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Kevin Bacon
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Kevin Norwood Bacon is an American actor and musician. Bacon is also known for taking on roles such as that of a sadistic guard in Sleepers. Also on television, he starred in the Fox series The Following from 2013 to 2015, Bacon has won a Golden Globe Award and three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award. The Guardian named him one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination, in 2003, Bacon received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Bacon has become an icon for the concept of interconnectedness, having been popularized by the game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, in 2007, he created SixDegrees. org, a charitable foundation. Bacon, one of six children, was born and raised in a family in Philadelphia. The experience solidified Bacons passion for the arts, Bacon left home at age 17 to pursue a theater career in New York City, where he appeared in a production at the Circle in the Square Theater School. I wanted life, man, the thing, he later recalled to Nancy Mills of Cosmopolitan. The message I got was The arts are it, art and creative expression are next to godliness. Combine that with an ego and you wind up with an actor. Bacons debut in the fraternity comedy National Lampoons Animal House did not lead to the fame he had sought and he briefly worked on the television soap operas Search for Tomorrow and Guiding Light in New York. In 1980, he had a prominent role in the slasher film Friday the 13th, some of his early stage work included Getting Out, performed at New Yorks Phoenix Theater, and Flux, at Second Stage Theatre during their 1981–1982 season. In 1982, he won an Obie Award for his role in Forty Deuce, bolstered by the attention garnered by his performance in Diner, Bacon starred in the box-office smash Footloose. To prepare for the role, Bacon enrolled at a school as a transfer student named Ren McCormick. Bacon earned strong reviews for Footloose, and he appeared on the cover of People magazine soon after its release. Bacons critical and box office led to a period of typecasting in roles similar to the two he portrayed in Diner and Footloose, and he had difficulty shaking this on-screen image. For the next years he chose films that cast him against either type and experienced, by his own estimation. In 1988, he starred in John Hughes comedy Shes Having a Baby, in 1990, Bacon had two successful roles
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Lori Singer
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Lori Singer is an American actress and cellist. She is perhaps best known for her role as Ariel Moore, the lead in the 1984 feature film Footloose. Singer was born in Corpus Christi, Texas and she grew up in a musical family, her father, Jacques Singer, was a conductor and protégé of Leopold Stokowski, and her mother, Leslie, is a concert pianist. Her brother is actor Marc Singer, and her cousin is director/writer/producer Bryan Singer, as a child, she was often around such luminaries as Leonard Bernstein. A Juilliard-trained cellist, she was a student of Leonard Rose, Singer made her debut as soloist at age thirteen with the Oregon Symphony. Singer has performed in public on such stages as the Royal Albert Hall and she plays the cello in Short Cuts, Fame, and also in Sarabande, a short film by Atom Egoyan which is part of the Inspired by Bach series. The part was created for her and her role in Trouble in Mind led to her nomination for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead. Singer has also had roles in Equinox, Summer Heat, Warlock, Sunset Grill, F. T. W. and she was awarded a Golden Globe as an actor for Best Ensemble for Short Cuts. The Short Cuts cast won awards for best ensemble at the 50th Venice International Film Festival and she also won Newcomer of the Year at ShoWest for her role in the TV movie Born Beautiful. In 1995, she played Sydney Bloom, the character in the science fiction TV series VR.5. In addition to her acting, she produced Summer Heat and was involved in the conception of VR.5. On May 4,2011, Singer returned to television with a role on Law & Order. In 2013, Singer executive produced with Sheila Nevins, HBO, in 2012 the film won the Grierson Award at the London Film Festival and it also won the Chicago International Film Festivals award. In 2013, the won the Best Feature Documentary category in the Irish Film. In the United States, the film was nominated for five prime-time Emmy awards, the film was short-listed for the Academy Awards in 2013 and was nominated for a Writers Guild Award. In 2014 the documentary was awarded a Peabody Award, Lori Singer at the Internet Movie Database Lori Singer at AllMovie Official website
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Dianne Wiest
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Dianne Evelyn Wiest is an American actress. Wiest has won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress twice, for Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets over Broadway and she appeared in three other of Allens films, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Radio Days and September. She also starred in Ron Howards Parenthood, for which she received her second Oscar nomination, Wiest also received two Screen Actors Guild Awards and one BAFTA Award nomination. For her work on television, she has won two Primetime Emmy Awards, Wiest was born in Kansas City, Missouri. Her mother, Anne Stewart, was a nurse and her father, Bernard John Wiest, was a college dean and former psychiatric social worker for the U. S. Army. Her mother was Scottish, while her father was an American of Croatian and German descent, Wiest has two brothers named Greg and Don. Her original ambition was to be a ballerina, but switched her goal to theatre in her year at Nurnberg American High School. Wiest graduated from the University of Maryland in 1969 with a degree in Arts, Wiest studied theatre at the University of Maryland, leaving after her third term to tour with a Shakespearean troupe. Later, she had a role in a New York Shakespeare Festival production of Ashes. She also acted at the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, CT and she was an understudy both off-Broadway and on Broadway, in Kurt Vonneguts Happy Birthday, Wanda June in 1970. She made her Broadway debut in Robert Andersons Solitaire/Double Solitaire, taking over in the role of the daughter in 1971 and she toured the USSR with the Arena Stage. In 1976, Wiest attended the Eugene ONeill National Playwrights Conference and starred in leading roles in Amlin Grays Pirates, at Joe Papps Public Theater she took over the lead in Ashes, and played Cassandra in Agamemnon, directed by Andrei Şerban. In 1979, she originated the role of Agnes in Agnes of God in its first production in Waterford and she appeared in two plays by Tina Howe, Museum and The Art of Dining. (She played opposite Lithgow again in the Herbert Ross film Footloose, as Wiest became established as a film actress through her work in Woody Allens films, she was less frequently available for stage roles. However, she did appear onstage during the 1990s, in In the Summer House, Square One, Cynthia Ozicks The Shawl, in 2003, she appeared with Al Pacino and Marisa Tomei in Oscar Wildes Salome. In 2005, she starred in Kathleen Tolans Memory House and she also starred in a production of Wendy Wassersteins final play Third at Lincoln Center. Her early screen roles include roles in Its My Turn and Im Dancing as Fast as I Can. In 1984, she starred in Footloose, as the reverends wife, under Woody Allens direction, Wiest won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Hannah and Her Sisters in 1987 and Bullets over Broadway in 1995
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John Lithgow
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John Arthur Lithgow is an American actor, musician, singer, comedian and author. Lithgow has received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and has been inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame and his performances in The World According to Garp and Terms of Endearment each earned him Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor. On the stage, he has appeared in many Broadway productions including the adaptation of Sweet Smell of Success. In 2007, he made his Royal Shakespeare Company debut as Malvolio in Neil Bartletts production of Twelfth Night. He has also recorded music, such as the 1999 album of music, Singin in the Bathtub. His work for children has earned him Grammy Award nominations and two Parents Choice Silver Honor Awards, Lithgow was born in Rochester, New York. His mother, Sarah Jane, was a retired actress and his father, Arthur Washington Lithgow III, was a theatrical producer and director who ran the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey. His father was born in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, to an American family of Scottish and English descent, Lithgow is descended from Mayflower passenger and colonial governor William Bradford. Lithgow attended Harvard College, and graduated with an A. B. magna cum laude in 1967, in history and he lived in Adams House as an undergraduate. Lithgow later served on Harvards Board of Overseers, Lithgow credits a performance at Harvard of Gilbert and Sullivans Utopia Limited with helping him decide to become an actor. After graduation, Lithgow won a Fulbright Scholarship to study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, also, after graduation, he served as the Director of the Arts and Literature Department at WBAI, the Pacifica radio station in New York City. In 1973, Lithgow debuted on Broadway in David Storeys The Changing Room, the following year he starred opposite Lynn Redgrave in My Fat Friend, and in 1976 he starred opposite Meryl Streep in Arthur Millers A Memory of Two Mondays. He was nominated for the Best Actor Tony Awards for Requiem for a Heavyweight, in 2002, Lithgow won a Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical for his portrayal of J. J. Hunsecker in the Broadway adaptation of the 1957 film Sweet Smell of Success, in 2005, Lithgow was elected into the American Theater Hall of Fame for his work on Broadway. He was also nominated for a Best Leading Actor in a Musical Tony for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, in 2004 and 2007, Lithgow debuted Carnival of the Animals elephant character — nurse Mabel Buntz — with the New York City Ballet and Houston Ballet, respectively. In 2007, Lithgow played Malvolio in the Royal Shakespeare Companys production of Twelfth Night, at The Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, in 2008 through 2009, Lithgow played Joe Keller in a Broadway revival of Arthur Millers All My Sons. Lithgow starred alongside Jennifer Ehle in Douglas Carter Beanes comedy Mr & Mrs Fitch presented Off-Broadway by Second Stage Theatre from February 22,2010 to April 4,2010. Lithgow returned to Broadway as Joseph Alsop in the Manhattan Theatre Club production of David Auburns new play The Columnist, the National Theatre tempted Lithgow to appear on the London stage in the winter of 2012/13 as Police Magistrate Aeneas Posket in a revival of Arthur Wing Pineros The Magistrate
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Jim Steinman
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James Richard Jim Steinman is an American composer, lyricist, and Grammy Award-winning record producer responsible for many hit songs. He has also worked as an arranger, pianist and singer and his work has included songs in the adult contemporary, rock and roll, dance, pop, musical theater and film score genres. Beginning his career in theater, Steinmans most notable work in the area includes lyrics for Whistle Down the Wind. His work includes such albums as Meat Loafs Bat Out of Hell and Bat Out of Hell II, Back into Hell, the album Bad for Good was released in his own name in 1981. Steinman was born in New York City and he graduated from George W. Hewlett High School in 1965 and received his bachelors degree from Amherst College in 1969. According to longtime manager David Sonenberg, Steinman had serious health problems around 2004. Responding to an interviewers asserting that his songs are tragic, Steinman says that he has never been stomped on literally, figuratively, I am stomped on every day. Anyway, that is the way I feel sometimes, ive never had my heart broken the way you are talking about. But probably because I dont allow myself to be dumped, in March 1968, Steinman contributed music for an Amherst College adaptation of Bertolt Brechts A Mans a Man. In May 1968, he directed an Amherst production of Michael McClures The Beard, over the summer of 1968, he contributed music for an adaptation of Brechts Baal by the Island Theater Workshop on Marthas Vineyard. As a senior at Amherst College in Massachusetts, Jim wrote the book, music and lyrics for The Dream Engine, a musical that was used to fulfill the requirements for an independent study course. The story of The Dream Engine, set in the distant future, is about a boy named Baal who, along with his rebel fellows. Baal is the leader of a group of wild boys called The Tribe, whose enemies are Max and Emily, the parents of the Girl. Steinman himself played Baal in the production, which was staged in April 1969. Fellow Amherst College student Barry Keating was director, several parts of songs from this show resemble parts of songs Steinman later released. For example, the turn around bright eyes from Total Eclipse of the Heart can be heard in the song called The Formation of the Tribe in Steinmans manuscript for the show. Steinman said in an interview that Joseph Papp, founder of the New York Shakespeare Festival, nonetheless, Steinman worked under Papp after his years at Amherst College. In 1971, Steinman provided music for a show called Ubu
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Kenny Loggins
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Kenneth Clark Kenny Loggins is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. His early songwriting compositions were recorded with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band in 1970, as a solo artist, Loggins experienced a string of soundtrack successes, including an Academy award nomination for Footloose in 1984. His early soundtrack contributions date back to the film A Star Is Born in 1976, Finally Home was released in 2013, shortly after Loggins formed the group Blue Sky Riders with Gary Burr and Georgia Middleman. Loggins was born in Everett, Washington and is the youngest of three brothers and his mother was Lina, a homemaker, and his father, Robert George Loggins, was a salesman. They lived in Detroit and Seattle before settling in Alhambra, California, Loggins attended San Gabriel Mission High School, graduating in 1966. He formed a band called the Second Helping that released three singles during 1968 and 1969 on Viva Records, during his early twenties, he was part of the band Gator Creek with Mike Deasy. An early version of Dannys Song was included in a record on Mercury Records, the two recorded a number of Loggins compositions in Messinas home living room. When Columbia signed Loggins to a contract, recording began in earnest for Loggins debut album. In addition to providing rehearsal space, equipment and amps, Messina worked long hours with Loggins and he also assembled The Kenny Loggins Band by summoning old friends consisting of bassist Larry Sims and drummer Merel Bregante, violinist/multireedist Al Garth and multireedist Jon Clarke. Messina originally intended to lend his name to the Loggins project only to introduce the unknown Loggins to Messinas well-established Buffalo Springfield. But by the time the album was completed, Messina had contributed so much to the album - in terms of songwriting, arrangement, instrumentation, thus, the full name of their first album was Kenny Loggins with Jim Messina Sittin In. The albums first single release, the Caribbean-flavored Vahevala, found top 3 success on WCFL on 18 May 1972, although the album went unnoticed by radio upon release, it eventually found success by autumn 1972, particularly on college campuses where the pair toured heavily. The vocal harmonies of Loggins and Messina meshed so well that what was begun as an album became an entity unto itself. Audiences regarded the pair as a duo rather than as a solo act with a well-known producer. Instead of continuing to produce Loggins as a performer, they decided to record as a duo – Loggins & Messina. When our first album, Sittin In, came out, we started receiving a lot of excitement about the music and good sales and it was either I now go on and continue to produce him and we do the solo career or we stay together and let this work. For me, I did not desire to go out on the road. I had had enough of that, and I wanted to produce records, but Clive Davis intervened and said, You know, I think youd be making a mistake if you guys didnt take this opportunity
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Paramount Pictures
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Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994. In 1916, film producer Adolph Zukor contracted 22 actors and actresses and these fortunate few would become the first movie stars. Paramount Pictures is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America, in 2014, Paramount Pictures became the first major Hollywood studio to distribute all of its films in digital form only. Paramount is the fifth oldest surviving studio in the world after the French studios Gaumont Film Company and Pathé, followed by the Nordisk Film company. It is the last major film studio headquartered in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles. Paramount Pictures dates its existence from the 1912 founding date of the Famous Players Film Company, hungarian-born founder, Adolph Zukor, who had been an early investor in nickelodeons, saw that movies appealed mainly to working-class immigrants. With partners Daniel Frohman and Charles Frohman he planned to offer feature-length films that would appeal to the class by featuring the leading theatrical players of the time. By mid-1913, Famous Players had completed five films, and Zukor was on his way to success and its first film was Les Amours de la reine Élisabeth, which starred Sarah Bernhardt. That same year, another aspiring producer, Jesse L. Lasky, opened his Lasky Feature Play Company with money borrowed from his brother-in-law, Samuel Goldfish, the Lasky company hired as their first employee a stage director with virtually no film experience, Cecil B. DeMille, who would find a site in Hollywood, near Los Angeles, for his first feature film. Hodkinson and actor, director, producer Hobart Bosworth had started production of a series of Jack London movies, Paramount was the first successful nationwide distributor, until this time, films were sold on a statewide or regional basis which had proved costly to film producers. Also, Famous Players and Lasky were privately owned while Paramount was a corporation, in 1916, Zukor maneuvered a three-way merger of his Famous Players, the Lasky Company, and Paramount. Zukor and Lasky bought Hodkinson out of Paramount, and merged the three companies into one, with only the exhibitor-owned First National as a rival, Famous Players-Lasky and its Paramount Pictures soon dominated the business. It was this system that gave Paramount a leading position in the 1920s and 1930s, the driving force behind Paramounts rise was Zukor. In 1926, Zukor hired independent producer B. P. Schulberg and they purchased the Robert Brunton Studios, a 26-acre facility at 5451 Marathon Street for US$1 million. In 1927, Famous Players-Lasky took the name Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation, three years later, because of the importance of the Publix Theatres, it became Paramount Publix Corporation. In 1928, Paramount began releasing Inkwell Imps, animated cartoons produced by Max, the Fleischers, veterans in the animation industry, were among the few animation producers capable of challenging the prominence of Walt Disney. The Paramount newsreel series Paramount News ran from 1927 to 1957, Paramount was also one of the first Hollywood studios to release what were known at that time as talkies, and in 1929, released their first musical, Innocents of Paris
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Musical film
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The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the characters, though in some cases they serve merely as breaks in the storyline. The musical film was a development of the stage musical after the emergence of sound film technology. Typically, the biggest difference between film and stage musicals is the use of background scenery and locations that would be impractical in a theater. Musical films characteristically contain elements reminiscent of theater, performers often treat their song, in a sense, the viewer becomes the diegetic audience, as the performer looks directly into the camera and performs to it. The 1930s through the early 1950s are considered to be the age of the musical film. Musical short films were made by Lee de Forest in 1923–24, beginning in 1926, thousands of Vitaphone shorts were made, many featuring bands, vocalists and dancers. The Jazz Singer, released in 1927 by Warner Brothers, was the first to include a track including non-diegetic music and diegetic music. This feature-length film was also a musical, featuring Al Jolson singing Dirty Hands, Dirty Face, Toot, Toot, Tootsie, Blue Skies and My Mammy. Historian Scott Eyman wrote, As the film ended and applause grew with the houselights and she saw terror in all their faces, she said, as if they knew that the game they had been playing for years was finally over. Still, only isolated sequences featured live sound, most of the film had only a musical score. In 1928, Warner Brothers followed this up with another Jolson part-talkie, The Singing Fool, theaters scrambled to install the new sound equipment and to hire Broadway composers to write musicals for the screen. The first all-talking feature, Lights of New York, included a sequence in a night club. The enthusiasm of audiences was so great that in less than an all the major studios were making sound pictures exclusively. The Broadway Melody had a plot about two sisters competing for a charming song-and-dance man. Advertised by MGM as the first All-Talking, All-Singing, All-Dancing feature film, it was a hit, there was a rush by the studios to hire talent from the stage to star in lavishly filmed versions of Broadway hits. The Love Parade starred Maurice Chevalier and newcomer Jeanette MacDonald, written by Broadway veteran Guy Bolton, Warner Brothers produced the first screen operetta, The Desert Song in 1929. They spared no expense and photographed a large percentage of the film in Technicolor and this was followed by the first all-color, all-talking musical feature which was entitled On with the Show
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Chicago
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Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third-most populous city in the United States. With over 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the state of Illinois, and it is the county seat of Cook County. In 2012, Chicago was listed as a global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. Chicago has the third-largest gross metropolitan product in the United States—about $640 billion according to 2015 estimates, the city has one of the worlds largest and most diversified economies with no single industry employing more than 14% of the workforce. In 2016, Chicago hosted over 54 million domestic and international visitors, landmarks in the city include Millennium Park, Navy Pier, the Magnificent Mile, Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Campus, the Willis Tower, Museum of Science and Industry, and Lincoln Park Zoo. Chicagos culture includes the arts, novels, film, theater, especially improvisational comedy. Chicago also has sports teams in each of the major professional leagues. The city has many nicknames, the best-known being the Windy City, the name Chicago is derived from a French rendering of the Native American word shikaakwa, known to botanists as Allium tricoccum, from the Miami-Illinois language. The first known reference to the site of the current city of Chicago as Checagou was by Robert de LaSalle around 1679 in a memoir, henri Joutel, in his journal of 1688, noted that the wild garlic, called chicagoua, grew abundantly in the area. In the mid-18th century, the area was inhabited by a Native American tribe known as the Potawatomi, the first known non-indigenous permanent settler in Chicago was Jean Baptiste Point du Sable. Du Sable was of African and French descent and arrived in the 1780s and he is commonly known as the Founder of Chicago. In 1803, the United States Army built Fort Dearborn, which was destroyed in 1812 in the Battle of Fort Dearborn, the Ottawa, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi tribes had ceded additional land to the United States in the 1816 Treaty of St. Louis. The Potawatomi were forcibly removed from their land after the Treaty of Chicago in 1833, on August 12,1833, the Town of Chicago was organized with a population of about 200. Within seven years it grew to more than 4,000 people, on June 15,1835, the first public land sales began with Edmund Dick Taylor as U. S. The City of Chicago was incorporated on Saturday, March 4,1837, as the site of the Chicago Portage, the city became an important transportation hub between the eastern and western United States. Chicagos first railway, Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, and the Illinois, the canal allowed steamboats and sailing ships on the Great Lakes to connect to the Mississippi River. A flourishing economy brought residents from rural communities and immigrants from abroad, manufacturing and retail and finance sectors became dominant, influencing the American economy. The Chicago Board of Trade listed the first ever standardized exchange traded forward contracts and these issues also helped propel another Illinoisan, Abraham Lincoln, to the national stage
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Dance
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Dance is a performance art form consisting of purposefully selected sequences of human movement. This movement has aesthetic and symbolic value, and is acknowledged as dance by performers and observers within a particular culture, Dance can be categorized and described by its choreography, by its repertoire of movements, or by its historical period or place of origin. Other forms of movement are sometimes said to have a dance-like quality, including martial arts, gymnastics, figure skating, synchronized swimming. Theatrical dance, also called performance or concert dance, is intended primarily as a spectacle and it often tells a story, perhaps using mime, costume and scenery, or else it may simply interpret the musical accompaniment, which is often specially composed. Examples are western ballet and modern dance, Classical Indian dance and Chinese and Japanese song, most classical forms are centred upon dance alone, but performance dance may also appear in opera and other forms of musical theatre. Such dance seldom has any narrative, a group dance and a corps de ballet, a social partner dance and a pas de deux, differ profoundly. Even a solo dance may be solely for the satisfaction of the dancer. On the other hand, some cultures lay down strict rules as to the dances in which, for example. Archeological evidence for early dance includes 9, 000-year-old paintings in India at the Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka and it has been proposed that before the invention of written languages, dance was an important part of the oral and performance methods of passing stories down from generation to generation. The use of dance in trance states and healing rituals is thought to have been another early factor in the social development of dance. References to dance can be found in very early recorded history, Greek dance is referred to by Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch, the Bible and Talmud refer to many events related to dance, and contain over 30 different dance terms. In Chinese pottery as early as the Neolithic period, groups of people are depicted dancing in a line holding hands, Dance is further described in the Lüshi Chunqiu. Primitive dance in ancient China was associated with sorcery and shamanic rituals, during the first millennium BCE in India, many texts were composed which attempted to codify aspects of daily life. Bharata Munis Natyashastra is one of the earlier texts and it mainly deals with drama, in which dance plays an important part in Indian culture. It categorizes dance into four types - secular, ritual, abstract, the text elaborates various hand-gestures and classifies movements of the various limbs, steps and so on. A strong continuous tradition of dance has since continued in India, through to modern times, where it continues to play a role in culture, ritual, and, notably, the Bollywood entertainment industry. Many other contemporary dance forms can likewise be traced back to historical, traditional, ceremonial, Dance is generally, though not exclusively, performed with the accompaniment of music and may or may not be performed in time to such music. Some dance may provide its own audible accompaniment in place of music, many early forms of music and dance were created for each other and are frequently performed together
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Rock music
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It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by blues, rhythm and blues and country music. Rock music also drew strongly on a number of genres such as electric blues and folk. Musically, rock has centered on the guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar. Typically, rock is song-based music usually with a 4/4 time signature using a verse-chorus form, like pop music, lyrics often stress romantic love but also address a wide variety of other themes that are frequently social or political in emphasis. Punk was an influence into the 1980s on the subsequent development of subgenres, including new wave, post-punk. From the 1990s alternative rock began to rock music and break through into the mainstream in the form of grunge, Britpop. Similarly, 1970s punk culture spawned the visually distinctive goth and emo subcultures and this trio of instruments has often been complemented by the inclusion of other instruments, particularly keyboards such as the piano, Hammond organ and synthesizers. The basic rock instrumentation was adapted from the blues band instrumentation. A group of musicians performing rock music is termed a rock band or rock group, Rock music is traditionally built on a foundation of simple unsyncopated rhythms in a 4/4 meter, with a repetitive snare drum back beat on beats two and four. Melodies are often derived from older musical modes, including the Dorian and Mixolydian, harmonies range from the common triad to parallel fourths and fifths and dissonant harmonic progressions. Critics have stressed the eclecticism and stylistic diversity of rock, because of its complex history and tendency to borrow from other musical and cultural forms, it has been argued that it is impossible to bind rock music to a rigidly delineated musical definition. These themes were inherited from a variety of sources, including the Tin Pan Alley pop tradition, folk music and rhythm, as a result, it has been seen as articulating the concerns of this group in both style and lyrics. Christgau, writing in 1972, said in spite of some exceptions, rock and roll usually implies an identification of male sexuality, according to Simon Frith rock was something more than pop, something more than rock and roll. Rock musicians combined an emphasis on skill and technique with the concept of art as artistic expression, original. The foundations of music are in rock and roll, which originated in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its immediate origins lay in a melding of various musical genres of the time, including rhythm and blues and gospel music, with country. In 1951, Cleveland, Ohio disc jockey Alan Freed began playing rhythm and blues music for a multi-racial audience, debate surrounds which record should be considered the first rock and roll record. Other artists with rock and roll hits included Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis
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Elmore City, Oklahoma
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Elmore City is a town in Garvin County, Oklahoma, United States. This town is fifty-eight miles south of Oklahoma City, the population was 697 at the 2010 census. It was named after J. O. Elmore, there are two main highways running through Elmore City. One of the Highways is Oklahoma State Highway 29, running west-east, the other is Oklahoma State Highway 74, running north-south. It is about 12 miles west of Wynnewood,25.5 miles south of Purcell, the first business in Elmore City was opened by Jasper N. Black in an area just northeast of what is now Elmore City. Black was a man who knew that the settlers needed a place to buy supplies without having to travel to the east to what would become Pauls Valley. Historians state that after Black opened his store in 1890 on Rock Creek, the number of settlers quickly grew. Banner quickly spread to the southwest and a post office was established, according to the Gideon Book of Historical Places, the word city was added to Elmore after the name was confused with Elmer. The city was incorporated as a community in 1898 with Black serving as the first mayor, the 1984 film Footloose is loosely based on events that took place in the town. Elmore City is located at 34°37′24″N 97°23′45″W, according to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.4 square miles, all of it land. As of the census of 2010, there were 697 people residing in the town, the population density was 1,394 people per square mile. There were 337 housing units at a density of 674 per square mile. The racial makeup of the town was 91. 40% White,4. 50% Native American,0. 53% Asian, hispanic or Latino of any race were 1. 46% of the population. 34. 5% of all households were made up of individuals and 20. 4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.30 and the average family size was 2.97. In the town, the population was out with 25. 3% under the age of 18,8. 9% from 18 to 24,25. 4% from 25 to 44,20. 4% from 45 to 64. The median age was 37 years, for every 100 females there were 89.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 84.6 males, the median income for a household in the town was $23,810, and the median income for a family was $25,000. Males had an income of $22,083 versus $17,159 for females
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Chicken (game)
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The game of chicken, also known as the hawk-dove game or snowdrift game, is a model of conflict for two players in game theory. From a game-theoretic point of view, chicken and hawk-dove are identical, the game has also been used to describe the mutual assured destruction of nuclear warfare, especially the sort of brinkmanship involved in the Cuban Missile Crisis. The game of chicken models two drivers, both headed for a bridge from opposite directions. The first to swerve away yields the bridge to the other, if neither player swerves, the result is a costly deadlock in the middle of the bridge, or a potentially fatal head-on collision. It is presumed that the best thing for each driver is to stay straight while the other swerves, additionally, a crash is presumed to be the worst outcome for both players. This yields a situation where each player, in attempting to secure his best outcome, risks the worst. The phrase game of chicken is used as a metaphor for a situation where two parties engage in a showdown where they have nothing to gain, and only pride stops them from backing down. This is an adapted from a sport which, I am told, is practiced by some youthful degenerates. It is played by choosing a long road with a white line down the middle. Each car is expected to keep the wheels on one side of the white line, as they approach each other, mutual destruction becomes more and more imminent. If one of them swerves from the line before the other. And the one who has swerved becomes an object of contempt, as played by irresponsible boys, this game is considered decadent and immoral, though only the lives of the players are risked. Both are to blame for playing such a dangerous game. The game may be played without misfortune a few times, the moment will come when neither side can face the derisive cry of Chicken. When that moment is come, the statesmen of both sides will plunge the world into destruction, brinkmanship involves the introduction of an element of uncontrollable risk, even if all players act rationally in the face of risk, uncontrollable events can still trigger the catastrophic outcome. In the chickie run scene from the film Rebel Without a Cause, the opposite scenario occurs in Footloose where Ren McCormack is stuck in his tractor and hence wins the game as he cant play chicken. The basic game-theoretic formulation of Chicken has no element of variable, potentially catastrophic, risk, the hawk-dove version of the game imagines two players contesting an indivisible resource who can choose between two strategies, one more escalated than the other. They can use threat displays, or physically attack each other, if both players choose the Hawk strategy, then they fight until one is injured and the other wins
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Senior prom
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In the United States, and increasingly in the United Kingdom and Canada, a promenade dance, most commonly called a prom, is a semi-formal dance or gathering of high school students. This event is held near the end of the senior year. Proms figure greatly in popular culture and are major events among high school students, High school juniors attending the prom may call it junior prom while high-school seniors may call it senior prom. In practice, this event may be a combined junior/senior dance, at a prom, a Prom King and Prom Queen may be revealed. These are honorary titles awarded to students elected in a school-wide vote prior to the prom, other students may be honored with inclusion in a Prom Court. The selection method for a Prom Court is similar to that of Homecoming Queen/Princess, King, inclusion in a Prom Court may be a reflection of popularity of those students elected and their level of participation in school activities, such as clubs or sports. The Prom Queen and Prom King may be given crowns to wear, members of the Prom Court may be given sashes to wear and photographed together. Similar events take place in other parts of the world. Many schools hold a graduation ball for finishing students at the end of the year in place of or as well as a formal. In Ireland a debutante ball or Debs may also be held, in Poland high schools organize a studniówka. The term prom is becoming common in the UK and Canada due to the influence of American films. In the early days of high school proms, the nighttime dance served a similar to a debutante ball. Early proms were times of firsts, the first adult social event for teenagers, the first time taking the car out after dark, the first real dress-up affair. In earlier days, the prom may have served as an announcement of engagement for the “best couple” after the prom court had been crowned and recognized. The journal of a student at Amherst College in 1894 recounts an invitation. The word prom at that time may just have been a description for an ordinary junior or senior class dance. Proms worked their way down incrementally from college gatherings to high school extravaganzas, in the early 20th century, prom was a simple tea dance where high school seniors wore their Sunday best. In the 1920s and 1930s, prom expanded into a class banquet where students wore party clothes
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Book burning
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Book burning refers to the ritual destruction by fire of books or other written materials. In some cases, the works are irreplaceable and their burning constitutes a severe loss to cultural heritage. Book burning can be an act of contempt for the contents or author. Examples include the burning of Wilhelm Reichs books by the FDA, in modern times, other forms of media, such as phonograph records, video tapes, and CDs have also been burned, shredded, or even crushed. According to the Tanakh, in the 7th century BC King Jehoiakim of Judah burned part of a scroll Baruch ben Neriah had written at prophet Jeremiahs dictation. Qin Shi Huang, first emperor of Qin Dynasty, ordered a Burning of books and burying of scholars in 213 BC, some of these books were written in Shang Xiang, a superior school founded in 2208 BC. The event caused the loss of many treatises of the Hundred Schools of Thought. The official philosophy of government survived, as soon as he is discovered in this offense, he shall be submitted for capital punishment. According to Elaine Pagels, In AD367, Athanasius, the bishop of Alexandria. Pagels cites Athanasiuss Paschal letter for 367 AD, which prescribes a canon, heretical texts do not turn up as palimpsests, washed clean and overwritten, as do many texts of Classical antiquity. According to author Rebecca Knuth, multitudes of early Christian texts have been as thoroughly destroyed as if they had publicly burnt. Library of Alexandria was one of the largest and most significant libraries of the ancient world and it was burned multiple times during its history. Activity of Cyril of Alexandria brought fire to almost all writings of Nestorius, in 1244, as an outcome of the Disputation of Paris, twenty-four carriage loads of Talmuds and other Jewish religious manuscripts were set on fire in the streets of Paris. During the conquest of the Americas and the aftermath of the encounter between European and indigenous American civilizations, many written by indigenous peoples were destroyed. There were many books written by the Aztecs in existence at the time of the Spanish conquest of Yucatán in the 16th century, however, most were destroyed by the Conquistadors and the Catholic priests, with the exception of Priest Bartolome de la Casas. In particular, many books in Yucatán were ordered destroyed by Bishop Diego de Landa in July 1562, ironically, most of the books that were destroyed by the Europeans were biased and based upon the Aztec peoples version of the history of the region. The Aztecs too had conquered the area and destroyed much of the Mayan books, the Library of Congress was founded in 1800,24 years after the United States gained its independence from England. In 1813,3,000 books from the Library of Congress were used by the English forces to burn down the US Capitol during the Burning of Washington
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Chris Penn
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Christopher Shannon Chris Penn was an American film and television actor. Penn was found dead in his condominium on January 24,2006, an autopsy revealed the primary cause for his death was nonspecific cardiomyopathy. Penn was born in Los Angeles, California, the youngest of three born to Leo Penn, an actor and director, and Eileen Ryan, an actress. His paternal grandparents were Jewish emigrants from Lithuania and Russia, and his mother was a Roman Catholic of Italian, according to Penns mother, Leo Penn may have had distant Sephardic ancestry, as the familys surname was originally Piñón. His brothers are actor Sean Penn and musician Michael Penn, Penn started acting at the age of 12 at the Loft Studio and made his film debut in 1979’s Charlie and the Talking Buzzard, starring Christopher Hanks. In 1983, he was featured in Francis Ford Coppola’s youth drama Rumble Fish and appeared in the high school football drama All the Right Moves as the best friend of Tom Cruises character. Penn, who had a belt in karate, appeared in the 1989 motion picture Best of the Best as Travis Brickley. The film also starred James Earl Jones, Sally Kirkland, Eric Roberts, Phillip Rhee, Penn reprised his role in 1993s Best of the Best 2. Two of his memorable performances were in Reservoir Dogs as Nice Guy Eddie. In 1996 he won the award for Best Supporting Actor at the Venice Film Festival for The Funeral, in 1990, Chris was cast in a season one episode of The Young Riders. He appeared as a villain and was killed by Josh Brolins character William Hickok, in Robert Altmans 1993 ensemble film Short Cuts, Penn played a troubled swimming pool cleaner who is disturbed by his wifes profession to which Penns character is sometimes obliged to listen. He also appeared as a guy in a criminal conspiracy in Murder by Numbers. Penn appears in Jay-Zs Can I Get A.1998 music video as a bartender who mixes drinks and dances. In 2001, Penn was meant to appear in American Pie 2 as Steve Stiflers father, however, they appeared on the deleted scene reel from the movies DVD. Penn then went on to co-star opposite Peter Berg as the brothers of Corky in Corky Romano. In 2003, he appeared on the Will & Grace episode, Fanilow, as Barry Manilows tour director, Penn was featured in an episode of the television crime drama Law & Order, Criminal Intent during the 2004–2005 season. He was also featured on the 2004 video game Grand Theft Auto, Penn played himself on a 2005 episode of the HBO series Entourage. He appeared in The Darwin Awards, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival one day after his death, Penn was found dead in his Santa Monica condominium on January 24,2006, aged 40
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Sarah Jessica Parker
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Sarah Jessica Parker is an American actress, producer, and designer. She is known for her role as Carrie Bradshaw on the HBO television series Sex. She won two Emmy Awards for the show, one for Outstanding Comedy Series in 2001 and another for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 2004. For this role, she won four Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress in a Comedy Series. She reprised the role in the films, Sex and the City and Sex, Parker made her Broadway debut at the age of 11 in the 1976 revival of The Innocents, before going on to star in the title role of the Broadway musical, Annie, in 1979. She appeared in the 1984 films Footloose and Firstborn, and returned to Broadway in the 1989 play, The Heidi Chronicles. Other film roles include, L. A. Story, Honeymoon in Vegas, Hocus Pocus, Ed Wood, The First Wives Club, The Family Stone, and Failure to Launch. In 2012, Parker returned to television for the first time since Sex and she is currently starring in the HBO series, Divorce. Sarah Jessica Parker was born in Nelsonville, Ohio, the daughter of Barbara Parker, a school operator and teacher, and Stephen Parker. She was one of a total of eight children from her parents marriage, after her parents divorce, her mother married Paul Forste, a truck driver and account executive who was a part of Parkers life from an early age. Parkers father, a native of Brooklyn, is Jewish, his familys surname was Bar-Kahn. Parkers mother is of German, and some English, descent, through her mother, Parker is descended from Esther Elwell, Parker has identified culturally with her fathers religion, Judaism, although she has had no religious training. She has said that even while her family lived in Cincinnati, as a young girl, Parker trained in singing and ballet, and was soon cast in the Broadway revival of William Archibalds The Innocents. Her family moved to Cincinnati and then to Dobbs Ferry, New York, near New York City, There, her mother and stepfather helped Parker develop her career as a child actress. In 1977, the moved to the newly opened planned community on Roosevelt Island. The family later moved to Englewood, New Jersey, where Parker attended Dwight Morrow High School, Parker and four siblings appeared in a production of The Sound of Music at the outdoor Municipal Theatre in St. Louis, Missouri. Parker held the role for a year, in 1982, Parker was cast as the co-lead of the CBS sitcom Square Pegs. The show lasted just one season, but Parkers performance, as a shy teen who showed hidden depths, was well received
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Frances Lee McCain
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Frances Lee McCain, also known as Lee McCain, is an American actress. McCain was born in San Diego, California and grew up in New York, Illinois and she graduated from Ripon College with a BA in Philosophy and then studied acting for 3 years at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, England. She completed a Masters degree in Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies in 2000 and she returned to New York City where she appeared on Broadway in Woody Allens Play it Again Sam, and off-Broadway in Lanford Wilsons Lemon Sky, creating the role of Carol. She joined the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco under William Ball, in 1978 she played Charles Grodins wife in Albert Brooks debut feature film, Real Life. In the 1980s, she was cast in major films. In 1984, she co-starred in the blockbuster film Gremlins as Lynn Peltzer, also that year, she played Ethel McCormack, mother to Kevin Bacons character, in Footloose. In 1985 she appeared in the hit film Back to the Future as Stella Baines and she received a Masters Degree in Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies in 2000, and continues to work in Theater extensively in the San Francisco Area. C. McCain is an Associate Artist of the ZSpace Studio in San Francisco and she currently resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Michael Cimino
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Michael Cimino was an American film director, screenwriter, producer and author. Cimino was born in New York City and graduated from Yale University in 1963, beginning his career filming commercials, he moved to Los Angeles to take up screenwriting in 1971. After co-writing the script of Magnum Force and Silent Running, he wrote the preliminary script Thunderbolt, Clint Eastwood read the script and sent it to his personal production company, which allowed Cimino to direct the film. After its success, Cimino co-wrote, directed, and produced the 1978 Academy Award-winning film The Deer Hunter and his next film, Heavens Gate, proved to be a financial failure. Cimino directed four movies after Heavens Gate, but none were as successful as The Deer Hunter, Cimino was born in New York City on February 3,1939. A third-generation Italian-American, Cimino and his brothers grew up with their parents in Old Westbury and he was regarded as a prodigy at the private schools his parents sent him to, but rebelled as an adolescent by consorting with delinquents, getting into fights, and coming home drunk. Of this time, Cimino described himself as always hanging around with kids my parents didnt approve of, when I was fifteen I spent three weeks driving all over Brooklyn with a guy who was following his girlfriend. He was convinced she was cheating on him, and he had a gun, there was such passion and intensity about their lives. When the rich kids got together, the most we ever did was cross against a red light and his father was a music publisher. Cimino says his father was responsible for marching bands and organs playing pop music at football games, when my father found out I went into the movie business, he didnt talk to me for a year, Cimino said. He was very tall and thin and his weight never changed his whole life and he didnt have a gray hair on his head. He was a bit like a Vanderbilt or a Whitney, one of those guys and he was the life of the party, women loved him, a real womanizer. He was away a lot, but he was fun and his mother was a costume designer. After he made The Deer Hunter, she said that she knew he had become famous because his name was in the New York Times crossword puzzle, Cimino graduated from Westbury High School in 1956. He entered Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, at Michigan State, Cimino majored in graphic arts, was a member of a weight-lifting club, and participated in a group to welcome incoming students. He graduated in 1959 with honors and won the Harry Suffrin Advertising Award, in Ciminos final year at Michigan State, he became art director, and later managing editor, of the schools humor magazine Spartan. Steven Bach wrote of Ciminos early magazine work, It is here one can see what are perhaps the first public manifestations of the Cimino visual sensibility. He thoroughly restyled the Spartans derivative Punch look, designing a number of its strikingly handsome covers himself, the Cimino-designed covers are bold and strong, with a sure sense of space and design
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Tom Cruise
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Thomas Cruise Mapother IV, known professionally as Tom Cruise, is an American actor and producer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and has won three Golden Globe Awards and he started his career at age 19 in the film Endless Love. After portraying supporting roles in Taps and The Outsiders, his first leading role was in the romantic comedy Risky Business, Cruise became a full-fledged movie star after starring as Pete Maverick Mitchell in the action drama Top Gun. One of the biggest movie stars in Hollywood, Cruise starred in more successful films in the 1980s, including the dramas The Color of Money, Cocktail, Rain Man. In 2012, Cruise was Hollywoods highest-paid actor,16 of his films grossed over $100 million domestically,22 have grossed in excess of $200 million worldwide. In 2002, Cruise won the Saturn Award for Best Actor for Vanilla Sky, in 2003, he won an AFI Movie of the Year Award for The Last Samurai and an Empire Award for Best Actor for Minority Report. Cruise is an advocate for the Church of Scientology and its associated social programs. Cruise was born in Syracuse, New York, the son of Mary Lee, a special teacher, and Thomas Cruise Mapother III. He has three sisters, Lee Anne, Marian, and Cass and they are of English, German, and Irish ancestry. One of Cruises paternal great-great-great-grandfathers, Patrick Russell Cruise, was born in north County Dublin in 1799, he married Teresa Johnson in County Meath and they left Ireland for the United States that same year and settled in New York. They had a daughter, Mary Paulina Russell Cruise, whose son Thomas Cruise Mapother was Cruises great-grandfather, a cousin, William Mapother, is also an actor, he and Cruise have appeared in five films together. Cruise grew up in poverty, and had a Catholic upbringing. The family was dominated by his father, whom Cruise has described as a merchant of chaos. Cruise has said that he was beaten by his father, whom he has called a bully and he stated, He was the kind of person where, if something goes wrong, they kick you. It was a lesson in my life—how hed lull you in, make you feel safe and then. For me, it was like, Theres something wrong with this guy, Cruise spent part of his childhood in Canada. His family moved to Beacon Hill, Ottawa, in late 1971 so that Cruises father could take a position as a consultant with the Canadian Armed Forces. There, Cruise attended the newly opened Robert Hopkins Public School for much of grade four, in grade four, Cruise first became involved in drama, under the tutelage of George Steinburg
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Rob Lowe
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Robert Hepler Lowe is an American actor. He came to prominence in the 1980s, playing teen and young adult roles in such as The Outsiders, Oxford Blues, St. Elmos Fire. However, he continued acting in less prominent film roles, and went on to roles in television series such as The West Wing, Brothers & Sisters. Lowe was born in Charlottesville, Virginia, the son of Barbara Lynn, a schoolteacher and native of Ohio, and Charles Davis Lowe and his parents divorced when Lowe and his younger brother, actor Chad, were very young. As a result of a virus during infancy, he is deaf in his right ear, Lowe was baptized into the Episcopal church. He is of German, English, Irish, Scottish, on the show Who Do You Think You Are. Lowe found out one of his ancestors, Christopher East, was a Hessian soldier. His ancestor was fighting under the command of Colonel Johann Gottlieb Rall and was captured at the American Victory at Trenton, as an American POW, his ancestor was given a choice, and took the option to stay in the US. Lowe was raised in a traditional setting in Dayton, Ohio, attending Oakwood Junior High School, before moving to the Point Dume area of Malibu, California. Lowe attended Santa Monica High School, as did fellow actors Emilio Estevez, Charlie Sheen, Robert Downey, Jr. Sean Penn and his breakthrough role was his big screen debut in 1983, when he and Emilio Estevez were cast in Francis Ford Coppolas The Outsiders. Lowe played the role of Sodapop Curtis, the brother of the main character Ponyboy Curtis, Lowe and Estevez reunited in St. Elmos Fire, making them the two more prominent actors from the group known as the Brat Pack. He then received his second Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role as the mentally disabled Rory in Square Dance, in August,1987 he performed on stage, playing Baron Tusenbach in Chekovs The Three Sisters at The Williamstown Theatre Festival. Lowe is well known for playing Sam Seaborn in the television series The West Wing from 1999 to 2003 and his performance in the show garnered Lowe a Primetime Emmy Award nomination and two Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Actor in a Drama Series. Lowe was drawn to the role because of his love of politics, and his longstanding personal relationship with Martin Sheen. When the show premiered, Seaborn was considered the lead, Lowe and series creator Aaron Sorkin soon found themselves at odds over the networks meddling with the show, most notably the network demanding changes in the Sam Seaborn character. Eventually, Lowe left the series, not long before Sorkin, during the final season of The West Wing, Lowe returned to his role of Sam Seaborn, appearing in two of the final four episodes. In 2011, Lowe appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show and stated that he left the show because he did not feel he was being respected, after leaving the show, Lowe was the star and executive producer of a failed NBC drama, The Lyons Den. In 2004, he tried again in a series entitled Dr. Vegas, in 2005, he starred as Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee in a London West End production of Sorkins play A Few Good Men, the first time the two had worked together since The West Wing
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Risky Business
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Risky Business is a 1983 American romantic comedy film written and directed by Paul Brickman, making his directorial debut. It stars Tom Cruise and Rebecca De Mornay, the film launched Cruise to stardom. It covers themes including materialism, loss of innocence, coming of age, Joel Goodson is a high-achieving high school student who lives with his wealthy parents in the North Shore area of suburban Chicago. When his parents go away on a trip, Joels friend, on the first night, he raids the liquor cabinet, plays the stereo loudly, and dances around the living room in his underwear and pink dress shirt to Old Time Rock and Roll. The following day, Miles calls a girl named Jackie on Joels behalf. Jackie turns out to be a tall, masculine transvestite, Joel pays Jackie to go away, but before she leaves, she gives Joel the number for Lana, another prostitute. That night, Joel is unable to sleep and hesitantly calls Lana and she turns out to be a gorgeous blonde and they have sex all night. Lana asks Joel for $300 for her services and he goes to the bank, but when he returns, Lana is gone, along with his mothers expensive Steuben glass egg. Joel finds Lana and demands the egg back, but they are interrupted by Lanas pimp Guido, while in his fathers Porsche 928, Joel is chased by Guido, but eventually escapes. Lana tells Joel that the egg is with the rest of her stuff at Guidos, Joel lets Lana stay at his house while he goes to school. When he returns, his friends are over, and Lana has invited another prostitute Vicki to stay and that night, Joel, Lana, Vicki, and Joels friend Barry go out. They get stoned, and while Vicky and Barry wander away, Joel, Lana takes exception to something Joel says and leaves. While retrieving her purse from Joels car, she moves the shifter out of gear, moments later, the car rolls down the hill and onto a pier, despite Joels futile attempt to stop it. The pier collapses, dumping the Porsche into Lake Michigan, when Joel takes the car to a repair shop, he is horrified to learn how much it will cost to fix it. He and Lana later decide to turn his parents house into a brothel for a night, the party is a huge success, the house is packed with Joels friends and classmates and Lanas co-workers. However, the recruiter from Princeton, Rutherford chooses that night to interview Joel for admission to Princeton, the interview is plagued by interruptions, and Rutherford is unimpressed by Joels resume. Afterwards, he stays at the party and becomes acquainted with Lanas friends, after the party, Joel and Lana go and have sex on the deserted Chicago L. The next morning, Joel finds his house has been burgled, when he tries to call Lana, Guido answers, he tells Joel that he will let Joel buy back his furniture
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All the Right Moves (film)
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All the Right Moves is a 1983 American sports drama film directed by Michael Chapman and starring Tom Cruise, Craig T. Nelson, Lea Thompson, Chris Penn and Gary Graham. It was filmed on location during WPIAL football season in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Stefan Stef Djordjevic is a Serbian American high school defensive back who is gifted in both sports and academics. He dreams of becoming a right after he graduates from college. Ampipe is a town whose economy is dominated by the towns main employer, American Pipe & Steel. Stef gets through his days with the love of his girlfriend, Lisa Lietzke, most of the film takes place after the big football game against undefeated Walnut Heights High School. Ampipe appears headed to win the game, when a fumbled handoff in the closing seconds—as well as Stefans pass interference penalty earlier in the game—leads to a Walnut Heights victory. Following the game, Coach Burt Nickerson lambastes the fumbler in the locker room, when Stefan retorts that the coach himself quit, the coach kicks him off the team. In the aftermath, disgruntled Ampipe fans vandalize Coach Nickersons house, Stefan is present and is a reluctant participant, but is nonetheless seen by Nickerson as the vandals flee. Stefan gets in an argument with Lisa and his best friend Brian declines college, Stefan, frustrated by what Nickerson did, angrily confronts his former coach which ends in a shouting match out in the street. But Lisa decides to talk to Nickersons wife to try and help, in the end, Nickerson realizes he was wrong for blacklisting Stefan. He has accepted a position at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and offers Stefan a full scholarship to play football there. Gary Morton of Lucille Ball Productions was executive producer, the production was filmed over seven weeks in Johnstown, Pennsylvania in mid 1983. A sixty-year-old, recently closed high school, formerly Johnstown High School, was used as the location of the film, actress Lea Thompson was inserted as a new student at Ferndale Area High School for three days prior to shooting. Tom Cruise was similarly inserted into Greater Johnstown High School but was recognized immediately, the film has a score of 53% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 19 reviews and a score of a generally favorable 62% on Metacritic based on 7 reviews. Jay Carr from The Boston Globe stated Cruise is believable as an athlete, among the unfavorable reviews, TV Guide called the movie cliche-riddled and Richard Corliss of Time called it a naive little movie hopes to prove itself the Flashdance of football. List of American films of 1983 All the Right Moves at the Internet Movie Database All the Right Moves at AllMovie
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Stephen King
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Stephen Edwin King is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. His books have more than 350 million copies, many of which have been adapted into feature films, miniseries, television shows. King has published 54 novels, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman and he has written nearly 200 short stories, most of which have been collected in book collections. Many of his stories are set in his state of Maine. His novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption was the basis for the movie The Shawshank Redemption which is regarded as one of the greatest films of all time. King has received Bram Stoker Awards, World Fantasy Awards, and his novella The Way Station was a Nebula Award novelette nominee. In 2003, the National Book Foundation awarded him the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters and his short story The Man in the Black Suit received the O. Henry Award. In 2015, King was awarded with a National Medal of Arts from the United States National Endowment for the Arts for his contributions to literature, King was born September 21,1947, in Portland, Maine. His father, Donald Edwin King, was born circa 1913 in Peru, Indiana, when Donald was born, his surname was Pollock, but as an adult, he used the surname King. Kings mother, Nellie Ruth, was born in Scarborough, Maine, Donald and Nellie were married July 23,1939, in Cumberland County, Maine. The family moved to De Pere, Wisconsin, Fort Wayne, Indiana, when King was 11, the family returned to Durham, Maine, where his mother cared for her parents until their deaths. She then became a caregiver in a residential facility for the mentally challenged. King was raised Methodist and remains religious as an adult, as a child, King apparently witnessed one of his friends being struck and killed by a train, though he has no memory of the event. His family told him that leaving home to play with the boy, King returned, speechless. Only later did the family learn of the friends death, some commentators have suggested that this event may have psychologically inspired some of Kings darker works, but King makes no mention of it in his memoir On Writing. King related in detail his primary inspiration for writing fiction in his non-fiction Danse Macabre. King compares his uncles successfully dowsing for water using the bough of a branch with the sudden realization of what he wanted to do for a living. King told Barnes & Noble Studios during a 2009 interview, I knew that Id found home when I read that book, King attended Durham Elementary School and graduated from Lisbon Falls High School, in Lisbon Falls, Maine
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Christine (1983 film)
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Christine is a 1983 American horror film directed by John Carpenter and starring Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul, and Harry Dean Stanton. The film also features supporting performances from Roberts Blossom and Kelly Preston, upon its release, the film has grossed $21 million at the US box office. Despite a lukewarm reception among critics, the film has become a cult classic, arnold Arnie Cunningham is an awkward, unpopular teen with only one friend, Dennis Guilder. Arnies life begins to change when he buys a used, badly battered red-and-white 1958 Plymouth Fury, named Christine, Dennis and Arnies new girlfriend, Leigh Cabot, discover the cars previous owner was obsessed with Christine and committed suicide in it by carbon monoxide poisoning. A group of bullies at school—angry with Arnie after a shop class confrontation results in the bully, Buddy Repperton. Arnie is devastated and determined to repair Christine, as he examines the ruined car, he hears the creaking of metal and notices the engine is now fully restored. Arnie tells the car, Show me, Christine flips on its lights and restores itself to showroom quality, then, driving itself, seeks out the vandals. Moochie Wells is targeted first and crushed to death in an alley, Buddy, Richie Trelawney and Don Vandenberg are then killed, Richie and Don are caught in a gas station explosion, and Buddy is run over and burned by the flaming car. On New Years Eve, Dennis and Leigh reason that the way to stop Christine. Dennis scratches Darnells Tonight—referencing the name of the junkyard—into Christines hood, Dennis waits in a bulldozer while Leigh heads to the office so that she can shut the door after Christine arrives, trapping the car. Christine, who has been lying in wait the time, shines the headlights from under a pile of trash. Christine crashes into Darnells office in an attempt to kill Leigh and he is impaled on a shard of glass and dies, reaching out to touch Christine one last time. Christine continues to attack Dennis and Leigh, repeatedly sustaining damage, Dennis and Leigh survive and leave behind the remains of the car. The closing shot of the film is of Christine, now having been crushed into a cube by a car crusher, kobritz purchased the rights to Christine after finding himself attracted to the novels celebration of Americas obsession with the motorcar. According to John Carpenter, Christine was not a film he had planned on directing, saying that he directed the film as a job as opposed to a personal project. He had previously directed The Thing, which had done poorly at the box office, in retrospect, Carpenter stated that upon reading Christine, he felt that It just wasnt very frightening. But it was something I needed to do at time for my career. Other elements from the novel were altered for the film, particularly the execution of the death scenes, initially, Columbia Pictures had wanted to cast Brooke Shields in the role of Leigh due to her publicity after the release of The Blue Lagoon, and Scott Baio as Arnie
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Diner (film)
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Diner is a 1982 American comedy-drama written and directed by Barry Levinson. The film is Levinsons screen directing debut, and the first of Levinsons four Baltimore Films set in his hometown during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, Diner, Tin Men, Avalon, and Liberty Heights. The title refers to the Hilltop Diner, located at Reisterstown Road and Rogers Avenue, Baltimore, however, the Hilltop had been converted into a liquor store so the location in the film is in the Canton section of Baltimore. An element of the story includes the Baltimore Colts winning the 1959 NFL Championship Game, the semi-autobiographical film explores the changing relationships among these friends as they become adults through what is mostly a series of vignettes rather than a traditional narrative. Levinson encouraged improvisation among his cast to capture realistic camaraderie, the film inspired a 1983 CBS television pilot written and directed by Levinson. Mike Binder starred as Eddie, Paul Reiser returned as Modell, Michael Madsen took over as Boogie, a stage musical, with the book by Levinson and music by Sheryl Crow is being prepared, with plans for a Broadway production, originally opening in Autumn 2013. Kathleen Marshall is the director and choreographer, a creative workshop reading was held in December 2011, directed by Kathleen Marshall. A previously announced premiere at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco in October 2012 to November 2012 was cancelled, instead, the musical had a staged workshop in New York and then was expected to open on Broadway in April 2013. Holding themselves to uncompromising standards they happily discovered that their answer was yes, the musical opened at the Signature Theatre, Arlington, Virginia, in December 2014 through January 2015, with direction and choreography by Kathleen Marshall. Crow said, And to think we are going to premiere it so close to Baltimore, where the took place, at Signature Theatre. The cast for the Signature premiere included Matthew James Thomas as Fenwick, the film received positive reviews and currently has a 91% Fresh rating on review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes based on 34 reviews. Levinson also received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay, the film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists,2000, AFIs 100 Years.100 Laughs – #57 Notes Diner at the Internet Movie Database Diner at Rotten Tomatoes
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Daryl Hannah
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Daryl Christine Hannah is an American film actress. She made her debut in Brian De Palmas supernatural horror film The Fury. She recently appeared in the Wachowskis Netflix series Sense8 and she is also an environmental campaigner who has been arrested during direct action protests. Hannah was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Susan Jeanne, a producer and former schoolteacher, and Donald Christian Hannah and her parents divorced and her mother subsequently married businessman Jerrold Wexler, brother of cinematographer Haskell Wexler. Hannah grew up with siblings Don and Page Hannah and half-sister Tanya Wexler, in Long Grove, Hannah became interested in movies at a young age, partly due to insomnia. She has said that she was very shy growing up, Hannah attended the progressive Francis W. Parker School before enrolling at the University of Southern California. Hannah made her debut in 1978 with an appearance in Brian De Palmas horror film The Fury. She turned down many roles early in her career and she also had an early role along with Rachel Ward in the 1983 horror film The Final Terror. During production, The Final Terror was shot in the Redwood Park in 1981 before the film was released in 1983 to capitalize on Hannahs blossoming career. Her first notable role came as the acrobatic and violent replicant Pris in Ridley Scotts 1982 science fiction classic Blade Runner and that same year she appeared in the summer hit release Summer Lovers. She then was cast as a mermaid in Ron Howards 1984 fantasy Splash. Also in 1984, she appeared in The Pope of Greenwich Village, with co-stars Mickey Rourke, in 1985, Daryl appeared in and provided backing vocals in the music video Youre a Friend of Mine, performed by Clarence Clemons and Jackson Browne. Hannahs roles in the remainder of the 1980s ranged from 1986s film version of the best seller The Clan of the Cave Bear, the next year, she appeared in the Academy Award-winning Wall Street, for which she received a Razzie Award. She starred in the role of Fred Schepisis 1987 film Roxanne. Her performance was described as sweet and gentle by film critic Roger Ebert and she starred in High Spirits alongside Peter OToole and ended the decade with Crimes and Misdemeanors and Steel Magnolias. Hannah played the daughter of Jack Lemmons character in both of the Grumpy Old Men comedies and that same year, she played Nancy Archer in the HBO remake Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman. In 1995, Hannah was chosen by Empire magazine as No.96 of the 100 Sexiest Stars in Film History and that year she appeared as homicidal sociopath Leann Netherwood in The Tie That Binds. She also starred in the 1998 direct-to-video film Addams Family Reunion playing Morticia Addams, of her recent roles, the most memorable may be that of the one-eyed assassin, Elle Driver, in Kill Bill, directed by Quentin Tarantino
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Splash (film)
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The film involves a young man who falls in love with a mysterious woman who is secretly a mermaid. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, the original music score was composed by Lee Holdridge. Splash had received a PG-rating for including some profanity and brief nudity, in 1964, 8-year-old Allen Bauer is vacationing with his family near Cape Cod. While taking a tour on a small boat, he sees something below the ocean surface that fascinates him. Allen jumps into the water, even though he cannot swim and he grasps the hands of a girl who is inexplicably under the water with him and an instant connection forms between the two. Allen can now breathe under water as he is in the hands of a mermaid, however, Allen is pulled to the surface by the deck hands and the two are separated, though apparently no one else sees the girl. Years later, Allen is now co-owner of a wholesale fruit, depressed after his latest breakup, Allen returns to Cape Cod, where he encounters eccentric scientist Dr. Walter Kornbluth. After Allen is left alone when his motorboat conks out, he falls into the sea, and is knocked out when the boat hits his head. He wakes up with a headache on a beach, where he encounters a beautiful naked woman with blonde hair. After kissing him, she dives into the sea and leaves Allen to return home, Kornbluth, while diving in order to seek proof of strange sea creatures, also encounters the mermaid in her sea form, causing him to become obsessed with finding her again. The mermaid finds Allens wallet in the water and goes to a boat where she finds a map. Using Allens wallet to find where he is from, she decides to find him in New York. She comes ashore naked at the Statue of Liberty, where she is arrested for indecent exposure, using information from Allens wallet, the police contact Allen, and the mysterious girl gets released into his care. She learns how to speak English from watching television, and is eager to see a big city for the first time in her life, unable to say her real name in human language, she selects Madison from a Madison Avenue sign. She tells Allen that she will be in New York for six fun-filled days when the moon is full, despite Madisons occasional unusual behavior, she and Allen fall in love. Allen proposes to Madison, but she declines and runs away, meanwhile, Kornbluth, realizing that the naked woman at Liberty Island was the mermaid he had encountered, pursues the couple trying to expose her as a mermaid by splashing her with water. Many attempts are unsuccessful, and Kornbluth ends up with injuries including a badly broken arm. Kornbluth finally lies in wait with water tanks at the dinner, splashing Madison with an attached hose
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Elizabeth McGovern
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Elizabeth Lee McGovern is an American film, television, and theater actor, and musician. She received an Academy Award nomination for her role as Evelyn Nesbit in the 1981 film Ragtime. She is also known for her performance as Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham in the British drama series Downton Abbey, for which she has been nominated for an Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award. The McGovern family moved to Los Angeles, where her father accepted a position with the law school at UCLA. Her younger sister is the novelist Cammie McGovern, agent Joan Scott saw her performance in The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder, was impressed by her talent, and recommended she take acting lessons. McGovern studied at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, then at The Juilliard School in New York City. In 1980, while studying at Juilliard, McGovern was offered a part in what became her first film, Ordinary People, in which she played the girlfriend of troubled teenager Conrad Jarrett. The following year she completed her education at the American Conservatory Theatre and Juilliard. In 1981 she earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Evelyn Nesbit in the film Ragtime, in 1984, she starred in Sergio Leones gangster epic Once Upon a Time in America as Robert De Niros romantic interest Deborah Gelly. She teamed with Michael Caine in 1990s A Shock to the System, in a 1994 comedy, The Favor, McGovern played a woman who cheats on her boyfriend by becoming her married best friends proxy in a tryst with a man the friend has fantasized about. McGovern appeared in a number of films in the 2000s, including Woman in Gold, McGovern has appeared in several television productions, mostly in the UK. In 1999 and 2000 McGovern played Marguerite St, just in a BBC television series loosely based on the novel The Scarlet Pimpernel. On American TV, she appeared in a 2006 episode of Law & Order, Special Victims Unit titled Harm, in which her character of Dr. Faith Sutton was a psychiatrist accused of complicity in detainee abuse. In May 2007, she played Ellen Doubleday, Daphne du Mauriers paramour, in Daphne, in December 2008, McGovern appeared as Dame Celia Westholme in Appointment with Death, an episode of Agatha Christies Poirot. In the same year, she appeared in the three-part BBC comedy series Freezing, written by James Wood, first broadcast on BBC Four, it was also shown on BBC2 in February 2008. McGovern played an American expatriate actress named Elizabeth, living in Chiswick with her husband, played by Hugh Bonneville. From 2010 to 2015, she portrayed Cora, Countess of Grantham, wife of Robert, in 2008 she began fronting the band Sadie and the Hotheads at The Castle pub venue in Portobello Road, London. The band released an album of songs she developed with The Nelson Brothers, the album also includes Ron Knights on bass and Rowan Oliver, borrowed from Goldfrapp, as drummer for the recording sessions
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Once Upon a Time in America
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Once Upon a Time in America is a 1984 Italian-American epic crime drama film co-written and directed by Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone and starring Robert De Niro and James Woods. Based on Harry Greys novel The Hoods, it chronicles the lives of Jewish ghetto youths who rise to prominence in New York Citys world of organized crime. The film explores themes of friendships, love, lust, greed, betrayal, loss, broken relationships. It was the film of Leones career and the first feature film he had directed in 13 years. The cinematography was by Tonino Delli Colli, and the score by Ennio Morricone. Leone originally envisaged two three-hour films, then a single 269-minute version, but was convinced by distributors to shorten it to 229 minutes, the American distributors, The Ladd Company, further shortened it to 139 minutes, and rearranged the scenes into chronological order, without Leones involvement. The shortened version was a critical and commercial flop in the United States, the original European cut has remained a critical favorite and frequently appears in lists of the greatest gangster films of all time. The film is presented in order, from 1920 to 1968. The specific scenes and their order vary from version to version, the following description is that of the films full European cut. The film begins in medias res with gangsters entering an Indonesian puppet theater, the proprietors slip into a hidden opium den and warn a man named Noodles, but he pays no attention. In a flashback, he watches the police remove three disfigured corpses from a street and he successfully kills one of the three thugs that are after him but learns that the thugs have murdered his girlfriend while looking for him and finds that someone else has stolen his money. David Noodles Aaronson struggles as a kid in the Jewish ghetto on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 1920. He and his friends Patrick Patsy Goldberg, Phillip Cockeye Stein, planning to rob a drunk at the moment a passing truck hides them from a policeman, theyre foiled by the older Max Bercovicz, who jumps off of the truck to rob the man himself. Noodles confronts Max but a crooked policeman steals the watch they were fighting over, the boys establish a suitcase money fund, which they hide in a locker at the railway station, giving the key to Fat Moe, a reliable friend whos not part of the operation. Noodles is in love with Fat Moes sister Deborah, who aspires to be a dancer, one day, Bugsy ambushes the boys and shoots little Dominic, who dies in Noodles arms, who then stabs Bugsy to death and injures a police officer who tried to intervene. Noodles is arrested, and sentenced to 12 years in prison, an adult Noodles is released from jail in 1932 and is reacquainted with his old gang, Max, Patsy, and Cockeye, who are now major players in the bootlegging industry during Prohibition. Noodles reunites with Deborah and tries to rekindle their relationship, meanwhile, during a robbery, the gang meets Carol who soon becomes Maxs girlfriend. The gang prospers from bootlegging under Prohibition, and providing muscle for union boss Jimmy Conway ODonnell, Noodles tries to impress Deborah on an extravagant date, and rapes her on their way home in a limousine, after which he becomes remorseful
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Melanie Griffith
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Melanie Richards Griffith is an American actress. Griffith began her career as an adolescent in nonspeaking film roles before making her debut opposite Gene Hackman in Arthur Penns Night Moves. She rose to prominence for her role in Brian De Palmas Body Double, other roles include in John Schlesingers Pacific Heights, Milk Money, the neo-noir film Mulholland Falls, as Charlotte Haze in Adrian Lynes Lolita, and Another Day in Paradise. She later starred as Barbara Marx in The Night We Called It a Day, and has appeared on the television series Nip/Tuck, Raising Hope, and Hawaii Five-0. After acting on stage in London, in 2003 she made her Broadway debut in a revival of the musical Chicago, Griffith was born in New York City to actress Tippi Hedren and Peter Griffith, a former child stage actor and advertising executive. She is of Swedish, Norwegian, German, and English descent and her mother married agent and producer Noel Marshall. During her childhood and adolescent years, she lived part of the time in New York with her father and part-time in Antelope Valley, California, Griffith appeared in advertisements and briefly worked as a child model before abandoning the career, citing extreme shyness as the reason. While attending the Hollywood Professional School, Griffith was advanced in her studies, Griffith began acting at nine months of age in a commercial and later appeared as an extra in Smith. Her first major role was in Arthur Penns Night Moves, in which she did several racy nude scenes at the age of 17 and this drew attention to her and typecast her as a nymphet in films such as Smile, The Drowning Pool, and One on One. She was cast as Melanie, the daughter of her real mother, Tippi Hedren, in the film Roar. During the filming she was attacked by a lion and had 50 stitches to her face, it was feared she would lose an eye but in the end the wound was not disfiguring. She then appeared in the made-for-television movie Shes in the Army Now with Jamie Lee Curtis and Steven Bauer, whom she married shortly after the film premiered. Griffiths well-known drug and alcohol addictions stalled her career, but she made a comeback at age 26 with her role as an actress in the Brian De Palma thriller Body Double. The film, although a failure, earned her the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress. It led to her first starring role in Jonathan Demmes Something Wild, Griffith also starred in the science fiction film Cherry 2000, which went straight to video in 1988 but has also become a cult favorite. Griffiths performance was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress, Griffiths next major role was opposite Matthew Modine in the urban thriller Pacific Heights. Griffith received a Golden Globe nomination for her performance in the successful TV movie Buffalo Girls, in 1998 she appeared in Woody Allens Celebrity which featured an all-star cast. Later that year, she starred as a heroin user in the independent film Another Day in Paradise
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Michelle Pfeiffer
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Michelle Marie Pfeiffer is an American actress, singer and producer. She began her career in 1978 and had her first starring film role in Grease 2. Her greatest commercial successes include Batman Returns, Dangerous Minds, What Lies Beneath and she received a third Oscar nomination for Love Field. Her other notable roles include The Witches of Eastwick, Married to the Mob, Frankie and Johnny, The Age of Innocence, Wolf. Pfeiffer was born in Santa Ana, California, the second of four children of Richard Pfeiffer, a contractor, and Donna. She has one brother, Rick, and two younger sisters, Dedee Pfeiffer, a television and film actress, and Lori Pfeiffer. Her parents were originally from North Dakota. The family moved to Midway City, where Pfeiffer spent her childhood and she attended Fountain Valley High School, graduating in 1976. She worked as a girl at Vons supermarket, and attended Golden West College where she was a member of Alpha Delta Pi sorority. After a short stint training to be a stenographer, she decided upon an acting career. She won the Miss Orange County beauty pageant in 1978, and participated in Miss California the same year, following her participation in these pageants, she acquired an acting agent and began to audition for television and films. Pfeiffers early acting appearances included roles in Fantasy Island, Delta House. In the meantime, I was playing bimbos and cashing in on my looks and she then landed her first major film role as Stephanie Zinone in Grease 2, the sequel to the smash-hit musical Grease. The film was a critical and commercial failure, and Pfeiffers single release of Cool Rider from the soundtrack on PolyGram failed to dent the music charts. Despite escaping the critical mauling, Pfeiffers agent later admitted that her association with the film meant that she couldnt get any jobs. Director Brian De Palma, having seen Grease 2, refused to audition Pfeiffer for Scarface, but relented at the insistence of Martin Bregman and she was cast as cocaine-addicted trophy wife Elvira Hancock. The film was considered violent by most critics, but became a commercial hit. Pfeiffer received positive reviews for her turn, Richard Corliss of Time Magazine wrote, most of the large cast is fine
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Jamie Lee Curtis
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Jamie Lee Curtis, Lady Haden-Guest is an American actress and author. She made her debut in 1978 by starring as Laurie Strode in John Carpenters Halloween. Curtis other notable films include Blue Steel and Freaky Friday, for which she received her third Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress - Musical or Comedy. For her role in the television series Anything But Love, Curtis received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy. Curtis received her first Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie for her performance in the television film, Curtis currently stars in the comedy horror series Scream Queens on FOX. Curtis is the daughter of the actress Janet Leigh and actor Tony Curtis and she is married to actor, screenwriter, and director Christopher Guest, 5th Baron Haden-Guest. Her 1998 book Today I Feel Silly, and Other Moods That Make My Day made the best-seller list in The New York Times and she has appeared in advertisements and is a blogger for The Huffington Post. Curtis was born in Santa Monica, California, to actor Tony Curtis and her paternal grandparents were Hungarian Jewish immigrants and two of her maternal great-grandparents were Danish. Curtiss parents divorced in 1962, after which her mother married Robert Brandt, Curtis has an older sister, Kelly Curtis, who is also an actress, and several half-siblings, Alexandra, Allegra, Benjamin, and Nicholas Curtis. Curtis attended Westlake School in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills High School, returning to California in 1976, she attended the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. She considered majoring in social work, but quit after one semester to pursue an acting career, curtiss film debut occurred in the 1978 horror film Halloween, in which she played the role of Laurie Strode. The film was a success and was considered the highest grossing independent film of its time. Curtis was subsequently cast in several films, garnering her the title. Her next film was the horror film The Fog, which was helmed by Halloween director John Carpenter, the film opened in February 1980 to mixed reviews but strong box office, starting Curtis as a horror film starlet. Her next film, Prom Night, was a low-budget Canadian slasher film released in July 1980 and that year, Curtis also starred in Terror Train, which opened in October and was met with negative reviews akin to Prom Night. Both films performed well at the box office. Curtis had a function in both films - the main character whose friends are murdered, and is practically the only protagonist to survive. Curtis later appeared in Halloween II, Halloween H20,20 Years Later and Halloween, Resurrection, as well as giving a voice role in Halloween III
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Rosanna Arquette
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Rosanna Lisa Arquette is an American actress, film director, and producer. Her other film roles include After Hours, The Big Blue, Pulp Fiction and she also directed the 2002 documentary Searching for Debra Winger, and starred from 2006 to 2007 on the ABC sitcom What About Brian. Her paternal grandfather was comedian Cliff Arquette and her mother was Jewish, from a family that emigrated from Poland and Russia. Her father, whose surname was originally Arcouet, was of part French Canadian descent. Her father was a convert from Catholicism to Islam, through him and her siblings, Patricia, Alexis, Richmond, and David, are also actors. Arquette has appeared in television and screen films. In 1982, she earned an Emmy Award nomination for the TV film The Executioners Song, Arquettes first starring role was in John Sayless 1983 film, Baby Its You, a highly regarded but little seen film. She starred in Desperately Seeking Susan alongside pop singer Madonna, for which she won a British Academy Film Awards for her supporting role despite her clearly being the lead. Madonna was breaking out at the time and though many feel that while Arquettes performance was central to the movies success and she had negotiated a deal where she would provide a song for the movie. Into The Groove became a hit for Madonna as did the movie itself. In an interview at the time, Arquette said The two questions I hate the most are What was it like working with Madonna. and Are you the Rosanna in the song Rosanna, in 1989, director Martin Scorsese offered her a part in New York Stories. Other movies of note are Pulp Fiction and the David Cronenberg film, Crash, in 1990, Arquette appeared on the cover and in a nude pictorial in Playboys September issue, although she claimed it was without her prior knowledge or consent. In recent years, Arquette has expanded into directing, including the documentaries Searching for Debra Winger and All We Are Saying, Arquette appeared in the short running What About Brian as Nicole Varsi and on Showtimes The L Word as Cherie Jaffe. She also guest starred on Malcolm in the Middle as a healer named Anita who takes Malcolms virginity, bryan Cranston, one of her former co-stars from Amazon Women on the Moon, also played Malcolms dad Hal. In 2009, she joined Fit Parent Magazine, founded by Craig Knight, Arquette stars in the French thriller The Divide, directed by Xavier Gens. In August 2013, Arquette married her husband, investment banker Todd Morgan. Her previous marriages, to director Tony Greco, film composer James Newton Howard and she has one daughter, Zoe Bleu, with Sidel. Rosanna Arquette at the Internet Movie Database Rosanna Arquette at AllMovie 1M1 Records Rosanna Arquette is Wendy Cracked a Walnut
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Meg Tilly
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Meg Tilly is a Canadian-American actress and novelist. For her role in the 1985 film Agnes of God, she won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and her other film roles include Psycho II, The Big Chill, Masquerade, and Valmont. For her role in the television series Bomb Girls, she won the 2013 Canadian Screen Award for Best Lead Actress in a Drama Series, Tilly has also written six novels, including Porcupine, which was a finalist for the Sheila A. Egoff Childrens Literature Prize. She is the sister of actress Jennifer Tilly. Tilly was born in Long Beach, California, the daughter of Patricia Ann, a Canadian teacher and her father was Cantonese American, and her mother was of Irish, Finnish descent. Following her parents divorce when she was three, Tilly was raised by her mother and stepfather, John Ward, on rural Texada Island in British Columbia and she later claimed that Ward was a violent pedophile. At the age of 12, Tilly started taking lessons, in part to avoid her stepfather. After graduating from Esquimalt High School in Esquimalt, British Columbia, Tilly left home, in New York City she studied with Madame Darvash and Melissa Hayden on full scholarship. She joined the Connecticut Ballet Company and she made her screen debut as a dancer in Alan Parkers 1980 musical drama Fame. Tillys dance career came to a halt when, in 1979. Forced to give up dancing because of complications stemming from her injury, Tilly moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career as an actress. She made her debut in the 1981 half-hour drama The Trouble with Grandpa, co-starring Elisha Cook. After playing a prostitute in a episode of Hill Street Blues. Tillys appearance in The Big Chill, which was nominated for three Academy Awards, including Best Picture, helped her career significantly, in 1985, Tilly landed the acclaimed, title role in Norman Jewisons Agnes of God, appearing with Jane Fonda and Anne Bancroft. Playing the role of a nun who confesses her involvement in a virgin conception. Tillys critically praised performance earned her an Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe Award, however, she sustained a leg injury playing soccer and had to abandon the project. The role later went to Elizabeth Berridge, Tilly later appeared in Valmont, The Two Jakes with Jack Nicholson and Leaving Normal with Christine Lahti, as well as the 1993 horror film, Body Snatchers. After this, she stopped acting for the next 15 years, Tilly returned to acting in 2010, portraying the Blessed Mother, a Pope-like figure in the Caprica episode Unvanquished
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus
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Julia Scarlett Elizabeth Louis-Dreyfus is an American actress, comedian, and producer. She is known for her work in comedy, including Saturday Night Live, Seinfeld, The New Adventures of Old Christine. Louis-Dreyfus holds several records for most Primetime Emmy Award wins and nominations, Louis-Dreyfus broke into comedy as a performer in The Practical Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois, which led to her casting in the sketch show Saturday Night Live from 1982 to 1985. Her breakthrough came in 1990 with a run playing Elaine Benes on Seinfeld. Louis-Dreyfus film roles have included Hannah and Her Sisters, National Lampoons Christmas Vacation, Deconstructing Harry and she has voiced roles in several animated films, including A Bugs Life and Planes. Louis-Dreyfus has received nine Emmy Awards, seven for acting and two for producing, with a total of 22 nominations throughout her career and she has also received a Golden Globe Award, seven Screen Actors Guild Awards, five American Comedy Awards, and two Critics Choice Television Awards. Louis-Dreyfus received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2010, in 2016, Time named Louis-Dreyfus one of the 100 most influential people in the world on the annual Time 100 list. Louis-Dreyfus was born in New York City and her American-born mother, Judith, was a writer and special needs tutor, and her French-born father, Gérard Louis-Dreyfus, chaired Louis Dreyfus Energy Services. Her paternal grandfather, Pierre Louis-Dreyfus, was president of the Louis Dreyfus Group, Pierre was from an Alsatian Jewish family, he remained in France during World War II, fighting as a cavalry officer and later in the French Resistance. Her paternal grandmother was born in America, to parents from Brazil and Mexico, during the 1940s, in 1962, one year after Louis-Dreyfuss birth, her parents divorced. After relocating to Washington, D. C. when Julia was eight, her mother married L. Thompson Bowles, during her childhood, her mother occasionally took her to Unitarian church services. Louis-Dreyfus spent her childhood in several states and countries, in connection with her stepfathers work with Project HOPE, including Vietnam, Colombia and she graduated from the Holton-Arms School in Bethesda, Maryland in 1979, and attended Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. There, she was a member of the Delta Gamma sorority, as part of her comedic training, Louis-Dreyfus appeared in The Second City, one of Chicagos best-known improvisation theatre groups. It was her performance with The Practical Theatre Company at their Golden 50th Anniversary Jubilee that led to her being asked to join the cast of NBCs Saturday Night Live at the age of 21. Louis-Dreyfus was subsequently made into a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1982 to 1985, during her time on SNL, she appeared alongside several actors who would later rise to prominence, such as Eddie Murphy, Jim Belushi, Billy Crystal, and Martin Short. It was during her third and final year on SNL that she met writer Larry David during his year on the show. In 1988, she was cast in the NBC sitcom Day by Day, in the early-1990s Louis-Dreyfus became famous for the role of Elaine Benes on NBCs Seinfeld. She played the role for nine seasons, appearing in all, one of the episodes that she did not appear in was the inaugural pilot episode, The Seinfeld Chronicles, because her character was not initially intended to be a part of the series
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Heather Locklear
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Heather Deen Locklear is an American actress. She is known for her role as Amanda Woodward on Melrose Place and her other notable television roles include Sammy Jo Carrington on Dynasty, Officer Stacy Sheridan on T. J. Hooker, and Caitlin Moore on Spin City, for which she earned a further two Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy. She had a role on the TV Land sitcom Hot in Cleveland. Locklear was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Diane, an executive, and William Locklear. Locklear attended UCLA, and pledged Chi Omega and Delta Delta Delta, while at UCLA, she began modeling and working in commercials for the school store. She made her earliest screen appearances in the early 1980s with small roles in episodes of CHiPs, 240-Robert, and Eight Is Enough, before beginning a long-term collaboration with Aaron Spelling. Spelling cast her in the role of Sammy Jo Dean during the season of his TV series Dynasty. Until the mid-1980s, Locklear appeared as a regular on T. J. Hooker, while making appearances on Dynasty. Hooker in 1985, she became a full-time cast member on Dynasty until its cancellation in 1989, in 1991, the cast of Dynasty reconvened for the four-hour mini-series Dynasty, The Reunion. Following Dynasty, Locklear had a role in the movie The Return of Swamp Thing. In 1993, she began playing what would be another of her best known roles, that of Amanda Woodward on Aaron Spellings drama series Melrose Place, Spelling originally signed Locklear for a limited four-episode run, the first of which aired on January 27,1993. Locklear became a full-time cast member until its cancellation in 1999, throughout her career, Locklear has appeared in eight television productions made by Aaron Spelling, these being Dynasty, T. J. Hooker, Matt Houston, Fantasy Island, The Love Boat, Hotel, Melrose Place, Locklear was the guest host on Saturday Night Live on May 14,1994. Locklear also made a cameo in Waynes World 2 in 1993, in 1996, she appeared as the main guest on Muppets Tonight, performing in a muppet-style spoof of Melrose entitled Muppet Heights. Locklear was featured on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine on May 19,1994 and she was named one of People Magazines 50 Most Beautiful People twice, first in 1994, and again in 2001. She was also the subject of a Lifetime Intimate Portrait special, after Melrose Place ended in 1999, Locklear was cast in the sitcom Spin City
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Meg Ryan
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Meg Ryan is an American actress, director, and producer. Ryan began her career in 1981 in minor roles, before joining the cast of the CBS soap opera As the World Turns in 1982. Brought her widespread attention and her first Golden Globe nomination and her other films include The Doors, When a Man Loves a Woman, Courage Under Fire, Addicted to Love, City of Angels, Proof of Life, and The Women. In 2015, she made her debut with Ithaca, a film in which she also acted. Ryan was born and raised in Fairfield, Connecticut, the daughter of Susan Jordan, an actress and English teacher, and Harry Hyra. She is of German, Irish, and Polish descent and she was raised Roman Catholic and attended St. Pius X Elementary School in Fairfield. She has two sisters, Dana and Annie, and a brother, musician Andrew Hyra, a member of the band Billy Pilgrim and her parents divorced in 1976 when she was 15 years old. Ryan graduated from Bethel High School in 1979 and she went on to study journalism as an undergraduate, first at the University of Connecticut and then at New York University. During college, she acted in commercials and the soap opera As the World Turns to earn extra money. Due to her success as an actress, she dropped out of college a semester before she would have graduated, when she joined the Screen Actors Guild, she used the surname Ryan, her grandmothers maiden name. Around that same time, she appeared in a Burger King commercial, in 1986, she played Carole Bradshaw, the wife of Naval Flight Officer Nick Goose Bradshaw in Top Gun. Ryan appeared in the film Innerspace with her future husband Dennis Quaid and her first leading role was the romantic comedy film When Harry Met Sally. Which paired her with leading man Billy Crystal and earned her a Golden Globe nomination. Ryan next starred in The Doors, which was successful, and Prelude to a Kiss. The year 1993 saw the release of the successful romantic comedy Sleepless in Seattle. They had previously been paired as romantic leads in the film Joe Versus the Volcano—a commercial disappointment which later developed a cult following, Hanks and Ryan would be paired for a third time in the film Youve Got Mail. In 1994, Ryan took a role that differed from the romantic-comedy ingenue character for which she had become famous, in Luis Mandokis When a Man Loves a Woman, a romantic social drama film also starring Andy Garcia, she played an alcoholic high-school guidance counselor. The film and her performance were well received by critics
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Jennifer Jason Leigh
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Jennifer Jason Leigh is an American actress and producer. Leigh began her career as a teenager in the 1970s, guest-starring on several television shows and her film breakthrough came in 1982 for her performance as Stacy Hamilton in Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Leigh continued performing past her teen years, receiving praise for her roles in the 1990 films Miami Blues. In 1991, she appeared in Ron Howards Backdraft, and in 1992 she acted in the drama-thriller Single White Female. In 1993, Leigh appeared in the ensemble film Short Cuts, directed by Robert Altman and, in 1994, Leigh was nominated for a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Dorothy Parker in Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle. She starred in a 1995 film written by her mother, screenwriter Barbara Turner, in 2001, she co-directed a film with Alan Cumming titled The Anniversary Party. In 2002, Leigh appeared in the crime-drama Road to Perdition, in 2007, she starred in Margot at the Wedding, which was directed by her then-husband, Noah Baumbach. She had a role on the Showtime television series Weeds as Jill Price-Gray. For her stage work, Leigh was nominated for a Drama Desk award for her Off-Broadway performance as Beverly Moss in Mike Leighs Abigails Party, Leighs Broadway debut occurred in 1998 when she became the replacement for the role of Sally Bowles in Cabaret. Leigh was born in Hollywood, California and her father, Vic Morrow, was an actor, and her mother, Barbara Turner, was a screenwriter. Her parents divorced when she was two, Leighs birth name was Jennifer Leigh Morrow. She changed her surname early in her career, taking the middle name Jason in honor of actor Jason Robards. Leigh has a sister, Carrie Ann Morrow, who was credited as a technical advisor on her 1995 film Georgia. Leigh also has a half-sister, actress Mina Badie, Badie acted alongside Leigh in The Anniversary Party. Director Reza Badiyi became Leighs stepfather when he married Leighs mother, Leigh worked in her first film at the age of nine. It was a role for the film Death of a Stranger. At 14, Leigh attended acting workshops, taught by the esteemed Lee Strasberg, at the Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Center in Loch Sheldrake, afterwards, she landed a role in the movie The Young Runaways. She also appeared in an episode of Baretta and an episode of The Waltons, several TV movies followed, including a portrayal of an anorexic teenager in The Best Little Girl in the World, for which Leigh dropped to 86 pounds under medical supervision
