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Paley Center for Media
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The Paley Center for Media & Paleyfest Location, formerly the Museum of Television & Radio and the Museum of Broadcasting, founded in 1975 by William S. With an ever-growing collection of content broadcast on radio and television, the New York City branch is in the heart of Midtown Manhattan at 25 West 52nd Street between 5th and 6th Avenues. The Los Angeles branch is located at 465 N Beverly Drive in Beverly Hills and this was adjacent to the Doubleday Book Store on Fifth Avenue. The Museum of Broadcastings name was changed to The Museum of Television & Radio with the September 12,1991 move into the William S. Paley Building. Designed by Philip Johnson and located at 25 West 52nd Street and it has two front entrances, the one on the left is for office staff, and the main entrance on the right for the general public. The Alexander Mackendrick film Sweet Smell of Success has a location scene with different angles revealing how the neighborhood looked in the years before the building was constructed. Reservations to use the Library are made at the front desk, in addition to the elevator, a staircase on the first floor leads down to the large basement-level theater. The fourth floor has numerous Macintosh computers, used by visitors to scan titles in the collection, when a selection is made, it can be watched on the computer. Computers are available both for individuals and for groups, on another floor, visitors can hear pre-programmed channels in the Ralph Guild Listening Room, named for Ralph C. Guild, Chairman of the Board for Interep, the largest independent national sales and marketing organization specializing in radio, in the rear of the Listening Room is the museums radio broadcasting studio. The Museum of Television & Radio in Los Angeles at 465 North Beverly Drive in Beverly Hills, opened March 18,1996 in a new building designed by Richard Meier and named for Leonard H. Goldenson. When the Los Angeles building opened, it featured a collection duplicated from the tapes in the New York collection, rooms are named for the celebrity sponsors, the Danny Thomas Lobby, the Aaron Spelling Reception Area and the Garry Marshall Pool. Screenings are held in the 150-seat John H. Mitchell Theatre, the Ahmanson Radio Listening Room has headphones for use with five pre-programmed channels. The Paley Center for Media is committed to the idea that many television and radio programs are significant works, instead of collecting artifacts and memorabilia, the Paley Center comprises mostly screening rooms, including two full-sized theaters. Some television programs are from the 1940s with radio programs dating back to the 1920s, the museum does not sell the material or permit it to leave the premises. Viewing copies of programs are Hi-8mm video tape dubs. The originals are kept in a vault outside of New York City, the Paley Center has acquired many lost episodes of classic television shows and has produced documentary features about the history and impact of television and radio. In recent years, the Center has sponsored advance viewing of the episodes of each networks new programs
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The cast and crew of
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Seattle
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Seattle is a seaport city on the west coast of the United States and the seat of King County, Washington. With an estimated 684,451 residents as of 2015, Seattle is the largest city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest region of North America. In July 2013, it was the major city in the United States. The city is situated on an isthmus between Puget Sound and Lake Washington, about 100 miles south of the Canada–United States border, a major gateway for trade with Asia, Seattle is the fourth-largest port in North America in terms of container handling as of 2015. The Seattle area was inhabited by Native Americans for at least 4,000 years before the first permanent European settlers. Arthur A. Denny and his group of travelers, subsequently known as the Denny Party, arrived from Illinois via Portland, the settlement was moved to the eastern shore of Elliott Bay and named Seattle in 1852, after Chief Siahl of the local Duwamish and Suquamish tribes. Logging was Seattles first major industry, but by the late-19th century, growth after World War II was partially due to the local Boeing company, which established Seattle as a center for aircraft manufacturing. The Seattle area developed as a technology center beginning in the 1980s, in 1994, Internet retailer Amazon was founded in Seattle. The stream of new software, biotechnology, and Internet companies led to an economic revival, Seattle has a noteworthy musical history. From 1918 to 1951, nearly two dozen jazz nightclubs existed along Jackson Street, from the current Chinatown/International District, to the Central District, the jazz scene developed the early careers of Ray Charles, Quincy Jones, Ernestine Anderson, and others. Seattle is also the birthplace of rock musician Jimi Hendrix and the alternative rock subgenre grunge, archaeological excavations suggest that Native Americans have inhabited the Seattle area for at least 4,000 years. By the time the first European settlers arrived, the people occupied at least seventeen villages in the areas around Elliott Bay, the first European to visit the Seattle area was George Vancouver, in May 1792 during his 1791–95 expedition to chart the Pacific Northwest. In 1851, a party led by Luther Collins made a location on land at the mouth of the Duwamish River. Thirteen days later, members of the Collins Party on the way to their claim passed three scouts of the Denny Party, members of the Denny Party claimed land on Alki Point on September 28,1851. The rest of the Denny Party set sail from Portland, Oregon, after a difficult winter, most of the Denny Party relocated across Elliott Bay and claimed land a second time at the site of present-day Pioneer Square, naming this new settlement Duwamps. For the next few years, New York Alki and Duwamps competed for dominance, david Swinson Doc Maynard, one of the founders of Duwamps, was the primary advocate to name the settlement after Chief Sealth of the Duwamish and Suquamish tribes. The name Seattle appears on official Washington Territory papers dated May 23,1853, in 1855, nominal land settlements were established. On January 14,1865, the Legislature of Territorial Washington incorporated the Town of Seattle with a board of managing the city
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Downtown Seattle from
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Washington (state)
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It was admitted to the Union as the 42nd state in 1889. Washington is sometimes referred to as Washington State or the State of Washington to distinguish it from Washington, Washington is the 18th largest state with an area of 71,362 square miles, and the 13th most populous state with over 7 million people. Washington is the second most populous state on the West Coast and in the Western United States, Mount Rainier, an active stratovolcano, is the states highest elevation at almost 14,411 feet and is the most topographically prominent mountain in the contiguous United States. Washington is a leading lumber producer and its rugged surface is rich in stands of Douglas fir, hemlock, ponderosa pine, white pine, spruce, larch, and cedar. Manufacturing industries in Washington include aircraft and missiles, shipbuilding and other equipment, lumber, food processing, metals and metal products, chemicals. Washington has over 1,000 dams, including the Grand Coulee Dam, built for a variety of purposes including irrigation, power, flood control, Washington was named after President George Washington by an act of the United States Congress during the creation of Washington Territory in 1853. Washington is the only U. S. state named after a president, confusion over the state of Washington and the city of Washington, D. C. led to renaming proposals during the statehood process for Washington in 1889, which failed to garner support. Washington, D. C. s own statehood movement in the 21st century includes a proposal to use the name State of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth, which would conflict with the current state of Washington. To distinguish it from the capital, Washington is sometimes referred to as Washington state, or, in more formal contexts. Residents of Washington and the Pacific Northwest simply refer to the state as Washington, Washington is the northwestern-most state of the contiguous United States. Washington is bordered by Oregon to the south, with the Columbia River forming the western part, to the west of Washington lies the Pacific Ocean. The high mountains of the Cascade Range run north-south, bisecting the state, from the Cascade Mountains westward, Western Washington has a mostly marine west coast climate, with mild temperatures and wet winters, autumns and springs, and relatively dry summers. The Cascade Range contains several volcanoes, which reach altitudes significantly higher than the rest of the mountains, from the north to the south, these major volcanoes are Mount Baker, Glacier Peak, Mount Rainier, Mount St. Helens, and Mount Adams. Mount Rainier, the tallest mountain in the state, is 50 miles south of the city of Seattle and it is also covered with more glacial ice than any other peak in the contiguous 48 states. Western Washington also is home of the Olympic Mountains, far west on the Olympic Peninsula and these deep forests, such as the Hoh Rainforest, are among the only temperate rainforests in the continental United States. Eastern Washington – the part of the state east of the Cascades – has a dry climate. It includes large areas of steppe and a few truly arid deserts lying in the rain shadow of the Cascades. Farther east, the climate becomes less arid, with annual rainfall increasing as one goes east to 21.2 inches in Pullman, the Okanogan Highlands and the rugged Kettle River Range and Selkirk Mountains cover much of the northeastern quadrant of the state
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Los Angeles
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Los Angeles, officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L. A. is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California. With a census-estimated 2015 population of 3,971,883, it is the second-most populous city in the United States, Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated county in the United States. The citys inhabitants are referred to as Angelenos, historically home to the Chumash and Tongva, Los Angeles was claimed by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo for Spain in 1542 along with the rest of what would become Alta California. The city was founded on September 4,1781, by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 following the Mexican War of Independence, in 1848, at the end of the Mexican–American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thereby becoming part of the United States. Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4,1850, the discovery of oil in the 1890s brought rapid growth to the city. The completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, delivering water from Eastern California, nicknamed the City of Angels, Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, and sprawling metropolis. Los Angeles also has an economy in culture, media, fashion, science, sports, technology, education, medicine. A global city, it has been ranked 6th in the Global Cities Index, the city is home to renowned institutions covering a broad range of professional and cultural fields, and is one of the most substantial economic engines within the United States. The Los Angeles combined statistical area has a gross metropolitan product of $831 billion, making it the third-largest in the world, after the Greater Tokyo and New York metropolitan areas. The city has hosted the Summer Olympic Games in 1932 and 1984 and is bidding to host the 2024 Summer Olympics and thus become the second city after London to have hosted the Games three times. The Los Angeles area also hosted the 1994 FIFA mens World Cup final match as well as the 1999 FIFA womens World Cup final match, the mens event was watched on television by over 700 million people worldwide. The Los Angeles coastal area was first settled by the Tongva, a Gabrielino settlement in the area was called iyáangẚ, meaning poison oak place. Gaspar de Portolà and Franciscan missionary Juan Crespí, reached the present site of Los Angeles on August 2,1769, in 1771, Franciscan friar Junípero Serra directed the building of the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, the first mission in the area. The Queen of the Angels is an honorific of the Virgin Mary, two-thirds of the settlers were mestizo or mulatto with a mixture of African, indigenous and European ancestry. The settlement remained a small town for decades, but by 1820. Today, the pueblo is commemorated in the district of Los Angeles Pueblo Plaza and Olvera Street. New Spain achieved its independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, during Mexican rule, Governor Pío Pico made Los Angeles Alta Californias regional capital
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California
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California is the most populous state in the United States and the third most extensive by area. Located on the western coast of the U. S, California is bordered by the other U. S. states of Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona and shares an international border with the Mexican state of Baja California. Los Angeles is Californias most populous city, and the second largest after New York City. The Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nations second- and fifth-most populous urban regions, California also has the nations most populous county, Los Angeles County, and its largest county by area, San Bernardino County. The Central Valley, an agricultural area, dominates the states center. What is now California was first settled by various Native American tribes before being explored by a number of European expeditions during the 16th and 17th centuries, the Spanish Empire then claimed it as part of Alta California in their New Spain colony. The area became a part of Mexico in 1821 following its war for independence. The western portion of Alta California then was organized as the State of California, the California Gold Rush starting in 1848 led to dramatic social and demographic changes, with large-scale emigration from the east and abroad with an accompanying economic boom. If it were a country, California would be the 6th largest economy in the world, fifty-eight percent of the states economy is centered on finance, government, real estate services, technology, and professional, scientific and technical business services. Although it accounts for only 1.5 percent of the states economy, the story of Calafia is recorded in a 1510 work The Adventures of Esplandián, written as a sequel to Amadis de Gaula by Spanish adventure writer Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo. The kingdom of Queen Calafia, according to Montalvo, was said to be a land inhabited by griffins and other strange beasts. This conventional wisdom that California was an island, with maps drawn to reflect this belief, shortened forms of the states name include CA, Cal. Calif. and US-CA. Settled by successive waves of arrivals during the last 10,000 years, various estimates of the native population range from 100,000 to 300,000. The Indigenous peoples of California included more than 70 distinct groups of Native Americans, ranging from large, settled populations living on the coast to groups in the interior. California groups also were diverse in their organization with bands, tribes, villages. Trade, intermarriage and military alliances fostered many social and economic relationships among the diverse groups, the first European effort to explore the coast as far north as the Russian River was a Spanish sailing expedition, led by Portuguese captain Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, in 1542. Some 37 years later English explorer Francis Drake also explored and claimed a portion of the California coast in 1579. Spanish traders made unintended visits with the Manila galleons on their trips from the Philippines beginning in 1565
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Traffic (2000 film)
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Traffic is a 2000 American crime drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Stephen Gaghan. It explores the illegal drug trade from a number of perspectives, users, enforcers, politicians and their stories are edited together throughout the film, although some of the characters do not meet each other. The film is an adaptation of the 1989 British Channel 4 television series Traffik, 20th Century Fox, the original financiers of the film, demanded that Harrison Ford play a leading role and that significant changes to the screenplay be made. USA Films, however, liked the project from the start, Soderbergh operated the camera himself and adopted a distinctive cinematography tint for each story so that audiences could tell them apart. It was also a success with a worldwide box-office revenue total of $207.5 million. In 2004, USA Network ran a miniseries—also called Traffic—based on this film, in Mexico, police officer Javier Rodriguez and his partner Manolo Sanchez stop a drug transport and arrest the couriers. Their arrest is interrupted by General Salazar, a high-ranking Mexican official who decides to hire Javier, Salazar instructs him to apprehend Francisco Flores, a hitman for the Tijuana Cartel, headed by the Obregón brothers. Back in Tijuana, Flores, under torture, gives Salazar the names of important members of the Obregón cartel, who are arrested. Javier and Salazars efforts begin to cripple the Obregón brothers cocaine outfit, but Javier soon discovers Salazar is a pawn for the Juárez Cartel, the rival of the Obregón brothers. That entire portion of the Mexican anti-drug campaign is a fraud, javiers partner Sanchez attempts to sell the information of Salazars true affiliation to the DEA but is killed for his betrayal. Javier, who can no longer working for Salazar, decides to make a deal with the DEA. In exchange for his testimony, Javier requests electricity in his neighborhood so the youngsters can play baseball at night rather than be tempted by street gangs, Salazars secrets are revealed to the public, and he is arrested and is shown suffering probable torture in prison. Javier explains to the media about the corruption in the police force. In Mexico, Javier watches as children play baseball at night in their new stadium, meanwhile, Robert Wakefield, a conservative Ohio judge, is appointed to head the Presidents Office of National Drug Control Policy, known colloquially as the drug czar. Robert is warned by his predecessor and several politicians that the War on Drugs is unwinnable. Roberts daughter, Caroline, a student, has been using cocaine, methamphetamine. Caroline, Seth, and Vanessa are all arrested when a fellow student overdoses on drugs, as Robert and his wife Barbara struggle to deal with the problem, Robert discovers that Barbara has known about their daughters involvement with drugs for over six months. Robert realizes his daughter Caroline is an addict and is caught between his demanding new position and difficult family life
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Swimfan
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Swimfan, also known as Fanatica, is a 2002 American teen psychological thriller film directed by John Polson and written by Charles Bohl and Phillip Schneider. The film stars Jesse Bradford, Erika Christensen, and Shiri Appleby, Ben Cronin is a star swimmer of his high schools swim team. His coach informs him that Stanford University scouts will appear at next weeks swim meet, Ben and his girlfriend Amy discuss their future plans. Amy desires to attend school in Rhode Island but explains she will go to school in California to stay close to Ben, the next day, Ben nearly runs his car into Madison Bell and gives her a ride home as an apology. Later, he realizes that Madison left her notebook in his car, the notebook is filled with music notes, and Ben spots his initials written inside a staff. When he returns the notebook, he meets Madisons cousin, Christopher, Madison appears stressed and explains she has not eaten, so Ben offers to take her to dinner. At dinner, Ben tells Madison about his girlfriend, but Madison does not appear too bothered, although Ben tries to end the date, Madison convinces him to go to the pool. Her aggressive flirtation lures Ben in, and despite his initial hesitancy, both agree to remain friends and not to discuss their encounter. The next night, Ben goes to a party at Amys house, Amy introduces Ben to her new friend, who turns out to be Madison. The two pretend to have not met one another, shortly after, Madison obsesses over Ben—she stops by his house to meet his mom and bombards Ben with e-mails and instant messages. Ben realizes her unhealthy behavior and demands she leave him alone, Bens lying eats at him, but, before he confesses, Madison tells Amy first. Madison dates Bens rival teammate, Josh, right before their biggest swim competition, Ben is disqualified for having steroids in his urine. Ben is outraged and suspects Madison had Josh set him up, Ben confronts Josh about the drug test, revealing his suspicion. Days later, Madison accidentally calls Josh by Bens name while they are kissing in a car, Josh realizes that Madisons obsession with Ben is real and tells her off. Ben tries to tell Amy everything, but she disbelieves him, the next day, Ben goes to the pool, where he finds Josh dead. The police suspect that Ben is to blame for Joshs murder, to prove his innocence, Ben breaks into Madisons room to find evidence. He discovers a bottle of steroids and a shrine of his personal belongings she has been secretly stashing. Christopher warns Ben of a case regarding a man named Jake Donnelly
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The Banger Sisters
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The Banger Sisters is a 2002 American comedy film produced by Fox Searchlight Pictures about the reunion of two middle-aged women who used to be friends and groupies when they were young. The movie stars Goldie Hawn, Susan Sarandon and Geoffrey Rush and it was written and directed by Bob Dolman. Until 2017 this was Hawns supposed last movie. When Suzette is fired from her job as bartender at the Whisky A Go-Go in Los Angeles, she decides, on the spur of the moment, to all the way to Phoenix. On arriving in Phoenix, Suzette has a meeting with Vinnies 17-year-old daughter Hannah who, after some recreational drug use. Raymond, Vinnies lawyer husband and a politician, has no idea about his wifes past either. However, Suzettes sudden appearance brings back all those memories for Lavinia, down in the basement she retrieves some of the memorabilia of their previous life as groupies, including a collection of Polaroids of the penises of numerous musicians and a few roadies. She cuts her hair and throws off her expensive but boring clothes and, just for one night, in the end, both her husband and her two daughters have understood that Lavinia is only human after all. In her graduation speech, Hannah speaks out against anything that is fake and urges her schoolmates, teachers, on the following day, Suzette returns to Los Angeles together with Harry, who has come to consider her his muse. It opened at #2, in 2,738 theaters, grossing $10,037,846 during its opening weekend. It went on to gross $30,307,416 domestically and $7,760,937 from overseas markets, reviews of the movie were mixed. The film holds a 47% rating at Rotten Tomatoes, with the consensus stating, Hawn and Sarandon are terrific together, official website The Banger Sisters at the Internet Movie Database The Banger Sisters at AllMovie The Banger Sisters at Box Office Mojo
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The Perfect Score
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The Perfect Score is a 2004 American teen heist film directed by Brian Robbins, starring Erika Christensen, Chris Evans, Bryan Greenberg, Scarlett Johansson, Darius Miles, and Leonardo Nam. The film focuses on a group of six high school students whose futures will be jeopardized if they fail the upcoming SAT exam and they conspire to break into the ETS building and steal the answers to the exam, so they can all get perfect scores. The film deals with the themes of future, morality, individuality. The Perfect Score has similarities to other high school films, including The Breakfast Club and Dazed and Confused, however, the film was panned by most critics and performed poorly at the box office. The film revolves around high school student Kyle, who needs a score on the SAT to get into his preferred architecture program at Cornell University. He constantly compares himself to his older brother Larry, who is now living above his parents garage. Kyles best friend, Matty, wants to get a high score so he can go to the college as his girlfriend. They both believe that the SAT is standing in the way of their futures, the two boys realize that fellow student Francesca Curtis father owns the building that houses the regional office of ETS, where the answers to the SAT are located. Francesca initially doesnt want to help but changes her mind, saying What the hell, meanwhile, Kyle becomes attracted to Anna Ross, the second-highest ranked student in the school, and tells her about the plan. Anna had bombed a previous SAT and needs a score to get into Brown University. However, Matty doesnt like the fact that she now knows about the plan and has an outburst, right in the presence of stoner Roy, who then has to be included in the heist. And finally, Anna tells the school basketball star Desmond Rhodes, an early attempt to break into the ETS offices fails, but the team then devises another plan. On the eve of the exam, Francesca will arrange for Kyle and Matty to have a meeting near the top floor, the other three will wait outside and watch the night guard until Francesca, Kyle, and Matty have successfully stolen the answers. The first part of the plan goes well, with Francesca, Kyle, and Matty successfully dodging security cameras, still, the answers cant be printed, so the group decides to take the test with their combined knowledge and get the answers that way. In the early hours of morning, they are finished and have all the answers written down, before the SAT testing begins, the group realizes that, although it will help get them what they want, they would be better off without cheating. Roy grabs the answers and distributes them in the bathroom, after the decision, Matty comments that this whole thing was for nothing. Kyle replies, I wouldnt say nothing, as he glances at Anna, Matty and Francesca also share a look, as they have presumably started a relationship, too. As for Roy - the narrator of the movie - he earned the highest SAT in the county and he then puts his untapped intelligence to use through programming, becoming a successful video game designer
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The Perfect Score marks the first of six movies Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson star in together.
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Flightplan
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The film, distributed by Touchstone Pictures, was released theatrically in the United States on September 23,2005. The film is about Kyle Pratt, an American aircraft engineer working in Berlin, Germany with her husband, after her husband dies, Kyle decides to return home with her daughter and the casket to the U. S. A few hours into the flight Kyle and Julia fall asleep and she begins to panic when none of passengers remember her daughter, and when the stewards tell her that her daughter is not on the flight manifest the airplane staff begin to think Kyle is delusional. The basic premise of the plot is similar to a 1955 episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents entitled Into Thin Air. Kyle decides to bury him in their back in the U. S. on Long Island. They fly aboard an Aalto Airlines Elgin 474, a passenger aircraft that Kyle helped design the engines for. A few hours into the flight, Kyle and Julia fall asleep, at first calm, she begins to panic when none of the passengers or flight attendants claim to have seen her. Rich and the flight attendants start to suspect that Kyle may be unhinged by her husbands death, because of her increasingly erratic and panicked behaviour, Capt. Rich orders sky marshal Gene Carson to guard and handcuff her, later, after releasing all the passengers from their seats, Capt. Rich informs Kyle that he received a wire from the hospital in Berlin, saying that Julia was with David when he fell off the roof, Kyle furiously denies this, saying that Julia wasnt even there when David died and continues to insist that she brought her onboard. The crew now believes that she is delusional and Carson escorts Kyle back to her seat. A therapist, Lisa, tries to console her, and Kyle begins to doubt her own sanity until she notices that a heart Julia had drawn earlier on the next to her seat is real. Kyle is emboldened and convinces the therapist to let her search the plane again under the pretense of using the bathroom. While in the lavatory, she uses a trapdoor leading to the attic where she sabotages the aircrafts electronics, deploying the oxygen masks. She uses the chaos to take a dumbwaiter to the lower freight deck. She then notices Davids casket and frantically opens it, only to break down as it contains just the body of her husband. Carson finds her, handcuffs her, and announces that the flight will be making a stopover at Goose Bay Airport in Newfoundland. As she is once again led back to her seat, all of the passengers applaud Carson as they are now fed up of Kyles antics disrupting the flight, Kyle makes a final plea to Carson that she needs to search the plane upon landing
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How to Rob a Bank
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How to Rob a Bank is an American independent film, with as its subtitle, And 10 Tips To Actually Get Away With It. It finished filming in March 2006 and premiered May 20,2007 at the Cannes Film Market and it was shown at the Los Angeles Film Festival on June 25,2007. It opened in limited release in the United States on February 6,2008, the film is about a man who gets caught in the middle of a bank robbery, ending up in the vault with one of the robbers he then treats as a hostage. After grossing $1,006 in the market, the film was released on DVD on September 2,2008. As he tries to access an ATM to retrieve his last twenty bucks, Jason “JINX” Taylor runs into a snag – the transaction fee will overdraw him, and he cannot get his money out of the bank. Jinx fumes about this and other charges which complicate his life…as we realize that he is locked in a bank vault…with the beautiful but tied-up Jessica. But, as Jinx rails against corporations and how they stack the deck, we realize that the situation is different from what it appears, in fact, it is Jessica, not Jinx. She is aligned with Simon, who leads a team inside the branch. However, Jinx’s entry into the scenario upsets the heist, leading him, in addition, Jinx has called the cops, who, led by Officer De Gepse, have surrounded the bank. Simon becomes increasingly upset when he is unable to strong-talk Jinx into getting the vault open, and De Gepse is equally frustrated by the standoff, particularly when it is Jinx, not he, who seems to gain control over the situation. As things progress, Jinx realizes that he and Jessica actually think very much alike – they both feel used – and this new kinship leads them to plot an escape. With Simon increasingly unstable, Jinx is able to both him and De Gepse while also making a deal with Nick to provide a PIN to go with Nick’s account information. Hang up and know when to walk away, Nick Stahl as Jason Taylor, or Jinx, The Innocent Civilian. Erika Christensen as Jessica, The Hostage, gavin Rossdale as Simon, The Leader of the Bank Robbers and the main antagonist of the film. Terry Crews as Officer Degepse, in charge of the negotiations, leo Fitzpatrick as Gunman, a henchman. Adriano Aragon as Officer Linstrom, Degepses partner, david Carradine as Nick, the mastermind and main villain of the film
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The Tortured
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The Tortured is a 2010 Canadian-American mystery horror-thriller film directed by Robert Lieberman and written by Marek Posival. Craig feels immense guilt, as he saw Benjamin being kidnapped, Elise blames Craig for not watching the child more closely. During the trial, Kozlowski makes a bargain, and in exchange for providing details on other murders, is sentenced to only 25 years to life. Elise and Craig are livid with the courts verdict, Elise asks Craig to get her a gun so that she can kill Kozlowski, but Craig refuses. Elise moves out of the house and Craig, left alone, later, he meets Elise to say that just killing Kozlowski will not be enough, and the two formulate a plan to kidnap the killer. Craig steals medical supplies and drugs from the hospital where he works and they follow Kozlowski when he is being transferred to prison via police van. The officers soon stop to get some coffee, Craig distracts them, while Elise spikes their drinks. After some time, the van pulls over, and Craig is successful in hijacking the van with the prisoner inside. In the confusion and panic of the escape, Craig crashes the van, Elise, following behind in her car, is relieved to see Craig is all right, and the prisoner, though thrown from the van and severely injured, is also still alive. Elise soon receives a call from the case detective informing her that Kozlowski had taken the police van and she is able to sound normal to avoid arousing any suspicion. They take their captive to the basement of a cabin and chain him up. They gag him, stating that nothing he could say will make them change their minds and they berate him as less than human for his abominable actions. They begin to torture him in various painful ways, during one session, Craig hangs the key to the chains above the captive, taunting him. As the torture progresses over several days, both Elise and Craig are haunted by their deeds, but carry on, remembering the horrific loss of their son, meanwhile, the police manhunt for the escaped Kozlowski begins narrowing down to the area near the cabin. Back in the basement, Craig removes the gag in an attempt to suffocate the captive and he explains he has no recollection of anything before the van accident. He claims he does not think he could be a vicious killer, the Landrys are taken aback, and retreat upstairs to discuss. Craig feels the torture is unnecessary on someone who cannot even remember his crimes, Elise is certain he is merely lying to avoid any more suffering. They return to the basement and begin crushing his foot in a vise until he tells the truth, Elise demands that he speak their childs name
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The Case for Christ
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The Case for Christ is an upcoming Christian drama film directed by Jon Gunn and is based on a true story that inspired the 1998 book of the same name by Lee Strobel. The film stars Mike Vogel, Erika Christensen, Faye Dunaway and Robert Forster, the film will be released on April 7,2017 by Pure Flix Entertainment. After completing an investigation for almost two years, he finds a new faith in Christ. Official website The Case for Christ at the Internet Movie Database
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Six Degrees
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It was originally set out by Frigyes Karinthy in 1929 and popularized in an eponymous 1990 play written by John Guare. Theories on optimal design of cities, city traffic flows, neighborhoods and these conjectures were expanded in 1929 by Hungarian author Frigyes Karinthy, who published a volume of short stories titled Everything is Different. One of these pieces was titled Chains, or Chain-Links, due to technological advances in communications and travel, friendship networks could grow larger and span greater distances. In particular, Karinthy believed that the world was shrinking due to this ever-increasing connectedness of human beings. He posited that despite great physical distances between the individuals, the growing density of human networks made the actual social distance far smaller. As a result of this hypothesis, Karinthys characters believed that any two individuals could be connected through at most five acquaintances, in his story, the characters create a game out of this notion. He wrote, A fascinating game grew out of this discussion, one of us suggested performing the following experiment to prove that the population of the Earth is closer together now than they have ever been before. We should select any person from the 1.5 billion inhabitants of the Earth – anyone, anywhere at all. He bet us that, using no more than five individuals, one of whom is a personal acquaintance and this idea both directly and indirectly influenced a great deal of early thought on social networks. Karinthy has been regarded as the originator of the notion of six degrees of separation, a related theory deals with the quality of connections, rather than their existence. The theory of three degrees of influence was created by Nicholas A. Christakis and James H. Fowler, Michael Gurevich conducted seminal work in his empirical study of the structure of social networks in his 1961 Massachusetts Institute of Technology PhD dissertation under Ithiel de Sola Pool. In a structured population it is likely but still seems probable. And perhaps for the worlds population, probably only one more bridging individual should be needed. They subsequently constructed Monte Carlo simulations based on Gurevichs data, which recognized that both weak and strong links are needed to model social structure. Milgram continued Gurevichs experiments in acquaintanceship networks at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts and their unpublished manuscript circulated among academics for over 20 years before publication in 1978. It formally articulated the mechanics of social networks, and explored the consequences of these. The manuscript left many significant questions about networks unresolved, and one of these was the number of degrees of separation in actual social networks. The Psychology Today article generated enormous publicity for the experiments, which are known today
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American Broadcasting Company
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The network is headquartered on Columbus Avenue and West 66th Street in Manhattan, New York City. There are additional offices and production facilities elsewhere in New York City, as well as in Los Angeles and Burbank. Since 2007, when ABC Radio was sold to Citadel Broadcasting, ABC originally launched on October 12,1943, as a radio network, separated from and serving as the successor to the NBC Blue Network, which had been purchased by Edward J. Noble. It extended its operations to television in 1948, following in the footsteps of established broadcast networks CBS, in the mid-1950s, ABC merged with United Paramount Theatres, a chain of movie theaters that formerly operated as a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures. Leonard Goldenson, who had been the head of UPT, made the new television network profitable by helping develop, in 1996, most of Capital Cities/ABCs assets were purchased by The Walt Disney Company. The television network has eight owned-and-operated and over 232 affiliated television stations throughout the United States, most Canadians have access to at least one U. S. ABC News provides news and features content for radio stations owned by Citadel Broadcasting. In the 1930s, radio in the United States was dominated by three companies, the Columbia Broadcasting System, the Mutual Broadcasting System and the National Broadcasting Company. The last was owned by electronics manufacturer Radio Corporation of America, in 1938, the FCC began a series of investigations into the practices of radio networks and published its report on the broadcasting of network radio programs in 1940. The report recommended that RCA give up control of either NBC Red or NBC Blue, at that time, the NBC Red Network was the principal radio network in the United States and, according to the FCC, RCA was using NBC Blue to eliminate any hint of competition. Once Mutuals appeals against the FCC were rejected, RCA decided to sell NBC Blue in 1941, the newly separated NBC Red and NBC Blue divided their respective corporate assets. Investment firm Dillon, Read & Co. offered $7.5 million to purchase the network, Edward John Noble, the owner of Life Savers candy, drugstore chain Rexall and New York City radio station WMCA, purchased the network for $8 million. Due to FCC ownership rules, the transaction, which was to include the purchase of three RCA stations by Noble, would require him to resell his station with the FCCs approval, the Commission authorized the transaction on October 12,1943. Soon afterward, the Blue Network was purchased by the new company Noble founded, Noble subsequently acquired the rights to the American Broadcasting Company name from George B. Meanwhile, in August 1944, the West Coast division of the Blue Network, both stations were then managed by Don Searle, the vice-president of the Blue Networks West Coast division. The ABC Radio Network created its audience slowly, the network also became known for such suspenseful dramas as Sherlock Holmes, Gang Busters and Counterspy, as well as several mid-afternoon youth-oriented programs. S. From Nazi Germany after its conquest, to pre-record its programming, while its radio network was undergoing reconstruction, ABC found it difficult to avoid falling behind on the new medium of television. To ensure a space, in 1947, ABC submitted five applications for television station licenses, the ABC television network made its debut on April 19,1948, with WFIL-TV in Philadelphia becoming its first primary affiliate
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ABC's corporate headquarters are located at 77 West 66th Street, on the
Upper West Side of
Manhattan in
New York City.
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American Broadcasting Company
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Edward Noble, founder of ABC
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In 2002, dancers and other cast members from the 32-year run of American Bandstand reunited with host
Dick Clark to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the show's local television debut.
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NBC
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The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is the flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The network is part of the Big Three television networks, founded in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America, NBC is the oldest major broadcast network in the United States. Following the acquisition by GE, Bob Wright served as executive officer of NBC, remaining in that position until his retirement in 2007. In 2003, French media company Vivendi merged its entertainment assets with GE, Comcast purchased a controlling interest in the company in 2011, and acquired General Electrics remaining stake in 2013. Following the Comcast merger, Zucker left NBC Universal and was replaced as CEO by Comcast executive Steve Burke, during a period of early broadcast business consolidation, radio manufacturer Radio Corporation of America acquired New York City radio station WEAF from American Telephone & Telegraph. Westinghouse, a shareholder in RCA, had an outlet in Newark, New Jersey pioneer station WJZ. This station was transferred from Westinghouse to RCA in 1923, WEAF acted as a laboratory for AT&Ts manufacturing and supply outlet Western Electric, whose products included transmitters and antennas. The Bell System, AT&Ts telephone utility, was developing technologies to transmit voice- and music-grade audio over short and long distances, the 1922 creation of WEAF offered a research-and-development center for those activities. WEAF maintained a schedule of radio programs, including some of the first commercially sponsored programs. In an early example of chain or networking broadcasting, the station linked with Outlet Company-owned WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island, AT&T refused outside companies access to its high-quality phone lines. The early effort fared poorly, since the telegraph lines were susceptible to atmospheric. In 1925, AT&T decided that WEAF and its network were incompatible with the companys primary goal of providing a telephone service. AT&T offered to sell the station to RCA in a deal that included the right to lease AT&Ts phone lines for network transmission, the divisions ownership was split among RCA, its founding corporate parent General Electric and Westinghouse. NBC officially started broadcasting on November 15,1926, WEAF and WJZ, the flagships of the two earlier networks, were operated side-by-side for about a year as part of the new NBC. On April 5,1927, NBC expanded to the West Coast with the launch of the NBC Orange Network and this was followed by the debut of the NBC Gold Network, also known as the Pacific Gold Network, on October 18,1931. The Orange Network carried Red Network programming, and the Gold Network carried programming from the Blue Network, initially, the Orange Network recreated Eastern Red Network programming for West Coast stations at KPO in San Francisco. The Orange Network name was removed from use in 1936, at the same time, the Gold Network became part of the Blue Network. In the 1930s, NBC also developed a network for shortwave radio stations, in 1927, NBC moved its operations to 711 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, occupying the upper floors of a building designed by architect Floyd Brown
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The
Comcast Building in
New York City (or the GE Building, originally the
RCA Building) serves as the headquarters of NBC.
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National Broadcasting Company
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Radio City West was located at
Sunset Boulevard and
Vine Street in Los Angeles until it was replaced by a bank in the mid-1960s.
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Entrance at the GE Building.
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Parenthood (2010 TV series)
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Parenthood is an American television drama series developed by Jason Katims and produced by Imagine Television and Universal Television for NBC. The show tells of the Braverman clan, which comprises a couple, their four children. One of the grandchildren depicted has Asperger syndrome, which has gained throughout the press. Loosely based on the 1989 film of the title, the series is the second adaptation of the film to air on television, preceded by the 1990–91 TV series. The series ran for six seasons from March 6,2010 to January 29,2015, despite strong reviews, the series never gained a strong audience, the pilot received the highest audience figures, with ratings declining thereafter. On May 11,2014, Parenthood was renewed for a sixth and final season, the final season premiered on September 25,2014. The series finale aired on January 29,2015, the series is set in Berkeley, California on the east shore of the San Francisco Bay. Adam is married to Kristina and they have children, Haddie, Max, Max is diagnosed with Asperger syndrome. Sarah is divorced and has two teen children, Amber and Drew, crosby has a son Jabbar with girlfriend Jasmine and later a daughter Aida. Julia is married to Joel and has a daughter Sydney, later in the series they adopt a son Victor, with intention to add his newborn baby sister in the series finale. Nelson as Zeek Braverman Tyree Brown as Jabbar Trussell Xolo Mariduena as Victor Graham Parenthood is based on the 1989 film of the name, co-written. Following the release of the film, a series was created and aired in 1990 on NBC. The show was given the green-light from NBC in January 2009, erika Christensen was the first actress to land a role in the pilot in early March 2009. By the end of the month, Peter Krause, Maura Tierney, Dax Shepard, Mae Whitman, Sarah Ramos, Nelson came aboard the project after passing on the role of the grandfather in Modern Family. In April, Max Burkholder was chosen to portray Peter Krauses son, in that same month Bonnie Bedelia, Sam Jaeger and Monica Potter were cast. Diane Farr was originally chosen as Kristina Braverman, but she left the series due to scheduling conflicts with Californication and was replaced by Potter. The series was scheduled to premiere on NBC on September 23,2009. However, on July 10,2009, it was announced that Parenthood would be pushed back to due to actress Maura Tierneys breast cancer
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Parenthood (Original Television Soundtrack)
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Parenthood intertitle
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Wicked City (TV series)
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Wicked City is an American procedural drama television series created by Steven Baigelman for the broadcast network ABC. The series aired from October 27,2015 to December 30,2015, the main cast also includes Taissa Farmiga, Karolina Wydra, Evan Ross, Anne Winters, and Jaime Ray Newman. It was the first network television cancellation of the 2015–16 season, due to weak ratings, the remaining episodes were made available by Hulu on December 22,2015, with the finale being released on December 30,2015. In 1982 Los Angeles, police detectives Jack Roth and Paco Contreras are partnered up to investigate a series of murders on the Sunset Strip. A, on January 23,2015, it was announced that ABC had given the project a pilot order. The original pilot, then titled L. A. Crime, was directed by Tom Shankland, on May 7,2015, the pilot was officially ordered to series by ABC, and its title was changed to Wicked City. At the networks Upfront, ABC president Paul Lee stated that the show was their highest testing pilot of 2015 among millennials. The series was intended to be a midseason entry for the 2015–16 television season. On June 11,2015, Amy B. Harris was announced as showrunner, on June 18,2015, the first season was reported to consist of 10 one-hour episodes. On June 29,2015, Jon Cassar joined Wicked City as a director, on February 24,2015, Erika Christensen was the first to be cast in the role of Betty Beaumontaine. Taissa Farmiga and Darrell Britt-Gibson were cast the day as Karen McClaren and Diver Hawkes. On March 3,2015, Karolina Wydra joined the cast as Dianne Kubek, the next day, it was announced that Adam Rothenberg had been cast in the leading role of Detective Jack Roth, and Holley Fain had been cast as his wife Allison. On March 11,2015, Anne Winters joined the cast as Vicki Roth and that same day, it was announced that Gabriel Luna had been cast in the role of Detective Paco Contreras. On March 12,2015, Ed Westwick was cast as Kent Grainger, on May 18,2015, it was announced that the roles of Jack Roth, Diver Hawkes, and Allison Roth were being recast. Rothenberg departed the project due to the renewal of his television series Ripper Street, on July 6,2015, it was reported that Jeremy Sisto and Evan Ross had landed the roles of Jack Roth and Diver Hawkes, respectively, in the recasting. On August 13,2015, Jaime Ray Newman was confirmed to star as Allison Roth, in August 2015, the producers stated that the series plans to have notable musicians appearing in guest roles. Among them were Stephen Pearcy of Ratt, Joe Walsh of the Eagles, in September 2015, Vincent Ventresca joined the cast to recur as Jimmy Lovett, the ex-boyfriend of Betty. Gabriel Bateman and Haley Strode were cast to portray Kent as a child and his mother, Rita Forrester, principal photography for the pilot episode began on March 16,2015, in Los Angeles, California. Filming took place at the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner building located in Downtown Los Angeles, on Ventura Boulevard in the San Fernando Valley, production on the pilot was completed on April 2,2015
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The Upside of Anger
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The Upside of Anger is a 2005 American romantic comedy and drama film written and directed by Mike Binder and set in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. It stars Joan Allen, Kevin Costner and Evan Rachel Wood, the film was produced by Jack Binder, Alex Gartner and Sammy Lee. The opening scene presents Terry Wolfmeyer and her daughters, with a friend, Denny Davies, about three years earlier, a flashback reveals, Terry had told her daughters that she thought their father, Grey, had left the family to be with his former secretary in Sweden. Keen to help where he can, Denny helps Andy, one of Terrys daughters, there she meets and starts a relationship with Shep, Dennys producer, a questionable character in his 40s. Meanwhile, daughter Popeye, who is attending a high school, finds herself attracted to a classmate. Hadley, for her part, announces immediately following her graduation that she is engaged to her boyfriend of three years, and pregnant. Weary and tired of Terrys ever-shifting moods, Denny storms out of her house, when a real estate deal involving both Denny and Terry finally goes through, construction begins in the area surrounding their homes. A worker accidentally uncovers an abandoned, partially covered well, where Grey Wolfmeyers body is found, rather, he had accidentally fallen in the well and died. Sarah Coomes as Anna Holstein Dane Christensen as Gorden Reiner Danny Webb as Grey Wolfmeyer Magdalena Manville as Darlene Suzanne Bertish as Gina David Firth as David Sr, rod Woodruff as Dean Reiner Stephen Greif as Emilys doctor. Arthur Penhallow as Himself According to the credits and the special features section of the DVD, much of the film was shot at Ealing Studios. Part was filmed in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. At one point in the film, Detroits 101 WRIF served as a backdrop for the movie, Denny Davies, Costners character, is referenced to have retired from the Detroit Tigers several years earlier. Several still pictures of Costner from For Love of the Game, the film holds a 74% approval rating at Rotten Tomatoes based on 181 reviews, with an average rating of 6. 8/10. The site critical consensus reads A comedy/ drama for grown-ups, with performances by Joan Allen
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Promotional poster
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Icelanders
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Icelanders are a Germanic ethnic group and nation, native to Iceland. On 17 June 1944, when the Icelandic republic was founded, the language spoken is Icelandic, a North Germanic language, and Lutheranism is the predominant religion. Historical and DNA records indicate that around 60 to 80 percent of the settlers were of Norse origin, Icelanders have had a tumultuous history. Development of the island was due to a lack of interest from the countries controlling it for most of its history, Norway, Denmark–Norway. Through this time, Iceland had relatively little contact with the outside world, the island became independent in union with Denmark in 1918. Since 1944, Iceland has been a republic, and Icelandic society has undergone a modernisation process in the post-independence era. Iceland is a young land mass, having formed an estimated 20 million years ago due to volcanic eruptions on the Mid-Atlantic ridge. The first Viking to sight Iceland was Gardar Svavarsson, who went off due to harsh conditions when sailing from Norway to the Faroe Islands. His reports led to the first efforts to settle the island, flóki Vilgerðarson was the first Norseman to sail to Iceland intentionally. His story is documented in the Landnámabók manuscript, and he is said to have named the island Ísland, the first permanent settler in Iceland is usually considered to have been a Norwegian chieftain named Ingólfur Arnarson. He settled with his family in around 874, at a place he named Bay of Smokes and they traveled 1,000 km in their Viking longships to the island of Iceland. These people were primarily of Norwegian, Irish or Gaelic Scottish origin, about 20-25% of the Icelandic paternal gene pool is of Gaelic origin, with the rest being Nordic. In 930, on the plain near Reykjavík, the chieftains and their families met and established the Alþingi. However, the Alþingi lacked the power to enforce the laws it made, in 1262, struggles between rival chieftains left Iceland so divided that King Haakon IV of Norway was asked to step in as a final arbitrator for all disputes, as part of the Old Covenant. This is known as the Age of the Sturlungs, Iceland was under Norwegian leadership until 1380, when the Royal House of Norway died out. At this point, both Iceland and Norway came under the control of the Danish Crown, with the introduction of absolute monarchy in Denmark, the Icelanders relinquished their autonomy to the crown, including the right to initiate and consent to legislation. In particular, the lack of help in defense led to constant raids by marauding pirates along the Icelandic coasts, unlike Norway, Denmark did not need Icelands fish and homespun wool. This created a deficit in Icelands trade, and no new ships were built as a result
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1st row:
Jóhanna Guðrún Jónsdóttir •
Jón Sigurðsson •
Egill Skallagrímsson •
Davíð Oddsson 2nd row:
Jónas Hallgrímsson •
Björk •
Arngrímur Jónsson •
Erik the Red 3rd row:
Jóhanna Vala Jónsdóttir •
Alexandra Ívarsdóttir •
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson •
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir
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Rock of law in
Þingvellir was used to make speeches.
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Laki erupted in 1783–84 with catastrophic consequences for Iceland.
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Statue of Jón Sigurðsson in
Reykjavík
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Swedish people
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Swedes are a Germanic ethnic group native to Sweden. They mostly inhabit Sweden and the other Nordic countries, in particular Finland, with a substantial diaspora in other countries, the English term Swede has been attested in English since the late 16th century and is of Middle Dutch or Middle Low German origin. The term is believed to have derived from the Proto-Indo-European reflexive pronominal root, *se. The word must have meant ones own, the same root and original meaning is found in the ethnonym of the Germanic tribe Suebi, preserved to this day in the name Swabia. Sweden enters proto-history with the Germania of Tacitus in AD98, in Germania 44,45 he mentions the Swedes as a powerful tribe with ships that had a prow in both ends. Which kings ruled these Suiones is unknown, but Norse mythology presents a line of legendary and semi-legendary kings going back to the last centuries BC. In the 6th century Jordanes named two tribes, which he calls the Suehans and the Suetidi, who lived in Scandza and these two names are both considered to refer to the same tribe. The Suehans, he says, has very fine horses just as the Thyringi tribe, the Icelander Snorri Sturluson wrote of the 6th-century Swedish king Adils that he had the finest horses of his days. The Suehans supplied black fox-skins for the Roman market, then Jordanes names the Suetidi which is considered to be the Latin form of Svitjod. He writes that the Suetidi are the tallest of men - together with the Dani, later he mentions other Scandinavian tribes as being of the same height. Originating in semi-legendary Scandza, a Gothic population had crossed the Baltic Sea before the 2nd century AD and they reaching Scythia on the coast of the Black Sea in modern Ukraine, where Goths left their archaeological traces in the Chernyakhov culture. In the 5th and 6th centuries, they divided as the Visigoths and the Ostrogoths. Crimean Gothic communities appear to have survived intact in the Crimea until the late 18th century, the Swedish Viking Age lasted roughly between the 8th and 11th centuries. During this period, it is believed that the Swedes expanded from eastern Sweden and it is believed that Swedish Vikings and Gutar mainly travelled east and south, going to Finland, the Baltic countries, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine the Black Sea and further as far as Baghdad. Their routes passed through the Dnieper down south to Constantinople, on which they did numerous raids, the Byzantine Emperor Theophilos noticed their great skills in war and invited them to serve as his personal bodyguard, known as the varangian guard. The Swedish Vikings, called Rus are also believed to be the fathers of Kievan Rus. The Arabic traveller Ibn Fadlan described these Vikings as following, I have seen the Rus as they came on their merchant journeys, each man has an axe, a sword, and a knife, and keeps each by him at all times. The swords are broad and grooved, of Frankish sort, the adventures of these Swedish Vikings are commemorated on many runestones in Sweden, such as the Greece Runestones and the Varangian Runestones
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Eric the Victorious praying to
Odin, Eric was the first king to rule over both the
Swedes and the
Goths; 1895 illustration by
Jenny Nyström.
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Gustav Vasa starts a revolution in Dalarna. After the
Swedish War of Liberation Sweden is a free nation in 1523 after 126 years of the Danish-dominated
Kalmar Union; idealized depiction by
Johan Gustaf Sandberg, 1836
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Death of
Gustav II Adolf at the
Battle of Lützen
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Danish people
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Danes are the citizens of Denmark, most of whom speak Danish and consider themselves to be of Danish ethnicity. The first mention of Danes are from the 6th century in Jordanes Getica, by Procopius, the first mention of Danes within the Danish territory is on the Jelling Rune Stone which states how Harald Bluetooth converted the Danes to Christianity in the 10th century. Since the formulation of a Danish national identity in the 19th century, Danish national identity was built on a basis of peasant culture and Lutheran theology, theologian N. F. S. Grundtvig and his popular movement played a prominent part in the process. Today, the criterion for being considered a Dane is having Danish citizenship. Frankish annalists of the 8th century often refer to Danish kings, the Bobbio Orosius from the early 7th century, distinguishes between South Danes inhabiting Jutland and North Danes inhabiting the isles and the province of Scania. The first mention of Danes within the Danish territory is on the Jelling Rune Stone which mentions how Harald Bluetooth converted the Danes to Christianity in the 10th century. Between c.960 and the early 980s, Harald Bluetooth established a kingdom in the lands of the Danes, stretching from Jutland to Scania. Around the same time, he received a visit from a German missionary who, by surviving an ordeal by fire according to legend, the following years saw the Danish Viking expansion, which incorporated Norway and Northern England into the Danish kingdom. After the death of Canute the Great in 1035, England broke away from Danish control, canutes nephew Sweyn Estridson re-established strong royal Danish authority and built a good relationship with the archbishop of Bremen — at that time the Archbishop of all of Scandinavia. The Reformation, which originated in the German lands in the early 16th century from the ideas of Martin Luther, had a impact on Denmark. The Danish Reformation started in the mid-1520s, some Danes wanted access to the Bible in their own language. In 1524, Hans Mikkelsen and Christiern Pedersen translated the New Testament into Danish and those who had traveled to Wittenberg in Saxony and come under the influence of the teachings of Luther and his associates included Hans Tausen, a Danish monk in the Order of St John Hospitallers. The Dano-Norwegian Kingdom grew wealthy during the 16th century, largely because of the traffic through the Øresund. The Crown of Denmark could tax the traffic, because it controlled both sides of the Sound at the time, in the centuries after this loss of territory, the populations of the Scanian lands, who had previously been considered Danish, came to be fully integrated as Swedes. Later, in the early 19th century, Denmark suffered a defeat in the Napoleonic Wars, Denmark lost control over Norway, the political and economic defeat ironically sparked what is known as the Danish Golden Age during which a Danish national identity first came to be fully formed. The Danish liberal and national movements gained momentum in the 1830s, a new constitution emerged, separating the powers and granting the franchise to all adult males, as well as freedom of the press, religion, and association. The king became head of the executive branch, Danishness is the concept on which contemporary Danish national and ethnic identity is based. It is a set of values formed through the historic trajectory of the formation of the Danish nation, importantly, since its formulation, Danish identity has not been linked to a particular racial or biological heritage, as many other ethno-national identities have
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Norwegians
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Norwegians are a Germanic ethnic group native to Norway. They share a culture and speak the Norwegian language. Towards the end of the 3rd millennium BC, Proto-Indo-European speaking Battle-Axe peoples migrated to Norway bringing domesticated horses, agriculture, cattle, during the Viking age, Harald Fairhair unified the Norse petty kingdoms after being victorious at the Battle of Hafrsfjord in the 880s. Two centuries of Viking expansion tapered off following the decline of Norse paganism with the adoption of Christianity in the 11th century, during The Black Death, approximately 60% of the population died and in 1397 Norway entered a union with Denmark. In 1814, following Denmark-Norways defeat in the Napoleonic Wars, Norway entered a union with Sweden, rising nationalism throughout the 19th century led to a 1905 referendum granting Norway independence. Although Norway remained officially neutral in World War I, the country was allied with the Entente powers. In World War II Norway proclaimed its neutrality, but was occupied for five years by Nazi Germany. In 1949, neutrality was abandoned and Norway became a member of NATO, discovery of oil and gas in adjacent waters in the late 1960s boosted Norways economic fortunes but in referenda held in 1972 and 1994, Norway rejected joining the EU. Key domestic issues include integration of a fast growing immigrant population, maintaining the countrys generous social safety net with an aging population, as with many of the people from European countries, Norwegians are spread throughout the world. There are more than 100,000 Norwegian citizens living abroad permanently, mostly in the U. S, Norwegian Vikings travelled north and west and founded vibrant communities in the Faroe Islands, Shetland, Orkney, Iceland, Ireland, Scotland, and northern England. They conducted extensive raids in Ireland and founded the cities of Cork, Dublin, in 947, a new wave of Norwegian Vikings appeared in England when Erik Bloodaxe captured York. Apart from Britain and Ireland, Norwegian Vikings established settlements in largely uninhabited regions, the first known permanent Norwegian settler in Iceland was Ingólfur Arnarson. In the year 874 he settled in Reykjavík, after his expulsion from Iceland Erik the Red discovered Greenland, a name he chose in hope of attracting Icelandic settlers. Viking settlements were established in the fjords of the southern and western coast. Eriks relative Leif Eriksson later discovered North America, during the 17th and 18th centuries, many Norwegians emigrated to the Netherlands, particularly Amsterdam. The Netherlands was the second most popular destination for Norwegian emigrants after Denmark, loosely estimated, some 10% of the population may have emigrated, in a period when the entire Norwegian population consisted of some 800,000 people. The Norwegians left with the Dutch trade ships that when in Norway traded for timber, hides, herring, young women took employment as maids in Amsterdam. Young men took employment as sailors, large parts of the Dutch merchant fleet and navy came to consist of Norwegians and Danes
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7% of the population in
Saskatoon in
Canada is of Norwegian ancestry.
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Leif Ericson discovers Canada and North America.
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Smalahove is course served in parts of
Western Norway.
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Welsh people
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The Welsh people or the Welsh are a nation and ethnic group native to, or otherwise associated with, Wales and the Welsh language. Prior to the 20th century, large numbers of Welsh people spoke only Welsh, the term Welsh people applies to people from Wales and people of Welsh ancestry perceiving themselves or being perceived as sharing a cultural heritage and shared ancestral origins. Over 300,000 Welsh people live in London, the same etymological origin is shared by the names of various other Celtic or Latin peoples such as the Walloons and the Vlachs, as well as of the Swiss canton of Valais. The modern Welsh name for themselves is Cymry, and Cymru is the Welsh name for Wales and these words are descended from the Brythonic word combrogi, meaning fellow-countrymen. They thus carry a sense of land of fellow-countrymen, our country, the word came into use as a self-description probably before the 7th century. It is attested in a poem to Cadwallon ap Cadfan c. 633. Thereafter Cymry prevailed as a reference to the Welsh, until c.1560 the word was spelt Kymry or Cymry, regardless of whether it referred to the people or their homeland. During their time in Britain, the ancient Romans encountered tribes in present-day Wales that they called the Ordovices, the Demetae, the Silures and the Deceangli. The people of what is now Wales were not distinguished from the rest of the peoples of southern Britain, all were called Britons and spoke the common British language, a Brythonic Celtic tongue. Celtic language and culture seems to have arrived in Britain during the Iron Age, the claim has also been made that Indo-European languages may have been introduced to the British Isles as early as the early Neolithic, with Goidelic and Brythonic languages developing indigenously. The genetic evidence in this case would show that the change to Celtic languages in Britain may have occurred as a cultural rather than through migration as was previously supposed. The assumed genetic imprint of Neolithic incomers is seen as a cline, with stronger Neolithic representation in the east of Europe, when the Roman legions departed Britain around 400, a Romano-British culture remained in the areas the Romans had settled, and the pre-Roman cultures in others. According to Stephen Oppenheimer 96% of lineages in Llangefni in north Wales derive from Iberia, Genetic marker R1b averages from 83–89% amongst the Welsh. The people in what is now Wales continued to speak Brythonic languages with additions from Latin, the surviving poem Y Gododdin is in early Welsh and refers to the Brythonic kingdom of Gododdin with a capital at Din Eidyn and extending from the area of Stirling to the Tyne. John Davies places the change from Brythonic to Welsh between 400 and 700, offas Dyke was erected in the mid-8th century, forming a barrier between Wales and Mercia. The genetic tests suggested that between 50% and 100% of the population of what was to become England was wiped out. In 2001, research for a BBC programme on the Vikings suggested a strong link between the Celts and Basques, dating back tens of thousands of years. The UCL research suggested a migration on a huge scale during the Anglo-Saxon period and it appears England is made up of an ethnic cleansing event from people coming across from the continent after the Romans left, said Dr Mark Thomas, of the Centre for Genetic Anthropology at UCL
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William Morgan
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Sculpture of
Owain Glyndŵr, the last native Welsh person to hold the title
Prince of Wales.
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Irish people
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The Irish people are a nation and ethnic group native to the island of Ireland, who share a common Irish ancestry, identity and culture. Ireland has been inhabited for about 9,000 years according to archaeological studies, for most of Irelands recorded history, the Irish have been primarily a Gaelic people. Today, Ireland is made up of the Republic of Ireland, the people of Northern Ireland hold various national identities, including Irish, Northern Irish, British, or some combination thereof. The Irish have their own customs, language, music, dance, sports, cuisine, although Irish was their main language in the past, today the huge majority of Irish people speak English as their first language. Historically, the Irish nation was made up of kin groups or clans, there have been many notable Irish people throughout history. After Irelands conversion to Christianity, Irish missionaries and scholars exerted great influence on Western Europe, the 6th-century Irish monk and missionary Columbanus is regarded as one of the fathers of Europe, followed by saints Cillian and Fergal. The scientist Robert Boyle is considered the father of chemistry, famous Irish writers include Oscar Wilde, W. B. Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, Bram Stoker and James Joyce, notable Irish explorers include Brendan the Navigator, Robert McClure, Ernest Shackleton and Tom Crean. By some accounts, the first European child born in North America had Irish descent on both sides, many presidents of the United States have had some Irish ancestry. The population of Ireland is about 6.3 million, but it is estimated that 50 to 80 million people around the world have Irish forebears, historically, emigration from Ireland has been the result of conflict, famine and economic issues. People of Irish descent are mainly in English-speaking countries, especially the United Kingdom. There are also significant numbers in Argentina, Mexico and New Zealand, the United States has the most people of Irish descent, while in Australia those of Irish descent are a higher percentage of the population than in any other country. Many Icelanders have Irish and Scottish Gaelic forebears, in its summary of their article Who were the Celts. The National Museum Wales notes It is possible that genetic studies of ancient. However, early studies have, so far, tended to produce implausible conclusions from very small numbers of people and using outdated assumptions about linguistics, nineteenth century anthropology studied the physical characteristics of Irish people in minute detail. During the past 10,000 years of inhabitation, Ireland has witnessed some different peoples arrive on its shores, the ancient peoples of Ireland—such as the creators of the Céide Fields and Newgrange—are almost unknown. Neither their languages nor terms they used to describe themselves have survived, as late as the middle centuries of the 1st millennium the inhabitants of Ireland did not appear to have a collective name for themselves. Ireland itself was known by a number of different names, including Banba, Fódla, Ériu by the islanders, Iouerne and Hiverne to the Greeks, other Latin names for people from Ireland in Classic and Mediaeval sources include Attacotti and Gael
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Carrowmore tomb, circa 3000 BC
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Robert Boyle, Anglo-Irish scientist and
father of chemistry, whose family obtained land in the plantations
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Finnian of Clonard imparting his blessing to the "
Twelve Apostles of Ireland "
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Irish Gaels in a painting from the 16th century
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Church of Scientology
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The Church of Scientology International is officially the Church of Scientologys parent organization, and is responsible for guiding local Scientology churches. At a local level, every church is a corporate entity set up as a licensed franchise and has its own board of directors. The first Scientology church was incorporated in December 1953 in Camden and its international headquarters are located at the Gold Base, in an unincorporated area of Riverside County, California. The location at Gilman Hotsprings is kept secret from most Scientologists, Scientology Missions International is under CSI and overseers Scientology missions, which are local Scientology organizations smaller than churches. The Church of Spiritual Technology is the organization which owns all the copyrights of the estate of L. Ron Hubbard, the highest authority in the Church of Scientology is the Religious Technology Center. The RTC claims to only be the holder of Scientology and Dianetics trademarks, RTC chairman David Miscavige is widely seen as the effective head of Scientology. David Miscavige is the highest-ranking Sea Org officer, holding the rank of captain, the first Scientology church was incorporated in December 1953 in Camden, New Jersey by L. Ron Hubbard, his wife Mary Sue Hubbard, and John Galusha. By that time, the Hubbard Association of Scientologists International had already operating since 1952 and Hubbard himself had already been selling Scientology books. In 1953 he wrote to Helen OBrien, who was managing the organisation,213 Soon after, despite OBriens misgivings and resignation, he announced the religious nature of Scientology in a bulletin to all Scientologists, stressing its relation to the concept of Dharma. The first Church of Scientology opened in 1954 in Los Angeles, after the formation of the Church of Scientology, Hubbard composed its creed. Hubbard had official control of the organization until 1966 when this function was transferred to a group of executives, although Hubbard maintained no formal relationship with Scientologys management, he remained firmly in control of the organization and its affiliated organizations. Although RTC is a corporation from the Church of Scientology International, whose president and chief spokesperson is Heber Jentzsch. In 1996, the Church of Scientology implemented the Golden Age of Tech releasing a training program for Scientology auditors, while precisely following Hubbards teachings. It was followed by the launch of The Golden Age of Knowledge in 2005, between 2005 and 2010, the church would complete its 25-year program to restore and verify the churchs scriptures. The church released the second phase of the Golden Age of Tech on November 2013, the Super Power Rundown a new component of auditing, was released in Clearwater, Florida. The Church of Scientology promotes Scientology, a body of beliefs and related practices created by Hubbard, starting in 1952 as a successor to his earlier self-help system, Scientology teaches that people are immortal spiritual beings who have forgotten their true nature. Scientologys central mythology developed around the notion of the thetan. In Scientology, the thetan is the expression of theta, described by Neusner as the cosmic source
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Scientology building in Los Angeles, California
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L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Church of Scientology
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A Scientologist administers a
stress test using an
e-meter.
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Scientology México headquarters in
Mexico City near the
Alameda Central. The
Secretaría de Gobernación has thrice denied the Church of Scientology's petition to be legally recognized as a religion.
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Homeschooling
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Homeschooling, also known as home education, is the education of children inside the home. Home education is conducted by a parent or tutor. Many families that start out with a formal structure at home often switch to less formal ways of imparting education outside of school. Homeschooling is the commonly used in North America, whereas home education is more commonly used in the United Kingdom, elsewhere in Europe. Before the introduction of school attendance laws, most childhood education was imparted by the family or community. In several countries homeschooling, in the sense, is considered to be an alternative to attending public or private schools and is a legal option for parents. In other nations, homeschooling is considered illegal or restricted to conditions, as noted in the Homeschooling international status. According to the US National Household Education Surveys, about three percent of all children in the US were homeschooled in the 2011 and 2012 school year, and as of 2016, there are about 2.3 million home-schooled students in the United States. The studies found that of children,83 percent were White,5 percent were Black,7 percent were Hispanic. For much of history and in cultures, enlisting professional teachers was an option available only to the elite social classes. Thus, until recently, the vast majority of people, especially during early childhood, were educated by family members, family friends. The earliest public schools in modern Western culture were established in the early 16th century in the German states of Gotha and Thuringia. However, even in the 18th century, the majority of people in Europe lacked formal schooling, meaning they were homeschooled, tutored, in the middle colonies, the educational situation varied when comparing New York with New England until the 1850s. Formal schooling in a classroom setting has been the most common means of schooling throughout the world, especially in developed countries, since the early-, native Americans, who traditionally used homeschooling and apprenticeship, vigorously resisted compulsory education in the United States. Rushdoony was frequently called as a witness by the Home School Legal Defense Association in court cases. During this time, American educational professionals Raymond and Dorothy Moore began to research the academic validity of the rapidly growing Early Childhood Education movement. This research included independent studies by researchers and a review of over 8,000 studies bearing on early childhood education. They asserted that formal schooling before ages 8–12 not only lacked the anticipated effectiveness, the Moores published their view that formal schooling was damaging young children academically, socially, mentally, and even physiologically
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Frontispiece to Fireside Education,
Samuel Griswold (Goodrich).
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Lecture about
unschooling
28.
Leave It to Beaver (film)
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Leave It to Beaver is a 1997 film that is a remake of the TV series of the same name. There are many related to the series within it. It features all the regular characters, all played by new actors. Beaver has his set on a model bicycle in a store window. Eddie also tells Beaver that once he succeeds in getting that bike, on the first day of school five days later, Ward and June tell Wally to drop Beaver off and pick him up for a few days because he has never ridden his bike there before. He has a teacher named Miss Landers. After school Eddie asks Wally to come to the shop to see him flirt with Karen. Eddie does not want Beaver to follow them, so Wally leaves him alone at the bike rack telling him they should return shortly, Beaver is polishing his bike when a punk-dressed teenage boy comes over and asks if he can show him some neat bike tricks. He agrees and the boy shows him some tricks before finally riding off with it, inside the soda shop, Karen likes Wally and not Eddie. When Wally and Eddie come out of the shop and hear that Beavers bike was stolen they look for it, at the time Ward returns that afternoon, Wally and Beaver are undecided about how he might take it if they broke the bad news to him. During dinner that night, the try to cover up the stolen bike plight. Over Wally being upset with having to be forced to watch him all the time, in the bedroom, he. Beaver skips football practice and studies instead, and Wally spends time with Karen and she breaks up with him after reuniting with her ex-boyfriend, Kyle, at a skating rink they agree to attend. Beaver and Eddie manage to sneak out and spy on Wallys date, even to witness the break-up. As they all return home, Beaver catches up with the boy who stole his bike, larry who witnesses it gets the police on the case and come that night the fire department and Ward help get him down, whereupon Ward realizes Beaver may be under too much pressure. At the Mayfield Festival, he continues chasing him. Beaver uses a stand to block the boys way, he ends up flying into a table of pies, slides down it, causing pies to drop on to him. Through this, Beaver finally retrieves his bike, at home, June and Ward see him polishing it and he tells them that it would be safer if it stays in the house and he decides to read to Beaver
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Theatrical release poster
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Frasier
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Frasier is an American sitcom that was broadcast on NBC for eleven seasons, premiering on September 16,1993, and concluding on May 13,2004. The program was created and produced by David Angell, Peter Casey, the series was created as a spin-off of Cheers, continuing the story of psychiatrist Frasier Crane as he returned to his hometown of Seattle and started building a new life. Frasier stars Kelsey Grammer, David Hyde Pierce, John Mahoney, Jane Leeves, Peri Gilpin, psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane returns to his home town of Seattle, Washington, following the end of his marriage and his life in Boston. Frasier hires Daphne Moon as Martins live-in physical therapist and care giver, Frasier frequently spends time with his younger brother Niles, a fellow psychiatrist. Niles becomes obsessed with, and eventually falls in love with, Daphne, Frasier hosts The Dr. Frasier Crane Show, a call-in psychiatry show on talk radio station KACL. His producer Roz Doyle is very different from Frasier in many ways and she is down-to-earth, has basic tastes and, at least early in the series, has superficial relationships with many men. However, Roz and Frasier share a professional respect and over time they become best friends, Frasier and the others often visit the local coffee shop, Café Nervosa. The Crane sons, who possess fine tastes, intellectual interests, the brothers close relationship is often tense, and their sibling rivalry intermittently results in chaos. Niles Crane, Frasiers younger brother, also a psychiatrist, who works in private practice, Martin Crane, Frasier and Niless father, a police officer who was forced to retire by a gunshot wound to his hip that led to his living with Frasier. Daphne Moon, an English physiotherapist, hired by Frasier to help take care of Martin, Roz Doyle, the producer of Frasiers radio show, who becomes a close family friend. Eddie, Martin Cranes Jack Russell terrier, Bob Bulldog Briscoe, the male chauvinist, horny, boastful host of a sports radio talk show that followed Frasiers daily broadcast at KACL. He became a regular cast member for Seasons 4 through 6, noel Shempsky, KACL technical assistant and avid Star Trek aficionado who speaks Klingon, in love with Roz. Gil Chesterton, KACLs flamboyant, effeminate restaurant critic. Bebe Glazer, Frasiers manipulative, amoral agent, who is loathed by Frasiers family, the main cast remained unchanged for all 11 years. Grammer was briefly the highest paid actor in the United States for his portrayal of Frasier. Grammer had been the voice of Sideshow Bob on The Simpsons since 1990, in a 1997 episode, the characters brother, Cecil Terwilliger, was introduced, played by Pierce, as referenced in the episode title, Brother from Another Series. The episode contained numerous Frasier references, Pierce returned as Cecil for the second time alongside Grammer in the 2007 episode Funeral for a Fiend. The episode introduced the brothers father, Dr. Robert Terwilliger, cast member reunions also occurred on four episodes of Hot in Cleveland, which featured Leeves in the main cast along with Wendie Malick. In the Season 2 episode Unseparated at Birth and Season 3 episode Funeral Crashers, Gilpin appears in the episode I Love Lucci, and Tom McGowan appears in Love Thy Neighbor as a casting director
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Frasier title screen from the pilot episode, "The Good Son", has a lit antenna spire at the
Space Needle, one of the animated gags.
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The Practice
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The Practice is an American legal drama created by David E. Kelley centering on the partners and associates at a Boston law firm. The Practice focused on the law firm of Robert Donnell and Associates, plots typically featured the firms involvement in various high-profile criminal and civil cases that often mirror current events. Conflict between legal ethics and personal morality was a recurring theme, Kelley claimed that he conceived the show as something of a rebuttal to L. A. Law and its romanticized treatment of the American legal system and legal proceedings. At the start of the series, attorney Bobby Donnell employs associate attorneys Ellenor Frutt, Eugene Young, Lindsay Dole, by the fourth episode, Bobbys friend Jimmy Berluti is hired as an associate. Before that, Jimmy is a working as a loan officer. When he falsifies loan documents to help Bobbys struggling practice, he loses his job, Bobby maintains sole control over the firm until an ultimatum by Lindsay motivates him to name Ellenor, Eugene, Lindsay, and Rebecca as junior partners. To maintain control over the firm, Bobby writes into the charter that each received one vote in partnership meetings. While this decision prevents Lindsays power play from becoming ugly, it causes some tension when Bobby and Lindsay later become romantically involved. The partnership agreement also initially alienates Jimmy who feels insulted that he was the one on staff not named a partner. This is exacerbated by the fact that Rebecca is made partner despite her being the receptionist, Rebecca earns her law degree in Season 3, and Jimmy is eventually made partner at the end of Season 7. Bobby and his associates all share a friendship with A. D. A, Helen Gamble, who even shares a brief romance with Bobby – all highly unusual, considering how often Helens job places her in opposition to the firm. While the strategy is effective, it would occasionally backfire once the D. A. s office grew familiar with the strategy. This tactic invariably causes great distress for the attorney employing the plan when they know that the target is most likely innocent. Thus, in cases, Plan B is used only as a last resort. In 2003, Bobby Donnell leaves the firm, fearing he had become the blue-chip lawyer he had long resented and he names Eugene as senior partner. Along with Ellenor, Eugene decides to make Jimmy a full partner and extends an offer to Lindsay, and her associate Claire Wyatt to return to the firm. This occurred at the end of seven, at the end of which most of the cast was fired for budgetary reasons as ABC agreed to renew the show only if the budget per episode was drastically cut. Season eight began with half the original cast missing
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The Practice
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3rd Rock from the Sun
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3rd Rock from the Sun is an American sitcom that aired from 1996 to 2001 on NBC. The show is about four extraterrestrials who are on an expedition to Earth, the extraterrestrials pose as a human family to observe the behavior of human beings. Humor was principally derived from the attempts to study human society and, because of their living as humans themselves while on Earth. This show reflects human life from the perspective of aliens and many sources of humor are from the experiences the alien characters have. Most of the episodes are named after the protagonist Dick, in later episodes, they are more accustomed to Earth and often are more interested in their human lives than in their mission. Dr. Mary Albright is a professor of anthropology at Pendelton State University, furthermore, these four alien researchers end up looking more or less like joyriders as they get drawn further and further into human life. Dick Solomon, the High Commander and leader of the expedition, is the provider as a physics professor at Pendelton. The show also involves their relationships with humans, mostly their love interests, the family often communicates through Harry with their off-world boss, the Big Giant Head, who when he finally visits Earth, appears in the body of William Shatner. Harry unexpectedly stands up, his arms stiff, and proclaims and their original forms, for example, are described as nonsexual, with reproduction a matter of sending packets of genetic material to each other in the mail. Leaders like the Big Giant Head are unelected and assumed infallible, the upshot is that living in an Earth culture provides the Solomons with an almost intolerable degree of emotional stimulation and conflict. Although they are ill-equipped to handle such an emotional maelstrom, they love it, several episodes feature send-ups of TV and films. For example, in the episode Dicks Big Giant Headache, both Dick and the Big Giant Head mention seeing something on the wing of the plane after having traveled by airline. That was a nod to both Lithgow and Shatner having played the role of the passenger who sees a gremlin on the wing in The Twilight Zone. Occasionally, references would be made to specific features of the abilities and of their experiences on their own world. The theme of the idiot savant repeatedly resurfaces, since each member of the family makes up for their extreme naïveté with some special skill owing to their alien nature. A segment from an episode has him reading a passage from A Brief History of Time and laughing at Stephen Hawkings description of virtual particles quipping, These Earth people will swallow anything. Even so, Dick is often shown as the member of the family with the least to recommend in terms of his ability, leading them to question his right to command. Sally, for instance, is depicted as not only having an attractive body, but also being amazingly physically strong and fit, able to fight and defeat large groups of men much larger than her
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3rd Rock from the Sun
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John Lithgow as Dick, Kristen Johnston as Sally, French Stewart as Harry, Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Tommy, and Jane Curtin as Mary
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John Lithgow
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Touched by an Angel
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Touched by an Angel is an American supernatural drama television series that premiered on CBS on September 21,1994, and ran for 211 episodes and nine seasons until its conclusion on April 27,2003. Created by John Masius and produced by Martha Williamson, the series stars Roma Downey, as an angel named Monica, throughout the series, Monica is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who are at a crossroads in their lives. From season three on, they are joined by Andrew, the angel of death. The series went into syndication in 1998, and has shown on Ion Television, Hallmark Channel. Monica in one episode outlines that she started in the choir then annunciations, followed by search and rescue, most cases involve a single person or a group of people who are at a crossroad in their lives and facing a large problem or tough decision. Monica and Tess bring them messages of hope from God and help give them guidance towards making their decision, as the series progresses, Monica continues gaining experience as a case worker and, during some cases having to learn lessons of her own. During the series pilot, an angel of death named Adam is introduced, in the season two premiere, Interview with an Angel, the Angel of Death is introduced as Henry. In the season two episode entitled, The One That Got Away Andrew is introduced as the Angel of Death. During season seven, a new angel, Gloria, is sent by God during one of Monicas assignments, the explosion killed most of the children, leaving the citizens devastated. An out of town developer claims Zack is the perpetrator and despite the lack of evidence, Zack is put on trial. Monica does all she can to help him, including asking Mike to represent him, but the prosecutor in the case, Jones, is really Satan in disguise, and Zack is eventually convicted. After the trial, Monica is able to help the citizens realize their mistake and they begin going back to church, welcomed by the pastor they had once abandoned. Their change of heart, however, cannot free Zack, so Monica visits him in jail and she then promises him that she will become his guardian angel, forgoing all future assignments and the coveted promotion, to protect him from harm in prison. When she returns in the morning, however, the cell is empty, the citizens decide not to search for him, and it is revealed that Joey inadvertently caused the explosion after the devil tricked him into turning the boiler too high to warm some kittens hed found. The perplexed Monica returns to the desert to find Tess and Zack, There, she learns that Zack was actually God, and that her defending him was a test, which she passed by being willing to sacrifice herself for him. As she leaves, she says her goodbyes to Gloria, and to Andrew, before parting, Tess gives Monica the keys to the Cadillac, as she is leaving her job to sit at Gods feet. Monica is last shown driving away as the camera out over the desert. Roma Downey as Monica, a soft kind-hearted angel who is sent town-to-town to encourage people, Della Reese as Tess, a tough and sarcastic, but loving supervisor who plays a key role in every one of Monicas cases
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Touched by an Angel
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Disney Channel
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Disney Channels programming consists of original first-run television series, theatrically-released and original made-for-cable movies and select other third-party programming. Disney Channel – which formerly operated as a premium service – originally marketed its programs towards families during the 1980s, most of Disney Channels original programming is aimed at kids ages 9–16, while its Disney Junior programs are targeted at children 8 years and under. As of January 2016, Disney Channel is available to approximately 93.9 million pay television households in the United States. The Disney Sunday Movie, a version of the Walt Disney anthology television series, began on the channel in 1986 concurrent with ABCs version until 1988 and NBCs The Magical World of Disney. Disney Channel Original Movies series of made for television movies started on August 23,1997 with Northern Lights supplanting the previous Disney Channel Premiere Films banner.2 million viewers. The Cheetah Girls films were also successful in terms of merchiandise. The first film in 2003 was the first made-for-TV movie musical in Disney Channels history, and had a worldwide audience of over 84 million viewers. The second movie was the most successful of the series, bringing in 8.1 million viewers in the U. S. Disney Junior – Disney Junior is a block that features shows targeted at children aged 3–9. Which debuted on February 14,2011, it airs Monday through Fridays from 8,00 a. m. –2,00 p. m. and weekends from 6,00 to 9,00 a. m. Disney Junior carries one of the few programs on Disney Channel that feature classic Disney characters as of 2013, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. Other programs currently seen in this block include Jake and the Never Land Pirates, Sheriff Callies Wild West, Sofia the First, Miles from Tomorrowland, The Lion Guard and Doc McStuffins. C. Saturdays from 8, 00-11,00 p. m. and Sundays from 7, Saturday nights feature repeats of recent episodes of the channels original series or an occasional film telecast. Encores of the respective nights programs typically air between 11,00 p. m. and 2,30 a. m, Eastern/Pacific each night during that weekend. Out of This World Weekend – a weekend of shows having space themed episodes, Weekend – a weekend of shows having mystery themed episodes. This was the first special weekend, Summer Adventure Weekend – a weekend of shows with vacation themed episodes. Flash Forward Weekend – a weekend of shows related to time travel, freaky Freakend – a weekend of shows featuring paranormal themed episodes. April Fuel Week – a week of shows featuring special episodes, Weekend – a weekend of shows featuring guest stars from other Disney Channel shows, occurs mostly in April. Programming seen during Disney Nighttime included older feature films, along with original concert specials, variety specials, mystery Night – ran each Tuesday evening starting at 9,00 p. m. Eastern/Pacific from 1990 to 1993, focused on mystery films from the 1930s to the 1960s
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Disney Channel's headquarters in
Burbank,
California as it appeared in the 2000s (the logo was later removed instead of being replaced with the 2002-era logo).
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Original logo used from April 18, 1983 to April 5, 1997; the wordmark (at bottom), based on The Walt Disney Company's 1986-2010 corporate logo, replaced a generic all-capital text logo in 1986. The "Mickey Mouse TV" served as the de facto primary logo, with the wordmark being used intermittently on-air.
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Can of Worms (film)
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Can of Worms is a science fiction comedy film and is part of the Disney Channel Original Movie lineup. Mike Pillsbury, a boy who believes that he is an alien and does not belong on Earth, uses a satellite dish one night to send a message to outer space. Two weeks earlier, Mike is telling a story to his friend Nick. In Mikes story, a war breaks out two different alien groups, resulting in a baby alien being sent to Earth to be raised as a human. Nick becomes annoyed with the story, as it represents Mikes unusual feelings that he is not meant to be on Earth, Mike is injured during a football game and sees an alien as part of a hallucination. Mike then wonders if football is the sport for him, but his father. Mike is surprised when Katelyn Sandman, a girl at school. Mikes foe, Scott Schriebner, who is a player on Mikes football team, Mike, upset about the party, abruptly leaves and sends his message to outer space later that night. A thunder strike subsequently destroys the satellite dish, the next day, an alien dog named Barnabus appears, with the ability to speak through a translating device. Barnabus explains that because of Mike, the door has been opened. Barnabus tells Mike that he represents an organization specializing in disaster relief and rights violations. Barnabus explains that time is limited, as aliens with ulterior motives are travelling through the stargate to find Mike. During a telephone conversation with Katelyn, Mike is disgusted by The Boms way of consuming food, leading Katelyn to believe that Mike is distracted, the Bom angrily leaves after Mike refuses to sue. Nick believes that Mike is going crazy after being told about the aliens, Mike accepts Barnabus offer to take him to a place where he can be alone, but first tries to make amends with Katelyn. However, The Loafer Alien arrives and prevents Mike from meeting with Katelyn, the alien proposes becoming Mikes agent, representing him throughout the galaxy and eventually having him star in a weekly television series about his life as an immigrant. Nick is stunned when multiple aliens arrive with various offers for Mike and that night, Katelyn visits Mikes house and also becomes aware of the aliens. Mike prepares to make a deal one of the aliens to be taken off the planet. Jay unexpectedly arrives and is sucked into the stargate by the Thoad, Barnabus says the Thoad will continue capturing specimens until he finds the perfect one
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Can Of Worms promotional advertisement
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CBS
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CBS is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation. The company is headquartered at the CBS Building in New York City with major facilities and operations in New York City. CBS is sometimes referred to as the Eye Network, in reference to the iconic logo. It has also called the Tiffany Network, alluding to the perceived high quality of CBS programming during the tenure of William S. Paley. It can also refer to some of CBSs first demonstrations of color television, the network has its origins in United Independent Broadcasters Inc. a collection of 16 radio stations that was purchased by Paley in 1928 and renamed the Columbia Broadcasting System. Under Paleys guidance, CBS would first become one of the largest radio networks in the United States, in 1974, CBS dropped its former full name and became known simply as CBS, Inc. In 2000, CBS came under the control of Viacom, which was formed as a spin-off of CBS in 1971, CBS Corporation is controlled by Sumner Redstone through National Amusements, which also controls the current Viacom. The television network has more than 240 owned-and-operated and affiliated stations throughout the United States. The origins of CBS date back to January 27,1927, Columbia Phonographic went on the air on September 18,1927, with a presentation by the Howard Barlow Orchestra from flagship station WOR in Newark, New Jersey, and fifteen affiliates. Operational costs were steep, particularly the payments to AT&T for use of its land lines, in early 1928 Judson sold the network to brothers Isaac and Leon Levy, owners of the networks Philadelphia affiliate WCAU, and their partner Jerome Louchenheim. With the record out of the picture, Paley quickly streamlined the corporate name to Columbia Broadcasting System. He believed in the power of advertising since his familys La Palina cigars had doubled their sales after young William convinced his elders to advertise on radio. By September 1928, Paley bought out the Louchenheim share of CBS, during Louchenheims brief regime, Columbia paid $410,000 to A. H. Grebes Atlantic Broadcasting Company for a small Brooklyn station, WABC, which would become the networks flagship station. WABC was quickly upgraded, and the relocated to 860 kHz. The physical plant was relocated also – to Steinway Hall on West 57th Street in Manhattan, by the turn of 1929, the network could boast to sponsors of having 47 affiliates. Paley moved right away to put his network on a financial footing. In the fall of 1928, he entered talks with Adolph Zukor of Paramount Pictures. The deal came to fruition in September 1929, Paramount acquired 49% of CBS in return for a block of its stock worth $3.8 million at the time
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Paley's management saw a twentyfold increase in gross income in his first decade.
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Wholesome
Kate Smith, Paley's choice for La Palina Hour, was unthreatening to home and hearth
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When
Charlie Chaplin finally allowed the world to hear his voice after 20 years of mime, he chose CBS's airwaves to do it on.
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CBS west coast headquarters reflected its industry stature while hosting its top Hollywood talent.
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Michael Jackson
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Michael Joseph Jackson was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, actor, and philanthropist. Called the King of Pop, his contributions to music, dance, the eighth child of the Jackson family, Michael made his professional debut in 1964 with his elder brothers Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, and Marlon as a member of the Jackson 5. He began his career in 1971. In the early 1980s, Jackson became a dominant figure in popular music, the popularity of these videos helped bring the television channel MTV to fame. Jacksons 1987 album Bad spawned the U. S and he continued to innovate with videos such as Black or White and Scream throughout the 1990s, and forged a reputation as a touring solo artist. Through stage and video performances, Jackson popularized a number of complicated dance techniques, such as the robot and his distinctive sound and style has influenced numerous artists of various music genres. Thriller is the album of all time, with estimated sales of 65 million copies worldwide. Jacksons other albums, including Off the Wall, Bad, Dangerous and he is recognized as the Most Successful Entertainer of All Time by Guinness World Records. Jackson won hundreds of awards, making him the most awarded recording artist in the history of popular music. He became the first artist in history to have a top ten single in the Billboard Hot 100 in five different decades when Love Never Felt So Good reached number nine on May 21,2014. Jackson traveled the world attending events honoring his humanitarianism, and, in 2000, aspects of Jacksons personal life, including his changing appearance, personal relationships, and behavior, generated controversy. In 1993, he was accused of sexual abuse, but the civil case was settled out of court for an undisclosed amount. In 2005, he was tried and acquitted of child sexual abuse allegations. While preparing for his concert series, This Is It, Jackson died of acute propofol and benzodiazepine intoxication on June 25,2009. The Los Angeles County Coroner ruled his death a homicide, and his personal physician, Jacksons death triggered a global outpouring of grief, and a live broadcast of his public memorial service was viewed around the world. Forbes ranks Jackson as the dead celebrity with earnings of $825 million in 2016. Michael Joseph Jackson was born on August 29,1958 and his mother, Katherine Esther Scruse, was a devout Jehovahs Witness. She played clarinet and piano and once aspired to be a country-and-western performer, michaels father, Joseph Walter Joe Jackson, a former boxer, was a steelworker at U. S. Steel
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Jackson performing in 1988, during the Bad World Tour
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Jackson's childhood home in
Gary, Indiana, showing floral tributes after his death.
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Jackson (center) as a member of the Jackson 5 in 1972.
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Jackson wearing his famous
jacket during the Thriller era.
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Scream/Childhood
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Scream/Childhood is the lead single from Michael Jacksons ninth studio album, HIStory, Past, Present and Future, Book I. The A-side of the single, Scream, is a duet with his younger sister Janet Jackson, while the corresponding B-side, the single was released on May 31,1995. Scream is cited primarily as an aggressive, retaliatory song directed at the tabloid media, Scream was written, composed and produced by Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis, Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson, Michael played many of the instruments. It incorporates elements of pop, R&B, electrorock, new jack swing, dance-pop, recording for Scream took place at the Hit Factory in New York City in October 1994 and at Flyte Tyme Studios in Edina, Minnesota in December 1994. The song was leaked to radio stations early, despite Epic Records attempt to keep it off air until the release date. Generally well received amongst critics, it has been compared favorably to other accomplished pieces by Michael Jackson and it went on to be nominated for a Grammy Award and an American Music Award. The corresponding music video one of his most critically acclaimed pieces, it won numerous MTV Video Music Awards. Childhood is a song written and composed by Michael Jackson. The theme of the track centers around his childhood experiences. It would become the theme song for Free Willy 2, The Adventure Home. The track appeared on compilation albums, but was met with a mixed reception amongst critics. The songs music video, which had little in common with the film, has been critically praised. Scream/Childhood would become the first single in the 37-year history of Billboard to debut at number five on the Billboard Hot 100 and it was a worldwide hit, reaching the top five in the vast majority of major music markets. Michael performed Scream on his 1996–97 HIStory World Tour, following his death in 2009, Janet performed the song on her 2011 Number Ones, Up Close and Personal as a tribute to him as well as on her 2015-2016 Unbreakable World Tour. Scream is a song directed at the tabloid press. As far back as the late 1980s, Jackson and the press had a difficult relationship, in 1986, the tabloids ran a story claiming that Jackson slept in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber to slow the aging process, he was pictured lying down in a glass box. When Jackson bought a pet chimpanzee called Bubbles, it was reported as evidence of increasing detachment from reality and it was reported that Jackson had offered to buy the bones of Joseph Merrick. However, Jackson stated the story is untrue in both an interview with Oprah and an interview with Martin Bashir in Take Two - The Footage You Were Never Meant To See
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"Scream"/"Childhood"
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In "Scream", Jackson and his sister Janet angrily retaliate against the media for misrepresentation to the public. The acclaimed video was shot primarily in black and white, at a cost of $7 million.
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Jena Malone
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Jena Malone is an American actress, musician, and photographer. She made her debut in Bastard Out of Carolina and has appeared in films including Ellen Foster, Contact, Stepmom, Donnie Darko, Life as a House. Pride & Prejudice, Into the Wild, The Ruins, Sucker Punch, The Hunger Games film series, Malone is also an indie pop musician who has released music both under her own name and as one-half of the duo The Shoe. Malone was born in Sparks, Nevada, the daughter of Deborah Debbie Malone and she was raised by her mother and her mothers girlfriend at the time, whom she has called Godmom. Her paternal grandfather was Karl Berge, former owner of the Bourbon Square Casino and her father is of part Norwegian descent, she also has Irish ancestry. Malone grew up impoverished, and her family relocated frequently, and were at times homeless and we were just so poor, Malone said in retrospect. Wed hop out of apartments, lose jobs, find a place, get kicked out, live in cars. By the time she was nine years old, she had lived in 27 locations, however, she stated the experience was positive for her, I don’t think it was a tough childhood. It prepared me for this strange, gypsy lifestyle of an actor and its a beautiful thing to give children diversity of where to live and how to live, it makes you believe that security is built within instead of four concrete walls that you call a home. Malone began taking an interest in acting after watching her mother, in 1995, she moved to Las Vegas, and later persuaded her mother to move to Los Angeles in order to pursue a career in acting. Malone has often stated that she and her mother struggled financially while living in Los Angeles and she was homeschooled from sixth to eighth grade, and attended the Professional Childrens School in New York City for ninth grade. Malone quit school a year later, when she became legally emancipated in January 2000, at some later point, she obtained her General Educational Development certificate. She has one younger maternal half-sister, Madison Mae Malone, Malone progressed to professional acting with the film Bastard Out of Carolina. From there, her roles have grown to include several Hollywood features, in 1997, she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in the category Best Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film, for her role in Hope. Malone co-produced the film American Girl, a drama in which she also acted and she got top billing in her first role as the primary star. In 2005, she played the spoiled fifth Bennet daughter Lydia in the film Pride, in 2006, she made her Broadway stage debut in a production of the Tony Award-winning play Doubt. In 2007, it was announced that Malone was releasing her first single on The Social Registry, a number of tracks were posted to her MySpace page. Pitchfork Media has described Malones music as pretty out-there – bedroom electronics, spaced-out keyboards, Malones more recent musical work is performed as/with The Shoe
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Malone at
San Diego Comic Con in 2013.
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Malone at the
Deauville American Film Festival in 2013
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Malone at the 2014
Toronto International Film Festival
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2007 Toronto International Film Festival
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The 2007 Toronto International Film Festival was a 32nd annual film festival held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It ran from September 6,2007 to September 15,2007, the lineup consisted of 349 films from 55 countries, selected from 4156 submissions. The selection included 275 mid- to feature-length films, of which 234 were premieres, the festival was attended by members of the industry, press and general public. It opened with the premiere of Jeremy Podeswas Fugitive Pieces, a film based on the international bestselling novel by Anne Michaels. Peter Howell of the Toronto Star named Sidney Lumets Before the Devil Knows Youre Dead a major Oscar contender, the audience favourite, David Cronenbergs Eastern Promises, won the top prize at the festival. The New York Times pointed out that two previous winners had gone on to win Best Picture Oscars. Highly discussed but divisive films among the public and critics include comedies Juno and Margot at the Wedding, the Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and Across the Universe both won their share of supporters despite previous reports of shooting delays and director-studio clashes. The award was presented at a screening of Jean Renoirs Grand Illusion which Bogdanovich selected to illustrate the importance of film restoration, programme features first or second time Canadian film directors and established Canadian filmmakers who have not previously appeared in the festival. Eight films were selected to appear in the festival, stéphane Lafleurs directorial debut Continental, a Film Without Guns won the Citytv Award for Best Canadian First Feature Film and a CDN$15000 bursary. Quebec-based filmmaker Francis Mankiewiczs Good Riddance was selected, the film has previously won eight Genie Awards and appeared on every Canadas Ten Best film survey. Good Riddance directed by Francis Mankiewicz The Canadian Retrospective programme features a section of films representing an aspect of the history of Canadian cinema and it was the seventh year the festival has held the retrospective. Influential Québécois filmmaker Michel Brault was spotlighted through nine films he directed or shot and he has been credited for his visual style and creating some of the most important films to come from Quebec. In conjunction, the Toronto International Film Festival Group published a book on Brault, Cinema as History, Michel Brault and it included premieres and prize-winning films from other festivals. Sixty-two films were selected, including eight from Canada, eight films were selected between nine filmmakers and artists. Israel Cárdenas and Laura Amelia Guzmáns feature debut Cochochi won the DIESEL Discovery Award, the International Federation of Film Critics returned to the festival for the 16th year and awarded Rodrigo Plás La Zona the FIPRESCI Prize. Clips from their new and upcoming documentaries are screened, the series was opened to the public for the first time. Topics included biography films, Michel Brault, war and democracy, with Nick Fraser The Future Projections programme features non-theatrical installations in various mediums. This marked the inaugural run
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Festival poster
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Darfur/Darfur installation outside of the
Royal Ontario Museum
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Larry Charles and
Bill Maher discuss
Religulous outside of
Ryerson
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Werner Herzog talking with an audience member as a crowd exits an
Encounters at the End of the World screening at the Paramount Theatre
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Cocaine
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Cocaine, also known as coke, is a strong stimulant mostly used as a recreational drug. It is commonly snorted, inhaled, or injected into the veins, mental effects may include loss of contact with reality, an intense feeling of happiness, or agitation. Physical symptoms may include a fast heart rate, sweating, high doses can result in very high blood pressure or body temperature. Effects begin within seconds to minutes of use and last between five and ninety minutes, Cocaine has a small number of accepted medical uses such as numbing and decreasing bleeding during nasal surgery. Cocaine is addictive due to its effect on the pathway in the brain. After a short period of use, there is a risk that dependence will occur. Its use also increases the risk of stroke, myocardial infarction, lung problems in those who smoke it, blood infections, Cocaine sold on the street is commonly mixed with local anesthetics, cornstarch, quinine, or sugar which can result in additional toxicity. Following repeated doses a person may have decreased ability to feel pleasure, Cocaine acts by inhibiting the reuptake of serotonin, norepinephrine, and dopamine. This results in concentrations of these three neurotransmitters in the brain. It can easily cross the barrier and may lead to the breakdown of the barrier. Cocaine is made from the leaves of the plant which are mostly grown in South America. In 2013,419 kilograms were produced legally and it is estimated that the illegal market for cocaine is 100 to 500 billion USD each year. With further processing crack cocaine can be produced from cocaine, after cannabis, cocaine is the most frequently used illegal drug globally. Between 14 and 21 million people use the drug each year, use is highest in North America followed by Europe and South America. Between one and three percent of people in the world have used cocaine at some point in their life. In 2013 cocaine use resulted in 4,300 deaths. The leaves of the plant have been used by Peruvians since ancient times. Cocaine was first isolated from the leaves in 1860, since 1961 the international Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs has required countries to make recreational use of cocaine a crime
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A spoon containing baking soda, cocaine, and a small amount of water. Used in a "poor-man's" crack-cocaine production
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Cocaine (
INN)
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A man sniffing cocaine
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Cocaine hydrochloride
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Steven Soderbergh
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Steven Andrew Soderbergh is an American film producer, director, screenwriter, cinematographer and editor. Film critic Roger Ebert dubbed Soderbergh the poster boy of the Sundance generation, Soderbergh also directed, photographed and edited all episodes of the television drama The Knick. In addition, he has produced film and television programs. Soderbergh was born on January 14,1963, in Atlanta, Georgia, to Mary Ann and Peter Andrew Soderbergh and his fathers ancestry was Swedish and Irish, his paternal grandfather was an immigrant from Stockholm. His mother was of Italian, and a little Irish, descent, in Baton Rouge, he discovered filmmaking as a teenager, directing short Super 8 mm films with equipment borrowed from LSU students. His primary high school education was at Louisiana State University Laboratory School, while still taking classes there around the age of 15, Soderbergh enrolled in the universitys film animation class and began making short 16 mm films with secondhand equipment. His big break came when he directed the Grammy-nominated concert video 9012Live for the rock band Yes in 1985 and it was not until Soderbergh came back to Baton Rouge that he conceived the idea for Sex, Lies, and Videotape, which he wrote in eight days. The independent film won the Palme dOr at the Cannes Film Festival, became a commercial success. At age 26, Soderbergh became the second youngest director to win the top award. Movie critic Roger Ebert dubbed Soderbergh the poster boy of the Sundance generation and he also directed the Spalding Gray monologue film Grays Anatomy in 1996. The film was praised, though only a moderate box-office success. It reaffirmed Soderberghs potential, sparking the beginnings of an artistic partnership between Clooney and Soderbergh. Soderbergh followed up on the success of Out of Sight by making another crime caper, The Limey, from a screenplay by Lem Dobbs and starring veteran actors Terence Stamp and Peter Fonda. The film was well-received, but not as much as Erin Brockovich, written by Susannah Grant, later that year, Soderbergh released Traffic, a social drama written by Stephen Gaghan and featuring an ensemble cast. Traffic became his most acclaimed movie since Sex, Lies, and Videotape and he was also nominated that same year for Erin Brockovich. He is the director to have been nominated in the same year for Best Director for two different films by the Academy Awards, the Golden Globes and the Directors Guild of America. The double nomination was the first in 60 years, the films star, George Clooney, subsequently appeared in Solaris, marking the third time the two have headlined a film. A film within a film, the title is a film reference to an actor or actress appearing fully nude
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Soderbergh in 2009, at the
66th Venice International Film Festival
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Brad Pitt,
George Clooney,
Matt Damon,
Andy García,
Julia Roberts, and Soderbergh at
Incirlik Air Base,
Turkey in December 2001
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Soderbergh (right) and
Benicio del Toro signing autographs at the premier of Che in 2008.
42.
MTV Movie Awards
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The MTV Movie & TV Awards is a film and television awards show presented annually on MTV. The nominees are decided by producers and executives at MTV, winners are decided online by the general public. Presently voting is done through MTVs official website through a special Movie Awards link at movieawards. mtv. com, the most recent award show took place on April 9,2016. Winners are presented with the golden statue, made by New York firm. Unlike its sister event MTV Video Music Awards, the MTV Movie Awards were taped, the entire production was taped in a completely different order than what the MTV viewing audience saw. For example, the shows host would tape all his/her monologues and introductions at one time, celebrities would often only appear at the live taping for the announcement of their award category, and members of the general audience fill their vacant seats during the other times. Through editing, MTV was able to present to its audience a awards show which appears to be taped in live sequence. This method of production allowed profanity to be edited from the show, the actual live taping aired same-day on pay-per-view channels in most metropolitan cities around the world. Some awards telecasts had also shown in television syndication. However, in 2007, this changed, as MTV and Survivor producer Mark Burnett announced that the 2007 edition would be broadcast live on MTV for the first time on June 3,2007 in Los Angeles. The 2016 broadcast was the first show since 2006 not to air live as the event was taped on April 9,2016 before airing on Viacoms MTV networks the following day on April 10. Since 2007, polls for several awards were voted by users on MTVs official website. The Lifetime Achievement Award was an award for movie personalities who made an impact on popular culture. Prior to announcing the winner MTV would air testimonials from major Hollywood celebrities praising the winners greatness while only offering a slight tease as to who the winner was, following Clint Howards win and emotional reaction the award was discontinued. The MTV Generation Award is the successor to the MTV Lifetime Achievement Award, the recipient of the award is celebrated for great achievement in movies. The distinction is given to an artist who has shown us a variety of roles, a personal and professional flair and of course. 2016, Will Smith The Silver Bucket of Excellence is an award that was given to a film that has made lasting impact on moviegoers and it was further defined in 2006 as honoring a film of the past that resonates with even more meaning today. The award is given to an actor of young age that managed to inspire others with a portfolio of work
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This is a picture of the "golden popcorn" awarded at the 2012 MTV Movie Awards.
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Young Hollywood Awards
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The award ceremonies also honor rising and promising young aged performers in Hollywood. The award ceremony features a high number of celebrities and musical performers such as Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber. New artists such as Black Cards and Brazzabelle have also performed, the Young Hollywood Awards was started in 1999. 2013 Young Hollywood Awards 2014 Young Hollywood Awards Official website
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Logo
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Screen Actors Guild Award
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The statuette given, a nude male figure holding both a mask of comedy and a mask of tragedy, is called The Actor. It is 16 inches tall, weighs over 12 pounds, is cast in solid bronze, SAG Awards have been one of the major awards events in Hollywood since 1995. It is considered an indicator of success at the Academy Awards, the awards have been telecast since 1998 on TNT, and since 2007 have been simulcast on TBS. The inaugural SAG Awards aired live on February 25,1995 from Universal Studios Stage 12, the second SAG awards aired live from the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, while subsequent awards have been held at the Shrine Exposition Center
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Trophy of the award
45.
Time of Your Life (TV series)
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Time of Your Life is an American television drama series starring Jennifer Love Hewitt that aired for one season on Fox. A spin-off of Party of Five, the series followed Sarah Reeves Merrin as she moved to New York City to learn more about her biological parents, co-stars included Jennifer Garner, Pauley Perrette and Gina Ravera. Time of Your Life debuted on Fox on October 25,1999, the series returned to the network in June 2000 as a part of its summer schedule, but was soon officially cancelled. As a result, the final seven episodes remained unaired in the United States. In 2006, nearly six years after the series was cancelled by Fox, along the way, Sarah moves into her mothers old apartment and makes a new group of friends. Her first friend is her new roommate Romy Sullivan, a struggling actress. B, castel Time of Your Life first aired on October 25,1999, it was canceled in the middle of its first season, on June 21,2000. Despite Hewitts popularity at the time, the show was not well received and had poor ratings, the original pilot for the show was completely re-shot and largely rewritten before Fox would air it. Fox tried to save the show by putting it on a hiatus that lasted five months, Fox promoted the return of the show in June 2000 as part of its Summer of Love, a reference to Hewitts name. After Fox cancelled the series, TBS finally aired the seven remaining episodes, also known as Time of Your Life, The Final Seven, Time of Your Life at the Internet Movie Database Time of Your Life at TV. com
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Promotional advertisement
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The Pretender (TV series)
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The Pretender is an American action television series that aired on NBC from 1996 to 2000 as a part of the NBC action programming block, Thrillogy. Following NBCs cancellation of the series, two television movies picking up where the left off were aired on TNT, The Pretender 2001 and The Pretender. In 2013, creators Steven Long Mitchell and Craig W. Van Sickle began updating the story with a series of books, the first, The Pretender, Rebirth, was published on October 7,2013. According to show creators Steven Long Mitchell and Craig Van Sickle, Jarod is a child prodigy who is abducted at a young age and raised in a think tank called the Centre, based in the fictional town of Blue Cove, Delaware. Told that his parents have died, Jarod is assigned to the care of a man named Sydney, during Jarods youth, Sydney mentors the boy and regularly coaches him through complex simulations designed to exploit his intellect for real life application. But as an adult, Jarod discovers that the Centre is using data gathered from his responses for nefarious purposes, such as black ops. Feeling responsible, Jarod escapes the Centre, the Centre is continually tracking down Jarods location. The team in charge of recapturing him is Sydney, computer expert Broots, and Miss Parker, though she is no longer an active field operative, she is recalled from Corporate during the pilot episode and put in charge of Jarods recapture. While Sydney feels loyalty to Jarod and wishes his safe return, Miss Parker remarks that her mandate only says it is preferable to bring in the Pretender alive, fearing for Jarods safety, Sydney at times undermines Miss Parker and will directly prevent her from using lethal methods. In the pilot, Parker questions Sydneys commitment to the Centre, telling him he can be a scientist for the Centre or mommy to Jarod, despite the Centres resources, Jarod often stays a step or two ahead of his pursuers. While tracking down clues to his past and his parents, Jarod also targets criminals who have gone unpunished or undetected by the law, through assumed identities, he lures these criminals into staged set-ups that emulate the harm they have done to others while also leading to their downfall. At times, he leaves Miss Parker and Sydney deliberate clues that point to the criminals he is targeting, during his adventures, Jarod also discovers the joys of the childhood he was denied while being raised in isolation, such as ice cream and Silly Putty. Loyalty is a theme in the series. Sydneys loyalty to the Centre wavers when it concerns Jarods safety, during the first season, Jarod sends Miss Parker evidence that she too has been manipulated by the organization, which is led by her father. Miss Parker learns from Jarod that she was lied to about how her mother Catherine Parker had died, further revelations are made concerning Miss Parkers origins and her brother. This puts her in a parallel to Jarods quest of discovery and at times her loyalty wavers, when she and Jarod do share a romantic moment, Jarod questions if this will change things and Miss Parker replies it will not. Though Jarod learns more about his family, there are unanswered questions when the series ends after four seasons. The series finale closed with both characters being nearby an exploding bomb, the ending did not reveal whether Jarod and/or Miss Parker survived the blast
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The Pretender intertitle
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Fox Broadcasting Company
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The Fox Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is owned by the Fox Entertainment Group subsidiary of 21st Century Fox. It is the third largest major network in the world based on total revenues, assets. Launched on October 9,1986 as a competitor to the Big Three television networks, Fox and its affiliated companies operate many entertainment channels in international markets, although these do not necessarily air the same programming as the U. S. network. Most viewers in Canada have access to at least one U. S, the network is named after sister company 20th Century Fox, and indirectly for producer William Fox, who founded one of the movie studios predecessors, Fox Film. Fox is a member of the North American Broadcasters Association and the National Association of Broadcasters, 20th Century Fox had been involved in television production as early as the 1950s, producing several syndicated programs. Following the demise of the DuMont Television Network in August of that year after it became mired in financial problems. 20th Century Fox would also produce original content for the NTA network, KTTV in Los Angeles, KRIV in Houston, WFLD-TV in Chicago, and KRLD-TV in Dallas. In October 1985, 20th Century Fox announced its intentions to form a television network that would compete with ABC, CBS. The plans were to use the combination of the Fox studios, organizational plans for the network were held off until the Metromedia acquisitions cleared regulatory hurdles. Then, in December 1985, Rupert Murdoch agreed to pay $325 million to acquire the remaining equity in TCF Holdings from his original partner, Marvin Davis. These first six stations, then broadcasting to a reach of 22% of the nations households. Except for KDAF, all of the original owned-and-operated stations are part of the Fox network today. Like the core O&O group, Foxs affiliate body consisted of independent stations. The Fox Broadcasting Company launched at 11,00 p. m. Eastern and its inaugural program was a late-night talk show, The Late Show, which was hosted by comedian Joan Rivers. By early 1987, Rivers quit The Late Show after disagreements with the network over the creative direction. The network expanded its programming into prime time on April 5,1987, with Children and the sketch comedy series The Tracey Ullman Show. Fox added one new show per week over the several weeks, with the drama 21 Jump Street. On July 11, the network rolled out its Saturday night schedule with the premiere of the drama series Werewolf
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Fox Broadcasting Company
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Topher Grace
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Christopher John Topher Grace is an American actor. Grace was born in New York City, New York, the son of Pat, an assistant to the schoolmaster of the New Canaan Country School, and John Grace, Grace was cast as Eric Forman on Foxs That 70s Show, which debuted in 1998. He played the role until season 7 and his character was written out and replaced with a new character named Randy Pearson. Grace made a brief guest appearance in the final episode, the joke is that youre supposed to play the worst version of yourself and I dont think too many people are comfortable with that. I never thought for a second that people were going to think thats what I was like. I think that people know that I was faking it in those movies. He planned to cameo in Oceans Thirteen, but, because of his role in Spider-Man 3, as Grace said, I was doing reshoots on Spider-Man 3. I actually talked to Steven Soderbergh about that and we had a thing and he also appeared in director Mike Newells 2003 film Mona Lisa Smile. In 2004, Grace played the roles in the Robert Luketic-directed Win a Date with Tad Hamilton. And the Paul Weitz dramedy, In Good Company, in which he played an ambitious and that same year, Grace also starred in the film P. S. which received only a limited theatrical release. Grace won the National Board of Reviews 2004 award for Breakthrough Performance Actor for his work in In Good Company, on January 15,2005, Grace hosted Saturday Night Live. In 2007, Grace portrayed Eddie Brock/Venom in Spider-Man 3, directed by Sam Raimi, Grace himself was a fan of the comics and read the Venom stories as a kid. In 2009, Grace became the subject of a column on the entertainment/pop culture site Videogum. In 2011, Grace appeared in the 1980s retro comedy Take Me Home Tonight and he co-wrote the script and co-produced the film. Grace also starred opposite Richard Gere in the spy thriller The Double, in 2014, Grace starred in the indie thriller The Calling, alongside Susan Sarandon, and appeared in Christopher Nolans sci-fi adventure Interstellar, in a supporting role. In October 2013, Grace joined HBO comedy pilot People In New Jersey with Sarah Silverman, but in January 2014, Grace co-starred in the comedy film American Ultra, alongside Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart, playing a CIA agent. Grace played Mike Smith, a researcher on the story, in January 2014, Grace joined the upcoming supernatural-thriller Delirium, which centers on a man, who is recently released from a mental institute, he inherits a mansion after his parents die. After a series of disturbing events, he comes to believe it is haunted, Grace started dating actress Ashley Hinshaw in January 2014, and the two were engaged in January 2015
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Grace at the
Tribeca premiere of
The Giant Mechanical Man in 2012
49.
People (magazine)
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People is an American weekly magazine of celebrity and human-interest stories, published by Time Inc. With a readership of 46.6 million adults, People has the largest audience of any American magazine, People had $997 million in advertising revenue in 2011, the highest advertising revenue of any American magazine. In 2006, it had a circulation of 3.75 million and it was named Magazine of the Year by Advertising Age in October 2005, for excellence in editorial, circulation and advertising. People ranked #6 on Advertising Ages annual A-list and #3 on Adweeks Brand Blazers list in October 2006, the magazine runs a roughly 50/50 mix of celebrity and human-interest articles. Peoples website, People. com, focuses on celebrity news, in February 2015, the website broke a new record,72 million unique visitors. People is perhaps best known for its special issues naming the Worlds Most Beautiful, Best & Worst Dressed. The magazines headquarters are in New York and it maintains editorial bureaus in Los Angeles, for economic reasons it closed bureaus in Austin, Miami, and Chicago in 2006. In December 2016, LaTavia Roberson engaged in a feud with People after alleging they misquoted and misrepresented her interview online. The concept for People has been attributed to Andrew Heiskell, Time Inc. s chief executive officer at the time, the founding managing editor of People was Richard B. Stolley, an assistant managing editor at Life and the journalist who acquired the Zapruder tapes of the John F. Kennedy assassination for Time Inc. in 1963. Peoples first publisher was Richard J. Durrell, another Time Inc. veteran, Stolley characterized the magazine as getting back to the people who are causing the news and who are caught up in it, or deserve to be in it. Our focus is on people, not issues, stolleys almost religious determination to keep the magazine people-focused contributed significantly to its rapid early success. It is said that although Time Inc. pumped an estimated $40 million into the venture, initially, the magazine was sold primarily on newsstands and in supermarkets. To get the magazine out each week, founding staff members regularly slept on the floor of their offices two or three nights each week and severely limited all non-essential outside engagements. The premier edition for the week ending March 4,1974 featured actress Mia Farrow, then starring in the movie The Great Gatsby and that issue also featured stories on Gloria Vanderbilt, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and the wives of U. S. Vietnam veterans who were Missing In Action, the magazine was, apart from its cover, printed in black-and-white. The initial cover price was 35 cents, the core of the small founding editorial team included other editors, writers, photographers and photo editors from Life magazine, which had ceased publication just 13 months earlier. This group included managing editor Stolley, senior editors Hal Wingo, Sam Angeloff and Robert Emmett Ginna, writers James Watters and Ronald B
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The December 1, 2014, edition of People
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Teen People cover, April 2006
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Home Room (film)
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Home Room is an independent film starring Erika Christensen, Busy Philipps and Victor Garber. It premiered in the Taos Talking Pictures Film Festival on 12 April 2002, a school massacre leaves seven students and the shooters parents dead and one student named Deanna Cartwright seriously injured. The school principal asks Alicia to visit Deanna in the hospital, right away, their differences are evident. Alicia is an outsider from a single-parent family who shuns the society that similarly shuns her, while Deanna is from a wealthy family, at first, Deanna seems upbeat and cheerful, but soon it becomes apparent that beneath this exterior are psychological scars left behind by the incident. Alicia starts to empathize with her, as she herself is battling her own demons as well, through these similar emotional bonds, the two form an unlikely friendship as they both try to cope with their separate psychological problems. Busy Philipps as Alicia Browning Erika Christensen as Deanna Cartwright Victor Garber as Det, martin Van Zandt Raphael Sbarge as Det. Ryan and Christensen visited Columbine High School before the release to speak to students, faculty and parents. The response was positive and Ryan has since returned as a guest of the school twice. In addition, the focuses on what happens to the community long after the news crews have left. In an interview, Ryan explains, What changed my mind was watching what happened in Littleton afterwards, CNN reported the story for about two weeks, then left. The rest of America moved on, but the people in Littleton didn’t, how do you start living your life again after such a terrible thing. The film received mixed reviews critics, however Rotten Tomatoes reported that 76% of the audience liked it. Official movie site Official production company site for the film Home Room at the Internet Movie Database
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DVD cover
