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Keira Knightley
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Keira Christina Knightley is an English actress. She began acting as a child on television and made her debut in 1995. She had a role as Sabé in Star Wars, Episode I – The Phantom Menace. In 2014, she was nominated for a Golden Globe, a SAG, a BAFTA Award, in October 2015, Knightley made her Broadway debut in the title role of Thérèse Raquin. Knightley was born in Teddington, London, England, the daughter of Sharman Macdonald, an actress turned playwright, and Will Knightley and her Scottish-born mother is of Scottish and Welsh descent, while her father is English. She was meant to be named Kiera, after the Russian ice skater, Kira Ivanova and she has an older brother, Caleb. Knightley lived in Richmond, attending Stanley Junior School, Teddington School and she requested an agent at the age of three. Knightley has noted that she was single-minded about acting during her childhood and she performed in a number of local amateur productions, which included After Juliet, written by her mother, and United States, written by her drama teacher, Ian McShane. She focused on art, history, and English literature while at Esher, after getting an agent at six, Knightley worked mostly in commercials and small TV roles. Her first role was Little Girl in Royal Celebration, a 1993 TV film, a year later, she had a small role in the film A Village Affair. She later starred in 1995s Innocent Lies and 1998s Coming Home and she was a princess in the 1996 film The Treasure Seekers. Later in 1999, she appeared as Rose in Oliver Twist, sabés dialogue was dubbed over with Natalie Portmans voice. This was to hide the fact that the handmaiden Padmé was actually disclosed as the real Queen Amidala at the end of the film. Knightley was cast in the role because of her resemblance to Portman. Knightleys first starring role was in 2001, when she played the daughter of Robin Hood in the made-for-television Walt Disney Productions feature Princess of Thieves and she trained for several weeks in archery, fencing and horse riding. During this time, Knightley also appeared in The Hole, a thriller that received a release in the United States. Its director Nick Hamm described her as a version of Julie Christie. She appeared in the adaptation of Doctor Zhivago as Lara, alongside Scottish actor Hans Matheson in the title role
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Sam Worthington
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Samuel Henry John Sam Worthington is an English-Australian actor. He played the character role of Alex Mason in the Call of Duty. In 2004, Worthington received Australias highest film award for his role in Somersault. He performed predominantly in leading roles in a variety of films before moving to major studio films. Worthington was born to English parents in Godalming, Surrey, in South East England and he grew up in Warnbro, a suburb of Rockingham. His mother, Jeanne J. a housewife, brought him and his father, Ronald W. Worthington, was a power plant employee. He attended John Curtin College of the Arts, a school specialising in the arts, located in Fremantle, Western Australia. When he left the college, his father gave him $400 and sent him on a trip to Cairns, Queensland. He began working on construction and odd jobs, eventually settling in Sydney, at age 19, while working as a bricklayer, he auditioned for the National Institute of Dramatic Art and was accepted with a scholarship. Worthington had a role in Somersault and played the lead in a modern Australian retelling of Macbeth. He won the AFI Award for Best Lead Actor for his role in Somersault and he was well known in Australia for his role as Howard in the acclaimed Australian TV series Love My Way, in which he played the main love interest of the female lead. Worthingtons international film career began with a series of roles in Hollywood production The Great Raid. He auditioned for the role of James Bond in Casino Royale and he starred in the Australian creature-feature film Rogue, as a man named Neil, which gained a 100% fresh rating from Rotten Tomatoes. In Terminator Salvation, Worthington plays cyborg Marcus Wright who assists the humans despite their suspicions of him, shot prior to the release of Terminator Salvation, the James Cameron-directed science-fiction film Avatar was Worthingtons next project. The film went on to become the film of all time. In November 2010, Worthington told GQ Australia that he went to audition, so he did his part, left, forgot about it – and was called back. I was a bit pissed off, and I think that came across, I think Jim saw a spark and liked it because thats Sullys character – a guy who doesnt like to be bullied and a guy who just wants to set things right. He provided voice work for Captain Alex Mason, the protagonist character in the video game Call of Duty, some gamers criticised Worthingtons inability to mask his Australian accent, as in Avatar
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Eva Mendes
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Eva de la Caridad Mendez is an American actress, model and businesswoman. Since then, Mendes has co-starred in films such as All About the Benjamins,2 Fast 2 Furious, Ghost Rider, We Own the Night, Stuck on You, Hitch and she has appeared in several music videos and has sung with CeeLo Green. She designs a fashion collection for New York & Company and is also the director of CIRCA Beauty. Mendes was born in Miami, Florida, to Cuban parents Eva Pérez Suárez and Juan Carlos Méndez, Mendes was raised a Roman Catholic and at one time even considered becoming a Catholic nun. Her mother worked at Manns Chinese Theatre and later for an aerospace company, Mendes had two brothers, Juan Carlos and Carlo, and a sister, Janet. She attended Hoover High School in Glendale, and later studied marketing at California State University, Northridge, Mendes began her acting career after a talent manager saw her photo in a friends portfolio. Her first film appearance was in the direct-to-video Children of the Corn V, Mendes was disappointed in her performance and she hired an acting coach. She then appeared in the films A Night at the Roxbury, My Brother the Pig, Urban Legends, Final Cut, Mendes breakthrough role came when she appeared in Antoine Fuquas crime thriller Training Day. This then led to roles in All About the Benjamins,2 Fast 2 Furious, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Out of Time, and Stuck on You. She was the lead in the 2005 film Hitch, making her one of the first minority actors to play the lead in a hit romantic comedy. Mendes subsequently starred in The Wendell Baker Story, Guilty Hearts, Trust the Man, Ghost Rider, We Own the Night, Live. in 2008, she was nominated for the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress for her performance in the all-female comedy film The Women. Mendes then appeared in The Spirit, Bad Lieutenant, Port of Call New Orleans, The Other Guys, Last Night, Fast Five, and a spoof short film for Funny or Die. In 2012, Mendes visited Sierra Leone and was featured in the PBS documentary Half the Sky, in 2012, she starred in the crime drama film The Place Beyond the Pines, with Entertainment Weekly describing her performance as quietly heartbreaking. The following year, she appeared in the HBO comedy film Clear History, Mendes appeared in the Pet Shop Boys music video for Se a vida é in 1996, Aerosmiths music video for Hole in My Soul in 1997, and Will Smiths music video for Miami in 1998. She also appeared in the video for The Strokes The End Has No End in 2004. Mendes was employed by Revlon as a spokesperson, and participated in their campaign to raise funds for breast cancer research. She appeared nude in a print advertisement for Calvin Kleins Secret Obsession perfume, in December 2007, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals used a nude photo of Mendes for their anti-fur campaign. She also modelled in a Morgan campaign, Mendes was a spokesmodel for the 2008 Campari calendar
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Guillaume Canet
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Guillaume Canet is a French actor, film director and screenwriter and show jumper. Canet began his career in theatre and television before moving to film and he starred in several films like Joyeux Noël, Love Me If You Dare and The Beach. In 2006, he turned to writing and directing with Tell No One, Canet has also received attention because of his personal life. He was formerly married to actress Diane Kruger, after they divorced in 2006, Canet had relationships with Carla Bruni and Élodie Navarre. Since 2007, he has been in a relationship with Marion Cotillard, guillaume Canet was born in Boulogne-Billancourt on 10 April 1973 to a family of horse breeders. Canet intended to become a show jumper and performed with the junior French National Equestrian Team, however, after a fall from his horse at age 18 he turned to acting and enrolled in the Cours Florent drama school. In 1994, he appeared in the Théâtre Hébertot production of La Ville dont le prince est un enfant with Christophe Malavoy, after working in various television shows and commercials, Canet made his film debut in the short film Fils unique. In 1997, he appeared in the thriller film Barracuda for which he won a prix dinterprétation at the Festival Saint-Jean-de-Luz in 1999, the same year he was nominated for a César Award for his role as Vincent Mazet in the comedy film En plein cœur. He then traveled abroad to film Danny Boyles The Beach, after completing The Beach, Canet starred opposite Sophie Marceau in La fidélité and in Jerry Schatzbergs The Day the Ponies Come Back. In 2002, Canet starred with Gérard Depardieu in the fiction film Vidocq. He also directed and wrote his first feature film the year, Mon Idole. In 2003, he appeared opposite Marion Cotillard in Yann Samuells Love Me If You Dare which became a sleeper hit, Canet next appeared in the international production Joyeux Noël which tells the story of the World War I Christmas cease fire. The film—which also featured Kruger—was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Canet released his second feature film in 2006, Tell No One, an adaptation of Harlan Cobens novel of the same name. Tell No One was the top grossing French film of 2006 and went on to win four César awards. His film Blood Ties was selected to be screened Out of Competition at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, in 1999, he started a relationship with German-born model and actress Diane Kruger. They were married on 1 September 2001, in January 2006, Canet and Kruger filed for divorce. Kruger later said that the marriage was not successful because their careers had kept them occupied in different parts of the world, after his divorce, he had a relationship with Carla Bruni that was widely reported by the French media and then with Élodie Navarre. Canet has been involved with actress Marion Cotillard since October 2007
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Clint Mansell
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Clinton Darryl Clint Mansell is an English musician, composer, and former lead singer of the band Pop Will Eat Itself. After Pop Will Eat Itself disbanded in 1996, Mansell was introduced to film scoring when director Darren Aronofsky hired him to score his debut film, Mansell then wrote the score for Aronofskys next film, Requiem for a Dream, which has been well received. The films primary composition Lux Aeterna has become popular, appearing in a variety of advertisements, film trailers. His notable film scores include Pi, The Fountain, Moon, Smokin Aces, Requiem for a Dream, The Wrestler, Doom, Black Swan, Mansell was the lead singer and guitarist of Pop Will Eat Itself. When PWEI signed to Nothing Records, Mansell became close friends with Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, mansells score for Darren Aronofskys π was followed up by his score for Aronofskys next film, Requiem for a Dream, which became a cult hit. Since their first collaboration in 1996, Mansell has composed the music to every Aronofsky film. Other notable achievements include the theme for the film The Hole, the music for the episode of CSI, NY, and the score for Aronofskys later films The Fountain. The piece, named Requiem for a Tower, was recorded especially for the trailer, the orchestration was arranged by Simone Benyacar, Dan Nielsen, and Veigar Margeirsson. D. and the TV series Lost and Top Gear. It was also used on Sky Sports News and as the theme for Soccer Saturday from 2007–2009, in 2006, the theme was used in EuroSport LIVE trailers. The theme was used by Americas Got Talent as an introduction of the judges before being changed slightly. The new variant is now a piece on the show. Mansells theme tune for science-fiction movie Moon also appears on the trailer for the film The Iron Lady and computer game Aliens, Colonial Marines
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Gaumont Film Company
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The Gaumont Film Company is a French mini-major film studio founded by the engineer-turned-inventor Léon Gaumont, in 1895. It is the first and oldest film company in the world, founded before other studios such as Pathé, Titanus, Nordisk Film, Universal, Gaumont predominantly produces, co-produces, and distributes films, and in 2011, 95% of Gaumonts consolidated revenues came from the film division. The company is becoming a TV series producer with its new American subsidiary Gaumont International Television as well as its existing French production features. Originally dealing in photographic apparatus, the company began producing films in 1897 to promote its make of camera-projector. Léon Gaumonts secretary Alice Guy-Blaché became the motion picture industry’s first female director, from 1905 to 1914, its Cité Elgé studios at La Villette, France, were the largest in the world. The company manufactured its own equipment and mass-produced films until 1907, when World War I broke out, he was replaced by Léonce Perret, who continued his career in the United States a few years later. The company headquarters are in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Gaumont opened foreign offices and acquired theatre chains Gaumont British, which later notably produced several films directed by Alfred Hitchcock such as The 39 Steps and The Lady Vanishes. Along with its competitor Pathé Frères, Gaumont dominated the industry in Europe until the outbreak of World War I in 1914. Following the World War I, Gaumont suffered economic losses due to increased competition from American Hollywood productions, in 1925, the studios output had decreased to only 3 films. In addition, Gaumont was unable to pace with the cost of technological changes. Struck by mounting debts in the early 1930s and the effects of the Great Depression, in 1937, the studio ceased production and operated only as a theater and distribution company. The company was purchased by the French corporation Havas in 1938, renamed Société Nouvelle des Etablissements Gaumont, during the later years of World War II, Gaumont was effected by the financial ruin of Frances economy as well as the physical destruction of its facilities. The company ceased production until 1947, the period was to see the return to prominence of Gaumont Studios. On February 2,2000, Philippe Binant, technical manager of Digital Cinema Project at Gaumont, from 1993 to early 2004, Gaumount and Disney made a partnership for producing films for theater distribution. In 2001, Gaumont spun off the division into a joint-venture with Pathé since known as Les Cinémas Gaumont Pathé. Gaumont owns a 34% stake in the entity, which controls a large network in France, Switzerland. As of 2011, this stake is worth €214 million, in 2004, Gaumont continued its development with Pathé to set up another joint-venture, Gaumont-Pathé Archives. Gaumont owns 57. 5% of this entity, which contains newsreels, documentaries, from early 2004 to 2007, the company had a partnership with Sony for producing films and for theater and DVD distribution worldwide
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Miramax
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Miramax is an American entertainment company known for producing and distributing films and television shows. It is headquartered in Santa Monica, California, shortly thereafter, Pulp Fiction was released. Miramax was sold by Disney to Filmyard Holdings, a joint venture of Colony Capital, Tutor-Saliba Corporation, in 2016, ownership was transferred to beIN Media Group. The company was founded by the brothers Harvey and Bob Weinstein in Buffalo, New York in 1979 and it was created to distribute independent films deemed commercially unfeasible by the major studios. The Weinsteins worked with Lewis to distill the two films into one film for the US marketplace, the resulting film The Secret Policemans Other Ball was a successful release for Miramax in the summer of 1982. This release presaged a modus operandi that the company would later in the 1980s of acquiring films from international filmmakers. Among the companys other breakthrough films as distributors in the late 1980s and early 1990s were Scandal, Sex, Lies, the Crying Game, Pulp Fiction and Clerks. The company also made such as Flirting with Disaster, Heavenly Creatures. Miramax acquired and/or produced many films that did extraordinarily well financially. The company became one of the leaders of the independent film boom of the 1990s, Miramax produced or distributed seven films with box office grosses totaling more than $100 million, its most successful title, Chicago, earned more than $300 million worldwide. The company was also successful in securing Academy Award nominations for its releases. In 1992, Miramax began a deal with Paramount Pictures for VHS, Paramount would also distribute theatrically certain releases that might have commercial appeal. On June 30,1993, Miramax was purchased for $60 million by The Walt Disney Company, Harvey and Bob Weinstein continued to operate Miramax until they left the company on September 30,2005. During their tenure, the Weinstein brothers ran Miramax independently of other Disney subsidiaries, Disney, however, had the final say on what Miramax could release. Disneys Buena Vista Home Entertainment division released Miramax output, Miramax operated, until September 30,2005, the label Dimension Films, specializing in genre films and created the Scream and Scary Movie film franchises. The primary source of dispute was over distribution of Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore, Disneys film studio consortium, Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group assumed control of Miramax, which was projected to have a smaller annual production budget. The Weinsteins started a new production company called The Weinstein Company. The Miramax name remained with the studio owned by Disney
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2010 Toronto International Film Festival
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The 35th annual Toronto International Film Festival, was held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 9 and September 19,2010. The opening night gala presented Score, A Hockey Musical, a Canadian comedy-drama musical film, last Night closed the festival on September 19. 2010 TIFF included 258 feature films, down from 264 in 2009, however, the number of short films at the 2010 festival increased to 81, making the total number of films 339, five more than in 2009. Of the feature films, TIFF claims that 112 are world premieres,24 are international premieres, and 98 are North American premieres
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Romance film
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Romance films make the romantic love story or the search for strong and pure love and romance the main plot focus. Occasionally, romance lovers face obstacles such as finances, physical illness, various forms of discrimination, as in all quite strong, deep, and close romantic relationships, tensions of day-to-day life, temptations, and differences in compatibility enter into the plots of romantic films. In romantic television series, the development of romantic relationships may play out over many episodes. Historical romance - A romantic story with a period setting and this includes films such as Gone with the Wind, Doctor Zhivago and Titanic. Romantic drama usually revolves around an obstacle which prevents deep and true love between two people. Music is often employed to indicate the mood, creating an atmosphere of greater insulation for the couple. The conclusion of a romantic drama typically does not indicate whether a final union between the two main characters will occur. Chick flick is a term associated with romance films as many are targeted to a female audience. As such, the terms cannot be used interchangeably, films of this genre include Dirty Dancing, The Notebook, Dear John, A Walk to Remember, and Romeo + Juliet. Romantic comedies are films with light-hearted, humorous plotlines, centered on romantic ideals such as true love is able to surmount most obstacles. Humour in such films tends to be of a verbal, low-key variety or situational, films within this genre include Four Weddings and a Funeral, Love Actually, Moonstruck, As Good as It Gets, Somethings Gotta Give, It Happened One Night, When Harry Met Sally. Romantic fantasies describe fantasy stories using many of the elements and conventions of the romance genre, romantic action comedies are films that blend romantic comedy and action. Examples include Killers, Knight and Day, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, This Means War, romantic thriller is a genre of film which has a storyline combining elements of the romance film and the thriller genre. Some examples of romantic thriller films are The Adjustment Bureau, The Phantom of the Opera, The Tourist, The Bodyguard, Unfaithful, and Wicker Park
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Temptation
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Temptation is a desire to engage in short-term urges for enjoyment, that threatens long-term goals. In the context of some religions, temptation is the inclination to sin, Temptation also describes the coaxing or inducing a person into committing such an act, by manipulation or otherwise of curiosity, desire or fear of loss. Research suggests that there are paradoxical effects associated with temptation, including all the forms temptations can present themselves there is a set of options that may facilitate high moral standards in decision making. Weak or subtle temptations in comparison to strong or obvious temptations leads to less self-control, supported research states that available temptations are less valuable and less tempting. Temptations can have effects on long-term goal attainment, it has found that individuals who experienced temptation. He says that given an opportunity at a large amount of money we have a greater chance of harming, stealing, partaking in sexual misconduct. This idea of money as a negative persuasion tactic in regards to the mentioned above, is psychologically proven to affect our cognitive ability to make decisions. Vanchais article talked solely on Buddhist practices but it is believed that it could be broadened to all beliefs, Temptation is usually used in a loose sense to describe actions which indicate a lack of self control. Temptation is something that allures, excites, and seduces someone, in advertising, temptation is a theme common to many of the marketing and advertising techniques used to make products more attractive. Temptation is measured through indirect and implicit methods, generally individuals experience temptations in both positive and negative terms. In regards to Spiritual struggle, research argues that the struggle can be looked upon as a gift, as an opportunity for growth, positive or negative religious coping and constructive or destructive emotions, the valenced expression of temptation may lead to the salutary versus deleterious effects of temptation. There are valenced effects on a variety of outcomes from temptation, such as the health and well-being of an individual. There is also the relief of stress that an individual may be experiencing, an individuals experience with temptation may influence a persons future experiences, predict future possibilities, and outcomes. When an individual is attempting to address or resolve a complex experience of temptation, including transcendent levels, self-control is commonly used by an individual to resist temptation. B. F. Skinner stated 9 methods for achieving this, self-control is considered by some to be a limited resource, which is depleted by use. Persuasion Seduction Temptation of Christ The Last Temptation of Christ
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Stephanie Romanov
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Stephanie A. Romanov is an American model and actress, best known for playing Lilah Morgan on Angel. Romanov was born in Las Vegas, Nevada and she first began modeling in Europe and was discovered at 15 by Elite Model Management founder, John Casablancas. Her first professional modeling job was in Europe, shooting fashion layouts for Italian and she then moved to New York to pursue a professional model career, leaving her family in Las Vegas. She appeared in ELLE, Vanity Fair and French Vogue, in 1993, Romanov decided to leave modeling in favour of acting. She landed her first role as Teri Spencer on Aaron Spellings Models and she went on to land guest starring roles in Homicide, Life on the Street, The Sentinel, Just Shoot Me. and Burkes Law. She starred on Angel for four seasons, playing Lilah Morgan from 2000–2003, Romanov has also appeared in several films, including Spy Hard and Mennos Mind. She played Jacqueline Kennedy in the critically acclaimed Thirteen Days and appeared in The Final Cut alongside Robin Williams
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Griffin Dunne
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Thomas Griffin Dunne, known professionally as Griffin Dunne, is an American actor, film producer and film director. Dunne was born Thomas Griffin Dunne in New York City, the son of Ellen Beatriz and he is the older brother of Alexander and Dominique Dunne. His mother founded the victims rights organization Justice for Homicide Victims after Dominiques murder in 1982 and his father was a producer, writer, and actor. He is also the nephew of John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion and he was scheduled to perform in a school production of Othello when on the eve of a performance, Dunne was found smoking marijuana by a teacher. He was immediately expelled and soon after, he moved back to New York to pursue his acting interests, Dunne began his professional acting career at age 19 with a small supporting role in The Other Side of the Mountain in 1975. Dunne also played Dr. Vass, opposite Matthew McConaughey, in the Oscar-nominated 2013 film Dallas Buyers Club, dunnes TV appearances include Frasier, Saturday Night Live, Alias, and Law & Order, Criminal Intent. He portrayed Tony Mink in the comedy Trust Me on TNT, in 2012, Dunne guest-starred as management consultant Marco Pelios in seven episodes of the premiere season of the Showtime TV series House of Lies. In 1995, Griffin Dunne was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for Duke of Groove and he shared the nomination with producer Thom Colwell. Dunnes directorial debut was the 1995 short film Duke of Groove, since then, he has directed five feature films, including Addicted to Love and Practical Magic. He also directed one segment of the 2012 anthology film Movie 43, from 1989 to 1995, he was married to American actress Carey Lowell, with whom he has one daughter, actress Hannah Dunne. In July 2009, he married his wife, Anna Bingemann. Griffin Dunne at the Internet Movie Database Griffin Dunne at AllMovie
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Anson Mount
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Anson Adams Mount IV is an American actor. He portrays the fictional character Cullen Bohannon in the AMC show Hell on Wheels and he was also cast in the role of Jim Steele on the short-lived NBC series Conviction and appeared in the film Tully. He was recently cast as the Marvel Comics superhero Black Bolt in Marvels Inhumans, Mount was born in Mount Prospect, Illinois and grew up in White Bluff, Tennessee. His mother, Nancy Smith, is a professional golfer. His father, Anson Adams Mount II, was one of the contributing editors to Playboy magazine. Anson has a brother, Anson Adams III, and two sisters, Kristin and Elizabeth, from his fathers first marriage. Mounts great-great-great grandfather was a Confederate cavalry colonel in the Civil War, Mount attended Dickson County High School in Dickson, Tennessee, The University of the South, and Columbia University. At The University of the South, he was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity, Anson Mount at the Internet Movie Database Anson Mount on Twitter
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Scott Adsit
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Robert Scott Adsit is an American comedian, actor and writer. Born on the North Shore of Illinois, Adsit joined the mainstage cast of Chicagos The Second City in 1994 after attending Columbia College Chicago and he appeared in several revues, including Paradigm Lost for which he won The Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Actor in a Comedy. From 2005–2008, he co-directed, co-wrote and co-produced the Adult Swim stop-motion animation program Moral Orel with Dino Stamatopoulos and he also voiced several characters and was nominated for an Annie Award for his work as Clay Puppington, Orels father. After the success of Moral Orel, Adsit and Stamatopoulos worked together again on their stop-motion animation series Mary Shelleys Frankenhole, Adult Swim ordered ten episodes for its first season, which began airing June 27,2010 and was canceled in 2012. In 2014, Adsit voiced the robot Baymax in the Disney animated film Big Hero 6, Adsit was born in Northbrook, Illinois on November 26,1965, the son of Genevieve Genny and Andrew Scott Adsit, a real estate attorney. He attended Glenbrook North High School, where he recalled being a bit of a class clown and he then attended Columbia College Chicago, where acting teacher Sheldon Patinkin encouraged him to join the citys famed improv troupe, The Second City. Adsit joined Second City in 1987, and became part of its mainstage cast in 1994 and he appeared in several Joseph Jefferson Award-winning revues, including Piñata Full of Bees and Paradigm Lost for which he won The Jeff Award for Best Actor in a Comedy. A sketch he performed with future Saturday Night Live head writer Adam McKay, in 1996, he portrayed an alcoholic and drug-addicted father in Minnesotas Hazelden Substance Abuse Clinic short-subject production, Reflections From The Heart Of A Child. This 26-minute video/DVD feature has become required curriculum in most DWI Repeat Offender classes, in 1997, Adsit recorded the voices for the King of Payne, Sir Psycho, The Duke of Bourbon, and Merlin for Williams Medieval Madness pinball machine. Adsit co-wrote the games recorded dialog with fellow Second City cast member, Adsit, Dorff and their Second City castmate, Tina Fey, played the character voices in the game. In 1998, Adsit moved to Los Angeles after an invitation from his college friend Dino Stamatopoulos to work on a pilot about the antics of a television sketch-comedy variety show. The pilot did not materialize as a show, but Adsit stayed in California and began working in bit parts and that same year, he appeared as a cast member in the renowned sketch comedy program, Mr. Show. He also plagued the band Tenacious D as a neighbor and a demon in their HBO show, in 2001, he starred in an episode of Friends, The One with Ross and Monicas Cousin in Season 7. After moving to Los Angeles, Adsit appeared in several sitcoms, from 2005–2008, he co-directed, co-wrote and co-produced the Adult Swim show Moral Orel with Stamatopoulos and Jay Johnston. He was nominated for an Annie Award for his work as Clay, Adsit also had a minor role in the The Office episode Conflict Resolution as a photographer. Adsit also had a role in the movie Kicking & Screaming, starring Will Ferrell. In 2005, he received a call from former Second City castmate Tina Fey, Tina called and said, ‘Im working on a show, and theres a part Im writing with you in mind, so keep your schedule open next year. So I did, ” Adsit recalled in 2009, in a twist of fate, he also auditioned for Aaron Sorkin’s Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, yet another series about the behind-the-scenes drama of a variety show
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New York City
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The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over an area of about 302.6 square miles. Located at the tip of the state of New York. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has described as the cultural and financial capital of the world. Situated on one of the worlds largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, the five boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island – were consolidated into a single city in 1898. In 2013, the MSA produced a gross metropolitan product of nearly US$1.39 trillion, in 2012, the CSA generated a GMP of over US$1.55 trillion. NYCs MSA and CSA GDP are higher than all but 11 and 12 countries, New York City traces its origin to its 1624 founding in Lower Manhattan as a trading post by colonists of the Dutch Republic and was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The city and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. It has been the countrys largest city since 1790, the Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a symbol of the United States and its democracy. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. Several sources have ranked New York the most photographed city in the world, the names of many of the citys bridges, tapered skyscrapers, and parks are known around the world. Manhattans real estate market is among the most expensive in the world, Manhattans Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere, with multiple signature Chinatowns developing across the city. Providing continuous 24/7 service, the New York City Subway is one of the most extensive metro systems worldwide, with 472 stations in operation. Over 120 colleges and universities are located in New York City, including Columbia University, New York University, and Rockefeller University, during the Wisconsinan glaciation, the New York City region was situated at the edge of a large ice sheet over 1,000 feet in depth. The ice sheet scraped away large amounts of soil, leaving the bedrock that serves as the foundation for much of New York City today. Later on, movement of the ice sheet would contribute to the separation of what are now Long Island and Staten Island. The first documented visit by a European was in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzano, a Florentine explorer in the service of the French crown and he claimed the area for France and named it Nouvelle Angoulême. Heavy ice kept him from further exploration, and he returned to Spain in August and he proceeded to sail up what the Dutch would name the North River, named first by Hudson as the Mauritius after Maurice, Prince of Orange
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SoHo, Manhattan
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The areas history is an archetypal example of inner-city regeneration and gentrification, encompassing socioeconomic, cultural, political, and architectural developments. The name SoHo refers to the area being South of Houston Street, and was also a reference to Soho and it was coined by Chester Rapkin, an urban planner and author of The South Houston Industrial Area study, also known as the Rapkin Report. It consists of 26 blocks and approximately 500 buildings, many of them incorporating cast-iron architectural elements, many side streets in the district are paved with Belgian blocks. SoHo is bounded by Houston Street on the side, Canal Street on the south, Crosby Street on the east. The AIA Guide to New York City gives the western boundary of SoHo north of Broome Street as West Broadway. The AIA Guide calls that neighborhood An intersection of brick and glass, searching for an identity, the SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District is contained within the zoned SoHo neighborhood. The boundary lines are not straight, and some block-fronts on West Broadway and this land was acquired in the 1660s by Augustine Hermann, and then passed to his brother-in-law, Nicholas Bayard. The estate was confiscated by the state as a result of Bayards part in Leislers Rebellion, in the 18th century natural barriers – streams and hills – impeded the growth of the city northward into the Bayard estate, and the area maintained its rural character. During the American Revolution, the area was the location of fortifications, redoubts. A canal was built to drain the pond into the Hudson, once Broadway was paved and sidewalks were built there and along Canal Street, more people began to make their homes there, joining earlier arrivals such as James Fennimore Cooper. This dramatic shift in the nature of the continued to drive out residents. This phase came to an end by the close of the 19th century, and as the center of the city continued to move uptown, after World War II, the textile industry largely moved to the South, leaving many large buildings in the district unoccupied. In some buildings they were replaced by warehouses and printing plants, by the 1950s, the area had become known as Hells Hundred Acres, an industrial wasteland, full of sweatshops and small factories in the daytime, but empty at night. SoHo boasts the greatest collection of architecture in the world. Approximately 250 cast-iron buildings stand in New York City and the majority of them are in SoHo, cast iron was initially used as a decorative front over a pre-existing building. With the addition of modern, decorative facades, older buildings were able to attract new commercial clients. Most of these facades were constructed during the period from 1840 to 1880, in addition to revitalizing older structures, buildings in SoHo were later designed to feature the cast iron. An American architectural innovation, cast iron was cheaper to use for facades than materials such as stone or brick, molds of ornamentation, prefabricated in foundries, were used interchangeably for many buildings, and a broken piece could be easily recast
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Manhattan
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Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and the citys historical birthplace. The borough is coextensive with New York County, founded on November 1,1683, Manhattan is often described as the cultural and financial capital of the world and hosts the United Nations Headquarters. Many multinational media conglomerates are based in the borough and it is historically documented to have been purchased by Dutch colonists from Native Americans in 1626 for 60 guilders which equals US$1062 today. New York County is the United States second-smallest county by land area, on business days, the influx of commuters increases that number to over 3.9 million, or more than 170,000 people per square mile. Manhattan has the third-largest population of New York Citys five boroughs, after Brooklyn and Queens, the City of New York was founded at the southern tip of Manhattan, and the borough houses New York City Hall, the seat of the citys government. The name Manhattan derives from the word Manna-hata, as written in the 1609 logbook of Robert Juet, a 1610 map depicts the name as Manna-hata, twice, on both the west and east sides of the Mauritius River. The word Manhattan has been translated as island of hills from the Lenape language. The United States Postal Service prefers that mail addressed to Manhattan use New York, NY rather than Manhattan, the area that is now Manhattan was long inhabited by the Lenape Native Americans. In 1524, Florentine explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano – sailing in service of King Francis I of France – was the first European to visit the area that would become New York City. It was not until the voyage of Henry Hudson, an Englishman who worked for the Dutch East India Company, a permanent European presence in New Netherland began in 1624 with the founding of a Dutch fur trading settlement on Governors Island. In 1625, construction was started on the citadel of Fort Amsterdam on Manhattan Island, later called New Amsterdam, the 1625 establishment of Fort Amsterdam at the southern tip of Manhattan Island is recognized as the birth of New York City. In 1846, New York historian John Romeyn Brodhead converted the figure of Fl 60 to US$23, variable-rate myth being a contradiction in terms, the purchase price remains forever frozen at twenty-four dollars, as Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace remarked in their history of New York. Sixty guilders in 1626 was valued at approximately $1,000 in 2006, based on the price of silver, Straight Dope author Cecil Adams calculated an equivalent of $72 in 1992. In 1647, Peter Stuyvesant was appointed as the last Dutch Director General of the colony, New Amsterdam was formally incorporated as a city on February 2,1653. In 1664, the English conquered New Netherland and renamed it New York after the English Duke of York and Albany, the Dutch Republic regained it in August 1673 with a fleet of 21 ships, renaming the city New Orange. Manhattan was at the heart of the New York Campaign, a series of battles in the early American Revolutionary War. The Continental Army was forced to abandon Manhattan after the Battle of Fort Washington on November 16,1776. The city, greatly damaged by the Great Fire of New York during the campaign, became the British political, British occupation lasted until November 25,1783, when George Washington returned to Manhattan, as the last British forces left the city
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Rotten Tomatoes
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Rotten Tomatoes is an American review aggregator website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by Senh Duong and since January 2010 has been owned by Flixster, in February 2016, Rotten Tomatoes and its parent site Flixster were sold to Comcasts Fandango. Warner Bros. retained a minority stake in the merged entities, since 2007, the websites editor-in-chief has been Matt Atchity. The name, Rotten Tomatoes, derives from the practice of audiences throwing rotten tomatoes when disapproving of a stage performance. From early 2008 to September 2010, Current Television aired the weekly The Rotten Tomatoes Show, featuring hosts, a shorter segment was incorporated into the weekly show, InfoMania, which ended in 2011. In September 2013, the website introduced TV Zone, a section for reviewing scripted TV shows, Rotten Tomatoes was launched on August 12,1998, as a spare-time project by Senh Duong. His goal in creating Rotten Tomatoes was to create a site where people can get access to reviews from a variety of critics in the U. S. As a fan of Jackie Chans, Duong was inspired to create the website after collecting all the reviews of Chans movies as they were being published in the United States, the first movie whose reviews were featured on Rotten Tomatoes was Your Friends & Neighbors. The website was an success, receiving mentions by Netscape, Yahoo. and USA Today within the first week of its launch. They officially launched it on April 1,2000, in June 2004, IGN Entertainment acquired rottentomatoes. com for an undisclosed sum. In September 2005, IGN was bought by News Corps Fox Interactive Media, in January 2010, IGN sold the website to Flixster. The combined reach of both companies is 30 million unique visitors a month across all different platforms, according to the companies, in May 2011, Flixster was acquired by Warner Bros. In early 2009, Current Television launched the version of the web review site. It was hosted by Brett Erlich and Ellen Fox and written by Mark Ganek, the show aired every Thursday at 10,30 EST on the Current TV network. The last episode aired on September 16,2010 and it returned as a much shorter segment of InfoMania, a satirical news show that ended in 2011. By late 2009, the website was designed to enable Rotten Tomatoes users to create, one group, The Golden Oyster Awards, accepted votes of members for different awards, as if in parallel to the better-known Oscars or Golden Globes. When Flixster bought the company, they disbanded the groups, announcing, in the meantime, please use the Forums to continue your conversations about your favorite movie topics. As of February 2011, new community features have been added, for example, users can no longer sort films by fresh ratings from rotten ratings, and vice versa
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Metacritic
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Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of media products, music albums, games, movies, TV shows, DVDs, and formerly, books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged, Metacritic was created by Jason Dietz, Marc Doyle, and Julie Doyle Roberts. The site provides an excerpt from each review and hyperlinks to its source, a color of Green, Yellow or Red summarizes the critics recommendations and therefore the general appeal of the product to reviewers and, to a lesser extent, the public. It is regarded as the game industrys foremost review aggregator. Metacritics scoring converts each review into a percentage, either mathematically from the mark given, before being averaged, the scores are weighted according to the critics fame, stature, and volume of reviews. Metacritic was launched in July 1999 by Marc Doyle, his sister Julie Doyle Roberts, rotten Tomatoes was already compiling movie reviews, but Doyle, Roberts, and Dietz saw an opportunity to cover a broader range of media. They sold Metacritic to CNET in 2005, CNET and Metacritic are now owned by the CBS Corporation. Nick Wingfield of The Wall Street Journal wrote in September 2004, Mr. Doyle,36, is now a product manager at CNET. Speaking of video games, Doyle said, A site like ours helps people cut through. unobjective promotional language and he added that the review process was not taken as seriously when unconnected magazines and websites provided reviews in isolation. In August 2010, the appearance was revamped, reaction from users was overwhelmingly negative. Certain publications are given more significance because of their stature, games Editor Marc Doyle was interviewed by Keith Stuart of The Guardian to get a look behind the metascoring process. Stuart wrote, the phenomenon, namely Metacritic and GameRankings, have become an enormously important element of online games journalism over the past few years. The ranging of metascores is, Metacritic is regarded as the foremost online review site for the video game industry. Nick Wingfield of The Wall Street Journal has written that Metacritic influence the sales of games and he explains its influence as coming from the higher cost of buying video games than music or movie tickets. Many executives say that low scores can hurt the sales potential. He claimed that a number of businesses and financial analysts use Metacritic as an early indicator of a games potential sales and, by extension. In 2004, Jason Hall of Warner Bros. began including quality metrics in contracts with partners licensing its movies for games, if a product does not at least achieve a specific score, some deals require the publisher to pay higher royalties. In 2008, Microsoft began using Metacritic averages to de-list underperforming Xbox Live Arcade games and these are the top 10 individual games with the highest scores on the site as of 2 April 2017
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Peter Bradshaw
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Peter Bradshaw is a British writer and film critic. He has been chief film critic at The Guardian since 1999, Bradshaw is the film critic for The Guardian. Bradshaw found it the most bizarre and surreal business of my professional life, im very flattered that Mr Clark should go to all this trouble and expense in suing me like this. Bradshaw has written three novels, Lucky Baby Jesus, published in 1999, Dr Sweet and his Daughter, published in 2003 and Night Of Triumph, published in 2013. He also wrote and performed a BBC radio programme titled For One Horrible Moment, recorded 10 October 1998, the programme chronicled a young mans coming of age in 1970s Cambridgeshire. He co-wrote and acted in David Baddiels sitcom Baddiels Syndrome, first aired on Sky One, in early 2017 various professional and candid photos of Bradshaw were used in a highly successful Facebook sticker set named Peter Bradshaw Feels He is a regular guest reviewer on BBC1s Film
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Fandango (company)
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Fandango is an American corporation that sells movie tickets via the telephone and the Internet. Fandango charges a premium to use its services, ranging from 75¢ to $2.50, initially, seating was promised for sold-out shows, but this feature was discontinued for most theaters, as not all were equipped to handle reserved seating and will call lines. With ticket prices in areas exceeding US$10. Fandangos advertisements play before previews at participating movie-theater chains and feature lunch bag puppets telling various one- or two-line jokes and riddles centering on the companys name, the company also produced an advertising segment that is based on the song, We are the World. Fandangos website also offers exclusive film clips, trailers, celebrity interviews, reviews by users, movie descriptions, as of March 5,2015, Fandango provides customers with memberships the ability to refund or exchange their orders 2 hours before the showtime of their film. Fandangos Android app was listed among Techlands 50 Best Android Applications for 2013. Industry revenue increased rapidly for years after the companys formation. However, as the Internet grew in popularity, small- and medium-sized movie-theater chains began to offer independent ticket sale capabilities through their own websites. In addition, a new paradigm of moviegoers printing their own tickets at home emerged, in services offered by PrintTixUSA and by point-of-sale software vendor operated web sites like ticketmakers. com. On April 11,2007, Comcast acquired Fandango, with plans to integrate it into a new entertainment website called Fancast. com, in June 2008, the domain Movies. com was acquired from Disney. With Comcasts purchase of a stake in NBCUniversal in January 2011, Fandango, in March 2012, Fandango announced a partnership with Yahoo. Movies, becoming the official online and mobile ticketer serving over 30 million registered users of the Yahoo. service, as part of the deal, Warner Bros. would become a 30% shareholder of the combined Fandango company. In December 2016, Fandango Media purchased Cinepapaya, a Peru-based website for purchasing movie tickets, Fandango is one of two major online advance movie ticket sale sites, along with MovieTickets. com. Along with other partners, Regal founded Fandango partly to prevent the older MovieTickets. com from establishing a monopoly on phone and online ticketing services. Its advertising agency reportedly decided on its name because it sounded fun, kinetic and smart, easily pronounce, mergers of movie chains have complicated matters regarding which company provides online ticketing for a particular chain. Upon Regals acquisition of Consolidated Theatres, that chain was under contract to MovieTickets. com, on the other hand, Regals acquisition of the Hoyts chain resulted in Fandango taking over their online ticketing. Prior to 2012, Fandango did not provide online ticketing for many AMC Theaters, as of February 8,2012, Fandango began providing ticketing for all AMC Theaters in the US, after which MovieTickets. coms fellow shareholders sued AMC for breach of contract. AMC and MovieTickets. com settled in 2013, with an agreement that the theater chains online ticketing would be available on both Fandango and MovieTickets. com, in May 2012, Fandango announced a partnership with Moviefone, former partner of MovieTickets. com
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CBS Interactive
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CBS Interactive Inc. is an American media company and is a division of the CBS Corporation. It is a content network for information and entertainment. Its websites cover news, sports, entertainment, technology and business and it is headed by Jim Lanzone. On May 30,2007, CBS Interactive acquired Last. fm for £140 million, on June 30,2008, CNET Networks was acquired by CBS and the assets were merged into CBS Interactive, including Metacritic, GameSpot, TV. com, and Movietome. In April 2014, CBS Interactive quietly acquired a site Modern Auto Reviews to roll its extensive user database and it was never disclosed how much CBS Interactive paid for the acquisition but it likely to be in the 10-15 million dollar range. CBS Interactives entertainment brands are CBS, CBS Interactives music brands are Last. fm, the music discovery service and listening service, and MetroLyrics, lyrics, videos and news for music. CBS Interactives sports brands are CBSSports. com, the home of CBS Sports, with news, scores, video. BNET, founded in 2007, was a magazine dedicated to issues of business management. It merged into CBS MoneyWatch in June 2008 to become the anchor to CBS business-related content
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The Guardian
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The Guardian is a British daily newspaper, known from 1821 until 1959 as the Manchester Guardian. Along with its sister papers The Observer and The Guardian Weekly, The Guardian is part of the Guardian Media Group, the Scott Trust became a limited company in 2008, with a constitution to maintain the same protections for The Guardian. Profits are reinvested in journalism rather than to the benefit of an owner or shareholders, the Guardian is edited by Katharine Viner, who succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. In 2016, The Guardians print edition had a daily circulation of roughly 162,000 copies in the country, behind The Daily Telegraph. The newspaper has an online UK edition as well as two international websites, Guardian Australia and Guardian US, the newspapers online edition was the fifth most widely read in the world in October 2014, with over 42.6 million readers. Its combined print and online editions reach nearly 9 million British readers, notable scoops include the 2011 News International phone hacking scandal, in particular the hacking of murdered English teenager Milly Dowlers phone. The investigation led to the closure of the UKs biggest selling Sunday newspaper, and one of the highest circulation newspapers in the world, in 2016, it led the investigation into the Panama Papers, exposing the then British Prime Minister David Camerons links to offshore bank accounts. The Guardian has been named Newspaper of the Year four times at the annual British Press Awards, the paper is still occasionally referred to by its nickname of The Grauniad, given originally for the purported frequency of its typographical errors. The Manchester Guardian was founded in Manchester in 1821 by cotton merchant John Edward Taylor with backing from the Little Circle and they launched their paper after the police closure of the more radical Manchester Observer, a paper that had championed the cause of the Peterloo Massacre protesters. They do not toil, neither do they spin, but they better than those that do. When the government closed down the Manchester Observer, the champions had the upper hand. The influential journalist Jeremiah Garnett joined Taylor during the establishment of the paper, the prospectus announcing the new publication proclaimed that it would zealously enforce the principles of civil and religious Liberty. Warmly advocate the cause of Reform, endeavour to assist in the diffusion of just principles of Political Economy and. Support, without reference to the party from which they emanate, in 1825 the paper merged with the British Volunteer and was known as The Manchester Guardian and British Volunteer until 1828. The working-class Manchester and Salford Advertiser called the Manchester Guardian the foul prostitute, the Manchester Guardian was generally hostile to labours claims. The Manchester Guardian dismissed strikes as the work of outside agitators –, if an accommodation can be effected, the occupation of the agents of the Union is gone. CP Scott made the newspaper nationally recognised and he was editor for 57 years from 1872, and became its owner when he bought the paper from the estate of Taylors son in 1907. Under Scott, the moderate editorial line became more radical, supporting William Gladstone when the Liberals split in 1886
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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database
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Pi (film)
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Pi, also titled π, is a 1998 American surrealist psychological thriller film written and directed by Darren Aronofsky in his directorial debut. The film earned Aronofsky the Directing Award at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival, the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay, the title refers to the mathematical constant pi. The film is notable for its covering of an array of themes including religion, mysticism, Max Cohen is the storys protagonist and unreliable narrator. Unemployed and living in a drab Chinatown apartment in New York City, Max also suffers from cluster headaches, as well as extreme paranoia, hallucinations, and social anxiety disorder. Other than Devi, a woman living next door who sometimes speaks to him, Maxs only social interaction is with Sol Robeson. Max begins making stock predictions based on the calculations of his computer, in the middle of printing out its picks, Euclid suddenly crashes after spitting out a seemingly random 216-digit number, as well as a single pick at one-tenth its current value. Disgusted, Max tosses out the printout of the number, the next morning, he checks the financial pages and sees that the pick Euclid made was accurate. He searches desperately for the printout but cannot find it, Sol becomes unnerved when Max mentions the number, asking if it contained 216 digits. When Max questions him about the number, Sol indicates that he came across it years ago. He urges Max to slow down and try taking a break, at a coffee shop that he frequents on a daily basis, Max meets Lenny Meyer, a Hasidic Jew who coincidentally does mathematical research on the Torah. Lenny demonstrates some simple Gematria, the correspondence of the Hebrew alphabet to numbers, Max takes an interest when he realizes that some of the number concepts Lenny discusses are similar to other mathematical concepts, such as the Fibonacci sequence. Max is also met by agents of a Wall Street firm who are interested in his work, one of the agents, Marcy Dawson, offers Max a classified computer chip called Ming Mecca in exchange for the results of his work, which Max eventually accepts. Using the chip, Max has Euclid analyze mathematical patterns in the Torah, Euclid spits out the 216-digit number before crashing again. When his computer refuses to print out the number, Max begins to write it down, midway through the writing, Max realizes that he knows the pattern, undergoes a sudden epiphany, and passes out. Thereafter, Max appears to become clairvoyant and is able to visualize the stock market patterns he had been searching for, but his headaches also increase in intensity, and he discovers a strange vein-like bulge protruding from his right temple. Max has an out with Sol after the latter urges him to quit his work. One evening, Dawson and her agents grab Max on the street and they had found the original printout that Max threw away and had been trying to use it to manipulate the stock market in their favor, but as a result, caused it to crash. Although Max is held at gunpoint, Lenny drives by and rescues him, however, Lenny and his companions make similar demands on Max to give them the number
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Requiem for a Dream (soundtrack)
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Requiem for a Dream is the soundtrack album from the 2000 film Requiem for a Dream. It was composed by Clint Mansell and performed by the Kronos Quartet, the music for the film is noted for its minimalist qualities in which it uses constant harmonies, a steady pulse, and often variation of musical phrases to drive a point. The soundtrack is best known for the song Lux Aeterna, which has appeared also in one trailer for The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers, with the success of the film also came a successful soundtrack. Composer of the soundtrack Clint Mansell has worked closely with Darren Aronofsky throughout his movie career. Mansell also has worked on Aronofskys first film π, both Pi and Requiem for a Dream are noted for their off notes and range of tenebrous emotions. The maestro bringing them to attention is Aronofsky, Aronofsky and Mansell both grew up listening to Hiphop which they based a lot of their decision making on that type of music. Mansell took a classic hiphop record and reworked it with the score, Aronofsky saw Requiem as a monster movie, only when something goes bad you hear the music. All of the music in the film are influenced the characters, even though none of the characters actually say the word Heroin, they still base the music around heroin and cravings. The soundtrack has been praised, and in particular the track Lux Aeterna has subsequently been used in various forms of media. The theme was reorchestrated for The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers trailer and is known by the name Requiem for a Tower, the theme has been featured in trailers for other films, including Babylon A. D. The Da Vinci Code, I Am Legend, Sunshine, and it also appeared in the video games Total Miner, Forge, Assassins Creed, and in numerous TV spots and advertisements, and at sporting events. Use of the theme has extended to the point where it is interchangeable with the name Requiem for a Dream. A remix album, Requiem for a Dream, Remixed, contained new mixes of the music by Paul Oakenfold, Josh Wink, Jagz Kooner, the Kronos Quartet is the string quartet that performed the soundtrack for Requiem for a Dream. The quartet was founded in 1973 by David Harrington in Seattle, the members were David Harrington and John Sherba, violins, Hank Dutt, viola, and Joan Jeanrenaud, cello. The group was chosen for its minimalist approach, reviews have generally been very favorable. Filmcritic. com, in a review of the score, spoke of the driving, thumping, angry, brutal violin score which drums like a hammer. Requiem for a Dream was written by Hubert Selby Jr. who was inspired to write it when he lived in LA and he wanted to write about something in the real world rather than something from the fantasy genre. One of the influences of his work was his life experiences
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Sonny (film)
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Sonny is a 2002 American crime-drama film starring James Franco, Harry Dean Stanton, Brenda Blethyn, Mena Suvari and Josie Davis. Based on a screenplay by John Carlen, the film marked the debut of Nicolas Cage. It was co-produced by Cages production company Saturn Films, Sonny is the son of Jewel who runs a small brothel in New Orleans, Louisiana. Sonny returns home from the army, staying with his mother waiting to start the job an army buddy of his promised him. Jewel tries to convince Sonny to come back to working for her as he had before the army, saying many of his old clients still miss him, Sonny repeatedly turns her down, wanting to leave that life behind. However, the job he was promised never materializes and he is forced to return to working for his mother, Jewel had recently recruited a new girl to the brothel, Carol, who meets Sonny and falls in love with him. They talk of getting out together, one of Carols clients, an older man, proposes to her. She initially declines, hoping to go away with Sonny and she and Sonny fall out as he fails to make an effort to get out of the business, instead becoming increasingly introverted and depressed, with occasional outbursts as he looks for more work. Ultimately, Carol accepts the marriage proposal, male prostitution in the arts List of directorial debuts Sonny at the Internet Movie Database Sonny at Rotten Tomatoes Sonny at AllMovie
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Doom (film)
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Starring Karl Urban and Dwayne Johnson, the film follows a group of Marines in a research facility on Mars. After arriving on a rescue and retrieval mission after communications ceased, after film rights deals with Universal Pictures and Columbia Pictures expired, id Software signed a deal with Warner Bros. with the stipulation that the film would be greenlit within a year. Warner Bros. lost the rights, which were given back to Universal. The film was an international co-production of the United States, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, in an interview with executive producer John Wells, he stated that a second film would be put into production if the first was a success at the box office. The film grossed $28.2 million in North America and $27.8 million overseas for a total of $56 million, based on a $60 million budget. In the year 2046, a heavily populated research facility on Mars is suddenly attacked by an unknown assailant, following a distress call sent by Dr. Todd Carmack, a group of Marines, led by Asher Sarge Mahonin, is sent on a search-and-rescue mission. One of the Marines, John Reaper Grimm, accompanies his sister, while searching for survivors in the facility, the Marines find Dr. Carmack, who is taken to a medical room for examination, but later disappears. The Marines find a creature that leads them down to the facilitys sewer, marine Eric Goat Fantom is killed during their pursuit, along with the creature. The corpses of Goat and the creature are taken to the medical room, marine Gregory Duke Schofield stays with Sam as she starts an autopsy, when they are attacked by a second creature. After trapping it, Sam continues the autopsy on the first creature, Goat suddenly revives, and then kills himself by slamming his head against a glass window. The squad tracks a third creature down into the dig site, regardless, Sarge orders his team to sanitize the entire facility. Sarge kills the creature in the lab and executes one of his Marines for defying his commands. Sam and the surviving Marines are then flanked by the infected, partly mutated, only Sam and a wounded Reaper escape. Sam injects Reaper with the C24 serum, enhancing his abilities so that he is able to kill the infected humans, Reaper then battles an infected Sarge and kills him. Having survived, Sam and Reaper enter the elevator to leave the facility, John Reaper Grimm Dwayne Johnson as Gunnery Sgt. Asher Sarge Mahonin Rosamund Pike as Dr. Samantha Grimm Razaaq Adoti as Sgt, Gregory Duke Schofield Richard Brake as Cpl. Dean Portman Dexter Fletcher as Marcus Pinky Pinzerowski Al Weaver as Pvt, mark The Kid Dantalian Ben Daniels as Cpl. Eric Goat Fantom DeObia Oparei as Sgt, gannon Destroyer Roark Yao Chin as Pvt
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The Fountain (soundtrack)
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The Fountain, Music from the Motion Picture is the soundtrack album to the 2006 film The Fountain directed by Darren Aronofsky. The score received mixed reviews critics and was nominated for several awards. Clint Mansell—the composer for Aronofskys previous films Pi and Requiem for a Dream—reprised his role for The Fountain, the San Francisco-based string quartet Kronos Quartet—who previously performed for the Requiem for a Dream soundtrack—and Scottish post-rock band Mogwai also contributed to the film score. Aronofsky planned for Bowie to rework pieces of the score and to vocalize them, after the score was completed, Nonesuch Records, the home of The Fountain musical contributor Kronos Quartet, released the soundtrack on November 21,2006. Mansell researched possible scores to compose one tying together the three storylines and he sought to have an organic feeling to the score and explored implementing orchestral and electronic elements that would have a real human element to them that breathes. Contrary to most films scores composed in post-production, Mansells score was composed concurrently with the films production, the composer described the parallel process, Its instinct and listening to what the film is telling you it needs. Mansell drew from five to six years of writing material for The Fountain, the composer planned for the score to be pure percussion when the film was first meant to be epic in scale. Mansell, lacking classical training, collaborated with an assistant in creating the score and they deconstructed the composers initial pieces for The Fountain and re-played them in a key so the lead melodies could harmonically play with every progression. The song Together We Will Live Forever was a piece designed by Mansell to be the protagonists memory theme. The song was performed by pianist Randy Kerber. The content and research agency Ramp Industry launched The Fountain Remixed, users could download freely provided audio parts from The Fountains film score, remix the music, and upload the work onto the website to be evaluated by other users. Mansell won the Chicago Film Critics Associations 2006 award for Best Original Score and he was also nominated for the 2006 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score for The Fountain, but lost to Alexandre Desplat for The Painted Veil. Mansell also lost a nomination for the 2006 BFCA Critics Choice Award for Best Composer to Philip Glass for The Illusionist, all music composed by Clint Mansell. The Last Man –6,09 Holy Dread
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Smokin' Aces
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Smokin Aces is a 2007 American crime film, written and directed by Joe Carnahan. It stars Jeremy Piven as a Las Vegas magician turned mafia informant, the film is set in Lake Tahoe and was mainly filmed at MontBleu Resort Casino & Spa, called the Nomad Casino. Las Vegas magician and wannabe gangster, Buddy Aces Israel is hiding out in a Lake Tahoe hotel penthouse with his entourage and his agent, Morris Mecklen, discusses a potential immunity deal with FBI Deputy Director Stanley Locke. Locke dispatches Messner and Carruthers to take Israel into custody when the deal is struck, meanwhile, a team of bail bondsmen, Jack Dupree and his partners, Pistol Pete Deeks and Hollis Elmore have been hired by the firm that posted Israels bail to bring him into custody. The bondsmen are attacked by the Tremors, and only Elmore escapes alive, Messner is dispatched to the murder scene while Carruthers proceeds to Israel. At the same time, each of the assassins gain access to the hotel in their own various ways, Carruthers encounters Acosta, disguised as a security officer, in an elevator at the hotel. Carruthers senses something is wrong and both are wounded in a gunfight. Meanwhile, Soot gains access to the penthouse by posing as one of Israels henchmen, Georgia finds Carruthers and Acosta in the elevator, but assumes Acosta is Soot. In Los Angeles, Locke abruptly withdraws from the deal with Israel and orders that Messner, the Tremor brothers reach the penthouse floor, where they engage in a shootout with the security team and Ivy, who manages to kill Jeeves and Lester. Israel, learning of the FBIs new position, attempts suicide, Messner arrives at the hotel and sets up a position around Georgias elevator. Sharice provides cover from another hotel with a. 50-caliber, M82 sniper rifle, Acosta, still alive, shoots Georgia, but is shot by Carruthers. Sharice, thinking Georgia is dead, refuses to escape and keeps shooting at the FBI team, Georgia escapes to the penthouse, where she stops Darwin Tremor before he can kill Ivy. Tremor escapes, and Messner, distraught over the death of Carruthers, stops Ivy and Georgia on the stairwell, Sharice, after seeing the pair alive and free through her rifle scope, is gunned down by the FBI. Locke and a team of FBI agents descend on the penthouse and take Israel to the hospital, Acosta, carted away on a gurney, is also shown to be alive. Darwin Tremor tries to escape, but is gunned down by Hollis Elmore, Messner arrives at the hospital and learns the truth about the days events from Locke. It transpires that the mysterious Swede is a prominent heart surgeon, Sparazza is further revealed to be Freeman Heller, an FBI agent who went undercover and was thought to have been killed by the mob. The FBI had attempted to kill Heller, after they thought his assignment had blurred the lines between being a mobster or an FBI agent, but Heller survived and ended up taking on the role as Sparazza full time. The mobster has agreed to expose the mobs operations in exchange for Israels heart as he is Sparazzas love child and, thus, the most compatible donor
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The Wrestler (2008 film)
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The Wrestler is a 2008 American sports drama film co-produced and directed by Darren Aronofsky, written by Robert D. Siegel, and starring Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, and Evan Rachel Wood. It was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on April 21,2009 and it was released in the United Kingdom on June 1,2009. Rourke plays a professional wrestler who, despite his failing health and waning fame. He also tries to mend his relationship with his estranged daughter, the film received universal critical acclaim and won the Golden Lion Award at the 65th Venice International Film Festival, where it premiered. Film critic Roger Ebert called it one of the years best films, Tomei also received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Robin Ramzinski, better known by his ring name Randy The Ram Robinson, is a wrestler who became a celebrity in the 1980s. A regular at a club, Randy befriends a stripper, Cassidy. After winning a match, Randy agrees to a proposed 20th anniversary rematch with his most notable opponent, The Ayatollah. Randy intensifies his training, which includes steroid injections, after wrestling in a hardcore match, Randy suffers a heart attack backstage and undergoes coronary artery bypass surgery. His doctor tells him that his heart can no longer handle the stress of wrestling, as a result, Randy decides to retire and begins working a full-time shift at the supermarkets deli counter. At Cassidys suggestion, Randy visits his estranged daughter Stephanie, whom he had abandoned when she was a child, while helping Randy buy a gift for Stephanie, Cassidy reveals that she has a son. Randy makes romantic advances toward her, which she rejects on the grounds of her job, later, Randy gives the gift to his daughter and apologizes for abandoning her. The two bond over a visit to a beachfront boardwalk, where he took her as a child, Randy goes to Cassidys strip club to thank her, but she once more rejects him, resulting in a heated exchange. Upset, Randy goes to see a match and finds solace in his wrestling friends. While at a bar with them, he gets drunk, snorts cocaine and has sex with a woman in the womens restroom and he sleeps the entire next day and misses his dinner with Stephanie. He goes to her house to apologize, but she tells him she never wants to see him again. At the deli counter, a patron recognizes Randy as the wrestler, the customer persists, which agitates Randy, who then cuts his hand on the delis slicer and goes into a rampage in the store, hurling abuse at Wayne and the customers. Spurred by the recognition of him and with nothing left, Randy decides to return to wrestling
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Black Swan: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Black Swan, Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack album to the 2010 film, Black Swan. The album marked the fifth collaboration between Aronofsky and English composer Clint Mansell. Mansell scored the film based on Tchaikovskys ballet Swan Lake, because of the use of Tchaikovskys music, the score was deemed ineligible to be entered into the 2010 Academy Awards for Best Original Score. Official website Soundtracks for Black Swan at Internet Movie Database Soundtrack review for Black Swan at Tracksounds
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Music of Mass Effect 3
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Mass Effect 3 is an action role-playing video game developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts. It was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on March 6,2012, the music of the game was composed by several composers, including Clint Mansell, Christopher Lennertz, Cris Velasco, Sam Hulick, and Sascha Dikiciyan. In a casual interview with The Quietus on the 9 February 2011, a peripheral statement concluded that he will not returning to score the final game due to undetailed and complicated reasons. Wall also used positive connotations in mention of Mansell, on 19 December 2011, BioWare announced the full lineup of Mass Effect 3 composers, including Clint Mansell, Christopher Lennertz, Cris Velasco, Sam Hulick, and Sascha Dikiciyan. After an accidental leak during the demo, fans discovered that the soundtrack would feature a Faunts song entitled Das Malefitz and this marks the second time the bands music has been featured in a Mass Effect game. Mass Effect 3, Original Videogame Score is the soundtrack album of Mass Effect 3. It was initially only through purchase of the Mass Effect 3 N7 Collectors Edition or Digital Deluxe Edition. Mass Effect 3, Extended Cut contains additional music composed by Sam Hulick, the soundtrack was released for free on BioWare Social Network on July 6,2012. Mass Effect 3, Leviathan contains a track from the DLC. Mass Effect 3s score was chosen by Kotaku as one of the best video game scores of 2012
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Pop Will Eat Itself
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Pop Will Eat Itself are an English alternative rock band formed in Stourbridge in 1986 with members from Birmingham, Coventry and the Black Country. Initially known as a Grebo act, their style changed to incorporate sample-driven indie and their highest charting single was the 1993 top ten hit, Get The Girl. After initially disbanding in 1996, and having a brief reformation in 2005, an early permutation of the band formed in 1981 under the name From Eden. Members included Clint Mansell, Adam Mole, Chris Fradgley, Malcolm Treece, from Eden recruited Graham Crabb to replace Hunt on drums before splitting up. Crabb, Mole and Mansell recruited Richard March and changed their name to Wild. The name came from a Wasted Youth album under which one E. P. was released before eventually becoming Pop Will Eat Itself in 1986, the new name was taken from a quotation in an NME article on Jamie Wednesday by David Quantick. In 1986, the released the Poppies Say Grrr. Single which became the Single Of The Week in the NME, the single was sold in a brown paper bag and was made available for sale at Martins Newsagents in Stourbridge High Street as well as from the home of one of the band. During this time the band were listening to more and more hip hop as well as music from a new emerging movement of sample-heavy dance records and it was here the band met The Designers Republic, which was to be the start of a very successful partnership. The album came out on manager Craig Jennings Chapter 22 label, CJ still manages the band to the present day, along with the roster at Jennings firm, Raw Power Management. The album surprised the fans and perplexed the music critics. Crabb, now more immersed in sample-finding and songwriting, moved from behind the kit to being a co-vocalist with Mansell and was replaced by a drum machine called Dr. Nightmare. March took on programming duties and became the expert on all things Atari and Akai. Sucker from their album, This Is the Day. This Is the Hour. This Is This, in late 1988 PWEI were invited by Rush Management to support Run DMC on their European tour. They released three albums on RCA. The first two were recorded with the aid of Flood, known for his work with Nine Inch Nails, U2, the band toured extensively in the UK, Europe, and US, including appearances at Reading Festival. Their singles charted higher, with every single release charting inside the UK Top Forty from 1990 until their final single release in 1994. On 1992s The Looks or the Lifestyle, the band recruited Robert Fuzz Townshend as their drummer to complement their standard array of loops and pre-programmed drums
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