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Springfield, Massachusetts
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Springfield is a city in western New England, and the seat of Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States. Springfield sits on the bank of the Connecticut River near its confluence with three rivers, the western Westfield River, the eastern Chicopee River, and the eastern Mill River. As of the 2010 Census, the population was 153,060. Metropolitan Springfield, as one of two areas in Massachusetts, had an estimated population of 698,903 as of 2009. The first Springfield in the New World, it is the largest city in Western New England, and the urban, economic and it is the third-largest city in Massachusetts and fourth-largest in New England after Boston, Worcester, and Providence. Hartford, the capital of Connecticut, lies 23.9 miles south of Springfield, bradley International Airport, which sits 12 miles south of Metro Center Springfield, is Hartford-Springfields airport. Springfield was founded in 1636 by English Puritan William Pynchon as Agawam Plantation under the administration of the Connecticut Colony, in 1641 it was renamed after Pynchons hometown of Springfield, Essex, England, following incidents that precipitated the settlement joining the Massachusetts Bay Colony. From 1777 until its closing during the Vietnam War, the Springfield Armory attracted skilled laborers to Springfield, arsenal at Springfield during Shays Rebellion of 1787 led directly to the formation of the U. S. Springfield is located at 42°6′45″N 72°32′51″W, according to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 33.2 square miles, of which 32.1 square miles is land and 1.1 square miles is water. Once nicknamed The City in a Forest, Springfield features over 4, aside from its rivers, Springfields 2nd most prominent topographical feature is the citys 735 acres Forest Park, designed by renowned landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. Forest Park also borders Western Massachusetts most affluent town, Longmeadow, Springfield shares borders with other well-heeled suburbs such as East Longmeadow, Wilbraham, Ludlow and the de-industrializing city of Chicopee. The small cities of Agawam and West Springfield, Massachusetts lie less than a mile from Springfields Metro Center, across the Connecticut River. The City of Springfield also owns the Springfield Country Club, which is located in the city of West Springfield, Massachusetts. Springfield, like other cities in southern New England, has a continental climate with four distinct seasons. Winters are cold with a average in January of around 26 °F. During winter, noreaster storms can drop significant snowfalls on Springfield, Springfields summers are very warm and sometimes humid. During summer, several times per month, on hot days afternoon thunderstorms will develop when unstable warm air collides with approaching cold fronts, the daily average in July is around 74 °F. Usually several days during the summer exceed 90 °F, constituting a heat wave, Spring and fall temperatures are usually pleasant, with mild days and crisp, cool nights
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Beverly Hills Cop
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Judge Reinhold, John Ashton, Ronny Cox, Lisa Eilbacher, Steven Berkoff and Jonathan Banks appear in supporting roles. It earned $234 million at the North American domestic box office and his boss Inspector Douglas Todd reprimands Axel for his behavior and threatens to fire him unless he changes his ways on the force. Axel arrives at his apartment to find it has broken into by his childhood friend. Mikey did time in prison, but ended up working as a security guard in Beverly Hills, thanks to a mutual friend, Mikey shows Axel some German bearer bonds and Axel wonders how he got them, but chooses not to question him about it. After going out to a bar, they return to Axels apartment, where two men knock Axel unconscious and then confront Mikey about the bonds, assault him. Axel asks to investigate Mikeys murder, but Inspector Todd refuses to allow it because of his ties to Mikey. Axel uses the guise of taking time to head to Beverly Hills to solve the crime. He finds Jenny working in an art gallery and learns about Mikeys ties to Victor Maitland, posing as a flower deliveryman, Axel goes to Maitlands office and tries to question him about Mikey, but is thrown through a window by Maitlands bodyguards and arrested. At the police station, Lieutenant Andrew Bogomil assigns Sergeant John Taggart, after a series of encounters, including the trios foiling of a robbery in a striptease bar, the three develop a mutual respect. On the trail of Mikeys killers, Axel sneaks into one of Maitlands warehouses, where he finds coffee grounds and he also discovers that many of Maitlands crates have not gone through customs. After being arrested again, this time after a scuffle at Maitlands country club, Police Chief Hubbard, who has learned of Axels ill-advised investigative actions, orders that Axel be escorted out of town. However, Axel convinces Rosewood to pick up Jenny instead and take her with them to Maitlands warehouse, Axel and Jenny break into the warehouse and discover several bags of cocaine inside a crate. Before Axel can get this new evidence to Rosewood, Maitland. Maitland takes Jenny and leaves Axel to be killed, but after some hesitation, Rosewood enters the warehouse, Taggart tracks Axel and Rosewood to Maitlands estate, where he joins the two in their efforts to rescue Jenny and bring Maitland to justice. After wiping out most of Maitlands men, Axel kills Maitlands right-hand man Zack, with Bogomils help, Axel fatally shoots Maitland and rescues Jenny. Bogomil fabricates a story to Hubbard that covers for all the participants without discrediting the Beverly Hills Police force, realizing that he will be fired in Detroit, Axel asks Bogomil to speak to Inspector Todd and smooth things over for him. Later, Taggart and Rosewood meet Axel as he out of his hotel. Axel invites them to him for a farewell drink
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Beverly Hills Cop II
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Beverly Hills Cop II is a 1987 American action comedy film directed by Tony Scott, written by Larry Ferguson and Warren Skaaren and starring Eddie Murphy. It is the sequel to the 1984 film Beverly Hills Cop, although it made less money than the first film and received mixed reviews from critics, the film was still a box office success, making $153.7 million domestically. Aside from box office success, the film was nominated for an Academy Award and for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, Lutz also punishes Taggart and Rosewood by placing them on traffic duty. On the way home, Bogomil is shot and injured by Karla Fry, the chief hench-woman of Maxwell Dent, who secretly is the mastermind behind the Alphabet Crimes. Finding out about the shooting by a report, Axel Foley abandons his current undercover duties. Taggart and Rosewood agree to assist Axel because of Lutzs attempts to find an excuse to get them fired, posing as an undercover FBI agent to get past Lutz with the aid of Detective Jeffrey Friedman, Axel soon starts making the connection between the robberies and Dent. He first finds out that the ammunition fired at one of the robberies was designed by Charles Cain, Axel has Bogomils daughter Jan use her connections as an insurance agent to find out about Dents financial dealings. Dent is robbing his own businesses on purpose in order to finance firearms transactions with a dealer named Nikos Thomopolis and is discreetly using Cain as the front man for his operations. Bogomil was shot because his investigation was on the track into the case. Having foiled an attempt at a bank depot, Axel is able to trick Dents accountant Sidney Bernstein into using his computer and discovers that Dent. Axel also learns from Jan that all of Dents businesses have had their insurance coverage canceled and are about to go bankrupt except his race track, which he is convinced is the next target. On the way to the track, Axel solves the latest riddle sent to the police. However, Axel knows Cain is a designed to throw the authorities off Dents trail. The three arrive too late to stop the robbery and find Cain, shot by Karla, among those killed, the three get into a shootout with everyone involved in the deal. Dent confronts Axel in the warehouse, but Axel gets distracted by one of Dents henchmen on the roof above him and Dent gets away. Dent then crashes through the wall in his car and Axel shoots Dent through the windshield, sending his car down a hill and erupting in flames, Karla appears and is about to kill Axel, but is shot dead by Taggart. Just as the last thugs are about to flee, the police arrive upon the scene and arrest the rest of Dents thugs, Lutz and Mayor Egan arrive at the scene. Lutz tries to fire Rosewood and Taggart for their insubordination, however, both Taggart and Rosewood stand up to an infuriated Lutz and prove that Dent was the real Alphabet Bandit and the rest of the alphabet crimes were about an arms deal
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Midnight Run
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Midnight Run is a 1988 American action comedy film directed by Martin Brest and starring Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin. Yaphet Kotto, John Ashton, Dennis Farina, Joe Pantoliano, bounty hunter Jack Walsh is enlisted by bail bondsman Eddie Moscone to bring accountant Jonathan The Duke Mardukas back to L. A. The accountant had embezzled $15 million from Chicago mob boss Jimmy Serrano before skipping the $450,000 bail Moscone has posted for him, Walsh must bring Mardukas back within five days, or Moscone defaults. Moscone says the job is easy, a run. Walsh is then approached by FBI Agent Alonzo Mosely, who wants Mardukas to be a witness against Serrano, Walsh takes no notice of this and instead steals Moselys ID, which he uses to pass himself off as an FBI agent along his journey. Serrano’s henchmen Tony and Joey offer Walsh $1 million to turn Mardukas over to them, Walsh captures Mardukas in New York and calls Moscone from the airport, not knowing that Moscones line is tapped by the FBI and that his assistant Jerry is secretly tipping off Serranos men. However, Mardukas fakes an attack on the plane, forcing the two men to travel via train. When Walsh and Mardukas fail to show up in Los Angeles on time, Dorfler tracks them to the train and attempts to take The Duke from Walsh, but Walsh gets the drop on him and leaves the train. However, he discovers when he attempts to purchase bus tickets with a card that Dorfler canceled the card. Without funds, he is forced to rely on other means to get across the country, including stealing cars, borrowing his ex-wife’s car in Chicago, meanwhile, word of the skirmish on the train reaches Moselys ears and he leads a task force to find Walsh and Mardukas. Eventually, just as Jack was going to bust the drug dealer, since then, however, Walsh has clung to the vain hope that he will one day be reunited with his ex-wife. Later, Mardukas learns that the dealer was Serrano himself. In Arizona, Dorfler takes Mardukas away from Walsh, who is found by Mosely, while arguing with Moscone over the phone, Walsh realizes that Dorfler intends to turn Mardukas over to Serrano for $2 million. However, Dorfler accidentally reveals to Serranos men where he is keeping Mardukas and is knocked unconscious by Serranos men, Jack meets up with Serrano while wearing a wire and being watched by the FBI. Dorfler spots Mardukas and interrupts the exchange, unknowingly disabling the wire, after Serrano takes the disks, the FBI closes in, arresting Serrano and his henchmen. Mosely turns Mardukas over to Walsh with enough time to him to L. A. by the deadline. However, Walsh realizes that he bring himself to send Mardukas to prison. Before parting, Walsh gives Mardukas a watch that his wife gave him before their marriage, in return, Mardukas gives Walsh $300,000 in a money belt he had been hiding
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Defiance College
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Defiance College is a very small, highly residential college located in Defiance, Ohio, United States. It is an independent, co-educational liberal arts college affiliated with the United Church of Christ, the campus includes eighteen buildings and access to the 200-acre Thoreau Wildlife Sanctuary. Defiance College advertises its national recognition for its programs of service, Defiance College is also in Colleges With a Conscience from Princeton Review and Campus Compact. In 2013 was a President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll Finalist and its mission statement emphasizes experience of engagement. It hosts the McMaster School for Advancing Humanity, which students to participate in projects to improve the human condition. It also has a campus/community initiative, its Service Leadership Program and an honors curriculum, small Honors Program and the Hench Autism Studies Program, which focuses on late adolescence and early adulthood. The college began as Defiance Female Seminary in 1850 and was opened by the Christian Church to provide schooling for young women, william Curtis Holgate, a local businessman, donated most of the campus. In 1903 the Defiance Female Seminary formally became Defiance College, making it one of only two religious-affiliated colleges to begin operation in Ohio during the 20th century, much of the institution’s early growth occurred under Peter McReynolds who was named president in 1902. The following years saw growth in students, endowment, and facilities with the addition of most of the campus buildings. Defiance College grew and flourished under President Kevin McCanns leadership, academic programs expanded, and enrollment grew. The physical appearance of the campus changed significantly, the campus increased in size to 140 acres, the library, student union, and Pilgrim halls were built, and old buildings were renovated. President Dwight D. Eisenhower paid two visits to Defiance College, on October 15,1953, he laid the cornerstone for Anthony Wayne Library of American Study. Some students went on an expedition to the Northwest to seek the Sasquatch, others spent the month learning German by speaking nothing else, all day long, for a month. Two professors held a class in which students learned hot-air ballooning, another group conducted an archaeological dig. The colleges emphasis was on alternative learning, and students were encouraged to create their own Winter Term program, when Oberlin closed that school in 1967, the Schauffler endowment was moved to Defiance College, which created the Schauffler Center and later built Schauffler Hall. About 1,000 students are enrolled at Defiance College, more than 50% of all traditional students live on campus. The college has more than 40 undergraduate majors with two programs in education and business. DC has a Students to Faculty Ratio of 11,1, the Defiance College Yellow Jackets compete in Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference as a NCAA Division III school
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University of Southern California
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The University of Southern California is a private research university founded in 1880 with its main campus in Los Angeles, California. As Californias oldest private university, USC has historically educated a large number of the regions business leaders. In recent decades, the university has also leveraged its location in Los Angeles to establish relationships with research and cultural institutions throughout Asia, an engine for economic activity, USC contributes $8 billion annually to the economy of the Los Angeles metropolitan area and California. For the 2014–15 academic year, there were 18,740 students enrolled in undergraduate programs. USC also has 23,729 graduate and professional students in a number of different programs, including business, law, engineering, social work, and medicine. The university is one of the top fundraising institutions in the world, consistently ranking among the top 3 in external contributions, multiple academic rankings list the University of Southern California as being among the top 25 universities in the United States. With an acceptance rate of 16 percent, USC is also among the most selective academic institutions in the nation. USC maintains a tradition of innovation and entrepreneurship, with alumni having founded companies such as Lucasfilm, Myspace, Salesforce. com, Intuit, Qualcomm, Box, Tinder. As of 2014, the university has produced the fourth largest number of billionaire alumni out of all institutions in the world. USC is home to the world’s most powerful computer, which is presently housed in a super-cooled. The only other commercially available quantum computing system is operated jointly by NASA, USC was also one of the earliest nodes on ARPANET and is the birthplace of the Domain Name System. Other technologies invented at USC include DNA computing, dynamic programming, image compression, VoIP, USC sponsors a variety of intercollegiate sports and competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association as a member of the Pac-12 Conference. Members of the teams, the Trojans, have won 102 NCAA team championships, ranking them third in the nation. Trojan athletes have won 288 medals at the Olympic games, more than any university in the United States. If USC were a country, its athletes would have received the 12th-most Olympic gold medals in history. In 1969, it joined the Association of American Universities, the University of Southern California was founded following the efforts of Judge Robert M. Hellman. The three donated 308 lots of land to establish the campus and provided the seed money for the construction of the first buildings. Originally operated in affiliation with the Methodist Church, the school mandated from the start that no student would be denied admission because of race, the university is no longer affiliated with any church, having severed formal ties in 1952
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Enfield High School
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Enfield High School is a secondary school established in 1893 in Enfield, Connecticut. The Enfield High School campus is located in the Connecticut River Valley, the school has an enrollment of approximately 1400 students. The present facility was built in 1964 on Enfield Street, the facility underwent a $6.2 million dollar renovation and library addition completed in 2005, and a $103 million dollar as-new renovation and significant expansion completed in 2017. In May 2010, Enfield High School and Enrico Fermi High School underwent a process as part of the restructuring. Enfield High School operates as the sole high school, which houses both students from Enfield High School and the previous Enrico Fermi High School, which closed its doors in 2016. Enfield High School is located on a hill off the Connecticut River, on a clear winter day, the Appalachian Mountains can be seen from the campus. Reminiscent of the Cold War, the structure was constructed in the 1960s with a concrete slab supported with outside supporting buttressing columns. A performing arts music wing includes an auditorium and theatre that can seat nearly 1,000 people, a Building is the main academic building. This building holds four floors of classrooms, including the atrium and lobby, computer labs. In 20052,730 square feet of renovation and 6,624 square feet of light renovation created 12 new classrooms in A Building as part of a library expansion project. In 2016, the wing was renovated as new, adding an expanded lobby and atrium entrance, new stairwell, B Building consists of additional computer labs, lecture rooms, and the Library Media Center. These amenities were added to the school in 2005 as a 20, 000-square-foot, in 2016, B-wing was renovated as new, adding a new school store, career services suite, and guidance offices. The library prior to 2005 was previously located on the floor of Enfield High Schools A Building. Gymnasium/Cafeteria C-Wing, Located located off B Corridor, which houses the Athletic Heritage Hall, stairs off the corridor lead down to the basement level where the gym and locker rooms are located. There is also a gym for extra practice space and locker rooms for visiting teams. An expanded cafeteria that seats nearly 700 students is part of wing, including new culinary labs. Enrico Fermi STEAM Wing E-Wing, the high schools STEAM wing is a new 120,000 sq. ft, addition to the south side of the high school, which completed construction in 2015. The Enrico Fermi wing replaced D-wing, the science wing original to the 1960s construction, was demolished in 2016
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Enfield, Connecticut
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Enfield is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 44,654 at the 2010 census and it is bordered by Longmeadow, Massachusetts and East Longmeadow, Massachusetts to the north, Somers to the east, East Windsor and Ellington to the south, and the Connecticut River to the west. Enfield was originally inhabited by the Pocomtuc tribe, and contained their two villages of Scitico and Nameroke, Enfield was settled in 1679 by settlers from Salem, Massachusetts. Enfield was incorporated in Massachusetts in 1683 as the Freshwater Plantation, the namesake is the Freshwater Brook that triverses the town. Shortly around 1700, the changed its name to Enfield after Enfield Town in Middlesex. In 1734, the part of town separated into the town of Somers. Jonathan Edwards preached his famous sermon, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and it was part of the Great Awakening revival that struck New England in the mid-18th century and spread throughout Western North American civilization. In the 1989 film Glory, boxes of gunpowder can be seen with the words Enfield, in an episode in the 1970s police drama Hawaii Five-O, Jack Lords character Steve McGarrett traces explosives back to The Hazard Gunpowder Company- Enfield, CT. The capacity of the mill at the time of the Civil War was 1,200 pounds per day, over 60 people died in explosions in Powder Hollow during the years when gunpowder was manufactured there. The mill blew up several times, but was set up so that if one building blew up, the ruins of these buildings and the dams are open to the public. Powder Hollow is now home to baseball fields and hiking trails, kings Island in the Connecticut River, previously known as Terry Island, was the location of pivotal meetings of Adventist Christians in 1872 and 1873. There are five sections of the town of Enfield, Enfield Village, Thompsonville, Hazardville, Scitico, and Sherwood Village. In 1793, a historic Shaker village, Enfield Shaker village, the Utopian religious sect practiced celibate, communal living, and is today renowned for its simple architecture and furniture. Membership eventually dwindled, however, and the village disbanded, the property has since been redeveloped by the Enfield Correctional Institution, still located on Shaker Road. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has an area of 34.2 square miles, of which 33.3 square miles is land and 0.93 square miles. As of the census of 2000, there were 45,212 people,16,418 households, the population density was 1,354.3 people per square mile. There were 17,043 housing units at a density of 510.5 per square mile. The racial makeup of the town was 89. 74% White,5. 61% African American,0. 20% Native American,1. 34% Asian,0. 02% Pacific Islander,1. 57% from other races, and 1. 54% from two or more races
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Dallas (1978 TV series)
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Dallas is an American prime time television soap opera that aired on CBS from April 2,1978, to May 3,1991. The series revolves around a wealthy and feuding Texan family, the Ewings, who own the independent oil company Ewing Oil, the series originally focused on the marriage of Bobby Ewing and Pamela Barnes, whose families were sworn enemies with each other. As the series progressed, oil tycoon J. R. Ewing grew to be the main character, whose schemes. When the show ended in May 1991, J. R. was the character to have appeared in every episode. The show was famous for its cliffhangers, including the Who shot J. R. mystery, the 1980 episode Who Done It remains the second highest rated prime-time telecast ever. The show also featured a Dream Season, in which the entirety of the season was revealed to have been a dream of Pam Ewing. After 14 seasons, the series finale Conundrum aired in 1991, the show had a relatively ensemble cast. The series won four Emmy Awards, including a 1980 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series win for Bel Geddes. With its 357 episodes, Dallas remains one of the longest lasting full-hour primetime dramas in American TV history, behind Law & Order, Special Victims Unit, Bonanza, Law & Order, in 2007 Dallas was included in TIME magazines list of 100 Best TV Shows of All-TIME. Dallas also spawned the spin-off series Knots Landing in 1979 which also lasted 14 seasons, in 2010, TNT announced it had ordered a new, updated continuation of Dallas. The revival series, continuing the story of the Ewing family, premiered on TNT on June 13,2012, Dallas debuted on April 2,1978, as a five-part miniseries on the CBS network. The first five episodes, originally considered a miniseries, are now referred to as season one—making fourteen seasons in total, the show is known for its portrayal of wealth, sex, intrigue, and power struggles. Ellies family were—in contrast to Jock—ranchers, with love for the land. Following the marriage of Ellie and Jock, the Southworth family ranch, Southfork, became the Ewings home, where Jock and Miss Ellie raised three sons, J. R. Gary and Bobby. Middle son Gary was Ellies favorite as he displayed Southworth traits, however, while still young, Gary had married waitress Valene Clements, who produced the first heir, the petite and saucy Lucy. Years prior to the beginning, J. R. had driven Gary and Valene off Southfork. During the first episodes of the series, the teenaged Lucy is seen sleeping with ranch foreman Ray Krebbs. Later, in four, Ray would be revealed as Lucys uncle
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Police Squad!
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Police Squad. is an American television comedy series broadcast in 1982, created by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker, and starring Leslie Nielsen as Frank Drebin. A spoof of police procedurals, the series featured Zucker, Abrahams and Zuckers usual sight gags, wordplay, while a parody of many television shows and movies, it bore a particular resemblance to the Lee Marvin cop show, M Squad and the late 1960s series Felony Squad. Although cancelled after six episodes, the show spawned The Naked Gun film series, in 2013, TV Guide ranked it #7 on their list of 60 shows that were Cancelled Too Soon. Police Squad. was created by Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker, despite critical acclaim, the show was cancelled by ABC after just six episodes. The show gained a cult following through repeat broadcasts, which led to The Naked Gun film series. Many gags from the show were recycled for all three films, alan North played the role of Captain Ed Hocken on the show, in the films, the role was played by George Kennedy. Peter Lupus co-starred as Officer Norberg, but in the films, Ed Williams, who played scientist Ted Olson on the show, reprised his role in the films, making him and Nielsen the only two actors from the series to appear in the movies. Robert Goulet, who appeared as one of the special guest stars who were killed off at the beginning of their episodes. Dr. Joyce Brothers played herself in the first Naked Gun film and she also played herself in the fourth episode of the show. Each episode had two different titles, the first title was shown on the screen, while announcer Hank Simms, reads the second one instead. The episodes were written to be shown in a specific order, firstly, the episode number often corresponds to the number of garbage cans that Franks car crashes into when it arrives at the crime scene. Leslie Nielsen portrayed Sergeant Frank Drebin, Detective Lieutenant Police Squad, Jerry Zucker explained that the name Drebin was picked blindly from the phone book. Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker had met Nielsen when working on Airplane. the team felt Nielsen would be perfect as Drebin as the character lampooned the roles Nielsen had played in television dramas such as The Bold Ones, The Protectors and S. W. A. T. Ed Williams co-starred as lab technician Ted Olson, Williams had been a teacher for many years and had done a little acting. Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker were amazed by his performance, of the main cast, Nielsen, Taylor, and Wiliams were the only ones who returned and portrayed their original characters in The Naked Gun film series. Captain Ed Hocken was portrayed by George Kennedy in the film series, Hank Simms, who had worked as an announcer for some of Quinn Martins programs, announced the title of each episode, though the spoken title never matched the title caption. The sequence introduces Nielsen and North as their characters during an out, as well as Abraham Lincoln impersonator Rex Hamilton. Hamilton never appeared in the show itself, another recurring gag used in the opening sequence was the introduction of a special guest star, a celebrity who was introduced but immediately murdered during the credits
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Breaking Away
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Breaking Away is a 1979 American coming of age comedy-drama film produced and directed by Peter Yates and written by Steve Tesich. It follows a group of four teenagers in Bloomington, Indiana. The film stars Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern, Jackie Earle Haley, Barbara Barrie, Paul Dooley, Breaking Away won the 1979 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Tesich, and received nominations in four other categories, including Best Picture. It also won the 1979 Golden Globe Award for Best Film, the film is ranked eighth on the List of Americas 100 Most Inspiring Movies compiled by the American Film Institute in 2006. In June 2008, AFI announced its Ten top Ten—the best ten films in ten classic American film genres—after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community, Breaking Away ranked as the eighth best film in the sports genre. Tesich was an alumnus of Indiana University Bloomington, the film was shot in and around Bloomington and on the universitys campus. Dave, Mike, Cyril, and Moocher are working-class friends living in the town of Bloomington. Now turning 19, they all graduated from school the year before and are not sure what to do with their lives. Dave is obsessed with competitive bicycle racing, and Italian racers in particular, however, his mother Evelyn is more understanding. Dave develops a crush on a university student named Katherine and masquerades as an Italian exchange student in order to romance her, One evening, he serenades Katerina outside her sorority house, with Cyril providing guitar accompaniment. When her boyfriend Rod finds out, he and some of his fraternity brothers beat Cyril up, though Cyril wants no trouble, Mike insists on tracking down Rod and starting a brawl. The university president reprimands the students for their arrogance toward the cutters and, over their objections, when a professional Italian cycling team comes to town for a race, Dave is thrilled to be competing with them. However, the Italians become irked when Dave is able to keep up with them and he subsequently confesses his deception to Katherine, who tearfully slaps him before storming off. Daves friends persuade him to them in forming a cycling team for the Little 500. Daves parents provide T-shirts with the name Cutters on them, ray privately tells his son how, when he was a young stonecutter, he was proud to help provide the material to construct the university, yet he never felt comfortable on campus. Later, Dave runs into Katherine, whos going to be leaving for a job in Chicago, they patch things up, and she wishes him luck in the race. Dave is so much better than the competitors in the Little 500 that while the college teams switch cyclists every few laps, he rides without a break. However, he is injured in a crash and has to stop, after some hesitation, Moocher, Cyril, and Mike take turns pedaling, but soon the Cutters lead vanishes
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Honky Tonk Freeway
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Honky Tonk Freeway is a 1981 comedy film directed by John Schlesinger. The film was financed in part by accountant Roy Tuckers tax avoidance schemes funded by the Rossminster banking group, in a small Florida tourist town named Ticlaw, the Mayor/Preacher Kirby T. Calo also operates a hotel and tiny wildlife safari park. The towns major draw is an elephant named Bubbles. When the state highway commission builds a freeway adjacent to the town, the ramp doesnt come, so the townsfolk literally paint the town pink to attract visitors. Meanwhile, tourists from various parts of the United States, shown in a series of concurrent, ongoing vignettes, are heading to Florida and will all end up in Ticlaw and this movie was filmed in the small central Florida town of Mount Dora. The off-ramp filming took place at the I-75 and Palmer Road overpass in Sarasota, most of the highway scenes take place on I-75 between Sarasota and Ft Myers while the highway was still under construction. Dynamite crews blew up a bridge built to look like the southbound lane overpass at I-75. Many portions of Fruitville were painted pink to match the sets in Mount Dora, Palmer Road was never designated for an I-75 exit because it is not a main thoroughfare. The exit for Fruitville is about two miles north of the filming location, on a film as devoid of any basic humorous appeal. Long-term commercial appeal appears to be almost nil, some have argued that the film can be viewed as a satire on the American way of life and this contributed to its unfavorable critical reception at the time. The film was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Original Song for the song Youre Crazy, Honky Tonk Freeway at the Internet Movie Database Honky Tonk Freeway at Rotten Tomatoes Honky Tonk Freeway at Box Office Mojo http, //www. edwardclintonplaywright. com/honkeytonk. htm
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King Kong Lives
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King Kong Lives is a 1986 American monster film directed by John Guillermin. Produced by De Laurentiis Entertainment Group and featuring special effects by Carlo Rambaldi, the film was a sequel to the 1976 remake of King Kong. King Kong, after being shot down from the World Trade Center, is alive in a coma for about 10 years at the Atlanta Institute. In order to save Kongs life, Dr. Franklin must perform a heart transplant, however, he lost so much blood that a transfusion is badly needed, and to complicate matters, Franklin says there is no species of ape or other animal whose blood type matches Kongs. Enter adventurer, and eventual love interest, Hank Mitch Mitchell, Mitchell brings her to the Institute so her blood can be used for King Kongs operation. The transfusion and the heart transplant are a success, but Kong escapes along with Lady Kong, archie Nevitt, an insane army lieutenant colonel, is called in with his men to hunt down and kill the two apes. Lady Kong is captured alive by Nevitts troops and imprisoned, Kong falls from a cliff and is presumed dead. But as Franklin and Mitchell soon discover, Kongs artificial heart is beginning to give out, the jailbreak is successful thanks to Kong, who survived his fall and breaks his mate out. After being followed, attacked, and shot by the military, Kong kills Lt. Col Nevitt, Kong reaches out to touch his son just before dying. Returned to Borneo, Lady Kong is now living peacefully with her son in the jungle, King Kong Lives received negative reviews. Rotten Tomatoes rated a 0% based on 9 reviews, siskel remarked Obviously, they were scared If you dont believe me or Roger, believe the film company, that, think about it, couldnt find a single scene that it wanted you to see. Despite its marketing campaign, King Kong Lives was a box office flop, the film was nominated for one Razzie Award, Worst Visual Effects. Actor Peter Goetz received a check of 12 cents from the film and decided to frame it as a tribute. The film is listed in Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilsons book The Official Razzie Movie Guide as one of The 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made, the game was designed as an action adventure game with some science fiction concepts. The MSX version, on the hand, plays from the perspective of Mitchell. This version is a role-playing game, King Kong Lives at the Internet Movie Database King Kong Lives at AllMovie King Kong Lives at Rotten Tomatoes King Kong Lives at Box Office Mojo
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Eddie Murphy
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Edward Regan Eddie Murphy is an American comedian, actor, writer, singer, and producer. Murphy was a regular cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1980 to 1984 and he has worked as a stand-up comedian and was ranked #10 on Comedy Centrals list of the 100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time. In films, Murphy has received Golden Globe Award nominations for his performances in 48 Hrs. the Beverly Hills Cop series, Trading Places, and The Nutty Professor. Murphys work as an actor in films includes Thurgood Stubbs in The PJs, Donkey in DreamWorks Shrek series. In some films, he plays multiple roles in addition to his character, intended as a tribute to one of his idols Peter Sellers. He has played roles in Coming to America, Wes Cravens Vampire in Brooklyn, the Nutty Professor films, Bowfinger, The Adventures of Pluto Nash, Norbit. As of 2014, Murphys films have grossed over $3.8 billion in the United States and Canada box office, in 2015, his films made him the 6th-highest grossing actor in the United States. Murphy was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Murphy was born in Brooklyn, New York City, and raised in the boroughs Bushwick neighborhood. His mother, Lillian, was an operator, and his father, Charles Edward Murphy, was a transit police officer. His father died when he was young and my mother and father broke up when I was three, and he died when I was eight, so I have very dim memories… He was a victim of the Murphy charm. I never got all the logistics and it was supposed to be one of those crimes of passion, If I cant have you, no one else will-kind of deal. Someone said to me one day, Thats why you dont trust women, what are you, a fucking psychiatrist. – Eddie Murphy When Murphys single mother became ill, the eight-year-old, in interviews, Murphy has said that his time in foster care was influential in developing his sense of humor. Later, he and his older brother Charlie were raised in Roosevelt, New York by his mother and stepfather Vernon Lynch, around the age of 15, Murphy was writing and performing his own routines, which were heavily influenced by Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor. His early comedy was characterized by frequent swearing and sketches lampooning a diverse group of people, Eddie Murphy was his first album, released in 1982. In Rolling Stones February 2015 appraisal of all 141 SNL cast members to date and it is customary to say that Eddie Murphy is the only reason SNL survived the five-year wilderness without Lorne Michaels, they noted. In 1982, Murphy made his big debut in the film 48 Hrs. with Nick Nolte. 48 Hrs. proved to be a hit when it was released in the Christmas season of 1982, Nolte was scheduled to host the December 11,1982, Christmas episode of Saturday Night Live, but became too ill to host, so Murphy took over
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Judge Reinhold
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Edward Ernest Judge Reinhold Jr. is an American actor, known for co-starring in movies such as Beverly Hills Cop, Ruthless People, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Gremlins and The Santa Clause trilogy. Reinhold was born in Wilmington, Delaware, the son of Regina Celeste and he was raised in Fredericksburg, Virginia, until his family moved to Martin County, Florida, prior to his junior year in high school. His father nicknamed him Judge when he was just two weeks old, Reinhold graduated from Martin County High School, although he attended Alexis I. duPont High School in the 9th and 10th grades. He went on to attend Mary Washington College and North Carolina School of the Arts, after which he performed at regional theaters, including Burt Reynolds Dinner Theater in Jupiter. Reinhold has appeared in more than 60 films and his first appearance on screen was in the Wonder Woman episode Amazon Hot Wax, in which he played Jeff Gordon, a singer who gets caught up in an extortion ring in the music business. He appeared in a role in Pat Benatars music video for Shadows of the Night. He later played Detective Billy Rosewood, the police detective sent to trail Eddie Murphys character, in Beverly Hills Cop. Reinhold starred in the Canadian hard rock band Harem Scarems 1992 music video Honestly as the love interest. In 1994, Reinhold appeared in Beverly Hills Cop III and The Santa Clause and he has reprised the role of Dr. Neal Miller for the Santa Clause sequels, as well. Reinhold appeared as himself on two episodes of the season of Arrested Development, headlining a fictional court TV show called Mock Trial with J. Reinhold. Reinhold was nominated for an Emmy for a role on Seinfeld in which he played the infamous close talker who developed an obsession with Jerrys parents. He has also seen in Steven Spielbergs epic miniseries Into the West. Reinhold appeared in the 2008 political satire Swing Vote, william Rosewood for the fourth installment of the Beverly Hills Cop series, with Eddie Murphy, with Rush Hours Brett Ratner directing. Reinhold was arrested at Dallas Love Field Airport on December 8,2016 for disorderly conduct, in the film Fanboys, Billy Dee Williams, in recognition of his Star Wars persona of Lando Calrissian, appears as a character, who is a judge, named Judge Reinhold. In Arrested Development, Judge Reinhold appears in a program whose name changes several times. It is a parody of other shows like Judge Judy. In Community, Abed Nadir throws away a copy of the movie Vice Versa because of Judge Reinhold, Judge Reinhold at the Internet Movie Database
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Eric Stoltz
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Eric Stoltz is an American actor, director and producer. In 2010, he portrayed Daniel Graystone in the science fiction television series Caprica, Stoltz was born in Whittier, California, the son of Evelyn B. a violinist and schoolteacher who died in 1994, and Jack Stoltz, an elementary school teacher. He has two sisters, mezzo-soprano Catherine Stoltz and writer Susan R. Stoltz and he was raised in both American Samoa and Santa Barbara, California, where as a child he once earned money playing piano for local musical theatre productions. He attended the University of Southern California, but dropped out after his junior year, when he moved to New York for his studies in 1981, he met Stella Adler and Peggy Feury. In the 1970s Stoltz joined a company that performed ten plays at the Edinburgh Festival. He returned to the United States in 1979, when he entered USC as a drama student, in 1978, he was cast as Steve Benson in the TV adaptation of Erma Bombecks The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank. Director Cameron Crowe and Stoltz became friends while making Stoltzs first feature film, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, according to Stoltz, Crowe promised Stoltz a role in all of his future films. He appeared in each of Crowes next four films, The Wild Life, the director, Robert Zemeckis, said that while Stoltz provided an admirable performance, it lacked the precise comedic sense that Zemeckis was seeking. Some of the footage, where Stoltz does not appear but was on set, was used in the film. Stoltz playing the character was referenced in the 2010 episode of Fringe titled Peter when, in a parallel universe, in 1985, Stoltz garnered attention with a Golden Globe nomination starring as Rocky Dennis in Mask. Among other roles in the 1980s, he appeared in the 1987 hit Some Kind of Wonderful, written, during the 1990s, Stoltz went back and forth between stage, film, and television, appearing in studio and independent films such as Pulp Fiction and The Waterdance. He also produced the films Bodies, Rest & Motion in 1993, Sleep with Me in 1994 and he continued to appear on the New York stage, both on Broadway and off-Broadway. He was nominated for a Tony Award as Featured Actor for his performance as George Gibbs in the 1989 Broadway revival of Thornton Wilders Our Town, a performance of this production was featured on Great Performances, Live from Lincoln Center, which received a 1989 Emmy nomination. Stoltz received the Indie Support Award at the 1998 Los Angeles Film Festival, during the first part of the 2000s, he starred with Gillian Anderson in The House of Mirth, based on the novel by Edith Wharton. From 2001 to 2002, he had a role as the English teacher-poet August Dimitri in ABCs Once and Again, wherein Julia Whelans character. He directed an episode of the show in 2002, in 2003, he played his first leading TV role in Out of Order, which was canceled after five episodes. In 2004, he appeared in The Butterfly Effect as a child molester and he was nominated for a Daytime Emmy for his direction of the cable movie My Horrible Year. He also directed a film entitled The Bulls as well as the highest rated episode of Law & Order in 2005
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John Hughes (filmmaker)
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John Wilden Hughes, Jr. was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. Hughes was born in Lansing, Michigan, to a mother who volunteered in charity work and John Hughes and he spent the first twelve years of his life in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. Hughes described himself as kind of quiet as a kid, I grew up in a neighborhood that was mostly girls and old people. There werent any boys my age, so I spent a lot of time by myself, and every time we would get established somewhere, we would move. Life just started to get good in seventh grade, and then we moved to Chicago, I ended up in a really big high school, and I didnt know anybody. But then The Beatles came along changed my whole life, and then Bob Dylans Bringing It All Back Home came out and really changed me. Thursday I was one person, and Friday I was another and my heroes were Dylan, John Lennon and Picasso, because they each moved their particular medium forward, and when they got to the point where they were comfortable, they always moved on. In 1963, Hughess family moved to Northbrook, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago and this is where Hughess father found work selling roofing materials. There Hughes attended Glenbrook North High School, which gave him inspiration for the films made his reputation in later years. After dropping out of the University of Arizona, Hughes began selling jokes to well-established performers such as Rodney Dangerfield and Joan Rivers. Hughes used his jokes to get a job at Needham, Harper & Steers as an advertising copywriter in Chicago in 1970. During this time, he created became the famous Edge Credit Card Shaving Test ad campaign. Hughes work on the Virginia Slims account frequently took him to the Philip Morris headquarters in New York City and this gave him the opportunity to hang around the offices of the National Lampoon magazine. Hughes subsequently penned a story, inspired by his trips as a child. That piece, Vacation 58, later became the basis for the film National Lampoons Vacation and his first credited screenplay, Class Reunion, was written while still on staff at the magazine. The resulting film became the second attempt by the flagship to duplicate the runaway success of Animal House. It was Hughess next screenplay for the imprint, National Lampoons Vacation and that films success, along with the success of another of Hughes scripts, Mr. Mom, earned Hughes a three-movie deal with Universal Studios. It was the first in a string of efforts set in or around high school, including The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Weird Science, Ferris Buellers Day Off and Some Kind of Wonderful
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Some Kind of Wonderful (film)
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Some Kind of Wonderful is a 1987 American romance film starring Eric Stoltz, Mary Stuart Masterson, and Lea Thompson. It is one of successful teen dramas written by John Hughes in the 1980s. The film is set against the social hierarchy of an American public high school. Blue collar mechanic Keith Nelson and his tomboyish friend Watts aspire to improve their social standing, when Keith asks out the most popular and attractive girl in school, Amanda Jones, Watts realizes her feelings for him are much deeper. Watts tells Keith that Amanda will appreciate a good kisser, and shows Keith how to kiss and he later uses his college fund, with Watts in tow, and selects a pair of earrings for Amanda. Meanwhile, Hardy Jenns, Amandas ex-boyfriend from a neighborhood, plots trouble for Keith by inviting him. Hardy jealously plans to have Keith beaten up, at Jennss party, the timely arrival of other misfits saves Keith from taking a beating. They attempt to turn the tables and beat Jenns instead, Keith tells Jenns he is over her and Amanda slaps Jennss face. In the end, Amanda decides that she needs to learn to stand on her own, find out who she is and she returns the earrings that Keith gave to her. Keith, pleased with the result, and realizing that he is in love with his best friend, bids Amanda goodbye with a kiss on the cheek, after she urges him to go after Watts. Keith catches up to Watts and they kiss, whereupon Keith confesses to Watts that he had no idea how she felt about him. Watts asks Keith how they look, and he replies, You look good wearing my future, Hughes also wanted Molly Ringwald to play the female lead role, but she declined in order to pursue more adult roles. Hughes took it personally and this led to the end of their working relationship, Thompson had originally turned down the role, but changed her mind when the role was offered to her a second time after the film she had just starred in—Howard the Duck—spectacularly flopped. Hughes named the 3 main protagonists as an tribute to the Rolling Stones. Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an 80% critic rating based on 35 reviews, roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times praised the film, calling it worthwhile and entertaining. Janet Maslin of The New York Times stated that Some Kind of Wonderful is the much-improved, recycled version of the Pretty in Pink story, richard Schickel of Time, however, criticized the film for being unrealistic. Mastersons performance was singled out for praise by several critics and it is not featured on the soundtrack album. The Rolling Stones song Miss Amanda Jones is heard during the scene in which Keith showers before his big date, but does not appear on the soundtrack album, as does the cover by The March Violets
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She's Having a Baby
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Shes Having a Baby is a 1988 American romantic comedy film directed by John Hughes. The film portrays a young newlywed couple, Kristy and Jake Briggs played by Elizabeth McGovern and Kevin Bacon, Jake must also deal with the fantasy woman of his dreams. The film is about traditional 1980s suburban life and the expectations that come along with it. He feels he has left the culture of men, and has entered the culture of a married man. This film is a look at the lives of Jefferson played by Kevin Bacon and Kristy Briggs, played by Elizabeth McGovern. Beginning on their day, it follows both their lives, but more so Jakes, with his voice-over commentaries and several imaginary scenes. Jake asks his best friend, Davis McDonald, played by Alec Baldwin before the wedding if he thinks hell be happy, to which his friend says, Yeah, and this is the underlying theme of the movie, Jakes existential crisis of, Is this all there is. After their wedding, Jake and Kristy head off for New Mexico, where Jake works towards gaining a Masters degree, but leaves before finishing, describing it as, high school with ashtrays. They return to Chicago where Jake, by, setting new records for lying in the job market, Jake wants to be a writer and tells his bosses that, which amuses and threatens one boss, who himself had failed at ever writing a book. Kristy also gains work as a research analyst, and they are able to buy a three-bedroom mortgage in the suburbs. Jakes best friend suddenly visits after not seeing him for two years, which causes the two to both envy one anothers lives, and to reaffirm their own. Jake begins fantasizing about having an affair with a mysterious young French Model, Kristy knows who she is and what she wants in life and seemingly always has. Jake feels pressure, from society and from his wife, to have a child and he doesnt know what he wants. Jake and Kristy then begin a program to assist their efforts to become pregnant, the last scene of the film reveals that Jakes voice-over was the new father reading his novel entitled Shes Having a Baby to his wife and son. John Candy, Dan Aykroyd, and Matthew Broderick were in character as Chet Ripley, Roman Craig, however, several scenes were shot directly in the Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois. Most of John Hughess films either take place in Chicago, in the suburbs of Chicago, the Shes Having a Baby soundtrack album was released in 1988 on Miles Copeland IIIs I. R. S. Records label and produced by Dave Wakeling, the song during the birth sequence is This Womans Work by Kate Bush and is featured on her 1989 album The Sensual World. John Hughes is thanked in the liner notes
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Robert De Niro
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Robert Anthony De Niro is an American actor, producer and director who has both Italian and American citizenship. He was cast as the young Vito Corleone in the 1974 film The Godfather Part II and his longtime collaboration with director Martin Scorsese earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Jake La Motta in the 1980 film Raging Bull. He received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2003, the Golden Globe Cecil B, deMille Award in 2010, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama in 2016. De Niros first major roles were in the sports drama, Bang the Drum Slowly. He earned Academy Award nominations for the psychological thrillers Taxi Driver and Cape Fear, De Niro received additional nominations for Michael Ciminos Vietnam war drama, The Deer Hunter, Penny Marshalls drama Awakenings, and David O. Russells romantic comedy-drama, Silver Linings Playbook. His portrayal of gangster Jimmy Conway in Scorseses crime film, Goodfellas, other notable performances include roles in Once Upon a Time in America, Brazil, The Untouchables, Heat, and Casino. He has directed and starred in such as the crime drama A Bronx Tale. Robert Anthony De Niro was born in the Greenwich Village area of Manhattan, New York, the son of Virginia Admiral and Robert De Niro Sr. Both of his parents were painters, his father was of half Italian and half Irish descent, while his mother was of half German ancestry, with her other roots being French, English and Dutch. De Niros parents, who had met at the classes of Hans Hofmann in Provincetown, Massachusetts. De Niro was raised by his mother in the Greenwich Village and his father lived within walking distance and De Niro spent much time with him as he grew up. His mother was raised Presbyterian but became an atheist as an adult, against his parents wishes, his grandparents had him secretly baptized into the Catholic Church while he was staying with them during his parents divorce. De Niro attended PS41, an elementary school in Manhattan. He then went to Elisabeth Irwin High School, the upper school of the Little Red School House. He was accepted into the High School of Music and Art for the ninth grade, De Niro began high school at the private McBurney School and later attended the private Rhodes Preparatory School, although he never graduated from either. Nicknamed Bobby Milk for his pallor, De Niro hung out with a group of kids as a youth in Little Italy. The direction of his future had already been foreshadowed by his debut at age 10. Along with finding relief from shyness through performing, he was also fixated by cinema and he studied acting at the Stella Adler Conservatory, as well as Lee Strasbergs Actors Studio
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Little Big League
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Little Big League is a 1994 family sports film about a 12-year-old who suddenly becomes the owner and then manager of the Minnesota Twins baseball team. It stars Luke Edwards, Timothy Busfield, and Dennis Farina and this film and Disneys Angels in the Outfield were both released just over a month before the 1994 MLB Baseball Players Strike, which forced the league to cancel the playoffs and the World Series. Both indeed feature fictional playoff races that never would have played out in real life. The film was a box office disappointment when it was released perhaps due in part to it being given a theatrical release around the same time as The Lion King. Billy Heywood, a Little League Baseball player, is a pre-teen son to a single mom. Billys grandfather is Thomas Heywood, owner of the Minnesota Twins, the Twins are a last-place team, but Billy and his grandfather love each other, the Twins, and the game of baseball. When the grandfather dies, it is revealed that he wants Billy to inherit the franchise, Thomas Heywood specified that if Billy is still a minor at the time of his death, his aides are to help him until Billy is old enough to run the team by himself. Billy quickly runs afoul of the manager, George OFarrell. Billy believes he is too hard on the players, OFarrell despises the idea of working for a kid and balks at a potential signing of superstar player Rickey Henderson much to Billys frustration. After OFarrell insults Billy and tells him to out of the teams business. There is considerable difficulty finding another manager to replace OFarrell, since no one wants to work for a kid. Billy therefore decides to himself the new manager after one of his friends points out. He reaches out to the Commissioner of Baseball, who approves after consulting with Jenny, the players are very skeptical, but Billy promises that if he does not improve the teams position in the standings within a few weeks, he will resign. The team quickly moves up to division race contention, unfortunately, not all is going smoothly for Billy, as his friend and star first baseman Lou Collins takes a romantic interest in Billys mother. He also must release his personal favorite Twins player, Jerry Johnson, the pressures of managing the team while also fulfilling his other responsibilities, such as schoolwork, wear him down and consume his free time. Billys friends do not like how Billys managerial responsibilities are keeping him away from being with them, even when hes physically present, he is typically distracted by team business. Lou goes into a slump and the jealous Billy benches him, Billy later tells his mom that hes tired of being a grown-up and decides to quit as manager after the end of the season, even reinstating Lou to starter on first base. Down four games in the wild card race with four games left to play, the Twins win all four, the Twins face Ken Griffey, Jr. and the Seattle Mariners, with the American League Wild Card playoff spot on the line
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Trapped in Paradise
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Trapped in Paradise is a 1994 American Christmas-themed crime comedy film written and directed by George Gallo, and starring Nicolas Cage, Jon Lovitz, and Dana Carvey. At Christmas time, New York restaurant manager Bill Firpos brothers Dave and Alvin are paroled early, Dave and Alvin ask Bill to take them to Paradise, Pennsylvania to do a favor for a fellow inmate of theirs. Bill refuses as his brothers are not allowed out of the state and he only agrees after getting linked to a robbery his brothers made. When they discover Paradises bank is light on security, Bill feels the urge to rob it if he had a gun, fortunately, there are guns in the car Dave and Alvin borrowed. With Alvin driving a car, Bill and Dave storm the bank in ski-masks. The bank presidents wife tells them that the safe door is locked. While Dave stays in the bank, Alvin and Bill charge into the restaurant, taking Mr. Anderson, Bill and Dave gain access to the vault and soon rush out of the bank with $275,000, with Alvin driving the getaway car. While trying to get out of town, Alvin gets them lost, a police car turns on the sirens and they try to evade getting caught. Because of slick roads, they drive over a bridge, the police officer does not see them crash and drives past the bridge, but another car stops and offers them a ride. Due to the interstates being closed, the man takes them to his relatives, upon arriving at the house, they find out it is the house of the bank president Mr. Anderson. However, the relatives dont recognize them, Vic Mazzucci, the inmate who gave Dave and Alvin the tip about the low security of this bank, gets enraged that they robbed the bank and busts out of jail. He and his henchman, Caesar, takes their mother, Edna hostage, Bill gets bus tickets and while getting out, the FBI asks him to open the bag he is carrying with him, which contains all of the money. The bag is grabbed by Ed Dawson and Clovis Minor, two shopkeepers, made deputies by the local police chief. Bill tricks the FBI by shooting rounds from Eds gun in the making the crowd run around. They then try to get away via canoe, the canoe is headed towards a waterfall and Alvin falls into the water. A nearby family pulls Alvin out of water and saves him with CPR, Alvin then steals a horse carriage from the police chiefs son, Timmy. The feds chase the carriage but after they drive into the forest the police cars were unable to continue the chase and they ditch the horse carriage and decide to hitchhike. However, the horse, Merlin, and carriage get pulled into the making the brothers save him
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The Shooter (1995 film)
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The movie was filmed mainly in the Czech Republic, in Prague. Mistress The Shooter at the Internet Movie Database The Shooters at AllMovie
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Meet the Deedles
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Meet the Deedles is a 1998 American comedy film directed by Steve Boyum and starring Paul Walker, Steve Van Wormer, A. J. Langer, John Ashton, Robert Englund, and Dennis Hopper. It was the first theatrically released film to be produced by DIC Entertainment since 1986 and its name is a play on The Beatles album Meet the Beatles. Despite portraying teens, Walker and Van Wormer were in their twenties when the movie was filmed. Phil Deedle and Stew Deedle are two twin brothers who are complete surf bums living in Hawaii off of their wealthy father. After the two decide to out on school to go on a special surfing expedition with friends for their 18th birthday. Their father Elton Deedle has become tired of their insolence and lazy lifestyle, the boys are horrified that they’re going to have to fly state-side in order for this to happen, as the camp is located in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. The boys arrive in Wyoming ill prepared for the weather, disembarking from their plane dressed in shorts, flip-flops. They attract the attention of a crowd when they summon a remote controlled crate containing a mini-bar that they use to create hula drinks. Afterwards they leave the terminal, noticing a gruff looking mountain man whom they make fun of, to their shock the man reveals a sign with their last names written on it, thinking he had killed the Deedles, he runs off thinking he’ll hide from the authorities. The Deedles awaken from their crash and find some women’s clothing that had caught onto Flower’s truck before it crashed, since it was their only option for dry clothes they opted to wear them. After, they begin to hike towards the main entrance, they find some of their gear. When the Park Rangers arrived, the identity the boys had on them were the names “Mel” written on Phil’s sweatshirt tag. This leads to a series of all of which the Deedles are to blame for. Unable to win any support for investigation from their fellow rangers, however, the real Mel and Mo arrive at the Ranger’s base at a very untimely moment to reveal that Phil and Stew are not who they say they are. Though Pine was disgusted at this dishonesty, he takes back his plans to have dealt with after they save him from a raging river. Following Slater orchestrating Phil and Stew to cause an explosion near Old Faithful during a prairie dog infestation, Mel and Mo oversee their removal from Yellowstone. As the Deedles are walking down the highway attempting to hitch-hike and they rig a grappling hook into a grate in the roadway, and as an unsuspecting car passes it would catch the undercarriage and tow the Deedles, essentially a land version of parasailing. The boys parachute to the entrance for Slaters underground tunnel network and go underground and they devise a plan to re-divert the water from New Faithful back to Old Faithful, and to escape by donning heat-resistance suits and escaping through the plumbing and through Old Faithful’s spout
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Instinct (film)
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Instinct is a 1999 American psychological thriller film starring Anthony Hopkins, Cuba Gooding Jr. George Dzundza, Donald Sutherland, and Maura Tierney. It was very inspired by Ishmael, a novel by Daniel Quinn. In the United States, the film had the working title Ishmael, in 2000, the film was nominated for and won a Genesis Award in the category of feature film. This was the first film produced by Spyglass Entertainment after Caravan Pictures shut down, the film examines the mind of anthropologist Ethan Powell who had been missing for a few years, living in the jungle with gorillas. He is convicted of killing and injuring several supposed Wilderness Park Rangers in Africa, a bright young psychiatrist tries to find out why he killed them, but becomes entangled in a quest to learn the true history and nature of humankind. He gets a hearing to reveal the truth, but an attack by a guard on the other prisoners causes Powell to be reminded of the killed gorillas. At the end of the film, Powell escapes from prison using a pen to dig out the lock on a window, the film received mostly mixed reviews. Review aggregator Metacritic, which assigns an average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics. Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 27% and an audience score of 67%. The film was also a box office bomb, grossing only $34,105,207 in the United States, the film won a Genesis Award for its themes of animal rights
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Gone Baby Gone
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Gone Baby Gone is a 2007 American neo-noir mystery drama film directed by Ben Affleck and starring his brother Casey Affleck. The screenplay by Ben Affleck and Aaron Stockard is based on the novel of the name by Dennis Lehane. The plot centers on two private investigators, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro, hunting for an abducted four-year-old girl from the Boston neighborhood of Dorchester. Patrick and Angie are then hired by the childs aunt Beatrice to find Amanda and discover that Helene and her boyfriend Skinny Ray had recently stolen money from Cheese, a local Haitian drug lord. After Ray is murdered, Patrick and Angie join the police detectives Remy Bressant and Nick Poole with investigating the case, captain Jack Doyle reads Patrick a telephone transcript of the drug lord setting up an exchange for Amanda. The exchange at a quarry in Quincy is botched and it is believed Amanda drowned, her doll is found in the quarry. Doyle, whose own daughter was killed years before, takes responsibility for the death, two months later, a seven year old boy is abducted in Everett and Patrick receives information that the boy was taken by a known child molester. After entering the house and finding evidence of the abducted boy, Patrick returns with Remy. They are seen by the residents and Nick is shot, Patrick enters the house during the shootout and finds one of the residents dead. He retreats into the child molesters room, where he finds the dead body. Nick later dies of his wounds, after Nicks funeral, Patrick speaks to a police officer, who tells him that Remy had been asking about the drug lords stolen money before the drug lord knew it was missing. At that point, Remy enters the bar, while wearing a mask and holding a shotgun. He points the shotgun at Lionels head, but the bartender shoots Remy twice in the back, Remy flees and is pursued by Patrick to the rooftop of a nearby building, where he dies. Patrick is questioned by the police about Remys death and learns that the never had a phone transcript like the one that Doyle had read to him prior to the botched exchange. Patrick and Angie drive to Doyles home, where Patrick finds Amanda living with Doyle and his wife, Doyle was part of the phony kidnapping all along. Patrick threatens to call the authorities, but Doyle attempts to him that Amanda is better off living with them than with her mother. Patrick leaves and discusses the choices with Angie, who says she will leave him if he calls the police, since she also believes Amanda is much better off with the Doyles. In the next scene, the police arrive, Doyle is arrested, Amanda is returned to her mother amidst heavy publicity, Patrick later visits Amanda as Helene is about to leave on a date with someone she met during the publicity over her daughters disappearance
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Ben Affleck
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Benjamin Geza Ben Affleck-Boldt is an American actor and filmmaker. He began his career as a actor, starring in the PBS educational series The Voyage of the Mimi. He later appeared in the coming-of-age comedy Dazed and Confused and various Kevin Smith films including Chasing Amy, Affleck gained recognition when he and childhood friend Matt Damon won the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Good Will Hunting. He then starred in films including Armageddon, Shakespeare in Love, Pearl Harbor, Changing Lanes. After a career downturn, during which he appeared in Daredevil and Gigli, Afflecks directorial debut, Gone Baby Gone, which he also co-wrote, was well received. He then directed, co-wrote, and starred in the crime drama The Town. For the political thriller Argo, which he directed and starred in, Affleck won the Golden Globe and BAFTA Award for Best Director, and the Golden Globe, BAFTA, in 2014, he starred in the psychological thriller Gone Girl. In 2016, Affleck began playing Batman in the DC Extended Universe, Affleck is the co-founder of the Eastern Congo Initiative, a grantmaking and advocacy-based nonprofit organization. He is also a member of the Democratic Party. His younger brother is actor Casey Affleck, with whom he has worked on films including Good Will Hunting. Following high-profile relationships with Gwyneth Paltrow and Jennifer Lopez, Affleck married Jennifer Garner in 2005, Affleck and Garner have three children together, and announced their separation in 2015. Benjamin Geza Affleck-Boldt was born on August 15,1972 in Berkeley and his family moved to Massachusetts when he was two, living in Falmouth, where his brother Casey was born, before settling in Cambridge. His mother, Christopher Anne Chris, was a Radcliffe College- and his father, Timothy Byers Affleck, worked sporadically as an auto mechanic, a carpenter, a bookie, an electrician, a bartender, and a janitor at Harvard University. In the mid-1960s, he had been an actor and stage manager with the Theater Company of Boston, during Afflecks childhood, his father had a self-described severe, chronic problem with alcoholism and Affleck has recalled him drinking all day, every day. His parents divorced when he was 12, and he and his brother lived with their mother. In the following years, his fathers alcoholism worsened and he spent two years homeless, when Affleck was 16, his father moved to Indio, California to enter a rehabilitation facility and, after gaining sobriety, worked as an addiction counselor at the facility for many years. Affleck was raised in an active, liberal household. He and his brother were surrounded by people who worked in the arts, were taken to the theater by their mother
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The A-Team
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The A-Team is an American action-adventure television series that ran on NBC from 1983 to 1987 about members of a fictitious former United States Army Special Forces unit. The members, after being court-martialed for a crime they didnt commit, escaped from prison and, while still on the run. The series was created by Stephen J. Cannell and Frank Lupo, a feature film based on the series was released by 20th Century Fox in June 2010. The A-Team was created by writers and producers Stephen J. Cannell and Frank Lupo at the behest of Brandon Tartikoff, NBCs Entertainment president. Cannell was fired from ABC in the early 1980s, after failing to produce a hit show for the network, and was hired by NBC, his first project was The A-Team. Brandon Tartikoff pitched the series to Cannell as a combination of The Dirty Dozen, Mission Impossible, The Magnificent Seven, Mad Max and Hill Street Blues, with Mr. T driving the car. The A-Team was not generally expected to become a hit, although Stephen J. Cannell has said that George Peppard suggested it would be a hit before we ever turned on a camera. The A-Team was always portrayed as acting on the side of good and helping the oppressed. I. and Airwolf as well as the films Rambo, First Blood Part II and Top Gun. The show boosted the career of Mr. T, who portrayed the character of B. A. Baracus, some of the shows catchphrases, such as I love it when a plan comes together, Hannibals on the jazz, and I aint gettin on no plane. Have also made their way onto T-shirts and other merchandise, the shows name comes from the A-Teams, the nickname coined for U. S. Special Forces Operational Detachments Alpha during the Vietnam War, although this connection was never mentioned on-screen, in 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didnt commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground, today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, as the television ratings of The A-Team fell dramatically during the fourth season, the format was changed for the shows final season in 1986–87 in a bid to win back viewers. After years on the run from the authorities, the A-Team is finally apprehended by the military, in order to do so, the A-Team must first escape from their captivity. With the help of a new character, Frankie Dishpan Man Santana, the new status of the A-Team, no longer working for themselves, remained for the duration of the fifth season while Eddie Velez and Robert Vaughn received star billing along with the principal cast. These changes proved unsuccessful with viewers, however, and ratings continued to decline, Only 13 episodes aired in the fifth season. In what was supposed to be the episode, The Grey Team, Hannibal, after being misled by Stockwell one time too many. At the end, the team discusses what they were going to do if they get their pardon, the character of Howling Mad Murdock can be seen in the final scene wearing a T-shirt that says, fini
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Ronny Cox
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Daniel Ronald Ronny Cox is an American actor, singer-songwriter and storyteller. Cox wrote a book about his experience filming Deliverance for the movies 40th anniversary in 2012 and he plays over 100 shows at festivals and theaters each year with his band. Cox, the third of five children, was born in Cloudcroft, New Mexico, the son of Lounette and Bob P. Cox and he grew up in Portales, New Mexico. Cox met his wife, Mary, when in high school, Cox graduated from Eastern New Mexico University in 1963 with a double major in Theater and Speech Correction. Mary died in 2006,50 years to the day of their first date, Cox often talks about her during his music performances. As an actor, Cox made his debut in the acclaimed 1972 film Deliverance, in one scene he plays the instrumental Dueling Banjos on his guitar with a banjo-playing mountain boy, played by child actor Billy Redden. He was hired for the role because he could play the guitar, Cox published a book in 2012 in which he recounted his experiences making the film. In the period 1974–1975, Cox starred in the short-lived CBS family-oriented dramatic series entitled Apples Way, created by Earl Hamner and he also appeared as Mr. Webb in a television production of Our Town. In 1977, he appeared in the episode Devil Pack from the series Quinn Martins Tales of the Unexpected, one of Coxs roles was that of Dr. John Gideon during the final season of the television medical drama St. Elsewhere. Coxs character was famously mooned by Dr. Donald Westphall at the end of the episode of season six. In 1987, Cox was cast in the Paul Verhoeven film RoboCop, in 1990, Cox co-starred as Los Angeles Police Chief Roger Kendrick in the short-lived Cop Rock, presenting a striking physical resemblance to the real-world incumbent, Chief Daryl Gates. He also appeared as the antagonistic Mars Administrator Vilos Cohaagen in Total Recall the same year, Cox made a notable appearance on Star Trek, The Next Generation as the efficient but impersonable Captain Edward Jellico in the two-part episode Chain of Command. He has also played Henry Mason, the father of Bree Van de Kamp on Desperate Housewives, in 1997, Cox portrayed the fictional President of the United States Jack Neil in the movie Murder at 1600. Cox also portrayed John Ramsey in the 2000 television film Perfect Murder, Cox has also appeared as Lieutenant/Captain/Chief of Police Andrew Bogomil in Beverly Hills Cop and Beverly Hills Cop II, and Senator/Vice-President Robert Kinsey in Stargate SG-1. Cox had a role in The Starter Wife TV series and he played Pappy McCallister, the husband of Molly Kagans best friend Joan. Cox has occasionally done animation-voice work, lending his voice to the Tyrusian deserter Doc in Invasion America, Cox guest starred in an episode of Matthew Perrys 2011 series Mr Sunshine with Beverly Hills Cop co-star John Ashton. Cox played Walter Kenney in Dexter season six episode three, Cox guest starred in an episode of Diagnosis Murder entitled The Pressure to Murder, episode 9, Season 3. Despite having an acting career, Cox said that music now comes first in his life
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Matthew Perry
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Matthew Langford Perry is a Canadian-American actor. Perry is best known for his role as Chandler Bing on the long-running NBC television sitcom Friends, as well as his portrayal of Ron Clark in the 2006 television movie The Ron Clark Story. Along with starring in the television series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Perry has appeared in a number of films, including Fools Rush In, The Whole Nine Yards. In 2010, he expanded his résumé to include video games and voiceover work when he voiced Benny in the role-playing game Fallout, New Vegas. Perry was the co-creator, co-writer, executive producer and star of the ABC sitcom Mr. Sunshine, in August 2012, Perry began starring as Ryan King, a sportscaster, on the NBC sitcom Go On. The series was canceled on May 10,2013, Perry co-created and stars in the 2015 CBS sitcom The Odd Couple portraying Oscar Madison. On May 11,2015, the series was renewed for a second season, on May 16,2016, CBS renewed the show for a third season. Matthew Perry was born in Williamstown, Massachusetts and his parents divorced before his first birthday and his mother subsequently married Keith Morrison, a broadcast journalist. Perry was raised by his mother in Ottawa, Ontario, and was enrolled at Rockcliffe Park Public School, while growing up, he took a keen interest in tennis and became a top-ranked junior player. When he was 15, Perry moved from Ottawa to Los Angeles to pursue acting and attended The Buckley School in Sherman Oaks, Perry also pursued improv comedy at the LA Connection in Sherman Oaks while still in high school. He went on to play Chazz Russell in the TV series Second Chance, after 13 episodes, Second Chance became Boys Will Be Boys, with the plots refocused on the adventures of Chazz and his teenage friends. After the shows season, Perry stayed in Los Angeles. He went to a 1989 guest appearance on the series Growing Pains, in the midst of his many continuing guest roles on TV, Perry was cast as a regular on the 1990 CBS sitcom Sydney, playing the younger brother of Valerie Bertinellis title character. In 1991, he made a guest appearance on Beverly Hills,90210 as Roger Azarian, Perry landed his next TV starring role on the ABC sitcom Home Free, which aired only 11 episodes in the spring of 1993. By then, Perry was making his mark, and was instantly cast in a pilot titled LAX2194. However, because of commitments to the pilot LAX2194. When he did eventually get a reading, he landed the part he is now best known for, the program was hugely successful and Perry, along with his co-stars, gained wide renown among television viewers. The program also earned him Emmy nominations in 2002 for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series along with Matt LeBlanc, but he lost to Ray Romano
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Mr. Sunshine (2011 TV series)
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Mr. Sunshine is an American television sitcom that aired from February 9 to April 6,2011, as a mid-season replacement. The single-camera comedy was co-created by Matthew Perry, who starred in the series. ABC cancelled the series on May 13,2011 due to low ratings, Ben Donovan is the operations manager for the Sunshine Center, a second-tier arena in San Diego, who has to deal with the unusual demands of his job and his unpredictable boss. Matthew Perry as Ben Donovan – manager of the Sunshine Center, Allison Janney as Crystal Cohen – Bens unpredictable boss. Andrea Anders as Alice – Bens former friend with benefits now dating Alonzo, James Lesure as Alonzo Pope – former NBA star, Bens happy-go-lucky co-worker and Alices boyfriend. Nate Torrence as Roman Cohen – Crystals lovable but weird son and he has a crush on Heather. Portia Doubleday as Heather – Bens assistant, who believes is crazy. Mr. Sunshine is based on a concept by Matthew Perry, who planned to co-write, star in, the project sparked a bidding war among the networks, with ABC landing the comedy in October 2009. The deal came with hefty penalties for ABC if the pilot hadnt made it to series, Perry teamed with Sony writers Alex Barnow and Marc Firek to pen the script. A green light to produce the pilot came from ABC in early January 2010, thomas Schlamme, of Shoe Money Productions, was chosen to direct the half-hour pilot. Perry, Schlamme, and co-writers Barnow and Firek were all listed as producers for the pilot. Casting began in late January, with Allison Janney as the first actor added to the cast as Bens boss, in February, Andrea Anders was tapped as Bens friend with benefits, and Nate Torrence brought on board to play Roman, the son of Bens boss. The casting of Portia Doubleday as Bens assistant, and James Lesure as a star, was announced at the end of April. In May 2010, ABC picked up the pilot for the 2010–2011 television season, on May 13,2011, ABC announced that it had canceled Mr. Sunshine. The series was released on DVD on November 1,2011, Mr. Sunshine at the Internet Movie Database
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Fort Collins, Colorado
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Fort Collins is the Home Rule Municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Larimer County, Colorado, United States. Situated on the Cache La Poudre River along the Colorado Front Range, with a 2016 estimated population of 161,000, it is the fourth most populous city in Colorado after Denver, Colorado Springs, and Aurora. Fort Collins is a college city, home to Colorado State University. Fort Collins was founded as a military outpost of the United States Army in 1864 and it succeeded a previous encampment, known as Camp Collins, on the Cache La Poudre River, near what is known today as Laporte. Camp Collins was erected during the Indian wars of the mid-1860s to protect the Overland mail route that had recently relocated through the region. Travelers crossing the county on the Overland Trail would camp there, the post was manned originally by two companies of the 11th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry and never had walls. Settlers began arriving in the vicinity of the fort nearly immediately, the fort was decommissioned in 1867. The original fort site is now adjacent to the present historic Old Town portion of the city, the first school and church opened in 1866, and the town was platted in 1867. The civilian population of Fort Collins, led by local businessman Joseph Mason, led an effort to relocate the county seat to Fort Collins from LaPorte, the citys first population boom came in 1872, with the establishment of an agricultural colony. Hundreds of settlers arrived, developing lots just south of the original Old Town, tension between new settlers and earlier inhabitants led to political divisions in the new town, which was incorporated in 1873. Although the Colorado Agricultural College was founded in 1870, the first classes were held in 1879, the 1880s saw the construction of a number of elegant homes and commercial buildings and the growth of a distinctive identity for Fort Collins. Stone quarrying, sugar-beet farming, and the slaughter of sheep were among the areas earliest industries, in 1901 the Great Western sugar processing plant was built in the neighboring city of Loveland. Although the city was affected by the Great Depression and simultaneous drought, it nevertheless experienced slow, during the decade following World War II, the population doubled and an era of economic prosperity occurred. Old buildings were razed to make way for new, modern structures, along with revitalization came many changes, including the closing of the Great Western sugar factory in 1955, and a new city charter, adopting a council-manager form of government in 1954. Similarly, Colorado State Universitys enrollment doubled during the 1960s, making it the primary economic force by the end of the century. During that same period, civil activism and anti-war disturbances heightened tensions in the city. During the late 20th century, Fort Collins expanded rapidly to the south, adding new development, management of city growth patterns became a political priority during the 1980s, as well as the revitalization of Fort Collins Old Town with the creation of a Downtown Development Authority. In late July 1997, the city experienced a flood after
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Middle Men (film)
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Middle Men is a 2009 American drama film directed by George Gallo and written by Gallo and Andy Weiss. It stars Luke Wilson, Giovanni Ribisi, Gabriel Macht and James Caan, the movie is based on the experiences of Christopher Mallick who was previously associated with the internet billing companies Paycom and ePassporte. Christopher Mallick has been accused of stealing millions of dollars from his customers at ePassporte to fund the creation of the film. In 2004 Houston, Jack Harris drives with several million dollars in a bag to deliver to Russian mobsters, worried about the safety of his wife Diana. In 1997 Los Angeles, Jack helps a sick friend co-managing a nightclub, Wayne Beering and Buck Dolby are best friends renting together. The drug-addicted friends are watching porn when Wayne asks why there is no porn on the internet, Buck, a former NASA scientist, takes 15 minutes to create a program to allow online credit card transactions to charge people for looking at porn on their website. They earn thousands of dollars in a matter of days, needing more porn they approach Nikita Sokoloff, a Russian mob boss who owns a local strip club, who agrees to 25% of their business in return for letting them photograph and film his strippers. Buck and Waynes website is successful and they party in Las Vegas while neglecting to make payments to Sokoloff, Jack has made the LA nightclub a success and attracts the attention of Jerry Haggerty, a crooked lawyer hired by Wayne and Buck to sort out their problem with Sokoloff. Jack meets the friends and becomes a partner in the business, paying Haggerty $200,000 to get out, knowing Haggerty is under federal indictment and a threat to the business. Sokoloffs nephew comes to collect his $400,000 profit, but when he threatens to kill Jacks family, Jack and his partners dump the body in the ocean and fabricate a story that Sokoloffs nephew took the money and ran. Sokoloff is skeptical, but agrees to let it pass in return for an increase to 50% of the partnership, Jack expands the business by dropping their porn site and focusing on the online credit card billing services. They create a company called 24/7 billing. com, becoming the titular Middle Men for other internet-based porn providers. The billing business is making hundreds of millions of dollars within a year, Jack becomes addicted to the money, sex and power of his new lifestyle, spends little time with his Houston family and starts a relationship with porn star Audrey Dawns. Haggerty, bitter that Jack cut him out of what has become a multimillion-dollar partnership and he manipulates the foolish Wayne and Buck to work with Denny Z, providing billing services for Dennys numerous child pornography websites. Audreys live stream porn site is watched by a web of terrorists. The FBI asks for Jack and Audreys help to expand their terrorist hunt, but Wayne and Buck fear that Jack is meeting with the FBI to turn them in for the murder of Sokoloffs nephew and the child porn. The two confide in Haggerty about killing Sokoloffs nephew, which Haggerty uses to incite Sokoloff to make a move on Jack, when Jack finds out that his partners are helping facilitate Denny Zs child porn, he confronts Denny Z at a house party. Jack sees Audrey having sex with two men at the party and realizes how much he misses his family, leading him to break up with Audrey
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Curly Sue
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Curly Sue is a 1991 American romantic comedy film directed by John Hughes, and stars Jim Belushi, Kelly Lynch and Alisan Porter in the title role. The films music was composed by Georges Delerue, along with the end title song You Never Know performed by Ringo Starr and it marked Steve Carells film debut. Bill Dancer and his young companion Curly Sue are the archetypal homeless folks with hearts of gold and their scams are aimed not at turning a profit, but at getting enough to eat. After moving from Detroit to Chicago, the duo cons the rich divorce lawyer Grey Ellison into believing she backed her Mercedes into Bill, in hopes of a free meal. When Grey accidentally collides with Bill for real, she insists on putting the two up for the night, even over the objections of her snotty fiance Walker McCormick. After a confrontation with Bill exposing the truth of the con, one night, Bill tells Grey that he is not Sues father, he met Sues mother one night in Florida. He tells her that he is not neglecting or abusing Sue, he cares about Sue, however, when it becomes apparent that Sue is completely unable to read or write, Grey begins to push even harder for Bill to leave Sue with her. Eventually, Bill realizes that this is where she belongs - in a home, cared for by someone that can give her the advantages that his homeless, Walker turns them in and Sue gets put into welfare. Bill is arrested, because he never actually had custody of the child, eventually, Grey gets Sue out and Bill is freed. Sue and Grey return to their apartment, and discover a tin ring, however, the ring is accompanied by a note that says that he is in another room. Warner Home Video released it on DVD on June 1,2004 with commentary, the film received mostly negative reviews from critics. Leonard Maltin gave it one and a half out of four in his Movie Guide. The staff of Halliwells Film Guide called it Gruesomely sentimental and manipulative, nigel Andrews of the Financial Times declared, John Hughes here graduates from the most successful comedy in film history to scripting and directing a large piece of non-biodegradable tosh. Curly Sue holds a 14% rating according to Rotten Tomatoes based on 14 reviews, Curly Sue at the Internet Movie Database Curly Sue at the TCM Movie Database Curly Sue at AllMovie Curly Sue at Rotten Tomatoes
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The Deliberate Stranger
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The Deliberate Stranger is a book and television film about American serial killer Ted Bundy. Bundy, The Deliberate Stranger was written by Seattle Times reporter Richard W. Larsen, Larsen would go on to cover the Ted murders in 1974 and then cover the Ted Bundy story up until Bundys execution in 1989. Bundy, The Deliberate Stranger was published in paperback in editions as late as 1990 but has gone out of print. The Deliberate Stranger was adapted into a television movie originally broadcast on NBC in May 1986. The film, based on Larsens book, starred Mark Harmon as Bundy, frederic Forrest starred as Seattle detective Robert D. Keppel, and George Grizzard played reporter Larsen. Bundys lawyer Polly Nelson, in her book Defending the Devil, characterized the film as stunningly accurate and she singled out for praise Harmons portrayal of Bundy, noting how Harmon reproduced Bundys rigid posture and suspicious expression. According to Nelson, her client, still on death row when the program aired, showed no interest in seeing the film. Ann Rule, who had known Bundy before the murders when they worked together on a crisis hotline. Harmon was nominated for a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Bundy, while the film is accurate in its portrayal of events, the names of all the victims have been changed, with the sole exceptions of victim Denise Naslund and her mother Eleanor Rose. According to The New York Times, the two shows ranked seventeenth and sixth in the Nielsen ratings, howard Rosenberg of the Los Angeles Times described it as taut, suspenseful, scary. Larsen, Richard W. Bundy, The Deliberate Stranger, Defending the Devil, My Story as Ted Bundys Last Lawyer. ISBN 978-0-393-05029-5 The Deliberate Stranger at the Internet Movie Database
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All Media Network
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AllGame was a commercial database of information about arcade games, video games and console manufacturers. The AMG consumer web properties AllMusic. com, AllMovie. com, All Media Network includes of the original founders of SideReel and Ackrell Capital investor Mike Ackrell. The AllGame section of the site was shut down on December 12,2014, AllMusic AllMovie SideReel All Media Network MobyGames, another online database of video games and developers
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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database
