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San Diego Comic-Con
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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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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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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 Stanford Prison Experiment (film)
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The Stanford prison experiment was an attempt to investigate the psychological effects of perceived power, focusing on the struggle between prisoners and prison guards. It was conducted at Stanford University on August 14–20,1971 and it was funded by the U. S. Office of Naval Research as an investigation into the causes of difficulties between guards and prisoners in the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps. The experiment is a topic covered in most introductory psychology textbooks, some participants developed their roles as the guards enforced authoritarian measures and ultimately subjected some prisoners to psychological torture. Many of the prisoners passively accepted psychological abuse and, by the guards request, Zimbardo, in his role as the superintendent, allowed abuse to continue. Two of the prisoners left mid-experiment, and the exercise was abandoned after six days following the objections of graduate student Christina Maslach. Certain portions of the experiment were filmed, and excerpts of footage are publicly available, Zimbardo and his team aimed to test the hypothesis that the inherent personality traits of prisoners and guards are the chief cause of abusive behavior in prison. Participants were recruited and told they would participate in a two-week prison simulation, the team selected the 24 males whom they deemed to be the most psychologically stable and healthy. These participants were white and of the middle class. The group was selected to exclude those with criminal backgrounds, psychological impairments. They all agreed to participate in a 7- to 14-day period, the experiment was conducted in the basement of Jordan Hall. 12 of the 24 participants were assigned the role of prisoner, Zimbardo took on the role of the superintendent, and an undergraduate research assistant the role of the warden. Zimbardo designed the experiment in order to induce disorientation, depersonalization, the researchers held an orientation session for guards the day before the experiment, during which guards were instructed not to physically harm the prisoners or withhold food or drink. Were going to take away their individuality in various ways, in general what all this leads to is a sense of powerlessness. That is, in this well have all the power. The researchers provided the guards with wooden batons to establish their status, clothing similar to that of a prison guard. Prisoners wore uncomfortable, ill-fitting smocks and stocking caps, as well as a chain around one ankle, guards were instructed to call prisoners by their assigned numbers, sewn on their uniforms, instead of by name. The prisoners were arrested at their homes and charged with armed robbery, the local Palo Alto police department assisted Zimbardo with the arrests and conducted full booking procedures on the prisoners, which included fingerprinting and taking mug shots. The prisoners were transported to the prison from the police station
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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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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 $813 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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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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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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Suicide Squad (film)
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Suicide Squad is a 2016 American superhero film based on the DC Comics antihero team of the same name. It is the installment in the DC Extended Universe series. By February 2009, a Suicide Squad film was in development at Warner Bros, Ayer signed on to write and direct in September 2014, and by October, the casting process had begun. Principal photography began on April 13,2015 in Toronto, Ontario with additional filming in Chicago, Illinois, and ended in August that year. Suicide Squad premiered in New York City on August 1,2016, following a strong debut that set new box office records, the film grossed over $745 million worldwide, making it the tenth highest-grossing film of 2016. It received generally negative reviews critics, who criticized its plot, directing and characters, although Robbie. The film was nominated for and won multiple awards across various categories, including hair and make-up, acting and they are placed under command of Colonel Rick Flag to be used as disposable assets in high-risk missions for the United States government. Each member has a bomb implanted in their neck, designed to detonate should any member rebel or try to escape. One of Wallers intended recruits is Flags girlfriend Dr. June Moone, Enchantress quickly turns on Waller, deciding to eradicate humankind with a mystical weapon for imprisoning her. She besieges Midway City by transforming its populace into a horde of monsters, Waller then deploys the squad to extract a high-profile mark from Midway, which is reported to be under a terrorist attack. Harleys homicidal lover, the Joker, finds out about her predicament, there, he blackmails Dr. Van Criss into disabling Harleys bomb. On approach, the helicopter is shot down, forcing them to proceed on foot to their target. They eventually manage to fight their way through to a room, where they learn that their mark is Waller herself. However, Wallers men shoot down the helicopter, and Harley falls out while the Joker is presumed dead, alerted to Wallers whereabouts, Enchantress minions arrive and kidnap her. Deadshot finds Wallers confidential files and learns the truth about Enchantress, Flag is then forced to confess the truth, causing the squad members to abandon him. With Waller compromised, Flag relieves the squad of the mission, realizing they have an opportunity to prove themselves, they soon rejoin him and locate Enchantress at a partially-flooded subway station. Killer Croc and a group of Navy SEALs, led by Lieutenant GQ Edwards, El Diablo embraces his abilities and manages to distract Incubus long enough for the bomb to detonate underneath, killing them both as well as Edwards. The remaining squad members battle Enchantress together, but are ultimately defeated, Enchantress offers to fulfill their deepest desires in exchange for their allegiance, and Harley feigns interest in order to get close enough to cut out Enchantress heart
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Justice League (film)
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Justice League is an upcoming American superhero film based on the DC Comics superhero team of the same name, distributed by Warner Bros. It is intended to be the fifth installment in the DC Extended Universe, in Justice League, Batman and Wonder Woman assemble a team consisting of Flash, Aquaman, and Cyborg to face the catastrophic threat of Steppenwolf and his army of Parademons. The film was announced in October 2014 with Snyder on board to direct, principal photography commenced on April 11,2016 and ended on October 14,2016. Justice League is scheduled to be released on November 17,2017, in 2D, 3D, on February 5,2016, Cavill announced on social media that he had already started exercising for the film in advance of principal photography. Gal Gadot as Diana Prince / Wonder Woman, A5,000 year-old immortal Amazononian warrior princess and daughter of Zeus, who possesses superhuman attributes and abilities inherited from her parents. Jason Momoa as Arthur Curry / Aquaman, The king of the nation of Atlantis, whose metahuman aquatic abilities. Ezra Miller as Barry Allen / The Flash, A Central City police forensic investigator who can move at superhuman speeds, Fisher portrays the character through the assistence of motion capture performance, for the cybernetic portion of his body. In March of 2017, Ciarán stated that Steppenwolf is old, tired, hinds will portray the villain through use of motion capture performance, and received help in that process from his friend Liam Neeson, who had recently done similar work in A Monster Calls. Amy Adams as Lois Lane, A feisty and kind journalist for the Daily Planet, Willem Dafoe as Nuidis Vulko, An Atlantean advisor to Aquaman. Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor, The hereditary CEO of LexCorp, Jeremy Irons as Alfred Pennyworth, Bruce Waynes butler, chief of security, and trusted confidant. Diane Lane as Martha Kent, Clark Kents adoptive mother, connie Nielsen as Queen Hippolyta, Diana Princes mother and the Amazonian queen. J. K. Simmons as James Gordon, The Commissioner of the Gotham City Police Department and close ally of Batman. Joe Morton reprises his role as Dr. Silas Stone, a scientist at S. T. A. R Labs and Victor Stones father, from Batman v Superman, Dawn of Justice. Amber Heard, Billy Crudup, and Kiersey Clemons will portray Mera, Dr. Henry Allen, Julian Lewis Jones has been cast in an undisclosed role. In February 2007, it was announced that Warner Bros. hired husband and wife duo Michele, the news came around the same time that Joss Whedons long-developed Wonder Woman film had been canceled, as well as The Flash, written and directed by David S. Goyer. Warner Bros. was less willing to proceed with development with a sequel to Superman Returns, brandon Routh was not approached to reprise the role of Superman in Justice League, Mortal, nor was Christian Bale from Batman Begins. Warner Bros. intended for Justice League, Mortal to be the start of a new film franchise, and to branch out into separate sequels and spin-offs. to release the film after The Dark Knight Rises. Jason Reitman was the choice to direct Justice League, but he turned it down, as he considers himself an independent filmmaker
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Royal Pains
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Royal Pains is an American television drama series that premiered on the USA Network on June 4,2009. The series is based in part on actual concierge medicine practices of independent doctors, the cast of the show includes Mark Feuerstein, Paulo Costanzo, Jill Flint, Reshma Shetty, Brooke DOrsay, Ben Shenkman, and Campbell Scott. In November 2014, the network renewed the series for seasons 7 and 8, the seventh season premiered on June 2,2015. The eighth and final season started airing on May 18,2016, when the administrator of the local hospital asks him to treat the towns less fortunate, he finds himself walking the line between doing well for himself and doing good for others. Mark Feuerstein as Dr. Henry Hank Lawson, a formerly successful New York E. R. doctor, but was dismissed from his job after a wealthy hospital benefactor died in his care. When he saves someones life during a trip to the Hamptons, he accepts an offer from Boris and he usually attends to wealthy clientele, but also others in need of care and often without the means to pay. According to the episode Keeping the Faith, he and his brother are Jewish, Paulo Costanzo as Evan Roth Lawson, Hanks younger brother. He is an accountant and self-appointed CFO of HankMed, Evans job is to promote the HankMed business, at times using strategies that Hank finds inappropriate or too commercial. At the end of season 4, he married to Paige. When Boris buys Hampton Heritage in Season 7, he becomes a member of the board, Jill Flint as Jill Casey, Hanks on again/off again girlfriend and an administrator at Hamptons Heritage, the local hospital. Jill works with Hank to open a clinic while running the local community hospital. In the fourth season, she leaves the Hamptons to do work in Africa. Reshma Shetty as Divya Katdare, Hanks physician assistant and she joins the team early and is invaluable to Hank. She initially has to keep her career a secret from her parents. Forced by her parents into an arranged betrothal to a childhood friend, as of season 6, Divya has a daughter named Sashi, but is involved in a bitter custody dispute with Sashis father Rafa. Brooke DOrsay as Paige Lawson, Evans wife, Paige is the daughter of a wealthy, conservative former military officer with political aspirations who does not think Evan is good enough for his daughter. Paige and Evan meet when she hires him to play her pretend boyfriend, in the season 4 episode Whos Your Daddy. She is revealed to be adopted, and in the season 4 finale/special Off-Season Greetings, she, Campbell Scott as Boris Kuester von Jurgens-Ratenicz, a wealthy and titled German businessman who offers Hank and Evan his guest house, and is Hanks first client
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a coming-of-age epistolary novel by American writer Stephen Chbosky which was first published on February 1,1999, by Pocket Books. Set in the early 1990s, the novel follows Charlie, an introverted teenager, Chbosky took five years to develop and publish The Perks of Being a Wallflower, creating the characters and other aspects of the story from his own memories. The novel addresses themes permeating adolescence, including introversion, sexuality, and drug use, while making several references to other literary works, films. Although Chboskys first book was a success, it was banned in some American schools for its content. In 2012, he adapted and directed a version starring Logan Lerman, Ezra Miller. The film boosted the sales, and the book reached The New York Times Best Seller list. The story begins with a quiet, sensitive, 15-year-old boy named Charlie writing letters about his life to an unknown recipient, Charlie chooses that person because he said that he heard the person was nice and thought that this person would not be judgmental. His English teacher, who encourages Charlie to call him Bill, notices Charlies passion for reading and writing, although he is a wallflower, Charlie is befriended by two seniors, Patrick and Sam. Patrick is secretly dating Brad, a football player. Charlie quickly develops a crush on Sam and subsequently admits his feelings to her and it is revealed that Sam was sexually abused as a child, and she kisses Charlie to ensure that his first kiss is from someone who truly loves him. In parallel, Charlie witnesses his sisters boyfriend hit her across the face and he eventually mentions the occurrence to Bill, who tells Charlies parents about it. Charlies relationship with his sister rapidly deteriorates and she continues to see her boyfriend against her parents wishes, eventually, he discovers that his sister is pregnant and agrees to bring her to an abortion clinic without telling anyone. His sister breaks up with her boyfriend, after which her, Charlie is accepted by Sam and Patricks group of friends and begins experimenting with tobacco, alcohol and other drugs. At a party Charlie trips on LSD and he cannot control his flashbacks of Aunt Helen, who died in a car crash on her way to buy him a birthday gift. He ends up in the hospital after falling asleep in the snow, 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 relationship ends, however, during a game of truth or dare when Charlie is dared to kiss the prettiest girl in the room. He kisses Sam, and Mary Elizabeth storms out of the room in response, following this, Patrick suggests that Charlie stay away from Sam for a while, and the rest of the friend group shuns him. His flashbacks of Aunt Helen return, Patrick and Brads relationship is discovered by Brads abusive father, and Brad disappears from school for a few days
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Logan Lerman
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Logan Wade Lerman is an American actor, known for playing the title role in the fantasy-adventure Percy Jackson films. He appeared in commercials in the mid-1990s, before starring in the series Jack & Bobby and the movies The Butterfly Effect and Hoot. Lerman gained further recognition for his roles in the western 3,10 to Yuma, the thriller The Number 23, the comedy Meet Bill, Lerman was born in Beverly Hills, California. His mother, Lisa, works as his manager, and his father, Larry Lerman, is a businessman and he has two elder siblings, Lindsey and Lucas. Lerman is Jewish, and had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony and his grandparents were born in four different countries. Logans paternal grandmother, Mina, was born in Mexico City, Mexico, Logans maternal grandfather was a Polish Jewish immigrant, and Logans maternal grandmother was born in Los Angeles, also to a Jewish immigrant family. On his mothers side, he is a relative, by marriage, of twin singers Evan, Lerman has stated that he is a black sheep in his household because he is an actor, while most of his relatives work in the medical profession. His family owns and operates the orthotics and prosthetics company Lerman & Son, Lerman is a self-described film geek, and has said that he is shaped by movies, and that he is a creative person. He has expressed an interest in being involved in everything that goes into making a film, including wanting to write, produce, Lerman has described himself as reserved and quiet, a homebody, and not a big fan of sports. He attended Beverly Hills High School, in 2010, he applied to study creative writing at New York University, but has postponed his attendance. Lerman had a passion for movies from an age, though he started acting just for fun. He began auditioning for roles in the late 1990s, and first appeared in commercials and he made his film debut in 2000s The Patriot, playing William Martin, one of the children of Mel Gibsons character. The same year, he appeared in another Mel Gibson film, What Women Want, in 2001s Riding in Cars with Boys, he played the son of Drew Barrymores character. Lerman has stated that appearing in his earliest roles as a child, he did not have any conscious awareness of what I was doing or what was going on. A Painted House was filmed in Lepanto and Clarksdale, Mississippi, a review in the Boston Globe described Lerman as a promising newcomer, with the Telegraph-Herald commenting on the character having been quietly and effectively played. For the role, he was nominated for the Young Artist Award for Best Performance by a Leading Young Actor in a television production and he next appeared in the 2004 thriller film The Butterfly Effect, portraying a seven-year-old version of Ashton Kutchers character, Evan Treborn. DigitallyOBSESSEDs reviewer described Lerman as definitely a child actor to watch, Lerman had quit acting for a year or so in the early 2000s, when he was ten. He made a decision to embrace acting as a profession when he was twelve
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Emma Watson
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Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson is a British actress, model, and activist. Born in Paris and brought up in Oxfordshire, Watson attended the Dragon School and she rose to prominence after landing her first professional acting role as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter film series, having acted only in school plays previously. Watson appeared in all eight Harry Potter films from 2001 to 2011, earning fame, critical accolades. Watson continued to work outside of the Harry Potter films, lending her voice to The Tale of Despereaux, in 2017, she portrayed Belle in a live-action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast. Her modelling work has included campaigns for Burberry and Lancôme, as a fashion consultant, she helped create a line of clothing for People Tree. She was honoured by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 2014 and that same year, she was appointed as a UN Women Goodwill Ambassador and helped launch the UN Women campaign HeForShe, which calls for men to advocate gender equality. Watson was born in Paris, France, the daughter of English lawyers Jacqueline Luesby, Watson lived in Paris until the age of five. Her parents separated when she was young, following their divorce, Watson has stated that she speaks some French, though not as well as she used to. After moving to Oxford with her mother and brother, she attended the Dragon School in Oxford, remaining there until 2003. From the age of six, she wanted to become an actress, and trained at the Oxford branch of Stagecoach Theatre Arts, a theatre school where she studied singing, dancing. Following the Dragon School, Watson moved on to Headington School, while on film sets, she and her peers were tutored for up to five hours a day. In June 2006, she took GCSE school examinations in ten subjects, achieving eight A*, in 1999, casting began for Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone, the film adaptation of British author J. K. Rowlings best-selling novel. Casting agents found Watson through her Oxford theatre teacher, and producers were impressed by her confidence, rowling supported Watson from her first screen test. The release of Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone in 2001 was Watsons debut screen performance, the film broke records for opening-day sales and opening-weekend takings and was the highest-grossing film of 2001. Critics praised the performances of the three leads, often singling out Watson for particular acclaim, The Daily Telegraph called her performance admirable, Watson was nominated for five awards for her performance in Philosophers Stone, winning the Young Artist Award for Leading Young Actress. A year later, Watson again starred as Hermione in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, reviewers praised the lead actors performances. The Los Angeles Times said Watson and her peers had matured between films, while The Times criticised director Chris Columbus for under-employing Watsons hugely popular character, Watson received an Otto Award from the German magazine Bravo for her performance. In 2004, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was released, Watson was appreciative of the more assertive role Hermione played, calling her character charismatic and a fantastic role to play
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is a 2001 book written by British author J. K. Rowling about the magical creatures in the Harry Potter universe. The original version purports to be Harry Potters copy of the textbook of the name mentioned in Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone. The book benefits the charity Comic Relief, over 80% of the cover price of each book sold goes directly to poor children in various places around the world. According to Comic Relief, sales from this book and its companion Quidditch Through the Ages have raised over £17 million. On 12 September 2013, Warner Bros. and Rowling announced they would be producing a film inspired by the book and she came up with a plan for a movie after Warner Bros. suggested the idea. The story features Newt Scamander as a character and is set in New York City,70 years before Harrys story started. The film was released on 18 November 2016, on 14 March 2017 a new edition of the book was published with six new creatures and the foreword by Newt Scamander. It is assumed to be a new copy as it does not feature any handwritten notes, proceeds from this edition are donated to Lumos as well as Comic Relief. Fantastic Beasts purports to be a reproduction of a textbook owned by Harry Potter and written by magizoologist Newt Scamander, in the series, Magizoology is the study of magical creatures. Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts, provides the Foreword and explains the purpose of the edition of this book. At the end, he tells the reader. The amusing creatures described hereafter are fictional and he repeats the Hogwarts motto, Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus, Latin for Never tickle a sleeping dragon. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them contains the history of Magizoology, Scamander says that he collected most of the information found in the book through observations made over years of travel across five continents. He notes that the first edition was commissioned in 1918 by Mr Augustus Worme of Obscurus Books, however, it was not published until 1927. It is now in its fifty-second edition, in the Harry Potter universe, the book is a required textbook for first-year Hogwarts students, having been an approved textbook since its first publication. It is not clear why students need it in their first year, however, it may be used as an encyclopedia of Dark creatures studied in Defence Against the Dark Arts classes. In his foreword to the book, Albus Dumbledore notes that it serves as an excellent reference for Wizarding households in addition to its use at Hogwarts, the book features doodles and comments added by Ron Weasley. The comments would appear to have written around the time of the fourth book, Harry Potter. These doodles add some extra information for fans of the series along with comic relief, integrated in the design the cover of the book, on the first edition, appears to have been clawed by an unidentified animal
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Warner Bros.
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Entertainment Inc. – colloquially known as Warner Bros. or Warner Bros. It is one of the Big Six major American film studios, Warner Bros. is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America. The companys name originated from the four founding Warner brothers, Harry, Albert, Sam, Jack, the youngest, was born in London, Ontario. The three elder brothers began in the theater business, having acquired a movie projector with which they showed films in the mining towns of Pennsylvania. In the beginning, Sam and Albert Warner invested $150 to present Life of an American Fireman and they opened their first theater, the Cascade, in New Castle, Pennsylvania, in 1903. When the original building was in danger of being demolished, the modern Warner Bros. called the current building owners, the owners noted people across the country had asked them to protect it for its historical significance. In 1904, the Warners founded the Pittsburgh-based Duquesne Amusement & Supply Company, in 1912, Harry Warner hired an auditor named Paul Ashley Chase. By the time of World War I they had begun producing films, in 1918 they opened the first Warner Bros. studio on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. Sam and Jack produced the pictures, while Harry and Albert, along with their auditor and now controller Chase, handled finance and distribution in New York City. During World War I their first nationally syndicated film, My Four Years in Germany, on April 4,1923, with help from money loaned to Harry by his banker Motley Flint, they formally incorporated as Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated. The first important deal was the acquisition of the rights to Avery Hopwoods 1919 Broadway play, The Gold Diggers, however, Rin Tin Tin, a dog brought from France after World War I by an American soldier, established their reputation. Rin Tin Tin debuted in the feature Where the North Begins, the movie was so successful that Jack signed the dog to star in more films for $1,000 per week. Rin Tin Tin became the top star. Jack nicknamed him The Mortgage Lifter and the success boosted Darryl F. Zanucks career, Zanuck eventually became a top producer and between 1928 and 1933 served as Jacks right-hand man and executive producer, with responsibilities including day-to-day film production. More success came after Ernst Lubitsch was hired as head director, lubitschs film The Marriage Circle was the studios most successful film of 1924, and was on The New York Times best list for that year. Despite the success of Rin Tin Tin and Lubitsch, Warners remained a lesser studio, Sam and Jack decided to offer Broadway actor John Barrymore the lead role in Beau Brummel. The film was so successful that Harry signed Barrymore to a contract, like The Marriage Circle. By the end of 1924, Warner Bros. was arguably Hollywoods most successful independent studio, as the studio prospered, it gained backing from Wall Street, and in 1924 Goldman Sachs arranged a major loan
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DC Comics
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DC Comics, Inc. is an American comic book publisher. It is the unit of DC Entertainment, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. a division of Time Warner, the company has also published non-DC Universe-related material, including Watchmen, V for Vendetta and many titles under their alternative imprint Vertigo. The initials DC came from the popular series Detective Comics. Random House distributes DC Comics books to the market, while Diamond Comic Distributors supplies the comics shop specialty market. DC Comics and its major, longtime competitor Marvel Comics together shared 70% of the American comic book market in 2016, entrepreneur Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson founded National Allied Publications in autumn 1934. The company debuted with the tabloid-sized New Fun, The Big Comic Magazine #1 with a date of February 1935. That title evolved into Adventure Comics, which continued through issue #503 in 1983, in 2009 DC revived Adventure Comics with its original numbering. In 1935, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the creators of Superman, created Doctor Occult. Wheeler-Nicholsons third and final title, Detective Comics, advertised with a cover illustration dated December 1936, the themed anthology series would become a sensation with the introduction of Batman in issue #27. By then, however, Wheeler-Nicholson had gone, Detective Comics, Inc. was formed, with Wheeler-Nicholson and Jack S. Liebowitz, Donenfelds accountant, listed as owners. Major Wheeler-Nicholson remained for a year, but cash-flow problems continued, shortly afterward, Detective Comics, Inc. purchased the remains of National Allied, also known as Nicholson Publishing, at a bankruptcy auction. Detective Comics, Inc. soon launched a fourth title, Action Comics, Action Comics #1, the first comic book to feature the new character archetype—soon known as superheroes—proved a sales hit. The company quickly introduced such popular characters as the Sandman and Batman. That year, Gaines let Liebowitz buy him out, and kept only Picture Stories from the Bible as the foundation of his own new company, at that point, Liebowitz promptly orchestrated the merger of All-American and Detective Comics into National Comics. Next he took charge of organizing National Comics, Independent News, National Periodical Publications became publicly traded on the stock market in 1961. The company began to move aggressively against what it saw as copyright-violating imitations from other companies, such as Fox Comics Wonder Man and this extended to DC suing Fawcett Comics over Captain Marvel, at the time comics top-selling character. Despite the fact that parallels between Captain Marvel and Superman seemed more tenuous, the courts ruled that substantial and deliberate copying of copyrighted material had occurred, faced with declining sales and the prospect of bankruptcy if it lost, Fawcett capitulated in 1955 and ceased comics publication
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Middle East Film and Comic Con
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The Middle East Film and Comic Con is a multigenre convention held annually in Dubai, United Arab Emirates in the month of April. It also focuses on regionally created content such as Xero Error, Freej, FOBcity, Gold Ring, The Sons of Two Suns, the convention is the first and largest of its kind in the Middle East region. Pre-registration for professionals, exhibitors, and guests starts from four months before the event, along with panels, seminars, and workshops with comic book professionals, there are previews of upcoming films, portfolio review sessions with top comic book companies and a cosplay contest. The convention was founded in April 2012 by a Dubai-based events management and communications agency ExtraCake PRA, the first edition of MEFCC featured guests such as Jason Momoa, Laurie Holden, John Rhys-Davies, Luciana Carro, and Mark Sheppard among others. The exhibitors included Marvel Comics, Diamond Distributors, Xpanse CGI etc, the event featured international guests such as Sean Astin, Alan Tudyk, Warwick Davis, Ioan Gruffudd, Manu Bennett, Max Landis and voice over actors Yuri Lowenthal and Tara Platt. Additionally, the event expanded from two to an event, where the first day was exclusive for VIP and student group attendees. The event featured guests such as Seth Green, Taylor Kitsch, Michael Jai White, Giancarlo Esposito, Tony Jaa, Christopher Sabat, Max Landis. The fifth edition of the convention took place during 6–8 April 2016, guests included actors Veronica Taylor, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Summer Glau, Christopher Lloyd, Nick Frost and comic book creators Fabian Nicieza and Kevin Eastman. A Q&A session with Stan Lee via live video was also featured
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Pittsburgh
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Pittsburgh is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States, and is the county seat of Allegheny County. The city proper has a population of 304,391. The metropolitan population of 2,353,045 is the largest in both the Ohio Valley and Appalachia, the second-largest in Pennsylvania, and the 26th-largest in the U. S. The city features 30 skyscrapers, two inclines, a fortification and the Point State Park at the confluence of the rivers. Aside from steel, Pittsburgh has led in manufacturing of aluminum, glass, shipbuilding, petroleum, foods, sports, transportation, computing, autos, and electronics. For part of the 20th century, Pittsburgh was behind only New York and Chicago in corporate headquarters employment, Americas 1980s deindustrialization laid off area blue-collar workers and thousands of downtown white-collar workers when the longtime Pittsburgh-based world headquarters moved out. The area has served also as the federal agency headquarters for cyber defense, software engineering, robotics, energy research. The area is home to 68 colleges and universities, including research and development leaders Carnegie Mellon University, the region is a hub for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, sustainable energy, and energy extraction. Pittsburgh was named in 1758 by General John Forbes, in honor of British statesman William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham. The current pronunciation, which is unusual in English speaking countries, is almost certainly a result of a printing error in some copies of the City Charter of March 18,1816. The error was repeated commonly enough throughout the rest of the 19th century that the pronunciation was lost. After a public campaign the original spelling was restored by the United States Board on Geographic Names in 1911. The area of the Ohio headwaters was long inhabited by the Shawnee, the first known European to enter the region was the French explorer/trader Robert de La Salle from Quebec during his 1669 expedition down the Ohio River. European pioneers, primarily Dutch, followed in the early 18th century, Michael Bezallion was the first to describe the forks of the Ohio in a 1717 manuscript, and later that year European fur traders established area posts and settlements. In 1749, French soldiers from Quebec launched an expedition to the forks to unite Canada with French Louisiana via the rivers, during 1753–54, the British hastily built Fort Prince George before a larger French force drove them off. The French built Fort Duquesne based on LaSalles 1669 claims, the French and Indian War, the North American front of the Seven Years War, began with the future Pittsburgh as its center. British General Edward Braddock was dispatched with Major George Washington as his aide to take Fort Duquesne, the British and colonial force were defeated at Braddocks Field. General John Forbes finally took the forks in 1758, Forbes began construction on Fort Pitt, named after William Pitt the Elder while the settlement was named Pittsborough
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