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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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Dinesh D'Souza
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Dinesh Joseph DSouza is an Indian American political commentator, author, and filmmaker. From 2010 to 2012, he was president of The Kings College, born in Bombay, DSouza came to the United States as an exchange student and graduated from Dartmouth College. He became a citizen in 1991. He is the author of several New York Times best-selling books, DSouza has been critical of New Atheism. In January 2014, DSouza was indicted on charges of making contributions to a 2012 United States Senate campaign. On May 20,2014, DSouza pleaded guilty in Federal Court to one charge of using a donor to make an illegal political campaign donation. On September 23, he was sentenced to eight months in a house near his home in San Diego, five years probation. His films have been the subject of controversy and criticized for espousing conspiracy theories. DSouza was born in Bombay in 1961 and his parents were Roman Catholics from the state of Goa in Western India, where his father was an executive of Johnson & Johnson and his mother was a housewife. DSouza attended the Jesuit St. Stanislaus High School in Bombay and he graduated in 1976 and completed his 11th and 12th years at Sydenham College, also in Bombay. In 1978, DSouza traveled to the United States under the Rotary Youth Exchange and attended the public school in Patagonia. He went on to matriculate at Dartmouth College, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English in 1983 and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. While at Dartmouth, DSouza wrote for The Dartmouth Review, an independent publication, not affiliated with Dartmouth College, subsidized by alumni, after graduating from Dartmouth, DSouza became the editor of a monthly called The Prospect, a publication financed by a group of Princeton University alumni. The paper and its writers ignited much controversy during DSouzas editorship by, among other things, from 1985 to 1987, DSouza was an editor of Policy Review, a journal then published by The Heritage Foundation in Washington, D. C. In a September 1985 article The Bishops as Pawns, DSouza theorized that Catholic bishops in the United States were being manipulated by American liberals in agreeing to oppose the U. S and he was a policy adviser in the administration of President Ronald Reagan between 1987 and 1988. In 1991, he became a naturalized U. S. citizen, in August 2010, DSouza was named president of The Kings College, a Christian liberal arts college then housed in the Empire State Building in Manhattan. The college relocated to a space in Fall 2012, next door to the New York Stock Exchange in Lower Manhattans financial district. DSouza called the report vicious and worthy of Christian condemnation, DSouza defines conservatism in the American sense as conserving the principles of the American Revolution
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Golden Raspberry Award
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The Golden Raspberry Awards often shortened to Razzies and Razzie Awards, is an award in recognition of the worst in film. The term raspberry in the name is used in its irreverent sense, the awards themselves are in the form of a golf ball-sized raspberry which sits atop a Super 8 mm film reel, the whole of which is spray painted gold. The first Golden Raspberry Awards ceremony was held on March 31,1981, wilsons living-room alcove in Los Angeles, to honor the worst in film of the 1980 film season. The 37th ceremony was held on February 25,2017, american publicist John J. B. Wilson traditionally held potluck parties at his house in Los Angeles on the night of the Academy Awards. In 1981, after the 53rd Academy Awards had completed for the evening, Wilson decided to formalize the event, after watching a double feature of Cant Stop the Music and Xanadu. He gave them ballots to vote on worst in film, approximately three dozen people came to the 1st Golden Raspberry Awards. The 2nd Golden Raspberry Awards had double the attendance as the first, by the 4th Golden Raspberry Awards ceremony, CNN and two major wire services covered the event. The term raspberry is used in its irreverent sense, as in blowing a raspberry, Wilson commented to the author of Blame It on the Dog, When I registered the term with the Library of Congress in 1980, they asked me, Why raspberry. But since then, razz has pretty much permeated the culture and we couldnt have done it without Hollywoods help. Wilson is referred to as Ye Olde Head Razzberry, paying members of the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation vote to determine the recipients. For the 29th Golden Raspberry Awards in 2009, award results were based on votes from approximately 650 journalists, cinema fans, voters hailed from 45 states in the United States and 19 other countries. The ceremony, typically one day before the Academy Awards, is modeled after the latter but deliberately low-end. Most winners do not attend the ceremony to collect their awards, notable exceptions include Tom Green, Halle Berry and Sandra Bullock, Michael Ferris, J. D. Shapiro, and Paul Verhoeven. Three people won both the Razzies and Oscars the same weekend, Alan Menken in 1993, Brian Helgeland in 1998, two actors had performances in the same movie scoring Oscar and Razzie nominations, James Coco and Amy Irving. Neil Diamond, winner of the inaugural Worst Actor Razzie for 1980s The Jazz Singer, was nominated for the Golden Globe in the same role, wall Street is the only film to date to win both an Oscar and a Razzie. Michael Douglas won the Academy Award for Best Actor, however Daryl Hannahs performance was not as well received and earned her a Razzie for Worst Supporting Actress, special prizes for the 25th anniversary of the Razzies awards were also given out in 2005. This is an award given by Razzie Award Governor John J. B. Wilson to an individual whose achievements are not covered by the Razzies other categories. It was awarded in 2003 to Travis Payne for Distinguished Under-Achievement in Choreography in the film From Justin to Kelly and this award is given to a critical and financial failure that wouldve been nominated if it had received an eligible release
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Film
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A film, also called a movie, motion picture, theatrical film or photoplay, is a series of still images which, when shown on a screen, creates the illusion of moving images due to the phi phenomenon. This optical illusion causes the audience to perceive continuous motion between separate objects viewed rapidly in succession, the process of filmmaking is both an art and an industry. The word cinema, short for cinematography, is used to refer to the industry of films. Films were originally recorded onto plastic film through a photochemical process, the adoption of CGI-based special effects led to the use of digital intermediates. Most contemporary films are now fully digital through the process of production, distribution. Films recorded in a form traditionally included an analogous optical soundtrack. It runs along a portion of the film exclusively reserved for it and is not projected, Films are cultural artifacts created by specific cultures. They reflect those cultures, and, in turn, affect them, Film is considered to be an important art form, a source of popular entertainment, and a powerful medium for educating—or indoctrinating—citizens. The visual basis of film gives it a power of communication. Some films have become popular worldwide attractions by using dubbing or subtitles to translate the dialog into the language of the viewer, some have criticized the film industrys glorification of violence and its potentially negative treatment of women. The individual images that make up a film are called frames, the perception of motion is due to a psychological effect called phi phenomenon. The name film originates from the fact that film has historically been the medium for recording and displaying motion pictures. Many other terms exist for a motion picture, including picture, picture show, moving picture, photoplay. The most common term in the United States is movie, while in Europe film is preferred. Terms for the field, in general, include the big screen, the screen, the movies, and cinema. In early years, the sheet was sometimes used instead of screen. Preceding film in origin by thousands of years, early plays and dances had elements common to film, scripts, sets, costumes, production, direction, actors, audiences, storyboards, much terminology later used in film theory and criticism apply, such as mise en scène. Owing to the lack of any technology for doing so, the moving images, the magic lantern, probably created by Christiaan Huygens in the 1650s, could be used to project animation, which was achieved by various types of mechanical slides
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Sylvester Stallone
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Michael Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone is an American actor, filmmaker, and screenwriter. He wrote or co-wrote most of the 14 films in all three franchises, and directed many of the films, Stallones film Rocky was inducted into the National Film Registry as well as having its film props placed in the Smithsonian Museum. Stallones use of the front entrance to the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the Rocky series led the area to be nicknamed the Rocky Steps, Philadelphia has a statue of his Rocky character placed permanently near the museum. It was announced on December 7,2010 that Stallone was voted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in the non-participant category, in 1977, Stallone was nominated for two Academy Awards for Rocky, Best Original Screenplay and Best Actor. He became the man in history to receive these two nominations for the same film, after Charles Chaplin and Orson Welles. He received critical raves, as well as his first Golden Globe Award win and third Academy Award nomination, Stallones father was born in Gioia del Colle, Apulia, Italy, and immigrated to the United States in the 1930s. Stallones mother is of half French and half Russian Jewish descent and his younger brother is actor and musician Frank Stallone. As a result, the left side of his face is paralyzed – including parts of his lip, tongue. Around the age of 4, Stallone was flat-footed and put in a tap dancing school by his mother and his father moved the family to Washington, D. C. in the early 1950s, where he opened a beauty school. His mother opened a gymnasium called Barbellas in 1954. Stallones parents divorced when Sylvester was nine, and he lived with his mother. When Stallone was 16, he scored poorly in school and his mother got him a job at her beauty salon. He attended Notre Dame Academy and Lincoln High School in Philadelphia, and Charlotte Hall Military Academy, prior to attending Miami Dade College, Stallone had his first starring role in the soft core pornography feature film The Party at Kitty and Studs. He was paid US$200 for two days work, Stallone later explained that he had done the film out of desperation after being evicted from his apartment and finding himself homeless for several days. He has also said that he slept three weeks in the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York City prior to seeing a casting notice for the film. In the actors words, it was either do that movie or rob someone, the film was released several years later as Italian Stallion, in order to cash in on Stallones newfound fame. While he was in Switzerland, Stallone got his start in films, playing an extra eating in a restaurant near to stars Robert Redford and Camilla Sparv, in the sports drama, Downhill Racer. In 1970, Stallone appeared in the film No Place to Hide, which was re-cut and retitled Rebel, in the Lemmon film, Jack Lemmons character chases, tackles and mugs Stallone, thinking that Stallones character is a pickpocket
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Rhinestone (film)
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Rhinestone is a 1984 American musical comedy film directed by Bob Clark with a screenplay by Sylvester Stallone and Phil Alden Robinson, the film stars Stallone and Dolly Parton. Freddie accepts Jakes bet, putting up the remainder of Jakes contract and he then ups the ante, if Jake loses, she must also sleep with him. The problem is that Freddie can select the man, and he selects an obnoxious New York cabbie named Nick Martinelli, Nick not only has no musical talent whatsoever, he claims to hate country music worse than liver. Realizing she is stuck with Nick, she takes him back to her home in Tennessee to teach him how to walk, talk and it all leads to Nick performing a song at The Rhinestone where the crowd is a crazed group of hecklers and are out for blood. After Nicks first attempt to sing bombs, he turns to the band and says, Okay guys, lets pick up the beat and the band begins playing the song in a more Rock n Roll version and he wins the crowd over. In the end, Jake gets her back and she. He was paid $5 million and a percentage of the gross, Original screenwriter Phil Alden Robinson was so offended by Stallones reworking of his original screenplay that he briefly considered having his name removed from the films credits. He was later convinced that having his name on a film of this caliber would look good on his resume, Stallone later said, The most fun I ever had on a movie was with Dolly Parton on RHINESTONE. I wanted the music at that time to be written by people who would give it sort of a bizarre edge, believe it or not, I contacted Whitesnake’s management and they were ready to write some very interesting songs alongside Dolly’s. But, I was asked to come down to Fox and out steps the director, Bob is a nice guy, but the film went in a direction that literally shattered my internal corn meter into smithereens. I would have many things differently. I certainly would’ve steered clear of comedy unless it was dark, silly comedy didn’t work for me. I mean, would pay to see John Wayne in a whimsical farce. I would stay true to who I am and what the audience would prefer rather than trying to stretch out and waste a lot of time. Stallone now says he regrets making the film, the film was panned upon its release, and is generally regarded as a commercial and critical flop, on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film currently has a 15% Rotten rating. Nonetheless, the album gave Dolly Parton two top ten country singles, Tennessee Homesick Blues and God Wont Get You. Rhinestone was nominated for five Golden Raspberry Awards, winning Worst Actor, the film is listed in Golden Raspberry Award founder John J. B. Wilsons book The Official Razzie Movie Guide as one of the The 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made. Phil Alden Robinson publicly distanced himself from the film during its release, the movie was nominated for a Stinkers Bad Movie Awards for Worst Picture
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Rambo: First Blood Part II
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Rambo, First Blood Part II is a 1985 American action film directed by George P. Cosmatos and starring Sylvester Stallone, who reprises his role as Vietnam veteran John Rambo. It is the sequel to the 1982 film First Blood, despite negative reviews, First Blood Part II was a major worldwide box office success, with an estimated 42 million tickets sold in the US. It has become the most recognized and memorable installment in the series, having inspired countless rip-offs, parodies, video games, the film was on the ballot for the American Film Institutes 100 Years. 100 Cheers, a list of Americas most inspiring movies, entertainment Weekly ranked the movie number 23 on its list of The Best Rock-em, Sock-em Movies of the Past 25 Years. A year into his sentence, former commando John Rambo is visited by his old commander, with the war in Vietnam over, the public has become increasingly concerned over news that a small group of US POWs have been left in enemy custody. To placate their demands for action, the US government has authorized a solo mission to confirm the reports. As one of three men suited for such work, Rambo agrees to undertake the operation in exchange for a pardon. He is taken to meet Marshall Murdock, a government official overseeing the operation. During his insertion, Rambos parachute becomes tangled and breaks, causing him to lose most of his equipment, leaving him only his knife. He meets his contact, a young intelligence agent named Co-Bao. Reaching the camp, Rambo spots one of the prisoners tied to a cross shaped post, left to suffer from exposure, during escape, they are discovered by Vietnamese troops and attacked. When a gunboat manages to catch up, the pirates betray them out of fear, Rambo gets the POW and Co-Bao to safety, destroys the boat with an RPG-7, and kills the pirates. When Rambo calls for extraction, the helicopter is ordered to abort by Murdock, Co-Bao escapes, but Rambo and the POW are recaptured and returned to the camp. There, Rambo learns that Soviet troops are arming and training the Vietnamese and he is turned over to the local liaison, Lieutenant Colonel Podovsky and his right-hand man, Sergeant Yushin, for interrogation. Upon learning of Rambos mission from intercepted missives, Podovsky demands that Rambo broadcast a message disavowing the POWs, meanwhile, Co infiltrates the camp disguised as a prostitute and comes to the hut in which Rambo is held captive. Rambo at first refuses to cooperate, but relents when the lives are threatened. Instead of reading the comments, Rambo directly threatens Murdock. He then subdues the Russians with Cos help and escapes into the jungle and they kiss, and Rambo agrees to take Co back to the United States
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Rocky IV
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Rocky IV is a 1985 American sports drama film written, directed by, and starring Sylvester Stallone. The film co-stars Dolph Lundgren, Burt Young, Talia Shire, Carl Weathers, Tony Burton, Brigitte Nielsen, Rocky IV remained the highest grossing sports movie for 24 years before it was overtaken by The Blind Side. It is the fourth and most financially successful entry in the Rocky film series, in the film, the Soviet Union and their top boxer make an entrance into professional boxing with their best athlete Ivan Drago, who initially wants to take on World champion Rocky Balboa. Rockys best friend Apollo Creed decides to fight him instead, but is beaten in the ring. Enraged, Rocky decides to fight Drago in the Soviet Union to avenge his friend and defend the honor of his country, critical reception was mixed, but the film earned $300 million at the box office. This film marked Carl Weathers final appearance in the series, the films success led to a fifth entry released on November 16,1990. Ivan Drago, a Russian Soviet boxer, arrives in the United States with his wife, Ludmilla, and his manager, Nicolai Koloff, takes every opportunity to promote Dragos athleticism as a hallmark of Soviet superiority. Motivated by patriotism and a desire to prove himself, Apollo Creed challenges Drago to an exhibition bout. Rocky has reservations, but agrees to train Apollo despite his misgivings about the match and he asks Apollo whether the fight is against the Soviet, or you against you. During a press conference regarding the match, hostility sparks between Apollo and Dragos respective camps, the boxing exhibition takes place at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas. Apollo enters the ring in an over-the-top patriotic entrance with James Brown performing Living in America complete with showgirls, the bout starts tamely with Apollo landing several punches that have no effect on Drago. It soon turns serious though, as Drago starts to retaliate with devastating effect. By the end of the first round, Rocky and Apollos trainer, Duke, plead with him to give up, but Apollo refuses to do so, Drago continues to pummel him in the second round, Duke begs Rocky to throw in the towel. Eventually, Drago lands one final punch that knocks Apollo out, in the immediate aftermath, Drago displays no sense of remorse commenting to the assembled media, If he dies, he dies. Enraged by guilt and the Russians cold indifference, Rocky challenges Drago himself, Dragos camp agrees to an unsanctioned 15-round fight in the Soviet Union on Christmas Day, an arrangement meant to protect Drago from the threats of violence he has been receiving in America. Rocky travels to the USSR without Adrian, setting up his base in Krasnogourbinsk with only Duke. To prepare for the match, Drago uses high-tech equipment, steroid enhancement, Adrian arrives unexpectedly to give Rocky her support after initially refusing to travel to the Soviet Union because of her worry that Rocky would be killed like Apollo. Drago is introduced with an elaborate, patriotic ceremony and the crowd is squarely on Dragos side
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Rambo III
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Rambo III is a 1988 American action adventure film directed by Peter MacDonald. The film depicts events during the Soviet war in Afghanistan. It is the film in the Rambo series following First Blood and Rambo. It was in turn followed by Rambo in 2008, making it the last film in the series to feature Richard Crenna as Colonel Sam Trautman before his death in 2003, sixty-five seconds of the film were cut in the UK version for theatrical release. Some later video releases almost tripled the cuts, Rambo III was released worldwide on May 25,1988, and grossed $189 million against production budget of between $58 and $63 million. Colonel Sam Trautman visits his old friend and ally John Rambo in Thailand and he explains that he is putting together a mercenary team for a CIA-sponsored mission to supply anti-Soviet fighters in Afghanistan. Despite being shown photos of civilians suffering at the hands of the Soviet military, Rambo refuses to join, Trautman proceeds anyway and is ambushed by enemy forces near the border, resulting in all of his men being killed. Trautman is captured and sent to a mountain base to be interrogated by Soviet Colonel Zaysen. Embassy official Robert Griggs informs Rambo of Trautmans capture but refuses to approve a rescue mission for fear of drawing the United States into the war. Aware that Trautman will die otherwise, Rambo gets permission to undertake a rescue on the condition that he will be disavowed in the event of capture or death. Rambo immediately flies to Peshawar, Pakistan, where he intends to convince arms dealer Mousa Ghani to bring him to Khost, the Mujahideen in the village, led by chieftain Masoud, hesitate to help Rambo free Trautman. Meanwhile, a Soviet informant in Ghanis employ informs the Russians, though Rambo manages to destroy one of them with a turret, the rebels refuse to aid him any further. Aided only by Mousa and a boy named Hamid, Rambo attacks the base. Hamid, as well as Rambo, are wounded during the battle and Rambo sends him, skillfully evading base security, Rambo reaches Trautman just as he is about to be tortured with a flamethrower. He and Trautman rescue several other prisoners and hijack a Hind helicopter to escape the base, the helicopter is damaged during takeoff and quickly crashes, forcing the escapees to flee across the sand on foot. An attack chopper pursues Rambo and Trautman to a nearby cave, a furious Zaysen sends commandos under Kourov to kill them, but they are quickly routed and killed. An injured Kourov attacks Rambo with his hands, but is overcome. As Rambo and Trautman make their way to the Pakistani border, Zaysen, but before the duo are overwhelmed, Masouds Mujahideen forces attack the Soviets in a surprise cavalry charge
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Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
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Or My Mom Will Shoot is a 1992 American buddy cop comedy film directed by Roger Spottiswoode. The film stars Sylvester Stallone and Estelle Getty, the film was released in the United States on February 21,1992. In 2006, Stallone stated that this was the worst movie he starred in. Joe Bomowski is a tough cop, when his seemingly frail mother Tutti comes to stay with him and progressively interferes in his life, it drives him crazy. After cleaning his gun with bleach and finding out she ruined it, she buys him an illegal MAC-10 machine pistol, while taken to the police station, she refuses to work with and starts poking around in his police cases. The gun purchased was part of a taken from a burned building. At the end, when Tutti is going home, she recognizes a man at the airport. After he flees, Joe and Tutti follow him, where Tutti remembers that she saw him on Americas Most Wanted for shooting his mother, joseph Andrew Joe Bomowski Estelle Getty as Mrs. Tutti Bomowski JoBeth Williams as Lt. Gwen Harper Al Fann as Sgt. Lou Roger Rees as J. Parnell Martin Ferrero as Paulie Gailard Sartain as Munroe John Wesley as Sgt, tony J. Kenneth Campbell as Ross Ving Rhames as Mr. Stereo Richard Schiff as Gun Clerk Dennis Burkley as Mitchell Principal photography began on May 13,1991. Filming took place in and around Los Angeles, California, Santa Rosa, California & Long Beach, production wrapped on August 9,1991. The film received negative reviews, and has a 4% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The Washington Post called it your worst nightmare but stated that the concept is actually better for Stallone than the premises of his earlier awful romps, Rhinestone and Oscar. Clifford Terry wrote in the Chicago Tribune that the plays like an extended sitcom-perhaps four episodes of Shes the Sheriff. Or My Mom Will Shoot, Sylvester Stallone actually delivers the title line, thats how numbingly awful this is. Give it half a star for being in focus, the film found more success on VHS and DVD. It is moronic beyond comprehension, an exercise in desperation during which even Sylvester Stallone, siskel stated that if the script of this picture were submitted to The Golden Girls television show staff it would be summarily dismissed as too flimsy for a half-hour sitcom. It was also the winner of three Golden Raspberry Awards, for Stallone as Worst Actor, Getty as Worst Supporting Actress, Sylvester Stallone has stated that Stop. Or My Mom Will Shoot was the worst film he had starred in
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Neil Diamond
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Neil Leslie Diamond is an American singer-songwriter, musician and actor. One of the worlds best-selling artists of all time, he has sold over 120 million records worldwide since the start of his career in the 1960s. With 38 songs in the Top 10, he is the second most successful artist in the history of the Billboard Adult Contemporary Top 10 charts and his songs have been covered internationally by many performers from a variety of musical genres. Diamond was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1984 and into the Rock, additionally, he received the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000 and in 2011 was an honoree at Kennedy Center. On the Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary charts, he has had eleven No, Sweet Caroline is played frequently at sporting events, and has become an anthem for the Boston Red Sox. Diamond was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a Jewish family descended from Russian and his parents were Rose and Akeeba Kieve Diamond, a dry-goods merchant. He grew up in homes in Brooklyn, having also spent four years in Cheyenne, Wyoming. In Brooklyn he attended Erasmus Hall High School and was a member of the Freshman Chorus and they were not close friends at the time, Diamond recalls, We were two poor kids in Brooklyn. We hung out in the front of Erasmus High and smoked cigarettes, after his family moved he then attended Abraham Lincoln High School, and was a member of the fencing team. For his 16th birthday, he received his first guitar, and the next thing, I got a guitar when we got back to Brooklyn, started to take lessons and almost immediately began to write songs, he said. He adds that his attraction to songwriting was the first real interest he had growing up, Diamond also used his newly-developing skill at writing lyrics to write poetry. By writing poems for girls he was attracted to in school and his male classmates took note and began asking him to write poems for them which they would sing and use with equal success. He spent the following his graduation as a waiter in the Catskills resort area. There he first met Jaye Posner, who would, years later, Diamond next attended New York University as a pre-med major on a fencing scholarship. His skill at fencing made him a member of the 1960 NCAA mens championship team, however, he was often bored in classes, and found writing song lyrics more to his liking. He began cutting classes and taking the train up to Tin Pan Alley where he tried to get some of his songs heard by music publishers. By his senior year, and just 10 units short of graduation, Sunbeam Music Publishing offered him a 16-week job writing songs for $50 a week, and he dropped out of college to accept it. After his 16 weeks at Sunbeam Music were up, he was not rehired, I never really chose songwriting, he says
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The Jazz Singer (1980 film)
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The Jazz Singer is a 1980 American drama film and a remake of the 1927 classic The Jazz Singer, released by EMI Films. It starred Neil Diamond, Laurence Olivier and Lucie Arnaz and was co-directed by Richard Fleischer, although the film was a critical flop, the soundtrack was enormously successful, eventually reaching multi-platinum status and becoming Diamonds most successful album to date. It resulted in three hit songs, America, Love on the Rocks and Hello Again, Yussel Rabinovitch is a young Jewish cantor performing at the synagogue of his imperious father. Yussel is married to his friend, Rivka, and has settled down to a life of religious devotion to the teaching of his faith. But on the side, he writes songs for a singing group. The nightclub engagement is such a success but one of the patrons at the nightclub notices that Yussel hands are white, a fight ensues and the band is arrested. Yussels father comes to the jail to bail out but finds out that there is not a Yussel Rabinovitch there. Later his father questions him about that and Yussel tells him it is just a stage name he uses when performing. His father reminds him that his voice was to be used for Gods purposes not his own. Yussel/Jess best friend and member of the Four Brothers signing group, Bubba, shortly after Bubba leaves Yussel begins composing a song that would eventually become Love On The Rocks. His wife Rivka notices him writing the song in his time and senses that Yussel yearns for a bigger stage for his voice. Bubba calls Jess from LA and informs him that Keith Lennox really loved Love on The Rocks and wants to record it, Jess finally sees this as the opportunity he has been waiting for but his wife and his father are opposed to him going. But later at a bar mitzvah his father relents and tearfully lets him go, when Jess arrives in LA he is picked up by music agent Molly Bell. She takes him to the studio where Keith Lennox is recording, during a break in recording Jess asks the Producer and Keith Lennox if he can perform the song as a ballad as intended so Lennox can get an idea of the framing of the song. They allow him to do it and while recording the song Molly realizes that Jess performance is the way the song should be done. However Lennox is not so easily swayed and fires the group, later Molly gets a tip from a friend as to where booking agent Eddie Gibbs was having lunch and she asserts herself in his car and has him listen to a recording of Jess Love on The Rocks. When Eddie asks her who it is Molly tells him that it is the new opening act for Zane Grays new television special, Gibbs is not amused and says he cant book anyone from just a tape recording sight unseen and promptly throws Molly out of his car. However she manages to get Eddie to come to a club where Jess has managed to get a gig playing, Eddie comes in and watches for a moment and then leaves
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Xanadu (film)
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Xanadu is a 1980 American romantic musical fantasy film written by Richard Christian Danus and Marc Reid Rubel and directed by Robert Greenwald. The title is a reference to the nightclub in the film, which takes its name from Xanadu and this city appears in Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a poem that is quoted in the film. The films plot was inspired by 1947s Down to Earth, Xanadu stars Olivia Newton-John, Michael Beck, and Gene Kelly, and features music by Newton-John, Electric Light Orchestra, Cliff Richard, and The Tubes. The film also features animation by Don Bluth, a box office flop, Xanadu earned mixed to negative critical reviews and was an inspiration for the creation of the Golden Raspberry Awards to memorialize the worst films of the year. Despite the lacklustre performance of the film, the album became a huge commercial success around the world. The song Magic was a U. S. number one hit for Newton-John, the film opens with a large mural of the Nine Muses of Olympia coming to life, with the women emerging from the painting and flying into the sky. One of them returns to Earth, Sonny Malone is a talented artist who dreams of fame beyond his job, which is the non-creative task of painting larger versions of album covers for record-store window advertisements. As the film opens, Sonny is broke and on the verge of giving up his dream. Having quit his day job to try to make a living as a freelance artist, after some humorous run-ins with his imperious boss and nemesis, Simpson, he resumes painting record covers. At work, Sonny is told to paint a cover for a group called The Nine Sisters. The cover features a woman in front of an art deco auditorium. Earlier that day, this woman had collided with him, kissed him. Now, Malone becomes obsessed with finding her and he finds her at the same auditorium, now abandoned. She identifies herself as Kira, but she not tell him anything else about herself. Unbeknownst to Sonny, Kira is one of the muses that emerged from the mural, walking near the beach, Sonny befriends Daniel Danny McGuire, a has-been big band orchestra leader turned construction mogul. Danny lost his muse in the 1940s, and Sonny has not yet found his muse, Kira encourages the two men to form a partnership and open a nightclub at the old auditorium from the album cover. She falls in love with Sonny, and this presents a problem because she is actually an Olympian Muse. The other eight women from the beginning of the film are her sisters and fellow goddesses, the Muses, and her parents, presumably the Greek gods Zeus and Mnemosyne, recall her to the timeless realm of the Olympian gods
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Robert Blake (actor)
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Robert Blake is a retired American actor, having starring roles in the film In Cold Blood and the U. S. television series Baretta. Blake began performing as a child, with a role in the final years of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayers Our Gang short film series from 1939 to 1944. He also appeared as an actor in 22 entries of the Red Ryder film franchise. In the Red Ryder series and in many of his roles as an adult. After a stint in the Army, Blake returned to acting in television and movie roles. He was married to Sondra Kerr, his first wife, with whom he had two children, from 1964 until their divorce in 1983 and he continued acting through 1997s Lost Highway for a career that author Michael Newton called one of the longest in Hollywood history. In 2005, Blake was tried and acquitted of the 2001 murder of his second wife, on November 18,2005, he was found liable in a California civil court for her wrongful death. Blake was born Michael James Gubitosi in Nutley, New Jersey and his mother, Elizabeth Cafone, was married to Giacomo Gubitosi. In 1930, James worked as a die setter for a can manufacturer, eventually, James and Elizabeth began a song-and-dance act. In 1936, the three began performing, billed as The Three Little Hillbillies. They moved to Los Angeles, in 1938, where their children working as movie extras. Blake had a childhood and was allegedly abused by his alcoholic father. When he entered school at age 10, he was bullied and had fights. Blake states that he was physically and sexually abused by his parents while growing up and was locked in a closet. His father committed suicide in 1956, at age 14, he ran away from home, leading to several more difficult years. Then known as Mickey Gubitosi, Blake began his career as Toto in the MGM movie Bridal Suite starring Annabella. Gubitosi then began appearing in MGMs Our Gang short subjects under his real name and he appeared in 40 of the shorts between 1939 and 1944, eventually becoming the series final lead character. James and Giovanna Gubitosi also made appearances in the series as extras, in Our Gang, Gubitosis character, Mickey, was often called upon to cry, for which he was criticized for being unconvincing
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Coast to Coast (1980 film)
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Coast to Coast is a 1980 comedy film starring Dyan Cannon and Robert Blake, directed by Joseph Sargent. The screenplay was written by Stanley Weiser, the original score was composed by Charles Bernstein. The film was shot in Stockton, California, the films tagline is, Either way, love will win in the end. Dyan Cannon plays Madie Levrington, a woman who is also neurotic. She was committed to a New York mental institution by her husband, Benjamin, in order to keep her from divorcing him and she manages to escape and, in the process, hitches a ride on a livestock truck. The truck is driven by Charles Callahan, played by Robert Blake, before realizing she is on his truck, he hears over his CB radio about her escape and a substantial reward for her return. This gets his attention as he is so in debt that he has a man after him to repossess his truck. Behind her back, he meets up with people who are out to get Madie, at the same time, he is also slowly falling in love with her. He even teaches her to drive the truck, eventually she finds the money he was given and she wonders how he got it. He then reluctantly explains how, trying to explain that he took it unwillingly and she doesnt believe him and ends up getting in the truck and driving off without him. He winds up hitching a ride on the back of a motorcycle with an older man. When they finally find the truck, he is forced to get off the bike and she drives the truck all the way back home to her husband, who is having a party in the backyard. After getting out of the truck, Benjamin tries to choke her to death, but Callahan jumps out of the trailer and tackles him to the canvas. Then she fingers him as the driver of the truck, and she and Callahan get away, 1st Golden Raspberry Award Nominated, Worst Actor Coast to Coast at the Internet Movie Database Coast to Coast at AllMovie Coast to Coast at Rotten Tomatoes
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Michael Caine
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Sir Michael Caine, CBE is an English actor and author. Renowned for his working class cockney accent, Caine has appeared in over 115 films and is regarded as a British film icon. His most notable roles in the 1970s included Get Carter, The Last Valley, Sleuth, for which he earned his second Academy Award nomination, The Man Who Would Be King, and A Bridge Too Far. He achieved some of his greatest critical success in the 1980s, with Educating Rita earning him the BAFTA, in 1986, he received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Woody Allens Hannah and Her Sisters. Caine played Ebenezer Scrooge in The Muppet Christmas Carol, Caine played Nigel Powers in the 2002 parody Austin Powers in Goldmember, and Alfred Pennyworth in Christopher Nolans The Dark Knight Trilogy. He appeared in other of Nolans films including The Prestige, Inception. He also appeared as a character in Alfonso Cuaróns Children of Men. As of February 2017, films in which he has starred have grossed over $3.5 billion domestically, Caine is ranked the eleventh highest grossing box office star. Caine is one of two actors nominated for an Academy Award for acting in every decade from the 1960s to 2000s. In 2000, Caine was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in recognition of his contribution to cinema. Caine was born in St Olaves Hospital in Rotherhithe, London, the son of Maurice Joseph Micklewhite, a market porter, and Ellen Frances Marie Burchell. His father had English, Irish, and, reportedly, Irish Traveller ancestry and he was brought up in his mothers Protestant religion. Caine had a maternal half-brother, David William Burchell and a full brother, Caine grew up in Southwark, London, and during the Second World War, he was evacuated to North Runcton near Kings Lynn in Norfolk. In 1944, he passed his eleven plus exam, winning a scholarship to Hackney Downs School, after a year there he moved to Wilsons Grammar School in Camberwell, which he left at sixteen after gaining a School Certificate in six subjects. He then worked briefly as a clerk and messenger for a film company in Victoria Street. He had gone into Korea feeling sympathetic to communism, coming as he did from a poor family, Caine would like to see the return of national service to help combat youth violence, stating, Im just saying, put them in the Army for six months. Youre there to learn how to defend your country, then when you come out, you have a sense of belonging rather than a sense of violence. Adopting the stage name Michael Scott, in July 1953 he was cast as the drunkard Hindley in the Companys production of Wuthering Heights and he moved to the Lowestoft Repertory Company in Suffolk for a year when he was 21
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Dressed to Kill (1980 film)
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Dressed to Kill is a 1980 American erotic thriller film written and directed by Brian De Palma and starring Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen, and Keith Gordon. It centers on the murder of a housewife and an involving a young prostitute who witnessed the murder, the victim’s teenaged son. The original music score is composed by Pino Donaggio, Kate Miller is a sexually frustrated housewife who is in therapy with New York City psychiatrist Dr. Robert Elliott. During an appointment, Kate attempts to him, but Elliott rejects her advances. Kate goes to the Metropolitan Museum where she has a flirtation with a mysterious stranger. Kate and the stranger stalk each other through the museum until they wind up outside. They begin to have sex and continue at his apartment, hours later, Kate awakens and decides to discreetly leave while the man, Warren Lockman, is asleep. Kate sits at his desk to leave him a note and finds a document indicating that Warren has contracted a sexually transmitted disease, in her haste, she has left her wedding ring on the nightstand, so she returns to retrieve it. The elevator doors open on the figure of a tall, blond woman in dark sunglasses wielding a straight razor, Kate is violently slashed to death in the elevator. A high-priced call girl, Liz Blake, happens upon the body and she catches a glimpse of the killer, therefore becoming both the prime suspect and the killers next target. Dr. Elliott receives a message on his answering machine from Bobbi. Bobbi taunts the psychiatrist for breaking off their therapy sessions, apparently because Elliott refuses to sign the papers for Bobbi to get a sex change operation. Elliott tries to convince Dr. Levy, the new doctor. Police Detective Marino is skeptical about Lizs story, partly because of her profession, Peter, an inventor, uses a series of homemade listening devices and time-lapse cameras to track patients leaving Elliotts office. They catch Bobbi on camera, and soon Liz is being stalked by a blonde in sunglasses. Several attempts are made on Lizs life. One, in the New York City Subway, is thwarted by Peter, Liz and Peter scheme to learn Bobbis real name by getting inside Dr. Elliotts office. Liz baits the therapist by stripping to lingerie and coming on to him, distracting him enough to make a brief exit
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The Island (1980 film)
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The Island is a 1980 American action-adventure horror film, directed by Michael Ritchie and starring Michael Caine and David Warner. The film was based on a novel of the name by Peter Benchley who also wrote the screenplay. Blair Maynard is a British-born American journalist who was once in the Navy and he takes his estranged son Justin with him to the area on the vacation and, while fishing, both are attacked by an unkempt man and forcibly brought to an uncharted island. On the island, Blair discovers the truth, the inhabitants on the island are actually a centuries-old colony of savage French pirates. The group has been living on the island for centuries, unseen by society, Blair is used to impregnate a female and act as a scribe for the largely illiterate group, while Justin is brainwashed to become a surrogate heir to Nau, the pirate leader. Blair struggles to escape from the island, but all attempts fail and he eventually arranges for them to come head to head with a US Coast Guard ship, but through their almost unimaginable savagery, they manage to wipe out the crew and take over the vessel. Blair sneaks aboard and, while most of the pirates are gathered on the aft deck of the ship, examining their loot, he discovers a deck-mounted.50 caliber M2 Machine Gun hidden underneath a tarp. He knows that this is his one chance to both his and Justins lives and he does not hesitate to flip off the tarp and open fire on the pirates. He continues to fire even after they are all dead while evincing nothing but savage delight and he then learns that Nau, by far the most dangerous and intelligent of them, was not on the deck. The two men stalk each other through various parts of the decimated coast guard vessel. Blair eventually gets the upper hand and kills Nau with a flare gun, Blair and his son, who no longer desires to be a pirate and seems much more respectful of his father, are reunited. The film was not well received, receiving criticism of the performances, narrative and it holds a rotten 40% rating on review aggregate Rotten Tomatoes. In addition, the film, which was meant to be a blockbuster, performed poorly at the box office, despite a then-large $22 million budget, as well as a highly regarded director. Factory released a retail Blu-ray Disc/DVD combo pack of the film, the Island at the Internet Movie Database The Island at Rotten Tomatoes
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Kirk Douglas
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Kirk Douglas is an American actor, producer, director, and author. He is one of the last living people of the film industrys Golden Age, after an impoverished childhood with immigrant parents and six sisters, he had his film debut in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers with Barbara Stanwyck. Douglas soon developed into a leading box-office star throughout the 1950s and 1960s, known for dramas, including westerns. During a 64-year acting career, he has appeared in more than 90 movies, other early films include Young Man with a Horn, playing opposite Lauren Bacall and Doris Day, Ace in the Hole opposite Jan Sterling, and Detective Story. He received a second Oscar nomination for his role in The Bad and the Beautiful, opposite Lana Turner. In 1955, he established Bryna Productions, which began producing films as varied as Paths of Glory, in those two films, he starred and collaborated with the then relatively unknown director, Stanley Kubrick. Douglas helped break the Hollywood blacklist by having Dalton Trumbo write Spartacus with an official on-screen credit and he produced and starred in Lonely Are the Brave, considered a cult classic, and Seven Days in May, opposite Burt Lancaster, with whom he made seven films. In 1963, he starred in the Broadway play One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, a story he purchased, which he gave to his son Michael Douglas. As an actor and philanthropist, Douglas has received three Academy Award nominations, an Oscar for Lifetime Achievement, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, as an author, he has written ten novels and memoirs. Currently, he is No.17 on the American Film Institutes list of the greatest male screen legends of classic Hollywood cinema, after barely surviving a helicopter crash in 1991 and then suffering a stroke in 1996, he has focused on renewing his spiritual and religious life. He lives with his wife, Anne, a producer. He turned 100 on December 9,2016, Douglas was born Issur Danielovitch in Amsterdam, New York, the son of Bryna Bertha and Herschel Harry Danielovitch. His parents were Jewish immigrants from Chavusy, Mogilev Region, in the Russian Empire, and his fathers brother, who emigrated earlier, used the surname Demsky, which Douglass family adopted in the United States. Douglas grew up as Izzy Demsky and legally changed his name to Kirk Douglas before entering the United States Navy during World War II. Even on Eagle Street, in the poorest section of town, where all the families were struggling, and I was the ragmans son. Growing up, Douglas sold snacks to mill workers to earn enough to buy milk, later, he delivered newspapers and during his youth worked at more than forty different jobs before getting a job acting. He found living in a family with six sisters to be stifling, in a sense, it lit a fire under me. In high school, after acting in plays, he knew he wanted to become a professional actor
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Saturn 3
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Saturn 3 is a 1980 British science fiction horror-thriller film, produced and directed by Stanley Donen, and starring Farrah Fawcett, Kirk Douglas, and Harvey Keitel. The screenplay was written by Martin Amis, from a story by John Barry, though it was a British production, the film has an American cast and director. In the distant future, an overcrowded Earth relies on research conducted by scientists in remote stations across the solar system, one of these, a small experimental hydroponics research station on Saturns third moon, is run solely by Adam and his colleague and lover Alex. Adam, the younger Alex and their dog Sally enjoy their isolation, the couple have been on Saturn 3 for three years, but Alex has spent all her life in space. Alex and Adams idyll is broken by the arrival of Captain Benson, Benson assembles the robot and names him Hector. One of the first of its kind, a Demigod Series, Hector relies on brain tissue extracted from human fetuses. Benson states that it will render one of the crew obsolete, unknown to both Alex and Adam, Benson is a homicidal sociopath who murdered the captain originally assigned to Saturn 3 and took his place on the mission. Benson had actually failed a crucial test of psychological stability, as Benson uses the link to his brain to program the robot, Hector acquires Bensons homicidal nature and his lust for Alex. Hector initially kills Sally the dog and then assaults Benson, having learned about Benson being a murderer during the reprogramming process, Adam and Alex manage to disable the robot while it is recharging. Believing the danger over, Adam accuses Benson of gross incompetence and orders him to dismantle the robot, Benson obliges, but Hector reassembles itself by taking control of the bases older robots. Resuscitated, Hector murders Benson while he is dragging Alex to his ship, Hector then blows up Bensons spacecraft before Adam and Alex can escape in it, trapping them all on Saturn 3 together. Overpowering the humans, Hector installs a brain link at the top of Adams spine which will give the direct access to Adams brain. Before Hector can make the connection, Adam destroys it, sacrificing himself by detonating explosives hidden on his person, in the final scene, Alex, now alone, is shown aboard an Earth-bound spacecraft. John Barry conceived the project as a more lavish vision of the future. The films producers, Lew Grades ITC Entertainment, intended the production to cash in on the vogue for science fiction. Farrah Fawcett was also hoped to be a draw for a teenage male audience. Donen played down the exploitation elements, resulting in a film that the producers struggled to market, Barry was set to make his directorial debut with the film, but he was replaced after shooting started, according to some reports, due to a dispute with Kirk Douglas. Stanley Donen, who was attached to the project as producer
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Richard Dreyfuss
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Dreyfuss won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1977 for The Goodbye Girl, and was nominated in 1995 for Mr. Hollands Opus. Dreyfuss was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Geraldine Dreyfus, a peace activist, and Norman Dreyfus, an attorney and restaurateur and he has commented that he grew up thinking that Alfred Dreyfus and are from the same family. His father disliked New York, and moved the family first to Europe, and later to Los Angeles, California, Dreyfuss attended Beverly Hills High School. Dreyfuss began acting in his youth, at Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills Arts Center and he debuted in the TV production In Mamas House, when he was fifteen. During this time, he acted in a few small TV roles on shows, Peyton Place, Gidget, That Girl, Bewitched, during the late 1960s and early 1970s, he also performed on stage on Broadway, Off-Broadway, repertory, and improvisational theater. Dreyfuss appeared in the play The Time of Your Life, which was revived on March 17,1972 at the Huntington Hartford Theater in Los Angeles, dreyfusss first film role was a small, uncredited appearance in The Graduate. He had one line, Shall I get the cops and he was also briefly seen as a stage hand in Valley of the Dolls, in which he had a few lines. In 1973 he starred in the CBS pilot Catch-22 and he appeared in the subsequent Dillinger, and landed a role in the 1973 hit American Graffiti, acting with other future stars such as Harrison Ford and Ron Howard. Dreyfuss played his first lead role in the Canadian film The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, receiving positive reviews, Dreyfuss went on to star in the box office blockbusters Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, both directed by Steven Spielberg. This record stood for 25 years until it was broken in 2003 by Adrien Brody and he entered rehabilitation and eventually made a Hollywood comeback with the films Down And Out In Beverly Hills in 1986 and Stakeout the following year. Dreyfuss also starred in the Rob Reiner movie, Stand by Me, Dreyfuss plays the elder Gordie Lachance, who narrates the film. In 1988, he reunited with director Paul Mazursky to star in the political farce Moon Over Parador, in 1989, Dreyfuss reunited with Spielberg on Always, a remake of A Guy Named Joe in which he co-starred with Holly Hunter. He had a role opposite Bill Murray in the 1991 comedy What About Bob. as a psychiatrist who goes crazy while trying to cope with a particularly obsessive new patient. That same year, Dreyfuss produced and starred as Georges Picquart in Prisoner of Honor and he recited Kaddish as part of a performance of Leonard Bernsteins Third Symphony with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Gilbert Levine. Dreyfuss was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe for his performance as Glenn Holland in Mr. Hollands Opus, since then, he has continued working in the movies, television and the stage. In 2001/2002, he played Max Bickford in the television drama The Education of Max Bickford, in April 2004, he appeared in the revival of Sly Fox on Broadway. Dreyfuss recorded the voiceover to the Apple, Inc. then Apple Computer, think Different ad campaign in 1997. In November 2004, he was scheduled to appear in The Producers in London, both he and his assistant for the production stated that Dreyfuss was accumulating injuries that required him to wear physical therapy supports during rehearsals
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The Competition (film)
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The Competition is a 1980 American drama film starring Richard Dreyfuss and Amy Irving, directed by Joel Oliansky. Paul Dietrich is a gifted but disillusioned classical pianist running out of time to prove himself. He logically knows it is time to give up his attempts to enter piano competitions, Paul also needs to help his mother and his seriously ill father, but he decides to travel to San Francisco for an international piano competition. Doing so could cost him his job waiting for him in Chicago, nevertheless, the competition for a financial grant and two years of concert engagements pits the intense and arrogant Paul against a select group of talented artists. Another contestant, Heidi Joan Schoonover, is a young American who developed an inclination toward Paul after meeting him at a music festival. Heidis esteemed music teacher, Greta Vandemann, advises her to avoid letting personal matters interfere with her concentration, Heidi is also rudely rebuffed by Paul, who also wants to avoid any distraction. Despite his situation, Paul asks Heidi for a date and pours his heart out to her about his family situation, just before the competition, she realizes how much winning means to Paul and wants to drop out. Greta, angry, later chastises Paul, blaming him for hurting Heidis chances by exploiting her guilt over competing against him, Paul finds Heidi and says that he loves her, and persuades her to stay in the competition. Partway through her performance, Heidis piano develops a technical problem forcing her to stop, rather than fold under pressure, Heidi angrily demands to play a different concerto and performs it magnificently. Heidi wins the competition, and Paul finishes in second place, immediately after winning, Heidi is ecstatic because she and Paul had agreed to form a partnership, combining their talents and resources to help one another, no matter who won. To her surprise, Paul is upset to realize that she is a proficient player, telling her he is unable to accept the partnership. However, Paul eventually arrives at the party after the competition, ready to take part in Heidis victory. Dietrich Philip Sterling as Mr. Dietrich Priscilla Pointer as Mrs. Donellan James B, sikking as Brudenell Delia Salvi as Mrs. DiSalvo The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra Conducted by Lalo Schifrin Ginastera, Piano Sonata No. 1Eduardo Delgado, Pianist Brahms, Piano Concerto No, 1Ralph Grierson, Pianist Chopin, Piano Concerto in E minorLincoln Mayorga, Pianist Prokofiev, Piano Concerto No.3 in C MajorDaniel Pollack, Pianist Beethoven, Piano Concerto No.5 Chester B. Swiatkowski, Pianist LOVE THEME - THE COMPETITION Music by Lalo Schifrin Lyrics by Wilbur Jennings Song by Randy Crawford 1981 Academy Awards Nominated, Best Film Editing - David E
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Anthony Hopkins
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Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins CBE, is a Welsh actor of film, stage, and television. In 1968, he got his break in film in The Lion in Winter, since 2016, he has starred in the critically acclaimed HBO television series Westworld. Along with his Academy Award, Hopkins has won three BAFTA Awards, two Emmys, and the Cecil B, in 1993, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to the arts. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2003, Hopkins was born on New Years Eve 1937, in Margam, a suburb of Port Talbot, Glamorgan. His parents were Annie Muriel and Richard Arthur Hopkins, a baker and his school days were unproductive, he would rather immerse himself in art, such as painting and drawing, or playing the piano, than attend to his studies. In 1949, to discipline, his parents insisted he attend Jones West Monmouth Boys School in Pontypool. He remained there for five terms and was educated at Cowbridge Grammar School in the Vale of Glamorgan. Hopkins was influenced and encouraged by Welsh compatriot Richard Burton, whom he met at the age of 15, Hopkins promptly enrolled at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in Cardiff, from which he graduated in 1957. After two years in the British Army doing his national service, he moved to London, where he trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Hopkins made his first professional appearance in the Palace Theatre, Swansea. In 1965, after years in repertory, he was spotted by Laurence Olivier. Hopkins became Oliviers understudy, and filled in when Olivier was struck with appendicitis during a production of August Strindbergs The Dance of Death, despite his success at the National, Hopkins tired of repeating the same roles nightly and yearned to be in films. He made his debut in a 1967 BBC broadcast of A Flea in Her Ear. His first starring role in a film came in 1964 in Changes, in 1968, he got his break in The Lion in Winter playing Richard I. Although Hopkins continued in theatre he gradually moved away from it to more established as a television. He portrayed Charles Dickens in the BBC television film The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens in 1970, and Pierre Bezukhov in the BBCs mini series War and Peace. In 1972 he starred as British politician David Lloyd George in Young Winston, in 1980, he starred in The Elephant Man as the English doctor Sir Frederick Treves, who attends to Joseph Merrick, a severely deformed man in 19th century London. That year he starred opposite Shirley MacLaine in A Change of Seasons
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A Change of Seasons (film)
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A Change of Seasons is a 1980 American dramedy film directed by Richard Lang. It stars Anthony Hopkins, Shirley MacLaine and Bo Derek, adam is infuriated when he learns about his wifes new relationship, and she in turn defends her right to enjoy the same carnal pleasures he does. The film was shot on location in Glenwood Springs, Colorado and Williamstown, Hopkins and MacLaine famously did not get along during the filming and Hopkins said “she was the most obnoxious actress I have ever worked with. The theme song Where Do You Catch The Bus For Tomorrow, was written by Alan and Marilyn Bergman and Henry Mancini and performed by Kenny Rankin. Originally, Noel Black was hired to direct after producer Martin Ransohoff saw his film, A Man, a Woman, Black left the film during shooting due to creative differences. He was replaced by Richard Lang, Black shot the first half of the film only. Consenting Adults was the working title. A Change of Seasons does prove one thing, though, a farce about characters whove been freed of their conventional obligations quickly becomes aimless. Variety observed, It would take the genius of an Ernst Lubitsch to do justice to the tangled relationships in A Change of Seasons. The switching of couples seems arbitrary and mechanical, and more sour than amusing, the film is rated M in New Zealand, Suitable for mature audiences 16 years and over. 1st Golden Raspberry Award Nominated, Worst Actor Nominated, Worst Original Song - For the song, Where Do You Catch the Bus Tomorrow. Nominated, Worst Screenplay - Erich Segal, Ronni Kern, Fred Segal A Change of Seasons at the Internet Movie Database A Change of Seasons at AllMovie A Change of Seasons at the TCM Movie Database
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Caitlyn Jenner
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Caitlyn Marie Jenner, formerly known as Bruce Jenner, is an American television personality and retired Olympic gold medal-winning decathlete. Jenner was a football player for the Graceland Yellowjackets before incurring a knee injury that required surgery. Coach L. D. Weldon, who had coached Olympic decathlete Jack Parker, after intense training, Jenner won the 1976 Olympics decathlon event at the Montreal Olympic Games, gaining fame as an all-American hero. Jenner set a third world record while winning the Olympics. The winner of the Olympic decathlon is traditionally given the title of worlds greatest athlete. With that stature, Jenner subsequently established a career in television, film, writing, auto racing, business, Jenner has six children from marriages to wives Chrystie Crownover, Linda Thompson, and Kris Jenner. Previously identifying publicly as male, Jenner revealed her identity as a woman in April 2015. Her name and gender change became official on September 25,2015 and she has been called the most famous openly transgender woman in the world. From 2015 to 2016, Jenner starred in the reality television series I Am Cait, Caitlyn Marie Jenner was born William Bruce Jenner on October 28,1949, in Mount Kisco, New York, to Esther Ruth and William Hugh Jenner. She has two sisters, Lisa and Pam and her younger brother, Burt, was killed in a car accident in Canton, Connecticut on November 30,1976, shortly after Jenners success at the Olympic Games. As a young child, Jenner was diagnosed with dyslexia, Jenner earned a football scholarship and attended Graceland College in Lamoni, Iowa, but was forced to stop playing football because of a knee injury. Recognizing Jenners potential, Graceland track coach L. D. Weldon encouraged Jenner to switch to the decathlon, in 1970, Jenner placed fifth while debuting in the decathlon at the Drake Relays in Des Moines, Iowa. Jenner graduated from Graceland College in 1973 with a degree in physical education, all Olympic events and medals are for mens events and prior to her public gender transition. At the 1972 U. S. Olympic trials in Eugene, Oregon, Jenner was in place in the mens decathlon, behind Steve Gough. Needing to make up a 19-second gap on Gough in the mens 1500 metres, Jenner qualified for the Olympic team by running a fast final lap, Video on YouTube @25,58 This prompted the Eugene Register-Guard to ask, Whos Jenner. Following the Olympic Trials, Jenner finished in place in the decathlon at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. By watching Soviet Mykola Avilov win the event, Jenner was inspired to start a training regimen. For the first time, I knew what I wanted out of life and that was it, I literally started training that night at midnight, running through the streets of Munich, Germany, training for the Games
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Can't Stop the Music
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Cant Stop the Music is a 1980 American musical comedy film directed by Nancy Walker. Written by Allan Carr and Bronté Woodard, the film is a pseudo-biography of discos Village People which bears only a resemblance to the actual story of the groups formation. It was produced by Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment, and distributed by independent distributor Associated Film Distribution, songwriter Jack Morell -a reference to Village People creator Jacques Morali-gets a break DJing at local disco Saddle Tramps. His roommate Sam Simpson, a newly retired at the peak of her success, sees the response to a song he wrote for her. Her connection, ex-boyfriend Steve Waits, president of Marrakech Records, is interested in getting back with her than in Jacks music. Meanwhile, Sams former agent Sydney Channing orders Girl Friday Lulu Brecht to attend, Ron White, a lawyer from St. Louis, is mugged by an elderly woman on his way to deliver a cake Sams sister sent, and shows up on edge. Brecht gets Jack high, which unnerves him when her friend Alicia Edwards brings singing cop Ray Simpson, Ron, pawed all night by the man-hungry Brecht, is overwhelmed by the culture shock of it all and walks out. The next day, Sam runs into Ron, who apologizes, proffers the excuse that hes a Gemini, spilling leftover lasagna on himself, Sam and Jack help him off with his trousers before Jack leaves and Sam and Ron spend the night. Newly interested in helping, Ron offers his Wall Street office to hold auditions, there, Glenn M. Hughes, the leatherman climbs atop a piano for a rendition of Danny Boy, and he and Alex Briley, the G. I. join up. Now a sextet, they get their name from a remark by Rons socialite mother Norma. Rons boss, Richard Montgomery, overwhelmed by the atmosphere, insists the firm not represent the group. Rons new idea for rehearsal space is the YMCA, the group cut a demo for Marrakech, but Steve sees limited appeal and Sam refuses his paltry contract. Reluctant to use her savings, they decide to self-finance by throwing a pay-party, to bankroll the party, Sam acquiesces to Channings plea to return for a TV ad campaign for milk, on the condition the Village People are featured. The lavish number Milkshake begins as Sam pours milk for six boys in the archetypal costumes with the promise theyll grow up to be the Village People. The advertisers want nothing to do such a concept. Norma then steps in to invite the group to debut at her charity fundraiser in San Francisco, Sam lures Steve by promising a romantic weekend but Ron is taken aback by the inference that shed go through with the seduction, and Sam breaks up with him. On his private jet, Steve prepares for a tryst, but its Jack and his former chorine mother Helen who show up, initially reluctant, Helen seduces Steve with her kreplach and before long theyre negotiating the T-shirt merchandising for the Japanese market. In the dressing room before the show, Ron, relieved to learn Sam didnt travel with Steve, at one point, Montgomery shows up to rehire Ron as a junior partner representing the group
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Sam J. Jones
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Samuel Gerald Sam J. Jones is an American actor. He is best known for playing the character in the 1980 film Flash Gordon. Jones was born in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in Sacramento, California, in 1975, prior to his first screen roles, Jones appeared in full frontal nude under the alias Andrew Cooper III as the centerfold for a photo-spread in the June issue of Playgirl magazine. He made his first film appearance in the 1979 romantic comedy film 10 and his appearance in 10 allowed him to beat Kurt Russell and Arnold Schwarzenegger for his most famous role, that of Flash Gordon in the 1980 film of the same name. Jones dyed his hair blonde for this role, the film was moderately successful at the box office grossing $27. 1M in North America, and $22m in the UK - double its $20M budget. However, a falling out between Jones and the helped to scrap the planned trilogy. After the release of Flash Gordon, Playgirl magazine reprinted his 1975 photo-spread in their January 1981 issue and he went on to play Chris Rorchek in the TV series Code Red. He had guest roles in other TV shows including The A-Team, Hunter, in 1987, he played the lead role in an adaptation of Will Eisners comics character The Spirit. He also played the character in the short-lived NBC sci-fi series The Highwayman. In the late 1980s and early 1990s he portrayed Johnny Valentine on the HBO series 1st & Ten, in 2001, Jones was cast in Animal Planets family series Hollywood Safari as a park ranger. He appeared in Deadman Switch, an episode of the television series Stargate SG-1, in 2007, he played the prisoner Krebb in the Sci Fi Channel original television series Flash Gordon. He also had extended cameos in both the 2012 comedy film Ted and its 2015 sequel, Ted 2, Jones married Lynn Eriks in 1982, they had two children and divorced in 1987. He married Ramona Lynn Jones on June 26,1992, they have three children, Sam J. Jones at the Internet Movie Database Sam J. Jones at AllMovie
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Flash Gordon (film)
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Flash Gordon is a 1980 space opera action film filmed in Technicolor and Todd-AO, based on the King Features comic strip of the same name created by Alex Raymond. The film was directed by Mike Hodges, and produced by Dino De Laurentiis and it stars Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson, Topol, Max von Sydow, Timothy Dalton, Brian Blessed, and Ornella Muti. The screenplay was written by Lorenzo Semple, Jr. with an adaptation by Michael Allin. It intentionally uses a style similar to the 1960s TV series Batman in an attempt to appeal to fans of the original comics. Although a box office success in the UK, it performed poorly overseas, the film is notable for its soundtrack composed, performed and produced by the rock band Queen, with the orchestral sections by Howard Blake. The film has gained a significant cult following. Emperor Ming the Merciless declares that he will first play with, on Earth, New York Jets football star Flash Gordon boards a small plane, where he meets travel journalist Dale Arden. Mid-flight, the cockpit is hit by a meteorite and the pilots are lost, Flash takes control and manages to crash land into a greenhouse owned by Dr. Hans Zarkov. Zarkov, who believes the disasters are being caused because a source is pushing the Moon towards Earth, has secretly constructed a spacecraft which he plans to use to investigate. Zarkovs assistant refuses to go, so he lures Flash and Dale aboard, the rocket launches, taking them to the planet Mongo, where they are captured by Mings troops. The three are brought before Ming and he orders Dale be prepared for his pleasure. Flash tries to resist, but is overpowered, Ming orders Zarkov be reprogrammed and Flash executed. Mings daughter, Princess Aura, seduces Mings surgeon into saving Flash, as they escape, Flash sees Zarkov being brainwashed by Klytus, the metal-faced head of the secret police. Aura and Flash flee to Arboria, kingdom of Prince Barin, en route, Aura teaches Flash to use a telepathic communicator to contact Dale. He lets her know he is alive, Dale is locked in Mings bedchamber, but encouraged by Flash, she escapes. Klytus sends Zarkov to intercept Dale, who tells him and Klytus that Flash is alive and they then escape, as Zarkov reveals he resisted the brainwashing. They are captured by Prince Vultans Hawkmen and taken to Sky City, Aura and Flash arrive at Arboria. Aura asks the Prince to keep Flash safe, a distrustful Barin, in love with Aura, agrees not to kill Flash, but then forces him to perform a deadly ritual
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Flash Gordon
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Flash Gordon is the hero of a space opera adventure comic strip created by and originally drawn by Alex Raymond. First published January 7,1934, the strip was inspired by, the Flash Gordon comic strip has been translated into a wide variety of media, including motion pictures, television and animated series. The latest version, a Flash Gordon television series, appeared on the Syfy channel in the United States in 2007–2008. At first King Features tried to purchase the rights to the John Carter of Mars stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs, however, King Features then turned to Alex Raymond, one of their staff artists, to create the story. Raymonds first samples were dismissed for not containing enough action sequences, Raymond reworked the story and sent it back to the syndicate, who accepted it. Raymond was partnered with ghostwriter Don Moore, an experienced editor, Raymonds first Flash Gordon story appeared in January 1934, alongside Jungle Jim. The Flash Gordon strip was well received by readers, becoming one of the most popular American comic strips of the 1930s. Like Buck Rogers, the success of Flash Gordon resulted in numerous licensed products being sold, including books, colouring books. The comic strip follows the adventures of Flash Gordon, a polo player and Yale University graduate. The story begins with Earth threatened by a collision with the planet Mongo, Dr. Zarkov invents a rocket ship to fly into space in an attempt to stop the disaster. Half mad, he kidnaps Flash and Dale and they travel to the planet, landing on the planet, and halting the collision, they come into conflict with Ming the Merciless, Mongos evil ruler. They are joined in early adventures by Prince Thun of the Lion Men. Eventually, Ming is overthrown, and Mongo is ruled by a council of leaders led by Barin, Flash and friends return to Earth and have some adventures before returning to Mongo and crashing in the kingdom of Tropica, then reuniting with Barin and others. Flash and his friends travel to worlds and return to Mongo. In the 1950s, Flash became an astronaut who travelled to other planets besides Mongo, the long story of the Skorpii War takes Flash to other star systems, using starships that are faster than light. After Raymonds tenure, later created new enemies for Flash to combat. Austin Briggs created Kang the Cruel, Mings callous son, Prince Polon, who had the power to shrink or enlarge living creatures, the unscrupulous Queen Rubia, and Pyron the Comet Master were among the antagonists introduced during Mac Raboys run. The Skorpi, a race of alien shape shifters who desired to conquer the galaxy, were recurring villains in both the Mac Raboy and Dan Barry stories, the Skorpi space-fighter ace Baron Dak-Tula became a periodic nemesis of Flash in the late 1970s stories
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The Legend of the Lone Ranger
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The Legend of the Lone Ranger is a 1981 American western film that was directed by William A. Fraker and starred Klinton Spilsbury, Michael Horse and Christopher Lloyd. It is based on the story of The Lone Ranger, a Western character created by George W. Trendle, the film was a huge commercial failure, and Spilsbury has never appeared in any films since. The outlaw Butch Cavendish ambushes a party of Texas Rangers, killing all except John Reid who is rescued by his old childhood Comanche friend, when he recovers from his wounds, he dedicates his life to fighting the crime that Cavendish represents. To this end, John becomes the great masked western hero, with the help of Tonto, the pair go to rescue President Grant when Cavendish takes him hostage. Custer Many attempts had been made to create a Lone Ranger movie that would appeal to an audience, including making Tonto an equal partner. In the movie, Tonto teaches the hero how to shoot and is responsible for training Silver. Moreover, Tonto speaks whole sentences, while in the radio, in another change to established canon, Reid is not an actual Texas Ranger but a civilian observer who survives Cavendishs massacre. This film was shot in New Mexico, Utah, and California, two of the movies four screenwriters, Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts, had previously created the hit TV series Charlies Angels, they had also worked together on another hit series, Mannix. According to Larry McMurtry, novelist George MacDonald Fraser had written an excellent script for the film, Klinton Spilsburys dialogue was overdubbed for the entire movie by actor James Keach. Also, he did not want audiences to believe that the aging Moore would reprise his role as the Lone Ranger, the producers obtained a court injunction barring Moore from appearing in public with his trademark black mask. He was also permitted to sign autographs as The Masked Man. This move proved to be a public relations disaster, Moore responded by changing his costume slightly and replacing the mask with similar-looking wraparound sunglasses, and by cross-litigating against Wrather. He eventually won his suit and was able to resume his appearances in costume, the film was released to massive negative publicity fueled by the above controversy in 1981, and did poorly, grossing a mere $12 million against its $18 million budget. Lew Grade, who invested in the movie, had managed to sell it to TV for $7.5 million, meanwhile, TV Guide proclaimed, This film is so inept its almost camp. The mistake was not dispensing with the legend in ten minutes and getting on with the much earlier on. A line of action created by the toy company Gabriel in 1982 which included Buffalo Bill Cody, Butch Cavendish, George Custer, The Lone Ranger. Also released by Gabriel were the horses Silver, Scout, and Smoke
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Lone Ranger
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The Lone Ranger is a fictional masked former Texas Ranger who fought outlaws in the American Old West with his Native American friend, Tonto. The character has been called an icon of American culture. He first appeared in 1933 in a show conceived either by WXYZ radio station owner George W. Trendle, or by Fran Striker. The radio series proved to be a hit and spawned a series of books, a popular television show that ran from 1949 to 1957, comic books. The title character was played on the show by George Seaton, Earle Graser. Clayton Moore portrayed the Lone Ranger on television, although during a dispute, Moore was replaced temporarily by John Hart. The Lone Ranger was named so because the character is the survivor of a group of six Texas Rangers. While details differ, the story of the origin of the Lone Ranger is the same in most versions of the franchise. Later, an Indian named Tonto stumbles onto the scene and discovers one ranger is barely alive, in some versions, Tonto recognizes the lone survivor as the man who saved his life when they both were children. According to the series, when Tonto left the Reid place with a horse given him by the boy Reid, he gave Reid a ring and the name Kemo Sabe. Among the Rangers killed was the older brother, Daniel Reid, who was a captain in the Texas Rangers. To conceal his identity and honor his brother, Reid fashions a black domino mask from the material of his brothers vest. To aid in the deception, Tonto digs a grave and places at its head a cross bearing Reids name so that Cavendish. In many versions Reid continues fighting for justice as The Lone Ranger even after the Cavendish gang is captured, as generally depicted, the Lone Ranger conducts himself by a strict moral code based on that put in place by Striker at the inception of the character. That to have a friend, a man must be one and that all men are created equal and that everyone has within himself the power to make this a better world. That God put the firewood there, but that man must gather. In being prepared physically, mentally, and morally to fight when necessary for what is right and that a man should make the most of what equipment he has. That this government of the people, by the people, and that men should live by the rule of what is best for the greatest number
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Gary Coleman
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Gary Wayne Coleman was an American actor best known for his role as Arnold Jackson in Diffrent Strokes and for his small stature as an adult. He was described in the 1980s as one of televisions most promising stars, after a successful childhood acting career, Coleman struggled financially later in life. In 1989, he sued his parents and business adviser over misappropriation of his assets. On May 28,2010, Coleman died of an epidural hematoma at age 42, Gary Wayne Coleman was born in Zion, Illinois, outside Chicago, on February 8,1968. He was adopted by W. G. Coleman, an operator, and Edmonia Sue. He suffered from disease, focal segmental glomerulosclerosis. He underwent two unsuccessful kidney transplants in 1973 and 1984, and required daily dialysis, in 1974, Colemans career began when he appeared in a commercial for Harris Bank. His line was You should have a Hubert doll, Hubert was a stuffed lion representing the Harris bank logo. The same year, he appeared in an episode of Medical Center, while best known for his role on Diffrent Strokes, Coleman had appeared earlier on television, on The Jeffersons as Raymond, George Jeffersons nephew, and on Good Times as Pennys friend Gary. He also appeared in a 1977 pilot for a revival of The Little Rascals as Stymie, vH1 rated Coleman first on a list of 100 Greatest Child Stars on television. Coleman was cast in the role of Arnold Jackson in Diffrent Strokes, the series was broadcast from 1978 to 1986. He became the most popular fixture of the series, enhanced by his characters catchphrase Whatchu talkin bout, at the height of his fame on Diffrent Strokes, he earned $100,000 per episode. A Biography Channel documentary estimated he was left with a quarter of the amount after paying his parents, advisers, lawyers. He later successfully sued his parents and his advisers for misappropriation of his finances and was awarded $1.3 million. Coleman became a figure, starring in a number of feature films and television films, including On the Right Track. The latter eventually served as the basis for The Gary Coleman Show in 1982 and he also made video game appearances in The Curse of Monkey Island and Postal 2. In 2005, Coleman appeared in John Cenas music video for his single Bad, Bad Man, Coleman played himself as a villain taking Michael Jackson, the video was a spoof of 80s culture, focusing on The A-Team. In the 2003 California recall election, Coleman was a candidate for governor and this campaign was sponsored by the free newsweekly East Bay Express as a satirical comment on the recall
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On the Right Track
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On the Right Track is a 1981 American comedy film that was the first feature film starring Gary Coleman. It was directed by Lee Philips, produced by Ronald Jacobs, after the debut of the sitcom Diffrent Strokes in November 1978, Gary Coleman quickly gained popularity. Zephyr Productions was created to promote Colemans star potential, and 1981s On the Right Track was the first movie developed from that initiative and it was filmed in 1980, primarily in Chicago. New York Loves Lester was a working title for the project. The subsequent working title was A Guy Could Get Killed Out There, Gary Coleman stars as a homeless shoeshine boy named Lester who is living in a locker at Union Station, Chicago. Gary Coleman earned a Razzie Award nomination for Worst Actor for his performance in the film, the film was released on VHS in the 1980s, but it has never seen an official release on DVD. On the Right Track at the Internet Movie Database On the Right Track at Rotten Tomatoes On the Right Track at the TCM Movie Database On the Right Track at AllMovie
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Bruce Dern
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Bruce MacLeish Dern is an American actor, often playing supporting villainous characters of unstable nature. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Coming Home and he also won the 1983 Silver Bear for Best Actor for That Championship Season, and the 2013 Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for Nebraska. His other film appearances include The Cowboys, Black Sunday, Monster, Dern was born in Chicago, the son of Jean and John Dern, a utility chief and attorney. He grew up in Kenilworth, Illinois and his paternal grandfather, George, was a former Utah governor and Secretary of War. Derns godfather was former Illinois governor and two-time presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson II and his ancestry includes Dutch, English, German and Scottish. He attended The Choate School and the University of Pennsylvania and he starred in the Philadelphia premiere of Waiting for Godot. Dern made an uncredited role in Wild River, as Jack Roper who is so upset with his friend for hitting a woman that he punches himself, in 1964, he played the sailor in a few flashbacks with Marnies mother for Alfred Hitchcocks Marnie. Dern played a murderous rustler in Clint Eastwoods Hang Em High and he also played Asa Watts, a serial killer of Wil Andersen in The Cowboys. John Wayne warned Dern, America will hate you for this, and Dern replied, Yeah, but theyll love me in Berkeley. In 1983, he won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival for That Championship Season. In 2013, Dern won the Best Actor award at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival for Alexander Paynes Nebraska, and was nominated for the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Actor
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Tattoo (1981 film)
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Tattoo is a 1981 thriller film directed by Bob Brooks, and stars Bruce Dern and Maud Adams. The film was nominated for a Razzie Awards for Worst Actor for Dern, karl Kinsky is a mentally ill tattoo artist who is hired to create temporary tattoos for some models. He becomes obsessed with one of them, Maddy, whom he kidnaps to force her to wear his mark and he keeps her captive as he creates his masterpiece on her body
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Richard Harris
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Richard St John Harris was an Irish actor and singer. He appeared on stage and in films, appearing as Frank Machin in This Sporting Life, and King Arthur in the 1967 film Camelot. Harris had a top ten hit in the United Kingdom and United States with his 1968 recording of Jimmy Webbs song MacArthur Park, Harris, the sixth of nine children of Mildred Josephine and Ivan John Harris, was born in Limerick. He was brought up in a class and staunchly Roman Catholic family. Harris siblings included Patrick Ivan, Noel William Michael, Diarmid and his maternal niece is actress Annabelle Wallis. Harris was schooled by the Jesuits at Crescent College, a talented rugby player, he was on several Munster Junior and Senior Cup teams for Crescent, and played for Garryowen. Harris athletic career was cut short when he caught tuberculosis in his teens, after recovering from tuberculosis, Harris moved to Britain, wanting to become a director. He could not find any suitable training courses, and enrolled in the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art to learn acting. He had failed an audition at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and had been rejected by the Central School of Speech and Drama, while still a student, Harris rented the tiny off-West End Irving Theatre, and there directed his own production of Clifford Odets play Winter Journey. This show was a success, but was a financial failure. As a result, Harris ended up homeless, sleeping in a coal cellar for six weeks. After completing his studies at the Academy, Harris joined Joan Littlewoods Theatre Workshop and he began getting roles in West End theatre productions, starting with The Quare Fellow in 1956, a transfer from the Theatre Workshop. Harris spent nearly a decade in obscurity, learning his profession on stages throughout the UK, Harris made his film debut in 1958 in the film Alive and Kicking, and played the lead role in The Ginger Man in the West End in 1959. His second film was shot in Ireland, a role as a terrorist in Shake Hands with the Devil. It was directed by Michael Anderson who offered Harris a role in his movie, The Wreck of the Mary Deare. Harris hated it so much that he refused to return there for several years, Harris played another IRA terrorist in A Terrible Beauty, alongside Robert Mitchum. He had a bit part in the film The Guns of Navarone as a Royal Australian Air Force pilot who reports that blowing up the bloody guns of the island of Navarone is impossible by an air raid. He had a part in The Long and the Short
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Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981 film)
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Tarzan, the Ape Man is a 1981 adventure film directed by John Derek and starring his wife Bo Derek, Miles OKeeffe, Richard Harris, and John Phillip Law. The screenplay by Tom Rowe and Gary Goddard is loosely based on the novel Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs and it is the final of three filmed versions of the story released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The original music score is composed by Perry Botkin Jr, former Tarzan actor Jock Mahoney, billed as Jack OMahoney, was the films stunt coordinator. The film is marketed with the tagline Unlike any other Tarzan youve ever seen, the original actor cast in the Tarzan role was fired early in production, resulting in the sudden casting of his stunt double, Miles OKeeffe, in the title role. This film received negative reviews, and in some circles has been considered to be one of the worst films ever made. James Parker is a hunter in Africa, searching for a white ape. He is joined by his daughter, Jane, after her mothers death. They discover the white ape is actually Tarzan, a white man raised by apes living in the jungle. James continues to pursue Tarzan with the purpose of capturing him, dead or alive, realizing that James is on his trail, Tarzan kidnaps Jane. Jane and Tarzan become fascinated by each other, Jane is then kidnapped by natives who intend to make her a wife of the tribe leader, forcing Tarzan into action. The film was panned upon its release. Leslie Halliwell described Tarzan the Ape Man as certainly the worst of the Tarzan movies and possibly the most banal film so far made, even the animals give poor performances. However, critic Roger Ebert offered a more positive review of Tarzan. According to Ebert, the film was completely ridiculous, but at the time it has a certain disarming charm. Tarzan, the Ape Man was released to DVD by Warner Home Video on June 8,2004 as a Region 1 widescreen DVD. Tarzan, the Ape Man at the Internet Movie Database Tarzan, the Ape Man at AllMovie Tarzan, the Ape Man at Rotten Tomatoes Tarzan, the Ape Man at Box Office Mojo
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Kris Kristofferson
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Kristoffer Kris Kristofferson is an American singer, songwriter, musician and actor. He wrote and recorded the songs Me and Bobby McGee, For the Good Times, Sunday Mornin Comin Down, Kristofferson composed his own songs and collaborated with Nashville songwriters such as Shel Silverstein. In 1985, Kristofferson joined fellow country artists Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, in 2004, Kristofferson was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. He is also known for his roles in Alice Doesnt Live Here Anymore and A Star Is Born. Kristoffer Kristofferson was born in Brownsville, Texas, to Mary Ann and Lars Henry Kristofferson and his paternal grandparents emigrated from Sweden, while his mother had English, Scottish-Irish, German, Swiss-German and Dutch ancestry. Kristoffersons paternal grandfather was an officer in the Swedish Army, when Kristofferson was a child, his father pushed him towards a military career. At the age of 17, Kristofferson took a job with a dredging contractor on Wake Island. He called it the hardest job I ever had, like most military brats, Kristofferson moved around frequently as a youth, finally settling down in San Mateo, California, where he graduated from San Mateo High School. An aspiring writer, Kristofferson enrolled in Pomona College in 1954 and he experienced his first dose of fame when he appeared in Sports Illustrateds Faces in the Crowd for his achievements in collegiate rugby union, football, and track and field. He and his classmates revived the Claremont Colleges Rugby Club in 1958, Kristofferson became a member of Delta Kappa fraternity at Pomona College, graduating in 1958 with a Bachelor of Arts degree, summa cum laude, in literature. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa his junior year, in a 2004 interview with Pomona College Magazine, Kristofferson mentioned philosophy professor Frederick Sontag as an important influence in his life. Kristofferson earned a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University, where he studied at Merton College, while at Oxford, he was awarded his Blue for boxing, played rugby for his college, and began writing songs. At Oxford, he was acquainted with fellow Rhodes scholar, art critic. With the help of his manager, Larry Parnes, Kristofferson recorded for Top Rank Records under the name Kris Carson and this early phase of his music career was unsuccessful. In 1960, Kristofferson graduated with a B. Phil in English literature, the following year he married his long-time girlfriend, Frances Mavia Beer. Kristofferson, under pressure from his family, ultimately joined the U. S. Army and he became a helicopter pilot after receiving flight training at Fort Rucker, Alabama. During the early 1960s, he was stationed in West Germany as a member of the 8th Infantry Division, during this time, he resumed his music career and formed a band. In 1965, when his tour of duty ended, Kristofferson was given an assignment to teach English literature at West Point, instead, he decided to leave the Army and pursue songwriting
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Heaven's Gate (film)
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Heavens Gate is a 1980 American epic Western film written and directed by Michael Cimino. Loosely based on the Johnson County War, it portrays a fictional dispute between land barons and European immigrants in Wyoming in the 1890s. It is generally considered one of the biggest box office bombs of all time, Cimino had an expensive and ambitious vision for the film, pushing it nearly four times over its planned budget. In the decades since the release however, general assessment of Heavens Gate has become more positive, the reception of the 1980 re-edit after poor test screenings has later been characterized as one of the greatest injustices of cinematic history. The BBC ranked Heavens Gate 98th on their 100 greatest American films of all-time list, in 1870, two young men, Jim Averill and Billy Irvine, graduate from Harvard College. The Reverend Doctor speaks to the graduates on the association of the mind with the uncultivated. Irvine, brilliant but obviously intoxicated, follows this with his opposing, a celebration is then held after which the male students serenade the women present, including Averills girlfriend. Twenty years later, Averill is passing through the town of Casper, Wyoming. Nate Champion – a friend of Averill and an enforcer for the stockmen – kills a settler for suspected rustling and dissuades another from stealing a cow. At a formal meeting, the head of the Association, Frank Canton, tells members, including a drunk Irvine, of plans to kill 125 named settlers, as thieves. Irvine leaves the meeting, encounters Averill, and tells him of the Associations plans, as Averill leaves, he exchanges bitter words with Canton. Canton slaps Averill across the face, which is immediately retaliated and that night, Canton recruits men to kill the named settlers. Ella Watson, a Johnson County bordello madam from Quebec who accepts stolen cattle as payment for use of her prostitutes, is infatuated with both Averill and Champion. Averill and Watson skate in a crowd, then alone, in an enormous roller skating rink called Heavens Gate. Averill gets a copy of the Associations death list from a baseball-playing U. S. Army captain and later reads the names aloud to the settlers, who are thrown into terrified turmoil. Cully, a master and friend of Averills, sees the train with Cantons posse heading north. Later, a group of men come to Watsons bordello and rape her, all but one are shot and killed by Averill. Champion, realizing that his landowner bosses seek to eliminate Watson, goes to Cantons camp and shoots the remaining rapist, Canton and his men encounter one of Champions friends leaving a cabin with Champion and his friend Nick inside, and a gunfight ensues
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Rollover (film)
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Rollover is a 1981 American political thriller film directed by Alan J. Pakula and starring Jane Fonda and Kris Kristofferson. The film was nominated for a Razzie Awards for Worst Actor for Kristofferson, apparently, her late husband discovered some damning information about an Account Number 21214, a secret slush fund involving asset transfers. Smith discovers that the bank isnt just in trouble, its essentially so insolvent that it cant even pay its next dividend. Smith becomes involved, both financially and romantically, with Winters in her attempts to finance the purchase of the petrochemical plant and they finally do so by brokering a deal with some Arab investors who take control of her stock as security for the transaction. Smith later discovers that account 21214 is actually a slush fund where Emery is moving money belonging to the Arabs into gold as a haven against potential losses if the dollar collapses. The Arabs are extremely worried that if anyone finds out, their assets will vanish in a panic as American currency becomes worthless. The globe is gripped by panic and rioting as people discover all of their money is now worthless, Emery is shown in his office - dead, an apparent suicide. The economic crisis paralyzes the world, but by spilling over boundaries between east and west blocs, and between developing and industrialized nations, it unites the world in common cause. In the penultimate scene, workers at Borough National stand idle while listening to a report of the economic crisis. As the camera pans across the floor of the bank, the viewer sees that its now empty of workers, the lights off. Winters joins him in the final scene, smith tells her that hes looking for a way to start anew. Winters offers to become his partner
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Laurence Olivier
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Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM, was an English actor who, along with his contemporaries Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud, dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century. He also worked in films throughout his career, playing more than fifty cinema roles, late in his career, he had considerable success in television roles. His family had no connections, but Oliviers father, a clergyman. After attending a school in London, Olivier learned his craft in a succession of acting jobs during the late 1920s. In 1930 he had his first important West End success in Noël Cowards Private Lives, in 1935 he played in a celebrated production of Romeo and Juliet alongside Gielgud and Peggy Ashcroft, and by the end of the decade he was an established star. In the 1940s, together with Richardson and John Burrell, Olivier was the co-director of the Old Vic, there his most celebrated roles included Shakespeares Richard III and Sophocless Oedipus. From 1963 to 1973 he was the director of Britains National Theatre. His own parts there included the role in Othello and Shylock in The Merchant of Venice. Among Oliviers films are Wuthering Heights, Rebecca, and a trilogy of Shakespeare films as actor-director, Henry V, Hamlet and his later films included Sleuth, Marathon Man, and The Boys from Brazil. His television appearances included an adaptation of The Moon and Sixpence, Long Days Journey into Night, Love Among the Ruins, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Brideshead Revisited, Oliviers honours included a knighthood, a life peerage and the Order of Merit. For his on-screen work he received four Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, five Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards. The National Theatres largest auditorium is named in his honour, and he is commemorated in the Laurence Olivier Awards, given annually by the Society of London Theatre. He was married three times, to the actresses Jill Esmond from 1930 to 1940, Vivien Leigh from 1940 to 1960, Olivier was born in Dorking, Surrey, the youngest of the three children of the Revd Gerard Kerr Olivier and his wife Agnes Louise, née Crookenden. Their elder children were Sybille and Gerard Dacres Dickie and his great-great-grandfather was of French Huguenot descent, and Olivier came from a long line of Protestant clergymen. Gerard Olivier had begun a career as a schoolmaster, but in his thirties he discovered a strong religious vocation and was ordained as a priest of the Church of England and he practised extremely high church, ritualist Anglicanism and liked to be addressed as Father Olivier. This made him unacceptable to most Anglican congregations, and the church posts he was offered were temporary. This meant a nomadic existence, and for Laurences first few years, in 1912, when Olivier was five, his father secured a permanent appointment as assistant priest at St Saviours, Pimlico. He held the post for six years, and a family life was at last possible
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Inchon (film)
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Inchon is a 1981 South Korean–American epic war film about the Battle of Inchon, considered to be the turning point of the Korean War. The film was directed by Terence Young and financed by Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon and it stars Laurence Olivier as General Douglas MacArthur, who led the United States surprise amphibious landing at Incheon, South Korea in 1950. Also featured are Jacqueline Bisset, Ben Gazzara, Toshiro Mifune and it was filmed in South Korea, California, Italy, Ireland and Japan. Inchons plot includes both military action and human drama, characters face danger and are involved in various personal and dramatic situations. The film concludes with the American victory over North Korean forces in the Battle of Inchon, the film cost $46 million to produce and encountered many problems during production, including a typhoon and the death of a cast member. Both the Unification Church and the United States military provided personnel as extras during the filming, the film was released theatrically in the United States and Canada in September 1982 and then quickly withdrawn because of its poor performance at the box office. It has never released on home video, although it has sometimes been broadcast on television. It was the largest financial loss in film of 1982, earning less than $2 million, reviewers at the time gave it consistently bad reviews and later commentators including Newsweek, TV Guide and Canadian Press have classed Inchon among the worst films of all time. The film depicts the Battle of Inchon during the Korean War, the protagonist of the film is General Douglas MacArthur, who led the United States surprise amphibious landing at Incheon in 1950. A subplot in the film involves an American couple who encounter difficulties in their relationship because of the ongoing war, Inchon begins with North Korean soldiers moving past the 38th parallel north into South Korea in June 1950. People flee into the capital, Seoul. One of the people is Barbara Hallsworth, a U. S. Army majors wife who lives in a village on the 38th Parallel. She is chauffeured to Seoul in a limousine, picking up five South Korean children along the way, after her chauffeur is killed, she drives them to a safe location called the Inn of the Sixth Happiness. Along the way, she shoots a North Korean soldier, meanwhile, her husband, Frank Hallsworth, is attempting to break off an affair with a young South Korean woman. Her father is aware of his daughters affair with Hallsworth and does not disapprove, Hallsworth receives word of the invasion by the North Koreans, and he travels north in an attempt to locate his wife with the assistance of army sergeant August Henderson. Henderson encounters Hallsworths wife and fixes her vehicles battery, and then reunites her with her husband, journalists David Feld Park and Longfellow are attending a press conference held by MacArthur in Tokyo. He agrees with his wife that he is the person who can rescue South Korea from the invasion by the North Koreans. Hallsworth and his former lover succeed in turning on a lighthouse to signal 261 U. S. ships, and she dies during the ensuing battle
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Douglas MacArthur
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Douglas MacArthur was an American five-star general and field marshal of the Philippine Army. He was Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and he received the Medal of Honor for his service in the Philippines Campaign, which made him and his father Arthur MacArthur, Jr. the first father and son to be awarded the medal. He was one of five men ever to rise to the rank of General of the Army in the US Army. During the 1914 United States occupation of Veracruz, he conducted a reconnaissance mission, in 1917, he was promoted from major to colonel and became chief of staff of the 42nd Division. From 1919 to 1922, MacArthur served as Superintendent of the U. S, Military Academy at West Point, where he attempted a series of reforms. His next assignment was in the Philippines, where in 1924 he was instrumental in quelling the Philippine Scout Mutiny, in 1925, he became the Armys youngest major general. He served on the martial of Brigadier General Billy Mitchell and was president of the American Olympic Committee during the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. In 1930, he became Chief of Staff of the United States Army, as such, he was involved in the expulsion of the Bonus Army protesters from Washington, D. C. in 1932, and the establishment and organization of the Civilian Conservation Corps. He retired from the US Army in 1937 to become Military Advisor to the Commonwealth Government of the Philippines, MacArthur was recalled to active duty in 1941 as commander of United States Army Forces in the Far East. A series of disasters followed, starting with the destruction of his air forces on 8 December 1941, MacArthurs forces were soon compelled to withdraw to Bataan, where they held out until May 1942. In March 1942, MacArthur, his family and his staff left nearby Corregidor Island in PT boats and escaped to Australia, upon his arrival in Australia, MacArthur gave a speech in which he famously promised I shall return to the Philippines. For his defense of the Philippines, MacArthur was awarded the Medal of Honor, after more than two years of fighting in the Pacific, he fulfilled a promise to return to the Philippines. He officially accepted Japans surrender on 2 September 1945, aboard USS Missouri anchored in Tokyo Bay, as the effective ruler of Japan, he oversaw sweeping economic, political and social changes. He led the United Nations Command in the Korean War until he was removed from command by President Harry S. Truman on 11 April 1951 and he later became Chairman of the Board of Remington Rand. A military brat, Douglas MacArthur was born 26 January 1880, at Little Rock Barracks, Little Rock, Arkansas, to Arthur MacArthur, Jr. a U. S. Army captain, Pinkney came from a prominent Norfolk, Virginia, family. Two of her brothers had fought for the South in the Civil War, Arthur and Pinky had three sons, of whom Douglas was the youngest, following Arthur III, born on 1 August 1876, and Malcolm, born on 17 October 1878. The family lived on a succession of Army posts in the American Old West, conditions were primitive, and Malcolm died of measles in 1883. In his memoir, Reminiscences, MacArthur wrote I learned to ride and shoot even before I could read or write—indeed and this time on the frontier ended in July 1889 when the family moved to Washington, D. C. where Douglas attended the Force Public School
