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Jon Hamm
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Jonathan Daniel Jon Hamm is an American actor, director, and television producer best known for playing advertising executive Don Draper for the AMC television drama series, Mad Men. For much of the mid-1990s, he lived in Los Angeles, making appearances in television series Providence, The Division, What About Brian, during 2000, he made his feature movie debut in the space adventure movie Space Cowboys. The next year, he had a role in the independent comedy. He gained wide recognition when Mad Men began broadcast during July 2007 and he directed two episodes of the show. During 2008, Hamm appeared in a remake of the science fiction movie The Day The Earth Stood Still and his first leading movie role was in the 2010 independent thriller Stolen. He also had supporting roles in the movies The Town, Sucker Punch, Hamm has received 16 Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his performances in Mad Men,30 Rock, and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. His other television credits include featuring in the Sky Arts series A Young Doctors Notebook and guest roles in Parks and Recreation and Wet Hot American Summer, First Day of Camp. He provided his voice to the animated movie Shrek Forever After during 2010, Hamm was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Deborah and Daniel Hamm. His father managed a family trucking company, and his mother was a secretary and he is of German, English, and Irish descent, his surname originates with German immigrants. Hamms parents divorced when he was two old, and he lived in Missouri in Creve Coeur with his mother until her death from colon cancer. Hamm then lived with his father and his first acting role was as Winnie the Pooh for first grade. At 16, he was cast as Judas for the play Godspell and he attended John Burroughs School, a private school in Ladue, where he was a member of the football, baseball, and swim teams. During this time, he dated future actress Sarah Clarke and his father died when Jon was 20. After graduation during 1989, Hamm enrolled at the University of Texas, there, Hamm was arrested for participating with a violent hazing incident that occurred during November 1990, involving another student, Mark Sanders. Sanders was beaten with a paddle and a broom, while Hamm was leading him around the fraternity house, the incident resulted in the fraternity being ended on campus. Hamm completed the terms of a deferred adjudication, and the charges were dismissed during August 1995, Hamm then enrolled at the University of Missouri. At Missouri he answered an advertisement from a company seeking players for a production of A Midsummer Nights Dream, auditioned. Other roles followed, such as Leon Czolgosz in Assassins, after graduating during 1993 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English, Hamm returned to his high school to teach eighth-grade acting
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At Paley Center in 2014
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Hamm in November 2008
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Hamm with former partner
Jennifer Westfeldt at the
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Hamm on the set of
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Geena Davis
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Virginia Elizabeth Geena Davis is an American actress, film producer, writer, former fashion model, and former archer. In 2005, Davis won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama for her role in Commander in Chief, in 2014, she returned to television portraying Dr. Nicole Herman in Greys Anatomy. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress along with her co-star Susan Sarandon for Thelma, as of autumn 2016, Davis is currently starring as Regan MacNeil/Angela Rance in the horror TV series inspired by the best-selling William Peter Blatty novel The Exorcist, on Fox. Davis was born January 21,1956, in Wareham, Massachusetts and her mother, Lucille, was a teachers assistant, and her father, William F. Davis, was a civil engineer and church deacon, her parents were both from small towns in Vermont. She has a brother named Danforth, at an early age, she became interested in music. She learned piano and flute and played well enough as a teenager to serve as an organist at her Congregationalist church in Wareham. Davis attended Wareham High School and was a student in Sandviken, Sweden. Enrolling at New England College, she graduated with a degree in drama from Boston University in 1979. Davis is a member of Mensa, an organization whose members are in the top 2% of intelligence. Following her education, Davis served as a mannequin for Ann Taylor until signing with New Yorks Zoli modeling agency. Davis was working as a model when she was cast by director Sydney Pollack in his film Tootsie as an opera actress. She followed the role with the part of Wendy Killian in the television series Buffalo Bill. She also wrote the Buffalo Bill episode entitled Miss WBFL, during the run of Buffalo Bill, in 1983, Davis also appeared as Grace Fallon in an episode of Knight Rider entitled K. I. T. T. Her television credits from the also include one episode of Riptide. This was followed by a series of her own, Sara, Davis replaced Debra Winger in the role of Dottie Hinson in A League of Their Own, and received a Best Actress Golden Globe Award nomination for her performance. She then co starred in Hero alongside Dustin Hoffman and Andy Garcia, Davis then teamed up with her husband at that time, director Renny Harlin, for the films Cutthroat Island and The Long Kiss Goodnight. She and Harlin also produced those films, Davis was nominated for the Saturn Awards for her performances as Samantha/Charlie in The Long Kiss Goodnight, and as Eleanor Little in Stuart Little, a role she reprised in 2002 and again in 2005. In 2000–2001, Davis starred in the short-lived sitcom The Geena Davis Show, in the beginning of 2004, she guest starred as Grace Adlers sister, Janet, on the NBC sitcom Will & Grace
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Davis at the World
Maker Faire in New York on September 22, 2013.
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Davis at the
61st Academy Awards in 1989
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Reza Jarrahy and Davis in 2009
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The handprints of Geena Davis in front of
The Great Movie Ride at
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Disney's Hollywood Studios theme park.
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Lois Smith
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Lois Smith is an American actress. In television she has performed in series that include The Americans, True Blood, Smith is an ensemble member of Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago. She was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 2007 for her contributions to the theatre. In 2013 she was given a Lifetime Achievement Obie Award for excellence in Off-Broadway performance, in her career she has also taught, directed, and written for the stage. Smith was born Lois Arlene Humbert in Topeka, Kansas, the youngest of six children of Carrie and William Humbert and her father died in 1950 at age 54. Her family included her two sisters, Alice and Marvelle, and three brothers, William, Dilman, and Phillip, all of whom are now deceased and her father moved the family to Seattle when Lois was eleven years old, and he was heavily involved in the church. William would put on plays at church in which young Lois would perform and she went on to study theatre at the University of Washington but did not graduate. At age 18, in 1948, she married Wesley Dale Smith, the couple had one daughter, Moon Elizabeth Smith. Around 1951, Smith and her decided to leave Seattle. After she worked with Elia Kazan on East of Eden, he encouraged her to study with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio and she was also mentored in her early years in New York City by John Van Druten. In November 1955, she was featured on the cover of Life Magazine, Smith made her television debut in 1953 on Kraft Television Theatre. In 1954 she appeared as the daughter of Mary Astor in a Studio One production and she performed on many series through the 1950s and 60s, guest starring on Naked City, The Doctors, Dr. Kildare, and The Defenders. In 1956 she appeared with John Cassavetes in Bring Me A Dream, a teleplay by John Vlahos, in 1959 she was given the lead role of Cindy in the teleplay Cindys Fella, a modernized version of Cinderella, opposite James Stewart and directed by Gower Champion. In 1960 she performed in The Master Builder as Hilda and as Julie in Miss Julie in public television specials. Also in 1960 she appeared as Lena in a teleplay based on Victory by Joseph Conrad and she appeared on four episodes of Route 66, and in 1967 she performed in Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night on CBS Playhouse with Shirley Booth. In 1970 she performed along with Kim Stanley in a special of Tennessee Williams plays titled Dragon Country. In 1978 Smith played the role of Stacey MacAindra in a teleplay Stacey based on The Fire Dwellers by Margaret Laurence. She played supporting roles in the Emmy-nominated television films Rage of Angels, The Execution of Raymond Graham, Switched at Birth and she also guest starred on two episodes of The Equalizer and one episode of Thirtysomething in 1991
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Smith in 1955
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Smith in
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Tim Robbins
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Timothy Francis Tim Robbins is an American actor, screenwriter, director, producer, activist and musician. He is well known for his portrayal of Andy Dufresne in the drama film The Shawshank Redemption. Robbins was born in West Covina, California, and raised in New York City and he is the son of Mary Cecelia, an actress, and Gilbert Lee Robbins, a musician, folk singer, actor, and former manager of The Gaslight Cafe. Robbins has two sisters, Adele and Gabrielle, and a brother, David and he moved to Greenwich Village with his family at a young age, while his father pursued a career as a member of the folk music group, The Highwaymen. Robbins started performing in theater at age twelve and joined the club at Stuyvesant High School. He spent two years at SUNY Plattsburgh and then returned to California to study at the UCLA Film School, after graduation from college in 1981, Robbins founded the Actors Gang, an experimental theater group, in Los Angeles with actor friends from his college softball team. In 1982, he appeared as domestic terrorist Andrew Reinhardt in three episodes of the television program St. Elsewhere, in 1985, he guest-starred in the second episode of the television series Moonlighting, Gunfight at the So-So Corral. He also took parts in films, such as the role of frat animal Mother in Fraternity Vacation. He played in The Love Boat, as a version of one of the characters in retrospection about the Second World War. His breakthrough role was as pitcher Ebby Calvin Nuke LaLoosh in the 1988 baseball film Bull Durham which he co-starred with Susan Sarandon and Kevin Costner. He received critical acclaim and won the Best Actor Award at Cannes for his role as an amoral film executive in Robert Altmans 1992 film The Player. He made his directorial and screenwriting debut with 1992s Bob Roberts, Robbins then starred alongside Morgan Freeman in the critically acclaimed The Shawshank Redemption, which was based on Stephen Kings novella. Robbins has written, produced, and directed films with strong social content, such as the critically acclaimed capital punishment saga Dead Man Walking, starring Sarandon. The film earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Director and his next directorial effort was 1999s Depression-era musical Cradle Will Rock. Robbins has also appeared in mainstream Hollywood thrillers, such as 1999s Arlington Road and 2001s Antitrust, and in films such as The Hudsucker Proxy, Nothing to Lose. Robbins has also acted in and directed several Actors Gang theater productions, Robbins won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar and the SAG Award for his work in Mystic River, as a man traumatized from having been molested as a child. In 2005, he won the 39th annual Man of the Year Pudding Pot Award given by the Hasty Pudding Theatricals of Harvard. His most recent acting roles include a blind man who is nursed to health by a psychologically wounded young woman in The Secret Life of Words
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Robbins at the
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Robbins at
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Mica Levi
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Mica Levi, known by her stage name Micachu, is an English singer, songwriter, composer, and producer. She is classically trained and since 2008 has released experimental pop music with her band Good Sad Happy Bad, in 2014, Levi branched out into film composing, creating the score for the Jonathan Glazer film Under the Skin. Her work was praised and Levi received a European Film Award for Best Composer. Her score for Pablo Larraíns Jackie received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score, Levi was born and raised in Surrey, England. The daughter of two musicians, she started writing and playing music at the age of four, Levi performed as a DJ in London, and released a mixtape titled Filthy Friends, which was posted on her official Myspace page. Following its release, Filthy Friends became sought after on the London club scene, while a student at Guildhall, Levi was commissioned to write an orchestral piece for the London Philharmonic Orchestra which was performed at the Royal Festival Hall in April 2008. Levi was an Artist-in-Residence at the Southbank Centre in London in 2010, Levi co-wrote and produced Tirzahs Im Not Dancing EP, which was released by Greco-Roman Records in August 2013, to critical acclaim. Levi formed a band called Micachu and The Shapes, which included Raisa Khan on keyboards, with the Shapes, Levis focus has been on experimental pop music. Despite these experimental leanings, the artist categorizes her output with The Shapes as pop music and their debut album, Jewellery, produced with influential electronic musician Matthew Herbert, was recorded around Micas composition studies at Guildhall School. Advance copies of the reached the press in early 2009. In the wake of this growing buzz, Micachu and the Shapes were signed to Rough Trade, drowned In Sound consequently hailed the record as thrillingly improbable pop made by a grade-A maverick. In 2009, the received a grant from the PRS for Music Foundation. Micachu and the Shapes toured widely throughout the UK in 2008, including performances at Bestival, the band played in the US at the CMJ Music Marathon in New York City and SXSW in Austin, Texas. They also performed on the Main Stage of the Siren Music Festival at Coney Island in Brooklyn in July 2009, touring continued throughout Europe and North America in the summer and fall of 2009. In Spring of 2010, Micachu and the Shapes supported Spoon on tour throughout North America, the band performed with the London Sinfonietta at Kings Place, London in May 2010 and in March 2011 released the live recording as the album Chopped and Screwed. Unlike their previous effort, the recording largely avoids pop sensibilities in favor of a slower, hip-hop indebted style and repetitive, the band were chosen by Animal Collective to perform at the All Tomorrows Parties festival that they curated in May 2011 in Minehead, England. The follow-up to their debut, Never, was released on 23 July 2012, the band released the album Good Sad Happy Bad on 11 September 2015. In March 2016, the band announced on social media that they were changing their name to Good Sad Happy Bad, Levis first major film score was for Jonathan Glazers 2014 film Under the Skin
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Performing in
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FilmRise
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FilmRise is a film acquisition and distribution company headed by producer/financiers Danny Fisher, Jack Fisher and Alan Klingenstein. Danny and Jack Fisher were the founders of the film and television company City Lights Media, Alan Klingenstein was formerly head of Filbert Steps Productions. It also acquired the distribution rights to the 1981 classic An American Werewolf in London, Deadly Blessing, the TV movie Grave Secrets. In 2013, they acquired an entire slate of 80s cult horror classic films for DVD. In January 2014, FilmRise acquired exclusive rights from the Global Film Initiative to the Global Lens collection of 96 award-winning foreign language feature films from 38 nations. Also in 2014, FilmRise acquired the exclusive U. S. digital and DVD rights to The Nixon Interviews, interviews with President Richard Nixon done by journalist David Frost in March 1977
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Science-fiction
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Science fiction often explores the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations, and has been called a literature of ideas. Science fiction is difficult to define, as it includes a range of subgenres and themes. Author and editor Damon Knight summed up the difficulty, saying science fiction is what we point to when we say it, a definition echoed by author Mark C. Glassy, who argues that the definition of science fiction is like the definition of pornography, you do not know what it is, in 1970 or 1971William Atheling Jr. According to science fiction writer Robert A, rod Serlings definition is fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science fiction is the improbable made possible, Science fiction is largely based on writing rationally about alternative possible worlds or futures. Science fiction elements include, A time setting in the future, in alternative timelines, a spatial setting or scenes in outer space, on other worlds, or on subterranean earth. Characters that include aliens, mutants, androids, or humanoid robots, futuristic or plausible technology such as ray guns, teleportation machines, and humanoid computers. Scientific principles that are new or that contradict accepted physical laws, for time travel, wormholes. New and different political or social systems, e. g. utopian, dystopian, post-scarcity, paranormal abilities such as mind control, telepathy, telekinesis Other universes or dimensions and travel between them. A product of the budding Age of Reason and the development of science itself. Isaac Asimov and Carl Sagan considered Keplers work the first science fiction story and it depicts a journey to the Moon and how the Earths motion is seen from there. Later, Edgar Allan Poe wrote a story about a flight to the moon, more examples appeared throughout the 19th century. Wells The War of the Worlds describes an invasion of late Victorian England by Martians using tripod fighting machines equipped with advanced weaponry and it is a seminal depiction of an alien invasion of Earth. In the late 19th century, the scientific romance was used in Britain to describe much of this fiction. This produced additional offshoots, such as the 1884 novella Flatland, the term would continue to be used into the early 20th century for writers such as Olaf Stapledon. In the early 20th century, pulp magazines helped develop a new generation of mainly American SF writers, influenced by Hugo Gernsback, the founder of Amazing Stories magazine. In 1912 Edgar Rice Burroughs published A Princess of Mars, the first of his series of Barsoom novels, situated on Mars
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A futuristic setting is a common but not a necessary hallmark of science fiction. A common thread in science fiction is exploring the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations on people's lives.
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Speculative fiction
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H. G. Wells
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Jules Verne
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Pulitzer Prize for Drama
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The Pulitzer Prize for Drama is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. It is one of the original Pulitzers, for the program was inaugurated in 1917 with seven prizes and it recognizes a theatrical work staged in the U. S. during the preceding calendar year. The drama jury, which consists of one academic and four critics, attends plays in New York, in 1955 Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. Edward Albees Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf. was selected for the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for Drama by that awards committee. However, the selection was overruled by the awards advisory board. Had Albee been awarded, he would be tied with Eugene ONeill for the most Pulitzer Prizes for Drama, in its first 98 years to 2013, the Drama Pulitzer was awarded 82 times, none were given in 15 years and it was never split. Many of the prizes were won by people for their collaboration. * Star marks winners of the annual Tony Award for Best Play or Best Musical,1917, no award 1918, Why Marry. – Jesse Lynch Williams 1919, no award Nine musicals have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and they are, George and Ira Gershwins Of Thee I Sing, Rodgers and Hammersteins South Pacific, Bock & Harnicks Fiorello. Of Thee I Sing, Sunday in the Park with George, however, Of Thee I Sing opened when the Tony Awards did not exist, and Next to Normal won the Tony Award for Best Original Score and the Tony Award for Best Orchestrations. The award goes to the playwright, although production of the play is taken into account. In the case of a musical being awarded the prize, the composer, lyricist, the reason given was that the Pulitzer Prize for Drama is a dramatic award, and not a musical one. Additionally, since 1983, when the identity of finalists was first disclosed and they are, Lee Breuer and Bob Telsons The Gospel at Colonus, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes In the Heights, and Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Krons Fun Home. The latter two shows, however, each won the Tony Award for Best Musical, ¹All listed dates are Prize years. Generally, the musical in question opened in New York during either the preceding year or the preceding Broadway season. Eugene ONeill won the Pulitzer for Drama four times, three in the 1920s, several people have won two or three. Media related to Pulitzer Prize for Drama winners at Wikimedia Commons
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Stephanie Andujar
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Stephanie Andujar is an American actress, director, producer, singer and songwriter starring in theatre performances from The Wiz, The Crucible, and The Good Woman of Setzuan. Her film career includes the Academy Award winning film Precious, Pariah, See Girl Run, Babygirl, A Walk Among the Tombstones, and her television career includes NBC’s Law & Order, SVU, nurse drama Mercy, and Blindspot. Andujar received praise for her performance in Orange is the New Black Season 2 as young Miss Rosa, Andujar was born in Manhattan, New York on July 15,1986. Her father, Hector Andujar, was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico and her mother Carmen Andujar is an NYPD School Safety Agent, born in Chelsea and she has an older sister Melanie Andujar and a younger brother Hector Andujar Jr. Her family first resided in Harlem, then to Queens, finally settling back to the neighborhood in Manhattan, while being raised in Chelsea-Elliot Houses housing projects, Andujar started acting at the age of 12, when her parents enrolled her at a Beacon after-school arts program. At 13, she landed the part of the Scarecrow in the musical The Wiz, while performing in The Wiz a talent manager noticed her and signed her up immediately. Her drama teacher Derrick Tyes pushed for her to audition for drama schools and she was then accepted at Talent Unlimited High School where she performed in more than 10 drama productions. She obtained her Business Degree at Pace University in New York City, in 2007, while attending Pace University, Stephanie auditioned for a role in Law & Order, SVU and booked her first role as Latrice Munez. She then auditioned for Push, which was being turned into a directed by Lee Daniels. Andujars role came when she played former heroin addict Rita Romero in the 2009 film Precious and she went on to play young Miss Rosa in Orange is the New Black Season 2. Stephanie Andujar at the Internet Movie Database
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Actress Stephanie Andujar
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H. A. Berlin
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Berlin is an American neuroscientist noted for her work in science communication and outreach. Her research focuses on brain-behavior relationships affecting the prevention and treatment of impulsive and compulsive psychiatric disorders and she is also interested in the neural basis of consciousness, dynamic unconscious processes, and creativity. Dr. Berlin is host of the PBS series Science Goes to the Movies, Berlin earned her Masters in psychology from The New School for Social Research and Bachelor of Science from SUNY Stony Brook. Berlin was a National Institute of Mental Health postdoctoral fellow in psychiatry at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai working on compulsive, impulsive, personality and she is married to the rapper and playwright Baba Brinkman. They have a daughter, Hannah Skye, born in November 2013, rennick Award, and the Clifford Yorke Prize from the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society. She won the 2015 BBC2 Christmas University Challenge as part of the Magdalen College, Berlin is currently an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City and a visiting scholar at the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. She was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Vassar College, and a Visiting Lecturer at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, heatherberlin. com @heather_berlin on Twitter Faculty profile on Mt Sinai website Science Goes to the Movies
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The Hollywood Reporter
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Headquartered in Los Angeles, THR is part of the Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group, a group of properties that includes Billboard and SpinMedia. It is owned by Eldridge Industries, a company owned by an executive of its previous owner. Under Janice Min, a faltering THR was relaunched in 2010 as a weekly print magazine with a revamped, continuously updated website, as well as mobile. THR was founded in 1930 by William R, billy Wilkerson as Hollywoods first daily entertainment trade newspaper. The first edition appeared on September 3,1930, and featured Wilkersons front-page Tradeviews column, the newspaper appeared Monday to Saturday for the first 10 years, except for a brief period, then Monday to Friday from 1940. Wilkerson ran the THR until his death in September 1962, although his final column appeared 18 months prior, from the late 1930s, Wilkerson used THR to push the view that the industry was a communist stronghold. In particular, he opposed the screenplay writers trade union, the Screen Writers Guild, in 1946 the Guild considered creating an American Authors Authority to hold copyright for writers, instead of ownership passing to the studios. Wilkerson devoted his Tradeviews column to the issue on July 29,1946 and he went to confession before publishing it, knowing the damage it would cause, but was apparently encouraged by the priest to go ahead with it. The column contained the first industry names, including Dalton Trumbo and Howard Koch, on became the Hollywood blacklist. Eight of the 11 people Wilkerson named were among the Hollywood Ten who were blacklisted after hearings in 1947 by the House Un-American Activities Committee. In 1997 THR reporter David Robb wrote a story about the newspapers involvement, for the blacklists 65th anniversary in 2012, the THR published a lengthy investigative piece about Wilkersons role, by reporters Gary Baum and Daniel Miller. The same edition carried an apology from Wilkersons son, W. R. Wilkerson III and he wrote that his father had been motivated by revenge for his thwarted ambition to own a studio. Wilkersons wife, Tichi Wilkerson Kassel, took over as publisher and she sold the paper on April 11,1988, to Affiliated Publications, parent company of Billboard Publications, for $26.7 million. Robert J. Dowling became THR president in 1988 and editor-in-chief, Dowling brought in Alex Ben Block as editor in 1990, and editorial quality of both news and specials steadily improved. Block and Teri Ritzer dampened much of the coverage and cronyism that had infected the paper under Wilkerson. After Block left, former editor at Variety, Anita Busch, was brought in as editor between 1999 and 2001. Busch was credited with making the paper competitive with Variety, tony Uphoff assumed the publisher position in November 2005. Uphoff was replaced in October 2006 by John Kilcullen, the publisher of Billboard, Kilcullen was a defendant in Billboards infamous dildo lawsuit, in which he was accused of race discrimination and sexual harassment
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Dwayne Johnson on the June 2014 cover
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Deadline.com
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Deadline. com, official name Deadline Hollywood, and previously known as news blog Deadline Hollywood Daily, is an online magazine founded by Nikki Finke in 2006. Owned by Jay Penske since 2009, it is a brand of the Penske Media Corporation, the site is updated several times a day, with the infotainment industry as its focus. Finke began writing her LA Weekly column Deadline Hollywood in June 2002, in 2009, she sold DHD to Mail. com Media for a reported seven-figure payday, under an agreement by which she would hire an additional writer but remain the sites editor. In September 2009, the URL was changed to deadline. com, in November 2013, Finke left Deadline after a year-long disagreement between herself and Penske, who had bought Variety, a competing trade magazine and website. In 2010, Nikki Finke hired Variety reporter Mike Fleming Jr. Finke remained the editor of Deadline Hollywood, official website About Deadline. com at PMC
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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database
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Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
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Twister (1989 film)
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Twister is a 1989 American comedy film starring Suzy Amis, Crispin Glover, Harry Dean Stanton, and Dylan McDermott. It was shot in Wichita, Kansas, based on Mary Robisons 1981 novel Oh. The film relates the story of the eccentric Cleveland family during the event of a tornados hitting their rural Kansas home, the head of the family is Eugene Cleveland, who built soda pop and mini-golf empires and lives off the proceeds. His two adult children, Maureen, and Howdy, live with him in his mansion along with Maureens daughter Violet, and Lola, the housekeeper. Maureen is plagued by unwanted visits from her ex, Chris, Howdy is enrolled in a local university and pursues rolling interests in painting, music, and theater, all with an Absurdist slant. He is also trying to convince Stephanie, a young groundskeeper from the University, to marry him. Eugene, exasperated with Howdys high-brow attitude and Maureens sullen listlessness, spends his time drinking and courting Virginia, a local host of a Christian childrens TV program. The group continuously annoy each other, fight, and try to find themselves in a little world where all of the necessities of life are provided. Howdy finds an envelope with their mothers address and he and Maureen take Violet with them in an effort to track her down, the address on the envelope leads them to a farm in which they meet an unnamed character played by William Burroughs. Burroughs tells them he bought the farm from her and met her once when they were in escrow, when the kids ask if they can speak to Jim Burroughs replies Jim got kicked in the head by a horse last year. Went around killing horses for a while, until he ate the insides of a clock and he then indicates that he thinks she moved to Ireland and that becomes the focus of their drive to see her and forgive her. Eugene, frustrated with Virginias condescending attitude toward his family, breaks up with her, during a particularly heated dinner one evening, Eugene overreacts to Howdys insults and explodes, tipping over bowls of gazpacho. Howdy reveals to his father that he and Maureen have actively attempted to find their mother, Eugene informs them that she died in a mental institution and didnt even recognize him toward the end. Maureen and Chris decide to get married and Stephanie goes back to her old boyfriend, meanwhile, Eugene absconds from his immediate family and goes off to destinations unknown with Lola
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Nadja (film)
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Nadja is a 1994 film directed by Michael Almereyda starring Elina Löwensohn as Nadja and Peter Fonda as Van Helsing. As the characters names suggest, Nadja is a vampire film and she has the body cremated and prepares to take the ashes to Brooklyn and pay a visit to her twin brother Edgar whom she hasnt seen for a long time. Before she leaves, however, she stops for a drink, Lucy is also feeling a sense of emptiness, so she takes Nadja home. They appear to each other up, and they wind up having sex together. And Helsings nephew Jim, who happens to be Lucys husband, has to bail him out of jail. Helsing knows that, if Draculas body is not destroyed properly, when Helsing learns that Draculas body has been removed from the morgue, he enlists Jims help. Meanwhile, Nadja goes to visit Edgar and meets his nurse, Nadja persuades Cassandra to move Edgar to her apartment where she can help him by transfusing him with plasma from the blood of shark embryoes, which is what Nadja uses to stay healthy. Edgar revives enough to some of Nadjas blood. However, Lucy has fallen under Nadjas mesmerism and she leads both Jim and Van Helsing to Edgars house where Nadja is staying with her renfield. Edgar awakens long enough to warn Cassandra to leave the house, Cassandra, who just happens to be Van Helsings daughter, attempts to escape, with Nadja pursuing her, Lucy pursuing Nadja, and Jim pursuing Lucy. Cassandra runs into a gas station where it looks like two burly mechanics are going to protect her, but Nadja mesmerizes them and kills one of them, the other one shoots Nadja in the abdomen. He unites with the Helsings to stop Nadja and he receives a psychic fax from Nadja, telling him that she is injured and must return to Transylvania. She also mentions that shes taking Cassandra with her, so Edgar, as they approach the castle, Nadja begins a transfusion of Cassandras blood while Cassandra sleeps. While Jim fights with Nadjas renfield, Edgar and Helsing drive a stake through Nadjas heart, Lucy is released, Nadja is destroyed, and Cassandra wakes up. However, not all is as it seems, Nadja narrates the epilogue, They cut off my head. burned my body. no one knew. no one suspected that I was now alive in body. Were married at City Hall. there *is* a better way to live, the deadpan acting, episodic nature of the plot, and the presence of Martin Donovan and Löwensohn are suggestive of a Hal Hartley film though he was not involved in the production. The Chicago Review called it Hal Hartley meets David Lynch, the style of the film changes from dramatic horror to horror comedy by the end as evidenced by the laughing vampire toy during a trip to Romania. He wrote of the film, None of this is played for laughs - exactly, Nadja, written and directed by Michael Almereyda, is an example of a genre we can call Deadpan Noir
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Trance (1998 film)
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Trance is a 1998 horror film directed and written by Michael Almereyda. The films score features music by Mark Geary and it premiered on Toronto Film Festival, and was released as direct-to-video in the United States. Nora and Jim are an alcoholic couple, after a night of drinking, Nora experiences a flashback and falls down the stairs of their New York apartment building. Though alright, she complains of headaches, and her doctor orders her to give up alcohol. For the sake of their son Jimmy, Nora and Jim pledge to sober up, Nora assures her doctor they will purge themselves of all their bad habits there. In Ireland, Nora and Jim stop at a pub to get directions, while drinking, they run into Joe, one of Noras old friends. He warns them that Noras Uncle Bill has gone insane, Jim becomes jealous and starts a fight with Joe, and they are thrown out of the pub. Before they reach the mansion, Nora has another vision and crashes the car, though none of them are injured, they are forced to walk the rest of the way. Alice, a girl adopted by Bill, leads them there. When Bill offers them drinks, Jim declines, much to Noras annoyance, Bill reveals himself to be blind. After Jim makes several insensitive remarks, Nora takes Jim aside, accuses him of being drunk, though Nora is angry when she finds it is empty, Jim says they will restart their sobriety anew together. Bill suggests that Nora meet her alone, but she is confused. There, he reveals a preserved bog body, which he explains is a Druid witch named Niamh, meanwhile, Jim encounters Noras grandmother, who attacks him and wanders off. When Bill describes his belief that Niamh will come back to life, Nora returns upstairs, Nora tells Jim that they should leave the next day, as Joe was right about Bill. Concerned for their safety amid crazy relatives, Jim and Nora move Jimmy into their room, when they lie down, they discover Druidic relics hidden under their mattress. Bill and Alice look for Noras grandmother and lead her back to her bedroom, when Bill returns to the basement, Niamh, now a lookalike of Nora, comes to life. After Bill kisses her, Niamh slits his throat, decapitates him, at the same time, Noras behavior becomes erratic, and she tells Jim that she left Ireland for America after having an abortion. Jim goes downstairs to drink, where he eventually encounters Niamh, mistaking her for Nora, Jim kisses her
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Hamlet (2000 film)
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Hamlet is a 2000 American film written and directed by Michael Almereyda, set in contemporary New York City, and based on the Shakespeare play of the same name. In this version of Hamlet, Claudius becomes King and CEO of Denmark Corporation, having taken over the firm by killing his brother and this adaptation keeps the Shakespearean dialogue but presents a modern setting, with technology such as video cameras, Polaroid cameras, and surveillance bugs. For example, the ghost of Hamlets murdered father first appears on closed-circuit TV, Elsinore Castle, the seat of power of Denmarks crown in the play, is re-imagined as Hotel Elsinore, the headquarters of Denmark Corporation. The Mousetrap play takes the form of a montage, made by Hamlet himself. The character of Marcellus, one of the soldiers, is re-imagined as Marcella, the Captain in Fortinbras army is replaced by a flight attendant on Hamlets flight to England. Instead of carrying around actual flowers, Ophelia carries polaroid photographs of various flowers, in the film, Ophelia is an amateur photographer. Fortinbras conquests are not military, but corporate takeovers with the aid of his armies of lawyers, Laertes does not organize a revolution. As opposed to drowning in a brook, Ophelia is found to have drowned in a fountain in front of the Hotel Elsinore, the Ghost of King Hamlet appears in Horatios apartment, sitting in his bedroom as Marcella sleeps, before Hamlet and Horatio enter it. The first intervention of Osric is re-imagined as a fax machine in Hamlet and Horatios apartment, however, Osric does appear during the duel between Hamlet and Laertes. Laertes does not kill Hamlet with a poisoned rapier, instead he shoots Hamlet with a pistol, then is shot himself. Hamlet then uses the pistol to shoot and kill Claudius. Metacritic, an aggregator, assigned the film a weighted average score of 70/100. According to Rotten Tomatoes, 55% of the critics gave positive based on 85 reviews. Film critic Elvis Mitchell of The New York Times lauded it as a vital and sharply intelligent film, while The Washington Post reviewer deemed it as a darkly interesting distraction, the reaction to Hawkes performance as the title role is also mixed. The Los Angeles Times described him as a superb Prince of Denmark - youthful, sensitive, passionate, New York magazine, however, thought Hawkes performance was only middling. Romeo + Juliet - another contemporary-set Shakespearean film adaptation, which also features Diane Venora,10 Things I Hate About You and O - contemporary adaptations of The Taming of the Shrew and Othello, respectively, both also featuring Julia Stiles. Scotland, PA - a contemporary adaptation of Macbeth Official website Hamlet at the Internet Movie Database Hamlet at AllMovie Hamlet at Metacritic Hamlet at Rotten Tomatoes
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William Eggleston in the Real World
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William Eggleston in the Real World is a documentary film about the photographer William Eggleston directed by Michael Almereyda and released in 2005. The film reveals the connection between William Egglestons personality and his work, and also reveals his parallel commitments as a musician, draftsman. The film follows Eggleston on trips to Kentucky, Los Angeles, New York City and Memphis, the film was nominated for a Gotham Award for Best Documentary from the Independent Filmmaker Project at the Gotham Awards 2005. Heather Parks and James Patterson were associate producers, Donald Rosenfeld, William Eggleston in the Real World at the Internet Movie Database Palm Pictures - William Eggleston In The Real World William Eggleston at Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
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Cymbeline (film)
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Cymbeline is a 2014 American film version of the Shakespeare tragedy based on the play Cymbeline by William Shakespeare. The film is directed by Michael Almereyda and stars Ethan Hawke, Ed Harris, Dakota Johnson, Milla Jovovich and John Leguizamo. Based on the play Cymbeline by William Shakespeare, the story revolves around a war between dirty cops and a gang, and a drug kingpin who is driven to desperate measures. Ed Harris as Cymbeline Milla Jovovich as Queen Ethan Hawke as Iachimo John Leguizamo as Pisanio Penn Badgley as Posthumus Dakota Johnson as Imogen Anton Yelchin as Cloten Peter Gerety as Dr and he would play Iachimo and production was set to start on August 19 in New York City. Anthony Katagas and Michael Benaroya would be the producers of the film, on August 5, it was announced that Ed Harris had signed to star opposite Hawke. He would play the role of King Cymbeline, prior to the world premiere of the film, it was announced Lionsgate had acquired all distribution rights to the film. The film had its premiere at the Venice Film Festival in Italy on September 3,2014. The film then went to screen at the Busan International Film Festival in South Korea on October 3,2014, for a short time, the films U. S. title was Anarchy, but it was changed back to Cymbeline. The film was released in a release and through video on demand on March 13,2015. Cymbeline at the Internet Movie Database Cymbeline at Rotten Tomatoes
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Experimenter (film)
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Experimenter is a 2015 American biographical drama film written and directed by Michael Almereyda, based on the 1961 Milgram experiment. The film stars Peter Sarsgaard, Taryn Manning, Kellan Lutz, Winona Ryder, Anton Yelchin, John Leguizamo, Lori Singer, Dennis Haysbert, Anthony Edwards, the film was released on October 16,2015, by Magnolia Pictures. Between the experiments, it is shown how Milgram meets Alexandra, archive footage occurs frequently, either as recordings that Milgram watches or as a backdrop for entire scenes. Milgram finally dies from an attack, at the age of 51. In the final scene, the experiment is repeated in the present day. In a mid-credits scene, more footage is shown. Although director Almereyda was aware of Milgrams work, it wasnt until his girlfriend began taking a class on him that Almereyda became interested, subsequently, he found himself reading Milgrams Obedience to Authority, An Experimental View. According to Almereyda once he started reading instantly saw how filmable it was becoming interested in making it into a film the more he went on. In filming, Almereyda wanted it to be playful in nature as he felt thats how Stanley Milgram himself would have made it. Almereyda decided to have Milgram break the wall based on viewing films of his in which Milgram would talk to the camera. From this Almereyda figured having the character talk to the camera seemed natural, on May 13,2014, Peter Sarsgaard and Winona Ryder joined the cast. On June 30, Kellan Lutz, Taryn Manning, Anton Yelchin, Anthony Edwards, principal photography began on June 5,2014, in New York City. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 25,2015, on March 26,2015, Magnolia Pictures acquired distribution rights to the film. The film was released on October 16,2015, in a limited release, Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 90%, an average rating of 7. 3/10, sampled from 51 reviews. The consensus reads, Led by a performance from Peter Sarsgaard. On Metacritic, the film has a score of 81 out of 100 calculated from 20 reviews, the Tenth Level Experimenter at the Internet Movie Database Experimenter at Box Office Mojo Experimenter at Rotten Tomatoes Experimenter at Metacritic
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