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Waterss 1970s and early 1980s films feature his regular troupe of actors known as the Dreamlanders—among them Divine, Mink Stole, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, and Edith Massey. Starting with Desperate Living, Waters began casting real-life convicted criminals, Waters dabbled in mainstream filmmaking with Hairspray, which introduced Ricki Lake and earned a modest gross of US$8 million in the United States market. In 2002, Hairspray was adapted to a long-running Broadway musical, Waters was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Patricia Ann and John Samuel Waters, who was a manufacturer of fire-protection equipment. His family were upper-middle class Roman Catholics, Waters grew up in Lutherville, Maryland, a suburb of Baltimore. His boyhood friend and muse Glenn Milstead, later known as Divine, the film Lili inspired an interest in puppets in the seven-year-old Waters, who proceeded to stage violent versions of Punch and Judy for childrens birthday parties. Biographer Robrt L. Pela says that Waters mother believes the puppets in Lili had the greatest influence on Waters subsequent career, Waters was privately educated at the Calvert School in Baltimore. High School in Towson, Maryland, and Calvert Hall College High School in nearby Towson, in 1962, for his 16th birthday, Waters received an 8mm movie camera from his maternal grandmother, Stella Whitaker. Waters first short film was Hag in a Black Leather Jacket, according to Waters, the film was shown only once in a beatnik coffee house in Baltimore, although in later years he has included it in his traveling photography exhibit. Waters enrolled at New York University, the school, however, was not what Waters had in mind, NYU. I was there for about five minutes. I dont know what I was thinking about, I went to one class and they kept talking about Potemkin and that isnt what I wanted to talk about. I had just gone to see Olgas House of Shame and that was what I was more into. Extremely influential to his mind, Waters tells Robert K. Elder in an interview for The Film That Changed My Life, was The Wizard of Oz. I was always drawn to forbidden subject matter in the very, very beginning, the Wizard of Oz opened me up because it was one of the first movies I ever saw. It opened me up to villainy, to screenwriting, to costumes, I think the witch has great, great dialogue. Waters has further credited his influences as, among others, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Federico Fellini, William Castle and he has stated that he takes an equal amount of joy and influence from high-brow art films and sleazy exploitation films. In January 1966, Waters and some friends were caught smoking marijuana on the grounds of NYU, Waters returned to Baltimore, where he completed his next two short films Roman Candles and Eat Your Makeup. These were followed by the feature-length films Mondo Trasho and Multiple Maniacs, Waters films would become Divines primary star vehicles. All of Waters early films were shot in the Baltimore area with his company of local actors, in addition to Divine, the group included Mink Stole, Cookie Mueller, Edith Massey, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Susan Walsh, and others
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Natasha Lyonne
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Natasha Bianca Lyonne Braunstein, better known as Natasha Lyonne, is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Jessica in the American Pie series and her appearances in the films Everyone Says I Love You, Slums of Beverly Hills, But Im a Cheerleader, and Blade, Trinity. Lyonne was born in New York City, the daughter of Ivette Buchinger and Aaron Braunstein, a promoter, race car driver, and radio host. Lyonnes parents were both from Orthodox Jewish families, and she herself was raised Orthodox and her mother was born in Paris, France, to Hungarian Jewish parents who were Holocaust survivors. Lyonne sometimes darkly jokes that her family consists of my fathers side, Flatbush and her grandmother Ella came from a large family, but only she and her two sisters and two brothers survived, which Lyonne credits to their blonde hair and blue eyes. Lyonnes grandfather, Morris Buchinger, operated a company in Los Angeles. During the war, he hid in Budapest as a non-Jew working in a leather factory, Lyonne spent the first eight years of her life living in Great Neck, New York. Then she and her parents moved to Israel, where Lyonne spent a year and her parents divorced, and Lyonne and her older brother Adam returned to America with their mother. She was expelled for selling marijuana at school, Lyonne grew up on the Upper East Side, where she felt she was an outcast. Her mother then moved their family to Miami, where Lyonne graduated from Miami Country Day School. Lyonne was estranged from her father, who lived on the Upper West Side until his death in October 2014, Lyonne has said she is not close with her mother and has essentially lived independently of her family since age 16. As a young child, Lyonne was signed by the Ford Modeling Agency, at the age of six, she was cast as Opal on Pee-wees Playhouse, followed by film appearances in Heartburn, A Man Called Sarge, and Dennis the Menace. On working as a young child actor, Lyonne said. I don’t think they are bad people, even if they were ready to have children, it is kind of a wacky idea to put your child in business at six years old. Lyonnes other films include Detroit Rock City, Scary Movie 2, The Grey Zone, Kate and Leopold, Party Monster and she has also made television appearances on shows such as NBCs Will and Grace. In what is perhaps her most well known role, she appeared as Jessica in the American Pie film series. When she was 18 years old, Lyonne used the paycheck from her work on the Woody Allen film Everyone Says I Love You to buy an apartment near Gramercy Park. She attended New York University for a short time, studying film
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