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Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles
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Sherman Oaks is a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California, founded in 1927 with boundary changes afterward. The neighborhood includes a portion of the Santa Monica Mountains, which gives Sherman Oaks a lower density than some other areas in Los Angeles. A partner of the Los Angeles Suburban Homes Company, Gen. Moses Hazeltine Sherman, the company had subdivided 1,000 acres of land that would become Sherman Oaks. In 1927 each acre was sold for $780, shermans other major venture was the Los Angeles Pacific Railroad. Petitioners in the area argued that their neighborhood was part of Sherman Oaks. As a result of change, Van Nuys Middle School became separated from its namesake neighborhood. Finally, in 2009, the Los Angeles City council voted to redraw neighborhood boundaries again to allow an area of about 1,800 homes in Van Nuys to be included and this proposal attracted criticism from locals. The 1994 Northridge earthquake caused damages in the surrounding area, the Community Redevelopment Agency sought to manage the rebuilding efforts. The homeowners in the Sherman Oaks area later won a lawsuit to prevent the agency from managing efforts, as of the 2010 census, according to the San Fernando Valley Almanac, Sherman Oaks had a population of 52,677 people and 25,255 households. The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 82% non-Hispanic white, 5% Asian American and 3% African American, other races made up less than 1%. In 2008, the city estimated that the resident population had increased to 65,436, in 2000, the percentages of residents aged 19 to 49 and 65 and older were among the countys highest. The percentages of divorced residents and of widows were among the countys highest, the average household size of two people was low when compared to the rest of the city and the county. Renters occupied 58. 9% of the stock and house- or apartment-owners held 41. 1%. The neighborhood was considered not especially diverse ethnically within Los Angeles, the breakdown was whites,73. 8%, Latinos,11. 8%, Asians,5. 7%, blacks,4. 4%, and others,4. 4%. Iran and Mexico were the most common places of birth for the 26. 2% of the residents who were born abroad—an average percentage for Los Angeles. The neighborhood had a household income of $69,651 in 2008. The percentage of households that earned $125,000 and up was high for Los Angeles County, Los Angeles Fire Department operates Station 88 Sherman Oaks and Station 102 South Van Nuys/Valley Glen in Sherman Oaks. In addition the department operates Fire Station 78, which serves Sherman Oaks, the Los Angeles Police Department operates the nearby Van Nuys Community Police Station at 6240 Sylmar Avenue,91401, serving the community
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Bel Air, Los Angeles
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Bel Air, Bel-Air or Bel Air Estates is a neighborhood in the Westside area of Los Angeles, California, in the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains. The lightly populated district, with an older, well-educated population, has a high income level. The 2000 U. S. census counted 7,691 residents in the 6. 37-square-mile Bel Air neighborhood, with 1,207 per square mile it has among the lowest population densities for the city and the county. In 2008, the city estimated that the population had increased to 8,253, in 2000 the median age for residents was 46, which was high for city and county neighborhoods. The percentages of residents aged 50 and older was among the countys highest, the median yearly household income in 2008 dollars was $207,938, the highest figure for any neighborhood or city in Los Angeles County. Renters occupied 14. 5% of the stock, and house- or apartment-owners held 85. 5%. The average household size of 2.4 people was considered typical for Los Angeles, the 4. 1% of families headed by single parents was considered low for city and county neighborhoods. The percentages of married people in Bel Air were among the countys highest—66. 0% for men and 65. 7% for women, there were 808 veterans, or 12. 9% of the population. The neighborhood was considered not especially diverse ethnically within Los Angeles, the breakdown was whites,83. 0%, Asians,8. 2%, Latinos,4. 6%, blacks,0. 9%, and others,3. 2%. Iran and South Africa were the most common places of birth for the 24. 1% of the residents who were born abroad—which was a percentage for Los Angeles as a whole. The community was founded in 1923 by Alphonzo Bell, Bell owned farm property in Santa Fe Springs, California, where oil was discovered. He bought a ranch with a home on what is now Bel Air Road. He subdivided and developed the property with large residential lots and he also built the Bel-Air Beach Club in Santa Monica and the Bel-Air Country Club. His wife chose Italian names for the streets and she also founded the Bel-Air Garden Club in 1931. Together with Beverly Hills and Holmby Hills, Bel Air forms the Platinum Triangle of Los Angeles neighborhoods, Bel Air is situated about 12 miles west of Downtown Los Angeles and includes some of the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains. It lies across Sunset Boulevard from the edge of the main campus of the University of California. At the heart of the community sits the Bel-Air Country Club, along with Beverly Hills and the Los Angeles community of Brentwood, it is one of the Three Bs, a wealthy area in the Los Angeles Westside. This region experiences warm and dry summers, with no average monthly temperatures above 71.6 °F, according to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Bel Air has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate, abbreviated Csb on climate maps
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Actor
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An actor is a person who portrays a character in a performance. Simplistically speaking, the person denominated actor or actress is someone beautiful who plays important characters, the actor performs in the flesh in the traditional medium of the theatre, or in modern mediums such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is ὑποκριτής, literally one who answers, the actors interpretation of their role pertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is playing themselves, as in forms of experimental performance art, or, more commonly, to act, is to create. Formerly, in societies, only men could become actors. When used for the stage, women played the roles of prepubescent boys. The etymology is a derivation from actor with ess added. However, when referring to more than one performer, of both sexes, actor is preferred as a term for male performers. Actor is also used before the name of a performer as a gender-specific term. Within the profession, the re-adoption of the term dates to the 1950–1960s. As Whoopi Goldberg put it in an interview with the paper, Im an actor – I can play anything. The U. K. performers union Equity has no policy on the use of actor or actress, an Equity spokesperson said that the union does not believe that there is a consensus on the matter and stated that the. subject divides the profession. In 2009, the Los Angeles Times stated that Actress remains the term used in major acting awards given to female recipients. However, player remains in use in the theatre, often incorporated into the name of a group or company, such as the American Players. Also, actors in improvisational theatre may be referred to as players, prior to Thespis act, Grecian stories were only expressed in song, dance, and in third person narrative. In honor of Thespis, actors are commonly called Thespians, the exclusively male actors in the theatre of ancient Greece performed in three types of drama, tragedy, comedy, and the satyr play. Western theatre developed and expanded considerably under the Romans, as the Western Roman Empire fell into decay through the 4th and 5th centuries, the seat of Roman power shifted to Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire. Records show that mime, pantomime, scenes or recitations from tragedies and comedies, dances, from the 5th century, Western Europe was plunged into a period of general disorder
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Businessperson
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An entrepreneur is an example of a businessperson. The term may mean someone who is involved in an upper-level management role in a corporation, company, enterprise, firm, organization. This can especially apply to the founder, an owner, a manager, since a businessman can mean anyone in industry or commerce, businessmen have existed as long as industry and commerce have existed. Commerce can simply mean trade, and trade has existed through all of recorded history, the first businessmen were traders, or merchants. Merchants emerged as a class in medieval Italy, between 1300 and 1500, modern accounting, the bill of exchange, and limited liability were invented, and thus the world saw the first true bankers, who are certainly businessmen. Around the same time, Europe saw the emergence of rich merchants and this rise of the merchant class came as Europe needed a middleman for the first time, and these burghers or bourgeois were the people who played this role. Europe became the dominant global power in the 16th century. In this period, Europe developed and used paper money, checks, developments in actuarial science led to insurance. Together, these new tools were used by a new kind of businessman and these people owned or financed businesses as bankers, but they were not merchants of goods. These capitalists were a force in the Industrial Revolution. The newest kind of businessperson is the manager, one of the first true managers was Robert Owen, an industrialist in Scotland. He studied the problems of productivity and motivation, and was followed by Frederick Winslow Taylor, after World War I, management became popular due to the example of Herbert Hoover and the Harvard Business School, which offered degrees in business administration. There are no prescribed educational qualifications, rules or guidelines which one may follow, a person owning a small gas station in a local market is as much as a businessperson as a person who owns and leads a large Silicon Valley technology giant. There are many paths to becoming a businessperson, hence, no rigid formal educational qualification requirements can be stated for becoming a businessperson. However, there are attributes that successful businessmen must possess, Tact financial and business savvy, courage, leadership, vision, creativity, imagination. Among these components include branding, advertising, and public relations, well-balanced consistency in their business approach. Interest in giving back to society through philanthropy or venture capitalism for future socioeconomic development, hence, a businessperson should have the ability to take prompt decisions. Determination, courage and perseverance, They must have strong power and determination
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Friends
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Friends is an American television sitcom, created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which aired on NBC from September 22,1994, to May 6,2004, lasting ten seasons. With an ensemble cast starring Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer, the series was produced by Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions, in association with Warner Bros. The original executive producers were Kevin S. Bright, Marta Kauffman, Kauffman and Crane began developing Friends under the title Insomnia Cafe between November and December 1993. They presented the idea to Bright, and together they pitched a seven-page treatment of the show to NBC, after several script rewrites and changes, including a title change to Six of One and Friends Like Us, the series was finally named Friends. Filming took place at Warner Bros, All ten seasons of Friends ranked within the top ten of the final television season ratings, ultimately reaching the No.1 spot with its eighth season. Friends received acclaim throughout its run, becoming one of the most popular shows of all time. The series was nominated for 62 Primetime Emmy Awards, winning the Outstanding Comedy Series award in 2002 for its eighth season. The show ranked no.21 on TV Guides 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time, in 1997, the episode The One with the Prom Video was ranked no.100 on TV Guides 100 Greatest Episodes of All-Time. In 2013, Friends ranked no.24 on the Writers Guild of Americas 101 Best Written TV Series of All Time, Rachel Green flees her wedding day and seeks out childhood friend Monica Geller, a New York City chef. Episodes typically depict the friends comedic and romantic adventures and career issues, the six characters each have many dates and serious relationships, such as Monica with Richard Burke and Ross with Emily Waltham. The series featured six main characters throughout its run, Jennifer Aniston portrays Rachel Green, Rachel first moves in with Monica in season one after nearly marrying Barry Farber, whom she realizes she does not love. Rachel and Ross Geller are later involved in a relationship throughout the series. Rachel’s first job is as a waitress at the coffeehouse Central Perk, Rachel and Ross have a daughter named Emma in The One Where Rachel Has a Baby, Part Two at the end of season eight. In the final episode of the series, Ross and Rachel finally confess their love for each other, Courteney Cox portrays Monica Geller, the mother hen of the group and a chef, known for her perfectionist, bossy, competitive, and obsessive-compulsive nature. Monica is often teased by the others for having been extremely overweight as a child. Monica works as a chef in various restaurants throughout the show, Monica’s first serious relationship is with long-time family friend Richard Burke, who is twenty-one years her senior. The couple maintains a relationship for some time, until Richard expresses that he does not want to have children. Lisa Kudrow portrays Phoebe Buffay, a masseuse and self-taught musician
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Brad Pitt
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William Bradley Brad Pitt in Shawnee Oklahoma. He is an American actor and producer and he has received multiple awards and nominations including an Academy Award as producer under his own company Plan B Entertainment. Pitt first gained recognition as a hitchhiker in the road movie Thelma & Louise. His first leading roles in big-budget productions came with the dramas A River Runs Through It and Legends of the Fall, Pitt starred in the cult film Fight Club and the heist film Oceans Eleven and its sequels, Oceans Twelve and Oceans Thirteen. As a public figure, Pitt has been cited as one of the most influential and powerful people in the American entertainment industry, as well as the worlds most attractive man and his personal life is also the subject of wide publicity. Divorced from actress Jennifer Aniston, to whom he was married for five years and they have six children together, three of whom were adopted internationally. In September 2016, Jolie filed for divorce from Pitt, William Bradley Pitt was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, to William Bill Alvin Pitt, manager of a trucking company, and Jane Etta, a school counsellor. The family soon moved to Springfield, Missouri, where he lived together with his siblings, Douglas. Pitt has described Springfield as Mark Twain country, Jesse James country, having grown up with a lot of hills, Pitt attended Kickapoo High School, where he was a member of the golf, swimming and tennis teams. He participated in the schools Key and Forensics clubs, in school debates, following his graduation from high school, Pitt enrolled in the University of Missouri in 1982, majoring in journalism with a focus on advertising. As graduation approached, Pitt did not feel ready to settle down and he loved films—a portal into different worlds for me—and, since films were not made in Missouri, he decided to go to where they were made. Two weeks before earning his degree, Pitt left the university and moved to Los Angeles, while struggling to establish himself in Los Angeles, Pitt took lessons from acting coach Roy London. Pitts acting career began in 1987, with uncredited parts in the films No Way Out, No Mans Land and his television debut came in May 1987 with a two-episode role on the NBC soap opera Another World. In November of the same year Pitt had a guest appearance on the ABC sitcom Growing Pains and he appeared in four episodes of the CBS primetime series Dallas between December 1987 and February 1988 as Randy, the boyfriend of Charlie Wade. Later in 1988, Pitt made a guest appearance on the Fox police drama 21 Jump Street, in the same year, the Yugoslavian–U. S. Co-production The Dark Side of the Sun gave Pitt his first leading film role, the film was shelved at the outbreak of the Croatian War of Independence, and was not released until 1997. He made guest appearances on television series Head of the Class, Freddys Nightmares, Thirtysomething, and Growing Pains. Pitt was cast as Billy Canton, an addict who takes advantage of a young runaway in the 1990 NBC television movie Too Young to Die. the story of an abused teenager sentenced to death for a murder
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Justin Theroux
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Justin Paul Theroux is an American actor, director, and screenwriter. He is best known for his work with film director David Lynch and he appeared in Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire. He is also known as a screenwriter for such as Tropic Thunder, Iron Man 2, Rock of Ages. Since 2014, he has starred in the HBO series The Leftovers, Theroux was born in Washington, D. C. His mother, Phyllis Grissim-Theroux, is a journalist and author who worked for The Washington Post and his father is of half French-Canadian and half Italian descent. Through his mother, Theroux is a great-great-grandson of financier, banker, hollins, and of music critic and author Gustav Kobbé. Theroux attended Lafayette Elementary School, Annunciation School, and the Field School and he first started acting while in high school at the Buxton School, in Williamstown, Massachusetts. He graduated from Bennington College in 1993 with a B. A. in visual arts, Theroux made his film debut in 1996 in Mary Harrons I Shot Andy Warhol. He has also performed in more films such as American Psycho. He appeared in the versions of the cult television shows Strangers With Candy. He starred in David Lynchs films Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire, in 2003, he was featured in a music video for the British band Muse for their song Hysteria. Theroux also has appeared on television, having starred in The District and appeared on episodes of such as Alias, Ally McBeal, Sex and the City. In 2006, he directed his first film, Dedication, which premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, a fan of the band Deerhoof, Theroux chose them to score Dedication. Theroux also had roles in two films at the festival, Broken English and The Ten, in which he played Jesus Christ alongside Gretchen Mol. Theroux co-wrote the Ben Stiller-directed Oscar-nominated film Tropic Thunder, and also appeared in the behind-the-scenes mockumentary Tropic Thunder, in 2008, Theroux played John Hancock in the HBO miniseries John Adams. In 2009, Theroux made up part of the voice cast for Call of Duty and he also played Justin in Parks and Recreation. Theroux wrote the screenplay for the 2010 film Iron Man 2, following Therouxs work on Tropic Thunder, actor Robert Downey Jr. recommended Theroux as a screenwriter to the films director, Jon Favreau. Theroux returned to acting in the film Your Highness, as Leezar and he starred in the 2012 comedy Wanderlust, playing the leader of a hippie commune
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Tate Donovan
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He also had supporting roles in films, such as Good Night, and Good Luck and Argo. Donovan also played Brian Sanders in Hostages and White House Chief of Staff Mark Boudreau in 24 and he has been a guest star in a number of television series. Donovan was born in Tenafly, New Jersey, to John Timothy Donovan, a surgeon, Donovan is the youngest of seven children. He attended Dwight-Englewood School in Englewood, New Jersey, before transferring to Tenafly High School and he appeared on television since his teenage years. Donovans earliest film roles included Kevin Donaldson in SpaceCamp, a drug addict in Clean and Sober, 1st Lieutenant Luke Sinclair in Memphis Belle. Later, he played Bob Anders, one of the key supporting roles in Argo, Donovan portrayed Joshua, the boyfriend of Rachel Green, on several episodes of Season 4 of Friends. He later portrayed the priest-son of a large Catholic family in Trinity and he has appeared as a guest star in several television series, such as Magnum, P. I. The Guardian, Mister Sterling, Exposed, and The O. C. where he appeared as Jimmy Cooper, from 2007-10, he portrayed Tom Shayes on Damages. In 2005, Donovan began directing television when he directed an episode of The O. C. In 2007 he guest starred on a season 6 episode of Law & Order, in 2009, he directed an episode of the sixth season of Medium. He also directed two episodes of Damages in its season and an episode of Nip/Tuck in its sixth season. In 2011, Donovan directed the Valentines Day-themed episode of Glee, in March 2010, he joined the cast of No Ordinary Family. However, after one season, the series was cancelled. Recently, Donovan guest appeared in the series, Red Oaks, Donovan starred on stage with Amy Ryan in the Los Angeles production of Rabbit Hole. On Broadway, he played Alan Seymour in the revival of Picnic in 1994, off Broadway, Donovan appeared with Glenn Fitzgerald in the 2001 production of Lobby Hero by Kenneth Lonergan, playing the role of the crooked cop Bill. Donovan has appeared in productions at the Williamstown Theater Festival, including Once in a Lifetime, Under the Blue Sky. He has also appeared at the Irish Repertory Theater in New York City, in 2011, he starred with Frances McDormand in the world premiere of David Lindsay-Abaires play Good People at the Manhattan Theatre Club. Donovan had a gig with traditional Irish band the Descendants
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John Aniston
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John Anthony Aniston is a Greek-American actor. He is best known for his Emmy-nominated role as Victor Kiriakis on the NBC daytime drama series Days of Our Lives and he is the father of actress Jennifer Aniston. Aniston was born Giannis Anastasakis in Chania on the island of Crete, Greece and his father anglicized his name when he immigrated to the United States when Aniston was two, and his parents opened a restaurant in Chester, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a degree in Theater Arts. While at Penn State, he became a member of Alpha Chi Rho fraternity, after college, he served in the United States Navy as an intelligence officer on active duty in Panama and later in the reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant commander. John has a daughter, actress Jennifer Aniston, with his first wife, Nancy Dow and his daughter Jennifers godfather was actor Telly Savalas, one of his best friends. He has appeared in soap operas regularly since 1969, when he first joined Days of Our Lives as a character named Eric Richards, in 1975, he joined the cast of Love of Life as Eddie Aleata. In November 1978, he left Love of Life and began playing Mary Stuarts new love interest, Martin Tourneur and he played that role until April 1984. He returned to the cast of Days of Our Lives a second time, this time as Victor Kiriakis, in July 1985 and he has been nominated for the 2017 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his performance. He also played a role on the television series Gilmore Girls. Aniston made guest appearances on Airwolf in season two, Combat and my Big Fat Greek Life, Star Trek, Voyager, Mission, Impossible, American Dreams, Journeyman, and Mad Men. John Aniston at the Internet Movie Database
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Rachel Green
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Rachel Karen Green is a fictional character, one of the six main characters who appear in the American sitcom Friends. During the shows season, the character becomes romantically involved with her friend Ross. Together, the characters have a daughter, Emma, critical reception towards Rachel has remained consistently positive throughout Friends decade-long run, with The A. V. Club attributing much of the early success to the character. However, some of her storylines have been criticized, specifically her relationship with her friend Joey during season ten. Rachel is also regarded as a style icon due to her influence on womenswear during the 1990s, meanwhile, the characters relationship with Ross is often cited among televisions most beloved. Rachel is considered to be Anistons breakout role, credited with making her the shows most famous cast member, Rachel debuts in the pilot episode of Friends as a runaway bride who is distraught after abandoning her fiancé Barry Farber at the altar. She locates her high school best friend Monica Geller, the person she knows in New York City. However, Ross eventually chooses Rachel over his girlfriend Julie, however, their relationship rapidly begins to deteriorate towards the end of the third season after Rachel quits her job at the coffeehouse in favor of working in fashion. In the episodes following the break up, Rachel and Ross are initially hostile towards each other, the exes continue to harbor feelings for each other. During a beach house vacation with their friends, Rachel and Ross briefly reconcile when he ends his relationship with Bonnie, during season four, Rachel dates her customer Joshua, while Ross dates her boss niece Emily, to whom he eventually gets engaged. Competitively, Rachel proposes to recent divorcee Joshua, frightening him off, Rachel indirectly contributes to the demise of Ross and Emilys relationship when he accidentally utters Rachels name while exchanging their wedding vows. Ross ultimately divorces a jealous Emily, choosing his friendship with Rachel instead, at the end of season five, Ross and Rachel drunkenly get married while vacationing with their friends in Las Vegas. In season six, their annulment request is denied because of Rachel having leveled unfounded allegations against Ross, in season seven, Ross and Rachel unwittingly conceive a child when their birth control fails. Rachel gives birth to a girl in season eight, naming the baby Emma Geller-Green, the name Emma is a gift from Monica, Rachel and Ross live together as non-romantic roommates during the first half of season nine. Rachel eventually finds a job opportunity in France, but has second thoughts when Ross eventually forfeits stubbornness, Rachel ultimately decides to stay and reignite her relationship with Ross, getting off the plane at the last minute. Conceived as a woman who is unprepared for adulthood, the character Rachel Green was originally named Rachel Robbins. Although critics and audiences initially perceived Monica as the main character when Friends premiered
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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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Screen Actors Guild Award
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The statuette given, a nude male figure holding both a mask of comedy and a mask of tragedy, is called The Actor. It is 16 inches tall, weighs over 12 pounds, is cast in solid bronze, SAG Awards have been one of the major awards events in Hollywood since 1995. It is considered an indicator of success at the Academy Awards, the awards have been telecast since 1998 on TNT, and since 2007 have been simulcast on TBS. The inaugural SAG Awards aired live on February 25,1995 from Universal Studios Stage 12, the second SAG awards aired live from the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, while subsequent awards have been held at the Shrine Exposition Center
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Bruce Almighty
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This is Shadyac and Carreys third collaboration, having previously worked together on Ace Ventura, Pet Detective in 1994 and Liar Liar in 1997. It co-stars Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Ann Walter, Philip Baker Hall, the movie surprised media analysts when it beat The Matrix Reloaded after its first week of release. By the time it left theaters in December 2003, it took in a United States domestic total of over $242 million, Bruce Nolan is a television field reporter for Eyewitness News at WKBW-TV in Buffalo, New York, but desires to be the news anchorman. He is in a relationship with his girlfriend Grace Connelly, but also has a mild crush on his co-worker, Susan Ortega. Furious, Bruce aggressively and profanely criticizes the station during his first live report, following a series of other misfortunes, Bruce takes out his frustration on God, blaming Him and claiming that He is the one who should be fired. Bruce later receives a message on his pager directing him to an empty warehouse, God offers to give Bruce His powers, to prove that He is doing His job correctly. God gives Bruce two rules that he must follow, firstly, Bruce cannot tell anyone else that he has Gods powers, Bruce then uses his powers to cause Evan to humiliate himself on air, causing Evan to be fired in favor of Bruce as the new anchor. After taking Grace to a dinner and telling her he made anchor. He re-encounters God, who confronts Bruce about his use of his powers. He explains that the voices are prayers to God, and that Bruce must deal with them, during a party to celebrate Bruces promotion, Susan seduces and kisses him. When Grace arrives and sees this, she storms out, Bruce follows her and he tries to use his powers to convince Grace to stay, but cannot influence her free will. As Bruce looks around, he realizes that automatically granting everyones prayers has plunged the city into chaos. Bruce returns to God, who explains that despite how chaotic things seem, there is always a way to make right. Bruce then begins to solve his problems in life practically, such as helping a man whose car has broken down, training his dog normally, Bruce returns to his computer system, having briefly unplugged it, and goes about answering prayers manually as best he can. As he reads them, he finds a prayer from Grace, wishing for Bruces success. As he reads it, another prayer from Grace arrives, this one wishing not to be in love with Bruce anymore, a despondent Bruce walks alone on a highway, asking God to take back His powers and letting his fate be in His hands. Bruce is suddenly struck by a truck and regains consciousness in a white void, God appears and asks Bruce what he really wants, Bruce admits that he only wants to make sure Grace finds a man that would make her happy. God agrees and Bruce finds himself in the hospital, shortly after being revived — near miraculously — by the doctors, Grace arrives and the two rekindle their relationship, later becoming engaged
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The Break-Up
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The Break-Up is a 2006 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Peyton Reed, starring Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston. It was written by Jay Lavender and Jeremy Garelick and produced by Universal Pictures, Gary Grobowski and Brooke Meyers meet at Wrigley Field during a Chicago Cubs game and begin dating, eventually buying a condominium together. Gary works as a guide in a family business with his brothers, Lupus. Brooke manages an art gallery owned by eccentric artist Marilyn Dean and their relationship comes to a head after the latest in an escalating series of, Why cant you do this one little thing for me. Brooke, feeling unappreciated, criticizes Garys perceived immaturity and unwillingness to work on improving their relationship, Gary is frustrated by Brooke’s perceived controlling, perfectionistic attitude, and expresses his desire to have a little more independence. Brooke becomes irate when Gary fails to offer to help her clean up after a big party at their home. Brooke seeks relationship advice from her friend Addie, while Gary goes to tell his side of things to friend Johnny Ostrofski. Since neither is willing to move out of their condo, they compromise by living as roommates, Gary buys a pool table, litters the condo with food and trash, and even has a strip poker party with Lupus and a few women. Meanwhile, Brooke has Gary kicked off their couples-only bowling team, when their friend and realtor Mark Riggleman sells the condo, Gary and Brooke are given two weeks notice to move out. Brooke invites Gary to an Old 97s concert, hoping that he will figure out that the gesture is meant to be her attempt to salvage their relationship. Gary agrees to meet her there, but misses the hidden agenda, afterwards, Brooke quits her job in order to spend time traveling Europe. When she brings a customer from the art gallery home one evening, Brooke finds the condo cleaned and he lays his heart on the line and promises to appreciate her more. Brooke begins crying and states that she just can not give in anymore and, therefore, Gary seems to understand and kisses her before leaving. It is later revealed that Brookes date was actually a client interested in a piece of artwork she kept at the condo, both eventually move out of the condo. Gary begins taking an active role in his tour guide business, while Brooke travels the world. Some time later, they meet again by chance on the street as Gary is bringing home groceries, after some awkward but friendly catching up, they part ways but each glances back over their shoulder and they share a smile. The romance/comedy film grossed over $205 million worldwide, with a total of $118.7 million at the American box office, on Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 33% based on 190 reviews with an average rating of 5/10. The sites critical consensus reads, This anti-romantic comedy lacks both laughs and insight, resulting in an odd and unsatisfying experience, on Metacritic, the film has a score of 45 out of 100 based on 37 critics, indicating mixed or average reviews
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Marley & Me (film)
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Marley & Me is a 2008 American comedy-drama film about the titular dog, Marley. It was directed by David Frankel and the screenplay by Scott Frank, the film stars Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston as Marleys owners. Marley & Me was released in the United States and Canada on December 25,2008, the film was followed by a 2011 direct-to-video prequel, Marley & Me, The Puppy Years. Soon after their wedding, John and Jenny Grogan escape the brutal Michigan winters and relocate to a cottage in South Florida, where they are hired as reporters for competing newspapers. When John senses Jenny is contemplating motherhood, his friend and co-worker Sebastian Tunney suggests the couple adopt a dog to see if theyre ready to raise a family, from a litter of newborn yellow Labrador retrievers they select Marley, who immediately proves to be incorrigible. They take him to Ms. Kornblut, who firmly believes any dog can be trained, editor Arnie Klein offers John a twice-weekly column in which he can discuss the fun and foibles of everyday living. At first stumped for material, John realizes the misadventures of Marley might be the topic for his first piece. Arnie agrees, and John settles into his new position, Marley continues to wreak havoc on the household, providing John with a wealth of material for his column, which becomes a hit with readers and helps increase the newspapers circulation. Jenny becomes pregnant, but loses the baby early in her first trimester, soon after returning from their vacation, Jenny discovers she is pregnant again, and this time she delivers a healthy boy, Patrick. When she has a son, Connor, she opts to give up her job and become a stay-at-home mom. Due to the rate, the couple decides to move to a larger house in the safer neighborhood of Boca Raton. She quickly comes to realize he has become an part of the family. Sebastian accepts a job for The New York Times and moves away, John celebrates his 40th birthday and later goes skinny dipping with Jenny in their swimming pool. Increasingly disenchanted with his job, he decides to accept a position as a reporter with The Philadelphia Inquirer with Jennys blessing, John soon realizes that he is a better columnist than reporter and pitches the column idea to his editor. Life is idyllic until the aging Marley begins to show signs of arthritis, an attack of gastric dilatation volvulus almost kills him, but he recovers. When a second attack occurs, it becomes clear surgery will not help him, the family pay their last respects to their beloved pet as they bury him beneath a tree in their front yard. The film was shot on location in Floridas West Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood, Miami, the Irish honeymoon scenes were shot in and around Ballynahinch Castle, Connemara, County Galway, Ireland. The films score was composed by Theodore Shapiro, who previously had worked with director Frankel on The Devil Wears Prada and he recorded it with the Hollywood Studio Symphony at the Newman Scoring Stage at 20th Century Fox
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Just Go with It
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The film is based on the 1969 film Cactus Flower which was adapted from an earlier Broadway stage play written by Abe Burrows, which in turn was based upon the French play Fleur de cactus. The film was a remake of Bollywood film Maine ne pyaar kyu kiya starring Salman Khan, production of the film began on March 2,2010. The film was released on February 11,2011 by Columbia Pictures in North America, the film grossed over $214 million, making it a box office success - however, the film received negative reviews from critics and won two Golden Raspberry Awards for Worst Actor and Worst Director. He goes to drink alone at a bar, where a young, beautiful woman walks in. She sees that Danny has a ring on his hand, and asks him about his wife and he says how she recently left him for someone else. Twenty-three years later in 2011, Danny is now a plastic surgeon in Los Angeles who feigns unhappy marriages to get women. The only woman aware of his schemes is his manager and best friend Katherine Murphy. At a party, Danny meets Palmer, a sixth grade teacher, without his wedding ring on. The next morning, she finds the ring and assumes he is married and she refuses to date him because her parents divorced due to adultery and does not want to be an adulteress herself. Instead of telling her the truth, Danny tells her that he is getting divorced from a woman named Devlin, Danny tells Palmer that they are getting divorced because she cheated on him with a man named Dolph Lundgren. Palmer then insists on meeting Devlin, Danny asks Katherine to pose as Devlin and they go shopping on Rodeo Drive for new clothes to dress like a trophy wife. A made-over Katherine/Devlin then meets with Danny and Palmer and gives them her blessing, however, after hearing Katherine talking on the phone with her kids, Palmer assumes that her kids are Dannys as well. Danny then privately meets with Katherines kids, Maggie and Michael, to get them to play along with the ruse and gives them the aliases of Kiki Dee, Palmer meets the kids, who then blackmail Danny in front of Palmer to take them all to Hawaii. At the airport, they are all surprised by Dannys goofball cousin Eddie, to maintain the lies, Danny and Katherine are forced to bring him along. At the resort in Hawaii, Danny tells Eddie he is considering asking Palmer to marry him, Katherine and Danny also run into the real-life Devlin Adams and her husband Ian Maxtone-Jones, who allegedly invented the iPod. Because of Katherine and Devlins long-time rivalry, Katherine introduces Danny as her rather than admit she is a single mother. Later, Palmer decides to time with Katherine so that Danny can spend more time with the kids. Danny teaches Michael how to swim, and Katherine and Palmer look on in admiration, Katherine again runs into Devlin, who invites her and Danny out to dinner
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Horrible Bosses
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Horrible Bosses is a 2011 American black comedy film directed by Seth Gordon, written by Michael Markowitz, John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, based on a story by Markowitz. It stars Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis, Jennifer Aniston, Colin Farrell, Kevin Spacey, and Jamie Foxx. The plot follows three friends, played by Bateman, Day, and Sudeikis, who decide to murder their respective overbearing, abusive bosses, portrayed by Spacey, Aniston and Farrell. Markowitzs script was bought by New Line Cinema in 2005 and the spent six years in various states of pre-production. By 2010, Goldstein and Daley had rewritten the script, the film premiered in Los Angeles on June 30,2011, and received a wide release on July 8,2011. The film grossed over $209 million worldwide during its theatrical run, the film opened to positive critical reception, with several critics praising the ensemble cast, with each lead being singled out for their performances across reviews. The plot received a mixed response, some reviewers felt that its dark, humorous premise was explored well, while others felt the jokes were racist, homophobic. A sequel, Horrible Bosses 2, was released on November 26,2014, Nick Hendricks and Dale Arbus are friends who despise their bosses. Nick works at a firm for the sadistic David Harken. Dale is a dental assistant being sexually harassed by his boss, Dr. Julia Harris, at night, over drinks, Kurt jokingly suggests that their lives would be happier if their bosses were no longer around. Initially hesitant, they agree to kill their employers. In search of a hitman, the trio meet Dean Motherfuckah Jones, Jones suggests that Dale, Kurt and Nick kill each others bosses to hide their motive while making the deaths look like accidents. The three reconnoiter Bobbys house, and Kurt steals Bobbys phone and they next go to Harkens house, where Kurt and Nick go inside while Dale waits in the car. Harken returns home and confronts Dale for littering, but then has an attack from the peanut butter on the litter. Dale saves Harken by stabbing him with an EpiPen, Nick and Kurt think Dale is stabbing Harken to death and flee, with Kurt accidentally dropping Bobbys phone in Harkens bedroom. The next night, Kurt watches Julias home, but she seduces and has sex with him, Nick and Dale reluctantly wait outside Bobbys and Harkens houses, respectively, to commit the murders, despite neither of them wanting to. Harken discovers Bobbys cellphone in his bedroom and uses it to find his address and he drives over and kills Bobby, with Nick as a secret witness. Nick flees at high speed, setting off a traffic camera, the trio meet to discuss their reservations about continuing with their plan
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We're the Millers
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Were the Millers is a 2013 American comedy film directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber. The films screenplay was written by Bob Fisher, Steve Faber, Sean Anders and it stars Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudeikis, Emma Roberts, Will Poulter, Nick Offerman, Kathryn Hahn, Molly Quinn and Ed Helms. The plot follows a small-time pot dealer who convinces his neighbors to create a fake family, the film was released on August 7,2013 by New Line Cinema through Warner Bros. It grossed $270 million worldwide during its run, against a $37 million budget. The film was nominated for four Peoples Choice Awards, and six MTV Movie Awards, a sequel is currently in development, with Adam Sztykiel set to write the script. A low-level marijuana dealer named David Clark, who lives in Denver, is robbed of his money and stash, after David is brought to him, Gurdlinger forces David to smuggle a smidge of marijuana from Mexico as a solution to clear his debt. When the Millers reach the compound, they find out that the amount of marijuana they were picking up is not a smidge but actually two tons. Because of the load of the marijuana on the RV that they are driving. A family they had encountered at the border, the Fitzgeralds, consisting of Don, Edith, on the trip to the shop, David learns that Don Fitzgerald is a DEA agent after finding his badge and gun in the glove compartment. The marijuana turns out to be stolen from Pablo Chacons cartel where Gurdlinger had David pose as an agent of Chacon and they immediately tell Chacon that they are not a real family and that they did not know they were stealing from him. Rose is given a chance to prove that she is a stripper by dancing, due to Kennys erratic driving, the RV veers off the highway and a tarantula, hiding in a bowl of fruit, crawls up Kennys leg and bites his testicle. Kenny has an allergic reaction to the bite, and the Millers head to the hospital near a carnival for the 4th of July. This further delays the delivery of the contraband, during their wait, David and Rose begin to bond and Rose reveals her real name to be Sarah. The two of them scold Casey for leaving with a boy, which leaves Casey feeling amused and happy for the attention she didnt receive from her actual. David renegotiates with Gurdlinger for a fee of $500,000 on the condition that it arrives that night, when Kenny is finally released from the hospital, David rushes him to the RV in a wheelchair and accidentally tips him over. In the ensuing argument, David inadvertently reveals how much he is getting paid, Casey, Sarah, and Kenny are left in disgust by the revelation, and so David leaves them at the local carnival. Shortly after leaving, David regrets abandoning them after hearing Waterfalls by TLC on the radio, before being sexually harassed, Casey tells Scotty about how she felt like she was actually part of a real family. David then arrives at the carnival, begging them to back with him
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Friends with Money
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Friends with Money is a 2006 comedy-drama film written and directed by Nicole Holofcener. It opened the 2006 Sundance Film Festival on January 19,2006, Olivia is a single, cash-strapped woman working as a maid in Los Angeles in order to make ends meet. While the disparity in financial situations between Olivia and her friends creates some friction, each woman is facing her own individual struggles, Olivia cant seem to find love or money and resorts to questionable tactics to satisfy both. Frannys inheritance sometimes causes tension between her and her accountant husband, who likes to spend it, christines marriage is falling apart because she and her husband cant communicate effectively. Finally, Jane is becoming increasingly unpleasant to be around, possibly because of her discomfort with her age, together, these women attend charity benefits, have lunch, lean on each other, and wade their way through life. The film received positive reviews from critics. The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 72% of the critics gave the film a review, based on 152 reviews. The sites critical consensus reads, Stong lead performances, witty dialogue, Metacritic reported the film had an average score of 68 out of 100, based on 38 reviews. McDormand won the Best Supporting Female award at the 2006 Independent Spirit Awards, the film was released on DVD on August 29,2006. It has grossed $29.60 M in U. S. DVD/home video rentals, Friends with Money at the Internet Movie Database Friends with Money at Metacritic. com
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The Good Girl
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The Good Girl is a 2002 American black-comedy drama film directed by Miguel Arteta from a script by Mike White, and stars Jennifer Aniston, Jake Gyllenhaal and John C. Reilly. One morning, Justine notices a new cashier and later introduces herself, Holden appears quiet and reserved, qualities that the two of them share and, therefore, quickly take a liking to one another. They begin taking their lunch together and Justine gives Holden rides home. One time, he invites her in and she accepts, as the weeks go by, Justine and Holden start to bring out the best in each other. But when Holden makes a pass at her, she rejects him and he becomes more and more besotted by her. Some time later, Holden does not show up to work but sends a letter to Justine, writing that if she does not meet him at 5pm that day behind the nearest Chuck E. Cheese, she will never see him again. After much consideration, Justine decides to accept Holdens invitation, only to be intercepted by her manager, Jack, Justine then meets up with Holden. The two have sex for the first time in a room that Justine pays for with her credit card. As the affair continues, Justines marriage to Phil continues to deteriorate, One night, Justine spots Bubbas truck in the parking lot of the motel where shes been meeting Holden. She becomes convinced that Bubba knows, telling Holden that they need to cool down for a while, when Justine goes to visit Gwen in the hospital, she is told that Gwen has died after contracting parasites from eating poisonous blackberries that she bought at a roadside fruit stand. When she returns home, Bubba starts hinting to Justine that he knows about her affair with Holden, feeling guilty, Justine suggests that she and Phil should attend a church bible study that Corny, a security guard, had invited them to. Soon after they arrive, Justine spots the motel clerk she encountered with Holden, she grabs Phil. Justine speaks to Holden in private at work the day, explaining that what theyre doing is wrong. Bubba tells Justine to meet him at his house and he blackmails her into a sexual encounter with him by threatening to tell Phil about her affair if she refuses, and she reluctantly gives into his demands. Holden, who has been following her since the split, sees them through a window, Holden does not show up for work the next day but is waiting in Justines car when her shift ends. He calls Justine a whore and drunkenly demands an apology and he then says he could kill her husband to free her from her marriage. Justine becomes desperate to extricate herself from the relationship with Holden and she goes to talk to his parents and tells them that he is drinking heavily, is mentally ill and that he has imagined a romantic liaison between them. She goes on to suggest that Holden be hospitalized and that night after feeling unwell all day, Justine takes a pregnancy test
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Cake (2014 film)
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It debuted in the Special Presentations section of the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival. Anistons performance received praise and earned her nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Award. On February 10,2014, it was announced that Jennifer Aniston would play the lead in Cake, daniel Barnz, the director, said Of the zillions of Jennifer Aniston fans, I might be the biggest one of all. Ive especially loved her more dramatic performances, and I can’t wait to watch her tackle a role that has such a funny voice. I’m honored to be collaborating with Ben, Kristin and Courtney and it feels like we’re all taking a leap of faith together, and that’s pretty thrilling. On March 15, Mexican actress Adriana Barraza was also announced in the cast of the drama, the rest of the cast was revealed on April 1. Principal photography, which place in Los Angeles, began April 3,2014. Cake was released in theatres on December 31,2014 by Cinelou Films. The film was released on DVD & Blu-Ray April 21,2015, Cake received mixed reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a rating of 48% based on 112 reviews, on Metacritic, the film has a score of 49 out of 100, based on 34 critics, indicating mixed or average reviews. At the Toronto premiere, the cast received a standing ovation, the performances of Jennifer Aniston and Adriana Barraza have been highly praised by some critics. Pete Hammond of Deadline described Anistons performance as heartbreakingly good, there are really no tricks to this performance. Its raw and real, poignant and unexpected, clayton Davis of Awards Circuit spoke of Anistons performance as the single best performance by an actress this year. Anistons performance is something that most actresses will pray to be able to achieve, in his review for HitFix, Gregory Ellwood wrote that Aniston makes you believe in Claires pain. She makes you believe this character is at her lowest point, there is no massive crying fit. Its a complete performance from beginning to end and she deserves the appropriate accolades for it, of Anistons performance, David Nusair of Reel Film Reviews wrote. the actress steps into the shoes of her thoroughly damaged character to an often revelatory extent. Official website Cake at the Internet Movie Database Cake at Rotten Tomatoes Cake at Metacritic
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Along Came Polly
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Along Came Polly is a 2004 American romantic comedy film written and directed by John Hamburg, starring Ben Stiller and Jennifer Aniston in the lead roles. Returning home to New York alone, he attempts to piece his life back together, Reuben goes to an art gallery with his friend, Sandy Lyle, where he runs into former junior high school classmate Polly Prince. The contrast between their two personalities is a source of comedy throughout the film until Lisa returns and tells him she wants to reconcile their relationship. Meanwhile, Sandy, a self-centered, former teen idol, is trying to make a comeback by having a documentary filmed about his role as Judas in an amateur production of Jesus Christ Superstar. Reuben is torn between the free-spirited Polly and the safe and familiar Lisa, to solve this issue, he enters information about Polly and Lisa into a computer insurance program which measures risk. The computer tells him that, despite his numerous blunders with her, Polly joins Reuben on a sailing trip where he is to inspect Leland Van Lew, a high-risk client, but she is offended when she sees his risk analysis of her. She rejects his proposal to move in together, telling him that he would be better off going back to Lisa, back home, Reuben tries talking to Polly, but to no avail. He eventually invites Lisa to Sandys opening show, where he learns that Polly is leaving New York for Cincinnati in a few hours. After a speech given by his father, Irving, to Sandy about not living in the past, Reuben realizes he wants to be with Polly and not Lisa, and he rushes to her apartment to stop her from leaving. Polly is not convinced she should stay with him, so Reuben eats food off the ground to prove he is capable of taking risks, Reuben and Polly vacation on the same beach where Lisa and he had their honeymoon. Reuben again encounters Claude, but instead of being angry, he thanks Claude before heading into the water with Polly to join Van Lew on his new boat, the film opened at #1 at the U. S. Box office, earning $27,721,185 USD in its weekend, ending the month-long reign of The Lord of the Rings. Along Came Polly received negative reviews, critics commented that Aniston, the film holds an approval rating of 25% at Rotten Tomatoes based on 157 reviews. Metacritic, which assigns an average score from 1 to 100 to reviews from mainstream critics. The film was a success, making $172 million at the box office worldwide off a $42 million budget. Ben Stiller earned a Golden Raspberry Award nomination for Worst Actor for his performance in the film, official website Along Came Polly at the Internet Movie Database Along Came Polly at AllMovie Along Came Polly at Box Office Mojo
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He's Just Not That into You (film)
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The film was produced by Drew Barrymores production company, Flower Films, while serving as an executive producer. The film grossed over $181 million at the box office. Nine people in Baltimore deal with their romantic problems, usually thwarted by the differing ideals. At the center of this is Gigi Phillips, a woman who repeatedly misinterprets the behavior of her romantic partners. Gigi is a woman who repeatedly misreads mundane actions and comments from her dates as indications that they are romantically interested in her. In attempting to meet Conor Barry, an estate agent, at a bar, she befriends the bar owner Alex. Their friendship continues, and Gigi interprets his eagerness to always assist as a sign that he is interested in her and she makes a move, but Alex claims he is not romantically interested in her and chastises her for ignoring his advice. She angrily replies that at least she has not let herself become cynical, Gigi eventually moves on from Alex, however, in a role reversal, Alex begins falling for Gigi. After leaving several unanswered messages, Alex arrives at Gigis apartment to declare his love, Gigi thinks that she is the rule, but after Alex suddenly kisses her passionately, he says that she is his exception. Gigis friend and co-worker Janine Gunders is having difficulties in her marriage to Ben, as Janine obsesses on their home renovations, Ben becomes attracted to Anna Marks, a yoga instructor and aspiring singer, and the feeling is mutual. Ben and Anna pursue a flirtatious friendship under the pretense of him helping her establish a singing career, Ben reveals to Anna that Janine once gave him an ultimatum by threatening to leave him if he did not propose. Ben agrees to be friends with Anna, and in order to flirt with him she strips and jumps naked into a swimming pool and she invites him to join, but he decides against it. Fervently anti-smoking, Janine pointedly asks Ben if he has been smoking, Ben insists that they are not his, and their contractor, Javier, says none of his workers smoke at the house. During a tense shopping trip, Ben reveals to Janine that he has cheated on her, Janine is devastated but rationalizes Bens behavior, blaming herself for being too cold in the relationship, and decides she wants to save their marriage. After a positive meeting about her career, Anna begins to have sex with Ben in his office. They are interrupted by Janine who, hoping to spice up their marriage, has arrived unexpectedly, Anna hides in a closet, and Ben attempts to send Janine away who then makes a heartfelt plea to save their marriage, and there are indications she succeeds in seducing him. After Janine leaves, Anna angrily departs vowing to cut ties with Ben, as Janine tidies up Bens clothes back at their completed house, she discovers a fresh pack of cigarettes in a pocket, and she explodes in anger. When Ben returns home, he finds his clothes neatly folded with a carton of cigarettes, Janine moves into a new apartment by herself to start a new life, and Anna is later seen performing at an upscale nightclub
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Hollywood Walk of Fame
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The Walk of Fame is administered by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and maintained by the self-financing Hollywood Historic Trust. It is a popular tourist destination, with a reported 10 million visitors in 2003, as of 2017, the Walk of Fame comprises over 2,600 stars, spaced at 6-foot intervals. The monuments are coral-pink terrazzo five-point stars rimmed with brass inlaid into a charcoal-colored terrazzo background, in the upper portion of each star field the name of the honoree is inlaid in brass block letters. Below the inscription, in the half of the star field. Approximately 20 new stars are added to the Walk each year, special category stars recognize various contributions by corporate entities, service organizations, and special honorees, and display emblems unique to those honorees. The moons are silver and grey terrazzo circles rimmed in brass on a square pink terrazzo background, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce credits E. M. Stuart, its volunteer president in 1953, with the original idea for creating a Walk of Fame. Stuart reportedly proposed the Walk as a means to maintain the glory of a community whose name means glamor, Harry Sugarman, another Chamber member and president of the Hollywood Improvement Association, receives credit in an independent account. A committee was formed to flesh out the idea, and a firm was retained to develop specific proposals. By 1955 the basic concept and general design had been agreed upon, multiple accounts exist for the origin of the star concept. By another account, the stars were inspired, by Sugarmans drinks menu, which featured celebrity photos framed in gold stars. In February 1956 a prototype was unveiled featuring a caricature of an example honoree inside a star on a brown background. The committees met at the Brown Derby restaurant, and included such prominent names as Cecil B, deMille, Samuel Goldwyn, Jesse L. Lasky, Walt Disney, Hal Roach, Mack Sennett, and Walter Lantz. A requirement stipulated by the audio recording committee specified minimum sales of one million records or 250,000 albums for all music category nominees. The committee soon realized that many important recording artists would be excluded from the Walk by that requirement, as a result, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences was formed for the purpose of creating a separate award system for the music business. The first Grammy Awards were presented in Beverly Hills in 1959, construction of the Walk began in 1958 but two lawsuits delayed completion. The first was filed by local property owners challenging the legality of the $1.25 million tax assessment levied upon them to pay for the Walk, along with new street lighting, in October 1959 the assessment was ruled legal. The second lawsuit, filed by Charles Chaplin, Jr. sought damages for the exclusion of his father, chaplins suit was dismissed in 1960, paving the way for completion of the project. Woodwards name was one of eight drawn at random from the original 1,558, the other seven names were Olive Borden, Ronald Colman, Louise Fazenda, Preston Foster, Burt Lancaster, Edward Sedgwick, and Ernest Torrence
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United States dollar
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The United States dollar is the official currency of the United States and its insular territories per the United States Constitution. It is divided into 100 smaller cent units, the circulating paper money consists of Federal Reserve Notes that are denominated in United States dollars. The U. S. dollar was originally commodity money of silver as enacted by the Coinage Act of 1792 which determined the dollar to be 371 4/16 grain pure or 416 grain standard silver, the currency most used in international transactions, it is the worlds primary reserve currency. Several countries use it as their currency, and in many others it is the de facto currency. Besides the United States, it is used as the sole currency in two British Overseas Territories in the Caribbean, the British Virgin Islands and Turks and Caicos Islands. A few countries use the Federal Reserve Notes for paper money, while the country mints its own coins, or also accepts U. S. coins that can be used as payment in U. S. dollars. After Nixon shock of 1971, USD became fiat currency, Article I, Section 8 of the U. S. Constitution provides that the Congress has the power To coin money, laws implementing this power are currently codified at 31 U. S. C. Section 5112 prescribes the forms in which the United States dollars should be issued and these coins are both designated in Section 5112 as legal tender in payment of debts. The Sacagawea dollar is one example of the copper alloy dollar, the pure silver dollar is known as the American Silver Eagle. Section 5112 also provides for the minting and issuance of other coins and these other coins are more fully described in Coins of the United States dollar. The Constitution provides that a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and that provision of the Constitution is made specific by Section 331 of Title 31 of the United States Code. The sums of money reported in the Statements are currently being expressed in U. S. dollars, the U. S. dollar may therefore be described as the unit of account of the United States. The word dollar is one of the words in the first paragraph of Section 9 of Article I of the Constitution, there, dollars is a reference to the Spanish milled dollar, a coin that had a monetary value of 8 Spanish units of currency, or reales. In 1792 the U. S. Congress passed a Coinage Act, Section 20 of the act provided, That the money of account of the United States shall be expressed in dollars, or units. And that all accounts in the offices and all proceedings in the courts of the United States shall be kept and had in conformity to this regulation. In other words, this act designated the United States dollar as the unit of currency of the United States, unlike the Spanish milled dollar the U. S. dollar is based upon a decimal system of values. Both one-dollar coins and notes are produced today, although the form is significantly more common
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Godparent
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A godparent, in many denominations of Christianity, is someone who sponsors a childs baptism, although the term has also been used in a legal sense. A male godparent is a godfather, and a female godparent is a godmother, as early as the 2nd century AD, infant baptism had begun to gain acceptance among Christians for the spiritual purification and social initiation of infants. The requirement for some confession of faith necessitated the use of adults who acted as sponsors for the child and they vocalized the confession of faith and acted as guarantors of the child’s spiritual upbringing. Normally, these sponsors were the parents of a child, as emphasized in 408 by St. Augustine who suggested that they could, it seems exceptionally. Within a century, the Corpus Juris Civilis indicates that parents had been replaced in this role almost completely and this was clarified in 813 when the Council of Munich prohibited natural parents from acting as godparents to their own children. This pattern was marked by the creation of legal barriers to marriage that paralleled those for other forms of kin, as confirmation emerged as a separate rite from baptism from the 8th century, a second set of sponsors, with similar prohibitions, also emerged. Luther, Zwingli, and Calvin preserved infant baptism against the attacks of more radical reformers including Anabaptists, in 888, the Catholic Council of Metz attempted to limit the number to one, but proliferation seems to have continued. In early 14th-century Spain, as many as 20 godparents were being chosen, in England, the Synod of Worcester stipulated three sponsors, and this has remained the norm in the Church of England. The Council of Trent attempted to limit the numbers of godparents to one or two, but practice has differed across the Catholic world. They were abolished in 1644 by the Directory of Public Worship promulgated by the English Civil War Parliamentary regime, after the Restoration in 1660, they were reintroduced to Anglicanism, with occasional objections, but dropped by almost every dissenting church. There is some evidence that the institution had lost some of its social importance as well as its universality. At present, in the Church of England, relatives can stand as godparents, godparents should be both baptized and confirmed, but the requirement for confirmation can be waived. There is no requirement for clergy to baptize those from outside their parishes, as a result, individual clergy have considerable discretion over the qualifications of godparents. Many contemporary Anglican rites likewise require parents and godparents to respond on behalf of infant candidates, the Catholic institution of godparenthood survived the Reformation largely unchanged. Someone who belongs to another Christian church cannot become a godparent, a witness does not have any religious role recognized by the Church. Lutherans follow a similar theology of godparents as Roman Catholics and they believe that godparents help with their Christian upbringing, especially if they should lose their parents. Lutherans, like Roman Catholics, believe that a godparent must be both a baptized and confirmed Christian, some Lutherans also follow the Roman Catholic tradition that a Christian who is not affiliated with the Lutheran denomination may serve as a witness rather than a godparent. The Orthodox institution of godparenthood has been the least affected of the traditions by change
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Telly Savalas
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Aristotelis Telly Savalas was an American singer and film, television, and character actor whose career spanned four decades of television. He was noted for his deep, gravelly voice and his bald head and he also released the one-hit wonder song, If. which he introduced in the UK in 1975. He had also appeared as a guest on talk and variety shows. Savalass career began in films in 1961 and he then continued achieving success in the television crime drama Kojak, co-starring his real-life brother George Savalas, in which Savalas played the title role. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Birdman of Alcatraz, one set of grandparents originated from Ierakas, Greece, in the Peloponnese. Savalas and his brother Gus sold newspapers and shined shoes to help support the family and he entered Sewanhaka High School in Floral Park, New York, and graduated in 1940. He initially spoke only Greek when he entered school. He attended Cobbett Junior High School in Lynn, Massachusetts and he won a spelling bee there in 1934, though through an oversight he did not receive his prize until 1991, when the Boston Herald newspaper and local school principal decided to award it to him. After graduation from school he worked as a lifeguard, but on one occasion was unsuccessful at rescuing a man from drowning. When he entered Columbia University School of General Studies Savalas took courses including English language, radio, at that time he fell in love with radio and television, which led to his interest in acting. In 1950, Savalas hosted a show called The Coffeehouse in New York City. Savalas began as a director and then senior director of the news special events at ABC. He then became a producer for the Gillette Cavalcade of Sports where he gave Howard Cosell his first job in television. Savalas was an actor on television series during 1959 and the 1960s. His first acting role was on And Bring Home a Baby and he appeared on two more episodes of this same series in 1959 and 1960. The Fugitive, Breaking Point, Bonanza, The Man from U. N. C. L. E, the F. B. I. and the The Twilight Zone classic episode Living Doll in which he can be seen with hair. He had a role as Brother Hendricksen on the popular crime drama series,77 Sunset Strip and was a regular on the short-lived NBC television series Acapulco. In 1980, he starred in the TV film Alcatraz, The Whole Shocking Story, while playing Lucky Luciano on the TV series The Witness, he was discovered by actor Burt Lancaster
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Waldorf education
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Waldorf education, also known as Steiner education, is based on the educational philosophy of Rudolf Steiner, the founder of anthroposophy. Its pedagogy emphasizes the role of imagination in learning, striving to integrate holistically the intellectual, practical, the overarching goal is to develop free, morally responsible, and integrated individuals equipped with a high degree of social competence. Individual teachers and schools have a deal of autonomy in determining curriculum content, teaching methodology. The first Waldorf school opened in 1919 in Stuttgart, Germany, there are also a number of Waldorf-based public schools, charter schools and academies, and homeschooling environments. In Continental Europe, Waldorf pedagogy has become a theory of education that has influenced public schooling. Public funding of Waldorf schools in English-speaking countries is increasingly widespread but has encountered controversy and this is the source of the name Waldorf, which is now trademarked in some countries in association with the method. The Stuttgart school grew rapidly and soon the majority of pupils were from families not connected directly with the company, the co-educational school was the first comprehensive school in Germany, serving children from all social classes, genders, abilities, and interests. Waldorf education became widely known in Britain in 1922 through lectures Steiner gave on education at a conference at Oxford University. The first school in England, now Michael Hall school, was founded in 1925, the first in the USA, the Rudolf Steiner School in New York City, in 1928. By the 1930s, numerous schools inspired by the school or its pedagogical principles had opened in Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Hungary, the USA. Political interference from the Nazi regime limited and ultimately closed most Waldorf schools in Europe, with the exception of the British, Swiss, the affected schools were reopened after the Second World War, though those in Soviet-dominated areas were closed again a few years later by Communist regimes. In North America, the number of Waldorf schools increased from nine in the US and one in Canada in 1967 to around 200 in the US, there are currently 33 Steiner schools in the United Kingdom and four in the Republic of Ireland. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Waldorf schools began to proliferate in Central, most recently, many schools have opened in Asia, especially in China. There are currently over 1,000 independent Waldorf schools worldwide, the structure of Waldorf education follows Steiners theory of child development, which divides childhood into three developmental stages, and describes learning strategies appropriate to each stage. These stages, each of which lasts seven years, are broadly similar to those described by Piaget. Steiners educational ideas closely follow modern common sense educational theory, as this has developed since Comenius and Pestalozzi. The stated purpose of this approach is to awaken the physical, behavioral, emotional, cognitive, social, a 2005 review found that Waldorf schools successfully develop creative, social and other capabilities important in the holistic growth of the person. Where is the book in which the teacher can read about what teaching is, the children themselves are this book
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Victor Kiriakis
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Victor Kiriakis is a fictional character on NBCs Days of Our Lives. The role has been portrayed by John Aniston since 1985 and his time on the show has been since 1985 with a brief storyline driven absence in 2004 when his character was killed off but found alive on the island of Melaswen. Victor came to Salem in 1985 as an old friend of the Brady clan, Victor was born in Nafplion, Greece, and emigrated to the United States with his family as a child. S. Government that turned out to be made of a material with various potential military applications. It was during this heyday that even the music played at the beginning of Victors scenes resembled the main theme of The Godfather, Victor worked to help restore Blacks memory and learn his true identity, until Black escaped. Victor is also the father of Isabella Toscano, eventually, Victor semi-retired, in an effort to win the love and respect of his children, he eventually renounced his evil ways and became a legitimate, albeit still ruthless, businessman. However, occasionally Victor will use some of his old connections to help his family. Victor was briefly married to Nicole Walker, who had saved his life when Kate Roberts was trying to have him killed during Gretas coronation, Nicole had an affair with Colin Murphy and Victor wanted a divorce. In February 2004, Nicole got Jan Spears to kill Victor by electrocuting him in his bathtub, Victor survived the attempt on his life and was held prisoner by Andre DiMera with other victims of the Salem Serial Killer. While on Melaswen, Victor kept a low profile and reconnected with his former love, Nicole was stunned when Victor returned to Salem in August 2005 and he made it his mission to get revenge. Victor won Philip custody, but Claire was taken out of the country by Belle, Philip eventually found them on the island of Tinda Lau, near Australia. After surviving a typhoon in the Pacific, Philip agreed to drop the pursuit of custody if Belle and Shawn would allow him to be a part of Claires life and this disappointed Victor, but he has since learned to accept it. Victor made attempts to amend his relationship with Bo, Victors relationship with Bo rebounded in early 2008 following the death of Shawn Sr. Victors was there for Caroline and helped support her through her grief. Victor also took a role in helping Bo overcome his illness by bringing his godson Dr. Daniel Jonas to Salem. Victor suffered from a stroke and was incapacitated at University Hospital under the care of Dr. Daniel Jonas, somehow, Victor was aware that Bo had received evidence that would possibly implicate Philip in the disappearance of Paul Hollingsworth. Recovering in the hospital from his stroke, Victor commiserated with Kate, on December 22,2008, Victor asked his grandson Brady Black to be the Vice CEO of Titan Industries. Brady and Arianna found he was once the lord before selling his business to EJ DiMera. When Vivian Alamain returns to town, Victor begins dating her once again, in late 2010 Victor befriends and soon develops feelings for Maggie Horton
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NBC
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The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is the flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The network is part of the Big Three television networks, founded in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America, NBC is the oldest major broadcast network in the United States. Following the acquisition by GE, Bob Wright served as executive officer of NBC, remaining in that position until his retirement in 2007. In 2003, French media company Vivendi merged its entertainment assets with GE, Comcast purchased a controlling interest in the company in 2011, and acquired General Electrics remaining stake in 2013. Following the Comcast merger, Zucker left NBC Universal and was replaced as CEO by Comcast executive Steve Burke, during a period of early broadcast business consolidation, radio manufacturer Radio Corporation of America acquired New York City radio station WEAF from American Telephone & Telegraph. Westinghouse, a shareholder in RCA, had an outlet in Newark, New Jersey pioneer station WJZ. This station was transferred from Westinghouse to RCA in 1923, WEAF acted as a laboratory for AT&Ts manufacturing and supply outlet Western Electric, whose products included transmitters and antennas. The Bell System, AT&Ts telephone utility, was developing technologies to transmit voice- and music-grade audio over short and long distances, the 1922 creation of WEAF offered a research-and-development center for those activities. WEAF maintained a schedule of radio programs, including some of the first commercially sponsored programs. In an early example of chain or networking broadcasting, the station linked with Outlet Company-owned WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island, AT&T refused outside companies access to its high-quality phone lines. The early effort fared poorly, since the telegraph lines were susceptible to atmospheric. In 1925, AT&T decided that WEAF and its network were incompatible with the companys primary goal of providing a telephone service. AT&T offered to sell the station to RCA in a deal that included the right to lease AT&Ts phone lines for network transmission, the divisions ownership was split among RCA, its founding corporate parent General Electric and Westinghouse. NBC officially started broadcasting on November 15,1926, WEAF and WJZ, the flagships of the two earlier networks, were operated side-by-side for about a year as part of the new NBC. On April 5,1927, NBC expanded to the West Coast with the launch of the NBC Orange Network and this was followed by the debut of the NBC Gold Network, also known as the Pacific Gold Network, on October 18,1931. The Orange Network carried Red Network programming, and the Gold Network carried programming from the Blue Network, initially, the Orange Network recreated Eastern Red Network programming for West Coast stations at KPO in San Francisco. The Orange Network name was removed from use in 1936, at the same time, the Gold Network became part of the Blue Network. In the 1930s, NBC also developed a network for shortwave radio stations, in 1927, NBC moved its operations to 711 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, occupying the upper floors of a building designed by architect Floyd Brown
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Days of Our Lives
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Days of Our Lives is an American daytime soap opera broadcast on the NBC television network. It is one of the scripted television programs in the world. It has since been syndicated to many countries around the world and it rebroadcast same-day episodes on SOAPnet weeknights at 8 and 10 p. m. until the networks closure in 2013. The series was created by husband-and-wife team Ted Corday and Betty Corday. Irna Phillips was an editor for Days of Our Lives. In February 2016, the received a one-year renewal through 2017. Due to the success, it was expanded from 30 minutes to 60 minutes on April 21,1975. The series focuses on its core families, the Hortons and the Bradys, several other families have been added to the cast, and many of them still appear on the show. Frances Reid, the matriarch of the series Horton family remained with the show from its inception to her death on February 3,2010. Suzanne Rogers celebrated 40 years on Days of Our Lives this year, Susan Seaforth Hayes is the only cast member to appear on Days of Our Lives in all five decades it has been on air. Days of Our Lives aired its 10, 000th episode on February 21,2005, the soap was given the title of most daring drama in the seventies due to covering topics other soaps would not dare to do. The shows executive producer is Ken Corday, and co-executive producers are Greg Meng, Days of Our Lives is the most widely distributed soap opera in the United States. The show has had high-profile fans such as actress Julia Roberts, the Cordays and Bell combined the hospital soap idea with the tradition of centering a series on a family, by making the show about a family of doctors, including one who worked in a mental hospital. Former executive producer Al Rabin took pride in the characters passion, critics originally praised the show for its non-reliance on nostalgia and its portrayal of real American contemporary families. The January 12,1976 cover of Time magazine featured Days of Our Lives Bill Hayes and Susan Seaforth Hayes, Days of Our lives actors have also won awards, Macdonald Carey won Best Actor in 1974 and 1975. Susan Flannery and Eileen Davidson won Best Actress in 1975 and 2014, suzanne Rogers, Leann Hunley, and Tamara Braun won Best Supporting Actress for, respectively,1979,1986, and 2009 and Billy Warlock won Best Younger Actor for 1988. In January 2007 it was suggested by NBC that the show is unlikely to continue past 2009, in November 2008, in an eleventh-hour decision, it was announced the show had been renewed through September 2010. The 18-month renewal was down from its previous renewal, which was for five years, the show made somewhat of a comeback in 2009, with ratings increasing as the year progressed. The series received a renewal in January 2014 that is set to last until September 2016
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The Wild Wild West
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The Wild Wild West is an American television series that ran on the CBS television network for four seasons from September 17,1965 to April 4,1969. Two television movies were made with the original cast in 1979 and 1980, developed at a time when the television western was losing ground to the spy genre, this show was conceived by its creator, Michael Garrison, as James Bond on horseback. The show featured a number of elements, such as the technologically advanced devices used by the agents. The combination of the Victorian era time-frame and the use of Verne-esque technology has inspired some to give the credit as being one of the more visible origins of the steampunk subculture. These elements were accentuated even more in the 1999 movie adaptation, despite high ratings, the series was cancelled near the end of its fourth season as a concession to Congress over television violence. The Wild Wild West told the story of two Secret Service agents, the fearless and handsome James T. West, and Artemus Gordon and their unending mission was to protect President Ulysses S. Grant and the United States from all manner of dangerous threats. The agents traveled in luxury aboard their own train, the Wanderer, thereafter, however, there is no pretense, and his reputation as the foremost Secret Service agent often precedes him. According to the TV movies, West retires from the Service by 1880, Gordon, who was a captain in the Civil War, had also been in show business. When he retires in 1880 he returns to performing as the head of a Shakespeare traveling players troupe, the show incorporated classic Western elements with an espionage thriller, science fiction/alternate history ideas, in one case horror and plenty of humor. In the tradition of James Bond, there were beautiful women, clever gadgets. The title of each episode begins with The Night and this followed other idiosyncratic naming conventions established by shows like Rawhide, where each episode title began with Incident at or Incident of, and The Man from U. N. C. L. E. Where episodes were titled The Affair, in 1954, Michael Garrison and Gregory Ratoff purchased the film rights to Ian Flemings first Bond novel, Casino Royale, for $600. CBS bought the TV rights for $1,000, and on October 21,1954 broadcast an adaptation on its Climax. Series, with Barry Nelson playing American agent ‘Jimmy Bond’ and Peter Lorre playing the villain, CBS also approached Fleming about developing a Bond TV series. In 1955 Ratoff and Garrison bought the rights to the novel in perpetuity for an additional $6,000 and they pitched the idea for a film to 20th Century Fox, but studio turned them down. After Ratoff died in 1960, his widow and Garrison sold the rights to Charles K. Feldman for $75,000. Feldman eventually produced the spoof Casino Royale in 1967, by then, Garrison and CBS had brought a James Bond to television in a unique way. The pilot episode, The Night of the Inferno, was produced by Garrison and, according to Robert Conrad, the episode was scripted by Gilbert Ralston, who had written for numerous episodic TV series in the 1950s and 1960s
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The Beverly Hillbillies
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The Beverly Hillbillies is an American sitcom originally broadcast on CBS for nine seasons, from September 26,1962, to March 23,1971. The show was produced by Filmways and was created by writer Paul Henning and it was followed by two other Henning-inspired country-cousin series on CBS, Petticoat Junction, and its spin-off Green Acres, which reversed the rags-to-riches model of The Beverly Hillbillies. It accumulated seven Emmy nominations during its run, the series remains in syndication on MeTV, and its ongoing popularity spawned a 1993 film remake by 20th Century Fox. In 1997, the season 3 episode Hedda Hoppers Hollywood was ranked number 62 on TV Guides 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time, the Beverly Hillbillies is the first in the fish out of water genre of television shows. The series starts as Jed Clampett, a mountaineer, is living alongside an oil-rich swamp with his daughter. A surveyor for the OK Oil Company realizes the size of the oil field, patriarch Jeds cousin Pearl prods him to move to California after being told his modest property could yield $25 million. His family moves into a mansion in wealthy Beverly Hills, California and they bring a moral, unsophisticated, and minimalistic lifestyle to the swanky, sometimes self-obsessed and superficial community. Double entendres and cultural misconceptions are the core of the sitcoms humor, plots often involve the outlandish efforts Drysdale makes to keep the Clampetts in Beverly Hills and their money in his bank. The familys periodic attempts to return to the mountains are often prompted by Grannys perceiving a slight from one of the city folk, the state in which Ozarks, the location from which the Clampetts move to California, is located is never revealed. Jed is the son of Luke Clampett and his wife, and has a sister called Myrtle, a principal character of the show, Jed is a good-natured man, he is the apparent head of the family. Jeds wife died, but is referred to in the episode Duke Steals A Wife as Rose Ellen, Jed is shown to be an expert marksman and is extremely loyal to his family and kinfolk. The huge oil pool in the swamp he owned was the beginning of his rags-to-riches journey to Beverly Hills, although he longs for the old ways back in the hills, he makes the best of being in Beverly Hills. Whenever he has anything on his mind, he sits on the curbstone of his mansion, Jed was one of the three characters to appear in all 274 episodes of the series. Daisy May Moses, called Granny by all is Jeds shotgun-toting mother-in-law, Granny can be aggressive, but is often overruled by Jed. She is a Confederate to the core, defending President Jefferson Davis, the Stars and Bars, short-fused and easily angered, Granny fancies herself a dunked Christian with forgiveness in her heart. She abhors revenuers and blue-coat Yankees, a self-styled M. D. — mountain doctor — she claims to have an edge over expensive know-nothing city physicians. In lieu of anesthesia, Granny uses her white lightning brew before commencing on painful treatments such as bleeding and yanking teeth with pliers. Short and scrappy, Granny often wields a double-barreled, 12-gauge shotgun and she fires it once at the front lawn when Jed is witching for water and several times on the skeet-shooting range
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Manhattan
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Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and the citys historical birthplace. The borough is coextensive with New York County, founded on November 1,1683, Manhattan is often described as the cultural and financial capital of the world and hosts the United Nations Headquarters. Many multinational media conglomerates are based in the borough and it is historically documented to have been purchased by Dutch colonists from Native Americans in 1626 for 60 guilders which equals US$1062 today. New York County is the United States second-smallest county by land area, on business days, the influx of commuters increases that number to over 3.9 million, or more than 170,000 people per square mile. Manhattan has the third-largest population of New York Citys five boroughs, after Brooklyn and Queens, the City of New York was founded at the southern tip of Manhattan, and the borough houses New York City Hall, the seat of the citys government. The name Manhattan derives from the word Manna-hata, as written in the 1609 logbook of Robert Juet, a 1610 map depicts the name as Manna-hata, twice, on both the west and east sides of the Mauritius River. The word Manhattan has been translated as island of hills from the Lenape language. The United States Postal Service prefers that mail addressed to Manhattan use New York, NY rather than Manhattan, the area that is now Manhattan was long inhabited by the Lenape Native Americans. In 1524, Florentine explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano – sailing in service of King Francis I of France – was the first European to visit the area that would become New York City. It was not until the voyage of Henry Hudson, an Englishman who worked for the Dutch East India Company, a permanent European presence in New Netherland began in 1624 with the founding of a Dutch fur trading settlement on Governors Island. In 1625, construction was started on the citadel of Fort Amsterdam on Manhattan Island, later called New Amsterdam, the 1625 establishment of Fort Amsterdam at the southern tip of Manhattan Island is recognized as the birth of New York City. In 1846, New York historian John Romeyn Brodhead converted the figure of Fl 60 to US$23, variable-rate myth being a contradiction in terms, the purchase price remains forever frozen at twenty-four dollars, as Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace remarked in their history of New York. Sixty guilders in 1626 was valued at approximately $1,000 in 2006, based on the price of silver, Straight Dope author Cecil Adams calculated an equivalent of $72 in 1992. In 1647, Peter Stuyvesant was appointed as the last Dutch Director General of the colony, New Amsterdam was formally incorporated as a city on February 2,1653. In 1664, the English conquered New Netherland and renamed it New York after the English Duke of York and Albany, the Dutch Republic regained it in August 1673 with a fleet of 21 ships, renaming the city New Orange. Manhattan was at the heart of the New York Campaign, a series of battles in the early American Revolutionary War. The Continental Army was forced to abandon Manhattan after the Battle of Fort Washington on November 16,1776. The city, greatly damaged by the Great Fire of New York during the campaign, became the British political, British occupation lasted until November 25,1783, when George Washington returned to Manhattan, as the last British forces left the city
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Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School
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Fiorello H. S. state of New York. The school has a mission of arts and academics, preparing students for a career in the arts or conservatory study as well as a pursuit of higher education. The school in 2013–2014 had 2,730 students and 163 staff members, the High School of Music & Art was founded by Fiorello H. LaGuardia in 1936. As the mayor of New York City he wanted to establish a school in which students could hone their talents in music, art. In 1948, a similar institution – the School of Performing Arts – was created in an effort to harness students’ talents in dance, the schools merged on paper in 1961 and were to be combined in one building. However, this many years and it was not until 1984 that they moved to a new concrete building adjacent to Lincoln Center designed by Eduardo Catalano. The Board of Education honored Mayor LaGuardia posthumously by naming the new building after him, Performing Arts was located in midtown on 46th Street, both in Manhattan. Mayor La Guardia regarded Music & Art as the most hopeful accomplishment of his administration as mayor. The 1980 dramatic film Fame was based on student life at the School of Performing Arts prior to its merger into LaGuardia High School. It was so successful that a series, Fame, was launched in 1982, a musical adaptation was premiered in 1988. Paul McCartney said he wanted a school like LaGuardia aka the FAME School in Liverpool, England, with the schools principal, Mark Weatherstone-Witty he created the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. The schools alumni organization has an executive director and offices at the school. It functions as an independent charitable organization organized under the laws of New York, students at LaGuardia take a full academic course load while participating in conservatory-style arts concentration. Each student majors in one studio, choosing from among Dance, Drama, Art, Vocal Music, Instrumental Music, many graduates from LaGuardia continue their studies in universities or conservatories after graduation. LaGuardia follows up to a 10 period day, including one lab per week, periods are 45 minutes long with a 4-minute break between each period. Each student spends a minimum of two periods in studio classes, during freshman year, each student takes a minimum of two studio classes, and three or more during sophomore, junior, and senior years. By state law, students are required to complete four years of English and history classes, students who do not meet their studio requirements at graduation leave without a studio-endorsed diploma. LaGuardia had offered a track to students entering after 2006
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Lorraine Hansberry
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Lorraine Vivian Hansberry was an African-American playwright and writer. She was the first black woman to write a play performed on Broadway and her best known work, the play A Raisin in the Sun, highlights the lives of Black Americans living under racial segregation in Chicago. Hansberrys family had struggled against segregation, challenging a restrictive covenant, the title of the play was taken from the poem Harlem by Langston Hughes, What happens to a dream deferred. Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun, at the age of 29, she won the New Yorks Drama Critics Circle Award- making her the first black dramatist, the fifth woman, and the youngest playwright to do so. After she moved to New York City, Hansberry worked at the Pan-Africanist newspaper Freedom, much of her work during this time concerned the African struggle for liberation and their impact on the world. Hansberry has been identified as a lesbian, and sexual freedom is an important topic in several of her works and she died of cancer at the age of 34. Hansberry inspired Nina Simones song To Be Young, Gifted and Black, Lorraine Hansberry was the youngest of four children born to Carl Augustus Hansberry, a successful real-estate broker, and Nannie Louise a driving school teacher and ward commiteewoman. In 1938, her father bought a house in the Washington Park Subdivision of the South Side of Chicago, the latters legal efforts to force the Hansberry family out culminated in the U. S. Supreme Courts decision in Hansberry v. Lee. The restrictive covenant was ruled contestable, though not inherently invalid, Carl Hansberry was also a supporter of the Urban League and NAACP in Chicago. Both Hansberrys were active in the Chicago Republican Party, Carl died in 1946, when Lorraine was fifteen years old, American racism helped kill him, she later said. The Hansberrys were routinely visited by prominent Black intellectuals, including W. E. B, Carl Hansberrys brother, William Leo Hansberry, founded the African Civilization section of the history department at Howard University. Her grandniece is actress Taye Hansberry and her cousin is the flutist, percussionist, and composer Aldridge Hansberry. Hansberry became the godmother to Nina Simones daughter Lisa—now Simone, Hansberry graduated from Betsy Ross Elementary in 1944 and from Englewood High School in 1948. She attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she became politically active. Hansberrys classmate Bob Teague remembered her as. the only girl I knew who could whip together a fresh picket sign with her own hands, at a moments notice and she worked on Henry A. Wallaces presidential campaign in 1948, despite her mothers disapproval. She spent the summer of 1949 in Mexico, studying painting at the University of Guadalajara and she decided in 1950 to leave Madison and pursue her career as a writer in New York City, where she attended The New School. She moved to Harlem in 1951 and became involved in activist struggles such as the fight against evictions, in 1951, she joined the staff of the black newspaper Freedom, edited by Louis E. Burnham and published by Paul Robeson. At Freedom, she worked with W. E. B, du Bois, whose office was in the same building, and other Black Pan-Africanists
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Three Sisters (play)
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Three Sisters is a play by the Russian author and playwright Anton Chekhov. It was written in 1900 and first performed in 1901 at the Moscow Art Theatre, the play is sometimes included on the short list of Chekhovs outstanding plays, along with The Cherry Orchard, The Seagull and Uncle Vanya. Olga Sergeyevna Prozorova – The eldest of the three sisters, she is the figure of the Prozorov family though at the beginning of the play she is only 28 years old. Olga is a teacher at the school, where she frequently fills in for the headmistress whenever the latter is absent. Olga is a spinster and at one point tells Irina that she would have married any man, Olga is very motherly even to the elderly servants, keeping on the elderly nurse/retainer Anfisa, long after she has ceased to be useful. When Olga reluctantly takes the role of headmistress permanently, she takes Anfisa with her to escape the clutches of the heartless Natasha, Maria Sergeyevna Kulygina – The middle sister, she is 23 at the beginning of the play. She married her husband, Kulygin, when she was 18, when the play opens she has been disappointed in the marriage and falls completely in love with the idealistic Lieutenant-Colonel Vershinin. When he is transferred away, she is crushed, but returns to life with her husband and she has a short temper, which is seen frequently throughout the play, and is the sister who disapproves the most of Natasha. Onstage, her directness often serves as a tonic to the melodrama and her vitality provides most of the plays surprisingly plentiful humour. She was trained as a concert pianist, Irina Sergeyevna Prozorova – The youngest sister, she is 20 at the beginning of the play. It is her day at the beginning of the play. Her only desire is to go back to Moscow, which they left eleven years before the play begins. She believes she will find her love in Moscow, but when it becomes clear that they are not going to Moscow, she agrees to marry the Baron Tuzenbach. She gets her degree and plans to leave with the Baron. She decides to leave anyway and dedicate her life to work, Andrei Sergeyevich Prozorov – The brother of the three sisters. In Act I, he is a man on the fast track to being a Professor in Moscow. In Act III, his debts have grown to 35,000 rubles and he is forced to mortgage the house, Act IV finds Andrei a pathetic shell of his former self, now the father of two. He acknowledges he is a failure and laughed at in town for being a member of the council whose president
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Anton Chekhov
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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short story writer, who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history. His career as a playwright produced four classics and his best short stories are held in esteem by writers. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. Chekhov practiced as a medical doctor throughout most of his career, Medicine is my lawful wife, he once said. These four works present a challenge to the ensemble as well as to audiences, because in place of conventional action Chekhov offers a theatre of mood. Chekhov had at first written stories only for financial gain, but as his artistic ambition grew and he made no apologies for the difficulties this posed to readers, insisting that the role of an artist was to ask questions, not to answer them. Anton Chekhov was born on the feast day of St. Anthony the Great 29 January 1860, the third of six surviving children, in Taganrog, a port on the Sea of Azov in southern Russia. His father, Pavel Yegorovich Chekhov, the son of a serf and his Ukrainian wife, were from the village Vilkhovatka near Kobeliaky. A director of the choir, devout Orthodox Christian, and physically abusive father. Chekhovs mother, Yevgeniya, was an excellent storyteller who entertained the children with tales of her travels with her cloth-merchant father all over Russia and our talents we got from our father, Chekhov remembered, but our soul from our mother. Despotism and lying so mutilated our childhood that its sickening and frightening to think about it, remember the horror and disgust we felt in those times when Father threw a tantrum at dinner over too much salt in the soup and called Mother a fool. Chekhov attended the Greek School in Taganrog and the Taganrog Gymnasium and he sang at the Greek Orthodox monastery in Taganrog and in his fathers choirs. In 1876, Chekhovs father was declared bankrupt after overextending his finances building a new house, to avoid debtors prison he fled to Moscow, where his two eldest sons, Alexander and Nikolay, were attending university. The family lived in poverty in Moscow, Chekhovs mother physically and emotionally broken by the experience, Chekhov was left behind to sell the familys possessions and finish his education. Chekhov remained in Taganrog for three years, boarding with a man called Selivanov who, like Lopakhin in The Cherry Orchard, had bailed out the family for the price of their house. Chekhov had to pay for his own education, which he managed by private tutoring, catching and selling goldfinches and he sent every ruble he could spare to his family in Moscow, along with humorous letters to cheer them up. Chekhov also enjoyed a series of affairs, one with the wife of a teacher. In 1879, Chekhov completed his schooling and joined his family in Moscow, Chekhov now assumed responsibility for the whole family
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Telemarketing
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Telemarketing can also include recorded sales pitches programmed to be played over the phone via automatic dialing. The term telemarketing was first used extensively in the late 1970s to describe Bell System communications which related to new uses for the outbound WATS, the rise of telemarketing can be traced back to the 19th century telephonists, or switchboard operators. Trans-cultural hiring of switchboard operators became especially popular in North America throughout the 20th century, after the shift from public switched telephone network to computer-based electronic switching system, the job of switchboard operators gradually diminished. However, with the rise of advertising and with the popularity of the use, new jobs. Telemarketing, as it was the case with telephone operators, is one of the known to be occupied mostly by women. The central reason for hiring women operators lay in the fact that work was considered a form of cheap labor. It was also highlighted, however, that women were more polite, moreover, the calming, more delicate nature of a womans voice was considered to be womens natural quality, although no scientific evidence supports this statement. This naturalization led to normalizing the perception of women as operators and consultants. The two major categories of telemarketing are business-to-business and business-to-consumer, demand is generally created by advertising, publicity, or the efforts of outside salespeople. Call to Action, the implementation of outbound telemarketing to activate or elicit an action or response from prospects, appointment Setting, utilizing inbound or outbound telemarketing to create face-to-face or telephone appointments for sales purposes. Database Cleansing, the calling of databases with the particular purpose to clean and prepare data. Surveys, the implementation of telemarketing with the purpose of collecting data. Telesales, telemarketing with the intention of making an actual sale/transaction over the phone. Often includes the collection of credit card details over the phone for payment purposes, Telemarketing may be done from a company office, from a call center, or from home. It may involve a live operator voice broadcasting which is most frequently associated with political messages, an effective telemarketing process often involves two or more calls. The first call determines the customer’s needs, the final call motivates the customer to make a purchase. Prospective customers are identified by means, including past purchase history, previous requests for information, credit limit, competition entry forms. Names may also be purchased from another companys consumer database or obtained from a directory or another public list
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The Howard Stern Show
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The Howard Stern Show is an American talk radio show hosted by Howard Stern. It gained wide recognition when it was syndicated on terrestrial radio from 1986 to 2005. The show has been exclusive to Sirius XM Radio, a satellite radio service, since 2006. Other prominent staff members include co-host and news anchor Robin Quivers, writer Fred Norris, the show developed in 1979 when Stern landed his first morning shift at WCCC in Hartford, Connecticut, four years into his professional radio career. He continued to break out as a morning personality at WWWW in Detroit, Michigan in 1980, in 1982, Sterns success in Washington led to a spot at WNBC in New York City, where he hosted the citys top afternoon show until his firing in 1985. In the New York area, the show was the morning program consecutively between 1994 and 2001. A total of $2.5 million in fines were issued to station licensees that carried the show by the Federal Communications Commission, following Sterns contract with Sirius in 2004, the show left terrestrial radio in December 2005. Since 1994, the show has been taped and broadcast on networks, including E. CBS, and HowardTV. An upcoming audio and video streaming app is currently in development, Stern landed his first professional radio job while at Boston University, performing on-air skits, news casting and production duties at WNTN in Newton, Massachusetts from August to December 1975. After his graduation, Stern landed some cover shifts in December 1976 at WRNW and he produced more creative commercials by calling the owners of businesses on the air, which he wrote was mind-blowing to everyone there. In 1979, Stern responded to an advertisement for a wild, fun morning guy at WCCC, rock station in Hartford and he produced a more outrageous audition tape, playing Robert Klein and Cheech and Chong records mixed with flatulence routines and one-liners. He was hired for the job, his first in a radio market. As the stations public affairs director, Stern also hosted an interview show on Sunday mornings. He would ask more unusual type questions to his guests, such as their dating habits, Stern held a two-day boycott of Shell Oil Company during the summer of the 1979 energy crisis, which made Stern and the station make national news. Stern also began his Dial-a-Date routines at WCCC, and met Fred Norris, Norris would join the show as Sterns writer and producer in 1981. After Stern left WCCC for being denied a raise in salary, he began a new morning shift at WWWW, a struggling rock outlet in Detroit, Michigan on April 21,1980. He learned to become more open on the air and decided to cut down the barriers. strip down all the ego. and be totally honest. I still sounded like an FM announcer. Stern held an event and wrestled women outside the studios, and invited listeners to confess the most outrageous places where they had sex
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Promotional model
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A promotional model is a model hired to drive consumer demand for a product, service, brand, or concept by directly interacting with potential customers. A majority of promotional models tend to be conventionally attractive in physical appearance. They serve to make a product or service more appealing and can provide information to journalists and consumers at trade show and convention events. While each model may not be employed by the company they represent, they can be trained to answer questions and provide customer feedback regarding products, services. Marketing campaigns that make use of models may take place in retail stores or shopping malls, at trade shows, special promotional events, clubs. They are often planned at high traffic locations to reach as many consumers as possible, the motorsports scene refers to promo models as race queens. In Japan, they are known as models and are being hired even by government agencies. Spokesmodel is a used for a model who is employed to be associated with a specific brand or product in advertisements. A spokesmodel may be a celebrity used only in advertisements, a classic example of such spokesmodels are the models engaged to be the Marlboro Man between 1954 and 1999, and the Clarion Girl since 1975. Contrary to what the term suggests, a spokesmodel is normally not expected to promote the brand. A trade show model is an assistant that works with a companys sales representatives at a trade show exhibit, working on the space or a booth. The models can be skilled at drawing attendees into the booth, engaging them in conversation, the slang term booth babe, coined in 1986, or booth bunny,1989, is widely used to refer to any female trade show model. The moniker booth babe is also controversial itself as it is considered offensive and degrading by some, the term nevertheless continues to be often used by journalists and by the people opposed to the presence of the models they define as booth babes. Changing social and business standards have resulted in a decrease in the use of models in trade shows. Partial nudity, the display of cleavage and the navel. Celebrity branding Cheerleading Cosplay Gravure idol Maid café Podium girl Pseudo-model Race queen Ring girl Video vixen
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Nutrisystem
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Nutrisystem, headquartered in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, is a commercial provider of weight loss products and services. Initially, the company offered weight loss counseling and products in brick, in 1999, the company moved to a direct-to-consumer business model, selling its products and programs on the Internet and through a call center via 1-800 numbers. Nutrisystem’s programs have been sold on the QVC television home shopping network since 2001, the company entered the retail arena in 2012 with the launch of its Everyday line of breakfast and snack items in Kroger grocery stores. In 2013, Nutrisystem began selling its five-day Jumpstart line in Walmart stores, in 2010, the companys mobile platform was launched amidst allegations that Nutrisystem had stolen the technology from WebDiet, Inc. a Silicon Valley startup. In 2012 Dawn Zier joined Nutrisystem as CEO, in 2015 they acquired the South Beach Diet brand. Nutrisystem as of 2014 is lacking long term evidence, there is tentative evidence that at three months it resulted in 3. 8% more weight loss than a control group. Increasing the structure of a diet has been found to improve weight loss when compared to a low-calorie diet of self-selected foods. Use of portion-controlled foods and structured meal plans are two means to end, both of which are incorporated into Nutrisystems weight control programs. The primary concern related to approach is long-term sustainability. No studies have compared long-term adherence to structured, versus unstructured, Nutrisystems low-calorie diet is also low in glycemic index. Whether reducing the glycemic index of a low-calorie diet improves weight loss has been the subject of considerable debate, whereas a meta-analysis showed a small but significant weight loss advantage of approximately 2 lb, several larger studies that were subsequently published found no additional weight loss benefit. For persons with diabetes, however, the evidence suggests a reduction in HbA1c with a low-glycemic index diet. Reviews of the Nutrisystem program criticize the company’s approach as not conducive to weight control. For example, the review on webmd, in response to concerns such as these, Nutrisystem began offering “transition” plans in 2011. The idea behind these plans is to help customers continue following the principles of the Nutrisystem program after they no longer purchase pre-packaged foods from the company. This is achieved by allowing customers to select partial programs and offering portion-control tools, weight loss maintenance results from customers who use these programs have not yet been published. The company states that its mission is to provide a weight loss program based on quality foods, the foundation of all Nutrisystem programs is the home delivery of portion-controlled entrees and snacks. Customers supplement these packaged foods with grocery foods, including vegetables, fruits, when followed, the diet is low in glycemic index and provides nutrition consistent with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans –2010
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