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Raspberry
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The raspberry is the edible fruit of a multitude of plant species in the genus Rubus of the rose family, most of which are in the subgenus Idaeobatus, the name also applies to these plants themselves. Raspberries are perennial woody stems. Raspberry derives its name from raspise, a sweet rose-colored wine, from the Anglo-Latin, vinum raspeys, or from raspoie, meaning thicket, the name may have been influenced by its appearance as having a rough surface related to Old English rasp or rough berry. Raspberries are traditionally planted in the winter as dormant canes, although planting of tender and these canes are then dug, roots and all, to be replanted in warmer climates such as Spain, where they quickly flower and produce a very early season crop. Plants are typically planted 2-6 per m in fertile, well drained soil, raspberries are usually planted in raised beds/ridges, the flowers can be a major nectar source for honeybees and other pollinators. Raspberries are very vigorous and can be locally invasive and they propagate using basal shoots, extended underground shoots that develop roots and individual plants. They can sucker new canes some distance from the main plant, for this reason, raspberries spread well, and can take over gardens if left unchecked. Raspberries are often propagated using cuttings, and will root readily in moist soil conditions, the fruit is harvested when it comes off the receptacle easily and has turned a deep color. This is when the fruits are ripest and sweetest, excess fruit can be made into raspberry jam or frozen. High tunnel bramble production offers the opportunity to bridge gaps in availability during late fall, furthermore, high tunnels allow less hardy floricane-fruiting raspberries to overwinter in climates where they wouldnt otherwise survive. In the tunnel plants are established at close spacing usually prior to tunnel construction, raspberries are an important commercial fruit crop, widely grown in all temperate regions of the world. Many of the most important modern commercial red raspberry cultivars derive from hybrids between R. idaeus and R. strigosus. Some botanists consider the Eurasian and American red raspberries to belong to a single, circumboreal species, Rubus idaeus, idaeus or R. idaeus var. idaeus, and the native North American red raspberries classified as either R. idaeus subsp. Strigosus, or R. idaeus var. strigosus, recent breeding has resulted in cultivars that are thornless and more strongly upright, not needing staking. The black raspberry, Rubus occidentalis, is cultivated, providing both fresh and frozen fruit, as well as jams, preserves, and other products. Commercial production of purple-fruited raspberries is rare, blue raspberry is a local name used in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada for the cultivar Columbian, a hybrid of R. strigosus and R. occidentalis. Both the red and the black raspberry species have albino-like pale-yellow natural or horticultural variants, fruits from such plants are called golden raspberries or yellow raspberries, despite their similar appearance, they retain the distinctive flavor of their respective species. Most pale-fruited raspberries commercially sold in the eastern United States are derivatives of red raspberries, yellow-fruited variants of the black raspberry are sometimes grown in home gardens
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Wooden spoon (award)
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A wooden spoon is a spoon made from wood, usually given to an individual or team which has come last in a competition, but sometimes also to runners-up. Examples range from the academic to sporting and more frivolous events, the term is of British origin and has spread to other Commonwealth countries. The lowest placed students earning a second-class or first-class degree were sometimes known as the silver spoon, in contrast, the highest-scoring male student was named the senior wrangler. Students unfortunate enough to place below the wooden spoon, by achieving only an Ordinary degree, were given a variety of names depending on their number. In the 1860s about three-quarters of the roughly 400 candidates did not score enough to be awarded honours, the custom dates back at least to the late 18th century, being recorded in 1803, and continued until 1909. From 1910 onwards the results have been given in alphabetical rather than score order, alternatively, This wooden object is the last souvenir of the competitive examinations in mathematics. The last spoon to be awarded is now in the possession of St. Johns College, there are five known wooden spoons in private hands. It is certain, in any case, that the tradition first arose in Cambridge, some notable Grand Slam wooden spooners include, among others, Goran Ivanišević, Mary Pierce, Marat Safin, Ana Ivanovic and Rafael Nadal. In Major League Soccer, the last place team in in the standings is generally considered as the wooden spoon champion. However, unlike other Wooden Spoon awards, there is a trophy for the award. The trophy is passed to the team at the annual ISC Conference. At the end of the year every group awarded the Wooden Spoon are allowed to do what they will with the trophy, the Chicago Fire Soccer Club were the “winner” of the inaugural 2015 wooden spoon and their supporters had the responsibility of creating the first spoon. This book contains detailed information regarding the Cambridge wooden spoon
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Film industry
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The film industry or motion picture industry comprises the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking, i. e. Though the expense involved in making movies almost immediately led film production to concentrate under the auspices of standing production companies, advances in affordable film making equipment, and expansion of opportunities to acquire investment capital from outside the film industry itself, have allowed independent film production to evolve. Hollywood is the oldest film industry of the world and the largest in terms of box office gross, other centers include Hong Kong and in Europe the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Spain, and Germany are the countries that lead movie production. The worldwide theatrical market had a box office of US$38.3 billion in 2015. The top three continents/regions by box office gross were, Asia-Pacific with US$14.1 billion, North America with US$11.1 billion and Europe, distinct from the centers are the locations where movies are filmed. Because of labor and infrastructure costs, many films are produced in other than the one in which the company which pays for the film is located. For example, many U. S. movies are filmed in Canada, many Nigerian movies are filmed in Ghana, while many Indian movies are filmed in the Americas, Europe, Singapore etc. The cinema of the United States, often referred to as Hollywood, has had a profound effect on cinema across the world since the early 20th century. The United States cinema is the oldest film industry in the world which originated more than 121 years ago and also the largest film industry in terms of revenue. Hollywood is the nexus of the U. S. film industry with established film study facilities such as the American Film Institute, LA Film School. However, four of the six film studios are owned by East Coast companies. Today, American film studios collectively generate several hundred movies every year, only The Walt Disney Company — which owns the Walt Disney Studios — is fully based in Southern California. And while Sony Pictures Entertainment is headquartered in Culver City, California, its parent company, most shooting now takes place in California, New York, Louisiana, Georgia and North Carolina. Hollywood is the most popular film industry with the highest number of screens, between 2009-2015, Hollywood consistently grossed $10 billion annually. Jenkins used his Phantoscope to project his film before an audience of family, friends, the film featured a vaudeville dancer performing a Butterfly Dance. Jenkins and his new partner Thomas Armat modified the Phantoscope for exhibitions in temporary theaters at the Cotton States Exposition in the fall of 1895, the Phantoscope was later sold to Thomas Edison, who changed the name of the projector to Edisons Vitascope. Nestor Studios was Hollywoods first movie studio, founded on October 27,1911 It was built by David Horsley for Nestor Motion Picture Company and it was then owned and operated by David Horsley and his brother, William Horsley. The first motion picture stage in Hollywood was built behind the tavern, other East Coast studios had moved production to Los Angeles, prior to Nestors move west
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John J. B. Wilson
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John J. B. Wilson is an American copywriter and publicist. He majored in film and television at University of California, Los Angeles, Wilson is the co-founder of the Golden Raspberry Awards along with Mo Murphy, an annual ceremony dedicated to honoring the worst in film. In 1981, while hosting a dinner at his house on the night of the Academy Awards. Attendance doubled at Razzie award ceremonies in the years, and by the 4th Golden Raspberry Awards the event received coverage from CNN. Wilson has retained a role in the awards, and is referred to as the Head Razzberry. His book The Official Razzie Movie Guide was published in 2005 for the 25th anniversary of the Razzie Awards, Wilson grew up in Chicago, Illinois, and moved with his parents to Santa Monica, California, at age 9. At a young age he would skip school in order to watch the Academy Awards from the bleachers and he attended University of California, Los Angeles, majoring in film and television. While attending college, he managed the Fox Theater, Westwood Village. In 2005, Wilson stated that he worked in film marketing. His marketing work has included publicity for the Academy Awards, When they found out that I did the Razzies, they looked at me like I was a spy, as of 2005, Wilson lives in Cerritos, California with his wife Barbara. Wilson traditionally held pot luck dinner 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 invited friends to give random award presentations in his living room. Wilson decided to formalize the event, after watching a double feature of Cant Stop the Music and he gathered his friends for a pot luck dinner to watch the 53rd Academy Awards, and gave them ballots to vote on worst in film. 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, the ceremonys program is modeled after the Academy Awards, but is deliberately low-end and tacky. The awards themselves typically cost US$4.79 each, in the form of a golfball-sized raspberry which sits atop a Super 8 mm film reel, 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. Wilsons book The Official Razzie Movie Guide was published in 2005 to mark the 25th anniversary of the awards, in addition to Razzie winners, The Official Razzie Movie Guide also includes Wilsons 100 favorites among the Worst Movies Ever Made
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Academy Awards
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The various category winners are awarded a copy of a golden statuette, officially called the Academy Award of Merit, which has become commonly known by its nickname Oscar. The awards, first presented in 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, are overseen by AMPAS, the awards ceremony was first broadcast on radio in 1930 and televised for the first time in 1953. It is now live in more than 200 countries and can be streamed live online. The Academy Awards ceremony is the oldest worldwide entertainment awards ceremony and its equivalents – the Emmy Awards for television, the Tony Awards for theater, and the Grammy Awards for music and recording – are modeled after the Academy Awards. The 89th Academy Awards ceremony, honoring the best films of 2016, were held on February 26,2017, at the Dolby Theatre, in Los Angeles, the ceremony was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and was broadcast on ABC. A total of 3,048 Oscars have been awarded from the inception of the award through the 88th, the first Academy Awards presentation was held on May 16,1929, at a private dinner function at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel with an audience of about 270 people. The post-awards party was held at the Mayfair Hotel, the cost of guest tickets for that nights ceremony was $5. Fifteen statuettes were awarded, honoring artists, directors and other participants in the industry of the time. The ceremony ran for 15 minutes, winners were announced to media three months earlier, however, that was changed for the second ceremony in 1930. Since then, for the rest of the first decade, the results were given to newspapers for publication at 11,00 pm on the night of the awards. The first Best Actor awarded was Emil Jannings, for his performances in The Last Command and he had to return to Europe before the ceremony, so the Academy agreed to give him the prize earlier, this made him the first Academy Award winner in history. With the fourth ceremony, however, the system changed, for the first six ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned two calendar years. At the 29th ceremony, held on March 27,1957, until then, foreign-language films had been honored with the Special Achievement Award. The 74th Academy Awards, held in 2002, presented the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, since 1973, all Academy Awards ceremonies always end with the Academy Award for Best Picture. The Academy also awards Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, see also § Awards of Merit categories The best known award is the Academy Award of Merit, more popularly known as the Oscar statuette. The five spokes represent the branches of the Academy, Actors, Writers, Directors, Producers. The model for the statuette is said to be Mexican actor Emilio El Indio Fernández, sculptor George Stanley sculpted Cedric Gibbons design. The statuettes presented at the ceremonies were gold-plated solid bronze
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Blowing a raspberry
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Blowing a raspberry, strawberry or making a Bronx cheer, is to make a noise that may signify derision, real or feigned. It may also be used in childhood phonemic play either solely by the child or by adults towards a child to encourage imitation to the delight of both parties and it is made by placing the tongue between the lips and blowing to produce a sound similar to flatulence. In the terminology of phonetics, this sound can be described as an unvoiced linguolabial trill and it is never used in human language phonemically, but the sound is widely used across human cultures. In the United States, Bronx cheer is used, otherwise, in the U. S. and in other anglophone countries, it is known as a raspberry, rasp. Blowing a raspberry comes from the Cockney rhyming slang raspberry tart for fart, rhyming slang was particularly used in British comedy to refer to things that would be unacceptable to a polite audience. The term Bronx cheer is used sarcastically because it is not a cheer, it is used to show disapproval
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Super 8 film
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Super 8mm film is a motion picture film format released in 1965 by Eastman Kodak as an improvement over the older Double or Regular 8 mm home movie format. The film is nominally 8mm wide, the same as older formatted 8mm film, but the dimensions of the rectangular perforations along one edge are smaller, the Super 8 standard also allocates the border opposite the perforations for an oxide stripe upon which sound can be magnetically recorded. Unlike Super 35, the stock used for Super 8 is not compatible with standard 8mm film cameras. There are several varieties of the system used for shooting. The most popular system by far was the Kodak system and this is enough film for 2.5 minutes at the professional motion picture standard of 24 frames per second, and for 3 minutes and 20 seconds of continuous filming at 18 frames per second for amateur use. In 1973 the system was upgraded with a cartridge, which included film with magnetic sound. In 1975 an even larger 200-foot cartridge became available which could be used in specifically designed cameras, the sound and the 200 foot cartridge system are no longer available, but the 50 foot silent cartridge system is still manufactured. Historically, Super 8 film was a stock for home projection used primarily for the creation of home movies. It became a popular consumer product in the late 1960s through the 1970s. During the mid-to-late 1980s Super 8 began to re-emerge as a method for movie production. This included emulsions from Kodak, Fuji and Ilford, today Super 8 color negative film is the main color stock used. There are also Super 8 reversal films available including 200D Agfa color and black-and-white from Foma, ADOX and ORWO, in addition, coded notches cut into the Super 8 film cartridge exterior allow the camera to recognize the film speed automatically. Not all cameras can all the notches correctly, however. Canon keeps an exhaustive list of their Super 8 cameras with detailed specifications on what film speeds can be used with their cameras, usually, testing one cartridge of film can help handle any uncertainty a filmmaker may have about how well their Super 8 camera reads different film stocks. Color stocks were available only in tungsten, and almost all Super 8 cameras come with a switchable daylight filter built in. The original Super 8 film release was a silent system only, the film with sound had a magnetic soundtrack and came in larger cartridges than the original cartridge in order to accommodate the sound recording head in the film path. Sound film requires a longer path, and a second aperture for the recording head. Sound cameras were compatible with silent cartridges, but not vice versa, Sound film was typically filmed at a speed of 18 or 24 frames per second
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29th Golden Raspberry Awards
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Nominations were announced on January 21,2009. The Love Guru was the most nominated film of 2008, with seven, Award results were based on votes from approximately 650 journalists, cinema fans and film professionals from 20 countries. Awards were presented by John Wilson, the ceremonys founder, the Love Guru received the most awards, winning Worst Picture, Worst Actor, and Worst Screenplay. Paris Hilton received three awards, including Worst Actress for her work in The Hottie & the Nottie and Worst Supporting Actress for Repo. Hilton matched the number of awards received by an actor in a single year. Pierce Brosnan received Worst Supporting Actor for his role in Mamma Mia, the Movie, and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull received the award for Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel. Uwe Boll received the Worst Director award for the films 1968 Tunnel Rats, In the Name of the King and Postal, the most nominated film of 2008 was the box-office bomb The Love Guru, with seven nominations. Paid members of the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation voted to determine the winners, Award results were based on votes from approximately 650 journalists, cinema fans and professionals from the film industry. Voters were from 45 states in the United States and 19 other countries, the ceremony opened with a musical number which parodied the song Dancing Queen from Mamma Mia. Awards were presented by John Wilson, the ceremonys founder, awardees received a gold spray-painted raspberry worth $4.97. The Love Guru received three awards, Worst Picture, Worst Actor and Worst Screenplay, Worst Picture was the last award given out at the ceremony. The main thing wrong with it is no one said to Myers that it wasnt funny and he managed to offend the entire Indian population and his investors, said Wilson in a statement in The Guardian. Wilson shredded a copy of The Love Guru at the awards ceremony and she is the 21st century Zsa Zsa Gabor. She is famous for who she hangs out with, shes not famous for any talent she has yet exhibited. She may end up working with Uwe Boll and she could be the head vampire in BloodRayne 3, said Wilson of Hiltons performances. Pierce Brosnan received Worst Supporting Actor for his role in Mamma Mia, Award hosts Chip Dornell and Kelie McIver described Brosnan as an actor who could not sing, should not sing and arguably did not sing, in a role he should not have accepted. The Steven Spielberg film Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull received the award for Worst Prequel, Remake, Uwe Boll received the Worst Director award for films 1968 Tunnel Rats, In the Name of the King and Postal. He also received a award for Worst Career Achievement
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Potluck
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A potluck is a gathering where each guest contributes a dish of food, often homemade, to be shared. The word pot-luck appears in the 16th century English work of Thomas Nashe, and used to mean food provided for an unexpected or uninvited guest, the luck of the pot. The sense communal meal, where guests bring their own food, originated in the 1930s during the Depression by influence from potlatch, potluck dinners are events where the attendees bring a dish to a meal. Potluck dinners are often organized by religious or community groups, since they simplify the meal planning, smaller, more informal get-togethers with distributed food preparation may also be called potlucks. The only traditional rule is that each dish be large enough to be shared among a good portion of the anticipated guests, in some cases each participant agrees ahead of time to bring a single course, and the result is a multi-course meal. Guests may bring in any form of food, ranging from the course to desserts. In the United States, potlucks are associated with dishes, casseroles, dessert bars. Traditionally, potlucks were a combination of dishes brought together by event attendees without a general theme. However, recent times have seen the growth of themed dinners for parties or special occasions, buffet Free lunch House concert Whats the origin of potluck
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53rd Academy Awards
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The 53rd Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1980, were presented March 31,1981, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies, which were presided over by Johnny Carson, were scheduled for the previous day but were postponed due to the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan. David Lynchs The Elephant Man and Martin Scorseses Raging Bull, with 8 nominations each, had the most nominations of this years films and their nominations included Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Director. Michael Apteds Coal Miners Daughter received 7 nominations while Ordinary People, the years winner of acting categories also marked as the closest span ever between the four winners, all of whom were under 40 when they won the award. In addition, Hutton was the youngest ever Best Supporting Actor winner and his award was one of four that Ordinary People won, more than any other movie, the movie also won Best Picture, Best Director for Robert Redford, and Best Adapted Screenplay for Alvin Sargent. The lack of recognition for Christopher Tuckers make-up work on The Elephant Man prompted the creation of the Academy Award for Best Makeup, Best Supporting Actress nominee Eva Le Gallienne was born in 1899, which made her the last acting nominee to be born in the nineteenth century. As of 2017, this is the earliest Oscars for which all five directing nominees are still living, winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface and indicated with a double dagger. Henry Fonda The Empire Strikes Back The following individuals, listed in order of appearance, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
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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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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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Los Angeles Daily News
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The Los Angeles Daily News is the second-largest-circulating paid daily newspaper of Los Angeles, California. It is the flagship of the Los Angeles Newspaper Group, a branch of Colorado-based Digital First Media, the offices of the Daily News are in Woodland Hills, and much of the papers reporting is targeted toward readers in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles. Its stories tend to focus on issues involving valley businesses, education, the current editor is Frank Pine. The Daily News began life in 1911 as the Van Nuys Call, in 1953, the newspaper was renamed the Van Nuys News and Valley Green Sheet. During this period, the newspaper was delivered four times a week for free to readers in 14 zoned editions in the San Fernando Valley, in 1971, the newspaper was sold to the Tribune Company by the original family owners. During this period, circulation increased to 210,000, in 1981, the paper changed its name to the Daily News of Los Angeles and became a daily publication. In 1985, Tribune sold the paper to Jack Kent Cooke, when the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner went out of business November 2,1989, it left the Daily News the second-biggest paper in the city behind the Los Angeles Times. Upon Cookes death in 1998, William Dean Singletons MediaNews purchased the newspaper, the group briefly published local editions for the Antelope Valley, Santa Clarita and Ventura County. However, to cut costs and consolidate resources, the editions were eliminated. As part of circulation reporting for the Southern California News Group, the Daily News bears no relation to an earlier Los Angeles Daily News, a morning newspaper based in Downtown Los Angeles which ceased publication on December 18,1954. It endorsed Barack Obama for president in 2008, but then endorsed his opponent Mitt Romney in 2012
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CNN
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The Cable News Network is an American basic cable and satellite television news channel owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner. It was founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner as a 24-hour cable news channel, upon its launch, CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage, and was the first all-news television channel in the United States. While the news channel has numerous affiliates, CNN primarily broadcasts from the Time Warner Center in New York City and its headquarters at the CNN Center in Atlanta is only used for weekend programming. CNN is sometimes referred to as CNN/U. S. to distinguish the American channel from its sister network. As of August 2010, CNN is available in over 100 million U. S. households, broadcast coverage of the U. S. channel extends to over 890,000 American hotel rooms, as well as carriage on cable and satellite providers throughout Canada. Globally, CNN programming airs through CNN International, which can be seen by viewers in over 212 countries and territories, as of February 2015, CNN is available to about 96,289,000 cable, satellite, and telco television households in the United States. The Cable News Network was launched at 5,00 p. m. Eastern Time on June 1,1980, after an introduction by Ted Turner, the husband and wife team of David Walker and Lois Hart anchored the channels first newscast. Burt Reinhardt, the vice president of CNN at its launch, hired most of the channels first 200 employees, including the networks first news anchor. Since its debut, CNN has expanded its reach to a number of cable and satellite providers, several websites. The company has 36 bureaus, more than 900 affiliated local stations, the channels success made a bona-fide mogul of founder Ted Turner and set the stage for conglomerate Time Warners eventual acquisition of the Turner Broadcasting System in 1996. A companion channel, CNN2, was launched on January 1,1982, on January 28,1986, CNN carried the only live television coverage of the launch and subsequent break-up of Space Shuttle Challenger, which killed all seven crew members on board. On October 14,1987, Jessica McClure, an 18-month-old toddler, fell down a well in Midland, CNN quickly reported on the story, and the event helped make its name. This was before correspondents reported live from the capital while American bombs were falling. Before Saddam Hussein held a press conference with a few of the hundreds of Americans he was holding hostage. Before the nation watched, riveted but powerless, as Los Angeles was looted and burned, before O. J. Simpson took a slow ride in a white Bronco, and before everyone close to his case had an agent and a book contract. This was uncharted territory just a time ago. The moment when bombing began was announced on CNN by Bernard Shaw on January 16,1991, as follows, lets describe to our viewers what were seeing. The skies over Baghdad have been illuminated, were seeing bright flashes going off all over the sky
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BBC News
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BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs. The department is the worlds largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, the service maintains 50 foreign news bureaux with more than 250 correspondents around the world. James Harding has been Director of News and Current Affairs since April 2013, the departments annual budget is in excess of £350 million, it has 3,500 staff,2,000 of whom are journalists. BBC News domestic, global and online news divisions are housed within the largest live newsroom in Europe, parliamentary coverage is produced and broadcast from studios in Millbank in London. Through the BBC English Regions, the BBC also has regional centres across England, as well as national news centres in Northern Ireland, Scotland, all nations and English regions produce their own local news programmes and other current affairs and sport programmes. As with all media outlets, though, it has been accused of political bias from across the political spectrum. The British Broadcasting Company broadcast its first radio bulletin from radio station 2LO on 14 November 1922, on Easter weekend in 1930, this reliance on newspaper wire services left the radio news service with no information to report. The BBC gradually gained the right to edit the copy and, in 1934, however, it could not broadcast news before 6 PM until World War II. Gaumont British and Movietone cinema newsreels had been broadcast on the TV service since 1936, a weekly Childrens Newsreel was inaugurated on 23 April 1950, to around 350,000 receivers. The network began simulcasting its radio news on television in 1946, televised bulletins began on 5 July 1954, broadcast from leased studios within Alexandra Palace in London. The publics interest in television and live events was stimulated by Elizabeth IIs coronation in 1953 and it is estimated that up to 27 million people viewed the programme in the UK, overtaking radios audience of 12 million for the first time. Those live pictures were fed from 21 cameras in central London to Alexandra Palace for transmission and that year, there were around two million TV Licences held in the UK, rising to over three million the following year, and four and a half million by 1955. This was then followed by the customary Television Newsreel with a commentary by John Snagge. It was revealed that this had been due to producers fearing a newsreader with visible facial movements would distract the viewer from the story. On-screen newsreaders were finally introduced a year later in 1955 – Kenneth Kendall, Robert Dougall, mainstream television production had started to move out of Alexandra Palace in 1950 to larger premises – mainly at Lime Grove Studios in Shepherds Bush, west London – taking Current Affairs with it. It was from here that the first Panorama, a new programme, was transmitted on 11 November 1953. On 28 October 1957, the Today programme, a radio programme, was launched in central London on the Home Service. In 1958, Hugh Carleton Greene became head of News and Current Affairs and he set up a BBC study group whose findings, published in 1959, were critical of what the television news operation had become under his predecessor, Tahu Hole
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28th Golden Raspberry Awards
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The 28th Golden Raspberry Awards or Razzies were held on February 23,2008, in Santa Monica, California, USA, to honor the worst films of 2007. The nominations were announced on January 21, in line with Razzies tradition, both the nominee announcements and ceremony preceded the corresponding Academy Awards functions by one day. The most nominated film of 2007 was I Know Who Killed Me with nine nominations, followed by I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, I Know Who Killed Me was the big winner of the evening, receiving eight awards for a new Razzie record. Eddie Murphy received a Razzie record five personal nominations, all surrounding his work in Norbit and he ended up winning three awards, one for each character he portrayed. The actress Lindsay Lohan also won three awards for her roles in I Know Who Killed Me. The special category introduced this year was Worst Excuse for a Horror Movie,2007 in film 80th Academy Awards 61st British Academy Film Awards 65th Golden Globe Awards 14th Screen Actors Guild Awards 2007 Razzie Nominees on the Razzies Official home page 2007 Winners
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Tom Green
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Michael Thomas Tom Green is a Canadian actor, rapper, writer, comedian, producer, director, talk show host, and media personality. Best known for his brand of comedy, he found mainstream prominence via his MTV television show The Tom Green Show. Green is also known for his roles in the Hollywood films Road Trip, Charlies Angels, Freddy Got Fingered, Stealing Harvard and he was briefly married to actress Drew Barrymore. In June 2003, Green served as a guest host on Late Show with David Letterman, from 2006 until 2011 he hosted his internet talk show Tom Greens House Tonight from his living room, and began performing stand-up comedy in 2010. From October 2013 to November 2014 Green hosted the live weekly talk-show Tom Green Live on AXS TV. Green was born in Pembroke, Ontario, Canada, the first of two sons of Mary Jane, a consultant, and Richard Green, a computer systems analyst. Green studied television broadcasting at Algonquin College and graduated in 1994, while attending Algonquin College as a member of the Sigma Pi Fraternity, Green hosted an overnight call-in show on the University of Ottawas campus radio station, CHUO. The 1990 show, originally a rap music show entitled The Rap Show, was followed by a music show hosted by Glenn Humplik. Through the proximity of their shows, Tom and Glenn met and became friends, Toms radio show soon shifted formats to a call-in show and the two joined forces to host The Midnight Caller Show. The basic format of The Midnight Caller was to have listeners call-in with Tom and Glenn making fun of them, the shows novelty and originality made it an underground hit in the Ottawa area. In the early 1990s, Green had a career as a rapper in a group called Organized Rhyme under the alias MC Bones. His fellow MCs included Pin the Chameleon, the single Check The O. R. was nominated for a Juno Award in 1993 for Best Rap Recording and won the MuchVibe Best Rap Video award in 1992. In 1998, Not The Green Tom Show was released by Greens alter-ego MC Face, Green soon had his own non-paid television show on public-access television on cable TV. The Tom Green Show was a variety format, where he would have guests visit the studio. He also had taped segments that typically consisted of stunts played by Green on unsuspecting people, a number of them involved Greens parents, Richard and Mary Jane, who consistently appeared unamused and occasionally angered by Toms antics. In October 1996, The Tom Green Show aired one time as a pilot on CBC, the show was later picked up in Canada by The Comedy Network in 1997 and aired 26 episodes over the course of two seasons. The Tom Green Show was then picked up by MTV in January 1999, derek Harvie, who co-wrote the show with Green, occasionally appeared in the segments. Many of the sketches were targeted at his parents, both of whom appear to be unimpressed and embarrassed by their sons antics, the Tom Green Show was renowned for Greens version of shock humor
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Halle Berry
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Halle Maria Berry is an American actress. She won the 2002 Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the romantic drama Monsters Ball, as of 2017, she is the only black woman to have won a Best Actress Academy Award. Berry was one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood during the 2000s and has involved in the production of several of the films in which she performed. She is also a Revlon spokesmodel, before becoming an actress, she started modeling and entered several beauty contests, finishing as the 1st runner-up in the Miss USA Pageant and coming in 6th place in the Miss World Pageant in 1986. She then appeared in the X-Men sequels, X2 and X-Men, in the 2010s, she appeared in movies such as the science fiction film Cloud Atlas, the crime thriller The Call and X-Men, Days of Future Past. Berry was formerly married to baseball player David Justice, and singer-songwriter Eric Benét and she has a daughter by model Gabriel Aubry, and a son by actor Olivier Martinez. Berry was born Maria Halle Berry, her name was changed to Halle Maria Berry at age five. Her parents selected her name from Halles Department Store, which was then a local landmark in her birthplace of Cleveland. Her mother, Judith Ann, who is of English and German ancestry, was a psychiatric nurse and her father, Jerome Jesse Berry, was an African-American hospital attendant in the psychiatric ward where her mother worked, he later became a bus driver. Berrys maternal grandmother, Nellie Dicken, was born in Sawley, Derbyshire, England, while her maternal grandfather, Berrys parents divorced when she was four years old, she and her older sister, Heidi Berry-Henderson, were raised exclusively by their mother. Berry has said in published reports that she has been estranged from her father since her childhood, noting in 1992 and her father was very abusive to her mother. Berry has recalled witnessing her mother being beaten daily, kicked down stairs, Berry graduated from Bedford High School where she was a cheerleader, honor student, editor of the school newspaper and prom queen. She worked in the department at Higbees Department store. She then studied at Cuyahoga Community College, in the 1980s, she entered several beauty contests, winning Miss Teen All American in 1985 and Miss Ohio USA in 1986. She was the 1986 Miss USA first runner-up to Christy Fichtner of Texas, in the Miss USA1986 pageant interview competition, she said she hoped to become an entertainer or to have something to do with the media. Her interview was awarded the highest score by the judges and she was the first African-American Miss World entrant in 1986, where she finished sixth and Trinidad and Tobagos Giselle Laronde was crowned Miss World. According to the Current Biography Yearbook, Berry. pursued a career in Chicago. Berrys first weeks in New York were less than auspicious, She slept in a homeless shelter, in 1989, Berry moved to New York City to pursue her acting ambitions
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Sandra Bullock
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Sandra Annette Bullock is a German-American actress, producer, and philanthropist. Her breakthrough role was in the film Demolition Man and she subsequently starred in several successful films including Speed, While You Were Sleeping, The Net, A Time to Kill, Hope Floats, and Practical Magic. Bullock achieved further success in the decades in Miss Congeniality, Two Weeks Notice, Crash, The Proposal. Bullocks greatest commercial success is the comedy film Minions, which grossed over US$1 billion at the box office. In 2007, she was one of Hollywoods highest-paid actresses and she was also named Most Beautiful Woman by People magazine in 2015. In addition to her career, Bullock is the founder of the production company Fortis Films. She has produced some of the films in which she starred, including Two Weeks Notice, Miss Congeniality 2, Armed and Fabulous and she was an executive producer of the ABC sitcom, George Lopez, and made several appearances during its run. Bullock was born in Arlington, Virginia and her father, John W. Bullock, was a U. S. Army employee and part-time voice coach, her mother, Helga Mathilde Meyer, was an opera singer and voice teacher. Helga was German, while John is from Birmingham, Alabama and has English, French, German, Bullocks maternal grandfather was a German rocket scientist from Nuremberg. John, who was in charge of the U. S. Armys Military Postal Service in Europe, was stationed in Nuremberg when he met Helga. They married in Germany and moved to Arlington, where John worked with the Army Materiel Command before becoming a contractor for The Pentagon, Bullock has a younger sister, Gesine Bullock-Prado, who went on to serve as vice president of Bullocks production company Fortis Films. Until the age of 18, Bullock held American-German dual citizenship and she then held only American citizenship until 2009, when she reapplied for German citizenship. Bullock was raised in Germany for 12 years, and grew up speaking German and she attended the humanistic Waldorf School in Nuremberg. As a child, while her mother went on European opera tours, Bullock usually stayed with her aunt Christl and cousin Susanne, Bullock studied ballet and vocal arts as a child and frequently accompanied her mother, taking small parts in her opera productions. She sang in the childrens choir at the Staatstheater Nürnberg. Bullock has a scar above her eye, caused by falling into a creek when she was a child. She attended Washington-Lee High School, where she was a cheerleader, after graduating in 1982, she attended East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, where she received a BFA in Drama in 1987. While at ECU, she performed in theater productions, including Peter Pan
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Paul Verhoeven
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Paul Verhoeven is a Dutch film director, film producer, television director, television producer, and screenwriter. Verhoeven is active in both the Netherlands and Hollywood, explicit violent and/or sexual content and social satire are trademarks of both his drama and science fiction films. He is best known for directing the films RoboCop, Total Recall, Basic Instinct, Showgirls, Starship Troopers, Verhoevens film Turkish Delight received the award for Best Dutch Film of the Century at the Netherlands Film Festival. His films altogether received a total of nine Academy Award nominations, mainly for editing, Verhoeven won the Saturn Award for Best Director for Robocop. His Dutch war film Black Book was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language, and was voted the best Dutch film ever by the Dutch public in 2008. In contrast, he won the Golden Raspberry Awards for Worst Picture and Worst Director for Showgirls, Paul Verhoeven was born on 18 July 1938 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He is the son of school teacher Wim Verhoeven and hat maker Nel van Schaardenburg, although he was born in Amsterdam, the family lived in the village of Slikkerveer. In 1943 the family moved to The Hague, the location of the German headquarters in the Netherlands during World War II, the Verhoeven house was near a German military base with V1 and V2-rocket launchers, which was repeatedly bombed by allied forces. Their neighbours house was hit and Verhoevens parents were almost killed when bombs fell on a street crossing, from this period, Verhoeven mentioned in interviews, he remembers images of violence, burning houses, dead bodies on the street, and continuous danger. As a small child he experienced the war as an adventure and compares himself with the character Bill Rowan in Hope. Verhoevens father Wim Verhoeven became head teacher at the Van Heutszschool in The Hague, sometimes they watched informative films at home with the schools film projector. Paul Verhoeven and his father liked to see American films that were in the cinema after the liberation. They went as many as ten times to see The War of the Worlds, Paul Verhoeven was a fan of the Dutch comic Dick Bos. The character Dick Bos is a detective who fights crime using jujutsu. Verhoeven himself liked comic drawing, he created The Killer, a character in a detailed story full of revenge. Other fiction he liked were Frankenstein and the Rice Burroughs Barsoom series, Verhoeven attended public secondary school Gymnasium Haganum in The Hague. Later, beginning in 1955, he studied at Leiden University, Verhoeven graduated with a doctorandus with a double major, in mathematics and physics. Verhoeven made his first film A Lizzard Too Much for the anniversary of his students corps in 1960, in his last years at university Verhoeven also attended classes at the Netherlands Film Academy
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Alan Menken
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Alan Irwin Menken is an American musical theatre and film score composer and pianist. Menken is best known for his scores for films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and his scores for The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and Pocahontas have each won him two Academy Awards. He also composed the scores for Little Shop of Horrors, Newsies, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, Enchanted, Tangled and Sausage Party and he is also known for his work on musical theatre works for Broadway and elsewhere. Some of these are based on his Disney films, but other stage hits include Little Shop of Horrors, A Christmas Carol, Menken has collaborated with such lyricists as Howard Ashman, Tim Rice, Glenn Slater, Stephen Schwartz and David Zippel. With eight Academy Award wins, Menken is the second most prolific Oscar winner in the music categories after Alfred Newman and he has also won eleven Grammy Awards, a Tony Award and other honors. Alan Irwin Menken was born on July 22,1949, at French Hospital in New York City, to Judith and his father was a boogie-woogie piano-playing dentist, and his mother was an actress, dancer and playwright. Menken developed an interest in music at an age, taking piano. He began to compose at an early age, at age 9, at the New York Federation of Music Clubs Junior Composers Contest, his original composition Bouree was rated Superior and Excellent by the judges. He attended New Rochelle High School in New Rochelle, New York, Menken remembers, Id make up my own Bach fugues and Beethoven sonatas because I was bored with the piano and I didnt want to practice, so Id go off on tangents. He then enrolled at New York University and he graduated with a degree in Musicology in 1971 from the universitys Steinhardt School. Menken recalled, First, I was pre-med, I thought Id be a dentist like my Dad. Finally, I got a degree in music, but I didnt care about musicology and it wasnt until I joined BMI Workshop. Under Lehman Engel, and walked into a room with other composers that I knew this was it, Menken noted that Before college, I was writing songs to further my dream of being the next Bob Dylan. A lot of guitar songs – I was composing on piano before that, after college, he attended the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop. After graduating, Menkens plan was to either a rock star or a recording artist. His interest in writing musicals increased when he joined the Broadcast Music, Musical Theatre Workshop and was mentored by Lehman Engel. From 1974 to 1978, he showcased various BMI workshop works, such as Midnight, Apartment House, Conversations with Pierre, Harry the Rat and he performed his material at clubs like The Ballroom, Reno Sweeny and Tramps. In 1976, John Wilson reported for The New York Times that members of Engels BMI Workshop began performing as part of the Broadway at the Ballroom series, featured Maury Yeston and Alan Menken, both playing their piano accompaniment and singing songs they have written for potential musicals
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James Coco
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James Coco was an American character actor. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Only When I Laugh, born James Emil Coco in New York City, son of Felice Coco, a shoemaker, and Ida Detestes Coco, James began acting straight out of high school. As an overweight and prematurely balding adult, he found himself relegated to character roles and he made his Broadway debut in Hotel Paradiso in 1957, but his first major recognition was for Off-Broadways The Moon in Yellow River, for which he won an Obie Award. Sixteen years later, the two would reunite for the Manhattan Theatre Club production of Its Only a Play, Coco also achieved success with Neil Simon, who wrote The Last of the Red Hot Lovers specifically for him. It earned him a Tony Award nomination as Best Actor in a Play, in 1971 he was on The Tonight Show which was guest-hosted by Woody Allen. On the show he discussed his acting career, and The Muppets Take Manhattan as well as a starring role in The Wild Party. Several of his films were released posthumously, Hunk and Thats Adequate. Medical Center, Maude, Fantasy Island, Alice, The Eddie Capra Mysteries, Murder, She Wrote, The Muppet Show, The Love Boat, one of his last TV assignments was a recurring role as Nick Milano on the sitcom Whos The Boss. Coco died of an attack in New York City on February 25,1987 at the age of 56. He is buried in St. Gertrudes Roman Catholic Cemetery in Colonia, New Jersey. Ensign Pulver - Skouras Generation - Mr. - Hyssop Only When I Laugh - Jimmy Perrino The Muppets Take Manhattan - Mr. Skeffington Johnny Dangerously - Moronies Bouncer Hunk - Dr. D The Chair - Dr
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Only When I Laugh (film)
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Only When I Laugh is a 1981 American comedy-drama film based on Neil Simons play The Gingerbread Lady. Simon changed the characters name to Georgia Hines for the film adaptation. The main character went from being a singer to a Broadway stage actress. The film, written by Simon and directed by Glenn Jordan, stars Marsha Mason, Joan Hackett, James Coco and it also features two short scenes with then unknowns Kevin Bacon and John Vargas. Simons next release, I Ought to Be in Pictures, was released just six months later and it was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, and Best Actress in a Supporting Role. It was the last film Hackett completed before her death, Only When I Laugh proved to be very successful at the box office. Coco was also nominated for Worst Supporting Actor in Golden Raspberry Awards for the same role, Actress Georgia Hines is being released from a rehab center where she has been undergoing treatment for alcoholism and weight gain. She returns to her Manhattan apartment to begin a new life with her supportive friends, Jimmy, an unemployed actor, and Toby. She pledges to both that she maintain her sobriety and slowly ease back into theatre work. Less than a week after her return, Georgias enthusiastic teenaged daughter Polly, Georgia agrees, although not completely convinced she is ready. She and Jimmy repaint the apartment to remove the martini stains from the wall as a gesture towards her new life with her new daughter. Just as Polly arrives, Georgia accepts a telephone call from her ex-lover, writer David Lowe, with a renewed sense of confidence she strongly refuses David and hangs up. Georgia and Polly discuss the effects Georgias alcoholism had on Polly, Georgia feels she can finally provide for Polly. That night, she hesitantly rings David Lowe to apologize for her curt conversation and she agrees to meet him at their old theatre district hangout. A trim and fit Georgia, wearing borrowed clothes from Polly and he presents a script he has written, based on their turbulent, alcohol-filled relationship. It is his first script in two years and he says hes found a theatre to stage it, now he wants Georgia to play the lead, in essence playing herself. Furious that David brought her there for business, Georgia makes a scene, but as she is about to dramatically exit, David calmly asks her to reconsider. Unable to resist his charm, Georgia laughs and takes the script home, the reunion between Georgia and Polly is turning out to be a success
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Amy Irving
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Amy Davis Irving is an American actress. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Yentl and she made her Broadway debut in Amadeus in 1980 and went on to receive an Obie Award for the 1988 Off-Broadway production of The Road to Mecca. Her other film appearances include Carrie, The Fury, The Competition, Micki & Maude, Anastasia, The Mystery of Anna, Irving was born in Palo Alto, California. Her father was film and stage director Jules Irving and her mother is actress Priscilla Pointer and her brother is writer/director David Irving and her sister is singer/teacher of deaf children, Katie Irving. Irvings father was Jewish, as was one of Irvings maternal great-great-grandfathers, Irving was raised in Christian Science, and her family observed no religious traditions. Irving attended the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, in the late 1960s and early 1970s and she also trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, and made her off-Broadway debut at age 17 in And Chocolate on Her Chin. She is a graduate of the Professional Childrens School, in Manhattan, Irvings first stage appearance was at age 2, portraying a bit-part character in a play which her father directed. She had a role in the 1965-66 Broadway show The Country Wife at age 12. Her character was to sell a hamster to Stacy Keach in a crowd scene, the play was directed by family friend Robert Symonds, the owner/operator of Lincoln Center, and who would become her stepfather after her father died and her mother remarried. She played Juliet in Romeo and Juliet at the Los Angeles Free Shakespeare Theatre in 1975, Irving auditioned for the role of Princess Leia in Star Wars, which went to Carrie Fisher. She then starred in the Brian DePalma-directed films The Fury as Gillian Bellaver, in 1999 she reprised her role as Sue Snell in The Rage, Carrie 2. She starred with Richard Dreyfuss in 1980 in The Competition, also in 1980 she appeared in Honeysuckle Rose which also marked her on-screen singing debut. Both her and Dyan Cannons characters were country-and-western singers, and both actresses did their own singing in the film, in 1983 she featured in Barbra Streisands directorial debut, Yentl, for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. In 1984 she co-starred in Micki + Maude, In 1988 she was in Susan Sandlers Crossing Delancey and that same year, she also gave another singing performance in the live-action/animated film Who Framed Roger Rabbit, providing the singing voice for Jessica Rabbit. In 1997 she appeared in Woody Allens Deconstructing Harry, more recently Irving appeared in the films Traffic, Tuck Everlasting, Thirteen Conversations About One Thing and an episode of Law & Order, Special Victims Unit in 2001. In 1994, Irving and Anthony Hopkins hosted the 48th Tony Awards at the Gershwin Theatre, Irvings last Broadway appearance was in the American premiere of Tom Stoppards The Coast of Utopia at New Yorks Lincoln Center during its 2006–07 season. In 2009 she played the role in Saint Joan, in an audio version by the Hollywood Theater of the Ear. In May 2010 Irving made her Opera Theatre of Saint Louis debut in the role of Desiree Armfeldt in Isaac Mizrahis directorial debut of Stephen Sondheims A Little Night Music
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Yentl (film)
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This cultural gender asymmetry that Yentl endures has been referenced in the medical community with the coining of the phrase Yentl Syndrome. The films musical score and songs, composed by Michel Legrand, include the songs Papa, Can You Hear Me. and The Way He Makes Me Feel, both sung by Streisand. Barbra Streisand portrays Yentl Mendel, a living in an Ashkenazi shtetl named Pechev in Poland in the early 20th century. Yentls father, Rebbe Mendel, secretly instructs her in the Talmud despite the proscription of such study by women according to the custom of her community. After the death of her father, Yentl decides to dress like a man, take her brothers name, Anshel. Upon entering the yeshiva, Yentl befriends a student, Avigdor. Things get complicated when Hadasss family cancels her wedding to Avigdor over fears that his family is tainted with insanity, meanwhile, Hadass develops romantic feelings for Yentl, while Yentl herself is falling in love with Avigdor. After much turmoil, Avigdor and Hadass are reunited, while Yentl leaves Europe to go to the United States, Yentl begins with the same premise as Singers original story. Streisands character is a woman growing up in an oppressive society that will not let her pursue her religious education. She is told she must have the soul of a man because of her desire to learn and her talent, curiosity and ambition are considered strictly masculine by her society and religious tradition. Unwilling to live without access to education on the basis of sex, Yentl leaves her home, in doing so, Yentl inadvertently embarks on a journey of self-discovery that defies traditional ideas of gender roles within her community. Yentls defiance of expectation and her reversal of traditional gender roles crosses deeply rooted religious boundaries. Until this point, Yentl only adopts the appearance and occupation of a man, in Singers story, this dual betrayal of nature and the divine plan dooms Yentl to a life of pain, alienation, and shameful dishonesty. After her marriage ends in disaster, Yentl remains trapped forever in her disguise, in Streisands film, Yentls defiance of expectation and definition, a rejection of sexist gender roles, is treated as a virtue. At the films conclusion, Yentl takes this developed, ever-evolving self to America to seek new possibilities and opportunities for discovery, throughout her complex interaction with Hadass and Avigdor, Yentl manages conflict with empathy and respect. Her difficult experiences expand, rather than trap her personality and she does not conform to expectations from her surroundings or from her audience, neither remaining merely a woman hiding in mens clothing nor revealing herself to be neutered or firmly homosexual. She refuses to accept a limited, traditional life, even when offered one in marriage to Avigdor, rather, Yentl becomes a real woman, thoroughly modern and encompassing what society has defined as both masculine and feminine traits. In the end, her pain, her confusion and her loss never destroy her hope or resolve, though Isaac Singer insists that Yentl does not have feminist undertones, many critics and viewers of the film consider Yentl to be a feminist role model
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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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Golden Globe Award
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Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign. The annual ceremony at which the awards are presented is a part of the film industrys awards season. The 74th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film, the 1st Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best achievements in 1943 filmmaking, was held in January 1944, at the 20th Century-Fox studios. Subsequent ceremonies were held at venues throughout the next decade, including the Beverly Hills Hotel. In 1950, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association made the decision to establish an honorary award to recognize outstanding contributions to the entertainment industry. Recognizing its subject as a figure within the entertainment industry. The official name of the award became the Cecil B. In 1963, the Miss Golden Globe concept was introduced, in its inaugural year, two Miss Golden Globes were named, one for film and one for television. The two Miss Golden Globes named that year were Eva Six and Donna Douglas, respectively, in 2009, the Golden Globe statuette was redesigned. It was unveiled at a conference at the Beverly Hilton prior to the show. The broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards, telecast to 167 countries worldwide, generally ranks as the third most-watched awards show each year, behind only the Oscars, gervais returned to host the 68th and 69th Golden Globe Awards the next two years. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosted the 70th, 71st and 72nd Golden Globe Awards in 2015, the Golden Globe Awards theme song, which debuted in 2012, was written by Japanese musician and songwriter Yoshiki Hayashi. On January 7,2008, it was announced due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. The ceremony was faced with a threat by striking writers to picket the event, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was forced to adopt another approach for the broadcast. In acting categories, Meryl Streep holds the record for the most competitive Golden Globe wins with eight, however, including honorary awards, such as the Henrietta Award, World Film Favorite Actor/Actress Award, or Cecil B. DeMille Award, Barbra Streisand leads with nine, additionally, Streisand won for composing the song Evergreen, producing the Best Picture, and directing Yentl in 1984. Jack Nicholson, Angela Lansbury, Alan Alda and Shirley MacLaine have six awards each, behind them are Rosalind Russell and Jessica Lange with five wins. Meryl Streep also holds the record for most nominations with thirty, at the 46th Golden Globe Awards an anomaly occurred, a three way-tie for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
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Aerosmith
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Aerosmith is an American rock band, sometimes referred to as the Bad Boys from Boston and Americas Greatest Rock and Roll Band. Their style, which is rooted in blues-based hard rock, has come to incorporate elements of pop, heavy metal, and rhythm and blues. They were formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1970, in 1971, Tabano was replaced by Brad Whitford, and the band began developing a following in Boston. They were signed to Columbia Records in 1972, and released a string of gold and platinum albums, beginning with their 1973 eponymous debut album, followed by Get Your Wings in 1974. In 1975, the broke into the mainstream with the album Toys in the Attic. Two additional albums followed in 1977 and 1979 and their first five albums have since attained multi-platinum status. Throughout the 1970s, the band toured extensively and charted a dozen Hot 100 singles, by the end of the decade, they were among the most popular hard rock bands in the world and developed a loyal following of fans, often referred to as the Blue Army. The band did not fare well between 1980 and 1984, releasing the album Rock in a Hard Place, which was certified gold, Perry and Whitford returned to Aerosmith in 1984 and the band signed a new deal with Geffen Records. After a comeback tour, the band recorded Done with Mirrors, the band also became a pop culture phenomenon with popular music videos and notable appearances in television, film, and video games. Their comeback has been described as one of the most remarkable, additional albums followed in 2001,2004, and 2012. Since 2001, the band has toured every year, except 2008, Aerosmith is the best-selling American hard rock band of all time, having sold more than 150 million records worldwide, including over 70 million records in the United States alone. The band has scored 21 Top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, nine number-one Mainstream Rock hits, four Grammy Awards, six American Music Awards, and ten MTV Video Music Awards. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001, in 2013, the bands principal songwriters, Tyler and Perry, were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 1964, Steven Tyler formed his own called the Strangeurs—later Chain Reaction—in New Hampshire. Meanwhile, Perry and Hamilton formed the Jam Band, which was based on free-form, Hamilton and Perry moved to Boston, Massachusetts in September 1969. There they met Joey Kramer, a drummer from Yonkers, New York, Kramer knew Tyler and had always hoped to play in a band with him. Kramer, a Berklee College of Music student, decided to school to join Jam Band. In 1970, Chain Reaction and Jam Band played at the same gig, Tyler immediately loved Jam Bands sound, and wanted to combine the two bands
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I Don't Want to Miss a Thing
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I Dont Want to Miss a Thing is a power ballad performed by American hard rock band Aerosmith for the 1998 film Armageddon which Steven Tylers daughter Liv Tyler starred in. Written by Diane Warren, the song debuted at one on the U. S. Billboard Hot 100. It is one of three performed by the band for the film, the other two being What Kind of Love Are You On and Sweet Emotion. The song stayed at one for four weeks from September 5 to 26,1998. The song also stayed at number 1 for several weeks in other countries. It sold over a million copies in the UK and reached number four on the UK Singles Chart and this song was also featured in the 2013 video game Saints Row IV. The track was heard in an episode of Jewelpet Sunshine which is the third season of the Jewelpet franchise. This song was Aerosmiths biggest hit, debuting at number 1 on the U. S, the chorus of the song is highly reminiscent of an earlier song Diane Warren co-wrote, Just Like Jesse James, which appeared on Chers 1989 album Heart of Stone. The song helped open up Aerosmith to a new generation and remains a slow dance staple and it was one of many songs written by Warren in that time period. The original version was a collaboration between Chicago musician Phil Kosch of Treaty of Paris and Super Happy Fun Club, and nephew of chart topping writer Lou Bega, Bega introduced the two and they penned the initial track, but ultimately Kosch was left uncredited. The song is notable for having been nominated for both an Academy Award for Best Original Song and a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Original Song and it also appeared on the Japanese version of Just Push Play. CD single 2 I Dont Want to Miss a Thing –5,03 Pink –3,48 Crash –4,30 Crash and it features the band playing the song intertwined with scenes from the film Armageddon. It features an appearance by Steven Tylers daughter Liv, who plays Grace Stamper in the film, Steven Tyler injured his knee the day before the shoot, so they used a lot of close-ups because his movement was limited. The video begins with shots of the moon in orbit and several asteroids passing by safely, the shots interchange between the band and Mission Control viewing the band singing via their monitors. As the video progresses it reveals that the band is playing in front of what appears to be the fictional Space Shuttle Freedom, along with Aerosmith, a full hand orchestra plays in sync with the melody. Smoke surrounds the orchestra and Aerosmith as Freedom takes off from the launch pad, finally, the screen goes out as a tearful Grace touches one of the monitors to reach out to her father. It also won awards for MTV Video Music Award for Best Video from a Film, in late 1998, country music artist Mark Chesnutt recorded a cover version of the song. His rendition is the first single and title track from his 1999 album of the same name
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Armageddon (1998 film)
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Armageddon is a 1998 American science fiction disaster film directed by Michael Bay, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, and released by Touchstone Pictures. The film follows a group of blue-collar deep-core drillers sent by NASA to stop an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. Armageddon opened in only two and a half months after the similar asteroid impact-based film Deep Impact, which starred Robert Duvall. Armageddon fared better at the box office, while astronomers described Deep Impact as being more scientifically accurate, Armageddon was an international box-office success despite generally negative reviews from critics, becoming the highest-grossing film of 1998 worldwide. A massive meteor shower destroys the orbiting Space Shuttle Atlantis and bombards a swath of land around the North Atlantic, NASA discovers through the Hubble that the meteors were debris propelled from the asteroid belt by a rogue asteroid roughly the size of Texas. The asteroid will collide with Earth in 18 days, causing an extinction event. NASA scientists, led by Dan Truman, plan to trigger a thermonuclear detonation at least 800 feet inside the asteroid to split it in two, driving the pieces apart so both will fly past the Earth. NASA contacts Harry Stamper, considered the best deep-sea oil driller in the world, Harry insists he will need his full team to help execute NASAs plan, and they agree to help but only after their list of unusual rewards are met. NASA puts Harry and his crew through a short and rigorous training program, while Harrys team re-outfit the mobile drillers, Armadillos. During training, Truman and Harry are skeptical about the abilities of A. J, frost, a hot-headed drill operator who has been dating Harrys daughter Grace against Harrys wishes. The destruction of Shanghai by a meteorite forces the government to reveal the asteroids existence, the shuttles are launched and arrive at the space station, where its sole cosmonaut Lev Andropov helps with refueling. A major fire breaks out during the process, forcing the crews, including Lev. The shuttles perform the slingshot around the Moon, but approaching the asteroid, the Independences engines are destroyed by trailing debris, Grace, aware A. J. was aboard the Independence, is traumatized by this news, believing he was killed. Lev, and Bear survive the impact and head towards the Freedom target site in their Armadillo, Freedom safely lands on the asteroid, but overshoots the target zone, landing on a much harder metallic field than planned, and their drilling quickly falls behind schedule. Truman delays the military, while Harry convinces the shuttle commander Colonel Willie Sharp to disarm the remote trigger, Harrys crew continues to work, but in their haste, they accidentally hit a gas pocket, blowing their Armadillo into space and losing another man. As the world learns of the apparent failure, another meteorite decimates most of Paris. All seems lost until Independences Armadillo arrives, with A. J. at the controls, they reach the required depth for the bomb. However, flying debris from the damages the triggering device
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Trisha Yearwood
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Patricia Lynn Trisha Yearwood is an American country music singer, author, and actress. She is known for her ballads about vulnerable young women from a perspective that have been described by some music critics as strong. Yearwood is a member of the Grand Ole Opry and was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 2000. Yearwood rose to fame in 1991 with her debut single Shes in Love with the Boy, in 1997, Yearwood recorded the song How Do I Live for the soundtrack of the movie Con Air. It became her signature song, achieving high positions and sales worldwide and she has also recorded successful duets with her husband, country singer Garth Brooks, including In Anothers Eyes, which won the couple a Grammy Award. Aside from her success in music, Yearwood has also ventured into writing, releasing three successful cookbooks, which earned her the status of two-time New York Times best-selling author. Since April 2012, Yearwood has hosted a series on Food Network titled Trishas Southern Kitchen. Yearwood was born in Monticello, Georgia, the daughter of Gwendolyn, a schoolteacher, and Jack Howard Yearwood, as a child, she grew accustomed to listening to country artists Patsy Cline, Kitty Wells, and Hank Williams. In elementary school, Yearwood sang in musicals, choir groups, in high school, Yearwood and her sister Beth were A students, and Yearwood took a strong interest in becoming an accountant. Yearwood was also a member of the National Beta Club, after graduating, she enrolled at Young Harris College, where she received her associate degree and became a member of the Phi Theta Kappa honor society. She then attended the University of Georgia, however, grew unhappy with the large campus. At Belmont, Yearwood majored in the music business program. While in school at Belmont, Yearwood gained an internship with MTM Records and was hired as a full-time employee following her graduation. With the help of the labels resources, she recorded a series of demo tapes. One of the new artists Yearwood recorded with was Garth Brooks in 1989, the pair developed a friendship and Brooks promised to help Yearwood sign a recording contract if his career succeeded. Brooks brought her to his producer, Allen Reynolds, who brought her to Garth Fundis. Fundis and Yearwood soon began working together, and together created a demo tape. In 1990, she sang vocals on Brooks second album, No Fences
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How Do I Live
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How Do I Live is a song written by Diane Warren. Both versions were released on May 27,1997, in the U. S. Rimess version peaked at No.2 for five non-consecutive weeks in late 1997 and early 1998, behind Candle in the Wind 1997 by Elton John, and Truly Madly Deeply by Savage Garden. It set a record for staying on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for 69 weeks and it ranks at No.4 on Billboards All Time Top 100, the only single on the top 10 of this list not peaking at No.1. The only songs that finished ahead of it were Bobby Darins cover of Mack the Knife, Santanas song Smooth, and Chubby Checkers version of The Twist. Despite only peaking as high as No.7 in the UK Singles Chart, Rimes version of How Do I Live spent 34 weeks on the chart, as of August 2014, the song has sold 710,000 copies in the UK. How Do I Live was also covered by F. I. R, invited Rimes to record a portion of the song for their third album Flight Tribe in 2006. The song was intended for release as a single for the 1997 action blockbuster Con Air soundtrack. According to LeAnn Rimes, Warren wrote the song with her in mind, Trisha Yearwood was ultimately chosen to re-record the song, utilizing a more throaty, country-western vibe. Yearwoods version was released on May 27,1997 to country radio, according to Yearwood, she had no idea of Rimes recording prior to being approached by Touchstone Pictures to do the song. When Wilbur Rimes heard of the release, her version was released to mainstream pop radio. Neither Rimes nor Yearwoods version of the song was included on the album for the film. Billboard Hot 100 on the week ending June 14,1997, Rimes version was noted for its extreme longevity, spending a record-breaking 69 weeks on the chart and 32 weeks on the top ten alone, also a record. The track spent 25 of those in the top five, yet another record, despite not peaking at number one, the Rimes version spent five weeks at number two, ten weeks at number three and seven weeks at number four, all non-consecutive. It also spent 62 weeks in the U. S, Top 40 and 30 weeks on the UK Top 40 singles chart. Trisha Yearwoods version was moving quickly up the charts, getting as high as number 23, the limited press run of 300,000 sold out, and the single was off the Hot 100 after 12 weeks. Yearwoods single on the charts quickly climbed all the way to number 2. Rimes single was the top selling single of all time. Rimes version ranked at number 4 on Billboards All Time Top 100 in 2008, when the All Time chart was retabulated for the charts 55th anniversary in 2013, it remained in the same position, being the most successful single by a female artist in the list
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Con Air
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Con Air is a 1997 American action film directed by Simon West, written by Scott Rosenberg, and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, producer of The Rock. The film stars Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, and John Malkovich alongside Steve Buscemi, Colm Meaney, Mykelti Williamson, Ving Rhames, Nick Chinlund, Jesse Borrego, Jose Zuniga, and Monica Potter. It was released theatrically on June 6,1997 by Touchstone Pictures and was a box office success, despite this, the film received mixed reviews from critics but praising Cage and the cast performances as well as its action sequences, stunts and the villain portrayed by Malkovich. The film also borrows its title from the nickname of the Justice Prisoner, honorably discharged Army Ranger Cameron Poe is given a ten-year prison sentence on charges for murdering & for using excessive force on a drunk man who attempted to attack his pregnant wife Tricia. Finally Poe is paroled eight years later, and is to be released after being flown to Alabama on the Jailbird, along with Poe are several other prisoners including his diabetic cellmate and friend Mike Baby-O ODell, who is being transferred with Poe. The transfer is being overseen by U. S. Larkin agrees, as the Jailbird takes off, another prisoner Joe Pinball Parker incites a riot, allowing him to set free Diamond Dog and Grissom. Grissom quickly rushes to the cockpit, killing the first officer, Grissom then announces the prisoners takeover of the Jailbird and takes the prison guards hostage. Sims attempts to control the only to be killed by Grissom. Pinball takes the aircrafts transponder and plants it on a sightseeing aircraft. Once noticing the cars headed their way, the Jailbird immediately takes off. Malloy berates Larkin for assigning incompetent guards to the transport aircraft, on the Jailbird, Grissom reveals that they will be landing at Lerner Airfield, a former air base where Cindino has arranged passage for them all to a non-extradition country. Poe finds Pinballs body stuck in the gear, the convict not having made it back in time. The body lands in the middle of Fresno, California, and Larkin is alerted, Billy Bedlam discovers Poes true identity after going through his personal possessions, identifying him as a parolee and former Ranger, and Poe is forced to kill Bedlam when he charges at Poe. At Lerner, the aircraft overruns the runway and grounds itself. There is no sign of Cindinos aircraft and Grissom orders the prisoners to start to dig out the plane. Poe uses the time to locate insulin shots for Baby-O, the two quickly brief each other on the situation as Poe has to return before suspicion is raised. Larkin encounters Cindino with his agents preparing a small jet for departure and is able to sabotage it on takeoff, Grissom realizes Cindinos deception on planning on leaving the prisoners behind and kills him by burning him with the aircraft as it explodes. Meanwhile, Johnny 23, assigned to watch for trouble, spots the approaching National Guard, the prisoners equip themselves with assault rifles in the aircraft that were originally intended for corrections officers and prepare to massacre the troops in an aircraft graveyard
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Tony Bennett
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Anthony Dominick Benedetto, known professionally as Tony Bennett, is an American singer of traditional pop standards, big band, show tunes, and jazz. He is also a painter, having created works under the name Anthony Benedetto that are on permanent public display in several institutions and he is the founder of the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Astoria, Queens, New York. Born and raised in Astoria to an Italian-American family, Bennett began singing at an early age and he fought in the final stages of World War II as a U. S. Army infantryman in the European Theater. Afterward, he developed his technique, signed with Columbia Records and had his first number-one popular song with Because of You in 1951. Several top hits such as Rags to Riches followed in the early 1950s and he then refined his approach to encompass jazz singing. He reached a peak in the late 1950s with albums such as The Beat of My Heart and Basie Swings. In 1962, Bennett recorded his song, I Left My Heart in San Francisco. His career and his personal life experienced a downturn during the height of the rock music era. Bennett staged a comeback in the late 1980s and 1990s, putting out gold record albums again and he has won 19 Grammy Awards and two Emmy Awards, and was named an NEA Jazz Master and a Kennedy Center Honoree. He has sold over 50 million records worldwide, Anthony Dominick Benedetto was born on August 3,1926, in Astoria, Queens, New York, to grocer John Benedetto and seamstress Anna Suraci. In 1906, John had emigrated from Podàrgoni, an eastern district of the southern Italian city of Reggio Calabria. Anna had been born in the U. S. shortly after her parents emigrated from the Calabria region in 1899. Other relatives came over as well as part of the migration of Italians to America. Tony grew up with a sister, Mary, and an older brother. With a father who was ailing and unable to work, the children grew up in poverty, John Sr. instilled in his son a love of art and literature and a compassion for human suffering, but died when Tony was 10 years old. The experience of growing up in the Great Depression and a distaste for the effects of the Hoover Administration would make the child a lifelong Democrat. Young Tony grew up listening to Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor, Judy Garland, and Bing Crosby as well as artists such as Louis Armstrong, Jack Teagarden. His Uncle Dick was a tap dancer in vaudeville, giving him a window into show business
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That's Life! (film)
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Thats Life. is a 1986 American comedy-drama film starring Jack Lemmon and Julie Andrews, directed by Blake Edwards. The film was made independently by Edwards using largely his own finances and was distributed by Columbia Pictures, although Columbia released the film, Artisan Entertainment holds the rights to distribute it on DVD. Thats Life. was shot in Edwards and his wife Andrews own beachside home in Malibu and features their family in small roles, lemmons son Chris Lemmon plays his characters son Josh, while his wife Felicia Farr puts in a brief cameo appearance as a fortune teller. As a result, the director of photography, Harry Stradling Jr. was forced to quit the film and was subsequently replaced by Anthony Richmond. Harvey Fairchild is a wealthy, Malibu-based architect who is turning 60 and he feels aches and pains, real or imaginary, and seems unhappy with his professional and personal life. Harveys patient wife Gillian tries to him with family get-togethers. But she secretly has worries of her own, a condition that could result in the loss of her voice. Whining his way through day after day, Harvey snaps at his pregnant daughter Megan and he tries going to a priest, only to discover that the man to whom he is confessing is an old rival from their college years at Notre Dame. He also consults a psychic, Madame Carrie, sex with whom leaves Harvey with a venereal disease. The miserable Harvey is furious with a client named Janice Kern who cant stop revising her plans for a magnificent house Harvey has been building, but he has meaningless sex with her as well. Gillian bravely hides her cancer fear from the family, but finally, overcome with emotion, she confides in her friend and neighbor, Harvey threatens to spoil the birthday party for everybody. He is in such a mood that just because a friend named Belmont tells him a depressing story about an illness. Gillian warns her husband that he is going to lose everything if he continues to behave this way, during his party, Gillians doctor arrives to inform her that the biopsy test results are negative and she is going to be all right. She takes Harvey aside to let him know just how precious life really can be
