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2013 Cannes Film Festival
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The 66th annual Cannes Film Festival took place in Cannes, France, from 15 to 26 May 2013. Steven Spielberg was the head of the jury for the main competition, new Zealand film director Jane Campion was the head of the jury for the Cinéfondation and Short Film sections. French actress Audrey Tautou hosted the opening and closing ceremonies, Actress Kim Novak was named guest of honour and introduced a new restored version of Alfred Hitchcocks Vertigo. The festival opened with The Great Gatsby, directed by Baz Luhrmann and closed with Zulu, the film poster for the festival featured Paul Newman and his wife Joanne Woodward. The Bling Ring, directed by Sofia Coppola, opened the Un Certain Regard section, the French film Blue Is the Warmest Colour won the Palme dOr. In an unprecedented move, along with the director, the Jury decided to take the step of awarding the films two main actresses, Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux, with the Palme dOr. On the occasion of 100 Years of Indian Cinema, India was the Official Guest Country at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, seven Indian feature films were premiered among various sections on the festival. Actress Vidya Balan was one of the official Jury of the festival, the first Incredible India Exhibition, a joint participation of the Ministry of Tourism and Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Republic of India was inaugurated by Indian delegate Chiranjeevi. The Cinéfondation section focuses on films made by students at film schools, the following 18 entries were selected, out of 1,550 submissions from 277 different schools. One-third of the films selected represented schools competing for the first time and it was also the first time for a Chilean film to be selected in Cinéfondation. The line-up for the Directors Fortnight was announced at a conference on 23 April with the following films being selected. Feature films The line-up for the International Critics’ Week was announced on 22 April at the sections website, in a first for the competition, the jury decided to award the Palme dOr to Kechiche and the actresses who star in the film, Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux. Blue Is the Warmest Colour is a film that tells the story of a lesbian relationship between a 15-year-old girl and an older woman. It has shocked critics with its graphic and controversial sex scenes. A reporter for the Radio France Internationale stated that Kechiche paid tribute to the Tunisian revolution, the Grand Prix was won by the Coen brotherss Inside Llewyn Davis, while Bruce Dern and Bérénice Bejo were awarded Best Actor and Best Actress respectively
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Official poster of the 66th Cannes Film Festival featuring a photo of
Paul Newman and
Joanne Woodward during the shooting of the film
A New Kind of Love
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The main competition jury.
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Steven Spielberg, president of the jury
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Registration and accreditation tent for the 2013 Festival
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Muscat, Oman
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Muscat is the capital and largest metropolitan city of Oman. It is also the seat of government and largest city in the Governorate of Muscat, according to the National Centre for Statistics and Information, the total population of Muscat Governorate reached 1.56 million as of September 2015. The metropolitan area spans approximately 3,500 km2 and includes six provinces called wilayats, a regional military power in the 18th century, Muscats influence extended as far as East Africa and Zanzibar. As an important port-town in the Gulf of Oman, Muscat attracted foreign tradesmen and settlers such as the Persians and the Balochis. Since the ascension of Qaboos bin Said as Sultan of Oman in 1970, Muscat has experienced rapid development that has led to the growth of a vibrant economy. The rocky Western Al Hajar Mountains dominate the landscape of Muscat, the city lies on the Arabian Sea along the Gulf of Oman and is in the proximity of the strategic Straits of Hormuz. Low-lying white buildings typify most of Muscats urban landscape, while the port-district of Muttrah, with its corniche and harbour, Muscats economy is dominated by trade, petroleum and porting. Ptolemys Map of Arabia identifies the territories of Cryptus Portus and Moscha Portus, scholars are divided in opinion on which of the two related to the city of Muscat. Similarly, Arrianus references Omana and Moscha in Voyage of Nearchus, interpretations of Arrianus work by William Vincent and Jean Baptiste Bourguignon dAnville conclude that Omana was a reference to Oman, while Moscha referred to Muscat. Similarly, other scholars identify Pliny the Elders reference to Amithoscuta to be Muscat, the origin of the word Muscat is disputed. Some authors claim that the word has Arabic origins – from moscha, other authors claim that the name Muscat means anchorage or the place of letting fall the anchor. Other derivations include muscat from Old Persian, meaning strong-scented, or from Arabic, meaning falling-place, Cryptus Portus is synonymous with Oman. But Ov-man, and the old Sumerian name Magan, means sea-people in Arabic, an inhabitant is a Muscatter, Muscatian, Muscatite or Muscatan. Evidence of communal activity in the area around Muscat dates back to the 6th millennium BCE in Ras al-Hamra, the graves appear to be well formed and indicate the existence of burial rituals. South of Muscat, remnants of Harappan pottery indicate some level of contact with the Indus Valley Civilisation. Muscats notability as a port was acknowledged as early as the 1st century CE by the Greek geographer Ptolemy, who referred to it as Cryptus Portus, and by Pliny the Elder, who called it Amithoscuta. The port fell to a Sassanid invasion in the 3rd century CE, under the rule of Shapur I, Muscats importance as a trading port continued to grow in the centuries that followed, under the influence of the Azd dynasty, a local tribe. The establishment of the First Imamate in the 9th century CE was the first step in consolidating disparate Omani tribal factions under the banner of an Ibadi state, however, tribal skirmishes continued, allowing the Abbasids of Baghdad to conquer Oman
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Muscat Gate
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Sultan
Qaboos bin Said Palace in Muscat
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Muscat harbour, ca. 1903. Visible in the background is
Fort Al Jalali.
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Muscat with the sultan's palace in the middle of the city. Photo by Arne C Wærn, Sweden, 1913
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Sacha Baron Cohen
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Sacha Noam Baron Cohen is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. A graduate of Christs College, Cambridge, Baron Cohen is most widely known for creating and portraying four fictional characters, Ali G, Borat Sagdiyev, Brüno Gehard, like his idol Peter Sellers, he uses a variety of accents and guises for his characters. In most of his routines, Baron Cohens characters interact with unsuspecting people who do not realise they are being set up for comic situations and self-revealing ridicule. His other work includes voicing King Julien XIII in the Madagascar film series and appearing in Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Hugo and he made a cameo as a BBC News Anchor in Anchorman 2, The Legend Continues. In 2016, he played an English football hooligan brother of an MI6 spy in the comedy film Grimsby, at the 2012 British Comedy Awards, he received the Outstanding Achievement Award, accepting the award while reprising his Ali G character. In 2013, he received the BAFTA Charlie Chaplin Britannia Award for Excellence in Comedy, Baron Cohen was born in Hammersmith, west London. His mother, Daniella Naomi, who worked as a movement instructor, was born in Israel and his father, Gerald Baron Cohen, a clothing store owner, was born in London and raised in Wales. He is fluent in both Hebrew and English, Baron Cohens fathers family were Eastern European Jews who moved to Pontypridd, Wales and London, England, and his mothers family are related to Welsh, Iranian and German Jews. His paternal grandfather, Morris Cohen, had added Baron to his surname and his maternal grandmother, who lived in Haifa, Israel, trained as a ballet dancer in Germany. Baron Cohen has two brothers, Erran and Amnon. Erran is a composer and has worked on several of Sachas films, Baron Cohens cousin, Simon, is an internationally renowned autism researcher. Baron Cohen was educated at The Haberdashers Askes Boys School, an independent school in Elstree, Hertfordshire, Baron Cohen went on to the University of Cambridge, entering Christs College, Cambridge, where he read history, graduating in 1993 with upper-second-class honours. While attending the Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club, Baron Cohen acted in the plays Fiddler on the Roof and Cyrano de Bergerac, after leaving university, Baron Cohen worked for a time as a fashion model, appearing in many fashion magazines. By the early 1990s, he was hosting a programme on Windsor cable televisions local broadcasts with Carol Kirkwood. In 1995, Channel 4 was planning a replacement for its series The Word, Baron Cohen sent in a tape of himself in the character of Kristo, an Albanian fictional television reporter, which caught the attention of a producer. Baron Cohen hosted Pump TV from 1995 to 1996, Peter Sellers, known for portraying a wide range of comic characters using different accents and guises, was referred to by Baron Cohen as the most seminal force in shaping early ideas on comedy. He took clown training in Paris, at the Ecole Philippe Gaulier, of his former pupil, Gaulier says, He was a good clown, full of spirit. In the late 1990s, Baron Cohen made his first feature appearance in the British comedy The Jolly Boys Last Stand
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Sacha Baron Cohen
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Baron Cohen as
Ali G, offering a speech at
Harvard University 's Class Day during
Commencement ceremonies
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Sacha Baron Cohen at the
E! after party, January 2007
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Scottish people
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The Scottish people, or Scots, are a nation and ethnic group native to Scotland. Historically, they emerged from an amalgamation of the Picts and Gaels, who founded the Kingdom of Scotland in the 9th century, and are thought to have been ethnolinguistically Celts. Later, the neighbouring Cumbrian Britons, who spoke a Celtic language, as well as Germanic-speaking Anglo-Saxons. In modern usage, Scottish people or Scots is used to refer to anyone whose linguistic, cultural, the Latin word Scotti, originally the word referred specifically to the Gaels, but came to describe all inhabitants of Scotland. Considered archaic or pejorative, the term Scotch has also used for Scottish people. John Kenneth Galbraith in his book The Scotch documents the descendants of 19th-century Scottish pioneers who settled in Southwestern Ontario and he states the book was meant to give a true picture of life in the community in the early decades of the 20th century. People of Scottish descent live in countries other than Scotland. Scottish emigrants took with them their Scottish languages and culture, large populations of Scottish people settled the new-world lands of North and South America, Australia and New Zealand. Canada has the highest level of Scottish descendants per capita in the world, Scotland has seen migration and settlement of many peoples at different periods in its history. The Gaels, the Picts and the Britons have their origin myths. The Venerable Bede tells of the Scotti coming from Spain via Ireland, Germanic peoples, such as the Anglo-Saxons, arrived beginning in the 7th century, while the Norse invaded and colonized parts of Scotland from the 8th century onwards. In the High Middle Ages, from the reign of David I of Scotland, there was emigration from France, England. Some famous Scottish family names, including bearing the names which became Bruce, Balliol, Murray. Today Scotland is one of the countries of the United Kingdom, culturally, these peoples are grouped according to language. Most of Scotland until the 13th century spoke Celtic languages and these included, at least initially, the Britons, as well as the Gaels and the Picts. Germanic peoples included the Angles of Northumbria, who settled in south-eastern Scotland in the region between the Firth of Forth to the north and the River Tweed to the south. They also occupied the south-west of Scotland up to and including the Plain of Kyle and their language, south-east of the Firth of Forth, then in Lothian and the Borders, a northern variety of Old English, also known as Early Scots, was spoken. The Northern Isles and some parts of Caithness were Norn-speaking, from 1500 on, Scotland was commonly divided by language into two groups of people, Gaelic-speaking Highlanders and the Inglis-speaking Lowlanders
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John Wayne was of
Presbyterian Scots-Irish or
Ulster-Scots descent.
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The Australian city of
Brisbane is named after Scotsman
Thomas Brisbane.
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Scottish English and
Scottish Gaelic are used on bilingual road signs throughout the Gaelic speaking parts of
Scotland, such as this one, seen in village of
Mallaig.
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Oman
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Oman, officially the Sultanate of Oman, is an Arab country on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula. The coast is formed by the Arabian Sea on the southeast, the Madha and Musandam exclaves are surrounded by the UAE on their land borders, with the Strait of Hormuz and Gulf of Oman forming Musandams coastal boundaries. From the late 17th century, the Omani Sultanate was an empire, vying with Portugal and Britain for influence in the Persian Gulf. At its peak in the 19th century, Omani influence or control extended across the Strait of Hormuz to modern-day Iran and Pakistan, as its power declined in the 20th century, the sultanate came under the influence of the United Kingdom. Historically, Muscat was the trading port of the Persian Gulf region. Muscat was also among the most important trading ports of the Indian Ocean, the Sultan Qaboos bin Said al Said has been the hereditary leader of the country since 1970. Sultan Qaboos is the current ruler in the Middle East. Oman has modest oil reserves, ranking 25th globally, nevertheless, in 2010 the UNDP ranked Oman as the most improved nation in the world in terms of development during the preceding 40 years. A significant portion of its economy is tourism and trade of fish, dates and this sets it apart from its neighbors solely oil-dependent economies. Oman is categorized as an economy and ranks as the 74th most peaceful country in the world according to the Global Peace Index. Two optically stimulated luminescence age estimates place the Arabian Nubian Complex at 106,000 years old and this supports the proposition that early human populations moved from Africa into Arabia during the Late Pleistocene. Dereaze, located in the city of Ibri, is the oldest known settlement in the area. Archaeological remains have been discovered here from the Stone Age and the Bronze Age, findings have included stone implements, animal bones, shells and fire hearths, with the latter dating back to 7615 BC as the oldest signs of human settlement in the area. Other discoveries include hand-molded pottery bearing distinguishing pre-Bronze Age marks, heavy flint implements, pointed tools, sumerian tablets refer to a country called Magan or Makan, a name believed to refer to Omans ancient copper mines. Mazoon, another used for the region, is derived from the word muzn. The present-day name of the country, Oman, is believed to originate from the Arab tribes who migrated to its territory from the Uman region of Yemen. Many such tribes settled in Oman, making a living by fishing, herding or stock breeding, from the 6th century BC to the arrival of Islam in the 7th century AD, Oman was controlled and/or influenced by three Persian dynasties, the Achaemenids, Parthians and Sassanids. A few scholars believe that in the 6th century BC, the Achaemenids exerted a strong degree of control over the Omani peninsula, Central Oman has its own indigenous so-called Late Iron Age cultural assemblage, the Samad al-Shan
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A grave at
Al Ayn, Oman, a World Heritage site.
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Flag
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The
Sultan's Palace in
Zanzibar, which was once Oman's capital and residence of its Sultans.
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The coast of
Sur, Oman.
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Paradise Beach
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Paradise Beach is an Australian television series made by Village Roadshow Pictures. It is associated with New World Television for the Nine Network that aired between 1993 and 1994, Paradise Beach was intended not only as a rival to Australian soaps Neighbours and Home and Away but also to be the first breakthrough Australian soap to make it in America. Veteran Australian producer Jock Blair was the force behind Paradise Beach, with Nick McMahon as Executive Producer. Australian actress Tiffany Lamb used an American accent in her role as Lisa Whitman, also appearing from the start were Robert Coleby as Tom Barsby, and another familiar face was Andrew McKaige as Toms younger brother Nick. The rest of the original cast consisted of unknown actors all in their first acting roles and these included Ingo Rademacher, now famous for his separate roles in American series Titans and General Hospital. His on-screen sister Tori, was played by Megan Connolly, sadly, the actress died on 6 September 2001 of a drug overdose, following short stints in Breakers and Home and Away. When Paradise Beach was taken off the air in America, all traces of Americanism were removed, matt Lattanzi departed, but not before Olivia Newton-John made a brief cameo, beaming down from the entrance of an aeroplane. However, after two seasons, Nine Network eventually cancelled Paradise Beach after just 260 episodes, after the series ended, Jaason Simmons joined the cast of Baywatch the following year. Kimberley Joseph featured in a role in the cult-TV hit Lost as air hostess Cindy Chandler. The series was largely savaged by the critics, with negative comparisons to the American shows Baywatch and Beverly Hills,90210, the soap failed to make an impression in America. The show has never released on VHS or DVD. In the UK, the soap was launched in a blaze of publicity on Sky Television in late October 1993 in the 6. 30pm time slot with a 12. 30pm repeat the following afternoon. Grampian Television broadcast the series, every Monday to Wednesday at 17.10 slot from January 1996. Paradise Beach was screened in Venezuela by RCTV on their block of soap operas with a low rating. The series, named in Spanish Playa Paraíso, the series was broadcast in Italy on Rai Due in 1994/1995 at around 8.30 in the morning and 2,30 pm. The series started on 27 September 1993 The series was also broadcast in France during 1993/1994, the show aired on most stations in the after school/late afternoon hours. It was also screened in Chile by Canal 13, Paradise Beach was parodied extensively in the popular Australian comedy series The Late Show. Several times throughout the sketch the characters would, in unison, point offstage, Paradise Beach at the Internet Movie Database
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Series one opening (1993).
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Shannon Reed
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Shannon Reed is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Home and Away, played by Isla Fisher. She made her first on screen appearance on 16 September 1994 and she departed on 6 August 1997. Ashley Murray played a young Shannon in flashbacks, Fisher joined the cast of Home and Away in 1994, shortly after completing her role on Paradise Beach, along with co-star Shane Ammann to play the respective roles of Shannon and Curtis Reed. In an interview with Rachel Browne of The Sun-Herald, Fisher spoke of her success, I would be stupid to let it go to my head because it could all end tomorrow and I would just fade back into obscurity. She added, I like working on Home And Away but its a heavy workload so I get stressed out a lot, We work about 15 hours a day, including the time it takes to learn lines. I know a lot of people work those sort of hours but I think we feel it because most of us are young. I dont have a life, really, what you see on the screen is what I do. But I am very grateful because it is good experience and its like an apprenticeship but we do it in front of 20 million people so all our mistakes are up for the world to see. In 1997, Fisher announced she had left the show, in her final storyline it was implied that she had moved away with a lesbian lover, but never directly stated. Shannon and Curtis arrive in Summer Bay to be fostered by Michael, the Rosses have room for only one of the pair, so Alf and Ailsa Stewart foster Curtis. When Shannon and Curtis are caught kissing by Alf, it causes controversy, Shannon clashes with Selina Cook who takes an interest in Curtis but they soon become best friends. Shannon and Curtis split up and she dates Eric Phillips, who is revealed to be a drug dealer, Damian Roberts and Jack Wilson warn Shannon but she will not listen and tells them to keep out of her business. Shannon later breaks up with Eric after he gets heavy with her and she then experiences recurring nightmares of sexual abuse at the hands of her Uncle Tim and confides in teacher and counsellor Donna Bishop. Shannon begins babysitting Angel Parrishs son, Dylan and forms an attraction to Angels husband Shane and she tries to seduce Shane but he rejects her. When Angel confronts Shannon, she lies and tells Angel she and Shane have been sleeping together, Angel and Dylan are involved in seaplane crash which leaves them stranded in the bush for several days but they are found and reunited with Shane. Angel refuses to forgive Shannon and her guilt spirals into anorexia, Angel dives in to save her but is still frosty towards her. At Pippa and Michaels insistence, Shannon seeks help for her condition, after recovering, Shannon takes an interest in writing but things are still no better with Angel, who accuses her of stalking her. The culprit is revealed to be Angels ex-boyfriend, Paul Harris, Shannon saves Angel and Dylan when Paul attacks and Angel finally forgives her
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Shannon Reed
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Home and Away
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Home and Away is an Australian television soap opera. It was created by Alan Bateman and commenced broadcast on the Seven Network on 17 January 1988, the soap opera was initially going to be called Refuge, but the name was changed to the friendlier title of Home and Away once production began. The show premiered with a pilot episode. Since then, each subsequent episode has aired for a duration of twenty-two minutes and Home, in Australia, it is currently broadcast from Mondays to Thursdays at 7,00 pm. Home and Away follows the lives and loves of the residents in Summer Bay, Home and Away was not without controversy. During the first season alone, it featured several adult-themed storylines such as teen pregnancy, drug and alcohol addiction and drug overdose. A storyline, in particular concerning rape outraged the public and a protest erupted, the series has dealt with similar storylines over the years which have often exceeded its restricted time slot. Palm Beach in Sydneys Northern Beaches district has been used as the location for Summer Bay since 1988, the exterior scenes are filmed mainly at Palm Beach, while the interior scenes are filmed at the Australian Technology Park in Redfern. Home and Away has been sold to over eighty countries around the world and it is popular in the United Kingdom, and is one of the highest-rating shows on RTÉ Television in Ireland and TV2 in New Zealand. In Australia, Home and Away is the most awarded program at the Logie Awards, with a total of forty-six wins, including Best Drama Program. Some cast members have won other awards such as the Gold Logie for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television, Silver Logie for Most Popular Actor. In 2015, Home and Away was inducted into the Logie Hall of Fame, after the Seven Network cancelled their soap opera Neighbours on 12 July 1985 due to low ratings, rival network Ten picked it up and turned it into a success. A couple of later, Sevens head of drama, Alan Bateman, became desperate to get back into the soap market. While on a trip to Kangaroo Point, New South Wales with his family, seeing the degree of conflict the influx of parentless children on a tight-knit community was having, Bateman came away with the idea for a new serial. He explained Nobody in the community wanted them to move in, suddenly I thought, there is my slice of life in a community. Bateman began outlining the storyline and set the serial in the town of Summer Bay. While Seven Network executives were unconvinced by the idea, audience research was positive, the soap opera was initially called Refuge, but the name was changed to the friendlier title of Home and Away once production began. Home and Away has since become the second-longest drama series in Australian television after Neighbours, the storyline featured a majority of the cast boarded onto a ferry boat for a night cruise, however, a massive storm ruined the celebrations, leading the boat to sink
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Palm Beach in Sydney's
Northern Beaches district has been used to represent Summer Bay since Home and Away began in 1988.
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Ray Meagher (
Alf Stewart) is currently the only remaining original cast member in Home and Away.
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Scooby-Doo (film)
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Scooby-Doo is a 2002 American comedy horror mystery film. Based on the long-running Hanna-Barbera animated television series of the same name, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Linda Cardellini, Matthew Lillard and Rowan Atkinson. It is the first installment in the Scooby-Doo live-action film series, the plot revolves around Mystery Incorporated, a group of four young adults and a dog who solve mysteries. After a two-year disbandment, the group reunites to investigate a mystery on a horror resort. Filming took place in and around Queensland on a budget of $84 million, the film was released on June 14,2002, and grossed $275 million worldwide. Reggae artist Shaggy and rock group MxPx performed different versions of the Scooby-Doo, the Scooby-Doo Spooky Coaster, a ride based on the film, was built in Warner Bros. Movie World in Gold Coast, Australia in 2003 and this is the final time William Hanna served as the executive producer before dying of throat cancer on March 22,2001. A sequel, Scooby-Doo 2, Monsters Unleashed, was released on March 26,2004, the Mystery Begins, which first aired on Cartoon Network on September 13,2009 and Scooby-Doo. Curse of the Lake Monster, which aired on Cartoon Network on October 16,2010. The members of Mystery, Inc. solve the case of the Luna Ghost at the Wow-O-Toy Factory, however, long-time friction between Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, and Velma Dinkley finally boils over and the gang break up, leaving Shaggy Rogers and his dog Scooby-Doo heartbroken. Two years on, Shaggy and Scooby are invited to solve a mystery on the popular resort Spooky Island, at the airport, the five members of Mystery, Inc. unexpectedly reunite. Fred has become a celebrity, Velma works for NASA. However, while Shaggy and Scooby are thrilled with the reunion, on the flight over, Shaggy falls in love with a girl named Mary Jane, who loves Scooby Snacks, but is allergic to dogs. Upon arriving at the island, the gang meet Mondavarious, who claims the visiting tourists have been cursed into a brainwashed state, Velma attends a ritualistic performance hosted by N’Goo Tuana and his henchman, Zarkos, a famous luchador. N’Goo claims the island was ruled by ancient demons til Mondavarious built the resort. Due to a misunderstanding when talking to a voodoo priest, Daphne, Shaggy, and Scooby venture into the resort’s ghost ride, meeting Fred and Velma inside. Fred and Velma come across a school designed to educate inhuman creatures about human culture. The gang flee to the hotel, but an army of demons attack, kidnapping Fred, Velma, Mondavarious and other tourists, while Scooby, Shaggy, Daphne, and Mary Jane escape
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Theatrical release poster
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The Mystery Machine from the film at
San Diego Comic-Con International in 2013
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I Heart Huckabees
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I ♡ Huckabees is a 2004 American philosophical comedy-drama film directed and produced by David O. Russell, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jeff Baena. A self-named existential comedy, I ♡ Huckabees follows a couple of detectives, as the different investigations cross paths, their rival and nemesis tries to drag their clients into her own views on the meaning of their lives. It also features the debuts of Jonah Hill and Ger Duany. Albert Markovski is a man who heads the local chapter of an environmental group. One of their current projects is an attempt to stop the building of a new Huckabees store, Albert is a rival of Brad Stand, a shallow power executive at Huckabees. Brad infiltrates Open Spaces and charismatically displaces Albert as the leader, Dawn Campbell is Brads live-in girlfriend and the face and voice of Huckabees, she appears in all of the stores commercials. After seeing the same conspicuous stranger three times, Albert contacts two existential detectives, Bernard and Vivian Jaffe, the detectives offer Albert their optimistic brand of existentialism—they name it universal interconnectivity —and spy on him, ostensibly to help him solve the coincidence. Bernard and Vivian introduce Albert to Tommy Corn, an obsessively anti-petroleum firefighter, Tommy is assigned to Albert as his other. Tommy grows dissatisfied with the Jaffes, feeling that they are not helping him and she teaches them to disconnect their inner beings from their daily lives and their problems, to synthesize a non-thinking state of pure being. In order to prove her point, Caterine takes Albert to go and have sex in the woods, Tommy finds out about the two of them being together and feels hurt. Caterine tells him that they found each other all of the human suffering. Tommy rejects this idea and leaves them furious and lost, meanwhile, in Brads further attempts to undercut Albert, he and Dawn meet with and are influenced by Bernard and Vivian. All the storylines collide when Brads house catches fire, while the fire trucks get stuck in a traffic jam, Tommy comes on his bicycle to put out the fire, which incidentally trapped Dawn inside. As he saves her life, the two fall in love, meanwhile, Brad despairs at the destruction of his house, the symbol of his material success. Albert attains a sort of enlightenment when he synthesizes the two opposing outlooks of the Jaffes and Vauban to realize the truth of everything. Brad, meanwhile, is fired from Huckabees, leaving him rudderless, Albert reveals to Brad that he burned Brads jet skis, and the fire spread to the house. Having realized this, he refers Brad to Caterine, hoping she will help him as she did Albert, Albert and Tommy talk later about everything that has happened. As the two talk, Caterine and the Jaffes watch them, concluding that they can close both of their cases, in an interview with the SuicideGirls website, director Russell said in response to the question How do you describe I Heart Huckabees
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Theatrical release poster
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Wedding Crashers
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Wedding Crashers is a 2005 American romantic comedy film directed by David Dobkin and written by Steve Faber and Bob Fisher. John Beckwith and Jeremy Grey are divorce mediators in Washington D. C. who crash wedding parties to meet and bed women. At the end of a season of successful crashes, Jeremy takes John to a wedding for the daughter of the U. S. Secretary of the Treasury, once inside, the pair set their sights on Clearys other daughters, Gloria and Claire. Jeremy ends up having sex with Gloria on a beach during the reception. Gloria is possessive and quickly becomes obsessed with Jeremy, and Jeremy urges John to escape the reception with him. Meanwhile, John attempts to court Claire, the maid of honor, but is interrupted by her boyfriend, Sack Lodge. When Gloria invites Jeremy and John to a weekend party at their family compound, John overrules Jeremy to accept. At dinner, John spikes Sacks wine with eye-drops to make him sick, John and Claire continue to bond the next day on a sailing trip. The suspicious Sack takes the men on a trip, where Jeremy is shot in the buttocks. While he recovers, John and Claire go on a ride to a secluded beach. Claire finally admits she isnt sure how she feels about Sack, meanwhile, Gloria tends to Jeremys wounds and reveals to him that she is not as innocent or inexperienced as she initially let on. Jeremy realizes that he himself has been played and that he may be in love with Gloria, betrayed, Claire turns away from John and the Secretary tells them to leave. Over the following months, John attempts to reach Claire but she refuses to see him and he attempts to crash Claire and Sacks engagement party but is caught and beaten by Sack. Confronting Jeremy about abandoning him, he learns that Jeremy has secretly continued his relationship with Gloria, betrayed, John spirals into depression, crashing weddings alone and becoming nihilistic and suicidal. Meanwhile, as Claire and Sack plan their wedding, Claires doubts grow, Jeremy proposes to Gloria and tries to ask John to be his best man, but a depressed John refuses. John visits Jeremys former wedding crashing mentor, Chazz Reinhold, who convinces him to crash a funeral, while there, he reconsiders his belief in love and marriage and rushes to Jeremys wedding. Sack interrupts, but Claire finally tells him that she cant marry him, Sack tries to attack John, but Jeremy intervenes to knock him out, and John and Claire kiss. After the wedding, the two drive away from the ceremony together, discussing crashing another wedding together, apparently skipping Jeremys own wedding reception
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Theatrical release poster
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Hot Rod (film)
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Hot Rod is a 2007 American comedy film co-written, directed by, and starring members of The Lonely Island. The film stars Samberg as an amateur stuntman whose abusive step-father, Frank continuously mocks, when Frank grows ill, Rod raises money for his heart operation by executing his largest stunt yet. In addition to raising money for the operation, he also does so to win Franks respect, the film also stars Taccone, Sissy Spacek, Will Arnett, Danny McBride, Isla Fisher and Bill Hader. It was directed by Schaffer and distributed by Paramount Pictures, the film was originally drafted by Pam Brady as a vehicle for Saturday Night Live star Will Ferrell, but the project never commenced. Lorne Michaels convinced Paramount to let The Lonely Island, who were growing famous for their work on SNL, the group subsequently re-wrote the film with a heavy emphasis on offbeat surreal humor. The film was shot in Vancouver over the summer of 2006, the films soundtrack was composed by ex-Yes guitarist, Trevor Rabin, and the film features several songs by the Swedish rock band Europe. Hot Rod opened on August 3,2007 and was a box office failure, as the films producers predicted, it received mixed reviews, with critics criticizing the films script and humor. Throughout his entire life, Rod Kimble has believed his father, now deceased, was a successful and he aspires to follow in his fathers footsteps and become a famous stuntman himself. Meanwhile, his stepfather Frank fails to respect Rod as a man, often going out of his way to him in sparring sessions. Rod makes many attempts at landing jumps with his Tomos moped, after an ill-fated jump attempt at the public pool, he returns home to find out that Frank is in urgent need of a heart transplant. He also adds Denise, his neighbor on whom he has a crush. Kevin releases a movie using his footage of Rods stunts and sells over 200 tickets, Rod gets angry and throws the theaters projector out of a window, smashing the projectionists car below. Rod ends up giving up all the money he has raised so far to the projectionist to cover the damages, upset, he returns home, where his mother reveals to him that his father was not the stuntman he thought he was. Humiliated, Rod quits the crew and ends his dream to beat up his stepfather, despite his friends interventions. However, he takes up the jump again when Dave asks Rod to take him to the due to an injury while trippin balls under the influence of acid given to him by his friend Derek. When he does, Dave gives him advice that inspires Rod to apologize to Kevin, Rod gets the crew back together and they start setting up for the jump. On the day of the jump, his friends give him a new suit, a rock, and he also receives a kiss from Denise, who broke up with Jonathan, her insensitive and callous boyfriend. As Rod jumps off the ramp, the speed of his new motorbike enables him to jump over the buses, Rod lands squarely on the ground, and has an unconscious out-of-body experience
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SNL executive producer
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Akiva Schaffer at the film's premiere. His directorial style was criticized in initial reviews.
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Definitely, Maybe
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Definitely, Maybe is a 2008 romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Adam Brooks, and starring Ryan Reynolds, Isla Fisher, Rachel Weisz, Elizabeth Banks, Abigail Breslin, and Kevin Kline. The film grossed $55 million worldwide, 38-year-old father Will Hayes is in the midst of a divorce. After her first sex-ed class, his 10-year-old daughter Maya insists on hearing the story of how her parents met, the story he tells Maya is depicted in flashbacks. From time to time the film back to the present. The story begins in 1992 when Will, a political operative, moves away from Wisconsin and his college sweetheart, Emily, to New York City. Over the years, Will becomes involved with three women who enter his life, including Summer Hartley, an aspiring journalist, and April the copy girl for the campaign. Will and April have a meeting outside work, where Will reveals he is going to propose to Emily. When Will practices his proposal to Emily on April, she is taken aback by Wills wholehearted words, and replies, Definitely, maybe. She has spent years looking through copies of Jane Eyre at secondhand stores hoping to find the copy her father gave her and they kiss, but Will abruptly stops and leaves. Emily comes back to New York where she confesses, just after Will proposes and she did it on purpose to break up with Will, saying that she is letting him go because she does not share his passionate ambitions. After Clinton is elected, Will opens a business with most of his work colleagues. Before Will left Wisconsin, Emily asked Will to deliver a package to her roommate, Summer Hartley. Will first meets Summer when he gives her the package, a diary that she wrote when she was a teenager and he finds she is going out with a famous writer who is old enough to be her father. The writer breaks up with Summer, and Will starts a relationship with her, April quits her job and leaves to travel around the world. When she returns, she plans to tell Will that she loves him, Summer writes an offensive article about one of Wills clients. Will cannot forgive this conflict of interest, and he ends his relationship with Summer, as a result of the article, Will loses his business and his dream of a political career ends, with all of his friends abandoning him. April calls after an absence and finds that Will has a new job. She throws a party for him, reuniting him with his old colleagues
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Confessions of a Shopaholic (film)
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Confessions of a Shopaholic is a 2009 American romantic comedy film based on the Shopaholic series of novels by Sophie Kinsella. Directed by P. J. Hogan, the film stars Isla Fisher as the shopaholic journalist, Rebecca Bloomwood is a shopping addict who lives with her best friend Suze. She works as a journalist for a magazine but dreams of joining the fashion magazine Alette. On the way to an interview with Alette, she buys a green scarf, the hot dog vendor refuses but a man offers her $20. When Rebecca arrives at the interview, shes told that the position has been filled internally, Rebecca interviews with Luke Brandon, the editor of Successful Savings and the man who just gave her the $20. She hides her scarf outside his office, but Lukes assistant comes into the office, Rebecca knows the game is up and leaves. That evening, drunk, she and Suze write letters to Alette and Successful Savings, Luke likes the letter she meant to send to Alette and hires her. Rather than completing an assignment for a new column, Rebecca goes to a clothing sale. While inspecting a cashmere coat she has just purchased, she realizes it is not 100% cashmere and this gives her an idea for the column, which she writes and submits to Luke. Rebecca later returns home to renewed confrontations with her debt collector, after the meeting Rebecca cant afford to buy back both and buys back the interview dress. During the interview, the collector is in the audience. Successful Savings terminates Rebeccas column after the confrontation for bringing discredit on the magazine. Suze is angry when she finds out that Rebecca lost the bridesmaid dress, Rebeccas father, Graham, is more sympathetic, making a remark that the United States has not fallen despite its gigantic national debt, and offers to sell his recreational vehicle to help her. Rebecca declines his offer, saying that he earned the camper through years of work and saving. Alette offers Rebecca a position at the magazine, but she declines, meanwhile, Luke starts a new company, Brandon Communications. The members of Shopaholic Anonymous promote Rebeccas clothes sale, which generates a lot of revenue, Rebecca attends Suzes wedding after reclaiming her bridesmaid dress, and Suze forgives her. Walking past a Louis Vuitton window, she is tempted to buy a handbag, Rebecca then runs into Luke who returns the green scarf to her after revealing that the person who bought it at an auction was acting as his agent. Rebecca becomes romantically involved with Luke and starts working at his new company, freak Tuomas Hiltunen as Janne Virtanen Peyton Roi List as Shoestore Girl #2 Ed Helms as Garret E
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Rango (2011 film)
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Rango is a 2011 American computer-animated Western action comedy film directed by Gore Verbinski, written by John Logan, and produced by Verbinski, Graham King and John B. Rango was a critical and commercial success, and won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, in the film, Rango, a chameleon, accidentally ends up in the town of Dirt, an outpost that is in desperate need of a new sheriff. It features the voices of actors Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Bill Nighy, Abigail Breslin, Alfred Molina, Harry Dean Stanton, Ray Winstone, Timothy Olyphant, Stephen Root and Ned Beatty. The film premiered at Westwood on February 14,2011 and was released in the United States on March 4,2011 by Paramount Pictures, the film earned $245.7 million on a $135 million budget. A pet chameleon becomes stranded in the Mojave Desert after his terrarium falls from his owners car by accident and he meets an armadillo named Roadkill who is seeking the mystical Spirit of the West and directs the parched chameleon to find water at a town called Dirt. Using bravado and improvisation to fit in, the chameleon presents himself to the townsfolk as a drifter named Rango. He quickly runs afoul of outlaw Gila monster Bad Bill, Rango is chased by the hawk until he accidentally knocks down an empty water tower which crushes the predator. In response, the mayor, an elderly tortoise named Tortoise John. Meanwhile, the worry that with the hawk dead, the gunslinger Rattlesnake Jake. After discovering Dirts water reserves — stored in the town bank inside a water cooler bottle — to be near empty and that night, however, Rango inadvertently assists a trio of bank robbers, led by a mole named Balthazar, mistaking them for prospectors. The townsfolk find their water bottle stolen the day, so Rango organizes a posse. They discover bank manager Merrimack dead in the desert having somehow drowned despite the lack of water. They fight the clan over the stolen water bottle in a chase through a canyon before discovering the bottle to be empty. Despite the robbers professing they had found it empty, the posse brings them to town for trial, Rango confronts the mayor about his buying of the land around Dirt, who denies any wrongdoing and shows Rango that he is building a modern city with the purchased land. The mayor summons Rattlesnake Jake, who runs Rango out of town after humiliating him, Rango wanders away ashamed and confused about his identity. Finally, he meets the Spirit of the West, whom Rango identifies as the Man with No Name, the Spirit inspires Rango, telling him, No man can walk out on his own story. The mayor, however, forces Rango to surrender by threatening Beans life and he then tries to shoot Jake with Rangos gun, believing that Jake is still part of the Old West that the mayor wants to destroy along with the rest of the town. Impressed, Jake tips his hat to Rango as thanks for saving his life, the citizens of Dirt celebrate the return of the water and recognize Rango as their hero
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Bachelorette (film)
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Bachelorette is a 2012 American romantic comedy film written and directed by Leslye Headland, adapted from her play of the same name. It stars Kirsten Dunst, Lizzy Caplan and Isla Fisher as three troubled women who reunite for the wedding of a friend who was ridiculed in high school, the play which the film is based upon was originally written as one of Headlands cycle of Seven Deadly Sins plays. The film wrapped production in New York, and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 23,2012, the film was released in the United States on September 7,2012. The film opens with Regan, a miserable careerist in her thirties, having lunch with her longtime friend, Becky. Although secretly jealous and embittered by the fact that her fat friend is now engaged, at the dinner party that night, Gena runs into her ex-boyfriend Clyde, whom she sees flirting with Dales younger sister, and Katie runs into Joe, a former classmate and pot dealer. Trevor, the best man, gives a speech at the party, Becky leaves the bachelorette party, and Regan, Gena and Katie are left in the hotel room where they drink and continue to do cocaine. Drunk and high, the three accidentally rip Beckys bridal gown, and Katie gets a nosebleed and stains it with her blood, Regan contacts a friend who owns a bridal store, who reluctantly agrees to open the store for them in the middle of the night. After unsuccessfully searching the store for a dress that will fit Becky, Katie reveals that she can sew, which leads the women on a hunt for thread and a sewing machine. Trevor text messages Regan asking the girls to stop by the club the men are at. Gena takes the dress into the clubs bathroom where she attempts to clean it, there, she has a conversation with a stripper who begins using the dress as a towel. Regan, furious over the situation, gets into an argument with Gena, who insists they confess everything to Becky, Gena leaves the club with Clyde and the dress. Meanwhile, Joe attempts to woo Katie, who is intoxicated and high on cocaine. Clyde and Gena spend the evening together reminiscing and have sex, meanwhile, Joe and Katie spend the night in the hotel swimming pool, where Katie reveals that she attempted suicide the year before. Becky calls and asks Regan to come to her room so they can talk, in their conversation, it is revealed that Regan is bulimic, just as Regan begins to tell Becky about her dress, Beckys mother arrives, and they begin to prepare for the wedding. Gena and Clyde head to the wedding in the morning while the party planners are unable to find the missing dress. Gena asks a maid at the hotel to help her make some small touch-ups to the dress before bringing it to Becky, meanwhile, Katie locks herself in the bathroom, while Regan forces Katie to vomit the pills, she ends up puking all over Regans dress. Regan, in an attempt to buy time, convinces Becky to ride to the wedding in her pajamas, Becky, irate, screams at her mother and Regan in the taxi. Gena arrives to the wedding with the dress, still stained with blood, Becky ends up walking down the aisle while Regan and Gena sit on a bench and watch the ceremony, where they are joined by Katie, who arrives late
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Rise of the Guardians
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Peter Ramsey directed the film, while Joyce and Guillermo del Toro were executive producers with voice acting by Chris Pine, Alec Baldwin, Hugh Jackman, Isla Fisher, and Jude Law. The film was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film and this was the last film by DreamWorks Animation to be distributed by Paramount Pictures. Jack Frost awakens from a pond with amnesia. Upon realizing no one can see or hear him, he disappears, three hundred years later Jack, as the spirit of Winter, enjoys delivering snow days to school kids, but resents that they dont believe in him. At the North Pole, the Man in the Moon warns Nicholas St. North that Pitch Black is threatening the children of the world with his nightmares and he calls E. Aster Bunnymund, Sandy, and Tooth, to arms. They are then told that Jack Frost has been chosen to be a new Guardian, Jack is unimpressed by this position, as he still resents not being believed in, but North convinces him to aid them. Visiting Tooths world, Jack learns that baby teeth contain childhood memories of the children who lost them, Jacks teeth are included, in order to thwart Pitchs plan, the group decides to collect childrens teeth. During their journey, a quarrel between North and Bunnymund awakens a boy, Jamie, since he still believes, he can see everybody except for Jack. Pitchs nightmares then attack, provoking Sandy as the Guardian of Dreams, Jack aids, but Sandy is killed by Pitch. As Easter approaches, the dejected Guardians gather in Bunnymunds home, with the unexpected aid of Jamies little sister, Sophie, they begin the process of painting eggs for Easter. After Jack takes Sophie home, he is lured to Pitchs lair by a voice, Pitch taunts him with his memories and fear of non-belief, distracting him long enough for Pitch to destroy the eggs, causing children to stop believing in Easter and Bunnymund. Losing his trust in the Guardians, Jack isolates himself in Antarctica, when Jack refuses, Pitch threatens to kill Baby Tooth unless Jack gives him his staff. He agrees, but Pitch breaks Jacks staff and throws him down a chasm, unlocking his memories, he learns that he was a mortal teenager who fell into ice while saving his younger sister. Inspired, Jack fixes his staff and returns to the lair to rescue the kidnapped baby fairies, due to Pitch, every child in the world except Jamie disbelieves, weakening the Guardians. Finding Jamies belief wavering, Jack makes it snow in his room, renewing belief and causing Jack to be seen, Jack and Jamie gather the boys friends, whose renewed belief bolsters their fight against Pitch. Pitch threatens them, but their dreams prove stronger than his nightmares, defeated and disbelieved in, Pitch tries to retreat, but his nightmares turn on him and trap him in his lair. Afterward, Jamie and his friends bid goodbye to the Guardians as Jack accepts his place as the Guardian of Fun, Chris Pine as Jack Frost, the spirit of winter. At the end of the film, Jack becomes the Guardian of Fun. Jude Law as Pitch Black, the essence of fear, Alec Baldwin as North, the leader of the guardians, and the Guardian of Wonder
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Rise of the Guardians premiere at the
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Jeffrey Katzenberg, DreamWorks Animation's CEO;
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Arrested Development (TV Series)
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Arrested Development is an American television sitcom created by Mitchell Hurwitz, which originally aired on Fox for three seasons from November 2,2003 to February 10,2006. A fourth season of 15 episodes was released on Netflix on May 26,2013, the show follows the fictitious Bluth family, a formerly wealthy and habitually dysfunctional family. It is presented in a format, incorporating handheld camera work and voice-over narration, as well as the use of occasional archival photos. The show also utilizes several long-running Easter egg jokes throughout each season, Ron Howard serves as both an executive producer and the series uncredited narrator. Set in Newport Beach, California, Arrested Development was filmed primarily in Culver City, in 2007, Time listed the show among its All-TIME100 TV Shows, in 2008, it was ranked 16th on Entertainment Weeklys New TV Classics list. In 2011, IGN named Arrested Development the funniest show of all time and its humor has been cited as a key influence on later single-camera sitcoms such as 30 Rock and Community. Despite critical acclaim, Arrested Development received low ratings and viewership on Fox, rumors of an additional season and a feature film persisted until 2011, when Netflix agreed to license new episodes and distribute them exclusively on its video streaming service. These episodes were released in 2013. Netflix has also commissioned a fifth season of Arrested Development, which is expected to premiere in 2017, a script for an Arrested Development film has also been in development, with the main cast reported to reprise their original roles in both the fifth season and the film. Discussion that led to the creation of the began in the summer of 2002. Howard met with David Nevins, the President of Imagine Television, Katie OConnell, a vice president. In light of recent corporate accounting scandals, such as Enron and Adelphia, Howard and Imagine were immediately interested in using this idea, and signed Hurwitz to write the show. The idea was pitched and sold in the fall of 2002, There was a bidding war for the show between Fox and NBC, with the show ultimately selling to Fox as a put pilot with a six-figure penalty. Over the next few months, Hurwitz developed the characters and plot for the series, the script of the pilot episode was submitted in January 2003 and filmed in March 2003. It was submitted in late April to Fox and was added to the fall schedule that May. Alia Shawkat was the first cast in the series, Michael Cera, Tony Hale, and Jessica Walter were cast from video tapes and flown in to audition for Fox. Jason Bateman and Portia de Rossi both read and auditioned for the network and were immediately chosen, the character of Gob was apparently the most challenging to cast. Howard provided the narration for the pilot, and his narrating meshed so well with the tone of the program that the decision was made to keep his voice
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The cast does the "chicken dance" at the Arrested Development reunion in October 2011.
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From left to right: Gob, George Sr., Lindsay, Tobias, Michael, Lucille, George Michael, Maeby, and Buster.
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Henry Winkler portrays bumbling lawyer Barry Zuckerkorn.
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The Great Gatsby (2013 film)
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The Great Gatsby is a 2013 Australian-American romantic drama film based on F. Scott Fitzgeralds 1925 novel of the same name. Production began in 2011 and took place in Australia, with $105 million budget, the film follows the life and times of millionaire Jay Gatsby and his neighbor Nick, who recounts his encounter with Gatsby at the height of the Roaring Twenties in New York state. The film polarized critics, receiving praise and criticism for its acting performances, soundtrack, visual style, and direction. Audiences responded much more positively, and F. Scott Fitzgeralds granddaughter praised the film, as of 2016, it is Baz Luhrmanns highest-grossing film, having earned over $350 million worldwide. At the 86th Academy Awards, the won in both of its nominated categories, Best Production Design and Best Costume Design. In 1929, Nick Carraway, a World War I veteran, is receiving treatment for alcoholism at a psychiatric hospital and he talks about Jay Gatsby, the most hopeful man he had ever met. Nicks doctor suggests that he writes his thoughts down, since writing is Nicks passion, in the summer of 1922, Nick moves from the Midwest to New York after abandoning writing. He rents a house in the North Shore village of West Egg, next to the mansion of Gatsby. One day, while Nick has dinner with his cousin, Daisy Buchanan, and her husband, Tom, he is introduced to Jordan Baker by Daisy, who hopes to make a match between them. When Nick returns home, he sees Gatsby standing on the dock, Jordan tells Nick that Tom has a mistress who lives in the valley of ashes, an industrial dumping site between West Egg and New York City. Nick and Tom visit the valley and stop at a garage owned by George Wilson and his wife, Myrtle, later, Nick receives an invitation to one of Gatsbys parties. Upon arrival, Nick learns he is the one to receive an invitation. Nick encounters Jordan, and both meet Gatsby, Gatsby offers Nick a ride to town for lunch. On the way, Gatsby tells Nick he is an Oxford graduate and they go to a speakeasy, where Gatsby introduces Nick to his business partner, Meyer Wolfsheim. Jordan tells Nick that Gatsby had a relationship with Daisy years ago and is still in love with her, Gatsby asks Nick to invite Daisy to tea. After an awkward reunion, Gatsby and Daisy begin an affair, Gatsby is dismayed when Daisy wants to run away with him and wants her to get a divorce. He asks Nick and Jordan to accompany him to the Buchanan home, during the luncheon, Tom becomes suspicious of Gatsby and Daisy, but Daisy stops Gatsby from revealing anything and suggests they all go to the Plaza Hotel. Tom drives Nick and Jordan in Gatsbys car, while Gatsby drives Daisy in Toms car, Tom stops for gas at Georges garage, where George tells him that he and Myrtle are moving and that he suspects Myrtle is unfaithful
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From left to right:
Joel Edgerton and director
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Elizabeth Debicki,
Carey Mulligan,
Tobey Maguire, and producer and designer
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Beacon Towers in 1922, during the period that Fitzgerald would have known it
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Inspiration for the Buchanan estate came from Old Westbury Gardens in
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Now You See Me (film)
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Now You See Me is a 2013 American heist thriller film directed by Louis Leterrier and written by Ed Solomon, Boaz Yakin and Edward Ricourt. The film features an ensemble cast of Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Mélanie Laurent, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco, Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman. The plot follows an FBI agent and an Interpol detective who track a team of illusionists who pull off bank heists during their performances and reward their audiences with the money. The film premiered in New York City on May 21,2013 before its release in the United States on May 31,2013 by Summit Entertainment. The film received mixed reviews from critics but became a box office success, a sequel was released on June 10,2016. A year later, the four perform their first major performance as the Four Horsemen in an elaborate Las Vegas show funded by insurance magnate Arthur Tressler. Their final trick appears to one of the audience members to the vault of his bank, the Crédit Républicain in Paris. At the magicians commands, the fans in the vault activate, drawing the bills into the vents, the two question the magicians but have no evidence to hold them. Dylan and Alma turn to Thaddeus Bradley, a magician who now helps to explain the tricks behind other magic acts. Dylan and Alma attempt to apprehend the four, but the magicians elude capture, Tressler hires Thaddeus to expose the Horsemen in revenge for the loss of his money. Alma investigates the Horsemen and determines they are connected to a called the Eye. She finds out one of the Eyes members, Lionel Shrike, had previously been exposed by Thaddeus, Alma suspects a fifth person is aiding the Horsemen. Almas research leads the FBI to the New York City apartment, when they raid it, the other three escape while Jack recovers numerous documents and then leads the authorities on a high-speed car chase. Jack loses control of his car, causing it to flip, Dylan is unable to save Jack, but manages to recover the papers, pointing to the Horsemens next planned crime, stealing millions of dollars in cash out of a large Elkhorn safe. Dylan, Alma, and Thaddeus find the safe has already stolen. The Horsemen broadcast they will perform their show that night at 5 Pointz. The FBI and police converge on the scene and amid the chaos search for the Horsemen, the three jump, turning into a shower of money over the crowd. The money is counterfeit, but the race to collect it prevents the authorities from tracking the real Horsemen
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United Nations
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The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation. A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was established on 24 October 1945 after World War II in order to prevent another such conflict, at its founding, the UN had 51 member states, there are now 193. The headquarters of the UN is in Manhattan, New York City, further main offices are situated in Geneva, Nairobi, and Vienna. The organization is financed by assessed and voluntary contributions from its member states, the UNs mission to preserve world peace was complicated in its early decades by the Cold War between the US and Soviet Union and their respective allies. The organization participated in actions in Korea and the Congo. After the end of the Cold War, the UN took on major military, the UN has six principal organs, the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Economic and Social Council, the Secretariat, the International Court of Justice, and the UN Trusteeship Council. UN System agencies include the World Bank Group, the World Health Organization, the World Food Programme, UNESCO, the UNs most prominent officer is the Secretary-General, an office held by Portuguese António Guterres since 2017. Non-governmental organizations may be granted consultative status with ECOSOC and other agencies to participate in the UNs work, the organization won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001, and a number of its officers and agencies have also been awarded the prize. Other evaluations of the UNs effectiveness have been mixed, some commentators believe the organization to be an important force for peace and human development, while others have called the organization ineffective, corrupt, or biased. Following the catastrophic loss of life in the First World War, the earliest concrete plan for a new world organization began under the aegis of the US State Department in 1939. It incorporated Soviet suggestions, but left no role for France, four Policemen was coined to refer to four major Allied countries, United States, United Kingdom, Soviet Union, and China, which emerged in the Declaration by United Nations. Roosevelt first coined the term United Nations to describe the Allied countries, the term United Nations was first officially used when 26 governments signed this Declaration. One major change from the Atlantic Charter was the addition of a provision for religious freedom, by 1 March 1945,21 additional states had signed. Each Government pledges itself to cooperate with the Governments signatory hereto, the foregoing declaration may be adhered to by other nations which are, or which may be, rendering material assistance and contributions in the struggle for victory over Hitlerism. During the war, the United Nations became the term for the Allies. To join, countries had to sign the Declaration and declare war on the Axis, at the later meetings, Lord Halifax deputized for Mr. Eden, Wellington Koo for T. V. Soong, and Mr Gromyko for Mr. Molotov. The first meetings of the General Assembly, with 51 nations represented, the General Assembly selected New York City as the site for the headquarters of the UN, and the facility was completed in 1952. Its site—like UN headquarters buildings in Geneva, Vienna, and Nairobi—is designated as international territory, the Norwegian Foreign Minister, Trygve Lie, was elected as the first UN Secretary-General
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1943 sketch by Franklin Roosevelt of the United Nations' original three branches: The
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Dag Hammarskjöld was a particularly active Secretary-General from 1953 until his death in 1961.
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Bathgate
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Bathgate is a town in West Lothian, Scotland, on the M8 motorway 5 miles west of Livingston. Nearby towns are Armadale, Blackburn, Linlithgow, Livingston, West Calder, situated 2 miles south of the ancient Neolithic burial site at Cairnpapple Hill, Bathgate and the surrounding area show signs of habitation since about 3500 BC. Bathgate first enters the chronicles of history in a charter by King Malcolm IV of Scotland. In royal charters of the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries, batket in the 14th century, and by the 15th appeared as both Bathgat and Bathcat. The name is a manifest corruption of an earlier Cumbric name meaning Boar Wood, early records of Bathgate are somewhat sketchy. The church and all its property were placed under the auspices of Holyrood Abbey at that time. In 1315, the daughter of King Robert I of Scotland, Marjorie Bruce, married Walter Stewart, the dowry to her husband included the lands and castle of Bathgate. Walter died at the castle on 9 April 1326 and this marriage is still celebrated in an annual pageant forming part of the Bathgate Procession & John Newlands Festival, colloquially known as the Bathgate Galaday. The original 12th-century construction was absorbed by a build in 1739 when a new church was erected on the same site. The walls of the church were consolidated in 1846 and this simple whitewashed edifice served the community until its last service on 9 April 1882. King Malcolm IV makes reference to the church in a charter. Records show that Holyrood Abbey gave the church to the abbot, in 1606 silver ore was found at nearby Hilderston, in the shadow of Cairnpapple Hill, by a prospecting collier, Sandy Maund. This accidental discovery began a short-lived crown project in the area, advisers to King James VI of Scotland became aware of the mine and in April 1608 repossessed the land for the crown. By December 1608 it was clear that the ore in the mine was of varying quality, Bathgate remained a very small rural community until the middle of the 19th century with only a foray by Covenanters in the 17th century to unrest the populace. Francis Groome, in the Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland writes, Robert Louis Stevenson, in the book Lay Morals, Part 2, in 1885, the distillery was producing 80,000 gallons of single malt a year which was transported to Scotland, England and the colonies. In 1831 Bathgate Academy was built, designed by the Edinburgh architects R & R Dickson this is Bathgates only large public building of historic merit. It was endowed by a Jamaican plantation owner and slave owner, by the opening of Edinburgh and Bathgate Railway in 1849, local mines and quarries were extracting coal, lime, and ironstone. When the cannel coal resources dwindled around 1866, Young started distilling paraffin from much more readily available shale, the landscape of the Lothians is still dotted with the orange spoil heaps from this era
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View of Bathgate, West Lothian from an aeroplane approaching Edinburgh Airport.
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Remains of Bathgate's former Parish Church
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Bathgate Academy in 2010
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Bathgate on a frosty day in December 2005
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Perth
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Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth-most populous city in Australia, with a population of 2.06 million living in Greater Perth. The first areas settled were on the Swan River, with the central business district. Perth was founded by Captain James Stirling in 1829 as the centre of the Swan River Colony. It gained city status in 1856, and was promoted to the status of a Lord Mayorality in 1929. The city is named after Perth, Scotland, due to the influence of Sir George Murray, Member of Parliament for Perthshire and Secretary of State for War and the Colonies. The citys population increased substantially as a result of the Western Australian gold rushes in the late 19th century, largely as a result of emigration from the eastern colonies of Australia. During Australias involvement in World War II, Fremantle served as a base for operating in the Pacific Theatre. An influx of immigrants after the war, predominantly from Britain, Greece, Italy and Yugoslavia, Aboriginal people have inhabited the Perth area for 38,000 years, as evidenced by archaeological remains at Upper Swan. The Noongar people occupied the southwest corner of Western Australia and lived as hunter-gatherers, the wetlands on the Swan Coastal Plain were particularly important to them, both spiritually and as a source of food. The Noongar people know the area where Perth now stands as Boorloo, Boorloo formed part of Mooro, the tribal lands of Yellagongas group, one of several based around the Swan River and known collectively as the Whadjuk. The Whadjuk were part of a group of fourteen tribes that formed the south-west socio-linguistic block known as the Noongar. The judgment was overturned on appeal, the first documented sighting of the region was made by the Dutch Captain Willem de Vlamingh and his crew on 10 January 1697. The British colony would be officially designated Western Australia in 1832, Captain James Stirling, aboard Parmelia, said that Perth was as beautiful as anything of this kind I had ever witnessed. On 12 August that year, Helen Dance, wife of the captain of the ship, Sulphur. The only contemporary information on the source of the name comes from Fremantles diary entry for 12 August, Murray was born in Perth, Scotland, and was in 1829 Secretary of State for the Colonies and Member for Perthshire in the British House of Commons. The town was named after the Scottish Perth, in Murrays honour, the racial relations between the Noongar people and the Europeans were strained due to these happenings. Because of the amount of building in and around Boorloo
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Perth's skyline, viewed from South Perth.
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The Foundation of Perth 1829 by
George Pitt Morison is a historically accurate reconstruction of the official ceremony by which Perth was founded.
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Perth looking across the
Perth train station c. 1955
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Little Shop of Horrors (musical)
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Little Shop of Horrors is a horror comedy rock musical, by composer Alan Menken and writer Howard Ashman, about a hapless florist shop worker who raises a plant that feeds on human blood and flesh. The musical is based on the low-budget 1960 black comedy film The Little Shop of Horrors, the musical premiered Off-Off-Broadway in 1982 before moving to the Orpheum Theatre Off-Broadway, where it had a five-year run. It later received numerous productions in the U. S. and abroad, because of its small cast and relatively simple orchestrations, it has become popular with community theatre, school and other amateur groups. The musical was made into a 1986 film of the same name. An offstage voice recalls a time when the human race suddenly encountered a deadly threat to its very existence, a trio of 1960s street urchins named Crystal, Ronette, and Chiffon set the scene and comment on the action throughout the show. Seymour Krelborn is a young man, an orphan living in an urban skid row. Audrey is a pretty blonde with a sense that leans towards the tacky. They lament their stations in life and the blight in their neighborhood. They are co-workers at Mushniks Skid Row Florists, a flower shop owned and operated by the cranky Mr. Mushnik. Seymour has recently obtained a mysterious plant that looks like a venus flytrap. While he was browsing the wholesale district, a sudden eclipse of the sun occurred, and when the light returned. Seymour is secretly in love with Audrey and names the plant Audrey II in her honor, the plant does not thrive in its new environment and appears to be dying. Seymour questions why it should be doing poorly, since he takes good care of it. He accidentally pricks his finger on a thorn, which draws blood. Seymour realizes that Audrey II requires blood to survive and allows the plant to suckle from his finger, as Audrey II grows, it becomes an attraction and starts generating brisk business for Mushnik. As the caretaker of the plant, the timid Seymour is suddenly regarded as a hero and he is elated to find out that Audrey secretly returns his feelings and wishes to leave her abusive boyfriend. Her dream is to lead an ideal suburban life with Seymour, complete with a home, frozen dinners. Meanwhile, the employees at Mushniks are sprucing up the shop because of the popularity of the rapidly growing Audrey II
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Original Cast Album
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Poster for 2003 tryout in Florida starring
Alice Ripley and
Hunter Foster
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Audrey II in the 2006–07 West End production
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Logie Award
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The Logie Awards is an annual institution celebrating Australian television, which have been since 1960. Coined by Graham Kennedy after he won the first Star of the Year award in 1959, the name Logie awards honours John Logie Baird, who invented television as a practical medium. Awards are given in categories, but the most widely publicized award is the Gold Logie. The latest ceremony, the Logie Awards of 2016, was held on 8 May 2016, the first awards saw no formal ceremony, they were presented on 15 January 1959 on an episode of In Melbourne Tonight. Only Melbourne television personalities were nominated and awards were given in eight categories, the following year, Kennedy coined the name Logie Awards. In the same year, the first Gold Logie, considered by some to be equivalent to the Star of the Year Award presented in 1959, was presented, the Logie statuette was designed by Alec De Lacy, chief designer for Melbourne-based trophy makers KG Luke Ltd. According to Bert Newton, who was hosting that year, it no one was deemed worthy enough to receive it. He pleaded with the producers to never be put in that position again, many of the Logie categories are voted by the readers of TV Week magazine using coupons in the magazine and online forms. Thus, the majority of Logie Awards are fan awards, the readership of TV Week is a relatively small proportion of the Australian population, and skews heavily to teenage girls. The Most Outstanding categories are voted on by a jury comprising members of the Australian TV industry and are thus industry awards, in 2008, internet votes could be cast for the first time without having to buy a copy of the TV Week magazine. To be eligible to receive a Logie, a programme must be Australian produced, although in other years there has been a Logie for Most Popular Foreign Programme, this award was not part of the 2007 or 2008 awards. People eligible for a Logie must have appeared on an Australian-produced show that was broadcast on Australian television in the previous year, the winners do not have to be Australian - New Zealander John Clarke and American Michael Cole have won Logies. There are long-held suspicions that network publicists engage in mass voting to rig the results and they did so by getting their small readership to buy copies of TV Week and vote for Enus for the award. While the attempt failed, their failure gives some cause for the widespread derision in the industry towards the popular-vote awards and they do, however, have their own community television awards, known as the Antennas. The ABCs Media Watch program first reported the story on Monday 9 March 2009, the Logies ceremony is televised, and has generally become more elaborate in recent years. The awards have for the past 11 years been held in a ballroom at Crown Melbourne, dinner is served just before the ceremony and drinks are served during the ceremony. Bert Newton has been associated with the history of the Logies. As well as winning the Gold Logie four times, he hosted the awards a total of 19 times and he has also performed in well-received guest appearances
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TV Week Logie Award
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Katy Perry (left) at the 2011 Awards and
One Direction (right) at the 2012 Awards.
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Pantomime
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Pantomime, is a type of musical comedy stage production, designed for family entertainment. It was developed in England and is performed throughout the United Kingdom, generally during the Christmas and New Year season and, to a lesser extent. It is a form of theatre, in which the audience is expected to sing along with certain parts of the music. Pantomime has a theatrical history in Western culture dating back to classical theatre. It developed partly from the 16th century commedia dellarte tradition of Italy, as well as other European and British stage traditions, such as 17th-century masques, an important part of the pantomime, until the late 19th century, was the harlequinade. Outside Britain the word pantomime is used to mean miming. The Roman pantomime drew upon the Greek tragedy and other Greek genres from its inception, although the art was instituted in Rome, the English word came to be applied to the performance itself. Music was supplied by flute and the pulse of an iron-shod shoe, performances might be in a private household, with minimal personnel, or else lavish theatrical productions involving a large orchestra and chorus and sometimes an ancillary actor. The dancer danced all the roles, relying on masks, stock poses and gestures, Pantomime differed from mime by its more artistic nature and relative lack of farce and coarse humour, though these were not absent from some productions. Precursors of pantomime also included the masque, which grew in pomp, the development of English pantomime was also strongly influenced by the continental commedia dellarte, a form of popular theatre that arose in Italy in the Early Modern Period. Each scenario used some of the stock characters. These included the innamorati, the vecchi such as Pantalone, and zanni such as Arlecchino, Colombina, Scaramouche, Italian masque performances in the 17th century sometimes included the Harlequin character. In the 17th century, adaptations of the characters became familiar in English entertainments. From these, the standard English harlequinade developed, depicting the eloping lovers Harlequin and Columbine, pursued by the girls father Pantaloon and his comic servants Clown, in English versions, by the 18th century, Harlequin became the central figure and romantic lead. The basic plot of the harlequinade remained essentially the same for more than 150 years, tavern Bilkers, by John Weaver, the dancing master at Drury Lane, is cited as the first pantomime produced on the English stage. The same year he produced a pantomime on the subject of Perseus, after this, pantomime was regular feature at Drury Lane. In 1717 at Lincolns Inn, actor and manager John Rich introduced Harlequin into the theatres pantomimes under the name of Lun and he gained great popularity for his pantomimes, especially beginning with his 1724 production of The Necromancer, or, History of Dr. Faustus. These early pantomimes were silent, or dumb show, performances consisting of only dancing, spoken drama was only allowed in London only in the two patent theatres until Parliament changed this restriction in 1843
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The Christmas Pantomime colour
lithograph bookcover, 1890, showing the
harlequinade characters
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John Rich as Harlequin, c. 1720
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Playbill of an English circus and pantomime performance, 1803
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Dan Leno and
Herbert Campbell in
Babes in the Wood, 1897, at the Drury Lane Theatre
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Summer Holiday (1963 film)
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Summer Holiday is a British CinemaScope and Technicolor musical film featuring singer Cliff Richard. The film was directed by Peter Yates, produced by Kenneth Harper, the original screenplay was written by Peter Myers and Ronald Cass. Herbert Ross choreographed the musical numbers, the film had its World Premiere at the Warner Theatre in Londons West End on 10 January 1963. The story concerns Don and his friends who are bus mechanics at the huge London Transport bus overhaul works in Aldenham, during a miserably wet British summer lunch break, Don arrives, having persuaded London Transport to lend him and his friends an AEC Regent III RT double-decker bus. This they convert into a caravan, which they drive across continental Europe. However, their destination is Athens, Greece. On the way, they are joined by a trio of women and a runaway singer. The movie was a hit, thus repeating the success of Cliff Richards earlier film The Young Ones. Frame had overdubbed female singing voices in Cliff Richards earlier film The Young Ones, Cliff Richard, Melvyn Hayes and the Shadows were recalled to Elstree some weeks after completion of shooting to record Bachelor Boy. This was because the distributors felt the film was too short, the film was the second most popular movie at the British box office in 1963. However it flopped in the US, where it was released two days after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the majority of the numbers integrated dance with song – not merely serving as scenes to promote a number of hit-parade songs. Ross, an American choreographer later became a director in his own right. The film suggested to the photographer Daniel Meadows a way in which he might emulate Benjamin Stone and travel around and it was voted the 99th greatest family film in a Channel 4 poll. Summer Holiday was adapted into a musical in the mid-1990s starring Darren Day in the role that Cliff Richard played. It premiered for a season at The Opera House in Blackpool in 1996. The cast for these included Claire Buckfield, Isla Fisher, Hilary ONeil, Peter Baldwin, the stage musical differs in a number of respects from the film version. For example, the route to Athens is via Italy in the stage rather than the original film route via Yugoslavia. The songs also differ, and include a number of songs from Cliff Richards other early back catalogue, the stage musical was revived in 2003, starring Stefan Booth but later starring Darren Day again
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US theatrical poster
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Swimming Pool (2001 film)
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Swimming Pool is a 2001 German slasher film, known in Germany as Swimming Pool - Der Tod feiert mit and The Pool in the United States. It was directed by Boris von Sychowski and stars James McAvoy, Isla Fisher, Kristen Miller and it was followed by Swimming Pool 2 in 2005. Everybody enjoys themselves, except Mike, who has just broken up with his girlfriend Kim, as Kim is making her way home, shes attacked by a masked killer, who murders her with a machete. At the park, everybody starts partying and drinking, when Chris attempts to push Sarah into the pool, she kicks him in the face, pissing him off. Meanwhile, Carter and Svenja go swimming together, Svenja goes to a slide, and Carter waits for her, but hes attacked by the killer, who hacks him to death, before splitting Svenja vertically in half when she comes down the slide. Frank gets drunk and later leaves to throw up, while Marty, while Marty is looking for condoms, Mel is attacked by the killer, but escapes, while the others discover the bodies of Svenja and Carter. They find Marty, and they leave to look for Mel, Greg and Diego leave for help, while Marty, Carmen, Mike, and Sarah try to escape through the air vents, and Chris stands guard with an axe. In the air vents, Mike and Marty are killed, but Sarah and Carmen escape, while they hide, Carmen reveals to Sarah that she slept with Greg. Greg then comes in, but Carmen knocks him out, apologizing to Sarah before escaping through a pool shaft, a police officer reaches the park, but is quickly killed. Carmen finds his body, before she too is apparently killed, inside, Sarah, now all alone, finds Frank, who reveals himself as the killer before attacking her. Greg wakes up and jumps to the pool, while Sarah manages to set Frank on fire, Frank jumps to the pool and he and Greg begin fighting. Frank gains the hand, injuring Gregs shoulder, but Sarah grabs a broken bottle. As Sarah and Greg are exiting the pool, Frank suddenly rises again, as the day dawns, help reaches the pool, and Carmen is taken to the hospital. After Chris and Diego are revealed to be alive, Sarah forgives Greg for sleeping with Carmen, spree killer Swimming Pool at the Internet Movie Database Swimming Pool at Rotten Tomatoes
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Promotional poster
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Shaggy Rogers
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Norville Shaggy Rogers is a fictional character in the Scooby-Doo franchise. He is a slacker and the long-time best friend and owner of his cowardly Great Dane Scooby-Doo. Shaggy is more interested in eating than solving mysteries and he and Scooby are the only characters to appear in all iterations of the franchise. Shaggy has a speech pattern, marked by his frequent use of the filler word like and. His nickname derives from the style of his sandy-blond hair. He also sports a rough goatee and his distinctive clothing consists of a green v-neck T-shirt and brownish red bell-bottom pants. In The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo and early made-for-TV movies, he wore a red v-neck, both Scooby and Shaggy are readily bribed with Scooby Snacks due to their mutual big appetites. Both display tendencies toward loafing and cowardice, both justify their hunger by insisting that Being in a constant state of terror makes us constantly hungry. Shaggys favorite dish is extra cheese pizza with pickles, due to being in track he has shown, in some instances, to be able to run even faster than Scooby, even when the latter is running on all fours. An early episode A Clue for Scooby-Doo reveals that his taste for unlikely food combinations is a consequence of an infant Shaggy receiving a garbage disposal unit for his first toy. In Scooby-Doo. and the Monster of Mexico, Fred states that the reason Shaggy eats so much is his high metabolism, camp Scare, in frustration at being trapped, he shakes the iron bars of an old-fashioned jail cell so hard they collapse. Shaggys typical immediate reaction to experiences or perceptions of supposed supernatural occurrences is terror-struck cowardice and this was explained in the Legend of the Phantosaur as a possible type of panic disorder, in this instance, he was temporarily cured with hypnotherapy. Krebs, as played by Bob Denver, Casey Kasem, the first voice actor for Shaggy, said that he originally felt uncomfortable after being assigned to Shaggy. Kasem stated that while he was hip to what hippies were about, Kasem had wanted to portray Fred Jones, and Frank Welker had wanted to portray Shaggy. Instead, the CBS network assigned Kasem to Shaggy and Welker to Fred, Kasem stated that as he continued to voice Shaggy, the character evolved. Kasem explained that the voice dynamics improved and that his laughs increasingly gained quality, Kasem added that Shaggy in 2002 is more frightened today than he was at the beginning. Kasem convinced the producers that Shaggy should be a vegetarian, like himself, radio disc-jockey, comedian, and actor Casey Kasem created the characters voice. Kasem voiced Shaggy for 28 years, from Scooby-Doo, Where Are You. in 1969 until the Bravo Dooby Doo episode of Johnny Bravo in 1997
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Matthew Lillard as Shaggy in the
Scooby-Doo theatrical live-action film.
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Nick Palatas as Shaggy in
Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster.
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Daphne Blake
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Daphne Ann Blake is a fictional character in the long-running American animated series Scooby-Doo. Daphne, depicted as coming from a family, is noted for her red hair, lavender heels, fashion sense. Daphne has appeared in more adaptations than the characters, aside from Shaggy Rogers. Be Cool, Scooby-Doo shows her birthday to be December 25 to create a conflict for her regarding Christmas overshadowing her birthday. Together with her other companions, Fred Jones, Velma Dinkley, Shaggy Rogers. In the first series, Daphne was portrayed as the enthusiastic but clumsy and she serves as the damsel in distress and would occasionally get kidnapped, tied up, gagged, and then left imprisoned. But as the franchise went on, she became a stronger, more independent character, during the series fourth incarnation, Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo, some of the episodes focused on Daphne. In the episode, Shiver and Shake, That Demons a Snake, on the sailboat, the snake demon attacks Daphne and demands an idol to return. Daphne throws it to Scooby, Shaggy, and Scrappy, in the episode, The Scary Sky Skeleton, Daphne is reunited with her old friend, Wendy. In the episode, I Left My Neck in San Francisco, Daphne becomes sick, when the vampiress is revealed to be Lefty Callahan, Scooby, Shaggy and Scrappy realize they made a mistake with suspecting Daphne and shes feeling well again. When the original Mystery Inc. group took a hiatus from the franchise in the 80s, Daphne was initially absent too, with the focusing on the comedy antics of Scooby, Shaggy. Aspect returned to the series with The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries, Daphne returned, now an accomplished investigator assisted by Shaggy and she continued to help Scooby battle evil forces of the supernatural in the 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo series. The youthful Daphne portrayed in A Pup Named Scooby-Doo would commonly call upon her butler, Jenkins, the younger Daphne is shown to not believe in ghost/monsters/supernatural, a trait she lacks outside the A Pup Named Scooby-Doo series. The producer of the show was Fred Jones, throughout the various incarnations of the character, there has been speculation that Daphne and Fred had an attraction toward each other. This is emphasized in many of the movies and the TV series Scooby-Doo. By the time of the season, they are shown to be actively dating, showing more of his feelings toward Daphne. In the sequel, Scooby-Doo 2, Monsters Unleashed, they are in a relationship, Daphne is portrayed as being an eccentric nonconformist, usually having a different odd obsession each episode Stefanianna Christopherson in Scooby-Doo, Where Are You. Heather North in Scooby-Doo, Where Are You, Scooby-Doo. and the Loch Ness Monster, Scooby-Doo
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Daphne, as portrayed by
Sarah Michelle Gellar in
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed.
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Daphne, as portrayed by
Kate Melton in
Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins.
