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Neil Jordan
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Neil Patrick Jordan is an Irish film director, screenwriter, novelist and short-story writer. His first book, Night in Tunisia, won a Somerset Maugham Award and he won an Academy Award for The Crying Game. He also won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin International Film Festival for The Butcher Boy, Jordan was born in County Sligo, the son of Angela, a painter, and Michael Jordan, a professor. He was educated at St. Pauls College, Raheny, later, Jordan attended University College Dublin, where he studied Irish history and English literature. Of his religious background, Jordan said in a 1999 Salon interview, I was brought up a Catholic and was religious at one stage in my life. But it left me with no scars whatever, it just sort of vanished and he said about his current beliefs that God is the greatest imaginary being of all time. Along with Einsteins General Theory of Relativity, the invention of God is probably the greatest creation of human thought, when John Boorman was filming Excalibur in Ireland, he recruited Jordan as a creative associate. During the 1980s, he directed films that won him acclaim, including The Company of Wolves and Mona Lisa, the Company of Wolves became a cult favorite. He was also the force behind the cable TV series The Borgias. While Lestat is depicted in an attractive but villainous manner, his partner Louis, in the remake of The End of the Affair, two people engage in a love affair that will end as suddenly as it started, with both not wanting its end. In addition to the sexuality of Jordans films, he frequently returns to the Troubles of Northern Ireland. The Crying Game and Breakfast on Pluto both concern a transgender character, both concern the Troubles, and both feature frequent Jordan leading man Stephen Rea. The two films, however, are different, with Crying Game being a realistic thriller/romance and Breakfast on Pluto a much more episodic, stylized. Jordan also frequently tells stories about children or young people, such as The Miracle, the critical success of Jordans early pictures led him to Hollywood, where he directed High Spirits and Were No Angels, both were critical and financial disasters. He later returned home to make the more personal The Crying Game, Jordan won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film. Its unexpected success led him back to American studio filmmaking, where he directed Interview with the Vampire and he also directed the crime drama The Brave One starring Jodie Foster. Neil Gaiman announced during his The Today Show appearance on 27 January 2009, Jordan also wrote and directed the Irish made film Ondine, starring Colin Farrell and Alicja Bachleda-Curuś. He also directed Byzantium, an adaptation of the play of the same name starring Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Arterton
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Bruce Robinson
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Bruce Robinson is an English director, screenwriter, novelist and actor. As an actor, he has worked with Franco Zeffirelli, Ken Russell, Bruce Robinson was born in London. He grew up in Broadstairs Kent, where he attended The Charles Dickens Secondary Modern School and his parents were Mabel Robinson and American lawyer Carl Casriel, who had a short-term relationship during World War II. His father was a Lithuanian Jew, as a child, Robinson was constantly brutally abused by his stepfather Rob, who knew the boy wasnt his son. He had an elder sister Elly, whom he asked to him some French. In his youth, Robinson aspired to be an actor and was admitted to the Central School of Speech and his first film role was as Benvolio in Franco Zeffirellis film adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. He then appeared in Ken Russells The Music Lovers, Barney Platts-Millss Private Road, after spending several years out of work, and living on social security payments, he became disenchanted and began writing screenplays. He was soon commissioned by David Puttnam to write the screenplay for Roland Joffés The Killing Fields, Robinson was nominated for an Academy Award and won a BAFTA for his work. In 1989, Robinson wrote again for Joffé on Fat Man and he returned to acting briefly in 1998, taking a role in the film Still Crazy. He is perhaps best known as the force behind the loosely autobiographical film Withnail. The character Withnail is reportedly based on his friend, Vivian MacKerrell, though unsuccessful at the box office, because of its success on video it has since been described as one of Britains biggest cult films. The film also launched the career of Richard E. Grant. Robinsons next two outings as a director were not as well received, Robinson became disillusioned with the restrictive film-making practices of Hollywood and stopped directing to concentrate solely on writing. He wrote the screenplays for the films Return to Paradise and In Dreams, Robinson eventually returned to directing with an adaptation of Hunter S. Thompsons novel The Rum Diary, with the main role performed by Johnny Depp. With Aaron Eckhart and Richard Jenkins also on board, filming started on 25 March 2009 in Puerto Rico, in 2012, Robinsons comic novella Paranoia in the Launderette was substantially filled out and adapted for the screen as A Fantastic Fear of Everything starring Simon Pegg. Robinson is also a successful author and his first published work was the semi-autobiographical novel The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman in 1998. In 2000, Smoking in Bed, Conversations with Bruce Robinson, edited by Alistair Owen, was published, meanwhile, since becoming a father, Robinson has also written two childrens books, The Obvious Elephant and Harold and the Duck, both illustrated by his wife. The former is available as an audiobook edition, read by Lorelei King
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Annette Bening
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Annette Carol Bening is an American actress. She began her career on stage with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival company in 1980 and she was nominated for the 1987 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her Broadway debut in Coastal Disturbances. She is a four-time Academy Award nominee, for the films The Grifters, American Beauty, Being Julia, in 2006, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. After her film debut in the 1988 film The Great Outdoors, she starred in Valmont, Bugsy, The American President, The Siege, Open Range, Bening was born in Topeka, Kansas, the daughter of Shirley Katherine and Arnett Grant Bening. Her mother was a singer and soloist, and her father was a sales training consultant. Her parents, natives of Iowa, were practicing Episcopalians and conservative Republicans and she is of mostly German and English descent. Bening has one sister, Jane, and two brothers, Bradley and Byron, the family moved to Wichita, Kansas in 1959, where she spent her early childhood. In 1965, her father took a job with a company in San Diego, California and she began acting in junior high school, playing the lead in The Sound of Music. She graduated in 1975 from Patrick Henry High School, where she studied drama and she then spent a year working as a cook on a charter boat taking fishing parties out on the Pacific Ocean, and scuba diving for recreation. Bening attended San Diego Mesa College, then completed a degree in theatre arts at San Francisco State University. Bening began her career on stage with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival company in 1980 and she was a member of the acting company at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco while studying acting as part of the Advanced Theatre Training Program. There, she starred in productions as Shakespeares Macbeth as Lady Macbeth. Bening also starred in productions of Pygmalion and The Cherry Orchard at the Denver Center Theatre Company during the 1985–86 season and she made her Broadway debut in 1987, garnering a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her performance in Coastal Disturbances. Bening made her debut in The Great Outdoors. Her second film appearance was as the Marquise de Merteuil in Valmont and her breakthrough role was in The Grifters, which starred John Cusack and Anjelica Huston, and earned Bening a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 1991, she portrayed Virginia Hill in Barry Levinsons biopic Bugsy, later, she appeared in Regarding Henry with Harrison Ford. In 1994, Bening and Beatty starred in Love Affair, which also featured Katharine Hepburn, in 1995, Bening appeared in The American President, followed by Tim Burtons sci-fi spoof Mars Attacks. In 1998, she co-starred with Denzel Washington and Bruce Willis in The Siege, the biggest critical and commercial success of her career thus far was the 1999 film American Beauty, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture and was directed by Sam Mendes
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Aidan Quinn
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Aidan Quinn is an Irish-American actor, who made his film debut in Reckless. Quinn has received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his work in An Early Frost and Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee and he currently plays Captain Thomas Tommy Gregson in the CBS television series Elementary. His first significant film role was in Reckless, followed by a role in Desperately Seeking Susan as the character Dez. Quinn next starred in the television film An Early Frost. He received his first Emmy Award nomination for the role allowed him to gain recognition in Hollywood. He made an impressive contribution as Robert De Niros brother in The Mission. He played escaped convict Richard Stick Montgomery in the action comedy Stakeout opposite Richard Dreyfuss, in 1983, Quinn lost the role of Jesus Christ when Paramount Pictures dropped the distribution rights to the Martin Scorsese movie The Last Temptation of Christ. When Universal Pictures picked up the film, the role went to Willem Dafoe, in the meantime, Quinn starred as protagonist in the film Crusoe, finished in 1989. During the 1990s, he appeared in Legends of the Fall, Benny & Joon, The Handmaids Tale, Haunted and he also starred in Michael Collins, Song for a Raggy Boy, This Is My Father, and Evelyn. He played a cameo as the captain of a doomed Arctic vessel in the Francis Ford Coppola-produced adaptation of Frankenstein. In 2000, Quinn portrayed Paul McCartney in the VH1 television drama, Quinn appeared in the 2005 movie The Exonerated a true story about people on death row who had been freed in which Quinn played Kerry Max Cook. Quinn played the character on the NBC drama The Book of Daniel. The show was canceled after the first three weeks of its run, and its last five episodes never aired, in 2007, Quinn received his second Emmy nomination for the television movie Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. In 2010, he played a role as William Rainsferd in the French-made film Sarahs Key. He starred as Dermot opposite Taylor Schilling in the Canadian-Irish drama film Stay, Quinn currently co-stars in the CBS Television series Elementary. Quinn was raised in Chicago and Rockford, as well as in Dublin and Birr, in 1987, Quinn married his Stakeout co-star, Elizabeth Bracco. They have two daughters, Mia and Ava Eileen, who has autism, Ava appeared as the baby David in Avalon, and Mia played a ghost in The Eclipse. Former residents of Englewood, New Jersey, Quinn and his family now live in Palisades, Rockland County, New York and Marbletown in the Catskills / Woodstock region of Ulster County, New York
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Stephen Rea
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Stephen Rea is an Irish film and stage actor. Rea has appeared in films such as V for Vendetta, Michael Collins, Interview with the Vampire. Rea was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance as Fergus in the 1992 film The Crying Game. He has during later years had important roles in the Hugo Blick TV series The Shadow Line and The Honourable Woman, Rea was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, to Protestant parents, his father was a bus driver and his mother a housewife. He attended Belfast High School and the Queens University Belfast, taking a degree in English, Rea trained at the Abbey Theatre School in Dublin. In the late 1970s, he acted in the Focus Company in Dublin with Gabriel Byrne and he is a frequent collaborator with Irish film-maker Neil Jordan. Rea has long associated with some of the most important writers in Ireland. His association with playwright Stewart Parker, for example, began when they were together at the Queens University of Belfast. Rea helped establish the Field Day Theatre Company in 1980 with Tom Paulin, Brian Friel, Seamus Heaney, in recognition for his contribution to theatre and performing arts, Rea was given honorary degrees from both the Queens University Belfast and the Ulster University in 2004. Rea returned to the Abbey in 2009 to appear in the world première of Sebastian Barrys Tales of Ballycumber, Rea was hired to speak the words of Gerry Adams when Sinn Féin was under a 1988–94 broadcasting ban. In 2011, Rea featured in the BBC crime drama The Shadow Line, in April 2012, Rea read James Joyces short story The Dead on RTÉ Radio 1. He also narrated for the BBC Radio 4 production of Ulysses for Bloomsday,16 June 2012, Rea starred in Enda Walshs 2014 play Ballyturk and portrayed Jordan in Out of the Dark, in which he co-stars Julia Stiles, Scott Speedman and Alejandro Furth. Rea was married for 17 years to Dolours Price, a former Provisional Irish Republican Army bomber and hunger striker who later became a critic of Sinn Féin and they had been divorced when she died on 23 January 2013. Rea is an Ambassador for UNICEF Ireland, Stephen Rea at the Internet Movie Database Stephen Rea at the Internet Broadway Database Stephen Rea at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
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Robert Downey Jr.
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Robert John Downey Jr. is an American actor. His career has included critical and popular success in his youth, followed by a period of abuse and legal troubles. For three consecutive years from 2012 to 2015, Downey has topped the Forbes list of Hollywoods highest-paid actors, making an estimated $80 million in earnings between June 2014 and June 2015. He starred as the character in the 1992 film Chaplin. This earned him a Golden Globe Award and his character was written out when Downey was fired after two drug arrests in late 2000 and early 2001. After his last stay in a drug treatment program, Downey achieved sobriety. Each of these films has grossed over $500 million at the box office worldwide, four of these—The Avengers, Avengers, Age of Ultron, Iron Man 3 and Captain America, Downey Jr. has also played the title character in Guy Ritchies Sherlock Holmes and its sequel. Downey was born in Manhattan, New York, the younger of two children and his father, Robert Downey Sr. is an actor and filmmaker, while his mother, Elsie Ann, was an actress who appeared in Downey Sr. s films. Downeys father is of half Lithuanian Jewish, one-quarter Hungarian Jewish, and one-quarter Irish descent, while Downeys mother had Scottish, German, Downey and his older sister Allyson grew up in Greenwich Village. As a child, Downey was surrounded by drugs and his father, a drug addict, allowed Downey to use marijuana at age six, an incident which his father has said he now regrets. Eventually, Downey began spending every night abusing alcohol and making a phone calls in pursuit of drugs. During his childhood Downey had minor roles in his fathers films and he made his acting debut at the age of five, playing a sick puppy in the absurdist comedy Pound, and then at seven appeared in the surrealist Greasers Palace. At the age of ten, he was living in England and he attended the Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Center in upstate New York as a teenager. When his parents divorced in 1978, Downey moved to California with his father, Downey and Kiefer Sutherland, who shared the screen in the 1988 drama 1969, were roommates for three years when he first moved to Hollywood to pursue his career in acting. Downey began building upon theater roles, including in the short-lived off-Broadway musical American Passion at the Joyce Theater in 1983, rolling Stone magazine named Downey the worst SNL cast member in its entire run, stating that the Downey Fail sums up everything that makes SNL great. That same year, Downey had a dramatic acting breakthrough when he played James Spaders sidekick in Tuff Turf and he was considered for the role of Duckie in John Hughes film Pretty in Pink, but his first lead role was with Molly Ringwald in The Pick-up Artist. Because of these and other coming-of-age films Downey did during the 1980s, in 1987, Downey played Julian Wells, a drug-addicted rich boy whose life rapidly spirals out of his control, in the film version of the Bret Easton Ellis novel Less Than Zero. In 1992, he starred as Charlie Chaplin in Chaplin, a role for which he prepared extensively, learning how to play the violin and he had a personal coach in order to help him imitate Chaplins posture and way of carrying himself
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Elliot Goldenthal
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Elliot Goldenthal is an American composer of film scores and contemporary classical music. He was a student of Aaron Copland and John Corigliano, and is best known for his style and ability to blend various musical styles and techniques in original. He is also a composer, and won the Academy Award for Best Original Score in 2002 for his score to the motion picture Frida. Both pairs of Goldenthals grandparents emigrated to the United States from Bucharest and Iași, Goldenthal lived in a multi-cultural part of town, and this is reflected in his works. Goldenthal has written works for concert hall, theater, dance, incidentally he also had a small part in the stage show Juan Darièn as a Circus Barker / Streetsinger. The Tony-Award-winning Juan Darién, A Carnival Mass and The Green Bird, in 2006, Goldenthal completed his original three-act opera with Taymor entitled Grendel an adaptation of the John Gardner novel which told the story of Beowulf from the monsters point of view. In 2008 Goldenthal reunited with Michael Mann to score 1930s gangster movie Public Enemies and in 2009 he scored another Julie Taymor Shakespeare adaptation and he has also collaborated four times with Irish director Neil Jordan, scoring movies like Interview with the Vampire and In Dreams. Elliot Goldenthal has been called the thinking mans composer by film-music collectors and he is known for his experimentation, nuances and willingness to try unconventional techniques. He has scored films in almost every genre from horror to action to Shakespeare adaptations and he has not yet scored comedy, but he has composed comedic motifs for several films such as Demolition Man and the Batman series. His eclectic output has gained him a deal of respect in the music and film communities. He is widely appreciated for his abilities and distinctive style. His action music is brutal and atonal, sometimes, in underscore, he uses very fast French horn passages with bending tones and whining. Goldenthal has said that he doesnt hear atonal and tonal, rather, according to Martinez, a lot of composers want to focus on writing their music, and thats what team allows Elliot to do. Once, when studying trumpet, Elliot had asked him to buzz into the end of the mouthpiece. He thought he was crazy but, looking back after a decade or so of Goldenthals film and concert music, he was just way ahead of the rest of us, he said. 1974 - Three Pieces for Piano 1977 - Requiem Mass 1979 - Sonata for Double Bass and Piano 1980 - Brass Quintet No
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Amblin Entertainment
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Amblin Entertainment is an American film and television production company founded by director and producer Steven Spielberg and film producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall in 1981. The companys headquarters are located on the backlot of Universal Studios in Universal City, Amblin is named after Spielbergs first commercially released film, Amblin, a short independent film about a man and woman hitchhiking through the desert. The film, which cost $15,000 to produce, was shown for Universal Studios, although Amblin is an independent production company, Universal distributes many Amblin productions, and Amblin operates out of a building on the Universal lot. Its logo features the silhouette of E. T. riding in the basket on Elliotts bicycle flying in front of the moon from the 1982 movie, J. Abrams, The Coen Brothers, and Simon Wells. Most of these directors are close friends of Spielberg, who has a producer or producer credit on many. Amblins most critically acclaimed production is Schindlers List, which was nominated for twelve Academy Awards, winning seven, a companion study guide for it, Facing History, was prepared through a grant from Amblin and Universal. Amblins television series credits include Amazing Stories, Tiny Toon Adventures, seaQuest DSV, Animaniacs, Earth 2, Pinky and the Brain, ER, Freakazoid. Back to the Future, Family Dog, The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper, Fievels American Tails, The Land Before Time and Men in Black, the animated title Fievels American Tails and others were produced by Amblins animation division Amblimation, which was active from 1991 until 1995. Another studio which has distributed many Amblin productions is Warner Bros, dreamWorks has distributed a number of Amblin productions since 1994. Asterisked films indicate that Steven Spielberg is uncredited or uninvolved, back to the Future, The Ride, a simulator ride at Universal Studios Japan. Also existed at Universal Studios Florida and Universal Studios Hollywood, gremlins Invasion, a ride at Warner Bros. Jurassic Park, The Ride, a ride at Universal Studios Hollywood. Men in Black, Alien Attack, a ride at Universal Studios Florida. Roger Rabbits Car Toon Spin, a ride in Mickeys Toontown. Twister. Ride it Out, a ride at Universal Studios Florida. E. T. Adventure, a ride at Universal Studios Florida. Also existed at Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal Studios Japan, Amblin Entertainment at the Internet Movie Database
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DreamWorks
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DreamWorks Pictures is an American film production label of Amblin Partners. It was formerly distributing its own and third-party films by itself and it has produced or distributed more than ten films with box-office grosses of more than $100 million each. As of October 2016, DreamWorks films are marketed and distributed by Universal Pictures, DreamWorks began in 1994 as an attempt by media moguls Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen to create a new Hollywood studio of which they owned 72%. Currently, DreamWorks operates out of offices at Universal Studios, in December 2005, the founders agreed to sell the studio to Viacom, parent of Paramount Pictures. The sale was completed in February 2006, in 2008, DreamWorks announced its intention to end its partnership with Paramount and signed a $1.5 billion deal to produce films with Indias Reliance ADA Group. Reliance provided $325M of equity to fund recreating DreamWorks SKG into DreamWorks Studios, after the formation of Amblin Partners in 2015, the studio entered into a distribution agreement with Universal Pictures. DreamWorks animation arm was spun off in 2004 into DreamWorks Animation SKG, which owns the DreamWorks trademarks. Spielbergs company continues to use the DreamWorks trademarks under license from Universal Studios, the original company was founded following Katzenbergs resignation from The Walt Disney Company in 1994. Katzenberg approached Spielberg and Geffen about forming a live-action and animation film studio, which had not been done in decades due to the risk and expense. They agreed on three conditions, They would make fewer than nine movies a year, they would be free to work for other studios if they chose, and they would go home in time for dinner. They officially founded DreamWorks SKG in October 1994, with backing of $33 million from each of the three partners and $500 million from Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. Their new studio was based at offices in the Universal Studios lot, despite access to sound stages and sets, DreamWorks preferred to film motion pictures on location. Usually, the company would film in a soundstage or set in a major studio, as of 2016, DreamWorks is still based in Universal. In 1995, traditional animation artists from Amblimation joined the new studio, which led to DreamWorks buying part of Pacific Data Images, both were software divisions, and would merge later on. For then, DreamWorks had the traditional animators working for their animation department. These films were distributed by DreamWorks Pictures, the same year, PDI/DreamWorks produced its first full-length animated features, Antz and The Prince of Egypt, which were also distributed by DreamWorks Pictures. DreamWorks SKG continued to distribute PDI/DreamWorks productions through their name until 2004. In 2000, DreamWorks was planning in building a studio backlot after buying 1,087 acres of land in the Playa Vista area in Los Angeles and it was to be complete with 18 sound stages, with many office buildings and a lake
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New England
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New England is a geographical region comprising six states of the northeast United States, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. It is bordered by the state of New York to the west and south, the Atlantic Ocean is to the east and southeast, and Long Island Sound is to the south. Its largest metropolitan area is Greater Boston, which also includes Worcester, Manchester, ten years later, more Puritans settled north of Plymouth Colony in Boston, thus forming Massachusetts Bay Colony. Over the next 126 years, people in the region fought in four French and Indian Wars, until the British and their Iroquois allies defeated the French and their Algonquin allies in North America. In 1692, the town of Salem, Massachusetts and surrounding areas experienced one of the most infamous cases of hysteria in the history of the Western Hemisphere. The Boston Tea Party was a protest to which Britain responded with a series of punitive laws stripping Massachusetts of self-government, the confrontation led to the first battles of the American Revolutionary War in 1775, and the expulsion of the British authorities from the region in spring 1776. Each state is subdivided into small incorporated municipalities known as towns. The only unincorporated areas in the region exist in the populated northern regions of Vermont, New Hampshire. The region is one of the U. S. Census Bureaus nine regional divisions, the earliest known inhabitants of New England were American Indians who spoke a variety of the Eastern Algonquian languages. Prominent tribes included the Abenaki, Mikmaq, Penobscot, Pequot, Mohegans, Narragansett Indians, Pocumtuck, prior to the arrival of Europeans, the Western Abenakis inhabited New Hampshire, New York, and Vermont, as well as parts of Quebec and western Maine. Their principal town was Norridgewock in present-day Maine, the Penobscot lived along the Penobscot River in Maine. The Narragansett and smaller tribes under Narragansett sovereignty lived in most of modern-day Rhode Island, west of Narragansett Bay, the Wampanoag occupied southeastern Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and the islands of Marthas Vineyard and Nantucket. The Pocumtucks lived in Western Massachusetts, and the Mohegan and Pequot tribes in the Connecticut region, the Connecticut River Valley includes parts of Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Connecticut, and linked different indigenous communities culturally, linguistically, and politically. As early as 1600, French, Dutch, and English traders began exploring the New World, trading metal, glass, on April 10,1606, King James I of England issued a charter for each of the Virginia Companies, London and Plymouth. These were privately funded ventures, intended to land for England, conduct trade. In 1620, Plymouth in present-day Massachusetts was settled by Pilgrims from the Mayflower, in 1616, English explorer John Smith named the region New England. As the first colonists arrived in Plymouth, they wrote and signed the Mayflower Compact, the Massachusetts Bay Colony came to dominate the area and was established by royal charter in 1629 with its major town and port of Boston established in 1630. Massachusetts Puritans began to settle in Connecticut as early as 1633, roger Williams was banished from Massachusetts for heresy, led a group south, and founded Providence Plantation in the area that became the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in 1636
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Illustrator
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An illustrator is an artist who specializes in enhancing writing or elucidating concepts by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text or idea. The illustration may be intended to clarify complicated concepts or objects that are difficult to describe textually, illustration is the art of making images that work with something and add to it without needing direct attention and without distracting from the thing they illustrate. The other thing is the focus of the attention, and the role is to add personality. A cartoon illustration can add humor to stories or essays, use reference images to create scenes and characters. This can be as simple as looking at an image to inspire artwork, or creating character sketches. Some traditional illustration techniques include watercolor, pen and ink, airbrush art, oil painting, pastels, wood engraving, and linoleum cuts. Traditional illustration seems to have come full circle, from falling out of favor to photography in the early 1990s to being superseded by CGI, universities and art schools offer specific courses in illustration so this has become a new avenue into the profession. Many illustrators are freelance, commissioned by publishers or advertising agencies, most scientific illustrations and technical illustrations are also known as information graphics. Among the information graphics specialists are medical illustrators who illustrate human anatomy, often requiring years of artistic. A particularly popular medium with illustrators of the 1950s and 1960s was casein, the immediacy and durability of these media suited illustrations demands well. The artwork in both types of paint withstood the rigors of travel to clients and printers without damage, digital illustration is the technique of using a computer to produce original artwork. Digital illustrators use a combination of software and image editing software to create computer art. Digital illustration is not merely the manipulation of images with software, computer illustration or digital illustration is the use of digital tools to produce images under the direct manipulation of the artist, usually through a pointing device such as a tablet or a mouse. Computers dramatically changed the industry and today many cartoonists and illustrators create digital illustrations using computers, graphics tablets, software such as Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Photoshop are now widely used by those professionals
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Serial killer
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Different authorities apply different criteria when designating serial killers, while most set a threshold of three murders, others extend it to four or lessen it to two. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, for example, defines serial killing as a series of two or more murders, committed as separate events, usually, but not always, by one offender acting alone. The murders may be attempted or completed in a fashion. Serial killing is not the same as mass murdering, nor is it spree killing, however, there is ample evidence the term was used in Europe and the U. S. earlier. The German term and concept were coined by the influential Ernst Gennat, psychopathic behavior that is consistent with traits common to some serial killers include sensation seeking, a lack of remorse or guilt, impulsivity, the need for control, and predatory behavior. They were often abused—emotionally, physically and/or sexually—by a family member, a disproportionate number exhibit one, two, or all three of the Macdonald triad of predictors of future violent behavior, Many are fascinated with fire setting. They are involved in activity, especially in children who have not reached sexual maturity. More than 60 percent, or simply a large proportion, wet their beds beyond the age of 12 and they were frequently bullied or socially isolated as children or adolescents. For example, Henry Lee Lucas was ridiculed as a child, kenneth Bianchi was teased as a child because he urinated in his pants, suffered twitching, and as a teenager was ignored by his peers. Some were involved in petty crimes, such as fraud, theft, vandalism, often, they have trouble staying employed and tend to work in menial jobs. The FBI, however, states, Serial murderers often seem normal, have families and/or a steady job, other sources state they often come from unstable families. Studies have suggested that serial killers generally have an average or low-average IQ, although they are often described, a sample of 202 IQs of serial killers had a median IQ of 89. There are exceptions to these criteria, however, for example, Harold Shipman was a successful professional. He was considered a pillar of the community, he even won a professional award for a childrens asthma clinic and was interviewed by Granada Televisions World in Action. Dennis Nilsen was an ex-soldier turned civil servant and trade unionist who had no criminal record when arrested. Neither was known to have exhibited many of the tell-tale signs, vlado Taneski, a crime reporter, was a career journalist who was caught after a series of articles he wrote gave clues that he had murdered people. Russell Williams was a successful and respected career Royal Canadian Air Force Colonel who was convicted of murdering two women, along with fetish burglaries and rapes, Many serial killers have faced similar problems in their childhood development. Family, or lack thereof, is the most prominent part of a childs development because it is what the child can identify with on a regular basis
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Mental institution
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Psychiatric hospitals vary widely in their size and grading. Some hospitals may specialize only in short-term or outpatient therapy for low-risk patients, others may specialize in the temporary or permanent care of residents who, as a result of a psychological disorder, require routine assistance, treatment, or a specialized and controlled environment. Patients are often admitted on a basis, but people whom psychiatrists believe may pose a significant danger to themselves or others may be subject to involuntary commitment. Psychiatric hospitals may also be referred to as psychiatric wards when they are a subunit of a regular hospital, modern psychiatric hospitals evolved from, and eventually replaced the older lunatic asylums. The treatment of inmates in early lunatic asylums was sometimes brutal, a crisis stabilization unit is in effect an emergency room for psychiatry, frequently dealing with suicidal, violent, or otherwise critical individuals. Open units are units that are not as secure as crisis stabilization units. Another type of hospital is medium term, which provides care lasting several weeks. In the United Kingdom, both admissions and medium term care is usually provided on acute admissions wards. Juvenile or adolescent wards are sections of psychiatric hospitals or psychiatric wards set aside for children or adolescents with mental illness, long-term care facilities have the goal of treatment and rehabilitation back into society within a short time-frame. Another institution for the mentally ill is a halfway house. Modern psychiatric hospitals evolved from, and eventually replaced the older lunatic asylums, the development of the modern psychiatric hospital is also the story of the rise of organized, institutional psychiatry. It greatly differed from the view in which the insane were viewed as under the influence of the Devil therefore needing to be isolated from society. The first psychiatric hospital was built by the Muslims in Baghdad in 705 AD, others would rapidly follow, with some of the more famous ones being built in Cairo in 800 AD and in Damascus in 1270 AD. The physicians of the Islamic world would invent and use a variety of treatments, including occupational therapy, music therapy, as well as medication. Western Europe would adopt these views later on with the advances of physicians like Philippe Pinel at the Bicêtre Hospital in France and they advocated the viewing of mental illness as a disorder that required compassionate treatment that would aid in the rehabilitation of the victim. The arrival in the Western world of institutionalisation as a solution to the problem of madness was very much an event of the nineteenth century, nine counties first applied, the first public asylum opening in 1812 in Nottinghamshire. In 1828, the newly appointed Commissioners in Lunacy were empowered to license and supervise private asylums, the Lunacy Act 1845 made the construction of asylums in every country compulsory with regular inspections on behalf of the Home Secretary. The Act required asylums to have written regulations and to have a resident physician, at the beginning of the nineteenth century there were a few thousand sick people housed in a variety of disparate institutions throughout England, but by 1900 that figure had grown to about 100,000
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Katie Sagona
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Katie Sagona is an American child actress. She was a Ford Model and appeared in Italian Vogue, barack Obama Round Table - Host, C-Span Youth Forum, October, November 2008. Fox News - Interviewed members of congress for FNC, law & Order - Breath of Fresh Air - young child played murder victim of strangulation, so Sagona who was older, voiced the audio of murder scene. Saturday Night Live - Conan OBrien - Guiding Light - - as Tammy Winslow Sesame Street - appeared in video for Sesame Street, blues Clues - teaching how to tie shoe laces. All My Children - trick or treaters, as the World Turns - Sagona and her brother, Steven, played the role of dream children. Katie Sagona at the Internet Movie Database
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The Exorcist (film)
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The Exorcist is a 1973 horror film, adapted by William Peter Blatty from his 1971 novel of the same name, and starring Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, Max von Sydow, and Jason Miller. The film is part of The Exorcist franchise, the adaptation is relatively faithful to the book, which itself has been commercially successful. The film experienced a production, even in the beginning, several prestigious film directors including Stanley Kubrick. Incidents, such as the son of one of the main actors being hit by a motorbike. The complex special effects used as well as the nature of the locations also presented severe challenges. The films notable psychological themes include the nature of faith in the midst of doubt as well as the boundaries of maternal love as a mother has to do whatever she can to save her child. The Exorcist was released theatrically in the United States by Warner Bros. on December 26,1973, though booked at first in only twenty-six theaters across the U. S. it soon became a major commercial success. The film earned ten Academy Award nominations, winning Best Sound Mixing, the film has had a significant influence on popular culture. Several publications have regarded it one of the best horror films in history. For example, it was named the scariest film of all time by Entertainment Weekly in 1999, by Movies. com in 2010, by viewers of AMC in 2006, in addition, a scene from the film was ranked #3 on Bravos The 100 Scariest Movie Moments. In 2010, the Library of Congress selected the film to be preserved as part of its National Film Registry as being culturally, historically, on January 22,2016, 20th Century Fox Television announced they were developing a television series of The Exorcist. It premiered on September 23,2016, Lankester Merrin is a veteran Catholic priest and exorcist who is on an archaeological dig in Iraq. There he finds an amulet that resembles the statue of Pazuzu, Merrin then realizes the demon has returned to seek revenge. Chris hosts a party, only for Regan to come downstairs unannounced, telling one of the guests, who is an astronaut, Youre gonna die up there, Regans bed also begins to shake violently, much to her and her mothers horror. Chris consults multiple physicians, but Dr. Klein and his associates find nothing wrong with her daughter. One night when Chris is out, Burke Dennings is babysitting Regan, the doctors, thinking that Regan only believes she is possessed, recommend an exorcism to be performed. Chris arranges a meeting with Karras, after recording Regan speaking backwards and witnessing the etching of the words Help Me on her stomach, Karras is convinced Regan is possessed. Believing her soul is in danger, he decides to perform an exorcism, the experienced Merrin is selected to do so instead, with Karras present to assist
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A Nightmare on Elm Street
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A Nightmare on Elm Street is a 1984 American slasher film written and directed by Wes Craven, and the first film of the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. The film stars Heather Langenkamp, John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Amanda Wyss, Jsu Garcia, Robert Englund, the plot revolves around several teenagers who are stalked and killed in their dreams by Freddy Krueger. The teenagers are unaware of the cause of this strange phenomenon, Craven filmed A Nightmare on Elm Street on an estimated budget of $1.8 million, a sum the film earned back during its first week. The film went on to gross over $25 million at the United States box office, critics and film historians state that the films premise is the struggle to define the distinction between dreams and reality, manifested by the lives and dreams of the teens in the film. Critics today praise the films ability to transgress the boundaries between the imaginary and real, toying with audience perceptions, fifteen-year-old Tina Gray is stalked through a boiler room and attacked by a disfigured man wearing a blade-fixed glove. She awakens from the nightmare, but her mother points out four mysterious slashes in her nightgown, the following morning, Tina is consoled by her best friend Nancy Thompson and her boyfriend Glen Lantz. Later, Nancy and Glen sleep at Tinas following her mothers out-of-town departure, falling asleep, Tina sees the man and runs. Awakened by Tinas thrashing, Rod witnesses her being fatally slashed by an unseen force and he flees as Nancy and Glen find Tina, mistakenly blaming Rod. Nancy tells her father, Lieutenant Don Thompson, of Tinas death, the next day, Rod is arrested by Don, despite his pleas of innocence. At school, Nancy falls asleep in class and finds the man, calling himself Freddy Krueger, Nancy burns her arm on a pipe and then awakens. She notices the mark on her arm and is concerned. At home, Nancy falls asleep in the bathtub and nearly drowned by Freddy. Nancy goes to Rod, who tells her what happened to Tina, Nancy has Glen watch over her as she falls asleep. She tries to find Freddy and sees him preparing to kill Rod and he turns his attention on her, she runs and wakes up when her alarm clock goes off. Nancy and Glen go to the jail and discover Rod dead in his cell in an apparent suicide, at Rods funeral, Nancys parents become worried when she describes the man in her dreams. Her mother Marge takes her to a dream clinic, in her dream, Nancy is attacked again and grabs Freddys hat. When the staff wake her up, she has a gash in her arm, at home, Marge bars the windows and begins drinking heavily. She tells Nancy that Freddy was a child murderer released on a technicality, in a form of vigilante justice, the parents in the neighborhood burned him alive
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Rotten Tomatoes
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Rotten Tomatoes is an American review aggregator website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by Senh Duong and since January 2010 has been owned by Flixster, in February 2016, Rotten Tomatoes and its parent site Flixster were sold to Comcasts Fandango. Warner Bros. retained a minority stake in the merged entities, since 2007, the websites editor-in-chief has been Matt Atchity. The name, Rotten Tomatoes, derives from the practice of audiences throwing rotten tomatoes when disapproving of a stage performance. From early 2008 to September 2010, Current Television aired the weekly The Rotten Tomatoes Show, featuring hosts, a shorter segment was incorporated into the weekly show, InfoMania, which ended in 2011. In September 2013, the website introduced TV Zone, a section for reviewing scripted TV shows, Rotten Tomatoes was launched on August 12,1998, as a spare-time project by Senh Duong. His goal in creating Rotten Tomatoes was to create a site where people can get access to reviews from a variety of critics in the U. S. As a fan of Jackie Chans, Duong was inspired to create the website after collecting all the reviews of Chans movies as they were being published in the United States, the first movie whose reviews were featured on Rotten Tomatoes was Your Friends & Neighbors. The website was an success, receiving mentions by Netscape, Yahoo. and USA Today within the first week of its launch. They officially launched it on April 1,2000, in June 2004, IGN Entertainment acquired rottentomatoes. com for an undisclosed sum. In September 2005, IGN was bought by News Corps Fox Interactive Media, in January 2010, IGN sold the website to Flixster. The combined reach of both companies is 30 million unique visitors a month across all different platforms, according to the companies, in May 2011, Flixster was acquired by Warner Bros. In early 2009, Current Television launched the version of the web review site. It was hosted by Brett Erlich and Ellen Fox and written by Mark Ganek, the show aired every Thursday at 10,30 EST on the Current TV network. The last episode aired on September 16,2010 and it returned as a much shorter segment of InfoMania, a satirical news show that ended in 2011. By late 2009, the website was designed to enable Rotten Tomatoes users to create, one group, The Golden Oyster Awards, accepted votes of members for different awards, as if in parallel to the better-known Oscars or Golden Globes. When Flixster bought the company, they disbanded the groups, announcing, in the meantime, please use the Forums to continue your conversations about your favorite movie topics. As of February 2011, new community features have been added, for example, users can no longer sort films by fresh ratings from rotten ratings, and vice versa
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Culture of London
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The Culture of London concerns the engineering, music, museums, festivals and other entertainment in London, the capital city of the United Kingdom. London is widely believed to be the capital of the world. London is also home to cultural attractions such as the British Museum, the Tate Galleries, the National Gallery. A variety of landmarks and objects are cultural icons associated with London, such as Big Ben, Buckingham Palace and the tube map. Many other British cultural icons are strongly associated with London in the minds of visiting tourists, including the red box, the AEC Routemaster bus, the black taxi. The city is home to many nationalities and the diversity of cultures have shaped the culture over time. There are three concert halls in the capital. One of these is the Barbican Hall at Barbican Centre, which is home to the London Symphony Orchestra and BBC Symphony Orchestra. The Royal Festival Hall, based at the South Bank Centre along with the Queen Elizabeth Hall and the Hayward Gallery is home to the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the final and largest of the venues is the Royal Albert Hall, which hosts the Proms each summer. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra is also based in London at Cadogan Hall, there are also several chamber orchestras, some of which specialise in period instrument performances, including the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. Chamber music venues include the Purcell Room at the South Bank Centre, a number of choirs have originated in London, varying in size and musical style. Smaller vocal groups in London include the Holst Singers and the choir of the English Concert, the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden is home to the Royal Opera and Royal Ballet companies. The other main company is the English National Opera. In the summer opera is performed in a pavilion by Opera Holland Park. Most major bands tours will pass through London as well, favourite venues being the Brixton Academy, the London Astoria, London is also known for spawning numerous massively successful pop acts, with the Spice Girls, Cliff Richard, Little mix and One Direction being especially noteworthy. London also has an urban scene, mainly throughout the 21st century. Soul singers like Adele, Amy Winehouse and Lemar have found themselves chart, r&B singers such as the Sugababes, Leona Lewis, Taio Cruz, Jay Sean and Alexandra Burke are also extremely popular. London also has a strong rap scene, rappers including Wiley, London is the home of one of the biggest underground scenes in the world
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In Dreams (Roy Orbison song)
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In Dreams is a song composed and sung by rock and roll performer Roy Orbison. An operatic ballad of lost love, it was released as a single on Monument Records in February 1963 and it became the title track on the album In Dreams, released in July of the same year. The song has a structure in seven musical movements in which Orbison sings through two octaves, beyond the range of most rock and roll singers. The song peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 charts at number 7, the theme of the song was interwoven in similar compositions throughout his tenure as a musician. As a result, several collections of Orbisons music share the title of the song, rolling Stone listed In Dreams at number 319 of their 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. In 1956, Roy Orbison was signed to Sun Records that launched rockabilly legends such as Elvis Presley, Orbisons first releases reflected the style in Ooby Dooby, Go. Go. and a song he wrote for the Everly Brothers about his future wife, Orbison found marginal success at Sun Records, but felt that his talents were not being employed appropriately because he was made to sing twelve-bar rock standards with heavy guitars and drums. In 1960, when he moved to Monument Records, Orbisons style changed to what he would become known for the rest of his career, Orbison was a rare performer, when many rock and roll concerts were accompanied with frenetic performances onstage, Orbison rarely moved. His voice was what got the attention of listeners, K. d. lang, who sang Crying with him in a duet, later wrote, It wasnt like Elvis, It wasnt like your loins were on fire or anything like that. Its more like Roy was a place to go — a solace or a refuge. Monument Records founder Fred Foster said of him, He used such intricate and he brought a kind of baroque, classical style to pop music. Orbison later claimed that the origin for In Dreams came to him while he was sleeping and he often heard music while asleep with a radio disc jockey announcing that it was Elvis Presleys new song. For this song, however, he was awake when he imagined it. Too bad things dont happen in my dreams, when he woke up the next morning, the entire composition was written in 20 minutes. Like many of Orbisons songs, In Dreams rejects the verse-chorus-verse-bridge-chorus structure of the majority of rock, instead it mirrors the procession of falling asleep and becoming immersed in an elusive fantasy. The sandman puts him to sleep, where he begins singing about dreams of his lover, drums pick up the rhythm to follow Orbisons lyrics further into subconsciousness, and a piano joins as the lyrics recount how Orbison spends time with her, accompanied by breathy backup singers. Orchestra strings counter his melody that has the effect of representing a singing voice in themselves, using a five- to eight-note range, Orbisons voice rises as he wakes up to find his lover gone. The song trips, the stops and a staccato tattoo replaces it
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Roy Orbison
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Roy Kelton Orbison, nicknamed the Big O, was an American singer-songwriter and musician, known for his distinctive, impassioned voice, complex compositions and dark emotional ballads. The combination led many critics to describe his music as operatic, between 1960 and 1964,22 of his songs placed on the Billboard Top 40, including Only the Lonely, Crying, and Oh, Pretty Woman. Orbison grew up in Texas and began singing in a rockabilly and country and he was signed by Sun Records in 1956, but his greatest success came with Monument Records in the early 1960s. His career stagnated in the 1970s, but was revived by several versions of his songs. In 1988, he was a member of the Traveling Wilburys supergroup, along with George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty and he recorded his last solo album, Mystery Girl, the same year but died of a heart attack shortly thereafter. While most male rock and roll performers in the 1950s and 1960s projected a defiant masculinity, many of Orbisons songs instead conveyed a quiet, almost desperate and his voice ranged from baritone to tenor, and music scholars have suggested that he had a three- or four-octave range. During performances, he was known for standing still and solitary, and for wearing black clothes and dark sunglasses, which lent an air of mystery to his persona. His honors include inductions into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987, the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in the year. Rolling Stone placed him at number 37 on their list of the Greatest Artists of All Time, in 2002, Billboard magazine listed Orbison at number 74 in the Top 600 recording artists. Roy Kelton Orbison was born in Vernon, Texas, the son of Orbie Lee Orbison, an oil well driller and car mechanic, and Nadine Vesta Shults. Both of his parents were unemployed during the Great Depression and, searching for work, moved the family to Fort Worth, Texas and he attended Denver Avenue Elementary School until a polio scare prompted the family to return to Vernon. Later, they moved to Wink, Texas, Orbison later described life in Wink as football, oil fields, oil, grease and sand and expressed relief that he was able to leave the desolate town. All the Orbison children were afflicted with poor eyesight, Roy used thick corrective lenses from an early age and he was not confident about his appearance and began dyeing his nearly-white hair black when he was still young. He was quiet and self-effacing, remarkably polite and obliging — a product, biographer Alan Clayson wrote and he was readily available to sing, however, and often became the focus of attention when he did. He considered his voice memorable, if not great, on Roys sixth birthday, his father gave him a guitar. He later recalled that by the age of seven, I was finished, you know, for anything else and his major musical influence as a youth was country music. He was particularly moved by Lefty Frizzells singing, with its slurred syllables and he also enjoyed Hank Williams and Jimmie Rodgers. One of the first musicians he heard in person was Ernest Tubb, in West Texas, he was exposed to many forms of music, sepia, Tex-Mex, the orchestral arrangements of Mantovani and cajun
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The Andrews Sisters
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The Andrews Sisters were an American close harmony singing group of the swing and boogie-woogie eras. The group consisted of three sisters, contralto LaVerne Sophia, soprano Maxene Angelyn, and mezzo-soprano Patricia Marie Patty, throughout their long career, the sisters sold well over 75 million records. Their 1941 hit Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy can be considered an example of rhythm. The Andrews Sisters harmonies and songs are still today, and have been covered by entertainers such as Bette Midler, Christina Aguilera, Pentatonix. The group was inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 1998, writing for Bloomberg, Mark Schoifet said the sisters became the most popular female vocal group of the first half of the 20th century. They are still widely acclaimed today for their famous close harmonies, the sisters were born to Peter Andreos and Olga, their father was Greek and their mother Norwegian-American of the Lutheran faith. Following the collapse of their fathers Minneapolis restaurant, the sisters went on the road to support the family and they started their career as imitators of an earlier successful singing group, the Boswell Sisters who were popular in the 1930s. They followed this success with a string of best-selling records over the two years and they became a household name by the 1940s. Instrumental to the success over the years were their parents, their orchestra leader and musical arranger, Vic Schoen, and Jack and David Kapp. During World War II they entertained the Allied forces extensively in America, Africa and Italy, visiting Army, Navy, Marine and Coast Guard bases, war zones, hospitals, and munitions factories. They encouraged U. S. citizens to war bonds with their rendition of Irving Berlins song Any Bonds Today. While touring, they often treated three random servicemen to dinner when they were dining out. I. An ad in the 1951 Radio Annual showed photos of the Andrews as children, as singers, and as old women in the then-future year of 1975, sadly. In the 1950s, Patty Andrews decided to break away from the act to be a soloist and she had married the trios pianist, Walter Weschler, who then became the groups manager and demanded more money for Patty. Patty attributed the breakup to the deaths of their parents, We had been nearly all our lives. Then in one year our dream world ended and our mother died and then our father. All three of us were upset, and we were at each others throats all the time, in 1951, they recorded The Windmill Song which is an adaptation of the French song Maître Pierre written in 1948 by Henri Betti and Jacques Plante. The English lyrics were written by Mitchell Parish, the Andrews Sisters formally broke up in 1953
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Elizabeth Fraser
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Elizabeth Davidson Fraser sometimes also known as Liz Fraser is a Scottish singer, songwriter and musician best known as the vocalist for the band Cocteau Twins. Fraser has a vocal range. She is as known for her perfectionism and reclusive nature as she is for her voice. Frasers distinctive singing has earned her critical praise, she was once described as the voice of God. Her lyrics range from straightforward English to semi-comprehensible sentences and abstract mouth music, for some recordings, Fraser has said that she used foreign words without knowing what they meant – the words acquired meaning for her only as she sang them. Elizabeth Fraser was the vocalist and lyricist in Cocteau Twins, a group founded in 1981 by Robin Guthrie, at the time, she was 17 years old, and had never thought of herself as a singer. Guthrie and Heggie noticed her dancing at a one night. Fraser and Guthrie formed a relationship, and in 1989 had a daughter, Guthrie liberally used drugs and alcohol throughout the years they were together, and Fraser suffered a nervous breakdown during the recording of Four-Calendar Café. The couple broke up in 1993, but opted to continue a relationship until 1998. Fraser had a personal relationship with singer Jeff Buckley and recorded a duet with him, All Flowers In Time Bend Towards The Sun, written by Buckley. She speaks about their relationship in the BBC documentary, Jeff Buckley, Cocteau Twins were due to perform for the North American Coachella Festival on 30 April 2005, but cancelled on 16 March 2005. The decision to cancel was taken by Fraser reportedly because of the distress the putative reunion. Her former Cocteau Twins bandmate Simon Raymonde has since talked publicly about the saying that while he respected it. While working as part of Cocteau Twins, Fraser also collaborated with numerous artists and she appeared on 4AD house band This Mortal Coils first release where her contributions included a cover version of Tim Buckleys Song to the Siren. She provided one-off vocals for such as Felt, Dif Juz, The Wolfgang Press. In 2005, she appeared on Yann Tiersens album Les Retrouvailles, aside from her work with other artists, Frasers solo career has been quiet. In 2000, a label recording, Underwater, was released in a limited edition of 200 copies. She contributed a version of At Last I Am Free on the 2003 album Stop Me If You Think Youve Heard This One Before
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United States Copyright Office
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It is used by copyright title searchers who are attempting to clear a chain of title for copyrighted works. The head of the Copyright Office is called the Register of Copyrights, the Acting Register is Karyn Temple Claggett, who replaced Maria Pallante upon her departure in October 2016. The Copyright Office is housed on the floor of the James Madison Memorial Building of the Library of Congress, at 101 Independence Avenue, SE, in Washington. Originally, claims were recorded by Clerks of U. S. district courts, in 1870, copyright functions were centralized in the Library of Congress under the direction of the then Librarian of Congress Ainsworth Rand Spofford. The Copyright Office became a department of the Library of Congress in 1897. The mission of the Copyright Office is to promote creativity by administering and sustaining an effective national copyright system, the Office also records documents related to copyright ownership. The Copyright Office records the bibliographic descriptions and the facts of all works registered. The archives maintained by the Copyright Office are an important record of America’s cultural and historical heritage, records after 1977 are maintained through an online database of more than 16 million entries. As a service unit of the Library of Congress, the Copyright Office is part of the branch of government. The Office provides copyright policy advice to Congress, Copyright Office Practices manual documents the Copyright Offices practices in its administration of copyright law. A new fee schedule for certain Office services is effective as of May 1,2014, the Copyright office’s fees were last updated in 2009. Fees increased for certain registration and recordation and associated services, as well as certain search, the Copyright Office provides public information and reference services concerning copyrights and recorded documents. The public can keep up on developments in the Copyright Office by subscribing to U. S, subscribe on the Copyright Office website. In 1870, Congress passed a law that centralized the system in the Library of Congress. This law required all authors to deposit in the Library two copies of book, pamphlet, map, print, and piece of music registered in the United States. Supplying the information needs of the Congress, the Library of Congress has become the world’s largest library, the Copyright Office consults with interested copyright owners, industry and library representatives, bar associations, and other interested parties on issues related to the copyright law. The Copyright Office promotes improved copyright protection for U. S. creative works abroad through its International Copyright Institute
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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database
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Box Office Mojo
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Box Office Mojo is a website that tracks box office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way, founded in 1999. In 2008, Box Office Mojo was bought by the Internet Movie Database, the website is widely used within the film industry as a source of data. From 2002–11, Box Office Mojo had forums popular with film fans, on October 10,2014, the websites URL was redirected to Amazons IMDB. com website for one day, but the website returned the following day without explanation. Brandon Gray began the site in 1999, in 2002, Gray partnered with Sean Saulsbury and grew the site to nearly two million readers. In July 2008, the company was purchased by Amazon. com through its subsidiary, Box Office Mojo had forums with more than 16,500 registered users. On November 2,2011 the forums were closed along with any user accounts. Tracking is still very closely to the day by day, actual tabulation of distributors. The site also creates an overall chart, combining all box office returns from around the world, excluding the United States. The overall weekend chart currently tracks the Top 40 films as well as approximately fifty additional films with no ranking, the site additionally has yearly and all time features for its various territories. Box Office Mojo was as of June 2009 reporting limited data from overseas and is work on improvements, most of the international charts have not been updated since November 2014. On October 10,2014, all traffic to Box Office Mojo was redirected to IMDbs box office page, queries about the closure to IMDb and Amazon representatives were met with no response. Neither Brandon Gray, who founded the website but left several years ago after its sale to Amazon, nor Ray Subers, on Ray Subers Twitter account, he revealed the websites return, but also stated he would not answer any questions pertaining to closure. Subers subsequently left the website seven months later
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Angel (1982 Irish film)
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Angel is a 1982 film directed by Neil Jordan and starring Stephen Rea. The film was Neil Jordans directorial debut, and the producer was John Boorman. Danny, a saxophonist with a band, witnesses the gangland murder of the bands manager. Danny tries to hunt down the murderers and in doing so his relationship with Deirdre, the film is set in Northern Ireland and it is implied that the extortionists/murderers are loyalist paramilitaries. However, there is specific reference to the Northern Ireland Troubles. The film was made in and around inner-city Dublin and Jordans native Bray, in the sequences where the band play in a seaside resort Bray Head is visible in some background shots. Other locations include the former Butlins holiday camp in Mosney, County Meath, the dance and crowd scenes from the Mosney ballroom had to be re-shot due to a problem with the film processing. Angel at the Internet Movie Database
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The Company of Wolves
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The Company of Wolves is a 1984 British Gothic fantasy-horror film directed by Neil Jordan and starring Sarah Patterson, Angela Lansbury, Stephen Rea and David Warner. It was written by Angela Carter and Jordan, the film is based on the werewolf story of the same name in Angela Carters 1979 short story collection The Bloody Chamber. Carter herself co-wrote the screenplay with Jordan, based on her own short story, Carters first draft of the screenplay, which contains some differences from the finished film, has been published in her anthology The Curious Room. In the present day, a girl named Rosaleen dreams that she lives in a fairytale forest with her parents and sister. While her parents are mourning, Rosaleen goes to stay the night with her grandmother, the superstitious old woman gives Rosaleen an ominous warning, to beware men whose eyebrows meet. Rosaleen returns to her village, but finds that she must deal with the advances of an amorous boy, Rosaleen and the boy take a walk through the forest, but the boy discovers that the villages cattle have come under attack from a wolf. The villagers set out to hunt the wolf, but once caught and killed, Rosaleen later takes a basket of goods through the woods to her grandmothers cottage, but on her way she encounters an attractive huntsman, whose eyebrows meet. He challenges her, saying that he can find his way to her grandmothers house before she can, the hunter arrives at Rosaleens grandmothers house first, where he reveals his bestial nature and kills her. Rosaleen arrives later and discovers the carnage, but her need to protect herself is complicated by her desire for the hunter, in the ensuing exchange, Rosaleen accidentally injures the huntsman with his own rifle. Upon this blow, the hunter contorts in pain and transforms into his wolf shape, Rosaleen takes pity on the wounded beast, noting that his pack could leave him behind. She sits down, and begins petting the wolf kindly and tenderly while telling him a story, ultimately the villagers arrive at the house some time later, looking for a werewolf within. Instead, they discover that Rosaleen herself has become a werewolf, together, she and the huntsman escape to the forest, joined by a growing pack. Back in the present day, Rosaleen awakes with a scream, perraults Le Petit Chaperon Rouge is then heard being read, with the moral warning girls to beware of charming strangers. He disappears and his bride is terrified to see wolves howling outside, a search the following day yields a wolf pawprint only. Years later, she remarries and has children, only to have her husband finally return. Angered at her having had children with a new husband, the groom transforms into his werewolf form, the Devil offers the boy a transformative potion, which he rubs onto his chest, causing hair to sprout rapidly. The boy is pleased, but shortly thereafter vines grow swiftly from the ground, twining around his legs and he wails in protest and fear, his face distorting with his cries, anguished visage appearing in Rosaleens bedroom mirror at the end of that dream sequence. Rosaleens story to her mother — A woman who lived in a a valley done a wrong by a rich
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Mona Lisa (film)
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Mona Lisa is a 1986 British neo-noir crime drama film about an ex-convict who becomes entangled in the dangerous life of a high-class call girl. The film was written by Neil Jordan and David Leland, and it was produced by HandMade Films and stars Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson, and Michael Caine. Mortwell also wants George to gather information on one of Simones wealthy customers for blackmail purposes, Simone, who has worked hard to develop high-class manners and an elite clientele, initially dislikes the uncouth and outspoken George, and he regards her as putting on airs. But as George and Simone find out more about other, they form a friendship. George agrees to risk his own life to help Simone find her teenage friend Cathy, who has disappeared, after Anderson attacks George, Simone flees to Brighton. George finally finds Cathy and takes her to Brighton to reunite her with Simone and he discovers that Simone and Cathy are lovers, and that Simone doesnt care about him and only used him to find Cathy. Mortwell and Anderson then arrive to back control of Simone and Cathy. He punches her, takes the gun and leaves - upset at her ingratitude, freed of his underworld obligations, George returns to a more normal life, working in his friends garage and spending time with Jeannie. The film received positive reaction when released in 1986. However, Vincent Canby, writing for The New York Times, halliwells Film Guide argued only this actor could make a hit of this unsavoury yarn, with its highlights of sex and violence. Bob Hoskins was praised for his performance and was awarded the Golden Globe Award, BAFTA Award, Prix dinterprétation masculine at the Cannes Film Festival, despite this heavy acclaim, he lost the Academy Award for Best Actor to Paul Newman in The Color of Money
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High Spirits (film)
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High Spirits is a 1988 fantasy comedy film directed by Neil Jordan and starring Steve Guttenberg, Daryl Hannah, Beverly DAngelo, Liam Neeson and Peter OToole. Owing money to an American businessman, Plunkett has the idea to turn the castle into The most haunted castle in Europe for the tourist trade and he and his wacky staff of Irish characters set about creating ghost costumes and effects for their first group of American lodgers. The ghosts of two people, Mary Plunkett and Martin Brogan become romantically entangled with Guttenberg and DAngelos characters. This romantic twist is the focus of most of the plot, Daryl Hannah was nominated for a Razzie Award as Worst Supporting Actress, but lost to Kristy McNichol for Two Moon Junction. Scream Factory released the film for the first time on Blu-ray Disc in 2015. It was packaged as a feature with Vampires Kiss on February 13,2015. List of ghost films High Spirits at the Internet Movie Database High Spirits at AllMovie High Spirits at Box Office Mojo High Spirits at Rotten Tomatoes
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We're No Angels (1989 film)
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Were No Angels is a 1989 American comedy film directed by Neil Jordan. It stars Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, and Demi Moore and this was Jordans last film to receive a PG-13 rating by the MPAA, until Ondine in 2009. The two end up in a small upstate New York town near the Canada–US border, where they are mistaken for a pair of priests expected at the local monastery. They want to flee but cannot, since misunderstandings and the search party looking for Bobby make a trip across the bridge to Canada almost impossible. Ned and Jim continue to masquerade as priests, trusted and welcomed by Father Levesque, an opportunity presents itself in the form of a procession to the churchs sister church across the border. Each priest participating has to bring someone who needs help, so they decide on the deaf-mute daughter of Molly. Bobby is killed by police during the procession, Ned saves Mollys daughter from drowning, after this event she is able to speak. Jim is befriended by a monk and decides to stay in the monastery to actually become a priest. Ned takes Molly and her daughter to Canada, Robert De Niro as Ned Sean Penn as Jim Demi Moore as Molly Hoyt Axton as Father Levesque Bruno Kirby as Deputy Ray McAnally as Warden James Russo as Bobby Wallace Shawn as Translator John C. Reilly as Young Monk The movie gained mixed reviews, rotten Tomatoes sampled 19 reviewers and judged 47% of the reviews to be positive, with an average score of 5. The movie debuted at #8 at the United States box office and it was similarly unsuccessful on home video. Romans, a remake in Malayalam language, written by YV Rajesh. The Lizard, an Iranian comedy drama directed by Kamal Tabrizi. Were No Angels at the Internet Movie Database Were No Angels at Box Office Mojo
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The Miracle (1991 film)
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The Miracle is a 1991 drama film written and directed by Neil Jordan. It stars Beverly DAngelo, Donal McCann, and Niall Byrne and it was entered into the 41st Berlin International Film Festival. Two teenage friends, Jimmy and Rose live in the seaside town of Bray. They spend their days wandering the streets and piers, to kill time, Rose and Jimmy make up stories about strangers on the street. They pursue her to the beach and at last Renee speaks to them, when she looks at Jimmy, hes at once infatuated with this mystifying woman. Critic Roger Ebert gave the film a two star rating out of four saying, Strange, how a movie of such delicate romantic sensibilities could go astray because of a heavy-handed plot. However, the film holds a 63% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with five reviewers giving positive reviews. The Miracle was released on 3 July 1991 in the United States, the film made a mere $835,519 all together when it ended its run on 10 October 1991 with its widest release being in 41 theatres. After the films run, the film was released on videocassette in January 1992 by Live Home Video and around the same time in Canada by Cineplex Odeon. To this day, the film has never released on DVD. The Miracle at the Internet Movie Database The Miracle at AllMovie
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The Crying Game
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The Crying Game is a 1992 thriller film written and directed by Neil Jordan. The film explores themes of race, gender, nationality, however, unexpected events force Fergus to decide what he wants for the future, and ultimately what his nature dictates he must do. The IRA demands the release of jailed IRA members, threatening to execute Jody in three days if their demands are not met, Fergus is tasked to guard Jody and develops a bond with the prisoner, much to the chagrin of the other IRA men. During this time, Jody tells Fergus the story of the Scorpion, Jody persuades Fergus to promise to seek out his girlfriend Dil in London should Jody be killed. The deadline set by Jodys captors passes and with none of the IRAs demands being met, when Fergus takes him into the woods to carry out the sentence, Jody makes a break for it. With his IRA companions seemingly dead after the attack, Fergus flees to London, a few months later, Fergus finds Dil at a hair salon. Later they talk in a bar, where he sees her singing The Crying Game, Fergus suffers from guilt about Jodys death and sees him in his dreams bowling a cricket ball to him. He pursues Dil, protecting her from a suitor and falling in love with her. Later, when he is about to love to her in her apartment. His initial reaction is of revulsion, rushing to the bathroom to throw up, he accidentally hits Dil in the face. A few days later, he leaves her a note and the two make up, despite everything, Fergus is still attracted to Dil. Around the same time, Jude unexpectedly reappears in Fergus apartment and she tells him that the IRA tried and convicted him in absentia, and she forces him to agree to help with a new mission to aid in assassinating a judge. She also mentions that she knows about Fergus and Dil, warning him that the IRA will kill her if Fergus does not co-operate, Fergus, unable to overcome his feelings for Dil, continues to woo her. To shield her from possible retribution, he gives her a haircut, the night before the IRA mission is to be carried out, Dil gets heavily drunk and Fergus escorts her to her apartment, where she asks him to stay with her. Fergus complies, then admits he had a hand in Jodys death. Dil, drunk, appears not to understand, but in the morning, before Fergus wakes up and she unwittingly prevents Fergus from joining the other IRA members and completing the planned assassination. Holding Fergus at gunpoint, Dil forces him to tell her that he loves her and she unties him, saying that, even if he is lying, it is nice to hear his words. Dil then breaks down in tears, meanwhile, Jude and Maguire gun the judge down, but Maguire is shot dead by one of the bodyguards
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Interview with the Vampire (film)
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Interview with the Vampire is a 1994 American drama horror film directed by Neil Jordan, based on the 1976 novel Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice, and starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt. The film focuses on Lestat and Louis, beginning with Louiss transformation into a vampire by Lestat in 1791, the film chronicles their time together, and their turning of a twelve-year-old girl, Claudia, into a vampire. The narrative is framed by an interview, in which Louis tells his story to a San Francisco reporter. The supporting cast features Christian Slater, Kirsten Dunst, Antonio Banderas, the film was released in November 1994 to generally positive reviews, and received Oscar nominations for Best Art Direction and Best Original Score. Kirsten Dunst was also nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film, in modern-day San Francisco, reporter Daniel Molloy interviews Louis de Pointe du Lac, who claims to be a vampire. Louis describes his life as a wealthy plantation owner in 1791 Louisiana. He had lost the will to live following the death of his wife and infant child, Lestat senses Louis dissatisfaction with life and offers to turn him into a vampire, to which Louis accepts prior to being transformed. But while Lestat revels in the hunt and killing of humans, Louis resists killing them and he is disgusted by Lestats pleasure in killing and comes to suffer tremendously as a vampire. Wandering the streets of New Orleans, amid an outbreak of plague, Louis can resist his hunger no more, to entice Louis to stay with him, Lestat makes the girl into their vampire daughter, naming her Claudia. Louis has a love for Claudia, but to Lestat, she is a pupil. As thirty years pass, Claudia matures psychologically but still remains a girl in appearance. When she finally realizes that she will never grow old, she is furious with Lestat and she tricks Lestat into drinking the dead blood of twin boys that she killed by overdosing them with laudanum and she slits his throat. With Louiss help, she dumps Lestats body in a swamp, however, Lestat returns on the night of their departure, having drunk the blood of swamp creatures to survive. Lestat attacks them, but Louis sets him on fire and, in the chaos, they are able to escape. After traveling around Europe and the Mediterranean, Louis and Claudia settle harmoniously in Paris, Louis encounters vampires Santiago and Armand by chance. On their way out of the theater, Santiago reads Louis mind and suspects that Louis, Louis is tempted to remain with Armand and learn from him in a way he could never have done with Lestat. Claudia demands that Louis turn a woman, Madeleine, to be her new protector and companion. The Parisian vampires abduct all three and punish them for Lestats murder, imprisoning Louis in a coffin, and trapping Claudia
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Michael Collins (film)
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Michael Collins is a 1996 historical biopic written and directed by Neil Jordan and starring Liam Neeson as Michael Collins, the Irish patriot and revolutionary who died in the Irish Civil War. It won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, in 1922, Joe OReilly attempts to console Kitty Kiernan, who is mourning the death of Michael Collins. At the end of the Easter Rising in 1916, Collins, Harry Boland, Éamon de Valera, as the Dublin Metropolitan Polices G Division identifies the leaders, Collins tells Boland that next time, We wont play by their rules, Harry. All the other leaders die by firing squad, but de Valera, Collins, Boland, and the others are sent to Frongoch internment camp. After his release, Collins gives a speech at a rally at the South Longford by-election,1917. Collins is injured when the Royal Irish Constabulary break up the rally, while recovering on a friends farm, they meet Kitty, who begins a romance with Boland. Collins is tipped off by Detective Ned Broy that the British plan to arrest de Valera, however, de Valera forbids anyone to go into hiding, stating that the ensuing public outcry will force their immediate release. Only Collins and Boland escape arrest and imprisonment, and there are no protests, Boland and Collins travel to England and break de Valera out of Lincoln prison. Angry that Collins has overshadowed him, de Valera announces that he travel to the United States to seek recognition from Woodrow Wilson. Before they depart, Collins suggests to Boland his belief that de Valera fears leaving them alone together, left in command, Collins orders the IRA to begin raiding police barracks for weapons. He also issues a statement that all collaboration with the British will be punished by death, Collins then recruits a squad from the IRAs Dublin Brigade, which, on Bloody Sunday, assassinates fourteen British agents. In retaliation, the Black and Tans fire into the crowd at a Gaelic football match at Croke Park, Broy is caught burning documents, and is tortured and killed. After returning from America empty-handed, de Valera decrees that the IRA must make a military attack on The Custom House. Collins argues that fighting conventionally will allow the British to win, the attack fails catastrophically, leaving six men dead and seventy captured. In the aftermath, Collins declares that the IRA can only hold out for a month, in private, he tells Boland that the IRA will be lucky to hold out for another week. To his surprise, however, the British soon call for a cease fire, de Valera orders Collins to go to London to participate in negotiations with the British, despite Collinss objections that he is not a diplomat. After the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty in December 1921, de Valera erupts upon learning that the terms have been published without his agreement, Collins argues that the Treaty gives them the freedom to achieve the Republic, albeit at the expense of six of the nine Ulster counties. De Valera and his supporters resign in protest after the Dáil approves the Treaty 64–57, both Collins and de Valera try to sway the Irish people in their respective directions
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The Butcher Boy (1997 film)
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The Butcher Boy is an 1997 Irish tragicomic drama film adapted to film by Neil Jordan and Patrick McCabe from McCabes 1992 novel of the same name. The film won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 48th Berlin International Film Festival in 1998 and it also won the European Film Award for Best Cinematographer for Adrian Biddle. The Butcher Boy is Neil Jordans tenth feature film and Geffen Pictures final production, the film is set in Ireland in the early 1960s in the small town of Clones. Francie Brady is a 12-year-old boy whose imagination is fuelled by television - aliens, communists, when his mother suffers a nervous breakdown and ultimately commits suicide, he is left in the care of his father, an emotionally distant and ill-tempered alcoholic. Francie spends most of his time with his best friend Joe Purcell talking about gangsters, cowboys and Indians, comic-book monsters, however, when Francies growing conflict with another boy, Phillip Nugent, and his mother begins to go too far, he ends up at reform school. Here, he is molested by a priest, and finds only in his fantasies about a foul-mouthed Virgin Mary. He returns home to find Joe has outgrown him and befriended Phillip Nugent, before long, his father has drunk himself to death. Faced with being completely alone in the world, Francie loses his grip on reality and lashes out with uncontrollable brutality. Eamonn Owens as Francie Brady Stephen Rea as Benny Brady Fiona Shaw as Mrs. Geffen Pictures would be sold to Universal Studios years later, the screen rights to the book were bought by Neil Jordan in 1992 during the filming of Interview with the Vampire. The adaptation is mostly faithful to the novel, but there are some differences, in the book, Francie is not seen to leave prison, and attempts to forge a friendship with an inmate similar to the one he had with Joe. In the film, a much older Francie is released from prison at the end to be brought to a halfway house and he picks a snowdrop, echoing the opening of the film. Casting the child to play Francie was difficult, with no previous filming experiences, Eamonn Owens and Alan Boyle were found at the local school in Killeshandra in County Cavan where casting assistant Maureen Hughes went to visit her uncle. Owens younger brother Ciaran was also cast, Jordan cast OConnor because she looks like the Virgin Mary. Patrick McCabes accomplishment with The Butcher Boy was deemed unattainable in a film, Jordan cast McCabe in the role of town drunk Jimmy the Skite. Neil Jordan captures Francies schizophrenia by using voice-overs where the adult narrator Francie speaks with the child Francie, however, he argues that Jordan brings a tenderness and sweetness to the otherwise unforgiving subject matter. The reception of the film has generally good. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes show a 79% rating and a rating of 7. 5/10. Andrew OHehir at Salon Entertainment says Neil Jordans sweetly tragicomic movie has elaborate fantasy sequences feel like irrelevant amusements and he also praises the film as a compelling exploration of the permeable border between normal childhood and full-on insanity
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The End of the Affair (1999 film)
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The End of the Affair is a 1999 drama film directed by Neil Jordan and starring Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore and Stephen Rea. The film is based on The End of the Affair, a 1951 novel by British author Graham Greene, novelist Maurice Bendrix narrates the film as he begins a book with the line This is a diary of hate. On a rainy London night in 1946, Bendrix has a meeting with Henry Miles, husband of his former mistress Sarah. Bendrixs obsession with Sarah is rekindled, he succumbs to his own jealousy, as the story unfolds in 1946, we also see flashbacks of Bendrix with Sarah as they began their affair during World War II. Henry tells Bendrix that he believes Sarah is having an affair, so Bendrix hires the bumbling but amiable Parkis, Sarah asks Bendrix to meet to talk about Henry and the cold tentativeness of their interaction is contrasted with the passion of their earlier encounters. Bendrix learns from Parkis that Sarah has been making regular visits to a priest under the guise of false dentist visits, flashbacks show Bendrix expressing jealousy of Henry and asking Sarah to leave him. Though Sarah and Bendrix express love to other, the affair ends abruptly when a V-1 flying bomb explodes near Bendrixs building as he is out in the hallway. Bendrix falls down a staircase and awakes later, bloodied but not seriously hurt and he walks upstairs, where Sarah is shocked that he is alive. Bendrix accuses Sarah of being disappointed that he survived and she leaves, telling him Love doesnt end, in 1946, Parkis obtains Sarahs diary and passes it on to Bendrix, it shows the affair from her perspective. After Bendrix is hurt by the bomb, Sarah runs downstairs and finds him still, after trying to revive him, she runs back upstairs and begins to pray for Bendrixs life. Just as she says to God that she stop seeing Bendrix if he is brought back. Now knowing why Sarah ended the affair, Bendrix follows Sarah, Sarah tells Bendrix that she has felt dead without him and can no longer keep her promise to God. Henry, who has figured out that it is Bendrix who was Sarahs lover, but, with more persuasion from Bendrix, Sarah agrees to go away with him for a weekend. Henry tracks the couple down to them that Sarah has a terminal illness. Bendrix stays with Henry and Sarah over her days and at her funeral. At Henry and Sarahs house, Bendrix completes his book and it is revealed that his diary of hate is directed toward God, while Sarah doesnt need to see God to love Him, Bendrix prays God will leave him alone, thereby finally acknowledging His existence. Neil Jordan won a BAFTA for Best Adapted Screenplay, Neil Jordan was nominated for the Best Director Golden Globe and Julianne Moore was nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama. Ralph Fiennes also won the best eyewear award at the GQ Men of 2000 Awards for the pair of National Health Service spectacles he sported in the film
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