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San Diego Comic-Con
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San Diego Comic-Con International is a multi-genre entertainment and comic convention held annually in San Diego, California. The name, as given on its website, is Comic-Con International, San Diego and it is a four-day event held during the summer at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego. On the Wednesday evening prior to the opening of the event, there is a preview for professionals, exhibitors. Comic-Con International also produces two other conventions, WonderCon, held in Los Angeles, and the Alternative Press Expo and it is also the home of the Will Eisner Awards. In 2010, it filled the San Diego Convention Center to capacity with more than 130,000 attendees, the convention was founded in 1970 by Shel Dorf, Richard Alf, Ken Krueger, Mike Towry, Barry Alfonso, Bob Sourk, and Greg Bear. Detroit, Michigan-born, comics fan Shel Dorf, had, in the mid-1960s, mounted the Detroit Triple-Fan Fairs, one of the first commercial comics-fan conventions. When he moved to San Diego, California, in 1970, he organized a convention on March 21,1970. Dorf went on to be associated with the convention as president or manager, variously, Alf co-chaired the first convention with Krueger and became chairman in 1971. Following the initial gathering, Dorfs first three-day San Diego comics convention, other locations in the conventions early years included the El Cortez Hotel, the University of California, San Diego, and Golden Hall, before being moved to the San Diego Convention Center in 1991. I was quietly walking the floor stunned and in awe of just how much bigger it really was, the convention is organized by a panel of 13 board members,16 to 20 full-time and part-time workers, and 80 volunteers who assist via committees. Comic Con International is an organization, and proceeds of the event go to funding it, as well as the Alternative Press Expo. The convention logo was designed by Richard Bruning and Josh Beatman in 1995, in September 2010, the convention announced that it would stay in San Diego through 2015. In 2015, working with Lionsgate, a channel was created to host Comic-Con related content. According to the San Diego Convention and Visitors Bureau, the convention has a regional economic impact of $162.8 million. Along with panels, seminars, and workshops with comic book professionals, there are previews of upcoming feature films, like most comic-book conventions, Comic-Con features a large floorspace for exhibitors. These include media companies such as studios and TV networks, as well as comic-book dealers. And like most comics conventions, Comic-Con includes an area, as well as the Artists Alley where comics artists can sign autographs. Despite the name, artists alleys can include writers and even models, academics and comic industry professionals annually hold the Comics Arts Conference at Comic-Con, presenting scholarly studies on comics as a medium
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Fountain Valley, California
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Fountain Valley is a suburban city in Orange County, California. The population was 55,313 at the 2010 census, a classic bedroom community, Fountain Valley is a middle-class residential area. The area encompassing Fountain Valley was originally inhabited by the Tongva people, european settlement of the area began when Manuel Nieto was granted the land for Rancho Los Nietos, which encompassed over 300,000 acres, including present-day Fountain Valley. Control of the land was transferred to Mexico upon independence from Spain. The city was incorporated in 1957, before which it was known as Talbert, the name of Fountain Valley refers to the very high water table in the area at the time the name was chosen, and the many corresponding artesian wells in the area. Early settlers constructed drainage canals to make the land usable for agriculture, which remained the dominant use of land until the 1960s, the first mayor of Fountain Valley was James Kanno, who with this appointment became the first Japanese-American mayor of a mainland United States city. Its eastern border is the Santa Ana River, according to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 23.4 km20. 14% of which is water. A major redevelopment of the center and city-administered sports fields was completed in early 2009. Fire protection and emergency services are provided by two stations of the Fountain Valley Fire Department. Law enforcement is provided by the Fountain Valley Police Department, Ambulance service is provided by Care Ambulance Service. The Orange County Sanitation Districts administrative offices and primary plant is located in Fountain Valley next to the Santa Ana River, the agency is the third-largest sanitation district in the western United States. The city also has 18 churches, one Reform synagogue, a mosque, Fountain Valley has its own newspaper, the Fountain Valley View, operated by the Orange County Register. As a suburban city, most of Fountain Valleys residents commute to work in urban centers. However, in recent years, the city has seen an increase in jobs in the city. The Southpark commercial area is home to offices for companies such as D-Link, Starbucks, Satura. There are also a number of light industrial companies in this area. In addition, Fountain Valley is the location for Noritz, a water heater manufacturer, and the main west coast offices of Ceridian. The increasing commercial growth can be evidenced by the frequent rush-hour traffic bottlenecks on the San Diego Freeway through Fountain Valley
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Matthew Rhys
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Matthew Rhys Evans, known professionally as Matthew Rhys, is a Welsh actor. He is known for his Emmy-nominated role as Philip Jennings on the FX drama series The Americans and he also starred as Kevin Walker on the ABC television drama Brothers & Sisters, and as Dylan Thomas in The Edge of Love. Rhys was born in Cardiff, Wales, the son of Glyn, a headmaster, and Helen Evans and he grew up in Cardiff, and attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Along with his sister, Rachel, now a BBC broadcast journalist. Matthew Rhys was educated through the Welsh-medium schools, Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Melin Gruffydd, at age 17, after playing Elvis Presley in a school musical, he applied to and was accepted at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Soon after, in 1993, he was awarded the Patricia Rothermere Scholarship, during his time at RADA, Rhys appeared in the BBC police series Back-Up as well as in House of America. He returned to Cardiff to act in his own language in the Welsh film Bydd yn Wrol, in January 1998, Rhys went to New Zealand to star in Greenstone, a colonial costume drama for television. He then landed a role in Titus, Julie Taymors adaptation of Titus Andronicus, starring Anthony Hopkins, next he played Ray in Peter Hewitts film comedy, Whatever Happened to Harold Smith. Rhys would later reunite with Very Annie Mary star Rachel Griffiths on Brothers & Sisters, in 2000, Rhys played the lead role in Metropolis, a drama series for Granada TV about the lives of six twenty-somethings living in London. Next he starred in Peaches, the film of the play written, Rhys starred as Benjamin in the 2000 world premiere of the stage adaptation of The Graduate, alongside Kathleen Turner at The Gielgud Theatre in Londons West End. Rhys travelled to Ireland to star in the 18th century swashbuckling adventure and he played the lead role of Darren Daniels in Tabloid, and then returned to New Zealand to shoot the epic drama Lost World for the BBC. His other film credits include the independent horror film Deathwatch in Prague and Fakers, in 2003, he played Justin Price, the murderer in the final episode of the long-running television series Columbo. He moved to Santa Monica after being cast in ABCs show Brothers & Sisters, the show had a five-season run, coming to an end in 2011. In January 2012, Rhys appeared in a BBC Two two-part drama adaptation of Charles Dickens last novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, the Public Broadcasting Service aired it in the US as one feature-length episode on 15 April 2012. In 2012 Rhys was scheduled to reprise Sir Alec Guinnesss 1959 double role of John Barratt/Jacques De Gué in a new adaptation of The Scapegoat, the production played a limited engagement through 8 April 2012. He stars opposite Keri Russell in FXs series The Americans, a 1980s Cold War drama about KGB sleeper agents, the series premiered in January 2013. Rhys was housemates for nearly 10 years with fellow Welshman and actor Ioan Gruffudd, both are patrons of Trust PA, a UK spinal injuries charity. On 15 July 2008, Rhys was honoured by Aberystwyth University as a Fellow and his bardic name in the Gorsedd is Matthew Tâf
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Felicity Porter
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The following is a partial list of characters from the television series Felicity, The title character is played by Keri Russell. The series opens with Felicitys high school graduation, following the ceremony she sees Ben, her high school crush, and goes over to ask him to sign her year book. The note he writes is thoughtful, and hints at missed opportunity, Felicity decides to abandon her plans to study pre-med at Stanford University and instead follows Ben to New York. Once there she realizes her decision was more than about Ben and she is a remarkably intelligent and thoughtful person, yet can be led to make rather impulsive and rash decisions. As the show progresses she grows into a secure and centered young woman. Ben is the reason Felicity goes to school in New York, like Felicity, he is from Palo Alto, California. Surprised at seeing her there, he becomes uncomfortable with her interest in him, Ben comes from a complex home life. He has a deal of conflict with his father, who is an alcoholic who routinely makes promises that he fails to keep. Bens mother, however, is a stable and loving parent, Felicitys best friend Julie and Ben come to share a mutual attraction to one another, but Julie is hesitant out of concern for Felicity. Eventually Ben and Julie start a relationship mid-way through their freshman year, Ben suffers a brief gambling addiction, and serious financial issues that threaten his tuition and livelihood. Ben and Felicity begin a relationship at the end of their freshman year and this is followed by a strung out affair with a married caterer named Maggie, who is vindictive over her husbands philandering. Ben and Felicitys relationship is a feature of the show. Ben has difficulty expressing his feelings and initially appears not to be very thoughtful or contemplative, Ben becomes a protective and loyal friend to Felicity. An average student, Ben is personable and athletic, however he often makes hasty or detrimental decisions which he comes to regret. Over the course of the series Bens true depth and sensitivity become apparent, Noel first appeared in the show as Felicitys sophomore Resident Advisor. Felicity often vents to him about her love interest Ben. Noel also has a long-term, long distance girlfriend named Hanna who is a composer and they break up on Thanksgiving after Hanna reveals that she is spending time with a man at her college. Noel begins dating Felicity that very day and they experience stumbling blocks along the way, namely Noels conflicted feelings for ex-girlfriend Hanna, and when Felicity in turn loses her virginity to an art student
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Felicity (TV series)
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Felicity is an American drama television series created by J. J. Abrams and Matt Reeves and produced by Touchstone Television and Imagine Television for The WB. Brian Grazer and Ron Howard were executive producers through Imagine Entertainment, in 2007, Felicity was one of Time magazines 100 Best TV Shows of All-Time. AOL TV named Felicity one of the Best School Shows of All Time, in June 2010, Entertainment Weekly named Felicity Porter one of the 100 Greatest Characters of the Last 20 Years. The series opens at Felicitys high school graduation, where she asks Ben Covington, Felicitys overbearing parents, concerned about Felicitys seemingly rash decision, come to New York to try to persuade her to return home and get back on track. Felicity has second thoughts about her decision, but soon realizes that she not only to follow Ben. While Felicity works to sort out her emotions, she continues the basic motions of student life, there, she meets the resident advisor Noel Crane. Eventually, romance ensues, and the relationships among Felicity, Ben, a number of other characters appear and play large roles in Felicitys life. Her roommate for the first two years is Meghan Rotundi, a goth Wiccan who occasionally casts spells on Felicity and others, julie Emrick is one of Felicitys best friends, as is Elena Tyler, who often takes classes with Felicity. This occasionally provides a method for Felicity to narrate an entire episode, at the end of episodes like this, Felicity is often shown to be listening to a tape that Sally has sent in reply. Characters are listed in title credit order and by appearance on the show, Felicity was filmed in part in New York City, and is set at the fictional University of New York, based on New York University. Like NYU, UNY is located in Greenwich Village near Washington Square Park, in 1999, a publicly hyped young writer for the show, Riley Weston, was disclosed as a fraud for claiming to be much younger than she truly was. At the age of 32, she began marketing herself to television studios as a recent high school graduate and she was soon hired by the WB Network as a writer for Felicity. Shortly thereafter, she was offered a six-figure screenwriting deal with Disney and her real identity and age were exposed after a Felicity producer checked her social security number. Soon afterward, her contract with WB expired and was not renewed and they panicked before learning that it was a joke but then suggested to the actress that a new hairstyle would be appropriate. After being shifted from Tuesday nights at 9,00 PM Eastern to Sunday nights at 8,00 PM Eastern for the 1999–2000 season, after the negative reaction Russell rejected wearing extensions or a wig while her hair grew back. In 2010, TV Guide Network listed the hairstyle change at No.19 on their list of 25 Biggest TV Blunders, the haircut incident went on to become a popular culture reference within other television shows, both comedic and dramatic. In the 30 Rock episode The Bubble, Jenna discusses how to get her hair cut and says, But if I make the choice, I could end up like Keri Russell, Felicity. In the Happy Endings episode The Code War, Max perms Daves hair while the latter is sleeping, upon seeing his new do, Penny quips, You look like Keri Russell after she ruined Felicity
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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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KGB
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The KGB, an initialism for Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti, was the main security agency for the Soviet Union from 1954 until its break-up in 1991. Formed in 1954, as a successor of such preceding agencies as the Cheka, NKGB, and MGB. It was the government agency of union-republican jurisdiction, acting as internal security, intelligence. Similar agencies were constituted in each of the republics of the Soviet Union aside from Russia and consisted of ministries, state committees. The KGB was a service and was governed by army laws and regulations. While most of the KGB archives remain classified, two documentary sources are available. After the dissolution of the USSR, the KGB was split into the Federal Security Service, after breaking away from the Republic of Georgia in the early 1990s with Russian help, the self-proclaimed Republic of South Ossetia established its own KGB. A1983 Time magazine article reported that the KGB was the worlds most effective information-gathering organization, at best, the compromised spy was either returned to the Soviet Union or was declared persona non grata and expelled by the government of the target country. The illegal resident spied, unprotected by diplomatic immunity, and worked independently of Soviet diplomatic, in its early history, the KGB valued illegal spies more than legal spies, because illegal spies infiltrated their targets with greater ease. The KGB classified its spies as agents and controllers, the false-identity or legend assumed by a USSR-born illegal spy was elaborate, using the life of either a live double or a dead double. In the 1980s, the glasnost liberalisation of Soviet society provoked KGB Chairman Vladimir Kryuchkov to lead the August 1991 Soviet coup détat attempt to depose President Mikhail Gorbachev, the thwarted coup détat ended the KGB on 6 November 1991. The KGBs successors are the police agency FSB and the espionage agency SVR. The GRU recruited the ideological agent Julian Wadleigh, who became a State Department diplomat in 1936, the NKVDs first US operation was establishing the legal residency of Boris Bazarov and the illegal residency of Iskhak Akhmerov in 1934. Throughout, the Communist Party USA and its General Secretary Earl Browder, helped NKVD recruit Americans, working in government, business, moreover, when Whittaker Chambers, formerly Alger Hisss courier, approached the Roosevelt Government—to identify the Soviet spies Duggan, White, and others—he was ignored. To wit, British Manhattan Project team physicist Klaus Fuchs was the agent of the Rosenberg spy ring. In 1944, the New York City residency infiltrated the top secret Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, by recruiting Theodore Hall, the KGB failed to rebuild most of its US illegal resident networks. The aftermath of the Second Red Scare and the crisis in the CPUSA hampered recruitment, the last major illegal resident, Rudolf Abel, was betrayed by his assistant, Reino Häyhänen, in 1957. One notable KGB success occurred in 1967, with the recruitment of US Navy Chief Warrant Officer John Anthony Walker
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Elizabeth Jennings (The Americans)
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Elizabeth Jennings is a fictional character in the American television drama series The Americans on FX, as the female lead. Her character was conceived by show runner Joe Weisberg and is portrayed by Keri Russell and her family suffered great privation both during and after the Great Patriotic War, in which her father was killed. Elizabeth grew up believing her father to be one of the war dead. When she was 14 her mother was bedridden with diphtheria, forcing Elizabeth to nurse her while attending school. As a teenager, the KGB approached Elizabeth as a candidate for the Illegals Program, although prohibited from telling anyone, Elizabeth surreptitiously managed to consult with her mother about her decision, who unhesitatingly told her that she must do her duty for her motherland. She trained to become an agent until the age of 22. During this time, she was raped by one of her captains in the KGB, in 1962, Elizabeth and fellow KGB agent Phillip Jennings were assigned to each other to pose as husband and wife in America. In 1965 they move to America under false identities and take up work in a travel agency, Elizabeth meets and recruits civil rights activist Gregory to the KGB and has an ongoing affair with him. She gives birth to her and Phillips first child, Paige, in 1967, in 1981, Elizabeth Jennings lives with her husband Philip in suburban Falls Church, Virginia. They are revealed to be a pair of agents working for the KGB. They have two U. S. -born children, Paige and Henry, both of whom are unaware of their parents true identities. The Jennings run a small agency in Dupont Circle as a cover for their illegal activities. After a failed deportation, Elizabeth and Philip kidnap Timoshev, a defected KGB agent, at the time of Timoshevs kidnapping, counter-intelligence FBI agent Stan Beeman moves next door, causing Philip to suggest defecting themselves. Elizabeth declines and Philip murders Timoshev when he out he raped her. However, Philip is hurt upon discovering Elizabeth had an affair with Gregory Thomas. After planting a bug in Caspar Weinbergers study, the Jennings listen for vital intelligence, when the KGB begin to suspect a mole in their midst, they send operatives posing as FBI agents to kidnap and torture Elizabeth and Philip in order to test their loyalty. She denies this, admitting only that she had told their handlers that he liked living in the U. S. more than he should, Elizabeth and Philip later reconcile, but subsequently separate when Elizabeth discovers Philip had an affair with his former girlfriend, Irina. Philip moves out and into a motel, Philip accidentally murders Stans partner, Amador, during a botched operation, which causes Gregory to fall under the suspicion of the FBI regarding his involvement in the killing
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FX (TV channel)
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FX is an American basic cable and satellite television channel launched on June 1,1994, based in Los Angeles, California and owned by 21st Century Fox through FX Networks, LLC. FXs programming primarily includes original drama and comedy series, and reruns of theatrical films, as of July 2015, FX is available to approximately 94,006,000 pay television households in the United States. In addition to the flagship U. S. network, the FX name is licensed to a number of related pay television channels in various countries around the world, FX, originally stylized as fX, launched on June 1,1994. Broadcasting from an apartment in Manhattans Flatiron District, fX was one of the first forays into large-scale interactive television. FX had two taglines during this period, TV Made Fresh Daily and The Worlds First Living Television Network, the live shows were each mostly focused on one broad topic. Shows included Personal fX, The Pet Department, Under Scrutiny with Jane Wallace, other notable fX personalities included Karyn Bryant and Orlando Jones, who were panelists on Sound fX. The channel prided itself on its interactivity with viewers, FX, in 1994, was an early adopter of the internet, embracing e-mail and the World Wide Web as methods of feedback. Select viewers were allowed to spend a day at the apartment, the first incarnation of fX was not available on Time Warner Cable, one of the major cable systems in New York City, where its programming originated. TWC would not carry the channel until September 2001, the live shows gradually disappeared one by one until only Personal fX remained. Breakfast Time was moved to the Fox network and renamed Fox After Breakfast in mid-1996 and it underwent several format changes, but never found a substantial audience and was canceled less than a year later. By the time that all programming was dropped, the channel focused entirely on its classic television shows until its relaunch in mid-1997. Personal fX remained on the refocused FX until May 1,1998, FX vacated the apartment in the summer of 1998 and the channels operations were streamlined with the other Fox-owned cable channels. In early 1997, fX was relaunched as FX, Fox Gone Cable, during the first few years after its relaunch, FX was known for little else than airing reruns of such Fox shows as The X-Files and Married. With Children, as well as 20th Century Fox-produced shows such as M*A*S*H, the channel also added Major League Baseball games to its lineup at that time, and eventually expanded its sports programming to include NASCAR races in 2001. In the summer of 1998, FX debuted three original series, Bobcats Big Ass Show, Instant Comedy with the Groundlings and Penn & Tellers Sin City Spectacular, all three series were cancelled the following year. Soon after its relaunch, the Fox Gone Cable tagline was dropped, by 1999, new original programs were added with the debut of shows such as Son of the Beach and The X Show. Beginning in 2002, the channel emerged as a force in original cable programming, gaining both acclaim and notoriety for edgy dramas. That year, FX debuted the police drama The Shield, which became a breakout hit, both shows were lauded by critics, and achieved equal success with viewers
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The Americans (2013 TV series)
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The Americans is an American television period drama series created and produced by former CIA officer Joe Weisberg. On May 25,2016, FX set an end-date for the series by renewing it for a fifth and sixth season, the 13-episode fifth season premiered on March 7,2017. It will be followed by a 10-episode sixth and final season in 2018, the Americans, a fictional period piece set during the Reagan administration, was created by Joe Weisberg, a former CIA officer. The story picks up shortly after the two parents are activated in the early 1980s, the shows creator has described the series as being ultimately about a marriage, The Americans is at its core a marriage story. International relations is just an allegory for the human relations, sometimes, when youre struggling in your marriage or with your kid, it feels like life or death. For Philip and Elizabeth, it often is, Weisberg was fascinated by stories he had heard from agents who served abroad as spies, while raising their families. He was interested in bringing that concept to television, with the idea of a family of spies, I was totally joining the CIA because I wanted to be a spy. But the second they asked that question, then I thought, Now Im going to fail the test. Weisberg was partially influenced by the events of the Illegals Program to write a script for the series. His research material included notes on the KGBs Cold War left by Vasili Mitrokhin, an obvious way to remedy that for television was to stick it back in the Cold War. At first, the 70s appealed to me just because I loved the hair, but can you think of a better time than the 80s with Ronald Reagan yelling about the evil empire. After reading Weisbergs novel, An Ordinary Spy, executive producer Graham Yost discovered that Weisberg had also written a pilot for a spy series. Yost read the pilot and discovered that it was annoyingly good, Weisberg stated that he had no idea about who would star in the series before casting began. FX president John Landgraf had the idea to cast Keri Russell in the series, leslie Feldman, the head of casting at DreamWorks, saw Matthew Rhys in a play and suggested him to Weisberg. Russell and Rhys had met briefly at a party years before and they both were attracted to the series because of its focus on the relationship between their characters. Russell described the script as interesting, continuing, It was so far from a procedural. And I didnt know that I wanted to do it, I always say no to everything. I never want to do anything, but I just couldnt stop thinking about it
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Mission: Impossible III
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Mission, Impossible III is a 2006 American-Chinese-German action spy film co-written and directed by J. J. Abrams, in his directorial debut, starring Tom Cruise. It is the installment in the Mission, Impossible film series. On April 26,2006, the film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, and widely released in the United States on May 5,2006, Ethan Hunt has retired from field work for the Impossible Missions Force and trains new recruits. Ethan is sent back into action to track down the arms dealer Owen Davian. Ethan Hunt has retired from work for the IMF. He instead trains new recruits while settling down with his fiancée, Julia Meade and he is approached by fellow IMF agent John Musgrave about a mission to rescue one of Ethans protégés, Lindsey Farris. Lindsey was captured while investigating arms dealer Owen Davian, Musgrave has already prepared a team for Ethan, Declan Gormley, Zhen Lei, and his old partner Luther Stickell. The team rescues Lindsey and collects two damaged laptop computers, as they flee, Ethan discovers an explosive pellet implanted in Lindseys head. Before he can disable it, it goes off and kills her, back in the U. S. Ethan and Musgrave are reprimanded by IMF Director Theodore Brassel. Ethan learns that Lindsey mailed him a postcard before her capture, IMF technician Benji Dunn recovers enough data from the laptops to determine Davian will be in Vatican City to obtain a mysterious object called the Rabbits Foot. Ethan plans a mission to capture Davian without seeking official approval, before leaving, he and Julia have an impromptu wedding at the hospitals chapel. The team successfully infiltrates Vatican City and captures Davian, on the flight back to the U. S. Ethan threatens to drop Davian from the plane as he interrogates him about Rabbits foot, but Davian remains tightlipped. After landing, Ethan learns that the contains a video of Lindsey warning that Brassel is working with Davian. The convoy taking Davian across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge–Tunnel is attacked, Ethan races to Julias workplace, only to find she has already been kidnapped. Davian gives Ethan 48 hours to recover the Rabbits Foot in exchange for Julias life, Musgrave takes part in Ethans interrogation but discreetly mouths that the Rabbits Foot is located in Shanghai, China, and provides Ethan with the means to escape. Ethan escapes IMF headquarters, travels to Shanghai, and acquires Rabbits Foot along with his team, as he delivers Rabbits Foot to the meeting point, Ethan is tranquilized. When he comes to, he realizes a micro-explosive is implanted in his head, the restrained Ethan sees Davian holding Julia at gunpoint
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Waitress (film)
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Waitress is a 2007 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Adrienne Shelly, who also appears in a supporting role, making this her final appearance before her death. The film debuted at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and went into limited release in the US on May 2,2007. Jenna is a living in the American South, trapped in an unhappy marriage with controlling bully Earl. She works in Joes Pie Diner, where her job includes creating inventive pies with unusual titles inspired by her life, the waitresses show up late for work, talk on the phone, spend much time with personal business and talk back to the boss. Jenna longs to run away from her marriage and is slowly accumulating money to do so. She pins her hopes for escape on a pie contest in a town, which offers a $25,000 grand prize. Her only friends are co-workers Becky and Dawn and regular customer Joe, the owner of the diner and several other local businesses. Jennas life changes after she meets her new physician, Jim Pomatter and he has moved to the small town to accommodate his wife, who is completing her residency at the local hospital, and is filling in for the woman who has been Jennas doctor since childhood. The two are attracted to other, and over the course of several pre-natal appointments the attraction grows. After Dr. Pomatter invites her into the office under a quickly exposed pretext, between these entries, her relationship with Dr. After giving birth, Jenna bonds immediately with the girl she names Lulu. Earl, clearly disappointed its a girl, reminds Jenna of a promise he had forced her to make earlier not to love the baby more than she does him and that comment wipes away any concerns she has about her lack of money and her fear of her husband. In the envelope she finds a card with a sketch of her, a check for $270,450. While leaving the hospital, Dr. Pomatter wants to have a word with her in regarding their affair. She promptly breaks it off, handing him a chocolate Moon Pie, on the way out they ask her what that was all about, to which she replies that she was having an affair with him and just ended it. An epilogue depicts Jenna winning the pie contest, and becoming the new owner of the diner where she worked, now called Lulus Pies, serving brightly colored pies to her customers, the final shot shows her happily walking home hand-in-hand with the now toddler-aged Lulu. Keri Russell as Jenna Hunterson Nathan Fillion as Dr and its success there led Fox Searchlight Pictures to acquire the distribution rights for $4–5 million. The film received positive reviews from critics, with an 89% Fresh rating among the 163 reviews tracked by Rotten Tomatoes
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August Rush
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August Rush is a 2007 American drama film directed by Kirsten Sheridan and produced by Richard Barton Lewis. The screenplay is by Nick Castle and James V. Hart, with a story by Paul Castro and it involves an 11 year-old musical prodigy who runs away to New York City. He begins to unravel the mystery of who he is, all while his mother is searching for him while his father is searching for her, in 1995, Lyla Novacek is a cellist studying at the Juilliard School and living under strict rule of her father. Louis Connelly is the singer of The Connelly Brothers, an Irish rock band. Lyla and Louis meet at a party after their respective concerts, the day after, they separate in a hurry, and are unable to maintain contact as Lyla is ushered away by her father to Chicago. Later, Lyla realizes she is pregnant, and after an argument with her father, due to the accident trauma, she gives birth prematurely, and her father secretly puts the baby boy up for adoption, allowing her to believe that her son died. Eleven years later, Evan Taylor is living in an orphanage outside New York City, where he meets Richard Jeffries. Evan has the ability to hear music wherever he is. Convinced that his parents find him, Evan runs away to New York City. He finds a boy named Arthur performing in Washington Square Park, Louis, who left the band the same night Lyla was struck, now lives in San Francisco as an agent, while Lyla has also given up performing and now lives in Chicago teaching music. Lyla abandons her father to his fate and heads to New York to look for him, Evan tries playing Wizards prize guitar, Roxanne, and is so good that Wizard gives him the guitar and his old spot in Washington Square Park. He gives Evan the stage name August Rush and tries to him to clubs. Seeing the posters that Jeffries has posted for the runaway Evan, Wizard destroys all the ones he finds, hoping to keep Evan, on arriving at Lylas apartment in Chicago, Louis talks to one of her neighbors, who mistakenly tells Louis shes on her honeymoon. Despairing, he ends up in New York, where he gets his band back together, after Jeffries meets Wizard and Arthur on the street and becomes suspicious, the police raid the derelict theatre in which Wizard and his children are living. Wizard helps Evan evade the police, telling him never to reveal his name to anyone. Evan takes refuge in a church where a girl, Hope, introduces him to the piano. He picks up both skills so quickly that Hope gets the attention of the pastor, who takes August to Juilliard where he once again impresses the faculty. A rhapsody takes shape from Augusts notes and homework, in New York, Lyla goes to Jeffries office, and Jeffries identifies Evan as her son
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Extraordinary Measures
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Extraordinary Measures is a 2010 medical drama film starring Brendan Fraser, Harrison Ford, and Keri Russell. It is distributed by CBS Films and was released on January 22,2010, the film is about parents who form a biotechnology company to develop a drug to save the lives of their children, who have a life-threatening disease. The film is based on the story of John and Aileen Crowley. The film was shot in St. Paul, Oregon, Portland, Oregon, the Corner Saloon in Tualatin, Oregon, Manzanita, Oregon, Beaverton, Oregon and it was the first film to go into production for CBS Films, the film division of CBS Corporation. John, an executive, contacts Robert Stonehill, a researcher in Nebraska who has done innovative research for an enzyme treatment for the rare disease. John and Aileen raise money to help Stonehills research and the clinical trials. John takes on the task full-time to save his childrens lives, launching a research company working with venture capitalists. This task proves very daunting for Stonehill, who works around the clock. As time is running short, Stonehills angry outburst hinder the companys faith in him, the researchers race against time to save the children who have the disease. Brendan Fraser as John Crowley Harrison Ford as Dr. Robert Stonehill Keri Russell as Aileen Crowley Courtney B. Filming took place at several spots in and around Portland, Oregon, mostly at the OHSU Doernbecher Childrens Hospital, Veterans Affairs Medical Center and this was the first time Nike allowed filming on their campus and they donated the location payment to Doernbecher Children’s Hospital. During filming, the title was The Untitled Crowley Project. In the film, the children are 9 and 7 years old and their non-fiction counterparts were diagnosed at 15 months and 7 days old and received treatment at 5 and 4, respectively. Myozyme, a drug developed for treating Pompe disease, was approved for sale by the US Food and Drug Administration. The screenplay by Robert Nelson Jacobs is based on Geeta Anands book The Cure, parts of the book first appeared as a series of articles in the Wall Street Journal. The small start-up company Priozyme was based on Oklahoma City-based Novazyme, the larger company, called Zymagen in the film, was based on Genzyme in Cambridge, MA. Novazyme was developing a protein therapeutic, with several biological patents pending, to treat Pompe Disease, the patent portfolio was cited in the press releases announcing the deal. Genzyme claims that Dr. Robert Stonehills character is based upon scientist and researcher William Canfield, review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 27% based on reviews from 136 critics and an average rating of 4.8 out of 10
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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is a 2014 American science fiction film directed by Matt Reeves and written by Mark Bomback, Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver. It stars Andy Serkis, Jason Clarke, Gary Oldman, Keri Russell, Toby Kebbell and it is the sequel to the 2011 film Rise of the Planet of the Apes, which began 20th Century Foxs reboot of the original Planet of the Apes series. It was also a box office success, having grossed over $710 million worldwide, a third installment, titled War for the Planet of the Apes, is set to be released on July 14,2017. Ten years after the pandemic of the deadly ALZ-113 virus, or Simian Flu. Apes with genetically enhanced intelligence, caused by the same ALZ-113, have started to build a civilization of their own, Caesar is the chimpanzee leader of an ape colony in the Muir Woods near San Francisco. Caesars son Blue Eyes and his friend Ash encounter a man named Carver in the woods, carvers party, led by Malcolm, arrive while a number of apes join Blue Eyes and Ash. Caesar orders the humans to leave, and they flee to their community in San Francisco and he demands that the humans stay in their territory. Malcolm meets with Caesar, who allows the humans to work on the generator on the condition that they surrender their guns, as Malcolm, his wife Ellie, and son Alexander work, they bond with the apes. Mutual distrust of both sides gradually subsides until Caesar discovers a gun Carver had hidden and orders the humans to leave and he later allows the humans one extra day to work on the dam after Ellie uses medicine to save Caesars wife, Cornelia. Dreyfus is distrustful of the apes, arming his community from an armory, Koba is distrustful of the humans, discovering the armory and later confronting Caesar, accusing him of loving humans more than apes. In response, Caesar severely beats Koba, but refrains from killing him, Koba returns to the armory, where he takes an assault rifle and kills two guards. Returning home, he secretly kills Carver, the generator is repaired, restoring power to the city. During the celebration, Koba sets fire to the home then, unseen to anyone else, shoots Caesar. In the subsequent panic, Koba takes charge, implicating Carver in the shooting and convincing the apes to attack the humans and he leads them into San Francisco, where they plunder the armory and charge the tower. The apes breach the building and imprison the humans as Dreyfus flees underground, when Ash refuses Kobas orders to kill unarmed humans, citing Caesars teachings, Koba kills Ash and imprisons any ape still loyal to Caesar. Malcolms family finds Caesar barely alive and transport him to his house in San Francisco. Caesar reveals that Koba shot him, realizing that apes can be as corrupt, when Malcolm sneaks into the settlement to find medical supplies for Caesar, he encounters Blue Eyes, who spares him before learning that his father is still alive. After reconciling with Caesar, Blue Eyes returns to the tower and frees the imprisoned humans, Caesar confronts Koba at the top of the tower, but as they fight, Dreyfus, at the cost of his own life detonates C-4 charges that destabilize the tower
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Hollywood Walk of Fame
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The Walk of Fame is administered by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and maintained by the self-financing Hollywood Historic Trust. It is a popular tourist destination, with a reported 10 million visitors in 2003, as of 2017, the Walk of Fame comprises over 2,600 stars, spaced at 6-foot intervals. The monuments are coral-pink terrazzo five-point stars rimmed with brass inlaid into a charcoal-colored terrazzo background, in the upper portion of each star field the name of the honoree is inlaid in brass block letters. Below the inscription, in the half of the star field. Approximately 20 new stars are added to the Walk each year, special category stars recognize various contributions by corporate entities, service organizations, and special honorees, and display emblems unique to those honorees. The moons are silver and grey terrazzo circles rimmed in brass on a square pink terrazzo background, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce credits E. M. Stuart, its volunteer president in 1953, with the original idea for creating a Walk of Fame. Stuart reportedly proposed the Walk as a means to maintain the glory of a community whose name means glamor, Harry Sugarman, another Chamber member and president of the Hollywood Improvement Association, receives credit in an independent account. A committee was formed to flesh out the idea, and a firm was retained to develop specific proposals. By 1955 the basic concept and general design had been agreed upon, multiple accounts exist for the origin of the star concept. By another account, the stars were inspired, by Sugarmans drinks menu, which featured celebrity photos framed in gold stars. In February 1956 a prototype was unveiled featuring a caricature of an example honoree inside a star on a brown background. The committees met at the Brown Derby restaurant, and included such prominent names as Cecil B, deMille, Samuel Goldwyn, Jesse L. Lasky, Walt Disney, Hal Roach, Mack Sennett, and Walter Lantz. A requirement stipulated by the audio recording committee specified minimum sales of one million records or 250,000 albums for all music category nominees. The committee soon realized that many important recording artists would be excluded from the Walk by that requirement, as a result, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences was formed for the purpose of creating a separate award system for the music business. The first Grammy Awards were presented in Beverly Hills in 1959, construction of the Walk began in 1958 but two lawsuits delayed completion. The first was filed by local property owners challenging the legality of the $1.25 million tax assessment levied upon them to pay for the Walk, along with new street lighting, in October 1959 the assessment was ruled legal. The second lawsuit, filed by Charles Chaplin, Jr. sought damages for the exclusion of his father, chaplins suit was dismissed in 1960, paving the way for completion of the project. Woodwards name was one of eight drawn at random from the original 1,558, the other seven names were Olive Borden, Ronald Colman, Louise Fazenda, Preston Foster, Burt Lancaster, Edward Sedgwick, and Ernest Torrence
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Nissan
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Nissan Motor Company Ltd, usually shortened to Nissan, is a Japanese multinational automobile manufacturer headquartered in Nishi-ku, Yokohama. The company sells its cars under the Nissan, Infiniti, since 1999, Nissan has been part of the Renault–Nissan Alliance, a partnership between Nissan and French automaker Renault. As of 2013, Renault holds a 43. 4% voting stake in Nissan, Carlos Ghosn serves as CEO of both companies. Taken together, the Renault–Nissan Alliance would be the fourth largest automaker, however Nissan is the leading Japanese brand in China, Russia. Nissan is the worlds largest electric vehicle manufacturer, with sales of more than 275,000 all-electric vehicles as of mid-December 2016. Masujiro Hashimoto founded the Kaishinsha Motor Car Works 1 July 1911, in 1914, the company produced its first car, called DAT. DAT Motors built trucks in addition to the DAT and Datsun passenger cars, beginning in 1918, the first DAT trucks were produced for the military market. At the same time, Jitsuyo Jidosha Co. Ltd. produced small trucks using parts, Commercial operations were placed on hold during Japans participation in World War I, and the company contributed to the war effort. In 1926 the Tokyo-based DAT Motors merged with the Osaka-based Jitsuyo Jidosha Co. Ltd. a. k. a, Jitsuyo Jidosha Seizo to become DAT Jidosha Seizo Co. Ltd Automobile Manufacturing Co. Ltd. in Osaka until 1932, from 1923 to 1925, the company produced light cars and trucks under the name of Lila. In 1931, DAT came out with a new car, called the Datsun Type 11. Later in 1933 after Nissan Group zaibatsu took control of DAT Motors, in 1933, the company name was Nipponized to Jidosha-Seizo Co. Ltd. and was moved to Yokohama. In 1928, Yoshisuke Aikawa founded the holding company Nihon Sangyo, the name Nissan originated during the 1930s as an abbreviation used on the Tokyo Stock Exchange for Nihon Sangyo. This company was the famous Nissan Zaibatsu which included Tobata Casting, at this time Nissan controlled foundries and auto parts businesses, but Aikawa did not enter automobile manufacturing until 1933. The zaibatsu eventually grew to include 74 firms, and became the fourth-largest in Japan during World War II, in 1931, DAT Jidosha Seizo became affiliated with Tobata Casting, and was merged into Tobata Casting in 1933. As Tobata Casting was a Nissan company, this was the beginning of Nissans automobile manufacturing, in 1934, Aikawa separated the expanded automobile parts division of Tobata Casting and incorporated it as a new subsidiary, which he named Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. The shareholders of the new company however were not enthusiastic about the prospects of the automobile in Japan, at this time, Nissan Motor effectively became owned by Nihon Sangyo and Hitachi. In 1935, construction of its Yokohama plant was completed,44 Datsuns were shipped to Asia, Central and South America
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Coppell, Texas
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Coppell is a city in the northwest corner of Dallas County in the U. S. state of Texas. It is a suburb of Dallas and a community in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. The population was 38,659 at the 2010 census, a small area in the far northern portion of the city extends into neighboring Denton County. The Coppell area was settled by German and French immigrants in the 1840s, members of the Peters Colony also settled here in the 1840s. Popular belief is that he was an engineer, however, there is little or no evidence to support that claim. In 1955, the community was incorporated through a measure that passed by a vote of 41 to 1. By 2000, almost all of the residentially zoned land in the city was developed, and the population grew to over 35,000. In addition to homes, the city has a growing commercial base of warehouses and transportation centers on the south and west sides of the city. Coppell is located at 32°58′2″N 96°59′12″W, according to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 14.7 square miles, of which 14.4 square miles is land and 0.31 square miles, or 2. 00%, is water. Coppell occupies the northwest corner of Dallas County and lies in proximity to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, a portion of the airport property is within the city limits of Coppell. It is bordered on the west by Grapevine, on the north by Lewisville, on the east by Carrollton, as of the census of 2000, there were 35,958 people,12,211 households, and 9,781 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,418.5 people per square mile, there were 12,587 housing units at an average density of 846.6 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 83. 23% White,3. 26% African American,0. 34% Native American,9. 30% Asian,0. 02% Pacific Islander,1. 88% from other races, and 1. 97% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 6. 92% of the population,16. 1% of all households were made up of individuals and 1. 5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.94 and the family size was 3.34. In the city, the population was out with 34. 7% under the age of 18,4. 5% from 18 to 24,39. 0% from 25 to 44,19. 3% from 45 to 64. The median age was 34 years, for every 100 females there were 97.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 93.2 males, according to a 2007 estimate, the median income for a household in the city was $106,783, and the median income for a family was $119,229
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Mesa, Arizona
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Mesa is a city in Maricopa County, in the U. S. state of Arizona, and is a suburb located about 20 miles east of Phoenix. Mesa is the city of the East Valley section of the Phoenix Metropolitan Area. It is bordered by Tempe on the west, the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community on the north, Chandler and Gilbert on the south, as of the 2010 Census Mesa became Arizonas center of population. Mesa is the third-largest city in Arizona, after Phoenix and Tucson, the city is home to 439,041 people as of 2010 according to the Census Bureau. Mesa is home to higher education facilities including the Polytechnic campus of Arizona State University. The history of Mesa dates back at least 2,000 years to the arrival of the Hohokam people, the Hohokam, whose name means All Used Up or The Departed Ones, built the original canal system. The canals were the largest and most sophisticated in the prehistoric New World, some were up to 90 feet wide and ten feet deep at their head gates, extending for as far as 16 miles across the desert. By A. D.1100 water could be delivered to an area over 110,000 acres, by A. D.1450, the Hohokam had constructed hundreds of miles of canals many of which are still in use today. After the disappearance of the Hohokam and before the arrival of the early settlers little is known, by the late 19th century near present-day Mesa, U. S. Army troops subdued the Apache opening the way for settlement. Mormon pioneer Daniel Webster Jones led an expedition to found a Mormon settlement in Arizona, leaving St. George, Utah in March 1877, Jones and others arrived at Lehi, an area within the northern edge of present-day Mesa. Jones had been asked by Mormon officials to direct a party of people in establishing a settlement in Arizona. This settlement was known as Jonesville and Fort Utah and did not receive the name of Lehi until 1883. At the same time, another group dubbed the First Mesa Company arrived from Utah and their leaders were named Francis Martin Pomeroy, Charles Crismon, George Warren Sirrine and Charles I. Rather than accepting an invitation to settle at Jones Lehi settlement and they dug irrigation canals, some of which were over the original Hohokam canals, and by April 1878, water was flowing through them. The Second Mesa Company arrived in 1879 and settled to the west of where the First Mesa Company settled in 1880, on July 17,1878, Mesa City was registered as a 1-square-mile townsite. The first school was built in 1879, in 1883, Mesa City was incorporated with a population of 300 people. Dr. A. J. Chandler, who would go on to found the city of Chandler. In 1917, the city of Mesa purchased the utility company, the revenues from the company provided enough for capital expenditures until the 1960s
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Highlands Ranch, Colorado
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Highlands Ranch is a census-designated place in Douglas County, Colorado, United States. The population was 96,713 at the 2010 census, located 12 miles south of Denver, Highlands Ranch is an unincorporated community and was the twelfth most populous CDP in the United States in 2010. Like many parts of the Colorado Front Range, the first residents of the area were Native Americans, the area was populated by a number of nomadic tribes, including the Ute, Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes. Because it was part of the Mississippi River Drainage Area, it was claimed for France by French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, the Spanish gained Louisiana in 1763, and returned it to France in 1801. This area of what is now Northern Douglas County, was in the Louisiana Purchase when it was sold to the United States in 1803, the Stephen Harriman Long Expedition of 1820 entered the area at the beginning of July 1820. That was the first documented exploration of the area by European or United States explorers. Much of the Denver Metro Area began to be settled as ranch land starting in 1859, the first legal settler of the area was Curtis H. Field, who purchased land just on the west side of Santa Fe Drive from the US government on 25 February 1870. The Highlands Ranch Mansion was built over a period of several years, the first owner of the house was Samuel Allan Long, who purchased a 40-acre homestead in northern Douglas County in 1884 and later expanded it to a 2, 000-acre farm. By 1891 he had built a modest farmhouse on the property, the name Rotherwood, a reference to a boyhood farm of Longs, was found etched above the original front door that led experts to believe so. According to the Highlands Ranch Metro District website, Long was a prominent innovator of dry farming techniques in Colorado during the late 19th century. The mansion underwent a renovation from 2010-2012 that was funded by Shea Homes, the Colorado Gold Rush brought people to Colorado in droves during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The city of Denver, located approximately 12 miles to the north, grew considerably during this time. However, the area remained a series of farms and ranches, and many residents would visit the town of Littleton, a few miles northward, the Springer land was bought and sold several times throughout the 1920s and 1930s. In 1937 it was bought by Lawrence C, Phipps, Jr. who used it to raise cattle and hunt fox. After Phipps died in 1976, the land was bought by Marvin Davis, in 1978, a large parcel of land in unincorporated Douglas County was purchased by The Mission Viejo Company. Initial plans were drawn up, many of which are still being realized and these plans laid out several major streets and called for several schools and recreation centers, as well as a town center and public library. Large parcels of land were sold to housing developers, such as Richmond Homes. As these developments appeared, they carried their own names
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The Mickey Mouse Club
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The Mickey Mouse Club was an American variety television show that aired intermittently from 1955 to 1996. Created by Walt Disney and produced by Walt Disney Productions, the program was first televised from 1955 to 1959 by ABC, featuring a regular, reruns were broadcast by ABC on weekday afternoons during the 1958–59 season, right after American Bandstand. The show was revived after its initial 1955–1959 run on ABC, first from 1977 to 1979 for first-run syndication, previous to the TV series, there was a theater-based Mickey Mouse Club. The first one started on January 4,1930, at 12 noon at the Fox Dome Theater in Ocean Park, the Club released its first issue of the Official Bulletin of the Mickey Mouse Club on April 15,1930. By 1932, the Club had 1 million members, and in 1933 its first British club opened at Darlingtons Arcade Cinema, in 1935, Disney began to phase out the club. The Mickey Mouse Club was Walt Disneys second venture into producing a television series, Disney used both shows to help finance and promote the building of the Disneyland theme park. Being busy with projects and others, Disney turned The Mickey Mouse Club over to Bill Walsh to create and develop the format. The result was a variety show for children, with regular features as a newsreel, a cartoon. One unique feature of the show was the Mouseketeer Roll Call, in the serials, teens faced challenges in everyday situations, often overcome by their common sense or through recourse to the advice of respected elders. Mickey Mouse himself appeared in every show not only in vintage cartoons originally made for release but in opening, interstitial. In both the cartoons and in the new animated segments, Mickey was voiced by his creator Walt Disney. Mickey Mouse Club was hosted by Jimmie Dodd, a songwriter and the Head Mouseketeer, in addition to his other contributions, he often provided short segments encouraging young viewers to make the right moral choices. These little homilies became known as Doddisms, roy Williams, a staff artist at Disney, also appeared in the show as the Big Mouseketeer. Roy suggested the Mickey and Minnie Mouse ears worn by the cast members, which he helped create, along with Chuck Keehne, Hal Adelquist, and Bill Walsh. The main cast members were called Mouseketeers, and they performed in a variety of musical and dance numbers, tim Rooney, Bronson Scott, Margene Storey, Ronnie Steiner, and Mark Sutherland. Larry Larsen, on only for the 1956–57 season, was the oldest Mouseketeer, being born in 1939, among the thousands who auditioned but didnt make the cut were future vocalist/songwriter Paul Williams and future actress Candice Bergen. The 39 Mouseketeers, and the seasons they were featured in, Mowava Pryor ), and Terri Misner Eoff. The 35 Mouseketeers and the seasons they were featured in, On July 9,2015, the format of revival will include musical performances, games, and skits, as same as the original one in the US
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Disney Channel
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Disney Channels programming consists of original first-run television series, theatrically-released and original made-for-cable movies and select other third-party programming. Disney Channel – which formerly operated as a premium service – originally marketed its programs towards families during the 1980s, most of Disney Channels original programming is aimed at kids ages 9–16, while its Disney Junior programs are targeted at children 8 years and under. As of January 2016, Disney Channel is available to approximately 93.9 million pay television households in the United States. The Disney Sunday Movie, a version of the Walt Disney anthology television series, began on the channel in 1986 concurrent with ABCs version until 1988 and NBCs The Magical World of Disney. Disney Channel Original Movies series of made for television movies started on August 23,1997 with Northern Lights supplanting the previous Disney Channel Premiere Films banner.2 million viewers. The Cheetah Girls films were also successful in terms of merchiandise. The first film in 2003 was the first made-for-TV movie musical in Disney Channels history, and had a worldwide audience of over 84 million viewers. The second movie was the most successful of the series, bringing in 8.1 million viewers in the U. S. Disney Junior – Disney Junior is a block that features shows targeted at children aged 3–9. Which debuted on February 14,2011, it airs Monday through Fridays from 8,00 a. m. –2,00 p. m. and weekends from 6,00 to 9,00 a. m. Disney Junior carries one of the few programs on Disney Channel that feature classic Disney characters as of 2013, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. Other programs currently seen in this block include Jake and the Never Land Pirates, Sheriff Callies Wild West, Sofia the First, Miles from Tomorrowland, The Lion Guard and Doc McStuffins. C. Saturdays from 8, 00-11,00 p. m. and Sundays from 7, Saturday nights feature repeats of recent episodes of the channels original series or an occasional film telecast. Encores of the respective nights programs typically air between 11,00 p. m. and 2,30 a. m, Eastern/Pacific each night during that weekend. Out of This World Weekend – a weekend of shows having space themed episodes, Weekend – a weekend of shows having mystery themed episodes. This was the first special weekend, Summer Adventure Weekend – a weekend of shows with vacation themed episodes. Flash Forward Weekend – a weekend of shows related to time travel, freaky Freakend – a weekend of shows featuring paranormal themed episodes. April Fuel Week – a week of shows featuring special episodes, Weekend – a weekend of shows featuring guest stars from other Disney Channel shows, occurs mostly in April. Programming seen during Disney Nighttime included older feature films, along with original concert specials, variety specials, mystery Night – ran each Tuesday evening starting at 9,00 p. m. Eastern/Pacific from 1990 to 1993, focused on mystery films from the 1930s to the 1960s
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Ryan Gosling
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Ryan Thomas Gosling is a Canadian actor and musician. He began his career as a star on the Disney Channels Mickey Mouse Club and went on to appear in other family entertainment programs including Are You Afraid of the Dark. Gosling came to the attention of an audience in 2004 with a leading role in the commercially successful romantic drama The Notebook. After a three-year acting hiatus, Gosling starred in the marital drama Blue Valentine, Goslings directorial debut Lost River was released in 2014 to poor reviews. Greater success came to Gosling when he starred in two critically acclaimed films—the financial comedy-drama The Big Short and the musical La La Land, for the latter, he won a Golden Globe Award and received a second Oscar nomination. Goslings band, Dead Mans Bones, released their debut album. He is a co-owner of Tagine, a Moroccan restaurant in Beverly Hills and he is a supporter of PETA, Invisible Children and the Enough Project and has traveled to Chad, Uganda and eastern Congo to raise awareness about conflicts in the regions. Ryan Thomas Gosling was born in London, Ontario, the son of Thomas Ray Gosling, a salesman for a paper mill, and Donna. His father is of English, Scottish, and French Canadian descent, Ryans great-great-grandfather, George Edward Gosling, was born in Paddington, London, Goslings parents were Mormons, and Gosling has said that the religion influenced every aspect of their lives. However, he said he never really could identify with, because of his fathers work, they moved around a lot and Gosling lived in both Cornwall, Ontario, and Burlington, Ontario. His parents divorced when he was 13, and he and his older sister Mandi lived with their mother, Gosling was educated at Gladstone Public School, Cornwall Collegiate and Vocational School and Lester B. Pearson High School. As a child, he watched Dick Tracy and was inspired to become an actor and he hated being a child, was bullied in elementary school and had no friends until he was 14 or 15. In grade one, having heavily influenced by the action film First Blood, he took steak knives to school. This incident led to a suspension and he was unable to read and was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, prescribed Ritalin, and placed in a class for special-needs students. Consequently, his mother quit her job and homeschooled him for a year, Gosling has said that homeschooling gave him a sense of autonomy that Ive never really lost. Gosling performed in front of audiences from an age, encouraged by his sister being a performer. He and his sister sang together at weddings, he performed with Elvis Perry, his uncles Elvis Presley tribute act, performing boosted his self-confidence as it was the only thing he received praise for. He developed an idiosyncratic accent because, as a child, he thought having a Canadian accent did not sound tough and he began to model his accent on that of Marlon Brando
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Christina Aguilera
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Christina María Aguilera is an American singer, songwriter, actress and television personality. Born in Staten Island, New York and raised in Rochester and Wexford, Pennsylvania, she appeared on the television series Star Search, after recording Reflection, the theme for Disneys 1998 film Mulan, Aguilera signed with RCA Records. She rose to prominence with her 1999 self-titled debut album spawned the Billboard Hot 100 number one singles, Genie in a Bottle, What a Girl Wants. The following year, Aguilera released two albums, the Spanish-language album Mi Reflejo and the holiday album My Kind of Christmas. She assumed creative control for her studio album, Stripped, which produced Dirrty, Beautiful. Aguileras fifth studio album, Back to Basics, debuted at one on the album charts of ten countries and spawned the tracks Aint No Other Man. In 2010, Aguilera released her studio album Bionic and starred in the film Burlesque. The following year, she debuted as a coach on the reality television series The Voice. Her seventh studio album, Lotus, was released in 2012, Aguilera has also been featured on several successful collaborations during her career, including Lady Marmalade, Moves like Jagger, and Say Something. Aguilera has been recognized as a pop icon and earned the title Pop Princess in her early years and her work has earned her five Grammy Awards, one Latin Grammy Award, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She has sold over 17.9 million albums in the United States as of 2014 and 50 million albums worldwide as of 2015. In 2009, she ranked at number 58 on Rolling Stones list of 100 Greatest Singers of All Time, thereby becoming the youngest and the only artist under 30 to be named. Billboard recognized her as the 20th most successful artist of the 2000s, aside from her work in the entertainment industry, Aguilera is involved in charitable activities through human rights, world issues, and her work as a UN ambassador for the World Food Programme. Christina María Aguilera was born in Staten Island, New York, on December 18,1980, to Shelly Loraine, a musician, and Fausto Xavier Aguilera and her father is Ecuadorian, while her mother has German, Irish, Welsh, and Dutch ancestry. Her family moved frequently because of her fathers service, and lived in places including New Jersey, Texas, New York. Aguilera and her mother alleged that her father was physically and emotionally abusive, claims which he denied, Aguilera used music as a form of escape from her turbulent household. Following her parents divorce when she was six years old, Aguilera, her younger sister Rachel, after several years of being estranged, Aguilera expressed interest in reconciling with her father in 2012. Growing up, Aguilera, known locally as the girl with the big voice, aspired to be a singer, singing in local talent shows
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Britney Spears
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Britney Jean Spears is an American singer, dancer, and actress. Born in McComb, Mississippi, and raised in Kentwood, Louisiana, she performed acting roles in stage productions, Spearss first and second studio albums. Baby One More Time and Oops. I Did It Again, became international successes, with the former becoming the album by a teenage solo artist. Title tracks. Baby One More Time and Oops, I Did It Again broke international sales records. In 2001, Spears released her third studio album, Britney. She assumed creative control of her studio album, In the Zone. In 2007, Spearss much-publicized personal issues sent her career into hiatus and her fifth studio album, Blackout, was released later that year, and spawned singles such as Gimme More and Piece of Me. Her erratic behavior and hospitalizations continued through the year, at which point she was placed under a still ongoing conservatorship. Spearss sixth studio album, Circus, included the international chart-topping single Womanizer and her seventh studio album, Femme Fatale, became her first to yield three top-ten singles in the United States. She released her studio album Britney Jean in 2013. Later that year, Spears began the four-year residency show, Britney, Piece of Me, in 2016, Spears released her ninth studio album, Glory. Spears is regarded as a pop icon and credited with influencing the revival of teen pop during the late 1990s and she became the best-selling teenage artist of all time and garnered honorific titles including the Princess of Pop. In 2009, Billboard ranked her as the 8th overall Artist of the Decade, the Recording Industry Association of America lists Spears as the eighth top-selling female artist in the United States, with 34 million certified albums. She has sold 100 million albums and over 100 million singles worldwide making her one of the music artists of all time. According to Billboard Spears has sold about 22.38 million singles in digital downloads in US and is the fourth best-selling female artist since Nielsen SoundScan began. Forbes reported that Spears was the highest paid musician of 2012, with earnings of $58 million. Spears was born in McComb, Mississippi, the child of Lynne Irene Bridges and James Parnell Spears. Her maternal grandmother, Lillian Portell, was English, and one of Spearss maternal great-great-grandfathers was Maltese and her siblings are Bryan James and Jamie Lynn
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JC Chasez
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Joshua Scott JC Chasez (/ˈʃɑːzeɪ/ is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, record producer, and occasional actor. He also served as a judge for Americas Best Dance Crew, Chasez was born on August 8,1976, in Bowie, Maryland. He was raised as a Mennonite and he has a younger brother, Tyler, and a younger sister, Heather. Chasez attended the former Robert Goddard Middle School and then Bowie High School and he always danced when he was a child. As a child, Chasez was extremely shy, but when a friend bet him $20 to enter a talent show, he won the contest and soon realized he had a knack for performing and that he really enjoyed singing. In 1989, his mother Karen Chasez noticed an ad in the Washington Post announcing auditions for Disneys The Mickey Mouse Club. He chose to audition, selecting the song Right Here Waiting by Richard Marx, Chasez was soon cast as a performer in the fourth season and stayed until the shows cancellation in 1996. Since there was another Mouseketeer named Joshua, Chasez went by his first and last initials, JC and he wrote the song Give In To Me when he was 18 in 1994 and he sings the lead on it on Euge Grooves debut CD. JC Chasez and Justin Timberlake were the two singers of what would become the popular boy band NSYNC. The group was formed in 1995 and became popular in Europe in 1996, in 1998, the band released its debut album *NSYNC which sold 11 million copies and became very popular in the United States. After the band had a series of struggles with manager Lou Pearlman. They released their studio album No Strings Attached in 2000. They held this record until 2015 when Adele surpassed the sales record with her third album 25. Singles from the No Strings Attached album included Bye Bye Bye, This I Promise You, It Makes Me Ill, the band produced their third studio album, Celebrity in 2001, which sold 1.8 million copies in the first week. After the groups Celebrity Tour in 2002, the decided to take a hiatus. During this time, Chasez produced his own album, Schizophrenic, the band never formally disbanded, but since 2004, they have not reunited for any musical purposes, and there have been mixed reactions as far as whether the reunion would happen. In August 2013, JC rejoined with Timberlake and the rest of NSYNC for a performance at the MTV Awards. During NSYNCs scheduled hiatus, Chasez pursued work as a songwriter and producer and his first solo single, Blowin Me Up, co-produced by Dallas Austin, was released on the 2002 Drumline soundtrack
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Justin Timberlake
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Justin Randall Timberlake is an American singer-songwriter, actor and record producer. Born and raised in Tennessee, he appeared on the television shows Star Search, in the late 1990s, Timberlake rose to prominence as one of the two lead vocalists and youngest member of NSYNC, which eventually became one of the best-selling boy bands of all time. With his first two albums exceeding sales of 10 million copies worldwide, he was established as one of the most commercially successful singers of the decade, furthermore, he produced records and collaborated with other artists. For his live performances, including the concert tour for the albums, he began performing with his band The Tennessee Kids, composed by instrumentalists. Timberlake voiced the character in DreamWorks Animations Trolls, which soundtrack includes his fifth Billboard Hot 100 chart-topping single. Among numerous awards and accolades, Timberlake has won ten Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, Time named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2007 and 2013. His other ventures include record label Tennman Records, fashion label William Rast, Timberlake was born in Memphis, Tennessee, the son of Lynn Harless and Charles Randall Timberlake, a Baptist church choir director. Timberlake grew up in Shelby Forest, a community between Memphis and Millington. He has two half-brothers, Jonathan and Stephen, from Charles second marriage to Lisa Perry and his half-sister Laura Katherine died shortly after birth on May 12,1997, and is mentioned in his acknowledgments in the album NSYNC as My Angel in Heaven. He was inspired to become a performer by Janet Jackson, saying She didnt just stand there and sing her song, fascinated by her energy, at the age of 11, Timberlake appeared on the television show Star Search, performing country music songs as Justin Randall. Timberlake then recruited Chasez to be in a singing group, organized by boy band manager Lou Pearlman. The boy band NSYNC formed in 1995, and began their career in 1996 in Europe, Timberlake and Chasez served as its two lead singers. In 1998, the rose to prominence in the United States with the release of their self-titled debut studio album. Their second album No Strings Attached sold 2.4 million copies in the first week, nSYNCs third album Celebrity was also financially successful. Upon the completion of the Celebrity Tour, the group went into hiatus in 2002, in late 1999, Timberlake appeared in the Disney Channel movie Model Behavior. He played Jason Sharpe, a model who falls in love with a waitress after mistaking her for another model and it was released on March 12,2000. The rise of his own stardom and the decline in the popularity of boy bands led to the dissolution of NSYNC. Band member Lance Bass was openly critical of Timberlakes actions in his memoir Out of Sync and his debut solo studio album Justified was released in November and debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 439,000 copies, fewer than previous N Sync releases
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Tony Lucca
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Anthony James Tony Lucca, is an American singer, songwriter, producer, and actor. He is perhaps best known for starting his career on The Mickey Mouse Club, after the Mickey Mouse Club, Lucca went to Los Angeles, California, for a brief career as an actor, then became a full-time musician. He was the second runner-up on the season of the American reality television singing competition talent show, The Voice. Lucca was born in Pontiac, Michigan, the son of Sally, Lucca is of Italian, Welsh, French, and English descent. Lucca grew up around a large and musical extended family, as his mother Sally was tenth of twelve children of the Detroit jazz piano player James Jimmy Stevenson, Lucca grew up in Waterford, Michigan, and began singing at age 3 and child modeling at age 9. When he was 12, he began playing in Detroit-area bands with his cousin, when Lucca was 14, he went to Detroit to audition for the Disney movie Newsies, only to find out the audition was for The Mickey Mouse Club instead. Encouraged by his sister, he auditioned for the show and was picked for callbacks in Los Angeles, in Los Angeles, he was selected along with 8 other kids to join the cast for the fourth season of the show. Lucca moved to Orlando, Florida, with his mother and lived in an apartment complex with other castmates and he remained with the show for four seasons, until being let go during the seventh season when the show was canceled. In 1995, after the cancellation of the Mickey Mouse Club and he lived with fellow Mickey Mouse Club castmate Keri Russell, his girlfriend at the time. Russell and Lucca were cast and played together on the Aaron Spelling-produced Malibu Shores, a television teen drama series. During this time he filmed commercials for Levi Jeans, J. C. Penney and he had minor success in movies, appearing in an NBC movie of the week, Her Last Chance with Kellie Martin and Jonathan Brandis, as well as two independent features. He left acting in 1997 to pursue music, in 1997, Lucca self-released his first music album, So Satisfied, which he also co-produced. In 1998, he launched his website www. tonylucca, in 2001 and 2002, he served as opening act for NSYNC, a boy band featuring fellow Mickey Mouse Club co-stars Justin Timberlake and JC Chasez. 2006 saw the release of Canyon Songs, recorded in both Laurel and Beachwood Canyons, and Live In Hollywood, a concert album, both albums were distributed by Rock Ridge Music. Come Around Again was released in 2008, Lucca participated in a cooperative tour with Jay Nash and Matt Duke, which resulted in the 2009 EP entitled TFDI. Lucca briefly returned to acting in 2010, starring in a 901 Silver Tequila commercial and he also played himself on an episode of Parenthood, appearing as a performing musician. Luccas sixth album was released in 2010, entitled Rendezvous With the Angels, solo, an acoustic CD composed of b-sides and previously unreleased recordings was released in November 2010, and given away for free in conjunction with Amazon. coms MP3 web store. Lucca recorded a second collaborative CD with Jay Nash and Matt Duke, TFDI II, on February 5,2012, Tony appeared on the Blind Auditions of the American reality talent show The Voice in its second season
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Honey, I Blew Up the Kid
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Honey, I Blew Up the Kid is a 1992 American comedy science fiction film and the sequel to the 1989 film Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. Made only three years after Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, this film is set five years after the events depicted in the previous film, the antagonist to the Szalinskis is Dr. This film would be followed by one last sequel in 1997, a TV show would also follow the film in 1997, called Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. Five years after inventor Wayne Szalinski shrunk his children, his family have moved to Nevada, Wayne’s wife Diane leaves with their daughter Amy for college, leaving Wayne to look after Adam and their teenage son Nick, who struggles with puberty. He develops a crush on Mandy Park, who Wayne later arranges to babysit Adam, Wayne takes his sons to Sterling Labs, where he has constructed a device which could make objects grow. He tests it out on Adam’s toy Big Bunny, however, when Wayne and Nick’s backs are turned, Adam retrieves his toy and is zapped by the machine. Back home, Adam and Big Bunny are exposed to waves and grow in size. Wayne and Nick try to take Adam back to the lab to reverse the process, but are caught by Wayne’s superior Doctor Charles Hendrickson, Diane returns home and discovers the truth. Wayne and Diane drive to a warehouse and retrieve Wayne’s shrink ray to turn Adam back to normal, Mandy arrives to babysit Adam, Nick calming her down when she sees the gigantic toddler. Adam is exposed to a television’s electrical waves and grows to fourteen foot, Nick and Mandy search for him, but they and Adam are taken into custody, Adam placed into a truck. Wayne and Diane return home, finding the smug Hendrickson waiting for them and he has summoned Clifford Sterling, the company chairman, with the plan to fire Wayne and experiment on Adam. Sterling arrives, praising Wayne when he admits his mistake and agrees to help Adam, Adam grows even larger, escaping confinement, and heads for Las Vegas, pursued by his family and the authorities. Nick and Mandy are placed in Adam’s overalls pocket, Hendrickson gets permission to board a military helicopter and tranquilise Adam. Wayne needs Adam to stand still for twelve seconds so he can be shrunk, at first, he tries using Big Bunny to pacify Adam but it backfires when Wayne suggests his son takes a nap. After wandering through Las Vegas, Adam pursues an ice cream truck driven by Marshall Brooks, Hendrickson arrives and shoots Adam, causing him to drop the guitar and be electrocuted. Diane convinces Wayne to enlarge her so she can hug Adam, Wayne then fires the shrink ray, returning Adam and Diane to normal size. Hendrickson arrives, attempting to justify his actions, but Diane knocks him out, in the closing scene, Nick and Mandy are revealed to be the size of insects, trapped in a car Adam played with earlier, but are found by Wayne. The only problem left is to shrink Big Bunny to normal size, Marcia Strassman as Diane Szalinski, Waynes wife
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Rick Moranis
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Frederick Allan Rick Moranis is a Canadian-American actor, comedian, screenwriter, musician and songwriter. In 1997, Moranis began a hiatus from acting to raise his children as a widowed father. He has not appeared in a film since, although he has provided voice-over work for a few animated films. He has also released albums and made appearances at fan conventions. Moranis was born in Toronto, Ontario, to a Jewish family and he went to elementary school with Geddy Lee, frontman of the rock band Rush. His career as an entertainer began as a disc jockey in the mid-1970s. In 1980, Moranis was persuaded to join the third-season cast of Second City Television by friend, at the time, Moranis was the only cast member who had not come from a Second City stage troupe. He is known for such impressions as Woody Allen, Merv Griffin, Bob and Doug became a pop culture phenomenon, which led to a top-selling and Grammy nominated album, Great White North, and the 1983 movie Strange Brew, Moraniss first major film role. He also did the voice-over for a short lived cartoon series on NBC called Gravedale High, in a 2004 interview, Moranis talked about his favourite kinds of films, On the last couple of movies I made—big-budget Hollywood movies—I really missed being able to create my own material. In the early movies I did, I was brought in to rewrite my stuff. By the time I got to the point where I was starring in movies, and I had executives telling me what lines to say, that wasnt for me. Im a guy who comes out of comedy, and my impetus was always to rewrite the line to make it funnier, Moraniss last film roles were Barney Rubble in The Flintstones and the box-office flop Big Bully. Disneys final film in the Honey, I Shrunk the Kids franchise is 1997s direct-to-video film Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves, the series Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, The TV Show also launched in 1997 but without Moranis, then concluding in 2000. He worked for Disney twice more, voicing Rutt the moose in the 2003 animated film Brother Bear, Moranis was also slated to appear in The Breakfast Club, but was released by John Hughes because his interpretation of the role was not what Hughes was looking for. In 2000, Moranis received his first film credit since 1997 when he provided voice work in the film, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. In 2003, he provided his voice to the animated film Brother Bear, as of 2004, Moranis was on the Advisory Committee for the comedy program at Humber College. The album was produced by Tony Scherr and is distributed through ArtistShare, commenting on the origins of the songs, he said that in 2003, Out of the blue, I just wrote a bunch of songs. For lack of an explanation, they’re more country than anything
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Boy Meets World
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Boy Meets World is an American television sitcom that chronicles the coming-of-age events and everyday life-lessons of Cory Matthews. The show follows Cory and his friends and family through seven seasons, the show aired from 1993 to 2000 on ABC, part of the networks TGIF lineup. The entire series has since released on DVD, as well as on iTunes. A sequel titled Girl Meets World, focusing on Cory and Topanga and their teen daughter Riley, the first season begins with Cory Matthews and his best friend Shawn Hunter, two average sixth-graders. They do not care about schoolwork, despite the efforts of their longtime teacher George Feeny, initially, their main interest is sports, though later Shawn and then Cory begin to express an interest in girls. This season focuses specifically on Corys relationships with the characters in the show. He begins to understand his parents more and respect them for all that they do and his relationship with his elder brother Eric becomes confusing as Erics constant obsession with girls is foreign to Cory, and he becomes more protective of his younger sister Morgan. Cory begins to show interest in Topanga, an outsider in his class. Cory and Topanga have known each other since they were kids, Cory and Shawns friendship is tested for the first time, and Cory must often choose between doing what Shawn wants him to do and doing what is best for their friendship. During the second season, Cory, Topanga, and Shawn start high school and meet Jonathan Turner, although they initially view Mr. Turner as cool, they soon realize that he is a teacher first—hence why Cory calls him Feeny with an earring. Throughout the second season, Cory and Shawn try a variety of ways to become popular with their classmates, in doing so, they nearly get into fights with school bullies and trouble with Mr. Feeny. Eventually, Shawn becomes cool and popular at school, but still keeps his friendship with the less popular Cory, Shawn’s mother Virna deserts her son and husband Chet, which upsets Shawn greatly. Chet then leaves to find Virna, after this occurs, Shawn lives briefly with Cory and his parents, but soon figures out that its just not the right fit for him, and later moves in with Mr. Turner. Cory tries at some points to begin a relationship with Topanga, sensing this, Topanga is wary of his advances, and despite the mutual attraction, the two do not date during this season. During the third season, Cory finally admits that he wants to ask out Topanga, consequently, his best friend Shawn asks her out. Although Cory was hurt, he soon realized Shawn set the thing up so he could unite Cory and Topanga. He tells her how he feels, and they become a couple, later in the third season, Cory and Topanga are worried that their relationship has hit a rut, and decide it would be best to break up while they are still able to keep the friendship. They get back together a few later, when Cory follows her to Disney World to win her back
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Married... with Children
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With Children is an American television live-action sitcom that aired on Fox, created by Michael G. Moye and Ron Leavitt. Originally broadcast from April 5,1987 to June 9,1997, it is the longest-lasting live-action sitcom on Fox, Most storylines involve Als schemes being foiled by his own cartoonish dim wit and bad luck. The series comprises 259 episodes and 11 seasons and its theme song is Love and Marriage by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen, performed by Frank Sinatra from the 1955 television production Our Town. The first season of the series was videotaped at ABC Television Center in Hollywood, from season two to season eight, the show was taped at Sunset Gower Studios in Hollywood, and the remaining three seasons were taped at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City. The series was produced by Embassy Communications during its first season, in 2008, the show placed number 94 on Entertainment Weeklys New TV Classics list. 1 David Garrison left the show during season four, but returned in four episodes as a special guest and he constantly attempts to relive his high-school Big Man On Campus days, when he was the All State Fullback. His most noted achievement was having scored four touchdowns in a game for Polk High. Peggy Bundy —Als wife who is always on his case about money and her big taste for things like clothes and male strippers have run Al into debt on numerous occasions. A recurring joke in the series is Als regret of having married Peggy in the first place, peggys best friend is Marcy, with whom she occasionally conspires against Al. Her family is a stereotypical backwoods clan of degenerates whom she forces the other Bundys to endure. Kelly Bundy —the Bundys firstborn, a dumb blonde who is often derided as promiscuous. Her stupidity manifests in many ways, from forgetting ideas on the spot to mispronouncing or misspelling simple words, like her mother, she is quick to steal Als money for expensive things. Her favorite hobby is belittling her lonely and sexless brother, though she stands up for him against anyone outside the family, Bud Bundy —the younger Bundy offspring, and the most intelligent family member, the first Bundy to attend college. His awkwardness and preoccupation with sex leads to failures with women. To improve his success with girls, Bud often uses his persona, Grandmaster B. When using the Grandmaster B persona, Bud usually wears dark sunglasses, ironically, she is just as chauvinistic as Al and the founder and leader of an anti-man support group called FANG. Despite her political correctness and structured life, Marcy harbors a dark, somewhat sexually deviant side, Al is repulsed by Marcy and frequently belittles her, likening her to a chicken, and mockingly confusing her for an adolescent male. At the outset of the show, Marcy is married to Steve Rhoades, after Steve is written off the show during the fourth season, he is replaced by Jefferson DArcy
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Bon Jovi
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Bon Jovi is an American rock band from Sayreville, New Jersey. Formed in 1983, Bon Jovi consists of singer and namesake Jon Bon Jovi, pianist and keyboardist David Bryan, drummer Tico Torres, lead guitarist Phil X. Phil X and McDonald both became members in 2016. In 1986, Bon Jovi achieved widespread global recognition with their third album, the bands fourth album, New Jersey was equally successful in 1988. In 1992, the returned with the album Keep the Faith. Their 2000 single Its My Life, which followed a second hiatus, Bon Jovi have been known to use different styles in their music, which has included country for their 2007 album Lost Highway. Thus far, Bon Jovi has released 13 studio albums, plus six compilations, the band has sold more than 130 million records worldwide and performed more than 2,700 concerts in over 50 countries for more than 34 million fans. Bon Jovi was inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2006, Jon Bon Jovi began playing piano and guitar in 1975, at the age of 13, with his first band Raze. At 16, Bon Jovi met David Bryan and formed a band called Atlantic City Expressway, still in his teens, Bon Jovi played in the band John Bongiovi and the Wild Ones, playing local clubs like The Fast Lane, and opening for known acts in the area. By 1980, he formed band, The Rest, and opened up for New Jersey acts such as Southside Johnny. Bon Jovi made several demos—including one produced by Billy Squier—and sent them to record companies and his first professional recording was as lead vocals in R2-D2 We Wish You a Merry Christmas, which was part of the Christmas in the Stars album which his cousin co-produced. In 1983, a then-unknown Bon Jovi visited a local radio station WAPP103. 5FM The Apple in Lake Success, New York, and wrote and sang the jingles for the station. He spoke with DJ Chip Hobart and to the director, John Lassman. Bon Jovi was reluctant, but eventually gave them the song, WAPP worked with WOR-TV in nearby Secaucus, NJ on a music video show, Rock 9 Videos, for a short time in 1984. The studio musicians who helped record Runaway—known as The All Star Review—were guitarist Tim Pierce, keyboardist Roy Bittan, drummer Frankie LaRocka, the song began to get airplay in the New York area, then other sister stations in major markets picked up the song. In March 1983, Bon Jovi called David Bryan, who in turn called bassist Alec John Such, tapped to play lead guitar was Bon Jovis neighbor, Dave Sabo —though he never officially joined the band. He and Jon promised each other that made it first. Sabo later went on to form the group Skid Row, Jon saw and was impressed with hometown guitarist Richie Sambora
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Always (Bon Jovi song)
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Always is a power ballad by Bon Jovi. It was released as a single from their 1994 album Cross Road and went on to one of their best-selling singles, with a million copies sold in the U. S. The song reached #4 in the U. S. Billboard charts, No.2 on the Mainstream Top 40 and was also a hit, peaking at #1 in Canada, #2 in Australia and the United Kingdom. It marks Alec John Suchs final single with the band before he left the band in late 1994, the song was originally written for the soundtrack to the 1993 film Romeo Is Bleeding. After disliking the movie, the decided not to lend Always to the producers. Jon Bon Jovi left the track on his shelf and forgot about it, until a friend found it and convinced him to re-record, the music video featured Jack Noseworthy, Carla Gugino, Jason Wiles and Keri Russell. Hence, when it is performed it is done so in a lower key, the song is featured on the bands Live From London Video. During the 2005-2006 Have a Nice Day Tour it was performed in the acoustic style heard on the bands 2003 This Left Feels Right album. Recently the band has performed the version on their Lost Highway Tour. A live version from the song, performed on the night of the Lost Highway Tour has been included on the concert DVD from the band. Since then the song in its version has been occasionally performed during every tour
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Carla Gugino
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Carla Gugino is an American actress. Her feature film work includes starring roles in Son in Law, Sin City, Night at the Museum, Mr. Poppers Penguins, Gugino has had lead roles in the TV series Political Animals, Wayward Pines, and Roadies. Gugino was born in Sarasota, Florida, to Carl Gugino, an orthodontist of Italian descent, and she has said of her upbringing, I lived in a tepee in Northern California and a van in Big Sur. With my dad, I lived in a house with a swimming pool. So I feel like I lived two childhoods and she worked as a teenage fashion model, and took acting classes at the suggestion of her aunt, former Lets Make a Deal spokesmodel Carol Merrill. She eventually came to herself, and with her parents support, was legally emancipated by the time she was 16. Guginos television work during the late 1980s and early 1990s included appearances on Saved by the Bell, the Wonder Years and a recurring role on Falcon Crest. In film, Gugino appeared in the Shelley Long film Troop Beverly Hills and she later appeared in the video to Bon Jovis 1994 song Always. In 1995, Gugino appeared as Nan St. George in the BBC miniseries The Buccaneers an adaptation of Edith Whartons last novel and she appeared as Dr. Gina Simon during the 1999–2000 final season of Chicago Hope. In 2001, she appeared as family matriarch Ingrid Cortez in the first Spy Kids film and that same year she appeared as Jet Lis love interest in the martial arts action thriller The One. She starred in two short-lived TV series, ABCs Elmore Leonard crime drama Karen Sisco in 2003, and CBSs science fiction series Threshold in 2005 and that same year, Gugino appeared as Lucille in the feature film adaptation of Frank Millers graphic novel, Sin City. The following year, she appeared in the movie Night at the Museum, Gugino appeared in the Roundabout Theatre Company play After the Fall opposite Six Feet Unders Peter Krause. In late 2006, she appeared in an Off-Broadway production of Tennessee Williams Suddenly Last Summer opposite Blythe Danner, Gugino appeared as Amanda, Vincent Chases agent, in a dozen episodes of the cable television series Entourage. Gugino appeared nude in the May 2007 issue of Allure and that same year she appeared in the action-horror film Rise, Blood Hunter and the feature film American Gangster. The following year, she played the lead in the thriller Righteous Kill, opposite Robert De Niro. Gugino starred in Chicagos Goodman Theater production of Eugene ONeills Desire Under the Elms from January 17 to February 17,2009 and that April, she received an Outer Critics Circle Award nomination for Outstanding Actress In a Play for her performance in Desire Under the Elms. Later in November of that year, she appeared as an actress in the comedy film Women in Trouble. In 2011, Gugino appeared as Madame Vera Gorsky in Zack Snyders action-fantasy film Sucker Punch alongside Abbie Cornish, Gugino sang a duet with co-star Oscar Isaac, which appeared in the end credits and in the films soundtrack
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Heath Ledger
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Heathcliff Andrew Heath Ledger was an Australian actor and director. After performing roles in several Australian television and film productions during the 1990s and he also produced and directed music videos and aspired to be a film director. In the film, Ledger portrayed an actor named Robbie Clark, one of six characters embodying aspects of Dylans life. Ledger died on 22 January 2008 from an accidental intoxication from prescription drugs, a few months before his death, Ledger had finished filming his performance as the Joker in The Dark Knight. His death occurred during editing of The Dark Knight and in the midst of filming his last role as Tony in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and his untimely death cast a shadow over the subsequent promotion of the $185 million Batman production. The Sir Frank Ledger Charitable Trust is named after his great-grandfather and he had English, Irish, and Scottish ancestry. Ledger attended Marys Mount Primary School in Gooseberry Hill, and later Guildford Grammar School and his parents separated when he was 10 and divorced when he was 11. After sitting for early graduation exams at age 17, Ledger left school to pursue an acting career, in 1999, he starred in the teen comedy 10 Things I Hate About You and in the acclaimed Australian crime film Two Hands, directed by Gregor Jordan. In 2001, he won a ShoWest Award as Male Star of Tomorrow, in The New York Times review of the film, critic Stephen Holden writes, Both Mr. Ledger and Mr. Gyllenhaal make this anguished love story physically palpable. Mr. Ledger magically and mysteriously disappears beneath the skin of his lean and it is a great screen performance, as good as the best of Marlon Brando and Sean Penn. In a review in Rolling Stone, Peter Travers states, Ledgers magnificent performance is an acting miracle and he seems to tear it from his insides. Ledger doesnt just know how Ennis moves, speaks and listens, to see him inhale the scent of a shirt hanging in Jacks closet is to take measure of the pain of love lost. Shortly after the release of Candy, Ledger was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts, posthumously, on 23 February 2008, he shared the 2007 Independent Spirit Robert Altman Award with the rest of the films ensemble cast, its director, and its casting director. In his penultimate film performance, Ledger played the Joker in Christopher Nolans 2008 film The Dark Knight, released nearly six months after his death. At the time of his death on 22 January 2008, Ledger had completed half of the work for his final film performance as Tony in Terry Gilliams The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. In 2006, Ledger directed music videos for the track on Australian hip hop artist Nfas CD debut solo album Cause An Effect. Later that year, Ledger inaugurated a new label, Masses Music, with singer Ben Harper. After Ledgers death, his video for Black Eyed Dog was shown on the Internet
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The WB
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The WB Television Network was an American television network that was first launched on broadcast television on January 11,1995 as a joint venture between the Warner Bros. Entertainment division of Time Warner and the Tribune Broadcasting subsidiary of the Tribune Company, on January 24,2006, CBS Corporation and Warner Bros. Entertainment announced plans to shut down the network and launch The CW later that same year, the WB Television Network shut down on September 17,2006, with select programs from both it and competitor UPN moving to The CW when it launched the following day, September 18. Time Warner re-used The WB brand for a network that launched on April 28,2008. The website could only be accessed within the United States, on November 2,1993, the Warner Bros. Only five of these stations – along with a sixth that Tribune acquired the following year – would join The WB at launch, when the network was announced, The WB planned to run a predominately network programmed schedule over time. The WB Television Network premiered on January 11,1995, with the episode of The Wayans Bros. as its first program. The classic Warner Bros. cartoon character Michigan J. Frog appeared on-air as the official mascot. Much of the branding was based around Warner Bros. locations and characters. Pictures shield logo, network promotions and imaging campaigns for The WB, the networks first programs were mostly sitcoms targeted at an ethnically black audience. Even though four of the five shows that debuted in the netlets first nine months were renewed beyond the first year – The Wayans Bros, unhappily Ever After, The Parent Hood and Sister, Sister – none of them made a significant impact. On August 17,1995, the Tribune Company acquired a 12. 5% on March 31,1997, the WB expanded its programming to Sunday nights for the 1995–96 season, but none of the new shows managed to garner much viewing interest. The WB continued to expand in the 1996–97 season, adding programming on Monday nights and this season gave The WB modest hits in the Aaron Spelling-produced family drama 7th Heaven and comedies The Steve Harvey Show and The Jamie Foxx Show. The WB first began to experience success with Buffy the Vampire Slayer and it debuted with the highest Monday night ratings in the networks history, attracting not only new teenage viewers, but new advertisers as well. The networks breakout hit and, arguably, its series was Dawsons Creek. At the start of the 1998–99 season, the network expanded its programming to Thursday nights, for the 1999–2000 season, the network concluded its primetime expansion with the addition of programming on Friday nights. During this season, The WB was the network to have gains in its total audience viewership. As the teen boom of the late 1990s began to wane, although teen-oriented fare like Popular and Roswell had premiered to strong ratings, both series saw serious ratings erosion in their sophomore seasons, leading the network to cancel them both
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2009 Toronto International Film Festival
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The 34th annual Toronto International Film Festival was held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 10 and September 19,2009. The opening night gala presented the Charles Darwin biography Creation, the Young Victoria, based on the early years of Queen Victoria, closed the festival on September 19. TIFF is an organization whose goal is to change the way people look at the world through film. The festival is Canadas largest film festival, receiving 4,209 submissions in 2008, of this total,312 films were screened coming from 64 different countries. TIFF creates an economic impact of $135 million CAD. Aided by over 2,000 volunteers,100 full-time staff members and 500 seasonal or part-time staff are responsible for organizing the festival, two screenings of each of the invited films are presented to the public and at least one screening is provided for press and industry. The 2009 festival contained 19 different Programmes, or categories of films, after the ten days of film, the Awards reception was held at Intercontinental Hotel on Front Street in Toronto. Perhaps the most prestigious of the awards was bestowed to Lee Danielss Precious and this award was the 2009 Cadillac Peoples Choice Award and is based solely on votes by Festival audiences. This award carries a $15,000 cash prize and also comes with a custom made award from Cadillac and it is widely considered to be the most prestigious because it has had the greatest impact on audiences and inspires film distributors to sign the winning film for larger international releases. Last years winner Slumdog Millionaire directed by Danny Boyle, went on to huge international spotlight which culminated at the 2009 Academy Awards where it won Best Picture. Lee Daniels Precious was also a big Oscar contender as it was nominated for Best Picture and Best Director, however it lost to The Hurt Locker, the First runner-up was Bruce Beresfords Maos Last Dancer and the second runner-up was Jean-Pierre Jeunets Micmacs. The City of Toronto and Astral Medias The Movie Network Award for Best Canadian Feature Film went to Cairo Time directed by Ruba Nadda, sponsored by Astral Medias the Movie Network and the City of Toronto, this award came with a cash prize of $30,000. Future endeavors by the TIFF will be aided by the construction of TIFF Bell Lightbox. Complete with 5 cinemas, learning studios, galleries and a rooftop lounge, the protest leaders emphasized that it is not a call for a boycott. We protest that TIFF, whether intentionally or not, has become complicit in the Israeli propaganda machine, jacobovici asked Why does want to align himself with Holocaust deniers. Others accused those who signed the protest letter as engaging in a boycott of Israel films, rabbi Marvin Hier, the founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, has stated that it is clear that the script are reading from might as well have been written by Hamas. History long ago proved him right, the same openness should apply to a film festival. In response to the protest, a number of Hollywood stars circulated a counter-protest letter on September 15,2009, blacklisting them only stifles the exchange of cultural knowledge that artists should be the first to defend and protect
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Eight Days a Week (film)
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Eight Days a Week is a 1997 comedy film written and directed by Michael Davis. The title is taken from the Beatles song of the same name, the film features Dishwallas 1996 hit Counting Blue Cars. Peter is infatuated with his friend and next-door neighbor Erica. Based on advice from his grandfather, Peter decides to camp on Ericas lawn until she realizes that she loves him, during his summer-long wait, he frequently comments on their neighborhood
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The Curve (film)
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The Curve is a 1998 thriller starring Matthew Lillard, Keri Russell and Michael Vartan. In the UK and Australia it was released as Dead Mans Curve, the story follows Tim, Chris and Rand who are campus roommates. After hearing of a policy, which says that anyone whose roommate commits suicide gets an automatic 4.0 GPA, Tim and Chris plot to kill Rand. After the suicide, Rands girlfriend Natalie is distraught and commits suicide as well, the story takes several plot twists as each persons motives come to light and the truth is revealed. The film was screened at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival, writer and director Dan Rosen and score composer Shark music supervised the film. Prior to the start of filming, they made a mix tape of music they were considering for the film, each actor was given the tape as background to their characters. When editor Glen Garland was putting together the first edit of the film he used music from this mix tape as temp, many of the songs ended up in the final film. A song based soundtrack album featuring songs from Dead Mans Curve/The Curve was released in Japan only through Toho Records, a soundtrack album featuring music from Dead Mans Curve/The Curve was released in North America through Chromatic Records. The Curve at the Internet Movie Database
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Mad About Mambo
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Mad About Mambo is a 2000 British/Irish co-production, filmed in Dublin but set in Belfast, written and directed by John Forte. It stars William Ash, Keri Russell and Brian Cox, a boy obsessed with football finds his life changing dramatically once he adds a little Samba. Danny plays on the team at the all-boys Catholic school he attends in Belfast. Dannys three best friends, who play on the team, all have different ambitions for their lives. Mickey wants to be a fashion designer so he can get rich, gary wants to become a magician so he can get rich and meet beautiful women. And Spike likes to beat people up, so he wants to become a mercenary, but Danny dreams of making football his life. The players Danny most admires are South Americans, such as Pele and Carlos Riga, who he feels have a special rhythm and flexibility. Wanting to add some of these qualities to his own game, Danny has an idea, hell take Samba lessons, in the hope that dancing like a South American will help him play like a South American. To the surprise of himself and his friends, Danny turns out to be a pretty good Latin dancer and finds himself smitten with a student in his dance class, however, Lucy happens to have a boyfriend, who is a fierce competitor on one of Dannys rival teams. Mad About Mambo at the Internet Movie Database
