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San Diego Comic-Con
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San Diego Comic-Con International is a multi-genre entertainment and comic convention held annually in San Diego, California. The name, as given on its website, is Comic-Con International, San Diego and it is a four-day event held during the summer at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego. On the Wednesday evening prior to the opening of the event, there is a preview for professionals, exhibitors. Comic-Con International also produces two other conventions, WonderCon, held in Los Angeles, and the Alternative Press Expo and it is also the home of the Will Eisner Awards. In 2010, it filled the San Diego Convention Center to capacity with more than 130,000 attendees, the convention was founded in 1970 by Shel Dorf, Richard Alf, Ken Krueger, Mike Towry, Barry Alfonso, Bob Sourk, and Greg Bear. Detroit, Michigan-born, comics fan Shel Dorf, had, in the mid-1960s, mounted the Detroit Triple-Fan Fairs, one of the first commercial comics-fan conventions. When he moved to San Diego, California, in 1970, he organized a convention on March 21,1970. Dorf went on to be associated with the convention as president or manager, variously, Alf co-chaired the first convention with Krueger and became chairman in 1971. Following the initial gathering, Dorfs first three-day San Diego comics convention, other locations in the conventions early years included the El Cortez Hotel, the University of California, San Diego, and Golden Hall, before being moved to the San Diego Convention Center in 1991. I was quietly walking the floor stunned and in awe of just how much bigger it really was, the convention is organized by a panel of 13 board members,16 to 20 full-time and part-time workers, and 80 volunteers who assist via committees. Comic Con International is an organization, and proceeds of the event go to funding it, as well as the Alternative Press Expo. The convention logo was designed by Richard Bruning and Josh Beatman in 1995, in September 2010, the convention announced that it would stay in San Diego through 2015. In 2015, working with Lionsgate, a channel was created to host Comic-Con related content. According to the San Diego Convention and Visitors Bureau, the convention has a regional economic impact of $162.8 million. Along with panels, seminars, and workshops with comic book professionals, there are previews of upcoming feature films, like most comic-book conventions, Comic-Con features a large floorspace for exhibitors. These include media companies such as studios and TV networks, as well as comic-book dealers. And like most comics conventions, Comic-Con includes an area, as well as the Artists Alley where comics artists can sign autographs. Despite the name, artists alleys can include writers and even models, academics and comic industry professionals annually hold the Comics Arts Conference at Comic-Con, presenting scholarly studies on comics as a medium
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Cleveland
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Cleveland is a city in the U. S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the states second most populous county. The city proper has a population of 388,072, making Cleveland the 51st largest city in the United States, Greater Cleveland ranked as the 32nd largest metropolitan area in the United States, with 2,055,612 people in 2016. The city is the center of the Cleveland–Akron–Canton Combined Statistical Area, the city is located on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately 60 miles west of the Pennsylvania border. Clevelands economy has diversified sectors that include manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, Cleveland is also home to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Residents of Cleveland are called Clevelanders, Cleveland has many nicknames, the oldest of which in contemporary use being The Forest City. Cleaveland oversaw the plan for what would become the downtown area, centered on Public Square, before returning home. The first settler in Cleaveland was Lorenzo Carter, who built a cabin on the banks of the Cuyahoga River, the Village of Cleaveland was incorporated on December 23,1814. In spite of the swampy lowlands and harsh winters, its waterfront location proved to be an advantage. The area began rapid growth after the 1832 completion of the Ohio, growth continued with added railroad links. Cleveland incorporated as a city in 1836, in 1836, the city, then located only on the eastern banks of the Cuyahoga River, nearly erupted into open warfare with neighboring Ohio City over a bridge connecting the two. Ohio City remained an independent municipality until its annexation by Cleveland in 1854, the citys prime geographic location as a transportation hub on the Great Lakes has played an important role in its development as a commercial center. Cleveland serves as a point for iron ore shipped from Minnesota. In 1870, John D. Rockefeller founded Standard Oil in Cleveland, other manufacturers located in Cleveland produced steam-powered cars, which included White and Gaeth, as well as the electric car company Baker. Because of the significant growth, Cleveland was known as the Sixth City during this period, by 1920, due in large part to the citys economic prosperity, Cleveland became the nations fifth largest city. The city counted Progressive Era politicians such as the populist Mayor Tom L. Johnson among its leaders, many prominent Clevelanders from this era are buried in the historic Lake View Cemetery, including President James A. Garfield, and John D. Rockefeller. In commemoration of the centennial of Clevelands incorporation as a city, conceived as a way to energize a city after the Great Depression, it drew four million visitors in its first season, and seven million by the end of its second and final season in September 1937. The exposition was housed on grounds that are now used by the Great Lakes Science Center, following World War II, the city experienced a prosperous economy. In sports, the Indians won the 1948 World Series, the hockey Barons became champions of the American Hockey League, as a result, along with track and boxing champions produced, Cleveland was dubbed City of Champions in sports at this time
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Los Angeles
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Los Angeles, officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L. A. is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California. With a census-estimated 2015 population of 3,971,883, it is the second-most populous city in the United States, Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated county in the United States. The citys inhabitants are referred to as Angelenos, historically home to the Chumash and Tongva, Los Angeles was claimed by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo for Spain in 1542 along with the rest of what would become Alta California. The city was founded on September 4,1781, by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 following the Mexican War of Independence, in 1848, at the end of the Mexican–American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thereby becoming part of the United States. Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4,1850, the discovery of oil in the 1890s brought rapid growth to the city. The completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, delivering water from Eastern California, nicknamed the City of Angels, Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, and sprawling metropolis. Los Angeles also has an economy in culture, media, fashion, science, sports, technology, education, medicine. A global city, it has been ranked 6th in the Global Cities Index, the city is home to renowned institutions covering a broad range of professional and cultural fields, and is one of the most substantial economic engines within the United States. The Los Angeles combined statistical area has a gross metropolitan product of $831 billion, making it the third-largest in the world, after the Greater Tokyo and New York metropolitan areas. The city has hosted the Summer Olympic Games in 1932 and 1984 and is bidding to host the 2024 Summer Olympics and thus become the second city after London to have hosted the Games three times. The Los Angeles area also hosted the 1994 FIFA mens World Cup final match as well as the 1999 FIFA womens World Cup final match, the mens event was watched on television by over 700 million people worldwide. The Los Angeles coastal area was first settled by the Tongva, a Gabrielino settlement in the area was called iyáangẚ, meaning poison oak place. Gaspar de Portolà and Franciscan missionary Juan Crespí, reached the present site of Los Angeles on August 2,1769, in 1771, Franciscan friar Junípero Serra directed the building of the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, the first mission in the area. The Queen of the Angels is an honorific of the Virgin Mary, two-thirds of the settlers were mestizo or mulatto with a mixture of African, indigenous and European ancestry. The settlement remained a small town for decades, but by 1820. Today, the pueblo is commemorated in the district of Los Angeles Pueblo Plaza and Olvera Street. New Spain achieved its independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, during Mexican rule, Governor Pío Pico made Los Angeles Alta Californias regional capital
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Cuyahoga Community College
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Cuyahoga Community College is a community college in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States, and was founded in 1962. Cable College has offered live through the Cleveland area cable companies since the early 1990s. The institution promotes academic advancement through transfer articulation agreements with colleges and universities. Tri-C is accredited through North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, Cuyahoga Community College operates a multi-campus college district in Northeast Ohio. With Cuyahoga County as its service area, Tri-C serves Cleveland. Tri-C houses its administrative services at a separate location in Cleveland. The College also operates two Corporate College business training facilities, Corporate College East in Warrensville Heights and Corporate College West in Westlake, other locations in downtown Cleveland include the Tri-Cs Workforce and Economic Development Division and the Hospitality Management Center at Public Square. Cuyahoga Community College has the sports activities. A graduate of the CCC Journalism Program
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David Justice
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David Christopher Justice is a former American outfielder and designated hitter in Major League Baseball who played for the Atlanta Braves, Cleveland Indians, New York Yankees, and Oakland Athletics. Justice was born in Cincinnati, the son of Robert and Nettie Justice and he went to Catholic schools, St. Joseph and St. Clement, respectively. He excelled both athletically and in the classroom, skipping the seventh and eighth grades, in high school, Justice was more known for his basketball abilities, becoming the all-time leading scorer in school history, averaging 26.5 points per game in his senior year. He graduated from Covington Latin School in Covington, Kentucky at age 16 in 1982 and he then attended Thomas More College on a basketball scholarship, in Crestview Hills, Kentucky majoring in Criminal Justice, and minoring in psychology. He is a member of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity, Justice made his major league debut in May 1989, playing for the last-place Atlanta Braves. The then 23-year-old right fielder earned the job after Braves fan favorite Dale Murphy was traded to the Philadelphia Phillies. Justice promptly went on a tear during the second half of the 1990 season, finishing with 28 home runs. In 1991, the upstart Braves surged to the top of their division and he finished with 87 runs batted in despite the injury and played in his first World Series. After seeing his production slide slightly in 1992, Justice enjoyed a solid 1993 season and he clubbed 40 home runs and 120 RBIs with 78 walks, finishing third in MVP voting behind Barry Bonds and Lenny Dykstra. Justice was batting.313 with a.427 on-base percentage, when baseball returned in 1995, Justice helped his Braves to the World Series against the Cleveland Indians. He drew attention when he criticized Atlanta fans for the level of support they were providing the team, Justice ended up a hero, however, when his crucial home run in Game 6 provided the only run in a 1–0 game that clinched the championship. In May 1996, a swing and miss in a game against the Pittsburgh Pirates caused a season-ending shoulder separation and it would prove to be Justices last at bat as a Brave, as he was traded during the final week of Spring training the following year. Justice was later traded along with outfielder Marquis Grissom to the Cleveland Indians for outfielder Kenny Lofton, Justice proved right away that he had many good years left. He hit.329 with a.418 OBP and.596 slugging average in 1997, with 33 home runs and he posted solid numbers in 1998 and 1999 with the Cleveland Indians before his big year in 2000. That season, he hit a combined.286 with a.377 OBP and.584 slugging average, and slugged 41 home runs with 118 RBIs. On June 28,2000, Yankees GM Brian Cashman finalized a trade with Indians GM John Hart, sending Jake Westbrook, Zach Day and Ricky Ledée to Cleveland for Justice. The Yankees, who were unable to lure Sammy Sosa or Juan Gonzalez from their respective teams, in return, Justice caught fire down the stretch and won the 2000 AL Championship Series MVP Award en route to his second world championship. As a result of persistent groin injury, Justice saw his production slide considerably in 2001, Mets GM Steve Phillips then sent him to the Oakland Athletics on December 14 for LHP Mark Guthrie and RHP Tyler Yates
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Olivier Martinez
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Olivier Martinez is a French film actor. Martinez was born in Paris, France, to a working-class family and his father was a Spanish professional boxer born in Spanish Morocco and his mother was a French secretary. He studied at the CNSAD and began his career in his native France in 1990. In 1994, Martinez won a César Award as Most Promising Actor for his role in Un, deux, trois, soleil. This was followed by a role in the Jean-Paul Rappeneau period film The Horseman on the Roof in 1995 in which he starred alongside Juliette Binoche as an Italian nobleman. The film was hailed as the most expensive French film at time in history. In 1996/7 he appeared in Bertrand Bliers romantic comedy My Man alongside Anouk Grinberg, Gérard Lanvin, later in 1997 he played a leading role in Bigas Lunas drama The Chambermaid on the Titanic alongside Romane Bohringer, set during the time of the Titanics sinking voyage in 1912. Martinez portrays a French foundry worker who wins a strongman contest, the film was well-received, Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle praised what he felt was a rare honest portrayal of male sexuality by Martinez. Martinez first came to attention in Hollywood films with his performance in Julian Schnabels Before Night Falls opposite Javier Bardem. The screenplay is based on the autobiography of the name of Reinaldo Arenas. The film was critically acclaimed, although Martinezs performance was overshadowed by that of Bardem in the eyes of critics. He was later noted for his performance opposite Diane Lane in Unfaithful and he has since appeared in a television adaptation of The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, S. W. A. T. and Taking Lives. He also starred as Gabriel in the 2007 movie adaptation of Blood and Chocolate, Martinez dated actress Mira Sorvino from 1999 through 2002. He began a relationship with singer Kylie Minogue after meeting her at the 2003 Grammy Awards ceremony and they ended their relationship in February 2007, but remained on friendly terms. Minogue was reported to have been saddened by false accusations of disloyalty and she defended Martinez, and acknowledged the support he had given during her treatment for breast cancer. Martinez began dating American actress Halle Berry in 2010 after meeting on the set of the thriller film Dark Tide. They confirmed their engagement in March 2012, on 22 November 2012, Martinez was treated at a Los Angeles hospital after being injured in a physical altercation with Canadian model Gabriel Aubry, Berrys former partner and father of her daughter. The custody dispute was resolved at the end of November, Berry and Martinez married in a private ceremony in France on 13 July 2013
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Academy Award for Best Actress
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The Academy Award for Best Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It is given in honor of an actress who has delivered a performance in a leading role while working within the film industry. The 1st Academy Awards ceremony was held in 1929 with Janet Gaynor receiving the award for her roles in 7th Heaven, Street Angel, and Sunrise. Currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the branch of AMPAS. In the first three years of the awards, actresses were nominated as the best in their categories, at that time, all of their work during the qualifying period was listed after the award. The following year, this unwieldy and confusing system was replaced by the current system in which an actress is nominated for a performance in a single film. Starting with the 9th ceremony held in 1937, the category was officially limited to five nominations per year, one actress has been nominated posthumously, Jeanne Eagels. Only three film characters have been nominated more than once in this category, elizabeth I of England, Leslie Crosbie in The Letter, and Esther Blodgett in A Star is Born. Six women on the list have received an Honorary Academy Award for their acting, they are Greta Garbo, Barbara Stanwyck, Mary Pickford, Deborah Kerr, Gena Rowlands, since its inception, the award has been given to 74 actresses. Katharine Hepburn has won the most awards in this category, with four Oscars, meryl Streep, who has a total of 20 Oscar nominations, has been nominated in this category on 16 occasions, resulting in two awards. As of the 2017 ceremony, Emma Stone is the most recent winner in category for her role as Mia Dolan in La La Land. In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of release in Los Angeles County. For the first five ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned twelve months from August 1 to July 31, for the 6th ceremony held in 1934, the eligibility period lasted from August 1,1932 to December 31,1933
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Monster's Ball
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The film, originally set to star Vanessa Williams, tells the story of a widowed corrections officer, his adult son, and his bigoted father, all of whom work in the same profession. The main character befriends, and then starts a relationship with, Berry won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her leading performance in this film. Hank Grotowski, a widower, and his son, Sonny, are corrections officers in a prison in Louisiana and they reside with Hanks ailing father, Buck, a bigoted retired corrections officer whose wife committed suicide. He oversees the execution of convicted murderer, Lawrence Musgrove, as explained to Sonny by Hank, at the diner bar the night before, a Monsters Ball is what the execution team calls that nights get-together. The proceedings prove too intense for Sonny, who, as he is leading Lawrence to the chair, vomits. Hank confronts Sonny in the bathroom afterwards and slaps him for being so soft. At home, Hank attacks Sonny in his bed and tells him to get out of the house, Sonny grabs a gun, and threatens his father, who backs off. The confrontation ends in their room with Hank at gunpoint, lying on the carpet. Sonny asks his father if he hates him, after his father calmly confirms that he does, and always has, Sonny responds, Well I always loved you, and then shoots himself in the chest, dying instantly. Hank buries Sonny in the garden with an abbreviated funeral because, as Buck comments. Hank subsequently quits his job, burns his uniform in the backyard, during the years of Lawrences imprisonment, his wife, Leticia, has been struggling while raising their son, Tyrell, who has inherited his fathers artistic talent. She abusively berates the boy regarding his obesity, along with her domestic problems, Leticia struggles financially, leading to the loss of the family car and, worse, an eviction notice on her house. In desperate need of money, Leticia takes a job at a diner which is one frequented by Hank, one rainy night, Leticia and Tyrell are walking down a soaked highway when Tyrell is struck by a car. Hank happens to be driving along and sees Leticia and Tyrell, after some hesitation, he drives Leticia and Tyrell to a hospital, but Tyrell dies upon arrival. At the suggestion of the authorities at the hospital, Hank drives her home, a few days later, Hank gives Leticia a ride home from the diner. They begin talking in the car about their losses. Hank finds out that Leticia is Lawrences widow, though he does not tell her that he participated in her husbands execution and they drown their grief with alcohol and have sex. Leticia stops by Hanks home with a present for him, and she meets Buck, who insults her and implies that Hank is only involved with her because he enjoys sex with black women
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Revlon
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Revlon, Inc. is an American multinational cosmetics, skin care, fragrance, and personal care company founded in 1932 and based in New York City. Revlon was founded in the midst of the Great Depression,1932, by Charles Revson and his brother Joseph along with a chemist, Charles Lachman, who contributed the L in the Revlon name. Starting with a single product — a new type of nail enamel — the three founders pooled their resources and developed a manufacturing process. Using pigments instead of dyes, Revlon developed a variety of new shades of opaque nail enamel, in 1937, Revlon started selling the polishes in department stores and drug stores. In six years, the became a multimillion-dollar organization. By 1940, Revlon offered an entire line, and added lipstick to the collection. During World War II, Revlon created makeup and related products for the U. S. Army, by the end of the war, Revlon was listed as one of Americas top five cosmetic houses. Expanding its capabilities, the company bought Graef & Schmidt, a cutlery manufacturer seized by the government in 1943 because of German business ties and this acquisition made it possible for Revlon to produce its own manicure and pedicure instruments, instead of buying them from outside supply sources. In November 1955, Revlon went public, the IPO price was $12 per share, but it reached $30 per share within 8 weeks. In the 1960s, Revson segmented Revlon Inc into different divisions and he borrowed this strategy from General Motors. Other acquisitions, such as Ty-D-Bol, the maker of toilet cleansers, evan Picone, a womens sportswear manufacturer which came with a price tag of $12 million in 1962, was sold back to one of the original partners four years later for $1 million. However, the 1967 acquisition of U. S, vitamin and Pharmaceutical Corporation made Revlon a leader in diabetes drugs. The company began to market its products overseas at the end of the 1950s, by 1962, when Revlon debuted in Japan, there were subsidiaries in France, Italy, Argentina, Mexico, and Asia. Revlons entrance into the Japanese market was typical of its sales strategy. Instead of adapting its ads and using Japanese models, Revlon chose to use its basic U. S. advertising, Japanese women loved the American look, and the sales for 1962 came to almost $164 million. In 1968, Revlon introduced Eterna27, the first cosmetic cream with a precursor called Progenitin, as well as introducing the worlds first American fashion designer fragrance. Later, Revlon launched Braggi and Pub for men, and a line of wig maintenance products called Wig Wonder, in 1970, Revlon acquired the Mitchum line of deodorants. In 1971 Flex shampoo and conditioner was introduced, geared to the under-30 market, Charlie model Shelley Hack in Ralph Lauren clothes, personified the independent woman of the 1970s
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Miss USA
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The Miss USA is an American beauty pageant that has been held annually since 1952 to select the American entrant in the Miss Universe pageant. The Miss Universe Organization operates both pageants, as well as Miss Teen USA, the pageant was owned by the current President of the United States of America, Donald Trump from 1996 to 2015, and was previously broadcast on NBC. In September 2015, WME/IMG purchased the pageant from Trump, currently, Fox holds the broadcast rights for the pageant. The current Miss USA is Deshauna Barber of the District of Columbia who was crowned on June 5,2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Miss USA pageant was conceived in 1950 when Yolande Betbeze, winner of the rival Miss America pageant, Pageant sponsor Catalina decided to pull their sponsorship off the pageant and create their own competition. Other owners have included a subsidiary of Gulf+Western Industries, ITT Corporation, the first Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants were held concurrently in Long Beach, California in 1952, the first Miss USA winner was Miss New York USA Jackie Loughery. There were thirty delegates in the first year of competition, from the 1970s, each state and the District of Columbia have sent a delegate each year. Alaska first competed in 1959 and Hawaii in 1960, both had competed at Miss Universe until this time. The pageant aired on CBS from 1963 until 2002, and for years was known for having a CBS game show host as pageant host. John Charles Daly hosted the show from 1963–1966, Bob Barker from 1967 until 1987, Alan Thicke in 1988, Dick Clark from 1989 to 1993, the shows highest ratings were in the early 1980s, when it regularly topped the Nielsen ratings. Viewership dropped sharply from the 1990s to the 2000s, from an estimated viewership of 20 million to an average of 7 million from 2000–2001. In 2002, owner Donald Trump brokered a new deal with NBC, giving them half-ownership of the Miss USA, Miss Universe and Miss Teen USA, the pageants were first shown on NBC in 2003. Historically, the winner of the Miss USA title represented the U. S. in its sister pageant Miss Universe, since its inception, eight Miss USA titleholders have gone on to win Miss Universe. In the mid-1960s, the established a rule that when a Miss USA wins the Miss Universe title. This occurred in 1980,1995,1997, and 2012, in 1967, the first runner-up Susan Bradley of California declined the title and the crown went to the second runner-up Cheryl Patton of Florida. The only instance when a first runner-up assumed the title of Miss USA prior to this period was in 1957 and she also gains exclusive access to events such as fashion shows and opening galas, as well as access to casting calls and modeling opportunities throughout New York City. When Donald Trump owned the pageant, the winner was given the use of a Trump Place apartment in New York City during her reign, which she shared with the Miss Universe and Miss Teen USA titleholders. If the winner, for any reason, cannot fulfill her duties as Miss USA, including if she wins the title of Miss Universe, presidential campaign, resulting in both Miss USA and Miss Universe being dropped from their schedules
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Miss World 1986
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Miss World 1986, the 36th edition of the Miss World pageant, was held on 13 November 1986 at the Royal Albert Hall in London, UK. The winner was Giselle Jeanne-Marie Laronde from Trinidad & Tobago and she was crowned by Miss World 1985, Hólmfríður Karlsdóttir of Iceland. Runner-up was Pia Rosenberg Larsen representing Denmark and third was Chantal Schreiber from Austria, the judges for Miss World 1986 awarded the Continental Queens of Beauty winners a few minutes before the final winners were announced. Some of the included, John Lloyd Eric Morley Nick Owen Aruba
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Boomerang (1992 film)
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Boomerang is a 1992 American romantic comedy film directed by Reginald Hudlin. The film stars Eddie Murphy as Marcus Graham, an advertising executive who also happens to be an insatiable womanizer. When he meets his new boss, Jacqueline Broyer, before Marcus discovers that she is essentially a version of himself. The film also features Halle Berry, David Alan Grier, Martin Lawrence, Murphy assisted in developing the story with writers Barry W. Blaustein and David Sheffield, having worked with the writing duo since his days on Saturday Night Live. Murphy hired Hudlin to direct Boomerang, following the success with his debut film House Party. Hudlin and the writers aimed to create a comedy that differed strongly from Murphys previous comic efforts. Filming took place mainly in New York City, while scenes were filmed in Washington. Boomerang was released in the United States on July 1,1992, the film was the 18th highest grossing film in North America that year. Boomerang earned over $131 million worldwide during its theatrical run, the film garnered nominations at the BMI Film & TV Awards and the MTV Movie Awards, while its soundtrack became a top-selling album. Advertisement executive Marcus tells his assistant to send flowers to nine different women, when he enters his office, Nelson, one of the creative minds also in Marcus department, shows Marcus a re-cut of an ad. Marcus tells Nelson he must re-edit the risqué ad, as some of the material may be offensive to women, the next day, Marcus meets Lady Eloise, who will soon be acquiring the company in a business merger. She suggests that Marcus may be promoted and invites him to her home, Marcus realizes she intends to have her way with him, and, thinking of the promotion, spends the night with her. The next day at work, he meets Jacqueline Broyer, a woman who tells Marcus that Lady Eloise is a figurehead who uses her image to her advantage. Marcus realizes that Jacqueline is going to be given the job he wanted, at the merger party, Marcus tells his friends Tyler and Gerard he is considering resigning over not getting the promotion. While there, Jacqueline introduces him to Angela Lewis, who works in the art department, everyone is introduced to Strangé, the wild fashion diva who has been chosen as the new face of Lady Eloise Cosmetics. While looking for Jacqueline, Marcus bumps into Angela, and when he spots Jacqueline, introduces Angela to Gerard so that he can go, though Jacqueline tells him she does not date co-workers, Marcus believes he will be the exception because of her flirtatiousness. Jacqueline tells Marcus they should go over some of their work together, Marcus finds out Angela and Gerard will be going out that night. Later, the two are sent on a trip in New Orleans, and they eventually have sex while there
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Eddie Murphy
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Edward Regan Eddie Murphy is an American comedian, actor, writer, singer, and producer. Murphy was a regular cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1980 to 1984 and he has worked as a stand-up comedian and was ranked #10 on Comedy Centrals list of the 100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time. In films, Murphy has received Golden Globe Award nominations for his performances in 48 Hrs. the Beverly Hills Cop series, Trading Places, and The Nutty Professor. Murphys work as an actor in films includes Thurgood Stubbs in The PJs, Donkey in DreamWorks Shrek series. In some films, he plays multiple roles in addition to his character, intended as a tribute to one of his idols Peter Sellers. He has played roles in Coming to America, Wes Cravens Vampire in Brooklyn, the Nutty Professor films, Bowfinger, The Adventures of Pluto Nash, Norbit. As of 2014, Murphys films have grossed over $3.8 billion in the United States and Canada box office, in 2015, his films made him the 6th-highest grossing actor in the United States. Murphy was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Murphy was born in Brooklyn, New York City, and raised in the boroughs Bushwick neighborhood. His mother, Lillian, was an operator, and his father, Charles Edward Murphy, was a transit police officer. His father died when he was young and my mother and father broke up when I was three, and he died when I was eight, so I have very dim memories… He was a victim of the Murphy charm. I never got all the logistics and it was supposed to be one of those crimes of passion, If I cant have you, no one else will-kind of deal. Someone said to me one day, Thats why you dont trust women, what are you, a fucking psychiatrist. – Eddie Murphy When Murphys single mother became ill, the eight-year-old, in interviews, Murphy has said that his time in foster care was influential in developing his sense of humor. Later, he and his older brother Charlie were raised in Roosevelt, New York by his mother and stepfather Vernon Lynch, around the age of 15, Murphy was writing and performing his own routines, which were heavily influenced by Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor. His early comedy was characterized by frequent swearing and sketches lampooning a diverse group of people, Eddie Murphy was his first album, released in 1982. In Rolling Stones February 2015 appraisal of all 141 SNL cast members to date and it is customary to say that Eddie Murphy is the only reason SNL survived the five-year wilderness without Lorne Michaels, they noted. In 1982, Murphy made his big debut in the film 48 Hrs. with Nick Nolte. 48 Hrs. proved to be a hit when it was released in the Christmas season of 1982, Nolte was scheduled to host the December 11,1982, Christmas episode of Saturday Night Live, but became too ill to host, so Murphy took over
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The Flintstones (film)
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The Flintstones is a 1994 American buddy comedy film directed by Brian Levant and written by Tom S. Parker, Jim Jennewein, and Steven E. de Souza. It is a adaptation of the 1960s animated television series of the same name. The B-52s performed their version of the theme song. Fred Flintstone loans his best friend and neighbor Barney Rubble money so that he and his wife Betty can adopt a child named Bamm-Bamm, who can only pronounce his own name. Although the child is initially difficult to due to being raised by mastodons, as well as having super strength. Barney vows to repay his friend, despite his mother-in-law Pearl Slaghooples objections, Freds wife Wilma remains supportive of his decision. Cliff holds an aptitude test, where the worker with the highest mark will become the new president of the company. Barney gets the highest score but he switches his paper with Fred, Fred receives the promotion, but his first order is to dismiss Barney, since Barney now effectively has the lowest score. Fred accepts, but does his best to help Barney support his family, however, Freds job and newfound wealth put a strain on his relationships with Wilma and the Rubbles. Cliff eventually tricks Fred into dismissing the workers, over the objections of his office Dictabird, later, Barney confronts Fred after seeing worker riots on the news revealing that he switched tests with Fred and the Rubbles move out, despite having nowhere to live. Wilma and Pebbles also move out to her mothers house, leaving Fred behind. Fred goes to the quarry and realizes his mistake and Cliffs plan, a manhunt for Fred ensues by the police and the workers. Wilma and Betty see this on the news, and break into Slate and Co. to get the Dictabird and they are, however, unaware that Cliff saw them from his office window. As Fred attempts to enter a cave where the workers are seeking refuge, they see through his disguise, Barney is almost hanged as well after he admits his part. Fred and Barney reconcile, but before they can be hanged, Wilma and Betty arrive with the Dictabird, the workers release Fred and Barney. Cliff kidnaps Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm and demands the Dictabird in exchange for the safe return. Fred and Barney confront Cliff at the quarry, where Cliff has tied Pebbles, though they hand him the Dictabird, Cliff activates the machine to stall them. Barney rescues the children while Fred destroys the machine, the Dictabird escapes from Cliff and lures him back to the quarry, where Miss Stone knocks him out, having had a change of heart after learning that Cliff was planning to betray her
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Bulworth
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Bulworth is a 1998 American political comedy film co-written, co-produced, directed by, and starring Warren Beatty. It co-stars Halle Berry, Oliver Platt, Don Cheadle, Paul Sorvino, Jack Warden, the film follows the title character, California Senator Jay Billington Bulworth, as he runs for re-election while trying to avoid a hired assassin. Senator Jay Bulworth of California is losing his bid for re-election to a fiery young populist, Bulworths socialist views, formed in the 1960s and 1970s, have lost favor with voters, so he has conceded to more conservative politics and to accepting donations from big corporations. In addition, though he and his wife have been having affairs with each others knowledge for years, knowing that a suicide will void his daughters inheritance, he contracts to have himself assassinated within two days. Turning up in California for his campaign extremely drunk, Bulworth freely begins speaking his mind at public events, after dancing all night in an underground club and smoking marijuana, he even starts rapping in public. His frank, potentially offensive remarks make him an instant media darling, along the way he becomes romantically involved with a young black activist named Nina, who tags along with him on his campaign stops. He is pursued by the paparazzi, his company, his campaign managers. While there he wanders around the neighborhood, where he witnesses a group of kids selling crack, after saving the group from a racially motivated encounter with a police officer, he finds out they are soldiers of L. D. A local drug kingpin to whom Ninas brother owes money, eventually he offers the solution that everybody should fuck everybody until everyone is all the same color stunning the audience and his interviewer. After Bulworths TV appearance he escapes with Nina and goes with her back to her house where she reveals that she is the assassin he indirectly hired, relieved, Bulworth falls asleep for the first time in days in Ninas arms. Bulworth sleeps deeply for over 36 hours, during which time the media is abuzz about his mysterious absence on election day, during this time, various people are shown reacting to the TV coverage and the impact Bulworths escapade is making on the political/social conversation in the country. Bulworth wins the election by a landslide. The next morning the press and Bulworths campaign managers converge on Ninas house, L. D. also comes to Ninas house and, having had a change of heart, says he will let Ninas brother work off his debt instead of hurting or killing him. Bulworth emerges from the bedroom looking rested and, as he steps outside, he invites Nina to go with him, she joins him. Bulworth and Nina embrace and begin to kiss as people cheer, the final scene shows an elderly vagrant, whom Bulworth met previously, standing alone outside a hospital. He exhorts Bulworth, who is presumably inside, to not be a ghost but a spirit which, as he had mentioned earlier, in the final shot of the film, he asks the same of the audience. Warren Beatty as Senator Jay Billington Bulworth Halle Berry as Nina Oliver Platt as Dennis Murphy Don Cheadle as L. D, the film generated a great deal of controversy and received a positive reception from film critics. It currently holds a 75% approval score at Rotten Tomatoes based on 65 reviews, the sites consensus states, Star and director Beattys ambitious take on race and politics in 20th-century America isnt perfect, but manages to provide more than its share of thought-provoking laughs
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Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
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Introducing Dorothy Dandridge is a television film directed by Martha Coolidge. Filmed over a span of a few weeks in early 1998, the teleplay is drawn exclusively from the biography of Dorothy Dandridge by Earl Mills. The original music score was composed by Elmer Bernstein, who had known Dandridge, the film is marketed with the tagline, Right woman
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Storm (Marvel Comics)
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Storm is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, commonly associated with the X-Men. The character first appeared in Giant-Size X-Men #1, and was created by writer Len Wein and artist Dave Cockrum. The daughter of a princess from Kenya, but raised in Harlem and Cairo, Storm is a member of a fictional subspecies of humanity known as mutants. Storm has the ability to control the weather and can fly and she is a member of the X-Men, a group of mutant heroes who fight for peace and equality between mutants and humans. Possessing natural leadership skills and some of the most formidable powers in her team, Storm has led the X-Men from time to time, and has also been a member of the Avengers and the Fantastic Four. As an adult, Storm married her fellow superhero Black Panther, and was by marriage made queen consort of the African nation of Wakanda, the character is one of the most prominent X-Men, having appeared in many X-Men incarnations. Storm appears in five installments of the live-action X-Men film series, Storm first appeared in 1975 in the comic book Giant-Size X-Men #1, written by Len Wein and pencilled by Dave Cockrum. In this comic, Wein uses a battle against the living island Krakoa to replace the first-generation X-Men of the 1960s with new X-Men, Storm was an amalgam of two characters Cockrum created, The Black Cat and Typhoon. The Black Cat had Storms costume, minus the cape, and was submitted for the new X-Mens original lineup, however, during a hiatus in the new X-Men project, other female cat characters like Tigra were introduced, making the Black Cat redundant. Cockrum liked the idea, and outfitted Typhoon with The Black Cats costume, a cape, in both arcs, Storm is written as a major supporting character. Claremont stayed the main writer of X-Men for the next 16 years, in Uncanny X-Men #102, Claremont established Storms backstory. Storms mother, NDare, was the princess of a tribe in Kenya and descended from a line of African witch-priestesses with white hair, blue eyes. NDare falls in love with and marries American photojournalist David Munroe and they move to Harlem in uptown New York City, where Ororo is born. They later moved to Egypt and lived there until they die during the Suez Crisis in an aircraft attack. Her violent claustrophobia is established as a result of being buried under tons of rubble after that attack and she becomes a skilled thief in Cairo under the benign Achmed el-Gibar and wanders into the Serengeti as a young woman. She is worshipped as a goddess when her powers appear before being recruited by Professor X for the X-Men, Claremont further fleshed out Storm’s backstory in Uncanny X-Men #117. He retroactively added that Professor X, who recruits her in Giant Size X-Men #1 of 1975, had met her as a child in Cairo. As Ororo grows up on the streets and becomes a proficient thief under the tutelage of master thief Achmed el-Gibar and he is able to use his mental powers to temporarily prevent her escape and recognizes the potential in her
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X-Men (film)
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X-Men is a 2000 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name, distributed by 20th Century Fox. It is the first installment in the X-Men film series, followed by X2 in 2003 and X-Men and it depicts a world in which a small proportion of people are mutants, whose possession of superhuman powers makes them distrusted by normal humans. Development for X-Men began as far back as 1984 with Orion Pictures, at one point James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow were in discussions. The film rights went to 20th Century Fox in 1994 and various scripts and film treatments were commissioned from Andrew Kevin Walker, John Logan, Joss Whedon, and Michael Chabon. Singer signed to direct in 1996, with rewrites by Ed Solomon, Singer, Tom DeSanto, Christopher McQuarrie and Hayter in which Beast. X-Men marks the Hollywood debut of actor Hugh Jackman, who was a choice for Wolverine. Filming took place from September 22,1999 to March 3,2000, X-Men was released to positive reviews and was a financial success, starting the X-Men film franchise and spawning a reemergence of superhero films. In 1944 German-occupied Poland, young Erik Lehnsherr is separated from his parents upon entering a concentration camp, while trying to reach them, he causes a set of metal gates to bend towards him before being knocked out by guards. Senator Robert Kelly attempts to pass a Mutant Registration Act in Congress, present are the mutants Lehnsherr and the telepathic Professor Charles Xavier. Seeing Lehnsherr in attendance, Xavier becomes concerned with how he will respond to the Registration Act, in Meridian, Mississippi, 17-year-old Marie DAncanto accidentally puts her boyfriend into a coma upon kissing him, her mutant ability to absorb the powers and life force of others manifesting. She runs away home and adopts the name Rogue. In Alberta she meets a mutant named Logan, also known as Wolverine, while on the road together, they are attacked by a mutant named Sabretooth, and mutants Cyclops and Storm arrive and save them. Wolverine and Rogue are brought to Xaviers mansion and school for mutants in Westchester County, Xavier tells Logan that Lehnsherr, also known as Magneto, has taken an interest in Wolverine, and he asks him to stay while Xaviers mutants, the X-Men, investigate why. Rogue meanwhile enrolls in the school, Senator Kelly is abducted by Magnetos allies Toad and the shapeshifter Mystique. Magneto uses Kelly as a test subject for a machine powered by his abilities that regenerates a field of radiation. When Rogue uses her power on Wolverine in view of her classmates, she is convinced by Mystique that Xavier is angry with her, Xavier uses his mutant-locating machine Cerebro to find Rogue at a train station, and the X-Men go to retrieve her. Meanwhile Mystique enters Cerebro and sabotages it, at the train station, Magneto reveals he does not want Wolverine but Rogue, whom he abducts. Kelly arrives at Xaviers school and Xavier reads his mind to learn about Magnetos machine, realizing the strain of powering it nearly killed Magneto, the group deduces he intends to transfer his powers to Rogue and use her to power it at the cost of her life
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Swordfish (film)
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Swordfish is a 2001 American action crime thriller film directed by Dominic Sena and starring John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Don Cheadle and Vinnie Jones. The film centers on Stanley Jobson, an ex-con and computer hacker who is targeted for recruitment into a bank robbery conspiracy because of his hacking skills. The film was a box office success and was negatively received by critics upon release. Stanley Jobson is a skilled computer hacker. Having served time for infecting the FBIs Carnivore program with a virus, he is now on parole. One day, he is solicited by Ginger Knowles, speaking for her boss Gabriel Shear and he goes to meet Gabriel in Los Angeles, where he is put on the spot to crack a secure government server within a minute while simultaneously held at gunpoint and receiving fellatio. When he succeeds, Gabriel offers Stanley $10 million to program a multi-headed worm, Stanley begins work, learning that Gabriel leads Black Cell, a secret group created by J. Edgar Hoover to launch retaliatory attacks against terrorists that threaten the United States. He also privately discovers Ginger is a DEA agent working undercover and he goes to see Holly home from school but finds he is being followed by FBI agent J. T. Roberts, who had previously caught Stanley. Stanley opts to secretly code a back door in his hydra that reverses the money transfer after a short period, meanwhile, Senator Reisman, who oversees Black Cell, learns the FBI has started tracking Gabriel and orders him to stand down. Gabriel refuses, and narrowly avoids an assassination ordered by Reisman. Gabriel personally kills Reisman in revenge and continues his plan, Stanley delivers the hydra to Gabriel and leaves to see Holly, only to find that Gabriel has killed Melissa and her husband and kidnapped Holly, framing Stanley. Stanley has no choice but to participate in the bank heist to get Holly back, Gabriel and his men storm a Worldbanc branch, and secure its employees and customers as hostages, fitting each with ball-bearing-based explosives similar to Claymore mines. Once back in the bank, Gabriel has one of his men escort a hostage to demonstrate the situation, Gabriel instructs Stanley to launch the hydra, and turns Holly over to him once completed. However, Stanleys back door triggers before they can leave the bank, Gabriel threatens to kill Ginger, who he knows is a DEA agent, unless Stanley re-siphons the money back to a Monte Carlo bank. Despite doing so, Gabriel shoots Ginger, Gabriel deactivates the bombs and departs with his surviving men on a waiting helicopter, which Stanley shoots down using a rocket-propelled grenade from the bus. Roberts takes Stanley to verify the corpse they found, believing Gabriel was a Mossad agent while there was no record of a DEA agent named Ginger, Stanley recognizes the corpse as the one he discovered earlier and personally realizes that the whole scenario was misdirection. Gabriel had escaped a different route, and Ginger had been wearing a bulletproof vest and was working with Gabriel, Roberts arranges for Stanley to have full custody of Holly, and the two tour the US together. In Monte Carlo, Gabriel and Ginger withdraw the money, over the films credits, a news report describes the destruction of the yacht, carrying a known terrorist, as the third such incident in as many weeks
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Die Another Day
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Die Another Day is the twentieth spy film in the James Bond series, and the fourth and final film to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film follows Bond as he leads a mission to North Korea, during which he is betrayed and, fourteen months later, Bond is released as part of a prisoner exchange. Die Another Day, produced by Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, the series began in 1962 with Sean Connery starring as Bond in Dr. No. Die Another Day includes references to each of the preceding films, some critics praised the work of Lee Tamahori, while others criticised the films heavy use of computer-generated imagery, which they found unconvincing and a distraction from the films plot. Nevertheless, Die Another Day was the highest-grossing James Bond film up to time if inflation is not taken into account. MI6 officer James Bond—agent 007—infiltrates a North Korean military base, where Colonel Tan-Sun Moon is illegally trading weapons for African blood diamonds. After Moons assistant Zao discovers that Bond is a British agent, Moon attempts to kill Bond and a chase ensues. Bond survives, but is captured by North Korean soldiers and imprisoned by the Colonels father, after 14 months of captivity and torture, Bond is traded for Zao in a prisoner exchange. He is sedated and taken to meet M, who informs him that his status as a 00 Agent is suspended under suspicion of having leaked information under duress. Bond is convinced that he has set up by a double agent in the British government. After escaping from the custody of MI6, he discovers that he is in Hong Kong, in Havana Bond meets NSA agent Giacinta Jinx Johnson, with whom he is intimate. Later, Bond follows her to a gene therapy clinic, where patients can have their appearances altered through DNA restructuring, Bond locates Zao inside the clinic and attempts to kill him, but Zao escapes. He leaves behind a pendant which leads Bond to a cache of diamonds, identified as conflict diamonds, at Blades Club in London Bond meets Graves, along with his assistant Miranda Frost, who is also an undercover MI6 agent. After a fencing exercise, Bond is invited by Graves to Iceland for a scientific demonstration, shortly afterwards, M restores Bonds Double-0 status and offers assistance in the investigation. At his ice palace in Iceland Graves unveils a new orbital mirror satellite, Icarus, during the night, Jinx infiltrates Graves command centre, but is captured by Graves and Zao. Bond rescues her and later discovers that Colonel Moon is still alive, Moon has used the gene therapy technology to change his appearance, assuming the identity of Gustav Graves. Bond confronts Graves, but Frost arrives to reveal herself as the traitor who betrayed Bond in North Korea, Bond then returns in his Aston Martin Vanquish to rescue Jinx, who has been captured once again. Zao pursues him in his own vehicle, both cars driving inside the rapidly melting ice palace, Bond kills Zao by shooting an ice chandelier onto him, and then revives Jinx after she has drowned
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Bond girl
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A Bond girl is a character who is a love interest and/or female sidekick of James Bond in a novel, film, or video game. There is no set rule on what kind of person a Bond girl will be or what role she will play and she may be an ally or an enemy of Bond, pivotal to the mission or simply eye candy. However, it has argued that Ms pivotal role in the plot of Skyfall qualifies her as a Bond girl or Bond woman. Nearly all of Ian Flemings Bond novels and short stories include one or more characters who can be said to qualify as Bond girls. While Flemings Bond girls have some traits, they also have a great many characteristics in common. One of these is age, The typical Bond girl is in her early to mid-twenties, roughly ten years younger than Bond, examples include Solitaire, Tatiana Romanova, Vivienne Viv Michel, and Kissy Suzuki. The youngest Bond girl may be Gala Brand, she is named for the cruiser in which her father is serving at the time of her birth, Bonds youngest sexual partner in the books is Mariko Ichiban, an 18-year-old masseuse in You Only Live Twice. The eldest Bond girls are Pussy Galore, whom Bond speculates is in her early 30s, Bond girls conform to a fairly well-defined standard of beauty. They possess splendid figures and tend to dress in a masculine, assertive fashion, wear little jewellery—and that in a masculine cut—wide leather belts. Nearly all of them are white, they often sport light though noticeable suntans and their hair may be any colour, though they typically wear it in a natural or casual cut that falls heavily to their shoulders. Their features, especially their eyes and mouths, are widely spaced. Even Domino, however, wears rather masculine jewellery, the best-known characteristic of Bond girls apart from their uniform beauty is their pattern of sexually suggestive names, such as Pussy Galore. Names with less obvious meanings are sometimes explained in the novels, Flemings penchant for double-entendre names began with the first Bond novel Casino Royale. Several Bond girls, however, have normal names, most Bond girls are apparently sexually experienced by the time they meet Bond. Tiffany Case was gang-raped as a teenager, Honey Ryder, too, was beaten, Pussy Galore was sexually abused at age 12 by her uncle. While there is no such clear-cut trauma in Solitaires early life, there are suggestions that she, too, avoids men because of their unwanted sexual advances in her past. Kissy Suzuki reports to Bond that during her career in Hollywood, when she was 17, They thought that because I am Japanese I am some sort of an animal. The cliché reaches its most extreme level in Goldfinger, in this novel Pussy Galore is portrayed as a practising lesbian when she first meets Bond, but at the end of the novel she sleeps with him
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X2 (film)
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X2 is a 2003 American superhero film, based on the X-Men superhero team appearing in Marvel Comics, distributed by 20th Century Fox. It is the sequel to 2000s X-Men and the installment in the X-Men film series. The plot, inspired by the graphic novel God Loves, Man Kills, pits the X-Men and their enemies, the Brotherhood, against the genocidal Colonel William Stryker. He leads an assault on Professor Xaviers school to build his own version of Xaviers mutant-tracking computer Cerebro, in order to destroy every mutant on Earth and to save the human race from them. David Hayter and Zak Penn wrote separate scripts, combining what they felt to be the best elements of both scripts into one screenplay, Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris were eventually hired to rewrite the work, and changed the characterizations of Beast, Angel, and Lady Deathstrike. Sentinels and the Danger Room were set to appear before being deleted because of budget concerns, the films premise was influenced by the Marvel Comics storylines Return to Weapon X and God Loves, Man Kills. Filming began in June 2002 and ended that November, most of the filming took place at Vancouver Film Studios, the largest North American production facility outside of Los Angeles. Production designer Guy Hendrix Dyas adapted similar designs by John Myhre from the previous film, X2 was released in the United States on May 2,2003. It received positive reviews critics, who mostly praised the storyline, action sequences and acting of the film. With its critical success, it grossed over approximately $407 million, at the White House, brainwashed teleporting mutant Nightcrawler attempts to assassinate the President of the United States but fails and escapes. Meanwhile, Wolverine explores an abandoned military installation at Alkali Lake in Alberta for clues to his past and he returns to Professor Xaviers school for mutants, and Xavier tracks Nightcrawler using Cerebro. Xavier and Cyclops go to question the imprisoned Magneto about the attack, while X-Men Storm, meanwhile, military scientist Colonel William Stryker approaches the president and receives approval to investigate Xaviers mansion for their ties to mutants. Strykers forces invade the school and abduct most of the students, with only Wolverine, Rogue, Iceman, and Pyro escaping, during the attack Wolverine confronts Stryker, who knows him by name. The shape-shifting Mystique gains information about Magnetos prison and helps him escape while also discovering schematics for a second Cerebro, Wolverine, Rogue, Iceman, and Pyro visit Icemans parents in Boston and meet up with Storm, Jean, and Nightcrawler. The X-Jet is attacked by fighter jets en route back to the mansion and is shot down, Magneto explains to the group that Stryker has built the second Cerebro to use it, and Xavier, to telepathically kill every mutant on the planet. Strykers son, Jason, is a mutant with mind-controlling powers, Stryker had also previously used Jasons powers to orchestrate Nightcrawlers attack as a pretense to gain approval to invade Xaviers mansion. Magneto also tells Wolverine that Stryker was the man who grafted his adamantium skeleton onto his bones, Jean reads Nightcrawlers mind and determines that Strykers base is underground in a dam at Alkali Lake. The mutants infiltrate Strykers base and Magneto and Mystique go to disable Cerebro before the brainwashed Xavier can activate it, Storm and Nightcrawler rescue the captured students, and Jean fights a mind-controlled Cyclops, their battle frees Cyclops but damages the dam, which begins to rupture
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X-Men: The Last Stand
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X-Men, The Last Stand is a 2006 superhero film, based on the X-Men superhero team introduced in Marvel Comics. The film, distributed by 20th Century Fox, is the sequel to 2003s X2 and the third installment in the X-Men film series. Bryan Singer, who had directed the two films, X-Men and X2, decided to leave to work on Superman Returns. Matthew Vaughn, who was hired as the new director, left due to personal and professional issues. Filming took place from August 2005 to January 2006 with a budget of $210 million and it had extensive visual effects created by 11 different companies. X-Men, The Last Stand was released on May 26,2006, critical reception was mixed, with the acting and the action scenes receiving positive notice, and criticism directed at the screenplay, and overuse of characters and style. Twenty years in the past, Professor Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr meet young Jean Grey at her parents house to invite her to join their school, the X-Mansion. Ten years later, the industrialist father of Warren Worthington III discovers his son is a mutant as Warren tries to cut off his wings. In the present, Worthington Labs announces it has developed an inoculation to suppress the X-gene that gives mutants their abilities, the cure is created from the genome of a young mutant named Jimmy, who lives at the Worthington facility on Alcatraz Island. While some mutants are interested in the cure, including the X-Mens Rogue, Lehnsherr re-establishes his Brotherhood of Mutants with those who oppose the cure, warning his followers that the cure will be forcefully used to exterminate the mutant race. With help from Pyro, Lehnsherr recruits Callisto, and several other mutants and they attack the mobile prison holding Mystique to free her, also freeing Juggernaut and Multiple Man. Mystique saves Lehnsherr by taking a shot of the mutant cure aimed at him, hateful of humans, Lehnsherr abandons Mystique, much to her shock. Meanwhile, Scott Summers, still distraught over the loss of his fiancée, Jean Grey, Jean appears to Summers but, as the two kiss, Jean kills him. Sensing trouble, Xavier sends Logan and Storm to investigate, when they arrive, they find only telekinetically floating rocks, Summers glasses, and an unconscious Jean. Logan is disgusted to learn of this psychic tampering with Jeans mind but, once she awakens, the Phoenix emerges, knocks out Logan, and escapes to her childhood home. Lehnsherr learns of Jeans resurrection through Callisto, and the X-Men arrive at the Grey home at the time as the Brotherhood. Lehnsherr and Xavier go in alone, and both vie for Jeans loyalty until the Phoenix resurfaces and she destroys the house and disintegrates Xavier before leaving with Lehnsherr. During the fight, Kitty Pryde saves Jimmy from Juggernaut, who had sent to kill him
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Cloud Atlas (film)
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Cloud Atlas is a 2012 German-American science fiction film written and directed by The Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer. Adapted from the 2004 novel of the name by David Mitchell, the film has multiple plots set across six different eras. Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, and Jim Broadbent lead an ensemble cast, the film was produced by Grant Hill, Stefan Arndt, the Wachowskis, and Tykwer. Production began in September 2011 at Studio Babelsberg in Potsdam-Babelsberg, Germany and it premiered on 8 September 2012 at the 37th Toronto International Film Festival and was released on 26 October 2012 in conventional and IMAX cinemas. It polarized critics, and has been included on various Best Film and it was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score for Tykwer, Johnny Klimek, and Reinhold Heil. It received several nominations at the Saturn Awards including Best Science Fiction Film, winning for Best Editing, tribesman Zachry Bailey recounts stories to his grandchildren on an extraterrestrial Earth colony. Adam Ewing, an American lawyer, has come to the Chatham Islands to conclude a business arrangement with Reverend Horrox, in Horroxs plantation, he witnesses the whipping of a Moriori slave, Autua, who later stows away on the ship. Autua confronts Ewing and convinces him to advocate for Autua to join the crew as a free man, Dr Henry Goose slowly poisons Ewing, claiming it is the cure for a parasitic worm, to steal Ewings valuables. As Goose administers the fatal dose, Autua saves Ewing, returning to the United States, Ewing and his wife Tilda denounce her fathers complicity in slavery and leave to join the abolition movement. Frobisher begins reading Ewings journal, which he has found with the latter portion missing, among the books at Ayrss mansion, Ayrs demands credit for The Cloud Atlas Sextet and threatens to expose Frobishers homosexuality if he refuses. Frobisher shoots Ayrs and flees to a hotel, where he uses the name Ewing and he finishes The Cloud Atlas Sextet and commits suicide with a gun just before his lover Rufus Sixsmith arrives. Journalist Luisa Rey meets an older Rufus Sixsmith, now a nuclear physicist. Sixsmith tips off Rey to a conspiracy regarding the safety of a new nuclear reactor run by Lloyd Hooks, Rey finds Frobishers letters to Sixsmith and tracks down a vinyl recording of Frobishers Cloud Atlas Sextet. Isaac Sachs, another scientist at the plant, passes her a copy of Sixsmiths report. Smoke kills Sachs by blowing up his plane and runs Reys car off a bridge and she escapes but the report is destroyed. With help from the head of security, Joe Napier, Rey evades another attempt on her life. With another copy of the report obtained from Sixsmiths niece, she exposes the plot to use a nuclear accident for the benefit of oil company executives, who are indicted as a result. When Hogginss brothers threaten Cavendishs life for Hogginss share of the profits, Cavendish asks for help from his brother, Denholme
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The Call (2013 film)
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The Call is a 2013 American crime thriller film directed by Brad Anderson and written by Richard DOvidio. Morris Chestnut, Michael Eklund, Michael Imperioli, and David Otunga also star, the story was originally envisioned as a television series, but DOvidio later rewrote it as a 94-minute feature film. Filming began in July 2012 and spanned a period of 25 days, with all scenes being shot in California, mainly Burbank, a screening of The Call was held at the Womens International Film Festival hosted at the Regal South Beach theater on February 26,2013. TriStar Pictures released it to theatres a few weeks later on March 15,2013, considered to be high-concept by many reviewers, the film proved a commercial success, grossing over $68 million against budget of $13 million. A Los Angeles Police Department veteran 9-1-1 Jordan, receives a one night from a teenage girl, Leah Templeton. Jordan attempts to him from going further over the phone. He responds Its already done and hangs up, leaving her distraught, the next day, Jordan sees a television report confirming that Leah has been murdered. Emotionally affected by the incident, Jordan tells her boyfriend, Officer Paul Phillips, six months later, she is working as a trainer for 9-1-1 operators. Simultaneously, teenager Casey Welson is kidnapped from a parking garage after parting with her friend, Autumn. Casey had taken Autumns disposable phone, and uses it to call 9-1-1, a rookie operator receives the call but is unable to handle it, prompting Jordan to take over, though Caseys use of a disposable phone means that her exact GPS location cannot be found. While the kidnapper drives, Jordan guides Casey through knocking out a tail light, one woman who sees Casey waving her arm out of the trunk of the car calls 9-1-1, allowing the police to narrow their search. He reawakens in the trunk and begins screaming uncontrollably, which causes the kidnapper to stab him and he stops at a gas station where Casey gets an idea to crawl out of the trunk and scream at an active worker for help. The worker attempts to bust the door open, but the kidnapper sprays him with gasoline, upon arriving at his destination, the kidnapper, Michael Foster, removes Casey from the trunk and finds the phone in her pocket, with 9-1-1 listening on the line. Through the phone, Jordan informs him that his identity is uncovered and advises him to himself in. Before smashing the phone, Michael responds, Its already done, meanwhile, Phillips, accompanied by Officer Jake Devans and others in law enforcement, raid Michaels home, but find only his wife and children. Finding a photo of Michael and his sister, Melinda, they realize that Casey resembles the latter, additionally, the house seen in the photo is eventually revealed by Michaels wife to have burned down, although a nearby cottage still remains. The police raid it, but find there and leave. Michael begins to wash and cut Caseys hair, determined to rescue Casey, Jordan drives to the secondary home where she finds a number of photos of Michael with his leukemia-stricken sister
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X-Men: Days of Future Past
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X-Men, Days of Future Past is a 2014 American superhero film based on the fictional X-Men characters that appear in Marvel Comics. Directed by Bryan Singer, it is the installment of the X-Men film series. Simon Kinberg wrote the screenplay from a story conceived by Jane Goldman, himself, Vaughn had directed First Class and was set to return in Days of Future Past before leaving for Kingsman, The Secret Service. Thus Singer, who had directed the first two X-Men films, made his return as a director, and brought along most of the crew from those productions, twelve companies handled the visual effects. X-Men, Days of Future Past premiered in New York City on May 10,2014 and it became the best-reviewed film in the X-Men film series released thus far, being praised for its story, visual effects, action scenes, acting and thematic elements. During its theatrical run, the film earned over $747 million worldwide, making it the 6th highest grossing film of 2014, the film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Visual Effects, making it the first X-Men film to be nominated for an Oscar. A sequel, X-Men, Apocalypse, was released in May 2016, in the future, robots known as Sentinels are exterminating mutants and their human allies. The Sentinels are near invincible as they possess Mystiques powers of transformation and this technology was made possible following research performed on Mystique when she was captured during the assassination of Dr. Bolivar Trask, creator of the Sentinels. A band of mutants, including Kitty Pryde, Colossus, Iceman, Bishop, Warpath, Blink and Sunspot, convene with Wolverine, Storm, Professor Charles Xavier, and Magneto in a hideout in remote China. Pryde sends Wolverines consciousness back fifty years to 1973 to prevent Mystique from assassinating Trask, at the X-Mansion in 1973, the future/present Wolverine encounters Xavier and Hank McCoy. Xavier, a man, has been overusing a serum that allows him to walk. Wolverine explains his mission and persuades Xavier to help free Magneto from a cell beneath The Pentagon. They rescue Magneto with the help of Peter Maximoff, a mutant with super speed, Trask unsuccessfully tries to sway Congress to gain support for his Sentinel program. Meanwhile, in Saigon, Mystique prevents William Stryker from appropriating a group of mutant G. I. s for Trasks research. Xavier, Magneto, Beast, and Wolverine fly to Paris to intercept Mystique, however her presence is discovered as Trask endeavors to demonstrate the Prototype Sentinel technology to military leaders. The group arrives as Mystique is about to kill Trask, Magneto tries to kill Mystique to ensure her DNA cannot be used for the Sentinels, but she escapes. The fight spills onto the street in view of the public, allowing Magneto, Trask is saved, but the world is horrified by the existence of mutants. President Richard Nixon approves Trasks Sentinel program and arranges an unveiling ceremony, Trasks scientists recover Mystiques blood from the street
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Halle Brothers Co.
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Halle Brothers Co. of Cleveland, Ohio, commonly referred to as Halles, is a defunct department store chain. During most of its 91-year history Halles focused on higher-end merchandise which it combined with personal service, the company was the first major department store in Cleveland to open a suburban branch store. After growing and moving several times, the company built its main store at 1228 Euclid Avenue by 1910. Standing at 195 feet, it was the tallest department store ever constructed in the city and it was designed by New York architect Edward Bacon and was called elegant yet refined in its detailing of its white terra cotta facade. The Halle Building is the third tallest building in the Cleveland Theater District after the 1921-built 272 foot Keith Building and the 1991-built 210 foot Renaissance Centre. When the flagship store expanded in 1927, TIME praised the business for helping to turn the city of Cleveland into a metropolitan city and compared Halles to Lord & Taylor. R. H. Stearns, Marshall Field & Co, jingeling, who could be found, as a TV and radio jingle reminded kids, on Halles seventh floor serving as Santas Keeper Of The Keys. In 2014, the K & D Group of Willoughby, Ohio entered into an agreement to purchase the Halle Building and turn it into high end apartments. The building was sold to the group for 20 million dollars and they plan to have it renovated by 2018, the Halle Brothers Co. was considered the leading department store company in Cleveland, Ohio. S. Two years later, they moved to Euclid Avenue and East 4th Street, the firm was officially incorporated in 1902 as the Halle Bros. Co. On the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Halle Bros. Co. the employees presented to Mr. Samuel H. Halle several volumes holding pages one from each employee, in the upper corner was a record of the name, department and years of employment. The rest of the page was the letter to Mr. Halle, by 1927, their new $5 million Huron-Prospect Building was opened, creating an emporium in what is now known as the citys Theater District. Halles was well regarded as a department store, receiving praise for opening stores beyond the usual shopping district of Public Square in downtown Cleveland. As of 1927, Halles selling region included western New York, Pennsylvania, Northeast Ohio, with the closing of Sterling-Lindner Co. When the planned subway failed to materialize, Halles was forced to continue the shuttle service, without the draw of other stores, and rising crime on Clevelands near east side, it became more difficult for suburban shoppers to justify a trip to the flagship Halles store. In November 1981, Fields sold Halles to Associated Investors Corporation, led by Columbus, Ohio businessman Jerome Schottenstein, at first, the sale seemed to hold promise for Halles. Schottenstein attempted to allay community fears by placing full page ads in which he promised to see to the continuation of the chains traditions. However, Associated Investors subsequently liquidated the company in 1982 with all the stores either sold or closed despite attempts to operate them as a smaller suburban six-unit operation
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Ohio
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Ohio /oʊˈhaɪ. oʊ/ is a Midwestern state in the Great Lakes region of the United States. Ohio is the 34th largest by area, the 7th most populous, the states capital and largest city is Columbus. The state takes its name from the Ohio River, the name originated from the Iroquois word ohi-yo’, meaning great river or large creek. Partitioned from the Northwest Territory, the state was admitted to the Union as the 17th state on March 1,1803, Ohio is historically known as the Buckeye State after its Ohio buckeye trees, and Ohioans are also known as Buckeyes. Ohio occupies 16 seats in the United States House of Representatives, Ohio is known for its status as both a swing state and a bellwether in national elections. Six Presidents of the United States have been elected who had Ohio as their home state, Ohios geographic location has proven to be an asset for economic growth and expansion. Because Ohio links the Northeast to the Midwest, much cargo, Ohio has the nations 10th largest highway network, and is within a one-day drive of 50% of North Americas population and 70% of North Americas manufacturing capacity. To the north, Lake Erie gives Ohio 312 miles of coastline, Ohios southern border is defined by the Ohio River, and much of the northern border is defined by Lake Erie. Ohios neighbors are Pennsylvania to the east, Michigan to the northwest, Ontario Canada, to the north, Indiana to the west, Kentucky on the south, Ohio is bounded by the Ohio River, but nearly all of the river itself belongs to Kentucky and West Virginia. Ohio has only that portion of the river between the rivers 1792 low-water mark and the present high-water mark, the border with Michigan has also changed, as a result of the Toledo War, to angle slightly northeast to the north shore of the mouth of the Maumee River. Much of Ohio features glaciated plains, with a flat area in the northwest being known as the Great Black Swamp. Most of Ohio is of low relief, but the unglaciated Allegheny Plateau features rugged hills, in 1965 the United States Congress passed the Appalachian Regional Development Act, at attempt to address the persistent poverty and growing economic despair of the Appalachian Region. This act defines 29 Ohio counties as part of Appalachia, the worst weather disaster in Ohio history occurred along the Great Miami River in 1913. Known as the Great Dayton Flood, the entire Miami River watershed flooded, as a result, the Miami Conservancy District was created as the first major flood plain engineering project in Ohio and the United States. Grand Lake St. Marys in the west central part of the state was constructed as a supply of water for canals in the era of 1820–1850. For many years this body of water, over 20 square miles, was the largest artificial lake in the world and it should be noted that Ohios canal-building projects were not the economic fiasco that similar efforts were in other states. Some cities, such as Dayton, owe their emergence to location on canals. Summers are typically hot and humid throughout the state, while winters generally range from cool to cold, precipitation in Ohio is moderate year-round
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African Americans
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African Americans are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa. The term may also be used to only those individuals who are descended from enslaved Africans. As a compound adjective the term is usually hyphenated as African-American, Black and African Americans constitute the third largest racial and ethnic group in the United States. Most African Americans are of West and Central African descent and are descendants of enslaved peoples within the boundaries of the present United States. On average, African Americans are of 73. 2–80. 9% West African, 18–24% European, according to US Census Bureau data, African immigrants generally do not self-identify as African American. The overwhelming majority of African immigrants identify instead with their own respective ethnicities, immigrants from some Caribbean, Central American and South American nations and their descendants may or may not also self-identify with the term. After the founding of the United States, black people continued to be enslaved, believed to be inferior to white people, they were treated as second-class citizens. The Naturalization Act of 1790 limited U. S. citizenship to whites only, in 2008, Barack Obama became the first African American to be elected President of the United States. The first African slaves arrived via Santo Domingo to the San Miguel de Gualdape colony, the ill-fated colony was almost immediately disrupted by a fight over leadership, during which the slaves revolted and fled the colony to seek refuge among local Native Americans. De Ayllón and many of the colonists died shortly afterwards of an epidemic, the settlers and the slaves who had not escaped returned to Haiti, whence they had come. The first recorded Africans in British North America were 20 and odd negroes who came to Jamestown, as English settlers died from harsh conditions, more and more Africans were brought to work as laborers. Typically, young men or women would sign a contract of indenture in exchange for transportation to the New World, the landowner received 50 acres of land from the state for each servant purchased from a ships captain. An indentured servant would work for years without wages. The status of indentured servants in early Virginia and Maryland was similar to slavery, servants could be bought, sold, or leased and they could be physically beaten for disobedience or running away. Africans could legally raise crops and cattle to purchase their freedom and they raised families, married other Africans and sometimes intermarried with Native Americans or English settlers. By the 1640s and 1650s, several African families owned farms around Jamestown and some became wealthy by colonial standards and purchased indentured servants of their own. In 1640, the Virginia General Court recorded the earliest documentation of slavery when they sentenced John Punch. One of Dutch African arrivals, Anthony Johnson, would own one of the first black slaves, John Casor
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Sawley, Derbyshire
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Sawley is a village and civil parish within the Borough of Erewash, in southeast Derbyshire, England. With a slightly higher average number of people over 65. Every year around the August Bank Holiday, Sawley All Saints holds a festival, with themed floral displays inside the church. There are several events throughout the year including a May Day festival, Sawley Marina is one of the most prominent features of the village, with access to the regions main waterways. The old name for Sawley was Sallé, between Sawley and Church Wilne and Great Wilne is the junction of the River Derwent and the Trent. It is to this that Sawley owes its position, the church of All Saints is thirteenth century and contains Saxon and Norman work. And commands a position on a rise near the river. Up until the 19th century, Sawley was the most important village in the area, commanding the first river crossing, Harrington Bridge, in 2009 Sawley was blighted with a smell coming from waste products being legally dumped onto nearby farmland. The smell was dubbed the Sawley Stink, a dedicated group of local residents campaigned successfully to put an end to the process, with recyclers agreeing to stop the pollution. Opposite from Sawley churches is Bothe Hall once owned by the Booth family, the Booths were a wealthy landowning family from Cheshire whose principal seat was at Dunham Massey. Bothe Hall was probably built between 1660 and 1680, and has an interior that contains some exposed ceiling beams and a regency staircase, other buildings of interest in the area include Sawley Baptist Church, which was built in the 1800. John Clifford - Campaigner for educational reform and anti-war campaigner was born here in 1836 Nellie Dicken - Maternal grandmother of American actress Hallie Berry was born here in 1911 and she emigrated to the United States from Liverpool with her family the following year. Sawley Parish Council Sawley and District Historical Society
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Oakwood, Cuyahoga County, Ohio
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Oakwood is a village in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. The population was 3,667 at the 2010 census, Oakwood is located at 41°22′01″N 81°30′14″W. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has an area of 3.45 square miles. As of the census of 2010, there were 3,667 people,1,544 households, the population density was 1,066.0 inhabitants per square mile. There were 1,648 housing units at a density of 479.1 per square mile. The racial makeup of the village was 30. 7% White,64. 7% African American,0. 2% Native American,0. 7% Asian,0. 1% Pacific Islander,0. 2% from other races, and 3. 4% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2. 3% of the population,35. 0% of all households were made up of individuals and 12. 3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.28 and the family size was 2.94. The median age in the village was 46.7 years. 18. 7% of residents were under the age of 18,7. 7% were between the ages of 18 and 24,21. 5% were from 25 to 44,32. 9% were from 45 to 64, and 19. 3% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the village was 47. 6% male and 52. 4% female, as of the census of 2000, there were 3,667 people,1,416 households, and 877 families residing in the village. The population density was 1,060.1 people per square mile, there were 1,480 housing units at an average density of 427.9 per square mile. The racial makeup of the village was 40. 66% White,56. 23% African American,0. 19% Native American,0. 35% Asian,0. 03% Pacific Islander,0. 71% from other races, and 1. 83% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1. 39% of the population,33. 6% of all households were made up of individuals and 14. 3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.43 and the family size was 3.13. In the village, the population was out with 21. 5% under the age of 18,7. 4% from 18 to 24,23. 5% from 25 to 44,26. 8% from 45 to 64. The median age was 44 years, for every 100 females there were 87.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 86.0 males, the median income for a household in the village was $39,404, and the median income for a family was $54,375
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Cheerleading
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Cheerleading ranges from chanting, to intense physical activity for sports team motivation, audience entertainment, or competition based upon organized routines. Competitive routines typically range anywhere from one to three minutes, and contain components of tumbling, dance, jumps, cheers, and stunting, Cheerleading originated in the United States, and remains predominantly in America, with an estimated 1.5 million participants in all-star cheerleading. The global presentation of cheerleading was led by the 1997 broadcast of ESPNs International cheerleading competition, Cheerleading began during the late 18th century with the rebellion of male students. After the American Revolutionary War, students experienced harsh treatment from teachers, in response to facultys abuse, college students violently acted out. The undergraduates began to riot, burn down buildings located on their college campuses, as a more subtle way to gain independence, however, students invented and organized their own extracurricular activities outside their professors control. This brought about American sports, beginning first with collegiate teams, in the 1860s, students from Great Britain began to cheer and chant in unison for their favorite athletes at sporting events. Soon, that gesture of support crossed overseas to America, on November 6,1869, the United States witnessed its first intercollegiate football game. It took place between Princeton and Rutgers University, and marked the day the original Sis Boom Rah. cheer was shouted out by student fans, organized cheerleading started as an all-male activity. As early as 1877, Princeton University had a Princeton Cheer, documented in the February 22,1877, March 12,1880 and this cheer was yelled from the stands by students attending games, as well as by the athletes themselves. Remains in use with modifications today, where it is now referred to as the Locomotive. Princeton class of 1882 graduate Thomas Peebles moved to Minnesota in 1884 and he transplanted the idea of organized crowds cheering at football games to the University of Minnesota. These students would cheer for the team also at football practices and it was not until 1898 that University of Minnesota student Johnny Campbell directed a crowd in cheering Rah, Rah, Rah. Making Campbell the very first cheerleader, November 2,1898 is the official birth date of organized cheerleading. Soon after, the University of Minnesota organized a yell leader squad of six male students, in 1903, the first cheerleading fraternity, Gamma Sigma, was founded. In 1923, at the University of Minnesota, women were permitted to participate in cheerleading, however, it took time for other schools to follow. In the late 1920s, many school manuals and newspapers that were published still referred to cheerleaders as chap, fellow, women cheerleaders were overlooked until the 1940s. In the 1940s, collegiate men were drafted for World War II, as noted by Kieran Scott in Ultimate Cheerleading, Girls really took over for the first time. During the 1950s, cheerleading in America also increased in popularity, by the 1960s, some began to consider cheerleading a feminine extracurricular for boys, and by the 1970s, girls primarily cheered at public school games
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Student publication
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A student publication is a publication run by students of a university, high school, middle school, or other school. These papers traditionally cover local and, primarily, school or university news, working for ones high school newspaper is sometimes an extracurricular activity, but often is integrated with offered journalism classes. Some schools have both a class in which students learn about newspapers and a class that produces the schools newspaper. University student newspapers in the Australia are usually independent of university administration yet are connected with or run by the student representative organisation operating at the campus, australian student newspapers have courted controversy since their inception. One of the more notorious of these involved the publication of an article which allegedly incited readers to shoplift. The July edition of the magazine was banned by the Office of Film and Literature Classication following a campaign by conservative radio hosts. The four editors of the July 1995 edition of La Trobe University student magazine Rabelais were subsequently charged with publishing, distributing and depositing an objectionable publication, an objectional publication was defined in this case, as one that incites criminal activity. The editors lodged an appeal, which led to a protracted court case. The appeal was eventually defeated by the bench of the Federal Court. The charges were dropped in March 1999. Many student newspapers in Canada are independent from their universities and student unions, such autonomous papers are funded by student fees won by referendums, as well as advertising, and are run by their staffs, with no faculty input. The oldest student publication in Canada is The Brunswickan, which was founded in 1867 as a monthly, the only Canadian student newspaper that continues to print on a daily schedule is The Gazette at the University of Western Ontario. Student publications are produced at Irelands universities and Institutes of Technology as well as to an extent at Colleges of Further Education. Other publications include The Edition, at Dublin Institute of Technology, all student publications in Ireland are funded by or linked to their host university or its students union, with the exception of UCDs College Tribune which operates independently. Irish student publications are invited each year to enter the national Student Media Awards, almost every university in Korea runs a student based press. Although many of these press are funded by the school, the press has a significant amount of say amongst the student body. DsVista - the Official Publication of Duksung Womens University, the College Editorial Guild of the Philippines or is the oldest and broadest intercollegiate alliance of student publications in the Asia-Pacific. Since its foundation, the Guild has remained steadfast in its commitment to freedom of expression, press freedom
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Higbee's
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Higbees was a department store founded 1860 in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1987, Higbees was sold to the joint partnership of Dillards department stores and Youngstown-based developer, the stores continued to operate under the Higbee name until 1992, when DeBartolo sold his shares to his partners and the chain was re-branded as Dillards. Higbees was founded by Edwin Converse Higbee and John G. Hower on September 10,1860 as Higbee & Hower Dry Goods, the first day of business saw $100 in sales. The deal was cancelled abruptly, resulting in years of litigation. In 1992 Dillards bought out DeBartolos shares and rebadged Higbees and five of the Northern Ohio Hornes stores with its name, during the 1990s, several inner-ring stores were closed while new far-flung locations opened or expanded. The 192 feet tall,11 story Public Square flagship store was famous for its tenth-floor Silver Grille restaurant, the building was again completely remodeled in 2011 and opened on May 14,2012 as the Horseshoe Casino Cleveland. The building was again renamed to Jack Cleveland Casino and reopened on May 11,2016 after Rock Gaming LLC took over management of the downtown casino. The store on Public Square was prominently featured in the 1983 movie A Christmas Story, Higbees was referenced in Season 7 Episode 12 of Mad Men. Higbees was referenced in Season 1 Episode 20 of 30 Rock
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Miss Ohio USA
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The Miss Ohio USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Ohio in the Miss USA pageant. Ohio achieved success in the first decades of the Miss USA competition but has not done as well in recent years, Ohio is one of only twelve states to win the Miss USA crown twice. There are many notable Miss Ohio USAs, most famously actress and Oscar winner Halle Berry, two Miss Ohio USAs are former Miss Ohio Teen USAs who competed at Miss Teen USA. The current titleholder is Dinaleigh Baxter
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Christy Fichtner
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Christiane Crane Christy Fichtner is an American actress and beauty queen who won Miss USA1986 and first runner-up at Miss Universe 1986. In 2003, she participated in Who Wants to Marry My Dad and they parted ways and she moved to Dallas, enrolling at Southern Methodist University. As a beauty queen, she was crowned Miss Texas USA and Miss USA1986 and her main competition and eventual first runner-up at Miss USA was actress Halle Berry. In 2003, she starred in the reality television show Who Wants to Marry My Dad, a longtime Dallasite, Fichtner married Dallas dentist Gary E. Alhadef in October 1988, with whom she has 3 sons, Blake Clifton, Steven Walker and Corbin Reed. Official Miss USA website - Past titleholders Media related to Christy Fichtner at Wikimedia Commons
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Trinidad and Tobago
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During the same period, the island of Tobago changed hands among Spanish, British, French, Dutch and Courlander colonizers, more times than any other island in the Caribbean. Trinidad and Tobago were ceded to Britain in 1802 under the Treaty of Amiens, the country Trinidad and Tobago obtained independence in 1962, becoming a republic in 1976. Trinidad and Tobago is the third richest country by GDP per capita in the Americas after the United States, furthermore, it is recognised as a high-income economy by the World Bank. Unlike most of the English-speaking Caribbean, the economy is primarily industrial, with an emphasis on petroleum. The countrys wealth is attributed to its reserves and exploitation of oil. Historian E. L. Joseph claimed that Trinidads Amerindian name was Iere or Land of the Humming Bird, derived from the Arawak name for hummingbird, however, Boomert claims that neither cairi nor caeri means hummingbird and tukusi or tucuchi does. Others have reported that kairi and iere simply mean island, christopher Columbus renamed it La Isla de la Trinidad, fulfilling a vow made before setting out on his third voyage of exploration. Trinidad and Tobago are islands situated between 10°2 and 11°12 N latitude and 60°30 and 61°56 W longitude, at the closest point, Trinidad is just 11 kilometres from Venezuelan territory. Trinidad is 4,768 km2 in area with a length of 80 km. Tobago has an area of about 300 km2, or 5. 8% of the area, is 41 km long and 12 km at its greatest width. Trinidad and Tobago lie on the shelf of South America. The terrain of the islands is a mixture of mountains and plains, the highest point in the country is found on the Northern Range at El Cerro del Aripo, which is 940 metres above sea level. As the majority of the live in the island of Trinidad. There are four municipalities in Trinidad, Port of Spain. The main town in Tobago is Scarborough, Trinidad is made up of a variety of soil types, the majority being fine sands and heavy clays. The alluvial valleys of the Northern Range and the soils of the East-West Corridor are the most fertile, the Northern Range consists mainly of Upper Jurassic and Cretaceous metamorphic rocks. The Northern Lowlands consist of shallow marine clastic sediments. South of this, the Central Range fold and thrust belt consists of Cretaceous and Eocene sedimentary rocks, the Naparima Plains and the Nariva Swamp form the southern shoulder of this uplift
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Chicago
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Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third-most populous city in the United States. With over 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the state of Illinois, and it is the county seat of Cook County. In 2012, Chicago was listed as a global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. Chicago has the third-largest gross metropolitan product in the United States—about $640 billion according to 2015 estimates, the city has one of the worlds largest and most diversified economies with no single industry employing more than 14% of the workforce. In 2016, Chicago hosted over 54 million domestic and international visitors, landmarks in the city include Millennium Park, Navy Pier, the Magnificent Mile, Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Campus, the Willis Tower, Museum of Science and Industry, and Lincoln Park Zoo. Chicagos culture includes the arts, novels, film, theater, especially improvisational comedy. Chicago also has sports teams in each of the major professional leagues. The city has many nicknames, the best-known being the Windy City, the name Chicago is derived from a French rendering of the Native American word shikaakwa, known to botanists as Allium tricoccum, from the Miami-Illinois language. The first known reference to the site of the current city of Chicago as Checagou was by Robert de LaSalle around 1679 in a memoir, henri Joutel, in his journal of 1688, noted that the wild garlic, called chicagoua, grew abundantly in the area. In the mid-18th century, the area was inhabited by a Native American tribe known as the Potawatomi, the first known non-indigenous permanent settler in Chicago was Jean Baptiste Point du Sable. Du Sable was of African and French descent and arrived in the 1780s and he is commonly known as the Founder of Chicago. In 1803, the United States Army built Fort Dearborn, which was destroyed in 1812 in the Battle of Fort Dearborn, the Ottawa, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi tribes had ceded additional land to the United States in the 1816 Treaty of St. Louis. The Potawatomi were forcibly removed from their land after the Treaty of Chicago in 1833, on August 12,1833, the Town of Chicago was organized with a population of about 200. Within seven years it grew to more than 4,000 people, on June 15,1835, the first public land sales began with Edmund Dick Taylor as U. S. The City of Chicago was incorporated on Saturday, March 4,1837, as the site of the Chicago Portage, the city became an important transportation hub between the eastern and western United States. Chicagos first railway, Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, and the Illinois, the canal allowed steamboats and sailing ships on the Great Lakes to connect to the Mississippi River. A flourishing economy brought residents from rural communities and immigrants from abroad, manufacturing and retail and finance sectors became dominant, influencing the American economy. The Chicago Board of Trade listed the first ever standardized exchange traded forward contracts and these issues also helped propel another Illinoisan, Abraham Lincoln, to the national stage
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Who's the Boss?
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Whos the Boss. is an American sitcom created by Martin Cohan and Blake Hunter, which aired on ABC from September 20,1984 to April 25,1992. Also featured were Alyssa Milano, Danny Pintauro and Katherine Helmond, the show received positive reviews throughout most of its run, becoming one of the most popular sitcoms of the mid-to-late 1980s. The series was nominated for more than forty awards, including ten Primetime Emmy Award and five Golden Globe Award nominations, also very successful in the ratings, Whos the Boss. Consistently ranked in the top ten in the primetime ratings between the years of 1985 and 1989, and has since continued in syndication worldwide. Widower Anthony Morton Tony Micelli is a second baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals who was forced to retire due to a shoulder injury. He wants to move out of Brooklyn to find an environment for his daughter. He ends up taking a job in upscale Fairfield, Connecticut, the Micellis moved into the Bower residence. Also frequenting is Angelas feisty, sexually progressive mother, Mona Robinson, Mona dates all kinds of men, from college age to silver-haired CEOs. This portrayal of a woman with an active social and sexual life was unusual for television at the time. The title of the show refers to the role reversal of the two lead actors, where a woman was the breadwinner and a man stayed at home. The easy-going, spontaneous Tony and the driven, self-controlled Angela are attracted to each other, while there is playful banter and many hints of attraction, Tony and Angela do their best to avoid facing this aspect of their developing relationship, and date other people. Angela has a romantic interest in Geoffrey Wells, while Tony has a variety of girlfriends who come and go, including Kathleen Sawyer in seasons six. In the meantime, however, they become best friends, relying on each other frequently for emotional support, in addition, Tony provides a male role model for Jonathan, while Angela and Mona give Samantha the womanly guidance she had been missing. At the start of eight, Tony and Angela finally acknowledge their love for each other. However, the series does not end with the expected marriage. This was due primarily to concerns by the network that a marriage, representing a definitive ending, Tony Danza also vehemently opposed the marriage, saying it would contradict the original purpose of the show. During the final season, Samantha finds a new love in Hank Thomopoulous, a fellow college student, Hank was originally poised to enter a medical program, but soon decides to become a puppeteer. Sam and Hank were engaged in a matter of weeks, and in February, Tony Danza as Tony Micelli, a widower and retired baseball player for the St. Comic James Coco was a frequent guest, beginning in season one as Tonys father-in-law visiting from New York
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Knots Landing
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Knots Landing is an American prime time television soap opera that aired on CBS from December 27,1979, to May 13,1993. A spin-off of Dallas, it was set in a coastal suburb of Los Angeles. By the time of its conclusion, Knots Landing had become one of the primetime dramas on U. S. television after Gunsmoke. Knots Landing was created by David Jacobs in conjunction with producer Michael Filerman, although a spin-off of Dallas, the concept predates that series, and was initially rebuffed by CBS in 1977, as the network wanted something more saga-like. Jacobs then created Dallas, which the accepted and premiered in 1978. After Dallas became a hit, Jacobs was then able to adapt Knots Landing as a series by way of incorporating characters originally introduced in the parent series. The series was inspired by a 1957 movie No Down Payment. Storylines included rape, murder, kidnapping, assassinations, drug smuggling, corporate intrigue, though initially not as popular as Dallas, Knots Landing eventually outlasted it and garnered much critical acclaim. The series peaked during the 1983–84 season with a 20.8 rating and this can be attributed, in part, to more dramatic storylines as the series became more soap-opera like, and the gradual inclusion of newer characters to interact with the original cast. By the 1988–89 season, Knots Landing was ahead of Dallas in the ratings, There were 344 episodes and 14 seasons of Knots Landing from 1979 to 1993. In 1997, much of the cast reunited for a two-part mini-series entitled Knots Landing, in 2005, they reunited again for the non-fiction special Knots Landing Reunion, Together Again in which the cast reminisced about their time on the show. Dallas itself was revived in 2012, with characters from Knots Landing appearing in its second season, during nearly the entire run of the original series, Knots Landing occupied the same timeslot, Thursday nights at 10,00 p. m. Gary Ewing was the son and the black sheep of the Ewing family from Dallas. Gary was an alcoholic, and his father Jock and older brother J. R. had never treated him as an equal, the insecure Gary met Valene when they were aged 17 and 15 years old respectively. They were married briefly and had a daughter, Lucy, but Gary left Southfork Ranch, with Gary gone from Southfork Ranch, J. R. had Valene followed and run out of town as he took her daughter and manipulated Gary away from her. Years later, Valene and Lucy reconnected, causing Valene and Gary to reunite and they remarried and Garys mother, Miss Ellie, bought the couple a house in California. Knots Landing is officially spun off from Dallas in the episode entitled Return Engagement. In the first episode, newly remarried Gary and Valene Ewing move to Knots Landing, California in a cul-de-sac known as Seaview Circle
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Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Bosnia and Herzegovina, sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina, and, in short, often known informally as Bosnia, is a country in Southeastern Europe located on the Balkan Peninsula. Sarajevo is the capital and largest city, in the central and eastern interior of the country the geography is mountainous, in the northwest it is moderately hilly, and the northeast is predominantly flatland. The inland is a larger region and has a moderate continental climate, with hot summers and cold. The southern tip of the country has a Mediterranean climate and plain topography, Bosnia and Herzegovina is a region that traces permanent human settlement back to the Neolithic age, during and after which it was populated by several Illyrian and Celtic civilizations. Culturally, politically, and socially, the country has a rich history, the Ottomans brought Islam to the region, and altered much of the cultural and social outlook of the country. This was followed by annexation into the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, which lasted up until World War I. In the interwar period, Bosnia was part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and after World War II, following the dissolution of Yugoslavia, the country proclaimed independence in 1992, which was followed by the Bosnian War, lasting until late 1995. The country is home to three ethnic groups or, officially, constituent peoples, as specified in the constitution. Bosniaks are the largest group of the three, with Serbs second and Croats third, a native of Bosnia and Herzegovina, regardless of ethnicity, is identified in English as a Bosnian. The terms Herzegovinian and Bosnian are maintained as a rather than ethnic distinction. Moreover, the country was simply called Bosnia until the Austro-Hungarian occupation at the end of the 19th century, Bosnia and Herzegovina has a bicameral legislature and a three-member Presidency composed of a member of each major ethnic group. The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is itself complex and consists of 10 cantons, additionally, the country has been a member of the Council of Europe since April 2002 and a founding member of the Mediterranean Union upon its establishment in July 2008. The name is believed to have derived from the hydronym of the river Bosna coursing through the Bosnian heartland. According to philologist Anton Mayer the name Bosna could be derived from Illyrian Bass-an-as which would be a diversion of the Proto-Indo-European root bos or bogh, meaning the running water. According to English medievalist William Miller the Slavic settlers in Bosnia adapted the Latin designation Basante, to their own idiom by calling the stream Bosna, the name Herzegovina originates from Bosnian magnate Stephen Vukčić Kosačas title, Herceg of Hum and the Coast. Hum, formerly Zahumlje, was a medieval principality that was conquered by the Bosnian Banate in the first half of the 14th century. Bosnia is located in the western Balkans, bordering Croatia to the north and west, Serbia to the east and it has a coastline about 20 kilometres long surrounding the city of Neum. It lies between latitudes 42° and 46° N, and longitudes 15° and 20° E, the countrys name comes from the two regions Bosnia and Herzegovina, which have a very vaguely defined border between them
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Spike Lee
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Shelton Jackson Spike Lee is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor. His production company,40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, has produced over 35 films since 1983, Lee has acted in ten of his own films. Lees movies have examined race relations, colorism in the community, the role of media in contemporary life, urban crime and poverty. Lee was born in Atlanta, Georgia, the son of Jacqueline Carroll, a teacher of arts and black literature, and William James Edward Lee III, a jazz musician and composer. Lee also had three younger siblings Joie, David, and Cinqué, who all worked in different positions in Lees films. Director Malcolm D. Lee is his cousin, when he was a child, the family moved to Brooklyn, New York. His mother nicknamed him Spike during his childhood and he attended John Dewey High School in Brooklyns Gravesend neighborhood. Lee enrolled in Morehouse College, a black college, where he made his first student film. He took film courses at Clark Atlanta University and graduated with a B. A. in mass communication from Morehouse and he did graduate work at New York Universitys Tisch School of the Arts, where he earned a Master of Fine Arts in film & television. In 1991, Lee taught a course at Harvard about filmmaking and it was there that he received his Master of Fine Arts and was appointed Artistic Director in 2002. Lees independent film, Joes Bed-Stuy Barbershop, We Cut Heads, was the first student film to be showcased in Lincoln Centers New Directors/New Films Festival, in 1985, Lee began work on his first feature film, Shes Gotta Have It. With a budget of $175,000, he shot the film in two weeks, when the film was released in 1986, it grossed over $7,000,000 at the U. S. box office. Lees 1989 film Do the Right Thing was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1989, many people, including Hollywoods Kim Basinger, believed that Do the Right Thing also deserved a Best Picture nomination. Driving Miss Daisy won Best Picture that year, after the 1990 release of Mo Better Blues, Lee was accused of antisemitism by the Anti-Defamation League and several film critics. They criticized the characters of the club owners Josh and Moe Flatbush, Lee denied the charge, explaining that he wrote those characters in order to depict how black artists struggled against exploitation. Lee said that Lew Wasserman, Sidney Sheinberg or Tom Pollock and he said he could not make an antisemitic film because Jews run Hollywood, and thats a fact. His 1997 documentary 4 Little Girls, about the killed in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham. On May 2,2007, the 50th San Francisco International Film Festival honored Spike Lee with the San Francisco Film Societys Directing Award and he received the 2008 Wexner Prize
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