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Jonathan B. Tucker
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Jonathan B. Tucker was a United States chemical and biological weapons expert. Tucker was born on August 2,1954 in Boston, Massachusetts to Deborah Tucker, Tucker earned a B. S. in biology from Yale University and a Ph. D. in political science from MIT. After finishing his studies Tucker worked as an arms control specialist for the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, arms Control & Disarmament Agency, and the U. S. State Department. He was an editor at High Technology and Scientific American magazines and wrote about military technologies, biotechnology, Tucker was a UN weapons biological inspector in Iraq in February 1995. C. On July 31,2011, Tucker was found dead in his home in Washington D. C, articles Historical trends related to bioterrorism, An empirical analysis. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, books Ellie – A Childs Fight Against Leukemia. Toxic Terror, Assessing Terrorist Use of Chemical and Biological Weapons, scourge, The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox. War of Nerves, Chemical Warfare from World War I to Al-qaeda
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Jonathan B. Tucker
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Kingdom (2014 TV series)
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Kingdom is an American drama television series created by Byron Balasco. The series premiered on October 8,2014 on the Audience Network and it stars Frank Grillo, Kiele Sanchez, Matt Lauria, Jonathan Tucker, Nick Jonas and Joanna Going. Season one consists of ten episodes, on October 17,2014, DirecTV announced that the series was renewed for an additional 20 episodes,10 of which aired in 2015 and 10 in 2016. On July 7,2016, it was renewed for a season which will premiere on May 31,2017. On April 1,2017, it was announced that the third season will be final season of the series. Alvey Kulina owns and runs a martial arts gym called Navy St. Gym in Venice, California, with his girlfriend. He helps people workout and trains fighters along with his sons, Nate, Jay has a drug and alcohol problem, but puts it aside to start fighting again. Ryan Wheeler used to be a fighter until he was sent to prison after a few mistakes in his life. After Ryans release, Alvey wants him to again and be his trainer as it would be good publicity for the gym. Lisa is initially opposed to this, as she and Ryan used to be engaged, Alveys estranged wife, Christina, is a drug addict and prostitute, with sporadic contact with Kulina and her sons. Frank Grillo as Alvey Kulina, Jay and Nates father, owner of the gym Navy St. hes a retired MMA fighter who now trains MMA fighters at his gym. Kiele Sanchez as Lisa Prince, Ryans ex-fiancée and Alveys girlfriend, She runs the business side of the gym, Matt Lauria as Ryan Wheeler, an ex-con who starts training to be a fighter again after being released from prison. He used to be engaged to Lisa and is still in love with her, Jonathan Tucker as Jay Kulina, Alvey and Christinas older son and Nates older brother. Seen as the screw up in the family by Alvey, starts fighting again when Lisa begins to manage him. Jay is the mouth, obnoxious Kulina brother. Nick Jonas as Nathaniel Nate Kulina, Alvey and Christinas younger son and he is also a closeted gay man who came out to his brother. Joanna Going as Christina Kulina, Alveys ex-wife and the mother of Jay, shes a former drug addict and prostitute, which has a negative impact on Jay. Natalie Martinez as Alicia Mendez, a fighter and Lisas new client
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Kingdom
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Nick Jonas, Joanna Going, Matt Lauria, Frank Grillo and Jonathan Tucker at the premiere of the show in October 2014
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Boston
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Boston is the capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. Boston is also the seat of Suffolk County, although the county government was disbanded on July 1,1999. The city proper covers 48 square miles with a population of 667,137 in 2015, making it the largest city in New England. Alternately, as a Combined Statistical Area, this wider commuting region is home to some 8.1 million people, One of the oldest cities in the United States, Boston was founded on the Shawmut Peninsula in 1630 by Puritan settlers from England. It was the scene of several key events of the American Revolution, such as the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, the Battle of Bunker Hill, and the Siege of Boston. Upon U. S. independence from Great Britain, it continued to be an important port and manufacturing hub as well as a center for education, through land reclamation and municipal annexation, Boston has expanded beyond the original peninsula. Its rich history attracts many tourists, with Faneuil Hall alone drawing over 20 million visitors per year, Bostons many firsts include the United States first public school, Boston Latin School, first subway system, the Tremont Street Subway, and first public park, Boston Common. Bostons economic base also includes finance, professional and business services, biotechnology, information technology, the city has one of the highest costs of living in the United States as it has undergone gentrification, though it remains high on world livability rankings. Bostons early European settlers had first called the area Trimountaine but later renamed it Boston after Boston, Lincolnshire, England, the renaming on September 7,1630 was by Puritan colonists from England who had moved over from Charlestown earlier that year in quest of fresh water. Their settlement was limited to the Shawmut Peninsula, at that time surrounded by the Massachusetts Bay and Charles River. The peninsula is thought to have been inhabited as early as 5000 BC, in 1629, the Massachusetts Bay Colonys first governor John Winthrop led the signing of the Cambridge Agreement, a key founding document of the city. Puritan ethics and their focus on education influenced its early history, over the next 130 years, the city participated in four French and Indian Wars, until the British defeated the French and their Indian allies in North America. Boston was the largest town in British America until Philadelphia grew larger in the mid-18th century, Bostons harbor activity was significantly curtailed by the Embargo Act of 1807 and the War of 1812. Foreign trade returned after these hostilities, but Bostons merchants had found alternatives for their investments in the interim. Manufacturing became an important component of the economy, and the citys industrial manufacturing overtook international trade in economic importance by the mid-19th century. Boston remained one of the nations largest manufacturing centers until the early 20th century, a network of small rivers bordering the city and connecting it to the surrounding region facilitated shipment of goods and led to a proliferation of mills and factories. Later, a network of railroads furthered the regions industry. Boston was a port of the Atlantic triangular slave trade in the New England colonies
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From top to bottom, left to right: the
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The First Church of Christ, Scientist;
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John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum;
South Station;
Boston University and the
Charles River;
Arnold Arboretum;
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State Street, 1801
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View of Boston from
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Massachusetts
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It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east, the states of Connecticut and Rhode Island to the south, New Hampshire and Vermont to the north, and New York to the west. The state is named for the Massachusett tribe, which inhabited the area. The capital of Massachusetts and the most populous city in New England is Boston, over 80% of Massachusetts population lives in the Greater Boston metropolitan area, a region influential upon American history, academia, and industry. Originally dependent on agriculture, fishing and trade, Massachusetts was transformed into a manufacturing center during the Industrial Revolution, during the 20th century, Massachusetts economy shifted from manufacturing to services. Modern Massachusetts is a leader in biotechnology, engineering, higher education, finance. Plymouth was the site of the first colony in New England, founded in 1620 by the Pilgrims, in 1692, the town of Salem and surrounding areas experienced one of Americas most infamous cases of mass hysteria, the Salem witch trials. In 1777, General Henry Knox founded the Springfield Armory, which during the Industrial Revolution catalyzed numerous important technological advances, in 1786, Shays Rebellion, a populist revolt led by disaffected American Revolutionary War veterans, influenced the United States Constitutional Convention. In the 18th century, the Protestant First Great Awakening, which swept the Atlantic World, in the late 18th century, Boston became known as the Cradle of Liberty for the agitation there that led to the American Revolution. The entire Commonwealth of Massachusetts has played a commercial and cultural role in the history of the United States. Before the American Civil War, Massachusetts was a center for the abolitionist, temperance, in the late 19th century, the sports of basketball and volleyball were invented in the western Massachusetts cities of Springfield and Holyoke, respectively. Many prominent American political dynasties have hailed from the state, including the Adams, both Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, also in Cambridge, have been ranked among the most highly regarded academic institutions in the world. Massachusetts public school students place among the top nations in the world in academic performance, the official name of the state is the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. While this designation is part of the official name, it has no practical implications. Massachusetts has the position and powers within the United States as other states. Massachusetts was originally inhabited by tribes of the Algonquian language family such as the Wampanoag, Narragansett, Nipmuc, Pocomtuc, Mahican, and Massachusett. While cultivation of crops like squash and corn supplemented their diets, villages consisted of lodges called wigwams as well as longhouses, and tribes were led by male or female elders known as sachems. Between 1617 and 1619, smallpox killed approximately 90% of the Massachusetts Bay Native Americans, the first English settlers in Massachusetts, the Pilgrims, arrived via the Mayflower at Plymouth in 1620, and developed friendly relations with the native Wampanoag people. This was the second successful permanent English colony in the part of North America that later became the United States, the event known as the First Thanksgiving was celebrated by the Pilgrims after their first harvest in the New World which lasted for three days
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A portion of the north-central
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Flag
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Many coastal areas in Massachusetts provide breeding areas for species such as the
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The
Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor by
William Halsall (1882). The
Pilgrims were a group of
Puritans who founded
Plymouth in 1620.
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Anyone who meets the eligibility requirements may apply for aid, which could vary from medical assistance, paying rent, or finding employment. Heros benefits are not meant to be a permanent crutch for needy creators, any granted aid is kept confidential. The Hero Initiative has two boards of directors, the Executive Board and the Fund Disbursement Board, former board members include founders Pat McCallum, editor-in-chief of Wizard Magazine, and Mike Richardson, publisher and founder of Dark Horse Comics. They are George Pérez, Roy Thomas, Charlie Novinskie, Dennis ONeil, John Romita Sr. the charity is currently supported by Dark Horse Comics, Dynamic Forces, Image Comics, Marvel Entertainment, Top Cow Productions, and Wizard Entertainment. The Hero Initiative utilizes many methods of fundraising, foremost is their annual art auction, auctioning donated original comics art-work at fan conventions. Year-long, they sell donated art and special edition comics at conventions, artists, writers, and publishers are invited to donate work, and fans are invited to donate money directly to the fund. ACTOR also sells a green Excelsior, wrist-band similar in design to the Livestrong wristband. The Hero Initiative was formerly known as A Commitment to Our Roots, or ACTOR, while the original name of the organization reflected the charitys goal, the acronym that resulted, ACTOR, more often confused people unfamiliar with the organization. 2006, George Pérez, John Romita, Sr.2007, Joe Kubert 2008, Nick Cardy 2009, Neal Adams 2010, Walt Simonson 2011, Stan Lee 2012, John Romita, Jr. The award recognizes one person in each year who demonstrates particular generosity and integrity in support of the overall comic book community. It debuted at the 2010 Harvey Awards ceremony held at the Baltimore Comic-Con
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The Virgin Suicides (film)
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In the suburbs of Grosse Pointe, Michigan during the mid-1970s, a group of neighborhood boys — now grown men — reflect upon their memories of the five Lisbon sisters, ages 13 to 17. During the summer, the youngest sister, Cecilia, slits her wrist in a bath, in the wake of her act, the Lisbon parents watch over their four remaining daughters even more closely. This further isolates the family from the community and heightens air of mystery about the girls to the boys in particular. At the beginning of the new year in the fall, Lux forms a secret and short-lived romance with Trip Fontaine. Trip comes over one night to the Lisbon residence in hopes of getting closer to Lux, Trip persuades Mr. Lisbon to allow him to take Lux to the upcoming Homecoming Dance by promising to provide dates for the other sisters. After winning king and queen, Trip persuades Lux to ditch the group and have sex on the football field, afterwards, Lux falls asleep, and Trip abandons her. At dawn, Lux wakes up alone and has to take a taxi home, having broken curfew, Lux and her sisters are punished by a paranoid Mrs. Lisbon by being taken out of school. Unable to leave the house, the contact the boys across the street by using light signals. After weeks of confinement, the sisters leave a note for the boys, when the boys arrive that night, they find Lux alone in the living room, smoking a cigarette. She invites them inside to wait for her sisters, while she goes to start the car, curious, the boys wander into the basement after hearing a noise and discover Bonnies body hanging from the ceiling rafters. Horrified, they rush back upstairs only to stumble across the body of Mary in the kitchen, devastated by the suicides, Mr. and Mrs. Lisbon leave the neighborhood. Mr. Lisbon has a clean out the house and sell off the family belongings in a yard sale. Whatever didnt sell was put in the trash, including the family photos, the house is sold to a young couple from the Boston area. The adults in the community go about their lives as if nothing happened, the men acknowledge that they had loved the girls, and that they will never know why the sisters took their lives. In addition to original score composed for the film by Air, a separate soundtrack album was released featuring music from Todd Rundgren, Steely Dan, Boston, Heart, Sloan, The Hollies, Al Green, Gilbert OSullivan, 10cc, Styx, and two tracks by Air. The New York Post heaped praise on the film, Its hard to remember a film that mixes disparate, delicate ingredients with the subtlety and virtuosity of Sofia Coppolas brilliant The Virgin Suicides. The Virgin Suicides at the Internet Movie Database The Virgin Suicides at AllMovie The Virgin Suicides at Rotten Tomatoes The Virgin Suicides at Box Office Mojo
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Theatrical release poster
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003 film)
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a 2003 American slasher film, and a remake of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. The fifth entry in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise, the film was directed by Marcus Nispel, written by Scott Kosar and it was also co-produced by Kim Henkel and Tobe Hooper, co-creators of the original 1974 film. Though met with negative reception from critics, the film was received by fans. A prequel was released in 2006, titled The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, on August 18,1973, five young adults—Erin, her boyfriend Kemper, and their friends Morgan, Andy, and Pepper—are on their way to a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert after traveling to Mexico to buy marijuana. While driving through Texas, the pick up a distraught hitchhiker walking in the middle of the road. After trying to talk to the hitchhiker, who speaks incoherently about a bad man, she pulls out a.357 Magnum, the group goes to a nearby eatery to contact the police, when a woman named Luda Mae tells them to meet Sheriff Hoyt at the mill. Instead of the sheriff, they find a boy named Jedidiah. Erin and Kemper go through the woods to find his house, leaving Morgan, Andy and they come across a plantation house and Erin is allowed inside by an amputee named Monty to call for help. Meanwhile, Kemper goes inside to look for Erin and is killed with a sledgehammer by Thomas Hewitt, also known as Leatherface, meanwhile, Hoyt disposes of the hitchhikers body. After Erin finds that Kemper is missing, she and Andy go back to Montys house, Monty realizes Andy is inside and summons Leatherface, who attacks him with his chainsaw. Erin escapes and heads towards the woods, but Leatherface cuts Andys leg off and carries him to the basement, Erin makes it back to the mill, but before she and the others can leave, Hoyt shows up. After finding marijuana on the dashboard, he orders Erin and Pepper to get out of the van, gives Morgan the gun he took from the hitchhiker, Morgan, disturbed by his demands, attempts to shoot him, only to find that the gun is unloaded. Hoyt handcuffs Morgan and drives him to the Hewitt house, taking the key with him. Erin and Pepper are attacked by Leatherface, who is wearing Kempers face as a mask, when Pepper attempts to run, she is killed by Leatherface. Erin runs and hides in a nearby trailer belonging to an obese middle-aged woman known only as the Tea Lady, and a woman named Henrietta. Erin discovers they have kidnapped the baby, but passes out before she can escape. Erin wakes up at the Hewitt house surrounded by the family, Leatherface, his mother Luda Mae, Hoyt, Monty and Jedidiah. Luda Mae informs Erin that Leatherface was tormented for his life because of a skin disease that left his face disfigured
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Theatrical release poster
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In the Valley of Elah
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In the Valley of Elah is a 2007 crime drama mystery film written and directed by Paul Haggis, starring Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron, and Susan Sarandon. The film’s title refers to the Biblical valley where the battle between David and Goliath took place, Paul Haggiss In The Valley of Elah is based on actual events, although the characters names and locations have been changed. The screenplay was inspired by journalist Mark Boals Death and Dishonor and it portrays a military fathers search for his son and, after finding his body, subsequent hunt for his sons killers. The film explores themes including the Iraq war, abuse of prisoners, post-traumatic stress disorder following active combat, the film tells the story of military police veteran Hank Deerfield, his wife Joan and their search for their son Mike. A soldier recently returned from Iraq, Mike has suddenly gone missing, deerfields investigation is aided by a police detective, who becomes personally involved in the case. They find Mikes body, dismembered and burned, military officials initially attempt to block the police investigation, they suggest Mikes death was due to drug-related violence. His platoon mates who last saw him lie to Deerfield and the police, Deerfield tells the police that although he suspects the soldiers are lying about something, he believes they could not have killed their comrade. It turns out that Deerfield is wrong, the soldiers had killed and dismembered Mike after a seemingly insignificant quarrel. The soldier who confesses to Deerfield and the police seems emotionally detached from his words and actions, Davis of Baker Company, 1-15 IN. Davis was an Iraq War veteran who was murdered soon after his home in 2003. Richard Davis father, Lanny Davis, was a military police officer. He mounted his own investigation into the crime, as did the character played by Jones in the film, Davis commented, Its a strong movie and a good movie. And its going to make a lot of people think, in 2004, freelance journalist Mark Boal wrote an article about Richard Davis murder, entitled Death and Dishonor, published in Playboy. This inspired Haggis, who adapted the account for his screenplay, Davis story was told in a 2006 episode, Duty, Death and Dishonor, of the CBS News program 48 Hours Mystery. A non-fiction book about the case, by author Cilla McCain, titled Murder in Baker Company. The Richard Davis Foundation for Peace works on issues related to Davis murder, such as improved screening of military recruits and it is compiling a list of suicides and murders connected to the Iraq War for a memorial. Haggis initially approached Clint Eastwood to play the part of Hank Deerfield, Eastwood declined the opportunity because he was involved with other projects. The film premiered September 1,2007, at the Venice Film Festival and was shown at the Toronto International Film Festival
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Theatrical release poster
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The Ruins (film)
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The Ruins is a 2008 supernatural horror film directed by Carter Smith which stars Jonathan Tucker, Jena Malone, Shawn Ashmore, Laura Ramsey, and Joe Anderson. Released in 2008, the American-Australian co-production is based on the novel of the name by Scott Smith. Two young American couples — Jeff and Amy, and Eric and they meet Mathias, a German tourist, who is looking for his brother Heinrich. His last known location is a dig at a remote Mayan ruin in the jungle. They are also joined by Dimitri, Mathiass friend, the group reaches the ruins of a Mayan temple, and are confronted by Mayan villagers with guns and bows. Mathias tries to explain their purpose, but the villagers do not understand Spanish or English, when Amy accidentally touches some vines the villagers become increasingly agitated. Dimitri approaches the villagers, hoping to appease them, but they shoot, the rest of the group flees up the steps of the ruins. At the top, they find a camp and a shaft in the center. The group cannot call for help since Erics phone has no signal and they hear a cell phone ringing from somewhere inside the ruins. Believing it is Heinrichs phone ringing, the rest of the group lowers Mathias down the shaft with a rope, the rope breaks and Mathias falls, becoming completely paralyzed. Amy and Jeff descend the temple steps hoping to reason with the Mayans, in anger, Amy throws a clump of vines at them and hits a young boy, whom the Mayans promptly kill. They realize the Mayans are afraid of the vines, and wont let them go since they have touched them, later, Stacy and Amy descend the shaft to help Mathias and to find the phone. Jeff and Eric rig a backboard and bring Mathias out of the shaft, the next morning, Stacy sees a tendril of vine has crept into a wound on her leg. The vines have also wrapped themselves around Mathiass lower legs and eaten them down to the bone, Eric and Jeff are barely able to remove the vines from Stacy but cannot get them off of Mathias. The cell phone is heard again from deep in the shaft so Stacy, in a small, vine-covered room, the two find the body of the young archaeologist, Heinrichs friend, and a broken phone. They then realize that the sound are made by the flowers of the vine. As Amy touches one flower, the attack and the two barely escape. The group now realizes that the vines are predatory, which is why the Mayans wont let anyone leave, as Mathias condition worsens, Jeff amputates his legs to avoid an infection
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Promotional poster
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The Black Donnellys
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The Black Donnellys is an American television drama that debuted on NBC on February 26,2007 and last aired on April 2,2007. Thereafter, NBC began releasing new episodes weekly on NBC. com until the series was officially cancelled, the series follows four young Roman Catholic Irish-American brothers in New York Citys Hells Kitchen neighborhood, and their involvement with petty and organized crime. Set in the present day, the show draws heavily upon Irish-American history, the pilot episode illustrates a clear tension and rivalry between the Irish and the Italians. The episodes are narrated by a friend, Joey Ice Cream. In creating the show, Haggis, a native of London, Ontario, strongly referenced his hometowns local history about the real-life Black Donnellys and the massacre associated with their name. In the pilot episode, Joey says the neighborhood is populated primarily by Black Irish, on May 14,2007, the series was officially cancelled by NBC. On June 5,2007, it was announced that HDNet had acquired the rights from NBC Universal to broadcast all 13 episodes of the series, a DVD entitled The Black Donnellys, The Complete Series was released on September 4,2007. Recently, the show has been picked up and has begun to air in several European countries, paul Haggis attended and spoke at the Cologne Conference in Germany at which The Black Donnellys was screened. The cancelled Black Donnellys ranked second in shows streamed off of NBCs website, james Jimmy Donnelly - The oldest of 4 brothers, Jimmy is a troublemaker and drug user, often involved in criminal activity, and known for making stupid decisions. He walks with a permanent limp, incurred when a speeding, runaway car crushed his leg, Jimmy believes he should be the leader of the Donnelly brothers, but his constant temper flare-ups cause people to believe him incapable of leadership, so they follow Tommy. This constant battle for being in charge causes friction between the two throughout the season. Thomas Tommy Donnelly - Tommy is the second oldest brother in the Donnelly family and he is known to step up as the leader of the four brothers and often cleans up his brothers trouble-making messes. His care-taking nature stems from an incident in childhood when he ran over his brother Jimmys leg after stealing a car and he promised God that if Jimmy walked again, he, Tommy, would take care of him thereafter. Tommy wants to become an artist, and has been going to art school, Huey Farrell, the boss of the Irish Mob, had been paying for his tuition. When Huey dies, the money is revoked by Huey’s brother Dokey Farrell, Tommy is in love with Jenny Reilly, a childhood friend with whom he has a complicated and strained relationship. He struggles between taking care of his family and doing what he wants, Kevin Donnelly - Kevin is the second youngest of the Donnelly brothers. He is a gambler whose gut instincts are extremely lucky, the problem is, he never follows his gut. The horse won, and as it was the last thing his father did with him and his gambling debt to Louie Downtown created the chain of events that lead to the season finale
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Kate Mulgrew as Helen Donnelly.
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Parenthood (2010 TV series)
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Parenthood is an American television drama series developed by Jason Katims and produced by Imagine Television and Universal Television for NBC. The show tells of the Braverman clan, which comprises a couple, their four children. One of the grandchildren depicted has Asperger syndrome, which has gained throughout the press. Loosely based on the 1989 film of the title, the series is the second adaptation of the film to air on television, preceded by the 1990–91 TV series. The series ran for six seasons from March 6,2010 to January 29,2015, despite strong reviews, the series never gained a strong audience, the pilot received the highest audience figures, with ratings declining thereafter. On May 11,2014, Parenthood was renewed for a sixth and final season, the final season premiered on September 25,2014. The series finale aired on January 29,2015, the series is set in Berkeley, California on the east shore of the San Francisco Bay. Adam is married to Kristina and they have children, Haddie, Max, Max is diagnosed with Asperger syndrome. Sarah is divorced and has two teen children, Amber and Drew, crosby has a son Jabbar with girlfriend Jasmine and later a daughter Aida. Julia is married to Joel and has a daughter Sydney, later in the series they adopt a son Victor, with intention to add his newborn baby sister in the series finale. Nelson as Zeek Braverman Tyree Brown as Jabbar Trussell Xolo Mariduena as Victor Graham Parenthood is based on the 1989 film of the name, co-written. Following the release of the film, a series was created and aired in 1990 on NBC. The show was given the green-light from NBC in January 2009, erika Christensen was the first actress to land a role in the pilot in early March 2009. By the end of the month, Peter Krause, Maura Tierney, Dax Shepard, Mae Whitman, Sarah Ramos, Nelson came aboard the project after passing on the role of the grandfather in Modern Family. In April, Max Burkholder was chosen to portray Peter Krauses son, in that same month Bonnie Bedelia, Sam Jaeger and Monica Potter were cast. Diane Farr was originally chosen as Kristina Braverman, but she left the series due to scheduling conflicts with Californication and was replaced by Potter. The series was scheduled to premiere on NBC on September 23,2009. However, on July 10,2009, it was announced that Parenthood would be pushed back to due to actress Maura Tierneys breast cancer
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DirecTV
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DirecTV is an American direct broadcast satellite service provider based in El Segundo, California and is a subsidiary of AT&T. Its satellite service, launched on June 17,1994, transmits digital television and audio to households in the United States, Latin America. Its primary competitors are Dish Network and cable television providers, DirecTV provides television and audio services to subscribers through satellite transmissions. Services include the equivalent of local television stations, broadcast television networks, subscription television services, satellite radio services. Subscribers have access to hundreds of channels, so its competitors are cable television service, most subscribers use reception antennas which are much smaller than the first generation antennas, which were typically a few yards across. Advances in antenna technology, including fractal antennas, have allowed a reduction in antenna size across all industries. Receiving equipment includes a dish, an integrated receiver/decoder and a DirecTV access card. Consumers who purchase DirecTV subscribe to various packages of DirecTV programming for which the subscriber pays a monthly fee, additional monthly fees may include a protection plan, DVR, additional receivers, HD channels, and other premium channel packages. A subscriber also can order pay-per-view and video on demand events, all programming distributed by DirecTV is delivered to its broadcast centers in Castle Rock, Colorado, and Los Angeles, where it is then digitized and compressed. The resulting signal is encrypted by DirecTV to prevent its unauthorized reception, DirecTV then transmits these signals to several satellites located in geostationary orbit. As of the quarter ended September 30,2012, DirecTV U. S. had 19.981 million subscribers, for the same period, DirecTV Latin America ended with 9.666 million subscribers and revenues of US$1.577 billion. In addition to serving residences, DirecTV offers service to bars, restaurants, hotels, dorms, the company also offered mobile service for cars, boats, and RVs as well as aircraft in cooperation with Connexion by Boeing. On November 30,2016, DirecTV Now, an internet streaming TV service was launched, in 1953, Howard Hughes created the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, to which he transferred full ownership of Hughes Aircraft. Ostensibly created as a medical research foundation, HHMI was accused of being used by Hughes as a tax shelter. Following Hughes death in 1976, HHMI was incorporated in 1977, in 1984, the court appointed a new board for HHMI, which proceeded to sell off Hughes Aircraft to General Motors on December 20,1985, for an estimated $5.1 billion. General Motors then merged Hughes Aircraft with its subsidiary Delco Electronics to create Hughes Electronics Corporation, the new subsidiary was initially composed of four units, Delco Electronics Company, Hughes Aircraft Company, Hughes Space and Communications Company, and Hughes Network Systems. Stanley E. Hubbard founded United States Satellite Broadcasting in 1981 and was a proponent for the development of direct-broadcast satellite service in the United States. USSB was awarded five frequencies by the FCC, at the coveted 101 degree west satellite location, Hughes Communications, Inc. was also awarded 27 frequencies at the same 101-degree location
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A standard DirecTV
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DirecTV headquarters in El Segundo, California
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Boston, Massachusetts
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Boston is the capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. Boston is also the seat of Suffolk County, although the county government was disbanded on July 1,1999. The city proper covers 48 square miles with a population of 667,137 in 2015, making it the largest city in New England. Alternately, as a Combined Statistical Area, this wider commuting region is home to some 8.1 million people, One of the oldest cities in the United States, Boston was founded on the Shawmut Peninsula in 1630 by Puritan settlers from England. It was the scene of several key events of the American Revolution, such as the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, the Battle of Bunker Hill, and the Siege of Boston. Upon U. S. independence from Great Britain, it continued to be an important port and manufacturing hub as well as a center for education, through land reclamation and municipal annexation, Boston has expanded beyond the original peninsula. Its rich history attracts many tourists, with Faneuil Hall alone drawing over 20 million visitors per year, Bostons many firsts include the United States first public school, Boston Latin School, first subway system, the Tremont Street Subway, and first public park, Boston Common. Bostons economic base also includes finance, professional and business services, biotechnology, information technology, the city has one of the highest costs of living in the United States as it has undergone gentrification, though it remains high on world livability rankings. Bostons early European settlers had first called the area Trimountaine but later renamed it Boston after Boston, Lincolnshire, England, the renaming on September 7,1630 was by Puritan colonists from England who had moved over from Charlestown earlier that year in quest of fresh water. Their settlement was limited to the Shawmut Peninsula, at that time surrounded by the Massachusetts Bay and Charles River. The peninsula is thought to have been inhabited as early as 5000 BC, in 1629, the Massachusetts Bay Colonys first governor John Winthrop led the signing of the Cambridge Agreement, a key founding document of the city. Puritan ethics and their focus on education influenced its early history, over the next 130 years, the city participated in four French and Indian Wars, until the British defeated the French and their Indian allies in North America. Boston was the largest town in British America until Philadelphia grew larger in the mid-18th century, Bostons harbor activity was significantly curtailed by the Embargo Act of 1807 and the War of 1812. Foreign trade returned after these hostilities, but Bostons merchants had found alternatives for their investments in the interim. Manufacturing became an important component of the economy, and the citys industrial manufacturing overtook international trade in economic importance by the mid-19th century. Boston remained one of the nations largest manufacturing centers until the early 20th century, a network of small rivers bordering the city and connecting it to the surrounding region facilitated shipment of goods and led to a proliferation of mills and factories. Later, a network of railroads furthered the regions industry. Boston was a port of the Atlantic triangular slave trade in the New England colonies
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From top to bottom, left to right: the
Boston skyline viewed from the
Bunker Hill Monument; the
Museum of Fine Arts;
Faneuil Hall;
Massachusetts State House;
The First Church of Christ, Scientist;
Boston Public Library; the
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum;
South Station;
Boston University and the
Charles River;
Arnold Arboretum;
Fenway Park; and the
Boston Common
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State Street, 1801
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View of Boston from
Dorchester Heights, 1841
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Scollay Square in the 1880s
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University of Massachusetts Boston
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The University of Massachusetts Boston, also known as UMass Boston, is an urban public research university and the third-largest campus in the five-campus University of Massachusetts system. The university is on 177 acres on the Columbia Point peninsula in the city of Boston, Massachusetts, UMass Boston is the only public university in Boston. Students are primarily from Massachusetts but some are from other parts of the U. S. or different countries, the University of Massachusetts Boston was established by vote of the state legislature in 1964. Freshman classes started for 1,227 undergraduate students in September 1965 at a building in the Park Square area of downtown Boston. The Founding Day Convocation was held December 10,1966, at the Prudential Center in Boston, John W. Ryan was installed as the universitys first chancellor. UMass Boston is part of the Greater Boston Urban Education Collaborative, in 1974, it opened its new campus at the Columbia Point peninsula on Dorchester Bay. The university originally occupied five buildings, McCormack Hall, Wheatley Hall, the Science Center, Healey Library, and the Quinn Administration Building. The original Harbor Campus buildings were said to have had sparse and unattractive interiors, with odd mazes of hallways and they were rumored to have been designed by architects who were primarily familiar with prisons, although the library was designed by the Chicago modernist architect Harry Mohr Weese. At one point in his career, Weese designed the Metropolitan Correction Center in Chicago, a special legislative committee was formed to investigative the contract. A scandal erupted after it was learned MBM paid State Senators Joseph DiCarlo, DiCarlo and MacKenzie were convicted of extortion. The Clark Athletic Center, including an ice arena, swimming pool. It also hosted the first presidential debate between then Texas Governor George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore in 2000. The cancellation of two days of classes to create security for the debate resulted in a protest by UMass Boston students, faculty, the original buildings fell into disrepair, and there are plans for replacement. Allegations of shoddy construction surfaced again in 2006 when the parking garage was closed because it had become structurally unsound. All parking is now outdoors, except for the Campus Center garage, in 2004, a new Campus Center was opened, designed by the Boston-based architectural firm of Kallmann McKinnell & Wood and built by Suffolk Construction at a cost of $80 million. It houses offices, restaurants in a court, event space, student clubs. It also serves as the new entrance for the campus and was the first major building since the original Harbor Campus was built in the 1970s. In January 2015, the university opened its first new building since the original campus was built
University of Massachusetts Boston
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The
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum is located on
Columbia Point next to UMass Boston.
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University of Massachusetts Boston
University of Massachusetts Boston
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The UMass Boston campus
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Claude Monet
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Monets ambition of documenting the French countryside led him to adopt a method of painting the same scene many times in order to capture the changing of light and the passing of the seasons. From 1883 Monet lived in Giverny, where he purchased a house and property, Claude Monet was born on 14 November 1840 on the fifth floor of 45 rue Laffitte, in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. He was the son of Claude Adolphe Monet and Louise Justine Aubrée Monet. On 20 May 1841, he was baptized in the parish church, Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, as Oscar-Claude. Despite being baptized Catholic, Monet later became an atheist, in 1845, his family moved to Le Havre in Normandy. His father wanted him to go into the familys ship-chandling and grocery business and his mother was a singer, and supported Monets desire for a career in art. On 1 April 1851, Monet entered Le Havre secondary school of the arts, locals knew him well for his charcoal caricatures, which he would sell for ten to twenty francs. Monet also undertook his first drawing lessons from Jacques-François Ochard, a student of Jacques-Louis David. On the beaches of Normandy around 1856 he met fellow artist Eugène Boudin, Boudin taught Monet en plein air techniques for painting. Both received the influence of Johan Barthold Jongkind, on 28 January 1857, his mother died. At the age of sixteen, he left school and went to live with his widowed, childless aunt, when Monet traveled to Paris to visit the Louvre, he witnessed painters copying from the old masters. Having brought his paints and other tools with him, he would go and sit by a window. Monet was in Paris for several years and met other painters, including Édouard Manet and others who would become friends. After drawing a low number in March 1861, Monet was drafted into the First Regiment of African Light Cavalry in Algeria for a seven-year period of military service. His prosperous father could have purchased Monets exemption from conscription but declined to do so when his son refused to give up painting. While in Algeria Monet did only a few sketches of scenes, a single landscape. In a Le Temps interview of 1900 however he commented that the light, after about a year of garrison duty in Algiers, Monet contracted typhoid fever and briefly went absent without leave. Following convalescence, Monets aunt intervened to get him out of the army if he agreed to complete a course at an art school and it is possible that the Dutch painter Johan Barthold Jongkind, whom Monet knew, may have prompted his aunt on this matter
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Claude Monet, photo by
Nadar, 1899.
Claude Monet
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Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant), 1872; the painting that gave its name to the style.
Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris
Claude Monet
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The Woman in the Green Dress,
Camille Doncieux, 1866,
Kunsthalle Bremen
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Le déjeuner sur l'herbe, (right section), 1865–1866, with
Gustave Courbet,
Frédéric Bazille and Camille Doncieux, first wife of the artist,
Musée d'Orsay,
Paris
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Yale University
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Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 in Saybrook Colony to train Congregationalist ministers, it is the third-oldest institution of education in the United States. The Collegiate School moved to New Haven in 1716, and shortly after was renamed Yale College in recognition of a gift from British East India Company governor Elihu Yale. Originally restricted to theology and sacred languages, the curriculum began to incorporate humanities and sciences by the time of the American Revolution. In the 19th century the school introduced graduate and professional instruction, awarding the first Ph. D. in the United States in 1861 and organizing as a university in 1887. Yale is organized into fourteen constituent schools, the undergraduate college, the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. While the university is governed by the Yale Corporation, each schools faculty oversees its curriculum, the universitys assets include an endowment valued at $25.4 billion as of June 2016, the second largest of any U. S. educational institution. The Yale University Library, serving all constituent schools, holds more than 15 million volumes and is the third-largest academic library in the United States, Yale College undergraduates follow a liberal arts curriculum with departmental majors and are organized into a social system of residential colleges. Almost all faculty teach courses, more than 2,000 of which are offered annually. Students compete intercollegiately as the Yale Bulldogs in the NCAA Division I – Ivy League, Yale has graduated many notable alumni, including five U. S. Presidents,19 U. S. Supreme Court Justices,20 living billionaires, and many heads of state. In addition, Yale has graduated hundreds of members of Congress,57 Nobel laureates,5 Fields Medalists,247 Rhodes Scholars, and 119 Marshall Scholars have been affiliated with the University. Yale traces its beginnings to An Act for Liberty to Erect a Collegiate School, passed by the General Court of the Colony of Connecticut on October 9,1701, the Act was an effort to create an institution to train ministers and lay leadership for Connecticut. Soon thereafter, a group of ten Congregationalist ministers, Samuel Andrew, Thomas Buckingham, Israel Chauncy, Samuel Mather, the group, led by James Pierpont, is now known as The Founders. Originally known as the Collegiate School, the institution opened in the home of its first rector, Abraham Pierson, the school moved to Saybrook, and then Wethersfield. In 1716 the college moved to New Haven, Connecticut, the feud caused the Mathers to champion the success of the Collegiate School in the hope that it would maintain the Puritan religious orthodoxy in a way that Harvard had not. Cotton Mather suggested that the school change its name to Yale College, meanwhile, a Harvard graduate working in England convinced some 180 prominent intellectuals that they should donate books to Yale. The 1714 shipment of 500 books represented the best of modern English literature, science, philosophy and it had a profound effect on intellectuals at Yale. Undergraduate Jonathan Edwards discovered John Lockes works and developed his original theology known as the new divinity
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Charter creating Collegiate School, which became
Yale College, October 9, 1701
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Yale University
Seal
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A Front View of Yale-College and the College Chapel, Daniel Bowen, 1786.
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First diploma awarded by
Yale College, granted to Nathaniel Chauncey, 1702.
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Charlestown, Massachusetts
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Charlestown is the oldest neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Originally called Mishawum by the Massachusett, it is located on a north of the Charles River, across from downtown Boston. Charlestown was laid out in 1629 by engineer Thomas Graves, one of its early settlers and it was originally a separate town and the first capital of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Charlestown became a city in 1848 and was annexed by Boston on January 5,1874, with that, it also switched from Middlesex County, to which it had belonged since 1643, to Suffolk County. It has had a substantial Irish American population since the migration of Irish people during the Great Irish Famine of the 1840s, since the late 1980s the neighborhood has changed dramatically because of its proximity to downtown and its colonial architecture. In the 21st century, Charlestowns diversity has expanded dramatically, along with growing rates of the very poor, today Charlestown is a largely residential neighborhood, with much housing near the waterfront, overlooking the Boston skyline. Charlestown is home to historic sites, hospitals and organizations. Thomas and Jane Walford were the original English settlers of the peninsula between the Charles and the Mystic and they were given a grant by Sir Robert Gorges, with whom they had settled at Wessagusset in September 1623 and arrived at what they called Mishawaum in 1624. John Endicott, first governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, sent William, Richard, Thomas Walford, acting as an interpreter with the Massachusetts Indians, negotiated with the local sachem Wonohaquaham for Endicott and his people to settle there. John Winthrops company stopped here for time in 1630, before deciding to settle across the Charles River at Boston. The territory of Charlestown was initially quite large, from it, Woburn was separated in 1642, Melrose and Malden in 1649, Stoneham in 1725, and Somerville in 1842. Everett, Burlington, Medford, Arlington and Cambridge also acquired areas originally allocated to Charlestown, on June 17,1775, the Charlestown Peninsula was the site of the Battle of Bunker Hill, named for a hill at the northwest end of the peninsula near Charlestown Neck. British troops unloaded at Moulton’s Point and much of the battle took place on Breeds Hill, the town, including its wharves and dockyards, was almost completely destroyed during the battle by the British. The town was not appreciably rebuilt until the end of hostilities but, in 1786, an 87-acre Navy Yard was established in 1800, Charlestown State Prison opened in 1805. The Bunker Hill Monument was erected between 1827 and 1843 using Quincy granite brought to the site by a combination of purpose-built railway, notable businesses included the Bunker Hill Breweries and Schraffts candy company. Around the 1860s an influx of Irish immigrants arrived in Charlestown, following the war, the city commissioned Martin Milmore to construct its civil war memorial, dedicated in 1872 and still standing in the communitys Training Field. Out of its 32,040 residents,2240 voted in support of the merger and 1947 opposed, Boston residents also approved the question,5, 960–1,868. Charlestowns separate city government was dissolved the next year, during the early 1960s, the city initiated plans to demolish and redevelop sixty percent of the housing in Charlestown
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The Bunker Hill Monument
Charlestown, Massachusetts
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Charlestown's former City Hall
Charlestown, Massachusetts
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1629 site of Puritan leader
John Winthrop 's "Great House" in City Square, uncovered during the
Big Dig
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Birdseye view of
Boston, Charlestown, and Bunker Hill, between 1890 and 1910
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The Park School
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The Park School is an independent day school in Brookline, Massachusetts, for boys and girls in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade. Founded in 1888 as Miss Pierce’s School, today, the student body of over 550 students comes from the Greater Boston area to a 34-acre campus in Brookline. Park’s facilities span a 34-acre campus, the School is centered in a modern building that contains 45 classrooms, five science labs, four music rooms, three art studios, and a fully equipped theater. Park’s library contains 30,000 volumes and audiovisual materials, through its electronic catalog, databases, and webpages, the library provides access to a wide range of materials both within Park and beyond. Librarians provide a center and introduce books and library skills to students in technologically equipped instruction areas. The schools main building was constructed in 1971 from an architectural design by Earl Flansburgh & Associates under the direction of then Headmaster Robert S. Hurlbut. But its brick wall accents and its preserved oaks and Roxbury puddingstone outcroppings pay homage to historical New England building traditions, the building features an inner courtyard with a Space Churn stainless steel mobile sculpture by George Rickey, donated by a Park parent in 1971. In 1996, the West Building designed by Graham Gund and Associates, in 2008, the school completed a major expansion and renovation of all of the pre-kindergarten – grade 5 classrooms. A new wing houses Grade 4 &5 classrooms, after-school program space, a conference room, in 2008, the school completed a major expansion and renovation of all of the pre-kindergarten – grade 5 classrooms. A new wing houses Grade 4 &5 classrooms, after-school program space, a conference room, the Park school includes a Lower Division, reserved to teaching younger students from Pre-K to Grade 2 about themselves as individual learners. Teachers also spend time and energy helping children develop values, social skills, students in the Upper Division learn to read, write, and think both logically and critically. They study English, mathematics, science, social studies, a language, growth education, music, art. Each student is trained to develop confidence and teamwork skills, at Park, the academic year runs from September to June. School begins at 8,15 a. m. for all students, on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, school is dismissed at 3 p. m. Tuesday at 2 p. m. Pre-K is a half-day program until 12 noon. Kindergarten is dismissed at 12 p. m. on Monday and Friday, on Tuesday, and 3 p. m. on Wednesday and Thursday. Various extracurricular activities are offered in the After-School Program for Pre-K – Grade 5, families may sign up for two to five afternoons per week, pick-up times are 3 p. m.4,30 p. m. or 6 p. m. Students in Grades 6 –8 are encouraged to participate in sports or after-school drama. In addition, a study hall is offered until 4,30 p. m
The Park School
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Simplicity and Sincerity
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Aerial photo of the Park School campus in Brookline, MA
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The Park School
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Brookline, Massachusetts
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Brookline /ˈbrʊkˌlaɪn/ is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, in the United States, and is a part of Greater Boston. Brookline borders six of Bostons neighborhoods, Brighton, Allston, Fenway–Kenmore, Mission Hill, Jamaica Plain, the city of Newton lies to the west of Brookline. At the 2010 census, the population of the town was 58,732, Brookline was first settled in 1638 as a hamlet in Boston, but was incorporated as a separate town in 1705. Brookline is especially notable as the birthplace and hometown of John F. Kennedy, Brookline was known as the hamlet of Muddy River and was considered part of Boston until the Town of Brookline was independently incorporated in 1705. It is said that the name derives from a farm once owned by Judge Samuel Sewall. According to the United States Census Bureau, Brookline has an area of 6.8 sq mi. The northern part of Brookline, roughly north of the D-line tracks, is urban in character, as highly walkable, Brookline borders Newton to the west and Boston in all other directions, it is therefore non-contiguous with any other part of Norfolk County. Brookline separates the bulk of the city of Boston from its westernmost neighborhoods of Allston–Brighton, Brookline falls under the USDA 6b Plant Hardiness zone. As of the census of 2010, there were 58,732 people,24,891 households, the population density was 8,701.0 people per square mile. There were 26,448 housing units at a density of 3,889.6 per square mile. The racial makeup of the town was 73. 3% White,3. 4% Black or African American,0. 12% Native American,15. 6% Asian,0. 03% Pacific Islander,1. 01% from other races, and 3. 0% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 5. 0% of the population,36. 7% of all households were made up of individuals and 10. 1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.18 and the family size was 2.86. In the town, the population was out with 16. 6% under the age of 18,11. 7%, from 18 to 24,37. 3% from 25 to 44,21. 9% from 45 to 64. The median age was 34 years, for every 100 females there were 82.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 79.1 males, the median income for a household in the town was $66,711, and the median income for a family was $92,993. Males had an income of $56,861 versus $43,436 for females. The per capita income for the town was $44,327
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Brookline, Massachusetts
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1858 map of north-central Norfolk County, showing Brookline (upper left) along with Dorchester, Roxbury and West Roxbury, all three of which were later annexed by Boston.
Brookline, Massachusetts
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Overlooking Leverett Pond in Olmsted Park from the Brookline, MA side
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Intersection of Harvard and Beacon Streets, Coolidge Corner, Brookline, MA
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Boston Ballet
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The Boston Ballet is an American professional classical ballet company based in Boston, Massachusetts. The company, founded in 1963 by E. Virginia Williams, Boston Ballet’s national and international reputation developed under the leadership of Artistic Directors Violette Verdy, Bruce Marks, and Anna-Marie Holmes. Today, Boston Ballet is one of the ballet companies in North America. Current Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen was selected to lead Boston Ballet in September 2001, Nissinen leads the company, and Boston Ballet School, the largest ballet school in North America, with Executive Director Meredith Hodges. In 1979, Boston Ballet opened the Nervi Festival in Italy, the Company made its London premiere in 1981, with a full-length production of Swan Lake. In 1983, Boston Ballet presented Don Quixote on Broadway with Rudolf Nureyev as special guest artist, after touring the United States, Mexico, France, and Italy. Boston Ballet collaborated with choreographer Mark Morris for the first time in 1986, performing his Mort Subite at the PepsiCo Festival in Purchase, the following year Boston Ballet was the first ballet company to perform at the BESSIE Dance and Performance award ceremony at New York City Center. Boston Ballet was the first major company to commission works from contemporary choreographers Mark Morris, Susan Marshall, Ralph Lemon, Elisa Monte. Boston Ballet made its debut at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, in July 1991, Boston Ballet toured throughout Spain. During the summer of 2007, the Company completed a tour of Spain to audience. In fall 2009, Boston Ballets sole performance venue became the Boston Opera House, located in the Boston Theater District, this 2, 500-seat theater provides clear sightlines and has a newly renovated orchestra pit. Boston Ballet appointed Jorma Elo as Resident Choreographer in 2005, since then, Elo has created six works for the company, including Plan to B, Brake the Eyes, and Le Sacre du Printemps. In 2009, the New York Times hailed Boston Ballet’s repertoire as “one of the most eclectic in the country”, Boston Ballet’s The Nutcracker has been performed annually for 42 years. Over 35 performances employ the talents of the company and more than 250 Boston Ballet School students who join in the production every year. Boston Ballet operates Boston Ballet School with more than 3,000 students at four locations in Boston, Newton, Norwell, the Boston Ballet Center for Dance Education offers numerous educational and outreach activities for the community. Collectively, programs include Summer Dance Workshop, Summer Dance Program, Citydance, Taking Steps, Boston Ballet’s outreach programs reach over 7,000 children each year. Boston Ballet’s headquarters at 19 Clarendon Street in Boston’s South End neighborhood is one of the largest, designed by architect Graham Gund, this five-story,60, 000-square-foot building is an important hub for dance in New England. Enrollment, Students aged nine and older with previous ballet training, are required to take a placement class to determine the level of study best suited to their abilities, group placement classes are typically held at each studio beginning May through August for September enrollment
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Boston Ballet dancers perform
Antony Tudor 's Dark Elegies (1937) under the direction of Tudor expert
Donald Mahler in 2008.
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The Nutcracker
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The Nutcracker is a two-act ballet, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The libretto is adapted from E. T. A. Hoffmanns story The Nutcracker and it was given its premiere at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg on Sunday, December 18,1892, on a double-bill with Tchaikovskys opera Iolanta. Although the original production was not a success, the 20-minute suite that Tchaikovsky extracted from the ballet was, major American ballet companies generate around 40% of their annual ticket revenues from performances of The Nutcracker. Tchaikovskys score has become one of his most famous compositions, in particular the pieces featured in the suite. Among other things, the score is noted for its use of the celesta, for the ballet, Tchaikovsky would again join forces with Marius Petipa, with whom he had collaborated on The Sleeping Beauty. The material Petipa chose was an adaptation of E. T. A, Hoffmanns story The Nutcracker and the Mouse King by Alexandre Dumas père called The Tale of the Nutcracker. The plot of Hoffmanns story was simplified for the two-act ballet. Hoffmanns tale contains a flashback story within its main plot titled The Tale of the Hard Nut. This had to be excised for the ballet, Petipa gave Tchaikovsky extremely detailed instructions for the composition of each number, down to the tempo and number of bars. The completion of the work was interrupted for a time when Tchaikovsky visited the United States for twenty-five days to conduct concerts for the opening of Carnegie Hall. Tchaikovsky composed parts of The Nutcracker in Rouen, France, the first performance of the ballet was held as a double premiere together with Tchaikovskys last opera, Iolanta, on 18 December 1892, at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia. Although the libretto was by Marius Petipa, who choreographed the first production has been debated. Petipa began work on the choreography in August 1892, however, illness removed him from its completion and his assistant of seven years, although Ivanov is often credited as the choreographer, some contemporary accounts credit Petipa. The childrens roles, unlike many later productions, were performed by real children rather than adults, students of Imperial Ballet School of St. Petersburg, the first performance of The Nutcracker was not deemed a success. The reaction to the dancers themselves was ambivalent, while some critics praised DellEra on her pointework as the Sugar Plum Fairy, one critic called her corpulent and podgy. Olga Preobrajenskaya as the Columbine doll was panned by one critic as completely insipid, Alexandre Benois described the choreography of the battle scene as confusing, One can not understand anything. Disorderly pushing about from corner to corner and running backwards and forwards – quite amateurish, the libretto was criticized for being lopsided and for not being faithful to the Hoffmann tale. Some found the transition between the world of the first scene and the fantasy world of the second act too abrupt
The Nutcracker
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Swan Lake (1876)
Sleeping Beauty (1889) The Nutcracker (1892)
List of all compositions
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(Left to right) Lydia Rubtsova as Marianna, Stanislava Belinskaya as Clara and Vassily Stukolkin as Fritz, in the original production of The Nutcracker (Imperial Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg, 1892).
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Olga Preobrazhenskaya as the Sugar Plum Fairy and Nikolai Legat as Prince Coqueluche in the Grand pas de deux in the original production of The Nutcracker. Imperial Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg, c. 1900
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The Thacher School
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The Thacher School is a highly selective, co-educational, independent boarding school located on 427 acres of hillside overlooking the Ojai Valley in Ojai, California, United States. Founded in 1889 as a school, it is now the oldest co-ed boarding school in California. Girls were first admitted in 1977, the first co-ed graduating class was the class of 1978. The student body numbers 235, and it boasts a 12% acceptance rate, at the heart of Thacher’s founding philosophy is a belief that students benefit from taking on real responsibility and positive risks. This philosophy is evident in equestrian and outdoor programs that set Thacher apart from other boarding schools, all students are required to ride and care for a horse during their first year. An annual gymkhana event gives students an opportunity to demonstrate their horsemanship in competition with each other, throughout the year, students are encouraged to take weekend camping trips into the local mountains. On November 8,2004, the San Jose Mercury News reported that the received its largest alumni donation ever from Owen Jameson. The $10 million gift was part of the $82 million Campaign For Thacher, concluded in 2007, that sought to improve Thachers financial aid program, facilities, jamesons donation was specifically directed towards expanding Thachers scholarship opportunities for youths from minority or low-income families. Sherman Day Thacher did not arrive on the Casa de Piedra ranch with the intent of creating a school, the son of Yale professor Thomas and Elizabeth Thacher, he elected to move to California to care for his brother who needed the fresh air cure for his tuberculosis. While spending time on the ranch, Thacher was contacted by an old Yale colleague who had a son that desperately wanted to go to Yale but needed tutoring before he would be prepared to attend. Thacher accepted the offer and tutored his colleagues son in both academics and maturity with his method of blending studies with outdoor living and horsemanship. Soon other friends were sending their sons out to California to receive Thachers instruction, the campus, nestled in the foothills in the northeast corner of the Ojai Valley, about 85 miles north of Los Angeles, was originally the Casa de Piedra ranch. Buildings reflect a variety of styles, including California Craftsman. Residential areas are organized to support a campus community where faculty members and their families live. Despite the recent campus developments, Thacher still retains its casual ranch appearance with its style of architecture. The school also maintains base camps in the Sespe Wilderness and the Eastern Sierras Golden Trout Wilderness, while The Thacher Schools symbol has always been that of the Pegasus, its mascot is the toad. In 1962 Nick Thacher, CdeP1963, and grandson of Sherman Day Thacher, instead Toads seemed appropriate because the nature of such beasts is one of humility and quiet persistence. In an older video, a Thacher student was quoted as saying, They may be toads
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The Thacher School
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Ojai, California
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Ojai is a city in Ventura County in the U. S. state of California. Located in the Ojai Valley, it is northwest of Los Angeles, the valley is about 10 miles long by 3 miles wide, surrounded by hills and mountains. The population was 7,461 at the 2010 census, down from 7,862 at the 2000 census. Ojai is a destination with boutique hotels and recreation opportunities including hiking. It also has small businesses specializing in local and ecologically friendly art, design, and home improvement—such as galleries, chain stores are prohibited by Ojai city law to encourage local small business development and keep the town unique. The origin of the name Ojai has historically been known as derived from a Native American word meaning nest, the citys self-styled nickname is Shangri-La referencing the natural beauty of this health-and-spirituality-focused region. Chumash Indians were the inhabitants of the valley. They called it Ojai, which derives from the Ventureño Chumash word ʼawhaý meaning moon, the area became part of the Rancho Ojai Mexican land grant made to Fernando Tico in 1837, and he established a cattle ranch. Tico sold it in 1853 without much success to prospectors searching for oil, by 1864, the area was settled. The town was out in 1874 by real estate developer R. G. Surdam and named Nordhoff, California, in honor of the writer Charles Nordhoff, leading up to and during World War I, American sentiment became increasingly anti-German. Across the United States, German and German-sounding place names were changed, as part of this trend, Nordhoff was renamed Ojai in 1917. The public high school in Ojai is still named Nordhoff High School, the public junior high school, named Matilija, formerly served as Nordhoff Union High School and still features large tiles with the initials NUHS on the steps of the athletic field. The main turning point in the development of the city was the coming of Edward Libbey and he saw the valley and fell in love, thinking up many plans for expansion and beautification of the existing rustic town. A fire destroyed much of the original western-style downtown Nordhoff—Ojai in 1917, afterwards Libbey helped design, finance, and build a new downtown more in line with the then contemporary taste for Spanish Colonial Revival style architecture. To thank Libbey for his gifts to the town, the proposed a celebration to take place on March 2 of each year. Libbey declined their offer to call it Libbey Day, and instead suggested Ojai Day, the celebration still takes place each year in October. The arcade and bell tower still stand, and have come to serve as symbols of the city, libbeys pergola was destroyed in 1971, after being damaged in an explosion
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Downtown Ojai
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Ojai Inn, built in 1876. Photo taken in 1880s.
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Ojai Arcade, built in 1917 in the
Spanish Colonial Revival style. Post Office tower at right.
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Dormitory at
Besant Hill School
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Botte di Natale
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Troublemakers is a 1994 spaghetti western comedy film. It is the last pairing of Terence Hill and Bud Spencer, Moses is a bounty hunter, who is angry at Maw, for letting his stolen horses loose, forcing Travis to set up a plan. Travis saves an outlaw named Sam Stone from being hanged and teams up with his brother to catch him, when the brothers stay at Moses familys house, Travis gives them plans to get to Maws. When they head off the morning, Moses family heads on their way to Maws. While passing some time at a town, Travis gets into a fist fight with a man, named Dodge and his gang, Moses unwillingly comes and helps Travis finish them off. The woman, Bridget invites the brothers to have cookies and tea with her and her sister, after leaving and setting up camp, Travis finds Stone and gang, talking about robbing a bank, the next day at noon. The next day, the plan a trap to catch Stone. The plan backfires when they come in at the wrong time, the sheriff and his deputy mistake Travis and Moses as part of Stones gang and arrest them. Bridget bails Travis out, revealing that Stone took their beloved bear, Moses survives with only a few splinters. He comes up with a plan to catch Stone, but the plan fails, Travis reveals to Stone that he saved his life, and Stone lets them go. Moses comes up with plan B, which works, when Moses falls asleep, Travis frees Stone and Stone dummy-ties him. Moses abandons Travis, but he hitches a ride from nearby Navajo Indians, Moses son, Junior wants to by a horse for his father. He heads to town and is captured by Stone, who learns of the Christmas reunion, Travis and Moses reunite and wait for Stones next move. Junior escapes and follows the brothers and he camps out for the night. Junior wakes up and finds himself face-to-face with a western diamondback rattlesnake and he attempts to flee but gets bitten on the leg. He manages to ride to Travis and Moses camp, the brothers take him to Bridgets and Melies. Bridget injects Junior with an serum that neutralizes the venom, Travis reveals the reunion, angering Moses. Moses is about to fight with Travis, but Junior warns them about Stones plan, before leaving, Bridget and Travis share a kiss
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Troublemakers (Botte di Natale)
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Two If by Sea
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Two If by Sea is a 1996 American romantic comedy film directed by Bill Bennett, and starring Sandra Bullock and Denis Leary. The screenplay, written by Leary and Mike Armstrong, is based on a story by Leary, Armstrong, petty thief Frank OBrien steals a $4 million masterpiece painting. His cashier girlfriend of seven years, Roz, befriends the potential buyer of the painting, Evan Marsh, after being captured by FBI Agent OMalley at the fish factory, she discovers Marsh is actually an art thief. Two If by Sea opened theatrically on January 12,1996 in 1,712 venues, earning $4,656,986 in the box office. At the end of its run, the film grossed $10,658,278, the film was Sandra Bullocks worst wide opening up until 2015, when Our Brand Is Crisis released in October, earning $3,238,433 in its first weekend. Two If by Sea is Bullocks ninth lowest-grossing film in her career, the film received negative reviews from critics. Rotten Tomatoes reports an 11% rating, based on 28 reviews, Two If by Sea at the Internet Movie Database Two If by Sea at Box Office Mojo Two If by Sea at Rotten Tomatoes
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Theatrical release poster
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Sleepers (film)
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Sleepers is a 1996 American legal crime drama film written, produced, and directed by Barry Levinson, and based on Lorenzo Carcaterras 1995 novel of the same name. The film starred Kevin Bacon, Jason Patric, Brad Pitt, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Minnie Driver, Lorenzo Shakes Carcaterra, Tommy Marcano, Michael Sullivan, and John Reilly are childhood friends in Hells Kitchen, New York City in the mid-1960s. The local priest, Father Robert Bobby Carillo, serves as a figure to the boys. However, they start running small errands for a local gangster, in the summer of 1967, their lives take a turn when they accidentally almost kill a man after pulling a prank on a hot dog vendor. As punishment, the boys are sentenced to the Wilkinson Home for Boys in Upstate New York, Tommy, Michael and John sentenced to 12-18 months, there, the boys are systematically abused and raped by guards Sean Nokes, Henry Addison, Ralph Ferguson, and Adam Styler. The horrifying abuse changes the boys and their friendship forever, during the boys stay at the facility, they participate in Wilkinsons annual football game between the guards and inmates, one that the latter lose on purpose to avoid reprisals from the former. Michael convinces Rizzo, an inmate, that they should play as hard as they can to show the guards they can fight back. Rizzo agrees, and helps to win the game, as a result of this, Shakes, Tommy, Michael, and John are all beaten and thrown into solitary confinement for several weeks, and the guards beat Rizzo to death. By the spring of 1968, shortly before Shakes release from Wilkinson, he insists that they should report the abuse. They all therefore vow never to speak of the horrors and abuse the guards put them through once they are all out, thirteen years later, John and Tommy, now career criminals, encounter Nokes by chance in a Hells Kitchen pub and kill him in front of witnesses. Michael, who has become an assistant district attorney, arranges to be assigned to the case and he and Shakes, who is writing for a newspaper, forge a plan to free John and Tommy and get revenge on the guards who abused them. They also hire Danny Snyder, a lawyer and alcoholic, to defend John. Michaels plan will work if he can discredit Nokes and place John. Ferguson, when called in court as a witness for Nokes character, is forced to admit that he, Nokes, to clinch the case, however, they need a key witness who can give John and Tommy an alibi. As a result, John and Tommy are acquitted, Michael, Shakes, John, Tommy and Carol meet at a bar to celebrate - the last time they would all be together again. Shakes remains a newspaper reporter, living in Hells Kitchen, Michael quits the district attorneys office, moves to the English countryside, becomes a carpenter and never marries. John drinks himself to death and Tommy is murdered, both die before age 30, Carol stays in the city as a social worker and has a son, whom she names after all of the four boys. As Marlboro/Mess hall guard Larry Hryb as Scorekeeper The film received positive reviews
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Theatrical release poster
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100 Girls
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100 Girls is a 2000 comedy film written and directed by Michael Davis. It tells the story of a college students efforts to find a girl with whom he had sex in an elevator during a black out. After leaving a party at a dormitory, Matthew is trapped in an elevator with an unknown. Matthew and this woman have sex in the dark. When Matthew wakes up in the morning—still in the elevator—he finds himself alone with a pair of her panties, on a mission to find his mystery maiden by finding a matching bra for the panties, Matthew becomes the maintenance man of the virgin vault. After releasing mice, he goes room to room, setting traps and he convinces the panicked women to leave their rooms and then starts to look for a match. When he is unsuccessful, he continues to break things in an effort to find his woman and he also fixes the television set, which is greatly received by women he refers to as Jane-ites, as they have a great interest in films adapted from books by Jane Austen. He doesnt get much help from his roommate Rod, who keeps telling him to give up, Rod tells him that he doesnt need a girlfriend and that its futile to try to find the bra matching the panties, and Matthew accuses him of being too macho. Rod introduces Matthew to the power, which involves the use of weights attached to his penis as a means of increasing the organs size. He does this and insults women to make feel better about the problem he has with his manhood. Early on, Matthew watches as a woman named Patty and her boyfriend Crick fight, Crick is the epitome of the macho man stereotype, with his big pectorals, conceited attitude, and abusiveness. He wears a ponytail, a goatee, male make-up. Matthew tries to save Patty, but is hurt by Crick, Crick leaves, and Patty tries to help Matthew, but Matthew cant help but think of Pattys reputation as a slut. While searching one room, Matthew finds himself trapped in the bathroom when the occupant returns, Matthew is attacked by Wendy, until she recognizes him as a high school classmate. Wendy decides to help Matthew in his quest to find his maiden, hoping that, in the process, she may find one of her own. Matthew is nervous about talking to girls, Arlene and his teacher Ms. Stern disparage Matthew, asserting that women are more dominant than men are. Ms. Stern asserts that women, rather than men, should be in command, Rod tells Matthew that hes a chicken and should just give up on girls, while Matthew tells him that he has never been able to speak to girls, especially Cynthia. Matthew puts an advertisement in the newspaper asking the girl hes seeking to meet him in the basement on a Thursday night
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Poster from the film 100 Girls
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Sundance Film Festival
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The Sundance Film Festival, a program of the Sundance Institute, is an American film festival that takes place annually in Park City, Utah. With 46,660 attendees in 2016, it is the largest independent film festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, as well as at the Sundance Resort, the 2017 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 19 to January 29,2017. Sundance began in Salt Lake City in August 1978, as the Utah/US Film Festival in an effort to more filmmakers to Utah. It was founded by Sterling Van Wagenen, John Earle, the 1978 festival featured films such as Deliverance, A Streetcar Named Desire, Midnight Cowboy, Mean Streets, and The Sweet Smell of Success. The festival also highlighted the work of filmmakers who worked outside the Hollywood system. The jury of the 1978 festival was headed by Gary Allison, and included Verna Fields, Linwood G. Dunn, Katharine Ross, Charles E. Sellier Jr. Mark Rydell, and Anthea Sylbert. More than 60 films were screened at the festival that year, also that year, the first Frank Capra Award went to Jimmy Stewart. The festival also made a profit for the first time, in 1980, Catania left the festival to pursue a production career in Hollywood. Several factors helped propel the growth of Utah/US Film Festival, first was the involvement of actor and Utah resident Robert Redford, who became the festivals inaugural chairman. By having Redfords name associated with the festival, it received great attention, secondly, the country was hungry for more venues that would celebrate American-made films as the only other festival doing so at the time was the USA Film Festival in Dallas. Response in Hollywood was unprecedented as major studios did all they could to contribute their resources, in 1981, the festival moved to Park City, Utah, and changed the dates from September to January. It was called the US Film and Video Festival, in 1984, the now well-established Sundance Institute, headed by Sterling Van Wagenen, took over management of the US Film Festival. The branding and marketing transition from the US Film Festival to the Sundance Film Festival was managed under the direction of Colleen Allen, Allen Advertising Inc. by appointment of Robert Redford. In 1991 the festival was renamed the Sundance Film Festival, after Redfords character The Sundance Kid from the film Butch Cassidy. The majority of the screenings, including the festivals premieres. The 2013 Sundance London Festival was held April 25–28,2013, Sundance London 2014 took place on April 25–27,2014 at the O2 arena. The Sundance London 2015 Festival was cancelled in an announcement on January 16,2015, Sundance London will return to London in 2016 from June 10–12 at Picturehouse Cinema in Londons West End
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Sundance Film Festival
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The Deep End (film)
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The Deep End is a 2001 American film written and directed by David Siegel and Scott McGehee. It stars Tilda Swinton, Goran Visnjic, Jonathan Tucker and Josh Lucas and was released by Fox Searchlight Pictures, the film was very loosely adapted from the novel The Blank Wall by Elizabeth Sanxay Holding. The film premiered in competition at the Sundance Film Festival where English cinematographer Giles Nuttgens won the Best Cinematography award, Margaret Hall and her family live a seemingly upper middle class life in Tahoe City, California. Her husband is a pilot on the aircraft carrier USS Constellation and she is startled to discover that her son Beau, a high school senior, has been having a sexual affair with 30-year-old Reno, Nevada night club owner Darby Reese. Margaret visits Reeses nightclub, The Deep End, to demand that he stay away from her son and that night, Reese secretly visits Beau and the two meet in the boathouse. Beau confronts him about asking his mother for money, the two argue, eventually coming to blows. As Beau returns to the house, Reese leans on a railing, causing it to collapse, the next morning, Margaret discovers Reeses body on the beach. Margaret removes the body and dumps it in a cove but it is soon discovered, soon after, a man named Alek Spera confronts Margaret with a tape of Darby and Beau having sex. Alek demands $50,000 in 24 hours or he will turn the tape over to the police, Margaret struggles unsuccessfully to get the money. Alek calls Margaret the next day and tells her that she needs to get only $25,000 but Aleks partner, Nagle corners and beats Margaret but Alek arrives and the two men scuffle, and Alek strangles Nagle. Margaret attempts to take responsibility for Nagles death, but Alek takes the body away in Nagles car, as Margaret and her son drive looking for Nagles car, they see it overturned in a ditch. Margaret attempts to free Alek, who is critically injured, Alek pleads with her to leave before the police arrive. Back at home, Margaret, in a state of distress, is comforted by Beau, the camera then pulls back, as the scene shifts to the exterior of the house, the audience hears another phone call coming in from the absent husband, which Beaus sister answers. Tilda Swinton as Margaret Hall Goran Višnjić as Alek Spera Jonathan Tucker as Beau Hall Peter Donat as Jack Hall Josh Lucas as Darby Reese Raymond J, official website The Deep End at the Internet Movie Database The Deep End at Rotten Tomatoes The Deep End at Box Office Mojo
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Theatrical release poster
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Tilda Swinton
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Katherine Matilda Tilda Swinton is a British actress, performance artist, model, and fashion muse, known for her roles in independent and Hollywood films. She is the recipient of two BAFTA Awards, one BIFA Award, an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and has received three nominations for a Golden Globe Award. She began her career in films directed by Derek Jarman, starting with Caravaggio, followed by The Last of England, War Requiem, Swinton won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival for her performance as Isabella of France in Edward II. She next starred in Sally Potters Orlando, and was nominated for the European Film Award for Best Actress, Swinton was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her performance in The Deep End. She followed this with appearances in Vanilla Sky, Adaptation, Young Adam and she then starred in the crime drama Julia, I Am Love, and the psychological thriller We Need to Talk About Kevin. Swinton later starred in the romantic fantasy drama, Only Lovers Left Alive. She is also known for her performances as the White Witch in the Chronicles of Narnia series, Swinton won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance as lawyer Karen Crowder in Michael Clayton. In 2005, Swinton was given the Richard Harris Award by the British Independent Film Awards in recognition of her contributions to the British film industry, in 2013 she was given a special tribute by the Museum of Modern Art. Swinton was born in London, the daughter of Judith Balfour and her father is a retired major general in the British Army, and was Lord Lieutenant of Berwickshire from 1989 to 2000. Her paternal great-grandfather was a Scottish politician and herald, George Swinton, the Swinton family is an ancient Anglo-Scots family that can trace its lineage to the Middle Ages. The family is one of three families that can trace their unbroken land ownership and lineage to before the Norman Conquest. Swinton attended three independent schools, Queens Gate School in London, the West Heath Girls School and also Fettes College for a brief period, West Heath was an expensive boarding school where she was a classmate and friend of Princess Diana. Children need their parents and the parents can provide. Swinton went to volunteer in Kenya during a break from college with a charity called Project Trust. In 1983, Swinton graduated from New Hall at the University of Cambridge with a degree in Social and Political Sciences, while at Cambridge, she joined the Communist Party, she later joined the Scottish Socialist Party. It was in college that Swinton began performing on stage, Swinton joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1984, appearing in Measure for Measure. She also worked with the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, starring in Mann ist Mann by Manfred Karge in 1987, on television, she appeared as Julia in the 1986 mini-series Zastrozzi, A Romance based on the Gothic novel by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her first film was Caravaggio in 1986, directed by Derek Jarman, Swinton also played the title role in Orlando, Sally Potters film version of the novel by Virginia Woolf
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Tilda Swinton at the 2013
Deauville Film Festival
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Swinton at the 2009
Vienna International Film Festival
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Josh Lucas
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Joshua Lucas Easy Dent Maurer, better known as Josh Lucas, is an American actor. He has appeared in films, including Glory Road, Sweet Home Alabama, A Beautiful Mind, Hulk, Stealth, Poseidon, J. Edgar. Lucas was born in Fayetteville, Arkansas, the son of Michele, a midwife, and Don Maurer. Lucas grew up traveling the South with his parents, who were antinuclear activists, by the age of 13, he had lived in 30 different locations, including the Isle of Palms and Sullivans Island, South Carolina. His mother attended Emerson College with Jay Leno, the family eventually settled in the town of Gig Harbor, Washington. He attended Kopachuck Middle School and graduated from Gig Harbor High School in 1989 and he did not attend college so he could pursue his acting career. Lucas began his career when he was 19, having moved to Hollywood after his school graduation. Soon afterward, he made his film debut in Frank Marshalls Alive about a group of Uruguayan rugby players who, after crashing in the Andes mountains. Upon returning to the States, he was receiving offers as high school/college boyfriends. While working with George C. Scott on a TV-movie from the Heat of the Night series, Scott told him he needed to take acting lessons, shortly thereafter, he departed Hollywood and moved to New York City, where he studied privately with various acting coaches. He followed that with small roles in the dramas Minotaur. He took his first stab at comedy in The Definite Maybe, in which he played a recent college graduate who gets fired from his job and he appeared as an American businessman in Jule Gilfillans romantic comedy-drama Restless. He also appeared in a production of Terrence McNallys controversial Corpus Christi. Lucas played the role of Judas as a gay predator, right before the play was to open, Lucas was mugged and beaten on his way to the theater for dress rehearsal. He played the role of Judas with bloody bandages across his broken nose, the audience thought the bandages were part of the play. One of Lucas first feature roles was playing Jace Flash Dillon in the cinematic PC flight simulator Wing Commander III, Lucas gained mainstream exposure after his roles in Sweet Home Alabama, A Beautiful Mind, and as Glenn Talbot in Hulk. He later gained success in leading roles in such as Glory Road, Poseidon. In Glory Road, he starred as basketball coach Don Haskins and his next project was Boaz Yakin’s Death in Love
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Lucas at NBC Universal's 2014 Summer TCA Tour in July 2014
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Lucas at a
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Lucas at the
DNC in
Denver, Colorado, August 2008
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a 1974 American horror film directed and produced by Tobe Hooper, who cowrote it with Kim Henkel. The film follows a group of friends who fall victim to a family of cannibals while on their way to visit an old homestead. Hooper produced the film for less than $300,000 and used a cast of unknown actors drawn mainly from central Texas. The limited budget forced Hooper to film for long hours seven days a week, so that he could finish as quickly as possible, due to the films violent content, Hooper struggled to find a distributor. Louis Perano of Bryanston Pictures eventually purchased the distribution rights, Hooper limited the quantity of onscreen gore in hopes of securing a PG rating, but the Motion Picture Association of America rated it R. The film faced similar difficulties internationally, while it initially drew a mixed reception from critics, it was enormously profitable, grossing over $30 million at the domestic box office. It has since received a positive reappraisal and gained a reputation as one of the best horror films in cinema history. The popularity of the led to a franchise that continued the story of Leatherface and his family through sequels, remakes, one prequel, comic books. Afterwards, they decide to visit the old Hardesty family homestead, along the way, they pick up a hitchhiker who talks about his family who worked at the old slaughterhouse. He borrows Franklins pocket-knife and cuts himself, then takes a Polaroid picture of the others, when they refuse to pay, he burns the photo and slashes Franklins arm with a straight razor. The group forces him out of the van and drive on and they stop at a gas station to refuel, but the proprietor tells them that the pumps are empty. They continue toward the homestead, intending to return to the gas station once it has received a fuel delivery, when they arrive, Franklin tells Kirk and Pam about a local swimming-hole and the couple head off to find it. They find the swimming-hole dried up but hear a generator running in the distance and they stumble upon a nearby house. Kirk calls out, asking for gas, while Pam waits on a swing in the yard, after Kirk receives no answer, he enters through the unlocked door, whereupon Leatherface appears and kills him with a hammer. Pam enters soon after and trips into a filled with furniture made from human bones. She attempts to flee, but Leatherface catches her and impales her on a meathook, jerry heads out to look for Pam and Kirk at sunset. He finds the couples blanket outside the nearby house and he investigates and finds Pam, still alive, inside a freezer. Before he can react, Leatherface kills him and stuffs Pam back into the freezer, with darkness falling, Sally and Franklin set out to find their friends
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Theatrical release poster
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Actor Gunnar Hansen sought inspiration from special needs children to develop Leatherface's mannerisms.
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The farmhouse used for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was moved from
La Frontera to
Kingsland, Texas, and restored as a restaurant.
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Michael Bay
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The films he has produced and directed, which include Armageddon, Pearl Harbor and the Transformers film series, have grossed over US$7.8 billion worldwide. He is co-founder of commercial production house The Institute, a. k. a, the Institute for the Development of Enhanced Perceptual Awareness. He co-owns Platinum Dunes, a house which has remade horror movies including The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Amityville Horror, The Hitcher, Friday the 13th. Despite his considerable success at the box office, Bays work is generally held in low esteem by film critics. While The Rock and Transformers received moderately positive reviews, his other films, Michael Bay was born in Los Angeles. He was raised by his adoptive parents Harriet, a bookstore owner/child psychiatrist, and Jim and his cousin, Susan Bay, is the widow of Star Trek actor Leonard Nimoy. He attended the exclusive Crossroads School, in Santa Monica, California, Bay often traces his interest in action films back to an incident during his childhood. As a boy, he attached some firecrackers to a toy train, the fire department was called and he was grounded. Bay got his start in the film industry interning with George Lucas when he was fifteen, filing the storyboards for Raiders of the Lost Ark, which he thought was going to be terrible. His opinion changed after seeing it in the theater and he was so impressed by the experience that he decided to become a film director and he graduated from Wesleyan University in 1986, majoring in both English and Film. He was a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity and a student of film historian Jeanine Basinger. For his graduate work, he attended Art Center College of Design in Pasadena where he studied film. Michael Bay began working at Propaganda Films, directing commercials and music videos and his 90-second World War II-inspired Coca-Cola advertisement was picked up by Capitol Records. His first national commercial for the Red Cross, which won a Clio Award in 1992 and he directed Goodby, Silverstein & Partners Got Milk. Advertisement campaign for the California Milk Processors Board in 1993, Bays success in music videos gained the attention of producers Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson, who selected him to direct his first feature-length film, Bad Boys. The film was shot in Miami in 1994 and starred Will Smith, the action film proved to be a break-out role for Smith, who was segueing from television to films at that time. Shooting in Miami was an experience for Bay who would later own a home in the city. The film was completed for $19 million and grossed a remarkable $141 million at the box office in the summer of 1995, Bays success led to a strong partnership and friendship with Jerry Bruckheimer
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Michael Bay, February 7, 2008
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Michael Bay on the set of Transformers
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Bay filming
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Stateside (film)
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Stateside is a 2004 American romantic drama film based on a true story. It is a love story about a high school rich kid serving in the Marine Corps to avoid jail. Those around them ask them to keep their distance from each other, the film is based on a true story. The film was released to theaters on May 21,2004, Dorri Lawrence is an actress and singer who resides in Hollywood, California. She has undiagnosed schizophrenia, which causes problems in her career, after another concert goes wrong due to her untreated disease, she is finally sent to get help for her schizophrenia. Meanwhile, Mark Deloach is a high school kid miles away. Though generally shy around girls and a kid, he takes part in underage drinking. His brother, Gregory, who has secret sexual rendezvous with the prestigious Sue Dubois, has one of their dirty notes blamed on him. He and a buddy of his decide to pay him back by taking Sue back to her mother and reveal whats been going on with her and Gregory which they knew she will not approve of. In the process a DWI car crash occurs, resulting in the injury of both Sue and Father Concoff, the principal of their high school, sues mother, Mrs. Dubois, decides to press charges against Mark. However, a deal is made to have Mark serve in the Marine Corps instead of jail time. Mark departs to his training and finds that the Senior Drill Instructor, eventually, Mark satisfies the tough platoon leader and Mark officially becomes a Marine. Once back home he finds himself cutting ties with his friends and ends up befriending Sue, who is now in a half way house, and Dorri and he also apologizes to Father Concoff, who accepts his apology though still angry with what occurred. Mark and Dorri set up a date with each other to go to a dance, later, he and Dorri go out on a date and Mark loses his virginity to her. Dorri and Mark keep in contact through letters and phone calls, friends and family beg Mark to help Dorri get treatment, but he opposes any suggestion that might separate them. Eventually, a support group keeps the two away from each other. Mark is deployed to action and is injured in the bombing of the Marine Barracks in Beirut in 1983. He returns home with an honorable discharge, apart for two years, Dorri contacts Mark in a hospital where he has been healing from his wounds
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Criminal (2004 film)
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Criminal is a 2004 US film based upon the Argentine film Nine Queens. Directed by Gregory Jacobs, it stars John C, reilly, Diego Luna, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Maeve Quinlan and is a production of Section Eight, the production company of Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney. Richard Gaddis is a crook with a penchant for con games. To hook marks, he acts like a businessman, dressing like one and driving a Mercedes-Benz S500. Gaddis is searching for a new partner with whom he can perform more sophisticated cons and he discovers Rodrigo after he sees the young man playing some minor con games in a casino-bar. When Rodrigo is caught, Gaddis acts the part of an officer to save him from being arrested. Rodrigos contribution is a face and naive manner so trustable that he is able to con anyone, after several small tests to determine Rodrigos confidence ability, he suggests a partnership, to which Rodrigo quickly agrees. Richard accepts, and they plan to sell a fraudulent version of a silver certificate currency note to William Hannigan, Gyllenhaal plays Gaddis sister Valerie, a concierge at a hotel. Criminal is based on an Argentine film, Nine Queens, the story has also been adapted in Hindi as Bluffmaster. and in Malayalam as Gulumaal, The Escape. Criminal at the Internet Movie Database
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Bruce Willis
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Walter Bruce Willis is an American actor, producer, and singer. His career began on the Off-Broadway stage and then in television in the 1980s and he is known for his role of John McClane in the Die Hard series. He has appeared in over 60 films, including Color of Night, Pulp Fiction,12 Monkeys, The Fifth Element, Armageddon, The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Sin City, Red, The Expendables 2, and Looper. Willis married actress Demi Moore in 1987, and they had three daughters, including Rumer, before their divorce in 2000, since 2009, he has been married to model Emma Heming, with whom he has two daughters. Willis was born Walter Bruce Willis on March 19,1955, in the town of Idar-Oberstein and his father, David Willis, was an American soldier. His mother, Marlene, was German, born in Kassel, Willis is the oldest of four children, he has a sister, Florence, and a brother, David. His brother Robert died of cancer in 2001, aged 42. After being discharged from the military in 1957, Williss father took his back to Carneys Point Township. Willis has described himself as having come from a line of blue collar people. His mother worked in a bank and his father was a welder, master mechanic, Willis attended Penns Grove High School in his hometown, where he encountered issues with a stutter. He was nicknamed Buck-Buck by his schoolmates, after high school, Willis took a job as a security guard at the Salem Nuclear Power Plant and transported work crews at the DuPont Chambers Works factory in Deepwater, New Jersey. After working as an investigator, Willis turned to acting. He enrolled in the Drama Program at Montclair State University, where he was cast in the production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Willis left school in his year and moved to New York City. Willis left New York City and headed to California to audition for television shows. In 1984, he appeared in an episode of the TV series Miami Vice, in 1985, he was the guest actor in the first episode of the 1980s revival of The Twilight Zone, Shatterday. He auditioned for the role of David Addison Jr. of the television series Moonlighting, competing against 3,000 other actors for the position, during the height of the shows success, beverage maker Seagram hired Willis as the pitchman for their Golden Wine Cooler products. The advertising campaign paid the rising star between $5–7 million over two years, in spite of that, Willis chose not to renew his contract with the company when he decided to stop drinking alcohol in 1988
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Willis at the 2010
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Willis upon receiving an Emmy Award in 1987 for Best Actor in
Moonlighting
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Willis at the
2006 Cannes Film Festival
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Willis at a
Live Free or Die Hard premiere in June 2007
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Ben Foster
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Ben Foster is an American actor. He has had roles in films including The Punisher, X-Men, The Last Stand, Alpha Dog, The Messenger, The Mechanic, Contraband, Pandorum, Hell or High Water and Lone Survivor. He received best supporting actor nominations from both the Saturn and Satellite Awards for his role in the 2007 film 3,10 to Yuma, Foster was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of restaurant owners Gillian Kirwan and Steven Foster. He has described his parents as free-spirited, Vietnam-protesting hippies and he has a younger brother, Jon, who is also an actor. When Foster was four years old, his family relocated to Fairfield, Iowa, Foster was raised Jewish, and had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony. His paternal grandparents were Celia and Abraham Foster, who was a prominent judge and politician in Boston, Foster practices Transcendental Meditation, and, while living in Fairfield, attended the Maharishi University of Management. Foster began a relationship with actress Robin Wright in early 2012 and they became engaged in early 2014, but called off their engagement on November 12,2014 before reconciling again. On August 29,2015, they announced they were ending their second engagement, on October 5,2016, Foster announced his engagement to actress Laura Prepon. In January 2017, it was announced that the couple is expecting their first baby, Foster began working as an actor when he was sixteen years old. He dropped out of school and moved to Los Angeles to pursue his career. In 1996 and 1997, he appeared in the television series Flash Forward, over the next three years, Foster obtained small roles in two made-for-TV movies as well as two episodes of the TV series Freaks and Geeks. In 2001, he acted in the film Get Over It, Foster also had a recurring role as Russell Corwin in the HBO Original Series, Six Feet Under. After appearing in the films 11,14 and The Punisher, Foster appeared in Hostage with Bruce Willis, Kevin Pollak, in 2006, Foster appeared in X-Men, The Last Stand as the comic-book hero Angel / Warren Worthington III. In the crime thriller Alpha Dog, he played the character Jake Mazursky, in 2007, he played cold-blooded killer and outlaw Charlie Prince in the Western film 3,10 to Yuma. In February 2013, he was cast to replace Shia LaBeouf in the Broadway play Orphans as his first theater performance. In May 2014 it was announced that he would star opposite Gillian Anderson and that production closed on September 19,2014. The same production transferred to New York in 2016, opening at St. Anns Warehouse in Brooklyn, Foster played Lance Armstrong in the biopic The Program, and co-starred in the fantasy adventure Warcraft, released in June 2016. Also in 2016, Foster appeared in Hell or High Water as the dangerous Tanner Howard, opposite Chris Pine, Foster was acclaimed for his roles and has received numerous awards nominations
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Ben Foster at the 2015
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Foster in December 2007.
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Paul Haggis
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Paul Edward Haggis is a Canadian director, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known as screenwriter and producer for consecutive Best Picture Oscar winners, Million Dollar Baby and Crash, Paul Edward Haggis was born in London, Ontario, the son of Mary Yvonne and Ted Haggis. He was raised as a Catholic, but considered himself an atheist in early adulthood, the Gallery Theatre in London was owned by his parents, and Haggis gained experience in the field through work at the theatre. Haggis attended St. Thomas More Elementary School, and after being inspired by Alfred Hitchcock and Jean-Luc Godard, after viewing Michelangelo Antonionis 1966 film Blowup, he traveled to England with the intent of becoming a fashion photographer. Haggis later returned to Canada to pursue studies in cinematography at Fanshawe College, in 1975, Haggis moved to Los Angeles, California, to begin a career in writing in the entertainment industry. Haggis began to work as a writer for television programs, including The Love Boat, One Day at a Time, Diffrent Strokes, with The Facts of Life, Haggis also gained his first credit as producer. During the 1980s and 1990s, Haggis wrote for series including The Tracey Ullman Show, FM, Due South, L. A. Law. He helped to create the television series Walker, Texas Ranger, Family Law, Haggis served as executive producer of the series Michael Hayes and Family Law. Haggis had read two stories written by Jerry Boyd, a trainer who wrote under the name of F. X. Haggis later acquired the rights to the stories, and developed them into the screenplay for Million Dollar Baby, clint Eastwood portrayed the lead character in the film. Eastwood also directed the film, and used the written by Haggis. Million Dollar Baby received four Academy Awards including the Academy Award for Best Picture, after Million Dollar Baby, Haggis worked on the 2004 film Crash. Haggis came up with the story for the film on his own, and then wrote and directed the film, Crash was his first experience as director of a major feature film. Critical reception of Crash was positive, and Roger Ebert called it the best film of 2005, Crash received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Director, in addition to four other Academy Award nominations. Haggis received two Academy Awards for the film, Best Picture, and Best Writing for his work on the screenplay, with Million Dollar Baby and then Crash, Haggis became the first individual to have written Best Picture Oscar-winners in two consecutive years. Haggis lives in Santa Monica, California and he has three daughters from his first marriage to Diana Gettas and one son from his second marriage to Deborah Rennard. Haggis founded the non-profit organization Artists for Peace and Justice to assist impoverished youth in Haiti, in an interview with Dan Rather Haggis mentions that he is an atheist. After maintaining active membership in the Church of Scientology for 35 years, Haggis wrote to Thomas Davis, the Churchs spokesman, and requested that he denounce these statements, when Davis remained silent, Haggis responded that Silence is consent, Tommy
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Paul Haggis, November 2013
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Haggis at the
2007 Toronto International Film Festival
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Tommy Lee Jones
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Tommy Lee Jones is an American actor and filmmaker. He has received four Academy Award nominations, winning Best Supporting Actor for his performance as U. S, marshal Samuel Gerard in the 1993 thriller film The Fugitive. Early in his career, Jones first gained recognition for his role as Dr. Mark Toland on the soap opera One Life to Live for six years. Jones was born on September 15,1946, in San Saba and his mother, Lucille Marie, was a police officer, school teacher, and beauty shop owner, and his father, Clyde C. Jones, was an oil field worker, the two were married and divorced twice. He was raised in Midland, Texas and attended Robert E. Lee High School, Jones soon moved to Dallas and graduated from the St. Marks School of Texas in 1965, which he attended on scholarship and he attended Harvard College on a need-based scholarship. He stayed in Mower B-12 as a freshman, across the hall from future Vice President Al Gore, as an upperclassman, he stayed in Dunster House with roommates Gore and Bob Somerby, who later became editor of the media criticism site the Daily Howler. He recounts his memory of the most famous game in Ivy League history in the documentary Harvard Beats Yale 29-29. Jones graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in English in 1969, Jones moved to New York to become an actor, making his Broadway debut in 1969s A Patriot for Me in a number of supporting roles. In 1970 he landed his first film role, coincidentally playing a Harvard student in Love Story, in early 1971, he returned to Broadway in Abe Burrows Four on a Garden where he shared the stage with Carol Channing and Sid Caesar. Between 1971 and 1975 he portrayed Dr. Mark Toland on the ABC soap opera and he returned to the stage for a 1974 production of Ulysses in Nighttown with Zero Mostel. It was followed by the acclaimed TV movie The Amazing Howard Hughes, in 1981, he played a drifter opposite Sally Field in Back Roads, a comedy that received middling reviews. In 1983, he received an Emmy for Best Actor for his performance as murderer Gary Gilmore in a TV adaptation of Norman Mailers The Executioners Song and that same year he starred in a pirate adventure, Nate and Hayes, playing the heavily-bearded pirate Captain Bully Hayes. In 1989, he earned another Emmy nomination for his portrayal of Texas Ranger lawman Woodrow F, call in the acclaimed television mini-series Lonesome Dove, based on the best-seller by Larry McMurtry. Marshal Samuel Gerard in The Fugitive received broad acclaim and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, actually Im lucky to be working. Jones co-starred with director Clint Eastwood as astronauts in the 2000 film Space Cowboys, in 2005, the first theatrical feature film Jones directed, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, was presented at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. Joness character speaks both English and Spanish in the film and his performance won him the Best Actor Award
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Jones at the
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Jones as a junior in high school, 1964
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Jones in August 2006
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Jones at the
2005 Cannes Film Festival
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Nick Jonas
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Nicholas Jerry Nick Jonas is an American singer, songwriter, producer, and actor. Jonas began acting in theater at the age of seven, and he released his eponymous debut album in 2004 to little success, though it did catch the attention of Columbia Records. Jonas opted to form a band with his brothers, Joe and Kevin. The group released their studio album Its About Time through Columbia Records. The record failed to achieve success, thus the group parted ways with their label. Their self-titled second studio album was released through Hollywood Records in 2007, the band became prominent figures on the Disney Channel during this time, gaining a large following through the network. The band starred in the successful film Camp Rock. The release of the third studio album, A Little Bit Longer, helped the band achieve further success. The release of their studio album saw a decline in sales for the band. Jonas and his brothers starred in the Disney Channel series JONAS in 2009 and 2010 and it was later confirmed that the Jonas Brothers would be taking a hiatus, with Nick forming a new band known as Nick Jonas & the Administration. The band released one album in 2010, though it failed to achieve much commercial success. Following the release, Jonas opted to focus on work in theater, the Jonas Brothers briefly reunited in 2013, though officially parted ways due to creative differences. Jonas decided to return to his music career following the bands disbandment. He signed with Island Records, releasing Nick Jonas through the label, the album entered the top ten of the Billboard 200, while both of the albums singles entered the top twenty of the Billboard Hot 100. The project was re-released as Nick Jonas X2 in 2015, the release helped provide Jonas with a new public image, earning him the title of a sex symbol. Jonas later co-founded Safehouse Records, a label in conjunction with Island Records. Jonas released his studio album, Last Year Was Complicated. The project became his highest peaking entry as a solo artist on the Billboard 200, Jonas was born in Dallas, Texas, the son of Denise and Paul Kevin Jonas
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Jonas at the premiere of Kingdom in October 2014
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Jonas performing in July 2009
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Jonas performing live as part of the Jonas Brothers in 2010.
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Jonas at the Drama League Benefit Gala in 2012
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Joanna Going
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She was born in Washington, DC, the oldest of six children of a lawyer/state assemblyman father and a police dispatcher mother. Raised in Newport, Rhode Island, she graduated from Rogers High School in 1981, Going appeared in soap opera roles in the late 1980s, most notably as Lisa Grady on Another World from 1987 to 1989. She went on to lead character Victoria Winters in the 1991 primetime series Dark Shadows. Going later starred in short-lived television series Going to Extremes and guest-starred on Columbo, Spin City, The Outer Limits, Going starred in a number of feature films. She made her debut in Wyatt Earp as Josephine Marcus, and later had major roles in Eden, Keys to Tulsa, Inventing the Abbotts. Her biggest role may be in the 1998 film version of Phantoms, in the 2000s, she starred in several television films and guest-starred on CSI, Crime Scene Investigation, Criminal Minds, and Mad Men. She also appeared opposite Sean Penn in the 2011 film The Tree of Life, in 2014, Going starred as First Lady Tricia Walker in the second season of Netflix political series House of Cards. She later was cast in the DirecTV series Kingdom, Going appeared on Ken Reids TV Guidance Counselor podcast on March 25,2016. Going married actor Dylan Walsh on October 10,2004 and they have a daughter, Stella Haven. On December 15,2010, Walsh announced he had filed for divorce, the divorce was finalized in December 2012. Joanna Going at the Internet Movie Database
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Going at the Kingdom premiere in October 2014
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Nick Jonas, Going,
Matt Lauria,
Frank Grillo and
Jonathan Tucker at the premiere of the Kingdom in October 2014
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Matt Lauria
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Matthew Matt Lauria is an American actor, and musician. He made his debut on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock in 2007. Lauria was born in Virginia and moved to Ireland with his family when he was seven and his father was an animator and an artist. He spent his years growing up in Dublin. Lauria moved back to the U. S. to attend high school and he received his formal acting training from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in their drama conservatory. He holds a BFA degree in drama, Lauria is also an avid electric guitarist. On August 26,2006, Lauria married musician Michelle Armstrong, within a few weeks of moving to New York City, Lauria successfully made his television debut as Winthrop on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock. Lauria remained on the show until it ended in 2011, after finishing Friday Night Lights, Lauria moved to Chicago, Illinois after being cast as Caleb Evers in the Fox crime drama The Chicago Code. The show was cancelled after one season and he co-starred as Charlie Carnegie on the ABC drama pilot Gilded Lilys created and produced by Shonda Rhimes. He currently stars as Ryan Wheeler on the DirecTV drama series Kingdom which premiered on the Audience Network in the fall of 2014, Matt Lauria at the Internet Movie Database
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Lauria at the Kingdom premiere in October 2014
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Nick Jonas,
Joanna Going, Lauria,
Frank Grillo and
Jonathan Tucker at the premiere of the Kingdom in October 2014
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Frank Grillo
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Frank Anthony Grillo is an American actor known for his roles in films such as Warrior, The Grey, End of Watch and Zero Dark Thirty. He had his first leading role in the thriller film The Purge, Anarchy, portraying Sergeant Leo Barnes and he also plays the Marvel supervillain Brock Rumlow / Crossbones in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Grillos television work includes recurring roles in the series Battery Park, For the People, The Shield, Prison Break, Blind Justice, and The Kill Point. He has also starred as Hart Jessup in the soap opera Guiding Light, Nick Monohan in sci-fi series The Gates, Grillo was born in New York City as the oldest of three children, and is of Italian heritage. He graduated from New York University with a degree and spent a year on Wall Street before being asked to do a Miller Genuine Draft beer commercial. Grillo started his career by appearing in commercials, for companies such as American Express. His first film role was ins 1992 The Mambo Kings, and he went on to appear in the films Minority Report, Aprils Shower, and iMurders. Grillo was in the 2010 horror film Mothers Day in the role of Daniel Sohapi, in 2012, he played Diaz in the survival thriller The Grey with Liam Neeson and as Sarge in End of Watch with Jake Gyllenhaal. In 2013, he starred with Jaimie Alexander in the thriller film Collision and had a bit role in the action film Homefront with Jason Statham. In 2014, Grillo was cast as HYDRA agent Brock Rumlow in the 2014 film Captain America, the same year, he starred as Sergeant Leo Barnes in the sequel The Purge, Anarchy, and reprised his role in 2016s The Purge, Election Year. He also reprised the role of Brock Rumlow/Crossbones in the installment of the Captain America film series, Civil War. The film is directed by Aram Rappaport and produced by Hilary Shor, Atit Shah, jekyll Island is set to release January 31,2017. In 2015, Grillo starred in the films Demonic and Big Sky, another film in which he stars, Beyond Skyline, was originally set for release in 2015, but as of March 2017 has yet to be released. In 2002, he was cast in the series For the People as Det, Hunter and played Hunter until 2003. One of his more notable roles was on the crime drama Prison Break where he played Nick Savrinn from 2005 to 2006. During that time, he appeared on the Blind Justice as Marty Russo. He was in the first and only season of The Kill Point in 2007, and played the role of Jimmy in the CSI, NY episode The Things About Heroes, in 2010, he starred in the sci-fi series The Gates opposite Marisol Nichols and Rhona Mitra. The series only lasted one season, since 2014, Grillo has starred in the DirecTV drama series Kingdom as MMA coach Alvey Kulina alongside Nick Jonas and Jonathan Tucker
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Grillo at the
Kingdom premiere in October 2014.
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Grillo (second from right) with his co-stars from
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
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Nick Jonas,
Joanna Going,
Matt Lauria, Grillo and
Jonathan Tucker at the premiere of the Kingdom in October 2014
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Grillo at
San Diego Comic Con International in 2013
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Scott Smith (author)
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Scott Bechtel Smith is an American author and screenwriter, who has published two novels, A Simple Plan and The Ruins. His screen adaptation of A Simple Plan earned him an Academy Award nomination, the screenplay won a Broadcast Film Critics Association Award and a National Board of Review Award. Smith was born in Summit, New Jersey in 1965 and moved to Toledo, after graduating from Dartmouth College and from Columbia University with a Master of Fine Arts degree in Writing, he took up writing full-time. His second novel, The Ruins, was adapted into a film. Stephen King called it he best horror novel of the new century, King had also called A Simple Plan simply the best suspense novel of the year. In 2016 it was announced that TNT had greenlit a pilot for Civil, Smith is the son of Linda and Doug Smith. He told The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reviewer Regis Behe that, as a child, he read his fathers castoffs, growing up, I also read Ray Bradbury and Stephen King, he said. I just had a sense of how to create these places that arent real world places and it is very much of your imagination, and I felt very much I could do that. A Simple Plan, ISBN 0-312-95271-6 The Ruins, ISBN 1-4000-4387-5 Italy by Mario Biondi, Un piano semplice, Rizzoli,1993 Slovakia, Ruiny
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Scott Smith
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Transcendental Meditation
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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi introduced the TM technique and TM movement in India, in the mid-1950s. The Maharishi taught thousands of people during a series of tours from 1958 to 1965, expressing his teachings in spiritual. TM became more popular in the 1960s and 1970s, as the Maharishi shifted to a technical presentation. At this time, he began training TM teachers and created specialized organizations to present TM to specific segments of the such as business people. By the early 2000s, TM had been taught to millions of people, and the worldwide TM organization had grown to include programs, health products. The TM technique involves the use of a sound or mantra and it is taught by certified teachers through a standard course of instruction, which costs a fee that varies by country. According to the Transcendental Meditation movement, it is a method for relaxation, stress reduction, varying views on whether the technique is religious or non-religious have been expressed including by sociologists, scholars, and a New Jersey court. TM is one of the most widely practiced and researched meditation techniques, Transcendental Meditation dates its origin back to the Vedic traditions of India. The Transcendental Meditation program and the Transcendental Meditation movement originated with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of the organization, the Maharishi initiated thousands of people, then developed a TM teacher training program as a way to accelerate the rate of bringing the technique to more people. He also inaugurated a series of tours which promoted Transcendental Meditation. These factors, coupled with endorsements by celebrities who practiced TM and claims that research had validated the technique. By the late 2000s, TM had been taught to millions of individuals, despite organizational changes and the addition of advanced meditative techniques in the 1970s, the Transcendental Meditation technique has remained relatively unchanged. Among the first organizations to promote TM were the Spiritual Regeneration Movement, the successor to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, and leader of the Global Country of World Peace, is Tony Nader. The meditation practice involves the use of a mantra for 15–20 minutes twice per day while sitting with the eyes closed and it is reported to be one of the most widely practiced, and among the most widely researched, meditation techniques, with hundreds of published research studies. The technique is available worldwide by certified TM teachers in a seven-step course. Beginning in 1965, the Transcendental Meditation technique has been incorporated into selected schools, universities, corporations, and prison programs in the US, Latin America, Europe, the technique has since been included in a number of educational and social programs around the world. Advanced courses supplement the TM technique and include a meditation program called the TM-Sidhi program. The Transcendental Meditation movement refers to the programs and organizations connected with the Transcendental Meditation technique, Transcendental Meditation was first taught in the 1950s in India and has continued since the Maharishis death in 2008
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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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John Hurt
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Sir John Vincent Hurt, CBE was an English actor whose screen and stage career spanned more than 50 years. Hurt was regarded as one of Britains finest thespians, director David Lynch described him as simply the greatest actor in the world and he was also visible as Caligula in BBC TV series I, Claudius. Hurts performance in prison drama Midnight Express brought him international renown, Hurt earned his third competitive BAFTA, along with his second Oscar and Golden Globe nominations, as Joseph Merrick in David Lynchs biopic The Elephant Man. Hurt was again BAFTA-nominated for his work in Irish drama The Field, Hurt reprised his role as Quentin Crisp in TV film An Englishman in New York, which brought his seventh BAFTA nomination, and also portrayed the War Doctor in BBC TV series Doctor Who in 2013. His last performance will be in Darkest Hour, as former British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, in 2012, he was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement BAFTA Award, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to cinema. He was knighted in 2015 for his services to drama, Hurts father was also Vicar of St Johns parish in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear. In 1937, he moved his family to Derbyshire, where he became Perpetual Curate of Holy Trinity Church, when Hurt was five, his father became the vicar of St Stephens Church in Woodville, Derbyshire, and remained there until 1952. Hurt had an upbringing, the family lived opposite a cinema. He was also not permitted to mix with local children because his parents saw them as too common, at the age of eight, Hurt was sent to the Anglican St Michaels Preparatory School in Otford, Kent, where he eventually developed his passion for acting. He decided he wanted to become an actor, and his first role was that of a girl in a production of The Blue Bird by Maurice Maeterlinck. He has stated that while he was a pupil at the school, he was abused by Donald Cormack, then Senior Master of the school and later Headmaster until his retirement in 1981. Hurt said that Cormack would remove his two front teeth and put his tongue in the boys mouths, and would rub their faces with his stubble. Hurt often went with his mother to Cleethorpes Repertory Theatre, but his parents disliked his acting ambitions and his headmaster, Mr Franklin, laughed when Hurt told him he wanted to be an actor, telling him that he wouldnt stand a chance in the profession. Aged 17, Hurt enrolled in Grimsby Art School, where he studied art, in 1959, he won a scholarship allowing him to study for an Art Teachers Diploma at Saint Martins School of Art in London. Despite the scholarship, paying his tuition fees and living expenses was difficult, so he persuaded some of his friends to pose naked, in 1960, he won a scholarship to RADA, where he trained for two years. Hurts first film was The Wild and the Willing, but his first major role was as Richard Rich in A Man for All Seasons. He played Timothy Evans, who was hanged for murders committed by his landlord John Christie, in 10 Rillington Place and his portrayal of Quentin Crisp in the TV play The Naked Civil Servant gave him prominence and earned him the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor. The following year, Hurt won further acclaim for his performance as the Roman emperor Caligula in the BBC drama serial, I
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Hurt in 2015
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Cynthia Nixon, Hurt and
Swoosie Kurtz in 2009.
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At the 2009 premiere of
An Englishman in New York
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Quentin Crisp
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Quentin Crisp was an English writer and raconteur. From a conventional suburban background, Crisp enjoyed wearing make-up and painting his nails and he then spent thirty years as a professional model for life-classes in art colleges. The interviews he gave about his unusual life attracted increasing public curiosity and he was sought after for his highly individual views on social manners. His one-man stage show was a hit both in Britain and America and he also appeared in films and on TV. Crisp defied convention by criticising both gay liberation and Diana, Princess of Wales, Denis Charles Pratt was born in Sutton, South London, on Christmas Day 1908, the fourth child of solicitor Spencer Charles Pratt and former governess Frances Marion Pratt. His elder siblings were Katherine, Gerald and Lewis, after leaving school in 1926 Crisp studied journalism at Kings College London but failed to graduate in 1928 going on to take art classes at the Regent Street Polytechnic. For six months he worked as a sex worker, looking for love, he said in a 1999 interview. In 1940 he moved into a flat at 129 Beaufort Street, Chelsea. In the intervening years he never attempted any housework, writing famously in his memoir The Naked Civil Servant, Crisp left his job as an engineers tracer in 1942 to become a model in life classes in London and the Home Counties. He continued posing for artists for the next 30 years, Crisp had published three short books by the time he came to write The Naked Civil Servant at the urging of his agent, Donald Carroll. The book was published in 1968 to generally good reviews, in 1975 the television version of The Naked Civil Servant was broadcast on British and US television and made both actor John Hurt and Crisp himself into stars. This success launched Crisp in a new direction, that of performer and he devised a one-man show and began touring the country with it. When his autobiography was reprinted in 1975 after the success of the version of The Naked Civil Servant. Gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell claimed to have met Crisp in 1974, Tatchell claimed that Crisp asked him, What do you want liberation from. What is there to be proud of, I dont believe in rights for homosexuals. By now Crisp was a theatre-filling raconteur and his one-man show sold out the Duke of Yorks Theatre in London in 1978. Crisp then took the show to New York and his first stay in the Hotel Chelsea coincided with a fire, a robbery, and the death of Nancy Spungen. Crisp decided to move to New York permanently and set about making arrangements, in 1981, he arrived with few possessions and found a small apartment on East 3rd Street in Manhattans East Village
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Quentin Crisp's handwriting and signature, from a dedication on the title page of How To Become A Virgin (1981)
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Quentin Crisp in a performance of his one-person show, An Evening With Quentin Crisp, in
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The Hollywood Reporter
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Headquartered in Los Angeles, THR is part of the Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group, a group of properties that includes Billboard and SpinMedia. It is owned by Eldridge Industries, a company owned by an executive of its previous owner. Under Janice Min, a faltering THR was relaunched in 2010 as a weekly print magazine with a revamped, continuously updated website, as well as mobile. THR was founded in 1930 by William R, billy Wilkerson as Hollywoods first daily entertainment trade newspaper. The first edition appeared on September 3,1930, and featured Wilkersons front-page Tradeviews column, the newspaper appeared Monday to Saturday for the first 10 years, except for a brief period, then Monday to Friday from 1940. Wilkerson ran the THR until his death in September 1962, although his final column appeared 18 months prior, from the late 1930s, Wilkerson used THR to push the view that the industry was a communist stronghold. In particular, he opposed the screenplay writers trade union, the Screen Writers Guild, in 1946 the Guild considered creating an American Authors Authority to hold copyright for writers, instead of ownership passing to the studios. Wilkerson devoted his Tradeviews column to the issue on July 29,1946 and he went to confession before publishing it, knowing the damage it would cause, but was apparently encouraged by the priest to go ahead with it. The column contained the first industry names, including Dalton Trumbo and Howard Koch, on became the Hollywood blacklist. Eight of the 11 people Wilkerson named were among the Hollywood Ten who were blacklisted after hearings in 1947 by the House Un-American Activities Committee. In 1997 THR reporter David Robb wrote a story about the newspapers involvement, for the blacklists 65th anniversary in 2012, the THR published a lengthy investigative piece about Wilkersons role, by reporters Gary Baum and Daniel Miller. The same edition carried an apology from Wilkersons son, W. R. Wilkerson III and he wrote that his father had been motivated by revenge for his thwarted ambition to own a studio. Wilkersons wife, Tichi Wilkerson Kassel, took over as publisher and she sold the paper on April 11,1988, to Affiliated Publications, parent company of Billboard Publications, for $26.7 million. Robert J. Dowling became THR president in 1988 and editor-in-chief, Dowling brought in Alex Ben Block as editor in 1990, and editorial quality of both news and specials steadily improved. Block and Teri Ritzer dampened much of the coverage and cronyism that had infected the paper under Wilkerson. After Block left, former editor at Variety, Anita Busch, was brought in as editor between 1999 and 2001. Busch was credited with making the paper competitive with Variety, tony Uphoff assumed the publisher position in November 2005. Uphoff was replaced in October 2006 by John Kilcullen, the publisher of Billboard, Kilcullen was a defendant in Billboards infamous dildo lawsuit, in which he was accused of race discrimination and sexual harassment
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Dwayne Johnson on the June 2014 cover
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The Next Three Days
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The Next Three Days is a 2010 vigilante thriller film written and directed by Paul Haggis and starring Russell Crowe and Elizabeth Banks. It was released in the United States on November 19,2010 and it is a remake of the 2008 French film Pour Elle by Fred Cavayé and Guillaume Lemans. Lara Brennan is convicted of murdering her boss and is sentenced to life in prison, following the failure of her appeal, her son Luke ceases to acknowledge her during prison visits. Her attorney gives up the fight for her acquittal because no evidence points to it, one day, Lara attempts suicide, unwilling to spend the rest of her life in prison. Her husband, John, a professor at a community college, John consults Damon Pennington, a former convict who escaped prison seven times. Damon gives John advice, along with a warning that the initial escape will be compared to evading the police after that. Following Damons advice, John begins his preparation and he obtains a handgun and fake IDs, and studies the map of Pittsburgh for escape routes. To get money, he sells their houses furniture and personal belongings, John attempts to break Lara out from the prison in which she is held but abandons the plan when he is almost caught testing a self-made bump key on an elevator. When John is told that Lara will be transferred in 72 hours to another prison facility, unable to get the money from his house in time, he considers robbing a bank, but hesitates at the last minute. Instead, John tails a local dealer to a drug lord. Following clues left behind at the lords house, the police track down Johns car, get to his empty house. John tears down the big map filled with notes and photos of his escape plan and he leaves Luke at his classmates birthday party, then plants falsified blood work indicating that Lara is in a state of hyperglycaemia. Lara is transferred to a hospital, where John convinces her to escape with him. John and Lara leave the hospital, narrowly escaping the police and they then find out that Luke is at the zoo for the birthday party. John drives there to him, by which point the police have already established roadblocks on all interstate routes. Anticipating that police are looking for a couple and a child and they drive through the checkpoint without incident and proceed to Buffalo, New York, where John drops off the couple. The Brennans cross the border into Canada and head to an airport, meanwhile, Johns parents refuse to cooperate with the police. The police examine the escape plan fragments to figure out his destination, a detective returns to the crime scene where Laras boss was killed
The Next Three Days
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Theatrical release poster
The Next Three Days
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Russell Crowe was nominated for an
Irish Film and Television Award for Best International Actor for his role as John Brennan.
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