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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
Michael Bean
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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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Michael Been, 1994
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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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Signs outside Hall H
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Comic-Con International: San Diego: Creator
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Comic Con crowds in 2011 as seen from a helicopter – Panorama.
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Comic-Con crowd inside the second floor of the convention center in 2011 awaiting the exhibition hall to open.
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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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Downtown Anniston in 2012
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This
panoramic map with marked
points of interest illustrates a
bird's-eye view of Anniston, Alabama, in 1887, fourteen years after the town was chartered in 1873. The 1880 census showed a population of 942 and, by 1890, the population was 9,998.
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Child laborers at Anniston Yarn Mills, 1910. Photo by
Lewis Hine.
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Historic marker commemorating the Freedom Riders in downtown Anniston
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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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One of the entrances to
Russell Cave in Jackson County. Charcoal from indigenous camp fires in the cave has been dated as early as 6550 to 6145 BC.
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The
Moundville Archaeological Site in Hale County. It was occupied by Native Americans of the
Mississippian culture from 1000 to 1450 AD.
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The main house, built in 1833, at
Thornhill in Greene County. It is a former
Black Belt plantation.
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Actor
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Anyone who meets the eligibility requirements may apply for aid, which could vary from medical assistance, paying rent, or finding employment. Heros benefits are not meant to be a permanent crutch for needy creators, any granted aid is kept confidential. The Hero Initiative has two boards of directors, the Executive Board and the Fund Disbursement Board, former board members include founders Pat McCallum, editor-in-chief of Wizard Magazine, and Mike Richardson, publisher and founder of Dark Horse Comics. They are George Pérez, Roy Thomas, Charlie Novinskie, Dennis ONeil, John Romita Sr. the charity is currently supported by Dark Horse Comics, Dynamic Forces, Image Comics, Marvel Entertainment, Top Cow Productions, and Wizard Entertainment. The Hero Initiative utilizes many methods of fundraising, foremost is their annual art auction, auctioning donated original comics art-work at fan conventions. Year-long, they sell donated art and special edition comics at conventions, artists, writers, and publishers are invited to donate work, and fans are invited to donate money directly to the fund. ACTOR also sells a green Excelsior, wrist-band similar in design to the Livestrong wristband. The Hero Initiative was formerly known as A Commitment to Our Roots, or ACTOR, while the original name of the organization reflected the charitys goal, the acronym that resulted, ACTOR, more often confused people unfamiliar with the organization. 2006, George Pérez, John Romita, Sr.2007, Joe Kubert 2008, Nick Cardy 2009, Neal Adams 2010, Walt Simonson 2011, Stan Lee 2012, John Romita, Jr. The award recognizes one person in each year who demonstrates particular generosity and integrity in support of the overall comic book community. It debuted at the 2010 Harvey Awards ceremony held at the Baltimore Comic-Con
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The Hero Initiative
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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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Blanc promoting her film,
The Victim, during an August 23, 2012 appearance at
Midtown Comics in Manhattan.
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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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Cameron in June 2012
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Cameron in September 1986
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The producing team behind Aliens, James Cameron and Gale Ann Hurd
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Cameron promoting Avatar during the 2009
San Diego Comic-Con
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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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Anton Yelchin as Kyle Reese in
Terminator Salvation.
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Michael Biehn as Kyle Reese in The Terminator.
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Jai Courtney as Kyle Reese in
Terminator Genisys.
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Jonathan Jackson as Kyle Reese in
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
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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
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Theatrical release poster
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(L&C)
Arnold Schwarzenegger,
Linda Hamilton and
Michael Biehn played the film's leads.
The Terminator
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Aliens (film)
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It is the sequel to the 1979 film Alien and the second installment in the Alien franchise. The film follows Weavers character Ellen Ripley as she returns to the planet where her crew encountered the hostile Alien creature, Gordon Carroll, David Giler, and Walter Hill of Brandywine Productions, who produced the first film and the later sequels, were executive producers of Aliens. They were interested in a follow-up to Alien as soon as its 1979 release, the script was written with a war film tone influenced by the Vietnam War to contrast the horror motifs of the original Alien. It was filmed in England at Pinewood Studios and at a power plant in Acton, London. It was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including a Best Actress nomination for Sigourney Weaver and it won eight Saturn Awards, including Best Science Fiction Film, Best Actress for Weaver and Best Direction and Best Writing for Cameron. Aliens is considered one of the best films in its genre, a sequel Alien 3 was released in 1992, with Sigourney Weaver reprising her role as Ellen Ripley and Lance Henriksen as Bishop in the film. Ellen Ripley is rescued after drifting through space in stasis for 57 years, the exomoon LV-426, where the Nostromo encountered the alien eggs, is now home to the terraforming colony Hadleys Hope. A dropship delivers the expedition to the surface of LV-426, where they find the colony deserted, the crew uses the colonys computer to locate the colonists grouped beneath the fusion powered atmosphere processing station. They head to the location, descending into corridors covered in Alien secretions, at the center of the station, the marines find the colonists cocooned, serving as incubators for the Aliens offspring. When the marines kill a newborn Alien, the Aliens are roused and ambush the marines, when the inexperienced Gorman panics, Ripley takes control of their vehicle and rams it through the nest to rescue marines Hicks, Hudson, and Vasquez. Hicks orders the dropship to recover the survivors, but a stowaway Alien kills the pilots, Ripley, Newt, Burke, Gorman, and the remaining marines barricade themselves inside the colony command center. He volunteers to crawl through several hundred meters of piping conduits to reach the colonys transmitter, Ripley and Newt fall asleep in the medical laboratory, awakening to find themselves locked in the room with the two facehuggers, which have been released from their tanks. Ripley triggers an alarm to alert the marines, who rescue them. Before the marines can execute Burke in response to the accusation, Hudson, Burke, Vasquez, and Gorman are all killed in the attack and Newt is captured. Ripley and an injured Hicks reach Bishop in the second dropship, the group arrives at the processing station, allowing a heavily armed Ripley to enter the hive and rescue Newt. As they escape, the two encounter the Alien queen in her egg chamber, pursued by the queen, Ripley and Newt rendezvous with Bishop and Hicks on the dropship. All four escape moments before the station explodes with the colony consumed by the nuclear blast, on the Sulaco, the group discover the Alien queen stowed away on the dropships landing gear. She emerges and tears Bishop in half, the queen advances on Newt, but Ripley clashes with her using an exosuit cargo-loader and expels it through an airlock into space
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Theatrical release poster
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Ellen Ripley in the Power Loader she uses to battle the Alien Queen.
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Top to bottom: Paul Reiser (who played Carter Burke), Lance Henriksen (android Bishop) and Bill Paxton (Colonial Marine Hudson)
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The Abyss
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The Abyss is a 1989 American science fiction film written and directed by James Cameron, starring Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Michael Biehn. When an American submarine sinks in the Caribbean, the US search and recovery team works with an oil platform crew, Deep in the ocean, they encounter something unexpected. This movie was released on August 8,1989 and received positive reviews, in 1988, the U. S. Ohio-class submarine USS Montana has an encounter with an unidentified submerged object and sinks near the Cayman Trough. The platforms designer, Dr. Lindsey Brigman, insists on coming along with the SEAL team, during initial investigation of the Montana, a power outage in the teams submersibles leads to Lindsey seeing a strange light circling the sub. At the same time, one of Deep Cores crew, Jammer, damages his breathing apparatus in an apparent panic, Coffey does not get permission from the Deep Core crew. The Benthic Explorer, which Deep Core is tethered to, is rocked by the storm, the crane falls into the trench and, without the mini-sub to disconnect the cable, Deep Core is dragged towards the trench, stopping just short of it. The rig is partially flooded, killing crew members and damaging its power systems. Coffey shows little remorse when he and his SEALs return to the damaged base, Lindsey is sent in dive gear to retrieve some oxygen bottles from a damaged portion of the rig to give the crew enough time to wait out the storm. While working, shes accosted by a small, maneuverable pink/purple device, before she can take a picture as proof, the large craft zooms downward into the trench, leaving her to take fuzzy, smeared pictures of the smaller one following it. She coins the term non-terrestrial intelligence, or NTI, as the crew struggles against the cold, they find an NTI has formed a living column of water and is exploring the base. Though they treat it with curiosity, Coffey is agitated by it and cuts it in half by closing a pressure bulkhead on it, the crew soon realize that Coffey is suffering paranoia from high-pressure nervous syndrome. Spying on him through a remote operated vehicle, they find he and another SEAL are arming the warhead to attack the NTIs, There, he and the crew administer CPR and revive her. Bud and Lindsey reaffirm their lost love, One SEAL, unaware of Coffeys plan at the time, helps to locate the warhead, stopped on a ledge several thousand feet down the trench. Bud volunteers to use a diving suit equipped with a liquid breathing apparatus to survive to that depth. Bud begins his dive, assisted by Lindseys voice keeping him coherent against the effects of the mounting pressure, and reaches the warhead. The SEAL guides him in disarming it, but his light source is yellow. With nearly no oxygen left in the system, Bud types out that he knew this was a one-way trip, as he waits for death, an NTI approaches Bud and takes his hand. He is guided to an alien ship deeper in the trench, Deep inside, the NTI creates an atmospheric pocket for Bud, allowing him to breathe normally
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Theatrical release poster
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Michael Biehn signing a copy of the film's DVD cover during an August 23, 2012, appearance at
Midtown Comics in Manhattan.
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The Fan (1981 film)
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The Fan is a 1981 American horror film directed by Edward Bianchi, and starring Lauren Bacall, Michael Biehn, James Garner and Maureen Stapleton. It was written by Priscilla Chapman and John Hartwell, based on a novel of the name by Bob Randall. The plot follows a stage and film actress named Sally Ross who is stalked by a violent, deranged fan. Douglas Breen, a deranged young New York City record salesman, writes a letter to stage. Having sent multiple obsessive and borderline-sexual letters to Ross, her assistant, Belle has been intercepting them, responding herself, Douglas feels ignored, and becomes determined to meet with Sally and consummate his love for her. Sally has recently taken a job in a stage production, and has been reconnecting with her ex-husband, Jake. Meanwhile, Douglas begins stalking Sally, sitting outside of her apartment building, after the rehearsal ends, Douglas follows Belle into the subway, where he slashes her face open with a razor. She survives the attack, but is hospitalized, when police press her for information, Belle cannot remember the name on the obsessive letters return addresses, when police inquire about it to Sally, she says that they do not keep the fan mail. Increasingly enraged by his lack of contact with Sally, Douglas manages to break into her apartment, Sally returns home with a private investigator, and finds Elsas body in a pool of blood, and her apartment in shambles. A letter is left behind, reading, Dearest bitch, Ive exhausted myself trying to think of the way to kill you. How would you like to be fucked with a meat cleaver, Sally, distraught, flees New York City and retreats to a secluded house in the country. At a bar, Douglas meets a man who cruises him for sex, the two go to the rooftop of Douglas building, where the man begins to perform oral sex on him, but Douglas stabs him to death and lights his body on fire. Meanwhile, Jake realizes that Sally has retreated to the house she and he had purchased together. The opening night of the musical arrives, and Sally returns to the city to perform in the production, Douglas sits in the audience, watching her. After the show, Sally sits in her room with the costume designer. Hilda is killed backstage while Sally removes her makeup, and Douglas also kills the nightwatchman, Douglas confronts Sally in her dressing room, covered in blood. He chases her through the empty theater, and she strikes him in the face with a riding crop, Douglas slaps her across the face, throwing her to the floor, and beats her with the crop. As he tries to kiss her, Sally tells him he is pathetic and his rage subsides, and he embraces Sally, begging her to love him
The Fan (1981 film)
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Promotional poster
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K2 (film)
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K2 is a 1991 motion picture loosely based on the story of two friends ascent of the second-highest mountain on Earth, K2. The story is based on a written by Patrick Meyers. The film was directed by Franc Roddam, and written by Meyers and Scott Roberts, the two main characters of the film, Taylor Brooks and Harold Jameson, are loosely based on Jim Wickwire and Louis Reichardt, respectively, the first two Americans to summit K2 in 1978. Wickwire and Reichardt are acknowledged in the ending credits, Taylor Brooks and Harold Jameson are white-collar professionals by weekday, and accomplished mountain climbers on weekends. Though they share a love for scaling mountains, the two friends are opposites in their personal lives, Taylor is a thrill-seeking attorney and womanizer, while Harold is a married, level-headed scientist. On a climb, the pair encounter billionaire Phillip Claiborne, who is accompanied by a team of fellow climbers, Taylor recognizes Dallas from law school, and the team lets slip that they are testing equipment for a Himalayan expedition. That night, two members of Claibornes team ignore Harolds warnings of an avalanche and perish when snow careens down the mountain. Claiborne and the survivors are rescued, thanks to quick action by Taylor. At the interment, Taylor begs Claiborne to take him and Harold on his expedition to K2, Claiborne ultimately allows the duo to fill the hole in his team. The entire team heads to the Karakoram, in Pakistan, and starts the climb successfully, though Taylor butts heads with Dallas, as the ascent continues, the teams Balti porters go on strike, and altitude sickness incapacitates Claiborne. A four-man team continue toward the summit with minimal gear and they are stopped when Claiborne authorizes only two men to go for the summit, while two wait in reserve at the high camp. Dallas chooses Takane as his partner, despite argument from Taylor. Later, Takane returns to the high camp badly injured and in severe hypothermia, Taylor and Harold ascend, searching for Dallas. After a grueling journey, the pair celebrate at the top of the world and their joy is short-lived, however, as Harold slips on the downclimb, breaks his leg badly, and loses the climbing rope. The pain is unbearable, and he cannot be moved, over Taylors objections, Harold sends Taylor to save himself, and Taylor begins a solo descent. By luck, Taylor discovers Dallas frozen body and scavenges his climbing rope, epinephrine, Taylor injects Harold with an epinephrine autoinjector and then begins to lower his friend toward base camp, a few dozen feet at a time. They descend, until Taylor collapses on a ridge, before dark, a Pakistani helicopter comes into view. The climbers are saved and rejoice, K2 was filmed on location in Kashmir, Pakistan and British Columbia, Canada
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K2 DVD cover
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Tombstone (film)
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Tombstone is a 1993 American western film directed by George P. The film is based on events in Tombstone, Arizona, including the Gunfight at the O. K. Corral and it depicts a number of western outlaws and lawmen, such as Wyatt Earp, William Brocius, Johnny Ringo, and Doc Holliday. Tombstone was released by Hollywood Pictures in theatrical release in the United States on December 24,1993. The film was a success, and for the Western genre it ranks number 14 in the list of highest-grossing films since 1979. Critical reception was positive, but the film failed to garner award nominations for production merits or acting from any mainstream motion picture organizations. The film opens with a prologue about the films setting, the old west. After the prologue, members of the gang known as the Cochise County Cowboys, led by William Curly Bill Brocius, ride into a Mexican town. They then proceed to massacre the assembled policemen in retribution for killing two of their gang members. Shortly before being shot in cold blood, a local priest warns them that their acts of murder and savagery will be avenged, referencing the biblical fourth horseman. Wyatt Earp, a peace officer with a notable reputation, reunites with his brothers Virgil and Morgan in Tucson, Arizona. There they encounter Wyatts long-time friend Doc Holliday, who seeks relief from his worsening tuberculosis, Josephine Marcus and Mr. Fabian are also newly arrived with a traveling theater troupe. Meanwhile, Wyatts common-law wife, Mattie Blaylock, is becoming dependent on laudanum, the Cowboys are identifiable by the red sashes worn around their waist. Wyatt, though no longer a lawman, is pressured to help rid the town of the Cowboys as tensions rise, Curly Bill begins shooting aimlessly after a visit to an opium house and is told by Marshal Fred White to relinquish his firearms. Curly Bill instead shoots the dead, although likely by accident. The arrest infuriates Ike Clanton and the other Cowboys, Curly Bill stands trial, but is found not guilty due to a lack of witnesses. Virgil, unable to tolerate lawlessness, becomes the new marshal and this leads to the legendary Gunfight at the O. K. Corral, in which Billy Clanton and other Cowboys are killed. Virgil and Morgan are wounded, and the allegiance of county sheriff Johnny Behan with the Cowboys is made clear, as retribution for the Cowboy deaths, Wyatts brothers are ambushed, Morgan is killed, while Virgil is left handicapped. A despondent Wyatt and his family leave Tombstone and board a train, with Clanton and Frank Stilwell close behind, Wyatt sees that his family leaves safely, and then surprises the assassins
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The Rock (film)
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The Rock is a 1996 American action thriller film directed by Michael Bay, produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, and written by David Weisberg and Douglas S. Cook. The film stars Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage and Ed Harris in lead roles, with William Forsythe, the film is dedicated to Simpson, who died five months before its release. It was a box office success, grossing over $335 million against a budget of $75 million. The next day, Hummel and his men seize control of Alcatraz Island, Hummel threatens to launch the rockets against San Francisco unless the U. The Pentagon and FBI develop a plan to retake the island with a U. S. Navy SEAL team led by Commander Anderson, enlisting the FBIs top chemical weapons specialist, Dr. Stanley Goodspeed. Goodspeeds confidence, already shaky as he is a lab rat with minimal combat training, FBI director James Womack is forced to turn to federal prisoner John Mason, a 60-year-old British national who has been imprisoned without charges for three decades. Mason is the only Alcatraz inmate ever to escape the island, while in custody at the Fairmont Hotel, Mason flees. He hijacks a Hummer H1 and Goodspeed pursues in a commandeered Ferrari F355, Mason seeks out his estranged daughter Jade, Goodspeed arrives with a team to re-arrest Mason, revealing to Jade that he is aiding the FBI. Goodspeed, Mason, and the SEALs infiltrate Alcatraz, however, Hummels rogue Marines, who have set a device that warns them of intruders, are alerted to their presence and ambush them in a shower room. All the SEALs, including Anderson, are killed, leaving only Mason, Mason sees his chance to escape custody and disarms Goodspeed, but Goodspeed convinces him to help defuse the rockets after the Marines use explosive devices to flush them out. Mason and Goodspeed eliminate several teams of Marines and disable 12 of the 15 rockets by removing their guidance chips, Hummel threatens to execute a hostage if they do not surrender and return the guidance chips. Mason destroys the chips, then surrenders to Hummel, trying to reason with him as well as buy Goodspeed some time, though Goodspeed disables another rocket, the rogue Marines capture him. With the incursion team lost, the military initiates their backup plan, an airstrike by F/A-18s with thermite plasma, when the deadline for the transfer of the ransom arrives, Hummel and his men fire one of the operational rockets. During the launch of the rocket, Hummel changes the coordinates, the warhead instead detonates at sea. Hummel then reveals that the mission is over and it was all an elaborate bluff. When confronted by two of his men, Captains Frye and Darrow, Hummel orders them to exit Alcatraz with a few hostages and the remaining rocket to cover their retreat, while he will assume blame. Realizing they will not be paid their $1 million apiece, Frye and Darrow mutiny against Hummel and Baxter, killing the latter, Darrow and Frye proceed with the plan to fire on San Francisco. While Mason deals with the remaining Marines, Goodspeed seeks out the last rocket, as the jets approach, Goodspeed kills both Darrow and Frye, before disarming the rocket
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Megiddo: The Omega Code 2
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It is a follow-up to the 1999 film The Omega Code, serving as part prequel and part sequel. However, the events portrayed are inconsistent with the plot of The Omega Code, making the less of a sequel. It has a larger budget than its predecessor, but was less well-received. Lead actor Michael York detailed the making of the film in a journal which he published in book form. Stone Alexander is a boy of about 7 years of age, whose mother has died giving birth to his younger brother. During a party at his fathers home, Stone is left alone with David. As Stone stares into the fireplace, a fiery force shoots out and engulfs the boy, Stone attempts to burn his baby brother, but David is saved by their nanny. Their father, Daniel, sends Stone away to an academy for his education. Not long after arriving at the academy, he is drawn to a church where he meets his demonic Guardian, years pass, and although Stone is periodically abused by some of his classmates, he eventually earns their respect, becoming the top student in his class. After graduating from the academy, Stone meets his younger brother David. At first, the teenage David expresses his admiration towards his brother and wish to emulate him, however. Soon after graduation, Stone marries his Italian girlfriend, Gabriella, the General was initially against their marriage, but Stone summons two smoke-like demons to intimidate the General into giving in. Eventually, Stone becomes President of the European Union He uses his seat of power to dissolve the United Nations, to consolidate his power, Stone pressures the President of the United States Richard Benson to join his global community. Stone summons Benson to meet him in Rome. Prior to departing for Italy, President Benson orders the U. S. Navys Sixth Fleet to take up position off of the coast of Italy in the event of an emergency. Accompanying the president on his flight to Italy is David Alexander, who is now the Vice President of the United States, and the presidents military aide, U. S. Marine Colonel Rick Howard. During an informal meeting on Air Force One, David and Col. Unfortunately, Benson fails to grasp just how ruthless Stone really is, David is sworn in as the new President at the hour of President Bensons death. Much to Stones disappointment, his brother refuses to join his New World Order
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Planet Terror
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Planet Terror is a 2007 American zombie film directed by Robert Rodriguez. It follows a group of attempting to survive an onslaught of zombie-like creatures as they feud with a military unit. The film stars Rose McGowan, Freddy Rodriguez, Josh Brolin, Marley Shelton, Naveen Andrews, Michael Biehn, Jeff Fahey, Stacy Ferguson, and Bruce Willis. In addition to directing the film, Rodriguez wrote the script, directed the cinematography, wrote the score, co-edited. Released on April 6,2007, Grindhouse ticket sales were significantly below box office analysts expectations, outside the U. S and released separately, Planet Terror and Death Proof screened in extended versions. Two soundtracks were released for the features and include music. Planet Terror was released on DVD in the United States and Canada on October 23,2007, in rural Texas, go-go dancer Cherry Darling decides to quit her low-paying job and find another occupation. She runs into her mysterious ex-boyfriend El Wray at the Bone Shack, when Muldoon learns that Abby has an extra supply on hand, he attempts to take Abby hostage, and Abby intentionally releases the gas into the air. The gas reaches the town and turns most of its residents into deformed bloodthirsty psychopaths, the infected townspeople are treated by the sinister Dr. William Block and his unhappy, unfaithful bisexual anesthesiologist wife Dakota at a local hospital. Random zombie attacks begin along the highway, causing El Wray, with Cherry as his passenger, in the aftermath, several zombies tear off Cherrys right leg. Also falling victim, fatally, is Tammy, who was on her way to town to reunite with her former lover Dakota. When Tammys body arrives at the hospital, Dr. Block recognizes her and by comparing text messages on the phones of Tammy and his wife. El Wray is detained by Sheriff Hague based on past encounters between the two men, as the patients transform into zombies, El Wray leaves the police station and arrives at the hospital, attaching a wooden table leg to Cherrys stump. As El Wray and Cherry fight their way out of the hospital, Dakota escapes to her car. She eventually manages to drive away, meanwhile, Block becomes infected along with others, while Cherry and El Wray take refuge at the Bone Shack. Dakota retrieves her son Tony and takes him to her father, Earl McGraw, Tony, who was given a revolver by his mother, accidentally shoots himself in the face after being told not to point it at himself. Cherry and El Wray make love in J. T. s bedroom, Dakota, Earl, Cherrys former boss Skip, and Tonys crazed babysitter twins arrive at the Bone Shack. With Sheriff Hague badly injured, the group decides to flee to the Mexican border, Muldoons men arrive, and kill the zombies before arresting the group
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Hill Street Blues
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Hill Street Blues is an American serial police drama that aired on NBC in primetime from 1981 to 1987 for a total of 146 episodes. The show received acclaim, and its production innovations influenced many subsequent dramatic television series produced in the United States. Its debut season was rewarded with eight Emmy Awards, a season record surpassed only by The West Wing. The show received a total of 98 Emmy nominations during its run, MTM Enterprises developed the series on behalf of NBC, appointing Steven Bochco and Michael Kozoll as series writers. The writers were allowed considerable freedom and created a series that brought together, for the first time. Each episode features a number of intertwined storylines, some of which are resolved within the episode, the conflicts between the work lives and private lives of the individual characters are also large elements of storylines. In the workplace there is also a focus on the struggle between doing what is right and what works. Almost every episode begins with a sequence consisting of briefing. Many episodes are written to take place over the course of a single day, Frank Furillo and public defender Joyce Davenport in a domestic situation, often in bed, discussing how their respective days went. The show deals with issues and employs commonly used language. In terms of production, the camera is close in. The extensive use of overheard or off-screen dialogue gives a feel to the action. Rather than studio cameras, handheld Arriflex cameras were used to add to the documentary feel, although filmed in Los Angeles, the series is set in a generic unnamed inner-city location with a feel of a U. S. urban center in the Midwest or Northeast. Bochco had intended this fictional city to be a hybrid of Chicago, Buffalo, however, at the beginning of season 7, episode 17, one of the police cars is driving past a sign indicating an approach to Interstate 90 and Interstate 94. Pittsburgh is in Allegheny County while Interstate 90 only runs in Erie County, although Interstate 90 does run to Buffalo, Interstate 94 goes no farther east than Michigan. The only major city where both Interstate 90 and Interstate 94 run is in Chicago, also, the police cars are duplicates of the Chicago Police Dept. vehicles, except that instead of saying Chicago Police on the sides of the cars it says Metro Police. Additionally, a corner tavern sporting a Heileman Old Style beer sign appears in the title sequence. A regional beer brewed in Wisconsin, Heilemans was a dominant product in the Chicago–Milwaukee area during the time the show was in production
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Hill Street Blues cast, circa 1986, left to right, from bottom: Taurean Blacque, Daniel J. Travanti, Michael J. Warren; Second Row: Betty Thomas, James B. Sikking; Third Row: Robert Clohessy, Dennis Franz, Kiel Martin, Joe Spano; Top Row: Jon Cypher, Peter Jurasik, Robert Prosky, Megan Gallagher
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Adventure Inc.
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Adventure Inc. is a dramatised adventure television series produced primarily in Canada which aired from 30 September 2002 to 12 May 2003. It was a co-production of Fireworks Entertainment, Tribune Entertainment, M6, Amy International, the series premise was inspired by the work of modern-day explorer Barry Clifford. Distribution was by syndication throughout the United States and by Global in Canada, following its only season, the episodes were aired in Canada on Space. The preamble and voice over tell the premise of the show, as he travels along different corners of the world, Judson is accompanied by two partners, Mackenzie and Gabriel. Fireworks International went into Cannes with Adventure Inc. and with its star Michael Biehn worked the Croisette hard to promote the show. Biehn was also joined by executive producer Gale Ann Hurd, who got for Biehn roles in The Terminator and Aliens, now divorced, she and Biehn hoped to make a splash with this TV show. Its not common in television to have an inspired by real events and real character. The research vessel, Vast Explorer, featured in the show was named in honor of the used by Barry Clifford. Ms. Hurd maintained that the one big difference between film and television was budgets and in relation to her films, Adventure Inc. s budget was a small percentage. But it was legendary guerrilla film-maker Roger Corman that helped Ms Hurd to deliver the series on time, what I think prepared me for television was my time with Roger Corman, where we neither had time nor money to finish our projects, she said. Instead of as a negative, though, Ive come to see it as a positive thing, again, made in widescreen 16/9 but shown in pan and scan 4/3. Currently airing on the UK channel Film24, Sky157 every Friday night as part of Action Stations evening Filmed in 16,9, Michael Biehn was offered the role after he worked with Gale Anne Hurd on Clockstoppers. The world wide locations were done by using establishing shots with Toronto standing in for many cities, when filming in Canada, they used the ship Vast Explorer and in Marseille Janus II. Jesse Nilsson died from Pneumonia related heart failure on 25 April 2003 in North York, a tribute was added to the last few frames of said episode In memory of Jesse Nilsson 1977-2003. Nilssons passing led to the cancellation of the series, like the TV show Kindred, The Embraced, this show ended when an actor died unexpectedly. Kindred lost Mark Frankel and Adventure Inc. lost Jesse Nilsson, Adventure Inc. at the Internet Movie Database Adventure Inc. at TV. com Adventure Inc. at The TV IV Space, Adventure Inc. Program summary by Michael Fylyshtan, an operator on the series. Adventure Inc. program fansite Dillon, Mark, Tribune and Fireworks embark on Adventure Inc
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Michael Biehn, Jesse Nilsson and Karen Cliche
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Lawyer
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A lawyer is a person who practices law, as an advocate, barrister, attorney, counselor or solicitor or chartered legal executive. The role of the lawyer varies greatly across legal jurisdictions, in practice, legal jurisdictions exercise their right to determine who is recognized as being a lawyer. As a result, the meaning of the lawyer may vary from place to place. In Australia, the lawyer is used to refer to both barristers and solicitors. In Canada, the word lawyer refers to individuals who have been called to the bar or. Common law lawyers in Canada are formally and properly called barristers and solicitors, however, in Quebec, civil law advocates often call themselves attorney and sometimes barrister and solicitor in English. The Legal Services Act 2007 defines the activities that may only be performed by a person who is entitled to do so pursuant to the Act. Lawyer is not a protected title, in India, the term lawyer is often colloquially used, but the official term is advocate as prescribed under the Advocates Act,1961. In Scotland, the word refers to a more specific group of legally trained people. It specifically includes advocates and solicitors, in a generic sense, it may also include judges and law-trained support staff. In the United States, the term refers to attorneys who may practice law. It is never used to refer to patent agents or paralegals, in fact, there are regulatory restrictions on non-lawyers like paralegals practicing law. Other nations tend to have terms for the analogous concept. In most countries, particularly civil law countries, there has been a tradition of giving many legal tasks to a variety of civil law notaries, clerks, and scriveners. Several countries that originally had two or more legal professions have since fused or united their professions into a type of lawyer. Most countries in this category are common law countries, though France, in countries with fused professions, a lawyer is usually permitted to carry out all or nearly all the responsibilities listed below. Arguing a clients case before a judge or jury in a court of law is the province of the barrister in England. However, the boundary between barristers and solicitors has evolved, in England today, the barrister monopoly covers only appellate courts, and barristers must compete directly with solicitors in many trial courts
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Dr Alberico Gentili (1552-1608), one of the best known lawyers.
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A French lawyer
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Law Faculty of
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U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is a famous example of a lawyer who became a politician.
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Lincoln, Nebraska
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Lincoln is the capital of the U. S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Lancaster County. The city covers 92.81 square miles with a population of 277,348 in 2015 and it is the second-most populous city in Nebraska and the 72nd-largest in the United States. The statistical area is home to 345,478 people, making it the 105th-largest combined statistical area in the United States, the city was founded in 1856 as the village of Lancaster on the wild salt marshes of what was to become Lancaster County. In 1867, the village of Lancaster became Nebraskas state capital and was renamed Lincoln, bertram G. Goodhue designed state capitol building was completed in 1932 and is the second tallest capitol in the United States. As the city is the seat of government for the state of Nebraska, the state, the University of Nebraska was founded in Lincoln in 1867. The university is the largest in Nebraska with 25,006 students enrolled and is the citys third-largest employer, other primary employers fall within the service and manufacturing industries, including a growing high-tech sector. The region makes up a part of what is known as the greater Midwest Silicon Prairie, designated as a refugee-friendly city by the U. S. Department of State in the 1970s, the city was the twelfth-largest resettlement site per capita in the United States by 2000. Refugee Vietnamese, Karen, Sudanese, and Yazidi people have resettled in the city. Lincoln Public Schools during the year of 2016–17 provided support for approximately 3,200 students from 118 countries. Prior to the westward of settlers, the prairie was covered with buffalo grass. Plains Indians, descendants of peoples who occupied the area for thousands of years, lived in. The Pawnee, which included four tribes, lived in villages along the Platte River, an occasional buffalo could still be seen in the plat of Lincoln in the 1860s. Lincoln was founded in 1856 as the village of Lancaster and became the county seat of the newly created Lancaster County in 1859, the village was sited on the east bank of Salt Creek. The first settlers were attracted to the due to the abundance of salt. Once J. Sterling Morton developed his salt mines in Kansas, Captain W. T. Donovan, a former steamer captain, and his family settled on Salt Creek in 1856. In the fall of 1859, the settlers met to form a county. A caucus was formed and the committee, which included Captain Donovan, after the passage of the 1862 Homestead Act, homesteaders began to inhabit the area. The first plat was dated August 6,1864, by the close of 1868, Lancaster had a population of approximately 500 people
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Downtown Lincoln skyline
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Lincoln, as seen in 1868
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Thomas P. Kennard house
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Lake Havasu, Arizona
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Lake Havasu City is a city in Mohave County, Arizona, United States. According to 2010 census, the population of the town is 52,527 people and it is served by Lake Havasu City Airport. Lake Havasu City is geographically isolated from the cities in Mohave County and is the southernmost community of Greater Las Vegas. The community first started as an Army Air Corps rest camp during World War II on the shores of Lake Havasu. In 1958, Robert P. McCulloch purchased 3,353 acres of property on the east side of the lake along Pittsburgh Point, after four years of planning, McCulloch Properties acquired another 13,000 acres of federal land in the surrounding area. Lake Havasu City was established on September 30,1963 by a resolution of the Mohave County Board of Supervisors as the Lake Havasu Irrigation and Drainage District, the city was incorporated in 1978. The London Bridge crosses a channel that leads from Lake Havasu to Thompson Bay. It was bought for US $2.5 million from the City of London when the bridge was replaced in 1968, the bridge was disassembled, and the marked stones were shipped to Lake Havasu City and reassembled for another US $7 million. Since its inauguration on October 5,1971, it has attracted thousands of visitors each year, McCulloch gave an acre of land to London. When Lake Havasu City wanted to use land for a visitors center. Lake Havasu City is a destination for a wide range of people. During the spring months, the community is joined by university students during Spring Break, with its reputation as a party community, Lake Havasu has twice been featured during MTVs Spring Break coverage. For boaters, March to September are the months on Lake Havasu. During the winter months, the community is joined by retirees from colder regions of the country, during this period, multiple events are held on McCulloch Boulevard. Lake Havasu City is located at 34°29′24″N 114°18′32″W. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 43.1 square miles. The only surface access to Lake Havasu City is by road via Arizona State Route 95, wood, who designed Disneyland, was hired by Robert McCulloch to lay out Lake Havasus unique road system. Lake Havasu City does not have a public transit system, private shuttles provide transportation to Las Vegas and Laughlin, Nevada
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Lake Havasu City from the west
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University of Arizona
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The University of Arizona is a public research university in Tucson, Arizona, United States. Founded in 1885, the UA was the first university in the Arizona Territory, the university operates two medical schools and is affiliated with the regions only academic medical centers. The university is home to the James E. Rogers College of Law and numerous other nationally ranked graduate. During the 2015-2016 academic year, there was an enrollment of 43,088 students. The University of Arizona is governed by the Arizona Board of Regents, the University of Arizona is one of the elected members of the Association of American Universities and is the only representative from the state of Arizona to this group. Known as the Arizona Wildcats, the teams are members of the Pac-12 Conference of the NCAA. UA athletes have won titles in several sports, most notably mens basketball, baseball. The official colors of the university and its teams are UA Red. After the passage of the Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1862, the push for a university in Arizona grew, the University of Arizona was approved by the Arizona Territorys Thieving Thirteenth Legislature in 1885, which also selected the city of Tucson to receive the appropriation to build the university. Tucson had hoped to receive the appropriation for the mental hospital. Tucson was largely disappointed with receiving what was viewed as an inferior prize. Construction of Old Main, the first building on campus, began on October 27,1887, and classes met for the first time in 1891 with 32 students in Old Main, which is still in use today. Because there were no schools in Arizona Territory, the university maintained separate preparatory classes for the first 23 years of operation. The University of Arizona offers 334 fields of study leading to bachelors, masters, doctoral, academic departments and programs are organized into colleges and schools. Currently, grades are given on a strict 4-point scale with A worth 4, B worth 3, C worth 2, D worth 1 and E worth zero points. In 2004, there were discussions with students and faculty that may lead the UA towards eventual usage of the grading system in future years. As of December 2015, the university uses the 4-points scale. The Center for World University Rankings in 2015 ranked Arizona 68th in the world, the 2015–16 Times Higher Education World University Rankings rated University of Arizona 163rd in the world and the 2016/17 QS World University Rankings ranked it 233rd
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The Old Main, also known as the University of Arizona School of Agriculture. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, ref.: #72000199.
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Old Main in 1889
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Sigma Nu
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Sigma Nu is an undergraduate college fraternity founded at the Virginia Military Institute on January 1,1869. The fraternitys existence remained secret until the founders publicly announced their new society on January 1,1869, since its founding, Sigma Nu has more than 279 active and inactive chapters and colonies across the United States and Canada and has initiated more than 227,000 members. Sigma Nu, Kappa Alpha Order and Alpha Tau Omega make up the Lexington Triad, Sigma Nu prides itself on its anti-hazing principles, upon which the organization was founded and continues to uphold through its anti-hazing initiative. The fraternitys values are summarized as an adherence to the principles of love, honor, because of its military heritage, Sigma Nu retains many military trappings in its chapter ranks and traditions, and places importance on the concept of personal honor. In 1945, William Yates inspired the formation of the Sigma Nu Inc and its name was changed to the Sigma Nu Educational Foundation, Inc. The foundation assists collegiate members with financial aid supplements, and the fraternity in the development of a leadership program, James Frank Hopkins, Greenfield Quarles, and James McIlvaine Riley enrolled at the Virginia Military Institute in 1866. Hopkins entered the institute at the age of 21 and was, at the time, both Hopkins and Quarles had served in the American Civil War as Confederate soldiers. At this time, many societies were being formed on the VMI campus. In Hopkins third year at VMI, he joined the Masonic Lodge in Lexington, the masons inspired him to create a similar organization at VMI. Hopkins shared his ideas with Quarles and Riley, and in October 1868, the three founders would go on to bring others into the Legion of Honor over the rest of the year. On January 1,1869, the founders, along with the rest of the members of the Legion of Honor, the first year of Sigma Nu also saw the creation of the Badge, the original Constitution, and the Law. The Badge designed by Hopkins stands mostly unchanged from its original form, the badges were first introduced in the spring of 1869. Early members, Edward Arthur and Linton Buck, both wrote the original Constitution and Law, respectively, some conflict arose because Arthur had been a member of the Honduras Emigrant Society and had included some influences from that organization in the constitution. Linton Buck felt these influences should be removed and his revision became the first Law of Sigma Nu. This first chapter of Sigma Nu chose as its motto nulli secundus, there were many efforts in the beginning years to establish chapters at other schools. By 1883, Alpha chapter attempted to establish 11 additional chapters, one of the many factors was the anti-fraternity sentiment during this time period. Kappa chapter established in 1881, at North Georgia College & State University, gave the fraternity an important member, Howard suggested that the fraternity drop the use of Roman numerals for chapter designation in favor of using a Greek letter designation. He is also responsible for the creation of The Delta, Sigma Nus fraternity magazine, the name The Delta originated from the location of the three active chapters of Sigma Nu forming a Delta
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Hollywood
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Hollywood is an ethnically diverse, densely populated neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California. It is notable as the home of the U. S. film industry, including several of its studios, and its name has come to be a shorthand reference for the industry. Hollywood was a community in 1870 and was incorporated as a municipality in 1903. It was consolidated with the city of Los Angeles in 1910, in 1853, one adobe hut stood in Nopalera, named for the Mexican Nopal cactus indigenous to the area. By 1870, an agricultural community flourished, the area was known as the Cahuenga Valley, after the pass in the Santa Monica Mountains immediately to the north. According to the diary of H. J. Whitley, known as the Father of Hollywood, along came a Chinese man in a wagon carrying wood. The man got out of the wagon and bowed, the Chinese man was asked what he was doing and replied, I holly-wood, meaning hauling wood. H. J. Whitley had an epiphany and decided to name his new town Hollywood, Holly would represent England and wood would represent his Scottish heritage. Whitley had already started over 100 towns across the western United States, Whitley arranged to buy the 500-acre E. C. Hurd ranch and disclosed to him his plans for the land. They agreed on a price and Hurd agreed to sell at a later date, before Whitley got off the ground with Hollywood, plans for the new town had spread to General Harrison Gray Otis, Hurds wife, eastern adjacent ranch co-owner Daeida Wilcox, and others. Daeida Wilcox may have learned of the name Hollywood from Ivar Weid, her neighbor in Holly Canyon and she recommended the same name to her husband, Harvey. In August 1887, Wilcox filed with the Los Angeles County Recorders office a deed and parcel map of property he had sold named Hollywood, Wilcox wanted to be the first to record it on a deed. The early real-estate boom busted that year, yet Hollywood began its slow growth. By 1900, the region had a post office, newspaper, hotel, Los Angeles, with a population of 102,479 lay 10 miles east through the vineyards, barley fields, and citrus groves. A single-track streetcar line ran down the middle of Prospect Avenue from it, but service was infrequent, the old citrus fruit-packing house was converted into a livery stable, improving transportation for the inhabitants of Hollywood. The Hollywood Hotel was opened in 1902 by H. J. Whitley who was a president of the Los Pacific Boulevard, having finally acquired the Hurd ranch and subdivided it, Whitley built the hotel to attract land buyers. Flanking the west side of Highland Avenue, the structure fronted on Prospect Avenue, the hotel was to become internationally known and was the center of the civic and social life and home of the stars for many years. Whitleys company developed and sold one of the residential areas
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The Four Ladies installation at the
Hollywood Boulevard –
La Brea Avenue Gateway
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Glen-Holly Hotel, first hotel in Hollywood, at the corner of what is now Yucca Street. It was built in the 1890s.
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Hollywood Hotel, 1905
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The intersection of
Hollywood and Highland, 1907
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Grease (film)
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Grease is a 1978 American musical romantic comedy film based on Jim Jacobs and Warren Caseys musical of the same name. The film depicts the life of Rydell High School students Danny Zuko, directed by Randal Kleiser and written by Bronte Woodard, the film stars John Travolta as Danny, Olivia Newton-John as Sandy and Stockard Channing as Betty Rizzo. Grease was successful critically and commercially. Only a few of the original cast members reprised their roles, in the summer of 1958, local boy Danny Zuko and vacationing Sandy Olsson met at the beach and fell in love. When the summer comes to an end, Sandy, who is going back to Australia, frets that they may never meet again, the film moves to the start of the seniors term at Rydell High School. Danny, a greaser, is a member of the T-Birds, consisting of his best friend Kenickie, Doody, Sonny, the Pink Ladies, a popular clique of girls, also arrive, consisting of Rizzo, Frenchy, Marty, and Jan. After her parents not to return to Australia, Sandy enrolls at Rydell and is befriended by Frenchy. Unaware of each others presence at Rydell, Danny and Sandy tell their respective groups the accounts of events during the brief romance. Sandys version emphasizes the romance of the affair, while Dannys version is more sexual. When Sandy finally says Dannys name, Rizzo arranges a reunion for the two, but Danny is forced to maintain his bad-boy attitude in front of his pals, upsetting Sandy. Frenchy invites the girls to a party, but Sandy falls ill from trying a cigarette. As she recovers in the bathroom, Rizzo makes fun of her innocence, the T-Birds almost crash the party in Kenickies Greased Lightning car, but a guilty Danny leaves, followed by Rizzo, who departs to make out with Kenickie, who later becomes her boyfriend. Sandy laments over her feelings towards Danny, despite his earlier behavior, the two are disturbed by Leo Balmudo, leader of the T-Birds rival gang, the Scorpions, and his girlfriend Cha-Cha, leading to a planned car race between Leo and Kenickie. Kenickie purchases an old car and the group repair it. In an attempt to impress Sandy, Danny turns to Coach Calhoun to get into sports and he reunites with Sandy and they attempt to go on a date, but their friends crash it, resulting in Kenickie and Rizzo arguing and parting. Left alone, Frenchy is visited by an angel who advises her to return to school after a mishap in beauty class leaves her with bubblegum-pink hair. The school dance arrives, broadcast live on television and hosted by DJ Vince Fontaine, Rizzo and Kenickie attempt to spite one another by bringing Leo and Cha-Cha as their dates, while Danny and Sandy arrive together. Danny and Sandy dance well and are expected to win, Danny and Cha-Cha end up performing together and winning
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Theatrical release poster
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The car race in the film took place at the Los Angeles River.
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John Travolta
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John Joseph Travolta is an American actor, producer, dancer, and singer. Travolta first became known in the 1970s, after appearing on the television series Welcome Back, Kotter and starring in the box office successes Saturday Night Fever, Travolta was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for performances in Saturday Night Fever and Pulp Fiction. He won his only Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for his performance in Get Shorty and has received a total of six nominations, in 2014, he received the IIFA Award for Outstanding Achievement in International Cinema. Travolta, the youngest of six children, was born and raised in Englewood, New Jersey and his father, Salvatore Travolta, was a semi-professional American football player turned tire salesman and partner in a tire company. His mother, Helen Cecilia, was an actress and singer who had appeared in The Sunshine Sisters, a vocal group. His siblings, Joey, Ellen, Ann, Margaret, and his father was a second-generation Italian American and his mother was Irish American, he grew up in an Irish-American neighborhood and has said that his household was predominantly Irish in culture. He was raised Roman Catholic, but converted to Scientology in 1975, Travolta attended Dwight Morrow High School, but dropped out as a junior at age 17 in 1971. After attending Dwight Morrow High School, Travolta moved across the Hudson River to New York City and landed a role in the company of the musical Grease. Singing the Sherman Brothers song Dream Drummin and he then moved to Los Angeles to further his career in show business. Travoltas first California-filmed television role was as a victim in Emergency. In September 1972, but his first significant movie role was as Billy Nolan, around the same time, he landed his star-making role as Vinnie Barbarino in the TV sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter, in which his sister, Ellen, also occasionally appeared. Travolta had a hit single entitled Let Her In, peaking at ten on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in July 1976. In the next few years, he appeared in two of his most noted screen roles, Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever and as Danny Zuko in Grease, the films were among the most commercially successful pictures of the decade and catapulted Travolta to international stardom. Saturday Night Fever earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, at age 24, Travolta became one of the youngest performers ever nominated for the Best Actor Oscar. His mother and his sister Ann appeared in roles in Saturday Night Fever. Travolta performed several of the songs on the Grease soundtrack album, in 1980, Travolta inspired a nationwide country music craze that followed on the heels of his hit film, Urban Cowboy, in which he starred with Debra Winger. After Urban Cowboy, Travolta starred in a series of financial and critical failures that sidelined his acting career and these included Perfect, co-starring Jamie Lee Curtis, and Two of a Kind, a romantic comedy reteaming him with Olivia Newton-John. During that time he was offered, but turned down, lead roles in what would become box office hits, including American Gigolo and An Officer and a Gentleman, both of which went to Richard Gere
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Travolta in 2013
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Travolta as Vinnie Barbarino in the ABC comedy Welcome Back Kotter, c. 1976
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Travolta in 1983
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Travolta in 1997
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Lauren Bacall
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Lauren Bacall was an American actress and singer known for her distinctive voice and sultry looks. Bacall began her career as a model, before making her debut as a lady with Humphrey Bogart in the film To Have and Have Not in 1944. She co-starred with John Wayne in his film, The Shootist. Bacall also worked on Broadway in musicals, earning Tony Awards for Applause and her performance in The Mirror Has Two Faces earned her a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination. A month before her 90th birthday, Bacall died in New York City after a stroke, soon after her birth, Bacalls family moved to Brooklyns Ocean Parkway. Through her father, she was a relative of Shimon Peres, Peres has stated, In 1952 or 1953 I came to New York. Lauren Bacall called me, said that she wanted to meet and we sat and talked about where our families came from, and discovered that we were from the same family. But Im not exactly sure what our relation is and it was she who later said that she was my cousin, I didnt say that. Her parents divorced when she was five, she took the Romanian form of her mothers last name. She no longer saw her father and formed a close bond with her mother. In 1941 Bacall took lessons at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and she made her acting debut on Broadway in 1942, at age 17, as a walk-on in Johnny 2 X4. By then, she lived with her mother on Bank Street, Greenwich Village, as a teenage fashion model she appeared on the cover of Harpers Bazaar, as well as in magazines such as Vogue. She was noted for her grace, tawny blonde hair. Though Diana Vreeland is often credited with discovering Bacall for Harpers Bazaar and he had first met Bacall at Tonys, a club in the East 50s. De Gunzburg suggested that Bacall stop by his Bazaar office the next day and he then turned over his find to Vreeland, who arranged for Louise Dahl-Wolfe to shoot Bacall in Kodachrome for the March 1943 cover. The Harpers Bazaar cover caught the attention of Hollywood producer and director Howard Hawks wife Slim, Hawks asked his secretary to find out more about her, but the secretary misunderstood and sent Bacall a ticket to come to Hollywood for the audition. After meeting Bacall in Hollywood, Hawks immediately signed her to a contract with a weekly salary of $100. He changed her first name to Lauren, and she chose Bacall as her screen surname, Slim Hawks also took Bacall under her wing, dressing Bacall stylishly and guiding her in matters of elegance, manners and taste
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Bacall in March 1945
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Bacall in her first movie,
To Have and Have Not with
Humphrey Bogart, 1944
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Bacall on the March 1943 cover of Harper's Bazaar
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Bacall and
Bogart in
Dark Passage
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John Connor
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John Connor is a fictional character of the Terminator franchise. In the narrative of his universe, John Connor is a messianic figure who will lead the Resistance to defeat an empire of robotic Terminators amassed by Skynet following Judgment Day. With foreknowledge from his parents, John fends off Terminator assassination attempts in the second, in the fourth film, John fights with the Resistance in a post-apocalyptic setting after Skynet has taken over. In The Terminator, John is mentioned and is the basis of the film, the Terminator is attempting to kill Sarah Connor because she will be his mother, but does not make a physical appearance. However, at the end of the film, Sarah is shown to be pregnant with John, John makes his first true appearance in Terminator 2, Judgment Day which takes place in 1995, played by Edward Furlong. He was a 10-year-old juvenile delinquent living with foster parents while his mother was at a hospital for the mentally insane, one day, while in an arcade with a friend, the T-1000 and the T-800 - a reprogrammed android sent by Johns future self, fight over him. This starts a sequence where the T-800 and John try to lose the T-1000. Later that night, his mother out and he and the T-800 go to save her. John teaches The Terminator how to be like a human and he teaches him sayings like hasta la vista, baby. Also, John Connor is briefly seen as an adult, played by Michael Edwards, in this battle scene, his face is heavily scarred. Dalton Abbot, also played John as a toddler in a dream sequence, the alternate ending for Terminator 2, Judgment Day depicts Sarah Connor alive and well on August 29,2029. John Connor has become a U. S. senator and father to a daughter in a world where Skynet was never able to start its war on humanity. While Sarah states that Judgment Day has been averted, John accepts that he still has a destiny to make a difference, in Terminator 3, Rise of the Machines, which takes place in 2003, John Connor, portrayed by Nick Stahl, is now a young adult. John has been living off-the-grid after the events of the second film and his mother eventually developed terminal leukemia and died. In the film, John crosses paths with Katherine Kate Brewster and he is attacked by a T-X Terminator, which was sent from the future. Unlike its predecessors, the T-Xs objective was to terminate his future officers as secondary targets because Johns location was unknown, when it encounters John it changes its priority to focus entirely on him and Kate. A protector T-850 is also sent back in time to protect John and it is via the radios in this bunker that John begins to organize the resistance. Since Judgment Day, John has been broadcasting radio messages to both the Resistance forces and surviving refugees in an effort to maintain morale and hope, the story features a new character named Marcus Wright, and a younger Kyle Reese
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Jason Clarke as John Connor in
Terminator Genisys.
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Edward Furlong as John Connor in
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
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Nick Stahl as John Connor in
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, with
Claire Danes as Kate Brewster.
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Christian Bale as John Connor in
Terminator Salvation
