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Toronto International Film Festival
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The Toronto International Film Festival is one of the largest publicly attended film festivals in the world, attracting over 480,000 people annually. Year-round, TIFF Bell Lightbox offers screenings, lectures, discussions, festivals, workshops, industry support, TIFF Bell Lightbox is located on the north west corner of King Street and John Street in downtown Toronto. In 2015,397 films from 71 countries were screened at 28 screens in downtown Toronto venues, welcoming an estimated 480,000 attendees, TIFF starts the Thursday night after Labour Day and lasts for eleven days. Founded in 1976, TIFF is now one of the most prestigious events of its kind in the world, in 1998, Variety magazine acknowledged that TIFF is second only to Cannes in terms of high-profile pics, stars and market activity. In 2007, TIME noted that TIFF had grown from its place as the most influential film festival to the most influential film festival. This is partially the result of TIFFs ability and reputation for generating Oscar buzz, the Toronto International Festival’s Grolsch People’s Choice Award — which is based on popular vote by Festival filmgoers — has emerged as a beacon of awards-season success. Founded by Bill Marshall, Dusty Cohl and Henk Van der Kolk and that first year,35,000 filmgoers watched 127 films from 30 countries presented in ten programmes. Piers Handling has been the director and CEO since 1994. TIFF was once centred on the Yorkville neighbourhood, but the Toronto Entertainment District later gained a level of prominence. TIFF is known for the celebrity buzz it brings to the area with international media setting up near its restaurants and stores for photos and interviews with the stars. In 2010, TIFF opened its permanent headquarters, TIFF Bell Lightbox, TIFF has grown, steadily adding initiatives throughout the years. TIFF Cinematheque and the Film Reference Library opened in 1990, the TIFF Kids International Film Festival launched in 1998. Film Circuit began exhibiting independent and Canadian films in under-serviced cities across Canada in 1994, the festival was founded in 1976 at the Windsor Arms Hotel by Bill Marshall, Henk Van der Kolk and Dusty Cohl. Beginning as a collection of the films from film festivals around the world. Ironically, however, Hollywood studios withdrew their submissions from TIFF due to concerns that Toronto audiences would be too parochial for their products, in 1994, the decision was made to replace the name Festival of Festivals with Toronto International Film Festival. From 1994 to 2009, the organization running TIFF was named Toronto International Film Festival Group. In 2009, the umbrella organization TIFFG was renamed to TIFF, in 2001, Perspective Canada, the programme that had focused on Canadian films since 1984, was replaced by two programmes, Canada First. A forum for Canadian filmmakers presenting their first feature-length work, featuring eight to 15 films, and Short Cuts Canada, in 2004, TIFF was featured as the site of murder mystery in the film Jiminy Glick in Lalawood, a comedy film starring Martin Short
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The festival is headquartered at TIFF Bell Lightbox, which opened in 2010.
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Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)
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TIFF box office at the
Manulife Centre in 2006
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TIFF Bell Lightbox
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Brooklyn
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Brooklyn is the most populous borough of New York City, with a Census-estimated 2,636,735 residents in 2015. It borders the borough of Queens at the end of Long Island. Today, if New York City dissolved, Brooklyn would rank as the third-most populous city in the U. S. behind Los Angeles, the borough continues, however, to maintain a distinct culture. Many Brooklyn neighborhoods are ethnic enclaves, Brooklyns official motto, displayed on the Borough seal and flag, is Eendraght Maeckt Maght which translates from early modern Dutch as Unity makes strength. Since 2010, Brooklyn has evolved into a hub of entrepreneurship and high technology startup firms. The history of European settlement in Brooklyn spans more than 350 years, the neighborhood of Marine Park was home to North Americas first tidal mill. It was built by the Dutch, and the foundation can be seen today, however, the area was not formally settled as a town. Many incidents and documents relating to this period are in Gabriel Furmans early compilation, what is today Brooklyn left Dutch hands after the final English conquest of New Netherland in 1664, a prelude to the Second Anglo–Dutch War. The English reorganized the six old Dutch towns on southwestern Long Island as Kings County on November 1,1683 and this tract of land was recognized as a political entity for the first time, and the municipal groundwork was laid for a later expansive idea of Brooklyn identity. On August 27,1776 was fought the Battle of Long Island, the first major engagement fought in the American Revolutionary War after independence was declared, and the largest of the entire conflict. British troops forced Continental Army troops under George Washington off the heights near the sites of Green-Wood Cemetery, Prospect Park. The fortified American positions at Brooklyn Heights consequently became untenable and were evacuated a few days later, One result of the Treaty of Paris in 1783 was the evacuation of the British from New York City, celebrated by residents into the 20th century. The New York Navy Yard operated in Wallabout Bay for the entire 19th century, the first center of urbanization sprang up in the Town of Brooklyn, directly across from Lower Manhattan, which saw the incorporation of the Village of Brooklyn in 1817. Reliable steam ferry service across the East River to Fulton Landing converted Brooklyn Heights into a town for Wall Street. Ferry Road to Jamaica Pass became Fulton Street to East New York, Town and Village were combined to form the first, kernel incarnation of the City of Brooklyn in 1834. Industrial deconcentration in mid-century was bringing shipbuilding and other manufacturing to the part of the county. Each of the two cities and six towns in Kings County remained independent municipalities, and purposely created non-aligning street grids with different naming systems and it later became the most popular and highest circulation afternoon paper in America. The publisher changed to L. Van Anden on April 19,1842, on May 14,1849 the name was shortened to The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, on September 5,1938 it was further shortened to Brooklyn Eagle
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Clockwise from top left:
Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn brownstones,
Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch,
Brooklyn Borough Hall,
Coney Island
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Currier and Ives print of Brooklyn, 1886.
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Brooklyn Museum - Hooker's Map of the Village of Brooklyn
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A typical dining table in the Dutch village of Brooklyn, c. 1664, from
The Brooklyn Museum.
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New York (state)
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New York is a state in the northeastern United States, and is the 27th-most extensive, fourth-most populous, and seventh-most densely populated U. S. state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south and Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont to the east. With an estimated population of 8.55 million in 2015, New York City is the most populous city in the United States, the New York Metropolitan Area is one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. New York City makes up over 40% of the population of New York State, two-thirds of the states population lives in the New York City Metropolitan Area, and nearly 40% lives on Long Island. Both the state and New York City were named for the 17th-century Duke of York, the next four most populous cities in the state are Buffalo, Rochester, Yonkers, and Syracuse, while the state capital is Albany. New York has a diverse geography and these more mountainous regions are bisected by two major river valleys—the north-south Hudson River Valley and the east-west Mohawk River Valley, which forms the core of the Erie Canal. Western New York is considered part of the Great Lakes Region and straddles Lake Ontario, between the two lakes lies Niagara Falls. The central part of the state is dominated by the Finger Lakes, New York had been inhabited by tribes of Algonquian and Iroquoian-speaking Native Americans for several hundred years by the time the earliest Europeans came to New York. The first Europeans to arrive were French colonists and Jesuit missionaries who arrived southward from settlements at Montreal for trade, the British annexed the colony from the Dutch in 1664. The borders of the British colony, the Province of New York, were similar to those of the present-day state, New York is home to the Statue of Liberty, a symbol of the United States and its ideals of freedom, democracy, and opportunity. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. On April 17,1524 Verrazanno entered New York Bay, by way of the now called the Narrows into the northern bay which he named Santa Margherita. Verrazzano described it as a vast coastline with a delta in which every kind of ship could pass and he adds. This vast sheet of water swarmed with native boats and he landed on the tip of Manhattan and possibly on the furthest point of Long Island. Verrazannos stay was interrupted by a storm which pushed him north towards Marthas Vineyard, in 1540 French traders from New France built a chateau on Castle Island, within present-day Albany, due to flooding, it was abandoned the next year. In 1614, the Dutch under the command of Hendrick Corstiaensen, rebuilt the French chateau, Fort Nassau was the first Dutch settlement in North America, and was located along the Hudson River, also within present-day Albany. The small fort served as a trading post and warehouse, located on the Hudson River flood plain, the rudimentary fort was washed away by flooding in 1617, and abandoned for good after Fort Orange was built nearby in 1623. Henry Hudsons 1609 voyage marked the beginning of European involvement with the area, sailing for the Dutch East India Company and looking for a passage to Asia, he entered the Upper New York Bay on September 11 of that year
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British general
John Burgoyne surrenders at
Saratoga in 1777.
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Flag
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1800 map of New York from
Low's Encyclopaedia
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The
Erie Canal at
Lockport, New York in 1839
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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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Native Americans meeting with Europeans, 1764
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Flag
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The signing of the
Mayflower Compact, 1620.
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The
Declaration of Independence: the
Committee of Five presenting their draft to the
Second Continental Congress in 1776
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New York City, New York
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The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over an area of about 302.6 square miles. Located at the tip of the state of New York. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has described as the cultural and financial capital of the world. Situated on one of the worlds largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, the five boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island – were consolidated into a single city in 1898. In 2013, the MSA produced a gross metropolitan product of nearly US$1.39 trillion, in 2012, the CSA generated a GMP of over US$1.55 trillion. NYCs MSA and CSA GDP are higher than all but 11 and 12 countries, New York City traces its origin to its 1624 founding in Lower Manhattan as a trading post by colonists of the Dutch Republic and was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The city and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. It has been the countrys largest city since 1790, the Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a symbol of the United States and its democracy. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. Several sources have ranked New York the most photographed city in the world, the names of many of the citys bridges, tapered skyscrapers, and parks are known around the world. Manhattans real estate market is among the most expensive in the world, Manhattans Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere, with multiple signature Chinatowns developing across the city. Providing continuous 24/7 service, the New York City Subway is one of the most extensive metro systems worldwide, with 472 stations in operation. Over 120 colleges and universities are located in New York City, including Columbia University, New York University, and Rockefeller University, during the Wisconsinan glaciation, the New York City region was situated at the edge of a large ice sheet over 1,000 feet in depth. The ice sheet scraped away large amounts of soil, leaving the bedrock that serves as the foundation for much of New York City today. Later on, movement of the ice sheet would contribute to the separation of what are now Long Island and Staten Island. The first documented visit by a European was in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzano, a Florentine explorer in the service of the French crown and he claimed the area for France and named it Nouvelle Angoulême. Heavy ice kept him from further exploration, and he returned to Spain in August and he proceeded to sail up what the Dutch would name the North River, named first by Hudson as the Mauritius after Maurice, Prince of Orange
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Clockwise, from top:
Midtown Manhattan,
Times Square, the
Unisphere in
Queens, the
Brooklyn Bridge,
Lower Manhattan with
One World Trade Center,
Central Park, the
headquarters of the United Nations, and the
Statue of Liberty
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New Amsterdam, centered in the eventual
Lower Manhattan, in 1664, the year
England took control and renamed it "New York".
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The
Battle of Long Island, the largest battle of the
American Revolution, took place in
Brooklyn in 1776.
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Broadway follows the Native American Wickquasgeck Trail through Manhattan.
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As the World Turns
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As the World Turns is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS for 54 years from April 2,1956, to September 17,2010. Irna Phillips created As the World Turns as a show to her other soap opera Guiding Light. Running for 54 years, As the World Turns holds the second-longest continuous run of any daytime soap opera on American television. As the World Turns was produced for the first 43 years in Manhattan, set in the fictional town of Oakdale, Illinois, the show debuted on April 2,1956, at 1,30 pm EST. Prior to that date, all serials had been 15 minutes in length, as the World Turns and The Edge of Night, which premiered on the same day at 4,30 pm EST, were the first two to be 30 minutes in length from their premiere. At first, viewers did not respond to the new half-hour serial, in 1959, the show started a streak of weekly ratings wins that was not interrupted for over 12 years. The show switched to color on August 21,1967, and expanded from a half-hour in length to one starting on December 1,1975. In the year-to-date ratings, As the World Turns was the daytime drama from 1958 until 1978. At its height, core actors such as Helen Wagner, Don MacLaughlin, Don Hastings, three of these actors – Wagner, Hastings, and Fulton – are also the three longest serving actors in the history of American soap operas. The show passed its 10, 000th episode on May 12,1995, on September 18,2009, As the World Turns became the last remaining Procter and Gamble-produced soap opera for CBS after Guiding Light aired its final episode on the network. On December 8,2009, CBS announced that it cancelled As the World Turns after almost 54 years due to low ratings. The show taped its final Procter and Gamble scenes for CBS on June 23,2010, on October 18,2010, CBS replaced As the World Turns with a newly debuted talk show The Talk. As the World Turns was the creation of Irna Phillips, who beginning in the 1930s, had one of the foremost creators and writers of radio soap operas. Phillips wrote, As the world turns, we know the bleakness of winter, the promise of spring, the fullness of summer, and so it was with As the World Turns, with its slow-moving psychological character studies of families headed by legal and medical professionals. The personal and professional lives of doctors and lawyers remained central to As the World Turns throughout its run, Phillips style favored gradual evolution over radical change. Slow, conversational, and emotionally intense, the show moved at the pace of life itself –, each new addition to the cast was done in a gradual manner, and was usually a key contact to one of the members of the Hughes family. As such, the show earned a reputation as being quite conservative, during the shows early decades, the content-related policies of its sponsor Procter & Gamble Productions may have contributed to the perception of conservatism. As the World Turns premiered on April 2,1956 and it was the first television daytime drama with a 30-minute running time, all daytime dramas until then had 15-minute running times
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The original core family, the Hugheses, in the 1980s. Clockwise from top left: Kim Sullivan Hughes (
Kathryn Hays), Bob Hughes (
Don Hastings), Tom Hughes (
Gregg Marx), Margo Montgomery Hughes (
Hillary Bailey Smith), Andy Dixon (
Scott DeFreitas), Frannie Hughes (
Julianne Moore). Center: Chris Hughes (
Don MacLaughlin) and Nancy Hughes (
Helen Wagner).
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As the World Turns
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The initial
CBS News Bulletin which interrupted As the World Turns at 1:40 p.m. (EST), as Nancy (
Helen Wagner) talks with Grandpa (
Santos Ortega)
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The Cosby Show
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The Cosby Show is an American television sitcom starring Bill Cosby, which aired for eight seasons on NBC from September 20,1984 until April 30,1992. The show focuses on the Huxtable family, an upper middle-class African-American family living in Brooklyn, according to TV Guide, the show was TVs biggest hit in the 1980s, and almost single handedly revived the sitcom genre and NBCs ratings fortunes. TV Guide also ranked it as #28 of their list of 50 Greatest Shows, in addition, Cliff Huxtable was named as the Greatest Television Dad. The Cosby Show spent five seasons as the number one rated show on television. The Cosby Show and All in the Family are the only sitcoms in the history of the Nielsen ratings and it spent all eight of its seasons in the Top 20. The Cosby Show was based on comedy routines in Cosbys stand-up act, the show spawned the spin off A Different World, which ran for six seasons from 1987 to 1993. The show focuses on the Huxtable family, an upper middle-class African-American family, living in an brownstone in Brooklyn Heights, New York, the patriarch is Cliff Huxtable, an obstetrician, son of a prominent jazz trombonist. The matriarch is his wife, attorney Clair Huxtable and they have five children, four daughters and one son, Sondra, Denise, Theo, Vanessa and Rudy. Despite its comedic tone, the show sometimes involves serious subjects, like Theos experiences dealing with dyslexia, inspired by Cosbys dyslexic son, the show also deals with teen pregnancy when Denises friend, Veronica, becomes pregnant. The Cosby Show pilot episode uses the title sequence as the rest of the first season. However, it is notable for a number of differences from the remainder of the series, in the pilot, the Huxtables have only four children. Following the pilot, the Huxtables have five children, with the addition of their eldest daughter, Sondra, the character was created when Bill Cosby wanted the show to express the accomplishment of successfully raising a child. Whitney Houston was considered for the role of Sondra Huxtable, Houston, however, was unable to commit to the full-time television production schedule in the NBC contract as she was intending to be a full-time music recording artist. Most of the story in the presentation is taken from Bill Cosbys classic comedy film, Bill Cosby. Bill Cosbys character is called Clifford in the episodes of the first season. His name was switched to Heathcliff. Additionally, Vanessa refers to Theo as Teddy twice in the dining room scene, the interior of the Huxtables home features an entirely different living room from subsequent episodes, and different color schemes in the dining room and the master bedroom. Throughout the remainder of the series, the room is reserved for more formal occasions
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The cast of The Cosby Show in 1989
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The Cosby Show
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The
brownstone used in The Cosby Show
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A Different World
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A Different World is an American sitcom and a spin-off of The Cosby Show which aired for six seasons on NBC from September 24,1987 to July 9,1993. The series originally centered on Denise Huxtable and the life of students at Hillman College and it was inspired by student life at Hampton University and Spelman College and Howard University. After Bonets departure in the first season, the remainder of the series focused more on Southern belle Whitley Gilbert. While it was a spin-off from The Cosby Show, A Different World typically addressed issues that were avoided by The Cosby Show writers, one episode that aired in 1990 was one of the first American network television episodes to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic. It was ultimately decided that Denise, who was of college age, meg Ryan was originally cast for this role, but she decided to pursue a film career, so Marisa Tomei was cast. During the summer of 1988, Lisa Bonet announced that she, Allen was in favor of having a young pregnant student in the show, but Cosby said that Lisa Bonet may be pregnant but not Denise Huxtable. It was felt that viewers would not accept Denise as an unwed mother, however, Tomei left the show, and she and Marie-Alise Recasner were replaced by Cree Summer and Charnele Brown, respectively. Darryl M. Bell and Sinbad were promoted to the principal cast and these changes led to the placement of Whitley and Dwayne at the center of a wider ensemble, dealing with more relevant issues of the day. Denises kid sister Rudy visits Hillman and becomes smitten with Whitley, in season two, the episode titled No Means No deals with date rape. Freddie has a crush on Hillmans new top-notch baseball star Garth Parks, Dwayne hears Garth discuss a disturbing incident involving another woman. Dwayne goes to Walter for advice, and Walter tells him about date rape, Dwayne tries to warn Freddie, but she does not believe Garth would do such a thing. Later at a dance, Garth goes off alone with Freddie and attempts to rape her, at the end of the episode, Walter takes Garth to the police station for his assault on Freddie and the rape of the other woman. In January 1991, Blair Underwood guest-starred in the episode War, a Different World became the first situation comedy to address this topic, and War and Peace was one of the highest-rated episodes of season four. The episode is based on the surrounding the book The Blackmans Guide to Understanding the Blackwoman. This book, written by controversial African American author Shahrazad Ali, blamed many of the problems within the black family, Kim is disheartened with the display of several mammy dolls in a cultural exhibit, while Whitley learns that some of her African-American ancestors were slave owners. In some regions of the U. S. blacks owning black slaves would ensure that they would not be sold to leave the town, the season five episode Cats in the Cradle deals with racism, from both sides of the proverbial fence. They are all arrested by the campus police and they share with the campus police chief the perspectives of the incident, shown from each side. Predictably, it shows drastically different takes, the racist act by the white students is not alone, however, as Dwayne is guilty of the same prejudice by assuming the white campus chief is racist
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A Different World
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My Cousin Vinny
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My Cousin Vinny is a 1992 American comedy film written by Dale Launer and directed by Jonathan Lynn. The film stars Joe Pesci, Ralph Macchio, Marisa Tomei, Mitchell Whitfield, Lane Smith, Bruce McGill and this was Gwynnes last film appearance before his death on July 2,1993. Much of the humor comes from the personalities of the brash Italian-American New Yorkers, Vinny and his fiancée Mona Lisa. Lawyers have praised the realistic depiction of courtroom procedure and trial strategy. Pesci, Gwynne and Tomei received critical praise for their performances, driving through Alabama in their green 1964 Buick Skylark convertible, Billy Gambini and Stan Rothenstein, students from New York, shop at a convenience store and accidentally shoplift a can of tuna. After they leave, the clerk is shot and killed. Due to circumstantial evidence and a confession to the shoplifting misconstrued as one to the shooting, Billy is charged with murder, Billys mother tells her son that there is an attorney in the family, his cousin Vinny. Vincent LaGuardia Gambini travels there, accompanied by his fiancée, Mona Lisa Vito, although he is willing to take the case, Vinny is a personal injury lawyer from Brooklyn, New York, newly admitted to the bar on his sixth attempt, and with no trial experience. Vinny manages to fool the trial judge, Chamberlain Haller, about being experienced enough for the case and his ignorance of basic court procedures and dress code, and abrasive and disrespectful attitude, cause the judge to repeatedly hold him in contempt. Much to his clients consternation, Vinny does not cross-examine any of the witnesses in the probable cause hearing, except for the murder weapon, it appears that the district attorney, Jim Trotter III, has an airtight case that will lead to convictions. After Vinnys poor showing at the hearing, Stan fires him and uses the public defender, John Gibbons, despite some further missteps in the trial, Vinny shows that he can make up for his ignorance and inexperience with an aggressive and perceptive questioning style. The public defender is unprepared, passive, and has a debilitating stammer, Billys faith is restored, and Stan fires the public defender. With only the lunch recess to prepare his cross-examination and unable to come up with a line of questioning, Vinny lashes out at Lisa. However, Vinny realizes that one of Lisas photos holds the key to the case and they could only have been made by a car with an independent rear suspension and positraction, Billys Skylark does not possess these features, but the similar-looking Pontiac Tempest would. Vinny re-calls George Wilbur, who confirms this, Trotter moves to dismiss all charges, and the film ends with kudos trading and Vinny and Lisa bickering about their future wedding plans. The courthouse scenes were filmed on a set based on the courthouse in the square of Monticello, Georgia. Although the movie was set in Beechum County, Alabama, near the end of the movie, Sheriff Farley, actually mentions Jasper County, Georgia, the film received generally positive reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a rating of 85%, the sites consensus reads, The deft comic interplay between Joe Pesci and Marisa Tomei helps to elevate My Cousin Vinnys predictable script, and the result is a sharp, hilarious courtroom comedy
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Theatrical release poster
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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
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The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It is given in honor of an actress who has delivered a performance in a supporting role while working within the film industry. At the 9th Academy Awards ceremony held in 1937, Gale Sondergaard was the first winner of award for her role in Anthony Adverse. Initially, winners in both supporting acting categories were awarded instead of statuettes. Beginning with the 16th ceremony held in 1944, however, winners received full-sized statuettes, currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the actors branch of AMPAS, winners are selected by a plurality vote from the entire eligible voting members of the Academy. Since its inception, the award has given to 78 actresses. Dianne Wiest and Shelley Winters have received the most awards in this category with two awards each, despite winning no awards, Thelma Ritter was nominated on six occasions, more than any other actress. As of the 2017 ceremony, Viola Davis is the most recent winner in category for her role as Rose Maxson in Fences. In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of release in Los Angeles County. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, University of Toronto Press, inside Oscar, The Unofficial History of the Academy Awards. New York, United States, Ballantine Books, oscars. org Oscar. com The Academy Awards Database
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Alice Brady won for her performance in 1937's
In Old Chicago.
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Hattie McDaniel won in 1939 for her role as Mammy in
Gone with the Wind, thus becoming the first black performer to win an Oscar.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
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Jane Darwell won for her performance as Ma Joad in
The Grapes of Wrath (1940).
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Teresa Wright won for her role in 1942's
Mrs Miniver.
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What Women Want
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What Women Want is a 2000 American romantic comedy fantasy film written by Josh Goldsmith, Cathy Yuspa and Diane Drake, directed by Nancy Meyers, and starring Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt. The film was a box office success with a North American domestic gross of US$182,811,707, Nick Marshall, a Chicago advertising executive and alpha male, who grew up with his Las Vegas showgirl mother, is a chauvinist. He is skilled at selling to men and seducing women, just as he thinks hes headed for a promotion, his manager, Dan, informs him that he is hiring Darcy McGuire instead, to broaden the firms appeal to women. Also, his estranged 15-year-old daughter Alex is spending two weeks with him while his ex-wife Gigi goes on her honeymoon with her new husband Ted, Alex is embarrassed by Nick, and resents his being protective when he meets her boyfriend. Desperate to prove himself to Darcy and Dan, Nick attempts to think of copy for a series of products that Darcy distributed at the days staff meeting. He slips and falls into his bathtub while holding an electric hairdryer, the next day, Nick wakes up and comes to realize that he can hear the innermost thoughts of all women. This proves to be an epiphany for him as he realizes that most women, especially at work, dislike him, when he goes to his old divorce therapist, Dr. Perkins, she realizes his gift and encourages him to learn to use it to his advantage. Nick eavesdrops on Darcy and sabotages her ideas to use as his own, as he spends more time with Darcy, he realizes he is attracted to her. When he tries to get closer to his daughter, she resents him for trying after so many years of neglect and he is able to bond with her by helping her shop for a prom dress. Using his gift, Nick detects that her boyfriend, who is older than Alex, plans to sleep with her and then dump her, Nick and Darcy begin to spend more time together, and ultimately they kiss. When he manages to trump Darcy out of her idea for a new Nike ad campaign aimed at women, he regrets his selfishness. Nick persuades his boss to give Darcy her job back by saying that it was all Darcys idea, over time, Nick succeeds to rekindle some of his female acquaintance/ relationships especially at work. Nick loses his gift during a storm trying to find a company secretary, Erin. He stops her just in the nick of time and offers her a position for which she previously applied, when Alexs boyfriend dumps her for refusing his sexual advances, Nick consoles her and is able to restore their relationship. Nick finally visits Darcy and explains everything and she forgives him and agrees to save him from himself, to which he responds My hero. J. M. Perkins Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 54%, based on 121 reviews, Hunt won latter award in the Favorite Actress - Comedy/Romance category, while Mark Feuerstein and Marisa Tomei each received a nomination in the supporting categories. It also garnered Tomei a nod for the Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture, the film also won the Bogey Award in Platin from the Bogey Awards, Germany. It was also Nominated for the Best Casting for Feature Film, Comedy from the Casting Society of America and it received the Golden Screen Award in Germany
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Anger Management (film)
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Anger Management is a 2003 American slapstick comedy film directed by Peter Segal, written by David S. Dorfman, and starring Adam Sandler, Jack Nicholson, and Marisa Tomei. It was produced by Revolution Studios in association with Sandlers production company Happy Madison Productions and was distributed by Columbia Pictures. When an annoying passenger, and a case of identity, causes Dave Buznik to lose his temper on an airline flight. Buznik learns his therapist is the passenger, who proves to have a rather interventionist style of therapy. In 1978, a young Dave Buznik is about to kiss the girl of his dreams and this leaves Dave with lasting trauma about public affection, as well as repressing his emotions. Twenty five years later, Dave Buznik lives in New York City, working as a secretary for Frank Head and his problems also extend to his private life, his girlfriend Lindas ex-boyfriend Andrew still being close friends with her and being condescending to Dave at work. While flying to a meeting, Dave sits next to a man named Buddy Rydell. The therapist happens to be Buddy, Buddys unorthodox techniques cause Dave to lose his temper, and Buddy tells Dave he recognizes his problem as passive-aggressive anger. Failure to comply will result in a year of time for Dave. Having Buddy as an unexpected and hovering roommate irritates Dave, which prompts Buddy to offer more therapeutic advice which, in turn, irritates Dave even more. Although Dave believes Andrew is doing nothing to him at work, Buddy suspects otherwise. After receiving a call for Buddy informing him his mother is undergoing minor surgery, Dave jokes to him about its seriousness. After seeing Buddys mother, the two stop at a restaurant on the way back to New York, after Buddy pressures him, Dave flirts and goes home with a young lady, but rejects her amorous advances out of loyalty to Linda. Buddy takes a detour to a Buddhist temple, so that Dave can confront a reformed Arnie, Buddy and a hesitant Dave provoke Arnie by lying about Dave exposing himself to Arnies mentally ill sister, and Dave and Arnie fight. Dave and Buddy tease the monks into a rage and are chased off the grounds, back in New York, Dave attempts to propose to Linda but loses his nerve, and Linda suggests that they take a break from their relationship. Soon after Buddy begins dating Linda, Dave sees this as the last straw, being called back into court, Dave is given a restraining order by the judge, who threatens to lock him up if Dave has another incident. Called into work and yelled at by his boss, Dave finally snaps when he learns that his boss intentionally passed him and he immediately confronts both men for the way theyve mistreated him in the past. Dave calls Andrew out for trying to interfere with both his promotion and relationship with Linda, revealing he wants Andrew out of their lives permanently, Andrew attempts to insult him about being too dependent on Buddy to back him up and admits he isnt good enough for Linda
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Wild Hogs
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Wild Hogs is a 2007 American biker comedy road film directed by Walt Becker and starring Tim Allen, John Travolta, Martin Lawrence and William H. Macy. It was released nationwide in the United States and Canada on March 2,2007, Doug is a dentist who has trouble relating to his son Billy, Dudley is a single clumsy computer programmer who is afraid to talk to women. Bobby is a plumber whose wife has made him return to work after having taken a year off to unsuccessfully write a book. They find escape from their routines on weekends by riding motorcycles together posing as a biker gang called the Wild Hogs. One day, when Woody finds out his wife is divorcing him and leaving him bankrupt, he, after encountering several misadventures, they end up at a local bar, where they meet a much larger biker gang called the Del Fuegos, headed by Jack Blade. When the Del Fuegos hear the Wild Hogs riding back past the bar, they attempt to pursue them, Jack inadvertently drops his lit cigarette onto the ground, igniting the fuel leaking from the bikes which then causes the bar to explode. Woody, after witnessing the explosion from afar, convinces the others to keep riding. Eventually, the Wild Hogs run out of gas and end up in Madrid, New Mexico, as a result, the townspeople first mistake them for Del Fuegos. When the Wild Hogs explain their actions, they learn that the Del Fuegos have been terrorizing the town frequently, although Woody is still antsy about the Del Fuegos, the others convince him to stay in the town overnight. During their stay in the town, Dudley falls in love with Maggie, while out searching for the Wild Hogs, Jacks closest biker members Red & Murdock spot the group and report their location to Jack. The Wild Hogs are hailed as heroes amongst the towns residents, the next day, Woody persuades the others that they must leave, but their departure is ruined when the Del Fuegos arrive. Jack threatens to attack the town unless the Wild Hogs pay for the damage done to their bar, Woody admits to the Wild Hogs what he really did to get Dudleys bike back as well as the real reason for the trip, upsetting the others. Jack and the rest of the Del Fuegos take over Maggies diner, the others attempt to rescue Dudley but fail. They then decide to fight the Del Fuego gang letting Jack, Red, Murdock, damien lectures Jack for letting four posers hold off an entire biker gang, questioning aloud just which side was the posers. He also adds that the bar was merely an insurance scam, damien tells the Del Fuegos to leave town and ride the open road until they remember what riding is really about, mentioning as he leaves that Jack takes after his mother. He then acknowledges the Wild Hogs by telling them his motto, Ride hard, Doug and Bobbys wives arrive, and Doug reconciles with his son. Bobbys wife orders him to return with her, but he refuses and convinces her to let him finish the ride, the Wild Hogs leave and arrive in California, where everyone except for Dudley crashes into a surfboard while he laughs. During the credits, it is revealed that the Wild Hogs called Extreme Makeover, the Del Fuegos react in joy at their new bar while the Wild Hogs watch the event on TV
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Parental Guidance (film)
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Parental Guidance is a 2012 American family-comedy film starring Billy Crystal, Bette Midler, Marisa Tomei, and Tom Everett Scott and directed by Andy Fickman. It was released on December 25,2012 and it was the last Dune Entertainment one to be distributed by 20th Century Fox. Problems arise as their parenting skills collide with Alice and Phils helicopter parenting, after learning of the childrens various problems, such as Harpers high achievement syndrome, Turners stutter, and Barkers imaginary friend, they try to make them their new best friends. Alice eventually returns home when her boss gives her an assignment to redesign the website for the X Games, Artie uses this to his advantage, as he arranges an interview for the role of sports commentator. He manages to place Barkers life in danger as he gets hurt by a skateboard ridden by Tony Hawk. Eventually, the comes to a head as Alice disagrees with Diane letting Harper attend a party the night before a recital. Alice eventually reconciles with Artie and Diane, and allows Harper to withdraw from the recital, Turner takes her place in it and resolves his stutter by reciting the commentary from the Shot Heard Round The World. Afterwards, Artie and Diane become a part of their grandchildrens lives with Artie taking up a new job as a commentator for a Little League Baseball team along with Turner. Its international release spans from December 19,2012 to July 11,2013, with the first 2013 release on January 3,2013 in the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, and Singapore. The film was released on DVD & Blu-ray as well as for purchase via streaming on March 26,2013 from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, despite generally negative reviews, box office totals for the film were higher than expected. Reviews included a 17% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 86 reviews, with the consensus stating, Parental Guidance is sweet but milquetoast, official website Parental Guidance at the Internet Movie Database Parental Guidance at AllMovie Parental Guidance at Rotten Tomatoes Parental Guidance at Box Office Mojo
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Untamed Heart
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Untamed Heart is a 1993 American romantic drama film starring Christian Slater and Marisa Tomei. It tells the story of a woman, always unlucky in love. The film is directed by Tony Bill and written by Tom Sierchio, the original music score is composed by Cliff Eidelman, and includes a classical interpretation of Nature Boy. Caroline is a woman in the Minneapolis/St Paul area working as a waitress. Adam is a busboy who saves Caroline when two men try to rape her on her way home one night. She then gets to know him and they become close, but she finds out his past, and the attackers come after Adam for revenge. While Adam is recovering in the hospital, Caroline discovers that he has a defect, though he claims he has a baboon heart. On his birthday she surprises him by taking him to a hockey game, before they leave, he shows her a surprise gift he left her to be opened when they return. At the hockey game, Adam catches a stray hockey puck that is shot into the crowd, on the way home, he falls asleep and dies at the age of 27. After the funeral, Caroline opens the gift he left her and it is a box of albums with a handwritten note from Adam declaring his love for Caroline. He asked an agent at William Morris to send him screenplays from new writers, originally, Sierchios screenplay had been submitted as a writer’s sample. Bill showed the screenplay to producer Helen Bartlett who suggested that they option it, within two weeks of Sierchio handing his script to his agent, MGM had greenlighted the project. Originally the film was entitled The Baboon Heart in honor of an infant named Baby Fae who received a heart transplant from a baboon to fix a congenital heart defect. Initially, Bill had not considered Christian Slater for the role of Adam, for the role of Caroline, Bill remembered auditioning Marisa Tomei for his earlier film, Five Corners. She had been too young for that role but after her success with My Cousin Vinny, Sierchios screenplay was originally set in New Jersey but for logistical reasons they could not shoot there. The city’s locations were also a factor in deciding to shoot there. The centerpiece was Jim’s Coffee Shop & Bakery, which existed at the time of production but was closed to the public for the duration of shooting the film. Bill said, “It had a combination of ingredients from every diner you’ve ever been to
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The Paper (film)
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The Paper is a 1994 American comedy-drama film directed by Ron Howard and starring Michael Keaton, Glenn Close, Marisa Tomei, Randy Quaid and Robert Duvall. It received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song for Make Up Your Mind, the film depicts a hectic 24 hours in a newspaper editors professional and personal life. The main story of the day is the murder of a couple of visiting businessmen, the reporters discover evidence suggesting a police cover-up of evidence of the suspects innocence, and rush to scoop the story in the midst of professional, private and financial chaos. The film takes place during a 24-hour period, Henry Hackett is the metro editor of the New York Sun, a fictional New York City tabloid. He is a workaholic who loves his job, but the long hours and he is at risk of experiencing the same fate as his editor-in-chief, Bernie White, who put his work first at the expense of his family. The papers owner, Graham Keighley, faces dire financial straits, so he has Alicia Clark, the managing editor and Henrys nemesis, impose unpopular cutbacks. Henrys wife Martha, a fellow Sun reporter on leave and about to give birth, is fed up because Henry seems to have less and less time for her, but might also be a bit boring for his tastes. Minor subplots involve Alicia, Bernie and Sun columnist Michael McDougal, McDougal is threatened by an angry city official named Sandusky whom McDougals column had been tormenting for the past several weeks. Their drunken confrontation in a bar leads to gunfire, which gets Alicia shot in the leg through the wall, Alicia, who is having an affair with Sun reporter Carl and has expensive tastes, schemes to get a raise in her salary. Because of this story, Henry is wrought with tough decisions, deadlines and he becomes obsessed with getting to the bottom of the case, getting others from the Sun staff to investigate along with him. He goes so far as to blow his job offer at the Sentinel after he steals information about the case from the editors desk notes and reports it during a Sun staff meeting. With this new evidence, Henry begins to believe that it was all a setup and he is so determined to get the correct story that he leaves a dinner with Martha and his parents to go to the police station with McDougal. Henry and McDougal race back to the Sun office, excited about their exclusive for the paper and this results in a physical fight between her and Henry, after he tries to stop the presses, which are already printing the papers with the wrong information. Martha is later rushed to the hospital for an emergency C-section due to uterine hemorrhaging, Alicia, accidentally shot by Sandusky in the bar and brought to the same hospital, has a change of heart. She calls the Sun office, has the print room stop the run, the new editions are printed just in time for the following morning circulation. David said, We wanted a regular day, though this is far from regular. They also wanted to “look at the pressures of a paper to get on the street and still tell the truth. ”After writing the character of a pregnant reporter married to the metro editor. Around this time, Universal Pictures greenlighted the project, for his next project, Ron Howard was looking to do something on the newspaper industry
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Unhook the Stars
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Unhook the Stars is a 1996 American drama film directed by Nick Cassavetes and starring his mother Gena Rowlands, Marisa Tomei, and Gérard Depardieu. Rowlands plays Mildred, a widow who befriends the wayward Monica, a mother from across the street. Throughout the film, Monica and J. J. inadvertently teach Mildred valuable life lessons about herself, Rowlands and Tomei both received SAG Award nominations for their performances. The films title refers to a song of the name by Cyndi Lauper. Mildred is a living with her rebellious, irresponsible twentysomething daughter Annie in Salt Lake City. One day after a fight, Annie goes to live as a vagrant with her boyfriend and her wayward neighbor Monica knocks on Mildreds door, begging her to watch her young son, J. J so she can go to her work shift. Monica has kicked her husband, Frankie, out of their house. Mildred agrees to watch J. J. and offers to babysit, Mildred establishes a close relationship with J. J. and Monica, and J. J. eventually comes to refer to her as Auntie Mildred. Mildred reads to him, takes him to the park, at Thanksgiving, Mildred has Monica and J. J. over for dinner as well as her yuppie son Ethan and his wife Jeannie. Jeannie is perturbed by Monicas brash behavior and cursing, though Ethan, Ethan suggests that Mildred should move to San Francisco with him and Jeannie. Mildred spends Christmas with Monica and J. J. and babysits him on New Years Eve. On Valentines Day, Frankie comes to Monicas house in the middle of the night and begs to reunite with her, Monica leaves the bar without telling Mildred, and Big Tommy gives Mildred a ride home. Mildred goes to visit Ethan and Jeannie in San Francisco, where he invites her to live on the top floor of their luxurious house overlooking the Bay Area, Mildred ultimately refuses Ethans offer, which enrages him. Mildred returns home to find that Monica and Frankie have reconciled, one night, Mildred returns home to find Annie there. Annie asks Mildred if she could return home, saying that she now has a job and is applying to college, Mildred tells Annie that she has sold the house, and has to be out by the end of the month. Mildred goes on a date with Tommy, and confesses she doesnt know where shes moving to, while Monica helps Mildred pack her house, she tells her how much Frankie has improved as a husband, but senses Mildred being distant. Frankie brings J. J. over, and he asks to talk to Mildred in private, J. J. gives her a drawing and thanks her for taking care of him, and the three say their goodbyes. Annie drives Mildred to the airport, though Mildred refuses to tell her shes going, saying its a secret
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Slums of Beverly Hills
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Its hero is a teenage girl struggling to grow up in the late 1970s in a lower-middle-class nomadic Jewish family that moves every few months. The film barely earned back its budget, and thus is not considered a box-office success and it received mixed to positive reviews. It gradually became a cult classic and their father, Murray, is a divorced 65-year-old who refuses to retire, working as an unsuccessful Oldsmobile salesman whose cars are selling poorly due in large part to the Energy crisis of the time. Vivians wealthy Uncle Mickey regularly sends the money to help them survive. When Mickeys 29-year-old daughter Rita runs away from a rehab facility, Vivian must babysit her adult cousin, making sure she gets to nursing school and avoids pills and booze. But Vivian has her own problems, shes curious about sex, likes an older neighbor kid, Eliot, has inherited her mothers ample breasts, vivians younger brother Rickey simply aspires to get attention. Vivian and Rita are close and speak sometimes in their own invented language, Vivian learns that Rita has no desire to attend nursing school and also has no clue as to what to do with her life. Murray attempts to cover up Ritas lack of progress at nursing school, depressed and dejected, Murray once again packs the kids into his car and they take off. In an attempt to cheer her father up, Vivian suggests that the stop for steak for breakfast—a ritual regularly shared by the family as a means of cheering themselves up. On its opening weekend it garnered $125,561, the movie received positive to mixed reviews from critics. The design of the seventies, the humor and the acting have been described as dead-on, roger Ebert said of lead actress Natasha Lyonne, Lyonne has the films most important role, and is the key to the comedy. She does a job of looking incredulous, and theres a lot in her life to be incredulous about. She also has a pragmatic approach to sexuality, as in a scene where she consults a plastic surgeon about on-the-spot breast reduction. San Francisco Chronicle reviewer Ruthe Stein stated, While touching on issues such as loss, this coming-of-age story is first and foremost a comedy. It never strains to be funny, the humor derives from the deadpan responses of family members to circumstances beyond their control. She also stated, Set in the mid-70s, Slums gets the right, from the burnt orange shag carpet on the floor of the familys temporary digs to the dorky clothes. Even the saleslady who sells Vivian her first bra has the overly made-up look of the time, the Abramowitzes behavior when they go out to eat—complaining about the service and that theres too much salt in the food—may seem to border on a Jewish stereotype. On Rotten Tomatoes, the movie is currently certified Fresh and is described as Warm, real, and hilarious
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In the Bedroom
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The film stars Tom Wilkinson, Sissy Spacek, Nick Stahl, Marisa Tomei, and William Mapother. The title refers to the compartment of a lobster trap known as the bedroom. The film is set in the Mid-Coast town of Camden, Maine, Matt and Ruth Fowler enjoy a happy marriage and a good relationship with their son Frank, a recent college graduate who has come home for the summer. Frank has fallen in love with a woman with children. Natalies ex-husband, Richard Strout, tries to find a way into his ex-wife and childrens lives, Ruth is openly concerned about Franks relationship with Natalie, while Matt thinks it is only a fling. Midway through the film, Richard kills Frank during a confrontation at Natalies house following a domestic dispute, though equally devastated, Matt and Ruth grieve in different ways, with Matt putting on a brave face while Ruth becomes reclusive and quiet. Richard is set free on bail, paid by his well-to-do family, the tension between Matt & Ruth increases when they learn that the lack of an eyewitness to Franks shooting means Richard will instead be charged with accidental manslaughter. An argument erupts between the couple in each one confronts the other. With the air cleared, the couple is able to find common ground in their grief. Matt then abducts and kills Richard and he and a friend bury the body on the friends wooded property. Matt returns home to Ruth, who is awake and smoking in bed and she asks him, Did you do it. He climbs into bed and then away from her. Finally, Ruth gets up to make coffee, Matt rolls over onto his back and pulls a band-aid from a finger he injured hauling traps. Ruth calls from the kitchen, Matt, do you want coffee, the sites consensus states Expertly crafted and performed, In the Bedroom is a quietly wrenching portrayal of grief. He further mentioned that the effect of the film isnt over when you leave the theater and he also called In the Bedroom a masterpiece. Neil Norman of The Evening Standard stated that. Field has not only studied the masters of understatement, such as Ozu and Bergman. Fields achievement is such a perfectly consummated marriage of intent and execution that he need never make another movie, I would not be alone, I think, in hoping he will make many more. He further mentioned that like Kubrick, Field doesnt make any moral judgments about his characters and it can be read as a high-class revenge thriller, an ode to the futility of vengeance or almost anything in between
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The Wrestler (2008 film)
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The Wrestler is a 2008 American sports drama film co-produced and directed by Darren Aronofsky, written by Robert D. Siegel, and starring Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, and Evan Rachel Wood. It was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on April 21,2009 and it was released in the United Kingdom on June 1,2009. Rourke plays a professional wrestler who, despite his failing health and waning fame. He also tries to mend his relationship with his estranged daughter, the film received universal critical acclaim and won the Golden Lion Award at the 65th Venice International Film Festival, where it premiered. Film critic Roger Ebert called it one of the years best films, Tomei also received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Robin Ramzinski, better known by his ring name Randy The Ram Robinson, is a wrestler who became a celebrity in the 1980s. A regular at a club, Randy befriends a stripper, Cassidy. After winning a match, Randy agrees to a proposed 20th anniversary rematch with his most notable opponent, The Ayatollah. Randy intensifies his training, which includes steroid injections, after wrestling in a hardcore match, Randy suffers a heart attack backstage and undergoes coronary artery bypass surgery. His doctor tells him that his heart can no longer handle the stress of wrestling, as a result, Randy decides to retire and begins working a full-time shift at the supermarkets deli counter. At Cassidys suggestion, Randy visits his estranged daughter Stephanie, whom he had abandoned when she was a child, while helping Randy buy a gift for Stephanie, Cassidy reveals that she has a son. Randy makes romantic advances toward her, which she rejects on the grounds of her job, later, Randy gives the gift to his daughter and apologizes for abandoning her. The two bond over a visit to a beachfront boardwalk, where he took her as a child, Randy goes to Cassidys strip club to thank her, but she once more rejects him, resulting in a heated exchange. Upset, Randy goes to see a match and finds solace in his wrestling friends. While at a bar with them, he gets drunk, snorts cocaine and has sex with a woman in the womens restroom and he sleeps the entire next day and misses his dinner with Stephanie. He goes to her house to apologize, but she tells him she never wants to see him again. At the deli counter, a patron recognizes Randy as the wrestler, the customer persists, which agitates Randy, who then cuts his hand on the delis slicer and goes into a rampage in the store, hurling abuse at Wayne and the customers. Spurred by the recognition of him and with nothing left, Randy decides to return to wrestling
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Rourke's performance in the film gave renewed interest to his career.
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Cyrus (2010 comedy-drama film)
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Cyrus is a 2010 comedy-drama film written and directed by brothers Jay and Mark Duplass and starring John C. Reilly, Jonah Hill, Marisa Tomei, and Catherine Keener, Jamie informs her ex-husband John that she is getting married. Even though they have been apart for seven years, the news devastates John, at a party the next night, John gets more and more drunk until he ends up urinating in the bushes, where Molly strikes up a conversation. Molly goes back to Johns house but leaves during the night, Molly returns for dinner the next night, and again leaves after they have had sex. John follows her to her house and falls asleep in his car, the next morning, he approaches the house and meets Mollys 21-year-old son Cyrus. Cyrus invites John inside and makes conversation with him. Molly is startled to see John in her house when she returns, John is unnerved by the unnatural intimacy between Molly and Cyrus. The next morning, John cannot find his shoes, which he had left in the living room, through the day, he gets increasingly disturbed by their disappearance and starts to worry that Cyrus is messing with him. He ropes Jamie into meeting Molly and Cyrus, in order to appraise his paranoia, Jamie finds Cyrus sweet, if a little overly intimate with his mother. Relieved, John returns for another night at Mollys home, as they begin to have sex for the first time in her house, Cyrus screams in his room, and Molly runs to comfort him. She does not return to John, who goes out looking for her in the middle of the night and he encounters Cyrus holding a large kitchen knife, allegedly making a snack. Cyrus says he had a night terror, and that Molly has gone to sleep and he then advises John to back off on the relationship because he is scaring off Molly. John leaves a note for her and goes home, in the morning, Cyrus sits Molly down and tells her that John had confessed to him that she was coming on too strong. When she presses Cyrus for details, he explodes in a tantrum and storms off, when Cyrus finally comes home, he explains that he has rented a room and will be moving out. After a few days alone together, John decides to move in with Molly. One night, as they begin to have sex, Cyrus surprises them and says that he has had another panic attack, John confronts Cyrus privately, and Cyrus admits that he has been deliberately sabotaging their relationship. He moves back home, and John remains wary of him, the night before Jamies wedding, he warns Cyrus not to cause trouble. At the wedding however, Cyrus is hurt when he sees how the event stirs romantic feelings between John and his mother, drunk, he confronts John in the bathroom and attacks him, yelling that John will not take his mother away from him
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Love Is Strange (film)
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Love Is Strange is a 2014 French-American drama film directed by Ira Sachs. The film had its premiere in the programme of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. The film was screened in the Panorama section of the 64th Berlin International Film Festival. Ben and George, a couple from Manhattan, get married after 39 years together. George is a Catholic school music teacher, and when word of the marriage reaches the archdiocese, without his salary, the couple can no longer afford their New York apartment and are forced to ask their friends and family for shelter, resulting in their separation. Elliot, Kate, Joey, Roberto & Ted decide how much they want to involve themselves in the lives of Ben and George, and vice versa. The film has a Certified Fresh score of 94% on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 160 reviews, the film also has a score of 82 out of 100 on Metacritic, based on 42 reviews, indicating universal acclaim. Love Is Strange at the Internet Movie Database Love Is Strange at Box Office Mojo Love Is Strange at Rotten Tomatoes Love Is Strange at Metacritic
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Aunt May
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May Parker, commonly known as Aunt May is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko, the character made her first appearance in Amazing Fantasy #15 and she is the aunt-by-marriage and adoptive mother of Peter Parker, who leads a secret life as Spider-Man. She is nurturing and supportive of Peter, although throughout most of Spider-Mans history, she has not known of his secret life, after years as a widow, Aunt May married John Jonah Jameson, Sr. She has appeared in most other adaptations of the comics. May Parker was born in Brooklyn, New York on May 5, after the death of her brother-in-law and his wife, May and her husband Ben Parker took in their only son, Peter, and raised him at their home in the Forest Hills section of Queens. She remained an important influence in Peters life even during college as she was the family he had left. Her continued belief that Peter was still the fragile boy hed been before he gained his powers could be frustrating at times. In the early years of his career, Peter feared for Mays well-being. Consequently, Peter often felt anguish over dealing with major crises while his aunt needed nearly constant care. This conflict took on a turn when Aunt May became sweethearts with his enemy, Otto Octavius. During a period of convalescence at a home, May met the wheelchair-bound Nathan Lubensky. Gradually, May and Nathan fell in love each other. She invited Nathan into her Forest Hills home after converting it into a house. However, Mays heart was broken when Nathan suffered a heart attack while protecting her from being taken hostage by Adrian Toomes. Some time thereafter, a guilt-stricken Toomes confronted May, begging her to him for his role in Nathans death. May refused to do so, stating that only God could provide the villain with the redemption he was seeking, fortunately, Mister Fantastic was able to disable the device without removing it, saving the world and May, who apparently retained no memory of her time in captivity. When Spider-Man joins the Avengers, Peter, Aunt May, during the Superhero Civil War, she and Mary Jane convince Peter to unmask himself in front of a press conference. Later, she is targeted by the Chameleon, but outwits the villain by feeding him Ambien-filled oatmeal-raisin cookies, when Peter changes his mind about the Superhuman Registration Act, he moves his family from Stark Tower to a motel
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The franchise has expanded to include comic books, short films, television series and digital series. The shared universe, much like the original Marvel Universe in comic books, was established by crossing over common plot elements, settings, cast, clark Gregg has appeared the most in the franchise, portraying Phil Coulson, a character original to the MCU. The first film released in the MCU was Iron Man, which began the first phase of films culminating in the crossover film Marvels The Avengers, Phase Two began with Iron Man 3, and concluded with Ant-Man. The films are currently in Phase Three, which began with the release of Captain America, Marvel Television expanded the universe further, first to network television with Marvels Agents of S. H. I. E. L. D. Marvel Television has also produced the digital series Marvels Agents of S. H. I. E. L. D, slingshot, which is a supplement to Agents of S. H. I. E. L. D. Soundtrack albums have been released for all of the films, along many of television series. It has inspired film and television studios with comic book character adaptation rights to attempt to create similar shared universes. By 2005, Marvel Entertainment began planning to produce its own films. Previously, Marvel had co-produced several superhero films with Columbia Pictures, New Line Cinema and others, Marvel made relatively little profit from its licensing deals with other studios and wanted to get more money out of its films while maintaining artistic control of the projects and distribution. Avi Arad, head of Marvels film division, was pleased with Sam Raimis Spider-Man films at Sony, as a result, they decided to form Marvel Studios, Hollywoods first major independent movie studio since DreamWorks. Feige, a self-professed fanboy, envisioned creating a shared universe just as creators Stan Lee, to raise capital, the studio secured funding from a seven-year, $525 million revolving credit facility with Merrill Lynch. Marvels plan was to release films for their main characters. Arad, who doubted the strategy yet insisted that it was his reputation that helped secure the initial financing, in 2007, at 33 years old, Feige was named studio chief. Feige initially referred to the narrative continuity of these films as the Marvel Cinema Universe. Marvel has designated the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Earth-199999 within the continuity of the companys multiverse, while not always the case, as evident by the 2013 releases of Iron Man 3 and Thor, The Dark World, he said it is certainly something to aim for. Feige expanded on this in July 2014, saying, I dont know that well keep to every year, wed rather find a way to keep that going. After the titles were revealed in October 2014, Feige said, which made us comfortable for the first time. To increase to three films a year instead of just two, without changing our methods, just like comic readers have been doing for decades and decades
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Kevin Feige was an early visionary for the franchise, realizing a shared media universe could be created with properties Marvel owned.
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intertitle from Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe (2014).
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Joss Whedon was a large contributor to Phase Two, offering creative insight to all the films leading up to
Avengers: Age of Ultron, as well as launching the first live-action television series for the universe,
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
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Captain America: Civil War
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Captain America, Civil War is a 2016 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Captain America, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the sequel to 2011s Captain America, The First Avenger and 2014s Captain America, The Winter Soldier, and the thirteenth film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The film is directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, with a screenplay by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely, in Captain America, Civil War, disagreement over international oversight of the Avengers fractures them into opposing factions—one led by Steve Rogers and the other by Tony Stark. Following positive reactions to test screenings of The Winter Soldier, the Russo brothers were brought back to direct in early 2014, the films title and premise were revealed in October 2014, along with Downeys casting, additional cast members joined in the following months. Visual effects were provided by nearly 20 different studios during the post-production process, Captain America, Civil War held its world premiere in Los Angeles on April 12,2016, and was released in the United States on May 6,2016, in 3D and IMAX 3D. The film became a critical and commercial success, grossing over $1.1 billion worldwide, making it the film of 2016. In 1991, the brainwashed super-soldier James Bucky Barnes is dispatched from a Hydra base in Siberia to intercept an automobile carrying a case of super-soldier serum, Rumlow blows himself up, hoping to kill Rogers. When Maximoff throws the explosion into the sky with telekinesis, it damages a nearby building, killing several Wakandan humanitarian workers. U. S. Secretary of State Thaddeus Ross informs the Avengers that the United Nations is preparing to pass the Sokovia Accords, which will establish a UN panel to oversee and control the team. The Avengers are divided, Tony Stark supports oversight because of his role in Ultrons creation and Sokovias devastation, at a conference in Vienna where the Accords are to be ratified, a bomb kills King TChaka of Wakanda. Security footage indicates the bomber is Barnes, whom TChakas son, TChalla, informed by Sharon Carter of Barnes whereabouts and the authorities intentions to kill him, Rogers tries to bring in Barnes—his childhood friend and war comrade—himself. Rogers and Wilson track Barnes to Bucharest and attempt to protect him from TChalla and the authorities, Helmut Zemo tracks down and kills Barnes old Hydra handler, stealing a book containing the trigger words that activate Barnes brainwashing. Impersonating a psychiatrist sent to interview Barnes, Zemo recites the words to make Barnes obey him and he questions Barnes, then sends him on a rampage to cover his own escape. Rogers stops Barnes and sneaks him away, unwilling to wait for authorization to apprehend Zemo, Rogers and Wilson go rogue, and recruit Maximoff, Clint Barton, and Scott Lang to their cause. With Rosss permission, Stark assembles a team composed of Romanoff, TChalla, James Rhodes, Vision, Starks team intercepts Rogers group at Leipzig/Halle Airport, where they fight until Romanoff allows Rogers and Barnes to escape. The rest of Rogers team is captured and detained at the Raft prison, while Rhodes is partially paralyzed after being shot down by Vision. Stark discovers evidence that Barnes was framed by Zemo and convinces Wilson to give him Rogers destination, without informing Ross, Stark goes to the Siberian Hydra facility and strikes a truce with Rogers and Barnes, unaware they were secretly followed by TChalla. They find that the other super-soldiers have been killed by Zemo, enraged that Rogers kept this from him, Stark turns on them both, dismembering Barnes robotic arm
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Film set for Captain America: Civil War in
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Naked Angels (theater company)
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Naked Angels is an American theater company founded in 1986 and based in New York City. It was named after John Tytells book about the Beat Generation and it is notable for having produced plays on controversial social topics, such as the critically acclaimed Broadway transfer Next Fall, and for featuring many Hollywood stars. Naked Angels was originally based out in a former factory on West 17th Street in Manhattan. It soon became the it place for a generation of about-to-be famous young actors and playwrights. L. S. and The Culture Project. Also known are the groups long-running Tuesdays@9 cold reading series, where new playwrights, novelists, short-story writers, in 2005, the company partnered with Fox Broadcasting Company to produce Naked TV, an annual showcase of short plays by emerging playwrights. Based on these stagings, Fox executives chose to turn some of the plays into pilot scripts for the primetime network. Known for glamorous parties and provocative productions, after the first decade the group seemed to have lost the focus on theater, in 1995 the venue on 17th Street was closed and by that time many of the early members had gone on to fame in Hollywood or on Broadway. The theater company has a long list of co-founders and participants in its many productions over the years
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Wait Until Dark
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Wait Until Dark is a play by Frederick Knott, first performed on Broadway in 1966 and often revived since then. A film version was released in 1967, and the play was published in the same year. Roat leads his companions into thinking that they are going to be rich and will get the heroin soon enough, but in the end he murders all of his partners after they outlive their usefulness. The trio try to convince Susy that her husband will be suspected of murdering the woman, and the way to protect him is to give them the doll. Little do the men know that Gloria, a girl in the upstairs apartment, has stolen the doll after finding out it was not a gift for her. One of the men poses as Sergeant Carlino, a police detective, while another poses as Mike. Susy relies on Mike, and he begins to feel sympathy for her. Roat poses as both the elderly Mr. Roat and his son, Roat Junior, Roat Senior ransacks Susys room and steals a wedding photo from the bedroom. He threatens Susys and her husbands well being, so she calls the police and her call is intercepted by Mike, and Susy is visited by Sergeant Carlino. Gloria returns and admits her theft of the doll, and Susy hides it, Susy contacts Mike to ask for help now that the doll is found. Gloria has been watching the phone booth used by the con-men. Susy sends Gloria to meet her husband on his way home from work, Roat kills both of his partners after the men discover Susy has the doll in the apartment. He spills gas around the apartment to destroy any evidence, Susy turns off all the lights so that Roat cannot see her. Roat uses matches to see until Susy douses him with the gasoline and he uses the refrigerator light to see, threatens Susy, and tries to kill her. Sam bursts in with the police and finds that Susy has already dealt with Roat and he sees that Mike is also dead. Gloria yells at the police when they appear too patronizing to Susy, after the police leave, Susy and Sam embrace. After seven previews, the Broadway production, directed by Arthur Penn, opened on February 2,1966, within the next eleven months, it transferred to the Shubert, the George Abbott and the Music Box Theatres before it ended its run of 374 performances. The cast included Lee Remick, Robert Duvall and Mitchell Ryan, Remick was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play
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This article is about the 1966 play. For the 1967 film, see
Wait Until Dark (film).
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Drama Desk Award
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Broadway productions were excluded until the 1968–69 award season. The awards are considered a significant American theatre distinction and they debuted the presentations of the Vernon Rice Awards. The name honors the New York Post critic Vernon Rice, who had pioneered Off-Broadway coverage in the New York press, the name was changed for the 1963–1964 awards season to the Drama Desk Awards. In 1974, the Drama Desk became incorporated as a not-for-profit organization, in 1975, the Drama announcement of winners included the nominees as well. The Drama Desk has more than 100 members, including critics, reporters and editors who cover New York theater. Membership consists of two categories, Active membership and Participating Membership, all of the Drama Desk officers and Nominating Committee members perform their various services for the organization on a voluntary basis. The Nominating Committee generally meets twice a month to discuss the many eligible shows members are responsible for seeing and they then nominate the productions on which the entire membership will vote. What sets the organization apart is that the awards are voted on by people only without any vested interests in the results. Previous winners include Bernadette Peters, Dustin Hoffman, Al Pacino, over the last 36 years, the Drama Desk Awards have contributed to the ongoing success of major stars, playwrights and designers, while also identifying newcomers. The Drama Desk was the first New York theater organization to give awards to talents such as Edward Albee, Wendy Wasserstein, plays like Driving Miss Daisy, Other Peoples Money, Steel Magnolias, and The Boys in the Band built momentum with the help of Drama Desk wins. In 2010 William Wolf was announced as the President of Drama Desk, the current managing executive producer of the Drama Desk Awards is Gretchen Shugart, and the president of the Drama Desk is Charles Wright. David Barbour is chairperson of the nominating committee, in keeping with its original mission, the organization sponsors guest panel luncheons with theater professionals. Panels address topics of current interest, covering the season on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway, with the aim of prompting informative and stimulating discussion
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Brooklyn, New York
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Brooklyn is the most populous borough of New York City, with a Census-estimated 2,636,735 residents in 2015. It borders the borough of Queens at the end of Long Island. Today, if New York City dissolved, Brooklyn would rank as the third-most populous city in the U. S. behind Los Angeles, the borough continues, however, to maintain a distinct culture. Many Brooklyn neighborhoods are ethnic enclaves, Brooklyns official motto, displayed on the Borough seal and flag, is Eendraght Maeckt Maght which translates from early modern Dutch as Unity makes strength. Since 2010, Brooklyn has evolved into a hub of entrepreneurship and high technology startup firms. The history of European settlement in Brooklyn spans more than 350 years, the neighborhood of Marine Park was home to North Americas first tidal mill. It was built by the Dutch, and the foundation can be seen today, however, the area was not formally settled as a town. Many incidents and documents relating to this period are in Gabriel Furmans early compilation, what is today Brooklyn left Dutch hands after the final English conquest of New Netherland in 1664, a prelude to the Second Anglo–Dutch War. The English reorganized the six old Dutch towns on southwestern Long Island as Kings County on November 1,1683 and this tract of land was recognized as a political entity for the first time, and the municipal groundwork was laid for a later expansive idea of Brooklyn identity. On August 27,1776 was fought the Battle of Long Island, the first major engagement fought in the American Revolutionary War after independence was declared, and the largest of the entire conflict. British troops forced Continental Army troops under George Washington off the heights near the sites of Green-Wood Cemetery, Prospect Park. The fortified American positions at Brooklyn Heights consequently became untenable and were evacuated a few days later, One result of the Treaty of Paris in 1783 was the evacuation of the British from New York City, celebrated by residents into the 20th century. The New York Navy Yard operated in Wallabout Bay for the entire 19th century, the first center of urbanization sprang up in the Town of Brooklyn, directly across from Lower Manhattan, which saw the incorporation of the Village of Brooklyn in 1817. Reliable steam ferry service across the East River to Fulton Landing converted Brooklyn Heights into a town for Wall Street. Ferry Road to Jamaica Pass became Fulton Street to East New York, Town and Village were combined to form the first, kernel incarnation of the City of Brooklyn in 1834. Industrial deconcentration in mid-century was bringing shipbuilding and other manufacturing to the part of the county. Each of the two cities and six towns in Kings County remained independent municipalities, and purposely created non-aligning street grids with different naming systems and it later became the most popular and highest circulation afternoon paper in America. The publisher changed to L. Van Anden on April 19,1842, on May 14,1849 the name was shortened to The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, on September 5,1938 it was further shortened to Brooklyn Eagle
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Clockwise from top left:
Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn brownstones,
Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch,
Brooklyn Borough Hall,
Coney Island
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Currier and Ives print of Brooklyn, 1886.
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Brooklyn Museum - Hooker's Map of the Village of Brooklyn
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A typical dining table in the Dutch village of Brooklyn, c. 1664, from
The Brooklyn Museum.
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Edward R. Murrow High School
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Edward R. Murrow High School, is located in the Midwood section of Brooklyn, New York City, New York and is part of the New York City Department of Education. The school is known for its theater program and its success in the arts was recognized by Mel Brooks, who granted the school to be the first ever to gain rights to the musical The Producers in spring 2008. It is a school of the arts students are either music, dance, communication arts, theater. The school was created under the supervision and leadership of Saul Bruckner, Murrow H. S. opened in 1974 with Saul Bruckner as principal. The school was named for the pioneering television newsman Edward R. Murrow, Murrow H. S. was founded according to the pedagogical theories of John Dewey and the learning and teaching methods of John Dewey High School. Bruckner retired in 2004 and died on May 1,2010, in Brooklyn, anthony Lodico became Murrows second principal. In March 2012, Lodico announced his resignation from Murrow in order to accept the High School Superintendent position, on April 2,2012, Allen Barge assumed the role of principal of the school. Murrows academic year is divided into two semesters, students receive new class schedules and teachers at the end of January. The daily schedule shifts depending on the day of the week, with lengths varying from 45 minutes to an hour. Rather than having a period or study halls, Murrow students have free periods called OPTAs, used for studying, eating. Murrow has a number of features including, NYC High School adjusted its grade policies in 2013 so that a U is used instead of an N. In calculating the average, E is treated as a 95, G =85, S =75 and this means that for getting the highest grade in all classes, a student will not achieve an average higher than 95. In college admissions applications, a letter is forwarded to colleges to explain this fact. Instead of using numbers to represent class periods, Murrow uses letters from A-J, some students take classes that meet before A-Band and after J-Band. These bands are 0 -Band and K-Band There are no daily home room meetings, entering students are assigned to a Student Communication Section, or SCS, and remain in that SCS until graduation. The SCS meets only on an as needed basis and is used solely for dissemination of school-wide administrative/logistical information,2 morning bands are cut short to allow time for SCS to convene. For mandated city-wide testing, students attend a half-day of classes. Edward R. Murrow High School is also known for its theater program
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Edward R. Murrow High School
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Midwood, Brooklyn
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Midwood is a neighborhood in the south-central part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is bounded on the north by the Bay Ridge Branch tracks just above Avenue I and Brooklyn College campus of the City University of New York, and on the south by Avenue P and Kings Highway. The eastern border is Nostrand Avenue, Flatbush Avenue, or Coney Island Avenue, the name, Midwood, derives from the Middle Dutch word, Midwout, the name the settlers of New Netherland called the area of dense woodland midway between the towns of Boswyck and Breuckelen. Through Swartwouts suggestion, the settlement was named the village of Midwout or Midwolde, in April 1655, Stuyvesant and the Council of New Netherland appointed Swartwout a schepen, to serve with Snedeker and Adriaen Hegeman as the Court of Midwout. Later, it part of old Flatbush, situated between the towns of Gravesend and Flatlands. It became more developed in the 1920s when large middle class housing tracts, many Midwood residents moved to the suburbs in the 1970s, and the neighborhood and its commercial districts declined. Drawn by its quiet middle-class ambiance, new residents began pouring into Midwood during the 1980s, the usage of Flatbush to mean Midwood dates to the period when the neighborhood was first formed, and known as South Greenfield. This usage is common among Orthodox Jews. Many also consider the neighborhood of Fiske Terrace/Midwood Gardens to be part of Midwood. The main shopping streets in the area are Kings Highway, Avenue J, Avenue M, Flatbush Avenue, Nostrand Avenue, and Coney Island Avenue. In the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, Kings Highway had Dubrows Cafeteria, a cafeteria where holes would be punched in patrons printed tickets. It was a place to eat and socialize. In his run for the White House, Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy held a campaign rally just outside Dubrows Cafeteria. A huge crowd of people turned out to hear this popular political icon speak, years later, his brother Senator Robert F. Kennedy held a similar campaign rally there for his run for President, with a similarly large audience. The community has long known as a Democratic stronghold. Additionally, Levines was the king of the bar mitzvah suit trade, Kings Highway was home to the now famed Crazy Eddie Electronics Empire. The first Original Crazy Eddie store was located on Kings Hwy. then moved to larger quarters just south of Kings Highway on Coney Island Avenue, a branch of the Brooklyn Public Library can be found on the east side of Ocean Avenue just south of Kings Highway. There were three movie theaters on Kings Highway, the Kingsway, the Jewel and the Avalon, visitors to Kings Highway are amused by the colored holiday-style lights that are strung across above the street and feature a lighted gold Kings Crown at a few intersections.50 an hour
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Brooklyn College in winter 2013
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Condos in Midwood
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Residential building cluster in Midwood
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A Midwood shopping street at night
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Boston University
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Boston University is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, and is affiliated with the United Methodist Church. The university has more than 3,900 faculty members and nearly 33,000 students and it offers bachelors degrees, masters degrees, and doctorates, and medical, dental, business, and law degrees through 17 schools and colleges on two urban campuses. The main campus is situated along the Charles River in Bostons Fenway-Kenmore and Allston neighborhoods, BU is categorized as an R1, Doctoral University in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. BU is a member of the Boston Consortium for Higher Education, the University was ranked 39th among undergraduate programs at national universities, and 32nd among global universities by U. S. News & World Report in its 2017 rankings. In 1876, BU professor Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in a BU lab, American Civil Rights Movement leader and 1964 Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. received his PhD in Theology from BU in 1955. The Boston University Terriers compete in the NCAAs Division I, BU athletic teams compete in the Patriot League, and Hockey East conferences, and their mascot is Rhett the Boston Terrier. Boston University is well known for hockey, in which it has won five national championships. The University organized formal Centennial observances both in 1939 and 1969, on April 24–25,1839 a group of Methodist ministers and laymen at the Old Bromfield Street Church in Boston elected to establish a Methodist theological school. Set up in Newbury, Vermont, the school was named the Newbury Biblical Institute, in 1847, the Congregational Society in Concord, New Hampshire, invited the Institute to relocate to Concord and offered a disused Congregational church building with a capacity of 1200 people. Other citizens of Concord covered the remodeling costs, one stipulation of the invitation was that the Institute remain in Concord for at least 20 years. The charter issued by New Hampshire designated the school the Methodist General Biblical Institute, with the agreed twenty years coming to a close, the Trustees of the Concord Biblical Institute purchased 30 acres on Aspinwall Hill in Brookline, Massachusetts, as a possible relocation site. The institute moved in 1867 to 23 Pinkney Street in Boston, in 1869, three Trustees of the Boston Theological Institute obtained from the Massachusetts Legislature a charter for a university by name of Boston University. These three were successful Boston businessmen and Methodist laymen, with a history of involvement in educational enterprises and they were Isaac Rich, Lee Claflin, and Jacob Sleeper, for whom Boston Universitys three West Campus dormitories are named. Lee Claflins son, William, was then Governor of Massachusetts, on account of the religious opinions he may entertain, provided, nonetheless, that this section shall not apply to the theological department of said University. Every department of the new university was open to all on an equal footing regardless of sex, race. The Boston Theological Institute was absorbed into Boston University in 1871 as the BU School of Theology, in January 1872 Isaac Rich died, leaving the vast bulk of his estate to a trust that would go to Boston University after ten years of growth while the University was organized. Most of this bequest consisted of real estate throughout the core of the city of Boston and was appraised at more than $1.5 million, Kilgore describes this as the largest single donation to an American college or university to that time
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688 Boylston Street, the early home of the College of Liberal Arts, the precursor to the College of Arts & Sciences
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Alexander Graham Bell, who invented the telephone at Boston University
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Helen Magill White, the first woman to receive a Ph.D. from an American university
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The Flamingo Kid
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The Flamingo Kid is a 1984 American comedy film directed by Garry Marshall and written by Marshall, Neal Marshall and Bo Goldman. It stars Matt Dillon, Richard Crenna, Hector Elizondo, and it tells the story of a working class boy who takes a summer job at a beach resort and learns valuable life lessons. It was the first movie to receive a PG-13 rating, although it was the fifth to be released with that rating, after Red Dawn, The Woman in Red, Dreamscape, the films Tagline is A legend in his own neighborhood. In the summer of 1963, Jeffrey Willis joins some friends for a day of Gin rummy at the El Flamingo Club, there, he meets the girl of his dreams Carla Sampson. After the Gin game and being told of the strict policy regarding guests, Jeffrey is upset. Jeffrey is a kid from a middle class Brooklyn family and his father does not approve of him working at the private club and his hero and mentor at the resort is the reigning Gin rummy card game champ, Phil Brody. Jeffrey, a winning Gin Rummy player himself, and his friends, admire Brody and how his wins at the Gin rummy table make him seem psychic, knowing which cards to give up. Brody also takes a liking to Jeffrey, eventually showing him his car business, Jeffrey gets further immersed in the easy buck, defying his fathers guidance. During dinner, Jeffrey notably says he will not be needing college, Jeffrey and his co-workers at The Flamingo also venture to Yonkers Raceway together, risking cash on a horse tip but come up short when the trotter breaks stride. Eventually, Jeffrey leaves home to pursue the sales job, Brody encourages Jeffrey to take the stock boy position so he can work his way up. Jeffrey becomes shocked at his mentors actions and reconsiders college, near Summers end, Jeffrey observes that a regular onlooker, Big Sid, is feeding signals to Brody, the true cause of Brodys winning ways. Jeffrey and his team win back what was unfairly lost. Realizing the mistakes he made in rejecting his fathers advice, Jeffrey makes up with his dad in a touching scene at Larrys Fish House. The club was damaged by Superstorm Sandy in 2012. A soundtrack to the film was released by Motown. com announced in September 2012 that Walt Disney Pictures has planned a remake of The Flamingo Kid, brett Ratner and Michael Phillips are producing and music video director Nzingha Stewart is scripting. Official website at MGM. com The Flamingo Kid at the Internet Movie Database The Flamingo Kid at AllMovie The Flamingo Kid at Box Office Mojo The Flamingo Kid at Rotten Tomatoes
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Theatrical release poster
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81st Academy Awards
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During the ceremony, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented Academy Awards in 24 categories. The ceremony was televised in the United States by ABC, and was produced by Bill Condon and Laurence Mark, Actor Hugh Jackman hosted the show for the first time. Two weeks earlier in a ceremony at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California held on February 7, Slumdog Millionaire won eight awards, the most of the evening, including Best Picture and Best Director for Danny Boyle. The telecast garnered almost 37 million viewers in the United States, the nominees for the 81st Academy Awards were announced on January 22,2009, at 5,38 a. m. PST at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by Sid Ganis, president of the Academy, the Curious Case of Benjamin Button received the most nominations with thirteen, Slumdog Millionaire came in second with ten. The winners were announced during the ceremony on February 22,2009. Slumdog Millionaire was the film to win Best Picture without any acting nominations. Sean Penn became the person to win Best Lead Actor twice. Best Supporting Actor winner Heath Ledger became the performer to win a posthumous acting Oscar. The first actor to receive this distinction was Peter Finch who posthumously won Best Actor for Network two months after his death in January 1977. With its six nominations, Best Animated Feature Film winner WALL-E tied with 1991s Beauty, winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface. Jerry Lewis The following individuals presented awards or performed musical numbers, in September 2008, the Academy selected producers Bill Condon and Laurence Mark to co-produce the telecast. Nearly three months later, actor Hugh Jackman, who had previously emceed three consecutive Tony Awards ceremonies between 2003 and 2005, was chosen as host of the 2009 gala. Jackman expressed his anticipation of the awards in the few days preceding, notable changes were introduced in the production of the telecast. Another unique feature of the ceremony was that the orchestra performed onstage instead of being relegated to a pit, in a break from previous presentations, five previous Oscar-winning performers presented each of the acting categories as opposed to only one or two. In addition, the Academy announced that for the first time since Oscar began broadcasting on television, furthermore, a montage of upcoming 2009 films was shown over the ceremonys closing credits. Several other people participated in the production of the ceremony, chris Harrison hosted Road to the Oscars, a weekly behind-the-scenes video blog on the Oscar ceremony website. David Rockwell designed a new set and stage design for the ceremony, Film historian and author Robert Osborne greeted guests entering the festivities at the Hollywood and Highland Center
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Official poster
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Danny Boyle, Best Director winner
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Sean Penn, Best Actor winner
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Kate Winslet, Best Actress winner
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Joe Pesci
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Joseph Frank Joe Pesci is an American actor, singer, musician and comedian. Known for playing tough, volatile characters, in a variety of genres and he is best known for a trio of Martin Scorsese films in which he co-starred with Robert De Niro, Raging Bull, Goodfellas and Casino. Pesci was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Raging Bull, Pesci was born on February 9,1943, in Newark, New Jersey. His mother, Mary, worked part-time as a barber, and his father, Angelo Pesci, was a driver for General Motors. Pesci, of Italian descent, was raised in Belleville, New Jersey, by the time Pesci was five years old, he was appearing in plays in New York. At age 10, he was a regular on a variety show called Startime Kids which also featured Connie Francis. In the 1960s, Pesci began working as a barber, following in his mothers footsteps, at the same time, he tried to start a musical career, playing guitar with several bands. In 1968, he released the album Little Joe Sure Can Sing. on which he sang covers of pop hits. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Pesci joined fellow actor Frank Vincent in performing in clubs including the Arlington Lounge and other venues around North Jersey as Vincent. The comedy duos material was a play on Martin and Lewis and Abbott, in 1975, they appeared in the Broadway show The New Vaudevillians, which only lasted one week. The first film Pesci starred in was the 1976 low-budget crime film The Death Collector alongside Frank Vincent, after the film Pesci returned to The Bronx and lived above Amicis Restaurant, where he was an employee. Pesci won the BAFTA Film Award for Newcomer to Leading Film Roles in 1981 and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, over the next few years, Pesci appeared in several smaller films, including Dear Mr. Wonderful, Easy Money and Eureka. In 1984, he was cast in Once Upon a Time in America, next year he starred as private detective Rocky Nelson in the short-lived television comedy series Half Nelson. In 1988, Pesci appeared in the Michael Jackson musical anthology film Moonwalker, in the sixth and longest segment. He played the antagonist, crime boss Frankie Mr. Big LiDeo and he appeared as Leo Getz in the Lethal Weapon sequels, released in 1989,1992 and 1998. In 1990, he reunited with Scorsese and De Niro for Goodfellas, Pesci received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the role, which he accepted with one of the shortest speeches in Oscar history, saying simply, Its my privilege. Thank you, before leaving the stage, Pesci also co-starred in the blockbuster Home Alone in 1990, playing Harry Lime, one of two bumbling burglars who attempt to burgle the house of the young character played by Macaulay Culkin. In the films climactic scene, Pesci accidentally bit one of Culkins fingers, two years later, Pesci reprised his role in the sequel Home Alone 2, Lost in New York
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Joe Pesci in February 2009
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65th Academy Awards
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During the ceremony, AMPAS presented Academy Awards in 23 categories. The ceremony, televised in the United States by ABC, was produced by Gil Cates, Actor Billy Crystal hosted the show for the fourth consecutive year. In related events, during a ceremony held at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles on March 6, Unforgiven won four Oscars including Best Picture, Best Director for Clint Eastwood, and Best Supporting Actor for Gene Hackman. Al Pacino and Emma Thompson won lead acting honors for Scent of a Woman and Howards End, marisa Tomei won Best Supporting Actress for My Cousin Vinny. The telecast garnered 45.7 million viewers in the United States, Howards End and Unforgiven led all nominees with nine nominations each. The winners were announced during the ceremony on March 29,1993. Best Director winner Clint Eastwood became the person nominated for lead acting and directing for the same film. Best Actor winner Al Pacino was the performer to receive nominations in the lead. He also became the first person to win in the acting category after achieving the aforementioned feat. By virtue of his second win in both music categories, Alan Menken became the third person to win two Oscars in two consecutive years. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger, Academy Honorary Award Federico Fellini — In recognition of his place as one of the screen’s master storytellers. Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Awards The award recognizes individuals whose efforts have brought credit to the motion picture industry. In February 1993, actor and comedian Billy Crystal was chosen by Cates as host also for the fourth straight time, Cates justified the decision to hire him saying, He is a major movie star with a talent for moving the evenings entertainment along. As with previous ceremonies he produced, Cates centered the show around a theme, inspired by the Year of the Woman in which a record four women were elected to the United States Senate, Cates christened the 1993 show with the theme Oscar Celebrates Women and the Movies. In tandem with the theme, AMPAS gathered 67 female Oscar winners of every category for a photo that was shown at the start of the telecast. Actress and singer Liza Minnelli performed Ladies Day, a written by Fred Ebb. Oscar-winning documentarian Lynne Littman assembled a montage highlighting women in film, several other people participated in the production of the ceremony. Bill Conti served as conductor and musical supervisor for the ceremony, choreographer Debbie Allen supervised the Best Song nominee performances and the Ladies Night musical number
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Official poster
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Clint Eastwood, Best Director winner
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Al Pacino, Best Actor winner
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Emma Thompson, Best Actress winner
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Miranda Richardson
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Miranda Jane Richardson is an English stage, film and television actress. She made her film debut playing Ruth Ellis in Dance with a Stranger in 1985 and went on to receive Academy Award nominations for Damage, for Damage, she won the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress. She has also won Golden Globe Awards for Enchanted April and the TV film Fatherland, Richardson began her career on stage and made her West End debut in the 1980 play Moving. She received a Best Actress Olivier Award nomination for the 1987 Royal Court production of A Lie of the Mind. On television, she has starred in Blackadder, A Dance to the Music of Time, Merlin, The Lost Prince, and the sitcom The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle. Her other films include Empire of the Sun, The Crying Game, The Apostle, Sleepy Hollow, Snow White, The Fairest of Them All, Spider, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, and Made in Dagenham. Richardson was born in Southport, to Marian Georgina, a housewife, and William Alan Richardson, a marketing executive and her London stage debut was in Moving at the Queens Theatre in 1981. She returned to the London stage in May 2009 to play the role in Wallace Shawns new play. Richardson has said that she prefers new work rather than the classics because of the history which goes with them. In 1985, Richardson made her debut as Ruth Ellis. Around the same time, Richardson played a comedic Queen Elizabeth I, aka Queenie, following Dance with a Stranger, Richardson turned down numerous parts in which her character was unstable or disreputable, including the Glenn Close role in Fatal Attraction. In this period, she appeared in Empire of the Sun, in an episode of the TV series The Storyteller, she played a witch. Meanwhile, she had returned in guest roles in one each in Blackadder the Third. She returned to play Queenie in the Christmas special Blackadders Christmas Carol and, later and her portrayal of a troubled theatre goer in Secret Friends was described as a miniature tour de force. Miranda Richardsons finest hour, all in ten minutes, Richardson has appeared in a number of high-profile supporting roles in film, including Vanessa Bell in The Hours, Lady Van Tassel in Sleepy Hollow and Patsy Carpenter in The Evening Star. She also won acclaim for her performances in The Crying Game and Enchanted April and she received Academy Award nominations for her performances in Damage and Tom & Viv. Her film credits also include Kansas City, The Apostle and Wah-Wah, in 2002, she performed a triple-role in the thriller Spider. Richardson also appeared as Queen Rosalind of Denmark in The Prince and Me, in 2005, she appeared in the role of Rita Skeeter, the toxic Daily Prophet journalist in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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Richardson at the
Metropolitan Opera 's 2010 opening night of
Das Rheingold
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Miranda Richardson at the
Toronto Film Festival 2010
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Joan Plowright
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Joan Ann Plowright, Baroness Olivier, DBE, commonly known as Dame Joan Plowright, is an English retired actress whose career has spanned over six decades. She has won two Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award and has been nominated for an Academy Award and she is also one of only four actresses to have won two Golden Globes in the same year. Plowright was born in Brigg, Lincolnshire, the daughter of Daisy Margaret and William Ernest Plowright and she attended Scunthorpe Grammar School and trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Plowright made her debut at Croydon in 1948 and her London debut in 1954. In 1956 she joined the English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre and was cast as Margery Pinchwife in The Country Wife and she appeared with George Devine in the Eugène Ionesco play, The Chairs, Shaws Major Barbara and Saint Joan. She continued to appear on stage and in such as The Entertainer. In 1961, she received a Tony Award for her role in A Taste of Honey on Broadway, through her marriage to Laurence Olivier, she became closely associated with his work at the National Theatre from 1963 onwards. She was also Nanny in 101 Dalmatians, among her television roles, she won another Golden Globe Award and earned an Emmy Award nomination for the HBO film Stalin in 1992 as the Soviet dictators mother-in-law. In 1994, she was awarded the Women in Film Crystal Award, in 2003, Plowright performed in the stage production Absolutely. She was appointed president of the English Stage Company in March 2009, succeeding John Mortimer. She was previously vice-president of the company, Plowright was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1970 Queens New Year Honours and was promoted to Dame Commander in the 2004 Queens New Year Honours. In 2014, she announced her retirement from acting, citing her declining eyesight due to macular degeneration. Plowright was first married to Roger Gage, an actor, in September 1953 and she divorced him and, in 1961, married Laurence Olivier after the ending of his 20-year marriage with the actress Vivien Leigh. The couple had three children, Richard Kerr, Tamsin Agnes Margaret and Julie-Kate, the couple remained married until Lord Oliviers death in 1989. Joan Plowrights brother, David Plowright, CBE, was an executive at Granada Television, the Plowright Theatre in Scunthorpe is named in Plowrights honour. Upon her marriage to Sir Laurence Olivier, her title became Lady Olivier, however. Her husband was made a peer in 1970 and so she became Baroness Olivier. Over the years Joan Plowright has had many titles as a result of honours awarded, and the appointment of her husband as a peer in 1970
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Plowright as Jo with
Angela Lansbury as Helen in the Broadway production of A Taste of Honey
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Vanessa Redgrave
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Vanessa Redgrave, CBE is an English actress of stage, screen and television, as well as a political activist. She is a 2003 American Theatre Hall of Fame inductee, and she also received Tony nominations for The Year of Magical Thinking and Driving Miss Daisy. On screen, she has starred in scores of films and is a six-time Oscar nominee and her other nominations were for Morgan, A Suitable Case for Treatment, Isadora, Mary, Queen of Scots, The Bostonians and Howards End. Among her other films are A Man for All Seasons, Blowup, Camelot, The Devils, Murder on the Orient Express, Prick Up Your Ears, Mission, Impossible, Atonement, Coriolanus and The Butler. Redgrave was born in Greenwich, London, the daughter of actors Sir Michael Redgrave, laurence Olivier announced her birth to the audience at a performance of Hamlet at the Old Vic, when he said that Laertes had a daughter. She was educated at the Alice Ottley School, Worcester, and Queens Gate School, London and her siblings, Lynn Redgrave and Corin Redgrave, were also acclaimed actors. Vanessa Redgrave entered the Central School of Speech and Drama in 1954 and she first appeared in the West End, playing opposite her brother, in 1958. In 1960, Redgrave had her first starring role in Robert Bolts The Tiger, in 1961, she played Rosalind in As You Like It for the Royal Shakespeare Company. In 1962, she played Imogen in William Gaskills production of Cymbeline for the RSC. In 1966, Redgrave created the role of Jean Brodie in the Donald Albery production of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and she won four Evening Standard Awards for Best Actress in four decades. In 2003 she won a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance in the Broadway revival of Eugene ONeills Long Days Journey Into Night. In January 2006, Redgrave was presented the Ibsen Centennial Award for her work in interpreting many of Henrik Ibsens works over the last decades. Previous recipients of the award include Liv Ullmann, Glenda Jackson, for this, she won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Show and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play. She reprised the role at the Lyttelton Theatre at the Royal National Theatre in London to mixed reviews and she also spent a week performing the work at the Theatre Royal in Bath in September 2008. She once again performed the role of Joan Didion for a benefit at New Yorks Cathedral of Saint John the Divine on 26 October 2009. The performance was originally slated to debut on 27 April, but was pushed due to the death of Redgraves daughter Natasha, the proceeds for the benefit were donated to the United Nations Childrens Fund and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. Both charities work to help for the children of Gaza. In October 2010, she starred in the Broadway premiere of Driving Miss Daisy starring in the role opposite James Earl Jones
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Redgrave at the
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Judy Davis
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Judith Judy Davis is an Australian actress. With a career spanning over 30 years she is commended for her versatility and is regarded as one of the finest actresses of her generation. She is the recipient of eight AACTA Awards, two BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, three Emmy Awards and has been nominated twice for an Academy Award, as a student at the National Institute of Dramatic Art, Davis played opposite Mel Gibson in Romeo and Juliet. Her other stage credits include Piaf, Insignificance, the role in Hedda Gabler. Davis was born in Perth, Western Australia, and had a strict Catholic upbringing and she was educated at Loreto Convent and the Western Australian Institute of Technology and graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1977. She has been married to actor and fellow NIDA graduate Colin Friels since 1984 and they have two children, son Jack and daughter Charlotte. The relationship was briefly in the media when an argument led to an order against Friels – however. They live in the Sydney area of Birchgrove, New South Wales, Davis first came to prominence for her role as Sybylla Melvyn in the coming-of-age saga My Brilliant Career, for which she won BAFTA Awards for Best Actress and Best Newcomer. Davis also played the lead in the Australian New Wave classics Winter of Our Dreams and Heatwave. In 1984, she was cast as Adela Quested in David Leans final film A Passage to India and she earned Australian Film Institute Awards for both roles, and a National Society of Film Critics award for Hightides brief American theatrical run. In 1990, she played a cameo in Woody Allens Alice, in 1991, she was featured in Joel Coens Barton Fink, which won the Palme dOr at the Cannes Film Festival and in David Cronenbergs adaptation of the hallucinogenic novel Naked Lunch. She won an Independent Spirit Award for her work as mannish woman author George Sand in Impromptu and she portrayed real-life Second World War heroine Mary Lindell in the CBS Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation One Against the Wind. In 1992, she played a role in Woody Allens Husbands. For this performance she earned both Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actress and she co-starred with Kevin Spacey in the 1994 comedy film The Ref, portraying a married couple whose relationship is on the rocks, with Denis Leary playing a thief who counsels their marriage. Much of her recent work has been on television, where she has a collection of Emmy Award nominations and she earned a second Emmy for her portrayal of Judy Garland in the 2001 television biographical film Life with Judy Garland, Me and My Shadows. In July 2006, she received her ninth Emmy nomination for her performance in the television film A Little Thing Called Murder and her tenth nomination came in 2007 for Outstanding Supporting Actress in the U. S. miniseries The Starter Wife for which she was awarded the Emmy. In August 2007, she appeared opposite Sam Waterston in an episode of ABCs anthology series Masters of Science Fiction and she appeared on the TV mini-series, Diamonds from 2008–2009. In 2011, Davis appeared in a drama film, Page Eight
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Davis at the AACTA Awards in
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Jack Palance
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Jack Palance was an American actor and singer. He was nominated for three Academy Awards, all for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, winning in 1992 for his role in City Slickers, Palance was born in Lattimer Mines, Pennsylvania, the son of Anna and Ivan Palahniuk, an anthracite coal miner. His parents were Ukrainian immigrants, his father a native of Ivane Zolote in southwestern Ukraine and his mother from the Lviv Oblast, one of six children, he worked in coal mines during his youth before becoming a professional boxer in the late 1930s. Years later he recounted, Then, I thought, you must be nuts to get your head beat in for $200, with the outbreak of World War II, Palances athletic career ended, and his military career began as a member of the United States Army Air Forces. Palances face, which took many beatings in the ring, was said to have become disfigured while bailing out of a burning B-24 Liberator bomber during a training flight over Southern Arizona. His distinctive cheekbones and deep-set eyes were said to have been the result of reconstructive surgery, one flack created the legend that I had been blown up in an air crash during the war, and my face had to be put back together by way of plastic surgery. If it is a face, why didnt they do a better job of it. Palance was honorably discharged from the Army Air Corps in 1944 and his last name was actually a derivative of his original name. In an episode of Whats My Line and he described how no one could pronounce his last name and it was suggested he be called Palanski. From that he decided to just use Palance instead, Palances acting break came as Marlon Brandos understudy in A Streetcar Named Desire, and he eventually replaced Brando on stage as Stanley Kowalski. In 1947, Palance made his Broadway debut and he debuted on television in 1949, and this was followed a year later by his screen debut in the movie Panic in the Streets. The same year he was featured in Halls of Montezuma about the United States Marines in World War II, Palance was quickly recognized for his skill as a character actor, receiving an Oscar nomination for his third film role as Lester Blaine in Sudden Fear. The following year, Palance was nominated for an Oscar for his role as the hired gunfighter Jack Wilson in Shane, several Western roles followed, but he also played varied roles such as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dracula and Attila the Hun. I knew that Jack Palance would do the perfect Dracula, in 1957, Palance won an Emmy Award for best actor for his portrayal of Mountain McClintock in the Playhouse 90 production of Rod Serlings Requiem for a Heavyweight. Jean-Luc Godard persuaded Palance to take on the role of Hollywood producer Jeremy Prokosch in the nouvelle vague movie Le Mépris, although the main dialogue was in French, Palance spoke mostly English. Palance provided narration for the 1967 documentary, And Still Champion, later, in 1966, he appeared in the television movie Alice Through the Looking Glass, directed by Alan Handley, in which he played the Jabberwock. He had a role opposite Lee Marvin and Burt Lancaster in the Western adventure The Professionals. In 1969, Palance recorded a music album in Nashville
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1953 publicity photo
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Jack Palance (left) visiting a
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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is a professional honorary organization with the stated goal of advancing the arts and sciences of motion pictures. The Academys corporate management and general policies are overseen by a Board of Governors, the roster of the Academys approximately 6,000 motion picture professionals is a closely guarded secret. While the great majority of its members are based in the United States, the Academy is known around the world for its annual Academy Awards, now officially known as The Oscars. The Academy plans to open the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles in 2017, the notion of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences began with Louis B. He said he wanted to create an organization that would mediate labor disputes without unions and he met with actor Conrad Nagel, director Fred Niblo, and the head of the Association of Motion Picture Producers, Fred Beetsonto to discuss these matters. The idea of this elite club having a banquet was discussed. They also established that membership into the organization would only be open to people involved in one of the five branches of the industry, actors, directors, writers, technicians, and producers. That evening Mayer presented to those guests what he called the International Academy of Motion Picture Arts, everyone in the room that evening became a founder of the Academy. Several organizational meetings were held prior to the first official meeting held on May 6,1927 and their first organizational meeting was held on May 11. At that meeting Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. was elected as the first president of the Academy, while Fred Niblo was the first vice-president and that night, the Academy also bestowed its first honorary membership, to Thomas Edison. Initially, the Academy was broken down into five groups, or branches. The original five were, Producers, Actors, Directors, Writers, the initial concerns of the group had to do with labor. However, as went on, the organization moved further away from involvement in labor-management arbitrations and negotiations. By July 1928 the board of directors had approved a list of 12 awards to be presented, during July the voting system for the Awards was established, and the nomination and selection process began. This award of merit for distinctive achievement is what we know now as the Academy Award, the initial location of the organization was 6912 Hollywood Boulevard. In May 1928, the Academy authorized the construction of a state of the art screening room, the screening room was not completed until April 1929. With the publication of Report on Incandescent Illumination in 1928, the Academy began a history of publishing books to assist its members. Another early initiative concerned training Army Signal Corps officers, in 1929 Academy members in a joint venture with the University of Southern California created Americas first film school to further the art and science of moving pictures
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Headquarters building
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Fairbanks Center for Motion Picture Study building on La Cienega Boulevard in Beverly Hills, California
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Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study in the Hollywood district
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PwC
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PricewaterhouseCoopers is a multinational professional services network headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the second largest professional services firm in the world, vault Accounting 50 has ranked PwC as the most prestigious accounting firm in the world for seven consecutive years, as well as the top firm to work for in North America for three consecutive years. PwC is a network of firms in 157 countries,756 locations, as of 2015, 22% of the workforce worked in Asia, 26% in North America and Caribbean and 32% in Western Europe. The companys global revenues were $35.9 billion in FY2016, of which $15.2 billion was generated by its Assurance practice, $9.1 billion by its Tax practice, the firm was formed in 1998 by a merger between Coopers & Lybrand and Price Waterhouse. The trading name was shortened to PwC in September 2010 as part of a rebranding, as of 2016, PwC is the 5th-largest privately owned company in the United States. The firm was created in 1998 when Coopers & Lybrand merged with Price Waterhouse, both firms had histories dating back to the 19th century. In 1854 William Cooper founded a practice in London, which became Cooper Brothers seven years later when his three brothers joined. In 1898, Robert H. Montgomery, William M. Lybrand, Adam A. Ross Jr. and his brother T. Edward Ross formed Lybrand, Ross Brothers and Montgomery in the United States. In 1957 Cooper Brothers, Lybrand, Ross Bros & Montgomery, in 1973 the three member firms in the UK, US and Canada changed their names to Coopers & Lybrand. Then in 1980 Coopers & Lybrand expanded its expertise in insolvency substantially by acquiring Cork Gully, in 1990 in certain countries including the UK, Coopers & Lybrand merged with Deloitte Haskins & Sells to become Coopers & Lybrand Deloitte, in 1992 they reverted to Coopers & Lybrand. Samuel Lowell Price, an accountant, founded a practice in London in 1849. In 1865 Price went into partnership with William Hopkins Holyland and Edwin Waterhouse, Holyland left shortly afterwards to work alone in accountancy and the firm was known from 1874 as Price, Waterhouse & Co. The original partnership agreement, signed by Price, Holyland and Waterhouse could be found in Southwark Towers, by the late 19th century, Price Waterhouse had gained significant recognition as an accounting firm. As a result of growing trade between the United Kingdom and the United States, Price Waterhouse opened an office in New York in 1890, and the American firm itself soon expanded rapidly. It was said by those involved with the merger that at the end of the discussion, the partners at the table realized they had different views of business. In 1998, Price Waterhouse merged with Coopers & Lybrand to form PricewaterhouseCoopers, after the merger the firm had a large professional consulting branch, as did other major accountancy firms, generating much of its fees. Management Consulting Services was the fastest growing and often most profitable area of the practice, the major cause for growth in the 1990s was the implementation of complex integrated ERP systems for multi-national companies. PwC came under increasing pressure to avoid conflicts of interests by not providing some consulting services, particularly financial systems design and implementation, since it audited a large proportion of the worlds largest companies, this was beginning to limit its consulting market
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Silent film
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A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. The silent film era lasted from 1895 to 1936, in silent films for entertainment, the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, mime and title cards which contain a written indication of the plot or key dialogue. During silent films, a pianist, theatre organist, or, in large cities, pianists and organists would either play from sheet music or improvise, an orchestra would play from sheet music. The term silent film is therefore a retronym—that is, a term created to distinguish something retroactively, the early films with sound, starting with The Jazz Singer in 1927, were referred to as talkies, sound films, or talking pictures. A September 2013 report by the United States Library of Congress announced that a total of 70% of American silent feature films are believed to be completely lost, the earliest precursors of film began with image projection through the use of a device known as the magic lantern. This utilized a glass lens, a shutter and a persistent light source, such as a powerful lantern and these slides were originally hand-painted, but still photographs were used later on after the technological advent of photography in the nineteenth century. The invention of a practical photography apparatus preceded cinema by only fifty years, the next significant step towards film creation was the development of an understanding of image movement. Simulations of movement date as far back as to 1828 and only four years after Paul Roget discovered the phenomenon he called Persistence of Vision. This experience was further demonstrated through Rogets introduction of the thaumatrope, the first projected primary proto-movie was made by Eadweard Muybridge between 1877 and 1880. Muybridge set up a row of cameras along a racetrack and timed image exposures to capture the many stages of a horses gallop, the oldest surviving film was created by Louis Le Prince in 1888. It was a film of people walking in Oakwood streets garden. Edison also made a business of selling Kinetograph and Kinetoscope equipment, due to Edisons lack of securing an international patent on his film inventions, similar devices were invented around the world. The Lumière brothers, for example, created the Cinématographe in France, the Cinématographe proved to be a more portable and practical device than both of Edisons as it combined a camera, film processor and projector in one unit. In contrast to Edisons peepshow-style kinetoscope, which one person could watch through a viewer. Their first film, Sortie de lusine Lumière de Lyon, shot in 1894, is considered the first true motion picture, the invention of celluloid film, which was strong and flexible, greatly facilitated the making of motion pictures. This film was 35 mm wide and pulled using four sprocket holes and this doomed the cinematograph, which could only use film with just one sprocket hole. From the very beginnings of film production, the art of motion pictures grew into maturity in the silent era. Silent filmmakers pioneered the art form to the extent that virtually every style, the silent era was also pioneering era from a technical point of view
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Scene from
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921), one of the highest-grossing silent films.
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The iconic clock scene from
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Lillian Gish, the "First Lady of the American Cinema", was a leading star in the silent era with one of the longest careers, working from 1912 to 1987
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Cinématographe Lumière at the
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Mabel Normand
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Mabel Ethelreid Normand was an American silent film actress, screenwriter, director, and producer. Onscreen, she appeared in 12 successful films with Charles Chaplin and 17 with Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle and she was not a suspect in either crime. Her film career declined, possibly due to scandals and a recurrence of tuberculosis in 1923, which led to a decline in her health, retirement from films. Born in New Brighton, Staten Island, New York, she grew up in a working-class family, Normands mother, Mary Minne Drury, of Providence, Rhode Island, was of Irish heritage, while her father was French Canadian. Her father Claude Normand was employed as a maker and stage carpenter at Sailors Snug Harbor home for elderly seamen. She embarked on a relationship with him, he later brought her across to California when he founded Keystone Studios in 1912. Her earlier Keystone films portrayed her as a beauty but Normand quickly demonstrated a flair for comedy. Normand appeared with Charles Chaplin and Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle in many films as well as Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel. She played a key role in starting Chaplins film career and acted as his lady and mentor in a string of films in 1914. Chaplin had considerable initial difficulty adjusting to the demands of film acting, after his first film appearance in Making a Living, Sennett felt he had made a costly mistake. Most historians agree it was Normand who persuaded him to give Chaplin another chance, in 1914, she starred with Marie Dressler and Chaplin in Tillies Punctured Romance, the first feature-length comedy. She opened her own company in partnership with Mack Sennett 1916 and it was based in Culver City and was a subsidiary of the Triangle Film Corporation. She lost the company in 1918 when Triangle experienced a massive shake up which also saw Sennett lose Keystone, in 1918, as her relationship with Sennett came to an end, Normand signed a $3,500 per week contract with Samuel Goldwyn. Director William Desmond Taylor shared her interest in books, and the two formed a close relationship, according to author Robert Giroux, Taylor was deeply in love with Normand, who had originally approached him for help in curing her cocaine dependency. Based upon Normands subsequent statements to investigators, her repeated relapses were devastating for Taylor, according to Giroux, Taylor met with federal prosecutors shortly before his death and offered to assist them in filing charges against Normands cocaine suppliers. Giroux expresses a belief that Normands suppliers learned of this meeting, according to Giroux, Normand suspected the reasons for Taylors murder, but did not know the identity of the man who killed him. According to Kevin Brownlow and John Kobal in their book Hollywood The Pioneers the idea that Taylor was murdered by drug dealers was invented by the studio for publicity purposes. There is no evidence that Normand was an addict, despite the fact that this is repeated as if it were established fact
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1917 trading card
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1918 portrait
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Photoplay Magazine, 1921
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Chaplin (film)
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Chaplin is a 1992 British-American biographical comedy-drama film about the life of British comedian Charlie Chaplin. It was produced and directed by Richard Attenborough and stars Robert Downey Jr. Marisa Tomei, Dan Aykroyd, Penelope Ann Miller and it also features Geraldine Chaplin in the role of her own paternal grandmother, Hannah Chaplin. The film was adapted by William Boyd, Bryan Forbes and William Goldman from the books My Autobiography by Chaplin and Chaplin, His Life, associate producer Diana Hawkins got a story credit. The original music score was composed by John Barry, Chaplins recollections begin with his childhood of extreme poverty from which he escapes by immersing himself in the world of the London music halls. After his mother Hannah Chaplin has an attack of nerves on stage during a performance, Hannah retires from performing and is eventually committed to an asylum after developing psychosis. In the years that follow, Chaplin and his brother Sydney gain work with variety show producer Fred Karno, where Chaplin becomes a hit with his comedy drunk act. He begins a relationship with his first love Hetty Kelly, the night before he is due to leave for America he proposes to her but she declines, Chaplin promises to return to England for her when he is a success. Chaplin is sent to America by Karno and is given a job by Mack Sennett, while there, he creates his iconic Tramp persona and due to the terrible directorial capabilities of Sennetts wife Mabel, Chaplin is allowed to direct his own movies. Before the year is over, Chaplin directs over 20 movies, after Sydney joins him in America to become his manager, Chaplin decides to break away from Sennett to have complete creative control over his films with the goal of one day owning his own studio. In 1917, Chaplin completes work on The Immigrant which causes concern over the films political subject matter. Years later at a party thrown by Douglas Fairbanks, Chaplin meets. Chaplin eventually becomes wealthy and profitable enough to set up his own studio, Chaplin reveals to Fairbanks that he is to marry Harris as she is pregnant, but later at a party thrown by William Randolph Hearst, the pregnancy is revealed to be a hoax. Chaplin and Mildred separate after the death of their only child. The brothers eventually arrange for their mother to them in America. Chaplin is initially happy to see her but has been away from her for so long that he is unable to cope with her mental illness. In 1921, seeking a break from film-making and his private life and he reunites with Karno and hopes to locate Hetty, but Karno sadly informs him that she died in a flu epidemic shorty after the war. Despite the arrival of sound pictures drawing nearer, Chaplin vows never to make a talkie featuring the Tramp, at an industry party Chaplin causes a minor scandal when he refuses to shake hands with a visiting member of the Nazi party. Fairbanks comments that Chaplin looks a lot like Adolf Hitler, providing Chaplin with inspiration for his movie in their final encounter before Fairbanks death in 1939
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Theatrical release poster
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Robert Downey Jr.
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Robert John Downey Jr. is an American actor. His career has included critical and popular success in his youth, followed by a period of abuse and legal troubles. For three consecutive years from 2012 to 2015, Downey has topped the Forbes list of Hollywoods highest-paid actors, making an estimated $80 million in earnings between June 2014 and June 2015. He starred as the character in the 1992 film Chaplin. This earned him a Golden Globe Award and his character was written out when Downey was fired after two drug arrests in late 2000 and early 2001. After his last stay in a drug treatment program, Downey achieved sobriety. Each of these films has grossed over $500 million at the box office worldwide, four of these—The Avengers, Avengers, Age of Ultron, Iron Man 3 and Captain America, Downey Jr. has also played the title character in Guy Ritchies Sherlock Holmes and its sequel. Downey was born in Manhattan, New York, the younger of two children and his father, Robert Downey Sr. is an actor and filmmaker, while his mother, Elsie Ann, was an actress who appeared in Downey Sr. s films. Downeys father is of half Lithuanian Jewish, one-quarter Hungarian Jewish, and one-quarter Irish descent, while Downeys mother had Scottish, German, Downey and his older sister Allyson grew up in Greenwich Village. As a child, Downey was surrounded by drugs and his father, a drug addict, allowed Downey to use marijuana at age six, an incident which his father has said he now regrets. Eventually, Downey began spending every night abusing alcohol and making a phone calls in pursuit of drugs. During his childhood Downey had minor roles in his fathers films and he made his acting debut at the age of five, playing a sick puppy in the absurdist comedy Pound, and then at seven appeared in the surrealist Greasers Palace. At the age of ten, he was living in England and he attended the Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Center in upstate New York as a teenager. When his parents divorced in 1978, Downey moved to California with his father, Downey and Kiefer Sutherland, who shared the screen in the 1988 drama 1969, were roommates for three years when he first moved to Hollywood to pursue his career in acting. Downey began building upon theater roles, including in the short-lived off-Broadway musical American Passion at the Joyce Theater in 1983, rolling Stone magazine named Downey the worst SNL cast member in its entire run, stating that the Downey Fail sums up everything that makes SNL great. That same year, Downey had a dramatic acting breakthrough when he played James Spaders sidekick in Tuff Turf and he was considered for the role of Duckie in John Hughes film Pretty in Pink, but his first lead role was with Molly Ringwald in The Pick-up Artist. Because of these and other coming-of-age films Downey did during the 1980s, in 1987, Downey played Julian Wells, a drug-addicted rich boy whose life rapidly spirals out of his control, in the film version of the Bret Easton Ellis novel Less Than Zero. In 1992, he starred as Charlie Chaplin in Chaplin, a role for which he prepared extensively, learning how to play the violin and he had a personal coach in order to help him imitate Chaplins posture and way of carrying himself
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Downey at the 2014
San Diego Comic Con International
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Downey at the premiere of
Air America, 1990
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With
Rachel McAdams promoting
Sherlock Holmes at the 2009
San Diego Comic-Con International.
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With the cast of
The Avengers,
Joss Whedon and
Kevin Feige at the 2010
San Diego Comic-Con International.
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Charlie Chaplin
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Sir Charles Spencer Charlie Chaplin, KBE was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame during the era of silent film. Chaplin became an icon through his screen persona the Tramp and is considered one of the most important figures in the history of the film industry. His career spanned more than 75 years, from childhood in the Victorian era until a year before his death in 1977, Chaplins childhood in London was one of poverty and hardship. As his father was absent and his mother struggled financially, he was sent to a workhouse twice before the age of nine, when he was 14, his mother was committed to a mental asylum. Chaplin began performing at an age, touring music halls and later working as a stage actor. At 19, he was signed to the prestigious Fred Karno company, Chaplin was scouted for the film industry and began appearing in 1914 for Keystone Studios. He soon developed the Tramp persona and formed a fan base. Chaplin directed his own films from a stage and continued to hone his craft as he moved to the Essanay, Mutual. By 1918, he was one of the figures in the world. In 1919, Chaplin co-founded the distribution company United Artists, which gave him control over his films. His first feature-length was The Kid, followed by A Woman of Paris, The Gold Rush and he refused to move to sound films in the 1930s, instead producing City Lights and Modern Times without dialogue. Chaplin became increasingly political, and his film, The Great Dictator. The 1940s were a decade marked with controversy for Chaplin, and he was accused of communist sympathies, while his involvement in a paternity suit and marriages to much younger women caused scandal. An FBI investigation was opened, and Chaplin was forced to leave the United States and he abandoned the Tramp in his later films, which include Monsieur Verdoux, Limelight, A King in New York, and A Countess from Hong Kong. Chaplin wrote, directed, produced, edited, starred in and he was a perfectionist, and his financial independence enabled him to spend years on the development and production of a picture. His films are characterised by slapstick combined with pathos, typified in the Tramps struggles against adversity, many contain social and political themes, as well as autobiographical elements. In 1972, as part of an appreciation for his work. He continues to be held in regard, with The Gold Rush, City Lights, Modern Times
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Publicity portrait,
circa 1920
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Seven-year-old Chaplin (centre) at the
Central London District School for
paupers, 1897.
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A teenage Chaplin in the play
Sherlock Holmes, which he appeared in between 1903 and 1906
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Advertisement from Chaplin's American tour with the
Fred Karno comedy company, 1913
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Christian Slater
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Christian Michael Leonard Slater is an American actor and producer. He made his debut with a leading role in the 1985 film The Legend of Billie Jean. He played an apprentice alongside Sean Connery in The Name of the Rose. In the 1990s, Slater starred in big budget films, including Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, Interview with the Vampire, FernGully, The Last Rainforest, Broken Arrow. He was also featured in the cult film True Romance, since 2000, Slater has combined work in the film business with television, including appearances in The West Wing and Alias and starring in Breaking In and Mind Games. Slater was born in New York City, the son of Michael Hawkins, an actor known as Michael Gainsborough, and Mary Jo Slater. Slater has a maternal half-brother, Ryan Slater, who is also an actor and his great-uncle was radio personality Bill Slater. Although he played her characters brother in the movie The Legend of Billie Jean. He attended the Dalton School, the Professional Childrens School and the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art, Slaters first television role was on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live when he was 8 years old. Following a run on Ryans Hope, he made his Broadway debut as the lisping Winthrop Paroo opposite Dick Van Dyke in the 1980 revival of The Music Man, additional Broadway credits include Copperfield, Merlin, Macbeth, Side Man, and The Glass Menagerie. In addition he has performed in Londons West End in One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Slater made his big screen debut in 1985s The Legend of Billie Jean playing Billie Jean’s brother Binx. Though expected to be a big hit, the film fell short at the box office and his career improved with his role in The Name of the Rose alongside Sean Connery. Slater played Connerys apprentice monk while they investigated a series of murders at a Benedictine abbey, Slater followed this by playing Junior Tucker in Francis Ford Coppolas Tucker, The Man and His Dream, Gleaming the Cube and Beyond the Stars. Slaters career rose to new heights when he played the dark character J. D. in the 1989 film Heathers alongside Winona Ryder, Heathers was billed as the teen film of the late 1980s. Slater beat out other actors such as Brad Pitt for the part. In 1991, Slater was cast as Will Scarlett in the Hollywood big budget production of Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves alongside Kevin Costner, the film was a commercial success, taking US$390 million worldwide, and Slater became one of the major A-list stars of the 1990s. With Slater being a big Star Trek fan, he accepted a role in Star Trek VI, The Undiscovered Country. The following year he starred in Kuffs, in his review of True Romance Roger Ebert awarded the movie 3 stars out of 4 and commented, the energy and style of the movie are exhilarating
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Slater at the
Berlin International Film Festival in February 2014
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Slater in 2004
