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Carrollton, Illinois
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Carrollton is a city in Greene County, Illinois, United States. The population was 2,484 as of the 2010 census and it is the county seat of Greene County. Carrollton is located in south-central Greene County at 39°17′48″N 90°24′29″W, U. S. Route 67 passes through the city as 5th Street, leading north 35 miles to Jacksonville and south 32 miles to Alton on the Mississippi River. Illinois Route 108 crosses US67 in the center of town, leading east 29 miles to Carlinville and west 11 miles to Kampsville on the Illinois River. According to the 2010 census, Carrollton has an area of 1.902 square miles. It is located 68 miles southwest of Springfield, the state capital, Greene County borders the Metro East area. As of the census of 2000, there were 2,605 people,1,077 households, the population density was 1,561.2 people per square mile. There were 1,175 housing units at a density of 704.2 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 98. 77% White,0. 04% African American,0. 23% Native American,0. 31% Asian,0. 08% Pacific Islander,0. 19% from other races, and 0. 38% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0. 50% of the population,29. 9% of all households were made up of individuals and 17. 6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.36 and the family size was 2.92. In the city, the population was out with 23. 7% under the age of 18,8. 2% from 18 to 24,24. 3% from 25 to 44,22. 1% from 45 to 64. The median age was 40 years, for every 100 females there were 88.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 83.8 males, the median income for a household in the city was $30,154, and the median income for a family was $37,368. Males had an income of $33,194 versus $19,211 for females. The per capita income for the city was $16,340, about 6. 4% of families and 9. 0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 13. 7% of those under age 18 and 8. 2% of those age 65 or over. There are two banks in Carrollton, Carrollton Bank and CNB Bank, Carrollton is home to three schools, Carrollton High School, Carrollton Grade School, and St. John the Evangelist Catholic School
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Animal House
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National Lampoons Animal House is a 1978 American comedy film from Universal Pictures. It was produced by Ivan Reitman and Matty Simmons, directed by John Landis, and stars John Belushi, Tim Matheson, John Vernon, Verna Bloom, Thomas Hulce, and Donald Sutherland. The film, a direct spin-off from National Lampoon, is about a group of fraternity members who challenge the authority of the dean of Faber College. The screenplay was adapted by Douglas Kenney, Chris Miller, and Harold Ramis from stories written by Miller, upon its initial release, Animal House received generally mixed reviews from critics, but Time and Roger Ebert proclaimed it one of the years best. The film, along with 1977s The Kentucky Fried Movie, also directed by Landis, was responsible for defining and launching the gross out film genre. As of 2017, it was considered by fans and critics as one of the greatest comedy films ever made. In 2001 the United States Library of Congress deemed Animal House culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant and it was No.1 on Bravos 100 Funniest Movies. It was No.36 on AFIs 100 Years,100 Laughs list of the 100 best American comedies. In 2008 Empire magazine selected it as one of The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time, in 1962, Faber College freshmen Lawrence Larry Kroger and Kent Dorfman seek to join a fraternity. Larry and Kent are invited to pledge and given the fraternity names Pinto and Flounder respectively, by Bluto and he directs the clean-cut, smug Omega president Greg Marmalard to find a way for him to remove the Deltas from campus. Bluto and D-Day steal the answers to an upcoming test from the trash, the Deltas fail the exam, and their grade-point averages fall so low that Wormer tells them he needs only one more incident to revoke their charter. To cheer themselves up, the Deltas organize a party and bring in Otis Day. Wormers wife attends at Otters invitation and has sex with him, Pinto hooks up with Clorette, a girl he met at the supermarket. They make out, but do not have sex because she passes out drunk, Pinto takes her home in a shopping cart and later discovers that she is the mayors daughter. Outraged by his wifes escapades and the threat of personal violence, Wormer organizes a kangaroo court. To take their minds off this action, Otter, Boon, Flounder, Otter is successful in picking up four young women from Emily Dickinson College as dates for himself and his Delta brothers. He elicits sympathy by posing as the fiancé of a woman at the college who died in a recent kiln explosion. They stop at a bar where Days band is performing
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Marion Ravenwood
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Marion Ravenwood is a fictional character that first appeared in the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark. After 27 years of absence, the returned in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan named the character after his wifes grandmother, Spielberg originally intended the role for his girlfriend Amy Irving. Sean Young auditioned for the role, Barbara Hershey was considered, steven Spielberg cast Karen Allen, on the strength of her performance in National Lampoons Animal House. Allen screen tested opposite Tim Matheson and John Shea, before Harrison Ford was cast as Indiana, kasdans depiction of Marion was more complex, and she was genuinely interested in René Belloq in earlier script drafts. She and Paul Freeman added more comedy in the tent seduction scene, Marion became a frequent supporting character in The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones, a Marvel Comics title which ran for 34 issues from January 1983 until March 1986. During the 1990s, Lucas forbade author Rob MacGregor from including her in his novels for Bantam Books Indiana Jones series, what happened in their earlier encounters. George apparently wanted to keep that for the future, maybe we’ll find out in Indy 4, MacGregor speculated. Frank Darabont claimed it was his idea to bring back Marion for Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Marion entered into a relationship with Indiana Jones during this time. Jones abruptly left the Ravenwoods in 1926, Marion was about 16 or 17 years old when the relationship finished, later in her life, Marion chastised Jones, stating, I was a child. It was wrong and you knew it, Jones showed little remorse, and simply replied You knew what you were doing. After Jones broke off contact with both, he returned to the United States to focus on his career as an archaeology professor. She later started running a local tavern – The Raven – after its manager died, taking advantage of her high tolerance for alcohol, she would frequently drink the bars patrons under the table on a wager. She refused to return to the United States until she had money to return with style. In 1936, Marion found herself back in contact with Jones, when he offered her money for the headpiece of the Staff of Ra, reluctant at first, she was forced to cooperate when the bespectacled Gestapo agent Arnold Toht arrived to demand the piece himself. During the subsequent fight, the tavern caught fire, Marion told Jones that, until he compensated her for her savings, destroyed in the fire, she was his partner. She was then captured by the Nazis, with Jones believing she was dead. Indy believed she was dead until, by an accident, he stumbled upon her with her hands and bare feet bound
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Harrison Ford
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Harrison Ford is an American actor and film producer. He gained worldwide fame for his roles as Han Solo in the Star Wars film series. Six of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry, American Graffiti, The Conversation, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Blade Runner. In 1997, Ford was ranked No.1 in Empires The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time list. As of 2016, the U. S. domestic box-office grosses of Fords films total over US$4.7 billion, with worldwide grosses surpassing $6 billion, Ford is married to actress Calista Flockhart. Ford was born at the Swedish Covenant Hospital in Chicago, Illinois to Christopher Ford, an executive and former actor, and Dorothy. A younger brother, Terence, was born in 1945, Fords paternal grandparents, John Fitzgerald Ford and Florence Veronica Niehaus, were of Irish Catholic and German descent, respectively. Fords maternal grandparents, Harry Nidelman and Anna Lifschutz, were Jewish immigrants from Minsk, when asked in which religion he and his brother were raised, Ford jokingly responded, Democrat, to be liberals of every stripe. Ford was active in the Boy Scouts of America, and achieved its second-highest rank and he worked at Napowan Adventure Base Scout camp as a counselor for the Reptile Study merit badge. Because of this, he and director Steven Spielberg later decided to depict the young Indiana Jones as a Life Scout in the film Indiana Jones, in 1960, Ford graduated from Maine East High School in Park Ridge, Illinois. His was the first student voice broadcast on his high schools new radio station, WMTH and he attended Ripon College in Wisconsin, where he was a philosophy major and a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity. He took a class in the final quarter of his senior year to get over his shyness. Ford, a late bloomer, became fascinated with acting. In 1964, after a season of stock with the Belfry Players in Wisconsin. He did not get it, but stayed in California and eventually signed a contract with Columbia Pictures New Talent program. His first known role was a role as a bellhop in Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round. There is little record of his roles in film. Ford was at the bottom of the hiring list, having offended producer Jerry Tokovsky after he played a bellboy in the feature
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Raiders of the Lost Ark
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Raiders of the Lost Ark is a 1981 American action adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, with a screenplay written by Lawrence Kasdan, from a story by George Lucas and Philip Kaufman. It was produced by Frank Marshall for Lucasfilm Ltd. with Lucas, starring Harrison Ford, it was the first installment in the Indiana Jones film franchise to be released, though it is the second in internal chronological order. It pits Indiana Jones against a group of Nazis who are searching for the Ark of the Covenant, the film originated from Lucas desire to create a modern version of the serials of the 1930s and 1940s. Production was based at Elstree Studios, England, but filming took place in La Rochelle, France, Tunisia, Hawaii. Released on June 12,1981, Raiders of the Lost Ark became the years top-grossing film, in 1999, the film was included in the U. S. Library of Congress National Film Registry as having been deemed culturally, historically, Raiders of the Lost Ark is often ranked as one of the greatest films of all time, both in the action-adventure genre, and in general. The film also ranks #2 on Empires 2008 list of the 500 greatest movies of all time, in 1936, archaeologist Indiana Jones braves an ancient booby-trapped temple in Peru and retrieves a golden idol. He is confronted by rival archaeologist René Belloq and the indigenous Hovito people, surrounded and outnumbered, Indy surrenders the idol to Belloq and escapes aboard a waiting floatplane. Jones returns to his position at Marshall College, where he is interviewed by two Army Intelligence agents. They inform him that the Nazis are searching for his old mentor, Abner Ravenwood, the Staff of Ra is the key to finding the Well of Souls, a secret chamber in which the Ark is buried. The agents authorize Jones to recover the Ark to prevent the Nazis from obtaining it and he travels to Nepal and discovers that Abner has died, and the headpiece is in the possession of Ravenwoods daughter Marion. Jones visits Marion at her tavern, where she reveals her feelings toward him from a previous romantic affair. She physically rebuffs his offer to buy the headpiece, and Jones leaves, shortly after, a group of thugs arrive with their Nazi commander, Arnold Toht. Indy and Marion escape with the headpiece, and Marion decides to accompany Indy in his search for the Ark so he can repay his debt to her, the pair travels to Cairo, where they meet up with Indys friend Sallah, a skilled excavator. Sallah informs them that Belloq and the Nazis are digging for the Well of Souls with a replica of the headpiece and they quickly realize the Nazi headpiece is incomplete and that the Nazis are digging in the wrong place. The Nazis kidnap Marion and it appears to Jones that she is killed in an exploding truck, after a confrontation with Belloq in a local bar, Indy and Sallah infiltrate the Nazi dig site and use their staff to correctly locate the Ark. Indy discovers Marion is alive, bound and gagged in a tent, Indy, Sallah, and a small group of diggers unearth the Well of Souls and acquire the Ark. Belloq and Nazi officer Colonel Dietrich arrive, seize the Ark from Jones, Jones and Marion escape to a local airstrip, where Jones has a fistfight with a Nazi mechanic and destroys the flying wing that was to transport the Ark to Berlin
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is a 2008 American action adventure film. It is the installment in the Indiana Jones series created by George Lucas. Released nineteen years after the film, the film acknowledges the age of its star Harrison Ford by being set in 1957. It pays tribute to the science fiction B-movies of the era, Indiana is aided by his former lover, Marion Ravenwood, and their son, Mutt Williams. Ray Winstone, John Hurt and Jim Broadbent are also part of the supporting cast, screenwriters Jeb Stuart, Jeffrey Boam, Frank Darabont, and Jeff Nathanson wrote drafts before David Koepps script satisfied the producers. Shooting began on June 18,2007, at locations in New Mexico, New Haven, Connecticut, Hawaii. The film premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival on May 18,2008, there was significant praise for the performances, action scenes, John Williams musical score, and the costume design. Criticism, however, focused on the dialogue, storyline, pacing, marketing relied heavily on the publics nostalgia for the series, with products taking inspiration from all four films. In 1957, Indiana Jones and his partner George Mac McHale are kidnapped in New Mexico by Soviet agents under Colonel Dr. Irina Spalko, the Soviets infiltrate a warehouse labeled Warehouse 51 and force Jones to locate a mummified alien corpse, recovered ten years earlier. Upon its discovery, Mac reveals he is an agent working for the Soviets. Jones escapes and unsuccessfully attempts to retrieve the body and his leaving also causes the deans resignation to keep Indianas job at the college. Jones is approached by greaser Mutt Williams, who tells him that Harold Oxley had found a skull in Peru. Jones tells Mutt about the legend of crystal skulls found in Akator, Mutt gives Jones a letter from his mother, who is also held captive, containing a riddle written by Oxley in an ancient South American language. KGB agents attempt to capture them, but Jones and Mutt evade them, at the local psychiatric hospital, Oxleys scribbles on the walls and floor of his cell lead them to the grave of Francisco de Orellana, a Conquistador who has searched for Akator. They discover the skull at the grave, with Jones reasoning that Oxley had returned it there. Spalko believes that the crystal skull belongs to a life form and holds great psychic power. Spalko uses the skull on Jones to enable him to understand Oxley, Jones and his four allies escape with the skull, but Marion and Jones get caught into a dry sandpit, to be recaptured by the Soviets. On their way to Akator, Mac tells Jones he is a CIA double-agent to regain Jones trust, Jones and his allies survive three waterfalls in an amphibious vehicle, while many of the Soviets fall from a cliff while trying to pursue them
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Starman (film)
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The original screenplay was written by Bruce A. Evans and Raynold Gideon, with Dean Riesner doing uncredited re-writes. Bridges was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role, the film inspired a short-lived television series of the same name in 1986. Launched in 1977, the Voyager 2 space probe carried a gold phonographic disk with a message of peace, the probe is intercepted by an alien ship which then sends a small scout vessel to establish first contact with Earth. However, instead of greeting the alien craft, the US government shoots it down, crashing in Chequamegon Bay, Wisconsin, the lone alien occupant, looking like a floating ball of glowing energy, finds the home of recently widowed Jenny Hayden. While there, the uses a lock of hair from her deceased husband, Scott. The alien Starman has seven small silver spheres with him which provide energy to perform miraculous feats and he uses the first to send a message to his people stating that Earth is hostile and his spacecraft has been destroyed. He arranges to rendezvous with them in three days time and he then uses the second sphere to create a holographic map of the United States, coercing Jenny into taking him to the rendezvous point in Arizona. Jenny is initially hostile and frightened of him and attempts to escape. Having a rough understanding of English language from the Voyager 2 disk and he explains that if he does not reach the rendezvous point, Arizonas Barringer Crater, in three days, he will die. However, they are pursued across the country by the authorities and, after nearly being caught, Jenny is shot, in order to escape, the Starman crashes their car into a gas tanker and uses another sphere to protect the two of them from the explosion. They take refuge in a home that is being towed. He uses another sphere to heal Jenny. After being assured that Jenny will recover, the Starman proceeds to hitchhike towards Arizona without her, reunited, the two of them hitchhike together, resuming their journey towards the crater. Later, while stowing away on a train, the couple makes love. The Starman tells Jenny I gave you a baby tonight, Jenny explains that she is infertile and cannot have children, but he assures her she is now pregnant. Starman offers to stop the pregnancy if she wishes, but the joyful Jenny embraces him, the couple mistakenly travel too far on the train and arrive in Las Vegas. Jenny realizes she has lost her wallet, the Starman uses one of their last quarters in a slot machine, which he manipulates in order to win the $500,000 jackpot. They then buy a new car to complete their journey to Arizona, meanwhile, National Security Agency director George Fox learns that the Starmans flight trajectory, prior to being shot down, was to the Barringer Crater
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Scrooged
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Scrooged is a 1988 American Christmas comedy film, a modernization of Charles Dickenss A Christmas Carol. The film was produced and directed by Richard Donner, and the cinematography was by Michael Chapman, the screenplay was written by Mitch Glazer and Michael ODonoghue. The original music score was composed by Danny Elfman, the film stars Bill Murray, with Karen Allen, Bobcat Goldthwait, Alfre Woodard, John Forsythe, Carol Kane, John Houseman, and Robert Mitchum in supporting roles. Murrays brothers Brian, John, and Joel also appear in the film, the film was marketed with references to Ghostbusters which had been a great success four years earlier. In the United States, the tagline was, Bill Murray is back among the ghosts, only this time, Frank Cross is an inconsiderate and arrogant executive in the IBC television network headquarters. He is preparing an extravagant live production of A Christmas Carol on Christmas Eve, forcing the staff, including his assistant Grace Cooley. Meanwhile, Franks boss Preston Rhinelander has hired Brice Cummings, who is transparently after Franks job, hours before the show starts, Frank is visited by the ghost of his mentor Lew Hayward, who announces that three ghosts will appear over the course of the night. Lew also causes Franks phone to call Claire Phillips, Franks true love from years ago, Claire comes to visit Frank, but he is too busy to talk to her. She leaves him the address of the shelter where she works. The Ghost of Christmas Past appears as a driver who takes Frank back to his childhood. His father Earl is an unloving meatpacking foreman who gives him veal for Christmas, Franks only solace is in the world of television, foreshadowing his eventual career path. Returned to the present, Frank goes to the shelter to apologize to Claire. However, when shelter workers pester Claire, Frank reverts to his old self, and bluntly tells Claire she is letting life pass her by, back at IBC, Frank watches final preparations before the live show. The Ghost of Christmas Present appears as a cute, yet volatile pixie who goes by the motto and she shows Frank how Grace struggles with the long hours he puts her through, without being able to care for her family. Her son Calvin has been mute since the death of his five years prior. The Ghost also shows him how James is enjoying Christmas with his wife and friends, James still invites Frank every year, Frank struggles to escape through a boarded-up door, but when he forces the door he crashes through the IBC set during the final rehearsal. Preston has put Brice in charge, fearing that Frank is having a mental breakdown, Frank returns to his office where he is repeatedly shot at by a furious Eliot, whose life he has ruined. Frank dives into an elevator, and finds the Ghost of Christmas Future, appearing as a towering cloaked skeleton with tortured souls trapped inside his ribcage and a TV for a head, waiting for him
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Broadway theatre
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Along with Londons West End theatres, Broadway theatres are widely considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world. The Theater District is a popular tourist attraction in New York City, the great majority of Broadway shows are musicals. They presented Shakespeare plays and ballad operas such as The Beggars Opera, in 1752, William Hallam sent a company of twelve actors from Britain to the colonies with his brother Lewis as their manager. They established a theatre in Williamsburg, Virginia and opened with The Merchant of Venice, the company moved to New York in the summer of 1753, performing ballad operas and ballad-farces like Damon and Phillida. The Revolutionary War suspended theatre in New York, but thereafter theatre resumed in 1798, the Bowery Theatre opened in 1826, followed by others. Blackface minstrel shows, a distinctly American form of entertainment, became popular in the 1830s, by the 1840s, P. T. Barnum was operating an entertainment complex in lower Manhattan. In 1829, at Broadway and Prince Street, Niblos Garden opened, the 3, 000-seat theatre presented all sorts of musical and non-musical entertainments. In 1844, Palmos Opera House opened and presented opera for four seasons before bankruptcy led to its rebranding as a venue for plays under the name Burtons Theatre. The Astor Opera House opened in 1847, booth played the role for a famous 100 consecutive performances at the Winter Garden Theatre in 1865, and would later revive the role at his own Booths Theatre. Other renowned Shakespeareans who appeared in New York in this era were Henry Irving, Tommaso Salvini, Fanny Davenport, lydia Thompson came to America in 1868 heading a small theatrical troupe, adapting popular English burlesques for middle-class New York audiences. Thompsons troupe called the British Blondes, was the most popular entertainment in New York during the 1868–1869 theatrical season, the six-month tour ran for almost six extremely profitable years. Theatre in New York moved from downtown gradually to midtown beginning around 1850, in 1870, the heart of Broadway was in Union Square, and by the end of the century, many theatres were near Madison Square. Broadways first long-run musical was a 50-performance hit called The Elves in 1857, New York runs continued to lag far behind those in London, but Laura Keenes musical burletta The Seven Sisters shattered previous New York records with a run of 253 performances. It was at a performance by Keenes troupe of Our American Cousin in Washington, the production was a staggering five-and-a-half hours long, but despite its length, it ran for a record-breaking 474 performances. The same year, The Black Domino/Between You, Me and the Post was the first show to call itself a musical comedy, Tony Pastor opened the first vaudeville theatre one block east of Union Square in 1881, where Lillian Russell performed. Comedians Edward Harrigan and Tony Hart produced and starred in musicals on Broadway between 1878 and 1890, with book and lyrics by Harrigan and music by his father-in-law David Braham. They starred high quality singers, instead of the women of repute who had starred in earlier musical forms. Plays could run longer and still draw in the audiences, leading to better profits, as in England, during the latter half of the century, the theatre began to be cleaned up, with less prostitution hindering the attendance of the theatre by women
