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Castro Valley, California
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Castro Valley is a census-designated place in Alameda County, California, United States. As of the 2000 census, it is the fifth most populous unincorporated area in California, the population was 61,388 at the 2010 census. Castro Valley is named after Don Guillermo Castro, who was a soldier in the Mexican army, first known for chicken ranches, Castro Valley eventually became a bedroom community. Before the arrival of European settlers the area was settled by the Chocheño subdivision of the Ohlone Native Americans, with the arrival of Europeans, Castro Valley was part of the land granted to Mission San Jose in 1797. The area Castro Valley now occupies was part of the colony of New Spain in what was the state of Alta California. Castro Valley was part of the original 28,000 acre land grant given to Castro and this land grant included Hayward, San Lorenzo, and Castro Valley, including Crow Canyon, Cull Canyon, and Palomares Canyons. Castro had a habit and had to sell off portions of his land to pay gambling debts. The last of his holding was sold in a sale in 1864 to Faxon Atherton for $400,000. Atherton in turn began selling off his portion in smaller parcels, two gentlemen named Cull and Luce bought some 2,400 acres and began running a steam-operated saw mill in Redwood Canyon. The Jensen brothers also bought land from Atherton in 1867, during the 1940s and 1950s, Castro Valley was known for its chicken ranches. Later it developed into a community, where workers live. Lake Chabot lies at the north of Castro Valley, directly to the west is San Leandro. To the east, the closest cities are San Ramon, Dublin, the San Leandro Hills extend along the northeastern edge of the community. The 2010 United States Census reported that 61,388 people,22,348 households, the population density was 3,690.3 people per square mile. There were 23,392 housing units at a density of 1,382.6 per square mile. The racial makeup of the CDP was 58. 0% White,6. 9% African American,0. 5% Native American,21. 4% Asian,0. 7% Pacific Islander,6. 1% from other races, and 6. 3% from two or more races. 17. 4% of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race, the Census reported that 98. 0% of the population lived in households,0. 4% lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 1. 5% were institutionalized. 5. 0% of households were unmarried opposite-sex partnerships and 1. 0% were same-sex married couples or partnerships,21. 7% of households were made up of individuals and 8. 9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older
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University of Washington
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The University of Washington, commonly referred to as simply Washington, UW, or informally U-Dub, is a public flagship research university in Seattle, Washington, United States. Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast, the university has three campuses, the oldest and largest in the University District of Seattle and two others in Tacoma and Bothell. Washington is a member of the Association of American Universities and is ranked among the top 15 universities in the world by a variety of international publications. In athletics, the university competes in the NCAA Division I Pac-12 Conference and its athletic teams are called the Huskies. Seattle was one of several settlements in the mid to late 19th century vying for primacy in the new Washington Territory, in 1854, territorial governor Isaac Stevens recommended the establishment of a university in Washington. Several prominent Seattle-area residents, chief among them Methodist preacher Daniel Bagley and they convinced early founder of Seattle and member of the territorial legislature Arthur A. Denny of the importance of Seattle winning the school. When no site emerged, the legislature, encouraged by Denny, in 1861, scouting began for an appropriate 10 acres site in Seattle to serve as the campus for a new university. Arthur and Mary Denny donated eight acres, and fellow pioneers Edward Lander and Charlie and this tract was bounded by 4th and 6th Avenues on the west and east and Union and Seneca Streets on the north and south. UW opened on November 4,1861, as the Territorial University of Washington, the following year, the legislature passed articles incorporating the University and establishing a Board of Regents. The school struggled initially, closing three times, in 1863 for lack of students, and again in 1867 and 1876 due to shortage of funds. However, Clara Antoinette McCarty Wilt became the first graduate of UW in 1876 when she graduated from UW with a degree in science. By the time Washington entered the Union in 1889, both Seattle and the University had grown substantially, enrollment increased from 30 students to nearly 300, and the relative isolation of the campus had given way to encroaching development. A special legislative committee headed by UW graduate Edmond Meany was created to find a new campus able to serve the growing student population. The committee selected a site on Union Bay northeast of downtown, the university relocated from downtown to the new campus in 1895, moving into the newly built Denny Hall. The regents tried and failed to sell the old campus, the University still owns what is now called the Metropolitan Tract. In the heart of the city, it is among the most valuable pieces of estate in Seattle. The original Territorial University building was torn down in 1908 and its former site houses the Fairmont Olympic Hotel. The sole surviving remnants of UWs first building are four 24-foot, white, hand-fluted cedar and they were salvaged by Edmond S. Meany—one of the Universitys first graduates and the former head of the history department
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Tisch School of the Arts
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The New York University Tisch School of the Arts is a center of study in the performing and media arts. Founded on August 17,1965, Tisch is a ground for artists, scholars of the arts, filmmakers. The school merges the technical training of a school with the academic resources of a major research university to immerse students in their intended artistic disciplines. It is located at 721 Broadway in Manhattan, New York City, NYU has the most alumni working at Broadway theatre. Tisch School of the Arts was founded in order to provide training in theatre and film. The school created additional departments such as dance, theatre design, in recognition of the generosity of the Tisch family, the school was renamed Tisch School of the Arts. Tisch also offers a selection of classes to NYU students not enrolled in any of its programs through the Open Arts curriculum, the Graduate Acting Program offers a three-year MFA that equips acting students with the skills of a working career in theatre and/or film. The Department of the Dance offers training on the graduate and undergraduate level to students preparing for careers as dancers or choreographers, while taking full advantage of the liberal arts resources of the New York University and the cultural resources of the New York City. The Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program is an MFA program specially designed for the major collaborators in the creation of new theater and opera, composers, lyricists. NYU Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Acting Program has gained a reputation for its selectivity. Zelda Fichandler became chair of the program in 1984 and stepped down in 2008, in May 2008, Mark Wing-Davey became chair. Graduate Acting alumni have gone on to achieve many acting accolades, faison Edi Gathegi Jordan Gelber,2000 Enver Gjokaj Matthew Gray Gubler Logan Marshall Green Christopher Guest,1971 Danai Gurira Michael C. Many of the faculty have their own independent of the dance department. The program strives to prepare students for the life of a dancer, preparing them by treating their third year students as a company. Students graduate in three years, hence the schedule which is accelerated in order for dancers to graduate earlier than their peers in other college dance programs. Because of brevity of the program, students attend a six-week summer course following their first. During these summer intensives, six different companies come in a week each and teach students their style of movement and this is an excellent way for students to be introduced to companies and have the chance to get noticed and get to know the different companies in an intimate setting. This is unique to the Tisch Dance Program, and is conducive to introducing dancers into the world of auditions
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Burt Chance
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Raising Hope was an American sitcom that aired from September 21,2010, to April 4,2014, on Fox. Following its first season, the show received two nominations at the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards, Martha Plimpton was nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series and Cloris Leachman was nominated for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series. Plimpton also won the 2011 Satellite Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series, the fourth season premiered Friday, November 15,2013, at 9,00 pm Eastern/8,00 pm Central with back-to-back episodes. On March 10,2014, Fox canceled Raising Hope, James Jimmy Chance is a 23-year old, living in the surreal fictional town of Natesville, who impregnates a serial killer during a one-night stand. Earning custody of his daughter, Hope, after the mother is sentenced to death, Jimmy relies on his oddball, lucas Neff as James Jimmy Bon Jovi Chance, Hopes father. A good-natured, wide-eyed 23-year old who is clueless about raising a child, Martha Plimpton as Virginia Slims Chance. Hopes grandmother, Jimmys mother, and Burts wife, Virginia became pregnant with Jimmy at age fifteen, delivering him when she was sixteen. Garret Dillahunt as Burt Jebbidiah Chance, Hopes grandfather, Jimmys father, and Virginias husband. Burt conceived Jimmy with Virginia when he was seventeen and he has a lawn care/pool cleaning business with Jimmy as his assistant. Shannon Woodward as Sabrina Collins, Jimmys coworker and love interest, baylie and Rylie Cregut as Hope Chance, Jimmy and Lucys daughter, Virginia and Burts granddaughter and Maw Maws great-great-granddaughter. Gregg Binkley as Barney Hughes, Manager of the store where Jimmy, Cloris Leachman as Barbara June Maw Maw Thompson, Virginias 84-year-old grandmother, Jimmys great-grandmother, and Hopes great-great-grandmother. In June 2009, Fox announced it had booked a put pilot commitment with show creator Greg Garcia, Actress Olesya Rulin was originally cast as Sabrina, the love interest for Jimmy, and Kate Micucci was added to the cast as Jimmys cousin. The pilot was filmed in December 2009, in March 2010, Fox decided to recast two roles from the pilot. Shannon Woodward replaced Rulin as Sabrina, also recast was the role of Jimmys cousin, changing from Micucci to male actor Skyler Stone as Mike. With this, Micuccis role changed from Jimmys cousin to become Shelley, Fox green-lit the pilot to series with an order in mid-May 2010 for a fall premiere in its 2010–11 television schedule. On January 10,2011, Fox renewed Raising Hope for a second season, on April 9,2012, Raising Hope was renewed for a third season. On March 4,2013, Raising Hope was renewed for a fourth season, on March 10,2014, Fox announced the cancellation of the show after four seasons. Raising Hope has received reviews from critics
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Raising Hope
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Raising Hope was an American sitcom that aired from September 21,2010, to April 4,2014, on Fox. Following its first season, the show received two nominations at the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards, Martha Plimpton was nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series and Cloris Leachman was nominated for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series. Plimpton also won the 2011 Satellite Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series, the fourth season premiered Friday, November 15,2013, at 9,00 pm Eastern/8,00 pm Central with back-to-back episodes. On March 10,2014, Fox canceled Raising Hope, James Jimmy Chance is a 23-year old, living in the surreal fictional town of Natesville, who impregnates a serial killer during a one-night stand. Earning custody of his daughter, Hope, after the mother is sentenced to death, Jimmy relies on his oddball, lucas Neff as James Jimmy Bon Jovi Chance, Hopes father. A good-natured, wide-eyed 23-year old who is clueless about raising a child, Martha Plimpton as Virginia Slims Chance. Hopes grandmother, Jimmys mother, and Burts wife, Virginia became pregnant with Jimmy at age fifteen, delivering him when she was sixteen. Garret Dillahunt as Burt Jebbidiah Chance, Hopes grandfather, Jimmys father, and Virginias husband. Burt conceived Jimmy with Virginia when he was seventeen and he has a lawn care/pool cleaning business with Jimmy as his assistant. Shannon Woodward as Sabrina Collins, Jimmys coworker and love interest, baylie and Rylie Cregut as Hope Chance, Jimmy and Lucys daughter, Virginia and Burts granddaughter and Maw Maws great-great-granddaughter. Gregg Binkley as Barney Hughes, Manager of the store where Jimmy, Cloris Leachman as Barbara June Maw Maw Thompson, Virginias 84-year-old grandmother, Jimmys great-grandmother, and Hopes great-great-grandmother. In June 2009, Fox announced it had booked a put pilot commitment with show creator Greg Garcia, Actress Olesya Rulin was originally cast as Sabrina, the love interest for Jimmy, and Kate Micucci was added to the cast as Jimmys cousin. The pilot was filmed in December 2009, in March 2010, Fox decided to recast two roles from the pilot. Shannon Woodward replaced Rulin as Sabrina, also recast was the role of Jimmys cousin, changing from Micucci to male actor Skyler Stone as Mike. With this, Micuccis role changed from Jimmys cousin to become Shelley, Fox green-lit the pilot to series with an order in mid-May 2010 for a fall premiere in its 2010–11 television schedule. On January 10,2011, Fox renewed Raising Hope for a second season, on April 9,2012, Raising Hope was renewed for a third season. On March 4,2013, Raising Hope was renewed for a fourth season, on March 10,2014, Fox announced the cancellation of the show after four seasons. Raising Hope has received reviews from critics
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Justified (TV series)
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Justified is an American crime drama television series that premiered on March 16,2010, on the FX network. Developed by Graham Yost, it is based on Elmore Leonards short story Fire in the Hole, Timothy Olyphant portrays Raylan Givens, a tough deputy U. S. Marshal enforcing his own brand of justice in his hometown of Harlan, the series is set in Lexington and in the Appalachian mountains area of eastern Kentucky, specifically in and around Harlan. The series, comprising 78 episodes, aired over six seasons, Justified received critical acclaim throughout all six seasons, particularly for its acting, directing, art direction, writing, and Olyphants and Walton Goggins performances. Justified was nominated for eight Primetime Emmy Awards, with two wins, for Margo Martindales performance as Mags Bennett and Jeremy Davies performance as Dickie Bennett. In response to his controversial but justified quick-draw shooting of mob hitman Tommy Bucks in Miami, Givens is reassigned to Lexington, the Lexington Marshals offices jurisdiction includes Harlan County, where Raylan was raised and which he thought he had escaped for good in his youth. The story arc of season one concentrates on the crimes of the Crowder family, Raylan seeks to protect Ava Crowder from the rest of the Crowder clan after she shoots her husband, Bowman Crowder, dead in retaliation for years of abuse. Her biggest threat comes from Boyd Crowder, a local criminal masquerading as a white supremacist whom Raylan shoots in a stand-off. Boyd survives the shot to the chest and claims it is a sign from God that he should change his ways, Raylan hesitates to believe him, but Boyd is soon sent to prison, where he spends his time reading the Bible and preaching to convicts. Bos release is followed by Boyds, after a technicality prevents him from being further incarcerated. While Bo works on gaining dominance over the drug trade. The explosions cause a few casualties, leading Raylan and the other U. S. Marshals to keep an eye on the team. In the meantime, Raylan is dealing with personal dilemmas, including working in the building as his ex-wife. His continuing visits to Harlan are peppered with small crimes and big shootings, Bo promises the niece and nephew of Gio Reyes, head of a Miami drug cartel, that he will deliver Raylan to them in exchange for a large shipment of drugs. Boyd catches word of this and, with his flock of reformed prisoners, blows up the carrying the shipment, leading the niece. This leads Bo to go to Boyds camp and threaten to kill his own son, instead of killing Boyd, though, Bo offers his son the option to abandon his group, after which Bo will leave all of them alone. Boyd walks away into the forest, where he hears gunshots and this sends him, depressed, to Raylans door, saying he will help Raylan find Bo as long as he is allowed to be the one to kill him. An earlier plan is foiled, involving Arlos shooting Raylan, to deliver Raylan into Bos clutches, then handing him over to Gio and this is the turning point that drives Boyd and Raylan to join forces for the first time, and Boyd leads him to the Crowder cabin
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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
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Terminator, The Sarah Connor Chronicles is an American science fiction television series that aired on Fox. The show was produced by Warner Bros and it is a spin-off from the Terminator series of films. The series premiered on Sunday, January 13,2008, on the U. S. television network Fox, the show opened mid-season with a shortened run of nine episodes, January through March 2008. It was the highest-rated new scripted series of the 2007–08 television season and was renewed for a season, which began on September 8,2008. On May 18,2009, despite fan efforts, Fox Entertainment president Kevin Reilly announced Fox would not renew the show for a third season. The T-800 from the film, at its own request, is then also destroyed to eliminate any future technology that could be used to create Skynet through reverse engineering. Despite this, at the beginning of the series, a T-888 using the name Cromartie is sent back to 1999 to kill John. Now wanted fugitives with the fear of pending leukemia playing on Sarahs mind, Sarah is romantically involved with a paramedic named Charley Dixon, but ends her relationship with him to stay on the run. During the pilot, Sarah, John, and Cameron make a leap to 2007. Cromartie suffers extensive damage while trying to kill them, but begins repairing his endoskeleton and artificial flesh, because John is frustrated with their life of running, Sarah resolves to go on the offensive against Skynet. As the series progresses, the Connors are confronted with the reality that they find more enemies, either at the present or from the future. Lena Headey as Sarah Connor, Sarah Connor is a character in the Terminator series. She is the mother of John Connor, who one day become the leader of the human resistance. The authorities, however, see her as a deranged fugitive, after a friend recommended English actress Lena Headey for the role, Friedman watched her audition tape, and thought she was a tough, tough woman. When asked about her approach to the role, Headey said Im playing a mother who is a parent, bringing up a teenage son. And the way I would play that is someone whos passionate and scared and angry, so I approach that just trying to be honest within the boundaries of her. The controversy was covered by the Los Angeles Times, The Boston Herald, Thomas Dekker as John Connor, John Connor is Sarahs son and the future leader of the human resistance. He is only 14 years old at the beginning of the show, as the series progresses, John struggles with his feelings for Cameron, who is a Terminator
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The 4400
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The 4400 is a science fiction television series produced by CBS Paramount Network Television in association with BSkyB, Renegade 83, and American Zoetrope for USA Network. The show was created and written by Scott Peters and René Echevarria, the series ran for four seasons from 2004 until its cancellation in 2007. In the pilot episode, a ball of light deposits a group of exactly 4400 people in the Cascade Range foothills near Mount Rainier. Each of the 4400 had disappeared at various times starting from 1936 in a beam of white light, none of the 4400 have aged from the time of their disappearance. Confused and disoriented, they remember nothing between the time of their disappearance and their return, the season during which each actor has been included in the main cast are marked in green. When a starring actor also has appeared as a guest star during other seasons, gray square means the actor doesnt appear in that season at all. ° Older Lily °° Baby Isabelle The National Threat Assessment Command, dennis Ryland is the head of NTAC. Ryland assigns Tom Baldwin and Diana Skouris as the team to investigate the 4400. In season 2, Ryland goes to Washington and is replaced by Nina Jarvis, in Season 4 Meghan Doyle takes over as the head of NTAC. Many of the returnees have trouble getting their lives back on track after being gone from the world for years, more significantly, a small number of the returnees begin to manifest paranormal abilities, such as telekinesis, telepathy and precognition, as well as other gifts. For example, in the pilot, Shawn Farrell manifests an ability to heal the broken neck of a dead bird, in addition, one of the 4400, Lily Moore, has become pregnant between her disappearance and return. By the second season, it is revealed that all 4400 have a fictional neurotransmitter, promicin, in their brains, which gives them their powers. The government, afraid of what this group would do with such power, had secretly been dosing all of the 4400 with a promicin inhibitor, which had worked on most. One of the side effects is a potentially fatal immune deficiency. The inhibitor is ultimately removed from the 4400 by a dose of promicin extracted by Kevin Burkhoff from the blood of the infant Isabelle, at the beginning of the third season, the Nova Group, a terrorist faction made up of 4400s, emerges. Originally formed as a group in the aftermath of the promicin-inhibitor scandal. During the third and fourth season, it is revealed only a certain faction from the future wants to see history changed. Another faction, which prefers the status quo, opposes the 4400, and has sent their own operatives, including Isabelle Tyler, the exact motives of both factions have not yet been revealed
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Deadwood (TV series)
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The show features a large ensemble cast, and many historical figures appear as characters, such as Seth Bullock, George Crook, Wyatt Earp, E. B. Farnum, George Hearst, Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, Jack McCall, Sol Star, Al Swearengen, the plot lines involving these characters include historical truths as well as substantial fictional elements. Milch used actual diaries and newspapers from 1870s Deadwood residents as reference points for characters, events, Some of the characters are fully fictional, although they may have been based on actual persons. Deadwood received wide acclaim, particularly for Milchs writing and Ian McShanes co-lead performance. It also won eight Emmy Awards and one Golden Globe, TV Guide ranked it #8 on their 2013 list of 60 shows that were Cancelled Too Soon. There were initial plans to conclude the series with two TV films, but those plans never came to fruition, in 2015, talks resumed between HBO and Milch, and in January 2016, HBO green-lit a script to be written. The show was produced by Red Board Productions and Roscoe Productions in association with HBO, Garret Dillahunt portrays Jack McCall during season one and Francis Walcott during season two. Milch has pointed out repeatedly in interviews that the intent of the show was to study the way that comes together from chaos by organizing itself around symbols. Initially, he intended to study this within Roman civilization, but HBOs Rome series was already in production, Milch and his colleagues later bought many of Parkers books and papers as references for Deadwood. The first season takes place six months after the founding of the camp, in 1876, Seth Bullock leaves his job as a marshal in Montana to establish a hardware business in the gold-mining camp of Deadwood, along with his friend and business partner, Sol Star. Wild Bill Hickok, the infamous gunslinger of the west, is on a journey to Deadwood, accompanied by Charlie Utter. Al Swearengen is the owner of The Gem, a local saloon, other notable residents include Dr. Amos Cochran, A. W. Merrick, owner and editor of the local newspaper The Pioneer, and E. B. Farnum, proprietor of The Grand Central Hotel, Brom Garret, a wealthy businessman from New York City, lives at The Grand Central Hotel with his wife, Alma, who nurses a secret laudanum habit. Aware that Garret is interested in prospecting, Swearengen and Farnum deceive him into purchasing a gold claim in a confidence game. Newly arrived Cy Tolliver and his purchase an abandoned hotel across from The Gem and begin renovations, then open the Bella Union Saloon. Brom Garret soon learns that his claim is worthless and demands Swearengen reimburse his money. Swearengen orders Dan Dority to kill Garret and make it look like an accident, Dority throws Garret off a cliff, only to discover that the claim is actually a rich one after all. Newly widowed Alma Garret asks Wild Bill Hickok for guidance regarding the gold claim, Hickok asks Bullock to advise Garret, Bullock agrees
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ER (TV series)
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It was produced by Constant c Productions and Amblin Television, in association with Warner Bros. ER follows the life of the emergency room of fictional County General Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. The show became the longest-running primetime medical drama in American television history and it won 23 Primetime Emmy Awards, including the 1996 Outstanding Drama Series award, and received 124 Emmy nominations, which makes it the most nominated drama program in history. ER won 116 awards in total, including the Peabody Award, in 1974, author Michael Crichton wrote a screenplay based on his own experiences as a resident physician in a busy hospital emergency room. The screenplay went nowhere and Crichton focused on other topics, in 1990, he published the novel Jurassic Park, and in 1993 began a collaboration with director Steven Spielberg on the film adaptation of the book. Crichton and Spielberg then turned to ER, but decided to film the story as a pilot for a television series rather than as a feature film. Spielbergs Amblin Entertainment provided John Wells as the executive producer. The script used to shoot the pilot was virtually unchanged from what Crichton had written in 1974. Because of a lack of time and money necessary to build a set, the episode of ER was filmed in the former Linda Vista Hospital in Los Angeles. After Spielberg had joined as a producer, NBC ordered six episodes, ER premiered opposite a Monday Night Football game on ABC and did surprisingly well. Then we moved it to Thursday and it just took off, ERs success surprised the networks and critics alike, as David E. Kelleys new medical drama Chicago Hope was expected to crush the new series. Crichton remained executive producer until his death in November 2008, although he was credited as one throughout that entire final season. Wells, the other initial executive producer, served as showrunner for the first three seasons. He was one of the shows most prolific writers and became a director in later years. Lydia Woodward was a part of the first season production team and she took over as showrunner for the fourth season while Wells focused on the development of other series, including Trinity, Third Watch, and The West Wing. She left her executive position at the end of the sixth season. Joe Sachs, who was a writer and producer of the series, believed keeping a commitment to medical accuracy was important, Wed bend the rules. A medication that would take 10 minutes to work might take 30 seconds instead, a 12- to 24-hour shift gets pushed into 48 minutes
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The Believer (film)
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The Believer is a 2001 American drama film directed by Henry Bean and written by Bean and Mark Jacobson. It stars Ryan Gosling as Daniel Balint, a Jew who becomes a Neo-Nazi, the film is loosely based on the true story of Dan Burros, a member of the American Nazi Party and the New York branch of the United Klans of America. He committed suicide after being revealed as Jewish by a New York Times reporter and it won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival and the Golden St. George at the 23rd Moscow International Film Festival. Daniel Balint is a former Jewish yeshiva student, brilliant but troubled, as a child, he often challenged his teachers with unorthodox interpretations of scripture. He concluded that God is a bully, Daniel finds a meeting of fascists run by Curtis Zampf and Lina Moebius, where he also makes a connection with Linas daughter Carla. Daniel advocates killing Jews, and a banker named Manzetti in particular, impressed with Daniels intelligence, Lina invites him to their camp retreat in the country. Afterward, Daniel and his fellow Neo-Nazi friends pick a fight with two African-American men, get arrested, and are bailed out of jail by Carla and he spends the night with her but returns to the home of his ailing father. Daniel searches his Hebrew school notebooks and finds a semiautomatic pistol and he is harangued by his sister Linda for his Nazi beliefs, but she also urges him to stay and have Shabbat dinner with their father. The men watch television, which is forbidden, leading them to commiserate on the incomprehensibility of Jewish law, Guy Danielsen, a journalist writing an article on hate groups in the wake of the Oklahoma City Bombing, meets Daniel for an interview. He listens to Daniels antisemitic rant, then reveals that he had been in contact with Daniels old rabbi Stanley Nadelman, Daniel pulls out his pistol and threatens to commit suicide if Guy publishes the truth. Daniel goes to Linas fascist camp retreat, where he meets Drake, six of the retreat participants, including Daniel, go to a Jewish deli, where they mock the other patrons and torment the owner about Jewish dietary laws until a fight breaks out. After this fight, Daniel and his friends are required by a court to take sensitivity training, one talks about how his infant son was murdered by a Nazi. Daniel is enraged that the man did nothing to save his son, but all the survivors assert that Daniel would also have done nothing to avoid being killed, the story will haunt him, and he imagines himself as both the Nazi and the Jew. Later that night, Daniel and the other Neo-Nazis break into a synagogue, vandalize it and they also tear, trample, and spit on a Torah scroll, though Daniel protests. After they leave, Daniel takes the scroll and a tallit with him, the next morning, the Neo-Nazis hear on the news that the bomb failed to go off because the timer froze at thirteen minutes, which the rabbi explains is a mystical number in Judaism. He says that he believes this means that God protected the synagogue, back in his cabin, Daniel cleans and repairs the scroll, envisioning himself as the Nazi soldier in the Holocaust survivors story. He puts on the tallit under his shirt and performs a combination of the Nazi salute, Drake soon approaches him with a plan to kill Manzetti, so the two ambush him outside a temple, where Daniel fires but misses. Drake sees the tallit under Daniels shirt and realizes that he is a Jew, so Daniel shoots him and he continues to meet with Lina and Curtis, who want to start an above-ground movement to bring fascism into the political mainstream, inviting Jews, blacks, and liberals
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No Country for Old Men (film)
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No Country for Old Men is a 2007 American neo-western neo-noir thriller film written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, based on Cormac McCarthys novel of the same name. A cat-and-mouse drama starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, and Josh Brolin, it follows a Texas welder, themes of fate, conscience, and circumstance are explored, ones that the Coen brothers have previously explored in the films Blood Simple and Fargo. No Country for Old Men premiered in competition at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival on May 19 and it won four awards at the 80th Academy Awards – Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay. In addition, the film won three British Academy Film Awards including Best Director, and two Golden Globes, the American Film Institute listed it as an AFI Movie of the Year, and the National Board of Review selected the film as the best of 2007. More critics included No Country for Old Men on their 2007 top ten lists than any other film, in 2016, it was voted the 10th best film of the 21st century as picked by 177 film critics from around the world. In a neighboring county, Anton Chigurh, a hitman, strangles a sheriffs deputy to escape custody, Chigurh spares the life of a gas station owner after the owner accepts a challenge and correctly calls the result of Chigurhs coin flip. Hunting pronghorns in the desert, Llewelyn Moss comes across the aftermath of a deal gone awry. He finds several dead men and dogs, a wounded Mexican begging for water and he takes the money and returns home. That night, Moss returns to the scene with water and he is pursued by two men in a truck and escapes. At home, he sends his wife, Carla Jean, to stay with her mother, then drives to a motel in Del Rio, Chigurh, hired to recover the money, abruptly kills his employers after obtaining a clue to Mosss identity. Arriving to search Mosss home, he uses his pistol to blow the lock out of the door. Investigating the break in, Sheriff Bell notices the blown-out lock, using a tracking device hidden with the money, Chigurh goes to Mosss motel and kills a group of Mexicans who are preparing to ambush Moss in his room. Moss has rented a room adjacent to the Mexicans room with access to the same vent in which the money is hidden. He retrieves the briefcase just before Chigurh opens the vent and finds it empty, while staying at a hotel in Eagle Pass, Moss discovers the tracking device, but Chigurh has already found him. Their firefight spills onto the streets and both are wounded, Moss flees to Mexico, stashing the case of money in weeds along the Rio Grande. He asks for help from musicians, who take him to a hospital. Carson Wells, another hired operative, fails to persuade him to accept protection in return for the money, Chigurh cleans and stitches his own wounds with stolen supplies and kills Wells at his hotel. Moss telephones the room and Chigurh answers, lifting his boots to avoid Wellss blood, Chigurh tells Moss that he will kill Carla Jean unless Moss gives up the money, he remarks that he will kill Moss regardless of whether he receives the money
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The Last House on the Left (2009 film)
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The Last House on the Left is a 2009 American horror film directed by Dennis Iliadis and written by Carl Ellsworth and Adam Alleca. It is a remake of the 1972 film of the same name, the film follows the parents of Mari Collingwood, who attempt to get revenge on a group of strangers, led by a man named Krug, that have taken shelter at their home during a thunderstorm. The film rights were picked up by Rogue Pictures in 2006, allecas original script included elements of the supernatural, which prompted the studio to reject it and bring in Ellsworth to perform a rewrite. One of the elements director Iliadis wanted to avoid with this film, for Craven and Iliadis, The Last House on the Left primarily illustrates how even the most normal of families can be driven to evil acts if pushed too far. The film was released on March 13,2009, and took the top spot away from Watchmen with $5.6 million in weekend revenue, the Last House on the Left was met with mixed reviews from critics. Audience opinion ranked the film at a B level, from a scale of A to F, Emma, John Collingwood, and their daughter, competitive swimmer Mari, head out on vacation to their lake house. Shortly thereafter, Mari borrows the car and drives into town to spend some time with her friend Paige. While Paige works the cash register at a store, she and Mari meet Justin. While the three are hanging out in the room, Justins family members return, Krug, Justins father, Francis, Justins uncle. Believing it too risky to let Paige and Mari go, the gang kidnaps them, frustrated by Maris attempt at escape, Sadie and Francis proceed to beat Mari as she crawls from the wreckage. Krug attempts to teach Justin to be a man by forcing him to fondle Maris breasts, Paige begins insulting him to get him to stop, in response, Krug and Francis stab Paige repeatedly, and Mari watches her friend bleed to death. When he is done, Mari musters enough strength to escape the group, before she can swim far enough, Krug shoots her in the back, leaving her body floating in the lake. A storm forces Krug and his gang to seek refuge with John and Emma, Justin soon realizes that they are Maris parents, and intentionally leaves Maris necklace on the counter to alert them about their daughter. When John and Emma find Mari barely alive on their porch, as they try to find the key to their boat so that they can take Mari to the hospital, they decide to get revenge on those responsible. When Francis happens upon Mari, he is attacked and killed by John, when the couple go after Krug and Sadie, they find Justin in possession of Krugs gun, Justin gives the gun to John so that he can kill Krug. Sadie awakens and interrupts John, allowing Krug to escape from the couple, after Emma shoots Sadie in the head, John chases Krug. With a combined effort from Emma, John, and Justin, John paralyzes Krug from the neck down and leaves him to die with his head in an active microwave oven, then he, Emma, Mari, and Justin take the boat to the local hospital. In August 2006, Rogue Pictures finalized a deal to remake The Last House on the Left with original writer, the company intended to preserve the storyline of the original film
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Winter's Bone
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Winters Bone is a 2010 American independent drama film, an adaptation of Daniel Woodrells 2006 novel of the same name. Winters Bone won several awards, including the Grand Jury Prize and it also received four 2011 Academy Award nominations, Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor. Seventeen-year-old Ree Dolly looks after her ill mother, her twelve-year-old brother Sonny. Every day, Ree makes sure her siblings eat, while teaching them survival skills like hunting and cooking. Rees father, Jessup, has not been home for a long time and he is out on bail following an arrest for manufacturing crank. Sheriff Baskin tells Ree that if her father does not show up for his court date, Ree sets out to find her father, following his trail into the world where meth use is common, violence is frequent, and people are bound by codes of loyalty and secrecy. She starts with her meth-addicted uncle Teardrop and continues on to distant kin, eventually trying to talk to the local crime boss. Milton refuses to see her, the only information Ree comes up with are warnings to leave the situation alone and stories that Jessup died in a meth lab fire or skipped town to avoid the trial. When Jessup fails to appear for the trial, the bondsman comes looking for him and tells Ree that she will have about a week before the house, Ree tells him that Jessup must be dead, because Dollys dont run. He tells her that she will need to provide proof that her father is dead to avoid the bond being forfeited, Ree tries to go to see Milton again and is severely beaten by the women of his family. Teardrop shows up and rescues Ree, promising her attackers that she will not say anything or cause any more trouble, Teardrop tells Ree that her father was killed because he was going to inform on other meth cookers, but he does not know who killed him. He warns her if she ever finds out who did. A few nights later, the same three Milton women who beat Ree come to her house and they offer to take her to daddys bones. The women place a burlap sack on her head and drive her to a pond, where they get into a rowboat and row to the shallow area where her fathers submerged body lies. They tell Ree to reach into the water and grasp her fathers hands so they can cut them off with a chainsaw. Ree takes the hands to the sheriff, telling him that someone flung them onto the porch of her house, the bondsman comes back to the house and gives Ree the cash portion of the bond, which was put up by an anonymous associate of Jessup. Ree tries to give Jessups banjo to Teardrop, but he tells her to keep it at the house for him, as he is leaving, he tells her that he now knows who killed her father. Ree reassures Sonny and Ashlee that she will not ever leave them, the film has a certified fresh score of 94% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 161 reviews with an average score of 8.3 out of 10
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Looper (film)
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Looper is a 2012 American neo-noir science fiction thriller film written and directed by Rian Johnson, and produced by Ram Bergman and James D. Stern. It stars Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Emily Blunt and it revolves around criminal syndicates using contracted killers called loopers to kill victims sent through time travel. Looper was selected as the film of the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival. It was released in Australia on September 27,2012, and in the US, the film grossed $176.5 million on a $30 million budget while receiving critical acclaim. In 2044, 30-year-old Joe works for a Kansas City crime syndicate as a looper, since future technology has made it near-impossible to dispose of bodies, the syndicate uses time travel, invented thirty years later and outlawed instantly. Managed by a man named Abe Mitchell, loopers kill and dispose of face-concealed victims. To prevent connections to the syndicate, loopers kill their future selves with gold bars strapped to them when they retire, effectively ending the contract and closing the loop. Joe reluctantly hides Seth in his apartments floor safe, but is taken to Abe by Kid Blue, Joe reveals Seths location instead of forfeiting half his silver, and Abes men cut an address into younger Seths arm, then begin severing body parts. As Old Seths limbs disappear, he goes to the address and is killed, when Joes next target arrives, it is his older self with his face uncovered. Before Joe can kill him, Old Joe shields himself, knocks younger Joe unconscious, returning to his apartment, Young Joe fights with Kid Blue, only to fall off a fire escape and black out. In another timeline, Young Joe kills his older self as he arrives and he moves to Shanghai, where his drug addiction and partying persist, becoming a hitman to finance himself. Years later, he meets a woman during a bar fight, thirty years after, Joe is taken to close the loop and his wife is killed in the process. Overpowering his captors, Joe sends himself back to 2044 thereby altering history, when Old Joe sees Young Joe fall, he shoots the Gat Men and drags him away. Old Joe begins to manifest vague memories of Young Joes actions in the present, Kid Blue and several other Gat Men arrive at the diner and a gunfight ensues, Young Joe collects a corner of Old Joes map as both escape. Young Joe follows the map to a farm where Sara and her son Cid live, Sara recognizes the number on the map as Cids birthday and birth hospitals code. Young Joe guesses that Old Joe is going to all three children born at the hospital that day, not knowing which one will become the Rainmaker, so he waits at the farm to protect Cid. Jesse, another Gat Man, comes looking for both Joes at the farm, but Cid and Young Joe hide in an underground tunnel, later that night Sara and Young Joe have sex, and Sara reveals she has TK powers. Cids powers are revealed to be stronger, with Sara hiding in a safe when he has a tantrum
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12 Years a Slave (film)
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Northup worked on plantations in the state of Louisiana for 12 years before his release. The first scholarly edition of Northups memoir, co-edited in 1968 by Sue Eakin and Joseph Logsdon, carefully retraced and validated the account, other characters in the film were also real people, including Edwin and Mary Epps, and Patsey. The film was directed by Steve McQueen, the screenplay was written by John Ridley. Chiwetel Ejiofor stars as Solomon Northup, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Paul Giamatti, Lupita Nyongo, Sarah Paulson, Brad Pitt, and Alfre Woodard are all featured in supporting roles. Principal photography took place in New Orleans, Louisiana, from June 27 to August 13,2012, the locations used were four historic antebellum plantations, Felicity, Bocage, Destrehan, and Magnolia. Of the four, Magnolia is nearest to the plantation where Northup was held. 12 Years a Slave received widespread acclaim, and was named the best film of 2013 by several media outlets. It proved to be a box office success, earning over $187 million on a budget of $22 million. The film won three Academy Awards, Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress for Nyongo, and Best Adapted Screenplay for Ridley, the Best Picture win made McQueen the first black producer ever to have received the award and the first black director to have directed a Best Picture winner. The film was awarded the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama, and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts recognized it with the Best Film and the Best Actor award for Ejiofor. In 1841, Solomon Northup is a free African-American man working as a violinist, living with his wife, two white men, Brown and Hamilton, offer him short-term employment as a musician if he will travel with them to Washington, D. C. However, once they arrive, the duo drug Northup and conspire to deliver him to a slave pen run by a man named Burch, Northup is later shipped to New Orleans along with others who have been detained against their will. A slave trader named Freeman gives Northup the identity of Platt, a slave from Georgia. Due to tension between Northup and another worker, Ford sells him to another slave owner named Edwin Epps. In the process, Northup attempts to explain that he is actually a free man, at the plantation, Northup meets Patsey, a favored slave, whom Epps regularly rapes and abuses. Some time later, an outbreak of cotton worm befalls Eppss plantation, unable to work his fields, Epps leases his slaves to a neighboring plantation for the season. While there, Northup gains the favor of the owner, Judge Turner, who allows him to play the fiddle at a neighbors wedding anniversary celebration. When Northup returns to Epps, he attempts to use the money to pay a white hand and former overseer, Armsby
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The Mindy Project
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The Mindy Project is an American romantic comedy television series that premiered on Fox on September 25,2012, and aired on Tuesday nights until March 24,2015. It then began airing on Hulu on September 15,2015, the series, created by Mindy Kaling, is co-produced by Universal Television and 3 Arts Entertainment. On March 29,2017, The Mindy Project was renewed for a sixth and final season, the series follows obstetrician/gynecologist Mindy Lahiri as she tries to balance her personal and professional life, surrounded by quirky co-workers in a small medical practice in New York City. The character was inspired by Kalings own mother, an OB/GYN, Mindy Kaling as Dr. Mindy Kuhel Lahiri, a romantically frustrated OB/GYN at Shulman & Associates. Chris Messina as Dr. Daniel Danny Alan Castellano, another OB/GYN, Mindys main frenemy, Ed Weeks as Dr. Jeremiah Jeremy Reed, OB/GYN, Mindy and Dannys somewhat hapless supervisor at the office. Anna Camp as Gwendolyn Gwen Grandy, Mindys best friend who has settled down with a family, Zoe Jarman as Betsy Putch, a former receptionist at the office. Amanda Setton as Shauna Dicanio, a former receptionist at the office, Stephen Tobolowsky as Dr. Marc Shulman, a former senior partner of the practice. Ike Barinholtz as Morgan Fairchild Ransom Tookers, a registered nurse, beth Grant as Beverley Janoszewski, a former nurse turned receptionist at the office. Xosha Roquemore as Tamra Webb, a nurse at the office, Adam Pally as Dr. Peter Prentice, an OB/GYN at the office. Fortune Feimster as Colette Kimball-Kinney, a nurse and gay sister of Jody, the series was initially commissioned by NBC, but the pilot with the working title Its Messy was released from NBCs projects on January 27,2012. NBC then sent the script to Fox executives who read it over that following weekend, on January 30,2012, Fox greenlit the pilot, with Mindy Kaling attached to star. On May 9,2012, Fox placed an order for the comedy. Two days later, the title was changed from Its Messy to The Mindy Project, on August 27,2012, the pilot episode was made available to view online on various sites including Fox, in an attempt to garner interest in the series. On October 8,2012, Fox ordered a full season of The Mindy Project, on March 4,2013, the series was renewed for a second season, which began on September 17,2013. On November 21,2013, Fox announced that The Mindy Project would take a mid-season hiatus, Fox announced the third season renewal of The Mindy Project on March 7,2014. On May 6,2015, Fox cancelled the series three seasons. On May 15,2015 Hulu picked up the show, commissioning a 26 episode fourth season, on May 4,2016, Hulu announced it had picked up the series for a 16-episode season 5, which was later reduced to 14. On March 29,2017, Kaling announced the series would return for a sixth, casting announcements for the remaining series regular roles began in February 2012, with Ed Weeks cast in the role of Dr. Jeremy Reed, a sexy, British doctor in the practice
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Selah, Washington
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Selah is a city in Yakima County, Washington, United States. The population was 7,147 at the 2010 census, Selah was officially incorporated on April 3,1919. The government is a Strong Mayor/Council form, the Tree Top apple processor co-operative has its headquarters and two processing plants in Selah. In 2004 the Yakama Tribe bought the old Hi-Country juicing plant, currently, the facility is owned and operated by Sun-Rype Products USA, the U. S. arm of Western Canadas largest juice and fruit snack distributor. It continues to produce store brand apple juice and other beverages, Selah and the Wenas Valley increasingly serve as a bedroom community of the larger city of Yakima to the south. The upper valley also holds Wenas Lake, an irrigation reservoir famed among anglers, Wenas Creek flows from the reservoir through the agricultural lower Wenas Valley. This is where the Wenas Creek Mammoth was found, the creek is a tributary of the Yakima River. Selah is located at 46°39′8″N 120°32′6″W, according to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 4.52 square miles, of which,4.44 square miles is land and 0.08 square miles is water. This region experiences hot and dry summers, with no average monthly temperatures above 71.6 °F, according to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Selah has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate, abbreviated Csb on climate maps. As of the census of 2010, there were 7,147 people,2,658 households, the population density was 1,609.7 inhabitants per square mile. There were 2,759 housing units at a density of 621.4 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 85. 8% White,0. 5% African American,1. 3% Native American,0. 7% Asian,0. 2% Pacific Islander,8. 4% from other races, and 3. 1% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 16. 4% of the population,24. 0% of all households were made up of individuals and 8. 6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.64 and the family size was 3.12. The median age in the city was 31.5 years. 29. 6% of residents were under the age of 18,9. 5% were between the ages of 18 and 24,27. 9% were from 25 to 44,22. 8% were from 45 to 64, and 10. 1% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 48. 2% male and 51. 8% female, as of the census of 2000, there were 5,314 people,2,269 households, and 1,688 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,444.2 people per square mile, there were 2,408 housing units at an average density of 551.1 per square mile
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Yakima, Washington
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Yakima is a U. S. city located about 60 miles southeast of Mount Rainier in Washington. Yakima is the county seat of Yakima County, Washington, as of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 91,067 and a metropolitan population of 243,231. The unincorporated suburban areas of West Valley and Terrace Heights are considered a part of greater Yakima, Yakima is situated in the Yakima Valley, an extremely productive agricultural region noted for apple, wine and hop production. As of 2011, the Yakima Valley produces 77% of all hops grown in the United States, the name Yakima originates from the Yakama Nation, located south of the city. The Yakama people were the first known inhabitants of the Yakima Valley, in 1805, the Lewis and Clark Expedition came to the area and discovered abundant wildlife and rich soil, prompting the settlement of homesteaders. A Catholic Mission was established in Ahtanum, southwest of present-day Yakima, the arrival of settlers and their conflicts with the natives resulted in the Yakima War. The U. S. Army established Fort Simcoe in 1856 near present-day White Swan as a response to the uprising, the Yakamas were defeated and forced to relocate to the Yakama Indian Reservation. Yakima County was created in 1865, when bypassed by the Northern Pacific Railroad in December 1884, over 100 buildings were moved with rollers and horse teams to the nearby site of the depot. The new city was dubbed North Yakima and was incorporated and named the county seat on January 27,1886. The name was changed to Yakima in 1918, Union Gap was the new name given to the original site of Yakima. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 27.69 square miles. Yakima is 1095 feet above sea level. The city of Yakima is located in the Upper Valley of Yakima County, the county is geographically divided by Ahtanum Ridge and Rattlesnake Ridge into two regions, the Upper and Lower valleys. Yakima is located in the more urbanized Upper Valley, and is the city of the Yakima Metropolitan Statistical Area. The cities of Selah and Union Gap lie immediately to the north and south of Yakima, in addition, the unincorporated suburban areas of West Valley and Terrace Heights are considered a part of greater Yakima. With these cities included in the area, population within 20 miles of the city is over 123,000. As of the 2013, the population of the metropolitan area is 247,044. The primary irrigation source for the Yakima Valley, the Yakima River, in Yakima, the river is used for both fishing and recreation
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New York University
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New York University is a private nonprofit research university based in New York City. Founded in 1831, NYU is considered one of the worlds most influential research universities, University rankings compiled by Times Higher Education, U. S. News & World Report, and the Academic Ranking of World Universities all rank NYU amongst the top 32 universities in the world. NYU is a part of the creativity, energy and vibrancy that is Manhattan, located with its core in Greenwich Village. Among its faculty and alumni are 37 Nobel Laureates, over 30 Pulitzer Prize winners, over 30 Academy Award winners, alumni include heads of state, royalty, eminent mathematicians, inventors, media figures, Olympic medalists, CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, and astronauts. NYU alumni are among the wealthiest in the world, according to The Princeton Review, NYU is consistently considered by students and parents as a Top Dream College. Albert Gallatin, Secretary of Treasury under Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, declared his intention to establish in this immense, a system of rational and practical education fitting and graciously opened to all. A three-day-long literary and scientific convention held in City Hall in 1830 and these New Yorkers believed the city needed a university designed for young men who would be admitted based upon merit rather than birthright or social class. On April 18,1831, an institution was established, with the support of a group of prominent New York City residents from the merchants, bankers. Albert Gallatin was elected as the institutions first president, the university has been popularly known as New York University since its inception and was officially renamed New York University in 1896. In 1832, NYU held its first classes in rented rooms of four-story Clinton Hall, in 1835, the School of Law, NYUs first professional school, was established. American Chemical Society was founded in 1876 at NYU and it became one of the nations largest universities, with an enrollment of 9,300 in 1917. NYU had its Washington Square campus since its founding, the university purchased a campus at University Heights in the Bronx because of overcrowding on the old campus. NYU also had a desire to follow New York Citys development further uptown, NYUs move to the Bronx occurred in 1894, spearheaded by the efforts of Chancellor Henry Mitchell MacCracken. The University Heights campus was far more spacious than its predecessor was, as a result, most of the universitys operations along with the undergraduate College of Arts and Science and School of Engineering were housed there. NYUs administrative operations were moved to the new campus, but the schools of the university remained at Washington Square. In 1914, Washington Square College was founded as the undergraduate college of NYU. In 1935, NYU opened the Nassau College-Hofstra Memorial of New York University at Hempstead and this extension would later become a fully independent Hofstra University. In 1950, NYU was elected to the Association of American Universities, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, financial crisis gripped the New York City government and the troubles spread to the citys institutions, including NYU
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The X-Files
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The X-Files is an American science fiction drama television series created by Chris Carter, which originally aired from September 10,1993 to May 19,2002 on Fox. The program spanned nine seasons, included 202 episodes, and a film of the same name. Later in 2008, a film was made and preceded a tenth season revival. The series revolves around FBI special agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files, early in the series, both agents become pawns in a larger conflict and come to trust only each other and a very few select people. The agents also discover an agenda of the government to keep the existence of life a secret. They develop a relationship which begins as a platonic friendship. In addition to the story arc, Monster-of-the-Week episodes form roughly two-thirds of all episodes. When creating the characters, Carter sought to reverse gender stereotypes by making Mulder a believer. The first seven seasons featured Duchovny and Anderson equally, in the last two seasons, Anderson took precedence while Duchovny appeared intermittently. New main characters were introduced, FBI agents John Doggett and Monica Reyes, Mulder and Scullys boss, Assistant Director Walter Skinner, also became a main character. The first five seasons of The X-Files were filmed and produced in Vancouver, British Columbia, the series later returned to Vancouver to film The X-Files, I Want to Believe as well as the tenth season of the series. The X-Files was a hit for the Fox network and received positive reviews. Initially considered a series, it turned into a pop culture touchstone that tapped into public mistrust of governments and large institutions and embraced conspiracy theories. Both the series itself and lead actors Duchovny and Anderson received multiple awards and nominations, the series also spawned a franchise which includes The Lone Gunmen spin-off, two theatrical films and accompanying merchandise. The revival premiered on January 24,2016, the X-Files follows the careers and personal lives of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. Mulder is a profiler and strong believer in the supernatural. He is also adamant about the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life and this set of beliefs earns him the nickname Spooky Mulder and an assignment to a little-known department that deals with unsolved cases, known as the X-Files. His belief in the springs from the claimed abduction of his sister Samantha Mulder by extraterrestrials when Mulder was 12
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NYPD Blue
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NYPD Blue is an American police procedural drama television series set in New York City, exploring the struggles of the fictional 15th Precinct detective squad in Manhattan. Each episode typically intertwines several plots involving an ensemble cast, the series was originally broadcast on the ABC network, debuted on September 21, 1993‚ and aired its final episode on March 1,2005. It was ABCs longest-running primetime one-hour drama series until Greys Anatomy surpassed it in 2016, in 1997, True Confessions, written by Art Monterastelli and directed by Charles Haid, was ranked #36 on TV Guides 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time. Produced by 20th Century Fox and Steven Bochco Productions, film production took place in the greater Los Angeles area. The show did film in New York but only for shots that used New York landmarks. In the final season the show was filmed only in Los Angeles to save money, exterior shots of the 15th Precinct used the former 9th Precinct building on Fifth Street in New York City, also used for Kojak. Once it was demolished, the façade was recreated on a Los Angeles lot, the show was initially a vehicle for David Caruso. John Kelly was the character, and the first season revolved around him. Promo shots for the show depicted Caruso in the foreground and other first-season characters set off behind him, Season 2 saw the departure of John Kelly, and the show was thereafter built around an ensemble cast. His co-stars included Jimmy Smits as Det, Bobby Simone, Rick Schroder as Det. Danny Sorenson, and Mark-Paul Gosselaar as Det, John Clark, Jr. John Kelly and Andy Sipowicz are detectives in the 15th squad. Sipowicz is the partner but is an alcoholic who drinks on the job as well as off-duty. Kelly has an affection for his partner but becomes increasingly exasperated by Sipowiczs behavior. In addition to his alcoholism, Sipowicz is a negative, misogynist. In the pilot, Sipowicz is shot by a suspect he had attacked and humiliated earlier and this leads to his decision to sober up and save his job. While Sipowicz is recuperating, the lieutenant, Arthur Fancy, teams Kelly with a young cop from Anti-Crime. Kellys personal life is as frenetic as his professional life and he is reluctantly going through a divorce from his wife, Laura, and is embarking on an affair with a uniformed cop, Janice Licalsi. To complicate matters further, Licalsis police officer father is on the payroll of mob boss Angelo Marino, Licalsi, in an attempt to protect her father, has been ordered to do a hit on Kelly
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Home Box Office
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Home Box Office is an American premium cable and satellite television network that is owned by Time Warner through its respective flagship company Home Box Office, Inc. HBO is the oldest and longest continuously operating pay television service in the United States, in 2014, HBO had an adjusted operating income of US$1.79 billion, compared to the US$1.68 billion it accrued in 2013. HBO has 49 million subscribers in the United States and 130 million worldwide as of 2016, the network provides seven 24-hour multiplex channels, including HBO Comedy, HBO Latino, HBO Signature and HBO Family. It launched the streaming service HBO Now in April 2015, and has over 2 million subscribers in the United States as of February 2017. In addition to its U. S. subscriber base, HBO distributes content in at least 151 countries, HBO subscribers generally pay for an extra tier of service that includes other cable- and satellite-exclusive channels even before paying for the channel itself. Cable providers can require the use of a converter box – usually digital – in order to receive HBO, many HBO programs have been syndicated to other networks and broadcast television stations, and a number of HBO-produced series and films have been released on DVD. The new system, which Dolan named Sterling Information Services, became the first urban underground cable system in the United States. In that same year, Time-Life, Inc. purchased a 20% stake in Dolans company, in the summer of 1971, while on a family vacation in France, Charles Dolan began to think of ideas to make Sterling Manhattan profitable. He came up with the concept for a television service. Dolan later presented his idea to Time-Life management, though satellite distribution seemed only a distant possibility at the time, he persuaded Time-Life to back him on the project. To gauge whether consumers would be interested in subscribing to a pay television service, in a meeting of Dolan and some Time-Life executives who were working on the project, various other names were discussed for the new service. Home Box Office launched on November 8,1972, however, HBOs launch came without fanfare in the press, as it was not covered by any local or national media outlets. Home Box Office distributed its first sports event immediately after the film, Four months later in February 1973, Home Box Office aired its first television special, the Pennsylvania Polka Festival. Home Box Office would use a network of relay towers to distribute its programming to cable systems throughout its service area. Sterling Manhattan Cable continued to lose money because the company had only a small base of 20,000 customers in Manhattan. Time-Life dropped the Sterling name and the company was renamed Manhattan Cable Television under Time-Lifes control in March 1973, Gerald Levin, who had been with Home Box Office since it began operations as its vice president of programming, replaced Dolan as the companys president and chief executive officer. In September 1973, Time-Life, Inc. completed its acquisition of the pay service. HBO would eventually increase its fortunes within two years, by April 1975, the service had around 100,000 subscribers in Pennsylvania and New York state, in 1974, they settled on using a geostationary communications satellite to transmit HBO to cable providers throughout the United States
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Jack McCall
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John Jack McCall, was the murderer of Old West legend Wild Bill Hickok. McCall shot Hickok from behind as he played poker at Nuttal & Manns Saloon in Deadwood, McCall was executed for the murder on March 1,1877. Many details of McCalls life are unknown and he was born in the early 1850s in Jefferson County, Kentucky. McCall was raised in Kentucky with three sisters, and eventually drifted west to become a buffalo hunter, by 1876, he was living in a gold mining camp outside Deadwood, under the alias of Bill Sutherland. McCall was drinking at the bar at Nuttal & Manns saloon in Deadwood on August 1,1876, the inebriated McCall quickly took his place. McCall proceeded to lose several hands, and was soon broke, Hickok offered McCall money to buy breakfast and advised him not to play again until he could cover his losses. Though McCall accepted the money, he felt insulted. On August 2, a game was once again under way at the saloon. A resentful and drunken McCall shot Hickok in the back of the head with a single-action. 45-caliber revolver, McCall ran from the saloon and attempted to steal a horse to escape, but fell from the excited animal. McCall was soon found hiding in the back of a butcher shop. An impromptu court was called to order with the prosecution, defense, on trial the next day in McDaniels Theater, McCall claimed his actions were in retribution for Hickok having previously killed his brother in Abilene, Kansas. McCall was found innocent after two hours, the verdict brought the Black Hills Pioneer to editorialize, Should it ever be our misfortune to kill a man. We would simply ask that our trial may take place in some of the camps of these hills. Fearing for his safety, McCall soon left the area and headed into Wyoming Territory, but Wyoming authorities refused to recognize the result of McCalls acquittal on the grounds that the court in Deadwood had no legal jurisdiction. Therefore, the court could not legally acquit McCall. Because Deadwood was not under a legally constituted law enforcement or court system, agreeing, the federal court in Yankton, Dakota Territory, declared that double jeopardy did not apply, and set a date for a retrial. McCall was tried again in Yankton for Hickoks murder, and was found guilty. After almost three months in jail, he was hanged on March 1,1877, aged 24, McCall was buried in Sacred Heart Cemetery in Yankton County, South Dakota, a cemetery which was moved in 1881
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List of Deadwood characters
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This article contains fictional character biographies from the HBO original TV series Deadwood. Seth Bullock left Etobicoke, Ontario and became a marshal in Montana, soon he heard stories of gold in Deadwood. Rather than searching for gold, he wanted to open a store with best friend and longtime partner. At the camp, he met Wild Bill Hickok, when Hickok was murdered, Bullock pursued the killer into the Black Hills and captured him, taking him back to Dakota for trial. After his return, he became sheriff of Deadwood, Bullock, one of the few honest men in the camp, was enlisted to look after a gold claim for Alma Garret, an upper class East Coast woman whose husband was killed by Swearengens men over that claim. Eventually, they became involved despite the fact Bullock is married to his brothers widow and is the stepfather of their son. He decides ultimately to end his relationship with Alma when his wife Martha, later he learns Alma is pregnant with his child, but the pregnancy ends in miscarriage after she is married to Ellsworth. The relationship between Bullock and Martha continues to be rocky in the aftermath of her arrival until they are struck by tragedy, though the tragedy is devastating, it brings the two closer together. Martha chooses to stay with him in Deadwood, although his honest character is instinctively repulsed by Swearengen, the two form an uneasy alliance, and slowly seem to form a fondness for each other. They try to defend the camp against outside interests who have begun to appear in the camp and his fiery temper however, often clouds his judgment, distancing Bullock from those closest to him. He makes an enemy of George Hearst because his determination to stand against his criminal conduct. This puts him in danger, as Hearst does at one point try to create circumstances in which Bullock might be lured into a lethal ambush. There are several discrepancies between the historical Seth Bullock and the character in the show, in particular, the historical Bullocks wife Martha was not his brothers widow but his childhood sweetheart. In the pilot episode he states he came from Etobicoke, which is poetic license, albert Swejen Swearengen, is the proprietor of the Gem Saloon, born in England but raised in a Chicago orphanage under an abusive figure known as Mrs. Anderson. He mentions on occasion that Mrs. Anderson ran a brothel at the orphanage before running the boys orphanage. Swearengen was among the first settlers of Deadwood, earning him several land claims, the Gem Saloon, offering alcohol, prostitution and faro also acts as Swearengen’s base of operations. Swearengen’s central goal is to retain his own interests in Deadwood and keep the camp stable. While his alliances are often pragmatic and self-serving, Swearengen does show great loyalty to such as Mr. Wu
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USA Network
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USA Network is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment Group division of NBCUniversal, itself a subsidiary of Comcast. As of July 2015, USA Network is available to approximately 95.567 million pay television households in the United States, USA Network originally launched on September 22,1977 as the Madison Square Garden Network. The network was founded by cable provider UA-Columbia Cablevision and Kay Koplovitz, the channel was one of the first national cable television channels, using satellite delivery as opposed to microwave relay to distribute its programming to cable systems. Initially, the network ran a mix of college and less well-known professional sports, the channel began its broadcast day after 5,00 p. m. Eastern Time on weekdays and 12,00 p. m. Eastern Time on weekends. That fall, USA began signing on at 12,00 p. m. Eastern Time on weekdays, it added some talk shows. Sports programming began airing at 5,00 p. m. Eastern Time weekdays, in the fall of 1981, USA began its daily programming at 6,00 a. m. Later, in 1982, Time Inc. and Gulf+Westerns Paramount Pictures unit would buy stakes in the venture, the three partners had a non-compete clause that would prevent them from owning other basic cable networks independently from the USA joint venture. Said clause would cause Time Inc. to drop out of the venture in 1987, as the company attempted to buy CNN from Ted Turner, MCA and Paramount subsequently became the sole owners of the channel. In the fall of 1982, USA began operating on a 24-hour-a-day schedule, running a mix of shows, a childrens program. Weekends featured a mix of movies, some drama series and talk shows during the morning hours. Overnights consisted of old films and film shorts, and music as part of a show called Night Flight. One tradition on USA was a lineup of game show reruns mixed in with several original low-budget productions that aired over the years. It began in October 1984 with reruns of The Gong Show, more shows were progressively added soon afterward such as The Jokers Wild, Tic-Tac-Dough, Press Your Luck, High Rollers and Hollywood Squares, along with Wipeout, Face the Music and Name That Tune. In June 1987, the channel debuted another original game show, when it began, the game show block ran for an hour, but expanded significantly the following year. By 1989, the network ran game shows Monday through Fridays from 12,00 to 5,00 p. m. Eastern Time. In January 1989, USA debuted USA Up All Night, a showcase of feature films that aired as part of its weekend overnight schedule. Short news updates, branded as USA Updates, were shown from as early as 1989 until 2000, however, when KYWs news operations were heavily revamped in response to falling ratings in 1991, production of USA Updates was then taken over by the All News Channel. The ANC-produced updates continued through 2000, USA Network has not carried any news programming since the news updates were discontinued, USA Network was the first cable channel to preempted the syndicated market by purchasing a 26 Touchstone films package in October 1989
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John from Cincinnati
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John from Cincinnati is an American television drama, set against the surfing community of Imperial Beach, California, that aired on HBO from June 10,2007 to August 12,2007. John from Cincinnati is the result of an effort between writer/producer David Milch and author Kem Nunn, whose novels have been termed surf noir. The program deals with a young man of mysterious origin. The series includes surfing sequences by well-respected surfers such as Brock Little, Keala Kennelly, Dan Malloy, John-John Florence, Shane Beschen, the series theme song is Johnny Appleseed, performed by Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros. A diverse soundtrack includes Tic by Kava Kava and songs from TV on the Radio, Muse, Buddy Guy, Kasabian, the pilot for the series was shown directly after the highly anticipated series finale of The Sopranos, but it failed to sustain an audience. The Sopranos received an audience of 11.9 million people according to Nielsen ratings, subsequent episodes initially lost viewers, but ratings began to see a slow increase, and by the final episode viewership had reached over 3 million, more than some episodes of Deadwood. One day after the finale aired, HBO officially canceled the show. John from Cincinnati at the Internet Movie Database John from Cincinnati at TV
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Life (NBC TV series)
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Life was an American crime drama television program created by Rand Ravich that aired for two seasons on NBC. It was produced by Universal Media Studios under the supervision of executive producers Rand Ravich, Far Shariat, David Semel, the series stars Damian Lewis as Charlie Crews, a detective released from prison after serving twelve years for a crime he did not commit. Life premiered on September 26,2007 on NBC and aired on Wednesday nights at 10 ET, on May 4,2009, NBC announced its cancellation, a month after the final episode had been aired. The series was made available for streaming through Hulu and Netflix. In an interview with seat42f. com, series creator Rand Ravich explained that Life came initially from Ravichs own long-standing interest in, and desire to work on, a police procedural show. Ravich first created the character of Charlie Crews as the basis for the show, upon the completion of the script, Ravich immediately considered actor Damian Lewis for the role. Life centers on Detective Charlie Crews, who at the start of the first season is released from Pelican Bay State Prison after serving twelve years of a life sentence. In 1995, he was convicted of the triple murder of his friend and business partner, Tom Seybolt. Thanks to the efforts of his lawyer Constance Griffiths, DNA evidence exonerates him of the murders, after successfully suing the city of Los Angeles and the LAPD, he is reinstated to the police department and receives an undisclosed amount of money, rumored at $50 million. Crews is partnered with Detective Dani Reese, previously an undercover agent and now a recovering drug addict. Crews is not well received by Lieutenant Karen Davis, who, during the season, tries to force Reese into offering information that will see Crews suspended and eventually fired. Even though she herself is uncomfortable with her new partner, Reese backs Crews up on numerous occasions, near the end of the season, Crews manages to uncover information that implicates Reeses father in the murder. In the finale, Crews is able to bring the killer, Kyle Hollis, to justice. The second season premiered on Monday, September 29,2008, on July 21,2008, producers announced the second season would effectively re-launch the series with a new pilot episode. Earlier in March 2008, series creator and executive producer Rand Ravich explained that the season would delve deeper into the conspiracy in the framing of Charlie Crews. Similarly, more of Dani Reeses past would be revealed, Crews continues to investigate into the conspiracy to frame him and begins tracking some retired cops. He tracks down Rachel Seyboldt, the member of his business partners family. Reese begins a relationship with the new captain after her father disappears, Crews eventually learns that he had been watched since the police academy, to eventually replace an aging crime lord
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Criminal Minds
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Criminal Minds is an American police procedural crime drama television series created by Jeff Davis, and is the original show in the Criminal Minds franchise. It premiered on September 22,2005, on the broadcast network CBS, Criminal Minds is set primarily at the FBIs Behavioral Analysis Unit based in Quantico, Virginia. In accordance with the plot, Criminal Minds differs from many procedural dramas by focusing on profiling the criminal, called the unsub or unknown subject. The show has an ensemble cast that has had many cast member changes since its inception, Thomas Gibson, Shemar Moore, Matthew Gray Gubler, A. J. Cook, and Kirsten Vangsness are the only actors to have appeared in every season. The series follows a group of FBI profilers who set about catching various criminals through behavioral profiling, the plot focuses on the team working cases and on the personal lives of the characters, depicting the hardened life and statutory requirements of a profiler. The show spawned two spin-offs, Criminal Minds, Suspect Behavior and Criminal Minds, Beyond Borders, on May 6,2016, CBS renewed the show for a twelfth season, which premiered on September 28,2016. When the series premiered in September 2005, it featured FBI Agents Jason Gideon, Aaron Hotchner, Elle Greenaway, Derek Morgan, Spencer Reid, Jennifer J. J. For season one, Garcia was not a main cast member, in 2006, at the start of season two, Lola Glaudini announced her departure from the show, as she wanted to return home to New York City. Paget Brewster replaced her in the role of Emily Prentiss, at the start of season three, Mandy Patinkin announced his departure from the show because he was deeply disturbed by the content of the series. He left letters of apology for his fellow cast members, explaining his reasons, joe Mantegna replaced him as David Rossi, a best-selling author and FBI agent who comes out of retirement. Cook became pregnant with her first child and her pregnancy was written into the show. Cooks son, Mekhai Andersen, has written into a recurring role as Jennifers son Henry. Cooks void was filled by Meta Golding, who played Jordan Todd, in season six, Jennifer is forced to accept a promotion at The Pentagon, causing her to leave the BAU. Later that season, Emily is seemingly killed off, although she survives, she does not appear for the rest of the season. Cook and Brewster were both replaced by Rachel Nichols as Ashley Seaver, an FBI cadet, cBSs decision to release Cook and Brewster from their contracts resulted in numerous fans writing angry letters to the studio and signing protest petitions. CBS rehired Cook and Brewster as Jennifer Jareau and Emily Prentiss, respectively, in February 2012, Brewster announced her departure from the show after the seventh season. She was replaced in the season by Jeanne Tripplehorn, who played Alex Blake. Later in season nine, Paget Brewster made a special guest appearance, after two seasons, Tripplehorn was released from the show
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Simon Escher
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This is a list of fictional characters in the television series Burn Notice. The article deals with the main and recurring characters. Jesse Porter is a former Counterintelligence Field Activity/Defense Intelligence Agency agent introduced in the Season 4 premiere and he was initially stationed in the field, but his risky and impulsive tactical maneuvers led to his being demoted to desk duty. Because of his research on the organization that Management was hunting, Michael stole Jesses work in the course of his investigation. Jesse came to Michael for help as a fellow burned spy, but the fact that Jesse was insistent on exacting revenge on whoever burned him led the team to cover their trails leading to his burning. Left with nothing as Michael was, Jesse moves in as a tenant with Madeline and quickly fits into the team and their regular jobs. Because of the circumstances of his burning, his old handler Marv believes he is innocent and had set up. Marv makes contact with Jesse, convincing him to find the people he believed burned him by locating a bank and a book-cipher Bible. He later agrees to work with Michael and recovers the book-cipher for them, by the next season, Jesse is reinstated into an official agency, but finds the bureaucracy and red tape unbearable, so he quits and begins working at a private security firm. His position grants him many opportunities to give Michael, Sam, central Security Service Agent Jason Bly is assigned to Michaels case after Michael gained access to his burn notice and his FBI surveillance team is pulled. In the first season, Bly attempts to coerce Michael into giving up his attempts to return to the fold by harassing him and threatening his friends. Michael finally rids himself of Bly by framing him for taking bribes, Michael also blackmails him into providing a copy of Michaels classified dossier. In the second season episode Bad Breaks, Bly returns with enough material on Michael to force him to hand over Blys file. Then Bly shows up at a bank where Michael is helping the client. After Michael treats his wound and foils the robbers, the two develop a mutual respect and they exchange their respective blackmail files and part ways on good terms. In the sixth season, Bly returns as the lead interrogator handling Fionas case and he also tries to convince Fiona that Michael did not survive an explosion and is presumably deceased during his interrogation. Bly also tries to get Fiona sign a confession and attempts to give her a deal, in the season finale, Bly calls Michael and offers him protection as a witness in the investigation in order to stop the CIA investigation. Michael is able to produce evidence by staking out a meeting between Riley and a cartel kingpin, but a marina guard throws a grenade into Blys car, killing him and incinerating the evidence
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Burn Notice
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Burn Notice is an American television series created by Matt Nix which originally aired on the USA Network from June 28,2007 to September 12,2013. The show stars Jeffrey Donovan, Gabrielle Anwar, Bruce Campbell, Sharon Gless, the title of the series refers to the burn notices issued by intelligence agencies to discredit or announce the dismissal of agents or sources who are considered to have become unreliable. When spies are burned, their connection to an organization is terminated. According to the narration during the credits, the burned spy has no prior work history, no money, no support network – in essence. The television series uses second-person narrative and frequent voice-overs providing exposition from the viewpoint of covert-operations agent Michael Westen, the voice-over commentary is in the form of tips for fledgling agents as if for a training or orientation film. After fleeing a blown operation in Nigeria and being kidnapped and beaten, Westen finds himself in his hometown of Miami, Florida. He is tended to by his ex-girlfriend, Fiona Glenanne, extraordinary efforts to reach his U. S. government handler eventually yield only a grudging admission that someone powerful wants him on ice in Miami. If he leaves there, he will be hunted down and taken into custody, if he stays, he can remain relatively free. Westen invites his old friend Sam Axe to assist him, while Fiona invites herself to join them, at the same time, Michael must follow the trail that leads him to the people responsible for his being burned, and later finding out why. The series juggles these two narratives, the series dealing with why Michael was burned, and individual episodes focusing on the cases he works for clients. Jeffrey Donovan as Michael Westen, former US Army Special Forces soldier, with his assets frozen, he is forced to live off his wits and any small investigative jobs he can find while he searches for answers about who has burned him and why. He has two black belts or, as he puts it in one episode, thirty years of karate and is rated with anything that fires a bullet or holds an edge. He has an ability to assume cover identities, working in numerous regional dialects and international accents, however. He believes that his childhood, largely at the hands of an abusive father, has helped to make him into a natural covert operative while also making close relationships difficult for him. He has a brother, Nate, who appeared in several episodes before being killed by a sniper in Season 6. Michael presents himself as a cynic hardened by experience but occasionally reveals a soft and his favorite food is yogurt, which is featured or eaten by at least one of the characters in each episode. He has a relationship with Fiona. In the series finale he and Fiona are living in Ireland raising Charlie as their son, Gabrielle Anwar as Fiona Glenanne, A former IRA operative and Westens ex-girlfriend
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Burn Notice (season 3)
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The third season of the American television spy drama Burn Notice premiered on June 4,2009 on the cable television channel USA Network. Season three consists of sixteen episodes, split between a summer season and a seven-episode winter season. Season 3 picks up with Westen, having lost the protection of Management, now under surveillance by Miami Detective Paxson, who has been tasked with monitoring his activities. Michael is able to secure the arrest of a major Miami criminal Paxson has long been targeting, and he threatens to reveal the true circumstances of the arrest if Paxson does not stop following him. Michael is soon contacted by a man named Tom Strickler, a smooth-talking, gregarious freelance spy broker, who offers to unburn Michael in exchange for his help with a potentially lethal job. It is clear to Michael that Strickler has major, if shadowy, connections, at first it seems to work, and Michael is able to confirm, through interactions with undercover CIA agent Diego Garza, that movement is being made on his burn notice. In the midseason finale, however, Michael is forced to kill Strickler to save Fionas life, the action has unforeseen consequences, including the murder of Agent Garza. Following Stricklers death, Westen is contacted by an associate named Mason Gilroy, Gilroy informs Michael that he wants Michaels help on an extremely lucrative operation. Believing Gilroy to be planning something dangerous, Michael plays along to uncover the plot with the aim of eventually foiling it, after performing several errands for Gilroy, Michael learns that the job involves a maximum security prisoner being rendered from Chile to Poland. Gilroys job is to divert the plane to Miami, but he is double-crossed, before dying, he informs Michael that the man behind the operation is named Simon, a man who committed the crimes used to burn Michael. In the Season 3 finale, Michael solicits help from Management to stop Simon, Michael successfully captures Simon but is arrested himself, while Management states that Michael has a big future. Michael is taken to a room, where he sits as the season ends. Actor Michael Weston appeared in one episode as a schizophrenic MIT graduate who needs Michael to protect him from what he thinks are aliens selling the names of undercover spies. Also, Sharon Gless was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her work in this season, Gless was also reunited with her former Cagney & Lacey co-star, Tyne Daly, for the episode A Dark Road. Jeffrey Donovan returned for the season as series protagonist Michael Westen. Gabrielle Anwar also returned as Fiona Glenanne, while Bruce Campbell reprised his role as Sam Axe, Sharon Gless returned to play Madeline Westen. The third season featured a host of guest stars and recurring guests, paul Tei returned as Michaels favorite money-launderer, Barry Burkowski. Seth Peterson returned as Michaels brother, Nate Westen, the character of Detective Michelle Paxson was introduced, portrayed by Moon Bloodgood
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The Road (2009 film)
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Principal photography took place in Pennsylvania, Louisiana, West Virginia, and Oregon. The film stars Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee as a father, the Road received a limited release in North American cinemas from November 25,2009, and was released in United Kingdom cinemas on January 4,2010. The film received positive reviews from critics, the performances of Mortensen. It also received nominations, including a BAFTA nomination for Best Cinematography. A man and his young son struggle to survive after a global cataclysm has caused an extinction event and they scavenge for supplies and avoid roaming gangs as they travel on a road to the coast in the hope it will be warmer. Years earlier, the wife gives birth to their son shortly after the catastrophe and she gradually loses hope. When the man shoots an intruder using one of three bullets they have saved for their family as a last resort, she accuses him of wasting the bullet deliberately to prevent her suicide. Removing her coat and hat, she walks into the woods, in the present, after shooting a member of a gang of cannibals who stumbles upon them, the man is left with only one bullet. Later, exploring a mansion, he and the boy discover people locked in the basement, when the armed cannibals return, the man and his son hide. With discovery imminent, the man prepares to shoot his son, further down the road, the man and boy discover an underground shelter full of canned food and supplies. When they hear noises above, including a dog, he decides it is too dangerous to remain, further down the road, the son persuades him to share food with a near-blind old man. At the coast, the man leaves the boy to guard their possessions while he swims out to scavenge a beached ship, the boy falls asleep and their supplies are stolen. The man chases down the thief and takes everything from him and this distresses the boy so much the man turns back and leaves the clothes and a can of food for the thief. As they pass through a town, the man is shot in the leg with an arrow. He kills his ambusher with a gun he found on the ship. The man thinks the archer and woman were following them, and he leaves her weeping over the body. Weakened, the man and boy abandon their cart and most of their possessions, the mans condition deteriorates and eventually he dies. The boy is approached by a man who, with his wife, two children, and dog, convinces the boy he is one of the good guys, the wife says they have been following the boy and his father
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Pretty Bird
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Pretty Bird is a 2008 American comedy film. It competed in the Dramatic Competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, a sweet-natured guy enlists his pals to help him create and market his idea for a rocket-powered belt. But can their friendship withstand unexpected success, robert Koehler of Variety criticized the film as being overly calculated and predictable, noting that the only bright spot in the film was its soundtrack. Scott Weinberg of Cinematical writes that the ending is anything but pat, obvious, or predictable. It was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, pretty Bird at the Internet Movie Database
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Amigo (film)
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Amigo is a 2010 American-Filipino drama film written and directed by John Sayles. The film takes place in the Philippines in 1900 during the Philippine–American War and it is one of only a small handful of films directed by an American to address the war. The only other example is The Real Glory, starring Gary Cooper. Amigo centers on Rafael Dacanay, kapitan of the barrio of San Isidro in a rice-growing area of Luzon. The American occupation policy now changes from ‘hearts and minds’ to ‘concentration’, cinematical reports that the film was once titled Baryo, and that the idea for it came from a yet-to-be-published novel Some Time in the Sun, detailing U. S. imperialism in the Philippines. The book will actually be called A Moment in the Sun, the screenplay was written in two weeks and it was filmed over eight months on the island province of Bohol. Sayles said the amigo of the title was the mayor, The American soldiers were always asked, however, the complication in that movie that the usual war movie, you follow the guys on one side and the other side is the enemy. You root for the guys on your side and the side is shooting at them. This is a movie where it’s almost evenly divided, forty-eight percent is in English,48 percent is in Tagalog, and there’s a little Cantonese and Spanish thrown in. So the audience is asked to do something not normally asked in a chronological war movie, which is to spend time with all the combatants. They, therefore, know more than any, one character does and that affects the structure as well, but there is just a structure of events. But how you feel about those events is different because you get to be on both sides and actually care about people on both sides. In a way, what I hope is that by the end of the movie, you’re hoping that they won’t have a confrontation, the cast includes the crème de la crème of Philippine actors. It was screened on September 14 at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival, then later at the San Sebastián International Film Festival and the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival. Amigo had its New York premier at the 2011 Asian American International Film Festival on August 10, in the Philippines, the film was released on July 6,2011 by Star Cinema and Origin8Media. The film was released in North America on August 19,2011 by Variance Films, the film was met with generally positive reviews. The film received a score of 62% with a certified Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 45 reviews, james Rocchi of MSN Movies said the film feels more passionate and provocative than 99% of everything else out there. Connie Ogle from the Miami Herald in her review said A reflection on power and betrayal, peter Travers of Rolling Stone awarded the film 3 out of 4 stars wrote John Sayles, a filmmaker by trade, a provocateur by nature, means to stir things up with Amigo
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Any Day Now (2012 film)
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Any Day Now is a 2012 American drama film directed by Travis Fine who rewrote the original screenplay that George Arthur Bloom had written 30 years previously. Bloom describes the story behind getting the movie made, The screenplay for Any Day Now was inspired by a true story – not based on a true story. I wrote the original script 30 years ago, a friend of mine in NY introduced me to a gay man named Rudy. Rudy lived on Atlantic Ave in Brooklyn, at that time, Atlantic Ave was pretty rundown. It has been gentrified since then, Rudy lived in a tiny apartment and had very little money. He befriended a 12-year-old boy who lived a few blocks away, the boy had been abandoned by his druggie/prostitute mother, and lived with his grandmother. The grandmother didn’t do much to provide for the boy, who didn’t speak, i’m guessing he was Autistic, but there was no money to do anything about it. Rudy would bring the boy to his apartment, see to it that he was clothed and fed. That is where reality ended and my writer’s imagination took over, after spending time with Rudy and the boy, I got to wondering what would happen if Rudy decided to adopt him. I did my research and spoke to a number of people about the problems a gay man would have adopting a boy, the times were a lot different then, although we still have a long way to go. Several months later I had a screenplay, despite having a compelling story, Bloom would have to wait 32 years to actually see the movie made. He explains, My son, PJ, is one of the top Music Supervisors in LA, among other shows, PJ is the Music Supervisor on GLEE. Travis Fine, the director of Any Day Now, made another independent movie 3 years ago called THE SPACE BETWEEN, Travis and PJ were friends in high school. When Travis needed help with the music on his movie he contacted PJ, when the movie was done, Travis told PJ he was looking for another movie to do, something small, with heart, and about something important. PJ, who has known about my script his entire adult life, Travis loved it, and asked that I send him the screenplay. I did, and he said he wanted to make it and we discussed that, and I agreed. Travis did his rewrite, raised the money, hired the actors, if you discount the first 30 years of trying to get the movie made, the last couple have gone by quickly. I love everything Travis did to the script, and he’s made a marvelous movie and he changed the boy who didn’t speak to a boy with Down Syndrome, and cast an extraordinary Down Syndrome actor to play the part
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Revenge for Jolly!
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Revenge for Jolly. is a 2012 American comedy-drama film directed by Chadd Harbold and written by Brian Petsos. It premiered at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival and stars Petsos as a man who avenges the death of his beloved dog, oscar Isaac, Elijah Wood, Adam Brody, Ryan Phillippe and Kristen Wiig co-star. In North America, the film is distributed by Sony Pictures, highland Film Group is handling international sales. The film reverts 36 hours earlier after a man pulls up at a house, the tale centers on Harry, a freelancer who spends a great deal of time with his beloved female pup, Jolly. Owing a group of people a large amount of money for refusing to do them a favor, one day when he returns home, Jolly is found dead. Stricken with grief and anger, Harry enlists the help of his close cousin Cecil to find Jollys murderer, dragging him through a path of destruction. At a bar, they interrogate a rude bartender, Thomas, getting a lead on a man named Bachmeier, Harry snaps and shoots Thomas dead for that reason. Next, they track down known hooker, Tina, who was seen with Bachmeier. Refusing to pay her for sex and written info, Cecil is shot by Tina in the hand with a gun, but Tina joins her friend Vicki in death when Harry shoots them, as he grows overly vengeful. The following stop takes Harry and Cecil to a law firm office, the receptionist eventually tells them Bachmeier is at a wedding reception. There, Harry and Cecil show up uninvited and hold the people hostage, although Bachmeier is not present and his sister, after killing many people in attendance, assaulting Angela and shooting her husband, Gary, a man soon gives them Bachmeiers address. The film returns to the beginning, Harry pulls up at a house, leaving Cecil in his car to approach an armed Bachmeier at his front door. Harry blames him for Jollys death, and Bachmeier invites him in like nothing is wrong
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Killing Them Softly
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Killing Them Softly is a 2012 American neo-noir crime film directed by Andrew Dominik and starring Brad Pitt, based on the 1974 novel Cogans Trade by George V. Higgins. On May 22,2012, the film premiered in competition for the Palme dOr at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, receiving positive early reviews. The film is about three small-time crooks who rob a Mob-protected illegal gambling operation, which prompts the Mob to send in two hitmen, Jackie and Mickey to deal with the perpetrators. In the fall of 2008, during both the American financial crisis and the election campaign, an older man named Johnny Squirrel Amato plans to rob an illegal poker game. He enlists two younger men to do the robbery, Frankie, a business associate, and Russell. Markie Trattman, the proprietor of the ring, is revealed to have previously orchestrated an inside job by paying two men to rob his own illegal poker room. He holds up under questioning by the hitman Dillon, though later he openly admits his involvement to various criminals who laugh it off. Squirrel anticipates that the Mafia will automatically blame Markie for the heist, Frankie and Russell, though obviously amateurs, do the holdup and leave with the money. However, Driver, an emissary for the Mob, discusses the recent robbery with an acquaintance of Dillon, although Jackie understands Markie was uninvolved in the recent heist, he believes Markie should be murdered in order to restore the mobsters confidence in the local illegal gambling scene. Upon completing the crime, Russell travels to Florida to sell the dogs, while in Florida, he inadvertently informs a man named Kenny Gill of his involvement in the heist while trying to recruit him as a drug dealer. Kenny informs Jackie, who deduces that Russell, Frankie, Jackie carries out the hit on Markie himself, killing him in his car, but brings in another older hitman, Mickey Fallon, who is on parole in New York, to kill Squirrel. Mickey postpones going through with his hit, instead indulging in drunkenness. During conversation with Jackie, Mickey also reveals that he has violated his parole and it becomes clear to Jackie that the respected hitman has lost his nerve and ability to do his job. Jackie eventually decides to out the hit on Squirrel himself. He convinces Driver to arrange Mickeys arrest before the job has been completed, Russell is arrested on a drug possession charge and deported, meanwhile, Jackie confronts Frankie and convinces him to trade Squirrels whereabouts for his life. Jackie has Frankie drive him to Squirrel, upon reaching Squirrels apartment complex, after confirming Squirrel is dead, Jackie has Frankie drive him to get his car several hours away. Frankie becomes very nervous and begins speeding, unable to get Frankie to slow down, Jackie takes over driving. Once they arrive at the garage, Jackie shoots Frankie in the head without warning
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The Scribbler (film)
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The Scribbler is a 2014 American thriller film directed by John Suits and written by Daniel Schaffer, based on his own graphic novel of same name. The film stars Katie Cassidy, Garret Dillahunt, Eliza Dushku, Kunal Nayyar, Michelle Trachtenberg, Suki has been given an experimental device that lets her perform a procedure known as The Siamese Burn on herself. The machine is supposed to burn all her extra personalities until she only has one left, at Juniper Tower, Suki reconnects with her friend with benefits Hogan, a man who fakes depression so that he can stay there as the rooster of the henhouse. She also meets several female tenants and learns that Hogan has slept with most of them, one by one, the girls are found dead from apparent suicide. Suki soon realizes that the girls have actually murdered, and is worried that one of her multiple personalities is responsible. She suspects the mysterious Scribbler, a superpowered being who communicates with her by scribbling messages backwards, Alice turns out to be the evil personality of Veronica, a young woman who unsuccessfully used the Siamese Burn to remove her. After the Scribbler overpowers Alice, Veronica commits suicide, later that night, Suki is interrogated by Detective Moss, who believes she committed all the murders, and Doctor Silk, whos hoping to figure out what really happened. During the interrogation, Hogan creates a distraction, and Suki uses the Scribblers supernatural abilities to escape, filming began in May 2012 in Los Angeles at Linda Vista Community Hospital. The Scribbler premiered at the Glasgow FrightFest on March 1,2014 and it was released on DVD and Blu-ray on October 21,2014. Rotten Tomatoes, an aggregator, reports that 40% of ten surveyed critics gave the film a positive review. Metacritic rated it 27/100 based on six reviews, geoff Berkshire of Variety likened it to Sucker Punch as if it were made by The Asylum. Jess Hicks of Bloody Disgusting rated it 4/5 stars and wrote, scott Hallam of Dread Central rated it 3/5 stars and wrote, The Scribbler is entertaining and has plenty of action to keep viewers interested. If you can handle an ending that feels like an afterthought, the Scribbler at the Internet Movie Database
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Just Before I Go
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The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 24,2014, and it was released in select theaters on April 24,2015. Ted Morgan decides to suicide, but before he goes. The premiere took place at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival, the film was released in select theaters on April 24,2015 before a video on demand, digital store, DVD and Blu-ray release on May 12,2015. Rotten Tomatoes, an aggregator, reports that 10% of 10 surveyed critics gave the film a positive review. Metacritic rated it 24/100 based on six reviews, justin Chang of Variety called it a dismal, tonally disastrous small-town farce. Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter described it as a serious misfire whose tonal shifts would be difficult for a director to manage. Joe Neumaier of the New York Daily News wrote, Courteney Coxs misbegotten project is a comedy-drama that, to Coxs credit, the former Friends star clearly wanted something special, but sadly the result is. Just Before I Go at the Internet Movie Database
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Against the Sun
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Against the Sun is a 2014 American survival drama film written, produced, and directed by Brian Falk and starring Garret Dillahunt, Tom Felton, and Jake Abel. The film was released via video on demand on January 23,2015, based on a true story, three US Navy airmen are forced to ditch their torpedo bomber in the South Pacific during World War II. They then find themselves on a life raft, surrounded by open ocean. With no food, water and little hope of rescue they drift across the ocean, against incredible odds, these three virtual strangers survive storms, sharks, starvation and each other as they try to sail more than a thousand miles to safety. As part of Torpedo Squadron 6 they were to undertake an anti-submarine sweep over the Pacific Ocean, once airborne they were to maintain radio silence to safeguard the carrier being detected by the Japanese. Their aircraft lost position and was unable to return to the carrier, running low on fuel Dixon ditched the aircraft in the sea. The aircraft sank quickly taking most of the crews survival equipment with it, the men inflated the small rubber life raft and climbed inside. Surviving on rainwater and meager rations the men drifted for 34 days and travelled over 1,000 miles, before landing on the Pukapuka atoll, the crew were picked up a week later by a seaplane from the USS Swan. For his endeavors to keep his crew alive Dixon was awarded the Navy Cross, the citation read. for extreme heroism, exceptional determination, resourcefulness, skilled seamanship, excellent judgment and highest quality of leadership. Pastula and Aldrich both received presidential commendations for their courage, fortitude, strength of character and exceptional endurance. The life raft the men used in on display at the National Naval Aviation Museum, Dixon died on 26 June,1987 and is buried at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery. Pastula died on 19 October,1982 and is buried in Ohio, Aldrich died of cancer on 27 March,1973 in San Diego. The film had a premiere at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, the film was released to video on demand on January 23,2015. It was also played at the Arena Theater in Los Angeles, the film received mixed to positive reviews from critics. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 67% based on 9 reviews, on Metacritic, the film had score of 43 out of 100, based on 5 reviews. The Los Angeles Times said the film was admirable but compared it unfavorably to Angelina Jolies film Unbroken which had released a month before
