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Point Pleasant, New Jersey
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Point Pleasant is a borough in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States. Point Pleasant was incorporated as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 21,1920, from portions of Brick Township, the borough was reincorporated on March 12,1928. Point Pleasant is distinct from Point Pleasant Beach, which is a separate community, around 1500, the area that included the future Point Pleasant was the ceremonial meeting place of the Lenape Native Americans, who called it the Land of Tall Timber. In approximately 1665, the first European settlers arrived in the area, mainly fishermen, farmers, according to the towns official website, many longtime residents still use that name. The towns first mayor was Melville B, parker, chosen after J. H. Harvey declined the position after being elected. The town was initially a town, although logging was never a significant part of the local economy. In 1924, the Manasquan River-Bay Head Canal was completed as part of the inland waterway, in 1964, Senator Clifford Case introduced legislation that changed the canals name to the Point Pleasant Canal. Though often regarded as a resort, the boroughs website emphasizes that it is a year round community of approximately 19,000 residents. According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough had an area of 4.167 square miles. The town is home to the Point Pleasant Canal, completed in 1925, as of the census of 2010, there were 18,392 people,7,273 households, and 4,982 families residing in the borough. The population density was 5,272.1 per square mile, there were 8,331 housing units at an average density of 2,388.1 per square mile. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 5. 08% of the population,25. 8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9. 9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.52 and the family size was 3.03. In the borough, the population was out with 22. 1% under the age of 18,7. 0% from 18 to 24,24. 3% from 25 to 44,32. 2% from 45 to 64. The median age was 43.0 years, for every 100 females there were 94.2 males. For every 100 females ages 18 and old there were 92.3 males, the Census Bureaus 2006-2010 American Community Survey showed that median household income was $78,521 and the median family income was $94,399. Males had an income of $67,632 versus $47,428 for females. The per capita income for the borough was $36,596, about 1. 8% of families and 3. 6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 2. 5% of those under age 18 and 6. 6% of those age 65 or over
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Map of Point Pleasant in Ocean County. Inset: Location of Ocean County highlighted in the State of New Jersey.
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Los Angeles
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Los Angeles, officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L. A. is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California. With a census-estimated 2015 population of 3,971,883, it is the second-most populous city in the United States, Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated county in the United States. The citys inhabitants are referred to as Angelenos, historically home to the Chumash and Tongva, Los Angeles was claimed by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo for Spain in 1542 along with the rest of what would become Alta California. The city was founded on September 4,1781, by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 following the Mexican War of Independence, in 1848, at the end of the Mexican–American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thereby becoming part of the United States. Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4,1850, the discovery of oil in the 1890s brought rapid growth to the city. The completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, delivering water from Eastern California, nicknamed the City of Angels, Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, and sprawling metropolis. Los Angeles also has an economy in culture, media, fashion, science, sports, technology, education, medicine. A global city, it has been ranked 6th in the Global Cities Index, the city is home to renowned institutions covering a broad range of professional and cultural fields, and is one of the most substantial economic engines within the United States. The Los Angeles combined statistical area has a gross metropolitan product of $831 billion, making it the third-largest in the world, after the Greater Tokyo and New York metropolitan areas. The city has hosted the Summer Olympic Games in 1932 and 1984 and is bidding to host the 2024 Summer Olympics and thus become the second city after London to have hosted the Games three times. The Los Angeles area also hosted the 1994 FIFA mens World Cup final match as well as the 1999 FIFA womens World Cup final match, the mens event was watched on television by over 700 million people worldwide. The Los Angeles coastal area was first settled by the Tongva, a Gabrielino settlement in the area was called iyáangẚ, meaning poison oak place. Gaspar de Portolà and Franciscan missionary Juan Crespí, reached the present site of Los Angeles on August 2,1769, in 1771, Franciscan friar Junípero Serra directed the building of the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, the first mission in the area. The Queen of the Angels is an honorific of the Virgin Mary, two-thirds of the settlers were mestizo or mulatto with a mixture of African, indigenous and European ancestry. The settlement remained a small town for decades, but by 1820. Today, the pueblo is commemorated in the district of Los Angeles Pueblo Plaza and Olvera Street. New Spain achieved its independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, during Mexican rule, Governor Pío Pico made Los Angeles Alta Californias regional capital
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Woody Allen
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Heywood Woody Allen is an American actor, writer, director, comedian, playwright, and musician whose career spans more than six decades. He worked as a writer in the 1950s, writing jokes and scripts for television. In the early 1960s, Allen began performing as a stand-up comedian, as a comedian, he developed the persona of an insecure, intellectual, fretful nebbish, which he maintains is quite different from his real-life personality. In 2004, Comedy Central ranked Allen in fourth place on a list of the 100 greatest stand-up comedians and he is often identified as part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmakers of the mid-1960s to late 1970s. Allen often stars in his films, typically in the persona he developed as a standup, some of the best-known of his over 40 films are Annie Hall, Manhattan, and Hannah and Her Sisters. In 2007 he said Stardust Memories, The Purple Rose of Cairo, critic Roger Ebert described Allen as a treasure of the cinema. Allen won four Academy Awards, three for Best Original Screenplay and one for Best Director and he also won nine British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards. His screenplay for Annie Hall was named the funniest screenplay by the Writers Guild of America in its list of the 101 Funniest Screenplays, in 2011, PBS televised the film biography Woody Allen, A Documentary on the American Masters TV series. Allen was born Allan Stewart Konigsberg in Brooklyn, New York and he and his sister, Letty, were raised in Midwood, Brooklyn. He is the son of Nettie, a bookkeeper at her familys delicatessen, and Martin Konigsberg and his family was Jewish, his grandparents immigrated from Russia and Austria, and spoke Yiddish, Hebrew, and German. His parents were born and raised on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. His childhood was not particularly happy, his parents did not get along, Allen spoke German quite a bit in his early years. He would later joke that when he was young he was sent to inter-faith summer camps. While attending Hebrew school for eight years, he went to Public School 99 and to Midwood High School, at that time, he lived in an apartment at 968 East 14th Street. Unlike his comic persona, he was interested in baseball than school. He impressed students with his talent at card and magic tricks. To raise money, he wrote jokes for agent David O. Alber, at the age of 17, he legally changed his name to Heywood Allen and later began to call himself Woody Allen. According to Allen, his first published joke read, Woody Allen says he ate at a restaurant that had O. P. S and he was then earning more than both parents combined
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Allen in the 1970s
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Allen as a high school senior, 1953
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Allen with the Broadway cast of Play It Again, Sam (1969).
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Allen candid from 2006
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New York Stories
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New York Stories is a 1989 anthology film, it consists of three shorts with the central theme being New York City. The first is Life Lessons, directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Richard Price, the second is Life Without Zoë, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and written by Coppola with his daughter, Sofia Coppola. The last is Oedipus Wrecks, directed, written by and starring Woody Allen, the film was screened out of competition at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival. Rosanna Arquette is Paulette, his apprentice/assistant and former lover, Lionel is still infatuated with her, but Paulette wants only his tutelage, which makes things difficult since they live in the same studio-loft. Paulette dates other people, including a performance artist and a painter and these deliberate provocations on Paulettes part make Lionel insanely jealous — and fuel his creativity. Lionel and Paulette, it clear, have been using each other, Lionel using her sexually, Paulette using him as a means of entry to the higher spheres of the New York social. Paulette wants to give up and go home to her parents, Lionel pours his anxiety and repressed passion into his work. Paintings around the studio show visual metaphors from relations past, stormy skies, burning bridges, Lionel realizes that he needs the emotional turmoil of his destructive relationships in order to fuel his art. In the last scene, at the art exhibit, Lionel meets another young woman. He persuades her to become his assistant, and potentially his lover, Zoë is a schoolgirl who lives in a luxury hotel. She helps return to an Arab princess a valuable piece of jewelry that the princess had given to Zoës father and had been subsequently stolen, Zoë tries to reconcile her divorced mother, a photographer, and father, a flute soloist. New York lawyer Sheldon Mills has problems with his critical mother Sadie Millstein. Sheldon complains constantly to his therapist about her, wishing aloud that she would just disappear, Sheldon takes his shiksa fiancée, Lisa, to meet his mother, who immediately embarrasses him. The three, as well as Lisas children from a marriage, go to a magic show. His mother is invited on stage to be a part of the magicians act and she is put inside a box that has swords stuck through it and she disappears, just as she is supposed to, but then she never reappears. Although he is furious at first, this development turns out to be great for Sheldon because, with her out of his life, but soon, to his horror, his mother reappears in the sky over New York City. She begins to annoy Sheldon and Lisa by constantly talking to strangers about his most embarrassing moments and this puts a strain on his relationship with Lisa, who leaves him. Sheldon is persuaded by his psychiatrist to see a psychic, Treva, trevas experiments fail, but Sheldon falls for her, possibly finding her to be very similar to his mother
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Claudia (The Vampire Chronicles)
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Claudia is a fictional character in Anne Rices The Vampire Chronicles series. She is one of the characters in Interview with the Vampire. She also features in The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned, The Tale of the Body Thief, The Vampire Armand, Claudia was a young girl who lived in the very poor, plague-ravaged quarters of 18th century New Orleans. She lost both of her parents to the plague, and is first introduced as a child of five years old in her abandoned house, next to her dead mothers rotting. She is described as being very petite in size and delicately shaped, with long golden ringlets for hair and she is found by Louis de Pointe du Lac, the protagonist of Interview with the Vampire, and begs him to “wake” her mother. Louis instead feeds on Claudia, much to his self-disgust, however, her life is saved by Lestat de Lioncourt, Louiss maker. Claudia is taken to the vampires wealthy townhouse in the heart of New Orleans, Lestat tells her that she is his and Louiss daughter and that now that she is in their family, Louis can not leave them. Claudia becomes highly self-educated and philosophical under Louiss tutelage and she also becomes an indiscriminate murderer under Lestats guidance. She would appear to her victims as an angel and lure them to their deaths. As the decades pass, Claudia becomes increasingly dissatisfied and irritated with constantly being dressed as a doll by her two fathers and her frustration leads her to kill an innocent mother and daughter and leave their corpses to rot in the kitchen of the townhouse. Afterwards, Claudia remains attached to Louis but grows increasingly hostile toward Lestat, Lestat knows all these answers, but refuses to say a word and give Claudia any insight. Claudia and Louis flee New Orleans and head to Europe, where Claudias research has indicated vampiric activity, eventually, the two head to Paris to embrace civilization and find happiness again. The wedge between Louis and Claudia grows larger than ever as Claudia spirals even further into maddened fury at the thought of being trapped within the body of a little girl forever. Everything changes when the two find the Théâtre des Vampires, a group of vampire mummers disguising themselves as humans playing vampires in a threate onstage for a mortal audience, Claudia is repulsed by these vampires and what she considers to be their cheap theatrics. Santiago, a prominent figure among the vampire coven, suspects Claudia, eventually, Claudia and Louis meet Armand, a charming and handsome vampire who Louis becomes enchanted by. Armand falls in love with Louis, and Claudia hears Armand telling her telepathically to leave Louis as a companion, the punishment for any vampire who attempts to kill their own kind, is immediate death. Lestats plea to be allowed to take Louis away is ignored as Louis is sentenced to an eternity of starvation, locked inside a coffin. Though Louiss life is spared, Claudia and Madeleine are left to die in a room where they cannot escape exposure from the sun and he escapes the scene with Armand and the two vampires leave together
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Kirsten Dunst as Claudia in the 1994 film
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Interview with the Vampire (film)
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Interview with the Vampire is a 1994 American drama horror film directed by Neil Jordan, based on the 1976 novel Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice, and starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt. The film focuses on Lestat and Louis, beginning with Louiss transformation into a vampire by Lestat in 1791, the film chronicles their time together, and their turning of a twelve-year-old girl, Claudia, into a vampire. The narrative is framed by an interview, in which Louis tells his story to a San Francisco reporter. The supporting cast features Christian Slater, Kirsten Dunst, Antonio Banderas, the film was released in November 1994 to generally positive reviews, and received Oscar nominations for Best Art Direction and Best Original Score. Kirsten Dunst was also nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film, in modern-day San Francisco, reporter Daniel Molloy interviews Louis de Pointe du Lac, who claims to be a vampire. Louis describes his life as a wealthy plantation owner in 1791 Louisiana. He had lost the will to live following the death of his wife and infant child, Lestat senses Louis dissatisfaction with life and offers to turn him into a vampire, to which Louis accepts prior to being transformed. But while Lestat revels in the hunt and killing of humans, Louis resists killing them and he is disgusted by Lestats pleasure in killing and comes to suffer tremendously as a vampire. Wandering the streets of New Orleans, amid an outbreak of plague, Louis can resist his hunger no more, to entice Louis to stay with him, Lestat makes the girl into their vampire daughter, naming her Claudia. Louis has a love for Claudia, but to Lestat, she is a pupil. As thirty years pass, Claudia matures psychologically but still remains a girl in appearance. When she finally realizes that she will never grow old, she is furious with Lestat and she tricks Lestat into drinking the dead blood of twin boys that she killed by overdosing them with laudanum and she slits his throat. With Louiss help, she dumps Lestats body in a swamp, however, Lestat returns on the night of their departure, having drunk the blood of swamp creatures to survive. Lestat attacks them, but Louis sets him on fire and, in the chaos, they are able to escape. After traveling around Europe and the Mediterranean, Louis and Claudia settle harmoniously in Paris, Louis encounters vampires Santiago and Armand by chance. On their way out of the theater, Santiago reads Louis mind and suspects that Louis, Louis is tempted to remain with Armand and learn from him in a way he could never have done with Lestat. Claudia demands that Louis turn a woman, Madeleine, to be her new protector and companion. The Parisian vampires abduct all three and punish them for Lestats murder, imprisoning Louis in a coffin, and trapping Claudia
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Little Women (1994)
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Little Women is a 1994 American family drama film directed by Gillian Armstrong. The screenplay by Robin Swicord is based on the 1868 Louisa May Alcott novel of the same name. It is the feature film adaptation of the Alcott classic, following silent versions released in 1917 and 1918, a 1933 George Cukor-directed release. It was released exclusively on December 21,1994, and was released four days later on December 25,1994. The film focuses on the March sisters, beautiful Meg, tempestuous Jo, tender Beth, and romantic Amy, with their father away fighting in the war, the girls struggle with major and minor problems under the guidance of their strong-willed mother, affectionately called Marmee. As a means of escaping some of their problems, the sisters revel in performing in plays written by Jo in their attic theater. Living next door to the family is wealthy Mr. Laurence, whose grandson Theodore, nicknamed Laurie, moves in with him and becomes a close friend of the March family, particularly Jo. Mr. Laurence becomes a mentor for Beth, whose exquisite piano-playing reminds him of his deceased daughter, Mr. March is wounded in the war and Marmee is called away to nurse him. While Marmee is away, Beth contracts scarlet fever from a neighbors infant, awaiting Marmees return, Meg and Jo send Amy away to live in safety with their Aunt March. Prior to Beths illness, Jo had been Aunt Marchs companion for several years, when Beths condition worsens, Marmee is summoned home and nurses her to recovery just in time for Christmas. Mr. Laurence gives his daughters piano to Beth, Meg accepts John Brookes proposal, four years pass, Meg and John marry, and Beths health is deteriorating steadily. Laurie graduates from college, proposes to Jo and asks her to go to London with him, Jo later deals with the added disappointment that Aunt March has decided to take Amy, who is now sixteen, with her to Europe instead of her. Crushed, Jo departs for New York City to pursue her dream of writing and experiencing life, in Europe, Amy is reunited with Laurie. She is disappointed to find he has become dissolute and irresponsible, in return, he bitterly rebukes her for courting one of his wealthy college friends in order to marry into money. He leaves Amy a letter asking her to wait for him while he works in London for his grandfather, Jo is summoned home to see Beth, who finally dies of the lingering effects of scarlet fever that have plagued her for the past four years. Grieving for her sister, Jo retreats to the comfort of the attic, upon its completion, she sends it to Professor Bhaer. Meanwhile, Meg gives birth to twins Demi and Daisy, a letter from Amy informs the family Aunt March is too ill to travel, so Amy must remain in Europe with her. In London, Laurie receives a letter from Jo in which she informs him of Beths death and mentions Amy is in Vevey, Laurie immediately travels to be at Amys side
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Jumanji
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Jumanji is a 1995 American adventure film directed by Joe Johnston. It is an adaptation of the 1981 childrens book of the name by Chris Van Allsburg. The film was written by Greg Taylor, Jonathan Hensleigh, and Jim Strain, and stars Robin Williams, Bonnie Hunt, Kirsten Dunst, Bradley Pierce, David Alan Grier, Jonathan Hyde, and Bebe Neuwirth. The special effects were provided by Industrial Light & Magic for computer graphic elements, the film was dedicated to visual effects supervisor Stephen L. Price, who died before the films release. The story centers on young Alan Parrish, who trapped in a board game while playing with his best friend Sarah Whittle in 1969. Twenty-six years later in 1995, siblings Judy and Peter Shepherd find the game, begin playing, after tracking down Sarah, the quartet resolve to finish the game in order to reverse all of the destruction it has caused. The film was shot in Keene, New Hampshire, representing the fictional town of Brantford. Additional filming took place in Vancouver, British Columbia, the film was released on December 15,1995. Despite its lukewarm reception, it was a box office success, earning $262,797,249 worldwide on a budget of approximately $65 million. In 2005 a similar film marketed as a sequel to Jumanji. A sequel, Jumanji, Welcome to the Jungle, will be released on December 20,2017, in 1869, near Brantford, New Hampshire, two boys bury a chest, hoping that no one will ever find it. In 1969, Alan Parrish escapes a group of bullies and retreats to a company owned by his father. He meets Carl Bentley, an employee, who reveals a new shoe prototype he made by himself, Alan misplaces the shoe and damages a machine, but Carl takes responsibility and loses his job. After being attacked by the bullies, who steal his bicycle. He finds the chest containing a board game called Jumanji, at home, after an argument with Samuel about attending a boarding school, Alan plans to run away. Sarah Whittle, his friend, arrives to return his bicycle, with each roll of the dice, the player piece moves by itself and a cryptic message describing the rolls outcome appears in the crystal ball at the center of the board. Sarah rolls the dice but nothing happens, Alan rolls the dice, a message tells him to wait in a jungle until someone rolls five or eight, and he is sucked into the game. Afterwards, a swarm of bats appears and chases Sarah out of the mansion, in 1995, Judy and Peter Shepherd move into the vacant Parrish house with their aunt Nora, their parents having died in an accident on a ski trip in Canada
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NBC
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The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is the flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The network is part of the Big Three television networks, founded in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America, NBC is the oldest major broadcast network in the United States. Following the acquisition by GE, Bob Wright served as executive officer of NBC, remaining in that position until his retirement in 2007. In 2003, French media company Vivendi merged its entertainment assets with GE, Comcast purchased a controlling interest in the company in 2011, and acquired General Electrics remaining stake in 2013. Following the Comcast merger, Zucker left NBC Universal and was replaced as CEO by Comcast executive Steve Burke, during a period of early broadcast business consolidation, radio manufacturer Radio Corporation of America acquired New York City radio station WEAF from American Telephone & Telegraph. Westinghouse, a shareholder in RCA, had an outlet in Newark, New Jersey pioneer station WJZ. This station was transferred from Westinghouse to RCA in 1923, WEAF acted as a laboratory for AT&Ts manufacturing and supply outlet Western Electric, whose products included transmitters and antennas. The Bell System, AT&Ts telephone utility, was developing technologies to transmit voice- and music-grade audio over short and long distances, the 1922 creation of WEAF offered a research-and-development center for those activities. WEAF maintained a schedule of radio programs, including some of the first commercially sponsored programs. In an early example of chain or networking broadcasting, the station linked with Outlet Company-owned WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island, AT&T refused outside companies access to its high-quality phone lines. The early effort fared poorly, since the telegraph lines were susceptible to atmospheric. In 1925, AT&T decided that WEAF and its network were incompatible with the companys primary goal of providing a telephone service. AT&T offered to sell the station to RCA in a deal that included the right to lease AT&Ts phone lines for network transmission, the divisions ownership was split among RCA, its founding corporate parent General Electric and Westinghouse. NBC officially started broadcasting on November 15,1926, WEAF and WJZ, the flagships of the two earlier networks, were operated side-by-side for about a year as part of the new NBC. On April 5,1927, NBC expanded to the West Coast with the launch of the NBC Orange Network and this was followed by the debut of the NBC Gold Network, also known as the Pacific Gold Network, on October 18,1931. The Orange Network carried Red Network programming, and the Gold Network carried programming from the Blue Network, initially, the Orange Network recreated Eastern Red Network programming for West Coast stations at KPO in San Francisco. The Orange Network name was removed from use in 1936, at the same time, the Gold Network became part of the Blue Network. In the 1930s, NBC also developed a network for shortwave radio stations, in 1927, NBC moved its operations to 711 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, occupying the upper floors of a building designed by architect Floyd Brown
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ER (TV series)
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It was produced by Constant c Productions and Amblin Television, in association with Warner Bros. ER follows the life of the emergency room of fictional County General Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. The show became the longest-running primetime medical drama in American television history and it won 23 Primetime Emmy Awards, including the 1996 Outstanding Drama Series award, and received 124 Emmy nominations, which makes it the most nominated drama program in history. ER won 116 awards in total, including the Peabody Award, in 1974, author Michael Crichton wrote a screenplay based on his own experiences as a resident physician in a busy hospital emergency room. The screenplay went nowhere and Crichton focused on other topics, in 1990, he published the novel Jurassic Park, and in 1993 began a collaboration with director Steven Spielberg on the film adaptation of the book. Crichton and Spielberg then turned to ER, but decided to film the story as a pilot for a television series rather than as a feature film. Spielbergs Amblin Entertainment provided John Wells as the executive producer. The script used to shoot the pilot was virtually unchanged from what Crichton had written in 1974. Because of a lack of time and money necessary to build a set, the episode of ER was filmed in the former Linda Vista Hospital in Los Angeles. After Spielberg had joined as a producer, NBC ordered six episodes, ER premiered opposite a Monday Night Football game on ABC and did surprisingly well. Then we moved it to Thursday and it just took off, ERs success surprised the networks and critics alike, as David E. Kelleys new medical drama Chicago Hope was expected to crush the new series. Crichton remained executive producer until his death in November 2008, although he was credited as one throughout that entire final season. Wells, the other initial executive producer, served as showrunner for the first three seasons. He was one of the shows most prolific writers and became a director in later years. Lydia Woodward was a part of the first season production team and she took over as showrunner for the fourth season while Wells focused on the development of other series, including Trinity, Third Watch, and The West Wing. She left her executive position at the end of the sixth season. Joe Sachs, who was a writer and producer of the series, believed keeping a commitment to medical accuracy was important, Wed bend the rules. A medication that would take 10 minutes to work might take 30 seconds instead, a 12- to 24-hour shift gets pushed into 48 minutes
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Original cast of the show (1994–1995)
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Wag the Dog
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Wag the Dog is a 1997 black comedy film produced and directed by Barry Levinson. The screenplay by Hilary Henkin and David Mamet was loosely adapted from Larry Beinharts novel American Hero, the film stars Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro, with Anne Heche, Denis Leary, and William H. Macy in supporting roles. The President of the United States is caught making advances on an underage Firefly Girl less than two weeks before Election Day, conrad Brean, a top-notch spin doctor, is brought in to take the publics attention away from the scandal. He decides to construct a diversionary war with Albania, hoping the media will concentrate on this instead, Brean contacts Hollywood producer Stanley Motss to create the war, complete with a theme song and fake film footage of a photogenic orphan in Albania. When the CIA learns of the plot, they send Agent Young to confront Brean who convinces him that revealing the deception is against his best interests. The CIA announces that the war has ended, but otherwise maintains the deception, at each stage of the plan, Motss continually dismisses setbacks as nothing and compares them to past movie-making catastrophes he averted. When the team goes to retrieve Schumann, they discover he is in fact a criminally insane Army prison convict before their plane crashes en route to Andrews Air Force Base. The team survives and is rescued by a farmer, but Schumann attempts to rape the farmers daughter, Motss then stages an elaborate military funeral, claiming that Schumann died from wounds sustained during his rescue. While watching a talk show Motss gets frustrated that the media are crediting the presidents win to a tired campaign slogan of Dont change horses in mid-stream rather than Motsss hard work. Despite previously claiming he was inspired by the challenge, Motss announces that he wants credit and will reveal his involvement, Motss refuses to back down, so Brean reluctantly has him killed and makes it look as if he had a heart attack. Because a dog is smarter than its tail, if the tail were smarter, it would wag the dog. Hoffmans character, Stanley Motss, is said to have been based directly upon famed producer Robert Evans, the award of writing credits on the film became controversial at the time, due to objections by Barry Levinson. After Levinson became attached as director, David Mamet was hired to rewrite Hilary Henkins screenplay, given the close relationship between Levinson and Mamet, New Line Cinema asked that Mamet be given sole credit for the screenplay. The film featured songs created for the fictitious campaign waged by the protagonists, these songs include Good Old Shoe, The American Dream. However, none of these made it onto the soundtrack CD. The CD featured only the track and seven of Knopflers instrumentals. On Rotten Tomatoes, Wag the Dog has an rating of 85% based on 72 reviews. The sites critical consensus reads, Smart, well-acted, and uncomfortably prescient political satire from director Barry Levinson, strangelove, it makes you laugh, and then it makes you wonder
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Small Soldiers
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Small Soldiers is a 1998 American science fiction action film directed by Joe Dante. The film revolves around two adolescents who get caught in the middle of a war between two factions of sentient action figures, the Gorgonites and the Commando Elite. Mars selects Larrys action figures, the Commando Elite, for the project and Irwins educational toys, faced with such a tight deadline, Benson forgoes safety testing, then uses Irwins password and chooses GloboTechs overly powerful X1000 microprocessor to control the toys. Teenager Alan Abernathy signs off for a shipment of the toys at his familys toy store without his fathers consent and he and delivery driver Joe activate the leaders for each group - Archer for the Gorgonites and Chip Hazard for the Commando Elite. Alans neighbor and love interest, Christy Fimple, buys Chip as a present for her brother Timmy. Alan returns home to discover Archer in his backpack, he realizes Archer is sentient, but in the meantime, Alan calls the company and files a complaint. Meanwhile, Chip and his squad pursue Alan to his home and attempt to kill him and Archer, unlike the Gorgonites, Alan is attacked by Nick Nitro, whom he mortally wounds. The next day, Alan and Archer find the rest of the Gorgonites in a dumpster at the shop, at home, Alan learns the primary goal of the Gorgonites is to seek their homeland Gorgon, which they mistakenly believe to be in Yosemite. The Commandos learn of Alans interest in Christy and decide to take her hostage, Alan and Archer sneak into the Fimple house to save Christy, but runs into her Gwendy dolls, whom Chip has engineered as auxiliary troops. The two return to his house, only to find her family and his parents waiting for them, phil refuses to listen to Alan and Christy about what happened. Irwin and Larry arrive and talk to Alan over his voicemail, the normally peaceful Gorgonites exit the house and fight back against the Commando Elite. Mars arrives in his helicopter during the police and fire department cleanup the next day. He pays Joe, the Fimples, and the Abernathys for damages as well as buying their silence from the media, and orders Larry and Irwin to prepare the Commando Elite for sale to rebels in South America. Alan brings the Gorgonites to Yosemite National Park, where he sends out in a large toy boat from his fathers store to find their island home of Gorgon. Bruce Dern, along with George Kennedy, Ernest Borgnine, Jim Brown and Clint Walker, all cast members from The Dirty Dozen, provided voices for the Commando Elite. An uncredited Jim Cummings, along with This is Spinal Tap cast members Michael McKean, Harry Shearer and Christopher Guest, sarah Michelle Gellar and Christina Ricci provided the voices for the transformed Gwendy dolls. Miller and Balaski, who were in the versions of Piranha and The Howling. Picardos character, Ralph Quist, shares a surname with Eddie Quist, too late, as it turned out, and there are elements of both approaches in there
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Dubbing (filmmaking)
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The process usually takes place on a dub stage. After sound editors edit and prepare all necessary tracks, the mixer or mixers proceed to balance all of the elements. In the past, dubbing was practiced primarily in musicals when the actor had a singing voice. Today, dubbing enables the screening of material to a mass audience in countries where viewers do not speak the same language as the performers in the original production. Films, videos, and sometimes video games are dubbed into the local language of a foreign market. In foreign distribution, dubbing is common in theatrically released films, television films, television series, cartoons, the insertion of voice actor performances for animation, such as computer-generated imagery or animated cartoons, is often referred to as ADR although it generally does not replace existing dialogue. In conventional film production, a sound mixer records dialogue during filming. During post-production, a sound editor, or ADR supervisor, reviews all of the dialogue in the film. ADR is recorded during an ADR session, which place in a specialized sound studio. The actor, usually the original actor from the set, views the scene with the original sound, over the course of multiple takes, the actor performs the lines while watching the scene, the most suitable take becomes the final version. The ADR process does not always take place in a post-production studio, the process may be recorded on location, with mobile equipment. Sometimes, a different actor than the actor on set is used during ADR. One famous example is the Star Wars character Darth Vader portrayed by David Prowse, in post-production and it provides a more precise guide for the actors, directors, and technicians, and can be used to complement the traditional ADR method. The rythmo band is projected in the studio and scrolls in perfect synchronization with the picture, Studio time is used more efficiently, since with the aid of scrolling text, picture, and audio cues, actors can read more lines per hour than with ADR alone. With ADR, actors can average 10–12 lines per hour, while rythmo band can facilitate the reading of 35-50 lines per hour, However, the preparation of a rythmo band is a time-consuming process involving a series of specialists organized in a production line. VideoDubber, a startup company from Israel, developed an automated dubbing SaaS platform that enables automated dubbing of video content to over 40 languages using digitized voices. It was the first to dub a full TV channel using this technology for a Spanish cable provider in July 2015, Media Movers, Inc. a dubbing company, has developed a piece of proprietary software that can automatically sync ADR/dubbed tracks with pre-defined algorithms. TM Systems received Emmy awards in 2002 and 2007 for their dubbing and subtitling software, Dubbing is often used to localize a foreign movie
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Dubbing studio
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The Virgin Suicides (film)
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In the suburbs of Grosse Pointe, Michigan during the mid-1970s, a group of neighborhood boys — now grown men — reflect upon their memories of the five Lisbon sisters, ages 13 to 17. During the summer, the youngest sister, Cecilia, slits her wrist in a bath, in the wake of her act, the Lisbon parents watch over their four remaining daughters even more closely. This further isolates the family from the community and heightens air of mystery about the girls to the boys in particular. At the beginning of the new year in the fall, Lux forms a secret and short-lived romance with Trip Fontaine. Trip comes over one night to the Lisbon residence in hopes of getting closer to Lux, Trip persuades Mr. Lisbon to allow him to take Lux to the upcoming Homecoming Dance by promising to provide dates for the other sisters. After winning king and queen, Trip persuades Lux to ditch the group and have sex on the football field, afterwards, Lux falls asleep, and Trip abandons her. At dawn, Lux wakes up alone and has to take a taxi home, having broken curfew, Lux and her sisters are punished by a paranoid Mrs. Lisbon by being taken out of school. Unable to leave the house, the contact the boys across the street by using light signals. After weeks of confinement, the sisters leave a note for the boys, when the boys arrive that night, they find Lux alone in the living room, smoking a cigarette. She invites them inside to wait for her sisters, while she goes to start the car, curious, the boys wander into the basement after hearing a noise and discover Bonnies body hanging from the ceiling rafters. Horrified, they rush back upstairs only to stumble across the body of Mary in the kitchen, devastated by the suicides, Mr. and Mrs. Lisbon leave the neighborhood. Mr. Lisbon has a clean out the house and sell off the family belongings in a yard sale. Whatever didnt sell was put in the trash, including the family photos, the house is sold to a young couple from the Boston area. The adults in the community go about their lives as if nothing happened, the men acknowledge that they had loved the girls, and that they will never know why the sisters took their lives. In addition to original score composed for the film by Air, a separate soundtrack album was released featuring music from Todd Rundgren, Steely Dan, Boston, Heart, Sloan, The Hollies, Al Green, Gilbert OSullivan, 10cc, Styx, and two tracks by Air. The New York Post heaped praise on the film, Its hard to remember a film that mixes disparate, delicate ingredients with the subtlety and virtuosity of Sofia Coppolas brilliant The Virgin Suicides. The Virgin Suicides at the Internet Movie Database The Virgin Suicides at AllMovie The Virgin Suicides at Rotten Tomatoes The Virgin Suicides at Box Office Mojo
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Drop Dead Gorgeous (film)
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In 1995, Mount Rose is preparing for its annual beauty pageant. Amber Atkins is a teenager who signs up to compete in the pageant so she can follow in the footsteps of her idols, Diane Sawyer, and her mother. Amber works after school applying makeups to corpses at the mortuary, various business connections between the Leeman Furniture Store and the judges of the pageant cause many to speculate that the contest will be rigged or fixed. Amber decides to out of the pageant after her mother is injured in an explosion at their mobile home. At the dress rehearsal, fellow contestant Jenelle Betz swaps numbers with Amber, when Jenelle walks on stage at the beginning of rehearsal, a stage light falls and hits her in the head, knocking her unconscious and rendering her deaf. Luckily, Jenelle is a master of language so she claims that despite dropping out of the pageant. At the pageant, Ambers dance costume mysteriously goes missing, Amber blames Becky and the two get into a catty fight. Ambers best friend and fellow contestant Lisa Swenson tears them apart, after comforting a crying Amber, Lisa drops out of the pageant in order to give her own costume to Amber. During judging, the years winner Mary Johanson reprises her talent act while being pushed around the stage in her hospital wheelchair in a re-enactment of her dance movements. When the new winner is announced, Amber is named first runner-up to Rebecca, during the victory parade the next day, Rebecca is killed in a freak accident when the elaborate float on which she is riding explodes. Rebeccas tragic death and Gladyss antics leave Amber as the new pageant winner, upon arrival there, Amber and the other state winners are devastated to find that the cosmetics company has been shut down by the IRS for tax evasion. This sends all the contestants except Amber on a rampage, vandalizing and destroying the property, a few years later, Gladys escapes from prison and is sniping from the top of the Mount Rose supermarket, declaring her intent to take revenge on Amber. During the six-hour police standoff, a reporter doing a live report at the scene is hit by a stray bullet. Amber quickly picks up the microphone and takes over, impressing the news station with her poise. The film closes with a scene showing Amber as co-anchor of the news for Minneapolis–St. Paul television station WAZB-TV, thus living her dream of becoming the next Diane Sawyer. The movie is set in the town of Mount Rose. The accents portrayed in the movie are that of the North Central American dialect found in the Midwest, notably Minnesota
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Bring It On (film)
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Bring It On is a 2000 American teen comedy film that was directed by Peyton Reed and written by Jessica Bendinger. The film stars Kirsten Dunst, Eliza Dushku, Jesse Bradford, the plot of the film centers around a teams preparation for, and participation in cheerleading competitions. Bring It On was released in theaters in the North America on August 25,2000, the film received mostly positive reviews, with some critics praising its light nature and humorous take on its subject and others criticizing the conventional and formulaic plot. Bring It On earned a gross of approximately $90 million. Since its release, the film has become a cult classic, Torrance Shipman, a student at Rancho Carne High School in San Diego, anxiously dreams about her first day of senior year. Her boyfriend, Aaron has left for college, and her cheerleading squad, Torrance is elected to replace the team captain, Big Red who is graduating. Soon, however, teammate Carver is injured and can no longer compete with her broken leg, while watching the Toros practice, Missy recognizes their routines from a rival squad that her previous high school used to compete against. After accusing Torrance of being a liar and stealing the routine, she learns from Torrances offended, so Missy drives Torrance to Los Angeles, where they watch the East Compton Clovers perform routines that are virtually identical to their own teams. Isis, the Clovers team captain, angrily confronts the two, Torrance learns that Big Red regularly attended the Clovers practices to videotape and steal their routines. In the meantime, Missy is seen as a threat by the female members of the squad. Isis informs Torrance of her plans to defeat the Toros at the regional and national championships, when Torrance tells the Toros about the routines, the team still votes in favor of using the current routine to win, Torrance reluctantly agrees. At the Toros next home game, Isis and her teammates show up and perform the Toros routine in front of the whole school, the Toros realize that they have no choice but to learn a different routine. In desperation, they employ a professional choreographer named Sparky Polastri to provide one, but at the Regionals, the team scheduled immediately ahead of the Toros performs the exact routine they had been practicing. The Toros have no choice but to perform the same routine. After the debacle that ensues, Torrance speaks to a official and is told Polastri provided the routine to several other teams in California. As the defending champions, the Toros are nevertheless granted their place in the Finals, Torrance, crushed by her failure to lead the team successfully, considers quitting. Cliff encourages and supports her, intensifying their growing attraction, when Cliff sees Torrance and Aaron together, he angrily severs his friendship with Torrance, to her distress. But her confidence is renewed by Cliffs encouragement and she convinces her team to create an innovative
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Many critics felt the film displayed the comedic talent of Dunst.
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Get Over It (film)
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The film was directed by Tommy OHaver for Miramax Films and written by R. Lee Fleming, Jr. The film grossed $19 million against a budget of $22 million, Berke Landers and his girlfriend Allison were the quintessential high-school couple who grew up together and eventually fell in love, but she breaks up with him immediately after the film begins. This leads to a musical number of Love Will Keep Us Together by Captain & Tennille. Allison then starts a relationship with Striker, a student who was once the lead singer of a boy band called the Swingtown Lads. Meanwhile, Berkes friends Felix and Dennis try to find a new girlfriend for him, Striker plays Demetrius, Allison plays Hermia, Kelly plays Helena, and Lysander is to be played by the schools star actor, Peter Wong. But after Peter is injured in an accident, Striker nominates Berke to take over the role of Lysander. He gradually improves with continuing assistance from Kelly, but remains unaware of the attraction between the two of them. While searching through props backstage, Kelly accidentally shoots Berke in the arm with an arrow gun, meanwhile, Oates blames Kellys singing for his own poorly written song and rejects her suggestions to improve it. Felix and Dennis set Berke up on a date with Dora a very attractive, the date ends horribly when Dora inadvertently causes a fire in the restaurant. They try again by taking him to a strip club, however their attempts fail when Burke is locked into a harness and whipped by a dominatrix named Mistress Moira. The night ends with the club being raided by the police, Felix and Dennis abandoning Berke who is picked up by his parents who, to Berkes shock. At a party at Berkes house, Kelly kisses Berke, and she leaves him, annoyed at his unwillingness to move on with his life, and Felix, coming across the two, punches Berke. At the same party, Berke and Allison catch Striker cheating on Allison with her best friend Maggie, meanwhile, Frank and Beverly return home to the party and once again congratulate Berke. Berke lampoons them for constantly embarrassing him and not acting like normal parents would to these types of situations, on the plays opening night, the first half of the performance goes smoothly except for some onstage scuffling between Berke and Striker. During the intermission, Allison confides to Berke that she wants to get together with him. Meanwhile, Striker bribes two of the technicians to try and blow up Berke using stage pyrotechnics. Before the play resumes, Felix gives the sheet music for a love ballad written by Kelly to replace Oates unpopular tune. After the curtain rises, Kelly sings her song so beautifully that Berke is reminded of their time together, as the fourth act begins, he abandons his lines from the script and makes up his own verse professing his characters love for Kellys character Helena
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Crazy/Beautiful
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Crazy/Beautiful is a 2001 romantic drama film starring Kirsten Dunst and Jay Hernandez. It is largely set at Palisades Charter High School and the area, including Downtown Los Angeles, Pacific Palisades, Malibu. Nicole Oakley, the daughter of congressman Tom Oakley, meets a working class Mexican-American straight-A student. Nicoles mother committed suicide when she was young, and feels unwanted by her father. Carlos, on the hand, is from a poor background and is working hard towards becoming a Navy pilot. They fall in love, and Carlos spends so much time with her that he stops performing well in school, Carlos is applying to the U. S. Naval Academy and Nicoles father suggests Carlos talk to him about gaining his Congressional sponsorship to the Academy. During their meeting, Nicoles father tells Carlos that he needs to end his relationship with Nicole, Carlos breaks up with her, which leads Nicole into depression and back into wild, drunken partying. One night, Carlos calls her and finds out she is getting drunk at a school party. He saves Nicole from a boy trying to take advantage of her, Carlos drives her home, but they get stopped by the police. As a result of this incident, Nicoles father and stepmother decide that she needs to go to a school far away from home, Carlos rescues her. While they are away, Nicole realizes she is getting in the way of Carlos dreams and they go back home and she makes up with her father. Her father thanks Carlos for not listening to his advice to abandon Nicole, in the end credits, we see that Carlos has become a pilot with the Navy. Kirsten Dunst as Nicole Oakley Jay Hernandez as Carlos Nuñez Bruce Davison as Tom Oakley Lucinda Jenney as Courtney Oakley Taryn Manning as Maddy Soledad St. Hilaire as Mrs. S, box office taking in $4,715,060 USD during its opening weekend. The film eventually grossed a total of $19,937,988 on a $13 million budget. The soundtrack album was released by Hollywood Records on June 6,2001, Seven Mary Threes Wait served as the albums English lead single, Wait charted considerably well and its music video, directed by the films director Stockwell, featured Dunst and Hernandez. Ten Le Fe - Mellow Man Ace Who am I
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Mary Jane Watson
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Mary Jane MJ Watson is a fictional character, a supporting character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Stan Lee and John Romita, Sr. the character made her first appearance in The Amazing Spider-Man #25 and she has been the best friend, main love interest, and wife of Peter Parker, the alter ego of Spider-Man. Parker consistently worms his way out of meeting Mary Jane who, aside from a brief appearance in #25 with her face obscured, is never actually seen until The Amazing Spider-Man #42. Romita has stated that in designing Mary Jane, he used Ann-Margret from the movie Bye Bye Birdie as a guide, using her coloring, the shape of her face, her red hair and her form-fitting short skirts. We, ourselves, felt that Mary Jane ended up being not only more attractive but more fun and more interesting, and we decided to let Peter end up with her. As though the characters had taken over, the names Mary Jane and M. J. are also common slang terms for marijuana. When asked about this, Stan Lee claimed it was purely coincidental, gerry Conway succeeded Stan Lee as writer of The Amazing Spider-Man in 1972. Conway pushed Mary Jane to the forefront of the cast, like Lee, Conway found Mary Jane to be more compelling than Gwen, hadnt lost the edge that made her an interesting character. She was just a nice person, in 1987, the character was married to Spider-Man in The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #21. As a consequence, writer J. M. DeMatteis made Mary Jane and her marriage to Spider-Man one of the themes of the critically acclaimed Kravens Last Hunt. DeMatteis commented that Kraven’s Last Hunt has a lot of darkness in it, but the story primarily is about Peter and his journey into the light, the reason Peter makes it out is because he has Mary Jane in his life, and that is his salvation. Mary Janes relatively unknown early life was explored in The Amazing Spider-Man #259. Mary Jane made her first actual appearance in The Amazing Spider-Man #25 and it is not until The Amazing Spider-Man #42 that her face is actually seen. In that issue, on the last page, Peter finally meets her, Peter begins to date her, much to the annoyance of Gwen Stacy. However, they become irritated with each other and Peter subsequently chooses to date Gwen. Mary Jane, who becomes Harry Osborns love interest and girlfriend, remains a friend to Peter. Despite her enjoyment of life, her friendships, and dating, when her relationship with Harry Osborn comes to an end, it has significant impact on Harry, driving him to a drug overdose. This in turn creates an effect, driving his father Norman Osborn to the brink of insanity
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Mary Jane's face is shown for the first time, and her famous catchphrase first uttered. Art by
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First appearance of Mary Jane in The Spectacular Spider-Man. Reference to her original debut in the panel of The Amazing Spider-Man #42.
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Kirsten Dunst as Mary Jane in the
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Sam Raimi
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His most recent work is the 2013 Disney fantasy film Oz the Great and Powerful. Raimi has also produced several television series and founded his own production company, Renaissance Pictures. Recently, he worked as the producer of The Possession, Raimi was born in Royal Oak, Michigan. He is the fourth of five born to Celia Barbara and Leonard Ronald Raimi. He was raised in Conservative Judaism, his ancestors emigrated from Russia, Raimi graduated from Groves High School and later went on to attend Michigan State University, where he majored in English but left after three semesters to film The Evil Dead. Raimi became fascinated with making films when his father brought a movie camera home one day and he began to make Super 8 movies with childhood friend Bruce Campbell. In college, he teamed up with his brothers roommate Robert Tapert and Campbell to shoot Within the Woods and he began work on his third film Crimewave, intended as a live-action comic book—the film was not successful, due in part to unwanted studio intervention. Raimi then returned to the genre with the seminal Evil Dead II. With his brother Ivan Raimi, Sam Raimi also wrote Easy Wheels, a long-time comic book buff, he then attempted to adapt The Shadow into a movie, but was unable to secure the rights, so he created his own super-hero, Darkman. Army of Darkness, the movie in the Evil Dead trilogy, was a box office flop. Raimi achieved great critical and commercial success with the blockbuster Spider-Man, the movie has grossed over US$800 million worldwide, spawning two sequels, Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man 3, both directed by Raimi and both grossing roughly $800 million each. After the completion of the third Spider-Man film, he planned on producing two more sequels but could not find a satisfactory script, Raimi frequently collaborates with Joel and Ethan Coen, beginning when Joel was one of the editors of Evil Dead. The Coens co-wrote Crimewave and The Hudsucker Proxy with Raimi in the mid-1980s, Raimi made cameo appearances in Millers Crossing, The Hudsucker Proxy, and with Joel Coen in Spies Like Us. The Coen brothers gave Raimi advice on shooting in snow for A Simple Plan, the film was written by his childhood friend writer-director Mike Binder and shot at the camp that they both attended when they were younger. Raimi also produced the entire The Grudge franchise, according to Entertainment Weekly, Raimi had expressed an interest in directing a film version of The Hobbit, the prequel to the Lord of the Rings trilogy. In 2008, Guillermo del Toro was selected as the director, Raimi may direct By Any Means Necessary, the next film based on the Jack Ryan CIA character created by Tom Clancy for Paramount Pictures. Disney also approached him to direct W. I. T. C. H, the Movie, based on the popular comic. Blizzard Entertainment announced on July 22,2009 that Sam Raimi will be directing a Warcraft film, however at Comic-Con International 2012, it was revealed that he would not be the one directing the World of Warcraft adaptation
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Sam Raimi at the 2014
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Raimi in Los Angeles, March 2013
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Spider-Man trilogy
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The first live-action film based on Spider-Man was the short Spider-Man by Donald F. Glut in 1969. This was followed by Spider-Man, an American made-for-television film that premiered on the CBS network in 1977 and it starred Nicholas Hammond and was intended as a backdoor pilot for what became a weekly episodic TV series. The first two films were met with reviews from critics, while the third film met mixed reviews. In 2010, Sony announced that the franchise would be rebooted, Marc Webb was hired to direct, with Andrew Garfield starring, and The Amazing Spider-Man was released to positive reviews. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 saw mixed reviews and this younger version of Peter Parker is played by Tom Holland, and appears in Captain America, Civil War before starring in Spider-Man, Homecoming in 2017 and Avengers, Infinity War in 2018. A sequel to Homecoming is slated for 2019, Raimis trilogy grossed nearly US$2.5 billion worldwide on a $597 million total budget, while Webbs films grossed over $1.4 billion on a $480 million total budget. The Spider-Man films are the eighth highest-grossing film franchise, having grossed over $3.9 billion collectively, in 1977, the pilot episode of The Amazing Spider-Man television series was released by Columbia Pictures as Spider-Man outside of the United States. In 1978, episodes from the series were re-edited and released outside of the United States as a feature film titled Spider-Man Strikes Back. In 1981, a film using the same method was released as Spider-Man. On July 22,1978, Tōei released a theatrical spin-off of their Spider-Man TV series at the Tōei Cartoon Festival, the film was directed by Kōichi Takemoto, who also directed eight episodes of the TV series. The week after the release, a character introduced in the film, Jūzō Mamiya. Like the rest of the series, the film was available for streaming on Marvels official website in 2009. The low box office performance of 1983s Superman III made feature-film adaptations of comic book properties a very low priority in Hollywood until the 1990s, in 1985, after a brief option on Spider-Man by Roger Corman expired, Marvel Comics optioned the property to Cannon Films. Cannon chiefs Menahem Golan and his cousin Yoram Globus agreed to pay Marvel Comics $225,000 over the five-year option period, however, the rights would revert to Marvel if a film was not made by April 1990. Tobe Hooper, then preparing both Invaders From Mars and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, was mooted as director, Golan and Globus misunderstood the concept of the character and instructed writer Leslie Stevens, creator of The Outer Limits, to write a treatment reflecting their misconception. In Stevens story, a corporate scientist intentionally subjects ID-badge photographer Peter Parker to radioactive bombardment, transforming him into a hairy, suicidal and this human tarantula refuses to join the scientist’s new master-race of mutants, battling a succession of mutations kept in a basement laboratory. Unhappy with this perceived debasement of his comic creation, Marvel’s Stan Lee pushed for a new story and screenplay, written for Cannon by Ted Newsom. The variation on the story had Otto Octavius as a teacher
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Tobey Maguire as Spider-Man in the trilogy directed by
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Andrew Garfield as Spider-Man in the films directed by
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Wimbledon (film)
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Wimbledon is a 2004 British romantic comedy film directed by Richard Loncraine. The film stars Paul Bettany as a tennis pro and Kirsten Dunst as an up-and-coming tennis star. As Wimbledon begins, he bumps into Lizzie Bradbury, the American rising star of female tennis and they fall in love and her interest in him changes his entire perception, even giving him the strength to win again. As their love grows, Peters game becomes better and better, lizzies overprotective father-manager Dennis Bradbury is determined to nip their relationship in the bud, believing it detrimental to her career. One day, Dennis comes to Peter’s old flat and yells at him for spoiling his daughters game and she overhears this and decides to leave him and focus on her game. The night before their matches, Peter sneaks into Lizzie’s hotel room. The next day, he performs well and wins in straight sets. Lizzie angrily breaks up with Peter, saying his selfishness made her lose, Peter has to play the final match against Jake Hammond, an arrogant American star, but finds himself outclassed. At the airport, Lizzie watches an interview on TV in which Peter apologizes and declares his love for her, as Lizzie reaches the stadium, Peter has lost two sets and is behind in the third. When the game is suspended due to rain, Lizzie appears in the dressing room and she tells him the secret of Jake’s tricky serves and Peter recovers to win the title. He and Lizzie get married, and with his support, Lizzie goes on to win the U. S. Open and Wimbledon twice, ultimately achieving her dreams. In the last scene, Peter is with their youngest child, a boy, watching Lizzie and their eldest child, the actors served with real tennis balls. All others were added digitally to make it appear like they were serving, the film used locally-recruited Wimbledon residents as extras. In the original script Lizzie steps nude out of the shower upon meeting Peter, actress Kirsten Dunst filmed the initial meeting scene nude, but before the films release she persuaded director Richard Loncraine to edit the scene so her nudity was removed. The result is a cut first showing Dunst behind the glass shower door. The film is dedicated to Mark McCormack, founder of International Management Group, a management firm for high level athletes, some scenes were filmed during the Championships in 2003 between matches. It is the time in the history of the tournament that this has been allowed. Some of the court scenes with Paul Bettany were filmed at the Stoke Park Country Club
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a 2004 American romantic science fiction comedy-drama film written by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Michel Gondry. It follows a couple who have erased each other from their memories. Pierre Bismuth created the story with Kaufman and Gondry, the ensemble cast includes Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst, Mark Ruffalo, Elijah Wood and Tom Wilkinson. The title of the film is a quotation from Eloisa to Abelard by Alexander Pope, the film uses elements of the psychological thriller and a nonlinear narrative to explore the nature of memory and romantic love. It opened in North America to wide acclaim on March 19,2004 and it won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and Winslet received a nomination for Academy Award for Best Actress. The film developed a following in the years after its release. Shy, soft-spoken Joel Barish and the unrestrained free-spirit Clementine Kruczynski begin a relationship on a Long Island Rail Road train from Montauk and they are almost immediately drawn to each other despite their different personalities, though both had felt the need to travel to Montauk that day. Although they do not realize it at the time, Joel and Clementine are, in fact, former lovers, after a fight, Clementine had hired the New York City firm Lacuna, Inc. to erase all of her memories of their relationship. Upon discovering this from his friends Rob and Carrie, Joel was devastated and decided to undergo the procedure himself, much of the film subsequently takes place in Joels mind, during this memory erasure procedure. As his memories are erased, he tries to evade the erasing effects of the procedure by hiding Clementine in remote parts of his subconscious, Joel finds himself revisiting them in reverse. Upon seeing happier times of love with Clementine from earlier in their relationship, he struggles to preserve at least some memory of her, despite his efforts to either hide the memories or wake up and stop the process, the memories are slowly erased. He comes to the last remaining memory of Clementine, the day he had first met her at a house in Montauk. As this memory disintegrates around them, she tells him, Meet me in Montauk, separate, but related, story arcs, which revolve around the employees of Lacuna, are revealed during Joels memory erasure. Patrick, one of the Lacuna technicians performing the erasure, uses Joels memories, mary, the Lacuna receptionist, is dating the other memory-erasing technician, Stan. On learning this, she asks Stan whether he knew about this, mary then quits her job and steals the companys records, and mails the two former clients their records from Lacuna. The film returns to the present, after Joel and Clementine have met aboard the train, Joel beckons Clementine to start over, Clementine initially resists, pointing out it could go the same way. Joel accepts this, and they decide to attempt a relationship anyway, on Metacritic, the film has a score of 89 out of 100, based on 41 reviews, indicating universal acclaim. Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times gave the film a four stars, referring to Kaufman as the most gifted screenwriter of the 2000s
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Cameron Crowe
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Cameron Bruce Crowe is an American director, producer, screenwriter, journalist, author, and actor. Before moving into the industry, Crowe was a contributing editor at Rolling Stone magazine. Crowes debut screenwriting effort, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, grew out of a book he wrote while posing for one year undercover as a student at Clairemont High School in San Diego, Crowe landed his biggest hit, though, with Jerry Maguire. After this, he was given a light to go ahead with a pet project. Centering on a music journalist on tour with an up-and-coming band. For his screenplay, he won an Academy Award, also in late 1999, Crowes second book was published, a question and answer session with the film director Billy Wilder entitled Conversations with Wilder. Cameron Crowe was born in Palm Springs, California and his father, James A. Crowe, originally from Kentucky, owned a real estate and phone service business. His mother, Alice Marie, was a teacher, activist and she worked as a psychology professor and family therapist and often participated in peace demonstrations and causes relating to the rights of farm workers. Crowe was the youngest of three children with two sisters, but one died when he was young, the family moved around often but spent a lot of time in the desert town of Indio. Crowe commented that Indio was where people owned tortoises, not dogs and his family finally settled in San Diego. Crowe skipped kindergarten and two grades in elementary, and by the time he attended Catholic high school, he was quite obviously younger than the other students, to add to his alienation, he was often ill because he suffered from nephritis. Crowe began writing for the newspaper and by the age of 13 was contributing music reviews for an underground publication. He began corresponding with Lester Bangs, who had left the Door to become editor at the rock magazine Creem. Crowe graduated from the University of San Diego High School in 1972 at the age of 15, on a trip to Los Angeles, he met Ben Fong-Torres, the editor of Rolling Stone, who hired him to write for the magazine. He also joined the Rolling Stone staff as a contributing editor, during this time Crowe interviewed Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, the Eagles, Poco, Steely Dan, members of Led Zeppelin and more. Crowe was Rolling Stones youngest-ever contributor, Crowes first cover story was on the Allman Brothers Band. He went on the road with them for three weeks at the age of 16 and interviewed not only the band, but also the entire road crew. Because Crowe was a fan of the 1970s hard rock bands that the older writers disliked, he landed a lot of major interviews
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Cameron Crowe at the 2005
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Tragicomedy
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Tragicomedy is a literary genre that blends aspects of both tragic and comic forms. Most often seen in literature, the term can variously describe either a tragic play which contains enough comic elements to lighten the overall mood or a serious play with a happy ending. There is no formal definition of tragicomedy from the classical age. It appears that the Greek philosopher Aristotle had something like the Renaissance meaning of the term in mind when, in Poetics, he discusses tragedy with a dual ending. In this respect, a number of Greek and Roman plays, for instance Alcestis, may be called tragicomedies, the word itself originates with the Roman comic playwright Plautus, who coined the term somewhat facetiously in the prologue to his play Amphitryon. For rule mongers, mixed works such as mentioned above, more recent romances such as Orlando Furioso. Two figures helped to elevate tragicomedy to the status of a regular genre, Giovanni Battista Giraldi Cinthio, in the mid-sixteenth century, both argued that the tragedy-with-comic-ending was most appropriate to modern times and produced his own examples of such plays. Even more important was Giovanni Battista Guarini, Guarinis Il Pastor Fido, published in 1590, provoked a fierce critical debate in which Guarinis spirited defense of generic innovation eventually carried the day. Guarinis tragicomedy offered modulated action that never drifted too far either to comedy or tragedy, mannered characters, all three became staples of continental tragicomedy for a century and more. In England, where practice ran ahead of theory, the situation was quite different, for the law of writ and the liberty, these are the only men. Some aspects of this romantic impulse remain even in the work of more sophisticated playwrights, Shakespeares last plays, by the early Stuart period, some English playwrights had absorbed the lessons of the Guarini controversy. John Fletchers The Faithful Shepherdess, an adaptation of Guarinis play, was produced in 1608. Fletchers definition focuses primarily on events, a genre is determined by whether or not people die in it. Some of Fletchers contemporaries, notably Philip Massinger and James Shirley, wrote successful, richard Brome also essayed the form, but with less success. And many of their writers, ranging from John Ford to Lodowick Carlell to Sir Aston Cockayne. Tragicomedy remained fairly popular up to the closing of the theaters in 1642, the old styles were of course cast aside as tastes changed in the eighteenth century, the tragedy with a happy ending eventually developed into melodrama, in which form it still flourishes. The more subtle criticism that developed after the Renaissance stressed the thematic and formal aspects of tragicomedy, gotthold Ephraim Lessing defined it as a mixture of emotions in which seriousness stimulates laughter, and pain pleasure. Even more commonly, tragicomedys affinity with satire and dark comedy have suggested a tragicomic impulse in modern absurdist drama, friedrich Dürrenmatt, the Swiss dramatist, suggested that tragicomedy was the inevitable genre for the twentieth century, he describes his play The Visit as a tragicomedy
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Tragic Comic masks of
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Elizabethtown (film)
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Elizabethtown is a 2005 American romantic tragicomedy film written and directed by Cameron Crowe, and starring Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst. Alec Baldwin has a role as a CEO of an athletic shoe company. The movies title comes from its location, Elizabethtown, Kentucky. Drew Baylor is a designer for a shoe company, when his latest design, hyped to be a great accomplishment in his life, has a flaw that will cost the company $972 million to correct, Drew is shamed by his boss before he is dismissed. When his mother Hollie refuses to go, following a dispute between her and the rest of the Kentucky Baylors, Drew volunteers to retrieve the body. On the flight to Kentucky, Drew meets Claire, an optimistic and kind flight attendant who gives him a seat in first class and she proves helpful to a despondent Drew, giving him directions and tips on getting to his destination before they part. When he gets to Elizabethtown, Drew is met by the family, while staying at a hotel, where a wedding reception is being held, Drew calls his mother and sister, then his ex-girlfriend as he continues to struggle with his suicidal thoughts. Finally, he calls Claire, and the two of them talk for hours and she impulsively suggests they meet before she has to depart on a flight to Hawaii. Drew comes to grips with his fathers death, and while he is visiting his Aunt Dora, Drew realizes that he hadnt given the suit to the mortuary to be cremated, and has second thoughts on the procedure. He rushes out to stop the cremation but is too late and is given his fathers ashes, Claire returns from her flight and unexpectedly meets him at his hotel. They sleep together, but when she tells him she loves him, he responds with regret that he failed at his life, Claire leaves upset that Drew had not responded in kind. Hollie and Heather arrive for the service, and Hollie tells an anecdote with her eulogy. Claire arrives, and tells Drew to take one final trip with his father, Drew follows the map home, spreading his fathers ashes at memorable sites until the map gives him a choice, to either follow the map home, or follow new directions. He chooses the latter, which leads him to a town fair. The two kiss and Drew finally realizes he loves her, jane Fonda was cast in Sarandons role, but had to drop out. Ashton Kutcher, Seann William Scott, Colin Hanks, Chris Evans, Kutcher was actually hired to play Drew, but director Cameron Crowe decided during filming that the chemistry between him and Dunst was not right and Kutcher left the project. Biel auditioned for the lead, but was given a smaller role as Drews then-girlfriend. There is a character named Ben who is mentioned as a love interest of Claire, in the original cut of the film, Ben is revealed to be Claires brother
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Sofia Coppola
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Sofia Carmina Coppola is an American screenwriter, director, producer and actress. In 2003, she received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the comedy-drama Lost in Translation, in 2010, with the drama Somewhere, she became the first American woman to win the Golden Lion, the top prize at the Venice Film Festival. Her father is director, producer and screenwriter Francis Ford Coppola, sofia Coppola was born in New York City, New York, the youngest child and only daughter of set decorator/artist Eleanor Coppola and director Francis Ford Coppola. Her father is of Italian descent, at fifteen, she interned with Chanel. Coppola is a 1989 graduate of St. Helena High School and she later attended Mills College and the California Institute of the Arts. After dropping out of college, Coppola started a line called Milkfed. Coppolas acting career, marked by frequent criticisms of nepotism, began while she was an infant, the best known of these early roles is her appearance in The Godfather as the infant Michael Francis Rizzi in the baptism scene. Coppola responded to a question about her role in The Godfather Part III in a 2013 interview, I didnt really think about the public aspect of it. People felt very attached to the Godfather films, I grew up with them being no big deal. I mean, I understand theyre great films but and it makes sense that people would have an opinion about it but I got a lot of attention I wasnt expecting. I was going to art school anyway so I was able to get back to what I was doing and it was before the Internet so magazines would come out but then the next month they were gone. There wasnt even as much paparazzi around then and she has since been quoted as saying that she was not hurt by the criticism from her role in The Godfather Part III, because she never especially wanted an acting career. Coppolas first short film was Lick the Star and it played many times on the Independent Film Channel. She made her film directing debut with The Virgin Suicides. It received critical acclaim upon its premiere in North America at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival and was released later that year and her second feature was Lost in Translation. Coppola won the Academy Award for her screenplay and three Golden Globe Awards including Best Picture Musical or Comedy. Her win for best original screenplay in 2003 made her a third-generation Oscar winner, in 2004, Coppola was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Her third film was the biopic Marie Antoinette, adapted from the biography by British historian Antonia Fraser, Kirsten Dunst plays the title character, who marries King Louis XVI, played by Jason Schwartzman, Coppolas cousin
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Coppola at the
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Coppola in 2003
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Marie Antoinette (2006 film)
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Marie Antoinette is a 2006 historical comedy-drama film, written and directed by Sofia Coppola and starring Kirsten Dunst. It is based on the life of queen Marie Antoinette in the leading up to the French Revolution. It won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design and it was released in the United States on October 20,2006, by Columbia Pictures. Fourteen-year-old Maria Antonia is the beautiful, charming, and naive archduchess of Austria, youngest of Empress Maria Theresas daughters. In 1770, the one left unmarried among her sisters, she is sent by her mother to marry the Dauphin of France. Marie Antoinette travels to France, relinquishing all connections with her country, including her pet Pug Mops. The two arrive at the Palace of Versailles, which was built by the Kings great-grandfather. They are married at once, and are encouraged to produce an heir to the throne as soon as possible, as time passes, Marie Antoinette finds life at the court of Versailles stifling. The French court is rife with gossip, and Marie Antoinette consistently ruffles feathers by defying its ritualistic formality, Marie Antoinette also refuses to meet or speak with Jeanne Bécu, Madame du Barry, the mistress of Louis XV. Over the years, Maria Theresa continues to write to her daughter, giving advice on how to impress, unfortunately, Maries attempts to have sex with her husband fail and the marriage remains childless. Marie spends most of her time buying extravagant clothes and gambling, after a masquerade ball, Marie and Louis XVI return to find that the King has smallpox, he orders du Barry to leave Versailles, and soon dies. Louis XVI is crowned King of France, with Marie as Queen, Marie Antoinettes brother, Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor comes to visit, counseling her against her constant parties, advice that she finds easy to ignore. Joseph meets Louis XVI at the Royal Zoo and explains to him the mechanics of sexual intercourse in terms of key-making, as one of the Kings favorite hobbies is locksmithing. Thereafter, the King and Marie Antoinette have sex for the first time, as the baby princess grows up, Marie Antoinette spends much of her time at the Petit Trianon, a small chateau in the park of Versailles. It is also at this time that she begins an affair with Axel Fersen, as Frances financial crisis worsens, food shortages and riots increase. Marie Antoinettes image with her subjects has completely deteriorated by this point, her luxurious lifestyle, as the queen matures, she focuses less on her social life and more on her family, and makes what she considers to be significant financial adjustments. A year after her mothers death on November 29,1780, Marie Antoinette gives birth to a son, Louis Joseph, as the French Revolution erupts with the storming of the Bastille, the royal family resolves to stay in France, unlike many of the nobility. Rioting Parisians force the family to leave Versailles for Paris, the film ends with the royal familys transfer to Tuileries Palace
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Best Actress Award (Cannes Film Festival)
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The Best Actress Award is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the jury from the films in competition at the festival. It was first awarded in 1946, the ceremony was cancelled in 1948,1950, and 1968. No awards were given to actresses in 1947, on four occasions, the jury has awarded multiple women the prize from one film. The four films were A World Apart, Brink of Life, A Big Family, the jury also on occasion cites actresses with a special citation that is separate from the main award. From 1979 to 1981 the festival awarded a Best Supporting Actress prize. Isabelle Adjani is the actress to ever win the award for two films in one festival, which she did in 1981. The award can be for lead or supporting roles, barbara Hershey won the award consecutively in 1987 and 1988. ‡ - indicates the performance was nominated for an Academy Award 2 wins Vanessa Redgrave – Morgan
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Cannes Film Festival
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Founded in 1946, the invitation-only festival is held annually at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès. On 1 July 2014, co-founder and former head of French pay-TV operator Canal+ Pierre Lescure took over as President of the festival, the Board of Directors also appointed Gilles Jacob as Honorary President of the festival. The 2016 Cannes Film Festival took place between 11 and 22 May 2016, australian film director George Miller was the President of the Jury. I, Daniel Blake, directed by British director Ken Loach, in 2017, The Festival de Cannes will celebrate its 70th anniversary edition from May 17 to 28. In 1947, the festival was held as the Festival du film de Cannes, at that time the principle of equality was introduced, with a jury made up of only one representative per country. The festival is now held at the Palais des Festivals, expressly constructed for the occasion, although for its 1949 inaugural the roof was unfinished, the festival was not held in 1948 and 1950 on account of budgetary problems. Although its origins may be attributed in part to the French desire to compete with Autumns Venice Film Festival, in 1955, the Palme dOr was created, replacing the Grand Prix du Festival which had been given until that year. In 1957, Dolores del Rio was the first female member of the jury as a Sélection officielle – Member, in 1959, the Marché du Film was founded, giving the festival a commercial character and facilitating exchanges between sellers and buyers in the film industry. Today it has become the first international platform for film commerce, in 1962, the International Critics Week was born, created by the French Union of Film Critics as the first parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival. Its goal was to showcase first and second works by directors all over the world. In 1965, an hommage was paid to Jean Cocteau after his death, the next year, Olivia de Havilland was named the first female president of the festival. The 1968 festival was halted on 19 May, some directors, such as Carlos Saura and Miloš Forman, had withdrawn their films from the competition. The filmmakers achieved the reinstatement of the President, and they founded the Film Directors Society that same year, during the 1970s, important changes occurred in the Festival. In 1972, Robert Favre Le Bret was named the new President and he immediately introduced an important change in the selection of the participating films. Until that date, the different countries chose which films would represent them in the festival, Bessy created one committee to select French films, and another for foreign films. In 1978, Gilles Jacob assumed the President position, introducing the Caméra dOr award, in 1983, a new, much bigger Palais des Festivals et des Congrès was built to host the Festival. It was nicknamed The Bunker and provoked many reactions against it, in 1984, Pierre Viot replaced Robert Favre Le Bret as President of the Festival. It was not until 1995 that Gilles Jacob created the last section of the Official Selection and its aim was to support the creation of works of cinema in the world and to contribute to the entry of the new scenario writers in the circle of the celebrities
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Stars posing for photographers are a part of Cannes folklore.
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Palme d'Or awarded to
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Lars von Trier
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Lars von Trier is a Danish film director and screenwriter. He has a prolific and controversial career spanning almost four decades and his work is known for its genre and technical innovation, confrontational examination of existential, social, and political issues, and treatment of subjects like mercy, sacrifice and mental health. His political and humanitarian work was honored in 2004 with the Cinema for Peace awareness award. Among more than 100 awards and over 200 nominations in festivals worldwide, he has received the Palme dOr, the Grand Prix, the Prix du Jury, in March 2017, Trier began filming The House that Jack Built, an English-language serial killer thriller. Trier was born in Kongens Lyngby, north of Copenhagen, the son of Inger Høst and he received his surname from Høsts husband Ulf Trier, whom he considered his biological father until 1989. The director would later become famous for his honesty to journalists about his family and upbringing, as well as the impact it had on his identity, beliefs. Trier studied film theory at the University of Copenhagen and film direction at the National Film School of Denmark. In 1984, The Element of Crime, Triers breakthrough film, received awards in seven international festivals including the Technical Grand Prize at Cannes. His next film, Epidemic, was shown at Cannes in the Un Certain Regard section. Trier has occasionally referred to his films as falling into thematic and stylistic trilogies and this pattern began with The Element of Crime, the first of the Europa trilogy, which illuminated the traumas of Europe both in the past and the future. It includes The Element of Crime, Epidemic and Europa, Von Trier directed Medea for television, which won him the Jean dArcy prize in France. It is based on a screenplay by Carl Th. Dreyer, Trier completed the Europa trilogy in 1991 with Europa, which won the Prix du Jury at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival and picked up awards at other major festivals. In 1990 he also directed the video for Bakerman by Laid Back. This video was reused in 2006 by the English DJ and artist Shaun Baker in a remake of Bakerman, seeking both financial independence and total creative control over their projects, von Trier and producer Peter Aalbæk Jensen founded the film production company Zentropa Entertainment in 1992. Named after a railway company in Europa, their most recent film at the time, Zentropa has produced many movies other than Triers own. It has also produced hardcore sex films, Constance, Pink Prison, HotMen CoolBoyz, in 1995, von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg presented their manifesto for a new cinematic movement, which they called Dogme 95. The Dogme 95 concept, which led to international interest in Danish film, in 2008, together with their fellow Dogme directors Kristian Levring and Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg received the European Film Award European Achievement in World Cinema. In 1996, von Trier conducted an unusual experiment in Copenhagen involving 53 actors
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Trier leaving the press conference for
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Von Trier at the
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Melancholia (2011 film)
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The films story revolves around two sisters, one of whom is preparing to marry, as a rogue planet is about to collide with Earth. Von Triers initial inspiration for the film came from an episode he suffered. The film is a Danish production by Zentropa, with international co-producers in Sweden, France, Melancholia prominently features music from the prelude to Richard Wagners opera Tristan und Isolde. It is the entry in von Triers unofficially titled Depression Trilogy, preceded by Antichrist. Melancholia premiered 18 May 2011 at the 64th Cannes Film Festival—where it was critically lauded, Dunst received the festivals Best Actress Award for her performance, which was a common area of praise among critics. Although not without its detractors, many critics and film scholars have considered the film to be a masterpiece, the film begins with an introductory sequence involving the main characters and images from space and introducing many of the films visual leitmotifs. A clumsy, oversized limousine struggles and fails to negotiate a curve in the road, newlyweds Justine and Michael arrive two hours late for their own reception at the estate of Justines sister, Claire, and her husband, John. Justine notices a bright red star in the night sky. Claire urges Justine to hide her debilitating melancholy from her new husband Michael, Justine flees the wedding reception despite being held back by her wedding dress, which tears. She goes to the course and watches the night sky. Justines boss, Jack, is ruthless, greedy, and gluttonous, during the most personal part of the wedding speech, he is hustling her to meet a work deadline on the night of her wedding. He casually pushes her throughout the evening to create a tag line to promote a campaign based on a facsimile of Bruegel’s The Land of Cockaigne. She later opens a book at this picture, during the critical part of the wedding, cake cutting, Justine and Gaby independently escape to have baths. Justines bosss nephew, Tim, is given the chance to exploit the opportunity to get the tag line at all costs to promote his career and he reluctantly, but doggedly pursues Justine throughout the wedding reception. She cannot consummate her marriage with her husband and goes out onto a trap and has sex with Tim. He is later fired for his failure, and Justine aggressively resigns, early the following morning, while horseback riding with Claire, Justine notices Antares is no longer visible in the sky. John explains that the reason for Antares disappearance was because the newly discovered planet Melancholia was blocking the star from view, Melancholia, a rogue planet that entered the Solar System from behind the Sun, becomes visible in the sky as it approaches ever closer to Earth. John is excited about the planet and looks forward to the predicted by scientists
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Lead actresses
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Lars von Trier at the
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Fargo (season 2)
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The second season of Fargo, an American anthology black comedy–crime drama television series created by Noah Hawley, premiered on October 12,2015 on the basic cable network FX. Its principal cast consisted of Kirsten Dunst, Patrick Wilson, Jesse Plemons, Jean Smart, the season had ten episodes, and its initial airing concluded on December 14,2015. As an anthology, each Fargo season possesses its own self-contained narrative, a prequel to the events in its first season, season two of Fargo takes place in the Midwestern United States in March 1979. Season twos episodes were shot in Calgary, Alberta over an 85-day period, the series received widespread critical acclaim and was cited as one of the strongest programs of the 2015 television season. Kirsten Dunst as Peggy Blumquist, a focused on feeling accomplished in her life. Patrick Wilson as State Trooper Lou Solverson, a policeman and the father of Molly Solverson, keith Carradine portrayed the older version of the character in the first season. Jesse Plemons as Ed Blumquist, Peggys husband and the butchers assistant. Jean Smart as Floyd Gerhardt, wife of Otto Gerhardt, the head of Fargos most prominent organized crime syndicate. After her husband suffers a stroke, she finds herself having to lead the Gerhardt dynasty. Ted Danson as Sheriff Hank Larsson, Lous father-in-law, as an anthology, each season of Fargo is engineered to have a self-contained narrative, following a disparate set of characters in various settings. Noah Hawley and his team of writers used the season to expand the scope of the shows storytelling—from its narrative to its characters. They increased the shows cast of characters to five, each with interconnecting arcs. Hawley wanted viewers to sympathize with characters they might not feel empathy for in real life, the producers at one point discussed revisiting a modern period for their story. According to Hawley, the change in the period helped to develop a sense of turbulence and violence in a world that could not be more fractured and complicated. A principal cast of five actors received billing in the shows second season. The search for talent was sometimes an exhaustive process that required advertising via custom built websites, once actors were hired, their agents were made aware of the frigid shooting conditions and any issues with the location and potential scheduling conflicts during production were discussed. Hawley discussed the script with actors who had experience in the television industry. Theyre used to reading the story but you’ve given them one or two hours of it, he remarked
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Fargo (TV series)
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Fargo is an American black comedy–crime drama anthology television series created and primarily written by Noah Hawley. The show is inspired by the 1996 film of the name written and directed by the Coen brothers. It premiered on April 15,2014, on FX, the first season, set in 2006 and starring Billy Bob Thornton, Allison Tolman, Colin Hanks, and Martin Freeman, was met with critical acclaim. It also won the Golden Globe Awards for Best Miniseries or Television Film, the second season, set in 1979 and starring Kirsten Dunst, Patrick Wilson, Jesse Plemons, Jean Smart, and Ted Danson, was met with even greater acclaim. It received three Golden Globe nominations, along with several Emmy nominations including Outstanding Miniseries and acting nominations for Dunst, Plemons, Smart, and Bokeem Woodbine. The third season, set in 2010 and starring Ewan McGregor, Carrie Coon, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, David Thewlis and Jim Gaffigan, in 2006, Lorne Malvo passes through Bemidji, Minnesota and influences the community–including put-upon insurance salesman Lester Nygaard –with his malice, violence and deception. Meanwhile, Deputy Molly Solverson and Duluth police officer Gus Grimly team up to solve a series of murders they believe may be linked to Malvo and Nygaard. Meanwhile, State Trooper Lou Solverson, and his father-in-law, Sheriff Hank Larsson, the time frame for the seasons episodes is 2010, leaving open the possibility that characters from the previous seasons could return. Hawley said, There are going to be connections, the way the first year was connected to the movie, Ewan McGregor was cast in the lead dual role as Emmit and Ray Stussy, and Carrie Coon will play the lead female role, Gloria Burgle. In September 2016, Mary Elizabeth Winstead was cast in a role as Nikki Swango. In November 2016, it was announced that Jim Gaffigan had joined the cast in the role of Donny Mashman. In December 2016, several new actors joined the cast, including David Thewlis, Michael Stuhlbarg, Shea Whigham, Karan Soni, Fred Melamed and it was later announced that adaptation would be a 10-episode limited series. On August 2,2013, it was announced that Billy Bob Thornton had signed on to star in the series, on September 27,2013, Martin Freeman also signed on to star. On October 3,2013, it was announced that Colin Hanks was cast in the role of Duluth police officer Gus Grimly, production began in fall 2013 with filming taking place in and around Calgary, Alberta. The series is set in the fictional universe as the film. The first season features the buried ransom money from the film in a minor subplot, additionally, a number of references are made connecting the series to the film. The ten episodes are set in Luverne, Minnesota, Fargo and you can turn the pages of this book, and you just find this collection of stories. But I like the idea that things are connected somehow
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Noah Hawley, Warren Littlefield and John Cameron at the 74th Annual Peabody Awards
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Lady Gaga
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Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, known professionally as Lady Gaga, is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She performed initially in theater, appearing in school plays. From there, Akon noticed her vocal abilities and helped her to sign a joint deal with Interscope Records and her debut album The Fame was a critical and commercial success that produced international chart-topping singles such as Just Dance and Poker Face. A follow-up EP, The Fame Monster, was met with a reception and Bad Romance, Telephone. Her second full-length album Born This Way was released in 2011, topping the charts in more than 20 countries, including the United States, the album produced the number-one single Born This Way. Her third album Artpop, released in 2013, topped the US charts, in 2014, Gaga released a collaborative jazz album with Tony Bennett titled Cheek to Cheek, which became her third consecutive number one in the United States. For her work in the television series American Horror Story, Hotel, with her fifth studio album Joanne, she became the first woman to have four US number one albums in the 2010s. In February 2017, Gaga headlined the Super Bowl LI halftime show which had an audience of over 150 million across various platforms worldwide. With global album and single sales of 27 million and 146 million respectively, as of January 2016 and her achievements include twelve Guinness World Records, three Brit Awards, and six Grammy Awards. She is also the first artist to win the Songwriters Hall of Fames Contemporary Icon Award, in 2013, Gaga finished second on Times readers poll of the most influential people of the past ten years, while in 2015, she was named Billboards Woman of the Year. Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta was born on March 28,1986 and she is the elder daughter of Cynthia Louise Cindy and Internet entrepreneur Joseph Joe Germanotta. Gaga has three Italian grandparents and one American grandparent, as well as French Canadian ancestry, Gagas sister Natali is a fashion student. From age 11, she attended the Convent of the Sacred Heart and she described her academic life in high school as very dedicated, very studious, very disciplined but also a bit insecure. I used to get made fun of for being too provocative or too eccentric. I didnt fit in, and I felt like a freak, in 2014, Gaga said she was raped at the age of 19. She stated, I went through some things that Im able to laugh now, because Ive gone through a lot of mental and physical therapy. Gaga later said that she suffers from posttraumatic stress disorder because of the rape, and that support from doctors, family, and friends really saved my life. Gaga began playing the piano at the age of four, wrote her first piano ballad at 13 and she performed lead roles in high school productions, including Adelaide in Guys and Dolls and Philia in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
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Gaga performing at the
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Gaga (right) performing with
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Gaga performing in a bar, sporting one of her earlier looks, October 2008
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Gaga performing at
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Sarah Paulson
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Sarah Catharine Paulson is an American actress. After beginning her career on stage, she starred in the 1990s television series American Gothic. Paulson later appeared in films such as What Women Want and Down with Love. From 2006 to 2007, Paulson played the role of Harriet Hayes in the NBC comedy-drama series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, in 2008, she starred as Ellen Dolan in the superhero noir film The Spirit. Paulson has appeared on Broadway in the plays The Glass Menagerie and she also starred in a number of independent films, and had a leading role on the ABC comedy series Cupid in 2009. Paulson starred as Mary Epps in the 2013 historical drama film 12 Years a Slave, both films received widespread critical acclaim and were nominated for multiple Academy Awards. In 2011, Paulson began starring in the FX anthology series American Horror Story, for her work throughout the series, she has been nominated for four Primetime Emmy Awards and won two Critics Choice Television Awards for Best Supporting Actress in a Movie/Miniseries. In 2016, Paulson portrayed real life prosecutor Marcia Clark in the first season of the anthology series American Crime Story, Paulson was born on December 17,1974 in Tampa, Florida, the daughter of Catharine Gordon and Douglas Lyle Paulson II. She lived in South Tampa until she was 5, when her parents divorced and she then spent time in Maine, before moving to New York City at the age of 5 with her mother. She lived in Queens and Gramercy Park, before settling in Park Slope and she spent her summers in Florida visiting her father. Paulson attended Manhattans Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Paulson began working as an actress right out of high school. She appeared in the Horton Foote play Talking Pictures at the Signature Theatre, the next year Paulson appeared in the Hallmark film Friends at Last opposite Kathleen Turner. She starred in the television series American Gothic. Paulson played Elisa Cronkite in The WB comedy-drama series Jack & Jill, Paulson had a minor role in the HBO series Deadwood and was a focal character in an episode of the critically acclaimed FX series Nip/Tuck. She starred as the character in the short-lived NBC series Leap of Faith. In 2004, she had a role in the ABC series The D. A. which ended after a few episodes. In theater productions, Paulson starred in a revival of The Glass Menagerie on Broadway and appeared Off-Broadway in Killer Joe, paulsons film credits include Down with Love, What Women Want, The Other Sister, Levitation, and Serenity. In the 2006–07 television season, Paulson co-starred in NBCs Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, playing Harriet Hayes and this role earned her a nomination for Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film
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Paulson at the 2015
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Paulson at the premiere of
12 Years a Slave at the 2013
Toronto International Film Festival
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Sarah Paulson at the
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Screen Actors Guild Award
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The statuette given, a nude male figure holding both a mask of comedy and a mask of tragedy, is called The Actor. It is 16 inches tall, weighs over 12 pounds, is cast in solid bronze, SAG Awards have been one of the major awards events in Hollywood since 1995. It is considered an indicator of success at the Academy Awards, the awards have been telecast since 1998 on TNT, and since 2007 have been simulcast on TBS. The inaugural SAG Awards aired live on February 25,1995 from Universal Studios Stage 12, the second SAG awards aired live from the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, while subsequent awards have been held at the Shrine Exposition Center
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Trophy of the award
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Lufthansa
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It operates services to 18 domestic destinations and 197 international destinations in 78 countries across Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe, using a fleet of more than 270 aircraft. Lufthansa is one of the five founding members of Star Alliance, the name of the company is derived from Luft, and Hansa. Combined with its subsidiaries, the group has 656 aircraft, as of February 2016, in 2014, the group carried over 106 million passengers. Lufthansas registered office and corporate headquarters are in Cologne, the main operations base, called Lufthansa Aviation Center, is at Lufthansas primary hub at Frankfurt Airport. The majority of Lufthansas pilots, ground staff, and flight attendants are based there, Lufthansas secondary hub is Munich Airport. Lufthansa was a state-owned enterprise until 1994, in 2014, 60% of Lufthansas shares were held by institutional investors. The remaining 40% were held by individual stock owners, since 1970, Lufthansa has involved its employees in profit sharing, giving them the opportunity to choose between cash and preference shares. When Lufthansa was privatised, employees received more than 3% of its shares, Lufthansa traces its history to 1926 when Deutsche Luft Hansa A. G. was formed in Berlin. DLH, as it was known, was Germanys flag carrier until 1945 when all services were suspended following the defeat of Nazi Germany, West Germany had not yet been granted sovereignty over its airspace, so it was not known when the new airline could become operational. Nevertheless, in 1953 Luftag placed orders for four Convair CV-340s and four Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellations and set up a maintenance base at Hamburg Airport. On 6 August 1954, Luftag acquired the name and logo of the liquidated Deutsche Lufthansa for DM30,000, on 1 April 1955 Lufthansa won approval to start scheduled domestic flights, linking Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Cologne, and Munich. In August 1958 fifteen Lufthansa 1049Gs and 1649s left Germany each week to Canada, the special status of Berlin meant that Lufthansa was not allowed to fly to either part of Berlin until 1989. Originally thought to be only a matter, the Division of Germany turned out to be long. East Germany tried to establish its own airline in 1955 using the Lufthansa name, but this resulted in a dispute with West Germany. East Germany instead established Interflug as its national airline in 1963, in 1958 Lufthansa ordered four Boeing 707s and started jet flights from Frankfurt to New York City in March 1960. Boeing 720Bs were later bought to back up the 707 fleet, in February 1961 Far East routes were extended beyond Bangkok, Thailand, to Hong Kong and Tokyo. Lagos, Nigeria and Johannesburg, South Africa were added in 1962, Lufthansa introduced the Boeing 727 in 1964 and that May began the Polar route from Frankfurt to Tokyo via Anchorage. In February 1965 the company ordered twenty-one Boeing 737s that went into service in 1968, Lufthansa was the first customer for the Boeing 737 and was one of four buyers of the 737-100s
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Lufthansa's first aircraft, a
Convair 340 (type pictured), was delivered in August 1954
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Lufthansa Lockheed L-1049G Super Constellation operating a transatlantic schedule from Hamburg to Montreal and Chicago in May 1956.
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In 1960 Lufthansa joined the
jet age with the
Boeing 707. The image shows a 707 at
Hamburg Airport in 1984, shortly before the type was retired.
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A Lufthansa
Boeing 727–100 approaching
London Heathrow Airport in 1978.
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Germans
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Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe, who share a common German ancestry, culture and history. German is the mother tongue of a substantial majority of ethnic Germans. The English term Germans has historically referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages, before the collapse of communism and the reunification of Germany in 1990, Germans constituted the largest divided nation in Europe by far. Ever since the outbreak of the Protestant Reformation within the Holy Roman Empire, of approximately 100 million native speakers of German in the world, roughly 80 million consider themselves Germans. Thus, the number of Germans lies somewhere between 100 and more than 150 million, depending on the criteria applied. Today, people from countries with German-speaking majorities most often subscribe to their own national identities, the German term Deutsche originates from the Old High German word diutisc, referring to the Germanic language of the people. It is not clear how commonly, if at all, the word was used as an ethnonym in Old High German, used as a noun, ein diutscher in the sense of a German emerges in Middle High German, attested from the second half of the 12th century. The Old French term alemans is taken from the name of the Alamanni and it was loaned into Middle English as almains in the early 14th century. The word Dutch is attested in English from the 14th century, denoting continental West Germanic dialects, while in most Romance languages the Germans have been named from the Alamanni, the Old Norse, Finnish and Estonian names for the Germans were taken from that of the Saxons. In Slavic languages, the Germans were given the name of němьci, originally with a meaning foreigner, the English term Germans is only attested from the mid-16th century, based on the classical Latin term Germani used by Julius Caesar and later Tacitus. It gradually replaced Dutch and Almains, the latter becoming mostly obsolete by the early 18th century, the Germans are a Germanic people, who as an ethnicity emerged during the Middle Ages. Originally part of the Holy Roman Empire, around 300 independent German states emerged during its decline after the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 ending the Thirty Years War and these states eventually formed into modern Germany in the 19th century. The concept of a German ethnicity is linked to Germanic tribes of antiquity in central Europe, the early Germans originated on the North German Plain as well as southern Scandinavia. By the 2nd century BC, the number of Germans was significantly increasing and they began expanding into eastern Europe, during antiquity these Germanic tribes remained separate from each other and did not have writing systems at that time. In the European Iron Age the area that is now Germany was divided into the La Tène horizon in Southern Germany and the Jastorf culture in Northern Germany. By 55 BC, the Germans had reached the Danube river and had either assimilated or otherwise driven out the Celts who had lived there, and had spread west into what is now Belgium and France. Conflict between the Germanic tribes and the forces of Rome under Julius Caesar forced major Germanic tribes to retreat to the east bank of the Rhine, in Roman-held territories with Germanic populations, the Germanic and Roman peoples intermarried, and Roman, Germanic, and Christian traditions intermingled. The adoption of Christianity would later become an influence in the development of a common German identity
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Germanic Kingdoms in Europe c. 500 AD
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Extent of
Holy Roman Empire in 972 (red line) and 1035 (red dots) with
Kingdom of Germany marked in blue
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18 January 1871: The proclamation of the
German Empire in the
Hall of Mirrors of the
Palace of Versailles.
Bismarck appears in white. The Grand Duke of Baden stands beside Wilhelm, leading the cheers. Crown Prince Friedrich, later
Friedrich III, stands on his father's right.
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Hamburg
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Hamburg, officially Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, is the second largest city in Germany and the eighth largest city in the European Union. It is the second smallest German state by area and its population is over 1.7 million people, and the wider Hamburg Metropolitan Region covers more than 5.1 million inhabitants. The city is situated on the river Elbe, the official long name reflects Hamburgs history as a member of the medieval Hanseatic League, a free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire, a city-state, and one of the 16 states of Germany. Before the 1871 Unification of Germany, it was a sovereign state. Prior to the changes in 1919, the civic republic was ruled by a class of hereditary grand burghers or Hanseaten. Though repeatedly destroyed by the Great Fire of Hamburg, the floods and military conflicts including WW2 bombing raids, the city managed to recover and emerge wealthier after each catastrophe. On the river Elbe, Hamburg is a port and a global service, media, logistics and industrial hub, with headquarters and facilities of Airbus, Blohm + Voss, Aurubis, Beiersdorf. The radio and television broadcaster NDR, Europes largest printing and publishing firm Gruner + Jahr, Hamburg has been an important financial centre for centuries, and is the seat of Germanys oldest stock exchange and the worlds second oldest bank, Berenberg Bank. The city is a fast expanding tourist destination for domestic and international visitors. It ranked 16th in the world for livability in 2015, the ensemble Speicherstadt and Kontorhausviertel was declared a World Heritage Site by the UNESCO in 2015. Hamburg is a major European science, research and education hub with several universities and institutes and its creative industries and major cultural venues include the renowned Elbphilharmonie and Laeisz concert halls, various art venues, music producers and artists. It is regarded as a haven for artists, gave birth to movements like Hamburger Schule. Hamburg is also known for theatres and a variety of musical shows. St. Paulis Reeperbahn is among the best known European entertainment districts, Hamburg is on the southern point of the Jutland Peninsula, between Continental Europe to the south and Scandinavia to the north, with the North Sea to the west and the Baltic Sea to the north-east. It is on the River Elbe at its confluence with the Alster, the city centre is around the Binnenalster and Außenalster, both formed by damming the River Alster to create lakes. The island of Neuwerk and two neighbouring islands Scharhörn and Nigehörn, in the Hamburg Wadden Sea National Park, are also part of Hamburg. The neighbourhoods of Neuenfelde, Cranz, Francop and Finkenwerder are part of the Altes Land region, neugraben-Fischbek has Hamburgs highest elevation, the Hasselbrack at 116.2 metres AMSL. Hamburg has a climate, influenced by its proximity to the coast
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1st row: View of the
Binnenalster; 2nd row:
Große Freiheit,
Speicherstadt,
River Elbe; 3rd row: Alsterfleet; 4th row:
Port of Hamburg, Dockland office building
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Hamburg, seen from the
International Space Station
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Hamburg in 1150
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Seal of 1241 (Replica)
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Swedish American
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Swedish Americans are an American ethnic group of people who have ancestral roots from Sweden. They primarily include the 1.2 million Swedish immigrants during 1885–1915 and they formed tight-knit communities, primarily in the American Midwest, and intermarried with other Swedish-Americans. Historically, Swedish Americans have been concentrated in the Midwest, roughly in the area west and northwest of Chicago, many of them came to Minnesota. A contingent also settled in the woods of northern Maine, the first Swedish Americans were the settlers of New Sweden. A colony established by Queen Christina of Sweden in 1638, it centered around the Delaware Valley including parts of the states of Delaware, New Jersey. New Sweden was incorporated into New Netherland in 1655 and ceased to be a territory of the Realm of Sweden. However, many Swedish and Finnish colonists remained and were allowed some political and cultural autonomy, Swedish Americans usually came through New York City and subsequently settled in the upper Midwest. Most were Lutheran and belonged to synods now associated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, theologically, they were pietistic, politically they often supported progressive causes and prohibition. In the year 1900, Chicago was the city with the second highest number of Swedes after Stockholm, by then, Swedes in Chicago had founded the Evangelical Covenant Church and established such enduring institutions as Swedish Covenant Hospital and North Park University. Many others settled in Minnesota in particular, followed by Wisconsin, as well as New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Iowa, Nebraska and Illinois. Like their Norwegian American and Danish American brethren, many Swedes sought out the agrarian lifestyle they had left behind in Sweden, as many immigrants settled on farms throughout the Midwest. In the east, New England became a destination for many skilled workers and Swedish centers developed in areas such as Jamestown, New York, Providence, Rhode Island. A small Swedish settlement was begun in New Sweden, Maine. 51 Swedish settlers came to the area, led by W. W. Thomas, who called them mina barn i skogen, upon arrival, they knelt in prayer and thanksgiving to God. This area soon expanded and other settlements were named Stockholm, Jemptland, the town of New Sweden, Maine celebrates St. Lucia, Midsummer, and Founders Day. It is a Swedish-American community that continues to honor traditions of the old country, gustaf Adolph Lutheran Church was served by a native of Sweden as recently as 1979-1985 who was known to occasionally conduct special worship services in Swedish. The largest settlement in New England was Worcester, Massachusetts, here, Swedes were drawn to the citys wire and abrasive industries
Swedish American
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Brick Township, New Jersey
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Brick Township is a township in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States. The mainland and beach area of the town are not geographically adjacent, Brick Township was incorporated as a township by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 15,1850, from portions of both Dover Township and Howell Township. The township was named after Joseph Brick, the owner of Bergen Iron Works located on the Metedeconk River, portions of the township were taken to form Point Pleasant Beach, Bay Head, Lakewood Township, Mantoloking and Point Pleasant. In 1963, voters rejected a referendum that would have changed the name to Laurelton. The Havens Homestead Museum is dedicated to the Havens family that settled in the Laurelton/Burrsville section of Brick. The museum is the original Havens home which lies on a plot of farmland. The museum has a shop and runs tours of the property daily. After hovering for years in the top five, in 2006, since the year 2000, Brick Township has been the safest city in New Jersey. In 2003 and 2004, Brick Township was ranked as the second safest city in the United States, after Newton, in 2005, Brick Township had dropped down to the fifth safest city in the United States, before it rebounded to the top in 2006. In 2009, Brick Township ranked No.6 on Newsmax magazines list of the Top 25 Most Uniquely American Cities and Towns, many of the children found to be autistic were born in Northern New Jersey and other parts of the country. There is no evidence that the levels of autism are linked to any specific environmental factor in Brick, parents of children diagnosed with autism have moved to the township in order to make use of the special education programs offered by the school district. Brick has also been home to the Heroin epidemic, according to the states statistics, in 2012 Brick was ranked sixth in the state with 550 reported incidents of heroin or opiate abuse, behind Newark, Jersey City, Paterson, Atlantic City, and Camden. Fortunately, in 2015 Brick was bumped back down to eight in the state with 407 reported heroin abuse cases. During the December 2010 North American blizzard, Brick Township received 30 inches of snow, in October 2012, parts of Brick were devastated by Hurricane Sandy. Barrier island and other waterfront properties were particularly hard hit, homes and such buildings as the Shore Acres Yacht Club sustained major damage, some buildings had to be demolished. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township had an area of 32.315 square miles. Bayberry Court and Maypink Lane are two streets that are not accessible any other Brick roads, and are served by the United States Postal Service as ZIP code 07731 with Howell Township. As of the census of 2010, there were 75,072 people,29,842 households, the population density was 2,919.4 per square mile
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Hurricane Sandy damage on the barrier island portion of Brick.
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Map of Brick Township in Ocean County. Inset: Location of Ocean County highlighted in the State of New Jersey.
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The First Baptist Church of Laurelton in Brick located on Rt. 88
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Ranney School
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Ranney School is an independent coeducational, college preparatory day school for students from age 3 through twelfth grade located in Tinton Falls, in Monmouth County, New Jersey. It was founded in 1960 by educator Russell G. Ranney to help improve students college board grades, as of the 2013-14 school year, the school had an enrollment of 774 students and 101.8 classroom teachers, for a student–teacher ratio of 7.6,1. Tuition for the 2016-2017 school year ranged from $24,850 for Grades 1-2 $31,300 for Grades 9-12, the third headmaster of the school retired at the end of the 2012-2013 school year, after 20 years of service to the school. Since July 1,2013, Dr. John W. Griffith has taken the position of the schools headmaster. Ranney School offers a rigorous and flexible curriculum featuring expert faculty, small class sizes, the schools student life programs include 20+ sports, 40+ clubs, 10+ Honor Societies, visual arts, performing arts and more. In addition, the school promotes active citizenship and social responsibility through community service, the school is a member of the National Association of Independent Schools and the New Jersey Association of Independent Schools. Ranney School has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1994, the school also competes against other New Jersey and New York City area private schools. The school has won more than 30 individual and team championships in a period, including in swim, tennis, basketball, fencing. In 2011, the Ranney épée team won the state championship, in 2012 and 2013, the Varsity Girls Tennis team won the NJSIAA Non-Public B South Championship. In its first year in the Shore Conference as a B-Central Division member, 2012-2013, Ranney received the School of the Year, the school also has a crew team and an equestrian club. Ranney School abides by a set of dress policies in each division. The code is designed to promote a more formal atmosphere for learning, preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Jacquie Lee, singer came in place on The Voice season 5. Jessica Springsteen, international equestrian who is the daughter of Bruce Springsteen, official school website Data for Ranney School, National Center for Education Statistics
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Nil sine magno vita labore dedit mortalibus (Latin). Life grants nothing to mortals without great work.
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North Hollywood, Los Angeles
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North Hollywood is a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley region of the city of Los Angeles. It is home to the NoHo Arts District and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, there is a municipal park and a recreation center. The neighborhood is an important transportation center, and it is also a place where many people have lived or worked. North Hollywood was established by the Lankershim Ranch Land and Water Company in 1887 and it was first named Toluca before being renamed Lankershim in 1896 and finally North Hollywood in 1927. It is not contiguous with Hollywood, being separated by parts of the San Fernando Valley. In 2008, the city estimated that the population had increased to 87,241, in 2000 the median age for residents was 30, considered an average age for city and county neighborhoods, the percentage of residents aged 19 to 34 was among the countys highest. The neighborhood was considered moderately diverse ethnically within Los Angeles, the breakdown was Latinos,57. 7%, whites, 27%, Asians,5. 7%, blacks,5. 6%, and others, 4%. Mexico and El Salvador were the most common places of birth for the 46. 4% of the residents who were born abroad—a high percentage for Los Angeles, the percentages of never-married men and never-married women were among the countys highest. The median yearly income in 2008 dollars was $42,791, considered average for the city. The percentages of households that earned $40,000 or less were high for the county, renters occupied 75. 4% of the housing stock, and house- or apartment-owners held 24. 6%. North Hollywood is bordered on the north by Sun Valley and on the northeast and east by Burbank, Toluca Lake borders North Hollywood on the southeast and south, and Studio City abuts it on the southwest. It is flanked by Valley Village and Valley Glen on the west, North Hollywood was once part of the vast landholdings of the Mission San Fernando Rey de España, which was confiscated by the government during the Mexican period of rule. A group of investors assembled as the San Fernando Farm Homestead Association purchased the half of the Rancho Ex-Mission San Fernando. The leading investor was Isaac Lankershim, a Northern California stockman and grain farmer, in 1873, Isaac Lankershims son and future son-in-law, James Boon Lankershim and Isaac Newton Van Nuys, moved to the San Ferndando Valley and took over management of the property. Van Nuys thought the property could profitably grow wheat using the dryland farming developed on the Great Plains. In time the Lankershim property, under its name, the Los Angeles Farming and Milling Company. Lankershim established a townsite which the residents named Toluca along the old road from Cahuenga Pass to San Fernando, the land boom of the 1880s went bust by the 1890s, but despite another brutal drought cycle in the late 1890s, the fruit and nut farmers remained solvent. The Toluca Fruit Growers Association was formed in 1894, the next year the Southern Pacific opened a branch line slanting northwest across the Valley to Chatsworth
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Lankershim School, located near what is now the intersection of Vineland and Riverside, and the first school in the San Fernando Valley, c.1889
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Circus Liquor, landmark sign dating from 1959
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High-density property development in "NoHo"
45.
Notre Dame High School (Sherman Oaks, California)
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Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California, is a co-ed Catholic college preparatory high school founded by the Congregation of Holy Cross in 1947. Located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, Notre Dame is known for an academic program, championship athletics. NDHS has been honored by the United States Department of Education Blue Ribbon Schools Program and is known for its program, band. Its newspaper is The Knight, a member of the High School National Ad Network, Notre Dame was founded as an all-male school, and became a co-educational school in the 1982–1983 school year. The Class of 1986 is the first graduating class to include females, the Class of 1987 included the first full-term female students. Notre Dame High School was used as a backdrop in episode 27, Log 15, Exactly One Hundred Yards, of the NBC police series Adam-12, which aired on September 20,1969. After the establishment of the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, in 1941, the Brothers were invited to staff St. Anthony’s Parish High School in Long Beach. In 1945, the land at the corner of Riverside and Woodman was purchased for $45,000, in 1947, Notre Dame High School opened as an all boys school with a freshman class of 125 and a faculty of five, four of whom were Holy Cross Brothers. In 1983-84, Notre Dame began a new era of co-education with the admission of the first female students. This addition created many changes at Notre Dame, the facilities were adjusted to new needs, new faculty were hired. Notre Dame’s campus has grown since the Riverside Building was built in 1947. In May 1951, the gymnasium used today was completed, the Woodman Building followed in September 1956. Buildings, such as the five classroom Annex, have come, the Allegretti Building was opened in May 1987 which provided an office complex and classrooms in the area between the Woodman and Riverside Buildings. Most recently, there have two major classroom buildings built, the Fritz B. Burns Center for Arts and Technology in January 2002 and the Hampton Science Center in January 2007, Notre Dame offers a college preparatory curriculum with honors and advanced placement courses in Art, English, Foreign Languages, Mathematics, Science, Computer Science, and Social Studies. The school also offers courses covering a wide range of topics. There are 93 faculty members and administration, with 64 holding masters degrees and 3 with doctoral degrees, advanced Placement courses are available to students in grades 10–12. Notre Dame High School is considered one of Californias Top 15 High School Football Dynasties and one of the most dominant football teams in the based on wins
Notre Dame High School (Sherman Oaks, California)
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"Educating Hearts and Minds"
Notre Dame High School (Sherman Oaks, California)
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Notre Dame High School Gymnasium
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Fashion photography
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Fashion photography is a genre of photography which is devoted to displaying clothing and other fashion items. Fashion photography is most often conducted for advertisements or fashion such as Vogue, Vanity Fair. Over time, fashion photography has developed its own aesthetic in which the clothes, fashion photography has been in existence since the earliest days of photography. In 1856, Adolphe Braun published a book containing 288 photographs of Virginia Oldoini, Countess di Castiglione, the photos depict her in her official court garb, making her the first fashion model. In the first decade of the 20th century, advances in halftone printing allowed fashion photographs to be featured in magazines, fashion photography made its first appearance in French and American magazines such as La mode pratique and Harpers Bazaar. In 1909, Condé Nast took over Vogue magazine and also contributed to the beginnings of fashion photography. In 1911, photographer Edward Steichen was dared by Lucien Vogel, Steichen then took photos of gowns designed by couturier Paul Poiret. These photographs were published in the April 1911 issue of the magazine Art et Décoration, according to Jesse Alexander, This is. now considered to be the first ever modern fashion photography shoot. That is, photographing the garments in such a way as to convey a sense of their quality as well as their formal appearance. Vogue was followed by its rival, Harpers Bazaar, and the two companies were leaders in the field of photography throughout the 1920s and 1930s. House photographers such as Edward Steichen, George Hoyningen-Huene, Horst P. Horst, in the mid-1930s as World War II approached, the focus shifted to the United States, where Vogue and Harpers continued their old rivalry. In 1936, Martin Munkacsi made the first photographs of models in sporty poses at the beach, under the artistic direction of Alexey Brodovitch, Harpers Bazaar quickly introduced this new style into its magazine. House photographers such as Irving Penn, Martin Munkacsi, Richard Avedon, Richard Avedon revolutionized fashion photography — and redefined the role of the fashion photographer — in the post-World War II era with his imaginative images of the modern woman. From 1939 and onward, what had previously been the flourishing and sizeable industry of fashion photography all, the United States and Europe quickly diverged from one another. What had previously been a togetherness and inspired working relationship divulged as Paris was occupied, Paris, the main fashion-power house of the time quickly became isolated from the United States—especially with French Vogue shutting down for a brief hiatus in 1940. With these changes, the photography based out of the USA gained a distinct Americana vibe—models often posed with flags, American brand cars, what did remain of the French and British fashion photography on the other hand often had a wartime overlay to the content. Cecil Beaton’s ‘Fashion is Indestructible’ from 1941 displays a woman viewing the rubble that once was Middle Temple in London. Images such as these remain scarred into the face of photography of the time and display a common sentiment among the fashionable world
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Fashion photograph by
Toni Frissell, 1949
Fashion photography
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The Countess in a photo by Pierre-Louise Pierson (c. 1863/66)
Fashion photography
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A modern fashion photograph by
Inez van Lamsweerde
47.
Tom Hanks
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Thomas Jeffrey Hanks is an American actor and filmmaker. Hanks films have grossed more than $4.5 billion at U. S. and Canadian box offices and more than $9.0 billion worldwide, Hanks has been nominated for numerous awards during his career. In 2004, he received the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. In 2014, he received a Kennedy Center Honor and, in 2016, he received a Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama, in 2010, Spielberg and Hanks were executive producers on the HBO miniseries The Pacific. Hanks was born in Concord, California, the son of Janet Marylyn, a worker, and Amos Mefford Hanks. His mother was of Portuguese descent, while his father had English ancestry. The familys three oldest children, Sandra, Larry and Tom, went with their father, while the youngest, Jim, in his childhood, his family moved often. By the age of ten, Hanks had lived in ten different houses, while Hanks family religious history was Catholic and Mormon, he has characterized himself as being a Bible-toting evangelical for several years as a teenager. In school, Hanks was unpopular with students and teachers alike, later telling Rolling Stone magazine, I was a geek, I was horribly, painfully, terribly shy. At the same time, I was the guy whod yell out funny captions during filmstrips, but I didnt get into trouble. I was always a good kid and pretty responsible. In 1965, his father married Frances Wong, a San Francisco native of Chinese descent, Frances had three children, two of whom lived with Hanks during his high school years. Hanks acted in plays, including South Pacific, while attending Skyline High School in Oakland. Hanks studied theater at Chabot College in Hayward, California, and transferred to California State University, Sacramento, Hanks told New York magazine in 1986, Acting classes looked like the best place for a guy who liked to make a lot of noise and be rather flamboyant. I spent a lot of going to plays. I wouldnt take dates with me, id just drive to a theater, buy myself a ticket, sit in the seat and read the program, and then get into the play completely. I spent a lot of time like that, seeing Brecht, Tennessee Williams, Ibsen, during his years studying theater, Hanks met Vincent Dowling, head of the Great Lakes Theater Festival in Cleveland, Ohio. At Dowlings suggestion, Hanks became an intern at the festival and his internship stretched into a three-year experience that covered most aspects of theater production, including lighting, set design, and stage management, prompting Hanks to drop out of college
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Hanks receiving the 2014 Kennedy Center Honors Medallion, December 2014
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Hanks on the film set of
Forrest Gump (1994)
Tom Hanks
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Hanks' cement prints in front of the
Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood
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Hanks at Post-Emmys Party, September 2008
48.
The Bonfire of the Vanities (film)
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The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1990 American comedy-drama film adaptation of the best-selling novel of the same name by Tom Wolfe, originally serialized in Rolling Stone. The screenplay was written by Michael Cristofer, and the music score was composed by Dave Grusin. The film was marketed with the tagline An outrageous story of greed, lust, Sherman McCoy is a Wall Street bond trader who makes millions while enjoying the good life and the sexual favors of Maria Ruskin, a Southern belle gold digger. Sherman and Maria are driving back to Marias apartment from JFK Airport when they take a turn on the expressway. They are approached by two black youths after Sherman gets out of the car to move a tire placed purposely in the middle of the road. Sherman jumps back into the car and Maria guns the engine in reverse, running one of the teenagers. The two drive back to Marias apartment. Sherman initially wants to report incident to the police, but Maria immediately talks him out of it, as Sherman is brought to his knees, New York City fragments into different factions who use the case to suit their own cynical purposes. Finally, Sherman is left without any allies to him except for the sympathetic Judge Leonard White. She discovers information about the McCoy case, which she gives to Fallow, Sherman plays the tape in a tape recorder inside his briefcase connected to a small loudspeaker that he holds on the desk. When the judge orders that he approach the bench with this evidence, he asserts that the tape is all his, after the Judge made his point, he begs the people to be decent and change their ways, letting Sherman go. The film ends as it begins, where there is an audience applauding Peter Fallows premiere of his book. Fallow says that Sherman McCoy has moved away from New York City to an unknown destination, the film was plagued by controversy, the role of Peter Fallow was offered to both Jack Nicholson and John Cleese by Brian De Palma, but both turned down the role. When De Palma was unable to deliver an actor, the studio forced the director to cast Bruce Willis as Fallow instead, when the project was first pitched and Mike Nichols was the original director, he wanted Steve Martin for the role of Sherman McCoy. Tom Wolfe wanted Chevy Chase for McCoy as well, walter Matthau was initially offered the role of the judge, but demanded a fee of $1 million. The producers balked at meeting his price and signed Alan Arkin instead for a modest $150,000, edward James Olmos was also considered for the role of the judge. F. Murray Abraham, who had a significant part in the film, chose to not be credited, when he was denied the billing above the title that he had requested, he took his name off the picture. The studio made significant changes to the material, making Sherman McCoy more sympathetic and adding a subplot involving a minor character
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Theatrical release poster
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Tom Wolfe
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His first novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities, published in 1987, was met with critical acclaim, became a commercial success, and was adapted as a major motion picture. Wolfe was born in Richmond, Virginia, the son of Louise, a landscape designer, Wolfe grew up on Gloucester Road in the historic Richmond North Side neighborhood of Sherwood Park. He recounts some of his memories of growing up there in a foreword to a book about the nearby historic Ginter Park neighborhood. Wolfe was student council president, editor of the newspaper and a star baseball player at St. Christophers School. Wolfe majored in English and practiced his writing outside the classroom as well and he was the sports editor of the college newspaper and helped found a literary magazine, Shenandoah. Of particular influence was his professor Marshall Fishwick, a teacher of American studies educated at Yale, more in the tradition of anthropology than literary scholarship, Fishwick taught his classes to look at the whole of a culture, including those elements considered profane. The very title of Wolfes undergraduate thesis, A Zoo Full of Zebras, Anti-Intellectualism in America, evinced his fondness for words, Wolfe graduated cum laude in 1951. Wolfe had continued playing baseball as a pitcher and had begun to play semi-professionally while still in college, in 1952 he earned a tryout with the New York Giants but was cut after three days, which Wolfe blamed on his inability to throw good fastballs. Wolfe abandoned baseball and instead followed his professor Fishwicks example, enrolling in Yale Universitys American studies doctoral program and his PhD thesis was titled The League of American Writers, Communist Organizational Activity Among American Writers, 1929–1942. In the course of his research, Wolfe interviewed many writers, including Malcolm Cowley, Archibald MacLeish, and James T. Farrell. A biographer remarked on the thesis, Reading it, one sees what has been the most baleful influence of education on many who have suffered through it, it deadens all sense of style. His thesis was rejected but it was finally accepted after he rewrote it in an objective rather than a subjective style. Upon leaving Yale he wrote a friend explaining through expletives his personal opinions about his thesis, though Wolfe was offered teaching jobs in academia, he opted to work as a reporter. In 1956, while preparing his thesis, Wolfe became a reporter for the Springfield Union in Springfield. Wolfe finished his thesis in 1957 and in 1959 was hired by The Washington Post, Wolfe has said that part of the reason he was hired by the Post was his lack of interest in politics. The Posts city editor was amazed that Wolfe preferred cityside to Capitol Hill and he won an award from The Newspaper Guild for foreign reporting in Cuba in 1961 and also won the Guilds award for humor. While there, he experimented with fiction-writing techniques in feature stories, in 1962, Wolfe left Washington for New York City, taking a position with the New York Herald Tribune as a general assignment reporter and feature writer. The editors of the Herald Tribune, including Clay Felker of the Sunday section supplement New York magazine, during the 1962 New York City newspaper strike, Wolfe approached Esquire magazine about an article on the hot rod and custom car culture of Southern California
Tom Wolfe
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Wolfe at the
White House on March 22, 2004
Tom Wolfe
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Back Row –
Shepard,
Grissom,
Cooper; Front Row –
Schirra,
Slayton,
Glenn,
Carpenter. The astronauts of the
Mercury Seven were the subject of
The Right Stuff.
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
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The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1987 novel by Tom Wolfe. The novel was conceived as a serial in the style of Charles Dickens writings. Wolfe heavily revised it before it was published in book form, the novel was a bestseller and a phenomenal success, even in comparison with Wolfes other books. It has often called the quintessential novel of the 1980s. The title is a reference to the historical Bonfire of the Vanities, which happened in 1497 in Florence, Italy, Wolfe deliberately set out to make The Bonfire of the Vanities capture the essence of New York City in the 1980s. Wall Street in the 1980s was newly resurgent after most of the decade had been bad for stocks. Beneath Wall Streets success, the city was a hot-bed of racial and cultural tension, homelessness and crime in the city were growing. Roberts, a Bronx judge known for his no-nonsense imperious handling of cases in his courtroom, throughout his early career, Wolfe had planned to write a novel that would capture the wide spectrum of American society. Among his models was William Makepeace Thackerays Vanity Fair, which described the society of 19th century England, Wolfe remained occupied writing nonfiction books on his own and contributing to Harpers until 1981, when he ceased his other projects to work on the novel. Wolfe began researching the novel by observing cases at the Manhattan Criminal Court, to overcome a case of writers block, Wolfe wrote to Jann Wenner, editor of Rolling Stone, to propose an idea drawn from Charles Dickens and Thackeray. The Victorian writers whom Wolfe viewed as his models had often written their novels in serial installments, Wenner offered Wolfe around $200,000 to serialize his work. The deadline pressure gave him the motivation he had hoped for, Wolfe was not happy with his very public first draft, and thoroughly revised his work. Even Sherman McCoy, the character of the novel, changed—originally a writer. Wolfe researched and revised for two years, the Bonfire of the Vanities appeared in 1987. The book was a commercial and critical success, spending weeks on bestseller lists, the story centers on Sherman McCoy, a wealthy New York City bond trader with a wife and young daughter. Finding the ramp back to the highway blocked by trash cans, approached by two black men whom they perceive—uncertainly, in Shermans case—as predators, McCoy and Ruskin flee. Having taken the wheel of the car, which fishtails as they race away, Fallow cynically tolerates the manipulations of the Reverend Bacon, a Harlem religious and political leader who sees the hospitalized boy as a projects success story gone wrong. Fallows series of articles on the matter ignites a series of protests, up for re-election and accused of foot-dragging in the Lamb case, the media-obsessed Bronx District Attorney Abe Weiss pushes for McCoys arrest
The Bonfire of the Vanities
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