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Plaistow, Newham
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Plaistow is a district in the West Ham area of the London Borough of Newham in east London, England. It forms the majority of the London E13 postcode district, Plaistow is a residential area, including several council estates. Commercial and retail premises are on the A112 at Greengate Street leading north and Prince Regent Lane south, leading 0.3 miles to Newham Sixth Form College and it contains generally smaller shops compared to Stratford or West Ham. Plaistow North and Plaistow South are two of the ten wards making up the UK parliamentary constituency of West Ham. The name Plaistow is believed to come from Sir Hugh de Plaitz who, in 1065, married Philippa de Montfitchet, of the Mountfitchet Castle family and it is she who is reputed to have named it the Manor of Plaiz. A stow was a place of assembly, but also described as a town or village, so it was the village of Plaiz, or assembly place within the Manor, in his book Whats in a Name. First published in 1977, author Cyril M. Harris states that c.1200 Plaistow was recorded as Plagestoue, derived from the Old English Pleg, meaning sports or playing and it was a place where miracle plays were performed so it was a playing place. The derivation from Pleg and Stowe appears to apply equally to all places called Plaistow, in 1353 Sir Richard de Playz gave the manor to the abbott of Stratford-Langthorne. Balaam /ˈbeɪləm/ Street is one of the oldest roads in Plaistow, the street was named for Hugh de Balun, who owned property in the area in the 12th century and belonged to the same family as Hamelin de Balun. James Kemble in his 2007 book Essex Place-Names says it was Balostret in the 1371 Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, Plaistow in Essex is reported as appearing as Playstowe in the countys Patent Rolls of 1414. This is also quoted by Kemble, another who cites the derivation from plegstow – a place for playing, following the Dissolution of the Monasteries the manor was appropriated by the Crown, and granted to Sir Roger Cholmeley in 1553. Daniel Defoes 1724 work, Tour of the Eastern Counties, mentions Plaistow as a town in which there had much new building as well as repairs to existing houses since the Revolution. Plaistow is connected with the legend of notorious highwayman Dick Turpin, several stories state that among Turpin’s first crimes was the theft of two oxen from his employer, a Mr Giles of Plaistow, in 1730. Turpin is alleged to also have run a smuggling gang which operated between Plaistow and Southend, in Aaron Hills time there Plaistow was a rural village described as a days coach journey from Westminster, despite it being a distance of only some 8 miles. In the 1870s Plaistow was described by John Marius Wilson in his Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales as a village, a chapelry, the population of the chapelry, which was constituted in 1844, was recorded as 11,214 in 1861. James Thorne, in his 1876 work Handbook to the Environs of London, mentions Plaistow, Essex, as a village, John Curwen opened the Plaistow Public School in 1844. His son, John Spencer Curwen, published a paper called “Old Plaistow” in 1891 describing houses of the area and it was not until 1905 that Plaistow was connected to the telephone network. Plaistow had its own UK Parliamentary constituency from 1918 to 1950 and it consisted of the Plaistow and Hudsons wards of the County Borough of West Ham, plus part of the Canning Town ward
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Essex
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Essex /ˈɛsᵻks/ is a county in England immediately north-east of London. It borders the counties of Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, the county town is Chelmsford, which is the only city in the county. Essex occupies the part of the old Kingdom of Essex, before this. As well as areas, the county also includes London Stansted Airport, the new towns of Basildon and Harlow, Lakeside Shopping Centre, the port of Tilbury. Originally recorded in AD527, Essex occupied territory to the north of the River Thames, incorporating all of what later became Middlesex and its territory was later restricted to lands east of the River Lea. In changes before the Norman conquest the East Saxons were subsumed into the Kingdom of England and, following the Norman conquest, Essex became a county. During the medieval period, much of the area was designated a Royal forest, including the county in a period to 1204. Gradually, the subject to forest law diminished, but at various times included the forests of Becontree, Chelmsford, Epping, Hatfield, Ongar. County-wide administration Essex County Council was formed in 1889, however County Boroughs of West Ham, Southend-on-Sea and East Ham formed part of the county but were unitary authorities. 12 boroughs and districts provide more localised services such as rubbish and recycling collections, leisure and planning, parish-level administration – changes A few Essex parishes have been transferred to other counties. Before 1889, small areas were transferred to Hertfordshire near Bishops Stortford, Essex became part of the East of England Government Office Region in 1994 and was statistically counted as part of that region from 1999, having previously been part of the South East England region. Two unitary authorities In 1998 the boroughs of Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock were granted autonomy from the county of Essex after successful requests to become unitary authorities. Essex Police covers the county and the two unitary authorities. The county council chamber and main headquarters is at the County Hall in Chelmsford, before 1938 the council regularly met in London near Moorgate, which with significant parts closer to that point and the dominance of railways had been more convenient than any place in the county. It currently has 75 elected councillors, before 1965, the number of councillors reached over 100. The highest point of the county of Essex is Chrishall Common near the village of Langley, close to the Hertfordshire border, the pattern of settlement in the county is diverse. Epping Forest also acts as a barrier to the further spread of London. Part of the southeast of the county, already containing the population centres of Basildon, Southend and Thurrock, is within the Thames Gateway
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Actor
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An actor is a person who portrays a character in a performance. Simplistically speaking, the person denominated actor or actress is someone beautiful who plays important characters, the actor performs in the flesh in the traditional medium of the theatre, or in modern mediums such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is ὑποκριτής, literally one who answers, the actors interpretation of their role pertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is playing themselves, as in forms of experimental performance art, or, more commonly, to act, is to create. Formerly, in societies, only men could become actors. When used for the stage, women played the roles of prepubescent boys. The etymology is a derivation from actor with ess added. However, when referring to more than one performer, of both sexes, actor is preferred as a term for male performers. Actor is also used before the name of a performer as a gender-specific term. Within the profession, the re-adoption of the term dates to the 1950–1960s. As Whoopi Goldberg put it in an interview with the paper, Im an actor – I can play anything. The U. K. performers union Equity has no policy on the use of actor or actress, an Equity spokesperson said that the union does not believe that there is a consensus on the matter and stated that the. subject divides the profession. In 2009, the Los Angeles Times stated that Actress remains the term used in major acting awards given to female recipients. However, player remains in use in the theatre, often incorporated into the name of a group or company, such as the American Players. Also, actors in improvisational theatre may be referred to as players, prior to Thespis act, Grecian stories were only expressed in song, dance, and in third person narrative. In honor of Thespis, actors are commonly called Thespians, the exclusively male actors in the theatre of ancient Greece performed in three types of drama, tragedy, comedy, and the satyr play. Western theatre developed and expanded considerably under the Romans, as the Western Roman Empire fell into decay through the 4th and 5th centuries, the seat of Roman power shifted to Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire. Records show that mime, pantomime, scenes or recitations from tragedies and comedies, dances, from the 5th century, Western Europe was plunged into a period of general disorder
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Maurice Kaufmann
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Maurice Harington Kaufmann was a British actor of stage, film and television, who specialized in whodunits and horror films, from 1954 to 1981, when he retired. He was married to Honor Blackman from 1961–1975, they starred together in the film, Fright, Maurice Kaufmann died in 1997 in London from cancer, aged 70. Month of Registration, September Date of Birth,29 June 1927 District No,2281 Reg No, 85A Ent No,052 Maurice Kaufmann at the Internet Movie Database
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English people
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The English are a nation and an ethnic group native to England, who speak the English language. The English identity is of medieval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Angelcynn. Their ethnonym is derived from the Angles, one of the Germanic peoples who migrated to Great Britain around the 5th century AD, England is one of the countries of the United Kingdom. Collectively known as the Anglo-Saxons, they founded what was to become England along with the later Danes, Normans, in the Acts of Union 1707, the Kingdom of England was succeeded by the Kingdom of Great Britain. Over the years, English customs and identity have become closely aligned with British customs. The English people are the source of the English language, the Westminster system and these and other English cultural characteristics have spread worldwide, in part as a result of the former British Empire. The concept of an English nation is far older than that of the British nation, many recent immigrants to England have assumed a solely British identity, while others have developed dual or mixed identities. Use of the word English to describe Britons from ethnic minorities in England is complicated by most non-white people in England identifying as British rather than English. In their 2004 Annual Population Survey, the Office for National Statistics compared the ethnic identities of British people with their national identity. They found that while 58% of white people in England described their nationality as English and it is unclear how many British people consider themselves English. Following complaints about this, the 2011 census was changed to allow respondents to record their English, Welsh, Scottish, another complication in defining the English is a common tendency for the words English and British to be used interchangeably, especially overseas. In his study of English identity, Krishan Kumar describes a common slip of the tongue in which people say English, I mean British. He notes that this slip is made only by the English themselves and by foreigners. Kumar suggests that although this blurring is a sign of Englands dominant position with the UK and it tells of the difficulty that most English people have of distinguishing themselves, in a collective way, from the other inhabitants of the British Isles. In 1965, the historian A. J. P. Taylor wrote, When the Oxford History of England was launched a generation ago and it meant indiscriminately England and Wales, Great Britain, the United Kingdom, and even the British Empire. Foreigners used it as the name of a Great Power and indeed continue to do so, bonar Law, by origin a Scotch Canadian, was not ashamed to describe himself as Prime Minister of England Now terms have become more rigorous. The use of England except for a geographic area brings protests and this version of history is now regarded by many historians as incorrect, on the basis of more recent genetic and archaeological research. The 2016 study authored by Stephan Schiffels et al, the remaining portion of English DNA is primarily French, introduced in a migration after the end of the Ice Age
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The Avengers (TV series)
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The Avengers is an espionage British television series created in 1961. The Avengers initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed, Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants. Steeds most famous assistants were intelligent, stylish and assertive women, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel, the Avengers ran from 1961 until 1969, screening as one-hour episodes its entire run. The pilot episode, Hot Snow, aired on 7 January 1961, the final episode, Bizarre, aired on 21 May 1969. The Avengers was produced by Associated British Corporation, a contractor within the ITV network, after a merger in July 1968 ABC Television became Thames Television, which continued production of the series although it was still broadcast under the ABC name. By 1969 The Avengers was shown in more than 90 countries, ITV produced a sequel series The New Avengers with Patrick Macnee returning as John Steed, and two new partners. In 2007 The Avengers was ranked #20 on TV Guides Top Cult Shows Ever, the Avengers was marked by different eras as co-stars came and went. The only constant was John Steed, played by Patrick Macnee, the Associated British Corporation produced a single series of Police Surgeon, in which Ian Hendry played police surgeon Geoffrey Brent, from September through December 1960. While Police Surgeon did not last long, viewers praised Hendry, and ABC Television cast him for their new series, The Avengers, which replaced Police Surgeon in January 1961. The Avengers began with episode Hot Snow, in which medical doctor Dr David Keel investigates the murder of his fiancée, a stranger named John Steed, who was investigating the ring, appeared and together they set out to avenge her death in the first two episodes. Afterwards, Steed asked Keel to partner him as needed to solve crimes, Hendry was considered the star of the new series, receiving top billing over Macnee, and Steed did not appear in two episodes. As the first series of The Avengers progressed, Steeds importance increased, while Steed and Keel used wit while discussing crimes and dangers, the series also depicted the interplay—and often tension—between Keels idealism and Steeds professionalism. The other regular in the first series was Carol Wilson, the nurse, Carol assisted Keel and Steed in cases, and in at least one episode being very much in the thick of the action, but without being part of Steeds inner circle. Hafner had played opposite Hendry as a nurse in one episode of Police Surgeon, the series was shot on 405-line videotape using a multicamera setup. There was little provision for editing and virtually no location footage, as was standard practice at the time, videotapes of early episodes of The Avengers were reused. Keel and Lucy Briggs-Owen as Carol Wilson, production of the first series was cut short by a strike. By the time production could begin on the series, Hendry had quit to pursue a film career. Macnee was promoted to star and Steed became the focus of the series, Dr Martin King, a thinly disguised rewriting of Keel, saw action in only three episodes produced from scripts written for the first series
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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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Pussy Galore
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Pussy Galore is a fictional character in the 1959 Ian Fleming James Bond novel Goldfinger and the 1964 film of the same name. In the film, she is played by Honor Blackman, the character returns in the 2015 Bond continuation novel Trigger Mortis by Anthony Horowitz, set in the 1950s two weeks after the events of Goldfinger. Blanche Blackwell, a Jamaican of Anglo-Jewish descent, is thought to have been the love of Flemings later life, in Flemings 1959 novel Goldfinger, Pussy Galore is the only woman in the United States known to be running an organised crime gang. Initially trapeze artists, her group of performing catwomen, Pussy Galore and her Abrocats, is unsuccessful and her group evolves into an all-lesbian organisation, based in Harlem, known as the Cement Mixers. In the novel, she has hair, pale skin. She is in her thirties, her voice low and attractive, Pussy tells Bond that she became a lesbian after she was sexually abused by her uncle at the age of 12. S. Bullion Depository there and steal one billion dollars in bullion from it. Goldfinger chooses the Cement Mixers because he needs a group of women to impersonate the nurses in fake emergency medical teams he plans to send into the poison-stricken Fort Knox. After Bond and Felix Leiter foil Grand Slam, Galore runs into Bond while impersonating a stewardess on Goldfingers hijacked escape flight to the Soviet Union. Bond, having previously been drugged by a vaccination, has been kidnapped and transported onto the plane to join Goldfinger. However, Bond punctures one of the windows with a knife, then tackles Goldfinger. Bond then forces the crew of the airplane to reverse course, when the gold-heavy craft runs out of fuel, and the crew must ditch it in the ocean, Bond and Pussy are the only ones who manage to escape onto a life raft. It is hinted at the end of the novel that Pussy is sent to prison, as she says to Bond and her original band of Amazonian catwomen appear as characters in the film, but as small-aircraft pilots rather than trapeze artists. Pussy returns in the 2015 Bond continuation novel Trigger Mortis by Anthony Horowitz, the novel contains material written, but previously unreleased, by Fleming. In the film, Pussy is first seen when Bond wakes up in Goldfingers private jet, Pussy Galore, My name is Pussy Galore. James Bond, I must be dreaming and she is the leader of Pussy Galores Flying Circus, a group of women aviators connected with Goldfingers Operation Grand Slam. In a later scene, Pussy uses judo to attack Bond after she catches him eavesdropping on Goldfingers plan, however, Bond corners Galore in a barn and forcibly holds her down and kisses her. The film then shows a change in personality where she seems to welcome the earlier assault
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Goldfinger (film)
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Goldfinger is a British spy film, the third in the James Bond series and the third to star Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It is based on the novel of the name by Ian Fleming. The film also stars Honor Blackman as Bond girl Pussy Galore and Gert Fröbe as the title character Auric Goldfinger, Goldfinger was produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman and was the first of four Bond films directed by Guy Hamilton. The films plot has Bond investigating gold smuggling by gold magnate Auric Goldfinger, Goldfinger was the first Bond blockbuster, with a budget equal to that of the two preceding films combined. Principal photography took place from January to July 1964 in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, the release of the film led to a number of promotional licensed tie-in items, including a toy Aston Martin DB5 car from Corgi Toys which became the biggest selling toy of 1964. The promotion also included an image of gold-painted Shirley Eaton as Jill Masterson on the cover of Life, Goldfinger was the first Bond film to win an Academy Award and opened to largely favourable critical reception. The film was a success, recouping its budget in two weeks, and is hailed as the Bond canons quintessential episode. After destroying a drug laboratory in Latin America, James Bond—Agent 007—travels to Miami Beach to receive instructions from his superior, M and he is to observe bullion dealer Auric Goldfinger at the hotel there. Bond sees Goldfinger cheating at gin rummy and stops him by distracting his employee, Jill Masterson, after Bond and Jill consummate their new relationship, Bond is knocked out by Goldfingers Korean manservant, the hulking giant Oddjob. When Bond awakens, he finds Jill dead, covered in gold paint, in London, Bond learns his objective is determining how Goldfinger smuggles gold internationally. The chancellor of the exchequer and M explain that prices vary across the world. Bond arranges to meet Goldfinger socially at his club in Kent. Bond follows him to Switzerland, where Tilly, Jills sister, Bond sneaks into Goldfingers plant and discovers Goldfinger smuggles gold by melting it down and incorporating it into the bodywork of his car, which he takes with him whenever he travels. Bond also overhears Goldfinger talking to Chinese agent Mr. Ling about Operation Grand Slam, leaving, Bond encounters Tilly as she tries to kill Goldfinger again, but trips an alarm in the process, Oddjob kills Tilly with his hat. Captured, Bond is tied to a cutting table underneath an industrial laser, Bond lies to Goldfinger that MI6 knows about Grand Slam, causing Goldfinger to spare Bonds life to mislead MI6 into believing Bond has things in hand. Bond is transported by Goldfingers private jet, piloted by Pussy Galore, to his farm near Fort Knox. Bond escapes and witnesses Goldfingers meeting with US mafiosi, who have brought the materials he needs for Operation Grand Slam. Although they are each promised $1 million, Goldfinger tempts them that they could have the million today, or $10 million tomorrow and he then kills them using some of the neurotoxin he plans to release over Fort Knox
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Shalako (film)
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Shalako is a British 1968 Western film directed by Edward Dmytryk, starring Sean Connery and Brigitte Bardot, filmed in Almería, Spain. The cast also includes Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins, and Honor Blackman and it is based on a novel by Louis LAmour. When a French countess, Irina Lazaar, wanders off she is attacked by Apache warriors on horseback and she is rescued by Shalako, a former U. S. Cavalry officer with a personal interest in keeping non-Indians off Indian land. While on the way to returning her to the hunting party and they both promise the Apache chief they will get the outsiders off the land. The chief agrees, but his son, Chato, tells Shalako he intends to kill him in battle, Shalako urges the leader of the hunting party, Frederick von Hallstatt, to leave, but he refuses and the two men soon despise each other. Shalako rides off to get the army to escort the party off Apache land, Lady Julia Dagger, seeing the hopeless situation of the party, decides to leave her husband, the pathetic Sir Charles Dagger and go along as Fulton’s lover. She and Fulton had previously teased each other in a sexually fraught manner, Shalako returns to the stranded hunting party, which is re-equipped with weapons and supplies he had previously advised them to hide in reserve. He hopes to lead them on foot to a plateau where they will be temporarily safe, Shalako and von Hallstadt continue to feud, but over time their feelings evolve to mutual respect. The Apaches attack the coach, killing all Fulton’s men as well as Lady Julia. Fulton, having watched her killing, joins up with the hunting party, after they rebuff an initial Apache attack, the humiliated Sir Charles challenges Fulton, and they fatally shoot each other. Chato and some other Apache warriors come up behind the Europeans, Chato challenges Shalako to a one-on-one fight with spears. Chato loses and is about to be killed when his father and he gives safe passage to Shalako and the others in return for his sons life. With the surviving members of the party safe, Shalako rides off into the western landscape, producer Euan Lloyd was introduced to Louis LAmour, author of numerous Western adventure novels, by his actor friend Alan Ladd. Over the years as Lloyd dreamed of becoming an independent producer and he wanted to film his 1962 novel Shalako. At one time Lloyd had lined up Henry Fonda and Senta Berger to star in the film, planning to shoot it in Mexico. Lloyd recounted that, at the time, many film distributors were reluctant to back a film starring Fonda, during a meeting with LAmour, Lloyd recounted long lines at the cinemas in New York for the latest James Bond adventure film. LAmour remarked that Sean Connery, who starred in the role, when Lloyd met Sean Connery and discussed the work with him, he learned that Connery was a Western fan since childhood. He was also keen to do the film as he had been promised $1.2 million, Connery was available, as he had turned down playing Bond in On Her Majestys Secret Service
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Hera
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Hera is the goddess of women and marriage in Greek mythology and religion. She is the daughter of the Titans Cronus and Rhea, Hera is married to her brother Zeus and is titled as the Queen of Heaven. One of her characteristics is her jealous and vengeful nature against Zeuss other lovers and offspring, Hera is commonly seen with the animals she considers sacred including the cow, lion and the peacock. Scholar of Greek mythology Walter Burkert writes in Greek Religion, Nevertheless, there are memories of an aniconic representation, as a pillar in Argos. Her counterpart in the religion of ancient Rome was Juno, According to Plutarch, Hera was an allegorical name and an anagram of aēr. So begins the section on Hera in Walter Burkerts Greek Religion, in a note, he records other scholars arguments for the meaning Mistress as a feminine to Heros, Master. John Chadwick, a decipherer of Linear B, remarks her name may be connected with hērōs, ἥρως, hero, a. J. van Windekens, offers young cow, heifer, which is consonant with Heras common epithet βοῶπις. R. S. P. Beekes has suggested a Pre-Greek origin and her name is attested in Mycenaean Greek written in the Linear B syllabic script as
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Jason and the Argonauts (1963 film)
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It was distributed by Columbia Pictures. The film score was composed by Bernard Herrmann, who worked with Harryhausen on the fantasy films The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, The Three Worlds of Gulliver. Pelias, misinterpreting the prophecy given to him by the god Zeus, usurps the throne of Thessaly, killing King Aristo, the god Hermes, disguised as Pelias soothsayer, holds back his army long enough for the infant Jason to be spirited away by one of Aristos soldiers. Pelias slays one of the daughters, Briseis, as she seeks sanctuary in the temple of the goddess Hera. Because the murder has profaned her temple, the angry Hera becomes Jasons protector and she warns Pelias to beware of a man wearing one sandal. Twenty years later, Jason saves Pelias from drowning, but loses his sandal in the river, learning that Jason intends to find the legendary Golden Fleece, he encourages him, hoping Jason will be killed in the attempt. Jason is brought to Mount Olympus to speak with Zeus and Hera, Hera tells him Zeus has decreed he can only call upon her for aid five times. She directs him to search for the Fleece in the land of Colchis, Zeus offers his direct aid, but Jason declares he can organize the voyage, build a ship, and collect a crew of the bravest men in all Greece. Men from all over Greece compete for the honor, because their ship is named the Argo after her builder, Argus, the crew are dubbed the Argonauts. Among them are Hercules, Hylas, and Acastus, the son of Pelias, Hera guides Jason to the Isle of Bronze, but warns him to take nothing but provisions. However, Hercules steals a brooch pin the size of a javelin from a building, surmounted by a giant statue of Talos. Jason again turns to Hera, who tells him to open a large plug on Talos heel, Talos falls to the ground, crushing Hylas, hiding his body. Hercules refuses to leave until he ascertains the fate of his friend, the other Argonauts refuse to abandon Hercules, so Jason calls upon Hera again. She informs them that Hylas is dead and that Hercules will not continue on with them, the Argonauts next reach the realm of King Phineus, who has been blinded and is tormented by harpies for his transgressions against the gods. Arriving at the Clashing Rocks, the Argonauts witness another ship suffering that fate, when the Argo tries to row through, the ship appears doomed. Jason throws Phineus amulet into the water, and the sea god Triton rises up, the Argonauts rescue a survivor from the other ship, Medea, high priestess of Colchis. Challenging Jasons authority, Acastus engages him in a duel, disarmed, Acastus jumps into the sea and disappears. Jason and his men land in Colchis and accept an invitation from King Aeëtes to a feast, unknown to them, Acastus has survived and warned Aeëtes of Jasons quest for their prized Golden Fleece
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ITV (TV channel)
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ITV is a commercial television channel in the United Kingdom. Previously a network of regional television channels, ITV currently operates in England, Wales, Scotland, the Isle of Man. From 2001 until 2013, the channel was called ITV1, in 2004, Granada Television acquired Carlton Communications to form ITV plc. ITV is the biggest and most popular television channel in the United Kingdom. ITV and its channels have contended with BBC One for the status of the UKs most watched television channel since the 1950s. However, in line with other channels, ITVs audience share has fallen in the era of multi-channel television. Following the creation of the Television Act 1954, the establishment of a television service in the UK began. The Independent Television service, or ITV, was made up of regions, the three largest regions were subdivided into weekday and weekend services, with a different company running each. ITV existed in a form from its inception to the 2000s. ITV1 became the generic brand name used by the twelve franchises of the ITV Network in the United Kingdom. The brand was introduced in 2001 by Carlton- and Granada-owned franchises, however, it became the sole on-air identity in 2002 when the two companies decided to create a single unified playout of the channel, with regional references only used prior to regional programming. Carlton and Granada went on to merge in 2004, creating ITV plc which now owns thirteen of the fifteen regional ITV licences. The ITV1 name was used in England, Wales, Southern Scotland and Isle of Man until Channel Television adopted the name in January 2006. It should be noted, however, that as national continuity is used on Channel Television. ITV Wales & West was the exception, using the name ITV1 Wales at all times for the Welsh part of its broadcast area as it has a higher regional commitment. Latterly the ITV1 Wales name was used on breakbumpers and regionally advertised programmes till 2013. Non ITV plc-owned licencees on the network generally did not refer to the ITV name, the network production arms of the ITV-plc owned licencees have been gradually combined since 1993 to eventually form ITV Studios. ITV was formed by the unification of eleven of the ITV licences, the Broadcasting Act 1990 changed many of the rules regulating the ITV Network, which most notably relaxed franchise ownership and hours of production
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Statistician
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A statistician is someone who works with theoretical or applied statistics. The profession exists in both the private and public sectors and it is common to combine statistical knowledge with expertise in other subjects, and statisticians may work as employees or as statistical consultants. According to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, as of 2014,26,970 jobs were classified as statistician in the United States, of these people, approximately 30 percent worked for governments. Statisticians are included with the professions in various national and international occupational classifications, in the United States most employment in the field requires either a masters degree in statistics or a related field or a PhD. List of statisticians Statistician entry, Occupational Outlook Handbook, U. S
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Guildhall School of Music and Drama
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The Guildhall School of Music and Drama is an independent music and dramatic arts school which was founded in 1880 in London, England. Students can pursue courses in music, opera, drama and technical theatre arts, the school currently numbers almost 900 students, approximately 700 of whom are undergraduate and postgraduate music students and 175 on the acting and technical theatre programmes. In any given year, about 40% of the students are from outside the UK, the chairman of Guildhall is David Andrew Graves, elected a governor in 2009 he became deputy of the board and then chairman in 2012. Ife led the Guildhall School’s application for Taught Degree-Awarding Powers, which were granted by the Privy Council in April 2014, the Guildhall School of Music first opened its doors on 27 September 1880, housed in a disused warehouse in the City of London. With 62 part-time students, it was the first municipal college in Great Britain. The new building was completed by 9 December 1886 and the then Lord Mayor of London, teaching continued under the first principal of the school, Thomas Henry Weist Hill, and his team of 90 professors. The new site, designed by architect Sir Horace Jones, comprised a common room for professors and 45 studios, each room contained both a grand piano and an upright piano. Additionally, there was a room and a practice room, in reality a small concert hall which was used for orchestral. The practice room was also the venue for the school concerts Initially, all tuition was on a part-time basis. Departments of speech, voice and acting were added and by 1935 the school had added, the school moved to its present premises in the heart of the City of Londons Barbican Centre in 1977 and continues to be owned, funded and administered by the City of London. About three minutes walk from the school, Sundial Court offers self-catering single-room accommodation for 178 students, in 2001 the Secretary of State, Baroness Blackstone, announced that the Barbican Centre, including the Guildhall School, was to be Grade II listed. The school currently numbers over 800 students on its roll call, as of 2017, about 135 are studying in the acting and technical theatre programmes. In any given year, about 40% of the students are from outside the UK typically represent over 40 nationalities, the school is a member of Conservatoires UK and of the European Association of Conservatoires. The school was rated No.1 specialist institution in the UK in the Guardian University Guide 2013 and 2014, the most significant investment in the Guildhall Schools future came to fruition via the £90 million redevelopment of the neighbouring Milton Court site. The new building, which opened in 2013, houses three new performance spaces, a hall, a theatre and a studio theatre in addition to drama teaching. The school offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs as well as the Junior Guildhall, a Saturday school serving students from 4 to 18 years of age. The schools outreach activities won the Queens Anniversary Prize in 2005, the school was awarded a further Queens Anniversary Prize in 2007 in recognition of the outstanding achievements and work of the Opera Programme. The schools performance facilities include a 308-seat drama and opera theatre, concert hall, lecture/recital hall, in addition, students of the school regularly perform in other London venues, including the Barbican Centre, the Bridewell Theatre, the Soho Theatre, the Royal Court and the Swan
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Home Office
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The Home Office is a ministerial department of the Her Majestys Government of the United Kingdom, responsible for immigration, security and law and order. As such it is responsible for the police, fire and rescue services, visas and immigration and it is also in charge of government policy on security-related issues such as drugs, counter-terrorism and ID cards. It was formerly responsible for Her Majestys Prison Service and the National Probation Service, the Cabinet minister responsible for the department is the Home Secretary. The Home Office continues to be known, especially in official papers, the Home Office is headed by the Home Secretary, a Cabinet minister supported by the departments senior civil servant, the Permanent Secretary. The plan said the department will,1, simplify national institutional structures and establish a National Crime Agency to strengthen the fight against organised crime 3. Create a more integrated criminal justice system Help the police and other public services work together across the criminal justice system 4, secure our borders and reduce immigration Deliver an improved migration system that commands public confidence and serves our economic interests. Limit non-EU economic migrants, and introduce new measures to reduce inflow and minimise abuse of all migration routes, process asylum applications more quickly, and end the detention of children for immigration purposes 5. Protect peoples freedoms and civil liberties Reverse state interference to ensure there is not disproportionate intrusion into people‟s lives 6, protect our citizens from terrorism Keep people safe through the Government‟s approach to counter-terrorism 7. Build a fairer and more equal society Help create a fair, on 27 March 1782, the Home Office was formed by renaming the existing Southern Department, with all existing staff transferring. On the same day, the Northern Department was renamed the Foreign Office, to match the new names, there was a transferring of responsibilities between the two Departments of State. All domestic responsibilities were moved to the Home Office, and all foreign matters became the concern of the Foreign Office, most subsequently created domestic departments have been formed by splitting responsibilities away from the Home Office. On 7 April 2012, hacktivist group Anonymous temporarily took down the UK Home Office website, the group took responsibility for the attack, which was part of ongoing Anonymous activity in protest against the deportation of hackers as part of Operation TrialAtHome. One Anonymous source claimed in their tweet it was launched in retaliation for draconian surveillance proposals. On 18 July 2012, the Public and Commercial Services Union announced that thousands of Home Office employees would go on strike over jobs, pay and other issues. However, the PCSU called off the strike before it was planned it claimed the department had, subsequent to the threat of actions, announced 1,100 new border jobs. From 1978 to 2004, the Home Office was located at 50 Queen Annes Gate, many functions, however, were devolved to offices in other parts of London and the country, notably the headquarters of the Immigration and Nationality Directorate in Croydon. g. Wales Under the Welsh devolution settlement, specific areas are transferred to the National Assembly for Wales rather than reserved to Westminster
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Fame Is the Spur (film)
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Fame is the Spur is a 1947 British drama film directed by Roy Boulting. It stars Michael Redgrave, Rosamund John, Bernard Miles, David Tomlinson, Maurice Denham and its plot involves a British politician who rises to power, abandoning on the way his radical views for more conservative ones. It is based on the novel Fame Is the Spur by Howard Spring, Redgrave is glib and photogenic, he acts the lost leader in a handsome style. But such is Redgraves dominance that theres little room for other characters to develop or for any cogent social agenda, Fame Is the Spur at the Internet Movie Database Review of film at Variety
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Quartet (1948 film)
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Quartet is a 1948 British anthology film with four segments, each based on a story by W. Somerset Maugham. Each segment is introduced by the author and it was successful enough to produce two sequels Trio and Encore, and popularised the compendium film format, leading to films such as O. Henrys Full House in 1952. The screenplays for the stories were all written by R. C, based on The Facts of Life, included in the 1940 collection of Maugham stories The Mixture as Before. Mr. Garnet gives him advice, never gamble, never lend money. On the last night of his stay, he disregards all three, he wins an amount of money at roulette and meets a beautiful woman named Jeanne. Later, she repays him, then takes him dancing at a nightclub and it is so late, his hotel has closed for the night. She offers to let him sleep on her sofa, later that night, he awakens to find her stealing his winnings. He pretends to be asleep and sees her hide the money in a vase, after she leaves, he retrieves the money. The next morning, on the plane returning home, he counts his money, a friend suggests that Jeanne had stored her own funds in the same hiding place. Upon his return home, his father laments to his friends that his son ignored everything he had told him, Georges answer is incomprehensible to his entire family, he wants to become a concert pianist. His family, who want him to succeed to his fathers place and title, try to talk him out of it. Finally, his cousin Paula comes up with a compromise, he study in Paris for two years, after which an impartial expert will determine whether he has it in him to reach his goal. The two years ended, Paula gets Lea Markart, a world-famous pianist, to do the judging. After listening to Georges recital, Markart tells him that, while his technique is excellent, he lacks the talent and inspiration of a true artist, George is killed later that day with a blast to the chest from a gun he was supposedly cleaning. Based on The Kite, included in the 1947 collection of Maugham stories Creatures of Circumstance, the newlyweds are happy, except for Herberts lifelong enthusiasm for flying kites. Herbert and his father had designed and flown their creations every Saturday on the common since Herbert was a young lad, Betty considers it childish, so to appease her, Herbert reluctantly promises to give it up. However, the lure of his latest, giant, unflown kite proves too great for him, when Betty finds out, they have a fight and Herbert moves back in with his parents, much to his mothers delight. Betty has second thoughts and tries to make up with her husband, out of anger, she destroys his new kite
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W. Somerset Maugham
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William Somerset Maugham CH, better known as W. Somerset Maugham, was a British playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest-paid author during the 1930s, after losing both his parents by the age of 10, Maugham was raised by a paternal uncle who was emotionally cold. Not wanting to become a lawyer like other men in his family, the initial run of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth, sold out so rapidly that Maugham gave up medicine to write full-time. During and after the war, he travelled in India and Southeast Asia, all of these experiences were reflected in short stories. Maughams father, Robert Ormond Maugham, was a lawyer who handled the affairs of the British embassy in Paris. Since French law declared that all born on French soil could be conscripted for military service, his father arranged for Maugham to be born at the embassy. His grandfather, another Robert, had also been a prominent lawyer and co-founder of the Law Society of England and it was taken for granted that Maugham and his brothers would follow in their footsteps. His elder brother Viscount Maugham enjoyed a legal career and served as Lord Chancellor from 1938 to 1939. Maughams mother, Edith Mary, had tuberculosis, a condition for which her physician prescribed childbirth and she had Maugham several years after the last of his three older brothers, they were already enrolled in boarding school by the time he was three. Being the youngest, he was raised as an only child. Ediths sixth and final son died on 25 January 1882, one day after his birth, Edith died of tuberculosis six days later on 31 January at the age of 41. The early death of his mother left Maugham traumatized, he kept his mothers photograph by his bedside for the rest of his life, two years after Ediths death Maughams father died in France of cancer. Maugham was sent to the UK to be cared for by his uncle, Henry MacDonald Maugham, the move was damaging, as Henry Maugham proved cold and emotionally cruel. The boy attended The Kings School, Canterbury, which was difficult for him. He was teased for his bad English and his short stature, Maugham developed a stammer that stayed with him all his life, although it was sporadic, being subject to his moods and circumstances. Miserable both at his uncles vicarage and at school, the young Maugham developed a talent for making wounding remarks to those who displeased him and this ability is sometimes reflected in Maughams literary characters. At sixteen Maugham refused to continue at The Kings School and his uncle allowed him to travel to Germany, where he studied literature, philosophy and German at Heidelberg University. During his year in Heidelberg Maugham met and had an affair with John Ellingham Brooks
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So Long at the Fair
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So Long at the Fair is a 1950 British thriller film directed by Terence Fisher and Anthony Darnborough, and starring Jean Simmons and Dirk Bogarde. It was adapted from the 1947 novel of the name by Anthony Thorne. The general story is a version of appears to be a 19th-century urban legend. Maybe You Will Remember told in Alvin Schwartzs Scary Stories 3, the German film Verwehte Spuren was also based on the story, and produced in 1938, with a script by Thea von Harbou. The title derives from the nursery rhyme Oh Dear, in 1889, young Englishwoman Vicky Barton and her brother Johnny arrive in Paris to see the Exposition Universelle. This is Vickys first time in Paris, and after checking into a hotel, she drags her tired brother to dinner and she finally retires for the night, while Johnny has a late-night drink. The next morning, Vicky finds a wall where Johnnys room used to be. When she questions hotel owner and manager Madame Hervé, the claims she arrived alone. The room number now adorns the common bathroom, Madame Hervés brother Narcisse and the day porter back up her story. Frantic, Vicky goes to see the British consul, followed secretly by Narcisse and she has no proof of her brothers existence, so the consul can only suggest she find a witness, Nina, the hotel maid who attended her. Nina had informed her that she was going up in a balloon with her boyfriend at the Exposition that day, before she can talk to Nina, the balloon ascends, bursts into flames, and plummets to the ground, killing the two passengers. Vicky tries the French police commissaire and he questions Madame Hervé and her brother, but can find nothing amiss in their story. Since her room has been reserved for two nights, Vicky has to leave the hotel. Madame Hervé offers her a home to England, which she is forced to accept. However, unbeknownst to either party, Rhoda ODonovan has been asked by George Hathaway to deliver a letter containing his loan repayment to Johnny, not finding his room, Rhoda slips the envelope under Vickys door, where she finds it. When he confirms having met her brother, she bursts into tears, George notices there are six balconies, but only five rooms on the floor, and finds the missing hotel room, the entrance having been covered over to be part of the wall. Under questioning by the police, Madame Hervé reveals where Johnny has been taken and it turns out that he became sick with the Black Plague during the night. The news would have been disastrous for the Exposition, so he was taken away to a hospital
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Dirk Bogarde
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Sir Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde, known as Dirk Bogarde, was an English actor and writer. Initially a matinée idol in films such as Doctor in the House for the Rank Organisation, in a second career, he wrote seven best-selling volumes of memoirs, six novels and a volume of collected journalism, mainly from articles in The Daily Telegraph. Bogarde came to prominence in films including The Blue Lamp in the early 1950s and he twice won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, for The Servant and Darling. His other notable roles included Victim, Accident, The Damned, Death in Venice, The Night Porter, A Bridge Too Far. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters in 1990, Bogarde was the elder of two sons born to Ulric van den Bogaerde and Margaret Niven. He had a sister, Elizabeth. Ulric was born in Perry Barr, Birmingham, of Flemish ancestry and he was Art Editor of The Times. Margaret Niven was Scottish, from Glasgow and was a former actress, Dirk Bogarde was born in a nursing home at 12 Hemstal Road, West Hampstead, London. He was baptised on 30 October 1921 at St. Marys Church and his brother, Gareth Ulric Van Den Bogaerde, an advertising film producer, was born in July 1933, in Hendon. Conditions in the home in North London became cramped and Bogarde was moved to Glasgow to stay with relatives of his mother. He stayed there for three years, returning at the end of 1937. He attended University College School, and the former Allan Glens Technical School in Glasgow, from 1937 to 1938 he studied at the Chelsea School of Art. He served in both the European and Pacific theatres, principally as an intelligence officer.8 airfield at Sommervieu, near Bayeux. In a 1986 Yorkshire Television interview with Russell Harty Bogarde said, I went to see quite a lot of them, I mean I went back to the villages, and saw what I had done. I can talk about it now at 65 because its sort of, dispassionate about it, and Ive seen worse things since, a row of kids heads that you thought were footballs and you kick one and it wasnt, and it rolled away down the rubble. I mean nothing could be worse than that, the gates were opened and then I realised that I was looking at Dantes Inferno, I mean. I still havent seen anything as dreadful, and a girl came up who spoke English, because she recognised one of the badges, and she. Her breasts were like, sort of, empty purses, she had no top on, and a pair of mans pyjamas, you know, the prison pyjamas, but I knew she was girl because of her breasts, which were empty
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A Night to Remember (1958 film)
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A Night to Remember is a 1958 British drama film adaptation of Walter Lords eponymous 1955 book, which recounts the final night of the RMS Titanic. Adapted by Eric Ambler and directed by Roy Ward Baker, the film stars Kenneth More and features Ronald Allen, Robert Ayres, Honor Blackman, Michael Goodliffe and it was filmed in the United Kingdom. The films World Premiere was on Thursday,3 July 1958 at the Odeon Leicester Square, Titanic survivor Elizabeth Dowdell attended the American premiere in New York on Tuesday 16 December 1958. The film received acclaim upon release. The Titanic was built to be the largest vessel afloat and was believed to be unsinkable. It included the cream of American and British society, the story of its sinking is told from the point of view of her passengers and crew, principally Second Officer Charles Lightoller. Once in the sea on its maiden voyage, the ship receives a number of ice warnings from other steamers. Late on 14 April 1912, lookout Frederick Fleet spots an iceberg directly in front of the ship, the vessel turns hard to port but collides with the iceberg on its starboard side, opening the first five compartments to the sea, below the waterline. A distress signal is sent out, and efforts begin to signal the SS Californian, visible on the horizon, but its radio operator is off duty and does not hear the distress signal. Unfortunately, the ship is 58 miles away, which means it will take four hours to reach the Titanic. Captain Smith orders Officers Lightoller and William Murdoch to start lowering the lifeboats, many women and children are reluctant to board in the small, cramped lifeboats, and Murdoch and Lightoller must use force to put them in. Many men try to sneak on board, but Lightoller will not allow them, Murdoch, working the other side of the ship, is shown as more accommodating to men. As the stewards struggle to hold back women and children in third-class, most of those from first- and second-class board the lifeboats, the Carpathia is racing to the site, using all possible steam in hopes of saving more lives. The Titanic sinks amid much chaos on the deck, with passengers allowed up from below only after all the lifeboats have gone. The Titanics bow submerges, and there are only two lifeboats left. Lightoller and other able seamen struggle to untie them as the lights flicker off, then the last funnel collapse, then takes its final plunge, Lightoller. One of the collapsible boats is floating, so Lightoller. Chief Baker Charles Joughin is found in the water, not minding the cold because hes been drinking, Lightoller spots another boat, and the men are saved
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RMS Titanic
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Of the 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, more than 1,500 died, making it one of the deadliest commercial peacetime maritime disasters in modern history. Thomas Andrews, her architect, died in the disaster, the first class accommodation was designed to be the pinnacle of comfort and luxury, with an on-board gymnasium, swimming pool, libraries, high-class restaurants and opulent cabins. A high-power radiotelegraph transmitter was available for sending passenger marconigrams and for the operational use. Titanic only carried enough lifeboats for 1,178 people—slightly more than half of the number on board, after leaving Southampton on 10 April 1912, Titanic called at Cherbourg in France and Queenstown in Ireland before heading west to New York. On 14 April, four days into the crossing and about 375 miles south of Newfoundland, the collision caused the ships hull plates to buckle inwards along her starboard side and opened five of her sixteen watertight compartments to the sea, she could only survive four flooding. Meanwhile, passengers and some members were evacuated in lifeboats. A disproportionate number of men were left aboard because of a women and children first protocol for loading lifeboats, at 2,20 a. m. she broke apart and foundered—with well over one thousand people still aboard. Just under two hours after Titanic sank, the Cunard liner RMS Carpathia arrived at the scene, where she brought aboard an estimated 705 survivors. The disaster was greeted with shock and outrage at the huge loss of life. Public inquiries in Britain and the United States led to improvements in maritime safety. One of their most important legacies was the establishment in 1914 of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, which still governs maritime safety today. Additionally, several new regulations were passed around the world in an effort to learn from the many missteps in wireless communications—which could have saved many more passengers. The wreck of Titanic, first discovered over 70 years after the sinking, remains on the seabed, since her discovery in 1985, thousands of artifacts have been recovered and put on display at museums around the world. Titanic has become one of the most famous ships in history, her memory is kept alive by numerous works of culture, including books, folk songs, films, exhibits. Titanic is the second largest ocean liner wreck in the world, only beaten by her sister HMHS Britannic, the name Titanic was derived from Greek mythology and meant gigantic. They were by far the largest vessels of the British shipping company White Star Lines fleet, Teutonic was replaced by Olympic while Majestic was replaced by Titanic. Majestic would be back into her old spot on White Stars New York service after Titanics loss. The ships were constructed by the Belfast shipbuilders Harland and Wolff, cost considerations were relatively low on the agenda and Harland and Wolff was authorised to spend what it needed on the ships, plus a five percent profit margin
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The Square Peg
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The Square Peg is a 1959 British war comedy film starring Norman Wisdom and directed by John Paddy Carstairs. Norman Wisdom plays two different characters, a man who digs and repairs roads, and a Nazi general. During the Second World War, Norman Pitkin, a roadmender with the St Godrics Borough Council, enjoys annoying the soldiers of the nearby British Army camp, even a general. Despite the efforts of his boss, Borough Engineer Mr Grimsdale and they begin training at the same camp under the supervision of one of Pitkins former victims, Sergeant Loder. The only bright spot for Pitkin is falling in love at first sight with the beautiful ATS officer Lesley Cartland, Pipkin and Grimsdale board the wrong lorry and end up parachuting into France, where they are put to work on road repairs. They inadvertently advance four miles into territory, and Grimsdale is captured. Meanwhile, Pitkin goes to the town of Fleury to purchase sugar and eggs. It transpires that he is exactly like the ruthless local commander. In a cafe, he recognises the waitress as Lesley Cartland and she is working with the local resistance group, but Pitkin inadvertently blows her cover and she is arrested, along with the cafe owner. Pitkin and Henri Le Blanc, the resistance leader, break into the chateau through a tunnel that Pitkin digs to try to rescue them. Pitkin, unaware of this, climbs into Schreibers suite, when Gretchen, the generals girlfriend, arrives, Schreiber leaves strict orders not to be disturbed, no matter what. In the next room, Pitkin dresses in one of Schreibers uniforms and he watches through a keyhole as the couple dine, then unexpectedly sing a duet. When Schreiber leaves the room to attend to his throat, Pipkin is mistaken for him by Gretchen and has to attempt to sing Schubert lieder with her, luckily, Schreiber has locked himself in the bathroom. Eventually he gets out, but after some further hijinks, including a rendition of the Marx Brothers mirror routine from Duck Soup, by pretending to be Schreiber, Pitkin manages to free the prisoners. They escape, but Pitkin is caught and sentenced to be shot at dawn, as the execution is about to be carried out, he inadvertently falls into the camouflaged tunnel he dug and escapes. After the war ends, Grismdale is still Borough Engineer, Norman Wisdom as Norman Pitkin/General Schreiber Honor Blackman as Lesley Cartland Edward Chapman as Mr. The film was the 7th most popular movie at the British box office in 1959, the Square Peg at the Internet Movie Database The Square Peg at BFI Screenonline
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Life at the Top (film)
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Life at the Top is a 1965 drama film, a production of Romulus Films released by Columbia Pictures. The screenplay was by Mordecai Richler, based on the novel Life at the Top by John Braine and it was directed by Ted Kotcheff and produced by James Woolf with William Kirby as associate producer. The music score was by Richard Addinsell and the cinematography by Oswald Morris, the films art director Edward Marshall received a 1966 BAFTA Award nomination. The film stars Laurence Harvey, once again playing Joe Lampton, with Jean Simmons, Honor Blackman, in Room at the Top Joe Lamptons escape from his working-class background through his seduction of, and marriage to, the daughter of a wealthy mill owner had been portrayed. Ten years on Joe is living the dream of the young executive, complete with luxurious suburban house, white Jaguar. Despite this, Joe finds it hard to face to face with himself. Life at the Top at the Internet Movie Database
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Laurence Harvey
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Laurence Harvey was a Lithuanian-born South African actor. In a career spanned a quarter of a century, Harvey appeared in stage, film and television productions primarily in the United Kingdom. His performance in Room at the Top resulted in an Academy Award nomination and that success was followed by the role of the ill-fated Texan commander William Barret Travis in The Alamo, produced by John Wayne, and as the brainwashed Raymond Shaw in The Manchurian Candidate. Harveys civil birth name was Laruschka Mischa Skikne and his Hebrew names were Zvi Mosheh. He was born in Joniškis, Lithuania, the youngest of three sons of Ella and Ber Skikne, Lithuanian Jewish parents, Harvey grew up in Johannesburg, and was in his teens when he served with the entertainment unit of the South African Army during the Second World War. After moving to London, he enrolled in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Harvey made his cinema debut in the British film House of Darkness, but its distributor British Lion thought someone named Larry Skikne was not commercially viable. Accounts vary as to how the actor acquired his name of Laurence Harvey. One version has it that it was the idea of talent agent Gordon Harbord who decided Laurence would be an appropriate first name, in choosing a British-sounding last name, Harbord thought of two British retail institutions, Harvey Nichols and Harrods. Another is that Skikne was travelling on a London bus with Sid James who exclaimed during their journey, Harveys own account differed over time. Associated British Picture Corporation quickly offered him a contract, which Harvey accepted. He appeared in supporting roles in several of their films such as Man on the Run, Landfall. For International Motion Pictures he was in The Man from Yesterday, Harvey stayed in leading roles for two movies with Lewis Gilbert, Scarlet Thread and There Is Another Sun. For Ealing he made I Believe in You, then he starred in a low budget thriller, Harveys career gained a boost when he appeared in Women of Twilight, this was made by Romulus Films run by Jimmy and James Woolf, who signed Harvey to a long-term contract. James Woolf in particular was a big admirer of Harvey and he had an uncredited role in the comedy Innocents in Paris, and in a Hollywood film, Knights of the Round Table. Romulus have him a part in a thriller directed by Gilbert. He was given the male lead in another Hollywood spectacular, King Richard. It was a box office disappointment and that year he also played Romeo in Renato Castellanis adaptation of Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet, narrated by John Gielgud. He was now established as an emerging British star, according to a contemporary interview, he turned down an offer to appear in Helen of Troy to act at Stratford-upon-Avon
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Sean Connery
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Sir Thomas Sean Connery is a retired Scottish actor and producer who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards and three Golden Globes. He was knighted by Elizabeth II in July 2000 after receiving Kennedy Center Honors in the US in 1999, Connery was the first actor to portray the character James Bond in film, starring in seven Bond films between 1962 and 1983. In 1988, Connery won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Untouchables, Connery has been polled as The Greatest Living Scot and Scotlands Greatest Living National Treasure. In 1989, he was proclaimed Sexiest Man Alive by People magazine, Thomas Sean Connery, named Thomas after his grandfather, was born in Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, Scotland on 25 August 1930. His mother, Euphemia McBain Effie, was a cleaning woman and his paternal grandfathers parents emigrated to Scotland from Ireland in the mid-19th century. The remainder of his family was of Scottish descent, and his maternal great-grandparents were native Scottish Gaelic speakers from Fife and his father was a Roman Catholic, and his mother was a Protestant. He has a brother, Neil. He was generally referred to in his youth as Tommy, although he was small in primary school, he grew rapidly around the age of 12, reaching his full adult height of 6 ft 2 in at 18. He was known during his teen years as Big Tam, and has stated that he lost his virginity to a woman in an ATS uniform at the age of 14. Connerys first job was as a milkman in Edinburgh with St. Cuthberts Co-operative Society, one tattoo is a tribute to his parents and reads Mum and Dad, and the other is self-explanatory, Scotland Forever. Connery was later discharged from the navy on medical grounds because of a duodenal ulcer, Scotland, Archie Brennan, a coffin polisher. The modelling earned him 15 shillings an hour, student artist Richard Demarco who painted several notable early pictures of Connery described him as very straight, slightly shy, too, too beautiful for words, a virtual Adonis. Connery began bodybuilding at the age of 18, and from 1951 trained heavily with Ellington, Connery was a keen footballer, having played for Bonnyrigg Rose in his younger days. He was offered a trial with East Fife, while on tour with South Pacific, Connery played in a football match against a local team that Matt Busby, manager of Manchester United, happened to be scouting. According to reports, Busby was impressed with his physical prowess, Connery admits that he was tempted to accept, but he recalls, I realised that a top-class footballer could be over the hill by the age of 30, and I was already 23. I decided to become an actor and it turned out to be one of my more intelligent moves, looking to pick up some extra money, Connery helped out backstage at the Kings Theatre in late 1951. He became interested in the proceedings, and a career was launched, the production returned the following year out of popular demand, and Connery was promoted to the featured role of Lieutenant Buzz Adams, which Larry Hagman had portrayed in the West End. While in Edinburgh, Connery was targeted by the notorious Valdor gang, there Connery launched an attack single-handedly against the gang members, grabbing one by the throat and another by a biceps and cracked their heads together
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Brigitte Bardot
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Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot is a French actress, singer and fashion model, who later became an animal rights activist. She was one of the best known sex symbols of the 1950s and 1960s and was referred to by her initials. She started her career in 1952. After appearing in 16 routine comedy films that had limited international release, Bardot caught the attention of French intellectuals. She later starred in Jean-Luc Godards 1963 film Le Mépris, for her role in Louis Malles 1965 film Viva Maria. Bardot was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress, from 1969 to 1978, Bardot was the official face of Marianne to represent the liberty of France. Bardot retired from the entertainment industry in 1973, during her career in show business, she starred in 47 films, performed in several musical shows and recorded over 60 songs. She was awarded the Legion of Honour in 1985 but refused to accept it, after her retirement, she established herself as an animal rights activist. During the 2000s, she generated controversy by criticizing immigration and Islam in France and has been fined five times for inciting racial hatred, Bardot was born in Paris, the daughter of Louis Bardot and Anne-Marie Toty Bardot. Louis had a degree and worked with his father, Charles Bardot. Louis and Anne-Marie married in 1933, Bardot grew up in an upper middle-class Roman Catholic observant home. When she was seven she was admitted to the Cours Hattemer and she went to school three days a week, and otherwise studied at home. This gave time for lessons at Madame Bourgets dance studio three days a week, Brigittes mother also enrolled Brigittes younger sister, Marie-Jeanne, in dance. Marie-Jeanne eventually gave up dancing lessons and did not tell her mother, in 1947, Bardot was accepted to the Conservatoire de Paris. For three years she attended classes by Russian choreographer Boris Knyazev. One of her classmates was Leslie Caron, the other ballerinas nicknamed Bardot Bichette. At the invitation of an acquaintance of her mother, she modelled in a show in 1949. In the same year, she modelled for a fashion magazine Jardin des Modes managed by journalist Hélène Lazareff, aged 15, she appeared on an 8 March 1950 cover of Elle and was noticed by a young film director, Roger Vadim, while babysitting
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Something Big (film)
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Something Big is a 1971 American motion picture produced by Andrew V. McLaglen and James Lee Barrett. A Western comedy, the film stars Dean Martin, Honor Blackman and Brian Keith, former football star Merlin Olsen appears in his second on-screen role as Sergeant Fitzsimmons. Produced at the end of the 1960s and at the height of the Vietnam War, the lighthearted title song, which sets the picaresque tone for the movie, was written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David and sung by Mark Lindsay. The films portrayal of Native Americans is rather negative, depicting them to be drunk and this itself is a revision of the noble savage stereotype of earlier Hollywood westerns. McLaglan started his career in movies as an assistant director to John Ford. In the frontier of New Mexico Territory, Joe Baker is an aging, dovers brother Tommy is a partner in Bakers banditry. In a situation parallel to Bakers, the colonels wife Mary Ann is arriving from the East to accompany him home on his retirement, Colonel Morgan learns from his Indian scout Bookbinder that Baker is planning something but is thwarted at learning details. It is revealed that Baker is planning to attack and rob a bandit hoarde just across the border in Mexico, the treasure being well guarded, Baker makes a deal with the scurrilous Cobb to purchase a Gatling gun in exchange for a woman. Baker receives a letter from his fiancé Dover informing him of her imminent arrival, Bakers gang holds up a series of stagecoaches, but in each one he is unable to find a woman suitable for Cobb and lets the passengers go unmolested. He is finally able to find a candidate, who turns out to be Colonel Morgans wife Mary Ann. She quickly learns to like Baker because he treats her with respect, the abduction of his wife enrages Morgan, who sets off with a patrol to rescue her and capture Baker. Cobb and sidekick Moon meet the trader Malachi Morton in the desert to buy the gun, when the trader demands more, Moon hurls his knife into Mortons chest, instantly killing him. Before they can meet Baker, however, they are accosted by Morgan and his scout Bookbinder, Bakers fiancé Dover arrives at the fort and installs herself in Morgans quarters. Hearing of her arrival, Baker agrees to meet her in the desert and she gives him an ultimatum to go home with her immediately or she will marry someone else. The night before the rendezvous with Cobb to purchase the gun. He attempts to kiss her, but she rebuffs him, stating she is love with her husband, nevertheless, Baker tells Tommy that he intends to take the gun from Cobb without giving Mary Ann to him. Morgan and his scout, with Cobb, Moon and the gun in tow, angel Moon is killed when he attempts to kill Baker. Morgan proceeds to beat up Baker for stealing his wife and he refuses to give Baker the gun, but his wife reminds him that he is now officially retired and no longer has the authority to seize the gun as federal property
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Dean Martin
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Dean Martin was an Italian-American singer, actor, comedian, and film producer. One of the most popular and enduring American entertainers of the century, Martin was nicknamed the King of Cool for his seemingly effortless charisma. He and Jerry Lewis were partners in the popular comedy team Martin. He was a member of the Rat Pack and a star in concert stages, nightclubs, recordings, motion pictures and he was the host of the television variety program The Dean Martin Show and The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast. Martin was born on June 7,1917, in Steubenville, Ohio, to an Italian father, Gaetano Alfonso Crocetti, and an Italian-American mother, Angela Crocetti. His father, who was a barber, was originally from Montesilvano, in Abruzzo, Martin had an older brother named William Alfonso Crocetti. Martins first language was an Abruzzese dialect of Italian, and he did not speak English until he started school at the age of five and he attended Grant Elementary School in Steubenville where he was bullied for his broken English. He later took up the drums as a hobby as a teenager, Martin then dropped out of Steubenville High School in the 10th grade because he thought he was smarter than his teachers. He bootlegged liquor, served as a croupier, was a blackjack dealer, worked in a steel mill. At 15 he was a boxer who billed himself as Kid Crochet and his prizefighting earned him a broken nose, a scarred lip, many broken knuckles, and a bruised body. Of his 12 bouts, he said, I won all but 11, for a time, he roomed with Sonny King, who, like Martin, was starting in show business and had little money. It is said that Martin and King held bare-knuckle matches in their apartment, fighting until one was knocked out, Martin knocked out King in the first round of an amateur boxing match. Martin gave up boxing to work as a roulette stickman and croupier in an illegal casino behind a tobacco shop, at the same time he sang with local bands, calling himself Dino Martini. He got his break working for the Ernie McKay Orchestra and he sang in a crooning style influenced by Harry Mills, among others. In the early 1940s, he started singing for bandleader Sammy Watkins, in October 1941 Martin married Elizabeth Betty Anne McDonald. They had four children before the marriage ended in 1949, Martin worked for various bands throughout the early 1940s, mostly on looks and personality until he developed his own singing style. Martin flopped at the Riobamba, a nightclub in New York, when he followed Frank Sinatra in 1943, Martin was drafted into the United States Army in 1944 during World War II, serving a year in Akron, Ohio. He was reclassified as 4-F and discharged, possibly because of a double hernia, by 1946, Martin was doing well, but he was little more than an East Coast nightclub singer with a common style, similar to that of Bing Crosby
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Ray Harryhausen
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Raymond Frederick Ray Harryhausen was an American-British visual effects creator, writer, and producer who created a form of stop-motion model animation known as Dynamation. His last film was Clash of the Titans, after which he retired, Harryhausen moved to the United Kingdom, becoming a dual US-UK citizen and lived in London from 1960 until his death in 2013. Harryhausen was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Martha L. of German descent, the family surname was originally spelled Herrenhausen. The scenes utilising stop-motion animation, those featuring creatures on the island or Kong, were the work of pioneer model animator Willis OBrien and his work in King Kong inspired Harryhausen, and a friend arranged a meeting with OBrien for him. OBrien critiqued Harryhausens early models and urged him to take classes in graphic arts, meanwhile, Harryhausen became friends with an aspiring writer, Ray Bradbury, with similar enthusiasms. Bradbury and Harryhausen joined the Los Angeles-area Science Fiction League formed by Forrest J. Ackerman in 1939, during this time he also worked with composer Dimitri Tiomkin and Ted Geisel. Following the war he salvaged several rolls of discarded 16 mm surplus film from which he made a series of fairy tale-based shorts, One of Harryhausens most long-cherished dreams was to make H. G. Wells The War of the Worlds. It was part of a project to adapt the story using Wells original octopus concept for the Martians. In 1947 Harryhausen was hired as an assistant animator on what turned out to be his first major film, OBrien ended up concentrating on solving the various technical problems of the film, leaving most of the animation to Harryhausen. Their work won OBrien the Academy Award for Best Special Effects that year, the first film with Ray Harryhausen in full charge of technical effects was The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms which began development under the working title Monster From the Sea. Because the story for Harryhausens film featured a scene, the film studio bought the rights to Bradburys story to avoid any potential legal problems. Also, the title was changed to The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, under that title, it became Harryhausens first solo feature film effort, and a major international box-office hit for Warner Brothers. Then the film was rewound, and everything except the foreground element matted out so that the element would now photograph in the previously blacked out area. This created the effect that the model was sandwiched in between the two live action elements, right into the final live action scene. In most of Harryhausens films, model animated characters interact with, and are a part of, most of the effects shots in his earliest films were created via Harryhausens careful frame-by-frame control of the lighting of both the set and the projector. This dramatically reduced much of degradation common in the use of back-projection or the creation of dupe negatives via the use of an optical printer, by developing and executing most of this miniature work himself, Harryhausen saved money, while maintaining full technical control. A few years later, when Harryhausen began working with color film to make The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, Rays producer/partner Charles H. Schneer coined the word Dynamation as a merchandising term. Only the complexities of Directors Guild rules in Hollywood prevented Harryhausen from being credited as the director of his films, throughout most of his career, Harryhausens work was a sort of family affair
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Bridget Jones's Diary (film)
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Bridget Joness Diary is a 2001 British-American-French romantic comedy film directed by Sharon Maguire and written by Richard Curtis, Andrew Davies, and Helen Fielding. It is based on Fieldings novel of the name, which is a reinterpretation of Jane Austens Pride. The adaptation stars Renée Zellweger as Bridget, Hugh Grant as the caddish Daniel Cleaver, production began in May 2000 and ended in August 2000, and took place largely on location in London and the Home Counties. The film premiered on 4 April 2001 in the UK and was released to theatres on 13 April 2001 simultaneously in the UK, Bridget Joness Diary received positive reviews and was a commercial success, grossing over $280 million worldwide. Zellweger was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the film, a sequel, Bridget Jones, The Edge of Reason, was released in 2004 and another sequel, Bridget Joness Baby, was released in 2016. Bridget Jones is 32 years old, single, very accident-prone and she works in publicity at a book publishing company in London where her main focus is fantasising about her boss, Daniel Cleaver. At a New Year party hosted by her parents, she re-encounters Mark Darcy and they had known each other as children. After their initial encounter, Mark thinks that Bridget is a fool and vulgar and Bridget thinks that he is arrogant and rude and she starts her own diary, which covers all her attempts to stop smoking, lose weight and find her Mr. Right. Bridget and Daniel begin to flirt heavily at work, first over email, ahead of an important book launch, at which Bridget bumps into Mark and his glamorous but haughty colleague Natasha. Bridget leaves with Daniel and they have dinner, despite the fact that he is a womaniser with a questionable personality. Bridget learns from Daniel that he and Mark have a history and, as a result, Daniel informs Bridget of their falling-out, telling her that Mark broke their friendship by sleeping with his fiancée. Bridget is invited to a party, and she takes Daniel along as her plus one. They spend the day before the party at a country house hotel, Daniel, having to spend the day working, is not able to attend and sends Bridget to the party alone. However, his dubious character becomes clearer to Bridget when she returns home from the party to find Daniel with another woman, a colleague of his, Lara, and Bridget cuts ties with him soon after. Bridget begins to search for a new job and after landing a job in television, Daniel makes a desperate attempt to convince Bridget to stay, only for her to retort that she would rather have a job wiping Saddam Husseins arse. Bridget has an invitation to a friends dinner party, where she is the only single person and distraught to see Mark. During the party, Mark privately confesses to Bridget that, despite her faults and he later helps Bridget to achieve an exclusive TV interview in a landmark legal case. Bridget begins to develop feelings for Mark, and he comes to her rescue at her dinner party at her flat in Borough
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Albert R. Broccoli
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Albert Romolo Broccoli, nicknamed Cubby, was an American film producer who made more than 40 motion pictures throughout his career. Most of the films were made in the United Kingdom and often filmed at Pinewood Studios, co-founder of Danjaq, LLC and Eon Productions, Broccoli is most notable as the producer of many of the James Bond films. He and Harry Saltzman saw the films develop from relatively low-budget origins to large-budget, high-grossing extravaganzas, and Broccolis heirs continue to produce new Bond films. Albert R. Cubby Broccoli was born in the borough of Queens, New York City and he acquired his nickname after his cousin, mobster Pat DiCicco, began calling him Kabibble, eventually shortened to Kubbie and adopted by Broccoli as Cubby. The family later bought a farm in Smithtown, New York, on Long Island, at the beginning of the 1950s, Broccoli moved once more, this time to London, where the British government provided subsidies to film productions made in the UK with British casts and crews. Together with Irving Allen, Broccoli formed Warwick Films that made a prolific, Saltzman and Broccoli produced the first Bond movie, Dr. No, in 1962. Their second, From Russia with Love, was a success and from then on the films grew in cost, action. With larger casts, more difficult stunts and special effects, and a dependence on exotic locations. Nonetheless, by the mid-1960s, Broccoli had put all of his energies into the Bond series. Saltzman and Broccoli had differences over Saltzmans outside commitments, but in the end it was Saltzman who withdrew from Danjaq, while Saltzmans departure brought the franchise a step closer to corporate control, Broccoli lost relatively little independence or prestige in the bargain. From then until his death, the credits sequence to every EON Bond film would begin with the words Albert R. Broccoli Presents. In 1966, Albert was in Japan with other producers scouting locations to film the next James Bond film You Only Live Twice, Albert had a ticket booked on BOAC Flight 911. He cancelled his ticket on that day so he could see a ninja demonstration, Flight 911 crashed after clear air turbulence. In 1940, at the age of 31, he married actress Gloria Blondell and they later divorced amicably in 1945 without having had children. In 1951, he married Nedra Clark, widow of the singer Buddy Clark, and they adopted a son, Tony Broccoli, after which Nedra became pregnant. She died in 1958, soon giving birth to their daughter. In 1959, Broccoli married actress and novelist Dana Wilson and they had a daughter together, Barbara Broccoli, and Albert Broccoli became a mentor to Danas teenage son, Michael G. Wilson. Broccoli insisted on keeping his family close to him when possible, consequently, the children grew up around the Bond film sets, and his wifes influence on various production decisions is alluded to in many informal accounts
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Budokwai
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The Budokwai in London is the oldest Japanese martial arts club in Europe. It was founded in 1918 by Gunji Koizumi and initially offered tuition in jujutsu, kendo and it was the first judo club in Europe. The full name of the society is the Budokwai but it is normally called The Budokwai and this translates into English as Society of the Martial Way. Gunji Koizumi created the Budokwai as a society to teach judo, kendo and other Japanese arts to members of the public. He founded a dojo at 15 Lower Grosvenor Place, Victoria, London SW1 and it is also the oldest Japanese martial arts club in Europe. The first 36 members were Japanese, the first English man didn’t join until March, Koizumi became the first president of the Budokwai and Yukio Tani the first chief judo instructor. In July 1920, Dr. Jigoro Kano visited Britain and the Budokwai for the first time, he was accompanied by Hikoichi Aida who stayed in Britain, a member named Tanabe received his first Dan, becoming the Budokwais first home-grown black belt. Tani and Koizumi were promoted to nidan, the club held annual shows between 11 May 1918 and 1968 after which shows were only held on special occasions. The Budokwai was instrumental in the formation of the first British national, the British Conference was held on the July 24,1948 at the Imperial College Union, London and during that three-hour meeting the British Judo Association was founded. This was the first ever amateur national judo association, the international conference took place on the July 26 and 281948 with four voting countries, Austria, Britain, the Netherlands and Italy, and one non-voting country, France, attending. The Budokwais Trevor Leggett was elected the chairman and a constitution drafted by the Budikwai was tabled. After alterations and discussion of the constitution a unanimous vote formed the European Judo Union, in 1953 Teizo Kawamura, then a 6th Dan, came from the Kodokan in Japan to become chief instructor. After thirty-five years, the Budokwai moved to 4 Gilston Road, South Kensington, London, the new premises were officially opened in September 1954 by the Japanese Ambassador H. E. In the same decade aikido began to be practiced at the club, with the growth of international Judo competition and especially when judo became an Olympic sport in 1964 the emphasis of judo at the Budokwai moved towards sport and competition judo. Three Budokwai members made were part of the first British Olympic team, Brian Jacks, Syd Hoare, in 2013 The Budokwai ran classes in Judo, Karate, Aikido, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Pilates, Hontai Yōshin-Ryū Ju-Jutsu and activities for babies and toddlers. Judo is taught every day with separate classes held for children of different ages, adult beginners, separate grading events take place once a month on Sundays. As of 2013, the instructor is Peter Blewett who has held the post since 1986. Shotokan Karate is practiced five days a week at the Budokwai with both childrens and adult classes, the chief karate instructor is Yoshinobu Ohta who holds a karate 7th Dan
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Dojo
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Dojo is a Japanese term which literally means place of the way. Initially, dōjōs were adjunct to temples, the term can also refer to a formal training place for any of the Japanese arts ending in do, meaning way. A proper Japanese martial arts dōjō is considered special and is cared for by its users. Shoes are not worn in a dōjō, in many styles it is traditional to conduct a ritual cleaning of the dōjō at the beginning and/or end of each training session. This attitude has become lost in many modern dōjō that are founded, in fact, it is not uncommon that in traditional schools, dōjō are rarely used for training at all, instead being reserved for more symbolic or formal occasions. The actual training is conducted typically outdoors or in a formal area. Many traditional dōjō follow a pattern with shomen and various entrances that are used based on student. Typically students will enter in the corner of the dōjō with instructors in the upper right corner. Shomen typically contains a Shintō shrine with a sculpture, flower arrangement, the term kamiza means place of honor and a related term, kamidana refers to the shrine itself. Other artifacts may be displayed throughout the dōjō, such as kanban that authorize the school in a style or strategy and it is not uncommon to find the name of the dōjō and the dōjō kun displayed prominently at shomen as well. Visitors may have a place reserved, depending on their rank. Weapons and other training gear will normally be found on the back wall, a hombu dōjō is the central training facility and administrative headquarters of a particular martial arts style. The alternative term zendo is more specific, and more widely used, european Sōtō Zen groups affiliated with the International Zen Association prefer to use dōjō instead of zendo to describe their meditation halls as did their founding master, Taisen Deshimaru
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John Neville (actor)
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John Reginald Neville, CM, OBE was an English theatre and film actor who moved to Canada in 1972. He enjoyed a resurgence of attention in the 1980s as a result of his starring role in Terry Gilliams The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. Neville was born in Willesden, London, the son of Mabel Lillian and Reginald Daniel Neville, Neville was a West End idol of the 1950s, hailed as one of the most potent classical actors of the Burton-OToole generation. He also alternated with Richard Burton the parts of Othello and Iago in Othello and he was a frequent visiting player at the Bristol Old Vic. He received good reviews in the adaptation of Lolita, called Lolita, My Love. Noted for his good looks and mellifluous voice, the young Neville was frequently described as the young John Gielguds natural successor. For a while, he took over the role of Nestor Le Fripé from Keith Michell in the original West End production of the musical Irma La Douce. For a brief period in 1963, he returned to the London stage, playing Alfie in the version of the play by Bill Naughton. It became one of Britains leading provincial repertory theatres, though Dunlop and Ustinov soon left, Neville remained at the theatre until 1967 when he resigned over funding disputes with the local authority and the Arts Council. With his family, he left Britain in 1972 and devoted his career to the Canadian theatre, taking up the post of artistic director at the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton. In 1988, Terry Gilliam cast him as the lead in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, in the film, Neville plays the character at three different stages of his life, in his 30s, his 50s and his 70s. From 1995–98, Neville had a prominent recurring role in The X-Files television series as The Well Manicured Man, although he made numerous other television appearances and occasional film roles, the main focus of Nevilles career was always the theatre. He had a role as Terrence in David Cronenbergs 2002 Spider. In the same year he appeared alongside Vanessa Redgrave in the 2002 film adaptation of Crime. In 2003, Neville performed a reading of John Miltons Samson Agonistes. He was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 2006, according to publicists at Canadas Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Neville died peacefully surrounded by family on 19 November 2011, aged 86. Neville suffered with Alzheimers disease in his later years and he is survived by his wife, Caroline, and their six children. His grandson is actor Joe Dinicol and he was part of the In Memoriam segment at the 18th Screen Actors Guild Awards
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Hylda Baker
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Hylda Baker was an English comedian, actress and music hall performer. Baker was born in Farnworth, Lancashire, the first of seven children and her father, Harold Baker, was a painter and signwriter, who also worked part-time in the music halls as a comedian. At ten, Baker made her debut at the Opera House, Tunbridge Wells, by 14, she had started writing, producing and performing her own shows. Her most famous act was as a gossip from the North of England, with a silent, sullen companion named Big Cynthia. Her act was full of malapropisms and catchphrases that had part of her public persona. And, when asked the time Its quarter past, I must get a little hand put on this watch. Fellow comedian Victoria Wood described her talent as peculiarly Northern. Baker came to attention in BBC televisions The Good Old Days in 1955. This led to her series, Be Soon, in 1957. She also appeared in films, including Karel Reiszs Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Up the Junction, reisz had seen her performing her sketches at the Chiswick Empire theatre. She had a role in the 1962 low-budget black-and-white British comedy film She Knows YKnow. Taking its title from her most famous catch-phrase, it is described by the BFI as a low life comedy, Bakers most famous role was as Nellie Pledge in the Granada Television comedy series Nearest and Dearest. Playing her brother Eli was the comedian Jimmy Jewel and the series was centred on their characters relationship as they tried to run their small family business. A film version of the series was made by Hammer Films in 1972, later in the series, Baker began having trouble remembering her lines and had to rely on cue cards and prompts from her co star Madge Hindle, who would whisper her next line to her. Baker played an identical role in the LWT comedy series Not On Your Nellie. In this series she played Nellie Pickersgill, who moves to London from the North to run her fathers pub. However the series was short-lived and, by time, Baker was again finding it difficult to remember her lines and was also refusing to attend rehearsals. After suing the company for an on-set injury in which she broke her leg
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Stephen Barry
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Stephen Leon Reid Barry was a British arts administrator, drama producer, and artistic director. He was chief executive of two Edinburgh theatres, the Festival and the Kings, prime venues of the famed Edinburgh International Festival, in his short career, he also supervised artistic live-theatre rejuvenations at The Playhouse Theatre, Australia, the Lyceum Theatre and the Theatre Royal, Bath. Barry was born in Welwyn Garden City and his father, Gerald, was editor of the News Chronicle, and his first contact with the theatre was through his mother, the actress Vera Lindsay. He was educated at Marlborough College and Manchester University, where he studied drama under Hugh Hunt, in 1973, he married Jacqueline Lindsay with whom he had one son and one daughter. In 1974, aged 29, he took up his first artistic directorship for a theatre in Harrogate, four years later, he accepted the challenge of rejuvenating The National Theatre at the Playhouse in Perth, Western Australia. He also commissioned and produced a controversial Dorothy Hewett play, The Man from Muckinupin for Western Australias 150th anniversary, in 1982, he returned to the UK to serve as artistic director with the Redgrave Theatre in Farnham until 1986, and then the Theatre Royal, Bath
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Tom Stoppard
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Sir Tom Stoppard OM CBE FRSL is a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter, knighted in 1997. He co-wrote the screenplays for Brazil, The Russia House, and Shakespeare in Love, themes of human rights, censorship and political freedom pervade his work along with exploration of linguistics and philosophy. Stoppard has been a key playwright of the National Theatre and is one of the most internationally performed dramatists of his generation, in 2008 The Daily Telegraph ranked him number 11 in their list of the 100 most powerful people in British culture. Born in Czechoslovakia, Stoppard left as a refugee, fleeing imminent Nazi occupation. He settled with his family in Britain after the war, in 1946, after being educated at schools in Nottingham and Yorkshire, Stoppard became a journalist, a drama critic and then, in 1960, a playwright. He has been married three times, to Josie Ingle, then Miriam Stoppard, and Sabrina Guinness, Stoppard was born Tomáš Straussler, in Zlín, a shoe town, in the Moravia region of Czechoslovakia. He was the son of Martha Becková and Eugen Straussler, a doctor with the Bata shoe company, both of his parents were non-observant Jews, part of a long-established community. Just before the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, the patron, Jan Antonín Baťa, helped re-post his Jewish employees, mostly physicians. On 15 March 1939, the day that the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia, before the Japanese occupation of Singapore, the two sons and their mother were sent on to Australia. Stoppards father remained in Singapore as a British army volunteer, knowing that, as a doctor and his father died when Stoppard was four years old. From there, in 1941, when Tomas was five, the three were evacuated to Darjeeling in India, the boys attended Mount Hermon School, an American multi-racial school, where Tomas became Tom and his brother Petr became Peter. In 1945, his mother Martha married British army major Kenneth Stoppard, setting up Stoppards desire as a child to become an honorary Englishman. I fairly often find Im with people who forget I dont quite belong in the world were in, he says. I find I put a foot wrong – it could be pronunciation, a bit of English history – and suddenly Im there naked, as someone with a pass. This is reflected in his characters, he notes, who are constantly being addressed by the name, with jokes. Stoppard attended the Dolphin School in Nottinghamshire, and later completed his education at Pocklington School in East Riding, Yorkshire, which he hated. Stoppard left school at seventeen and began work as a journalist for the Western Daily Press in Bristol, never receiving a university education, having taken against the idea. Years later he came to not going to university, but at the time he loved his work as a journalist
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Night and Day (play)
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Night and Day is a 1978 play by Tom Stoppard. The sets and costumes were designed by Carl Toms and it ran for two years at the Phoenix Theatre in central London, UK, the lead roles of Richard Wagner and Ruth Carson were created by John Thaw and Diana Rigg, respectively. The play is post-colonial in nature, a satire on the British news media, Stoppard employs yet another sub-text in Night and Day, by commenting on the very form of language through his remarks on journalism. There is a consistent use of pun and innuendo sprinkled in the dialogues of each character and this kind of linguistic play with words and meaning, has marked the playwright for his interest and most keen observations on the aesthetics of language. Night and Day throws up themes of colonization, journalism, language, the plot narrative unfolds through the silent or subconscious thoughts of Ruth Carson, who is a by-stander to the main events taking place around her. She is regularly shown to express conflicting ideas between what she is saying, and what she is actually thinking. The narrative technique merges the forms of fiction and non-fiction, where Stoppard has created a country called Kambawi, located in Africa. Mr. Asraris Journalistic World by Bahram Beyzai
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The Playhouse Theatre (Perth)
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It was demolished in October 2012 as part of a redevelopment of Cathedral Square. The theatre was constructed adjacent to St Georges Cathedral on Pier Street land owned by the Anglican Church, the building was designed by the local architectural firm of Sheldon & Krantz and constructed at a cost of £65,000. The main lobby contained a mural by local brutalist architect Iwan Iwanoff, the theatre was formally opened on 22 August 1956 to a capacity audience of 700, with the opening production of John Patrick’s 1953 Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Teahouse of the August Moon. In 1919 the establishment of the Perth Repertory Club had led to the development of a strong local amateur-based theatre scene, the Repertory Club initially worked out of a basement room at the Palace Hotel and, later, the old composing room of the Western Australian Newspaper Company. In the mid-1950s the board and members of the Repertory Club commenced fundraising for the construction of a smaller purpose-built theatre to stage their productions, with the opening of the Playhouse, the Repertory Club became a fully professional theatre company, the National Theatre Company. Notable actor Edgar Metcalfe was a performer on stage and also served three terms as artistic director between 1963-1984. A rare period of success was enjoyed by the theatre from 1978-1981 when Stephen Barry was artistic director of the National Theatre at the Playhouse. He arranged outstanding guest performances by international celebrities Warren Mitchell, Honor Blackman, Robyn Nevin, Timothy West, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Judy Davis, however, soon after Barrys departure, the company lost its audience appeal. Despite an extensive renovation in 1982, with reduction of seating capacity, the Playhouse was principally used for drama, contemporary dance and comedy performances. A traditional proscenium theatre with a raked auditorium, the Playhouse had bar and conference facilities. It was the performance and administrative home of the Perth Theatre Company for sixteen years, the Companys last production was of David Williamsons The Removalists in April 2010. Demolition was originally planned for 2010 but postponed when the Perth Theatre Trust sought to extend its lease due to delays to the construction of the State Theatre
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Perth International Arts Festival
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The Perth International Arts Festival is Australias longest running cultural festival, held annually in Western Australia. The program features contemporary and classical music, dance, theatre, opera, visual arts, large-scale public works, Lotterywest Film Festival and the Perth Writers Festival. The festival runs every year from February to March, the Lotterywest Film Festival runs from November to April, the artistic director from 2012 to 2014 was Jonathan Holloway. Artists from around the world have participated in the festival, the festival was founded by and has operated from the University of Western Australia Nedlands campus since 1953. The University of Western Australia further supports the festival through the provision of services and resources, Lotterywest has supported the festival financially since 1992. The festival also relies on sponsors and partnerships for funding. The array of corporate partners changes each year, however some partners have committed to long term sponsorship of the festival, the 2012 festival was the 60th Perth International Arts Festival. This year attracted 194,522 paid audience members and an attendance figure of over 700,000. The opening of the featured a DAWN, DUSK opening. The festival was held from February 10 to March 4, and was the first year led by new artistic director, a number of events sold out during this years festival, including tickets to Bon Iver. The 2013 festival was held from February 8 to March 2, with 750 artists,820 events and 250 film screenings, it is the biggest yet. This year marked the announcement of a new significant partner, Chevron Corporation and this partnership was recognised through the renaming of the Festival Gardens to Chevron Festival Gardens. At the 2012/2013 Lotterywest Film Festival,26 films were screened, with the winner of the BHP Billiton audience award being The First Grader and this year also featured sold out event, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, who played at the Chevron City Gardens. The 2014 festival was the 62nd Perth International Arts Festival held from 7 February until 1 March 2014
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The Sound of Music
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The Sound of Music is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. It is based on the memoir of Maria von Trapp, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers. Set in Austria on the eve of the Anschluss in 1938, the tells the story of Maria. She falls in love with the children, and eventually their widowed father and he is ordered to accept a commission in the German navy, but he opposes the Nazis. He and Maria decide on a plan to flee Austria with the children, many songs from the musical have become standards, such as Edelweiss, My Favorite Things, Climb Evry Mountain, Do-Re-Mi, and the title song The Sound of Music. The original Broadway production, starring Mary Martin and Theodore Bikel, opened in 1959 and won five Tony Awards, including Best Musical, the first London production opened at the Palace Theatre 1961. The show has enjoyed numerous productions and revivals since then and it was adapted as a 1965 film musical starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, which won five Academy Awards. The Sound of Music was the last musical written by Rodgers and Hammerstein, the producers originally envisioned a non-musical play that would be written by Lindsay and Crouse and that would feature songs from the repertoire of the Trapp Family Singers. Then they decided to add a song or two, perhaps by Rodgers and Hammerstein. But it was agreed that the project should feature all new songs. Details of the history of the von Trapp family were altered for the musical, the real Georg von Trapp did live with his family in a villa in Aigen, a suburb of Salzburg. He wrote to the Nonnberg Abbey in 1926 asking for a nun to help tutor his daughter. His wife had died in 1922, the real Maria and Georg married at the Nonnberg Abbey in 1927. Lindsay and Crouse altered the story so that Maria was governess to all of the children, whose names and ages were changed, the von Trapps spent some years in Austria after Maria and the Captain married and was offered a commission in Germanys navy. Since Von Trapp opposed the Nazis by that time, the family left Austria after the Anschluss, going by train to Italy and then traveling on to London and the United States. To make the more dramatic, Lindsay and Crouse had the family, soon after Marias. In Salzburg, Austria, just before World War II, nuns from Nonnberg Abbey sing the Dixit Dominus, one of the postulants, Maria Rainer, is on the nearby mountainside, regretting leaving the beautiful hills where she was brought up. The Mother Abbess and the other nuns consider what to do about her, Maria explains her lateness, saying she was raised on that mountain, and apologizes for singing in the garden without permission
