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Beverly Hills, California
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Beverly Hills is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, surrounded by the cities of Los Angeles and West Hollywood. By 2013, its population had grown to 34,658, sometimes referred to as 90210, one of its primary ZIP codes, it was home to many actors and celebrities throughout the 20th century. The city includes the Rodeo Drive shopping district and the Beverly Hills Oil Field, gaspar de Portolá arrived in the area that would later become Beverly Hills on August 3,1769, travelling along native trails which followed the present-day route of Wilshire Boulevard. The area was settled by Maria Rita Quinteros de Valdez and her husband in 1828 and they called their 4,500 acres of property the Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas. in 1854, she sold the ranch to Benjamin Davis Wilson and Henry Hancock. By the 1880s, the ranch had been subdivided into parcels of 75 acres and was being bought up by anglos from Los Angeles. Henry Hammel and Andrew H. Denker acquired most of it, at this point, the area was known as the Hammel and Denker Ranch. By 1888, Denker and Hammel were planning to build a town called Morocco on their holdings and they did not find enough to exploit commercially by the standards of the time, though. In 1906, therefore, they reorganized as the Rodeo Land and Water Company, renamed the property Beverly Hills, subdivided it, the development was named Beverly Hills after Beverly Farms in Beverly, Massachusetts and because of the hills in the area. The first house in the subdivision was built in 1907, although sales remained slow, Beverly Hills was one of many all-white planned communities started in the Los Angeles area around this time. Restrictive covenants prohibited non-whites from owning or renting property unless they were employed as servants by white residents and it was also forbidden to sell or rent property to Jews in Beverly Hills. Burton Green began construction on The Beverly Hills Hotel in 1911, the hotel was finished in 1912. The visitors drawn by the hotel were inclined to purchase land in Beverly Hills and that same year, the Rodeo Land and Water Company decided to separate its water business from its real estate business. The Beverly Hills Utility Commission was split off from the company and incorporated in September 1914, buying all of the utilities-related assets from the Rodeo Land. In 1919, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford bought land on Summit Drive and built a mansion, finished in 1921, the glamor associated with Fairbanks and Pickford as well as other movie stars who built mansions in the city contributed to its growing appeal. By the early 1920s the population of Beverly Hills had grown enough to make the water supply a political issue, in 1923 the usual solution, annexation to the city of Los Angeles, was proposed. There was considerable opposition to annexation among such famous residents as Pickford, Fairbanks, Will Rogers, the Beverly Hills Utility Commission, opposed to annexation as well, managed to force the city into a special election and the plan was defeated 337 to 507. In 1925, Beverly Hills approved an issue to buy 385 acres for a new campus for UCLA. The cities of Los Angeles, Santa Monica and Venice also issued bonds to pay for the new campus
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Beverly Hills at the corner of Rodeo Drive & Via Rodeo
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Aerial view, 3D computer generated image
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Hammel and Denker ranch, c. 1905
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Vernal, Utah
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Vernal, the county seat and largest city in Uintah County is in northeastern Utah, United States, about 175 miles east of Salt Lake City and 20 miles west of the Colorado border. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 9,089, the population has since grown to 10,844 as of the 2014 population estimate. Vernal, unlike most Utah towns, was not settled by Mormons, brigham Young sent a scouting party to Uintah Basin in 1861 and received word back the area was good for nothing but nomad purposes, hunting grounds for Indians and to hold the world together. That same year, President Abraham Lincoln set the area aside as the Uintah Indian Reservation, Dodds later built the first cabin by a white man in the Uinta Basin about 1868. Settlers began to filter in after that and build cabins in various spots on or near Ashley Creek, in 1879 many came close to perishing in the famous Hard Winter of that year. Vernal is in the Uintah Basin, bordered on the north by the Uinta Mountains, Vernal is located at 40°27′17″N 109°32′08″W on the northern edge of the Colorado Plateau and south of Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area on the Utah-Wyoming state line. The city is in a desert area of the Great Basin Desert. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 4.6 square miles. Vernal has a cold climate with low humidity. The average annual temperature is 45 °F with a high of 61 °F. As of the census of 2000, there were 7,714 people,2,709 households, the population density was 1,683.4 people per square mile. There were 2,957 housing units at a density of 645.3 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 94. 52% White,0. 18% African American,2. 31% Native American,0. 34% Asian,0. 05% Pacific Islander,1. 18% from other races, and 1. 43% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 4. 45% of the population,22. 9% of all households were made up of individuals and 9. 9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.77 and the family size was 3.28. In the city, the population was out with 32. 3% under the age of 18,13. 0% from 18 to 24,24. 8% from 25 to 44,17. 6% from 45 to 64. The median age was 28 years, for every 100 females there were 96.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.1 males, the median income for a household in the city was $30,357, and the median income for a family was $34,453
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East entrance of Vernal (2012)
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Bank of Vernal (2010)
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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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Native Americans meeting with Europeans, 1764
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The signing of the
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Americans
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Americans are citizens of the United States of America. The country is home to people of different national origins. As a result, Americans do not equate their nationality with ethnicity, although citizens make up the majority of Americans, non-citizen residents, dual citizens, and expatriates may also claim an American identity. See Names for United States citizens. S, virgin Islands and Northern Mariana Islands in the 20th century. It also includes influences of African-American culture, westward expansion integrated the Creoles and Cajuns of Louisiana and the Hispanos of the Southwest and brought close contact with the culture of Mexico. Large-scale immigration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries from Southern and Eastern Europe introduced a variety of elements, immigration from Asia, Africa, and Latin America has also had impact. A cultural melting pot, or pluralistic salad bowl, describes the way in which generations of Americans have celebrated and exchanged distinctive cultural characteristics, in addition to the United States, Americans and people of American descent can be found internationally. As many as seven million Americans are estimated to be living abroad, the United States of America is a diverse country, racially, and ethnically. Some other race is also an option in the census and other surveys, people of European descent, or White Americans, constitute the majority of the 308 million people living in the United States, with 72. 4% of the population in the 2010 United States Census. They are considered people who trace their ancestry to the peoples of Europe, the Middle East. Of those reporting to be White American,7,487,133 reported to be Multiracial, with largest combination being white, additionally, there are 29,184,290 White Hispanics or Latinos. Non-Hispanic Whites are the majority in 46 states, there are four minority-majority states, California, Texas, New Mexico, and Hawaii. In addition, the District of Columbia has a non-white majority, the state with the highest percentage of non-Hispanic White Americans is Maine. The largest continental ancestral group of Americans are that of Europeans who have origins in any of the peoples of Europe. This includes people via African, North American, Caribbean, Central American or South American and Oceanian nations that have a large European diaspora, the Spanish were the first Europeans to establish a continuous presence in what is now the United States. Martín de Argüelles born 1566, San Agustín, La Florida, was the first person of European descent born in what is now the United States. Twenty-one years later, Virginia Dare born 1587 Roanoke Island in present-day North Carolina, was the first child born in the Thirteen Colonies to English parents. 8% of the total population, Hispanic or Latino Americans constitute the largest ethnic minority in the United States. They form the second largest group after non-Hispanic Whites in the United States, hispanic/Latino Americans are very racially diverse, and as a result form an ethnic category, rather than a race
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John F. Kennedy (Irish)
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Frank Sinatra (Italian)
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Pilgrim High School
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Pilgrim High School is a 9-12th grade secondary school in Warwick, Rhode Island. The school is one floor and features various wings of classes, the School logo is the shape of a Revolutionary Patriot head formed by the words Pilgrim High School Patriots, although a black or gold P is used for most athletic teams. School colors are black, gold, and white, the school has an enrollment of over one thousand students. The school rival is Toll Gate, Pilgrim also has an early childhood learning center and a large special education department
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In order to excel tomorrow, we challenge all students to meet the highest academic, civic and social standards today.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, often cited as one of the worlds most prestigious universities. Researchers worked on computers, radar, and inertial guidance during World War II, post-war defense research contributed to the rapid expansion of the faculty and campus under James Killian. The current 168-acre campus opened in 1916 and extends over 1 mile along the bank of the Charles River basin. The Institute is traditionally known for its research and education in the sciences and engineering, and more recently in biology, economics, linguistics. Air Force and 6 Fields Medalists have been affiliated with MIT, the school has a strong entrepreneurial culture, and the aggregated revenues of companies founded by MIT alumni would rank as the eleventh-largest economy in the world. In 1859, a proposal was submitted to the Massachusetts General Court to use newly filled lands in Back Bay, Boston for a Conservatory of Art and Science, but the proposal failed. A charter for the incorporation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Rogers, a professor from the University of Virginia, wanted to establish an institution to address rapid scientific and technological advances. The Rogers Plan reflected the German research university model, emphasizing an independent faculty engaged in research, as well as instruction oriented around seminars, two days after the charter was issued, the first battle of the Civil War broke out. After a long delay through the war years, MITs first classes were held in the Mercantile Building in Boston in 1865, in 1863 under the same act, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts founded the Massachusetts Agricultural College, which developed as the University of Massachusetts Amherst. In 1866, the proceeds from sales went toward new buildings in the Back Bay. MIT was informally called Boston Tech, the institute adopted the European polytechnic university model and emphasized laboratory instruction from an early date. Despite chronic financial problems, the institute saw growth in the last two decades of the 19th century under President Francis Amasa Walker. Programs in electrical, chemical, marine, and sanitary engineering were introduced, new buildings were built, the curriculum drifted to a vocational emphasis, with less focus on theoretical science. The fledgling school still suffered from chronic financial shortages which diverted the attention of the MIT leadership, during these Boston Tech years, MIT faculty and alumni rebuffed Harvard University president Charles W. Eliots repeated attempts to merge MIT with Harvard Colleges Lawrence Scientific School. There would be at least six attempts to absorb MIT into Harvard, in its cramped Back Bay location, MIT could not afford to expand its overcrowded facilities, driving a desperate search for a new campus and funding. Eventually the MIT Corporation approved an agreement to merge with Harvard, over the vehement objections of MIT faculty, students. However, a 1917 decision by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court effectively put an end to the merger scheme, the neoclassical New Technology campus was designed by William W. Bosworth and had been funded largely by anonymous donations from a mysterious Mr. Smith, starting in 1912. In January 1920, the donor was revealed to be the industrialist George Eastman of Rochester, New York, who had invented methods of production and processing
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Stereographic card showing an MIT mechanical drafting studio, 19th century (photo by
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A 1905 map of MIT's Boston campus
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Plaque in Building 6 honoring
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Republican Party (United States)
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The Republican Party, commonly referred to as the GOP, is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, the other being its historic rival, the Democratic Party. The party is named after republicanism, the dominant value during the American Revolution, there have been 19 Republican presidents, the most from any one party. The Republican Partys current ideology is American conservatism, which contrasts with the Democrats more progressive platform, further, its platform involves support for free market capitalism, free enterprise, fiscal conservatism, a strong national defense, deregulation, and restrictions on labor unions. In addition to advocating for economic policies, the Republican Party is socially conservative. As of 2017, the GOP is documented as being at its strongest position politically since 1928, in addition to holding the Presidency, the Republicans control the 115th United States Congress, having majorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. The party also holds a majority of governorships and state legislatures, the main cause was opposition to the Kansas–Nebraska Act, which repealed the Missouri Compromise by which slavery was kept out of Kansas. The Northern Republicans saw the expansion of slavery as a great evil, the first public meeting of the general anti-Nebraska movement where the name Republican was suggested for a new anti-slavery party was held on March 20,1854, in a schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin. The name was chosen to pay homage to Thomas Jeffersons Republican Party. The first official party convention was held on July 6,1854, in Jackson and it oversaw the preserving of the union, the end of slavery, and the provision of equal rights to all men in the American Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861–1877. The Republicans initial base was in the Northeast and the upper Midwest, with the realignment of parties and voters in the Third Party System, the strong run of John C. Fremont in the 1856 United States presidential election demonstrated it dominated most northern states, early Republican ideology was reflected in the 1856 slogan free labor, free land, free men, which had been coined by Salmon P. Chase, a Senator from Ohio. Free labor referred to the Republican opposition to labor and belief in independent artisans. Free land referred to Republican opposition to the system whereby slaveowners could buy up all the good farm land. The Party strove to contain the expansion of slavery, which would cause the collapse of the slave power, Lincoln, representing the fast-growing western states, won the Republican nomination in 1860 and subsequently won the presidency. The party took on the mission of preserving the Union, and destroying slavery during the American Civil War, in the election of 1864, it united with War Democrats to nominate Lincoln on the National Union Party ticket. The partys success created factionalism within the party in the 1870s and those who felt that Reconstruction had been accomplished and was continued mostly to promote the large-scale corruption tolerated by President Ulysses S. Grant ran Horace Greeley for the presidency. The Stalwarts defended Grant and the system, the Half-Breeds led by Chester A. Arthur pushed for reform of the civil service in 1883. The Republicans supported the pietistic Protestants who demanded Prohibition, nevertheless, by 1890 the Republicans had agreed to the Sherman Antitrust Act and the Interstate Commerce Commission in response to complaints from owners of small businesses and farmers
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Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican U.S. President (1861–1865).
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Theodore Roosevelt,
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Dwight Eisenhower,
34th President of the United States (1953–1961)
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Richard Nixon,
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The Way We Were
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The Way We Were is a 1973 American romantic drama film starring Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford, and directed by Sydney Pollack. The Way We Were is considered one of the greatest romantic movies ever, Billboard named The Way We Were as the number 1 pop hit of 1974. In 1998, the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and it was also included in the list of Songs of the Century, by the Recording Industry Association of America and the National Endowment for the Arts. Told partly in flashback, it is the story of Katie Morosky and their differences are immense, she is a stridently vocal Marxist Jew with strong anti-war opinions, and he is a carefree WASP with no particular political bent. While attending the college, she is drawn to him because of his boyish good looks and his natural writing skill. He is intrigued by her conviction and her determination to persuade others to take up social causes and their attraction is evident, but neither of them acts upon it, and they lose touch after graduation. The two meet again towards the end of World War II while Katie is working at a radio station and they fall in love despite the differences in their background and temperament. At the same time, his serenity is disturbed by her lack of social graces, Hubbell breaks it off with Katie, but soon agrees to work things out, at least for a time. When Hubbell seeks a job as a Hollywood screenwriter, Katie believes hes wasting his talent, despite her growing frustration, they move to California, where, without much effort, he becomes a successful screenwriter, and the couple enjoy an affluent lifestyle. As the Hollywood blacklist grows and McCarthyism begins to encroach on their lives, Katies political activism resurfaces, jeopardizing Hubbells position and reputation. Alienated by Katies persistent abrasiveness, Hubbell has a liaison with Carol Ann, his college girlfriend, Hubbell, on the other hand, is exhausted, unable to live on the pedestal Katie erected for him and face her disappointment in his decision to compromise his potential. Katie and Hubbell meet by chance some years after their divorce, Hubbell, who is with a stylish beauty and apparently content, is now writing for a popular sitcom as one of a group of nameless writers. Katie, now remarried, invites Hubbell to come for a drink with his lady friend and he does inquire how their daughter Rachel is doing, just to ascertain that Katies new husband is a good father, but shows no intention to meet her. Katie has remained faithful to who she is, flyers in hand and their past is behind them and all the two share now is a missing sensation and the memory of the way they were. The fiery campus radical organized rallies and a strike. Laurents decided to develop a story with a character at its center. He recalled a creative writing instructor named Robert E. Short and his first instinct was to create a crisis between his leading lady and her college professor, but he decided her passion needed to be politics, not writing. What evolved was a character who had a way with words
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Movie poster by
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The Onion Field (film)
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The Onion Field is a 1979 American crime drama film directed by Harold Becker and written by Joseph Wambaugh, based on his 1973 true crime novel of the same title. The film stars John Savage, James Woods, Franklyn Seales, Woods performance as Greg Powell was the films most widely praised element, earning the actor a Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award and his first Golden Globe nomination. Hollywood, Saturday, March 9th,1963, LAPD detectives Karl Hettinger and Ian Campbell are kidnapped by criminals Greg Powell and Jimmy Youngblood Smith. They are driven to a field near Bakersfield, where Campbell is shot and killed before Hettinger narrowly escapes as a cloud passes in front of the moon. Hettingers eyewitness account leads to the arrest of the two men, who are tried and convicted of first-degree murder, wracked with guilt and remorse, he experiences nightmares, impotence, weight loss, kleptomania, and thoughts of suicide. A courtroom of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County was used for the trial scenes, the jury panel was taken to an onion field in Valencia to inspect it as a replica of the scene of the crime. The Onion Field premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 7,1979, Wambaugh himself helped produce the film and choose the people who would work on it, including actor Ted Danson, who made his big-screen debut. Wambaugh reportedly was determined to make a superior to the 1977 one adapted from his novel The Choirboys. Wambaugh sued the makers of The Choirboys and got his name removed from the credits, the movie opened to positive praise as a true story of justice mishandled. Janet Maslin of The New York Times observed, This is a strong, affecting story but its also a one, populated by tangential figures. The criminals histories are every bit as convoluted and fascinating as those of the policemen they abducted, even the courtroom drama is unusually complicated, introducing a new legal team with each new trial. Variety called the film a highly detailed dramatization and said James Woods is chillingly effective, but that very insistence on authenticity is followed by the film to the detriment of the narratives dramatic structure, half way through, the whole thing begins to ramble badly. MGM Home Entertainment released the Region 1 DVD on September 17,2002, the film is in anamorphic widescreen format with an audio track in English and subtitles in English, Spanish, and French. Bonus features include commentary by director Harold Becker and a featurette about the making of the film, the Onion Field at the Internet Movie Database The Onion Field at the TCM Movie Database The Onion Field at AllMovie The Onion Field at Rotten Tomatoes
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Videodrome
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Videodrome is a 1983 Canadian science fiction film written and directed by David Cronenberg, starring James Woods, Sonja Smits, and singer Deborah Harry. Set in Toronto during the early 1980s, it follows the CEO of a small UHF television station who stumbles upon a broadcast signal featuring extreme violence and torture. The layers of deception and mind-control conspiracy unfold as he uncovers the source and loses touch with reality in a series of increasingly bizarre. The film has been described as techno-surrealist, Max Renn is the president of CIVIC-TV, a Toronto UHF television station specializing in sensationalistic programming. Displeased with his stations current lineup, Max is looking for something that will break through to a new audience, one morning, he is summoned to the clandestine office of Harlan, who operates CIVIC-TVs unauthorized satellite dish which can intercept broadcasts from as far away as Asia. Believing this to be the future of television— snuff TV—Max orders Harlan to begin unlicensed use of the show, OBlivion delivers a speech prophesying a future in which television supplants real life. Max dates Nicki, who is sexually aroused when he shows her an episode of Videodrome, Max tells Nicki this and she excitedly goes to Pittsburgh to try and audition for the show under the guise of a business trip, but never returns. Max contacts Masha, a pornographer, and asks her to help him find out the truth about Videodrome. Through Masha, Max learns that not only is the footage in Videodrome not faked, Masha further informs him that OBlivion knows about Videodrome. He discovers the mission is run by OBlivions daughter, Bianca, shortly thereafter, Max begins experiencing disturbing hallucinations in which his torso transforms into a gaping hole that functions as a VCR. Bianca tells him these are side-effects from having viewed Videodrome, which carries a malicious broadcast signal that causes the viewer to develop a malignant brain tumour. In the year before his death, OBlivion recorded tens of thousands of videos, Max is contacted by Videodromes producer, the Spectacular Optical Corporation, an eyeglasses company that acts as a front for a NATO weapons manufacturer. Convex then inserts a video tape into the VCR in Maxs torso. Under Convexs influence, Max murders his colleagues at CIVIC-TV, Bianca manages to stop Max by reprogramming him to turn against Videodrome. On her orders, Max kills Harlan and Convex, afterwards, Max takes refuge on a derelict boat in an abandoned harbor, where Nicki appears to him on a television. She tells him he has weakened Videodrome, but in order to defeat it, he has to ascend to the next level. The television then shows an image of Max shooting himself in the head, imitating what he has just seen on TV, Max says Long Live the New Flesh, and then shoots himself. A deleted scene from the film provides background on the origin of Videodrome, in that scene Convex tells Max about the Image Accumulator, an experimental new form of night vision that can work in zero-light conditions
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Once Upon a Time in America
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Once Upon a Time in America is a 1984 Italian-American epic crime drama film co-written and directed by Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone and starring Robert De Niro and James Woods. Based on Harry Greys novel The Hoods, it chronicles the lives of Jewish ghetto youths who rise to prominence in New York Citys world of organized crime. The film explores themes of friendships, love, lust, greed, betrayal, loss, broken relationships. It was the film of Leones career and the first feature film he had directed in 13 years. The cinematography was by Tonino Delli Colli, and the score by Ennio Morricone. Leone originally envisaged two three-hour films, then a single 269-minute version, but was convinced by distributors to shorten it to 229 minutes, the American distributors, The Ladd Company, further shortened it to 139 minutes, and rearranged the scenes into chronological order, without Leones involvement. The shortened version was a critical and commercial flop in the United States, the original European cut has remained a critical favorite and frequently appears in lists of the greatest gangster films of all time. The film is presented in order, from 1920 to 1968. The specific scenes and their order vary from version to version, the following description is that of the films full European cut. The film begins in medias res with gangsters entering an Indonesian puppet theater, the proprietors slip into a hidden opium den and warn a man named Noodles, but he pays no attention. In a flashback, he watches the police remove three disfigured corpses from a street and he successfully kills one of the three thugs that are after him but learns that the thugs have murdered his girlfriend while looking for him and finds that someone else has stolen his money. David Noodles Aaronson struggles as a kid in the Jewish ghetto on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 1920. He and his friends Patrick Patsy Goldberg, Phillip Cockeye Stein, planning to rob a drunk at the moment a passing truck hides them from a policeman, theyre foiled by the older Max Bercovicz, who jumps off of the truck to rob the man himself. Noodles confronts Max but a crooked policeman steals the watch they were fighting over, the boys establish a suitcase money fund, which they hide in a locker at the railway station, giving the key to Fat Moe, a reliable friend whos not part of the operation. Noodles is in love with Fat Moes sister Deborah, who aspires to be a dancer, one day, Bugsy ambushes the boys and shoots little Dominic, who dies in Noodles arms, who then stabs Bugsy to death and injures a police officer who tried to intervene. Noodles is arrested, and sentenced to 12 years in prison, an adult Noodles is released from jail in 1932 and is reacquainted with his old gang, Max, Patsy, and Cockeye, who are now major players in the bootlegging industry during Prohibition. Noodles reunites with Deborah and tries to rekindle their relationship, meanwhile, during a robbery, the gang meets Carol who soon becomes Maxs girlfriend. The gang prospers from bootlegging under Prohibition, and providing muscle for union boss Jimmy Conway ODonnell, Noodles tries to impress Deborah on an extravagant date, and rapes her on their way home in a limousine, after which he becomes remorseful
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Theatrical release poster by
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1995 Special Edition
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Robert De Niro and
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Best Seller
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Some lists are broken down into classifications and specialties. An author may also be referred to as a bestseller if their work appears in this category. Well-known bestseller lists in the U. S. are published by Publishers Weekly, USA Today, New York Times and the Washington Post. Most of these lists track book sales from national and independent bookstores, as well as sales from major retailers such as Amazon. com. In everyday use, the term bestseller is not usually associated with a level of sales. Books of superior academic value or literary merit tend not to be bestsellers, Lists simply give the highest-selling titles in the category over the stated period. Some books have many more copies than current bestsellers. Steinberg defined a bestseller as a book for which demand, within a time of that books initial publication. For earlier books, when the number of copies that would be printed was relatively small. The earliest highly popular books were all religious, but the Bible, as a large book. This tended to keep the numbers printed and sold, low, unlike today, it was important for a book to be short to be a bestseller, or it would be too expensive to reach a large audience. These were probably affordable items for most of the minority of members of the population. In 16th and 17th century England Pilgrims Progress and abridged versions of Foxes Book of Martyrs were the most broadly read books, robinson Crusoe and The Adventures of Roderick Random were early eighteenth century short novels with very large publication numbers, as well as gaining international success. Likewise, fellow French Enlightenment author Rousseau, especially his Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse and of Johann Wolfgang von Goethes novel, Die Leiden des jungen Werther. By the time of Byron and Sir Walter Scott, effective copyright laws existed, at least in England, america remained a zone of piracy until the mid-nineteenth century, a fact of which Charles Dickens and Mark Twain bitterly complained. Bestsellers are usually separated into fiction and non-fiction categories, different list compilers have created a number of other subcategories. The New York Times was reported to have started its Childrens Books section in 2001 just to move the Harry Potter books out of the No,1,2, and 3 positions on their fiction chart, which the then three-book series had monopolized for over a year. Bestsellers also may be ranked separately for hardcover and paperback editions, typically, a hardcover edition appears first, followed in months or years by the much less expensive paperback version
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Chaplin (film)
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Chaplin is a 1992 British-American biographical comedy-drama film about the life of British comedian Charlie Chaplin. It was produced and directed by Richard Attenborough and stars Robert Downey Jr. Marisa Tomei, Dan Aykroyd, Penelope Ann Miller and it also features Geraldine Chaplin in the role of her own paternal grandmother, Hannah Chaplin. The film was adapted by William Boyd, Bryan Forbes and William Goldman from the books My Autobiography by Chaplin and Chaplin, His Life, associate producer Diana Hawkins got a story credit. The original music score was composed by John Barry, Chaplins recollections begin with his childhood of extreme poverty from which he escapes by immersing himself in the world of the London music halls. After his mother Hannah Chaplin has an attack of nerves on stage during a performance, Hannah retires from performing and is eventually committed to an asylum after developing psychosis. In the years that follow, Chaplin and his brother Sydney gain work with variety show producer Fred Karno, where Chaplin becomes a hit with his comedy drunk act. He begins a relationship with his first love Hetty Kelly, the night before he is due to leave for America he proposes to her but she declines, Chaplin promises to return to England for her when he is a success. Chaplin is sent to America by Karno and is given a job by Mack Sennett, while there, he creates his iconic Tramp persona and due to the terrible directorial capabilities of Sennetts wife Mabel, Chaplin is allowed to direct his own movies. Before the year is over, Chaplin directs over 20 movies, after Sydney joins him in America to become his manager, Chaplin decides to break away from Sennett to have complete creative control over his films with the goal of one day owning his own studio. In 1917, Chaplin completes work on The Immigrant which causes concern over the films political subject matter. Years later at a party thrown by Douglas Fairbanks, Chaplin meets. Chaplin eventually becomes wealthy and profitable enough to set up his own studio, Chaplin reveals to Fairbanks that he is to marry Harris as she is pregnant, but later at a party thrown by William Randolph Hearst, the pregnancy is revealed to be a hoax. Chaplin and Mildred separate after the death of their only child. The brothers eventually arrange for their mother to them in America. Chaplin is initially happy to see her but has been away from her for so long that he is unable to cope with her mental illness. In 1921, seeking a break from film-making and his private life and he reunites with Karno and hopes to locate Hetty, but Karno sadly informs him that she died in a flu epidemic shorty after the war. Despite the arrival of sound pictures drawing nearer, Chaplin vows never to make a talkie featuring the Tramp, at an industry party Chaplin causes a minor scandal when he refuses to shake hands with a visiting member of the Nazi party. Fairbanks comments that Chaplin looks a lot like Adolf Hitler, providing Chaplin with inspiration for his movie in their final encounter before Fairbanks death in 1939
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Casino (film)
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Casino is a 1995 American epic crime drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Sharon Stone. It is based on the non-fiction book Casino, Love and Honor in Las Vegas by Nicholas Pileggi, the two previously collaborated on the hit film Goodfellas. In Casino, De Niro stars as Sam Ace Rothstein, a Jewish American top gambling handicapper who is called by the Italian Mob to oversee the operations at the Tangiers Casino in Las Vegas. His character is based on Frank Rosenthal, who ran the Stardust, Fremont, Pesci plays Nicholas Nicky Santoro, based on real-life Mob enforcer Anthony Spilotro, a made man. Nicky is sent to Vegas to make sure that money from the Tangiers is skimmed off the top, Sharon Stone plays Ginger McKenna, Aces scheming, self-absorbed wife, based on Geri McGee. Casino was released on November 22,1995, to a positive critical response and was a box office success. Stones performance was praised, earning her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. Impressed with his work, mafia boss Remo Gaggi sends Sams childhood friend and mob enforcer Nicholas Nicky Santoro and his associate Frank Frankie Marino to protect Sam and the whole operation. Nickys volatile temper soon gets him banned from every casino in Las Vegas, so he gathers his own crew and engages in independent shakedowns, Sam meets and falls in love with a hustler and former prostitute, Ginger McKenna. Meanwhile, Sam makes an enemy in county commissioner Pat Webb for firing his brother-in-law Don Ward for incompetence. When Sam refuses to him, Webb pulls Sams license from the backlog. Sam blames the incident on Nickys recklessness and the two argue furiously in the desert after Sam attempts to tell Nicky to leave Las Vegas. The casino counters begin stealing some money for themselves, prompting the Midwest mafia bosses to put Artie Piscano of the Kansas City mafia in charge of overseeing the transactions, piscanos detailed complaints - complete with names - spurs the FBI to begin investigating the casino. Meanwhile, Sam finally seeks divorce from Ginger, tired of her alcoholism and she then kidnaps their daughter, Amy, taking her to Los Angeles, and plans to flee to Europe with Lester. Sam convinces her to back with Amy, and then scolds her for stealing his money. After he overhears Ginger talking on the phone about killing him, he kicks her out of the house, Ginger then approaches Nicky for help in getting her valuables from their shared vault in the bank, and the two start an affair. Sam discovers this after finding Amy tied to her bed by Ginger, Sam disowns Ginger, and so does Nicky. A furious and drunk Ginger crashes her car into Sams driveway, making a scene, though she succeeds in taking her share of the money from the bank, she is arrested by the FBI for aiding and abetting Sam
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Nixon (film)
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The film portrays Nixon as a complex and, in many respects, admirable, though deeply flawed, person. Nixon begins with a disclaimer that the film is an attempt to understand the truth based on public sources. The cast includes Joan Allen, Annabeth Gish, Marley Shelton, Powers Boothe, J. T. Walsh, the movie starts in ‘72 with the “plumbers” breaking into The Watergate and subsequently getting arrested. Nixons’ Chief Of Staff, General Alexander “Al” Haig brings Pres, Richard “Dick” M. Nixon Tapes to listen to. The two men talk about The Watergate Scandal, and about what a mess it has become, after talking about the death of J Edgar Hoover. Nixon goes on to curse out John Dean James McCord and others involved in Watergate, as Haig turns to leave, Nixon asks Haig why he hasnt been given a pistol to commit suicide like an honorable soldier. Nixon starts the taping system which trigger memories that start a series of time jumps, the first, takes us back to June 23,1972 about a week after the break in. To a meeting with Halderman Erlichman And Dean, ehrlichman and Dean leave, Nixon speaks the “Smoking Gun” tape to Halderman. The film covers most aspect of Nixons life and political career, the film implies that Nixon and his wife abused alcohol and prescription medication. The film ends with Nixons resignation and famous departure from the lawn of the White House on the helicopter, Anthony Hopkins as Richard Nixon The studio did not like Stones choice to play Nixon. They wanted Tom Hanks or Jack Nicholson — two of Stones original choices, the director briefly considered Gene Hackman, Robin Williams, Gary Oldman and Tommy Lee Jones. Stone met with Warren Beatty but the actor wanted to make too many changes to the script, Stone cast Hopkins based on his performances in The Remains of the Day and Shadowlands. Of Hopkins, Stone said, The isolation of Tony is what struck me, I felt that was the quality that always marked Nixon. When the actor met the director he got the impression that Stone was one of the bad boys of American pop culture. What convinced Hopkins to ultimately take on the role and impersonate the soul of Nixon were the scenes in the film when he talks about his mother and father. Joan Allen as Pat Nixon When Beatty was thinking about doing the film, he insisted on doing a reading of the script with an actress, afterwards, Beatty told Stone that he had found his Pat Nixon. The character may be a reference to Nixons meetings with Clint Murchison, Sr. although he also illuminates Nixons relationships with Howard Hughes, H. L. Hunt and other entrepreneurs. Originally, Oliver Stone had been developing two projects — the musical Evita and a movie about Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, when they both did not get made, Stone turned his attention to a biopic about Richard Nixon
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Vampires (film)
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Vampires is a 1998 American independent horror Western film directed and scored by John Carpenter and starring James Woods. It was adapted from the novel of the name by John Steakley. Woods stars as Jack Crow, the leader of a team of vampire hunters, after his parents were bitten by vampires, Crow was raised by the Catholic Church to become their master slayer. The plot is centered on Crows efforts to prevent a centuries-old cross from falling into the hands of Jan Valek, the film was followed by two direct-to-video sequels, Vampires, Los Muertos and Vampires, The Turning. A team of Vatican sponsored vampire hunters led by Jack Crow rids an abandoned house of vampires in the middle of New Mexico, only two members of the team survive, Jack Crow and Tony Montoya as well as a prostitute named Katrina who was bitten by Valek. Crow later meets his boss, Cardinal Alba, who introduces him to Father Adam Guiteau, the Bérziers Cross was used in an exorcism that was cut short but the result was that Valek was forever changed into the first vampire. Katrina turns into a vampire and allies herself with Valek after biting Montoya, after Montoya and Katrina leave, Jack and Guiteau head off once again to kill the rest of the vampires that made it to shelter. Shortly after finishing work on Escape from L. A. John Carpenter was thinking about quitting filmmaking because it stopped being fun, largo Entertainment approached him with a project called Vampires, an adaptation of the novel of the same name by John Steakley. They gave him two screenplays, each by Don Jakoby and Dan Mazur, respectively, Carpenter read both screenplays and the novel, and he saw the potential for a film hed been interested in making. I went into my office and thought, Its going to be set in the American southwest, Vampires gave Carpenter the chance to do a western disguised as a horror film, he said. The story is set up like a western, in this movie they’re paid to kill vampires. In terms of tone and look, Carpenter felt that his film was a more like The Wild Bunch than Hawks in its style, but the feelings. He wrote his own screenplay taking elements from the Jakoby and Mazur scripts, for this film, Carpenter wanted to get away from the stereotype of gothic vampires as he said in an interview, My vampires are savage creatures. There isnt a second of brooding loneliness in their existence, theyre too busy ripping and tearing humans apart. Carpenter cast James Woods as Jack Crow because he wanted the vampire slayer to be as savage as the prey he’s after, James Woods is the kind of guy youd believe could and would chew off the leg of a vampire. Woods was interested in doing the film because it was something different for him, contrary to his reputation, Carpenter didnt find the actor difficult to work with because we had a deal. He would give me one take as its written and I would let him improvise. Many of his improvisations were brilliant, when I needed him to be more focused and disciplined, I had the take from the script that was straighter. Carpenter had not seen any of Daniel Baldwins work and had the actor read for him and he had seen Sheryl Lee on Twin Peaks and cast her based on her work on the show
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Daniel Baldwin as Montoya and James Woods as Jack Crow.
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Straw Dogs (2011 film)
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Straw Dogs is a 2011 American psychological thriller film directed, produced, and written by Rod Lurie. It is a remake of Sam Peckinpahs 1971 film Straw Dogs and it stars James Marsden and Kate Bosworth. Scriptwriter David Sumner and his wife Amy relocate to rural Mississippi where Amy grew up, to rebuild the house of Amys recently deceased father, while in town one afternoon, David meets Amys ex-boyfriend Charlie and his three friends, Norman, Chris, and Bic. David is intimidated by the men but hires them to fix their roof and he also meets Tom Heddon, a former high school football coach whose 15-year-old daughter Janice is attracted to a local man with an intellectual disability, Jeremy Niles. Heddon often bullies Jeremy and believes he is stalking his daughter, one Sunday after church, Tom attacks Jeremy for talking to Janice, and Amy comes to his defence, but David warns her to not get involved. Later that night back at home, David discovers their cat strangled, Amy is positive Charlie and has friends are to blame as they disappeared from the church barbeque for a few hours earlier, but David is hesistant to confront them. When he does finally question them, the men deny everything, Charlie invites David to go deer hunting. While out in the woods with two of the men, Charlie forces his way into the house and rapes Amy, afterwards, Norman arrives and also rapes Amy while Charlie watches. When David returns, Amy decides not to tell him, David fires the men the next day for taking too long to fix the roof and men leave, clearly disgruntled. David and Amy go to a football game. Janice lures Jeremy to enter an empty room and attempts to give him oral sex, while Tom notices her absence. As he approaches, Jeremy, scared of Heddon discovering them, holds his hand over Janices mouth to silence her and he runs away just as Tom informs Charlie and his friends of Janices disappearance. They all suspect Jeremy has done something to her, at the game, Amy has haunting flashbacks about the rapes and asks David to take her home. On the way, she tells him she wants to return to Los Angeles, surprising him, David and Amy take him back to their home and call an ambulance. Charlie and Norman overhear the call on a police scanner. They all drive to David and Amys house, and demand the couple hand Jeremy over, the Sheriff then arrives but Tom shoots him dead, then the men attempt to enter the house. David and Amy baracade the doors shut then take Jeremy upstairs to the bedroom, when Chris attempts to enter through a window, David nails his hands to the wall with a nail gun, his throat fatally exposed to broken glass. When Tom tries to follow, David burns his face with hot oil, Tom and Charlie ram down one of the houses walls with Charlies pick-up truck but Charlie is knocked unconscious
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White House Down
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The films screenplay is by James Vanderbilt, and it stars Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx, with Maggie Gyllenhaal, James Woods, Jason Clarke, Joey King, and Richard Jenkins in supporting roles. The film was released on June 28,2013 and grossed $206 million worldwide, President of the United States James Sawyer generates controversy over a proposed peace treaty between the allied nations to remove military forces from the Middle East. Divorced US Capitol Police officer John Cale is currently assigned to Speaker of the House Eli Raphelson after saving his nephews life during a tour in Afghanistan. Disguised as a janitor, a man detonates a bomb at the center of the US Capitol building, causing the White House to be on lockdown. Finnerty is sent to escort the Speaker to a command center in the Pentagon. Cale manages to escape to go find his daughter, who was separated from him during the tour, retiring Head of the Presidential Detail Martin Walker escorts Sawyer and his detail to the Presidential Emergency Operations Center. Once they gain access, Walker kills his detail, revealing himself to be the leader of the attack on the White House. He wants vengeance against Sawyer after a black ops mission resulted in the death of his son. Cale kills a mercenary, takes his gun and radio, Walker and Stenz bring in Skip Tyler to hack into the defense system, but still require Sawyer to activate the nuclear football. One of the mercenaries, Carl Killick, catches Emily recording a video of the mercenaries and takes her hostage, Cale and Sawyer contact the command structure, which uses Emilys video to discover the identities of the mercenaries, who used to work for various government agencies. Cale and Sawyer try to escape via a tunnel but find the exit gate rigged with explosives and they are forced into the garage and escape in the presidential limo, which is attacked by Stenz and flips into the White House pool. After Sawyer and Cale are presumed dead in an explosion, Hammond is sworn in as the 47th President of the United States. Cale and Sawyer are still alive and learn that Hammond ordered an aerial incursion to take back the White House, having already learned of Emily from the video, Stenz takes her to Walker in the Oval Office. Tyler finishes hacking into NORAD and launches a missile to shoot down Air Force One, killing Hammond, Raphelson is sworn in as the 48th President of the United States and orders an air strike on the White House. Sawyer surrenders himself to Walker to save Emily, Walker attempts to force Sawyer to use the football to launch the nuclear missiles against the various cities in Iran, which will result in retaliation by many countries. Sawyer refuses at first, while Cale sets various rooms on fire as a diversion, down in the tunnels, Tyler accidentally detonates the explosives, killing him. After killing most of the mercenaries and freeing the hostages, Cale confronts Stenz. Sawyer attacks Walker, who uses Sawyers handprint to activate the football before apparently executing him, Walker locks Irans targets, but before he can initiate the launch, Cale kills him
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Shark (TV series)
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Shark is an American legal drama created by Ian Biederman that originally aired on CBS from September 21,2006 to May 20,2008. Starks relationship with the Los Angeles District Attorneys office, his staff, Sebastian Stark, A confident and stern former high end defence attorney. Stark was recruited to the DAs office by the mayor after a client he had defended against assault charges killed his wife just a few days later. Despite his realisation after this case, his methods as a defence attorney have not been changed dramatically in his role as a prosecutor, Jessica Devlin, Los Angeles District Attorney for 14 years, Devlin was Starks boss for the duration of the season one. When she was defeated in an election, however, Stark hired her as the Senior Member of his team, leo Cutler, Los Angeles District Attorney second season. Madeline Poe, Poe was the only member of Starks original team. She had the highest conviction rate of the entire DAs office in the last two years prior to the start, and arguably the best lawyer of Starks original team. Casey Woodland, A young, handsome lawyer from an influential family and he begins a sexual relationship with Madeline Poe in spite of their disdain for each other. Raina Troy, Troy is passionate, smart and tough, and described by Stark as brilliant, midway through the first season she begins a relationship with Isaac Wright. Danny Reyes, Reyes was transferred from the unit. He often conflicts with Stark and Jessica, both of whom agree that he is a very good lawyer. Julie Stark, The daughter of Sebastian, she decided to stay with her father after her custody hearing, wayne Callison, A serial killer, creative writing teacher and Starks personal nemesis throughout season 1. He targeted emotionally damaged women in their 20s and tortured them to death by cutting them, after he is acquitted, Stark becomes obsessed with putting him behind bars. In a jury trial, there are only 12 opinions that matter, the show first aired in the 10,00 p. m. Eastern Thursday night slot. On October 20,2006, it was announced that CBS had picked up the show for a full 22-episode season, CBS announced on May 16,2007 that Shark would return for a second season. In Sharks second season, it moved to Sunday night at 10,00 p. m. switching time slots with Without a Trace and thereby competing against another highly rated series, ABCs Brothers & Sisters. The show returned Tuesday April 29,2008 in a new time slot at 9,00 p. m. to air the four remaining post-strike episodes, CBS officially cancelled the series on May 13,2008. Shark was filmed mostly in and around Hollywood and Los Angeles in California, many Hollywood landmarks can be seen including Hollywood Boulevard and the Hollywood Hills
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Family Guy
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Family Guy is an American adult animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series centers on the Griffins, a family consisting of parents Peter and Lois, their children Meg, Chris, and Stewie, and their anthropomorphic pet dog Brian. The show is set in the city of Quahog, Rhode Island. The family was conceived by MacFarlane after developing two animated films, The Life of Larry and Larry & Steve, MacFarlane redesigned the films protagonist, Larry, and his dog, Steve, and renamed them Peter and Brian, respectively. MacFarlane pitched a pilot to Fox in 1998, and the show was greenlit. Shortly after the season of Family Guy had aired in 2002, Fox canceled the series. Adult Swim burned off the episode in 2003, finishing the original run. However, favorable DVD sales and high ratings for syndicated reruns on Adult Swim convinced the network to renew the show in 2004 for a fourth season, since its debut on January 31,1999,286 episodes of Family Guy have been broadcast. Its fifteenth season began on September 25,2016, Family Guy has been nominated for 12 Primetime Emmy Awards and 11 Annie Awards, and has won three of each. In 2009, it was nominated for an Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series, Family Guy has also received criticism, including unfavorable comparisons to The Simpsons. In 2008, MacFarlane confirmed that the cast was interested in producing a feature film, a spin-off series, The Cleveland Show, featuring Cleveland Brown, aired from September 27,2009, to May 19,2013. The Simpsons Guy, an episode with The Simpsons, aired on September 28,2014. Family Guy is a joint production by Fuzzy Door Productions and 20th Century Fox Television, in 2013, TV Guide ranked Family Guy the ninth Greatest TV Cartoon of All Time. On May 15,2016, Family Guy was renewed for a fifteenth season, living with the family is their witty, smoking, martini-swilling, sarcastic, English-speaking anthropomorphic dog Brian, though he is still considered a pet in many respects. Recurring characters appear alongside the Griffin family, TV news anchors Tom Tucker and Diane Simmons, Asian reporter Tricia Takanawa, and Blaccu-Weather meteorologist Ollie Williams also make frequent appearances. Actors Adam West and James Woods guest star as themselves in various episodes, the primary setting of Family Guy is Quahog, a fictional district of Providence, Rhode Island that was founded by Peters ancestor Griffin Peterson. MacFarlane resided in Providence during his time as a student at Rhode Island School of Design, MacFarlane often borrows the names of Rhode Island locations and icons such as Pawtucket and Buddy Cianci for use in the show. MacFarlane, in an interview with a program on WNAC-TV, Channel 64 in Providence, stated that the town is modeled after Cranston
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The skyline of
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One Financial Center,
50 Kennedy Plaza, and the
Bank of America Tower
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The
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Stewie,
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Matt Weitzman (left) is a former staff writer and
Mike Barker is a former producer and writer of the show. Both left the series to create the ongoing adult animated sitcom
American Dad! with Seth MacFarlane. Barker would depart American Dad! as well, following production of the show's 10th season.
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Main cast members
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The Simpsons
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The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a depiction of working-class life epitomized by the Simpson family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa. The show is set in the town of Springfield and parodies American culture, society, television. The family was conceived by Groening shortly before a solicitation for a series of animated shorts with producer James L. Brooks, Groening created a dysfunctional family and named the characters after members of his own family, substituting Bart for his own name. The shorts became a part of The Tracey Ullman Show on April 19,1987. After a three-season run, the sketch was developed into a prime time show and became an early hit for Fox. Since its debut on December 17,1989,615 episodes of The Simpsons have been broadcast and its 28th season began on September 25,2016. It is the longest-running American sitcom and the longest-running American animated program, the Simpsons Movie, a feature-length film, was released in theaters worldwide on July 27,2007, and grossed over $527 million. On May 4,2015, the series was renewed for seasons 27 and 28, on November 4,2016, the series was renewed for seasons 29 and 30, consisting of 22 episodes each. The Simpsons received widespread critical acclaim throughout its first nine or ten seasons, Time named it the 20th centurys best television series, and Erik Adams of The A. V. Club named it televisions crowning achievement regardless of format, on January 14,2000, the Simpson family was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It has won dozens of awards since it debuted as a series, including 31 Primetime Emmy Awards,30 Annie Awards, Homers exclamatory catchphrase Doh. has been adopted into the English language, while The Simpsons has influenced many adult-oriented animated sitcoms. Despite this, the show has also criticized for what many perceive as a decline in quality over the years. The Simpsons are a family who live in a fictional Middle American town of Springfield, Homer, the father, works as a safety inspector at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, a position at odds with his careless, buffoonish personality. He is married to Marge Simpson, a stereotypical American housewife, although the family is dysfunctional, many episodes examine their relationships and bonds with each other and they are often shown to care about one another. The family owns a dog, Santas Little Helper, and a cat, Snowball V, renamed Snowball II in I, both pets have had starring roles in several episodes. The show includes an array of supporting characters, co-workers, teachers, family friends, extended relatives, townspeople. The creators originally intended many of these characters as jokes or for fulfilling needed functions in the town
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James L. Brooks (pictured) asked
Matt Groening to create a series of animated shorts for
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Matt Groening, creator
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Part of the writing staff of The Simpsons in 1992. Back row, left to right: Mike Mendel, Colin ABV Lewis (partial), Jeff Goldstein,
Al Jean (partial),
Conan O'Brien,
Bill Oakley,
Josh Weinstein,
Mike Reiss, Ken Tsumura,
George Meyer,
John Swartzwelder,
Jon Vitti (partial), CJ Gibson and
David M. Stern. Front row, left to right: Dee Capelli,
Lona Williams, and unknown.
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Academy Awards
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The various category winners are awarded a copy of a golden statuette, officially called the Academy Award of Merit, which has become commonly known by its nickname Oscar. The awards, first presented in 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, are overseen by AMPAS, the awards ceremony was first broadcast on radio in 1930 and televised for the first time in 1953. It is now live in more than 200 countries and can be streamed live online. The Academy Awards ceremony is the oldest worldwide entertainment awards ceremony and its equivalents – the Emmy Awards for television, the Tony Awards for theater, and the Grammy Awards for music and recording – are modeled after the Academy Awards. The 89th Academy Awards ceremony, honoring the best films of 2016, were held on February 26,2017, at the Dolby Theatre, in Los Angeles, the ceremony was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and was broadcast on ABC. A total of 3,048 Oscars have been awarded from the inception of the award through the 88th, the first Academy Awards presentation was held on May 16,1929, at a private dinner function at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel with an audience of about 270 people. The post-awards party was held at the Mayfair Hotel, the cost of guest tickets for that nights ceremony was $5. Fifteen statuettes were awarded, honoring artists, directors and other participants in the industry of the time. The ceremony ran for 15 minutes, winners were announced to media three months earlier, however, that was changed for the second ceremony in 1930. Since then, for the rest of the first decade, the results were given to newspapers for publication at 11,00 pm on the night of the awards. The first Best Actor awarded was Emil Jannings, for his performances in The Last Command and he had to return to Europe before the ceremony, so the Academy agreed to give him the prize earlier, this made him the first Academy Award winner in history. With the fourth ceremony, however, the system changed, for the first six ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned two calendar years. At the 29th ceremony, held on March 27,1957, until then, foreign-language films had been honored with the Special Achievement Award. The 74th Academy Awards, held in 2002, presented the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, since 1973, all Academy Awards ceremonies always end with the Academy Award for Best Picture. The Academy also awards Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, see also § Awards of Merit categories The best known award is the Academy Award of Merit, more popularly known as the Oscar statuette. The five spokes represent the branches of the Academy, Actors, Writers, Directors, Producers. The model for the statuette is said to be Mexican actor Emilio El Indio Fernández, sculptor George Stanley sculpted Cedric Gibbons design. The statuettes presented at the ceremonies were gold-plated solid bronze
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31st Academy Awards Presentations,
Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, 1959
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Academy Award for Best Actor
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The Academy Award for Best Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It is given in honor of an actor who has delivered a performance in a leading role while working within the film industry. The 1st Academy Awards ceremony was held in 1929 with Emil Jannings receiving the award for his roles in The Last Command and The Way of All Flesh. Currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the branch of AMPAS. In the first three years of the awards, actors were nominated as the best in their categories, at that time, all of their work during the qualifying period was listed after the award. The following year, this unwieldy and confusing system was replaced by the current system in which an actor is nominated for a performance in a single film. Starting with the 9th ceremony held in 1937, the category was officially limited to five nominations per year, since its inception, the award has been given to 79 actors. Daniel Day-Lewis has received the most awards in this category with three Oscars, spencer Tracy and Laurence Olivier were nominated on nine occasions, more than any other actor. As of the 2017 ceremony, Casey Affleck is the most recent winner in category for his role as Lee Chandler in Manchester by the Sea. In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of release in Los Angeles County. For the first five ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned twelve months from August 1 to July 31, for the 6th ceremony held in 1934, the eligibility period lasted from August 1,1932 to December 31,1933
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Emil Jannings (center) was the first winner in this category for his roles in 1928's
The Last Command and 1927's
The Way of All Flesh.
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Warner Baxter won in 1928 for his performance in
In Old Arizona.
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George Arliss won in 1929 for his performance in
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Lionel Barrymore won in 1930 for his performance in
A Free Soul.
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Salvador (film)
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Salvador is a 1986 American war drama film co-written and directed by Oliver Stone. Stone wrote the screenplay with Richard Boyle and it stars James Woods as Richard Boyle, alongside Jim Belushi, Michael Murphy and Elpidia Carrillo, with John Savage, and Cynthia Gibb in supporting roles. The film was nominated for two Academy Awards, Best Actor in a Leading Role and Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen. However, when Boyle and Rock witness the execution of a student by government troops just as they enter the country, as of January 28,2013, the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes records an average response of 92%, based on 24 reviews. But basically its a character portrait of a couple of burned-out free-lancers trying to keep their heads above water. He also compared it to the work of Constantin Costa-Gavras, cinematically as well as politically, the film garnered two Academy Award nominations for Best Actor in a Leading Role and Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen at the 59th Academy Awards ceremony
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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
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The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It is given in honor of an actor who has delivered a performance in a supporting role while working within the film industry. At the 9th Academy Awards ceremony held in 1937, Walter Brennan was the first winner of award for his role in Come. Initially, winners in both supporting acting categories were awarded instead of statuettes. Beginning with the 16th ceremony held in 1944, however, winners received full-sized statuettes, currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the actors branch of AMPAS, winners are selected by a plurality vote from the entire eligible voting members of the Academy. Since its inception, the award has given to 72 actors. Brennan has received the most awards in this category with three awards, Brennan, Jeff Bridges, Robert Duvall, Arthur Kennedy, Jack Nicholson, and Claude Rains were nominated on four occasions, more than any other actor. As of the 2017 ceremony, Mahershala Ali is the most recent winner in category for his role as Juan in Moonlight. In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of release in Los Angeles County. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, University of Toronto Press, ISBN 978-1-55002-574-3. org The Academy Awards Database Oscar. com Complete Downloadable List of Academy Award Nominees
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Walter Brennan was the first winner in this category for 1936's
Come and Get It; He would also win for his roles in
Kentucky (1938) and
The Westerner (1940).
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Van Heflin won in 1942 for his performance in
Johnny Eager.
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George Sanders won for his role in 1950's
All About Eve.
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Karl Malden won in 1951 for
A Streetcar Named Desire.
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Ghosts of Mississippi
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Ghosts of Mississippi is a 1996 American drama film directed by Rob Reiner and starring Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg, and James Woods. The plot is based on the story of the 1994 trial of Byron De La Beckwith. James Woods was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role of Byron De La Beckwith, the original music score was composed by Marc Shaiman and the cinematography is by John Seale. Medgar Evers was a civil rights activist in Mississippi who was murdered by an assassin on June 12,1963. It was suspected that Byron De La Beckwith, a white supremacist, was the murderer and he had been tried twice and both trials ended in hung juries. In 1989, Evers widow Myrlie, who had been trying to bring De La Beckwith to justice for over 25 years, deLaughter becomes primarily involved with bringing De La Beckwith to trial for the third time 30 years later. In 1994, Byron De La Beckwith was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment, the movie received mixed reviews from critics, with Rotten Tomatoes giving it a 46% rating. The film was not a success, making only half of its budget back
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Theatrical release poster
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Emmy Awards
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An Emmy Award, or simply Emmy, recognizes excellence in the television industry, and corresponds to the Academy Award, the Tony Award, and the Grammy Award. Because Emmy Awards are given in various sectors of the American television industry, Regional Emmy Awards are also presented throughout the country at various times through the year, recognizing excellence in local and statewide television. In addition, International Emmys are awarded for excellence in TV programming produced, each is responsible for administering a particular set of Emmy ceremonies. The Los Angeles-based Academy of Television Arts & Sciences established the Emmy Award as part of an image-building and public relations opportunity. The first Emmy Awards ceremony took place on January 25,1949, at the Hollywood Athletic Club, shirley Dinsdale has the distinction of receiving the very first Emmy Award for Most Outstanding Television Personality, during that first awards ceremony. In the 1950s, the ATAS expanded the Emmys into a national event, in 1955, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences was formed in New York City as a sister organization to serve members on the East Coast, and help to also supervise the Emmys. The NATAS also established regional chapters throughout the United States, with each one developing their own local Emmy awards show for local programming, the ATAS still however maintained its separate regional ceremony honoring local programming in the Los Angeles Area. Originally there was only one Emmy Awards ceremony held per year to honor shows nationally broadcast in the United States, in 1974, the first Daytime Emmy Awards ceremony was held to specifically honor achievement in national daytime programming. Other area-specific Emmy Awards ceremonies soon followed, also, the International Emmy Awards, honoring television programs produced and initially aired outside the U. S. was established in the early 1970s. Meanwhile, all Emmys awarded prior to the emergence of these separate, in 1977, due to various conflicts, the ATAS and the NATAS agreed to split ties. However, they agreed to share ownership of the Emmy statue and trademark. With the rise of television in the 1980s, cable programs first became eligible for the Primetime Emmys in 1988. The ATAS also began accepting original online-only web television programs in 2013, the Emmy statuette, depicting a winged woman holding an atom, was designed by television engineer Louis McManus, who used his wife as the model. The TV Academy rejected a total of forty-seven proposals before settling on McManus design in 1948. The statuette has become the symbol of the TV Academys goal of supporting and uplifting the art and science of television, The wings represent the muse of art. When deciding a name for the award, Academy founder Syd Cassyd originally suggested Ike, however, Ike was also the popular nickname of World War II hero and future U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and the Academy members wanted something unique. Finally, television engineer and the third president, Harry Lubcke, suggested the name Immy. After Immy was chosen, it was feminized to Emmy to match their female statuette
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TV producer
Bruce Kennedy holding an Emmy
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Actress
Dana Delany holding an Emmy, 1992
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TV producer and writer
Bradley Bell accepting Daytime Emmy Awards for his work on the daytime soap opera
The Bold and the Beautiful, 2010
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Brazilian actress and TV host
Fernanda Lima holding
Rede Globo 's six medals of nominations to the International Emmys in 2012
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Promise (film)
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Promise is a 1986 CBS television movie presented by the Hallmark Hall of Fame. Adapted by screenwriter Richard Friedenberg from a story by Ken Blackwell and Tennyson Flowers, James Garner stars as a carefree man who returns to his hometown after his mothers death and has to assume responsibility for his mentally ill younger brother. One of the most honored films in history, Promise received the Peabody Award, Humanitas Prize, Christopher Award. Its record of five Primetime Emmy Awards was not matched until 2010, when his mother dies, estranged son Bob inherits her estate, and, surprisingly, custody of his younger brother D. J. who suffers from schizophrenia. Bob is initially reluctant at his new responsibility, but remembers that he had promised his mother to look after his brother, the cast and credits of Promise are recorded at WorldCat. James Garner … Bob Beuhler James Woods … D. J, directed by Glenn Jordan from a screenplay by Richard Friedenberg, the film was shot September–October 1986 on location in Oregon, in Corvallis, Salem and Dallas, and at Triangle Lake. It was a decision for me and my producing partner, Peter Duchow, to join forces with Hallmark, James Garner wrote in his 2011 autobiography. He felt he would not have been able to play the role of Bob Beuhler five years earlier, not that Bob is a villain, he just never grew up, Garner wrote. James Woods was cast as his brother, D. J. Garner remembered him from the first episode of The Rockford Files, Woods has said, People ask me, Whats the favorite thing youve ever done in your life. And I always say Promise because it was a part for me. And every one has a different noise, so I cant think, some of the wires have voices in them and they tell me things like what to do and that people are watching me. I know there arent any voices, but I feel that there are. … I can remember what I was like before, I was a class officer, I had friends. I was going to be an aeronautical engineer, ive never made love to a woman. Because maybe its true, Maybe people are born again, and if there is a God, maybe hell give me another chance. I believe that, because this cant be all I get, accepting the Emmy for Best Teleplay, Richard Friedenberg said he hoped the film would help schizophrenics by calling attention to their plight, Garner wrote. Im sorry to say that 25 years later, schizophrenia is the worst mental health facing the nation
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Hercules (1998 TV series)
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The series premiered in syndication on August 31,1998, and on Disneys One Saturday Morning on September 12,1998. The syndicated series ran 52 episodes, while the Saturday morning run ran 13, the series follows Hercules, as a teenager, training as a hero, as well as trying to adjust to life. With his free-spirited friend Icarus, his future-seeing friend Cassandra, and his teacher Philoctetes, like all teenagers though, Hercules has to worry about peer pressure when the snobbish prince Adonis ridicules him. The series notably contradicts several events in the original film, the series was produced by Tad Stones, who had previously done Aladdin. The directors of Hercules, John Musker and Ron Clements, jokingly said to him while the film was being produced, Hey, all animation production work was done by Slightly Offbeat Productions NZ Ltd a new studio based in New Zealand. Since James Woods signed to voice Hades again, along with most of the cast of the film, Disneys revamping of Greek legend moved to the small screen in the late summer of 1998. Disneys Hercules had the Greek god still in geek god mode, in the series, Herc was enrolled at Prometheus Academy, a school for both gods and mortals. Since events occur before young Herc meets and falls for the lovely Megara, the animated television series was by Toon City Animation, Inc. Ltd. and Thai Wang Film Productions Co. Ltd. Sunwoo Animation, Korea, Hana Animation, Jade Animation International Co. Ltd. and Slightly Off Beat Productions Co. Ltd. by Seoul, Korea, Xindian District, Taipei, in 2000, the series moved to Toon Disney, where it continued airing until 2008. Disney XD aired the series in June 2011 when the channel launched in Canada, Disney Junior aired the animated television series Hercules, August 2017. Many of the Olympian Gods and Goddesses only glimpsed during the film pay visit to the young hero-to-be, other characters from the film that appear are the evil god Hades and winged stallion Pegasus. Corey Burton portrayed Hercules father Zeus, the main cast of the series includes, Hercules - The god-turned-mortal hero-in-training, thus, he is half-mortal, half-god. He is the son of both Zeus and Hera, Philoctetes - The satyr hero trainer. One of the few characters from the movie whose voice actor didnt return, Pegasus - The winged horse with the brain of a bird formed from clouds by Zeus, he is the childhood pet and faithful companion of his owner Hercules. The boy who escaped from the Labyrinth with his father on wax wings appears as a complete nut, despite his accident, Icarus still flies every chance he gets resulting in a few more encounters with the sun and other perils, often requiring Hercules to rescue him. Icarus is very adaptive and hence could adjust to about every situation, except when he is very jealous and he could become an ultra serious soldier at boot camp or a nearly identical version of Hades himself. Thankfully, at the end of episode, he reverts to his own odd self. He is also obsessed with Cassandra and flirts with her at every opportunity he gets
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Hercules
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Golden Globe Award
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Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign. The annual ceremony at which the awards are presented is a part of the film industrys awards season. The 74th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film, the 1st Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best achievements in 1943 filmmaking, was held in January 1944, at the 20th Century-Fox studios. Subsequent ceremonies were held at venues throughout the next decade, including the Beverly Hills Hotel. In 1950, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association made the decision to establish an honorary award to recognize outstanding contributions to the entertainment industry. Recognizing its subject as a figure within the entertainment industry. The official name of the award became the Cecil B. In 1963, the Miss Golden Globe concept was introduced, in its inaugural year, two Miss Golden Globes were named, one for film and one for television. The two Miss Golden Globes named that year were Eva Six and Donna Douglas, respectively, in 2009, the Golden Globe statuette was redesigned. It was unveiled at a conference at the Beverly Hilton prior to the show. The broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards, telecast to 167 countries worldwide, generally ranks as the third most-watched awards show each year, behind only the Oscars, gervais returned to host the 68th and 69th Golden Globe Awards the next two years. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosted the 70th, 71st and 72nd Golden Globe Awards in 2015, the Golden Globe Awards theme song, which debuted in 2012, was written by Japanese musician and songwriter Yoshiki Hayashi. On January 7,2008, it was announced due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. The ceremony was faced with a threat by striking writers to picket the event, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was forced to adopt another approach for the broadcast. In acting categories, Meryl Streep holds the record for the most competitive Golden Globe wins with eight, however, including honorary awards, such as the Henrietta Award, World Film Favorite Actor/Actress Award, or Cecil B. DeMille Award, Barbra Streisand leads with nine, additionally, Streisand won for composing the song Evergreen, producing the Best Picture, and directing Yentl in 1984. Jack Nicholson, Angela Lansbury, Alan Alda and Shirley MacLaine have six awards each, behind them are Rosalind Russell and Jessica Lange with five wins. Meryl Streep also holds the record for most nominations with thirty, at the 46th Golden Globe Awards an anomaly occurred, a three way-tie for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
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The Golden Globe statuette
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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
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Grand Theft Auto, San Andreas is an open world action-adventure video game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. It was released on 26 October 2004 for the PlayStation 2, a high definition remaster received a physical release on both the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 on 30 June 2015 and 1 December 2015, respectively. It is the title in the Grand Theft Auto series. It was released on the day as the handheld game Grand Theft Auto Advance. Grand Theft Auto, San Andreas is played from a perspective in an open world environment. The game is set within the fictional U. S. state of San Andreas, the state of San Andreas consists of three metropolitan cities, Los Santos, based on Los Angeles, San Fierro, based on San Francisco, and Las Venturas, based on Las Vegas. The single-player story follows Carl CJ Johnson, who returns home to Los Santos from Liberty City after his mothers murder. It became the video game of 2004, and has sold over 27.5 million copies worldwide as of 2011. The game, like its predecessors, is cited as a landmark in video games for its influence within the industry. However, the violence and sexual content of San Andreas has been the source of public concern. In particular, a software patch, dubbed the Hot Coffee mod. The next main entry in the series, Grand Theft Auto IV, was released on 29 April 2008, San Andreas has been ported to various other platforms and services, such as OS X, Xbox Live, PlayStation Network and mobile devices. San Andreas is structured similarly to the two games in the series. The core gameplay consists of elements of a shooter and a driving game, affording the player a large. On foot, the character is capable of walking, running, sprinting, swimming, climbing and jumping as well as using weapons. Players can drive a variety of vehicles, including automobiles, buses, semis, boats, fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, trains, tanks, players may also import vehicles in addition to stealing them. The open, non-linear environment allows players to explore and choose how they wish to play the game, although storyline missions are necessary to progress through the game and unlock certain cities and content, they are not required as players can complete them at their own leisure. When not taking on a mission, players can free-roam and look around the cities of San Andreas, eat in restaurants, or cause havoc by attacking people
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The player driving a car towards the Grove Street
cul-de-sac in Los Santos at dusk.
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The Walt Disney Company
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The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney, is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate, headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California. It is the second largest media conglomerate in terms of revenue. Disney was founded on October 16,1923 – by brothers Walt Disney, the company also operated under the names The Walt Disney Studio and then Walt Disney Productions. Taking on its current name in 1986, it expanded its operations and also started divisions focused upon theater, radio, music, publishing. In addition, Disney has since created corporate divisions in order to more mature content than is typically associated with its flagship family-oriented brands. The company is best known for the products of its studio, Walt Disney Studios. Disneys other three divisions are Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, Disney Media Networks, and Disney Consumer Products. The company has been a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average since May 6,1991, Mickey Mouse, an early and well-known cartoon creation of the company, is a primary symbol and mascot for Disney. In early 1923, Kansas City, Missouri, animator Walt Disney created a film entitled Alices Wonderland. After the bankruptcy in 1923 of his previous firm, Laugh-O-Gram Studios, Disney moved to Hollywood to join his brother, Walt and Roy Disney formed Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio that same year. More animated films followed after Alice, in January 1926, with the completion of the Disney studio on Hyperion Street, the Disney Brothers Studios name was changed to the Walt Disney Studio. The distributor owned Oswald, so Disney only made a few hundred dollars, Disney completed 26 Oswald shorts before losing the contract in February 1928, due to a legal loophole, when Winklers husband Charles Mintz took over their distribution company. After failing to take over the Disney Studio, Mintz hired away four of Disneys primary animators to start his own animation studio, Snappy Comedies. In 1928, to recover from the loss of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Disney came up with the idea of a character named Mortimer while on a train headed to California. The mouse was later renamed Mickey Mouse and starred in several Disney produced films, ub Iwerks refined Disneys initial design of Mickey Mouse. Disneys first sound film Steamboat Willie, a cartoon starring Mickey, was released on November 18,1928 through Pat Powers distribution company and it was the first Mickey Mouse sound cartoon released, but the third to be created, behind Plane Crazy and The Gallopin Gaucho. Disney used Pat Powers Cinephone system, created by Powers using Lee De Forests Phonofilm system, Steamboat Willie premiered at B. S. Mosss Colony Theater in New York City, now The Broadway Theatre. Disneys Plane Crazy and The Galloping Gaucho were then retrofitted with synchronized sound tracks, Disney continued to produce cartoons with Mickey Mouse and other characters, and began the Silly Symphonies series with Columbia Pictures signing on as Symphonies distributor in August 1929
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The
Walt Disney Studios (corporate headquarters).
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The building in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Los Feliz which was home to the studio from 1923 to 1926
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Original poster for Flowers and Trees (1932).
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The original Animation Building at the Walt Disney Studios.
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Hercules (1997 film)
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Hercules is a 1997 American animated musical fantasy comedy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The 35th Disney animated feature film, the film was directed by Ron Clements, the film is loosely based on the legendary hero Heracles, the son of Zeus, in Greek mythology. The film also featured the first positive portrayal of African American women in a Disney animated film, development of Hercules began in 1992 following a pitch adaptation of the Heracles mythological stories by animator Joe Haidar. Meanwhile, Ron Clements and John Musker re-developed their idea for Treasure Planet following the critical and commercial success of Aladdin and their project was removed from development in 1993, and Musker and Clements joined Hercules later that same year. Following an unused treatment by Haidar, Clements and Musker studied multiple interpretations of Greek mythology before abandoning Zeuss adulterous affair with Alcmene. The project underwent multiple story treatments and a first script draft was inspired by the comedy films of the classic Hollywood era. Donald McEnery, Bob Shaw, and Irene Mecchi were brought on board to shorten the script, british cartoonist Gerald Scarfe was recruited as production designer and produced over seven hundred visualization designs of the characters. Research trips to Greece and Turkey provided inspiration for the background designs, Animation for the film was done in California and Paris. Computer animation was utilized in several scenes, predominantly in the Hydra battle sequence, Hercules was released on June 27,1997 to positive reviews from film reviewers who praised James Woodss portrayal of Hades. After imprisoning the Titans beneath the ocean, the Greek gods Zeus, while the other gods are joyful, Zeus jealous brother Hades plots to overthrow Zeus and rule Mount Olympus. Turning to the Fates for help, Hades learns that in eighteen years, an alignment will allow him to locate and free the Titans to conquer Olympus. Hades sends his minions Pain and Panic to dispose of Hercules, years later, the teenage Hercules becomes an outcast due to his strength, and wonders where he came from. After his foster parents reveal the necklace they found him with, the temples statue of Zeus comes to life and reveals all to Hercules, telling him that he can regain his godhood by becoming a true hero. Zeus sends Hercules and his forgotten infanthood friend Pegasus to find the satyr Philoctetes—Phil for short—who is known for training heroes. The two meet Phil, who has retired from training due to numerous disappointments, but Hercules inspires him to follow his dream to train a true hero that will be recognized by the gods. Phil trains Hercules into a hero, and when he is older. On the way, they meet Megara—Meg for short—a sarcastic damsel whom Hercules saves from the centaur Nessus, however, after Hercules, Phil, and Pegasus leave, Meg is revealed to be Hades minion, having sold her soul to him to save an unfaithful lover. Arriving in Thebes, Hercules is turned down by the citizens until Meg says that two boys are trapped in a gorge
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Theatrical release poster
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Stuart Little 2
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Stuart Little 2 is a 2002 American live-action/CGI animated film directed by Rob Minkoff. It stars Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie, and Jonathan Lipnicki and the voices of Michael J. Fox, Nathan Lane, Melanie Griffith, James Woods, the film is a sequel to the 1999 film, based on original childrens book by E. B. White. The film was released to theaters on July 19,2002 and it is also the final film in the trilogy to have a theatrical release. The film was followed by the film, a direct-to-video sequel entitled Stuart Little 3. However, unlike the two films, which were hybrids of live action and animation, the third one was entirely animated. Three years after the first film, Stuart Little questions his ability after a soccer match alongside his brother George. He grows more discouraged after accidentally breaking Georges model airplane, Stuarts father, Frederick, tries to encourage him, telling him that every cloud has a silver lining. Later, a canary named Margalo falls into Stuarts car on his way home from school, Margalo is secretly assisting a peregrine falcon named Falcon to steal from households upon earning the homeowners trust. Orphaned as a child, Margalo assists Falcon in exchange for a home, however, when Stuart offers to let her live with the Littles, Margalo grows reluctant to steal from them. Unable to concentrate on her assignment for Falcon, Margalo becomes close friends with Stuart, Falcon eventually loses patience and threatens to eat Stuart unless Margalo gives him Mrs. Littles ring. Concerned for Stuarts safety, Margalo steals Eleanor Littles wedding ring, when the Littles discover that the ring is missing, they think it has fallen down the sink drain. Stuart offers to be lowered down the drain on a string to get it, a guilt-stricken Margalo saves him, then leaves the Little house the following night to protect Stuart. Upon realizing Margalos disappearance, Stuart assumes she has been kidnapped by Falcon, running away from home, Stuart asks George to lie about his whereabouts to his parents while he is gone. With the help of Snowbells friend Monty, Stuart and Snowbell discover that Falcon lives at the top of the Pishkin Building, there, Stuart discovers that Margalo stole his mothers ring. When Margalo tries to reassure Stuart that she really is his friend, unwilling to lose his asset in Margalo, Falcon then attempts to kill Stuart by dropping him from the top of the building. However, Stuart lands in a garbage truck. Falcon traps Margalo in a paint can as punishment for being Stuarts friend, regaining consciousness on a garbage barge, Stuart feels like giving up until he finds Georges broken model airplane, which he fixes using material on the barge and uses to return to Margalo. Meanwhile, the Littles discover that George has been lying about Stuarts whereabouts, George tries not to break the promise, but when Frederick tells him that Stuarts safety matters more, George tells them that he is at the Pishkin Building but is big trouble for lying
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Theatrical release poster
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Warwick, Rhode Island
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Warwick is a city in Kent County, Rhode Island, United States. It is the second largest city in the state, with a population of 82,672 at the 2010 census, the city of Warwick and T. F. Green Airport are located approximately 12 miles south of downtown Providence,63 miles southwest of Boston, Massachusetts and its mayor has been Scott Avedisian since 2000. Warwick was founded by Samuel Gorton in 1642 and has witnessed major events in American history and it was decimated during King Philips War and was the site of the Gaspee Affair, a significant prelude to the American Revolution. Warwick is also the home of revolutionary war general Nathanael Greene, George Washingtons second-in-command, Warwick is home to Rhode Islands main airport T. F. Green Airport, which serves the Providence area and also functions as a reliever for Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts. It is also the home of the 43rd Military Police Brigade of the Rhode Island Army National Guard, Warwick was founded in 1642 by Samuel Gorton when Narragansett Indian Chief Sachem Miantonomi agreed to accept 144 fathoms of Wampum for what was known as The Shawhomett Purchase. This included the present day towns of Coventry and West Warwick, however, the purchase was not without dispute. The two sachems of the area, Sacononoco and Pumham, stated that Miantonomi had sold the land without asking for their approval and they took their case to Boston, where they placed their lands under Massachusetts rule. In 1643, Massachusetts Bay Colony sent a force to Shawomett to arrest Gorton. After a tense standoff, all but three of the Gortonists surrendered to the Massachusetts force and this event caused the other three settlements on Narragansett Bay to unite and get a royal charter allowing them to form the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. In 1648, Gorton was granted a Charter by Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick, Lord Admiral, because of this, the name of the settlement was changed from Shawhomett to Warwick. Massachusetts continued to lay claim to the area, but it no further effort to enforce it. In 1772, Warwick was the scene of the first violent act against the Crown in what came to be called the Gaspee Affair. Local patriots mooned and then boarded the Gaspee, a revenue cutter charged with enforcing the Stamp Act 1765 and Townshend Acts in Narragansett Bay where smuggling was common. It was here that the first blood was spilled in the American Revolution when Gaspees commanding officer Lt. Dudingston was shot in his crotch while resisting the taking of his ship, the Gaspee was stripped of all cannon and arms before being torched. During the Revolution, Warwick militiamen participated in the battles of Montreal, Quebec, Saratoga, Monmouth, and Trenton, T. F. Green Airport is a station on the Providence/Stoughton Commuter Rail Line, providing weekday service to Providence Station and Bostons South Station. Warwick is located at 41°43′N 71°25′W, according to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 49.6 square miles, of which,35.5 square miles of it is land and 14.1 square miles of it is water. The following villages are located in Warwick, Warwick is officially a part of the Providence metropolitan area, as of the census of 2000, there were 85,808 people,35,517 households, and 22,979 families residing in the city
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Warwick City Hall
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The Knight Campus building of the
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Theta Delta Chi
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Theta Delta Chi is a social fraternity that was founded in 1847 at Union College. While nicknames differ from institution to institution, the most common nicknames for the fraternity are Theta Delt, Thete, TDX, Theta Delta Chi brothers refer to their local organization as Charges rather than using the common fraternity nomenclature of chapter. In 1849, Green and Akin along with Francis Martindale, organized the Beta Charge at Ballston Law School, however, two years later the school itself moved and the new Charge was disbanded and the members put on Alphas rolls. Few of these remained active for long, although several were later revived, kappa at Tufts, founded in 1856, presently enjoys the honor of being the oldest active Charge in continuous existence. Only after 1870 did Theta Delta Chi begin to acquire its present configuration, westward expansion had traditionally been opposed by a large segment of the Fraternity, which worried that supervision and solidarity would suffer if Theta Delta Chi were to stray far from the East. Further Midwest expansion included Illinois and Iowa State, berkeley, Stanford, the University of Washington and UCLA brought Theta Delta Chi in strength to the Pacific coast. Expansion in the East during the 1870s, 1880s and 1890s brought Charges to Cornell, Boston University, Wabash, CCNY, Columbia, Lehigh, Amherst, Yale, MIT, Williams, and George Washington. Pennsylvania was the last Eastern Charge to become active before World War I, although 1904 and 1910 saw the reactivation of the Southern Charges, Epsilon, Theta Delta Chi became an International Fraternity with charterings at McGill and Toronto. The Great Depression and the Second World War saw a number of Charges go inactive, at its Centennial Convention in 1947, Theta Delta Chi stood at 28 Charges, a number that would begin to increase only in the 1950s. The institutions of the Fraternity slowly took shape during the late nineteenth, in 1867 anti-fraternity sentiment at Union led to the disbanding of the Alpha. The Grand Lodge, originally three and now five officers remains the governing body of the Fraternity to this day. The 1881 Convention required that the President of the Grand Lodge visit every Charge once a year, in 1869, the first issue of The Shield was produced, qualifying it as the oldest fraternity magazine. Although it lapsed after one issue, The Shield was revived in 1884 and has published continually since then. The office currently operates from 214 Lewis Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts, the financial health of Theta Delta Chi was ensured through the establishment of two entities, the Founders Corporation in 1910 and the Educational Foundation in 1944. Any Theta Delt may join the Corporation on payment of $250 and it also receives bequests and holds and invests all funds for the benefit of the Fraternity. The Educational Foundation, a 501 public charity, receives bequests and owns the property occupied by the CFO and it funds the educational activities of the Fraternity. The Fort Lauderdale, FL and Greensboro, NC Charges marked a significant re-entry into the South, with the start of the new millennium, Theta Delta Chi has worked to revive several of its defunct Charges, while installing Charges on new campuses. The Chi Charge, founded in 1867, and active for most of the time then was re-chartered in the summer of 2002 at the 155th Annual Convention
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Theta Delta Chi
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Ben Affleck
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Benjamin Geza Affleck-Boldt is an American actor and filmmaker. Born in Berkeley, California and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he acting as a child. He later appeared in the independent coming-of-age comedy Dazed and Confused and various Kevin Smith films including Chasing Amy, Affleck gained recognition when he and childhood friend Matt Damon won the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Good Will Hunting. He then established himself as a man in studio films including the disaster drama Armageddon, the war epic Pearl Harbor. After a career downturn, during which he appeared in Daredevil and Gigli, Afflecks directorial debut, Gone Baby Gone, which he also co-wrote, was well received. He then directed, co-wrote, and starred in the crime drama The Town. For the political thriller Argo, which he directed and starred in, Affleck won the Golden Globe and BAFTA Award for Best Director, and the Golden Globe, BAFTA and he starred in the psychological thriller Gone Girl. In 2016, Affleck began playing Batman in the DC Extended Universe, Affleck is the co-founder of the Eastern Congo Initiative, a grantmaking and advocacy-based nonprofit organization. He is also a member of the Democratic Party. His younger brother is actor Casey Affleck, with whom he has worked on films including Good Will Hunting. Following high-profile relationships with Gwyneth Paltrow and Jennifer Lopez, Affleck married Jennifer Garner in 2005, Affleck and Garner have three children together, and announced their separation in 2015. Benjamin Geza Affleck-Boldt was born on August 15,1972 in Berkeley and his family moved to Massachusetts when he was two, living in Falmouth, where his brother Casey was born, before settling in Cambridge. His mother, Christopher Anne Chris, was a Radcliffe College- and his father, Timothy Byers Affleck, worked sporadically as an auto mechanic, a carpenter, a bookie, an electrician, a bartender, and a janitor at Harvard University. In the mid-1960s, he had been an actor and stage manager with the Theater Company of Boston, during Afflecks childhood, his father had a self-described severe, chronic problem with alcoholism and Affleck has recalled him drinking all day, every day. His parents divorced when he was 12, and he and his brother lived with their mother. In the following years, his fathers life hit the skids, when Affleck was 16, his father moved to Indio, California to enter a rehabilitation facility and, after gaining sobriety, worked as an addiction counselor at the facility for many years. Affleck was raised in an active, liberal household. He and his brother were surrounded by people who worked in the arts, were taken to the theater by their mother
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Affleck at the 2015
San Diego Comic-Con International
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Affleck visiting the
USS Enterprise (CVN‑65) in
Manama, Bahrain in 2003
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Affleck on the set of
The Town in 2010
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Theo Chocolate, stocked by
Whole Foods, is made with Congolese cocoa beans
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Casey Affleck
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Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt is an American actor and director. He began his career as a actor, appearing in the PBS television movie Lemon Sky. He later appeared in three Gus Van Sant films – To Die For, Good Will Hunting, and Gerry – and in Steven Soderberghs comedy heist trilogy Oceans Eleven, Oceans Twelve and his first leading role was in Steve Buscemis independent comedy-drama Lonesome Jim. In 2010, he directed the mockumentary Im Still Here, the film features his brother-in-law Joaquin Phoenix, and starred as a serial killer in The Killer Inside Me. He then appeared as an outlaw in Aint Them Bodies Saints, in 2016, Affleck appeared in the crime thriller Triple 9, the disaster drama The Finest Hours, and the drama Manchester by the Sea. For his performance as a man in the latter, he won the Golden Globe, BAFTA. Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck was born on August 12,1975 in Falmouth, Massachusetts, to Christopher Anne Chris, the surname Affleck is of Scottish origin. He also has English, Irish, German, and Swiss ancestry and his mother was a Radcliffe College– and Harvard–educated elementary school teacher. His father worked sporadically as a mechanic, a carpenter, a bookie, an electrician, a bartender. In the mid-1960s, he had been a manager, director, writer. During Afflecks childhood, his father was a disaster of a drinker, following his parents divorce when he was nine, Affleck and his older brother, Ben, lived with their mother and visited their father weekly. His first experience of acting was reenacting what was happening at home during role play exercises at Alateen meetings and he learned to speak Spanish during a year spent travelling around Mexico with his mother and brother when he was ten. The two siblings spent all of our time together, pretty much, obviously at school we were in different grades, but we had the same friends. When Affleck was 14, his father moved to Indio, California to enter a rehabilitation facility, Affleck reconnected with his father during visits to California as a teenager, I got to know him, really, because he was sober for the first time. The man I knew before that was just completely different, the brothers sometimes appeared in local weather commercials and as movie extras because of their mothers friendship with a local casting director. Affleck acted in high school theater productions while a student at Cambridge Rindge. He has said he wouldn’t be an actor if not for his high school theater teacher Gerry Speca, He kind of turned me on to acting, why it can be fun, how it can be rewarding. At the age of eighteen, Affleck moved to Los Angeles for a year to pursue an acting career and he soon transferred to Columbia University in New York City, where he followed the core curriculum for a total of two years
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Affleck in June 2006
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Lyceum Theatre (Broadway)
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The Lyceum Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 149 West 45th Street near Times Square between Seventh and Sixth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Opened in 1903, the Lyceum Theatre is one of the three oldest surviving Broadway venues and it is the oldest continuously operating legitimate theatre in New York City, and the first Broadway theatre ever to be granted landmark status. It is one of the few theatres in New York which continues to operate under its original name, designed by architects Herts & Tallant in the Beaux-Arts style, the Lyceum was built by impresario Daniel Frohman, replacing Frohmans earlier Lyceum on Fourth Avenue that closed in April 1902. The new Lyceum opened on November 2,1903, with the play The Proud Prince, Frohmans brother Charles served as the theaters manager until his death in 1915. The theatre maintains most of its original Beaux-Arts design, including its elaborate marble staircases, although it has three levels, it is one of the smallest Broadway theatres in terms of capacity, seating only 950. An apartment located above the orchestra, originally used by Frohman, is now the headquarters of the Shubert Archives, Lyceum Theatre at the Internet Broadway Database Official website Lyceum Theatre at the Internet Broadway Database Lyceum Theatre, New York City Theatre Lyceum Theatre, Playbill
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The Lyceum Theatre
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Lyceum Theatre, 2003
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Daniel Berrigan
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Daniel Joseph Berrigan, S. J. was an American Jesuit priest, anti-war activist, and poet. Like many others during the 1960s, Berrigans active protest against the Vietnam War earned him scorn and admiration, but it was his participation in the Catonsville Nine that made him famous. It also landed him on the FBIs most wanted list, on the cover of TIME magazine, for the rest of his life, Berrigan remained one of the USs leading anti-war activists. In 1980, he founded the Plowshares Movement, an anti-nuclear protest group and he was also an award-winning and prolific author of some 50 books, a teacher, and a university educator. Berrigan was born in Virginia, Minnesota, the son of Frieda Berrigan, who was of German descent, and Thomas Berrigan and he was the fifth of six sons. His youngest brother was fellow peace activist Philip Berrigan, at age 5, Berrigans family moved to Syracuse, New York. In 1946, Berrigan earned a degree from St. Andrew-on-Hudson. In 1952 he received a degree from Woodstock College in Baltimore. Berrigan was devoted to the Catholic Church throughout his youth and he joined the Jesuits directly out of high school in 1939 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1952. Berrigan taught at St. Peters Preparatory School in Jersey City from 1946 to 1949, in 1954, Berrigan was assigned to teach theology at the Jesuit Brooklyn Preparatory School. In 1957 he was appointed professor of New Testament studies at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, the same year, he won the Lamont Prize for his book of poems, Time Without Number. He developed a reputation as a radical, working actively against poverty. While at Le Moyne, he founded its International House, while on a sabbatical from Le Moyne in 1963, Berrigan traveled to Paris and met French Jesuits who criticized the social and political conditions in Indochina. Taking inspiration from this, he and his brother Philip founded the Catholic Peace Fellowship, Berrigan at one time or another held faculty positions or ran programs at Union Seminary, Loyola University in New Orleans, Columbia, Cornell, and Yale. His longest tenure was at Fordham, where he served as their poet-in-residence. Berrigan appeared briefly in the 1986 Warner Bros. film The Mission and he also served as a consultant on the film. In 1967, Berrigan witnessed the public outcry that followed from the arrest of his brother Philip, Philip was sentenced to six years in prison for defacing government property. In 1968, he signed the Writers and Editors War Tax Protest pledge, in the same year, he was interviewed in the anti-Vietnam War documentary film In the Year of the Pig, and later that year became involved in radical non-violent protest
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Daniel Berrigan at the Third Annual
Staten Island Freedom & Peace Festival, 2006-10-28
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Daniel Berrigan is arrested for
civil disobedience outside the U.S. Mission to the U.N. in 2006
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Arena Stage
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Arena Stage is a not-for-profit regional theater based in Southwest, Washington, D. C. It was a pioneer in 1950 of the Regional Theater Movement, the Artistic Director is Molly Smith and the Executive Director is Edgar Dobie. It is the largest company in the dedicated to American plays. It commissions and develops new plays through the American Voices New Play Institute, established in 1950, the company now serves an annual audience of more than 300,000. Its productions have received local and national awards, including the Tony Award for best regional theater. The theatre company was founded in Washington, DC in 1950 and its first home was the Hippodrome Theatre, a former movie house. In 1956, the moved into the gymnasium of the old Heurich Brewery in Foggy Bottom. The brewery was demolished in 1961 to make way for the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge, in 1960, the company moved into its current building complex, which was built for them. The theater companys home is near the Washington, D. C. waterfront on the Potomac River, one of the founders, Zelda Fichandler, was its artistic director from its founding through the 1990/91 season. Wager succeeded her for the 1991/92 through 1997/98 seasons, the current artistic director, Molly Smith, assumed those duties beginning with the 1998/99 season. Arena Stage was one of the first not-for-profit theaters in the United States and was a pioneer of the Regional Theater Movement, in 1973, it was the first regional theater invited by the U. S. State Department to tour behind the Iron Curtain. In 1976, Arena Stage became the theater outside New York to receive a special Tony Award for theatrical excellence. A major renovation of the facility was undertaken from 2008 through 2010, the architect was Bing Thom Architects of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada who contracted Fast + Epp consulting engineers to design the main columns for the building. The Fichandler Stage and Kreeger Theater were largely untouched, but the theaters connecting structures were demolished, the two stages are now surrounded by a glass curtain wall and incorporated into a larger building. A third, new theater was added in the renovation, called The Kogod Cradle, for new. The new building includes a central lobby and the Catwalk Cafe. The entire $135 million complex has been renamed Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater in honor of supporters Gilbert and Jaylee Mead. Arena Stage re-opened for the season in October 2010, the capacity of its three theatres follows, The Fichandler Stage, a theater in the round, seating 680, the Kreeger Theater, a modified thrust stage theater, seating 514
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Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater. Photo by Nic Lehoux, courtesy Bing Thom Architects.
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AIDS Project Los Angeles
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APLA Health is one of the largest non-profit HIV service organizations in the United States. The agency was founded as AIDS Project Los Angeles in 1983 by Max Drew, Nancy Cole Sawaya, Matt Redman and Erv Munro with the support of their community of friends. On July 28,1985, APLA Health held the worlds first AIDS Walk, the Walk is now the largest HIV/AIDS fundraiser in Southern California. Among the services provided by the agency are primary medical, dental and behavioral care, housing, case management, nutritional health, treatment adherence. APLA Health has four founders—Max Drew, Nancy Cole Sawaya, Matt Redman, in December 1982, they held the first APLA Health fundraiser, which raised over $7,000. Many early fundraising events were held in gay bars and discos, as the gay, a fundraiser at Studio One in March 1984 featuring Joan Rivers raised $45,000 for APLA Health and other new AIDS service organizations. Then, on July 28,1985, APLA Health held the worlds first AIDS Walk, AIDS Walk Los Angeles is now the largest HIV/AIDS fundraiser in Southern California. Days before the first AIDS Walk, it was disclosed to the world that movie star Rock Hudson had AIDS, in response, Elizabeth Taylor helped to spearhead a drive by the entertainment community to confront the disease. This helped ensure the success of the first Commitment to Life event, the event, held at the Bonaventure Hotel honored former First Lady Betty Ford, raised $1.3 million. The Commitment to Life benefits, much like the AIDS Walks, staff also assist with and accept applications for the AIDS Drug Assistance Program. Other APLA Health services include, Home Health, Clientline, Mental Health, Nutrition Education, Treatment Adherence, APLA Health advocates for greater attention to men who have sex with men in the global HIV & AIDS epidemic. In addition to advocacy, APLA Health also supports the work of the Global Forum on MSM and HIV by acting as the organization’s fiscal. On Monday September 15,2008, APLA coordinated a congressional briefing on men who have sex with men, the program also serves as a resource to other organizations conducting community-based research. Housed within APLA Healths Education Department, the CBR unit is one of few programs of its kind operating within an AIDS service organization, study findings are used by APLA Health to develop new services, improve existing ones and highlight trends in the field. APLA Health CBR findings have been presented at local, statewide, optimist is a quarterly donor magazine that spotlights APLA Health services, major events, fundraisers, community news and the activities of the many volunteers APLA Health
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Hollywood
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Hollywood is an ethnically diverse, densely populated neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California. It is notable as the home of the U. S. film industry, including several of its studios, and its name has come to be a shorthand reference for the industry. Hollywood was a community in 1870 and was incorporated as a municipality in 1903. It was consolidated with the city of Los Angeles in 1910, in 1853, one adobe hut stood in Nopalera, named for the Mexican Nopal cactus indigenous to the area. By 1870, an agricultural community flourished, the area was known as the Cahuenga Valley, after the pass in the Santa Monica Mountains immediately to the north. According to the diary of H. J. Whitley, known as the Father of Hollywood, along came a Chinese man in a wagon carrying wood. The man got out of the wagon and bowed, the Chinese man was asked what he was doing and replied, I holly-wood, meaning hauling wood. H. J. Whitley had an epiphany and decided to name his new town Hollywood, Holly would represent England and wood would represent his Scottish heritage. Whitley had already started over 100 towns across the western United States, Whitley arranged to buy the 500-acre E. C. Hurd ranch and disclosed to him his plans for the land. They agreed on a price and Hurd agreed to sell at a later date, before Whitley got off the ground with Hollywood, plans for the new town had spread to General Harrison Gray Otis, Hurds wife, eastern adjacent ranch co-owner Daeida Wilcox, and others. Daeida Wilcox may have learned of the name Hollywood from Ivar Weid, her neighbor in Holly Canyon and she recommended the same name to her husband, Harvey. In August 1887, Wilcox filed with the Los Angeles County Recorders office a deed and parcel map of property he had sold named Hollywood, Wilcox wanted to be the first to record it on a deed. The early real-estate boom busted that year, yet Hollywood began its slow growth. By 1900, the region had a post office, newspaper, hotel, Los Angeles, with a population of 102,479 lay 10 miles east through the vineyards, barley fields, and citrus groves. A single-track streetcar line ran down the middle of Prospect Avenue from it, but service was infrequent, the old citrus fruit-packing house was converted into a livery stable, improving transportation for the inhabitants of Hollywood. The Hollywood Hotel was opened in 1902 by H. J. Whitley who was a president of the Los Pacific Boulevard, having finally acquired the Hurd ranch and subdivided it, Whitley built the hotel to attract land buyers. Flanking the west side of Highland Avenue, the structure fronted on Prospect Avenue, the hotel was to become internationally known and was the center of the civic and social life and home of the stars for many years. Whitleys company developed and sold one of the residential areas
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The Four Ladies installation at the
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La Brea Avenue Gateway
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Glen-Holly Hotel, first hotel in Hollywood, at the corner of what is now Yucca Street. It was built in the 1890s.
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Hollywood Hotel, 1905
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The intersection of
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The Visitors (1972 film)
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The Visitors is a 1972 American drama film directed by Elia Kazan. It was entered into the 1972 Cannes Film Festival, Kazan used Daniel Langs Casualties of War story as a jumping-off point for this film. Bill Schmidt and his long-term girlfriend Martha Wayne and their young son Hal live in a small Connecticut farmhouse owned by Marthas overbearing father, one snowy winter Sunday, two of Bills ex-army buddies, Mike and Tony, arrive. A few years ago, they had all served together in Vietnam in the same platoon, bill has never told his girlfriend what happened in Vietnam nor at the court-martial. Under orders in Vietnam not to any prisoners, and faced with potentially hostile civilians who might attack them if left behind. Bill testifies against him and Mike is sent to the stockade for two years, there is sexual tension between Mike and Martha. The tension builds and culminates in a fight and a rape
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Film poster
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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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German serial killer
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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Carl Panzram
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Carl Panzram was a serial killer, rapist, arsonist and burglar. In jailhouse confessions and his autobiography, he claimed that he had committed 21 murders—most of which could not be corroborated—and over 1,000 sodomies of boys and men. After a series of imprisonments and escapes, he was executed in 1930 for the murder of an employee at Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary. Born in East Grand Forks, Minnesota, the son of East Prussian immigrants Johann John and Matilda Panzram, in 1903, at the age of 12, he stole some cake, apples, and a revolver from a neighbors home. Soon after, his parents sent him to the Minnesota State Training School, while there, he was repeatedly beaten and tortured by staff members in what attendees dubbed The Painting House, because children would leave painted with bruises and blood. Panzram hated this place of torture so much that he decided to burn it down, in late 1905, he was released from the school. By his teens, he was an alcoholic and was repeatedly in trouble with the authorities, often for burglary and he ran away from home at the age of 14. He often traveled via train cars, he claimed that on one train he was gang raped by a group of hobos. In 1907, at the age of 15, after getting drunk in a saloon in Montana, shortly thereafter, rebellious against any authority, he was convicted of larceny and served a prison sentence from 1908 to 1910 at Fort Leavenworths United States Disciplinary Barracks. Secretary of War William Howard Taft approved the sentence, Panzram later claimed that any goodness left in him was smashed out during his Leavenworth imprisonment. In adulthood, Panzram became a thief, stealing anything from bicycles to yachts, while incarcerated, Panzram frequently got into trouble by attacking guards and refusing to follow their orders. The guards retaliated, subjecting him to beatings and other punishments. C. and Leavenworth, in his autobiography, Panzram wrote that he was rage personified and that he would often rape men whom he had robbed. He was noted for his large, especially for the time, stature and great physical strength and he also engaged in vandalism and arson. By his own admission, one of the few times he did not engage in criminal activities was when he was employed as a strikebreaker against union employees. On one occasion, he tried to sign aboard as a steward on a U. S. Army transport vessel. On June 1,1915, Panzram burgled a house in Astoria, Oregon and he was sentenced to seven years in prison, to be served at the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem, where he arrived on June 24. Later, Panzram stated that he swore he would never do that seven years and I defied the warden, Panzram helped fellow inmate Otto Hooker escape from the prison, while evading capture, Hooker killed Minto September 27,1915. The crime marked Panzrams first known involvement in a murder, as an accessory before the fact, Panzram was disciplined several times while at Salem, including 61 days in solitary confinement, before escaping on September 18,1917
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Carl Panzram under the alias "Jefferson Baldwin" in 1915
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Killer: A Journal of Murder
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Killer A Journal Of Murder is an autobiography by American mass murderer Carl Panzram. First published in 1970, the book was republished in 2002 by Amok Books as Panzram, the book was edited by Thomas E. Gaddis and James O. Long. The book details American serial killer Carl Panzrams entire life inside the American prison system as well as the murders he committed. Henry Lesser was a jail guard at the Washington DC district jail when Panzram arrived for incarceration in 1928. After hearing of Panzrams harsh imprisonment, Lesser befriends him and convinces him to write an autobiography,40 years after Panzrams execution, Lesser finally found a publisher for the book, and it appeared in 1970 as Killer, A Journal of Murder. The book was adapted as a film in 1996 and it starred James Woods as Panzram and Robert Sean Leonard as Lesser. Crime Library Article, Carl Panzram, Too Evil to Live, by Mark Gado
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The Rockford Files
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Garner portrays Los Angeles-based private investigator Jim Rockford with Noah Beery, Jr. in the supporting role of his father, a retired truck driver nicknamed Rocky. The show was created by Roy Huggins and Stephen J. Cannell, Huggins created the television show Maverick, which starred Garner, and he wanted to recapture that magic in a modern day detective setting. He teamed with Cannell, who had written for Jack Webb productions such as Adam-12 and Chase, the show was credited as A Public Arts/Roy Huggins Production along with Cherokee Productions in association with Universal Television. Cherokee was owned by Garner, with partners Meta Rosenberg and Juanita Bartlett, the series theme music by composers Mike Post and Pete Carpenter was released as a single and went to No.10 on the Billboard Hot 100, remaining on the chart for 16 weeks. And won a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement for 1975, in 2002, The Rockford Files was ranked No.39 on TV Guides 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time. Rockford had served time in Californias San Quentin Prison in the 1960s due to a wrongful conviction, after five years, he was pardoned. His infrequent jobs as a private investigator barely allow him to maintain his dilapidated mobile home in a lot on a Malibu. In the television movies from 1994 to 1999, Rockford is living in a trailer that has been enlarged and remodeled. He rarely carries his Colt Detective Special revolver, for which he has no permit and he works on cold cases, missing persons investigations, and low-budget insurance scams, and repeatedly states that he does not handle open cases to avoid trouble with the police. He has been a P. I. since 1968, listed in the opening credits, James Garner as James Jim/Jimmy/Jimbo Scott Rockford Noah Beery, Jr. as Joseph Rocky Rockford, Jims father, a retired truck driver. Joe Santos as Sergeant Dennis Becker, Jims friend on the Los Angeles Police Department and he was promoted to lieutenant in season 5. Frequently recurring cast, Stuart Margolin as Evelyn Angel Martin, Jims former prison friend, Angel is an untrustworthy con artist who constantly gets Jim in trouble, yet Jim remains his friend. Gretchen Corbett as Elizabeth Beth Davenport, Jims lawyer and sometime girlfriend James Luisi as Lieutenant Douglas J. Doug Chapman and he and Jim despise each other. Tom Atkins as Lieutenant Alex / Thomas Diehl, Beckers superior officer who also has a relationship with Rockford. Luis Delgado as Officer Todd / Jack Billings, Rockford helps prove Fitch did not commit the crime for which he was sent to prison. Bo Hopkins as John Coop Cooper, Jims disbarred attorney friend Tom Selleck as Lance White, liked and admired by everyone but Jim, who considers him naive and lucky and likely to cause others to get hurt. Dennis Dugan as Richie Brockelman, a young, idealistic and naive private investigator who seeks Jims help from time to time, bereft of Jims cynicism and physical toughness, this character was spun off for the short-lived Richie Brockelman, Private Eye. Kathryn Harrold as Dr. Megan Dougherty, a blind psychiatrist who hires Jim and their relationship eventually blossoms into a romance
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Rockford's investigation of a missing woman takes him to a local cemetery.
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Rockford has a few heated words with would-be private eye Freddie Beamer.
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Noah Beery, Jr. as "Rocky" Rockford, Jim's father
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Sergio Leone
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Sergio Leone was an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter, credited as the inventor of the Spaghetti Western genre. Leones film-making style includes juxtaposing extreme close-up shots with lengthy long shots. born in Rome, Leone was the son of the cinema pioneer Vincenzo Leone and the silent film actress Edvige Valcarenghi. During his schooldays, Leone was a classmate of his musical collaborator Ennio Morricone for a time. After watching his work on film sets, Leone began his own career in the film industry at the age of 18 after dropping out of law studies at the university. Working in Italian cinematography, he began as an assistant to Vittorio de Sica during the movie The Bicycle Thief in 1948, Leone began writing screenplays during the 1950s, primarily for the sword and sandal historical epics, popular at the time. When director Mario Bonnard fell ill during the production of the 1959 Italian epic The Last Days of Pompeii, starring Steve Reeves, Leone was asked to step in and complete the film. As a result, when the time came to make his directorial debut with The Colossus of Rhodes. His film A Fistful of Dollars was based upon Akira Kurosawas Edo-era samurai adventure Yojimbo, Leones film elicited a legal challenge from the Japanese director, though Kurosawas film was in turn probably based on the 1929 Dashiell Hammett novel, Red Harvest. A Fistful of Dollars is also notable for establishing Clint Eastwood as a star, until that time Eastwood had been an American television actor with few credited film roles. The look of A Fistful of Dollars was established by its Spanish locations, the film paid tribute to traditional American western films, but significantly departed from them in storyline, plot, characterization and mood. The characters were also morally ambiguous by appearing generously compassionate, or nakedly and brutally self-serving, relationships revolved around power and retributions were emotion-driven rather than conscience-driven. According to Christopher Fraylings book Something to do with Death, Leone knew a deal about the American Old West. It fascinated him as a child, which carried into his adulthood, the films featured innovative music scores by Ennio Morricone, who worked closely with Leone in devising the themes. Leone had a way of shooting scenes with Morricones music ongoing. In addition, Clint Eastwood stayed with the series, joined later by Eli Wallach, Lee van Cleef. Based on the success of The Man with No Name trilogy, the film was shot mostly in Almería, Spain and Cinecittà in Rome. It was also shot in Monument Valley, Utah. The film starred Charles Bronson, Henry Fonda, Jason Robards, Once Upon a Time in the West emerged as a long, violent, dreamlike meditation upon the mythology of the American Old West, with many stylistic references to iconic western films
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