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Ocean's 11
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Oceans 11 is a 1960 heist film directed by Lewis Milestone and starring five Rat Packers, Peter Lawford, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr. and Joey Bishop. A remake, directed by Steven Soderbergh, starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy García, Julia Roberts, Bernie Mac, and Don Cheadle was released in 2001, followed by a pair of sequels. A gang of World War II 82nd Airborne veterans is recruited by Danny Ocean, the gang plans the elaborate New Years Eve heist with the precision of a military operation. Josh Howard takes a job as a worker driving a garbage truck while others work to scope out the various casinos. Sam Harmon entertains in one of the hotels lounges, demolition charges are planted on an electrical transmission tower and the backup electrical systems are covertly rewired in each casino. At exactly midnight, while everyone in every Vegas casino is singing Auld Lang Syne the tower is blown up, the backup electrical systems open the cashier cages instead of powering the emergency lights. The inside men sneak into the cages and collect the money. They dump the bags of loot into the garbage bins, go back inside. As soon as the come back on, the thieves stroll out of the casinos. A garbage truck driven by Josh picks up the bags and passes through the police blockade and it appears to have gone off without a hitch. Their ace electrician, Tony Bergdorf, has an attack in the middle of the Las Vegas Strip. This raises the suspicions of police, who wonder if there is any connection, reformed mobster Duke Santos offers to recover the casino bosses money for a price. He learns of Ocean being in town and his connection to Foster, Santos pieces together the puzzle by the time Bergdorfs body arrives at the mortuary. Santos confronts the thieves, demanding half of their take, in desperation, the money is hidden in Bergdorfs coffin, with $10,000 set aside for Bergdorfs widow. The group plans to back the rest of the money, making no payoff to Santos. This plan backfires when the director talks Bergdorfs widow into having the funeral in Las Vegas. Peter Lawford was first told of the story of the film by director Gilbert Kay. Lawford eventually bought the rights in 1958, imagining William Holden in the lead, Sinatra became interested in the idea, and a variety of different writers worked on the project
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Steven Soderbergh
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Steven Andrew Soderbergh is an American film producer, director, screenwriter, cinematographer and editor. Film critic Roger Ebert dubbed Soderbergh the poster boy of the Sundance generation, Soderbergh also directed, photographed and edited all episodes of the television drama The Knick. In addition, he has produced film and television programs. Soderbergh was born on January 14,1963, in Atlanta, Georgia, to Mary Ann and Peter Andrew Soderbergh and his fathers ancestry was Swedish and Irish, his paternal grandfather was an immigrant from Stockholm. His mother was of Italian, and a little Irish, descent, in Baton Rouge, he discovered filmmaking as a teenager, directing short Super 8 mm films with equipment borrowed from LSU students. His primary high school education was at Louisiana State University Laboratory School, while still taking classes there around the age of 15, Soderbergh enrolled in the universitys film animation class and began making short 16 mm films with secondhand equipment. His big break came when he directed the Grammy-nominated concert video 9012Live for the rock band Yes in 1985 and it was not until Soderbergh came back to Baton Rouge that he conceived the idea for Sex, Lies, and Videotape, which he wrote in eight days. The independent film won the Palme dOr at the Cannes Film Festival, became a commercial success. At age 26, Soderbergh became the second youngest director to win the top award. Movie critic Roger Ebert dubbed Soderbergh the poster boy of the Sundance generation and he also directed the Spalding Gray monologue film Grays Anatomy in 1996. The film was praised, though only a moderate box-office success. It reaffirmed Soderberghs potential, sparking the beginnings of an artistic partnership between Clooney and Soderbergh. Soderbergh followed up on the success of Out of Sight by making another crime caper, The Limey, from a screenplay by Lem Dobbs and starring veteran actors Terence Stamp and Peter Fonda. The film was well-received, but not as much as Erin Brockovich, written by Susannah Grant, later that year, Soderbergh released Traffic, a social drama written by Stephen Gaghan and featuring an ensemble cast. Traffic became his most acclaimed movie since Sex, Lies, and Videotape and he was also nominated that same year for Erin Brockovich. He is the director to have been nominated in the same year for Best Director for two different films by the Academy Awards, the Golden Globes and the Directors Guild of America. The double nomination was the first in 60 years, the films star, George Clooney, subsequently appeared in Solaris, marking the third time the two have headlined a film. A film within a film, the title is a film reference to an actor or actress appearing fully nude
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Jerry Weintraub
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Jerome Charles Jerry Weintraub was an American film producer, talent agent and actor whose television films won him three Emmys. Weintraub has been credited with making show business history by being the first to organize, among the other performers whose tours he managed were Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, The Four Seasons, Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan, and Led Zeppelin and The Carpenters. Following his years as a promoter, he began producing films. Among them were director Robert Altmans Nashville, Barry Levinsons Diner, the version of The Karate Kid and its 2010 remake, as well as the remake of Oceans Eleven. Later, Weintraub was executive producer of HBOs series The Brink and HBOs Behind the Candelabra in 2013, in 2014, he won another Emmy as co-producer of Years of Living Dangerously, a television documentary about global warming. In 2011, HBO broadcast a documentary about Weintraubs life. Weintraub was born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, and raised in the Bronx and his father was a gem dealer. While growing up, he worked as an usher and as a waiter in the Catskills. After several years at MCA, where he first started work as a clerk, he left. While at MCA, he was assistant to Lew Wasserman, whom he thought of as a father figure, in the 1960s, he co-founded the vocal group The Doodletown Pipers. Weintraub was the manager of singer and actor John Denver whom he signed in 1970, Weintraub first saw Denver performing at a small club in Greenwich Village and liked his easy, mountaineers manner. Weintraub produced a television music specials starring Denver, winning an Emmy for one of them. Later, he produced the film Oh, God, after Denver became a major success as a singer, he bought Weintraub a Rolls-Royce as a thank-you gift. Weintraub said, I couldnt help thinking that it wasnt too long ago that neither of us had bus fare, Denver and Weintraubs professional relationship ended acrimoniously, however. In 1970 Weintraub convinced Elvis Presley and his manager, Col. Tom Parker, to do his first national tour, something they had not considered, the tour, with a modern sound system created for it, helped develop Weintraubs career as a concert promoter. He next promoted a tour for Frank Sinatra in 1974, whom Weintraub first put in Madison Square Gardens boxing arena, for the previous six years, Sinatra had basically retired due to the failure of his last album. Weintraub convinced him to do a tour, which led to Sinatras transformation from saloon singer to stadium singer, when Frank came out of retirement and started doing stadiums, he didnt know if he would draw, recalled guitarist Al Viola. Weintraub deserves most of the credit for pulling this off, says Friedwald, Bob Dylan signed with Weintraub in 1978 after watching a Neil Diamond concert in Las Vegas, knowing that Weintraub managed the impressive event
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George Clayton Johnson
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George Clayton Johnson was an American science fiction writer, best known for co-writing with William F. Nolan the novel Logans Run, the basis for the MGM1976 film. He was also known for his scripts for The Twilight Zone. He also wrote the story on which the 1960 and 2001 films Oceans Eleven were based, Johnson was born in a barn in Cheyenne, Wyoming, was forced to repeat the sixth grade, and dropped out of school entirely in the eighth. He briefly served as an operator and draftsman in the United States Army. Bill, but quit to return to his travels around the U. S. working as a draftsman, in 1959, Johnson wrote the story Ill Take Care of You for Alfred Hitchcock Presents. From 1959 onward, Johnsons work began to appear in magazines such as Playboy, Los Angeles, The Twilight Zone Magazine, Rogue, and Gamma. In 1960, he co-wrote the treatment for the Rat Pack film Oceans 11, later, Johnson joined the Southern California School of Writers that included, among others, William F. Nolan, Charles Beaumont, Richard Matheson and Ray Bradbury. Through them he met Rod Serling, to whom he sold his story All of Us Are Dying, Johnson briefly had a L. A. -based radio program called The Writer and the Story which featured interviews with authors, including Charles Beaumont and William F. Nolan. As his career progressed, Johnson formed, in the 1960s, a loose, short-lived federation with fellow authors and friends Matheson, Theodore Sturgeon, the intent was to leverage their works in the fashion of a union within the Hollywood system for TV production. Unfortunately, the enterprise fell apart after a few months, in his later years, he wrote comic books and was a frequent guest at sci-fi and comics conventions. Johnson co-created the comic book series Deepest Dimension Terror Anthology with cartoonist, Johnson married Lola Brownstein on October 10,1952 in Los Angeles, and fathered two children, Paul and Judy. He was an advocate for the legalization of marijuana. Along with his output, Johnson was instrumental to the early development of San Diego Comic Con. He was also a longtime vegetarian, Johnson died on Christmas Day 2015, of bladder and prostate cancer at a Veterans Administration Medical Center hospital in North Hills, California. Johnson was survived by his son Paul, his daughter Judy, All of us are dying, but writer George Clayton Johnson is still living it up. Archived from the original on April 4,2004, Archive Interview Part 1 of 10 on YouTube or see playlist George Clayton Johnson interview video at the Archive of American Television
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Charles Lederer
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Charles Lederer was an American screenwriter and film director. A child prodigy, he entered college at age 13, Lederer is recognized for his comic and acerbic adaptations and collaborative screenplays of the 1940s and early 1950s. His screenplays frequently delved into the corrosive influences of wealth and power, Lederer was born in New York City to two prominent figures in the American theater, Broadway producer George Lederer and singer Reine Davies. After his parents were separated, Lederer and his younger sister Pepi moved to California and were raised by his mothers sister, actress Marion Davies. He grew up in Hollywood, spending time at San Simeon, the enchanted castle on the hill. He was a prodigy and was admitted to UC Berkeley at the age of 13. According to biographer William MacAdams, Hollywood was home to Lederer, virtually none of the film community had grown up in Los Angeles, but Lederer had been brought there when he was 11 by Marion Davies, his mothers sister. Lederer thus knew the movie colony inside out as seen from the top, when he was 19, Lederer became friends with Ben Hecht, who introduced him to the New York literati. His friendship with Hecht led to his being hired to write dialogue for the film The Front Page. He later moved back to Hollywood to become a full-time screenwriter, Lederer is recognized for his acerbic wit, with adaptations and collaborative screenplays written mostly during the 1940s and early 1950s. His screenplays frequently delved into the corrosive influences of wealth and power, yet his comedy writing was also among the best of the period, and he, along with Hecht and Herman Mankiewicz became major contributors to the film genre known as screwball comedy. He was friends with screenwriters Joseph and Herman Mankiewicz, Herman would later become co-screenwriter of Citizen Kane. After becoming friends with Lederer, Herman told Joe to come to the office of their mutual friend Charlie Lederer, as explained by Hollywood columnist Pauline Kael, Mankiewicz found himself on story-swapping terms with the power behind it all, Hearst himself. Lederer, a prodigy, who had entered college at thirteen. Lederer was Marion Davies’s nephew – the son of her sister Reine. Marion was childless, and Lederer was very close to her, he spent a deal of his time at her various dwelling places, and took his friends to meet both her and Hearst. ”After finishing the script for Citizen Kane, Mankiewicz gave a copy to Lederer. In some crazily naive way, Mankiewicz seems to have imagined that Lederer would be pleased by how good it was, but Lederer, apparently, was deeply upset and took the script to his aunt and Hearst. It went from them to Hearsts lawyers, Lederer, however, told director Peter Bogdanovich that Kael was totally incorrect in this matter, and she never bothered to check with him
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George Clooney
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George Timothy Clooney is an American actor, filmmaker, and activist. He has received three Golden Globe Awards for his work as an actor and two Academy Awards, one for acting in Syriana and the other for co-producing Argo, in 1999, he took the lead role in Three Kings, a well-received war satire set during the Gulf War. In 2001, Clooneys fame widened with the release of his biggest commercial success, the heist comedy remake Oceans Eleven, in 2013, he received the Academy Award for Best Picture for producing the political thriller Argo. He is the person who has been nominated for Academy Awards in six different categories. In 2009, Clooney was included in Times annual Time 100 as one of the Most Influential People in the World and he is also noted for his political activism, and has served as one of the United Nations Messengers of Peace since January 31,2008. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Clooney was born in Lexington, Kentucky. His mother, Nina Bruce, was a beauty queen and city councilwoman and his father, Nick Clooney, is a former anchorman and game show host who hosted AMC for five years in the late 1990s. Clooney has Irish, German, and English ancestry and his maternal great-great-great-great-grandmother, Mary Ann Sparrow, was the half-sister of Nancy Lincoln, mother of President Abraham Lincoln. Clooney has a sister named Adelia. His aunt was the cabaret singer and actress Rosemary Clooney. Through Rosemary, his cousins include actors Miguel Ferrer, Rafael Ferrer, and Gabriel Ferrer, Clooney was raised a strict Roman Catholic, but said in 2006 that he does not know if he believes in Heaven, or even God. He has said, Yes, we were Catholic, big time, whole family and he began his education at the Blessed Sacrament School in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky. He attended St. Michaels School in Columbus, Ohio, then Western Row Elementary School in Mason, Ohio, from 1968 to 1974, and St. Susanna School in Mason, the Clooneys moved back to Kentucky when George was midway through the seventh grade. In middle school, Clooney developed Bells palsy, a condition that partially paralyzes the face, the malady went away within a year. In an interview with Larry King, he stated that yes and it takes about nine months to go away. It was the first year of school, which was a bad time for having half your face paralyzed. After his parents moved to Augusta, Kentucky, Clooney attended Augusta High School and he has stated that he earned all As and a B in school, and was an enthusiastic baseball and basketball player. He tried out to professional baseball with the Cincinnati Reds in 1977
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Brad Pitt
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William Bradley Brad Pitt in Shawnee Oklahoma. He is an American actor and producer and he has received multiple awards and nominations including an Academy Award as producer under his own company Plan B Entertainment. Pitt first gained recognition as a hitchhiker in the road movie Thelma & Louise. His first leading roles in big-budget productions came with the dramas A River Runs Through It and Legends of the Fall, Pitt starred in the cult film Fight Club and the heist film Oceans Eleven and its sequels, Oceans Twelve and Oceans Thirteen. As a public figure, Pitt has been cited as one of the most influential and powerful people in the American entertainment industry, as well as the worlds most attractive man and his personal life is also the subject of wide publicity. Divorced from actress Jennifer Aniston, to whom he was married for five years and they have six children together, three of whom were adopted internationally. In September 2016, Jolie filed for divorce from Pitt, William Bradley Pitt was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, to William Bill Alvin Pitt, manager of a trucking company, and Jane Etta, a school counsellor. The family soon moved to Springfield, Missouri, where he lived together with his siblings, Douglas. Pitt has described Springfield as Mark Twain country, Jesse James country, having grown up with a lot of hills, Pitt attended Kickapoo High School, where he was a member of the golf, swimming and tennis teams. He participated in the schools Key and Forensics clubs, in school debates, following his graduation from high school, Pitt enrolled in the University of Missouri in 1982, majoring in journalism with a focus on advertising. As graduation approached, Pitt did not feel ready to settle down and he loved films—a portal into different worlds for me—and, since films were not made in Missouri, he decided to go to where they were made. Two weeks before earning his degree, Pitt left the university and moved to Los Angeles, while struggling to establish himself in Los Angeles, Pitt took lessons from acting coach Roy London. Pitts acting career began in 1987, with uncredited parts in the films No Way Out, No Mans Land and his television debut came in May 1987 with a two-episode role on the NBC soap opera Another World. In November of the same year Pitt had a guest appearance on the ABC sitcom Growing Pains and he appeared in four episodes of the CBS primetime series Dallas between December 1987 and February 1988 as Randy, the boyfriend of Charlie Wade. Later in 1988, Pitt made a guest appearance on the Fox police drama 21 Jump Street, in the same year, the Yugoslavian–U. S. Co-production The Dark Side of the Sun gave Pitt his first leading film role, the film was shelved at the outbreak of the Croatian War of Independence, and was not released until 1997. He made guest appearances on television series Head of the Class, Freddys Nightmares, Thirtysomething, and Growing Pains. Pitt was cast as Billy Canton, an addict who takes advantage of a young runaway in the 1990 NBC television movie Too Young to Die. the story of an abused teenager sentenced to death for a murder
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Matt Damon
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Matthew Paige Damon is an American actor, film producer, and screenwriter. He is ranked among Forbes magazines most bankable stars and is one of the actors of all time. Born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Damon began his career by appearing in high school theater productions. Damon is also known for his roles as Jason Bourne in the Bourne franchise. The latter also won him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Damon has received Emmy Award nominations for his portrayal of Scott Thorson in the biopic Behind the Candelabra and for producing the reality series Project Greenlight. He also received an Oscar nomination for producing Manchester by the Sea, in addition to acting in films, Damon has performed voice-over work in both animated and documentary films and has established two production companies with Affleck. He has been involved in charitable work, including the ONE Campaign, H2O Africa Foundation, Feeding America. Damon is married to Luciana Bozán Barroso, and they have three daughters together, Damon was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the second son of Kent Telfer Damon, a stockbroker, and Nancy Carlsson-Paige, an early childhood education professor at Lesley University. His father has English and Scottish ancestry, and his mother is of five-eighths Finnish, Damon and his family moved to Newton for two years. His parents divorced when he was two old, and Damon and his brother returned with their mother to Cambridge, where they lived in a six-family communal house. His brother Kyle is now a sculptor and artist. As a lonely teenager, Damon has said that he felt that he did not belong, due to his mothers by the book approach to child-rearing, he had a hard time defining a self identity. He attended Cambridge Alternative School and then Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, Damon performed as an actor in several high school theater productions. He credited his drama teacher, Gerry Speca, as an important artistic influence, though Ben Affleck, his friend and schoolmate, got the biggest roles. While at Harvard, he wrote a treatment of the screenplay for Good Will Hunting as an exercise for an English class. Damon was a member of the Delphic Club, one of the Universitys select Final Clubs, in 2013, he was awarded the Harvard Arts Medal. Damon received an Academy Award for the screenplay of Good Will Hunting in 1998, which was handed to him by Harvard alumnus Jack Lemmon, Damon entered Harvard in 1988, where he appeared in student theater plays, such as Burn This and A. Later, he made his debut at the age of 18
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Julia Roberts
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Julia Fiona Roberts is an American actress and producer. She became a Hollywood star after headlining the romantic comedy Pretty Woman and she received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie nomination for her performance in the HBO television film The Normal Heart. Roberts was the actress in the world throughout most of the 1990s. Her fee for 1990s Pretty Woman was US$300,000, in 2003, as of 2007 Robertss net worth was estimated to be US$140 million. She has been named one of People magazines 50 Most Beautiful People in the World eleven times, Roberts was born on October 28,1967, in Smyrna, Georgia, to Betty Lou Bredemus and Walter Grady Roberts. She is of English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, German and her father was a Baptist, her mother a Roman Catholic, and she was raised Catholic. Her older brother, Eric Roberts, from whom she was estranged until 2004, sister Lisa Roberts Gillan, Robertss parents, one-time actors and playwrights, met while performing theatrical productions for the armed forces. They later co-founded the Atlanta Actors and Writers Workshop in Atlanta and they ran a childrens acting school in Decatur, Georgia, while they were expecting Julia. The children of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King attended the school, as a thank-you for his service, Mrs. King paid Mrs. Robertss hospital bill when Julia was born. Robertss mother filed for divorce in 1971, the divorce was finalized in early 1972, from 1972, Roberts lived in Smyrna, Georgia, where she attended Fitzhugh Lee Elementary School, Griffin Middle School, and Campbell High School. In 1972, her mother married Michael Motes, who was abusive and often unemployed, the couple had a daughter, Nancy Motes, who died at 37 on February 9,2014, of an apparent drug overdose. The marriage ended in 1983, with Betty Lou divorcing Motes on cruelty grounds, Robertss own father died of cancer when she was ten. Roberts wanted to be a veterinarian as a child and she also played the clarinet in her school band. After graduating from Smyrnas Campbell High School, she attended Georgia State University and she later headed to New York City to pursue a career in acting. Once there, she signed with the Click Modeling Agency and enrolled in acting classes, Roberts made her first big screen appearance in the film Satisfaction, alongside Liam Neeson and Justine Bateman, as a band member looking for a summer gig. She had previously performed a role opposite her brother, Eric, in Blood Red, filmed in 1987. Her first television appearance was as a rape victim in the initial season of the series Crime Story with Dennis Farina, in the episode titled The Survivor. Her first critical success with moviegoers was her performance in the independent film Mystic Pizza in 1988, that same year, she had a role in the fourth-season finale of Miami Vice
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Stephen Mirrione
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Stephen Mirrione is an American film editor. He won an Academy Award for his editing of the film Traffic, Mirrione was born in Santa Clara County, California. He attended Bellarmine College Preparatory and then the University of California, Santa Cruz and he moved to Los Angeles, and began a collaboration with Doug Liman, who was then a graduate student at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. Mirrione edited Limans first feature films Getting In, Swingers, and Go, Mirrione has had a notable collaboration with director Steven Soderbergh. The two met when Soderbergh attended the opening of Go, about one year later he asked Mirrione to edit Traffic, which earned Mirrione an Oscar. Stephen Mirriones editing, which gives Traffic a beautifully modulated overall shape, is characterized on a moment-to-moment basis by jump cuts and jagged rhythms. Overall result is far too stylized to call the approach verite, but pic looks far more caught-on-the-run, Mirrione subsequently edited all three of the Oceans films directed by Soderbergh and starring George Clooney, as well as Soderberghs 2009 film The Informant. and the 2011 film Contagion. Mirrione won an American Cinema Editors Eddie Award in 2006 for his editing of Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritus film Babel and he has been nominated four times for BAFTA Awards for editing Traffic,21 grams, Good Night, and Good Luck, and for Babel. Mirrione has been selected for membership in the American Cinema Editors. S. T
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Village Roadshow Pictures
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Village Roadshow Entertainment Group is an independent global film entertainment company. Village Roadshow Entertainment Group consists principally of Village Roadshow Pictures, Village Roadshow Productions, Village Roadshow Entertainment Group s largest owner is Village Roadshow Limited, which owns 47. 6% of the company. The other shareholders are Crescent Entertainment, Tailwind Capital, Falcon Investment Advisors and Trinity Opportunities Limited
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Warner Bros.
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Entertainment Inc. – colloquially known as Warner Bros. or Warner Bros. It is one of the Big Six major American film studios, Warner Bros. is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America. The companys name originated from the four founding Warner brothers, Harry, Albert, Sam, Jack, the youngest, was born in London, Ontario. The three elder brothers began in the theater business, having acquired a movie projector with which they showed films in the mining towns of Pennsylvania. In the beginning, Sam and Albert Warner invested $150 to present Life of an American Fireman and they opened their first theater, the Cascade, in New Castle, Pennsylvania, in 1903. When the original building was in danger of being demolished, the modern Warner Bros. called the current building owners, the owners noted people across the country had asked them to protect it for its historical significance. In 1904, the Warners founded the Pittsburgh-based Duquesne Amusement & Supply Company, in 1912, Harry Warner hired an auditor named Paul Ashley Chase. By the time of World War I they had begun producing films, in 1918 they opened the first Warner Bros. studio on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. Sam and Jack produced the pictures, while Harry and Albert, along with their auditor and now controller Chase, handled finance and distribution in New York City. During World War I their first nationally syndicated film, My Four Years in Germany, on April 4,1923, with help from money loaned to Harry by his banker Motley Flint, they formally incorporated as Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated. The first important deal was the acquisition of the rights to Avery Hopwoods 1919 Broadway play, The Gold Diggers, however, Rin Tin Tin, a dog brought from France after World War I by an American soldier, established their reputation. Rin Tin Tin debuted in the feature Where the North Begins, the movie was so successful that Jack signed the dog to star in more films for $1,000 per week. Rin Tin Tin became the top star. Jack nicknamed him The Mortgage Lifter and the success boosted Darryl F. Zanucks career, Zanuck eventually became a top producer and between 1928 and 1933 served as Jacks right-hand man and executive producer, with responsibilities including day-to-day film production. More success came after Ernst Lubitsch was hired as head director, lubitschs film The Marriage Circle was the studios most successful film of 1924, and was on The New York Times best list for that year. Despite the success of Rin Tin Tin and Lubitsch, Warners remained a lesser studio, Sam and Jack decided to offer Broadway actor John Barrymore the lead role in Beau Brummel. The film was so successful that Harry signed Barrymore to a contract, like The Marriage Circle. By the end of 1924, Warner Bros. was arguably Hollywoods most successful independent studio, as the studio prospered, it gained backing from Wall Street, and in 1924 Goldman Sachs arranged a major loan
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Heist film
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The heist film is a subgenre of the crime film. It focuses on the planning, execution, and aftermath of a theft, versions with dominant or prominent comic elements are often called caper movies. They could be described as the analogues of caper stories in film history, a typical film includes many plot twists, with the focus on the characters attempts to formulate a plan, carry it out, and escape with the goods. Often a nemesis must be thwarted, who might be either a figure of authority or else a former partner who turned on the group or one of its members, usually a heist film will contain a three-act plot. The second act is the heist itself, with rare exception, the heist will be successful, although some number of unexpected events will occur. The third act is the unraveling of the plot, the characters involved in the heist will be turned against one another or one of the characters will have made arrangements with some outside party, who will interfere. Touchez pas au grisbi and Reservoir Dogs, for example, both take place largely after the heist has occurred, examples of heist films that take place non-linearly, The Killing, Gambit, Reservoir Dogs. Throughout the 1930s, thievery and scams were present in films as Raffles, Outside the Law, The Unholy Garden. Even to contemporary Hollywood, the genre still remains promising, as the remakes of Oceans 11 and The Italian Job show
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Rat Pack
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The Rat Pack was a supergroup of actors originally centered on their leader, Frank Sinatra. Later it was revealed by Sinatra that Joey Bishop headed the bunch, Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop, they appeared together on stage and in films in the early 1960s, including the movies Oceans 11, Sergeants 3, and Robin and the 7 Hoods. Sinatra, Martin, and Davis were regarded as the lead members. The name The Rat Pack was first used to refer to a group of friends in New York, several explanations have been offered for the famous name over the years. Rat Pack may also be a version of Holmby Hills Rat Pack. Visiting members included Errol Flynn, Ava Gardner, Nat King Cole, Robert Mitchum, Elizabeth Taylor, Janet Leigh, Tony Curtis, Mickey Rooney, Lena Horne, Jerry Lewis and Cesar Romero. In his autobiography The Moons a Balloon, David Niven confirms that the Rat Pack originally included him but neither Sammy Davis, the 1960s version of the group included Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr. Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop. Marilyn Monroe, Angie Dickinson, Juliet Prowse, Buddy Greco, the post-Bogart version of the group was reportedly never called that name by any of its members – they called it the Summit or the Clan. The Rat Pack was a used by journalists and outsiders. Often, when one of the members was scheduled to give a performance, the marquees of the hotels at which they were performing as individuals would read, for example, DEAN MARTIN - MAYBE FRANK - MAYBE SAMMY as seen on a Sands Hotel sign. Rat Pack members played a role in campaigning for Kennedy and the Democrats, Lawford had asked Sinatra if he would have Kennedy as a guest at his Palm Springs house in March 1962, and Sinatra went to great lengths to accommodate the President. When Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy advised his brother to sever his ties to Sinatra because of the association with Mafia figures such as Sam Giancana. Kennedy instead chose to stay at rival Bing Crosbys estate, which further infuriated Sinatra, Lawford was blamed for this, and Sinatra never again had a good word for from that point onwards. Lawfords role in the upcoming 4 for Texas was written out, and his part in Robin and the 7 Hoods was given to Bing Crosby. It has since been broadcast on Nick at Nite as part of The Museum of Television & Radio Showcase series and released on DVD as part of the Ultimate Rat Pack Collection, Live & Swingin. In 1981, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis, Jr. appeared together in the film Cannonball Run and this would be the last time that the three would appear in a movie together. In December 1987, at Chasens restaurant in Los Angeles, Sinatra, Davis, at the press conference to announce the tour, Martin joked about calling the tour off, and Sinatra rebuked a reporter for using the term Rat Pack, referring to it as that stupid phrase. Martin had since become increasingly dependent on alcohol and prescription drugs, Davis had hip replacement surgery two years previously, and been estranged from Sinatra because of Davis use of cocaine
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Don Cheadle
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Donald Frank Don Cheadle Jr. is an American actor, writer, producer, and director. He had a role in Hamburger Hill, before building his career in the 1990s with performances in Devil in a Blue Dress, Rosewood. He started a collaboration with director Steven Soderbergh that resulted in the films Out of Sight, Traffic and Oceans Eleven. Other films include Volcano, The Rat Pack, Things Behind the Sun, Swordfish, Crash, Oceans Twelve, Oceans Thirteen, Reign Over Me, Talk to Me, Traitor and The Guard. Cheadle co-wrote, directed and starred in Miles Ahead, based on the life of jazz musician Miles Davis. He plays the superhero Colonel James Rhodey Rhodes / War Machine in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and has appeared in Iron Man 2, Iron Man 3, Avengers, Age of Ultron and Captain America, Civil War. He stars as Marty Kaan on the Showtime sitcom House of Lies, for which he most recently won a Golden Globe Award in 2013. Cheadle has campaigned to end the genocide in Darfur, Sudan, and co-authored, with John Prendergast, in 2010, Cheadle was named U. N. Cheadle was born in Kansas City, Missouri, the son of Bettye, a teacher and he has a sister, Cindy, and a brother, Colin. His family moved from city to city throughout his childhood, after he graduated from East, Cheadle went on to California Institute of the Arts, graduating with a BFA in Acting. Cheadle first became eligible for his Screen Actors Guild card when he appeared as a burger joint employee in the 1985 comedy Moving Violations. He then appeared in Hamburger Hill in 1987, and played the role of Jack in the April 1,1988 Jung, although his character was supposed to be 16 years old, Cheadle was 23 at the time. Cheadle then played the role of Rocket in the 1988 movie Colors, in 1989, he appeared in a video for Angela Winbushs No.2 hit single Its the Real Thing, performing dance moves in an orange jump suit, working at a car wash. In 1990, he appeared in an episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air titled Homeboy, Sweet Homeboy, playing Will Smiths friend and Hilarys first love interest, in 1992, he played a supporting role in The Golden Girls spin-off The Golden Palace. Cheadle subsequently played district attorney John Littleton on three seasons of Picket Fences, following soon thereafter was his performance in the title role of the 1996 HBO TV movie Rebound, The Legend of Earl The Goat Manigault. He also starred in the 1997 film Volcano, directed by Mick Jackson, Cheadles television credits include Emmy-nominated performances in the movies The Rat Pack, A Lesson Before Dying, Things Behind the Sun and in a guest appearance on ER. The last of these four episodes during the shows ninth season, in which he portrayed Paul Nathan. He has made appearances in films including Rosewood, The Family Man, Boogie Nights, an appearance in the film Abby Singer, Out of Sight, Traffic
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Ocean's Twelve
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Oceans Twelve is a 2004 American comedy heist film, the first sequel to 2001s Oceans Eleven. Like its predecessor, which was a remake of the 1960 heist film Oceans 11 and it was released in the United States on December 10,2004. A third film, Oceans Thirteen, was released on June 8,2007, the film stars George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Andy García, Julia Roberts, Don Cheadle, Bernie Mac. It was the film of 2004. Terry Benedict locates all eleven members of Danny Oceans gang, demanding they return the $150 million they stole from his casinos plus $38 million interest, short by half, the group schemes to stage another heist in Europe to avoid problems with United States authorities. They are tipped off by an informant named Matsui about the location of the first stock certificate ever, after a complex series of schemes they find the document has already been stolen by The Night Fox, another master thief. Surprising the group at their accommodation, she warns them they beat the Night Fox or his mentor. She has been hunting both for years, Danny and his gang discover the Night Fox is Baron François Toulour, a wealthy baron who has a mansion on Lake Como. Toulour invites Danny to his mansion and reveals that he had hired Matsui to inform the gang about the certificate in order to arrange the meeting with Danny. Toulour is upset that LeMarc did not describe him as the best thief in the world, if Danny and his gang win, Toulour will pay off the debt to Benedict. Linus comes up with a plan involving Dannys wife Tess posing as a pregnant Julia Roberts in order to get close to the Egg. They are foiled by Lahiri and a coincidentally present Bruce Willis, Lahiri is told that they are to be extradited to the United States. Linus is chosen first to be interrogated by the FBI agent assigned to collect them and it turns out that she is his mother, who organises the release of the whole gang. She points out to Lahiri that Lahiri will face only retribution for forging a signature on a Europol form to obtain the necessary arrest warrants for Oceans gang, some time later, Danny and Tess return to Toulours estate where he reveals his glee at their failure. Toulour claims to have stolen the egg at night using his agility, Toulours celebration is short-lived when Danny reveals that his group stole the egg while it was in transit to the museum and Toulour realizes they were tipped off by LeMarc. Toulour is forced to admit Danny won the bet and gives him the money for the debt and they pay back Benedict and promise not to perform any more heists in his casinos—even as Toulour himself is in the background spying on Benedict. Rusty takes Lahiri to a house that he claims has been lent to him by LeMarc. She is reunited with her father, who is revealed to be the man she has been pursuing for years, the final scenes of the film, in which the primary characters enjoy a private poker session, imply that she and Rusty have re-kindled their relationship
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Ocean's Thirteen
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Oceans Thirteen is a 2007 American comedy heist film directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring an ensemble cast. All the male cast members reprise their roles from the previous installments, al Pacino and Ellen Barkin joined the cast as their new targets. Filming began in July 2006 in Las Vegas and Los Angeles, based on a script by Brian Koppelman, the film was screened for the Out of Competition presentation at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. It was released on June 8,2007, in the United States and it was the 16th highest-grossing film of 2007. Reuben Tishkoff is conned by Willy Bank, his business partner, by being forced to sign over the ownership rights of the new hotel-casino they were building together. Reuben suffers an attack and becomes bedridden. Daniel Ocean offers Bank a chance to set right, given his long history in Las Vegas and the fact that he shook hands with Sinatra. To avenge Reuben, Ocean gathers his partners-in-crime and plans to ruin Bank on the night of the hotel. First, they plan to prevent The Bank from winning the prestigious Five Diamond Award, saul Bloom poses as the reviewer of the board, while the real reviewer is treated horribly during his stay by Oceans associates and the staff on their payroll. Next, they plan to rig the casinos machines and games to force a payout of more than $500 million in winnings. They trick Bank into carrying a cell phone with a magnetron to disrupt the Greco, rusty Ryan poses as a seismologist to tell Bank an earthquake evacuation code is necessary, to which Bank reluctantly agrees. When the team tries to drill towards The Bank, however, Linus Caldwell seduces Banks assistant, Abigail Sponder, to gain access to the display and switch the diamonds with fakes. He is interrupted by the lead FBI agent, who explains the diamond theft to Banks assistant, Linus is arrested, but as they exit in the elevator, the FBI agent is revealed to be his father, Robert Bobby Caldwell, who is in on Oceans plan. As they exit to the roof of the hotel for extraction via helicopter, they are caught by François The Night Fox Toulour, Linus gives the diamonds to Toulour, who escapes by parachuting off the hotel. Bank realizes hes ruined, and as the guests leave, he sees the flying off with his diamonds. So does Toulour, who discovers that he holds only the fakes, Ocean lets Bank know that they did everything for Reuben. He also tells Bank that he cannot get revenge, since all of Banks connections like Ocean better than Bank himself, Oceans men use the money they made off with to buy property north of the Las Vegas Strip for Reuben. Their absence was explained by Danny, who states, Its not their fight
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Rusty Ryan
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Robert Charles Rusty Ryan is a fictional character in Oceans Eleven and its sequels, Oceans Twelve and Oceans Thirteen. He is portrayed by Brad Pitt, Rusty does not appear in the original 1960 film. Producer Jerry Weintraub said of the casting that Brad Pitt is perfect as Rusty. Hes not only a cool guy, he has that devil-may-care attitude that Rusty has. For Oceans Thirteen, Weintraub noted, People liked the disguises from the first movie, so we decided to bring them back. Brad figured out this costume, Hes posing as a scientist who specializes in earthquakes. Rusty is Danny Ocean’s right-hand man and his skills are used more in the planning phase of the heists, although he takes on disguises in Oceans Eleven and Oceans Thirteen. His involvement in the stage is used as a gag in Oceans Twelve. The gang is discussing being dubbed Oceans Eleven and when asked who they turn to when they have problems, a running gag in Oceans Eleven was his consistent eating of fast food. This gag is passed on to Oceans Twelve and Oceans Thirteen, Rusty Ryan from Oceans Eleven, The Internet Movie Database
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Bellagio (resort)
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Bellagio is a resort, luxury hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. It is owned and operated by MGM Resorts International and was built on the site of the demolished Dunes hotel, inspired by the Lake Como town of Bellagio in Italy, Bellagio is famed for its elegance. One of its most notable features is an 8-acre lake between the building and the Strip, which houses the Fountains of Bellagio, a dancing water fountain synchronized to music. Inside Bellagio, Dale Chihulys Fiori di Como, composed of over 2,000 hand-blown glass flowers, covers 2,000 sq ft of the lobby ceiling, Bellagio is home to Cirque du Soleils aquatic production O. The main tower of Bellagio, with 3,015 rooms, has 36 floors, the Spa Tower, which stands to the south of the main tower, has 33 floors, a height of 392 ft and contains 935 rooms. Bellagio was designed by DeRuyter Butler and Atlandia Design, construction on the Bellagio began in May 1996. Bellagio had a construction cost of US$1.6 billion. The interior design on the Bellagio was designed by Architectural Digest 100 four time winner Roger Thomas, Roger Thomas is the executive vice president of design for Wynn Design & Development, and principal of the Roger Thomas Collection. Bellagio opened on October 15,1998, just before 11 pm, when it opened, it was the most expensive hotel ever built. In 2000 it became an MGM Mirage property when Mirage Resorts merged with MGM Grand Inc. to create MGM Mirage, in 2010, the company was renamed MGM Resorts International in a move to go worldwide with its brands. In the fall of 2006, the floor was remodeled and new uniforms were issued. On December 15,2010, a helmet-wearing gunman robbed the casino of $1.5 million in chips, in August 2011, he was convicted to a prison term of 9–27 years. The stakes at the Big Game can range up to $4, 000/$8,000, and are frequented by such poker pros as Doyle Brunson, Daniel Negreanu and it is reported that the pots during this game can far exceed $1 million. Bellagio has also partnered with the World Poker Tour to host several of their tournaments, the performances take place in front of the Bellagio hotel and are visible from numerous vantage points on the Strip, both from the street and neighboring structures. The show takes place every 30 minutes in the afternoons and early evenings, two minutes before a water show starts, the nozzles begin to break the water surface and the lights illuminating the hotel tower turn to a purple hue, or red-white-and-blue for certain music. Shows may be cancelled without warning because of wind, although shows usually run with less power in face of wind. A single show may be skipped to avoid interference with a planned event, additional shows can occur for special occasions including weddings. The fountain display is choreographed to various pieces of music, including Time To Say Goodbye, God Bless the USA, Your Song, Viva Las Vegas, Luck Be a Lady, the fountains are set in a 8-acre manmade lake
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The Mirage
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The Mirage is a 3,044 room Polynesian-themed resort and casino resort located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, United States. The resort was built by developer Steve Wynn and is owned and operated by MGM Resorts International. The original marquee sign in front of the Mirage is the largest free standing marquee in the world, the resort is connected by a free tram to the Treasure Island Hotel and Casino neighboring the hotels property to the north. The Mirage was built by developer Steve Wynn and designed by Joel Bergman and it was built on the site formerly occupied by the Castaways and prior to that, the Red Rooster Nite Club. The Mirage was proposed with an initial cost of $565 million, financier Michael Milken helped finance the project by selling $525 million worth of mortgage bonds. The Mirage was the first resort that was built with the money of Wall Street through the use of junk bonds, the project went over budget, and was the most expensive hotel-casino in history, with a construction cost of US $630 million. The hotels distinctive gold windows get their color from gold dust used in the tinting process. The Mirages construction is considered noteworthy in that Wynn had set a new standard for Vegas resorts, also, this was a time when Las Vegas was no longer considered a fashionable destination, so a new, high-profile, project was necessary to jump-start the ailing industry. Wynn planned for the resort to feature boxing matches to compete against the Las Vegas Hilton, Wynn initially considered naming the resort the Golden Nugget, after his Golden Nugget hotel-casino in downtown Las Vegas. However, Wynn and others involved with the new resort knew that it would need a different name, otherwise, Wynn chose The Mirage because of the resorts South Pacific theme. In 1988, to avoid confusion, Wynn purchased the rights to the Mirage name from two other businesses, the La Mirage Casino and the Mirage Motel, both businesses received $250,000 to change their names. The Mirage, initially scheduled for an opening in early December 1989, was opened early on November 22,1989, at the time of its opening, The Mirage was the largest hotel in the world, with 3,044 rooms. The hotel tower, standing 29 stories, was out in a Y-shape design, a concept that was later copied by Las Vegas Treasure Island, Monte Carlo. The hotels top five floors were used exclusively for high roller rooms, the Mirage was the first new resort to be built on the Las Vegas Strip in 16 years, after the completion of the MGM Grand in 1973. When it opened, The Mirage was the first casino to use security cameras full-time on all table games, starting in February 1990, The Mirage was the venue for the Siegfried & Roy show, held in the resorts 1, 500-seat showroom. The two headliners combined magic and the use of wild animals, the show closed in 2003 after performer Roy Horn was bitten and injured by one of the white tigers used in the show. In 1993, The Mirage hosted an extended run of the Cirque du Soleil show Nouvelle Expérience in a tent in The Mirage parking lot and it was during this time that Steve Wynn decided to invite Cirque to create Mystère for the soon-to-be-built Treasure Island resort next door. Finally returning to where they began in Las Vegas, Cirque du Soleil has a permanent production at The Mirage, as of 1999, The Mirage had 6,000 employees
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MGM Grand Las Vegas
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The MGM Grand Las Vegas is a hotel and casino located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. The MGM Grand is the largest single hotel in the United States with 5,124 rooms and it is also the third-largest hotel complex in the world by number of rooms and second-largest hotel resort complex in the United States behind the combined The Venetian and The Palazzo. When it opened in 1993, the MGM Grand was the largest hotel complex in the world, owned and operated by MGM Resorts International, the 30-floor main building is 293 ft high. The property includes five outdoor pools, rivers, and waterfalls that cover 6.6 acres, a 380,000 sq ft convention center, the MGM Grand Garden Arena, and the Grand Spa. Instead, the MGM Grand is linked by pedestrian bridges to its neighboring casinos, to the south across Tropicana Avenue, the Tropicana. The property was originally the site of the Golf Club Motel during the 1960s, in 1972, Tom Wiesner co-founded Southwest Securities Development Company, and later founded Wiesner Investment Company. Southwest planned to renovate the structure and add a 14-story addition with 518 rooms. Fred Harvey Company would serve as the operator of the hotel, its restaurants, Fred Harvey had previously opened hotels in other parts of the United States under the Airport Marina name. Southwest also planned to construct a 28,400 sq ft casino that would operate separately from Fred Harvey, the 700-room Marina, located at 3805 South Las Vegas Boulevard, was built by Wiesner Investment Company and was opened in 1975. Kerkorian saw the Marina as a stable and solidly built resort, and decided not to destroy the hotel, during that time, the Marina was known as the MGM-Marina Hotel. The Marina closed on November 30,1990, and ground was broken for the new hotel complex on October 7,1991. The Marina hotel building still exists as the west wing of the hotel building. When the latest MGM Grand opened on December 18,1993, at that time it had an extensive Wizard of Oz theme, including the green Emerald City color of the building and the decorative use of Wizard of Oz memorabilia. After entering the main entrance, one would find themselves in the Oz Casino facing Emerald City. Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion were seen in front of the city and it would end at the door of the city, leading inside for a performance of The Wizards Secrets. When MGM Grand began its refurbishment in 1996, the Oz Casino was the first to go. The Emerald City was completely demolished, and the Emerald City Gift Shop was moved to a new shopping section of the casino, the store remained open until early 2003. Originally, the entrance on the Strip was inside the mouth of a giant cartoon-like version of MGMs logo, Leo the Lion
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SWAT
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SWAT is a term for law enforcement units which use specialized or military equipment and tactics in the United States. In the United States as of 2005, SWAT teams were deployed 50,000 times every year, almost 80% of the time to search warrants. Other countries have developed their own police units that are also described as or compared to SWAT forces. SWAT units are equipped with specialized firearms including submachine guns, assault rifles, breaching shotguns, sniper rifles, riot control agents. The tactic worked and was soon to resolve other types of incidents involving heavily-armed criminals. The LAPD promoted what became known as SWAT teams for a variety of reasons, after the racially charged Watts Riots in Los Angeles in August 1965, the LAPD began considering tactics it could use when faced with urban unrest, rioting, or widespread violence. Daryl Gates, who led the LAPD response to the riots, would write that police at the time didnt face a single mob. New York University professor Christian Parenti has written that SWAT teams were originally conceived of as an urban counterinsurgency bulwark. Another reason for the creation of SWAT teams was the fear of lone or barricaded gunmen who might outperform police in a shootout, after the LAPDs establishment of its own SWAT team, many law enforcement agencies across the United States established their own specialized units under various names. At the time, the United Farm Workers union led by César Chavez was staging numerous protests in Delano, though the strike never turned violent, the Delano Police Department responded by forming ad-hoc SWAT-type units involving crowd and riot control, sniper skills and surveillance. Television news stations and print media carried live and delayed reportage of events across the United States. Personnel from the LAPD, having seen these broadcasts, contacted Delano, inspector Gates approved this idea, and he formed a small select group of volunteer officers. This first SWAT unit initially consisted of fifteen teams of four men each and these officers were given special status and benefits, and were required to attend special monthly training sessions. The unit also served as a security unit for police facilities during civil unrest, the LAPD SWAT units were organized as D Platoon in the Metro division. Early police powers and tactics used by SWAT teams were aided by legislation passed in 1967-8 with the help of Republican House representative Donald Santarelli. The legislation was promoted within the context of fears over the Civil Rights Movement, race riots, the Black Panther Party, and the emerging War on Drugs. The first significant deployment of the LAPDs SWAT unit was on December 9,1969, the raid was problematic from the start, leading to a shoot-out in which Daryl Gates phoned the Department of Defense, requesting and receiving permission to use a grenade launcher. The Panthers eventually surrendered, with four Panthers and four officers being injured, all six arrested Panthers were acquitted of the most serious charges brought against them, including conspiracy to murder police officers, because it was ruled that they acted in self-defense
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Incirlik Air Base
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Incirlik Air Base is an air base of slightly more than 3320 ac, located in the İncirlik quarter of the city of Adana, Turkey. The base is within an area of 1.7 million people,10 km east of the city core. The United States Air Force and the Turkish Air Force are the users of the air base, although it is also used by the Royal Air Force. Incirlik Air Base is the home of the 10th Air Wing of the 2nd Air Force Command of the Turkish Air Force, other wings of this command are located in Merzifon, Malatya/Erhaç and Diyarbakır. Incirlik Air Base has a U. S. Air Force complement of five thousand airmen, with several hundred airmen from the Royal Air Force and Turkish Air Force also present. The primary unit stationed at Incirlik Air Base is the 39th Air Base Wing of the U. S. Air Force, Incirlik Air Base has one 3,048 m -long runway, located among about 57 hardened aircraft shelters. Tactical nuclear weapons are stored at the base, the word incirlik means fig tree grove, in the Turkish language. The decision to build the Incirlik Air Base was made during the Second Cairo Conference in December 1943, the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers began construction of the Incirlik Air Base in the spring of 1951. The U. S. Air Force initially planned to use the base as a staging and recovery site for medium. The Turkish General Staff and the U. S. Air Force signed an agreement for the new Air Base in December 1954. On 21 February 1955, the Air Base was officially named Adana Air Base and this Air Base was renamed the Incirlik Air Base on 28 February 1958. Under the codename GENETRIX, these launches were carried out beginning on February 1956. The Incirlik Air Base was the main U-2 flight base in this region beginning in 1956. This Composite Air Strike Force consisted of F-100 Super Sabres, B-57 Canberras, RF-101 Voodoos, B-66 Destroyers, in the event, the U. S. Army and the U. S. Marine Corps were not involved in ground fighting. After the Lebanon crisis, the Tactical Air Command deployed F-100 fighter squadrons on 100-day rotations to Incirlik from the United States and these units also conducted training at Incirlik’s offshore air-to-air missile range over the Mediterranean Sea. In mid-1975, the Turkish government announced that all U. S. military bases in Turkey would be closed and transferred to the Turkish Air Force. This action was in response to an embargo that the United States Congress imposed on Turkey for using American-supplied equipment during the illegal Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974. Only Incirlik Air Base and İzmir Air Base remained open due to their NATO responsibilities, after signing the DECA, the USAFE initiated the Turkey Catch-up Plan to improve the quality-of-life of airmen stationed at Incirlik
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Turkey
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Turkey, officially the Republic of Turkey, is a transcontinental country in Eurasia, mainly in Anatolia in Western Asia, with a smaller portion on the Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe. Turkey is a democratic, secular, unitary, parliamentary republic with a cultural heritage. The country is encircled by seas on three sides, the Aegean Sea is to the west, the Black Sea to the north, and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. The Bosphorus, the Sea of Marmara, and the Dardanelles, Ankara is the capital while Istanbul is the countrys largest city and main cultural and commercial centre. Approximately 70-80% of the countrys citizens identify themselves as ethnic Turks, other ethnic groups include legally recognised and unrecognised minorities. Kurds are the largest ethnic minority group, making up approximately 20% of the population, the area of Turkey has been inhabited since the Paleolithic by various ancient Anatolian civilisations, as well as Assyrians, Greeks, Thracians, Phrygians, Urartians and Armenians. After Alexander the Greats conquest, the area was Hellenized, a process continued under the Roman Empire. The Seljuk Sultanate of Rûm ruled Anatolia until the Mongol invasion in 1243, the empire reached the peak of its power in the 16th century, especially during the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent. During the war, the Ottoman government committed genocides against its Armenian, Assyrian, following the war, the conglomeration of territories and peoples that formerly comprised the Ottoman Empire was partitioned into several new states. Turkey is a member of the UN, an early member of NATO. Turkeys growing economy and diplomatic initiatives have led to its recognition as a regional power while her location has given it geopolitical, the name of Turkey is based on the ethnonym Türk. The first recorded use of the term Türk or Türük as an autonym is contained in the Old Turkic inscriptions of the Göktürks of Central Asia, the English name Turkey first appeared in the late 14th century and is derived from Medieval Latin Turchia. Similarly, the medieval Khazar Empire, a Turkic state on the shores of the Black. The medieval Arabs referred to the Mamluk Sultanate as al-Dawla al-Turkiyya, the Ottoman Empire was sometimes referred to as Turkey or the Turkish Empire among its European contemporaries. The Anatolian peninsula, comprising most of modern Turkey, is one of the oldest permanently settled regions in the world, various ancient Anatolian populations have lived in Anatolia, from at least the Neolithic period until the Hellenistic period. Many of these peoples spoke the Anatolian languages, a branch of the larger Indo-European language family, in fact, given the antiquity of the Indo-European Hittite and Luwian languages, some scholars have proposed Anatolia as the hypothetical centre from which the Indo-European languages radiated. The European part of Turkey, called Eastern Thrace, has also been inhabited since at least forty years ago. It is the largest and best-preserved Neolithic site found to date, the settlement of Troy started in the Neolithic Age and continued into the Iron Age
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Bernie Mac
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Bernard Jeffrey Bernie McCullough better known by his stage name Bernie Mac, was an American comedian, actor and voice artist. Born and raised on Chicagos south side, Mac gained popularity as a stand-up comedian and he joined fellow comedians Steve Harvey, Cedric the Entertainer, and D. L. Hughley in The Original Kings of Comedy. After briefly hosting the HBO show Midnight Mac, Mac appeared in films in smaller roles. His most noted role was as Frank Catton in the remake Oceans Eleven. He was the star of The Bernie Mac Show, which ran from 2001 through 2006, Mac was born Bernard Jeffrey McCullough in Chicago, Illinois, on October 5,1957. He was raised on the citys South Side by his mother, Mary. Mac attended Chicago Vocational Career Academy, where Dick Butkus had attended earlier, later, Mac moved to Tampa, Florida, to attend Jesuit High School. During his 20s, he worked in a variety of jobs, including furniture mover, Bernie Macs influences were from The Three Stooges and listening to stand-up comedians Richard Pryor and Redd Foxx. Mac started as a comedian in Chicagos Cotton Club. After he won the Miller Lite Comedy Search at the age of 32, Macs comedy and fearlessness onstage cemented his reputation with fans and colleagues. Mac opened for Dionne Warwick, Redd Foxx and Natalie Cole and he played a small role in 1994s House Party 3 as Uncle Vester. He also had a talk show on HBO titled Midnight Mac. Later, Mac also acted in roles and got his big break as Pastor Clever in Ice Cubes 1995 film Friday. Following that role, Mac had his first starring role as Dollar Bill, in 2003 he gave an impressive performance in a supporting role as the villain Gin Slagel, The Store Dick in Bad Santa. He also starred in Guess Who, a comedic remake of the film Guess Whos Coming to Dinner, and made an appearance in the 2007 film Transformers as the car salesman Bobby Bolivia. In his later years, he hosted the reality talent show Last Comic Standing. He also served as the voice of Zuba, Alex the Lions long lost father in Madagascar and he co-starred with Samuel L. Jackson in the 2008 musical comedy Soul Men as Floyd Henderson. His final film role was as Jimmy Lunchbox in the 2009 Disney film Old Dogs which was released a year after his death and he starred alongside John Travolta and Robin Williams in that film
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Scott Caan
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Scott Andrew Caan is an American actor. He currently stars as Detective Danny Danno Williams in the CBS television series Hawaii Five-0, Caan is also known for his recurring role as manager Scott Lavin in the HBO television series Entourage. He was also a part of 1990s rap group The Whooliganz with The Alchemist, the duo went by the names Mad Skillz and Mudfoot, respectively. Caan was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of actor James Caan and Sheila Marie Ryan and his paternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Germany. He has an older half-sister named Tara Caan and three younger half-brothers named Alexander James Caan, Jacob Nicholas Caan, and James Arthur Caan, Caan was a roadie for the rap groups Cypress Hill and House of Pain. Caan was also a member of the hip-hop group The Whooliganz, the Alchemist and he, when performing as the rap duo the Whooliganz in the early 90s, received a record deal with Tommy Boy records. They recorded the album Make Way for the W. but after their first single Put Your Handz Up, the album was shelved, in 1995, the Whooliganz song Whooliganz was released as a single in the UK, but Caan and the Alchemist had already parted ways. In 2014, Caan reunited with his former partner The Alchemist on the Step Brothers project with Evidence Lord Steppington on the song Byron G. After enrolling at the Playhouse West acting school in Los Angeles, Caan began acting in the late 1990s, appearing in a number of independent films and his first role in a major motion picture was that of Charlie Tweeder, a reckless Texas football player in Varsity Blues. In the same year, he played the role of Drew in the film Saturn, in 2003, Caan made his directorial debut with the film Dallas 362, which won a prize at the 2003 Las Vegas Film Festival. Caan appeared in the film trilogy Oceans Eleven, Oceans Twelve. In 2005, he co-starred with Paul Walker in the action film Into the Blue, Caan wrote and directed the 2006 comedy The Dog Problem. He appeared as a character in the film, as well. He appeared on the television series Entourage in a role as talent manager Scott Lavin from seasons six to eight. Caan plays Detective Danny Danno Williams in Hawaii Five-0, the series premiered on September 20,2010. In 2011, he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film for this performance, buddyTV ranked him 95th on its list of TVs Sexiest Men of 2011. In addition to acting, Caan has also pursued a career in photography, inspired and trained by cinematographer Phil Parmet while working together on the 2003 film Dallas 362, Caan has been shooting ever since. In preparing for the film, Caan said, Phil inspired me to learn about lenses, lights, frames, by the time the film was over, I wanted to shoot the next one
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Casey Affleck
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Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt is an American actor and director. He began his career as a actor, appearing in the PBS television movie Lemon Sky. He later appeared in three Gus Van Sant films – To Die For, Good Will Hunting, and Gerry – and in Steven Soderberghs comedy heist trilogy Oceans Eleven, Oceans Twelve and his first leading role was in Steve Buscemis independent comedy-drama Lonesome Jim. In 2010, he directed the mockumentary Im Still Here, the film features his brother-in-law Joaquin Phoenix, and starred as a serial killer in The Killer Inside Me. He then appeared as an outlaw in Aint Them Bodies Saints, in 2016, Affleck appeared in the crime thriller Triple 9, the disaster drama The Finest Hours, and the drama Manchester by the Sea. For his performance as a man in the latter, he won the Golden Globe, BAFTA. Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck was born on August 12,1975 in Falmouth, Massachusetts, to Christopher Anne Chris, the surname Affleck is of Scottish origin. He also has English, Irish, German, and Swiss ancestry and his mother was a Radcliffe College– and Harvard–educated elementary school teacher. His father worked sporadically as a mechanic, a carpenter, a bookie, an electrician, a bartender. In the mid-1960s, he had been a manager, director, writer. During Afflecks childhood, his father was a disaster of a drinker, following his parents divorce when he was nine, Affleck and his older brother, Ben, lived with their mother and visited their father weekly. His first experience of acting was reenacting what was happening at home during role play exercises at Alateen meetings and he learned to speak Spanish during a year spent travelling around Mexico with his mother and brother when he was ten. The two siblings spent all of our time together, pretty much, obviously at school we were in different grades, but we had the same friends. When Affleck was 14, his father moved to Indio, California to enter a rehabilitation facility, Affleck reconnected with his father during visits to California as a teenager, I got to know him, really, because he was sober for the first time. The man I knew before that was just completely different, the brothers sometimes appeared in local weather commercials and as movie extras because of their mothers friendship with a local casting director. Affleck acted in high school theater productions while a student at Cambridge Rindge. He has said he wouldn’t be an actor if not for his high school theater teacher Gerry Speca, He kind of turned me on to acting, why it can be fun, how it can be rewarding. At the age of eighteen, Affleck moved to Los Angeles for a year to pursue an acting career and he soon transferred to Columbia University in New York City, where he followed the core curriculum for a total of two years
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Carl Reiner
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Carl Reiner is an American actor, director, producer, and writer of comedy whose career spans nearly seven decades. During the early years of comedy, from 1950 to 1957, he co-wrote and acted on Caesars Hour and Your Show of Shows. In the 1960s Reiner was best known as the creator, producer, writer, Reiner played a comedy duo in 2000 Year Old Man with Mel Brooks, and acted in films such as The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming and the Oceans Trilogy. Reiner has won twelve Emmy Awards and one Grammy Award during his career and he is the father of actor and director Rob Reiner and author Annie Reiner. Reiner was born in the Bronx, New York City, New York on March 20,1922, the son of Irving, who was a watchmaker and his parents were Jewish immigrants, his mother from Romania and his father from Austria. His older brother Charlie served in the 9th Divisions 37th Infantry at 11 major World War II battles and had his ashes buried at Arlington National Cemetery. At age 16, Charlie read in the New York Daily News about a dramatic workshop being put on by the Works Progress Administration. His uncle Harry Mathias was the first entertainer in his family and he had been working as a machinist repairing sewing machines. He credits Charlie with changing his career plans, Reiner was drafted into the Army Air Forces in 1943 and served during World War II, eventually achieving the rank of corporal. During language training, he had his first experience as a director, in 1944, after completing language training, he was sent to Hawaii to work as a teleprinter operator. The night before he was to out for an unknown assignment. Following an audition for actor and Major Maurice Evans, he was transferred to the Special Services, Reiner performed around the Pacific theater, entertaining troops in Hawaii, Guam, Saipan, Tinian, and Iwo Jima for the next two years. Reiner performed in several Broadway musicals and had the role in Call Me Mister. In 1950, he was cast by producer Max Leibman in Sid Caesars Your Show of Shows, appearing on air in skits while also working alongside writers, such as Mel Brooks and Neil Simon. Reiner also worked on Caesars Hour with Brooks, Simon, Larry Gelbart, Mel Tolkin, Mike Stewart, Aaron Ruben, Sheldon Keller, starting in 1960, Reiner teamed with Brooks as a comedy duo on The Steve Allen Show. Their performances on television and stage included Reiner playing the man in 2000 Year Old Man. Eventually, the routine expanded into a series of 5 comedy albums, the act gave Brooks an identity as a comic performer for the first time, said Reiner. Brookss biographer, William Holtzman, called their 12-minute act a jazz improvisation
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Elliott Gould
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Elliott Gould is an American actor. He began acting in Hollywood films during the 1960s, more recently, he has gained recognition for his recurring supporting roles as Jack Geller on Friends, as Reuben Tishkoff in the Oceans Trilogy, and as Ezra Goldman in Ray Donovan. Until its cancellation, he had a role in the TV series Doubt. Gould was born in Brooklyn, New York and his mother, Lucille, sold artificial flowers to beauty shops, and his father, Bernard Goldstein, worked in the garment business as a textiles buyer. His family was Jewish, and his grandparents were immigrants from Ukraine, Poland and he graduated from the Professional Childrens School. Gould began acting in the Broadway theatre in the late 1950s, other credits include Irma La Douce, Say, Darling, Drat. He purchased the rights to Little Murders, and in addition to acting in the film version. As a film actor, Goulds performance in Paul Mazurskys 1969 comedy Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice proved to be his breakout role, indeed, he earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He is perhaps best known for playing Trapper John in Robert Altmans satirical 1970 film MASH, time magazine placed him on one of its covers in 1970, when he was at the brief height of his long career, calling him a star for an uptight age. Gould played the detective Philip Marlowe in Altmans 1973 film noir The Long Goodbye and he soon collaborated with Altman again, as a gambling addict alongside George Segal in California Split. He later cameoed as himself in the Altman films Nashville and The Player, also in 1980, Gould filmed two movies for Disney studios, The Last Flight of Noahs Ark and The Devil and Max Devlin, in which he co-starred with Bill Cosby. Other notable roles during this time include performances in A Bridge Too Far, Capricorn One, and he starred in a sitcom called E/R in 1984–1985, and had a notable recurring guest role on Friends as Jack Geller, the father of Monica and Ross Geller. More recently he has had a prominent recurring role on Ray Donovan and had a role in the sitcom Mulaney. Gould received critical praise for his performances as a mobster in Warren Beattys 1991 film Bugsy. He also co-starred as Reuben Tishkoff in the caper film Oceans Eleven and its sequels, Oceans Twelve. Other recent films roles include supporting turns in Contagion and Ruby Sparks and he has also loaned his voice to several animated series, most notable among them, the Disney Channel animated series Kim Possible and the 2006 video game Scarface, The World Is Yours. Gould currently serves on the Screen Actors Guild National Board of Directors, Gould has said that he has a very deep Jewish identity. He has been married three times, twice to the woman, Barbra Streisand Jennifer Bogart
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Johnny Depp
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John Christopher Johnny Depp II is an American actor, producer, and musician. He has won the Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor and he rose to prominence on the 1980s television series 21 Jump Street, becoming a teen idol. He has collaborated on nine films with director, producer, Depp is regarded as one of the worlds biggest film stars. Films featuring Depp have grossed over $3.2 billion at the United States box office, Depp has been nominated for major acting awards, including three nominations for Academy Award for Best Actor. He has been listed in the 2012 Guinness World Records as the highest paid actor, Depp was inducted as a Disney Legend in 2015. Depp was born in Owensboro, Kentucky, the youngest of four children of Betty Sue Palmer, a waitress, and John Christopher Depp, Depp is of mostly English ancestry, with some ancestors from elsewhere in Europe. He is descended from a French Huguenot immigrant, Pierre Deppe or Dieppe, Depp is a 20th cousin of Elizabeth II. Depp moved frequently during his childhood and he and his siblings lived in more than 20 different places, eventually settling in Miramar, Florida in 1970. Depps parents divorced in 1978 when he was 15 and his mother married Robert Palmer, whom Depp has called an inspiration to me. With the gift of a guitar from his mother when he was 12, a year after his parents divorce, he dropped out of high school to become a rock musician. He attempted to go back to two weeks later, but the principal told him to follow his dream of being a musician. He played with The Kids, a band that enjoyed modest local success, the Kids set out together for Los Angeles in pursuit of a record deal, changing their name to Six Gun Method, but the group split up before signing a record deal. Depp subsequently collaborated with the band Rock City Angels and co-wrote their song Mary, on December 20,1983, Depp married Lori Anne Allison, the sister of his bands bass player and singer. During their marriage she worked as a makeup artist while he worked a variety of odd jobs and his wife introduced him to actor Nicolas Cage, who advised him to pursue an acting career. Depp and his wife divorced in 1985, Depps first film role was in the horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street, in which he played the boyfriend of heroine Nancy Thompson and one of Freddy Kruegers victims. After a starring role in the comedy Private Resort, Depp was cast in the role of the skating drama Thrashin by the films director. Instead, Depp appeared in a supporting role as a Vietnamese-speaking private in Oliver Stones Vietnam War drama Platoon. He accepted this role to work with actor Frederic Forrest, who inspired him, despite his success, Depp felt that the series forced into the role of product
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Luke Wilson
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Luke Cunningham Wilson is an American actor known for his roles in films such as Idiocracy, Old School, Bottle Rocket, The Royal Tenenbaums, Blue Streak, Bongwater, and Legally Blonde. He is the brother of actors Andrew and Owen Wilson and he was a member of the cast of the HBO television series Enlightened. Wilson was born in Dallas, Texas, a son of Robert Andrew Wilson, an executive and previously an executive at KERA, a public television station, and Laura Wilson. His family, originally from Massachusetts, is of Irish Catholic descent and he is the younger brother of actors Andrew Wilson and Owen Wilson. According to his brother Owen, Luke was voted class president the first year he attended St. Marks, wilsons acting career began with the lead role in the short film Bottle Rocket in 1994, which was co-written by his older brother Owen Wilson and director Wes Anderson. It was remade as a film in 1996. After moving to Hollywood with his two brothers, he was cast opposite Calista Flockhart in Telling Lies in America and made a appearance in the film-within-the-film of Scream 2. He played the physician beau of a schoolteacher in Rushmore, also directed by Anderson, in 1999, Blue Streak was released featuring Wilson as detective Carlson. He later starred opposite Reese Witherspoon in the 2001 comedy Legally Blonde, Wilson also had a role on That 70s Show, as Michael Kelsos older brother Casey Kelso, appearing sporadically from 2002 through 2005. In 2006, Wilson starred in Idiocracy, Mike Judges first film since 1999s Office Space and he portrayed an ordinary serviceman chosen for a cryogenics project. He awakens after hundreds of years in an America which is less intelligent. In early 2007, Wilson starred opposite Kate Beckinsale in the thriller Vacancy, in July 2007, he worked on Henry Poole is Here in La Mirada, California, which was released in 2008. He starred in the film Tenure in 2009, in 2010, he appeared in films Death at a Funeral and Middle Men. From 2011 to 2013 he starred in the HBO TV series Enlightened, Wilson and brother Owen have co-written a Wright Brothers biopic, in which they also plan to star. Marks School of Texas Luke Wilson at the Internet Movie Database
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Owen Wilson
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Owen Cunningham Wilson is an American actor, producer and screenwriter. His older brother Andrew and younger brother Luke are also actors and he starred with Ben Stiller in numerous films, and is known for his roles in Frat Pack comedies. Wilson was born in Dallas, Texas to photographer Laura Wilson and Robert Andrew Wilson and his parents, originally from Massachusetts, are of Irish descent. Wilson attended New Mexico Military Institute and the University of Texas at Austin, Wilson then landed a role in The Cable Guy, directed by Ben Stiller, an early admirer of Bottle Rocket. Wilson starred in the 2000 comedy action film Shanghai Noon, with Jackie Chan, the film grossed nearly US$100 million worldwide. His fame continued to rise after starring alongside Ben Stiller and Will Ferrell in the 2001 film Zoolander, gene Hackman reportedly took notice of Wilsons performance in Shanghai Noon and recommended the actor to co-star in the 2001 action film Behind Enemy Lines. Also in 2001, Wilson and Anderson collaborated on their film, The Royal Tenenbaums. The film earned the team an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay. Wilson returned to the genre in 2002 with the action comedy I Spy. This big-screen remake of the series did not perform well at the box office. He made a appearance in the Girl Skateboards video Yeah Right. He then reunited with Jackie Chan to make Shanghai Knights, due to his busy schedule as an actor and an ongoing sinus condition, Wilson was unavailable to collaborate on the script for Wes Andersons fourth feature film, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. The 2004 film was ultimately co-written by filmmaker Noah Baumbach, however, Wilson did star in the film as Bill Murrays would-be son, Ned Plimpton, a role written specifically for Wilson. In 2004, he and his brother, Luke played the Wright brothers in the 2004 film Around the World in 80 Days, Wilson partnered with Vince Vaughn in the 2005 comedy film Wedding Crashers, which grossed over US$200M in the U. S. alone. Also in 2005, Owen collaborated with his brothers by appearing in The Wendell Baker Story, written by brother Luke, directed by Luke and brother Andrew. In the 2006 Disney/Pixar film Cars, Wilson voiced Lightning McQueen, starred in You, Me and Dupree with Kate Hudson, Wilson next starred in the Judd Apatow comedy, Drillbit Taylor, released in March 2008. He appeared in an adaptation of John Grogans best-selling memoir, Marley & Me. He also starred in The Darjeeling Limited with Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman and he provided the voice for the Whackbat Coach Skip in Wes Andersons Fantastic Mr. Fox
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The Royal Tenenbaums
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The Royal Tenenbaums is a 2001 American comedy-drama film directed by Wes Anderson and co-written with Owen Wilson. The film stars Danny Glover, Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Bill Murray, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Stiller, Luke Wilson, and Owen Wilson. It follows the lives of three gifted siblings who experience great success in youth, and even greater disappointment and failure after their father leaves them in their adolescent years. An ironic and absurdist sense of humor pervades the film, the Royal Tenenbaums received positive reviews from critics. Hackman won a Golden Globe for his performance, and the screenplay was nominated for an Academy Award, in a 2016 poll of international critics conducted by BBC, The Royal Tenenbaums was voted one of the 100 greatest motion pictures since 2000. Royal Tenenbaum explains to his three children, Chas, Margot, and Richie, that he and his wife, Etheline, are separating, each of the Tenenbaum children achieved great success at a very young age. Chas is a math and business genius, from whom Royal steals money, Margot, who was adopted by the Tenenbaums, was awarded a grant for a play that she wrote in the ninth grade. Richie is a prodigy and artist. He expresses his love for adopted sister Margot through many paintings, Royal takes him on regular outings, to which neither of the other children is invited. Eli Cash is the Tenenbaums neighbor, and Richies best friend, twenty-two years later, Royal is kicked out of the hotel where he has been living. All of the Tenenbaum children are in a post-success slump, Richie is traveling the world in a cruise ship following a breakdown. He writes a letter to Eli revealing his love for Margot, Chas has become extremely overprotective of his sons, Ari and Uzi, following his wife Rachaels death in a plane crash. Margot is married to neurologist Raleigh St. Clair, from whom she hides her smoking, Raleigh is conducting research on a subject named Dudley Heinsbergen. Ethelines longtime accountant, Henry Sherman, proposes to her, learning of Henrys proposal, Royal claims that he has stomach cancer in order to win back the affections of Etheline and his children. He moves into the home and sets up medical equipment in Richies room. Etheline calls each of her children home, Royal learns of Chas overprotective nature and takes his grandsons on an adventure involving shoplifting and dog fighting. Upon their return, Chas berates him for endangering his boys, Royal accuses Chas of having a nervous breakdown. Eli, with whom Margot has been having an affair, tells her that Richie loves her, Royal discovers the affair and objects to Margots treatment of Raleigh, who confides to Richie his suspicions of Margot
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Mike Myers (actor)
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Michael John Mike Myers is a Canadian-born actor, comedian, screenwriter, and film producer, who also holds UK and US citizenship. He is known for his run as a performer on Saturday Night Live from 1989 to 1995, and for playing the title roles in the Waynes World, Austin Powers. He also directed the documentary film Supermensch, The Legend of Shep Gordon, Myers was born on May 25,1963 in Scarborough, a suburban district in the east side of Toronto. He was the son of English-born parents Eric Myers, an agent, and his wife, Alice E. an office supervisor. Both his parents were from Liverpool, United Kingdom and he has two brothers, Paul, an indie rock singer-songwriter, broadcaster and author, and Peter. The family is of English, Scottish and Irish ancestry, Myers reportedly holds Canadian, U. S. and British citizenship. Myers began performing in commercials at the age of two, at the age of ten, he made a commercial for British Columbia Hydro, with Gilda Radner playing his mother. At the age of 12, he made a guest appearance as Ari on the TV series King of Kensington, after graduating from high school, Myers was accepted into the Second City Canadian touring company. He later moved to the United Kingdom, where in 1985 he was one of the members of The Comedy Store Players. The next year, he starred in the British childrens TV program Wide Awake Club, parodying the shows normal exuberance with his own Sound Asleep Club, in partnership with Neil Mullarkey. He returned to Toronto and Second City in 1986 as a cast member in the Second Citys Toronto main stage show, in 1988, he moved from Second City in Toronto to Chicago. In Chicago, he trained, performed, and taught at the Improv Olympic, Myers made many appearances, including as Wayne Campbell, on Torontos Citytv in the early 1980s, on the alternative video show City Limits hosted by Christopher Ward. Myers also appeared as Wayne Campbell in the video for Wards Canadian hit Boys. The Wayne Campbell character was featured extensively in the 1986 summer series Its Only Rock & Roll, Wayne appeared both in studio and in a series of location sketches directed and edited by Allan Novak. Myers wrote another sketch, Kurt and Dieter, co-starring with Second Citys Dana Andersen and also directed by Novak, in 2011 Myers returned to The Comedy Store in London to perform a one-time reprisal of his role with The Comedy Store Players. The UK comedy website Chortle praised his performance, in 1992, Myers and Dana Carvey adapted Waynes World into a full-length motion picture based on the SNL sketch. It was among the most successful movies of the year and the year a sequel. That year Myers also starred in So I Married an Axe Murderer and he then took a hiatus from television
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Bruce Willis
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Walter Bruce Willis is an American actor, producer, and singer. His career began on the Off-Broadway stage and then in television in the 1980s and he is known for his role of John McClane in the Die Hard series. He has appeared in over 60 films, including Color of Night, Pulp Fiction,12 Monkeys, The Fifth Element, Armageddon, The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Sin City, Red, The Expendables 2, and Looper. Willis married actress Demi Moore in 1987, and they had three daughters, including Rumer, before their divorce in 2000, since 2009, he has been married to model Emma Heming, with whom he has two daughters. Willis was born Walter Bruce Willis on March 19,1955, in the town of Idar-Oberstein and his father, David Willis, was an American soldier. His mother, Marlene, was German, born in Kassel, Willis is the oldest of four children, he has a sister, Florence, and a brother, David. His brother Robert died of cancer in 2001, aged 42. After being discharged from the military in 1957, Williss father took his back to Carneys Point Township. Willis has described himself as having come from a line of blue collar people. His mother worked in a bank and his father was a welder, master mechanic, Willis attended Penns Grove High School in his hometown, where he encountered issues with a stutter. He was nicknamed Buck-Buck by his schoolmates, after high school, Willis took a job as a security guard at the Salem Nuclear Power Plant and transported work crews at the DuPont Chambers Works factory in Deepwater, New Jersey. After working as an investigator, Willis turned to acting. He enrolled in the Drama Program at Montclair State University, where he was cast in the production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Willis left school in his year and moved to New York City. Willis left New York City and headed to California to audition for television shows. In 1984, he appeared in an episode of the TV series Miami Vice, in 1985, he was the guest actor in the first episode of the 1980s revival of The Twilight Zone, Shatterday. He auditioned for the role of David Addison Jr. of the television series Moonlighting, competing against 3,000 other actors for the position, during the height of the shows success, beverage maker Seagram hired Willis as the pitchman for their Golden Wine Cooler products. The advertising campaign paid the rising star between $5–7 million over two years, in spite of that, Willis chose not to renew his contract with the company when he decided to stop drinking alcohol in 1988
