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Westchester, Illinois
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Westchester is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. It is a suburb of Chicago. The population was 16,718 at the 2010 census, the current Village President is Sam D. Pulia. The area now known as Westchester was occupied by German farmers dating back to the mid-19th century, samuel Insull purchased the land in 1924 with plans to recreate an English-style town. As a result, the name and the majority of its street names are of English origin. The Great Depression slowed construction in the decade, although the population continued to grow. The extension of the line was removed in 1951, however, the Interstate Highway Systems creation in 1956 led to the construction of nearby expressways I-290 and I-294, providing residents with convenient travel. Expansion has consumed nearly all land within the village, save for the 85-acre Wolf Road Prairie. It is the largest black-soil prairie remnant east of the Mississippi River, Westchester is located at 41°51′14″N 87°53′1″W. According to the 2010 census, Westchester has an area of 3.69 square miles. As of the census of 2000, there were 16,824 people,7,015 households, the population density was 5,265.2 people per square mile. There were 7,123 housing units at a density of 2,229.2 per square mile. The racial makeup of the village was 86. 15% White,7. 20% African American,0. 07% Native American,3. 44% Asian,0. 01% Pacific Islander,1. 99% from other races, and 1. 15% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 5. 68% of the population, the top five ancestries reported in Westchester as of the 2000 census were Italian, German, Irish, Polish and Czech. Of all households 26. 5% were made up of individuals and 15. 0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.38 and the average family size was 2.88. In the village, the population was out with 18. 6% under the age of 18,4. 8% from 18 to 24,26. 8% from 25 to 44,24. 5% from 45 to 64. The median age was 45 years, for every 100 females there were 87.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 83.8 males, the median income for a household in the village was $58,928, and the median income for a family was $70,313
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Northwestern University
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Composed of twelve schools and colleges, Northwestern offers 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees. Northwestern was founded in 1851 by John Evans, for whom the City of Evanston is named and its founding purpose was to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that today includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Instruction began in 1855, women were admitted in 1869, today, the main campus is a 240-acre parcel in Evanston, along the shores of Lake Michigan 12 miles north of downtown Chicago. The universitys law, medical, and professional schools are located on a 25-acre campus in Chicagos Streeterville neighborhood, in 2008, the university opened a campus in Education City, Doha, Qatar with programs in journalism and communication. In 2016, Northwestern opened its San Francisco space at 44 Montgomery St. which hosts journalism, engineering, Northwestern is a large research university with a comprehensive doctoral program and it attracts over $650 million in sponsored research each year. Northwestern has the tenth largest university endowment in the United States, in 2017, the university accepted 9. 0% of undergraduate applicants from a pool of 37,255. Northwestern is a member of the Big Ten Conference and remains the only private university in the conference. The Northwestern Wildcats compete in 19 intercollegiate sports in the NCAAs Division I Big Ten Conference, on January 28,1851, the Illinois General Assembly granted a charter to the Trustees of the North-Western University, making it the first chartered university in Illinois. The schools nine founders, all of whom were Methodists, knelt in prayer, John Evans, for whom Evanston is named, bought 379 acres of land along Lake Michigan in 1853, and Philo Judson developed plans for what would become the city of Evanston, Illinois. The first building, Old College, opened on November 5,1855, to raise funds for its construction, Northwestern sold $100 perpetual scholarships entitling the purchaser and his heirs to free tuition. Willard Residential College is named in her honor, Northwestern admitted its first women students in 1869, and the first woman was graduated in 1874. Northwestern fielded its first intercollegiate football team in 1882, later becoming a member of the Big Ten Conference. In the 1870s and 1880s, Northwestern affiliated itself with already existing schools of law, medicine, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law is the oldest law school in Chicago. The Association of American Universities invited Northwestern to become a member in 1917, in 1933, a proposal to merge Northwestern with the University of Chicago was considered but rejected. Northwestern was also one of the first six universities in the country to establish a Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps in the 1920s, after the golden years of the 1920s, the Great Depression in the United States hit Northwestern hard. Its annual income dropped 25 percent from $4.8 million in 1930-31 to $3.6 million in 1933-34. Investment income shrank, fewer parents could pay full tuition, and annual giving from alumni, the university responded with two salary cuts of 10 percent each for all employees. It imposed a freeze, a building freeze, and slashed appropriations for maintenance, books
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Yale School of Drama
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The school traces its roots to the Yale Dramatic Association, the second-oldest college theatre association in the country, founded in 1900. George Pierce Baker, a teacher of playwriting, was the first chairman of the department, the first Master of Fine Arts in drama was granted in 1931. In 1955, the department was organized as a professional school. In 1966, under Dean Robert Brustein, the Yale Repertory Theatre was formed to further ties between the professional and academic communities. Lloyd Richards, dean and artistic director from 1979 to 1991, increased the emphasis on new plays, premiering works by Athol Fugard, Lee Blessing. Today, Yale Drama students work on School of Drama productions, at the Yale Repertory Theatre, School of Drama students spend the morning in class, with the exact number of hours varying by their year in school and their department. After 2 p. m. all classes are over, and rehearsals for Yale Repertory Theatre, rehearsals can last up to eight hours. Students also participate in clubs, like soccer and volleyball. Students must hold a degree and complete their program of study with distinction. A Certificate in Drama is available to students who do not hold an undergraduate degree from an accredited college. The school also offers a Doctor of Fine Arts to students who hold an M. F. A. degree in Dramaturgy, committee, and a Technical Internship Certificate to students who complete a one-year internship program of the Technical Design and Production department. Founded in 1968, the Yale Cabaret provides an outlet for Yale School of Drama students. Students regularly work outside their disciplines in the 18 productions presented for a public audience. Official website History of the Yale Dramatic Association
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Crossing Jordan
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Crossing Jordan is an American television crime/drama series that aired on NBC from September 24,2001, to May 16,2007. It stars Jill Hennessy as Jordan Cavanaugh, M. D. a crime-solving forensic pathologist employed in the Massachusetts Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, the show used an ensemble cast approach that featured a group of Jordans co-workers and police detectives assigned to the various cases. Its roster of characters was created by Tim Kring, who also developed its core format. This element of the series was dropped when Howard left the series as a regular, however, there were instances of Jordan role-playing with other characters, such as Woody. After six seasons and 117 episodes on May 16,2007, a forensic pathologist in the Boston Medical Examiners Office, she solves crimes during the course of investigations. Jordan is emotionally scarred by her mothers murder when she was a child, at the end of the sixth and final season, Jordan told Detective Hoyt that she loved him. She attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Tufts University School of Medicine, Dr. Garret Macy, The Chief Medical Examiner and Jordans boss, Macy must deal with Jordans erratic behavior, as well as his confused family. He has a daughter, Abby, but is divorced from his wife. Garret has an affinity for jazz and he has been known to have had romantic entanglements with grief counselor Lily Lebowski, ADA Renee Walcott, Charlie Davis, and his one-time wife, Maggie Warner. Garret admitted to his drinking problem after finding out his daughter had become addicted to heroin upon dropping out of college and he is also allergic to strawberries and peanuts. In the beginning of six, with the cancellation of Lilys wedding. However, things may be complicated by Lilys unexpected pregnancy with her once-to-be husband, Bug has since taken it upon himself to make Lily move in with him and support her and the baby. In an episode called Post Hoc, near the end of the season, Bug disappears without a trace. Dr. Macy makes inquiries and learns that Bug is being held incommunicado by the Department of Homeland Security and he is finally released after an interrogation that apparently included waterboarding, and is left deeply shaken by the experience. Lily Lebowski, Lily begins the series as an intake secretary and she wins Garret over, but he breaks up with her to work things out with his ex-wife. During season two, Bug becomes interested in her and she earns a promotion to become the offices grief counselor, but resigns in season six after accepting her boyfriends marriage proposal. By the end of the series, she breaks up with the boyfriend and moves in with Bug, after finding out she was pregnant with her exs baby. Dr. Nigel Townsend, A wise-cracking British criminologist with a personal life, he claimed to like girls
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How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
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How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days is a 2003 romantic comedy film directed by Donald Petrie, starring Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey. It is based on a cartoon book of the same name by Michele Alexander. Andie Anderson is a writer who works for a magazine called Composure as the How to and she is bored and wishes she could write more about important things, such as politics, economics, religion, poverty, stuff she actually cares about. She soon finds herself writing an article called How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, the idea comes about when Andies friend, Michelle, experiences a minor breakdown after yet another break-up. Using her friend as inspiration, Andie reveals how she will actually start dating a guy and drive him away, at the same time, advertising executive Benjamin Barry is striving for a pitch to advertise diamonds. When they question Bens knowledge about love, Ben bets he could any woman fall in love with him if he wanted to. If he can make any woman fall in love him before the upcoming company ball, in just 10 days. Fortunately, that night Andie and Ben happen to be in the place and as Judy and Judy refer to Andie as the blonde with the pretty smile. Neither Andie nor Ben reveals their true intentions, Andie works hard to make Ben break up with her in order to complete her article. However, Ben continues to stick around in hopes of making her fall in love with him, Ben stays with her despite everything, and after coming very close to breaking up they attend couples counseling, led by Andies friend Michelle. They agree, as a solution to their problems, to visit Bens family in Staten Island for the weekend, while holidaying together, Ben and Andie begin to form a genuine bond, playing card games with the family, learning to ride Bens motorcycle. Upon arrival home Ben even refers to Andie as his girlfriend, Andie tries to explain to boss Lana that she cannot continue writing and publishing this article as she has really got to know this guy, but Lana remains insistent upon it. Around the same time, Andie and Ben go to the ball together where Bens boss, Phillip, meets Andie and tells Ben that he met her. Seeing Bens good news, Judy and Judy are instantly envious and they tell his close colleagues, Tony and Thayer, Andie knew about the bet all along and was playing along to help Ben win. Almost instantly, Tony and Thayer rush to Andies side and beg her to keep quiet, almost simultaneously, Lana—who is unaware of Bens role in Andies How To article—reveals Andies true intentions to Ben. Upon learning of Bens bet, Andie attempts to humiliate Ben by getting on stage and telling all he has prepared a special treat, in an attempt to leave, Ben reveals they have prepared a duet and instructs his friends not to let her leave the room. They go on to sing a version of Carly Simons Youre So Vain. They go their separate ways before Ben is shown Andies article, once he accuses her of running away, they reveal their true feelings for each other and the film ends with Ben instructing the taxi driver to return Andies belongings to her home, and then they kiss
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Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
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Anchorman, The Legend of Ron Burgundy is a 2004 American comedy film directed by Adam McKay, produced by Judd Apatow, starring Will Ferrell, and written by McKay and Ferrell. The film is a take on the culture of the 1970s. It portrays a San Diego TV station where Ferrells title character clashes with his new female counterpart and this film is number 100 on Bravos 100 funniest movies, number 6 on TimeOuts top 100 comedy films of all time and 113 on Empires 500 Greatest Movies of All Time. The film made $28.4 million in its opening weekend, a companion film assembled from outtakes and abandoned subplots, titled Wake Up, Ron Burgundy, The Lost Movie, was released straight-to-DVD in late 2004. A sequel, Anchorman 2, The Legend Continues, was released on December 18,2013, in 1974, Ron Burgundy is the famous anchorman for a local San Diego television station, fictional KVWN channel 4. Ed later informs the team that they have forced to hire Veronica Corningstone. After a series of attempts by the team to seduce her, she finally relents and agrees to a professional tour of the city with Ron. Despite agreeing to keep the relationship discreet, Ron announces it on air as well as shouting in the office, after a dispute with a motorcyclist involving Rons dog Baxter being punted off the San Diego–Coronado Bridge, Ron is late to work. Veronica fills in for him on-air, gets higher ratings than Burgundy normally gets, Veronica is made co-anchor, to the disgust of the team, and both co-anchors become fierce rivals on and off the air. Depressed, the team decides to buy new suits, but Brick. Confronted by main competitor Wes Mantooth and his news team, Ron challenges them to a fight, however, when several other news teams converge onsite, a full-on melee ensues, only to be broken up by police sirens and causing them to flee. One of Veronicas co-workers informs her that Ron will read anything written on the teleprompter, so she sneaks into the station, the next day, Ron concludes the broadcast with Go fuck yourself, San Diego. Instead of his closing line, You stay classy, San Diego. Subsequently triggering an angry mob outside the studio and prompting Ed to fire Ron, knowing she went too far, Veronica attempts to apologize, but Burgundy angrily dismisses her. Burgundy becomes unemployed, friendless, and heavily antagonized by the public while Veronica enjoys fame, Ed also informs Champ, Brick, and Brian that if they see Ron they may not speak with him or they will be fired. Three months later, when a panda is about to give birth, in an attempt to sabotage her, a rival news anchor pushes Veronica into a Kodiak bear enclosure. When Ed could not locate Veronica, he recruits Ron, once at the zoo, Ron jumps in the bear pen to save Veronica, as the public watches helplessly. The news team then jumps in to save Ron and Veronica, just as a bear is about to attack, Baxter, who miraculously survived, appears and persuades the bear to spare them
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Step Brothers (film)
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Step Brothers is a 2008 American comedy film directed by Adam McKay, written by Will Ferrell and McKay from a story by Ferrell, McKay, and John C. Reilly and starring Ferrell and Reilly and it follows Brennan and Dale, two men who are forced to live together as brothers. The film was released on July 25,2008, two years after Talladega Nights, The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, both films share main actors, as well as the writing and producing team. Brennan Huff and Dale Doback are men-children still living at home, Brennan lives with his mother, Nancy, and Dale lives with his widowed father, Robert, the parents meet and fall in love. Robert and Nancy get married, forcing Brennan and Dale to live with other as step brothers. Brennan and Dale dislike each other, blaming the other for interfering with their lifestyles, Brennan plays Dales drum set and a brawl on the front lawn ensues. They are grounded for a week and they must find jobs within a month- or they will be forced out of the house, Brennan is awed that Dale stood up to Derek, while Dereks wife Alice finds Dales courage a turn-on, beginning a sexual affair between the two. Brennan and Dale use the incident to discover their shared interests, Robert schedules several job interviews for Brennan and Dale, who offend the interviewers with their disrespectful attitudes. Dale and Brennan decide to start an entertainment company, Prestige Worldwide and they present their first music video at Dereks birthday party, which includes footage of them accidentally crashing Roberts boat. Robert refuses to make an investment and spanks Brennan after a verbal exchange between the two. On Christmas Day, Robert announces he wants to divorce Nancy, causing Brennan, blaming each other for their parents divorce, the boys fight, but they decide to go their separate ways. Brennan works for Dereks helicopter leasing firm and Dale works for a catering company, weeks later, Brennan and Dale are fully mature adults and are doing well at their new jobs and living independently. Brennan manages the Catalina Wine Mixer for Dereks company and invites Robert and they hire the catering company which Dale works at. The party is a success, until the singer of Uptown Girl, a 1980s Billy Joel tribute band, responds to a man in the crowd by using explicit profanity. With the stage empty, Derek fires Brennan for the mishap, Robert ultimately encourages Brennan. Brennan and Dale take the stage and perform Con Te Partiro, Derek is so moved by the performance that he and Brennan make amends. Dale ends his relationship with Alice to her dismay, six months later, Robert and Nancy are reunited and move back into their old house. Brennan and the therapist Denise get married, while Brennan and Dale form an entertainment company that runs karaoke events
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Our Idiot Brother
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Our Idiot Brother is a 2011 American comedy-drama film directed by Jesse Peretz and starring Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel, and Emily Mortimer. The film was co-produced by Anthony Bregman, Peter Saraf, and it premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and was given wide release on August 26,2011. The film received positive reviews, with critics praising the story and Rudds performance. Ned Rochlin is a farmer living with his girlfriend, Janet. Ned is then arrested on a charge of selling drugs, Ned has three sisters, Miranda is a journalist for Vanity Fair trying to get her first major article published. Though she has trouble finding a man to keep her interest, she, Natalie, is an independent, bisexual hipster living with her girlfriend, Cindy, and five other roommates. Liz, the oldest, is married to Dylan, a documentary filmmaker and their marriage is failing as Dylan shows no sexual or emotional interest in Liz. They also have control over their son River, which leaves him unhappy. When Ned is released from prison, he returns home to his girl and he finds that she is living with Billy, and no longer wishes to continue their relationship or allow him to work at the farm. Billy gives Ned a ride into town and tells him if he can scrape together $1000 for the first 2 months rent. Ned initially stays at his mothers house but a few days later shows up at Lizs place and he is put in Rivers room and told that he must help around the house and work with Dylan on his newest documentary about a Russian ballerina named Tatiana. The next day, Miranda reluctantly asks Ned to chauffeur while she interviews an important client, Miranda hopes to pry into her scandalous past, but is dismayed to learn of a legal agreement to only ask about charity work. Miranda tries to pretend Ned isnt there, but his friendliness charms Arabella and that night, Ned goes with Natalie to a self-help meeting with Natalies artist friend, Christian. Christian is attracted to Natalie but is dissuaded by her lesbian relationship until Ned informs him that she is bisexual, Christian and Natalie take a cab home and end up having sex. Ned goes back to working with Dylan, but is told to watch the car while Dylan conducts an interview with Tatiana. Hours later, Ned is told by an officer to move out of a tow zone. Running upstairs to get the keys he discovers Dylan naked with Tatiana, Dylan later says the only reason he was naked was to make Tatiana feel more comfortable while being naked, which Ned believes. The next night, Ned goes with Miranda to Arabellas benefit dinner and she explains the gossipy part of her life to Ned, who listens with interest
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We're the Millers
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Were the Millers is a 2013 American comedy film directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber. The films screenplay was written by Bob Fisher, Steve Faber, Sean Anders and it stars Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudeikis, Emma Roberts, Will Poulter, Nick Offerman, Kathryn Hahn, Molly Quinn and Ed Helms. The plot follows a small-time pot dealer who convinces his neighbors to create a fake family, the film was released on August 7,2013 by New Line Cinema through Warner Bros. It grossed $270 million worldwide during its run, against a $37 million budget. The film was nominated for four Peoples Choice Awards, and six MTV Movie Awards, a sequel is currently in development, with Adam Sztykiel set to write the script. A low-level marijuana dealer named David Clark, who lives in Denver, is robbed of his money and stash, after David is brought to him, Gurdlinger forces David to smuggle a smidge of marijuana from Mexico as a solution to clear his debt. When the Millers reach the compound, they find out that the amount of marijuana they were picking up is not a smidge but actually two tons. Because of the load of the marijuana on the RV that they are driving. A family they had encountered at the border, the Fitzgeralds, consisting of Don, Edith, on the trip to the shop, David learns that Don Fitzgerald is a DEA agent after finding his badge and gun in the glove compartment. The marijuana turns out to be stolen from Pablo Chacons cartel where Gurdlinger had David pose as an agent of Chacon and they immediately tell Chacon that they are not a real family and that they did not know they were stealing from him. Rose is given a chance to prove that she is a stripper by dancing, due to Kennys erratic driving, the RV veers off the highway and a tarantula, hiding in a bowl of fruit, crawls up Kennys leg and bites his testicle. Kenny has an allergic reaction to the bite, and the Millers head to the hospital near a carnival for the 4th of July. This further delays the delivery of the contraband, during their wait, David and Rose begin to bond and Rose reveals her real name to be Sarah. The two of them scold Casey for leaving with a boy, which leaves Casey feeling amused and happy for the attention she didnt receive from her actual. David renegotiates with Gurdlinger for a fee of $500,000 on the condition that it arrives that night, when Kenny is finally released from the hospital, David rushes him to the RV in a wheelchair and accidentally tips him over. In the ensuing argument, David inadvertently reveals how much he is getting paid, Casey, Sarah, and Kenny are left in disgust by the revelation, and so David leaves them at the local carnival. Shortly after leaving, David regrets abandoning them after hearing Waterfalls by TLC on the radio, before being sexually harassed, Casey tells Scotty about how she felt like she was actually part of a real family. David then arrives at the carnival, begging them to back with him
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013 film)
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is a 2013 American adventure comedy-drama film written by Steve Conrad and directed, produced and starring Ben Stiller. The film also stars Kristen Wiig, Shirley MacLaine, Adam Scott, Kathryn Hahn, Gore Verbinski served as executive producer. This is the film adaptation of James Thurbers 1939 short story of the same name. The film premiered at the New York Film Festival on October 5,2013, the Secret Life of Walter Mitty was released on DVD and Blu-ray on April 15,2014 by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. Walter Mitty is a negative assets manager at Life magazine who daydreams of adventures and has a crush on a coworker named Cheryl, Mitty works with photojournalist Sean OConnell, whose images are highly regarded. OConnell has sent Mitty his latest negatives and a wallet as a gift in appreciation of Mittys work, OConnell believes negative #25 captures the quintessence of Life and that it should be used for the cover of the magazines final print issue as it converts to online status. The negative is missing, however, and Walter is forced to stall for time with corporate transition manager Ted Hendricks, while viewing the other negatives outside Lifes offices, Cheryl approaches Mitty and suggests that he think of the negatives as clues to Seans location. They look at three of them, including one of a thumb with a unique ring on it. A third picture of a boat leads Mitty to determine that OConnell is in Greenland, Mitty promptly flies there to find him. A bartender in Nuuk explains that OConnell left on a ship, to find him, Mitty would need to go on the postal helicopter, and the pilot is drunk. Mitty recognizes the pilots thumb with the ring and realizes he is on the right track. He at first declines to fly with the pilot, but imagines Cheryl singing Space Oddity, gains a new confidence. Nearing the ship, Mitty learns the helicopter cannot land upon it, misunderstanding the pilot, instead of jumping into a dinghy boat nearing to catch him, Mitty aims for the main vessel and misses and falls in the ocean. He splashes down into ice-cold, shark-infested waters, losing a box of ship-to-shore radio components before being brought aboard, Mitty learns that OConnell departed the ship earlier. The crew offers him some clementine cake OConnell left behind, Mitty discovers OConnells destinations in the wrapping paper, an eruption forces Mitty to flee, and as there is nothing left for him to do, he obeys a text message recalling him to New York. For failing to recover the negative, his first failure in a career with the magazine. He learns that Cheryl, who was let go earlier, seems to have reconciled with her estranged husband, Mitty returns home discouraged and visits his mother, throwing away the wallet he received from OConnell. To his surprise, Mitty recognizes the curve of the piano in his mothers house looking at the last photograph
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Afternoon Delight (film)
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Afternoon Delight is a 2013 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Jill Soloway. The film stars Kathryn Hahn, Juno Temple, Josh Radnor, Rachel is a mother living in an unhappy life, frustrated by the roles of being a stay-at-home mom and not having had sex with her husband Jeff for months. She visits her therapist, Lenore but is unable to find any help in her advice, looking to spice up their relationship, they go to a strip club, where Rachel sees McKenna. Jeff buys her a private lap dance from McKenna, Rachel finds out that McKenna is only 19, but afterwards, Rachel and Jeff continue not having sex. Rachel follows a mobile coffee hut on Twitter, where she goes to buy a drink, at the hut, she sees McKenna and they start talking. She introduces herself and they become friends, having coffee together regularly, one day, Rachel finds McKenna thrown out of her residence, and now homeless, so she invites her to stay at her large house. While Jeff is less happy, Rachel does not feel that she can kick her out. She finds out that McKenna is a sex-worker, who has clients she sees regularly, Rachel starts teaching McKenna to nanny her young son Logan. When Rachel is frustrated at an event, she asks McKenna if she can go with her to see her client. When there, she watches the two of them have sex, and is horrified by what she sees, when asked by a friend if McKenna can babysit, Rachel changes her mind and says she doesnt want her to. McKenna is upset by this, as she went through a lot of effort buying things for the girls party, while the women are out, and all the men are at Jeff and Rachels house, McKenna comes in and starts acting provocatively. She ends up sleeping with one of Jeffs friends, but his wife, McKenna is thrown out of their house. Rachel tells Jeff that she out of this life, and out of her head. At a visit to Lenore, Rachel comforts Lenore when she starts crying and telling her how her partner had left and that night, Rachel goes to Jeff and they reconcile, being happier than ever. One day while driving, Rachel sees McKenna on the street and she tells her friend that she had nothing to say to her. The film ends with Rachel and Jeff being happy together, the film was given a limited release on August 30,2013. Afternoon Delight garnered mixed to positive reviews, from 69 critics, it holds a 6.2 rating, on Metacritic, based on 21 critics, the film has a 48/100 rating, signifying mixed or average reviews. Soloway received the Directing Award at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival on January 26,2013, filmmaker Quentin Tarantino included Afternoon Delight on his list of the Top Ten Films of 2013
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Jill Soloway
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Jill Soloway is an American comedian, playwright, writer and director. They won the Best Director award at the Sundance Film Festival for directing and writing the film Afternoon Delight. They are also known for their work on Six Feet Under and for creating, writing, executive producing and directing the Amazon original series Transparent, for which they have won two Emmys. Soloway was born in Chicago, Illinois, to public relations consultant, coach and writer, Elaine Soloway, and psychiatrist Dr. Harry J. Soloway, around 2011, Dr. Soloway came out as transgender. Soloways elder sister, Faith, is a Boston-based musician and performer with whom she sometimes collaborates and they both attended Lane Technical College Prep High School in Chicago. They graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison as an arts major. Soloways mother was formerly an aide to Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne and was a former communications director for School Superintendent Ruth Love. After 30 years, Soloways parents divorced, Soloway has a stepfather named Tommy Madison. After college they worked as a assistant in commercials and music videos in Chicago. Again with sister Faith, they sold a script to HBO called Jewess Jones about a female superhero. Also at the Annoyance Theatre in Chicago, the pair created plays The Miss Vagina Pageant and their short story, Courteney Coxs Asshole, caught the attention of Alan Ball and got them hired on Six Feet Under. With Maggie Rowe, Soloway co-created Hollywood Hellhouse and Sit n Spin, Soloway began their TV writing career on shows such as The Oblongs, Nikki and The Steve Harvey Show. They followed those shows by writing for four seasons on the HBO original series Six Feet Under, Six Feet Under ran for five seasons from 2001 to 2005. Soloway created the pilot Transparent for Amazon. com, which became available for streaming and download on February 6,2014 and they were inspired by their parent who came out as transgender. The show stars Gaby Hoffman, Jay Duplass, and Amy Landecker as siblings whose parent reveals she is going through a significant life transition, the pilot for Transparent was picked up by Amazon Studios. As part of the making of the show, Soloway enacted a transfirmative action program, as of August 2014, over eighty transgender people have worked on the show, including two transgender consultants. All the bathrooms on set are gender-neutral, Soloway wrote Gaby Hoffmanns role on Transparent especially for Hoffmann after seeing her performance on Louie. Transparent premiered all ten episodes simultaneously in late September 2014, in August 2016, Amazon premiered a Soloway-directed pilot of I Love Dick, based on the novel by Chris Kraus
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Revolutionary Road (film)
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Revolutionary Road is a 2008 British-American romantic drama film directed by Sam Mendes. It was written by Justin Haythe and based on the 1961 novel of the name by Richard Yates. This is the second collaboration between Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet and Kathy Bates, who previously co-starred in Titanic. The film premiered in Los Angeles on 15 December 2008, followed by a limited U. S. release on 26 December 2008, in most other countries it was released between 15 and 30 January 2009. In 1955, Frank Wheeler meets April at a party and he is a longshoreman, hoping to be a cashier – she wants to be an actress. Frank later secures a position with Knox Machines, for which his father worked for twenty years. The Wheelers move to 115 Revolutionary Road in suburban Connecticut when April becomes pregnant, the couple becomes close friends with their realtor Helen Givings and her husband Howard Givings, and neighbor Milly Campbell and her husband Shep. To their friends, the Wheelers are the couple. April fails to make an out of acting, while Frank hates the tedium of his work. Meanwhile, Helen asks the couple to meet her son, John, the Givings talk with April and Frank. During the conversation, the Wheelers tell the Givings about their plans to live in Paris, surprisingly, the only person that seems to comprehend their decision is John. As the couple prepares to move, they are forced to reconsider, Frank is offered a promotion, and April becomes pregnant again. The next day, Frank takes the promotion and tries to accept his uneventful life, at the end of an evening at a jazz bar with the Campbells, Shep and April end up alone together and have sex in the car. Shep professes his love for April, but she rejects his interest. The following day, Frank confesses to having had an affair with an assistant at his office. To his surprise, April responds apathetically and tells him it does not matter as her love for him has gone, the Givings come over for dinner, and Frank announces to the guests that their plans have changed, as April is pregnant. John harshly lambasts Frank for crushing Aprils hope as well as his acceptance of his circumstances, angered, Frank nearly attacks John, and the Givings hurry out. Afterwards, Frank and April have a verbal altercation, after which April flees the house
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This Is Where I Leave You
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This Is Where I Leave You is a 2014 American drama comedy film directed by Shawn Levy. It is based on the book of the name by Jonathan Tropper. The film was released on September 19,2014, Judd Altman finds out his wife Quinn has been having an affair with his boss Wade for a year. After he moves out, Judds sister Wendy calls to him their father Mort has died. The Altmans gather for the funeral at their mothers home where they reconnect with family friends Horry Callen, Wendy is unhappy because her husband Barry is too busy with work. Judd reunites with his older brother Paul and Pauls wife Annie, the youngest brother, Phillip, arrives late with older, therapist girlfriend Tracy and interrupts the funeral. The Altmans mother, Hilary tells her children their father wanted them to sit shiva, presided over by the Altmans childhood friend, Wendy knows about Judds discovery of Quinns infidelity, about which he avoids telling everyone else. Judd also reunites with Penny Moore, a girl who had a crush on him in high school, during a family gathering, Wendy drunkenly badgers Judd to tell the truth about Quinn. Phillip laments being seen as the family screw-up, while flirting with another girl while Tracy watches. Irritated, Judd blurts out that Quinn was cheating on him, Quinn shows up the next day and reveals shes pregnant with Judds child. It could not be Wades child as he is sterile, Phillip finds out about the pregnancy and reveals this to the family. The family goes to temple for a service where the brothers sneak out to smoke joints Judd found in his fathers suit, Annie, upset that she and Paul havent conceived, crawls into bed with Judd in hopes that he could get her pregnant, but he rejects her. Wendy visits Horry in his backyard, and expresses her remorse over being involved the accident that caused Horrys brain injury, a few days later, when her husband leaves for a conference, an upset Wendy sleeps with Horry. Being caught walking home in the morning by Judd, she confesses she will never love Barry the way she loved Horry. Judd spends the night with Penny, and then spends the day with her, but then Quinn calls him out of fear that she is having a miscarriage, and he admits to Penny that Quinn is pregnant. Judd gets to the hospital to be with Quinn, only for Wade to show up, the baby is fine and is determined to be a girl. Upon being asked to leave by the OB, Judd and Wade get into a fight in the waiting room, when Philip and Wendy arrive, Wendy punches Wade in the face. Upon leaving, Wade tells Judd hes not ready to be a step-dad, the next day, Annie apologizes to Judd, tearfully confessing that she only wants a baby so badly and is so frustrated by her lack of progress with Paul
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Tomorrowland (film)
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Tomorrowland is a 2015 American science-fiction mystery adventure film directed and co-written by Brad Bird. Bird co-wrote the films screenplay with Damon Lindelof, from a story treatment by Bird, Lindelof. The film stars George Clooney, Hugh Laurie, Britt Robertson, Raffey Cassidy, Tim McGraw, Kathryn Hahn and Keegan-Michael Key. Walt Disney Pictures originally announced the film in June 2011 under the working title 1952, principal photography began in August 2013, with footage shot in British Columbia, Alberta, Florida, and Spain with second unit filming in France, California and the Bahamas. Tomorrowland was released in conventional and IMAX formats on May 22,2015, the film grossed $209 million worldwide. An adult Frank Walker and Casey Newton relate to the audience their experiences, in the flashback, he meets David Nix, an official who is unimpressed with Franks prototype jet pack. Frank does draw the attention of a girl named Athena. Seeing his potential, Athena gives Frank a pin embossed with a T symbol, Frank sneaks onto the ride, where his pin is scanned and he is transported into a futuristic cityscape known as Tomorrowland. He falls from a ledge, but straps on his jet pack in mid air and lands safely before Nix, the narration then shifts to the present, where Casey Newton sneaks into a decommissioned NASA launch pad in Cape Canaveral, where her father Eddie is an engineer. The next night, Casey attempts to break into the NASA compound again, at the police station, she sees the pin among her personal items, and discovers that upon contact, the pin instantly shows her a view of Tomorrowland that only she can see. She briefly explores the vision until the battery runs out. Assisted by her brother Nate, Casey finds a Houston memorabilia store related to the pin, upon meeting the two owners, Hugo and Ursula, Casey is questioned about it, and when she says she knows nothing else about it, they attack her. Athena bursts in and fights Hugo and Ursula, who are revealed to be robots. The two girls escape as the robots self-destruct, destroying the store, after stealing a car, Athena reveals that she is an Audio-Animatronic robot, and the one who gave Casey the pin, revealing that she needs her help to save the world. Athena drives Casey to Franks home in Pittsfield, New York, the reclusive Frank declines Caseys request for an audience, but she manages to lure him out of the house and sneak in, locking him out. Frank re-enters through a tunnel and tells her angrily that he was thrown out of Tomorrowland. He also asks if she would like to know the moment of her death. When she says this, a showing the probability of the end of the world changes its reading from 100% to 99. 9994%
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Transparent (TV series)
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Transparent is an American comedy-drama web television series created by Jill Soloway for Amazon Studios that debuted on February 6,2014. The story revolves around a Los Angeles family and their lives following the discovery that the person they knew as their father Mort is transgender, transparents first season premiered in full on September 26,2014, the second season on December 11,2015. The third on September 23,2016, Amazon picked up the series for a fourth season ahead of the premiere of the third. This is the first show produced by Amazon Studios to win a major award, jeffrey Tambor as Maura Pfefferman, a retired college professor of political science who finally opens up to her family about always identifying as a woman. Amy Landecker as Sarah Pfefferman, the oldest sibling and she is married and has two children. She leaves her husband for Tammy, a woman she fell in love with in college and she is initially the most accepting of her fathers transition. Jay Duplass as Joshua Josh Pfefferman, the middle sibling, a successful music producer who has troubled relationships with women. He seems to have a hard time accepting his fathers transition at first, gaby Hoffmann as Alexandra Ali Pfefferman, the youngest sibling. She is perpetually unemployed and has a tendency to be immature for her age, Hoffmann also plays Mauras mother Rose in flashbacks. Judith Light as Shelly Pfefferman, Mauras ex-wife and the mother of Sarah, Josh and she has been aware of Mauras desire to express her inner femininity for years. Kathryn Hahn as Rabbi Raquel Fein Joshs ex-fiancé and rabbi at the Pfeffermans synagogue, Soloway created the pilot Transparent for Amazon. com, which became available for free streaming and download on February 6,2014 and was part of Amazons second pilot season. She was inspired by her transgender father, the pilot for Transparent was picked up by Amazon Studios. Tambor had previously portrayed transvestite judge Alan Wachtel on the police procedural television show Hill Street Blues in the 1980s, Soloway wrote Hoffmanns role after seeing her performance on Season 3 of Louis C. K. s show Louie. Transparent premiered all ten episodes simultaneously in late September 2014, in Canada, where Amazons video streaming service was not available, the series premiered on the Shomi platform on January 23,2015. Soloway, the writers, and the cast developed, workshopped, as part of the making of the show, Soloway enacted a transfirmative action program, whereby transgender applicants are hired in preference to cisgender ones. As of August 2014, over eighty transgender people have worked on the show, including Zackary Drucker and Rhys Ernst who are transgender consultants, in 2014, Our Lady J was chosen as the first openly transgender person to be a writer for the show. All the bathrooms on set are gender-neutral, the original pilot made available in February 2014 was partly reshot after the series was approved. On Rotten Tomatoes, the first season holds an rating of 98% based on 54 reviews
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Cleveland Heights, Ohio
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Cleveland Heights is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States, and an inner-ring suburb of Cleveland. The citys population was 46,121 at the 2010 census, as of the 2010 census, Cleveland Heights was ranked the 8th largest city by population in the Greater Cleveland metropolitan area and ranked 20th in Ohio. It was founded as a village in 1903 and a city in 1921, the area that is now Cleveland Heights was settled later than most of Cuyahoga County. The first road through what is today the city, Mayfield Road, was not built until 1828, besides farms the area also had quarries in the 19th century. One of the quarries was established by Duncan McFarland and mined bluestone. This led to the settlement that grew up around the quarry for the workers to live in to be referred to as Bluestone, there is still a road of this name in that area. John D. Rockefeller arrived in what is today Cleveland Heights in 1873 and he had a large estate of 700 acres and in 1938 the family donated the land of what is now Forest Hill Park that straddles the boundaries of Cleveland Heights and East Cleveland. There had been quarries within what is today Forest Hill Park previous to Rockefeller donating it to the city, Rockefeller was not the only affluent Clevelander to come to what is now Cleveland Heights. The Euclid Heights development was created by Patrick Calhoun starting in 1892 and it was centered around the Euclid Golf Course and began at the Cleveland city line, covering the area between Mayfield Road and Cedar Road as far east as Coventry Road. There was a line from this location running to the center of Clevelands business district. In 1898 Marcus M. Brown began the development of Mayfield Heights along the side of Mayfield Road just beyond the Cleveland boundary. Brown had purchased land from Emil Preyer and his sister Mary Preyer Hellwig. Emil had operated a cedar mill, by the end of 1899 the streetcar reached out along Mayfield Road to the old village of Fairmount. In 1903 the village of Cleveland Heights was incorporated, in 1910 Cleveland Heights had a population about 5,000 people. It had a population of 15,396 in 1920 and was incorporated as a city on 9 August 1921, by 1960 it had a population of 61,813. Cleveland Heights is located at 41°30′35″N 81°33′48″W, according to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 8.13 square miles, of which 8.11 square miles is land and 0.02 square miles is water. Cleveland Heights is mostly within the Dugway Brook Watershed, in 1987, the city of Cleveland Heights was declared a nuclear free zone. As of the census of 2010, there were 46,121 people,19,957 households, the population density was 5,686.9 inhabitants per square mile
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Yale University
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Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 in Saybrook Colony to train Congregationalist ministers, it is the third-oldest institution of education in the United States. The Collegiate School moved to New Haven in 1716, and shortly after was renamed Yale College in recognition of a gift from British East India Company governor Elihu Yale. Originally restricted to theology and sacred languages, the curriculum began to incorporate humanities and sciences by the time of the American Revolution. In the 19th century the school introduced graduate and professional instruction, awarding the first Ph. D. in the United States in 1861 and organizing as a university in 1887. Yale is organized into fourteen constituent schools, the undergraduate college, the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. While the university is governed by the Yale Corporation, each schools faculty oversees its curriculum, the universitys assets include an endowment valued at $25.4 billion as of June 2016, the second largest of any U. S. educational institution. The Yale University Library, serving all constituent schools, holds more than 15 million volumes and is the third-largest academic library in the United States, Yale College undergraduates follow a liberal arts curriculum with departmental majors and are organized into a social system of residential colleges. Almost all faculty teach courses, more than 2,000 of which are offered annually. Students compete intercollegiately as the Yale Bulldogs in the NCAA Division I – Ivy League, Yale has graduated many notable alumni, including five U. S. Presidents,19 U. S. Supreme Court Justices,20 living billionaires, and many heads of state. In addition, Yale has graduated hundreds of members of Congress,57 Nobel laureates,5 Fields Medalists,247 Rhodes Scholars, and 119 Marshall Scholars have been affiliated with the University. Yale traces its beginnings to An Act for Liberty to Erect a Collegiate School, passed by the General Court of the Colony of Connecticut on October 9,1701, the Act was an effort to create an institution to train ministers and lay leadership for Connecticut. Soon thereafter, a group of ten Congregationalist ministers, Samuel Andrew, Thomas Buckingham, Israel Chauncy, Samuel Mather, the group, led by James Pierpont, is now known as The Founders. Originally known as the Collegiate School, the institution opened in the home of its first rector, Abraham Pierson, the school moved to Saybrook, and then Wethersfield. In 1716 the college moved to New Haven, Connecticut, the feud caused the Mathers to champion the success of the Collegiate School in the hope that it would maintain the Puritan religious orthodoxy in a way that Harvard had not. Cotton Mather suggested that the school change its name to Yale College, meanwhile, a Harvard graduate working in England convinced some 180 prominent intellectuals that they should donate books to Yale. The 1714 shipment of 500 books represented the best of modern English literature, science, philosophy and it had a profound effect on intellectuals at Yale. Undergraduate Jonathan Edwards discovered John Lockes works and developed his original theology known as the new divinity
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Cabaret (musical)
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Cabaret is a musical based on a book written by Christopher Isherwood, with music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb. The 1966 Broadway production became a hit, inspiring numerous subsequent productions in London and New York and it is based on John Van Drutens 1951 play I Am a Camera, which was adapted from the short novel Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood. A sub-plot involves the doomed romance between German boarding house owner Fräulein Schneider and her elderly suitor Herr Schultz, a Jewish fruit vendor, overseeing the action is the Master of Ceremonies at the Kit Kat Klub. The club serves as a metaphor for ominous political developments in late Weimar Germany, Prince commissioned Joe Masteroff to work on the book. When Prince and Masteroff agreed that Wilsons score failed to capture the essence of late-1920s Berlin, John Kander, the new version was initially a dramatic play preceded by a prologue of songs describing the Berlin atmosphere from various points of view. Isherwoods original characters were changed as well, the musical ultimately expressed two stories in one, the first a revue centered on the decadence of the seedy Kit Kat Klub, the second a story set in the society of the club. After seeing one of the last rehearsals before the company headed to Boston for the pre-Broadway run, in Boston, Jill Haworth struggled with her characterization of cabaret performer Sally Bowles. Critics thought the blonde dressed in a white dress suggested senior prom more than tawdry nightclub, princes staging was unusual for the time. As the audience filled the theater, the curtain was already up, revealing a stage containing nothing, There was no overture, instead, a drum roll and cymbal crash led into the opening number. Replacements later in the run included Anita Gillette and Melissa Hart as Sally, Ken Kercheval and Larry Kert as Cliff, in addition, John Serry Sr. performed as the orchestral accordionist. The 1967-1968 US national tour featured Melissa Hart, Signe Hasso, the tour included the Shubert Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut in December 1967, the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, Cleveland, Ohio, Baltimore, Maryland, and Atlanta, Georgia. In 1986, the show was revived in London at the Strand Theatre starring Kelly Hunter as Sally, Peter Land as Cliff and Wayne Sleep as the Emcee, the first Broadway revival opened on October 22,1987, with direction and choreography by Prince and Field. The revival opened at the Imperial Theatre, eventually transferring to the Minskoff to complete its 261-performance run, the song Dont Go was added for Cliffs character. In 1993, Sam Mendes directed a new production of the show for the Donmar Warehouse in Londons West End and it starred Jane Horrocks as Sally, Adam Godley as Cliff, Alan Cumming as the Emcee and Sara Kestelman as Fräulein Schneider. Cumming received an Olivier Award nomination for his performance and Kestelman won the Olivier for Best Supporting Performance in a Musical, Mendes conception was very different from either the original production or the conventional first revival. The most significant change was the character of the Emcee, the role, as played by Joel Grey in both prior incarnations, was an asexual, edgy character dressed in a tuxedo with rouged cheeks. Alan Cummings portrayal was highly sexualized, as he wore suspenders around his crotch, staging details differed as well, instead of Tomorrow Belongs To Me being performed by a male choir, the Emcee plays a recording of a boy soprano singing it. In the final scene, the Emcee removes his clothes to reveal a striped suit of the type worn by the internees in concentration camps, on it are pinned a yellow badge
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The Misanthrope
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The Misanthrope, or the Cantankerous Lover is a 17th-century comedy of manners in verse written by Molière. It was first performed on 4 June 1666 at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal, the play satirizes the hypocrisies of French aristocratic society, but it also engages a more serious tone when pointing out the flaws which all humans possess. It also differs from most of Molières other works by focusing more on character development, the play, though not a commercial success in its time, survives as Molières best known work today. Molière has received criticism for The Misanthrope. The French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, claimed in his Letter to M. DAlembert on Spectacles that it was Molières best work and he believed that the audience should be supporting Alceste and his views about society rather than disregarding his idealistic notions and belittling him as a character. Alceste The protagonist and misanthrope of the title and he is quick to criticize the flaws of everyone around him, including himself. He cannot help but love Célimène though he loathes her behaviour, Célimène A young woman who is courted by Alceste, Oronte, Acaste, and Clitandre. She is playful and flirtatious, and likes to point out the flaws of everyone she meets behind their backs, Célimène pays much attention to social appearances. Philinte A polite man who cares for Alceste, and recognizes the importance of occasionally veiling ones true opinions in a social context. He is mainly thought of as Alcestes foil, Acaste A young, pompous marquis who believes he is deserving of Célimènes love. Oronte An outgoing, seemingly confident man who also loves Célimène for a time and his insecurity is revealed when he is unable to handle Alcestes criticism of his love sonnet. Arsinoé A highly moralistic older woman who is jealous of the attentions which Alceste pours onto Célimène, Éliante Love interest to Philinte and cousin to Célimène, who initially pines for Alceste. She possesses a good balance between societal conformity and individual expression, Clitandre Another marquis who attempts to woo Célimène and win her love, and enjoys gossiping with her about notable social figures. Du Bois Alcestes farcically blundering manservant, guard A messenger of the Marshals of France who asks Alceste to answer for his criticism of Orontes poetry. Much to the horror of his friends and companions, Alceste rejects la politesse and his refusal to make nice makes him tremendously unpopular and he laments his isolation in a world he sees as superficial and base, saying early in Act I. Mankind has grown so base, / I mean to break with the human race. Despite his convictions, however, Alceste cannot help but love the flighty and vivacious Célimène, though he constantly reprimands her, Célimène refuses to change, charging Alceste with being unfit for society. Despite his sour reputation as the misanthrope, Alceste does have women pining for him, particularly the moralistic Arsinoé, though he acknowledges their superior virtues, his heart still lies with Célimène
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NBC
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The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is the flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The network is part of the Big Three television networks, founded in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America, NBC is the oldest major broadcast network in the United States. Following the acquisition by GE, Bob Wright served as executive officer of NBC, remaining in that position until his retirement in 2007. In 2003, French media company Vivendi merged its entertainment assets with GE, Comcast purchased a controlling interest in the company in 2011, and acquired General Electrics remaining stake in 2013. Following the Comcast merger, Zucker left NBC Universal and was replaced as CEO by Comcast executive Steve Burke, during a period of early broadcast business consolidation, radio manufacturer Radio Corporation of America acquired New York City radio station WEAF from American Telephone & Telegraph. Westinghouse, a shareholder in RCA, had an outlet in Newark, New Jersey pioneer station WJZ. This station was transferred from Westinghouse to RCA in 1923, WEAF acted as a laboratory for AT&Ts manufacturing and supply outlet Western Electric, whose products included transmitters and antennas. The Bell System, AT&Ts telephone utility, was developing technologies to transmit voice- and music-grade audio over short and long distances, the 1922 creation of WEAF offered a research-and-development center for those activities. WEAF maintained a schedule of radio programs, including some of the first commercially sponsored programs. In an early example of chain or networking broadcasting, the station linked with Outlet Company-owned WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island, AT&T refused outside companies access to its high-quality phone lines. The early effort fared poorly, since the telegraph lines were susceptible to atmospheric. In 1925, AT&T decided that WEAF and its network were incompatible with the companys primary goal of providing a telephone service. AT&T offered to sell the station to RCA in a deal that included the right to lease AT&Ts phone lines for network transmission, the divisions ownership was split among RCA, its founding corporate parent General Electric and Westinghouse. NBC officially started broadcasting on November 15,1926, WEAF and WJZ, the flagships of the two earlier networks, were operated side-by-side for about a year as part of the new NBC. On April 5,1927, NBC expanded to the West Coast with the launch of the NBC Orange Network and this was followed by the debut of the NBC Gold Network, also known as the Pacific Gold Network, on October 18,1931. The Orange Network carried Red Network programming, and the Gold Network carried programming from the Blue Network, initially, the Orange Network recreated Eastern Red Network programming for West Coast stations at KPO in San Francisco. The Orange Network name was removed from use in 1936, at the same time, the Gold Network became part of the Blue Network. In the 1930s, NBC also developed a network for shortwave radio stations, in 1927, NBC moved its operations to 711 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, occupying the upper floors of a building designed by architect Floyd Brown
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WKYC
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WKYC, virtual channel 3, is an NBC-affiliated television station located in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. The station is owned by Tegna, Inc, WKYC maintains studio facilities located on Tom Beres Way, and its transmitter is located in suburban Parma. The station first signed on the air on October 31,1948 as WNBK, WNBK was a sister station to WTAM radio, which was owned by NBC since 1930. WNBK became one of the originators of programming for the regional network, two days after signing on, on November 2, WNBK transmitted its coverage of the Truman/Dewey election results to the NBC Midwest Network. On January 11,1949, WNBK began carrying NBCs New York-originated programming live via a connection to Philadelphia. After construction was completed on the new transmitter in Parma. In May 1955, NBC agreed to trade WNBK and WTAM-AM-FM to Westinghouse Electric Corporation in return for KYW radio, although Cleveland was a top-10 television and radio market at the time, NBC had long wanted to trade up its holdings to a larger market. Also, Philadelphia was the largest market in which it did not own a station, the swap became official on January 22,1956, as NBC moved its operations to Philadelphia, with WPTZ becoming WRCV-TV. Westinghouse took over the WNBK/WTAM operation and changed its letters to KYW-AM-FM-TV on February 13,1956. Under Westinghouse ownership, KYW-TV launched Barnaby, a program which starred Linn Sheldon as the title character. The show premiered in 1956 and was an hit, running on weekday afternoons for ten years. In 1961, channel 3 originated a local 90-minute weekday daytime variety show with former band singer Mike Douglas. Two NBC programs were excluded from KYW-TVs schedule, The Tonight Show. America After Dark, was dropped by channel 3 in June 1957, the Paar-hosted Tonight Show would not be seen in Cleveland until October 1957, when NBC agreed to terms with WEWS to carry the program. KYW-TV also did not carry NBCs early-evening newscast, The Huntley-Brinkley Report, like with the Tonight Show, WEWS also ran this program. Also during this period, WFMJ-TV out of Youngstown Ohio was the nearest full-time NBC station to Cleveland, many were able to receive WFMJ with a good antenna and UHF converter at that time. Despite its success in Cleveland, Westinghouse was not happy with how the 1956 trade with NBC played out. Almost as soon as the ink dried on the trade, the FCC, in 1964, after an investigation that lasted eight years, the FCC ordered the swap to be reversed
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Tim Kring
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Richard Timothy Tim Kring is an American screenwriter and television producer, best known for his creation of the drama series Strange World, Crossing Jordan, Heroes, and Touch. Kring was born in El Dorado County, California and he has two brothers and a sister. He graduated from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts in 1983, discussing his beginnings, Kring said, Krings first job as a screenwriter was for the television show Knight Rider. Other early projects included co-writing an episode of Misfits of Science, Kring and Loeb would collaborate again when producing Heroes. Kring also co-wrote the 2010 book Shift, A Novel with Dale Peck, after the cancellation of Heroes in 2010 Kring created the TV series Touch, a drama focusing on a father who discovers that his mute son can predict future events. The series premiered on January 25,2012 on Fox and was cancelled after two seasons on May 9,2013, on February 22,2014, during its Olympics coverage, NBC announced Heroes is coming back as a 13-episode event miniseries titled Heroes Reborn. It premiered in 2015 with creator Tim Kring as the executive producer, Kring won an Emmy Award nomination in 2007 for Outstanding Drama Series as the producer for Heroes. He was also named one of the Masters of Sci Fi TV for his work on the series, Tim Kring at the Internet Movie Database Interview, Tim Kring, Heroes creator, The TV Addict, 2006-10-12 NBCs Super Heroes, Burning Questions Answered
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TV Guide
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In 1948, he printed New York City area listings magazine The TeleVision Guide. Silent film star Gloria Swanson, who then starred of the variety series The Gloria Swanson Hour. Wagner later began publishing regional editions of The TeleVision Guide for New England, five years later, he sold the editions to Walter Annenberg, who folded it into his publishing and broadcasting company Triangle Publications, but remained as a consultant for the magazine until 1963. The national TV Guides first issue was released on April 3,1953. The inaugural cover featured a photograph of Lucille Balls newborn son Desi Arnaz, Jr. with a photo of Ball placed in the top corner under the issues headline. The magazine was published in digest size, which remained its printed format for 52 years. The launch as a magazine with local listings in April 1953 became an almost instant success, with TV Guide becoming the most read. The initial cost of issue was 15¢ per copy. In addition to subscriptions, TV Guide was sold at the counters of grocery stores nationwide. Until the 1980s, the pieces included in each issue were promoted in a television commercial. Over the decades, the shape of the TV Guide logo has changed to reflect the modernization of the television screen, at first, the logo had various colored backgrounds until the familiar red background became the standard in the 1960s with occasional changes used for special editions. The magazine was first based in an office in downtown Philadelphia, before moving to more spacious national headquarters in Radnor. The color section was sent to regional printers to be wrapped around the local listing sections. It was under Triangles ownership of WFIL-TV that Dick Clark and American Bandstand came to popularity, most listing entries in the log included program genres after the programs title, while its running time was listed in the synopses. Originally, the majority of programs listed in the log each issue featured brief synopses, except for local and national newscasts, in addition, black-and-white ads for programs scheduled to air on broadcast stations – and later, cable channels – during prime time were included within the listings. A regular feature of the section was Close-Up, which provided expanded reviews of select programs airing each day. The advent of television would become hard on TV Guide. Channels that were listed also differed, depending on the edition, as the years went on, more cable channels were added into the listings of each edition
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Fox Broadcasting Company
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The Fox Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is owned by the Fox Entertainment Group subsidiary of 21st Century Fox. It is the third largest major network in the world based on total revenues, assets. Launched on October 9,1986 as a competitor to the Big Three television networks, Fox and its affiliated companies operate many entertainment channels in international markets, although these do not necessarily air the same programming as the U. S. network. Most viewers in Canada have access to at least one U. S, the network is named after sister company 20th Century Fox, and indirectly for producer William Fox, who founded one of the movie studios predecessors, Fox Film. Fox is a member of the North American Broadcasters Association and the National Association of Broadcasters, 20th Century Fox had been involved in television production as early as the 1950s, producing several syndicated programs. Following the demise of the DuMont Television Network in August of that year after it became mired in financial problems. 20th Century Fox would also produce original content for the NTA network, KTTV in Los Angeles, KRIV in Houston, WFLD-TV in Chicago, and KRLD-TV in Dallas. In October 1985, 20th Century Fox announced its intentions to form a television network that would compete with ABC, CBS. The plans were to use the combination of the Fox studios, organizational plans for the network were held off until the Metromedia acquisitions cleared regulatory hurdles. Then, in December 1985, Rupert Murdoch agreed to pay $325 million to acquire the remaining equity in TCF Holdings from his original partner, Marvin Davis. These first six stations, then broadcasting to a reach of 22% of the nations households. Except for KDAF, all of the original owned-and-operated stations are part of the Fox network today. Like the core O&O group, Foxs affiliate body consisted of independent stations. The Fox Broadcasting Company launched at 11,00 p. m. Eastern and its inaugural program was a late-night talk show, The Late Show, which was hosted by comedian Joan Rivers. By early 1987, Rivers quit The Late Show after disagreements with the network over the creative direction. The network expanded its programming into prime time on April 5,1987, with Children and the sketch comedy series The Tracey Ullman Show. Fox added one new show per week over the several weeks, with the drama 21 Jump Street. On July 11, the network rolled out its Saturday night schedule with the premiere of the drama series Werewolf
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Kate Hudson
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Kate Garry Hudson is an American actress. She rose to prominence in 2000 for playing Penny Lane in Almost Famous, Hudson also co-founded Fabletics, a fitness brand and membership program operated by JustFab. Hudson was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Academy Award-winning actress Goldie Hawn and Bill Hudson, an actor, comedian, Hudson has stated that her biological father doesnt know me from a hole in the wall, and that she considers Russell her father. Her biological father indicated that though he had several efforts to connect with Kate. Hudson has described her mother as the woman that Ive learned the most from, and who I look up to, Hudsons ancestry is Italian, Hungarian Jewish, and the remainder a mix of English and some German. Like her mother, Hudson practices Buddhism, in 1997, she graduated from Crossroads, a college preparatory school in Santa Monica. She was accepted to New York University, but chose to pursue a career instead of an undergraduate degree. Hudsons first film came in 1998 with two films, the comedy-drama Desert Blue and Ricochet River. She subsequently appeared in the 1999 New Years Eve-set comedy ensemble comedy film, in 2002, Hudson starred in the remake of the historical romance The Four Feathers, which was panned by critics and audiences. Her next film, the romantic comedy How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, was a box office success, Hudson subsequently appeared in several romantic comedies, including Alex and Emma and Raising Helen, the films met with varying degrees of success. Hudson later headlined the 2005 thriller The Skeleton Key, the film, which had a production budget of $43 million, grossed over $91.9 million worldwide. Her next film, a comedy titled You, Me and Dupree and co-starring Owen Wilson and Matt Dillon, in 2007, Hudson directed the short film Cutlass, one of Glamour magazines Reel Moments based on readers personal essays. Cutlass co-stars Kurt Russell, Dakota Fanning, Virginia Madsen, Chevy Chase and she also appeared in My Best Friends Girl, another romantic comedy, in 2008. Hudson next appeared in the musical film Nine, alongside Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penélope Cruz, Nicole Kidman, the film, directed by Rob Marshall, was released in December 2009. Hudson was critically acclaimed for her skills, showcased in a 1960s-inspired original piece called Cinema Italiano. She later starred in the adaptation of Jim Thompsons The Killer Inside Me. In 2011, she starred in romantic comedy, Something Borrowed, based on Emily Giffins novel of the same name. In 2012, Hudson was cast in the role on Fox teen comedy series, Glee as Cassandra July
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Matthew McConaughey
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Matthew David McConaughey is an American actor. He first gained notice for his role in the coming-of-age comedy Dazed and Confused. Matthew McConaughey, the youngest of three boys, was born on November 4,1969 in Uvalde, Texas and his mother, Mary Kathleen Kay or KMac, is a former kindergarten teacher and a published author. She was originally from Trenton, New Jersey and his father, James Donald McConaughey, was from Louisiana and ran an oil pipe supply business. He played for the Kentucky Wildcats and the Houston Cougars college football teams, in 1953, Jim McConaughey was drafted in the 27th round by the NFL football team the Green Bay Packers. He was released before the season began and never played a league game in the NFL. Matthews mother and late father married each other three times and his ancestry includes Scottish, English, Irish, Swedish and German. He is a relative of Confederate brigadier general Dandridge McRae, McConaughey moved to Longview, Texas in 1980, where he attended Longview High School. He lived for a year in Warnervale, New South Wales, Australia and he attended the University of Texas at Austin, where he joined Delta Tau Delta fraternity. He began in the fall of 1989 and graduated in the spring of 1993 with a degree in Radio-Television-Film. His original plan had changed as he wanted to attend Southern Methodist University until a brother told him that private school tuition would have been a burden on the family finances. He also had planned to attend law school graduation from college. McConaughey began working in commercials, including one for the Austin, Texas daily newspaper, the Austin American-Statesman. The line, How else am I gonna keep up with my Horns, – a reference to his beloved Texas Longhorns sports teams – gave the local community a look at the young actor, before he was cast in Richard Linklaters film Dazed and Confused. In 1992, he was cast as Joe in Trisha Yearwoods video for her hit song Walkaway Joe, in the late 1990s, McConaughey was cast in leading roles in more movies, including Contact, Amistad, The Newton Boys, EDtv and U-571. By the early 2000s, he was frequently cast in comedies, including The Wedding Planner and How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. McConaughey starred in the 2005 feature film Sahara, along with Steve Zahn, prior to the release of the film, he promoted it by sailing down the Amazon River and trekking to Mali. That same year, McConaughey was named People magazines Sexiest Man Alive for 2005, in 2006, he co-starred with Sarah Jessica Parker in the romantic comedy Failure to Launch and as Marshall head football coach Jack Lengyal in We Are Marshall
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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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Around the Bend
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For the Pearl Jam song, see Around the Bend. For the Randy Travis album, see Around the Bend, around the Bend is a 2004 road movie written and directed by Jordan Roberts. In the 1970s Bob Jordan toured with Leon Russell for a project that he thoroughly bungled due to his drug-induced manic behavior. In the 1990s he produced and directed one of the first digitally captured film experiments based on the characters in Alice in Wonderland, upon returning to CA, he eventually died awaiting a liver transplant in 2001, without ever contacting his sons. Christopher Walken bore a resemblance to Robert Jordan both in the physical and in his ability to appear menacing and unpredictable
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A Lot like Love
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A Lot like Love is a 2005 romantic comedy-drama film directed by Nigel Cole and starring Ashton Kutcher and Amanda Peet. The screenplay by Colin Patrick Lynch focuses on two individuals whose relationship slowly evolves from lust to friendship to romance over the course of seven years, the films tag line was, theres nothing better than a great romance to ruin a perfectly good friendship. Emily Friehl and Oliver Martins first encounter is on a flight from Los Angeles to New York City, during which they join the mile high club. He has hopes of becoming an Internet entrepreneur and, certain of his success, gives her his mothers phone number. Three years later, facing the prospect of spending New Years Eve alone, Emily finds Olivers number and calls him, each time they meet, one appears to be settled and content while the other is struggling to make headway in both life and career. Eventually they come to the realization that each is exactly the person the other one needs for fulfillment, a soundtrack album for the film was released by Columbia Records on April 12,2005. A Lot like Love received mixed reviews critics and currently holds a 41% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. If nothing else, A Lot Like Love is a pleasant reminder of a Hollywood time, seemingly long gone, roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times observed, The movie is 95 minutes long, and neither character says a single memorable thing. Youve heard of being too clever by half, ollie and Emily are not clever enough by three-quarters. To call A Lot like Love dead in the water is an insult to water, Ebert awarded the film one out four stars, and ultimately included it in his list of Most Hated Films. Ruthe Stein of the San Francisco Chronicle said, An unfortunate casting decision, comes close to sabotaging a witty script. As the sometimes couple, Ashton Kutcher and Amanda Peet are together in almost every scene, bland and with a small television face, Kutcher is incapable of doing the heavy lifting required to be a romantic lead. Peet, who has the looks and magnetism of a Kennedy offspring, makes Kutcher fade into the background, still, the movie is rich in the kind of details often left out because of a lack of budget or imagination. Christopher Orr of The New York Sun said, What do you call a shameless imitation of a shameless imitation. Whatever label you choose, it can be affixed to A Lot Like Love, an Ashton Kutcher-Amanda Peet vehicle that is a lot like When Harry Met Sally. Sadly, the resemblance does not extend to quality, if one thing saves A Lot Like Love from disaster - and Im not sure it does - its an easy chemistry between the leads, though one that owes little to Mr. Kutchers performance. Fortunately, Ms. Peet carries off the role of Emily with enough spark that even Mr. Kutcher gradually lights up, since running away with The Whole Nine Yards five years ago, Ms. Peet has had altogether too little opportunity to showcase her sexy comic appeal. A Lot Like Love might have provided that opportunity, had it only featured something a little like a script, about A Lot Like Love leaving you wanting a lot less, I am right
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Ashton Kutcher
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Christopher Ashton Kutcher is an American actor and investor. Kutcher began his career as a model and began his career portraying Michael Kelso in the Fox sitcom That 70s Show. He made his debut in the romantic comedy Coming Soon and became known by audiences in the comedy film Dude. In 2004, Kutcher starred in the role of the psychological film The Butterfly Effect. Kutcher subsequently appeared in romantic comedies, including Guess Who, A Lot Like Love, What Happens in Vegas. From 2011 to 2015, he starred as Walden Schmidt on the CBS sitcom Two, in 2013, Kutcher portrayed Steve Jobs in the biographical film Jobs. Kutcher was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to Diane, a Procter & Gamble employee, and Larry M. Kutcher and his father is of Czech descent, while his mother is of Czech, German, and Irish ancestry. Kutcher was raised in a relatively conservative Catholic family and he has an older sister named Tausha and a fraternal twin brother named Michael, who had a heart transplant when the brothers were young children. Michael also has cerebral palsy and is a spokesperson for the advocacy organization Reaching for the Stars, michaels cardiomyopathy caused Kutchers home life to become increasingly stressful. He has said that he didnt want to come home and find more bad news about his brother, stating, Kutcher attended Washington High School in Cedar Rapids for his freshman year, before his family moved to Homestead, Iowa, where he attended Clear Creek Amana High School. During high school, he developed a passion for acting and appeared in school plays, however, Kutchers home life worsened as his parents divorced when he was 16. During his senior year, he broke into his school at midnight with his cousin in an attempt to steal money. Kutcher was convicted of burglary and sentenced to three years probation and 180 hours of community service. Kutcher stated that although the experience straightened him out, he lost his girlfriend and anticipated college scholarships, Kutcher enrolled at the University of Iowa in August 1996, where his planned major was biochemical engineering, motivated by the desire to find a cure for his brothers heart ailment. At college, Kutcher was kicked out of his apartment for being too noisy, Kutcher stated, I thought I knew everything but I didnt have a clue. I was partying, and I woke up many mornings not knowing what I had done the night before, I am amazed I am not dead. To earn money for his tuition, Kutcher worked as a college summer hire in the department for the General Mills plant in Cedar Rapids. While at the University of Iowa, he was approached by a scout at a bar called The Airliner in Iowa City, Iowa
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Amanda Peet
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Amanda Peet is an American actress and author who has appeared in film, stage, and television. After studying with Uta Hagen at Columbia University, Peet began her career in television commercials, featured roles in the 2000 comedy film The Whole Nine Yards brought her wider recognition. She has also appeared in the 1999 drama series Jack & Jill, the 2006 drama series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, and the 2015 comedy-drama series Togetherness. Peet was born in New York City, the daughter of Penny, a worker, and Charles D. Peet, Jr. a corporate lawyer. Her father is a Quaker and mother is Jewish, at age seven, Peet relocated with her family to London, returning to New York four years later. Peet was raised in the Quaker tradition, and attended Friends Seminary and she attended and graduated from Columbia University with a degree in American history. In college, she auditioned for acting with teacher Uta Hagen, during her four-year period of study with Hagen, Peet appeared in the off-Broadway revival of Clifford Odetss Awake and Sing with Stephen Lang. She made her debut in the drama film Animal Room. She appeared the November 1995 episode Hot Pursuit of Law and Order, for much of the late 1990s, Peet maintained a steady acting career in relatively obscure independent films. Her next feature film was One Fine Day, the film was released in late 1996, and she co-appeared with George Clooney and Michelle Pfeiffer. Also that year, she portrayed a role in the romantic comedy film Shes the One. After several small and supporting roles in 1998s Origin of the Species, Southie and Playing by Heart and she also appeared in the eighth-season finale of Seinfeld as a waitress whom Jerry Seinfeld meets. In 1999, Peet was cast opposite Sarah Michelle Gellar in the romantic comedy Simply Irresistible. Her character in the film was Chris, the girlfriend of Sean Patrick Flanerys character. Peet had a role in the biographical film Isnt She Great, in which she appeared with Bette Midler. The film was released in January 2000, Peets first role in a widely released feature film came in 2000, with the mafia comedy film The Whole Nine Yards, starring Bruce Willis and Matthew Perry, playing Jill St. Claire. The film received favorable reviews from critics and was a big hit at the worldwide box office. Critic Roger Ebert called Peets performance Perfect because it matches what is required
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The Holiday
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The Holiday is a 2006 American romantic comedy film written, produced and directed by Nancy Meyers. Co-produced by Bruce A. Jude Law and Jack Black were cast as the leading men Graham and Miles, with Eli Wallach, Shannyn Sossamon, Edward Burns. Distributed by Columbia Pictures and Universal Pictures, The Holiday was first released on December 6,2006, in Spain and on December 8,2006, in North America and it grossed over $205 million worldwide. Critics praised the visual aesthetic design and the casts performances. When she learns at a company Christmas party that he is engaged to be married, on the spur of the moment she decides to get away for the Christmas holidays and visits a home-exchange website on which Iris has listed her quaint cottage in Surrey. Amanda contacts Iris, and the two women agree to swap homes for two weeks. While Iris revels in the luxury of Amandas Los Angeles home, Amanda is disappointed by the slow, Amanda grows bored after just a few hours and books a flight home for the next day. Later that night, Iriss brother, Graham, knocks at the door thinking Iris is home, Graham asks Amanda to let him spend the night despite the fact that he is a stranger, as he has been drinking at the pub and doesnt want to drive. Because of the chemistry between them, they end up sleeping together. In the morning, Graham receives phone calls from Sophie and Olivia, Graham, knowing that Amanda is planning to return home imminently, says to Amanda that if the flight gets cancelled, having dinner at the pub with friends. At the airport Amanda decides to stay and goes to the pub, Graham enters the pub and looks for her but cannot see her until he meets his friends and then sees Amanda. Amanda drinks far too much that night, and Graham agrees to stay the night with her, the next day Graham suggests they go to lunch to get to know one another better. During lunch, Amanda shares with Graham that her parents divorced when she was fifteen, Graham tells her that he cries all the time, movies, books, and birthday cards. He also reveals himself to be a book editor, while obviously enjoying each others company, Amanda is nonetheless worried that the relationship will become complicated. Meanwhile, Iris is enjoying her stay at Amandas house and she meets Ethans friend Miles when he comes with his girlfriend Maggie to Amandas house. Later, she meets an elderly neighbour named Arthur Abbott, standing lost at the corner and she learns that he was a screenwriter during the Golden Age of Hollywood. Amanda chooses not to see Graham again but, alone again in the cottage, she has a change of heart and he looks uncomfortable at the door, Amanda asks Graham whether he is alone, and he says he isnt. Before she can turn away, Olivia and Sophie come to the door, inside the house, Amanda asks Graham in a whisper if he is married
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Cameron Diaz
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Cameron Michelle Diaz is an American actress, producer, and former fashion model. She rose to stardom with roles in The Mask, My Best Friends Wedding and Theres Something About Mary, in 2013, Diaz was named the highest-paid actress over 40 in Hollywood. Diaz was born in San Diego, California and her mother, Billie, was an import/export agent, and her father, Emilio Diaz, worked for the California oil company Unocal as a foreman. Diaz has a sister, Chimene. Her fathers family is Cuban, and Diazs ancestors had moved from Spain to Cuba. Later they settled in Ybor City, Tampa, before moving to California and her mother has English, Scots-Irish, German and Cherokee ancestry. Diaz grew up in Long Beach and attended Los Cerritos Elementary School, and then Long Beach Polytechnic High School and she began her career as a fashion model at the age of 16, and did contract work with a modeling agency, Elite Model Management. For the next months, she worked all over the world on contracts for companies including Calvin Klein, when she was 17, she was featured on the front cover of the July 1990 issue of Seventeen. Diaz also modeled for 2 to 3 months in Australia and shot a commercial for Coca-Cola in Sydney in 1991. Rutter approached Diaz in 2003, ahead of the release of Charlies Angels, Full Throttle, offering to sell the pictures and he stated that he was offering her first right of refusal to them, she saw it as attempted blackmail and sued him. In July 2004, the 30-minute video of the photoshoot, entitled Shes No Angel, was released on a Russian website, on July 26,2005, Rutter was convicted of attempted grand theft, forgery, and perjury. On September 16,2005, Rutter was sentenced to more than three years in prison. At the age of 21, Diaz auditioned for The Mask, based on the recommendation of an agent for Elite, having no previous acting experience, she started acting lessons after being cast. The Mask became one of the top ten highest-grossing films of 1994, for the next three years, Diaz played roles in the independent films The Last Supper, Feeling Minnesota, Shes the One, and Head Above Water. She was scheduled to perform in the film Mortal Kombat, but had to resign after breaking her hand while training for the role, Diaz returned to mainstream films with My Best Friends Wedding and A Life Less Ordinary, both released in 1997. The following year, she played the role in Theres Something About Mary. She received critical acclaim for her performance in Being John Malkovich, which earned her Best Supporting Actress nominations at the Golden Globe, BAFTA, and SAG Awards. Between 1998 and 2000, Diaz was featured in movies, such as Very Bad Things, Any Given Sunday, Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
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The Last Mimzy
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High tech devices disguised as toys are sent back in time and are found by Noah and Emma Wilder, children living in early 21st century Seattle. The toys are incomprehensible to Emma and Noah, except for what appears to be a stuffed rabbit, sensing the paranormal strangeness of the devices, the children initially keep their discovery secret from their parents. Emma becomes telepathically connected to the rabbit, named Mimzy. Interaction with the causes the children to develop advanced knowledge, genius-level intelligence. Due to her connection with Mimzy, Emmas development of her abilities is much stronger than her older brothers, she is the only one to display empathy, telepathy, levitation. Emma is also the one who can use the Spinners, strange spinning. Noahs strong psionic/physic abilities are developed through a card and a seashell and he gains increased intelligence, knowledge, telepathy, empathic communication and control over arthropods. He can also use the card to telekinetically teleport objects through a dimensional rift after staring at it. The childrens unusual psionic and mental abilities and Emmas attachment to Mimzy alert their parents, especially their mother, and Larry White, Noahs science schoolteacher, to the devices. Later, Noah accidentally fuses the card with a blob, turning it into a Generator that causes a power black-out over half the state of Washington. The family is held for questioning by Special Agent Nathaniel Broadman, Emma tells everyone that Mimzy has a message from humanitys distant future. Mimzy is the last one remaining, but is now dying, the reason for the other Mimzys deaths is that the Chosen Ones before Emma had no Engineers to help build the bridge across time. Despite attempts by the unbelieving FBI to prevent them, Noah, before leaving, Mimzy absorbs a tear from Emma, thus providing the DNA required to restore humanitys corrupted DNA. Emma is almost sucked into the future with Mimzy, but Noah grabs Emma, the teacher ends the story time and the children levitate and fly home. The world in their time has become a place, where humanity has integrated into the constructed ecosystems. The story ends in the current time, with Emmas teacher asking if anyone did anything exciting over the weekend break, no one volunteers, so she calls on Emma at random. Rhiannon Leigh Wryn as Emma Wilder, who discovers the toys, chris ONeil as Noah Wilder, Emmas older brother. Chris Sipe as Noah Wilder Timothy Hutton as David Wilder, father of Noah and Emma Joely Richardson as Jo Wilder, Davids wife, rainn Wilson as Larry White, Noahs science teacher
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Rainn Wilson
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Rainn Dietrich Wilson /reɪn ˈdiːtrɪk ˈwɪlsən/ is an American actor, writer, and comedian. He is best known for his role as Dwight Schrute on the American version of the television comedy The Office. A native of Seattle, Washington, Wilson began acting in college at the University of Washington, Wilson made his film debut in Galaxy Quest, followed by supporting parts in Almost Famous, Steven Soderberghs Full Frontal, and House of 1000 Corpses. He also had a part as Arthur Martin in the HBO series Six Feet Under from 2001 to 2006. Wilson was cast as Dwight Schrute in The Office in 2005, other film credits include a lead roles in the comedies The Rocker and Super, and supporting roles in the horror films Cooties and The Boy. In addition to acting, Wilson published an autobiography, The Bassoon King, in November 2015 and he attended Kellogg Middle School and Shorecrest High School in Shoreline, Washington, where he played the clarinet and bassoon in the band. He transferred to and graduated from New Trier High School after his family moved to Wilmette, Illinois, Wilson attended the University of Washington in Seattle, graduating with a Bachelors degree in drama in 1986. He then enrolled in New York Universitys Graduate Acting Program at the Tisch School of the Arts where he graduated with a MFA in acting and was a member of The Acting Company. While acting in productions in New York City, he drove a moving van to make ends meet. Wilson worked extensively in the theater in his career, performing with the Public Theater, Ensemble Studio Theater, Playwrights Horizons, The Roundabout. He was nominated for three Helen Hayes Awards for Best Supporting Actor for his work at the Arena Stage, Wilson first appeared onscreen in 1997 in an episode of the soap opera One Life to Live, followed by a supporting part in the television film The Expendables. Wilson made his film debut in Galaxy Quest, followed by a minor supporting role in Cameron Crowes Almost Famous. In 2001 he was featured in Coyote Piper, the episode of season three of Charmed. Then in 2002, he was cast in a role in Rob Zombies horror film House of 1000 Corpses. Beginning in 2001, Wilson played Arthur Martin, the intern at Fisher & Diaz Funeral Home in HBOs Six Feet Under and he also had minor roles in Americas Sweethearts, and the Melvin van Peebles biopic Baadasssss. Wilson guest-starred in Law & Order, Special Victims Unit, CSI, Crime Scene Investigation, Entourage, Monk, NUMB3RS, Charmed, Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job, and Reno 911. In 2005, Wilson appeared in the comedy film Sahara opposite Matthew McConaughey, the same year, Wilson was cast as Dwight Schrute, a neurotic office worker in the network series The Office. He was nominated for an Emmy for Best Supporting Actor in 2007,2008 and he won two SAG awards for best comedy ensemble on the series
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Leonardo DiCaprio
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Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio is an American actor and film producer. He began his career by starring as Josh in Critters 3. He starred in the adaptation of the memoir This Boys Life. Since 2000, DiCaprio has received acclaim for his work in a wide range of film genres. Edgar, the western Django Unchained, and the period drama The Great Gatsby and he also won his first Academy Award and BAFTA Award for his performance in The Revenant. DiCaprio is the founder of his own company, Appian Way Productions. Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio was born on November 11,1974 in Los Angeles and he is the only child of Irmelin, a legal secretary, and George DiCaprio, an underground comics artist and producer/distributor of comic books. DiCaprios father is of Italian and German descent, DiCaprios maternal grandfather, Wilhelm Indenbirken, was German. His maternal grandmother, Helene Indenbirken, was a Russian-born German citizen, in an interview in Russia, DiCaprio referred to himself as half-Russian and said that two of his grandparents were Russian. DiCaprios parents met while attending college and subsequently moved to Los Angeles, DiCaprio was named Leonardo because his pregnant mother was looking at a Leonardo da Vinci painting in a museum in Italy when he first kicked. His parents separated when he was an old, and he lived mostly with his mother. The two lived in several Los Angeles neighborhoods, such as Echo Park and Los Feliz, while his mother worked several jobs, DiCaprio attended Seeds Elementary School and John Marshall High School a few blocks away, after attending the Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies for four years. However, he dropped out of school following his third year. DiCaprio spent part of his childhood in Germany with his grandparents, Wilhelm. He is conversant in German and Italian, DiCaprios career began with his appearance in several commercials and educational films. In 1990, he got his break on television when he was cast in the series based on the movie Parenthood. After Parenthood, DiCaprio had bit parts on several shows, including The New Lassie and Roseanne, as well as a stint on the soap opera Santa Barbara. His involvement in Parenthood and the daily soap earned him a nomination for the Young Artist Award for Best Young Actor each, released in 1991, the movie went direct-to-video
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Kate Winslet
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Kate Elizabeth Winslet, CBE, is an English actress and singer. Winslet is the recipient of an Academy Award, an AACTA Award, three BAFTA Awards, a BIFA Award, four Golden Globe Awards, a Grammy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. She is the youngest person to receive six Academy Award nominations, with seven nominations in total, in addition, she has won awards from the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts and European Film Academy, among others, and the Honorary César Award in 2012. Brought up in Berkshire, Winslet studied drama from childhood and began her career in British television in 1991 and she made her film debut in Heavenly Creatures, for which she received praise. She garnered recognition for her role in Sense and Sensibility before achieving global stardom with the epic romance Titanic. Winslets performances in Iris, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Finding Neverland, Little Children, Revolutionary Road, The Dressmaker, in 2008, film critic David Edelstein described her as the best English-speaking film actress of her generation. Winslets greatest commercial successes since Titanic include the romantic comedy The Holiday, the animated film Flushed Away, in addition to acting, Winslet has narrated documentaries and childrens books. She was awarded the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children in 2000 for narrating Listen to the Storyteller and she has also provided her vocals to soundtracks of her films, including the single What If from Christmas Carol, The Movie. Divorced from two directors, Jim Threapleton and Sam Mendes, Winslet is currently married to businessman Ned Rocknroll. Kate Elizabeth Winslet was born in Reading, Berkshire, England to Sally Anne, a barmaid, and Roger John Winslet and she has two sisters, Beth and Anna, and one brother, Joss Winslet. Winslet began studying drama at the age of 11 at the Redroofs Theatre School, a independent school in Maidenhead, Berkshire. At the age of 12, Winslet appeared in an advertisement directed by filmmaker Tim Pope for Sugar Puffs cereal. Pope said her naturalism was there from the start, Winslet made her television debut with a co-starring role in the BBC childrens science fiction serial Dark Season. This role was followed by appearances in the made-for-TV film Anglo-Saxon Attitudes in 1992, the sitcom Get Back, in 1992, Winslet attended a casting call for Peter Jacksons Heavenly Creatures in London. Winslet auditioned for the role of Juliet Hulme, a teenager who assists in the murder of the mother of her best friend, Pauline Parker. The film included Winslets singing debut, and her a version of Sono Andati. The film was released to reviews in 1994 and won Jackson. Winslet was awarded the Empire Award and London Film Critics Circle Award for British Actress of the Year for her performance, the Washington Post writer Desson Thomson commented, As Juliet, Winslet is a bright-eyed ball of fire, lighting up every scene she’s in
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The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
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The film received mostly negative reviews from critics and grossed $15.3 million against a $10 million budget. Ben Sellecks car dealership, in Temecula, California, is failing and he is forced to hire a mercenary and they have 211 cars to sell over the 4th of July weekend. Dons team of Babs, Jibby, and Brent promise Ben that they make the dealership a profit after the weekend. On the first day the crowds gather outside for hot dogs, Don notices that the naturally talented salesman, Blake, could be his son. The sales team sell the cars by any necessary and finish the day selling 71 cars. Before they can leave the lot Stu and his son Paxton from the opposing dealership offer to purchase the lot, since Paxton is marrying Bens daughter, Ivy, he is trying to put his future father-in-law out of business. Paxton only wants practice space for his man-band, Big Ups, Ben is about to finalize a deal with Stu but Don promises to sell every car on the lot. The second day starts off poorly with a dishonest commercial that Ben is dying of testicular cancer, when it is time for Eric Bice, Bo Bices brother to take the stage he backs out at the last minute and Don takes the stage. The crowd riots when they find out Don is an atrocious singer, taking advantage of all the cameras on the lot from the riot, the team starts a sale for 20% off to the police. Don is taking stock in his life when Ivy questions him about one of his jobs in Albuquerque, Don tells her that he killed his best friend and team DJ, McDermott, by giving him a bag with sex toys instead of a parachute. Don was more focused on having sex with his customer than selling cars and he then reveals to Ivy that he is falling for her and it is all happening again. That night Ivy comes to Dons hotel room and they have sex, Ivy reveals that it was a one-night stand and is not breaking up with Paxton. Don is furious and storms out yelling that he only trusts cars after what hes been done by Ivy, the team searches but cannot find Don, they get pumped up to sell the 105 cars left on the lot without him. While wandering the desert Don sees the deceased McDermott with two angels, McDermott tells Don that everything is about the team, people you love, and that he should get off the road and settle down. In the time it takes Don to get back to the dealership the team sells every car on the lot, Don parachutes onto the lot but Stu and Paxton inform him the bandit car is not sold and the dealership is theirs. Don convinces Paxton to buy the car, which saves the lot. Don announces that he is going to get off the road so he can care for his friends, Don marries Ivy and adopts Blake but they get divorced two years later. J. Request Bryan Callen as Jason Big Ups, joey Kern as Ricky Big Ups
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How Do You Know
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How Do You Know is a 2010 American romantic comedy-drama film directed, written, and produced by James L. Brooks, and starring Reese Witherspoon, Paul Rudd, Owen Wilson and Jack Nicholson. The film was shot in Philadelphia and Washington, D. C and it was released on December 12,2010. It was the film to feature Witherspoon and Rudd following 1998’s Overnight Delivery. The film was a critical and financial failure, grossing $48 million against a million net budget. Softball player Lisa Jorgenson is devastated when she is left off the Team USA roster, unsure what to do next, Lisa begins dating Matty Reynolds, a pitcher for the Washington Nationals. She also receives a phone call from a young executive, George Madison. George calls out of politeness because he wants to explain that his relationship with his girlfriend has just become more serious, George is fired from his job and abandoned by the company, with the exception of his father and his pregnant secretary, Annie. Still reeling from this blow, George goes to his girlfriend for sympathy and is stunned when she breaks up with him. On a whim, George calls again to invite Lisa to dinner and it turns out to be a disaster, George is so overwhelmed with his troubles that Lisa eventually asks that they just eat in silence, and they part ways not expecting to see one another again. Soon, Lisa moves in with Matty, who has a penthouse in the same building where Georges father lives. Matty is rich, well-meaning and fun, but is immature and insensitive. George is indicted and could face prison time, Annie is so loyal that she tries to give him inside information in advance, but he urges her not to lose her own job. Matty tries to do better in Lisas eyes, promising to consider seeing fewer women on the side and he inadvertently offends her, so Lisa moves out and spends a pleasant, tipsy evening at Georges modest new apartment. Georges father then drops one last bombshell on his son, It was he who committed the act for which George is being charged. Due to a conviction, Charles would spend at least 25 years — basically. On the night Annies baby is born and her boyfriend proposes, George is clearly smitten with her, but Matty pleads for another chance and she accepts. George makes a proposition to his father, He will take one shot at persuading Lisa to be with him, If she will, Charles must go to jail. At a birthday party that Matty throws for her, George confesses his feelings for Lisa and goes outside to give her time to think it over, finally, Lisa says goodbye to Matty and joins George outside
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A Lot Like Love
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A Lot like Love is a 2005 romantic comedy-drama film directed by Nigel Cole and starring Ashton Kutcher and Amanda Peet. The screenplay by Colin Patrick Lynch focuses on two individuals whose relationship slowly evolves from lust to friendship to romance over the course of seven years, the films tag line was, theres nothing better than a great romance to ruin a perfectly good friendship. Emily Friehl and Oliver Martins first encounter is on a flight from Los Angeles to New York City, during which they join the mile high club. He has hopes of becoming an Internet entrepreneur and, certain of his success, gives her his mothers phone number. Three years later, facing the prospect of spending New Years Eve alone, Emily finds Olivers number and calls him, each time they meet, one appears to be settled and content while the other is struggling to make headway in both life and career. Eventually they come to the realization that each is exactly the person the other one needs for fulfillment, a soundtrack album for the film was released by Columbia Records on April 12,2005. A Lot like Love received mixed reviews critics and currently holds a 41% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. If nothing else, A Lot Like Love is a pleasant reminder of a Hollywood time, seemingly long gone, roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times observed, The movie is 95 minutes long, and neither character says a single memorable thing. Youve heard of being too clever by half, ollie and Emily are not clever enough by three-quarters. To call A Lot like Love dead in the water is an insult to water, Ebert awarded the film one out four stars, and ultimately included it in his list of Most Hated Films. Ruthe Stein of the San Francisco Chronicle said, An unfortunate casting decision, comes close to sabotaging a witty script. As the sometimes couple, Ashton Kutcher and Amanda Peet are together in almost every scene, bland and with a small television face, Kutcher is incapable of doing the heavy lifting required to be a romantic lead. Peet, who has the looks and magnetism of a Kennedy offspring, makes Kutcher fade into the background, still, the movie is rich in the kind of details often left out because of a lack of budget or imagination. Christopher Orr of The New York Sun said, What do you call a shameless imitation of a shameless imitation. Whatever label you choose, it can be affixed to A Lot Like Love, an Ashton Kutcher-Amanda Peet vehicle that is a lot like When Harry Met Sally. Sadly, the resemblance does not extend to quality, if one thing saves A Lot Like Love from disaster - and Im not sure it does - its an easy chemistry between the leads, though one that owes little to Mr. Kutchers performance. Fortunately, Ms. Peet carries off the role of Emily with enough spark that even Mr. Kutcher gradually lights up, since running away with The Whole Nine Yards five years ago, Ms. Peet has had altogether too little opportunity to showcase her sexy comic appeal. A Lot Like Love might have provided that opportunity, had it only featured something a little like a script, about A Lot Like Love leaving you wanting a lot less, I am right
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