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Independent Spirit Awards
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The Film Independent Spirit Awards, founded in 1984, are awards dedicated to independent filmmakers. Winners were typically presented with acrylic glass pyramids containing suspended shoestrings representing the paltry budgets of independent films, in 1986, the event was renamed the Independent Spirit Awards. Since 2006, winners have received a trophy depicting a bird with its wings spread sitting atop of a pole with the shoestrings from the previous design wrapped around the pole, Film Independent Members vote to determine the winners of the Spirit Awards. The awards show is held inside a tent on the beach in Santa Monica, California, the show is broadcast live on the IFC network, as well as Hollywood Suite in Canada and A&E Latin America. The 32nd Independent Spirit Awards ceremony, hosted by Nick Kroll and John Mulaney, was broadcast live on IFC on Saturday, official website Film Independent Film Independents channel on YouTube Film Independent at the Internet Movie Database Independent Spirit Awards at the Internet Movie Database
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Film Independent's Spirit Awards
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Academy Awards
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The various category winners are awarded a copy of a golden statuette, officially called the Academy Award of Merit, which has become commonly known by its nickname Oscar. The awards, first presented in 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, are overseen by AMPAS, the awards ceremony was first broadcast on radio in 1930 and televised for the first time in 1953. It is now live in more than 200 countries and can be streamed live online. The Academy Awards ceremony is the oldest worldwide entertainment awards ceremony and its equivalents – the Emmy Awards for television, the Tony Awards for theater, and the Grammy Awards for music and recording – are modeled after the Academy Awards. The 89th Academy Awards ceremony, honoring the best films of 2016, were held on February 26,2017, at the Dolby Theatre, in Los Angeles, the ceremony was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and was broadcast on ABC. A total of 3,048 Oscars have been awarded from the inception of the award through the 88th, the first Academy Awards presentation was held on May 16,1929, at a private dinner function at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel with an audience of about 270 people. The post-awards party was held at the Mayfair Hotel, the cost of guest tickets for that nights ceremony was $5. Fifteen statuettes were awarded, honoring artists, directors and other participants in the industry of the time. The ceremony ran for 15 minutes, winners were announced to media three months earlier, however, that was changed for the second ceremony in 1930. Since then, for the rest of the first decade, the results were given to newspapers for publication at 11,00 pm on the night of the awards. The first Best Actor awarded was Emil Jannings, for his performances in The Last Command and he had to return to Europe before the ceremony, so the Academy agreed to give him the prize earlier, this made him the first Academy Award winner in history. With the fourth ceremony, however, the system changed, for the first six ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned two calendar years. At the 29th ceremony, held on March 27,1957, until then, foreign-language films had been honored with the Special Achievement Award. The 74th Academy Awards, held in 2002, presented the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, since 1973, all Academy Awards ceremonies always end with the Academy Award for Best Picture. The Academy also awards Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, see also § Awards of Merit categories The best known award is the Academy Award of Merit, more popularly known as the Oscar statuette. The five spokes represent the branches of the Academy, Actors, Writers, Directors, Producers. The model for the statuette is said to be Mexican actor Emilio El Indio Fernández, sculptor George Stanley sculpted Cedric Gibbons design. The statuettes presented at the ceremonies were gold-plated solid bronze
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31st Academy Awards Presentations,
Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, 1959
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81st Academy Awards Presentations,
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Pantages Theatre, 2008
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Geraldine Page
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Geraldine Sue Page was an American film, television and stage actress. Page made her Broadway debut in 1953 and went on to receive Tony Award nominations for Sweet Bird of Youth, Absurd Person Singular, Agnes of God and she was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1983. Page was born in Kirksville, Missouri and she was the daughter of Edna Pearl and Leon Elwin Page, who worked at Andrew Taylor Still College of Osteopathy and Surgery. He was an author whose works included Practical Anatomy, Osteopathic Fundamentals and she had a younger brother, Frederick. After graduating from Chicagos Englewood Technical Prep Academy in Chicago, Illinois, she attended the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago, Page was a trained method actor and worked closely with Lee Strasberg. She began appearing in theatre at age 17. Her appearance as Alma in the 1952 production of Summer and Smoke, written by Tennessee Williams and her work continued on Broadway as the spinster in the 1954–1955 production of The Rainmaker, written by N. She earned critical accolades for her performance in the 1959 production of Williamss Sweet Bird of Youth opposite Paul Newman. She originated the role of a larger-than-life, addicted, sexually voracious Hollywood legend trying to extinguish her fears about her career with a hustler named Chance Wayne. For her performance, Page received her first nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play and she and Newman later starred in the film adaptation of the same name and Page earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for the film. In 1964, she starred in a Broadway revival of Anton Chekhovs Three Sisters playing eldest sister Olga to Kim Stanleys Masha with Shelley Winters as the interloper Natasha, both Shirley Knight and Sandy Dennis played the youngest sister Irina at different stages in this production. It was directed by Lee Strasberg, in 1967, Page starred in Peter Shaffers Black Comedy/White Lies, a production which also included Michael Crawford and Lynn Redgrave who were making their Broadway debuts. Page received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for the 1975 production of Alan Ayckbourns Absurd Person Singular with Sandy Dennis and Richard Kiley. Page also starred as Zelda Fitzgerald in the last major Broadway production of a Williams play, Clothes for a Summer Hotel, in 1973, she played Mary Todd Lincoln opposite Maya Angelou in the Broadway production of the two-character play Look Away, written by Jerome Kilty. In 1983, Page was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame and this became the Mirror Theater Ltd with its repertory program the Mirror Repertory, and Geraldine accepted the role of Founding Artist in Residence. Vivat Regina. by Robert Bolt, Clarence by Booth Tarkington and she also appeared in The Circle by W. Somerset Maugham. It was during production that she received the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Trip to Bountiful. She received the award from F. Murray Abraham, who, after winning his Oscar for Amadeus, after winning an Academy Award in 1986, Page returned to Broadway in a revival of Noël Cowards Blithe Spirit as Madame Arcati
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Page with
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Page in a publicity photo for
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The Trip to Bountiful
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The Trip to Bountiful is a 1985 film starring Geraldine Page, John Heard, Carlin Glynn, Richard Bradford and Rebecca De Mornay. Geraldine Page won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Carrie Watts, the movie was adapted by Horton Foote from his play of the same name. The Bountiful of the title is a fictitious Texas town, although set in Houston, Texas, the movie was filmed by director Peter Masterson in Dallas. The film features an all-star cast including John Heard and Geraldine Page, redford featuring Will Thompsons Softly and Tenderly sung by Grammy-award winner Cynthia Clawson. The film won the Academy Award for Best Actress and was nominated for Best Writing and her son and daughter-in-law both know that the town has long since disappeared, due to the Depression. Old Mrs. Watts is determined to outwit her son and bossy daughter-in-law and she eventually boards a bus to a town near her childhood home. On the journey, she befriends a girl traveling alone and reminisces about her younger years and her son and daughter-in-law eventually track her down, with the help of the local police force. The local sheriff, moved by her yearning to visit her girlhood home, the town is deserted, and the few remaining structures are derelict. Mrs. Watts learns that the last occupant of the town, and she is moved to tears as she surveys her fathers land and the remains of the family home. Having confronted their common history in Bountiful, the three commit to live peacefully together. They begin their drive back to Houston, on April 12,2005, MGM released The Trip to Bountiful on DVD in region 1 US in both a widescreen and a full-frame format on a two-sided disc
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The Trip to Bountiful
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Rosanna Arquette
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Rosanna Lisa Arquette is an American actress, film director, and producer. Her other film roles include After Hours, The Big Blue, Pulp Fiction and she also directed the 2002 documentary Searching for Debra Winger, and starred from 2006 to 2007 on the ABC sitcom What About Brian. Her paternal grandfather was comedian Cliff Arquette and her mother was Jewish, from a family that emigrated from Poland and Russia. Her father, whose surname was originally Arcouet, was of part French Canadian descent. Her father was a convert from Catholicism to Islam, through him and her siblings, Patricia, Alexis, Richmond, and David, are also actors. Arquette has appeared in television and screen films. In 1982, she earned an Emmy Award nomination for the TV film The Executioners Song, Arquettes first starring role was in John Sayless 1983 film, Baby Its You, a highly regarded but little seen film. She starred in Desperately Seeking Susan alongside pop singer Madonna, for which she won a British Academy Film Awards for her supporting role despite her clearly being the lead. Madonna was breaking out at the time and though many feel that while Arquettes performance was central to the movies success and she had negotiated a deal where she would provide a song for the movie. Into The Groove became a hit for Madonna as did the movie itself. In an interview at the time, Arquette said The two questions I hate the most are What was it like working with Madonna. and Are you the Rosanna in the song Rosanna, in 1989, director Martin Scorsese offered her a part in New York Stories. Other movies of note are Pulp Fiction and the David Cronenberg film, Crash, in 1990, Arquette appeared on the cover and in a nude pictorial in Playboys September issue, although she claimed it was without her prior knowledge or consent. In recent years, Arquette has expanded into directing, including the documentaries Searching for Debra Winger and All We Are Saying, Arquette appeared in the short running What About Brian as Nicole Varsi and on Showtimes The L Word as Cherie Jaffe. She also guest starred on Malcolm in the Middle as a healer named Anita who takes Malcolms virginity, bryan Cranston, one of her former co-stars from Amazon Women on the Moon, also played Malcolms dad Hal. In 2009, she joined Fit Parent Magazine, founded by Craig Knight, Arquette stars in the French thriller The Divide, directed by Xavier Gens. In August 2013, Arquette married her husband, investment banker Todd Morgan. Her previous marriages, to director Tony Greco, film composer James Newton Howard and she has one daughter, Zoe Bleu, with Sidel. Rosanna Arquette at the Internet Movie Database Rosanna Arquette at AllMovie 1M1 Records Rosanna Arquette is Wendy Cracked a Walnut
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Arquette at 2012
Monte-Carlo Television Festival.
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After Hours (film)
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After Hours is a 1985 American black comedy film directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Joseph Minion, and starring Griffin Dunne with an ensemble cast. The film follows Paul Hackett, portrayed by Dunne, as he experiences a series of misadventures while making his way home from New York Citys SoHo district during the night, warner Home Video released the film on VHS in 1991 for both widescreen and pan-and-scan NTSC laserdiscs. It has also released on DVD. After a long and boring day at work, Paul Hackett and they discuss their common interest in Henry Miller. Marcy leaves Paul her number and informs him that she lives with a sculptor named Kiki Bridges, later in the night, under the pretense of buying a paperweight, Paul visits Marcy, taking a cab to her apartment. On his way to visit Marcy, a $20 bill is blown out the window of the cab, the cab driver is furious that he cannot pay. This is the first in a series of misadventures for Paul that turn hostile through no fault of his own. At the apartment Paul meets the sculptor Kiki and Marcy, and comes across a collection of photographs and medications which imply that Marcy is severely disfigured from burns on her legs and torso. As a result of this implication, and as a result of a conversation with Marcy. Paul then attempts to go home by subway, but the fare has increased at the stroke of midnight and he goes to a bar where Julie, a waitress, becomes enamored with him. At the bar, Paul learns that there have been a string of burglaries in the neighborhood, the bars owner, Tom Schorr, offers to give Paul money to cover the subway fare, but cannot open the cash register. They exchange keys so Paul can go to Toms place to fetch the cash register keys, on the way back from Toms apartment, Paul is questioned by suspicious neighbors. Afterwards, Paul spots two actual burglars, Neil and Pepe, with one of Kikis sculptures, after he attempts to confront them, they flee, dropping the sculpture in the process. When Paul returns the sculpture to Kiki and Marcys apartment, he finds Marcy has committed suicide, Kiki and a stout man named Horst have already left to go to Club Berlin, a nightclub. Paul attempts to return to Toms bar, but it is locked up, Paul meets Julie, the waitress, in the street, who invites him up to her apartment to wait for Tom to reopen the bar. Julie is enamored with Paul, but Paul goes back to Toms bar, finding Tom grieving over Marcy, Paul returns to Julies apartment where she begins to sketch his portrait while they talk. Ultimately, Paul rejects Julies advances and leaves and he goes to Club Berlin to find Kiki and Horst, where a collection of punks attempt to shave his head into a Mohawk hairstyle. On the street, Paul is mistaken for a burglar and is pursued by a mob of local residents
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Laura Dern
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Laura Elizabeth Dern is an American actress. Dern won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film for the 1992 film Afterburn and she is known for her collaborations with filmmaker David Lynch, having appeared in three of his films and the upcoming revival of Twin Peaks. The poet, writer, and Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish was her great-great-uncle, laura Derns film debut was a cameo in her mothers film White Lightning. She also made a appearance in Alice Doesnt Live Here Anymore. Her mother objected to her 13-year-old daughters presence on the set of Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains, in 1982, she became the youngest-ever winner of Miss Golden Globe. Dern began working with acting coach Sandra Seacat in 1984, Dern would later attribute Seacat with a dramatic transformation in her life and work. Between 1985 and 1990, Dern gained critical acclaim for roles in Mask, Blue Velvet, Derns starring role in Blue Velvet was a breakthrough though her next notable film, Wild at Heart, took almost four years to be released. Derns affiliation with David Lynch has continued with her role in Inland Empire, Dern starred as Dr. Ellie Sattler in Steven Spielbergs 1993 film Jurassic Park. That same year, Clint Eastwood contacted the actress for his film A Perfect World and she also starred as Ruth in the 1996 film Citizen Ruth, the directorial debut of Alexander Payne. Derns mother makes a appearance, playing Derns characters mother. In 1997, Dern was featured in Widespread Panics music video for their song, Aunt Avis, in 1998, Dern co-starred in Jodie Fosters film The Baby Dance. While dating Thornton in 1999, she was cast as his love interest in his film Daddy and Them, Dern also appeared in Joe Johnstons film October Sky. Robert Altman called upon Derns talents to play a Champagne-loving Aunt in his Texas-based comedy Dr. T & the Women in 2000 and she co-starred in Within These Walls and Arthur Millers Focus. She had a role in Jurassic Park III, and was a supporting actress in the film I Am Sam. She starred in the 2002 film Damaged Care and the 2004 film We Dont Live Here Anymore, Dern starred in the 2005 film Happy Endings, and in the same year, she appeared in the film The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio. In 2006, David Lynch and Dern reunited for Inland Empire and, also in 2006, Dern had a supporting role in Lonely Hearts. Mike White, known for writing School of Rock and The Good Girl, hired Dern for his debut in 2007. In 2008 Dern starred in Recount for which she won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Series, Miniseries or Television Film
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Dern at the 2013
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Dern in 2009 at a ceremony for
Mary Steenburgen to receive a star on the
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Dern with then-husband
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Smooth Talk
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The protagonist and main character, Connie Wyatt, is played by Laura Dern. The antagonist, Arnold Friend, is played by Treat Williams, the film was produced by American Playhouse and Goldcrest Films, and originally released to movie theaters in 1985. The original music score was composed by Russ Kunkel and Bill Payne, the movie won the Grand Jury Prize in the Dramatic category at that years Sundance Festival. Connie Wyatt is a restless 15-year-old who is anxious to explore the pleasures of her sexual awakening, before she enters her sophomore year in high school, she spends the summer moping around her family farm house. She suffers from her mothers put-downs, while hearing nothing but praise for her older sister and her father somehow manages to float around the family tensions. She also helps paint the cottage, just as her mother constantly demands her to, Connie passes the time cruising the local shopping mall with her friends and flirting with boys. When an actual date leads to heavy petting, however, she flees from his car, at a hamburger joint, an older man confides to her, Im watching you. One afternoon, her mother and June warn Connie to be careful with her flirting, and she is left alone in the house, while her family goes to a barbecue. Later, as Connie is playing around the house, a man who calls himself Arnold Friend approaches her in a 1960s convertible with that name painted on it and identifies himself as A. Friend. He dresses and acts like James Dean, and name-drops several teenybopper acts, Arnold tells Connie about how he has been watching her and that he knows all about her, recounting the details about her familys barbecue plans with amazing accuracy. He then starts talking about how he could be her lover, when she returns home, Connie is bewildered and disheveled, and tells Arnold that she never wants to see him again. It is left ambiguous whether or not he raped her, it is implied that she isnt the person we met at the beginning of the film. After her family home, her mother tearfully apologizes to her for slapping her earlier that day. At the end of the film, she doesnt tell June about what happened, Smooth Talk at the Internet Movie Database Smooth Talk at AllMovie Smooth Talk at Rotten Tomatoes
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Lori Singer
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Lori Singer is an American actress and cellist. She is perhaps best known for her role as Ariel Moore, the lead in the 1984 feature film Footloose. Singer was born in Corpus Christi, Texas and she grew up in a musical family, her father, Jacques Singer, was a conductor and protégé of Leopold Stokowski, and her mother, Leslie, is a concert pianist. Her brother is actor Marc Singer, and her cousin is director/writer/producer Bryan Singer, as a child, she was often around such luminaries as Leonard Bernstein. A Juilliard-trained cellist, she was a student of Leonard Rose, Singer made her debut as soloist at age thirteen with the Oregon Symphony. Singer has performed in public on such stages as the Royal Albert Hall and she plays the cello in Short Cuts, Fame, and also in Sarabande, a short film by Atom Egoyan which is part of the Inspired by Bach series. The part was created for her and her role in Trouble in Mind led to her nomination for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead. Singer has also had roles in Equinox, Summer Heat, Warlock, Sunset Grill, F. T. W. and she was awarded a Golden Globe as an actor for Best Ensemble for Short Cuts. The Short Cuts cast won awards for best ensemble at the 50th Venice International Film Festival and she also won Newcomer of the Year at ShoWest for her role in the TV movie Born Beautiful. In 1995, she played Sydney Bloom, the character in the science fiction TV series VR.5. In addition to her acting, she produced Summer Heat and was involved in the conception of VR.5. On May 4,2011, Singer returned to television with a role on Law & Order. In 2013, Singer executive produced with Sheila Nevins, HBO, in 2012 the film won the Grierson Award at the London Film Festival and it also won the Chicago International Film Festivals award. In 2013, the won the Best Feature Documentary category in the Irish Film. In the United States, the film was nominated for five prime-time Emmy awards, the film was short-listed for the Academy Awards in 2013 and was nominated for a Writers Guild Award. In 2014 the documentary was awarded a Peabody Award, Lori Singer at the Internet Movie Database Lori Singer at AllMovie Official website
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Lori Singer in 1983
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Trouble in Mind (film)
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It was directed and written by Alan Rudolph, and stars Kris Kristofferson, Keith Carradine, Geneviève Bujold, and Lori Singer, with an out-of-drag appearance by Divine. The story starts off with the world-weary 1920s blues standard Trouble in Mind and ends with a song of love and reassurance, the opening line is I wouldnt say no to a woman or a job. The movie flips between reality and unreality in a variety of ways, with the time, language and setting unclear, the leading characters all display traits of the opposite of what they seem to be. There are déjà vus and some uncanny look-alike side characters that turn up in times and places. The four main characters convene by ones and pairs, get involved with one another, are joined by others, in the mysterious metropolis of Rain City, a former policeman, Hawk, is out of prison after serving eight years on a murder rap. He returns to his former hangout, Wandas Cafe, run by his former love, new arrivals in town are the down on his luck, Coop, his naive wife Georgia and their baby boy, Spike. In desperate need of money, Coop goes to work for a gangster, Solo, Hawk, meanwhile, begins to develop a protective and even romantic attachment to Georgia, who is hired by Wanda to be a waitress. Coop runs afoul of the mob boss in town, Hilly Blue, peter R. Tromp provided music as Divine’s strolling violinist. In the Chinatown restaurant scene Tromp performed Pachelbel’s Canon in D and J. S, during scenes filmed at the Seattle Art Museum Tromp performed Telemann’s Fantasia No. 6, “Autumn” from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, Mozart’s Eine kleine Nachtmusik, Biber’s Passacaglia, tromp’s appearance and music in Trouble in Mind were uncredited. Rain City was constructed out of Seattle locations, largely older areas on the edges of downtown and it was entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival. Factory released a 25th Anniversary DVD of the film, Trouble in Mind at the Internet Movie Database Trouble in Mind at AllMovie
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Isabella Rossellini
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Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini is an Italian actress, filmmaker, author, philanthropist, and model. Rossellini also received a Golden Globe Award nomination for her performance in Crime of the Century and she has four other siblings from her fathers two other marriages, Romano, Renzo, Gil, and Raffaella. Rossellini was raised in Rome, as well as in Santa Marinella and she underwent an operation for appendicitis at the age of five. At 11, she was diagnosed with scoliosis, in order to correct it, she had to undergo an 18-month ordeal of painful stretchings, body casts, and surgery on her spine using pieces of one of her shin bones. Consequently, she has permanent incision scars on her back and shin, at 19, she went to New York City, where she attended Finch College, while working as a translator and a RAI television reporter. She also appeared intermittently on Laltra Domenica, a TV show featuring Roberto Benigni, however, she did not decide to stay full-time in New York until her marriage to Martin Scorsese. At the age of 28, her career began, when she was photographed by Bruce Weber for British Vogue. Her image has appeared on magazines as Marie Claire, Harpers Bazaar, Vanity Fair. In March 1988, a dedicated to photographs of her. At Lancôme, in 1990, she was involved in development for the fragrance Trésor. In 1996, when she was 44, she was removed as the face of Lancôme for being too old, in October 1992, Rossellini modelled for Madonnas controversial book Sex. Rossellini also appeared in Madonnas music video for her successful Top 5 hit song Erotica, in 1995, Rossellini worked with the Coty Group and developed her own brand of cosmetics, Isabella Rossellinis Manifesto. She is signed to Trump Model Management, Rossellini was the inaugural brand ambassador for the Italian Silversea Cruises company in 2004, and she appeared in print ads and on their website. Rossellini made her debut with a brief appearance as a nun opposite her mother in the 1976 film A Matter of Time. Her first role was the 1979 film Il Prato, and then in 1980 she appeared in Renzo Arbores film Il papocchio with Martin Scorsese, following her mothers death in 1982, Rossellini was cast in her first American film, White Nights. This was followed by her role as the tortured nightclub singer Dorothy Vallens in the David Lynch film Blue Velvet. Other significant film roles during this period include her work in Cousins, Death Becomes Her, Fearless, in 1996, she appeared as herself in an episode of the TV series Friends called The One With Frank Jr. In 2003, Rossellini was a character on the television series Alias
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Rossellini at the 2013
Toronto International Film Festival
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Rossellini on location at Tempelhof Airport in Berlin to shoot some scenes for the film
The Innocent, 1992
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Rossellini (left) worked on
Green Porno with Jody Shapiro (right).
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Rossellini with
David Lynch at the
Cannes Film Festival (1990)
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Blue Velvet (film)
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Blue Velvet is a 1986 American neo-noir mystery film, written and directed by David Lynch. Blending psychological horror film noir, the film stars Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper. The title is taken from Bobby Vintons 1963 song of the same name, the screenplay of Blue Velvet had been passed around multiple times in the late 1970s and early 1980s, with many major studios declining it because of its strong sexual and violent content. The independent studio De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, owned at the time by Italian film producer Dino De Laurentiis, Blue Velvet initially received a divided critical response, with many stating that its objectionable content served little artistic purpose. It nevertheless earned Lynch his second Academy Award nomination for Best Director, publications including Sight & Sound, Time, Entertainment Weekly and BBC Magazine have ranked it among the greatest American films of all time. In 2008, Blue Velvet was chosen by the American Film Institute as one of the greatest American mystery films ever made, Jeffrey Beaumont returns to his logging home town of Lumberton, North Carolina, from Oak Lake College after his father suffers a near-fatal stroke. While walking home from the hospital, he cuts through a vacant lot, Jeffrey takes the ear to police detective John Williams and becomes reacquainted with the detectives daughter, Sandy. She tells him details about the ear case and a woman, Dorothy Vallens. Increasingly curious, Jeffrey enters Dorothys apartment by posing as an exterminator, Jeffrey and Sandy attend Dorothys nightclub act, in which she sings Blue Velvet, and leave early so Jeffrey can sneak into her apartment to snoop. He hurriedly hides in a closet when she returns home, however, Dorothy, wielding a knife, discovers him and threatens to kill him. Dorothy hides Jeffrey in the closet, from there he witnesses the visitor, Frank Booth, inflict his bizarre sexual proclivities—which include inhaling an unidentified gas, dry humping, and sadomasochism—upon Dorothy. Frank is an extremely foul-mouthed, violent sociopath whose orgasmic climax is a fit of both pleasure and rage and he continually refers to her as Mommy and to himself as both the Daddy and the Baby, who wants to fuck. Frank has kidnapped Dorothys husband and son to force her to sexual favors. When Frank leaves, a sad and desperate Dorothy tries to seduce Jeffrey again and demands that he hit her, when Jeffrey moves to leave, she asks him to stay, though he leaves anyway. Jeffrey relays his experience to Sandy, asking her why there are people like Frank, Sandy in turn tells him of a wonderful dream she had about robins that she interprets as a sign of hope for humanity. Jeffrey and Sandy find themselves attracted to other, though Sandy has a boyfriend. Jeffrey again visits Dorothys apartment and she tells him that although she knows nothing about him, Jeffrey attends another of Dorothys performances at the club, where she sings the same song. At the club, Jeffrey spots Frank in the audience fondling a piece of velvet fabric he cut from Dorothys robe
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"I guess it means there's trouble until the robins come": Throughout the film, a dream Sandy had is alluded to, in which the world was full of darkness and turmoil until a group of
robins were set free, unleashing blinding light and love.
Lighting is a strong symbolic aspect of the film, illustrated in this second shot which is saturated with light representing the return to normalcy and love.
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Lynch and Rossellini at the
Cannes Film Festival.
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Elpidia Carrillo
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Elpidia Carrillo is a Mexican and American actress and director. Her career includes roles in both Latin American and US film and television and she is best known in the United States for her supporting role in the iconic action film Predator, Bread and Roses and Nine Lives. She was also nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead for her performance in Salvador and she also known for the role Tecuichpo in the Independent film The Other Conquest. Carrillo was born in Santa Elena, Michoacán, Mexico, a mountain town. One of eight children in a family of laborers, her childhood was marked by violence. At the age of three, her father was murdered, forcing her eldest brother to assume control of the family, wanting Carrillo to get an education, he forged a birth certificate so she could begin first grade at age four. When she was six, her brother was gunned down outside a theater. When she was ten, Carrillo moved to the town of Uruapan with an older sister where she dropped out of school as she began working alongside her sister at a Chinese restaurant, Carrillo was discovered by a local photographer in Uruapan, Mexico and soon received a modeling contract. At 12 years old, director Rafael Corkidi cast Elpidia as Malinche in the surrealist Mexican feature film Pafnucio Santo, the film was Mexicos official submission to the Academy Awards that year, but with its many esoteric elements, it failed to garner a nomination. Due to the role involving nudity and her being under age, Corkidi cast Carrillo again for a larger role in his film Deseos. By age 16, she shot her first lead role in the controversial Mexican feature Nuevo Mundo, having worked numerous films, she decided to enroll in the Bellas Arts School in Mexico City. After numerous Mexican and International film and television credits, Carrillos US film career quickly emerged as she did a series of critically acclaimed roles in award nominated US projects. Her first US film came when Academy Award winning director Tony Richardson cast her in a role in the film The Border opposite Jack Nicholson. Next she made her US television debut in the role of Coana in the Primetime Emmy nominated mini-series Christopher Columbus and her character of Anna is also the only character to recur in more than a single film during the Predator franchise as she would also briefly appears in Predator 2. Predator is widely considered the most commercially successful film of Carrillos career and her most recognizable role, though initially weakly received by critics, the film has subsequently gone on to become an action film classic making numerous best of lists in later years. At the time of its release, the received an Oscar nomination for Best Visual Effects. The film also won the Casting Society of Americas Artios Award for Best Casting for a Drama Feature, johnny Depp cast her as the female lead of his only directorial effort, the controversial The Brave, which he also starred in along with Marlon Brando. Carrillo would go on to win the 2002 ALMA Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture, during the telecast, both women came to the podium together and shared time in giving their acceptance speeches
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Carrillo in 2010
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Salvador (film)
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Salvador is a 1986 American war drama film co-written and directed by Oliver Stone. Stone wrote the screenplay with Richard Boyle and it stars James Woods as Richard Boyle, alongside Jim Belushi, Michael Murphy and Elpidia Carrillo, with John Savage, and Cynthia Gibb in supporting roles. The film was nominated for two Academy Awards, Best Actor in a Leading Role and Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen. However, when Boyle and Rock witness the execution of a student by government troops just as they enter the country, as of January 28,2013, the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes records an average response of 92%, based on 24 reviews. But basically its a character portrait of a couple of burned-out free-lancers trying to keep their heads above water. He also compared it to the work of Constantin Costa-Gavras, cinematically as well as politically, the film garnered two Academy Award nominations for Best Actor in a Leading Role and Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen at the 59th Academy Awards ceremony
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Theatrical release poster
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Desert Hearts
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Desert Hearts is a 1985 American romantic drama film directed by Donna Deitch. The screenplay written by Natalie Cooper is an adaptation of the 1964 lesbian-themed novel Desert of the Heart by Jane Rule, the film stars Helen Shaver and Patricia Charbonneau with a supporting performance by Audra Lindley. The film was released theatrically in the United States on March 7,1986 and it was released in the United Kingdom on June 6,1986. In 1959, Vivian Bell, a 35-year-old English professor at Columbia University in New York City, travels to Reno to establish residency in Nevada and she stays at a guest house ranch for women who are waiting for their divorces to be finalized. The guest ranch is owned by Frances Parker, Vivian meets Cay Rivvers, a younger, free-spirited sculptor whom Frances loves as if she were her mother. Cay works at a casino as an operator in Reno. When Vivian arrives, Cay notices her immediately, and the controlled and elegant Vivian, in turn, is taken aback by Cays boldness. Cay reveals that she has had relationships with women in the past, Frances jealously notices that Vivian is becoming a bigger and bigger part of Cays life, and resents her for it, afraid that Cay will leave her and the ranch, and she will be left alone. Frances sees Cay as her family, even though Cay is not her actual child. When everyone attends an engagement party for Cays best friend and co-worker, Silver, Cay drives a drunken Vivian to see Lake Tahoe afterwards, Vivian returns the kiss passionately and is so surprised by her response to Cays advance that she begs Cay to take her home. When they return to the ranch in the morning, Frances has Vivians bags. Cay leaves the ranch immediately, and Vivian transfers to a room at the Riverside Casino for the rest of her stay. After some days apart, both Cay and Vivian are clearly confused and hurt, Cay goes to visit Vivian at the hotel and overcomes Vivians resistance to making love with her, and they start a relationship. With the impending finalization of Vivians divorce, the two must sort out the future of their relationship. Vivian is afraid of people in her academic circle will think of her being in a relationship with another woman. At Silvers wedding, Vivian and Cay are in attendance, Frances and Cay are brought back together, in the final scene, after Vivians divorce has become finalized, she packs up and goes to the train station to return to New York. Cay accompanies her to the station, and as the train is pulling out, Vivian convinces Cay to come with her, at least as far as the next station. In 1979, Donna Deitch was searching for a story about a romance that was mainstream
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Promotional movie poster for the film
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Sally Kirkland
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Sally Kirkland is an American film and television actress. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for Anna, Kirkland was born in New York City, New York. She was named after her mother, Sally Kirkland, who was an editor at Vogue and LIFE magazines. Her father, Frederic McMichael Kirkland, worked in the metal business. Kirkland began acting Off-Broadway in 1963, after a few uncredited and bit parts in film and television, she appeared in the underground film Coming Apart. In the 1970s, she had roles in popular films such as The Sting, The Way We Were, A Star Is Born. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for Anna, and she won a Golden Globe Award and her performance received widespread critical praise, in a performance that Rita Kempley writing for the Washington Post deemed superb. Kirkland hosts a program on the syndicated HealthyLife Radio Network. Films in which she has appeared include EDtv, JFK, Adam and Steve, Kirkland is also a health activist including advocating for women harmed by breast implants. She founded the Kirkland Institute for Implant Survival Syndrome in August 1998, Kirkland is an ordained minister in the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness
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Sally Kirkland (2014)
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Lillian Gish
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Lillian Diana Gish was an American actress of the screen and stage, as well as a director and writer whose film acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912 in silent film shorts to 1987. Gish was called the First Lady of American Cinema, and she is credited with pioneering fundamental film performing techniques and she also did considerable television work from the early 1950s into the 1980s and closed her career playing opposite Bette Davis in the 1987 film The Whales of August. In her later years Gish became an advocate for the appreciation and preservation of silent film. Gish is widely considered to be the greatest actress of the silent era, despite being better known for her film work, Gish was also an accomplished stage actress, and she was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1972. Gish was born in Springfield, Ohio, to Mary Robinson McConnell and she had a younger sister, Dorothy, who also became a popular movie star. The first several generations of Gishes were Dunkard ministers and her great-great-grandfather fought in the American Revolutionary War and is buried in a cemetery in Pennsylvania for such soldiers. Letters between Gish and a Pennsylvania college professor indicate that her knowledge of her background was limited. Gishs father was an unreliable alcoholic, when he left the family, her mother took up acting to support them. The family moved to East St. Louis, Illinois, where lived for several years with Lillians aunt and uncle, Henry. Their mother opened the Majestic Candy Kitchen, and the girls helped sell popcorn and candy to patrons of the old Majestic Theater, the girls attended St. Henrys School, where they acted in school plays. The girls were living with their aunt Emily in Massillon, Ohio, Lillian traveled to Shawnee, Oklahoma, where Jamess brother Alfred Grant Gish and his wife, lived. Her father, who by then was institutionalized in the Oklahoma Hospital for the Insane in Norman and he was able to travel the 35 miles to Shawnee and the two got reacquainted. She stayed with her aunt and uncle and attended Shawnee High School there and she wrote to her sister Dorothy that she was thinking of staying and finishing high school and then going to college, but she missed her family. Her father died in Norman, Oklahoma, January 9,1912, when the theater next to the candy store burned down, the family moved to New York, where the girls became good friends with a next-door neighbor, Gladys Smith. Gladys was an actress who did some work for director D. W. Griffith. When Lillian and Dorothy were old enough, they joined the theatre and they also took modeling jobs, with Lillian posing for artist Victor Maurel in exchange for voice lessons. In 1912, their friend Mary Pickford introduced the sisters to Griffith, Lillian Gish would soon become one of Americas best-loved actresses. Although she was already 19, she gave her age as 16 to the studio, Gish made her stage debut in 1902, at The Little Red School House in Rising Sun, Ohio
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Lillian Gish, 1921
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Dorothy and Lillian Gish with actress Helen Ray, their leading lady in Her First False Step (1903)
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Lillian Gish in
Broken Blossoms
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A 1921 fan magazine cover by
Rolf Armstrong
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The Whales of August
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The Whales of August is a 1987 American drama film based on the play of the same name by David Berry and starring Bette Davis and Lillian Gish as elderly sisters. Also in the cast were Ann Sothern as one of their friends, the film was shot on location on Maines Cliff Island. The house still stands and is a subject of artists on the island. This was the film directed by Lindsay Anderson and the final film role by Lillian Gish. The Whales of August tells the story of two elderly widowed sisters near the end of their lives, spending a summer in a house in Maine. The surroundings cause them to recall their relationship as young women, and they reflect on the passage of time, and the bitterness, jealousies and misunderstandings that slowly festered over the years and kept them from establishing a true closeness in their relationship. Libby, played by Davis, is the elder and the infirm of the two sisters, and her nature has become bitter and cold as a result. Sarah, played by Gish, is the sister, a softer and more tolerant character, intent on nursing her sister through her discomfort. The resentment that Libby so clearly displays to her stifles Sarahs every attempt at making a friendly overture towards her, maranov is an expatriate from Russia who has recently lost the friend that he has been living with. Tisha is a lifelong friend who provides common sense, fun and laughter. In flashbacks, actresses Margaret Ladd, Mary Steenburgen and Tisha Sterling play respectively Libby, Sarah and this was to be the final film role for the 93-year-old Gish. As opposed to the stage production, the movie made it possible to showcase stars who were the age peers of the characters. Actors and actresses of an age and stature were contacted to see whether they were both interested in and physically capable of playing the roles. Many screen greats were approached to play a role but demurred because they suffered from various infirmities, e. g. Shirley Booth, Barbara Stanwyck, Fred Astaire and Paul Henreid. Gish and Davis themselves were somewhat infirmed — Davis had recently recovered from several strokes which inhibited movement on the side of her body. Ironically, Gish, playing the sister, was fifteen years older than Davis. Other greats turned down the producers overtures for other reasons, e. g. Joel McCrea, Frances Dee, Katharine Hepburn, even Davis and Gish turned down the parts more than once before being persuaded to star in the film. This film marks a reunion between Bette Davis and Vincent Price, after 48 years, having last appeared on together in The Private Lives of Elizabeth
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Theatrical release poster
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Joanne Woodward
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Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward is an American actress, producer, activist, and philanthropist. She is perhaps best known for her Academy Award-winning role in The Three Faces of Eve. Woodward was born on February 27,1930, in Thomasville, Georgia, daughter of Elinor and Wade Woodward and her middle names, Gignilliat Trimmier, are of Huguenot origin. She was influenced to become an actress by her mothers love of movies and her mother named her after Joan Crawford, using the Southern pronunciation of the name – Joanne. She eventually worked with Olivier in 1977, in a production of Come Back. During rehearsals, she mentioned this incident to him, and he told her that he remembered her doing it, Woodward lived in Thomasville until she was in the second grade, when her family relocated to Marietta, Georgia, where she attended Marietta High School. She remains a booster of Marietta High and of that citys Strand Theater and they moved once again when she was a junior in high school, after her parents divorced. She graduated from Greenville High School in Greenville, South Carolina in 1947, Woodward won many beauty contests as a teenager. She appeared in productions at Greenville High and in Greenvilles Little Theatre, playing Laura Wingfield in their staging of The Glass Menagerie. She returned to Greenville in 1976, to play Amanda Wingfield in another Little Theatre production of The Glass Menagerie and she had also returned in 1955 for the premiére of her debut movie, Count Three And Pray, at the Paris Theatre on North Main Street. Woodward majored in drama at Louisiana State University, where she was an initiate of Chi Omega sorority, woodwards first film was a post-Civil War Western, Count Three and Pray, in 1955. She continued to move between Hollywood and Broadway, eventually understudying in the New York production of Picnic, which featured her future husband Paul Newman, the two were married in 1958, after their work together in the film The Long, Hot Summer. By that time, Woodward had starred in The Three Faces of Eve and she appeared with husband Paul Newman in ten feature films, The Long, Hot Summer Rally Round the Flag, Boys. From the Terrace Paris Blues A New Kind of Love Winning WUSA The Drowning Pool Harry & Son — Mr. and she appeared in the television films Sybil, opposite Sally Field, and Crisis at Central High. She was the narrator for Martin Scorseses screen version of The Age of Innocence, Woodward was a co-producer and starred in a 1993 broadcast of the play Blind Spot, for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie. In 1995, Woodward directed off-broadway revivals of Clifford Odets Golden Boy, Woodward served as the artistic director of the Westport Country Playhouse from 2001 to 2005. She recorded a reading of singer John Mellencamps song The Real Life for his box set On the Rural Route 7609, in 2011, she narrated the Scholastic/Weston Woods film All the World. Woodward was reported to have engaged to author Gore Vidal prior to marrying Paul Newman
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Woodward pictured in the 1960s
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in The Three Faces of Eve (1957), displaying "Eve Black", the 'bad girl' personality
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in
The Stripper (1963)
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Woodward's Hollywood Walk of Fame star
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The Glass Menagerie (1987 film)
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The Glass Menagerie is a 1987 American drama film directed by Paul Newman. The film is the adaptation of the Williams play, following a 1950 feature film. It was shown at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival before opening in New York City on October 23,1987. Introduced by Tom Wingfield as a play, it is based on his recollection of his disillusioned and delusional mother Amanda and her shy. Amandas husband abandoned the long ago, and her memory of her days as a genteel Southern belle surrounded by devoted beaux may be more romanticized than real. Amanda is obsessed with finding a gentleman caller for Laura. To appease his mother, Tom eventually brings Jim OConnor home for dinner and he dashes her hopes of a future together when he announces he is engaged. Infuriated, Amanda lashes out at her son for raising his sisters hopes and Tom leaves, in any case, this Glass Menagerie catches more of the dramas closeness and narrowness than its fire. Starts out stiffly and gets better as it goes along, but quiet reverence is its prevailing tone, and in the end that seems thoroughly at odds with anything Williams ever intended. Desson Howe of the Washington Post observed, Acting is definitely the trouble in Menagerie, theres an awful lot of it here. And there are many words - fine words by Tennessee Williams, but before that no-nonsense lens, and as emoted by Malkovich and Woodward, they seem time-consuming, inflated, dated and theatrical. The films few good moments happen when mouths are firmly shut, which is why Karen Allen, one of the screens great underrated actresses, comes off best. As frail and softspoken daughter Laura, awaiting gentleman callers who never come, Woodward, she with the longest resumé, is the disappointment. Apparently understating, she speaks in a low, squeaky tone - a kind of laryngitic falsetto and its so irritating it makes her moments of hysteria a relief. She is also at her best when wordless, Malkovich, as the pivotal Tom, is certainly watchable. But as the son bearing his mothers pushiness and the brother tethered to his sisters social infirmity, his actions are obvious, which seems to have been director Newmans intention. But by filming this play in straightforward manner, Newman emphasizes the artificiality of theater and distances you from the play. Variety called it a reverent record of the Williams play one watches with a kind of distant dreaminess rather than an intense emotional involvement and it currently holds a 67% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes
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Promotional poster
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Jodie Foster
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Alicia Christian Jodie Foster is an American actress and filmmaker who has worked in films and on television. She has often cited as one of the best actresses of her generation. Foster began her career at the age of three as a model in 1965, and two years later moved to acting in television series, with the sitcom Mayberry R. F. D. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, she worked in several television series. Fosters breakthrough came in Martin Scorseses Taxi Driver, in which she played a teenage prostitute, the role garnered her a nomination for an Academy Award. She won her second Academy Award three years later for her role in the sleeper hit The Silence of the Lambs, where she played Clarice Starling, an FBI trainee investigating a serial murder case. Foster made her debut as a director the same year with the moderately successful Little Man Tate. The companys first production was Nell, in which she played the title role. Her other films in the 1990s included period drama Sommersby, Western comedy Maverick, science fiction film Contact, and period drama Anna and her second film direction, Home for the Holidays, was not well-received commercially, while critical reviews were mixed. She has focused on directing in the 2010s, directing the films The Beaver and Money Monster, as well as episodes for Netflix television series Orange is the New Black and she also starred in the film Elysium. In addition to her two Academy Awards, Foster has won three BAFTA Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award and the Cecil B DeMille Award. Foster was born on November 19,1962 in Los Angeles, as the youngest child of Evelyn Ella Brandy and her father came from a wealthy Chicago family, whose forebears included John Alden, who had arrived in North America on the Mayflower in 1620. He was a Yale University graduate and a decorated U. S. Air Force lieutenant colonel and he had already been married once and had three sons from the union before marrying Brandy in Las Vegas in 1953. Brandy Foster was of German heritage and grew up in Rockford, Foster also has Irish roots, with ancestry that can be traced back to County Cork. Before Fosters birth, she and Lucius had three children, daughters Lucinda Cindy Foster and Constance Connie Foster, and son Lucius Fisher Buddy Foster. Their marriage ended before Foster was born, and she never established a relationship with her father, following the divorce, Brandy raised the children with her partner in Los Angeles. She worked as a publicist for film producer Arthur P. Jacobs, until focusing on managing the careers of Buddy. Although Foster was officially named Alicia, her siblings began calling her Jodie, Foster was a gifted child, and learned to read at the age of three
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Foster at the 2011
César Awards ceremony
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The main campus of the
Lycée Français de Los Angeles, which Foster attended.
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Foster with
Christopher Connelly in a publicity photo for
Paper Moon (1974), in which she had one of the first starring roles of her career
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Foster at the Governor's Ball after winning an
Academy Award for
The Accused (1988). Her performance as a rape survivor marked her breakthrough into adult roles.
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Five Corners (film)
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Five Corners is a 1987 American low budget crime drama film starring Tim Robbins, Jodie Foster, John Turturro, and Rodney Harvey. It was directed by Tony Bill and it depicts 48 hours in the lives of a group of young New Yorkers in the 1960s. The film is set in The Bronx in 1964 and we are introduced to Heinz, the neighborhood bully who has just been released from prison, who wastes no time in letting everyone know he hasnt changed by stirring up trouble again. Harry had protected Linda in the near-rape, but since then he has adopted a policy of non-violent response to violence, Harry has now become a Buddhist and a pacifist, and seeks to join Dr. Kings movement, making protecting Linda again a difficult task. We also see Mr. Glasgow, an overly strict high-school teacher murdered by being shot in the back with an arrow while he walks down the street. That night we see Sal driving his fiancé Melanie and her girlfriend Brita around the neighborhood while they take pills and sniff glue in the back seat. Fed up with how theyve gotten so loaded, Sal offers to them to Castro and Willie. Sal even offering them cash to take the women off his hands and they accept and walk off with the girls, who are so high they dont even know who theyre supposed to be with. The next morning, Brita and Melanie wake up in a strange apartment and they get dressed and find Castro and Willie in the hall. Picking up where left off, the boys tell Melanie and Brita, Someone murdered our teacher. But the ride they have in mind is climbing up on top of the elevators with the girls. Heinz calls Linda, and tells her to him in a park at midnight. She reluctantly agrees, knowing that he may become dangerous if she doesnt comply, when arriving at the pool, she finds a board to use for protection and hides it. Heinz shows her a present he got for her, two penguins he stole from the Bronx zoo and she tells him that he has to return them because penguins need special food. Heinz becomes outraged, thinking that she was rejecting his gift, Heinz comes on strong with Linda, pushing her further and further until in desperation she fights Heinz off, and runs off with one of the penguins. She takes it to Jamie, who wishes Linda was his girl and he reluctantly helps her get the penguin set up in a tub at the bar he works in, then escorts her to the subway. Heinz shows up and kidnaps Linda and knocks her out and he carries her to a taxi, kicks out the window to gain entry, and lays her down in the backseat. The dog leads them to the taxi and while attempting to arrest Heinz, one of the detectives is disarmed by Heinz, at the limit of his sanity, and sensing that hes going to die tonight, Heinz carries Linda up to his mothers apartment
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Theatrical release poster
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Ricki Lake
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Ricki Pamela Lake is an American actress, producer, and television presenter. Lake is best known for her show which was broadcast internationally from September 1993 until May 2004. When Lakes show debut, She was 24 and credited as being the youngest person to host a talk show at the time. In autumn 2012, Lake embarked on a syndicated talk show project The Ricki Lake Show. In 2013, the series was cancelled after one season but Lake won her first Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host. Lake was born to Jill and Barry Lake, in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, Lake attended Ithaca College for one year. Lake made her debut as Tracy Turnblad, the lead character in John Waterss 1988 cult-classic Hairspray. Lake also starred in other Waters films including Cry-Baby, Cecil B and she starred in Mrs. Winterbourne with Shirley MacLaine and Brendan Fraser, Cabin Boy, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Cookie, and Inside Monkey Zetterland. She joined the cast of the Vietnam War drama series China Beach as a Red Cross volunteer, Holly the Donut Dolly Pelegrino and she also had a recurring role on the CBS sitcom The King of Queens as Dougs sister Stephanie. She guest-starred on television series including Drop Dead Diva and a role on King of the Hill. The song is played during the end credits. She later reunited with original Hairspray co-star Deborah Harry for the film Hotel Gramercy Park, Ricki Lake was Lakes first daytime talk show and at 24, she was the youngest person at the time to host one. The show specialized in topics involving invited guests and incorporated questions, the show debuted in syndication on September 13,1993, and ended first-run episodes on May 25,2004. In 2000, Lake told Rosie ODonnell in an interview that she had signed on for four additional years. Although Sony Pictures Television had many stations contracted through the 2004–2005 season, Lake decided to end the show in August 2004 and she moved from Los Angeles to New York to tape the 11th season of the show, then returned to California when taping was complete. Lake returned to the show platform when she hosted a second talk show which premiered in September 2012 and was cancelled after one season. After her talk show had wrapped production on its season, Lake went on to host the 2006 CBS limited series Gameshow Marathon. She also signed a development deal with Gameshow Marathon production company FremantleMedia for other ventures, including creating and producing future programs, in October 2007, Lake appeared in the Lifetime TV movie Matters of Life and Dating
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Lake in May 2015
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Lake at the premiere of
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story in 2007
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Lake in April 2007, at the premiere of
The Business of Being Born
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Hairspray (1988 film)
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Hairspray was a dramatic departure from Waters earlier works, with a much broader intended audience. Hairsprays PG is the mildest rating a Waters film has received, Hairspray was only a moderate success upon its initial theatrical release, earning a modest gross of $8 million. However, it managed to attract an audience on home video in the early 1990s. Most critics praised the film, although some were displeased with the overall campiness, the film ranks #444 on Empire magazines 2008 list of the 500 greatest movies of all time. In 2002, the film was adapted into a Broadway musical of the same name, a second film version of Hairspray, an adaptation of the stage musical, was also released by New Line Cinema in 2007, which included many changes of scripted items from the original. Set in Baltimore, Maryland in the year 1962, Tracy Turnblad and her best friend, Penny Pingleton, audition for The Corny Collins Show, Penny is too nervous and stumbles over her answers, and another girl, Nadine, is cut for being black. Tracy steals Ambers boyfriend, Link Larkin, and competes against her for the title of Miss Auto Show 1963, Tracys growing confidence leads to her being hired as a plus-size model for the Hefty Hideaway clothing store owned by Mr. Pinky. She is also inspired to bleach, tease, and rat her big hair styles popular in the 1960s. The students introduce Tracy to Motormouth Maybelle, an R&B record shop owner and they teach Tracy, Penny, and Link dance moves and Penny begins an interracial romance with Motormouth Maybelles son, Seaweed. Fredrickson out of fear that Seaweed will hurt Penny, Seaweed later helps her break out of the house and run away. It is implied that she never return, as she has finally broken free from her parents. After a race riot at Tilted Acres results in Tracys arrest and they plot to sabotage the Miss Auto Show 1963 pageant by planting a bomb in Velmas bouffant hairdo. The plan literally blows up in Velmas face when the bomb detonates prematurely, Ricki Lake as Tracy Turnblad, an optimistic, aspiring teenager who hopes to dance on a TV show as well as promote desegregation. Divine as Edna Turnblad, Tracys kind, plus-sized mother who is ashamed of her obesity, debbie Harry as Velma Von Tussle, Franklins wife and Ambers mother. Sonny Bono as Franklin Von Tussle, Velmas husband and Ambers father, jerry Stiller as Wilbur Turnblad, Tracys loving, funny and encouraging father. Leslie Ann Powers as Penelope Penny Pingleton, Tracys shy Catholic best friend, colleen Fitzpatrick as Amber Von Tussle, snobby dancer on The Corny Collins Show. Michael St. Gerard as Lincoln Link Larkin, a teenage hearthrob, clayton Prince as Seaweed J. Stubbs, Motormouth Maybelles son who loves to dance. Seaweed is Pennys main love interest, ruth Brown as Motormouth Maybelle Stubbs, a friendly and strong-willed African American and mother of Seaweed J. Stubbs Shawn Thompson as Corny Collins, the eccentric host of The Corny Collins Show
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Theatrical release poster
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Nobu McCarthy
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Nobu McCarthy was a Japanese Canadian actress, stage director, and fashion model. McCarthy was born Nobu Atsumi in Ottawa, Ontario, the daughter of Masaji, nobus father was a Japanese fashion designer and diplomatic attaché stationed in Canada at the time. Nobu was raised in Japan, where she studied ballet, a modeling career eventually led to a beauty pageant in which she won the title of Miss Tokyo. She married army sergeant David McCarthy in 1955 and moved to the United States, while shopping in the Little Tokyo district of Los Angeles, she was discovered by talent agent Fred Ishimoto, which led to her film debut in The Geisha Boy. In 1960, she appeared in the comedy film Wake Me When Its Over and she starred with Lloyd Bridges in a 1959 Sea Hunt television episode as a Hawaiian woman fighting to protect pearl-beds from poachers. In 1962 she appeared in the television series Wagon Train in the episode the John Augustus Story as Mayleen, in 1961, she appeared as Haru in the Laramie series episode Dragon at the Door. She also appeared in the ABC adventure dramas Adventures in Paradise and The Islanders and she also guest starred on ABCs The Bing Crosby Show in the 1964-1965 season. In 1970, the McCarthys divorced, they had two children, in 1971, McCarthy joined East West Players, an Asian American theatre group in Los Angeles. In 1976, she appeared in an episode of Barney Miller as prostitute/robbery victim Dorothy Murakami and she then starred in the television movie Farewell to Manzanar, based on the novel of the same title. That year she married attorney William J. Cuthbert, though she kept McCarthy as her stage name. She made an appearance in an episode of the television sitcoms Happy Days, in 1986 she had a supporting role opposite Pat Morita in the film The Karate Kid Part II. Her starring role in the indie feature The Wash, opposite Mako and that same year she replaced Mako as artistic director of East West Players, a position she held until 1993. During this time, McCarthy also taught theatre at California State University, Los Angeles, in 1996 East West Players presented McCarthy with a lifetime achievement award. McCarthy also did the voice-overs at the beginning and end of Picture Bride and she died from an aortic aneurysm in 2002 while on location in Brazil, filming Gaijin - Ama-me Como Sou, starring Tamlyn Tomita. Portrayal of East Asians in Hollywood Stereotypes of East Asians in the United States Internalized racism Nobu McCarthy at the Internet Movie Database
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Nobu McCarthy
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Julia Roberts
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Julia Fiona Roberts is an American actress and producer. She became a Hollywood star after headlining the romantic comedy Pretty Woman and she received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie nomination for her performance in the HBO television film The Normal Heart. Roberts was the actress in the world throughout most of the 1990s. Her fee for 1990s Pretty Woman was US$300,000, in 2003, as of 2007 Robertss net worth was estimated to be US$140 million. She has been named one of People magazines 50 Most Beautiful People in the World eleven times, Roberts was born on October 28,1967, in Smyrna, Georgia, to Betty Lou Bredemus and Walter Grady Roberts. She is of English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, German and her father was a Baptist, her mother a Roman Catholic, and she was raised Catholic. Her older brother, Eric Roberts, from whom she was estranged until 2004, sister Lisa Roberts Gillan, Robertss parents, one-time actors and playwrights, met while performing theatrical productions for the armed forces. They later co-founded the Atlanta Actors and Writers Workshop in Atlanta and they ran a childrens acting school in Decatur, Georgia, while they were expecting Julia. The children of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King attended the school, as a thank-you for his service, Mrs. King paid Mrs. Robertss hospital bill when Julia was born. Robertss mother filed for divorce in 1971, the divorce was finalized in early 1972, from 1972, Roberts lived in Smyrna, Georgia, where she attended Fitzhugh Lee Elementary School, Griffin Middle School, and Campbell High School. In 1972, her mother married Michael Motes, who was abusive and often unemployed, the couple had a daughter, Nancy Motes, who died at 37 on February 9,2014, of an apparent drug overdose. The marriage ended in 1983, with Betty Lou divorcing Motes on cruelty grounds, Robertss own father died of cancer when she was ten. Roberts wanted to be a veterinarian as a child and she also played the clarinet in her school band. After graduating from Smyrnas Campbell High School, she attended Georgia State University and she later headed to New York City to pursue a career in acting. Once there, she signed with the Click Modeling Agency and enrolled in acting classes, Roberts made her first big screen appearance in the film Satisfaction, alongside Liam Neeson and Justine Bateman, as a band member looking for a summer gig. She had previously performed a role opposite her brother, Eric, in Blood Red, filmed in 1987. Her first television appearance was as a rape victim in the initial season of the series Crime Story with Dennis Farina, in the episode titled The Survivor. Her first critical success with moviegoers was her performance in the independent film Mystic Pizza in 1988, that same year, she had a role in the fourth-season finale of Miami Vice
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Roberts at the 2011
Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Jesus Henry Christ
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Roberts at the
Deauville American Film Festival in Normandy, France, September 1990.
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Brad Pitt,
George Clooney,
Matt Damon,
Andy García, and Roberts with
Ocean's Eleven director,
Steven Soderbergh in December 2001.
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Deployed troops show Julia Roberts the controls of an
F-15.
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Mystic Pizza
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Mystic Pizza is a 1988 American coming-of-age film directed by Donald Petrie, and stars Annabeth Gish, Julia Roberts and Lili Taylor. In the film, Mystic is represented as a town with a large Portuguese-American population. The film also touches on an Old World work ethic, Daisy just wants to find love through lust while trying to get out of Mystic. Kat is the apple of her Portuguese mothers eye, while Daisy is not because her mother feels she is wild and is not as goal-oriented as her younger sister. However, at a dinner, his relatives unintentionally make insensitive comments about her ethnicity. Daisy breaks up with him, believing that his familys remarks were harmless, there is also chemistry between Kat and her Anglo-American employer, Tim, a father who has hired her to look after his young daughter, Phoebe, while his wife is away. A relationship develops between them, and they make love, but it results in heartache for Kat when the wife returns. Daisy and Kat bond when Kat is devastated after Tims and her evening together, Jojo is trying to have sex with her boyfriend Bill, whom she attempted to marry at the beginning of the movie, but fainted after deciding she couldnt go through with it. However, Bill refuses to have sex with her until they are married, which is something she still isnt ready for. Seeing how she tries to look for every chance to have sex with him, Bill believes that Jojo doesnt love him like he does her, and is only after him for sex, and breaks up with her. After all those events, at work, a famous TV food critic, nicknamed The Fireside Gourmet, not showing any emotion towards the pizza that he eats, he leaves after eating only a few bites, leaving the girls in suspense. However, a few later, the critic gives the pizzeria his highest rating, calling it superb. In the end, Kat receives her last paycheck from Tim, Jojo finally agrees to marry Bill, and at their wedding, Daisy and Charles reconcile. The film ends with the three girls together overlooking the water from the balcony of the restaurant, reminiscing about their time together, despite being set in Mystic, most of the filming locations were in neighboring towns. The building used for the restaurant was a converted home in Stonington Borough at 70 Water St. After the films release, the real-life Mystic Pizza building in downtown Mystic was renovated to resemble the movie set, the Windsor family home, the wedding reception restaurant, the Peg Leg Pub pool hall, and the fishing docks are also in Stonington Borough. The famous hitchhiking incident takes place on North Main Street in Stonington Town, the Arujo home is in Pawcatuck, the lobster business where Mrs. Arujo works and the wedding church are in Noank. Tim Travers home and the Windsors country club are in Watch Hill, the most notable scenes that take place in Mystic are at the Mystic Seaport planetarium and at the drawbridge, where Jojo gets angry that Bill changed the name of his boat
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Meg Ryan
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Meg Ryan is an American actress, director, and producer. Ryan began her career in 1981 in minor roles, before joining the cast of the CBS soap opera As the World Turns in 1982. Brought her widespread attention and her first Golden Globe nomination and her other films include The Doors, When a Man Loves a Woman, Courage Under Fire, Addicted to Love, City of Angels, Proof of Life, and The Women. In 2015, she made her debut with Ithaca, a film in which she also acted. Ryan was born and raised in Fairfield, Connecticut, the daughter of Susan Jordan, an actress and English teacher, and Harry Hyra. She is of German, Irish, and Polish descent and she was raised Roman Catholic and attended St. Pius X Elementary School in Fairfield. She has two sisters, Dana and Annie, and a brother, musician Andrew Hyra, a member of the band Billy Pilgrim and her parents divorced in 1976 when she was 15 years old. Ryan graduated from Bethel High School in 1979 and she went on to study journalism as an undergraduate, first at the University of Connecticut and then at New York University. During college, she acted in commercials and the soap opera As the World Turns to earn extra money. Due to her success as an actress, she dropped out of college a semester before she would have graduated, when she joined the Screen Actors Guild, she used the surname Ryan, her grandmothers maiden name. Around that same time, she appeared in a Burger King commercial, in 1986, she played Carole Bradshaw, the wife of Naval Flight Officer Nick Goose Bradshaw in Top Gun. Ryan appeared in the film Innerspace with her future husband Dennis Quaid and her first leading role was the romantic comedy film When Harry Met Sally. Which paired her with leading man Billy Crystal and earned her a Golden Globe nomination. Ryan next starred in The Doors, which was successful, and Prelude to a Kiss. The year 1993 saw the release of the successful romantic comedy Sleepless in Seattle. They had previously been paired as romantic leads in the film Joe Versus the Volcano—a commercial disappointment which later developed a cult following, Hanks and Ryan would be paired for a third time in the film Youve Got Mail. In 1994, Ryan took a role that differed from the romantic-comedy ingenue character for which she had become famous, in Luis Mandokis When a Man Loves a Woman, a romantic social drama film also starring Andy Garcia, she played an alcoholic high-school guidance counselor. The film and her performance were well received by critics
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Meg Ryan at Metropolitan Opera's 2010–11 Season Opening Night - "Das Rheingold", 2010
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Ryan at the 2010 season premiere of the
Metropolitan Opera
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Ryan in September 2006.
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Ryan with
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