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San Diego Comic-Con International
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San Diego Comic-Con International is a multi-genre entertainment and comic convention held annually in San Diego, California. The name, as given on its website, is Comic-Con International, San Diego and it is a four-day event held during the summer at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego. On the Wednesday evening prior to the opening of the event, there is a preview for professionals, exhibitors. Comic-Con International also produces two other conventions, WonderCon, held in Los Angeles, and the Alternative Press Expo and it is also the home of the Will Eisner Awards. In 2010, it filled the San Diego Convention Center to capacity with more than 130,000 attendees, the convention was founded in 1970 by Shel Dorf, Richard Alf, Ken Krueger, Mike Towry, Barry Alfonso, Bob Sourk, and Greg Bear. Detroit, Michigan-born, comics fan Shel Dorf, had, in the mid-1960s, mounted the Detroit Triple-Fan Fairs, one of the first commercial comics-fan conventions. When he moved to San Diego, California, in 1970, he organized a convention on March 21,1970. Dorf went on to be associated with the convention as president or manager, variously, Alf co-chaired the first convention with Krueger and became chairman in 1971. Following the initial gathering, Dorfs first three-day San Diego comics convention, other locations in the conventions early years included the El Cortez Hotel, the University of California, San Diego, and Golden Hall, before being moved to the San Diego Convention Center in 1991. I was quietly walking the floor stunned and in awe of just how much bigger it really was, the convention is organized by a panel of 13 board members,16 to 20 full-time and part-time workers, and 80 volunteers who assist via committees. Comic Con International is an organization, and proceeds of the event go to funding it, as well as the Alternative Press Expo. The convention logo was designed by Richard Bruning and Josh Beatman in 1995, in September 2010, the convention announced that it would stay in San Diego through 2015. In 2015, working with Lionsgate, a channel was created to host Comic-Con related content. According to the San Diego Convention and Visitors Bureau, the convention has a regional economic impact of $162.8 million. Along with panels, seminars, and workshops with comic book professionals, there are previews of upcoming feature films, like most comic-book conventions, Comic-Con features a large floorspace for exhibitors. These include media companies such as studios and TV networks, as well as comic-book dealers. And like most comics conventions, Comic-Con includes an area, as well as the Artists Alley where comics artists can sign autographs. Despite the name, artists alleys can include writers and even models, academics and comic industry professionals annually hold the Comics Arts Conference at Comic-Con, presenting scholarly studies on comics as a medium
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Signs outside Hall H
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Comic Con crowds in 2011 as seen from a helicopter – Panorama.
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Comic-Con crowd inside the second floor of the convention center in 2011 awaiting the exhibition hall to open.
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Wyckoff, New Jersey
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Wyckoff is a township in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 Census, Wyckoff ranked 55th in highest-income places in the United States with a population of at least 10,000 at $103,614 HHI. Statewide, Wyckoff ranked 41st among New Jersey locations by per capita income, with a per capita income of $49,375 as of 1999. Starting in the 1840s, several new municipalities were created from portions of Franklin Township, Wyckoff was formed as a township by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on November 2,1926, replacing Franklin Township, based on the results of a referendum held that day. Portions of Wyckoff were ceded to Midland Park based on the results of a referendum held on June 9,1931, other sources ascribe the name to Wicaugh in Malpas, England. The first known inhabitants of the area were the Lenni Lenape Native Americans who lived north of the Raritan River. Most Native Americans had left by the 19th century, although a small group lived near Clinton Avenue until 1939, what is Wyckoff today was originally part of Saddle River Township, which included all of Bergen County west of the Saddle River. Saddle River Township was split in 1771, with the area containing Wyckoff becoming Franklin Township, by 1755, about 100 families lived in the Franklin Township area, of which no more than 20 were in what is now Wyckoff. Franklin Township consisted of what is today Ho-Ho-Kus, Ridgewood, Midland Park, Oakland, Franklin Lakes, the size of Franklin Township decreased as areas seceded and were incorporated into their own municipalities. After Franklin Lakes was established in 1922, Franklin Township consisted of only the known locally as Wyckoff. On November 2,1926, residents voted to change the name from Franklin Township to the Township of Wyckoff, the first recorded permanent settlers were John and William Van Voor Haze, who purchased 550 acres of land in the area in 1720. Other early settlers included the Van Horns, Terhunes, Ackermans, Quackenbushes, Pulises, in 1940 the population was just under 4,000 consisting of roughly 100 families with 30% of the land devoted to farming. By 1969 the number of farms had dropped to 13 covering 3 acres, by 2012, only two farms remain, Abmas Farm and Goffle Road Poultry Farm, which is Bergen Countys only remaining live market. Rail service by the New Jersey Midland Railway began in 1870 and that service was purchased by the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway, which abruptly ended passenger service in 1966. The Terhune House is an historic home listed on the National Register of Historic Places, located at 161 Godwin Avenue, in 1994, the Vander Plaat funeral home prepared the body of Richard Nixon for burial. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township had an area of 6.607 square miles. Unincorporated communities, localities and place names located partially or completely within the township include Sicomac, the climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Wyckoff has a subtropical climate
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The former station at Wyckoff for the
New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway is visible to the left along with the lone active track and a rusted, unused siding
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Map highlighting Wyckoff's location within Bergen County. Inset: Bergen County's location within New Jersey.
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New Jersey
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New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania, New Jersey is the fourth-smallest state but the 11th-most populous and the most densely populated of the 50 United States. New Jersey lies entirely within the statistical areas of New York City. New Jersey was inhabited by Native Americans for more than 2,800 years, in the early 17th century, the Dutch and the Swedes made the first European settlements. New Jersey was the site of decisive battles during the American Revolutionary War in the 18th century. In the 19th century, factories in cities such as Camden, Paterson, Newark, Trenton, around 180 million years ago, during the Jurassic Period, New Jersey bordered North Africa. The pressure of the collision between North America and Africa gave rise to the Appalachian Mountains, around 18,000 years ago, the Ice Age resulted in glaciers that reached New Jersey. As the glaciers retreated, they left behind Lake Passaic, as well as rivers, swamps. New Jersey was originally settled by Native Americans, with the Lenni-Lenape being dominant at the time of contact, scheyichbi is the Lenape name for the land that is now New Jersey. The Lenape society was divided into clans that were based upon common female ancestors. These clans were organized into three distinct phratries identified by their animal sign, Turtle, Turkey, and Wolf and they first encountered the Dutch in the early 17th century, and their primary relationship with the Europeans was through fur trade. The Dutch became the first Europeans to lay claim to lands in New Jersey, the Dutch colony of New Netherland consisted of parts of modern Middle Atlantic states. Although the European principle of ownership was not recognized by the Lenape. The first to do so was Michiel Pauw who established a patronship called Pavonia in 1630 along the North River which eventually became the Bergen, peter Minuits purchase of lands along the Delaware River established the colony of New Sweden. During the English Civil War, the Channel Island of Jersey remained loyal to the British Crown and it was from the Royal Square in St. Helier that Charles II of England was proclaimed King in 1649, following the execution of his father, Charles I. The North American lands were divided by Charles II, who gave his brother, the Duke of York, the region between New England and Maryland as a proprietary colony. James then granted the land between the Hudson River and the Delaware River to two friends who had remained loyal through the English Civil War, Sir George Carteret and Lord Berkeley of Stratton, the area was named the Province of New Jersey. Since the states inception, New Jersey has been characterized by ethnic, New England Congregationalists settled alongside Scots Presbyterians and Dutch Reformed migrants
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The New Jersey Botanical Garden at Skylands in
Ringwood State Park,
Passaic and
Bergen Counties
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Washington Crossing the Delaware during the
New York and New Jersey campaign, winter 1777
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George Washington rallying his troops at the
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Afterschool
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Afterschool is a 2008 drama film filmed, written, and directed by Antonio Campos. Filmed at the Pomfret School in Pomfret, Connecticut, Afterschool premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival in the program Un Certain Regard. The film gained an Independent Spirit Award and Gotham Award nomination for Campos, while doing a film project at a private school, internet-video obsessed teenager Robert catches two twins dying due to drugs contaminated with rat poison. Confused, Robert does not call for help but rather simply walks over to the girls and sits on the floor with them, pulling one into his lap as she dies. This scene, caught on security camera and by student on a cell phone, is repeatedly shown. The viewer cannot see her death but only hear her cries slowly subside and this is all caught on a video camera Robert was using for a school project. An atmosphere of paranoia and unease sets in among students and teachers, the school claims that the drugs were bought outside the school and enforces a new, much harsher, drug policy wherein bags are searched and students are expelled. Robert and another student, Amy, are assigned to make a memorial video, the school is not happy with the result and has it re-edited, to make a smoother version. While making the video, Robert and Amy begin a romantic relationship, however, it is later hinted that their roommate may be involved romantically, as well. He fights with his roommate, who sold the drugs to the twins, the school questions him about this accusation, and is relieved that Robert says it was not substantiated. Robert is asked to take a leave of absence from the school, toward the end of the film, we are finally shown the scene of the girls deaths from the front and see Robert pressing his hand over her mouth and nose, smothering her. Later, Robert is shown at the nurse, taking a daily dose of pills. The film ends as a person with a cell phone videos him while he looks at two pictures of the deceased twins
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We Need to Talk About Kevin (film)
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We Need to Talk About Kevin is a 2011 British-American psychological thriller drama film directed by Lynne Ramsay, and adapted from Lionel Shrivers novel of the same name. A long process of development and financing began in 2005, with filming commencing in April 2010, tilda Swinton stars as the mother of Kevin, struggling to come to terms with her son and the horrors he has committed. The film premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and was released in the United Kingdom on 21 October 2011, Swinton was nominated for the Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild, and the BAFTA for Best Actress in a Leading Role. It was given positive reviews by critics and audiences alike. Teenager Kevin Khatchadourian is in prison after committing a massacre at his high school and his mother, Eva, once a successful travel writer, lives alone in a rundown house and works in a travel agency in a town near the prison, where she visits Kevin. She looks back at her memories of him growing up as she tries to cope with the anger and hostility of her neighbors, Kevin is detached and difficult even from childhood. Eva has problems with identifying as a mother and has trouble bonding with Kevin, as a baby, he cries incessantly, but only around her, as a child, he resists toilet training, rebuffs Evas clumsy attempts at affection, and shows no interest in anything. He portrays a happy, loving son when his father is watching, while he is still small, Evas frustration with his intractability drives her to throw Kevin against the wall, breaking his arm. They return from the hospital with Kevins arm in a cast, the only real affection and interest Kevin shows towards Eva occurs when he is confined to his bed with a fever and she reads him a book about Robin Hood. When reading the part of the story where Robin competes in Prince Johns archery contest, Kevin snuggles with Eva, Franklin gives him a bow and arrow set and teaches him archery, and Kevin soon becomes an excellent marksman. He continues to practice and graduate to bigger bows as he gets older, Eva and Franklin have a second child, Celia, who is lively and cheerful. However, her birth does nothing to lessen the tension within the family, as Kevin immediately shows disdain, a few years later, Celias pet guinea pig is killed and she is blinded in one eye by an incident with a caustic cleaning fluid. Eva is convinced Kevin is responsible, whereas Franklin insists these events were accidents and this pattern of suspicion on Evas part, combined with Franklins unflagging defense of Kevin, ruins their marriage, and Franklin approaches Eva with the subject of a future divorce. Eva comes to fear her son, as she sees growing evidence of Kevins pleasure in hurting others and this eventually leads to the massacre, when Kevin locks the gymnasium doors with bike locks and murders multiple students with his bow and arrow. As Eva arrives at the school work, along with the other concerned adults, the police cut through one of the bike locks. Kevin voluntarily walks out, turning himself over, and revealing himself to be the killer, Eva finally arrives home, only to find the house empty and dark. She discovers the corpses of Franklin and Celia in the backyard. On the second anniversary of the massacre, Eva visits Kevin in prison, Kevin is anxious because his transfer to an adult prison is about to happen
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower (film)
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a 2012 American coming-of-age, drama film. An adaptation of the 1999 epistolary novel of the name, it was written and directed by the novels author. Filmed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the film was released on September 21,2012, to positive response and commercial success. The film stars Logan Lerman, Emma Watson and Ezra Miller and this is one of the three films from John Malkovich, Lianne Halfon and Russell Smiths Mr. Mudd Productions that feature struggling teenagers, the other two are Ghost World and Juno. Charlie is uneasy about beginning his freshman year of school, he is shy and finds difficulty in making friends. When he sits with two seniors, Sam and her stepbrother Patrick, at a game, they invite him to tag along to several social activities with them. At a party, Charlie unwittingly eats a cannabis brownie, gets high and discloses to Sam that the year before and he also walks in on Patrick and Brad, a popular athlete, kissing. Sam realizes that Charlie has no other friends so she and Patrick make an effort to bring Charlie into their group. Sam needs to improve her SAT scores to be accepted to Pennsylvania State University, at Christmas, Sam gives Charlie a vintage typewriter to help his aspirations of being a writer. The two discuss relationships, and Charlie reveals he has never been kissed, Sam, though already involved with someone else, tells Charlie she wants his first kiss to be from someone who loves him, and kisses him. Charlie, in love with Sam, begins to try to find ways to show her how he feels, at a regular Rocky Horror Picture Show performance, Charlie is asked to fill in for Sams boyfriend Craig, who is unavailable. Their friend Mary Elizabeth is impressed and asks Charlie to the Sadie Hawkins dance, the two enter into a desultory relationship. Finally, at a party, when Charlie is dared to kiss the most beautiful girl in the room, he chooses Sam, Patrick recommends Charlie stay away from the group for a while, and the isolation causes him to sink back into depression. He experiences flashbacks of his Aunt Helen, who died in a car accident when he was seven years old. When Brad shows up at school with a black eye having been caught by his father having sex with Patrick, he lies, saying that he was jumped, Brad distances himself from Patrick, calling him a faggot. Brads friends begin beating Patrick, but Charlie forcefully intervenes, then blacks out and he recovers to find he has bruised knuckles and Brads friends are on the floor, incapacitated. Charlie threatens, Touch my friends again, and Ill blind you, Sam and Patrick express their gratitude to Charlie, and the three become friends again. Sam is accepted into Penn State, and breaks up with Craig on prom night after learning he has been cheating on her
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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The Stanford Prison Experiment (film)
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The Stanford Prison Experiment is a 2015 American thriller film directed by Kyle Patrick Alvarez and written by Tim Talbott. The film stars are Billy Crudup, Michael Angarano, Ezra Miller, Tye Sheridan, Keir Gilchrist, Olivia Thirlby, the project was announced in 2002 and remained in development for twelve years, with filming beginning on August 19,2014, in Los Angeles. The film is financed and produced by Sandbar Pictures and Abandon Pictures, the film premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival on January 26,2015, before being given a limited theatrical release on July 17,2015. Upon release, the received positive reviews from critics, who commended the direction, screenplay. In the experiment, Zimbardo selects fifteen male students to participate in a 14-day prison simulation to take roles as prisoners or guards, the experiment is conducted in a mock prison located in the basement of Jordan Hall, the universitys psychology department building. The students who are guards become abusive, as does Zimbardo himself, Billy Crudup as Dr. Problems beset and delayed the project for twelve years, including financing and the 2007 writers strike. In 2006, two competing films about the experiment were in development, one at Maverick Films and the other Infernos The Experiment, on August 19,2014, Sandbar Pictures and Abandon Pictures came on board to finance the film. Kyle Patrick Alvarez was set to direct and producers would be Brent Emery, Lizzie Friedman, Greg Little, on August 19,2014, it was announced that Billy Crudup, Ezra Miller and Michael Angarano would play lead roles. On August 26, Jack Kilmer joined the cast to play Jim, on August 28, Nicholas Braun joined the film to play Vandy, an abusive and sadistic guard. On September 4, Brett Davern was added to the cast and he plays Hubbie Whitlow, an affable young participant whose failed escape attempt leads to grueling humiliation at the hands of sadistic guards. On September 9, Jesse Carere joined the cast to play Paul, Prisoner 5704, principal photography began on August 19,2014, in Los Angeles, and lasted 21 days. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 26,2015, by coincidence, Experimenter, a film about another notorious psychological experiment, the Milgram experiment, had premiered at Sundance the day before. IFC Films acquired the US rights to the film on March 5,2015, the film was released on July 17,2015, by IFC Films. The film was released on Blu-Ray and iTunes on November 17,2015, upon its premiere at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, The Stanford Prison Experiment received a positive response from critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a fresh rating of 85%, based on reviews from 74 critics. The sites consensus states, As chillingly thought-provoking as it is absorbing and well-acted, on Metacritic the film has a score of 68 out of 100, based on 25 critics, indicating generally favorable reviews. Kyle Smith of the New York Post felt that Tim Talbotts dense script provides much to discuss and argue about, the Stanford Prison Experiment at the Internet Movie Database The Stanford Prison Experiment at Rotten Tomatoes The Stanford Prison Experiment at Metacritic
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Director Kyle Patrick Alvarez at the
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Trainwreck (film)
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Trainwreck is a 2015 American romantic comedy film directed by Judd Apatow and written by Amy Schumer. The film stars Schumer and Bill Hader along with an ensemble cast that includes Brie Larson, Colin Quinn, John Cena, the film is about a hard-drinking, promiscuous young magazine writer named Amy who has her first serious relationship with a sports doctor named Aaron. Principal photography began on May 19,2014, in New York City, the film premiered at the 2015 South by Southwest Film Festival on March 15,2015, and was released theatrically in the United States on July 17,2015, by Universal Pictures. Popular with critics, the film won awards for Schumers performance and was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay. Gordon Townsend tells his two young daughters Amy and Kim that he and their mother are divorcing because monogamy is not realistic, twenty-three years later, Amy is a party girl who drinks too much and sleeps around while writing for a mens magazine. She is in a relationship with a gay gym-addict named Steven. Her cold-hearted English boss, Dianna, assigns her to write an article about a doctor named Aaron Conners. While Amy is interviewing Aaron, she receives a text from Kim insisting they move Gordon to a cheaper facility, Amy starts to hyperventilate, but Aaron calms her down and suggests they get food. Over dinner, he compliments her writing and she learns about his family, after some drinks, they go to his place and have sex together. Amy stays the night, which is a departure from her rule of never sleeping over with a man shes had sex with, the next day, Aaron calls to ask if they can see each other again. Amy panics and tells him they will talk about it at the interview and she and her friend Nikki decide she has to end it. Meanwhile, Aarons friend, LeBron James, is excited for him since Aaron has not dated anyone in six years, Amy goes to watch Aaron perform surgery to Uptown Girl, his favorite song. Afterwards, she tries to break things off and he insists they like each other and should date. Amy then gets a call that her dad had a fall. Aaron drives her to the home where he tends to her dad, Aaron and Amy begin dating and fall for each other. Amy is worried she is going to mess up the relationship, Gordon avoids taking his medication and dies. At his funeral, Aaron tells her, for the first time and she tells him that it was the wrong time for him to start saying that to her. Aaron receives an award at a luncheon and brings Amy
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Flash (Barry Allen)
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The Flash is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Barry Allen is the character to be known as the Flash. The character first appeared in Showcase #4, created by writer Robert Kanigher and penciler Carmine Infantino and his name combines talk show hosts Barry Gray and Steve Allen. Barry Allen is a reinvention of a character called The Flash that had appeared in 1940s comic books as the character Jay Garrick. The Flashs power consists mainly of superhuman speed, various other effects such as intangibility are also attributed to his ability to control the speed of molecular vibrations. The Flash wears a red and gold costume treated to resist friction and wind resistance. Barrys classic stories introduced the concept of the Multiverse to DC Comics, and his return to regular comics occurred subsequently in 2008 within the pages of Grant Morrisons Final Crisis crossover story and Geoff Johns accompanying The Flash, Rebirth limited series. He has since played a role in the crossover stories Blackest Night, Flashpoint, Convergence. Allen has appeared in various adaptations in other media, John Wesley Shipp played the character in the 1990 CBS television series and Grant Gustin currently plays him in the 2014 The CW television series. Barry Allen is a police scientist with a reputation for being slow, and frequently late. One night, as he is working late, a lightning bolt shatters a case full of chemicals and spills all over Allen, as a result, Allen finds that he can run extremely fast and has matching reflexes and senses. He dons a set of red tights sporting a lightning bolt, dubs himself the Flash, Central City University professor Ira West designed Allens costume and the ring which stores it while Allen is in his civilian identity. The ring can eject the compressed clothing when Allen needs it, in addition, Allen invented the cosmic treadmill, a device that allowed for precise time travel and was used in many stories. Allen was so liked that nearly all speedsters that come after him are often compared to him. Batman once said Barry is the kind of man that I wouldve hoped to become if my parents had not been murdered. As presented in Justice League of America #9, when the Earth is infiltrated by alien warriors sent to conquer the planet, some of the worlds greatest heroes join forces, Allen among them. While the superheroes individually defeat most of the invaders, they fall prey to a single alien, afterwards, the heroes decide to found the Justice League. Allen also becomes friends with Green Lantern, which would later be the subject of the limited series Flash and Green Lantern, The Brave
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Textless variant cover of The Flash #1. Art by
Ivan Reis.
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Showcase #4 (Oct. 1956): First appearance of the Silver Age Flash. Art by
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Barry Allen returns to the DC Universe, fleeing from the
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Barry Allen as a member of the
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
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Batman v Superman, Dawn of Justice is a 2016 American superhero film featuring the DC Comics characters Batman and Superman. Directed by Zack Snyder and distributed by Warner Bros, pictures, the film is a follow-up to 2013s Man of Steel and is the second installment in the DC Extended Universe. In the film, criminal mastermind Lex Luthor manipulates Batman into a battle with Superman. The film was announced at the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con International, Snyder stated that the film would take inspiration from the Batman comic book series The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller, but clarified that it would follow an original premise. The incarnation of Batman in the film would also be different from the characters portrayal in The Dark Knight Trilogy. The film is inspired by narrative elements from the Death of Superman story arc. Pre-production began at East Los Angeles College in October 2013, with principal photography starting in May 2014 in Detroit, additional filming also took place in Chicago. Following a strong debut that set new box office records, the experienced a historic drop in its second weekend. A directors cut, dubbed the Ultimate Edition and features 30 minutes of footage, was released digitally on June 28,2016. Eighteen months after the battle with General Zod in Metropolis in Man of Steel. Billionaire Bruce Wayne, who has operated in Gotham City as the vigilante Batman for nearly two decades, sees Superman as a threat to humanity. After learning of Batmans form of justice, Clark Kent, Supermans alter-ego, Wayne learns that Russian weapon trafficker Anatoli Knyazev has been contacting LexCorp mogul Lex Luthor. He instead makes alternative plans with Finchs subordinate and gains access to Zods body, Wayne attends a party at LexCorp, where he meets an antiquities dealer named Diana Prince, and retrieves encrypted data from the companys mainframe. While decrypting the drive at the Batcave, Wayne dreams of a post-apocalyptic world and he is snapped out of the vision by an unidentified being who warns him of Lois Lanes crucial role in the future, and urges him to find the others before vanishing. Wayne later discovers that Luthor is not only experimenting with kryptonite, one of them is Prince herself, who is an immortal warrior. Wayne admits to Alfred Pennyworth that he plans to steal the kryptonite to weaponize it, at a congressional hearing, as Finch questions Superman on the validity of his actions, a bomb goes off and kills everyone present but Superman. Believing he should have detected the bomb, and frustrated by his failure to save the people, meanwhile, Luthor enters the Kryptonian ship and accesses details of a vast technology database accumulated from over 100,000 worlds. Luthor kidnaps Martha Kent, Clarks adoptive mother, to bring Superman out of exile and he reveals to him that he manipulated Superman and Batman by fueling their distrust for each other
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From left:
Zack Snyder (director),
Holly Hunter,
Jeremy Irons,
Gal Gadot,
Jesse Eisenberg,
Amy Adams,
Henry Cavill and
Ben Affleck at the 2015
San Diego Comic-Con.
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (film)
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is a 2016 fantasy film directed by David Yates and distributed by Warner Bros. A spin-off of the Harry Potter film series, it was produced and written by J. K. Rowling, in her screenwriting debut, and inspired by her book of the same name. It is the first instalment in the Fantastic Beasts series, and the overall in J. K. Rowlings Wizarding World. Principal photography began at Warner Bros, studios, Leavesden, England in August 2015 and was completed in January 2016. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them premiered in New York City on 10 November 2016 and was released worldwide on 18 November 2016 in 3D, the film received positive reviews from critics and it has grossed $812 million worldwide, making it the eighth highest-grossing film of 2016. The film was nominated for five BAFTAs, winning for Best Production Design, Rowlings Wizarding World to win an Academy Award. In 1926 the British wizard and magizoologist Newt Scamander arrives by ship to New York en route to Arizona and he encounters Mary Lou Barebone, a non-magical woman who heads the New Salem Philanthropic Society, which claims that witches and wizards are real and dangerous. As Newt listens to her speak, a Niffler escapes from his magically expanded suitcase, as he attempts to capture it, he meets No-Maj cannery worker and aspiring baker Jacob Kowalski, and they accidentally swap suitcases. Demoted Auror Tina Goldstein arrests Newt for being a wizard and takes him to the Magical Congress of the United States of America headquarters. However, as Jacobs suitcase contains only baked goods, Newt is released, at Jacobs tenement apartment, several creatures escape from Newts suitcase. After Tina and Newt find Jacob and the suitcase, Tina takes them to her apartment and introduces them to Queenie, Queenie and Jacob are mutually attracted, though American wizards are forbidden to marry or even socially interact with No-Majs. Newt extracted it from a girl who died, those afflicted rarely living past the age of ten. Newt persuades Jacob to help search for the missing creatures, after re-capturing two of the three escaped beasts, they re-enter the suitcase, which Tina takes to MACUSA. Officials arrest them, believing one of Newts beasts is responsible for killing Senator Henry Shaw Jr and they decide to destroy Newts suitcase and erase Jacobs recent memories. Director of Magical Security Percival Graves accuses Newt of conspiring with the dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald. Newt and Tina are sentenced to death but Queenie and Jacob rescue them. Thanks to the help of Goblin gangster Gnarlack, Tinas old informant, meanwhile, Percival Graves approaches Credence Barebone, Mary Lous adopted son, and offers to free him from his abusive mother. In exchange, he wants Credence to find an Obscurus, Graves believes it has caused the mysterious destructive incidents around the city
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Hyperion Books
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Hyperion Books is a general-interest book publisher of the Hachette established in 1990. Hyperion publishes general-interest fiction and non-fiction books for adults under the imprints, Hyperion Audio, Hyperion eBooks, Hyperion East. A former subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, it is named after Hyperion Avenue, the Disney Book Group publishes childrens books under the Disney-Hyperion name. Hyperion is the home of about 250 bestselling novels, including Mitch Albom’s The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Hyperions strategy is to not purchase backlists, to go after newer or lesser known authors and to capitalized on Disney talent and products. Hyperion Books was founded in 1990 from scratch with no backlist by Disneys Michael Eisner, Hyperion Books for Children and Disney Press were launched in 1990 too. The Disney Publishing Group was incorporated in January 1992 and included the already formed Hyperion Books, Hyperion Books for Children, Disney Press and other units. Hyperion took losses until 1994 when it published its most successful book to date, in March 1995 with the market too crowded with Disney books, Hyperion Books for Children merged with Disney Press. Hyperion Books for Children started a new imprint, Jump at the Sun, in April 1999, Hyperion Books sans its for children stable mate was transferred to Disneys ABC Group. In May 2004, Hyperion and Wenner Media agreed to a publishing, in June 2013, Hachette announced that it would acquire Hyperion from Disney. In the deal, Hachette will take on Hyperions adult trade list including works by Mitch Albom, Hyperions books related to existing Disney–ABC Television Group properties and young adult titles will join the Disney-Hyperion imprint at Disney Publishing Worldwide. Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis The Ghost and The Goth by Stacey Kade The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom Always Looking Up by Michael J. Entertaining with
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Workman Publishing Company
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Workman Publishing Company is an independent publisher of trade books and calendars, known primarily for non-fiction books along with calendars. Located in New York City, New York, US, the company includes several imprints with offices located throughout the United States, peter Workman founded the company in 1968 when he published the book Yoga 28-Day Exercise Plan. As of July 2007, two-thirds of the published by the company remained in print. Paul H. Hanson, head of the art department and author, among its iconic bestsellers are B. Klibans Cat, The Official Preppy Handbook, the 1,000 Places to See Before You Die book, calendar and it publishes the bestselling pregnancy guide, What to Expect When You’re Expecting, many of Sandra Boynton’s childrens books, and Brain Quest. Workman has also published many widely regarded cookbooks, including Steven Raichlen’s The Barbecue Bible series and Sheila Lukins, Algonquin Books was founded in Chapel Hill, North Carolina in 1983 with a goal to publish quality fiction and nonfiction by unpublished young writers. In 1989, Algonquin was acquired by Workman Publishing, one of the largest independent publishing companies in the United States, Storey Publishing was founded in 1983 in North Adams, Massachusetts. The company specializes in books on gardening, crafts, nature, backyard building and other outdoor topics as varied as building your own log cabin. Storey also publishes nature, horse and craft books aimed at young readers under the Storey Kids imprint, popular titles include Rosemary Gladstars Herbal Recipes for Vibrant Health, Root Cellaring, Natural Cold Storage of Fruits & Vegetables, and The Vegetable Gardeners Bible. Storeys authors include Judith Durant, Edward C. Smith and Gail Damerow, timber Press was founded in 1978 in Portland, Oregon and has a second office in London. Timber focuses on more advanced gardening topics targeted at horticulturists, botanists, naturalists, popular titles include The Edible Front Yard, Whats Wrong With My Plant. and The Well-Tended Perennial Garden. Timbers authors include David Deardorff, Ken Druse, Michael Dirr, Andrew Wilson, Scott Ogden, artisan, founded in 1994 and based in New York City, publishes high quality illustrated books. Artisan’s cookbooks are frequently awarded IACP and James Beard Foundation Awards, artisan authors include Grace Bonney, Jeni Britton Bauer, Alain Ducasse, Thomas Keller, Christophe Pourny, Alice Medrich, Lucinda Scala Quinn, Frank Stitt and David Tanis
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Book scan of H. Anna Suh (publisher),
Leonardo da Vinci Skizzenbüche
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Jews
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The Jews, also known as the Jewish people, are an ethnoreligious group originating from the Israelites, or Hebrews, of the Ancient Near East. Jews originated as a national and religious group in the Middle East during the second millennium BCE, the Merneptah Stele appears to confirm the existence of a people of Israel, associated with the god El, somewhere in Canaan as far back as the 13th century BCE. The Israelites, as an outgrowth of the Canaanite population, consolidated their hold with the emergence of the Kingdom of Israel, some consider that these Canaanite sedentary Israelites melded with incoming nomadic groups known as Hebrews. The worldwide Jewish population reached a peak of 16.7 million prior to World War II, but approximately 6 million Jews were systematically murdered during the Holocaust. Since then the population has risen again, and as of 2015 was estimated at 14.3 million by the Berman Jewish DataBank. According to the report, about 43% of all Jews reside in Israel and these numbers include all those who self-identified as Jews in a socio-demographic study or were identified as such by a respondent in the same household. The exact world Jewish population, however, is difficult to measure, Israel is the only country where Jews form a majority of the population. The modern State of Israel was established as a Jewish state and defines itself as such in its Declaration of Independence and its Law of Return grants the right of citizenship to any Jew who requests it. The English word Jew continues Middle English Gyw, Iewe, according to the Hebrew Bible, the name of both the tribe and kingdom derive from Judah, the fourth son of Jacob. The Hebrew word for Jew, יְהוּדִי ISO 259-3 Yhudi, is pronounced, with the stress on the syllable, in Israeli Hebrew. The Ladino name is ג׳ודיו, Djudio, ג׳ודיוס, Djudios, Yiddish, ייִד Yid, ייִדן, Yidn. The etymological equivalent is in use in languages, e. g. but derivations of the word Hebrew are also in use to describe a Jew, e. g. in Italian. The German word Jude is pronounced, the corresponding adjective jüdisch is the origin of the word Yiddish, in such contexts Jewish is the only acceptable possibility. Some people, however, have become so wary of this construction that they have extended the stigma to any use of Jew as a noun, a factual reconstruction for the origin of the Jews is a difficult and complex endeavor. It requires examining at least 3,000 years of ancient human history using documents in vast quantities, as archaeological discovery relies upon researchers and scholars from diverse disciplines, the goal is to interpret all of the factual data, focusing on the most consistent theory. In this case, it is complicated by long standing politics and religious, Jacob and his family migrated to Ancient Egypt after being invited to live with Jacobs son Joseph by the Pharaoh himself. The patriarchs descendants were later enslaved until the Exodus led by Moses, traditionally dated to the 13th century BCE, Modern archaeology has largely discarded the historicity of the Patriarchs and of the Exodus story, with it being reframed as constituting the Israelites inspiring national myth narrative. The growth of Yahweh-centric belief, along with a number of practices, gradually gave rise to a distinct Israelite ethnic group
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Baruch Spinoza
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Map of
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George Gershwin
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Opera
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Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. In traditional opera, singers do two types of singing, recitative, a style and arias, a more melodic style. Opera incorporates many of the elements of theatre, such as acting, scenery. The performance is given in an opera house, accompanied by an orchestra or smaller musical ensemble. Opera is a key part of the Western classical music tradition, in the 18th century, Italian opera continued to dominate most of Europe, attracting foreign composers such as George Frideric Handel. Opera seria was the most prestigious form of Italian opera, until Christoph Willibald Gluck reacted against its artificiality with his operas in the 1760s. The first third of the 19th century saw the point of the bel canto style, with Gioachino Rossini, Gaetano Donizetti. It also saw the advent of Grand Opera typified by the works of Auber and Meyerbeer, the mid-to-late 19th century was a golden age of opera, led and dominated by Richard Wagner in Germany and Giuseppe Verdi in Italy. The popularity of opera continued through the era in Italy and contemporary French opera through to Giacomo Puccini. During the 19th century, parallel operatic traditions emerged in central and eastern Europe, the 20th century saw many experiments with modern styles, such as atonality and serialism, Neoclassicism, and Minimalism. With the rise of recording technology, singers such as Enrico Caruso, since the invention of radio and television, operas were also performed on these mediums. Beginning in 2006, a number of opera houses began to present live high-definition video transmissions of their performances in cinemas all over the world. In 2009, an opera company offered a download of a complete performance. The words of an opera are known as the libretto, some composers, notably Wagner, have written their own libretti, others have worked in close collaboration with their librettists, e. g. Mozart with Lorenzo Da Ponte. Vocal duets, trios and other ensembles often occur, and choruses are used to comment on the action, in some forms of opera, such as singspiel, opéra comique, operetta, and semi-opera, the recitative is mostly replaced by spoken dialogue. Melodic or semi-melodic passages occurring in the midst of, or instead of, the terminology of the various kinds of operatic voices is described in detail below. Over the 18th century, arias were accompanied by the orchestra. Subsequent composers have tended to follow Wagners example, though some, the changing role of the orchestra in opera is described in more detail below
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The performers from the Atlanta Opera sing the finale of
Lucia di Lammermoor. The
opera orchestra is visible in the lowered area in front of the stage.
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The
Palais Garnier of the
Paris Opéra, one of the world's most famous
opera houses.
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Claudio Monteverdi
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George Frideric Handel, 1733
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Metropolitan Opera
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The Metropolitan Opera, commonly referred to as The Met, is a company based in New York City, resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. The company is operated by the non-profit Metropolitan Opera Association, with Peter Gelb as general manager, the music director position is in transition as of 2016. The music director designate is Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the director emeritus is James Levine. The Met was founded in 1880 as an alternative to the previously established Academy of Music opera house, the Metropolitan Opera is the largest classical music organization in North America. It presents about 27 different operas each year in a season lasts from late September through May. The operas are presented in a rotating schedule with up to seven performances of four different works staged each week. Moving to the new Lincoln Center location in 1966, performances are given in the evening Monday through Saturday with a matinée on Saturday, several operas are presented in new productions each season. Sometimes these are borrowed from or shared with other opera houses, the rest of the years operas are given in revivals of productions from previous seasons. The 2015-16 season comprised 227 performances of 25 operas, the operas in the Mets repertoire consist of a wide range of works, from 18th-century Baroque and 19th-century Bel canto to the Minimalism of the late 20th century. These operas are presented in staged productions that range in style from those with elaborate traditional decors to others that feature modern conceptual designs, the Mets performing company consists of a large symphony-sized orchestra, a chorus, childrens choir, and many supporting and leading solo singers. The company also employs numerous free-lance dancers, actors, musicians, the Mets roster of singers includes both international and American artists, some of whose careers have been developed through the Mets young artists programs. The Metropolitan Opera Company was founded in 1880 to create an alternative to New Yorks old established Academy of Music opera house, the subscribers to the Academys limited number of private boxes represented the highest stratum in New York society. By 1880, these old families were loath to admit New Yorks newly wealthy industrialists into their long-established social circle. Frustrated with being excluded, the Metropolitan Operas founding subscribers determined to build a new house that would outshine the old Academy in every way. A group of some 22 men assembled at Delmonicos restaurant on April 28,1880 and they elected officers and established subscriptions for ownership in the new company. The first Met subscribers included members of the Morgan, Roosevelt, the new Metropolitan Opera House opened on October 22,1883, and was an immediate success, both socially and artistically. The Academy of Musics opera season folded just three years after the Met opened, in its early decades the Met did not produce the opera performances itself but hired prominent manager/impresarios to stage a season of opera at the new Metropolitan Opera House. Henry Abbey served as manager for the season, 1883–84
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The
Metropolitan Opera House at
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, home of the Metropolitan Opera
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A full house at the old Metropolitan Opera House, seen from the rear of the stage, at a concert by pianist
Josef Hofmann, November 28, 1937
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Auditorium of the Metropolitan Opera House at
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
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The gold curtain in the auditorium
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Philip Glass
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Philip Morris Glass is an American composer. He is considered one of the most influential makers of the late 20th century. Glasss compositions have been described as music, similar to other minimalist composers including La Monte Young, Steve Reich. However, Glass has described himself instead as a composer of music with repetitive structures, Glass founded the Philip Glass Ensemble, with which he still performs on keyboards. He has written numerous operas and musical works, eleven symphonies, eleven concertos, seven string quartets and various other chamber music. Three of his scores have been nominated for Academy Awards. Glass was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Ida and his family were Jewish immigrants from Lithuania. His father owned a store and his mother was a librarian. She developed a plan to help them learn English and develop skills so they could find work and his sister, Sheppie, would later do similar work as an active member of the International Rescue Committee. Glass developed his appreciation of music from his father, discovering later his fathers side of the family had many musicians and his cousin Cevia was a classical pianist, while others had been in vaudeville. He learned his family was related to Al Jolson. Glasss father often received promotional copies of new recordings at his music store and he spent many hours listening to them, developing his knowledge and taste in music. This openness to modern sounds affected Glass at an age, My father was self-taught, but he ended up having a very refined and rich knowledge of classical, chamber. Typically he would come home and have dinner, and then sit in his armchair, I caught on to this very early, and I would go and listen with him. The elder Glass promoted both new recordings and a selection of composers to his customers, sometimes convincing them to try something new by allowing them to return records they didnt like. His store soon developed a reputation as Baltimores leading source of modern music, Glass cites Schuberts work as a big influence growing up. He studied the flute as a child at the school of the Peabody Institute. At the age of 15, he entered a college program at the University of Chicago where he studied mathematics
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Philip Glass in 1993
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Glass performing Book of Longing in Milan, September 2008
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The Hudson School
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The Hudson School is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational day school located in Hoboken, in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States, serving students in fifth through twelfth grade. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges, as of the 2009-10 school year, the school had an enrollment of 195 students and 36.3 classroom teachers, with a student–teacher ratio of 5.4. The Hudson School is a member of the New Jersey Association of Independent Schools, the school seeks to foster the Three Cs in its students, who are admitted because they demonstrate a love of learning and dont mind a bit of hard work. In 1991, a school was opened. Ezra Miller, actor, dropped out at age 16, the Hudson School website Data for the Hudson School, National Center for Education Statistics
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School is at Park Avenue and Sixth Street
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City Island (film)
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City Island is a 2009 American comedy-drama film directed and written by Raymond De Felitta and starring Andy Garcia, Julianna Margulies, Alan Arkin and Emily Mortimer. It premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City on April 26,2009, the title refers to the Bronxs City Island, where the film is set. Living on City Island, in the Bronx, Vince Rizzo, Vince discovers that his secret illegitimate son is now the 24-year-old prison inmate Tony Nardella who is being held in the same prison where he works. Without revealing this truth to his family, Vince consequently gets Tony out of prison, Vince has also been secretly taking acting lessons, taught by Michael Malakov, and begins to form a platonic bond with Molly, an aspiring actress. Vince successfully auditions for a part in a Martin Scorsese film, while his wife, Vince, Jr. befriends his fat neighbor, who helps to bring him closer to an overweight girl whom he has been attracted to at school. Tensions rise as the familys many dysfunctions come to a head, Tony, finally deciding to escape the insanity of the Rizzo household, steals their car to find Vivian working at the strip club. Vivian and the others admit their faults and Vince acknowledges the familys problems with the desire to work them out, the finally relieved group reunites in forgiveness toward one another, welcoming the overwhelmed Tony as a new member of their bizarre but loving family. Andy García as Vince Rizzo Julianna Margulies as Joyce Rizzo Steven Strait as Tony Nardella Emily Mortimer as Molly Charlesworth Ezra Miller as Vincent Vinnie Rizzo, on Metacritic, which uses an average of the critics reviews, the film has a 66/100, indicating generally favorable reviews. As for box office, the film was a success, grossing $6,671,036 domestically. Received the First Place Audience Award at the Tribeca Film Festival, official website City Island at the Internet Movie Database City Island at AllMovie City Island at Box Office Mojo City Island at Rotten Tomatoes City Island at Metacritic
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Promotional poster
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Julianna Margulies
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Julianna Margulies is an American actress and producer. After several small roles, Margulies achieved both critical and commercial success in her role as Carol Hathaway on NBCs long-running medical drama ER. She also voiced Neera in Dinosaur and appeared in the miniseries The Mists of Avalon, in 2009, she took on the lead role of Alicia Florrick in the American legal drama The Good Wife on CBS. Her performance has garnered acclaim, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series twice, a Golden Globe. Margulies has won eight Screen Actor Guild Awards, which has made her the most awarded woman ever within SAG, in 2015, TIME featured her as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. She was also awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Julianna Margulies is the youngest of three daughters, born in Spring Valley, New York to Jewish parents whose ancestors emigrated from Eastern Europe. Her mother, Francesca, was a dancer and eurythmy teacher, and her father, Paul Margulies, was a writer, philosopher. Her parents were both born Jewish, Margulies mother Francesca converted to Christianity when her children were young, though Margulies herself still identifies as Jewish. The Margulies family lived in Israel for a period of time before Juliannas birth, Margulies attended grade school at Green Meadow Waldorf School and high school at High Mowing School. As a child, she lived in New York, France, Margulies obtained a BA from Sarah Lawrence College, where she appeared in several campus plays. Margulies made her film debut in Steven Seagals film Out for Justice. Her character was intended to die, however, the producers changed the plot. She won an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Television Drama in 1994 and she was the only series regular cast member to win an Emmy Award. In March 2012, Margulies broke her silence on her decision to leave ER at the height of her career and a $27 million paycheck. She revealed that everyone said it would be career suicide not to return to the medical drama she had starred in for six years. Im a smart girl, said Margulies, I had a years worth of work waiting and a mortgage completely paid at age 32. I was under no illusion that I was going to be some big movie star and my dad said, If you got hit by a bus tomorrow, were you living your life truthfully, or were you waiting to get rich. If I died and my soul started leaving my body, would I be looking down going and you could have gone to Prague, you could have been on Broadway
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Margulies at the 2015
PaleyFest
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Margulies at the 2009
Tribeca Film Festival
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Margulies and Lieberthal at the
Metropolitan Opera in 2008
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Margulies at the
66th Primetime Emmy Awards with her award for
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
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Steven Strait
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Steven Strait is an American actor and fashion model. Strait was born and raised in Greenwich Village, New York City, New York and his ancestry is half English and half Italian. He attended Village Community School, Xavier High School and took classes at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting, Strait was married to actress Lynn Collins from December 23,2007 until 2013. Weber featured Strait in his 2001 book, All-American, Short Stories, Strait began taking acting lessons at the age of eleven. In the sixth grade, he began to take performing classes at the Village Community School, although forced into it at first, he found a passion for acting after he performed live for the first time. He has worked at both the Stella Adler Acting Studio and the Black Nexxus Acting Studio in New York City, in 2004, he moved to California to pursue a career in acting. After his first audition, he received a job, and in 2005, he appeared in his first film, Sky High. He covered The Fixxs song One Thing Leads to Another for the films soundtrack and his next film starring role was in Undiscovered, about young singers and actors in the entertainment industry who want to become stars. In 2006, he starred as Caleb Danvers in the thriller film The Covenant. Strait appeared opposite Camilla Belle in 10,000 BC, a film about prehistoric Earth and he played a young mammoth hunter, DLeh, as he travels through unknown lands on a quest to rescue his people from slavery. Strait appeared in the 2008 film Stop-Loss as Michael Colson, in 2009, he played Tony, the son of Andy Garcias character, in the film City Island. From 2012 to 2013, Strait co-starred on the Starz series Magic City, Strait played the son of Jeffrey Dean Morgans character, Ike Evans. In 2012, Strait played Freddy in the sci-fi thriller After, the story centered on two bus crash survivors who wake to discover that they are the only people left in their small town. Strait has signed to Lakeshore Records and is scheduled to record and he also contributed seven songs to the Undiscovered soundtrack. Steven Strait at the Internet Movie Database
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Strait at the 2009
Tribeca Film Festival premiere of
City Island
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Strait at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival premiere of City Island
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Beware the Gonzo
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Beware the Gonzo is a 2010 romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Bryan Goluboff. The film debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2010, in general usage, Gonzo refers to Gonzo journalism, a style of first-person confrontational journalism developed by Hunter S. Thompson in the early 1970s. Eddie Gonzo Gilman is the geek at his high school—and determined to do something about it. When Gavin, the editor of the school paper, fires him. He gains popularity and makes a new friend, Evie Wallace, Beware the Gonzo at the Internet Movie Database Beware the Gonzo at AllMovie Beware the Gonzo at Rotten Tomatoes Beware the Gonzo at Metacritic
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Theatrical release poster
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Tribeca Film Festival
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The mission of the festival is to enable the international film community and the general public to experience the power of film by redefining the film festival experience. The Tribeca Film Festival was founded to celebrate New York City as a filmmaking center. In 2006 and 2007, the Festival received over 8600 film submissions, the Festivals program line-up includes a variety of independent films including documentaries, narrative features and shorts, as well as a program of family-friendly films. The Festival also features panel discussions with personalities in the entertainment world, past artists of the Artists Awards program have included Chuck Close, Alex Katz, and Julian Schnabel. The festival now draws an estimated three million people—including often-elusive celebrities from the worlds of art, film, and music—and generates $600 million annually, the inaugural festival launched after 120 days of planning with the help of more than 1,300 volunteers. It was attended by more than 150,000 people and featured several up-and-coming filmmakers, the 2003 festival brought more than 300,000 people. It became one of the venues of the festival, in an effort to serve its mission of bringing independent film to the widest possible audience, in 2006, the Festival expanded its reach in New York City and internationally. In New York City, Tribeca hosted screenings throughout Manhattan as the Festivals 1, internationally, the Festival brought films to the Rome Film Fest. As part of the celebrations in Rome, Tribeca was awarded the first ever Steps and Stars award, presented on the Spanish Steps. A total of 169 feature films and 99 shorts were selected from 4,100 film submissions, the festival featured 90 world premieres, nine international premieres,31 North American premieres,6 U. S. premieres, and 28 New York City premieres. In 2009, Rosenthal, Hatkoff and De Niro were named number 14 on Barrons list of the worlds top 25 philanthropists for their role in regenerating TriBeCas economy after September 11, as of 2010, the festival is run as a business by Tribeca Enterprises. Andrew Essex has been the CEO of Tribeca Enterprises since January,2016, in 2011, L. A. Noire became the first video game to be recognized by the Tribeca Film Festival. com,02.23.2013
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New York Governor
David Paterson opens the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival
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Tribeca Film Festival
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Festival founders
Jane Rosenthal and
Robert De Niro.
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The marquee of Tribeca Cinemas
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BBC Films
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BBC Films is the feature film-making arm of the BBC. Banks, My Week with Marilyn, Jane Eyre, In the Loop, An Education, StreetDance 3D, Fish Tank, iris, Notes on a Scandal, Billy Elliot and Brooklyn. BBC Films co-produces around eight films a year, working in partnership with major international, christine Langan is of BBC Films, responsible for the development and production slate, strategy and business operations. BBC Films has been based at Broadcasting House in London since 2013, prior to 2007, it was based nearby in Mortimer Street, while still under full control of the BBC. A restructuring of the division integrated it into the main BBC Fiction department of BBC Vision, as a result, it moved out of its independent offices into BBC Television Centre, and its head David M. Thompson left to start his own film production company. Holmes X+Y Bill Brooklyn The Lady in the Van Chef Mrs. Browns Boys DMovie A Little Chaos A Long Way Down The Invisible Woman What We Did on Our Holiday Lilting Philomena Saving Mr
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BBC Films
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John C. Reilly
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John Christopher Reilly is an American actor, comedian, singer, screenwriter, and producer. He has performed in fifty films, including Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Gangs of New York, Talladega Nights, Step Brothers, Wreck-It Ralph. For his performance in Chicago, Reilly was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the corresponding Golden Globe Award. He was later nominated for a Grammy Award and a second Golden Globe Award for Walk Hard, the title song of Walk Hard, The Dewey Cox Story, performed by Reilly in the film. Since 2010, Reilly has been starring in the television series Check It Out. with Dr. Steve Brule, playing a character originated on Tim and Eric Awesome Show. Reilly performs with his band John Reilly and Friends and worked as an actor in True West. Reilly was born in Chicago, Illinois, the fifth of six children and his father was of Irish and Scottish descent, and his mother was of Lithuanian ancestry. His father ran an industrial supply company. Reilly has described himself as being mischievous during his childhood, highlighting an event when he was 12 in which he, Reilly, though he no longer professes Catholicism, was raised Roman Catholic and attended Brother Rice High School. He is an alumnus of DePaul University in Chicago, Reilly made his film debut in the Brian De Palma war film Casualties of War as PFC Herbert Hatcher in 1989. Although his role was written as a one, De Palma liked Reillys performance so much that the role was significantly expanded. He played Buck, Tom Cruises characters NASCAR car chief in Tony Scotts Days of Thunder in 1990 and he continued to appear in several significant supporting roles, including 1992s Hoffa and 1993s Whats Eating Gilbert Grape. The following year, Reilly was cast in the romantic comedy Never Been Kissed, in 2002, he appeared in three of the years Academy Award for Best Picture nominees, Chicago, Gangs of New York and The Hours. For Chicago, he played Amos Hart, Roxannes trusting husband and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Reilly appeared in Martin Scorseses 2004 Howard Hughes biopic, The Aviator, as Noah Dietrich, Howard Hughes trusted business partner. Of the role Reilly said, “Noah was almost a father figure to Hughes. Howard would have a scheme, and it was Noah who had to say, in 2007, Reilly starred as the title character in parody bio-pic Walk Hard, The Dewey Cox Story, singing various songs, parodying Johnny Cash, Ray Charles and others. The next year, Reilly reunited with Ferrell to star in Step Brothers, in 2008, he was among the many notable actors to perform in the online political musical, Proposition 8 – The Musical. Reilly voiced himself in the The Simpsons episode Any Given Sundance and co-starred alongside Sean William Scott in The Promotion in 2008
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Reilly at the 2009
Los Angeles Film Festival premiere of
Ponyo
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Reilly in February 2007
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Reilly at the 2012
Comic-Con International in San Diego
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Tilda Swinton
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Katherine Matilda Tilda Swinton is a British actress, performance artist, model, and fashion muse, known for her roles in independent and Hollywood films. She is the recipient of two BAFTA Awards, one BIFA Award, an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and has received three nominations for a Golden Globe Award. She began her career in films directed by Derek Jarman, starting with Caravaggio, followed by The Last of England, War Requiem, Swinton won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival for her performance as Isabella of France in Edward II. She next starred in Sally Potters Orlando, and was nominated for the European Film Award for Best Actress, Swinton was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her performance in The Deep End. She followed this with appearances in Vanilla Sky, Adaptation, Young Adam and she then starred in the crime drama Julia, I Am Love, and the psychological thriller We Need to Talk About Kevin. Swinton later starred in the romantic fantasy drama, Only Lovers Left Alive. She is also known for her performances as the White Witch in the Chronicles of Narnia series, Swinton won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance as lawyer Karen Crowder in Michael Clayton. In 2005, Swinton was given the Richard Harris Award by the British Independent Film Awards in recognition of her contributions to the British film industry, in 2013 she was given a special tribute by the Museum of Modern Art. Swinton was born in London, the daughter of Judith Balfour and her father is a retired major general in the British Army, and was Lord Lieutenant of Berwickshire from 1989 to 2000. Her paternal great-grandfather was a Scottish politician and herald, George Swinton, the Swinton family is an ancient Anglo-Scots family that can trace its lineage to the Middle Ages. The family is one of three families that can trace their unbroken land ownership and lineage to before the Norman Conquest. Swinton attended three independent schools, Queens Gate School in London, the West Heath Girls School and also Fettes College for a brief period, West Heath was an expensive boarding school where she was a classmate and friend of Princess Diana. Children need their parents and the parents can provide. Swinton went to volunteer in Kenya during a break from college with a charity called Project Trust. In 1983, Swinton graduated from New Hall at the University of Cambridge with a degree in Social and Political Sciences, while at Cambridge, she joined the Communist Party, she later joined the Scottish Socialist Party. It was in college that Swinton began performing on stage, Swinton joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1984, appearing in Measure for Measure. She also worked with the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, starring in Mann ist Mann by Manfred Karge in 1987, on television, she appeared as Julia in the 1986 mini-series Zastrozzi, A Romance based on the Gothic novel by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her first film was Caravaggio in 1986, directed by Derek Jarman, Swinton also played the title role in Orlando, Sally Potters film version of the novel by Virginia Woolf
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Tilda Swinton at the 2013
Deauville Film Festival
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Swinton at the 2009
Vienna International Film Festival
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Lynne Ramsay
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Lynne Ramsay is a Scottish film director, writer, producer, and cinematographer best known for the feature films Ratcatcher, Morvern Callar and We Need to Talk about Kevin. Lynne Ramsays films are marked by a fascination with children and young people and they are low on dialogue and explicit story exposition, and instead use images, vivid details, music and sound design to create their worlds. In April 2013 she was selected as a member of the competition jury at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. In 2015, she was named as a member of the Jury for the Main Competition at the 2015 Venice Film Festival, born in Glasgow on 5 December 1969, Ramsay graduated from the UKs National Film and Television School in 1995. She studied photography at Napier College, Edinburgh, then entered the National Film and Television School, Ramsay took a break in-between Black and White Town and We Need to Talk About Kevin. The Harvard Film Archive welcomed Lynne Ramsay for a showcase of her films and she stated in an interview with Oliver Lyttelton that People started to call it The Lovely Money, they were getting greedy around it. And I could feel the vibes and it became like the Holy Bible, I kept handing in drafts and I thought they were good, but it was like But thats not exactly like the book, the books going to be a success. That was the mistake made with the project. Ramsay won the 1996 Cannes Prix de Jury for her graduation film, the short Small Deaths. Her second short film, Kill the Day, won the Clermont Ferrand Prix du Jury, her third, Gasman, Small Deaths is Ramsays debut short film that she completed as her graduating film at the UKs National Film and Television School. Small Deaths is a series of three vignettes of children grappling with familial realities and the repercussions of their actions, Ramsay is the Writer, Director and cinematographer for this film. Kill the Day, written and directed by Ramsay, captures a day in the life of a heroin addict recently released from jail, and in the process inventively probes the inner workings of memory. Gasman, also written and directed by Ramsay, is about a brother and sister who attend a Christmas party with their dad, swimmer, was co-commissioned by BBC Films, Film4 and the London Organisationing Committee of the Olympic and Paraolympic Games. The short was nominated at the British Independent Film Awards for Best Short, Ratcatcher, Ramsays debut feature, won critical acclaim and numerous awards. It was screened at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival and opened the Edinburgh International Film Festival, Morvern Callar won Samantha Morton the British Independent Film Award for Best Actress, and Kathleen McDermott the Scottish BAFTA Award for Best Actress. It also won the 2002 C. I. C. A. E, Award and the Award of The Youth at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. The motion picture soundtrack includes tracks from Stereolab, Aphex Twin, Broadcast, Velvet Underground, Ramsay is credited as the writer and director. The film is based on Alan Warners 1995 novel of the same name and it was featured in the Directors Fortnight for the Cannes Film Festival 2002 and then went on to open the Edinburgh International Film Festival in August of the same year
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Cannes Film Festival
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Founded in 1946, the invitation-only festival is held annually at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès. On 1 July 2014, co-founder and former head of French pay-TV operator Canal+ Pierre Lescure took over as President of the festival, the Board of Directors also appointed Gilles Jacob as Honorary President of the festival. The 2016 Cannes Film Festival took place between 11 and 22 May 2016, australian film director George Miller was the President of the Jury. I, Daniel Blake, directed by British director Ken Loach, in 2017, The Festival de Cannes will celebrate its 70th anniversary edition from May 17 to 28. In 1947, the festival was held as the Festival du film de Cannes, at that time the principle of equality was introduced, with a jury made up of only one representative per country. The festival is now held at the Palais des Festivals, expressly constructed for the occasion, although for its 1949 inaugural the roof was unfinished, the festival was not held in 1948 and 1950 on account of budgetary problems. Although its origins may be attributed in part to the French desire to compete with Autumns Venice Film Festival, in 1955, the Palme dOr was created, replacing the Grand Prix du Festival which had been given until that year. In 1957, Dolores del Rio was the first female member of the jury as a Sélection officielle – Member, in 1959, the Marché du Film was founded, giving the festival a commercial character and facilitating exchanges between sellers and buyers in the film industry. Today it has become the first international platform for film commerce, in 1962, the International Critics Week was born, created by the French Union of Film Critics as the first parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival. Its goal was to showcase first and second works by directors all over the world. In 1965, an hommage was paid to Jean Cocteau after his death, the next year, Olivia de Havilland was named the first female president of the festival. The 1968 festival was halted on 19 May, some directors, such as Carlos Saura and Miloš Forman, had withdrawn their films from the competition. The filmmakers achieved the reinstatement of the President, and they founded the Film Directors Society that same year, during the 1970s, important changes occurred in the Festival. In 1972, Robert Favre Le Bret was named the new President and he immediately introduced an important change in the selection of the participating films. Until that date, the different countries chose which films would represent them in the festival, Bessy created one committee to select French films, and another for foreign films. In 1978, Gilles Jacob assumed the President position, introducing the Caméra dOr award, in 1983, a new, much bigger Palais des Festivals et des Congrès was built to host the Festival. It was nicknamed The Bunker and provoked many reactions against it, in 1984, Pierre Viot replaced Robert Favre Le Bret as President of the Festival. It was not until 1995 that Gilles Jacob created the last section of the Official Selection and its aim was to support the creation of works of cinema in the world and to contribute to the entry of the new scenario writers in the circle of the celebrities
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Stars posing for photographers are a part of Cannes folklore.
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Palme d'Or awarded to
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Showtime Networks
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Showtime Networks, Inc. is the subsidiary of media conglomerate CBS Corporation that oversees the companys premium cable television channels, including its flagship service Showtime. In 1984, American Express sold their interest in Warner-Amex to Warner Communications making Warner the new half-owner of Showtime/TMC, in 1985, Warner sold its half-interest to Viacom, making the company wholly owned division of Viacom. In 1988, the company was renamed Showtime Networks, Inc, SNI managed the CBS, Robert Redford and NBC Universal joint venture Sundance Channel until 2008, when it was sold to Rainbow Media. Year in parentheses denotes when each network and channel was brought into the SNI fold, DirecTV does carry Showtime Women and Showtime Next in HD only. 2Channel created by Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment prior to 1983. 3Flix is only available to DirecTV and other satellite systems. Flix was formerly carried on cable systems in the early and mid 1990s, Flix is now considered a specialty premium service to satellite customers who subscribe to Showtime Unlimited. There are still cable providers that do carry Flix as a service with Showtime. 4Co-owned with the Smithsonian Institution. SNI won a Peabody Award in 2002 for Bang Bang Youre Dead, Showtime Networks at the Internet Movie Database
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Californication (TV series)
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Californication is an American comedy-drama television series created by Tom Kapinos, which aired for seven seasons on Showtime from August 13,2007, to June 29,2014. The show follows New Yorker Hank Moody, a troubled novelist who moves to California and his drinking, womanizing, and drug abuse complicate his relationships with his longtime lover Karen and their daughter Becca. Hank struggles to find purpose in his life as he passes up multiple opportunities, the shows other main characters are Hanks best friend and agent, Charlie Runkle, and Charlies wife, Marcy. Recurring themes are sex, drugs, and rock and roll, all of which are featured regularly, the show has been nominated for many awards and won several, including winning two Emmy Awards and one Golden Globe Award. The series revolves around Hank Moody, a novelist plagued by alcoholism and he blames his longtime writers block on reasons ranging from the hedonism of Los Angeles to the departure of his partner Karen. The show was renewed for a season on September 7,2007. The Season 1 finale, titled The Last Waltz, originally aired on Showtime on October 29,2007, Season 2 began filming in April 2008, and was underway as of June 2008. The premiere episode of Season 2 aired September 28,2008, the first season was released on DVD in the US on June 17,2008. Showtime renewed Californication for a season, which premiered on Sunday September 27,2009 at 10 pm. The show is laced with rock culture references and it frequently alludes to Warren Zevon and featured Henry Rollins in a guest appearance, some episode titles, such as Filthy Lucre and Turn the Page, allude to album and song names. Hanks lawyer in Season 4 is called Abby Rhodes, his first three novels, South of Heaven, Seasons in the Abyss and God Hates Us All, are all named after Slayer albums. The books Crack The Sky and Blood Mountain by Richard Bates are also the names of two Mastodon albums, the movie based on God Hates Us All, A Crazy Little Thing Called Love, is named after the song by the rock band Queen from their album The Game. The segment before the Opening Theme is the intro to The Stooges song, Season 1 followed Hank and the other main characters in the months leading up to Karens planned marriage to Bill, a Los Angeles publisher. Hank spends most of his drinking and not writing. One day he picks up a woman in a bookstore, after they have sex. Mia proceeds to harass Hank during his visits to his family and she uses the threat of illegal sex charges to extort stories from him that she passes off as her own for her high-school creative-writing class. The death of Hanks father drives Hank on an alcohol-fueled binge, after the funeral, Hank stays in New York to finish a manuscript for a new novella. On Karens and Bills wedding day, Hank chooses to be unselfish, but that evening, as he and Becca leave the reception, Karen runs out and jumps into his car, presumably to resume their life together
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