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Ivor Wynne Stadium
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Ivor Wynne Stadium was a Canadian football stadium located at the corner of Balsam and Beechwood Avenues, two blocks west of Gage Avenue North in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The stadium was the home of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the CFL from 1950 until it closed on October 27,2012, the clubs previous home was the Hamilton Amateur Athletic Association Grounds. The stadium was replaced by Tim Hortons Field, with a capacity of 24,000. The stadium had a track where the Cap Cornelius secondary-school relays were held. The stadium, called simply the civic stadium, was built in 1928 to host the 1930 British Empire Games. However, playing fields had stood on the site since the city bought the land from a farmer in 1913. The stadium was rebuilt in 1970-71. In 1971, it was renamed for Ivor Wynne, a chairman of the city Parks Board who was Athletic Director. He was considered to be responsible for creating McMasters physical education course. From 1971 to 1975, Ivor Wynne was the largest stadium in the CFL with 34,500 seats, Ivor Wynne was the second facility in Canada to use Astroturf, after Empire Stadium in Vancouver. In the 1980s, the west endzone bleachers were removed so that a new scoreboard could be added and that dropped capacity to about 29,500. A later retrofit of the north stands lower east section for handicapped access in the 1990s dropped capacity further to just under 29,000. The stadium was renovated again after the 2002 football season and had a new second-generation AstroTurf playing surface installed, shortly after the 2003 season, a new scoreboard was erected in the west end of the stadium, owing to sponsorship, it is known as Dofasco TigerVision. Dofasco was bought out by Arcelor Steel in 2006 who was out by Mittal Steel now known as ArcelorMittal. In 2011, plans were announced to renovate the stadium again in 2012, with a date in 2014. On February 25,2011, the Toronto 2015 Pan Am board of directors approved stadium plans which would see the side stands demolished and rebuilt. However, that plan was not used and it would be a multi-function stadium, hosting concerts and football, soccer, and hockey games. In the 1996 game, temporary west and east end zone seating raised capacity to 40,000
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Newmarket, Ontario
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Newmarket is a town and regional seat of the Regional Municipality of York in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is part of Greater Toronto in the Golden Horseshoe region of Southern Ontario, many Newmarket residents commute to Toronto, located south of the town. In 2013, MoneySense magazine ranked Newmarket 10th out of 200 cities in Canada, in 2017, Amazon Canada ranked Newmarket as number 20 of the top 100 most romantic cities in Canada. Newmarkets geographical coordinates are 44. 05°N,79. 46°W and it has an area of 38.33 km². The town is bounded on the south by Aurora, on the west by King, on the north by East Gwillimbury, the main river in Newmarket is the East Holland River, and all other streams in the town are tributaries thereto. Furthermore, the level in the reach of the East Holland north of Davis Drive is controlled from an unfinished Newmarket Canal lock. The land is characterized mainly by deposits from the last ice age. The town is mainly by sand and gravel, ground by the icesheets that covered the area until about 10,000 years ago. No outcrops are to be anywhere in Newmarket, so deep are the glacial deposits. Newmarket has a continental climate with four distinct seasons featuring cold, somewhat snowy winters and warm. Precipitation is moderate and consistent in all seasons, although summers are a bit wetter than winter due to the moisture from the Gulf of Mexico, Newmarkets location on the Holland River long ago made the area a natural route of travel between Lake Ontario and Lake Simcoe. A more used route ran down the branch of the Holland River, over the moraine. In 1793, John Graves Simcoe travelled the trail, northward along the route to the west. In June,1800, Timothy Rogers, a Quaker from Vermont, some of the United States Quakers were interested in moving northward, disturbed by the violence they were expected to take part in during the American Revolution. In 1801 Rogers returned along with several Quaker families who had left their homes in Vermont, by the Christmas of 1801, Joseph Hill had constructed a mill on the Holland River, damming it to produce a mill pond that is now known as Fairy Lake. The town of Upper Yonge Street sprouted up around the mill, which explains why its primary downtown area was centred on the Holland River, Hill also built a tannery just to the north of the mill, and the first store and house, as well as additional mills. By 1802, Elisha Beman had begun to establish businesses and buy land in Newmarket, a mill was first and other businesses soon followed. The town continued to grow through the early 19th century, along with the formation of Aurora and Holland Landing, Newmarket played a central role in the Rebellion of 1837
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Durango City
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Durango, officially Victoria de Durango and also known as Ciudad de Durango, is the capital and largest city of the Mexican state of Durango. It stands at an altitude of 1,880 metres above sea level, the city was founded on July 8,1563 by Spanish Basque explorer Francisco de Ibarra. During the Spanish colonial era the city was the capital of the Nueva Vizcaya province of New Spain, as of 2010, the city had a total population of 518,709, up from 463,830 as of 2005. It serves as seat of Durango Municipality which had a population of 582,267 in 2010. The municipality has a large land area of 10,041 square kilometres and includes such outlying communities as El Nayar. The city of Durango was built on a valley in which a primitive Spanish village named Nombre de Dios was founded. According to the 1921 Mexican census, the city had a population of 67,456 out of which 21,300 were European immigrants, the city of Durango is located in the northwestern part of the country, and Midwestern part of the Mexican plateau. It is between 22 °40 and 26 °50 north latitude and between the meridian 102 °2555 and 107 °0850 west latitude relative to Greenwich, the municipality is 10.041 square kilometers. Its longest measured lengths are 520 kilometers and 480 kilometers from east to west, the city of Durango has a semi-arid climate, classified as BSk in the Köppen climate classification system. The climate is temperate in the western portion, with the annual temperature being 15 °C. In the eastern region, the annual temperature is 19 °C. Winters are mild, with a daytime high of 21 °C in January. As a result of the altitude and aridity during the winter months. Occasionally, temperatures can go above 30 °C while cold fronts from the north can push temperatures below −5 °C. During the winter months, the climate is dominated by the ridge, resulting in dry conditions and many days are clear and sunny. Precipitation is rare, with March being the driest month, summers are warm to hot with June being the hottest month, with an average high of 30 °C and a low of 14 °C. Generally, this occurs around in mid-June. Afternoon storms are common in the summer and they can be accompanied with hail or thunderstorms, July and August have warm temperatures, averaging 28 °C though slightly cooler due to the presence of the rain
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Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City
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Holy Cross Cemetery is a Roman Catholic cemetery at 5835 West Slauson Avenue in Culver City, California, United States, operated by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles. It is partially in the Culver City city limits, opened in 1939, Holy Cross comprises 200 acres. It contains—amongst others—the graves and tombs of showbusiness professionals, many celebrities are in the sections near The Grotto in the southwest part of the cemetery, after entering the main gate, turn left and follow the leftmost road up the hill. Use the following links to find someone. Vince Edwards, actor Richard Egan, actor John Fante, novelist, short-story, dixie Lee, actress, dancer and singer. Monaco, composer Ricardo Montalbán, actor Carlotta Monti, actress Thelma Morgan, socialite, twin sister of Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, geological Survey Geographic Names Information System, Holy Cross Cemetery
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Centennial College
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Centennial College of Applied Arts and Technology is a diploma and degree granting college located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is the oldest publicly funded college in Ontario and its four campuses are situated to serve the eastern portion of the Greater Toronto Area. The enabling legislation is the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities Act, Centennial College is recognized as one of the most culturally diverse post-secondary institutions in Ontario. Almost 100 ethno-cultural groups are represented and 80 languages are spoken on campus, Centennial offers more than 250 programs including, bachelors degree, diploma, certificate, post-graduate certificate and apprenticeship programs, across many diverse fields of study. Centennial College supports enrolments of 20,000 full-time students and 20,000 part-time students, Centennial College was the first to be opened in Ontario during the formation of the provinces public college system in the 1960s. Ontario Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology were established on May 21,1965 under the direction of the Hon. William Davis, the system has grown to encompass 24 public colleges serving 200 communities in the province. The campus made use of a federal building that had been renovated to serve as a teaching institution. It evolved over the years to include the health/nutrition, hospitality, child studies, in 1973, the Ontario government transferred responsibility for nursing education from the province’s hospitals to its colleges. Locally, the Scarborough Regional and the Toronto East General schools of nursing joined Centennial College to form the School of Health Sciences, Warden Woods Campus was demolished in 2005. In 1992 the Scarborough Board of Education and the made a deal to establish an adult education centre. In 1994 the entities agreed to establish the centre there beginning in the fall of that year, Centennial College grew rapidly, necessitating the establishment of additional campuses in the east end of Toronto to accommodate new programs and students. Warden Woods Campus closed in autumn of 2004 and was demolished thereafter to make way for a housing development, most programs were relocated to the new Centennial Science and Technology Centre, which began operations the same year. Existing campuses are located at, Located at 755 Morningside Avenue in the Morningside Avenue-Ellesmere Road area of Scarborough, Morningside Campus opened in the summer of 2004 to house joint programs with the University of Toronto Scarborough. The campus is home to the science and environmental science programs that the college offers. Popular programs include paramedic, nursing, practical nursing, pharmacy technician, computer science and technology programs were moved to Progress Campus in September 2010 due to space issues. Progress Campus is Centennials largest property, where half of the colleges students take classes. Progress Campus is the site of the new Library and Academic Facility, as well as the newly expanded Athletic and Wellness Centre, Located at 75 Ashtonbee Road in Scarboroughs Warden Avenue-Eglinton Avenue area, this campus is home to the largest training school for transportation technology in Canada. In 1967, the Ontario government merged its Provincial Institute of Automotive, a large automotive service facility was purchased from Volkswagen Canada at 930 Warden Avenue to house the automotive trades, forming the college’s second campus
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McMaster University
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McMaster University is a public research university located in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on 121 hectares of land near the neighbourhoods of Ainslie Wood and Westdale. The university operates six academic faculties, the DeGroote School of Business, Engineering, Health Sciences, Humanities, Social Science and it is a member of the U15, a group of research-intensive universities in Canada. The university bears the name of Honourable William McMaster, a prominent Canadian Senator, McMaster University was incorporated under the terms of an act of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 1887, merging the Toronto Baptist College with Woodstock College. It opened in Toronto in 1890, inadequate facilities and the gift of land in Hamilton prompted the institution to relocate in 1930. McMaster was controlled by the Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec until it became a privately chartered, the university is co-educational, and has over 25,000 undergraduate and over 4,000 post-graduate students. Alumni and former students of the university can be found all across Canada, notable alumni include government officials, academics, business leaders, one Rhodes Scholar, and two Nobel laureates. The McMaster athletic teams are known as the Marauders, and are members of the Canadian Interuniversity Sport, McMaster University resulted from the outgrowth of educational initiatives undertaken by Baptists as early as the 1830s. It was founded in 1881 as Toronto Baptist College, in 1887 the Act to unite Toronto Baptist College and Woodstock College was granted royal assent, and McMaster University was officially incorporated. Woodstock College, Woodstock, and Moulton Ladies College, Toronto, were maintained in close connection, the new university, housed in McMaster Hall in Toronto, was sponsored by the Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec as a sectarian undergraduate institution for its clergy and adherents. The first courses—initially limited to arts and theology leading to a BA degree—were taught in 1890, as the university grew, McMaster Hall started to become overcrowded. By the 1920s, after previous proposals between various university staff, the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce launched a campaign to bring McMaster University to Hamilton, as the issue of space at McMaster Hall became more acute, the university administration debated the future of the university. The university nearly became federated with the University of Toronto, as had been the case with Trinity College, instead, in 1927, the university administration decided to transfer the university to Hamilton. The Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec secured $1.5 million, the lands for the university and new buildings were secured through gifts from graduates. Lands were transferred from Royal Botanical Gardens to establish the campus area, the first academic session on the new Hamilton campus began in 1930. McMasters property in Toronto was sold to the University of Toronto when McMaster moved to Hamilton in 1930, McMaster Hall is now home to the Royal Conservatory of Music. Professional programs during the period were limited to just theology. By the 1940s the McMaster administration was under pressure to modernize, during the Second World War and post-war periods the demand for technological expertise, particularly in the sciences, increased
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Hollywood
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Hollywood is an ethnically diverse, densely populated neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California. It is notable as the home of the U. S. film industry, including several of its studios, and its name has come to be a shorthand reference for the industry. Hollywood was a community in 1870 and was incorporated as a municipality in 1903. It was consolidated with the city of Los Angeles in 1910, in 1853, one adobe hut stood in Nopalera, named for the Mexican Nopal cactus indigenous to the area. By 1870, an agricultural community flourished, the area was known as the Cahuenga Valley, after the pass in the Santa Monica Mountains immediately to the north. According to the diary of H. J. Whitley, known as the Father of Hollywood, along came a Chinese man in a wagon carrying wood. The man got out of the wagon and bowed, the Chinese man was asked what he was doing and replied, I holly-wood, meaning hauling wood. H. J. Whitley had an epiphany and decided to name his new town Hollywood, Holly would represent England and wood would represent his Scottish heritage. Whitley had already started over 100 towns across the western United States, Whitley arranged to buy the 500-acre E. C. Hurd ranch and disclosed to him his plans for the land. They agreed on a price and Hurd agreed to sell at a later date, before Whitley got off the ground with Hollywood, plans for the new town had spread to General Harrison Gray Otis, Hurds wife, eastern adjacent ranch co-owner Daeida Wilcox, and others. Daeida Wilcox may have learned of the name Hollywood from Ivar Weid, her neighbor in Holly Canyon and she recommended the same name to her husband, Harvey. In August 1887, Wilcox filed with the Los Angeles County Recorders office a deed and parcel map of property he had sold named Hollywood, Wilcox wanted to be the first to record it on a deed. The early real-estate boom busted that year, yet Hollywood began its slow growth. By 1900, the region had a post office, newspaper, hotel, Los Angeles, with a population of 102,479 lay 10 miles east through the vineyards, barley fields, and citrus groves. A single-track streetcar line ran down the middle of Prospect Avenue from it, but service was infrequent, the old citrus fruit-packing house was converted into a livery stable, improving transportation for the inhabitants of Hollywood. The Hollywood Hotel was opened in 1902 by H. J. Whitley who was a president of the Los Pacific Boulevard, having finally acquired the Hurd ranch and subdivided it, Whitley built the hotel to attract land buyers. Flanking the west side of Highland Avenue, the structure fronted on Prospect Avenue, the hotel was to become internationally known and was the center of the civic and social life and home of the stars for many years. Whitleys company developed and sold one of the residential areas
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Toronto
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Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the provincial capital of Ontario. With a population of 2,731,571, it is the fourth most populous city in North America after Mexico City, New York City, and Los Angeles. A global city, Toronto is a centre of business, finance, arts, and culture. Aboriginal peoples have inhabited the area now known as Toronto for thousands of years, the city itself is situated on the southern terminus of an ancient Aboriginal trail leading north to Lake Simcoe, used by the Wyandot, Iroquois, and the Mississauga. Permanent European settlement began in the 1790s, after the broadly disputed Toronto Purchase of 1787, the British established the town of York, and later designated it as the capital of Upper Canada. During the War of 1812, the town was the site of the Battle of York, York was renamed and incorporated as the city of Toronto in 1834, and became the capital of the province of Ontario during the Canadian Confederation in 1867. The city proper has since expanded past its original borders through amalgamation with surrounding municipalities at various times in its history to its current area of 630.2 km2. While the majority of Torontonians speak English as their primary language, Toronto is a prominent centre for music, theatre, motion picture production, and television production, and is home to the headquarters of Canadas major national broadcast networks and media outlets. Toronto is known for its skyscrapers and high-rise buildings, in particular the tallest free-standing structure in the Western Hemisphere. The name Toronto is likely derived from the Iroquois word tkaronto and this refers to the northern end of what is now Lake Simcoe, where the Huron had planted tree saplings to corral fish. A portage route from Lake Ontario to Lake Huron running through this point, in the 1660s, the Iroquois established two villages within what is today Toronto, Ganatsekwyagon on the banks of the Rouge River and Teiaiagonon the banks of the Humber River. By 1701, the Mississauga had displaced the Iroquois, who abandoned the Toronto area at the end of the Beaver Wars, French traders founded Fort Rouillé on the current Exhibition grounds in 1750, but abandoned it in 1759. During the American Revolutionary War, the region saw an influx of British settlers as United Empire Loyalists fled for the British-controlled lands north of Lake Ontario, the new province of Upper Canada was in the process of creation and needed a capital. Dorchester intended the location to be named Toronto, in 1793, Governor John Graves Simcoe established the town of York on the Toronto Purchase lands, instead naming it after Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany. Simcoe decided to move the Upper Canada capital from Newark to York, the York garrison was constructed at the entrance of the towns natural harbour, sheltered by a long sandbar peninsula. The towns settlement formed at the end of the harbour behind the peninsula, near the present-day intersection of Parliament Street. In 1813, as part of the War of 1812, the Battle of York ended in the towns capture, the surrender of the town was negotiated by John Strachan. US soldiers destroyed much of the garrison and set fire to the parliament buildings during their five-day occupation, the sacking of York was a primary motivation for the Burning of Washington by British troops later in the war
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The Second City
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The Second City is an improvisational comedy enterprise, best known as the first ever on-going improvisational theater troupe based in Chicago. It also has programs that run out of Toronto and Los Angeles, the Second City Theatre opened on December 16,1959 and has since become one of the most influential and prolific comedy theatres in the world. The Second City has produced programs in both the United States and Canada including SCTV, Second City Presents, and Next Comedy Legend. The Second City chose its name from the title of an article about Chicago by A. J. Liebling that appeared in The New Yorker in 1952. In 1959, the first Second City revue show premiered at 1842 North Wells Street, the cabaret theater, comedy style of the Second City tended towards satire and commentary of current social norms and political figures and events. In 1961, the theater sent a cast to Broadway with the revue, From the Second City, directed by Sills. Eventually, the theater expanded to include three touring companies and a resident company, and now fosters a company devoted to outreach. The style of comedy has changed with time, but the format has remained constant, a number of well-known performers began careers as part of the historic troupe and later moved to television and film. In 1973, Second City opened a theater in Toronto, theater became the second resident stage in Old Town, Chicago location, handling overflow crowds and increasing the number of resident company members. Co-founder Bernard Sahlins owned the company until 1985, before selling it to Andrew Alexander. Along with its theaters, training centers, and television shows, Second City also produces improv, Second City Television, or SCTV, was a Canadian television sketch comedy show offshoot from the Toronto troupe of the Second City and ran from 1976 to 1984. The basic premise of SCTV was modeled on a station in the fictional city of Melonville. Edith Prickley, Catherine OHaras washed-up, alcoholic, narcissist former leading-lady Lola Heatherton, martin Short originated his dorky Ed Grimley character here, which he later brought to Saturday Night Live. Andrew Alexander took the reins of Second City Toronto in 1974 and formed a partnership with Len Stuart in 1976 and its first television production was SCTV. Alexander co-developed and executive produced over 185 half-hour shows for the comedy series. In 1985, Alexander and Stuart became owners of Chicagos Second City and he has produced or executive produced over 200 Second City revues in Canada and the United States. Most recently, Alexander has expanded The Second City TV & Film Division with offices in Los Angeles and he serves on the Columbia College Board of Trustees, is Chair of the Gildas Club Honorary Board, and is also an Honorary Member of the Chicago Gildas Club Board. As of 2014, the Second City has been awarded thirty-seven Equity Joseph Jefferson Awards, which have recognized them for Best Revue five times, the first being Paradigm Lost
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Second City Television
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SCTV is a Canadian television sketch comedy show offshoot from Torontos Second City troupe that ran between 1976 and 1984. Through multiple changes to format and casting the series maintained a consistent reputation as a spotlight on some of the best up and coming talent in Canadian and US comedy. Its general feeling of working within a budget of space, time, the premise of the show is the broadcast day of a fictitious TV station in the town of Melonville. The location of Melonville is left unspecified, the very earliest episodes imply its somewhere in Canada, a typical episode of SCTV presents a compendium of programming seen on the station throughout its broadcast day. A given episode could contain everything from SCTV news broadcasts to sitcoms, dramas, movies, talk shows, kid shows, commercial send-ups hawking non-existent products, also seen fairly frequently, particularly in later episodes, are behind-the-scenes plots focusing on life at the station. These often feature Guy Caballero, the cheap, tyrannical owner and president of SCTV, also seen regularly are weaselly, sweating station manager Maurice Moe Green, succeeded in the position by flamboyant, leopard-skin clad, foul-mouthed Mrs. The small cast, typically six to eight members at any given time and they also impersonate numerous popular celebrities appearing on the stations programming. SCTV was inducted into Canadas Walk of Fame in 2002, there is much dispute as to who actually created the SCTV series. The show itself bears no created by credit, although it developed by credits to Bernard Sahlins. What is clear is that, in 1976, Andrew Alexander was looking to expand his company into the realm of TV production and he called together the current cast of the stage show to discuss a format for a Second City TV series. Also in attendance at the meeting were Second City vets Harold Ramis, Sheldon Patinkin, from there, the actual content of the show was all the work of the cast, with contributions from producers Alexander and Sahlins. Alexander remained as producer throughout SCTVs run. Sahlins stayed for the first two seasons as a producer, Patinkin was a first-season writer and de facto editor and post-production supervisor. Close had no involvement with the series. SCTV was initially produced in 1976 at the Toronto studios of the Global Television Network, for the first six episodes, new episodes were seen once a month. For the next seven episodes new episodes were seen bi-weekly, in September 1977, Global ordered 13 additional episodes, which were seen once a week from September through December. These irregularly scheduled 26 episodes were considered one season for syndication purposes, all of the original cast were from the Toronto branch of The Second City theatre improv troupe, and many had previously worked together on The David Steinberg Show. Ramis was a Second City vet, but with the Chicago troupe, the original SCTV cast consisted of John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Catherine OHara, Harold Ramis, and Dave Thomas
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Stripes (film)
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Stripes is a 1981 American buddy military comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman, starring Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Warren Oates, P. J. Soles, Sean Young, and John Candy. Several actors including John Larroquette, John Diehl, Conrad Dunn, Joe Flaherty, Dave Thomas, Timothy Busfield and Bill Paxton also appeared early in their careers. John Winger is a cab driver who, in the span of a few hours, loses his job, his apartment, his car, realizing that he is a loser with no prospects, he decides to join the Army. Talking his best friend Russell Ziskey, a teacher of English as a language, into joining with him. Upon arriving at Fort Arnold, they meet their fellow recruits, moments after arriving, John angers Sgt. Hulka and is ordered out to do push-ups and he stands out as a slacker throughout basic training. Their commanding officer is the arrogant and incompetent Captain Stillman, as basic training progresses, Russell and John become romantically linked to female MPs Louise Cooper and Stella Hansen. Hulka is injured when Stillman, trying to impress a visiting colonel, the men go to a mud wrestling bar, where John convinces Dewey Ox Oxberger to wrestle a group of women. When the club is raided by MPs and police, Stella and Louise cover for John, the rest of the platoon are returned to base, where a furious Stillman threatens to make them all repeat basic training. After partying with Stella and Louise, the return to the barracks. After a long night of practice, they oversleep and almost miss the ceremony and they rush to the parade grounds in their fatigues, there they give an eccentric, yet highly coordinated, drill display led by John. Once in Italy, the platoon is reunited with a recovered Sgt, Hulka and assigned to guard the EM-50 Urban Assault Vehicle. Fed up with their assignment, John and Russell steal the EM-50 to visit their girlfriends. When Stillman finds the EM-50 missing, he launches a mission to get the vehicle back before his superiors find out it is gone. Hulka urges Stillman not to go, but is overruled, Stillman inadvertently leads the platoon across the border into Czechoslovakia. Hulka, recognising where they are, jumps out of the truck just before it is captured and he makes a mayday radio call that is heard by John and Russell, who realize that the platoon came looking for them and are now in danger. John, Russell, Stella, and Louise take the EM-50, with some assistance from Hulka, they save the entire platoon. Upon returning to the US, John, Russell, Louise, Stella, Hulka retires and opens the HulkaBurger franchise
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Splash (film)
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The film involves a young man who falls in love with a mysterious woman who is secretly a mermaid. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, the original music score was composed by Lee Holdridge. Splash had received a PG-rating for including some profanity and brief nudity, in 1964, 8-year-old Allen Bauer is vacationing with his family near Cape Cod. While taking a tour on a small boat, he sees something below the ocean surface that fascinates him. Allen jumps into the water, even though he cannot swim and he grasps the hands of a girl who is inexplicably under the water with him and an instant connection forms between the two. Allen can now breathe under water as he is in the hands of a mermaid, however, Allen is pulled to the surface by the deck hands and the two are separated, though apparently no one else sees the girl. Years later, Allen is now co-owner of a wholesale fruit, depressed after his latest breakup, Allen returns to Cape Cod, where he encounters eccentric scientist Dr. Walter Kornbluth. After Allen is left alone when his motorboat conks out, he falls into the sea, and is knocked out when the boat hits his head. He wakes up with a headache on a beach, where he encounters a beautiful naked woman with blonde hair. After kissing him, she dives into the sea and leaves Allen to return home, Kornbluth, while diving in order to seek proof of strange sea creatures, also encounters the mermaid in her sea form, causing him to become obsessed with finding her again. The mermaid finds Allens wallet in the water and goes to a boat where she finds a map. Using Allens wallet to find where he is from, she decides to find him in New York. She comes ashore naked at the Statue of Liberty, where she is arrested for indecent exposure, using information from Allens wallet, the police contact Allen, and the mysterious girl gets released into his care. She learns how to speak English from watching television, and is eager to see a big city for the first time in her life, unable to say her real name in human language, she selects Madison from a Madison Avenue sign. She tells Allen that she will be in New York for six fun-filled days when the moon is full, despite Madisons occasional unusual behavior, she and Allen fall in love. Allen proposes to Madison, but she declines and runs away, meanwhile, Kornbluth, realizing that the naked woman at Liberty Island was the mermaid he had encountered, pursues the couple trying to expose her as a mermaid by splashing her with water. Many attempts are unsuccessful, and Kornbluth ends up with injuries including a badly broken arm. Kornbluth finally lies in wait with water tanks at the dinner, splashing Madison with an attached hose
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Cool Runnings
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Cool Runnings is a 1993 American comedy sports film directed by Jon Turteltaub, and starring Leon, Doug E. Doug, Rawle D. Lewis, Malik Yoba and John Candy. The film was released in the United States on October 1,1993 and it was Candys third to last film of his career and the last of his films to be released during his lifetime. It is loosely based on the story of the Jamaica national bobsleigh teams debut in competition during the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta. Derices persistence eventually convinces Irving to be their coach and return to the life he left behind and they eventually recruit Junior and Yul, though Yul is still upset over Juniors mistake at the Olympic Trial. Junior comes through for them when he sells his car, which gets the team the money that they need, later on in a hotel room, Junior reprimands Sanka for hurting Yuls feelings over his ambitions. Junior tells the team about his own struggle and how he became rich with hard work. He encourages Yul not to give up on achieving all of his goals, in Calgary, Irving manages to acquire an old practice sled, as the Jamaicans have never been in an actual bobsled. The Jamaicans are looked down upon by other countries, in particular the East German team whose arrogant leader, Josef, tells them to go home, resulting in a bar fight. At the hotel room, Derice and Irv reprimand Sanka, Yul and Junior, the team resolves to view the contest more seriously, continuing to train and improve their technique. They qualify for the finals, but are subsequently disqualified due to a technicality which the Olympic committee trotted out as retribution for Irvings prior cheating scandal. A frustrated Irving storms the committee meeting and confronts his former coach from the 1972 Olympic Winter Games Kurt Hemphill and he takes responsibility for embarrassing his country with the scandal and implores the committee just punish him for his mistake, not the Jamaican team. Irv reminds them that the Jamaicans deserve to represent their country by competing in the Winter Games as contenders and that night at their hotel, the team gets a phone call informing them that the committee has reversed its decision and allows the Jamaicans to compete once again. The Jamaicans first day on the results in more embarrassment. Sanka identifies the problem as Derice trying to copy the Swiss team which he idolizes and convinces him that the best they can do is bobsled Jamaican. Once the team develops their own style and tradition, the second day improves, determined to finish the race, the team lift the sled over their shoulders and walk across the finish line to rousing applause from spectators, including Josef, Hempill, and Juniors father. The team, at the end, feel accomplished enough to return in four years to the next winter Olympics, a brief epilogue states the team returned to Jamaica as heroes and upon their return to the Winter Olympics four years later, they were treated as equals. Leon Robinson as Derice Bannock Doug E. Doug as Sanka Coffie Rawle D. Lewis as Junior Bevil Malik Yoba as Yul Brenner John Candy as Irving Irv Blitzer Raymond J. there were script problems. It wasnt funny enough, the key elements were lacking, and it was meant to happen when it happened
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Summer Rental
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Summer Rental is a 1985 comedy film, directed by Carl Reiner and starring John Candy. The films screenplay was written by Mark Reisman and Jeremy Stevens, an original music score was composed for the film by Alan Silvestri. The film was released on August 9,1985, by Paramount Pictures, first they are bumped out of the front of the line of an upscale seafood restaurant in favor of arrogant local sailing champion Al Pellet, who becomes Jacks main nemesis throughout the film. Jack then receives a leg injury that prevents him from spending time with his family, later, Jack again locks horns with Pellet, the owner of the dubious piece of real estate where the Chesters are staying after the previous owner died. Pellet scoffs at the notion that Jack could ever defeat him in a race, however, Jack hasnt sailed for many years and doesnt even have a boat. Scully, a saloon keeper with a pirates mentality whom the Chesters met earlier, befriends Jack. The bored Chesters come to life by helping Jack make his new vessel seaworthy. This motley crew is at first no match for Pellet or anybody else in the race, but tossing useless garbage overboard, a strong breeze, I have five children and I weigh 240 pounds, said Brillstein. Being heavy in California is not a terrific thing, being heavy on the beach is worse. The house on the left was occupied by two sisters, one of whom had a 6-foot-4 inch retarded son who was out of Arsenic. The house on the right was out of Death in Venice, occupied by a group of homosexuals who had 28 inch waists. It became a vehicle for John Candy. Director Carl Reiner said Like a small, beautiful painting in a large frame, the film was developed at Paramount by the team of Barry Diller, Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg. They all ended up leaving the studio before the film was made, Brillstein expected the film to be cancelled. However new studio president Ned Tanen greenlit the film and it was quite a good script and we had no product, said Tanen. There was a vacant spot of six months on our release schedule. When all the geniuses are through, thats as good a reason as any to make a movie, Candy and Reiner got along so well that they planned to make another film together at Paramount, The Last Holiday. Summer Rental opened in 1,500 theatres, with all the comedies out this summer, said a Paramount executive at the time, youve got to hit and run
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Home Alone
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Home Alone is a 1990 American Christmas comedy film written and produced by John Hughes and directed by Chris Columbus. The film stars Macaulay Culkin as Kevin McCallister, a boy who is left behind when his family flies to Paris for their Christmas vacation. Kevin initially relishes being home alone, but soon has to contend with two would-be burglars played by Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern, the film also features Catherine OHara and John Heard as Kevins parents. Culkin was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Musical or Comedy and it is the highest grossing Christmas movie of all time at the North American box office. The McCallister family is preparing to spend Christmas in Paris, gathering at Peter, Peter and Kates youngest son, eight-year-old Kevin, is being ridiculed by his siblings and cousins. A fight with his brother, Buzz, results in Kevin getting sent to the third floor of the house for punishment. During the night, heavy winds cause damage to power lines, in the confusion and rush to get to the airport, Kevin is accidentally left behind. Kevin wakes up to find the empty and, thinking his wish has come true, is overjoyed with his new-found freedom. Kevin tricks the pair into thinking his entire family is home, Kate discovers mid-flight that Kevin is missing and, upon arrival in Paris, the family discovers that all flights are booked for the next two days. Peter and the rest of the go to his brother Robs apartment in the city while Kate manages to get a flight back to the United States only to get as far as Scranton. She attempts to book a flight to Chicago but again, everything is booked, meanwhile, Harry and Marv realize that Kevin is home alone. On Christmas Eve, Kevin overhears them discussing plans to breaking into his house that night, Kevin goes to church and watches a choir perform. He meets Marley, who sits with Kevin and they briefly speak and he learns that Marley is actually a nice man and that the rumors about him are false. He tells Kevin he is watching the choir because his granddaughter is singing, Kevin suggests that he try to reconcile with his son. Kevin returns home and rigs the house with booby traps. Harry and Marv break in, springing the traps and suffering various injuries, while the duo pursues Kevin around the house, he calls the police and flees the house, luring the duo into a neighboring vacant home. Harry and Marv manage to catch him and discuss how they will get their revenge, the police arrive and arrest Harry and Marv, having identified all the houses they burglarized due to the latters habit of flooding them. On Christmas Day, Kevin is disappointed to find that his family is still gone
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The Great Outdoors (film)
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The Great Outdoors is a 1988 American comedy film directed by Howard Deutch, and written and produced by John Hughes. It stars Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, Stephanie Faracy and Annette Bening in her film debut, the film follows two families spending time on vacation in Wisconsin. Chicagoan Chester Chet Ripley, his wife, Connie, and their two sons, Buckley Buck and Ben, are on vacation at a resort in Pechoggin, Wisconsin during the summer. All is going as planned until Connies sister, Kate, Kates investment broker husband, Roman Craig, ghost stories at the family BBQ include one of a man-eating grizzly bear that Chet met face-to-face when he was younger. Chet says that while he and Connie were honeymooning at the same lake, when he fired at it with a shotgun, the buckshot shaved the hair off the top of the bears head and from that day on, it was known as the Bald-Headed Bear of Clare County. After Roman pulls Chet around the lake on a water ski ride with his rented speedboat. Chet is ready to pack up and go home, even as his teenage son Buck tries to romance a local girl, the budding romance goes well until Chet is challenged to eat the Old 96er at a family dinner which causes Buck to break the date. Buck tries to apologize to Cammie for being late, but Cammie refuses to speak to him, Connie and Kate bond at a local bar when the conversation drifts to Kates challenges of being wealthy. Later, just at the peak of tension between families, it emerges that Roman has made a bad investment and is broke and he has not told Kate and was planning to hit up Chet for the cash. Later, during a thunderstorm, the twins wander off and fall into a mine shaft, Chet and Roman find them, but the claustrophobic Roman is reluctant to descend into the tiny mine shaft. After some encouragement from Chet, Roman summons up all his courage, upon realizing that the mine is stocked with old dynamite, Roman takes his daughters and climbs out of the shaft on his own. When Chet returns with the rope, he is horrified to discover the Bald-Headed Bear lurking in the mine and it chases him back to his house, smashes through the door, and rampages through the house. Wally, the owner, bursts in with a loaded shotgun while Roman tries to hold off the animal with a fire poker. Chet takes the gun and shoots the bear, blowing the fur off its backside, roaring, the bear runs out of the house. The next morning, the two part on good terms. Unbeknownst to Chet, Connie has invited Romans family to stay with them until they can get back on their feet, Cammie and Buck make up and end their summer romance, as Buck and his family head back to Chicago. Duceys Bass Lake Lodge, a rustic 1940s resort in Bass Lake, was featured as Wally, the Loon’s Nest vacation cabin, built as a set, was designed to match the style of Ducey’s existing cabins. The Great Outdoors earned a mixed response from critics, Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 40% based on 15 reviews
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Spaceballs
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Spaceballs is a 1987 American science fiction parody film co-written, produced and directed by Mel Brooks. Starring Brooks, Bill Pullman, John Candy, and Rick Moranis, the film also features Daphne Zuniga, Dick Van Patten, in addition to Brooks in a supporting role, the film also features Brooks regulars Dom DeLuise and Rudy De Luca in cameo appearances. The film was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on June 24,1987 and it has since become a cult classic on video and one of Brookss most popular films. Its setting and characters parody the original Star Wars trilogy, as well as other sci-fi franchises including Star Trek, Alien, Planet Spaceball, led by the incompetent President Skroob, has wasted all of its fresh air. Skroob sends the villainous Dark Helmet to complete this task with Spaceball One, before they can arrive, Vespa abandons her wedding and flees the planet in her Mercedes spaceship with her droid of honor, Dot Matrix. Roland contacts mercenary Lone Starr and his mawg sidekick Barf, offering a reward to retrieve Vespa before she is captured. Lone Starr readily accepts, as he is in debt with the gangster Pizza the Hutt. In their Winnebago space ship the Eagle 5, Starr and Barf are able to reach Vespa before Spaceball One, Spaceball One tries to follow, but Helmet foolishly orders the ship to ludicrous speed, causing it to overshoot the escapees. Out of fuel, Lone Starr is forced to crash-land on the desert moon of Vega. The escapees travel on foot in blazing sun and pass out and they are found by the Dinks, a group of diminutive red-clad aliens, and are taken to a cave occupied by Yogurt, who is old and wise. Yogurt introduces Lone Starr to The Schwartz, a power similar to the Force. Yogurt also introduces the audience to the merchandising campaign. Starr and Vespa begin to flirt, but Vespa insists she can only be married to a prince, Helmet and Sandurz break the fourth wall by using a VHS copy of the film to discover Vespas location, and Helmet orders Spaceball One to the moon. The Spaceballs capture Vespa and Dot, and return them to planet Spaceball. Their captors threaten to reverse Vespas nose job, forcing Roland to give over the code to the shield that protects Druidia. Helmet and Sandurz take Spaceball One to Druidia, where they transform the ship into Mega Maid, Lone Starr and Barf rescue Vespa and Dot from captivity, and then race to Druidia. When the vacuum bag is almost full, Lone Starr is able to use the Schwartz to reverse the robots sucking action, once the air is successfully returned to the planet, Lone Starr and his allies enter the Mega Maid to attempt to destroy it. Lone Starr is forced to fight Helmet with lightsaber-like Schwartz rings near the ships self-destruct button, Lone Starr manages to defeat Helmet, causing him to involuntarily strike the button
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Uncle Buck
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Bob and Cindy Russell and their three kids, 15-year-old Tia, 8-year-old Miles, and 6-year-old Maizy, have recently moved from Indianapolis to the Chicago suburbs because of Bobs promotion. Late one night, they receive a call from Indianapolis informing them that Cindys father has suffered a heart attack. They make plans to immediately to be with him. After hearing the news, Tia, bitter about having been forced to move, Bob suggests asking his brother, Buck, to come watch the children, to which Cindy objects. While they are middle class suburbanites, Buck is unemployed, lives in an apartment in Chicago, drinks and smokes. He drives a dilapidated 1977 Mercury Marquis that pours smoke and backfires and his girlfriend, Chanice, owns an automobile tire shop. The couple have together for eight years, Chanice wants to get married and start a family. Since no one else is available to help Bob and Cindy, they have no choice, Buck cheerfully informs Chanice that he cant start his job yet due to the family emergency. Chanice thinks Buck is trying, as usual, to lie his way out of working, upon arriving, Buck quickly befriends Miles and Maizy, but the rebellious Tia is aloof, and the two engage in a battle of wills. When Buck meets Tias obnoxious boyfriend, Bug, Buck warns her that Bug is only interested in her for sex, Buck repeatedly thwarts her plans to sneak away on dates with Bug. He calls and begs Chanice to watch Miles and Maizy as he searches for Tia, at the party, thinking that Bug is taking advantage of her in a bedroom, he forces the door open by drilling out the lock, but walks in on Bug with another girl. After he finds Tia wandering the streets, she apologizes to him, when Bug is finally released, he threatens to sue him. Buck then strikes him with a ball, making him retract his apology. At home, Tia helps Buck reconcile with Chanice by admitting her lie and tells her that he would be a good husband, Buck also agrees to start his job at the garage. Bob and Cindy return from Indianapolis, Cindys father having recovered, upon entering the house, Tia surprises her mother with a hug. Buck and Chanice then leave for Chicago, with Buck and Tia exchanging a loving wave goodbye, filming began on January 4,1989 in Chicago. The company decided to keep the facilities and locations as close as possible. The vacant New Trier High School in Northfield, Illinois was chosen for the production facility, a colonial-style house in Evanston was chosen for the exterior of the Russell house
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Only the Lonely (film)
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Only the Lonely is a 1991 American romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Chris Columbus, and stars John Candy, Maureen OHara, Ally Sheedy and Anthony Quinn. The film is a take on the premise established in the 1953 television play. Danny Muldoon, a 38-year-old Chicago policeman, still lives with his overbearing Irish mother, a lonely bachelor, Danny falls in love with Theresa Luna, an introverted, lonely girl who works in her fathers funeral home as a cosmetician. On their first date, he takes her to Comiskey Park and has a picnic on the field, because of this, Danny begins to feel guilty about his relationship with Theresa, especially towards his mother. This leads to his dates with Theresa to check on his mother. When Theresa is finally introduced to Rose at a fancy dinner, Theresa stands up to Rose, and complains to Danny as to why he didnt stand up for her. After Theresa leaves, Danny scolds his mother for being so cruel to Theresa and he then reminds her that she lost a $450,000 account for his late fathers company by making racist remarks. Danny then tells Rose that he propose to Theresa, whether she approves or not. That night, Danny apologizes to Theresa and proposes to her from the bucket of a Chicago fire truck and she says yes and the two are set to be married. However, even though Rose finally does approve of Theresa, on the night before the wedding, angered at the fact that they might never be alone, Theresa walks off. At the wedding, both Danny and Theresa fail to show up, thus, the two dont marry, a few weeks later, Dannys friends question what happened to make them not get married, but Danny avoids an answer. Then, when a friend of the family, Doyle passes away, alone with no wife or children, Danny realizes that he doesnt want to end up that way, and realizes that he cant let Theresa go. Reluctant at first, Rose finally agrees to Dannys plan and goes to Florida without him, instructing her son to get married, have a family, Danny then goes to Lunas Funeral Home to look for Theresa. However, her father tells him that she left for New York City by train, Danny contacts the railroad station manager, who agrees to stop the train at a suburban station outside the city. There, Danny apologizes to Theresa and proclaims his love for her and he tells her that he will move to New York with her and join the New York City Police Department. Having no more guilt about his mother, the two re-board the train for New York to live the rest of their lives together, throughout the film, the Muldoons Greek neighbor, Nick Acropolis, who encourages Danny to pursue Theresa, attempts to woo Rose. Rose is salty towards him in the beginning, but as she gradually softens her stance regarding Dannys relationship with Theresa, Columbus contacted OHaras younger brother Charles B. Fitzsimons, a producer and actor in the industry, to ask him to send OHara a copy of the script
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JFK (film)
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JFK is a 1991 American conspiracy-thriller film directed by Oliver Stone. It examines the events leading to the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the film was adapted by Stone and Zachary Sklar from the books On the Trail of the Assassins by Jim Garrison and Crossfire, The Plot That Killed Kennedy by Jim Marrs. Stone described this account as a counter-myth to the Warren Commissions fictional myth, the film became embroiled in controversy. After a slow start at the box office, the film picked up momentum. JFK was nominated for eight Academy Awards and won two for Best Cinematography and Best Film Editing. It was the most successful of three films Stone made about American presidents, followed by Nixon with Anthony Hopkins in the title role and W. with Josh Brolin as George W. Bush. The film opens with footage, including the farewell address in 1961 of outgoing President Dwight D. Eisenhower. This is followed by a summary of John F. Kennedys years as president, emphasizing the events that, in Stones thesis and this builds to a reconstruction of the assassination on November 22,1963. New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison subsequently learns about potential links to the assassination in New Orleans, Kennedys suspected assassin Lee Harvey Oswald is killed by Jack Ruby, and Garrison closes the investigation. The investigation is reopened in 1966 after Garrison reads the Warren Report, Garrison and his staff interrogate several witnesses to the Kennedy assassination, and others involved with Oswald, Ruby, and Ferrie. One such witness is Willie OKeefe, a male prostitute serving five years in prison for soliciting, as well as briefly meeting Oswald, OKeefe was romantically involved with a man called Clay Bertrand. Garrisons staff also test the single bullet theory by aiming an empty rifle from the window through which Oswald was alleged to have shot Kennedy and they conclude that Oswald was too poor a marksman to make the shots, indicating someone else, or multiple marksmen, were involved. In 1968, Garrison meets a figure in Washington D. C. who identifies himself as X. X explains that the President was killed because he wanted to pull the United States out of the Vietnam War, X encourages Garrison to keep digging and prosecute New Orleans-based international businessman Clay Shaw for his alleged involvement. Upon interrogating Shaw, the businessman denies any knowledge of meeting Ferrie, OKeefe or Oswald, some of Garrisons staff begin to doubt his motives and disagree with his methods, and leave the investigation. Garrisons marriage is strained when his wife Liz complains that he is spending time on the case than with his own family. After a sinister phone call is made to their daughter, Liz accuses Garrison of being selfish, in addition, the media launches attacks on television and in newspapers attacking Garrisons character and criticizing the way his office is spending taxpayers money. Some key witnesses become scared and refuse to testify while others, before his death, Ferrie tells Garrison that he believes people are after him, and reveals there was a conspiracy around Kennedys death
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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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Planes, Trains and Automobiles
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Planes, Trains and Automobiles is a 1987 American comedy film written, produced and directed by John Hughes. They share a three-day odyssey of misadventures trying to get Neal home to Chicago from New York City in time for Thanksgiving with his family, Neal Page is an advertising executive on a business trip in New York City trying to return to his family in Chicago for Thanksgiving. After a meeting ends without a decision, Neal attempts to hail a cab, Del Griffith, a traveling salesman who sells shower curtain rings, has unknowingly taken a taxi that Neal bought from an attorney. The two meet again at La Guardia Airport where they board a plane to OHare and their plane is diverted to Wichita due to a blizzard in Chicago. The pair resort to various means to try and reach Chicago, forced to share a room in a cheap motel on the first night, Neal loses his temper with Del and lambastes him. In response, Del admits that he regards Neal as a cynic and says that despite how Neal feels, he likes himself and his wife. Neal calms down and the two men go to sleep, during the night their cash is stolen by a burglar. The following day they attempt to reach Chicago by train, but the locomotive breaks down, after reaching Jefferson City, Del sells his remaining shower curtain rings to buy bus tickets, but neglects to tell Neal that they are only valid to St. Louis. Upon arrival, Neal again offends Del over lunch and the two part ways, Neal attempts to rent a car, but finds the space at the distant rental lot empty. After walking back to the terminal, Neal vents his anger at the rental agent to no avail. In desperation, he attempts to hail a taxi to Chicago, but insults the dispatcher, Del arrives in time to rescue Neal with his own rental car. While driving, they find themselves arguing again, the situation is made worse when Del nearly gets them killed on a freeway after driving in the wrong direction, and driving between two semi-trailer trucks. While they take a moment to themselves by the side of the road. Neal initially gloats over Dels predicament, thinking that he is liable for the damage to the car, Neals amusement turns to anger when Del reveals he used Neals credit card to rent the car after their cards were accidentally switched. With his credit cards destroyed in the car fire, Neal sells his watch to a motel clerk to pay for a room for himself. Del is broke and attempts to sleep in the car, which has lost its roof in the fire, Neal eventually feels sympathy for Del and invites him in from the cold and snowy night. Neal relaxes as the two consume Dels collection of airline liquors and laugh about the events of the past two days, the pair resume driving to Chicago the next morning, but their badly damaged car is impounded by the police. They finally make it to Chicago, two days late, in the back of a refrigerator truck and they part ways at the LaSalle/Van Buren CTA station
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Parody
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A parody is a work created to imitate, make fun of, or comment on an original work—its subject, author, style, or some other target—by means of satiric or ironic imitation. As the literary theorist Linda Hutcheon puts it, parody … is imitation, another critic, Simon Dentith, defines parody as any cultural practice which provides a relatively polemical allusive imitation of another cultural production or practice. Parody may be found in art or culture, including literature, music, animation, gaming, the writer and critic John Gross observes in his Oxford Book of Parodies, that parody seems to flourish on territory somewhere between pastiche and burlesque. According to Aristotle, Hegemon of Thasos was the inventor of a kind of parody, in ancient Greek literature, a parodia was a narrative poem imitating the style and prosody of epics but treating light, satirical or mock-heroic subjects. Indeed, the components of the Greek word are παρά para beside, counter, against, Thus, the original Greek word παρῳδία parodia has sometimes been taken to mean counter-song, an imitation that is set against the original. The Oxford English Dictionary, for example, defines parody as imitation turned as to produce a ridiculous effect, because par- also has the non-antagonistic meaning of beside, there is nothing in parodia to necessitate the inclusion of a concept of ridicule. Old Comedy contained parody, even the gods could be made fun of, the Frogs portrays the hero-turned-god Heracles as a Glutton and the God of Drama Dionysus as cowardly and unintelligent. The traditional trip to the Underworld story is parodied as Dionysus dresses as Heracles to go to the Underworld, roman writers explained parody as an imitation of one poet by another for humorous effect. In French Neoclassical literature, parody was also a type of poem where one work imitates the style of another to produce a humorous effect, the Ancient Greeks created satyr plays which parodied tragic plays, often with performers dressed like satyrs. In classical music, as a term, parody refers to a reworking of one kind of composition into another. The term is sometimes applied to procedures common in the Baroque period. The musicological definition of the parody has now generally been supplanted by a more general meaning of the word. In its more contemporary usage, musical parody usually has humorous, even satirical intent, in which familiar musical ideas or lyrics are lifted into a different, often incongruous, context. Musical parodies may imitate or refer to the style of a composer or artist. For example, The Ritz Roll and Rock, a song and dance performed by Fred Astaire in the movie Silk Stockings, parodies the Rock. Conversely, while the work of Weird Al Yankovic is based on particular popular songs. The first usage of the parody in English cited in the Oxford English Dictionary is in Ben Jonson, in Every Man in His Humour in 1598, A Parodie. The next citation comes from John Dryden in 1693, who also appended an explanation, suggesting that the word was in common use, in the 20th century, parody has been heightened as the central and most representative artistic device, the catalysing agent of artistic creation and innovation
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Wagons East!
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Is a 1994 American Western adventure comedy film directed by Peter Markle. The film stars John Candy and Richard Lewis, the film was released in the United States on August 26,1994. During the films production in Durango, Mexico, John Candy died of heart attack, script re-writes, a stand-in and special effects were used to complete his remaining scenes and it was released five months after his death. The film marked one of John Candys last film appearances although it was not his last film release and his last film, Canadian Bacon, which he had completed before Wagons East. Had a delayed release in 1995, the Chief however is sympathetic to the idea of white-men heading back east, and offers an escort off Sioux land. As the cavalry arrives the day, and the group square their wagons, Harlow rides in to the rescue. After a drawn out and comical fight scene, Harlow is victorious, Harlow and Belle decide to pursue a relationship, Julian departs for somewhere even further west and the group rides toward the now visible St. Louis to finish the journey. John Candy as James Harlow Richard Lewis as Phil Taylor John C, smedly The film was released five months after Candys death, and despite being Candys posthumous release, the film was a box office bomb. The film has a 0% approval rating on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes based on 29 critics reviews. Is a witless, toothless satire of Westerns that falls far below the set by Blazing Saddles. Film critic Roger Ebert, who called the film a sad way to end John Candys career, stated that his legacy was already permanent, in the book The Comedy Film Nerds Guide to Movies, Wagons East. Is listed at one on its list of The Ten Worst Westerns. At the Internet Movie Database Wagons East
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Canadian Bacon
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Canadian Bacon is a 1995 American comedy film written, produced, and directed by Michael Moore which satirizes Canada–United States relations along the Canada–United States border. The film stars an ensemble cast featuring Alan Alda, John Candy, Bill Nunn, Kevin J. OConnor, Rhea Perlman, Kevin Pollak, G. D. Spradlin and it is also Moores only non-documentary film. Thousands of former employees are outraged with military businessman R. J, Hacker, who had closed down his weapons manufacturing plant, Hacker Dynamics. At a conference held at the plant, he pins the blame for the shutdown of his business on the current President of the United States. The President defends his own belief that the future of the children is more important than war, after the conference, he expresses to confidantes General Dick Panzer and National Security Advisor Stuart Smiley his discontent about not having an enemy to engage in war. An attempted negotiation with Russian President Vladimir Kruschkin to start a new war with Russia fails. Serendipitously, American sheriff Bud Boomer offensively criticizes Canadian beer while attending a game between the neighboring nations in Niagara Falls, Ontario. The ensuing brawl ends up on the news and catches Stuarts attention, Stuart, in turn, collects information about Canada from a CIA agent named Gus. Before long, television channels are littered with anti-Canada propaganda, which Boomer believes wholeheartedly and he prepares for war by distributing guns to his fellow sheriffs, including his girlfriend Honey and their friends Roy Boy and Kabral Jabar. In a rescue attempt, Boomer, Roy Boy and Kabral sneak into a Canadian power plant, when the President learns of this, he orders Boomers immediate removal from Canada before its too late. Hacker, seeking revenge on the President for shutting down his business, the President learns that the signal causing the activation of the silos originated from Canada, and summons Hacker. Hacker offers to sell a program to the President that can cancel out the Hellstorm — for $1 trillion, with only six minutes left, the President is trying to figure out whats going on. The President orders Stuarts arrest, despite his protests that he is now able to give the codes to the President so they could deactivate the missiles which are aimed at Moscow. As the launch time approaches the President pleads with Canadian Prime Minister Clark MacDonald over the phone to stop the launch, meanwhile, Honey was taken to a mental hospital upon her capture and escaped all the way to the CN Tower. She discovers the central computer for the Hellstorm located at the top and destroys it with a machine gun and she then reunites with Boomer, who had tracked her to the Tower, and they return to the United States via a speedboat. J. S. Hacker, Owner of Hacker Dynamics Steven Wright as Niagara Mountie Jim Belushi as Charles Jackal, parkwood Estate in Oshawa was the site for the White House, and Dofasco in Hamilton was the site for Hacker Dynamics. The scene where the American characters look longingly home at the US across the putative Niagara River is them looking across Burlington Bay at Stelco steelworks in Hamilton, Ontario. The hockey game/riot were shot at the Niagara Falls Memorial Arena in Niagara Falls, Ontario, the film has numerous cameos by Canadian actors, including Dan Aykroyd, who appears uncredited as an Ontario Provincial Police officer who pulls Candy over
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English Canadians
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Canada is an officially bilingual state, with English and French official language communities. Immigrant cultural groups ostensibly integrate into one or both of these communities, but often retaining elements of their original cultures, the term English-speaking Canadian is sometimes used interchangeably with English Canadian. Although many English-speaking Canadians have strong historical roots traceable to England or other parts of the British Isles, the population as whole belongs to a multitude of ethnic backgrounds. They or their ancestors came from various European, Asian, Caribbean, African, Latin American, in addition to the terms English Canadian and Canadian, the terms Anglophone Canadian and Anglo-Canadian are also used. The following table shows the English-speaking population of Canadas provinces and territories, the data are from Statistics Canada. Figures are given for the number of single responses English to the mother tongue question, notably, 46% of English-speaking Canadians live in Ontario, and 30% in the two western provinces of British Columbia and Alberta. The most monolingual province is Newfoundland and Labrador at 98. 5%, english-speakers are in the minority only in Quebec and Nunavut. In the cases of Quebec and New Brunswick, the vast majority of the population speaks French, in the case of Nunavut. English Canadian history starts with the attempts to establish English settlements in Newfoundland in the sixteenth century, the first English settlement in present-day Canada was at St. Johns Newfoundland, in 1583. Newfoundlands population was influenced by Irish and English immigration, much of it as a result of the migratory fishery in the decades prior to the Irish Potato famine. Although the location of the earliest English settlement in what would eventually become Canada, the area that forms the present day province of Nova Scotia was contested by the British and French in the eighteenth century. French settlements at Port Royal, Louisbourg and what is now Prince Edward Island were seized by the British, after the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht ceded the French colony of Acadia to Great Britain, efforts to colonize the province were limited to small settlements in Canso and Annapolis Royal. In 1749 Colonel Edward Cornwallis was given command of an expedition for the settlement of Chebucto by some three thousand persons, many of whom were Cockney, to offset the Catholic presence of Acadians, foreign Protestants were given land and founded Lunenburg. Although largely of British ancestry, these settlers had intermarried with Huguenot. The colony of New Brunswick was created from part of Nova Scotia at the instigation of these new English-speaking settlers. The Loyalist settlements in southwestern Quebec formed the nucleus of what would become the province of Upper Canada and, after 1867, the province also received immigrants from non English-speaking sources such as Germans, many of whom settled around Kitchener. Toronto is today the largest city in Canada, and, largely as a result of changing patterns since the 1960s, is also one of the most multi-cultural cities in the world. After the fall of New France to the British in 1759, larger numbers of English-speaking settlers arrived in the Eastern Townships and Montreal after the American Revolution
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Scottish Canadians
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Scottish Canadians are people of Scottish descent or heritage living in Canada. As the third-largest ethnic group in Canada and amongst the first Europeans to settle in the country, Scottish people have made a large impact on Canadian culture since colonial times. According to the 2011 Census of Canada, the number of Canadians claiming full or partial Scottish descent is 4,714,970, the Scots-Irish are a similar ethnic group. They descended from Lowland Scots and Northern English people via Ulster, Scottish people have a long history in Canada, dating back several centuries. Many towns, rivers and mountains have been named in honour of Scottish explorers and traders such as Mackenzie Bay in the Yukon, most notably, the Atlantic province of Nova Scotia is Latin for New Scotland. Once Scots formed the vanguard of the movement of Europeans across the continent, in more modern times, immigrants from Scotland have played a leading role in the social, political and economic history of Canada, being prominent in banking, labour unions, and politics. The Viking prince Thorfinn Karlsefni took two Scottish slaves to Vinland, when the longships moored along the coast, they sent the slaves ashore to run along the waterfront to gauge whether it was safe for the rest of the crew to follow. After the Scots survived a day without being attacked, by human or animal. The expedition was abandoned three years later, the sagas were passed on in an oral tradition and then written down 250 years later. An apocryphal voyage in 1398 by a captain named Zichmni, believed to be Henry I Sinclair, however, only a small number of Scottish families settled in Canada, prior to the conquest of New France in 1759. Those who did make a home on Canadian soil were Gaels who sought political, most of these Scots settled in what is now the Atlantic coast. Bumsted notes that between 1760 and 1860, millions of people emigrated from Great Britain, most of the emigrants were unskilled Gaelic farmers, who gathered in isolated communities. The Maritimes attracted them because of the opportunity there to be alone to pursue the traditional way of life. A large group of Ulster Scots, many of whom had first settled in New Hampshire, moved to Truro, at the end of the 18th century, Cape Breton Island had become a centre of Scottish Gaelic settlement, where only Scottish Gaelic was spoken. A number of Scottish Loyalists who had fled the United States in 1783 arrived in Glengarry County, in 1803, Lord Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, who was sympathetic to the plight of the dispossessed crofters, brought 800 colonists to Prince Edward Island. Prince Edward Island was also influenced by Scottish Gaelic settlers. One prominent settler in PEI was John MacDonald of Glenaladale, who conceived the idea of sending Gaels to Nova Scotia on a grand scale after Culloden. The name Macdonald still dominates on the island, which received an influx of settlers, predominantly Catholics from the Highlands
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Polish Canadians
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Polish Canadians are citizens of Canada with Polish ancestry, and Poles who immigrated to Canada from abroad. According to the 2011 Census by Statistics Canada, there were 1,010,705 Canadians who claimed full or partial Polish ancestry, the first Polish immigrant on record, Dominik Barcz, came to Canada in 1752. He was a fur merchant from Gdańsk who settled in Montreal and he was followed in 1757 by Charles Blaskowicz, a deputy surveyor-general of lands. In 1776 arrived army surgeon, August Franz Globensky and his grandson, Charles Auguste Maximilien Globensky, was elected to the House of Commons in Ottawa in 1875. Among the earliest Polish immigrants to Canada were members of the Watt and De Meuron military regiments from Saxony, several were émigrés from Poland who took part in the November Uprising of 1830 and the 1863 insurrection against the Russian occupation of their own homeland. His great-grandson, Peter Gzowski, became one of Canadas famous radio personalities and he was an engineer with the cross-Canada railway construction from Edmonton to the Pacific Ocean through the Peace River Valley. Today, a mountain and a body of water in British Columbia are named after him, Polish immigration stopped during World War I and between the wars, over 100,000 Polish immigrants arrived in Canada. See also Kashubians#Diaspora The first significant group of Polish group-settlers were Kashubians from Northern Poland and they arrived in Renfrew County of Ontario in 1858, where they founded the settlements of Wilno, Barry’s Bay, and Round Lake. All Polish Canadians including their descendants are encouraged by such as the Congress, to preserve their background and retain some ties with Poland. The first Polish Catholic priest visited Polish immigrants in 1862 in Kitchener, the first church serving Polish immigrants was built in 1875 in Wilno, Ontario. In Winnipeg, the Holy Ghost Church was built in 1899 with the church in Winnipeg publishing the first Polish newspaper in Canada, Gazeta Katolicka in 1908. In Sydney, Nova Scotia, St. Marys Polish Parish was established in 1913 by immigrant steelworkers and coal miners, the parish remains the only Polish parish in Atlantic Canada, although there is a Polish mission in Halifax. The first Polish-Canadian Roman Catholic bishop is Reverend Mathew Ustrzycki, consecrated in June 1985, there are Polish-Canadian priests in many congregations and orders, such as the Franciscans, Jesuits, Redemptorists, Saletinians, Resurrectionists, Oblates, Michaelites, and the Society of Christ. In addition,80 priests serve in 120 parishes, numerous Polish-Canadians have been recognized with awards and appointments by the Queen and the Canadian governments as well as universities and various organizations. One of the most notable recipients was Andrew Mynarski, pilot-gunner from Winnipeg, awarded the Victoria Cross posthumously for extreme valor in World War II
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Ukrainian Canadians
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Ukrainian Canadians is a term that refers to Canadian citizens of Ukrainian descent or Ukrainian-born people who immigrated to Canada. Self-identified Ukrainians are the plurality in several areas of Western Canada. Of the 1,251,170 who identify as Ukrainian, galicians are noted as being among the miners of the British Columbia gold rushes and figure prominently in some towns in that new provinces first census in 1871. Because there is so little documentary evidence of individual Ukrainians among these three groups, they are not generally regarded as among the first Ukrainians in Canada. During the nineteenth century the territory inhabited by Ukrainians in Europe was divided between the Austro-Hungarian and Russian empires, the Austrian crownlands of Galicia and Bukovyna were home to many Ukrainian speakers. Austrian Galicia was one of the poorest and most overpopulated regions in Europe, emigration on a large scale from Galicia to the Balkans and even to Brazil was already underway by 1891. The first wave of Ukrainian immigration to Canada began with Iwan Pylypow and Wasyl Eleniak, who arrived in 1891, Pylypow helped found the Edna-Star Settlement east of Edmonton, the first and largest Ukrainian block settlement. However, it is Dr. Ukrainians from Central Ukraine, which was ruled by the Russian monarchy, also came to Canada – but in numbers than those from Galicia. Approximately 170,000 Ukrainians from the Austro-Hungarian Empire arrived in Canada from 1891 to 1914, as well, the semi-feudal nature of land ownership in the Austrian Empire meant that in the Old Country people had to pay the pan for all their firewood and lumber for building. They also attached importance to settling near to family, people from nearby villages or other culturally similar groups. The ULFTA transformed itself into the Association of United Ukrainian Canadians in 1946, by 1914, there were also growing communities of Ukrainian immigrants in eastern Canadian cities, such as Toronto, Montreal, Hamilton, and Windsor. Many of them arrived from the provinces of Podillia, Volhynia, Kyiv, from 1914 to 1920, the political climate of the First World War allowed the Canadian Government to classify immigrants with Austro-Hungarian citizenship as aliens of enemy nationality. This classification, authorized by the 1914 War Measures Act, permitted the government to legally compel thousands of Ukrainians in Canada to register with federal authorities, about 5,000 Ukrainian men, and some women and children, were interned at government camps and work sites. Most were placed by the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association and its supporters, the Endowment Council of the CFWWIRF uses the interest earned on that amount to fund projects that commemorate the experience of Ukrainians and other Europeans interned between 1914 and 1920. The funds are held in trust by the Shevchenko Foundation and this was known as Project Сто, and organized by the UCCLA. In 1923, the Canadian government modified the Immigration Act to allow citizens of the Austrian Empire to once again enter Canada –. Around 70,000 Ukrainians from Poland and Romania arrived in Canada from 1924 to 1939, relatively little farmland remained unclaimed – the majority in the Peace River region of northwestern Alberta – and less than half of this group settled as farmers in the Prairie provinces. A few Ukrainian professionals and intellectuals were accepted into Canada at this time and they established a number of new organizations and affiliated newspapers, womens and youth groups, the most prominent of which was the Canadian League for the Liberation of Ukraine
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Neil McNeil High School
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Neil McNeil is one of 31 high schools run by the TCDSB and one of four all-boys schools, and currently has an enrollment of 871 students. Its school motto is “Fidelitas in Arduis”, which translates to Faith In Hard Times, in 1954, six Holy Ghost Fathers came from Ireland. The school was named after Neil McNeil, Archbishop of Toronto from 1912 to 1934, during his entire term as Archbishop, he fought tirelessly for the extension of funding for Catholic secondary schools. He demonstrated in both words and deeds the school motto “Fidelitas in Arduis”, which translates to “Faith In Hard Times”, from its inception, priests came out to teach. The first principal was Father Troy until his retirement in 1965, at first the school was a two story building with no gym and no cafeteria. In 1960, the floor and gymnatorium as well as the cafeteria were added. Since 1987, the school was funded by government and Neil McNeil was ceased as a private school. The school was maintained and operated fully by the MSSB although the Spiritans continue to lease the school, even though the last priest-principal of the school retired in 1990, the Spiritan presence is alive and well through the Spiritan Scholarship Fund established in 1995. By 1998, the fund disbursed more than $50,000 in scholarship awards for students going to university or community college, Notre Dame is the Sister School of Neil McNeil Catholic Secondary School located not far from Neil McNeil. Both of these schools are regarded as among the oldest and most discriminative high schools in the TCDSB and it is a school renowned for its elaborate and spirited school assemblies and tight knit community. Neil McNeils patron saint is the Holy Spirit, the Toronto Catholic District School Board acquired Neil McNeils school facilities from the Spiritans in 2009. In December, the decided to close two schools and relocate another. Patrick in the Greenwood and Danforth Avenues area and he stated that “We are here tonight to say that the history of closing schools must end in this process. We are not here to close and to relocate Neil McNeil, the review of the east-end schools came into light because there are too many students at Cardinal Newman, Neil McNeil, Notre Dame and Jean Vanier and too few students at St. Patrick. Since the issue came to light last fall, local stakeholders have passionately expressed their desire to go with the option of investing in bettering St. Patrick. The end result was St. Patrick became the Centre for the Arts, Media, since then, the school board agreed with the Spiritans to make every effort possible to maintain the Neil facility for the next 50 years. That agreement is a clause in the June 2009 purchase agreement between the TCDSB and the Spiritan order, every Friday morning, the school song is sung, replacing the singing of O Canada on other weekdays. School spirit and student life is fostered by the elected Student Council, since the 2011-2012 academic year, Student Council has had autonomy over their affairs, reporting directly to the Principal
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Class of '44
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Class of 44 is the 1973 sequel to Summer of 42. The film is a slice-of-life style autobiography of sorts, depicting Herman Rauchers first year in college, the film received moderate and poor reviews upon its release. The film was spoofed in the December 1973 issue of Mad magazine as The Clods Of 44. The film is noted for being the feature film debut of John Candy in a very brief uncredited appearance at the beginning as a high school graduate who interacts with Hermie. Friends Hermie, Oscy, and Benjie graduate high school in the Spring of 1944, at a post-graduation party, Hermie and Oscy are startled when Benjie tells them that hes enlisted in the Marines. While Hermie and Oscy spend the Summer working at a dock, Benjie goes to basic training, at Summers end. At their fathers behest, Oscy and Hermie go to college, much of the film consists slice of life vignettes depicting college life during wartime, with the effect of the war on the home front as a constant recurring theme. While Hermie is serious about his studies, Oscy primarily sees it as an opportunity to pick up girls, on the campus newspaper staff, Hermie meets and falls in love with Julie, a well-to-do coed. At her suggestion, Hermie and Oscy join a frat and successfully pass through the requisite hazing rituals, shortly after moving into the frat house, though, Oscy is expelled for bringing girls to his room, and Hermie finds himself saddled with an annoying roommate. Oscy, seeing no alternative, enlists in the army. Hermie and Julie have a falling out after Julie tells him she intends to go out on a date with an old boyfriend coming into town on shore leave. Hermie expresses his distrust for Julie and they break up, back at the frat house, Hermie receives a phone call from his mother that his father has died unexpectedly. Returning home for the funeral, hes reunited with Oscy, who has passed basic training and is now a typist on Governors Island, Oscy takes Hermie out for a night of drinking in his fathers memory, culminating in a bar room brawl. Back at Hermies house, a drunk Hermie voices his inability to accept his fathers death before passing out, Oscy stays up through the night, watching over Hermie. Hermie returns to college and is about to call for a cab at the New York, New Haven and she tells him that Hermies mother told her about his fathers death, and that shes come to reconcile with him. Julie further tells Hermie that shes learned he passed his exams for the semester. Hermie and Julie reconcile and climb into the seat of Julies car as the film ends. The subway scenes were filmed on location in Brooklyn, New York, a vintage 1920s BMT Triplex train was used and the interior of the 15th Avenue entrance to the New Utrecht Avenue station on the Sea Beach line was restored to its 1940s appearance
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The Silent Partner (1978 film)
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The Silent Partner is a 1978 Canadian heist film directed by Daryl Duke. It stars Elliott Gould, Christopher Plummer and Susannah York, the film was the first to be produced by Carolco Pictures and one of the earliest films from Canada to take advantage of the Canadian governments Capital Cost Allowance plans. The Silent Partner is also notable for being one of the few films to have a score composed by Oscar Peterson. The Silent Partner is a remake of the Danish film Think of a Number from 1969 written, both are based on the novel Tænk på et tal by Danish writer Anders Bodelsen. Instead of informing his bosses or contacting the police, Miles devises a way of keeping the cash from most of his windows transactions in an old lunch box rather than in the banks till. As a result, when the Santa Claus robber holds up Miles at the desk, he nets far less than the police. The Santa Claus thief, a psychopath named Harry Reikle, figures out what happened, then makes a series of desperate. Reikle starts following Miles to and from his home, making harassing phone calls, miless coolness under pressure attracts the attention of bank colleague Julie Carver, who has been having an affair with the banks married manager Charles Packard. After escorting Julie to a Christmas party at the Packards house and their co-worker Simonson becomes infatuated with a young ditzy blonde named Louise, a teller at the bank. Miles discovers that Louise is cheating on Simonson with another co-worker, but never reveals what he knows, even after Simonson and the pregnant Louise get married. When brought to the station to identify Reikle in a lineup, Miles does not point him out. A few months later, at his fathers funeral, Miles meets a woman named Elaine. In fact, Elaine is secretly working with Reikle, who is still in jail, Elaine has been visiting Reikle there. Miles figures out that Elaine is not who she claims to be, but when he loses the safety deposit key to the box where he has stashed the stolen bank cash. Miles gets Elaine to help by disguising herself as a customer, Julie, meanwhile, has begun to suspect something about Miles and his new girlfriend. Reikle is released from jail and confronts Elaine over where her loyalties lie, when she admits that she has indeed fallen in love with Miles, an enraged Reikle murders and decapitates her at Miles apartment. Miles is forced to dispose of her body in the foundation for the new building. Reikle then confronts Miles and says that he intends to kill him, too, Miles refuses to part with it except in a public place where no harm can come to him
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Christopher Plummer
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Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer CC is a Canadian theatre, film and television actor. After making his debut in Stage Struck, Plummer went on to a successful film career. Plummer has ventured into television projects, including the miniseries The Thorn Birds. Plummer has won awards and accolades for his work, including an Academy Award. With his win at age 82 in 2012 for Beginners, Plummer is the oldest actor ever to win an Academy Award and his fathers uncle was patent lawyer and agent F. B. Plummers parents were divorced shortly after his birth, and he was brought up at the Abbott family home in Senneville, Quebec and he is bilingual, speaking English and French fluently. Plummer is a cousin of actor Nigel Bruce, the British actor, best known as Doctor Watson to Basil Rathbones Sherlock Holmes. He had studied to be a concert pianist, but developed a love for the theatre at an early age and he began acting while he was living on Pine Avenue in Montreal and attending Montreal High. He attended McGill, at time he also took up acting. Whittaker, who was also stage director of the Montreal Repertory Theatre, cast Plummer, aged 18. Plummer made his Broadway debut in January 1953 in The Starcross Story and his next Broadway appearance, Home is the Hero, lasted 30 performances from September to October 1954. He appeared in support of Broadway legend Katharine Cornell and film legend Tyrone Power in The Dark is Light Enough, the play toured several cities, with Plummer serving as Powers understudy. Later that same year, he appeared in his first Broadway hit, Plummer appeared less frequently on Broadway in the 1960s as he moved from New York to London. From May to June 1973, he appeared on Broadway as the character in Cyrano. For that performance, Plummer won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical, later that year, he played Anton Chekhov in Neil Simons adaptation of several Chekhov short stories, The Good Doctor. In the 1980s, he appeared on Broadway in two Shakespearean tragedies, Othello, playing Iago to James Earl Jones Moor, and the role in Macbeth with Glenda Jackson playing his lady. His Iago brought him another Tony nomination and he appeared with Jason Robards in the 1994 revival of Harold Pinters No Mans Land and had great success in 1997 in Barrymore, which he also toured with after a successful Broadway run. His turn as John Barrymore brought him his second Tony Award and he was nominated for a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award for his 2004 King Lear and for a Tony playing Henry Drummond in the 2007 revival of Inherit the Wind
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Elliott Gould
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Elliott Gould is an American actor. He began acting in Hollywood films during the 1960s, more recently, he has gained recognition for his recurring supporting roles as Jack Geller on Friends, as Reuben Tishkoff in the Oceans Trilogy, and as Ezra Goldman in Ray Donovan. Until its cancellation, he had a role in the TV series Doubt. Gould was born in Brooklyn, New York and his mother, Lucille, sold artificial flowers to beauty shops, and his father, Bernard Goldstein, worked in the garment business as a textiles buyer. His family was Jewish, and his grandparents were immigrants from Ukraine, Poland and he graduated from the Professional Childrens School. Gould began acting in the Broadway theatre in the late 1950s, other credits include Irma La Douce, Say, Darling, Drat. He purchased the rights to Little Murders, and in addition to acting in the film version. As a film actor, Goulds performance in Paul Mazurskys 1969 comedy Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice proved to be his breakout role, indeed, he earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He is perhaps best known for playing Trapper John in Robert Altmans satirical 1970 film MASH, time magazine placed him on one of its covers in 1970, when he was at the brief height of his long career, calling him a star for an uptight age. Gould played the detective Philip Marlowe in Altmans 1973 film noir The Long Goodbye and he soon collaborated with Altman again, as a gambling addict alongside George Segal in California Split. He later cameoed as himself in the Altman films Nashville and The Player, also in 1980, Gould filmed two movies for Disney studios, The Last Flight of Noahs Ark and The Devil and Max Devlin, in which he co-starred with Bill Cosby. Other notable roles during this time include performances in A Bridge Too Far, Capricorn One, and he starred in a sitcom called E/R in 1984–1985, and had a notable recurring guest role on Friends as Jack Geller, the father of Monica and Ross Geller. More recently he has had a prominent recurring role on Ray Donovan and had a role in the sitcom Mulaney. Gould received critical praise for his performances as a mobster in Warren Beattys 1991 film Bugsy. He also co-starred as Reuben Tishkoff in the caper film Oceans Eleven and its sequels, Oceans Twelve. Other recent films roles include supporting turns in Contagion and Ruby Sparks and he has also loaned his voice to several animated series, most notable among them, the Disney Channel animated series Kim Possible and the 2006 video game Scarface, The World Is Yours. Gould currently serves on the Screen Actors Guild National Board of Directors, Gould has said that he has a very deep Jewish identity. He has been married three times, twice to the woman, Barbra Streisand Jennifer Bogart
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Rick Moranis
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Frederick Allan Rick Moranis is a Canadian-American actor, comedian, screenwriter, musician and songwriter. In 1997, Moranis began a hiatus from acting to raise his children as a widowed father. He has not appeared in a film since, although he has provided voice-over work for a few animated films. He has also released albums and made appearances at fan conventions. Moranis was born in Toronto, Ontario, to a Jewish family and he went to elementary school with Geddy Lee, frontman of the rock band Rush. His career as an entertainer began as a disc jockey in the mid-1970s. In 1980, Moranis was persuaded to join the third-season cast of Second City Television by friend, at the time, Moranis was the only cast member who had not come from a Second City stage troupe. He is known for such impressions as Woody Allen, Merv Griffin, Bob and Doug became a pop culture phenomenon, which led to a top-selling and Grammy nominated album, Great White North, and the 1983 movie Strange Brew, Moraniss first major film role. He also did the voice-over for a short lived cartoon series on NBC called Gravedale High, in a 2004 interview, Moranis talked about his favourite kinds of films, On the last couple of movies I made—big-budget Hollywood movies—I really missed being able to create my own material. In the early movies I did, I was brought in to rewrite my stuff. By the time I got to the point where I was starring in movies, and I had executives telling me what lines to say, that wasnt for me. Im a guy who comes out of comedy, and my impetus was always to rewrite the line to make it funnier, Moraniss last film roles were Barney Rubble in The Flintstones and the box-office flop Big Bully. Disneys final film in the Honey, I Shrunk the Kids franchise is 1997s direct-to-video film Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves, the series Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, The TV Show also launched in 1997 but without Moranis, then concluding in 2000. He worked for Disney twice more, voicing Rutt the moose in the 2003 animated film Brother Bear, Moranis was also slated to appear in The Breakfast Club, but was released by John Hughes because his interpretation of the role was not what Hughes was looking for. In 2000, Moranis received his first film credit since 1997 when he provided voice work in the film, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. In 2003, he provided his voice to the animated film Brother Bear, as of 2004, Moranis was on the Advisory Committee for the comedy program at Humber College. The album was produced by Tony Scherr and is distributed through ArtistShare, commenting on the origins of the songs, he said that in 2003, Out of the blue, I just wrote a bunch of songs. For lack of an explanation, they’re more country than anything
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Peter Gzowski
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Peter John Gzowski CC was a Canadian broadcaster, writer and reporter, most famous for his work on the CBC radio shows This Country in the Morning and then Morningside. Gzowski wrote books, hosted shows, and worked at a number of newspapers. Gzowski was known for a friendly and warm interviewing style, Gzowski was born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of Margaret McGregor and Harold Edward Gzowski. Sir Casimir Gzowski was an aide de campe of Queen Victoria - who knighted him - and briefly acted as the Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, the marriage of Gzowskis parents ended shortly after Gzowski was born, with Harold Gzowski leaving the marriage for a depression-era vagabond life. Gzowski and his mother were supported by Harold Gzowskis family, following Harold Gzowskis departure, Gzowskis mother then married Reg Brown, a sales manager of a local textile mill, and the family relocated to Galt, Ontario, in 1939, when Gzowski was five. Gzowski encountered difficulties succeeding in school in Galt. Catharines, Ontario, which Gzowskis father had also attended, Gzowskis mother died the summer following the commencement of Gzowskis studies at Ridley College. Gzowskis mother was 40, Gzowski was 16, Gzowski attended the University of Toronto but never graduated, he was later awarded 11 honorary degrees. Midway through university, he took time off to work for the Timmins Daily Press, during his last year, 1956–57, at the U of T, he edited the student newspaper The Varsity. In the spring of 1957, he became city editor of the Moose Jaw Times-Herald, after a few months in Moose Jaw, he was hired by the Chatham Daily News. In September 1958, he joined the staff of Macleans magazine, when he was 28 he became the youngest-ever managing editor of Macleans. In the 1960s he moved to the Toronto Star and became the last editor of The Star Weekly magazine until it was sold in 1968 and his first regular radio show was Radio Free Friday, 1969–1970. In 1971 he became host of radio the CBCs This Country in the Morning, from 1976 to 1978 he hosted the television show 90 Minutes Live on CBC Television. In 1982 he returned to his morning radio program, which had by now been renamed Morningside. He also narrated a few Heritage Minutes and he returned to Moose Jaw, to host his last episode of Morningside from the Temple Gardens Mineral Spa Resort. In 1986, Gzowski held the first fundraising golf tournament for literacy and that tournament has evolved and is now held in every province and territory of Canada and has raised more than $13-million for volunteer-based literacy programs. Throughout most of his life, Gzowski had been a smoker of cigarettes. In 2000, Gzowski stopped smoking through attending a treatment centre for persons with addictions, a few months following the completion of treatment, Gzowski developed emphysema, following a chest infection
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NBC
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The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is the flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The network is part of the Big Three television networks, founded in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America, NBC is the oldest major broadcast network in the United States. Following the acquisition by GE, Bob Wright served as executive officer of NBC, remaining in that position until his retirement in 2007. In 2003, French media company Vivendi merged its entertainment assets with GE, Comcast purchased a controlling interest in the company in 2011, and acquired General Electrics remaining stake in 2013. Following the Comcast merger, Zucker left NBC Universal and was replaced as CEO by Comcast executive Steve Burke, during a period of early broadcast business consolidation, radio manufacturer Radio Corporation of America acquired New York City radio station WEAF from American Telephone & Telegraph. Westinghouse, a shareholder in RCA, had an outlet in Newark, New Jersey pioneer station WJZ. This station was transferred from Westinghouse to RCA in 1923, WEAF acted as a laboratory for AT&Ts manufacturing and supply outlet Western Electric, whose products included transmitters and antennas. The Bell System, AT&Ts telephone utility, was developing technologies to transmit voice- and music-grade audio over short and long distances, the 1922 creation of WEAF offered a research-and-development center for those activities. WEAF maintained a schedule of radio programs, including some of the first commercially sponsored programs. In an early example of chain or networking broadcasting, the station linked with Outlet Company-owned WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island, AT&T refused outside companies access to its high-quality phone lines. The early effort fared poorly, since the telegraph lines were susceptible to atmospheric. In 1925, AT&T decided that WEAF and its network were incompatible with the companys primary goal of providing a telephone service. AT&T offered to sell the station to RCA in a deal that included the right to lease AT&Ts phone lines for network transmission, the divisions ownership was split among RCA, its founding corporate parent General Electric and Westinghouse. NBC officially started broadcasting on November 15,1926, WEAF and WJZ, the flagships of the two earlier networks, were operated side-by-side for about a year as part of the new NBC. On April 5,1927, NBC expanded to the West Coast with the launch of the NBC Orange Network and this was followed by the debut of the NBC Gold Network, also known as the Pacific Gold Network, on October 18,1931. The Orange Network carried Red Network programming, and the Gold Network carried programming from the Blue Network, initially, the Orange Network recreated Eastern Red Network programming for West Coast stations at KPO in San Francisco. The Orange Network name was removed from use in 1936, at the same time, the Gold Network became part of the Blue Network. In the 1930s, NBC also developed a network for shortwave radio stations, in 1927, NBC moved its operations to 711 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, occupying the upper floors of a building designed by architect Floyd Brown
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Emmy Award
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An Emmy Award, or simply Emmy, recognizes excellence in the television industry, and corresponds to the Academy Award, the Tony Award, and the Grammy Award. Because Emmy Awards are given in various sectors of the American television industry, Regional Emmy Awards are also presented throughout the country at various times through the year, recognizing excellence in local and statewide television. In addition, International Emmys are awarded for excellence in TV programming produced, each is responsible for administering a particular set of Emmy ceremonies. The Los Angeles-based Academy of Television Arts & Sciences established the Emmy Award as part of an image-building and public relations opportunity. The first Emmy Awards ceremony took place on January 25,1949, at the Hollywood Athletic Club, shirley Dinsdale has the distinction of receiving the very first Emmy Award for Most Outstanding Television Personality, during that first awards ceremony. In the 1950s, the ATAS expanded the Emmys into a national event, in 1955, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences was formed in New York City as a sister organization to serve members on the East Coast, and help to also supervise the Emmys. The NATAS also established regional chapters throughout the United States, with each one developing their own local Emmy awards show for local programming, the ATAS still however maintained its separate regional ceremony honoring local programming in the Los Angeles Area. Originally there was only one Emmy Awards ceremony held per year to honor shows nationally broadcast in the United States, in 1974, the first Daytime Emmy Awards ceremony was held to specifically honor achievement in national daytime programming. Other area-specific Emmy Awards ceremonies soon followed, also, the International Emmy Awards, honoring television programs produced and initially aired outside the U. S. was established in the early 1970s. Meanwhile, all Emmys awarded prior to the emergence of these separate, in 1977, due to various conflicts, the ATAS and the NATAS agreed to split ties. However, they agreed to share ownership of the Emmy statue and trademark. With the rise of television in the 1980s, cable programs first became eligible for the Primetime Emmys in 1988. The ATAS also began accepting original online-only web television programs in 2013, the Emmy statuette, depicting a winged woman holding an atom, was designed by television engineer Louis McManus, who used his wife as the model. The TV Academy rejected a total of forty-seven proposals before settling on McManus design in 1948. The statuette has become the symbol of the TV Academys goal of supporting and uplifting the art and science of television, The wings represent the muse of art. When deciding a name for the award, Academy founder Syd Cassyd originally suggested Ike, however, Ike was also the popular nickname of World War II hero and future U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and the Academy members wanted something unique. Finally, television engineer and the third president, Harry Lubcke, suggested the name Immy. After Immy was chosen, it was feminized to Emmy to match their female statuette
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Auteur
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An auteur is a singular artist who controls all aspects of a collaborative creative work, a person equivalent to the author of a novel or a play. The term is referenced to filmmakers or directors with a recognizable style or thematic preoccupation. Such critics invented the concept as a way of distinguishing French New Wave filmmakers from studio system directors that were part of the Hollywood establishment, Auteur theory has since been applied to producers of popular music, as well as directors of video games. The definition of an auteur has been debated since the 1940s, an auteur can use lighting, camerawork, staging and editing to add to their vision. Politique might very well be translated as policy or program, it involves a decision to value. One might see it as the policy of treating any director that uses a style or a unique worldview as an Auteur. Truffaut criticized the Cinema of Quality as Scenarists films, which are works that lack originality, according to Truffaut, this means that the director is only a metteur en scene, a stager. This tradition suggests that the hands the script to the director. Truffaut said, here are no good and bad movies, only good, even before auteur theory became clearly defined, the director was considered to be the most important among the people working on a film. Starting in the 1960s, some critics began criticising auteur theorys focus on the authorial role of the director. Pauline Kael and Andrew Sarris feuded in the pages of The New Yorker, one reason for the backlash is the collaborative aspect of shooting a film, and in the theorys privileging of the role of the director. In 2006, David Kipen coined the term Schreiber theory to refer to the theory of the screenwriter as the author of a film. Film historian Georges Sadoul pointed out that the author of a film is not necessarily the director. Also, he argued that the film can only be seen as a work of collective, in law, the film is treated as a work of art and the auteur, as the creator of the film, is the original copyright holder. Under European Union law, the director is considered the author or one of the authors of a film. From the 1960s, Phil Spector is considered the first auteur among producers of popular music, author Matthew Bannister named him the first star producer. Journalist Richard Williams wrote, Spector created a new concept, the producer as overall director of the creative process, another early pop music auteur was the Beach Boys multi-tasking leader Brian Wilson, who himself was mentored by Spector. Before the progressive pop of the late 1960s, performers were typically unable to decide on the content of their music
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Sycophant
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Sycophant was a term used in legal system of Classic Athens but in modern English it refers to someone practicing sycophancy i. e. obedient flattery. The word sycophant has its origin in the system of Classical Athens. Having no police force and only a number of officially appointed public prosecutors. By the fifth century BC, however, this practice had given rise to abuse by litigants who brought unjustified prosecutions, such a litigant was called a sycophant. The word retains the meaning of an informer in Modern Greek and French, but in modern English, the origin of the Ancient Greek word συκοφάντης is a matter of debate, but disparages the unjustified accuser who has in some way perverted the legal system. The original etymology of the word revealer of figs—has been the subject of scholarly speculation. The sycophant, by making false accusations, makes the accused yield up their fruit, generally, scholars have dismissed these explanations as inventions, long after the original meaning had been lost. Sycophants included those who profited from using their position as citizens for profit, statutes of Limitation were specifically adopted to try to prevent sycophancy. Sycophants are better illustrated through the satires of Aristophanes, a sycophant appears as a character in The Birds. One of his lost plays had, as its principal theme, in Wealth, the character, Sycophant, defends his role as a necessity in supporting the laws and preventing wrongdoing. The word sycophant entered the English and French languages in the mid-16th Century, and originally had the meaning in English and French as in Greek. Today, in Greek and French it retains the original meaning, the meaning in English has changed over time, however, and came to mean an insincere flatterer
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Mockumentary
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A mockumentary or docucomedy is a type of movie or television show depicting fictional events but presented as a documentary. These productions are used to analyze or comment on current events and issues by using a fictional setting. While not always comedic, comedic mockumentaries are common, a dramatic mockumentary should not be confused with docudrama, a fictional genre in which dramatic techniques are combined with documentary elements to depict real events. Mockumentaries are often presented as documentaries, with B roll and talking heads discussing past events. Examples emerged during the 1950s when archival film footage became relatively easy to locate, a very early example was a short piece on the Swiss Spaghetti Harvest that appeared as an April fools joke on the British television program Panorama in 1957. The term mockumentary, which originated in the 1960s, was popularized in the mid-1980s when This Is Spinal Tap director Rob Reiner used it in interviews to describe that film. Mockumentaries are often partly or wholly improvised, as a style of acting helps to maintain the pretense of reality. Comedic mockumentaries rarely have laugh tracks, also to sustain the atmosphere, albert Brooks was also an early popularizer of the mockumentary style with his film Real Life,1979, a spoof of a PBS documentary. Woody Allens Take the Money and Run is presented in documentary-style with Allen playing a criminal, Virgil Starkwell. Jackson Beck, who used to narrate documentaries in the 1940s, fictional interviews are interspliced throughout, especially those of Starkwells parents who wear Groucho Marx noses and mustaches. The style of film was widely appropriated by others and revisited by Allen himself in films such as Zelig and Sweet. Since the beginning of the 1980s, the format has enjoyed considerable attention. In 1984, Christopher Guest co-wrote and starred in the mockumentary This is Spinal Tap, directed by Rob Reiner, films such as Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, and A Mighty Wind, all written with costar Eugene Levy, were critical successes. Man Bites Dog is a 1992 Belgian black comedy crime mockumentary written, produced, and directed by Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, in 1995, directed by Peter Jackson and Costa Botes, Forgotten Silver claimed New Zealand director Colin McKenzie to be a pioneer in filmmaking. When the film was revealed to be a mockumentary, Jackson received criticism for tricking viewers. In 1999, Drop Dead Gorgeous by Michael Patrick Jann used the style to narrate a fictional small-town beauty pageant as a way to satirize Middle America. Dark Side of the Moon is a 2002 French mockumentary by director William Karel, the premise for the film is the theory that the television footage from the Apollo 11 Moon landing was faked and actually recorded in a studio by the CIA with help from director Stanley Kubrick. FUBAR is a 2002 Canadian mockumentary film, directed by Michael Dowse, the Confederate States of America is a 2004 mockumentary presenting an alternative history in which the Confederacy won the American Civil War
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The Last Polka
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The Last Polka is a 1985 comedy television film, and one of the first mockumentaries. It was written by and starred John Candy and Eugene Levy, the Last Polka follows the life, careers, and the final concert of Yosh and Stan Shmenge, two brothers from the fictional country of Leutonia who become the biggest polka duo the world has ever seen. It is presented as a mixture of live performance and filmed scenes. Many fellow SCTV performers including Rick Moranis, Catherine OHara, the live concert in the film is a loose parody of The Bands concert movie The Last Waltz. One stand out scene has The Shmenges performing an outdoor stadium Michael Jackson salute concert, complete with glitter outfits, sequin glove, the Shmenges were originally created as characters for the television series Second City TV and were also known on SCTV as The Happy Wanderers. The Last Polka was produced for and first broadcast on the HBO cable network, both John Candy and Eugene Levy were nominated in 1985 for a Cable Ace Award in the Best Performance in a Comedy Special category. As of March 2008, this video is out of print and has not yet released on DVD. The Last Polka at the Internet Movie Database The Last Polka at AllMovie NY TIMES Archives - TV Review NY TIMES Archives - New On Video
