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Deauville American Film Festival
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The Deauville American Film Festival is a yearly film festival devoted to American cinema, taking place since 1975 in Deauville, France. It was established by Lionel Chouchan, André Halimi, and then Mayor of Deauville Michel dOrnano, although not competitive at its origin, the festival began to award prizes in 1995, for feature films, and 1998 for short films. This award was named Grand Prix spécial Deauville from 1995 to 2007,1989, Torch Song Trilogy by Paul Bogart 1990, Pump Up the Volume by Allan Moyle Tune in Tomorrow by Jon Amiel 1991, Trust by Hal Hartley Hangin with the Homeboys by Joseph B. It carries a grant of 3,000 euros for the awarded director-writer,3,000 euros for the films producer, and 10,000 euros for the French distributor to help promote the film. The award, which is named in honour of the former Mayor of Deauville and co-founder of the festival, thomas for Willy 1er The Revelation Prize is awarded by a Revelation jury composed of up-and-coming actors and filmmakers. 1996, Charlotte Rampling, Sabine Azéma, René Cleitman, Dominique Farrugia, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Chiara Mastroianni, Laura Morante, Ornella Muti, Melvil Poupaud and Alain Rocca. 1997, Sophie Marceau, Élodie Bouchez, Philippe Carcassonne, Étienne Chatiliez, Alain Finkielkraut, John Hurt, Michèle Laroque, Inés Sastre, Nathalie Quintane and Lambert Wilson. 1998, Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Michèle Halberstadt, Sandrine Kiberlain, Virginie Ledoyen, Russell Banks, Maurice Bernart, Alessandro Gassman, Ewan McGregor, Liam Neeson, Éric Serra and Christian Vincent. 1999, Régis Wargnier, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Humbert Balsan, Richard Berry, Gabriel Byrne, Jean-Pierre Dionnet, Marie Gillain, Michel Houellebecq, Marie-France Pisier and Elsa Zylberstein. 2000, Neil Jordan, Guillaume Canet, Clotilde Courau, Tchéky Karyo, Philippe Labro, Samuel Le Bihan, François Ozon, Vincent Perez, Danièle Thompson and Marie Trintignant. 2001, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Sandrine Bonnaire, Marion Cotillard, Arielle Dombasle, Gérard Darmon, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Darius Khondji, Benoît Poelvoorde and Gabriel Yared. 2002, Pierre Lescure, Chantal Akerman, Richard Anconina, Jean-Marc Barr, Charles Berling, Amira Casar, Julie Gayet, Irène Jacob, Cédric Kahn and Bruno Wolkowitch. 2003, Roman Polanski, Claudia Cardinale, Pawel Edelman, Jacques Fieschi, Ben Kingsley, Anne Parillaud, Zbigniew Preisner, Ludivine Sagnier, Fernando Trueba and Tom Tykwer. 2004, Claude Lelouch, Anouk Aimée, Marie-Josée Croze, Danièle Heymann, Diane Kurys, Jeanne Labrune, Lio, Claudie Ossard, Bettina Rheims and Mathilde Seigner. 2005, Alain Corneau, Enki Bilal, Dominique Blanc, Romane Bohringer, Rachida Brakni, Christophe, Dominik Moll, Melvil Poupaud and Brigitte Roüan. 2006, Nicole Garcia, Maurice Barthélémy, Guillaume Canet, Amira Casar, Emmanuelle Castro, Antoine de Caunes, Julien Clerc, Philippe Djian and Marthe Keller. 2007, André Téchiné, Odile Barski, Xavier Beauvois, Nicolas Cazalé, Charlélie Couture, Émilie Deleuze, Anouk Grinberg,2008, Carole Bouquet, Édouard Baer, Ronit Elkabetz, Diane Fleri, Pierre Jolivet, Cédric Kahn, Cristian Mungiu, Leonor Silveira and Dean Tavoularis. 2009, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Hiam Abbass, Dany Boon, Jean-Loup Dabadie, Émilie Dequenne, Déborah François, Sandrine Kiberlain, Patrice Leconte, Géraldine Pailhas and Bruno Podalydès
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Los Angeles
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Los Angeles, officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L. A. is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California. With a census-estimated 2015 population of 3,971,883, it is the second-most populous city in the United States, Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated county in the United States. The citys inhabitants are referred to as Angelenos, historically home to the Chumash and Tongva, Los Angeles was claimed by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo for Spain in 1542 along with the rest of what would become Alta California. The city was founded on September 4,1781, by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 following the Mexican War of Independence, in 1848, at the end of the Mexican–American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thereby becoming part of the United States. Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4,1850, the discovery of oil in the 1890s brought rapid growth to the city. The completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, delivering water from Eastern California, nicknamed the City of Angels, Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, and sprawling metropolis. Los Angeles also has an economy in culture, media, fashion, science, sports, technology, education, medicine. A global city, it has been ranked 6th in the Global Cities Index, the city is home to renowned institutions covering a broad range of professional and cultural fields, and is one of the most substantial economic engines within the United States. The Los Angeles combined statistical area has a gross metropolitan product of $831 billion, making it the third-largest in the world, after the Greater Tokyo and New York metropolitan areas. The city has hosted the Summer Olympic Games in 1932 and 1984 and is bidding to host the 2024 Summer Olympics and thus become the second city after London to have hosted the Games three times. The Los Angeles area also hosted the 1994 FIFA mens World Cup final match as well as the 1999 FIFA womens World Cup final match, the mens event was watched on television by over 700 million people worldwide. The Los Angeles coastal area was first settled by the Tongva, a Gabrielino settlement in the area was called iyáangẚ, meaning poison oak place. Gaspar de Portolà and Franciscan missionary Juan Crespí, reached the present site of Los Angeles on August 2,1769, in 1771, Franciscan friar Junípero Serra directed the building of the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, the first mission in the area. The Queen of the Angels is an honorific of the Virgin Mary, two-thirds of the settlers were mestizo or mulatto with a mixture of African, indigenous and European ancestry. The settlement remained a small town for decades, but by 1820. Today, the pueblo is commemorated in the district of Los Angeles Pueblo Plaza and Olvera Street. New Spain achieved its independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, during Mexican rule, Governor Pío Pico made Los Angeles Alta Californias regional capital
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California
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California is the most populous state in the United States and the third most extensive by area. Located on the western coast of the U. S, California is bordered by the other U. S. states of Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona and shares an international border with the Mexican state of Baja California. Los Angeles is Californias most populous city, and the second largest after New York City. The Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nations second- and fifth-most populous urban regions, California also has the nations most populous county, Los Angeles County, and its largest county by area, San Bernardino County. The Central Valley, an agricultural area, dominates the states center. What is now California was first settled by various Native American tribes before being explored by a number of European expeditions during the 16th and 17th centuries, the Spanish Empire then claimed it as part of Alta California in their New Spain colony. The area became a part of Mexico in 1821 following its war for independence. The western portion of Alta California then was organized as the State of California, the California Gold Rush starting in 1848 led to dramatic social and demographic changes, with large-scale emigration from the east and abroad with an accompanying economic boom. If it were a country, California would be the 6th largest economy in the world, fifty-eight percent of the states economy is centered on finance, government, real estate services, technology, and professional, scientific and technical business services. Although it accounts for only 1.5 percent of the states economy, the story of Calafia is recorded in a 1510 work The Adventures of Esplandián, written as a sequel to Amadis de Gaula by Spanish adventure writer Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo. The kingdom of Queen Calafia, according to Montalvo, was said to be a land inhabited by griffins and other strange beasts. This conventional wisdom that California was an island, with maps drawn to reflect this belief, shortened forms of the states name include CA, Cal. Calif. and US-CA. Settled by successive waves of arrivals during the last 10,000 years, various estimates of the native population range from 100,000 to 300,000. The Indigenous peoples of California included more than 70 distinct groups of Native Americans, ranging from large, settled populations living on the coast to groups in the interior. California groups also were diverse in their organization with bands, tribes, villages. Trade, intermarriage and military alliances fostered many social and economic relationships among the diverse groups, the first European effort to explore the coast as far north as the Russian River was a Spanish sailing expedition, led by Portuguese captain Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, in 1542. Some 37 years later English explorer Francis Drake also explored and claimed a portion of the California coast in 1579. Spanish traders made unintended visits with the Manila galleons on their trips from the Philippines beginning in 1565
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The Horse Whisperer (film)
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The Horse Whisperer is a 1998 American drama film directed by and starring Robert Redford, based on the 1995 novel The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans. Redford plays the role, a talented trainer with a remarkable gift for understanding horses. Teenager Grace MacLean and her best friend Judith go out early one morning to ride their horses, Pilgrim. As they ride up an icy slope, Gulliver slips and hits Pilgrim, both horses fall, dragging the girls onto a road and colliding with a truck. Judith and Gulliver are killed, while Grace and Pilgrim are both severely injured, Grace, left with a partially amputated right leg, is bitter and withdrawn after the accident. Meanwhile, Pilgrim is traumatized and uncontrollable to the extent that it is suggested he be put down, Graces mother, Annie, a strong-minded and workaholic magazine editor, refuses to allow Pilgrim to be put down, sensing that somehow Graces recovery is linked with Pilgrims. Desperate for a way to heal both Grace and Pilgrim, Annie tracks down a horse whisperer, Tom Booker, in the remote Montana mountains, Tom agrees to help, but only if Grace also takes part in the process. Grace reluctantly agrees, and she and Annie go to stay at the Booker ranch where Tom lives with his brother, as Pilgrim and Grace slowly overcome their trauma, Annie and Tom begin to develop a mutual attraction. However, they are reluctant to act on these feelings – Annie is married and Tom had his heart broken before. Tom also asks Grace to tell him about what happened with her, at first, Grace is reluctant, but eventually gathers up her courage, and tearfully tells him about the accident. The status quo between Annie and Tom is broken when Robert MacLean, Graces father and Annies husband, unexpectedly shows up at the ranch, Annie is increasingly torn by her feelings for Tom and her love for her family. Soon, with Toms help, Grace finally takes the last step to heal herself, although Annie wishes she could stay with Tom on the ranch, she also knows that she belongs to the city, just like Toms wife. Annie departs, driving away from the ranch, while Tom watches her go from the top of a hill, although he had already directed several films, this was the first time Robert Redford directed a film that he also starred in. The main character, according to writer Nicholas Evans, is modeled after horse whisperers Tom Dorrance, Ray Hunt and, in particular, Brannaman also doubled for Robert Redford in the film and served as the consultant. Evans himself said, Others have claimed to be the inspiration for Tom Booker in The Horse Whisperer, the one who truly inspired me was Buck Brannaman. His skill, understanding and his gentle, loving heart have parted the clouds for countless troubled creatures, Buck is the Zen master of the horse world. Nicholas Evans writes, I spent many weeks traveling across the West, Tom Dorrance and Ray Hunt were quite elderly at the time Evans met them, Brannaman is still a relatively young man. The horse training methods shown are not entirely without controversy, while Brannaman was the on-site technical consultant, he did not have creative control
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Remember the Titans
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Remember the Titans is a 2000 American sports film produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Boaz Yakin. Will Patton portrays Bill Yoast, Boones assistant coach, real-life athletes Gerry Bertier and Julius Campbell are portrayed by Ryan Hurst and Wood Harris, respectively. The film was co-produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films, remember the Titans explores civil topics, such as racism, discrimination and athletics. On September 29,2000, the soundtrack was released by Walt Disney Records. It features songs written by recording artists including Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Hollies, Marvin Gaye, James Taylor. Remember the Titans premiered in theaters nationwide in the United States on September 29,2000 and it earned an additional $21 million in business through international release to top out at a combined $136.7 million in gross revenue. The film was considered a success due to its $30 million budget. Preceding its theatrical run, the film was met with favorable critical reviews before its initial screening in cinemas. In 1971, at the desegregated T. C. Williams High School, Boone is assigned to the coaching team under current coach Bill Yoast, nominated for the Virginia High School Hall of Fame. But, in an attempt to placate rising racial tensions and the fact that all high schools are white only. At first, he refuses as he thinks it is unfair to Yoast. Yoast is then offered an assistant coachs job by the board and initially refuses. Dismayed at the prospect of the losing their chances at scholarships, Yoast changes his mind. The black students have a meeting in the gymnasium in auditioning to play for the team until Boone arrives, on August 15,1971, the players gather and journey to Gettysburg College, where their training camp takes place. As their days of training camp progress, black and white team members frequently clash in racially motivated conflicts. After returning from football camp, Boone is told by a member of the board that if he loses even a single game. Subsequently, the Titans go through the season undefeated while battling racial prejudice, Gerry has his best friend Ray removed from the team because of his racism. During the game, it becomes apparent that the referees are biased against the Titans, the Titans nonetheless win, but Yoast is told by the chairman that his actions have resulted in his loss of candidacy for induction
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Blue Crush
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Blue Crush is a 2002 surfer film directed by John Stockwell and based on Susan Orleans Outside magazine article Lifes Swell. Anne Marie, Eden and Lena are best friends and they raised Anne Maries 14-year-old sister, Penny, ever since their mother took off to Las Vegas with a boyfriend who was uncomfortable with the idea of having the two girls come along. While Penny is at school, Anne Marie, Eden and Lena work as maids at a resort hotel. Her friends, especially Eden, have encouraged her to try it again, Anne Marie has been invited to join in an upcoming surf competition at the famed North Shore surf spot, Pipeline. She hopes to gain the attention of sponsors and get herself, as the Pipeline competition gets closer, she struggles to keep Penny under control and deal with her own personal issues. At work, Anne Marie meets and catches the eye of Matt Tollman, Matt is there with several of his rowdy teammates and instantly becomes attracted to the surfer. Through a series of encounters, she agrees to teach him how to surf for $150 per hour. When she goes to Matts hotel room to get the money, they kiss as a call comes and Anne suspects that it is his wife and her acceptance of a non-local begins to cause friction between her and many of the young men in her surfing social circle. Anne Marie faces more problems when she and Eden argue about Anne Maries lack of dedication to training for the Pipeline contest due to the appearance of Matt. Anne Marie confronts Matt about their situation and soon resolves to step up her game, on the day of Pipeline, Anne Marie wipes out during her first heat, but advances to the next heat after narrowly beating pro surfer Kate Skarratt. She is shaken, but Matt tells her a story about his first game as an NFL quarterback, determined, but still afraid, Anne Marie returns to the water. Competing in the heat is Keala Kennelly, one of the first professional female surfers. While Keala surfs the first few sets of waves without wipe-outs, Anne Marie still has inhibitions about riding one, visions of another near-drowning incident holding her back. Keala finishes her turn, then out and takes Anne Marie under her wing and encourages her to take the best wave of the day. According to Rotten Tomatoes, 61% of critics thought the movie was fresh with the consensus that The surfing sequences are exhilarating. On their weekly movie show, Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper gave the film Two Thumbs Up. The film opened on 3,002 screens in the United States on August 18,2002 and it grossed $14.2 million and placed 3rd that opening weekend. It went on to gross $40.4 million in the U. S. the films estimated budget was $25 million
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Wonderland (2003 film)
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Wonderland is a 2003 American crime drama film, co-written and directed by James Cox and based on the real-life Wonderland Murders that occurred in 1981. The film stars Val Kilmer, Kate Bosworth, Dylan McDermott, Carrie Fisher, Lisa Kudrow, Josh Lucas, Christina Applegate, Tim Blake Nelson, and Janeane Garofalo. The underage girlfriend of John Holmes, Dawn Schiller, is on the streets, Schiller eventually calls Holmes to come and get her. Holmes arrives at the apartment, and they have sex and snort cocaine in the bathroom. The next morning, while in a room, Dawn sees a newscast that states four people were murdered at a rowhouse on Wonderland Avenue. The story eventually moves on to two city detectives investigating the crime, Sam Nico and Louis Cruz, and their contact with Holmes, another officer, Billy Ward, intervenes in the investigation. The next major character introduced is David Lind and he hears of his friends murders at Wonderland and soon discovers his girlfriend was there. While at the scene, he is picked up by Nico. Through Linds story, we are introduced to some of the people who partied at Wonderland and these people, known as the Wonderland Gang, included Ron Launius and his wife Susan, Billy Deverell, Linds 22-year-old girlfriend Barbara Richardson, and Joy Miller. Ron has a fondness for guns and frequently shows them off. When he learns that Holmes knows notorious gangster Eddie Nash, he gives Holmes a pair of antique guns to take to Nash, so that Nash can fence them. Holmes takes the guns to Nash, but Nash says the guns are too rare to be sold, as they would be recognized right away, rather than return the guns to Holmes, Nash keeps them for himself. Attempting to get back in the good graces, Holmes suggests robbing Nashs home. Ron Launius is reluctant to go along with the robbery at first, Holmes volunteers to draw them a map to plan the robbery, since he has visited Nashs house frequently. Holmes then visits Nash to buy drugs, and on the way out leaves the door unlocked to give the Wonderland gang easy access. The next morning, Ron Launius, Lind, and Deverell carry out the robbery, while wheel-man Tracy McCourt waits outside in a car, neither Holmes nor any of the women is present when the robbery occurs. The Wonderland Gang gains access through the kitchen door and robs Nash at gunpoint. Lind accidentally fires his gun, wounding Nashs bodyguard, Greg Diles, the gang hurls racial epithets at Nash and Diles and walks away with over one million dollars in cash, jewels, and drugs
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Sandra Dee
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Sandra Dee was an American actress. Dee began her career as a model, working in commercials before transitioning to film in her teenage years. Best known for her portrayal of ingénues, Dee earned a Golden Globe Award as one of the years most promising newcomers for her performance in Robert Wises Until They Sail. She became a star for her subsequent performances in Imitation of Life and Gidget. By the late 1960s her career had started to decline, and she rarely acted after this time, and her final years were marred by illness. She died in 2005 at the age of 62 of complications from kidney disease and she was of Carpatho-Rusyn ancestry, and raised in the Russian Orthodox faith. Dee recalled, we belonged to a Russian Orthodox Church, alexandra would soon take the name Sandra Dee. She became a model by the age of 4 and subsequently progressed to television commercials. There has been dispute as to Dees actual birth year. Legal records, including her California divorce record from Bobby Darin, as well as the Social Security Death Index, in a 1967 interview with the Oxnard Press-Courier, she acknowledged being 18 in 1960 when she first met Bobby Darin, and the couple wed three months later. According to her sons book, Dee was born in 1944, according to this version, this explains why 1942 was listed as her birth year in official studio press releases. It does not however explain why her gravestone, which had to have been commissioned by her son, her child and sole immediate survivor. Dees parents divorced in 1950, and her then married a man who reportedly sexually abused Dee. Producer Ross Hunter claimed to have discovered Dee on Park Avenue in New York City with her mother when she was years old. In a 1959 interview, Dee recalled that she grew up fast, surrounded mostly by older people, during her modeling career, Dee attempted to lose weight to be as skinny as the high-fashion models, although an improper diet ruined skin, hair, nails—everything. Having slimmed down, her body was unable to digest any food she ate, according to the actress, she could have killed and had to learn to eat all over again. According to sources, Dees large modeling salary was more than she would come to earn as an actress. Ending her modeling career, Dee moved from New York to Hollywood in 1957, after studying at the Hollywood Professional School, she graduated from University High School in Los Angeles in June 1958
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Bobby Darin
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Bobby Darin was an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and actor of film and television. He performed in a range of genres, including jazz, pop, rock n roll, folk, swing. He started as a songwriter for Connie Francis, and recorded his own first million-seller Splish Splash in 1958 and this was followed by Dream Lover, Mack the Knife, and Beyond the Sea, which brought him world fame. In 1962 he won a Golden Globe Award for his first film Come September, co-starring his first wife, during the 1960s he became more politically active and worked on Robert F. Kennedys Democratic presidential campaign. He was present on the night of June 4/5,1968 and that same year he discovered that he had been brought up by his grandmother, not his mother, and that the girl he had thought to be his sister was actually his mother. These events deeply affected Darin and sent him into a period of seclusion. Although he made a successful comeback - in television - his health was beginning to fail, as he had always expected and this knowledge of his vulnerability had always spurred him on to exploit his musical talent while still young. He died at age 37, following an operation in Los Angeles. Born Walden Robert Cassotto in the East Harlem neighborhood of New York City, Bobby Darin was reared by his maternal grandmother, Darins birth mother, Vanina Juliette Nina Cassotto, became pregnant with him in the summer of 1935 when she was 17. Presumably because of the nature of out-of-wedlock pregnancies in that era, Nina. Darins maternal grandfather, Saverio Antonio Big Sam Curly Cassotto, was of Italian descent and his maternal grandmother, Vivian Fern Walden, who called herself Polly, was of English ancestry and a vaudeville singer. From his birth, Darin always believed Nina to be his older sister, but in 1968, when he was 32, Nina told Darin the truth, reportedly devastating him. By the time he was a teenager, Darin could play several instruments, including piano, drums and he later added harmonica and xylophone. Darin moved to the Bronx early in his life and graduated from the prestigious Bronx High School of Science, in later years he attributed his arrogance to his experiences at the high school, where he was surrounded by brighter students who would tease him. He then enrolled at Hunter College and soon gravitated to the drama department, after only two semesters, he dropped out to pursue an acting career. Darins career took off with a partnership, formed in 1955 with Don Kirshner. They wrote jingles and songs, beginning with Bubblegum Pop, in 1956 his agent negotiated a contract with Decca Records. The songs recorded at Decca had very little success, a member of the Brill Building gang of struggling songwriters, Darin was introduced to singer Connie Francis, for whom he helped write several songs
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Beyond the Sea (film)
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Beyond the Sea is a 2004 American musical drama film based on the life of singer/actor Bobby Darin. Beyond the Sea depicts Darins rise to success in both the music and film industry during the 1950s and 1960s, as well as his marriage to Sandra Dee, portrayed by Kate Bosworth. As early as 1986, Barry Levinson intended to direct a film based on the life of Darin, when he eventually vacated the directors position, Spacey, along with Darins son Dodd, acquired the film rights. Beyond the Sea was released in December 2004 to mixed reviews from critics, Dodd Darin, Sandra Dee and former Darin manager Steve Blauner responded with enthusiastic feedback to Spaceys work on the film. Despite a number of reviews, some critics praised Spaceys performance. He received a Golden Globe nomination, to achieve that goal, he forms a band and struggles to find gigs at any nightclub that will hire him. His agent gets Darin a recording contract with Atlantic Records, where the singer enjoys teen idol success with Splish Splash. Not wanting to limit his appeal to rock and roll audiences, he changes his niche to big band singing and records major hits, to capitalize on his popularity with teenage and young adult audiences, Darin is cast in Come September opposite Sandra Dee. He falls in love with the actress and, determined to marry her, he romantically seduces and enchants her with songs like Beyond the Sea. The two elope, angering her mother, Darin finally realizes his own mothers dream when he is signed to appear at the famed Copacabana nightclub in Manhattan. As success takes him on the road and away from home, Dee begins to drink heavily, and she gives birth to a son, Dodd. To his actress wifes chagrin, Darin is nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as a shell shocked soldier in Captain Newman, M. D. In the late 1960s, Darin becomes involved in the campaign to elect Robert F. Kennedy for President, devastated, Darin becomes a recluse living in a trailer on the Big Sur coast in California. Undaunted, he stages a show, complete with a choir, at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas. Suffering from blood poisoning following surgery to repair his mechanical heart valve, Darin is rushed to the hospital, following his death, he meets the younger counterpart of himself once again, and the two duet with As Long As Im Singing. Kevin Spacey as Bobby Darin, who rises from his lower class roots to become one of the most popular rock and roll, Kate Bosworth as Sandra Dee, the popular actress who marries Bobby. Although they divorced in 1967, Sandra said she has always truly and deeply loved him, and that she always will, bob Hoskins as Charlie Maffia, who serves as a father figure and considers Bobby to be his son. John Goodman as Stephen Blauner, Bobbys dedicated talent manager, Blauner later becomes a successful film producer with movies such as The King of Marvin Gardens and Drive, He Said
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Lois Lane
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Lois Lane is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, she first appeared in Action Comics #1, Lois is a reporter for the Metropolis newspaper, the Daily Planet, an award-winning journalist and the primary love interest of Superman. Her physical appearance was based on Joanne Carter, a model hired by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. For her character, Siegel was inspired by actress Glenda Farrell, Siegel took her name from actress Lola Lane. She was also influenced by the real-life journalist Nellie Bly, depictions of the character have varied spanning the comics and other media adaptations. The original Golden Age version of Lois Lane, as well as versions of her from the 1970s onwards, portrays Lois as a tough-as-nails journalist and intellectually equal to Superman. During the Silver Age of Comics, she was the star of Supermans Girl Friend, Lois Lane, beginning in 2015, she stars as the protagonist in the young adult novel series, Lois Lane, by writer Gwenda Bond. Lois is among the female comic book characters. She has appeared in various Superman media adaptations, Actress Noel Neill first portrayed Lois Lane in the 1940s Superman film series and late reprise her role in the 1950s television series Adventures of Superman. Margot Kidder played the character in four Superman films in the 1970s and 80s, Teri Hatcher portrayed her in the 1990s television series Lois & Clark, The New Adventures of Superman and Erica Durance in the 00s series, Smallville. In the 2006 film Superman Returns, she was played by Kate Bosworth, the character was most recently portrayed by actress Amy Adams in the films Man of Steel and Batman v Superman, Dawn of Justice. Lois Lane was one of the first female comic book characters introduced in the superhero comics, Lois is the daughter of Ella and Sam Lane. In earlier comics, her parents were farmers in a town called Pittsdale and she has one younger sibling, her sister Lucy Lane. Lois is a journalist for the Daily Planet, one of the best investigative reporters, in some stories, she has been shown obtaining superpowers and becoming a superhero. Some of her superhero identities are Superwoman and Red Tornado of Earth 2, aspects of Lois personality have varied over the years, depending on the comic book writers handling of the character and American social attitudes toward women at the time. In most incarnations, Lois has been depicted as a smart, determined, strong-willed and her physical appearance has varied over the years, depending either on contemporary fashion, or media adaptations. Traditionally in the comics, the character has shown with black hair, however, from the late 1980s through the 90s. In other media, shes been shown with blonde hair on the television series Smallville
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Superman Returns
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Superman Returns is a 2006 American superhero film directed and produced by Bryan Singer. The film stars Brandon Routh as Clark Kent/Superman, Kate Bosworth as Lois Lane, Kevin Spacey as Lex Luthor, with James Marsden, Frank Langella, the film tells the story of the title character returning to Earth after a five-year absence. He finds that his love interest Lois Lane has moved on with her life, and that his archenemy Lex Luthor is plotting a scheme that will destroy Superman and the world. After a series of projects to resurrect Superman on screen following the critical failure and box office disappointment of Superman IV. Warner Bros. hired Bryan Singer to direct and develop Superman Returns in July 2004, upon release, Superman Returns received generally positive critical reviews, with critics praising its visual effects, story, musical score, and style. However, it received mixed reviews in years, with criticism focused on its length, story. While a box office success, Warner Bros. was disappointed with the box office return. A sequel was planned for a summer 2009 release, but the project was later canceled, the Superman film series was completely rebooted in 2013 with the film Man of Steel, directed by Zack Snyder and starring Henry Cavill as Superman. For five years, Superman has abandoned his home of Earth while on a journey to visit the remains of Krypton. His seemingly selfish decision has ruined his image in the eyes of many, including journalist Lois Lane, upon returning to Metropolis, Superman, in his human identity of Clark Kent, is shocked to discover the consequences of his disappearance. While covering the launch of a shuttle, he narrowly saves a plane carrying Lois and other observers from crashing after a mysterious power failure. Unbeknownst to anyone, the accident was triggered by Luthor using Kryptonian technology stolen from the Fortress of Solitude, Luthor has his aide Kitty distract Superman, allowing Lex to steal a sample of kryptonite from a museum. Suspecting his involvement, Lois requests an off-the-record interview aboard his private yacht, Jason has an asthmatic attack when Luthor reveals the kryptonite, but has no subsequent reaction when Luthor holds the stone near him. When one of Luthors henchmen threatens Lois, Jason crushes him with a piano, realizing that he is Supermans son, Luthor and his thugs escape by helicopter as the new landmass emerges from the ocean. While working to contain the damage to Metropolis, Superman learns from Richard that Lois is in danger and saves her, Superman tries to apprehend Luthor, but the kryptonite-poisoned atmosphere quickly strips him of his powers. Luthors men torture Superman into submission, before Luthor stabs Superman with a Kryptonite shard, with Richards help, Lois gets him to safety and removes the shard. Fueled by the radiation, Superman defeats Luthors gang and covers the landmass with soil. While helping Luthor escape, a disillusioned Kitty allows the helicopter to crash on a remote island, complications from Kryptonite exposure cause Superman to fall into a coma, and while doctors are able to remove most of the fragments, they cannot revive him
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21 (2008 film)
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21 is a 2008 American heist drama film directed by Robert Luketic and starring Jim Sturgess, Kevin Spacey, Laurence Fishburne, Kate Bosworth, Liza Lapira, Jacob Pitts, Aaron Yoo, and Kieu Chinh. The film is inspired by the story of the MIT Blackjack Team as told in Bringing Down the House. Senior math major Ben Campbell of Massachusetts Institute of Technology is accepted into Harvard Medical School, despite a 44 MCAT score and top grades, Ben faces fierce competition for the prestigious Robinson Scholarship that would pay for medical school in its entirety. The director tells him that the scholarship would go to the student who dazzles him, Ben did not have anything to dazzle the director then, so he walks away, trying to write an essay with nothing in mind to compose it. At MIT, professor Micky Rosa challenges Ben with the Monty Hall problem in one of his non-linear equation classes, Rosa looks at Fisher with a look of amusement and is impressed by Bens non fluctuating decisions who clings onto his theories of variable change. Despite being told by Rosa that he had gotten into the Harvard Medical School. Next day, Jill visits Ben at his job and attempts to him into joining the team. The system involves card counting, and the team is split into two groups, spotters play the minimum bet and keep track of the count. They send secret signals to the big players, who place large bets whenever the count at the table is favorable, Ben reluctantly joins the team, telling Rosa he is only doing so until he can pay for medical school. Rosa takes the team to Las Vegas over many weekends, Ben comes to enjoy his luxurious lifestyle as a big player there and his performance impresses Jill—who develops a mutual attraction with him—and Rosa. However, Fisher becomes jealous of Bens blackjack success, Rosa kicks a drunken Fisher off the team after he insults Ben and incites a melee, requiring the team to scramble to cash in their stock of chips before the casino swaps out. Meanwhile, security chief Cole Williams monitors the blackjack team, having his eyes on Ben, Ben, distracted by blackjack, does not complete his part of a project for an engineering competition, estranging him from his pre-blackjack friends. During the next trip to Vegas, an emotionally distracted Ben continues playing even after he is signaled to walk away, angered and upset, Rosa leaves the team and demands that Ben repay him for the loss. Ben and his three remaining teammates agree to go into business for themselves, Williams, however, kidnaps Ben, beats him up, then lets him go after a dire warning. Ben learns that he has given an incomplete in one of his classes and, therefore, will not graduate. He suspects that Rosa is behind the events but has no evidence, disguised, the team returns to Planet Hollywood and wins $640,000 before fleeing with their chips from Williams and his men. Ben and Rosa split up, with Rosa taking the bag of chips, Rosa escapes into a livery cab with the intention of stealing the winnings, but finds his bag is full of chocolate coins and that the casino manager is driving Rosas cab. It is revealed that Williams had made a deal with Ben after beating him up, Rosa had won a seven-figure sum at Williamss casino by counting cards, a feat that cost Williams a pit boss job
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Straw Dogs (2011 film)
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Straw Dogs is a 2011 American psychological thriller film directed, produced, and written by Rod Lurie. It is a remake of Sam Peckinpahs 1971 film Straw Dogs and it stars James Marsden and Kate Bosworth. Scriptwriter David Sumner and his wife Amy relocate to rural Mississippi where Amy grew up, to rebuild the house of Amys recently deceased father, while in town one afternoon, David meets Amys ex-boyfriend Charlie and his three friends, Norman, Chris, and Bic. David is intimidated by the men but hires them to fix their roof and he also meets Tom Heddon, a former high school football coach whose 15-year-old daughter Janice is attracted to a local man with an intellectual disability, Jeremy Niles. Heddon often bullies Jeremy and believes he is stalking his daughter, one Sunday after church, Tom attacks Jeremy for talking to Janice, and Amy comes to his defence, but David warns her to not get involved. Later that night back at home, David discovers their cat strangled, Amy is positive Charlie and has friends are to blame as they disappeared from the church barbeque for a few hours earlier, but David is hesistant to confront them. When he does finally question them, the men deny everything, Charlie invites David to go deer hunting. While out in the woods with two of the men, Charlie forces his way into the house and rapes Amy, afterwards, Norman arrives and also rapes Amy while Charlie watches. When David returns, Amy decides not to tell him, David fires the men the next day for taking too long to fix the roof and men leave, clearly disgruntled. David and Amy go to a football game. Janice lures Jeremy to enter an empty room and attempts to give him oral sex, while Tom notices her absence. As he approaches, Jeremy, scared of Heddon discovering them, holds his hand over Janices mouth to silence her and he runs away just as Tom informs Charlie and his friends of Janices disappearance. They all suspect Jeremy has done something to her, at the game, Amy has haunting flashbacks about the rapes and asks David to take her home. On the way, she tells him she wants to return to Los Angeles, surprising him, David and Amy take him back to their home and call an ambulance. Charlie and Norman overhear the call on a police scanner. They all drive to David and Amys house, and demand the couple hand Jeremy over, the Sheriff then arrives but Tom shoots him dead, then the men attempt to enter the house. David and Amy baracade the doors shut then take Jeremy upstairs to the bedroom, when Chris attempts to enter through a window, David nails his hands to the wall with a nail gun, his throat fatally exposed to broken glass. When Tom tries to follow, David burns his face with hot oil, Tom and Charlie ram down one of the houses walls with Charlies pick-up truck but Charlie is knocked unconscious
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Still Alice
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Still Alice is a 2014 American independent drama film written and directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland and based on Lisa Genovas 2007 bestselling novel of the same name. The film stars Julianne Moore as Alice Howland, a professor at Columbia diagnosed with familial Alzheimers disease. Alec Baldwin plays her husband, John, and Kristen Stewart, Kate Bosworth, Still Alice had its world premiere at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival on September 8,2014. Alice Howland, a professor at Columbia University, celebrates her 50th birthday with her physician husband John. After she forgets a word during a lecture and becomes lost during a jog on campus, Alices eldest daughter, Anna, and son, Tom get tested. Alices younger daughter, aspiring actress Lydia, decides not to know, as Alices memory begins to fade, she daydreams of her mother and sister, who died in a car crash when she was a teenager. She memorizes words and sets a series of questions on her phone. She hides sleeping pills in her room, and records a message instructing her future self to swallow the pills when she can no longer answer the questions. As her disease advances, she unable to give focused lectures and loses her job. She becomes lost searching for the bathroom in her own home, John is offered a job at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. Alice asks him to postpone it, but he feels this is impossible, Alice begins to have difficulty answering her phone questions. She loses the phone, causing her anxiety, John finds it a later in the freezer. Later, Alice and John visit Anna in the hospital to meet their newborn twin grandchildren, after a video call with Lydia, Alice inadvertently opens the video with the suicide instructions. John, unable to watch his wife continue to deteriorate, eventually moves to Minnesota to take the job in the clinic while Lydia, Lydia reads her a section of the play Angels in America and asks her what she thinks it is about. Alice, barely able to speak, responds with a single word and it was executive produced by American journalist and author Maria Shriver along with Christine Vachon of Killer Films and Declan Baldwin of Big Indie pictures. Principal photography began in New York City on March 3,2014, scenes were shot at 162nd Street between Edgecombe and Amsterdam in New York as well as at Columbia University, Lido Beach, New York and Dobbs Ferry, New York. On July 22,2014, with the announcement of films premiere at TIFF, Sony Pictures Classics bought the US distribution rights for the film in a low seven figure deal that was announced on September 11,2014. SPC gave the film a one-week qualifying run for the Oscars starting December 5,2014, the film went into full wide release in the United States on February 27,2015
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Before I Wake (2016 film)
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Before I Wake is a 2016 American supernatural fantasy horror film directed and edited by Mike Flanagan and co-written by Flanagan and Jeff Howard. The film stars Kate Bosworth, Thomas Jane, Jacob Tremblay, the movie begins with a frightened man with a gun and a sleeping child. Trembling and perspiring, the man enters the childs room. He looks around, as if searching for something that he expects to reveal itself in the shadows, the gunfire awakens the child and the man breaks down in tears, saying that he cant do it. Later, Jessie and Mark Hobson adopt a new child, eight-year-old Cody Morgan. They soon find out that Codys dreams become reality, but his nightmares are quite deadly, on his first night, the couple are amazed as multicolored butterflies flutter across the living room, emitting a strong glow. Mark tries to one to show to Cody, as he likes butterflies. However, Cody wakes up and the butterflies disappear, the following day, he goes to school and finds a friend in a girl, and hostility from a mean kid. At home, Cody asks Mark who the kid in the picture was and Mark replies that he was their son, Cody asks about his whereabouts, to which Jessie replies that he is in heaven, and Cody tells her that thats where his mom is too. That night, the couple see their child and try to hug him. Cody wakes up and Shawn disappears, upon discovering the amazing gift that Cody has, Jessie takes advantage of it. She lets Cody watch home videos of Shawn and then that night, Cody falls asleep at school, and a nightmarish creature, who Cody calls The Canker Man, appears before the mean kid, as the girl hes befriended watches in horror. Meanwhile Jessie goes to a doctor and expresses her complaints about her child not going to bed. She mixes it with his drink, unbeknownst to her husband and that night Shawn once again appears before them, but turns into a nightmarish creature. Mark tries to wake Cody up but cant, Jessie confesses that she drugged the boy. The creature devours Mark as Jessie is thrown across the room and she wakes up with Cody on the phone calling for help, as he found her lying on the floor. Suspecting it to be violence, and knowing of the boy being drugged to sleep. Jessie steals Codys social workers files and talks to Codys former foster parent and he reveals that, with butterflies appearing seemingly out of nowhere, Codys dreams started to become reality
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Talbots
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Talbots is an American specialty retailer and direct marketer of womens clothing, shoes and fashion accessories. At the end of fiscal 2013, the company operated 495 Talbots stores in the U. S. and Canada,425 core Talbots,65 Talbots Factory Outlets and five Talbots Clearance stores. The companys retail operation comprises approximately 80% of its business, with the other 20% conducted via catalog. The first shop, located in Hingham, Massachusetts, was opened in 1947 by Rudolf, in 1948, the Talbots launched a direct mail business by distributing 3,000 fliers to names obtained from The New Yorker magazine. They sold the company, consisting of a growing catalog enterprise and five stores, the chain was expanded along the U. S. east coast. When General Mills divested its Specialty Retail Division in 1988, Talbots was acquired by JUSCO Co Ltd, Talbots became a public company in 1993 and was traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol TLB. The New York City-based private equity firm Sycamore Partners acquired Talbots in August 2012 for $391 million, Talbots also had stores for both mens and childrens apparel
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San Francisco
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San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California. It is the birthplace of the United Nations, the California Gold Rush of 1849 brought rapid growth, making it the largest city on the West Coast at the time. San Francisco became a consolidated city-county in 1856, after three-quarters of the city was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire, San Francisco was quickly rebuilt, hosting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition nine years later. In World War II, San Francisco was a port of embarkation for service members shipping out to the Pacific Theater. Politically, the city votes strongly along liberal Democratic Party lines, San Francisco is also the headquarters of five major banking institutions and various other companies such as Levi Strauss & Co. Dolby, Airbnb, Weebly, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Yelp, Pinterest, Twitter, Uber, Lyft, Mozilla, Wikimedia Foundation, as of 2016, San Francisco is ranked high on world liveability rankings. The earliest archaeological evidence of habitation of the territory of the city of San Francisco dates to 3000 BC. Upon independence from Spain in 1821, the became part of Mexico. Under Mexican rule, the system gradually ended, and its lands became privatized. In 1835, Englishman William Richardson erected the first independent homestead, together with Alcalde Francisco de Haro, he laid out a street plan for the expanded settlement, and the town, named Yerba Buena, began to attract American settlers. Commodore John D. Sloat claimed California for the United States on July 7,1846, during the Mexican–American War, montgomery arrived to claim Yerba Buena two days later. Yerba Buena was renamed San Francisco on January 30 of the next year, despite its attractive location as a port and naval base, San Francisco was still a small settlement with inhospitable geography. The California Gold Rush brought a flood of treasure seekers, with their sourdough bread in tow, prospectors accumulated in San Francisco over rival Benicia, raising the population from 1,000 in 1848 to 25,000 by December 1849. The promise of fabulous riches was so strong that crews on arriving vessels deserted and rushed off to the gold fields, leaving behind a forest of masts in San Francisco harbor. Some of these approximately 500 abandoned ships were used at times as storeships, saloons and hotels, many were left to rot, by 1851 the harbor was extended out into the bay by wharves while buildings were erected on piles among the ships. By 1870 Yerba Buena Cove had been filled to create new land, buried ships are occasionally exposed when foundations are dug for new buildings. California was quickly granted statehood in 1850 and the U. S. military built Fort Point at the Golden Gate, silver discoveries, including the Comstock Lode in Nevada in 1859, further drove rapid population growth. With hordes of fortune seekers streaming through the city, lawlessness was common, and the Barbary Coast section of town gained notoriety as a haven for criminals, prostitution, entrepreneurs sought to capitalize on the wealth generated by the Gold Rush
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Equestrianism
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Equestrianism, more often known as riding, horseback riding or horse riding, refers to the skill of riding, driving, steeplechasing or vaulting with horses. This broad description includes the use of horses for practical working purposes, transportation, recreational activities, artistic or cultural exercises, Horses are trained and ridden for practical working purposes such as in police work or for controlling herd animals on a ranch. They are also used in sports including, but not limited to, dressage, endurance riding, eventing, reining, show jumping, tent pegging, vaulting, polo, horse racing, driving. Some popular forms of competition are grouped together at horse shows, Horses are used for non-competitive recreational riding such as fox hunting, trail riding or hacking. There is public access to trails in almost every part of the world, many parks, ranches. Horses are also used for therapeutic purposes, both in specialized paraequestrian competition as well as non-competitive riding to improve health and emotional development. Horses are also driven in harness racing, at shows and in other types of exhibition, historical reenactment or ceremony. In some parts of the world, they are used for practical purposes such as farming. Horses continue to be used in service, in traditional ceremonies, police and volunteer mounted patrols. Riding halls enable the training of horse and rider in all weathers as well as indoor competition riding, though there is controversy over the exact date horses were domesticated and when they were first ridden, the best estimate is that horses first were ridden approximately 3500 BC. Indirect evidence suggests that horses were ridden long before they were driven, however, the most unequivocal early archaeological evidence of equines put to working use was of horses being driven. Chariot burials about 2500 BC present the most direct evidence of horses used as working animals. In ancient times chariot warfare was followed by the use of war horses as light, the horse played an important role throughout human history all over the world, both in warfare and in peaceful pursuits such as transportation, trade and agriculture. Horses lived in North America, but died out at the end of the Ice Age, Horses were brought back to North America by European explorers, beginning with the second voyage of Columbus in 1493. Humans appear to have expressed a desire to know which horse were the fastest. Gambling on horse races appears to go hand-in hand with racing and has a history as well. Thoroughbreds have the pre-eminent reputation as a breed, but other breeds also race. Under saddle, Thoroughbred horse racing is the most popular form worldwide, in the UK, it is known as flat racing and is governed by the Jockey Club in the United Kingdom
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Young Americans (TV series)
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Young Americans is an American television drama created by Steven Antin. The show debuted on July 12,2000 on The WB network as a replacement for. The series was ordered for the fall 1999-2000 season but was delayed due to unresolved matters between the ColumbiaTriStar and The WB. The main character, Will Krudski, was introduced late in three of Dawsons Creek as a childhood friend of the group who has kept in contact with Pacey Witter. The show explores themes of love, morality, social classes. Young Americans is set in the town of New Rawley at a boarding school. Will Krudski, a working class New Englander, earns a scholarship to his hometowns posh boarding school, starting with the summer session, in a moment of carelessness he confesses to his roommate, Scout, that he cheated on the entrance exam. Their professor, Finn, overhears Will and Scout discussing what to do, before making a final decision about expelling him, Finn has Will write an essay on who he is. Throughout the series Will continues to face moral dilemmas as he struggles to find his place at school while not alienating his friends in town, there is also the forbidden love of Scout and Bella, who may have the same father. Jacqueline, in an attempt to see if her mother notices her, enrolls at Rawley Academy, things get complicated when she develops feelings for Hamilton, the deans son. Hamilton begins to wonder if he is gay as he realizes he has feelings for Jake, the story lines do not converge until the final two episodes of the show as Bella seeks the truth about her biological father. Rodney Scott as William Will Krudski, a poor but brilliant young man who cheated on the exam to ensure his admission and has a complicated relationship to his father. Mark Famiglietti as Scout Calhoun, Wills roommate at Rawley Academy, Scout meets, and dates, Wills old friend Bella until her step-father explains his reasons why he disapproves. Katherine Moennig as Jacqueline Jake Pratt, a girl who disguises herself as a boy to get the attention of her absent mother. Ian Somerhalder as Hamilton Fleming, a student at the school, Hamilton finds himself confused by his attraction to Jake. Kate Bosworth as Bella Banks, Wills childhood friend – a pretty townie torn between Scout and fellow New Rawleyian, Sean, ed Quinn as Finn, coach of the rowing team and also a teacher. Matt Czuchry as Sean McGrail, Wills long-time best friend and baseball team mate as well as a friend of Bellas. Deborah Hazlett as Susan Krudski, Wills mother, works at a New Rawley beauty salon named Glamorama
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Rolling Stone
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Rolling Stone is an American biweekly magazine that focuses on popular culture. It was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner, who is still the publisher. It was first known for its coverage and for political reporting by Hunter S. Thompson. In the 1990s, the magazine shifted focus to a readership interested in youth-oriented television shows, film actors. In recent years, it has resumed its traditional mix of content, Rolling Stone magazine was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and Ralph Gleason. To get it off the ground, Wenner borrowed $7,500 from his own family and from the parents of his soon-to-be wife, Jane Schindelheim. The first issue carried a date of November 9,1967. Some authors have attributed the name solely to Dylans hit single, At Gleasons suggestion, Rolling Stone initially identified with and reported the hippie counterculture of the era. In the very first edition, Wenner wrote that Rolling Stone is not just about the music, in the 1970s, Rolling Stone began to make a mark with its political coverage, with the likes of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson writing for the magazines political section. Thompson first published his most famous work Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas within the pages of Rolling Stone, where he remained a contributing editor until his death in 2005. In the 1970s, the magazine also helped launch the careers of prominent authors, including Cameron Crowe, Lester Bangs, Joe Klein, Joe Eszterhas, Patti Smith. It was at point that the magazine ran some of its most famous stories. One interviewer, speaking for a number of his peers, said that he bought his first copy of the magazine upon initial arrival on his college campus. In 1977, the magazine moved its headquarters from San Francisco to New York City, editor Jann Wenner said San Francisco had become a cultural backwater. During the 1980s, the magazine began to shift towards being an entertainment magazine. Music was still a dominant topic, but there was increasing coverage of celebrities in television, films, the magazine also initiated its annual Hot Issue during this time. Rolling Stone was initially known for its coverage and for Thompsons political reporting. In the 1990s, the changed its format to appeal to a younger readership interested in youth-oriented television shows, film actors
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Peter Travers
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Peter Travers is an American film critic and journalist, who has written for, in turn, People and Rolling Stone. Travers also hosts a celebrity interview show called Popcorn on ABC News Now, Travers joined Rolling Stone in 1989 after a four-year stint with People. According to eFilmCritic. com, Travers is the nations most blurbed film critic and he has also shown a great deal of disdain for certain directors, most notably Michael Bay and his films. Peter Travers at Rolling Stone Movie Reviews at Rolling Stone Peter Travers at Rotten Tomatoes Popcorn with Peter Travers on ABC News
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Box office
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A box office or ticket office is a place where tickets are sold to the public for admission to an event. Patrons may perform the transaction at a countertop, through a hole in a wall or window, or at a wicket. By extension, the term is used, especially in the context of the film industry, as a synonym for the amount of business a particular production, such as a film or theatre show. Box office business can be measured in terms of the number of tickets sold or the amount of money raised by ticket sales, the projection and analysis of these earnings is very important for the creative industries and often a source of interest for fans. This is predominant in the Hollywood movie industry, the term is attested since 1786, presumably from sales of boxes. The sense of total sales is attested from 1904, however, first attestation is about 200 years later, making this highly unlikely. Some complain that film industry focus on profit has diminished the attention given to film as an art form, however, analysis of the financial success of films is very influential for the production and funding of future works. In December 2009, with its acquisition of Nielsen EDI for $15 million, measurement company Rentrak became the provider of worldwide box office ticket sales revenue. There are numerous websites that monitor box-office receipts, such as Boxoffice, Box Office India, Box Office Mojo, Koimoi, ShowBIZ Data, for a list of films which are major box-office hits, see List of highest-grossing films. Films that are considered to have been unsuccessful at the box office are called box office bombs or box office flops. For a list of films, see List of box office bombs. To determine if a movie made a profit, it is not correct to directly compare the box office gross with the production budget, the split varies from movie to movie, and the percentage for the distributor is generally higher in early weeks. Usually the distributor gets a percentage of the revenue after first deducting a house allowance or house nut and it is also common that the distributor gets either a percentage of the gross revenue, or a higher percentage of the revenue after deducting the nut, whichever is larger. The following is film industry specific terminology as defined by Box Office Mojo, for films released in North America, box office figures are usually divided between domestic, meaning the United States and Canada, and foreign which includes all other countries. Weekly box office figures are taken to be from Friday through Thursday to allow for the fact that most films are released on a Friday, a large component of this is the weekend box office, defined as the box office receipts from Friday through Sunday. In particular, the box office for the initial week of release. Theaters is the number of theaters in which the movie is showing, since a single theater may show a movie on multiple screens, the total number of screens is used as another measure. The theaters measure is used to determine whether a film is in wide release, meaning at least 600 theaters, occasionally, a film may achieve wide release after an initial limited release, Little Miss Sunshine is an example of this
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Val Kilmer
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Val Edward Kilmer is an American actor. Originally a stage actor, Kilmer became popular in the mid-1980s after a string of appearances in comedy films, then the cult classic Real Genius, as well as the military action film Top Gun and the fantasy film Willow. Kilmer was born December 31,1959, in Los Angeles, the son of Gladys Swanette and Eugene Dorris Kilmer and his parents divorced in 1968 when he was 8 years old. In 1977 Kilmers younger brother Wesley drowned in a pool at age 15. Kilmers grandfather was a miner in New Mexico, near the border with Arizona. His mother was of Swedish descent and his fathers ancestry included English, Scots-Irish, French and German. Kilmer attended Berkeley Hall School, a Christian Science school in Los Angeles and he attended Chatsworth High School with Kevin Spacey and Mare Winningham, and also attended the Hollywood Professional School. He became the youngest person at the time to be accepted into the Juilliard Schools Drama Division, on May 5,2012, Kilmer was awarded an honorary doctorate of Fine Arts from William Woods University. In 1981, while at Juilliard, Kilmer co-authored and starred in the play How It All Began, Kilmer turned down a role in Francis Ford Coppolas 1983 film The Outsiders, as he had prior theatre commitments. In 1983 he appeared off Broadway in The Slab Boys with Kevin Bacon, also in 1983, Kilmer self-published a collection of his own poetry entitled My Edens After Burns, that included poems inspired by his time with Pfeiffer. The book of poems is difficult to obtain, and expensive, even second-hand copies fetch $300 and his big break came when he received top billing in the comedy spoof of spy movies Top Secret. Where he played an American rock and roll star, Kilmer sang all the songs in the film and released an album under the film characters name, Nick Rivers. While garnering more substantial roles and prestige, he gained a reputation as a ladies man, dating numerous women, some many years older, including Cher. During a brief hiatus, he backpacked throughout Europe before going on to play the character in the 1985 comedy Real Genius. He turned down a role in David Lynchs Blue Velvet before being cast as naval aviator Iceman in the action film Top Gun alongside Tom Cruise, Top Gun grossed a total of $344,700,000 worldwide and made Kilmer a major star. Kilmer starred in the Colorado Shakespeare Festival production of Hamlet]] in 1988, in 1989, Kilmer played the lead in both Kill Me Again, again opposite Whalley, and in TNTs Billy the Kid. After several delays, director Oliver Stone finally started production on the film The Doors, Kilmer spoke with Oliver Stone early on, concerned about what he might want to do with the story because Kilmer didnt believe in or want to promote substance abuse. Kilmer saw Morrison as having picked the wrong heroes, who had different issues, Kilmer saw Morrisons story as one that could be told a thousand different ways and didnt want to tell it by playing the role in the style of drugs, with which Oliver Stone agreed
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John Holmes (actor)
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Near the end of his life, Holmes attained notoriety for his involvement in the Wonderland murders of July 1981 and eventually for his death from complications caused by AIDS in March 1988. Holmes was the subject of books, a lengthy essay in Rolling Stone. Holmes was born John Curtis Estes on August 8,1944 in the rural town of Ashville, Ohio. He was the youngest of four born to 26-year-old Mary June Holmes. Mary Barton had married Edgar Harvey Holmes, who was the father of her three older children - Dale, Edward and Anne. She and Holmes were married and divorced three times, as is documented by wedding certificates dated April 13,1936, August 13,1945 and September 12,1947. At the time of their first marriage in 1936, Edgar Harvey Holmes was 35 years old and divorced, after divorcing for the third and final time, Edgar and Mary each married one more time. Mary changed Johns surname to Holmes when he was a child, Holmes mother Mary was a devout Southern Baptist and with her children regularly attended the Millport Chapel Church, and he had perfect attendance. In contrast, his stepfather Edgar was an alcoholic who would come home inebriated, stumble about the house, as a child, Holmes enjoyed a reprieve from his turbulent home life when he visited his maternal grandparents, John W. and Bessie Barton. Mary divorced Edward when Holmes was three or four and moved with her children to Columbus, Ohio, where lived in a low-income apartment project with a friend of Marys. The two women worked as clerks and waitresses in order to support their young children, when Holmes was eight, his mother married Harold Bowman on December 31,1951. Shortly afterward, Holmes and his family moved from Columbus and settled in the town of Pataskala, Ohio. Holmes recalled that Bowman was a father until Holmes younger half-brother David was born, at which point Bowman lost interest in his stepchildren. Holmes left home at age 16 and enlisted in the U. S. Army and he spent most of the three years of his military service in West Germany in the Signal Corps. Upon his honorable discharge in 1963, Holmes moved to Los Angeles, during his stint as an ambulance driver, Holmes met a nurse named Sharon Gebenini in December 1964. They married in August 1965 upon Holmes turning 21, in April 1965, Holmes found work as a forklift driver at a meatpacking warehouse in nearby Cudahy, California. Sharon had health problems too, as during the first 17 months of her marriage to Holmes, John Holmes was to the adult film industry what Elvis Presley was to rock n roll. Determining the number of films Holmes made during the part of his career is difficult
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Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!
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Win a Date with Tad Hamilton. The name of Tad Hamilton has been seen as a cross between the names of screen idols Tab Hunter and George Hamilton, the film opens with a soldier and nurse getting out of two 1940-style cars in the middle of night. The nurse runs up to the soldier and the switches to reveal this to be a scene from a film. After seeing Tads house, Rosalee requests to go back to the hotel, as Pete is about to tell Rosalee about moving to Richmond she is surprised—as much as Pete is disappointed—by Tads sudden arrival to get to know her and have some of her goodness rub off on him. Though Rosalee is still cynical of him as he uses a line one of his films. During a phone call with his agent, Tad insists that he wants to turn over a new leaf, when he picks Rosalee up for a date he leaves a good impression on Rosalees father, who had studied hard for the encounter. He makes Tad swear not to break her heart or he will tear Tad to pieces with his vicious rhetoric, when the pair is in Tads hotel room, his agents appear and inform him that the director has decided to cast him in the film after all. Tad is overjoyed and convinces her to come to LA with him by using Petes six smile speech, on the plane when Tad fails to identify one of Rosalees smiles, he confesses his lie and she asks to go home. She runs to Piggly Wiggly and Petes house, then drives furiously towards Richmond to overtake her heartbroken friend, and, in a set-up similar to the opening scene, Rosalee and Pete get out of their cars and Pete, surrendering to cheesy romance, asks her to dance. The film opened in 2,711 venues on January 23,2004 and earned $7,320,066 in its weekend, ranking third in the North American box office. The film ultimately grossed $17,071,962 in North America, based on a $22 million budget, the film was a box office bomb. Win a Date with Tad Hamilton, on Rotten Tomatoes, the film received a 52% approval rating based on 145 reviews, with an average of 5. 6/10. The sites consensus states, Formulaic romantic comedy works better than it should thanks to a charming cast, metacritic reports a score of 52 out of 100 based on 35 reviews, indicating mixed or average reviews. Roger Ebert criticized that Duhamels character always seems more likeable than Graces, bosworths acting was praised for holding the film together. Stephen Holden regards the film as having a plot from the 1950s, Holden regards Bosworth as having the toughest part, showing Rosalees feet-on-the-ground optimism and innate wisdom easily. The film was released on VHS and DVD on April 20,2004, the DVD features 15 deleted scenes. Rose McGowan Special - Wilshire Some Days - Wheat More Bounce in California - Soul Kid #1 Why Cant I. at the Internet Movie Database Win a Date with Tad Hamilton, at Box Office Mojo Win a Date with Tad Hamilton. At Rotten Tomatoes Win a Date with Tad Hamilton
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Topher Grace
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Christopher John Topher Grace is an American actor. Grace was born in New York City, New York, the son of Pat, an assistant to the schoolmaster of the New Canaan Country School, and John Grace, Grace was cast as Eric Forman on Foxs That 70s Show, which debuted in 1998. He played the role until season 7 and his character was written out and replaced with a new character named Randy Pearson. Grace made a brief guest appearance in the final episode, the joke is that youre supposed to play the worst version of yourself and I dont think too many people are comfortable with that. I never thought for a second that people were going to think thats what I was like. I think that people know that I was faking it in those movies. He planned to cameo in Oceans Thirteen, but, because of his role in Spider-Man 3, as Grace said, I was doing reshoots on Spider-Man 3. I actually talked to Steven Soderbergh about that and we had a thing and he also appeared in director Mike Newells 2003 film Mona Lisa Smile. In 2004, Grace played the roles in the Robert Luketic-directed Win a Date with Tad Hamilton. And the Paul Weitz dramedy, In Good Company, in which he played an ambitious and that same year, Grace also starred in the film P. S. which received only a limited theatrical release. Grace won the National Board of Reviews 2004 award for Breakthrough Performance Actor for his work in In Good Company, on January 15,2005, Grace hosted Saturday Night Live. In 2007, Grace portrayed Eddie Brock/Venom in Spider-Man 3, directed by Sam Raimi, Grace himself was a fan of the comics and read the Venom stories as a kid. In 2009, Grace became the subject of a column on the entertainment/pop culture site Videogum. In 2011, Grace appeared in the 1980s retro comedy Take Me Home Tonight and he co-wrote the script and co-produced the film. Grace also starred opposite Richard Gere in the spy thriller The Double, in 2014, Grace starred in the indie thriller The Calling, alongside Susan Sarandon, and appeared in Christopher Nolans sci-fi adventure Interstellar, in a supporting role. In October 2013, Grace joined HBO comedy pilot People In New Jersey with Sarah Silverman, but in January 2014, Grace co-starred in the comedy film American Ultra, alongside Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart, playing a CIA agent. Grace played Mike Smith, a researcher on the story, in January 2014, Grace joined the upcoming supernatural-thriller Delirium, which centers on a man, who is recently released from a mental institute, he inherits a mansion after his parents die. After a series of disturbing events, he comes to believe it is haunted, Grace started dating actress Ashley Hinshaw in January 2014, and the two were engaged in January 2015
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International Society for Krishna Consciousness
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The International Society for Krishna Consciousness, known colloquially as the Hare Krishna movement or Hare Krishnas, is a Gaudiya Vaishnava Hindu religious organisation. ISKCON was founded in 1966 in New York City by A. C, Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada who is worshipped by followers as Guru and spiritual master. Its core beliefs are based on select traditional Hindu scriptures, particularly the Bhagavad-gītā, ISKCON says it is a direct descendant of Brahma-Madhva-Gaudiya Vaishnava Sampradaya. ISKCON was formed to spread the practice of yoga, in which those involved dedicate their thoughts and actions towards pleasing the Supreme Lord. ISKCON today is a confederation of more than 550 centres, including 60 farm communities, some aiming for self-sufficiency,50 schools. In recent decades the most rapid expansions in membership have been within Eastern Europe, for further information see, Achintya Bheda Abheda and Gaudiya Vaishnavism ISKCON devotees follow a disciplic line of Gaudiya Bhagavata Vaishnavas and are the largest branch of Gaudiya Vaishnavism. Vaishnavism means worship of Vishnu, and Gauḍa refers to the area where this branch of Vaishnavism originated. Gaudiya Vaishnavism has had a following in India, especially West Bengal and Odisha and these works are now available in more than seventy languages and serve as the canon of ISKCON. Krishna is described as the source of all the avatars of God, to devotees, Radha represents Krishnas divine female counterpart, the original spiritual potency, and the embodiment of divine love. The individual soul is a personal identity which does not ultimately merge into any formless light or void as suggested by the monistic schools of Hinduism. Prabhupada most frequently offers Sanatana-dharma and Varnashrama dharma as more names for the religious system which accepts Vedic authority. It is a tradition which has its roots in the theistic Vedanta traditions. The popular nickname of Hare Krishnas for devotees of this movement comes from the mantra that devotees sing aloud or chant quietly on tulsi mala and this mantra, known also as the Maha Mantra, contains the names of God Krishna and Rama. To propagate a consciousness of Krishna, as it is revealed in the Bhagavad-gita, the principle of reincarnation is accepted. To teach and encourage the movement, congregational chanting of the holy names of God as revealed in the teachings of Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. To erect for the members, and for society at large, to bring the members closer together for the purpose of teaching a simpler and more natural way of life. With a view towards achieving the purposes, to publish and distribute periodicals, magazines, books. The four legs of Dharma are, Daya, Mercy Tapas, Self-Control or Austerity Satyam, Truthfulness Śaucam, Cleanliness of body, members try to spread Krishna consciousness, primarily by singing the Hare Krishna mantra in public places and by selling books written by Bhaktivedanta Swami
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Myla Goldberg
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Myla Goldberg is an American novelist and musician. Goldberg was born into a Jewish family and she was raised in Laurel, Maryland, and graduated from Eleanor Roosevelt High School. She majored in English at Oberlin College, graduating in 1993 and she spent a year teaching and writing in Prague, then moved to Brooklyn, New York, where she still lives with her husband and two daughters. Goldberg is an amateur musician. She plays the banjo and accordion in a Brooklyn-based indie rock quartet and she has performed with The Galerkin Method and the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus. She formerly collaborated with the New York art collective Flux Factory and she has contributed song lyrics to the musical group One Ring Zero. While in Prague, Goldberg completed her first novel, Kirkus and she gave it to an agent who shopped it for 18 months, but it was not published by the time she had begun working on Bee Season, so it was shelved. After returning to Brooklyn Goldberg took several jobs, including working on a production of a Stephen King horror movie and she was let go from that job, which brought an unforeseen benefit - the six months of unemployment benefits checks gave her sufficient time to finish Bee Season. Goldbergs first published novel was Bee Season, portraying the breakdown of a family and it was a popular and critical success, and was adapted into a film in 2005. She has also published stories in Virgin Fiction, Eclectic Literary Forum, New American Writing, McSweeneys. She reviews books for The New York Times and Bookforum, in 2005 Goldberg published a second novel, Wicketts Remedy, which is set during the 1918 influenza epidemic. In 2009 she said she was working on a novel, to be titled The False Friend. It describes a woman whose memory is jogged, causing her to revisit a tragic event in her youth and its about memory, hometowns and the adults children turn into, Goldberg told an interviewer. Song for Myla Goldberg is track six on The Decemberists album Her Majesty The Decemberists and it makes a handful of allusions to Bee Season. Myla Goldberg at the Internet Movie Database
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Bee Season (film)
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Bee Season is a 2005 American drama film adaptation of the 2000 novel of the same name by Myla Goldberg. The film was directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegel and written by Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal and it stars Richard Gere and Juliette Binoche. Saul Naumann is a somewhat controlling Jewish husband and father, a Religious Studies professor at UC Berkeley, Saul wrote his graduate thesis on the Kabbalah. Because he was a devout Jew, his wife Miriam converted to Judaism when they married, when daughter Eliza wins her class spelling bee, they embark on a course of Kabbalah study to help her win. Miriam lives a secret throughout her entire marriage to Saul, trying to fulfill the religious idea she learned from him, tikkun olam, or repairing the world. Thereafter, seeking to restore the broken shards, Miriam compulsively creates beautiful light gathering objects, for Eliza, her experience begins with a desire to be as close to her father as he and Aaron are, the two would often have discussions about Judaism and play music together. Sauls graduate thesis on Kabbalah writer Abraham Abulafia brings Saul and Eliza closer together when Saul learns Eliza has won the district spelling bee, upon learning of her success, Saul takes control of Elizas life, coaching her in the Kabbalistic teachings he knows so well. Eliza enjoys the attention of her father and pursues the competition for her fathers involvement. This comes at the expense of Aaron, who receives less time with Saul, at the center of the film, Eliza becomes Sauls newest religious project. Eliza continues to do well at spelling bees, utilizing her spiritual gift, as Abraham Abulafia described, visions appear to her and this is where Eliza enters the picture, a child with a mystical gift. The night before the round of the spelling bee, Eliza uses her fathers notes on Abulafias system to obtain the ear of God. Her body writhing on the floor, Eliza apparently makes that mystical connection, in the final scene, Eliza, on the verge of winning the competition, now empowered with the ability to heal her family, deliberately misspells the word origami, thereby losing the competition. Elizas character presents us with an example of hope for mankind by opening oneself to a power, thereby affirming the apparent thesis of the story — tikkun olam. Richard Gere as Saul Juliette Binoche as Miriam Flora Cross as Eliza Max Minghella as Aaron Kate Bosworth as Chali The regional bee was filmed at the Albany High School gym, also seen is the downtown section on Park Street in Alameda, California. Instead of using knowledge, Saul uses each of his members in a attempt to deepen his own religious sense. Meanwhile, his wife, Miriam, is stealing and is sent to a mental institution. The relationships amongst all members of the family, which were shallow and disconnected to begin with, but family healing is implied in the final scene in which Eliza purposely loses the National Spelling Bee, a sacrifice drawing upon the spiritual connection she made the night before. The film generally follows the plot of Goldbergs novel, but with notable changes
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Revlon
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Revlon, Inc. is an American multinational cosmetics, skin care, fragrance, and personal care company founded in 1932 and based in New York City. Revlon was founded in the midst of the Great Depression,1932, by Charles Revson and his brother Joseph along with a chemist, Charles Lachman, who contributed the L in the Revlon name. Starting with a single product — a new type of nail enamel — the three founders pooled their resources and developed a manufacturing process. Using pigments instead of dyes, Revlon developed a variety of new shades of opaque nail enamel, in 1937, Revlon started selling the polishes in department stores and drug stores. In six years, the became a multimillion-dollar organization. By 1940, Revlon offered an entire line, and added lipstick to the collection. During World War II, Revlon created makeup and related products for the U. S. Army, by the end of the war, Revlon was listed as one of Americas top five cosmetic houses. Expanding its capabilities, the company bought Graef & Schmidt, a cutlery manufacturer seized by the government in 1943 because of German business ties and this acquisition made it possible for Revlon to produce its own manicure and pedicure instruments, instead of buying them from outside supply sources. In November 1955, Revlon went public, the IPO price was $12 per share, but it reached $30 per share within 8 weeks. In the 1960s, Revson segmented Revlon Inc into different divisions and he borrowed this strategy from General Motors. Other acquisitions, such as Ty-D-Bol, the maker of toilet cleansers, evan Picone, a womens sportswear manufacturer which came with a price tag of $12 million in 1962, was sold back to one of the original partners four years later for $1 million. However, the 1967 acquisition of U. S, vitamin and Pharmaceutical Corporation made Revlon a leader in diabetes drugs. The company began to market its products overseas at the end of the 1950s, by 1962, when Revlon debuted in Japan, there were subsidiaries in France, Italy, Argentina, Mexico, and Asia. Revlons entrance into the Japanese market was typical of its sales strategy. Instead of adapting its ads and using Japanese models, Revlon chose to use its basic U. S. advertising, Japanese women loved the American look, and the sales for 1962 came to almost $164 million. In 1968, Revlon introduced Eterna27, the first cosmetic cream with a precursor called Progenitin, as well as introducing the worlds first American fashion designer fragrance. Later, Revlon launched Braggi and Pub for men, and a line of wig maintenance products called Wig Wonder, in 1970, Revlon acquired the Mitchum line of deodorants. In 1971 Flex shampoo and conditioner was introduced, geared to the under-30 market, Charlie model Shelley Hack in Ralph Lauren clothes, personified the independent woman of the 1970s
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FHM
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FHM was a UK monthly mens lifestyle magazine. It contained features such as the FHM100 Sexiest Women in the World, on 17 November 2015, FHM announced on its website that it would be suspending publication. Circulation expanded to newsagents as a quarterly by the spring of 1987 and it subsequently dominated the mens market and began to expand internationally, being published in 27 countries including Pakistan and India. FHM was sold as part of the company sale, from EMAP to Hamburg based company Bauer Media Group in February 2008. On 17 November 2015, FHM announced their intention to suspend publication alongside that of mens magazine ZOO. Each of FHMs international editions publish yearly rankings for the sexiest women alive based on public, dates of magazine issues, winners, ages of winners at the time of selection, and pertinent comments are listed below. The data below refer only to the British edition, FHM was published in the following territories. The Girls of FHM List of mens magazines Official website
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Maxim (magazine)
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Maxim has a circulation of about 9 million readers each month. Maxim Digital reaches more than 4 million unique viewers each month, Maxim magazine publishes 16 editions, sold in 75 countries worldwide. Maxim has expanded into other countries, including Australia. It contains content not included in the print version and focuses on the general topics, along with exclusive sections such as the Girls of Maxim galleries. Maxim Video contains video clips of interviews, music videos, photo shoots, on February 5,2005, Maxim Radio, featuring male-oriented talk programming, debuted on Sirius Satellite Radio. Following the Sirius-XM merger in late 2008, the Maxim brand was dropped, the land was sold to MGM Mirage. As of April 23,2009 Dennis Publishing has announced that it no longer continue producing a print edition of Maxim in the UK. In July 2009, Maxim partnered with the UFC for the first-ever Maxim UFC Octagon Girl Search at the UFC Fan Expo,40 girls participated in the contest, and the winner was Natasha Wicks. Quadrangle Group gave up on its investment in Alpha Media Group in August 2009, in 2013, Alpha announced the sale of Maxim to the newly created Darden Media Group, but Darden was unable to raise the money. Calvin Darden, Jr. was later charged with fraud relating to the transaction. Between 2010 and 2012, Maxim eliminated two issues, going from 12 issues a year to 10, and decreased its circulation numbers by 20%, maximum Warrior debuted in 2011, as an online reality competition that tests ten of Americas most elite military operators in ten military-inspired challenges. The videos are available online and on the Maxim app on Xbox Live, several episodes feature Dakota Meyer, Maxims Military Advisor. Maximum Warrior is produced by Grand Street Media, on February 27,2014, entrepreneur Sardar Biglari, the founder of Biglari Holdings and Biglari Capital, purchased Maxim. We plan to build the business on multiple dimensions, he said at the time, during Lanphears tenure, the September 2015 issue featured actor Idris Elba on its cover, marking the first time that the magazine didnt have a woman on the cover. Lanphear left the magazine in November 2015, at one point last year, the staffer said, he decided to throw out a nearly-complete version of the December issue in order to completely redesign the magazine. On January 13,2016 Gilles Bensimon joined Biglari as a creative director. What drew me to Maxim was Sardars vision for the brand, the Centre described Maxim as consisting of sexist bravado and racist imagery. In 2006, Alok Jha of The Guardian criticized Maxim for encouraging excessive alcohol consumption, in June 2007, Israeli diplomat David Saranga invited Maxim to the country
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2007 Toronto International Film Festival
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The 2007 Toronto International Film Festival was a 32nd annual film festival held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It ran from September 6,2007 to September 15,2007, the lineup consisted of 349 films from 55 countries, selected from 4156 submissions. The selection included 275 mid- to feature-length films, of which 234 were premieres, the festival was attended by members of the industry, press and general public. It opened with the premiere of Jeremy Podeswas Fugitive Pieces, a film based on the international bestselling novel by Anne Michaels. Peter Howell of the Toronto Star named Sidney Lumets Before the Devil Knows Youre Dead a major Oscar contender, the audience favourite, David Cronenbergs Eastern Promises, won the top prize at the festival. The New York Times pointed out that two previous winners had gone on to win Best Picture Oscars. Highly discussed but divisive films among the public and critics include comedies Juno and Margot at the Wedding, the Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and Across the Universe both won their share of supporters despite previous reports of shooting delays and director-studio clashes. The award was presented at a screening of Jean Renoirs Grand Illusion which Bogdanovich selected to illustrate the importance of film restoration, programme features first or second time Canadian film directors and established Canadian filmmakers who have not previously appeared in the festival. Eight films were selected to appear in the festival, stéphane Lafleurs directorial debut Continental, a Film Without Guns won the Citytv Award for Best Canadian First Feature Film and a CDN$15000 bursary. Quebec-based filmmaker Francis Mankiewiczs Good Riddance was selected, the film has previously won eight Genie Awards and appeared on every Canadas Ten Best film survey. Good Riddance directed by Francis Mankiewicz The Canadian Retrospective programme features a section of films representing an aspect of the history of Canadian cinema and it was the seventh year the festival has held the retrospective. Influential Québécois filmmaker Michel Brault was spotlighted through nine films he directed or shot and he has been credited for his visual style and creating some of the most important films to come from Quebec. In conjunction, the Toronto International Film Festival Group published a book on Brault, Cinema as History, Michel Brault and it included premieres and prize-winning films from other festivals. Sixty-two films were selected, including eight from Canada, eight films were selected between nine filmmakers and artists. Israel Cárdenas and Laura Amelia Guzmáns feature debut Cochochi won the DIESEL Discovery Award, the International Federation of Film Critics returned to the festival for the 16th year and awarded Rodrigo Plás La Zona the FIPRESCI Prize. Clips from their new and upcoming documentaries are screened, the series was opened to the public for the first time. Topics included biography films, Michel Brault, war and democracy, with Nick Fraser The Future Projections programme features non-theatrical installations in various mediums. This marked the inaugural run
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Bryan Singer
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Bryan Jay Singer is an American film director, film producer, writer, and actor. He is the founder of Bad Hat Harry Productions and he has produced or co-produced almost all of the films he has directed and he wrote and directed his first film in 1988 after graduating from university. His next film, Public Access, was a co-winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival, in the mid-1990s, Singer received critical acclaim for directing the neo-noir crime thriller The Usual Suspects, which starred Stephen Baldwin, Benicio del Toro and Kevin Spacey. He followed this with another thriller, Apt Pupil, about a boys fascination with a Nazi war criminal. In the 2000s, he known for big budget superhero films such as X-Men, for which Singer won the 2000 Saturn Award for Best Direction, its sequel X2. He has also directed and produced shows, including two episodes of House in 2004. Singer was born in New York City, and was adopted by Grace Sinden, an environmental activist, and Norbert Dave Singer and he grew up in a Jewish household in West Windsor Township, New Jersey. He attended West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South, graduating in 1984, for college, Singer studied filmmaking for two years at New Yorks School of Visual Arts and later transferred to the USC School of Cinematic Arts in Los Angeles. Actors Lori and Marc Singer are his cousins, after a screening of Lions Den, Singer was approached by someone who knew of a Japanese company that funded low-budget films. Ottman again served as editor but this time composed the score for the film. At the 1993 Sundance Film Festival, the film was named as co-winner of the Grand Jury Prize. In early 2001, Singer was planning to direct Confessions of a Dangerous Mind with Johnny Depp in the lead role, financial troubles delayed production and Singer moved on. The film was directed by George Clooney for Miramax Films with Sam Rockwell in the lead role. Singer has said that he was impressed by Clooneys debut as a director. In late 2001, Singer was planning to help DeSanto produce a new Battlestar Galactica television series for Studios USA, Singer was scheduled to direct the mini-series which would have served as a backdoor pilot for a potential series. Speaking to Variety in February 2001, Singer said he was confident that the Galactica brand is a sleeping giant and it was a show I watched during its initial run, from the pilot to the final episode. The essence and the name is quite potent in a climate where theres a great deficit of sci-fi programming. Despite his enthusiasm, production delays caused by the September 11,2001 attacks meant Singer had to drop out due to his commitment to direct a sequel of X-Men
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Lex Luthor
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Alexander Joseph Lex Luthor is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, Lex Luthor first appeared in Action Comics #23 and has endured as the archenemy of Superman. The character is a wealthy, power-mad American business magnate, engineer, philanthropist to the city of Metropolis, given his high status as a supervillain, he also comes into conflict with Batman and other superheroes in the DC Universe. Lex Luthor has traditionally lacked superpowers or an identity and typically appears with a bald head. He periodically wears his Warsuit, a battle suit giving him enhanced strength, flight. Lex Luthor is the owner of a corporation called LexCorp, with Mercy Graves as his personal assistant, Luthor has carefully crafted his public persona in order to avoid suspicion and arrest. He is well known for his philanthropy, donating vast sums of money to Metropolis over the years, funding parks, foundations, and charities. The character was ranked 4th on IGNs list of the Top 100 Comic Book Villains of All Time, Luthor is one of a few genre-crossing villains whose adventures take place in a world in which the ordinary laws of nature are slightly suspended. In his first appearance, Action Comics #23, Luthor is depicted as a genius and is referred to only by his surname. He resides in a city suspended by a dirigible and plots to provoke a war between two European nations. Lois Lane and Clark Kent investigate, which results in Lois being kidnapped, Luthor battles Superman with a green ray but Luthor is ultimately defeated by him, and Lois is rescued. Superman destroys Luthors dirigible with him still on it, implying Luthor may have died, Luthor returns in Superman #4 and steals a weapon from the U. S. Army that is capable of causing earthquakes. Superman battles and defeats Luthor, and the device is destroyed by Superman. The scientist who made the device commits suicide to prevent its reinvention. In a story in the issue, Luthor is also shown to have created a city on the sunken Lost Continent of Pacifo and to have recreated prehistoric monsters. Superman thwarts his plans, and Luthor appears to have killed by the dinosaurs he created. Luthor returns in Superman #5 with a plan to place hypnotic gas in the offices of influential people and he intends to throw the nation into a depression with the help of corrupt financier Moseley, but the story ends with Superman defeating him. Luthors obsessive hatred of Superman came later in the characters development, in Luthors earliest appearances, he is shown as a middle-aged man with a full head of red hair
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Brandon Routh
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Brandon James Routh is an American actor and former fashion model. He grew up in Iowa before moving to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career, in 2006, he gained greater recognition for his role as the titular superhero of the 2006 film Superman Returns. He also had a role in the TV series Chuck. Following this, he had supporting roles in the films Zack and Miri Make a Porno. In 2014, he began a role on Arrow as Ray Palmer/Atom which spun off into a guest role on The Flash. Routh, the third of four children, was born on October 9,1979 in Norwalk, Iowa, the son of Catherine LaVonne, a teacher, and Ronald Wayne Routh, a carpenter. Routh was raised in a Methodist family, and has English, Scottish, German, Routh grew up in Norwalk, approximately 100 miles south of Woolstock, the birthplace of George Reeves, the first actor to play Superman on television. During his childhood, Routh thought a full-time acting career was unrealistic, in his spare time, he played the trumpet and the piano. Routh attended Norwalk High School, where he played sports and participated in music and he has described himself as a mommas boy and not the most popular kid during his school years. Routh has also noted that during his years, he was fond of the Superman films. Routh attended the University of Iowa for a year, aspiring to be a writer, during this time, he modelled and acted in order to earn his tuition fee. Routh has said he was told that he bore a physical resemblance to Christopher Reeve. His former manager signed him on because of the resemblance, telling him that he thought Routh would be cast as Superman if there was film in the series. He was cast in his first acting role in 1999, in an episode of the short-lived ABC television series, in 2000, he had a four-episode role on the third season of MTVs nighttime soap opera, Undressed. Routh subsequently appeared on the WBs Gilmore Girls, and earned steady work on the soap opera One Life to Live, prior to Rouths casting as Superman in the film Superman Returns, Warner Bros. When director Bryan Singer came aboard the project, however, he insisted an unknown actor be cast in the part, in the tradition of the casting of the best-known film Superman, Christopher Reeve. Routh, then 24, had already auditioned for director McG and was spotted by Singer after he viewed Rouths videotaped audition. Singer decided to cast Routh after the two met on August 13,2004, but did not tell Routh until two months later, when Rouths casting was announced in October 2004, making him an instant celebrity
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The New Yorker
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The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. It is published by Condé Nast, started as a weekly in 1925, the magazine is now published 47 times annually, with five of these issues covering two-week spans. Although its reviews and events listings often focus on the life of New York City. The New Yorker debuted on February 21,1925 and it was founded by Harold Ross and his wife, Jane Grant, a New York Times reporter. Ross wanted to create a humor magazine that would be different from perceivably corny humor publications such as Judge. Ross partnered with entrepreneur Raoul H. Fleischmann to establish the F-R Publishing Company, the magazines first offices were at 25 West 45th Street in Manhattan. Ross edited the magazine until his death in 1951, during the early, occasionally precarious years of its existence, the magazine prided itself on its cosmopolitan sophistication. Ross famously declared in a 1925 prospectus for the magazine, It has announced that it is not edited for the old lady in Dubuque, although the magazine never lost its touches of humor, it soon established itself as a pre-eminent forum for serious fiction literature and journalism. Shortly after the end of World War II, John Herseys essay Hiroshima filled an entire issue, D. Salinger, Irwin Shaw, James Thurber, John Updike, Eudora Welty, Stephen King, and E. B. White. Publication of Shirley Jacksons The Lottery drew more mail than any story in the magazines history. In its early decades, the magazine published two or even three short stories a week, but in recent years the pace has remained steady at one story per issue. Kurt Vonnegut said that The New Yorker has been an instrument for getting a large audience to appreciate modern literature. Vonneguts 1974 interview with Joe David Bellamy and John Casey contained a discussion of The New Yorkers influence, No other art requires the audience to be a performer. You have to count on the readers being a good performer and those writers you mentioned and myself are teaching an audience how to play this kind of music in their heads. Its a learning process, and The New Yorker has been a good institution of the sort needed. They have an audience, and they come out every week, and people finally catch on to Barthelme, for instance. The non-fiction feature articles cover an array of topics. Recent subjects have included eccentric evangelist Creflo Dollar, the different ways in which humans perceive the passage of time, the magazine is notable for its editorial traditions
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Margot Kidder
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Margaret Ruth Margot Kidder is a Canadian American actress and activist. She rose to fame in 1978 for her role as Lois Lane in Superman, opposite Christopher Reeve, Kidder began her career in the 1960s appearing in low-budget Canadian films and television series, before landing a lead role in Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx. She then appeared playing Siamese twins in Brian De Palmas cult thriller Sisters, in the slasher film Black Christmas, and her performance as Kathy Lutz in the blockbuster horror film The Amityville Horror gained her further mainstream exposure. After a highly publicized manic episode and nervous breakdown in 1996, by the 2000s, however, she had maintained steady work in independent films as well as television, with guest-starring roles on Smallville, Brothers & Sisters, and The L Word. In 2015, she won an Emmy Award for her performance on the television series R. L. Stines The Haunting Hour. She has also acted in productions, most notably appearing on Broadway in a 2002 production of The Vagina Monologues. In 2005, Kidder became a naturalized U. S. citizen and she is an outspoken political, environmental, and anti-war activist. She has also advocated the use of medicine, which she credits as having helped treat her bipolar disorder. Kidder, one of five children, was born in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, the daughter of Jocelyn Mary Jill, a teacher, and Kendall Kidder. Kidder also spent time growing up in Labrador City, Newfoundland and her mother was from British Columbia, Canada, and her father was from New Mexico, United States. She is of Welsh and English descent, Kidder was born in Yellowknife because of her fathers job, which required the family to live in remote locations. Her father was manager of the Yellowknife Telephone Company from 1948 to 1951, Kidder recalled her childhood in northern Canada, saying, We didnt have movies in this little mining town. When I was 12 my mom took me to New York and I saw Bye Bye Birdie, with singing and dancing. I knew I had to go far away, I was clueless, but I okay. Kidder attended multiple schools in her youth, and graduated from Havergal College and she has a sister, Annie, and three brothers, John, Michael and Peter. Kidders niece, Janet Kidder, is also an actress, Kidder made her film debut in a 49-minute film titled The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar, a drama set in a Canadian logging community, which was produced by the Challenge for Change. Her first major feature was the 1969 American film Gaily, Gaily, during the 1971–72 season, she co-starred as barmaid Ruth in Nichols, a James Garner western, which aired 22 episodes on NBC. In the late 1960s, Kidder was based in Toronto, and in 1970, during an August 3,1970 interview on The Dick Cavett Show, Kidder stated that she was ambivalent toward having a film career, and was considering working as a film editor in the future
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Teri Hatcher
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Teri Lynn Hatcher is an American actress, writer, presenter, singer, and former NFL cheerleader. Hatcher was born in Palo Alto, California, the daughter of Esther, a programmer who worked for Lockheed Martin. Her father is of English, Welsh and Irish descent, her mother is of half Syrian and half Czech and Irish, Hatcher took ballet lessons at the San Juan School of Dance in Los Altos. She grew up in Sunnyvale, California, and attended Mango Junior High, Fremont High School in Sunnyvale and De Anza College in Cupertino. In March 2006, Hatcher alleged that she was sexually abused from the age of five by Richard Hayes Stone and she said her parents were unaware of the abuse at the time. In 2002, she assisted Santa Clara County prosecutors with their indictment of Stone for a more recent molestation that led his female victim to suicide at the age of 14. Stone pleaded guilty to four counts of molestation and was sentenced to 14 years in prison. Hatcher said she told the prosecutors about her own abuse because she was haunted by thoughts of the 14-year-old girl who shot herself, Stone died of colon cancer on August 19,2008, having served six years of his sentence. Hatcher studied acting at the American Conservatory Theater, one of her early jobs was as an NFL cheerleader with the San Francisco 49ers. From September 1985 to May 1986 she joined the cast of the TV series The Love Boat, playing the role of Amy, from 1986 to 1989, she appeared in the recurring role of Penny Parker opposite Richard Dean Andersons eponymous hero on the TV series MacGyver. In 1987, she played the daughter of Patty Dukes lead character in the short-lived Fox comedy Karens Song, in 1988, she made a guest appearance in Star Trek, The Next Generation as Lt. Robinson. In 1989, she guest-starred in an episode of Quantum Leap titled Star Crossed, Hatchers next TV series role, in 1991, was in the Norman Lear creation Sunday Dinner. She portrayed a 26-year-old lawyer in an affair with a widowed businessman twice her age, the series had a brief run on CBS that summer but was not renewed. In 1992, Hatcher tried out for the role of Jamie Buchman on Mad About You, Hatcher landed a starring role of Daily Planet reporter Lois Lane in Lois & Clark, The New Adventures of Superman from 1993 to 1997. Its a great shot, she said, not so much because its me. In Lois and Clark, The New Adventures of Superman, the cast was worried that she would be taller than Superman in heels as she was 58 1⁄2, ABC cancelled Lois & Clark in 1997. Hatcher won the role of Paris Carver in the 1997 James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies, Hatcher was three months pregnant at the filmings start, by her then husband, Jon Tenney. A publicist said the pregnancy did not affect the production schedule and she was voted the worlds sexiest woman by readers of popular mens magazine FHM in the same year
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Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
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Lois & Clark, The New Adventures of Superman is an American television series based on the DC Comics character Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. It stars Dean Cain as Clark Kent/Superman and Teri Hatcher as Lois Lane, the series aired on ABC from September 12,1993 to June 14,1997. Developed for television by Deborah Joy LeVine, the series loosely followed the modern origin of Superman, established by writer John Byrne—where Clark Kent is the true personality and Superman a disguise. As the shows title suggests, the focused on the relationship. The series spawned several tie-in young adults novels and a novel, Lois & Clark, A Superman Novel. The show was entirely in California. On May 17,1966, Jonathan and Martha Kent witness the crash-landing of a spaceship in Shusters Field outside of Smallville. When they investigate, they discover the baby Kal-El and decide to raise him as their own, throughout the series, Clark proudly states his mother made his Superman costume for him. He often consults Jonathan and Martha, either by telephone or in person after impromptu Superman flights to Smallville, about personal and moral concerns and dilemmas. The series opens twenty-seven years later, on the day Clark moves to Metropolis, Clark becomes acquainted with photographer Jimmy Olsen and gossip columnist Cat Grant. Soon after being hired, Clark is partnered with star reporter Lois Lane, Clark falls in love with Lois at first sight, but she considers him to be little more than a rookie slowing her down. When Superman saves her from a space shuttle disaster, Lois instantly becomes infatuated with Clarks alter-ego, Supermans first mission interferes with the illegal dealings of Lex Luthor, a Metropolis business giant and benefactor. After Luthors plot has been stopped, Clark lets him know he is watching him, however, Clark respects Luthors life, even surreptitiously using his superpowers to save Lex from bleeding to death. Luthor develops an interest in Lois Lane and through most of the first season tries to woo her, although Lois is receptive to his romantic advances, Lois also develops feelings for Clark, but represses or denies them. Luthor eventually proposes marriage to Lois, Clark, seeing he may lose Lois, attempts to convince her of Luthors true nature, but fails. In a last-ditch attempt, Clark tells Lois that he is in love with her, she replies that she not return his feelings. Later, Lois asks Superman if there is any chance of a romance between the two of them, Superman turns her down and Lois accepts Luthors proposal. Luthor decides to coincide his nuptials with the death of Superman, who he traps in a cage in the wine cellar of Luthor Tower
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San Francisco Chronicle
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It was founded in 1865 as The Daily Dramatic Chronicle by teenage brothers Charles de Young and Michael H. de Young. The paper is owned by the Hearst Corporation, which bought it from the de Young family in 2000. The paper benefited from the growth of San Francisco and was the largest circulation newspaper on the West Coast of the United States by 1880. Like many other newspapers, it has experienced a fall in circulation in the early 21st century. The newspaper publishes two web sites, SFGate, which has a mixture of news and web features. Between World War II and 1971, new editor Scott Josephine Newhall took a bold, the newspaper grew in circulation to become the citys largest, overtaking the rival San Francisco Examiner. The demise of other San Francisco dailies through the late 1950s and early 1960s left the Examiner, from 1965 on the two papers shared a single classified-advertising operation. This arrangement stayed in place until the Hearst Corporation took full control of the Chronicle, beginning in the early 1990s, the Chronicle started to face competition beyond the borders of San Francisco. The Chronicle launched five zoned sections to appear in the Friday edition of the paper, the sections covered San Francisco, and four different suburban areas. They each featured a unique columnist, enterprise pieces and local news specific to the community, the newspaper added 40 full-time staff positions to work in the suburban bureaus. The de Young family controlled the paper, via the Chronicle Publishing Company, until July 27,2000, following the sale, the Hearst Corporation transferred the Examiner to the Fang family, publisher of the San Francisco Independent and AsianWeek, along with a $66-million subsidy. Under the new owners, the Examiner became a free tabloid, in 1949, the de Young family founded KRON-TV, the Bay Areas third television station. Until the mid-1960s, the station, operated from the basement of the Chronicle Building, KRON moved to studios at 1001 Van Ness Avenue. The frequent bold-faced, all-capital-letter headlines typical of the Chronicles front page were eliminated, editor Ward Bushees note heralded the issue as the start of a new era for the Chronicle. On July 6,2009, the paper unveiled some alterations to the new design that included yet newer section fronts and wider use of color photographs and graphics. In a special section publisher Frank J. Vega described new, the newer look was accompanied by a reduction in size of the broadsheet. On November 9,2009, the Chronicle became the first newspaper in the nation to print on high-quality glossy paper, the high-gloss paper is used for some section fronts and inside pages. As of 2013 the publisher of the Chronicle is Jeffrey Johnson, audrey Cooper was named editor-in-chief in January 2015 and is the first woman to hold the position
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Climax (narrative)
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The climax or turning point of a narrative work is its point of highest tension and drama, or it is the time when the action starts during which the solution is given. The climax of a story is a literary element. e. to construct a dramatization, in the play Hippolytus, by the famous Greek playwright, Euripides, the climax arrives when Phaedra hears Hippolytus react badly because of her love for him. That is the moment that Aphrodites curse is fulfilled. An anticlimax is a situation in a plot in which something which would appear to be difficult to solve is solved through something trivial. Another example could involve the protagonist faced with insurmountable odds and ultimately being killed without accomplishing his goal, dramatic structure Literary element Climax as a rhetorical device
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Teen Vogue
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Teen Vogue is a US magazine which was launched in 2004 as a sister publication to Vogue, targeted at teenage girls. Like Vogue, it includes stories about fashion and celebrities, since 2015, the magazine has moved its focus away from shopping and fashion features into more topical content, including politics and current affairs. Teen Vogue was established in 2003, as a spinoff of Vogue, the magazine is published in a smaller 6¾x9 format to afford it more visibility on shelves and some flexibility getting into a digest size slot at checkout stands. In May 2016, Elaine Welteroth was appointed as editor, replacing the founding editor-in-chief Amy Astley and her appointment at 29 saw her become the youngest editor-in-chief in Condé Nasts history, and the second African-American. She works closely with digital editorial director Phillip Picardi and creative director Marie Suter, in November 2016, it was announced Teen Vogue would start publishing quarterly, following the Dec/Jan 2017 issue. In December 2016, the published an opinion article by Lauren Duca. List of Teen Vogue cover models Official website Teen Vogue – magazine profile at Fashion Model Directory
