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Smyrna, Georgia
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Smyrna is a city northwest of the neighborhoods of Atlanta. It is in the ring of the Atlanta Metropolitan Area. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 51,271, the U. S. Census Bureau estimated the population in 2013 to be 53,438. It is included in the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell MSA, which is included in the Atlanta—Athens-Clarke—Sandy Springs CSA, Smyrna grew by 28% between the years 2000 and 2012. It is historically one of the fastest growing cities in the State of Georgia, pioneers began settling the area in 1832. By the late 1830s, an encampment called Smyrna Camp Ground had become a popular travel destination and was well known throughout Georgia. It was named for the Biblical city of Smyrna, modern day Izmir in Turkey, after the completion of the Western and Atlantic Railroad in 1842 the area began to grow. It was known by several names until 1872 – Varners Station, Ruffs Siding, Neal Dow, the city was incorporated with the name Smyrna in 1872. Two Civil War battles occurred in the area, the Battle of Smyrna Camp Ground, the areas businesses, homes and 1849 covered bridge were burned by Shermans troops. The city elected its first woman mayor, Lorena Pace Pruitt, the nearby Bell Bomber plant that produced B-29 bombers during World War II was reopened by Lockheed in 1951 and became a catalyst for growth. The citys population grew during the two decades, from 2,005 in 1950 to almost 20,000 by 1970. The restaurant scene in the film Joyful Noise was shot at Howards Restaurant in Smyrna in 2011, Smyrna was ranked #4 in a 2014 study of the Best Cities for Young Adults in Georgia. Smyrna is part of the Atlanta metropolitan area, located about 1 mile northwest of the Atlanta city limits, Smyrna is located just west of the northern intersection of I-285 and I-75, which is the site of Cumberland and the Cobb Galleria. Smyrna is also near Vinings, Marietta, Mableton, Sandy Springs, the center of Smyrna is located at 33°52′19″N 84°31′06″W. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 15.4 square miles, of which 15.4 square miles is land and 0.04 square miles. The general terrain of the area is characteristic of the Piedmont region of Georgia, characterized by hills with broad ridges, sloping uplands, the center of Smyrna is about 1,060 feet above sea level. The citys official symbol is the jonquil, known as the Jonquil City, it derives this name from the thousands of jonquils that flourish in gardens and along the streets in early spring. As of the 2014 census, there were 51,271 people, the population density was 3,300 people per square mile
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Georgia State University
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Georgia State University is a public research university in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Founded in 1913, it is one of the University System of Georgias four research universities, Georgia State University offers more than 250 undergraduate and graduate degree programs spread across eight academic colleges with around 3,500 faculty members. It is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, approximately 27% of the student population is considered part-time while 73% of the population is considered full-time. The university is one of only four Georgia universities classified as a Research University/Very High Activity, the university has a full-time faculty count of 1,142, with 69 percent of those faculty members either tenured or on tenure track. GSU has two libraries, University library and Law library, which hold over 4.3 million volumes combined, the university has an economic impact on the Atlanta economy of more than $1.4 billion annually. Initially intended as a school, Georgia State University was established in 1913 as the Georgia School of Technologys Evening School of Commerce. During this time, the school was divided into two divisions, Georgia Evening College, and Atlanta Junior College, in September 1947, the school became affiliated with the University of Georgia and was named the Atlanta Division of the University of Georgia. The school was removed from the University of Georgia in 1955. In 1961, other programs at the school had grown enough that the name was shortened to Georgia State College. It became Georgia State University in 1969, in 1995, the Georgia Board of Regents accorded Georgia State research university status, joining the Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of Georgia, and Augusta University. The first African-American student enrolled at Georgia State in 1962, a year after the integration of the University of Georgia and Georgia Tech. Annette Lucille Hall was a Lithonia social studies teacher who enrolled in the course of the Institute on Americanism and Communism, a course required for all Georgia social studies teachers. The Peachtree Road Race, was started in 1970 by Georgia State cross country coach and dean of men Tim Singleton, the second year, he created the first valuable collectible T-shirt. Over its 100-plus year history, Georgia States growth has required the acquisition and construction of space to suit its needs. In addition, a plaza and walkway system was constructed to connect these buildings with each other over Decatur Street. Georgia States first move into the Fairlie-Poplar district was the acquisition and renovation of the Standard Building, the Haas-Howell Building, and the Rialto Theater in 1996. The Standard and Haas-Howell buildings house classrooms, offices, and practice spaces for the School of Music, and the Rialto is home to GSUs Jazz Studies program and an 833-seat theater. In 1998, the Student Center was expanded toward Gilmer Street and provided a new 400-seat auditorium and space for exhibitions, a new Student Recreation Center opened on the corner of Piedmont Avenue and Gilmer Street in 2001
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Lyle Lovett
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Lyle Pearce Lovett is an American country singer-songwriter and actor. Active since 1980, he has recorded thirteen albums and released 25 singles to date, including his highest entry, Lovett has won four Grammy Awards, including Best Male Country Vocal Performance and Best Country Album. Its Not Big Its Large was released in 2007, where it debuted and peaked at number 2 on the Top Country Albums chart, a new studio album, Natural Forces, was released on October 20,2009 by Lost Highway Records. The last studio album on his Curb Records contract, Release Me, was released in February 2012, Lovett was born in Houston, Texas, when his family lived in the nearby community of Klein. He is the son of William Pearce and Bernell Louise Lovett and he was raised in the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod. Lovett attended Texas A&M University, where he received Bachelor of Arts degrees in both German and Journalism in 1980 and it is a common misconception that he and Robert Earl Keen were roommates at A&M. However, they lived near each other in College Station, became friends, and wrote The Front Porch Song together. Lovetts music career began as a songwriter, but he signed with MCA Records in 1986. While typically associated with the genre, Lovetts compositions often incorporate folk, swing, blues, jazz. He has won four Grammy Awards, including Best Country Album, Best Country Duo/Group with Vocal, Best Pop Vocal Collaboration and Best Country Male Vocal. Lovett has acted in a number of films, including Robert Altmans films, The Player, Short Cuts, Prêt-à-Porter, Bastard Out Of Carolina, Cookies Fortune, more recently, he has acted in The New Guy and Walk Hard, The Dewey Cox Story. His television acting forays include Mad About You, Brothers & Sisters, The Bridge, Castle, the Bloodhound Gangs song The Bad Touch does a reference to Lovett, And youll Lovett just like Lyle. Lovett was given an award called an Esky for Surest Thing in Esquires 2006 Esky Music Awards in the April issue, the magazine said of Lovett, The secret of Lyle Lovetts endurance comes down to the three Cs, class, charisma and consistency. In the studio and on stage with his giant orchestra, hes spent two decades gracefully matching genuine songcraft with A-list musicianship, in 2010 Lovett appeared on an episode of Spectacle, Elvis Costello with. Which also featured John Prine and Ray LaMontagne and he appeared on Castle in Season 3, Episode 9 in the role of a government agent. In 2011, Lovett was named Texas State Artist Musician by the Texas Commission on the Arts, Lovett contributed a cover of Buddy Hollys Well. All Right for the tribute album Listen to Me, Buddy Holly, in 2013 Lovett appeared in Episode 2 of The Bridge, an FX series, as Flagman, a lawyer. Lovett plays a role in Angels Sing, a family Christmas movie released by Lionsgate
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Eric Roberts
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Eric Anthony Roberts is an American actor. His career began with a performance in King of the Gypsies. His second Golden Globe nomination came for his portrayal of Paul Snider in Star 80, followed by Globe, in a career spanning almost forty years, Roberts has performed in over 200 films, including Raggedy Man, The Pope of Greenwich Village, The Specialist, Cecil B. Demented, National Security, The Dark Knight, The Expendables and his sisters Julia Roberts and Lisa Roberts Gillan, and daughter Emma Roberts, also have acting careers. In 1963, they co-founded the Atlanta Actors and Writers Workshop in Atlanta, Georgia and they ran a childrens acting school in Decatur, Georgia while they were expecting Julia. Roberts mother became a secretary and real estate agent, and his father. Roberts younger siblings, Julia Roberts and Lisa Roberts Gillan, are also actors, Roberts parents filed for divorce in 1971 and it was finalized early in 1972. Eric stayed with his father Walter in Atlanta, estranged from his sisters, Walter died of cancer in March 1977. Lisa, Julia and Betty moved to Smyrna, Georgia, after the divorce, in 1972, Betty married Michael Motes, and had a daughter with him in 1976, Nancy Motes, who died February 9,2014, at age 37, of an apparent drug overdose. Motes was abusive and often unemployed, in 1983, Betty divorced Motes, citing cruelty and stating that marrying him was the biggest mistake of her life. Roberts is of English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, German, Roberts got his start on the now-defunct NBC daytime soap opera Another World originating the role of Ted Bancroft from February 14,1977, to June 17,1977. Roberts received Golden Globe Award nominations for his starring roles in King of the Gypsies. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1985 for his role as the escaped convict Buck in the film Runaway Train, in 1987, he won the Theatre World Award for his Broadway debut performance in Burn This. He also had supporting roles in the films Final Analysis, The Specialist. He played the Archangel Michael in The Prophecy II, in 1996, he appeared in the Doctor Who Television film in the role of the Master. When SFX listed previous Masters in Doctor Who, the said of Roberts. In a darkly comic touch, the wife of Roberts human character. He also co-starred in the 1996 television mini-series version of In Cold Blood, in the role of Perry Smith and he starred opposite John Ritter in the movie Tripfall in 1998
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Emma Roberts
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Emma Rose Roberts is an American actress and singer. After making her debut as Kristina Jung in Blow, Roberts gained recognition for her lead role as Addie Singer on the Nickelodeon television series Unfabulous. She released her studio album, Unfabulous and More, which also served as the series soundtrack. Roberts then appeared in a series of roles, including Nancy Drew, Wild Child, Hotel for Dogs, Valentines Day, Its Kind of a Funny Story. Looking for more roles, Roberts went on to obtain both supporting and lead roles in Lymelife,4.3.2.1, Scream 4, Adult World, Were the Millers. She currently stars in the role of Chanel Oberlin on the Fox television series Scream Queens, as well as playing main roles in American Horror Story, Coven. Roberts was born in Rhinebeck, New York, to Kelly Cunningham and her parents separated when she was a baby. Through her fathers marriage, she is the stepdaughter of Eliza Roberts, through her mothers marriage, she is the stepdaughter of musician Kelly Nickels. She has a maternal half-sister, Grace and her paternal grandmother was acting coach Betty Lou Bredemus, and her aunts are actresses Julia Roberts and Lisa Roberts Gillan. During her childhood, Roberts spent time on the sets of her aunt Julias films and these experiences sparked a desire to follow her father and aunts into the film industry. Her mother initially wanted her to have a normal childhood, Roberts made her acting debut at age nine in Ted Demmes 2001 drama film Blow. It was the first film for which she ever auditioned, in the film, she portrayed Kristina Jung, the daughter of Johnny Depps character. That year, she also had a role in Leif Tildens 10-minute short bigLove, in 2004, she began starring as the lead character Addie Singer in the Nickelodeon series Unfabulous, which debuted in September of that year. The sitcom earned Roberts a Teen Choice Award nomination and several Young Artist Award nominations, the series focused on a seventh grader, Addie, and her two best friends. The show also spawned TV movies, including The Perfect Moment, also in 2004, Roberts guest-starred in an episode of the Nickelodeon series Drake & Josh titled Honor Council. After her run on Unfabulous, Nickelodeon had considered giving Roberts a kick start into a music career, in 2006, Roberts returned to the big screen, starring alongside Sara Paxton and singer JoJo in Aquamarine. She won a 2007 Young Artist Award for Best Supporting Young Actress in a Feature Film for her role in the film, the film Aquamarine took fifth place at the box office in its opening weekend making $8 million. In early 2006, Roberts finished shooting her title role in Nancy Drew, the film was released to theaters on June 15,2007, and grossed over $7 million in its opening weekend, though the film was not well received by critics
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Romantic comedy film
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Romantic comedy films are films with light-hearted, humorous plotlines, centered on romantic ideals such as that true love is able to surmount most obstacles. One dictionary definition is a movie, play, or television program about a love story that ends happily. Another definition states that its primary distinguishing feature is a plot in which two sympathetic and well-matched lovers are united or reconciled. Romantic comedy films are a genre of comedy films as well as of romance films. However a romantic comedy is classified as a film with two genres not a new genre. Some television series can also be classified as romantic comedies, a wedding-bells, fairy-tale-style happy ending is practically mandatory. The basic plot of a comedy is that two characters meet, part ways due to an argument or other obstacle, then ultimately reunite. Sometimes the two meet and become involved initially, then must confront challenges to their union. Sometimes they are hesitant to become involved because they believe that they do not like each other, because one of them already has a partner. However, the screenwriters leave clues that suggest that the characters are, in fact, attracted to each other, the protagonists often separate or seek time apart to sort out their feelings or deal with the external obstacles to their being together. While the two protagonists are separated, one or both of them realizes that they are ideal for each other, or that they are in love with each other. Then, after one of the two makes some effort to find the other person and declare their love, or through an astonishing coincidental encounter. Then, perhaps with some comic friction or awkwardness, they declare their love for each other, the couple does not, however, have to marry, or live together happily ever after. The ending of a comedy is meant to affirm the primary importance of the love relationship in its protagonists lives. There are many variations on this basic plotline, sometimes, instead of the two lead characters ending up in each others arms, another love match will be made between one of the principal characters and a secondary character. Alternatively, the film may be a rumination on the impossibility of love, the basic format of a romantic comedy film can be found in much earlier sources, such as Shakespeare plays like Much Ado About Nothing and A Midsummer Nights Dream. Some comedy films, such as Knocked Up, combine themes of romantic comedies and stoner comedies, often known as bromance, such films usually use sexual elements which bring the two characters together. Films in this genre include American Pie 2 and even Wedding Crashers, romantic comedies have begun to spread out of their conventional and traditional structure into other territory
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Pretty Woman
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Pretty Woman is a 1990 American romantic comedy film directed by Garry Marshall from a screenplay by J. F. Lawton. The film stars Richard Gere and Julia Roberts, and features Hector Elizondo, Ralph Bellamy, Laura San Giacomo, originally intended to be a dark cautionary tale about class and sex work in Los Angeles, the film was reconceived as a romantic comedy with a large budget. It was widely successful at the box office and became one of the films of 1990. The film received positive reviews, with Robertss performance being praised, for which she received a Golden Globe Award, in addition, screenwriter J. F. Lawton was nominated for a Writers Guild Award and a BAFTA Award. Leaving a party, he takes his lawyers Lotus Esprit luxury car and he stops for her, having difficulties driving the car, and asks for directions to Beverly Hills. He asks her to get in and guide him to the Beverly Hills Regent Hotel and it becomes clear that Vivian knows more about the Lotus than he does, and he lets her drive. Vivian charges Lewis $20 for the ride, and they separate and that evening, visibly moved by her transformation, Edward begins seeing Vivian in a different light. He begins to open up to her, revealing his personal, Edward takes Vivian to a polo match in hopes of networking for his business deal. His attorney, Phillip, suspects Vivian is a corporate spy, Phillip later approaches Vivian, suggesting they do business once her work with Edward is finished. Insulted, and furious that Edward has revealed their secret, Vivian wants to end the arrangement, Edward apologizes, and admits to feeling jealous of a business associate to whom Vivian paid attention at the match. Vivians straightforward personality is rubbing off on Edward, and he finds himself acting in unaccustomed ways, clearly growing involved, Edward takes Vivian in his private jet to see La Traviata in San Francisco. Vivian is moved to tears by the story of the prostitute who falls in love with a man, after the opera. Vivian breaks her no kissing on the rule, and he offers to put her up in an apartment so she can be off the streets. Hurt, she refuses, says this is not the tale she dreamed of as a child. Meeting with the tycoon whose shipbuilding company he is in the process of raiding and his time with Vivian has shown him a different way of looking at life, and he suggests working together to save the company rather than tearing it apart and selling off the pieces. Phillip, furious at losing so much money, goes to the hotel to confront Edward, blaming her for the change in Edward, he attempts to rape her. Edward arrives, punches him in the face, and throws him out, with his business in L. A. complete, Edward asks Vivian to stay one more night with him -- because she wants to, not because hes paying her. Richard Gere as Edward Lewis, a corporate raider and womanizer from New York
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Golden Globe Award
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Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign. The annual ceremony at which the awards are presented is a part of the film industrys awards season. The 74th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film, the 1st Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best achievements in 1943 filmmaking, was held in January 1944, at the 20th Century-Fox studios. Subsequent ceremonies were held at venues throughout the next decade, including the Beverly Hills Hotel. In 1950, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association made the decision to establish an honorary award to recognize outstanding contributions to the entertainment industry. Recognizing its subject as a figure within the entertainment industry. The official name of the award became the Cecil B. In 1963, the Miss Golden Globe concept was introduced, in its inaugural year, two Miss Golden Globes were named, one for film and one for television. The two Miss Golden Globes named that year were Eva Six and Donna Douglas, respectively, in 2009, the Golden Globe statuette was redesigned. It was unveiled at a conference at the Beverly Hilton prior to the show. The broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards, telecast to 167 countries worldwide, generally ranks as the third most-watched awards show each year, behind only the Oscars, gervais returned to host the 68th and 69th Golden Globe Awards the next two years. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosted the 70th, 71st and 72nd Golden Globe Awards in 2015, the Golden Globe Awards theme song, which debuted in 2012, was written by Japanese musician and songwriter Yoshiki Hayashi. On January 7,2008, it was announced due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. The ceremony was faced with a threat by striking writers to picket the event, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was forced to adopt another approach for the broadcast. In acting categories, Meryl Streep holds the record for the most competitive Golden Globe wins with eight, however, including honorary awards, such as the Henrietta Award, World Film Favorite Actor/Actress Award, or Cecil B. DeMille Award, Barbra Streisand leads with nine, additionally, Streisand won for composing the song Evergreen, producing the Best Picture, and directing Yentl in 1984. Jack Nicholson, Angela Lansbury, Alan Alda and Shirley MacLaine have six awards each, behind them are Rosalind Russell and Jessica Lange with five wins. Meryl Streep also holds the record for most nominations with thirty, at the 46th Golden Globe Awards an anomaly occurred, a three way-tie for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
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Academy Awards
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The various category winners are awarded a copy of a golden statuette, officially called the Academy Award of Merit, which has become commonly known by its nickname Oscar. The awards, first presented in 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, are overseen by AMPAS, the awards ceremony was first broadcast on radio in 1930 and televised for the first time in 1953. It is now live in more than 200 countries and can be streamed live online. The Academy Awards ceremony is the oldest worldwide entertainment awards ceremony and its equivalents – the Emmy Awards for television, the Tony Awards for theater, and the Grammy Awards for music and recording – are modeled after the Academy Awards. The 89th Academy Awards ceremony, honoring the best films of 2016, were held on February 26,2017, at the Dolby Theatre, in Los Angeles, the ceremony was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and was broadcast on ABC. A total of 3,048 Oscars have been awarded from the inception of the award through the 88th, the first Academy Awards presentation was held on May 16,1929, at a private dinner function at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel with an audience of about 270 people. The post-awards party was held at the Mayfair Hotel, the cost of guest tickets for that nights ceremony was $5. Fifteen statuettes were awarded, honoring artists, directors and other participants in the industry of the time. The ceremony ran for 15 minutes, winners were announced to media three months earlier, however, that was changed for the second ceremony in 1930. Since then, for the rest of the first decade, the results were given to newspapers for publication at 11,00 pm on the night of the awards. The first Best Actor awarded was Emil Jannings, for his performances in The Last Command and he had to return to Europe before the ceremony, so the Academy agreed to give him the prize earlier, this made him the first Academy Award winner in history. With the fourth ceremony, however, the system changed, for the first six ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned two calendar years. At the 29th ceremony, held on March 27,1957, until then, foreign-language films had been honored with the Special Achievement Award. The 74th Academy Awards, held in 2002, presented the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, since 1973, all Academy Awards ceremonies always end with the Academy Award for Best Picture. The Academy also awards Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, see also § Awards of Merit categories The best known award is the Academy Award of Merit, more popularly known as the Oscar statuette. The five spokes represent the branches of the Academy, Actors, Writers, Directors, Producers. The model for the statuette is said to be Mexican actor Emilio El Indio Fernández, sculptor George Stanley sculpted Cedric Gibbons design. The statuettes presented at the ceremonies were gold-plated solid bronze
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Academy Award for Best Actress
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The Academy Award for Best Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It is given in honor of an actress who has delivered a performance in a leading role while working within the film industry. The 1st Academy Awards ceremony was held in 1929 with Janet Gaynor receiving the award for her roles in 7th Heaven, Street Angel, and Sunrise. Currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the branch of AMPAS. In the first three years of the awards, actresses were nominated as the best in their categories, at that time, all of their work during the qualifying period was listed after the award. The following year, this unwieldy and confusing system was replaced by the current system in which an actress is nominated for a performance in a single film. Starting with the 9th ceremony held in 1937, the category was officially limited to five nominations per year, one actress has been nominated posthumously, Jeanne Eagels. Only three film characters have been nominated more than once in this category, elizabeth I of England, Leslie Crosbie in The Letter, and Esther Blodgett in A Star is Born. Six women on the list have received an Honorary Academy Award for their acting, they are Greta Garbo, Barbara Stanwyck, Mary Pickford, Deborah Kerr, Gena Rowlands, since its inception, the award has been given to 74 actresses. Katharine Hepburn has won the most awards in this category, with four Oscars, meryl Streep, who has a total of 20 Oscar nominations, has been nominated in this category on 16 occasions, resulting in two awards. As of the 2017 ceremony, Emma Stone is the most recent winner in category for her role as Mia Dolan in La La Land. In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of release in Los Angeles County. For the first five ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned twelve months from August 1 to July 31, for the 6th ceremony held in 1934, the eligibility period lasted from August 1,1932 to December 31,1933
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Erin Brockovich (film)
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Erin Brockovich is a 2000 biographical film directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Susannah Grant. The film is a dramatization of the story of Erin Brockovich, portrayed by Julia Roberts. The film was a box office success, and critical reaction was positive, Roberts won the Academy Award, BAFTA, Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, and various critics awards for Best Actress. The film itself was nominated for Best Picture and Best Director for Steven Soderbergh at the 73rd Academy Awards. He won that year, but for directing the film Traffic, early in the film the real Erin Brockovich has a cameo appearance as a waitress named Julia. In 1993, Erin Brockovich is a single mother of three children, who has recently been injured in a traffic accident with a doctor and is suing him. Her lawyer, Ed Masry, expects to win, but Erins explosive courtroom behavior under cross-examination loses her the case, one day, he arrives at work to find her in the office, apparently working. She says that he told her things would work out and they did not, Ed takes pity on Erin, and she gets a paid job at the office. Erin is given files for an estate case where the Pacific Gas and Electric Company is offering to purchase the home of Donna Jensen. Erin is surprised to see medical records in the file and visits Donna, Donna appreciates PG&Es help, she has had several tumors and her husband has Hodgkins lymphoma, but PG&E has always supplied a doctor at their own expense. Erin asks why they would do that, and Donna replies, after several days away from the office doing this research, she is fired by Ed until he realizes that she was working all the time, and sees what she has found out. Rehired, she continues her research, and over time, visits many Hinkley residents and she finds many cases of tumors and other medical problems in Hinkley. Everyone has been treated by PG&Es doctors and thinks the cluster of cases is just a coincidence, the Jensens claim for compensation grows into a major class action lawsuit, but the direct evidence only relates to PG&Es Hinkley plant, not to the senior management. Erin returns to Hinkley and persuades all 634 plaintiffs to go along, while she is there, a man named Charles Embry approaches her to say that he and his cousin were PG&E employees, but his cousin recently died from the poison. The man says he was tasked with destroying documents at PG&E, the judge orders PG&E to pay a settlement amount of $333 million to be distributed among the plaintiffs. In the aftermath, Ed hands Erin her bonus payment for the case and she explodes into a complaint that she deserves more respect, but is astonished to find that he has increased it—to $2 million. Erin Brockovich performed well with test audiences but executives at Universal Studios were worried that audiences would be turned off by the characters use of profane language. Erin Brockovich was released on March 17,2000, in 2,848 theaters and it went on to make $126.6 million in North America and $130.7 million in the rest of the world for a worldwide total of $257.3 million
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Mystic Pizza
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Mystic Pizza is a 1988 American coming-of-age film directed by Donald Petrie, and stars Annabeth Gish, Julia Roberts and Lili Taylor. In the film, Mystic is represented as a town with a large Portuguese-American population. The film also touches on an Old World work ethic, Daisy just wants to find love through lust while trying to get out of Mystic. Kat is the apple of her Portuguese mothers eye, while Daisy is not because her mother feels she is wild and is not as goal-oriented as her younger sister. However, at a dinner, his relatives unintentionally make insensitive comments about her ethnicity. Daisy breaks up with him, believing that his familys remarks were harmless, there is also chemistry between Kat and her Anglo-American employer, Tim, a father who has hired her to look after his young daughter, Phoebe, while his wife is away. A relationship develops between them, and they make love, but it results in heartache for Kat when the wife returns. Daisy and Kat bond when Kat is devastated after Tims and her evening together, Jojo is trying to have sex with her boyfriend Bill, whom she attempted to marry at the beginning of the movie, but fainted after deciding she couldnt go through with it. However, Bill refuses to have sex with her until they are married, which is something she still isnt ready for. Seeing how she tries to look for every chance to have sex with him, Bill believes that Jojo doesnt love him like he does her, and is only after him for sex, and breaks up with her. After all those events, at work, a famous TV food critic, nicknamed The Fireside Gourmet, not showing any emotion towards the pizza that he eats, he leaves after eating only a few bites, leaving the girls in suspense. However, a few later, the critic gives the pizzeria his highest rating, calling it superb. In the end, Kat receives her last paycheck from Tim, Jojo finally agrees to marry Bill, and at their wedding, Daisy and Charles reconcile. The film ends with the three girls together overlooking the water from the balcony of the restaurant, reminiscing about their time together, despite being set in Mystic, most of the filming locations were in neighboring towns. The building used for the restaurant was a converted home in Stonington Borough at 70 Water St. After the films release, the real-life Mystic Pizza building in downtown Mystic was renovated to resemble the movie set, the Windsor family home, the wedding reception restaurant, the Peg Leg Pub pool hall, and the fishing docks are also in Stonington Borough. The famous hitchhiking incident takes place on North Main Street in Stonington Town, the Arujo home is in Pawcatuck, the lobster business where Mrs. Arujo works and the wedding church are in Noank. Tim Travers home and the Windsors country club are in Watch Hill, the most notable scenes that take place in Mystic are at the Mystic Seaport planetarium and at the drawbridge, where Jojo gets angry that Bill changed the name of his boat
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Steel Magnolias
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Steel Magnolias is a 1989 American comedy-drama film directed by Herbert Ross. It is the adaptation of Robert Harlings 1987 play of the same name. The play and film are about the bond a group of women share in a small-town southern community, the story is based on Robert Harlings real life experience of the death of his sister, Susan Harling Robinson, in 1985 due to complications from Type 1 diabetes. He changed his sisters name in the story from Susan to Shelby Eatenton-Latcherie, the title suggests the main female characters can be both as delicate as the magnolia flower, and as tough as steel. Annelle Dupuy, a beauty school graduate, is hired by Truvy Jones to work in her home-based beauty salon in northwestern Louisiana. At the same time, in part of the neighborhood, MLynn Eatenton, and her daughter, Shelby, are preparing for Shelbys wedding. They arrive, along with Clairee Belcher, the widow of the former mayor. Suddenly, Shelby, who has type 1 diabetes, falls into a hypoglycemic state, moved by Annelles emotional confession, Shelby invites her to the wedding, where Annelle meets Sammy, who is tending bar. Several months pass and Shelby returns to town to celebrate Christmas, during the festivities, she announces that she and her husband, Jackson Latcherie, are expecting their first child. Shelbys father Drum is thrilled, but MLynn is too worried to share in the joy and it becomes clear that Shelby could actually die due to pregnancy complications related to her diabetes. MLynn agrees, saying that nothing pleases Shelby more than proving her wrong, Shelby successfully delivers a baby boy, Jackson Jr. but begins showing signs of kidney failure and starts dialysis around the time Jackson Jr. turns one. MLynn successfully donates a kidney and Shelby seemingly resumes a normal life, Clairee and Ouiser offer to make sure that MLynns husband, Drum, Jonathan, and Tommy have enough food to last until MLynn returns home after the transplant. Later, on Halloween, Ouiser, Clairee, Truvy, and MLynn throw Annelle a surprise wedding shower, Shelby is unavailable to attend due to a conflicting schedule with her nursing job, and is later found by Jackson unconscious on the porch of her house. Shelby is rushed to the hospital, where it is determined that her body rejected the new kidney, the doctors inform the family that Shelby is likely to remain comatose indefinitely, and they all jointly decide to take her off life support. At the funeral, after the mourners have left, MLynn breaks down in hysterics in front of Ouiser, Clairee, Truvy, and Annelle. MLynn gives her blessings and assures Annelle that Shelby wouldve loved it, months later, on Easter morning, Annelle goes into labor during an Easter egg hunt, is rushed to the hospital by Truvy and her husband Spud, and another life begins. A writer friend continuously encouraged him to write it down in order to come to terms with the experience and he did but originally as a short story for his nephew then later to get an understanding of the deceased mother. It eventually evolved in ten days to the play, released by TriStar Pictures in the United States on November 15,1989 and grossed more than $83.7 million at the box office
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Sleeping with the Enemy
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Sleeping with the Enemy is a 1991 psychological thriller film directed by Joseph Ruben and starring Julia Roberts and Patrick Bergin. The film is based on Nancy Prices 1987 novel of the same name, Roberts plays a woman who escapes from her abusive husband, from Cape Cod to Cedar Falls, Iowa, where she captures the attention of a kindly college drama teacher. Laura Burney lives in a home by the beach on Cape Cod with her husband, Martin. Beneath his charm, however, Martin is an angry, possessive control freak who who has been physically and emotionally abusing Laura throughout their marriage, one day, Martin believes Laura has been flirting with an attractive neighbor, and he physically assaults her in a jealous rage. In an effort to escape Martin, Laura fakes her own death at sea in a storm while the couple are boating, because Laura had deliberately led Martin to believe that she could not swim, he believed she had died once she was lost overboard. However, Laura was able to safely to shore, because she had recently taken swimming lessons at the YWCA. Laura secretly returns home, retrieves some clothing and cash she had hidden away in preparation, disguises herself, Laura moves to Cedar Falls, Iowa. In preparation, she has told Martin that her mother, Chloe Williams, died, and pretends to attend the funeral and she rents a modest house and adopts the name Sara Waters. In Cedar Falls, she meets Ben Woodward, who teaches drama at University of Northern Iowa, a relationship develops, but suffers a setback when Ben discovers that her real name is not Sara. After a date, Laura is unable to be intimate with Ben. Meanwhile, Martin receives a phone call from a friend of Lauras from the YWCA. His suspicions aroused, Martin heads home and finds Lauras wedding ring in the bowl where it failed to flush. From the Cape Cod nursing home, he learns that Lauras mother is alive and he visits Lauras mother and tells her he is a police officer needing information about Laura. He learns from her that Laura is seeing a college teacher in Cedar Falls. Martin finds Laura and Ben at a fair, then follows her home. After leaving idiosyncratic clues of his presence around the house for Laura to find, Ben appears at the front door and Martin, brandishing a gun, threatens to kill Ben if she doesnt make him leave. Laura talks to Ben and he appears to leave, but then he breaks down the door and struggles with Martin, as Martin points the gun at Ben, Laura distracts Martin then attacks him. He drops the gun and Laura manages to control of it, she fires at Martin
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The Pelican Brief (film)
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The Pelican Brief is a 1993 American legal political thriller based on the novel of the same name by John Grisham. Directed by Alan J. Pakula, the film stars Julia Roberts in the role of law student Darby Shaw. Music was composed by James Horner and this was the last film to feature Pakula as a producer and writer before his death. Two Supreme Court justices are assassinated by the professional assassin Sam Khamel, tulane University Law School student Darby Shaw writes a legal brief detailing her theory on why they were killed and under whose orders. She delivers it to her law professor, mentor and secret lover Thomas Callahan and he gives a copy to his friend Gavin Verheek, attorney and special counsel to the Director of the FBI. Callahan is killed by a car bomb, Darby escapes because she refuses to enter the car with her lover and is subsequently attacked by an unknown assailant. Realizing that her brief was accurate, she goes into hiding, Darbys computer, disks and files have disappeared from her home, where she is also attacked but manages to escape. She contacts Verheek again and they arrange to meet, but Verheek is murdered by Khamel who impersonates his victim, however before Khamel can kill Darby too, he is shot and killed by an unknown agent. A court appeal to prevent such harm is expected to reach the Supreme Court, Darby visits White & Blazevich, pretending to have an appointment with Morgan, and is told he had been killed. Suspecting that his murder was related to the information, she. Darby visits the bank to retrieve the contents of the box, after barely escaping death by a car bomb, they reach the Washington Herald building where they review the documents and a videotape recovered from Morgans box. The tape confirms Morgans discovery that Mattiece ordered the assassination of the Justices, with this evidence, Grantham writes his story. He gives the FBI a chance to comment and FBI Director Voyles confirms the Pelican Brief was delivered to the White House. Off the record, he reveals the President ordered the FBI to back off, CIA agents were investigating Mattiece, a plane is arranged for Darby to flee the country. Grantham deflects speculation that Darby is fictional, but does agree that she is almost too good to be true, Darby smiles as the screen cuts to black. The film does not contain the murder of Matthew Barr and therefore not show the primary antagonist. Gray Grantham is Caucasian in the book and he is portrayed by Denzel Washington, an African-American, in the film. The villains continue their hot pursuit as Darby Shaw opens the box, putting a bomb in Gray Granthams car
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My Best Friend's Wedding
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My Best Friends Wedding is a 1997 American romantic comedy film directed by P. J. Hogan, starring Julia Roberts. The film received positive reviews from critics and was a global box-office hit. It is considered as one of the best and classic comedy films of all time. The soundtrack song I Say a Little Prayer was covered by singer Diana King and featured heavily in the film, the soundtrack featured a number of Burt Bacharach/Hal David songs. A Chinese remake of the name was released in China on 5 August 2016. Julianne Potter, a 27-year-old New York City restaurant critic, receives a call from her lifelong friend Michael ONeal, in college, the two made an agreement that if neither of them were married by the time they turned 28, they would marry each other. Three weeks before her 28th birthday, Michael tells her that in four days, he will marry Kimmy Wallace, Julianne is disappointed that Michael will marry someone so wrong for him, and someone he has known for such a short time. She realizes that she is in love with Michael, and heads to Chicago, soon after arriving she meets Kimmy, who asks her to be the maid of honor. This sets off a subplot in which Julianne must pretend to be the maid of honor while secretly scheming ways to prevent the wedding from happening. When these tactics fail, George persuades Julianne to do the obvious, One morning, Michael gets Julianne alone and tells her that itll be the last time they ever get to be alone. He expresses some skepticism in marrying Kimmy, explaining that he and Kimmy dont share a song like he. Michael discreetly gives Julianne the invitation to him shes in love with him. Michael starts singing their song as he grabs Julianne and holds her while they dance one last time, in spite of this, Michael and Kimmy decide they do love each other and want to get married after all. Julianne and Michael then take a walk, with Julianne finally confessing her love to Michael and she asks him to marry her instead, and passionately kisses him. Kimmy witnesses this, and runs off, but Michael chases her, Julianne pursues Michael, but finally realizes he loves Kimmy. Julianne finds Michael at Chicago Union Station, where he is looking for Kimmy, despite his anger at her deception, Michael forgives Julianne, and they split up to look for Kimmy. Julianne then tracks down Kimmy in the bathroom of Comiskey Park, Kimmy, rightly furious with Julianne, confronts her, while the other women watch, immediately siding with Kimmy and are disgusted with Juliannes dirty tactics. Julianne, however, apologizes and explains to Kimmy that she kissed Michael unexpectedly, Julianne declares that Kimmy has won, and that she accepts Michaels decision
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Notting Hill (film)
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Notting Hill is a 1999 British romantic comedy film set in Notting Hill, London, released on 21 May 1999. The screenplay was by Richard Curtis, who had written Four Weddings and a Funeral, the film stars Hugh Grant, Julia Roberts, Rhys Ifans, Emma Chambers, Tim McInnerny, Gina McKee, and Hugh Bonneville. Notting Hill was well received by critics and became the highest grossing British film released that year, the film won a BAFTA, was nominated in two other categories, and won other awards, including a British Comedy Award and a Brit Award for the soundtrack. William Will Thacker owns an independent book store, The Travel Book Co. in Notting Hill and he is divorced and shares his house with an eccentric, care-free Welshman named Spike and has a small, tight knit group of friends that includes his sister, Honey. Will encounters Hollywood superstar Anna Scott when she enters his shop, minutes later, they collide in the street and his drink spills on her clothes. Will offers his house nearby for Anna to change, before leaving, she impulsively kisses him and then asks him not to mention what just occurred. Days later, Spike belatedly relays a message from Anna, will calls and she invites him to visit her at the Ritz Hotel. Anna calls him back in and says she has cleared her evening, will is exhilarated, before remembering that he is expected at his sister Honeys birthday party, Anna surprises him by offering to be his date. At the house of Wills friends Max and Bella, Anna fits in perfectly as all share stories. Honey immediately recognizes Anna and declares them best friends instantly and she and Will share a private moment in a garden square as they walk back from the birthday party. The following evening they go to a restaurant, where Will overhears a group of patrons making crude remarks about Anna and attempts to defend her, before Anna steps in herself, as they walk back to her hotel, she invites Will up to her room. But when he arrives, she tells him he must leave immediately and her American movie star boyfriend appears and starts to bark orders at him, as well as make unflattering comments about Annas weight. Anna is apologetic and embarrassed, while a stunned Will leaves. Over the next six months, Max and Bella set Will up on a series of dates, trying to help him move on, however Will, still hung up on Anna. One day, a distraught Anna appears at Wills doorstep, some pre-stardom nude photos have been published in the tabloids, once she calms down, they spend some time on the rooftop patio rehearsing lines from Annas next film. She also apologizes for the incident, telling Will her boyfriend simply showed up out of the blue. When she sees a poster of the Marc Chagall painting La Mariée on his kitchen wall and that night, Anna goes to him and they have sex. The next morning, the press besiege Wills house and get pictures of him and Anna half-dressed
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Runaway Bride (film)
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Runaway Bride is a 1999 American romantic comedy film directed by Garry Marshall and starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere. The screenplay was written by Josann McGibbon and Sara Parriott, Maggie Carpenter is a spirited and attractive young woman who has had a number of unsuccessful relationships. Maggie, nervous of being married, has left a trail of fiancés, shes left three men waiting for her at the altar on their wedding day, receiving tabloid fame and the dubious nickname The Runaway Bride. Ike is fired for not verifying his source, but is invited to write an article about Maggie in a bid to restore his reputation. He travels to Hale, Maryland, where he finds Maggie living with her family, the fourth groom-to-be, Bob Kelly, is a local high school football coach who uses sports analogies to help Maggie with her concerns. He constantly makes references to Maggie focusing on the goal-line in reference to their pending nuptials, as Ike starts going around town to meet her friends, family, and former fiancés, Maggie becomes frustrated and feels he is getting the story wrong again. Ike begins to cooperate with Maggie on the story, Maggie being interested in getting him to publish the truth, during his research for the story, Ike realizes that Maggie is adjusting her interests to mimic those of her fiancés in order to please them. This is signified most prominently by her choice of eggs, which changes with each fiancé, at a pre-wedding celebration for her and Bob, Ike defends Maggie from the public mockery she starts receiving from her family and guests, and Maggie walks outside due to the embarrassment. Ike then confronts Maggie outside about his realization regarding her relationships, during the wedding rehearsal, Bob tries to quell Maggies wedding anxieties by walking her down the aisle. Ike is standing in at the alter as the groom, after Bob gets her to the altar, Ike and Maggie share a passionate kiss and admit to each other their feelings. Bob is chagrined, becomes jealous and punches Ike in the face before he storms out of the church, in the aftermath, Ike proposes that he and Maggie get married since the wedding is arranged. At the alter, Maggie gets cold feet and flees, Ike pursues her but she hitches a ride away on a FedEx truck. Later, we see Ike living in New York and Maggie trying to discover herself, trying different types of eggs and she shows up unexpectedly at Ikes apartment one night where he finds her making friends with his cat, Italics. She turns in her shoes just before proposing to Ike. The two are married in a ceremony outside, on a hill, avoiding the big ceremonies that Maggie notes she never actually liked. In the end, they are riding away on horseback while everyone in Hale. A post credit scene shows Maggie and Ike playing in the signifying that the relationship is going strong well after the wedding. Writers Elaine May and Leslie Dixon did unused rewrites, much of the film production took place in historic Berlin, Maryland, which was made over to become the fictitious town of Hale, Maryland
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Ocean's Eleven
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Oceans Eleven is a 2001 American comedy heist film and a remake of the 1960 Rat Pack film of the same name. The 2001 film was directed by Steven Soderbergh and features an ensemble cast including George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, Andy García, the film was a success at the box office and with critics, and was the fifth highest-grossing film of 2001. Soderbergh directed two sequels, Oceans Twelve in 2004 and Oceans Thirteen in 2007, which make up the Oceans Trilogy, another film is currently in production with an all-female cast. The projected release date is June 8,2018, following release from prison, Danny Ocean violates his parole by traveling to California to meet his partner-in-crime and friend Rusty Ryan to propose a caper. The two go to Las Vegas to pitch the plan to wealthy friend and former casino owner Reuben Tishkoff, the plan consists of simultaneously robbing the Bellagio, The Mirage, and the MGM Grand casinos. Several of the members carry out reconnaissance at the Bellagio to learn as much as possible about the security, the routines and behaviors of the casino staff. Others create a replica of the vault with which to practice maneuvering through its formidable security systems. During this planning phase, the team discovers that Dannys ex-wife, Rusty urges Danny to give up on the plan, believing Danny incapable of sound judgment while Tess is involved, but Danny refuses. When the plan is put in motion, Danny goes to the Bellagio in order to be seen by Benedict, Bruiser, however, is a friend of Dannys, and he allows him to leave through a ventilation shaft, to meet with his team in the vault. Linus poses as a commission agent and reveals to Benedict that one of his employees, Ramon Escalante, is actually Frank Catton. Linus and Frank stage a confrontation in Benedicts presence so that Linus can steal the vault access codes written on a piece of paper in Benedicts jacket. Yen is smuggled into the vault by the Malloy brothers to assist in triggering the explosive from the inside, basher activates a stolen EMP device to temporarily disrupt the casinos electrical power, allowing Linus and Danny to drop down the elevator shaft undetected. As Benedict attempts to restore order following the power outage, Rusty anonymously calls him on a phone that Danny had earlier planted in Tesss coat. Rusty tells him that the vaults are being raided and that all the money will be destroyed if Benedict does not cooperate in loading half the money into a van waiting outside. The SWAT teams arrival results in a shootout which causes the incineration of the half of the left in the vault. After assuring Benedict that the casino is secure, the officers depart at Benedicts insistence, Benedicts men following the van discover it is being driven by remote control, and that, instead of money, it contains duffel bags full of flyers advertising prostitutes. Benedict realizes that the video feed he had been watching was pre-recorded, as the vault floor in the footage lacked the Bellagio logo. A flashback reveals that Danny had used the vault replica to create the fake video Benedict had seen, the rest of the team posed as SWAT officers and took all of the money in the vault when responding to Benedicts call for police assistance
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Ocean's Twelve
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Oceans Twelve is a 2004 American comedy heist film, the first sequel to 2001s Oceans Eleven. Like its predecessor, which was a remake of the 1960 heist film Oceans 11 and it was released in the United States on December 10,2004. A third film, Oceans Thirteen, was released on June 8,2007, the film stars George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Andy García, Julia Roberts, Don Cheadle, Bernie Mac. It was the film of 2004. Terry Benedict locates all eleven members of Danny Oceans gang, demanding they return the $150 million they stole from his casinos plus $38 million interest, short by half, the group schemes to stage another heist in Europe to avoid problems with United States authorities. They are tipped off by an informant named Matsui about the location of the first stock certificate ever, after a complex series of schemes they find the document has already been stolen by The Night Fox, another master thief. Surprising the group at their accommodation, she warns them they beat the Night Fox or his mentor. She has been hunting both for years, Danny and his gang discover the Night Fox is Baron François Toulour, a wealthy baron who has a mansion on Lake Como. Toulour invites Danny to his mansion and reveals that he had hired Matsui to inform the gang about the certificate in order to arrange the meeting with Danny. Toulour is upset that LeMarc did not describe him as the best thief in the world, if Danny and his gang win, Toulour will pay off the debt to Benedict. Linus comes up with a plan involving Dannys wife Tess posing as a pregnant Julia Roberts in order to get close to the Egg. They are foiled by Lahiri and a coincidentally present Bruce Willis, Lahiri is told that they are to be extradited to the United States. Linus is chosen first to be interrogated by the FBI agent assigned to collect them and it turns out that she is his mother, who organises the release of the whole gang. She points out to Lahiri that Lahiri will face only retribution for forging a signature on a Europol form to obtain the necessary arrest warrants for Oceans gang, some time later, Danny and Tess return to Toulours estate where he reveals his glee at their failure. Toulour claims to have stolen the egg at night using his agility, Toulours celebration is short-lived when Danny reveals that his group stole the egg while it was in transit to the museum and Toulour realizes they were tipped off by LeMarc. Toulour is forced to admit Danny won the bet and gives him the money for the debt and they pay back Benedict and promise not to perform any more heists in his casinos—even as Toulour himself is in the background spying on Benedict. Rusty takes Lahiri to a house that he claims has been lent to him by LeMarc. She is reunited with her father, who is revealed to be the man she has been pursuing for years, the final scenes of the film, in which the primary characters enjoy a private poker session, imply that she and Rusty have re-kindled their relationship
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Valentine's Day (2010 film)
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Valentines Day is a 2010 American romantic comedy film directed by Garry Marshall. The screenplay and the story were written by Katherine Fugate, Abby Kohn, while the film received negative reviews, it was a major box office success. The film follows a group of related characters and their struggles with love on Valentines Day, florist Reed Bennett wakes up and proposes to his girlfriend Morley Clarkson, who accepts. However, Reed’s closest friends, Alfonso Rodriguez and Julia Fitzpatrick, arent surprised when Morley suddenly changes her mind, on a flight to Los Angeles, Kate Hazeltine, a captain in the U. S. Army on a one-day leave, befriends Holden Wilson. Kate is travelling a distance to get back home only for a short time. When the plane lands and Kate has to wait hours for the taxi, Julia, an elementary school teacher, has fallen in love with Dr. Harrison Copeland, but does not know that he is married to Pamela. Harrison tells her that he needs to go to San Francisco for a trip, on his way, he stops by at Reeds flowershop. Wanting to surprise him and despite Reeds warnings, Julia flies to San Francisco, Julia finds out that he is married and finds him at a local restaurant. Dressed as a waitress, Julia makes a scene at the restaurant, one of Julia’s students, Edison, orders flowers from Reed, to be sent to his teacher. Julia suggests to Edison to give the flowers to a girl named Rani in his class who has a crush on him after telling Edison the meaning of love, edisons babysitter Grace Smart is planning to lose her virginity to her boyfriend Alex Franklin. The planned encounter goes awry when Graces mother discovers a naked Alex in Graces room, edison’s grandparents, Edgar and Estelle Paddington are facing the troubles of a long marriage. Estelle admits to Edgar about an affair she had one of his business partners long ago. Although she is sorry, Edgar is very upset. Grace’s high school friends, Willy Harrington and Felicia Miller, are experiencing the freshness of new love, sean Jackson, a closeted gay professional football player, is contemplating the end of his career with his publicist Kara Monahan and his agent Paula Thomas. Substituting for Paulas absent secretary is one of the firms receptionists, Liz Curran, Jason is shocked when Liz turns out to be moonlighting as a phone sex operator. Liz explains that she is doing this because she has a $100,000 student loan to pay off. Jason is upset, but eventually reconciles with her after seeing Edgar forgive Estelle, sean finally comes out on national television, and Holden, Seans lover, goes back to him. Kate arrives home late at night to greet not her supposed boyfriend, Willy drops Felicia off at home after a date and they kiss
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Eat Pray Love
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Eat Pray Love is a 2010 American romantic comedy-drama film starring Julia Roberts as Elizabeth Gilbert, based on Gilberts best-selling memoir Eat, Pray, Love. Ryan Murphy co-wrote and directed the film, which opened in the United States on August 13,2010. Newly divorced and at a crossroads, Gilbert steps out of her comfort zone, risking everything to change her life, embarking on a journey around the world that becomes a quest for self-discovery. In her travels, she discovers the true pleasure of nourishment by eating in Italy, the power of prayer in India, and, finally and unexpectedly, filming locations include New York City, Rome and Naples, Delhi and Pataudi, Ubud and Padang-Padang Beach at Bali. Hindu leaders voiced concern over the production of the film and advocated the use of consultants to ensure that the film conveyed an accurate reflection of life in an ashram. The two Balinese lead characters are played by Indonesian actors Hadi Subiyanto and Christine Hakim, respectively and it had the highest debut at the box office with Roberts in a lead role since Americas Sweethearts in 2001. In its initial run, it increased its revenue to a total of $47.2 million. Competing film The Expendables features Eric Roberts, Julia Roberts brother, hollywood. com commented that sibling rivalry is rarely as publicly manifested as this. The film, produced on a $60 million budget, grossed $80,574,382 in the United States, Eat Pray Love received mixed to negative reviews from critics. Based on 193 reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 36%. Another review aggregate, Metacritic, calculated a score of 50 based on 39 reviews. Wesley Morris of The Boston Globe gave the film 3 out of 4 stars while writing Is it a romantic comedy and this is silly, since, in truth, it’s neither. It’s simply a Julia Roberts movie, often a lovely one, humor website Something Awful ran a scathing review. Martin R. Vargo Schneider highlighted several aspects of the film that he considered completely unrealistic, political columnist Maureen Dowd termed the film navel-gazing drivel in October,2010. The BBCs Mark Kermode listed the film as 4th on his list of Worst Films of the Year, saying, Eat Pray Love. A film with the message that learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all, in The Huffington Post, critic Jenna Busch wrote, Eat Pray Love is ultimately charming and inspirational. Though it doesnt have quite the impact of the book, it will leave you pondering your life choices. It will certainly have you forgiving the few flaws in the film, the performances are just too fantastic, the vistas too lovely to pay too much attention to anything else
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HBO
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Home Box Office is an American premium cable and satellite television network that is owned by Time Warner through its respective flagship company Home Box Office, Inc. HBO is the oldest and longest continuously operating pay television service in the United States, in 2014, HBO had an adjusted operating income of US$1.79 billion, compared to the US$1.68 billion it accrued in 2013. HBO has 49 million subscribers in the United States and 130 million worldwide as of 2016, the network provides seven 24-hour multiplex channels, including HBO Comedy, HBO Latino, HBO Signature and HBO Family. It launched the streaming service HBO Now in April 2015, and has over 2 million subscribers in the United States as of February 2017. In addition to its U. S. subscriber base, HBO distributes content in at least 151 countries, HBO subscribers generally pay for an extra tier of service that includes other cable- and satellite-exclusive channels even before paying for the channel itself. Cable providers can require the use of a converter box – usually digital – in order to receive HBO, many HBO programs have been syndicated to other networks and broadcast television stations, and a number of HBO-produced series and films have been released on DVD. The new system, which Dolan named Sterling Information Services, became the first urban underground cable system in the United States. In that same year, Time-Life, Inc. purchased a 20% stake in Dolans company, in the summer of 1971, while on a family vacation in France, Charles Dolan began to think of ideas to make Sterling Manhattan profitable. He came up with the concept for a television service. Dolan later presented his idea to Time-Life management, though satellite distribution seemed only a distant possibility at the time, he persuaded Time-Life to back him on the project. To gauge whether consumers would be interested in subscribing to a pay television service, in a meeting of Dolan and some Time-Life executives who were working on the project, various other names were discussed for the new service. Home Box Office launched on November 8,1972, however, HBOs launch came without fanfare in the press, as it was not covered by any local or national media outlets. Home Box Office distributed its first sports event immediately after the film, Four months later in February 1973, Home Box Office aired its first television special, the Pennsylvania Polka Festival. Home Box Office would use a network of relay towers to distribute its programming to cable systems throughout its service area. Sterling Manhattan Cable continued to lose money because the company had only a small base of 20,000 customers in Manhattan. Time-Life dropped the Sterling name and the company was renamed Manhattan Cable Television under Time-Lifes control in March 1973, Gerald Levin, who had been with Home Box Office since it began operations as its vice president of programming, replaced Dolan as the companys president and chief executive officer. In September 1973, Time-Life, Inc. completed its acquisition of the pay service. HBO would eventually increase its fortunes within two years, by April 1975, the service had around 100,000 subscribers in Pennsylvania and New York state, in 1974, they settled on using a geostationary communications satellite to transmit HBO to cable providers throughout the United States
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The Normal Heart (film)
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The Normal Heart is a 2014 American drama television film directed by Ryan Murphy and written by Larry Kramer, based on his own 1985 play of same name. The film stars Mark Ruffalo, Matt Bomer, Taylor Kitsch, Jim Parsons, Alfred Molina, Joe Mantello, Jonathan Groff and it was released on DVD and Blu-ray on August 26,2014. The film depicts the rise of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City between 1981 and 1984, as seen through the eyes of writer/activist Ned Weeks, the founder of a prominent HIV advocacy group. Weeks prefers public confrontations to the calmer, more private strategies favored by his associates, friends and their differences of opinion lead to arguments that threaten to undermine their shared goals. Ned Weeks is a gay writer from New York City who travels to Fire Island Pines on Long Island to celebrate the birthday of his friend Craig Donner at a house on the beach. Other friends in attendance include Mickey Marcus and the charismatic Bruce Niles, Craig is young and appears to be in good health. While walking on the beach, however, Craig feels dizzy, later, when blowing out the candles on his birthday cake, Craig begins to cough repeatedly. While traveling back to New York City, Ned reads an article in The New York Times titled Rare Cancer Diagnosed in 41 Homosexuals, all of these cases seem to be appearing in gay men. In the waiting room, Ned meets Sanford, a patient whose face and hands are marked with skin lesions caused by Kaposis sarcoma, Brookner examines Ned, but finds that he does not have the symptoms of this disease. She asks Ned to help her raise awareness of disease within the gay community. Craig suddenly suffers violent convulsions and is rushed to the hospital with Ned, Mickey, Brookner recognizes Bruce, noting that he is the former boyfriend of another one of her patients who recently died. Ned organizes a gathering at his home where many gay men are invited to hear Brookner share information about the disease. Though she lacks conclusive evidence, she states her belief that the illness is sexually transmissible and she notes that few medical journals appear interested in publishing anything on this disease which is mostly affecting homosexual men. Ned announces that he wants to start an organization to spread information about the disease, Brookner and Ned visit a local hospital where several of her sick patients are in critical condition with an illness that is now being referred to as gay-related immune deficiency. They stay in rooms that many hospital staff are afraid to enter for fear of contracting the disease, Ned, Bruce, Mickey, and several other friends including Tommy Boatwright establish a community organization called Gay Mens Health Crisis. The organization sponsors fundraisers for research on the now called AIDS and establishes a telephone hotline, counseling. Over Neds objections, they elect Bruce their President, Ned arranges for his older brother, lawyer Ben Weeks, to provide free legal advice to the GMHC. The two brothers are close, but there remains an underlying tension over Bens lack of understanding of Neds sexuality, Ned contacts gay New York Times reporter Felix Turner, hoping that he can use his media connections to publish more stories about the unfolding health crisis
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Mona Lisa Smile
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The title is a reference to the Mona Lisa, the famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci, and the song of the same name, originally performed by Nat King Cole, which was covered by Seal for the movie. Julia Roberts received a record $25 million for her performance the highest ever earned by an actress at that time, Katherine comes to know her students and seeks to inspire them to achieve more than marriage to eligible young men. Betty Warren is highly opinionated and outspokenly conservative like her mother, Betty doesnt understand why Katherine is not married and insists that there is a universal standard for good art. Connie Baker begins dating Bettys cousin, Charlie but Betty persuades her that he is using her as his parents have arranged for him to marry Deb MacIntyre. After a disastrous date, where Charlie and Connie very nearly cross paths with Debs parents on a weekend away at the shore, Connie ends the relationship, believing Bettys story to be true. However, some later, Connie and Charlie reconnect, with Charlie saying he has already decided for himself that he is not going to marry Deb, so he. Her parents divorced after the war and her father left them for a new family, Giselle brazenly has affairs with a professor and a married man. Katherine declines a proposal from her California boyfriend because she doesnt love him enough and begins seeing the Wellesley Italian professor, Bill is charming and full of stories about Europe and his heroic actions in Italy during the war. He has also had affairs with students, and Katherine makes him promise that it will never happen again. The relationship progresses but when Katherine learns that Bill spent the war at the Army Languages Center on Long Island. Bill responds that Katherine didnt come to Wellesley to help the students find their way, within six months of the wedding Bettys marriage falls apart as Spencer has an affair, hiding it from his wife by pretending to be away on business. Betty seeks refuge at her parents house but her mother turns her away, Betty lashes out at Giselle in rage and pain and then breaks down in tears while Giselle hugs her. Mrs Warren begs Betty to stay married to Spencer, saying that she should try for a year, Betty shows her mother a picture of the Mona Lisa and asks if her smile means she is happy. She answers her own question, Who cares, as long as shes smiling, and warns her mother that not everything is what it seems. At graduation, Betty begins to ask Katherine about apartments in Greenwich Village, New York, Betty tells her mother that she filed for divorce that same morning and she is going to room with Giselle. She tells Katherine that she is considering applying to Yale Law School, Katherine decides to leave in order to explore Europe. In the final scene, Betty dedicates her last editorial to Katherine, claiming that her teacher is a woman who lived by example. As Katherines taxi speeds up, all her students follow on their bicycles, box office raking in $11,528,498 USD behind The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King
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People (magazine)
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People is an American weekly magazine of celebrity and human-interest stories, published by Time Inc. With a readership of 46.6 million adults, People has the largest audience of any American magazine, People had $997 million in advertising revenue in 2011, the highest advertising revenue of any American magazine. In 2006, it had a circulation of 3.75 million and it was named Magazine of the Year by Advertising Age in October 2005, for excellence in editorial, circulation and advertising. People ranked #6 on Advertising Ages annual A-list and #3 on Adweeks Brand Blazers list in October 2006, the magazine runs a roughly 50/50 mix of celebrity and human-interest articles. Peoples website, People. com, focuses on celebrity news, in February 2015, the website broke a new record,72 million unique visitors. People is perhaps best known for its special issues naming the Worlds Most Beautiful, Best & Worst Dressed. The magazines headquarters are in New York and it maintains editorial bureaus in Los Angeles, for economic reasons it closed bureaus in Austin, Miami, and Chicago in 2006. In December 2016, LaTavia Roberson engaged in a feud with People after alleging they misquoted and misrepresented her interview online. The concept for People has been attributed to Andrew Heiskell, Time Inc. s chief executive officer at the time, the founding managing editor of People was Richard B. Stolley, an assistant managing editor at Life and the journalist who acquired the Zapruder tapes of the John F. Kennedy assassination for Time Inc. in 1963. Peoples first publisher was Richard J. Durrell, another Time Inc. veteran, Stolley characterized the magazine as getting back to the people who are causing the news and who are caught up in it, or deserve to be in it. Our focus is on people, not issues, stolleys almost religious determination to keep the magazine people-focused contributed significantly to its rapid early success. It is said that although Time Inc. pumped an estimated $40 million into the venture, initially, the magazine was sold primarily on newsstands and in supermarkets. To get the magazine out each week, founding staff members regularly slept on the floor of their offices two or three nights each week and severely limited all non-essential outside engagements. The premier edition for the week ending March 4,1974 featured actress Mia Farrow, then starring in the movie The Great Gatsby and that issue also featured stories on Gloria Vanderbilt, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and the wives of U. S. Vietnam veterans who were Missing In Action, the magazine was, apart from its cover, printed in black-and-white. The initial cover price was 35 cents, the core of the small founding editorial team included other editors, writers, photographers and photo editors from Life magazine, which had ceased publication just 13 months earlier. This group included managing editor Stolley, senior editors Hal Wingo, Sam Angeloff and Robert Emmett Ginna, writers James Watters and Ronald B
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Atlanta
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Atlanta is the capital of and the most populous city in the U. S. state of Georgia, with an estimated 2015 population of 463,878. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, home to 5,710,795 people, Atlanta is the county seat of Fulton County, and a small portion of the city extends eastward into DeKalb County. In 1837, Atlanta was founded at the intersection of two lines, and the city rose from the ashes of the American Civil War to become a national center of commerce. Atlantas economy is considered diverse, with dominant sectors that include logistics, professional and business services, media operations, Atlanta has topographic features that include rolling hills and dense tree coverage. Revitalization of Atlantas neighborhoods, initially spurred by the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, has intensified in the 21st century, altering the demographics, politics. Prior to the arrival of European settlers in north Georgia, Creek Indians inhabited the area, standing Peachtree, a Creek village located where Peachtree Creek flows into the Chattahoochee River, was the closest Indian settlement to what is now Atlanta. As part of the removal of Native Americans from northern Georgia from 1802 to 1825, the Creek ceded the area in 1821. In 1836, the Georgia General Assembly voted to build the Western, the initial route was to run southward from Chattanooga to a terminus east of the Chattahoochee River, which would then be linked to Savannah. After engineers surveyed various possible locations for the terminus, the zero milepost was driven into the ground in what is now Five Points. A year later, the area around the milepost had developed into a settlement, first known as Terminus, and later as Thrasherville after a merchant who built homes. By 1842, the town had six buildings and 30 residents and was renamed Marthasville to honor the Governors daughter, later, J. Edgar Thomson, Chief Engineer of the Georgia Railroad, suggested the town be renamed Atlantica-Pacifica, which was shortened to Atlanta. The residents approved, and the town was incorporated as Atlanta on December 29,1847, by 1860, Atlantas population had grown to 9,554. During the American Civil War, the nexus of multiple railroads in Atlanta made the city a hub for the distribution of military supplies, in 1864, the Union Army moved southward following the capture of Chattanooga and began its invasion of north Georgia. On the next day, Mayor James Calhoun surrendered Atlanta to the Union Army, on November 11,1864, Sherman prepared for the Union Armys March to the Sea by ordering Atlanta to be burned to the ground, sparing only the citys churches and hospitals. After the Civil War ended in 1865, Atlanta was gradually rebuilt, due to the citys superior rail transportation network, the state capital was moved from Milledgeville to Atlanta in 1868. In the 1880 Census, Atlanta surpassed Savannah as Georgias largest city, by 1885, the founding of the Georgia School of Technology and the citys black colleges had established Atlanta as a center for higher education. In 1895, Atlanta hosted the Cotton States and International Exposition, during the first decades of the 20th century, Atlanta experienced a period of unprecedented growth. In three decades time, Atlantas population tripled as the city expanded to include nearby streetcar suburbs
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Decatur, Georgia
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Decatur is a city in, and county seat of, DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. With a population of 20,148 in the 2013 census and it is an intown suburb of Atlanta and part of the Atlanta Metropolitan Area, and its public transportation is served by three MARTA rail stations. Decaturs official motto is A city of homes, schools and places of worship, prior to 2000, its motto was A city of homes, schools, and churches. The citizens of Decatur did not want the noise, pollution and growth that would come with such a major terminal, in response, the railroad founded a new city to the west-southwest of Decatur for the terminal. This town later became the city of Atlanta, during the American Civil War, Decatur became a strategic site in Shermans campaign against Atlanta. In July 1864 Union general James B, mcPherson occupied Decatur to cut off the Confederates supply line from Augusta, Georgia. During the Battle of Atlanta on July 22, Confederate cavalry under Major General Joseph Wheeler attacked McPhersons supply wagons, a marker at the Decatur courthouse marks the site of this skirmish. In the last half of the century the metropolitan area of Atlanta expanded into unincorporated DeKalb County. Concurrently many well-to-do and middle class white Americans fled the area to more distant suburbs, the 1960s and 1970s witnessed dramatic drops in property values. Decatur is located at 33°46′17″N 84°17′52″W, according to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 4.2 square miles, all of it land. The Eastern Continental Divide bisects the city along the CSX trackage right of way, as of the 2010 census, there were 19,335 people,8,599 occupied housing units, and 4,215 families residing in the city. The population density was 4,603.6 people per square mile, there were 9,335 housing units at an average density of 2,222.6 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 73. 5% White,20. 2% African American,0. 2% Native American,2. 9% Asian,0. 0% Pacific Islander,0. 6% from other races, and 2. 4% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3. 2% of the population,3,263 of all households were made up of individuals of those,1,814 had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.17 and the family size was 2.96. In the city, the population was out with 25. 1% under the age of 19,5. 2% from 20 to 24,32. 9% from 25 to 44,25. 7% from 45 to 64. The median age was 38 years, there are roughly 44 males for every 56 females. The ZIP code 30030 has one of the highest percentages of households with same sex couples in Georgia,9. 20% as of 2000, the median income for a household in the city was $73,602
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and activist who was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs, King became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957, with the SCLC, King led an unsuccessful 1962 struggle against segregation in Albany, Georgia, and helped organize the 1963 nonviolent protests in Birmingham, Alabama. King also helped to organize the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his famous I Have a Dream speech, on October 14,1964, King received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolent resistance. In 1965, he helped to organize the Selma to Montgomery marches, in the final years of his life, King expanded his focus to include opposition towards poverty and the Vietnam War, alienating many of his liberal allies with a 1967 speech titled Beyond Vietnam. In 1968, King was planning a national occupation of Washington, D. C. to be called the Poor Peoples Campaign, Kings death was followed by riots in many U. S. cities. Ray, who fled the country, was arrested two months later at London Heathrow Airport, King was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. Martin Luther King Jr. Day was established as a holiday in numerous cities and states beginning in 1971, hundreds of streets in the U. S. have been renamed in his honor, and a county in Washington State was also renamed for him. The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, King was born on January 15,1929, in Atlanta, Georgia, to the Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr. and Alberta Williams King. It was during this time he chose to be called Martin Luther King in honor of the German reformer Martin Luther, King had Irish ancestry through his paternal great-grandfather, as well as African ancestry. King was a child, between an older sister, Willie Christine King, and a younger brother, Alfred Daniel Williams King. King sang with his choir at the 1939 Atlanta premiere of the movie Gone with the Wind. His mother was an accomplished organist and choir leader, and she took him to various churches to sing and he received attention for singing I Want to Be More and More Like Jesus. King later became a member of the choir in his church. King said that his father regularly whipped him until he was fifteen, King saw his fathers proud and fearless protests against segregation, such as King Sr. When King was a child, he befriended a boy whose father owned a business near his familys home. When the boys were six, they started school, King had to attend a school for African Americans, King lost his friend because the childs father no longer wanted the boys to play together. King suffered from depression throughout much of his life, in his adolescent years, he initially felt resentment against whites due to the racial humiliation that he, his family, and his neighbors often had to endure in the segregated South
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Coretta Scott King
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Coretta Scott King was an American author, activist, civil rights leader, and the wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. from 1953 until his death in 1968. Coretta Scott King helped lead the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, King was an active advocate for African-American equality. King met her husband while in college, and their participation escalated until they became central to the movement, in her early life, Coretta was an accomplished singer, and she often incorporated music into her civil rights work. King played a prominent role in the years after her husbands 1968 assassination when she took on the leadership of the struggle for racial equality herself, King founded the King Center and sought to make his birthday a national holiday. King finally succeeded when Ronald Reagan signed legislation which established Martin Luther King and she later broadened her scope to include both opposition to apartheid and advocacy for LGBT rights. King became friends with many politicians before and after Martin Luther Kings death, most notably John F. Kennedy, John F. Kennedys phone call to her during the 1960 election was what she liked to believe was behind his victory. In August 2005, King suffered a stroke paralyzed her right side and left her unable to speak. Her funeral was attended by some 10,000 people, including four of five living US presidents and she was temporarily buried on the grounds of the King Center until being interred next to her husband. She was inducted into the Alabama Womens Hall of Fame and was the first African-American to lie in State in the Georgia State Capitol, King has been referred to as First Lady of the Civil Rights Movement. Coretta Scott was born in Marion, Alabama, the third of four children of Obadiah Scott and she was born in her parents home with her paternal great-grandmother Delia Scott, a former slave, presiding as midwife. Corettas mother became known for her talent and singing voice. As a child Bernice attended the local Crossroads School and only had a fourth grade education, bernices older siblings, however, attended boarding school at the Booker T. Washington founded Tuskegee Institute. The senior Mrs. Scott worked as a bus driver, a church pianist. She served as Worthy Matron for her Eastern Star chapter and was a member of the local Literacy Federated Club, Obie, Corettas father, was the first black person in their neighborhood to own a vehicle. Before starting his own businesses he worked as a policeman, along with his wife, he ran a clothes shop far from their home and later opened a general store. He also owned a mill, which was burned down by white neighbors after Scott refused to lend his mill to a white male logger. Her maternal grandparents were Mollie and Martin van Buren McMurry – both were of African-American and Irish descent, Mollie was born a slave to plantation owner Jim Blackburn and Adeline Smith. Corettas maternal grandfather, Martin, was born to a slave of Black Native American ancestry and he eventually owned a 280-acre farm
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Yolanda King
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Yolanda Denise King was an American activist and first-born child of civil rights leaders Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King. She was known also for her artistic and entertainment endeavors and public speaking and her childhood experience was greatly influenced by her fathers highly public and influential activism. When her father was assassinated April 4,1968, King, then twelve years of age, was noted for her composure during the highly public funeral. She joined her mother and siblings in marches, and she was lauded by such noted figures as Bill Cosby and Harry Belafonte, in her teenage years, she became an effective leader of her class in high school and was given attention by the magazines Jet and Ebony. Her teenage years were filled with more tragedies, specifically that of her uncle Alfred Daniel Williams King, while in high school, she gained lifelong friends. It was the first and only institution where King was not harassed or mistreated because of who her father was, however, she was still misjudged and mistrusted, based on perceptions founded solely upon her relationship with her father. Despite this, King managed to keep up her grades and was involved in high school politics. King aroused controversy in high school for her role in a play and she was credited with having her fathers sense of humor. In the 1990s, she supported a retrial of James Earl Ray and that decade saw Kings acting career take off as she appeared in ten separate projects, including Ghosts of Mississippi, Our Friend, Martin and Selma, Lord, Selma. By the time she was an adult, she had grown to become a supporter for gay rights. She was involved in a feud that pitted her and her brother Dexter against their brother Martin Luther King III and sister Bernice King for the sale of the King Center in Atlanta. King served as a spokesperson for her mother during the illness that would lead to her death. King outlived her mother by only 16 months, succumbing to complications related to a heart condition on May 15,2007. Born in Montgomery, Alabama to Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King, even in her infancy, Yolanda was faced with the threats her father was given when they extended to his family. In 1956, a number of white supremacists bombed the King household there, Yolanda and her mother were not harmed. She and her mother, at the time of the detonation, were in the rear section of their home. Despite this, the front porch was damaged and glass broke in the home and she kept her father busy when walking on their homes floors. While her mother liked her name, her father had reservations about naming her Yolanda due to the possibility the name would be mispronounced, during the course of her lifetime, Kings name was mispronounced to the point where it bothered her
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Campbell High School (Georgia)
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Campbell High School is located 5 miles Northwest of Downtown Atlanta. It is located on a campus in Smyrna, Georgia. It is part of the Cobb County School District, Campbell High School implemented the IB Diploma Program in 1997, serving as a magnet school for the Cobb County School District. The school was named after Orme Campbell, the mother of the man who donated the land on which the school was built. Orme Campbell High School opened in 1952 with the merger of Smyrna High School and it opened with a total of 425 students in grades 8-11. In 1989, Orme Campbell High School and F. T, Wills High School merged to form Smyrna High School. Prior to the merger, Campbell students were known as the Green and White Panthers and Wills students were known as the Red, the students united in selecting new colors, royal blue and silver, and a new mascot, the Spartans. In 1990, the courts overruled the name change of the school, since the ruling pertained only to the school name, it was decided the new colors and the new mascot would be left unchanged. In 1997, the school was relocated to the site of the original Wills High School because of rapid growth, source - Cobb Countys Diversity Enrollment Data In Fall of 1997, Campbell implemented the International Baccalaureate Program IB to function as a magnet program in Cobb County. The program, currently under the leadership of Dan Penick and Max Jones, has had high scores on IB exams. The average Campbell IB Exam score is 5.30 compared to 4.79 worldwide, the CHS IB pass rate in 2014 was 98 % and in 2015 was 88%. To compare, in 2014, the rate in Georgia was 66%, 76% in the US. In 2015, the pass rate worldwide was 80%, students throughout Cobb County apply to the IB program during the fall of their 8th grade year. Cobb County Magnet Programs If accepted, students are enrolled in a curriculum in 9th and 10th grade during which they complete the majority of the Georgia required courses for graduation. In 11th and 12th grades, the students are enrolled in the IB Diploma curriculum, the main building is composed of the original Nash Middle School and Wills High School buildings, connected by a media center, main office suites, the Livingston Auditorium, and the dining hall. The 1000 Building is at the rear of the school, adjacent to the Fieldhouse, along the northern end of campus sits the newly constructed 2000 Building, which replaced 12 portable classrooms and added many courses the school had previously not offered. Adjacent to that building stand the new greenhouse and horticulture buildings, in 2007, new Fine Arts classes were built, and others moved to make room for the growing programs at Campbell. The state-of-the-art Band Hall holds 7 practice rooms,5 instrument/uniform storage rooms, the Band and Choral Halls were constructed using the same standards as Allatoona High, the newest prototype high school in the county
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Clarinet
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The clarinet is a musical-instrument family belonging to the group known as the woodwind instruments. It has a mouthpiece, a straight cylindrical tube with an almost cylindrical bore. A person who plays a clarinet is called a clarinetist, the word clarinet may have entered the English language via the French clarinette, or from Provençal clarin, oboe. It would seem however that its roots are to be found amongst some of the various names for trumpets used around the renaissance. Clarion, clarin and the Italian clarino are all derived from the medieval term claro which referred to a form of trumpet. This is probably the origin of the Italian clarinetto, itself a diminutive of clarino, according to Johann Gottfried Walther, writing in 1732, the reason for the name is that it sounded from far off not unlike a trumpet. The English form clarinet is found as early as 1733, while the similarity in sound between the earliest clarinets and the trumpet may hold a clue to its name, other factors may have been involved. The trumpet parts that required this speciality were known by the term clarino, Johann Christoph Denner is generally believed to have invented the clarinet in Germany around the year 1700 by adding a register key to the earlier chalumeau. Over time, additional keywork and airtight pads were added to improve the tone and these days the most popular clarinet is the B♭ clarinet. However, the clarinet in A, just a lower, is commonly used in orchestral music. Since the middle of the 19th century the clarinet has become an essential addition to the orchestra. The clarinet family ranges from the BBB♭ octo-contrabass to the A♭ piccolo clarinet, the clarinet has proved to be an exceptionally flexible instrument, equally at home in the classical repertoire as in concert bands, military bands, marching bands, klezmer, and jazz. The cylindrical bore is primarily responsible for the clarinets distinctive timbre, the tone quality can vary greatly with the musician, the music, the instrument, the mouthpiece, and the reed. The most prominent were the German/Viennese traditions and the French school, the latter was centered on the clarinetists of the Conservatoire de Paris. The proliferation of recorded music has made examples of different styles of clarinet playing available, the modern clarinetist has a diverse palette of acceptable tone qualities to choose from. The A clarinet and B♭ clarinet have nearly the same bore, orchestral players using the A and B♭ instruments in the same concert could use the same mouthpiece for both. The A and the B♭ instruments have nearly identical tonal quality, the tone of the E♭ clarinet is brighter than that of the lower clarinets and can be heard even through loud orchestral or concert band textures. The bass clarinet has a deep, mellow sound, while the alto clarinet is similar in tone to the bass
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Satisfaction (film)
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Satisfaction is a 1988 comedy-drama film directed by Joan Freeman and starring Justine Bateman and Liam Neeson. It is one of the few theatrical productions by both Aaron Spelling and NBC, Jennie Lee is the lead singer of an all-girl rock band in Baltimore named The Mystery. Jennie and the band are planning to go to Florida to audition for a gig at the beach for the summer. Mooch tells the band that she borrowed another van from her friend but in fact, assisted by the help of guitarist Billy, after recruiting a male keyboard player Nickie, the band heads south to audition for the gig. Arriving at the nightclub after closing hours, the band fears they have missed their audition, not wanting to have to return, the band finds the owner Martin Falcon’s home address and decide to make him listen to them play. However, when they arrive at his house, they let themselves in. They do find Hamlet, Falcon’s pet Doberman Pincher dog, who, after Billy sings him a song, Falcon arrives, drunk and assumes the band are thieves. Explaining who they are, Jennie pleads with Falcon to listen to their music, but Falcon informs them that they are in fact a day early, the auditions for the gig isn’t until the next night. Having very little money and no place to stay, Falcon offers them the room that the winners are supposed to be staying at for the summer, the “room” turns out to be a tool shack with room enough for 5 beds. The next night, the auditions and the overwhelming applauding crowd response convinces Falcon to hire the band for the summer. The band members stick out like a thumb in the preppy beach side area they temporarily reside in, especially Mooch. Daryle started dating a rich boy and tried to get the band invited to his parties. Billy, outside her comfort zone, started taking more pills than usual to cope with her depression, Jennie encouraged Mooch to spend time with Nicky, who seemed to have a crush on her and Jennie began a romantic relationship with the older Falcon. Falcon tells Jennie he has an agent friend who books bands for gigs all over Europe. Falcon, after learning from Jennie that she is considering moving in with him, Billy nearly overdoses and Frankie causes a small riot when he goes to the club and sees Daryle on stage being ogled by the local guys. The band all help out Mooch as she fights off the leader and finally Hamlet the dog chases the gang from the club, who are then arrested. When asked about what the agent said, Jennie implies that the agent loved their music. But Jennie decides that it wouldn’t have been any fun without them, Jennie says goodbye to Falcon and the band heads home with Hamlet now a part of the band
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Liam Neeson
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Liam John Neeson, OBE, is an actor from Northern Ireland. In 1976, he joined the Lyric Players Theatre in Belfast for two years and he then acted in the Arthurian film, Excalibur. Between 1982 and 1987, Neeson starred in five films, most notably alongside Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins in The Bounty and Robert De Niro and he landed a leading role alongside Patrick Swayze in Next of Kin. He rose to prominence when he starred in the role in Steven Spielbergs 1993 Oscar winner Schindlers List. Empire magazine ranked Neeson among both the 100 Sexiest Stars in Film History and The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time. Neeson was born in Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, the son of Katherine Kitty Neeson, a cook, and Bernard Barney Neeson and he was raised as a Roman Catholic and was named Liam after the local priest. He said growing up as a Catholic in a predominately Protestant town made him cautious, the third of four siblings, he has three sisters, Elizabeth, Bernadette and Rosaleen. At age nine, Neeson began boxing lessons at the All Saints Youth Club, Neeson first stepped on stage at age 11 after his English teacher offered him the lead role in a school play, which he accepted because the girl he was attracted to was starring in it. He continued to act in school productions over the following years, Neesons interest in acting and decision to become an actor was also influenced by minister Ian Paisley, into whose Free Presbyterian church Neeson would sneak. Neeson has said of Paisley, He had a magnificent presence and it was acting, but it was also great acting and stirring too. In 1971, Neeson was enrolled as a physics and computer science student at Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland, at Queens, he discovered a talent for football and was spotted by Seán Thomas at Bohemian F. C. There was a trial in Dublin and Neeson played one game as a substitute against Shamrock Rovers F. C. After leaving the university, Neeson returned to Ballymena where he worked in a variety of casual jobs and he also attended teacher training college for two years in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, before again returning to his hometown. In 1976, Neeson joined the Lyric Players Theatre in Belfast where he performed for two years and he got his first film experience in 1977, playing Jesus Christ and Evangelist in the religious film Pilgrims Progress. Neeson moved to Dublin in 1978 after he was offered a part in Ron Hutchinsons Says I, Says He and he acted in several other Project productions and joined the Abbey Theatre. In 1980, filmmaker John Boorman saw him on stage as Lennie Small in Of Mice and Men and offered him the role of Sir Gawain in the Arthurian film, Excalibur. After Excalibur, Neeson moved to London, where he continued working on stage, in small budget films and he lived with the actress Helen Mirren at this time, whom he met working on Excalibur. Between 1982 and 1987, Neeson starred in five films, most notably alongside Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins in 1984s The Bounty and Robert De Niro and Jeremy Irons in 1986s The Mission
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Justine Bateman
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Justine Tanya Bateman is an American writer, producer, and actress. She is best known for her role as Mallory Keaton on the sitcom Family Ties. Until recently, Bateman ran a production and consulting company, SECTION5, in the fall of 2012, she started studying computer science at UCLA. Her younger brother is actor, director, and producer Jason Bateman and she attended Taft Charter High School in Woodland Hills, California. However, Bateman could not attend due to her contractual obligations with Family Ties. According to Bateman in 2014, she was informed by the line producer Carol Himes. In 1984, Bateman starred on the Tales from the Darkside television series and she hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live during its 13th season in 1988. The following year she ceased her Family Ties role, for which she was nominated for two Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. In 1996, she guest starred on Lois & Clark, The New Adventures of Superman as the character Sarah/Zara in four episodes — two at the end of season 3, and two at the beginning of season 4. In the 1996–97 NBC American version of the British TV comedy Men Behaving Badly, featuring Rob Schneider and Ron Eldard, she starred as Sarah, Bateman returned to TV with the 2003 Showtime mini-series, Out of Order, alongside Eric Stoltz, Felicity Huffman, and Bill Macy. Michael Bluth was played by Batemans real-life brother, Jason, also in 2006, she guest starred in the tenth episode of Men in Trees as Lynn Barstow. This became a role for the following eight episodes. She also starred as Terry in the series Still Standing, To Have and to Hold, in 2008, she portrayed a drug dealer who rents a room from Carlos and Gabrielle Solis, in a guest role on Desperate Housewives. That same year, Bateman appeared in an episode of Showtimes Californication, in 2009, she portrayed Victoria, Lassiters ex-wife, in USA Networks comedy series Psych and was also in the third episode of 2009s Criminal Minds, Suspect Behavior. In 1988, Bateman starred in the role in the motion picture Satisfaction. The film, about a musical band, also featured Julia Roberts. Bateman starred as the lead vocalist and also performed the vocals on the soundtrack and she has acted in several web series. She acted in John Augusts Remnants, Illeana Douglas’ IKEA-sponsored Easy to Assemble, Batemans theater experience includes Arthur Millers The Crucible, David Mamets Speed the Plow, and Frank Wedekinds Lulu
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Crime Story (TV series)
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Crime Story is an American television drama, created by Chuck Adamson and Gustave Reininger, that premiered in 1986 on NBC, where it ran for two seasons. The show premiered with a two-hour pilot — a movie which had been exhibited theatrically — and was watched by over 30 million viewers and it was scheduled to follow Miami Vice on Friday nights, continuing to attract a record number of viewers. NBC then moved the show to Tuesdays at 10 pm opposite ABCs Moonlighting, hurting its ratings to the point that NBC ordered its cancellation after two seasons. Set in the early 1960s, the series depicted two men — Lt. Mike Torello and mobster Ray Luca — with a drive to destroy each other. Torello, his friend Ted Kehoe, and Luca had grown up in Chicagos The Patch neighborhood, also called Little Italy or Little Sicily and the haunt of the Forty-Two Gang. The first season ended with Ray Luca and Pauli Taglia on the lam, hiding from Torello in a Nevada desert shack, which is located in an atomic bomb test area. An A-Bomb explodes, presumably obliterating Luca and Taglia, in one of the most memorable cliffhangers in television history, the first season follows Chicago Police detective Lt. Mike Torello and his pursuit of organized crime from Chicago to Las Vegas, circa 1963-64. At the beginning of the series Torello is the head of the Major Crimes Unit, at the center of Torellos crosshairs is rising young mobster Ray Luca. Initially Luca is an independent thief and killer whose crew, which includes Pauli Taglia and Frank Holman, specializes in robberies, burglaries and home invasions. Through his connection to Chicago crime boss Phil Bartoli, Luca catches the attention of national crime figure Manny Weisbord, Luca impresses Weisbord with his desire to leave the streets and move up in the management ranks of organized crime. He assigns one of his men, Max Goldman, to be a middleman between himself and Luca, Luca tells Weisbord and Bartoli of his plan to take over the Las Vegas bookmaking operation of Noah Ganz. He is told to negotiate a deal, but instead instigates the theft of Ganzs gambling book, however, this backfires when Torello gets wind of it and catches Frank Holman in the act, which results in the book falling into the hands of MCU. When a crime war threatens to break out with Ganzs organization, Weisbord, in typical fashion Luca solves the problem by massacring Ganz and his thugs. Torello finally manages to get a solid murder indictment against Luca, meanwhile, Holman, who escaped custody only to be hunted down again, has made a deal with U. S. federal prosecutor Harry Breitel to provide information about the mob in exchange for immunity. Among his lies is a story that he paid off Chicago cop Mike Torello. The murders of Ted Kehoe, a friend of Torello with ties to the organization. Torello finds himself being investigated by Breitel and the feds for corruption, at a bar Luca casually asks straight-laced public defender David Abrams, whose father once had mob connections, for advice. That advice leads Luca to subpoena Torello to testify for the defense at his trial, Abrams is furious when he discovers the result of his conversation with Luca, who has also tried to convince Abrams to work for him
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Dennis Farina
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Dennis Farina was an Italian-American actor of film and television and former Chicago police officer. He was an actor, often typecast as a mobster or police officer. His most known roles are those of mobster Jimmy Serrano in the comedy Midnight Run. He starred on television as Lieutenant Mike Torello on Crime Story and he also hosted and narrated a revived version of Unsolved Mysteries. His last major role was in HBOs Luck, which premiered on January 29,2012. Farina was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Sicilian-American parents Joseph Farina, a doctor and his father was from Villalba, Sicily. He had three brothers and three sisters, before becoming an actor, Farina served three years in the United States Army, followed by 18 years in the Chicago Police Departments burglary division, from 1967 to 1985. Farina began working for director Michael Mann as a police consultant, Farina moonlighted as an actor in Chicago-based films and theater before Mann chose him for his Crime Story series, which aired on NBC from 1986-88. Farina played mobster Albert Lombard in Manns previous hit television show and he later starred as the title character in Buddy Faro, a 1998 private-detective series on CBS. Two of his movie characters are Jimmy Serrano, the mob boss from Midnight Run, and Ray Bones Barboni. Farina also played FBI Agent Jack Crawford in the first Hannibal Lecter crime film and he played a baseball manager in Little Big League and a basketball coach in Eddie. In a leading-man role and a departure from his parts, Farina co-starred with Bette Midler in a romantic comedy, That Old Feeling. In 1998s Saving Private Ryan, Farina plays a role as the battalion commander who advises Captain John Miller of the mission which forms the basis of the films plot. Farina had a flair for comedy and he won an American Comedy Award for his performance in Get Shorty and starred in a television sitcom, In-Laws, from 2002 until 2003. He appeared in 2002s Stealing Harvard, a comedy in which he played a tough-talking and he also had a comic role opposite Ed Harris and Helen Hunt in the HBO production of Empire Falls in 2005 and opposite Alan Rickman in 2008s Bottle Shock. His distinctive voice was put to use in early 2005, when Farina provided the voice of aging boxer-turned-superhero Wildcat on Justice League Unlimited, in 2004, the producers of the television series Law & Order hired Farina as Det. Joe Fontana, following the departure of longtime cast member Jerry Orbach, Farina stayed on the show for two seasons, but his character was not as popular as Orbachs Det. His role of Detective Lt. Mike Torello on Crime Story was as a Chicago police officer, farinas Law & Order character, Detective Fontana, worked for Chicago Homicide before his transfer to the NYPD
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