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New York City
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The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over an area of about 302.6 square miles. Located at the tip of the state of New York. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has described as the cultural and financial capital of the world. Situated on one of the worlds largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, the five boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island – were consolidated into a single city in 1898. In 2013, the MSA produced a gross metropolitan product of nearly US$1.39 trillion, in 2012, the CSA generated a GMP of over US$1.55 trillion. NYCs MSA and CSA GDP are higher than all but 11 and 12 countries, New York City traces its origin to its 1624 founding in Lower Manhattan as a trading post by colonists of the Dutch Republic and was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The city and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. It has been the countrys largest city since 1790, the Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a symbol of the United States and its democracy. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. Several sources have ranked New York the most photographed city in the world, the names of many of the citys bridges, tapered skyscrapers, and parks are known around the world. Manhattans real estate market is among the most expensive in the world, Manhattans Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere, with multiple signature Chinatowns developing across the city. Providing continuous 24/7 service, the New York City Subway is one of the most extensive metro systems worldwide, with 472 stations in operation. Over 120 colleges and universities are located in New York City, including Columbia University, New York University, and Rockefeller University, during the Wisconsinan glaciation, the New York City region was situated at the edge of a large ice sheet over 1,000 feet in depth. The ice sheet scraped away large amounts of soil, leaving the bedrock that serves as the foundation for much of New York City today. Later on, movement of the ice sheet would contribute to the separation of what are now Long Island and Staten Island. The first documented visit by a European was in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzano, a Florentine explorer in the service of the French crown and he claimed the area for France and named it Nouvelle Angoulême. Heavy ice kept him from further exploration, and he returned to Spain in August and he proceeded to sail up what the Dutch would name the North River, named first by Hudson as the Mauritius after Maurice, Prince of Orange
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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
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The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It is given in honor of an actress who has delivered a performance in a supporting role while working within the film industry. At the 9th Academy Awards ceremony held in 1937, Gale Sondergaard was the first winner of award for her role in Anthony Adverse. Initially, winners in both supporting acting categories were awarded instead of statuettes. Beginning with the 16th ceremony held in 1944, however, winners received full-sized statuettes, currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the actors branch of AMPAS, winners are selected by a plurality vote from the entire eligible voting members of the Academy. Since its inception, the award has given to 78 actresses. Dianne Wiest and Shelley Winters have received the most awards in this category with two awards each, despite winning no awards, Thelma Ritter was nominated on six occasions, more than any other actress. As of the 2017 ceremony, Viola Davis is the most recent winner in category for her role as Rose Maxson in Fences. In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of release in Los Angeles County. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, University of Toronto Press, inside Oscar, The Unofficial History of the Academy Awards. New York, United States, Ballantine Books, oscars. org Oscar. com The Academy Awards Database
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Victor/Victoria
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The film was produced by Tony Adams, directed by Blake Edwards, and scored by Henry Mancini, with lyrics by Leslie Bricusse. It was adapted in 1995 as a Broadway musical, the film was nominated for seven Academy Awards and won the Academy Award for Original Music Score. It is a remake of the 1933 German film Viktor und Viktoria, set in 1934 Paris, the film opens with Richard di Nardo, a young hustler, emerging from the bed of gay middle-aged Carroll Todd, a. k. a. Toddy, Richard dresses, takes money from Toddys wallet and leaves Toddys apartment, going about his day, Toddy, a performer at Chez Lui in Paris, sees Labisse, the club owner, auditioning a frail, impoverished soprano, Victoria Grant. After the audition, Labisse drily writes her off, and she responds by sustaining a pitch to shatter his wine glass using resonant frequency. That night, Richard comes to Chez Lui as part of a foursome and Toddy incites a brawl by insulting Richard. Labisse fires Toddy and bans him from the club, walking home, he spots Victoria dining at a restaurant, and she invites him to join her. As neither of them can pay for the meal, she dumps a cockroach in her salad to avoid paying their check, but it escapes and the whole place breaks out in havoc. The duo run out through the rain to Toddys, and he invites her to stay when she finds that the rain has shrunk her cheap clothes, the next morning Richard shows up to collect his things. Victoria, who is wearing his clothes, hides in Toddys closet, when she thinks that Richard might harm Toddy, she ambushes Richard and literally kicks him out. Witnessing this, Toddy is struck with the inspiration of passing Victoria off as a man and presenting her to Andre Cassell, Cassell accepts her as Count Victor Grazinski, a gay Polish female impersonator and Toddys new boyfriend. Cassell gets her a show and invites a collection of club owners to the opening. Among the guests is King Marchand, an owner of clubs in Chicago. King attends with his ditzy moll Norma Cassidy and burly bodyguard Bernstein, Victor is a hit, and King is smitten, but devastated and incredulous when she is revealed as a man at the end of her act. King is convinced that Victor is not a man, after a quarrel with Norma and his subsequent failure with her later that night, King sends her back to America. Determined to get the truth of Victors gender, King sneaks into Victoria and Toddys suite and he keeps his knowledge secret and invites Victoria, Toddy, and Cassell to Chez Lui, where Toddy is now welcomed due to Victors status as a big star. Another fight breaks out with exactly the same foursome as before, Squash and Toddy are arrested with the bulk of the club clientele, King kisses Victoria pretending that he does not care about Victorias gender, leading them to get together. Squash returns to the suite and catches King with Victoria in bed, King tries to explain, but soon receives a shocker himself - Squash reveals himself to be gay
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Emmy Award
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An Emmy Award, or simply Emmy, recognizes excellence in the television industry, and corresponds to the Academy Award, the Tony Award, and the Grammy Award. Because Emmy Awards are given in various sectors of the American television industry, Regional Emmy Awards are also presented throughout the country at various times through the year, recognizing excellence in local and statewide television. In addition, International Emmys are awarded for excellence in TV programming produced, each is responsible for administering a particular set of Emmy ceremonies. The Los Angeles-based Academy of Television Arts & Sciences established the Emmy Award as part of an image-building and public relations opportunity. The first Emmy Awards ceremony took place on January 25,1949, at the Hollywood Athletic Club, shirley Dinsdale has the distinction of receiving the very first Emmy Award for Most Outstanding Television Personality, during that first awards ceremony. In the 1950s, the ATAS expanded the Emmys into a national event, in 1955, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences was formed in New York City as a sister organization to serve members on the East Coast, and help to also supervise the Emmys. The NATAS also established regional chapters throughout the United States, with each one developing their own local Emmy awards show for local programming, the ATAS still however maintained its separate regional ceremony honoring local programming in the Los Angeles Area. Originally there was only one Emmy Awards ceremony held per year to honor shows nationally broadcast in the United States, in 1974, the first Daytime Emmy Awards ceremony was held to specifically honor achievement in national daytime programming. Other area-specific Emmy Awards ceremonies soon followed, also, the International Emmy Awards, honoring television programs produced and initially aired outside the U. S. was established in the early 1970s. Meanwhile, all Emmys awarded prior to the emergence of these separate, in 1977, due to various conflicts, the ATAS and the NATAS agreed to split ties. However, they agreed to share ownership of the Emmy statue and trademark. With the rise of television in the 1980s, cable programs first became eligible for the Primetime Emmys in 1988. The ATAS also began accepting original online-only web television programs in 2013, the Emmy statuette, depicting a winged woman holding an atom, was designed by television engineer Louis McManus, who used his wife as the model. The TV Academy rejected a total of forty-seven proposals before settling on McManus design in 1948. The statuette has become the symbol of the TV Academys goal of supporting and uplifting the art and science of television, The wings represent the muse of art. When deciding a name for the award, Academy founder Syd Cassyd originally suggested Ike, however, Ike was also the popular nickname of World War II hero and future U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and the Academy members wanted something unique. Finally, television engineer and the third president, Harry Lubcke, suggested the name Immy. After Immy was chosen, it was feminized to Emmy to match their female statuette
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Golden Globe Award
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Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign. The annual ceremony at which the awards are presented is a part of the film industrys awards season. The 74th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film, the 1st Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best achievements in 1943 filmmaking, was held in January 1944, at the 20th Century-Fox studios. Subsequent ceremonies were held at venues throughout the next decade, including the Beverly Hills Hotel. In 1950, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association made the decision to establish an honorary award to recognize outstanding contributions to the entertainment industry. Recognizing its subject as a figure within the entertainment industry. The official name of the award became the Cecil B. In 1963, the Miss Golden Globe concept was introduced, in its inaugural year, two Miss Golden Globes were named, one for film and one for television. The two Miss Golden Globes named that year were Eva Six and Donna Douglas, respectively, in 2009, the Golden Globe statuette was redesigned. It was unveiled at a conference at the Beverly Hilton prior to the show. The broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards, telecast to 167 countries worldwide, generally ranks as the third most-watched awards show each year, behind only the Oscars, gervais returned to host the 68th and 69th Golden Globe Awards the next two years. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosted the 70th, 71st and 72nd Golden Globe Awards in 2015, the Golden Globe Awards theme song, which debuted in 2012, was written by Japanese musician and songwriter Yoshiki Hayashi. On January 7,2008, it was announced due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. The ceremony was faced with a threat by striking writers to picket the event, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was forced to adopt another approach for the broadcast. In acting categories, Meryl Streep holds the record for the most competitive Golden Globe wins with eight, however, including honorary awards, such as the Henrietta Award, World Film Favorite Actor/Actress Award, or Cecil B. DeMille Award, Barbra Streisand leads with nine, additionally, Streisand won for composing the song Evergreen, producing the Best Picture, and directing Yentl in 1984. Jack Nicholson, Angela Lansbury, Alan Alda and Shirley MacLaine have six awards each, behind them are Rosalind Russell and Jessica Lange with five wins. Meryl Streep also holds the record for most nominations with thirty, at the 46th Golden Globe Awards an anomaly occurred, a three way-tie for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
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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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The Happiest Millionaire
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The Happiest Millionaire is a 1967 musical film starring Fred MacMurray and based upon the true story of Philadelphia millionaire Anthony J. Drexel Biddle. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Costume Design by Bill Thomas, the musical song score is by Robert and Richard Sherman. The screenplay is by AJ Carothers based on the play that was based on the book My Philadelphia Father by Cordelia Drexel Biddle and this was the last film with personal involvement from Walt Disney, who died during its production. Costume Designer Bill Thomas, whose film credits passed the 200 mark in 1965, more than 3000 complete outfits, valued at $250,000, were required for the entire production. The story begins in Autumn of 1916, and follows an Irish immigrant named John Lawless as he applies for a position with eccentric Philadelphia millionaire Anthony J. Drexel Biddle. Even though the family is a bit strange, Lawless soon learns that he right in. Mr. Biddle takes a liking to him immediately, for the rest of the film, Lawless serves as the narrator/commentator. Mr. Biddle busies himself with his Biddle Boxing and Bible School and he is also anxious to get America into the War in Europe, despite the governments policy of neutrality. His wife, Cordelia, stands quietly by, accepting his eccentricities with a sense of pride and their two sons, Tony and Livingston are headed off to boarding school, never to be seen in the film again. Their daughter, Cordy, is a tomboy with a right hook who was educated by private tutors and has had limited contact with conventional society. She is frustrated by her apparent inability to attract suitors and wants to see what is beyond the Biddle manor. Mr. Biddle reluctantly lets Cordy go to a school as well. At a social dance hosted by her aunt and uncle, Cordy meets Angier Buchanan Duke and he tells Cordy that he is fascinated with the new automobile and wants to head to Detroit, Michigan to make his fortune there, instead of taking over his familys tobacco business. That winter, Cordy comes back to her parents home and tells them that she is engaged, at first, this is a difficult thing for Mr. Biddle to take. He does not want to give up his little girl, but, after meeting Angie and witnessing first-hand his Jiu Jitsu fighting skills, Mr. Biddle takes a liking to him and accepts the engagement. Then Cordy travels with Angie to New York City to meet his mother, soon the Biddles and the Dukes are making arrangements for a very grand wedding. Constant condescending comments from Angies mother anger Cordy, to make matters worse, their families elaborate planning for the social event of the season, makes both Cordy and Angie feel pushed aside. The tension reaches a climax when Cordy learns that Angie has abandoned his plans for Detroit, Cordy angrily calls the wedding off, thinking of Angie as a mamas boy, and Angie storms out of the house
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Clue (film)
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Clue is a 1985 American ensemble mystery comedy film based on the board game of the same name. The film was produced by Debra Hill, in keeping with the nature of the board game, the theatrical release included three possible endings, with different theaters receiving one of the three endings. In the films video release, all three endings were included. The film initially received mixed reviews and did poorly at the box office, ultimately grossing $14,643,997 in the United States, though it later developed a cult following. Clue was Paramounts first adaptation of a now-current Hasbro property, though at that time Cluedo was owned by Waddingtons, Hasbro later bought both Waddingtons and Parker Brothers. This predated by 19 years Paramounts deal to other films. Universal Studios announced that a remake was in the works with a date set for 2013. In 1954 New England, six strangers are invited to a party at a secluded New England mansion known as Hill House, Miss Scarlet is the owner of an illegal escort service in Washington, D. C. He now works at the Pentagon on a fusion bomb. Mrs. White is a black widow who was drawn in to avoid a scandal regarding the mysterious death of her nuclear physicist husband. She was previously married to an illusionist, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Mr. Green is a homosexual, a secret that would cost him his job with the State Department if it were widely known, finally, Wadsworth reveals Mr. Boddys secret to the guests, he is the one who has been blackmailing them. As the guests begin to shout at Mr. Boddy, Wadsworth explains that he has gathered all the guests together to confront Mr. Boddy and turn him over to the police. Confronted by Wadsworths revelation, Mr. Boddy reminds the guests that, if turned over to the police, he can reveal their secrets while in police custody. Mr. Boddy then distributes to each guest a wrapped gift box which, when opened, reveal one of six weapons, a wrench, a candlestick, a pipe, a knife, a revolver. Mr. Boddy suggests that use the weapons provided to kill Wadsworth and destroy the evidence. Mr. Boddy turns out the lights in the room, creating a moment of chaos in which someone shoots the revolver, when the lights come back on, Mr. Boddy is lying on the ground and is pronounced dead by Professor Plum. Everyone denies killing Mr. Boddy, and Wadsworth reveals that he arranged the event in revenge for his wife who had committed suicide after being blackmailed by Mr. Boddy for having Socialist friends
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Burglar (film)
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Burglar is a 1987 Canadian-American comedy film directed by Hugh Wilson and distributed by Warner Bros. The film stars Whoopi Goldberg and Bobcat Goldthwait, Bernice Bernie Rhodenbarr, a former San Francisco burglar, resumes her life of crime when a corrupt police officer named Ray Kirschman blackmails her. A dentist, Dr. Cynthia Sheldrake, hires Bernice to break into her ex-husband Christophers home, things take a turn for the worse when Christopher is murdered while Bernie is robbing his home, and thanks to Sheldrake and her lawyer Carson, Bernie is the only suspect. To clear her name Bernice and her friend Carl hop from bar to bar looking for someone who knew Christopher and they find out that Christopher had quite a few girlfriends. and boyfriends. Bernice has three new suspects after an old flame of Christophers tells her about an artist, a bartender, Bernice investigates the artist and the bartender only to have them show up dead. With no clues or witnesses, Bernice waits for Dr. Sheldrake in her home to confront her, demanding she tell her everything she knew about Christopher, she concludes that the doctor herself had been with her ex the night he was murdered. During the conversation the TV flashes to an episode of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Bernice realizes Carson knew the doctors ex. Bernice calls Carson to meet her in the park with the bag of jewelry Bernice was commissioned to steal in the first place, Bernie has also deduced that Carson was in love with Christopher himself. A scuffle ensues and Bernice, along with her friend Carl and Ray, the film was adapted from the 1978 novel The Burglar in the Closet by Lawrence Block, in Blocks book, Bernie Rhodenbarr is a white man. It was also the first R-rated and live-action production from the Canadian animation company, when Willis dropped out, Goldberg took on the lead role. Whoopi Goldberg as Bernice Rhodenbarr Bobcat Goldthwait as Carl Hefler G. W, roger Ebert described the film as a witless, hapless exercise in the wrong way to package Goldberg. This is a woman who is original, who has a special relationship with the motion picture comedy. It is criminal to put her into brain-damaged, assembly-line thrillers, List of American films of 1987 List of Nelvana franchises Burglar at the Internet Movie Database Burglar at AllMovie Burglar at Box Office Mojo Burglar at Rotten Tomatoes
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Cop (film)
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Cop is a 1988 film starring James Woods and Lesley Ann Warren. It is based on the book Blood on the Moon by James Ellroy, the screenplay was written by James B. Harris and Woods co-produced the film, lloyd Hopkins discovers the brutal murder of a young woman. Her body hangs over her bed, and her blood is splattered all over her apartment, Hopkins notices a great deal of feminist literature with titles like Rage in the Womb on her bookshelf. He also sees two classified ads for anonymous sexual encounters, when he returns home, his 8-year old daughter wakes up and begs him for a story. He launches into a description of one of his cases. His wife orders him to stop, and they have an argument over the inappropriateness of his stories, frustrated, he calls up his buddy Dutch Pelz, and they go on a stakeout, which culminates with Hopkins shooting the suspect. Hopkins asks Dutch to stay at the scene and file the paperwork so that he can take the suspects voluptuous girlfriend home and have sex with her, Hopkins tracks down Joanie Pratt through the classified ads at the victims apartment. Pratt is an actress who sells drugs and works as an escort to get by. She also hosts parties, and the victim was planning on attending one of the parties to research a book. Back at the station, Hopkins opens a letter that was sent to the victim and it is a poem written in blood, which refers to all the rest, making Hopkins think he is hunting a serial killer. He asks Dutch to get him all the files for unsolved murders of women in the past 15 years. When he returns home, he finds a note from his wife explaining that she has taken their daughter, Pratt phones Hopkins, and he goes over to her place to have sex. Hopkins goes to Haines apartment and discovers a wiretap which has captured Haines dealing drugs, in the process of canvassing feminist bookstores for leads, Hopkins visits one run by Kathleen McCarthy who agrees to accompany him to a party at Dutchs house. She reveals to Hopkins that a suitor has sent her flowers. Looking through her old yearbook, Hopkins is stunned to find a picture of Whitey, when Birdman turns up dead in a motel room, the wall is smeared with blood, and the motto from McCarthys high school is written in the stains. Hopkins returns to Whiteys apartment and surprises him as he comes home, Whitey claims Birdman is his snitch, but Hopkins knows that Whitey was running drugs and male prostitutes through Birdman. He puts a gun to Whiteys head and gets him to confess to raping McCarthy with Birdman in high school, Whitey offers information on police corruption to get off the hook
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Color of Night
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Color of Night is a 1994 American erotic mystery thriller film produced by Cinergi Pictures and released in the United States by Hollywood Pictures. Directed by Richard Rush, the film stars Bruce Willis and Jane March, the cast also features Ruben Blades, Lesley Ann Warren, Brad Dourif, Lance Henriksen, Kevin J. OConnor and Scott Bakula. It is one of two works by director Rush, the other being The Stunt Man 14 years before. Color of Night flopped at the box office and won a Golden Raspberry Award as the worst film of 1994, nonetheless, it became one of the 20 most-rented films in the United States home video market in 1995. Maxim magazine also singled the film out as having the Best Sex Scene in film history, Dr. Bill Capa, a New York City psychologist, falls into a deep depression after an unstable patient commits suicide in front of him by jumping from his office window. The sight of the body of his patient clad in a bright green dress causes Capa to suffer from psychosomatic color blindness. To restart his life, Capa travels to Los Angeles to stay with a friend, fellow therapist and best-selling author Dr. Bob Moore, but one night Moore is violently murdered in the office and Capa is plunged into the mystery of his friends death. Moore would gather his patients every Monday for a discussion of their problems, police detective Lt. Hector Martinez considers them, and possibly Capa, suspects in the murder. Capa continues to live in Moores house and begins an affair with Rose and he takes over Moores therapy group and learns of their pasts and obsessions, Clark suffers from severe obsessive compulsive disorder and insists on cleanliness and counting things. He also has a violent temper, and months earlier beat up his wife, sondra is a nymphomaniac and kleptomaniac. She stabbed her father with a knife and fork and her husband died of unnatural causes, the murder of his wife and daughter remains unsolved. Casey, the arrogant son of a man, paints sado-masochist works of art. He once burned down his fathers house, Richie is a 16-year old transwoman who also has social anxiety disorder, a stutter and a history of drug use. One of these patients is violently murdered, Capa also becomes the target of several attempts on his life. He discovers that all but one of his patients have been involved with Rose. This leads to a twist ending, Richie is really Rose, and they once had an actual brother named Richie who was molested by a child psychiatrist named Niedelmeyer. Richie committed suicide and, unable to cope with the loss, Dale — who was also one of Niedelmeyers victims — began abusing Rose until she actually became Richie. When Richie was arrested for possession, he was forced into therapy
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Secretary (2002 film)
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Secretary is a 2002 romantic comedy-drama film directed by Steven Shainberg and starring Maggie Gyllenhaal as Lee Holloway and James Spader as E. Edward Grey. The film is based on a story from Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill. Edward explains that its work and they dont use computers, however. Though at first Edward appears to be irritated by Lees typos and other innocuous mistakes. After he confronts her about her propensity for self-injury and commands that she never hurt herself again, Lee experiences a sexual and personal awakening, and she falls deeply in love. Edward, however, displays insecurity concerning his feelings for Lee, during this period of exploration with Edward, Lee has also been attempting to have a more conventional boyfriend in Peter, even engaging in lukewarm sex with him. After a sexual encounter in Edward Greys office, Grey fires Lee, after Lee is fired from her job, Peter proposes to Lee, who reluctantly agrees to marry him. However, while trying on her gown, she leaves. Edward, still uncertain about their relationship, tests Lee by commanding her to sit in his chair without moving her hands or feet until he returns. Hours pass, as family members and acquaintances individually visit Lee to alternately attempt to dissuade or encourage her while Edward watches from afar. Because of Lees refusal to leave the office, she has gained coverage from the media. After three days, Edward returns to the office and takes Lee to a room upstairs where he bathes, the pair marry and happily continue their dominant-submissive relationship. Lines of dialogue were changed, Lees statement, Im so stupid became a cry of Im your Secretary. Additionally, the ending of the story was changed to give a positive outcome to the relationship. The desire to have the office feel homemade and express Edwards interest in the growing of plants led Danger to juxtapose a natural decor in the office with a predominantly artificial outside world. Speaking of her choices, Danger compares the office with the rest of the locations, All the materials I used were natural, natural wood, bamboo. If I wasnt using natural materials, it was natural colors, I covered Lees house in plastic sheeting, and used artificial, manufactured colors. Although the interior sets were constructed, the filmmakers did face some location-related challenges
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Mission: Impossible
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Mission, Impossible is an American television series that was created and initially produced by Bruce Geller. It chronicles the missions of a team of government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force. In the first season, the team is led by Dan Briggs, played by Steven Hill, Jim Phelps, a hallmark of the series shows Briggs or Phelps receiving his instructions on a recording that then self-destructs, followed by the theme music composed by Lalo Schifrin. The series was filmed and financed by Desilu Productions, and aired on the CBS network from September 1966 to March 1973, the series was revived in 1988 for two seasons on ABC, retaining only Graves in the cast. It also inspired a series of motion pictures starring Tom Cruise. The series follows the exploits of the Impossible Missions Force, a team of secret agents used for covert missions against dictators, evil organizations. On occasion, the IMF also mounts unsanctioned, private missions on behalf of its members, the identities of the higher echelons of the organization that oversees the IMF are never revealed. In the 1980s revival, it is suggested the IMF is an independent agency of the United States government, the leader of the IMF is initially Dan Briggs, played by Steven Hill. As an Orthodox Jew, Hill had to leave on Fridays at 4 p. m. to be home before sundown and was not available until after dark the next day, Hill had other problems as well. Unable to come to terms with Hill, the producers re-shot the episode without him, as far as Hills religious requirements were concerned, line producer Joseph Gantman simply had not understood what had been agreed to. He told author Patrick J. White, If someone understands your problems and says he understands them, but if he doesnt care about your problems, then you begin to really resent him. Steven Hill may have exactly the same way. In theory, Briggs and Phelps are the only members of the IMF. Still, many also feature guest stars playing one-time additional agents who have special skills. His contract gave producers an option to have him render services for additional episodes, to fill the void left by Hills Sabbath absences, producers wound up using Landau for more episodes, always as a guest star. He eventually struck a deal to appear in all the first seasons remaining episodes, Landau contractually became a series regular in season two. As actors left the series time, others became regulars. Replacements often possessed the skills as their predecessors
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Desperate Housewives
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Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama and mystery series created by Marc Cherry, and produced by ABC Studios and Cherry Productions. It originally aired for eight seasons on ABC, from October 3,2004 to May 13,2012, executive producer Cherry served as showrunner. Other executive producers since the season included Bob Daily, George W. Perkins, John Pardee, Joey Murphy, David Grossman. The storyline covers 13 years of the womens lives over eight seasons, the series features an ensemble cast, headed by Teri Hatcher as Susan Mayer, Felicity Huffman as Lynette Scavo, Marcia Cross as Bree Van de Kamp, and Eva Longoria as Gabrielle Solis. Brenda Strong narrates the series as the late Mary Alice Young, appearing sporadically in flashbacks or dream sequences, Desperate Housewives was well received by viewers and critics alike. It won multiple Primetime Emmy, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards, from the 2004–05 through the 2008–09 television seasons, its first five seasons were rated amongst the top 10 most watched series. In 2012, it remained the most-watched comedy series based on data from Eurodata TV Worldwide. Moreover, it was the third-highest revenue earning series for 2010, the show placed #56 on Entertainment Weeklys New TV Classics list. In 2011, it was confirmed that Desperate Housewives would conclude after its eighth season, by the end of the series, it had surpassed Charmed as the longest running hour-long television series featuring all female leads by two episodes. The main mystery of the season is the suicide of Mary Alice Young. The second season premiered on September 25,2005, and its central mystery is that of new neighbor Betty Applewhite, Susans love life becomes even more complicated as her ex-husband Karl Mayer is engaged to Edie and is also started to incline towards Susan. Lynette goes back to her career in advertising while her husband Tom Scavo becomes a father, and Gabrielle decides to be faithful to Carlos. Paul is framed and sent to jail not for the murder he committed in the previous season, the third season premiered on September 24,2006. In the third season, Bree marries Orson Hodge, whose past, meanwhile, Lynette has to adjust to the arrival of Toms previously unknown daughter to the home. The Scavos also experience tension as Tom wants to start a pizzeria, Gabrielle goes through a rough divorce, but finally finds new love in Fairviews new mayor. After being run over by Orson in the season finale, Mike falls into coma. Edie sees her chance to make her move on Mike, Susan loses hope that Mikes memory will return and in the process moves on to a handsome Englishman whose wife is also in a coma, while her daughter Julie Mayer starts dating Edies nephew. Elderly neighbor Karen McCluskey hides something in her freezer, a shooting at the local grocery store leaves two characters dead and changes everyones lives forever
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Will & Grace
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Will & Grace is an American sitcom created by Max Mutchnick and David Kohan about the relationship between best friends Will Truman, a gay lawyer, and Grace Adler, a straight interior designer. It was broadcast on NBC from September 21,1998 to May 18,2006, during its original run, Will & Grace was one of the most successful television series with gay principal characters. Despite initial criticism for its portrayal of homosexual characters, it went on to become a staple of NBCs Must See TV Thursday night lineup and was met with continued critical acclaim. It was ensconced in the Nielsen top 20 for half of its network run, the show was the highest-rated sitcom among adults 18–49, from 2001 and 2005. Throughout its eight-year run, Will & Grace earned 16 Emmy Awards and 83 nominations, all four stars each received an Emmy Award throughout the series, making it one of only three sitcoms in the awards history to achieve this feat. In 2014 the Writers Guild of America placed the sitcom at number 94 in their list of the 101 Best Written TV series of all time. Since the final episode aired, the sitcom has been credited with helping and improving public opinion of the LGBT community, vice President Joe Biden commenting that the show probably did more to educate the American public on LGBT issues than almost anything anybody has ever done so far. In 2014 the Smithsonian Institution added an LGBT history collection to their museum which included items from Will, the curator Dwight Blocker Bowers stated that the sitcom used comedy to familiarize a mainstream audience with gay culture that was daring and broke ground in American media. When the set was removed in April 2014, rumours came up about a cast reunion and it was merely moved to Emersons new center in Los Angeles. A long-running legal battle between both the executive producers and creators and NBC took place between 2003 and 2007. All seasons of the series have released on DVD and the show has been broadcast in more than 60 countries. On September 26,2016, the cast reunited for a 10-minute special, after the success of the 10-minute reunion special, NBC announced that the network is exploring the idea of putting Will & Grace back into production. In January 2017, NBC confirmed the return, for a ten-episode ninth season. The episode order was increased to 12 on April 5,2017, will & Grace is set in New York City and focuses on the relationship between Will Truman, a gay lawyer, and his best friend Grace Adler, a Jewish woman who owns an interior design firm. Also featured are their friends Karen Walker, a socialite, and Jack McFarland. The interplay of relationships features the trials and tribulations of dating, marriage, divorce and casual sex, as well as comical key stereotypes of gay and he is very precise and obsessive when it comes to certain tasks, especially cleaning, dressing, and decorating. However, Will does have a patient and compassionate nature towards those close to him. Even though Will is gay, he not to be too overt
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In Plain Sight
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In Plain Sight is an American dramatic television series that premiered on the USA Network on June 1,2008. Shannon must find ways to balance her life of protecting witnesses, her professional relationship with her work partner, US Marshal Marshall Mann. The show was filmed on location in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on May 4,2012, In Plain Sight concluded with its fifth season. In Plain Sight was originally scheduled to premiere on Thursday, April 24,2008 and it instead made its debut on Sunday, June 1,2008. It was renewed on July 21,2008, for a season with a 16-episode run. According to USA executive Jeff Wachtel, the shift in producers also reflects the desire that the show remain upbeat rather than overly dark. In Plain Sight was renewed for a season of 16 episodes on August 2,2009. The season was reduced to 13 episodes when McNamara took a leave of absence for medical reasons. In a statement released exclusively to The Futon Critic, the producer of Universal Cable Productions said, given the unexpected change, we decided to end the season at a natural spot—with the surprising cliffhanger of episode 13. After the conclusion of season 3, USA Network ordered two seasons of In Plain Sight The fourth season premiered on May 1,2011. The fifth and final season began on March 16,2012, the series finale aired on May 4,2012. Jeff Beal composed the song for the series. W. G. Snuffy Walden composed the music for the first season, evan Frankfort, Liz Phair, and Marc Dauer composed the music for the remainder of the series. Mary Shannon, Mary is an officer, a nonconformist. To her witnesses, she is known as Mary Shepard, Mary has trust and abandonment issues that lead her to have difficulties with relationships due to a difficult childhood resulting from her fathers abandonment and her mothers alcoholism. During the fourth season, she has a stand with her ex-husband, Mark. Throughout her pregnancy, Mary is convinced that she wants to give the baby up for adoption, in the season four finale, Something Borrowed, Something Blew Up, she goes into premature labor. She names her daughter Norah Shannon, and shares custody with Mark, during the final season, she meets and begins a relationship with Kenny, a single dad
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Russian Jewish
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Jews in the Russian Empire have historically constituted a large religious diaspora, the vast territories of the Russian Empire at one time hosted the largest population of Jews in the world. The presence of Jewish people in the European part of Russia can be traced to the 7th–14th centuries CE, in the 11th and 12th centuries, the Jewish population in Kiev, in present-day Ukraine, was restricted to a separate quarter. Evidence of the presence of Jewish people in Muscovite Russia is first documented in the chronicles of 1471, during the reign of Catherine II in the 18th century, Jewish people were restricted to the Pale of Settlement within Russia, the territory where they could live or immigrate to. Beginning in the 1880s, waves of pogroms swept across different regions of the empire for several decades. More than two million Jews fled Russia between 1880 and 1920, mostly to the United States, before 1917 there were 300,000 Zionists in Russia, while the main Jewish socialist organization, the Bund, had 33,000 members. Only 958 Jews had joined the Bolshevik Party before 1917, thousands joined after the Revolution, the chaotic years of World War I, the February and October Revolutions, and the Russian Civil War had created social disruption that led to anti-Semitism. Some 150,000 Jews were killed in the pogroms of 1918–1922,125,000 of them in Ukraine,25,000 in Belarus and these were probably the largest-scale European massacres of Jews to date. The pogroms were perpetrated by anti-communist forces, sometimes, Red Army units engaged in pogroms as well. After a short period of confusion, the Soviets started executing guilty individuals, the Russian Civil War pogroms shocked world Jewry and rallied many Jews to the Red Army and the Soviet regime, and also strengthened the desire for the creation of a homeland for the Jewish people. In August 1919 the Soviet government arrested many rabbis, seized Jewish properties, including synagogues, the Jewish section of the Communist Party labeled the use of the Hebrew language reactionary and elitist and the teaching of Hebrew was banned. Zionists were persecuted harshly, with Jewish communists leading the attacks, following the civil war, however, the new Bolshevik governments policies produced a flourishing of secular Jewish culture in Belarus and western Ukraine in the 1920s. At the beginning of the 1930s, the Jews were 1.8 percent of the Soviet population, in 1934 the Soviet state established the Jewish Autonomous Oblast in the Russian Far East, but the region never came to have a majority Jewish population. Today, the JAO is Russias only autonomous oblast and, aside of Israel, the observance of the Sabbath was banned in 1929, foreshadowing the dissolution of the Communist Partys Yiddish-language Yevsektsia in 1930 and worse repression to come. Numerous Jews were victimized in Stalins purges as counterrevolutionaries and reactionary nationalists, the share of Jews in the Soviet ruling elite declined during the 1930s, but was still more than double their proportion in the general Soviet population. According to Israeli historian Benjamin Pinkus, We can say that the Jews in the Soviet Union took over the privileged position, in the 1930s, many Jews held high rank in the Red Army High Command, Generals Iona Yakir, Yan Gamarnik, Yakov Smushkevich and Grigori Shtern. During World War Two, an estimated 500,000 soldiers in the Red Army were Jewish, about 160,000 were decorated, and more than a hundred achieved the rank of Red Army general. Over 150 were designated Heroes of the Soviet Union, the highest award in the country, more than two million Soviet Jews are believed to have died during the Holocaust in warfare and in Nazi-occupied territories. For many years during this period, Russia had a rate of immigration to Israel than any other country
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Actors Studio
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The Actors Studio is a membership organization for professional actors, theatre directors and playwrights at 432 West 44th Street in the Hells Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded October 5,1947, by Elia Kazan, [[Cheryl Crawford, lee Strasberg joined later and took the helm in 1951 until his death on February 17,1982. It is currently run by Al Pacino, Ellen Burstyn, the Studio is best known for its work refining and teaching method acting. The approach was developed by the Group Theatre in the 1930s based on the innovations of Konstantin Stanislavski. While at the Studio, actors work together to develop their skills in an environment where they can take risks as performers without the pressure of commercial roles. After an initial meeting held on October 5,1947, at the Labor Stage, before settling in its current location in 1955, the Studio moved regularly over an eight-year period, In January 1948, it was a dance studio on East 59th Street. In April of that year, a move to the CBS Building at 1697 Broadway, near 53rd Street, established some semblance of stability and this it did at the Malin Studios at 1545 Broadway, room 610. This arrangement would persist throughout the 1954-1955 theatrical season, even as the Studio was acquiring and renovating its current venue, in 1955 it moved to its current location in the former Seventh Associate Presbyterian Church, built in 1859. From September 1994 through May 2005, the Studio collaborated with The New School in the education of masters-level theatre students at the Actors Studio Drama School, after ending its contact with the New School, the Actors Studio established The Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University in 2006. ISBN 0-02-542650-8 Foster Hirsch, A Method to their Madness, The History of the Actors Studio, New York, WW Norton & Co Inc,1984. ISBN 0-393-01783-4 Shelly Frome, The Actors Studio, a History, david Garfield research files on the Actors Studio, 1947-2003, held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
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110 in the Shade
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110 in the Shade is a musical with a book by N. Richard Nash, lyrics by Tom Jones, and music by Harvey Schmidt. Nashs book is faithful to his play, although all the interior scenes were moved outdoors to allow for the addition of townspeople for ensemble numbers. Many of Jones lyrics come directly from Nashs play, following the success of The Fantasticks, the project was the composing teams first for Broadway. After two previews, the production, directed by Joseph Anthony and choreographed by Agnes de Mille, opened on October 24,1963, at the Broadhurst Theatre, where it ran for 330 performances. The cast included Robert Horton as Starbuck, Inga Swenson as Lizzie, and Stephen Douglass as File, with Will Geer, Lesley Ann Warren, the sets were by Oliver Smith and costumes by Motley. The show received four Tony Award nominations but won none, RCA Victor released an original Broadway cast recording of this production on November 3,1963, one recording in stereo, one in mono. Both recordings were identical, each having 16 tracks, RCA Victor also released the recording on Compact Disc on June 12,1990, with one track--Overture not heard on the previous LP recordings. A1992 New York City Opera production, directed by Scott Ellis and choreographed by Susan Stroman, the score was heard to particular advantage here, as the opera company orchestra was appreciably larger than the conventional Broadway pit orchestra. A 2-CD studio recording released by Jay Records on October 21,1997, features Ziemba, Walter Charles, Ron Raines, Kristin Chenoweth, the recording was based on the 1992 New York City Opera production, and includes five bonus tracks from the New York City Opera production. In 1999, a version was staged at the Fortune Theatre in London by Ian Marshall Fisher for the Discovering Lost Musicals Charitable Trust. For this production only a piano accompaniment was used, and the cast was unmiked. The Roundabout Theater Company presented a new production of the show, which opened on May 9,2007, at Studio 54, the production team was headed by director Lonny Price and designer Santo Loquasto. The cast featured Audra McDonald as Lizzie, Steve Kazee as Bill Starbuck, McDonald won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical and was nominated for a Tony Award for her performance. The revival also garnered four additional Tony nominations, but failed to win any, in June 2010, McDonald reprised her Tony-nominated role in a two-week fundraising production of the show for the Hale Center Theater in Orem, Utah. A recording of this production was released on June 12,2007 and it drops the Overture but adds two tracks of dialogue. Elsewhere in town, on the ranch of widower H. C, Curry, the air is also charged with anticipation, due to the imminent arrival of H. C. s daughter, whos been off visiting friends of the family in. The trip was designed to find Lizzie a husband, but to no avail, as at home, her intelligence, sharp wit, and insecurities proved her undoing. H. C. and his sons, Jim and Noah, hatch a plan to invite Sheriff File to the picnic lunch
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Drat! The Cat!
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The Cat. is a musical with a book and lyrics by Ira Levin and music by Milton Schafer. Frustrated by the standing in her way, she becomes a cat burglar. After 11 previews, the Broadway production, directed and choreographed by Joe Layton, opened on October 10,1965 at the Martin Beck Theatre, the cast included Lesley Ann Warren, Elliott Gould, Charles Durning, Jane Connell, and Beth Howland. Conductor Herbert Grossman served as Music Director and Clare Grundman wrote the orchestra score, Warren won the Theatre World Award for her performance, and the show was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Scenic Design. Long after the closed, Blue Pear issued an original cast album from a recording surreptitiously made during a live performance. Goulds wife at the time, Barbra Streisand, had a hit with her recording of a version of one of the shows tunes, He Touched Me. On the B-side of that single, Streisand also recorded, I Like Him, in 1997, Varèse Sarabande released a studio recording featuring Susan Egan, Jason Graae, Judy Kaye, Bryan Batt, Jonathan Freeman, and Elaine Stritch. The recording was produced by Bruce Kimmel, internet Broadway Database listing The Guide to Musical Theatre
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Scarlett O'Hara
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Katie Scarlett OHara is a fictional character and the main protagonist in Margaret Mitchells 1936 novel Gone with the Wind and in the later film of the same name. During early drafts of the novel, Mitchell referred to her heroine as Pansy. OHara is the oldest living child of Gerald and Ellen OHara and she was born in 1845 on her familys plantation Tara in Georgia. She was named Katie Scarlett, after her fathers mother, but is always called Scarlett, except by her father and she is from a Catholic family of Irish and French ancestry, and a descendent of an aristocratic Savannah family on her mothers side. OHara has black hair, green eyes, and pale skin and she is famous for her fashionably small waist. Scarlett has two sisters, Susan Elinor OHara and Caroline Irene OHara, and three little brothers who died in infancy. Her baby brothers are buried in the burying ground at Tara. When the novel opens, Scarlett is sixteen and she is vain, self-centered, and very spoiled by her wealthy parents. She can also be insecure, but is intelligent, despite her fashionable Southern-belle pretense at ignorance. She is somewhat unusual among Southern women, whom society preferred to act as dainty creatures who needed protection from their men, Scarlett is aware that she is only acting empty-headed, and resents the fashionable necessity of it, unlike most of her typical party-going Southern belles social set. Outwardly, Scarlett is the picture of southern charm and womanly virtues, the one man she truly wants, however, is her neighbor, Ashley Wilkes – the one man she cant have. The Wilkes family has a tradition of intermarrying with their cousins, Scarletts motivation in the early part of the novel centers on her desire to win Ashleys heart. When he refuses her advances, she takes refuge in childish rage, Rhett Butler, a wealthy older bachelor and a society pariah, overhears Scarlett express her love to Ashley during a barbecue at Twelve Oaks, the Wilkes estate. Rhett admires Scarletts willfulness and her departure from accepted propriety as well as her beauty and he pursues Scarlett, but is aware of her impetuousness, childish spite, and her fixation on Ashley. He assists Scarlett in defiance of proper Victorian mourning customs when her husband, Charles Hamilton, dies in a training camp, Scarlett, privately chafing from the strict rules of polite society, finds friendship with Rhett liberating. The Civil War sweeps away the lifestyle for which Scarlett was raised, Scarlett, left destitute after Shermans army marches through Georgia, becomes the sole source of strength for her family. Her character begins to harden as her relatives, the family servants, Scarlett becomes money-conscious and more materialistic in her motivation to ensure that her family survives and Tara stays in her family, while other Georgia planters are losing their homes. Her conduct results in the death of her second husband, Frank Kennedy
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Scarlett (musical)
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Scarlett is a 1970 musical with a score by Harold Rome. The original 1966 Japanese book is by Kazuo Kikuta, and the English version of the book is by Horton Foote, the Tokyo production was directed by American director/choreographer Joe Layton, who later directed a production in the London West End. London producer Harold Fielding cancelled his plans for a 1974 Broadway production, in 1966, a nine-hour play based on Gone with the Wind opened at the Tokyo Imperial Theatre. This production was successful, and Kazuo Kikuta and the Toho Company decided to produce a musical version of Gone with the Wind at the same theatre. The original Tokyo production was presented in two parts - each for 6 months - and each ran four hours long, the production opened in January 1970 with the title Scarlett. The show underwent severe trimming when it was translated into English, reduced to one part and it had a new book adapted by Horton Foote and was rechristened Gone with the Wind. Still, Fielding was encouraged enough to schedule a Broadway opening for April 7,1974, the strongly negative reviews prompted Layton to make numerous changes throughout the Los Angeles and subsequent San Francisco runs, but Fielding cancelled his plan to move the show to Broadway. In 1976, Lucia Victor staged a production in Dallas that travelled to three cities, but that was the last time the musical was produced. Note, The score was cut and revised during the Los Angeles & San Francisco runs Mandelbaum. Not Since Carrie, Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops New York, St. Martins Press
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Stuart Damon
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Stuart Damon is an American actor. He is known for thirty years of portraying the character Dr. Alan Quartermaine on the American soap opera General Hospital, outside the USA, he is better known for the role of Craig Stirling in The Champions. Damon was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Marvin Leonard Zonis and his parents were Russian Jewish immigrants, making their home in America after fleeing the Bolshevik Revolution. Damon has been married since 1961 to Deirdre Ann Ottewill and they have two children, Jennifer and Christopher, and adopted their grandson, Alexander, in 2000. The very same year, he had a prominent featured role in the Broadway musical Do I Hear a Waltz, written by Richard Rodgers and Stephen Sondheim. He had earlier appeared in an Off-Broadway revival of The Boys From Syracuse with music by Rodgers, Damon is prominently featured on the cast albums of these musicals, as well as the 1960 hit Irma La Douce. He also partnered with Roger Moore in an episode of The Saint which has been credited as an inspiration for the later series The Persuaders, with Damons role being played by Tony Curtis. In 1968 he appeared in the BBC TV adaptation of The £1,000,000 Bank Note, Damon also played magician Harry Houdini in a lavishly staged London musical, Man of Magic. In the 1970s, he was cast alongside Gene Barry and Catherine Schell in the series The Adventurer, Damon has since spoken candidly about the fact that Barry did not want him in the series because of his height. At over six feet, he towered over the relatively short Barry, in 1977, he began his most famous American role, that of Dr. Alan Quartermaine, Sr. on General Hospital. He also repeated the role on the short-lived GH spin-off Port Charles, in 1999, Damon won the Best Supporting Actor Emmy, for his portrayal of Alan, a physician, addicted to the painkiller hydrocodone. In 2005, Damon was reunited with Alexandra Bastedo and William Gaunt for the first time in almost 40 years, the reason behind his release was not made public. The taping of the scene occurred on February 5, coincidentally Damons 70th birthday. The timing leaves me very discouraged about the way soaps are going, the disregard for history. Despite the death of the character, Damon had remained on the show, playing the ghost of Alan Quartermaine and he remained with the show until December 23,2008, when Alan appeared to Monica on Christmas to tell her that he loved her. On September 18,2009, Damon began appearing on As the World Turns as Janet and Teri Ciccones Uncle Ralph Manzo and he left the series on October 30,2009, but returned for three episodes between August 23,2010 and August 25,2010. During March 19–25,2010, Damon played the role of Governor Jim Ford on Days of Our Lives, Damon returned to General Hospital for two episodes on August 26,2011 and August 29,2011 in which Alan appears in a fantasy sequence of Monicas. He returned again in November 2012 as a ghost when son AJ was announced to be alive and he appeared again as a ghost along with Rick Webber and Emily Quartermaine for the shows 50th anniversary episode which aired April 2,2013
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The Sound of Music (film)
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The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film produced and directed by Robert Wise, and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. The film is an adaptation of the 1959 Broadway musical The Sound of Music, the films screenplay was written by Ernest Lehman, adapted from the stage musicals book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. The film was released on March 2,1965 in the United States, although critical response to the film was widely mixed, the film was a major commercial success, becoming the number one box office movie after four weeks, and the highest-grossing film of 1965. By November 1966, The Sound of Music had become the film of all-time—surpassing Gone with the Wind—and held that distinction for five years. The film was just as throughout the world, breaking previous box-office records in twenty-nine countries. The Sound of Music received five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, in 1998, the American Film Institute listed The Sound of Music as the fifty-fifth greatest American movie of all time, and the fourth greatest movie musical. In 2001, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry, finding it culturally, historically, Maria is a free-spirited young Austrian woman studying to become a nun at Nonnberg Abbey in Salzburg in 1938. Her love of music and the mountains, her enthusiasm and imagination. The Captain has been raising his children alone using strict military discipline following the death of his first wife, although the children misbehave at first, Maria responds with kindness and patience, and soon the children come to trust and respect her. While the Captain is away in Vienna, Maria makes play clothes for the children and takes them around Salzburg and the surrounding mountains, and she teaches them how to sing. Displeased by his childrens clothes and activities, and Marias impassioned appeal that he get closer to his children, just then he hears singing coming from inside the house and is astonished to see his children singing for the Baroness. Filled with emotion, the Captain joins his children, singing for the first time in years, afterwards, he apologizes to Maria and asks her to stay. He does agree, however, to organize a party at the villa. The night of the party, while guests in formal attire waltz in the ballroom, Maria, when the Captain notices Maria teaching Kurt the traditional Ländler folk dance, he cuts in and partners with Maria in a graceful performance, culminating in a close embrace. Confused about her feelings, Maria blushes and breaks away, later, the Baroness, who noticed the Captains attraction to Maria, hides her jealousy while convincing Maria that she must return to the abbey. Back at the abbey, when Mother Abbess learns that Maria has stayed in seclusion to avoid her feelings for the Captain, after Maria returns to the villa, she learns about the Captains engagement to the Baroness and agrees to stay until they find a replacement governess. The Captains feelings for Maria, however, have not changed, while they are on their honeymoon, Max enters the children in the Salzburg Festival against their fathers wishes. Strongly opposed to the Nazis and the Anschluss, the Captain tells his family they must leave Austria immediately and that night, as the von Trapp family attempt to leave, they are stopped by a group of Brownshirts waiting outside the villa
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Rodgers and Hammerstein
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Rodgers and Hammerstein refers to an influential, innovative and successful American musical theatre writing team consisting of composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist-dramatist Oscar Hammerstein II. They created a string of popular Broadway musicals in the 1940s and 1950s, five of their Broadway shows, Oklahoma. Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I and The Sound of Music, were outstanding successes, of the other four that the team produced on Broadway during their lifetimes, Flower Drum Song was well-received, and none was an outright flop. Most of their shows have received frequent revivals around the world, among the many accolades their shows garnered were thirty-four Tony Awards, fifteen Academy Awards, the Pulitzer Prize, and two Grammy Awards. Their musical theatre writing partnership has been called the greatest of the 20th century, prior to their partnership, both Rodgers and Hammerstein achieved success independently. Rodgers had collaborated for more than two decades with Lorenz Hart, among their many Broadway hits were the shows A Connecticut Yankee, Babes in Arms, The Boys from Syracuse, Pal Joey, and By Jupiter, as well as many successful film projects. Their 1927 musical Show Boat is considered to be one of the masterpieces of the American musical theatre, other Hammerstein/Kern collaborations include Sweet Adeline and Very Warm for May. Although the last of these was panned by critics, it one of Kern and Hammersteins best-loved songs. By the early 1940s, Hart had sunk deeper into alcoholism and emotional turmoil, independently of each other, Rodgers and Hammerstein had been attracted to making a musical based on Lynn Riggs stage play Green Grow the Lilacs. When Jerome Kern declined Hammersteins offer to work on such a project and Hart refused Rodgers offer to do the same, Rodgers, marked a revolution in musical drama. Although not the first musical to tell a story of emotional depth and psychological complexity, introduced a number of new storytelling elements and techniques. These included its use of song and dance to convey plot and character rather than act as a diversion from the story, was originally called Away We Go. and opened at the Shubert Theatre in New Haven in March 1943. Only a few changes were made before it opened on Broadway, the original Broadway production opened on March 31,1943, at the St. James Theatre. Although the typical musical of the time was written around the talents of a specific performer, such as Ethel Merman or Fred Astaire. Ultimately the original cast included Alfred Drake, Joan Roberts, Celeste Holm, Howard Da Silva, Betty Garde, Lee Dixon, marc Platt danced the role of Dream Curly, and Katharine Sergava danced the part of Dream Laurey. The story and the songs were considered more important than sheer star power, nevertheless, the production ran for a then-unprecedented 2,212 performances, finally closing on May 29,1948. In 1955 it was made into an Academy Award-winning musical film, the film starred Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones, and its soundtrack was #1 on the 1956 album charts. After their initial success with Oklahoma, the musical was adapted to the screen in 1954, and scored a Best Actress Oscar nomination for leading lady Dorothy Dandridge
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Cinderella (musical)
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Rodgers and Hammersteins Cinderella is a musical written for television, with music by Richard Rodgers and a book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. It is based upon the fairy tale Cinderella, particularly the French version Cendrillon, ou la Petite Pantoufle de Verre, the story concerns a young woman forced into a life of servitude by her cruel stepmother and self-centered stepsisters, who dreams of a better life. With the help of her Fairy Godmother, Cinderella is transformed into a Princess, Cinderella is the only Rodgers and Hammerstein musical written for television. It was originally broadcast live on CBS on March 31,1957 as a vehicle for Julie Andrews, the broadcast was viewed by more than 100 million people. It was subsequently remade for television twice, in 1965 and 1997, the 1965 version starred Lesley Ann Warren, and the 1997 one starred Brandy Norwood in the title role. Both remakes add songs from other Richard Rodgers musicals, a 2013 adaptation starring Laura Osnes and Santino Fontana, with a new book by Douglas Carter Beane, opened in 2013 on Broadway. In the 1950s, television adaptations of musicals were fairly common, broadcast versions of Annie Get Your Gun, Wonderful Town, Anything Goes and Kiss Me, Kate were all seen during the decade. In 1955, NBC had broadcast the Broadway musical Peter Pan and it was a hit, and the network looked for more family-oriented musical projects. Richard Rodgers had previously supplied the Emmy Award-winning score for Victory at Sea, NBC approached Rodgers and Hammerstein and asked them to write an original musical expressly for television, then a novel idea. The team decided to adapt the fairy tale Cinderella and, new to television, they sought the advice of an industry insider, Lewine was then the Vice President in charge of color television at CBS. He told Rodgers and Hammerstein that CBS was also seeking a project and had already signed Julie Andrews. Rodgers recalled, in his autobiography, What sold us immediately was the chance to work with Julie, Rodgers and Hammerstein signed with CBS. CBS announced the production on September 5,1956, in adapting the famous fairy tale, Rodgers and Hammerstein stayed faithful to the original Charles Perrault version. Hammerstein was interviewed by the Saturday Review about the adaptation, We want the kids who see it to recognize the story they know, children can be very critical on that score. But, of course, their parents will be watching too, the musical had to fit into the 90-minute program with six commercial breaks, so it was divided into six short acts. In an interview with Time Magazine, Hammerstein said that It took me seven months to write the book, rehearsals started on February 21,1957. Emmy Award-winning director Ralph Nelson and choreographer Jonathan Lucas, who had choreographed for The Milton Berle Show, were experienced with musical material on television. Rodgers friend, Robert Russell Bennett, provided the orchestrations, alfredo Antonini, a veteran with CBS, conducted
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The Muppet Show
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The Muppet Show is a family-oriented comedy-variety television series that was produced by puppeteer Jim Henson and features The Muppets. The programmes were recorded at ATVs Elstree Studios in Borehamwood, England, the series shows a vaudeville or music hall-style song-and-dance variety show, as well as glimpses behind the scenes of such a show. Kermit the Frog stars as a showrunner who tries to control of the antics of the other Muppet characters. The show was known for physical slapstick, sometimes absurdist comedy. Each episode also featured a human guest star, as the shows popularity rose, many celebrities were eager to perform with the Muppets on television and in film. Many of the puppeteers also worked on Sesame Street, Jerry Juhl and Jack Burns were two of the show writers. The music was performed by Jack Parnell and his orchestra, since 1969, Sesame Street had given Jim Hensons Muppet creations exposure, however, Henson began to perceive that he was pigeonholed as a childrens entertainer. He sought to create a programme that could be enjoyed by young, Two specials were produced and aired on ABC that are considered pilots for The Muppet Show. Neither led to the sale of a network series. However, the prime-time access rule had just been enacted, which took the 7,30 to 8 pm ET slot from the networks and turned it over to their affiliates. CBS suggested it would be interested in Hensons proposal as a series it could purchase for its owned-and-operated stations. According to the pitch reel, Rowan & Martins Laugh-In co-creator George Schlatter was originally going to be involved. Henson put aside his misgivings about syndication and accepted, the Muppet Show Theme is the shows theme song. It is the opening and closing theme for episode of The Muppet Show and was performed by The Muppets in a scene of The Muppets. Each episode ended with an instrumental performance of The Muppet Show Theme by the Muppet orchestra before Statler. Some last laugh sequences featured other Muppets on the balcony, for example, in one episode, the Muppets of Sesame Street appeared behind the duo who told them, How should we know how to get to Sesame Street. We dont even know how to get out of this stupid theater box, every series, the TV version of the song was presented with re-worked lyrics. While the opening sequence evolved visually over the course of the five series
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Lois Lane
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Lois Lane is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, she first appeared in Action Comics #1, Lois is a reporter for the Metropolis newspaper, the Daily Planet, an award-winning journalist and the primary love interest of Superman. Her physical appearance was based on Joanne Carter, a model hired by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. For her character, Siegel was inspired by actress Glenda Farrell, Siegel took her name from actress Lola Lane. She was also influenced by the real-life journalist Nellie Bly, depictions of the character have varied spanning the comics and other media adaptations. The original Golden Age version of Lois Lane, as well as versions of her from the 1970s onwards, portrays Lois as a tough-as-nails journalist and intellectually equal to Superman. During the Silver Age of Comics, she was the star of Supermans Girl Friend, Lois Lane, beginning in 2015, she stars as the protagonist in the young adult novel series, Lois Lane, by writer Gwenda Bond. Lois is among the female comic book characters. She has appeared in various Superman media adaptations, Actress Noel Neill first portrayed Lois Lane in the 1940s Superman film series and late reprise her role in the 1950s television series Adventures of Superman. Margot Kidder played the character in four Superman films in the 1970s and 80s, Teri Hatcher portrayed her in the 1990s television series Lois & Clark, The New Adventures of Superman and Erica Durance in the 00s series, Smallville. In the 2006 film Superman Returns, she was played by Kate Bosworth, the character was most recently portrayed by actress Amy Adams in the films Man of Steel and Batman v Superman, Dawn of Justice. Lois Lane was one of the first female comic book characters introduced in the superhero comics, Lois is the daughter of Ella and Sam Lane. In earlier comics, her parents were farmers in a town called Pittsdale and she has one younger sibling, her sister Lucy Lane. Lois is a journalist for the Daily Planet, one of the best investigative reporters, in some stories, she has been shown obtaining superpowers and becoming a superhero. Some of her superhero identities are Superwoman and Red Tornado of Earth 2, aspects of Lois personality have varied over the years, depending on the comic book writers handling of the character and American social attitudes toward women at the time. In most incarnations, Lois has been depicted as a smart, determined, strong-willed and her physical appearance has varied over the years, depending either on contemporary fashion, or media adaptations. Traditionally in the comics, the character has shown with black hair, however, from the late 1980s through the 90s. In other media, shes been shown with blonde hair on the television series Smallville
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It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman
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Its Superman is a musical with music by Charles Strouse and lyrics by Lee Adams, with a book by David Newman and Robert Benton. It is based on the book character Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. The musical opened on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre on March 29,1966. Directed by Harold Prince with choreography by Ernest Flatt, it starred Bob Holiday as Clark Kent and Superman, Patricia Marand as Lois Lane, Jack Cassidy as Max Mencken, and Linda Lavin as Sydney. The production received positive reviews, but it failed to catch on with the theater-going public. The musical received three Tony Award nominations, for Best Actor in a Musical, Best Featured Actor in a Musical, one of the songs from the score, Youve Got Possibilities, had some success outside the show as a nightclub and cabaret standard. Two revivals were staged the next year. Both the St. Louis Municipal Opera and the Kansas City Starlight Theatre re-staged the show, each was an open-air venue, requiring the use of a large crane to facilitate Supermans flights. Other well-known names in two productions were Karen Morrow as Sydney and Charles Nelson Reilly as Dr. Sedgwick. The show was produced at the Goodspeed Opera House, East Haddam, Connecticut, from June through July 3 of 1992, with Gary Jackson, Jamie Ross, Veanne Cox. On May 14,2007, the Reprise, marvelous Musical Mondays program in Los Angeles presented a concert version of the musical. Others in the cast included Lea DeLaria as Dr. Sedgwick, Shoshana Bean as Sydney, Bob Holiday, the original Broadway Superman, attended the June 16 matinee. The new book for the show was written by playwright and comic book writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Strouse acquiesced, and Moriarty hired Aguirre-Sacasa, a lifelong fan of the musical. Aguirre-Sacasa moved the setting to 1939, and made the shows primary focus the love triangle between Clark Kent, Lois Lane, and Superman. A staged production took place as part of New York City Centers Encores, cast included Edward Watts as Superman and Will Swenson as Max Mencken, with Jenny Powers playing Lois Lane. Ms. Powers had played Sydney Sharp in the 2010 Dallas revival, on March 23, Bob Holiday, who originated the role of Superman on Broadway, attended the show and met with the cast. The shows long-awaited UK Premiere was played in London in March 2014 at Ye Olde Rose, after tremendous reviews, the show transferred to the Leicester Square Theatre in the West End. In September 2016 there will be the first production in the German language in Braunschweig, the OnStage - school of musical is producing the German Premiere at the Brunsviga
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Superman (1978 film)
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Superman is a 1978 superhero film directed by Richard Donner and based on the DC Comics character of the same name. The film is a British, Swiss, Panamanian and American joint venture, Film Export A. G. Dovemead Limited and International Film Productions. Superman stars Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Glenn Ford, Phyllis Thaxter, Jackie Cooper, Trevor Howard, Marc McClure, Terence Stamp, Valerie Perrine, and Ned Beatty. The film depicts Supermans origin, including his infancy as Kal-El of Krypton, Disguised as reporter Clark Kent, he adopts a mild-mannered disposition in Metropolis and develops a romance with Lois Lane, while battling the villainous Lex Luthor. Several directors, most notably Guy Hamilton, and screenwriters, were associated with the project before Richard Donner was hired to direct, Tom Mankiewicz was drafted in to rewrite the script and was given a creative consultant credit. It was decided to film both Superman and its sequel Superman II simultaneously, with principal photography beginning in March 1977 and ending in October 1978. Tensions arose between Donner and the producers, and a decision was made to stop filming the sequel, of which 75 percent had already been completed, and finish the first film. It was nominated for three Academy Awards, including Best Film Editing, Best Music, and Best Sound Mixing, groundbreaking in its use of special effects and science fiction/fantasy storytelling, the films legacy presaged the mainstream popularity of Hollywoods superhero film franchises. On the planet Krypton, using evidence provided by scientist Jor-El, the Council sentences attempted insurrectionists General Zod, Ursa, for this, Zod swears revenge on Jor-El and his family. Jor-El, despite his eminence, is unable to convince the Council that Krypton will soon be destroyed when its red supergiant sun goes supernova. To save his infant son, Kal-El, Jor-El launches a spacecraft containing him toward Earth, shortly after the launch, Kryptons sun explodes, destroying the planet. The ship crash lands on Earth near Smallville, Kansas, Kal-El, who is now three years old, is found by Jonathan and Martha Kent, who are astonished when he is able to lift their truck. They take him to their farm and raise him as their own, at 18, soon after Jonathans death due to a heart attack, Clark hears a psychic call and discovers a glowing crystal in the remains of his spacecraft. It compels him to travel to the Arctic, where the crystal builds the Fortress of Solitude, inside, a holographic vision of Jor-El appears and explains Clarks origins, educating him on his powers and responsibilities. He meets and develops a romantic attraction to co-worker Lois Lane. Clark also rescues Air Force One after a strike destroys the port outboard engine. He visits Lois at her home the night and takes her for a flight over the city. Meanwhile, criminal genius Lex Luthor has developed a plan to make a fortune in real estate by buying large amounts of barren desert land, after learning that the U. S Army and U. S
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Margot Kidder
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Margaret Ruth Margot Kidder is a Canadian American actress and activist. She rose to fame in 1978 for her role as Lois Lane in Superman, opposite Christopher Reeve, Kidder began her career in the 1960s appearing in low-budget Canadian films and television series, before landing a lead role in Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx. She then appeared playing Siamese twins in Brian De Palmas cult thriller Sisters, in the slasher film Black Christmas, and her performance as Kathy Lutz in the blockbuster horror film The Amityville Horror gained her further mainstream exposure. After a highly publicized manic episode and nervous breakdown in 1996, by the 2000s, however, she had maintained steady work in independent films as well as television, with guest-starring roles on Smallville, Brothers & Sisters, and The L Word. In 2015, she won an Emmy Award for her performance on the television series R. L. Stines The Haunting Hour. She has also acted in productions, most notably appearing on Broadway in a 2002 production of The Vagina Monologues. In 2005, Kidder became a naturalized U. S. citizen and she is an outspoken political, environmental, and anti-war activist. She has also advocated the use of medicine, which she credits as having helped treat her bipolar disorder. Kidder, one of five children, was born in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, the daughter of Jocelyn Mary Jill, a teacher, and Kendall Kidder. Kidder also spent time growing up in Labrador City, Newfoundland and her mother was from British Columbia, Canada, and her father was from New Mexico, United States. She is of Welsh and English descent, Kidder was born in Yellowknife because of her fathers job, which required the family to live in remote locations. Her father was manager of the Yellowknife Telephone Company from 1948 to 1951, Kidder recalled her childhood in northern Canada, saying, We didnt have movies in this little mining town. When I was 12 my mom took me to New York and I saw Bye Bye Birdie, with singing and dancing. I knew I had to go far away, I was clueless, but I okay. Kidder attended multiple schools in her youth, and graduated from Havergal College and she has a sister, Annie, and three brothers, John, Michael and Peter. Kidders niece, Janet Kidder, is also an actress, Kidder made her film debut in a 49-minute film titled The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar, a drama set in a Canadian logging community, which was produced by the Challenge for Change. Her first major feature was the 1969 American film Gaily, Gaily, during the 1971–72 season, she co-starred as barmaid Ruth in Nichols, a James Garner western, which aired 22 episodes on NBC. In the late 1960s, Kidder was based in Toronto, and in 1970, during an August 3,1970 interview on The Dick Cavett Show, Kidder stated that she was ambivalent toward having a film career, and was considering working as a film editor in the future
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Ken Wahl
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Ken Wahl is an American film and television actor, popular in the 1980s and 1990s, best known for the CBS television crime drama Wiseguy. A severe injury in 1992 effectively ended his acting career and he is divorced from Corinne Alphen, and after a brief second marriage, he married Shane Barbi, in 1997. The two later became advocates against animal abuse and for veterans rights, Wahl himself is elusive about his personal life. Entertainment Weekly wrote in 2004, The mystery surrounding Wahl goes all the way back to the beginning, Ken Wahl was born in Chicago on. Well, no one knows when Wahl was born. Some reports say Halloween 1954, others say Valentines Day 1956, theres a reason for that, Wahl states cryptically, but Im not gonna get into why. Oh, one thing, Ken Wahl is not actually Ken Wahl. At least he wasnt when he was born, while he declines to disclose his birth name, he does say that the moniker hes gone by for the past 25 years is the name of the person who saved his fathers life in the Korean War. According to his biography, he was born in a tiny apartment on the south side of Chicago, in the late fifties. In the late 1960s, it continues, his family of 8 moved to the New York City borough of The Bronx and his official biography says he then worked as a janitor while in high school and as a gas-station attendant at his familys service station. After either graduating from Midlothians Bremen High in 1975 he left home, his bio says, at the age of 18. in his ‘69 Dodge Dart, eventually living in Los Angeles, he worked as an extra on movies including The Buddy Holly Story. By 1981, Wahls father had remarried, and, in-between acting jobs, Wahl first gained recognition in 1979 when he was cast in the leading role of director Philip Kaufmans film The Wanderers. He was subsequently cast opposite Paul Newman in Fort Apache, The Bronx, in 1984, he then suffered another motorcycle crash, while on his way to meet with Diane Keaton about the role that eventually went to Mel Gibson in the film Mrs. Soffel. Not wearing a helmet, Wahl was injured enough to require 89 stitches in his scalp. Wahl said the following year, The feature market dried up for me, when Wiseguy came along I was hesitant to do it, but I thought the quality was good. I had to make a living, so I decided to do it, I didnt have to audition or anything. The show ran until 1990 and brought Wahl a Golden Globe Award, Wahl wrote an episode of Wiseguy in 1989 and directed an episode in 1990. During the second season, he injured himself again, on a directed by Jan Eliasberg
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George Peppard
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George Peppard Jr. was an American film and television actor. Peppard secured a role when he starred alongside Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffanys. On television, he played the role of millionaire insurance investigator. He played Col. John Hannibal Smith, the leader of a renegade commando squad. George Peppard, Jr. was born in Detroit, Michigan and he graduated from Dearborn High School in Dearborn, Michigan. Peppard enlisted in the United States Marine Corps July 8,1946, during 1948 and 1949, he studied Civil Engineering at Purdue University where he was a member of the Purdue Playmakers theatre troupe and Beta Theta Pi fraternity. He then transferred to Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and he also trained at the Pittsburgh Playhouse. In addition to acting, Peppard was a pilot and he spent a portion of his 1966 honeymoon training to fly his Learjet in Wichita, Kansas. Peppard made his debut in 1949 at the Pittsburgh Playhouse. After moving to New York City, Peppard enrolled in the Actors Studio and he worked in summer stock in New England and appeared at the open air Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon. He made his debut in The Strange One. Peppard had signed to play a role on Broadway in The Pleasure of His Company when he auditioned successfully for MGMs Home from the Hill and he ended up appearing in Pleasure of His Company for six months before making Home from the Hill. Part of the arrangement of the latter involved signing with MGM for a term contract. Home from the Hill was a film directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Robert Mitchum. It was a success at the box office, although the high cost meant that it was not profitable. Peppards next film for MGM was The Subterraneans, an adaptation of the novel by Jack Keruoac and it flopped and Peppard said I couldnt get arrested afterwards. His good looks, elegant manner and superior acting skills landed Peppard his most famous role as Paul Varjak in Breakfast at Tiffanys with Audrey Hepburn. This 1961 role boosted him briefly to a film star
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Donald Pleasence
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Donald Henry Pleasence, OBE was an English film, television, and stage actor. His most notable roles include psychiatrist Dr. Pleasence was born in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, the son of Alice and Thomas Stanley Pleasence. He was brought up as a strict Methodist in the village of Grimoldby. He received his education at Crosby Junior School, Scunthorpe and Ecclesfield Grammar School, in Sheffield. He served as aircraft wireless-operator with No.166 Squadron in Bomber Command, at the wars end in 1945 he was liberated from captivity and returned to England, being discharged from the R. A. F. in 1946. Returning to acting post-war Pleasence resumed working in theatre companies in Birmingham. In the 1950s Pleasences stage work included performing as Willie Mossop in a 1952 production of Hobsons Choice at the Arts Theatre, in 1960 Pleasence won acclaim as the tramp in Harold Pinters The Caretaker at the Arts Theatre, a part he would again play in a 1990 revival. Other stage work in the 1960s included Anouilhs Poor Bitos and Robert Shaws The Man in the Glass Booth, Pleasences later stage work included performing in a double bill of Pinter plays, The Basement and Tea Party, at the Duchess Theatre in 1970. Pleasence made his debut in I Want to Be a Doctor in 1946. In 1954 he received acclaim as Parsons in a BBC adaptation of George Orwells novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. The adaptation was by Nigel Kneale and also starred Peter Cushing, Pleasence played Prince John in several episodes of the ITV series The Adventures of Robin Hood. He appeared twice with Patrick McGoohan in the British spy series, Danger Man, in episodes Position of Trust and Find and Return. Pleasences first appearance in America was in an episode of The Twilight Zone, in 1963, he appeared in an episode of The Outer Limits entitled The Man With the Power. He also guest starred in The fugitive in 1966, titled With Strings Attached In 1973 Pleasence played a sympathetic murderer in an episode of Columbo entitled Any Old Port in a Storm. He also portrayed a murderer captured by Mrs. Columbo in Murder is a Parlour Game, in 1978, he played a scout, Sam Purchas in an adaptation of James A. Micheners Centennial. Pleasence starred as the Reverend Septimus Harding in the BBCs 1982 TV series The Barchester Chronicles, in this series has daughter Angela Pleasence played his onscreen daughter Susan. He hosted the 1981 Halloween episode of Saturday Night Live with music guest Fear, in 1986, Pleasence joined Ronald Lacey and Polly Jo Pleasence for the television thriller Into the Darkness. Pleasence made his debut with The Beachcomber
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Race for the Yankee Zephyr
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Race for the Yankee Zephyr is a 1981 New Zealand suspense–action–thriller film directed by David Hemmings and starring Ken Wahl, Lesley Ann Warren, George Peppard and Donald Pleasence. Gibbie Gibson has discovered a World War II-era plane wreck in the mountains of New Zealand. Theo Brown — A gangster who owns a district in New Zealand, he is the rival of Barney Whitaker. Baker — A New Zealand civilian and a friend of Barney, collector — A New Zealand civilian and the owner of a local pawn shop. Harry — A New Zealand civilian and Sallys fiance and it is not known what becomes of Harry when Sally falls in love with Barney Whitaker. The Bartender — A New Zealand civilian and owner of a local bar and it was based on a true incident about the war-time disappearance of an American DC3 military aircraft carrying the payroll for the Pacific fleet which was later discovered off Cape York. Richard Franklin was originally attached as director, and Antony I, the script was originally set in Queensland, Australia, but the producers wanted to import four overseas actors, and Actors Equity objected. De Roche re-wrote the film so it was set in New Zealand, richard Franklin dropped out of the film because he was unhappy with the change in location, and David Hemmings, who was attached to the film as a producer, was appointed director. The film was one of the leaders of Soviet film distribution in 1983, ginnane was so annoyed with Australias Actors Equity that he made his next four films in New Zealand. Race for the Yankee Zephyr at the Internet Movie Database Race for the Yankee Zephyr at Oz Movies Race For The Yankee Zephyr on RotaryAction. com
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Thriller film
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Thriller film, also known as suspense film or suspense thriller, is a film genre that falls under the general thriller genre. The thriller films key characteristics are excitement and suspense, the suspense element, found in most films plots, is particularly exploited by the filmmaker in this genre. Tension is created by delaying what the audience sees as inevitable, a strict definition of the thriller film is that the films overarching goal is to build tension in audiences as the film approaches its climax. Tension is built through situations that are menacing or where escape seems impossible, Life is typically threatened in thriller film, such as when the protagonist does not realize entering a dangerous situation. Thriller films characters conflict with other or with an outside force. Thriller films are typically hybridized with other genres, there exist adventure thrillers, science fiction thrillers, Western thrillers, Thriller films also share a close relationship with horror films, both eliciting tension. In plots about crime, thriller films focus less on the criminal or the detective, common themes include terrorism, political conspiracy, pursuit, or romantic triangles leading to murder. Alfred Hitchcocks first thriller was his silent film, The Lodger. His next thriller was Blackmail, his and Britains first sound film and his notable thrillers in the 1930s include The Man Who Knew Too Much and The 39 Steps. 326 —this film would be an inspiration for the future James Bond films, the German film M, directed by Fritz Lang, starred Peter Lorre as a criminal deviant who preys on children. Hitchcock continued his suspense-thrillers, directing Foreign Correspondent, the Oscar-winning Rebecca, Suspicion, Saboteur and Shadow of a Doubt, notable non-Hitchcock films of the 1940s include The Spiral Staircase and Sorry, Wrong Number. In the 1950s, Hitchcock added technicolor to his thrillers, now with exotic locales and he reached the zenith of his career with a succession of classic films such as, Strangers on a Train, Dial M For Murder with Ray Milland, Rear Window and Vertigo. Non-Hitchcock thrillers of the 1950s include The Night of the Hunter —Charles Laughtons only film as director—and Orson Welless crime thriller Touch of Evil, director Michael Powells Peeping Tom featured Carl Boehm as a psychopathic cameraman. After Hitchcocks classic films of the 1950s, he produced Psycho about a lonely, mother-fixated motel owner, J. Lee Thompsons Cape Fear, with Robert Mitchum, had a menacing ex-con seeking revenge. A famous thriller at the time of its release was Wait Until Dark by director Terence Young, john Boormans Deliverance followed the perilous fate of four Southern businessmen during a weekends trip. In Francis Ford Coppolas The Conversation, a bugging-device expert systematically uncovered a covert murder while he himself was being spied upon, Peter Hyams science fiction thriller Capricorn One proposed a government conspiracy to fake the first mission to Mars. His notable films include Sisters, Obsession, which was inspired by Vertigo, Dressed to Kill. Other films include Curtis Hansons The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and Unlawful Entry, detectives/FBI agents hunting down a serial killer was another popular motif in the 90s
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Action film
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Action film is a film genre in which the protagonist or protagonists end up in a series of challenges that typically include violence, extended fighting, physical feats, and frantic chases. Advancements in CGI have made it cheaper and easier to create action sequences, while action has long been a recurring component in films, the action film genre began to develop in the 1970s along with the increase of stunts and special effects. The genre is associated with the thriller and adventure film genres. Some historians consider The Great Train Robbery to be the first action film, during the 1920s and 1930s, action-based films were often swashbuckling adventure films in which actors, such as Douglas Fairbanks, wielded swords in period pieces or Westerns. The 1940s and 1950s saw action in a new form through war, the film, along with a war-adventure called The Guns of Navarone, inspired producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman to invest in their own spy-adventure, based on the novels of Ian Fleming. The long-running success of the James Bond films or series introduced a staple of the action film. Such larger-than-life characters were a veritable “one-man army”, able to dispatch villainous masterminds after cutting through their disposable henchmen in increasingly creative ways, such heroes are ready with one-liners, puns, and dry quips. The Bond films also used fast cutting, car chases, fist fights, a variety of weapons and gadgets, Dirty Harry essentially lifted its star, Clint Eastwood, out of his cowboy typecasting, and framed him as the archetypal hero of the urban action film. In many countries, restrictions on language, adult content, and violence had loosened up, in the 1970s, martial-arts films from Hong Kong became popular with Western audiences and inspired big budget films such as Bruce Lees Enter the Dragon. Chuck Norris blended martial arts with cops and robbers in films such as Good Guys Wear Black, from Japan, Sonny Chiba starred in his first martial arts movie in 1973 called the Karate Kiba. His breakthrough international hit was The Street Fighter series, which established him as the reigning Japanese martial arts actor in international cinema and he also played the role of Mas Oyama in Champion of Death, Karate Bearfighter, and Karate for Life. Chibas action films were not only bounded by martial arts, but also action thriller, jidaigeki, in the 1980s Hollywood produced many big budget action blockbusters with actors such as Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lorenzo Lamas, Michael Dudikoff, Charles Bronson and Bruce Willis. Steven Spielberg and George Lucas paid their homage to the Bond-inspired style with Raiders of the Lost Ark, in 1982, veteran actor Nick Nolte and rising comedian Eddie Murphy broke box office records with the action-comedy 48 Hrs. credited as the first buddy-cop movie. That same year, Sylvester Stallone starred in First Blood, the first installment in the Rambo film series made the character John Rambo a pop culture icon. 1984 saw the beginning of the Terminator starring Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger and this story provides one of the grittiest roles for a woman in action and Hamilton was required to put in extensive effort to develop a strong physique. The 1988 film, Die Hard, was influential on the development of the action genre. In the film, Bruce Willis plays a New York police detective who becomes embroiled in a terrorist take-over of a Los Angeles office building high-rise. The film set a pattern for a host of imitators, like Under Siege and Sudden Death, by the end of the 1980s, the influence of the successful action film could be felt in almost every genre
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Thriller (genre)
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Thriller is a broad genre of literature, film and television, having numerous subgenres. Thrillers are characterized and defined by the moods they elicit, giving viewers heightened feelings of suspense, excitement, surprise, anticipation, successful examples of thrillers are the films of Alfred Hitchcock. Thrillers generally keep the audience on the edge of their seats as the plot builds towards a climax, the cover-up of important information is a common element. Literary devices such as red herrings, plot twists, and cliffhangers are used extensively, a thriller is usually a villain-driven plot, whereby he or she presents obstacles that the protagonist must overcome. Homers Odyssey is one of the oldest stories in the Western world and is regarded as a prototype of the thriller. Thrillers may be defined by the mood that they elicit. In short, if it thrills, it is a thriller, as the introduction to a major anthology explains, Suspense is a crucial characteristic of the thriller genre. It gives the viewer a feeling of pleasurable fascination and excitement mixed with apprehension, anticipation and tension and these develop from unpredictable, mysterious and rousing events during the narrative, which make the viewer or reader think about the outcome of certain actions. Suspense builds in order to make those final moments, no matter how short, the suspense in a story keeps the person hooked to reading or watching more until the climax is reached. In terms of expectations, it may be contrasted with curiosity. The objective is to deliver a story with sustained tension, surprise, the second type of suspense is the. anticipation wherein we either know or else are fairly certain about what is going to happen but are still aroused in anticipation of its actual occurrence. According to Greek philosopher Aristotle in his book Poetics, suspense is an important building block of literature, common methods and themes in crime and action thrillers are mainly ransoms, captivities, heists, revenge, kidnappings. Common in mystery thrillers are investigations and the whodunit technique, common elements in dramatic and psychological thrillers include plot twists, psychology, obsession and mind games. Common in horror thrillers are serial killers, stalking, deathtraps, elements such as fringe theories, false accusations and paranoia are common in paranoid thrillers. Threats to entire countries, spies, espionage, conspiracies, assassins, the themes frequently include terrorism, political conspiracy, pursuit, or romantic triangles leading to murder. Plots of thrillers involve characters which come into conflict with other or with outside forces. The protagonist of these films is set against a problem, no matter what subgenre a thriller film falls into, it will emphasize the danger that the protagonist faces. While protagonists of thrillers have traditionally been men, women characters are increasingly common
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David Hemmings
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David Edward Leslie Hemmings was an English film, theatre and television actor, as well as a film and television director and producer. He founded also the Hemdale Film Corporation in 1967 and he is noted for his role as the photographer in the drama mystery-thriller film Blowup, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. Early in his career, Hemmings was a boy soprano appearing in operatic roles, David Hemmings was born in Guildford, in the county of Surrey, to a biscuit salesman father. Most notably, Hemmings created the role of Miles in Brittens chamber opera Turn of the Screw and his intimate, yet innocent, relationship with Britten is described in John Bridcuts book Brittens Children. Hemmings had earlier played the role in Brittens The Little Sweep. Britten was furious, waved Hemmings away, and never had any contact with him. Hemmings then moved on to acting and directing in film and he made his first film appearance in the drama film The Rainbow Jacket, but he first became well known as a pin-up and film star in the mid-1960s. Antonioni, who detested the Method way of acting, sought to find a young face for the lead in his next production. Then, he found Hemmings, at the acting in small stage theatre in London, although at their first meeting, Antonioni told Hemmings. Hemmings directed the drama film The 14, which won the Silver Bear at the 23rd Berlin International Film Festival and he appeared in the Italian giallo film Profondo Rosso directed by Dario Argento. In 1977 he appeared as Eddy in the film Islands in the Stream and he directed David Bowie and Marlene Dietrich in the drama film Schöner Gigolo, armer Gigolo. The film was received, with Bowie describing it as my 32 Elvis Presley films rolled into one. Hemmings directed the horror film The Survivor, based on James Herberts 1976 novel of the name, starring Robert Powell. He once joked, People thought I was dead, I was just directing The A-Team. He directed the thriller film Race for the Yankee Zephyr, which stars Ken Wahl, Lesley Ann Warren, Donald Pleasence, Hemmings also directed the puzzle-contest video Money Hunt, The Mystery of the Missing Link. He directed the television film The Key to Rebecca, an adaptation of Ken Folletts 1980 novel of the same name and he also briefly served as a producer on the NBC crime-drama television series Stingray. Hemmings played a cop in the docudrama film Beyond Reasonable Doubt about Arthur Allan Thomas, a New Zealand farmer jailed for the murder of Harvey and Jeannette Crewe. In later years, he had roles including appearing as Cassius in the epic film Gladiator, with Russell Crowe, as well as appearing in the drama film Last Orders
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Harold Robbins
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Harold Robbins was an American author of popular novels. One of the writers of all time, he penned over 25 best-sellers. He was raised by his father, who was a pharmacist, Robbins dropped out of high school in the late 1920s to work in a variety of jobs including errand boy, bookies runner and inventory clerk in a grocers. He was employed by Universal Pictures from 1940 to 1957, starting off as a clerk and his first book was Never Love a Stranger. The Dream Merchants was a novel about the American film industry, again, Robbins blended his own experiences with historical facts, melodrama, sex and action, into a fast-moving story. His 1952 novel, A Stone for Danny Fisher, was adapted into a 1958 motion picture King Creole, among his best-known books is The Carpetbaggers – featuring a loose composite of Howard Hughes, Bill Lear, Harry Cohn, and Louis B. The Carpetbaggers takes the reader from New York to California, from the prosperity of the industry to the glamor of Hollywood. Its sequel, The Raiders, was released in 1995 and he created the ABC television series The Survivors, starring Ralph Bellamy and Lana Turner. Robbins editors included Cynthia White and Michael Korda and his agent was Paul Gitlin. Since his death, several new books have published, written by ghostwriters and based on Robbinss own notes. In several of these books, Junius Podrug has been credited as co-writer, from the Hodder & Stoughton 2008 edition of The Carpetbaggers about the author section, Robbins was the playboy of his day and a master of publicity. He was a renowned novelist but tales of his own life even more fiction than his books. What is known is that with reported sales of 750 million. Rowling, earned and spent $50m during his lifetime, and was as much a part of the sexual and social revolution as the pill, Playboy and pot. In March 1965, he had three novels on the British paperback bestseller list – Where Love Has Gone at No.1, The Carpetbaggers at No.3 and his widow, Jann Robbins, has republished 12 of his most famous titles with AuthorHouse Publishing. His first wife, Lillian Machnivitz, was his school sweetheart. His second wife, Grace Palermo Robbins, whom he married in 1965 and divorced in the early 1990s, during his marriage to Grace, Robbinss hedonistic lifestyle became a source of notoriety. He subsequently married Jann Stapp in 1992, who was his wife until his death and he spent a great deal of time on the French Riviera and at Monte Carlo until his death from respiratory heart failure, at the age of 81 in Palm Springs, California
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Peter Falk
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He was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, first for Murder, Inc. and again for Pocketful of Miracles. Director William Friedkin said of Falks role in his film The Brinks Job and he could break your heart or he could make you laugh. Falk was the first actor to be nominated for an Academy Award, in 1968, Falk starred with Gene Barry in a ninety-minute television movie about a highly skilled, laid-back detective. Columbo eventually became part of a series titled The NBC Mystery Movie, along with McCloud, McMillan & Wife. The detective series stayed on NBC from 1971 to 1978, took a respite, Falk was everyones favorite rumpled television detective, wrote historian David Fantle. In 1996, TV Guide ranked Falk number 21 on its 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time list. Born in New York City, Falk was the son of Michael Peter Falk, owner of a clothing and dry goods store, and his wife, Madeline, an accountant and buyer. Both of his parents were Jewish, coming from Poland and Russia on his fathers side, and from Hungary, Falks right eye was surgically removed when he was three because of a retinoblastoma, he wore an artificial eye for most of his life. The artificial eye was the cause of his trademark squint, despite this limitation, as a boy he participated in team sports, mainly baseball and basketball. In a 1997 interview in Cigar Aficionado magazine with Arthur Marx, Falk said, I got so mad I took out my glass eye, handed it to him and said, Try this. I got such a laugh you wouldnt believe, Falks first stage appearance was at the age of 12 in The Pirates of Penzance at Camp High Point in upstate New York, where one of his camp counselors was Ross Martin. Falk attended Ossining High School in Westchester County, New York, after graduating from high school in 1945, Falk briefly attended Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, and then tried to join the armed services as World War II was drawing to a close. Rejected because of his eye, he joined the United States Merchant Marine. Falk said of the experience in 1997, There they dont care if youre blind or not, the only one on a ship who has to see is the captain. And in the case of the Titanic, he couldnt see very well, Falk recalls this period in his autobiography, A year on the water was enough for me, so I returned to college. After a year and a half in the Merchant Marine, Falk returned to Hamilton College and he transferred to the New School for Social Research in New York City, which awarded him a bachelors degree in literature and political science in 1951. He then traveled in Europe and worked on a railroad in Yugoslavia for six months, Falk obtained a Master of Public Administration degree at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University in 1953. The program was designed to civil servants for the federal government
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George Hamilton (actor)
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George Stevens Hamilton is an American film and television actor. For his debut performance in Crime and Punishment U. S. A, Hamilton won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for a BAFTA Award. He has received one additional BAFTA nomination and two additional Golden Globe nominations, Hamilton was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and lived in Blytheville, Arkansas. He is the eldest son of bandleader George Spike Hamilton and his first wife, Hamilton won many scholastic, athletic and performing arts awards as a student at Palm Beach High School in West Palm Beach, Florida. Hamilton also has a brother, David Hamilton. Hamilton began his career in 1952 and although he has a substantial body of work in film and television he is, perhaps, most famous for his debonair style and his perfect. Bo Derek writes in her there was an ongoing contest between John and George Hamilton as to who was tanner. With his matinee-idol looks it was noted that Hamilton physically resembled Warren Beatty. Beattys political satire Bulworth contained a gag about this with Hamilton appearing as himself in a brief cameo. Earlier, Hamilton made his onscreen debut in Crime and Punishment U. S. A. He was nominated for the award again for The Light in the Piazza. Hamilton made two memorable bio-pics, Your Cheatin Heart, in which he portrayed the country-western music legend Hank Williams, followed by Evel Knievel, the movie included such scenes as Dracula and his conquest dancing to I Love the Nightlife at a disco. The films box-office success created a popularity surge for Hamilton, who followed it with a portrayal of the famed swordsman character in 1981s Zorro. He was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for both films, however, film leads dried up quickly. In the mid-1980s, Hamilton starred in the season of the ABC Aaron Spelling-produced nighttime television serial Dynasty. Hamilton played a doctor who uses hypnosis to commit a murder on a 1975 episode of Columbo and he returned for a second homicide on the long-running Peter Falk detective series in 1991, this time playing the host of an Americas Most Wanted-style television show. Hamilton later became a semi-regular panelist on the 1998 revival of Match Game, a break for Hamilton came in 1990 when Francis Coppola cast him as the Corleone familys lawyer in a much-anticipated film, The Godfather Part III. For the second time, he portrayed a murderer on the television series Columbo, starring as the host of a TV true-crime show in the 1991 episode Caution and he had previously been in the 1975 episode A Deadly State of Mind
