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Maple Ridge, British Columbia
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Maple Ridges population in 2016 was 82,256. Its downtown core is known as Haney, Maple Ridge was incorporated as a district municipality on September 12,1874. It covered an area of 33,000 acres yet was home to only approximately 50 families, Maple Ridge is British Columbias fifth-oldest municipality. On March 26,2014, Maple Ridge residents voted to change the status from district municipality to city. Subsequently, Maple Ridge Council submitted its request for change to the Minister of Community, Sport. The status change became official on September 12,2014, which coincided with Maple Ridges 140th anniversary of municipal incorporation, Maple Ridge is made up of several different historical areas including, Some of these areas are identified with a cultural group. For instance, Albion and Websters Corner are represented by the many Finnish families that settled in the area, while Port Hammond is known for its small cottage-like mill houses originally built by the local mill to house its workers. Ruskin is the location of a community hall of the Sons of Norway, Kanaka Creek originally was a community for Kanaka employees of Fort Langley. In the 2011 Census, the City of Maple Ridge had a population of 76,052 living in 28,044 of its 29,158 total dwellings, with a land area of 266.78 km2, it had a population density of 285. 1/km2 in 2011. Early settlers in Maple Ridge engaged in forestry and agriculture, forestry companies continue to be the largest private-sector employers in the district. They include Interfor and companies that manufacture building materials, yachts, Maple Ridge hosted the only North American high volume manufacturer of lithium-ion batteries, E-One Moli Energy. However, the factory suffered major layoffs due to the 2008 recession, venues for performing arts in Maple Ridge include the Arts Centre and Theatre, the bandstand in Memorial Peace Park, and various theatres in local secondary schools. The ACT contains a stage theatre capable of seating 486 for musical and dramatic performances as well as a studio theatre used for other performances, classes. The ACT is also home to a room and smaller classrooms for activities such as pottery. The ACT is a public resource. The Maple Ridge Art Gallery is also located in the ACT, focusing on local artists, Maple Ridge also has several festivals and annual parades, including the Rogers Santa Claus Parade, the Jazz and Blues Festival, and the Caribbean Festival. Maple Ridge is the home of the Maple Ridge Concert Band, Maple Ridge is the hometown of several athletes such as baseball player Larry Walker, deceased race-car driver Greg Moore, and hockey players Cam Neely, Brendan Morrison and Andrew Ladd. Maple Ridge is governed at the level by a seven-member council made up of six councilors
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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 Cards (U.S. TV series)
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House of Cards is an American political drama web television series created by Beau Willimon. It is an adaptation of the BBCs mini-series of the name and is based on the novel by Michael Dobbs. The thirteen episode first season premiered on February 1,2013, thirteen episode seasons followed on February 14,2014, February 27,2015 and March 4,2016. Netflix announced a season due for release on May 30,2017. Willimon has stated plans for the shows future are decided after each season. House of Cards is the story of Frank Underwood, a Democrat from South Carolinas 5th congressional district and House Majority Whip. After being passed over for appointment as Secretary of State, he initiates a plan to get himself into a position of greater power, aided by his wife. The series deals primarily with themes of pragmatism, manipulation. House of Cards has received reviews and several award nominations. It is the first original online-only web television series to receive major Emmy nominations, the show also earned eight Golden Globe Award nominations, with Wright winning for Best Actress – Television Series Drama in 2014 and Spacey winning for Best Actor – Television Series Drama in 2015. However, Underwood soon learns that he is no longer being considered for the position, Chief of Staff Linda Vasquez tells Underwood that the president wants him to promote his agenda in Congress and will not honor their agreement. Inwardly seething, Underwood quickly gains control of his anger and hides his disappointment to present himself as a lieutenant to the president. In reality, Underwood begins a plan behind the presidents back. Franks wife Claire runs an NGO, the Clean Water Initiative, using the charity to cultivate her own power and influence, yet its ultimate purpose remains unknown. Despite the success of the operation, Claire seeks to expand its scope to the international stage and they both work with Remy Danton, a corporate lobbyist and former Underwood staffer, to secure funds for their operations and further their influence. Underwood begins a highly intricate plan to obtain a cabinet position, meanwhile, he manipulates Peter Russo, a troubled alcoholic and congressman from Pennsylvania, into helping him undermine Walkers pick for Secretary of State, Senator Michael Kern. Underwood eventually has Kern replaced with his own choice, Senator Catherine Durant, Underwood also uses Russo in a plot to end a teachers strike and pass an education bill, which improves Underwoods standing with President Walker. Because the new Vice President is the governor of Pennsylvania
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HBO
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Home Box Office is an American premium cable and satellite television network that is owned by Time Warner through its respective flagship company Home Box Office, Inc. HBO is the oldest and longest continuously operating pay television service in the United States, in 2014, HBO had an adjusted operating income of US$1.79 billion, compared to the US$1.68 billion it accrued in 2013. HBO has 49 million subscribers in the United States and 130 million worldwide as of 2016, the network provides seven 24-hour multiplex channels, including HBO Comedy, HBO Latino, HBO Signature and HBO Family. It launched the streaming service HBO Now in April 2015, and has over 2 million subscribers in the United States as of February 2017. In addition to its U. S. subscriber base, HBO distributes content in at least 151 countries, HBO subscribers generally pay for an extra tier of service that includes other cable- and satellite-exclusive channels even before paying for the channel itself. Cable providers can require the use of a converter box – usually digital – in order to receive HBO, many HBO programs have been syndicated to other networks and broadcast television stations, and a number of HBO-produced series and films have been released on DVD. The new system, which Dolan named Sterling Information Services, became the first urban underground cable system in the United States. In that same year, Time-Life, Inc. purchased a 20% stake in Dolans company, in the summer of 1971, while on a family vacation in France, Charles Dolan began to think of ideas to make Sterling Manhattan profitable. He came up with the concept for a television service. Dolan later presented his idea to Time-Life management, though satellite distribution seemed only a distant possibility at the time, he persuaded Time-Life to back him on the project. To gauge whether consumers would be interested in subscribing to a pay television service, in a meeting of Dolan and some Time-Life executives who were working on the project, various other names were discussed for the new service. Home Box Office launched on November 8,1972, however, HBOs launch came without fanfare in the press, as it was not covered by any local or national media outlets. Home Box Office distributed its first sports event immediately after the film, Four months later in February 1973, Home Box Office aired its first television special, the Pennsylvania Polka Festival. Home Box Office would use a network of relay towers to distribute its programming to cable systems throughout its service area. Sterling Manhattan Cable continued to lose money because the company had only a small base of 20,000 customers in Manhattan. Time-Life dropped the Sterling name and the company was renamed Manhattan Cable Television under Time-Lifes control in March 1973, Gerald Levin, who had been with Home Box Office since it began operations as its vice president of programming, replaced Dolan as the companys president and chief executive officer. In September 1973, Time-Life, Inc. completed its acquisition of the pay service. HBO would eventually increase its fortunes within two years, by April 1975, the service had around 100,000 subscribers in Pennsylvania and New York state, in 1974, they settled on using a geostationary communications satellite to transmit HBO to cable providers throughout the United States
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Deadwood (TV series)
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The show features a large ensemble cast, and many historical figures appear as characters, such as Seth Bullock, George Crook, Wyatt Earp, E. B. Farnum, George Hearst, Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, Jack McCall, Sol Star, Al Swearengen, the plot lines involving these characters include historical truths as well as substantial fictional elements. Milch used actual diaries and newspapers from 1870s Deadwood residents as reference points for characters, events, Some of the characters are fully fictional, although they may have been based on actual persons. Deadwood received wide acclaim, particularly for Milchs writing and Ian McShanes co-lead performance. It also won eight Emmy Awards and one Golden Globe, TV Guide ranked it #8 on their 2013 list of 60 shows that were Cancelled Too Soon. There were initial plans to conclude the series with two TV films, but those plans never came to fruition, in 2015, talks resumed between HBO and Milch, and in January 2016, HBO green-lit a script to be written. The show was produced by Red Board Productions and Roscoe Productions in association with HBO, Garret Dillahunt portrays Jack McCall during season one and Francis Walcott during season two. Milch has pointed out repeatedly in interviews that the intent of the show was to study the way that comes together from chaos by organizing itself around symbols. Initially, he intended to study this within Roman civilization, but HBOs Rome series was already in production, Milch and his colleagues later bought many of Parkers books and papers as references for Deadwood. The first season takes place six months after the founding of the camp, in 1876, Seth Bullock leaves his job as a marshal in Montana to establish a hardware business in the gold-mining camp of Deadwood, along with his friend and business partner, Sol Star. Wild Bill Hickok, the infamous gunslinger of the west, is on a journey to Deadwood, accompanied by Charlie Utter. Al Swearengen is the owner of The Gem, a local saloon, other notable residents include Dr. Amos Cochran, A. W. Merrick, owner and editor of the local newspaper The Pioneer, and E. B. Farnum, proprietor of The Grand Central Hotel, Brom Garret, a wealthy businessman from New York City, lives at The Grand Central Hotel with his wife, Alma, who nurses a secret laudanum habit. Aware that Garret is interested in prospecting, Swearengen and Farnum deceive him into purchasing a gold claim in a confidence game. Newly arrived Cy Tolliver and his purchase an abandoned hotel across from The Gem and begin renovations, then open the Bella Union Saloon. Brom Garret soon learns that his claim is worthless and demands Swearengen reimburse his money. Swearengen orders Dan Dority to kill Garret and make it look like an accident, Dority throws Garret off a cliff, only to discover that the claim is actually a rich one after all. Newly widowed Alma Garret asks Wild Bill Hickok for guidance regarding the gold claim, Hickok asks Bullock to advise Garret, Bullock agrees
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Genie Awards
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Genie Awards were given out to recognize the best of Canadian cinema by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. From 1949–1979, the awards were named the Canadian Film Awards, in 1980 they were renamed The Genie Awards. Peer-group juries, assembled from members of the Academy, meet to screen the submissions. Academy members then vote on these nominations, the Genie Awards were originally aired by CBC from 1979 to 2003, before moving to CHUM Limiteds networks. After CTVglobemedia purchased CHUM Limited, the Genie Awards moved to Canwest Globals E, the last two Genie Awards were broadcast by the CBC. The following is a listing of all Genie Awards ceremonies, the Special Achievement Genie is an award given irregularly to an individual or individuals in recognition of lifetime achievement or an important career milestone. Prix Jutra - Canadian French-language counterpart Canadian Screen Awards Official website Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television
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Kissed
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Kissed is a 1996 Canadian film, directed and co-written by Lynne Stopkewich, based on Barbara Gowdys short story We So Seldom Look On Love. It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 7,1996, Peter Outerbridge also stars as Matt, a fellow student who develops romantic feelings for Sandra, and so must learn to accept her sexual proclivities. Despite being allowed a grant, Stopkewich went almost $30,000 into debt. As far back as Sandra Larson can remember, she has been fascinated by death, as a child, she dances with the corpses of animals at night, rubbing them on her body, before giving them a funeral. She performs this dance in front of her friend, a girl named Carol. In college, Sandra studies biology, carefully dissecting the bodies of small animals and she gets a job at a funeral home to be closer to dead bodies. The funeral homes janitor Jan believes, like Sandra, that dead bodies still have a soul in them. While driving the hearse with a body in a coffin in the back through a car wash, Sandra looks at the body and finds a shining light, Mr. Wallis apprentices Sandra in embalming. She starts studying mortuary science, where she meets a student named Matt who also must study corpses for his major. Matt and Sandra begin to date, and Matt is intrigued by Sandra’s death fascination, Matt becomes distraught when he discovers that he is competing with dead bodies. He tries unsuccessfully to get Sandra to talk about her necrophilia, so he starts visiting her at the funeral home, Matt has to go to an extreme to win Sandra’s heart, as she struggles with choosing between the living or the dead, with tragic results. Molly Parker as Sandra Larson Peter Outerbridge as Matt Jay Brazeau as Mr, rotten Tomatoes gives the film a 70% rating from 20 critics. Kissed at the Internet Movie Database
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Independent Spirit Awards
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The Film Independent Spirit Awards, founded in 1984, are awards dedicated to independent filmmakers. Winners were typically presented with acrylic glass pyramids containing suspended shoestrings representing the paltry budgets of independent films, in 1986, the event was renamed the Independent Spirit Awards. Since 2006, winners have received a trophy depicting a bird with its wings spread sitting atop of a pole with the shoestrings from the previous design wrapped around the pole, Film Independent Members vote to determine the winners of the Spirit Awards. The awards show is held inside a tent on the beach in Santa Monica, California, the show is broadcast live on the IFC network, as well as Hollywood Suite in Canada and A&E Latin America. The 32nd Independent Spirit Awards ceremony, hosted by Nick Kroll and John Mulaney, was broadcast live on IFC on Saturday, official website Film Independent Film Independents channel on YouTube Film Independent at the Internet Movie Database Independent Spirit Awards at the Internet Movie Database
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The Center of the World
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The Center of the World is an American film directed by Wayne Wang, which was digitally shot and released in 2001. It stars Peter Sarsgaard as a Dot-com millionaire who hires a drummer/stripper to stay with him in Las Vegas for three days for US$10,000, the film was screened out of competition at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. A couple checks into a suite in Las Vegas, in flashbacks we see that hes a computer whiz on the verge of becoming a dot. com millionaire, shes a lap dancer at a club. Hes depressed, withdrawing from work, missing meetings with investors and he wants a connection, so he offers her $10,000 to spend three nights with him in Vegas, and she accepts with conditions, four hours per night of erotic play, and no penetration. During the days in Vegas, they get to each other, have fun, meet a friend of hers, casino dealer Jerri, at night, at least after the first night. When the three days are over, the stripper makes it clear that she was there for the money. Upset that the feelings he had werent mutual he then rapes her and she then masturbates for him to achieve orgasm. The next day he returns home heartbroken, the movie ends with his return to the strip club to see the woman he fell in love with again. She greets him fondly and says that she is glad to see him again, because the movie is shown in a non-linear format, it is left to the viewers interpretation of when this event occurred. Cast notes Internet executive Jason Calacanis consulted on, and appeared in, the film opened to mixed reviews, and has been compared to movies with similar hooker in love storylines such as Exotica and Pretty Woman. The Center of the World is more explicit than those films, rotten Tomatoes gives the film a critic score of 34% and an audience score of 41%. The films title may be an allusion to Courbets LOrigine du monde, a Cincinnati theater owner attracted media attention after allegedly ordering a member of his staff to edit a five-second scene from the film a day before its release. The Center of the World at the Internet Movie Database Copy of the official website
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Last Wedding
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Last Wedding is a 2001 Canadian comedy drama film written and directed by Bruce Sweeney. It opened the 26th annual Toronto International Film Festival in 2001, the film won several awards including the award for Best Canadian Film from the Toronto Film Critics Association. Noah, a weatherproofing specialist, is preparing to marry Zipporah and his best friend, Peter, is a Canadian Literature professor whose relationship with librarian Leslie is threatened by the arrival of a beautiful student. Meanwhile, Noahs and Peters other close friend Shane, is an architect who has a wonderful relationship with Sarah, until she graduates
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Vancouver
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Vancouver is a coastal seaport city in Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the most populous city in the province, the 2016 census recorded 631,486 people in the city, the Greater Vancouver area had a population of 2,463,431 in 2016, making it the third largest metropolitan area in Canada. Vancouver has the highest population density in Canada with over 5,400 people per square kilometre. With over 250,000 residents, Vancouver municipality is the fourth most densely populated city in North America behind New York City, San Francisco, and Mexico City according to the 2011 census. In that census, Vancouver was one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities in Canada, Vancouver is classed as a Beta global city. In 2014, following thirty years in California, the annual TED conference made Vancouver its indefinite home, several matches of the 2015 FIFA Womens World Cup were played in Vancouver, including the final at BC Place Stadium. From that first enterprise, other stores and some hotels quickly appeared along the waterfront to the west, Gastown became formally laid out as a registered townsite dubbed Granville, B. I. As of 2014, Port Metro Vancouver is the third largest port by tonnage in the Americas, 27th in the world, the busiest and largest in Canada, and the most diversified port in North America. While forestry remains its largest industry, Vancouver is well known as an urban centre surrounded by nature, archaeological records indicate the presence of Aboriginal people in the Vancouver area from 8,000 to 10,000 years ago. The city is located in the territories of the Squamish, Musqueam. They had villages in various parts of present-day Vancouver, such as Stanley Park, False Creek, Kitsilano, Point Grey, the city takes its name from George Vancouver, who explored the inner harbour of Burrard Inlet in 1792 and gave various places British names. The explorer and North West Company trader Simon Fraser and his became the first known Europeans to set foot on the site of the present-day city. In 1808, they travelled from the east down the Fraser River, perhaps as far as Point Grey. The Fraser Gold Rush of 1858 brought over 25,000 men, mainly from California, to nearby New Westminster on the Fraser River, on their way to the Fraser Canyon, a sawmill established at Moodyville in 1863, began the citys long relationship with logging. It was quickly followed by mills owned by Captain Edward Stamp on the shore of the inlet. This mill, known as the Hastings Mill, became the nucleus around which Vancouver formed, the mills central role in the city waned after the arrival of the Canadian Pacific Railway in the 1880s. It nevertheless remained important to the economy until it closed in the 1920s. The settlement which came to be called Gastown grew up quickly around the original makeshift tavern established by Gassy Jack Deighton in 1867 on the edge of the Hastings Mill property
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Pitt Meadows
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Pitt Meadows is a city in southwestern British Columbia, Canada and a member municipality in Metro Vancouver. Incorporated in 1914, it has an area of 85.38 square kilometres. The City could achieve a population of 21,000 by 2021, Aboriginal people resided in the Pitt Meadows area approximately 1000 years ago. James McMillan explored the area in 1874, europeans started a settlement known as Bonsons Landing in the area in the 1870s. Early settlers were mostly Anglo-Saxon until after 1910, the Municipality of Maple Ridge, which included the Pitt Meadows area, was incorporated in 1874. In 1885, the Canadian Pacific Railway was constructed through Pitt Meadows to Port Moody, the Pitt Meadows General Store, which was constructed in 1886, was moved to its current location in 1908. A garden has existed since the years of development on the Site. The store, which contained the communitys first Post Office and the first telephone, has been the home of the Pitt Meadows Museum, in 1892, residents of the Pitt Meadows area petitioned for their removal from the District of Maple Ridge. In 1893, the first dyking district was organized, the major Fraser River Flood event flooded many acres of land in the spring of 1894. Pitt Meadows reverted to unorganized territory from 1892 until it was incorporated as a municipality in 1914. The Municipality takes its name from the Pitt River and Pitt Lake, in 1914, Pitt Meadows was a small, agricultural community of less than 250 individuals which supplied Vancouver and New Westminster with produce and dairy products. After 1910, many French Canadians and Japanese arrived as settlers, during World War II, Pitt Meadows lost servicemen included, Aircraftman 2nd Class William George Bend, Ordinary Seaman John Pastorek and Flight Lieutenant Robert Arnold Samuel Lasser. A large group of Dutch farmers reclaimed much of the land in Pitt Meadows after World War II. Pitt Meadows joined the Greater Vancouver Water District in 1948, in 1948, a major flood occurred in the Fraser valley after cool weather through mid-May allowed an unusually large snowpack to accumulate, and a sudden shift to warm temperatures caused a fast melt. A highway bridge was constructed in 1957 over the Pitt River, a Heritage Preservation Area contains several buildings of significant heritage value, including the old General Store and Hoffman and Sons Garage. Hans Hoffmann, a mechanic, worked in and then ran the business of Hoffmann. In 1974, Hans began his hobby of collecting and restoring stationary gasoline engines, the Pitt Meadows Airport opened in 1963. The Widgeon Valley National Wildlife Area, which is 125 ha in size located near Pitt Lake, was purchased by the Nature Trust of British Columbia in 1973 and declared a NWA in October 1973
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Highlander: The Series
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Highlander, The Series is a Canadian-French fantasy science fiction action-adventure television series featuring Duncan MacLeod of the Scottish Clan MacLeod, as the eponymous Highlander. A slight retcon of the 1986 feature film of the name, it features a storyline in which the protagonist of the film has not won the Prize sought by all Immortals. The series was a hit and was nominated three times for the Gemini Awards and once for a Saturn Award in 1998. The pilot episode established the character, Duncan MacLeod, and his girlfriend Tessa Noël. Also revealed was that Duncan had lived nearly 400 years, and was one of many such Immortals in the world, Connor had come to ask Duncan to return to The Game, to fight on the side of good against evil. The Game was the used by the Immortals to describe their hunting of one another. Duncan had been hiding from other Immortals for some time, removing himself from The Game, now hunted by Quince, he had to face him, and by the end of the first episode, Slan was defeated and Duncan clearly caught up in The Game again. Storylines revolved around Duncan MacLeod and his relationships with mortals and other Immortals, relationships formed a theme in the series, especially Duncan MacLeods relationships with his friends, family, lovers and foes. As the series progressed, changes in concept become apparent, as well as growth in the characters. Recurring Immortal characters such as Amanda and Methos made guest appearances in one. In the final episode of season 5, Archangel, the character of Richie Ryan was killed off and the supernatural demon Ahriman introduced into the storyline. None of the characters were chosen, and what came to be Highlander, The Raven would feature the recurring character Amanda in a starring role. Each episode began with a montage of scenes from Duncans life. Christopher Lambert, who starred in the first four Highlander movies, had worked with French leading entertainment conglomerate Gaumonts president Christian Charret. Lambert knew that Highlander producers Peter Davis and Bill Panzer wanted to make a Highlander series, Gaumont bought the rights to the series. Highlander was one of the first projects developed by Gaumonts television branch opened in 1992, the French leading production company Gaumont Television bought the rights to the series to have it produced in syndication in America with a local crew, a ground-breaking move at the time. Highlander marked the first time a French production company was involved in a show intended for the American market. The show was co-produced in syndication by international partners including Gaumont, RTL Plus, Rysher Distribution, Reteitalia Productions, Amuse Video, the budget of the first season was US$26.1 million
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Lifetime (TV network)
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The channel features programming that is geared toward women or features women in lead roles. As of July 2015, approximately 95,020,000 American households receive Lifetime, Daytime, originally called BETA, was launched in March 1982 by Hearst-ABC Video Services. The cable service operated four hours per day on weekdays, the service was focused on alternative womens programming. Cable Health Network was launched as a channel in June 1982 with a range of health-related programming. In November 1983, Cable Health Network adopted a new name, Lifetime Medical Television, Lifetime was established on February 1,1984 as the result of a merger of Hearst/ABCs Daytime and Viacoms Lifetime Medical Television. A board for the new network was formed with representation from Hearst, ABC and Viacom. It was not a success, reportedly losing $36 million in its first two years of operation, and did not become profitable until 1986. The channel suffered from low viewership, with a poll finding that some TV viewers erroneously believed it carried religious content. In 1985, Lifetime started branding itself as Talk Television with a lineup of talk shows and call-in programs hosted by people like Regis Philbin. In the process, the dropped the apple from their logo. In 1988, Lifetime hired Patricia Fili as its head of programming, in the first three years of her tenure, she changed 60 percent of Lifetimes programming, by her own estimate. A. The network also showed movies from the portfolios of its owners, Hearst, ABC, under Filis direction, Lifetime has gone a long way toward shedding its low-rent image. Lifetime began airing a limited amount of sports coverage, including the WNBA. Lifetime also adopted a new tagline, meanwhile, the channels original programming was aimed not just at women aged 24–44, but these womens spouses, who research showed watched the network in the evenings with their wives. This was done by making the characters in Lifetimes original programming – such as the film series Spencer for Hire – more appealing to men by making them more masculine. These roles were more stereotypical than previous Lifetime movies, which featured women protagonists on their own. This helped Lifetime take advantage of a bias in the Nielsen ranking system that favored upscale couples who shared a television set. By January 1995, Lifetime was the sixth most-highly rated cable network by Nielsen, according to Lifetime executives, the network stood to lose up to one million subscribers due to TCIs move
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Susan Lucci
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Susan Victoria Lucci is an American actress, television host, author, singer, and entrepreneur, best known for portraying Erica Kane on the ABC daytime drama All My Children from 1970 to 2011. As early as 1991, her salary had been reported as over $1 million a year, in 1996, TV Guide ranked Lucci number 37 on its 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time list. In 2005, she received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was inducted into the Broadcasting Hall of Fame in 2006 and she was named one of VH1s 200 Top Icons of All-Time and one of Barbara Walterss Ten Most Fascinating People. She has also played roles in movies, hosted many shows and guest starred on television comedy series, including Saturday Night Live. She also has her own line of hair products, perfumes, lingerie and skin care. As of 2012, Lucci hosted Deadly Affairs, and starred as Genevieve Delatour in the Lifetime television series Devious Maids, in 2015, Lucci was inducted as a Disney Legend. Susan Lucci was born in Scarsdale, New York, to parents Jeanette and Victor Lucci and her father is of Italian ancestry, and her mother is of Swedish, French, and German descent. She attended Garden City High School in Garden City, New York and she then attended Marymount College and graduated with a BA degree in drama in 1968. Lucci is best known for appearing as Erica Kane on the ABC television soap opera All My Children, Lucci was nominated for the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series Emmy for her work on All My Children almost every year since 1978. When Lucci did not win the award after several nominations, her image in the media began to be lampooned. NBCs Saturday Night Live exploited this by asking her to host an episode, during her monologue, the shows cast, crew, what does a person have to do around here to get an Emmy. After 18 failed nominations, she won in 1999. When presenter Shemar Moore announced Luccis name, stating the streak is over, as Lucci took to the stage, cameras caught All My Children co-stars Kelly Ripa and Marcy Walker weeping openly, along with long-time supporter, actress and television host Rosie ODonnell. Actor Ingo Rademacher was seen bowing in the aisles and talk show host Oprah Winfrey rushing the stage cheering from the wings. When ABC cancelled All My Children on April 14,2011, after 41 years on the air, Lucci said in an interview, ive loved playing Erica Kane and working with Agnes Nixon and all the incredible people involved with All My Children. Im looking forward to all kinds of new and exciting opportunities, Lucci publicly criticized ABC Daytime president Brian Frons over the cancellation of All My Children in the epilogue of her autobiography All My Life. Lucci has appeared in a number of shows and television movies. In 1982, she appeared in an appearance in the comedy film Young Doctors in Love
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Lap dancer
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A lap dance is a type of erotic dance performance offered in some strip clubs in which the dancer typically has body contact with a seated patron. Lap dancing is different from table dancing, in which the dancer is close to a seated patron, with lap dancing, the dancer may be nude, topless or scantily dressed, depending on the laws of the jurisdiction and the clubs policies. With full-contact lap dances, the stripper may engage in sexual contact with the patron. Variant terms include couch dance, which is a lap dance where the customer is seated on a couch, in some places, a block session of lap dances can be booked in a champagne room, which is a private room usually located in the back of a club. In many clubs, the duration of a lap dance is measured by the length of the song being played by the clubs DJ, charges for lap dances vary significantly. Depending on the jurisdiction and community standards, lap dances can involve touching of the dancer by the patron, touching the patron by the dancer, neither. In some clubs, any touching by the patron is forbidden, on the other hand, absent any oversight by the club, various levels of contact may be negotiable between the participants. Clubs vary widely with regard to whether they enforce their rules or turn a blind eye to any violations, there is some debate as to whether lap dancing is entertainment or a type of sex work. This can be a concern if, as for instance in the United Kingdom, the club has a Public Entertainment Licence rather than a Sex Establishment Licence, and in jurisdictions where brothels are illegal. According to the UK paper The Guardian, Research shows that the majority of women become lap-dancers through poverty, Lap dancing clubs are a later development of earlier strip clubs, where strippers danced on stage and were paid a wage. In the 1970s, New Yorks Melody Theater introduced audience participation, the Melody Theater became the Harmony Theater and operated in two locations in Manhattan for over 20 years until it was closed down in 1998. In 1977, San Franciscos Mitchell Brothers OFarrell Theatre changed its policy so that customers could have come to sit naked on their laps for a $1 tip. It suited club owners, because it brought in more customers and this then evolved into lap dancing. In some areas of the U. S, various strip clubs have wide-ranging rules on how customers should interact with strippers. In 1973, an upmarket Vancouver bar called Gary Taylors Show Lounge employed showgirls and strippers as waitresses who gave a free dance with every drink. The club was raided by the police under the guise of obscenity legislation, but, in 1974, Judge Jack McGivern ruled that dancer nudity was not obscene, which started a trend of nude dancing in bars. No contact between dancers and patrons was allowed at the club, but Gary Taylors had a ring where the girls performed revealing acrobatics after stripping off. Americans from Washington State made the trip to the club from the United States, in a landmark ruling regarding the 1994 case of Pat Mara and Allan East, Judge E. Gordon Hachborn legally defined lap dancing and ruled that it did not contravene Canadian public decency statutes
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Call girl
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The client must make an appointment, usually by calling a telephone number. Call girls may work either incall, where the client comes to them, or outcall, many call girl agencies and independent call girls have their own websites. The internet has become the medium through which customers find their desired escort. Generally, a picture of the woman is provided, and sometimes, the type of sexual services she is willing to offer
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Rabbi
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In Judaism, a rabbi /ˈræbaɪ/ is a teacher of Torah. This title derives from the Hebrew word רַבִּי rabi, meaning My Master, the word master רב rav literally means great one. The basic form of the rabbi developed in the Pharisaic and Talmudic era, the first sage for whom the Mishnah uses the title of rabbi was Yohanan ben Zakkai, active in the early to mid first century CE. Within the various Jewish denominations there are different requirements for rabbinic ordination, for example, Orthodox Judaism does not ordain women as rabbis, but other movements have chosen to do so for halakhic reasons as well as ethical reasons. Although the usage rabbim many the majority, the multitude occurs for the assembly of the community in the Dead Sea scrolls there is no evidence to support an association with the later title Rabbi, the root is cognate to Arabic ربّ rabb, meaning lord. As a sign of respect, some great rabbis are simply called The Rav. The titles Rabban and Rabbi are first mentioned in the Mishnah, the term was first used for Rabban Gamaliel the elder, Rabban Simeon his son, and Rabban Johanan ben Zakkai, all of whom were patriarchs or presidents of the Sanhedrin. The title Rabbi occurs in the books of Matthew, Mark, and John in the New Testament, other variants are rəvī and, in Yiddish, rebbə. The word could be compared to the Syriac word ܪܒܝ rabi, in ancient Hebrew, rabbi was a proper term of address while speaking to a superior, in the second person, similar to a vocative case. While speaking about a superior, in the person one could say ha-rav or rabbo. Later, the term evolved into a title for members of the Patriarchate. Thus, the title gained an irregular form, רַבָּנִים rabbanim. Rabbi as a title does not appear in the Hebrew Bible. All of the above personalities would have expected to be steeped in the wisdom of the Torah and the commandments. And honor is due only for Torah, as it is said, The wise shall inherit honor, and only Torah is truly good, as it is said, I have given you a good teaching, do not forsake My Torah. This was eventually encoded and codified within the Mishnah and Talmud and subsequent rabbinical scholarship, the title Rabbi was borne by the sages of ancient Israel, who were ordained by the Sanhedrin in accordance with the custom handed down by the elders. They were titled Ribbi and received authority to judge penal cases, Rab was the title of the Babylonian sages who taught in the Babylonian academies. After the suppression of the Patriarchate and Sanhedrin by Theodosius II in 425, a recognised scholar could be called Rab or Hacham, like the Babylonian sages
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Six Feet Under (TV series)
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Six Feet Under is an American drama television series created and produced by Alan Ball. It premiered on the cable network HBO in the United States on June 3,2001 and ended on August 21,2005. The show depicts members of the Fisher family, who run a home in Los Angeles. The series traces these characters lives over the course of five years, the ensemble drama stars Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall, Frances Conroy, Lauren Ambrose, Freddy Rodriguez, Mathew St. Patrick, the series was produced by Actual Size Films and The Greenblatt/Janollari Studio, and was shot on location in Los Angeles and in Hollywood studios. Six Feet Under received widespread acclaim, particularly for its writing and acting. Regarded by many as one of the greatest TV dramas of all time, it has since included on TIME magazines All-TIME100 TV Shows. It has also described as having one of the finest series finales in the history of television. It won numerous awards, including nine Emmy Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and a Peabody Award. The show stars Peter Krause as Nathaniel Samuel Nate Fisher, Jr. whose funeral director father dies and bequeaths to him and his brother, David, the Fisher clan also includes widow, Ruth, and daughter, Claire. Other regulars include mortician and family friend, Federico Diaz, Nates on-again/off-again girlfriend, Brenda Chenowith, on one level, the show is a conventional family drama, dealing with such issues as interpersonal relationships, infidelity, and religion. At the same time, the show is distinguished by its focus on the topic of death. The show also utilises dark humor and surrealism running throughout, sometimes, the characters converse with other, recurring deceased characters, most notably Nathaniel Fisher, Sr. The shows creator, Alan Ball, avers that this represents the characters internal dialogues expressed in the form of external conversations. Although overall plots and characters were created by Alan Ball, there are conflicting reports on how the series was conceived, in one instance, Ball stated that he came up with the premise of the show after the deaths of his sister and father. However, in an interview, he intimates that HBO entertainment president Carolyn Strauss proposed the idea to him. Ball stated in an interview, The show focuses on human mortality, the nature of life and death feeding off of each other. Throughout its five-season, 63-episode run, major characters experience crises which are in relation to their environment
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CBS
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CBS is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation. The company is headquartered at the CBS Building in New York City with major facilities and operations in New York City. CBS is sometimes referred to as the Eye Network, in reference to the iconic logo. It has also called the Tiffany Network, alluding to the perceived high quality of CBS programming during the tenure of William S. Paley. It can also refer to some of CBSs first demonstrations of color television, the network has its origins in United Independent Broadcasters Inc. a collection of 16 radio stations that was purchased by Paley in 1928 and renamed the Columbia Broadcasting System. Under Paleys guidance, CBS would first become one of the largest radio networks in the United States, in 1974, CBS dropped its former full name and became known simply as CBS, Inc. In 2000, CBS came under the control of Viacom, which was formed as a spin-off of CBS in 1971, CBS Corporation is controlled by Sumner Redstone through National Amusements, which also controls the current Viacom. The television network has more than 240 owned-and-operated and affiliated stations throughout the United States. The origins of CBS date back to January 27,1927, Columbia Phonographic went on the air on September 18,1927, with a presentation by the Howard Barlow Orchestra from flagship station WOR in Newark, New Jersey, and fifteen affiliates. Operational costs were steep, particularly the payments to AT&T for use of its land lines, in early 1928 Judson sold the network to brothers Isaac and Leon Levy, owners of the networks Philadelphia affiliate WCAU, and their partner Jerome Louchenheim. With the record out of the picture, Paley quickly streamlined the corporate name to Columbia Broadcasting System. He believed in the power of advertising since his familys La Palina cigars had doubled their sales after young William convinced his elders to advertise on radio. By September 1928, Paley bought out the Louchenheim share of CBS, during Louchenheims brief regime, Columbia paid $410,000 to A. H. Grebes Atlantic Broadcasting Company for a small Brooklyn station, WABC, which would become the networks flagship station. WABC was quickly upgraded, and the relocated to 860 kHz. The physical plant was relocated also – to Steinway Hall on West 57th Street in Manhattan, by the turn of 1929, the network could boast to sponsors of having 47 affiliates. Paley moved right away to put his network on a financial footing. In the fall of 1928, he entered talks with Adolph Zukor of Paramount Pictures. The deal came to fruition in September 1929, Paramount acquired 49% of CBS in return for a block of its stock worth $3.8 million at the time
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Tim Kasher
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Timothy J. Kasher is a musician from Omaha, Nebraska, and is the frontman of indie rock groups Cursive and The Good Life, both of which are on the Omaha-based record label Saddle Creek Records. Slowdown Virginia was formed in Omaha in 1993 by Kasher with Matt Maginn, Steve Pederson, and Casey Caniglia after the dissolution of a previous band called The March Hares. With a sound described as a heartland Pavement and into the Pixies, Slowdown Virginia recorded and released one album, Dead Space, on Lumberjack Records, Kasher, Maginn, and Pederson formed a new band, Cursive, in 1995, adding Clint Schnase to the band. The bands released two albums, described as full of emotion and distortion, before disbanding in 1998 as Kasher moved to Portland, Kasher also spent some of this time playing guitar in Commander Venus, recording and releasing two albums. Pederson left Omaha to study law at Duke University in North Carolina shortly afterward, Kashers marriage and time away from Omaha didnt last long, he returned within eighteen months of leaving Cursive and Omaha. With Pederson away, Kasher recruited Ted Stevens to join the other band members. The re-formed Cursive soon recorded and released their album, Domestica. Studios in Omaha, using the room of the USA Baby store where Kasher worked as the bands practice space. Domestica showed this version of Cursive to have a tight-knit, hard-rock sound with the addition of Stevens as well as Kashers newfound focus on introspective, storytelling focused lyrics. Cursive added cellist Gretta Cohn for the next several releases and the band, and Kashers writing, found success with 2003s The Ugly Organ. Cohn departed Cursive in 2005, and the continued on without a cellist. Cursives last release was I Am Gemini in 2012, the Good Life was originally planned to be a solo project. Kasher wanted to experiment with different types of lyrics and melodies and he released Novena on a Nocturn under the name The Good Life on Better Looking Records in 2000, five months after Cursives Domestica. Novena on a Nocturn touched on the themes of Domestica, mainly ones of divorce and loss. 2002s Black Out was also a solo effort with friends assisting in the recording. As with Novena, the album was noted for its focus on melodies and lyrics, with Dan Ocean of Punk News describing the sound as a slower paced Cursive with some electronica and an abundance of hooks. After using The Good Life as essentially a side project, Kasher decided to make The Good Life a full-fledged band, Kasher recruited Ryan Fox, Roger Lewis, and Stefanie Drootin-Senseney and released Album of the Year in 2004. The Good Life took a break after 2007, Kasher released two albums with Cursive and two solo albums before reconvening The Good Life in late 2013
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The Firm (2012 TV series)
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The television adaptation is set ten years after the novel and film. On February 3,2012, NBC announced that the series would be pulled from its Thursday 10/9c slot immediately, AXN began broadcasts in over 125 territories and countries on February 19. On May 13,2012, NBC confirmed that The Firm had been canceled, the following are the regular and recurring cast members in The Firm, Regular Josh Lucas as Mitchell Y. S. Marshall Louis Coleman Edward Glen as Duty Captain The concept of bringing these characters to television had been in the works for a few years with CBS having formerly been the expected network, Reiter conceived the recreation of the series 10 years into the future and proposed it to Grisham. Grisham oversaw the first three or four episode scripts and then became confident with its development, Sony Pictures Television ordered 22 episodes of the show from Entertainment One Television in late April 2011 for broadcast on their AXN stations in 125 markets outside of Canada and the U. S. Shortly thereafter, NBC and Shaw Media confirmed that they had acquired broadcast rights in the U. S. the shows 22 episode order was the largest of any of NBCs newly picked up shows. The show was filmed in Toronto and was produced by Entertainment One in association with Sony Pictures Television, filming of Season 1 took place between August 4,2011 and April 30,2012. The pilot was directed by David Straiton, Grisham served as an executive producer of the television series. Lukas Reiter, a former Law & Order producer, wrote the pilot and was the showrunner, some of the other legal shows he has produced are The Practice and Boston Legal. Other executive producers were Entertainment Ones John Morayniss, Michael Rosenberg, Noreen Halpern, the shows writers included Alyson Feltes, Peter Noah, David Feige, William Rothko, Vincent Angell, and Jonathan Shapiro. On June 8,2011, it was announced that Josh Lucas had been cast in the role of Mitch McDeere. On July 12, Entertainment One announced the casting of Callum Keith Rennie as Ray McDeere, the addition of Molly Parker as Abby McDeere was announced on July 29. Natasha Calis was cast as Claire McDeere, Mitch and Abby McDeeres daughter, Parker had previously played Calis mother in the 2011 Lifetime film, Gone. Then, Tricia Helfer and Shaun Majumder were added in recurring roles as Alex Clarke, as of 22 August 2011, the show was under production. Although mostly shot in Toronto, the production has included other host cities such as Washington, as of 3 November 2011, eight of the 22 episodes had been shot, according to Grisham. Both the novel and the film recount the story of an attorney who unknowingly was hired by an organized crime enterprises legal team. He became a whistleblower to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and brought down the corrupt Memphis law firm with Chicago mob ties, the TV series begins as the McDeere family emerge from witness protection to encounter old and new challenges. The novel sold seven million copies, the film starring Tom Cruise grossed over $158 million domestically and $111 million internationally
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John Grisham
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John Ray Grisham, Jr. is an American bestselling writer, attorney, politician, and activist best known for his popular legal thrillers. His books have been translated into 42 languages and published worldwide, John Grisham graduated from Mississippi State University before attending the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1981. He practiced criminal law for about a decade and served in the House of Representatives in Mississippi from January 1984 to September 1990 and his first novel, A Time to Kill, was published in June 1989, four years after he began writing it. As of 2012, his books have sold over 275 million copies worldwide, a Galaxy British Book Awards winner, Grisham is one of only three authors to sell 2 million copies on a first printing. Grishams first bestseller, The Firm, sold more than seven million copies. Eight of his novels have also been adapted into films, The Chamber, The Client, A Painted House, The Pelican Brief, Skipping Christmas, The Rainmaker, The Runaway Jury. Grisham, the second of five siblings, was born in Jonesboro, Arkansas, to Wanda Skidmore Grisham and his father worked as a construction worker and a cotton farmer, while his mother was a homemaker. When Grisham was four years old, his family settled in Southaven, DeSoto County, as a child, Grisham wanted to be a baseball player. Grisham has been a Christian since he was eight years old, after leaving law school, he participated in some missionary work in Brazil, under the First Baptist Church of Oxford. Although Grishams parents lacked formal education, his mother encouraged him to read and he drew on his childhood experiences for his novel A Painted House. Grisham started working for a nursery as a teenager, watering bushes for US$1.00 an hour and he was soon promoted to a fence crew for US$1.50 an hour. He wrote about the job, there was no future in it, at 16, Grisham took a job with a plumbing contractor but says he never drew inspiration from that miserable work. Through a contact of his fathers, he managed to work on a highway asphalt crew in Mississippi at age 17. It was during this time that an unfortunate incident got him serious about college, a fight with gunfire broke out among the crew causing Grisham to run to a nearby restroom to find safety. He did not come out until after the police had detained the perpetrators and he hitchhiked home and started thinking about college. His next work was in retail, as a salesclerk in a department store mens underwear section and he decided to quit but stayed when he was offered a raise. He was given another raise after asking to be transferred to toys, a confrontation with a company spy posing as a customer convinced him to leave the store. By this time, Grisham was halfway through college, planning to become a tax lawyer, he was soon overcome by the complexity and lunacy of it
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The Firm (novel)
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For the film of the same title based on this book, see The Firm. For the television series based on this book, see The Firm. The Firm is a 1991 legal thriller and the novel by John Grisham. It was his first widely recognized book, and in 1993 after it sold 1.5 million copies, was made into a film starring Tom Cruise, Grishams first novel, A Time to Kill, came into recognition afterwards due to this novels success. Mitch is married to his school sweetheart, Abby Sutherland. His older brother Ray is imprisoned in Tennessee, and his brother, Rusty. Mitch spurns offers from law firms in New York and Chicago in favor of signing with Bendini, Lambert and Locke and he finds the firms offer—a large salary, a lease on a new BMW automobile and a low interest mortgage on a house—too generous to resist. Soon after he joins, his new colleagues help him study, Mitch is assigned to partner Avery Tolar, the firms bad boy, but a highly accomplished attorney. Two of Mitchs colleagues, Marty Kozinski and Joe Hodge, die in a diving accident in the Cayman Islands a few days before he starts at the firm. On his first scheduled day of work, Mitch attends their funerals, Mitch finds the deaths unsettling, but focuses on his goal of becoming the youngest partner in the firms history. During a memorial service at the firm for the two deceased attorneys, Mitch notices plaques commemorating three other attorneys who died working at the firm. Suspicious, he hires an investigator, Eddie Lomax, an ex-cellmate of his brother Ray. Lomax discovers that the three deceased attorneys died under suspicious circumstances, in a car accident, a hunting accident. While the details of their deaths dont add up, nothing concrete was ever proven, Lomax cautions Mitch to be careful. Soon after delivering his report to Mitch, Lomax is murdered, shortly after Mitch passes his bar exam, Wayne Tarrance, an FBI agent, confronts Mitch. While in Washington, D. C. on business, Mitch learns from the FBI that the firm is part of the white collar division of the Morolto crime family of Chicago, the firms founder, Anthony Bendini, was actually the son-in-law of old man Morolto. He founded the firm in 1944, and for almost half a century it has lured new lawyers from poor backgrounds with promises of wealth and security. The firm is involved in laundering money from the Moroltos gambling and drug-dealing operations by using it to start corporations
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The Firm (1993 film)
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The Firm is a 1993 American legal thriller film directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, Holly Hunter, Hal Holbrook, and David Strathairn. The film is based on the 1991 novel The Firm by author John Grisham, the Firm was one of two films released in 1993 that was adapted from a Grisham novel, the other being The Pelican Brief. Mitch McDeere is a man from an impoverished background. He and his wife, Abby, move to Memphis and Mitch sets to work studying to pass the Tennessee bar exam. Seduced by the money and perks showered on him, including a house and car, he is at first totally oblivious to the sinister side of his new employer. Mitch passes the bar exam and begins working long hours put a strain on his marriage. While on a trip to the Cayman Islands on behalf of a client, Mitch is seduced by a local woman, the firms partners, as well as most of the associates, are all complicit in a massive tax fraud and money laundering scheme. The two associates who died learned about the dark side, and were killed to keep them from talking. They warn Mitch that his house, car, and office have all been bugged. The FBI pressures Mitch to provide the Bureau with evidence they can use to go after the Moroltos, however, the FBI warns him that if he stays with the firm, he will almost certainly go to jail when the FBI takes down both the firm and the Moroltos. Either way, his life as he knows it is over and he agrees to cooperate with the FBI in return for $1.5 million and the release of his brother, Ray, from prison in Arkansas. Desperate to find a way out, Mitch inadvertently stumbles on a solution when one of his clients reveals that he was billed for a five hours. Mitch eventually discovers that while the firm is laundering money for the Moroltos, by mailing these bills to their clients, they committed mail fraud, and did so at such a rate that it exposes them to RICO charges. He begins secretly copying the firms billing records, however, he is unmasked when a prison guard on the Moroltos payroll alerts DeVasher. He asks the Moroltos to turn over their billing invoices in order to help the FBI make their case against the firm. He assures them that as long as he is alive, any information he knows about their legal affairs is covered under attorney-client privilege. Understanding the deal he is offering them, the Moroltos agree to guarantee Mitchs safety, since the attorney-client privilege doesnt apply when a lawyer knows about ongoing criminal activity, Mitch is able to keep his status as a lawyer. The film ends as the McDeeres leave their house in Memphis and return to Boston, Tom Cruise as Mitch McDeere, a promising recent Harvard Law graduate
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Josh Lucas
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Joshua Lucas Easy Dent Maurer, better known as Josh Lucas, is an American actor. He has appeared in films, including Glory Road, Sweet Home Alabama, A Beautiful Mind, Hulk, Stealth, Poseidon, J. Edgar. Lucas was born in Fayetteville, Arkansas, the son of Michele, a midwife, and Don Maurer. Lucas grew up traveling the South with his parents, who were antinuclear activists, by the age of 13, he had lived in 30 different locations, including the Isle of Palms and Sullivans Island, South Carolina. His mother attended Emerson College with Jay Leno, the family eventually settled in the town of Gig Harbor, Washington. He attended Kopachuck Middle School and graduated from Gig Harbor High School in 1989 and he did not attend college so he could pursue his acting career. Lucas began his career when he was 19, having moved to Hollywood after his school graduation. Soon afterward, he made his film debut in Frank Marshalls Alive about a group of Uruguayan rugby players who, after crashing in the Andes mountains. Upon returning to the States, he was receiving offers as high school/college boyfriends. While working with George C. Scott on a TV-movie from the Heat of the Night series, Scott told him he needed to take acting lessons, shortly thereafter, he departed Hollywood and moved to New York City, where he studied privately with various acting coaches. He followed that with small roles in the dramas Minotaur. He took his first stab at comedy in The Definite Maybe, in which he played a recent college graduate who gets fired from his job and he appeared as an American businessman in Jule Gilfillans romantic comedy-drama Restless. He also appeared in a production of Terrence McNallys controversial Corpus Christi. Lucas played the role of Judas as a gay predator, right before the play was to open, Lucas was mugged and beaten on his way to the theater for dress rehearsal. He played the role of Judas with bloody bandages across his broken nose, the audience thought the bandages were part of the play. One of Lucas first feature roles was playing Jace Flash Dillon in the cinematic PC flight simulator Wing Commander III, Lucas gained mainstream exposure after his roles in Sweet Home Alabama, A Beautiful Mind, and as Glenn Talbot in Hulk. He later gained success in leading roles in such as Glory Road, Poseidon. In Glory Road, he starred as basketball coach Don Haskins and his next project was Boaz Yakin’s Death in Love
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Dexter (season 6)
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The sixth season of Dexter premiered on October 2,2011 on the television cable network Showtime, and consisted of 12 episodes. The season follows Dexters and Miami Metros investigations into a string of bizarre ritualistic killings featuring overtly religious apocalyptic symbolism, on November 18,2011, it was announced that Dexter had been renewed for two more seasons. María LaGuerta is promoted to Captain after blackmailing Deputy Chief Matthews, vince Masuka is teaching a group of forensic science students, and after his first choice faints at a crime scene, he asks an attractive female student, Ryan Chambers, to become his intern. Masuka eventually fires Ryan when she steals a prosthetic hand from the Ice Truck Killer crime scenes. Masuka quickly hires another intern, video game designer and computer programmer Louis Greene to fix the problem, Greene claims he made the page the auction was on vanish, but was unable to get the hand back. Batista thinks he was passed due to the feud between Matthews and LaGuerta. Batistas sister Jamie has become Harrisons babysitter, and Dexter and Debra visit a Catholic pre-school in hopes of signing Harrison up, Quinn proposes to Debra, but she refuses and they break up. Shortly after, Quinn learns of Debs promotion and surmises that it was her reason for ending their relationship, Quinn begins a long pattern of barhopping, drunkenness, and one-night stands, his unprofessional behavior angers and ultimately endangers Batista, his new partner. This season features the Doomsday Killers, Professor James Gellar and his student Travis Marshall and they leave signs of the Apocalypse including the Alpha and Omega or the Four Horsemen as a cryptic tableau at each crime scene. The season also introduces Brother Sam, a drug addict and murderer who repented. He operates a shop where he employs other ex-convicts, to lead them to crime-free lives. Initially believing Sam to be behind the first Doomsday Killer murder, Dexter decides to kill Sam but is proven wrong. However, Brother Sam is murdered by one of his trusted ex-convicts, Nick and, going against Brother Sams wish that Dexter should forgive his killer, murders him. Dexter learns that the Trinity Killers wife and daughter have been dead in Nebraska. However, after confronting Jonah, Dexter learns that his sister committed suicide and Jonah killed his mother in a fit of rage, Dexter decides to forgive Jonah and leaves him alive to deal with his demons. Dexters investigation of the Doomsday Killers leads him to Travis Marshall, Travis says that all he has done was at the request of Professor Gellar, so Dexter asks Travis to help him kill the professor, thinking if he can save Travis then he can save himself. However, Dexter eventually discovers that Professor Gellar had been killed by Travis three years ago and now only in the latters mind. Travis marks Dexter as the Beast and tries to him in one of his tableaux, the Lake of Fire
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Showtime (TV network)
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The Showtime brand is used by a number of channels and platforms around the world, but primarily refers to the group of eight multiplex channels in the United States. As of July 2015, Showtimes programming is available to approximately 28.693 million television households in the United States, the channel and its corresponding networks are headquartered at Paramount Plaza on the northern end of New York Citys Broadway district. The following week on July 8, Showtime launched on Viacom Cablevisions system in Dublin, California, the first program and television special to be broadcast on Showtime was Celebration, a concert special featuring performances by Rod Stewart, Pink Floyd and ABBA. By the end of its first year on the air, Showtime had a total of 55,000 subscribers nationwide. On March 7,1978, Showtime became a nationally distributed service after it was uplinked to satellite, turning it into a competitor with HBO, in 1979, Viacom sold a 50% ownership interest in Showtime to the TelePrompTer Corporation. On July 4,1981, Showtime adopted a 24-hour programming schedule,1982 saw the premiere of Showtimes first made-for-cable movie Falcons Gold and its first original series and childrens program Faerie Tale Theatre. The three companies announced their agreement in principle to acquire interests in TMC on November 11,1982. Subsequently, in late December of that year, the U. S. Department of Justice launched a preliminary inquiry into the proposed partnership. On January 7,1983, Viacom International added itself as a partner, under the revised proposal, the four studios would each own a 22. 58% stake in the two networks, with American Express owning a 9. 68% minority interest. In addition, the consortium would appoint a management team separate from those employed by the two channels – which would continue to operate as separate services – to operate the joint venture, on August 10,1985, after Time Inc. and cable provider Tele-Communications Inc. The subsidiary was renamed Showtime Networks, Inc. in 1988, also in 1988, the company formed Showtime Event Television as a pay-per-view distributor of special event programming. In 1990, Showtime ventured into acquiring and premiering independent films exclusively for the channel as part of the 30-Minute Movie short film anthology series. One of its first premieres,12,01 PM, was nominated for an Academy Award, in the years that followed, Showtime expanded its acquisitions into the realm of feature-length fare, including the Adrian Lyne-directed 1997 remake of Lolita. In 2000, Showtime launched Showtime Interactive 24.7, a service that provided DVD-style interaction of its entertainment offerings. On June 14,2005, Viacom decided to separate itself into two companies, both of which would be controlled by Viacom parent National Amusements, amid stagnation of the stock price. A new company assumed the Viacom name kept Paramount Pictures, the MTV Networks and BET Networks cable divisions. Showtime broadcasts its primary and multiplex channels on both Eastern and Pacific Time Zone schedules and this planned extension to the multiplex did not come to fruition – although a third multiplex service, Showtime 3, would make its debut in 1996. Three additional themed channels made their debut in March 2001, Showtime Family Zone, Showtime Next, Showtime Family Zone, Showtime Next and Showtime Women do not have distribution by most pay television providers as extensive as the other Showtime multiplex channels
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Dexter (TV series)
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Dexter is an American television crime drama mystery series that aired on Showtime from October 1,2006, to September 22,2013. The shows first season was derived from the novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter and it was adapted for television by screenwriter James Manos, Jr. who wrote the first episode. Subsequent seasons evolved independently of Lindsays works, in February 2008, reruns began to air on CBS, although the reruns on CBS ended after one run of the first season. The series has enjoyed positive reviews throughout its run and popularity. Season four aired its finale on December 13,2009, to a record-breaking audience of 2.6 million viewers. In April 2013, Showtime announced that season eight would be the season of Dexter. The season-eight premiere was the most watched Dexter episode with more than 3 million viewers total for all airings that night, the original broadcast of the series finale—shown at 9 pm on September 22, 2013—drew 2.8 million viewers, the largest overall audience in Showtimes history. For the seasonal plots, see Dexter, Dexter, Dexter, Dexter, Dexter, Dexter, Dexter, to satisfy his interest in blood and to facilitate his own crimes, Dexter works as a forensic technician specializing in bloodstain pattern analysis, for the Miami Metro Police Department. Although his drive to kill is unflinching, he is able to simulate, Dexter, Early Cuts is an animated web series that premiered on October 25,2009. Michael C. Hall reprises his role as the voice of Dexter, the webisodes are animated with 2. 5D style, where flat two-dimensional illustrations are brought to life in three-dimensional space. The first season was created and written by Dexter producer/writer Lauren Gussis and she was nominated for a Webby for her writing on the first season. The first web series precedes the current narrative of the show, each victims story is split into four two-minute chapters. A second season of the web series titled Dexter, Early Cuts, Dark Echo, one story in six chapters and it was written by Tim Schlattmann and illustrated by Bill Sienkiewicz and David Mack. The story begins immediately following Dexters adoptive father Harrys death, although the series is set in Miami, Florida, many of the exterior scenes are filmed in Long Beach, California. Many landmark buildings and locations in Long Beach are featured throughout the series, the finale episodes airport scene takes place at Ontario International Airport in Ontario, California. In preparation for the UK launch of the series, Fox experimented with an SMS-based viral marketing campaign, mobile phone owners received the following unsolicited SMS messages addressed to them by name with no identifying information other than being from Dexter, Hello. Im heading to the UK sooner than you might think, the SMS-message was followed by an email directing the user to an online video news report about a recent spree of killings. While the marketing campaign succeeded in raising the profile of the show, it proved unpopular with many mobile owners, in response to complaints about the SMS element of the campaign, Fox issued the following statement, The shows lead actor, Michael C
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Jamie Dornan
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James Jamie Dornan is a Northern Irish actor, model, and musician. Dornan was born in Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland and he has two older sisters, Liesa, who works for Disney in London, and Jessica, a fashion designer based in Falmouth, England. His father, Professor Jim Dornan, is an obstetrician and gynaecologist who had considered becoming an actor. Dornan was 16 when his mother, Lorna, died from pancreatic cancer, Dornan is a first cousin, twice removed, of actress Greer Garson. His grandparents on both sides of his family were Methodist lay preachers and he attended and boarded at Methodist College Belfast, where he played rugby and participated in the drama department. He later attended Teesside University but dropped out and moved to London to train as an actor, Dornan performed in the folk band Sons of Jim, until it disbanded in 2008. Sons of Jim supported Scottish singer-songwriter KT Tunstall on tour, Dornan first worked as a model. In 2003, he modelled for Abercrombie & Fitch and he then modelled for a number of fashion houses and retailers, including Aquascutum, Hugo Boss, and Armani. Notable works include major ad campaigns with Dior Homme and Calvin Klein, Dornans first acting role in a film was Count Axel Fersen in the Sofia Coppola film Marie Antoinette. Dornan also appeared in the drama film Shadows in the Sun, in 2008, he played the lead role of Ed in the Hammer Horror production Beyond the Rave. In 2011, Dornan appeared in eight episodes of the ABC television series Once Upon a Time and he returned as The Huntsman for the season finale episode, A Land Without Magic. Dornan stars alongside Gillian Anderson in the Northern Irish drama series The Fall, playing Paul Spector, in May 2013, the show was renewed for a second series halfway through the broadcast of series one. On 23 October 2013, Dornan was cast as Christian Grey in the adaptation of Fifty Shades of Grey. Initially announced to be released on 1 August 2014, the film was rescheduled and released on 13 February 2015. On 27 August 2014, it was announced that Dornan would play Dr. Allan Pascal in a Miramax film titled The 9th Life of Louis Drax and it was released on 2 September 2016. In November 2014, Dornan was #3 in People Magazines Sexiest Man Alive rankings, in February 2015, it was confirmed that Dornan had signed up for the second and third installments of the Fifty Shades film franchise. Fifty Shades Darker was released in 2017, and Fifty Shades Freed is scheduled for 2018, in March 2015, it was reported that the BBC drama The Fall will return for a third series, revealing the fate of Dornans character. The third season aired on RTÉ One and BBC Two from 25 September to 28 October 2016
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Sarah Gadon
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Sarah Gadon is a Canadian actress. She first gained recognition with roles in David Cronenbergs A Dangerous Method and she has guest starred in a number of notable television series including Are You Afraid of the Dark. Dark Oracle, Doc, In a Heartbeat, La Femme Nikita, Life with Derek and she also does voice-acting, lending her voice to Mattimeo, My Dad the Rock Star, Ruby Gloom, Total Drama and Wayside. In 2015, she co-starred in Miramaxs supernatural thriller The 9th Life of Louis Drax, in 2016, she starred in the Hulu adaptation of Stephen Kings miniseries 11.22.63, in which she portrayed James Francos love interest, Sadie. Gadon was born in Toronto, Ontario, to a psychologist father and teacher mother and she has an older brother named James. Gadon has British and Italian ancestry and she graduated high school as an Ontario Scholar from Vaughan Road Academy in 2005. By 2014, she had completed her studies in the University of Torontos Cinema Studies Institute at Innis College, Gadon started acting at the age of 10 with her first acting role as Julia in an episode of La Femme Nikita. For the next few years, she took roles in various television series. Young Laura Burnham in Twice in a Lifetime, Catherine Hartman in Mutant X, Vicki in Life with Derek and she also has a number of television films to her credit. She was nominated for the Young Artist Award for Best Ensemble in a TV movie for her first film, The Other Me, portraying Heather. Other roles include Samantha in What Girls Learn, Amanda in Cadet Kelly, Julia Norton in Code Breakers and Celeste Mercier in The Cutting Edge, Chasing the Dream. Gadon had a role in many television series, Zoe Kessler in The Border, Katie Atkins in Being Erica, Georgia Bravin in Happy Town. She is also behind the voice of the character in the animated series Ruby Gloom, Beth in Total Drama and Portia in Friends. Gadon was nominated for a Gemini Award in 2008 for Best Individual or Ensemble Performance in an Animated Program or Series for her work in Ruby Gloom and she shared in this nomination with Emily Hampshire. In 2005, she filmed for Where Love Reigns, a promotional film co-starring Douglas Henshall and her filmography includes both feature length and short films. Her first feature film was Fast Food High where she portrayed Zoe and she portrayed Margaret in the dark comedy Siblings, Priscilla in Charlie Bartlett and Laura in Leslie, My Name is Evil. Her short film work includes Haley in Burgeon and Fade, Julia in Grange Avenue, Burgeon and Fade won the Special Jury Award at the WorldFest Houston Festival for original dramatic short film. She also starred in the indie film, The Origin of Teddy Bears
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Aaron Paul
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Aaron Paul Sturtevant, known as Aaron Paul, is an American actor. This made him the actor to win the latter category three times, since its separation into drama and comedy. He has also won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor on Television three times, more than any actor in that category. Paul began his career with roles in music videos and guest roles in television series, before taking minor roles in films such as The Last House on the Left and Mission. In 2007, he had a role as Scott Quittman in the HBO series Big Love. Following his breakthrough, he began starring in such as Need for Speed, A Long Way Down. Since 2014, he has been the voice of Todd Chavez on the Netflix animated series BoJack Horseman, Paul was born in Emmett, Idaho, the son of Darla and Robert Sturtevant, a Baptist minister. He is the youngest of four children and was born a month premature in his parents bathroom and he has English, German, and Scottish ancestry. Paul attended Centennial High School in Boise, Idaho, graduating in 1998, after graduation, he drove to Los Angeles in his 1982 Toyota Corolla with his mother and $6,000 in savings. Prior to gaining fame, he appeared on an episode of The Price Is Right on January 3,2000, appearing under his real name, he played and lost Dice Game and overbid by $132 on the Showcase. He also worked as a theater usher at Universal Studios in Hollywood. In 1996, Paul went to Los Angeles for the International Modeling and he won runner-up in the competition and signed with a manager. He starred in the videos for the Korn song Thoughtless. He was also featured in commercials for Juicy Fruit, Corn Pops. He appeared in the films Whatever It Takes, Help, im a Fish, K-PAX, National Lampoons Van Wilder, Bad Girls From Valley High, Choking Man, Mission, Impossible III, and The Last House on the Left. Paul first became known for his role as Scott Quittman on HBOs Big Love, in 2008, he began playing Jesse Pinkman on the AMC series Breaking Bad. Paul starred in the film Smashed, which was one of the selections for the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. In October 2012, he was interviewed by ESPN, he spoke about his experience as a Boise State Broncos fan
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Miramax
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Miramax is an American entertainment company known for producing and distributing films and television shows. It is headquartered in Santa Monica, California, shortly thereafter, Pulp Fiction was released. Miramax was sold by Disney to Filmyard Holdings, a joint venture of Colony Capital, Tutor-Saliba Corporation, in 2016, ownership was transferred to beIN Media Group. The company was founded by the brothers Harvey and Bob Weinstein in Buffalo, New York in 1979 and it was created to distribute independent films deemed commercially unfeasible by the major studios. The Weinsteins worked with Lewis to distill the two films into one film for the US marketplace, the resulting film The Secret Policemans Other Ball was a successful release for Miramax in the summer of 1982. This release presaged a modus operandi that the company would later in the 1980s of acquiring films from international filmmakers. Among the companys other breakthrough films as distributors in the late 1980s and early 1990s were Scandal, Sex, Lies, the Crying Game, Pulp Fiction and Clerks. The company also made such as Flirting with Disaster, Heavenly Creatures. Miramax acquired and/or produced many films that did extraordinarily well financially. The company became one of the leaders of the independent film boom of the 1990s, Miramax produced or distributed seven films with box office grosses totaling more than $100 million, its most successful title, Chicago, earned more than $300 million worldwide. The company was also successful in securing Academy Award nominations for its releases. In 1992, Miramax began a deal with Paramount Pictures for VHS, Paramount would also distribute theatrically certain releases that might have commercial appeal. On June 30,1993, Miramax was purchased for $60 million by The Walt Disney Company, Harvey and Bob Weinstein continued to operate Miramax until they left the company on September 30,2005. During their tenure, the Weinstein brothers ran Miramax independently of other Disney subsidiaries, Disney, however, had the final say on what Miramax could release. Disneys Buena Vista Home Entertainment division released Miramax output, Miramax operated, until September 30,2005, the label Dimension Films, specializing in genre films and created the Scream and Scary Movie film franchises. The primary source of dispute was over distribution of Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore, Disneys film studio consortium, Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group assumed control of Miramax, which was projected to have a smaller annual production budget. The Weinsteins started a new production company called The Weinstein Company. The Miramax name remained with the studio owned by Disney
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Thriller (genre)
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Thriller is a broad genre of literature, film and television, having numerous subgenres. Thrillers are characterized and defined by the moods they elicit, giving viewers heightened feelings of suspense, excitement, surprise, anticipation, successful examples of thrillers are the films of Alfred Hitchcock. Thrillers generally keep the audience on the edge of their seats as the plot builds towards a climax, the cover-up of important information is a common element. Literary devices such as red herrings, plot twists, and cliffhangers are used extensively, a thriller is usually a villain-driven plot, whereby he or she presents obstacles that the protagonist must overcome. Homers Odyssey is one of the oldest stories in the Western world and is regarded as a prototype of the thriller. Thrillers may be defined by the mood that they elicit. In short, if it thrills, it is a thriller, as the introduction to a major anthology explains, Suspense is a crucial characteristic of the thriller genre. It gives the viewer a feeling of pleasurable fascination and excitement mixed with apprehension, anticipation and tension and these develop from unpredictable, mysterious and rousing events during the narrative, which make the viewer or reader think about the outcome of certain actions. Suspense builds in order to make those final moments, no matter how short, the suspense in a story keeps the person hooked to reading or watching more until the climax is reached. In terms of expectations, it may be contrasted with curiosity. The objective is to deliver a story with sustained tension, surprise, the second type of suspense is the. anticipation wherein we either know or else are fairly certain about what is going to happen but are still aroused in anticipation of its actual occurrence. According to Greek philosopher Aristotle in his book Poetics, suspense is an important building block of literature, common methods and themes in crime and action thrillers are mainly ransoms, captivities, heists, revenge, kidnappings. Common in mystery thrillers are investigations and the whodunit technique, common elements in dramatic and psychological thrillers include plot twists, psychology, obsession and mind games. Common in horror thrillers are serial killers, stalking, deathtraps, elements such as fringe theories, false accusations and paranoia are common in paranoid thrillers. Threats to entire countries, spies, espionage, conspiracies, assassins, the themes frequently include terrorism, political conspiracy, pursuit, or romantic triangles leading to murder. Plots of thrillers involve characters which come into conflict with other or with outside forces. The protagonist of these films is set against a problem, no matter what subgenre a thriller film falls into, it will emphasize the danger that the protagonist faces. While protagonists of thrillers have traditionally been men, women characters are increasingly common
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Lost in Space
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Lost in Space is an American science fiction television series created and produced by Irwin Allen. The series follows the adventures of a family of space colonists who struggle to survive in a strange and often hostile universe after their ship is sabotaged. The show ran for three seasons, with 83 episodes airing between 1965 and 1968, the first season was filmed in black and white, with the second and third seasons filmed in color. Although the original concept centered on the Robinson family, many later storylines focused primarily on Dr. Zachary Smith, Smith and the Robot were both absent from the unaired pilot, as the addition of their characters was only decided upon once the series had been commissioned for production. Smith is thus the key to the story, in 1962 the first appearance of a space-faring Robinson family occurred in a comic book published by Gold Key Comics. The Space Family Robinson, who were scientists aboard Earths Space Station One, are away in a cosmic storm in the comics second issue. These Robinsons were scientist father Craig, scientist mother June, early teens Tim and Tam, along with pets Clancy, Space Station One also boasted two spacemobiles for ship-to-planet travel. The Jupiter 2 mission is sabotaged by Dr. Zachary Smith – an agent for an foreign government – who slips aboard the spaceship and reprograms the robot to destroy the ship and crew. However, when he is trapped aboard, his excess weight alters the crafts flight path, Smith manages to save himself by prematurely reviving the crew from suspended animation. The ship survives, but consequent damage caused by Smiths earlier sabotage of the robot leaves them lost in space. In the third episode the Jupiter 2 crashlands on a world, later identified by Will as Priplanus. Smith was liked by the trusting Will, and tolerated by the women, One of these colorful visitors even turned out to be Smiths own cousin, intent on swindling him out of a family inheritance with the assistance of a hostile gambling machine. A new theme tune was recorded by Warren Barker for the second season, in the third season, a major format change was introduced, to bring the series back to its roots as solid adventure, by allowing the Robinsons to travel to more planets. The Jupiter 2 was now allowed to freely travel space, visiting a new world each week, as the family attempt to return to Earth or to reach their original destination in the Alpha Centauri system. This season had a different opening credits sequence and a new theme tune – which. The stories had little realism, with, for instance, explosions happening randomly, merely to cover an aliens arrival or departure, or sometimes merely the arrival of some alien artifact. Props and monsters were regularly recycled from other Irwin Allen shows, as a matter of convenience. A sea monster outfit which had featured on Voyage would get a paint job for its Lost in Space appearance
