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San Diego Comic-Con International
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San Diego Comic-Con International is a multi-genre entertainment and comic convention held annually in San Diego, California. The name, as given on its website, is Comic-Con International, San Diego and it is a four-day event held during the summer at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego. On the Wednesday evening prior to the opening of the event, there is a preview for professionals, exhibitors. Comic-Con International also produces two other conventions, WonderCon, held in Los Angeles, and the Alternative Press Expo and it is also the home of the Will Eisner Awards. In 2010, it filled the San Diego Convention Center to capacity with more than 130,000 attendees, the convention was founded in 1970 by Shel Dorf, Richard Alf, Ken Krueger, Mike Towry, Barry Alfonso, Bob Sourk, and Greg Bear. Detroit, Michigan-born, comics fan Shel Dorf, had, in the mid-1960s, mounted the Detroit Triple-Fan Fairs, one of the first commercial comics-fan conventions. When he moved to San Diego, California, in 1970, he organized a convention on March 21,1970. Dorf went on to be associated with the convention as president or manager, variously, Alf co-chaired the first convention with Krueger and became chairman in 1971. Following the initial gathering, Dorfs first three-day San Diego comics convention, other locations in the conventions early years included the El Cortez Hotel, the University of California, San Diego, and Golden Hall, before being moved to the San Diego Convention Center in 1991. I was quietly walking the floor stunned and in awe of just how much bigger it really was, the convention is organized by a panel of 13 board members,16 to 20 full-time and part-time workers, and 80 volunteers who assist via committees. Comic Con International is an organization, and proceeds of the event go to funding it, as well as the Alternative Press Expo. The convention logo was designed by Richard Bruning and Josh Beatman in 1995, in September 2010, the convention announced that it would stay in San Diego through 2015. In 2015, working with Lionsgate, a channel was created to host Comic-Con related content. According to the San Diego Convention and Visitors Bureau, the convention has a regional economic impact of $162.8 million. Along with panels, seminars, and workshops with comic book professionals, there are previews of upcoming feature films, like most comic-book conventions, Comic-Con features a large floorspace for exhibitors. These include media companies such as studios and TV networks, as well as comic-book dealers. And like most comics conventions, Comic-Con includes an area, as well as the Artists Alley where comics artists can sign autographs. Despite the name, artists alleys can include writers and even models, academics and comic industry professionals annually hold the Comics Arts Conference at Comic-Con, presenting scholarly studies on comics as a medium
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Webster Groves, Missouri
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Webster Groves is an inner-ring suburb of St. Louis in St. Louis County, Missouri. The population was 22,995 at the 2010 census, the city is named after New England politician Daniel Webster. Webster Groves is one of the affluent communities in Missouri. In 2008, it was ranked #9 in Family Circle Magazines list of the 10 Best Cities for Families in America, the city is home to the main campus of Webster University. Webster Groves is located at 38°35′16″N 90°21′16″W, according to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 5.90 square miles, all of it land. Webster Groves is adjacent on the east by Shrewsbury, on the north by Maplewood, Brentwood and Rock Hill, on the west by Glendale, Oakland, and Crestwood, and on the south by Affton and Marlborough. In the early 19th century, this region, once a part of the Louisiana Territory, was changing from Spanish to French ownership, during the early period of Spanish rule, officials gave land to settlers as a check against the English. As part of program, in 1802, Grégoire Sarpy was granted 6,002 acres by Charles de Hault Delassus. The land grant covered the area now known as Webster Groves. Webster Groves location on the Pacific Railroad line led to its development as a suburb, in the late 19th century, overcrowding, congestion, and unhealthy conditions in St. Louis prompted urban residents to leave the city for quieter, safer surroundings. The first public school in the community was Douglass Elementary School, founded as a separate, in the 1920s, the school grew into Douglass High School, the only high school in St. Louis County for black students. The school operated until 1956, when the U. S. Supreme Court required desegregation, as a suburban municipality, Webster Groves has its origins as five separate communities along adjacent railroad lines. Webster, Old Orchard, Webster Park, Tuxedo Park, and Selma merged in 1896 to implement public services, the geographic and economic diversity of Webster Groves is evident in its variety of neighborhoods. Franzen thought the Webster Groves depicted in it bears resemblance to the friendly. Webster Groves was the setting for the 1974-5 NBC television series Lucas Tanner, Louis office who are looking for a comfortable place to settle and keep their kids on the track toward prosperity. The Webster Groves High School Statesmen maintain one of the oldest high school football rivalries west of the Mississippi River with the Pioneers of Kirkwood High School, as of 2013, Gerry Welch was the mayor of Webster Groves. The Webster Groves City Council consisted of council members Debi Salberg, Kathy Hart, Greg Mueller, Ken Burns, Toni Hunt, the City Council works with 19 boards and commissions. Citizens and businesspeople in the area volunteer for these boards and commissions to advise the City Council on community issues, a full list of these boards and commissions with links to pages describing the purpose and application procedures can be found on the official website of Webster Groves
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Missouri
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Missouri is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States, achieving statehood in 1821. With over six million residents, it is the eighteenth most populous state, the largest urban areas are St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield, and Columbia. The capitol is in Jefferson City on the Missouri River, the state is the twenty-first most extensive by area and is geographically diverse. The Northern Plains were once covered by glaciers, then tallgrass prairie, in the South are the Ozarks, a forested highland, providing timber, minerals, and recreation. The Mississippi River forms the border of the state, eventually flowing into the swampy Missouri Bootheel. Humans have inhabited what we now call Missouri for at least 12,000 years, the Mississippian culture built cities and mounds, before declining in the 1300s. When European explorers arrived in the 1600s they encountered the Osage, the French established Louisiana, a part of New France, and founded Ste. Genevieve in 1735 and St. Louis in 1764, after a brief period of Spanish rule, the United States acquired the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Americans from the Upland South, including enslaved African Americans, rushed into the new Missouri Territory, many from Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee settled in the Boonslick area of Mid-Missouri. Soon after, heavy German immigration formed the Missouri Rhineland, Missouri played a central role in the westward expansion of the United States, as memorialized by the Gateway Arch. The Pony Express, Oregon Trail, Santa Fe Trail, as a border state, Missouris role in the American Civil War was complex and there were many conflicts within. After the war, both Greater St. Louis and the Kansas City metropolitan area became centers of industrialization and business, today, the state is divided into 114 counties and the independent city of St. Louis. Missouris culture blends elements from the Midwestern and Southern United States, the musical styles of ragtime, Kansas City jazz, and St. Louis Blues, developed in Missouri. The well-known Kansas City-style barbecue, and lesser known St. Louis-style barbecue can be found across the state, St. Louis is also a major center of beer brewing, Anheuser-Busch is the largest producer in the world. Missouri wine is produced in the nearby Missouri Rhineland and Ozarks, Missouris alcohol laws are among the most permissive in the United States. Outside of the large cities popular tourist destinations include the Lake of the Ozarks, U. S. President Harry S. Truman is from Missouri. Other well known Missourians include Mark Twain, Walt Disney, Chuck Berry, some of the largest companies based in the state include Express Scripts, Monsanto, Emerson Electric, Edward Jones, and OReilly Auto Parts. Missouri has been called the Mother of the West and the Cave State, however, Missouris most famous nickname is the Show Me State, the state is named for the Missouri River, which was named after the indigenous Missouri Indians, a Siouan-language tribe
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Carnegie Mellon University
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Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools, in 1967, the Carnegie Institute of Technology merged with the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research to form Carnegie Mellon University. The universitys 140-acre main campus is 3 miles from Downtown Pittsburgh, john Heinz III College of Information Systems and Public Policy, and the School of Computer Science. The university also has campuses in Qatar and Silicon Valley, with degree-granting programs in six continents, Carnegie Mellon consistently ranks in the top 25 in the national U. S. News & World Report rankings. It is home to the world’s first degree-granting Robotics and Drama programs, the university spent $242 million on research in 2015. Carnegie Mellon counts 13,650 students from 114 countries, over 100,000 living alumni, Carnegies vision was to open a vocational training school for the sons and daughters of working-class Pittsburghers. Carnegie was inspired for the design of his school by the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, in 1912 the institution changed its name to Carnegie Institute of Technology and began offering four-year degrees. The Mellon Institute of Industrial Research was founded in 1913 by banker and industrialist brothers Andrew, Mellon in honor of their father, Thomas Mellon, the patriarch of the Mellon family. The Institute began as an organization which performed work for government. In 1927, the Mellon Institute incorporated as an independent nonprofit, in 1938, the Mellon Institutes iconic building was completed and it moved to its new, and current, location on Fifth Avenue. In 1967, with support from Paul Mellon, Carnegie Tech merged with the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research to become Carnegie Mellon University, Carnegie Mellons coordinate womens college, the Margaret Morrison Carnegie College closed in 1973 and merged its academic programs with the rest of the university. The industrial research mission of the Mellon Institute survived the merger as the Carnegie Mellon Research Institute and continued doing work on contract to industry, CMRI closed in 2001 and its programs were subsumed by other parts of the university or spun off into independent entities. Carnegie Mellons 140-acre main campus is three miles from downtown Pittsburgh, between Schenley Park and the Squirrel Hill, Shadyside, and Oakland neighborhoods, Carnegie Mellon is bordered to the west by the campus of the University of Pittsburgh. Carnegie Mellon owns 81 buildings in the Oakland and Squirrel Hill neighborhoods of Pittsburgh, for decades the center of student life on campus was Skibo Hall, the Universitys student union. Built in the 1950s, Skibo Halls design was typical of Mid-Century Modern architecture, the original Skibo was razed in the summer of 1994 and replaced by a new student union that is fully wi-fi enabled. Known as University Center, the building was dedicated in 1996, in 2014, Carnegie Mellon re-dedicated the University Center as the Cohon University Center in recognition of the eighth president of the university, Jared Cohon. A large grassy area known as the Cut forms the backbone of the campus, the Cut was formed by filling in a ravine with soil from a nearby hill that was leveled to build the College of Fine Arts building. The northwestern part of the campus was acquired from the United States Bureau of Mines in the 1980s, the sculpture was controversial for its placement, the general lack of input that the campus community had, and its aesthetic appeal
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Guiding Light
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Guiding Light was created by Irna Phillips, and began as an NBC Radio serial on January 25,1937. On June 2,1947, the series was transferred to CBS Radio, before starting on June 30,1952 and it continued to be broadcast concomitantly on radio until June 29,1956. The series was expanded from 15 minutes to a half-hour during 1968, the series broadcast its 15, 000th CBS episode on September 6,2006. On April 1,2009, it was announced that CBS had canceled Guiding Light after a 72-year run due to low ratings. The show taped its final Procter & Gamble scenes for CBS on August 11,2009, on October 5,2009, CBS replaced Guiding Light with an hour-long revival of Lets Make a Deal, hosted by Wayne Brady. Guiding Light has had a number of plot sequences during the long history. These plot sequences include complex storylines, and different writers and casting, the series was created by Irna Phillips, who based it on personal experiences. These sermons originated the idea of the creation of The Guiding Light, the original radio series was first broadcast as 15-minute episodes on NBC Radio, starting on January 25,1937. The series was transferred to CBS Radio during 1947, the Guiding Light was broadcast first by CBS Television on June 30,1952. With the transition to television, the characters became the Bauers. These episodes were also 15 minutes long, during the period from 1952 to 1956, The Guiding Light existed as both a radio and television serial, with actors recording their performances twice for each day that the shows were broadcast. The radio broadcast of The Guiding Light ceased production during 1956, the Guiding Light ranked as the number one-rated soap opera during both 1956 and 1957, before being replaced during 1958 by As the World Turns. After Irna Phillips was transferred to As the World Turns during 1958, the first television producer of The Guiding Light was Luci Ferri Rittenberg, who produced the show over 20 years. Agnes Nixon relinquished her role as chief writer during 1965 to work for the series Another World, on March 13,1967, The Guiding Light was first broadcast in color. On September 9,1968, the program was expanded from 15 to 30 minutes, the show also became a bit more topical during the 1960s, with such storylines as Bert Bauers diagnosis of uterine cancer in 1962. A number of new characters were introduced during the mid- to late 1960s, including Dr. Sara McIntyre, who remained a major character through the early 1980s. Charlotte was murdered by Kit on August 26,1973, and then Kit herself was shot by Dr. Joe Werner in self-defense on April 24,1974, after she had attempted to poison Dr. Sara McIntyre. A pivotal character, off-and-on, until the spring of 1998, the role of Roger was originally proposed to be blonde, fair-skinned preppy type, a man who was dating his bosss daughter Holly
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NBC
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The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is the flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The network is part of the Big Three television networks, founded in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America, NBC is the oldest major broadcast network in the United States. Following the acquisition by GE, Bob Wright served as executive officer of NBC, remaining in that position until his retirement in 2007. In 2003, French media company Vivendi merged its entertainment assets with GE, Comcast purchased a controlling interest in the company in 2011, and acquired General Electrics remaining stake in 2013. Following the Comcast merger, Zucker left NBC Universal and was replaced as CEO by Comcast executive Steve Burke, during a period of early broadcast business consolidation, radio manufacturer Radio Corporation of America acquired New York City radio station WEAF from American Telephone & Telegraph. Westinghouse, a shareholder in RCA, had an outlet in Newark, New Jersey pioneer station WJZ. This station was transferred from Westinghouse to RCA in 1923, WEAF acted as a laboratory for AT&Ts manufacturing and supply outlet Western Electric, whose products included transmitters and antennas. The Bell System, AT&Ts telephone utility, was developing technologies to transmit voice- and music-grade audio over short and long distances, the 1922 creation of WEAF offered a research-and-development center for those activities. WEAF maintained a schedule of radio programs, including some of the first commercially sponsored programs. In an early example of chain or networking broadcasting, the station linked with Outlet Company-owned WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island, AT&T refused outside companies access to its high-quality phone lines. The early effort fared poorly, since the telegraph lines were susceptible to atmospheric. In 1925, AT&T decided that WEAF and its network were incompatible with the companys primary goal of providing a telephone service. AT&T offered to sell the station to RCA in a deal that included the right to lease AT&Ts phone lines for network transmission, the divisions ownership was split among RCA, its founding corporate parent General Electric and Westinghouse. NBC officially started broadcasting on November 15,1926, WEAF and WJZ, the flagships of the two earlier networks, were operated side-by-side for about a year as part of the new NBC. On April 5,1927, NBC expanded to the West Coast with the launch of the NBC Orange Network and this was followed by the debut of the NBC Gold Network, also known as the Pacific Gold Network, on October 18,1931. The Orange Network carried Red Network programming, and the Gold Network carried programming from the Blue Network, initially, the Orange Network recreated Eastern Red Network programming for West Coast stations at KPO in San Francisco. The Orange Network name was removed from use in 1936, at the same time, the Gold Network became part of the Blue Network. In the 1930s, NBC also developed a network for shortwave radio stations, in 1927, NBC moved its operations to 711 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, occupying the upper floors of a building designed by architect Floyd Brown
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Chuck (TV series)
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Chuck is an American action-comedy/spy-drama television series created by Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak. Produced by College Hill Pictures, Fake Empire Productions, Wonderland Sound and Vision, television, the series premiered on September 24,2007, on NBC, airing on Monday nights at 8,00 p. m. /7,00 p. m. Central. As the second season finished, flagging ratings put Chuck in danger of cancellation, the series renewal was uncertain in each subsequent season. The fifth season was the last, beginning on October 28,2011, the series concluded on January 27,2012, with a two-hour finale. Chuck Bartowski is in his mid-twenties, working at a job as a computer service expert at Buy More. Chuck is intelligent but lacks ambition, also, he had been expelled from Stanford University on false charges that he cheated in one of his classes, which likely damaged his motivation and morale. His sister, Ellie, and her boyfriend, Devon Captain Awesome Woodcomb, are doctors who constantly encourage Chuck to make progress in his professional, the sole surviving copy becomes subliminally embedded in Chucks brain via encoded images when he opens an email from Bryce. The NSAs Major John Casey and CIA Agent Sarah Walker are dispatched to investigate, Chuck is recruited to use the knowledge he now possesses to help thwart assassins and international terrorists, upending his previously mundane life. The Intersect causes Chuck to receive involuntary flashes of information from the database, activated by such as faces, voices, objects. In order to protect his family and friends, Chuck must keep his second occupation a secret, Casey and Walker are assigned to watch over Chuck. They are forced to establish an alliance and cover-identities. Walker poses as Chucks girlfriend and takes a job at a fast food restaurant near the Buy More, Casey reluctantly becomes part of the Buy More sales team. The main antagonists driving the plot are a series of rogue spy cabals, first internal to the United States intelligence community, Chuck, Sarah, and Casey all face professional conflicts as they grow to respect each other. A genuine romantic interest develops between Chuck and Sarah, meanwhile, Casey and Sarah confront unresolved issues from their lives before the series, including their families, Sarahs history with Bryce, and the spies they previously worked with. And as Chuck grows more comfortable with his own role, those closest to him are drawn into his spy life. Tony Todd as CIA Director Langston Graham Matthew Bomer as Bryce Larkin C. S. Schwartz, Fedak pitched the idea to Schwartz, who agreed to develop the project with him. Fedak, Peter Johnson, Scott Rosenbaum, Matthew Miller, NBC gave the series an early pick-up and a thirteen-episode order on May 10,2007. On November 26,2007, TV Guide reported that NBC had picked up the series for a full,22 episode season
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Neal Caffrey
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Neal Caffrey is the main character of the USA Network original series White Collar. Neal currently works as a consultant for the White Collar Crime Division of the FBI in New York City. He is a forger and conman, with a fondness for art, fine wine, Sy Devore suits, fedoras. Neal speaks eight languages, including conversational Swahili, and has 27 known aliases, Caffrey was suspected of hundreds of thefts before Agent Peter Burke of the FBI apprehended him. Neal received a sentence for bond forgery. Now, Neal must walk the line between his new job as a top FBI consultant, and his old life as a white collar criminal, matt Bomer portrays Neal Caffrey on White Collar. He is described as a romantic, which is shown when he out of prison to track down Kate Moreau, his girlfriend and true love. Neal is also highly secretive, and does not trust anyone completely, Neal rarely makes himself vulnerable, hiding behind a facade of indifference or cheerfulness when he is upset, even after a major personal tragedy in the Season 1 finale. He does not enjoy talking about his past, preferring the mystery and his confidence makes it easy for him to con people, and he frequently draws attention to himself wherever he goes. Jeff Eastin says of casting Neal, I wanted a guy who walked into a room, because this guy is elegant, and he’s sophisticated, and he’s smart and he loves the attention. Born Neal George Bennett, Neal grew up in United States Federal Witness Protection Program under the name Danny Brooks in St. Louis and his mother told him that his father, James Bennett, a police detective in the Washington, D. C. Metro Police Department, died when he was two old, while taking out a bunch of bad guys. Neal grew up wanting to be just like him, intending to be a police officer, however, when he was 18, Ellen Parker, his fathers former partner, told him the truth, His father is still alive, but is not a hero. James had been arrested for the murder of a police officer when Neal was three years old. After finding out information, Neal left WITSEC and took his mothers maiden name. Now, he can use guns, but prefers not to. Neal did not graduate high school, he also did not attend college, although he has. He learns more about his father only years later, when he asks Ellen for more information, After he was arrested, James told Ellen that their department was filled with dirty cops who had set him up
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USA Network
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USA Network is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment Group division of NBCUniversal, itself a subsidiary of Comcast. As of July 2015, USA Network is available to approximately 95.567 million pay television households in the United States, USA Network originally launched on September 22,1977 as the Madison Square Garden Network. The network was founded by cable provider UA-Columbia Cablevision and Kay Koplovitz, the channel was one of the first national cable television channels, using satellite delivery as opposed to microwave relay to distribute its programming to cable systems. Initially, the network ran a mix of college and less well-known professional sports, the channel began its broadcast day after 5,00 p. m. Eastern Time on weekdays and 12,00 p. m. Eastern Time on weekends. That fall, USA began signing on at 12,00 p. m. Eastern Time on weekdays, it added some talk shows. Sports programming began airing at 5,00 p. m. Eastern Time weekdays, in the fall of 1981, USA began its daily programming at 6,00 a. m. Later, in 1982, Time Inc. and Gulf+Westerns Paramount Pictures unit would buy stakes in the venture, the three partners had a non-compete clause that would prevent them from owning other basic cable networks independently from the USA joint venture. Said clause would cause Time Inc. to drop out of the venture in 1987, as the company attempted to buy CNN from Ted Turner, MCA and Paramount subsequently became the sole owners of the channel. In the fall of 1982, USA began operating on a 24-hour-a-day schedule, running a mix of shows, a childrens program. Weekends featured a mix of movies, some drama series and talk shows during the morning hours. Overnights consisted of old films and film shorts, and music as part of a show called Night Flight. One tradition on USA was a lineup of game show reruns mixed in with several original low-budget productions that aired over the years. It began in October 1984 with reruns of The Gong Show, more shows were progressively added soon afterward such as The Jokers Wild, Tic-Tac-Dough, Press Your Luck, High Rollers and Hollywood Squares, along with Wipeout, Face the Music and Name That Tune. In June 1987, the channel debuted another original game show, when it began, the game show block ran for an hour, but expanded significantly the following year. By 1989, the network ran game shows Monday through Fridays from 12,00 to 5,00 p. m. Eastern Time. In January 1989, USA debuted USA Up All Night, a showcase of feature films that aired as part of its weekend overnight schedule. Short news updates, branded as USA Updates, were shown from as early as 1989 until 2000, however, when KYWs news operations were heavily revamped in response to falling ratings in 1991, production of USA Updates was then taken over by the All News Channel. The ANC-produced updates continued through 2000, USA Network has not carried any news programming since the news updates were discontinued, USA Network was the first cable channel to preempted the syndicated market by purchasing a 26 Touchstone films package in October 1989
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White Collar (TV series)
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Willie Garson and Tiffani Thiessen also star. The show premiered on October 23,2009, and has aired six complete seasons, Neal Caffrey, a renowned con artist, forger, and thief, is captured after a three-year game of cat and mouse with the FBI, specifically Special Agent Peter Burke. With only three left in his four-year sentence, he escapes to look for his girlfriend, Kate. Peter Burke once again finds Caffrey and returns him to prison and this time, Caffrey proposes a deal to help Burke apprehend dangerous white collar criminals with the FBI as part of a work-release program. They thus begin their unconventional and testy relationship, Matt Bomer as Neal Caffrey, A skilled forger and thief, Caffrey was imprisoned after being captured by FBI Special Agent Peter Burke. Neal proposes he become an FBI consultant, in exchange for early release, Burke agrees on the condition Neal wears an ankle monitor. Despite being given the opportunity to build a new, honest life for himself, Neal often craves his old life, Tim DeKay as Special Agent in Charge Peter Burke, A hard-working, honest FBI agent, and the head of the investigative team on which Neal serves. He is very committed to his marriage and loves his home life, Peter is the person Neal trusts the most, and Peter is determined to convince Neal that an honest life is possible. Willie Garson as Mozzie, Another con man and close friend of Neal, Mozzie, abandoned as a baby, he grew up in an orphanage and several foster homes in Detroit, where he learned to be a con man. Though lacking Neals people skills, he appears to be a jack of all trades, has an eidetic memory, Moz takes his nickname from a childhood teddy bear named Mozart. Tiffani Thiessen as Elizabeth Burke, An event planner and Peters wife and she is supportive and understanding of his work and long hours away. An intelligent woman herself, Elizabeth is able to discuss Peters cases with him, marsha Thomason as Special Agent Diana Berrigan, Previously Peters probationary agent, Diana assists on Peter and Neals first case together. Transferred to D. C. after her probation ends, she returns to the investigative team in New York. Sharif Atkins as Special Agent Clinton Jones, Peters point man who is responsible for carrying out a variety of tasks during the teams investigations and he appreciates Neals unorthodox contributions to the team. During an investigation, they embark on a relationship, complicated by the reappearance of Alex. Natalie Morales as Special Agent Lauren Cruz, A junior agent who requested a transfer to Peters team, diahann Carroll as June Ellington, An elderly widow who meets Neal at a thrift store, June is a quick judge of character, and soon offers Neal her guest room. June also has a friendship with Mozzie and is often seen talking to him or playing board games. James Rebhorn as Special Agent Reese Hughes, The agent in charge of the FBIs Manhattan White Collar Crime Unit, bridget Regan as Rachel Turner/Rebecca Lowe, An expert in ancient books, especially Mosconis texts
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Golden Globe Award
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Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign. The annual ceremony at which the awards are presented is a part of the film industrys awards season. The 74th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film, the 1st Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best achievements in 1943 filmmaking, was held in January 1944, at the 20th Century-Fox studios. Subsequent ceremonies were held at venues throughout the next decade, including the Beverly Hills Hotel. In 1950, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association made the decision to establish an honorary award to recognize outstanding contributions to the entertainment industry. Recognizing its subject as a figure within the entertainment industry. The official name of the award became the Cecil B. In 1963, the Miss Golden Globe concept was introduced, in its inaugural year, two Miss Golden Globes were named, one for film and one for television. The two Miss Golden Globes named that year were Eva Six and Donna Douglas, respectively, in 2009, the Golden Globe statuette was redesigned. It was unveiled at a conference at the Beverly Hilton prior to the show. The broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards, telecast to 167 countries worldwide, generally ranks as the third most-watched awards show each year, behind only the Oscars, gervais returned to host the 68th and 69th Golden Globe Awards the next two years. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosted the 70th, 71st and 72nd Golden Globe Awards in 2015, the Golden Globe Awards theme song, which debuted in 2012, was written by Japanese musician and songwriter Yoshiki Hayashi. On January 7,2008, it was announced due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. The ceremony was faced with a threat by striking writers to picket the event, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was forced to adopt another approach for the broadcast. In acting categories, Meryl Streep holds the record for the most competitive Golden Globe wins with eight, however, including honorary awards, such as the Henrietta Award, World Film Favorite Actor/Actress Award, or Cecil B. DeMille Award, Barbra Streisand leads with nine, additionally, Streisand won for composing the song Evergreen, producing the Best Picture, and directing Yentl in 1984. Jack Nicholson, Angela Lansbury, Alan Alda and Shirley MacLaine have six awards each, behind them are Rosalind Russell and Jessica Lange with five wins. Meryl Streep also holds the record for most nominations with thirty, at the 46th Golden Globe Awards an anomaly occurred, a three way-tie for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
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Mark Ruffalo
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Mark Alan Ruffalo is an American actor, humanitarian, social activist and film producer. He made his debut in an episode of CBS Summer Playhouse. He was part of the original cast of This Is Our Youth, following were his roles in 13 Going on 30, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Zodiac, and What Doesnt Kill You. In 2010, he starred in the psychological thriller Shutter Island, for the latter, he received nominations for the SAG Award, BAFTA Award, and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He also co-starred in the mystery films Now You See Me, Ruffalo gained international prominence by portraying the Marvel Comics character the Hulk in The Avengers and Avengers, Age of Ultron. The same year, he portrayed Dave Schultz in Foxcatcher, for which he was nominated for awards, including a Golden Globe, Ruffalo was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin. His mother, Marie Rose, is a hairdresser and stylist and he has two sisters, Tania and Nicole, and a brother, Scott. His father is of Italian descent, from Girifalco, and his mother is of half French Canadian, Ruffalo attended both Catholic school and progressive schools. Ruffalo has described himself as having been a kid, although he struggled from undiagnosed dyslexia and ADD as a child. Ruffalo spent his teen years in Virginia Beach, Virginia, where his father worked and he competed in wrestling in junior high and high school in Wisconsin and Virginia. With the Orpheus Theatre Company, he wrote, directed, and starred in a number of plays, Ruffalo had minor roles in films like The Dentist, the low-key crime comedy Safe Men and Ang Lees Civil War Western Ride with the Devil. He appeared opposite Tom Cruise as a detective in Michael Manns crime-thriller Collateral. In the mid 2000s, Ruffalo appeared as a lead in View From the Top,13 Going on 30, Just Like Heaven. In 2006, Ruffalo starred in Clifford Odets Awake and Sing. at the Belasco Theatre in New York, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. In March 2007, he appeared in Zodiac as SFPD homicide inspector Dave Toschi, in 2007, Ruffalo played divorced lawyer Dwight Arno, who accidentally kills a child and speeds away, in Terry Georges film Reservation Road, based on the novel by John Burnham Schwartz. In 2008, Ruffalo starred as a con man in The Brothers Bloom with Adrien Brody and Rachel Weisz,2008 also saw Ruffalo in Brian Goodmans What Doesnt Kill You with Ethan Hawke and Amanda Peet, which was shown at the Toronto International Film Festival. In 2009, he played a role in the film Where The Wild Things Are as Maxs mothers boyfriend. In 2010, he co-starred in the Martin Scorsese thriller Shutter Island as U. S, marshal Chuck Aule, the partner of Leonardo DiCaprios character Teddy Daniels
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HBO
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Home Box Office is an American premium cable and satellite television network that is owned by Time Warner through its respective flagship company Home Box Office, Inc. HBO is the oldest and longest continuously operating pay television service in the United States, in 2014, HBO had an adjusted operating income of US$1.79 billion, compared to the US$1.68 billion it accrued in 2013. HBO has 49 million subscribers in the United States and 130 million worldwide as of 2016, the network provides seven 24-hour multiplex channels, including HBO Comedy, HBO Latino, HBO Signature and HBO Family. It launched the streaming service HBO Now in April 2015, and has over 2 million subscribers in the United States as of February 2017. In addition to its U. S. subscriber base, HBO distributes content in at least 151 countries, HBO subscribers generally pay for an extra tier of service that includes other cable- and satellite-exclusive channels even before paying for the channel itself. Cable providers can require the use of a converter box – usually digital – in order to receive HBO, many HBO programs have been syndicated to other networks and broadcast television stations, and a number of HBO-produced series and films have been released on DVD. The new system, which Dolan named Sterling Information Services, became the first urban underground cable system in the United States. In that same year, Time-Life, Inc. purchased a 20% stake in Dolans company, in the summer of 1971, while on a family vacation in France, Charles Dolan began to think of ideas to make Sterling Manhattan profitable. He came up with the concept for a television service. Dolan later presented his idea to Time-Life management, though satellite distribution seemed only a distant possibility at the time, he persuaded Time-Life to back him on the project. To gauge whether consumers would be interested in subscribing to a pay television service, in a meeting of Dolan and some Time-Life executives who were working on the project, various other names were discussed for the new service. Home Box Office launched on November 8,1972, however, HBOs launch came without fanfare in the press, as it was not covered by any local or national media outlets. Home Box Office distributed its first sports event immediately after the film, Four months later in February 1973, Home Box Office aired its first television special, the Pennsylvania Polka Festival. Home Box Office would use a network of relay towers to distribute its programming to cable systems throughout its service area. Sterling Manhattan Cable continued to lose money because the company had only a small base of 20,000 customers in Manhattan. Time-Life dropped the Sterling name and the company was renamed Manhattan Cable Television under Time-Lifes control in March 1973, Gerald Levin, who had been with Home Box Office since it began operations as its vice president of programming, replaced Dolan as the companys president and chief executive officer. In September 1973, Time-Life, Inc. completed its acquisition of the pay service. HBO would eventually increase its fortunes within two years, by April 1975, the service had around 100,000 subscribers in Pennsylvania and New York state, in 1974, they settled on using a geostationary communications satellite to transmit HBO to cable providers throughout the United States
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The Normal Heart (film)
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The Normal Heart is a 2014 American drama television film directed by Ryan Murphy and written by Larry Kramer, based on his own 1985 play of same name. The film stars Mark Ruffalo, Matt Bomer, Taylor Kitsch, Jim Parsons, Alfred Molina, Joe Mantello, Jonathan Groff and it was released on DVD and Blu-ray on August 26,2014. The film depicts the rise of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City between 1981 and 1984, as seen through the eyes of writer/activist Ned Weeks, the founder of a prominent HIV advocacy group. Weeks prefers public confrontations to the calmer, more private strategies favored by his associates, friends and their differences of opinion lead to arguments that threaten to undermine their shared goals. Ned Weeks is a gay writer from New York City who travels to Fire Island Pines on Long Island to celebrate the birthday of his friend Craig Donner at a house on the beach. Other friends in attendance include Mickey Marcus and the charismatic Bruce Niles, Craig is young and appears to be in good health. While walking on the beach, however, Craig feels dizzy, later, when blowing out the candles on his birthday cake, Craig begins to cough repeatedly. While traveling back to New York City, Ned reads an article in The New York Times titled Rare Cancer Diagnosed in 41 Homosexuals, all of these cases seem to be appearing in gay men. In the waiting room, Ned meets Sanford, a patient whose face and hands are marked with skin lesions caused by Kaposis sarcoma, Brookner examines Ned, but finds that he does not have the symptoms of this disease. She asks Ned to help her raise awareness of disease within the gay community. Craig suddenly suffers violent convulsions and is rushed to the hospital with Ned, Mickey, Brookner recognizes Bruce, noting that he is the former boyfriend of another one of her patients who recently died. Ned organizes a gathering at his home where many gay men are invited to hear Brookner share information about the disease. Though she lacks conclusive evidence, she states her belief that the illness is sexually transmissible and she notes that few medical journals appear interested in publishing anything on this disease which is mostly affecting homosexual men. Ned announces that he wants to start an organization to spread information about the disease, Brookner and Ned visit a local hospital where several of her sick patients are in critical condition with an illness that is now being referred to as gay-related immune deficiency. They stay in rooms that many hospital staff are afraid to enter for fear of contracting the disease, Ned, Bruce, Mickey, and several other friends including Tommy Boatwright establish a community organization called Gay Mens Health Crisis. The organization sponsors fundraisers for research on the now called AIDS and establishes a telephone hotline, counseling. Over Neds objections, they elect Bruce their President, Ned arranges for his older brother, lawyer Ben Weeks, to provide free legal advice to the GMHC. The two brothers are close, but there remains an underlying tension over Bens lack of understanding of Neds sexuality, Ned contacts gay New York Times reporter Felix Turner, hoping that he can use his media connections to publish more stories about the unfolding health crisis
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American Horror Story: Freak Show
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American Horror Story, Freak Show is the fourth season of the FX horror anthology television series American Horror Story. It premiered on October 8,2014 and concluded on January 21,2015, the season is mainly set in 1952 Jupiter, Florida, telling the story of one of the last remaining freak shows in the United States, and their struggle for survival. This is the first season of the series that is not strictly anthological, with Lily Rabe, Naomi Grossman, ben Woolf also makes a return to the series. Like its predecessors, Freak Show was met mostly positive reviews. It ultimately became FXs most-watched program ever, surpassing its previous installment, in addition, Paulson won for Best Supporting Actress in a Movie or Limited Series at the 5th Critics Choice Television Awards. The fourth season is set in Jupiter, Florida in 1952, after their mother is found stabbed to death, Bette and Dot are discovered stabbed themselves at their farmhouse. The news makes headlines, and soon Elsa discovers the twins existence, believing the sisters to be her troupes saviors, she brings them back to camp. Bette sees the show as their haven but Dot believes that they are being exploited for their appearance, meanwhile, serial killer Twisty the Clown is responsible for recent murders and kidnappings that plagued the town. A detective arrives at the show to arrest Bette and Dot for the recent string of murders. After calling them all freaks and threatening to them out of town, Jimmy kills the detective. After a performance, which was out by a wealthy widow named Gloria Mott and her emotionally stunted son Dandy Mott, Dandy demands to buy the twins, offering Elsa $15,000. Enraged by his life, Dandy sets out to join the freak show. Hoping to cheer her son up, Gloria finds Twisty on the side of the road and brings him home to surprise Dandy, Dandy searches inside his bag and finds a severed head, causing Twisty to knock Dandy out and run away. Dandy follows him back to a school bus in the middle of the woods, where he discovers a kidnapped woman and boy. New to the troupe are Dell and his wife Desiree, who fled Chicago after Dell murdered a man having sex with Desiree. Elsa allows him to be the bodyguard, but he soon becomes more than she can handle after he degrades her. Ethel is less happy about Dells arrival, it is revealed that he and Ethel were once married. When she learns that her liver is failing, Ethel makes Dell promise to look after Jimmy when she dies, con artists Stanley and Maggie Esmerelda set their eyes on Elsas troupe, hoping to make some money by selling the freaks corpses to a museum
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FX (TV channel)
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FX is an American basic cable and satellite television channel launched on June 1,1994, based in Los Angeles, California and owned by 21st Century Fox through FX Networks, LLC. FXs programming primarily includes original drama and comedy series, and reruns of theatrical films, as of July 2015, FX is available to approximately 94,006,000 pay television households in the United States. In addition to the flagship U. S. network, the FX name is licensed to a number of related pay television channels in various countries around the world, FX, originally stylized as fX, launched on June 1,1994. Broadcasting from an apartment in Manhattans Flatiron District, fX was one of the first forays into large-scale interactive television. FX had two taglines during this period, TV Made Fresh Daily and The Worlds First Living Television Network, the live shows were each mostly focused on one broad topic. Shows included Personal fX, The Pet Department, Under Scrutiny with Jane Wallace, other notable fX personalities included Karyn Bryant and Orlando Jones, who were panelists on Sound fX. The channel prided itself on its interactivity with viewers, FX, in 1994, was an early adopter of the internet, embracing e-mail and the World Wide Web as methods of feedback. Select viewers were allowed to spend a day at the apartment, the first incarnation of fX was not available on Time Warner Cable, one of the major cable systems in New York City, where its programming originated. TWC would not carry the channel until September 2001, the live shows gradually disappeared one by one until only Personal fX remained. Breakfast Time was moved to the Fox network and renamed Fox After Breakfast in mid-1996 and it underwent several format changes, but never found a substantial audience and was canceled less than a year later. By the time that all programming was dropped, the channel focused entirely on its classic television shows until its relaunch in mid-1997. Personal fX remained on the refocused FX until May 1,1998, FX vacated the apartment in the summer of 1998 and the channels operations were streamlined with the other Fox-owned cable channels. In early 1997, fX was relaunched as FX, Fox Gone Cable, during the first few years after its relaunch, FX was known for little else than airing reruns of such Fox shows as The X-Files and Married. With Children, as well as 20th Century Fox-produced shows such as M*A*S*H, the channel also added Major League Baseball games to its lineup at that time, and eventually expanded its sports programming to include NASCAR races in 2001. In the summer of 1998, FX debuted three original series, Bobcats Big Ass Show, Instant Comedy with the Groundlings and Penn & Tellers Sin City Spectacular, all three series were cancelled the following year. Soon after its relaunch, the Fox Gone Cable tagline was dropped, by 1999, new original programs were added with the debut of shows such as Son of the Beach and The X Show. Beginning in 2002, the channel emerged as a force in original cable programming, gaining both acclaim and notoriety for edgy dramas. That year, FX debuted the police drama The Shield, which became a breakout hit, both shows were lauded by critics, and achieved equal success with viewers
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Horror film
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Horror film is a film genre that seeks to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on their fears. Inspired by literature from authors like Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, the macabre and the supernatural are frequent themes. Horror may also overlap with the fantasy, supernatural fiction and thriller genres, Horror films often deal with viewers nightmares, fears, revulsions and terror of the unknown. Plots within the genre often involve the intrusion of an evil force, event. Another of his projects was 1898s La Caverne maudite. Japan made early forays into the genre with Bake Jizo and Shinin no Sosei. The era featured a slew of literary adaptations, with the works of Poe and Dante, in 1908, Selig Polyscope Company produced Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In 1910, Edison Studios produced the first filmed version of Frankenstein, the macabre nature of the source materials used made the films synonymous with the horror film genre. Before and during the Weimar Republic era, German Expressionist filmmakers would significantly influence later productions, the first vampire-themed movie, Nosferatu, was made during this period, though it was an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stokers Dracula. Other European countries also, contributed to the genre during this period, though the word horror to describe the film genre would not be used until the 1930s, earlier American productions often relied on horror themes. Some notable examples include The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Phantom of the Opera, The Cat and the Canary, The Unknown, and The Man Who Laughs. Many of these films were considered dark melodramas because of their stock characters and emotion-heavy plots that focused on romance, violence, suspense. The trend of inserting an element of macabre into American pre-horror melodramas continued into the 1920s, directors known for relying on macabre in their films during the 1920s were Maurice Tourneur, Rex Ingram, and Tod Browning. Ingrams The Magician contains one of the first examples of a mad doctor and is said to have had a influence on James Whales version of Frankenstein. The Unholy Three is an example of Brownings use of macabre and unique style of morbidity, he remade the film in 1930 as a talkie, during the early period of talking pictures, Universal Pictures began a successful Gothic horror film series. Tod Brownings Dracula was quickly followed by James Whales Frankenstein and The Old Dark House, some of these films blended science fiction with Gothic horror, such as Whales The Invisible Man and featured a mad scientist, mirroring earlier German films. Frankenstein was the first in a series of remakes which lasted for years, the Mummy introduced Egyptology as a theme, Make-up artist Jack Pierce was responsible for the iconic image of the monster, and others in the series. Universals horror cycle continued into the 1940s with B-movies including The Wolf Man, the once controversial Freaks, based on the short story Spurs, was made by MGM, though the studio disowned the completed film, and it remained banned, in the UK, for thirty years
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American Horror Story
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American Horror Story is an American anthology horror television series created and produced by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk. Some plot elements of season are loosely inspired by true events. The second season, subtitled Asylum, takes place in Massachusetts during the year 1964 and follows the stories of the patients and staff of an institution for the criminally insane. The third season, subtitled Coven, takes place in New Orleans, Louisiana, during the year 2013, the fourth season, subtitled Freak Show, takes place in Jupiter, Florida, during the year 1952 and centers around one of the few remaining American freak shows. The fifth season, subtitled Hotel, takes place in Los Angeles during the year 2015 and focuses on the staff and guests of a supernatural hotel. The sixth season, subtitled Roanoke, takes place in Roanoke, North Carolina, during the year 2016, the only actors to appear in all iterations of the show so far are Evan Peters, Sarah Paulson and Lily Rabe. The series is broadcast on the television channel FX in the United States. On November 10,2015, the show was renewed for a sixth season, on October 4,2016, the series was renewed for a seventh season. On January 12,2017, the series was renewed for an eighth and ninth season, additionally, Kathy Bates and Lady Gaga won an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award, respectively, for their performances. The series draws consistently high ratings for the FX network, with its first season being the biggest new cable series of 2011. The Harmons move into a mansion and soon encounter the homes former residents. Ben and Vivien try to rekindle their relationship, as Violet, suffering from depression, the Langdons and Larry frequently influence the Harmons lives, as the family discovers that the home is haunted by the ghosts of anyone who has ever died on the property. The season is set in the modern day, with flashbacks to the 1920s, 1940s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s. The story takes place in 1964 and follows the patients, doctors, the wardens who run the institution include the stern Sister Jude, her protégé Sister Mary Eunice, and the founder of the institution, Monsignor Timothy Howard. The doctors charged with treating the patients at the asylum include psychiatrist Dr. Oliver Thredson, briarcliffs inhabitants are routinely subject to supernatural and scientific influences, including demonic possession and extraterrestrial abduction. The season primarily takes place throughout the 1960s with flashbacks to the 1940s, the story takes place in 2013 and follows the descendants of the witches who survived the Salem Witch Trials, who are nearly extinct and are in danger once again. Those who share this genetic affliction are being subjected to strange, a mysterious all-girls boarding school has opened in New Orleans to protect and house young women who carry this unique bloodline, and keep them from the dangers of the outside world. Fionas daughter, Cordelia, teaches at the school and welcomes its newest student, Zoe Benson, who harbors her own harrowing secret, other themes include witchcraft, voodoo, racism, death, and family, such as the relationships between mothers and daughters
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American Horror Story: Hotel
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American Horror Story, Hotel is the fifth season of the FX horror anthology television series American Horror Story. It premiered on October 7,2015, and concluded January 13,2016, the series was renewed in October 2014, with the subtitle Hotel being announced in February 2015. Hotel marks the first season to not feature series mainstays Jessica Lange, the plot centers around the enigmatic Hotel Cortez in Los Angeles, California, that catches the eye of an intrepid homicide detective. The Cortez is host to the strange and bizarre, spearheaded by its owner, The Countess, the hotel is loosely based on an actual hotel built in 1893 by H. H. Holmes in Chicago, Il. for the 1893 Worlds Columbian Exposition. It became known as the Murder Castle as it was built for Holmes to torture, murder, according to creators Brad Falchuk and Ryan Murphy, thematically, Hotel is much darker than previous seasons. Inspiration came from old horror films and actual hotels situated in downtown Los Angeles with a reputation for sinister events. The cycle also marks a return to filming in Los Angeles, in July 2015, FX launched a marketing campaign for the series, with most trailers and teasers touting Gagas involvement. Although Hotel was originally reported to consist of thirteen episodes, that number was revised to twelve. The season garnered a total of eight Emmy Award nominations, including two acting nominations for Paulson and Bates and it was the first time, however, that a season of American Horror Story was not nominated for Outstanding Limited Series. In addition, Gaga won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Mini-Series or Television Film while Hotel received a nomination for Best Mini-Series or Television Film. The fifth season of American Horror Story focuses on the Downtown Los Angeles Hotel Cortez which has recently purchased by a New York fashion designer. The 90 year old hotel is haunted by demons and mysterious ghosts including the founder, James Patrick March, heroin junkie Sally, as the season unfolds, the information and backstory of each character is revealed. Elizabeth was married to James March and had an abortion at the Murder House back in 1926. Ramona was a Hollywood actress who had a romantic past with Elizabeth, Liz was formerly known as Nick Pryor and lived in Topeka, Kansas up until 1984 when she was given a makeover and christened as Liz Taylor by Elizabeth. Sally, after supplying Donovan heroin, was shoved out a window by an angered Iris, finally, James tortured and murdered many visitors to his hotel, which he built with a series of secret chutes and hallways used primarily for covertly disposing the bodies of his victims. Kathy Bates as Iris Sarah Paulson as Sally McKenna and Billie Dean Howard Evan Peters as James Patrick March Wes Bentley as Det, John Lowe Matt Bomer as Donovan Chloë Sevigny as Dr. Jones as Det. Network president John Landgraf stated that the season would necessitate a huge reinvention for the series, the seasons subtitle was confirmed as Hotel in February 2015. Co-creator Ryan Murphy explained that the casting included a number of actors and singers, inspiration came from old hotel horror films and actual hotels situated in downtown Los Angeles, with horrific reputations
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Flightplan
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The film, distributed by Touchstone Pictures, was released theatrically in the United States on September 23,2005. The film is about Kyle Pratt, an American aircraft engineer working in Berlin, Germany with her husband, after her husband dies, Kyle decides to return home with her daughter and the casket to the U. S. A few hours into the flight Kyle and Julia fall asleep and she begins to panic when none of passengers remember her daughter, and when the stewards tell her that her daughter is not on the flight manifest the airplane staff begin to think Kyle is delusional. The basic premise of the plot is similar to a 1955 episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents entitled Into Thin Air. Kyle decides to bury him in their back in the U. S. on Long Island. They fly aboard an Aalto Airlines Elgin 474, a passenger aircraft that Kyle helped design the engines for. A few hours into the flight, Kyle and Julia fall asleep, at first calm, she begins to panic when none of the passengers or flight attendants claim to have seen her. Rich and the flight attendants start to suspect that Kyle may be unhinged by her husbands death, because of her increasingly erratic and panicked behaviour, Capt. Rich orders sky marshal Gene Carson to guard and handcuff her, later, after releasing all the passengers from their seats, Capt. Rich informs Kyle that he received a wire from the hospital in Berlin, saying that Julia was with David when he fell off the roof, Kyle furiously denies this, saying that Julia wasnt even there when David died and continues to insist that she brought her onboard. The crew now believes that she is delusional and Carson escorts Kyle back to her seat. A therapist, Lisa, tries to console her, and Kyle begins to doubt her own sanity until she notices that a heart Julia had drawn earlier on the next to her seat is real. Kyle is emboldened and convinces the therapist to let her search the plane again under the pretense of using the bathroom. While in the lavatory, she uses a trapdoor leading to the attic where she sabotages the aircrafts electronics, deploying the oxygen masks. She uses the chaos to take a dumbwaiter to the lower freight deck. She then notices Davids casket and frantically opens it, only to break down as it contains just the body of her husband. Carson finds her, handcuffs her, and announces that the flight will be making a stopover at Goose Bay Airport in Newfoundland. As she is once again led back to her seat, all of the passengers applaud Carson as they are now fed up of Kyles antics disrupting the flight, Kyle makes a final plea to Carson that she needs to search the plane upon landing
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In Time
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The film was released on October 28,2011. In 2169, people are genetically engineered to stop aging on their 25th birthday, each has a digital clock on their forearm, when they turn 25, they stop aging and their clock begins counting down from 1 year. When the clock reaches zero, that person out and dies. Time has become the currency, and can be transferred between people or time capsules. Will Salas is a 28-year-old Dayton factory worker living with his 50-year-old mother Rachel and he saves a drunken 105-year-old man named Henry Hamilton from an attempted robbery by a gang of Minutemen led by 75-year-old Fortis. Hamilton reveals to Will that the people of New Greenwich hoard most of the time for themselves to live forever, the next morning, Hamilton transfers 116 years of his time to a sleeping Will, before timing out and falling off a bridge. Raymond Leon, leader of the police-like Timekeepers erroneously assumes that Will played a part in Hamiltons death, will visits his best friend Borel and tells him of the time he received. Borel warns him that having so much time within Dayton will get him killed, will gives Borel ten years in return for their years of friendship before going to wait for his mother so they can move to New Greenwich. Rachel uses all but 90 minutes of her time to pay off a 2-day loan and she urges the bus driver to lend her a loan of 30 minutes that her son will pay off but to which he refuses and advises her to run. She times out in Wills arms before they can reach each other, the following morning, Will heads to New Greenwich. He visits a local casino and meets 110-year-old time-loaning businessman Philippe Weis and his 27-year-old daughter Sylvia, while playing poker with Weis, Will comes dangerously close to timing out, but eventually wins 1,100 years. Sylvia invites him to a party in the Weis mansion, will buys a car and drives himself to the party, where the Timekeepers arrest him. Dismissing Wills claim of innocence, Raymond confiscates all but two hours of his time, will takes Sylvia as hostage and drives back to Dayton. They are ambushed by Fortis gang, and are left with 30 minutes each, will attempts to get some time back from Borel, but his wife Greta tells him that he has drunk himself to death with nine years left on his clock. Sylvia pawns her jewelry for extra time, and Will calls Weis to demand a 1,000 year ransom, when Weis refuses to pay, Will decides to release Sylvia. She calls Weis from a pay phone, but they are ambushed by Raymond, will and Sylvia decide to team up and begin robbing Weis time banks, giving the extra time capsules to the poor. After a ten-year reward is offered for their capture, Fortis gang tracks them down to a hotel room, Fortis challenges Will to a time-duel to the death, in which Will times out Fortis by applying his fathers time duel trick and shoots the rest of the gang. However, the pair realize they cannot steal enough time to change things
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Magic Mike
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Magic Mike is a 2012 American drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Matt Bomer, Joe Manganiello, and Matthew McConaughey. The plot revolves around Adam, a 19-year-old who enters the world of stripping, guided by Mike Lane. The film is based on the experiences of Tatum, who was an 18-year-old stripper in San Francisco. Magic Mike was filmed in locations around west central Florida. The film premiered as the film for the 2012 Los Angeles Film Festival on June 24,2012, and was widely released by Warner Bros. on June 29,2012. A sequel, Magic Mike XXL directed by Gregory Jacobs, was released on July 1,2015, Mike soon meets 19-year-old Adam, a recent college dropout looking for a construction job. Mike takes Adam under his wing and encourages him to begin stripping at Xquisite, Mike is introduced to Adams sister Brooke. Despite his on-and-off relationship with a woman named Joanna, Mike finds himself attracted to Brooke, Adam falls further into the excessive lifestyle of the Xquisite dancers, using drugs and having sexual encounters with many clients. The bank declines his loan application and Mike realizes that he has to stay in the business to continue to pay his bills. Adam begins using drugs regularly, and Mike notices more of Adams reckless behavior, a few days later, Mike and Adam perform for a private party at a sorority house where Adam brings the package of drugs with him. At the party, Adam gives a young woman an ecstasy pill causing a brawl between Adam and the womans boyfriend, Mike and Adam are forced to flee without the drugs, which Adam says were worth $1,000. They also do not collect their payment, which infuriates Dallas, after the next nights show, Mike and Adam take drugs and go to a club. Adam vomits and passes out, Brooke finds him on Mikes floor the next morning, Brooke angrily confronts Mike about his lifestyle, and ends her friendship with him. Tobias and his suppliers break into Mikes house looking for Adam, Mike gives up most of his life savings to pay Adams debt in full. Later, before the final performance at Xquisite, Mike decides he has had enough. Knowing that Dallas has no loyalty to any of them and is driven by greed, after realizing Mike is not coming back, Dallas promotes Adam to replace Mike as lead dancer. Mike drives to Brookes apartment and tells her he has quit stripping and she has learned what he did for Adam, and she invites him to join her for breakfast. She playfully asks what they can do until morning, and then kisses him, Channing Tatum as Michael Magic Mike Lane, a male stripper who performs at Xquisite
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Magic Mike XXL
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Magic Mike XXL is a 2015 American comedy-drama film directed by Gregory Jacobs, written by Reid Carolin and starring Channing Tatum, Matt Bomer, Kevin Nash and Joe Manganiello. A sequel to 2012s Magic Mike, the film was released on July 1,2015, received mixed reviews from critics, three years after abandoning his life as a stripper, Mike is running his own furniture business. He receives a call from Tarzan who informs Mike that Dallas is gone, believing that his former boss has died, Mike drives to a hotel only to find that his friends, the remaining Kings of Tampa, are enjoying themselves at a pool party. Later, while trying to work, Mike overhears a song he used to strip to, reinvigorated, Mike decides to join them on their trip. Driving in a van owned by Tito and Tobias, they decide to make their first stop at Mad Marys. To prove to Richie that hes willing to commit to the trip, the others join him soon after. They then head down to a beach where Mike attempts to resolve his issues with Ken, Mike also meets a photographer named Zoe who tells him that shes headed for New York. They flirt but Mike decides not to pursue her, back on the road, Mike suggests that they change their routine. They stop at a gas station where he coerces Richie into trying to make the cashier smile with an improvised striptease which he successfully does and this inspires the others to abandon their old routines. Soon afterwards, Tobias, under the influence of MDMA, passes out while driving, everyone is left unscathed aside from Tobias who gets a concussion. In the hospital the group begins to lose morale, and contemplate packing up, Mike then reveals that his furniture business isnt going that well, and that hes no longer dating Brooke after she rejected his marriage proposal. The group decides to continue on, in search of a new emcee, Mike brings the group to a Savannah strip club owned by Rome whom Mike has a history with. Despite proving to her that his skills havent deteriorated, hes unsuccessful in getting her to help them, however, she does give them a ride to their next stop by having Andre, a rapper/singer who works at the club, drive them there. The group arrives at a mansion, Tito tells them that he knows the girl who lives there and that shes expecting them. They walk in through the door but are greeted by the girls mother, Nancys teasing of the group initially makes them feel awkward but as the night goes on, the mood lightens. During this time, Mike meets Zoe again, Zoe confesses that she was hired by another photographer as his assistant solely so he could try to get with her, despite being married. Mike urges her to come to the convention to regain her smile, after sleeping with Richie, Nancy allows the group to drive her ex-husbands car to Myrtle Beach. When they arrive, they are surprised to see Rome, Rome, after having a change of heart, agrees to be their emcee
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Winter's Tale (film)
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Winters Tale is a 2014 American supernatural fantasy mystery romantic drama film and fable based on the 1983 novel of the same name by Mark Helprin. The film is produced, written and directed by Akiva Goldsman, edited by Wayne Wahrman and Tim Squyres, Winters Tale premiered at London on February 13,2014 and was theatrically released on February 14,2014 in the United States by Warner Bros. The film received negative reviews from critics and was a box office bomb. It also received a Golden Trailer nomination for Best Romance Poster, Winters Tale was released on DVD and Blu-ray on June 24,2014 by Warner Home Video. In 1895, an immigrant couple is refused entry into Manhattan because they have consumption. When their infant son is not allowed entry to the country without them, in 1916, the baby boy has grown up to become Peter Lake, a thief raised by a supernatural demon posing as the gangster Pearly Soames. Peter is marked for death when he decides to leave Pearlys gang, in a confrontation, he is rescued by a mysterious white horse, his guardian angel. Although Peter hopes to move to Florida and come back in the summer, the mansion is the home where Beverly Penn lives, a young woman dying of consumption, whose fever is so high she sleeps outside in a tent in the winter cold. While her publisher father Isaac and younger sister Willa are not home, when Peter assures her that he no longer wishes to commit robbery, Beverly offers to make him a cup of tea. They tell each other their stories and fall in love, Pearly orders his men to Beverly’s home, believing that saving her is Peters miracle and spiritual destiny and that he can destroy Peter by preventing it. Peter rescues Beverly from being knifed by Pearly, and they escape to the Lake of the Coheeries, where Pearly, Peter meets Beverly’s family at their summer home and wins their respect. While on a walk, Beverly explains to Peter that everyone is born with a miracle inside, Pearly asks the devil, Lucifer, for access to the lake home, but his request is denied. Instead, Pearly, who refers to himself as a Knight among Lucifers angels, calls in a debt owed to him by another of Lucifer’s angels, at a ball, the angel disguised as a waiter poisons Beverlys drink. When Peter and Beverly return home from the ball, Peter watches the shadows she casts upon the sides of her tent, joins her. Her pulse races faster than ever due to the poison in her heart, after the funeral, when Peter and his mysterious white Horse return to the city, Pearly and his men surround them on the Brooklyn Bridge. To save its life, Peter orders his mysterious winged Horse to fly away and Pearly gives Peter five vicious head-butts, Peter miraculously survives, but wanders around the city with amnesia for a century, drawing chalk art of a red-headed girl on the pavements. In 2014, the 119 year-old, but physically undiminished Peter bumps into a girl named Abby and meets her mother. He rediscovers the brass plate of the City of Justice
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Dustin Lance Black
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Dustin Lance Black is an American screenwriter, director, film and television producer and LGBT rights activist. He has won a Writers Guild of America Award and an Academy Award for the 2008 film Milk and he was born in Sacramento, California as Dustin Lance Garrison. His father walked out on his mother, Roseanna. Following his mothers marriage to Merrill Durant Black in 1981, he and his brothers were adopted by their stepfather. They grew up in a Mormon household, at first in San Antonio, Texas, growing up surrounded by Mormon culture and military bases, Black worried about his sexuality. When he found himself attracted to a boy in his neighborhood at the age of six or seven, and if I ever admit it, Ill be hurt, and Ill be brought down. He says that his awareness of his sexuality made him dark, shy. He came out in his year of college. Black attended the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Theater, Film and he graduated with honors from UCLAs School of Theater, Film and Television in 1996. In 2000, Black wrote and directed The Journey of Jared Price, a gay film, and Something Close to Heaven. In 2001, he directed and was a subject in the documentary On the Bus about a Nevada road trip, raised as Mormon, he was hired as the only such writer on the HBO drama series Big Love about a polygamous family. He has written for all seasons, serving on one as a staff writer. Black had first visited San Francisco in the early 1990s, while AIDS was devastating the citys gay community, Black said that, Hearing about Harvey was about the only hopeful story there was at the time. He had first viewed Rob Epsteins documentary The Times of Harvey Milk when he was in college, the screenplay was written on spec, but Black showed the script to Jones, who passed it on to his friend Gus Van Sant, who signed on to direct the feature. Black is an old friend of Milk producer Dan Jinks, who signed on to the biopic after he called Black to congratulate him, Blacks film Pedro, profiling the life of AIDS activist and reality television personality Pedro Zamora, premiered at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival. Coming up, Paris Barclay is slated to direct his screenplay A Life Like Mine, Black directed his own script Virginia, starring Jennifer Connelly. On February 22,2009, Black won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for Milk at the 81st Academy Awards and he wore a White Knot to the ceremony as a symbol of solidarity with the marriage equality movement. On October 11,2009, Black marched in the National Equality March, in 2010, Black narrated 8, The Mormon Proposition, a documentary about the involvement of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Californias Proposition 8
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8 (play)
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It was created by Dustin Lance Black in light of the courts denial of a motion to release a video recording of the trial and to give the public a true account of what transpired in the courtroom. The play is written in the style of verbatim theatre reenactment, using transcripts from the trial, journalist records, and media interviews from the plaintiffs, defendants and proponents involved. 8 first premiered on September 19,2011 at the Eugene ONeill Theatre in New York City, a radio adaptation was broadcast on JOY94.9, a GLBTIQ community radio station in Melbourne, Australia, on 27 March 2014. In May 2009, AFER filed a lawsuit, Perry v. Schwarzenegger, the same-sex couples were represented by David Boies and former U. S. Solicitor General Theodore Olson, two high profile attorneys who opposed each other in the U. S. Supreme Court case, the defense presented only two expert witnesses who were willing to testify under oath. David Blankenhorn, who had allowed to testify for the defense, was ultimately judged as lacking the qualifications to offer opinion testimony. During Blankenhorns cross-examination, he identified 23 benefits of adopting same-sex marriage, published on page 203 of his book The Future of Marriage, opponents of same-sex marriage were unable to provide credible evidence proving their claim that same-sex marriage would harm society or the institution of marriage. The following is a list of the cast of characters, along with the actors that portrayed them in the two premieres
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Wilshire Ebell Theatre
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The Ebell of Los Angeles is a womens club housed in a complex in the Mid-City section of Wilshire, Los Angeles, California. It includes a building and the renowned 1, 270-seat Wilshire Ebell Theatre. The complex has been owned and operated since 1927 by the Ebell of Los Angeles womens club, since 1927, the Wilshire Ebell Theatre has hosted musical performances and lectures by world leaders and top artists. Among other events, the Ebell was the site of aviator Amelia Earharts last public appearance before attempting the 1937 around-the-world flight during which she disappeared and it is also the place where Judy Garland was discovered while performing as Baby Frances Gumm in the 1930s. Harriet Williams Russell Strong was a founder of the club, serving as its president for three consecutive terms, the club adopted as its motto, I will find a way or make one -- I serve. Over the years, the group has conducted classes, and hosted lectures and seminars, on topics including psychology, parliamentary law, travel, literature, music, gardening and science. In 1923, the announced plans to build a new clubhouse. The group commissioned architect Sumner P. Hunt of Hunt & Burns to design the new facility, the new facilities consisted of multiple structures covering a site 160 ×450 feet, surrounding a 65 ×120 foot patio area. The new facilities included a new 1, 300-seat auditorium at the rear of the property facing 8th Street, the two-story structure facing Wilshire Boulevard houses the groups clubhouse, including a large lounge, art salon, and dining room. The dining room opens to a tile-roofed colonnade walkway and fountain, the total cost was $200,000 for the site, $650,000 for the entire structure, and $120,000 for the furnishings. Another writer observed, Nowhere in America is there a more magnificent womens club house than the new home of Ebell, every modern convenience and appliance, together with furnishings of the finest quality, are within its walls. It is lavish, but not flamboyantly so and it is practical and it has beauty and inspiring charm. The 1, 300-seat theater is known for its acoustics and its Barton pipe organ, the Los Angeles Times in 2003 described the theater as the grande dame of genteel grace, a cultural centerpiece for Los Angeles, and one of the areas most striking auditoriums. In more than eighty years of productions, the Wilshire Ebell has witnessed performances by stars and celebrities. Young Judy Garland, then known as Baby Frances Gumm, first auditioned on the Wilshire Ebell Theater stage, MGM producer George Sidney later described Garlands first audition this way, I had made Judys first screen test. There was a theater here in Los Angeles called the Wilshire-Ebell, hey used to put on vaudeville acts on certain nights of the week. This little girl came out with her two sisters and her playing the piano. She did a number with a baseball bat
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Perry v. Brown
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Hollingsworth v. Perry refers to a series of United States federal court cases that legalized same-sex marriage in the State of California. The case began in 2009 in the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of California and this decision overturned ballot initiative Proposition 8, which had banned same-sex marriage. After the State of California refused to defend Proposition 8, the sponsors of Proposition 8 intervened and appealed to the Supreme Court. The case was litigated during the governorships of both Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jerry Brown, and was known as Perry v. Schwarzenegger and Perry v. Brown. It eventually reached the United States Supreme Court as Hollingsworth v, the salient effect of the ruling was that same-sex marriage in California resumed under the district court trial decision from 2010. The case was docketed with the Supreme Court at 570 U. S. ___, in May 2008, the California Supreme Court held in the case In re Marriage Cases that state statutes limiting marriage to opposite-sex applicants violated the California Constitution. The following month, same-sex couples were able to marry in California, in November 2008, Californias electorate adopted Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment that restored the opposite-sex limitation on marriage. Following the adoption of Proposition 8, several lawsuits were filed that challenged the validity of the amendment under various state constitutional provisions. On May 26,2009, the California Supreme Court held, in Strauss v. Horton, that Proposition 8 was a lawful enactment, the couples legal team was led by David Boies and former U. S. Solicitor General Theodore Olson, who had opposed each other in Bush v. Gore. They were listed on the 2010 Time 100 for their nonpartisan, Lambda Legal and the American Civil Liberties Union opposed the filing because they felt a federal challenge at this time might do more harm than good. Olson and AFER rebuffed this argument and defended the timing of the lawsuit, following a pre-trial hearing on July 2,2009, the three legal groups moved to intervene in the lawsuit, as did the City of San Francisco in a separate filing. The plaintiffs opposed allowing the groups or the City to intervene, on August 19, Judge Walker denied the legal groups motions to intervene but granted the Citys, albeit in a limited capacity. In May 2009, the Alameda County Clerk-Registrar, Patrick OConnell, denied Kristin Perry, for the same reason, Dean Logan, the Los Angeles County Clerk, denied Paul Katami and Jeffrey Zarrillo a marriage license. The couples sued the two county clerks and several officials, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Attorney General Jerry Brown. Several groups sought to intervene as plaintiffs, including the groups who had prosecuted the In re Marriage Cases, San Francisco also filed a motion to intervene in the case. City Attorney Dennis Herrera said that his office is singularly well-prepared to help put anti-gay discrimination on trial based on the facts, Walker permitted only San Francisco to intervene, as it could speak to the impact of Proposition 8 on local governments. He also ordered the general to assist San Francisco in analyzing Proposition 8s impact
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Proposition 8
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Proposition 8, known informally as Prop 8, was a California ballot proposition and a state constitutional amendment passed in the November 2008 California state elections. Proposition 8 was ultimately ruled unconstitutional by a court in 2010, although the court decision did not go into effect until June 26,2013. The official proponents justifications for the measure were analyzed in over fifty pages covering eighty findings of fact, the state government supported the ruling and refused to defend the law. The ruling was stayed pending appeal by the proponents of the initiative, on February 7,2012, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision, reached the same conclusion as the district court, but on narrower grounds. The court ruled that it was unconstitutional for California to grant marriage rights to same-sex couples, the ruling was stayed pending appeal to the United States Supreme Court. The decision left the district courts 2010 ruling intact, in 2000, the State of California adopted Proposition 22 which, as an ordinary statute, forbade recognition or licensing of same-sex marriages in the state. Proposition 8 was created by opponents of same-sex marriage prior to the ruling on In re Marriage Cases as a voter ballot initiative. The proposition did not affect domestic partnerships in California, nor did it reverse same-sex marriages that had performed during the interim period May to November 2008. Proposition 8 came into effect on November 5,2008. Demonstrations and protests occurred across the state and nation, in Strauss v. Horton, the California Supreme Court upheld Proposition 8, but allowed the existing same-sex marriages to stand. Although upheld in State court, Proposition 8 was ruled unconstitutional by the federal courts, Walker issued a stay against enforcing Proposition 8 and a stay to determine suspension of his ruling pending appeal. The State of California did not appeal the ruling leaving the initiative proponents, the California Supreme Court ruled that they did. This left the federal district court ruling against Proposition 8 as the final outcome. To qualify for the ballot, Proposition 8 needed 694,354 valid petition signatures, the initiative proponents submitted 1,120,801 signatures, and on June 2,2008, the initiative qualified for the November 4,2008 election ballot through the random sample signature check. Proposition 8 consisted of two sections and its full text was, Section I. Section 7.5 is added to the California Constitution, to read, On July 16,2008, the petition asserted the proposition should not be on the ballot on the grounds it was a constitutional revision that only the Legislature or a constitutional convention could place before voters. Opponents also argued that the petitions circulated to qualify the measure for the ballot inaccurately summarized its effect, the court denied the petition without comment. As a general rule, it is improper for courts to adjudicate pre-election challenges to a measures substantive validity and they also declared that the same-sex marriages performed prior to the passing of Prop 8 would remain valid
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Spring, Texas
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Spring is a census-designated place within the extraterritorial jurisdiction of Houston in Harris County, Texas, United States, part of the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area. The population was 54,298 at the 2010 census, the large geographic area now known as Spring was originally inhabited by the Orcoquiza Native Americans. In 1836, the Texas General Council of the Provisional Government placed what is now the town of Spring in the Harrisburg municipality, in 1838, William Pierpont placed a trading post on Spring Creek. In 1840, the town of Spring had 153 residents, by the mid-1840s, many German immigrants, including Gus Bayer and Carl Wunsche, moved to the area and began farming. People from Louisiana and other parts of the post-Civil War Southern U. S. settled in Spring, the main cash crops in Spring were sugar cane and cotton, area residents also grew vegetables. In 1871, the International and Great Northern Railroad, built through Spring, opened, in 1873, Spring received a post office. By 1884, Spring had 150 residents, two steam saw and grist mills, two gins, three churches, and several schools. In 1901–1903, the International-Great Northern Railroad opened, connecting Spring to Fort Worth, Spring, now with a roundhouse, became a switchyard with 200 rail workers and fourteen trackyards. The population increased to 1,200 by 1910, the Spring State Bank opened in 1912. In 1923, the relocated to Houston, causing Spring to enter a decline, by 1931. The bank was robbed several times in the 1930s, it was stated that Bonnie, the bank consolidated with Tomball Bank in 1935. By 1947, Spring had 700 residents, in the 1970s, Houstons suburbs began to expand to the north, and more subdivisions and residential areas opened in the Spring area. Some older houses in the town of Spring received restorations and housed shops, the Old Town Spring Association opened in 1980 to promote the Old Town Spring shopping area, which consists of the restored houses. In 1984 and 1989, the Spring area had 15,000 residents, by 1989, Old Town Spring became a tourist area. In 1990, the Spring area had 33,111 residents, from 1969 to 1992, the Goodyear airship America was based in Spring from its large hangar visible just off Interstate 45. Takeoffs and landings were an attraction and motorists continually pulled off to the interstates shoulders to watch. In 1992 the America was moved to Akron, Ohio, in 2016, the hangars concrete foundation was still visible at the intersection of Holzwarth Road and Meadow Edge Lane west of Lowes Home Improvement Center. The 1992 Log Cabin Republicans convention was held in Spring, Spring is located at 30°3′15″N 95°23′13″W
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Houston
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Houston is the most populous city in the state of Texas and the fourth-most populous city in the United States. With a census-estimated 2014 population of 2.239 million within an area of 667 square miles, it also is the largest city in the southern United States and the seat of Harris County. Located in Southeast Texas near the Gulf of Mexico, it is the city of Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land. Houston was founded on August 28,1836, near the banks of Buffalo Bayou and incorporated as a city on June 5,1837. The city was named after former General Sam Houston, who was president of the Republic of Texas and had commanded, the burgeoning port and railroad industry, combined with oil discovery in 1901, has induced continual surges in the citys population. Houstons economy has an industrial base in energy, manufacturing, aeronautics. Leading in health care sectors and building equipment, Houston has more Fortune 500 headquarters within its city limits than any city except for New York City. The Port of Houston ranks first in the United States in international waterborne tonnage handled, the city has a population from various ethnic and religious backgrounds and a large and growing international community. Houston is the most diverse city in Texas and has described as the most diverse in the United States. It is home to cultural institutions and exhibits, which attract more than 7 million visitors a year to the Museum District. Houston has a visual and performing arts scene in the Theater District. In August 1836, two real estate entrepreneurs from New York, Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen, purchased 6,642 acres of land along Buffalo Bayou with the intent of founding a city. The Allen brothers decided to name the city after Sam Houston, the general at the Battle of San Jacinto. The great majority of slaves in Texas came with their owners from the slave states. Sizable numbers, however, came through the slave trade. New Orleans was the center of trade in the Deep South. Thousands of enslaved African Americans lived near the city before the Civil War, many of them near the city worked on sugar and cotton plantations, while most of those in the city limits had domestic and artisan jobs. Houston was granted incorporation on June 5,1837, with James S. Holman becoming its first mayor, in the same year, Houston became the county seat of Harrisburg County and the temporary capital of the Republic of Texas
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Klein High School
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Klein High School is a public high school located in Klein, Texas, United States, located approximately 30 miles from Downtown Houston. It serves grades 9-12 in the Klein Independent School District, as of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 3,885 students and 228.7 classroom teachers, for a student–teacher ratio of 17.0,1. There were 847 students eligible for free lunch and 240 eligible for reduced-cost lunch, in July 1928, five common school districts in the area were consolidated into Rural High School District Number One. The new districts high school building was located at what is now 7200 Spring-Cypress Road and this building is now behind the districts central office building. In 1938, Rural High School District Number One became Klein Independent School District, the high school moved to its current location in 1963. The old main building of Klein High School was demolished in 2010 to make way for construction of a new facility that will replace all existing buildings. All construction was completed by December 2014, plans for the new campus are online. Klein was the first high school established in the Klein Independent School District and it is accredited by the Texas Education Agency and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. 93% of the 2006 graduating class planned on attending college, receiving over $7 million in college scholarships, Klein High School competes in district 15-6A along with Klein Oak, Klein Collins, and Klein Forest. The 2007 NCA National Championship was preceded by a title at the Texas Lone Star Classic. The cheerleading team has earned six National Titles at the NCA competition in the last 19 years including Grand Champions in 2000, the Klein High School full orchestra was named the Texas Music Educators Association honor orchestra for 2007-2008, the fourth time that the full orchestra was honored. It won similar honors in 1998,2001, and 2003, in 2016-17, the school was chosen as the string honor orchestra. The Wind Symphony was one of five National Wind Band winner in 2008 in Class AAAAA, in 2010, a Klein junior varsity team finished first at the Harvard National Debate Tournament. Official website GreatSchools - Klein High School
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Lee Pace
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Lee Grinner Pace is an American actor. Pace has been featured in film, stage and television and he currently stars as protagonist Joe MacMillan in AMCs Halt and Catch Fire. He also played Roy Walker/the Masked Bandit in the 2006 film The Fall and he has appeared in film series, including The Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn – Part 2 as Garrett and The Hobbit trilogy as Thranduil. Pace was born in Chickasha, Oklahoma, the son of Charlotte, a schoolteacher, and James Roy Pace and he has two siblings, a sister named Sally and a younger brother named Willam Pace. As a child, Pace spent several years in Saudi Arabia, where his father worked in the oil business, Pace attended Klein High School in Spring, Texas, a suburb of Houston, with future fellow actor Matt Bomer. Pace temporarily quit high school to act at Houstons Alley Theatre before returning to graduate, at the Alley, he appeared in productions of The Spiders Web and The Greeks. In 1997, Pace was accepted by the Juilliard Schools Drama Division as a member of Group 30, while there, he acted in several plays, including Romeo and Juliet as Romeo, Richard III in the title role, and Julius Caesar as Cassius. He graduated from Juilliard with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, after graduation, Pace starred in several off-Broadway plays, including The Credeaux Canvas and The Fourth Sister. He also starred in a production of Craig Lucass Small Tragedy, in 2006, Pace starred in the two-character play Guardians by Peter Morris, which earned Pace his second nomination for a Lortel Award as Outstanding Actor. April 19,2011 marked Paces Broadway debut, when The Normal Heart began its previews, the show ran for a total of 96 performances, with its closing night on July 10,2011. Pace played the character Bruce Niles in the show, Pace has been cast as composer Vincenzo Bellini in Golden Age, which began previews November 15,2012. The play, written by Terrence McNally, began its run at the Manhattan Theatre Club December 4,2012. The previews were scheduled for November 13,2012 but two shows were cancelled as a result of Hurricane Sandy. Pace first gained recognition for his role in the 2003 film Soldier’s Girl, based on real events, in which he played the central role of Calpernia Addams. Of the role, Pace has said Not even my excellent training at Juilliard prepared me for my first movie role, here I was, this 6′3″,190 pound, lanky kid from Chickasha, Oklahoma, not knowing how to begin being a woman. So I saw documentaries about transsexuals, I lost twenty-five pounds, there were times I’d look in the mirror and wonder, ‘What am I doing to my life here. My dad is going to kill me. ’ But the reason I went into acting was to be able to play parts as complicated, in playing a transsexual, I got the chance to help change people’s perspective about other people, and that is a powerful thing. I’m playing a swashbuckling bandit in my film, but I’ll always be proud of Soldier’s Girl ”
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Alley Theatre
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Not to be confused with the Alley Theatre in Northern Ireland. The Alley Theatre is a Tony Award-winning indoor theatre in Downtown Houston, Texas, the Hubbard is the main stage with seating for 774, the more intimate Neuhaus seats 310. Nine towers and open-air terraces give the Alley Theatre a castle-like quality, inside, a staircase spirals from the entrance vestibule to the second-floor lobby. A wide variety of plays have been performed in this theater, the Alley Theatre is one of the three oldest resident theatres in the United States. Under the leadership of Nina Eloise Whittington Vance, the Alley Theatre first started in a dance studio with an opening on Main Street. A brick corridor led from Main to the back of the studio, hence the name Alley Theatre. ”In 1948, early paying members scouted Houston for a new location for the Alley, finally landing on an abandoned fan factory on Berry Avenue. The Alley re-opened on February 8,1949, with a production of Lillian Helman’s The Children’s Hour, in 1954, Ms. Vance brought in Albert Dekker to ‘guest-star’ in Death of a Salesman. The Alley then became a fully professional/Equity company, the Alley Theatre was invited by the United States State Department to represent the American Regional Theatre at the Brussels World’s Fair in 1958. In 1962, the Houston Endowment gifted land worth $800,000, in the summer of 1963, the theatre raised more than $900,000 from Houstonians. These funds helped the theatre grow from its modest beginnings into one of the most prestigious non-profit resident theatres in the United States. Paul Zindels The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds was staged at the Alley in 1964, in 1996, the Alley Theatre won the Regional Theatre Tony Award and has toured 40 American cities and abroad. And is regarded as “one of the most respected resident companies in the country and this marked the first time a Russian had been invited to the U. S. to recreate a play precisely as it appeared in the Soviet Union. The Alley is currently led by Artistic Director Gregory Boyd and Managing Director Dean R. Gladden, the opening of the new home of the Alley Theatre in November 1968 was a nationally chronicled event. It has two stages – the Hubbard Stage, which has 824 seats, and the more intimate Neuhaus Stage, which has 310 seats. The Alley’s building at 615 Texas Ave. was designed by Ulrich Franzen, who, along with Ms. Vance, wanted to create “a building that sings from any viewpoint. ”The theatre building has no right angles but does have wide bands and terraces and is “reminiscent of Frank Lloyd Wright’s buildings. ”Franzen selected the concrete exterior because he was inspired by Houston’s location and the warm weather of the Southwest. There are three triangles in the building and “the curves cling to and move around the triangles. ”Franzen designed the Alley in what is known as the Brutalist style that was popular from the 1950s through the mid-1970s. The term “brutalism” was coined in 1953 and comes from the French béton brut meaning raw concrete. ”Concrete is the material most widely associated with Brutalist architecture. Of the Brutalist theatres built in the 1960s, including the Vivian Beaumont at Lincoln Center, in 1994, the Alley Theatre was chosen to receive the Twenty-Five Year Award by the American Institute of Architects/Houston, which recognizes distinguished architecture of lasting quality
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Theatre company
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The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music, and dance. Elements of art, such as painted scenery and stagecraft such as lighting are used to enhance the physicality, presence, the specific place of the performance is also named by the word theatre as derived from the Ancient Greek θέατρον, itself from θεάομαι. Modern theatre, broadly defined, includes performances of plays and musical theatre, there are connections between theatre and the art forms of ballet, opera and various other forms. The city-state of Athens is where western theatre originated, participation in the city-states many festivals—and mandatory attendance at the City Dionysia as an audience member in particular—was an important part of citizenship. The Greeks also developed the concepts of dramatic criticism and theatre architecture, Actors were either amateur or at best semi-professional. The theatre of ancient Greece consisted of three types of drama, tragedy, comedy, and the satyr play, the origins of theatre in ancient Greece, according to Aristotle, the first theoretician of theatre, are to be found in the festivals that honoured Dionysus. The performances were given in semi-circular auditoria cut into hillsides, capable of seating 10, the stage consisted of a dancing floor, dressing room and scene-building area. Since the words were the most important part, good acoustics, the actors wore masks appropriate to the characters they represented, and each might play several parts. Athenian tragedy—the oldest surviving form of tragedy—is a type of dance-drama that formed an important part of the culture of the city-state. Having emerged sometime during the 6th century BCE, it flowered during the 5th century BCE, no tragedies from the 6th century BCE and only 32 of the more than a thousand that were performed in during the 5th century BCE have survived. We have complete texts extant by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the origins of tragedy remain obscure, though by the 5th century BCE it was institution alised in competitions held as part of festivities celebrating Dionysus. As contestants in the City Dionysias competition playwrights were required to present a tetralogy of plays, the performance of tragedies at the City Dionysia may have begun as early as 534 BCE, official records begin from 501 BCE, when the satyr play was introduced. More than 130 years later, the philosopher Aristotle analysed 5th-century Athenian tragedy in the oldest surviving work of dramatic theory—his Poetics, Athenian comedy is conventionally divided into three periods, Old Comedy, Middle Comedy, and New Comedy. Old Comedy survives today largely in the form of the surviving plays of Aristophanes. New Comedy is known primarily from the papyrus fragments of Menander. Aristotle defined comedy as a representation of people that involves some kind of blunder or ugliness that does not cause pain or disaster. In addition to the categories of comedy and tragedy at the City Dionysia, finding its origins in rural, agricultural rituals dedicated to Dionysus, the satyr play eventually found its way to Athens in its most well-known form. Satyrs themselves were tied to the god Dionysus as his loyal companions, often engaging in drunken revelry
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Pittsburgh is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States, and is the county seat of Allegheny County. The city proper has a population of 304,391. The metropolitan population of 2,353,045 is the largest in both the Ohio Valley and Appalachia, the second-largest in Pennsylvania, and the 26th-largest in the U. S. The city features 30 skyscrapers, two inclines, a fortification and the Point State Park at the confluence of the rivers. Aside from steel, Pittsburgh has led in manufacturing of aluminum, glass, shipbuilding, petroleum, foods, sports, transportation, computing, autos, and electronics. For part of the 20th century, Pittsburgh was behind only New York and Chicago in corporate headquarters employment, Americas 1980s deindustrialization laid off area blue-collar workers and thousands of downtown white-collar workers when the longtime Pittsburgh-based world headquarters moved out. The area has served also as the federal agency headquarters for cyber defense, software engineering, robotics, energy research. The area is home to 68 colleges and universities, including research and development leaders Carnegie Mellon University, the region is a hub for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, sustainable energy, and energy extraction. Pittsburgh was named in 1758 by General John Forbes, in honor of British statesman William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham. The current pronunciation, which is unusual in English speaking countries, is almost certainly a result of a printing error in some copies of the City Charter of March 18,1816. The error was repeated commonly enough throughout the rest of the 19th century that the pronunciation was lost. After a public campaign the original spelling was restored by the United States Board on Geographic Names in 1911. The area of the Ohio headwaters was long inhabited by the Shawnee, the first known European to enter the region was the French explorer/trader Robert de La Salle from Quebec during his 1669 expedition down the Ohio River. European pioneers, primarily Dutch, followed in the early 18th century, Michael Bezallion was the first to describe the forks of the Ohio in a 1717 manuscript, and later that year European fur traders established area posts and settlements. In 1749, French soldiers from Quebec launched an expedition to the forks to unite Canada with French Louisiana via the rivers, during 1753–54, the British hastily built Fort Prince George before a larger French force drove them off. The French built Fort Duquesne based on LaSalles 1669 claims, the French and Indian War, the North American front of the Seven Years War, began with the future Pittsburgh as its center. British General Edward Braddock was dispatched with Major George Washington as his aide to take Fort Duquesne, the British and colonial force were defeated at Braddocks Field. General John Forbes finally took the forks in 1758, Forbes began construction on Fort Pitt, named after William Pitt the Elder while the settlement was named Pittsborough
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New York City
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The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over an area of about 302.6 square miles. Located at the tip of the state of New York. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has described as the cultural and financial capital of the world. Situated on one of the worlds largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, the five boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island – were consolidated into a single city in 1898. In 2013, the MSA produced a gross metropolitan product of nearly US$1.39 trillion, in 2012, the CSA generated a GMP of over US$1.55 trillion. NYCs MSA and CSA GDP are higher than all but 11 and 12 countries, New York City traces its origin to its 1624 founding in Lower Manhattan as a trading post by colonists of the Dutch Republic and was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The city and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. It has been the countrys largest city since 1790, the Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a symbol of the United States and its democracy. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. Several sources have ranked New York the most photographed city in the world, the names of many of the citys bridges, tapered skyscrapers, and parks are known around the world. Manhattans real estate market is among the most expensive in the world, Manhattans Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere, with multiple signature Chinatowns developing across the city. Providing continuous 24/7 service, the New York City Subway is one of the most extensive metro systems worldwide, with 472 stations in operation. Over 120 colleges and universities are located in New York City, including Columbia University, New York University, and Rockefeller University, during the Wisconsinan glaciation, the New York City region was situated at the edge of a large ice sheet over 1,000 feet in depth. The ice sheet scraped away large amounts of soil, leaving the bedrock that serves as the foundation for much of New York City today. Later on, movement of the ice sheet would contribute to the separation of what are now Long Island and Staten Island. The first documented visit by a European was in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzano, a Florentine explorer in the service of the French crown and he claimed the area for France and named it Nouvelle Angoulême. Heavy ice kept him from further exploration, and he returned to Spain in August and he proceeded to sail up what the Dutch would name the North River, named first by Hudson as the Mauritius after Maurice, Prince of Orange
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All My Children
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Created by Agnes Nixon, All My Children is set in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, a fictional suburb of Philadelphia, which is modeled on the actual Philadelphia suburb of Rosemont. The original series featured Susan Lucci as Erica Kane, one of daytimes most popular characters, the title of the series refers to the bonds of humanity. All My Children was the first new network daytime drama to debut in the 1970s, originally owned by Creative Horizons, Inc. the company created by Nixon and her husband, Bob, the show was sold to ABC in January 1975. The series started at a half-hour in per-installment length, then was expanded to an hour on April 25,1977. Earlier, the show had experimented with the format for one week starting on June 30,1975. From 1970 to 1990, All My Children was recorded at ABCs TV18 at 101 West 67th St, from March 1990 to December 2009, it was taped at ABCs Studio TV23 at 320 West 66th Street in Manhattan, New York City, New York. In December 2009, the locale for taping the series moved from Manhattan to less costly Los Angeles, California. The show was produced in Stages 1 and 2 at the Andrita Studios in Los Angeles, California from 2010 to 2011. All My Children started taping in high definition on January 4,2010, All My Children became the third soap opera to be produced and broadcast in high definition. At one point, the programs popularity positioned it as the most widely recorded television show in the United States, also, in a departure from societal norms at the time, All My Children, in the mid-1970s, had an audience that was estimated to be 30% male. The show ranked No.1 in the daytime Nielsen ratings in the 1978–79 season, throughout most of the 1980s and into the early 1990s, All My Children was the No.2 daytime soap opera on the air. However, like the rest of the operas in the United States. By the 2010s, it had one of the least watched soap operas in daytime television. On April 14,2011, it was announced that ABC canceled All My Children after 41 years on the air due to low ratings. On July 7,2011, ABC sold the rights of All My Children to third-party production company Prospect Park with the show set to continue on the internet as a series of webisodes. The show taped its final scenes for ABC on August 30,2011, on September 26,2011, the following Monday, ABC replaced All My Children with a newly debuted talk show The Chew. Prospect Park had suspended its plan to revive the series on November 23,2011, due to lack of funding and unsuccessful negotiation with the organizations representing the actors. On January 7,2013, Prospect Park officially brought back its project to restore All My Children as a web series
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Eliza Dushku
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Eliza Patricia Dushku is an American actress and model known for her television roles, including starring as Faith on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spinoff series Angel. She starred in two Fox series, Tru Calling and Dollhouse. She is also known for her roles in films, including True Lies, The New Guy, Bring It On, Wrong Turn and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Dushkus father is an Albanian from the city of Korçë and her mother is of Danish and English descent. Dushku has three brothers, and was raised Mormon and she attended Beaver Country Day School in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, and graduated from Watertown High School. Dushku came to the attention of casting agents when she was 10 and she was chosen in a five-month search for the lead role of Alice in the film That Night. In 1993, Dushku landed a role as Pearl alongside Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio in This Boys Life, the following year, she played the teenage daughter of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis in True Lies. She had parts as Paul Reisers daughter in Bye Bye Love, as Cindy Johnson in Race the Sun, and roles in the television movie Journey and the short film Fishing with George. After reading the script, Dushku rushed to a local Claires to purchase dark makeup and other accessories for the part. When she began her work on series, Dushku was still a minor. After completing high school, Dushku returned to acting with the role of Faith Lehane on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, repentant and rededicated, Faith returned as a heroine in other episodes of Angel and in the last five episodes of Buffy. Dushku was inundated with piles of fan mail from legions of prisoners and she said, Ive been getting fan mail from maximum security penitentiaries and death row. What are the authorities thinking of in playing a show with young girls to Death Row inmates. They write everything – disgusting things that you dont even want to know about. And they send me pictures – Oh, heres a picture of me before I was incarcerated. – and theres some guy sat on the sofa with a bottle of beer and a moustache, in 2000, Dushku starred in the hit cheerleader comedy Bring It On. She followed that up with Soul Survivors, reuniting her with Race the Sun co-star Casey Affleck, in 2001, she appeared in The New Guy with DJ Qualls and City by the Sea with Robert De Niro and James Franco. The latter film garnered attention from a adult audience and several good reviews. The same year, Kevin Smith invited Dushku to be a part of Jay, in 2003, Dushku starred in the horror film Wrong Turn and The Kiss, an independent comedy-drama. Starting that same year, she starred in a new Fox supernatural drama, Tru Calling, Dushku turned down a role in a spin-off of Buffy The Vampire Slayer which would have been about Faith
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Tru Calling
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Tru Calling is an American television supernatural drama series that aired on Fox. Original episodes aired between October 30,2003, and March 11,2005, however, the episode was shown in other territories before it was aired in the U. S. due to lower than anticipated ratings. The show starred Eliza Dushku as Tru Davies, a medical school student who takes a job at the city morgue when her internship falls through. When the corpse of a woman seems to awaken and asks for her help. Over the course of the series, Tru struggles to keep her secret, juggle her responsibilities with her personal life. Created by Jon Harmon Feldman, the show was produced by Original Film, Oh That Gus. Inc. the show starred Eliza Dushku as Tru Davies, a medical school student who takes a job at the city morgue when her internship at a local hospital falls through. On her first night, the corpse of a woman seems to awaken and ask for her help. Over the course of the series, Tru struggles to keep her secret, juggle her responsibilities with her personal life. Tru keeps her secret from her boyfriends, as well as her sister Meredith, Eliza Dushku as Tru Davies Shawn Reaves as Harrison Davies Zach Galifianakis as Davis A. J. The series was canceled in 2005, due to low ratings, although initially highly antagonistic to Jack, Tru invites him to a Christmas party with her, hinting he may in time become an ally against her father, Richard. Dr. Jack, talking to Trus father, hints he is intent on killing Jensen. Proposed storylines included, Trus boyfriend Jensen becoming more and more fascinated by death after her narrowly saving his life when he was fated to die. He would eventually become a killer and she would be forced to ask Jack for help in killing him to stop his reign of terror. Jack and Trus father would cite this as justification for them stopping Tru from saving people, Harrison would discover that his father is in league with Jack but is torn in deciding whose side to take, given what happened to Trus boyfriend. Daviss fake girlfriend Dr. Carrie Allen, arranged by Jack and Richard to divide him from Tru, begins to care for him. However, he discovers that she really did kill her violent and abusive husband, Davis also discovers that Trus mother was supposed to be her mentor like Richard is to Jack but, with her dead, he now takes the role. Jack and Tru would become involved in a siege in which Jack. The last corpse to ask for Trus help is that of her 12-year-old half sister, Tru succeeds in saving her, and when Jack attempts to stop her, he is killed by Trus father, who cannot bear to let his youngest child die, whatever else he believes
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Supernatural
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One complicating factor is that there is disagreement about the definition of natural and the limits of naturalism. Concepts in the domain are closely related to concepts in religious spirituality. Sometimes we understand by nature the established course of things, as when we say that nature makes the night succeed the day, nature hath made respiration necessary to the life of men. Sometimes we take nature for the universe, or system of the works of God, as when it is said of a phoenix, or a chimera. And sometimes too, and that most commonly, we would express by nature a semi-deity or other kind of being. Parapsychologists use the term psi to refer to a unitary force underlying the phenomena they study. Views on the supernatural vary, for example it may be seen as, from this perspective, some events occur according to the laws of nature, and others occur according to a separate set of principles external to known nature. For example, in Scholasticism, it was believed that God was capable of performing any miracle so long as it didnt lead to a logical contradiction, others believe that all events have natural and only natural causes. They believe that human beings ascribe supernatural attributes to purely natural events, such as lightning, rainbows, floods, the supernatural is a feature of the philosophical traditions of Neoplatonism and Scholasticism. In contrast, the philosophy of Metaphysical naturalism argues for the conclusion that there are no supernatural entities, objects, most religions include elements of belief in the supernatural while also often featuring prominently in the study of the paranormal and occultism. Process theology is a school of thought influenced by the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. It is not possible, in process metaphysics, to conceive divine activity as an intervention into the “natural” order of events. Process theists usually regard the distinction between the supernatural and the natural as a by-product of the doctrine of creation ex nihilo, in process thought, there is no such thing as a realm of the natural in contrast to that which is supernatural. On the other hand, if “the natural” is defined more neutrally as “what is in the nature of things, in Whiteheads words, “It lies in the nature of things that the many enter into complex unity”. It is tempting to emphasize process theisms denial of the supernatural, dreams as a Source of Supernatural Agent Concepts. Riekki T, Lindeman M, Raij T. T, Supernatural Believers Attribute More Intentions to Random Movement than Skeptics, An fMRI Study. CS1 maint, Multiple names, authors list Purzycki Benjamin G, the Minds of Gods, A Comparative Study of Supernatural Agency. Unresolved Mourning, Supernatural Beliefs and Dissociation, A Mediation Analysis, vail K. E, Arndt J, Addollahi A
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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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Fox Broadcasting Company
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The Fox Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is owned by the Fox Entertainment Group subsidiary of 21st Century Fox. It is the third largest major network in the world based on total revenues, assets. Launched on October 9,1986 as a competitor to the Big Three television networks, Fox and its affiliated companies operate many entertainment channels in international markets, although these do not necessarily air the same programming as the U. S. network. Most viewers in Canada have access to at least one U. S, the network is named after sister company 20th Century Fox, and indirectly for producer William Fox, who founded one of the movie studios predecessors, Fox Film. Fox is a member of the North American Broadcasters Association and the National Association of Broadcasters, 20th Century Fox had been involved in television production as early as the 1950s, producing several syndicated programs. Following the demise of the DuMont Television Network in August of that year after it became mired in financial problems. 20th Century Fox would also produce original content for the NTA network, KTTV in Los Angeles, KRIV in Houston, WFLD-TV in Chicago, and KRLD-TV in Dallas. In October 1985, 20th Century Fox announced its intentions to form a television network that would compete with ABC, CBS. The plans were to use the combination of the Fox studios, organizational plans for the network were held off until the Metromedia acquisitions cleared regulatory hurdles. Then, in December 1985, Rupert Murdoch agreed to pay $325 million to acquire the remaining equity in TCF Holdings from his original partner, Marvin Davis. These first six stations, then broadcasting to a reach of 22% of the nations households. Except for KDAF, all of the original owned-and-operated stations are part of the Fox network today. Like the core O&O group, Foxs affiliate body consisted of independent stations. The Fox Broadcasting Company launched at 11,00 p. m. Eastern and its inaugural program was a late-night talk show, The Late Show, which was hosted by comedian Joan Rivers. By early 1987, Rivers quit The Late Show after disagreements with the network over the creative direction. The network expanded its programming into prime time on April 5,1987, with Children and the sketch comedy series The Tracey Ullman Show. Fox added one new show per week over the several weeks, with the drama 21 Jump Street. On July 11, the network rolled out its Saturday night schedule with the premiere of the drama series Werewolf
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North Shore (TV series)
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North Shore is an American prime-time soap opera that aired on Fox every Monday at 8 p. m. EST for seven months in 2004 and 2005. It centered on the staff and guests of the fictional Grand Waimea Hotel, from Foxs website, Intrigue abounds at the Grand Waimea Hotel, an exclusive Hawaiian escape for the wealthy, powerful and beautiful. Hawaiian native Jason Matthews runs the hotel and makes sure every guest gets everything they need, but when former flame Nicole Booth arrives as the hotels new Director of Guest Relations, Jasons world is turned upside down. But Grand Waimea owner, Vincent Colville, is staying on top of him to make sure his past with Nicole wont affect their work life, North Shore premiered on June 14,2004, with a 13-episode commitment from Fox. The show was canceled in January 2005 after a 21-episode, single-season run, the show ended on a cliffhanger, and the final episode of the series has only had a single airing, not being shown in most territories. But most of the time, North Shore plays like a hybrid of Baywatch. The danger of this type of drama is if you have to turn off your brain to watch it, – The Salt Lake Tribune North Shore the new undisputed king of the bad and the beautiful. Has a secret weapon, bathing suits and this show is an excuse to see sexy, half-naked people on your television set once a week. Mute the dialogue and you’ll double your pleasure, – The Washington Blade The central character is Jason Matthews, General Manager of the Grand Waimea. In the first episode, Nicole Booth is hired as the new Director of Guest Relations and she is the daughter of a ruthless Trump-like billionaire, and an old flame of Jasons who broke his heart years before. The chances for rekindled romance are then dashed when Nicole reveals she has engaged since they broke up. Later in the series, Nicole told Jason that she returned to Hawaii to seek him out before getting married, the final episode has Jason and Nicole being married. However, in a cliffhanger, Jason is killed in a car explosion meant for Vincent. Vincent Colville, the owner, he was in love with Nicoles mother before her family forced her to marry Walter Booth. Gabriel McKay, a lifeguard, in three it was mentioned that he is planning to turn pro as a surfer. He does end up turning pro, with varying degrees of success, MJ Bevans, a waitress at the hotel bar, she is trying to start her own island clothing line. She starts the show in a relationship with Chris, but they end up breaking up, however, they get back together by the end of the show/season. Chris Remsen, MJs nascent boyfriend and proprietor of a sports business
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Prime time
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Prime time or peak time is the block of broadcast programming taking place during the middle of the evening for television programming. The term prime time is defined in terms of a fixed time period – for example. In Chinese television, the 19, 00-to-22,00 time slot is known as Golden Time, the term also influenced a nickname of a strip of holidays in known as Golden Week. Prime time here usually takes place from 19,00 until 22,00, after that, programs classified as “PG” are allowed to be broadcast. Frontline dramas appear during this time slot in Cantonese, as well as movies in English, in India, prime time occurs between 20,00 and 22,30. Prime time usually takes place from 18,00 to 23,00 WIB, after prime time, programs classified as Adult, as well as cigarette commercials, are allowed to be broadcast. Like another Muslim-majority country, there is also a prime time during sahur time in a month of Ramadan. It takes place from 02,00 and ends at the Fajr prayer call, the time slot is usually filled with comedy and religious programming. In Iraq, prime time runs from 20,00 to 23,00, the main news programs are broadcast at 20,00 and the highest-rated television program airs at 21,00. In Japanese television, the 19, 00-to-22,00 time slot is known as Golden Time. The term also influenced a nickname of a strip of holidays in known as Golden Week, malaysian prime time starts with the main news from 20,00 to 20,30 and ends either at 23,00 or 0,30, or possibly late. Usually, programmes during prime time are domestic dramas, foreign series, movies. Programmes that classify as 18 are not allowed to be broadcast before 10,00 p. m. but on RTM, however, programmes broadcast after 23,00 are still considered prime time. As of December 2010, NTV7s prime time continues until 12,00 a. m, programmes during prime time may have longer commercial breaks due to number of viewers. Some domestic prime time productions may be affected because of major sporting events such as FIFA World Cup. However, only FIFA World Cup in the Americas did not affect the domestic prime time programmes, in the Philippines, prime time blocks begin at 18,00 and run until about 23,00 on weekdays, and 19,00 to 23,00 on weekends. The weekday prime time blocks usually consists of local teleseryes and foreign television series, the networks highest-rated programs are usually aired right after the evening newscast at 20,00, while a foreign series usually precedes the late night newscast. On weekends, non-scripted programming such as talent shows, reality shows, for the minor networks, prime time consists of American television series on weekdays, with encores of those shows on weekends
