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Michael Bean
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Michael Bean is a Canadian actor, author, acting coach, and the founder of Biz Studio. Bean has been acting since elementary school, as an arts school was built two blocks from his house when he was in the fourth grade. He graduated from the Langley Fine Arts School in 1995, Bean is an actor, author, acting school owner, and acting coach. He has appeared in a range of roles in television. He has also appeared in a few productions, including, Proof, Shady Business, Bash Plays, Hard Times Hit Parade. And is the author of Confidence on Camera, A Handbook for Young Actors”, Bean has been appearing in film since 2006. His film credits include, Festival, Canes, Breakup. com, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Jennifers Body, Love Happens, The Big Year, and Dead Rising, Watchtower. Located in Vancouver, Canadas Beatty St. studios, Biz Studio has grown to now include four additional instructors who are overseen by Bean and they teach classes for three different age groupings and has seen many of their students go on to perform in film, television and commercials. Alumni of Biz Studio include Brett Kelly, Montana Hunter, Megan Charpentier, Haley Hunt, one goal for Biz Studio is to demand the highest level of performance from our students, while still encouraging their love of acting by balancing discipline with fun. We are passionate about good acting, official website Michael Bean at the Internet Movie Database
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Michael Been
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Michael Kenneth Been was an American rock musician who achieved critical attention and rotation play on MTV in the 1980s with his band The Call. He later released an album of his work and toured with his sons band Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. His song Let the Day Begin was the campaign song of Al Gores 2000 U. S. presidential campaign. Born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Been later lived in Park Forest, south of Chicago, after graduation, he moved to Chicago, where he was a member of the band Aorta at the time of their second album Aorta 2, in 1970. He then joined Lovecraft, the band to the psychedelic rock group H. P. He also played with former Moby Grape members Jerry Miller and Bob Mosley in the band Fine Wine, been formed his band The Call in the 1970s in Northern California with Tom Ferrier on guitar, bassist Greg Freeman and drummer Scott Musick. Motion Pictures aka the Call were discovered by Tulsas Phil Seymour and they released a self-titled album in 1982 with Mercury Records. The bands 1983 album Modern Romans led to a tour opening for Peter Gabriel. Been participated in composing and performing the music to Paul Schraders 1992 film Light Sleeper, the film also features two of his songs, To Feel This Way and World On Fire. In 1994, he recorded an album, On the Verge of a Nervous Breakthrough. Been appeared as a sideman in bands fronted by actor Harry Dean Stanton, Stanton having played harmonica on Let the Day Begin track and he played the apostle John in Martin Scorseses 1988 feature film The Last Temptation of Christ and had some film credits. Beens son, Robert Levon Been, is the frontman for Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Michael Been was heavily involved in BRMC as their sound engineer and toured with them. Been died at the age of 60 on August 19,2010, in Hasselt, Belgium, Light Sleeper On the Verge of a Nervous Breakthrough Michael Been at the Internet Movie Database Michael Been memorial page via The Call official site
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San Diego Comic-Con
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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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Anniston, Alabama
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Anniston is a city in Calhoun County in the state of Alabama. As of the 2010 census, the population of the city was 23,106, according to the 2013 Census Estimates, the city had a population of 22,666. The city is the county seat of Calhoun County and one of two urban centers/principal cities of and included in the Anniston-Oxford Metropolitan Statistical Area. Named The Model City by Atlanta newspaperman Henry W. Grady for its planning in the late 19th century. Though the surrounding area was settled earlier, the mineral resources in the area of Anniston were not exploited until the Civil War. The Confederate States of America then operated a furnace near present-day downtown Anniston. Later, cast iron for sewer systems became the focus of Annistons industrial output, cast iron pipe, also called soil pipe, was popular until the advent of plastic pipe in the 1960s. The Union troops who destroyed the furnace wrongfully hanged one of the few residents, farmer Charles Lloyd. Lloyd, who farmed land in what is now Anniston west of Noble Street, was executed on the orders of Union General John Croxton for allegedly bushwhacking a Union cavalryman. In fact, the Union horse soldier had killed by a legitimate Confederate soldier who had been defending the furnace. As the shooting happened near Lloyds farm, Croxton mistakenly placed the blamed on Lloyd, in 1872, the Woodstock Iron Company, organized by Samuel Noble and Union Gen. Tyler. This was soon changed to Anniston, Anniston was chartered as a town in 1873. Though the roots of the economy were in iron, steel and pipe clay, planners touted it as a health resort. Schools also appeared, including the Noble Institute, a school for girls established in 1886, careful planning and easy access to rail transportation helped make Anniston the fifth largest city in the state from the 1890s to the 1950s. In 1917, at the start of World War I, the United States Army established a camp at Fort McClellan. On the other side of town, the Anniston Army Depot opened during World War II as a weapons storage and maintenance site. Most of the site of Fort McClellan was incorporated into Anniston in the late 1990s, Anniston was the center of national controversy in 1961 when a mob bombed a bus filled with civilian Freedom Riders during the American Civil Rights Movement. The Freedom Riders were riding a bus to protest Alabamas Jim Crow segregation laws that denied African Americans their civil rights
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Alabama
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Alabama is a state in the southeastern region of the United States. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, Alabama is the 30th-most extensive and the 24th-most populous of the U. S. states. At nearly 1,500 miles, Alabama has one of the nations longest navigable inland waterways, Alabama is nicknamed the Yellowhammer State, after the state bird. Alabama is also known as the Heart of Dixie and the Cotton State, the state tree is the longleaf pine, and the state flower is the camellia. The largest city by population is Birmingham, which has long been the most industrialized city, the oldest city is Mobile, founded by French colonists in 1702 as the capital of French Louisiana. From the American Civil War until World War II, Alabama, like many states in the southern U. S. suffered economic hardship, like other southern states, Alabama legislators disenfranchised African Americans and many poor whites at the turn of the century. Following World War II, Alabama grew as the economy changed from one primarily based on agriculture to one with diversified interests. The state economy in the 21st century is based on management, automotive, finance, manufacturing, aerospace, mineral extraction, healthcare, education, retail, in the Alabama language, the word for a person of Alabama lineage is Albaamo. The word Alabama is believed to have come from the Alabama language, the words spelling varies significantly among historical sources. As early as 1702, the French called the tribe the Alibamon, other spellings of the name have included Alibamu, Alabamo, Albama, Alebamon, Alibama, Alibamou, Alabamu, Allibamou. Sources disagree on the words meaning, some scholars suggest the word comes from the Choctaw alba and amo. The meaning may have been clearers of the thicket or herb gatherers, the state has numerous place names of Native American origin. However, there are no correspondingly similar words in the Alabama language, an 1842 article in the Jacksonville Republican proposed it meant Here We Rest. This notion was popularized in the 1850s through the writings of Alexander Beaufort Meek, experts in the Muskogean languages have not found any evidence to support such a translation. Indigenous peoples of varying cultures lived in the area for thousands of years before the advent of European colonization, trade with the northeastern tribes by the Ohio River began during the Burial Mound Period and continued until European contact. The agrarian Mississippian culture covered most of the state from 1000 to 1600 AD, with one of its major centers built at what is now the Moundville Archaeological Site in Moundville, Alabama. This is the second-largest complex of the classic Middle Mississippian era, after Cahokia in present-day Illinois, Analysis of artifacts from archaeological excavations at Moundville were the basis of scholars formulating the characteristics of the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex. Contrary to popular belief, the SECC appears to have no links to Mesoamerican culture
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Actor
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An actor is a person who portrays a character in a performance. Simplistically speaking, the person denominated actor or actress is someone beautiful who plays important characters, the actor performs in the flesh in the traditional medium of the theatre, or in modern mediums such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is ὑποκριτής, literally one who answers, the actors interpretation of their role pertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is playing themselves, as in forms of experimental performance art, or, more commonly, to act, is to create. Formerly, in societies, only men could become actors. When used for the stage, women played the roles of prepubescent boys. The etymology is a derivation from actor with ess added. However, when referring to more than one performer, of both sexes, actor is preferred as a term for male performers. Actor is also used before the name of a performer as a gender-specific term. Within the profession, the re-adoption of the term dates to the 1950–1960s. As Whoopi Goldberg put it in an interview with the paper, Im an actor – I can play anything. The U. K. performers union Equity has no policy on the use of actor or actress, an Equity spokesperson said that the union does not believe that there is a consensus on the matter and stated that the. subject divides the profession. In 2009, the Los Angeles Times stated that Actress remains the term used in major acting awards given to female recipients. However, player remains in use in the theatre, often incorporated into the name of a group or company, such as the American Players. Also, actors in improvisational theatre may be referred to as players, prior to Thespis act, Grecian stories were only expressed in song, dance, and in third person narrative. In honor of Thespis, actors are commonly called Thespians, the exclusively male actors in the theatre of ancient Greece performed in three types of drama, tragedy, comedy, and the satyr play. Western theatre developed and expanded considerably under the Romans, as the Western Roman Empire fell into decay through the 4th and 5th centuries, the seat of Roman power shifted to Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire. Records show that mime, pantomime, scenes or recitations from tragedies and comedies, dances, from the 5th century, Western Europe was plunged into a period of general disorder
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Jennifer Blanc
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Jennifer Blanc is an American actress. She was born Jennifer Tara in New York City, New York, Blanc is in a relationship with actor/director Michael Biehn. She co-produced and starred him in The Victim. She also co-starred in Good Family Times a supernatural thriller film, which was produced by Blanc/Biehn Productions
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James Cameron
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James Francis Jim Cameron is a Canadian filmmaker, director, producer, screenwriter, inventor, engineer, philanthropist, and deep-sea explorer. He first found success with the science fiction action film The Terminator. He then became a popular Hollywood director and was hired to write and direct Aliens and he found further critical acclaim for his use of special effects in Terminator 2, Judgment Day. After his film True Lies Cameron took on his biggest film at the time, Titanic, despite Avatar being his only movie made to date in 3D, Cameron is the most successful 3D film-maker in terms of box-office revenue. In the time between making Titanic and Avatar, Cameron spent several years creating many documentary films and co-developed the digital 3D Fusion Camera System, described by a biographer as part scientist and part artist, Cameron has also contributed to underwater filming and remote vehicle technologies. On March 26,2012, Cameron reached the bottom of the Mariana Trench and he is the first person to do this in a solo descent, and is only the third person to do so ever. In total, Camerons directorial efforts have grossed approximately US$2 billion in North America, not adjusted for inflation, Camerons Titanic and Avatar are the two highest-grossing films of all time at $2.19 billion and $2.78 billion respectively. Cameron also holds the achievement of having directed two of the three films in history to gross over $2 billion worldwide, in March 2011, he was named Hollywoods top earner by Vanity Fair, with estimated 2010 earnings of $257 million. Cameron was born in 1954 in Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canada, the son of Shirley, an artist and nurse, and Phillip Cameron and his paternal great-great-great-grandfather emigrated from Balquhidder, Scotland, in 1825. Cameron grew up in Chippawa, Ontario, and attended Stamford Collegiate School in Niagara Falls and his family moved to Brea, California in 1971, when Cameron was 17 years old. He dropped out of Sonora High School, then attended Brea Olinda High School to further his secondary education, Cameron enrolled at Fullerton College, a two-year community college, in 1973 to study physics. He switched to English, then dropped out before the start of the fall 1974 semester, next, he worked several jobs, including as a truck driver, writing when he had time. That way I could sit down and read it, and if theyd let me photocopy it, Cameron quit his job as a truck driver to enter the film industry after seeing Star Wars in 1977. When Cameron read Syd Fields book Screenplay, it occurred to him that science and art was possible. They raised money, rented camera, lenses, film stock and they dismantled the camera to understand how to operate it and spent the first half-day of the shoot trying to figure out how to get it running. He was the director, writer, producer, and production designer for Xenogenesis and he then became a production assistant on a film called Rock and Roll High School, though uncredited, in 1979. While continuing to educate himself in film-making techniques, Cameron started working as a miniature-model maker at Roger Corman Studios, making rapidly produced, low-budget productions taught Cameron to work efficiently and effectively. He soon found employment as an art director in the sci-fi movie Battle Beyond the Stars and he did special effects work design and direction on John Carpenters Escape from New York, acted as production designer on Galaxy of Terror, and consulted on the design of Android
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Kyle Reese
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Kyle Reese is a fictional character in the Terminator franchise. He is the father and a subordinate of John Connor and a love interest of Sarah Connor, the resistance is led by John Connor, under whom Reese serves. In the original war, Kyle was born sometime in 2003, apparently, his mother died in childbirth, while his father died when he was a young child. He soon became a soldier and by 2019 he held the rank of Sergeant and he is one of the personal soldiers to John Connor, and is often selected for personal infiltrator missions by John. In response to Skynets attempt to assassinate Sarah Connor before she can give birth to John, Reese personally volunteers for a one-way mission back to pre-apocalypse Los Angeles to save her. Once he had sent back, he was told that the time displacement equipment would be destroyed, leaving only him. He rescues her, warning her of the doom of the human race. Though initially hostile towards Reese, Sarah grows to trust him as he becomes the only thing between her and the Terminator, though battle-hardened and world-weary, Reese had fallen deeply in love with Sarah Connor, a woman he had never met and only knew through her photo. After Kyle tells Sarah of this history, the two consummate their relationship and ultimately conceive John, Kyles life, however, is cut short when both he and Sarah are forced to confront the Terminator. In a final confrontation, the Terminator attacks Reese and delivers a mortal blow, though dazed, Reese reaches for his last homemade pipe bomb, lights it, and wedges it in between the Terminators pelvic strut and torso. The Terminator is blown apart, and Kyle is killed, the top half of the Terminator remains functional however, and it is left to Sarah to destroy it by leading it into a hydraulic press. Michael Biehn reprises his role for a cameo in T2, though it was cut from theatrical release, it was restored in extended edition on LaserDisc. When Sarah Connor is having a nightmare about Judgement Day, Kyle appears in a dream version of her prison cell and reminds her of the coming danger. However, as Kyle begins to walk out of the cell, Kyle Reese never made a physical appearance in Terminator 3, Rise of the Machines, but his son, John Connor appears to bear a striking resemblance to him throughout the film. John also stated out of pity to the Terminator that it was the closest thing he ever had to a due to him never meeting Reese. Kyle Reese is portrayed as a teenager by the late Anton Yelchin in Terminator Salvation, the film takes place in 2018, and it revolves around his first meeting with his future son John. As a teenager, Kyle was the leader of the Los Angeles Resistance cell, because of this, he aspires to join the formal Resistance regulars, who mark themselves with a red stripe on their left sleeve, once he has earned it. It is clear that Kyle is immediately drawn to the figure of John Connor because he leaves his Los Angeles base after hearing the latters Resistance broadcast
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The Terminator
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The Terminator is a 1984 American science fiction action film directed by James Cameron. Michael Biehn plays Kyle Reese, a soldier from the future sent back in time to protect Connor, the screenplay is credited to Cameron, along with producer Gale Anne Hurd. Executive producers John Daly and Derek Gibson of Hemdale Film Corporation were instrumental in the films financing, the Terminator topped the US box office for two weeks and helped launch Camerons film career and solidify Schwarzeneggers. It received critical acclaim, with praising its pacing, action scenes. Its success led to a franchise consisting of four sequels, a series, comic books, novels. In 2008, The Terminator was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry, being deemed culturally, historically, in 1984 Los Angeles, a cyborg assassin known as a Terminator arrives from 2029 and steals guns and clothes. Shortly afterwards, Kyle Reese, a soldier from 2029. He steals clothes and evades the police, the Terminator begins systematically killing women named Sarah Connor, whose addresses he finds in the telephone directory. He tracks the third Sarah Connor to a nightclub, but Kyle rescues her, the two steal a car and escape with the Terminator pursuing them in a police car. As they hide in a lot, Kyle explains to Sarah that an artificial intelligence defense network, known as Skynet, will become self-aware in the near future. Sarahs future son John will rally the survivors and lead a movement against Skynet. With the Resistance on the verge of victory, Skynet sent a Terminator back in time to kill Sarah before John is born, the Terminator is an efficient killing machine with a powerful metal endoskeleton and an external layer of living tissue that makes it appear human. Kyle and Sarah are apprehended by the police after another encounter with the Terminator, criminal psychologist Dr. Silberman concludes that Kyle is paranoid and delusional. The Terminator repairs his body and attacks the station, killing many police officers in his attempt to locate Sarah. Kyle and Sarah escape, steal another car and take refuge in a motel, Kyle admits that he has been in love with Sarah since John gave him a photograph of her, and they have sex. The Terminator discovers their location, and they attempt to escape in a pickup truck, in the ensuing chase, Kyle is wounded by gunfire while throwing pipe bombs at the Terminator. Enraged‚ Sarah knocks the Terminator off his motorcycle but loses control of the truck, the Terminator hijacks a tank truck and attempts to run down Sarah, but Kyle slides a pipe bomb onto the tanker, causing an explosion that burns the flesh from the Terminators endoskeleton. It pursues them to a factory, where Kyle activates machinery to confuse the Terminator and he jams his final pipe bomb into the Terminators abdomen, blowing the Terminator apart, injuring Sarah, and killing Kyle
