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Toronto Film Festival
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The Toronto International Film Festival is one of the largest publicly attended film festivals in the world, attracting over 480,000 people annually. Year-round, TIFF Bell Lightbox offers screenings, lectures, discussions, festivals, workshops, industry support, TIFF Bell Lightbox is located on the north west corner of King Street and John Street in downtown Toronto. In 2015,397 films from 71 countries were screened at 28 screens in downtown Toronto venues, welcoming an estimated 480,000 attendees, TIFF starts the Thursday night after Labour Day and lasts for eleven days. Founded in 1976, TIFF is now one of the most prestigious events of its kind in the world, in 1998, Variety magazine acknowledged that TIFF is second only to Cannes in terms of high-profile pics, stars and market activity. In 2007, TIME noted that TIFF had grown from its place as the most influential film festival to the most influential film festival. This is partially the result of TIFFs ability and reputation for generating Oscar buzz, the Toronto International Festival’s Grolsch People’s Choice Award — which is based on popular vote by Festival filmgoers — has emerged as a beacon of awards-season success. Founded by Bill Marshall, Dusty Cohl and Henk Van der Kolk and that first year,35,000 filmgoers watched 127 films from 30 countries presented in ten programmes. Piers Handling has been the director and CEO since 1994. TIFF was once centred on the Yorkville neighbourhood, but the Toronto Entertainment District later gained a level of prominence. TIFF is known for the celebrity buzz it brings to the area with international media setting up near its restaurants and stores for photos and interviews with the stars. In 2010, TIFF opened its permanent headquarters, TIFF Bell Lightbox, TIFF has grown, steadily adding initiatives throughout the years. TIFF Cinematheque and the Film Reference Library opened in 1990, the TIFF Kids International Film Festival launched in 1998. Film Circuit began exhibiting independent and Canadian films in under-serviced cities across Canada in 1994, the festival was founded in 1976 at the Windsor Arms Hotel by Bill Marshall, Henk Van der Kolk and Dusty Cohl. Beginning as a collection of the films from film festivals around the world. Ironically, however, Hollywood studios withdrew their submissions from TIFF due to concerns that Toronto audiences would be too parochial for their products, in 1994, the decision was made to replace the name Festival of Festivals with Toronto International Film Festival. From 1994 to 2009, the organization running TIFF was named Toronto International Film Festival Group. In 2009, the umbrella organization TIFFG was renamed to TIFF, in 2001, Perspective Canada, the programme that had focused on Canadian films since 1984, was replaced by two programmes, Canada First. A forum for Canadian filmmakers presenting their first feature-length work, featuring eight to 15 films, and Short Cuts Canada, in 2004, TIFF was featured as the site of murder mystery in the film Jiminy Glick in Lalawood, a comedy film starring Martin Short
Toronto Film Festival
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The festival is headquartered at TIFF Bell Lightbox, which opened in 2010.
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Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)
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TIFF box office at the
Manulife Centre in 2006
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TIFF Bell Lightbox
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Cheshire, Connecticut
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Cheshire, formerly known as New Cheshire Parish, is a town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States. At the time of the 2010 census, the population of Cheshire was 29,261, the center of population of Connecticut is located in Cheshire. Cheshire, Connecticut was first settled in 1694 as part of Wallingford and it was then known as New Cheshire Parish. After many attempts in securing their independence from Wallingford, New Cheshire Parish in 1784 was granted secession and was incorporated as a town in May 1780 as Cheshire. Prospect, Connecticut was formerly part of Cheshire before 1829, and was known as Columbia Parish. Cheshire has a Cold War-era fallout shelter constructed in 1966, located underneath the local AT&T tower, during a July 23,2007 home invasion in Cheshire, a mother and her two daughters were murdered, leaving the father of the family as the sole survivor. The murder and the aftermath was featured in a segment that aired on the NBC-TV news magazine show Dateline NBC on October 5,2010. As of the census of 2000, there were 28,543 people,9,349 households, the population density was 867.4 people per square mile. There were 9,588 housing units at a density of 291.4 per square mile. The racial makeup of the town was 89. 40% White,4. 67% African American,0. 22% Native American,2. 63% Asian,0. 02% Pacific Islander,1. 91% from other races, and 1. 15% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3. 84% of the population, the largest ethnic groups in the town are Italian Americans and Irish Americans. 19. 4% of all households were made up of individuals and 9. 6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.71 and the average family size was 3.14. In the town, the population was out with 25. 2% under the age of 18,7. 7% from 18 to 24,29. 4% from 25 to 44,25. 0% from 45 to 64. The median age was 38 years, for every 100 females there were 113.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 114.4 males, as of the 2000 census, the median income for a household in the town was $80,466, and the median income for a family was $90,774. As of 2007, these figures had risen to $100,835, in 2000, males had a median income of $60,078 versus $38,471 for females. The per capita income for the town was $33,903, about 1. 6% of families and 3. 0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 3. 1% of those under age 18 and 4. 3% of those age 65 or over. The central area of the town is a place identified as Cheshire Village
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First Congregational Church
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Dawson Leery
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Dawson Wade Leery is the central character from the WB television drama Dawsons Creek, portrayed by James Van Der Beek, and appeared in 122 episodes and cameo in Scary Movie. Dawson is the first child and only son of Mitch Leery and his college sweetheart and he was born on March 14,1983. His three best friends are Joey Potter, the girl across the creek, whom he considers his soulmate, Pacey Witter, Capeside Highs class clown, and Jen Lindley, the new girl in town. When the McPhee family arrive in town at the beginning of Season 2, Dawson is joined by a sister, Lily, who is born when he is 18. An eternal optimist, Dawson believes in the old fashioned values of romance and honesty. He was a filmmaker and made several low cost and amateur films, which were entered into film festivals across the country. He and long-time friend Joey Potter spend much of their time together, however, their relationship complicates as they age and especially with the arrival of New York exile Jen Lindley, who moves in next door to Dawson. He enters into his first relationship with her, but after her ex visits, she dumps him, after this, a series of events causes him to see lifelong friend Joey in a whole new light. First, his wise-cracking best friend Pacey Witter asks for Dawsons permission to ask Joey out, later, he sees Joey looking sophisticated and mature for a Beauty Pageant, which opens his eyes to her beauty. Finally, he joins Joey on a visit to her father in prison. While Joey wrestles with the idea of spending a year in France, the season ends with Dawson and Joey kissing in front of his bedroom window. Although initially Dawson and Joey have smooth sailing, newcomer Jack McPhee comes to town and develops feelings for Joey, the kiss confuses Joey, who is struggling to find a passion in life. She dumps Dawson in an effort to find herself, but ends up quickly dating Jack and this sends Dawson back into the arms of Jen, who has been flirting with her old rebellious ways, and helps Dawson cut loose. All along, Dawson mopes over the loss of Joey, even making a movie recounting their breakup, when Joeys relationship with Jack crumbles due to the revelation that he is homosexual, she comes literally crying to Dawson. For his sixteenth birthday, Dawson feels depressed that he hasnt grown and wasnt able to keep Joey and this results in him insulting nearly all of his friends, including Pacey, of whom Dawson is envious for his newly together life. Soon Dawson and Joey end up back together, however, their reconciliation is short-lived, as Dawson soon learns that Joeys father, who has gotten paroled from jail, is selling drugs again. Dawson urges Joey to wear a wire to bust her father, after this, Joey vows that she will never forgive Dawson for the position he put her in. After a summer spent with his mom in Philadelphia, Dawson returns to Capeside still reeling from his split with Joey, on the bus ride home, he meets Eve, a mysterious, blonde femme fatale that seems intent upon luring Dawson with her sex appeal
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James Van Der Beek as Dawson Leery
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The WB
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The WB Television Network was an American television network that was first launched on broadcast television on January 11,1995 as a joint venture between the Warner Bros. Entertainment division of Time Warner and the Tribune Broadcasting subsidiary of the Tribune Company, on January 24,2006, CBS Corporation and Warner Bros. Entertainment announced plans to shut down the network and launch The CW later that same year, the WB Television Network shut down on September 17,2006, with select programs from both it and competitor UPN moving to The CW when it launched the following day, September 18. Time Warner re-used The WB brand for a network that launched on April 28,2008. The website could only be accessed within the United States, on November 2,1993, the Warner Bros. Only five of these stations – along with a sixth that Tribune acquired the following year – would join The WB at launch, when the network was announced, The WB planned to run a predominately network programmed schedule over time. The WB Television Network premiered on January 11,1995, with the episode of The Wayans Bros. as its first program. The classic Warner Bros. cartoon character Michigan J. Frog appeared on-air as the official mascot. Much of the branding was based around Warner Bros. locations and characters. Pictures shield logo, network promotions and imaging campaigns for The WB, the networks first programs were mostly sitcoms targeted at an ethnically black audience. Even though four of the five shows that debuted in the netlets first nine months were renewed beyond the first year – The Wayans Bros, unhappily Ever After, The Parent Hood and Sister, Sister – none of them made a significant impact. On August 17,1995, the Tribune Company acquired a 12. 5% on March 31,1997, the WB expanded its programming to Sunday nights for the 1995–96 season, but none of the new shows managed to garner much viewing interest. The WB continued to expand in the 1996–97 season, adding programming on Monday nights and this season gave The WB modest hits in the Aaron Spelling-produced family drama 7th Heaven and comedies The Steve Harvey Show and The Jamie Foxx Show. The WB first began to experience success with Buffy the Vampire Slayer and it debuted with the highest Monday night ratings in the networks history, attracting not only new teenage viewers, but new advertisers as well. The networks breakout hit and, arguably, its series was Dawsons Creek. At the start of the 1998–99 season, the network expanded its programming to Thursday nights, for the 1999–2000 season, the network concluded its primetime expansion with the addition of programming on Friday nights. During this season, The WB was the network to have gains in its total audience viewership. As the teen boom of the late 1990s began to wane, although teen-oriented fare like Popular and Roswell had premiered to strong ratings, both series saw serious ratings erosion in their sophomore seasons, leading the network to cancel them both
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Logo for Daytime WB.
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The WB
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American Broadcasting Company
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The network is headquartered on Columbus Avenue and West 66th Street in Manhattan, New York City. There are additional offices and production facilities elsewhere in New York City, as well as in Los Angeles and Burbank. Since 2007, when ABC Radio was sold to Citadel Broadcasting, ABC originally launched on October 12,1943, as a radio network, separated from and serving as the successor to the NBC Blue Network, which had been purchased by Edward J. Noble. It extended its operations to television in 1948, following in the footsteps of established broadcast networks CBS, in the mid-1950s, ABC merged with United Paramount Theatres, a chain of movie theaters that formerly operated as a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures. Leonard Goldenson, who had been the head of UPT, made the new television network profitable by helping develop, in 1996, most of Capital Cities/ABCs assets were purchased by The Walt Disney Company. The television network has eight owned-and-operated and over 232 affiliated television stations throughout the United States, most Canadians have access to at least one U. S. ABC News provides news and features content for radio stations owned by Citadel Broadcasting. In the 1930s, radio in the United States was dominated by three companies, the Columbia Broadcasting System, the Mutual Broadcasting System and the National Broadcasting Company. The last was owned by electronics manufacturer Radio Corporation of America, in 1938, the FCC began a series of investigations into the practices of radio networks and published its report on the broadcasting of network radio programs in 1940. The report recommended that RCA give up control of either NBC Red or NBC Blue, at that time, the NBC Red Network was the principal radio network in the United States and, according to the FCC, RCA was using NBC Blue to eliminate any hint of competition. Once Mutuals appeals against the FCC were rejected, RCA decided to sell NBC Blue in 1941, the newly separated NBC Red and NBC Blue divided their respective corporate assets. Investment firm Dillon, Read & Co. offered $7.5 million to purchase the network, Edward John Noble, the owner of Life Savers candy, drugstore chain Rexall and New York City radio station WMCA, purchased the network for $8 million. Due to FCC ownership rules, the transaction, which was to include the purchase of three RCA stations by Noble, would require him to resell his station with the FCCs approval, the Commission authorized the transaction on October 12,1943. Soon afterward, the Blue Network was purchased by the new company Noble founded, Noble subsequently acquired the rights to the American Broadcasting Company name from George B. Meanwhile, in August 1944, the West Coast division of the Blue Network, both stations were then managed by Don Searle, the vice-president of the Blue Networks West Coast division. The ABC Radio Network created its audience slowly, the network also became known for such suspenseful dramas as Sherlock Holmes, Gang Busters and Counterspy, as well as several mid-afternoon youth-oriented programs. S. From Nazi Germany after its conquest, to pre-record its programming, while its radio network was undergoing reconstruction, ABC found it difficult to avoid falling behind on the new medium of television. To ensure a space, in 1947, ABC submitted five applications for television station licenses, the ABC television network made its debut on April 19,1948, with WFIL-TV in Philadelphia becoming its first primary affiliate
American Broadcasting Company
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ABC's corporate headquarters are located at 77 West 66th Street, on the
Upper West Side of
Manhattan in
New York City.
American Broadcasting Company
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American Broadcasting Company
American Broadcasting Company
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Edward Noble, founder of ABC
American Broadcasting Company
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In 2002, dancers and other cast members from the 32-year run of American Bandstand reunited with host
Dick Clark to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the show's local television debut.
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CSI: Cyber
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CSI, Cyber is an American police procedural television drama series that premiered on March 4,2015, on CBS. The series, starring Patricia Arquette and Ted Danson, is the second spin-off of CSI, Crime Scene Investigation, on May 12,2016, CBS canceled the series after two seasons. The series follows a team of FBI Special Agents tasked with investigating cyber crimes in North America. Based out of Washington, the team is supervised by Deputy Director Avery Ryan, Russell, a left-coast Sherlock Holmes and career Crime Scene Investigator who joins the team after a stint as Director of the Las Vegas Crime Lab. Patricia Arquette as Dr. Avery Ryan, the Deputy Director of the FBI, Avery was a renowned psychologist in New York when her professional database was hacked, resulting in the death of a patient. This, coupled with the recent death of her daughter, led Avery to leave New York, as Special Agent in Charge, Avery heads a team of former cyber criminals and federal agents who travel nationwide in search of the criminals who work on the dark net. After several years working under Simon Sifter, Ryan was promoted to Deputy Director of the FBI, following the death of her daughter, Ryan divorced her husband, though the two later reconnect and begin a romantic relationship. Following the dissolution of her program, Avery begins recruiting young hackers to work within CTOC. James Van Der Beek as Elijah Mundo, a Senior FBI Field Agent, assigned to Ryans Cyber division, Mundo is a former U. S. Marine, and an expert in battlefield forensics, weaponry, vehicles, and bombs. After a short separation from his wife, Elijah filed for divorce and he is an avid gamer, and because of this he is all too aware of the dangers that lurk on the internet. As a field agent, Mundo is much more hands on than his counterparts in detaining and interviewing suspects, during the second season, Mundos father was diagnosed with cancer, causing him to confide in a barmaid who later begins stalking him. In Legacy, she is shot and killed by Russell, peter MacNicol as Simon Sifter, an FBI Assistant Deputy Director. Simon works out of the FBI Headquarters in Washington and oversees Ryan, working his way up through the ranks investigating homicides, drive-bys, and gang warfare, Sifter has built up an array of contacts and connections that are invaluable to the FBI. He often acts as the clearinghouse between FBI Cyber and its intergovernmental counterparts and he is married with at least one child. Sometime following the first season, Sifter vacated his position, shad Moss as Brody Nelson, an FBI analyst. Brody is a black hat hacker who was caught and later recruited by FBI Cyber as part of Ryans hack-for-good program. After avoiding a sentence at the FBIs behest, the team are initially dubious of Brodys intentions. After struggling to sever his ties with the world of crime, Nelson outs himself to the hacking community and proves himself to be a loyal
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CSI: Cyber
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Varsity Blues (film)
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The players must deal with the pressures of adolescence and their football-obsessed community while having their hard coach on their back constantly. In the small town of West Canaan, Texas, football is a way of life, the film drew a domestic box office gross of $52 million against its estimated $16 million budget despite mixed critical reviews. Jonathan Mox Moxon is an intelligent and academically gifted backup quarterback for the West Canaan High School football team, despite his relative popularity at school, easy friendships with other players, and smart and sassy girlfriend Jules Harbor, he is dissatisfied with his life. He wants to leave Texas to go to school at Brown University and he has a strong track record as coach, in thirty years of coaching at West Canaan, he has won two state titles, and 22 district championships. His philosophy finally takes its toll on quarterback, Lance Harbor, Moxs best friend and he is manipulated into taking anesthetic shots into an injured knee that finally succumbs to failure and results in even greater injury during gameplay. He is rushed to the hospital, where doctors are appalled at the amount of scar tissue found under his knee. Mox, who has accompanied Lance to the hospital, is shocked when Kilmer feigns ignorance to Lances doctors about his knee problems, in need of a new quarterback, he reluctantly names Mox to replace Lance as captain and starting quarterback. She even goes so far as to attempt to seduce Mox, sporting a bikini made of whipped cream over her naked body. Disgusted with Kilmer and not feeling a strong need to win and he also chides his father, Sam, screaming at him, I dont want your life. He had been a player at West Caanan, and although Kilmer dismissed him for lacking talent and courage. Kilmers lack of concern for players continues, resulting in a collapse of Billy Bob. Desperate to be recruited by a college, he grants his consent. At this moment, Mox tells Kilmer hell quit the team if the needle enters Wendells knee, undaunted, he orders Charlie Tweeter, a friend of both Mox and Wendell, to replace Mox, but he refuses. Mox tells Kilmer that the way they will return to the field is without him. Realizing that he will be forced to forfeit the game, he loses control, the other players intercede and then refuse to take to the field. He continues down the hall, and seeing no one following him, he turns the other direction and into his office. After a rallying speech from Mox the team takes the field under the leadership of Lance, replacing Kilmer as coach for the second half. In a voice-over epilogue, Mox recounts several characters aftermaths, including the fact that Kilmer left town, Lance became a successful coach, Wendell earned a football scholarship to Grambling, and Mox took his scholarship and graduated from Brown University
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Theatrical release poster
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The Rules of Attraction (film)
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The Rules of Attraction is a 2002 black comedy film written and directed by Roger Avary, based on the novel of the same name by Bret Easton Ellis. It stars James van der Beek, Shannyn Sossamon, Ian Somerhalder, Jessica Biel, meanwhile, Paul, who is gay, tries to have sex with a jock, only to be bashed when it turns out the jock is deeply closeted. A bruised and beaten Sean is shown tearing up a series of purple letters, the plot then moves backwards several months to the beginning of the school year, and explores the love triangle between Lauren, Paul, and Sean. Misinterpreting Seans friendliness, Paul mistakes him for a homosexual and makes several advances, concurrently, Lauren also finds herself attracted to Sean despite saving her virginity for her traveling boyfriend, Victor. Sean reciprocates her feelings, and assumes the anonymous, purple love letters he has started receiving are from Lauren. While Paul is visiting his friend Dick, Sean is seduced by Laurens roommate Lara at the Dressed to Get Screwed party, despite having sex with Lara, Sean regrets it and realizes that he is in love with Lauren. Lauren, finding Sean with Lara, runs to the bathroom in tears, only to find the unnamed girls body. Sean, still believing Lauren wrote the letters, misinterprets the unnamed girls suicide note. Lauren decides to lose her virginity to her Art History professor Lance Lawson, but being married and worried about losing his tenure, he simply allows her to perform felatio on him instead. After numerous failed attempts at suicide, Sean fakes his death and, unaware that Lauren recently found a corpse, after stealing drugs from dealer Rupert, Sean tries to speak to Lauren again, asking only to know her. Lauren tells Sean he will never know her, and abandons him and she approaches Victor, who has finally returned to Camden College, only to find that Victor is having sex with Lara and does not remember who Lauren is, leaving her completely distraught. Paul, upon finding a drunk Sean, tries to talk to him, Sean coldly rejects him, using Laurens words to say that Paul will never know him. Sean checks his campus mailbox in vain, only to find that the notes have stopped. He is then cornered by Rupert and his Jamaican partner, Guest, the three protagonists then attend the End of the World party and the plot returns to the introduction. After seeing Lauren heading upstairs with the student, Sean finally accepts he cannot be with her. It is then revealed that, rather than having sex with the girl as he does in the intro, Sean was merely fantasizing. Paul and Lauren meet on the porch and reflect on the recent events, as well as on Sean. Sean begins narrating his final thoughts about Lauren, only for them to end prematurely as the film cuts to the end credits, James van der Beek as Sean Bateman, a drug dealer
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Theatrical release poster
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Cellular phone
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A mobile phone is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while the user is moving within a telephone service area. The radio frequency link establishes a connection to the systems of a mobile phone operator. Most modern mobile telephone services use a network architecture, and, therefore. Mobile phones which offer these and more general computing capabilities are referred to as smartphones, the first handheld mobile phone was demonstrated by John F. Mitchell and Martin Cooper of Motorola in 1973, using a handset weighing c.4.4 lbs. In 1983, the DynaTAC 8000x was the first commercially available mobile phone. From 1983 to 2014, worldwide mobile phone subscriptions grew to seven billion, penetrating 100% of the global population. In first quarter of 2016, the top smartphone manufacturers were Samsung, Apple, a handheld mobile radio telephone service was envisioned in the early stages of radio engineering. In 1917, Finnish inventor Eric Tigerstedt filed a patent for a pocket-size folding telephone with a thin carbon microphone. Early predecessors of cellular phones included analog radio communications from ships, the race to create truly portable telephone devices began after World War II, with developments taking place in many countries. These 0G systems were not cellular, supported few simultaneous calls, the first handheld mobile phone was demonstrated by John F. Mitchell and Martin Cooper of Motorola in 1973, using a handset weighing c.4.4 lbs. The first commercial automated cellular network was launched in Japan by Nippon Telegraph and this was followed in 1981 by the simultaneous launch of the Nordic Mobile Telephone system in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. Several other countries followed in the early to mid-1980s. These first-generation systems could support far more simultaneous calls but still used analog cellular technology, in 1983, the DynaTAC 8000x was the first commercially available handheld mobile phone. In 1991, the digital cellular technology was launched in Finland by Radiolinja on the GSM standard. This sparked competition in the sector as the new operators challenged the incumbent 1G network operators, ten years later, in 2001, the third generation was launched in Japan by NTT DoCoMo on the WCDMA standard. This was followed by 3. 5G, 3G+ or turbo 3G enhancements based on the high-speed packet access family, allowing UMTS networks to have data transfer speeds. By 2009, it had become clear that, at point, 3G networks would be overwhelmed by the growth of bandwidth-intensive applications. Consequently, the industry began looking to data-optimized fourth-generation technologies, with the promise of speed improvements up to ten-fold over existing 3G technologies
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Evolution of mobile phones, through early
smartphone
Cellular phone
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Martin Cooper of Motorola made the first publicized handheld mobile phone call on a prototype DynaTAC model on April 4, 1973. This is a reenactment in 2007.
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The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X. First commercially available, hand-held cellular mobile phone, 1984
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Typical mobile phone
SIM card
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Baseball
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Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of nine players each, who take turns batting and fielding. A run is scored when a player advances around the bases, Players on the batting team take turns hitting against the pitcher of the fielding team, which tries to prevent runs by getting hitters out in any of several ways. A player on the team who reaches a base safely can later attempt to advance to subsequent bases during teammates turns batting. The teams switch between batting and fielding whenever the team records three outs. One turn batting for both teams, beginning with the team, constitutes an inning. A game is composed of nine innings, and the team with the number of runs at the end of the game wins. Baseball has no clock, although almost all games end in the ninth inning. Baseball evolved from older bat-and-ball games already being played in England by the mid-18th century and this game was brought by immigrants to North America, where the modern version developed. By the late 19th century, baseball was widely recognized as the sport of the United States. Baseball is now popular in North America and parts of Central and South America, the Caribbean, in the United States and Canada, professional Major League Baseball teams are divided into the National League and American League, each with three divisions, East, West, and Central. The major league champion is determined by playoffs that culminate in the World Series, the top level of play is similarly split in Japan between the Central and Pacific Leagues and in Cuba between the West League and East League. The evolution of baseball from older bat-and-ball games is difficult to trace with precision, a French manuscript from 1344 contains an illustration of clerics playing a game, possibly la soule, with similarities to baseball. Other old French games such as thèque, la balle au bâton, consensus once held that todays baseball is a North American development from the older game rounders, popular in Great Britain and Ireland. Baseball Before We Knew It, A Search for the Roots of the Game, by David Block, suggests that the game originated in England, recently uncovered historical evidence supports this position. Block argues that rounders and early baseball were actually regional variants of other. It has long believed that cricket also descended from such games. The earliest known reference to baseball is in a 1744 British publication, A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, David Block discovered that the first recorded game of Bass-Ball took place in 1749 in Surrey, and featured the Prince of Wales as a player. William Bray, an English lawyer, recorded a game of baseball on Easter Monday 1755 in Guildford and this early form of the game was apparently brought to Canada by English immigrants
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A baseball game at
Angel Stadium in
Anaheim, CA
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Alexander Cartwright, father of modern baseball
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The
New York Giants baseball team, 1913.
Fred Merkle, sixth in line, committed a
baserunning gaffe in a crucial 1908 game that became famous as
Merkle's Boner.
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Babe Ruth in 1920, the year he joined the
New York Yankees
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New York City
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The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over an area of about 302.6 square miles. Located at the tip of the state of New York. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has described as the cultural and financial capital of the world. Situated on one of the worlds largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, the five boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island – were consolidated into a single city in 1898. In 2013, the MSA produced a gross metropolitan product of nearly US$1.39 trillion, in 2012, the CSA generated a GMP of over US$1.55 trillion. NYCs MSA and CSA GDP are higher than all but 11 and 12 countries, New York City traces its origin to its 1624 founding in Lower Manhattan as a trading post by colonists of the Dutch Republic and was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The city and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. It has been the countrys largest city since 1790, the Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a symbol of the United States and its democracy. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. Several sources have ranked New York the most photographed city in the world, the names of many of the citys bridges, tapered skyscrapers, and parks are known around the world. Manhattans real estate market is among the most expensive in the world, Manhattans Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere, with multiple signature Chinatowns developing across the city. Providing continuous 24/7 service, the New York City Subway is one of the most extensive metro systems worldwide, with 472 stations in operation. Over 120 colleges and universities are located in New York City, including Columbia University, New York University, and Rockefeller University, during the Wisconsinan glaciation, the New York City region was situated at the edge of a large ice sheet over 1,000 feet in depth. The ice sheet scraped away large amounts of soil, leaving the bedrock that serves as the foundation for much of New York City today. Later on, movement of the ice sheet would contribute to the separation of what are now Long Island and Staten Island. The first documented visit by a European was in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzano, a Florentine explorer in the service of the French crown and he claimed the area for France and named it Nouvelle Angoulême. Heavy ice kept him from further exploration, and he returned to Spain in August and he proceeded to sail up what the Dutch would name the North River, named first by Hudson as the Mauritius after Maurice, Prince of Orange
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Clockwise, from top:
Midtown Manhattan,
Times Square, the
Unisphere in
Queens, the
Brooklyn Bridge,
Lower Manhattan with
One World Trade Center,
Central Park, the
headquarters of the United Nations, and the
Statue of Liberty
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New Amsterdam, centered in the eventual
Lower Manhattan, in 1664, the year
England took control and renamed it "New York".
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The
Battle of Long Island, the largest battle of the
American Revolution, took place in
Brooklyn in 1776.
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Broadway follows the Native American Wickquasgeck Trail through Manhattan.
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Edward Albee
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Edward Franklin Albee III was an American playwright known for works such as The Zoo Story, The Sandbox, Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf. and A Delicate Balance. Three of his plays won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and his works are often considered as frank examinations of the modern condition. His early works reflect a mastery and Americanization of the Theatre of the Absurd that found its peak in works by European playwrights such as Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco and his middle period comprised plays that explored the psychology of maturing, marriage, and sexual relationships. Younger American playwrights, such as Paula Vogel, credit Albees daring mix of theatricality, later in his life, Albee continued to experiment in works such as The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia. Edward Albee was born in 1928 and he was placed for adoption two weeks later and taken to Larchmont in Westchester County, New York, where he grew up. Albees adoptive father, Reed A. Albee, the son of vaudeville magnate Edward Franklin Albee II. His adoptive mother, Reeds third wife, Frances, was a socialite and he would later base the main character of his 1991 play Three Tall Women on his mother, with whom he had a conflicted relationship. Albee attended the Clinton High School, then the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey and he then was sent to Valley Forge Military Academy in Wayne, Pennsylvania, where he was dismissed in less than a year. He enrolled at The Choate School in Wallingford, Connecticut, graduating in 1946 and his formal education continued at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, where he was expelled in 1947 for skipping classes and refusing to attend compulsory chapel. Albee left home for good when he was in his late teens, in a later interview, he said, I never felt comfortable with the adoptive parents. I dont think knew how to be parents. I probably didnt know how to be a son, either, in a 1994 interview, he stated that he left home at age 18 because had to get out of that stultifying, suffocating environment. In a 2008 interview, he told interviewer Charlie Rose that he was out because his parents wanted him to become a corporate thug. Albee moved into New Yorks Greenwich Village, where he supported himself with odd jobs while learning to write plays and his first play, The Zoo Story, which was written in three weeks, was first staged in Berlin in 1959 before eventually premiering Off-Broadway in 1960. His next play, The Death of Bessie Smith, similarly premiered in Berlin before arriving in New York. Albees most iconic play, Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf. opened on Broadway at the Billy Rose Theatre on October 13,1962, the two members of the jury, John Mason Brown and John Gassner, subsequently resigned in protest. An Academy Award-winning film adaptation of the play was released in 1966 starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal. In 2013, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally, historically, according to the New York Times, Albee was widely considered to be the foremost American playwright of his generation
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Edward Albee, photographed by
Carl Van Vechten, 1961
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Edward Albee by Irish artist
Reginald Gray (The New York Times, 1966), inspired by a photograph taken in 1962 from
Bettmann /
Corbis.
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Shenandoah (musical)
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The play was first performed at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Connecticut, during 1974, and then transferred to a theater in New Yorks Broadway beginning January 7,1975. It was performed in a Broadway theater for a total of 1,050 performances, michael P. Price was Executive Director of the Goodspeed Opera House. The production was nominated for six Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Shenandoah was revived in a Broadway theatre, again with Cullum in the main role, on August 8,1989, ending September 2,1989. It was returned to the Goodspeed Opera House during 1994, with Marc Kudisch, a new production began March 22,2006 at Fords Theatre in Washington, D. C. featuring Scott Bakula. Positive critical notices and strong sales resulted in the run being extended through May 21. Charlie Anderson, a widower, lives with his family in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. Anderson does not wish to be involved with the war because he doesnt consider it his war, in the course of searching for Robert, Charlie, his daughter Jenny, and some of his sons rescue Sam from a Yankee POW train. After enduring the tragedy of losing his eldest son Jacob and his second eldest son James and James wife Anne, internet Broadway Database listing Shenandoah at Fords Theatre
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Original Cast Recording
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Goodspeed Opera House
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Goodspeed Musicals is a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and advancement of musical theater and the creation of new works, located in East Haddam, Connecticut. A distinctive feature of the view from the Connecticut River, the Goodspeed Opera House is the birthplace of some of the worlds most famous musicals, including Annie, Man of La Mancha, the Opera House was originally built by a local merchant and banker, William Goodspeed. Construction began in 1876 and finished in 1877, despite the name, it was not in fact an opera house, but rather a venue for presenting plays. Its first play, Charles II, opened on October 24,1877, the building is unique for a theater. The theater itself is located on the top two floors of the building making for interesting and sometimes difficult scenery and show load-ins. Scenery is loaded-in from the area up a vacant elevator shaft that is now outfitted with a winch system to haul the scenery up to the stage level. Much care has to be taken in order to get the scenery up the shaft without scratching or ruining the scenery, Goodspeed Musicals was formed in 1959 by a group of concerned citizens after the state of Connecticut had condemned the building. The state agreed to sell the building to the group for one dollar, provided they acquire enough funding to restore, the restoration project took nearly four years, and the Goodspeed Opera House was rededicated on June 8,1963. The first performance in the new house was Oh, Lady. Under the direction of Michael P. Price since 1968, Goodspeed Musicals has sent 19 productions to Broadway, in 1984, Goodspeed Musicals added a second performance venue—the Norma Terris Theatre—in nearby Chester, Connecticut. While the main stage presents a mixture of revivals and new musicals as part of its 3 production season, several original plays debuted there or at the opera house before going on to Broadway and winning Tony Awards. Goodspeed Musicals has also built state-of-the-art production facilities including shops, costume shops. Critic fellows from the Eugene ONeill Theater Center in Waterford, CT travel to the Goodspeed each summer to practice reviewing full productions, tours of many of the Goodspeed facilities can be scheduled in advance for a small fee. Tickets to the house or theatre productions should be ordered in advance as most performances in the relatively small theater sell-out quickly
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The Goodspeed Opera House from the Connecticut River
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Angus (film)
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Angus is a 1995 American-British-German-French comedy-drama film directed by Patrick Read Johnson and written by Jill Gordon. The majority of it was filmed in Owatonna, Minnesota at the Owatonna Senior High School and it stars Charlie Talbert and James Van Der Beek in their first film roles, as well as Chris Owen, Ariana Richards, and Academy Award winners George C. Scott, Kathy Bates, and Rita Moreno, the film is based on the short story A Brief Moment in the Life of Angus Bethune by Chris Crutcher, which is collected in his book Athletic Shorts, Six Short Stories. Angus Bethune is a boy living in Minnesota who, despite his talents as a football player and in science class. Since kindergarten, he has been harassed by handsome Rick Sanford and his complacent cohorts, for not being normal due to being overweight and is, in their view. His only friend is Troy Wedberg, who is also a social outcast and he also has feelings for Melissa Lefevre, though he is fearful of expressing it because she is dating Rick. Eventually, tired of the abuse from Rick, Angus applies to a school where he hopes to be free of the constant humiliation. However, well aware of his feelings for Melissa, Rick rigs an election so that they dance together in the upcoming freshman Winter Ball as King and Queen. While confronting Rick about the stunt, he is ordered by the not to lay a hand on Rick or he would be expelled. To get ready for the dance, Angus gets help not only from Troy, but also his mother, Meg, to fix this, Ivan takes him to Madame Rulenska, where despite his best efforts, he comes out worse than before. Later on, despite his request for a tuxedo and wanting to be normal, Ivan purchases him a plum one and tells him that he can be normal. He tells him that running away to school will not solve anything. He also mentions that he doesnt let anyone tell him that his relationship with April is a mistake because she is 30 years younger than him, one day after football practice, Angus opens his locker and sees that his favorite pair of boxers is missing. He and Troy later learn with their own eyes that Rick hoisted them up the flagpole for the school to see, Angus storms home in anger, but Rick and company quickly kidnap Troy. Outside the school, they ask him for anything that would embarrass Angus at the Winter Ball and he refuses their request and tries to escape, only to break his arm as he trips to the floor while Rick gives him an ultimatum. At home, Meg tells Ivan that having Angus transfer to a school would be for the best. She hates seeing him suffer another day with humiliation and does not think Ivan has the right answers, in turn, Ivan confronts Meg for over-mothering Angus and warns her that letting him run away from his bullies to another school is a mistake. He mentions if Angus stands any chance of ending his humiliation, he needs to make the change by standing up for himself, Ivan admits he never let Meg run away from her problems and admires how strong she is today
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Theatrical poster released in 1995
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Angus: Music from the Motion Picture
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I Love You, I Love You Not
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I Love You, I Love You Not is a 1996 American romantic drama film directed by Billy Hopkins and written by Wendy Kesselman. The film is told through the stories of two women, Nana, a grandmother, and Daisy, her granddaughter, Daisy tells Nana of her strong and blossoming romance with a young man named Ethan and her problems at school because shes Jewish. Nana tells the story of her life when she was sent to a ghetto. The romantic love feelings she has for the boy are indeed strong and genuine and he lets his friends judge her from the outside, not for who she is on the inside, and when she turns out to not be like every other girl he breaks up with her. Daisy is sad so she goes and sees Nana and takes her out on her. She then runs away and tries to kill herself but she does not, at the end, she tries to see him again but he looks at her for a long time and walks away with his friends. She stands there, heartbroken, sad and crying, realizing that maybe it was not meant to be and she walks away happy. Hopkins as Mr. Douglas Jerry Tanklow as Mr. Gilman I Love You, I Love You Not at the Internet Movie Database I Love You, I Love You Not at Rotten Tomatoes I Love You, I Love You Not at AllMovie
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Theatrical release poster
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Drew University
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Drew University is a coeducational private university located in Madison, New Jersey, in the United States. Drew has been nicknamed the University in the Forest because of the serenity of its wooded 186-acre campus when compared to the suburban area surrounding the school. As of 2015,2,113 students are pursuing degrees at the three schools. Undergraduate tuition for the 2015–2016 academic year was US$59,661, in 1867, financier and railroad tycoon Daniel Drew purchased an estate in Madison to establish a theological seminary to train candidates for Christian ministry. The seminary later expanded to offer a liberal arts curriculum in 1928. The Caspersen School of Graduate Studies, enrolling 351 graduate students, offers masters and doctoral degrees in a variety of specialized, while affiliated with the Methodist faith, Drew University makes no religious demands of its students. While many of the Theological Schools students and faculty are United Methodist, the United Methodist Churchs General Commission on Archives and History is located on campus and maintains an archive of Methodist records and artifacts from the nineteenth century to the present. Drew University is located in Madison, New Jersey, a borough approximately 25 miles west of New York City, known as the Rose City because of its rose-cultivating industry in the nineteenth century, Madison is an affluent commuter town in New Jerseys Morris County. It is connected with the section of the state and midtown Manhattan through the New Jersey Transits Morris & Essex Lines. He named his holdings The Forest, which gives Drew its nickname of the University in the Forest, the following year, Gibbons commissioned the design and construction of a Greek revival antebellum-style residence that was completed in 1836. In 1867, financier and railroad tycoon Daniel Drew purchased Gibbons estate from his descendants for $140,000, Drew, a devout Methodist, donated the estate to the church to establish a Methodist theological seminary. The estates mansion would be renamed Mead Hall in honor of Drews wife, several motion pictures, TV productions, and music videos have used Drew University as a filming location. The preserve and arboretum both provide a laboratory for the instruction of students in the study of biology and life sciences and for research. In 1866, Daniel Drew approached church leaders during the Methodist Centenary Celebration with an offer to build, equip, Drew asked that his pastor, John McClintock, be appointed lead the seminary as its first president. Instruction began under the direction of McClintock as both president and professor of theology after the first students were admitted in 1867. Drew is the third-oldest of thirteen Methodist seminaries affiliated with the United Methodist Church, Drew offered professional training for candidates to the ministry augmented by an opportunity for a broad culture through the study of the humanities. Writings on early church theology and Christian practice were translated into Chinese for use by foreign missions, throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Drew Theological Seminary educated and trained hundreds of Methodist ministers. It began to expand its role with the addition of a course of study for women in 1920 when it established a College of Missions and this course would be renamed the College of Religious Education and Missions in 1929 but was short-lived
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The Bowne Memorial Gateway
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Mead Hall was purchased by Daniel Drew in 1867, who donated it to start a Methodist theological seminary.
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Vineyard Theater
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The Vineyard Theatre is an Off-Broadway non-profit theatre company, located at 108 East 15th Street in Manhattan, New York City, near Union Square. Its first production was in 1981, the Vineyard describes itself as dedicated to new work, bold programming and the support of artists. The company is the recipient of special Obie, Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel awards for Sustained Excellence, and it celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2007. It sponsors panel discussions, guest speakers, informal readings of works-in-progress, Vineyard Theatre official website Vineyard Theatre at the Internet Off-Broadway Database Vineyard Theatre at NY Theatre. com
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A scene from Vineyard Theatre's production of
Julia Cho 's The Piano Teacher.
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WB Network
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The WB Television Network was an American television network that was first launched on broadcast television on January 11,1995 as a joint venture between the Warner Bros. Entertainment division of Time Warner and the Tribune Broadcasting subsidiary of the Tribune Company, on January 24,2006, CBS Corporation and Warner Bros. Entertainment announced plans to shut down the network and launch The CW later that same year, the WB Television Network shut down on September 17,2006, with select programs from both it and competitor UPN moving to The CW when it launched the following day, September 18. Time Warner re-used The WB brand for a network that launched on April 28,2008. The website could only be accessed within the United States, on November 2,1993, the Warner Bros. Only five of these stations – along with a sixth that Tribune acquired the following year – would join The WB at launch, when the network was announced, The WB planned to run a predominately network programmed schedule over time. The WB Television Network premiered on January 11,1995, with the episode of The Wayans Bros. as its first program. The classic Warner Bros. cartoon character Michigan J. Frog appeared on-air as the official mascot. Much of the branding was based around Warner Bros. locations and characters. Pictures shield logo, network promotions and imaging campaigns for The WB, the networks first programs were mostly sitcoms targeted at an ethnically black audience. Even though four of the five shows that debuted in the netlets first nine months were renewed beyond the first year – The Wayans Bros, unhappily Ever After, The Parent Hood and Sister, Sister – none of them made a significant impact. On August 17,1995, the Tribune Company acquired a 12. 5% on March 31,1997, the WB expanded its programming to Sunday nights for the 1995–96 season, but none of the new shows managed to garner much viewing interest. The WB continued to expand in the 1996–97 season, adding programming on Monday nights and this season gave The WB modest hits in the Aaron Spelling-produced family drama 7th Heaven and comedies The Steve Harvey Show and The Jamie Foxx Show. The WB first began to experience success with Buffy the Vampire Slayer and it debuted with the highest Monday night ratings in the networks history, attracting not only new teenage viewers, but new advertisers as well. The networks breakout hit and, arguably, its series was Dawsons Creek. At the start of the 1998–99 season, the network expanded its programming to Thursday nights, for the 1999–2000 season, the network concluded its primetime expansion with the addition of programming on Friday nights. During this season, The WB was the network to have gains in its total audience viewership. As the teen boom of the late 1990s began to wane, although teen-oriented fare like Popular and Roswell had premiered to strong ratings, both series saw serious ratings erosion in their sophomore seasons, leading the network to cancel them both
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Logo for Daytime WB.
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The WB
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MTV Movie Award
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The MTV Movie & TV Awards is a film and television awards show presented annually on MTV. The nominees are decided by producers and executives at MTV, winners are decided online by the general public. Presently voting is done through MTVs official website through a special Movie Awards link at movieawards. mtv. com, the most recent award show took place on April 9,2016. Winners are presented with the golden statue, made by New York firm. Unlike its sister event MTV Video Music Awards, the MTV Movie Awards were taped, the entire production was taped in a completely different order than what the MTV viewing audience saw. For example, the shows host would tape all his/her monologues and introductions at one time, celebrities would often only appear at the live taping for the announcement of their award category, and members of the general audience fill their vacant seats during the other times. Through editing, MTV was able to present to its audience a awards show which appears to be taped in live sequence. This method of production allowed profanity to be edited from the show, the actual live taping aired same-day on pay-per-view channels in most metropolitan cities around the world. Some awards telecasts had also shown in television syndication. However, in 2007, this changed, as MTV and Survivor producer Mark Burnett announced that the 2007 edition would be broadcast live on MTV for the first time on June 3,2007 in Los Angeles. The 2016 broadcast was the first show since 2006 not to air live as the event was taped on April 9,2016 before airing on Viacoms MTV networks the following day on April 10. Since 2007, polls for several awards were voted by users on MTVs official website. The Lifetime Achievement Award was an award for movie personalities who made an impact on popular culture. Prior to announcing the winner MTV would air testimonials from major Hollywood celebrities praising the winners greatness while only offering a slight tease as to who the winner was, following Clint Howards win and emotional reaction the award was discontinued. The MTV Generation Award is the successor to the MTV Lifetime Achievement Award, the recipient of the award is celebrated for great achievement in movies. The distinction is given to an artist who has shown us a variety of roles, a personal and professional flair and of course. 2016, Will Smith The Silver Bucket of Excellence is an award that was given to a film that has made lasting impact on moviegoers and it was further defined in 2006 as honoring a film of the past that resonates with even more meaning today. The award is given to an actor of young age that managed to inspire others with a portfolio of work
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This is a picture of the "golden popcorn" awarded at the 2012 MTV Movie Awards.
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People (magazine)
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People is an American weekly magazine of celebrity and human-interest stories, published by Time Inc. With a readership of 46.6 million adults, People has the largest audience of any American magazine, People had $997 million in advertising revenue in 2011, the highest advertising revenue of any American magazine. In 2006, it had a circulation of 3.75 million and it was named Magazine of the Year by Advertising Age in October 2005, for excellence in editorial, circulation and advertising. People ranked #6 on Advertising Ages annual A-list and #3 on Adweeks Brand Blazers list in October 2006, the magazine runs a roughly 50/50 mix of celebrity and human-interest articles. Peoples website, People. com, focuses on celebrity news, in February 2015, the website broke a new record,72 million unique visitors. People is perhaps best known for its special issues naming the Worlds Most Beautiful, Best & Worst Dressed. The magazines headquarters are in New York and it maintains editorial bureaus in Los Angeles, for economic reasons it closed bureaus in Austin, Miami, and Chicago in 2006. In December 2016, LaTavia Roberson engaged in a feud with People after alleging they misquoted and misrepresented her interview online. The concept for People has been attributed to Andrew Heiskell, Time Inc. s chief executive officer at the time, the founding managing editor of People was Richard B. Stolley, an assistant managing editor at Life and the journalist who acquired the Zapruder tapes of the John F. Kennedy assassination for Time Inc. in 1963. Peoples first publisher was Richard J. Durrell, another Time Inc. veteran, Stolley characterized the magazine as getting back to the people who are causing the news and who are caught up in it, or deserve to be in it. Our focus is on people, not issues, stolleys almost religious determination to keep the magazine people-focused contributed significantly to its rapid early success. It is said that although Time Inc. pumped an estimated $40 million into the venture, initially, the magazine was sold primarily on newsstands and in supermarkets. To get the magazine out each week, founding staff members regularly slept on the floor of their offices two or three nights each week and severely limited all non-essential outside engagements. The premier edition for the week ending March 4,1974 featured actress Mia Farrow, then starring in the movie The Great Gatsby and that issue also featured stories on Gloria Vanderbilt, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and the wives of U. S. Vietnam veterans who were Missing In Action, the magazine was, apart from its cover, printed in black-and-white. The initial cover price was 35 cents, the core of the small founding editorial team included other editors, writers, photographers and photo editors from Life magazine, which had ceased publication just 13 months earlier. This group included managing editor Stolley, senior editors Hal Wingo, Sam Angeloff and Robert Emmett Ginna, writers James Watters and Ronald B
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The December 1, 2014, edition of People
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Teen People cover, April 2006
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Texas Rangers (film)
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Texas Rangers is a 2001 American action western film starring James Van Der Beek, Ashton Kutcher, Alfred Molina, and Dylan McDermott. Directed by Steve Miner, it follows a group of Texas Rangers in the post-American Civil War era, ten years after the Civil War ended, the Governor of Texas asks Leander McNelly to recommission a company of Rangers to help uphold the law along the Mexican border. Aside from a few seasoned veterans, the recruits are young men, such as George Durham, after McNelly and his men pursue Fisher for a while, they fall into a trap, where many of the young and ill-trained Rangers are killed. Defeated and low on morale, the men back to a ranch house. After being double crossed by a woman, the rangers remain one step behind Fisher, two of the Rangers follow Fisher and his men to the Mexican border, where they wait for the rest of their company. Once the entire Ranger force arrives, they plan their final attack, in a final gun-slinging showdown, the Rangers face off against Fisher and his men that will tip the state of the border country in the direction of either chaos or justice. In 1989, Frank Price at Columbia optioned a story idea called Ranger from Scott Busby, Busby and Copland were hired to do the adaptation. A year later John Milius was on the project and he wrote several drafts and was going to direct for Columbia, then Savoy Pictures. In 1992 Milius said he hoped to make the film with a young cast for $15-17 million, which is very reasonable today, he said. Its very easy to make Westerns, most of the people making decisions today are idiots whove probably never seen one, city-born people who feel that the here and now is most important. They dont like historical films of any kind, especially Westerns, sci-fi is acceptable but history is not hip. Part of being modern is that anything from the past is dead and we live in an historical age. An enormous amount of people were interested in TVs The Civil War, were the only culture in history that builds a shrine and prostrates before the 14-year-old. The best Westerns were love poems to country, added Milius. John Ford photographed the country the way you photograph a woman and he photographed the open spaces, gray clouds, light, red earth, trees, really sensuously. The country was the repository of endless promise, any good Western is about promise. Milius says he got pretty close to making the film but they wouldn’t approve Tommy Lee Jones as the star, another guy worked on it, the script was rewritten, but they were never able to get it made. They couldn’t attract the cast they wanted, so now these other characters bought it
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Theatrical release poster
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Scary Movie
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Scary Movie is a 2000 American horror comedy film directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans. The film is a parody of the horror, slasher, several mid- and late-90s films and TV shows are spoofed, and the script is primarily based on the 90s hit horror films Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer. The first in the Scary Movie film series, it was followed by four sequels, Scary Movie 2, Scary Movie 3, Scary Movie 4, and Scary Movie 5. Despite generally mixed reviews critics, the film was a box office success. An 18-year-old girl named Drew Decker receives a phone call while home alone one night. Drew is chased outside by Ghostface, who stabs her in the breast and she is hit by a vehicle driven by her father, who was distracted by oral sex by his wife, and is then subsequently murdered by Ghostface. The following day, Cindy Campbell meets up with her boyfriend Bobby and her friends, Brenda, Ray, Greg, various news teams, including hack reporter Gail Hailstorm, converge on the school in the wake of Drews murder. Gail hooks up with Buffys intellectually disabled brother Special Officer Doofy, while Cindy is in class, she receives a note reading, I Know What You Did Last Halloween. She then realizes that Drew was murdered one year after she. At a beauty pageant that evening, Greg is killed by Ghostface in plain view, with the audience mistaking Buffys screams, when Buffy realizes shes won the pageant, she almost immediately forgets about Gregs death and celebrates her victory. After Cindy goes home alone, she is attacked by Ghostface, Cindy locks herself in her room and contacts the police, and Ghostface disappears. Bobby arrives momentarily after hearing the incident, but a pair of black gloves, Bobby is arrested and taken to the police station. Afterwards, Cindy heads to Buffy and Doofys place, to spend the night with them, when there, she receives a call from Ghostface, mocking her. The next morning, Bobby is released, meanwhile, Buffy, high on the success of her victory at the pageant, ignores Cindys warnings about the killer and is beheaded by Ghostface with a cleaver, though her severed head still remains alive. Ghostface, visibly annoyed, dumps Buffys head into a Lost and that night, Ray and Brenda go to a showing of Shakespeare In Love, where Ray is stabbed in the ear through a bathroom stall. Unfortunately, angry movie patrons, fed up with Brendas rude behavior during the movie, meanwhile, Cindy throws a house party, hoping for safety in numbers. During the party, Bobby and Cindy go upstairs and have sex, suddenly, Ghostface appears and apparently stabs Bobby, before disappearing quickly. Cindy gets a gun from a drawer near the entrance, Bobby follows, Brendas stoner brother Shorty comes up from the basement and informs them that all of the partygoers have fled the house
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Theatrical release poster
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Jay and Silent Bob
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Jay and Silent Bob have appeared in most of Smiths films, with the exceptions of Jersey Girl, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Cop Out, Red State, Tusk, and Yoga Hosers. The characters are shown spending most of their time selling marijuana in front of the store in the Clerks films. In Clerks, The Animated Series, they were also shown selling illegal fireworks, Jay and Silent Bob are characters who were born in Leonardo, New Jersey in the 1970s, according to Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. They met as infants in front of Quick Stop Groceries while their mothers shopped inside The Record Rack, Silent Bobs distinguishing features are his heavy smoking, long coat, dark hair, beard, and backwards baseball cap. He was raised Catholic, and is a gadgetry genius, otherwise he relies on hand gestures and facial expressions to communicate. Silent Bob is often annoyed by Jay and when Silent Bob does speak, he will sometimes ridicule Jay, particularly in Chasing Amy and in Clerks II. In Clerks, The Animated Series, Silent Bob is called Blutarsky, but according to Smith, Jay is thinner and slightly taller than Silent Bob, and has long, blond hair. In several of the later View Askewniverse films, Jay wears a knit cap. In contrast to Silent Bob, Jay speaks frequently and rudely and often people with disrespect or hostility. Jays excessive cursing seems due to influence from his overbearing mother, in Clerks, the first film to feature the duo, Jay wears a baseball cap. He is also active in trying to seduce several women. Kevin Smith has stated that he sees Jay as ambisexual, Jay—whos always talking about women—is a character a lot of young hetero guys identify with, but I think Jays really ambisexual. So its nice to them a curveball to open up their perspective a bit. If I can lead a few cats into being a bit more tolerant, moreover, in the prison scene in Clerks II, Jay wants Dante and Randal to fellate each other in exchange for Silent Bob and him loaning them the money to reopen the Quick Stop and RST. He may say this merely to get Dante and Randal to humiliate themselves, in a cut version of the same scene, Silent Bob tells Jay that he is a deeply repressed gay man. Clerks, released in 1994, is the first film to feature Jay, in the View Askewniverse continuity, it takes place the day after Mallrats. Jay and Silent Bob return to their business location in front of Quick Stop. Throughout the day, they are dancing, loitering
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Jason Mewes as Jay (left) and Kevin Smith as Silent Bob in
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Jason Biggs
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He also starred in Loser and Saving Silverman. Biggs was born in the Pompton Plains section of Pequannock Township and his mother, Angela, is a nurse, and his father, Gary Louis Biggs, is a shipping company manager. Biggs father is of English and Italian descent and Biggs mother is of Sicilian descent and his last name is derived from his English ancestry. He grew up in Hasbrouck Heights and attended Hasbrouck Heights High School, Biggs attended Montclair State University for three weeks before dropping out. Biggs began acting at the age of five, in 1991, he made his television debut in the short lived FOX series Drexells Class. In 1988, he received his Screen Actors Guild card for appearing in a TV commercial for Pathmark and he later recalled in a 2015 interview in TV Guide, I remember I had to eat a doughnut in one of the shots. When Biggs was 12, he starred in a one-off HBO special, The Fotis Sevastakis Story and that same year, Biggs debuted on Broadway in Conversations with My Father with Judd Hirsch. He then starred in the soap opera, As the World Turns. Biggs attended New York University briefly from 1996–1997, but soon afterwards, and so he would be seen again in another short lived television series, 1997s Camp Stories. He then starred in American Pie, which went on to become a hit that has spawned three sequels and four spinoffs. After that, Biggs accepted starring roles in such as Loser in 2000. In 2001, Biggs starred in the comedy Saving Silverman and he appeared in the 2002 Broadway production of The Graduate as Benjamin Braddock alongside Kathleen Turner and Alicia Silverstone. In 2003, Biggs appeared as Jerry Falk in the Woody Allen romantic comedy Anything Else, in the 2004–2005 season Biggs portrayed an Orthodox Jew in Daniel Goldfarbs comedy, Modern Orthodox, staged at Dodger Stages theater in New York City. In 2006, Biggs was seen in the MTV reality show Blowin Up with Jamie Kennedy, Biggs returned to the stage in the fall of 2008 in Howard Korders Boys Life at New York Citys Second Stage Theatre. Biggs has appeared in other films, including Texas Rangers. In 2010, Biggs made his debut by contributing Scratch-and-Sniff. A Literary Detour through New Jersey, alongside such as Joyce Carol Oates, Tom Perrotta, Robert Pinsky, Gerald Stern. In 2012, he contributed to the anthology, Oy, why Not More, Six-Word Memoirs on Jewish Life
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Biggs at
PaleyFest 2014, representing
Orange Is the New Black
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Biggs at the
Toronto International Film Festival in September 2006.
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Biggs in March 2012, at the
American Reunion premiere in
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Silent Bob
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Jay and Silent Bob have appeared in most of Smiths films, with the exceptions of Jersey Girl, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Cop Out, Red State, Tusk, and Yoga Hosers. The characters are shown spending most of their time selling marijuana in front of the store in the Clerks films. In Clerks, The Animated Series, they were also shown selling illegal fireworks, Jay and Silent Bob are characters who were born in Leonardo, New Jersey in the 1970s, according to Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. They met as infants in front of Quick Stop Groceries while their mothers shopped inside The Record Rack, Silent Bobs distinguishing features are his heavy smoking, long coat, dark hair, beard, and backwards baseball cap. He was raised Catholic, and is a gadgetry genius, otherwise he relies on hand gestures and facial expressions to communicate. Silent Bob is often annoyed by Jay and when Silent Bob does speak, he will sometimes ridicule Jay, particularly in Chasing Amy and in Clerks II. In Clerks, The Animated Series, Silent Bob is called Blutarsky, but according to Smith, Jay is thinner and slightly taller than Silent Bob, and has long, blond hair. In several of the later View Askewniverse films, Jay wears a knit cap. In contrast to Silent Bob, Jay speaks frequently and rudely and often people with disrespect or hostility. Jays excessive cursing seems due to influence from his overbearing mother, in Clerks, the first film to feature the duo, Jay wears a baseball cap. He is also active in trying to seduce several women. Kevin Smith has stated that he sees Jay as ambisexual, Jay—whos always talking about women—is a character a lot of young hetero guys identify with, but I think Jays really ambisexual. So its nice to them a curveball to open up their perspective a bit. If I can lead a few cats into being a bit more tolerant, moreover, in the prison scene in Clerks II, Jay wants Dante and Randal to fellate each other in exchange for Silent Bob and him loaning them the money to reopen the Quick Stop and RST. He may say this merely to get Dante and Randal to humiliate themselves, in a cut version of the same scene, Silent Bob tells Jay that he is a deeply repressed gay man. Clerks, released in 1994, is the first film to feature Jay, in the View Askewniverse continuity, it takes place the day after Mallrats. Jay and Silent Bob return to their business location in front of Quick Stop. Throughout the day, they are dancing, loitering
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Jason Mewes as Jay (left) and Kevin Smith as Silent Bob in
Clerks II
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Sean Bateman
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The Rules of Attraction is a satirical black comedy novel by Bret Easton Ellis published in 1987. The novel is written in first person narrative, and the story is told from the points of view of various characters, the book was adapted into a film of the same name in 2002. Ellis himself has remarked that of all the adaptations of his books, The Rules of Attraction came closest to capturing his sensibility. The novel is written in the first-person, continuing the aesthetic of Ellis earlier Less Than Zero, the main narrators are three students, Paul, Sean, and Lauren. A number of characters also provide first-hand accounts throughout the story, which takes place at the fictional Camden College. The three main characters end up in a triangle within a sequence of drug runs, Dress to Get Screwed. The story begins midway through a sentence in order to give the effect that it begins somewhere closer to the middle, another interpretation is that the story has neither a beginning nor an ending, signifying the endless cycle of debauchery in which the characters of the novel engage. This is sometimes mistaken by readers as an error or the result of a missing page. The novel ends in a fashion, with the last sentence cut off before its end. Sean is a student from a wealthy family. He is very promiscuous and a substance abuser, as well as a drug dealer in the employ of Rupert Guest. He becomes romantically involved with Lauren, a relationship he considers to be true love and it is also implied that Sean is bisexual, as he apparently becomes involved in a sexual relationship with Paul Denton. In March 2012, Ellis stated through his Twitter that Sean is, in fact, gay, although in a Reddit AMA in May 2013, Sean is very bitter and cynical, and is prone to self-loathing. He attempts suicide at multiple points in the book, first by hanging, then by slashing his wrist with a dull razor, a major subplot in the novel is Seans debt to Rupert, a violent townie drug dealer who often threatens to kill him. The character is the brother of the notorious Patrick Bateman and has appeared in Elliss other novels, American Psycho, The Informers. Lauren is a painter and poet who has sexual relations with boys on campus, all the while pining for Victor, her boyfriend who left Camden. She is often depressed and very emotional and she is in her senior year at Camden. She was also in a relationship with Paul before the events of the book take place, the character reappears as a main character in Glamorama, in which she becomes reacquainted with Victor after having become a successful model and actress
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Book cover for The Rules of Attraction
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American Psycho
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American Psycho is a novel by Bret Easton Ellis, published in 1991. The story is told in the first person by Patrick Bateman, a film adaptation starring Christian Bale as Bateman was released in 2000 to generally favorable reviews. In 2008, it was confirmed that producers David Johnson and Jesse Singer were developing an adaptation of the novel to appear on Broadway. The musical premiered at the Almeida Theatre, London in December 2013, Ellis researched murders at the New York Public Library. His first draft of American Psycho left all the scenes until last. Bateman, in his mid-20s when the story begins, narrates his everyday activities, Batemans stream of consciousness is occasionally broken up by chapters in which he directly addresses the reader in order to critique the work of 1980s pop music artists. The novel maintains a level of ambiguity through mistaken identity. Characters are consistently introduced as other than themselves, and people argue over the identities of others they can see in restaurants or at parties. After killing Paul Owen, one of his colleagues, Bateman appropriates his apartment as a place to host, Batemans control over his violent urges deteriorates. Bateman begins to experience bizarre hallucinations such as seeing a Cheerio interviewed on a show, being stalked by an anthropomorphic park bench. These incidents culminate in a spree during which he kills several random people in the street. Bateman flees on foot and hides in his office, where he phones his attorney, Harold Carnes, later, Bateman revisits Paul Owens apartment, where he had earlier killed and mutilated two prostitutes, carrying a surgical mask in anticipation of the decomposing bodies he expects to encounter. He enters the perfectly clean, refurbished apartment, however, filled with strong-smelling flowers meant, perhaps, the real estate agent, who sees his surgical mask, fools him into stating he was attending the apartment viewing because he saw an ad in the Times. She tells him to leave and never return, at the end of the story, Bateman confronts Carnes about the message he left on his machine, only to find the attorney amused at what he considers a hilarious joke. Mistaking Bateman for another colleague, Carnes claims that the Patrick Bateman he knows is too much of a coward to have committed such acts, the book ends as it began, with Bateman and his colleagues at a new club on a Friday night, engaging in banal conversation. The sign seen at the end of the book simply reads This is not an exit, according to literary critic Jeffrey W. Hunter, American Psycho is largely a critique of the shallow and vicious aspects of capitalism. The characters are concerned with material gain and superficial appearances. This leads Patrick Bateman to act as if everything is a commodity, including people, Patrick Batemans consumption of what he views as nothing more than a piece of meat is an almost parodically literal interpretation of a monster created by consumer culture
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First English hardcover edition cover of the book.
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Patrick Bateman
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Patrick Bateman is a fictional character, the villain protagonist and narrator of the novel American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, and its film adaptation. He is a wealthy, materialistic Wall Street investment banker who leads a life as a serial killer. Bateman has also appeared in other Ellis novels. In his secret life, however, Bateman is a killer murdering a variety of people. His crimes—including rape, torture, necrophilia, and cannibalism—are described in detail in the novel. Bateman comes from a wealthy family and his parents have a house on Long Island, and he mentions a summer house in Newport. His parents divorced sometime earlier, while his mother became sick and his father, who first appeared in Ellis preceding novel The Rules of Attraction, grew up on an estate in Connecticut, and now owns an apartment in the Carlyle Hotel in Manhattan. He is assumed to be dead as he is mentioned only in past tense during the novel, batemans younger brother Sean attends Camden College. Bateman attended Phillips Exeter Academy for prep school and he graduated from Harvard College in 1984 and Harvard Business School two years later, and moved to New York City. By the end of the novel, he believes he is about to be arrested for murdering a colleague named Paul Allen, and leaves a message on his lawyers answering machine confessing to his crimes. When he runs into his lawyer at a party, however, Bateman realizes that the punishment and notoriety he desires will be forever out of his reach, and that he is trapped inside a pointless existence, This is not an exit. As written by Ellis, Bateman is the stereotype of yuppie greed, rich, shallow, and addicted to sex, drugs. All of his friends look alike to him, to the point that he often confuses one for another and he is engaged to an equally rich, shallow woman named Evelyn Richards. He has a mistress on the side and has regular liaisons with prostitutes and women he encounters at clubs, the one woman in his life he has anything approaching feelings for is his secretary, Jean. She is the person in his life who is not completely shallow, so he cannot bring himself to seduce, rape. He casually acknowledges her as Jean, my secretary who is in love with me, despite his affluence and high social status, Bateman is wracked by feelings of insecurity and self-hatred. He kills many of his victims because they make him feel inadequate and he is deeply disliked by others as well—his friends mock him as the boy next door, his own lawyer refers to him as a bloody ass-kisser. A brown-nosing goody-goody, and he is dismissed as yuppie trash by people outside his social circle
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Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman
30.
Bret Easton Ellis
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Bret Easton Ellis is an American author, screenwriter, and short story writer. His works have translated into 27 languages. He was at first regarded as one of the so-called literary Brat Pack and he is a self-proclaimed satirist, whose trademark technique, as a writer, is the expression of extreme acts and opinions in an affectless style. Ellis employs a technique of linking novels with common, recurring characters, on its release, the literary establishment widely condemned the novel as overly violent and misogynistic. Though many petitions to ban the book saw Ellis dropped by Simon & Schuster, in later years, Ellis novels have become increasingly metafictional. Lunar Park, a pseudo-memoir and ghost story, received positive reviews, Imperial Bedrooms, marketed as a sequel to Less Than Zero, continues in this vein. Four of Elliss works have made into films. Less Than Zero was rapidly adapted for screen, leading to the release of a different film of the same name in 1987. Mary Harrons adaptation of American Psycho was released to positive reviews in 2000. Roger Avarys 2002 adaptation The Rules of Attraction made modest box office returns, 2008s The Informers, based on Elliss collection of short stories, was critically panned. Ellis also wrote the screenplay for the critically derided 2013 film The Canyons, Ellis was born in Los Angeles, to a middle class California household, and was raised in Sherman Oaks in the San Fernando Valley. His father, Robert Martin Ellis, was a property developer, Ellis stated, during the initial release of his third novel American Psycho, that his father was abusive, and he became the basis of that books best-known character Patrick Bateman. Ellis claims that while his life growing up was somewhat difficult due to the divorce. There he met and befriended Donna Tartt and Jonathan Lethem, who both would later become published writers, Bennington College was also where Ellis completed a novel he had been working on for many years. That book, Less Than Zero, went on to be published while Ellis was just 21 and still in college, thus propelling him to instant fame. Ellis became a pariah for a following the release of American Psycho. It is now regarded as Ellis magnum opus and is looked upon by academics. The Informers was offered to his publisher during Glamoramas long writing history, Ellis wrote a screenplay for The Rules of Attractions film adaptation, which was not used
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Ellis at the
LA Times Festival of Books, April 25, 2010
31.
The Rules of Attraction
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The Rules of Attraction is a satirical black comedy novel by Bret Easton Ellis published in 1987. The novel is written in first person narrative, and the story is told from the points of view of various characters, the book was adapted into a film of the same name in 2002. Ellis himself has remarked that of all the adaptations of his books, The Rules of Attraction came closest to capturing his sensibility. The novel is written in the first-person, continuing the aesthetic of Ellis earlier Less Than Zero, the main narrators are three students, Paul, Sean, and Lauren. A number of characters also provide first-hand accounts throughout the story, which takes place at the fictional Camden College. The three main characters end up in a triangle within a sequence of drug runs, Dress to Get Screwed. The story begins midway through a sentence in order to give the effect that it begins somewhere closer to the middle, another interpretation is that the story has neither a beginning nor an ending, signifying the endless cycle of debauchery in which the characters of the novel engage. This is sometimes mistaken by readers as an error or the result of a missing page. The novel ends in a fashion, with the last sentence cut off before its end. Sean is a student from a wealthy family. He is very promiscuous and a substance abuser, as well as a drug dealer in the employ of Rupert Guest. He becomes romantically involved with Lauren, a relationship he considers to be true love and it is also implied that Sean is bisexual, as he apparently becomes involved in a sexual relationship with Paul Denton. In March 2012, Ellis stated through his Twitter that Sean is, in fact, gay, although in a Reddit AMA in May 2013, Sean is very bitter and cynical, and is prone to self-loathing. He attempts suicide at multiple points in the book, first by hanging, then by slashing his wrist with a dull razor, a major subplot in the novel is Seans debt to Rupert, a violent townie drug dealer who often threatens to kill him. The character is the brother of the notorious Patrick Bateman and has appeared in Elliss other novels, American Psycho, The Informers. Lauren is a painter and poet who has sexual relations with boys on campus, all the while pining for Victor, her boyfriend who left Camden. She is often depressed and very emotional and she is in her senior year at Camden. She was also in a relationship with Paul before the events of the book take place, the character reappears as a main character in Glamorama, in which she becomes reacquainted with Victor after having become a successful model and actress
The Rules of Attraction
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Book cover for The Rules of Attraction
32.
Roger Avary
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Roger Avary is a Canadian film and television producer, screenwriter and director in the American mass media industry. He worked on Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, for which he and he wrote the screenplays of Silent Hill and Beowulf. He also directed Killing Zoe and The Rules of Attraction, Avary contributed material which, combined with Quentin Tarantinos, formed the screenplay of Pulp Fiction for which he and Tarantino won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Avary also wrote and directed the cult thriller Killing Zoe which Tarantino executive produced. The film was honored with le Prix très spécial à Cannes 1994 and it continued to win awards worldwide on the festival circuit, including the Grand Prize at Japans Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival in February 1994 and the Italian Mystfest. In 2002, Avary directed his adaptation of the novel, which he also executive produced, as of 2009, the film ranked as the twenty-seventh highest grossing college comedy of all time. The Rules of Attraction was the first studio movie to prove reliable use of Apples Final Cut Pro editing system for editing motion picture film, roger Avary became a spokesperson for Apples Final Cut Pro product, appearing in Apple print and web ads worldwide. Roger Avary and the composers, tomandandy, developed the audio format Mono SR for the film. Mono SR is an open source format that maintains the simplicity of monaural sound when motion picture delivery requirements include Dolby Digital noise reduction. Roger Avarys film from within the film, Glitterati, used elements of Victors European trip and was shot on digital video. In 2005, Avary, at the request of his friend, actor James Van Der Beek, in 2006, Avary wrote a screenplay adaptation to the hit Konami videogame, Silent Hill, with French director and friend, Christophe Gans, and Killing Zoe producer Samuel Hadida. Avary and Gans being long time video gamers and fans of the Silent Hill series, gaiman and Avary enjoyed the experience of working together, coming across as a happy team in Beowulf interviews. On January 13,2008, Avary was arrested under suspicion of manslaughter and DUI, following a car crash in Ojai, California, the Ventura County Sheriffs department responded to the accident after midnight Sunday morning on the 19-hundred block of East Ojai Avenue. Avary was released from jail on $50,000 bail, in December 2008, he was charged with, and pleaded not guilty to, gross vehicular manslaughter and two felony counts of causing bodily injury while intoxicated. He later changed his plea to guilty on August 18,2009, on September 29,2009, he was sentenced to 1 year in work furlough and 5 years of probation. However, after making several tweets about the conditions of his stay on Twitter, on July 10,2010, after serving an eight month sentence, Avary was released
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Roger Avary in Ojai, California, 2012
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The Plague (2006 film)
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The Plague is a 2006 horror film directed by Hal Masonberg and written by Masonberg and Teal Minton. It was produced by Clive Barker, in 1983, simultaneously one day all of the worlds children under the age of nine fall into a catatonic state. For the next ten years, every child who is born, is born in a state of catatonia, during this state, the children experience seizures twice a day and seem to develop superhuman strength. By 1993, all the children wake up, hellbent on killing all adults, things get even worse when the adults realize the children have a sort of collective brain—what one learns, they all learn. The children get smarter by the hour, first they dismantle the engines in almost every car, then they learn how to use firearms. The children also take the souls of the ones they kill as a part of deliverance, the adults must find a way to stop them before its too late. In addition to release, there is also an unreleased cut of the film known as The Plague. Steve Barton of Dread Central rated it 2/5 stars and wrote, Clive Barker may have in some way produced this mess and lent his name to it, but rest assured there’s nothing Barker-esque about it. All thats here is a giant missed opportunity which — pardon the really bad, scott Weinberg of DVD Talk rated it 2. 5/5 stars and wrote that it does not live up the premise, instead devolving into yet another zombie-type chase thriller. David Johnson of DVD Verdict wrote, The Plague is a movie that starts out strong. The Plague at the Internet Movie Database The Plague at AllMovie The Plague at Rotten Tomatoes Official website
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The Plague
34.
Clive Barker
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Clive Barker is an English writer, film director, and visual artist best known for his work in both fantasy and horror fiction. Barker came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of stories, the Books of Blood. He has since written many novels and other works, and his fiction has been adapted into films, notably the Hellraiser and he was the Executive Producer of the film Gods and Monsters. Barkers paintings and illustrations have been featured in galleries in the United States as well as within his own books and he has created original characters and series for comic books, and some of his more popular horror stories have been adapted to comics. His archives have been a source of material for biographies and non-fiction books containing his personal essays, discussions of his theatre work, interviews. Barker was born in Liverpool, Merseyside, the son of Joan Ruby, a painter and school welfare officer, and Leonard Barker and he was educated at Dovedale Primary School, Quarry Bank High School and the University of Liverpool, where he studied English and Philosophy. When he was three years old, Barker witnessed the French skydiver Léo Valentin plummet to his death during a performance at an air show in Liverpool, Barker would later allude to Valentin in many of his stories. Barker is an author of contemporary horror/fantasy and he began writing horror early in his career, mostly in the form of short stories and the Faustian novel The Damnation Game. Later he moved towards modern-day fantasy and urban fantasy with elements in Weaveworld, The Great and Secret Show, the world-spanning Imajica. When the Books of Blood were first published in the United States in paperback, Stephen King was quoted on the covers, I have seen the future of horror. As influences on his writing, Barker lists Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Ray Bradbury, William S. Burroughs, William Blake and Jean Cocteau and he is the writer of the best-selling Abarat series, and plans on producing two more novels in the series. Barker has an interest in film production and he wrote the screenplays for Underworld and Rawhead Rex, both directed by George Pavlou. Displeased by how his material was handled, he moved to directing with Hellraiser, after his film Nightbreed flopped, Barker returned to write and direct Lord of Illusions. The short story The Forbidden, from Barkers Books of Blood, provided the basis for the 1992 film Candyman, Barker was an executive producer of the film Gods and Monsters, which received major critical acclaim. He had been working on a series of adaptations of his The Abarat Quintet books under Disneys management, but because of creative differences. In 2005, Barker and horror film producer Jorge Saralegui created the production company Midnight Picture Show with the intent of producing two horror films per year. In October 2006, Barker announced through his website that he will be writing the script to a remake of the original Hellraiser film. He is developing a film based on his Tortured Souls line of toys from McFarlane Toys, Barker is a prolific visual artist, often illustrating his own books
Clive Barker
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Barker at the
Science Fiction Museum in 2007
35.
Lanford Wilson
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Lanford Wilson was a Pulitzer Prize winning, American playwright, whose work, as described by the New York Times, was earthy, realist, greatly admired widely performed. Wilson also helped to advance the Off-Off-Broadway theater movement with his earliest plays and he was one of the first playwrights to move from Off-Off-Broadway, to Off-Broadway, then Broadway, and beyond. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1980 and was elected in 2001 to the Theater Hall of Fame, in 2004, Wilson was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and received the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award as a Master American Dramatist. He was nominated for three Tony Awards and has won a Drama Desk Award and five Obie Awards. His 1964 short play, The Madness of Lady Bright, was his first significant success and led to further works throughout the 1960s that expressed a variety of social and romantic themes. In 1969, he was a co-founder of Circle Repertory Company and his 1973 play, The Hot l Baltimore, was the companys first major hit with both audiences and critics, its Off-Broadway run exceeded 1,000 performances. Wilsons Fifth of July was first produced at Circle Rep in 1978, for its Broadway production opening in 1980, a prequel, Talleys Folly, opened on Broadway before Fifth of July and won him the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and his first Tony nomination. Burn This was another Broadway success, Wilson also wrote the libretti for several 20th-century operas. In later years, he lived mostly in Sag Harbor on Long Island, Wilson was born to Ralph Eugene and Violetta Tate Wilson in Lebanon, Missouri. After his parents divorce when he was 5, he moved with his mother to Springfield, Missouri and he had two half-brothers, John and Jim, and one stepsister, Judy. When he was 11, his mother married Walt E. Lenhard, a farmer from Ozark, Missouri, there, he attended high school and developed a love for film and art. He developed an interest in acting and played roles in his school plays. After graduating from Ozark High School in 1955, Wilson began his studies at Southwest Missouri State College. In 1956, he moved to San Diego, California, where his father had relocated after his parents divorce and he studied art and art history at San Diego State College and also worked as a riveter in the Ryan Aircraft Plant. His reunion with his father, who lived in San Diego, may have been difficult, but the improved in later years. He left school and moved to Chicago in 1957, where he worked as a graphic artist for an advertising firm. During this time, Wilson realized that the stories he had always enjoyed writing would be more effective as plays. In 1962, Wilson moved to Greenwich Village in New York City and he worked in odd jobs, such as temporary typist, reservations clerk at Americana Hotel, complaint desk of a furniture store, and a dishwashing job where a co-worker incorrectly called him Lance
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The Caffe Cino, July 1965
Lanford Wilson
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A scene from the 1986 New York revival of
Home Free!
36.
Ugly Betty
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Ugly Betty is an American comedy-drama television series developed by Silvio Horta, which was originally broadcast on ABC between 2006 and 2010. It revolves around the character Betty Suarez who, despite her lack of style, the series is based on Fernando Gaitáns Colombian telenovela Yo soy Betty, la fea, which has had many other international adaptations. It was produced by Silent H, Ventanarosa, and Reveille Productions partnered with ABC Studios and executive produced by Salma Hayek, Silvio Horta, Ben Silverman, Jose Tamez, and Joel Fields. The pilot was filmed in New York, seasons one and two were filmed in Los Angeles and seasons three and four in New York City, during its first three seasons, it aired on Thursday nights, where it was mostly successful. However, viewership dropped significantly in the third season, particularly in the important 18–49 age group. In October 2009, the series was moved to Fridays, where it had trouble finding an audience, since the shows cancellation, it has gained a cult following. With the end of the series, there was talk of a push by Ana Ortiz and America Ferrera for an Ugly Betty movie. Two years later, on May 16,2006, ABC announced that Ugly Betty would be part of the 2006–2007 North American season lineup as a weekly hour-long series, the initial order was for 13 episodes. ABC also allowed its affiliates to show free off-air screenings to the public at various events ahead of the shows debut, in addition the network screened the debut episode on the web and made the episodes available for download on iTunes after their initial airings on January 5,2007. The encore episodes also have run on ABC Family and SOAPnet, on October 13,2006, ABC ordered a full season pick-up for the series, beyond the original 13 ordered at the May Upfronts due to its premiere ratings. ABC originally announced 22 episodes for the season 1, but increased the number of episodes by one to 23, the season finale is the episode called East Side Story. On March 21,2007, ABC renewed the series for a second season, although he joined NBC as their new entertainment head, Ben Silverman remained co-executive producer on the show, but in a limited role. In November 2007, the cast of the series made headlines when they threw their support behind the 2007 Writers Strike by joining them on the line in solidarity. On February 11,2008, ABC picked up Ugly Betty for the 2008–09 television season, unfortunately on the day the renewal was announced, two of the shows executive producers, Marco Pennette and James Hayman, were let go. The departure of Pennette and Hayman added to the constant off-camera turnovers on the series, including the exiting or firing of five writers. In a Q&A from TV Guide, Michael Ausiello criticized the decision, saying that someone saw fit to fix what wasnt broken and praised the two men for writing several of the shows best episodes. As a result of the strike, creator Silvio Horta delayed plans for a musical episode, Four days later on February 16,2008, ABC picked up Ugly Betty for the 2008–09 television season. On March 12,2008, Horta inked a two-year, seven-figure deal with ABC Studios, on April 17,2008, the shows podcast, which was usually presented in audio and hosted by stars Urie and Newton, became available on video for the first time
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Mark Indelicato and America Ferrera at the 2010 Voice Awards.
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Ugly Betty
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Criminal Minds
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Criminal Minds is an American police procedural crime drama television series created by Jeff Davis, and is the original show in the Criminal Minds franchise. It premiered on September 22,2005, on the broadcast network CBS, Criminal Minds is set primarily at the FBIs Behavioral Analysis Unit based in Quantico, Virginia. In accordance with the plot, Criminal Minds differs from many procedural dramas by focusing on profiling the criminal, called the unsub or unknown subject. The show has an ensemble cast that has had many cast member changes since its inception, Thomas Gibson, Shemar Moore, Matthew Gray Gubler, A. J. Cook, and Kirsten Vangsness are the only actors to have appeared in every season. The series follows a group of FBI profilers who set about catching various criminals through behavioral profiling, the plot focuses on the team working cases and on the personal lives of the characters, depicting the hardened life and statutory requirements of a profiler. The show spawned two spin-offs, Criminal Minds, Suspect Behavior and Criminal Minds, Beyond Borders, on May 6,2016, CBS renewed the show for a twelfth season, which premiered on September 28,2016. When the series premiered in September 2005, it featured FBI Agents Jason Gideon, Aaron Hotchner, Elle Greenaway, Derek Morgan, Spencer Reid, Jennifer J. J. For season one, Garcia was not a main cast member, in 2006, at the start of season two, Lola Glaudini announced her departure from the show, as she wanted to return home to New York City. Paget Brewster replaced her in the role of Emily Prentiss, at the start of season three, Mandy Patinkin announced his departure from the show because he was deeply disturbed by the content of the series. He left letters of apology for his fellow cast members, explaining his reasons, joe Mantegna replaced him as David Rossi, a best-selling author and FBI agent who comes out of retirement. Cook became pregnant with her first child and her pregnancy was written into the show. Cooks son, Mekhai Andersen, has written into a recurring role as Jennifers son Henry. Cooks void was filled by Meta Golding, who played Jordan Todd, in season six, Jennifer is forced to accept a promotion at The Pentagon, causing her to leave the BAU. Later that season, Emily is seemingly killed off, although she survives, she does not appear for the rest of the season. Cook and Brewster were both replaced by Rachel Nichols as Ashley Seaver, an FBI cadet, cBSs decision to release Cook and Brewster from their contracts resulted in numerous fans writing angry letters to the studio and signing protest petitions. CBS rehired Cook and Brewster as Jennifer Jareau and Emily Prentiss, respectively, in February 2012, Brewster announced her departure from the show after the seventh season. She was replaced in the season by Jeanne Tripplehorn, who played Alex Blake. Later in season nine, Paget Brewster made a special guest appearance, after two seasons, Tripplehorn was released from the show
Criminal Minds
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Cast and crew at a Paley Centre discussion of the show
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Criminal Minds
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Cast members in 2011–12: (left to right) Gibson, Cook, Gubler, Mantegna, Brewster and Moore. Absent: Kirsten Vangsness
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Serial killer
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Different authorities apply different criteria when designating serial killers, while most set a threshold of three murders, others extend it to four or lessen it to two. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, for example, defines serial killing as a series of two or more murders, committed as separate events, usually, but not always, by one offender acting alone. The murders may be attempted or completed in a fashion. Serial killing is not the same as mass murdering, nor is it spree killing, however, there is ample evidence the term was used in Europe and the U. S. earlier. The German term and concept were coined by the influential Ernst Gennat, psychopathic behavior that is consistent with traits common to some serial killers include sensation seeking, a lack of remorse or guilt, impulsivity, the need for control, and predatory behavior. They were often abused—emotionally, physically and/or sexually—by a family member, a disproportionate number exhibit one, two, or all three of the Macdonald triad of predictors of future violent behavior, Many are fascinated with fire setting. They are involved in activity, especially in children who have not reached sexual maturity. More than 60 percent, or simply a large proportion, wet their beds beyond the age of 12 and they were frequently bullied or socially isolated as children or adolescents. For example, Henry Lee Lucas was ridiculed as a child, kenneth Bianchi was teased as a child because he urinated in his pants, suffered twitching, and as a teenager was ignored by his peers. Some were involved in petty crimes, such as fraud, theft, vandalism, often, they have trouble staying employed and tend to work in menial jobs. The FBI, however, states, Serial murderers often seem normal, have families and/or a steady job, other sources state they often come from unstable families. Studies have suggested that serial killers generally have an average or low-average IQ, although they are often described, a sample of 202 IQs of serial killers had a median IQ of 89. There are exceptions to these criteria, however, for example, Harold Shipman was a successful professional. He was considered a pillar of the community, he even won a professional award for a childrens asthma clinic and was interviewed by Granada Televisions World in Action. Dennis Nilsen was an ex-soldier turned civil servant and trade unionist who had no criminal record when arrested. Neither was known to have exhibited many of the tell-tale signs, vlado Taneski, a crime reporter, was a career journalist who was caught after a series of articles he wrote gave clues that he had murdered people. Russell Williams was a successful and respected career Royal Canadian Air Force Colonel who was convicted of murdering two women, along with fetish burglaries and rapes, Many serial killers have faced similar problems in their childhood development. Family, or lack thereof, is the most prominent part of a childs development because it is what the child can identify with on a regular basis
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Mug shot of serial killer, cannibal, and necrophile
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Fritz Haarmann with police detectives, November 1924
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Ted Bundy in custody, Florida, July 1978 (State Archives of Florida)
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Aileen Wuornos killed seven men in Florida between 1989 and 1990
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Spencer Reid
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Dr. Spencer Reid is a fictional character from the CBS crime drama Criminal Minds, portrayed by Matthew Gray Gubler. Reid is a genius with an IQ of 187 and can read 20,000 words per minute with an eidetic memory and he is the youngest member of the FBIs Behavioral Analysis Unit, has three BAs and three PhDs, and specializes in statistics and geographic profiling. Reid was born in 1981 and is a genius and autodidact who graduated from a Las Vegas public high school at age 12 and he has an IQ of 187, an eidetic memory, and can read 20,000 words per minute. He holds B. A. s in Psychology, Sociology, and Philosophy, Reid is 23 in the pilot episode, having joined the unit when he was 22. His fellow team members almost always introduce him as Dr. Reid, Hotch reveals in the first season that Gideon insists on introducing him as Dr. Reid because Gideon fears that, because of his age, Reid will not be taken seriously as an FBI agent. While filming the pilot, the shows FBI consultant informed Matthew Gray Gubler that there was nothing realistic about his character, before Gubler was cast in the role, the character was envisioned as more like Data from Star Trek. However, the producers liked Gublers softer interpretation, despite telling the actor he was wrong for the part, after several callbacks, he was hired. As is characteristic of people with Aspergers syndrome, Reid is socially awkward and he often fixates on things, and misses social cues at times. The Unknown Subject in Broken Mirror notes this, and Gubler stated in an interview in the second season s an eccentric genius, with hints of schizophrenia and minor autism. Reid is 24 years old with three Ph. D. s and one cannot usually achieve that without some form of autism, writer Sharon Lee Watson stated in a Twitter chat that Reids Asperger traits make the character more lovable. Kirsten Vangsness agreed, adding that Garcia is more extroverted and available emotionally, Reid is a technophobe, using neither email nor the new iPads. Gubler tweeted that Reid is also germaphobic, in general, Reid dislikes shaking hands, and shows adverse reactions when touched by strangers. Reid is a good map-reader, and therefore does geographic profiling and he also has a talent with words, and is the teams go-to linguistic profiler, as well as their unofficial discourse analyst. However, he is seen as a backseat passenger during car scenes, and he commutes to work using the Metro. Spencer Reid was born in Las Vegas, Nevada to William Reid, a lawyer, and Diana Reid, Diana also has paranoid schizophrenia, and went off her medication during her pregnancy. Reid and his mother have a close relationship, despite her condition. At age four, Spencer was approached by a man, Gary Michaels, although Spencer was unharmed, Diana insisted the family move because she believed her son was in danger. Shortly thereafter, Spencers six-year-old neighbor, Riley Jenkins, was abused and murdered
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Matthew Gray Gubler as Dr. Spencer Reid
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How I Met Your Mother
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How I Met Your Mother is an American sitcom that originally aired on CBS from September 19,2005 to March 31,2014. The series follows the character, Ted Mosby, and his group of friends in Manhattan. As a framing device, Ted, in the year 2030, recounts to his son, the series was created by Craig Thomas and Carter Bays, who also served as the shows executive producers and were frequent writers. The series was inspired by their friendship when they both lived in New York City. Among the 208 episodes, there were four directors, Pamela Fryman, Rob Greenberg, Michael Shea. Known for its structure and eccentric humor, How I Met Your Mother has gained a cult following over the years. The show initially received positive reviews, while the later seasons received more mixed reviews, the show was nominated for 28 Emmy Awards, winning nine. In 2010, Alyson Hannigan won the Peoples Choice Award for Favorite TV Comedy Actress, in 2012, seven years after its premiere, the series won the Peoples Choice Award for Favorite Network TV Comedy, and Neil Patrick Harris won the award for Favorite TV Comedy Actor. The series concerns the adventures of Ted Mosby narrating the story of how he met the mother of his children, the lives of all characters are entwined in each others. The shows frame story depicts Ted verbally retelling the story to his son Luke, the show instead focuses on Teds prior relationships and his dissatisfaction with those women, thus setting the stage for his eventual happiness with Tracy. The two drew from their friendship in creating the characters, Ted is based loosely on Bays, and Marshall and Lily are based loosely on Thomas and his wife. Thomas wife Rebecca was initially reluctant to have a character based on her, Hannigan was looking to do more comedy work, and was available. The role of Barney was initially envisioned as a John Belushi-type character before Neil Patrick Harris won the role after being invited to an audition by the casting director Megan Branman. Pamela Fryman invited Bob Saget to be the narrator, Future Ted, explaining to him that the show would be like The Wonder Years. Saget either went to the studio and recorded the narration while watching the episode, or did so separately. He normally did not attend table readings, but did so for the last episode, in various interviews Bays and Thomas have stated that a pretty famous actress turned down the role of Robin, whom they revealed in February 2014 to have been Jennifer Love Hewitt. They then cast Cobie Smulders for the role who, at the time, was fairly unknown, Bays and Thomas later said, Thank God we did for a million reasons. When Teds seeing her for the first time, Americas seeing her for the first time — the intriguingness of that propelled the show going forward, according to an Entertainment Weekly article, the writers adopted facets of each main actors personality and incorporated them into their characters
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One Tree Hill (TV series)
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One Tree Hill is an American television drama series created by Mark Schwahn, which premiered on September 23,2003 on The WB. After the series season, The WB merged with UPN to form The CW, and since September 27,2006. Most of the filming took place in and around Wilmington, North Carolina, many of the scenes were shot near the battleship USS North Carolina and on the University of North Carolina Wilmington campus. The first four seasons of the focus on the main characters lives through their high school years. The opening credits were accompanied by the song I Dont Want to Be by Gavin DeGraw. The credits then consisted only of the title written on a black background, the theme was restored for season 8, in response to audience demand, and was sung by different artists each week. The series premiered to 2.5 million viewers and rose to 3.3 million in its second week, becoming one of only three shows to rise in their second episode during the 2003–2004 television season. Season one went on to average 3.5 million viewers, and the season was the highest rated in the series, averaging 4.3 million viewers weekly. The series received numerous nominations, winning two Teen Choice Awards. The show is notable for being one of the occasions for a teen drama where no episodes dipped below one million viewes. On May 12,2009, it was confirmed that Murray and Hilarie Burton had declined to return for the seventh season and their characters had been two of the five main protagonists, and had provided one of its central love stories, throughout the show. On May 17,2011, The CW renewed One Tree Hill for a ninth and final season, bethany Joy Lenz and Sophia Bush were signed as full-time regulars for one final season, and Lafferty appeared as a part-time regular. Murray returned for an appearance during the final season, which premiered on January 11,2012. The show is the fourth longest running series on The CW network, or the networks that came together to make it up, only behind Smallville, Supernatural, the series concluded on April 4,2012. The main storyline in the seasons is the relationship between two half-brothers, Lucas and Nathan Scott, who start out as enemies but bond as the show progresses. In the pilot episode, Lucas obtains a place in the Tree Hill Ravens with the help of his uncle Keith, Nathan, the head of the team, takes a dislike to Lucas, and this becomes the basis of their rivalry. Lucass romantic interest in Nathans girlfriend Peyton Sawyer also strengthens their feud, Peytons best friend Brooke Davis tries to date Lucas, and Nathan attempts to date Lucass best friend Haley James. He had a high school romance with Karen, resulting in Lucass birth, leaving Karen, he married Deb, and the couple bore Nathan
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Original main five: Lucas and Peyton (center), Nathan and Haley (left), and Brooke (right).
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Lucas and Nathan during the basketball game at the climax of the
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Medium (TV series)
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Medium is an American television drama series that premiered on NBC on January 3,2005, ending its run on that network on June 1,2009. The series then moved to CBS on September 25,2009, themed on supernatural gifts, its lead character, Allison DuBois, is a medium employed as a consultant for the Phoenix, Arizona district attorneys office. Allison and her husband Joe are the parents of three daughters, all of whom inherited Allisons gift, the show was initially based on the experiences of medium Allison DuBois, who claims she has worked with law enforcement agencies across the country in criminal investigations. The series aired on NBC during its first five seasons before switching to CBS for the sixth and seventh seasons, the production division of CBS had assumed production of Medium in 2006 after absorbing the television arm of the Paramount Pictures film studio. Paramounts home entertainment arm still held DVD distribution rights in conjunction with CBS DVD, on December 21,2010, CBS announced that the show had been canceled after seven seasons. The series finale aired exactly a month later, one challenge is convincing Devalos — and other doubters in the criminal justice system — that her psychic abilities can give them the upper hand when it comes to solving crimes. Information comes to her in dreams or in visions that sometimes do not mean what they initially suggest. The other is convincing Joe that her nightmares are based in reality. In police investigations, Allison often accompanies Det, Lee Scanlon, who initially did not believe in her gift. Allison sometimes bends the rules when she is determined to stop a crime about which she has had a vision, in season four, it was revealed that Cynthia had a missing daughter. Allisons dreams showed that Cynthias daughter was dead, Cynthia made a choice to kill the murderer of her daughter and go to prison. Cynthia later appeared in five to help Allison on a case. Also during this season, it was revealed that Lynn DiNovi, Lees live-in lover, in the season five finale, Allison discovers that she has a tumor on her brainstem. To prevent the murders of her family in the future. During her operation the tumor was removed, except for a small piece deeply embedded in her brainstem, Joe is told that Allison is in a coma. In the sixth-season premiere episode, Allison awoke from the coma and was suffering the consequences of postponing the surgery, Allisons psychic abilities slowly begin to resurface as a form of déjà vu. At the end of the episode, Allison is also slowly recovering her physical abilities, since the season six premiere, eldest daughter Ariel has taken the role of nurturing her siblings Bridgette and Marie. Ariel also falls victim to a possession, from which she recovers with Allisons help
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Lifetime (TV network)
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The channel features programming that is geared toward women or features women in lead roles. As of July 2015, approximately 95,020,000 American households receive Lifetime, Daytime, originally called BETA, was launched in March 1982 by Hearst-ABC Video Services. The cable service operated four hours per day on weekdays, the service was focused on alternative womens programming. Cable Health Network was launched as a channel in June 1982 with a range of health-related programming. In November 1983, Cable Health Network adopted a new name, Lifetime Medical Television, Lifetime was established on February 1,1984 as the result of a merger of Hearst/ABCs Daytime and Viacoms Lifetime Medical Television. A board for the new network was formed with representation from Hearst, ABC and Viacom. It was not a success, reportedly losing $36 million in its first two years of operation, and did not become profitable until 1986. The channel suffered from low viewership, with a poll finding that some TV viewers erroneously believed it carried religious content. In 1985, Lifetime started branding itself as Talk Television with a lineup of talk shows and call-in programs hosted by people like Regis Philbin. In the process, the dropped the apple from their logo. In 1988, Lifetime hired Patricia Fili as its head of programming, in the first three years of her tenure, she changed 60 percent of Lifetimes programming, by her own estimate. A. The network also showed movies from the portfolios of its owners, Hearst, ABC, under Filis direction, Lifetime has gone a long way toward shedding its low-rent image. Lifetime began airing a limited amount of sports coverage, including the WNBA. Lifetime also adopted a new tagline, meanwhile, the channels original programming was aimed not just at women aged 24–44, but these womens spouses, who research showed watched the network in the evenings with their wives. This was done by making the characters in Lifetimes original programming – such as the film series Spencer for Hire – more appealing to men by making them more masculine. These roles were more stereotypical than previous Lifetime movies, which featured women protagonists on their own. This helped Lifetime take advantage of a bias in the Nielsen ranking system that favored upscale couples who shared a television set. By January 1995, Lifetime was the sixth most-highly rated cable network by Nielsen, according to Lifetime executives, the network stood to lose up to one million subscribers due to TCIs move
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Taken In Broad Daylight
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Wright was later sentenced to life for the Sluti abduction. On April 6,2001, Anne Sluti, an all-American 17-year-old from Kearney, Nebraska, is running on a track at her high school as her boyfriend, Gary. Gary gives Anne a teddy bear for their anniversary, Anne then departs with her best friend, but before she does when she is about to get into her car, Tony Zappa comes up behind her and drags her to his car. Anne begins screaming as onlookers call 911, Anne escapes from the car as Tony punches her, throws Anne in the car, Anne awakens at night as Tony tells her that she shouldnt have screamed. Anne said she screamed because he was punching her, and soon realizes that Tony wont allow her to be released. Tony pulls the car over, and after binding her hands behind her back and blindfolding her, he tells her if she can get herself out of the binding. She is unable to do so, and Tony returns her to the car, while driving for some time, he removes the blindfold. The car suddenly crashes and flips on its side, Tony frees himself, but Anne, strapped in a seat belt with her hands still bound, is unable to do the same. Tony climbs back and cuts the belt, pulls her out of the car. While she gasps for air, Tony says, I saved your life, daylight breaks and Tony has a chain around Annes neck as they walk down a dirt road. Tony sees a tractor and ties the end of the chain to a post while he drags the car out of the ditch with the tractor, Anne uses this opportunity to leave a message by carving her initials, A. S. into a rock. Anne persuades Tony to let her call someone and tell them that it was her idea to take off. Back at the Sluti home, one of Annes mothers friends, Cat, later, the phone rings, and its Anne. Anne asks for her mother Elaine, pretending that Elaine is just a friend, Anne leaves a clue in her message. Tony believes she says shes on a quality vacation, while she is actually saying equality vacation, then she hangs up, and Tony says that its time they start their vacation. Tony and Anne stop at a cabin that he breaks into and he cooks them dinner made from a rabbit he killed, this is when Anne learns his name and that he is going to keep her. In a delusion, he states he imagines Anne in a yellow dress and he then takes the chain lock that was previously on Annes neck, attaching it to her leg and a couch. He then gives her a ring to wear
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Taiwan
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Taiwan, officially the Republic of China, is a state in East Asia. Neighbours include China to the west, Japan to the northeast, Taiwan is the most populous state that is not a member of the United Nations, and the one with the largest economy. The island of Taiwan, also known as Formosa, was inhabited by Taiwanese aborigines before the 17th century. After a brief rule by the Kingdom of Tungning, the island was annexed by the Qing dynasty, the Qing ceded Taiwan to Japan in 1895 after the Sino-Japanese War. While Taiwan was under Japanese rule, the Republic of China was established on the mainland in 1912 after the fall of the Qing dynasty, following the Japanese surrender to the Allies in 1945, the ROC took control of Taiwan. However, the resumption of the Chinese Civil War led to the ROCs loss of the mainland to the Communists, and the flight of the ROC government to Taiwan in 1949. As a founding member of the United Nations, the ROC continued to represent China at the United Nations until 1971, in the early 1960s, Taiwan entered a period of rapid economic growth and industrialization, creating a stable industrial economy. In the 1980s and early 1990s, it changed from a one-party military dictatorship dominated by the Kuomintang to a multi-party democracy with universal suffrage, Taiwan is the 22nd-largest economy in the world, and its high-tech industry plays a key role in the global economy. It is ranked highly in terms of freedom of the press, health care, public education, economic freedom, the PRC has consistently claimed sovereignty over Taiwan and asserted the ROC is no longer in legitimate existence. Under its One-China Policy the PRC refused diplomatic relations with any country that recognizes the ROC, the PRC has threatened the use of military force in response to any formal declaration of independence by Taiwan or if PRC leaders decide that peaceful unification is no longer possible. There are various names for the island of Taiwan in use today, the former name Formosa dates from 1542, when Portuguese sailors sighted the main island of Taiwan and named it Ilha Formosa, which means beautiful island. The name Formosa eventually replaced all others in European literature and was in use in English in the early 20th century. This name was adopted into the Chinese vernacular as the name of the sandbar. The modern word Taiwan is derived from this usage, which is seen in forms in Chinese historical records. Use of the current Chinese name was formalized as early as 1684 with the establishment of Taiwan Prefecture, through its rapid development, the entire Formosan mainland eventually became known as Taiwan. The official name of the state is the Republic of China and it was a member of the United Nations representing China until 1971, when it lost its seat to the Peoples Republic of China. Over subsequent decades, the Republic of China has become known as Taiwan. In some contexts, especially ones from the ROC government
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Japanese colonial soldiers march Taiwanese captured after the
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Formosa Betrayed (film)
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Set in Chicago and Taiwan in the 1980s, the story follows a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent investigating the murder of a Taiwanese professor at a Midwestern college. The search for the killers takes the agent to Taiwan, where he discovers there is involved in this murder than he ever anticipated. Although Formosa Betrayed has been regarded as a movie, its writers say they did not take sides over the Pan-Blue/Pan-Green political divide. Formosa Betrayed opened in four cities the weekend of February 28,2010, Boston, New York, Los Angeles, eventually, it was released in 20-25 cities across North America. It is now available in over 40 countries around the world, with the help of his partner Tom Braxton and a sharp Chicago police detective, Agent Kelly discovers that the murderers have fled to Taipei, capital of Republic of China. Agent Kelly is sent overseas to assist the Taiwan governments search for the killers, Agent Kelly finds himself on a collision course with the U. S. The producers also realized that Taiwan in present-day no longer resembles Taiwan in the 1980s, Formosa Betrayed had its world premiere at the Asian American International Film Festival on July 24,2009 to a completely sold out theater. The film also screened at the 32nd Annual Montreal World Film Festival where scouts from Screen Media Films first saw the film. In the rest of 2009, Formosa Betrayed screened at the 8th Annual San Diego Film Festival where the film won Best Film, on September 14,2009, Formosa Betrayed was screened for members of Congress and their staffs at the Newseum in Washington, D. C. Presented by the Formosa Foundation, Senator Sherrod Brown, Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Congressmen David Wu, Congressmen Al Green and Congressman Gus Bilirakis, as well as congressional and professional staff from various House of Representatives and Senate committees, were also in attendance. Formosa Foundation Executive Director Terri Giles said, Taiwans democratization is not a miracle, Giles added, This screening is designed to raise awareness among Congressional members, of the historic and ongoing struggle of the Taiwanese people to build a democratic society. Although the film is set in the 1980s in an era known as the White Terror, its theme of human rights and democracy remains relevant today. The film provides an analysis of the relationship between the U. S. and Taiwan, as well as current U. S. foreign policy toward this country. While praising Taiwan for building a prosperous democracy, Senator Brown voiced concern that closer ties with the Peoples Republic of China could put this progress at risk, the United States has an interest to help the Taiwanese keep their democracy and freedom, stated Brown. It was announced on October 29,2009 that Screen Media Films had acquired rights in all media to Formosa Betrayed. The film was to be released in theaters in February 2010 in 15-20 North American cities, Formosa Betrayed received mixed reviews upon its release, scoring a median of 6.3 at IMDB. com, 34% at Rotten Tomatoes, and 52 out of 100 at Metacritic. Tim Cogshell of Boxoffice Magazine remarked on the work of Tiao. The Wall Street Journal said “the movie is an entry in the paranoid-thriller genre, and raises some interesting issues about our relationship with the country we used to call China. ”The Hollywood Reporter placed value on its historical significance, At its plainspoken best
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Mercy (TV series)
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Mercy is an American medical drama television series which aired on NBC from September 23,2009, to May 12,2010. The series initially aired on Wednesday at 8,00 pm, as part of the 2009 fall season, on October 23,2009, Mercy was picked up for a full 22-episode first season. On May 14,2010, NBC announced that Mercy had been cancelled after one season due to low ratings, Mercy is an ensemble drama set in the fictional Mercy Hospital in Jersey City, New Jersey. The show focuses on the lives of three nurses, the show occasionally also filmed inside a private residence in Weehawken, New Jersey. Some interior shots for the show were filmed in the unused Barnert Hospital in Paterson, in the old St Marys Hospital in Passaic Exterior shots of Mercy Hospital were taken of the back side of a public school on 4th street in Jersey City, New Jersey. The exterior of Lucky 7s Bar was filmed at a location on the corner of 2nd, the interior of the bar was the Park Tavern located on West Side Avenue off Communipaw Avenue in Jersey City. The exterior shots of The Red Fox Saloon were filmed at the Monaghan House in South Amboy, the interior shots of the Saloon were filmed at Teds Bar in the Morgan area of Sayreville, New Jersey. Mercy was originally slated to begin midseason, but was moved to the fall after the premiere of Parenthood was pushed to 2010 due to production issues, Mercy received a score of 41 of 100 from the review aggregator Metacritic, and received mixed to negative reviews from critics. Matthew Gilbert, from The Boston Globe, referred to the show as a bunch of played-out hospital clichés, similarly, a review in The Hollywood Reporter calls the show just another hospital soap opera and a lethal cocktail of virtually every medical drama ever seen on TV. Matt Roush of TV Guide wrote Nurses deserve better than this ludicrous potboiler, several critics have referred to Mercy as a weak copy of Showtimes Nurse Jackie. The shows writing has been criticized as twisting itself into a pretzel to provide ironies, in a review in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Rob Owen said the show hits viewers over the head with its thesis statement that nurses are under-appreciated. Robert Bianco from USA Today stated that remarkably good actors going to waste here, official website Mercy at the Internet Movie Database Mercy at TV. com Mercy at Metacritic
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(From left to right) Michelle Trachtenberg as Chloe, Taylor Schilling as Veronica, and Jaime Lee Kirchner as Sonia
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Rhona Mitra
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Rhona Natasha Mitra is an English actress, model, singer, and songwriter. Mitra began her career as a model and she came to prominence as the Lara Croft model between 1997 and 1998. Rachel Scott in the first two seasons of The Last Ship, Mitra was born in Hampstead, London, the daughter of Anthony Mitra, a cosmetic surgeon, and Nora Downey. Her father is of Bengali descent, while her mother is Irish and she has a brother, Jason, who is two years older, and a younger brother, Guyan, who is a travel writer for Lonely Planet and The Sunday Times. Mitra appeared as the action model for Lara Croft, the lead character in Eidos Interactives Tomb Raider video game series before Angelina Jolie took the role for the two Tomb Raider films. Mitra was ranked No.46 on the Maxim Hot 100 Women of 2001 and she played the romantic interest of Christopher Lambert in Beowulf. Her first main role came as Scott Wolfs illicit love interest on Party of Five, in 2000, Mitra had a small role in the film Hollow Man, as a neighbour sexually assaulted by Kevin Bacons character. She had a role in the medical drama Gideons Crossing. Mitra then had roles in Ali G Indahouse, Sweet Home Alabama, Stuck on You, Mitra appeared in the final season of The Practice as Tara Wilson, and continued that role into its spin-off Boston Legal, but left not long into the second season. In 2005, Mitra played the role of Kit McGraw during Season 3 of Nip/Tuck, Mitra then went on to appear in Skinwalkers, The Number 23 and Shooter. While filming, she grew fond of her vampire fangs, even declining to remove them when they couldnt be seen, I put those fangs on the first day and I felt they should always have been there, its strange. So I kept them in through the time of shooting, throughout all my dialogue. She also appeared in three episodes of Stargate Universe and she stars in the 2010 Anders Anderson thriller film Stolen, alongside Josh Lucas, Jon Hamm and James Van Der Beek. She portrayed Claire Radcliff in the 2010 ABC supernatural series The Gates and she played Major Rachel Dalton on Cinemaxs series Strike Back, Project Vengeance, replacing Amanda Mealing. In 2014 and 2015, she played Dr. Rachel Scott in the first two seasons of Michael Bays post-apocalyptic television series, The Last Ship, Rhona Mitra was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award in 2006 from Boston Legal TV Series. She was also nominated in 2009 for Scream Awards for Best Actress from Underworld, come Alive Female Icon Getting Naked Rhona Mitra at the Internet Movie Database
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Mitra at the Los Angeles Comic Book Convention, 2009
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Josh Lucas
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Joshua Lucas Easy Dent Maurer, better known as Josh Lucas, is an American actor. He has appeared in films, including Glory Road, Sweet Home Alabama, A Beautiful Mind, Hulk, Stealth, Poseidon, J. Edgar. Lucas was born in Fayetteville, Arkansas, the son of Michele, a midwife, and Don Maurer. Lucas grew up traveling the South with his parents, who were antinuclear activists, by the age of 13, he had lived in 30 different locations, including the Isle of Palms and Sullivans Island, South Carolina. His mother attended Emerson College with Jay Leno, the family eventually settled in the town of Gig Harbor, Washington. He attended Kopachuck Middle School and graduated from Gig Harbor High School in 1989 and he did not attend college so he could pursue his acting career. Lucas began his career when he was 19, having moved to Hollywood after his school graduation. Soon afterward, he made his film debut in Frank Marshalls Alive about a group of Uruguayan rugby players who, after crashing in the Andes mountains. Upon returning to the States, he was receiving offers as high school/college boyfriends. While working with George C. Scott on a TV-movie from the Heat of the Night series, Scott told him he needed to take acting lessons, shortly thereafter, he departed Hollywood and moved to New York City, where he studied privately with various acting coaches. He followed that with small roles in the dramas Minotaur. He took his first stab at comedy in The Definite Maybe, in which he played a recent college graduate who gets fired from his job and he appeared as an American businessman in Jule Gilfillans romantic comedy-drama Restless. He also appeared in a production of Terrence McNallys controversial Corpus Christi. Lucas played the role of Judas as a gay predator, right before the play was to open, Lucas was mugged and beaten on his way to the theater for dress rehearsal. He played the role of Judas with bloody bandages across his broken nose, the audience thought the bandages were part of the play. One of Lucas first feature roles was playing Jace Flash Dillon in the cinematic PC flight simulator Wing Commander III, Lucas gained mainstream exposure after his roles in Sweet Home Alabama, A Beautiful Mind, and as Glenn Talbot in Hulk. He later gained success in leading roles in such as Glory Road, Poseidon. In Glory Road, he starred as basketball coach Don Haskins and his next project was Boaz Yakin’s Death in Love
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Lucas at NBC Universal's 2014 Summer TCA Tour in July 2014
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Lucas at a
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Lucas at the
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Jon Hamm
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Jonathan Daniel Jon Hamm is an American actor, director, and television producer best known for playing advertising executive Don Draper for the AMC television drama series, Mad Men. For much of the mid-1990s, he lived in Los Angeles, making appearances in television series Providence, The Division, What About Brian, during 2000, he made his feature movie debut in the space adventure movie Space Cowboys. The next year, he had a role in the independent comedy. He gained wide recognition when Mad Men began broadcast during July 2007 and he directed two episodes of the show. During 2008, Hamm appeared in a remake of the science fiction movie The Day The Earth Stood Still and his first leading movie role was in the 2010 independent thriller Stolen. He also had supporting roles in the movies The Town, Sucker Punch, Hamm has received 16 Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his performances in Mad Men,30 Rock, and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. His other television credits include featuring in the Sky Arts series A Young Doctors Notebook and guest roles in Parks and Recreation and Wet Hot American Summer, First Day of Camp. He provided his voice to the animated movie Shrek Forever After during 2010, Hamm was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Deborah and Daniel Hamm. His father managed a family trucking company, and his mother was a secretary and he is of German, English, and Irish descent, his surname originates with German immigrants. Hamms parents divorced when he was two old, and he lived in Missouri in Creve Coeur with his mother until her death from colon cancer. Hamm then lived with his father and his first acting role was as Winnie the Pooh for first grade. At 16, he was cast as Judas for the play Godspell and he attended John Burroughs School, a private school in Ladue, where he was a member of the football, baseball, and swim teams. During this time, he dated future actress Sarah Clarke and his father died when Jon was 20. After graduation during 1989, Hamm enrolled at the University of Texas, there, Hamm was arrested for participating with a violent hazing incident that occurred during November 1990, involving another student, Mark Sanders. Sanders was beaten with a paddle and a broom, while Hamm was leading him around the fraternity house, the incident resulted in the fraternity being ended on campus. Hamm completed the terms of a deferred adjudication, and the charges were dismissed during August 1995, Hamm then enrolled at the University of Missouri. At Missouri he answered an advertisement from a company seeking players for a production of A Midsummer Nights Dream, auditioned. Other roles followed, such as Leon Czolgosz in Assassins, after graduating during 1993 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English, Hamm returned to his high school to teach eighth-grade acting
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At Paley Center in 2014
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Hamm in November 2008
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Hamm with former partner
Jennifer Westfeldt at the
60th Primetime Emmy Awards, 2008
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Hamm on the set of
The Town in September 2009.
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Taken in Broad Daylight
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Wright was later sentenced to life for the Sluti abduction. On April 6,2001, Anne Sluti, an all-American 17-year-old from Kearney, Nebraska, is running on a track at her high school as her boyfriend, Gary. Gary gives Anne a teddy bear for their anniversary, Anne then departs with her best friend, but before she does when she is about to get into her car, Tony Zappa comes up behind her and drags her to his car. Anne begins screaming as onlookers call 911, Anne escapes from the car as Tony punches her, throws Anne in the car, Anne awakens at night as Tony tells her that she shouldnt have screamed. Anne said she screamed because he was punching her, and soon realizes that Tony wont allow her to be released. Tony pulls the car over, and after binding her hands behind her back and blindfolding her, he tells her if she can get herself out of the binding. She is unable to do so, and Tony returns her to the car, while driving for some time, he removes the blindfold. The car suddenly crashes and flips on its side, Tony frees himself, but Anne, strapped in a seat belt with her hands still bound, is unable to do the same. Tony climbs back and cuts the belt, pulls her out of the car. While she gasps for air, Tony says, I saved your life, daylight breaks and Tony has a chain around Annes neck as they walk down a dirt road. Tony sees a tractor and ties the end of the chain to a post while he drags the car out of the ditch with the tractor, Anne uses this opportunity to leave a message by carving her initials, A. S. into a rock. Anne persuades Tony to let her call someone and tell them that it was her idea to take off. Back at the Sluti home, one of Annes mothers friends, Cat, later, the phone rings, and its Anne. Anne asks for her mother Elaine, pretending that Elaine is just a friend, Anne leaves a clue in her message. Tony believes she says shes on a quality vacation, while she is actually saying equality vacation, then she hangs up, and Tony says that its time they start their vacation. Tony and Anne stop at a cabin that he breaks into and he cooks them dinner made from a rabbit he killed, this is when Anne learns his name and that he is going to keep her. In a delusion, he states he imagines Anne in a yellow dress and he then takes the chain lock that was previously on Annes neck, attaching it to her leg and a couch. He then gives her a ring to wear
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