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Augusta, Georgia
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It is in the piedmont section of the state. The city was named after Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, according to 2012 US Census estimates, the Augusta–Richmond County population was 197,872, not counting the unconsolidated cities of Hephzibah and Blythe. It is the 116th-largest city in the United States, internationally, Augusta is best known for hosting The Masters golf tournament each spring. The area along the river was inhabited by varying cultures of indigenous peoples. The site of Augusta was used by Native Americans as a place to cross the Savannah River, in 1735, two years after James Oglethorpe founded Savannah, he sent a detachment of troops to explore the upper Savannah River. He gave them an order to build at the head of the part of the river. The expedition was led by Noble Jones, who created the settlement to provide a first line of defense for coastal areas against potential Spanish or French invasion from the interior, Oglethorpe named the town Augusta, in honor of Princess Augusta, wife of Frederick, Prince of Wales. Oglethorpe visited Augusta once, in September 1739, Augusta was the second state capital of Georgia from 1785 until 1795. Augusta developed rapidly as a town as the Black Belt in the Piedmont was developed for cotton cultivation. Invention of the cotton gin made processing of cotton profitable. Cotton plantations were worked by labor, with hundreds of thousands of slaves shipped from the Upper South to the Deep South in the domestic slave trade. In the mid-20th century, it was a site of civil rights demonstrations, in 1970 Charles Oatman, a mentally disabled teenager, was killed by his cellmates in an Augusta jail. A protest against his death broke out in a riot involving 500 people, after six black men were killed by police, the noted singer and entertainer James Brown was called in to help quell lingering tensions, which he succeeded in doing. Augusta is located on the Georgia/South Carolina border, about 150 miles east of Atlanta and 70 miles west of Columbia, the city is located at 33°28′12″N 81°58′30″W. According to the United States Census Bureau, the Augusta–Richmond County balance has an area of 306.5 square miles. Augusta is located halfway up the Savannah River on the fall line. The city marks the end of a waterway for the river. The Clarks Hill Dam is built on the line near Augusta
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U.S.
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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Hollywood, California
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Hollywood is an ethnically diverse, densely populated neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California. It is notable as the home of the U. S. film industry, including several of its studios, and its name has come to be a shorthand reference for the industry. Hollywood was a community in 1870 and was incorporated as a municipality in 1903. It was consolidated with the city of Los Angeles in 1910, in 1853, one adobe hut stood in Nopalera, named for the Mexican Nopal cactus indigenous to the area. By 1870, an agricultural community flourished, the area was known as the Cahuenga Valley, after the pass in the Santa Monica Mountains immediately to the north. According to the diary of H. J. Whitley, known as the Father of Hollywood, along came a Chinese man in a wagon carrying wood. The man got out of the wagon and bowed, the Chinese man was asked what he was doing and replied, I holly-wood, meaning hauling wood. H. J. Whitley had an epiphany and decided to name his new town Hollywood, Holly would represent England and wood would represent his Scottish heritage. Whitley had already started over 100 towns across the western United States, Whitley arranged to buy the 500-acre E. C. Hurd ranch and disclosed to him his plans for the land. They agreed on a price and Hurd agreed to sell at a later date, before Whitley got off the ground with Hollywood, plans for the new town had spread to General Harrison Gray Otis, Hurds wife, eastern adjacent ranch co-owner Daeida Wilcox, and others. Daeida Wilcox may have learned of the name Hollywood from Ivar Weid, her neighbor in Holly Canyon and she recommended the same name to her husband, Harvey. In August 1887, Wilcox filed with the Los Angeles County Recorders office a deed and parcel map of property he had sold named Hollywood, Wilcox wanted to be the first to record it on a deed. The early real-estate boom busted that year, yet Hollywood began its slow growth. By 1900, the region had a post office, newspaper, hotel, Los Angeles, with a population of 102,479 lay 10 miles east through the vineyards, barley fields, and citrus groves. A single-track streetcar line ran down the middle of Prospect Avenue from it, but service was infrequent, the old citrus fruit-packing house was converted into a livery stable, improving transportation for the inhabitants of Hollywood. The Hollywood Hotel was opened in 1902 by H. J. Whitley who was a president of the Los Pacific Boulevard, having finally acquired the Hurd ranch and subdivided it, Whitley built the hotel to attract land buyers. Flanking the west side of Highland Avenue, the structure fronted on Prospect Avenue, the hotel was to become internationally known and was the center of the civic and social life and home of the stars for many years. Whitleys company developed and sold one of the residential areas
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California
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California is the most populous state in the United States and the third most extensive by area. Located on the western coast of the U. S, California is bordered by the other U. S. states of Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona and shares an international border with the Mexican state of Baja California. Los Angeles is Californias most populous city, and the second largest after New York City. The Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nations second- and fifth-most populous urban regions, California also has the nations most populous county, Los Angeles County, and its largest county by area, San Bernardino County. The Central Valley, an agricultural area, dominates the states center. What is now California was first settled by various Native American tribes before being explored by a number of European expeditions during the 16th and 17th centuries, the Spanish Empire then claimed it as part of Alta California in their New Spain colony. The area became a part of Mexico in 1821 following its war for independence. The western portion of Alta California then was organized as the State of California, the California Gold Rush starting in 1848 led to dramatic social and demographic changes, with large-scale emigration from the east and abroad with an accompanying economic boom. If it were a country, California would be the 6th largest economy in the world, fifty-eight percent of the states economy is centered on finance, government, real estate services, technology, and professional, scientific and technical business services. Although it accounts for only 1.5 percent of the states economy, the story of Calafia is recorded in a 1510 work The Adventures of Esplandián, written as a sequel to Amadis de Gaula by Spanish adventure writer Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo. The kingdom of Queen Calafia, according to Montalvo, was said to be a land inhabited by griffins and other strange beasts. This conventional wisdom that California was an island, with maps drawn to reflect this belief, shortened forms of the states name include CA, Cal. Calif. and US-CA. Settled by successive waves of arrivals during the last 10,000 years, various estimates of the native population range from 100,000 to 300,000. The Indigenous peoples of California included more than 70 distinct groups of Native Americans, ranging from large, settled populations living on the coast to groups in the interior. California groups also were diverse in their organization with bands, tribes, villages. Trade, intermarriage and military alliances fostered many social and economic relationships among the diverse groups, the first European effort to explore the coast as far north as the Russian River was a Spanish sailing expedition, led by Portuguese captain Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, in 1542. Some 37 years later English explorer Francis Drake also explored and claimed a portion of the California coast in 1579. Spanish traders made unintended visits with the Manila galleons on their trips from the Philippines beginning in 1565
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Actor
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Anyone who meets the eligibility requirements may apply for aid, which could vary from medical assistance, paying rent, or finding employment. Heros benefits are not meant to be a permanent crutch for needy creators, any granted aid is kept confidential. The Hero Initiative has two boards of directors, the Executive Board and the Fund Disbursement Board, former board members include founders Pat McCallum, editor-in-chief of Wizard Magazine, and Mike Richardson, publisher and founder of Dark Horse Comics. They are George Pérez, Roy Thomas, Charlie Novinskie, Dennis ONeil, John Romita Sr. the charity is currently supported by Dark Horse Comics, Dynamic Forces, Image Comics, Marvel Entertainment, Top Cow Productions, and Wizard Entertainment. The Hero Initiative utilizes many methods of fundraising, foremost is their annual art auction, auctioning donated original comics art-work at fan conventions. Year-long, they sell donated art and special edition comics at conventions, artists, writers, and publishers are invited to donate work, and fans are invited to donate money directly to the fund. ACTOR also sells a green Excelsior, wrist-band similar in design to the Livestrong wristband. The Hero Initiative was formerly known as A Commitment to Our Roots, or ACTOR, while the original name of the organization reflected the charitys goal, the acronym that resulted, ACTOR, more often confused people unfamiliar with the organization. 2006, George Pérez, John Romita, Sr.2007, Joe Kubert 2008, Nick Cardy 2009, Neal Adams 2010, Walt Simonson 2011, Stan Lee 2012, John Romita, Jr. The award recognizes one person in each year who demonstrates particular generosity and integrity in support of the overall comic book community. It debuted at the 2010 Harvey Awards ceremony held at the Baltimore Comic-Con
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Film director
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A film director is a person who directs the making of a film. Generally, a film director controls a films artistic and dramatic aspects, the director has a key role in choosing the cast members, production design, and the creative aspects of filmmaking. Under European Union law, the director is viewed as the author of the film, the film director gives direction to the cast and crew and creates an overall vision through which a film eventually becomes realized, or noticed. Directors need to be able to mediate differences in creative visions, there are many pathways to becoming a film director. Some film directors started as screenwriters, cinematographers, film editors or actors, other film directors have attended a film school. Some outline a general plotline and let the actors dialogue, while others control every aspect. Some directors also write their own screenplays or collaborate on screenplays with long-standing writing partners, some directors edit or appear in their films, or compose the music score for their films. Film directors create a vision through which a film eventually becomes realized/noticed. Realizing this vision includes overseeing the artistic and technical elements of production, as well as directing the shooting timetable. This entails organizing the crew in such a way as to achieve their vision of the film. This requires skills of leadership, as well as the ability to maintain a singular focus even in the stressful. Moreover, it is necessary to have an eye to frame shots and to give precise feedback to cast and crew, thus. Thus the director ensures that all involved in the film production are working towards an identical vision for the completed film. The set of varying challenges he or she has to tackle has been described as a jigsaw puzzle with egos. It adds to the pressure that the success of a film can influence when, omnipresent are the boundaries of the films budget. Additionally, the director may also have to ensure an intended age rating, thus, the position of film director is widely considered to be a highly stressful and demanding one. It has been said that 20-hour days are not unusual, under European Union law, the film director is considered the author or one of the authors of a film, largely as a result of the influence of auteur theory. Auteur theory is a film criticism concept that holds that a directors film reflects the directors personal creative vision
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Film producer
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Film producers fill a variety of roles depending upon the type of producer. During the discovery stage, the producer has to find and acknowledge promising material, then, unless the film is supposed to be based on an original script, the producer has to find an appropriate screenwriter. For various reasons, producers cannot always supervise all of the production, in this case, the main producer may appoint executive producers, line producers, or unit production managers who represent the main producers interests. The producer has the last word on whether sounds or music have to be changed and they are in charge of selling the film or arranging distribution rights as well. The producers role can vary significantly from project to project, based on the circumstances and they generally are in charge of things like hiring staff, creating filming schedules, checking and approving locations, and much more. Producers are present in every genre of television and film. Although each genre might be different from each other, a producers role and job is the same throughout each. A producer from a program can be compared to a producer of a filmmaker despite how different each genre can be. Although the primary role of the producer can be compared to that of a filmmaker, the roles are very wide ranging, due to the fact that this occupation has gone through an enormous amount of stages and phases as time went on. Today, in most cases the roles range from supervising the editing process to hiring the main staff. The producer has an amount of power in every single aspect of the production process. They are never left out and are involved in every single stage of the production. There are times when a producer can try and find promising material to either a feature film or a television program. If a producer decides to do this, it is usually done in the discovery stage, the discovery stage is when a producer is actively looking for a variety of ideas, concepts, and/or promising scripts that he/she could make into a show and/or film. In this stage, a power may even stretch to gathering workers for the selected project. Even though a producer today can have a range of roles within the field. Within the industry, there are different types of producers who are only designated to specific roles such as controlling the staff. For example, to oversee and manage all aspects of production the role may be filled by the line producer
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Playwright
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A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes plays. The term is not a variant spelling of playwrite, but something quite distinct, hence the prefix and the suffix combine to indicate someone who has wrought words, themes, and other elements into a dramatic form - someone who crafts plays. The homophone with write is in this case entirely coincidental, the term playwright appears to have been coined by Ben Jonson in his Epigram 49, To Playwright, as an insult, to suggest a mere tradesman fashioning works for the theatre. Jonson described himself as a poet, not a playwright, since plays during that time were written in meter and this view was held as late as the early 19th century. The term playwright later lost this negative connotation, the earliest playwrights in Western literature with surviving works are the Ancient Greeks. These early plays were written for annual Athenian competitions among playwrights held around the 5th century BC, such notables as Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes established forms still relied on by their modern counterparts. For the ancient Greeks, playwriting involved poïesis, the act of making and this is the source of the English word poet. In the 4th century BCE, Aristotle wrote his Poetics, the first play-writing manual, in this famous text, Aristotle established the principle of action or praxis as the basis for all drama. He then included a hierarchy of elements for the beginning with plot, character, thought, diction, music. The ends of drama were plot, character, and thought, the means of drama were language and music, since the myths, upon which Greek tragedy were based, were widely known, plot had to do with the arrangement and selection of existing material. Character was equated with choice as rather than psychology, so that character was determined by action, in tragedy, the notion of ethical choice determined the character of the individual. Thought had more to do and the imitation of an action that is serious, thus, he developed his notion of hamartia, or tragic flaw, an error in judgment by the main character or protagonist. It provides the basis for the play, a term still held as the sine qua non of dramaturgy. The Poetics, while very brief and highly condensed, is studied today. Perhaps the most Aristotelian of contemporary playwrights is David Mamet, who embraces the idea of character as agent of the action, and emphasizes causality in the structure of his plays. His recently revived, Speed-the-Plow, is quintessentially Aristotelian, in that it observes the unities and builds its plot through a causal stream of discoveries and reversals. The Italian Renaissance brought about a stricter interpretation of Aristotle, as this long-lost work came to light in the late 15th century. The neoclassical ideal, which was to reach its apogee in France during the 17th century, dwelled upon the unities, of action, place, and time
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Gina Torres
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Gina Torres is an American television and movie actress. She starred opposite Chris Rock in the feature film I Think I Love My Wife, as Carla in the independent film South of Pico, since 2011, she has had a main role on the USA Network series Suits as Jessica Pearson. She and real-life husband Laurence Fishburne played a couple on the NBC television series Hannibal. Torres was born at the Flower Fifth Avenue Hospital in Manhattan and her family lived briefly in Washington Heights before moving to The Bronx. Her parents, Rebecca and Richard, were both of multiracial Cuban descent, and her father worked as a typesetter for La Prensa and The New York Daily News. Torres, a mezzo-soprano, began singing at an age and attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art. She also trained in opera and jazz and performed in a gospel choir, Torres applied and was accepted to several colleges but could not afford to attend. She chose instead to pursue her dream of being a performer, in 2001, she won the ALMA Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Syndicated Drama Series for her role in Cleopatra 2525. In 2004, she was nominated for the International Press Academys Golden Satellite Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Drama and her film appearances include The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions. In 2004, Torres appeared in seven episodes of the season on 24 as Julia Milliken. In 2005, she was tapped for the episode of Soccer Moms. She is also known for her role in Foxs short-lived Firefly series and she reprised her Firefly role as Zoe in the film Serenity. In 2006, Torres began her role as Cheryl Carrera in the drama series Standoff on the FOX network. Her character is the Supervisory Special Agent in Charge for Crisis Negotiation Unit, Torres appeared in the film I Think I Love My Wife, playing the spouse of Chris Rocks character. In 2011, Torres was cast as main character Jessica Pearson on the USA Network legal drama Suits and she was the voice of Wonder Woman in DC Universe Online MMORPG until mid 2013 when the part was recast, as well as Arachnid in the Transformers Prime cartoon. In 2013, Torres was reunited with fellow Firefly costar, Nathan Fillion, in an episode of Fillions television show, in 2016, it was announced that Torres would be leaving the cast of Suits following the summer segment of season six. In addition to her contract being up, Torres stated she had tired of traveling between Toronto, where Suits is filmed, and her home in Los Angeles. They have one child, a daughter Delilah born in 2007, Torres is also the stepmother to Fishburnes two children, from his previous marriage to actress Hajna O. Moss, a son, Langston, born in 1987, and a daughter, Montana, born in 1991
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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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Morpheus (The Matrix)
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Morpheus /ˈmɔːrfiəs/ is a fictional character in The Matrix franchise. He is portrayed by Laurence Fishburne in the films, and in the video game The Matrix, lana and Lilly Wachowski, the creators of The Matrix franchise, instructed Fishburne to base his performance on Morpheus, a character in Neil Gaimans comic book series The Sandman. At the studios request, Gaiman later wrote Goliath, a short story set in the films universe. The name Morpheus is that of the god of dreams in Greek mythology, the mythical Morpheus and his family, including two brothers, lived in a dream world protected by the Gates of Morpheus with two monsters standing guard. Beyond the gates were the River of Forgetfulness, beside which Morpheus once carried his father to hide in a cave, and this theme of duality carries over to Morpheus in The Matrix, who offers Neo either a blue pill or a red pill. Morpheus was once a human living inside the Matrix until he was freed, Morpheus is apparently a very popular public figure in the city of Zion. Like other hovercraft crews, Morpheus and his crew are dedicated to the protection of Zion, earlier in his life, Morpheus gained the romantic attention of Niobe, another hovercraft captain. Since that visit, Morpheus has spent much of his life searching the Matrix for the One, in The Matrix Revolutions, with Morpheuss faith in the prophecy shattered, he doesnt appear as strong a leader as he was in the first two films. His strong, almost single-minded belief in Neo as the One has very strong Biblical correlations to that of John the Baptists belief in the prophecy of the Messiah. In the first feature film, The Matrix, Morpheus successfully finds and monitors a man named Thomas A. Anderson, despite a close call with Agents that capture, interrogate, and place a surveillance device on Neo, Morpheus and his crew locate him. The Nebuchadnezzar crew is able to eject Neos body from the Matrix powerplant. Morpheus takes a risk in helping Neo escape the Matrix, as human minds that live too long in the Matrix may have trouble in comprehending the reality, initially, Neo does experience denial when Morpheus explains the truth, a point for which Morpheus apologizes. Shortly after Neo visits the Oracle, Morpheus is captured by agents who plan to hack into his mind, Neo and Trinity, however, reenter the Matrix to make a daring and successful rescue of Morpheus. Neo saves Trinity from a crash, confirming Morpheus belief that Neo is indeed the One. Neo is eventually killed by Agent Smith shortly after the rescue, in the second film, The Matrix Reloaded, Morpheus is more confident that the war is nearing its end. Here he incurs the wrath of Jason Locke, commander of the Zion defensive forces, but Morpheus actions are defended by Councillor Hamann, Morpheus aids Neo in successfully entering the door to the Source before returning to the Nebuchadnezzar. A sudden Sentinel attack destroys the Nebuchadnezzar, further damaging Morpheus belief in the outcome of the war, upon witnessing the destruction of his ship, he quotes the Biblical Nebuchadnezzar, I have dreamed a dream. But now that dream is gone from me, the crew is rescued by the hovercraft Mjolnir commanded by Captain Roland, who joins forces with the craft Logos commanded by Niobe
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The Matrix (franchise)
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The franchise is owned by Warner Bros. which distributed the films along with Village Roadshow Pictures. The latter, along with Silver Pictures are the two companies that worked on all three films. For those reasons it has added to the National Film Registry for preservation. Its first sequel was a bigger commercial success, becoming the highest-grossing R-rated film in history. The series features a story incorporating references to numerous philosophical. Influences include the principles of mythology, anime, and Hong Kong action films, the characters and settings of the films are further explored in other media set in the same fictional universe, including animation, comics, and video games. The comic Bits and Pieces of Information and The Animatrix short film The Second Renaissance act as prequels to the films, as of February 2016, the franchise has generated $3 billion in revenue, making it one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time. In March 2017, it was reported that Warner Bros. was in stages of developing a relaunch of the franchise with new films. The series depicts a future in which Earth is dominated by robots that were created early in the 21st century, at one point, humans attempted to block out the machines source of solar power by covering the sky in thick, stormy clouds. During this time, the machines and mankind were engaged in a war in which the machines ultimately emerged the victor. The virtual reality world simulated by the Matrix resembles human civilization around the turn of the 21st century, the majority of the stories in the Matrix franchise take place in a vast Western World unnamed megacity. This environment is practically indistinguishable from reality, and the majority of bluepills - humans connected to the Matrix - are unaware of its true nature, the virtual world is first introduced in The Matrix. Its history and purpose are further explained in The Matrix Reloaded, the series was filmed in Australia and began with 1999s The Matrix, which depicts the recruitment of hacker Neo into humanitys rebellion against sentient machines. The film was successful, earning $460 million worldwide. The films mainstream success had backed up the idea of making a trilogy. The sequels The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions were filmed simultaneously during one shoot and they tell the story of the impending attack on the human enclave of Zion by a vast machine army. Neo also learns more about the history of the Matrix and his role as the One, the sequels also incorporate more ambitious action scenes and visual effects. While making the Matrix films, the Wachowskis told their close collaborators that at time they had no intention of making another one after The Matrix Revolutions
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Boyz n the Hood
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This was the film debut for both Ice Cube and Morris Chestnut. Boyz n the Hood was filmed in South Central Los Angeles, California from October 1 to November 28,1990, the film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival. In 2002, the United States Library of Congress deemed the film culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant, in 1984, ten-year-old Tre Styles lives with his divorced single mother, Reva in Watts, Los Angeles. After Tre gets into a fight at school, his teacher informs Reva that Tre is highly intelligent but has a volatile temper, in Crenshaw, Tre reunites with his friends, Darrin Doughboy Baker, Doughboys maternal half-brother Ricky, and Chris, their mutual friend. That night, Tre hears his father shooting at a burglar who tried to rob the house, two policemen arrive an hour later, and while the white officer is civil, the black officer treats Furious with disrespect and contempt. The next day, Tre and his friends go out with Chris who shows them a dead body, while there, a group of older boys in the Watts Crip gang steal Rickys football and Doughboy aggressively tries to retrieve it, but is easily defeated. While the older boys walk away, one of them gives Ricky his ball back and he concludes his story by advising Tre to never join the army, stating that a black man has no place in the army. When returning home, they see Doughboy and Chris being arrested for shoplifting, while Ricky, the film then flashes forward seven years to summer 1991. Ricky, now a running back for Crenshaw High School, lives with his single mother Brenda, girlfriend Shanice. Tre has grown into a mature and responsible teenager, works at a shop at the Fox Hills Mall. Ricky hopes to win a scholarship from USC, but the recruiter tells him he must score a 700 or higher on the SATs in order to qualify. After the test, Furious takes Tre and Ricky to Compton to talk about the dangers of decreasing property values in the black community and that night, during a local street racing gathering, Ricky is provoked by Ferris, a member of the Bloods. In response, Doughboy brandishes his handgun, leading to an argument between the two gangs. When the two gangs are finished arguing, Ferris fires his gun in the air to signal everyone to leave, while Tre talks about leaving Los Angeles, he and Ricky are pulled over by the police. The police officer is the same person who was disrespectful to his dad Furious, seven years earlier, intimidates and threatens Tre with his gun. Distraught, Tre goes to Brandis house, where he breaks down. After she consoles him, they have sex for the first time, the following day, Ricky has a fight with Doughboy, with Brenda quickly taking Rickys side and berating Doughboy. While Ricky and Tre walk to a store, they see Ferris and his gang driving around the neighborhood and in an attempt to avoid them
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Apocalypse Now
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Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film directed, produced and co-written by Francis Ford Coppola and co-written by John Milius with narration by Michael Herr. It stars Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall, Sam Bottoms, Larry Fishburne, the screenplay written by Milius updates the setting of Joseph Conrads novella Heart of Darkness to that of the Vietnam War. It draws from Herrs Dispatches, and Werner Herzogs Aguirre, the Wrath of God, the film revolves around Captain Benjamin L. Willard on a secret mission to assassinate Colonel Kurtz, a renegade who is presumed insane. The film has been noted for the problems encountered while making it, chronicled in the documentary Hearts of Darkness, problems continued after production as the release was postponed several times while Coppola edited thousands of feet of film. Apocalypse Now was released to universal acclaim and it was honored with the Palme dOr at Cannes, nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama. It is considered to be one of the greatest films ever made, the film was ranked No.14 in the British Film Institutes Sight and Sound greatest films poll in 2012. In 2000, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally, historically or aesthetically significant. During the Vietnam War in 1969, Army Special Forces Colonel Walter E. Kurtz has gone insane and now commands his own Montagnard troops, inside neutral Cambodia, as a demi-god. Willard, initially ambivalent, joins a Navy PBR commanded by Chief, with crewmen Lance, Chef and they rendezvous with surfing enthusiast Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore, 1st Cavalry commander, to discuss going up the Nùng. Kilgore scoffs, but befriends Lance after discovering his surfing experience and they successfully raid at dawn, with Kilgore ordering a napalm sortie on the local cadres. Willard gathers his men to the PBR and journeys upriver, tension arises as Willard believes himself in command of the PBR while Chief prioritizes other objectives over Willards. Slowly making their way upriver, Willard reveals his mission partially to the Chief to assuage his concerns about why his mission should precede, as night falls, the PBR reaches the American Do Lung Bridge outpost on the Nùng River. Willard and Lance enter seeking information for what is upriver, unable to find the commander, Willard orders the Chief to continue as an unseen enemy launches a strike on the bridge. The next day, Willard learns from dispatch that another SOG operative, Captain Colby, meanwhile, as the crew read letters from home, Lance activates a smoke grenade, attracting the attention of a camouflaged enemy, and Mr. Clean is killed. Further upriver, Chief is impaled by a spear thrown by the natives, Willard suffocates him and Lance buries Chief in the river. Willard reveals his mission to Chef but despite his anger towards the mission, he rejects Willards offer for him to continue alone, the PBR arrives at Kurtzs outpost and the surviving crew are met by an American freelance photojournalist, who manically praises Kurtzs genius. As they wander through they come across a near-catatonic Colby, along with other US servicemen now in Kurtzs renegade army. Returning to the PBR, Willard later takes Lance with him, Chef is later killed by Kurtz
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Ike Turner
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Izear Luster Ike Turner, Jr. was an American musician, bandleader, songwriter, arranger, talent scout, and record producer. An early pioneer of rock and roll, he is most popularly known for his work in the 1960s and 1970s with his then-wife Tina Turner in the Ike & Tina Turner Revue. Turner began playing piano and guitar when he was eight, forming his group and he employed the group as his backing band for the rest of his life. His first recording, Rocket 88, credited to Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats, in 1951 is considered a contender for first rock and roll song. Relocating to St. Louis, Missouri, in 1954, he built the Kings into one of the most renowned acts on the club circuit. There he met singer Anna Mae Bullock, whom he renamed Tina Turner, forming The Ike & Tina Turner Revue, Turner recorded for many of the key R&B record labels of the 1950s and 1960s, including Chess, Modern, Trumpet, Flair and Sue. With the Ike & Tina Turner Revue, he graduated to larger labels Blue Thumb, throughout his career Turner won two Grammy Awards and was nominated for three others. With his former wife, Turner was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991, addicted to cocaine and crack for at least 15 years, Turner was convicted of drug offenses, serving seventeen months in prison between July 1989 and 1991. He spent the rest of the 1990s free of his addiction, near the end of his life, he returned to live performance as a front man and, returning to his blues roots, produced two albums that were critically well received and award-winning. Turner has frequently referred to as a great innovator of Rock and Roll by contemporaries such as Little Richard. Phil Alexander described Turner as the cornerstone of modernday rock n roll, Turner was born in Clarksdale, Mississippi, on November 5,1931, to Beatrice Cushenberry, a seamstress, and Isaiah Luster Turner, a Baptist minister. The younger of their two children, Turner had a sister named Ethel May. Turner believed that he had named after his father. Turner said that when he was young he witnessed his father beaten. His father lived for three years as an invalid in a tent in the yard before succumbing to his injuries. Writer and blues historian Ted Drozdowski told a different version of the story and his mother then married a man called Philip Reeves. Turner said his stepfather was a violent alcoholic and that they often argued, after one fight Turner knocked out his stepfather with a piece of wood. He then ran away to Memphis, where he lived rough for a few days before returning to his mother and he reconciled with his stepfather years later, buying a house for him in the 1950s around the time Turners mother died
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What's Love Got to Do with It (film)
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Whats Love Got to Do with It is a 1993 American biographical film directed by Brian Gibson, loosely based on the life of Tina Turner. It stars Angela Bassett as Tina Turner and Laurence Fishburne as Ike Turner, the screenplay was adapted by Kate Lanier from the book I, Tina written by Tina Turner and Kurt Loder. Both Ike and Tina Turner assigned rights to Lanier for their lives to be dramatized in the film, the films soundtrack featured the hit song I Dont Wanna Fight, which went to number one in seven countries. In the United States, the film grossed almost $40 million, in the United Kingdom, it grossed nearly £10 million. Born and raised in the small Tennessee town of Nutbush, Anna Mae Bullock grows up in a family, with her parents later leaving and abandoning her. Following her grandmothers death, she relocates to St. Louis, reuniting with her mother, Anna Mae pursues a chance to be a professional singer after seeing charismatic bandleader Ike Turner perform one night. Later she wins her spot in Turners band after singing onstage, in time, an unexpected romance develops between the two after she moves into Ikes home. Shortly afterwards, they marry and begin having musical success together as Ike, the marriage quickly turns violent when Ike starts physically dominating her, leaving her no chance to escape. In public, Tina rises from local St. Louis phenomenon into an rhythm, Ike turns to drugs and his abusive behavior worsens. As Tina seeks solace in her life, a friend turns her on to Buddhism, eventually convincing her that reciting the Lotus Sutra. Tina grows increasingly confident afterwards and in a fight with Ike finally musters the courage to defend herself. Winning the right to retain her name after their divorce. She gets a break after meeting Roger Davies, who helps her realize her dreams of rock stardom. Despite Ikes attempts to win her back, Tina eventually prevails and finds solo success, halle Berry, Robin Givens, Pam Grier, Whitney Houston, Janet Jackson, and Vanessa L. Williams and were all considered for the role of Tina Turner. Whitney Houston was actually offered the role, but had to due to imminent maternity. Jenifer Lewis, who plays Tinas mother in this film, originally auditioned to play Tina Turner, as well, Laurence Fishburne was offered the role of Ike Turner five times and turned it down each time. When he found out that Angela Bassett had been cast as Tina Turner, all the Ike and Tina Turner songs used in the film were newly re-recorded versions featuring Tina Turner covering her own songs. On Proud Mary, Laurence Fishburne sings Ike Turners parts, for Tina Turners solo recordings, the original masters were used, including the Phil Spector-produced River Deep - Mountain High
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Academy Award for Best Actor
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The Academy Award for Best Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It is given in honor of an actor who has delivered a performance in a leading role while working within the film industry. The 1st Academy Awards ceremony was held in 1929 with Emil Jannings receiving the award for his roles in The Last Command and The Way of All Flesh. Currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the branch of AMPAS. In the first three years of the awards, actors were nominated as the best in their categories, at that time, all of their work during the qualifying period was listed after the award. The following year, this unwieldy and confusing system was replaced by the current system in which an actor is nominated for a performance in a single film. Starting with the 9th ceremony held in 1937, the category was officially limited to five nominations per year, since its inception, the award has been given to 79 actors. Daniel Day-Lewis has received the most awards in this category with three Oscars, spencer Tracy and Laurence Olivier were nominated on nine occasions, more than any other actor. As of the 2017 ceremony, Casey Affleck is the most recent winner in category for his role as Lee Chandler in Manchester by the Sea. In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of release in Los Angeles County. For the first five ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned twelve months from August 1 to July 31, for the 6th ceremony held in 1934, the eligibility period lasted from August 1,1932 to December 31,1933
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Two Trains Running
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Two Trains Running is a play by American playwright August Wilson, the seventh in his ten-part series The Pittsburgh Cycle. The play premiered on Broadway in 1992 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Two Trains Running was first performed by the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut in March 1990. It was then performed at the Huntington Theatre, the Seattle Repertory Theatre, the play premiered on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre on April 13,1992. The play closed on August 30,1992 after 160 performances and 7 previews, directed by Lloyd Richards, the cast featured Roscoe Lee Browne as Holloway, Anthony Chisholm as Wolf, Laurence Fishburne as Sterling, Leonard Parker as West and Cynthia Martells as Risa. Characters Holloway Wolf Sterling Risa West Hambone Memphis The play takes place in the Hill District and it explores the social and psychological manifestations of changing attitudes toward race from the perspective of urban blacks. Seeking to escape poverty, racism, and segregatory Jim Crow laws, many black Americans migrated to northern industrial cities during the early. Most of these migrants had worked in agriculture in the former Confederate slave states, broadly speaking, blacks who moved north could expect higher wages, better educational opportunities, and greater potential for social advancement than they had received in the South. While racism in the North was arguably less violent and overt than in the South, though lynching was rarer and de jure segregation did not exist in the North, negative attitudes towards blacks prevailed among many white citizens. As industrial, inner city became increasingly black, many whites left for the suburbs. The result, was the emergence of overwhelmingly black neighborhoods. Yet these neighborhoods also simmered with hopes of economic, social, as such, they served as fertile soil for the Civil Rights Movement and Black Power movement. Two Trains Running is set in such a neighborhood, the restaurant in the play is at 1621 Wylie Avenue, in Pittsburghs Hill District. In the 1940s and 1950s, the Hill District was one of the most prosperous, in 1960s, however, the neighborhood had suffered a sharp economic decline. In the play, Memphis recounts how his restaurant, which now sees few patrons and he discusses how many once-bustling small businesses have since closed down. Pittsburghs Urban Redevelopment Authority seized land in the area throughout the 1960s, countless buildings were destroyed to make way for the Civic Arena and various public housing projects. This effort displaced thousands of people, and is remembered as one of the most catastrophic urban development efforts in US history, in the play, Memphiss building is to be seized by the city, and he is nervous about the price he will receive for it. Speaking of the eminent domain clause in his deed, he says They dont know I got a clause of my own and they can carry me out feet first. They got to meet my price, like Hambones He gonna give me my ham, this indignant insistence is not just material
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Othello (character)
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Othello is a character in Shakespeares Othello. The characters origin is traced to the tale Un Capitano Moro in Gli Hecatommithi by Giovanni Battista Giraldi Cinthio, there, he is simply referred to as the Moor. Othello is a brave and competent soldier of advanced years and Moorish background in the service of the Venetian Republic and he elopes with Desdemona, the beautiful daughter of a respected Venetian senator. After being deployed to Cyprus, Othello is manipulated by his Ancient Iago into believing Desdemona is an adulteress, Othello murders her and, upon discovering Iagos deceit, kills himself. Othello was first mentioned in a Revels account of 1604 when the play was performed on 1 November at Whitehall Palace with Richard Burbage almost certainly Othellos first interpreter. Modern notable performers of the role include Paul Robeson, Orson Welles, Richard Burton, James Earl Jones, Laurence Fishburne and Laurence Olivier, Othello is a Moorish prince living in Venice, as an ambassador of the Moors. After time in Venice, Othello is appointed general in the Venetian Army and his officer Iago tricks him into believing that his wife Desdemona is having an affair with his Lieutenant, Michael Cassio. Othello kills his wife out of jealousy by strangling her, only to realize that his wife was faithful after Emilia reveals the truth, Othello has its source in the 1565 tale Un Capitano Moro from Gli Hecatommithi by Giovanni Battista Giraldi Cinthio. While no English translation of Cinthio was available in Shakespeares lifetime, Cinthios tale may have been based on an actual incident occurring in Venice about 1508. It also resembles an incident described in the tale of The Three Apples, one of the stories narrated in the One Thousand. Desdemona is the named character in Cinthios tale, his other characters being identified as the Moor, the squadron leader, the ensign. While Shakespeare closely followed Cinthios tale in composing Othello, he departed from it in some details, in Cinthio, the Moor commissions his ensign to bludgeon Desdemona to death with a sand-filled stocking. The Moor then misses his wife greatly, and comes to loathe the sight of his ensign and he demotes him, and refuses to have him in his company. The ensign then seeks revenge by disclosing to the squadron leader, the two men denounce the Moor to the Venetian Seignory. The Moor is arrested, transported from Cyprus to Venice, and tortured and he is condemned to exile, Desdemonas relatives eventually put him to death. The ensign escapes any prosecution in Desdemonas death but engages in other crimes and dies after being tortured, there is no consensus over Othellos race. E. A. J. Honigmann, the editor of the Arden Shakespeare edition, renaissance representations of the Moor were vague, varied, inconsistent, and contradictory. Various uses of the black are insufficient evidence for any accurate racial classification, Honigmann argues
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Othello (1995 film)
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Othello is a 1995 film based on William Shakespeares tragedy of the same name. It was directed by Oliver Parker and stars Laurence Fishburne as Othello, Irène Jacob as Desdemona and this film is an adaptation of William Shakespeares Othello. Othello is a Moor who has left his hometown Venice to fight against the Turks on the island of Cyprus, during the battle, he was accompanied by his faithful lieutenant, Cassio. As the film opens, Othello is returning to Venice from the fight against the Turks. With much excitement, he meets with his love, Desdemona, Iago, Othellos trusted companion, envies Othellos life and plans to ruin it by manipulating Othello into believing that Desdemona is having an affair with Cassio and is pregnant with Cassios child. He arouses Othellos suspicion and jealousy gradually, and then plants Desdemonas handkerchief in Cassios clothing for Othello to find, when he does, he is convinced of Desdemonas infidelity and, in a rage, decides to kill both her and Cassio. Othello smothers Desdemona, who dies just as Iagos wife, Emilia, Emilia then tells Othello the truth behind Iagos lies and he realizes what he has done. In despair, Othello stabs and wounds Iago, Othello then kills himself, and Iago is taken away to be tortured and executed. The film, shot in Italy, follows the story of the play closely, despite this, it received largely positive reviews, especially for Branaghs Iago. Branagh was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for his performance, Othello at the Internet Movie Database
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William Shakespeare
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William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the worlds pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called Englands national poet, and the Bard of Avon and his extant works, including collaborations, consist of approximately 38 plays,154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright, Shakespeare was born and brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children, Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Sometime between 1585 and 1592, he began a career in London as an actor, writer. He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613, at age 49, Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were primarily comedies and histories, which are regarded as some of the best work ever produced in these genres. He then wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, including Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, in his last phase, he wrote tragicomedies, also known as romances, and collaborated with other playwrights. Many of his plays were published in editions of varying quality and it was prefaced with a poem by Ben Jonson, in which Shakespeare is hailed, presciently, as not of an age, but for all time. In the 20th and 21st centuries, his works have been adapted and rediscovered by new movements in scholarship. His plays remain highly popular and are studied, performed. William Shakespeare was the son of John Shakespeare, an alderman and a successful glover originally from Snitterfield, and Mary Arden and he was born in Stratford-upon-Avon and baptised there on 26 April 1564. His actual date of birth unknown, but is traditionally observed on 23 April. This date, which can be traced back to an 18th-century scholars mistake, has proved appealing to biographers because Shakespeare died on 23 April 1616 and he was the third child of eight and the eldest surviving son. At the age of 18, Shakespeare married 26-year-old Anne Hathaway, the consistory court of the Diocese of Worcester issued a marriage licence on 27 November 1582. The next day, two of Hathaways neighbours posted bonds guaranteeing that no lawful claims impeded the marriage, twins, son Hamnet and daughter Judith, followed almost two years later and were baptised 2 February 1585. Hamnet died of unknown causes at the age of 11 and was buried 11 August 1596, after the birth of the twins, Shakespeare left few historical traces until he is mentioned as part of the London theatre scene in 1592. The exception is the appearance of his name in the bill of a law case before the Queens Bench court at Westminster dated Michaelmas Term 1588 and 9 October 1589
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Othello
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Othello is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603. It is based on the story Un Capitano Moro by Cinthio, Roderigo is upset because he loves Desdemona and had asked her father for her hand in marriage. Iago hates Othello for promoting a younger man named Cassio above him, whom Iago considers less capable a soldier than himself, Iago convinces Roderigo to wake Brabantio and tell him about his daughters elopement. Meanwhile, Iago sneaks away to find Othello and warns him that Brabantio is coming for him. Brabantio, provoked by Roderigo, is enraged and will not rest until he has beheaded Othello, but he finds Othellos residence full of the Duke of Venices guards, who prevent violence. News has arrived in Venice that the Turks are going to attack Cyprus, Brabantio has no option but to accompany Othello to the Dukes residence, where he accuses Othello of seducing Desdemona by witchcraft. Othello defends himself before the Duke of Venice, Brabantios kinsmen Lodovico and Gratiano, Othello explains that Desdemona became enamoured of him for the sad and compelling stories he told of his life before Venice, not because of any witchcraft. Iago, still in the room, takes note of Brabantios remark, the party arrives in Cyprus to find that a storm has destroyed the Turkish fleet. Othello orders a celebration and leaves to consummate his marriage with Desdemona. In his absence, Iago gets Cassio drunk, and then persuades Roderigo to draw Cassio into a fight, Montano tries to calm an angry and drunk Cassio down, but end up fighting one another. Montano is injured in the fight, Othello reenters and questions the men as to what happened. Othello blames Cassio for the disturbance and strips him of his rank, Iago persuades Cassio to importune Desdemona to convince her husband to reinstate Cassio. Iago now persuades Othello to be suspicious of Cassio and Desdemona, when Desdemona drops a handkerchief, Emilia finds it, and gives it to her husband Iago, at his request, unaware of what he plans to do with it. Othello reenters and vows with Iago for the death of Desdemona and Cassio, after which he makes Iago his lieutenant. Act III, scene iii, is considered to be the point of the play as it is the scene in which Iago successfully sows the seeds of doubt in Othellos mind. Iago plants the handkerchief in Cassios lodgings, then tells Othello to watch Cassios reactions while Iago questions him. Iago goads Cassio on to talk about his affair with Bianca, a local courtesan, later, Bianca accuses Cassio of giving her a second-hand gift which he had received from another lover. Othello sees this, and Iago convinces him that Cassio received the handkerchief from Desdemona, enraged and hurt, Othello resolves to kill his wife and asks Iago to kill Cassio
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Deep Cover
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Deep Cover is a 1992 American neo-noir crime thriller film starring Laurence Fishburne and Jeff Goldblum and directed by veteran actor Bill Duke. It is also notable for its song of the same name, composed by Dr. Dre. In Cleveland,1972, Russell Stevens Jr. is the son of a drug addicted, alcoholic man, Stevens then witnesses his father getting shot and killed while robbing a store. He swears that he will never end up the way he has, in 1991, Stevens is a police officer. Stevens relocates to a hotel in LA and begins dealing with cocaine. One day Stevens is arrested by the devoutly religious L. A. P. D, narcotics Detective Taft and his partner Hernández, when he buys a kilogram in a set-up by Gallegos low-level street supplier Eddie Dudley. At his arraignment, Stevens discovers that he bought baby laxative instead of cocaine, Felix kills Eddie for working with the LAPD and enlists Stevens as Eddies replacement. Stevens develops a romance with Betty McCutcheon, the manager of an art dealership which serves as a front to launder Jasons drug money profits. When one of Stevens dealers is murdered by a dealer, Stevens kills him and is awarded a partnership in Jasons new business venture. It turns out that Felix is working with Detective Hernández who pressures him into giving him more arrests, Felix immediately gives up Stevens, Jason and Betty, since he views them as expendable and wants Jason killed during the arrest because of his business venture. Gallegos comes to meet with Jason and Stevens and informs them that they have inherited Felixs debts to him, later that day, Stevens meets with Carver to tell him about his meeting with Gallegos. Instead Carver pulls a gun on Stevens and orders him to surrender his weapon, Stevens disillusionment reaches its conclusion and he abandons his undercover status vowing to take down Gallegos and Guzman alone. Stevens and Jason learn that Gallegos is going to them anyway for the murder of Barbossa, so they kill him first. Jason and Stevens invite Guzman to a shipyard and offer to return 80% of Gallegos money if he agrees to invest the remaining 20% in their synthetic cocaine operation. Detective Taft, who has been tailing Stevens, interrupts the deal but is unable to arrest Guzman because of his diplomatic status, Taft orders Stevens to surrender, but is shot and killed by Jason. Stevens then reaffirms himself as a officer and attempts to arrest Jason. Later he contemplates what to do with the $11 million of Gallegos money he secretly kept and it went on to make $16.6 million in North America. The majority of critics responded favorably towards Deep Cover and it holds a certified Fresh rating of 84% on film review website Rotten Tomatoes and 73 metascore on Metacritic
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King of New York
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King of New York is a 1990 crime thriller film, starring Christopher Walken, Laurence Fishburne, David Caruso, Wesley Snipes, Victor Argo, and Giancarlo Esposito. It was directed by independent filmmaker Abel Ferrara and written by Nicholas St. John, Frank White, a drug lord, is riding into New York in a limousine after being released from Sing Sing. Emilio El Zapa, a Colombian drug dealer, is shot to death, zapas partner, King Tito, is in a hotel room with Jimmy Jump and Test Tube, who are negotiating the purchase of cocaine. Jimmy and Test Tube shoot Tito and his bodyguards and steal the cocaine, later, in a suite at the Plaza Hotel, Frank is greeted by Jimmy, Test Tube, and other members of his gang, who welcome him home. Frank leaves to meet two of his lawyers, Joey Dalesio and Jennifer, for dinner, Frank expresses his desire to be mayor and asks Dalesio to set up a meeting with Mafia boss Arty Clay. He and Jennifer leave to take a ride on the subway, confronted by muggers, Frank first brandishes his gun then gives them a wad of money, telling them to ask for him at the Plaza if they want work. Dalesio goes to Little Italy, to set up a meeting with Clay but the mafia don urinates on Dalesios shoes and tells him it is a message for his boss. On hearing this, Frank, Jump and other members of the go to Clays social club. When Clay insults him, Frank shoots the mafioso, as he leaves, Frank tells Clays men that they can all find employment at the Plaza. The next night, Frank is confronted by Detectives Bishop, Gilley and they drive him to an empty lot where they show him the body of El Zapa in the trunk. When Frank refuses to confess, Gilley and Flanigan beat him, Frank sends Dalesio to Chinatown to make contact with Triad leader Larry Wong, has $15 million worth of cocaine. Larry demands $3 million up front and another $500,000 after the drugs are sold, Frank counters that the two should team up, then split the profits evenly. Larry turns him down and demands that Frank decide immediately whether he wants to buy the drugs, Jimmy Jump and several of Franks lieutenants are arrested by Gilley and Flanigan, who reveal that one of Titos bodyguards is alive and willing to testify. When Frank learns of his mens arrest, he orders his lawyers to arrange their release and they head to Chinatown, where they kill Larry and his gang, and take the cocaine. Gilley, Flanigan and other officers pose as drug dealers and bribe Dalesio into leading them to the nightclub where Frank and they burst in shooting, slaying several members of Franks gang. Fleeing over the Queensboro Bridge, Frank and Jump trade shots with the police, killing all but Gilley, after evading their pursuers, the two men split up. Jump shoots Flanigan in the chest, puncturing his vest, Gilley kills Jump with a shot to the head. A few days later at Flanigans funeral, Frank kills Gilley, after his men kill Dalesio, Frank goes to Bishops apartment, telling him that he has placed a $250,000 bounty on every detective involved in the case
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Raymond Langston
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Dr. Raymond Langston is a fictional character on the CBS crime drama CSI, Crime Scene Investigation, portrayed by Laurence Fishburne. He joined the show in season 9, after the departure of Gil Grissom and his last name is taken from Fishburnes son, Langston who was in turn, named after the great African American writer Langston Hughes. Between the middle of season 9 and the end of season 11, he appeared in every episode and he appeared in 59 out of 60 episodes. In June 2011, it was announced that Fishburne did not renew his contract with the show, Raymond was an Army brat born in Seoul, South Korea, and consequently calls the sport of soccer by its more widely recognized name, football. His father, a soldier and a veteran of the Korean War, was a violent man, often involved in brawls off the battlefield, as a result. Raymond eventually obtained a degree and became a pathologist at a hospital. A co-worker at his hospital was an Angel of Death, murdering 27 patients, while Langston saw the evidence, he was never able to put it together. He ultimately wrote a book about the experiences, titled In Front of my Eyes, afterward, Langston became a professor at West Las Vegas University, but continued to do pro bono work as a surgeon. It was in this capacity that he came into contact with the CSI team, as they were investigating a series of murders attributed to serial killer Nate Haskell, after the cases conclusion, Grissom encouraged Langston to join the Las Vegas Crime Lab as a Level 1 investigator. In the Season 9 episode The Grave Shift, Langston began his first day on the job and he also received a cold welcome from David Hodges, who was still unhappy about Gil Grissoms departure, but who warms up to Langston after the latter demonstrates a cornmeal bomb. Nevertheless, the team accepts him as one of their own, in later episodes, it is revealed that Langston has a number of interests, including blues music, and quickly befriended the like-minded Doc Al Robbins. In Deep Fried and Minty Fresh, it is revealed Langston knows some Mandarin Chinese and he is the only member of the team who rides a motorcycle to work. Langston, despite his calm demeanor, occasionally takes cases personally, in his first case, he reprimanded a father for shouting at his son while the team was searching the boys room, earning a reprimand from Riley about keeping an emotional distance. In Mascara, one of his students who was planning on joining CSI is killed. He was forced to kill a suspect in self-defense in the Season 9 finale, All In and it was the first time he had taken a life in the line of duty. In episode No Way Out, he and fellow CSI Riley Adams are held hostage in the aftermath of a shootout in a quiet Las Vegas neighborhood in which Riley was able to disarm the suspect. By the Season 10 premiere episode, Langston has taken courses and has since been promoted to CSI Level 2. In the episode All That Cremains, it is revealed that he was married to a woman named Gloria, yet it is known from the CSI, NY Season 6 episode Hammer Down
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CBS
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CBS is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation. The company is headquartered at the CBS Building in New York City with major facilities and operations in New York City. CBS is sometimes referred to as the Eye Network, in reference to the iconic logo. It has also called the Tiffany Network, alluding to the perceived high quality of CBS programming during the tenure of William S. Paley. It can also refer to some of CBSs first demonstrations of color television, the network has its origins in United Independent Broadcasters Inc. a collection of 16 radio stations that was purchased by Paley in 1928 and renamed the Columbia Broadcasting System. Under Paleys guidance, CBS would first become one of the largest radio networks in the United States, in 1974, CBS dropped its former full name and became known simply as CBS, Inc. In 2000, CBS came under the control of Viacom, which was formed as a spin-off of CBS in 1971, CBS Corporation is controlled by Sumner Redstone through National Amusements, which also controls the current Viacom. The television network has more than 240 owned-and-operated and affiliated stations throughout the United States. The origins of CBS date back to January 27,1927, Columbia Phonographic went on the air on September 18,1927, with a presentation by the Howard Barlow Orchestra from flagship station WOR in Newark, New Jersey, and fifteen affiliates. Operational costs were steep, particularly the payments to AT&T for use of its land lines, in early 1928 Judson sold the network to brothers Isaac and Leon Levy, owners of the networks Philadelphia affiliate WCAU, and their partner Jerome Louchenheim. With the record out of the picture, Paley quickly streamlined the corporate name to Columbia Broadcasting System. He believed in the power of advertising since his familys La Palina cigars had doubled their sales after young William convinced his elders to advertise on radio. By September 1928, Paley bought out the Louchenheim share of CBS, during Louchenheims brief regime, Columbia paid $410,000 to A. H. Grebes Atlantic Broadcasting Company for a small Brooklyn station, WABC, which would become the networks flagship station. WABC was quickly upgraded, and the relocated to 860 kHz. The physical plant was relocated also – to Steinway Hall on West 57th Street in Manhattan, by the turn of 1929, the network could boast to sponsors of having 47 affiliates. Paley moved right away to put his network on a financial footing. In the fall of 1928, he entered talks with Adolph Zukor of Paramount Pictures. The deal came to fruition in September 1929, Paramount acquired 49% of CBS in return for a block of its stock worth $3.8 million at the time
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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
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CSI, Crime Scene Investigation is a procedural forensics crime drama television series that premiered on CBS October 6,2000. The series, starring William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Laurence Fishburne, Ted Danson, the series concluded on September 27,2015, after 15 seasons, with a feature-length finale titled Immortality. The team is led by Gil Grissom, a socially-awkward forensic entomologist. Grissoms second-in-command, Catherine Willows, is a mother with a cops instinct. Born and raised in Vegas, Catherine was a stripper before being recruited into law enforcement, following Grissoms departure during the ninth season of the series, Catherine is promoted to Supervisor. After overseeing the training of new investigator Raymond Langston, Willows is replaced by D. B, Russell, and recruited to the FBI shortly thereafter. Russell is a man, a keen forensic botanist and a veteran of the Seattle Crime Lab. In the series season, Russell is reunited with his former partner Julie Finlay. During the 1990s, Anthony Zuiker caught producer Jerry Bruckheimers attention after writing his first movie script, Zuiker was convinced that there was a series in the concept, Bruckheimer agreed and arranged a meeting with the head of Touchstone Pictures. The studios head at the time liked the script and presented it to ABC, NBC and Fox executives. The head of development at CBS saw potential in the script, and the network had a pay-or-play contract with actor William Petersen. The networks executives liked the pilot so much that they decided to include it in their 2000 schedule immediately, airing on Fridays after The Fugitive. Initially it was thought that CSI would benefit from The Fugitive, which was expected to be a hit, formerly a co-production with the now-defunct Alliance Atlantis Communications, that companys interest was later bought by the investment firm GS Capital Partners, an affiliate of Goldman Sachs. CBS acquired AACs international distribution rights to the program, though the non-US DVD distribution rights did not change, the series is currently in syndication, and reruns are broadcast in the U. S. on the Spike and TV Land cable networks. The show has aired in reruns on the USA Network since January 14,2011, the CSI catalog has been exclusive to the whole NBC Universal portfolio since September 2014. Occasionally, the cast would still shoot on location in Las Vegas, other California locations include Verdugo Hills High School, UCLAs Royce Hall, Pasadena City Hall, and California State University, Los Angeles. While shooting took place primarily at Universal Studios in Universal City, California, CSIs theme song was, since season one, Who Are You, written by Pete Townshend with vocals by lead singer Roger Daltrey of The Who. In certain countries, to music licensing fees, a unique theme was used instead
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Jack Crawford (character)
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He is modeled after John E. Douglas, who held the same position. Graham, as a profiler, has a reputation for being able to think like the criminals whom he hunts, Crawford convinces Graham to come out of retirement to help solve the Tooth Fairy murders, and soon they both realize that they would need Lecters help again. Crawford helps shelter Graham and his family after Lecter sends the killer, Francis Dolarhyde, with Crawfords help, Graham eventually solves the case, but Dolarhyde disfigures him before Graham kills him. Crawford feels responsible for Grahams misfortune, and resents Lecter for the rest of his life, jack Crawford appears again in the novel The Silence of the Lambs, again investigating a serial killer. This time, the killer is called Buffalo Bill. Crawford is stumped in trying to determine who Buffalo Bill is and this time, however, Crawford sends an FBI trainee, Clarice Starling, to interview him. By way of information obtained from Lecter, Crawford and the FBI attempt to track down the killer, however, the address they obtain for him is out of date. Gumb had killed the employer of one of his victims and moved into her house to use its large basement. He uses the well as a holding space for his victims. Realizing that Buffalo Bill probably knew his first victim, Fredrica Bimmel, Starling sets about interviewing everyone close to her, by the time Crawford and his men arrive, Starling has singlehandedly killed Gumb and rescued his intended victim. Throughout the novel, Crawford is struggling under a burden, as he is caring for his terminally ill wife, Bella. Bella dies near the end of the novel, Crawford appears as a relatively minor character in the book Hannibal. He is portrayed as sympathetic toward Starling, yet increasingly distant due to failing health. Late in the novel, Crawford is forced into leave from the FBI and he has been portrayed by four different actors, Dennis Farina in Manhunter, the 1986 film adaptation of Red Dragon. Scott Glenn in The Silence of the Lambs, the tape was an audio recording serial killers Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris had made of themselves raping and torturing a 16-year-old girl as they drove around Los Angeles. Upon questioning Douglas as to his motives for presenting these tapes, Douglas simply said to Glenn and this experience preyed upon Glenns mind all throughout filming, and he refused to return to the role in Hannibal because he didnt want to place himself in such a mindset again. To this day, he says that the still cause him anxiety. Harvey Keitel in the 2002 adaptation of Red Dragon, which uses the original title
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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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Hannibal (TV series)
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Hannibal is an American psychological thriller–horror television series developed by Bryan Fuller for NBC. The series received a 13-episode order for its first season and, unlike most U. S. network shows, David Slade executive produced and directed the first episode. The series premiered on NBC on April 4,2013, on May 9,2014, NBC renewed Hannibal for a third season, which premiered on June 4,2015. On June 22,2015, NBC canceled Hannibal after three seasons because of low ratings, the series finale aired in Canada on City, on August 27,2015, and aired two days later in the U. S. on NBC. The series received critical acclaim, with the performances of the lead actors, the third and final season won the inaugural Best Action-Thriller Television Series, while guest star Richard Armitage won Best Supporting Actor. FBI profiler Will Graham is recruited by Jack Crawford, the head of Behavioral Sciences, with the investigation weighing heavily on Graham, Crawford decides to have him supervised by psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Initially, Lecter – who is secretly a serial killer – works to manipulate the FBI from within. Lecter is fascinated by Grahams ability to empathize with psychopathic murderers, Hugh Dancy as Will Graham, a gifted criminal profiler and hunter of serial killers. He visualizes himself committing the murders he investigates to understand the behaviors, throughout the series. Mads Mikkelsen as Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant forensic psychiatrist, cannibalistic serial killer, caroline Dhavernas as Dr. Alana Bloom, a professor of psychiatry, and consultant profiler for the FBI, who has professional relationships with both Graham and Lecter. Laurence Fishburne as Special Agent-in-Charge Jack Crawford, head of Behavioral Sciences at the FBI, Hettienne Park as Special Agent Beverly Katz, a crime scene investigator specializing in fiber analysis. Gillian Anderson as Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier, Lecters psychotherapist, Scott Thompson as Special Agent Dr. Jimmy Price, a crime scene investigator specializing in latent fingerprints. Aaron Abrams as Special Agent Brian Zeller, a crime scene investigator, Raúl Esparza as Dr. Frederick Chilton, administrator of Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Kacey Rohl as Abigail Hobbs, daughter and accomplice of serial killer Garrett Jacob Hobbs, lara Jean Chorostecki as Fredricka Freddie Lounds, a tabloid blogger who runs the true crime website TattleCrime. Katharine Isabelle as Margot Verger, one of Lecters patients, she has suffered years of abuse at the hands of her twin brother, Michael Pitt and Joe Anderson as Mason Verger, Margots sadistic twin brother, who does not quite see eye-to-eye with Dr. Lecter. Richard Armitage as Francis Dolarhyde, a killer known as The Tooth Fairy due to his unsightly habit of biting the skin of his victims. Eddie Izzard as Dr. Abel Gideon, a surgeon institutionalized for killing his family, gina Torres as Phyllis Bella Crawford, Jack Crawfords wife, who is suffering from terminal lung cancer. Vladimir Jon Cubrt as Garrett Jacob Hobbs, a killer known as the Minnesota Shrike
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Perry White
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Perry White is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. He is the editor-in-chief of the Metropolis newspaper the Daily Planet and he maintains a very high ethical and journalistic standards and is an archetypal image of the tough, irascible but fair-minded boss. The character Perry White was created for the serial, The Adventures of Superman voiced by actor Julian Noa. He appeared in the episode which aired on February 14,1940. He transitioned into the books later that year appearing in Superman #7. In The Adventures of Superman television series episode Crime Wave and the Post-Crisis comic continuity and he worked as an assistant editor in the Daily Star under George Taylor before becoming editor-in-chief of the Daily Planet. His most well-known catchphrases are Great Caesars ghost. and Dont call me chief, the earliest Superman comics shows Clark Kent and Lois Lane working for the newspaper the Daily Star and an editor named George Taylor. However, this was changed, with Perry White first appearing as the editor of a newly renamed the Daily Planet. The Perry White of Earth-Two is a reporter for the Daily Star and. Prior to the changes detailed in Crisis on Infinite Earths, Perry begins his career as a reporter for various newspapers, including a Chicago newspaper. Later still, Perrys reporting skills earn more praise after being the first to discover that Superboy has moved to Metropolis from Smallville. Finally, during Clark Kents junior year of college, Perry is promoted to editor-in-chief of the newspaper, after the retirement of the previous editor. In the early 1970s, the Daily Planet is bought by Morgan Edge, president of the media conglomerate Galaxy Communications, with much of Perrys power in running the paper overtaken by Edge. In the months just prior to the Crisis reboot in 1985, it is implied that Perry White is beginning to succumb to Alzheimers disease, manifesting in increased forgetfulness and confusion. With writer John Byrnes post-Crisis on Infinite Earths revamp of Supermans origin in the Man of Steel miniseries and his subsequent Superman comics, Post-Crisis, Perry is born in Metropolis Suicide Slum area, growing up with a father missing after heading off to war overseas. He becomes a copy boy at the Daily Planet, beginning a career that will take him up the newspapers career ladder. Perry goes to school with Lex Luthor while they are children, after Luthor becomes a successful businessman, he begins diversifying his holdings in his newly founded LexCorp company, which includes buying the Daily Planet. Luthor soon sells it after deciding to pursue technology and television investments, the entire episode, not the least of which is what Perry felt as having been forced out of his active writing career, leaves Perry bitter and angry with Luthor
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Zack Snyder
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Zachary Edward Zack Snyder is an American filmmaker, best known for his action and science fiction films. Snyder made his film debut with the 2004 remake of the horror film Dawn of the Dead. He also co-wrote the screenplays for 300, Sucker Punch and 300, Snyder is the co-founder of Cruel and Unusual Films, a production company he established in 2004, alongside his wife Deborah Snyder and producing partner Wesley Coller. Snyder was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and raised in Riverside and his mother, Marsha Manley, was a painter and a photography teacher at Daycroft School, which Snyder later attended. His father, Charles Edward Ed Snyder, worked as an executive recruiter and he was raised as a Christian Scientist. Snyder attended Camp Owatonna in Harrison, Maine, during the months as a child. Snyders mother inspired him to painting a year after high school at Heatherley School of Fine Art in England. Afterward, Snyder attended Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Snyder went on to shoot, as a director and as a cinematographer, television commercials for such clients as the automobile companies Audi, BMW, Subaru and Nissan, amongst others. Other commercial work has been for clients including Nike, Reebok and his Warner Bros. film Watchmen was released on March 6,2009 and grossed $185 million worldwide. His follow-up project/animation debut titled Legend of the Guardians, The Owls of GaHoole was released on September 24,2010, Snyder produced, co-wrote, and directed Sucker Punch, which was released on March 25,2011. The film, based on a written by Snyder and Steve Shibuya, was about a young woman in a mental hospital who fantasizes of escape with her fellow inmates. He directed 2013s Man of Steel for Warner Bros, a reboot of the Superman franchise. He will direct a remake of the 1969 film The Illustrated Man. He also wants to direct a segment for an upcoming Heavy Metal 3, during Comic Con 2013, Snyder announced that Batman and Superman would share the screen in Batman v Superman, Dawn of Justice, released in 2016. Cavill reprised his role as Superman, and Ben Affleck played Batman, in April 2014, Snyder was announced by Warner Bros. to direct the Justice League film after finishing Batman v Superman, Dawn of Justice. As of March 2016, Snyder is working on The Last Photograph and he is also working on an adaptation of the 1943 novel The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. A minute-long shot from 300 shows King Leonidas slaughtering his enemies, Snyder lives in Pasadena with his second wife, producer Deborah Snyder. The couple first met in 1996, and married on September 25,2004 at the St. Bartholomews Episcopal Church in Manhattan, the four eldest are from a marriage to Denise Weber that ended in divorce
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Superman
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Superman is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character was created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, high school living in Cleveland, Ohio. They sold Superman to Detective Comics, the future DC Comics, Superman debuted in Action Comics #1 and subsequently appeared in various radio serials, newspaper strips, television programs, films, and video games. With this success, Superman helped to create the superhero archetype, the character is also referred to by such epithets as the Man of Steel, the Man of Tomorrow, and The Last Son of Krypton. Discovered and adopted by a Kansas farm couple, the child is raised as Clark Kent, very early on he started to display various superhuman abilities, which, upon reaching maturity, he resolved to use for the benefit of humanity through a secret Superman identity. Superman resides and operates in the fictional American city of Metropolis, as Clark Kent, he is a journalist for the Daily Planet, a Metropolis newspaper. Supermans love interest is generally Lois Lane, and his archenemy is supervillain Lex Luthor and he is typically a member of the Justice League and close ally of Batman and Wonder Woman. Like other characters in the DC Universe, several versions of Superman have been depicted over the years. Supermans appearance is distinctive and iconic, he wears a blue costume with a red-and-yellow emblem on the chest, consisting of the letter S in a shield shape. This shield is used in media to symbolize the character. Superman is widely considered an American cultural icon and he has fascinated scholars, with cultural theorists, commentators, and critics alike exploring the characters impact and role in the United States and worldwide. The characters ownership has often been the subject of dispute, with Siegel, the character has been adapted extensively and portrayed in other forms of media as well, including films, television series, and video games. Several actors have portrayed Superman in motion pictures and TV series including Kirk Alyn, George Reeves, Christopher Reeve, Dean Cain, Tom Welling, Brandon Routh, Henry Cavill, Siegels fanzine did not sell well. Siegel and Shuster shifted to making comic strips, which they self-published in a book they called Popular Comics, the pair dreamed of becoming professional authors and believed that syndicated newspaper strips offered more lucrative and stable work than pulp magazines. The art quality standards were lower, making them more accessible to the inexperienced Shuster. In early 1933 or in 1934, Siegel developed a new character, also named Superman, but now a heroic character and this first prototype of Superman had no fantastic abilities and wore casual clothing. Siegel and Shuster often compared this version to Slam Bradley, a character they created in 1936. Siegel shared his idea with Shuster and they decided to turn it into a comic strip, the first publisher they solicited was Humor Publishing in Chicago, after having read one of their comic books, Detective Dan
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Man of Steel (film)
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Man of Steel is a 2013 superhero film featuring the DC Comics character Superman. It is a British-American venture produced by Legendary Pictures, DC Entertainment, Syncopy Inc. and Cruel and Unusual Films and it is the first installment in the DC Extended Universe. Man of Steel is a reboot of the Superman film series that retells the origin story. Development began in 2008, when Warner Bros. took pitches from comic book writers, screenwriters and directors, in 2009, a court ruling resulted in Jerry Siegels family recapturing the rights to Supermans origins and Siegels copyright. The decision stated that Warner Bros, producer Christopher Nolan pitched Goyers idea after story discussion on The Dark Knight Rises, and Snyder was hired as the films director in October 2010. Principal photography began in August 2011 in West Chicago, Illinois, before moving to Vancouver and Plano, Man of Steel was released in theaters on June 14,2013, in conventional 2D, 3D, and IMAX formats. Despite receiving mixed reviews, the became a box office success. A follow-up titled Batman v Superman, Dawn of Justice was released on March 25,2016, the film is presented in a nonlinear narrative, jumping between the present and past. This is a summary of the plot. The planet Krypton, unstable from years of mining, faces impending destruction. Jor-El, chief advisor to Kryptons supreme council, recommends a full-scale evacuation of the planets inhabitants, before any action can be taken, soldiers led by General Zod, an old friend of Jor-Els, launch an uprising and arrest the councilors. Realizing that Krypton is doomed, Jor-El steals genetic codes sought by Zod and infuses them into the DNA of his infant son, donning his old armor, Jor-El sacrifices his life to allow his son to escape on a preprogrammed spacecraft. Zod orders the destruction, only to learn that forces loyal to the council have suppressed the rebellion. In a brief trial, Zod and several of the rebels are convicted of treason. Following Jor-Els coordinates, the ship lands on Earth in Smallville. A childless couple, Jonathan and Martha Kent, find Kal-El and raise him as their own, Clark eventually becomes an isolated young man as a result of developing superhuman powers. He then learns his true origins from Jonathan, who urges him to keep his powers hidden, several years later, Jonathan dies in a tornado while refusing to let Clark rescue him. Burdened with guilt and looking for a new purpose in his life, several months later, Metropolis, Daily Planet reporter Lois Lane receives an assignment to investigate the discovery of a Kryptonian scout ship in the Canadian Arctic
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
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Batman v Superman, Dawn of Justice is a 2016 American superhero film featuring the DC Comics characters Batman and Superman. Directed by Zack Snyder and distributed by Warner Bros, pictures, the film is a follow-up to 2013s Man of Steel and is the second installment in the DC Extended Universe. In the film, criminal mastermind Lex Luthor manipulates Batman into a battle with Superman. The film was announced at the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con International, Snyder stated that the film would take inspiration from the Batman comic book series The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller, but clarified that it would follow an original premise. The incarnation of Batman in the film would also be different from the characters portrayal in The Dark Knight Trilogy. The film is inspired by narrative elements from the Death of Superman story arc. Pre-production began at East Los Angeles College in October 2013, with principal photography starting in May 2014 in Detroit, additional filming also took place in Chicago. Following a strong debut that set new box office records, the experienced a historic drop in its second weekend. A directors cut, dubbed the Ultimate Edition and features 30 minutes of footage, was released digitally on June 28,2016. Eighteen months after the battle with General Zod in Metropolis in Man of Steel. Billionaire Bruce Wayne, who has operated in Gotham City as the vigilante Batman for nearly two decades, sees Superman as a threat to humanity. After learning of Batmans form of justice, Clark Kent, Supermans alter-ego, Wayne learns that Russian weapon trafficker Anatoli Knyazev has been contacting LexCorp mogul Lex Luthor. He instead makes alternative plans with Finchs subordinate and gains access to Zods body, Wayne attends a party at LexCorp, where he meets an antiquities dealer named Diana Prince, and retrieves encrypted data from the companys mainframe. While decrypting the drive at the Batcave, Wayne dreams of a post-apocalyptic world and he is snapped out of the vision by an unidentified being who warns him of Lois Lanes crucial role in the future, and urges him to find the others before vanishing. Wayne later discovers that Luthor is not only experimenting with kryptonite, one of them is Prince herself, who is an immortal warrior. Wayne admits to Alfred Pennyworth that he plans to steal the kryptonite to weaponize it, at a congressional hearing, as Finch questions Superman on the validity of his actions, a bomb goes off and kills everyone present but Superman. Believing he should have detected the bomb, and frustrated by his failure to save the people, meanwhile, Luthor enters the Kryptonian ship and accesses details of a vast technology database accumulated from over 100,000 worlds. Luthor kidnaps Martha Kent, Clarks adoptive mother, to bring Superman out of exile and he reveals to him that he manipulated Superman and Batman by fueling their distrust for each other
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Marvel Cinematic Universe
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The franchise has expanded to include comic books, short films, television series and digital series. The shared universe, much like the original Marvel Universe in comic books, was established by crossing over common plot elements, settings, cast, clark Gregg has appeared the most in the franchise, portraying Phil Coulson, a character original to the MCU. The first film released in the MCU was Iron Man, which began the first phase of films culminating in the crossover film Marvels The Avengers, Phase Two began with Iron Man 3, and concluded with Ant-Man. The films are currently in Phase Three, which began with the release of Captain America, Marvel Television expanded the universe further, first to network television with Marvels Agents of S. H. I. E. L. D. Marvel Television has also produced the digital series Marvels Agents of S. H. I. E. L. D, slingshot, which is a supplement to Agents of S. H. I. E. L. D. Soundtrack albums have been released for all of the films, along many of television series. It has inspired film and television studios with comic book character adaptation rights to attempt to create similar shared universes. By 2005, Marvel Entertainment began planning to produce its own films. Previously, Marvel had co-produced several superhero films with Columbia Pictures, New Line Cinema and others, Marvel made relatively little profit from its licensing deals with other studios and wanted to get more money out of its films while maintaining artistic control of the projects and distribution. Avi Arad, head of Marvels film division, was pleased with Sam Raimis Spider-Man films at Sony, as a result, they decided to form Marvel Studios, Hollywoods first major independent movie studio since DreamWorks. Feige, a self-professed fanboy, envisioned creating a shared universe just as creators Stan Lee, to raise capital, the studio secured funding from a seven-year, $525 million revolving credit facility with Merrill Lynch. Marvels plan was to release films for their main characters. Arad, who doubted the strategy yet insisted that it was his reputation that helped secure the initial financing, in 2007, at 33 years old, Feige was named studio chief. Feige initially referred to the narrative continuity of these films as the Marvel Cinema Universe. Marvel has designated the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Earth-199999 within the continuity of the companys multiverse, while not always the case, as evident by the 2013 releases of Iron Man 3 and Thor, The Dark World, he said it is certainly something to aim for. Feige expanded on this in July 2014, saying, I dont know that well keep to every year, wed rather find a way to keep that going. After the titles were revealed in October 2014, Feige said, which made us comfortable for the first time. To increase to three films a year instead of just two, without changing our methods, just like comic readers have been doing for decades and decades
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Brooklyn, New York
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Brooklyn is the most populous borough of New York City, with a Census-estimated 2,636,735 residents in 2015. It borders the borough of Queens at the end of Long Island. Today, if New York City dissolved, Brooklyn would rank as the third-most populous city in the U. S. behind Los Angeles, the borough continues, however, to maintain a distinct culture. Many Brooklyn neighborhoods are ethnic enclaves, Brooklyns official motto, displayed on the Borough seal and flag, is Eendraght Maeckt Maght which translates from early modern Dutch as Unity makes strength. Since 2010, Brooklyn has evolved into a hub of entrepreneurship and high technology startup firms. The history of European settlement in Brooklyn spans more than 350 years, the neighborhood of Marine Park was home to North Americas first tidal mill. It was built by the Dutch, and the foundation can be seen today, however, the area was not formally settled as a town. Many incidents and documents relating to this period are in Gabriel Furmans early compilation, what is today Brooklyn left Dutch hands after the final English conquest of New Netherland in 1664, a prelude to the Second Anglo–Dutch War. The English reorganized the six old Dutch towns on southwestern Long Island as Kings County on November 1,1683 and this tract of land was recognized as a political entity for the first time, and the municipal groundwork was laid for a later expansive idea of Brooklyn identity. On August 27,1776 was fought the Battle of Long Island, the first major engagement fought in the American Revolutionary War after independence was declared, and the largest of the entire conflict. British troops forced Continental Army troops under George Washington off the heights near the sites of Green-Wood Cemetery, Prospect Park. The fortified American positions at Brooklyn Heights consequently became untenable and were evacuated a few days later, One result of the Treaty of Paris in 1783 was the evacuation of the British from New York City, celebrated by residents into the 20th century. The New York Navy Yard operated in Wallabout Bay for the entire 19th century, the first center of urbanization sprang up in the Town of Brooklyn, directly across from Lower Manhattan, which saw the incorporation of the Village of Brooklyn in 1817. Reliable steam ferry service across the East River to Fulton Landing converted Brooklyn Heights into a town for Wall Street. Ferry Road to Jamaica Pass became Fulton Street to East New York, Town and Village were combined to form the first, kernel incarnation of the City of Brooklyn in 1834. Industrial deconcentration in mid-century was bringing shipbuilding and other manufacturing to the part of the county. Each of the two cities and six towns in Kings County remained independent municipalities, and purposely created non-aligning street grids with different naming systems and it later became the most popular and highest circulation afternoon paper in America. The publisher changed to L. Van Anden on April 19,1842, on May 14,1849 the name was shortened to The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, on September 5,1938 it was further shortened to Brooklyn Eagle
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Josh Hall (One Life to Live)
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Josh Hall is a fictional character on the American soap opera One Life to Live, originated by actor Laurence Fishburne from 1973 until 1976. Todd Davis assumed the role in 1977, Josh reappeared in fictional Llanview, Pennsylvania in 1985 as a doctor, played by Guy Davis from 1985 until 1986. Fishburne was cast for his television role by with Nixon by casting director Joan DIncecco. The family unit of Freemans Ed, Hollys Carla and Fishburnes Josh was heralded as daytime televisions first African American family, while a castmember of One Life to Live, Fishburne starred in the 1975 film, Cornbread, Earl and Me. He left the series in 1976 at 14-year-old to accept a role in the Francis Ford Coppola film, Fishburne lied to Coppola about his age to win the Apocalypse Now role of 17-year-old Vietnam War Navy PBR crewmember Tyrone Mr. Clean Miller. Todd Davis took over the role from Fishburne briefly in 1977 and he left One Life to Live to play Bryan Phillips on fellow ABC Daytime soap opera General Hospital from 1978 until 1986. Guy Davis played the character from 1985 until its last appearance in 1986
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American Broadcasting Company
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The network is headquartered on Columbus Avenue and West 66th Street in Manhattan, New York City. There are additional offices and production facilities elsewhere in New York City, as well as in Los Angeles and Burbank. Since 2007, when ABC Radio was sold to Citadel Broadcasting, ABC originally launched on October 12,1943, as a radio network, separated from and serving as the successor to the NBC Blue Network, which had been purchased by Edward J. Noble. It extended its operations to television in 1948, following in the footsteps of established broadcast networks CBS, in the mid-1950s, ABC merged with United Paramount Theatres, a chain of movie theaters that formerly operated as a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures. Leonard Goldenson, who had been the head of UPT, made the new television network profitable by helping develop, in 1996, most of Capital Cities/ABCs assets were purchased by The Walt Disney Company. The television network has eight owned-and-operated and over 232 affiliated television stations throughout the United States, most Canadians have access to at least one U. S. ABC News provides news and features content for radio stations owned by Citadel Broadcasting. In the 1930s, radio in the United States was dominated by three companies, the Columbia Broadcasting System, the Mutual Broadcasting System and the National Broadcasting Company. The last was owned by electronics manufacturer Radio Corporation of America, in 1938, the FCC began a series of investigations into the practices of radio networks and published its report on the broadcasting of network radio programs in 1940. The report recommended that RCA give up control of either NBC Red or NBC Blue, at that time, the NBC Red Network was the principal radio network in the United States and, according to the FCC, RCA was using NBC Blue to eliminate any hint of competition. Once Mutuals appeals against the FCC were rejected, RCA decided to sell NBC Blue in 1941, the newly separated NBC Red and NBC Blue divided their respective corporate assets. Investment firm Dillon, Read & Co. offered $7.5 million to purchase the network, Edward John Noble, the owner of Life Savers candy, drugstore chain Rexall and New York City radio station WMCA, purchased the network for $8 million. Due to FCC ownership rules, the transaction, which was to include the purchase of three RCA stations by Noble, would require him to resell his station with the FCCs approval, the Commission authorized the transaction on October 12,1943. Soon afterward, the Blue Network was purchased by the new company Noble founded, Noble subsequently acquired the rights to the American Broadcasting Company name from George B. Meanwhile, in August 1944, the West Coast division of the Blue Network, both stations were then managed by Don Searle, the vice-president of the Blue Networks West Coast division. The ABC Radio Network created its audience slowly, the network also became known for such suspenseful dramas as Sherlock Holmes, Gang Busters and Counterspy, as well as several mid-afternoon youth-oriented programs. S. From Nazi Germany after its conquest, to pre-record its programming, while its radio network was undergoing reconstruction, ABC found it difficult to avoid falling behind on the new medium of television. To ensure a space, in 1947, ABC submitted five applications for television station licenses, the ABC television network made its debut on April 19,1948, with WFIL-TV in Philadelphia becoming its first primary affiliate
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One Life to Live
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Created by Agnes Nixon, the series was the first daytime drama to primarily feature ethnically and socioeconomically diverse characters and consistently emphasize social issues. One Life to Live was expanded from 30 minutes to 45 minutes on July 26,1976, One Life to Live heavily focuses on the members and relationships of the Lord family. In 2002, the series won an Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series, One Life to Live was the last American daytime soap opera taped in New York City. After nearly 43 years on the air, ABC canceled One Life to Live on April 14,2011. On July 7,2011, production company Prospect Park announced that it would continue the show as a web series after its run on ABC, but later suspended the project. The show taped its final scenes for ABC on November 18,2011, on January 7,2013, Prospect Park resumed its plan to continue One Life to Live as a daily 30-minute web series on Hulu and iTunes via The Online Network. The relaunched series premiered on April 29,2013, the new series was plagued with several behind-the-scenes problems, most notably a litigation between Prospect Park and ABC regarding the misuse of One Life to Live characters on General Hospital. On September 3,2013, Prospect Park suspended production of the series until the lawsuit with ABC was resolved, impressed with the ratings success of NBCs Another World, ABC sought out Another World writer Nixon to create a serial for them. One Life to Live would emphasize the ethnic and socioeconomic diversity of the characters in its fictional setting, Nixon would go on to create All My Children in 1970 and Loving in 1983. One Life to Lives first sponsor was the Colgate-Palmolive company, who also sponsored The Doctors, ABC bought the show from Nixon in December 1974 when they purchased all stock to her Creative Horizons, Inc. The show was originally a half-hour serial until it was expanded to 45 minutes on July 23,1976, One Life to Live is set in the fictional city of Llanview, a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Long-suffering heroine Viki weathered love and loss, widowhood, rape, divorce, stroke, and breast cancer, Viki also had heart problems and received a transplant from her dying husband Ben Davidson. Featured male protagonist Dr. Larry Wolek also appeared at the episode and for 36 years. The 1980s brought great success and rose to prominence Vikis sister, Tina. One Life to Live celebrated its 40th anniversary in July 2008 with the return of former cast members. Deceased characters and even creator Agnes Nixon appeared in a storyline in which Slezaks Viki dies and visits Heaven, Daytime Emmy-nominee Andrea Evans and others returned for a tribute to Tina Lords famous 1987 plunge over the Iguazu Falls and the 1990 royal wedding in fictional Mendorra. And like the 1988 Old West storyline in which the character Clint Buchanan steps back 100 years in the past, on July 21,2008, Robert S. This studio was made available by the move of sister serial All My Children to a facility in Los Angeles
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Cornbread, Earl and Me
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Cornbread, Earl and Me is a 1975 American drama film that stars Tierre Turner, Laurence Fishburne, and Jamaal Wilkes. Directed and produced by Joseph Manduke, the film is based on the 1966 Ronald Fair novel Hog Butcher. The film focuses on three African-American youths living in an urban neighborhood, nathaniel Hamilton is a star basketball player from the neighborhood, who also goes by the nickname of Cornbread. In the movie, he epitomizes the dream of the neighborhood to be successful and he is also a local hero to the much younger friends Earl Carter and Wilford Robinson. The plot thickens after a basketball game ends because of a heavy rain. All the kids leave, except for Cornbread, Earl and Wilford, Earl and Wilford get into a playful argument about how fast Cornbread can run home. It is decided that Cornbread should make it home in 25 seconds, so he runs off, unknown to all of them, an assault suspect is in the neighborhood, and is dressed like Cornbread. The two police officers are hot on the trail, but lose him in the rain. As the police officers are coming out of an alleyway, they see Cornbread running by, subsequently, Cornbread is shot in the back, and dies in the middle of the street. Wilford screams hysterically, and a riot ensues, danaher Stack Pierce as Sam Hamilton Tierre Turner as Earl Carter Jamaal Wilkes as Cornbread In 2001, it was released on DVD. In 2010, it was digitized in High Definition and broadcast on MGM HD, list of American films of 1975 Cornbread, Earl and Me at the Internet Movie Database
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Band of the Hand
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The films score was composed and performed by Michel Rubini, and the title track was written and performed by Bob Dylan. L. Forced into the swamps, the teens must learn to survive in the dangerous swamp, upon completion of the program, the group buys a vacant house in a dangerous part of Miami and slowly rebuilds the neighborhood, kicking out the pimps, prostitutes and drug dealers. However this offends the former inhabitants of their house, all loyal customers of drug baron Cream. The conflict leads to armed fights, in which Joe is killed, the films climax has the remaining group taking the fight directly to a drug manufacturing facility that is equipped with an M-134 Minigun
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The Color Purple (film)
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The Color Purple is a 1985 American period drama film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Menno Meyjes, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Alice Walker. It was Spielbergs eighth film as a director, and was a change from the summer blockbusters for which he had become famous, the film was also the first feature-length film directed by Spielberg for which John Williams did not compose the music. The film starred Danny Glover, Desreta Jackson, Margaret Avery, Oprah Winfrey, Adolph Caesar, Rae Dawn Chong, Celie is transformed as she finds her self-worth through the help of two strong female companions. Set in rural Georgia during the first 40 years of the century, the film centers on the life of a fictional character named Celie. Celie and the characters tell a story of overcoming racism and misogyny in the rural south during this time period. Celie maintains her resolve throughout the story, by the end of the film, the characters have undergone remarkable changes and relationships have begun to heal. The Color Purple was shown at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival as a non-competing title, Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 88% based on reviews from 26 critics, with an average score of 6. 9/10. The sites consensus states, A sentimental tale that reveals great emotional truths in American history, roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times awarded the film four stars, calling it the years best film. He also praised Whoopi Goldberg, calling her one of the most amazing debut performances in movie history. The affirmation at the end of the film is so joyous that this is one of the few movies in a time that inspires tears of happiness. Siskel wrote that The Color Purple was a plea for respect for black women, although acknowledging that the film was a period drama, he praised its. Incredibly strong stand against the way black men treat black women, cruel is too kind a word to describe their behavior. The principal black men in The Color Purple use their women — both wives and daughters — as sexual chattel, if the book is set in the harsh, impoverished atmosphere of rural Georgia, the movie unfolds in a cozy, comfortable, flower-filled wonderland. Some parts of it are rapturous and stirring, others improbable. From another director, this might be confusing, but Mr. Spielbergs showmanship is still with him. Although the combination of his sensibilities and Miss Walkers amounts to a mismatch, Mr. Spielbergs Color Purple manages to have momentum, warmth. Variety found the film over-sentimental, writing, there are some scenes and great performances in The Color Purple. Steven Spielbergs turn at serious film-making is marred in more than one place by overblown production that threatens to drown in its own emotions
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The Cotton Club (film)
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The Cotton Club is a 1984 American crime-drama film centered on a Harlem jazz club of the 1930s, the Cotton Club. The film was co-written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, choreographed by Henry LeTang, and starred Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Diane Lane, the supporting cast included Bob Hoskins, James Remar, Nicolas Cage, Allen Garfield, Laurence Fishburne, Gwen Verdon and Fred Gwynne. Despite performing poorly at the box office, the film was nominated for awards, including Golden Globes for Best Director and Best Picture and Oscars for Best Art Direction. The film, however, also earned a Razzie Award nomination for Diane Lane as Worst Supporting Actress, a musician named Dixie Dwyer begins working with mobsters to advance his career but falls in love with the girlfriend of gangland kingpin Dutch Schultz. A dancer from Dixies neighborhood, Sandman Williams, is hired with his brother by the Cotton Club, a club where most of the performers are black. Owney Madden, a mobster, owns the club and runs it with his right-hand man, Dixie becomes a Hollywood film star, thanks to the help of Madden and the mob but angering Schultz. He also continues to see Schultzs moll, Vera Cicero, whose new nightclub has been financed by the jealous gangster, in the meantime, Dixies ambitious younger brother Vincent becomes a gangster in Schultzs mob and eventually a public enemy, holding Frenchy as a hostage. Sandman alienates his brother Clay at the Cotton Club by agreeing to perform a number there. Dutch Schultz is violently dealt with by Maddens men while Dixie and he hired William Kennedy and Francis Ford Coppola to re-write Mario Puzos story and screenplay. Evans eventually decided that he did not want to direct the film, Richard Sylbert claimed that he told Evans not to hire Coppola because he resents being in the commercial, narrative, Hollywood movie business. Coppola claimed that he had letters from Sylbert that ask him to work on the film because Evans was crazy, the director also said that Evans set the tone for the level of extravagance long before I got there. Coppola accepted the jobs as screenwriter and then director because he needed the money – he was deeply in debt from making One from the Heart with his own money. By the time Evans decided not to direct and brought in Coppola, las Vegas casino owners Edward and Fred Doumani put $30 million into the film. Other financial backers included Arab arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi, and vaudeville promoter Roy Radin, according to William Kennedy in an interview with Vanity Fair, the budget of the film was $47 million. However, Coppola told the head of Gaumont, Europes largest distribution and production company, according to Splitsider, Richard Pryor was considered for the role of Sandman Williams. Robert Evans wanted to cast his friend Alain Delon in a role as Lucky Luciano. The role of Luciano was instead portrayed by Joe Dallesandro, starting the film career for the former Warhol Superstar. Author Mario Puzo was the screenwriter and was eventually replaced by William Kennedy who wrote a rehearsal script in eight days which the cast used for three weeks prior to shooting
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