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San Diego Comic-Con
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San Diego Comic-Con International is a multi-genre entertainment and comic convention held annually in San Diego, California. The name, as given on its website, is Comic-Con International, San Diego and it is a four-day event held during the summer at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego. On the Wednesday evening prior to the opening of the event, there is a preview for professionals, exhibitors. Comic-Con International also produces two other conventions, WonderCon, held in Los Angeles, and the Alternative Press Expo and it is also the home of the Will Eisner Awards. In 2010, it filled the San Diego Convention Center to capacity with more than 130,000 attendees, the convention was founded in 1970 by Shel Dorf, Richard Alf, Ken Krueger, Mike Towry, Barry Alfonso, Bob Sourk, and Greg Bear. Detroit, Michigan-born, comics fan Shel Dorf, had, in the mid-1960s, mounted the Detroit Triple-Fan Fairs, one of the first commercial comics-fan conventions. When he moved to San Diego, California, in 1970, he organized a convention on March 21,1970. Dorf went on to be associated with the convention as president or manager, variously, Alf co-chaired the first convention with Krueger and became chairman in 1971. Following the initial gathering, Dorfs first three-day San Diego comics convention, other locations in the conventions early years included the El Cortez Hotel, the University of California, San Diego, and Golden Hall, before being moved to the San Diego Convention Center in 1991. I was quietly walking the floor stunned and in awe of just how much bigger it really was, the convention is organized by a panel of 13 board members,16 to 20 full-time and part-time workers, and 80 volunteers who assist via committees. Comic Con International is an organization, and proceeds of the event go to funding it, as well as the Alternative Press Expo. The convention logo was designed by Richard Bruning and Josh Beatman in 1995, in September 2010, the convention announced that it would stay in San Diego through 2015. In 2015, working with Lionsgate, a channel was created to host Comic-Con related content. According to the San Diego Convention and Visitors Bureau, the convention has a regional economic impact of $162.8 million. Along with panels, seminars, and workshops with comic book professionals, there are previews of upcoming feature films, like most comic-book conventions, Comic-Con features a large floorspace for exhibitors. These include media companies such as studios and TV networks, as well as comic-book dealers. And like most comics conventions, Comic-Con includes an area, as well as the Artists Alley where comics artists can sign autographs. Despite the name, artists alleys can include writers and even models, academics and comic industry professionals annually hold the Comics Arts Conference at Comic-Con, presenting scholarly studies on comics as a medium
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Modesto, California
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Modesto /məˈdɛstoʊ/, officially the City of Modesto, is the county seat and largest city of Stanislaus County, California, United States. With a population of approximately 201,165 at the 2010 census, it is the 18th largest city in the state of California, the Modesto Census County Division, which includes the cities of Ceres and Riverbank, had a population of 312,842 as of 2010. Modesto has been honored as a Tree City USA numerous times and it is surrounded by rich farmland, Stanislaus County ranks sixth among California counties in farm production. Led by milk, almonds, chickens, walnuts, and corn silage, the farm-to-table movement plays a central role in Modesto living as in the Central Valley. The citys annual Architectural Festival honors Modestos history as a ground for mid-century modern architecture during the 1940s and 50s. Modestos mid-century buildings have been featured four times in Museum of Modern Art publications, in December 2009, Forbes ranked Modesto 48th out of 100 among Best Bang-for-the-Buck Cities. In this ranking, Modesto ranked 8th in housing affordability and travel time, Modesto is the home of Gallo Family Winery, the largest privately owned winery in the world. Modesto was originally a stop on the railroad connecting Sacramento to Los Angeles, at its founding in 1870, it was to be named Ralston after financier William C. Ralstons modesty prompted him to ask that another name be found, Modesto was incorporated in 1884 with a population of over 1,000. With fields of grain, a river for grain barges, and railroad traffic. Irrigation water came from dams installed in the foothills, and irrigated fields of vegetables and fruit, by 1900, Modestos population was over 4,500. During World War II, the area provided canned goods, powdered milk, for the next few decades, Modestos population grew about two percent per year to over 100,000 in 1980, and over 200,000 in 2001. The citys official motto, Water Wealth Contentment Health, is emblazoned on the downtown Modesto Arch, the motto was selected in a contest held in 1911. Modestos motto is sometimes spoofed as The land gets the water, the bankers get the wealth, the cows get contentment, Modesto is known for the following tourist attractions and historical sites. McHenry Mansion – Built in the early 1880s by Robert McHenry, the mansion is included on the National Register of Historic Places. McHenry Museum – Across the street from the McHenry Mansion, filled with tidbits from Modestos history George Lucas Plaza – American Graffiti-inspired bronze statue made in honor of Modesto filmmaker George Lucas, located at Five Points. Gallo Center for the Arts – Center for the performing arts opened in 2007 and is located in downtown Modesto at 1000 I Street, Downtown Modesto – Known for having a variety of restaurants and night life. It also hosts a multi-venue Art Walk year around on the third Thursday of the month, the State Theatre – Dating back to the 1920s, it was recently renovated and serves as a local performance arts center and as a theater specializing in independent and foreign films
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Dahmer (film)
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Dahmer is a 2002 American biographical horror film directed by David Jacobson and starring Jeremy Renner and Bruce Davison. Renner plays American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, a recluse in Wisconsin who kidnaps, rapes. Jeffrey Dahmer is a shy and socially awkward factory work in metropolitan Milwaukee, flashback scenes from Dahmers earlier life reveal that he killed one man this way in Bath, Ohio when he was a teenager. They also reveal his relationship with his father, and Jeffreys alcoholism. Rodney confesses his feelings for Jeffrey, but finds him evasive. During the course of their evening together, Jeffrey strangles him with a belt until he loses consciousness, however, Rodney survives, and escapes the apartment. The film ends with a flashback to Jeffrey as a teenager, riding in a car with his father on the way to a therapy session, production took place in Los Angeles and one scene in Milwaukee. The mask special effects were created by Christien Tinsley and Kelley Mitchell, Dahmer has received mostly mixed to positive reviews. It currently holds a 68% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, carla Meyer of the San Francisco Chronicle gave the film a middling review, writing, Filmmaker David Jacobson doesnt seem to know where to go with his version. He approaches crass exploitation by juxtaposing scenes of carnage with shots of chocolate spilling into a vat, other moments carry real suspense and emotional weight. Kathryn Bigelow said that she cast Renner in The Hurt Locker because of his performance in Dahmer
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Neo Ned
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Neo Ned is a 2005 romance drama film starring Jeremy Renner, Gabrielle Union, Sally Kirkland, Cary Elwes, Eddie Kaye Thomas and Ethan Suplee. It was written by Tim Boughn and directed by Van Fischer, the film stars Jeremy Renner as Ned Nelson, a Skinhead who ends up in a mental institution where he meets Rachael, a black woman claiming to be the reincarnation of Adolf Hitler. The unlikely couples hookup leads them down a road to recovery. Jeremy Renner as Ned Gabrielle Union as Rachael Sally Kirkland as Shelly Nelson Cary Elwes as Dr, to date, the film has won 10 film awards, out of 10 total nominations. It was picked up for distribution by CodeBlack Entertainment, which released the film on DVD on December 2,2008, film trailer Neo Ned at the Internet Movie Database
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S.W.A.T. (film)
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S. W. A. T. is a 2003 American action crime thriller film directed by Clark Johnson, and is based on the 1975 television series of the same name. It stars Samuel L. Jackson, Colin Farrell, Michelle Rodriguez, LL Cool J and it was produced by Neal H. Moritz and released in the United States on August 8,2003. Jim Street, a former U. S. Navy SEAL and hot-shot cop from the Los Angeles Police Department and his high-tempered partner and close friend Brian Gamble disobeys an order to hold their position and engages the bank robbers, accidentally wounding a hostage in the process. Gamble and Street are demoted by Captain Fuller, the commander of the LAPD Metropolitan Division, Gamble quits following an intense argument with Fuller, and Street is taken off the team and sent to work in the gun cage, where he looks after the gear and weaponry. Six months after the incident, the chief of police calls on Sergeant Daniel Hondo Harrelson to help re-organize the SWAT platoon, Hondo puts together a diverse team, including himself, Street, Christina Sánchez, Deacon Kaye, TJ McCabe, and Michael Boxer. The team members train together, eventually forging bonds of friendship, as a result, their first mission to subdue an unstable gunman is a success. Meanwhile, French drug lord Alexander Alex Montel arrives in Los Angeles and goes to a restaurant to kill his uncle for holding back the family money from him. But as Montel is being transferred to prison, his associates, dressed as LAPD officers, Hondos team arrives in time to kill the two gunmen and recapture Montel. As Montel, under SWAT escort, approaches the station, reporters crowd around them. The LAPD makes plans to transfer Montel into federal custody and they initially plan for travel by air, but a mysterious attacker shoots down the helicopter with a high-powered rifle. The police next send out a large convoy, which gang members attack and discover to be a decoy, at the same time as Hondos team is spiriting Montel away in two SUVs. However, while driving Montel into federal custody, TJ had been plotting with Gamble, Hondo and the rest of his team give chase for a final battle against Gambles group. Fuller later informs them that Gamble intends to fly Montel out of the United States, Fuller dispatches every officer to an airport to prevent the escape. As Hondo and his SWAT team race across town, they observe a plane flying at lower than normal altitudes and they decide to go after the plane, as available units are at the airport and wont make it in time. Before Gambles group can take off, the team intercepts it, TJ commits suicide out of remorse for his betrayal of the team and to avoid being captured. Street pursues and inadvertently kills Gamble by knocking him under the wheels of a passing train, Fuller and the rest of the LAPD arrive to take care of everything else. Fuller thanks Hondo and his team for their success but tells them the job wasnt finished as Montel was not yet in federal custody, Hondo and his team deliver Montel to a federal prison to await trial. Samuel L. J. McCabe Brian Van Holt as Officer Michael Boxer Ken Davitian as Martin Gascoigne Reg E. Forrest drives the van while Perry
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28 Weeks Later
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28 Weeks Later is a 2007 British science fiction horror film, structured as a sequel to the critically and commercially successful 2002 film 28 Days Later. 28 Weeks Later was co-written and directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, with Danny Boyle and Alex Garland, director and writer of 28 Days Later respectively and it was released in the United Kingdom and United States on 11 May 2007. During the original outbreak of the Rage Virus, Don, his wife Alice and they hear a terrified boy pounding at their door and let him in. A few minutes later, they discover that the infected have followed the boy to them, the infected attack and kill most of the survivors, while Don, Alice, and the boy are chased upstairs. Don pleads with Alice to abandon the boy, but she refuses and he abandons them as the infected break into their room by busting out of the window. Don desperately sprints to a motorboat, narrowly escaping after a tussle with a recently turned survivor. After the infected begin to die of starvation, NATO forces take control of Great Britain, twenty-eight weeks after the outbreak, an American-led force, under the command of Brigadier General Stone, brings in settlers. Among the new arrivals are Don and Alices children, Tammy and Andy and they are admitted to District One, a safe zone on the Isle of Dogs guarded by the U. S. Army. Delta Force Sniper and his friend, Chief Flynn, a pilot, are amongst the military presence in charge of guarding the district. Tammy and Andy are reunited with their father, who was found by the U. S. Army and has become the districts caretaker, in their new flat, Don fabricates a lie about the circumstances surrounding their mothers death. To his shock, Andy finds Alice alive and uninfected in a semi-conscious, delirious state, the three are soon discovered by soldiers and taken back to District One. Alice is taken to a room, where she is tested. Don makes a visit to Alice in her isolation cell. She accepts his apology and tells him she loves him, however, when they kiss, Don is infected, savagely kills her, and goes on a rampage. General Stone orders the building to be quarantined and District One to be put into Code Red lockdown, civilians are herded into safe rooms, but despite the precautions, Don breaks into a room containing a large crowd and starts a domino effect of rapid infection. The mob - now with half its members infected - breaks out of the safe room, Scarlet, a U. S. Army medical officer, rescues Tammy and Andy as the soldiers in District One are ordered to shoot indiscriminately. Doyle, unable to bring himself to comply with the order, abandons his post and escapes with Scarlet, Tammy, Andy, General Stone orders District One to be firebombed, but large numbers of the infected, including Don, escape the bombardment. Scarlet informs Doyle that the children hold the key to a cure
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Academy Award for Best Actor
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The Academy Award for Best Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It is given in honor of an actor who has delivered a performance in a leading role while working within the film industry. The 1st Academy Awards ceremony was held in 1929 with Emil Jannings receiving the award for his roles in The Last Command and The Way of All Flesh. Currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the branch of AMPAS. In the first three years of the awards, actors were nominated as the best in their categories, at that time, all of their work during the qualifying period was listed after the award. The following year, this unwieldy and confusing system was replaced by the current system in which an actor is nominated for a performance in a single film. Starting with the 9th ceremony held in 1937, the category was officially limited to five nominations per year, since its inception, the award has been given to 79 actors. Daniel Day-Lewis has received the most awards in this category with three Oscars, spencer Tracy and Laurence Olivier were nominated on nine occasions, more than any other actor. As of the 2017 ceremony, Casey Affleck is the most recent winner in category for his role as Lee Chandler in Manchester by the Sea. In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of release in Los Angeles County. For the first five ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned twelve months from August 1 to July 31, for the 6th ceremony held in 1934, the eligibility period lasted from August 1,1932 to December 31,1933
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The Hurt Locker
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The Hurt Locker is a 2009 American war thriller film about an Iraq War Explosive Ordnance Disposal team who are being targeted by insurgents with booby traps, remote control detonations and ambushes. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow, it stars Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Christian Camargo, Ralph Fiennes, David Morse, the film shows soldiers varying psychological reactions to the stress of combat, which though intolerable to some, is addictive to others. The story unfolds after a staff sergeant is killed by an insurgent trap and his comrades suspect that their new team leader is being driven to take terrifying risks. Writer Mark Boal drew on his experience during embedded access to provide a background for the production. The Hurt Locker received widespread acclaim and won six Academy Awards. Bigelow won the award for Best Director, as of 2017 and his team includes Sergeant J. T. Sanborn and Specialist Owen Eldridge. His maverick disposal methods and attitude lead to Sanborn and Eldridge considering him reckless, meanwhile, James is often approached by an Iraqi youth named Beckham attempting to sell DVDs. James challenges him to a game of soccer and takes a liking to him, when they are assigned to destroy some explosives, James returns to the detonation site to pick up his gloves. Sanborn openly contemplates killing him by accidentally triggering the explosion, making Eldridge somewhat uncomfortable, returning to Camp Victory in their Humvee, the team encounters five armed men in traditional Arab garb and casual attire standing near a Ford Excursion, which has a flat tire. James team has an encounter with their leader, who then reveals they are private military contractors. They have captured two prisoners featured on the most-wanted Iraqi playing cards, the entire group suddenly comes under fire, and when the prisoners attempt to escape in the confusion, the leader of the mercenaries remembers the bounty for them is dead or alive and shoots them. Enemy snipers kill three of the mercenaries, including their leader, Sanborn and James borrow a Barrett.50 cal to dispatch three attackers, while Eldridge kills a fourth. During a raid on a warehouse, James discovers the body of a young boy, during evacuation, Lieutenant Colonel John Cambridge, the camps psychiatrist and a friend of Eldridges, is killed in an explosion, Eldridge blames himself for his death. Later, James breaks into the house of an Iraqi professor, seeking revenge for Beckham, called to a petrol tanker detonation, James decides on his own to hunt for the insurgents responsible, guessing they are still nearby. Sanborn protests, but when James heads out, he and Eldridge reluctantly follow, after they split up, insurgents capture Eldridge. James and Sanborn rescue him, but accidentally shoot him in the leg, the following morning, James is approached by Beckham, who he believed was dead, and walks by without saying a word. Before being airlifted for surgery elsewhere, Eldridge angrily blames James for his injury, James and Sanborns unit is called to another mission in their last two days of their rotation. An innocent Iraqi civilian man has had a bomb vest strapped to his chest, James tries to cut off the locks to remove the vest, but there are too many of them
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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
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The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It is given in honor of an actor who has delivered a performance in a supporting role while working within the film industry. At the 9th Academy Awards ceremony held in 1937, Walter Brennan was the first winner of award for his role in Come. Initially, winners in both supporting acting categories were awarded instead of statuettes. Beginning with the 16th ceremony held in 1944, however, winners received full-sized statuettes, currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the actors branch of AMPAS, winners are selected by a plurality vote from the entire eligible voting members of the Academy. Since its inception, the award has given to 72 actors. Brennan has received the most awards in this category with three awards, Brennan, Jeff Bridges, Robert Duvall, Arthur Kennedy, Jack Nicholson, and Claude Rains were nominated on four occasions, more than any other actor. As of the 2017 ceremony, Mahershala Ali is the most recent winner in category for his role as Juan in Moonlight. In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of release in Los Angeles County. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, University of Toronto Press, ISBN 978-1-55002-574-3. org The Academy Awards Database Oscar. com Complete Downloadable List of Academy Award Nominees
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The Town (2010 film)
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The Town is a 2010 American crime drama film co-written, directed by and starring Ben Affleck, adapted from Chuck Hogans novel Prince of Thieves. The film premiered on September 8,2010 at the Venice Film Festival before being released in the United States on September 17,2010 to positive reviews. Renner was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance, four lifelong friends from the Boston neighborhood of Charlestown, Douglas Doug MacRay, James Jem Coughlin, Albert Gloansy MacGloan, and Desmond Dez Elden, rob a bank. They take the manager, Claire Keesey, hostage, but release her unharmed. When they find out Claire lives in their neighborhood, Doug begins to follow her to find out how much she has told the authorities, soon a romance grows between them, which Doug hides from the gang. As they grow closer, Doug tells Claire of his search for his long-lost mother and he also recounts his chance to be a professional hockey player which he threw away for a life of crime, following in his fathers footsteps. She in turn tells Doug that she saw a tattoo on one of the robbers and he knows that Jem will kill her if he discovers the truth, so he persuades her that the authorities cannot protect her, and she decides not to tell the police. After Claire tells Doug about being harassed and her car vandalized by Alex, a thug, Doug enlists Jem for a favor. Doug and Jem don hockey masks and violently assault the offenders without Jem knowing the reason for the favor is to protect Claire. FBI Agent Adam Frawley surveils the gang and recognizes their ties to crime lord Fergus Fergie Colm. During a visit to his father Stephen in prison, Doug reveals his plans to leave Boston, the gangs next robbery in the North End goes awry, and the gang barely escapes. The gang is interrogated by Frawley, but he fails to get any confessions and is forced to release them, Doug asks Claire if she will go away with him, and she agrees. When Frawley learns that Claire quit her job, he wiretaps her phone, shocked to discover that her lover was one of her assailants, she is forced to cooperate with the FBI and breaks up with Doug. Meanwhile, Fergie and Jem are pressuring Doug about the next heist, Fergie threatens to kill Claire if Doug does not go through with the job, and reveals to Doug how he controlled his father by making his mother an addict, which led to her suicide. Doug gives in but swears that he will kill Fergie if anything happens to Claire, at Fenway Park, Doug and Jem enter disguised as Boston police officers, steal $3,500,000 in gate cash, and prepare to escape in an ambulance disguised as paramedics. Dougs ex-girlfriend and Jems sister Krista, threatened by Frawley and heartbroken by Dougs going away without her, the gang is caught in a firefight with FBI SWAT, and Dez and Gloansy are killed. Frawley spots Jem and they exchange gunfire, Jem, determined not to go back to prison and out of ammunition, commits suicide by cop by running out of cover with his guns unloaded and is killed. Knowing that Claire is in danger and that he will never escape as long as Fergie is alive, Doug murders Fergie and his bodyguard and calls Claire
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Hawkeye (comics)
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Hawkeye is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist Don Heck, the character first appeared as a villain in Tales of Suspense #57 and he has been a prominent member of the team ever since. He was also ranked at #44 on IGNs Top 100 Comic Book Heroes list, Hawkeye is portrayed by Jeremy Renner in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, a shared fictional universe that is the setting of films produced by Marvel Studios. Renner first made an cameo appearance in Thor and later played a larger role in The Avengers, Avengers, Age of Ultron and Captain America. Hawkeye was introduced as a reluctant villain in Tales of Suspense #57, after two more appearances as a villain in Tales of Suspense #60 and #64, Hawkeye joined the ranks of the Avengers in Avengers Vol.1 #16. He became a member of the team and has made numerous appearances in all five volumes. Hawkeye was also part of the Avengers in Secret Wars #1–12, Hawkeye featured prominently in the limited series West Coast Avengers #1–4, before appearing in the ongoing title, which ran for 102 issues from October 1985–January 1994. The title was renamed Avengers West Coast from #46, Hawkeye also starred concurrently in almost every issue of Solo Avengers which ran for 40 issues from December 1987–January 1991. From 1998 to 2002, Hawkeye featured significantly in issues #20–75 and Annual #2000 of the title Thunderbolts, written by Kurt Busiek and Fabian Nicieza. He appeared as a character in Avengers Academy from issue #21 through its final issue #39 and as team leader in Secret Avengers from issue #22 through its final issue. Hawkeye appeared in Vol.2 of Secret Avengers by Nick Spencer, Hawkeye appeared as a regular character in the 2010-2013 Secret Avengers series, from issue #21.1 through its final issue #37. Hawkeye featured in the Marvel crossover event House of M and he later appeared in the New Avengers series from issues #26–64 plus New Avengers Annual #2 and Annual #3. Continuing as Ronin, the played a important part in the crossover event Secret Invasion #1–8. The company wide crossover event Dark Reign saw Hawkeye feature prominently in New Avengers, The Reunion #1–4 and Dark Reign and he later went on to feature in the Siege #1–4 crossover event. Hawkeye has appeared in solo adventures over the years. He appeared in Hawkeye Vol.1 #1–4, written by Mark Gruenwald, Hawkeye then appeared in Hawkeye Vol.2 #1–4 and Hawkeye, Earths Mightiest Marksman #1. In 2003, Hawkeye had a short lived on-going series, Hawkeye Vol.3, #1–8, writer Jim McCann and artist David Lopez had another unsuccessful attempt at an ongoing series with Hawkeye & Mockingbird #1–6. The series did however spin into two limited series, beginning with Widowmaker #1–4 and then Hawkeye, Blindspot #1–4, a fifth volume, entitled All-New Hawkeye, began in March 2015, written by Jeff Lemire with art by Ramon Perez
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Marvel Cinematic Universe
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The franchise has expanded to include comic books, short films, television series and digital series. The shared universe, much like the original Marvel Universe in comic books, was established by crossing over common plot elements, settings, cast, clark Gregg has appeared the most in the franchise, portraying Phil Coulson, a character original to the MCU. The first film released in the MCU was Iron Man, which began the first phase of films culminating in the crossover film Marvels The Avengers, Phase Two began with Iron Man 3, and concluded with Ant-Man. The films are currently in Phase Three, which began with the release of Captain America, Marvel Television expanded the universe further, first to network television with Marvels Agents of S. H. I. E. L. D. Marvel Television has also produced the digital series Marvels Agents of S. H. I. E. L. D, slingshot, which is a supplement to Agents of S. H. I. E. L. D. Soundtrack albums have been released for all of the films, along many of television series. It has inspired film and television studios with comic book character adaptation rights to attempt to create similar shared universes. By 2005, Marvel Entertainment began planning to produce its own films. Previously, Marvel had co-produced several superhero films with Columbia Pictures, New Line Cinema and others, Marvel made relatively little profit from its licensing deals with other studios and wanted to get more money out of its films while maintaining artistic control of the projects and distribution. Avi Arad, head of Marvels film division, was pleased with Sam Raimis Spider-Man films at Sony, as a result, they decided to form Marvel Studios, Hollywoods first major independent movie studio since DreamWorks. Feige, a self-professed fanboy, envisioned creating a shared universe just as creators Stan Lee, to raise capital, the studio secured funding from a seven-year, $525 million revolving credit facility with Merrill Lynch. Marvels plan was to release films for their main characters. Arad, who doubted the strategy yet insisted that it was his reputation that helped secure the initial financing, in 2007, at 33 years old, Feige was named studio chief. Feige initially referred to the narrative continuity of these films as the Marvel Cinema Universe. Marvel has designated the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Earth-199999 within the continuity of the companys multiverse, while not always the case, as evident by the 2013 releases of Iron Man 3 and Thor, The Dark World, he said it is certainly something to aim for. Feige expanded on this in July 2014, saying, I dont know that well keep to every year, wed rather find a way to keep that going. After the titles were revealed in October 2014, Feige said, which made us comfortable for the first time. To increase to three films a year instead of just two, without changing our methods, just like comic readers have been doing for decades and decades
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Thor (film)
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Thor is a 2011 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It is the film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The film sees Thor, the prince of Asgard, banished to Earth. As his brother, Loki, plots to take the throne for himself, Thor must prove himself worthy, sam Raimi first developed the concept of a film adaptation of Thor in 1991, but soon abandoned the project, leaving it in development hell for several years. Matthew Vaughn was originally assigned to direct the film for a tentative 2010 release, however, after Vaughn was released from his holding deal in 2008, Branagh was approached and the films release was rescheduled into 2011. The main characters were cast in 2009, and principal photography took place in California, the film was converted to 3D in post-production. Thor premiered on April 17,2011, in Sydney, Australia and was released on May 6,2011, the film was a financial success and received positive reviews from film critics. The DVD and Blu-ray sets were released on September 13,2011, a sequel, Thor, The Dark World, was released on November 8,2013. A third film, Thor, Ragnarok is set to be released on November 3,2017. In 965 AD, Odin, king of Asgard, wages war against the Frost Giants of Jotunheim and their leader Laufey, to prevent them from conquering the nine realms, starting with Earth. The Asgardian warriors defeat the Frost Giants and seize the source of their power, in the present, Odins son Thor prepares to ascend to the throne of Asgard, but is interrupted when Frost Giants attempt to retrieve the Casket. Against Odins order, Thor travels to Jotunheim to confront Laufey, accompanied by his brother Loki, childhood friend Sif and the Warriors Three, Volstagg, Fandral, a battle ensues until Odin intervenes to save the Asgardians, destroying the fragile truce between the two races. Thor lands in New Mexico, where astrophysicist Dr. Jane Foster, her assistant Darcy Lewis, the local populace finds Mjolnir, which S. H. I. E. L. D. Agent Phil Coulson soon commandeers before forcibly acquiring Janes data about the wormhole that delivered Thor to Earth, Thor, having discovered Mjolnirs nearby location, seeks to retrieve it from the facility that S. H. I. E. L. D. Quickly constructed but he finds himself unable to lift it, and is captured, with Selvigs help, he is freed and resigns himself to exile on Earth as he develops a romance with Jane. Loki discovers that he is actually Laufeys son, adopted by Odin after the war ended, a weary Odin falls into the deep Odinsleep to recover his strength. Loki seizes the throne in Odins stead and offers Laufey the chance to kill Odin, aware of their plan, Loki sends the Destroyer, a seemingly indestructible automaton, to pursue them and kill Thor. The warriors find Thor, but the Destroyer attacks and defeats them, struck by the Destroyer and near death, Thors sacrifice proves him worthy to wield Mjolnir
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The Avengers (2012 film)
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In the film, Nick Fury, director of the peacekeeping organization S. H. I. E. L. D. Recruits Iron Man, Captain America, the Hulk, and Thor to form a team that must stop Thors brother Loki from subjugating Earth, the films development began when Marvel Studios received a loan from Merrill Lynch in April 2005. After the success of the film Iron Man in May 2008, with the signing of Johansson in March 2009, the film was pushed back for a 2012 release. Whedon was brought on board in April 2010 and rewrote the screenplay by Zak Penn. Production began in April 2011 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, before moving to Cleveland, Ohio, in August, the film was converted to 3D in post-production. The Avengers premiered on April 11,2012, at Hollywoods El Capitan Theatre and was released theatrically in the United States on May 4,2012. The film received reviews from critics, as well as numerous awards and nominations including Academy Award. It has set or tied numerous box office records, including the biggest opening weekend in North America, the Avengers grossed over $1.5 billion worldwide, and became the third-highest-grossing film during its theatrical run—as well as the first Marvel production to generate $1 billion in ticket sales. The film was released on Blu-ray Disc and DVD on September 25,2012, the Asgardian Loki encounters the Other, the leader of an extraterrestrial race known as the Chitauri. In exchange for retrieving the Tesseract,2 a powerful source of unknown potential. Agent Phil Coulson explains that the object has begun radiating an unusual form of energy, the Tesseract suddenly activates and opens a wormhole, allowing Loki to reach Earth. Loki takes the Tesseract and uses his scepter to enslave Selvig, in response to the attack, Fury reactivates the Avengers Initiative. Agent Natasha Romanoff is sent to Calcutta to recruit Dr. Bruce Banner to trace the Tesseract through its gamma radiation emissions, Coulson visits Tony Stark to have him review Selvigs research, and Fury approaches Steve Rogers with an assignment to retrieve the Tesseract. While Loki is being escorted to S. H. I. E. L. D, Thor, his adoptive brother, arrives and frees him, hoping to convince him to abandon his plan and return to Asgard. After a confrontation with Stark and Rogers, Thor agrees to take Loki to S. H. I. E. L. D. s flying aircraft carrier, there Loki is imprisoned while Banner and Stark attempt to locate the Tesseract. The Avengers become divided, both over how to approach Loki and the revelation that S. H. I. E. L. D, plans to harness the Tesseract to develop weapons as a deterrent against hostile extraterrestrials. As the group argues, Barton and Lokis other possessed agents attack the Helicarrier, disabling its engines in flight, Stark and Rogers try to restart the damaged engine, and Thor attempts to stop the Hulks rampage. Romanoff fights Barton, and knocks him unconscious, breaking Lokis mind control, Loki escapes after killing Coulson and ejecting Thor from the airship, while the Hulk falls to the ground after attacking a S. H. I. E. L. D
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Avengers: Age of Ultron
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Avengers, Age of Ultron is a 2015 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team the Avengers, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the sequel to 2012s The Avengers and the film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The film was written and directed by Joss Whedon and features an ensemble cast that includes Robert Downey Jr. Jackson, in Avengers, Age of Ultron, the Avengers fight Ultron, an artificial intelligence obsessed with causing human extinction. The sequel was announced in May 2012, after the release of The Avengers. Whedon, the director of the first film, was back on board in August. By April 2013, Whedon had completed a draft of the script, second unit filming began in February 2014 in South Africa with principal photography taking place between March and August 2014. The film was shot at Shepperton Studios in Surrey, England, with additional footage filmed in Italy, South Korea, Bangladesh, New York City. While in post production, the film was converted to 3D, Avengers, Age of Ultron premiered in Los Angeles on April 13,2015, and was released on May 1,2015, in North America, in 3D and IMAX 3D. The film received reviews from critics and grossed over $1.4 billion worldwide, making it the seventh-highest-grossing film in history. A sequel, Avengers, Infinity War, is scheduled to be released on May 4,2018, Stark and Banner discover an artificial intelligence within the scepters gem, and secretly use it to complete Starks Ultron global defense program. The unexpectedly sentient Ultron, believing he must eradicate humanity to save Earth, J. A. R. V. I. S. and attacks the Avengers at their headquarters. Escaping with the scepter, Ultron uses the resources in Struckers Sokovia base to upgrade his rudimentary body and build an army of robot drones. Having killed Strucker, he recruits the Maximoffs, who hold Stark responsible for their parents deaths by his weapons, and go to the base of arms dealer Ulysses Klaue to obtain Wakandan vibranium. Thor departs to consult with Dr. Erik Selvig on the meaning of the future he saw in his hallucination, while Romanoff. However, Nick Fury arrives and encourages the team to form a plan to stop Ultron, in Seoul, Ultron forces the teams friend Dr. Helen Cho to use her synthetic-tissue technology, together with vibranium and the scepters gem, to perfect a new body for him. As Ultron uploads himself into the body, Wanda is able to read his mind, discovering his plan for human extinction, Rogers, Romanoff, and Barton find Ultron and retrieve the synthetic body, but Ultron captures Romanoff. The Avengers fight amongst themselves when Stark secretly uploads J. A. R. V. I. S, – who is still operational after hiding from Ultron inside the Internet – into the synthetic body. Thor returns to help activate the body, explaining that the gem on its brow – one of the six Infinity Stones, Banner rescues Romanoff, who awakens the Hulk for the battle
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Captain America: Civil War
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Captain America, Civil War is a 2016 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Captain America, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the sequel to 2011s Captain America, The First Avenger and 2014s Captain America, The Winter Soldier, and the thirteenth film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The film is directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, with a screenplay by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely, in Captain America, Civil War, disagreement over international oversight of the Avengers fractures them into opposing factions—one led by Steve Rogers and the other by Tony Stark. Following positive reactions to test screenings of The Winter Soldier, the Russo brothers were brought back to direct in early 2014, the films title and premise were revealed in October 2014, along with Downeys casting, additional cast members joined in the following months. Visual effects were provided by nearly 20 different studios during the post-production process, Captain America, Civil War held its world premiere in Los Angeles on April 12,2016, and was released in the United States on May 6,2016, in 3D and IMAX 3D. The film became a critical and commercial success, grossing over $1.1 billion worldwide, making it the film of 2016. In 1991, the brainwashed super-soldier James Bucky Barnes is dispatched from a Hydra base in Siberia to intercept an automobile carrying a case of super-soldier serum, Rumlow blows himself up, hoping to kill Rogers. When Maximoff throws the explosion into the sky with telekinesis, it damages a nearby building, killing several Wakandan humanitarian workers. U. S. Secretary of State Thaddeus Ross informs the Avengers that the United Nations is preparing to pass the Sokovia Accords, which will establish a UN panel to oversee and control the team. The Avengers are divided, Tony Stark supports oversight because of his role in Ultrons creation and Sokovias devastation, at a conference in Vienna where the Accords are to be ratified, a bomb kills King TChaka of Wakanda. Security footage indicates the bomber is Barnes, whom TChakas son, TChalla, informed by Sharon Carter of Barnes whereabouts and the authorities intentions to kill him, Rogers tries to bring in Barnes—his childhood friend and war comrade—himself. Rogers and Wilson track Barnes to Bucharest and attempt to protect him from TChalla and the authorities, Helmut Zemo tracks down and kills Barnes old Hydra handler, stealing a book containing the trigger words that activate Barnes brainwashing. Impersonating a psychiatrist sent to interview Barnes, Zemo recites the words to make Barnes obey him and he questions Barnes, then sends him on a rampage to cover his own escape. Rogers stops Barnes and sneaks him away, unwilling to wait for authorization to apprehend Zemo, Rogers and Wilson go rogue, and recruit Maximoff, Clint Barton, and Scott Lang to their cause. With Rosss permission, Stark assembles a team composed of Romanoff, TChalla, James Rhodes, Vision, Starks team intercepts Rogers group at Leipzig/Halle Airport, where they fight until Romanoff allows Rogers and Barnes to escape. The rest of Rogers team is captured and detained at the Raft prison, while Rhodes is partially paralyzed after being shot down by Vision. Stark discovers evidence that Barnes was framed by Zemo and convinces Wilson to give him Rogers destination, without informing Ross, Stark goes to the Siberian Hydra facility and strikes a truce with Rogers and Barnes, unaware they were secretly followed by TChalla. They find that the other super-soldiers have been killed by Zemo, enraged that Rogers kept this from him, Stark turns on them both, dismembering Barnes robotic arm
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The Bourne Legacy (film)
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Although this film has the same title as Van Lustbaders first Bourne novel, The Bourne Legacy, the actual screenplay bears little resemblance to the novel. Unlike the novel, which features Jason Bourne as the character, the film centers on black ops agent Aaron Cross. In addition to Renner, the film stars Rachel Weisz and Edward Norton, the titular character Jason Bourne does not appear in The Bourne Legacy, because actor Matt Damon chose not to return for the fourth film. Bourne is shown in pictures and mentioned by several times throughout the film. In The Bourne Legacy, Aaron Cross is a member of a black ops program called Operation Outcome whose subjects are genetically enhanced and he must run for his life once former CIA Treadstone agent Jason Bournes actions lead to the public exposure of Operation Treadstone and its successor Operation Blackbriar. Filming was primarily in New York City, with scenes shot in the Philippines, South Korea, Pakistan. The film was followed in 2016 by Jason Bourne, in which Damon and he is forced to survive weather extremes and traverse rugged terrain to arrive at a remote cabin as punishment for missing training and going off the grid for four days. The cabin is operated by an exiled Outcome operative, Number Three, as an Outcome operative, Aaron uses experimental pills known as chems which enhance the physical and mental abilities of their users. Reporter Simon Ross of The Guardian, who has been investigating the CIA programs Treadstone, eight months after the mayhem in New York City and Bournes escape, Kramer requests help from Mark Turso, a retired United States Navy admiral, who runs the National Research Assay Group. Turso informs Eric Byer, a retired Air Force colonel overseeing NRAGs research and development of various clandestine enhancement programs used by the CIA, Byer discovers a potentially scandalous video on the Internet showing Hirsch socializing with Dr. Dan Hillcott, Outcomes medical director. To prevent the Senate investigation from learning about Outcome, Byer orders everyone associated with the program to be killed and he sees the sacrifice as acceptable to protect NRAGs next-generation beta programs, including the supersoldier program LARX. Byer deploys a drone to eliminate Outcome agents Number Three and Five in Alaska, Aaron hears the drones approach and leaves moments before a missile destroys the cabin with Number Three inside. Aaron removes the radio-frequency identification implanted in his thigh and force-feeds it to a wolf which is blown up by a missile. Hirsch dies of an apparent heart attack before he can testify before the Senate, at Sterisyn-Morlanta, a biogenetics company supporting Outcome, researcher Dr. Donald Foite shoots and kills all but one of his colleagues in the research laboratory. Security guards break into the lab and shoot him, though he seemingly does not feel the pain of the gunshots, Foite turns his gun on himself, leaving biochemist Dr. Marta Shearing as the sole survivor. Meanwhile, other Outcome agents are eliminated when their handlers give them poisoned yellow pills disguised as new chems, four D-Track assassins disguised as federal agents visit Marta at her country house. After she states her belief of Foite having been brainwashed into an emotionless killer, the assassins attempt to fake her suicide. He saves her life as she is his last link to the chems so that he can retain his enhanced capabilities, Marta reveals that Cross has been genetically modified by a tailored virus to retain the physical benefits without needing the green chems anymore
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Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
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Hansel & Gretel Witch Hunters is a 2013 German-American dark fantasy action horror comedy film written and directed by Tommy Wirkola. It is a continuation to the German folklore fairy tale Hansel and Gretel, in which the siblings are now grown up. The film stars Jeremy Renner, Gemma Arterton, Famke Janssen, Peter Stormare, Thomas Mann, Pihla Viitala and Derek Mears. It premiered in North America on January 25,2013, in 2D, 3D, and IMAX 3D, as well in D-Box motion theaters and select international 4DX theaters, the film had its home media release on June 11, including a longer, unrated version on Blu-ray. The film was panned by critics, particularly for what they saw as its weak script. However, many horror genre critics were positive, viewing the film as unpretentiously entertaining. The film topped the box office on its opening weekend and was a major hit in Brazil, Russia, Germany. Its worldwide theatrical run gross exceeded $226 million for the production cost of $50 million, due to the commercial success of the film, which was planned as the first part of a series, its sequel is currently in development. Abandoned by their father deep in a forest, young Hansel and Gretel enter a house and are captured by a cannibalistic witch. The witch forces Hansel to continuously eat candy to fatten him up, the siblings outsmart her and incinerate her in the fire of the oven. In the fifteen years that follow, Hansel and Gretel become famed witch hunters, the pair find that they are somehow immune to spells and curses, but the incident in the gingerbread house has left Hansel diabetic. He needs a shot of every few hours or he will get sick. Becoming witch hunters as adults, Hansel and Gretel arrive in the town of Augsburg, Mayor Englemann tells the crowd that he has hired the siblings to rescue several children presumed abducted by witches. Berringer hires trackers for the mission in the hopes of disgracing the mayor. All but one of the party are killed that night by the powerful grand witch Muriel. Hansel and Gretel, along with the Mayors deputy Jackson, capture one of Muriels witches and they discover that the witches are preparing for the coming Blood Moon, where they plan to sacrifice twelve children in order to gain an immunity to fire. Muriel, accompanied by her witches and a troll named Edward, attack the town, Muriel kills Jackson and launches Gretel out a window, rendering her unconscious. Gretel is rescued by Ben, a teenager who is a fan of theirs
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American Hustle
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American Hustle is a 2013 American black comedy-crime film directed by David O. Russell. It was written by Eric Warren Singer and Russell, inspired by the FBI ABSCAM operation of the late 1970s and early 1980s. It stars Christian Bale and Amy Adams as two con artists who are forced by an FBI agent to set up a sting operation on corrupt politicians, including the mayor of Camden. Jennifer Lawrence plays the wife of Bales character. Principal photography on the film began on March 8,2013, in Boston and Worcester, Massachusetts, American Hustle had its nationwide release in the United States on December 13,2013. It opened to acclaim from critics, who praised its writing. In 1978, con artists Irving Rosenfeld and Sydney Prosser have started a relationship and are working together, Sydney has improved Rosenfelds scams, posing as English aristocrat Lady Edith Greensly. Irving loves Sydney, though is hesitant to leave his unstable and histrionic wife Rosalyn, fearing he will contact with her son Danny. Rosalyn has also threatened to report Irving to the police if he leaves her, FBI agent Richie DiMaso catches Irving and Sydney in a loan scam, but offers to release them if Irving can line up four additional arrests. Richie believes Sydney is English but has proof that her claim of aristocracy is fraudulent, Sydney tells Irving she will manipulate Richie, distancing herself from Irving. Irving has a friend pretending to be a wealthy Arab sheikh looking for investments in America. Carmine seems to have a desire to help the areas economy. Richie devises a plan to make mayor Polito the target of an operation, despite the objections of Irving and of Richies boss. Sydney helps Richie manipulate an FBI secretary into making a wire transfer of $2,000,000. When Stoddards boss, Anthony Amado, hears of the operation, he praises Richies initiative, Carmine leaves their meeting when Richie presses him to accept a cash bribe. Irving convinces Carmine the sheikh is legitimate, expressing his dislike of Richie, Richie arranges for Carmine to meet the sheikh, and without consulting the others, has Mexican-American FBI agent Paco Hernandez play the sheikh, which displeases Irving. Carmine brings the sheikh to a party, explaining mobsters are there. Irving is surprised to hear that Mafia overlord Victor Tellegio, right-hand man to Meyer Lansky, is present, Mafia man Tellegio explains that the business needs the sheikh to become an American citizen and that Carmine will need to expedite the process
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German Americans
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The German American ethnic group consists of Americans who have full or partial German ancestry. With an estimated size of approximately 46 million in 2014, German Americans are the largest of the groups reported by the US Census Bureau in its American Community Survey. The group accounts for about 1⁄3 of the total ethnic German population in the world, none of the German states had American colonies. In the 1670s the first significant groups of German immigrants arrived in the British colonies, settling primarily in New York, immigration continued in very large numbers during the 19th century, with eight million arrivals from Germany. Between 1820 and 1870 over seven and a half million German immigrants came to the United States — more than doubling the population of the country. By 2010, their population grew to 49.8 million immigrants, there is a German belt that extends all the way across the United States, from eastern Pennsylvania to the Oregon coast. The state of Pennsylvania has 3.5 million people of German ancestry and they were pulled by the attractions of land and religious freedom, and pushed out of Europe by shortages of land and religious or political oppression. Many arrived seeking religious or political freedom, others for economic opportunities greater than those in Europe, the arrivals before 1850 were mostly farmers who sought out the most productive land, where their intensive farming techniques would pay off. After 1840, many came to cities, where Germania—German-speaking districts—soon emerged, German Americans established the first kindergartens in the United States, introduced the Christmas tree tradition, and introduced popular foods such as hot dogs and hamburgers to America. The great majority of people with some German ancestry have become Americanized and hardly can be distinguished, traditional Oktoberfest celebrations and the German-American Day are popular festivities. There are major events in cities with German heritage including Chicago, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, San Antonio. The Germans included many quite distinct subgroups with differing religious and cultural values and they generally opposed womens suffrage but this was used as argument in favor of suffrage when German Americans became pariahs during World War I. The first English settlers arrived at Jamestown, Virginia in 1607 and he was followed in 1608 by five glassmakers and three carpenters or house builders. The first permanent German settlement in what became the United States was Germantown, Pennsylvania, large numbers of Germans migrated from the 1680s to 1760s, with Pennsylvania the favored destination. They migrated to America for a variety of reasons, often immigrants paid for their passage by selling their labor for a period of years as indentured servants. Large sections of Pennsylvania and upstate New York attracted Germans, most were Lutheran or German Reformed, many belonged to small religious sects such as the Moravians and Mennonites. German Catholics did not arrive in number until after the War of 1812, in 1709, Protestant Germans from the Pfalz or Palatine region of Germany escaped conditions of hardship, traveling first to Rotterdam and then to London. Anne, Queen of Great Britain, helped them get to her colonies in America, the trip was long and difficult to survive because of the poor quality of food and water aboard ships and the infectious disease typhus
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English Americans
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In the 2014 American Community Survey, English Americans are of the total population. Eight out of the ten most common surnames in the United States are of English origin or having possible mixed British Isles heritage, scotch-Irish Americans are for the most part descendants of Lowland Scots and Northern English settlers who colonized Ireland during the Plantation of Ulster in the 17th century. The English were the top group, with 66% saying they were a good thing for the United States. Ben J. Wattenberg argues that this demonstrates an general American bias against Hispanics. English immigrants in the 19th century, as other groups. They began migrating in large numbers without state support, Americans of English heritage are often seen, and identify, as simply American due to the many historic cultural ties between England and the U. S. and their influence on the countrys population. While there may be reasons for this, after centuries of intermarriage and internal geographic mobility. For these reasons, no part of the pluralist American society is so difficult to describe as a separate entity as the English. The original 17th-century settlers were overwhelmingly English and it was conducted on August 2,1790. The ancestry of the 3,929,214 population in 1790 has been estimated by various sources by sampling last names in the very first United States official census and assigning them a country of origin. The estimate results indicate that people of English ancestry made up about 47. 5% of the population or 60. 9% of the European American population. Some 80. 7% of the total United States population was of European heritage, around 757,208 were of African descent with 697,624 being slaves. Of the remaining population, more than 75% was of British origin, in the 2000 census,24.5 million Americans reported English ancestry,8. 7% of the total U. S. population. This estimate is probably a serious undercount by over 30 million given that, in the 1980 census, as many as 80 million Americans may be wholly or partly of English ancestry. In 1980,23,748,772 Americans claimed wholly English ancestry, in 1860, an estimated 11 million or almost 35% of the population of the United States was wholly or primarily of English ancestry. The population has increased by almost ten times the numbers in 1860, in total, there are estimated to be around 678,000 British born expatriates in the United States with the majority of these being English. English Americans are found in numbers throughout America, particularly in the Northeast, South. Dark blue and purple colours indicate a percentage, highest in the east and west
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Scottish Americans
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Scottish Americans or Scots Americans are Americans whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in Scotland. Scottish Americans are closely related to Scotch-Irish Americans, descendants of Ulster Scots, in the 2013 American Community Survey 5,310,285 were identified as Scottish and 2,976,878 of Scotch-Irish descent. Large scale emigration from Scotland to America began in the 1700s after the Battle of Culloden where the Clan structures were broken up, the Scots went in search of a better life and settled in the thirteen colonies, mainly around South Carolina and Virginia. The table shows the ethnic Scottish population in the United States from 1700 to 2013, in 1700 the total population of the American colonies was 250,888, of whom 223,071 were white and 3. 0% were ethnically Scottish. In the 2000 census,4.8 million Americans self-reported Scottish ancestry,1. 7% of the total US population, another 4.3 million self-reported Scotch-Irish ancestry, for a total of 9.2 million Americans self-reporting some kind of Scottish descent. Americans of Scottish descent outnumber the population of Scotland, where 4,459,071 or 88. 09% of people identified as ethnic Scottish in the 2001 Census. A Christian bard from the Hebrides accompanied Bjarni Herjolfsson on his voyage around Greenland in 985/6 which sighted the mainland to the west. The first Scots recorded as having set foot in the New World were a man named Haki, the Scottish couple were runners who scouted for Thorfinn Karlsefnis expedition in c. 1010, gathering wheat and the grapes for which Vinland was named, the controversial Zeno letters have been cited in support of a claim that Henry Sinclair, earl of Orkney, visited Nova Scotia in 1398. In the early years of Spanish colonization of the Americas, a Scot named Tam Blake spent 20 years in Colombia and he took part in the conquest of New Granada in 1532 with Alonso de Heredia. He arrived in Mexico in 1534-5, and joined Coronados 1540 expedition to the American Southwest, Scottish-American naturalist John Muir is perhaps best known for his exploration of Californias Sierra Nevada mountains during the 19th century. After the Union of the Crowns of Scotland and England in 1603, King James VI, a Scot, promoted joint expeditions overseas, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas, Jamestown, was thus named for a Scot. The earliest Scottish communities in America were formed by traders and planters rather than farmer settlers, the hub of Scottish commercial activity in the colonial period was Virginia. Regular contacts began with the transportation of indentured servants to the colony from Scotland, trade between Scotland and the American colonies was finally regularized by the parliamentary Act of Union of Scotland and England in 1707. Scots arriving in Florida and the Gulf Coast traded extensively with Native Americans, American bluegrass and folk music styles have roots in the Appalachian ballad culture of Scottish and the Scotch-Irish Americans. There has also been a tradition of influences between Scottish American and African American communities. Psalm-singing and gospel music are a mainstay of African American churchgoers, the great influx of Scots Presbyterians into the Carolinas introduced African slaves to this form of worship. The style of gospel-singing was also influenced by Scottish Gaelic-speaking settlers from the Western Isles, the first foreign tongue spoken by some slaves in America was Scottish Gaelic picked up from Gaelic-speakers from the Western Isles
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Swedish Americans
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Swedish Americans are an American ethnic group of people who have ancestral roots from Sweden. They primarily include the 1.2 million Swedish immigrants during 1885–1915 and they formed tight-knit communities, primarily in the American Midwest, and intermarried with other Swedish-Americans. Historically, Swedish Americans have been concentrated in the Midwest, roughly in the area west and northwest of Chicago, many of them came to Minnesota. A contingent also settled in the woods of northern Maine, the first Swedish Americans were the settlers of New Sweden. A colony established by Queen Christina of Sweden in 1638, it centered around the Delaware Valley including parts of the states of Delaware, New Jersey. New Sweden was incorporated into New Netherland in 1655 and ceased to be a territory of the Realm of Sweden. However, many Swedish and Finnish colonists remained and were allowed some political and cultural autonomy, Swedish Americans usually came through New York City and subsequently settled in the upper Midwest. Most were Lutheran and belonged to synods now associated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, theologically, they were pietistic, politically they often supported progressive causes and prohibition. In the year 1900, Chicago was the city with the second highest number of Swedes after Stockholm, by then, Swedes in Chicago had founded the Evangelical Covenant Church and established such enduring institutions as Swedish Covenant Hospital and North Park University. Many others settled in Minnesota in particular, followed by Wisconsin, as well as New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Iowa, Nebraska and Illinois. Like their Norwegian American and Danish American brethren, many Swedes sought out the agrarian lifestyle they had left behind in Sweden, as many immigrants settled on farms throughout the Midwest. In the east, New England became a destination for many skilled workers and Swedish centers developed in areas such as Jamestown, New York, Providence, Rhode Island. A small Swedish settlement was begun in New Sweden, Maine. 51 Swedish settlers came to the area, led by W. W. Thomas, who called them mina barn i skogen, upon arrival, they knelt in prayer and thanksgiving to God. This area soon expanded and other settlements were named Stockholm, Jemptland, the town of New Sweden, Maine celebrates St. Lucia, Midsummer, and Founders Day. It is a Swedish-American community that continues to honor traditions of the old country, gustaf Adolph Lutheran Church was served by a native of Sweden as recently as 1979-1985 who was known to occasionally conduct special worship services in Swedish. The largest settlement in New England was Worcester, Massachusetts, here, Swedes were drawn to the citys wire and abrasive industries
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Irish Americans
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Irish Americans are an ethnic group comprising Americans who have full or partial ancestry from Ireland, especially those who identify with that ancestry, along with their cultural characteristics. About 33.3 million Americans—10. 5% of the total population—reported Irish ancestry in the 2013 American Community Survey conducted by the U. S. Census Bureau and this compares with a population of 6.4 million on the island of Ireland. Three million people identified as Scots-Irish, whose ancestors were Ulster Scots who emigrated from Ireland to the United States. An estimated 250,000 migrated to the United States during the colonial era, only 20,000 immigrants of these immigrants from Ireland were Catholics—English, Irish or a few Germans. Catholics numbered 40,000 or 1. 6% of the population of 2.5 million in 1775. The Scots-Irish settled mainly in the back country of the Appalachian Mountain region. Irish Americans signed the documents of the United States—the Declaration of Independence. The early Ulster immigrants and their descendants at first usually referred to simply as Irish. However, most descendants of the Scots-Irish continued to consider themselves Irish or American rather than Scots-Irish, however, beginning in the early 19th century, many Irish migrated individually to the interior for work on large-scale infrastructure projects such as canals and, later in the century, railroads. During the colonial period, Scots-Irish settled in the southern Appalachian backcountry, by the 19th century, through intermarriage with settlers of English and German ancestry, the descendants of the Scots-Irish lost their identification with Ireland. This generation of pioneers. was a generation of Americans, not of Englishmen or Germans or Scots-Irish, in 1820 Irish-born John England became the first Catholic bishop in the mainly Protestant city of Charleston, South Carolina. During the 1820s and 30s, Bishop England defended the Catholic minority against Protestant prejudices, in 1831 and 1835, he established free schools for free African American children. Inflamed by the propaganda of the American Anti-Slavery Society, a mob raided the Charleston post office in 1835, England led Charlestons Irish Volunteers to defend the school. Soon after this, however, all schools for blacks were closed in Charleston. The Irish Catholics concentrated in a few medium-sized cities, where they were visible, especially in Charleston, Savannah. After secession in 1861, the Irish Catholic community supported the Confederacy and 20,000 served in the Confederate Army, civilian leaders of the Irish and the South did embrace the Confederate national project and most became advocates of a hard-war policy. Although most began as unskilled laborers, Irish Catholics in the South achieved average or above average economic status by 1900, the large Erie Canal project was one such example where Irishmen were many of the laborers. Small but tight communities developed in growing such as Philadelphia, Boston, New York
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Modesto Junior College
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Modesto Junior College is a public, two-year community college located in Modesto, California. MJC is part of Yosemite Community College District along with Columbia College, MJC, and Columbia College, belong to the California Community College system along with 109 other public community colleges. MJC is fully accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges and Accrediting Commission for Community, MJC has two campuses in Modesto, the East Campus located at 435 College Ave and the West Campus located at 2201 Blue Gum Ave. The East Campus is the campus while the West Campus is the larger of the two. Courses are provided in general education, lower-division transfer programs, occupational and developmental education, shortly after the decision by the legislature, Fresno City College was formed 96 miles south of Modesto. Due to the success of Fresno City College, the legislature passed legislation in 1921 allowing for the creation of community college districts. Modesto Junior College, founded in September 1921, became the first community college district, Modesto Junior College started out with only 61 students but has since expanded to over 19,000 students. In 2015, it was announced that Modesto Junior College would become one of the first community colleges in California to offer Bachelor of Science degrees, the college will offer a bachelor of science degree in respiratory care starting in 2017. There are two Modesto Junior College campuses, MJC East and MJC West, MJC East is 58.3 arces and MJC West is 167. The college is part of the Yosemite Community College District within the California Community Colleges System, the current college president is Jill Stearns. The district is governed by an elected seven-member Board of Trustees, Modesto Junior College offers Associate Degrees. The school boasts 19,262 students and is accredited by the Western Association of Schools, Modesto Junior College provides over 88 Associate Degrees,30 of which are of Agriculture alone. MJC is also home to an internship program in which students are given residence on West Campus. The school owns over 100 acres of crops which it uses to teach the students theory of crop. Modesto Junior College is a member of CCCAA, sports teams are nicknamed the MJC Pirates and their colors are blue and white. MJC has the largest community college program in Northern California with 21 sports. MJCs current athletic director is Nick Stavrianoudakis, oscar Zeta Acosta, Chicano Activist, Lawyer, and Author Matt Bettencourt, PGA Tour golfer who finished 1st on the Nationwide Tour money list in 2008. Shawn Boskie, former Major League Baseball Pitcher for the Chicago Cubs, robert O. Briggs, longtime marching band director
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National Lampoon's Senior Trip
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National Lampoons Senior Trip is a 1995 American teen comedy film directed by Kelly Makin and is also Jeremy Renners debut role. It is part of the National Lampoon series, after a typing class, the seniors cut school and throw a party at the home of Principal Moss. Moss eventually gets informed about the party from the school body president Steve Nisser, when he returns home, he gives the group detention, forcing them to write a letter to the President of the United States, explaining what is wrong with the education system. However, it is actually just a plot devised by the corrupt U. S, upon their journey, the class stops in a convenience store where Dags and Reggie lock Principal Moss in a flooded convenience store toilet so they can steal alcohol from the store. They are followed by Travis, a crazed Star Trek fan and crossing guard, while on their way, Principal Moss falls into a coma after taking pills given to him by Red, the bus driver. At this point, the go on a rampage celebrating over Moss passing out and throw another party, while Carla Morgan. The next morning, the bus is pursued by both Travis and the police, Red suddenly dies, apparently from a drug overdose, and the bus nearly plows into a lake. Dags manages to stop it in time, but Traviss ride is not so lucky and that night back at the hotel, the seniors secretly lace a box of chocolates with tequila and give it to Miss Milford. While Miss Milford, who is now in a stupor, seduces Principal Moss, the students begin to leave to go to a party at the hotel next door. Dags orders Mioski to take care of him, at the hotel, Lisa Perkins discovers the plot to use the students to embarrass the President. However, when they open the room, they do not find them there, Moss and Milford find the missing students the next morning as they are informed of Lermans plot as Lerman baffles to the discovery. The senator subsequently kidnaps Miosky and takes him to the White House with the others in hot pursuit, when they arrive at the White House, the senator insults the seniors, but Principal Moss unexpectedly stands up for them. The senators plot is exposed, and the seniors go home. The film ends with a montage of the characters and where they ended up after its events. Winston Wayne Robson as Frank Hardin George R. Robertson as President Davis Rachel Wilson as Teen Girl The film opened to $2,184,901 from 1,397 theaters with the average to 1,563 per site. The United States had $3,686,337, it was 78% of the gross of the film. The overseas gross was $1,000,600 and it brought the film to $4,686,937, the film received overwhelmingly negative reviews, earning a 0% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes website, but it currently holds a B grade at Yahoo
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Strange Luck
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Strange Luck is an American television series that aired on FOX, created by Karl Schaefer and starring D. B. Sweeney in the role of Chance Harper, a freelance photographer afflicted with a tendency to always be in the wrong place at the right time. As Chance himself says, If I go to a restaurant, If I walk into a bank, it gets robbed. Harpers strange luck began when, as a child, he was the sole survivor of a plane crash that killed everyone else aboard. The series aired on Fox from 1995 to 1996, a total of seventeen episodes were aired before the show was canceled due to low ratings. Reruns were shown briefly on the Sci Fi Channel in 1997
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A Friend's Betrayal
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A Friends Betrayal, also released as Stolen Youth, is a 1996 television drama film directed by Christopher Leitch. The reviewers were positive about Sharon Lawrences acting performance. Paul Hewitt is an 18-year-old amateur photographer, leading a life with his parents. He is a senior at school and he is in the middle of making college decisions. His parents have always dreamed for him to become a doctor, one day, the family Hewitt receives a visit from mother Abbys friend Nina Talbert, whose mother recently died. Nina is a photographer as well, providing covers for music albums, although being in a relationship with classmate Cindy, Paul immediately feels attracted to her. Nina, feeling lonely since trying to break up with her married boyfriend Robert, Abby notices this and convinces her to invite Paul to go with her to San Francisco, to look at a campus. There, the tension between them grows and they make love with each other. Upon their return, Nina, not wanting to face the Hewitt family and this upsets Paul, who has fallen in love with her and he shows no interest in Cindy any longer. While he is spending the night with Nina, Abby goes into his darkroom and is shocked to find photos of Nina. She decides to go to her place to confront her about is, furious, she blames it all on Nina, slapping her. She forbids Paul to see Nina and considers calling the police, upset, Paul decides to run away from home. Nina is later confronted for a time, but she shows no remorse. Paul is glad to hear that she not leave to New York. When they decide to move in each other, Abby is determined to do something about it. However, her husband Dennis tells her that trying to drive them apart will only make them wanting to see each other more, soon, the news of their scandalous relationship is spread around his school, which makes Cindy breaking up with him. Meanwhile, Ellas sixteenth birthday is coming up, when she runs into Nina, she lies that she and Paul are welcome to visit her on her party. However, Abby is furious to see her and angrily sends her away, Ella feels that her party is ruined and tells her mother she hates her
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Brian Austin Green
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Brian Austin Green is an American actor best known for his portrayal of David Silver on the television series Beverly Hills,90210. Green was born in Los Angeles County, California, the son of Joyce and George Green and his middle name, Austin, was added to differentiate himself from another actor when he joined the Screen Actors Guild as a child. Green grew up in North Hollywood and attended North Hollywood High School and he reprised his role in the television miniseries Knots Landing, Back to the Cul-de-Sac. Producer Aaron Spelling has stated that Green was cast in the role of David Silver much because he felt that Greens own personality resembled the personality they wanted that character to have, the character was often scripted to reflect Greens own interests. As the series progressed, the character began to experiment with hip hop music and DJing, in 1996, Green dropped Austin from his professional name and attempted a career as a rapper, releasing one album, titled One Stop Carnival, produced by The Pharcyde member Slimkid3. Green appeared briefly in the multiple award-winning Showtime drama series Resurrection Blvd. as Luke Bonner and he had a cameo on Hope & Faith where he met Megan Fox, they started dating in 2004. He appeared on the ABC sitcom Freddie starring Freddie Prinze, Jr and he was a guest star on The Twilight Zone, Las Vegas and CSI, Crime Scene Investigation. He also appeared alongside former 90210 cast member Ian Ziering in the Tony Scott film Domino as parodies of themselves, Green appeared in a horror short called Grace, which was set around a miscarriage gone bad, and features Gilmore Girls actress Liza Weil as his love interest. It premiered at the Fangoria Weekend of Horrors on June 2,2006 and he was a guest star on George Lopez as Chris in 2006. In 2008, Green was cast as Derek Reese in Terminator, The Sarah Connor Chronicles and he is the older brother of Kyle Reese and paternal uncle of John. Green was a character in Season 1 but became a regular at the start of Season 2, following a positive response from critics. Green guest-starred on the Season 7 finale of CSI, Miami as Anthony Green, Green was cast in The CWs new drama pilot Body Politic, along with Minka Kelly, Gabrielle Union, and Jason Dohring. The series was not picked up for fall 2009, Green said in an interview that he was co-producing a big screen adaptation of Fathom, starring Megan Fox. On September 27,2009, Green made a guest appearance on the television series Saturday Night Live in a skit involving girlfriend Megan Fox, in the skit Green played a version of the Transformer Bumblebee in which Bumblebee is merely a man wearing a Bumblebee mask. Green was cast as Clay in One Tree Hills seventh season, in 2009, Green was cast as John Corben/Metallo in Smallville. He appeared in three episodes in the season between 2009–2010, the first being the ninth season premiere episode Savior. The character is a reporter, similar to the Silver Age John Corben. As a back-story for this version, he had been stationed in Afghanistan
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The Net (U.S. TV series)
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The Net is a 1998 television drama series based on the 1995 film of the same name. The series starred Brooke Langton as Angela Bennett, the character Sandra Bullock played in the film, produced in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, the series originally aired for one season on the USA Network before being canceled in 1999. Computer expert Angela Bennett, accidentally receives a top secret email with information about an elite terrorist organization called the Praetorians, Angela soon discovers that the Praetorians goal is to take control of peoples lives through the use of computers. The Praetorians become aware of Angelas knowledge of them and steal her identity, placing her new identity on the F. B. I. s Ten Most Wanted List. Angela, with the help of a person named The Sorcerer, sets out to stop the Praetorians. Olivier Dion Luther as Mr. Sony Pictures Home Entertainment released the series on DVD in Region 2 on May 15,2006. It was also released on DVD in Region 4 on 21 March 2006. The order of the episodes on the DVD release differs from the order in which they were aired on television, airing episode #18 is #4, mill Creek Entertainment announced The Net, The Complete Series on DVD. The Net at the Internet Movie Database The Net at TV. com
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Angel (1999 TV series)
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Angel is an American television series, a spin-off from the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The series was created by Buffys creator, Joss Whedon, in collaboration with David Greenwalt and it aired on The WB from October 5,1999, to May 19,2004, consisting of five seasons and 110 episodes. Like Buffy, it was produced by Whedons production company, Mutant Enemy, the show details the ongoing trials of Angel, a vampire whose human soul was restored to him by gypsies as a punishment for the murder of one of their own. After more than a century of murder and the torture of innocents, Angels restored soul torments him with guilt and he must also battle his own demonic nature. The series focuses around Angel, an Irish vampire who is over 200 years old, Angel was known as Angelus during his rampages across Europe, but was cursed with a soul, which gave him a conscience and guilt for centuries of murder and torture. He left Buffy the Vampire Slayer at the end of Season 3 to move to Los Angeles in search of redemption. He soon finds himself assisted by Allen Francis Doyle, another Irish character who is a half-human, half-demon who, Doyle serves to pass along the cryptic visions from The Powers That Be to Angel. Theyre soon joined by Cordelia Chase, also a previous cast member of Buffy, formerly a popular high school cheerleader, Cordelia starts her tenure on the show as a vapid and shallow personality, but grows over the course of the series into a hero. Cordelia acquires Doyles visions via a shared kiss prior to Doyles death, over time, Wesley shows bravery and strength, as well as some cold blooded killing cruelty, like his colleague Rupert Giles, and grows into a leader. In Season 2 of the show, the trio are joined by Charles Gunn, Season 3 saw the introduction of Connor, the miracle human child of two vampires, Angel and Darla. Abducted into a Hell dimension as a baby, he is raised by Angels enemy Daniel Holtz, although introduced during Season 2, Lorne joins the team during Season 4. An outgoing, pacifistic demon, Lornes role is predominantly to support the team, Season 5, the shows final season, introduces several new cast members, chief amongst them Spike, an old vampire ally/foe of Angels who also starred in Buffy. Finally, theres Harmony Kendall, another Buffy alumna and former friend of Cordelia who was turned into a vampire, resembling the old personality of Cordelia, Harmony is grudgingly accepted by Angel as his secretary when he takes over the Los Angeles branch of Wolfram & Hart. Many characters on Angel made recurring appearances, Angels sire Darla, first seen in Buffy, plays in an expanded role on Angel and appears in 20 episodes over the course of the series. Elisabeth Röhm appears in 15 episodes as LAPD Detective Kate Lockley, throughout the series, there were also guest appearances from Buffy characters, including main cast members Buffy Summers, Willow Rosenberg and Daniel Oz Osbourne. The rogue slayer Faith played an important part in episodes of Seasons 1,2, Whedon also used two actors from his cancelled television series Firefly, Gina Torres and Adam Baldwin, to play Jasmine and Marcus Hamilton, respectively. Much of Angel was shot on location in Los Angeles, California, the show is set in the city of Los Angeles. Los Angeles are the first words spoken in the episode
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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
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CSI, Crime Scene Investigation is a procedural forensics crime drama television series that premiered on CBS October 6,2000. The series, starring William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Laurence Fishburne, Ted Danson, the series concluded on September 27,2015, after 15 seasons, with a feature-length finale titled Immortality. The team is led by Gil Grissom, a socially-awkward forensic entomologist. Grissoms second-in-command, Catherine Willows, is a mother with a cops instinct. Born and raised in Vegas, Catherine was a stripper before being recruited into law enforcement, following Grissoms departure during the ninth season of the series, Catherine is promoted to Supervisor. After overseeing the training of new investigator Raymond Langston, Willows is replaced by D. B, Russell, and recruited to the FBI shortly thereafter. Russell is a man, a keen forensic botanist and a veteran of the Seattle Crime Lab. In the series season, Russell is reunited with his former partner Julie Finlay. During the 1990s, Anthony Zuiker caught producer Jerry Bruckheimers attention after writing his first movie script, Zuiker was convinced that there was a series in the concept, Bruckheimer agreed and arranged a meeting with the head of Touchstone Pictures. The studios head at the time liked the script and presented it to ABC, NBC and Fox executives. The head of development at CBS saw potential in the script, and the network had a pay-or-play contract with actor William Petersen. The networks executives liked the pilot so much that they decided to include it in their 2000 schedule immediately, airing on Fridays after The Fugitive. Initially it was thought that CSI would benefit from The Fugitive, which was expected to be a hit, formerly a co-production with the now-defunct Alliance Atlantis Communications, that companys interest was later bought by the investment firm GS Capital Partners, an affiliate of Goldman Sachs. CBS acquired AACs international distribution rights to the program, though the non-US DVD distribution rights did not change, the series is currently in syndication, and reruns are broadcast in the U. S. on the Spike and TV Land cable networks. The show has aired in reruns on the USA Network since January 14,2011, the CSI catalog has been exclusive to the whole NBC Universal portfolio since September 2014. Occasionally, the cast would still shoot on location in Las Vegas, other California locations include Verdugo Hills High School, UCLAs Royce Hall, Pasadena City Hall, and California State University, Los Angeles. While shooting took place primarily at Universal Studios in Universal City, California, CSIs theme song was, since season one, Who Are You, written by Pete Townshend with vocals by lead singer Roger Daltrey of The Who. In certain countries, to music licensing fees, a unique theme was used instead
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Jeffrey Dahmer
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Many of his later murders involved necrophilia, cannibalism, and the permanent preservation of body parts—typically all or part of the skeletal structure. Although diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, schizotypal personality disorder, convicted of fifteen of the sixteen murders he had committed in Wisconsin, Dahmer was sentenced to fifteen terms of life imprisonment on February 15,1992. He was later sentenced to a term of life imprisonment for an additional homicide committed in Ohio in 1978. On November 28,1994, Dahmer was beaten to death by Christopher Scarver, Jeffrey Dahmer was born on May 21,1960 in West Allis, Wisconsin, the first of two sons born to Joyce Annette and Lionel Herbert Dahmer. Dahmers mother worked as a teletype machine instructor, whereas his father was a student at Marquette University and his father was of German ancestry, and his mother was of Welsh ancestry. Although Dahmer was doted upon as an infant and toddler by both parents, his mother was known to be tense, greedy for attention, and argumentative with both her husband and her neighbors. As her son entered first grade, Joyce Dahmer began to spend an amount of her time in bed recovering from weakness. Lionels university studies kept him away from much of the time. She reportedly would work herself into a state of anxiety over trivial matters simply to achieve appeasement from her husband, on one occasion, Joyce Dahmer attempted suicide from an overdose of the Equanil pills to which she had become addicted. Consequently, neither parent devoted much time to their son, Dahmer himself recalled his early years of family life as being of extreme tension which he noted between his parents, whom he observed to be constantly arguing with each other. At elementary school, he was regarded as quiet and timid by his peers. On his first grade report card, one teacher described Dahmer as a child whom she sensed felt neglected. This teacher did note that this sense of neglect seemed to stem from his mothers illnesses, nonetheless, although largely reserved and uncommunicative in grade school, Dahmer did have a small number of friends. From an early age, Dahmer manifested an interest in animals, friends later recalled Dahmer initially collected large insects, dragonflies, and butterflies, which he placed inside jars. According to one friend, Dahmer would dismember these animals and store the parts in jars in the familys wooden toolshed, in one instance, he is known to have impaled a dogs head upon a stake behind his house. Dahmers fascination with dead animals might have begun when, at the age of four, according to Lionel Dahmer, his son was oddly thrilled by the sound the bones made, and instantly developed a fixation for playing with and collecting animal bones. He would occasionally search beneath and around the home for additional bones. With live animals, he would explore their bodies to discover where their bones were located, the Dahmer family relocated to Doylestown, Ohio, in October 1966
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Pink (singer)
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Alecia Beth Moore, known professionally as Pink, is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress. She was signed to her first record label with original R&B girl group Choice in 1995, the label, LaFace Records saw potential in only Pink, offering her a solo deal. Pink rose as an artist with her solo album, Cant Take Me Home. It was certified double-platinum in the United States and spawned two Billboard Hot 100 top-ten hits, There You Go and Most Girls and she gained further recognition with the Moulin Rouge. Soundtrack Lady Marmalade, which gave Pink her first Grammy Award as well as her first number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100, Pink took control in early 2001 insisting she wanted to work with her childhood hero, Linda Perry. Pink took more control and pursued a pop direction for her second album. It sold more than 15 million copies worldwide and yielded three United States top-ten singles, Get the Party Started, Dont Let Me Get Me, Pinks third album, Try This, generated considerably lower sales, but earned her the Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance. Pink revived her popularity with her fourth and fifth albums, Im Not Dead and Funhouse, with the latter containing her second United States number-one hit. Pink concluded the first decade of her career with the compilation album Greatest Hits, so Far. which featured Fuckin Perfect and the chart-topping single Raise Your Glass. In 2014 Pink recorded an album, Rose Ave. with Canadian musician Dallas Green under a folk music duo named You+Me. Recognized for her signature vocals and acrobatic performances, Pink has sold over 60 million albums worldwide. Her career accolades include three Grammy Awards, a Brit Award, a Daytime Emmy Award and six MTV Video Music Awards, in 2009, Billboard named Pink the Pop Songs Artist of the Decade. Pink was also the second most-played female solo artist in the United Kingdom during the 2000s decade, vH1 ranked her number 10 on their list of the 100 Greatest Women in Music, while Billboard awarded her the Woman of the Year award in 2013. At the 63rd annual BMI Pop Awards, she received the BMI Presidents Award for her achievement in songwriting and global impact on pop culture. Alecia Beth Moore was born on September 8,1979, in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, to nurse Judy and insurance salesman Jim Moore and she has described her background as Irish-German-Lithuanian-Jew. Although a healthy baby at birth, she developed asthma that plagued her through her early years. Pink attended Central Bucks High School West, when Moore was a toddler, her parents began having marital problems, and before she was 10 her parents had divorced. Pink developed her voice early in life, in high school, Pink joined her first band, Middleground, but it disbanded upon losing a battle of the bands competition
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Trouble (Pink song)
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Trouble is a song recorded by American musician Pink for her third studio album Try This. It was written by Tim Armstrong and Pink and features a prominent guitar riff, the song was released as the albums first single in North America and second international single. It was moderately successful, its highest peak on the Canadian Singles Chart at #2. The single peaked at #68 on the Billboard Hot 100 and at #7 on the UK Singles Chart, the song won Pink a Grammy for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance in 2004. The song was featured in the films White Chicks, The Princess Diaries 2, Royal Engagement and Miss Congeniality 2, Armed and Fabulous and television series, Smallville, ER, and Psych. It is also featured in the trailers for Tangled, One for the Money and it is also featured in the video game Donkey Konga 2. In 2012, Armstrong would finally record the song himself under the name Tim Timebomb, Trouble has received positive reviews from critics. Allmusic highlighted the song and noted that the similarities of Trouble, the Guardian wasnt that positive at all, Trouble blusters crossly, without ever revealing what the matter is, a state of affairs not helped by its clumsy phraseology. If you see me coming down the street, she snarls, you know its time to go - well, im trouble, yeah, trouble now/Im trouble, yall, I disturb my town, she brags in Trouble. Sal Cinquemani wrote, The stiff-wristed herky-jerky first chords of the opening song, Trouble. The repetitive hook of the raucous Trouble, one of 10 new tracks co-written and produced by Rancids Tim Armstrong, wears a bit thin, stylus magazine was favorable, Try This opens with “Trouble”, the first of eight tracks on the album co-helmed by Rancid’s Tim Armstrong. Vacillating subtly between soulful and snotty, Pinks voice speaks more to her conflicts as an artist than as the daughter, the songs music video is western-themed. It was directed by Sophie Muller, the video opens with Pink galloping with speed through a forested area while checking over her shoulder indicating that she is possibly being pursued. She rides her horse until she pauses at the edge of a town which is called Sharktown. The town is depicted as a place and even a tumble weed blowing down the street is seen. She then looks down and sees a grave marker which bears the name Corky. She checks her make up briefly in a compact and proceeds to ride deeper into the town. There is an establishing shot of Pink as she moves through the main street
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Colin Farrell
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Colin James Farrell is an Irish actor. During that time, he appeared in Steven Spielbergs science fiction thriller Minority Report. After starring in the independent films Intermission and A Home at the End of the World, Farrell headed Oliver Stones biopic Alexander and Terrence Malicks The New World. Farrell starred in the comedy-horror film Fright Night and the action film Total Recall. He also starred in the Niels Arden Oplev action film Dead Man Down, in 2014, Farrell starred as Peter Lake in the supernatural fable Winters Tale, an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Mark Helprin. In 2016, he portrayed Percival Graves in the Harry Potter spin-off film Fantastic Beasts, Farrell was born in Castleknock, Dublin, Ireland, the son of Rita and Eamon Farrell. His father played football for Shamrock Rovers FC and ran a food shop. When he was 9 years old, he moved to Dublin and his uncle, Tommy Farrell, also played for Shamrock Rovers. Farrell has a brother, Eamon, Jr. and two sisters, Claudine and Catherine. Claudine works as his personal assistant, when Farrell was 10, his family moved to the Dublin suburb of Castleknock. Farrell was educated at St. Brigids National School, followed by secondary school at Castleknock College and he unsuccessfully auditioned for the Irish musical group Boyzone around this time. Farrell was inspired to try acting when Henry Thomas performance in E. T. the Extra-Terrestrial moved him to tears, as an 18-year-old travelling in Sydney, he was at one time suspected for attempted murder. The police sketch looked remarkably like him and he had even described blacking out during the night in question, Farrell also appeared in Ordinary Decent Criminal with Kevin Spacey and Linda Fiorentino, a film loosely based on the life of Martin Cahill. In 2000, Farrell was cast in the role of Private Roland Bozz in Tigerland. He reportedly got the part on the basis of his charm, emanuel Levy of Variety said that Farrell shines as the subversive yet basically decent lad whose cynicism may be the only sane reaction to a situation. Michael Holden of The Guardian wrote that Farrell was too much the hero to fit the classic rebel archetype properly, Farrells next American films, American Outlaws and Harts War, were not commercially successful. His 2002–2003 films, including Phone Booth, The Recruit and S. W. A. T, were well received by critics and successful at the box office. Of Phone Booth, Ebert wrote that it is Farrells to win or lose, since hes onscreen most of the time, philip French of The Observer praised Farrells performance
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The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
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The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things is a 2004 drama film co-written and directed by Asia Argento and starring Argento, Jimmy Bennett & Dylan and Cole Sprouse. With a screenplay by Argento and Alessandro Magania, which is based on JT LeRoys novel of the same name, the film concerns a tattered relationship between Sarah, a drug addict, and her young son, Jeremiah. Their life together is marked by Sarahs drug-taking and heavy drinking, the title is taken from Jeremiah 17,9. Sarah becomes involved with a series of men who treat her and Jeremiah poorly and she disappears to Atlantic City with her boyfriend, Emerson, and then abandons him, Emerson returns to their home and rapes Jeremiah. After a trip to hospital, Jeremiahs grandmother takes him to a West Virginian radical Christian cult led by his grandfather, after he has been three years with the cult, Sarah returns to reclaim the 11-year-old Jeremiah. Sarahs current lover, Kenny, a driver, eventually abandons them at a truck stop while Sarah is soliciting. Sarah realizes that if she is going to keep her men she cannot say Jeremiah is her son and she persuades Jeremiah to cross dress so he can act as her little sister, and Jeremiahs cross-dressing evolves to include his mothers seduction techniques. After dressing up as a doll version of Sarah, Jeremiah/Sarah seduces Jackson, his mothers latest man, who initially tries to rebuff the boys advances. Sarah is furious with Jackson for giving in to the advances and with Jeremiah for ruining her panties. Later, they are in a house where the basement houses a methamphetamine laboratory, after fleeing, and while detoxing from methamphetamine, Sarah is convinced that everyone is after them and that only certain foods are edible. His mother, in a state of psychosis, is convinced the food he ate was poison. Jeremiah wakes up in the hospital with his grandmother beside him and she tells him that Sarah is in the psychiatric ward. Later that night, Sarah collects Jeremiah from his hospital room, the final scene is of Sarah and Jeremiah driving away. Although the soundtrack to the film was never released, here is a list of different songs featured in the movie. Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports a 41% rating based on 49 reviews, the sites consensus states, The film aims to shock, but there is no higher reason for the parade of sordid images except to be. On Metacritic, the film has a 27 out of 100 rating based on 22 critics, indicating generally unfavorable reviews
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Julia Stiles
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Julia OHara Stiles is an American actress. Born and raised in New York City, Stiles began acting at age 11 and she became known to a wider audience for her supporting role alongside Matt Damon as Nicky Parsons in the Bourne film series. As a member of the cast of Silver Linings Playbook, Stiles was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, Stiles appears in the Blue web series also broadcast on television. Stiles was born in New York City, to parents Judith Newcomb Stiles, a potter, and John OHara and she is the eldest of three children with a brother, Johnny, and a sister, Jane. Stiles is of English, Irish, and Italian descent and she started acting at the age of 11, performing with New Yorks La MaMa Theatre Company. Stiles first film role was in I Love You, I Love You Not, with Claire Danes and she also had small roles as Harrison Fords characters daughter in Alan J. Pakulas The Devils Own and in M. Night Shyamalans Wide Awake. Her first lead was in Wicked, playing a girl who might have murdered her mother so she could have her father all to herself. Critic Joe Balthai wrote she was the darling of the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. In 1999, she portrayed Kat Stratford, opposite Heath Ledger, in Gil Jungers 10 Things I Hate About You and she won an MTV Movie Award for Breakthrough Female Performance for the role. The Chicago Film Critics voted her the most promising new actress of the year and her next starring role was in Down to You, which was panned by critics, but earned her co-star Freddie Prinze, Jr. and her a Teen Choice Award nomination for their on-screen chemistry. She subsequently appeared in two more Shakespearean adaptations, the first was as Ophelia in Michael Almereydas Hamlet, with Ethan Hawke in the lead. The second was in the Desdemona role, opposite Mekhi Phifer, in Tim Blake Nelsons O, neither film was a great success, O was subject to many delays and a change of distributors, and Hamlet was an art house film shot on a minimal budget. At her new, nearly all-black school, she falls in love with the character played by Sean Patrick Thomas, who teaches her hip-hop dance steps that get her into the Juilliard School. The role won her two more MTV awards for Best Kiss and Best Female Performance, and a Teen Choice Award for best fight scene for her battle with Bianca Lawson. Rolling Stone pronounced her the coolest co-ed, putting her on the cover of its April 12,2001 and she told Rolling Stone that she performed all her own dancing in the film, though the way the film was shot and edited might have made it appear otherwise. In David Mamets State and Main, about a shooting on location in a small town in Vermont. Stiles also appeared opposite Stockard Channing in the art house film The Business of Strangers as a conniving. Channing was impressed by her co-star, In addition to her talent, she has a quality that is almost feral and she has an effect on people
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Forest Whitaker
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Forest Steven Whitaker III is an American actor, producer, and director. According to DNA tests, his father was of Igbo descent, when Whitaker was four, his family moved to Carson, California. Whitaker has two brothers, Kenn Whitaker, an actor, and Damon, and an older sister. Whitakers first role as an actor was the lead in Dylan Thomas play Under Milk Wood, Whitaker attended California State Polytechnic University, Pomona on a football scholarship, but a back injury made him change his major to music. He toured England with the Cal Poly Chamber Singers in 1980, while still at Cal Poly, he briefly changed his major to drama. He was accepted to the Music Conservatory at the University of Southern California to study opera as a tenor and he graduated from USC in 1982. He also earned a scholarship to the Berkeley, California branch of the Drama Studio London, Whitaker was pursuing a degree in The Core of Conflict, Studies in Peace and Reconciliation at New York Universitys Gallatin School of Individualized Study in 2004. In 1986, he appeared in Martin Scorseses The Color of Money, the following year, he co-starred in the comedy Good Morning, Vietnam. In 1988, Whitaker appeared in the film Bloodsport and had his first lead role starring as musician Charlie Bird Parker in Clint Eastwoods Bird. To prepare himself for the part, he sequestered himself in a loft with only a bed, couch and his performance, which has been called transcendent, earned him the Best Actor award at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival and a Golden Globe nomination. Whitaker continued to work with a number of directors throughout the 1990s. He starred in the 1990 film Downtown and was cast in the role of Jody. Todd McCarthy of Variety described Whitakers performance as big-hearted, hugely emotional, in 1994, he was a member of the cast that won the first ever National Board of Review Award for Best Acting by an Ensemble for Robert Altmans film, Prêt-à-Porter. He gave an emotional performance in Wayne Wang and Paul Austers 1995 film. Whitaker played a serene, pigeon-raising, bushido-following, mob hit man in Ghost Dog, The Way of the Samurai, many consider this to have been a definitive role for Whitaker. In a manner similar to his preparation for Bird, he immersed himself in his characters world—he studied Eastern philosophy. Whitaker next appeared in what has called one of the worst films ever made. The film was criticized as a notorious commercial and critical disaster
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A Little Trip to Heaven
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A Little Trip to Heaven is an Icelandic-American noir-inspired drama and thriller film from 2005, directed by Icelandic director of The Sea, Baltasar Kormákur. The film is set in the U. S. in 1985, Icelandic musician Mugison composed and performed the soundtrack, except for the song A Little Trip to Heaven, which is originally by Tom Waits. Mugison performs the Waits song on the soundtrack, the very beginning of the film, before the opening credits, shows a new widow sitting in a life insurance office. Abe Holt looks on as his co-worker convinces the widow that shes lucky to leave with a fraction of the award she was expecting. The film centers around three vehicle crashes, which are first introduced to the one after another at the very beginning of the movie. The first shows a young couple flying through the roof of their convertible. They swim to shore, where the hits the leg of her fellow passenger with a pipe. The second involves a city bus and insurance adjustor Abe Holt, the third crash involves an unnamed young man who is stranded at the side of the road on a rainy night, after stopping in the local bar. He accepts a ride from the man who has drained his gas tank, the anonymous man is dragged to the front seat and buckled in before the gas is poured over the car and set ablaze. Isold’s husband, the cheerful and vaguely threatening Fred McBride. The most convincing evidence are photos of Kelvin, from his record and high school. Holt eventually determines that the body pulled from the car wreck is not Kelvins. A flashback reveals that the couple from the convertible seen at the opening of the movie was Isold and Kelvin, Isold leaves angrily, when Holt tells her shes lucky he hasnt exposed her as an accessory to murder, she tells him that her brother has taken Thor. Moved and concerned, Holt puts a hold on her check. The next day Isold cashes her check and opens a safety deposit box, in which she puts a childhood picture of her and her brother. She returns to the motel where Kelvin is staying with Thor, Kelvin doesnt buy it, and gets in his car with Thor—only to find hes held at gunpoint by Holt, in the backseat. Holt tells Isold to leave with the boy and Fred speeds off, Kelvin crashes the car, killing both men, and Isold is awarded the full benefits of the tampered life insurance policy
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North Country (film)
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In 1989, Josey Aimes flees from her abusive husband back to her hometown in northern Minnesota with her children, Sammy and Karen, and moves in with her parents, Alice and Hank. Hank is ashamed of Josey, who had Sammy as a teenager by an unknown father, while working as a hairdresser, Josey reconnects with an old acquaintance, Glory Dodge, who works at the local iron mine and suggests Josey do the same. Joseys pursuit of the job further strains her relationship with Hank, Josey in particular is targeted by Bobby Sharp, her ex-boyfriend from high school. Josey tries to talk to her supervisor Arlen Pavich about the problem, the women experience additional harassment in retaliation, and Bobby spreads rumors that Josey attempted to seduce him, leading his wife to publicly berate and embarrass Josey at Sammys hockey game. Sammy begins to resent the way the townspeople treat them, later, after being assaulted by Bobby at work, she quits and asks Bill White, a lawyer friend of Kyle and Glory, to help her file a lawsuit against the company. Bill advises her to other women to form a class action lawsuit. The female miners, however, fear losing their jobs and facing additional harassment and she also discovers that Glory has Lou Gehrigs Disease, and her health is declining rapidly. Alice and Hank argue over Joseys lawsuit, and when Hank still refuses to forgive his daughter, Hank attacks the teacher in question, who is in attendance, and Bill asks for a recess after Josey storms out of the courtroom. Sammy still refuses to believe his mother, and runs away, until Kyle urges him to reconsider, the next day, Bill cross-examines Bobby and gets him to admit he lied about the encounter, which he witnessed but was too scared to do anything about. Glory, who has come to the court in her wheelchair and is unable to speak, has Kyle read a letter saying she stands with Josey, other women then stand up to support Joseys complaint. They are followed by women, family members, and miners. The mining company is forced to pay the women for their suffering and establish a sexual harassment policy at the workplace. Its time line was condensed, but in reality it took fourteen years for the case to be settled, Jenson declined to sell the rights to her story or act as the films consultant. The film was shot in the towns of Eveleth, Virginia, Chisholm, and Hibbing in northern Minnesota, Minneapolis, and Silver City and Santa Fe in New Mexico. Budgeted at $30 million, it eventually grossed $18,337,722 in the US, on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, 69% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 162 reviews, with Theron and McDormand receiving critical acclaim for their performances. On Metacritic, the film has a score of 68 out of 100. We remember that Frances McDormand played a police officer in this same area in Fargo. McDormands role in this movie is different and much sadder, but brings the same pluck, put these two women together and they can accomplish just about anything
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