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San Diego Comic-Con International
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San Diego Comic-Con International is a multi-genre entertainment and comic convention held annually in San Diego, California. The name, as given on its website, is Comic-Con International, San Diego and it is a four-day event held during the summer at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego. On the Wednesday evening prior to the opening of the event, there is a preview for professionals, exhibitors. Comic-Con International also produces two other conventions, WonderCon, held in Los Angeles, and the Alternative Press Expo and it is also the home of the Will Eisner Awards. In 2010, it filled the San Diego Convention Center to capacity with more than 130,000 attendees, the convention was founded in 1970 by Shel Dorf, Richard Alf, Ken Krueger, Mike Towry, Barry Alfonso, Bob Sourk, and Greg Bear. Detroit, Michigan-born, comics fan Shel Dorf, had, in the mid-1960s, mounted the Detroit Triple-Fan Fairs, one of the first commercial comics-fan conventions. When he moved to San Diego, California, in 1970, he organized a convention on March 21,1970. Dorf went on to be associated with the convention as president or manager, variously, Alf co-chaired the first convention with Krueger and became chairman in 1971. Following the initial gathering, Dorfs first three-day San Diego comics convention, other locations in the conventions early years included the El Cortez Hotel, the University of California, San Diego, and Golden Hall, before being moved to the San Diego Convention Center in 1991. I was quietly walking the floor stunned and in awe of just how much bigger it really was, the convention is organized by a panel of 13 board members,16 to 20 full-time and part-time workers, and 80 volunteers who assist via committees. Comic Con International is an organization, and proceeds of the event go to funding it, as well as the Alternative Press Expo. The convention logo was designed by Richard Bruning and Josh Beatman in 1995, in September 2010, the convention announced that it would stay in San Diego through 2015. In 2015, working with Lionsgate, a channel was created to host Comic-Con related content. According to the San Diego Convention and Visitors Bureau, the convention has a regional economic impact of $162.8 million. Along with panels, seminars, and workshops with comic book professionals, there are previews of upcoming feature films, like most comic-book conventions, Comic-Con features a large floorspace for exhibitors. These include media companies such as studios and TV networks, as well as comic-book dealers. And like most comics conventions, Comic-Con includes an area, as well as the Artists Alley where comics artists can sign autographs. Despite the name, artists alleys can include writers and even models, academics and comic industry professionals annually hold the Comics Arts Conference at Comic-Con, presenting scholarly studies on comics as a medium
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Comic Con crowds in 2011 as seen from a helicopter – Panorama.
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Comic-Con crowd inside the second floor of the convention center in 2011 awaiting the exhibition hall to open.
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Pan (2015 film)
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Pan is a 2015 American fantasy film directed by Joe Wright and written by Jason Fuchs. The film is a story to Scottish author J. M. Barries Peter Pan story. It stars Hugh Jackman, Garrett Hedlund, Rooney Mara and Amanda Seyfried and it serves as an alternative origin story for Peter Pan and Captain Hook. The film had its premiere in London, England on September 20,2015. Pan grossed $128.4 million on a $150 million budget, the film received negative reviews from critics. New-born Peter is left by his mother Mary on the steps of an orphanage in London, in the process, Peter finds a letter written by his mother, declaring her love and assuring Peter they will meet again in this world or another. In retaliation for the boys mischief, Mother Barnabas summons pirates who kidnap Peter, Nibs, Nibs manages to escape but Peter does not. He is captured and taken aboard a pirate ship. Peter befriends another miner, named James Hook, after insulting Blackbeards men, Peter is forced to walk the plank over the deep mine, but survives by flying. Blackbeard then tells Peter about an old prophecy that a boy who could fly would one day kill him, Peter joins Hook and his accomplice, Sam Smee Smiegel, stealing one of Blackbeards flying ships and escaping into the forest. But as fairies could only live in the form of a human for one day, Mary was then forced to hide their newborn son Peter in the other world and seek shelter in the Fairy Kingdom when she and the fairies had to retreat. As part of his heritage, Peter has the ability to fly, Peter is hurt to learn that Tiger Lily had lied to Peter, telling him his mother is alive but she explains that he would have walked away from his destiny if he knew the truth. Peter, Hook, and Tiger Lily escape in a raft, despondent over their chances, Hook leaves while Peter and Tiger Lily arrive at the Fairy Kingdom only to be ambushed by Blackbeard who plans to use the fairies vast amount of Pixum to live forever. Blackbeard takes Peters pan flute pendant, which is the key to the fairy kingdom, Peter escapes and befriends one of the fairies, named Tinker Bell. Together, they rally the fairies to fight the pirates while Tiger Lily duels Blackbeard, Hook returns on the stolen ship and fights Blackbeards right-hand man Bishop until the ship tips over, sending both falling to their deaths. Peter conquers his fears and flies to save Hook, while Blackbeard, forced into an abyss, they subsequently fall to their deaths. Smee is the sole survivor having fled during the battle, Peter then sees a vision of Mary, who reaffirms him to be Neverlands savior, Peter Pan. Shortly afterwards, Peter and Hook, now the captain of the Jolly Roger, return to London to rescue Nibs and the orphans, who become part of Peters crew
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Roseau, Minnesota
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Roseau is a city and county seat of Roseau County, Minnesota, United States. Its population was 2,633 at the 2010 census, a post office called Roseau has been in operation since 1895. The city took its name from the nearby Roseau River, according to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.67 square miles, all of it land. As of the census of 2010, there were 2,633 people,1,142 households, the population density was 986.1 inhabitants per square mile. There were 1,288 housing units at a density of 482.4 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 97. 6% White,0. 3% African American,0. 6% Native American,0. 4% Asian,0. 1% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 1. 1% of the population. 37. 0% of all households were made up of individuals and 17. 6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.23 and the average family size was 2.91. The median age in the city was 39.6 years. 26. 1% of residents were under the age of 18,6. 1% were between the ages of 18 and 24,24. 9% were from 25 to 44,25. 3% were from 45 to 64, and 17. 7% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 47. 2% male and 52. 8% female, as of the census of 2000, there were 2,756 people,1,157 households, and 713 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,153.6 people per square mile, there were 1,229 housing units at an average density of 514.4 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 98. 48% White,0. 04% African American,0. 51% Native American,0. 36% Asian,0. 07% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 0. 40% of the population. 34. 3% of all households were made up of individuals and 16. 7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.29 and the average family size was 2.96. In the city, the population was out with 26. 3% under the age of 18,6. 9% from 18 to 24,27. 1% from 25 to 44,20. 9% from 45 to 64. The median age was 38 years, for every 100 females there were 92.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 86.4 males, the median income for a household in the city was $35,096, and the median income for a family was $44,922. Males had an income of $31,547 versus $22,419 for females. The per capita income for the city was $18,371, about 3. 2% of families and 6. 1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 2. 8% of those under age 18 and 15. 4% of those age 65 or over
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Actor
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Anyone who meets the eligibility requirements may apply for aid, which could vary from medical assistance, paying rent, or finding employment. Heros benefits are not meant to be a permanent crutch for needy creators, any granted aid is kept confidential. The Hero Initiative has two boards of directors, the Executive Board and the Fund Disbursement Board, former board members include founders Pat McCallum, editor-in-chief of Wizard Magazine, and Mike Richardson, publisher and founder of Dark Horse Comics. They are George Pérez, Roy Thomas, Charlie Novinskie, Dennis ONeil, John Romita Sr. the charity is currently supported by Dark Horse Comics, Dynamic Forces, Image Comics, Marvel Entertainment, Top Cow Productions, and Wizard Entertainment. The Hero Initiative utilizes many methods of fundraising, foremost is their annual art auction, auctioning donated original comics art-work at fan conventions. Year-long, they sell donated art and special edition comics at conventions, artists, writers, and publishers are invited to donate work, and fans are invited to donate money directly to the fund. ACTOR also sells a green Excelsior, wrist-band similar in design to the Livestrong wristband. The Hero Initiative was formerly known as A Commitment to Our Roots, or ACTOR, while the original name of the organization reflected the charitys goal, the acronym that resulted, ACTOR, more often confused people unfamiliar with the organization. 2006, George Pérez, John Romita, Sr.2007, Joe Kubert 2008, Nick Cardy 2009, Neal Adams 2010, Walt Simonson 2011, Stan Lee 2012, John Romita, Jr. The award recognizes one person in each year who demonstrates particular generosity and integrity in support of the overall comic book community. It debuted at the 2010 Harvey Awards ceremony held at the Baltimore Comic-Con
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Model (person)
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A model is a person with a role either to promote, display, or advertise commercial products or to serve as a visual aide for people who are creating works of art or to pose for photography. Modelling is considered to be different from other types of public performance, although the difference between modelling and performing is not always clear, appearing in a film or a play is not generally considered to be modelling. Types of modelling include, fashion, glamour, fitness, bikini, fine art, body-part, Models are featured in a variety of media formats including, books, magazines, films, newspapers, internet and TV. Fashion models are featured in films, reality TV shows. Celebrities, including actors, singers, sports personalities and reality TV stars, modelling as a profession was first established in 1853 by Charles Frederick Worth, the father of haute couture, when he asked his wife, Marie Vernet Worth, to model the clothes he designed. The term house model was coined to describe this type of work, eventually, this became common practice for Parisian fashion houses. There were no standard physical measurement requirements for a model, with the development of fashion photography, the modelling profession expanded to photo modelling. Models remained fairly anonymous, and relatively poorly paid, until the late 1950s, one of the first well-known models was Lisa Fonssagrives, who was very popular in the 1930s. Fonssagrives appeared on over 200 Vogue covers, and her name recognition led to the importance of Vogue in shaping the careers of fashion models. In 1946, Ford Models was established by Eileen and Gerard Ford in New York, one of the most popular models during the 1940s was Jinx Falkenburg who was paid $25 per hour, a large sum at the time. During the 1940s and 1950s, Wilhelmina Cooper, Jean Patchett, Dovima, Dorian Leigh, Suzy Parker, Evelyn Tripp, Carmen DellOrefice, dorothea Church was among the first black models in the industry to gain notoriety in Paris. However, these models were unknown outside the fashion community, compared to todays models, the models of the 1950s were more voluptuous. Wilhelmina Coopers measurements were 38-24-36 whereas Chanel Imans measurements are 32-23-33, in the 1960s, the modelling world began to establish modelling agencies. Throughout Europe, secretarial services acted as models agents charging them weekly rates for their messages, for the most part, models were responsible for their own billing. In Germany, agents were not allowed to work for a percentage of a persons earnings, with the exception of a few models travelling to Paris or New York, travelling was relatively unheard of for a model. Most models only worked in one market due to different labor laws governing modelling in various countries, in the 1960s, Italy had many fashion houses and fashion magazines but was in dire need of models. Italian agencies would often coerce models to return to Italy without work visas by withholding their pay and they would also pay their models in cash, which models would have to hide from customs agents. It was not uncommon for models staying in such as La Louisiana in Paris or the Arena in Milan to have their hotel rooms raided by the police looking for their work visas
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Model Posing on a Typical Studio Shooting Set
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Jean Shrimpton in 1965
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Wilhelmina Cooper, founder of her agency
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Singing
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Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist, Singers perform music that can be sung with or without accompaniment by musical instruments. Singing is often done in an ensemble of musicians, such as a choir of singers or a band of instrumentalists, Singers may perform as soloists, or accompanied by anything from a single instrument up to a symphony orchestra or big band. Singing can be formal or informal, arranged or improvised and it may be done as a form of religious devotion, as a hobby, as a source of pleasure, comfort, or ritual, as part of music education, or as a profession. Excellence in singing requires time, dedication, instruction, and regular practice, if practice is done on a regular basis then the sounds can become more clear and strong. Professional singers usually build their careers around one specific genre, such as classical or rock. They typically take voice training provided by teachers or vocal coaches throughout their careers. Though these four mechanisms function independently, they are coordinated in the establishment of a vocal technique and are made to interact upon one another. During passive breathing, air is inhaled with the diaphragm while exhalation occurs without any effort, exhalation may be aided by the abdominal, internal intercostal and lower pelvis/pelvic muscles. Inhalation is aided by use of external intercostals, scalenes and sternocleidomastoid muscles, the pitch is altered with the vocal cords. With the lips closed, this is called humming, humans have vocal folds which can loosen, tighten, or change their thickness, and over which breath can be transferred at varying pressures. The shape of the chest and neck, the position of the tongue, any one of these actions results in a change in pitch, volume, timbre, or tone of the sound produced. Sound also resonates within different parts of the body and an individuals size, Singers can also learn to project sound in certain ways so that it resonates better within their vocal tract. This is known as vocal resonation, another major influence on vocal sound and production is the function of the larynx which people can manipulate in different ways to produce different sounds. These different kinds of function are described as different kinds of vocal registers. The primary method for singers to accomplish this is through the use of the Singers Formant and it has also been shown that a more powerful voice may be achieved with a fatter and fluid-like vocal fold mucosa. The more pliable the mucosa, the more efficient the transfer of energy from the airflow to the vocal folds, Vocal registration refers to the system of vocal registers within the voice. A register in the voice is a series of tones, produced in the same vibratory pattern of the vocal folds
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American jazz singer and songwriter
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Ercole de' Roberti: Concert, c. 1490
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Friday Night Lights (film)
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A television series of the same name premiered on October 3,2006 on NBC. The film won the Best Sports Movie ESPY Award and was ranked number 37 on Entertainment Weeklys list of the Best High School Movies, bissinger followed the team for the entire 1988 season. However, the book also dealt with—or alluded to—a number of political and social issues existing in Odessa. These included socioeconomic disparity, racism, segregation, and poverty, the coach, Gary Gaines, was constantly in the hot seat. Tied to the successes and failure of the coach and the team in general were the conflicts the players struggled with on, the coach overused his star player, running back James Boobie Miles. When this happened, sports radio shows were flooded with calls for Gaines resignation, while recuperating on his uncles veranda he observed the garbage collectors doing their rounds, got a glimpse of a different future, and burst into tears. One of the themes of the movie depicted the coach as a figure for the players. For example, Quarterback Mike Winchell struggled with being able to play consistently, fullback Don Billingsley had a rocky relationship with his alcoholic and abusive father. Billingsley silently endured the abuse from his father, who won a championship at Permian only to find himself unable to get into college. Third-string running back Chris Comer, who replaced the injured Miles, attempted to get rid of his fear of being hit and getting injured, comers obsession with fame and recognition also came at a high price that he was at first not ready to pay. Safety Brian Chavez was easily the smartest player on the team and he ends up being accepted into Harvard College and Texas Tech Law School. Coach Gaines triumphed and struggled with winning games and connecting with his players numerous times during their tumultuous season. His job depended on the Panthers making the playoffs, and his team was in a tie with two other teams at the end of the regular season. Under Texas rules for ties, the tiebreaker was a coin-toss, the team made it to the finals, where they narrowly lost to powerhouse Dallas Carter High School. The movie ended with the coach removing the departing seniors from the chart on his wall. Notably, the chart has Case at quarterback. This referred to Permians real-life backup quarterback in 1988, Stoney Case, who led Permian, along with Chris Comer, to the 5A state title the following year, Miles Connie Britton as Sharon Gaines Julius Tennon as Coach Freddie James Connie Cooper as Ms. In the movie, some of the numbers and positions were changed, Boobie Miles was #45 and played tailback in the movie
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Troy (film)
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Troy is a 2004 American action-war film written by David Benioff and directed by Wolfgang Petersen. The film features an ensemble cast led by Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Achilles leads his Myrmidons along with the rest of the Greek army invading the historical city of Troy, defended by Hectors Trojan army. The end of the film is not taken from the Iliad, Troy made more than 73% of its revenues outside the U. S. Eventually, Troy made over $497 million worldwide, temporarily placing it in the #60 spot of top box office hits of all time. It was the 8th highest-grossing film of 2004, meanwhile, Prince Hector of Troy and his younger brother Paris negotiate a peace treaty with Menelaus, King of Sparta. Paris, however, is having a love affair with Menelaus wife, Queen Helen. Upon learning of this, Menelaus meets with Agamemnon, his elder brother, Agamemnon, who has wanted to conquer Troy for a long time, agrees, since it will give him control of the Aegean Sea. On Nestor, King of Pylos advice, Agamemnon has Odysseus, King of Ithaca, Achilles, who strongly dislikes Agamemnon, initially refuses, but eventually decides to go after his mother, Thetis, tells him that though he will die, he will be forever remembered. The Trojan and Greek armies meet outside the walls of Troy, during a parley, Paris offers to duel Menelaus personally for Helens hand in exchange for the city being spared. Agamemnon, intending to take the city regardless of the outcome, Menelaus wounds Paris and almost kills him, but is himself killed by Hector. In the ensuing battle, most of Agamemnons forces fall to Troys archers, on Odysseus insistence, Agamemnon gives the order to fall back. In order to keep their spirits up, he gives Briseis to the Greek soldiers for their amusement, Briseis sneaks into Achilless quarters later that night intent on killing him. However, Briseis quickly falls for him, giving up her virginity as Achilles seduces, Achilles, realizing the war is a lost cause, resolves to leave Troy in the morning. Despite Hectors advice otherwise, Priam instructs him to retake the Trojan beach in the night, the attack brings the Greeks together and the Myrmidons enter the battle. Hector personally duels a man he believes to be Achilles and cuts his throat, devastated, the armies agree to stop fighting for the day. Achilles is informed of his cousins death and vows revenge, the next day, Achilles arrives outside Troy and demands Hector come out. The two fight evenly for a while until Achilles wears Hector down and kills him, dragging his corpse back to the Trojan beach, straining his relationship with Briseis. Priam, in disguise, sneaks into the camp and meets with Achilles, ashamed of his actions, Achilles agrees and allows Briseis to return to Troy with Priam, promising a truce of twelve days so that Hectors funeral rites may be held in peace. He also tells his men to return home without him, Agamemnon declares that he will take Troy no matter what
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Four Brothers (film)
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Four Brothers is a 2005 American crime thriller film directed by John Singleton. The movie stars Mark Wahlberg, Tyrese Gibson, André Benjamin, the film was shot in Detroit, Michigan, Regent Park, in the East End of Toronto, Ontario, and Hamilton, Ontario. The movie plot is based on the classic Western The Sons of Katie Elder. The seemingly random murder of their mother, Evelyn Mercer, at a Highland Park, Michigan convenience store, brings four brothers back home to Detroit. Originally under the impression the crime was a simple robbery-gone-wrong, the soon discover that the robbery was merely a cover for what was, in fact. After this revelation, Bobby, Angel, Jeremiah and Jack Mercer track down the hired guns who killed Evelyn, refusing to say anything, they are unceremoniously executed by Bobby and Angel. The next day, Detroit Police Lieutenant Green and Detective Fowler confront the brothers about the murders, Lieutenant Green warns them that their interference with Evelyn’s case is ill-advised, and that it will eventually put them in over their heads. After confronting Jeremiah about the revelation of his business and benefiting from Evelyns life insurance. In his effort to restore his business and relieve pressure from himself, as for the life insurance, Jeremiah explains that the money went directly to him for his daughters, because he paid all of Evelyns bills while his other brothers were not around. Back at their home, during a confrontation with Jeremiah, Sweet’s men attack the brothers, Jack is shot and killed during the attack. Bobby finds one of the still alive and questions him about who sent them. He almost spares the gunman but is offended when the gunman mumbles Thank God, when Lieutenant Green arrives, he tells them not to worry about any legal ramifications, assuring them that it will go down as self-defense. He also informs them that Evelyn filed a report regarding Victor Sweet and his involvement in Jeremiahs affairs. Green warns the brothers to stay out of the matter and let him handle Fowler, later at a bar Green confronts Fowler, hitting him and ordering Fowler to hand in his badge. They walk out of the bar, and Fowler kills Green, meanwhile, the remaining brothers devise a plan to buy Victor Sweet off with the $400,000 from their mothers life insurance. When Sweet accepts, Angel sets off for Fowlers, arriving at Fowlers, he subdues him. Jeremiah then goes to meet Sweet, while Angels girlfriend, Sofi, heads to the police station, hearing the sirens in the distance, Fowler thinks they are coming for Angel, until Angel opens his jacket showing a wire. Angel claims the whole conversation was taped, including Fowlers admission that he killed Green, the police arrive at Fowlers in full force, and Fowler gets the upper hand on Angel
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Eragon (film)
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Eragon is a 2006 British-American action-fantasy film directed by Stefen Fangmeier and written by Peter Buchman, based on the novel of the same name by Christopher Paolini. Principal photography took place at the Mafilm Fót Studios in Hungary, visual effects and animation were by Weta Digital and Industrial Light & Magic. Eragon was released worldwide between December 13 and December 15,2006 by 20th Century Fox and it was the 10th worst reviewed film of 2006 on Rotten Tomatoes, but the 31st highest-grossing film of 2006 in the US. The film was released for home entertainment on March 20,2007 and it is notable for being the last film to be released on VHS in the United States. Arya, elf princess of Ellesméra, runs for her life, a Shade called Durza, subordinate of king Galbatorix, pursues and corners Arya, who uses magic to send the stone away. Eragon, a boy living in the country of Alagaësia with his uncle, is hunting for food when he comes across the stone. Hoping to trade it for food, Eragon brings the stone home, as he touches the dragon, a magical mark is burned into his palm. A few people are reacting to this incident, including Arya, an old man named Brom. Eragon shelters and feeds the dragon, which learns to fly and magically grows to full size, when they are out, Durzas monstrous minions, the Razac, arrive at the village to look for the dragon, killing Eragons uncle in the process. Blaming Saphira for his uncles death, Eragon sends her away, Brom shows up, warns Eragon of Saphiras importance, and urges him to call her back. Brom leads the group to the Varden, rebel freedom fighters opposing Galbatorix, on the way, Brom fills Eragon in on the knowledge of dragon riders, Galbatorix, Durza and the Razac. In a small village, they meet where a fortune-teller named Angela, who tells Eragon of a woman awaiting his help, and that his dangerous path ahead. When Brom and Eragon are attacked by Galbatorixs servants, the Urgals, Eragon attempts to mimic Brom and wipes out the group with a magic attack. Brom teaches him to control his magic and bond his powers with Saphira, Durza sets a trap for Eragon, using Arya as bait. Hearing her telepathic calls, Eragon finds her, but is ambushed by Durza, Eragon is outmatched, and Brom arrives to help him, getting mortally wounded in the process. Eragon shoots an arrow into Durzas head, causing him to disappear, the trio escapes, and Brom dies of his wounds while flying on Saphira. Eragon confronts a hooded figure that has been following them and he reveals himself to be Murtagh and guides them to the Varden. Soon after, Durza and his men surround the rebel camp, Eragon, Saphira, Arya, and the Varden prepare for battle
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Country Strong
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Country Strong is a 2010 drama film starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Tim McGraw, Garrett Hedlund, and Leighton Meester. The film, about an emotionally unstable country music star who attempts to resurrect her career, was directed and it premiered in Nashville, Tennessee on November 8,2010, and had a wide release in the United States on January 7,2011. This is the film in which McGraw and Hedlund have worked together. The film begins with Beau, singing with Kelly, a recovering alcoholic going through rehab, Beau is clearly smitten by her, and it is later revealed that the two have been having an affair, even though Kelly is married to James. Kelly is checked out of rehab a month early by James and she agrees on the condition that Beau becomes her opening act. James has already plans to see Chiles Stanton, a beauty queen with potential to become a rising singer. On the night of Chiles performance, it is revealed that Beau has been acquainted with her before and does not want her on the tour, dismissing her as a Country Barbie. Chiles performance nearly falls apart as she gets stage fright and can not sing, however, Beau steps in, the two sing the song together, and it gives Chiles the courage to continue on her own. James is impressed by Beaus performance, and offers the opening act to both Beau and Chiles and he suggests to Beau that he and Chiles could make quite the duo, but Beau disagrees. Nevertheless, Beau agrees to go on the tour because he cares so much about Kelly. At that concert, she was five months pregnant and was found to have an alcohol level of 0.19 when she was in the hospital for the injuries related to the fall. Kelly falls apart, starts drinking, and almost refuses to go on, however, she is coerced into going on stage by James. She begins to sing Country Strong but breaks down on stage and she attempts to try another song, A Fighter, but breaks down again and is led off stage by her husband, ending the show. They tell the media at a conference that they had to cancel the show due to food poisoning. Beau ends his relationship with Kelly, and begins to more time with Chiles. Both Chiles and Beau form a bond and Beau lets go of his earlier hostilities towards her and she even finishes the chorus to his song Give in to Me. Later, Beau confronts James about Kellys worsening condition, James insists that Kelly may get better, and says that he cant let her go out with a failure. Beau disagrees and subtly admits their affair, enraged, James punches him in the jaw and leaves the room
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Tron: Legacy
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It is a sequel to the 1982 film Tron, whose director Steven Lisberger returned to produce. The cast includes Jeff Bridges and Bruce Boxleitner reprising their roles as Kevin Flynn and Alan Bradley, respectively, as well as Garrett Hedlund, Olivia Wilde, interest in creating a sequel to Tron arose after the film garnered a cult following. After much speculation, Walt Disney Pictures began an effort in 2005 to devise Tron, Legacy, with the hiring of Klugman. Kosinski was recruited as two years later. Principal photography took place in Vancouver over 67 days, in, most sequences were shot in 3D and ten companies were involved with the extensive visual effects work. Chroma keying and other techniques were used to more freedom in creating effects. Daft Punk composed the score, incorporating orchestral sounds with their trademark electronic music. Tron, Legacy premiered at Tokyo on November 30,2010 and was released in North America on December 17,2010 by Walt Disney Pictures. Disney vigorously promoted the film across multiple platforms, including merchandising, consumer products, theme parks. The film grossed $400 million during its theatrical run. In 1989, seven years after the events of the first film, Kevin Flynn, twenty years later, his son Sam, now ENCOMs primary shareholder, takes little interest in the company beyond playing an annual prank on its board of directors. Sam discovers a large computer in a basement, which suddenly teleports him to the Grid. He is quickly captured and sent to the Games, where he is forced to fight a masked program named Rinzler. When Sam is injured and begins bleeding, Rinzler realizes that Sam is a human User and takes him before Clu, the Grids corrupt ruling program who resembles a younger Kevin Flynn. Clu nearly kills Sam in a Light Cycle match, but Sam is rescued by Quorra, an apprentice of Flynn, Flynn reveals to Sam that he had been working to create a perfect computer system and had appointed Clu and Tron its co-creators. Clu, considering them an aberration, betrayed Flynn, seemingly killed Tron, meanwhile, the I/O portal permitting travel between the two worlds had closed, leaving Flynn trapped in the system. Now that Clu has gained control, he sent the message to Alan in order to lure Sam onto the Grid. Against his fathers wishes, Sam returns to Clus territory on Quorras tip-off to find Zuse, at the End of Line Club, its owner Castor reveals himself to be Zuse, then betrays Sam to Clus guards
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Top to bottom: Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund and Olivia Wilde star in the film.
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On the Road (film)
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On the Road is a 2012 adventure drama film directed by Walter Salles. The executive producer was Francis Ford Coppola, filming began on August 4,2010, in Montreal, Quebec, with a $25 million budget. On May 23,2012, the film premiered in competition for the Palme dOr at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, the film received mixed early reviews after it premiered at the film festival. The film also premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival in September, in 1947 New York, on the day his father is buried, Sal Paradise is out with his friend Carlo Marx who is, like him, an aspiring writer. Theyre invited by common friend Chad to meet young car thief from Denver Dean Moriarty along with Deans 16-year-old wife Marylou, Sal and Carlo befriend Dean, smoking marijuana with him and visiting a jazz nightclub where they meet saxophonist Walter, who also befriends them. Sal teaches Dean how to write before Dean leaves for Denver with Carlo, after much contemplation, writers block, and a solemn visit to his fathers grave, Sal decides to join his friends in Denver and embarks on the road for the first time. There, Sal meets Camille, an art student for whom Dean is divorcing Marylou. Carlo starts to question his sexuality, and Carlo and Dean start an affair, Carlo, Sal, Camille, and Dean visit a bar where Dean plays Ive Got the World on a String on the jukebox, and Camille bonds with Sal. Carlo tells Sal he thinks he might be gay, and he plans to travel to Africa, Sal leaves aboard a bus and meets Terry. The two travel to California, where Terry works on cotton fields with her family while Sal helps, Sal and Terry have a brief affair before Sal, realizing he isnt made to work in the fields, heads back home. In December 1948, Dean, Marylou, and Ed Dunkel arrive at Sals sisters home in North Carolina, Sals family feeds the trio, who havent eaten for 30 hours, and the next day the trio, Sal, and Sals mother drive back to New York. The guys and Marylou celebrate New Years Eve at Carlos place, later, Dean convinces Sal to partake in a threesome with him and Marylou. Sal starts kissing Marylou, but Deans presence makes him nervous, following this, Dean and Marylou have sex, while Sal listens in the other room. The next day, they ride off to California and leave Ed at Bulls, when they arrive in San Francisco, Dean drives to Camilles place, leaving Sal and Marylou to rent a room, where the two have sex. The next morning, Marylou leaves to return to her sailor fiancé in Denver, and Sal goes over to visit Dean and Camille, Sal and Dean visit a nightclub, leaving Camille alone to deal with the children. When they return home, she kicks Dean out, Sal and Dean travel to Denver in search of Deans father, but have no luck finding him. They then travel back to New York with a tall, thin salesman from whom Dean tries to get money in exchange for sex, Dean succeeds, which gives him and Sal enough money to get where they need to go. Eight months later, Dean asks Sal if he would like to drive to Mexico, when they arrive a kid gets high with them and leads them to a whorehouse, where Dean and Sal dance and have sex with some of the prostitutes
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Garrett Hedlund 's portrayal of Dean Moriarty was singled out for praise.
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Inside Llewyn Davis
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Inside Llewyn Davis /ˈluː. ɪn deɪvɪs/ is a 2013 American black comedy drama film written, directed, produced, and edited by Joel and Ethan Coen. Set in 1961, the film one week in the life of Llewyn Davis, played by Oscar Isaac. It co-stars Carey Mulligan, John Goodman, Garrett Hedlund, F. Murray Abraham, although Davis is a fictional character, the story was partly inspired by the autobiography of folk singer Dave Van Ronk. Most of the songs performed in the film are sung in full. T Bone Burnett was the music producer. The film won the Grand Prix at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, the film received a limited release in the United States on December 6,2013, and was given a wide release on January 10,2014. Inside Llewyn Davis has been acclaimed, and was voted the 11th best film of the 21st century by 177 critics in a 2016 BBC Culture poll. In February 1961, Llewyn Davis is a folk singer in New York Citys Greenwich Village. His musical partner, Mike Timlin, has died by suicide, his recent solo album Inside Llewyn Davis is not selling, he has no money and is sleeping on the couches of friends and acquaintances. Llewyn wakes up in the apartment of two of his older and wealthier friends, the Gorfeins, when he leaves, the Gorfeins cat escapes and Llewyn is locked out. Llewyn takes the cat to the apartment of Jim and Jean Berkey, Jean reluctantly agrees to let Llewyn stay that night. Jean tells Llewyn she is pregnant, the next morning, the Gorfeins cat escapes again. Later Jean, fearing that Llewyn may be the father, asks him to pay for an abortion, Llewyn visits his sister in the hope of borrowing money but realizes it wont be possible. Their conversation makes it clear that they are living in different worlds and she mentions that he should look into going back to the Merchant Marine if the music business isnt working out. On Jims invitation, Llewyn, as part of the John Glenn Singers, records a novelty song with Jim, needing money immediately, Llewyn agrees to $200 with no royalties. While talking to Jean at a café, Llewyn spots what he believes to be the Gorfeins cat, asked to play after dinner, he reluctantly performs Fare Thee Well, a song he had recorded with Mike. When Mrs. Gorfein starts to sing Mikes harmony, Llewyn becomes angry, Mrs. Gorfein leaves the table crying, then returns with the cat, having realized that it is not theirs. Llewyn rides with two musicians driving to Chicago, the beat poet Johnny Five and the odious jazz musician Roland Turner
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Unbroken (film)
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The film revolves around the life of USA Olympian and athlete Louis Louie Zamperini, portrayed by Jack OConnell. Zamperini survived in a raft for 47 days after his bomber crash landed in the ocean during World War II, the film had its world premiere in Sydney on November 17,2014, and received a wide release in the United States on December 25,2014. The film grossed $115.6 million in North America, with a total of over $163 million. The plane is damaged in combat, with a number of the crew injured. The pilot, Phil, manages to bring it to a stop at the end of the thanks to an exploded tire. The story flashes back to Louies childhood as a young Italian-American boy in Torrance, Louie is a troublemaker, who steals, drinks liquor and smokes, to the disappointment of his parents. He is often picked on by other kids for being of Italian ethnicity, one day, Louie is caught looking up womens dresses from under the bleachers during a track meet. His brother Peter sees how fast Louie runs away and decides to train him to be a runner, as he grows, Louie becomes more disciplined and also becomes an accomplished distance runner, earning him the nickname The Torrance Tornado. He qualifies for the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, Louie comes in 8th and sets a record for speed in the final lap in the 5,000 meters race. Returning to 1943, Louie, the crew and several replacements are sent on a search-and-rescue mission with a plane previously used for spare parts. During the mission, the two left engines fail and the plane crashes in the ocean. Louie, Mac and Phil survive and live on two inflatable rafts, after three days, a search plane flies over but they are unable to get its attention. They weather a storm and fend off an attack while subsisting on rations, rainwater, birds. On the 27th day, they get the attention of a Japanese plane, on the 33rd day Mac dies. On the 47th day, Japanese sailors capture Louie and Phil, Louie and Phil are then taken to Kwajalein Atoll, where they are kept in a dungeon. Louie sees the names of nine U. S. marines, Louie later finds out that they were beheaded. One day, the Japanese ask Louie and Phil to tell them about B-class bombers, Louie tells they flew D-class and draws a picture of a radio. The film then fast forwards to when the two are separated and sent to different POW camps
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Miyavi,
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Minnesota
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Minnesota is a state in the midwestern and northern regions of the United States. Minnesota was admitted as the 32nd U. S. state on May 11,1858, the state has a large number of lakes, and is known by the slogan Land of 10,000 Lakes. Its official motto is LÉtoile du Nord, Minnesota is the 12th largest in area and the 21st most populous of the U. S. Minnesota is known for its progressive political orientation and its high rate of civic participation and voter turnout. Until European settlement, Minnesota was inhabited by the Dakota and Ojibwe/Anishinaabe, in recent decades, immigration from Asia, the Horn of Africa, and Latin America has broadened its historic demographic and cultural composition. Minnesotas standard of living index is among the highest in the United States, Native Americans demonstrated the name to early settlers by dropping milk into water and calling it mnisota. Many places in the state have similar names, such as Minnehaha Falls, Minneiska, Minneota, Minnetonka, Minnetrista, and Minneapolis, a combination of mni and polis, Minnesota is the second northernmost U. S. state. Its isolated Northwest Angle in Lake of the Woods county is the part of the 48 contiguous states lying north of the 49th parallel. The state is part of the U. S. region known as the Upper Midwest and it shares a Lake Superior water border with Michigan and a land and water border with Wisconsin to the east. Iowa is to the south, North Dakota and South Dakota are to the west, with 86,943 square miles, or approximately 2.25 percent of the United States, Minnesota is the 12th-largest state. Minnesota has some of the Earths oldest rocks, gneisses that are about 3.6 billion years old. About 2.7 billion years ago, basaltic lava poured out of cracks in the floor of the primordial ocean, the roots of these volcanic mountains and the action of Precambrian seas formed the Iron Range of northern Minnesota. Following a period of volcanism 1, in more recent times, massive ice sheets at least one kilometer thick ravaged the landscape of the state and sculpted its terrain. The Wisconsin glaciation left 12,000 years ago and these glaciers covered all of Minnesota except the far southeast, an area characterized by steep hills and streams that cut into the bedrock. This area is known as the Driftless Zone for its absence of glacial drift, much of the remainder of the state outside the northeast has 50 feet or more of glacial till left behind as the last glaciers retreated. Gigantic Lake Agassiz formed in the northwest 13,000 years ago and its bed created the fertile Red River valley, and its outflow, glacial River Warren, carved the valley of the Minnesota River and the Upper Mississippi downstream from Fort Snelling. Minnesota is geologically quiet today, it experiences earthquakes infrequently, the states high point is Eagle Mountain at 2,301 feet, which is only 13 miles away from the low of 601 feet at the shore of Lake Superior. Notwithstanding dramatic local differences in elevation, much of the state is a rolling peneplain. Two major drainage divides meet in Minnesotas northeast in rural Hibbing, forming a triple watershed, precipitation can follow the Mississippi River south to the Gulf of Mexico, the Saint Lawrence Seaway east to the Atlantic Ocean, or the Hudson Bay watershed to the Arctic Ocean
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Eagle Mountain, the highest natural point in Minnesota at 2,301 feet (701 m) is located in northeastern part of the state.
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Swedish people
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Swedes are a Germanic ethnic group native to Sweden. They mostly inhabit Sweden and the other Nordic countries, in particular Finland, with a substantial diaspora in other countries, the English term Swede has been attested in English since the late 16th century and is of Middle Dutch or Middle Low German origin. The term is believed to have derived from the Proto-Indo-European reflexive pronominal root, *se. The word must have meant ones own, the same root and original meaning is found in the ethnonym of the Germanic tribe Suebi, preserved to this day in the name Swabia. Sweden enters proto-history with the Germania of Tacitus in AD98, in Germania 44,45 he mentions the Swedes as a powerful tribe with ships that had a prow in both ends. Which kings ruled these Suiones is unknown, but Norse mythology presents a line of legendary and semi-legendary kings going back to the last centuries BC. In the 6th century Jordanes named two tribes, which he calls the Suehans and the Suetidi, who lived in Scandza and these two names are both considered to refer to the same tribe. The Suehans, he says, has very fine horses just as the Thyringi tribe, the Icelander Snorri Sturluson wrote of the 6th-century Swedish king Adils that he had the finest horses of his days. The Suehans supplied black fox-skins for the Roman market, then Jordanes names the Suetidi which is considered to be the Latin form of Svitjod. He writes that the Suetidi are the tallest of men - together with the Dani, later he mentions other Scandinavian tribes as being of the same height. Originating in semi-legendary Scandza, a Gothic population had crossed the Baltic Sea before the 2nd century AD and they reaching Scythia on the coast of the Black Sea in modern Ukraine, where Goths left their archaeological traces in the Chernyakhov culture. In the 5th and 6th centuries, they divided as the Visigoths and the Ostrogoths. Crimean Gothic communities appear to have survived intact in the Crimea until the late 18th century, the Swedish Viking Age lasted roughly between the 8th and 11th centuries. During this period, it is believed that the Swedes expanded from eastern Sweden and it is believed that Swedish Vikings and Gutar mainly travelled east and south, going to Finland, the Baltic countries, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine the Black Sea and further as far as Baghdad. Their routes passed through the Dnieper down south to Constantinople, on which they did numerous raids, the Byzantine Emperor Theophilos noticed their great skills in war and invited them to serve as his personal bodyguard, known as the varangian guard. The Swedish Vikings, called Rus are also believed to be the fathers of Kievan Rus. The Arabic traveller Ibn Fadlan described these Vikings as following, I have seen the Rus as they came on their merchant journeys, each man has an axe, a sword, and a knife, and keeps each by him at all times. The swords are broad and grooved, of Frankish sort, the adventures of these Swedish Vikings are commemorated on many runestones in Sweden, such as the Greece Runestones and the Varangian Runestones
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Eric the Victorious praying to
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Gustav Vasa starts a revolution in Dalarna. After the
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Death of
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Norwegians are a Germanic ethnic group native to Norway. They share a culture and speak the Norwegian language. Towards the end of the 3rd millennium BC, Proto-Indo-European speaking Battle-Axe peoples migrated to Norway bringing domesticated horses, agriculture, cattle, during the Viking age, Harald Fairhair unified the Norse petty kingdoms after being victorious at the Battle of Hafrsfjord in the 880s. Two centuries of Viking expansion tapered off following the decline of Norse paganism with the adoption of Christianity in the 11th century, during The Black Death, approximately 60% of the population died and in 1397 Norway entered a union with Denmark. In 1814, following Denmark-Norways defeat in the Napoleonic Wars, Norway entered a union with Sweden, rising nationalism throughout the 19th century led to a 1905 referendum granting Norway independence. Although Norway remained officially neutral in World War I, the country was allied with the Entente powers. In World War II Norway proclaimed its neutrality, but was occupied for five years by Nazi Germany. In 1949, neutrality was abandoned and Norway became a member of NATO, discovery of oil and gas in adjacent waters in the late 1960s boosted Norways economic fortunes but in referenda held in 1972 and 1994, Norway rejected joining the EU. Key domestic issues include integration of a fast growing immigrant population, maintaining the countrys generous social safety net with an aging population, as with many of the people from European countries, Norwegians are spread throughout the world. There are more than 100,000 Norwegian citizens living abroad permanently, mostly in the U. S, Norwegian Vikings travelled north and west and founded vibrant communities in the Faroe Islands, Shetland, Orkney, Iceland, Ireland, Scotland, and northern England. They conducted extensive raids in Ireland and founded the cities of Cork, Dublin, in 947, a new wave of Norwegian Vikings appeared in England when Erik Bloodaxe captured York. Apart from Britain and Ireland, Norwegian Vikings established settlements in largely uninhabited regions, the first known permanent Norwegian settler in Iceland was Ingólfur Arnarson. In the year 874 he settled in Reykjavík, after his expulsion from Iceland Erik the Red discovered Greenland, a name he chose in hope of attracting Icelandic settlers. Viking settlements were established in the fjords of the southern and western coast. Eriks relative Leif Eriksson later discovered North America, during the 17th and 18th centuries, many Norwegians emigrated to the Netherlands, particularly Amsterdam. The Netherlands was the second most popular destination for Norwegian emigrants after Denmark, loosely estimated, some 10% of the population may have emigrated, in a period when the entire Norwegian population consisted of some 800,000 people. The Norwegians left with the Dutch trade ships that when in Norway traded for timber, hides, herring, young women took employment as maids in Amsterdam. Young men took employment as sailors, large parts of the Dutch merchant fleet and navy came to consist of Norwegians and Danes
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7% of the population in
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Leif Ericson discovers Canada and North America.
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Smalahove is course served in parts of
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Germans
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Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe, who share a common German ancestry, culture and history. German is the mother tongue of a substantial majority of ethnic Germans. The English term Germans has historically referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages, before the collapse of communism and the reunification of Germany in 1990, Germans constituted the largest divided nation in Europe by far. Ever since the outbreak of the Protestant Reformation within the Holy Roman Empire, of approximately 100 million native speakers of German in the world, roughly 80 million consider themselves Germans. Thus, the number of Germans lies somewhere between 100 and more than 150 million, depending on the criteria applied. Today, people from countries with German-speaking majorities most often subscribe to their own national identities, the German term Deutsche originates from the Old High German word diutisc, referring to the Germanic language of the people. It is not clear how commonly, if at all, the word was used as an ethnonym in Old High German, used as a noun, ein diutscher in the sense of a German emerges in Middle High German, attested from the second half of the 12th century. The Old French term alemans is taken from the name of the Alamanni and it was loaned into Middle English as almains in the early 14th century. The word Dutch is attested in English from the 14th century, denoting continental West Germanic dialects, while in most Romance languages the Germans have been named from the Alamanni, the Old Norse, Finnish and Estonian names for the Germans were taken from that of the Saxons. In Slavic languages, the Germans were given the name of němьci, originally with a meaning foreigner, the English term Germans is only attested from the mid-16th century, based on the classical Latin term Germani used by Julius Caesar and later Tacitus. It gradually replaced Dutch and Almains, the latter becoming mostly obsolete by the early 18th century, the Germans are a Germanic people, who as an ethnicity emerged during the Middle Ages. Originally part of the Holy Roman Empire, around 300 independent German states emerged during its decline after the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 ending the Thirty Years War and these states eventually formed into modern Germany in the 19th century. The concept of a German ethnicity is linked to Germanic tribes of antiquity in central Europe, the early Germans originated on the North German Plain as well as southern Scandinavia. By the 2nd century BC, the number of Germans was significantly increasing and they began expanding into eastern Europe, during antiquity these Germanic tribes remained separate from each other and did not have writing systems at that time. In the European Iron Age the area that is now Germany was divided into the La Tène horizon in Southern Germany and the Jastorf culture in Northern Germany. By 55 BC, the Germans had reached the Danube river and had either assimilated or otherwise driven out the Celts who had lived there, and had spread west into what is now Belgium and France. Conflict between the Germanic tribes and the forces of Rome under Julius Caesar forced major Germanic tribes to retreat to the east bank of the Rhine, in Roman-held territories with Germanic populations, the Germanic and Roman peoples intermarried, and Roman, Germanic, and Christian traditions intermingled. The adoption of Christianity would later become an influence in the development of a common German identity
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Germanic Kingdoms in Europe c. 500 AD
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Extent of
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18 January 1871: The proclamation of the
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Bismarck appears in white. The Grand Duke of Baden stands beside Wilhelm, leading the cheers. Crown Prince Friedrich, later
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Arizona
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Arizona is a state in the southwestern region of the United States. It is also part of the Western United States and the Mountain West states and it is the sixth largest and the 14th most populous of the 50 states. Its capital and largest city is Phoenix, Arizona is one of the Four Corners states. It has borders with New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, California, and Mexico, Arizonas border with Mexico is 389 miles long, on the northern border of the Mexican states of Sonora and Baja California. Arizona is the 48th state and last of the states to be admitted to the Union. Historically part of the territory of Alta California in New Spain, after being defeated in the Mexican–American War, Mexico ceded much of this territory to the United States in 1848. The southernmost portion of the state was acquired in 1853 through the Gadsden Purchase, Southern Arizona is known for its desert climate, with very hot summers and mild winters. There are ski resorts in the areas of Flagstaff, Alpine, in addition to the Grand Canyon National Park, there are several national forests, national parks, and national monuments. To the European settlers, their pronunciation sounded like Arissona, the area is still known as alĭ ṣonak in the Oodham language. Another possible origin is the Basque phrase haritz ona, as there were numerous Basque sheepherders in the area, There is a misconception that the states name originated from the Spanish term Árida Zona. See also lists of counties, islands, rivers, lakes, state parks, national parks, Arizona is in the Southwestern United States as one of the Four Corners states. Arizona is the sixth largest state by area, ranked after New Mexico, of the states 113,998 square miles, approximately 15% is privately owned. The remaining area is public forest and park land, state trust land, Arizona is well known for its desert Basin and Range region in the states southern portions, which is rich in a landscape of xerophyte plants such as the cactus. This regions topography was shaped by volcanism, followed by the cooling-off. Its climate has hot summers and mild winters. The state is well known for its pine-covered north-central portion of the high country of the Colorado Plateau. Like other states of the Southwest United States, Arizona has an abundance of mountains, despite the states aridity, 27% of Arizona is forest, a percentage comparable to modern-day France or Germany. The worlds largest stand of pine trees is in Arizona
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Saguaro cactus flowers and buds after a wet winter. This is Arizona's official State Flower.
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The
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West Mitten at
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L.L. Bean
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L. L. Bean, Inc. branded as L. L. Bean, is an American, privately held e-commerce, mail-order, and retail company founded in 1912 by Leon Leonwood Bean. The company is based in Freeport, Maine, United States. It specializes in clothing and outdoor recreation equipment and its annual sales were USD $1.6 billion in 2015. The company L. L. Bean was founded in 1912 by its namesake, avid hunter and fisherman Leon Leonwood Bean in Freeport, the company began as a one-room operation selling a single product, the Maine Hunting Shoe. Bean had developed a waterproof boot, which is a combination of lightweight leather uppers and rubber bottoms, by 1912, he was selling the Bean Boot, or Maine Hunting Shoe, through a four-page mail-order catalog, and the boot remains a staple of the companys outdoor image. Defects in the design led to 90% of the original production run being returned, Bean made good on his money-back guarantee, corrected the design. The 220, 000-square-foot L. L. Bean retail store campus in Freeport, ME, is open 24 hours a day,365 days a year, as a privately held company, L. L. Bean does not publicly disclose financials. Leon L. Bean died on February 5,1967, in Pompano Beach and he is buried in Freeports Webster Cemetery. On May 19,2013 Shawn Gorman,47, a great-grandson of the founder, was elected L. L. Bean’s chairman. The company announced a $125,000 donation to a new scholarship fund upon Leon Gormans death in 2015, representing about 2.5 years of tuition at his alma mater, Bowdoin College. Stephen Smith was named CEO in November 2015, the first time in its 103 year history that a CEO has been hired from outside the company, L. L. Bean is a global company sourcing its products from the U. S. and across the globe. It is one of the last multi-channel merchants to still own and operate a manufacturing facility in the United States. In 2000, L. L. Bean formed a contract with Subaru, making L. L. Bean the official outfitter of Subaru, spawning an L. L. Bean edition Subaru Outback and Forester for the USA market. The L. L. Bean trim levels on American Subaru vehicles are the versions, with leather and wood trimmed interiors. This relationship with Subaru ended June 28,2008, in 2010, L. L. Bean established a more stylish sub-brand known as L. L. Bean Signature. The Signature line is an interpretation of L. L. Bean classics featuring a more modern fit. Along with a number of retail and outlet stores, the company maintains its flagship store on Main Street in Freeport, L. L. Bean has education programs connected to many of its retail outlets to support the outdoor interests of its customers. Customers can sign up to participate in a number of activities, all equipment
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L.L.Bean in
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An L.L.Bean store in
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L.L.Bean shoe car (
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Los Angeles
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Los Angeles, officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L. A. is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California. With a census-estimated 2015 population of 3,971,883, it is the second-most populous city in the United States, Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated county in the United States. The citys inhabitants are referred to as Angelenos, historically home to the Chumash and Tongva, Los Angeles was claimed by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo for Spain in 1542 along with the rest of what would become Alta California. The city was founded on September 4,1781, by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 following the Mexican War of Independence, in 1848, at the end of the Mexican–American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thereby becoming part of the United States. Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4,1850, the discovery of oil in the 1890s brought rapid growth to the city. The completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, delivering water from Eastern California, nicknamed the City of Angels, Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, and sprawling metropolis. Los Angeles also has an economy in culture, media, fashion, science, sports, technology, education, medicine. A global city, it has been ranked 6th in the Global Cities Index, the city is home to renowned institutions covering a broad range of professional and cultural fields, and is one of the most substantial economic engines within the United States. The Los Angeles combined statistical area has a gross metropolitan product of $831 billion, making it the third-largest in the world, after the Greater Tokyo and New York metropolitan areas. The city has hosted the Summer Olympic Games in 1932 and 1984 and is bidding to host the 2024 Summer Olympics and thus become the second city after London to have hosted the Games three times. The Los Angeles area also hosted the 1994 FIFA mens World Cup final match as well as the 1999 FIFA womens World Cup final match, the mens event was watched on television by over 700 million people worldwide. The Los Angeles coastal area was first settled by the Tongva, a Gabrielino settlement in the area was called iyáangẚ, meaning poison oak place. Gaspar de Portolà and Franciscan missionary Juan Crespí, reached the present site of Los Angeles on August 2,1769, in 1771, Franciscan friar Junípero Serra directed the building of the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, the first mission in the area. The Queen of the Angels is an honorific of the Virgin Mary, two-thirds of the settlers were mestizo or mulatto with a mixture of African, indigenous and European ancestry. The settlement remained a small town for decades, but by 1820. Today, the pueblo is commemorated in the district of Los Angeles Pueblo Plaza and Olvera Street. New Spain achieved its independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, during Mexican rule, Governor Pío Pico made Los Angeles Alta Californias regional capital
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Patroclus
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In Greek mythology, as recorded in Homers Iliad, Patroclus was the son of Menoetius, grandson of Actor, King of Opus, and Achilles beloved and brother-in-arms. According to Hyginus, Patroclus is the child of Menoetius and Philomela, Homer also references Menoetius as the individual who gave Patroclus to Peleus. Menoetius is the son of Actor, King of Opus in Locris by Aegina, Aegina was a daughter of Asopus and mother of Aeacus by Zeus. Aeacus was father of Peleus, Telamon and Phocus, Actor was a son of Deioneus, King of Phocis and Diomede. His paternal grandparents were Aeolus of Thessaly and Enarete and his maternal grandparents were Xuthus and Creusa, daughter of Erechtheus and Praxithea. During his childhood, Patroclus had killed another child in anger over a game, Menoetius gave Patroclus to Peleus, Achilles father, who named Patroclus one of Achilles henchmen as Patroclus and Achilles grew up together. Patroclus acted as a role model for Achilles, as he was both older than Achilles and wise regarding counsel. According to the Iliad, when the tide of war had turned against the Greeks, Achilles consented, giving Patroclus the armor Achilles had received from his father, in order for Patroclus to impersonate Achilles. Achilles then told Patroclus to return after beating the Trojans back from their ships, Patroclus defied Achilles order and pursued the Trojans back to the gates of Troy. Patroclus killed many Trojans, including a son of Zeus, Sarpedon, while battling, Patroclus wits were removed by Apollo, after which Patroclus was hit with the spear of Euphorbos. Hector then killed Patroclus by stabbing him in the stomach with a spear, Achilles retrieved the body, which had been stripped of armor by Hector and protected on the battlefield by Menelaus and Ajax. Achilles did not allow for the burial of Patroclus body until the ghost of Patroclus appeared and demanded burial in order to pass into Hades, Patroclus was then cremated on a funeral pyre, which was covered in the hair of his sorrowful companions. As the cutting of hair was a sign of grief while also acting as a sign of the separation of the living and the dead, the ashes of Achilles were said to have been buried in a golden urn along with those of Patroclus by the Hellespont. Although Homer does not mention it, there is whether or not Achilles. Morales and Mariscal continue stating, there is a tradition concerning the nature of the relationship between the two heroes. According to Grace Ledbetter, there is a train of thought that Patroclus could have been a representation of the side of Achilles. In fact, the first line of Homers Iliad mentions Achilles anger, Ledbetter does so by comparing how Thetis comforts the weeping Achilles in Book 1 of the Iliad to how Achilles comforts Patroclus as he weeps in Book 16. Achilles uses a simile containing a young girl looking at her mother to complete the comparison
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A cup depicting
Achilles bandaging Patroklos' arm, by the Sosias Painter.
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The body of Patroclus is lifted by
Menelaus and
Meriones while
Odysseus and others look on (Etruscan relief, 2nd century BC)
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Brad Pitt
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William Bradley Brad Pitt in Shawnee Oklahoma. He is an American actor and producer and he has received multiple awards and nominations including an Academy Award as producer under his own company Plan B Entertainment. Pitt first gained recognition as a hitchhiker in the road movie Thelma & Louise. His first leading roles in big-budget productions came with the dramas A River Runs Through It and Legends of the Fall, Pitt starred in the cult film Fight Club and the heist film Oceans Eleven and its sequels, Oceans Twelve and Oceans Thirteen. As a public figure, Pitt has been cited as one of the most influential and powerful people in the American entertainment industry, as well as the worlds most attractive man and his personal life is also the subject of wide publicity. Divorced from actress Jennifer Aniston, to whom he was married for five years and they have six children together, three of whom were adopted internationally. In September 2016, Jolie filed for divorce from Pitt, William Bradley Pitt was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, to William Bill Alvin Pitt, manager of a trucking company, and Jane Etta, a school counsellor. The family soon moved to Springfield, Missouri, where he lived together with his siblings, Douglas. Pitt has described Springfield as Mark Twain country, Jesse James country, having grown up with a lot of hills, Pitt attended Kickapoo High School, where he was a member of the golf, swimming and tennis teams. He participated in the schools Key and Forensics clubs, in school debates, following his graduation from high school, Pitt enrolled in the University of Missouri in 1982, majoring in journalism with a focus on advertising. As graduation approached, Pitt did not feel ready to settle down and he loved films—a portal into different worlds for me—and, since films were not made in Missouri, he decided to go to where they were made. Two weeks before earning his degree, Pitt left the university and moved to Los Angeles, while struggling to establish himself in Los Angeles, Pitt took lessons from acting coach Roy London. Pitts acting career began in 1987, with uncredited parts in the films No Way Out, No Mans Land and his television debut came in May 1987 with a two-episode role on the NBC soap opera Another World. In November of the same year Pitt had a guest appearance on the ABC sitcom Growing Pains and he appeared in four episodes of the CBS primetime series Dallas between December 1987 and February 1988 as Randy, the boyfriend of Charlie Wade. Later in 1988, Pitt made a guest appearance on the Fox police drama 21 Jump Street, in the same year, the Yugoslavian–U. S. Co-production The Dark Side of the Sun gave Pitt his first leading film role, the film was shelved at the outbreak of the Croatian War of Independence, and was not released until 1997. He made guest appearances on television series Head of the Class, Freddys Nightmares, Thirtysomething, and Growing Pains. Pitt was cast as Billy Canton, an addict who takes advantage of a young runaway in the 1990 NBC television movie Too Young to Die. the story of an abused teenager sentenced to death for a murder
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Pitt at the premiere of
Fury in Washington D.C, October 2014
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Pitt at the 2007
Palm Springs International Film Festival
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Pitt,
George Clooney,
Matt Damon,
Andy García,
Julia Roberts, cast of
Ocean's Eleven and director
Steven Soderbergh in December 2001
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Pitt in 2001
25.
Billy Bob Thornton
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Billy Bob Thornton is an American actor, filmmaker, singer, songwriter, and musician. In 2016, he starred in an Amazon original series, Goliath about a washed up attorney with a new case. He has been vocal about his disrespect for celebrity culture, choosing to keep his life out of the public eye, however, the attention of the media has proven unavoidable in certain cases, his marriage to Angelina Jolie being a notable example. Thornton has appeared in at least one film per year every year since 1991. Thornton has written a variety of films, usually set in the Southern United States and mainly co-written with Tom Epperson, including A Family Thing, after Sling Blade, he directed several other films, including Daddy and Them, All the Pretty Horses, and Jayne Mansfields Car. He was also nominated for an Emmy Award, four Golden Globes, in addition to film work, Thornton began a career as a singer-songwriter. He has released four albums and is the vocalist of a blues rock band The Boxmasters. His brother Jimmy Don wrote a number of songs, two of which Thornton has recorded on his solo albums, during his childhood, Thornton lived in numerous places in Arkansas, including Alpine, Mount Holly, and Malvern. He was raised a Methodist in a family in a shack that had neither electricity nor plumbing. He graduated from school in 1973. A good high school player, he tried out for the Kansas City Royals. After a short period laying asphalt for the Arkansas State Transportation Department, he attended Henderson State University to pursue studies in psychology, in the mid-1980s, Thornton settled in Los Angeles to pursue his career as an actor, with future writing partner Tom Epperson. He initially had a difficult time succeeding as an actor, and worked in telemarketing, offshore wind farming and he also played drums and sang with South African rock band Jack Hammer. While Thornton worked as a waiter for an event, he served film director. Thornton struck up a conversation with Wilder, who advised Thornton to consider a career as a screenwriter, thorntons first screen role was in 1980s South of Reno, where he played a small role as a counter man in a restaurant. He also made an appearance as a store clerk in the 1987 Matlock episode The Photographer. Another one of his screen roles was as a cast member on the CBS sitcom Hearts Afire. His role as the villain in 1992s One False Move, which he also co-wrote and he also had small roles in the 1990s films Indecent Proposal, On Deadly Ground, Bound by Honor, and Tombstone
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Thornton receiving a
star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame on February 6, 2012
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Thornton at the
South by Southwest in
Austin, Texas on March 11, 2008
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Thornton at a San Francisco concert in 2007
26.
Connie Britton
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Constance Elaine Connie Britton is an American actress, singer and producer. Britton made her film debut in the independent comedy-drama film The Brothers McMullen. Britton received positive reviews from critics for her performance as Tami Taylor on the NBC/DirecTV drama series Friday Night Lights from 2006 to 2011, for this role she was nominated for two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. In 2014, Britton was named UNDP Goodwill Ambassador, Britton next starred in the comedy-drama film This Is Where I Leave You, the drama film Me and Earl and the Dying Girl and the action comedy American Ultra. In 2016, Britton had a role as socialite Faye Resnick in the first season of FX true crime anthology series American Crime Story. Britton was born Constance Elaine Womack in Boston, Massachusetts, to Linda Jane and Edgar Allen Womack, Jr. who was a physicist and she spent her early years in Rockville, Maryland. When she was seven years old, she moved with her parents and her twin sister, Cynthia, to Lynchburg, Virginia. After graduating in 1989, she moved to New York City, while studying at the Neighborhood Playhouse, Britton made her New York theatrical debut in Caroline Kavas The Early Girl at The Courtyard Playhouse. Britton played seasoned prostitute Laurel opposite Cooper Lawrence, who played Joan, brittons performance, while well received, nearly got her ousted from the Neighborhood Playhouse program, which prohibited students from taking professional employment during their course of study. After graduating, Britton spent two years working in off-Broadway theatre productions. In 1995, Britton made her film debut in Edward Burns critically acclaimed comedy-drama The Brothers McMullen. She moved to Los Angeles after the films success, after The Brothers McMullen, Britton was cast as Heather in a recurring role in the ABC sitcom Ellen, and starred as Cammie Barbash in the unsold Fox pilot Pins and Needles. In 1996, she began co-starring as Nikki Faber in the ABC sitcom Spin City opposite Michael J. Fox and her character was written out of the show when Charlie Sheen replaced Fox. She also appeared in the romantic comedy-drama No Looking Back and the mystery comedy-drama Looking for Kitty, in 2001, she co-starred opposite Chris Eigeman and Jamie Harris in the romantic comedy The Next Big Thing. She later co-starred in the independent films The Life Coach, Special Ed, The Lather Effect, after leaving Spin City, Britton had a recurring role as Maggie Kimble Hume in the short-lived ABC crime drama The Fugitive. In 2001, she played Gertrude Temple, Shirley Temples bad mother in the ABC television film Child Star, The Shirley Temple Story, in the same year, she starred as Sophie in the short-lived NBC sitcom The Fighting Fitzgeralds. In 2002, she returned to ABC and starred as Rachel Davis in the short-lived sitcom Lost at Home, in 2006, she had a recurring role in the Fox espionage thriller 24 during the fifth season as Diane Huxley, the landlady and girlfriend of protagonist Jack Bauer. The show ran for five seasons from October 3,2006 to February 9,2011, during that time, Britton developed a devoted following for her performance – described by The New York Times as something of an icon, a 40-something sex symbol and role model
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Britton at the
2013 Golden Globe Awards
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Britton at the
2006 Toronto International Film Festival
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Britton and Kyle Chandler in 2008
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Britton at the premiere of This Is Where I Leave You in September 2014
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Tim McGraw
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Samuel Timothy Tim McGraw is an American singer, songwriter and actor. He has been married to singer Faith Hill since 1996, and is the son of the baseball player Tug McGraw. McGraw has released fourteen studio albums,10 of those albums have reached number 1 on the Top Country Albums charts, with his 1994 breakthrough album Not a Moment Too Soon being the top country album of 1994. All of these albums have produced 65 singles,25 of which have reached number 1 on the Hot Country Songs or Country Airplay charts. Three of these singles — Its Your Love, Just to See You Smile, and Live Like You Were Dying — were the top songs of 1997,1998. He has also won three Grammy Awards,14 Academy of Country Music awards,11 Country Music Association awards,10 American Music Awards, and three Peoples Choice Awards. His Soul2Soul II Tour with Faith Hill is one of the highest grossing tours in music history. McGraw has ventured into acting, with supporting roles in The Blind Side, Friday Night Lights, The Kingdom, Tomorrowland, and Four Christmases and he was a minority owner of the Arena Football Leagues Nashville Kats. McGraw is of Italian and Irish descent on his mothers side, and of Scots-Irish, English, Scottish, Swiss, Dutch, Czech, and German descent on his fathers side. In 1966, Tug was a pitcher for the Jacksonville Suns, and he lived in an apartment above Betty DAgostino, the pair had a relationship, and when Betty became pregnant, her parents sent her to Louisiana to live with relatives and to have the baby. Raised by his mother in Start, also in Richland Parish, east of Monroe, McGraw grew up believing his stepfather, from the time of his mothers marriage until the time he met his biological father, his last name was Smith. At age 11, McGraw discovered his birth certificate while searching his mothers closet to look for Christmas presents, after his discovery, his mother revealed that his biological father was Tug McGraw, and took Tim to meet him for the first time. For seven years, Tug denied being Tims father, Tim was 18 years old when Tug first realized how much Tim looked like him at that age, and he acknowledged paternity. They remained close until Tugs death in 2004, as a child, McGraw loved to play competitive sports, including baseball, even though he did not know his biological father was a professional athlete. He was also a member of the FFA, a knee injury sustained while playing baseball prevented him from pursuing a career in sports and therefore, he decided to drop out of college and move to Nashville. During his college period, he learned to play guitar, and would perform and sing for tips. His mother, Betty, returned to Jacksonville, Florida in 1987 and he attended Florida Community College at Jacksonville for one term, and occasionally sat in with local bands. In 1989, on the day his hero Keith Whitley died, McGraw dropped out of college to head to Nashville, McGraw came to the attention of Curb Records in 1990
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McGraw performing for the United States Air Force in 2003
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Start, Louisiana, welcome sign notes that McGraw once resided there.
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Tim McGraw's star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame
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McGraw performing during the
Soul2Soul Tour, July 2006
28.
Mark Wahlberg
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Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg is an American actor, producer, businessman, former model, and rapper. Mark was known as Marky Mark in his career as frontman for the group Marky Mark. Wahlberg later transitioned to acting, appearing in such as the drama Boogie Nights. Wahlberg has also served as producer of four HBO series, the comedy-drama Entourage, the period crime drama Boardwalk Empire. He is co-owner of the Wahlburgers chain and co-stars in the reality TV series about it, Wahlberg received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on July 29,2010. He is known for his tough guy persona, frequently portraying police officers, military personnel. He is also known for his collaborations with directors David O. Russell, Michael Bay, Wahlberg was born in Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, the youngest of nine children, including actor Robert and actor-singer Donnie. His mother, Alma Elaine, was a clerk and a nurses aide. His parents divorced in 1982, and afterwards, he divided his time between them and his father was of Swedish and Irish descent, and his mother is of Irish, English, and French-Canadian ancestry. Maternally, Wahlberg is distantly related to author Nathaniel Hawthorne, Wahlberg had a Roman Catholic upbringing and attended Copley Square High School on Newbury Street in Boston. He never graduated, and so did not receive his high school diploma until June 2013, by age 13, Wahlberg had developed an addiction to cocaine and other substances. At 15, civil action was filed against him for his involvement in two incidents of harassing African-American children, by throwing rocks and shouting racial epithets. At 16, Wahlberg approached a middle-aged Vietnamese man named Thanh Lam on the street and that same day, Wahlberg also attacked a second Vietnamese man named Hoa Johnny Trinh, punching him in the face. He believed he had left his victim permanently blind in one eye, investigators also noted that he made numerous unsolicited racial statements about gooks and slant-eyed gooks. For these crimes, Wahlberg was charged with attempted murder, pleaded guilty to assault and he ultimately served only 45 days of his sentence, but carries a permanent felony record. In another incident, then 21-year-old Wahlberg fractured the jaw of a neighbor in an unprovoked attack, commenting in 2006 on his past crimes, Wahlberg stated, I did a lot of things that I regret, and I have certainly paid for my mistakes. So I dont have a problem going to sleep at night, I feel good when I wake up in the morning. In 2016, Mark said hed met Trinh and apologized for his horrific acts, after prison, he decided to improve his behavior
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Wahlberg at the Australian premiere of
Contraband, February 2012
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Wahlberg at the
Shooter premiere in
London, 2007
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Wahlberg at the premiere of
Max Payne in 2008
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Georgia Rule
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Georgia Rule is a 2007 American drama film directed by Garry Marshall. The film stars Lindsay Lohan, Jane Fonda and Felicity Huffman, with supporting cast Dermot Mulroney, Garrett Hedlund, the original music score was composed by John Debney. The film received negative reviews from critics, but, the lead cast was praised for their performances. Rebellious 17-years-old Rachel screams, drugs, drinks, fights with everyone and has sex with boys, she is, in a word. With her latest car crash, Rachel has broken the rule in her mother Lilys San Francisco home. With nowhere else to take the impulsive and rambunctious girl, Lily hauls her daughter to the one place she swore shed never return—her own mothers house in Idaho. Matriarch Georgia lives her life by a number of unbreakable rules—God comes first, now saddled with raising the young woman, it requires each patient breath she takes to understand Rachels fury. Georgia arranges a job for Rachel as the girl of Dr. Simon Ward, the local veterinarian. His two nephews Sam and Ethan are often at Georgias house, Simon does not show interest in Rachel or other women, so she thinks he is gay. However, Simons sister Paula reveals that he is mourning the death of his wife. He refuses to have sex with Rachel even when she tries to him, but feels some passion for her mother Lily. Rachel performs oral sex on Harlan Wilson, who, not yet being married, was still a virgin because of his LDS religion and he confesses to his LDS girlfriend, who is shocked. A team of LDS girls spy on Harlan to make sure he does not have sex again, after almost running them over with Harlans truck, Rachel explains to them that what happened was over and that they can go back to having their summer fun. While trying to make a point to Simon about survival, Rachel bluntly says that her stepfather Arnold sexually molested her from the time she was 12 until she turned 14, seeing the effect of her revelation, Rachel tries to convince him she lied. However, Simon tells Georgia about the abuse, and Georgia tells Lily, heartbroken, Lily comes to believe her daughter, begins to drink heavily and asks Arnold for a divorce. When Arnold arrives, Georgia tells him to leave, and refuses to him in the house. Finally, she forces him to leave by hitting him with a baseball bat, Rachel sees that Lily cannot accept the truth, and lies to her about being molested. At the motel where Arnold is staying Rachel tells him that she has a tape of the two having sex when she was 14, and Arnold seems worried
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Theatrical release poster
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Lindsay Lohan
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Lindsay Dee Lohan is an American actress and singer. Lohan began her career as a fashion model when she was three, and was later featured on the soap opera Another World for a year when she was 10. At age 11, Lohan made her motion picture debut in Disneys commercially and critically successful 1998 remake of The Parent Trap and her next major motion picture, Disneys 2003 remake of Freaky Friday, was also a critical and commercial success. However, Lohans next starring role in the romantic comedy Just My Luck, following Just My Luck, Lohan focused on smaller, more mature roles in independent movies, receiving positive comments on her work, including A Prairie Home Companion, Bobby and Chapter 27. After recording several songs for her movie soundtracks, Lohan signed with Casablanca Records, though the album received mostly lukewarm reviews, it was certified platinum and sold over 4 million copies worldwide. Lohans second album, titled A Little More Personal, was released in December 2005 and that album received mixed reviews, and it was certified gold. In 2007, two driving under the influence led to Lohan being put on probation, and together with three visits to rehabilitation facilities caused the loss of several movie deals. In 2008 and 2009, Lohan worked as a fashion model and she resumed her acting career with TV work in 2008, and starred in the TV film Labor Pains. She appeared in Robert Rodriguezs feature film Machete, between 2010 and 2013, Lohan went into rehabilitation three times, and spent much of her time entangled in legal problems stemming from misdemeanors and probation violations. In 2012 and 2013, she did television work, including starring as Elizabeth Taylor in the biographical TV film Liz & Dick. In 2013, she starred in Paul Schraders independent film The Canyons, in 2014, the docu-series Lindsay aired on the Oprah Winfrey Network, and Lohan made her stage debut in the London West End production of Speed-the-Plow. Lindsay Lohan was born on July 2,1986, in The Bronx, New York City and she is the eldest child of Dina and Michael Lohan. Her father, a former Wall Street trader, has been in trouble with the law on several occasions, while her mother is a former singer and dancer. Lohan has three siblings, all of whom have been models or actors, Michael, Jr. who appeared with Lohan in The Parent Trap, Aliana, known as Ali. Lohan is of Irish and Italian heritage, and she was reared as a Catholic and her maternal antecedents were well known Irish Catholic stalwarts and her great-grandfather, John L. Sullivan, was a co-founder of the Pro-life Party in Long Island. Lohan attended Cold Spring Harbor High School and Sanford H. Calhoun High School, where she did well in science and mathematics, until grade 11, Lohan is a natural red head. Lohans parents have a turbulent history and they married in 1985, separated when she was three, and later reunited. They separated again in 2005 and finalized their divorce in 2007, Lohan began her career as a child model with Ford Models at the age of three
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Lindsay Lohan at
General Motors Annual Ten event on February 28, 2006
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Lohan in 2002
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Lohan at the
New York premiere of
Georgia Rule in May 2007
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Lohan at the Cynthia Rowley fashion show in 2011
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Jane Fonda
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Jane Fonda is an American actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model and fitness guru. She is a two-time Academy Award winner and two time BAFTA Award winner, in 2014, she was the recipient of the American Film Institute AFI Life Achievement Award. Fonda made her Broadway debut in the 1960 play There Was a Little Girl and she rose to fame in 1960s films such as Period of Adjustment, Sunday in New York, Cat Ballou, Barefoot in the Park and Barbarella. Her first husband was Barbarella director Roger Vadim, a seven-time Academy Award nominee, she received her first nomination for They Shoot Horses, Dont They and went on to win two Best Actress Oscars in the 1970s for Klute and Coming Home. Her other nominations were for Julia, The China Syndrome, On Golden Pond and her other major competitive awards include an Emmy Award for the 1984 TV film The Dollmaker, two BAFTA Awards for Julia and The China Syndrome and four Golden Globe Awards. In 1982, she released her first exercise video, Jane Fondas Workout and it would be the first of 22 workout videos released by her over the next 13 years which would collectively sell over 17 million copies. Divorced from second husband Tom Hayden, she married billionaire media mogul Ted Turner in 1991, Fonda was divorced from Turner in 2001. She returned to acting with her first film in 15 years, subsequent films have included Georgia Rule, The Butler, This Is Where I Leave You and Youth. She also released another five exercise videos between 2010 and 2012 and she stars with Lily Tomlin, Sam Waterston and Martin Sheen in the Netflix original series Grace and Frankie, which premiered in 2015. Fonda was a political activist in the counterculture era during the Vietnam War. She was famously and controversially photographed sitting on a gun on a 1972 visit to Hanoi. She has also protested the Iraq War and violence against women, Fonda serves on the board of the organization. Jayne Seymour Fonda was born in New York City, the daughter of actor Henry Fonda, according to her father, their surname came from an Italian ancestor who immigrated to the Netherlands in the 1500s. There, they intermarried and began to use Dutch given names and she also has English, Scottish, and French ancestry. She was named after the wife of Henry VIII, Jane Seymour. She has a brother, Peter, who is also an actor, and a maternal half-sister, Frances de Villers Brokaw, whose daughter is Pilar Corrias, the owner of the Pilar Corrias Gallery in London. In 1950, when Fonda was twelve, her mother committed suicide while undergoing treatment at Craig House psychiatric hospital in Beacon, later that year, Fondas father married socialite Susan Blanchard, just nine years his daughters senior, this marriage ended in divorce. At 15 Fonda taught dance at Fire Island Pines, New York and she attended Greenwich Academy in Greenwich, Connecticut
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Fonda at the
2015 Cannes Film Festival
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Jane with father, Navy Lieutenant
Henry Fonda (1943)
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Fonda shown with photographer Alan Light following the
62nd Academy Awards in 1990.
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Jane Fonda at an anti-Vietnam War conference in The Hague in January 1975
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Felicity Huffman
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Felicity Kendall Huffman is an American film, stage, and television actress. Huffman began her career in theatre and in the 1990s also had many supporting roles in film. She starred as executive producer Dana Whitaker in the critically acclaimed ABC comedy-drama Sports Night from 1998 to 2000, Huffman drew critical praise for her performance as a transgender woman in the independent film Transamerica. The role earned her a Golden Globe Award, Independent Spirit Award, National Board of Review, Huffman has also starred in such films as Reversal of Fortune, The Spanish Prisoner, Magnolia, Path to War, Georgia Rule, Phoebe in Wonderland, Rudderless and Cake. Additionally, she has been nominated on three occasions for a Golden Globe Award, and has also won an Obie. Huffman was born in Bedford, New York, into a family, the daughter of Grace Valle and Moore Peters Huffman. Her parents divorced a year after her birth, and she was raised mostly by her mother and she has six sisters, Mariah, Betsy, Grace, Isabel, Jessie, Jane, and a brother, Moore Jr. In the 1970s her mother left New York and bought property in Snowmass, Colorado and her great-grandfather was Gershom Moore Peters, founder of the Peters Cartridge Company and prominent Baptist minister, author of the The Master. Another great-grandfather, Frederick Berthold Ewing, graduated from Yale University and her great-great-grandfather was Joseph Warren King, founder of the King Mills Powder Company. She has German, English, Scots-Irish, Scottish, and French-Canadian ancestry, Huffman attended The Putney School, a private boarding high school in Putney, Vermont and graduated from Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan in 1981. She attended New York University, Circle in the Square and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, Huffman made her debut on stage in 1982 and in the 1980s and 1990s worked as a rule on stage productions. In 1988, she debuted on Broadway in the role as Karen in David Mamets play Speed the Plow, in 1995, Huffman won Obie Award for her performance in the critically successful play The Cryptogram by David Mamet. Huffman debuted on the big screen in 1988 with a role in Mamets film Things Change. Two years later, she appeared as Minnie, a Harvard law school student in the courtroom drama, Huffman starred on the television mini-series Golden Years, based on the novel by Stephen King in 1991. In 1994, she starred in the ABC pilot Thunder Alley as Ed Asners daughter, during the 1990s, she appeared mostly in guest roles on such shows as The X-Files, Early Edition, Chicago Hope and Law & Order. In 1997, she starred in Mamets critically acclaimed film The Spanish Prisoner, after the completion of Sports Night, she gave birth to her first child and soon returned to work. In 2001, she starred on not picked up CBS pilot Heart Department In 2003, in 1999, she appeared in the Paul Thomas Andersons ensemble drama Magnolia and television adaptation of 1938 movie A Slight Case of Murder along with William H. Macy. In 2002 she played Lady Bird Johnson in the HBO award-winning movie Path to War and made a appearance in the Door to Door, which starred
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Huffman at a ceremony to receive a star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame in March 2012.
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Huffman and Macy at
The Heart Truth in February 2010
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Felicity Huffman with
Kathryn Joosten in 2009
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Huffman at the 2006 Malibu Triathlon
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Garry Marshall
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He provided the voice of Buck Cluck in Chicken Little. He was the brother of actress/director Penny Marshall and Ronny Marshall Hallin and his father was of Italian descent, his family having come from San Martino sulla Marrucina, Chieti, Abruzzo, and his mother was of German, English, and Scottish ancestry. His father changed his last name from Masciarelli to Marshall before Garry was born, Marshall was baptized Presbyterian and also raised Lutheran for a time. He attended De Witt Clinton High School and Northwestern University, where he wrote a column for The Daily Northwestern. Marshall began his career as a writer for such comedians as Joey Bishop and Phil Foster. In 1961, he moved to Hollywood, where he teamed up with Jerry Belson as a writer for television, the pair worked on The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Joey Bishop Show, The Danny Thomas Show, and The Lucy Show. Their first television series as creator-producers was Hey, Landlord, which lasted one season, then they adapted Neil Simons play The Odd Couple for television. On his own, Marshall created Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, and Mork & Mindy, which were produced by his associates Thomas L. Miller, Robert L. Boyett and he was also a co-creator of Makin It, which the three men also produced. In the early 1980s, he met Héctor Elizondo while playing basketball, Elizondo appeared in every film that Marshall directed, beginning with his first feature film Young Doctors in Love. Elizondo once noted that he is written all of Marshalls contracts whether he wanted to do the film or not. In the opening credits of Exit to Eden, Elizondo is credited As Usual, in 1984, Marshall had a film hit as the writer and director of The Flamingo Kid. A consummate producer, Marshall wore many hats during this period of his career, Most of his hit television series were created and his first producing assignment came with Hey, Landlord in 1966. He stepped up the next year, producing The Lucy Show. Then came successes in producing The Odd Couple, Laverne and Shirley, Blanskys Beauties, Mork & Mindy, Angie, Marshall also launched independent productions through his theater and in association with productions launched with talent he was grooming and working with for years. It starred Julie Paris and Bert Kramer, schulte later co-wrote with TV veteran writer and producer, Fred Fox, Jr. who penned and produced a number of Marshalls television series, including Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley. Marshall went on to focus on directing films, with a series of hits, such as Beaches, Pretty Woman, The Princess Diaries, Valentines Day. He also appeared in two episodes of Happy Days as a drummer and he portrayed the role of director on Burbanks Lights. Float in the 2014 Rose Parade and his son Scott Marshall is also a director
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Marshall in San Antonio, TX, January 2008
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Death Sentence (2007 film)
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Death Sentence is a 2007 American action drama film loosely based on the 1975 novel of the same name by Brian Garfield. Directed by James Wan, the film stars Kevin Bacon as Nick Hume, Hume must protect his family from the gangs resulting vengeance. The film premiered on August 31,2007, and was released on DVD on January 8,2008, Nick Hume, his wife Helen and their two sons, Brendan and Lucas, watch Brendans hockey game. While Nick and Brendan are driving home, they talk about the potential future as a professional hockey player. They stop at a gas station in a bad part of town and during a robbery of the gas station, Joe Darley, Nick ambushes the thugs, pulls off Joes mask and sees his face, but Joe escapes to get hit by a car. Nick rushes Brendan to the hospital, but Brendan dies, Nick identifies Joe in a line-up, but while meeting with the district attorney, he becomes angry when the DA presents a case that the defense will cut a deal for three to five years of jail time. The DA explains that Nick is the witness, there were no surveillance cameras. At a pre-trial hearing, Nick recants his identification so Joe will go free and he follows the gang to their hide out, returning later and stabbing Joe while he is alone. The gang leader, Billy, wants revenge, one of the gang members says his sister saw a man in a suit. Confirming it was Nick from a picture, they ambush him on the street. After chasing, they stop at the top of a parking garage where Nick gets into a fight with one of the members and traps him in a car. One of the gang arrives at the office where Nick works to deliver his suitcase that he dropped during the chase. Nick calls a number found in the case, which belongs to Billy. Billy warns that Nick has bought a death sentence for his family and that night, the officers at Nicks house are stealthily killed, but by the time Nick realizes, he finds the gang members are in the house. They attack and subdue Nick, then drag Helen and Luke downstairs to shoot them, after Detective Wallis gives a speech that wars are never settled, she lets Nick pay a visit to a comatose Lucas, where he apologizes for not being a better father. Nick escapes from the hospital to go after the gang members, obtaining guns from a black market gun dealer Bones. Nick tracks down Heco, a member of the gang, and interrogates him about where the members are. He forces Heco at gunpoint to call Billys cell phone, Bones confronts Billy and criticizes him, but Billy kills him
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Promotional film poster
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Kevin Bacon
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Kevin Norwood Bacon is an American actor and musician. Bacon is also known for taking on roles such as that of a sadistic guard in Sleepers. Also on television, he starred in the Fox series The Following from 2013 to 2015, Bacon has won a Golden Globe Award and three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award. The Guardian named him one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination, in 2003, Bacon received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Bacon has become an icon for the concept of interconnectedness, having been popularized by the game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, in 2007, he created SixDegrees. org, a charitable foundation. Bacon, one of six children, was born and raised in a family in Philadelphia. The experience solidified Bacons passion for the arts, Bacon left home at age 17 to pursue a theater career in New York City, where he appeared in a production at the Circle in the Square Theater School. I wanted life, man, the thing, he later recalled to Nancy Mills of Cosmopolitan. The message I got was The arts are it, art and creative expression are next to godliness. Combine that with an ego and you wind up with an actor. Bacons debut in the fraternity comedy National Lampoons Animal House did not lead to the fame he had sought and he briefly worked on the television soap operas Search for Tomorrow and Guiding Light in New York. In 1980, he had a prominent role in the slasher film Friday the 13th, some of his early stage work included Getting Out, performed at New Yorks Phoenix Theater, and Flux, at Second Stage Theatre during their 1981–1982 season. In 1982, he won an Obie Award for his role in Forty Deuce, bolstered by the attention garnered by his performance in Diner, Bacon starred in the box-office smash Footloose. To prepare for the role, Bacon enrolled at a school as a transfer student named Ren McCormick. Bacon earned strong reviews for Footloose, and he appeared on the cover of People magazine soon after its release. Bacons critical and box office led to a period of typecasting in roles similar to the two he portrayed in Diner and Footloose, and he had difficulty shaking this on-screen image. For the next years he chose films that cast him against either type and experienced, by his own estimation. In 1988, he starred in John Hughes comedy Shes Having a Baby, in 1990, Bacon had two successful roles
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Bacon at the 2014
San Diego Comic-Con
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Bacon speaking before a premiere of
Taking Chance in February 2009
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Jeff Bridges
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Jeffrey Leon Jeff Bridges is an American actor, singer, and producer. He comes from a prominent acting family and appeared on the television series Sea Hunt, with his father, Lloyd Bridges and brother, Beau Bridges. His other films include Tron, Jagged Edge, The Fabulous Baker Boys, The Fisher King, Fearless, The Big Lebowski, Seabiscuit, Iron Man, Tron, Legacy, jeffrey Leon Bridges was born on December 4,1949, in Los Angeles, California. He is the son of show business parents, actor Lloyd Bridges and actress and his older brother, Beau Bridges, is also an actor. He has a sister, Lucinda, and had another brother, Garrett. His maternal grandfather was an English emigrant from Liverpool, Bridges and his siblings were raised in the Holmby Hills section of Los Angeles. Growing up, Bridges shared a relationship with his brother Beau. He graduated from University High School in 1967, at age 17, Jeff toured with his father in a stage production of Anniversary Waltz. After graduating from school, Bridges moved to New York City. Also, after turning 18, Bridges joined the United States Coast Guard Reserve, Bridges made his first screen appearance at the age of almost two years in The Company She Keeps in 1951. In his youth, Bridges and brother Beau made occasional appearances on their fathers show Sea Hunt, in 1969, he played Cal Baker, a Jobs Corps crew member, in the TV series Lassie episode Success Story. In 1971, he played the lead role Mike in the TV movie In Search of America and his first major role came in the 1971 film The Last Picture Show, for which he garnered a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He co-starred in the 1972 critically acclaimed boxing film Fat City. He was nominated again for Best Supporting Actor for his performance opposite Clint Eastwood in the 1974 film Thunderbolt, in 1976, he starred as the protagonist Jack Prescott in the first remake of King Kong, opposite Jessica Lange. This film was a success, earning $90 million worldwide, more than triple its $23 million budget. One of his roles was in the 1982 science fiction film Tron, in which he played Kevin Flynn. The same year, he starred in Kiss Me Goodbye. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1984 and he was also acclaimed for his roles in the thriller Against All Odds and the crime drama Jagged Edge
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Bridges at Comic Con 2013
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Jeff Bridges at an event for
The Giver in 2014
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Bridges at the premiere of
The Men Who Stare at Goats, during the
2009 Toronto International Film Festival
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Bridges at the
2010 Independent Spirit Awards
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Tron
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Tron is a 1982 American science fiction action-adventure film written and directed by Steven Lisberger, based on a story by Lisberger and Bonnie MacBird and produced by Walt Disney Productions. The film stars Jeff Bridges as a programmer who is transported inside the software world of a mainframe computer where he interacts with programs in his attempt to escape. Bruce Boxleitner, David Warner, Cindy Morgan, and Barnard Hughes star in supporting roles, development of Tron began in 1976 when Lisberger became fascinated with the early video game Pong. He and producer Donald Kushner set up a studio to develop Tron with the intention of making it an animated film. Indeed, to promote the studio itself, Lisberger and his created a 30-second animation featuring the first appearance of the eponymous character. Eventually, Lisberger decided to include elements with both backlit and computer animation for the actual feature-length film. Various film studios had rejected the storyboards for the film before Walt Disney Studios agreed to finance, there, backlit animation was finally combined with the computer animation and live action. Tron was released on July 9,1982 in 1,091 theaters in the United States, the film was a moderate success at the box office, and received positive reviews from critics who praised the groundbreaking visuals and acting. However, the storyline was criticized at the time for being incoherent, Tron received nominations for Best Costume Design and Best Sound at the 55th Academy Awards, and received the Academy Award for Technical Achievement fourteen years later. Over time, Tron developed into a film and eventually spawned a franchise, which consists of multiple video games, comic books. A sequel titled Tron, Legacy directed by Joseph Kosinski was released on December 17,2010, with Bridges and Boxleitner reprising their roles, Kevin Flynn is a software engineer, formerly employed by the computer corporation ENCOM, who now runs a video arcade called Flynns. He wrote several video games, but Ed Dillinger, another ENCOM engineer, stole them and passed them off as his own, Flynns ex-girlfriend Lora Baines and fellow ENCOM engineer Alan Bradley warn Flynn that Dillinger knows about his hacking attempts and has tightened security. Flynn persuades them to him inside ENCOM where he forges Group 6 access for the group. He goes to a terminal in Loras lab to continue searching for evidence of Dillingers theft, Flynn quickly learns that the MCP and its second-in-command, Sark, rule over programs and coerce them to renounce their belief in the Users. Those who resist the MCPs tyrannical power over the Grid are forced to play in games in which the losers are destroyed. Flynn is forced to other programs and meets Tron and Ram between matches. The three escape into the mainframe during a Light Cycle match, but shortly afterwards Flynn and Ram are separated from Tron by an MCP pursuit party composed of tanks based on code Flynn wrote. When Ram is mortally wounded and dies, Flynn learns that as a User he can manipulate energy and matter inside the Grid, effectively allowing him to influence the environment and he uses his abilities to make a destroyed pursuit ship piece itself together, effectively repairing it
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Theatrical release poster
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Gwyneth Paltrow
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Gwyneth Kate Paltrow is an American actress, singer, comedienne and food writer. She gained early notice for her work in such as the thriller Seven. Paltrow has portrayed supporting, as well as roles, in films such as The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Royal Tenenbaums, Shallow Hal. Since 2008, Paltrow has portrayed Pepper Potts, the lead of the Iron Man franchise in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, in Iron Man, Iron Man 2, The Avengers. She reprised the role several times throughout the series run. Paltrow has been the face of Estée Lauders Pleasures perfume since 2005 and she is also the face of American fashion brand Coach, owner of a lifestyle company, and author of two cookbooks. Paltrow was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of actress Blythe Danner, Paltrows father is Jewish, while her mother is from a Christian background. She was raised celebrating both Jewish and Christian holidays and her brother had a traditional Bar Mitzvah when he turned 13. Her fathers Ashkenazi Jewish family immigrated from Belarus and Poland, while her mother has Pennsylvania Dutch, Paltrows younger brother is director and screenwriter Jake Paltrow. Her half-cousin is actress Katherine Moennig and she is a second cousin of former U. S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Her uncle is opera singer and actor Harry Danner, Paltrow was raised in Santa Monica, where she attended Crossroads School before enrolling in the Spence School, a private girls school in New York City. Later, she studied anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is a daughter of Talavera de la Reina, where at 15 she spent a year as an exchange student. Her film debut followed with Shout, starring John Travolta, Paltrows next roles were in the made-for-television movies Cruel Doubt and Deadly Relations. Her first plum feature film role was in the noir drama Flesh, in 1995, she played Brad Pitts wife in the hit thriller Se7en. Her performance earned her a Satellite Award nomination, also in 1995, she appeared in Moonlight and Valentino and Jefferson in Paris. In 1996, Paltrow played the character in Emma to critical acclaim, particularly in the United Kingdom. She also appeared in two thrillers, Hush, opposite Jessica Lange, and A Perfect Murder, inspired by Alfred Hitchcocks 1954 film, Dial M for Murder
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Paltrow at the
2011 Venice Film Festival
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Paltrow at the 2000
Toronto International Film Festival
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Paltrow at a ceremony for receiving her
Hollywood Walk of Fame star, December 2010
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Paltrow at the
84th Academy Awards in 2012
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Leighton Meester
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Leighton Marissa Meester is an American actress, singer-songwriter and model. She is mostly known for her role as Blair Waldorf in the drama series Gossip Girl. She has also appeared in the films Killer Movie, Country Strong, The Roommate, Monte Carlo, The Oranges, Meester made her Broadway debut in Of Mice and Men. In addition to acting, Meester has also ventured into music, in 2009, she featured on Cobra Starships Good Girls Go Bad which charted on the Billboard Hot 100, and released her first single Somebody to Love under Universal Republic. Her second single Your Loves a Drug was released in 2011, Meester has also recorded songs for various soundtracks. Her debut album, Heartstrings, was released in 2014. She has also modeled, having been the face of such as Jimmy Choo, Herbal Essences. Meester was born in Florida to Constance and Douglas Meester, and lived most of her life in New York City and her ancestry includes German, Dutch, English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh. Her father works for a company and her mother is a writer. At the time of her birth, her mother was serving time in a prison for her involvement in a drug ring that smuggled marijuana from Jamaica to the United States. She has a brother, Alexander, who is eight years younger, in 2009, Meester joked, Look, I couldve turned out a lot worse. In 2011, Meester sued her mother for alleged financial misconduct, Meester grew up in Marco Island, Florida, where she participated in productions at a local playhouse. When she was 11 years old, Meester and her mother moved to New York City and she also booked commercials for Tamagotchi and Clearasil, and modelled for Limited Too alongside Amanda Seyfried. Meester made her acting debut as a murder victims friend on an episode of Law & Order. At 14, Meester moved to Los Angeles, wanting more stable work and she then transferred to a small private school and graduated a year early. She then appeared in Tarzan, which ran for eight episodes. Meester started to book guest roles in series such as Crossing Jordan,8 Simple Rules, 7th Heaven, Veronica Mars,24. In 2005, she was cast in a role on the series Surface as Savannah Barnett
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Meester at
Chanel 's
SoHo store re-opening, September 9, 2010
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Meester at
New York Fashion Week Spring and Summer 2009, September 7, 2008
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Meester performing at
The Troubadour in
Hollywood,
California in June 2011
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Country Strong (soundtrack)
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Country Strong is a soundtrack album for the film of the same name. It was released by RCA Nashville on October 26,2010, the album has sold 479,000 copies in the US as of February 2013. A follow-up album Country Strong, was released on December 21,2010, the second album has sold 36,349 in the US as of January 2011. Cameo is used as rowdy flavoring, empire Onlines Danny Graydon gave the soundtrack a four stars rating out of five explaining Gwyneth Paltrow is really good. Entertainment Weekly writer Mikael Wood was convinced by Paltrow in the title track, though he shared the same opinion as Mikael Wood concerning her performance on Shake That Thing by saying the song doesnt suit her, he liked Coming Home, calling it an Oscar worthy ballad. He continued, While Gwyneth acquits herself nicely on two out of three songs, the biggest surprises on the album are her co-stars Garrett Hedlund and Leighton Meester and he praised Hedlunds performance on Chances Are by saying the best song on this album belongs to him. He noted his voice recalls Charlie Robison with a slice of Kris Kristofferson which suits country music quite well and he also explained, Meester certainly comes off sounding closely along the lines of the folksy singer/songwriters like Colbie Caillat and Sara Bareilles and the obvious comparison, Taylor Swift. Country Weekly gave the three stars saying While the album holds together better than many soundtracks, it’s divided between country songs and pop-country songs. Some are super, some so-so, some are sung by actors and he also disliked the tracks by Sara Evans, Lee Ann Womack, Trace Adkins, and Tim McGraw because of their lack of character. He pointed out the drinking songs – Hank Williams Jr. s Thirsty and Ronnie Dunns Shes Actin Single – are the ones offering humor. Martin – track 13 ADid not enter the Hot 100 but charted on Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles
Country Strong (soundtrack)
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Country Strong: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Charlie Robison
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Charles Fitzgerald Charlie Robison is an American country music singer/songwriter. His brother, Bruce Robison, and his sister, Robyn Ludwick, are also singer/songwriters and he went solo with his album Bandera in 1996. He subsequently signed with Sony and released Life of the Party on Sonys subsidiary Lucky Dog Records, the album gave him three of his biggest hits including My Hometown. His next release was a disc called Unleashed Live, which is credited to Charlie, brother Bruce. He then signed with Columbia Records for Step Right Up and another live album, in 2003, Robison was a judge on the first season of the TV singing competition Nashville Star. Accordingly, his sound began to evolve away from mainstream/Nashville country, five years after the release of Good Times, Robison released Beautiful Day on June 23,2009 on Dualtone. This is the first CD he has self-produced, both albums feature several songs written by Nashville singer/songwriter Keith Gattis. His song Good Times was featured in the credits of HBOs original series True Blood in the first seasons third episode. In 2009 he embarked on an East Coast tour with stops in Little Rock, Nashville, Atlanta, Raleigh, New York City, Philadelphia, Chicago, Minneapolis, Iowa City, and Memphis to promote Beautiful Day. Since then he has played primarily in Texas, with shows in Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma. He is known for playing rock covers during his live shows. Some of these include, You Shook Me All Night Long and Highway to Hell, Call me the Breeze, Rocket Man and he also plays several songs associated with Willie Nelson, including Whiskey River and Stay all Night. His live band includes Mark Tokach, Abe Combest, Zeke Benenate J. C. Burt, prior to Beautiful Day, his band was known as The Enablers and included Keith Robinson, Scott Esbeck and Travis Woodard. Other notable members have included Kim Deschamps, Kevin Carroll, Chris Grady, Louis Landry and his recordings have also featured special guests Lloyd Maines, Rich Brotherton, Charlie Sexton, and Natalie Maines. In the fall of 2014, Charlie Robison opened Alamo Icehouse in San Antonio, Robison married Emily Erwin of The Dixie Chicks at the Cibolo Creek Ranch in May 1999. They have three children together, Charles Augustus, called Gus, born November 11,2002 and twins Julianna Tex and Henry Benjamin, Charlie and Emily divorced on August 6,2008 after nine years of marriage. He appeared on Kindred Spirits, A tribute to Johnny Cash, in 2006, Charlie Robison performed Wildman from Borneo on the Kinky Friedman tribute Why the hell not
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Charlie Robison in Austin, Texas
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Country Weekly
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Nash Country Weekly was an American lifestyle weekly magazine about country artists and their music. It was in circulation between April 1994 and May 2016, the magazine was established in 1994. It focused on country music stars and events, and regularly featured exclusive interviews with recording artists, Country Weekly also cosponsored the CMT/TNN Country Weekly Music Awards, at the time the only nationally televised country music awards show that allowed fans to vote for the winners. In February 2009, Country Weekly reverted to a weekly magazine, the magazine also dropped subscriptions at that point, and changed its logo. The magazine was renamed Nash Country Weekly in June 2015, as a means of co-branding with Nash FM, Nash Country Weekly closed its print publication in April 2016
Country Weekly
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The June 15, 2015 issue, the first after the rename to Nash Country Weekly, featuring
Sam Hunt on the cover.
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Kristen Stewart
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Kristen Jaymes Stewart is an American actress and model. Born in Los Angeles to parents working in business, Stewart began her acting career in 1997 with uncredited roles. She gained notice in 2002 for playing Jodie Fosters daughter in the thriller Panic Room and she went on to star in Speak, Catch That Kid, Zathura, and Into The Wild, for which she was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award. She received widespread recognition in 2008 for playing Bella Swan in The Twilight Saga film series, Stewart has appeared in a wide variety of films, including Adventureland, The Runaways, Snow White and the Huntsman, On the Road, Camp X-Ray, Still Alice and Equals. She won the BAFTA Rising Star Award in 2010 and was awarded the Milan International Film Festival Award for Best Actress in 2011 for Welcome to the Rileys. She starred in Personal Shopper, written for her by director Olivier Assayras, Stewart was listed as the highest-earning female actress in the Vanity Fair Hollywood Top Earners List of 2010, with an estimated earning of $28.5 million. In 2011, she was named number one on Forbes list of Hollywoods Best Actors for the Buck, Forbes also named her as the highest paid actress in 2012, with total earnings of $34.5 million. She is the face of Chanel and Balenciaga fashion brands, Stewart was born and raised in Los Angeles. Both of her parents work in the entertainment industry and her father, John Stewart, is a stage manager and television producer who has worked for Fox and currently works on Comedy Central show @midnight. Her mother, Jules Mann-Stewart, is originally from Maroochydore, Queensland and she is a script supervisor and has also directed a film, the 2012 prison drama K-11. She has a brother, Cameron B. Stewart, and two adopted brothers, Dana and Taylor, Stewart attended local schools until the seventh grade. As she became involved in acting, she continued her education by correspondence until completing high school. As she grew up with a family who worked behind the camera, Stewart thought she would become a screenwriter/director and she recalled, I never wanted to be the center of attention — I wasnt that I want to be famous, I want to be an actor kid. I never sought out acting, but I always practiced my autograph because I love pens, Id write my name on everything. She began acting at 8, after an agent saw her perform in her elementary schools Christmas play, after auditioning for a year, Stewart gained her first role with a small, nonspeaking part in the Disney Channel TV-movie The Thirteenth Year. Her next film was The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, where she played the ring toss girl and she also appeared in the independent film The Safety of Objects, as the tomboy daughter of a troubled single mother. Stewart also played a tomboy, diabetic daughter of a mother in the film Panic Room
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Stewart at the
2014 Cannes Film Festival
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Stewart at the 2007 Breakthrough Awards of Hollywood Life Magazine.
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Stewart at the Australian premiere of
Snow White and the Huntsman in June 2012
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Stewart at the UK premiere of
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 in November 2012
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Amy Adams
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Amy Lou Adams is an American actress and singer. She was named one of 100 most influential people by Time magazine in 2014 and is among the actresses in the world. She has won two Golden Globe Awards and has been nominated for five Academy Awards, and six BAFTA Awards, Adams began her career on stage performing in dinner theater and went on to make her feature film debut in Drop Dead Gorgeous. After moving to Los Angeles, she made appearances on television and in B-movies. Adamss breakthrough role came in the 2005 independent film Junebug, in which her portrayal of a pregnant woman earned her an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination. In 2007, she starred as a princess in the commercially successful Disney musical film Enchanted, Adams received three more Oscar nominations for her supporting roles in Doubt, The Fighter, and The Master. She won a second consecutive Golden Globe Award for portraying artist Margaret Keane in the comedy-drama Big Eyes, Adams was born on August 20,1974, in Vicenza, Veneto, Italy, the fourth of seven children of American parents Kathryn and Richard Adams. She has four brothers and two sisters and her father is a U. S. Army veteran and was stationed at Caserma Ederle at the time of her birth. After years of moving from base to base, Adamss family settled in Castle Rock, Colorado, following his Army discharge, her father sang professionally in restaurants and her mother became a semi-professional bodybuilder. Until her parents divorce in 1985, Adams was raised in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, regarding her religious upbringing, Adams said, I cant speak for everybody, but I know it instilled in me a value system I still hold true. – that was what was hammered into me, during her years at Douglas County High School, Adams sang in the school choir and trained as an apprentice at a local dance company with ambitions of becoming a ballerina. Her parents had hoped that she would continue her athletic training, Adams later reflected on her decision not to go to college, I wasnt one of those people who enjoyed being in school. I regret not getting an education, though, after graduating from high school, she moved to Atlanta with her mother. Deciding that she was not gifted enough to be a ballerina, she entered musical theater. She said that ballet was too disciplined and too restrained and I was always told off in the chorus lines, when she turned eighteen, Adams supported herself by working as a greeter at a Gap store while performing in community theater. For a few weeks after graduating high school, she took her first full-time job as a hostess at Hooters. Adams left the job three weeks later after having saved enough money to buy her first car and she later admitted, So there was definitely an innocence to my interpretation of what Hooters was about. Though I did learn, quickly, that short shorts and beer dont mix, Adams began working professionally as a dancer at Boulders Dinner Theatre, Country Dinner Playhouse and Heritage Square Music Hall
Amy Adams
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Adams at the 2015
San Diego Comic-Con International
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Adams on the set of Enchanted (2007)
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Adams at the 81st Academy Awards, February 2009
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Adams with
Owen Wilson and
Ben Stiller while promoting
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian in May 2009
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Steve Buscemi
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Steven Vincent Steve Buscemi is an American actor and film director. He is also known for his appearances in films by the Coen brothers, Millers Crossing, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo. Buscemi provides the voice of Randall Boggs in the Monsters, Inc. franchise and he made his directorial debut in 1996, with Trees Lounge, in which he also starred. Other works include Animal Factory, Lonesome Jim and Interview and he has also directed numerous episodes of TV shows, including Homicide, Life on the Street, The Sopranos, Oz,30 Rock, and Nurse Jackie. He currently hosts the Emmy Award-winning AOL On comedy talk-show Park Bench, Buscemi was born in Brooklyn, New York, to John Buscemi, a sanitation worker and Korean War veteran, and Dorothy, who worked as a host at Howard Johnsons. Buscemis father was of Italian descent, his ancestors were from the town of Menfi in Sicily, Buscemis mother was of Irish, English, and Dutch ancestry. He has three brothers, Jon, Ken, and Michael and he graduated in 1975 from Valley Stream Central High School in Nassau County, New York, a school which he attended with actress Patricia Charbonneau. In high school, Buscemi wrestled for the varsity squad and participated in the drama troupe, Buscemis 1996 film Trees Lounge, in which he starred and served as screenwriter and director, is set in and was largely shot in his childhood village of Valley Stream. Buscemi briefly attended Nassau Community College before moving to Manhattan to enroll in the Lee Strasberg Institute, in 1980, Buscemi became a firefighter in New York City, after taking a civil service test in 1976 when he was 18. For four years, Buscemi served on FDNYs Engine Co.55 in Manhattans Little Italy, after 9/11, Buscemi returned to Engine 55 and for several days worked 12-hour shifts alongside other firefighters to sift through the rubble from the World Trade Center. In 2003, he gave a speech supporting higher wages for firefighters at a union rally, in 2014, he was appointed as an Honorary Battalion Chief of the FDNY. His film debut was the 1985 No Wave Cinema film The Way it Is, other early films include Parting Glances in 1986, Slaves of New York in 1988, and Tales from the Darkside, a 1990 film with three segments. Buscemi starred in the first segment, playing Bellingham, a student who orders a mummy and unleashes it on fellow college students played by Christian Slater. In 1990, Buscemi had a couple of additional crime roles and he played the henchman of Laurence Fishburne named Test Tube in Abel Ferraras King of New York. He also played Mink in the Coen Brothers Millers Crossing, although he had to audition twice for this role, it marked the first of five of the Coen Brothers films in which Buscemi appeared. In 1991, he played the bellboy, Chet, in the Coen Brothers film and his first lead role was in 1992, when he played Adolpho Rollo in Alexandre Rockwells In the Soup. Then he came to attention for playing Mr. Pink in Quentin Tarantinos 1992 film, Reservoir Dogs. He also appeared in Tarantinos next film, Pulp Fiction, in which he acts as a waiter at the 1950s themed restaurant which Mrs. Mia Wallace and Vincent Vega attend
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Buscemi at the 2009
Tribeca Film Festival
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Buscemi in 1996
46.
Terrence Howard
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Terrence Dashon Howard is an American actor and singer. Having his first major roles in the 1995 films Dead Presidents and Mr. Hollands Opus, Howard broke into the mainstream with a succession of television and he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Hustle & Flow. Howard has had prominent roles in other movies including Winnie, Ray, Lackawanna Blues, Crash, Four Brothers, Get Rich or Die Tryin, Idlewild, August Rush, The Brave One. Howard played James Rhodes in Iron Man and reprised the role in the game adaptation. However, he was replaced by Don Cheadle for the future films and he currently stars as the lead character Lucious Lyon in the television series Empire. His debut album, Shine Through It, was released in September 2008, Howard was born in Chicago, Illinois on March 11,1969 to Tyrone and Anita Howard. The great-grandson of stage actress Minnie Gentry, he was raised in Cleveland, Ohio by father Tyrone Howard, the killing resulted in Tyrone Howard spending 11 months in jail for manslaughter. Howards parents divorced upon his fathers release, Howard first entered the entertainment world when he portrayed Jackie Jackson in The Jacksons, An American Dream, an ABC miniseries. Three years later, he made his big break in 1995s Mr. Hollands Opus. Howard made an appearance on the TV series Family Matters, Howard has stated that he looks for characters that teach him about himself when choosing his film roles. Howard has also worked as a producer, receiving such a credit for the film Pride. In 2008, Howard hosted the PBS series Independent Lens, Howard was the highest-paid cast member of the 2008 film Iron Man. He did not appear in either of the follow-up sequels because it was reported that he would have had to take a 50 to 80 percent pay cut and was replaced by actor Don Cheadle. Howard released his debut adult alternative album, Shine Through It and he described the album as urban country and either wrote or co-wrote all the tracks on the album. During rehearsals he allegedly attacked and seriously injured musical composer Tex Allen, in October 2008, Allen filed a $5 million lawsuit against Howard. In October 2008, Howard made a guest appearance in the short film For All Mankind directed by Daniel L. Clifton, filmed on location in Conshohocken, in 2009, he starred in the movie Fighting. It was reported on July 30,2010, that Howard had joined the cast of the new Law & Order, Los Angeles installment of the Law & Order franchise and he alternated shows with Alfred Molina, who portrayed Deputy District Attorney Ricardo Morales. The series was cancelled after one season, in 2011, Howard played Nelson Mandela in Winnie Mandela alongside Jennifer Hudson
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Howard at the
2011 Toronto International Film Festival
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Howard in May 2007
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Kirsten Dunst
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Kirsten Caroline Dunst is an American actress. She made her debut in Woody Allens short film Oedipus Wrecks for the anthology film New York Stories. At the age of twelve, Dunst gained widespread recognition as Claudia in Interview with the Vampire and she appeared in Little Women the same year and in Jumanji the following year. Dunst achieved fame for her portrayal of Mary Jane Watson in Sam Raimis Spider-Man trilogy and she played the title role in Sofia Coppolas biographical film Marie Antoinette and starred in the comedy film How to Lose Friends & Alienate People. She won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival and she starred in the second season of the television series Fargo in 2015, playing the role of Peggy Blumquist, a slightly delusional and neurotic hairdresser. In 2001, Dunst made her debut in the film Get Over It. She also sang the jazz song After Youve Gone for the end credits of the film The Cats Meow, Dunst was born in Point Pleasant, New Jersey, to Klaus Hermann Dunst and Inez Dunst. She has a brother, Christian. Her father worked as a medical services executive, and her mother worked for Lufthansa as an attendant and was an artist. Dunsts father is German, originally from Hamburg, and Dunsts mother was born in New Jersey, until the age of eleven, Dunst lived in Brick Township, New Jersey, where she attended Ranney School. In 1993, her parents separated, and she moved with her mother and brother to Los Angeles, California. In 1995, her mother filed for divorce, after graduating from Notre Dame in 2000, Dunst continued the acting career that she had begun. As a teenager, she found it difficult to deal with her rising fame, however, she later expressed that her mother always had the best intentions. When asked if she had any regrets about the way she spent her childhood, Dunst said, Well, its not a way to grow up. I have my stuff to work out, I dont think anybody can sit around and say, My life is more screwed up than yours. Dunst began her career when she was three years old as a fashion model in television commercials. She was signed with Ford Models and Elite Model Management, at the age of six, she made her feature film debut in a minor role in Woody Allens short film Oedipus Wrecks that was released as one-third of the anthology film New York Stories. Soon after, she co-starred with Tom Hanks in the comedy-drama The Bonfire of the Vanities, based on Tom Wolfes novel of the same name, where she played the daughter of Hanks character
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Dunst at the 2013 premiere of
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues in
Sydney, Australia
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Dunst at the
2006 Cannes Film Festival premiere of
Marie Antoinette
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Viggo Mortensen
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Viggo Peter Mortensen Jr. is a Danish-American actor. I. Jane, A Perfect Murder, A Walk on the Moon, Mortensen received international attention in the early 2000s with his role as Aragorn in the epic film trilogy The Lord of the Rings. In 2005, Mortensen won critical acclaim for David Cronenbergs crime thriller A History of Violence, Two years later, another Cronenberg film Eastern Promises earned him further critical acclaim and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. A third teaming with Cronenberg in A Dangerous Method resulted in a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture. Other well-received films have included Appaloosa, adapted from a Robert B. Parker novel, and Far from Men and he received a second Best Actor nomination in 2017 at the 89th Academy Awards for his role in Captain Fantastic. Aside from acting, his artistic pursuits include fine arts, photography, poetry. In 2002, he founded the Perceval Press to publish the works of little-known artists, Mortensen was born in New York City. His mother, Grace Gamble, was American, and his father, Viggo Peter Mortensen Sr. was Danish and his maternal grandfather was from Nova Scotia, Canada, and his maternal grandmothers family was from New England. At the age of 11, his parents divorced and he returned to New York with his mother and he then attended St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, earning a bachelors degree in Spanish Studies and Politics in 1980. Afterward, he went to Europe and lived in Spain, England and he eventually returned to the United States to pursue an acting career. Mortensen made his first film playing an Amish farmer in Peter Weirs Witness. Also in 1985, he was cast in the role of Bragg on Search for Tomorrow, Mortensens 1987 performance in Bent at the Coast Playhouse, Los Angeles, won him a Dramalogue Critics Award. Coincidentally, the play, about homosexual concentration camp prisoners, was brought to prominence by Ian McKellen. In 1987, Mortensen guest starred as a police detective on the hit series Miami Vice. I. Of these roles, Mortensen was probably best known for playing Master Chief John Urgayle in G. I, another major mainstream breakthrough came in 1999, when Peter Jackson cast him as Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. In the The Two Towers DVD extras, the swordmaster, Bob Anderson. Mortensen often performed his own stunts, and even the injuries he sustained during several of them did not dampen his enthusiasm. He received critical acclaim for his portrayal of Aragorn, and was ranked No.15 on a 2015 survey of The 100 Greatest Movie Characters conducted by Empire
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Mortensen at the
32nd Genie Awards in March 2012
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Mortensen in 2010
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Viggo Mortensen at the
2009 Venice Film Festival.
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Walter Salles
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Walter Moreira Salles, Jr. is a Brazilian filmmaker and film producer of international prominence. Salles attended the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts and he is the son of Brazilian banker, politician and philanthropist Walter Moreira Salles. Salless first notable film was Terra Estrangeira, released in Brazil in 1995, locally, it was widely acclaimed by film critics and a minor box-office hit, and it was selected by over 40 film festivals worldwide. In 1998 he released Central do Brasil to widespread international acclaim, Salles won a Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film, becoming the first Brazilian to win a Golden Globe. In 2001, Abril Despedaçado, starring Rodrigo Santoro, was nominated for the Best Foreign Film Golden Globes, both films were produced by veteran Arthur Cohn and had worldwide distribution. In 2003, Salles was voted one of the 40 Best Directors in the World by The Guardian and his biggest international success has been Diarios de Motocicleta, a 2004 film about the life of young Ernesto Guevara, who later became known as Che Guevara. It was Salless first foray as director of a film in a other than his native Portuguese and quickly became a box-office hit in Latin America. In 2005, Salles released his first Hollywood film, Dark Water and he also helped to produce the Argentine picture Hermanas which was a major success. In 2006, Salles wrote and directed a segment in the French film Paris, the film is a collection of 18 shorter segments made by different 21 directors and set in different arrondissements of Paris. Salles segment called Loin du 16e and took place in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, in 2007, Salles took part in a similar project called To Each His Own Cinema in the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival. He made a 3-minute segment called A8944 km de Cannes, in 2008, Salles wrote and directed the film Linha de Passe also with Daniela Thomas. It is a story about four brothers from a family who need to fight to follow their dreams. He was nominated for the Golden Palm and Sandra Corveloni won the best actress award for her role in film in Cannes Film Festival in 2008. In 2012 Salles released José Riveras screenplay adaptation of Jack Kerouacs On the Road, the film was nominated for the Palme dOr at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. com Walter Salles interviewed by Michael Ordoña for the San Francisco Chronicle
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Salles at the 2012
Toronto International Film Festival showing of
On the Road
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Salles in 2005
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Jack Kerouac
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Jack Kerouac was an American novelist and poet. He is considered a literary iconoclast and, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, Kerouac is recognized for his method of spontaneous prose. Thematically, his work covers such as Catholic spirituality, jazz, promiscuity, Buddhism, drugs, poverty. He became a celebrity and, with other beats, a progenitor of the hippie movement. In 1969, aged 47, Kerouac died from bleeding due to long-term alcohol abuse. Since his death, Kerouacs literary prestige has grown, and several previously unseen works have been published, Jack Kerouac was born on March 12,1922 in Lowell, Massachusetts, to French Canadian parents, Léo-Alcide Kéroack and Gabrielle-Ange Lévesque. There is some confusion surrounding his name, partly because of variations on the spelling of Kerouac and his reason for that statement seems to be linked to an old family legend that the Kerouacs had descended from Baron François Louis Alexandre Lebris de Kerouac. Kerouacs baptism certificate lists his name simply as Jean Louis Kirouac, Kerouacs father Leo had been born into a family of potato farmers in the village of Saint-Hubert-de-Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec. Jack also had stories on the etymology of his surname, usually tracing it to Irish, Breton. In one interview he claimed it was from the name of the Cornish language, another version was that the Kerouacs had come to Cornwall from Ireland before the time of Christ and the name meant language of the house. In still another interview he said it was an Irish word for language of the water, Kerouac, derived from Kervoach, is the name of a town in Brittany in Lanmeur, near Morlaix. Jack Kerouac later referred to 34 Beaulieu Street as sad Beaulieu, the Kerouac family was living there in 1926 when Jacks older brother Gerard died of rheumatic fever, aged nine. This deeply affected four-year-old Jack, who would say that Gerard followed him in life as a guardian angel. This is the Gerard of Kerouacs novel Visions of Gerard and he had one other sibling, an older sister named Caroline. Kerouac was referred to as Ti Jean or little John around the house during his childhood, Kerouac spoke French until he learned English at age six, he did not speak English confidently until his late teens. He was a child who was devoted to his mother. She was a devout Catholic, who instilled this deep faith into both her sons, Kerouac would later say that his mother was the only woman he ever loved. After Gerard died, his mother sought solace in her faith, while his father abandoned it, wallowing in drinking, gambling, and smoking
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Jack Kerouac's birthplace, 9 Lupine Road, 2nd floor, in the West Centralville section of Lowell, Massachusetts.
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Kerouac's Naval Reserve Enlistment photograph, 1943
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His third of several homes growing up in the West Centralville section of Lowell
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Jack Kerouac lived with his parents for a time above a corner drug store in Ozone Park (now this flower shop), while writing some of his earliest work.
