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San Mateo, California
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San Mateo is a city in San Mateo County, California, in the high-tech enclave of Silicon Valley in the San Francisco Bay Area. The 2015 population was estimated to be 103,536, San Mateo was incorporated in 1894. Documented by Spanish colonists as part of the Rancho de las Pulgas and the Rancho San Mateo, in 1789 the Spanish missionaries had named a Native American village along Laurel Creek as Los Laureles or the Laurels. At the time of Mexican Independence there were 30 native Californians at San Mateo, an 1835 sketch map of the Rancho refers to the creek as arroyo de los Laureles. In the 21st century, most of the laurels are gone, in 1810 Coyote Point was an early recorded feature of San Mateo. Beginning in the 1850s, some wealthy San Franciscans began building summer or permanent homes in the milder mid-peninsula, while most of this early settlement occurred in adjacent Hillsborough and Burlingame, a number of historically important mansions and buildings were constructed in San Mateo. A. P. Giannini, founder of the Bank of Italy and his mansion, Seven Oaks, is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Located at 20 El Cerrito Drive, it has been deteriorating as it has not been preserved or occupied for years, in 1858 Sun Water Station, a stage station of the Butterfield Overland Mail route, was established in San Mateo. It was located 9 miles south of Clarks Station in what is now San Bruno and 9 miles north of the station at Redwood City. The Howard Estate was built in 1859 on the hill accessed by Crystal Springs Road, the Parrott Estate was erected in 1860 in the same area, giving rise to two conflicting names for the hill, Howard Hill and Parrot Hill. After use of the changed traffic patterns, neither historic name was commonly applied to that hill. The Borel Estate was developed near Borel Creek in 1874 and it has been redeveloped since the late 20th century for use as modern offices and shops. The property is managed and owned by Borel Place Associates and the Borel Estate Company, a smaller portion of the property and the mansion, was converted into The Peninsula Hotel in 1908, following Haywards death in 1904. The Hotel burned down in a fire on 25 June 1920. In the early 20th century, Japanese immigrants came to San Mateo to work in the salt ponds, although Japanese-Americans only account for 2. 2% of the population today, they continue to be a major cultural influence and a draw for the rest of the region. The Eugene J. De Sabla Japanese Teahouse and Garden was established in 1894 at 70 De Sabla Road, designed by Makoto Hagiwara and he arranged for Japanese artisans to be brought to the United States primarily for its teahouse construction. The parcel was purchased in 1988 by San Francisco businessman Achille Paladini and wife Joan, the garden features hundreds of varieties of plants and several rare trees. A large koi pond surrounds an island, the property was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992
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Martha Plimpton
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Martha Campbell Plimpton is an American stage, film, and television actress, singer, and former model. Her feature film debut was in The River Rat before rising to prominence in the Richard Donner film The Goonies and she has also appeared in The Mosquito Coast, Running on Empty, Parenthood, Samantha, Raising Hope and Small Town Murder Songs. She is recognized on Broadway for her roles in The Coast of Utopia, Top Girls, Pal Joey and she has performed in theatre productions of The Playboy of the Western World, A Midsummer Nights Dream, The Glass Menagerie, The Sisters Rosensweig, and Uncle Vanya. She returned to Broadway in the fall of 2014 in a revival of A Delicate Balance co-starring Glenn Close, Plimpton currently stars in The Real ONeals, an ABC sitcom that premiered on March 2,2016. In 2009 Plimpton played as a helpless mom being robbed by two criminals in the music video Bully by Three Days Grace for their album Life Starts Now. Plimpton played Virginia Chance on the Fox sitcom Raising Hope, which earned her a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. She has also received three Tony Award nominations as well as a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series in 2002 and she won an Emmy for the same category in 2012 as attorney Patti Nyholm in the CBS legal drama The Good Wife. Plimpton was born in New York City and she is the daughter of actors Keith Carradine and Shelley Plimpton. Her parents met while performing in the original Broadway run of Hair and her paternal grandfather was actor John Carradine. She is a distant cousin of writer and editor George Plimpton. She attended the Professional Childrens School in Manhattan and her first stage appearance was when her mother brought her on stage in costume for the curtain call of the short-lived Broadway play The Leaf People then another play in The Ass and the Heart. Plimpton began her career as a model, securing an early 1980s campaign for Calvin Klein, making an impression as a sophisticated and she made her feature film debut in 1981, when at the age of eleven, she had a small role in the film Rollover. In 1984, she appeared in the Deep South drama The River Rat opposite Tommy Lee Jones and her breakthrough performance was as Stef Steinbrenner in the 1985 film The Goonies. She also appeared that year on the sitcom Family Ties and this began Plimpton being cast in the role of a rebellious tomboy, beginning with her performance as the Reverend Spellgood s daughter in the 1986 film The Mosquito Coast, starring Harrison Ford. The critically praised but commercially unsuccessful 1987 film Shy People was followed by a performance in the 1988 ensemble comedy Stars and Bars and this was released shortly before Running on Empty, an Academy Award-nominated film starring River Phoenix, for which she was nominated for a Young Artist Award. She began a career making small independent film appearances with supporting roles in big-budget films and she appeared in the 1988 Woody Allen film Another Woman. She co-starred with Jami Gertz as a patient in the German film Zwei Frauen. The film was nominated for Outstanding Feature Film at the German Film Awards, Plimpton shaved her head to play a cancer patient in Zwei Frauen
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John Carradine
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John Carradine was an American actor, best known for his roles in horror films, Westerns, and Shakespearean theatre. DeMilles stock company and later John Fords company, he was one of the most prolific actors in Hollywood history. He was married four times, had five children, and was the patriarch of the Carradine family, including four of his sons, william Carradine was the son of evangelical author Beverly Carradine. The family lived in Peekskill and Kingston, New York, william Carradine died from tuberculosis when his son John was two years old. Carradines mother then married a Philadelphia paper manufacturer named Peck, who thought the way to bring up someone elses boy was to him every day just on general principle. Carradines son, David, claimed his father ran away when he was 14 years old and he later returned, as he studied sculpture at Philadelphias Graphic Arts Institute. Carradine lived with his uncle, Peter Richmond, in New York City for a while. He traveled for a time, supporting himself painting portraits, if the sitter was satisfied, the price was $2.50, he once said. It cost him nothing if he thought it was a turkey, I made as high as $10 to $15 a day. During this time, he was arrested for vagrancy, while in jail, Carradine was beaten, suffering a broken nose that did not set correctly. This contributed to the look that would become world famous, David Carradine said, My dad told me that he saw a production of Shakespeares The Merchant of Venice when he was 11 years old and decided right then what he wanted to do with his life. He made his debut in 1925 in New Orleans in a production of Camille. Carradine joined a tent repertory theater under the management of R. D. MaClean, who became his mentor. In 1927, he took a job escorting a shipment of bananas from Dallas, Texas, to Los Angeles and he became friends with John Barrymore, and began working for Cecil B. Carradine, however, did not have the job long, DeMille noticed the lack of Roman columns in my sketches, Carradine said. Once DeMille heard his voice, however, he hired him to do voice-overs. DeMille saw an apparition - me - pass him by, reciting the lines from Hamlet. He became a member of DeMilles stock company and his voice was heard in several DeMille pictures, Carradines first film credit was Tolable David, but he claimed to have done 70 pictures before getting billing
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Johan Ludvig Heiberg (historian)
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Johan Ludvig Heiberg was a Danish philologist and historian. He is best known for his discovery of previously unknown texts in the Archimedes Palimpsest and he also published an edition of Ptolemys Almagest. Heiberg was born in Aalborg, the son of Johanne Henriette Jacoba, Heiberg was Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Copenhagen from 1896 until 1924. Among his more than 200 publications were editions of the works of Archimedes, Euclid, Apollonius of Perga, Serenus of Antinouplis, Ptolemy, many of his editions are still in use today. The French Academy of Sciences awarded him the Prix Binoux for 1912 and his sister married biochemist Max Henius. Heiberg inspected the vellum manuscript in Constantinople in 1906, and realized that it contained works by Archimedes that were unknown to scholars at the time. Heibergs examination of the manuscript was with the eye only, while modern analysis of the texts has employed x-ray. The Archimedes Palimpsest is currently stored at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, how do we know about Greek mathematicians. 1, 000-year-old text by Greek maths genius Archimedes goes on display Daily Mail, Works by Johan Ludvig Heiberg at Project Gutenberg Works by or about Johan Ludvig Heiberg at Internet Archive
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Carradine family
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The Carradine family is the family of American actor John Carradine, who had five sons, four of whom became actors. Madeleine Rose by second husband Dana Richard Bierman and he also appeared in three episodes of the 1970s television series Kung Fu, in which David starred. Davids brothers Bruce, Keith and Robert also appeared in the series, Bruce Carradine also appeared with David in Q, The Winged Serpent and in Davids directorial labor of love, Americana. Robert also shot David to death in a cameo in Scorseses Mean Streets, Keith was in another of Davids directorial attempts, You and Me, while Robert co-starred with David in the unreleased musical which David directed, A Country Mile. David appeared alongside his half-brother Robert on the episode of the Disney Channels Lizzie McGuire. In this episode, David was cast as a reminiscent of his Kung Fu character. David and Keith each hosted the History Channels Wild West Tech, Davids daughter, Calista, appeared in a recurring role on Kung Fu, The Legend Continues. She also had a role in Project Eliminator, with her father and she was the star of the unreleased epic, Mata Hari, which David directed. In addition, she sang the theme to Americana, a song that David wrote called Around, David appeared with his niece, Ever, in Dead & Breakfast. John Carradine at the Internet Movie Database David Carradine Family Tree
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Robert Altman
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Robert Bernard Altman was an American film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He is consistently ranked as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in American cinema and his style of filmmaking was unique among directors, in that his subjects covered most genres, but with a subversive twist that typically relies on satire and humor to express his personal vision. Altman developed a reputation for being anti-Hollywood and non-conformist in both his themes and directing style, however, actors especially enjoyed working under his direction because he encouraged them to improvise, thereby inspiring their own creativity. He preferred large ensemble casts for his films, and developed a recording technique which produced overlapping dialogue from multiple actors. This produced a natural, more dynamic, and more complex experience for the viewer. He also used highly mobile camera work and zoom lenses to enhance the activity taking place on the screen, critic Pauline Kael, writing about his directing style, said that Altman could make film fireworks out of next to nothing. In 2006, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognized Altmans body of work with an Academy Honorary Award and he never won a competitive Oscar despite five nominations. His films MASH, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, and Nashville have been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. Altman is one of the few filmmakers whose films have won the Golden Bear at Berlin, the Golden Lion at Venice, and the Golden Palm at Cannes. Altmans ancestry was German, English and Irish, his grandfather, Frank Altman. Altman had a Catholic upbringing, but he did not continue to follow or practice the religion as an adult, although he has referred to as a sort of Catholic. He was educated at Jesuit schools, including Rockhurst High School and he graduated from Wentworth Military Academy in Lexington, Missouri in 1943. In 1943 Altman joined the United States Army Air Forces at the age of 18, during World War II, Altman flew more than 50 bombing missions as a crewman on a B-24 Liberator with the 307th Bomb Group in Borneo and the Dutch East Indies. Upon his discharge in 1946, Altman moved to California and he worked in publicity for a company that had invented a tattooing machine to identify dogs. He entered filmmaking on a whim, selling a script to RKO for the 1948 picture Bodyguard, Altmans immediate success encouraged him to move to New York City, where he attempted to forge a career as a writer. Having enjoyed little success, in 1949 he returned to Kansas City, in February 2012, an early Calvin film directed by Altman, Modern Football, was found by filmmaker Gary Huggins. Altman directed some 65 industrial films and documentaries before being hired by a businessman in 1956 to write. The film, titled The Delinquents, made for $60,000, was purchased by United Artists for $150,000, while primitive, this teen exploitation film contained the foundations of Altmans later work in its use of casual, naturalistic dialogue
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Nashville (film)
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Nashville is a 1975 American satirical musical comedy-drama film directed by Robert Altman. The film takes a snapshot of people involved in the music and gospel music businesses in Nashville. Nashville is often noted for its scope, with critics viewing it as a sort of mosaic. The work contains 24 main characters, an hour of musical numbers, Nicholls, Dave Peel, Cristina Raines, Bert Remsen, Lily Tomlin, Gwen Welles, and Keenan Wynn. Nashville opened to positive reviews and won numerous awards. It is considered Altmans masterpiece, and was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry in 1992, the overarching plot takes place over five days leading up to a political rally for Replacement Party candidate Hal Phillip Walker, who is never seen throughout the entire movie. The story follows 24 characters roaming around Nashville, in search of some sort of goal through their own story arcs, an Englishwoman named Opal who claims to be working on a documentary for the BBC appears in the studio but is told to leave by Haven. Down the hall from Havens session is Linnea Reese, a gospel singer recording a song with a black choir. Also present are Pfc. Glenn Kelly and the folk trio Bill, Mary. Bill and Mary are married, but largely unhappy, partly due to the fact that Mary is in love with womanizing Tom, however, Martha repeatedly puts off visiting her aunt in favor of chasing after male musicians. Working at the restaurant are African-American cook Wade Cooley, and his pretty waitress friend, Sueleen Gay. After greeting the crowds on the tarmac, Barbara Jean faints due to the heat, Barbara Jeans appearance having been cut short, those in attendance depart the airport and wind up stranded on the highway after a pile-up occurs. During the commotion, Winifred, a country singer, runs away from her husband, Star. Star gives a ride to Kenny Frasier, who has just arrived in town carrying a violin case, Opal takes advantage of the traffic jam to interview first Linnea and then Tommy Brown, an African-American country singer who is performing at the Opry. Tommy and his entourage go to Lady Pearls club but Wade, Linneas husband, Del Reese is working with political organizer, John Triplette to plan a small fundraiser and a large outdoor concert gala for the Walker campaign. Winifred shows up at Trouts club trying to recruit musicians to record a demo with her, Del invites Triplette for family dinner with Linnea and their two deaf children. Linnea and Del are having problems and she focuses on the children rather than on him. In the middle of dinner, Tom calls trying to make a date with Linnea, Pfc. Kelly sneaks into Barbara Jeans hospital room and sits in the chair by her bed all night, watching her sleep
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Wild Bill Hickok
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He earned a great deal of notoriety in his own time, much of it bolstered by the many outlandish - often fabricated - tales he told about his life. Some contemporary reports of his exploits are known to be fictitious but, along with his own stories, remain the basis for much of his fame and reputation. Hickok was born and raised on a farm in northern Illinois, at a time when lawlessness and he fought and spied for the Union Army during the American Civil War and gained publicity after the war as a scout, marksman, actor, and professional gambler. Over the course of his life, he was involved in several notable shootouts, in 1876, Hickok was shot from behind and killed while playing poker in a saloon in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, by Jack McCall, an unsuccessful gambler. The hand of cards which he held at the time of his death has become known as the dead mans hand. Hickok remains a figure in frontier history. His father was said to have used the house, now demolished. He was the fourth of six children, William Hickok died in 1852, when James was 15. Hickok was a shot from a young age and was recognized locally as an outstanding marksman with a pistol. Photographs of Hickok appear to depict dark hair, but all contemporaneous descriptions affirm that it was red, in 1855, at age 18, James Hickok fled Illinois following a fight with Charles Hudson, during which both fell into a canal. Hickok moved to Leavenworth in the Kansas Territory, where he joined General Jim Lanes Free State Army, a vigilante group active in the new territory. While a Jayhawker, he met 12-year-old William Cody, who despite his youth served as a scout just two years later for the U. S. Army during the Utah War. While in Nebraska, James Hickok was derisively referred to as Duck Bill for his long nose and he grew a moustache following the McCanles incident and in 1861 began calling himself Wild Bill. He was also known before 1861 by Jayhawkers as Shanghai Bill because of his height, Hickok used the name William Hickok from 1858 and William Haycock during the Civil War. He was arrested using the name Haycock in 1865. He afterward resumed using his name, James Hickok. Most newspapers referred to him as William Haycock until 1869, military records after 1865 list him as Hickok but note that he was also known as Haycock. In 1857, Hickok claimed a 160-acre tract in Johnson County, on March 22,1858, he was elected one of the first four constables of Monticello Township
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HBO
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Home Box Office is an American premium cable and satellite television network that is owned by Time Warner through its respective flagship company Home Box Office, Inc. HBO is the oldest and longest continuously operating pay television service in the United States, in 2014, HBO had an adjusted operating income of US$1.79 billion, compared to the US$1.68 billion it accrued in 2013. HBO has 49 million subscribers in the United States and 130 million worldwide as of 2016, the network provides seven 24-hour multiplex channels, including HBO Comedy, HBO Latino, HBO Signature and HBO Family. It launched the streaming service HBO Now in April 2015, and has over 2 million subscribers in the United States as of February 2017. In addition to its U. S. subscriber base, HBO distributes content in at least 151 countries, HBO subscribers generally pay for an extra tier of service that includes other cable- and satellite-exclusive channels even before paying for the channel itself. Cable providers can require the use of a converter box – usually digital – in order to receive HBO, many HBO programs have been syndicated to other networks and broadcast television stations, and a number of HBO-produced series and films have been released on DVD. The new system, which Dolan named Sterling Information Services, became the first urban underground cable system in the United States. In that same year, Time-Life, Inc. purchased a 20% stake in Dolans company, in the summer of 1971, while on a family vacation in France, Charles Dolan began to think of ideas to make Sterling Manhattan profitable. He came up with the concept for a television service. Dolan later presented his idea to Time-Life management, though satellite distribution seemed only a distant possibility at the time, he persuaded Time-Life to back him on the project. To gauge whether consumers would be interested in subscribing to a pay television service, in a meeting of Dolan and some Time-Life executives who were working on the project, various other names were discussed for the new service. Home Box Office launched on November 8,1972, however, HBOs launch came without fanfare in the press, as it was not covered by any local or national media outlets. Home Box Office distributed its first sports event immediately after the film, Four months later in February 1973, Home Box Office aired its first television special, the Pennsylvania Polka Festival. Home Box Office would use a network of relay towers to distribute its programming to cable systems throughout its service area. Sterling Manhattan Cable continued to lose money because the company had only a small base of 20,000 customers in Manhattan. Time-Life dropped the Sterling name and the company was renamed Manhattan Cable Television under Time-Lifes control in March 1973, Gerald Levin, who had been with Home Box Office since it began operations as its vice president of programming, replaced Dolan as the companys president and chief executive officer. In September 1973, Time-Life, Inc. completed its acquisition of the pay service. HBO would eventually increase its fortunes within two years, by April 1975, the service had around 100,000 subscribers in Pennsylvania and New York state, in 1974, they settled on using a geostationary communications satellite to transmit HBO to cable providers throughout the United States
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Deadwood (TV series)
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The show features a large ensemble cast, and many historical figures appear as characters, such as Seth Bullock, George Crook, Wyatt Earp, E. B. Farnum, George Hearst, Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, Jack McCall, Sol Star, Al Swearengen, the plot lines involving these characters include historical truths as well as substantial fictional elements. Milch used actual diaries and newspapers from 1870s Deadwood residents as reference points for characters, events, Some of the characters are fully fictional, although they may have been based on actual persons. Deadwood received wide acclaim, particularly for Milchs writing and Ian McShanes co-lead performance. It also won eight Emmy Awards and one Golden Globe, TV Guide ranked it #8 on their 2013 list of 60 shows that were Cancelled Too Soon. There were initial plans to conclude the series with two TV films, but those plans never came to fruition, in 2015, talks resumed between HBO and Milch, and in January 2016, HBO green-lit a script to be written. The show was produced by Red Board Productions and Roscoe Productions in association with HBO, Garret Dillahunt portrays Jack McCall during season one and Francis Walcott during season two. Milch has pointed out repeatedly in interviews that the intent of the show was to study the way that comes together from chaos by organizing itself around symbols. Initially, he intended to study this within Roman civilization, but HBOs Rome series was already in production, Milch and his colleagues later bought many of Parkers books and papers as references for Deadwood. The first season takes place six months after the founding of the camp, in 1876, Seth Bullock leaves his job as a marshal in Montana to establish a hardware business in the gold-mining camp of Deadwood, along with his friend and business partner, Sol Star. Wild Bill Hickok, the infamous gunslinger of the west, is on a journey to Deadwood, accompanied by Charlie Utter. Al Swearengen is the owner of The Gem, a local saloon, other notable residents include Dr. Amos Cochran, A. W. Merrick, owner and editor of the local newspaper The Pioneer, and E. B. Farnum, proprietor of The Grand Central Hotel, Brom Garret, a wealthy businessman from New York City, lives at The Grand Central Hotel with his wife, Alma, who nurses a secret laudanum habit. Aware that Garret is interested in prospecting, Swearengen and Farnum deceive him into purchasing a gold claim in a confidence game. Newly arrived Cy Tolliver and his purchase an abandoned hotel across from The Gem and begin renovations, then open the Bella Union Saloon. Brom Garret soon learns that his claim is worthless and demands Swearengen reimburse his money. Swearengen orders Dan Dority to kill Garret and make it look like an accident, Dority throws Garret off a cliff, only to discover that the claim is actually a rich one after all. Newly widowed Alma Garret asks Wild Bill Hickok for guidance regarding the gold claim, Hickok asks Bullock to advise Garret, Bullock agrees
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States, which simultaneously serves as the nations prime federal law enforcement agency. Operating under the jurisdiction of the U. S. Department of Justice, Intelligence Community and reports to both the Attorney General and the Director of National Intelligence. A leading U. S. counterterrorism, counterintelligence, and criminal investigative organization, although many of the FBIs functions are unique, its activities in support of national security are comparable to those of the British MI5 and the Russian FSB. At an FBI field office, a senior-level FBI officer concurrently serves as the representative of the Director of National Intelligence. Despite its domestic focus, the FBI also maintains a significant international footprint and these overseas offices exist primarily for the purpose of coordination with foreign security services and do not usually conduct unilateral operations in the host countries. The FBI can and does at times carry out secret activities overseas, just as the CIA has a domestic function. The FBI was established in 1908 as the Bureau of Investigation and its name was changed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1935. The FBI headquarters is the J. Edgar Hoover Building, located in Washington, in the fiscal year 2012, the Bureaus total budget was approximately $8.12 billion. In 1896, the National Bureau of Criminal Identification was founded, the 1901 assassination of President William McKinley created an urgent perception that America was under threat from anarchists. The Departments of Justice and Labor had been keeping records on anarchists for years, the Justice Department had been tasked with the regulation of interstate commerce since 1887, though it lacked the staff to do so. It had made little effort to relieve its staff shortage until the breakage of the Oregon land fraud scandal at approximately the turn of the 20th Century, President Roosevelt instructed Attorney General Charles Bonaparte to organize an autonomous investigative service that would report only to the Attorney General. Bonaparte reached out to other agencies, including the Secret Service, for personnel, on May 27,1908, the Congress forbade this use of Treasury employees by the Justice Department, citing fears that the new agency would serve as a secret police department. Again at Roosevelts urging, Bonaparte moved to organize a formal Bureau of Investigation, the Bureau of Investigation was created on July 26,1908, after the Congress had adjourned for the summer. Attorney General Bonaparte, using Department of Justice expense funds, hired thirty-four people, including veterans of the Secret Service. Its first Chief was Stanley Finch, Bonaparte notified the Congress of these actions in December 1908. The bureaus first official task was visiting and making surveys of the houses of prostitution in preparation for enforcing the White Slave Traffic Act, or Mann Act, in 1932, the bureau was renamed the United States Bureau of Investigation. The following year it was linked to the Bureau of Prohibition, in the same year, its name was officially changed from the Division of Investigation to the present-day Federal Bureau of Investigation, or FBI. J. Edgar Hoover served as Director from 1924 to 1972, a combined 48 years with the BOI, DOI, Hoover was substantially involved in most major cases and projects that the FBI handled during his tenure
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Dexter (TV series)
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Dexter is an American television crime drama mystery series that aired on Showtime from October 1,2006, to September 22,2013. The shows first season was derived from the novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter and it was adapted for television by screenwriter James Manos, Jr. who wrote the first episode. Subsequent seasons evolved independently of Lindsays works, in February 2008, reruns began to air on CBS, although the reruns on CBS ended after one run of the first season. The series has enjoyed positive reviews throughout its run and popularity. Season four aired its finale on December 13,2009, to a record-breaking audience of 2.6 million viewers. In April 2013, Showtime announced that season eight would be the season of Dexter. The season-eight premiere was the most watched Dexter episode with more than 3 million viewers total for all airings that night, the original broadcast of the series finale—shown at 9 pm on September 22, 2013—drew 2.8 million viewers, the largest overall audience in Showtimes history. For the seasonal plots, see Dexter, Dexter, Dexter, Dexter, Dexter, Dexter, Dexter, to satisfy his interest in blood and to facilitate his own crimes, Dexter works as a forensic technician specializing in bloodstain pattern analysis, for the Miami Metro Police Department. Although his drive to kill is unflinching, he is able to simulate, Dexter, Early Cuts is an animated web series that premiered on October 25,2009. Michael C. Hall reprises his role as the voice of Dexter, the webisodes are animated with 2. 5D style, where flat two-dimensional illustrations are brought to life in three-dimensional space. The first season was created and written by Dexter producer/writer Lauren Gussis and she was nominated for a Webby for her writing on the first season. The first web series precedes the current narrative of the show, each victims story is split into four two-minute chapters. A second season of the web series titled Dexter, Early Cuts, Dark Echo, one story in six chapters and it was written by Tim Schlattmann and illustrated by Bill Sienkiewicz and David Mack. The story begins immediately following Dexters adoptive father Harrys death, although the series is set in Miami, Florida, many of the exterior scenes are filmed in Long Beach, California. Many landmark buildings and locations in Long Beach are featured throughout the series, the finale episodes airport scene takes place at Ontario International Airport in Ontario, California. In preparation for the UK launch of the series, Fox experimented with an SMS-based viral marketing campaign, mobile phone owners received the following unsolicited SMS messages addressed to them by name with no identifying information other than being from Dexter, Hello. Im heading to the UK sooner than you might think, the SMS-message was followed by an email directing the user to an online video news report about a recent spree of killings. While the marketing campaign succeeded in raising the profile of the show, it proved unpopular with many mobile owners, in response to complaints about the SMS element of the campaign, Fox issued the following statement, The shows lead actor, Michael C
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Madam Secretary (TV series)
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Madam Secretary is an American political drama television series created by Barbara Hall and executive produced by Lori McCreary and Morgan Freeman. It stars Téa Leoni as Dr. Elizabeth McCord, the series primarily describes main character Dr. Elizabeth McCords fight to balance her family and her work as the US Secretary of State. The series premiered on September 21,2014, on October 27,2014, CBS placed a full season order consisting of 22 episodes for the first season. On March 25,2016, Madam Secretary was renewed for a third season, on March 23,2017, CBS renewed the series for a fourth season. Madam Secretary explores Secretary Elizabeth McCords life as the shrewd, calculating, McCord drives international diplomacy, battles office politics, and circumvents and ignores protocol as she negotiates worldwide issues. The show also focuses on the lives of the characters. McCord is also a professor and a former CIA analyst who left the agency for ethical and personal reasons. The President values her apolitical leanings, deep knowledge of the Middle East, flair for languages, and ability to not just think outside the box, Téa Leoni as Dr. Elizabeth Bess Adams McCord, the United States Secretary of State. She spent twenty years as a CIA analyst before becoming a professor of science at the University of Virginia. She was selected by her old boss, Conrad Dalton, who is now the President of the United States, to replace Secretary of State Vincent Marsh, tim Daly as Dr. Henry McCord, Elizabeths husband of 25 years. His father is Patrick McCord, and his mother died three years prior to the series and he has a large family in Pittsburgh, including his sister Maureen, and numerous nieces and nephews. He spent five years on duty, during which time he served as an F/A-18 Hornet aviator during Operation Desert Storm. Henry returns to intelligence by working both the White House and the National Security Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation. He works as a handler for deep undercover work involving religious extremists and cults, due to his background, bebe Neuwirth as Nadine Tolliver, Elizabeths chief of staff who had a six-year affair with the deceased Secretary of State, Vincent Marsh, beginning when he was a senator. Originally extremely resentful of the new Secretary of State, Nadine, in Season 1, Nadine slowly began to date again, romancing the Administrator of NASA, Glenn. Željko Ivanek as Russell Jackson, White House Chief of Staff He, Russell suffers a heart attack during season 3 due to stress involving President Daltons reelection. He is given CPR by Stevie McCord and makes a full recovery, erich Bergen as Blake Moran, Elizabeths personal assistant, and the only member of her staff that she hired rather than inherited. Patina Miller as Daisy Grant, Elizabeths press coordinator, Daisy dates Matt during season 1 but goes on to date other men following their breakup
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Golden Globe Award
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Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign. The annual ceremony at which the awards are presented is a part of the film industrys awards season. The 74th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film, the 1st Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best achievements in 1943 filmmaking, was held in January 1944, at the 20th Century-Fox studios. Subsequent ceremonies were held at venues throughout the next decade, including the Beverly Hills Hotel. In 1950, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association made the decision to establish an honorary award to recognize outstanding contributions to the entertainment industry. Recognizing its subject as a figure within the entertainment industry. The official name of the award became the Cecil B. In 1963, the Miss Golden Globe concept was introduced, in its inaugural year, two Miss Golden Globes were named, one for film and one for television. The two Miss Golden Globes named that year were Eva Six and Donna Douglas, respectively, in 2009, the Golden Globe statuette was redesigned. It was unveiled at a conference at the Beverly Hilton prior to the show. The broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards, telecast to 167 countries worldwide, generally ranks as the third most-watched awards show each year, behind only the Oscars, gervais returned to host the 68th and 69th Golden Globe Awards the next two years. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosted the 70th, 71st and 72nd Golden Globe Awards in 2015, the Golden Globe Awards theme song, which debuted in 2012, was written by Japanese musician and songwriter Yoshiki Hayashi. On January 7,2008, it was announced due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. The ceremony was faced with a threat by striking writers to picket the event, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was forced to adopt another approach for the broadcast. In acting categories, Meryl Streep holds the record for the most competitive Golden Globe wins with eight, however, including honorary awards, such as the Henrietta Award, World Film Favorite Actor/Actress Award, or Cecil B. DeMille Award, Barbra Streisand leads with nine, additionally, Streisand won for composing the song Evergreen, producing the Best Picture, and directing Yentl in 1984. Jack Nicholson, Angela Lansbury, Alan Alda and Shirley MacLaine have six awards each, behind them are Rosalind Russell and Jessica Lange with five wins. Meryl Streep also holds the record for most nominations with thirty, at the 46th Golden Globe Awards an anomaly occurred, a three way-tie for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
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Academy Awards
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The various category winners are awarded a copy of a golden statuette, officially called the Academy Award of Merit, which has become commonly known by its nickname Oscar. The awards, first presented in 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, are overseen by AMPAS, the awards ceremony was first broadcast on radio in 1930 and televised for the first time in 1953. It is now live in more than 200 countries and can be streamed live online. The Academy Awards ceremony is the oldest worldwide entertainment awards ceremony and its equivalents – the Emmy Awards for television, the Tony Awards for theater, and the Grammy Awards for music and recording – are modeled after the Academy Awards. The 89th Academy Awards ceremony, honoring the best films of 2016, were held on February 26,2017, at the Dolby Theatre, in Los Angeles, the ceremony was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and was broadcast on ABC. A total of 3,048 Oscars have been awarded from the inception of the award through the 88th, the first Academy Awards presentation was held on May 16,1929, at a private dinner function at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel with an audience of about 270 people. The post-awards party was held at the Mayfair Hotel, the cost of guest tickets for that nights ceremony was $5. Fifteen statuettes were awarded, honoring artists, directors and other participants in the industry of the time. The ceremony ran for 15 minutes, winners were announced to media three months earlier, however, that was changed for the second ceremony in 1930. Since then, for the rest of the first decade, the results were given to newspapers for publication at 11,00 pm on the night of the awards. The first Best Actor awarded was Emil Jannings, for his performances in The Last Command and he had to return to Europe before the ceremony, so the Academy agreed to give him the prize earlier, this made him the first Academy Award winner in history. With the fourth ceremony, however, the system changed, for the first six ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned two calendar years. At the 29th ceremony, held on March 27,1957, until then, foreign-language films had been honored with the Special Achievement Award. The 74th Academy Awards, held in 2002, presented the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, since 1973, all Academy Awards ceremonies always end with the Academy Award for Best Picture. The Academy also awards Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, see also § Awards of Merit categories The best known award is the Academy Award of Merit, more popularly known as the Oscar statuette. The five spokes represent the branches of the Academy, Actors, Writers, Directors, Producers. The model for the statuette is said to be Mexican actor Emilio El Indio Fernández, sculptor George Stanley sculpted Cedric Gibbons design. The statuettes presented at the ceremonies were gold-plated solid bronze
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Dynasty
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A dynasty is a sequence of rulers from the same family, usually in the context of a feudal or monarchical system but sometimes also appearing in elective republics. The dynastic family or lineage may be known as a house, historians periodize the histories of many sovereign states, such as Ancient Egypt, the Carolingian Empire and Imperial China, using a framework of successive dynasties. As such, the dynasty may be used to delimit the era during which the family reigned and to describe events, trends. The word dynasty itself is often dropped from such adjectival references, until the 19th century, it was taken for granted that a legitimate function of a monarch was to aggrandize his dynasty, that is, to increase the territory, wealth, and power of his family members. The longest-surviving dynasty in the world is the Imperial House of Japan, dynasties throughout the world have traditionally been reckoned patrilineally, such as under the Frankish Salic law. Succession through a daughter when permitted was considered to establish a new dynasty in her husbands ruling house, however, some states in Africa, determined descent matrilineally, while rulers have at other times adopted the name of their mothers dynasty when coming into her inheritance. It is also extended to unrelated people such as poets of the same school or various rosters of a single sports team. The word dynasty derives via Latin dynastia from Greek dynastéia, where it referred to power, dominion and it was the abstract noun of dynástēs, the agent noun of dynamis, power or ability, from dýnamai, to be able. A ruler in a dynasty is referred to as a dynast. For example, following his abdication, Edward VIII of the United Kingdom ceased to be a member of the House of Windsor. A dynastic marriage is one that complies with monarchical house law restrictions, the marriage of Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange, to Máxima Zorreguieta in 2002 was dynastic, for example, and their eldest child is expected to inherit the Dutch crown eventually. But the marriage of his younger brother Prince Friso to Mabel Wisse Smit in 2003 lacked government support, thus Friso forfeited his place in the order of succession, lost his title as a Prince of the Netherlands, and left his children without dynastic rights. In historical and monarchist references to formerly reigning families, a dynast is a member who would have had succession rights, were the monarchys rules still in force. Even since abolition of the Austrian monarchy, Max and his descendants have not been considered the rightful pretenders by Austrian monarchists, nor have they claimed that position. The term dynast is sometimes used only to refer to descendants of a realms monarchs. The term can therefore describe overlapping but distinct sets of people, yet he is not a male-line member of the royal family, and is therefore not a dynast of the House of Windsor. Thus, in 1999 he requested and obtained permission from Elizabeth II to marry the Roman Catholic Princess Caroline of Monaco. Yet a clause of the English Act of Settlement 1701 remained in effect at that time and that exclusion, too, ceased to apply on 26 March 2015, with retroactive effect for those who had been dynasts prior to triggering it by marriage to a Catholic
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Bruce Carradine
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The Carradine family is the family of American actor John Carradine, who had five sons, four of whom became actors. Madeleine Rose by second husband Dana Richard Bierman and he also appeared in three episodes of the 1970s television series Kung Fu, in which David starred. Davids brothers Bruce, Keith and Robert also appeared in the series, Bruce Carradine also appeared with David in Q, The Winged Serpent and in Davids directorial labor of love, Americana. Robert also shot David to death in a cameo in Scorseses Mean Streets, Keith was in another of Davids directorial attempts, You and Me, while Robert co-starred with David in the unreleased musical which David directed, A Country Mile. David appeared alongside his half-brother Robert on the episode of the Disney Channels Lizzie McGuire. In this episode, David was cast as a reminiscent of his Kung Fu character. David and Keith each hosted the History Channels Wild West Tech, Davids daughter, Calista, appeared in a recurring role on Kung Fu, The Legend Continues. She also had a role in Project Eliminator, with her father and she was the star of the unreleased epic, Mata Hari, which David directed. In addition, she sang the theme to Americana, a song that David wrote called Around, David appeared with his niece, Ever, in Dead & Breakfast. John Carradine at the Internet Movie Database David Carradine Family Tree
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David Carradine
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David Carradine was an American actor and martial artist. He was known for his role as a peace-loving Shaolin monk, Kwai Chang Caine. He was a member of a family that began with his father. Carradines acting career, which included major and minor roles on stage and television, a prolific B movie actor, he appeared in more than 100 feature films in career spanning over sixty years. He was nominated for four Golden Globe Awards, for such as the television series Kung Fu, the Woody Guthrie biopic Bound for Glory. His final nomination came in the category of Best Supporting Actor for portraying the character in Quentin Tarantinos Kill Bill. Films that featured Carradine continued to be released after his death and these posthumous credits were from a variety of genres including action, documentaries, drama, horror, martial arts, science fiction, and westerns. In addition to his career, Carradine was a director. Moreover, influenced by his most popular acting role, he studied martial arts and he was sometimes arrested and prosecuted for a variety of offenses, which often involved substance abuse. He died on June 3,2009, in a room in Bangkok, Thailand. Carradine was born on December 8,1936 as John Arthur Carradine, in Hollywood, California and he was a half-brother of Bruce, Keith, Christopher, and Robert Carradine, and an uncle of Ever Carradine and Martha Plimpton, most of whom are also actors. Primarily of Irish descent, he was a great-grandson of Methodist evangelical author Beverly Carradine, called Jack by his family, Carradines childhood was turbulent. For example, his parents divorced and repeatedly remarried, he was born to his mothers marriage of three, and his fathers first of four. At the time of Carradines parents marriage, his mother already had a son by her first husband, John Carradine planned a large family, but after his wife had a series of miscarriages, he discovered she had numerous illegal abortions without his knowledge. This rendered her unable to carry a baby to full term, against this backdrop of marital discord, Jack almost succeeded in committing suicide by hanging at the age of five. He said the incident followed his discovery that he and his older half-brother Bruce, Carradine added, My father saved me, and then confiscated my comic book collection and burned it – which was scarcely the point. After three years of marriage, Ardenelle filed for divorce from John, but the couple remained married for five years. Divorce finally came in 1944, when Jack was seven years old and his father left California to avoid court action in the alimony settlement
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Robert Carradine
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Robert Reed Carradine is an American actor. The youngest of the Carradine family of actors, he made his first appearances on television series such as Bonanza and his older brother Davids TV series. Carradines first film role was in the 1972 film The Cowboys, Carradine also portrayed fraternity president Lewis Skolnick in the Revenge of the Nerds series of comedy films and father Sam McGuire on the Disney Channel sitcom Lizzie McGuire. Carradine was born in Hollywood, California, the son of actress and artist Sonia Sorel and he is one of many actors in the Carradine family. He is the brother of Christopher and Keith Carradine, paternal half-brother of Bruce and David Carradine and his maternal great-grandfather was biochemist Max Henius, and his maternal great-grandmother was the sister of historian Johan Ludvig Heiberg. Carradines parents divorced when he was 2 years old, a bitter custody battle led to his father gaining custody of him and his brothers, Christopher and Keith. During the custody battle, the children had spent three months in a home for abused children as wards of the court and his brother, Keith, said of the experience, It was like being in jail. There were bars on the windows, and we were allowed to see our parents through glass doors. We would stand there on side of the glass door crying. While still in school, Robert lived with his half-brother, David, in Laurel Canyon. Under Davids care he indulged in two of his interests, race car driving and music. He and David belonged to a quartet that performed in small clubs in Los Angeles. Carradine made his debut in 1972 in The Cowboys with John Wayne. He was also featured in a television series, of the same name. He made an appearance as a killer in the Martin Scorsese film Mean Streets shooting to death the character played by his brother, during this time he worked with David on some independent projects including a biker film called You and Me and an unreleased musical called A Country Mile. He also did work for Davids cult classic Vietnam War-inspired Americana which was not released until 1983. In 1976, Carradine had the opportunity to demonstrate on screen what he considered to be his first ambition, car racing, in the film Roberts character ironically wins the cross country road race, beating the favorite, Coy Cannonball Buckman, played by his brother, David. In 1977, Robert became a snack for the killer whale in the Jaws imitation film Orca
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Park ranger
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A park ranger, park warden, or forest ranger is a person entrusted with protecting and preserving parklands – national, state, provincial, or local parks. Parks may be defined by some systems in this context, and include protected culturally or historically important built environments. Different countries use different names for the position, Warden is the favored term in Canada, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. Within the United States, the National Park Service refers to the position as a park ranger, the U. S. Forest Service refers to the position as a forest ranger. Other countries use the park warden or game warden to describe this occupation. The profession includes a number of disciplines and specializations, and park rangers are required to be proficient in more than one. In medieval England, rangers were officials employed to range through the countryside providing law and their duties were originally confined to seeing that the Forest Law was enforced in the outlands, or purlieus, of the royal forests. Their duties corresponded in some respects with that of a mounted Forester, the term ranger seems to correspond to the Medieval Latin word regardatores which appeared in 1217 in the Charter of the Forest. Regardatores was later rendered as rangers in the English translations of the Charter, however, others translate regardatores as regarders. A regard is considered to be an inspection of the forest, the earliest letters patent found mentioning the term refer to a commission of a ranger in 1341. Documents from 1455 state that England had “all manner and singular Offices of Foresters and Rangers of our said Forests”. One of the first appearances of ranger in literature is in Edmund Spensers poem The Shepheardes Calendar from 1579, walk not widely, as they were wont, for fear of rangers, the office of Ranger of Windsor Great Park appears to have been created in 1601. In North America rangers served in the 17th through 18th-century wars between colonists and Native American Indian tribes, Rangers were full-time soldiers employed by colonial governments to patrol between fixed frontier fortifications in reconnaissance providing early warning of raids. During offensive operations, they acted as scouts and guides, locating villages, during the Revolutionary War, General George Washington ordered Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Knowlton to select an elite group of men for reconnaissance missions. This unit was known as Knowltons Rangers, and was the first official Ranger unit for the United States, considered the historical parent of the modern day Army Rangers. The word was resurrected by Americans in the 19th and 20th centuries from the old British use for the Wardens - royally appointed - who patrolled the deer parks and hunting forests in England. There is much debate among scholars about which area was the world’s first national park, clark served as the Guardian of Yosemite for 24 years. Others point to Harry Yount who worked as a gamekeeper in Yellowstone National Park in 1880-1881
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Colorado State University
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Colorado State University is a public research university located in Fort Collins, in the U. S. state of Colorado. The university is the land grant university, and the flagship university of the Colorado State University System. The current enrollment is approximately 32,236 students, including resident and non-resident instruction students, the university has approximately 1,540 faculty in eight colleges and 55 academic departments. Bachelors degrees are offered in 65 fields of study, with degrees in 55 fields. Colorado State confers doctoral degrees in 40 fields of study, in addition to a degree in veterinary medicine. In fiscal year 2012, CSU spent $375.9 million on research and development, ranking 60th in the nation overall, Colorado State University is a land-grant institution classified as a Carnegie Doctoral/RU/VH, Research Universities. CSU was founded as Colorado Agricultural College in 1870, six years before the Colorado Territory gained statehood and it was one of 68 land-grant colleges established under the Morrill Act of 1862. Doors opened to a class of 1 student in 1879. Arising from the Morrill Act, the act to create the university was signed by the Colorado Territory governor Edward M. McCook in 1870, however, during its first years the university existed only on paper. The first 30-acre parcel of land for the campus was deeded in 1871 by Robert Dazell, in 1872, the Larimer County Land Improvement Company contributed a second 80-acre parcel. The first $1000 to erect buildings was finally allocated by the legislature in 1874. The funds were not, however, and trustees were required to find a matching amount, among the institutions which donated matching funds was the local Grange, which was heavily involved in the early establishment of the university. After Colorado achieved statehood in 1876, the law establishing the college was required to be reauthorized. In 1877, the legislature created the eight-member State Board of Agriculture to govern the school. Early in the 21st century, the board was renamed the Board of Governors of the Colorado State University System. Enrollment grew to 25 by 1880, during Colorado Agricultural Colleges first term in fall 1879, the school functioned more as a college-prep school than a college because of the lack of trained students. Consequently, the first course offerings were arithmetic, English, U. S. history, natural philosophy, horticulture, Students also labored on the college farm and attended daily chapel services. The spring term provided the first true college-level instruction, despite his accomplishments, Edwards resigned in spring 1882 because of conflicts with the State Board of Agriculture, a young faculty member, and with students
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Hair (musical)
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Hair, The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni and music by Galt MacDermot. A product of the counterculture and sexual revolution of the late 1960s. The musicals profanity, its depiction of the use of drugs, its treatment of sexuality, its irreverence for the American flag. The musical broke new ground in musical theatre by defining the genre of musical, using a racially integrated cast. Simultaneous productions in cities across the United States and Europe followed shortly thereafter, since then, numerous productions have been staged around the world, spawning dozens of recordings of the musical, including the 3 million-selling original Broadway cast recording. Some of the songs from its score became Top 10 hits, a Broadway revival opened in 2009, earning strong reviews and winning the Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for best revival of a musical. In 2008, Time magazine wrote, Today Hair seems, if anything, Hair was conceived by actors James Rado and Gerome Ragni. The two met in 1964 when they performed together in the Off-Broadway flop Hang Down Your Head and Die, the main characters were autobiographical, with Rados Claude being a pensive romantic and Ragnis Berger an extrovert. Their close relationship, including its volatility, was reflected in the musical, Rado explained, We were great friends. It was a kind of relationship that we directed into creativity, into writing. We put the drama between us on stage, Rado described the inspiration for Hair as a combination of some characters we met in the streets, people we knew and our own imaginations. He recalled, There was so much excitement in the streets and the parks and the hippie areas and we hung out with them and went to their Be-Ins let our hair grow. Many cast members were recruited right off the street, Rado said, It was very important historically, and if we hadnt written it, thered not be any examples. You could read about it and see film clips, but youd never experience it and we thought, This is happening in the streets, and we wanted to bring it to the stage. Rado and Ragni came from different artistic backgrounds, in college, Rado wrote musical revues and aspired to be a Broadway composer in the Rodgers and Hammerstein tradition. He went on to acting with Lee Strasberg. Ragni, on the hand, was an active member of The Open Theater, one of several groups, mostly Off-off Broadway. He introduced Rado to the theatre styles and methods being developed at The Open Theater
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Barbara Hershey
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Barbara Hershey, once known as Barbara Seagull, is an American actress. In a career spanning nearly 50 years, she has played a variety of roles on television and in cinema in several genres, including Westerns and she began acting at age 17 in 1965, but did not achieve much critical acclaim until the latter half of the 1980s. By that time, the Chicago Tribune referred to her as one of Americas finest actresses, Hershey won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries/TV Film for her role in A Killing in a Small Town. For the latter film, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In addition, she has won two Best Actress awards at the Cannes Film Festival for her roles in Shy People and A World Apart, establishing a reputation early in her career as a hippie, Hershey experienced conflict between her personal life and her acting goals. Her career suffered a decline during a relationship with actor David Carradine. She experimented with a change in name that she later regretted. During this time, her life was highly publicized and ridiculed. Her acting career was not well established until she separated from Carradine, later in her career, she began to keep her personal life private. Barbara Herzstein was born in Hollywood, the daughter of Arnold Nathan Herzstein, a horse-racing columnist and her fathers parents were Jews who had emigrated from Hungary and Russia respectively, while her mother, a native of Arkansas, was a Presbyterian of Irish descent. The youngest of three children, Barbara always wanted to be an actress, and her family nicknamed her Sarah Bernhardt and she was shy in school and so quiet that people thought she was deaf. By the age of 10, she proved herself to be an A student and her high-school drama coach helped her find an agent, and in 1965, at age 17, she landed a role on Sally Fields television series Gidget. Barbara said that she found Field to be supportive of her in her first acting role. Barbaras acting debut, three episodes of Gidget, was followed by the television series The Monroes, which also featured Michael Anderson. By this point, she had adopted the stage name Barbara Hershey, although Hershey said the series helped her career, she expressed some frustration with her role, saying, One week I was strong, the next, weak. While on the series, Hershey garnered several other roles, including one in Doris Days final feature film, in 1969, Hershey co-starred in the Glenn Ford Western Heaven with a Gun. On the set, she met and began a relationship with actor David Carradine. In the same year, she acted in the controversial drama Last Summer, in this film, Hershey played Sandy, the heavy who influences two young men to rape another girl, Rhoda
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Tony Award
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The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Award, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at a ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway productions and performances, and an award is given for regional theatre, several discretionary non-competitive awards are also given, including a Special Tony Award, the Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre, and the Isabelle Stevenson Award. The awards are named after Antoinette Tony Perry, co-founder of the American Theatre Wing, the rules for the Tony Awards are set forth in the official document Rules and Regulations of The American Theatre Wings Tony Awards, which applies for that season only. It also forms the fourth spoke in the EGOT, that is someone who has won all four awards, the Tony Awards are also considered the equivalent of the Laurence Olivier Award in the United Kingdom and the Molière Award of France. From 1997 to 2010, the Tony Awards ceremony was held at Radio City Music Hall in New York City in June and broadcast live on CBS television, except in 1999, in 2011 and 2012, the ceremony was held at the Beacon Theatre. From 2013 to 2015, the 67th, 68th, and 69th ceremonies returned to Radio City Music Hall, the 70th Tony Awards were held on June 12,2016 at the Beacon Theatre. The 71st Tony Awards will be held on June 11,2017, as of 2014, there are 24 categories of awards, plus several special awards. Starting with 11 awards in 1947, the names and number of categories have changed over the years, some examples, the category Best Book of a Musical was originally called Best Author. The category of Best Costume Design was one of the original awards, for two years, in 1960 and 1961, this category was split into Best Costume Designer and Best Costume Designer. It then went to a category, but in 2005 it was divided again. For the category of Best Director of a Play, a category was for directors of plays. A newly established non-competitive award, The Isabelle Stevenson Award, was given for the first time at the ceremony in 2009. The award is for an individual who has made a contribution of volunteered time and effort on behalf of one or more humanitarian. The category of Best Special Theatrical Event was retired as of the 2009–2010 season, the categories of Best Sound Design of a Play and Best Sound Design of a Musical were retired as of the 2014-2015 season. Performance categories Show and technical categories Special awards Retired awards The award was founded in 1947 by a committee of the American Theatre Wing headed by Brock Pemberton. The award is named after Antoinette Perry, nicknamed Tony, an actress, director, producer and co-founder of the American Theatre Wing, who died in 1946. As her official biography at the Tony Awards website states, At Jacob Wilks suggestion, proposed an award in her honor for distinguished stage acting, at the initial event in 1947, as he handed out an award, he called it a Tony
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Musical theatre
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Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The story and emotional content of a musical – humor, pathos, love, anger – are communicated through the words, music, movement, since the early 20th century, musical theatre stage works have generally been called, simply, musicals. These were followed by the numerous Edwardian musical comedies and the theatre works of American creators like George M. Cohan. Musicals are performed around the world and they may be presented in large venues, such as big-budget Broadway or West End productions in New York City or London. Alternatively, musicals may be staged in smaller fringe theatre, Off-Broadway or regional theatre productions, musicals are often presented by amateur and school groups in churches, schools and other performance spaces. In addition to the United States and Britain, there are vibrant musical theatre scenes in continental Europe, Asia, Australasia, Canada, the three main components of a book musical are its music, lyrics and book. The interpretation of a musical is the responsibility of its team, which includes a director. A musicals production is also characterized by technical aspects, such as set design, costumes, stage properties, lighting. The creative team, designs and interpretations generally change from the production to succeeding productions. Some production elements, however, may be retained from the production, for example. There is no fixed length for a musical, while it can range from a short one-act entertainment to several acts and several hours in length, most musicals range from one and a half to three hours. Musicals are usually presented in two acts, with one intermission, and the first act is frequently longer than the second. A book musical is usually built four to six main theme tunes that are reprised later in the show. Several shorter musicals on Broadway and in the West End have been presented in one act in recent decades, moments of greatest dramatic intensity in a book musical are often performed in song. Proverbially, when the emotion becomes too strong for speech, you sing, typically, many fewer words are sung in a five-minute song than are spoken in a five-minute block of dialogue. Therefore, there is time to develop drama in a musical than in a straight play of equivalent length. Within the compressed nature of a musical, the writers must develop the characters, the material presented in a musical may be original, or it may be adapted from novels, plays, classic legends, historical events or films. On the other hand, many musical theatre works have been adapted for musical films, such as West Side Story, My Fair Lady, The Sound of Music, Oliver
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The Will Rogers Follies
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The Will Rogers Follies is a musical with a book by Peter Stone, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and music by Cy Coleman. The Rogers character also performs rope tricks in between scenes, after thirty-three previews, the Broadway production opened on May 1,1991, at the Palace Theatre, and closed on September 5,1993, after 981 performances and 33 previews. Replacements later in the run included Mac Davis and Larry Gatlin as Rogers, Mickey Rooney as Clem, the recorded voice of Gregory Peck was heard as Ziegfeld. The original choice of the authors to play Will Rogers was John Denver, the show also enjoyed a number of national tours, with Carradine, Davis, and Gatlin in the first National tour in 1993 and 1994. Pat Boone starred in the musical in Branson, Missouri in 1994, the role of Betty was played by Marylee Graffeo. The music was not live but digitalized, act I Rogers frequently speaks directly to the audience and to Florenz Ziegfeld himself, who often interjects to question the progress of the show and to give some directorial advice. After introducing the audience to his friends and family, Rogers discusses leaving home at 19 to become a cowboy in Argentina, Ziegfeld tells Rogers that he must meet the girl. Although Rogers met Betty Blake at a station, Ziegfeld creates a more theatrical meeting by having her lowered romantically from the moon. Because Betty is eager to marry Rogers, the show moves forward several years to a time when Rogers is playing in a small Wild West revue. The couple is about to be married, but Ziegfeld interrupts, saying that the wedding has to be delayed, so, as Rogers success continues to grow, he and Betty travel around the country performing and produce four children. Rogers gets his big break when he is invited to join the Ziegfeld Follies and, by the early 1910s, he is a big vaudeville and radio star. He is about to leave for Hollywood to start a career in film, when it is at last time for the finale and this doesnt leave him much time for Betty, and she begins to feel neglected and starts singing the blues. Rogers comes home with a treasury of precious jewels, and all is forgiven, the good mood doesnt last long, however, as bill collectors and creditors come knocking at the door. Ziegfeld has lost his fortune, and the Great Depression is in full swing, herbert Hoover asks Rogers to give a speech to the nation, and everyone is inspired. Rogers also reconciles with his estranged father, the show ends with the tragic plane ride in Alaska that he shares with Wiley Post, a character whose cheerful invitation, Lets go flyin Will. is heard throughout the show. Will Rogers - Keith Carradine Betty Blake - Dee Hoty Clem Rogers - Dick Latessa Ziegfelds Favorite - Cady Huffman Mr. Ziegfeld - Gregory Peck Wiley Post - Paul Ukena, Jr. The Will Rogers Follies at the Internet Broadway Database Information about the show and national tours NODAs synopsis of the show Information about the cast album
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Hume Cronyn
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Hume Blake Cronyn, Jr. OC was a Canadian-American actor of stage and screen, who enjoyed a long career, often appearing professionally alongside Jessica Tandy, his wife of over fifty years. Cronyn, one of five children, was born in London, Ontario and his father, Hume Blake Cronyn, Sr. was a businessman and a Member of Parliament for London. His mother, Frances Amelia, was an heiress of the company of the same name. His great-uncle, Benjamin, Jr. Cronyn was also a cousin of Canadian-born theater producer, Robert Whitehead, Cronyn was the first Elmwood School boarder and boarded at Elmwood between 1917 and 1921. After leaving Elmwood, Cronyn went to Ridley College in St. Catharines, and McGill University in Montreal, early in life, Cronyn was an amateur featherweight boxer, having the skills to be nominated for Canadas 1932 Olympic Boxing team. In 1934, the year he joined The Lambs, he made his Broadway debut as a janitor in Hippers Holiday and became known for his versatility. He won a Drama Desk Special Award in 1986, in 1990, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts. His first Hollywood film was Alfred Hitchcocks Shadow of a Doubt and he later appeared in Hitchcocks Lifeboat and worked on the screenplays of Rope and Under Capricorn. He was nominated for an Academy Award for best supporting actor for his performance in The Seventh Cross, Cronyn bought the screenplay What Nancy Wanted from Norma Barzman, who was later blacklisted with her husband Ben Barzman, with the idea of producing the film and starring Tandy. However, he sold the screenplay to RKO which later filmed it as The Locket, Cronyn also made appearances in television, The Barbara Stanwyck Show, the Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode Kill With Kindness and Hawaii Five-O episodes Over Fifty, Steal and Odd Man In. In 1990 he won an Emmy award for his role in the TV Movie Age Old Friends, the show was scheduled to move from radio to television, with Cronyn producing as well as acting in the show. However, Tandy suffered a miscarriage and the debut was delayed a week. The series premiered in July 1954 to warm and enthusiastic reviews, the couple had a daughter, Tandy, and a son, Christopher. Cronyn and Tandy lived in the Bahamas, then at an estate in Pound Ridge, New York. Jessica Tandy died in 1994, aged 85, from ovarian cancer, after he was widowed, Cronyn married author/playwright Susan Cooper in July 1996. His 1991 autobiography was titled A Terrible Liar and he died on June 15,2003, one month before his 92nd birthday. In 1979, Cronyn was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame, on July 11,1988 he was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Canada, giving him the Post Nominal Letters OC for Life. Cronyn was inducted into Canadas Walk of Fame in 1999 and he also received the 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada Medal in 1992 and the Canadian version of the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal in 2002
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Jessica Tandy
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Jessica Tandy was a British stage and film actress. She appeared in over 100 stage productions and had more than 60 roles in film, born in London to Jessie Helen Horspool and commercial traveller Harry Tandy, she was only 18 when she made her professional debut on the London stage in 1927. During the 1930s, she appeared in a number of plays in Londons West End, playing roles such as Ophelia. During this period, she worked in a couple of British films. Following the end of her marriage to the British actor Jack Hawkins, she moved to New York in 1940 and he became her second husband and frequent partner on stage and screen. She received the Tony Award for best performance by a Leading Actress in A Play for her performance as Blanche Dubois in the original Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire in 1948, Tandy shared the prize with Katharine Cornell and Judith Anderson in a three-way tie for the award. Over the following three decades, her career continued sporadically and included a role in Alfred Hitchcocks horror film, The Birds. Along with Cronyn, she was a member of the acting company of the Guthrie Theater. In the mid-1980s she had a career revival and she appeared with Cronyn in the Broadway production of Foxfire in 1983 and its television adaptation four years later, winning both a Tony Award and an Emmy Award for her portrayal of Annie Nations. During these years, she appeared in such as Cocoon. At the height of her success, she was named as one of Peoples 50 Most Beautiful People and she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 1990, and continued working until shortly before her death. The youngest of three siblings, Tandy was born in Geldeston Road in Hackney, London and her father, Harry Tandy, was a travelling salesman for a rope manufacturer. Her mother, Jessie Helen Horspool was the head of a school for handicapped children who was from a large fenland family in Wisbech. Her father died when Tandy was 12, and her mother subsequently taught evening courses to earn an income and her brother Edward was later a prisoner of war of the Japanese in the Far East. Tandy was educated at Dame Alice Owens School in Islington, Tandy began her career at the age of 18 in London, establishing herself with performances opposite such actors as Laurence Olivier and John Gielgud. She entered films in Britain, but after her marriage to Jack Hawkins failed, during her time as a leading actress on the stage in London she often had to fight for roles over her two rivals, Peggy Ashcroft and Celia Johnson. In 1942, she married Hume Cronyn and over the years played supporting roles in several Hollywood films. Tandy became a citizen of the United States in 1952
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Ken Russell
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Henry Kenneth Alfred Ken Russell was an English film director, known for his pioneering work in television and film and for his flamboyant and controversial style. Critics have accused him of being obsessed with sexuality and the Roman Catholic Church and his films in the main were liberal adaptations of existing texts, or biographies, notably of composers of the Romantic era. Russell began directing for the BBC, where he made creative adaptations of composers lives which were unusual for the time and he also directed many feature films independently and for studios. He is best known for his Oscar-winning films Women in Love, The Devils, The Whos Tommy, Russell also directed several films based on the lives of classical music composers, such as Elgar, Delius, Tchaikovsky, Mahler, and Liszt. Later in his life he turned to making experimental films such as Lions Mouth and Revenge of the Elephant Man. Ken Russell died of natural causes on 27 November 2011 at the age of 84, Russell was born in Southampton, England, on 3 July 1927, the elder of two sons of Ethel and Henry Russell, a shoeshop owner. His father was distant and took out his rage on his family, so Russell spent much of his time at the cinema with his mother and he cited Die Nibelungen and The Secret of the Loch as two early influences. He was educated at schools in Walthamstow and at Pangbourne College. He harboured an ambition to be a ballet dancer but instead joined the Royal Air Force. On one occasion he was made to watch in the blazing sun for hours on end while crossing the Pacific. His lunatic captain feared an attack by Japanese midget submarines despite the war having ended and he moved into television work after short careers in dance and photography. His series of documentary Teddy Girl photographs were published in Picture Post magazine in 1955, after 1959, Russells amateur films secured him a job at the BBC. Between 1959 and 1970, Russell directed art documentaries for Monitor and Omnibus. His best known works during this period include, Elgar, The Debussy Film, Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World, Song of Summer and Dance of the Seven Veils, a film about Richard Strauss. He once said that the best film he made was Song of Summer. Elgar was the first time that a televised arts programme broadcast a film about an artistic figure. It was also the first time that re-enactments were used, Russell fought with the BBC over using actors to portray different ages of the same character, instead of the traditional photograph stills and documentary footage. His television films became increasingly flamboyant and outrageous, the Strauss family was so outraged by the film that they withdrew all music rights
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Hands on a Hardbody (musical)
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Hands on a Hardbody is a musical based on the documentary film Hands on a Hardbody. The book is by Doug Wright, music by Trey Anastasio and Amanda Green, the documentary was adapted into a musical commissioned by La Jolla Playhouse, La Jolla, California. Hands on a Hardbody had a reading in April 2011 in New York City. The musical had its premiere at the La Jolla Playhouse, California. Broadway previews began February 23,2013 at the Brooks Atkinson Theater, directed by Neil Pepe, the cast featured Allison Case, Keith Carradine, Jon Rua, Hunter Foster, Keala Settle and Mary Gordon Murray. Musical staging is by Sergio Trujillo, scenic design by Christine Jones, costumes by Susan Hilferty, the entire original La Jolla cast performed on Broadway. Sergio Trujillo replaced Benjamin Millepied, who had choreographed the reading, the musical closed on April 13,2013, playing 28 previews and 28 performances. The first regional production was mounted by New Line Theatre in St. Louis, MO in May, directed by Scott Miller and Mike Dowdy, the cast featured Todd Schaefer, Jeffrey M. The Chicago area premiere was mounted by Williams Street Repertory in Crystal Lake, Illinois, the cast included Frank Gaughan as J. D. Understudies were Kate Wilford and Chris Cunningham. The production ran at the historic Raue Center for the Performing Arts November 21-December 7,2014, shortly after opening, licensing agent Samuel French sent TUTS a cease-and-desist letter, and the production was closed prematurely. The northeast regional premiere of Hands on a Hardbody took place in July 2014 at Park Playhouse in Albany, ten contestants vie for a hardbody truck in Longview, Texas. The last contestant who has his or her hands on the truck wins it, the truck is a Nissan hardbody pickup. The lives of each contestant, along with the car dealer, the show opens with a pickup truck on stage and Benny Perkins walking up to it, illustrating how a hands on a hardbody contest works. The rest of the contestants and contest runners join the stage and all sing about the truck, the song ends as the contest begins. As the contestants begin to bond they talk about what a truck means to a Texan and why the contestants want the truck, the news crew covering the competition start interviewing the contestants and Janis Curtis and her husband Don catch their attention. Even though he isnt participating in the contest, he is forcing himself to go through everything that his wife has to go through because theyre in it together and its a ways into the competition now and no one has fallen yet. Benny has been teasing many of the contestants, trying to intimidate them and he begins belittling Ronald McCowan, who has been snacking on candy bars the whole time. Thusly, he isnt doing so well and he illustrates such with his song My Problem Right There while the girls, Kelli, Heather, and Norma are rooting for him because they dont like Benny
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McCabe & Mrs. Miller
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McCabe & Mrs. Miller is a 1971 American Revisionist Western film starring Warren Beatty and Julie Christie, and directed by Robert Altman. The screenplay is based on the 1959 novel McCabe by Edmund Naughton, Altman referred to it as an anti-western film because the film ignores or subverts a number of Western conventions. In 2010, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant”. In 1902 Washington State, a gambler named John McCabe arrives mysteriously and mumbling to himself in the town of Presbyterian Church, McCabe quickly takes a dominant position over the towns simple-minded and lethargic miners, thanks to his aggressive personality and rumors that he is a gunfighter. McCabe establishes a makeshift brothel, consisting of three prostitutes purchased for $200 from a pimp in the town of Bearpaw. British cockney Constance Miller arrives in town and tells him she could run a brothel for him more profitably, the two become successful business partners, and open a higher class establishment, including a bathhouse for hygiene, both are financially successful. A love interest develops between the two, as the town becomes richer, Sears and Hollander, a pair of agents from the Harrison Shaughnessy mining company in Bearpaw, arrive to buy out McCabes business, as well as the surrounding zinc mines. Shaughnessy is notorious for having people killed when they refuse to sell, three bounty hunters—Butler, Breed and Kid —are dispatched by the mining company to kill McCabe, as well as make an example of him, but he refuses to abandon the town. Clearly afraid of the gunmen when they arrive in town, McCabe initially tries to appease them, reflecting back to early in the film when hes reputed to be a gunfighter, who shot someone in a card game, Butler confronts McCabe about the incident. After hearing McCabes story, with the addition that the gun was a Derringer, Butler proclaims that McCabe has never killed anyone in his life. Although the lawyer agrees to help McCabe bust the mining companys monopoly on the area, a broken lantern starts a fire in the church and the townspeople rush to help extinguish it. McCabe continues his evasion and, by shooting them in the back from hidden positions, as the townsfolk mobilize to fight the chapel fire, McCabe plays cat-and-mouse with the last gunman, Butler. McCabe is shot in the back and mortally wounded but feigns death, while the townspeople celebrate extinguishing the fire, McCabe dies alone in the snow and Mrs. Miller visits an opium den. McCabe & Mrs. Miller is based on Edmund Naughtons 1959 novel McCabe. Wright was acting as the agent for Naughton, who was living in Paris. With his partner, Mitchell Broward, Foster then negotiated a deal with the Fox studio for two films, by October,1968, Foster had commissioned a screenplay from Ben Maddow, a well-known poet and screenwriter. In 1969, Altman was in post-production on M. A. S. H. and sneaked Foster into the screening, Foster liked the film and they agreed to wait until M. A. S. H. Became popular to take the pitch for McCabe to a studio for funding, a second screenplay – independent of Maddows – was commissioned from Brian McKay, who completed it in only five weeks. A revised version of that screenplay dated July 1970 became the script for the film
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Emperor of the North Pole
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Emperor of the North Pole is a 1973 American film directed by Robert Aldrich and starring Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, and Keith Carradine. It was re-released under the shorter title Emperor of the North, the film is about hobos during the 1930s and is set in the U. S. state of Oregon. It is based, in part, on the books The Road by Jack London and From Coast to Coast with Jack London by A-No. -1, Shack has an arsenal of makeshift weapons, a hammer, a steel rod, and a chain. A hobo who is a hero to his peers, A-No.1, manages to hop the train with the younger, at the next stop, A-No.1 evades Shack and escapes into the hobo jungle, but Cigaret is caught. Shack threatens to kill Cigaret for riding his train for free, Shack is distracted when he learns that A-No.1 has posted a notice on the yard water tower, announcing that he will become the first hobo to ride Shacks train all the way to Portland. The other hobos agree that the first who can successfully ride Shacks train will have earned the title Emperor of the North Pole. Railroad workers place bets whether A-No. -1 can do it, spreading the news far and wide over the telegraph, Shack being widely known and he tries to rid himself of the company of Cigaret, who tags along and makes a general pest of himself. Shack succeeds in ejecting the two, but they board a fast passenger train which overtakes Shacks train and ride it to Salem, Oregon. There, they have several encounters, including one with a policeman who chases the two into the Salem hobo jungle, accusing them of stealing a turkey. They also encounter a Holiness minister holding an outdoor baptism service, the two hobos reboard Shacks train after it arrives in Salem. The story ends with a fight, involving heavy chains, planks of wood. A-No.1 ultimately has the bloodied Shack at his mercy and he then tosses Cigaret off for bragging about how they defeated Shack, telling the kid he could have become a good bum but hes got no class. Oregon, Pacific and Easterns rolling stock, including two steam locomotives, appear in the film and this was the location used by Buster Keaton for his 1927 railroad feature The General. Also featured in the film is the Dorena Reservoir, located about 10 miles east of Cottage Grove, filming finished on October 5,1972. The film was released in North America on DVD on June 5,2006 under the title Emperor of the North, the Region 2 version was available under general release in the UK from September 3,2007 under the same title. On June 16,2008, Intrada Records released the only commercial CD version of composer Frank De Vols soundtrack to the public,35 years after the films release, the CD, limited to 1,200 copies, immediately sold out. List of American films of 1973 Emperor of the North Pole at the Internet Movie Database Emperor of the North Pole at the TCM Movie Database
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Lee Marvin
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Lee Marvin was an American film and television actor. Known for his voice and prematurely white hair, Marvin initially appeared in supporting roles, mostly villains, soldiers. From 1957 to 1960, he starred as Detective Lieutenant Frank Ballinger in the NBC crime series, M Squad. In 1966, he won awards, including an Academy Award for Best Actor, and Best Actor BAFTA. Marvin was born in New York City and he was the son of Lamont Waltman Marvin, an advertising executive and the head of the New York and New England Apple Institute. His mother was Courtenay Washington, a writer and beauty consultant. As with his brother, Robert, he was named in honor of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. His father was a descendant of Matthew Marvin, Sr. who emigrated from Great Bentley, Essex, England, in 1635. Marvin studied violin when he was young, as a teenager, Marvin spent weekends and spare time hunting deer, puma, wild turkey, and bobwhite in the wilds of the then-uncharted Everglades. Marvin left school at 18 to enlist in the United States Marine Corps Reserve on August 12,1942 and he served with the 4th Marine Division in the Pacific Theater during World War II. He was shot by gun fire, which severed his sciatic nerve. After over a year of treatment in naval hospitals, Marvin was given a medical discharge with the rank of private first class in 1945 at Philadelphia. Contrary to rumors, Marvin did not serve on Iwo Jima, receive a Navy Cross, or serve with actor, producer, and former Marine Bob Keeshan during World War II. After the war, while working as an assistant at a local community theatre in upstate New York. He then began an amateur acting career in New York City. In 1950, Marvin moved to Hollywood and he found work in supporting roles, and from the beginning was cast in various war films. His debut was in Youre in the Navy Now, and in 1952, he appeared in films, including Don Siegels Duel at Silver Creek, Hangmans Knot. He played Gloria Grahames vicious boyfriend in Fritz Langs The Big Heat, Marvin had a small but memorable role in The Wild One opposite Marlon Brando, followed by Seminole and Gun Fury
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Ernest Borgnine
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Ernest Borgnine was an American film, television, character and voice actor whose career spanned more than six decades. He was noted for his gruff, yet calm voice, Machiavellian eyebrows, a popular performer, he had also appeared as a guest on numerous talk shows and as a panelist on several game shows. He also played the lead in many films, winning the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1955 for Marty. Borgnine earned an Emmy Award nomination at age 92, for his work on the series ER and he was also known for being the original voice of Mermaid Man on SpongeBob SquarePants, a role he played from 1999 until his death in 2012. Ermes Effron Borgnino was born on January 24,1917, in Hamden and he was the son of Anna, who emigrated from Carpi to the United States, and Camillo Borgnino, who emigrated from Ottiglio. Borgnines parents separated when he was two old, and his mother and he lived in Italy for about 4 1⁄2 years. By 1923, his parents had reconciled, the name was changed from Borgnino to Borgnine. Ernest had a sister, Evelyn Borgnine Velardi, the family settled in New Haven, Connecticut, where he graduated from James Hillhouse High School. Borgnine took to sports while growing up, but showed no interest in acting, Borgnine joined the United States Navy in October 1935, after graduation from high school. He served aboard the destroyer/destroyer minesweeper USS Lamberton and was discharged from the Navy in October 1941. In January 1942, he reenlisted in the Navy after the attack on Pearl Harbor, during World War II, he patrolled the Atlantic Coast on an antisubmarine warfare ship, the USS Sylph. In September 1945, he was discharged from the Navy. He served a total of almost ten years in the Navy and his military awards include the Navy Good Conduct Medal, American Defense Service Medal with Fleet Clasp, American Campaign Medal with 3⁄16 bronze star, and the World War II Victory Medal. In 1997, Borgnine received the United States Navy Memorial, Lone Sailor Award, on December 7,2000, Borgnine was named the Veterans Foundations Veteran of the Year. In October 2004, Borgnine received the title of chief petty officer from Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Terry D. Scott. The ceremony for Borgnines naval advancement was held at the U. S. Navy Memorial in Washington and he received the special honor for his naval service and support of the Navy and navy families worldwide. On February 5,2007, he received the California Commendation Medal, Borgnine returned to his parents house in Connecticut after his Navy discharge without a job to go back to and no direction. In a British Film Institute interview about his life and career, he said, After World War II, I didnt even want to be a Boy Scout
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Thieves Like Us (film)
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Thieves Like Us is a 1974 film directed by Robert Altman and starring Keith Carradine and Shelley Duvall. The film was based on the novel Thieves Like Us by Edward Anderson, the supporting cast includes Louise Fletcher and Tom Skerritt. The film was entered into the 1974 Cannes Film Festival, Bowie, a youthful convicted murderer and bank robbers Chicamaw and T-Dub escape from a Mississippi chain gang in the 1930s. They hole up with a series of colorful associates and continue robbing banks, while hiding out at the home of Mattie and her two children, Bowie unwittingly insults Mattie by comparing her with his mother during an exchange that initially sounds like a pick-up. The insult, combined with the attention of the much older T-Dub toward Matties daughter Lula. Bowie is injured in an accident and takes refuge with the daughter of the gas station attendant. They become romantically involved but their relationship is strained by Bowies refusal to turn his back on crime, Chicamaw is eventually recaptured and T-Dub is killed while waiting in his car for his wife. Bowie poses as a deputy to spring Chickamaw from jail but he quickly becomes disgusted with the violent, raving Chicamaw. The Texas Rangers catch up with Bowie, who is betrayed by Mattie, Keechie carries on, pregnant with Bowies baby. Keith Carradine as Bowie Shelley Duvall as Keechie John Schuck as Chicamaw Bert Remsen as T-Dub Louise Fletcher as Mattie Tom Skerritt as Dee Mobley This film has no traditional score, all music in the film is diegetic music or source music, usually presented as coming from a radio. The film features a number of small-town people as extras. Thieves Like Us was largely filmed on location in Mississippi
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Harvey Keitel
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Harvey Keitel is an American actor and producer. Along with actors Al Pacino and Ellen Burstyn, he is the current co-president of the Actors Studio, Keitel was born in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, the son of Miriam and Harry Keitel, Jewish immigrants from Romania and Poland, respectively. His parents owned and ran a luncheonette and his also worked as a hat maker. Keitel grew up in the Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn, with his sister, Renee and he attended Abraham Lincoln High School. At the age of sixteen, he decided to join the United States Marine Corps, after his return to the United States, he was a court reporter for several years and was able to support himself before beginning his acting career. Keitel studied under both Stella Adler and Lee Strasberg and at the HB Studio, eventually landing roles in some Off-Broadway productions. During this time, Keitel auditioned for filmmaker Martin Scorsese and gained a role as J. R. in Scorseses first feature film. Since then, Scorsese and Keitel have worked together on several projects, Keitel had the starring role in Scorseses Mean Streets, which also proved to be Robert De Niros breakthrough film. In 1978, Keitel starred in the directorial debuts of Paul Schrader, Ridley Scott, cast as Captain Willard in Francis Ford Coppolas Apocalypse Now, Keitel was involved with the first week of principal photography in the Philippines. Coppola was not happy with Keitels take on Willard, stating that the found it difficult to play him a passive onlooker. After viewing the first weeks footage, Coppola replaced Keitel with a casting session favorite, Keitel drifted into obscurity through most of the 1980s. He continued to do work on stage and screen, but usually in the stereotypical role of a thug. Keitel played Judas in Martin Scorseses controversial The Last Temptation of Christ and co-starred with Jack Nicholson in the Chinatown sequel The Two Jakes, the following year, Keitel played another mobster in the Whoopi Goldberg-starring comedy Sister Act. Keitel starred in Quentin Tarantinos Reservoir Dogs in 1992, where his performance as Mr. White took his career to a different level, since then, Keitel has chosen his roles with care, seeking to change his image and show a broader acting range. One of those roles was the character in Bad Lieutenant, about a self-loathing. He co-starred in the movie The Piano in 1993, and played an efficient clean-up expert, Keitel starred as a police detective in Spike Lees Clockers. In 1999, Keitel was replaced by Sydney Pollack on the set of Stanley Kubricks Eyes Wide Shut, due to shooting conflicts, Keitel also re-teamed with Jane Campion for Holy Smoke. He also appeared in the Steinlager Pure commercials in New Zealand in 2007, unlike many American male actors, Keitel has appeared nude in several films, including full frontal nudity in Bad Lieutenant and The Piano
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Ridley Scott
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Sir Ridley Scott is an English film director and producer. Scott is known for his atmospheric, highly concentrated visual style and his films are also known for their strong female characters. Scott has been nominated for three Academy Awards for Directing, in 1995, both Ridley and his brother Tony received the BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Contribution To Cinema. In 2003, Scott was knighted for his services to the British film industry, in a 2004 BBC poll Scott was named the tenth most influential person in British culture. In 2015 he received a doctorate from the Royal College of Art in London. Scott was born in South Shields, County Durham, North East England, to Elizabeth and he was brought up in an army family, so for most of his early life, his father – an officer in the Royal Engineers – was absent. His elder brother, Frank, joined the British Merchant Navy when he was still young, during this time the family moved around, living in Cumberland in North West England, Wales and Germany. He had a brother, Tony, who also became a film director. He studied at Grangefield Grammar School and West Hartlepool College of Art from 1954 to 1958, Scott went on to study at the Royal College of Art in London, contributing to college magazine ARK and helping to establish the college film department. For his final show, he made a black and white film, Boy and Bicycle. In February 1963 Scott was named in title credits as Designer for the BBC television programme Tonight, about the severe winter of 1963. After graduation in 1963, he secured a job as a set designer with the BBC, leading to work on the popular television police series Z-Cars. He was originally assigned to design the second Doctor Who serial, The Daleks, however, shortly before Scott was due to start work, a schedule conflict meant he was replaced by Raymond Cusick. In 1965, he began directing episodes of series for the BBC, only one of which. In 1968, Ridley and Tony Scott founded Ridley Scott Associates, a nostalgia themed television advertisement that captured the public imagination, it was voted the UKs all-time favourite commercial in a 2006 poll. In the 1970s the Chanel No.5 brand needed revitalisation having run the risk of being labelled as mass market, five members of the Scott family are directors, and all have worked for RSA. His brother Tony was a film director whose career spanned more than two decades, his sons Jake and Luke are both acclaimed directors of commercials, as is his daughter, Jordan Scott. Jake and Jordan both work from Los Angeles, Luke is based in London, in 1995, Shepperton Studios was purchased by a consortium headed by Ridley and Tony Scott, which extensively renovated the studios while also expanding and improving its grounds
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The Duellists
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The Duellists is a 1977 historical drama film and the directorial debut of Ridley Scott. It won the Best Debut Film award at the 1977 Cannes Film Festival, the basis of the screenplay is the Joseph Conrad short story The Duel published in A Set of Six. In Strasbourg in 1800, fervent Bonapartist and obsessive duellist Lieutenant Gabriel Feraud of the French 7th Hussars, under pressure from the mayor, Brigadier-General Treillard sends a member of his staff, Lieutenant Armand dHubert of the 3rd Hussars, to put Feraud under house arrest. As the arrest takes place in the house of Madame de Lionne, matters are made worse when Feraud asks dHubert if he would let them spit on Napoleon and dHubert doesnt immediately reply. Upon reaching his quarters, Feraud challenges dHubert to a duel, the duel is inconclusive, dHubert slashes Ferauds forearm but is unable to finish him off, because he is attacked by Ferauds mistress. As a result of his part in the duel, dHubert is dismissed from the Generals staff, the war interrupts the mens quarrel and they do not meet again until six months later in Augsburg in 1801. Feraud immediately challenges dHubert to another duel and seriously wounds him, recovering, dHubert takes lessons from a fencing master and in the next duel, the two men fight each other to a bloody standstill. Soon afterwards, dHubert is relieved to learn he has promoted to captain. Military discipline forbids officers of different ranks from duelling, the action moves to 1806 when dHubert is serving in Lübeck. He is shocked to hear that the 7th Hussars have arrived in the city, aware that in two weeks time he is to be promoted to major, dHubert attempts to slip away but is spotted by Ferauds perpetual second. Feraud challenges him to duel, which is to be fought on horseback with sabres. DHubert slashes his opponent across the forehead, Feraud, blinded because the cut bleeds heavily into his eyes, dHubert considers himself the victor and leaves the field ebullient. Soon afterwards, Ferauds regiment is posted to Spain, the pair chance upon each other, during the French Armys disastrous retreat from Moscow in 1812. Before they can resume the duel, Cossacks attack forcing dHubert, two years later, after Napoleons exile to Elba, dHubert is a brigadier-general recovering from a leg wound, at the home of his sister Leonie in Tours. She introduces him to Adele, niece of her neighbour, the couple fall in love and are married. A Bonapartist agent attempts to recruit dHubert, as rumours of Napoleons imminent return from exile abound, dHubert refuses to command a brigade if the Emperor returns from Elba. When Feraud, also a brigadier-general and a leading Bonapartist, hears this he declares dHubert is a traitor to the Emperor and he claims that he always suspected dHuberts loyalty, which is why he challenged him to a duel in the first place. After Napoleon is defeated at Waterloo, dHubert joins the army of Louis XVIII, Feraud is arrested and is expected to be executed for his part in the Hundred Days
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Pretty Baby (1978 film)
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Pretty Baby is a 1978 American historical drama film directed by Louis Malle, and starring Brooke Shields, Keith Carradine, and Susan Sarandon. The screenplay was written by Polly Platt, the plot focuses on a 12-year-old prostitute in the red-light district of New Orleans at the turn of the 20th century. The title of the film is inspired by the Tony Jackson song, Pretty Baby, although the film was mostly praised by critics, it caused significant controversy due to its depiction of child prostitution and the nude scenes of Brooke Shields, who was 12 years old. Hattie has given birth to a boy and has a 12-year-old daughter, Violet. When photographer Ernest J. Bellocq comes with his camera, Hattie and he asks to be allowed to take photographs of the women. Madame Nell agrees only after he offers to pay, Bellocq becomes a fixture in the brothel, photographing the prostitutes, mostly Hattie. His activities fascinate Violet, though she believes he is falling in love with her mother, Violet is a restless child, frustrated by the long, precise process Bellocq must go through to pose and take pictures. Nell decides that Violet is old enough for her virginity to be auctioned off, after a bidding war among regulars, Violet is bought by an apparently quiet customer. This first sexual experience is unpleasant, Hattie, meanwhile, aspires to escape prostitution. She marries a customer and leaves for St. Louis without her daughter, Hattie promises to return for Violet, once she’s settled and has broken the news to the new spouse. Violet runs away from the brothel after being punished for some hijinks and she appears on Bellocq’s doorstep and asks him if he will sleep with her and take care of her. He initially says no, but then the two become lovers, in some ways, their relationship resembles one between a parent and child, with Bellocq standing in for Violets absent mother. Bellocq even buys Violet a doll, telling her that every child should have a doll, Bellocq is entranced by Violet’s beauty, youth, and photogenic face. She is frustrated by Bellocq’s devotion to his photography, as much as he is frustrated by her lack of maturity, Violet eventually returns to Nell’s after quarreling with Bellocq, but social reform groups are forcing the brothels of Storyville to close. Bellocq arrives to wed Violet, ostensibly to protect her from the larger world, two weeks after the wedding, Hattie and her husband arrive from St. Louis to collect Violet, claiming that her marriage is illegal without their consent. Bellocq does not want to let Violet go, Violet asks if he will go with her and her family. Upon hearing that she does in fact want to go with them, he lets her leave him, realizing that schooling. ABC Records released a soundtrack of the films score, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Original Music Score in the Adaptation Score category
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Alan Rudolph
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Alan Steven Rudolph is an American film director and screenwriter. Rudolph was born in Los Angeles, the son of Oscar Rudolph and he was a protégé of Robert Altman and worked as an assistant director on his adaptation of Raymond Chandlers The Long Goodbye and later Nashville. Rudolphs films focus upon isolated and eccentric characters and their relationships and he has written almost all of his films, and repeatedly has worked with actors Keith Carradine and Geneviève Bujold, and composer Mark Isham. Trouble in Mind featured Kris Kristofferson as well as Bujold, Carradine, the film was entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1990, Rudolph wrote and directed the private eye love story Love at Large which was filmed in Portland, breakfast of Champions was an adaptation of Kurt Vonneguts metafictional novel, with Albert Finney as the wildly prolific but terminally under-appreciated science fiction writer Kilgore Trout. The film was entered into the 49th Berlin International Film Festival, in April 2008, Rudolph presented a solo show of paintings at Gallery Fraga, Bainbridge Island, Washington. Premonition Nightmare Circus Welcome to L. A
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Choose Me
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Choose Me is a 1984 American comedy-drama film directed and written by Alan Rudolph, starring Keith Carradine, Lesley Ann Warren, and Geneviève Bujold. The film is a look at sex and love in 1980s Los Angeles centered around a bar known as Eve Lounge. The films tagline is In the middle of the night, when no one else. After Mickey is released from a hospital, where his stories are perceived as lies. When he arrives at the bar that bears her name, he is attracted to the new owner. She tells Mickey she bought the bar after the old owner killed herself, the bar is a popular spot for patrons looking for one night stands as well as streetwalkers looking for potential johns. Although Eve is also attracted to Mickey, she refuses to commit to any one man and that night Eve rebuffs Mickeys advances and sleeps with the bartender who has a crush on her, while avoiding the wealthy married man shes been having an affair with. That same night, Dr. Nancy Love answered Eves ad for a roommate to share her house, Nancy conceals her identity and begins to observe Eves romantic entanglements even as she counsels Eve through her radio show. Zack in turn resumes his pursuit of Eve, although his wife, Pearl, has begun to haunt Eves bar hoping to catch him with her, Mickey comes back to the bar the next night when he is unable to pay for a bus ticket home to Las Vegas. Pearl asks his opinion of a poem, and when she argues his interpretation Mickey reveals that he taught poetry, as well as being a photographer and a former soldier. Eve is intrigued but cool, and Mickey leaves when Pearl offers to get him into a hot card game where he can get the money for a ticket home, at the game Mickey wins big, earning the ire of Pearls husband Zack. Zack warns Mickey not to back, before he goes to meet Eve. Mickey goes to Pearls apartment to crash, and when he wakes up begins taking pictures as she sleeps and she is just waking up when Zack walks in, still stinging from Eves rejection, and he attacks Mickey, pulling a gun and taking back the money he lost. He slaps Pearl after Mickey runs out, assuming they slept together and it is implied that Zack frequently abuses Pearl emotionally and physically and perhaps she was hoping to catch her husband with Eve so she could finally have an excuse to divorce him. Mickey calls Eves house, and when Nancy answers pleads to come over and crash, when he arrives Nancy tells him Eve isnt home, and while he is confused he welcomes the chance to bathe and eat when she allows him in. She snoops in his suitcase while he bathes, finding memorabilia showing the truth of his stories, as he eats they talk about Eve, but sensing her loneliness he sweeps her into bed, then asks her to marry him and go with him to Las Vegas. Nancy laughs, but tells him she doesnt believe hes crazy, then she tells him to leave before she goes to work. Eve calls into Nancys radio show from the office above her bar, Nancys post-coital euphoria overcomes her normal intellectual approach, and she encourages Eve to give in to, rather than resist, her feelings
