1.
Linda Hamilton (soccer)
–
Linda A. Hamilton is an American retired soccer defender and former member of the United States womens national soccer team. She is currently coach of the womens soccer team at the Southwestern University. Hamilton was inducted into the Georgia Soccer Hall of Fame in 2001, Hamilton grew up in the Atlanta, Georgia area and attended Wheeler High School where she lettered in soccer, basketball, tennis and track. She played club soccer with both the Buckhead YMCA and the DeKalb Soccer Association at Blackburn Park, while playing for UNC, Linda Hamilton worked in the call center of soccer retailer Eurosport/SOCCER. COM with teammate Mia Hamm. Hamilton played for the United States womens national team from 1987–1995. In 1991, she was part of the team won the first Women’s World Cup in China. Hamilton began her career by getting her A license while still at North Carolina. She served as director of development for the Richmond Strikers Soccer Club while working in full-time at another job. She became assistant coach at Hofstra University in 2006 and later coach at the University of North Florida in 2008. Hamilton was the coach for the womens soccer team at Illinois College in Jacksonville. In February 2015, she became the coach for womens soccer team at Southwestern University in Georgetown. Hamilton has remained involved with U. S, Soccer as a member of the board of directors with the United States Soccer Federation, U. S. In 2011, she traveled to Brazil on behalf of the United States Department of State to conduct soccer clinics with former team member and teammate. Linda Hamilton – FIFA competition record US Soccer profile North Florida coach profile Georgia Soccer Hall of Fame profile
2.
Big Apple Comic Con
–
The Big Apple Comic Con is a New York City comic book convention, the longest-running comic book/science fiction/fantasy/horror/pop culture convention in New York City. It was started by retailer Michael Mike Carbo Carbonaro in March 1996 in the basement of the Church of St. Paul the Apostle. During its heyday from 2001–2008, the Big Apple Comic Con often featured multiple shows per year, with a large national convention held in November. The show was owned by Wizard Entertainment from 2009 to 2013, after the shows acquisition by Wizard Entertainment, the convention was known as the Wizard World Big Apple Comic Con, and as the Wizard World New York City Experience. In 2014, the name Big Apple Convention was revived by Carbonaro for a show scheduled for March 7,2015, the convention features a large floorspace for exhibitors, including comic book dealers and collectibles merchants. The show includes an area, as well as the Artists Alley where comics artists can sign autographs. In 2009, Michael Carbonaro established his own independent one-day convention known as the New York Comic Book Marketplace which ran annually through 2014, from 1993-1995, promoter Frederic Greenberg began hosting Great Eastern Conventions shows annually at venues including the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. Other companies, including Dynamic Forces, held New York City conventions, changes in the industry, popular culture, and the resurgent city itself since the troubled 1960s and 70s made large-scale comic-book conventions difficult to hold profitably. Jonah Weiland of ComicBookResources. com also noted that, dealing with the various convention unions made it difficult for most groups to get a show off the ground. As a substitute event, comic book retailers Carbonaro and Vincent Zurzuolo on the spur of the moment mounted the first Big Apple Convention in the basement of the Church of St. Paul the Apostle. Their show attracted over 4,000 attendees, most of whom had been planning to attend the scheduled Great Eastern Show, after the success of the initial 1996 show, Big Apple scheduled six separate conventions for 1997. In 1998, Big Apple held two conventions, a two-day September show and an affair in October. In 1999 there was a March show and the three-day National show held in November,2000 followed the same pattern. Over the years, these small shows attracted many comics creators and pop-culture figures,2001 was a big year for Big Apple, with five conventions spread throughout the year. In 2002 four shows were held, and in 2003 Big Apple put on six separate conventions, in 2003, Captain Zorikh Lequidre began running the costume contest, which became well known for its audience-participation judging. By 2004, the convention had moved to the Penn Plaza Pavilion at the Hotel Pennsylvania, at this point, show organizers claimed to have attracted over 30,000 attendees throughout the year. In 2005, Big Apple put on five shows, repeating pattern in 2006. By 2008, the frequency of Big Apple Conventions was slowing down, the last show before Wizards purchase of Big Apple was a June Summer Sizzler,2009 was also the final year there were multiple Big Apple Conventions held
3.
Manhattan
–
Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and the citys historical birthplace. The borough is coextensive with New York County, founded on November 1,1683, Manhattan is often described as the cultural and financial capital of the world and hosts the United Nations Headquarters. Many multinational media conglomerates are based in the borough and it is historically documented to have been purchased by Dutch colonists from Native Americans in 1626 for 60 guilders which equals US$1062 today. New York County is the United States second-smallest county by land area, on business days, the influx of commuters increases that number to over 3.9 million, or more than 170,000 people per square mile. Manhattan has the third-largest population of New York Citys five boroughs, after Brooklyn and Queens, the City of New York was founded at the southern tip of Manhattan, and the borough houses New York City Hall, the seat of the citys government. The name Manhattan derives from the word Manna-hata, as written in the 1609 logbook of Robert Juet, a 1610 map depicts the name as Manna-hata, twice, on both the west and east sides of the Mauritius River. The word Manhattan has been translated as island of hills from the Lenape language. The United States Postal Service prefers that mail addressed to Manhattan use New York, NY rather than Manhattan, the area that is now Manhattan was long inhabited by the Lenape Native Americans. In 1524, Florentine explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano – sailing in service of King Francis I of France – was the first European to visit the area that would become New York City. It was not until the voyage of Henry Hudson, an Englishman who worked for the Dutch East India Company, a permanent European presence in New Netherland began in 1624 with the founding of a Dutch fur trading settlement on Governors Island. In 1625, construction was started on the citadel of Fort Amsterdam on Manhattan Island, later called New Amsterdam, the 1625 establishment of Fort Amsterdam at the southern tip of Manhattan Island is recognized as the birth of New York City. In 1846, New York historian John Romeyn Brodhead converted the figure of Fl 60 to US$23, variable-rate myth being a contradiction in terms, the purchase price remains forever frozen at twenty-four dollars, as Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace remarked in their history of New York. Sixty guilders in 1626 was valued at approximately $1,000 in 2006, based on the price of silver, Straight Dope author Cecil Adams calculated an equivalent of $72 in 1992. In 1647, Peter Stuyvesant was appointed as the last Dutch Director General of the colony, New Amsterdam was formally incorporated as a city on February 2,1653. In 1664, the English conquered New Netherland and renamed it New York after the English Duke of York and Albany, the Dutch Republic regained it in August 1673 with a fleet of 21 ships, renaming the city New Orange. Manhattan was at the heart of the New York Campaign, a series of battles in the early American Revolutionary War. The Continental Army was forced to abandon Manhattan after the Battle of Fort Washington on November 16,1776. The city, greatly damaged by the Great Fire of New York during the campaign, became the British political, British occupation lasted until November 25,1783, when George Washington returned to Manhattan, as the last British forces left the city
4.
Salisbury, Maryland
–
Salisbury /ˈsɔːlzbəri/ is a city in and the county seat of Wicomico County, Maryland, United States, and the largest city in the states Eastern Shore region. The population was 30,343 at the 2010 census, Salisbury is the principal city of the Salisbury, Maryland-Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city is the hub of the Delmarva Peninsula and calls itself The Comfortable Side of Coastal. Salisbury is located near major cities, Baltimore 106 miles, Washington, D. C.119 miles, Philadelphia 128 miles, Norfolk 132 miles. Salisburys location at the head of Wicomico River was a factor in growth. At first it was a colonial outpost set up by Lord Baltimore. Salisburys location at the head of the Wicomico River was seen to be a convenient location for trading purposes, Salisbury also had a role in the Civil War, as it served as a location where Union forces encamp in order to search for sympathizers from the South. These Union forces also worked to inhibit the movement of contraband to Confederate forces in the South, disaster struck Salisbury in both 1860 and 1866, as fires burned through two thirds of the Town. In 1867, when the Wicomico County was formed out of parts of both Somerset and Worcester Counties, Salisbury became the government seat, today, Salisbury attracts a wide variety of different businesses in addition to county, state, and federal government offices. Adding to the diversity of Salisbury, the City is host to a variety of events celebrating local culture. Salisbury is also home to a City Park, The Salisbury Zoo, the Centre at Salisbury Mall, Salisbury is located at 38°21′57″N 75°35′36″W. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 13.87 square miles. The city has an elevation of 17 to 45 feet above sea level. Salisburys location on the Atlantic Coastal Plain in Maryland gives it a subtropical climate, with hot, humid summers and, on average. However, in winter the area is subject to some intervening periods of much more intense cold. The monthly daily average ranges from 37.9 °F in January to 78.6 °F in July. On average, Salisbury annually receives 45.9 inches of precipitation, the Köppen climate classification subtype for this climate is Cfa. As of the census of 2010, there were 30,343 people,11,983 households, the population density was 2,264.4 inhabitants per square mile
5.
James Cameron
–
James Francis Jim Cameron is a Canadian filmmaker, director, producer, screenwriter, inventor, engineer, philanthropist, and deep-sea explorer. He first found success with the science fiction action film The Terminator. He then became a popular Hollywood director and was hired to write and direct Aliens and he found further critical acclaim for his use of special effects in Terminator 2, Judgment Day. After his film True Lies Cameron took on his biggest film at the time, Titanic, despite Avatar being his only movie made to date in 3D, Cameron is the most successful 3D film-maker in terms of box-office revenue. In the time between making Titanic and Avatar, Cameron spent several years creating many documentary films and co-developed the digital 3D Fusion Camera System, described by a biographer as part scientist and part artist, Cameron has also contributed to underwater filming and remote vehicle technologies. On March 26,2012, Cameron reached the bottom of the Mariana Trench and he is the first person to do this in a solo descent, and is only the third person to do so ever. In total, Camerons directorial efforts have grossed approximately US$2 billion in North America, not adjusted for inflation, Camerons Titanic and Avatar are the two highest-grossing films of all time at $2.19 billion and $2.78 billion respectively. Cameron also holds the achievement of having directed two of the three films in history to gross over $2 billion worldwide, in March 2011, he was named Hollywoods top earner by Vanity Fair, with estimated 2010 earnings of $257 million. Cameron was born in 1954 in Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canada, the son of Shirley, an artist and nurse, and Phillip Cameron and his paternal great-great-great-grandfather emigrated from Balquhidder, Scotland, in 1825. Cameron grew up in Chippawa, Ontario, and attended Stamford Collegiate School in Niagara Falls and his family moved to Brea, California in 1971, when Cameron was 17 years old. He dropped out of Sonora High School, then attended Brea Olinda High School to further his secondary education, Cameron enrolled at Fullerton College, a two-year community college, in 1973 to study physics. He switched to English, then dropped out before the start of the fall 1974 semester, next, he worked several jobs, including as a truck driver, writing when he had time. That way I could sit down and read it, and if theyd let me photocopy it, Cameron quit his job as a truck driver to enter the film industry after seeing Star Wars in 1977. When Cameron read Syd Fields book Screenplay, it occurred to him that science and art was possible. They raised money, rented camera, lenses, film stock and they dismantled the camera to understand how to operate it and spent the first half-day of the shoot trying to figure out how to get it running. He was the director, writer, producer, and production designer for Xenogenesis and he then became a production assistant on a film called Rock and Roll High School, though uncredited, in 1979. While continuing to educate himself in film-making techniques, Cameron started working as a miniature-model maker at Roger Corman Studios, making rapidly produced, low-budget productions taught Cameron to work efficiently and effectively. He soon found employment as an art director in the sci-fi movie Battle Beyond the Stars and he did special effects work design and direction on John Carpenters Escape from New York, acted as production designer on Galaxy of Terror, and consulted on the design of Android
6.
Sarah Connor (Terminator)
–
Sarah Jeanette Connor is a fictional character in the Terminator franchise. She is the main protagonist of The Terminator, Terminator 2, Judgment Day and Terminator Genisys, as well as the television series Terminator, as of the fifth film, she is reimagined as a young, headstrong heroine determined to take control of her own destiny. Very little is known about Sarahs life prior to May 12,1984, the Terminator does not specify her age or birth date, although according to the original script, she was 19 years old. The film was set on May 12–14,1984, according to the script. In Terminator 2, Judgment Day, Sarahs psychologist states she is 29, the film takes place when John is 10, placing Sarahs birth date between March 1,1965, and February 25,1967, making her either 17,18, or 19 during The Terminator. The tombstone shown in Terminator 3 reads 1959–1997 and this birth year would make her 24 or 25 during The Terminator. She and John were living off the grid in her years, routinely using false names, birthdates. Her tomb was really a weapons cache and she dies of leukemia sometime after Judgment Day. Terminator 3 changes Johns age in the film from 10 to 13. In The Terminator, Sarah Connor is a Los Angeles college student and waitress who is pursued by an android killer. She learns she is in danger from a report of two identically-named Los Angeles women who were shot to death earlier that day. The program becomes self-aware, seizes control of most of the military hardware. John Connor is Sarahs future son, he sends back a trusted sergeant, Kyle Reese, during their brief time together, Sarah falls in love with Kyle, who tells Sarah she would be responsible for training John in the skills and tactics he would use to fight Skynet. Kyle protects Sarah from the Terminator and they flee together, initially, she is unaware that Reese has been in love with her. While they are avoiding the Terminator, Kyle and Sarah have sex that results in Johns conception, Kyle dies fighting the Terminator in a Cyberdyne factory. Sarah crushes the Terminator in a hydraulic press, kyles sincerity and courage inspires her to develop the skills and abilities that make her a suitable mentor and teacher to John. After these events, Sarah becomes a fugitive and begins making a recording for John to give to him later in life. While recording the tape, a boy takes a photograph that he sells to her, Terminator 2, Judgment Day is set eleven years after the events of The Terminator
7.
Terminator (franchise)
–
The Terminator series is a science-fiction franchise created by James Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd. As of February 2010, the franchise has generated $3 billion in revenue, the central theme of the franchise is the battle for survival between the nearly-extinct human race and the world-spanning synthetic intelligence that is Skynet. Skynet is positioned in the first film as a U. S. strategic Global Digital Defense Network computer system by Cyberdyne Systems which becomes self-aware, upon activation, it immediately perceives all humans as a security threat, and formulates a plan to systematically wipe out humanity itself. Due to time travel and consequent ability to change the future, in Terminator 2, Judgment Day, Sarah states that Judgment Day will occur on August 29,1997. However, Terminator 3, Rise of the Machines shows that the Judgment Day holocaust has been postponed to July 24,2003. In Terminator, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Judgment Day was delayed further to April 21,2011, in Genisys, however, that Terminator unit is destroyed and subsequently dissolved in acid by the Guardian, thus preventing Cyberdyne from reverse engineering it. This serves to postpone Judgment Day even further and this concept of never being able to fully prevent Judgement Day but only being able to delay its arrival is at the heart of the Terminator films both technically and artistically. only postponed. This in-universe explanation provides an explanation for more Terminator movies to be made, therefore. This television news spot attempted to compare and contrast how far present day technology, the Terminator is a 1984 science fiction film released by Orion Pictures, co-written and directed by James Cameron and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton and Michael Biehn. It is the first work in the Terminator franchise, in the film, machines take over the world in the near future, directed by the artificial intelligence Skynet. With its sole mission to completely annihilate humanity, it develops android assassins called Terminators that outwardly appear human, a man named John Connor starts the Tech-Com resistance to fight the machines, defeat Skynet and free humanity. With the fate of humanity at stake, John sends soldier Kyle Reese back to protect his mother, also starring Emmy winner Paul Winfield. It is co-written, directed, and produced by James Cameron and stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong and Robert Patrick. After machines fail to prevent John Connor from being born, they try again in 1995, this time attempting to terminate him as a child by using a more advanced Terminator, the T-1000. As before, John sends back a protector for his younger self, also starring Emmy winner Joe Morton. It was released on July 3,1991 to critical acclaim and grossed $519.8 million worldwide Terminator 3, Rise of the Machines, as a result of the destruction of Cyberdyne at the end of T2, the Skynet takeover has been postponed, not averted. After Connors future self is terminated by a doppelgänger of his previous protector, Kate reprograms it and it was released on July 2,2003 to mixed reviews and grossed $433.4 million worldwide.4 million. It was written by John D. Brancato, Michael Ferris, Paul Haggis, Shawn Ryan, Jonathan Nolan, and Anthony E. Zuiker, directed by McG, and stars Christian Bale as John Connor
8.
Beauty and the Beast (1987 TV series)
–
Beauty and the Beast is an American fantasy-drama series which first aired on CBS in 1987. Through an empathetic bond, Vincent senses Catherines emotions, and becomes her guardian, the series follows the developing relationship between the characters and the division between New York and the hidden world beneath it. In a twist from the tale, however, this beast does not transform into societys idea of beauty after gaining the love of Catherine. Rather, Vincents inner beauty is allowed to remain the focus of who he is, in the third season after the death of the character Catherine, Jo Anderson became the new female lead playing Diana Bennett, a criminal profiler investigating Catherines murder. George R. R. Martin, who would write the A Song of Ice. In 2004 and 2007, Beauty and the Beast was ranked #14 and #17, respectively, Catherine Chandler is abducted, beaten, slashed and left to die in Central Park because she was inadvertently mistaken for somebody else. She is rescued and cared for by Vincent who has taken her to Father, ten days later, Catherine returns to the surface with the promise of keeping Vincents secret and the challenge to go on after her terrible attack. Her first action involves her asking Carol Stabler about those men that attacked her, when Catherine is attacked by Martin Belmonts men, she is saved by Vincent, who mauls the men. More people from the World Above turned up for emotional support, near the end of the season however, in an effort to boost faltering ratings, the action orientation returned as a result of the misleadings of the recurrent villain Paracelsus. In a cliffhanger episode, Catherine is seen walking down a tunnel into a chamber. When the series returned for its third season late in 1989. It was a decision that, along with the desire to attract more male viewers. She was killed, but not before giving birth to Vincents son, Catherines boss and close friend Joe Maxwell hired Diana Bennett, a criminal profiler with the police department, to track down Catherines killer. Quite naturally, her investigation led her to the now darkly obsessed. Catherine Chandler – A corporate attorney in her fathers law firm, after shes abducted, beaten, and her face slashed upon being mistaken for Carol Stabler, Catherine was rescued and tended to by Vincent. After that experience, Catherine changes her completely and becomes an investigator for the Manhattan District Attorneys Office. In Season Three, Catherine becomes pregnant with Vincents child and is captured by Gabriel and she is later killed by Gabriel who overdoses her with morphine. Vincent – A man of extremely large build with the characteristics of a lion
9.
Golden Globe Award
–
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
10.
Emmy Award
–
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
11.
Children of the Corn (1984 film)
–
Children of the Corn is a 1984 American horror film based upon the 1977 short story of the same name by Stephen King. Directed by Fritz Kiersch, the film stars Peter Horton and Linda Hamilton, King wrote the original draft of the screenplay, which focused more on the characters of Burt and Vicky and depicted more history on the uprising of the children in Gatlin. This script was disregarded in favor of George Goldsmiths screenplay, which featured more violence, filming took place mainly in Iowa, but also in California. Eight sequels have since been produced, and has gained a cult following. The film is set in the town of Gatlin, Nebraska. When the corn crop fails one year, the turn to prayer to ensure a successful harvest. Isaac and his subordinate Malachai lead the children in a revolution, only two children refuse to participate, Job and his sister Sarah, who can see visions of the future, drawing them on paper. Three years later, Vicky and her boyfriend Burt travel through rural Nebraska for Seattle, elsewhere, a young boy tries to flee Gatlin but is attacked in the corn, stumbling out into the road, and is run over by Burt’s car. However, Burt discovers he was stabbed beforehand and they place the boy and his suitcase in the trunk and search for a phone to call for help. They come across a mechanic, the last adult in Gatlin. The mechanic is actually in an agreement to supply the children with fuel in exchange for his life, however, the merciless Malachai breaks the pact and murders him, against Isaac’s wishes. Vicky and Burt explore the town, finding Sarah alone in a house. Burt searches the town, while Vicky stays with Sarah, Malachai and his followers appear, capturing Sarah and take her to the cornfield, placing her on a cross to be sacrificed. Burt enters a church where a congregation of children are, led by a girl named Rachel, Burt scolds the children, enraging Rachel, and is chased by Malachai and others. Job rescues Burt and they hide in a shelter with Sarah. The zealous Isaac scolds Malachai for his treachery, only for Malachai to grow tired of Isaac’s preaching and takes over, Isaac warns Malachai that sacrificing him will break their pact with He Who Walks Behind the Rows and the children will be severely punished. At night, Burt sneaks into the cornfield to rescue Vicky, during Isaac’s sacrifice, a supernatural light appears and devours the screaming Isaac. Burt emerges and fights Malachai, but Isaac suddenly appears, now implied to be possessed by his god, a storm appears over the cornfield, Burt and Vicky sheltering the children in a barn
12.
Mary Elizabeth Bartowski
–
Mary Elizabeth Bartowski is a character on the television series Chuck. Mary is the mother of Chuck and Ellie Bartowski. She is portrayed by Linda Hamilton, few details about Marys life have been revealed on the show. She was a CIA agent, while her husband worked with the CIA on the Intersect project, in 1991, her son Chuck breaks her favorite necklace, which is a charm of a boy and a girl holding hands. Although Ellie was greatly angered about this, Stephen tells her to help Chuck fix it, in Chuck Versus the Ring, Part II Chuck reveals that Mary left shortly after the incident, and for some period of time Chuck blamed himself for her departure. Otherwise all that is known prior to Season 4 is that Mary left her family under unknown circumstances when Chuck was in the fifth grade. Chuck Versus the Anniversary revealed that Mary used to read Chuck a bedtime story called The Frost Queen, although the circumstances are not yet clear, Mary never actually left her family but instead had been captured, at some point ending up in the custody of Volkoff Industries. In Chuck Versus the Aisle of Terror Mary reveals that she left to go into deep cover with Volkoff, but got in too deep and placed her family at risk. The CIA operation was code-named Isis, however, intelligence recovered by John Casey from a former NSA contact indicated that Isis was canceled some 20 years earlier after Mary went rogue, in the first two seasons Mary was entirely unseen, though her departure was occasionally mentioned. Chuck tells Sarah that the day their mother left is the day he and Ellie learned to look after each other because their father was never really there, a date they celebrate as Mothers Day. Chuck would later give Sarah a charm bracelet that belonged to Mary as a Christmas gift during a crisis at the Buy More. Stephen had previously given the bracelet to Mary when she was pregnant with Ellie and Sarah reluctantly accepted it, Mary first appeared on-screen in Chuck Versus the Ring, Part II. After his death, Stephen leaves Chuck a video message, introducing Chuck to his 20 year secret spy life, in the message, he states that he did it all for her, i. e. Mary. In the lair, is a box labeled MARY ELIZABETH BARTOWSKI, in Marys file it is revealed that her parents are Jesse and Mary Gunter, and she was born in December. As Chuck walks through the lair, he finds a table on which sits the boy half of the broken necklace, the scene then shifts to a woman at a desk who receives a phone call, telling her she needs to move immediately. When the camera changes, it is revealed that the woman is wearing the girl half of Marys necklace as a bracelet. Linda Hamilton first appeared in the role in Chuck Versus the Anniversary, Mary monitored Chucks discovery of a safe house in LA, where a menu for a Chinese takeout restaurant provided him and Morgan with clues implicating Volkoff Industries in her disappearance. Chuck tracked Mary to Volkoffs Moscow headquarters, but he sacrificed information on her whereabouts to save Sarah, after the teams escape from Volkoffs headquarters, Mary herself escaped custody after killing several of her captors
13.
Chuck (TV series)
–
Chuck is an American action-comedy/spy-drama television series created by Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak. Produced by College Hill Pictures, Fake Empire Productions, Wonderland Sound and Vision, television, the series premiered on September 24,2007, on NBC, airing on Monday nights at 8,00 p. m. /7,00 p. m. Central. As the second season finished, flagging ratings put Chuck in danger of cancellation, the series renewal was uncertain in each subsequent season. The fifth season was the last, beginning on October 28,2011, the series concluded on January 27,2012, with a two-hour finale. Chuck Bartowski is in his mid-twenties, working at a job as a computer service expert at Buy More. Chuck is intelligent but lacks ambition, also, he had been expelled from Stanford University on false charges that he cheated in one of his classes, which likely damaged his motivation and morale. His sister, Ellie, and her boyfriend, Devon Captain Awesome Woodcomb, are doctors who constantly encourage Chuck to make progress in his professional, the sole surviving copy becomes subliminally embedded in Chucks brain via encoded images when he opens an email from Bryce. The NSAs Major John Casey and CIA Agent Sarah Walker are dispatched to investigate, Chuck is recruited to use the knowledge he now possesses to help thwart assassins and international terrorists, upending his previously mundane life. The Intersect causes Chuck to receive involuntary flashes of information from the database, activated by such as faces, voices, objects. In order to protect his family and friends, Chuck must keep his second occupation a secret, Casey and Walker are assigned to watch over Chuck. They are forced to establish an alliance and cover-identities. Walker poses as Chucks girlfriend and takes a job at a fast food restaurant near the Buy More, Casey reluctantly becomes part of the Buy More sales team. The main antagonists driving the plot are a series of rogue spy cabals, first internal to the United States intelligence community, Chuck, Sarah, and Casey all face professional conflicts as they grow to respect each other. A genuine romantic interest develops between Chuck and Sarah, meanwhile, Casey and Sarah confront unresolved issues from their lives before the series, including their families, Sarahs history with Bryce, and the spies they previously worked with. And as Chuck grows more comfortable with his own role, those closest to him are drawn into his spy life. Tony Todd as CIA Director Langston Graham Matthew Bomer as Bryce Larkin C. S. Schwartz, Fedak pitched the idea to Schwartz, who agreed to develop the project with him. Fedak, Peter Johnson, Scott Rosenbaum, Matthew Miller, NBC gave the series an early pick-up and a thirteen-episode order on May 10,2007. On November 26,2007, TV Guide reported that NBC had picked up the series for a full,22 episode season
14.
Identical twin
–
Twins are two offspring produced by the same pregnancy. Twins can be either monozygotic, meaning that they develop from one zygote, in fraternal twins, each twin is fertilized by its own sperm cell. In contrast, a fetus that develops alone in the womb is called a singleton, the human twin birth rate in the United States rose 76% from 1980 through 2009, from 18.9 to 33.3 per 1,000 births. In Central Africa there are 18–30 twin sets per 1,000 live births, in Latin America, South Asia, and Southeast Asia, the lowest rates are found, only 6 to 9 twin sets per 1,000 live births. North America and Europe have intermediate rates of 9 to 16 twin sets per 1,000 live births, Multiple pregnancies are much less likely to carry to full term than single births, with twin pregnancies lasting on average 37 weeks, three weeks less than full term. Women who have a history of fraternal twins have a higher chance of producing fraternal twins themselves. There is no genetic link for identical twinning. Other factors that increase the odds of having fraternal twins include maternal age, fertility drugs and other fertility treatments, nutrition, the vast majority of twins are either dizygotic or monozygotic. Less common variants are discussed further down the article, the rates for singletons vary slightly by country. For example, the sex ratio of birth in the US is 1.05 males/female, while it is 1.07 males/female in Italy. However, males are more susceptible than females to die in utero. Zygosity is the degree of identity in the genome of twins, dizygotic or fraternal twins usually occur when two fertilized eggs are implanted in the uterus wall at the same time. When two eggs are fertilized by two different sperm cells, fraternal twins result. The two eggs, or ova, form two zygotes, hence the terms dizygotic and biovular. Fraternal twins are, essentially, two siblings who happen to be born at the same time, since they arise from two separate eggs fertilized by two separate sperm, just like ordinary siblings. This is the most common type of twin, dizygotic twins, like any other siblings, have an extremely small chance of having the same chromosome profile. Even if they happen to have the same profile, they will always have different genetic material on each chromosome. Like any other siblings, dizygotic twins may look similar, particularly given that they are the same age, however, dizygotic twins may also look very different from each other
15.
White Anglo-Saxon Protestant
–
Scholars agree that the groups influence has waned since the end of World War II in 1945, with the growing influence of other ethnic groups. The term is used in Australia and Canada for similar elites. The term is used by sociologists to include all Americans of Northern European ancestry regardless of their class or power. People rarely call themselves WASPs, except humorously, the acronym is typically used by non-WASPs. Historically, Anglo-Saxon referred to the language of indigenous inhabitants of England before about 1150, since the 19th century it has been in common use in the English-speaking world, but not in Britain itself, to refer to Protestants of principally English descent. Anglo-Saxon carries Germanic connotations by its roots in the ancient territories of present-day Germany, Angeln, the former of which England and English is ultimately derived. The W and P were added in the 1950s to form a witty epithet with an undertone of waspishness and that is, they are wealthy, they are Anglo-Saxon in origin, and they are Protestants. To their Waspishness should be added the tendency to be located on the eastern seaboard or around San Francisco, to be school and Ivy League educated. The term was popularized by sociologist and University of Pennsylvania professor E. Digby Baltzell, himself a WASP, in his 1964 book The Protestant Establishment, Aristocracy and Caste in America. The concept of Anglo Saxon and especially Anglo Saxon Protestantism evolved in the late 19th century, historian Richard Kyle says, Protestantism had not yet split into two mutually hostile camps – the liberals and fundamentalists. Of great importance, evangelical Protestantism still dominated the cultural scene, American values bore the stamp of this Anglo-Saxon Protestant ascendancy. The political, cultural, religious, and intellectual leaders of the nation were largely of a Northern European Protestant stock, before WASP came into use in the 1960s the term Anglo Saxon filled some of the same purposes. Anglo-Saxons by 1900 was often used as a synonym for all people of English descent and sometimes more generally and it was often used in claims for the superiority of the Anglo-Saxon race, much to the annoyance of outsiders. For example, Josiah Strong boasted in 1890, In 1700 this race numbered less than 6,000,000 souls. In 1800, Anglo-Saxons had increased to about 20,500,000, like the newer term WASP, the old term Anglo-Saxon was used derisively by writers hostile to an informal alliance between Britain and the U. S. The negative use was common among Irish Americans and writers in France. It also remains in use in Ireland as a term for the British or English, Irish-American humorist Finley Peter Dunne popularized the ridicule of Anglo Saxon, even calling President Theodore Roosevelt one. To be genuinely Irish is to challenge WASP dominance, argues California politician Tom Hayden, the depiction of the Irish in the films of John Ford was a counterpoint to WASP standards of rectitude
16.
Wicomico High School
–
Wicomico High School is a high school located in Salisbury, Wicomico County, Maryland. It is one of four high schools in Wicomico County along with James M. Bennett High School, Mardela Middle and High School. Wicomico High School currently enrolls grades 9 through 12 and its mascot is the Indian and its colors are blue and gold. The current campus on Long Avenue replaced Wicomico High School on East Main Street, the replaced facility is now Wicomico Middle School. The Long Avenue campus was completed in 1954 at a price of 1.5 million dollars, at that time the school became known as Wicomico Senior High School. An administration building and an auditorium were added in 1975 and 1976, additionally, extensive renovations were completed in 1995. At that time, Wicomico Senior High School was renamed Wicomico High School
17.
Washington College
–
Washington College is a private, independent liberal arts college located on a 112-acre campus in Chestertown, Maryland, on the Eastern Shore. Maryland granted Washington College its charter in 1782, Washington College is the 10th-oldest college in the United States and was the first college chartered after American independence. The school became coeducational in 1891 and he later served on Washington Colleges Board of Visitors and Governors — his only such involvement with an institution of higher learning during his lifetime. Joining General Washington on the Board of Visitors and Governors of the new college were such distinguished figures as U. S, senator John Henry, Congressman Joshua Seney and his Excellency William Paca, Governor of Maryland. The Maryland legislature granted its first college charter upon Washington College in May 1782, the following spring, on May 14,1783, the college held its first commencement. President Smith had envisaged Washington College as the Eastern Shore Campus of a public University of Maryland with St. Since Washington’s last visit to campus, Washington College has hosted five U. S. presidents, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry S Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and George H. W. Bush. The original college building cornerstone was laid in May 1783, it opened in 1788 after selling off acreage, the hall was still incomplete by 1794 and was destroyed by a basement fire January 11,1827. The oldest existing building, Middle Hall, was erected in 1844 on the site of the college building. By 1860, Middle Hall was joined by East and West Halls, all three structures, known as the Hill Dorms, are on the Maryland Register of Historic Places. For the 2011-2012 academic year,56. 6% of applicants were accepted to the college, approximately 1,400 undergraduates and 100 graduate students attend Washington College,47 percent from Maryland and the balance from 35 other states and forty foreign nations. Approximately 8 percent of the American undergraduates are minority students and approximately 8 percent are international citizens, approximately 5 percent of the colleges student body is non-traditional. Approximately 80 percent of all live in college residence halls. Tuition for the 2012-2013 year is $39,208 and total expenses per annum are $48,768, approximately 85 percent of the student body receives some form of need-based financial aid or merit-based scholarship award. The cost of attendance has been rising in recent years, with the overall costs increasing by roughly $2,000 per year, in 2015, Washington College was ranked by The Princeton Review as 16th in the United States among Colleges With The Happiest Students In 2015-16. In the 2011 edition of U. S. News & World Report Best Colleges, each year, Washington College awards the nations largest undergraduate literary prize. Since 1968, the Sophie Kerr Prize has been presented to one graduating senior who demonstrates the greatest literary promise. The endowment created by Sophie Kerr, a writer who published 23 novels, at a ceremony held at the Poets House in New York City on May 17,2011, Lisa Jones was selected as the winner of the $61,000 Sophie Kerr Prize
18.
Chestertown, Maryland
–
Chestertown is a town in Kent County, Maryland, United States. The population was 5,252 at the 2010 census and it is the county seat of Kent County. Founded in 1706, Chestertown rose in stature when it was named one of the English colony of Marylands six Royal Ports of Entry, the shipping boom that followed this designation made the town at the navigable head of the Chester River wealthy. In the mid-eighteenth century, Chestertown trailed only Annapolis and was considered Marylands second leading port, a burgeoning merchant class infused riches into the town, reflected in the many brick mansions and townhouses that sprung up along the waterfront. Another area in which Chestertown is second only to Annapolis is in its number of existing eighteenth century homes, as of the 1790 census, Chestertown was the geographical center of population of the United States. Chestertown was incorporated in 1805, and was named for the Chester River. Airy Hill, the Bernice J.25, Grand Army of the Republic, Thornton, Washington College, Middle, East and West Halls, Chestertown is located at 39°13′10″N 76°4′6″W. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has an area of 2.91 square miles. As of the first US Census in 1790, Chestertown was the center of the nations population. The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and cool, according to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Chestertown has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated Cfa on climate maps. As of the census of 2010, there were 5,252 people,1,971 households, the population density was 2,020.0 inhabitants per square mile. There were 2,361 housing units at a density of 908.1 per square mile. The racial makeup of the town was 74. 2% White,20. 4% African American,0. 3% Native American,1. 8% Asian,1. 0% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 4. 2% of the population. 42. 2% of all households were made up of individuals and 22. 3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.00 and the average family size was 2.65. The median age in the town was 34.9 years. 12. 4% of residents were under the age of 18,28. 7% were between the ages of 18 and 24,16. 4% were from 25 to 44,19. 1% were from 45 to 64, and 23. 6% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the town was 43. 1% male and 56. 9% female, as of the census of 2000, there were 4,746 people,1,891 households, and 945 families residing in the town. The population density was 1,818.1 people per square mile, there were 2,164 housing units at an average density of 829.0 per square mile
19.
Lee Strasberg
–
Lee Strasberg was a Polish-born American actor, director, and theatre practitioner. He was born in a part of Galicia, Austrian Poland and he co founded, with directors Harold Clurman and Cheryl Crawford, the Group Theatre in 1931, which was hailed as Americas first true theatrical collective. The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute has its own sets of entrance criteria required for admission into their program. Former student Elia Kazan directed James Dean in East of Eden, as a student, Dean wrote that Actors Studio was the greatest school of the theater the best thing that can happen to an actor. Playwright Tennessee Williams, writer of A Streetcar Named Desire, said of Strasbergs actors and they communicate emotions they really feel. They give you a sense of life, directors such as Sidney Lumet, a former student, have intentionally used actors skilled in Strasbergs method. Kazan, in his autobiography, wrote, He carried with him the aura of a prophet, a magician, a doctor, a psychoanalyst. Was the force held the thirty-odd members of the theatre together. Today, Ellen Burstyn, Al Pacino, and Harvey Keitel lead this nonprofit studio dedicated to the development of actors, playwrights and he also appeared in. And Justice for All. Strasbergs personal papers, including photos, are archived at the Library of Congress, Lee Strasberg was born Israel Strassberg in Budzanów in Austrian Poland, to Jewish parents, Baruch Meyer Strassberg and his wife, Ida, née Diner, and was the youngest of three sons. His father emigrated to New York while his family remained in their village with an uncle. His father, who worked as a presser in the garment industry, sent first for his eldest son, finally, enough money was saved to bring over his wife and his two remaining sons. In 1909, the family was reunited on Manhattans Lower East Side, a relative introduced him to the theater by giving him a small part in a Yiddish-language production being performed by the Progressive Drama Club. He later joined the Chrystie Street Settlement Houses drama club, when he was 23 years old, he enrolled in the Clare Tree Major School of the Theater. He became a naturalized United States citizen on January 16,1939, had his life-shaping revelation when Stanislavski brought his Moscow Art Theatre to the United States in 1923. He had seen good acting before, of course, but never an ensemble like this with actors completely surrendering their egos to the work. E observed, first of all, that all the actors, whether they were playing leads or small parts, worked with the same commitment, no actors idled about posing and preening. More important, every actor seemed to some sort of unspoken, yet palpable
20.
Secrets of Midland Heights
–
Secrets of Midland Heights is an American nighttime soap opera which ran on CBS from December 6,1980 to January 24,1981 for eight episodes. Produced after the success of Dallas, Lorimar Productions likewise produced the new serial for CBS, aired on Saturday night at 10 PM EST/9 PM Central, the series never found an audience and was canceled after eight episodes. The show resembled a dark, 1980s-style Peyton Place, both dealing with hidden secrets and scandalous affairs in a small town, there were also power struggles between the wealthy Millington family, consisting of leading citizen Margaret and her son Guy, and the equally wealthy and powerful Wheelers. The Millington family had one of the founding families of Midland Heights. The show was produced by David Jacobs, Lee Rich and Michael Filerman, all of whom were connected in production to other serial dramas like Flamingo Road and Knots Landing. When Secrets of Midland Heights was pulled from the schedule, the stated that the show would be retooled. Many of the performers and production staff returned to ABC the following season in the different serial Kings Crossing. After the demise of the series, actor Lorenzo Lamas would join the cast of the soap, Falcon Crest playing Lance Cumson, marilyn Jones / Linda Grovernor Burt Carroll. Morris, Prime Time Network Serials, Episode Guides, Casts and Credits for 37 Continuing Television Dramas, 1964-1993, McFarland and Company,1997
21.
Tag: The Assassination Game
–
TAG, The Assassination Game is a 1982 film directed by Nick Castle and starring Robert Carradine and Linda Hamilton in her first feature film starring role. It is based on the game Assassin and it was also released under the title Everybody Gets it in the End. One student, Loren Gersh lives purely to play the game with his expertise in killing all of his opponents, when one of his cringing victims accidentally drops his dart gun, it goes off and hits Gersh, killing him. Faced with the embarrassment of losing his reputation by a geek getting lucky, Gersh really kills his opponent, setting him on the goal to use actual weapons and his opponents in the game are unaware of Gershs new rules. Gersh slowly transforms from a student to a James Bond-type killer. One of Gershs planned victims is Susan Swayze, played by Linda Hamilton, the two performers met on the set of the film and subsequently married. Tag, The Assassination Game at the Internet Movie Database Tag, The Assassination Game at Rotten Tomatoes
22.
Loni Anderson
–
Loni Kaye Anderson is an American actress. She is known for her run as receptionist Jennifer Marlowe on the sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati. Anderson was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, the daughter of Maxine Hazel, a model, and Klaydon Carl Andy Anderson, an environmental chemist, and grew up in suburban Roseville. As a senior at Alexander Ramsey Senior High School in Roseville in 1963 and she attended the University of Minnesota. So it was changed to simply Loni and her acting debut came with a bit part in the 1966 film Nevada Smith, starring Steve McQueen. After that, she went virtually unemployed as an actress for nearly a decade and she appeared in two episodes of S. W. A. T. and later appeared on the sitcom Phyllis, as well as the detective shows Police Woman and Harry O. In 1978, she guest-starred as Susan Walters on a two episode of the popular sitcom Threes Company. Her appearance on the show brought her to the attention of the ABC network, Andersons most famous acting role came as the sultry receptionist Jennifer Marlowe on the sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati. She was offered the role when producers saw the poster of her in a red swimsuit—a pose similar to Farrah Fawcetts famous 1976 pin-up. The sitcoms creator, Hugh Wilson, later admitted Anderson got the part because her body resembled Jayne Mansfield and because she possessed the innocent sexuality of Marilyn Monroe. Although the series suffered in the Nielsen ratings throughout the majority of its run, it had a strong and loyal following among teenagers, young adults. Owing to her popularity as the shows so-called main attraction, Anderson walked out on the sitcom during the 1980 summer hiatus. During her hiatus, while she was renegotiating her contract, she starred as blonde bombshell Jayne Mansfield in the CBS made-for-television film The Jayne Mansfield Story, after the network agreed to her requests, Anderson returned to the show and remained with it until its cancellation in 1982. The series has remained popular in syndication around the world. Aside from her career, Anderson has become known for her colorful personal life, particularly her relationship. They starred in the comedy film Stroker Ace, which was a critical and she later appeared as herself in the romantic comedy The Lonely Guy, starring Steve Martin. She voiced Flo, a collie in the classic film All Dogs Go to Heaven. In the mid-to-late 1980s, Andersons acting career gradually declined and she was teamed with Wonder Woman actress Lynda Carter in the critically panned television series, Partners in Crime in 1984
23.
Earl Holliman
–
Henry Earl Holliman is an American actor. He is well known for his character roles in films, mostly westerns and dramas, in the 1950s and 1960s. He also portrayed the role of Police Sergeant Bill Crowley on the police drama Police Woman throughout its 1974–1978 run. Earl Holliman was born in Delhi in the Richland Parish of northeastern Louisiana, holliman’s biological father died six months before he was born, and his biological mother, living in poverty with several other children, gave him up for adoption at birth. He was adopted from an orphanage a week after his birth by Henry Holliman, an oil-field worker, earls early years were normal until his adoptive father died when Earl was 13. He saved money from his job ushering at a theater and left Shreveport, Louisiana. Unsuccessful at finding work, he returned to Louisiana. Meanwhile, his mother had remarried, and Holliman disliked his new stepfather. He lied about his age and enlisted in the United States Navy during World War II, assigned to a Navy communications school in Los Angeles, he spent his free time at the Hollywood Canteen, talking to stars who dropped by to support the servicemen and women. A year after he enlisted, the Navy discovered his real age, Holliman returned home and finished high school. As soon as he was old enough, he re-enlisted in the Navy and was stationed in Norfolk, interested in acting, he was cast as the lead in several Norfolk Navy Theatre productions. When he left the Navy for good, Holliman studied acting at the Pasadena Playhouse and he also graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles. Holliman first appeared, uncredited, in three 1953 films, Holliman played a doomed helicopter crewman in the William Holden war drama The Bridges at Toko-Ri and a gangsters double-crossed thug in The Big Combo. He co-starred with Jack Palance in the crime drama I Died a Thousand Times, in his award-winning performance opposite Katharine Hepburn and Burt Lancaster in The Rainmaker, he played a ranchers timid son who finally must defy his father to gain self-respect. He was the soft-spoken son-in-law of a rancher in the western saga Giant. Holliman would play many roles set in the American west, Holliman played a corrupt Atlanta politician in the 1981 crime drama, Sharkys Machine, starring and directed by Burt Reynolds. He also had the distinction of appearing in the episode of CBSs The Twilight Zone. Which aired on October 2, 1959— the same night as the premiere of Hotel de Paree, in 1962, he and Claude Akins guest-starred as feuding brothers in The Stubborn Stumbos episode of Marilyn Maxwells ABC drama series Bus Stop
24.
Horror fiction
–
Horror is a genre of fiction which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten, scare, disgust, or startle their readers or viewers by inducing feelings of horror and terror. Literary historian J. A. Cuddon has defined the horror story as a piece of fiction in prose of variable length, which shocks or even frightens the reader, or perhaps induces a feeling of repulsion or loathing. It creates an eerie and frightening atmosphere, Horror is frequently supernatural, though it can be non-supernatural. Often the central menace of a work of fiction can be interpreted as a metaphor for the larger fears of a society. The genre of horror has ancient origins with roots in folklore and religious traditions, focusing on death, the afterlife, evil, the demonic and these were manifested in stories of beings such as witches, vampires, werewolves and ghosts. 18th century Gothic horror drew on these sources with the seminal and controversial The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole and this marked the first incorporated elements of the supernatural instead of pure realism. In fact, the first edition was published disguised as a medieval romance from Italy discovered and republished by a fictitious translator. Once revealed as contemporary, many found it anachronistic, reactionary, or simply in poor taste — but it proved to be immediately popular. That first novel of Gothic horror inspired such works as Vathek by William Beckford, A Sicilian Romance, The Mysteries of Udolpho and The Italian by Ann Radcliffe and The Monk by Matthew Lewis. A significant amount of fiction of this era was written by women and marketed at a female audience. The Gothic tradition blossomed into the modern readers call horror literature in the 19th century. Each of these novels and novellas created an icon of horror seen in modern re-imaginings on the stage. The proliferation of periodicals, as early as the turn of the century. One writer who specialized in fiction for mainstream pulps such as All-Story Magazine was Tod Robbins, whose fiction dealt with themes of madness. Later, specialist publications emerged to give horror writers an outlet, including Weird Tales, influential horror writers of the early 20th century made inroads in these mediums. Early cinema was inspired by aspects of horror literature, and early horror cinema started a strong tradition of horror films. This imagery made these comics controversial, and as a consequence they were frequently censored, many modern novels claim an early description of the living dead in a precursor to the modern zombie tale, including Dennis Wheatleys Strange Conflict, H. P. Lovecraft stories such as Cool Air, In The Vault, richard Mathesons novel I Am Legend would also influence an entire genre of apocalyptic zombie fiction emblematic of the films of George A. Romero
25.
Stephen King
–
Stephen Edwin King is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. His books have more than 350 million copies, many of which have been adapted into feature films, miniseries, television shows. King has published 54 novels, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman and he has written nearly 200 short stories, most of which have been collected in book collections. Many of his stories are set in his state of Maine. His novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption was the basis for the movie The Shawshank Redemption which is regarded as one of the greatest films of all time. King has received Bram Stoker Awards, World Fantasy Awards, and his novella The Way Station was a Nebula Award novelette nominee. In 2003, the National Book Foundation awarded him the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters and his short story The Man in the Black Suit received the O. Henry Award. In 2015, King was awarded with a National Medal of Arts from the United States National Endowment for the Arts for his contributions to literature, King was born September 21,1947, in Portland, Maine. His father, Donald Edwin King, was born circa 1913 in Peru, Indiana, when Donald was born, his surname was Pollock, but as an adult, he used the surname King. Kings mother, Nellie Ruth, was born in Scarborough, Maine, Donald and Nellie were married July 23,1939, in Cumberland County, Maine. The family moved to De Pere, Wisconsin, Fort Wayne, Indiana, when King was 11, the family returned to Durham, Maine, where his mother cared for her parents until their deaths. She then became a caregiver in a residential facility for the mentally challenged. King was raised Methodist and remains religious as an adult, as a child, King apparently witnessed one of his friends being struck and killed by a train, though he has no memory of the event. His family told him that leaving home to play with the boy, King returned, speechless. Only later did the family learn of the friends death, some commentators have suggested that this event may have psychologically inspired some of Kings darker works, but King makes no mention of it in his memoir On Writing. King related in detail his primary inspiration for writing fiction in his non-fiction Danse Macabre. King compares his uncles successfully dowsing for water using the bough of a branch with the sudden realization of what he wanted to do for a living. King told Barnes & Noble Studios during a 2009 interview, I knew that Id found home when I read that book, King attended Durham Elementary School and graduated from Lisbon Falls High School, in Lisbon Falls, Maine
26.
Box office
–
A box office or ticket office is a place where tickets are sold to the public for admission to an event. Patrons may perform the transaction at a countertop, through a hole in a wall or window, or at a wicket. By extension, the term is used, especially in the context of the film industry, as a synonym for the amount of business a particular production, such as a film or theatre show. Box office business can be measured in terms of the number of tickets sold or the amount of money raised by ticket sales, the projection and analysis of these earnings is very important for the creative industries and often a source of interest for fans. This is predominant in the Hollywood movie industry, the term is attested since 1786, presumably from sales of boxes. The sense of total sales is attested from 1904, however, first attestation is about 200 years later, making this highly unlikely. Some complain that film industry focus on profit has diminished the attention given to film as an art form, however, analysis of the financial success of films is very influential for the production and funding of future works. In December 2009, with its acquisition of Nielsen EDI for $15 million, measurement company Rentrak became the provider of worldwide box office ticket sales revenue. There are numerous websites that monitor box-office receipts, such as Boxoffice, Box Office India, Box Office Mojo, Koimoi, ShowBIZ Data, for a list of films which are major box-office hits, see List of highest-grossing films. Films that are considered to have been unsuccessful at the box office are called box office bombs or box office flops. For a list of films, see List of box office bombs. To determine if a movie made a profit, it is not correct to directly compare the box office gross with the production budget, the split varies from movie to movie, and the percentage for the distributor is generally higher in early weeks. Usually the distributor gets a percentage of the revenue after first deducting a house allowance or house nut and it is also common that the distributor gets either a percentage of the gross revenue, or a higher percentage of the revenue after deducting the nut, whichever is larger. The following is film industry specific terminology as defined by Box Office Mojo, for films released in North America, box office figures are usually divided between domestic, meaning the United States and Canada, and foreign which includes all other countries. Weekly box office figures are taken to be from Friday through Thursday to allow for the fact that most films are released on a Friday, a large component of this is the weekend box office, defined as the box office receipts from Friday through Sunday. In particular, the box office for the initial week of release. Theaters is the number of theaters in which the movie is showing, since a single theater may show a movie on multiple screens, the total number of screens is used as another measure. The theaters measure is used to determine whether a film is in wide release, meaning at least 600 theaters, occasionally, a film may achieve wide release after an initial limited release, Little Miss Sunshine is an example of this
27.
The Terminator
–
The Terminator is a 1984 American science fiction action film directed by James Cameron. Michael Biehn plays Kyle Reese, a soldier from the future sent back in time to protect Connor, the screenplay is credited to Cameron, along with producer Gale Anne Hurd. Executive producers John Daly and Derek Gibson of Hemdale Film Corporation were instrumental in the films financing, the Terminator topped the US box office for two weeks and helped launch Camerons film career and solidify Schwarzeneggers. It received critical acclaim, with praising its pacing, action scenes. Its success led to a franchise consisting of four sequels, a series, comic books, novels. In 2008, The Terminator was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry, being deemed culturally, historically, in 1984 Los Angeles, a cyborg assassin known as a Terminator arrives from 2029 and steals guns and clothes. Shortly afterwards, Kyle Reese, a soldier from 2029. He steals clothes and evades the police, the Terminator begins systematically killing women named Sarah Connor, whose addresses he finds in the telephone directory. He tracks the third Sarah Connor to a nightclub, but Kyle rescues her, the two steal a car and escape with the Terminator pursuing them in a police car. As they hide in a lot, Kyle explains to Sarah that an artificial intelligence defense network, known as Skynet, will become self-aware in the near future. Sarahs future son John will rally the survivors and lead a movement against Skynet. With the Resistance on the verge of victory, Skynet sent a Terminator back in time to kill Sarah before John is born, the Terminator is an efficient killing machine with a powerful metal endoskeleton and an external layer of living tissue that makes it appear human. Kyle and Sarah are apprehended by the police after another encounter with the Terminator, criminal psychologist Dr. Silberman concludes that Kyle is paranoid and delusional. The Terminator repairs his body and attacks the station, killing many police officers in his attempt to locate Sarah. Kyle and Sarah escape, steal another car and take refuge in a motel, Kyle admits that he has been in love with Sarah since John gave him a photograph of her, and they have sex. The Terminator discovers their location, and they attempt to escape in a pickup truck, in the ensuing chase, Kyle is wounded by gunfire while throwing pipe bombs at the Terminator. Enraged‚ Sarah knocks the Terminator off his motorcycle but loses control of the truck, the Terminator hijacks a tank truck and attempts to run down Sarah, but Kyle slides a pipe bomb onto the tanker, causing an explosion that burns the flesh from the Terminators endoskeleton. It pursues them to a factory, where Kyle activates machinery to confuse the Terminator and he jams his final pipe bomb into the Terminators abdomen, blowing the Terminator apart, injuring Sarah, and killing Kyle
28.
Michael Biehn
–
Michael Connell Biehn is an American actor. He is primarily known for his roles in science fiction films directed by James Cameron. Kyle Reese in The Terminator, Cpl, dwayne Hicks in Aliens and Lt. Coffey in The Abyss. He was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Actor for Aliens and his other films include The Fan, K2, Tombstone, The Rock, Megiddo, The Omega Code 2 and Planet Terror. On television, he has appeared in Hill Street Blues and Adventure Inc, Biehn was born in Anniston, Alabama, the second of three children of Marcia and Don Biehn, a lawyer. He is of part German descent, when he was young, he moved with his family to Lincoln, Nebraska, and then to Lake Havasu, Arizona, where he was a member of the high school drama club before graduating. He attended the program at the University of Arizona, where he was a member of the Sigma Nu Fraternity before moving to Hollywood. Michael Biehn got his start in movies with a bit part in the version of Grease in 1978. He appears in two scenes, in the more memorable of which John Travoltas character, Danny, hits Biehns uncredited character in the stomach while playing basketball. In 1981, he played a stalker in The Fan, at the time the film was shot, he was in his mid-20s, victim Lauren Bacall was more than 30 years his senior. After a few films, Biehn played Kyle Reese, a sergeant sent back in time by John Connor to save his mother, Sarah Connor. He starred in two films directed by James Cameron, Aliens and The Abyss, and had a small role in Terminator 2. In an early draft of Alien 3 written by William Gibson, Biehns character Hicks was to become the protagonist, however, Walter Hill and David Giler penned the final script, which had Hicks killed off in the opening scene. Biehn, upon learning of his characters demise, demanded and received almost as much money for the use of his likeness in one scene as he had paid for his role in Aliens. Biehn reprised the role of Hicks by voicing the character in Aliens, Biehn played the role of Johnny Ringo in Tombstone with the showdown scene with Val Kilmer as Doc Holiday. He also starred in three TV series including the CBS drama The Magnificent Seven, the Tribune Entertainment syndicated TV series Adventure Inc. all three shows were subsequently cancelled because of low ratings. Biehn, who said he was encouraged by Robert Rodriguez while on the set of Planet Terror to make his own film, has produced, written, directed and starred in The Victim, the year before he was the first director on The Blood Bond. His first wife was actress Carlene Olson, whom he married on July 11,1980 and they had twin sons, Devon and Taylor and divorced in 1987
29.
Black Moon Rising
–
Black Moon Rising is an action film made in 1986 directed by Harley Cokliss and written by John Carpenter. The focus of the film was the theft of a vehicle called the Black Moon. Black Moon Rising stars Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Hamilton and Robert Vaughn, sam Quint is a former thief hired by the FBI to steal a computer disk which contains incriminating evidence against The Lucky Dollar Corporation of Las Vegas. After stealing the disk, Quint is pursued by Marvin Ringer, another former thief, at the same time, a prototype vehicle called the Black Moon, which can reach speeds of 325 MPH and runs on tap water, is being tested in the desert by Earl Windom. Quint and Windom later cross paths at a gas station, where Quint hides the disk in the bumper of the Black Moon. Windom is hauling the Black Moon to Los Angeles, and Quint, still being pursued by Ringer and his men, follows Windom and his team there. Now in LA, Quint meets with FBI agent Johnson, and he demands double pay, afterward, Quint tracks down Windom and the Black Moon at a posh restaurant, where Windom is negotiating a deal to sell the prototype to a car manufacturer. Before Quint can get to the disk, a group of thieves, led by Nina, steals all of the cars in the parking lot. Quint gives chase, and tracks the cars to an office tower, inside the garage, Quint is seen on the security cameras, but nobody recognizes him. Back at the restaurant, Quint meets Johnson again, Johnson says he needs the disk in three days or the governments case against The Lucky Dollar will be thrown out of court. He also tells Quint that if he fails to deliver the disk, Quint then goes to Windom and his team and asks for their help in getting the car back, but they refuse, insisting that they go to the police first. After getting the blueprints for the towers from city hall, Quint begins staking them out, the Nyland Towers are a pair of office buildings built by Ed Nyland, who is also the head of the stolen car syndicate. The basement of the towers is a chop shop, and Nyland keeps the best cars for himself. He scolds Nina for stealing a car he cant possibly resell nor does he want it, after seeing Nina leave the towers, Quint follows her to a nightclub. At the club, they meet and go to her apartment and they have sex, then he tells her that he wants the funny looking car back and he wants her to help. She doesnt say no, but doesnt say yes either, later, Windom and his team go to the towers to look for evidence to give to the police. Nylands goons kill one of the members, so they go back to Quint. Meanwhile, Ringer has tracked down Quint, and he and his men attack him, Quint is able to kill two of the henchmen, but Ringer gets away
30.
Tommy Lee Jones
–
Tommy Lee Jones is an American actor and filmmaker. He has received four Academy Award nominations, winning Best Supporting Actor for his performance as U. S, marshal Samuel Gerard in the 1993 thriller film The Fugitive. Early in his career, Jones first gained recognition for his role as Dr. Mark Toland on the soap opera One Life to Live for six years. Jones was born on September 15,1946, in San Saba and his mother, Lucille Marie, was a police officer, school teacher, and beauty shop owner, and his father, Clyde C. Jones, was an oil field worker, the two were married and divorced twice. He was raised in Midland, Texas and attended Robert E. Lee High School, Jones soon moved to Dallas and graduated from the St. Marks School of Texas in 1965, which he attended on scholarship and he attended Harvard College on a need-based scholarship. He stayed in Mower B-12 as a freshman, across the hall from future Vice President Al Gore, as an upperclassman, he stayed in Dunster House with roommates Gore and Bob Somerby, who later became editor of the media criticism site the Daily Howler. He recounts his memory of the most famous game in Ivy League history in the documentary Harvard Beats Yale 29-29. Jones graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in English in 1969, Jones moved to New York to become an actor, making his Broadway debut in 1969s A Patriot for Me in a number of supporting roles. In 1970 he landed his first film role, coincidentally playing a Harvard student in Love Story, in early 1971, he returned to Broadway in Abe Burrows Four on a Garden where he shared the stage with Carol Channing and Sid Caesar. Between 1971 and 1975 he portrayed Dr. Mark Toland on the ABC soap opera and he returned to the stage for a 1974 production of Ulysses in Nighttown with Zero Mostel. It was followed by the acclaimed TV movie The Amazing Howard Hughes, in 1981, he played a drifter opposite Sally Field in Back Roads, a comedy that received middling reviews. In 1983, he received an Emmy for Best Actor for his performance as murderer Gary Gilmore in a TV adaptation of Norman Mailers The Executioners Song and that same year he starred in a pirate adventure, Nate and Hayes, playing the heavily-bearded pirate Captain Bully Hayes. In 1989, he earned another Emmy nomination for his portrayal of Texas Ranger lawman Woodrow F, call in the acclaimed television mini-series Lonesome Dove, based on the best-seller by Larry McMurtry. Marshal Samuel Gerard in The Fugitive received broad acclaim and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, actually Im lucky to be working. Jones co-starred with director Clint Eastwood as astronauts in the 2000 film Space Cowboys, in 2005, the first theatrical feature film Jones directed, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, was presented at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. Joness character speaks both English and Spanish in the film and his performance won him the Best Actor Award
31.
Murder, She Wrote
–
Murder, She Wrote is an American crime drama television series starring Angela Lansbury as mystery writer and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher. The series aired for 12 seasons with 264 episodes from 1984 to 1996 on the CBS network and it was followed by four TV films and an unsuccessful spin-off series, which was produced in 1987, The Law & Harry McGraw. In syndication, the series is highly successful throughout the world. Lansbury was nominated for ten Golden Globes and 12 Emmy Awards for her work on Murder, the series received three nominations but no wins in the Outstanding Drama Series category at the Emmys. It was nominated for a Golden Globe in the same six times. After the series finished in 1996, four TV movies were released between 1997 and 2003, in 2009, a point-and-click video game was released for the PC platform, followed in 2012 by a sequel. A spin-off book series, written by Donald Bain, continues publication at present, earlier, she had acted in two film adaptations of Agatha Christies mystery novels, as Salome Otterbourne in Death on the Nile and as the famous sleuth Miss Marple in The Mirror Crackd. With Murder, She Wrote debuting on Sunday, September 30,1984 and it also made Lansbury, known previously for her motion picture and Broadway stage work, a household name for millions of television viewers. The title comes from Murder, She Said, which was the title of a 1961 film adaptation of Agatha Christies Miss Marple novel 4,50 from Paddington. The show revolves around the life of Jessica Fletcher, a childless. Despite fame and fortune, Jessica remains a resident of Cabot Cove, a coastal community in Maine. Exterior shots of Cabot Cove were filmed in Mendocino, California, the show mostly starts with a preview of the episodes events, with Jessica stating, Tonight On Murder, She Wrote. Jessica invariably proves more perceptive than the official investigators of a case, by carefully piecing the clues together and asking astute questions, she always manages to trap the real murderer. Murder occurred with regularity in her vicinity that the term Cabot Cove syndrome was coined to describe the constant appearance of dead bodies in remote locations. Jessicas relationship with law enforcement officials varies from place to place, both sheriffs of Cabot Cove resign themselves to having her meddle in their cases. However, most detectives and police officers do not want her anywhere near their crime scenes, some are happy to have her assistance from the start, often because they are fans of her books. With time, she makes friends in many departments across the U. S. as well as with a British police officer attached to Scotland Yard. At the start of eight, more of the stories were set in New York City with Jessica moving into an apartment there part-time in order to teach criminology
32.
Ron Perlman
–
Ronald N. Ron Perlman is an American actor and voice actor. His mother, Dorothy, was an employee, and his father, Bertram Bert Perlman, was a jazz drummer. Perlman said in 1988, It was not a bad childhood, I was terribly overweight as a young kid, and it was sort of a low self image. He cited this experience as one thing that attracts him to roles where he portrays these sorts of deformed people who are very endearing, Perlman is of Hungarian Jewish and Polish Jewish descent. His parents are Jewish, and he had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony, Perlman attended George Washington High School and Lehman College in 1971, which did not have a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre available at that time. He has said that he and his father were close and that it was his father, after seeing Perlman in a college production of Guys and Dolls. Perlman later said, So, he gave me permission to be an actor, Perlman attended the University of Minnesota, where he graduated with a masters degree in theater arts in 1973. Perlman started his career as a actor, appearing in various productions. Annaud later revealed that when he contacted Perlman to ask him about playing Salvatore in The Name of the Rose and this earned him a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series in 1989. He went on to roles in many films and television series throughout the 1980s and 1990s as well as the 2000s. His appearances in television series include Highlander, The Series, The Outer Limits, The Magnificent Seven, and Hand of God and he played his first leading film role in 1995, when he played One in Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caros French-language The City of Lost Children. In 2003, Perlman starred in a commercial for Stella Artois beer and this commercial, which was called Devils Island, won a Silver Award at the 2003 British Advertising Awards. He got another leading role in 2004 when he played the title role in the comic book adaptation Hellboy. Perlman reprised his role as Hellboy in the straight to DVD animated features Hellboy, Sword of Storms and Hellboy, Blood and Iron as well as Hellboy II, The Golden Army, released on July 11,2008. In 2008, Perlman joined the cast of the TV show Sons of Anarchy on FX playing Clay Morrow, Perlman is known for playing roles that require extensive make-up, some to the point where his entire body is covered or his face requires full facial prosthetics. Moreau where he plays a half man/half animal, Star Trek, Nemesis in which he is the Reman viceroy. He even gave his Beauty and The Beast co-star Armin Shimerman advice when Shimerman was going to be in full-facial prosthetics guest-starring as a Ferengi on Star Trek, The Next Generation. Perlman also has a career as a voice actor in addition to his onscreen acting, having portrayed characters in numerous video games
33.
Michael Caine
–
Sir Michael Caine, CBE is an English actor and author. Renowned for his working class cockney accent, Caine has appeared in over 115 films and is regarded as a British film icon. His most notable roles in the 1970s included Get Carter, The Last Valley, Sleuth, for which he earned his second Academy Award nomination, The Man Who Would Be King, and A Bridge Too Far. He achieved some of his greatest critical success in the 1980s, with Educating Rita earning him the BAFTA, in 1986, he received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Woody Allens Hannah and Her Sisters. Caine played Ebenezer Scrooge in The Muppet Christmas Carol, Caine played Nigel Powers in the 2002 parody Austin Powers in Goldmember, and Alfred Pennyworth in Christopher Nolans The Dark Knight Trilogy. He appeared in other of Nolans films including The Prestige, Inception. He also appeared as a character in Alfonso Cuaróns Children of Men. As of February 2017, films in which he has starred have grossed over $3.5 billion domestically, Caine is ranked the eleventh highest grossing box office star. Caine is one of two actors nominated for an Academy Award for acting in every decade from the 1960s to 2000s. In 2000, Caine was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in recognition of his contribution to cinema. Caine was born in St Olaves Hospital in Rotherhithe, London, the son of Maurice Joseph Micklewhite, a market porter, and Ellen Frances Marie Burchell. His father had English, Irish, and, reportedly, Irish Traveller ancestry and he was brought up in his mothers Protestant religion. Caine had a maternal half-brother, David William Burchell and a full brother, Caine grew up in Southwark, London, and during the Second World War, he was evacuated to North Runcton near Kings Lynn in Norfolk. In 1944, he passed his eleven plus exam, winning a scholarship to Hackney Downs School, after a year there he moved to Wilsons Grammar School in Camberwell, which he left at sixteen after gaining a School Certificate in six subjects. He then worked briefly as a clerk and messenger for a film company in Victoria Street. He had gone into Korea feeling sympathetic to communism, coming as he did from a poor family, Caine would like to see the return of national service to help combat youth violence, stating, Im just saying, put them in the Army for six months. Youre there to learn how to defend your country, then when you come out, you have a sense of belonging rather than a sense of violence. Adopting the stage name Michael Scott, in July 1953 he was cast as the drunkard Hindley in the Companys production of Wuthering Heights and he moved to the Lowestoft Repertory Company in Suffolk for a year when he was 21
34.
Mr. Destiny
–
Mr. Destiny is a 1990 fantasy comedy film starring James Belushi. Other actors in film included Linda Hamilton, Michael Caine, Jon Lovitz, Courteney Cox. The story begins on the strangest day of Larry Burrows life consisting of a series of comic and dramatic misadventures and his wish is granted by a guardian angel-like figure named Mike, and appears at various times as a bartender, a cab driver, and so on. Larry soon discovers that Mike has transferred Larry into a reality in which he had won the pivotal high school game. He now finds himself rich and powerful, and married to the bosss sexy daughter Cindy Jo Bumpers, the story begins with Larrys car, an old Ford LTD station wagon, stalled out in a dark alley. Suddenly the pink lights of The Universal Joint, a bar, Larry goes inside to call a tow truck, and tells bartender Mike his troubles. He tells Mike that he wishes hed hit that last pitch out of the park, the Spilt Milk was a drink that gave him his wish that he hit that home run in that championship game. Larry leaves the bar, walks home and discovers someone else living in his house, Mike appears as a cab driver and drives him to his new home, a mansion in Forest Hills, explaining that he did in fact hit the last pitch and won the game. He soon discovers that Cindy Jo is his wife and hes the president of his company, being a classic car buff, hes shocked to find that he owns a collection of priceless antique automobiles. Larry soon discovers that Clip has a job in the accounting department and is quite insecure. Ellen is shop steward and is married to another man, Jewel, a forklift operator in the previous reality, is now Larrys mistress and his secretary. Ellen hates Larry and he discovers that the union is threatening a walkout due to layoffs and increased production. Seeing Ellen, he realizes how much he misses her and agrees to all the unions demands and she reluctantly agrees, and Larry eventually convinces her that they were married in a previous life. After discovering that Larry has agreed to demands, Niles takes revenge. He then plots to kill Larry at the office that night, however, company owner Leo Hansen arrives to deliver a note to Larry, announcing his termination, and Niles kills him by mistake. Discovering the note, Niles calls the police who attempt to arrest Larry for Leos murder, Larry escapes while jealous Jewel creates pandemonium outside in her attempts to shoot him, leading to a police chase. Larry is eventually cornered in an alley but the pink glow of The Universal Joint comes on. Unable to find Mike, Larry attempts to make the Spilt Milk himself, the flashing lights of the police cars appear and Larry surrenders but instead of cops, a tow truck driver named Duncan enters
35.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
–
Terminator 2, Judgment Day is a 1991 American science-fiction action film co-written, produced and directed by James Cameron. The film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick and it is the sequel to the 1984 film The Terminator, and the second installment in the Terminator franchise. A second, less advanced Terminator is also sent back in time to protect John, after a troubled pre-production characterized by legal disputes, Mario Kassar of Carolco Pictures emerged with the franchises property rights in early 1990. This paved the way for the completion of the screenplay by a Cameron-led production team, the production of Terminator 2 required a $102 million budget making it the most expensive film made up to that point. Much of the massive budget was spent on filming and special effects. The film was released on July 3,1991, in time for the U. S, Terminator 2 was a critical and commercial success and influenced popular culture, especially the use of visual effects in films. It received many accolades, including four Academy Awards for Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, Best Makeup, in 1995, John Connor is living in Los Angeles with foster parents. Skynet sends a new Terminator, designated as T-1000, back in time to kill John, the T-1000 arrives under a freeway, kills a policeman and assumes his identity. Meanwhile, the future John Connor has sent back a reprogrammed T-800 Terminator to protect his young counterpart, the Terminator and the T-1000 converge on John in a shopping mall, and a chase ensues after which John and the Terminator escape together on a motorcycle. Fearing that the T-1000 will kill Sarah in order to get to him and they encounter Sarah as she is escaping from the hospital, although she is initially reluctant to trust the T-800. After the trio escapes from the T-1000 in a police car, in addition, it would create machines that will hunt and kill the remnants of humanity. Finding him at his home, she wounds him but finds herself unable to kill him in front of his family, John and the Terminator arrive and inform Dyson of the future consequences of his work. They learn that much of his research has been engineered from the damaged CPU. Convincing him that these items and his designs must be destroyed, they break into the Cyberdyne building and retrieve the CPU, the police arrive and Dyson is shot, but he manages to trigger several explosives, destroying the lab and his research while sacrificing himself. The T-1000 relentlessly pursues the trio, eventually cornering them in a steel mill. The T-1000 and the Terminator engage in combat, with the advanced model severely damaging its adversary. The T-800 is seemingly shut down until its emergency back-up system brings it back online, the T-1000 nearly kills John and Sarah until the T-800 appears and shoots it into a vat of molten steel with an M79 grenade launcher, destroying it. John tosses the arm and CPU of the original Terminator into the vat as well, as Sarah expresses relief that the ordeal is over, the Terminator explains that to ensure that he is not used for reverse engineering he must also be destroyed
36.
MTV Movie & TV Awards
–
The MTV Movie & TV Awards is a film and television awards show presented annually on MTV. The nominees are decided by producers and executives at MTV, winners are decided online by the general public. Presently voting is done through MTVs official website through a special Movie Awards link at movieawards. mtv. com, the most recent award show took place on April 9,2016. Winners are presented with the golden statue, made by New York firm. Unlike its sister event MTV Video Music Awards, the MTV Movie Awards were taped, the entire production was taped in a completely different order than what the MTV viewing audience saw. For example, the shows host would tape all his/her monologues and introductions at one time, celebrities would often only appear at the live taping for the announcement of their award category, and members of the general audience fill their vacant seats during the other times. Through editing, MTV was able to present to its audience a awards show which appears to be taped in live sequence. This method of production allowed profanity to be edited from the show, the actual live taping aired same-day on pay-per-view channels in most metropolitan cities around the world. Some awards telecasts had also shown in television syndication. However, in 2007, this changed, as MTV and Survivor producer Mark Burnett announced that the 2007 edition would be broadcast live on MTV for the first time on June 3,2007 in Los Angeles. The 2016 broadcast was the first show since 2006 not to air live as the event was taped on April 9,2016 before airing on Viacoms MTV networks the following day on April 10. Since 2007, polls for several awards were voted by users on MTVs official website. Prior to announcing the winner MTV would air testimonials from major Hollywood celebrities praising the winners greatness while only offering a slight tease as to who the winner was, following Clint Howards win and emotional reaction the award was discontinued. The MTV Generation Award is the successor to the MTV Lifetime Achievement Award, the recipient of the award is celebrated for great achievement in movies. The distinction is given to an artist who has shown us a variety of roles, a personal and professional flair and of course. 2016, Will Smith The Silver Bucket of Excellence is an award that was given to a film that has made lasting impact on moviegoers and it was further defined in 2006 as honoring a film of the past that resonates with even more meaning today. The award is given to an actor of young age that managed to inspire others with a portfolio of work. Emma Stone was awarded the first MTV Trailblazer Award on 2012,2013, Will Ferrell 2015, Kevin Hart 2016, Melissa McCarthy Since 1993, scenes are spoofed, mostly from that years most popular films, although television shows and older movies have also been chosen
37.
T2 3-D: Battle Across Time
–
T2 3-D, Battle Across Time is an attraction at various Universal Studios parks around the world including those in Florida and Japan. The version of the show at Universal Studios Hollywood closed in 2012, the initial planning for T2 3-D, Battle Across Time began in the early 1990s. It was originally developed for Universal Studios Florida, with producers pushing for an installation in Universal Studios Hollywood during development. The original attraction cost a total of $60 million, with a total run time of 12 minutes, the film alone cost $24 million, making it one of the most expensive films per minute in the world. The attraction opened in the Hollywood area of Universal Studios Florida on April 27,1996, additional venues were later announced for Universal Studios Hollywood and the upcoming Universal Studios Japan theme park. Construction for the Hollywood venue forced the closure of Fievels Playland and An American Tail Theatre, the attraction opened on the Upper Lot of Universal Studios Hollywood on May 6,1999. The Terminator stage was used for the annual Halloween Horror Nights event, with The Rocky Horror Picture Show. At Universal Studios Japan, the attraction was added as one of the attractions in the New York section of the park. It opened to the public on March 31,2001, california-based firm Technifex provided special effects and show equipment for the attraction. In late 2012, Universal Studios Hollywood announced that their version would close on December 31,2012 and it was later announced Despicable Me, Minion Mayhem would replace the attraction. The queue features dozens of monitors that show a series of video segments about the latest innovations. Just before entering the auditorium, guests pass an unmanned kiosk where they pick up a pair of safety visors for use during the main show. The pre-show is hosted in the Miles Bennett Dyson Memorial Auditorium by Kimberley Duncan and other Cyberdyne Systems Directors of Community Relations, here, the audience stands and views a promotional video about Cyberdynes numerous technological innovations, which includes several references to the Terminator universe. However, footage from the old pre-show, like the parts with John and Sarah Connor interrupting the presentation to warn the guests, remain. Guests are ushered from the auditorium into a large theater that seats 700 where they are to see a demonstration of Cyberdynes newest creation. Once guests are seated, they are told to put on their safety visors to watch a demonstration of the Terminators in action, however, John and Sarah arrive and disrupt the proceedings, followed by a T-1000 Terminator from the future, whom they engage with automatic-weapons. Kimberley Duncan is killed by the T-1000 while attempting to stop it and he takes John back through the portal and into the future war between humans and machines, with the T-1000 in pursuit. After defeating it, John and the Terminator make their way across the war ravaged landscape as they head towards Skynet, along the way, they are chased by a Flying Hunter-Killer, four mini Hunter-Killers, and a Terminator endoskeleton
38.
People (magazine)
–
People is an American weekly magazine of celebrity and human-interest stories, published by Time Inc. With a readership of 46.6 million adults, People has the largest audience of any American magazine, People had $997 million in advertising revenue in 2011, the highest advertising revenue of any American magazine. In 2006, it had a circulation of 3.75 million and it was named Magazine of the Year by Advertising Age in October 2005, for excellence in editorial, circulation and advertising. People ranked #6 on Advertising Ages annual A-list and #3 on Adweeks Brand Blazers list in October 2006, the magazine runs a roughly 50/50 mix of celebrity and human-interest articles. Peoples website, People. com, focuses on celebrity news, in February 2015, the website broke a new record,72 million unique visitors. People is perhaps best known for its special issues naming the Worlds Most Beautiful, Best & Worst Dressed. The magazines headquarters are in New York and it maintains editorial bureaus in Los Angeles, for economic reasons it closed bureaus in Austin, Miami, and Chicago in 2006. In December 2016, LaTavia Roberson engaged in a feud with People after alleging they misquoted and misrepresented her interview online. The concept for People has been attributed to Andrew Heiskell, Time Inc. s chief executive officer at the time, the founding managing editor of People was Richard B. Stolley, an assistant managing editor at Life and the journalist who acquired the Zapruder tapes of the John F. Kennedy assassination for Time Inc. in 1963. Peoples first publisher was Richard J. Durrell, another Time Inc. veteran, Stolley characterized the magazine as getting back to the people who are causing the news and who are caught up in it, or deserve to be in it. Our focus is on people, not issues, stolleys almost religious determination to keep the magazine people-focused contributed significantly to its rapid early success. It is said that although Time Inc. pumped an estimated $40 million into the venture, initially, the magazine was sold primarily on newsstands and in supermarkets. To get the magazine out each week, founding staff members regularly slept on the floor of their offices two or three nights each week and severely limited all non-essential outside engagements. The premier edition for the week ending March 4,1974 featured actress Mia Farrow, then starring in the movie The Great Gatsby and that issue also featured stories on Gloria Vanderbilt, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and the wives of U. S. Vietnam veterans who were Missing In Action, the magazine was, apart from its cover, printed in black-and-white. The initial cover price was 35 cents, the core of the small founding editorial team included other editors, writers, photographers and photo editors from Life magazine, which had ceased publication just 13 months earlier. This group included managing editor Stolley, senior editors Hal Wingo, Sam Angeloff and Robert Emmett Ginna, writers James Watters and Ronald B
39.
Saturday Night Live
–
Saturday Night Live is an American late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC on October 11,1975, under the original title NBCs Saturday Night, the shows comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest and features performances by a musical guest, an episode normally begins with a cold open sketch that ends with someone breaking character and proclaiming, Live from New York, its Saturday Night. In 1980, Michaels left the series to other opportunities. He was replaced by Jean Doumanian, who was replaced by Ebersol after a season of bad reviews, Ebersol ran the show until 1985, when Michaels returned, Michaels has remained since then. Many of SNLs cast found national stardom while appearing on the show, others associated with the show, such as writers, have gone on to successful careers creating, writing, or starring in TV and film. The show format has developed and recreated in several countries. Successful sketches have seen life outside of the show as feature films, throughout four decades on air, Saturday Night Live has received a number of awards, including 50 Primetime Emmy Awards, two Peabody Awards, and three Writers Guild of America Awards. In 2000, it was inducted into the National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame and it was ranked tenth in TV Guides 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time list, and in 2007 it was listed as one of Time magazines 100 Best TV Shows of All-TIME. As of 2012, it has received 156 Emmy nominations, the most received by any TV show, the live aspect of the show has resulted in several controversies and acts of censorship, with mistakes and intentional acts of sabotage by performers as well as guests. From 1965 until September 1975, NBC ran The Best of Carson reruns of The Tonight Show, in 1974, Johnny Carson announced that he wanted the weekend shows pulled and saved so that they could be aired during weeknights, allowing him to take time off. In 1974, NBC president Herbert Schlosser approached his vice president of late night programming, Dick Ebersol, at the suggestion of Paramount Pictures executive Barry Diller, Schlosser and Ebersol then approached Lorne Michaels. Over the next three weeks, Ebersol and Michaels developed the idea for a variety show featuring high-concept comedy sketches, political satire. By 1975 Michaels had assembled a talented cast, including Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris, Laraine Newman, Michael ODonoghue, Gilda Radner, and George Coe. The show was originally called NBCs Saturday Night, because Saturday Night Live was in use by Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell on the rival network ABC, NBC purchased the rights to the name in 1976 and officially adopted the new title on March 26,1977. In 1975 and 1976, they were the most desirable demographic for television advertisers, NBC executives agreed with Michaels and decided to keep the show on the air despite many angry letters and phone calls that the network received from viewers who were offended by certain sketches. Chevy Chase left the show in November of the season and was replaced a few months later by the then-unknown comic actor Bill Murray. Aykroyd and Belushi left the show in 1979 after the end of season four, in May 1980, Michaels—emotionally and physically exhausted—requested to put the show on hiatus for a year to give him time and energy to pursue other projects
40.
A Mother's Prayer
–
The film, which counts Kate Nelligan, S. Epatha Merkerson and Bruce Dern in its supporting cast, premiered on May 25,1995. It was eventually expanded, given a PG-13 rating and released on VHS via MCA/Universal Home Entertainment in 1997, rosemary Holmstrom is struggling to bring up her son following the death of her husband. When she is diagnosed with AIDS, at first she refuses to believe it, but soon turns her attentions to the problem of what will happen to her son when she dies
41.
Bruce Dern
–
Bruce MacLeish Dern is an American actor, often playing supporting villainous characters of unstable nature. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Coming Home and he also won the 1983 Silver Bear for Best Actor for That Championship Season, and the 2013 Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for Nebraska. His other film appearances include The Cowboys, Black Sunday, Monster, Dern was born in Chicago, the son of Jean and John Dern, a utility chief and attorney. He grew up in Kenilworth, Illinois and his paternal grandfather, George, was a former Utah governor and Secretary of War. Derns godfather was former Illinois governor and two-time presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson II and his ancestry includes Dutch, English, German and Scottish. He attended The Choate School and the University of Pennsylvania and he starred in the Philadelphia premiere of Waiting for Godot. Dern made an uncredited role in Wild River, as Jack Roper who is so upset with his friend for hitting a woman that he punches himself, in 1964, he played the sailor in a few flashbacks with Marnies mother for Alfred Hitchcocks Marnie. Dern played a murderous rustler in Clint Eastwoods Hang Em High and he also played Asa Watts, a serial killer of Wil Andersen in The Cowboys. John Wayne warned Dern, America will hate you for this, and Dern replied, Yeah, but theyll love me in Berkeley. In 1983, he won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival for That Championship Season. In 2013, Dern won the Best Actor award at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival for Alexander Paynes Nebraska, and was nominated for the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Actor
42.
Shadow Conspiracy
–
Shadow Conspiracy is a 1997 American political thriller film starring Charlie Sheen, Donald Sutherland, Linda Hamilton and Sam Waterston. It was the film directed by George P. Cosmatos. The film was received by critics and was released on DVD in the United States in November 2003 by Buena Vista Home Entertainment. Set in Washington, this documents an attempted power grab by White House Chief of Staff Jacob Conrad. Bobby Bishop is an aide to the President of the United States who finds out about a plot to assassinate the President from a former professor. Bobbys old professor is murdered shortly thereafter and Bobby is left to try to uncover the conspiracy on his own and he recruits his journalist friend Amanda Givens to help him uncover the mystery and stop the assassination. Shadow Conspiracy received negative reviews critics, with Rotten Tomatoes giving the film a 0% rating. The film did not fare well at the box office, grossing a little over $2 million domestically, Shadow Conspiracy at the Internet Movie Database Shadow Conspiracy at the TCM Movie Database Shadow Conspiracy at Rotten Tomatoes Shadow Conspiracy at Box Office Mojo Shadow Conspiracy at MovieWeb
43.
Charlie Sheen
–
Carlos Irwin Estévez, known professionally as Charlie Sheen, is an American actor. Sheen rose to fame after a series of films such as Platoon, Wall Street, Young Guns, Eight Men Out, Major League, Hot Shots. In the 2000s, Sheen became best known for his television roles and he most recently starred in the FX comedy series Anger Management, which concluded its 100-episode run in 2014. In 2010, Sheen was the highest paid actor on television and earned US$1.8 million per episode of Two, Sheens personal life has made headlines, including reports of alcohol and drug abuse and marital problems, as well as allegations of domestic violence. His contract for Two and a Half Men was terminated by CBS, on November 17,2015, Sheen publicly revealed that he was HIV positive, having been diagnosed about four years earlier. Carlos Estévez was born on September 3,1965, in New York City and his paternal grandparents were immigrants from Galicia and Ireland, respectively. His father is a devout Catholic and his mother is a strict Southern Baptist, Sheen has two older brothers, Emilio and Ramon, and a younger sister, Renée, all actors. His parents moved to Malibu, California, after Martins Broadway turn in The Subject Was Roses, Sheens first movie appearance was at age nine in his fathers 1974 film The Execution of Private Slovik. Sheen attended Santa Monica High School in Santa Monica, California, along with Robert Downey, Jr. where he was a star pitcher and shortstop for the baseball team. At Santa Monica High School, he showed an early interest in acting, making amateur Super 8 films with his brother Emilio and school friends Rob Lowe, a few weeks before graduation, Sheen was expelled from school for poor grades and attendance. Deciding to become an actor, he took the stage name Charlie Sheen and his father had adopted the surname Sheen in honor of the Catholic archbishop and theologian Fulton J. Sheen, while Charlie was an English form of his given name Carlos. Sheens film career began in 1984 with a role in the Cold War teen drama Red Dawn with Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson, Sheen and Grey reunited in a small scene in Ferris Buellers Day Off. He also appeared in an episode of the anthology series Amazing Stories, Sheen had his first major role in the Vietnam War drama Platoon. In 1987, he starred with his father in Wall Street, both Wall Street and Platoon were directed by Oliver Stone. In 1988, Stone asked Sheen to star in his new film Born on the Fourth of July, Sheen was never notified by Stone, and only found out when he heard the news from his brother Emilio. Sheen did not take a role in Stones subsequent films. In 1987, Sheen was cast to portray Ron in the unreleased Grizzly II, The Predator, in 1988, he starred in the baseball film Eight Men Out as outfielder Happy Felsch. Also in 1988, he appeared opposite his brother Emilio in Young Guns, in 1989, Sheen, John Fusco, Christopher Cain, Lou Diamond Phillips, Emilio Estévez and Kiefer Sutherland were honored with a Bronze Wrangler for their work on the film Young Guns
44.
Dante's Peak
–
Dantes Peak is a 1997 American dramatic disaster thriller film directed by Roger Donaldson. It was released in February 7,1997 under the production of Sony, Universal Pictures, dr. Harry Dalton, a volcanologist of the United States Geological Survey, and his partner Marianne, are monitoring a volcano in Colombia, when it suddenly erupts. As they try to escape, a piece of debris pierces through the roof of Harrys truck, Harry arrives as the town is celebrating the anniversary of its foundation, and meets the towns mayor, Rachel Wando, and her two children, Graham and Lauren. Rachel offers to take Harry up the volcano while visiting her former mother in-law Ruth, there, they find dead wildlife and two people boiled to death in the hot springs. Believing the excessive heat is a result of activity, Harry asks Paul to bring a team to study the peak further. The team arrives with additional equipment, but they do not corroborate Harrys fears, regardless, Harry tries to convince Rachel to prepare the town for a possible disaster, while falling into a budding relationship with her. A week passes without any signs of activity, and Paul orders the team to pack up. On his last evening with Rachel, the two notice that after Lauren asks for a cup of water, it has turned yellowish-brown and had a bad smell and they then go to the towns water supply and discover it to be contaminated with volcanic residue. Harry tells Rachel that it was the signs that Mount Pinatubo had shown before it erupted. They then drive back to the town and he shows the water to Paul. The next day, gas readings and earthquakes increase dramatically, convincing his team that its only a matter of time before the volcano erupts, while preparations are made to evacuate, the volcano suddenly erupts, sending the townspeople into a fleeing panic. As Paul and the contact the National Guard for help, Harry and Rachel go after the children. Harry and Rachel reach Ruths cabin just as a lava flow engulfs it, Ruth willingly gets out of the boat to push it to shore, leaving her with severe chemical burns to which she later dies from. The next morning, the National Guard arrives, and the town is evacuated, on the volcano, glaciers and snow starts to melt. It floods into the river, picking up boulders and trees, now becoming a lahar, as it overflows, the flood then heads towards the town and sweeps away the bridge leading out of it. The team made it across, but Paul is washed away to death in the flood, meanwhile, Harry and the Wandos take a pickup truck from a ranger station and drive back to town. A lava flow blocks their path, but they manage to get across it, rescuing Ruths dog Ruffy. Back at Dantes Peak, they find the town evacuated and covered in ash, Harry retrieves a distress radiobeacon from the motel his team used as a base, and finds out on a computer that the volcano is due for a final catastrophic eruption
45.
Pierce Brosnan
–
Pierce Brendan Brosnan OBE is an Irish actor, film producer, and activist who after leaving comprehensive school at age 16, began training in commercial illustration. He then went on to train at the Drama Centre in London for three years, following a stage acting career he rose to popularity in the television series Remington Steele, which blended the genres of romantic comedy, drama, and detective procedural. After the conclusion of Remington Steele, Brosnan appeared in such as the Cold War spy film The Fourth Protocol. In 1994, Brosnan became the actor to portray secret agent James Bond in the Eon Productions film series. He lent his likeness for Bond in the video games James Bond 007, Nightfire and James Bond 007, during this period, he also took the lead in other films including the epic disaster adventure film Dantes Peak and the remake of the heist film The Thomas Crown Affair. In 1996, along with Beau St. Clair, Brosnan formed Irish DreamTime, in later years, he has become known for his charitable work and environmental activism. He was married to Australian actress Cassandra Harris from 1980 until her death in 1991 and he married American journalist and author Keely Shaye Smith in 2001, and became an American citizen in 2004, holding dual citizenship in the U. S. and Ireland. He has earned two Golden Globe Award nominations, first for the television miniseries Nancy Astor and next for the comedy film The Matador. Brosnan was born in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland, the child of Thomas Brosnan, a carpenter. He lived in Navan, County Meath for 12 years and considers it his home town and he went to Primary School in St. Annes Primary School, Navan. Brosnans father abandoned the family when Pierce was an infant, when he was four years old, his mother moved to London to work as a nurse. From that point on, he was brought up by his grandparents, Philip. After their deaths, he lived with an aunt and then an uncle and he was educated at Elliott School, now known as Ark Putney Academy, a coeducational secondary school with academy status in South West London. According to Brosnan, Childhood was fairly solitary, I grew up in a very small town called Navan in County Meath. He left when I was an infant and I was left in the care of my mother and my grandparents. To be Catholic in the 50s, and to be Irish Catholic in the 50s, and have a marriage which was not there, a father who was not there, consequently, the mother and she took the bold steps to go away and be a nurse in England. Basically wanting a life for her and myself. My mother came home once a year, twice a year, Brosnan was brought up in a Roman Catholic family and educated in a local school run by the de la Salle Brothers while serving as an altar boy
