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Waxahachie, Texas
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Waxahachie is the county seat of Ellis County, Texas, United States, and lies just beyond the southern suburbs of Dallas. The population was 29,621 at the 2010 census, with a population of 32,344 in 2014. Some sources state that the name means cow or buffalo in an unspecified Native American language, in the Alabama language, waakasi hachi means calfs tail. That there is a Waxahatchee Creek near present-day Shelby, Alabama, suggests that Waxahachie, Texas, many place names in Texas and Oklahoma have their origins in the Southeastern United States, largely due to migration and/or forced removal of various southeastern Indian tribes. The area in central Alabama that includes Waxahatchee Creek was for hundreds of years the home of the Upper Creek moiety of the Muscogee Creek Nation, again, this would suggest a Muscogee Creek language origin of Waxahachie. Waxahachie therefore may be an anglicized pronunciation of the Muscogee compound word Wakvhvce from the Muscogee words Wakv and the Muscogee word Hvce. A second etymology that has been suggested for the name is insisted on by speakers of Wichita, Wichita people claim the name comes from their word waksahe, tsi. From 1902 to 1942, Waxahachie was the home of Trinity University and its present-day location is San Antonio. The town is the namesake of the former United States Naval Ship Waxahachie.1 miles, seventeen shafts were sunk and 14.6 miles of tunnel were bored before the project was canceled by Congress in 1993. The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers, according to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Waxahachie has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated Cfa on climate maps. As of the census of 2000, there were 21,426 people,7,325 households, the population density was 536.1 people per square mile. There were 7,909 housing units at a density of 197.9 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 70. 45% White,17. 10% African American,0. 76% Native American,0. 40% Asian,9. 33% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 19. 74% of the population. The total estimated population as of June 2014 was 32,287,21. 9% of all households were made up of individuals and 9. 3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.73 and the family size was 3.18. In the city, the population was out with 26. 9% under the age of 18,13. 3% from 18 to 24,28. 0% from 25 to 44,19. 4% from 45 to 64. The median age was 32 years, for every 100 females there were 93.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 90.3 males, the median income for a household in the city was $43,213, and the median income for a family was $50,048
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Marilu Henner
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Mary Lucy Denise Marilu Henner is an American actress, producer, radio host, and author. She is best known for her role as Elaine OConnor Nardo on the sitcom Taxi from 1978 to 1983. Henner was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Loretta Callis, who died of arthritis at age 58 and Joseph Henner and her maternal grandparents were Greek and her paternal grandparents were Polish. Henner was raised on the northwest side of Chicago in the Logan Square neighborhood and she is the third of six children. Her mother was president of the National Association of Dance and Affiliated Arts, while a student at the University of Chicago in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, Henner originated the role of Marty in the Kingston Mines production of Grease in 1971. Additional Broadway credits for Henner include Over Here, with Travolta, revivals of Pal Joey, Chicago, Social Security, and The Tale of the Allergists Wife. Her first film appearance was in the 1977 sleeper-hit Between the Lines, co-starring then-unknowns Jeff Goldblum, Lindsay Crouse, John Heard and her second role was opposite Richard Gere in the 1978 film Bloodbrothers. Henner came to prominence with the role of Elaine Nardo in the situation comedy Taxi and she was the leading lady in the 1982 film Hammett directed by Wim Wenders, produced by Francis Ford Coppola and starring her first husband Frederic Forrest. In 1983, Henner starred opposite Burt Reynolds in The Man Who Loved Women, Reynolds then asked Henner to join the cast of Cannonball Run II later that year along with Shirley MacLaine and Dom DeLuise. She was the lady in the 1984 film Johnny Dangerously. In 1985 she once again appeared alongside John Travolta in Perfect, in 1991 she appeared opposite Steve Martin in L. A. Story as Trudi, a role for which she received a nomination for an American Comedy Award as the Funniest Supporting Female in a Motion Picture. From 1990 through 1994, she appeared opposite Burt Reynolds in the situation comedy Evening Shade and she also appeared in Noises Off and in Man on the Moon, a film about her Taxi co-star Andy Kaufman. Henner guested on Match Game and Hollywood Squares, in 1994, she hosted her own daytime talk show, Marilu, for 165 episodes. Henner starred as the mother of the bride in the Brooks & Dunn video You Cant Take the Honky Tonk Out of the Girl in 2003. In 2006 and 2007, Henner was the host of the television series Americas Ballroom Challenge and she later hosted FitTV and The Discovery Channels Shape Up Your Life, which is based on her books. Henner was a contestant on NBCs first The Celebrity Apprentice, in 2008 and she was fired by Donald Trump in the eighth episode, but was brought back to help fellow contestant Trace Adkins in the final task of the show. Henner, who has highly superior autobiographical memory, was a consultant for the CBS drama Unforgettable, which starred Poppy Montgomery as Carrie Wells, a woman with the same ability. She leads monthly classes on her website, www. marilu. com, designed to help people integrate these steps into a healthier, both of her parents died in their 50s, which prompted her to lead a healthier lifestyle
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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
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The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It is given in honor of an actor who has delivered a performance in a supporting role while working within the film industry. At the 9th Academy Awards ceremony held in 1937, Walter Brennan was the first winner of award for his role in Come. Initially, winners in both supporting acting categories were awarded instead of statuettes. Beginning with the 16th ceremony held in 1944, however, winners received full-sized statuettes, currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the actors branch of AMPAS, winners are selected by a plurality vote from the entire eligible voting members of the Academy. Since its inception, the award has given to 72 actors. Brennan has received the most awards in this category with three awards, Brennan, Jeff Bridges, Robert Duvall, Arthur Kennedy, Jack Nicholson, and Claude Rains were nominated on four occasions, more than any other actor. As of the 2017 ceremony, Mahershala Ali is the most recent winner in category for his role as Juan in Moonlight. In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of release in Los Angeles County. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, University of Toronto Press, ISBN 978-1-55002-574-3. org The Academy Awards Database Oscar. com Complete Downloadable List of Academy Award Nominees
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The Rose (film)
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The film stars Bette Midler, Alan Bates, Frederic Forrest, Harry Dean Stanton, Barry Primus and David Keith. The story is based on the life of singer Janis Joplin. Originally titled Pearl, after Joplins nickname, and the title of her last album and it was written by Bill Kerby and Bo Goldman from a story by Bill Kerby, and directed by Mark Rydell. The Rose was nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Actress in a Leading Role, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Film Editing, Midler performed the soundtrack album for the film, and the title track became one of her biggest hit singles. In late 1969, Mary Rose Foster is a famous rock, although a success, she is burnt out and lonely but is kept working by her gruff, greedy manager and promoter Rudge Campbell. Though loud and brassy, Rose is an alcoholic and former drug user who seems to crave approval in her life. As such, she is determined to return to her hometown, after being humiliated by a country singing star named Billy Ray whose songs she performs in her show, Rose takes off with a limousine driver named Huston Dyer and begins a romance with him. Rudge thinks Huston is just another hanger on, but Rose thinks she has met her true love. Huston tells her that he is actually an AWOL sergeant from the Army and they have a rocky relationship and her lifestyle of Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll and constant touring lead her to an inevitable breakdown. Huston and Rose break up and she returns to her hometown with an escort where she tells him about her past, finally, Rose collapses on stage from a fatal drug overdose in the opening minutes of her long-awaited homecoming concert in Jacksonville, Florida. At one point, Michael Cimino was also slated to direct, the Rose has an 86% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 14 reviews. The film earned North American rentals of $19.1 million.100 Songs, The Rose – #83 The Criterion Collection released the film on Blu-ray, the Rose The Rose at the Internet Movie Database The Rose at AllMovie The Rose at Rotten Tomatoes
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Apocalypse Now
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Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film directed, produced and co-written by Francis Ford Coppola and co-written by John Milius with narration by Michael Herr. It stars Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall, Sam Bottoms, Larry Fishburne, the screenplay written by Milius updates the setting of Joseph Conrads novella Heart of Darkness to that of the Vietnam War. It draws from Herrs Dispatches, and Werner Herzogs Aguirre, the Wrath of God, the film revolves around Captain Benjamin L. Willard on a secret mission to assassinate Colonel Kurtz, a renegade who is presumed insane. The film has been noted for the problems encountered while making it, chronicled in the documentary Hearts of Darkness, problems continued after production as the release was postponed several times while Coppola edited thousands of feet of film. Apocalypse Now was released to universal acclaim and it was honored with the Palme dOr at Cannes, nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama. It is considered to be one of the greatest films ever made, the film was ranked No.14 in the British Film Institutes Sight and Sound greatest films poll in 2012. In 2000, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally, historically or aesthetically significant. During the Vietnam War in 1969, Army Special Forces Colonel Walter E. Kurtz has gone insane and now commands his own Montagnard troops, inside neutral Cambodia, as a demi-god. Willard, initially ambivalent, joins a Navy PBR commanded by Chief, with crewmen Lance, Chef and they rendezvous with surfing enthusiast Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore, 1st Cavalry commander, to discuss going up the Nùng. Kilgore scoffs, but befriends Lance after discovering his surfing experience and they successfully raid at dawn, with Kilgore ordering a napalm sortie on the local cadres. Willard gathers his men to the PBR and journeys upriver, tension arises as Willard believes himself in command of the PBR while Chief prioritizes other objectives over Willards. Slowly making their way upriver, Willard reveals his mission partially to the Chief to assuage his concerns about why his mission should precede, as night falls, the PBR reaches the American Do Lung Bridge outpost on the Nùng River. Willard and Lance enter seeking information for what is upriver, unable to find the commander, Willard orders the Chief to continue as an unseen enemy launches a strike on the bridge. The next day, Willard learns from dispatch that another SOG operative, Captain Colby, meanwhile, as the crew read letters from home, Lance activates a smoke grenade, attracting the attention of a camouflaged enemy, and Mr. Clean is killed. Further upriver, Chief is impaled by a spear thrown by the natives, Willard suffocates him and Lance buries Chief in the river. Willard reveals his mission to Chef but despite his anger towards the mission, he rejects Willards offer for him to continue alone, the PBR arrives at Kurtzs outpost and the surviving crew are met by an American freelance photojournalist, who manically praises Kurtzs genius. As they wander through they come across a near-catatonic Colby, along with other US servicemen now in Kurtzs renegade army. Returning to the PBR, Willard later takes Lance with him, Chef is later killed by Kurtz
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Falling Down
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Falling Down is a 1993 thriller film directed by Joel Schumacher and written by Ebbe Roe Smith. The film stars Michael Douglas in the role of William Foster. The film centers on Foster as he treks on foot across the city of Los Angeles, trying to reach the house of his estranged ex-wife in time for his daughters birthday party. Along the way, a series of encounters, both trivial and provocative, cause him to react with increasing violence and make observations on life, poverty, the economy. Robert Duvall co-stars as Martin Prendergast, an aging LAPD Sergeant on the day of his retirement, William Foster is recently divorced, and his ex-wife Beth has a restraining order to keep him away from her and their child, Adele. In addition, he was laid off from his job. His frustration grows when his air conditioning fails while he is stuck in traffic and he abandons his car and begins walking across L. A. to attend Adele’s birthday party. At a convenience store, the Korean owner refuses to change for a telephone call. Foster begins ranting about the high prices, the owner grabs a baseball bat and demands Foster leave. Foster takes the bat and destroys much of the merchandise before paying for a soda, shortly thereafter, while resting on a hill, he is accosted by two gang members who threaten him with a knife and demand his briefcase. Foster attacks them with the bat and picks up the knife when they flee, the two gang members, now in a car with friends, cruise the streets and find Foster in a phone booth. They open fire, hitting several bystanders but not Foster, the driver loses control and crashes. Foster picks up a gun, shoots the one surviving member in the leg. Foster encounters a panhandler and gives him the briefcase, which contains his lunch. At a fast food restaurant, Foster attempts to order breakfast, after an argument with the manager, Foster pulls a gun and accidentally fires into the ceiling. After trying to reassure the frightened employees and customers, he orders lunch and he leaves, tries to call Beth from a phone booth, then shoots the booth to pieces after being hassled by someone who was waiting to use the phone. Sergeant Prendergast, who is on his last day before retirement, interviews with the witnesses at each scene lead Prendergast to realize that the same person may be responsible. Fosters “D-FENS” vanity license plate proves to be an important lead, Prendergast and his partner, Detective Torres, visit Fosters mother, who is surprised to learn that Foster lost his job
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Dashiell Hammett
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Samuel Dashiell Hammett was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories, screenwriter, and political activist. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade, Nick and Nora Charles, in his obituary in The New York Times, he was described as the dean of the. Time magazine included Hammetts 1929 novel Red Harvest on its list of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005 and his novels and stories also had a significant influence on films. Hammett was born on a farm in Saint Marys County, Maryland and his parents were Richard Thomas Hammett and Anne Bond Dashiell, his mother belonged to an old Maryland family, whose name in French was De Chiel. Known as Sam, Hammett was baptized a Catholic, and grew up in Philadelphia and he left school when he was 13 years old and held several jobs before working for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency. He served as an operative for Pinkerton from 1915 to February 1922, the agencys role in union strike-breaking eventually left him disillusioned. Hammett enlisted in the Army in 1918 and served in the Motor Ambulance Corps and he was afflicted during that time with the Spanish flu and later contracted tuberculosis. He spent most of his time in the Army as a patient at Cushman Hospital in Tacoma, Washington, where he met a nurse, Josephine Dolan, Hammett and Dolan had two daughters, Mary Jane and Josephine. Shortly after the birth of their child, Health Services nurses informed Dolan that due to Hammetts TB, she. Dolan rented a home in San Francisco, California, where Hammett would visit on weekends, the marriage soon fell apart, but he continued to financially support his wife and daughters with the income he made from his writing. Hammett was first published in 1922 in the magazine The Smart Set, known for the authenticity and realism of his writing, he drew on his experiences as a Pinkerton operative. Hammett wrote most of his fiction while he was living in San Francisco in the 1920s, streets. He said that All my characters were based on people Ive known personally, Raymond Chandler, often considered Hammetts successor, summarized his accomplishments in The Simple Art of Murder, Hammett was the ace performer. He is said to have lacked heart, yet the story he himself thought the most of and he was spare, frugal, hard-boiled, but he did over and over again what only the best writers can ever do at all. He wrote scenes that seemed never to have written before. In 1929 and 1930, he was involved with Nell Martin. He dedicated The Glass Key to her, and in turn, in 1931, Hammett embarked on a 30-year affair with the playwright Lillian Hellman. Though he sporadically continued to work on material, he wrote his novel in 1934
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Hammett (film)
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Hammett is a 1982 mystery film directed by Wim Wenders and executive produced by Francis Ford Coppola. The screenplay was written by Ross Thomas and Dennis OFlaherty, based on the novel of the name by Joe Gores. It stars Frederic Forrest as detective story writer Dashiell Hammett, who caught up in a mystery very much like one of his own stories. Marilu Henner plays Hammetts neighbor, Kit Conger, and Peter Boyle plays Jimmy Ryan, the film was entered into the 1982 Cannes Film Festival. In 1928, Hammett, known to his librarian neighbor Kit and other acquaintances as Sam, is holed up in a cheap apartment and he drinks heavily, smokes too much and has coughing fits. This has subsequently led to allegations that the majority of the cut was not directed by Wenders. Wenders made a film called Reverse Angle documenting his disputes with Coppola surrounding the making of Hammett. Club review states, A Coppola or Wenders commentary track might have sorted out a bit—or at least settled an old score—but the bare-bones DVD release leaves viewers with a fascinating mess. The reviewer, though, never says what the source of his information is, however, the confusion surrounding the making of the movie would certainly explain some of the films’ oddities. In a 2015 interview, with Indiewire, Wenders claimed that he directed the entirety of the released version and he also stated that the first version was junked and is now lost. Boyle took over the role of Jimmy Ryan from Brian Keith, Keith can be seen in some long shots in the film. A number of actors from the Golden Age of Hollywood were cast in the film, including Hank Worden, Royal Dano, and Elisha Cook, Jr. Hammett at the Internet Movie Database Hammett at Rotten Tomatoes
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Citizen Cohn
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Citizen Cohn is a 1992 cable film covering the life of Joseph McCarthys controversial chief counsel Roy Cohn. James Woods, who starred as Cohn, was nominated for both an Emmy and a Golden Globe for his performance, Citizen Cohn also stars Joe Don Baker, Ed Flanders, Frederic Forrest, and Pat Hingle. It was directed by Frank Pierson, the movie was filmed on location in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is told mostly in flashback as Cohn lies dying in a Virginia hospital and it concerns aspects of Cohns life such as his closeted homosexuality and the measure of his culpability in the Red Scare of the 1950s. While the movie portrays Cohn in a decidedly unsympathetic light, it also depicts episodes in his life, such as the death of his mother, in which he showed a more tender. Angels in America Citizen Cohn at the Internet Movie Database McCarthyism and the Movies Welch-Cohn Confrontation, NY Times
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Lonesome Dove
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Lonesome Dove is a 1985 western novel written by Larry McMurtry. It is the first published book of the Lonesome Dove series, the story focuses on the relationship of several retired Texas Rangers and their adventures driving a cattle herd from Texas to Montana. F. Call, and Henry Fonda as Jake Spoon, but plans fell through when Wayne turned it down, leading Stewart to back out, and the project was eventually shelved. After the novel won the Pulitzer Prize, the idea of turning the novel into film came up again, both John Milius and John Huston each attempted to adapt the novel into a feature film before Suzanne De Passe and Bill Wittliff decided to adapt the novel as a mini-series. It was then made into the four-part TV miniseries, which won seven Emmy Awards and was nominated for twelve others. The original Lonesome Dove story had been written as a script for a 1970s film to be directed by Peter Bogdanovich and star John Wayne, James Stewart. Wayne turned down the part on John Fords advice and Stewart backed out as a result, McMurtry later purchased the screenplay back from the studio who owned it, then turned the script into a full-length novel. The novel was developed by McMurtry as a television miniseries with Tommy Lee Jones in the Wayne role, Robert Duvall in the Stewart part. James Garner had been offered the role of Augustus McCrae in the original miniseries but had to turn it down for health reasons, Garner later played Woodrow Call in the sequel, The Streets of Laredo. The basic story is an account of Charles Goodnights and Oliver Lovings cattle drive. In particular, Loving was attacked by Indians, and died weeks later of blood poisoning with Goodnight at his side. Goodnight honored Lovings dying request to be back to Texas for burial. Also living with them is the boy Newt Dobbs, a seventeen-year-old whose mother was a prostitute named Maggie, Jake Spoon, a former comrade of Calls and McCraes, shows up after an absence of more than ten years. He is a man on the run, having shot the dentist of Fort Smith in Arkansas. The dentists brother happens to be the sheriff, July Johnson, reunited with Gus and Call, Jakes breath-taking description of Montana inspires Call to gather a herd of cattle and drive them there to begin the first cattle ranch in the frontier territory. Call is attracted to the notion of settling pristine country. Gus is less enthusiastic, pointing out that they are getting old, but he changes his mind when Jake reminds him that the love of Gus life, Clara, lives on the Platte,20 miles from Ogallala, Nebraska, which is on their route to Montana. They make preparations for their adventure north, including stealing horses in Mexico, ironically, Jake Spoon decides not to go after all, being selfish and undependable and because he promises the towns only prostitute, Lorena Wood, known as Lorie, hell take her to San Francisco
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Academy Awards
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The various category winners are awarded a copy of a golden statuette, officially called the Academy Award of Merit, which has become commonly known by its nickname Oscar. The awards, first presented in 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, are overseen by AMPAS, the awards ceremony was first broadcast on radio in 1930 and televised for the first time in 1953. It is now live in more than 200 countries and can be streamed live online. The Academy Awards ceremony is the oldest worldwide entertainment awards ceremony and its equivalents – the Emmy Awards for television, the Tony Awards for theater, and the Grammy Awards for music and recording – are modeled after the Academy Awards. The 89th Academy Awards ceremony, honoring the best films of 2016, were held on February 26,2017, at the Dolby Theatre, in Los Angeles, the ceremony was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and was broadcast on ABC. A total of 3,048 Oscars have been awarded from the inception of the award through the 88th, the first Academy Awards presentation was held on May 16,1929, at a private dinner function at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel with an audience of about 270 people. The post-awards party was held at the Mayfair Hotel, the cost of guest tickets for that nights ceremony was $5. Fifteen statuettes were awarded, honoring artists, directors and other participants in the industry of the time. The ceremony ran for 15 minutes, winners were announced to media three months earlier, however, that was changed for the second ceremony in 1930. Since then, for the rest of the first decade, the results were given to newspapers for publication at 11,00 pm on the night of the awards. The first Best Actor awarded was Emil Jannings, for his performances in The Last Command and he had to return to Europe before the ceremony, so the Academy agreed to give him the prize earlier, this made him the first Academy Award winner in history. With the fourth ceremony, however, the system changed, for the first six ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned two calendar years. At the 29th ceremony, held on March 27,1957, until then, foreign-language films had been honored with the Special Achievement Award. The 74th Academy Awards, held in 2002, presented the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, since 1973, all Academy Awards ceremonies always end with the Academy Award for Best Picture. The Academy also awards Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, see also § Awards of Merit categories The best known award is the Academy Award of Merit, more popularly known as the Oscar statuette. The five spokes represent the branches of the Academy, Actors, Writers, Directors, Producers. The model for the statuette is said to be Mexican actor Emilio El Indio Fernández, sculptor George Stanley sculpted Cedric Gibbons design. The statuettes presented at the ceremonies were gold-plated solid bronze
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Francis Ford Coppola
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Francis Ford Coppola, also credited as Francis Coppola, is a semi-retired American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is considered to have been a figure of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking. After directing The Rain People, he co-wrote the 1970 film Patton and he followed with The Godfather Part II in 1974, which became the first sequel to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. The Conversation, which he directed, produced and wrote, was released same year. He next directed 1979s Apocalypse Now, while notorious for its lengthy and strenuous production, the film was widely acclaimed for its vivid and stark depiction of the Vietnam War, winning the Palme dOr at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival. Coppola is one of only eight filmmakers to win two Palme dOr awards, while a number of Coppolas ventures in the 1980s and 1990s were critically lauded, he has never quite achieved the same commercial success with films as in the 1970s. His most well-known films released since the start of the 1980s are the dramas The Outsiders and Rumble Fish, the crime-drama The Cotton Club, and his movies The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, and Apocalypse Now are often ranked among the greatest films of all time. Coppola was born in Detroit, Michigan, to father Carmine Coppola, a flautist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Coppola is the second of three children, his older brother was August Coppola, his younger sister is actress Talia Shire. Born into a family of Italian immigrant ancestry, his grandparents came to the United States from Bernalda. His maternal grandfather, popular Italian composer Francesco Pennino, immigrated from Naples, Coppola received his middle name in honor of Henry Ford, not only because he was born in the Henry Ford Hospital but also because of his musician-fathers association with the automobile manufacturer. Contracting polio as a boy, Coppola was bedridden for periods of his childhood. Reading A Streetcar Named Desire at age 15 was instrumental in developing his interest in theater, eager to be involved in film-craft, he created 8mm features edited from home movies with such titles as The Rich Millionaire and The Lost Wallet. As a child, Coppola was a student, but he was so interested in technology. Trained initially for a career in music, he became proficient on the tuba, overall, Coppola attended 23 other schools before he eventually graduated from the Great Neck North High School. He entered Hofstra College in 1955 with a major in theater arts, there he was awarded a scholarship in playwriting. This furthered his interest in directing theater despite the disapproval of his father, Coppola was profoundly impressed after seeing Sergei Eisensteins October, Ten Days That Shook the World, especially with the movies quality of editing. It was at this time Coppola decided he would go into cinema rather than theater, Coppola also gives credit to the work of Elia Kazan and for its influence on him as a director. Amongst Coppolas classmates at Hofstra were James Caan, Lainie Kazan and he later cast Lainie Kazan in One from the Heart and Caan in The Rain People and The Godfather
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The Conversation
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The plot revolves around a surveillance expert and the moral dilemma he faces when his recordings reveal a potential murder. Coppola cited the 1966 film Blowup as a key influence, however, since the film was released to theaters just a few months before Richard Nixon resigned as President, he felt that audiences interpreted the film to be a reaction to the Watergate scandal. The Conversation won the Palme dOr at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival and it was nominated for three Academy Awards in 1974 and lost Best Picture to The Godfather Part II, another Francis Ford Coppola film. In 1995, it was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally, historically, originally, Paramount Pictures distributed the film worldwide. Paramount retains American rights to this day but international rights are now held by Miramax Films, Harry Caul is a surveillance expert who runs his own company in San Francisco. He is highly respected by others in the profession, Caul is utterly professional at work but finds personal contact extremely difficult because he is intensely secretive about even the most trivial aspects of his life. Dense crowds make him uncomfortable and he is withdrawn and taciturn in more intimate social situations. He is also reticent and obsessively secretive with colleagues and his appearance is nondescript, except for his habit of wearing a translucent grey plastic raincoat almost everywhere he goes, even when it is not raining. This sense of guilt is amplified by his devout Catholicism and his one hobby is playing along to jazz records on a tenor saxophone in the privacy of his apartment. Amid the small-talk, the couple fears that they are being watched. The challenging task of recording this conversation is accomplished by multiple surveillance operatives located in different positions around the square, although Caul cannot understand the true meaning of the conversation, he finds the cryptic nuances and emotional undercurrents contained within it deeply troubling. Sensing danger, Caul feels increasingly uneasy about what may happen to the once the client hears the tape. He plays the tape again and again throughout the movie, gradually refining its accuracy and he concentrates on one key phrase hidden under the sound of a street musician, Hed kill us if he got the chance. Caul constantly reinterprets the speakers subtle emphasis on words in this phrase, trying to figure out their meaning in the light of what he suspects. Caul avoids handing in the tape to the aide of the man who commissioned the surveillance, afterward, he finds himself under increasing pressure from the clients aide and is himself followed, tricked, and bugged. The tape of the conversation is eventually stolen from him in a moment when his guard is down, Caul is tormented by guilt over what he fears will happen to the couple, and his desperate efforts to forestall tragedy fail. To his surprise, it out that the conversation he had obsessed over might not mean what he thought it did. He is led to believe that his apartment has been bugged and goes on a search for the listening device, tearing up walls and floorboards
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One from the Heart
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The story is set entirely in Las Vegas. The films plot was adapted by Aziz Mirza for his 2003 Hindi film Chalte Chalte. One from the Heart received mixed reviews from critics, the evening of July 4, in Las Vegas, Hank, a mechanic, and Frannie, a travel agent, break up while celebrating their fifth anniversary. He has been insensitive to her yearning for adventure and excitement and they both spend a night with their idealized partners — Hank goes with Leila, a nubile and beautiful circus girl, and Frannie goes with Ray, a dark, handsome musician. After their nights of passion, Hank breaks down, tracks Frannie to her lovers apartment and she refuses to stay with him and walks away, saying that this time it is goodbye forever. Hank follows her to the airport, where Frannie is about to leave for her trip to Bora Bora. Hank sings to her to prove he is willing to be more romantic, Hank, distraught, goes home and is about to burn her clothes when Frannie returns, realizing she made a mistake. One From the Heart was originally to be financed by MGM, Coppola initially rejected the offer, then bought the rights to the property himself through his Zoetrope Studios, with MGM remaining as a distributor for North America. Zoetrope raised financing via foreign pre-sales and a loan from Chase Manhattan Bank, initially a romantic comedy, Coppola wanted a more ambitious film, raising the films budget from $15 million to $23 million, paying for miniatures and lavish backgrounds. The film was almost entirely shot on Zoetrope sound stages, Coppola insisted on building sets to add to the artificiality of the proscenium. However, Zoetrope was struggling to stay afloat, and its staff wound up working on a reduced payroll, the films tax shelter investors pulled out, and thus MGM withdrew its support for the project. Eventually, Coppola got support from Canadian businessman Jack Singer, who agreed to loan $8 million to Zoetrope, in February 1981, Paramount Pictures took over as distributor. Set construction included a replica of part of Las Vegas McCarran Airport—complete with a jetway and jet airliner —was built, the sets for the film took up all of the sound stage space at Coppolas recently acquired American Zoetrope studio. One from the Heart features a soundtrack from Crystal Gayle. Waits received an Academy Award nomination for Best Musical Score, tavoularis, whose art department was next door to the musical rehearsal space, used Waits music as tonal inspiration, incorporating it into the films highly stylized look. Mickey Hart, drummer for The Grateful Dead, and musician Bobby Vega were also credited for their contributions to the production, Coppola used the opportunity to introduce a more economic method of filmmaking. Dubbed the electronic cinema, it would involve shooting and editing a visual storyboard on videotape, a screening in San Francisco, California in August 1981 proved to be disappointing, and many exhibitors backed out of releasing it. Paramount decided on a release in February 1982
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Tucker: The Man and His Dream
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Tucker, The Man and His Dream is a 1988 American biographical comedy-drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Jeff Bridges. S. Joan Allen, Martin Landau, Elias Koteas, Frederic Forrest, in 1973, Coppola began development of a film based on the life of Tucker, originally with Marlon Brando in the lead role. Starting in 1976, Coppola planned Tucker to be both a musical and a film with music and lyrics written by Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden. The project eventually collapsed when Coppolas American Zoetrope experienced financial problems, Tucker was revived in 1986 when Coppolas friend, George Lucas, joined as a producer. The film received praise, but was a box office disappointment. Nonetheless, Tucker, The Man and His Dream produced a spike in prices of Tucker Sedans, as well as an appreciation for Tucker. Detroit engineer Preston Tucker has been interested in building cars since childhood, during World War II he designed an armored car for the military and made money building gun turrets for aircraft in a small shop next to his home in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Tucker is supported by his large, extended family, including wife Vera, as the war winds down, Tucker has a dream of finally building the car of the future. The Tucker Torpedo will feature revolutionary safety designs including disc brakes, seat belts, a pop out windshield, Tucker hires young designer Alex Tremulis to help with the design and enlists New York financier Abe Karatz to arrange financial support. Raising the money through an issue, Tucker and Karatz acquire the enormous Dodge Chicago Plant to begin manufacturing. Abe hires Robert Bennington to run the new Tucker Corporation on a day-to-day basis, launching the car of tomorrow in a spectacular way, the Tucker Corporation is met with enthusiasm from shareholders and the general public. While Tucker travels the country, Bennington and directors change the design of Tuckers car to a conventional design, eliminating the safety. At the same time, Tucker faces animosity from the Big Three, Tucker then receives a call from Howard Hughes, who sends a private plane to bring Tucker to his aircraft manufacturing site. Hughes advises Tucker to purchase Air Cooled Motors, which can supply both the steel Tucker needs, as well as a small, powerful engine that might replace Tuckers original 589 power plant. Faced with being unable to change Benningtons design, Tucker modifies the new engine and installs it in a test Tucker in the secrecy of his backyard tool and this prototype proves successful in both durability and crash testing. However, Tucker is confronted with allegations of stock fraud, fergusons investigation with the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission, causes Karatz, once convicted of bank fraud, to resign, fearful that his criminal record will prejudice the hearings. After giving a speech to the jurors on how capitalism in the United States is harmed by efforts of large corporations against small entrepreneurs like himself, Tucker is acquitted on all charges. Nevertheless, his company falls into bankruptcy and Preston Tucker dies of cancer seven years later, never able to realize his dream of producing a state-of-the-art automobile
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The Two Jakes
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The Two Jakes is a 1990 American neo-noir mystery film, and the sequel to the 1974 film Chinatown. Directed by and starring Jack Nicholson, it also features Harvey Keitel, Meg Tilly, Madeleine Stowe, Richard Farnsworth, Frederic Forrest, David Keith, Rubén Blades, Tracey Walter and Eli Wallach. Reprising their roles from Chinatown are Joe Mantell, Perry Lopez, James Hong, Allan Warnick and, in a brief voice-over, the character of Katherine Mulwray returns as well, played by Tilly. The musical score for the film is by Van Dyke Parks, the screenplay is by Robert Towne, whose script for Chinatown won an Academy Award. It was released by Paramount Pictures on August 10,1990, the film was not a box office success and plans for a third film about J. J. Gittes, with him near the end of his life, were abandoned. In Los Angeles in 1948, Julius Jake Berman hires private investigator J. J. Jake Gittes to catch his wife, Kitty, during the sting, Berman kills his rival, who also happens to be his business partner in a real estate development company. Gittes must convince LAPD captain Escobar that he should not be charged as an accomplice, oddly, Berman seems unconcerned with the possibility that he may be accused of murder. Gittes has the recording, which Bermans attorney Cotton Weinberger and mobster friend Mickey Nice both want, locked in a safe in his office in L. A. which is being rocked by earthquake temblors, Bermans housing development in the Valley also is experiencing seismic activities. Gittes is nearly killed in a gas explosion, waking to find Berman, Gittes has a confrontation, and later a sexual encounter, with Lilian Bodine, the dead mans angry widow. He is presented with proof that Earl Rawley, a wealthy and ruthless oil man, may be drilling under the Bodine and Berman development and this leads to a need to determine who owns the mineral rights to the land. Gittes discovers that the rights are owned by one Katherine Mulwray, daughter of Evelyn Mulwray and he also discovers that the deed transfers were executed in such a way as to attempt to hide Katherine Mulwrays prior ownership and continued claim of the mineral rights. Gittes operatives have seen Berman in the company of a woman along with Mickey Nice. With a bit of sleuthing Gittes determines that the woman is an oncologist and is treating Berman for cancer somewhere below the waist, Gittes confronts Berman with this knowledge and gets a full confession. Along the way, Gittes discovers that Berman is not going to survive, in order to get Kitty Berman to talk to him, Gittes must prove that Jake Berman set out to kill his partner. Once accomplished, Kitty agrees to meet Gittes and tell him what she knows about her husband, Kitty had never suspected that her husband is dying. In order to prove premeditation, passion, and perhaps even connections to a long missing, seemingly everyone wants the recording. Somehow, Gittes edits the recording, leaving Katherine Mulwrays name chopped out of the dialog, shooting and this makes the inquest a short, satisfying meeting where the judge has no reason to suspect murder. Jake Berman is now free of criminal charges and he doesnt want an autopsy to interfere with Kittys inheritance
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The Stone Boy (film)
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The Stone Boy is a 1984 film directed by Christopher Cain, and is based on the 1957 short story The Stone Boy by the American author Gina Berriault. The film is about a family coping with a tragedy when the youngest child accidentally kills his older brother in a hunting incident. Eva Crescent Moon Lady Tom Waits, petrified man at carnival The Stone Boy at the Internet Movie Database The Stone Boy at Rotten Tomatoes
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The Missouri Breaks
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The Missouri Breaks is a 1976 American western film starring Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson. The film was directed by Arthur Penn, with supporting performances by Randy Quaid, Harry Dean Stanton, Frederic Forrest, John McLiam, the score was composed by John Williams. The title of the movie refers to a forlorn and very rugged area of north central Montana, tom Logan is a rustler experiencing hard times. He and his gang are particularly upset by the hanging of a friend by Braxton, Logans men pull off a daring train robbery, only to lose much of the money. They decide to seek vengeance against Braxton by killing his foreman Pete Marker and by buying a property close to Braxtons ranch. First the gang, without Logan, rides off across the Missouri River, in their absence, Logan plants crops and enters into a relationship with Braxtons virginal daughter, Jane. Braxton is obsessed with both his problem and his daughter. He sends for Robert E. Lee Clayton, a notorious regulator who, for a price, Clayton arrives with a fancy wardrobe, a perfumed scent, an Irish brogue and a Creedmoor rifle with which he is deadly accurate from a very long distance. Quickly suspicious of Logan, who doesnt strike him as a farmer, Clayton dons a variety of disguises and begins to pick off Logans gang, identifying himself as Jim Ferguson, he kills Logans young friend Little Tod by dragging him with a rope through the raging Missouri. Clayton spies on Logan with binoculars and taunts Braxton about his daughters affair with a horse thief, Braxton attempts to discharge him but Clayton is determined to finish what he starts. He amuses himself by shooting two more of Logans partners, Cary and Cy, from a distance and then by wearing a dress while brutally killing Logans closest friend, Cal. Logan knows its kill or be killed and he also wants vengeance against Braxton for having hired the regulator in the first place, despite his feelings for Jane. One night after a campfire goes dark with Clayton serenading his horse and he then comes after Braxton, who has lost his mind — perhaps having suffered a stroke — as well as losing his daughter. Braxton pulls a weapon on Logan, but is shot in the chest. Logan abandons his farm and packs up to leave and he acknowledges to Jane the possibility that they can renew their relationship another time, another place. He said, I always wondered why in the history of lethal weapons no one invented that particular one and it appealed to me because I used to be very expert at knife throwing. Principal photography began on June 23,1975, Jack Nicholson was the first actor to arrive on location with director Arthur Penn, the cast, and the crew. During the second week of filming in Nevada City, intermittent rain showers hit the area, more than 80 extras were used for area scenes, most of them were local people and children
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The Deliberate Stranger
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The Deliberate Stranger is a book and television film about American serial killer Ted Bundy. Bundy, The Deliberate Stranger was written by Seattle Times reporter Richard W. Larsen, Larsen would go on to cover the Ted murders in 1974 and then cover the Ted Bundy story up until Bundys execution in 1989. Bundy, The Deliberate Stranger was published in paperback in editions as late as 1990 but has gone out of print. The Deliberate Stranger was adapted into a television movie originally broadcast on NBC in May 1986. The film, based on Larsens book, starred Mark Harmon as Bundy, frederic Forrest starred as Seattle detective Robert D. Keppel, and George Grizzard played reporter Larsen. Bundys lawyer Polly Nelson, in her book Defending the Devil, characterized the film as stunningly accurate and she singled out for praise Harmons portrayal of Bundy, noting how Harmon reproduced Bundys rigid posture and suspicious expression. According to Nelson, her client, still on death row when the program aired, showed no interest in seeing the film. Ann Rule, who had known Bundy before the murders when they worked together on a crisis hotline. Harmon was nominated for a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Bundy, while the film is accurate in its portrayal of events, the names of all the victims have been changed, with the sole exceptions of victim Denise Naslund and her mother Eleanor Rose. According to The New York Times, the two shows ranked seventeenth and sixth in the Nielsen ratings, howard Rosenberg of the Los Angeles Times described it as taut, suspenseful, scary. Larsen, Richard W. Bundy, The Deliberate Stranger, Defending the Devil, My Story as Ted Bundys Last Lawyer. ISBN 978-0-393-05029-5 The Deliberate Stranger at the Internet Movie Database
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Dario Argento
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Dario Argento is an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter. He is best known for his work in the film genre, particularly in the subgenre known as giallo. Argento was born in Rome, the son of producer and executive Salvatore Argento. He began his career in film as a critic, writing for various magazines while still attending high school, Argento did not attend college, electing rather to take a job as a columnist at the newspaper Paese Sera. While working at the newspaper, Argento also began working as a screenwriter and his most notable work was for Sergio Leone, he and Bernardo Bertolucci collaborated on the story for the spaghetti western classic Once Upon a Time in the West. Soon after that films 1969 release, Argento began working on his debut, the giallo film The Bird with the Crystal Plumage. Argento continued to concentrate largely on the genre, directing two more successful thrillers, The Cat o Nine Tails and Four Flies on Grey Velvet. Along with The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, these three films are referred to as Argentos Animal Trilogy. The director then turned his attention away from movies, filming two Italian TV dramas and a period comedy in 1973. Argento returned to thrillers with 1975s Deep Red, frequently cited by critics as the best giallo ever made. The film made Argento famous internationally and inspired a number of directors to work in the genre. Argentos next movie was Suspiria, a violent supernatural thriller, lacking the constraints of the more conventional giallo subgenre, Suspiria is a semi-surreal work of art, where plot and character are secondary to sound and vision. Argento planned for Suspiria to be the first of a trilogy about The Three Mothers, the second movie of the trilogy was 1980s Inferno. The Mother of Tears belatedly concluded the trilogy, Argento oversaw the European release of the film which was much shorter and featured much more of the score written and performed by Goblin. After Inferno, Argento returned to the more conventional style with Tenebrae. He then attempted to combine giallo and supernatural fantasy in 1985s Phenomena, also known as Creepers, Phenomena also showed Argentos predilection for using new technology, as evidenced by the films several prowling Steadicam shots. Both films received a reception upon their release. Argento subsequently took a break from directing to write two screenplays for Mario Bavas son, Lamberto Bava, Dèmoni and Dèmoni 2, in 1987-88, Argento produced a TV series called Turno di Notte, which had 15 episodes
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Trauma (1993 film)
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Trauma is a 1993 American horror thriller film directed by Dario Argento and starring Asia Argento, Christopher Rydell, Piper Laurie, and Frederic Forrest. Aura, a woman suffering from anorexia escapes from a psychiatric hospital and meets a young man, David. However, Aura is soon caught, but her return to the hospital coincides with the start of a string of murders of hospital staff members, past, the killer decapitates them using a home-made garrote device on rainy days. When her father is murdered along with her mother, Aura, in the end, it is revealed that Auras mother is the killer. Years earlier, Dr. Lloyd was given the task of delivering Auras brother, however, his clumsiness combined with a power outage led to him slicing off the newborn infants head as he was being delivered. Holding the two hostage, Auras mother is killed by a young child who had discovered the mothers crimes. Adapting the treatment devised by Gianni Romoli and long-time Argento collaborator Franco Ferrini, special effects expert Tom Savini, who had previously worked on Two Evil Eyes, was recruited to produce the films extensive gore and prosthetic effects. Savini also created the central murder weapon, dubbed the Noose-o-Matic by the crew. Savini devised a number of effects, but they were scrapped when Argento decided to minimize his trademark gore, according to Savini. Savini was also set to appear in a scrapped pre-credits sequence where his character was to be decapitated in an accident, the character played by Asia Argento is inspired by her half-sister Anna who actually suffered from anorexia. Anna died in a accident in 1994 shortly after the films release. It currently has an rating of 67% on movie review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes. David invites Grace to his house and then calls Aura at home to ask her if she needs any food, Aura lies to him and tells shes already eaten, the British Board of Film Classification cut the UK video release by six seconds. There are two cuts, both to shots of wire cutting into the necks of Linda and Adriana, however, these cuts were waived in 2002, and all subsequent DVD releases are uncut. All UK video and DVD releases contain the shorter version, profondo Argento, The Man, The Myths and the Magic. Trauma at the Internet Movie Database
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Fox Broadcasting Company
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The Fox Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is owned by the Fox Entertainment Group subsidiary of 21st Century Fox. It is the third largest major network in the world based on total revenues, assets. Launched on October 9,1986 as a competitor to the Big Three television networks, Fox and its affiliated companies operate many entertainment channels in international markets, although these do not necessarily air the same programming as the U. S. network. Most viewers in Canada have access to at least one U. S, the network is named after sister company 20th Century Fox, and indirectly for producer William Fox, who founded one of the movie studios predecessors, Fox Film. Fox is a member of the North American Broadcasters Association and the National Association of Broadcasters, 20th Century Fox had been involved in television production as early as the 1950s, producing several syndicated programs. Following the demise of the DuMont Television Network in August of that year after it became mired in financial problems. 20th Century Fox would also produce original content for the NTA network, KTTV in Los Angeles, KRIV in Houston, WFLD-TV in Chicago, and KRLD-TV in Dallas. In October 1985, 20th Century Fox announced its intentions to form a television network that would compete with ABC, CBS. The plans were to use the combination of the Fox studios, organizational plans for the network were held off until the Metromedia acquisitions cleared regulatory hurdles. Then, in December 1985, Rupert Murdoch agreed to pay $325 million to acquire the remaining equity in TCF Holdings from his original partner, Marvin Davis. These first six stations, then broadcasting to a reach of 22% of the nations households. Except for KDAF, all of the original owned-and-operated stations are part of the Fox network today. Like the core O&O group, Foxs affiliate body consisted of independent stations. The Fox Broadcasting Company launched at 11,00 p. m. Eastern and its inaugural program was a late-night talk show, The Late Show, which was hosted by comedian Joan Rivers. By early 1987, Rivers quit The Late Show after disagreements with the network over the creative direction. The network expanded its programming into prime time on April 5,1987, with Children and the sketch comedy series The Tracey Ullman Show. Fox added one new show per week over the several weeks, with the drama 21 Jump Street. On July 11, the network rolled out its Saturday night schedule with the premiere of the drama series Werewolf
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21 Jump Street
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21 Jump Street is an American police procedural television series that aired on the Fox network and in first run syndication from April 12,1987, to April 27,1991, with a total of 103 episodes. The series focuses on a squad of youthful-looking undercover police officers investigating crimes in schools, colleges. Created by Patrick Hasburgh and Stephen J. Cannell, the series was produced by Patrick Hasburgh Productions, executive Producers included Hasburgh, Cannell, Steve Beers and Bill Nuss. The show was a hit for the fledgling Fox network. The final season aired in first-run syndication mainly on local Fox affiliates and it was later rerun on the FX cable network from 1996 to 1998. The series provided a spark to Johnny Depps nascent acting career, Depp found this status irritating, but he continued on the series under his contract and was paid $45,000 per episode. Eventually he was released from his contract after the fourth season, a spin-off series, Booker, was produced for the character of Dennis Booker, it ran one season, from September 1989 to June 1990. A film adaptation directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller was released on March 16,2012, the film is set in the same chronology as the series, with Johnny Depp, Holly Robinson and Peter DeLuise reprising their characters in cameo appearances. Richard Grieco and Dustin Nguyen also have cameos in the 2014 film sequel 22 Jump Street, the series focuses on a group of police officers headquartered at the eponymous address. These officers are all young and have especially youthful appearances, which allows them to pass for teenagers and their assignments generally consist of undercover work in high schools or, less commonly, colleges, where they generally investigate drug trafficking and abuse. The shows plots cover issues such as alcoholism, hate crimes, drug abuse, homophobia, AIDS, child abuse, similarly, each problem is often solved by the end of the hour-long episode, giving an implicit moral about the impact of a particular activity. When the show aired, some episodes were followed immediately by public service announcements featuring cast members. He was replaced after the pilot episode was filmed. Midway through the first season, Frederic Forrest was replaced by Steven Williams, on the show, Forrests character Richard Jenko is killed by a drunk driver. Johnny Depp left the series at the end of the fourth season, set in a fictional city and state in the United States, the series was primarily filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia. It was one of the first major series to use Vancouver as a filming location. 21 Jump Street, along with Married, with Children and The Tracey Ullman Show, debuted in the spring of 1987. All three shows were hits with audiences and helped to establish the then-newly launched Fox network,21 Jump Street was the first hit series for the Fox network
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BBC
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The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. It is headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, the BBC is the worlds oldest national broadcasting organisation and the largest broadcaster in the world by number of employees. It employs over 20,950 staff in total,16,672 of whom are in public sector broadcasting, the total number of staff is 35,402 when part-time, flexible, and fixed contract staff are included. The BBC is established under a Royal Charter and operates under its Agreement with the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. The fee is set by the British Government, agreed by Parliament, and used to fund the BBCs radio, TV, britains first live public broadcast from the Marconi factory in Chelmsford took place in June 1920. It was sponsored by the Daily Mails Lord Northcliffe and featured the famous Australian Soprano Dame Nellie Melba, the Melba broadcast caught the peoples imagination and marked a turning point in the British publics attitude to radio. However, this public enthusiasm was not shared in official circles where such broadcasts were held to interfere with important military and civil communications. By late 1920, pressure from these quarters and uneasiness among the staff of the licensing authority, the General Post Office, was sufficient to lead to a ban on further Chelmsford broadcasts. But by 1922, the GPO had received nearly 100 broadcast licence requests, John Reith, a Scottish Calvinist, was appointed its General Manager in December 1922 a few weeks after the company made its first official broadcast. The company was to be financed by a royalty on the sale of BBC wireless receiving sets from approved manufacturers, to this day, the BBC aims to follow the Reithian directive to inform, educate and entertain. The financial arrangements soon proved inadequate, set sales were disappointing as amateurs made their own receivers and listeners bought rival unlicensed sets. By mid-1923, discussions between the GPO and the BBC had become deadlocked and the Postmaster-General commissioned a review of broadcasting by the Sykes Committee and this was to be followed by a simple 10 shillings licence fee with no royalty once the wireless manufactures protection expired. The BBCs broadcasting monopoly was made explicit for the duration of its current broadcast licence, the BBC was also banned from presenting news bulletins before 19.00, and required to source all news from external wire services. Mid-1925 found the future of broadcasting under further consideration, this time by the Crawford committee, by now the BBC under Reiths leadership had forged a consensus favouring a continuation of the unified broadcasting service, but more money was still required to finance rapid expansion. Wireless manufacturers were anxious to exit the loss making consortium with Reith keen that the BBC be seen as a service rather than a commercial enterprise. The recommendations of the Crawford Committee were published in March the following year and were still under consideration by the GPO when the 1926 general strike broke out in May. The strike temporarily interrupted newspaper production and with restrictions on news bulletins waived the BBC suddenly became the source of news for the duration of the crisis. The crisis placed the BBC in a delicate position, the Government was divided on how to handle the BBC but ended up trusting Reith, whose opposition to the strike mirrored the PMs own
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Earle Wheeler
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Earle Gilmore Wheeler was born in Washington, D. C. to Dock Stone and Ida Gilmore. He was later adopted by Idas second husband and he graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1932 and was commissioned into the infantry. After graduation he married Frances Betty Rogers Howell, whom he met at a society party in 1930 and he served in the 29th Infantry Regiment from 1932 to 1936, then attended Infantry School in 1937. He served with the 15th Infantry Regiment, from 1937 to 1940, from 1940 to 1941, Wheeler was a mathematics instructor at West Point. Wheeler served in staff positions in a variety of specialties, including supply, intelligence, planning. In late 1945, Wheeler returned to the U. S. as an instructor at Fort Sill, then returned to Germany from 1947-1949 as a staff officer of the United States Constabulary. He attended the National War College in 1950 and he then returned to Europe as a staff officer in NATO, in a series of roles. In 1951-52 he commanded the 351st Infantry Regiment, which controlled the Free Territory of Trieste, in 1955, Wheeler joined the General Staff at The Pentagon. In 1958 he took command of the 2nd Armored Division, in 1959, he took command of III Corps. He became Director of the Joint Staff in 1960, in 1962 he was briefly Deputy Commander of U. S. Forces in Europe before being named Chief of Staff of the United States Army later that year, U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Wheeler Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in July 1964 to succeed General Maxwell Taylor. General Wheelers tenure as the top military officer spanned the height of Americas involvement in the Vietnam War. Wheelers accession to the top job in the U. S. military, over the heads of officers with combat experience. Wheeler oversaw and supported the expanding U. S. military role in the Vietnam War in the mid-1960s, consistently backing the field commanders requests for additional troops and he often urged U. S. President Johnson to strike harder at North Vietnam and to expand aerial bombing campaigns. Wheeler was concerned with minimizing costs to U. S. ground troops, at the same time, he preferred what he saw as a realistic assessment of the capabilities of the South Vietnamese military. This earned him a reputation as a hawk, westmoreland, the field commander, and U. S. President Johnson, pushed to raise additional American forces after the February 1968 Tet Offensive. American media at the widely reported the Tet Offensive as Viet Cong victory. This followed a widely noted news report in 1967 that cited an unnamed American general who called the situation in Vietnam a stalemate and it was a view with which Gen. Wheeler agreed in more confidential circles
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Path to War
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It was the final film that was directed by Frankenheimer, who died seven weeks after the film debuted on HBO. It was also the last film produced by Edgar J. Scherick in his lifetime, Lyndon B. Johnson wins the 1964 U. S. presidential election by a landslide. His administration strives to advance civil rights and do good work. Sutherland won a 2002 Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film for his performance as Clifford,2002 in television Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson Path to War at the Internet Movie Database Official site
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John Frankenheimer
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John Michael Frankenheimer was an American film and television director known for social dramas and action/suspense films. Among his credits were Birdman of Alcatraz, The Manchurian Candidate, Seven Days in May, The Train, Seconds, Grand Prix, French Connection II, Black Sunday, and Ronin. He was considered one of the last remaining directors who insisted on having control over all elements of production. Frankenheimers 30 feature films and over 50 plays for television were notable for their influence on contemporary thought and he became a pioneer of the modern-day political thriller, having begun his career at the peak of the Cold War. He developed a tremendous propensity for exploring political situations which would ensnare his characters, Movie critic Leonard Maltin writes that in his time. Frankenheimer worked with the top writers, producers and actors in a series of films that dealt with issues that were just on top of the moment—things that were facing us all. Frankenheimer was born in Queens, New York, the son of Helen Mary and Walter Martin Frankenheimer, Frankenheimer once speculated that he might be related to actress Ally Sheedy. His father was of German Jewish descent, his mother was Irish Catholic, Frankenheimer grew up in New York City and became interested in movies at an early age, he recalled going to the cinema every weekend. In 1947, he graduated from La Salle Military Academy in Oakdale, Long Island, in 1951, he graduated from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, where he had studied English. He also developed an interest in acting as a career while in college and this led him to join a film squadron based in Burbank, California, where he shot his first documentary. He also began studying film theory by reading books about other famous directors, in May 2001, amid rumors that he was the biological father of film director Michael Bay, Frankenheimer stated he had a brief relationship with Bays birth mother. Frankenheimer began his career in live television at CBS. Frankenheimers first theatrical film was The Young Stranger, starring James MacArthur as the teenage son of a powerful Hollywood movie producer. He directed the production, based on a Climax, episode, Deal a Blow, which he directed when he was 26. His departure from television is considered to signal the end of the Golden Age of Television, roger Ebert considered Frankenheimer to have had a special gift as a filmmaker and to have been a master craftsman. He stated that Frankenheimer made some of the most distinctive films of his time, production of Birdman of Alcatraz began under director Charles Crichton. Burt Lancaster, who was producing as well as starring, asked Frankenheimer to take over the film, as Frankenheimer describes in Charles Champlins interview book, he advised Lancaster that the script was too long but was told he had to shoot all that was written. The first cut of the film was four-and-a-half hours long, the length Frankenheimer had predicted, moreover, the film was constructed so that it could not be cut and still be coherent
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Dark Shadows
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Dark Shadows is an American Gothic soap opera that originally aired weekdays on the ABC television network, from June 27,1966 to April 2,1971. The show depicted the lives, loves, trials and tribulations of the wealthy Collins family of Collinsport, Maine, the series became hugely popular when vampire Barnabas Collins appeared ten months into its run. Dark Shadows also featured ghosts, werewolves, zombies, man-made monsters, witches, warlocks, time travel, a small company of actors each played many roles, indeed, as actors came and went, some characters were played by more than one actor. The original network run of the show lasted for five years to amass 1,225 episodes. It continues to enjoy a cult following. In 2004 and 2007, Dark Shadows was ranked #19 and #23 on TV Guides Top Cult Shows Ever. Since 2006, the series has continued as a range of dramas produced by Big Finish Productions, featuring many of the original cast, including David Selby, Lara Parker. Creator Dan Curtis claimed he had a dream in 1965 of a young woman. The following day Curtis told his wife of the dream and pitched the idea as a TV series to ABC, network officials greenlit production and Curtis began hiring crew members. Art Wallace was hired to create a story from Curtiss dream sequence, Wallace wrote the story bible Shadows on the Wall, the proposed title for the show, later changed to Dark Shadows. Robert Costello was added as a producer, and Curtis took on the creator. Lela Swift, John Sedwick, and Henry Kaplan all agreed to be directors for the new series, Robert Cobert created the musical score and Sy Thomashoff designed the set. Curtis then set out to find the actress to play the girl on the train, veteran film star Joan Bennett was soon cast as Victorias employer Elizabeth Collins Stoddard, a woman who had not left her home in over eighteen years. Stage actor Louis Edmonds was cast as Elizabeths brother Roger Collins, Another stage actress, Nancy Barrett, was then cast as Elizabeths head-strong daughter Carolyn Stoddard, and child actor David Henesy was cast as Rogers troubled son David Collins. Dark Shadows had a rocky beginning, critics were quick to deem the series rather boring for its heavy use of unknown actress Moltke and the slow progression of the shows legacy. The earliest episodes consisted of introducing the characters and did not show any of the supernatural elements that later made the show a hit. As production on the continued, the introduction of many new and mysterious characters and various unknown actors. Most actors also ended up playing characters, and those same characters would often return through flasbacks or the unprecedented use of parallel time lines. m
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When the Legends Die
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When The Legends Die is both a 1963 novel, by Hal Borland, and a DeLuxe Color film released in 1972 by Twentieth Century-Fox. The novel, about the life of a Ute Indian young man, was written in 1963 by Hal Borland, while it was written as a mainstream novel, it became a young adult classic. The film was made in 1972, starring Richard Widmark and Frederic Forrest and it was directed by Stuart Millar from a screenplay written by Robert Dozier. The title is taken from the saying When the legends die the dreams end, the film had a budget of $1,520,000. A Ute Indian youth, Tom Black Bull, leaves the reservation to enter the rodeo life and he is under the tutelage of Red Dillon, a talented man with a drinking problem. The youth deals with the struggle between two worlds and deciding what life has to offer, Richard Widmark as Red Dillon Frederic Forrest as Tom Black Bull Luana Anders as Mary Vito Scotti as Meo Herbert Nelson as Dr
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The Don Is Dead
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The Don Is Dead is a 1973 crime drama film directed by Richard Fleischer. Frank is the son of an organized-crime boss. He plans a heroin deal with the help of brothers Tony and Vince, after the death of his father, a mob war breaks out between two rival families. One is run by Don Angelo, but he not get the support of the brothers, Tony and Vince. He begins a romance with Franks young and beautiful fiancee, Ruby, the Don Is Dead has the attributes of some lively, pithily accented performances that are adult and effectively natural. As the embattled don who is finally felled by a stroke, not a gun, Quinn is moodily menacing, list of American films of 1973 The Don Is Dead at the Internet Movie Database
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Permission to Kill
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Permission to Kill, also known as The Executioner, is a 1975 spy thriller film made by Sascha-Verleih and distributed by AVCO Embassy Pictures. It was directed by Cyril Frankel and produced by Paul Mills from a screenplay by Robin Estridge, the film had original music by Richard Rodney Bennett and the cinematography was by Freddie Young. The film stars Dirk Bogarde, Ava Gardner and Bekim Fehmiu with Timothy Dalton, Nicole Calfan, the film is an Austrian-British-American co-production and was shot on location in Gmunden, Austria. British agents try to stop a communist returning home from the West
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Ruby and Oswald
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Ruby and Oswald is a 1978 American made-for-television drama film about the assassination of U. S. President John F. Kennedy. It stars Michael Lerner and Frederic Forrest, Jack Ruby is a warm-hearted and patriotic nightclub owner, who loves President Kennedy. Lee Harvey Oswald, a loner with a speckled past is looking to merely acquire fame. On November 22nd, Oswald kills the president, on the 24th, Ruby kills Oswald, being motivated exclusively by his love for the president. Michael Lerner as Jack Ruby Frederic Forrest as Lee Harvey Oswald Lou Frizzell as Captain J. Ruby and Oswald at the Internet Movie Database
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Lee Harvey Oswald
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Lee Harvey Oswald was an American former U. S. Marine who assassinated President John F. Kennedy on November 22,1963. Shortly after being discharged from the Marine Corps, Oswald defected to the Soviet Union in October 1959 and he lived in the Belarusian city of Minsk until June 1962, at which time he returned to the United States with Marina, his Russian wife, eventually settling in Dallas. Following Kennedys assassination, Oswald was initially arrested for the murder of police officer J. D. Tippit, Oswald was later charged with the murder of Kennedy. He denied shooting anybody, saying that he was a patsy, two days later, while being transferred from the city jail to the county jail, Oswald was fatally shot by Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby in full view of television cameras broadcasting live. In September 1964, the Warren Commission concluded that Oswald acted alone in assassinating Kennedy by firing three shots from the Texas School Book Depository and this conclusion was supported by previous investigations carried out by the FBI, the Secret Service, and the Dallas Police Department. The assassination has spawned numerous conspiracy theories, Oswald was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on October 18,1939 to Robert Edward Lee Oswald, Sr. and Marguerite Frances Claverie. Robert Oswald died of an attack two months before Lee was born. Lees elder brother Robert, Jr. was also a former Marine, through Marguerites first marriage to Edward John Pic, Jr. Lee and Robert Jr. were the half-brothers of Air Force veteran John Edward Pic. In 1944, Marguerite moved the family from New Orleans to Dallas, Texas, Oswald entered the 1st grade in 1945 and over the next half-dozen years attended several different schools through the 6th grade in the Dallas and Fort Worth areas. Oswald took an IQ test in the 4th grade and scored 103, on achievement tests in, he twice did best in reading, as a child, Oswald was described by several people who knew him as withdrawn and temperamental. In August 1952, when Oswald was 12, his mother took him to New York City where they lived for a time with Oswalds half-brother. Oswald and his mother were asked to leave after an argument in which Oswald allegedly struck his mother. Oswald attended the 7th grade in the Bronx, New York, but was often truant, the reformatory psychiatrist, Dr. Dr. Hartogs detected a personality pattern disturbance with schizoid features and passive-aggressive tendencies and recommended continued treatment. In January 1954, Oswalds mother returned to New Orleans, taking Oswald with her, in New Orleans, Oswald completed the 8th and 9th grades. He entered the 10th grade in 1955 but quit school after one month, after leaving school, Oswald worked for several months as an office clerk and messenger in New Orleans. In July 1956, Oswalds mother moved the family to Fort Worth, Texas, a few weeks later in October, Oswald quit school at age 17 to join the Marines, he never received a high school diploma. By the age of 17, he had resided at 22 different locations, though the young Oswald had trouble spelling and may have had a reading-spelling disability, he read voraciously. By age 15, he claimed to be a Marxist, writing in his diary, I was looking for a key to my environment, I had to dig for my books in the back dusty shelves of libraries
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It Lives Again
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It Lives Again is a 1978 American horror film written and directed by Larry Cohen. It is the sequel to the 1974 film Its Alive, the film stars Frederic Forrest, Kathleen Lloyd, John P. Ryan, John Marley, Andrew Duggan and Eddie Constantine. The film was released by Warner Bros. on May 10,1978 and this film continues with Frank Davis, still reeling from the death of his child and the part he played in it, seeing his chance to atone by assisting other would-be parents of mutant children. He tries to warn soon-to-be parents Jody and Eugene Scott of the vast and dangerous conspiracy to murder their baby and they are convinced when they are met by Malory and a strong force of police officers at the hospital as Jody is about to go into labour. She is rescued by Frank from the maternity ward before she goes into labour, the baby is delivered in a truck specially constructed for this specific purpose. They manage to elude the people going after them, but in the end, through a homing device placed in Jodys purse by her mother, Mallory and his people manage to track Jody to the place in Los Angeles where her baby is taken. Thus begins the plot of how her baby is hunted. It Lives Again at the Internet Movie Database
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Who Will Love My Children?
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Is a 1983 American made-for-television biographical film based on the life of Lucile Fray. Lucile Fray was diagnosed cancer in 1952 and wanted to find suitable homes for her ten children. Prior to her death, she succeeded, the film was directed by John Erman, written by Michael Bortman, and starred Ann-Margret in her first television film. It was originally broadcast on American Broadcasting Company, the same evening as its original broadcast, February 14,1983, the children of Lucile Fray appeared on Thats Incredible. At the Internet Movie Database TV, Ann-Margret Plays a Dying Mother of 10 at the New York Times
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Valley Girl (film)
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Valley Girl is a 1983 American romantic comedy film directed by Martha Coolidge, and stars Nicolas Cage, Deborah Foreman, Michelle Meyrink, Elizabeth Daily, Cameron Dye and Michael Bowen. The American release of Valley Girl was April 29,1983, the plot is loosely based on Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet. At the end of a trip with her friends, Loryn, Stacey. Later that day at the beach, Julie trades shy glances with a man in the distance. That night, at a party at Suzis house, Julie locks eyes with Randy and they hit it off well, especially after Julie learns that Randy was the young man at the beach earlier. Tommy is jealous, and tries to bed Loryn and he fails and gets his cronies to eject Randy and Fred from the party. Undaunted, Randy sneaks back into the house, and hides in a bathroom shower. Randy waits in the shower for Julie to enter the bathroom as various partygoers come and go, talking about and trying to have sex, when Julie eventually does enter, Randy convinces her to leave the party with him. Julie brings a very reluctant Stacey along for the ride with Randy, while at Randys favorite Hollywood nightclub, Julie and Randy rapidly grow closer as Stacey continually rebuffs Freds advances. Julies friends, dismayed by her relationship with Randy, pressure her to drop him, Julie asks her father for advice, and he kindly tells her that she should follow her heart. Despite this, Julie reconciles with Tommy and later dumps Randy, a heartbroken Randy gets severely drunk, makes out with his ex-girlfriend, and nearly gets into a fight with a gang of low riders before Fred saves him. Fred chides Randy for moping over Julie, but tells him that he needs to fight if he wants her back. After Randy flits about the Valley for the few days just so he can get a glimpse at Julie. A subplot involves Suzi and her stepmother, Beth, vying for the attention of a boy named Skip, at her party, Suzi tells Beth, who is chaperoning, about Skip, who she likes and hopes will show up. When Skip does arrive, Beth finds herself attracted to him, Skip is also attracted to Beth and goes out of his way to go to see her without Suzi finding out. One day, Skip enters Suzis house, apparently looking for Beth and he goes upstairs and finds a woman in the shower in Beths bedroom. Skip and this woman, whose face is not shown, are shown making love. Another woman arrives home and goes upstairs, the bedroom door opens, Beth enters, and only then it is shown that Suzi was in the shower and in bed with Skip
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Saigon: Year of the Cat
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Saigon, Year of the Cat is a British television drama from 1983, produced by Thames Television for ITV. It is directed by Stephen Frears, written by David Hare, the year is 1974, and Barbara Dean, a British assistant manager in a foreign bank in Saigon, begins a relationship with American Bob Chesneau. She quickly realises that he works for the CIA and he knows that the fall of South Vietnam is very near, Saigon, Year of the Cat at the Internet Movie Database
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The Parade (film)
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The Parade is a 2011 Serbian comedy-drama film, written and directed by Srđan Dragojević and released on 31 October 2011. The film, which deals with LGBT rights issues in Serbia, the film introduces a group of gay activists, trying to organize a pride parade in Belgrade. Among them Mirko Dedijer, a theater director who mostly makes a living by planning lavish. Organizing such a parade is no task in Serbia as evidenced by the violence at the 2001 parade attempt. Mirkos effeminate boyfriend Radmilo is a veterinarian - he is not nearly as political and is quite content keeping a low profile, although the two try to live discreetly, both still experience various forms of abuse from the homophobic majority. In parallel, we meet Miško Drašković a. k. a, Limun, a macho Serbian veteran of the Yugoslav Wars in his mid-to-late forties. His son from a previous marriage Vuk works in a repair shop and is a member of a fringe right wing skinhead group that often engages in violence against gays. The paths of the two couples cross, Radmilo performs a life-saving operation on Limuns beloved bulldog, the victim of a drive-by shooting that served as warning to the dogs master. Simultaneously, Biserka seeks out Mirko with a view of hiring him to plan out hers, Biserka decides to stop all contact with Limun but calls Mirko in order to apologize. Radmilo picks up the phone and while learning of the circumstances of Biserkas and Limuns situation realizes an opportunity and he then shows up at Limuns agency/judo club offering Mirkos services in organizing the wedding party for Limun and Biserka in return for Limuns personnel securing the gay parade. Limun reluctantly accepts, and though Biserka returns to him as a result of the new development, put in a tight spot, Limun thinks of hiring his former enemies from the Yugoslav Wars. Limun and Radmilo embark on a trip all over ex-Yugoslavia. He wrote the first screenplay draft for Parada in 2004 before coming back to it in 2007 after failing to secure financing for his film project titled 1999. In that time he experimented with framing the screenplay within different genres and he penned the final version of the script over three weeks during summer 2008 while on vacation on the island of Mljet. The shooting actually began a year later at the 2010 parade, according to one of its producers Biljana Prvanović, Parada cost €1. Dragojević complained in interviews that over hundred companies in Serbia turned him down for funding due to not wanting to be associated with a gay-themed project. After the media screening on 28 October 2011, Parada premiered in Belgrades Sava Centar on Monday,31 October, premiere in Novi Sad was held on November the 1st and in Niš on 18 November. In Montenegro, premiere took place in Podgorica on 16 November, supporting a movie, even as an extracurricular activity, is meddling in the school curriculum and that is serious stuff
