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Anaheim, California
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Anaheim is a city in Orange County, California, part of the Los Angeles metropolitan area. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city had a population of 336,265, making it the most populous city in Orange County, Anaheim remained largely a rural community until Disneyland opened in the city in 1955. This led to the construction of hotels and motels around the area. The city also developed into a center, producing electronics, aircraft parts. Anaheims city limits extend from Cypress in the west to the Riverside County line in the east and encompass a diverse collection of neighborhoods, Anaheim Hills is a master-planned community located in the citys eastern stretches that is home to many of the citys affluent. Downtown Anaheim has three historic districts, the largest of which is the Anaheim Colony. The Anaheim Resort, a district, includes Disneyland, Disney California Adventure. The Platinum Triangle, a redevelopment district surrounding Angel Stadium, is planned to be populated with mixed-use streets. Finally, Anaheim Canyon is a district north of California State Route 91. Anaheims name is a blend of Ana, after the nearby Santa Ana River, and heim, the city of Anaheim was founded in 1857 by 50 German-Americans who were residents of San Francisco and whose families had originated in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Franconia in Bavaria. For $750 a share, the formed the Anaheim Vineyard Company. Their new community was named Annaheim, meaning home by the Santa Anna River in German, the name later was altered to Anaheim. To the Spanish-speaking neighbors, the settlement was known as Campo Alemán, although grape and wine-making was their primary objective, the majority of the 50 settlers were mechanics, carpenters and craftsmen with no experience in wine-making. The community set aside 40 acres for a center and a school was the first building erected there. The first home was built in 1857, the Anaheim Gazette newspaper was established in 1870, for 25 years, the area was the largest wine producer in California. However, in 1884, a disease infected the grape vines, other crops – walnuts, lemons and oranges – soon filled the void. Fruits and vegetables had become viable cash crops when the Los Angeles – Orange County region was connected to the railroad network in 1887. The famous Polish actress Helena Modjeska settled in Anaheim with her husband and various friends, among them Henryk Sienkiewicz, Julian Sypniewski, while living in Anaheim, Helena Modjeska became good friends with Clementine Langenberger, the second wife of August Langenberger
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California
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California is the most populous state in the United States and the third most extensive by area. Located on the western coast of the U. S, California is bordered by the other U. S. states of Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona and shares an international border with the Mexican state of Baja California. Los Angeles is Californias most populous city, and the second largest after New York City. The Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nations second- and fifth-most populous urban regions, California also has the nations most populous county, Los Angeles County, and its largest county by area, San Bernardino County. The Central Valley, an agricultural area, dominates the states center. What is now California was first settled by various Native American tribes before being explored by a number of European expeditions during the 16th and 17th centuries, the Spanish Empire then claimed it as part of Alta California in their New Spain colony. The area became a part of Mexico in 1821 following its war for independence. The western portion of Alta California then was organized as the State of California, the California Gold Rush starting in 1848 led to dramatic social and demographic changes, with large-scale emigration from the east and abroad with an accompanying economic boom. If it were a country, California would be the 6th largest economy in the world, fifty-eight percent of the states economy is centered on finance, government, real estate services, technology, and professional, scientific and technical business services. Although it accounts for only 1.5 percent of the states economy, the story of Calafia is recorded in a 1510 work The Adventures of Esplandián, written as a sequel to Amadis de Gaula by Spanish adventure writer Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo. The kingdom of Queen Calafia, according to Montalvo, was said to be a land inhabited by griffins and other strange beasts. This conventional wisdom that California was an island, with maps drawn to reflect this belief, shortened forms of the states name include CA, Cal. Calif. and US-CA. Settled by successive waves of arrivals during the last 10,000 years, various estimates of the native population range from 100,000 to 300,000. The Indigenous peoples of California included more than 70 distinct groups of Native Americans, ranging from large, settled populations living on the coast to groups in the interior. California groups also were diverse in their organization with bands, tribes, villages. Trade, intermarriage and military alliances fostered many social and economic relationships among the diverse groups, the first European effort to explore the coast as far north as the Russian River was a Spanish sailing expedition, led by Portuguese captain Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, in 1542. Some 37 years later English explorer Francis Drake also explored and claimed a portion of the California coast in 1579. Spanish traders made unintended visits with the Manila galleons on their trips from the Philippines beginning in 1565
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University of California, Los Angeles
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The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university in the Westwood district of Los Angeles, California, United States. It became the Southern Branch of the University of California in 1919 and it offers 337 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines. UCLA enrolls about 31,000 undergraduate and 13,000 graduate students, and had 119,000 applicants for Fall 2016, including transfer applicants, the university is organized into six undergraduate colleges, seven professional schools, and four professional health science schools. Fourteen Nobel laureates, three Fields Medalists, two Chief Scientists of the U. S. Air Force and three Turing Award winners have been faculty, researchers, or alumni, the university was elected to the Association of American Universities in 1974. The Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2015–2016 ranked UCLA 16th in the world for academics, in 2015-2016, UCLA ranked 12th in the world by the Academic Ranking of World Universities and 31st in the 2016/17 QS World University Rankings. UCLA student-athletes compete as the Bruins in the Pac-12 Conference, the Bruins won 126 national championships, including 113 NCAA team championships, more than any other university. UCLA student-athletes, coaches and staff won 251 Olympic medals,126 gold,65 silver and 60 bronze, UCLA student-athletes competed in every Olympics since 1920 with one exception, and won a gold medal in every Olympics that the United States participated in since 1932. The State Normal School at Los Angeles opened on August 29,1882, the facility included an elementary school where teachers-in-training could practice their technique with children. That elementary school is related to the present day version, UCLA Lab School, in 1887, the school became known as the Los Angeles State Normal School. In 1914, the moved to a new campus on Vermont Avenue in East Hollywood. However, David Prescott Barrows, the new President of the University of California, the same legislation added its general undergraduate program, the College of Letters and Science. After the athletic teams entered the Pacific Coast conference in 1926, the Southern Branch student council adopted the nickname Bruins, in 1927, the Regents renamed the Southern Branch the University of California at Los Angeles. In the same year, the state broke ground in Westwood on land sold for $1 million, less than one-third its value, by real estate developers Edwin and Harold Janss, the campus in Westwood opened to students in 1929. The original four buildings were the College Library, Royce Hall, the Physics-Biology Building, the first undergraduate classes on the new campus were held in 1929 with 5,500 students. A timeline of the history can be found on its website, during its first 32 years, UCLA was treated as an off-site department of UC. As such, its presiding officer was called a provost, in 1951, UCLA was formally elevated to co-equal status with UC Berkeley, and its presiding officer Raymond B. Allen was the first chief executive to be granted the title of chancellor. The appointment of Franklin David Murphy to the position of Chancellor in 1960 helped spark an era of growth of facilities. By the end of the decade, UCLA had achieved distinction in a range of subjects
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Jess Mariano
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This is a list of characters for the comedy-drama television series Gilmore Girls. Lorelai Victoria Gilmore, played by Lauren Graham, is the daughter of Richard. She is the mother of Lorelai Rory Leigh Gilmore and she became pregnant at the age of 16 but refused to marry Christopher Hayden, Rorys father, because she felt that a marriage at such a young age would not work out. Instead, she ran away to the town of Stars Hollow, in Stars Hollow, she meets Mia, the owner of the Independence Inn. She begs Mia to hire her though she has no experience of any kind, Mia gives Lorelai a job as a maid and allows Lorelai and Rory to live in a converted potting shed behind the inn, where they live for most of Rorys early childhood. Lorelai eventually becomes the manager of the inn, which is the position she holds when the first season of the show opens. When Rory is unexpectedly accepted to Chilton Preparatory School, Lorelai is unable to come up with the tuition due immediately and they agree to it, if only the girls will attend dinner every Friday night and allow them into their lives. Later, Lorelai and her best friend Sookie St. James find an old inn called the Dragonfly Inn. When its owner dies, they decide to purchase it, however, the Independence Inn is in a point of crisis due to a recent fire, causing the pair to question the timing of their new endeavor. Furthermore, Rory, by time, has been accepted to Yale. Lorelai is very witty and full of pop culture references and she has a very specific taste in movies, music, and TV. She has said she is a fan of the bands U2, Weezer, Metallica, on Karaoke Night in season seven, she sings the song I Will Always Love You by Dolly Parton. Some of her movies are The Way We Were, His Girl Friday, Funny Face, and Casablanca. She is also addicted to coffee, takeout food, and she loves to shop for clothes and shoes. When her father gives her a check for $75,000 because the government was building a road on a property that Richard bought under her name, she exclaims, Thats 150 pairs of Jimmy Choos. Lorelai and the diner owner, Luke Danes, have a close relationship throughout the show. They broke up due to the meddling of her mother and her ex and they later got back together when Emily, Lorelais mother, went to Luke and told him she would no longer interfere if they got back together. They end up reuniting, get engaged, and are a couple through the season until the season finale
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Gilmore Girls
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Gilmore Girls is an American comedy-drama television series created by Amy Sherman-Palladino starring Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel. Sherman-Palladino, her husband Daniel Palladino, David S. Rosenthal, the series debuted on October 5,2000, on The WB and remained a tent-pole to the network until its move to The CW on September 26,2006. The series originally ran for seven seasons and ended its run on May 15,2007, the show follows single mother Lorelai Gilmore and her daughter Rory, living in the fictional town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut. The town is filled with characters and is located approximately 30 minutes from Hartford. The series explores issues of family, friendship and romance, as well as generational divides, ambition, education, work, love, family, and questions of class constitute some of the series central concerns. Gilmore Girls was released to critical acclaim and it featured fast-paced dialogue filled with pop-culture references. It won one Emmy Award for makeup in 2004, the show placed No.32 on Entertainment Weeklys New TV Classics list, and was listed as one of Time magazines All-TIME100 TV Shows in 2007. In 2016, the main cast and Sherman-Palladino returned for a four-part miniseries revival titled Gilmore Girls, A Year in the Life, Lorelai Gilmore grew up with her old money parents, Richard and Emily, in Hartford, Connecticut, but always felt stifled by this environment. At age sixteen she accidentally became pregnant, and a year later left home to raise her daughter Rory in the town of Stars Hollow. Later episodes reveal that Lorelai and infant Rory were taken in by Mia, owner of the Independence Inn, Lorelai and Rory develop a very close relationship, akin to best friends, and Lorelai is proud of the independent life she has formed away from her parents. Desperation and determination lead Lorelai to approach her parents, who she has only once or twice a year since leaving home. Emily and Richard provide her with a loan in exchange for an agreement that every Friday night she, the contrasting mother–daughter relationships of Emily–Lorelai and Lorelai–Rory become a defining theme of the show. The series also focuses on both girls ambition, Rory to become a journalist, and Lorelai to open an inn with her best friend Sookie St James. Rory has three boyfriends during the run of the show - local boy Dean Forrester, bad boy Jess Mariano, the quirky townspeople of Stars Hollow are a constant presence in the show. Rory has a difficult time settling in at Chilton, struggling to match the demands of private school and she meets her first boyfriend, Dean, but the pair break up when Rory doesnt reciprocate his I love you. She is also pursued by arrogant Chilton student Tristan, but she has little interest, Lorelai begins dating Rorys English teacher, Max Medina, though their relationship is complicated by the situation. At the same time, she has a friendship with the local diner owner, Luke Danes. Rorys father, Christopher Hayden, returns and also wants Lorelai, all the while, Lorelai struggles to adjust to having her parents in her life on a regular basis
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Peter Petrelli
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Peter Petrelli, portrayed by Milo Ventimiglia, is a fictional character on the NBC science fiction drama series Heroes. He is a hospice nurse-turned-paramedic in his mid-20s with the power to absorb and mimic the powers of other people with special abilities, sensitive and compassionate, the character was initially defined by his complex relationship with his older brother, Nathan. Since that time, Peter Petrelli has had to deal with the outcomes from the decisions that his abilities force him to make, in the start of the series, Peter absorbs the ability of a man who is practically a ticking time bomb. In desperation all the characters in the race to try. Minutes from when hes about to explode Peters older brother Nathan flies him high above the skyline, in the premiere episode, Peter Petrelli is a hospice nurse living in New York City. He confides in Nathan, who passes them off as a sign of psychological distress, Peter summons Nathan to witness as he jumps off a building to prove he can fly. However, its Nathan who flies, catching Peter as he falls, Peter blacks out after the brothers lose their grip on each other, waking up in the hospital with muddled recollections of what happened. Nathan claims neither of them flew and Peter is led to believe hes going crazy, to discover the truth, Peter threatens to jump from another rooftop if Nathan doesnt tell him what really happened. Nathan admits that they both flew, Peter first thinks Nathan is only telling him what he wants to hear, until Nathan points out that Peter is levitating as they argue. Peters later attempts to fly, when away from his brothers presence, are initially unsuccessful, Peter decides to quit his job as a nurse. He confides to Simone Deveaux, the daughter of his patient, Charles Deveaux. The two of them spend a night together, even though Simone doesnt know how she feels about him. He urges Peter to be the one we need and he tells Peter to go and visit Isaac Mendez, a painter and ex-boyfriend of Simone. Hiro notes how strange it is to see Peter without his scar, Peter visits Isaac and convinces him to see past their amorous connection to Simone. He learns that Isaac has predicted an explosion will happen in New York soon, while in Isaacs company, Peter also confirms, by mimicking Isaacs power, that his superhuman ability involves copying those of others. He finishes Isaacs painting showing the cheerleader being killed by Sylar, Peter told him that there are people who care, who will save the world from destruction. Simone then tells Peter that she has sold Isaacs painting to a man named Linderman in Las Vegas, Peter believes the painting will help him to save the world. Peter goes to Nathans house, hoping that his brother can help convince Linderman to give up the painting, when he gets there, he finds Nathan, their mother, and Nathans family having brunch with a newspaper reporter
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NBC
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The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is the flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The network is part of the Big Three television networks, founded in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America, NBC is the oldest major broadcast network in the United States. Following the acquisition by GE, Bob Wright served as executive officer of NBC, remaining in that position until his retirement in 2007. In 2003, French media company Vivendi merged its entertainment assets with GE, Comcast purchased a controlling interest in the company in 2011, and acquired General Electrics remaining stake in 2013. Following the Comcast merger, Zucker left NBC Universal and was replaced as CEO by Comcast executive Steve Burke, during a period of early broadcast business consolidation, radio manufacturer Radio Corporation of America acquired New York City radio station WEAF from American Telephone & Telegraph. Westinghouse, a shareholder in RCA, had an outlet in Newark, New Jersey pioneer station WJZ. This station was transferred from Westinghouse to RCA in 1923, WEAF acted as a laboratory for AT&Ts manufacturing and supply outlet Western Electric, whose products included transmitters and antennas. The Bell System, AT&Ts telephone utility, was developing technologies to transmit voice- and music-grade audio over short and long distances, the 1922 creation of WEAF offered a research-and-development center for those activities. WEAF maintained a schedule of radio programs, including some of the first commercially sponsored programs. In an early example of chain or networking broadcasting, the station linked with Outlet Company-owned WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island, AT&T refused outside companies access to its high-quality phone lines. The early effort fared poorly, since the telegraph lines were susceptible to atmospheric. In 1925, AT&T decided that WEAF and its network were incompatible with the companys primary goal of providing a telephone service. AT&T offered to sell the station to RCA in a deal that included the right to lease AT&Ts phone lines for network transmission, the divisions ownership was split among RCA, its founding corporate parent General Electric and Westinghouse. NBC officially started broadcasting on November 15,1926, WEAF and WJZ, the flagships of the two earlier networks, were operated side-by-side for about a year as part of the new NBC. On April 5,1927, NBC expanded to the West Coast with the launch of the NBC Orange Network and this was followed by the debut of the NBC Gold Network, also known as the Pacific Gold Network, on October 18,1931. The Orange Network carried Red Network programming, and the Gold Network carried programming from the Blue Network, initially, the Orange Network recreated Eastern Red Network programming for West Coast stations at KPO in San Francisco. The Orange Network name was removed from use in 1936, at the same time, the Gold Network became part of the Blue Network. In the 1930s, NBC also developed a network for shortwave radio stations, in 1927, NBC moved its operations to 711 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, occupying the upper floors of a building designed by architect Floyd Brown
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Heroes (TV series)
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Heroes is an American psychological thriller science fiction television drama series created by Tim Kring that appeared on NBC for four seasons from September 25,2006 through February 8,2010. The series emulates the style and storytelling of American comic books, using multi-episode story arcs that build upon a larger. The series was produced by Tailwind Productions in association with Universal Media Studios and it was filmed primarily in Los Angeles, California. Four complete seasons aired, ending on February 8,2010, the second season of Heroes attracted an average of 13.1 million viewers in the U. S. and marked NBCs sole series among the top 20 ranked programs in total viewership for the 2007–2008 season. Heroes has earned a number of awards and nominations, including Primetime Emmy Awards, Golden Globes, Peoples Choice Awards, and British Academy Television Awards. An online extension of the series, Heroes 360 Experience, later rebranded as Heroes Evolutions, was created to explore the Heroes universe, other official Heroes media include magazines, action figures, tie-in and interactive websites, a mobile game, a novel, clothing and other merchandise. A 13-episode miniseries entitled Heroes Reborn premiered on NBC on September 24,2015, additionally, comic book writer Cullen Bunn will be writing an ongoing comic book continuing Heroes, called Heroes, Season Five, a release date and artist has yet to be determined. Originally, Kring designed the series to have an ever-shifting cast, in its first season, the show features an ensemble cast of twelve main characters making it the third largest cast in American primetime television behind Desperate Housewives and Lost. In episode eleven of the first season, Jack Coleman, who portrays Noah Bennet, was upgraded from a role to become the twelfth full-time cast member. Simone Deveaux was the first major character to be written out, DL became a guest star after the events of the first seasons finale, making two appearances throughout season two. Isaac Mendez was also written out, dying at the hands of Sylar, Two recurring characters from season one, Sylar, portrayed by Zachary Quinto, and Ando Masahashi, portrayed by James Kyson Lee, were upgraded to main characters in season two. Starting in season two, recurring character Angela Petrelli, portrayed by Cristine Rose, was promoted to a main character, Elle, Adam, and Micah were removed from the main cast. Monica Dawson did not appear after scenes including her were cut, Niki was also written out but actress Ali Larter remained on the show portraying a new character Tracy Strauss, Nikis triplet sister with the power to freeze objects with a touch. For season four, a new character Samuel Sullivan, portrayed by Robert Knepper, was added, originally cast as a recurring part, the part was changed to a starring role. Deanne Bray was also added as Emma Coolidge, the woman who had enhanced synesthesia including the ability to create a siren song. The plot of Heroes is designed to be told in a way similar to the way books are told. Each season of Heroes contains one or two volumes, there are several main story lines in each volume. As the main plots develop, smaller, more stories are told within them
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Fox Broadcasting Company
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The Fox Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is owned by the Fox Entertainment Group subsidiary of 21st Century Fox. It is the third largest major network in the world based on total revenues, assets. Launched on October 9,1986 as a competitor to the Big Three television networks, Fox and its affiliated companies operate many entertainment channels in international markets, although these do not necessarily air the same programming as the U. S. network. Most viewers in Canada have access to at least one U. S, the network is named after sister company 20th Century Fox, and indirectly for producer William Fox, who founded one of the movie studios predecessors, Fox Film. Fox is a member of the North American Broadcasters Association and the National Association of Broadcasters, 20th Century Fox had been involved in television production as early as the 1950s, producing several syndicated programs. Following the demise of the DuMont Television Network in August of that year after it became mired in financial problems. 20th Century Fox would also produce original content for the NTA network, KTTV in Los Angeles, KRIV in Houston, WFLD-TV in Chicago, and KRLD-TV in Dallas. In October 1985, 20th Century Fox announced its intentions to form a television network that would compete with ABC, CBS. The plans were to use the combination of the Fox studios, organizational plans for the network were held off until the Metromedia acquisitions cleared regulatory hurdles. Then, in December 1985, Rupert Murdoch agreed to pay $325 million to acquire the remaining equity in TCF Holdings from his original partner, Marvin Davis. These first six stations, then broadcasting to a reach of 22% of the nations households. Except for KDAF, all of the original owned-and-operated stations are part of the Fox network today. Like the core O&O group, Foxs affiliate body consisted of independent stations. The Fox Broadcasting Company launched at 11,00 p. m. Eastern and its inaugural program was a late-night talk show, The Late Show, which was hosted by comedian Joan Rivers. By early 1987, Rivers quit The Late Show after disagreements with the network over the creative direction. The network expanded its programming into prime time on April 5,1987, with Children and the sketch comedy series The Tracey Ullman Show. Fox added one new show per week over the several weeks, with the drama 21 Jump Street. On July 11, the network rolled out its Saturday night schedule with the premiere of the drama series Werewolf
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The WB
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The WB Television Network was an American television network that was first launched on broadcast television on January 11,1995 as a joint venture between the Warner Bros. Entertainment division of Time Warner and the Tribune Broadcasting subsidiary of the Tribune Company, on January 24,2006, CBS Corporation and Warner Bros. Entertainment announced plans to shut down the network and launch The CW later that same year, the WB Television Network shut down on September 17,2006, with select programs from both it and competitor UPN moving to The CW when it launched the following day, September 18. Time Warner re-used The WB brand for a network that launched on April 28,2008. The website could only be accessed within the United States, on November 2,1993, the Warner Bros. Only five of these stations – along with a sixth that Tribune acquired the following year – would join The WB at launch, when the network was announced, The WB planned to run a predominately network programmed schedule over time. The WB Television Network premiered on January 11,1995, with the episode of The Wayans Bros. as its first program. The classic Warner Bros. cartoon character Michigan J. Frog appeared on-air as the official mascot. Much of the branding was based around Warner Bros. locations and characters. Pictures shield logo, network promotions and imaging campaigns for The WB, the networks first programs were mostly sitcoms targeted at an ethnically black audience. Even though four of the five shows that debuted in the netlets first nine months were renewed beyond the first year – The Wayans Bros, unhappily Ever After, The Parent Hood and Sister, Sister – none of them made a significant impact. On August 17,1995, the Tribune Company acquired a 12. 5% on March 31,1997, the WB expanded its programming to Sunday nights for the 1995–96 season, but none of the new shows managed to garner much viewing interest. The WB continued to expand in the 1996–97 season, adding programming on Monday nights and this season gave The WB modest hits in the Aaron Spelling-produced family drama 7th Heaven and comedies The Steve Harvey Show and The Jamie Foxx Show. The WB first began to experience success with Buffy the Vampire Slayer and it debuted with the highest Monday night ratings in the networks history, attracting not only new teenage viewers, but new advertisers as well. The networks breakout hit and, arguably, its series was Dawsons Creek. At the start of the 1998–99 season, the network expanded its programming to Thursday nights, for the 1999–2000 season, the network concluded its primetime expansion with the addition of programming on Friday nights. During this season, The WB was the network to have gains in its total audience viewership. As the teen boom of the late 1990s began to wane, although teen-oriented fare like Popular and Roswell had premiered to strong ratings, both series saw serious ratings erosion in their sophomore seasons, leading the network to cancel them both
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The Bedford Diaries
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The Bedford Diaries is an American television series that premiered March 29,2006 on The WB and concluded its first season on May 10,2006. It was canceled on May 18,2006, the series was created by Tom Fontana and Julie Martin. A week prior to its premiere, The WB posted scenes from the pilot, a version without explicit images was broadcast on television. The themes include sexual responsibility, manipulation, and the differences between love and sex, passion and abstinence, the students’ innermost thoughts and desires are told through video diaries they make to fulfill their weekly class assignments. Natalie Dykstra, a lovely, out-going and emotional woman, has returned to campus after a suicide attempt. She now struggles with being stereotyped as “the jumper. ”Natalie’s ex-boyfriend, Richard Thorne, he’s now clean, sober and works as the college newspaper’s editor, but he’s still tormented by old demons. Lee Hemingway is a student from Queens with ambitions to become an art historian. Lee has a girlfriend, Rachel, but he’s attracted to another scholarship student. Zoe talks a fast and flirty game, but despite her brash veneer, she is still a virgin, the series was produced by HBO Independent Productions, Warner Bros. Television Production Inc. and The Levinson/Fontana Co. with executive producers Tom Fontana, Julie Martin, outdoor scenes were filmed at Barnard College in New York City. com
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Rocky Balboa
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Robert Rocky Balboa, Sr. is the title character of the Rocky series. The character was created by Sylvester Stallone, who portrayed him in all seven Rocky films. He is depicted as an everyman who started out by going the distance and overcoming obstacles that had occurred in his life, the character is widely considered to be Stallones most iconic role and is often considered the role that started his film career. He received critical acclaim for his performance in the first movie, earning Academy Award, Robert Rocky Balboa was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 6,1945. He was the child in a Roman Catholic Italian-American family. The surname Balboa/Valboa originates from a Galician-speaking town in Northwestern Spain and this encouraged him to take up boxing. He trained very hard so he could grow up to be like his idol Rocky Marciano. Unable to live on the pay of club fights, and being unable to find work anywhere else, Rocky got a job as a collector for Tony Gazzo. By late 1975, Rocky had fought in 64 fights, winning 44, Rocky was proud that he never had his nose broken in a professional fight. His nickname is The Italian Stallion, spawning from his Italian-American heritage, the film begins on November 25,1975, in the slums of the Kensington section of Philadelphia. Rocky Balboa is fighting Spider Rico in a boxing ring called the Cambria Fight Club inside a chapel. In the second round, Rico hits Balboa with a headbutt, enraged, Rocky delivers a vicious barrage of punches, knocking Rico out. The next day, Rocky stops by the pet store and tries to talk to the shy pet-shop worker Adrian Pennino. Adrian is very shy and scared of Rockys tough appearance, afterwards, Rocky goes to collect a loan for his boss Tony Gazzo. Even though the client didnt have all the money, Rocky didnt break his thumb, later, Rocky stops by the local boxing gym and finds that he lost his locker to a contender. Unknown to him, the owner and grizzled former boxer, Mickey Goldmill, doesnt hate him. When Rocky leaves for home that night, he sees a girl named Marie, hanging around a bad crowd. On the way, Rocky lectures her about staying away from the wrong people, however, once they get to her house she tells Rocky Screw you, creepo
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Rocky (film series)
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Rocky is a series of boxing films based on the eponymous, fictional character Rocky Balboa, played in each film by Sylvester Stallone. The films by order of date are, Rocky, Rocky II, Rocky III, Rocky IV, Rocky V, Rocky Balboa. The film series has grossed more than US$1 billion at the box office. All of the films were written by Stallone except for Creed, the original film and the fifth installment were directed by John G. Avildsen, Creed was directed by Coogler, and Stallone directed the others. At the same time, Rocky successfully courts Adrian Pennino, a shy woman with an alcoholic brother. But when heavyweight champion of the world Apollo Creed chooses Rocky at random as his opponent in a title fight, with Adrians support and Mickey becoming his trainer and manager, Rocky fights for his self-respect. Soon after proving himself, even with a decision loss to Apollo Creed. He marries Adrian and begins spending the money he earned from the match, but after he fails at both endorsements and a series of low-wage jobs, Rocky realizes the only way he can survive is to begin boxing again. Creed on the hand, faces criticism from fans to overcome the fight. As a result, he taunts Rocky publicly into a rematch, in the fifteenth round, Rocky knocks Creed to the ground, falling to the canvas himself in the process. Both fighters struggle to get to their feet, but only Rocky is successful, for the first time, Rocky is declared the World Heavyweight Champion. After winning the title, Rocky takes advantage of his newfound wealth and fame, appearing in multiple advertisements and television programs. After defending the title multiple times, he is prepared to retire, Rocky, after dealing with Mickeys heart attack before the fight, is overpowered by the stronger, hungrier Lang and is knocked out in the second round. Mickey passes away after the fight, and former rival Apollo Creed steps in, training Rocky to fight more in Creeds old style and use more guile, in the rematch, Rocky outboxes Lang, tiring the stronger fighter out and eventually knocking him out in the third round. After the fight, Apollo calls in his favor for training Rocky, the film ends as they each throw their first punch. After winning back the title from Clubber Lang, Rocky decides to spend time with his family. However, destiny has other plans for him which doesnt allow him to leave the ring, a new fighter from the USSR, Ivan Drago, has emerged and challenges Rocky to an exhibition match. Apollo fights instead, and the beating he takes from Drago ends with Apollo dying in Rockys arms in the ring as Drago coldly watches, to avenge Apollo, Rocky challenges Drago to a match, which is to be held on Christmas Day in Moscow
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Rocky Balboa (film)
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Rocky Balboa is a 2006 American sports drama film written, directed by, and starring Sylvester Stallone. The film, which features Stallone as underdog boxer Rocky Balboa, is the film in the Rocky series that began with the Academy Award-winning Rocky thirty years earlier in 1976. The film portrays an aging Balboa in retirement, a living in Philadelphia. Rocky Balboa was produced as the sequel to the original Rocky film. According to Stallone, he was negligent in the production of Rocky V leaving him, Stallone also mentioned that the storyline of Rocky Balboa parallels his own struggles and triumphs in recent times. In addition to Stallone, the film stars Burt Young as Paulie, Rockys brother-in-law, and real-life boxer Antonio Tarver as Mason The Line Dixon, boxing promoter Lou DiBella plays himself in the movie and acts as Dixons promoter in the film. Milo Ventimiglia plays Rockys son Robert, now an adult, the film also contains many references to characters and objects from previous installments in the series, especially the first. The film was released on December 20,2006, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Columbia Pictures and it exceeded box office expectations and critical reaction was positive. The film was released in formats for its home media release. It was followed by the 2015 spin-off Creed, in 2006, Rocky, in his mid-fifties and retired from boxing after twenty years, lives a quiet life as a widower, Adrian having died from cancer several years prior. He now runs a small but successful Italian restaurant named after her, Paulie, Rockys brother-in-law and longtime friend, continues to support him whenever he can. Rockys friendship with the two quickly blossoms over the weeks, providing him a much-needed buffer for his anguish. Their relationship mirrors Rocky and Mickey, ESPN broadcasts a computer simulation of a fight between Rocky and Mason, likened to a modern-day version of The Super Fight that ends in a disputed KO victory for Balboa, further riling the champ. In contrast, the simulation inspires Rocky to take up boxing again—an intention that goes public when he successfully renews his boxing license, Dixons promoters thus pitch the idea of holding a charity exhibition bout at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas to bolster Dixons floundering popularity. With some hesitation, both men agree to the match, creating a buzz that stabs at Rockys has-been status. The next day, father and son meet over Adrians grave and reconcile, the two opponents beat each other severely throughout the full ten rounds, ending with both men still standing. Rocky thanks an appreciative Dixon for the fight, and leaves the ring to the adulation of the crowd as the result is announced, it is a win for Dixon by split decision, but Rocky clearly doesnt mind. In the closing shot, Rocky returns home and visits Adrians grave again, thanking her for helping him, Yo Adrian, Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa, retired boxer and former two-time heavyweight champion
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Saturn Award
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The award was initially, and is still sometimes, loosely referred to as a Golden Scroll. The Saturn Awards were created in 1973 and are the oldest Award ceremony dedicated to science fiction, fantasy. The physical award is a representation of the planet Saturn, with its ring composed of film, the Saturn Awards are voted upon by members of the presenting Academy. The Academy is a organization with membership open to the public. Its members include filmmakers Jeff Rector, Rich Correll, Tom De Santo, Mark A. Altman and Irwin Keyes, among others. Although the Award still primarily focuses on films and television in the fiction, fantasy and horror categories. There are also awards for lifetime achievement in film production. The 42nd Saturn Awards were held on June 22,2016, in Burbank, the Saturn Awards are often criticized for having a broad and inconsistent definition of genres, as well as for nominating and awarding movies not related to sci-fi, fantasy or horror. Hugo Award Scream Awards Official website Saturn Awards 2009 at FEARnet Saturn Award at the Internet Movie Database
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People's Choice Awards
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The Peoples Choice Awards is an American awards show, recognizing the people and the work of popular culture, voted on by the general public. The show has been held annually since 1975, the Peoples Choice Awards is broadcast on CBS and is produced by Procter & Gamble and Mark Burnett. In Canada, it is shown on Global, the award shows creator was Bob Stivers, who produced the first show in 1975. The first awards recognized The Sting as Favorite Picture of 1974, Barbra Streisand as the years Favorite Film Actress, ratings for the annual event peaked in 1977, when the third Peoples Choice Awards attracted 35. Procter & Gamble, the only sponsor, bought the show from Stivers in 1982. Apart from the local advertising and network promotional time, all advertising during the awards show is solely by P&G brands. The award categories have varied over the years, for example, the 16th Peoples Choice Awards had categories including Favorite All-Around Movie, and both a Favorite Movie Actor and a World Favorite Movie Actor. At the 23rd Peoples Choice Awards, Rob Reiner was named the Peoples Choice Awards Honoree, in 2008, the Peoples Choice Awards introduced a new category, Favorite Sci-Fi Show. The nominees were Stargate Atlantis, Battlestar Galactica and Doctor Who, Stargate Atlantis was the first recipient of the award. In the 20th century, the awards were based on results from Gallup polls, each year, Gallup took a survey of different categories for favorite actor, actress, movie, artist, television program or group. The scope was unlimited—the public could choose whomever or whatever it liked, the results of the annual survey were announced in the form of the Peoples Choice Awards. Since polls have margins of error, many awards have had ties in at least one category. For instance, in 2003, both Spider-Man and The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring were recognized as Favorite Motion Picture, the winners of the 31st Peoples Choice Awards were decided by online voting rather than Gallup polls. The nominees submitted for Internet voting were selected using a process involving editors at Entertainment Weekly, the shows production team. After being presented with a list of candidates determined by national ratings averages, box office grosses and album sales, the nominees for the 2010 Peoples Choice Awards were determined by the media research company Visible Measures, which specializes in measuring Internet video audience behavior. To measure True Reach, Visible Measures deploys a robust and patented set of technologies with the goal of capturing the universe of Internet video viewership data in near real-time, the first ceremony in 1975 had 14 categories. From Entertainment Weekly A 35th Anniversary article from The Hollywood Reporter
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Pathology (film)
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Pathology is a 2008 crime-horror film directed by Marc Schölermann and written by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor. The cast was announced on April 4,2007 and filming started in May 2007, the film premiered April 11,2008 in the United Kingdom and opened in limited release in the United States on April 18,2008. The intro shows a camera recording faces of corpses, with their mouths being moved by medical students, med school student Teddy Grey graduates top of his class from Harvard and joins one of the nation’s most prestigious pathology programs. There, a rivalry develops between a group of interns and Teddy and they invite him into their group, which entertains itself with a secret after-hours game at the morgue of who can commit the perfect undetectable murder. Eventually the groups leader, Jake Gallo, realizes that Teddy is sleeping with his girlfriend, when Teddy catches several members of the group in lies, he realizes that what initially seemed like vigilante killings are, in actuality, just innocent people murdered for sport. Teddys fiancée Gwen arrives to stay with him in his apartment, Gallo, angered by Juliettes infidelity, kills her for the next game. Gallo realizes what is about to happen and survives, Teddy is seen walking away from the explosion. Later, Gallo manages to kill Gwen in what he believes to be the perfect murder, upon completing his autopsy report on his murdered fiancée, Teddy is knocked out by Gallo and then is forced to trade verbal barbs with him. In the process, they vivisect Gallo, as of December 8,2012, the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 43% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 21 reviews. Metacritic reported the film had a score of 55 out of 100. The soundtrack to Pathology was released on April 29,2008
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Kiss of the Damned
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Kiss of the Damned is a 2012 American vampire horror film written and directed by Xan Cassavetes. The film film played at the 2013 SXSW Film Festival and was released in theaters May 3,2013, the filming locations were New York, NY and New Fairfield, CT. Paolo, a screenwriter staying in Connecticut to write a screenplay, meets and falls in love with Djuna and she confesses to him, but he is refuses to believe, so she requests for him to chain her up so she can prove it to him. Revealed in her form, Paolo is unafraid. He releases the chains that bind her and joins her, receiving her kiss of death and is turned into a vampire, the two continue to live in Djunas large summer house which is actually owned by Xenia, a leader in the vampire community and theatre actress. It is a house of sorts for vampires in Xenias community. Their happy life together is disturbed by the arrival of Mimi, Djunas out of control, Mimi claims she only plans on staying a week and proceeds to generate chaos in their lives. She feeds on human after human, forbidden in their community, seduces Paolo, and offers Xenia a virgin - Anne, Irene is the caretaker of the summer house. Her family has been caretakers for generations due to a blood disorder that makes their blood undesirable to vampires. She overhears Djuna telling Xenia that her sister Mimi has been attacking humans, Mimi is seen recklessly driving her car towards the house, loses control, and crashes. After a small time skip, it is evident dawn is approaching while Mimi is still strapped in the car and she wakes up and races to the house, only to fall short within sight but already burning from the sun. She sees Irene and begs her to help, but Irene ignores her desperate plea and, instead, pulls a cigarette out, next, Paolo and Djuna are preparing to leave the summer house. Paolo is saying how theyre set to go stay with their friends in Italy, as they leave the house, a black trash bag near the entrance tips over. Djuna, Paolo, and Irene look back at it, find nothing of interest, Kiss of the Damned currently has 58% on Rotten Tomatoes. It is most often referred to as inspired by the Gothic vampire movies of the 1970s, vampire film Kiss of the Damned at the Internet Movie Database Official website
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Crackle (company)
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Crackle is an online distributor of original web shows, Hollywood movies, and TV shows. Founded in the early 2000s as Grouper, and rebranded in 2007, the service is free with commercials on all supported platforms. In August 2006, Sony purchased the video site Grouper for $65 million. In late 2008, San Francisco based Crackle was moved to Sony’s Culver City base to be folded into the studio’s digital content operations. In March 2011, Crackle became available for streaming across PS3, Roku boxes, Sony Blu-ray players, in April 2011, Crackle announced that they would release apps for iOS and Android systems in June of the same year. Crackle also partnered with Xbox Live, making its content available for Xbox 360, in June 2013, Crackle released an app for the BlackBerry 10 platform. In December 2013, Crackle made its content available for the Apple TV set-top box, in January 2012, Crackle added Animax to its content, available to viewers in the US and Canada. Towards the end of 2013, the Animax branding was removed, in Australia, Crackle became the free-to-air home of popular soap opera Days of Our Lives after the television broadcaster Nine Network axed the series after 45 years. On April 1,2014, Sony Pictures Television ceased its Crackle operations in the UK, Crackle UK had struggled to gain a large audience due to other competitors like LoveFilm and Netflix. Two days later, NBCUniversal Television & New Media Distribution struck a deal with Crackle to have more than 140 of NBCUnis feature films streamed. But Crackle shut down its UK service in April 2014 without prior notice, on April 30,2014, Crackle announced it would begin carrying Sports Jeopardy. Which as its name implies is a version of the syndicated game show Jeopardy. Dan Patrick will host the series, on April 14,2015, Crackle held its first-ever upfront presentation. During the event, it announced a new feature dubbed Always On, on January 17,2017, Crackle announced that Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee would move to Netflix. Crackle features programming in the key genres, Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror. Crackle has produced and distributed original programing including Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, Chosen, Sports Jeopardy. and full-length feature films Extraction and Joe Dirt 2. Crackle features many Columbia Pictures, TriStar Pictures, Screen Gems, and Sony Pictures Classics titles and Sony-distributed television series like Damages, Rescue Me, The Shield and its content refreshes monthly, with titles being added and taken down. While Crackle officially operates in Canada, beginning in late 2015, original series, like SuperMansion, when that service shut down in 2016, new productions were made available only through Crave TV
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Chosen (TV series)
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Chosen is an American action-thriller television series/web series from Ben Ketai and Ryan Lewis, airing via online streaming video service Crackle. The first season consisted of six episodes released simultaneously, on January 17,2013, on April 30,2014, Crackle renewed the series for a fourth season. Ian Mitchell is a lawyer and father who one day receives a box containing a gun and he is subsequently attacked by another stranger, and discovers that he has been chosen by a mysterious organization known as The Watchers to participate in a lethal game. Nicky Whelan also appears as his ex-wife, and Chad Michael Murray as another player in the game, all 18 episodes of the first three seasons of Chosen were aired in Germany on 13th Street on February 2,2015 through March 9,2015. Chosen at the Internet Movie Database
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The Whispers (TV series)
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It is based loosely on the 1951 Ray Bradbury short story Zero Hour from The Illustrated Man. The pilot episode was ordered to series on May 8,2014, on October 19,2015, ABC canceled The Whispers after one season. A series of accidents occurs around children, who all communicate with the same invisible and they secretly play his games in return for rewards that Drill promises. Claire Bennigan, an FBI child specialist, investigates and finds not only between the different childrens cases, including her own son, but also to her missing husband. Lily Rabe as Special Agent Claire Bennigan, an FBI child specialist who investigates a series connected to an invisible entity named Drill – an alien that only communicates with children. She is Seans wife, Henrys mother and Wes former lover, barry Sloane as Wes Lawrence, a high-ranking Defense Department operative with close ties to the President and the various corridors of power. Wes is the head of Special Projects Division at the DOD, Wes is Lenas estranged husband, Minxs father and Claires former lover. He is Claires estranged husband and Henrys father, kristen Connolly as Lena Lawrence, Wes estranged wife and Minxs mother, who is left vulnerable and unmoored when she discovers Drill is turning her own daughter against her. Derek Webster as Special Agent Jessup Rollins, a divorced and deeply rigid FBI agent. He is reluctant and skeptical regarding the investigation into Drill, although he later faces the truth, catalina Denis as Dr. Maria Benavidez, a doctor caught up in the investigation of Drill after Sean takes her hostage. Kylie Rogers as Millicent Minx Lawrence, Wes and Lenas young daughter, kyle Harrison Breitkopf as Henry Bennigan, Claire and Seans young son, who becomes a friend of Drill and player of his game after Drill cures his deafness and brings his father back to him. David Andrews as Haley Frommer, the Secretary of Defense and Wes boss, dee Wallace as Willie Starling, Claires mother and Henrys grandmother. Alan Ruck as Alex Myers, Executive Director of the FBI, Claire and Jessups boss, jamison Jones as Harrison Weil, Amandas husband and Harpers father, Harrison is an important nuclear scientist who is head of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Autumn Reeser as Amanda Weil, Harrisons wife and Harpers mother, Amanda is involved in an accident caused by Drill. Abby Ryder Fortson as Harper Weil, Harrison and Amandas young daughter who is a friend of Drill and player of his game, alison Araya as Callie, Lenas friend during her troubles with Wes. Catherine Lough Haggquist as Renee, Wes secretary at the DOD, arien Boey as Lucas, a boy who is a friend of Drill and player of his game. Maeve Dudley as Jane, a girl who is a friend of Drill. Terrell Ransom Jr. as Ethan, Renees son who is a friend of Drill, gwynyth Walsh as Dr. Catherine Tully, a renowned outer space expert recruited by the government to work on the investigation into Drill
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Netflix
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Netflix is an American entertainment company founded by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph on August 29,1997, in Scotts Valley, California. It specializes in and provides streaming media and video-on-demand online and DVD by mail, in 2013, Netflix expanded into film and television production, as well as online distribution. As of 2017 the company has its headquarters in Los Gatos, Netflixs initial business model included DVD sales and rental, although Hastings jettisoned DVD sales about a year after Netflixs founding to focus on the DVD rental by mail business. In 2007, Netflix expanded its business with the introduction of streaming media, while retaining the DVD, Netflix entered the content-production industry in 2013, debuting its first series, House of Cards. It has greatly expanded the production of film and television series since then, offering Netflix Original content through its online library of films. Netflix released an estimated 126 original series or films in 2016, in January 2017, Netflix reported having over 93 million subscribers worldwide, including more than 49 million in the United States. Netflix was founded on August 29,1997, in Scotts Valley, California, by Marc Randolph, Randolph worked as marketing director for Hastings company, Pure Atria Corporation. Randolph was a co-founder of MicroWarehouse, a mail order company. Hastings, a computer scientist and mathematician, sold Pure Atria to Rational Software Corporation in 1997 for $700 million in what was then the richest acquisition in Silicon Valley history. Hastings, Randolphs mother and Integrity QA founder Steve Kahn invested $2.5 million in cash for Netflix. Randolph admired the fledgling e-commerce company Amazon and wanted to find a category of portable items to sell over the internet using a similar model. He and Hastings considered and rejected VHS tapes as too expensive to stock and too delicate to ship. When they heard about DVDs, which were available in only a few markets in 1997, when the disc arrived intact, they decided to take on the $16 billion home video sales and rental industry. Netflix introduced the monthly subscription concept in September 1999, and then dropped the model in early 2000. Since that time, the company has built its reputation on the model of flat-fee unlimited rentals without due dates, late fees, shipping and handling fees. In 2000, Netflix offered to be acquired by Blockbuster for $50 million, Netflix initiated an initial public offering on May 29,2002, selling 5.5 million shares of common stock at the price of US$15.00 per share. On June 14,2002, the company sold an additional 825,000 shares of stock at the same price. After incurring substantial losses during its first few years, Netflix posted its first profit during fiscal year 2003, in 2005,35,000 different films were available, and Netflix shipped 1 million DVDs out every day
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House of Ventimiglia
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The Ventimiglia are a noble Italian family that once held fiefdoms in Liguria, France, Spain and Southern Italy. The Ventimiglia family originated from Cono/Corrado Count of Ventimiglia, son of Count Cono, likely Count palatine of Vienne, enrico II de Ventimiglia, Count del Maro married around 1250 Isabella/Elisabetta, countess of Geraci, establish a new branch in the Hohenstaufen Kingdom of Sicily. The counts of Geraci derive by the union of Serlone II dHauteville, a godson and relative of Ruggero Gran Count of Sicily, the French branch uses de Vintimille and the Spanish branch uses de Veintimilla, Vintemilla or Veintimiglia. Eudokia was born in Nicaea about 1248, the daughter of Theodoros II Doukas Laskaris, emperor of Byzantium. She grew up as a princess at the court of Nicaea, Ioannes three sisters, Eudokia among them, were hurriedly married off to foreigners, so that their descendants could not lay claim to the imperial succession. The young Eudokia was married in Constantinople in July 1261 to Guglielmo Pietro de Tenda, count of Ventimiglia et Tende, Tende was a Ligurian region then at the service of Genoa, allies of Michael VIII. This marriage originated the powerful house Lascaris de Vintimille, which stood until the 19th century, Eudokia and Guglielmo Pietro had several children of whom Giovanni I and Lascara/Lucretia would have progeny. Eudokia fled from Liguria to Aragón with her children, some sources say the cause was her husbands death, others that she had been rejected by him. Living at Xàtiva, Saragossa and Castella, Eudokia travelled on diplomatic missions for Jaime II the Just, king of Aragón, who succeeded his brother Alfonso III in 1291. In 1296 she founded a convent of the Order of Poor Ladies and the sanctuary of Mare de Déu de la Serra at Montblanc and she also donated an Italian image of the Virgin to the convent. The image can still be seen there and she died in Saragossa in 1311, and her remains rest at the Dominican monastery there. Giovanni II Ventimiglia, sixth Marquis of Geraci, awarded by king Charles I of Spain, a keen supporter of the mathematical sciences, President of Sicily, 1595–1598 and 1606 -1607. Supported the efforts of scientist Francesco Maurolico, salvatore Ventimiglia, Bishop of Catania, son of the 3rd Princes of Belmonte From the Counts and Marquises of Geraci descends the living Prof. Dr. An impoverished branch of this noble house immigrated to the United States, lord of Isnello Centro Studi Ventimigliani. Histoire généalogique de la maison de Vintimille
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Vietnam veteran
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A Vietnam veteran is someone who served in the armed forces of participating countries during the Vietnam War. The U. S. government officially refers to all as Vietnam-era veterans, in the English-speaking world, the term Vietnam veteran is not usually used in relation to members of the communist Peoples Army of Vietnam or the National Liberation Front. It is known that during 1969–1971, there were about 22,000 ARVN combat deaths per year, the official number of anti-communist Vietnamese personnel killed in action was 220,357. Following the communist victory on April 30,1975, South Vietnamese veterans were rounded up and sent to reeducation camps and they were detained without trial for up to decades at a time. After being released, they and their children faced significant discrimination from the communist government, a significant proportion of the surviving South Vietnamese veterans left Vietnam for Western countries, either as boat people or through the Humanitarian Operation. According to the U. S. was discharged or released from duty for a service connected disability if any part of such active duty was performed between August 5,1964 and May 7,1975. Served on active duty for more than 180 days and served in the Republic of Vietnam between February 28,1961 and May 7,1975. In 2004, the U. S. Census Bureau reported there were 8.2 million Vietnam veterans still in the country at the time, of these,2.59 million were reported to have served in country. More than 58,000 U. S. military personnel died as a result of the conflict and this comprises deaths from all categories including deaths while missing, captured, non-hostile deaths, homicides, and suicides. The Vietnam War was the last American war with conscription, Republic Of China, Spain and Philippines contributed assistance in non-combat roles. The Royal Australian Navy performed a variety of tasks at sea, ashore. The 1st Australian Task Force consisted of Army, Navy and Air Force personnel, 1st Australian Logistic Support Group was 1 ATFs ground support unit, composed of engineer, transport, ordnance, medical and service corps units. Australian Army training teams followed the withdrawal of forces in 1971. According to official statistics,501 personnel died or went missing in action during the Vietnam War and 2400 were wounded. During the Vietnam era, more than 30,000 Canadians served in the US armed forces,110 Canadians died in Vietnam, Fred Graffen, military historian with the Canadian War Museum, estimated in Vietnam Magazine that approximately 12,000 of these personnel served in Vietnam. Most of these were natives of Canada who lived in the United States, the military of Canada did not officially participate in the war effort, as it was appointed to the UN truce commissions and thus had to remain officially neutral in the conflict. Initially, New Zealand provided a 25-man team of RNZE engineers from 1964-1965, in May 1965, New Zealand replaced the engineers with a 4 gun artillery battery which served until 1971. 750 men served with the battery during this time, in 1967 the first of two rifle companies of infantry, designated Victor Company, arrived shortly thereafter followed by Whiskey company
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Italian Americans
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Italian Americans are an ethnic group comprising Americans who have full or partial ancestry from Italy, especially those who identify with that ancestry, along with their cultural characteristics. Italian Americans are the fourth largest European ethnic group in the United States, about 5.5 million Italians immigrated to the United States from 1820 to 2004. Immigration began in earnest during the 1870s, when more than twice as many Italians immigrated than during the five previous decades altogether. The 1870s were followed by the greatest surge of immigration, which occurred in the period between 1880 and 1914 and brought more than 4 million Italians to America. This period of large scale immigration ended abruptly with the onset of the First World War in 1914 and, except for one year, further immigration would be greatly limited by a number of restrictive laws passed by Congress in the 1920s. Approximately 84% of the Italian immigrants came from Southern Italy and Sicily, after unification, the Italian government initially encouraged emigration to relieve economic pressures in the South. After the American Civil War, which resulted in over a million killed or wounded, immigrant workers were recruited from Italy. In the United States, most Italians began their new lives as manual laborers in Eastern cities, mining camps, Italian Americans gradually moved from the lower rungs of the economic scale in the first generation to a level comparable to the national average by 1970. By 1990, more than 65% of Italian Americans were managerial, professional, the Italian-American communities have often been characterized by strong ties with family, the Catholic Church, fraternal organizations and political parties. Today, over 17 million Americans claim Italian ancestry, third only to Brazil with 31 million, and Argentina, Italians and their descendants in America have helped to shape the country and, in turn, have adapted to it. They have gained prominence in politics, sports, the media, the arts, the culinary arts. Italian navigators and explorers played a key role in the discovery, exploration, christopher Columbus, the explorer who first reached the Americas in 1492–1504, was Italian. Another notable Italian explorer, Amerigo Vespucci, who explored the east coast of South America between 1499 and 1502, is the source of the name America. Englands claims in North America were based on the voyages of the Italian explorer John Cabot, in 1524 the Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano was the first European to map the Atlantic coast of todays United States, and to enter New York Bay. In 1539, Marco da Nizza, explored the territory later became the states of Arizona. In the 17th century, Henri de Tonti, together with the French explorer LaSalle, De Tonti founded the first European settlement in Illinois in 1679, and in Arkansas in 1683. With LaSalle, he co-founded New Orleans, and was governor of the Louisiana Territory for the next 20 years and his brother Alphonse de Tonty, with French explorer Antoine Cadillac, was the co-founder of Detroit in 1701, and was its acting colonial governor for 12 years. Spain and France were Catholic countries and sent many missionaries to convert the native population, included among these missionaries were numerous Italians
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Sicilian American
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Sicilian Americans are Americans of Sicilian birth or ancestry. They are one of the largest and most prominent Italian American groups in the United States, Sicilian Americans are a subset of Italian Americans often considered a separate group due to cultural and historical differences. The first Sicilians arrived in what is now the United States in the century as explorers. Sicilian emigration to the US then grew substantially in the period starting in the 1880s, the Emergency Quota Act, and the subsequent discriminatory Immigration Act of 1924 effectively ended immigration from Southern Europe. This period saw political and economic shifts in Sicily that made emigration desirable, elements of Sicilian culture came with them, such as theatre and music. Giovanni De Rosalia was a noted Sicilian American playwright in the early period, in music Sicilian Americans would be linked, to some extent, to jazz. Many of the more popular cities for Sicilian immigrants, like New Orleans or Chicago, are pivotal in the history of jazz, in Chicago the predominantly Sicilian neighborhood was called Little Sicily and in New Orleans it was Little Palermo. One of the earliest, and among the most controversial, figures in jazz was Nick LaRocca, modern Sicilian American jazz artists include Bobby Militello and Chuck Mangione. The Sicilian-American respect for San Giuseppe is reflected in the celebration of the Feast of St. Joseph, primarily in New Orleans and Buffalo, every March 19. The tables are the vestiges of a Sicilian legend which states that farmers prayed to St. Joseph, promising if he interceded in a drought. The foods served at such tables include, pasta con sarde, lenticchie, desserts include sfinge or zeppoli, a light puff pastry, pignolati, and cannoli, a Sicilian creation. One tradition has each guest at a St. Josephs Day table receiving a slice of orange, a bit of fennel, Sicilian-American immigrants often faced unjust stereotypes and discrimination, often from other Italians. Tensions between Italian regions had not been resolved with unification, and northern Italians had sayings that unjustifiably painted Sicilians as untrustworthy. A more persistent stereotype linked Sicilian Americans to the Mafia, List of Sicilian Americans List of Italian Americans Every culture. com Arba Sicula Sicilian American Theater Magna GRECE Ethno-cultural journal for people of Southern-Italian descent
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English people
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The English are a nation and an ethnic group native to England, who speak the English language. The English identity is of medieval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Angelcynn. Their ethnonym is derived from the Angles, one of the Germanic peoples who migrated to Great Britain around the 5th century AD, England is one of the countries of the United Kingdom. Collectively known as the Anglo-Saxons, they founded what was to become England along with the later Danes, Normans, in the Acts of Union 1707, the Kingdom of England was succeeded by the Kingdom of Great Britain. Over the years, English customs and identity have become closely aligned with British customs. The English people are the source of the English language, the Westminster system and these and other English cultural characteristics have spread worldwide, in part as a result of the former British Empire. The concept of an English nation is far older than that of the British nation, many recent immigrants to England have assumed a solely British identity, while others have developed dual or mixed identities. Use of the word English to describe Britons from ethnic minorities in England is complicated by most non-white people in England identifying as British rather than English. In their 2004 Annual Population Survey, the Office for National Statistics compared the ethnic identities of British people with their national identity. They found that while 58% of white people in England described their nationality as English and it is unclear how many British people consider themselves English. Following complaints about this, the 2011 census was changed to allow respondents to record their English, Welsh, Scottish, another complication in defining the English is a common tendency for the words English and British to be used interchangeably, especially overseas. In his study of English identity, Krishan Kumar describes a common slip of the tongue in which people say English, I mean British. He notes that this slip is made only by the English themselves and by foreigners. Kumar suggests that although this blurring is a sign of Englands dominant position with the UK and it tells of the difficulty that most English people have of distinguishing themselves, in a collective way, from the other inhabitants of the British Isles. In 1965, the historian A. J. P. Taylor wrote, When the Oxford History of England was launched a generation ago and it meant indiscriminately England and Wales, Great Britain, the United Kingdom, and even the British Empire. Foreigners used it as the name of a Great Power and indeed continue to do so, bonar Law, by origin a Scotch Canadian, was not ashamed to describe himself as Prime Minister of England Now terms have become more rigorous. The use of England except for a geographic area brings protests and this version of history is now regarded by many historians as incorrect, on the basis of more recent genetic and archaeological research. The 2016 study authored by Stephan Schiffels et al, the remaining portion of English DNA is primarily French, introduced in a migration after the end of the Ice Age
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Scottish people
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The Scottish people, or Scots, are a nation and ethnic group native to Scotland. Historically, they emerged from an amalgamation of the Picts and Gaels, who founded the Kingdom of Scotland in the 9th century, and are thought to have been ethnolinguistically Celts. Later, the neighbouring Cumbrian Britons, who spoke a Celtic language, as well as Germanic-speaking Anglo-Saxons. In modern usage, Scottish people or Scots is used to refer to anyone whose linguistic, cultural, the Latin word Scotti, originally the word referred specifically to the Gaels, but came to describe all inhabitants of Scotland. Considered archaic or pejorative, the term Scotch has also used for Scottish people. John Kenneth Galbraith in his book The Scotch documents the descendants of 19th-century Scottish pioneers who settled in Southwestern Ontario and he states the book was meant to give a true picture of life in the community in the early decades of the 20th century. People of Scottish descent live in countries other than Scotland. Scottish emigrants took with them their Scottish languages and culture, large populations of Scottish people settled the new-world lands of North and South America, Australia and New Zealand. Canada has the highest level of Scottish descendants per capita in the world, Scotland has seen migration and settlement of many peoples at different periods in its history. The Gaels, the Picts and the Britons have their origin myths. The Venerable Bede tells of the Scotti coming from Spain via Ireland, Germanic peoples, such as the Anglo-Saxons, arrived beginning in the 7th century, while the Norse invaded and colonized parts of Scotland from the 8th century onwards. In the High Middle Ages, from the reign of David I of Scotland, there was emigration from France, England. Some famous Scottish family names, including bearing the names which became Bruce, Balliol, Murray. Today Scotland is one of the countries of the United Kingdom, culturally, these peoples are grouped according to language. Most of Scotland until the 13th century spoke Celtic languages and these included, at least initially, the Britons, as well as the Gaels and the Picts. Germanic peoples included the Angles of Northumbria, who settled in south-eastern Scotland in the region between the Firth of Forth to the north and the River Tweed to the south. They also occupied the south-west of Scotland up to and including the Plain of Kyle and their language, south-east of the Firth of Forth, then in Lothian and the Borders, a northern variety of Old English, also known as Early Scots, was spoken. The Northern Isles and some parts of Caithness were Norn-speaking, from 1500 on, Scotland was commonly divided by language into two groups of people, Gaelic-speaking Highlanders and the Inglis-speaking Lowlanders
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Sylvester Stallone
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Michael Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone is an American actor, filmmaker, and screenwriter. He wrote or co-wrote most of the 14 films in all three franchises, and directed many of the films, Stallones film Rocky was inducted into the National Film Registry as well as having its film props placed in the Smithsonian Museum. Stallones use of the front entrance to the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the Rocky series led the area to be nicknamed the Rocky Steps, Philadelphia has a statue of his Rocky character placed permanently near the museum. It was announced on December 7,2010 that Stallone was voted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in the non-participant category, in 1977, Stallone was nominated for two Academy Awards for Rocky, Best Original Screenplay and Best Actor. He became the man in history to receive these two nominations for the same film, after Charles Chaplin and Orson Welles. He received critical raves, as well as his first Golden Globe Award win and third Academy Award nomination, Stallones father was born in Gioia del Colle, Apulia, Italy, and immigrated to the United States in the 1930s. Stallones mother is of half French and half Russian Jewish descent and his younger brother is actor and musician Frank Stallone. As a result, the left side of his face is paralyzed – including parts of his lip, tongue. Around the age of 4, Stallone was flat-footed and put in a tap dancing school by his mother and his father moved the family to Washington, D. C. in the early 1950s, where he opened a beauty school. His mother opened a gymnasium called Barbellas in 1954. Stallones parents divorced when Sylvester was nine, and he lived with his mother. When Stallone was 16, he scored poorly in school and his mother got him a job at her beauty salon. He attended Notre Dame Academy and Lincoln High School in Philadelphia, and Charlotte Hall Military Academy, prior to attending Miami Dade College, Stallone had his first starring role in the soft core pornography feature film The Party at Kitty and Studs. He was paid US$200 for two days work, Stallone later explained that he had done the film out of desperation after being evicted from his apartment and finding himself homeless for several days. He has also said that he slept three weeks in the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York City prior to seeing a casting notice for the film. In the actors words, it was either do that movie or rob someone, the film was released several years later as Italian Stallion, in order to cash in on Stallones newfound fame. While he was in Switzerland, Stallone got his start in films, playing an extra eating in a restaurant near to stars Robert Redford and Camilla Sparv, in the sports drama, Downhill Racer. In 1970, Stallone appeared in the film No Place to Hide, which was re-cut and retitled Rebel, in the Lemmon film, Jack Lemmons character chases, tackles and mugs Stallone, thinking that Stallones character is a pickpocket
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El Modena High School
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The school celebrated its 40th anniversary during the 2006-7 school year. El Modena High is part of the Orange Unified School District, a vanguard, used as the schools mascot, is a soldier in the foremost division or the front part of an army. Vanguards are the troops assembled in the front line going into battle. Wrestling, CIF champions in 2000,2003, and 2014, previously they competed in the Western Band Association. Once finishing Marching season, near the end of footballs season, the Vanguard Marching Band percussion section forms the Vanguard Percussion Ensemble. The Colorguard forms the El Modena Winter guard and these two groups, since some time after 1969, traditionally perform on a tarp inside of the basketball court or high school gym. The third group is the Concert Band, formed by the band and they play varied pieces such as soundtracks and scored originals and regularly performance through the winter and spring. Yearbook- El Modena boasts a national award-winning yearbook titled Escena, which means scene in Latin, the yearbook is annually sent to a national competition and has received a Gold Standard award for its book in the year 2007. In 2011, El Modenas yearbook staff received 12 individual and group awards before the publication of their book even began
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Orange, California
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Orange is a city located in Orange County, California. It is approximately 3 miles north of the county seat, Santa Ana, Orange is unusual in this region because many of the homes in its Old Town District were built prior to 1920. While many other cities in the region demolished such houses in the 1960s, the small affluent city of Villa Park is surrounded by the city of Orange. The population was 139,812 as of 2014, members of the Tongva and Juaneño/Luiseño ethnic group long inhabited this area. After the 1769 expedition of Gaspar de Portolà, an out of San Blas, Nayarit, Mexico, led by Father Junípero Serra. On November 1,1776, Mission San Juan Capistrano became the areas first permanent European settlement in Alta California, in 1801, the Spanish Empire granted 62,500 acres to José Antonio Yorba, which he named Rancho San Antonio. Yorbas great rancho included the lands where the cities of Olive, Orange, Villa Park, Santa Ana, Tustin, Costa Mesa, smaller ranchos evolved from this large rancho, including the Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana. Since at least 1864, Los Angeles attorneys Alfred Chapman and Andrew Glassell together and separately, water was the key factor for the location of their townsite. Glassell needed a spot he could irrigate, bringing water down from the Santa Ana Canyon, originally the community was named Richland, but in 1873 Richland got a new name. In the book, Orange, The City Round The Plaza by local historian Phil Brigandi, it states, In 1873 the town had large enough to require a post office. It was refused, however, as there was already a Richland, undaunted, the Richlanders proposed a new name – Orange. The small town was incorporated on April 6,1888, under the laws of the state of California. Orange was the city in Orange County to be planned and built around a plaza. Orange was the first developed town site to be served by the California Southern Railroad when the nations second transcontinental rail line reached Orange County. The town experienced its first growth spurt during the last decade of the 19th century, thanks to ever-increasing demands for California-grown citrus fruits, Southern Californias real estate boom of 1886–1888, fueled by railroad rate wars, also contributed to a marked increase in population. Like most cities in Orange County, agriculture formed the backbone of the economy, and growth thereafter was slow and steady until the 1950s. The city has an area of 25.2 square miles,24.8 square miles of which is land and 0.4 square miles of which is water. The total area is 1. 75% water, Southern California is well known for year-round pleasant weather, – On average, the warmest month is August
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American Conservatory Theater
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American Conservatory Theater is a large non-profit theater company in San Francisco, California, that offers both classical and contemporary theater productions, as well as being an acting school. A. C. T. was founded in 1965 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in conjunction with the Pittsburgh Playhouse and Carnegie Mellon University by theatre, San Francisco Chronicle critic Paine Knickerbocker acclaimed Balls opening performance of Molières Tartuffe as a screaming, bellowing unbelievable triumph. In the mid-1980s, Ball, suffering from exhaustion and under accusations of mismanagement, was forced to relinquish his post as artistic director. Founding member and stage director Edward Hastings, who revived the companys fortunes until the Geary Theatre was severely damaged by the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, the company continued performing in a variety of San Francisco venues while laying the groundwork for its restoration. Since 1992, Carey Perloff has served as A. C. T. s Artistic Director, a. C. T. is now financially secure and has achieved continued acclaim for its work. Released a cast album of Perloffs production of the Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill musical Happy End and it includes the full score and is the first English language recording of this musical. A. C. T. s home in San Francisco is the eponymous American Conservatory Theater, previously known as the Columbia Theater, the American Conservatory Theater was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 27,1975. A. C. T. s founders vision was for it to be both a company and acting school. The conservatory currently offers a range of classes and is accredited to grant Master of Fine Arts degrees for actors. Its MFA program is competitive, admitting only eight students per year among hundreds who audition. It was ranked by U. S. News & World Report as one of the top five graduate acting training programs in the U. S. along with schools like Juilliard, Yale, the current director of the conservatory is Melissa Smith. Tom OBrien, Harry Hamlin, Anna Deavere Smith, Omar Metwally, Steven W. Bailey, in addition to the MFA program, A. C. T. offers training through the Studio A. C. T. The Summer Training Congress, and Young Conservatory programs, alumni of these programs include Nicolas Cage, Teri Hatcher, Delroy Lindo, Milo Ventimiglia, Winona Ryder, Camryn Manheim, Marcus Orelias, Darren Criss, and Chris Pine. A. C. T. s Young Conservatory is a recognized professional theater training program for youth through the ages of 19. It was founded by Luanne and Ross Graham in 1971, successive YC directors include, Candace Birk, Sharon Newman, Linda Aldrich, and Susan Stauter. The program has led since 1988 by the acclaimed Craig Slaight. The Young Conservatory is geared at performing new works specifically for young actors, the conservatory members are also offered roles in the mainstage productions, most frequently A Christmas Carol, which is performed every winter. The first person to be given the sound designer in regional theatre was Dan Dugan at A. C. T. in the late 1960s
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The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
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The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is an American sitcom that originally aired on NBC from September 10,1990, to May 20,1996. In the series, his lifestyle often clashes with the lifestyle of his relatives in Bel Air, the series ran for six seasons and aired 148 episodes. In December 1989, NBC approached Will Smith, a rapper during the late 1980s. The pilot episode began taping on May 1,1990, Season 1 aired in July 1990 and ended in March 1991. The series finale was taped on Thursday, March 21,1996, the theme song Yo Home to Bel Air was written and performed by Smith under his rap stage name, The Fresh Prince. The music was composed by Quincy Jones, who is credited with Smith at the end of each episode, the music often used to bridge scenes together during the show is based on a similar chord structure. The theme song and opening sequence set the premise of the show, will Smith is a street-smart teenager, born and raised in West Philadelphia. Will Smith as Will Smith James Avery as Philip Banks Janet Hubert-Whitten, to gain popularity between the two shows, Will Smith appeared in the Blossom episode Im with the Band as himself under his rap stage name, The Fresh Prince. That same season, Karyn Parsons appeared in the Blossom episode Wake Up Little Suzy as Hilary Banks, Parsons also appeared in the Patti LaBelle sitcom, Out All Night as Hilary. In the House and Fresh Prince were both produced by Winifred Hervey, David Salzman and Quincy Jones. During the second seasons first episode, Alfonso Ribeiro and Tatyana Ali appeared as their Fresh Prince characters in the crossover episode Dog Catchers, later that season, James Avery appeared as a mediator in the episode Love on a One-Way Street. In the Season 4 episode My Pest Friends Wedding, James Avery, both Avery and Reid portrayed the parents of Ribeiros Fresh Prince character. Joseph Marcell, who played the wisecracking Geoffrey Butler on Fresh Prince, the series was produced by NBC Productions in association with The Stuffed Dog Company and Quincy Jones Entertainment. After the show was released to syndication in 1994, the series has been distributed by Warner Bros, television, which continues to distribute the show worldwide. TBS continues to air the series today, early in the morning. Reruns also aired on WPIX-TV back to back weeknights at 6 pm &6,30 pm EST from 1994 until 2000, but, the series was still rerunning on The WBs affiliation WPIX-TV until 2006. The show returned to Nick at Nite on September 29,2014, but in August 2010, Disney XD stopped airing the show. ABC Family acquired the series in September 2008, though airing all 148 episodes, originally airing exclusively on Saturday nights, on September 29,2014, Disney/ABC rights to the show expired
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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
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CSI, Crime Scene Investigation is a procedural forensics crime drama television series that premiered on CBS October 6,2000. The series, starring William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Laurence Fishburne, Ted Danson, the series concluded on September 27,2015, after 15 seasons, with a feature-length finale titled Immortality. The team is led by Gil Grissom, a socially-awkward forensic entomologist. Grissoms second-in-command, Catherine Willows, is a mother with a cops instinct. Born and raised in Vegas, Catherine was a stripper before being recruited into law enforcement, following Grissoms departure during the ninth season of the series, Catherine is promoted to Supervisor. After overseeing the training of new investigator Raymond Langston, Willows is replaced by D. B, Russell, and recruited to the FBI shortly thereafter. Russell is a man, a keen forensic botanist and a veteran of the Seattle Crime Lab. In the series season, Russell is reunited with his former partner Julie Finlay. During the 1990s, Anthony Zuiker caught producer Jerry Bruckheimers attention after writing his first movie script, Zuiker was convinced that there was a series in the concept, Bruckheimer agreed and arranged a meeting with the head of Touchstone Pictures. The studios head at the time liked the script and presented it to ABC, NBC and Fox executives. The head of development at CBS saw potential in the script, and the network had a pay-or-play contract with actor William Petersen. The networks executives liked the pilot so much that they decided to include it in their 2000 schedule immediately, airing on Fridays after The Fugitive. Initially it was thought that CSI would benefit from The Fugitive, which was expected to be a hit, formerly a co-production with the now-defunct Alliance Atlantis Communications, that companys interest was later bought by the investment firm GS Capital Partners, an affiliate of Goldman Sachs. CBS acquired AACs international distribution rights to the program, though the non-US DVD distribution rights did not change, the series is currently in syndication, and reruns are broadcast in the U. S. on the Spike and TV Land cable networks. The show has aired in reruns on the USA Network since January 14,2011, the CSI catalog has been exclusive to the whole NBC Universal portfolio since September 2014. Occasionally, the cast would still shoot on location in Las Vegas, other California locations include Verdugo Hills High School, UCLAs Royce Hall, Pasadena City Hall, and California State University, Los Angeles. While shooting took place primarily at Universal Studios in Universal City, California, CSIs theme song was, since season one, Who Are You, written by Pete Townshend with vocals by lead singer Roger Daltrey of The Who. In certain countries, to music licensing fees, a unique theme was used instead
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Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV series)
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Sabrina the Teenage Witch is an American sitcom based on the Archie Comics series of the same name. The show premiered on September 27,1996, on ABC to over 17 million viewers in its “T. G. I. F. ”The show stars Melissa Joan Hart as Sabrina Spellman, an American teenager who, on her sixteenth birthday, discovers she has magical powers. The series first four aired on ABC from September 27,1996, to May 5,2000. The unofficial pilot of the series was the 1996 TV movie Sabrina the Teenage Witch in April that year, when the television series debuted on ABC later that year, Hart became Sabrina Spellman, and Caroline Rhea and Beth Broderick replaced Fernetz and Miller. In 2000, the show was dropped by ABC and picked up by The WB, when viewership began to wane, the show was canceled after seven seasons. The television series was produced by Hartbreak Films and Viacom Productions with Finishing the Hat Productions being there for season 1 only, later it was syndicated through Paramount Domestic Television on reruns. Then in 2007, the arm was renamed from CBS Paramount Domestic Television to CBS Television Distribution, whose name is on the season 4,5,6. The official copyright holder for the series is CBS Studios Productions, the opening titles of the first three seasons shows Sabrina in front of a mirror posing with four different costumes and outfits as the cast members names quickly flash on the bottom of the screen. The first three outfits are always the same, but the fourth one changes from episode to episode, at the end, Sabrina would say something that is related to the last costume, and then magically disappear from head on down. In the final season, however, the computer graphics morph Sabrina arriving at Scorch, upon pushing the door open, she is revealed to be walking into her house to greet Roxie, Morgan, and Salem. The actual house photographed and filmed to depict Spellman Manor is a Victorian mansion located at 64 E, main St in Freehold, New Jersey. The exteriors for Westbridge High School, which Sabrina attended, were Dwight Morrow High School in Englewood, the show went through many cast changes, the first major change being the unexplained departure of Sabrinas best friend Jenny Kelly at the end of the first season. At the beginning of the season, Valerie departs the show permanently along with Libby. Valeries character moves away to Alaska with her family, while Libby transfers to a boarding school, when the series finished its fourth season, several secondary characters left the show, including Martin Mull and Nate Richert. Richert, who played Sabrinas boyfriend Harvey since the first season, was cut in order to give the show a more grown-up look as Sabrina was about to attend college, the decision was later rescinded, and Richert appeared in season five and then returned as a series regular. After the series season, Caroline Rhea and Beth Broderick. When the character of Sabrina started to attend college, the role of her aunts became less important, Broderick felt that the role of Zelda had nothing more to offer, while Rhea landed her own syndicated talk show, The Caroline Rhea Show. Trevor Lissauer, who played Sabrinas housemate Miles, left the show appearing in seasons five
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
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Law & Order, Special Victims Unit is an American police procedural, legal, crime drama television series set in New York City, where it is also primarily produced. In the style of the original Law & Order, episodes are often ripped from the headlines or loosely based on crimes that have received media attention. Created and produced by Dick Wolf, the series premiered on NBC on September 20,1999, the show began its 18th season on September 21,2016, and has aired 404 original episodes as of April 5,2017. As the series progressed, additional supporting characters were added as allies of the detectives in the New York County Manhattan District Attorneys office, certain episodes will go into detail about detectives personal lives and how they may or may not tie into the crimes dealt with during the show. Typical episodes follow the detectives and their colleagues as they investigate and prosecute sexually based offenses, on February 1,2016, the series was renewed for an eighteenth season. The season premiered on Wednesday, September 21,2016 at 9 p. m. on NBC, the crime inspired Dick Wolf to write the story for the season one episode of Law & Order titled Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die. Even after writing the episode, however, the continued to haunt Wolf. The original title of the show was Sex Crimes, reflecting the nature of the crimes depicted on the show. Initially there was concern among the producers that, should Sex Crimes fail, additionally, Ted Kotcheff wanted to create a new series that was not dependent upon the original series for success. Wolf felt, however, that it was important and commercially desirable to have Law & Order in the title, the first episode, Payback, premiered on NBC on September 20,1999. Executive producer Neal Baer left Law & Order, SVU as show-runner at the end of twelve, after eleven years on the show. Baer was replaced by former Law & Order, Criminal Intent executive producer/showrunner Warren Leight, in March 2015 it was announced that Warren Leight signed a three-year deal with Sony Pictures Television, that will allow him to work on SVU one more season, its seventeenth. Leight joined the show in season thirteen and it was announced on March 10,2016 that original Law & Order veteran producer Rick Eid would take Leights place as showrunner/executive producer starting in season 18. Creator Dick Wolf commented to The Hollywood Reporter, Im extremely pleased that Rick had decided to rejoin the family and hope that he will be here for years to come. Many exterior scenes of Law & Order, Special Victims Unit are filmed on location in New York City, Wolfs home town, as the NYPD encounters varied law enforcement challenges on a daily basis, the backdrop provides the writers a supply of ideal locations from which to choose. When searching for a place to film the interiors of the show, the show moved into the studio space at Chelsea Piers that had been occupied by the original Law & Order series until its cancellation in May 2010. Fort Lee, New Jersey served as the location for Detective Elliot Stablers residence in Queens. The show originally aired on Monday nights at 9,00 p. m. ET for the first nine episodes, from September 20 through November 29,1999
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Boston Public
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Boston Public is an American drama television series created by David E. Kelley and broadcast on Fox. Set in Boston, the series centers on Winslow High School and it features a large ensemble cast and focuses on the work and private lives of the various teachers, students, and administrators at the school. It aired from October 2000 to January 2004 and its slogan was Every day is a fight. Boston Public initially preceded Ally McBeal on Monday nights, became revered and received acclaim for its drama. However, Fox moved it to the Friday night death slot for its fourth season, viewership declined as a result and it was canceled after the 13th episode aired on January 30,2004. Production halted after the 15th episode was completed, the final two episodes aired on March 1 and 2,2005 later in syndication on TV One. Neither episode wrapped up any character stories, Boston Public was the winner of the 2002 Peabody Award from the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia. Boston Public ran for four seasons, consisting of 81 episodes, each season contained 22 episodes, except the fourth season which had 15 episodes due to cancellation. After Boston Public was canceled, Chi McBride reprised the role of Steven Harper on an episode of The Practice spin-off series Boston Legal in the episode Let Sales Ring, Boston Public received a total of 31 nominations from various award ceremonies, and won 8 of them. com
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Rob Estes
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Robert Rob Estes is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Harry Wilson on the teen drama series 90210, Chris Lorenzo on the crime drama series Silk Stalkings, and as Kyle McBride on the prime time soap opera Melrose Place. Estes first became interested in a career while training to be a stunt double. One of his first acting jobs was in the soap opera Days of Our Lives playing Glenn Gallagher and he later gained widespread recognition for his role as Sergeant Chris Lorenzo in Silk Stalkings, half of the dynamic duo alongside Mitzi Kapture. In 1993, Estes had a guest role on the prime time Fox soap opera Melrose Place, three years later, the producers of the series brought him back but cast him in a different role, that of restaurateur Kyle McBride. Estes played the role from 1996 to the cancellation in 1999. Following Melrose Place he had guest starring roles on Providence, Suddenly Susan, Law & Order, Special Victims Unit and he also performed in theatre, and had roles in Same Time, Next Year and The Lake. Estes starred in the comedy film I Do, They Dont and he made his return to series television playing Sean Cole in the ABC television crime drama The Evidence. He completed a role on CSI, Miami as Nick Townsend. In a January 2007 episode, he was murdered by the husband of a killer to cover up her crime, Estes then portrayed Lieutenant Tom Hogan, Inspector Lindsay Boxers ex-husband and current boss in the ABC police procedural and legal drama Womens Murder Club. In May 2008, Estes was cast as Harry Wilson in 90210 on The CW, the series, like Melrose Place before it, is a spin-off from the original 1990s series Beverly Hills,90210, marking Estes third appearance in the franchise. On January 20,2010, Estes announced that the season of 90210 would be his last. This is my final season on 90210 and I wish the show, cast and crew nothing, on May 1,1992, Estes married actress Josie Bissett, another cast member of Melrose Place. In 2005, they separated, with Estes reportedly moving out of their Seattle home at his wifes request, the couple have two children together Mason Tru and Maya Rose. In January,2006 the couple announced their plans to divorce, on June 15,2010, Estes married teacher and surfer Erin Bolte. They have a son Makai Ever, born April 29,2011, Estes resides in Orange County with his wife Erin and two sons, Mason and Makai http, //www. coastmagazine. com/articles/0px-4060-margin-5px. html. Rob Estes at the Internet Movie Database
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Brittany Snow
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Brittany Anne Snow is an American actress and singer. She then played the protagonist Meg Pryor on the NBC series American Dreams for which she was nominated for a Young Artist Award and her subsequent television roles have included Ariel Alderman on Nip/Tuck and Jenna Backstrom on Harrys Law. Aside from acting and singing, Snow is also the co-creator of the Love is Louder movement, Snow was born and raised in Tampa, Florida, the daughter of Cinda and John Snow. She has a half-brother, John, Jr. and a half-sister and she attended Gaither High School in Tampa. Snow began modeling at the age of three in a print ad for Burdines and she was on CBS Guiding Light for three years as troubled teen Susan Daisy Lemay. She played Meg Pryor on NBCs American Dreams and neo-Nazi high school student Ariel Alderman on the season of Nip/Tuck. In 2005, she appeared in The Pacifier with action star Vin Diesel, in 2006, she was in the film John Tucker Must Die and voiced Naminé in the video game Kingdom Hearts II and Shizuku Tsukishima in the Studio Ghibli film Whisper of the Heart. She also portrayed a woman afflicted with bipolar disorder in the season seven finale of Law & Order. Snow appeared on the video for The Phrase That Pays by The Academy Is. which was released in July 2006. In 2007, she appeared in Hairspray, a adaptation of the Broadway musical, playing Amber Von Tussle. She had already worked with Hairspray director Adam Shankman on the Disney film The Pacifier, with her role in Hairspray, her musical side is shown in several numbers including a solo entitled The New Girl In Town, a song previously cut from the Broadway musical version. She played the role in Prom Night, which was released in April 2008. On January 17,2011, Snow began appearing as a regular in the first season of the legal drama Harrys Law as Jenna. Also in 2011, she starred alongside Evan Ross in the cautionary thriller 96 Minutes, on November 9,2012, Snow was cast in the sitcom Ben and Kate as Lila, a love interest for Tommy. In 2012, Snow starred in the comedy film Pitch Perfect, as a cappella singer Chloe, alongside Anna Kendrick, Anna Camp, Rebel Wilson, Alexis Knapp. She reprised her role in Pitch Perfect 2 and it has been confirmed she will reprise her role in the third installment Pitch Perfect 3. Snow has spoken openly about her battles with eating disorders and co-created the Love is Louder Movement with the JED Foundation to support anyone feeling mistreated, hopeless, or alone. Thousands of individuals, campuses, and communities have used Love is Louders programs, events and clubs to address such as bullying, body image, discrimination
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Daphne Zuniga
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Daphne Eurydice Zuniga is an American film and television actress, and environmentalist. She went on to star in comedies, including Rob Reiners The Sure Thing, opposite John Cusack, as well as the cult comedies Spaceballs. She also starred opposite Lucille Ball in the drama film Stone Pillow. Zuniga would later gain major exposure as an actress for her role as Jo Reynolds on the Fox prime time soap opera Melrose Place from 1992–1996. Other television credits include as Victoria Davis on One Tree Hill, Zuniga was born in San Francisco, California to Agnes A. Zuniga and Joaquin Alberto Zuniga Mazariegos. Her mother is a Unitarian minister, of Polish and Finnish descent, Zuniga has two sisters, Jennifer Zuniga, and Rosario Zuñiga. In her early teens, Zuniga expressed interest in acting, after her parents divorced, Zuniga moved with her mother and sister from Berkeley, California to Reading, Vermont, where she spent the remainder of her teenage years. After leaving college, Zuniga was close friends and roommates with fellow actress Meg Ryan, Zuniga made her film debut in Stephen Carpenters slasher film The Dorm That Dripped Blood, playing a supporting role as a college coed. Two years later, she made her debut in The Initiation, another college-themed slasher co-starring Vera Miles. It was a part, Zuniga recalled. I got to play twins, a sister and an evil sister. I got shot in the back on-screen and it was pretty heavy for a first role. She then appeared in the drama Vision Quest, followed by a role in Rob Reiners The Sure Thing. Thats why The Sure Thing is a small miracle, shortly after, Zuniga was cast in the television drama film Stone Pillow, playing a social worker in New York City who forms a bond with an elderly homeless woman, played by Lucille Ball. She also appeared in the comedy Modern Girls, opposite Cynthia Gibb, in 1987, Zuniga was cast as Princess Vespa in Mel Brookss cult comedy Spaceballs, opposite Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman, and John Candy. Though the film received mixed reception, it later garnered a cult following. In 1992, she was cast as Jo Reynolds in the Fox soap opera Melrose Place, and appeared on the show as a recurring character until 1996. The role garnered Zuniga major exposure to audiences, though her television career had begun in the early eighties with a minor role on Family Ties as a girlfriend of Alex P. Keaton
