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New York City
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The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over an area of about 302.6 square miles. Located at the tip of the state of New York. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has described as the cultural and financial capital of the world. Situated on one of the worlds largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, the five boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island – were consolidated into a single city in 1898. In 2013, the MSA produced a gross metropolitan product of nearly US$1.39 trillion, in 2012, the CSA generated a GMP of over US$1.55 trillion. NYCs MSA and CSA GDP are higher than all but 11 and 12 countries, New York City traces its origin to its 1624 founding in Lower Manhattan as a trading post by colonists of the Dutch Republic and was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The city and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. It has been the countrys largest city since 1790, the Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a symbol of the United States and its democracy. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. Several sources have ranked New York the most photographed city in the world, the names of many of the citys bridges, tapered skyscrapers, and parks are known around the world. Manhattans real estate market is among the most expensive in the world, Manhattans Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere, with multiple signature Chinatowns developing across the city. Providing continuous 24/7 service, the New York City Subway is one of the most extensive metro systems worldwide, with 472 stations in operation. Over 120 colleges and universities are located in New York City, including Columbia University, New York University, and Rockefeller University, during the Wisconsinan glaciation, the New York City region was situated at the edge of a large ice sheet over 1,000 feet in depth. The ice sheet scraped away large amounts of soil, leaving the bedrock that serves as the foundation for much of New York City today. Later on, movement of the ice sheet would contribute to the separation of what are now Long Island and Staten Island. The first documented visit by a European was in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzano, a Florentine explorer in the service of the French crown and he claimed the area for France and named it Nouvelle Angoulême. Heavy ice kept him from further exploration, and he returned to Spain in August and he proceeded to sail up what the Dutch would name the North River, named first by Hudson as the Mauritius after Maurice, Prince of Orange
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Clockwise, from top:
Midtown Manhattan,
Times Square, the
Unisphere in
Queens, the
Brooklyn Bridge,
Lower Manhattan with
One World Trade Center,
Central Park, the
headquarters of the United Nations, and the
Statue of Liberty
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New Amsterdam, centered in the eventual
Lower Manhattan, in 1664, the year
England took control and renamed it "New York".
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The
Battle of Long Island, the largest battle of the
American Revolution, took place in
Brooklyn in 1776.
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Broadway follows the Native American Wickquasgeck Trail through Manhattan.
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New York (state)
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New York is a state in the northeastern United States, and is the 27th-most extensive, fourth-most populous, and seventh-most densely populated U. S. state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south and Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont to the east. With an estimated population of 8.55 million in 2015, New York City is the most populous city in the United States, the New York Metropolitan Area is one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. New York City makes up over 40% of the population of New York State, two-thirds of the states population lives in the New York City Metropolitan Area, and nearly 40% lives on Long Island. Both the state and New York City were named for the 17th-century Duke of York, the next four most populous cities in the state are Buffalo, Rochester, Yonkers, and Syracuse, while the state capital is Albany. New York has a diverse geography and these more mountainous regions are bisected by two major river valleys—the north-south Hudson River Valley and the east-west Mohawk River Valley, which forms the core of the Erie Canal. Western New York is considered part of the Great Lakes Region and straddles Lake Ontario, between the two lakes lies Niagara Falls. The central part of the state is dominated by the Finger Lakes, New York had been inhabited by tribes of Algonquian and Iroquoian-speaking Native Americans for several hundred years by the time the earliest Europeans came to New York. The first Europeans to arrive were French colonists and Jesuit missionaries who arrived southward from settlements at Montreal for trade, the British annexed the colony from the Dutch in 1664. The borders of the British colony, the Province of New York, were similar to those of the present-day state, New York is home to the Statue of Liberty, a symbol of the United States and its ideals of freedom, democracy, and opportunity. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. On April 17,1524 Verrazanno entered New York Bay, by way of the now called the Narrows into the northern bay which he named Santa Margherita. Verrazzano described it as a vast coastline with a delta in which every kind of ship could pass and he adds. This vast sheet of water swarmed with native boats and he landed on the tip of Manhattan and possibly on the furthest point of Long Island. Verrazannos stay was interrupted by a storm which pushed him north towards Marthas Vineyard, in 1540 French traders from New France built a chateau on Castle Island, within present-day Albany, due to flooding, it was abandoned the next year. In 1614, the Dutch under the command of Hendrick Corstiaensen, rebuilt the French chateau, Fort Nassau was the first Dutch settlement in North America, and was located along the Hudson River, also within present-day Albany. The small fort served as a trading post and warehouse, located on the Hudson River flood plain, the rudimentary fort was washed away by flooding in 1617, and abandoned for good after Fort Orange was built nearby in 1623. Henry Hudsons 1609 voyage marked the beginning of European involvement with the area, sailing for the Dutch East India Company and looking for a passage to Asia, he entered the Upper New York Bay on September 11 of that year
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British general
John Burgoyne surrenders at
Saratoga in 1777.
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Flag
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1800 map of New York from
Low's Encyclopaedia
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The
Erie Canal at
Lockport, New York in 1839
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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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Native Americans meeting with Europeans, 1764
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Flag
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The signing of the
Mayflower Compact, 1620.
United States
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The
Declaration of Independence: the
Committee of Five presenting their draft to the
Second Continental Congress in 1776
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Beverly Hills, California
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Beverly Hills is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, surrounded by the cities of Los Angeles and West Hollywood. By 2013, its population had grown to 34,658, sometimes referred to as 90210, one of its primary ZIP codes, it was home to many actors and celebrities throughout the 20th century. The city includes the Rodeo Drive shopping district and the Beverly Hills Oil Field, gaspar de Portolá arrived in the area that would later become Beverly Hills on August 3,1769, travelling along native trails which followed the present-day route of Wilshire Boulevard. The area was settled by Maria Rita Quinteros de Valdez and her husband in 1828 and they called their 4,500 acres of property the Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas. in 1854, she sold the ranch to Benjamin Davis Wilson and Henry Hancock. By the 1880s, the ranch had been subdivided into parcels of 75 acres and was being bought up by anglos from Los Angeles. Henry Hammel and Andrew H. Denker acquired most of it, at this point, the area was known as the Hammel and Denker Ranch. By 1888, Denker and Hammel were planning to build a town called Morocco on their holdings and they did not find enough to exploit commercially by the standards of the time, though. In 1906, therefore, they reorganized as the Rodeo Land and Water Company, renamed the property Beverly Hills, subdivided it, the development was named Beverly Hills after Beverly Farms in Beverly, Massachusetts and because of the hills in the area. The first house in the subdivision was built in 1907, although sales remained slow, Beverly Hills was one of many all-white planned communities started in the Los Angeles area around this time. Restrictive covenants prohibited non-whites from owning or renting property unless they were employed as servants by white residents and it was also forbidden to sell or rent property to Jews in Beverly Hills. Burton Green began construction on The Beverly Hills Hotel in 1911, the hotel was finished in 1912. The visitors drawn by the hotel were inclined to purchase land in Beverly Hills and that same year, the Rodeo Land and Water Company decided to separate its water business from its real estate business. The Beverly Hills Utility Commission was split off from the company and incorporated in September 1914, buying all of the utilities-related assets from the Rodeo Land. In 1919, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford bought land on Summit Drive and built a mansion, finished in 1921, the glamor associated with Fairbanks and Pickford as well as other movie stars who built mansions in the city contributed to its growing appeal. By the early 1920s the population of Beverly Hills had grown enough to make the water supply a political issue, in 1923 the usual solution, annexation to the city of Los Angeles, was proposed. There was considerable opposition to annexation among such famous residents as Pickford, Fairbanks, Will Rogers, the Beverly Hills Utility Commission, opposed to annexation as well, managed to force the city into a special election and the plan was defeated 337 to 507. In 1925, Beverly Hills approved an issue to buy 385 acres for a new campus for UCLA. The cities of Los Angeles, Santa Monica and Venice also issued bonds to pay for the new campus
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Beverly Hills at the corner of Rodeo Drive & Via Rodeo
Beverly Hills, California
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Seal
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Aerial view, 3D computer generated image
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Hammel and Denker ranch, c. 1905
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Ossining High School
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Ossining High School is a public high school located in Ossining, New York, United States. Its building is located within the boundaries of the Downtown Ossining Historic District, the present Ossining High School building was designed by James Gamble Rogers in a Collegiate Gothicstyle, with a warm-toned blend of brick and stone. Construction began in 1928 and was finished the following year, the school building has been substantially enlarged in the years since. A normal school day begins at 7, 45am and ends at 2, the school offers optional extra help time from 2, 30-3, 00pm. Classes run on an A/B day schedule, so that days alternate, Science teacher Angelo Piccirillo started OHSs science research program in 1998 with three students. Twelve years later it had 90 students, with Piccirillo and a teacher, Valerie Holmes. The program includes guidance on research topics, mentors, and help with writing papers and it accepts approximately 30 freshmen yearly out of more than 100 applicants. The science research program was recognized in 2010, when it had eight semifinalists in the Intel Science Talent Search. Ossining High School offers a variety of sports throughout the school year. Physical education is a requirement for all students to each semester. However, sophomores, juniors, and seniors who are on varsity teams are exempt from PE class while the sport is in season, for 73 years, Ossining teams were the Ossining Indians. In June 2002, the changed its mascot after a request from the state education commissioner. The request to change American Indian symbols and mascots was part of the Native American mascot controversy, a new mascot, the Riverhawk, was then chosen. After opposition from the student body, the Riverhawk was dropped, the schools athletic teams are now called the Ossining Pride
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West elevation, 2010
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Band, marching in Manhattan
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Hamilton College (New York)
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Hamilton College is a private, nonsectarian, liberal arts college located in the village of Clinton, New York, in the Mohawk Valley region of the Eastern United States. Founded as a school in 1793, it was chartered as Hamilton College in 1812. It has been coeducational since 1978, when it merged with its sister school Kirkland College, Hamiltons student body is 52% female and 48% male, and comes from 49 U. S. states and 45 countries. Hamilton College is ranked 12th among National Liberal Arts Colleges in the 2017 U. S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings. Hamilton began in 1793 as the Hamilton-Oneida Academy, a seminary founded by Rev. Samuel Kirkland, the seminary admitted both white and Oneida boys. Kirkland named it in honor of Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, who was a member of the first Board of Trustees of the Hamilton-Oneida Academy. The Academy became Hamilton College in 1812, making it the third oldest college in New York after Columbia and Union, after it expanded to a four-year college curriculum. By the end of the century, its colorful ninth President M. Woolsey Stryker distanced Hamilton from the Presbyterian Church. In 1978, the all-male Hamilton College merged with the womens Kirkland College, the merger provoked controversy, particularly since Hamilton refused to provide assistance with Kirklands debt burden. Hamilton publicly justified the merger as prompted by its desire for co-education, the merger took nearly 7 years to complete, women could still receive a Kirkland diploma instead of a Hamilton diploma until 1979. The original Hamilton campus is called the light side or north side of campus. The original side of campus was once called Stryker Campus after its former president, on the other side of College Hill Road, the original Kirkland campus is called the dark side or the south side. Since the 1970s, Hamilton has been a member of the New England Small College Athletic Conference and this conference also includes Amherst, Bates, Bowdoin, Colby, Connecticut College, Middlebury, Trinity, Tufts, Wesleyan, and Williams. Rivalries with many of schools, Middlebury in particular, predate the conference. During the summer of 2006, the school completed a new science building, the art department has separate studios for each of the studio arts taught, most of which are being renovated. Hamiltons athletic facilities include an ice rink, swimming pool, several fields, a golf course, a three-story climbing wall. The Kirner-Johnson Building, or KJ, is home to Hamiltons social science departments, the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center, the Nesbitt-Johnson Writing Center, the building has a large, naturally-lit, two-story commons that is a popular gathering place for students to study or socialize between classes. In 2004, planning for the renovation and expansion of the Kirner-Johnson building received an Award of Merit from the American Institute of Architects, the project was completed in 2008
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Hamilton College as painted from a hot-air balloon by watercolor artist Richard Rummell in the early 1900s.
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Hamilton College
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Elihu Root House
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New School for Social Research
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The New School for Social Research, also known by the abbreviation NSSR, is an educational institution that is part of The New School. The schools dedication to freedom and intellectual inquiry reaches back to the university’s founding in 1919 as a home for progressive thinkers. The New School for Social Research explores and promotes peace and justice as more than theoretical ideals. The New School for Social Research, enrolls more than 1,000 students from all regions of the United States, the program was founded with the start of the college in 1919. In 1933, what became known as the University in Exile, had become a haven for scholars who had dismissed from teaching positions by the Italian fascists or had to flee Nazi Germany. The University in Exile was initially founded by the director of the New School, Alvin Johnson, through the financial contributions of Hiram Halle. The University in Exile and its subsequent incarnations have been the heart of the New School. Following the collapse of totalitarian regimes in Europe, the University in Exile was renamed the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science and it was renamed the New School for Social Research in 2005 this time taking the original name of the university. It is worthwhile to note that The New School in its days in 1919 was actually known as The New School for Social Research. This name continued until 1997, when the university adopted a new name and this continued until 2005, when a big new rebranding occurred, with the school in general turning to The New School, its present name. Its various colleges were regrouped under various names like College of Performing Arts, Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, Parsons School of Design, the university also continued with a separate new institution The New School for Social Research under the general banner of The New School
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The New School University Center at 14th Street and Fifth Avenue.
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The New School
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Union Square, the location often referred to as New School's geographic "nucleus".
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Students for Snowden
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Syracuse University
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Syracuse University, commonly referred to as Syracuse, Cuse, or SU, is a private research university in Syracuse, New York, United States. The institutions roots can be traced to the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, founded in 1831 by the Methodist Episcopal Church in Lima, after several years of debate over relocating the college to Syracuse, the university was established in 1870, independent of the college. Since 1920, the university has identified itself as nonsectarian, although it maintains a relationship with The United Methodist Church, the campus is in the University Hill neighborhood of Syracuse, east and southeast of downtown, on one of the larger hills. Its large campus features a mix of buildings, ranging from nineteenth-century Romanesque Revival structures to contemporary buildings. Syracuse University athletic teams, known as the Orange, participate in 20 intercollegiate sports, SU is a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference for all NCAA Division I athletics, except for the mens rowing and womens ice hockey teams. SU is also a member of the Eastern College Athletic Conference, the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary was founded in 1831 by the Genesee Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Lima, New York, south of Rochester. In 1850, it was resolved to enlarge the institution from a seminary into a college, or to connect a college with the seminary, however, the location was soon thought by many to be insufficiently central. Its difficulties were compounded by the set of technological changes. The trustees of the college then decided to seek a locale whose economic. Meanwhile, there were years of dispute between the Methodist ministers, Lima, and contending cities across the state, over proposals to move Genesee College to Syracuse. At the time, the ministers wanted a share of the funds from the Morrill Land Grant Act for Genesee College and they agreed to a quid pro quo donation of $25,000 from Senator Cornell in exchange for their support for his bill. Cornell insisted the bargain be written into the bill and Cornell became New York States Land Grant University in 1865. In 1869, Genesee College obtained New York State approval to move to Syracuse, but Lima got an injunction to block the move. By that time, however, the injunction had been made moot by the founding of a new university on March 24,1870. On that date the State of New York granted the new Syracuse University its own charter, the City of Syracuse had offered $100,000 to establish the school. Bishop Jesse Truesdell Peck had donated $25,000 to the school and was elected the first president of the Board of Trustees. Rev. Daniel Steele, a former Genesee College president, served as the first administrative leader of Syracuse until its Chancellor was appointed, the university opened in September 1871 in rented space downtown. George F. Comstock, a member of the new Universitys Board of Trustees, had offered the school 50 acres of farmland on a hillside to the southeast of the city center
Syracuse University
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Crouse College, a
Romanesque building completed in 1889, housed the first College of Fine Arts in the United States. It is now the home of the university's College of Visual and Performing Arts and the Setnor School of Music.
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Syracuse University
Syracuse University
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A graduate of the Genesee Seminary,
Henry Jarvis Raymond later went on to found
The New York Times.
Syracuse University
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Belva Lockwood was the first woman (or second, depending on one's opinion, after Victoria Woodhull) to run for President of the United States.
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Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
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Maxwell is ranked as the top graduate program for public affairs in the country. The Maxwell School hosts the oldest public administration degree in the United States, the Maxwell School was dedicated on October 3,1924, and was the first program to offer a graduate professional degree in public administration. That Master of Public Administration program is the oldest continuously operating, in 1937, the school took its full name and moved into Maxwell Hall, a purpose-built building on the west end of Syracuse Universitys main campus. In that year, Syracuse Universitys graduate programs and undergraduate instruction in the sciences were moved into Maxwell. In 1968, Maxwell professor Dwight Waldo presided over the Minnowbrook I conference, subsequent Minnowbrook II and III conferences were held in 1988 and 2008 at the eponymous Blue Mountain Lake retreat. The schools rapid growth necessitated the 1990 Campaign for Maxwell, which raised capital to fund a new building to accommodate the expansion, the result of the campaign was the Bohlin Cywinski Jackson-designed Eggers Hall, which opened in 1994. Eggers Hall adjoins Maxwell Hall at the corner, together forming an L shaped complex that houses the present-day Maxwell School. Maxwell has been ranked as the top program for public affairs in the country by U. S. News. Maxwell is ranked the top school in the sub-specialty of Public Management/Administration, Maxwell is listed as one of the top 20 professional schools for International Relations by Foreign Policy — most recently ranked 16th. John R. Bass, US Ambassador to Georgia and Turkey John Berry, US Ambassador to Australia David Bing, Mayor, City of Detroit Andrew R. Ciesla, Senator, State of New Jersey James B. Cunningham, Ambassador for Kabul, Afghanistan Kwabena Duffuor, Finance Minister of Ghana Robert Duffy, New York Lieutenant Governor James E. Graves, Jr. Federal Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Stanley L. Greigg, former member of the U. S. White, Former Deputy Secretary, U. S
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The Maxwell/Eggers complex in
Syracuse, New York.
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The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
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Master of Public Administration
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Instruction includes the roles, development, and principles of public administration, public policy management and implementation. More recently, Governance Network management has emerged as an approach to public administration. S. Other notable MPA graduates include Bill OReilly, in recent years, there has been a gradual convergence between the MPA and the Master of Public Policy degrees. Many educational institutions are now offering MPA degrees via online instruction, there are also Executive MPA programs for professionals who have prior work and management experience. However, some MPA programs in the United States are housed in Business schools, in other cases, they bring together multidisciplinary approaches and methodologies as to give their students a more comprehensive overview of the current challenges of public administration. A Master of Public Administration can be acquired at various institutions, see List of schools offering MPA degrees. S
Master of Public Administration
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Example of a diploma from
Harvard University conferring the MPA degree. It belongs to
Felipe Calderón, former president of Mexico.
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Actor
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Anyone who meets the eligibility requirements may apply for aid, which could vary from medical assistance, paying rent, or finding employment. Heros benefits are not meant to be a permanent crutch for needy creators, any granted aid is kept confidential. The Hero Initiative has two boards of directors, the Executive Board and the Fund Disbursement Board, former board members include founders Pat McCallum, editor-in-chief of Wizard Magazine, and Mike Richardson, publisher and founder of Dark Horse Comics. They are George Pérez, Roy Thomas, Charlie Novinskie, Dennis ONeil, John Romita Sr. the charity is currently supported by Dark Horse Comics, Dynamic Forces, Image Comics, Marvel Entertainment, Top Cow Productions, and Wizard Entertainment. The Hero Initiative utilizes many methods of fundraising, foremost is their annual art auction, auctioning donated original comics art-work at fan conventions. Year-long, they sell donated art and special edition comics at conventions, artists, writers, and publishers are invited to donate work, and fans are invited to donate money directly to the fund. ACTOR also sells a green Excelsior, wrist-band similar in design to the Livestrong wristband. The Hero Initiative was formerly known as A Commitment to Our Roots, or ACTOR, while the original name of the organization reflected the charitys goal, the acronym that resulted, ACTOR, more often confused people unfamiliar with the organization. 2006, George Pérez, John Romita, Sr.2007, Joe Kubert 2008, Nick Cardy 2009, Neal Adams 2010, Walt Simonson 2011, Stan Lee 2012, John Romita, Jr. The award recognizes one person in each year who demonstrates particular generosity and integrity in support of the overall comic book community. It debuted at the 2010 Harvey Awards ceremony held at the Baltimore Comic-Con
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The Hero Initiative
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Columbo
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Columbo is an American television series starring Peter Falk as Columbo, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. The plot revolves around how a perpetrator whose identity is known to the audience will finally be caught. Columbo is a police detective of Italian descent whose clothes are disheveled and whose trademarks include wearing a rumpled, beige raincoat over his suit. He is consistently underestimated by his suspects who, while initially reassured and distracted by his circumstantial speech, despite his unassuming appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he is extremely intelligent and shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for a conviction. His formidable eye for detail and relentlessly dedicated approach, often become clear to the only late in the story line. The episodes are all movie-length, between 73 and 100 minutes long, and have been broadcast in forty-four countries, in 2012, the program was chosen as the third-best cop or legal show on Best in TV, The Greatest TV Shows of Our Time. In 2013, TV Guide included it in its list of The 60 Greatest Dramas of All Time, also in 2013, the Writers Guild of America ranked it No.57 in the list of 101 Best Written TV Series. After two pilot episodes, the originally aired on NBC from 1971 to 1978 as one of the rotating programs of The NBC Mystery Movie. Columbo then aired less regularly on ABC beginning in 1989 under the umbrella of The ABC Mystery Movie, the last film was broadcast in 2003 as part of ABC Thursday Night at the Movies. In almost every episode the audience sees the crime unfold at the beginning and knows the identity of the culprit, once Columbo enters the story, viewers watch him solve the case by sifting through the contradictions between the truth and the version presented to him by the killer. This style of mystery is sometimes referred to as a howcatchem, episodes tend to be driven by their characters, the audience observing the criminals reaction to Columbos increasingly intrusive presence. In some cases, the arrogance and dismissive attitude allow Columbo to manipulate his suspects into self-incrimination. While details of the actions are shown to the viewer, Columbos true thoughts. Columbo generally maintains a relationship with the murderer until the end. The point at which the detective first begins to suspect the murderer is not revealed. Each case is concluded in a similar style, with Columbo dropping any pretense of uncertainty. Following the killers reaction, the episode ends with the killer confessing or quietly submitting to arrest. There are few attempts to deceive the viewer or provide a twist in the tale, other sources claim Columbos character is also influenced by Inspector Fichet from the French suspense-thriller film Les Diaboliques
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Richard Kiley and
Peter Falk in
Season 3 Episode 8 titled "A Friend in Deed" that aired on May 5, 1974
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Martin Landau and
Peter Falk in
Season 2 Episode 8 titled "Double Shock" that aired on March 25, 1973
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The
Stahl House served as the filming location of the first Columbo pilot "Prescription: Murder"
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The
NBC Sunday Mystery Movie program worked on a rotating basis – one per month from each of its shows. Top left:
Dennis Weaver in
McCloud. Top right:
Richard Boone in
Hec Ramsey. Bottom left:
Peter Falk in Columbo. Bottom right:
Rock Hudson in
McMillan & Wife
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Golden Globe Award
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Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign. The annual ceremony at which the awards are presented is a part of the film industrys awards season. The 74th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film, the 1st Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best achievements in 1943 filmmaking, was held in January 1944, at the 20th Century-Fox studios. Subsequent ceremonies were held at venues throughout the next decade, including the Beverly Hills Hotel. In 1950, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association made the decision to establish an honorary award to recognize outstanding contributions to the entertainment industry. Recognizing its subject as a figure within the entertainment industry. The official name of the award became the Cecil B. In 1963, the Miss Golden Globe concept was introduced, in its inaugural year, two Miss Golden Globes were named, one for film and one for television. The two Miss Golden Globes named that year were Eva Six and Donna Douglas, respectively, in 2009, the Golden Globe statuette was redesigned. It was unveiled at a conference at the Beverly Hilton prior to the show. The broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards, telecast to 167 countries worldwide, generally ranks as the third most-watched awards show each year, behind only the Oscars, gervais returned to host the 68th and 69th Golden Globe Awards the next two years. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosted the 70th, 71st and 72nd Golden Globe Awards in 2015, the Golden Globe Awards theme song, which debuted in 2012, was written by Japanese musician and songwriter Yoshiki Hayashi. On January 7,2008, it was announced due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. The ceremony was faced with a threat by striking writers to picket the event, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was forced to adopt another approach for the broadcast. In acting categories, Meryl Streep holds the record for the most competitive Golden Globe wins with eight, however, including honorary awards, such as the Henrietta Award, World Film Favorite Actor/Actress Award, or Cecil B. DeMille Award, Barbra Streisand leads with nine, additionally, Streisand won for composing the song Evergreen, producing the Best Picture, and directing Yentl in 1984. Jack Nicholson, Angela Lansbury, Alan Alda and Shirley MacLaine have six awards each, behind them are Rosalind Russell and Jessica Lange with five wins. Meryl Streep also holds the record for most nominations with thirty, at the 46th Golden Globe Awards an anomaly occurred, a three way-tie for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
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The Golden Globe statuette
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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
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The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It is given in honor of an actor who has delivered a performance in a supporting role while working within the film industry. At the 9th Academy Awards ceremony held in 1937, Walter Brennan was the first winner of award for his role in Come. Initially, winners in both supporting acting categories were awarded instead of statuettes. Beginning with the 16th ceremony held in 1944, however, winners received full-sized statuettes, currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the actors branch of AMPAS, winners are selected by a plurality vote from the entire eligible voting members of the Academy. Since its inception, the award has given to 72 actors. Brennan has received the most awards in this category with three awards, Brennan, Jeff Bridges, Robert Duvall, Arthur Kennedy, Jack Nicholson, and Claude Rains were nominated on four occasions, more than any other actor. As of the 2017 ceremony, Mahershala Ali is the most recent winner in category for his role as Juan in Moonlight. In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of release in Los Angeles County. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, University of Toronto Press, ISBN 978-1-55002-574-3. org The Academy Awards Database Oscar. com Complete Downloadable List of Academy Award Nominees
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Walter Brennan was the first winner in this category for 1936's
Come and Get It; He would also win for his roles in
Kentucky (1938) and
The Westerner (1940).
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Van Heflin won in 1942 for his performance in
Johnny Eager.
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George Sanders won for his role in 1950's
All About Eve.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
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Karl Malden won in 1951 for
A Streetcar Named Desire.
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Murder, Inc. (film)
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Murder, Inc. is a 1960 American gangster film starring Stuart Whitman, May Britt, Henry Morgan, Peter Falk, and Simon Oakland. The Cinemascope movie was directed by Burt Balaban and Stuart Rosenberg, the screenplay was based on the true story of Murder, Inc. a Brooklyn gang that operated in the 1930s. Falk plays Abe Reles, a thug who led the Murder, Inc. gang and was believed to have committed thirty murders. The film was the first major role for Falk, who was nominated for a best supporting actor Academy Award for his performance. In his 2006 autobiography, Just One More Thing, Falk said that Murder, the movie was the first film directed by Rosenberg, who later won acclaim for films that included Cool Hand Luke, and also launched Stuart Whitmans career as a leading man. A more highly fictionalized film on the basic events, The Enforcer, starring Humphrey Bogart, was released in the United Kingdom with the title Murder. Their first job is to kill Walter Sage, a Catskill resort owner who has been holding back slot machine profits from Lepke, to get close to Sage, Reles forces singer Joey Collins, an old crony of Sage who owes Reles money, to help him. Reles and his henchman kill Sage, Reles visits Joey and threatens to kill him and his dancer wife Eadie if they tell anyone about the murder. Reles later returns to the apartment when Joey is gone and brutally rapes her, despite her urging Joey refuses to run away, and this causes him and Eadie to split up. Reles continues to carry out assassinations at Lepkes direction, Reles reconciles with the couple by giving them a luxurious apartment filled with stolen goods. Under police pressure, Lepke hides out from the police at Joey and he treats Eadie like a maid. District Attorney Burton Turkus takes over the law enforcement campaign against Murder, Lepke orders the death of the entire Brownsville gang as well as Joey and Eadie. Eadie visits Turkus and becomes an informant, as does Joey and he then confronts Reles, who has been arrested, in his cell, and threatens to testify against him. In fear of that, Reles agrees to testify against Lepke in exchange for reduced charges and he provides a detailed account of the activities of Murder, Inc. Turkus puts Joey and Reles in protective custody and hides them at the Half Moon Hotel in Coney Island, Eadie comes to visit Joey, imploring him to testify against Lepke. Joey is reluctant, fearing the mob will kill Eadie in revenge, despondent, Eadie slips her police escort and wanders alone on the beachfront, where she is murdered. Later that night, Reles is thrown out the window by an assassin, Joey avenges his wifes death by testifying against Lepke, who is executed. Vincent Gardenia, who became an acclaimed actor for his performance in Moonstruck
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Title from the trailer
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Pocketful of Miracles
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Pocketful of Miracles is a 1961 American comedy film starring Bette Davis and Glenn Ford, and directed by Frank Capra. The screenplay by Hal Kanter and Harry Tugend is based on the screenplay Lady for a Day by Robert Riskin, the film proved to be the final project for both Capra and veteran actor Thomas Mitchell but also featured the film debut of Ann-Margret. Supporting player Peter Falk was nominated for an Academy Award but George Chakiris won that year for West Side Story, Capra said that Falks performance was a bright spot in this miserable film. The 1989 film Miracles starring Jackie Chan and Anita Mui, Dave the Dude is a successful, very superstitious New York City gangster who buys apples from street peddler Apple Annie to bring him good luck. On the eve of an important meeting, he finds Annie terribly upset. Annie, it out, has a daughter named Louise, who was sent to a school in Europe as a child. Louise believes her mother to be wealthy socialite Mrs. E. Worthington Manville, Annie has been pretending that she resides in a luxurious hotel and has Louises letters mailed there, then intercepted by a friend and handed over to her. Daves good-hearted girlfriend Queenie Martin persuades him to help Annie continue her charade, Queenie takes on the task of transforming the derelict into a dowager. Dave arranges for cultured pool hustler Judge Henry G. Blake to pose as Annies husband and he installs her in an out-of-town friends suite in the hotel, complete with Hudgins, his friends butler. When Dave keeps postponing a meeting with a powerful gangster to help Annie. Dave manages to engineer a lavish reception with New Yorks mayor and governor as guests, Louise and her impressed future husband and father-in-law return to Europe, none the wiser about her mothers real identity. Henry G. Blake Edward Everett Horton, unable to persuade either Abe Burrows or Garson Kanin to update the plot, Capra began working on the screenplay himself. His modern version, which involved Korean War orphans and a farm in Oregon, was filled with Cold War rhetoric. Cohn insisted Capra find a collaborator, but he thought the draft submitted by Harry Tugend was no better, and he dropped the project. In 1960, Capra bought the rights from Columbia for $225,000, and the director made a deal with United Artists. Capra originally cast Frank Sinatra as Dave the Dude, but the actor walked out due to disagreements about the script, kirk Douglas, Dean Martin, and Jackie Gleason rejected the role. Then Glenn Ford approached Capra with an offer to finance the film through his production company if he was cast as the lead. The director felt Ford was wrong for the part but out of desperation he agreed to the arrangement, Ford was paid $350,000 up front, but Capra received only $200,000
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Hope Lange as Queenie Martin
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The Great Race
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The supporting cast includes Peter Falk, Keenan Wynn, Arthur OConnell and Vivian Vance. The movie cost US$12 million, making it the most expensive film at the time. It is noted for one scene that was promoted as the greatest pie fight ever, the Great Leslie and Professor Fate are competing daredevils at the turn of the 20th century. Leslie is the classic hero – always dressed in white, handsome, ever-courteous, enormously talented, Leslie proposes an automobile race from New York to Paris and offers the Webber Motor Car Company the opportunity to build an automobile to make the journey. They design and build a new car named The Leslie Special, Fate builds his own race vehicle, the Hannibal Twin-8, complete with hidden devices of sabotage. Others cars enter in the race, including New York Citys most prominent newspaper, driving the newspapers car is beautiful photojournalist Maggie DuBois, a vocal suffragette. The seven-car race begins, but Fates long-suffering sidekick Maximilian Meen has sabotaged four other cars, the surviving teams are Leslie with his loyal mechanic Hezekiah Sturdy, Maggie DuBois driving a Stanley Steamer by herself, and Fate and Max. The newspapers car breaks down and Maggie accepts a lift in the Leslie Special, Fate arrives first at a refueling point, the small Western frontier town of Boracho. A local outlaw named Texas Jack becomes jealous of the attraction to Leslie shown by showgirl Lily Olay, Fate sneaks outside amidst the chaos, steals the fuel he needs, and destroys the rest. The two remaining cars reach the Bering Strait and park side-by-side in a blinding snowstorm, keeping warm during the storm, Leslie and Maggie begin to see each other as more than competitors. Mishaps, including a bear in Fates car, compel all four racers to warm themselves in Leslies car. They awaken on an ice floe which drifts into their intended Russian port, where Hezekiah is waiting for Leslie. Maggie is snatched by Fate, who drives off in the lead, after driving across Asia, both cars enter the tiny kingdom of Pottsdorf, whose alcoholic and foppish Crown Prince Hapnick is a double for Fate. Rebels under the leadership of Baron Rolfe von Stuppe and General Kuhster kidnap the Prince, Fate, Max, Max escapes and joins Leslie to rescue the others. Fate is forced to masquerade as the Prince during the coronation so that the rebels can gain control of the kingdom, Leslie and Max overcome Von Stuppes henchmen and confront Von Stuppe. Following a climactic duel with Leslie, Von Stuppe attempts escape by leaping to a waiting boat. Leslie and Max return the real Prince in time for his coronation and depart with Fate, Fate takes refuge in a bakery but falls into a huge cake. A pie fight ensues involving the racers, the Princes men, as the racers leave Pottsdorf, it becomes a straight road race to Paris
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Anzio (film)
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It was adapted from the book Anzio by Wynford Vaughan-Thomas, who had been the BBC war correspondent at the battle. The film stars Robert Mitchum, Peter Falk, and a variety of film stars. The two exceptions were Wolfgang Preiss and Tonio Selwart, who respectively played Field Marshal Albert Kesselring and General Eberhard von Mackensen. The film was made in Italy with an Italian film crew and produced by Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis, however, none of the main cast were Italian, the film was jointly directed by Edward Dmytryk and Duilio Coletti. In the English language version, Italians are portrayed speaking their language, but in scenes involving the German military commanders. After meeting a general, war correspondent Dick Ennis is assigned to accompany US Army Rangers for the attempt to outflank the tough enemy defenses. The amphibious landing is unopposed, but the bumbling American general, Jack Lesley is too cautious, Ennis and a Ranger drive in a jeep through the countryside, discovering there are few Germans between the beachhead and Rome, but his information is ignored. As a result, the German commander, Kesselring, has time to gather his forces, Ennis is with the Rangers when they are ambushed at the Battle of Cisterna. From there, the film departs from being a view of all sides, the men take shelter in a house occupied by three Italian women. A German patrol arrives at the house, only to be slaughtered by the Americans, Ennis asks what makes one human being willingly kill another. Corporal Jack Rabinoff replies that he loves it, and his lifestyle makes him more than anyone else. Rabinoff is based on a real 1st Special Service Force soldier Jake Wallenstein, most of the men, including Rabinoff, are killed in a shootout with a group of German snipers. Only Ennis, Technical Sergeant Stimmler and Private Movie survive, the movie opened to mixed reviews in the US, many felt it did not work as well as Dmytryks early war films. The New York Times film review was dismissive, and describes the film as a very ordinary war movie with an epic title, produced by Dino De Laurentiis. Who thinks big but often produces small, in contrast, Chicago Sun-Times critic Roger Ebert had a more favourable opinion of the film, described it as a good war movie and even an intelligent one. Riz Ortolani scored the film with a ballad called The World is Yours with lyrics by Doc Pomus that was sung beneath the credits by Jack Jones, luigi Scaccianoce was the production designer. Peter Falk thought that the script he read was clichéd and wanted off the film, at the last minute, Dino DeLaurentiis put Falks name above the title billing and gave him his choice of writer for his characters dialogue. Falk stayed and wrote his lines himself, the production saw DeLaurentiis bring in for the first time another actor who made a debut, Giancarlo Giannini, who would later do international films and would work with director Lina Wertmüller
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Frank McCarthy
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A Woman Under the Influence
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A Woman Under the Influence is a 1974 American drama film written and directed by John Cassavetes. It focuses on a woman whose unusual behavior leads her husband to commit her for psychiatric treatment and it received two Academy Award nominations for Best Actress and Best Director. Convinced she has become a threat to herself and others, he commits her to an institution. Left alone with his three children, Nick proves to be neither wiser nor better than his wife in the way he relates to and interacts with them or accepts the role society expects him to play. After six months Mabel returns home but she is not prepared to do so emotionally or mentally, and neither is her husband prepared correctly for her return. At first Nick invites a group of people to the house for a party to celebrate his wifes return. Nick kicks the family out of the house, leaving husband, after yet another psychotic episode where Mabel cuts herself, Nick decides to put the children to bed. The youngsters profess their love for their mother as she tucks them in, Nick and Mabel themselves ready their bed for the night as the film ends. His completed script was so intense and emotional she knew she would be unable to perform it eight times a week, when he tried to raise funding for the project, he was told, No one wants to see a crazy, middle-aged dame. Lacking studio financing, Cassavetes mortgaged his house and borrowed from family and friends, one of whom was Peter Falk, who liked the screenplay so much he invested $500,000 in the project. The crew consisted of professionals and students from the American Film Institute, working with a limited budget forced him to shoot scenes in a real house near Hollywood Boulevard, and Rowlands was responsible for her own hairstyling and makeup. Upon completion of the film, Cassavetes was unable to find a distributor, so he personally called theater owners and it was booked into art houses and shown on college campuses, where Cassavetes and Falk discussed it with the audience. I went home and vomited, which prompted curious audiences to seek out the film capable of making Dreyfuss ill, a Woman Under the Influence has an overall approval rating of 95% on Rotten Tomatoes. But the movie didnt need to be 2 hours and 35 minutes long, theres too much small talk, still, the most frightening scenes are extremely compelling, and this is a thoughtful film that does prompt serious discussion. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times rated the film four out of four stars and called it terribly complicated, involved, almost a quarter-century later, Ebert wrote a second review, in which he called Woman Under the Influence perhaps the greatest of Cassavetes films. Time Out London said, The brilliance of the lies in its sympathetic. TV Guide rated the film four out of four stars, calling it tough-minded and moving, in 2015 the BBC named the film the 31st greatest American movie ever made. Gena Rowlands was in attendance and spoke briefly, the restoration was done by the UCLA Film & Television Archive with funding provided by Gucci and the Film Foundation
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Murder by Death
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The plot is a broad parody or spoof of the traditional country-house whodunit, familiar to mystery fiction fans of classics such as Agatha Christies And Then There Were None. The cast is an ensemble of British and American actors playing send-ups of well-known fictional sleuths, including Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Charlie Chan, Nick and Nora Charles and it also features a rare acting performance by author Truman Capote. The film was presented at the Venice International Film Festival in 1976, a group of five renowned detectives, each accompanied by a relative or associate, is invited to dinner and a murder by the mysterious Lionel Twain. Having lured his guests to his mansion managed by a butler named Jamessir Bensonmum. The house is sealed off. Twain announces that he is the greatest detective in the world, to prove his claim, he challenges the guests to solve a murder which will take place at midnight, a reward of $1 million will be presented to the winner. The party spends the rest of the night investigating and bickering and they are manipulated by a mysterious behind-the-scenes force, confused by red herrings, and baffled by the mechanical marvel that is Twains house, and they ultimately find their own lives threatened. Each sleuth presents his or her theory on the case, pointing out the others past connections to Twain and they all survive, and in the morning they gather in the office, where they find the butler waiting, very much alive and not blind. At first the butler plays the part of each of the persons, male or female, with whom he is identified, each of the detectives departs the house empty handed, none of them having won the million dollars. When asked whether there had been a murder, Wang replies, Yes, alone in his home, Twain pulls off yet another mask to reveal Yetta, who smokes a cigarette and laughs diabolically while rings of cigarette smoke fill the screen. The story takes place in and around the country home populated by eccentric multi-millionaire Lionel Twain, his blind butler Jamessir Bensonmum. Lionel Twain is a pun on Lionel Train, Wang wears elaborate Chinese costumes, and his comically broken English is criticized by Twain and others. Dick and Dora Charleston are polished, sophisticated society types modeled on Dashiell Hammetts characters Nick, the Charles wire-haired terrier Asta is also lampooned, appearing here named Myron. Milo Perrier is a take on Agatha Christies Hercule Poirot and arrives at the house with his heavily-French-accented chauffeur Marcel Cassette, Perrier is repeatedly annoyed by being mistaken for a Frenchman as he is Belgian, saying I am not a Frenchie. I am a Belgie. Sam Diamond parodies another Dashiell Hammett character, The Maltese Falcons hardboiled Sam Spade and he is accompanied by his long-suffering, hard-boiled, sexy but needy secretary Tess Skeffington, whom he continually denigrates and mistreats. Tess Skeffingtons name is a riff on Spades secretary Effie Perine, jessica Marbles parodies Christies Miss Marple. The film was entirely at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California, then named The Burbank Studios, Charles Addams, creator of The Addams Family, drew the art and caricatures displayed at the beginning, during the end credits, and on the poster
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The Cheap Detective
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The Cheap Detective is a 1978 American satirical comedy film written by Neil Simon and directed by Robert Moore as a follow-up to their successful Murder by Death. It stars Peter Falk as Lou Peckinpaugh, a detective in the Humphrey Bogart mold, the film is an affectionate parody of Bogart movies such as Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon. Lou Peckinpaugh, a bumbling San Francisco private detective, tries to prove himself innocent of his partners murder while helping a bizarre array of characters recover a lost treasure, the film spoofs Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, Chinatown, and To Have and Have Not. The scene in the restaurant with Peckinpaugh and Pepe Damascus mocks the opening scene of The Big Sleep, Peter Falk as Lou Peckinpaugh Madeline Kahn as Mrs. Rizzuto* * DiMaggio and Rizzuto were players on the New York Yankees baseball squad. James Coco as Marcel Phil Silvers as Hoppy Fernando Lamas as Paul DuChard Nicol Williamson as Col
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The Princess Bride (film)
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The story is presented in the film as a book being read by a grandfather to his sick grandson, thus effectively preserving the novels narrative style. In 2016, the film was inducted into the National Film Registry, in the framing story, a man reads a book, The Princess Bride, to his sick grandson. Scenes of the reading occasionally interrupt the story, for example. Buttercup has grown up on a farm in the Renaissance Era and she mercilessly orders around the farmhand, Westley, but he only replies As you wish to her every whim. Buttercup eventually comes to understand that this is his expression of love, Westley leaves to seek his fortune so that they might marry, but Buttercup learns that Westleys ship was attacked by the legendary Dread Pirate Roberts, who is infamous for leaving no one alive. Five years later, Buttercup reluctantly agrees to marry Humperdinck, the Crown Prince of Florin and these three are in Humperdincks employ and have been ordered to kill Buttercup once in Guilder, Florins enemy, as a pretext to start a war. The four are soon followed by a man dressed in black, Fezzik sobers up Inigo, they stumble upon the Albino, and Fezzik inadvertently knocks him unconscious when trying to receive information on Westley and Rugen. Max notes that Westley is only mostly dead, but sustained by true love, outside the castle gate, Inigo and Fezzik give Westley the pill, he quickly begins to recover, and comes up with a plan to defeat the castle guards and get into the castle itself. Hearing the commotion outside, Humperdinck panics and orders the priest to declare him, Rugen beats a cowardly retreat with Inigo in pursuit, leaving Westley in the hallway, Fezzik runs to help Inigo, who ultimately confronts Rugen. Rugen injures Inigo multiple times, but strengthened by his determination to exact revenge, Inigo overpowers, in the framing story, the grandson allows the grandfather to read on about Westley and Buttercup sharing a passionate kiss. As the grandfather finishes the story and prepares to leave, the boy asks him to read the story again the next day, the grandfather smiles and replies, As you wish. Billy Crystal as Miracle Max Carol Kane as Valerie, Maxs wife Peter Cook as The Impressive Clergyman and he cannot pronounce Rs or Ls. In 1973, 20th Century Fox paid Goldman $500,000 for the film rights, richard Lester was signed to direct and the movie was almost made, but then the head of production at Fox was fired and the project was put on hiatus. Goldman subsequently bought back the rights to the novel with his own money. They actually performed all of the fencing in the fight scene. For the wrestling scene, when Elwes was pretending to hang on Andrés back, for the wide shots, a stunt double took the place of André. When he was apparently carrying Wright, she was suspended by cables. The original soundtrack album was composed by Mark Knopfler, and released by Warner Bros. Records in the United States, the album contains the song Storybook Love, performed by Willy DeVille and produced by Mark Knopfler
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The Cliffs of Insanity are actually the
Cliffs of Moher in
County Clare, Ireland.
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The Player (film)
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The Player is a 1992 American satirical black comedy film directed by Robert Altman and written by Michael Tolkin, based on his own 1988 novel of the same name. The Player has many references and Hollywood insider jokes, with 65 celebrities making cameo appearances in the film. Altman stated that the film is a mild satire, offending no one. The film received three nominations at the 66th Academy Awards, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Editing, the film also won two Golden Globes, Best Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical and Best Actor – Comedy or Musical for Robbins. Griffin Mill is a Hollywood studio executive dating story editor Bonnie Sherow and he hears story pitches from screenwriters and decides which have the potential to be made into films, green-lighting only 12 out of 50,000 submissions every year. His job is threatened when up-and-coming story executive Larry Levy begins working at the studio, Mill has also been receiving death threat postcards, assumed to be from a screenwriter whose pitch he rejected. Mill surmises that the writer is David Kahane. Mill is told by Kahanes girlfriend, June Gudmundsdottir that Kahane is at a theater in Pasadena, Mill pretends to recognize Kahane in the lobby, and offers him a scriptwriting deal, hoping this will stop the threats. The two go to a bar where Kahane gets intoxicated and rebuffs Mills offer, he calls Mill a liar. In the bars parking lot, the two men fight, Mill goes too far and accidentally drowns Kahane in a shallow pool of water, then stages the crime to make it look like a botched robbery. At the end of their conversation Mill receives a fax from his stalker, thus, Mill has killed the wrong man, and the stalker apparently knows this. Mill attends Kahanes funeral and gets into conversation with June, detectives Avery and DeLongpre suspect Mill is guilty of murder. Mill receives a postcard from the writer suggesting they meet at a hotel bar, while Mill is waiting, he is cornered by two screenwriters, Tom Oakley and Andy Sivella, who pitch Habeas Corpus, a legal drama featuring no major stars and with a depressing ending. Because Mill is not alone, his stalker does not appear, after leaving the club, Mill receives a fax in his car, advising him to look under his raincoat. He discovers a live rattlesnake in a box, which a terrified Mill bludgeons with his umbrella, Mill tells June that his near-death experience made him realize he has feelings for her. Apprehensive that Larry Levy continues encroaching on his job, Mill invites the two writers to pitch Habeas Corpus to him, convincing Levy that the movie will be an Oscar contender, Mills plan is to let Levy shepherd the film through production and have it flop. Mill will step in at the last moment, suggesting changes to salvage the films box office. Having persuaded Bonnie to leave for New York on studio business, Mill takes June to a Hollywood awards banquet, after Bonnie confronts Mill about his relationship with June, Mill coldly severs their relationship in front of two writers
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Corky Romano
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Corky Romano is a 2001 American mafia comedy film starring former Saturday Night Live cast member Chris Kattan. Also starring are Fred Ward, Vinessa Shaw, Chris Penn, the movie was produced by Robert Simond, directed by Rob Pritts, and was written by David Garrett and Jason Ward. It first opened in theaters on October 12,2001, with the aid of a computer hacker, Corky is able to obtain a false name, background, and résumé. Corky makes several trips to the FBI offices evidence room, only to be sidetracked each time and he is sent on investigations and raids, most of which have nothing to do with his fathers case. Corky finds himself on a mission to infiltrate a neo-Nazi skinhead group related to the Night Vulture, Corky approaches the gang members, who promptly rip off the Britney Spears tank top he is wearing as a disguise, and take him to a warehouse. Every Mafia member, including Paulie and Peter, are listening in through a microphone that was taped to Corkys crotch. They go to the warehouse, beat up all the gang members, when the FBI arrives, they assume that Corky has handled the skinheads singlehandedly. He receives praise at the office and in the local media, Corky attends a hostage situation involving a Night Vulture suspect. FBI director Howard Schuster hands Corky a machine gun and orders him to kill the suspect, when Corky fires, the trigger gets stuck, spraying bullets everywhere. One of them hits a tank, causing it to explode. Agents rush in and arrest the suspect, and it transpires that his gun was a fake, Schuster sends Corky to put the suspect in jail. On the trip back to the FBI office, Corky locks himself out of the car, the divider jams the gas pedal to the floor, sending the car weaving wildly through city streets. Corkys arm is stuck in the window the whole time, later, the car crashes into Paulie and Peter. Davis and other agents arrive and proceed to arrest Paulie and Peter, however, Corky steps in to handle the situation. He farts in the faces of his brothers, and tells them to leave, Corky is able to convince Russo that he, too, is working undercover. Corky is sent to infiltrate a drug deal in Chinatown posing as a translator, Corky attempts to translate, but ends up saying nonsense phrases such as fool and hairy pencil. The participating drug lords draw their guns and begin shooting in frustration, Corkys new FBI partners, agents Bob Cox and Terrence Darnell, engage in a shootout with one of them while the other escapes. Cox and Darnell are captured trying to infiltrate one of Pops underground casinos
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Next (2007 film)
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The films original script was loosely based on the science fiction short story The Golden Man by Philip K. Dick. The film tells the story of Cris Johnson, a small time magician based in Las Vegas and his gift makes him a target not only of a highly motivated and heavily armed group of terrorists but hes also wanted by the FBI. The film was released on April 25,2007, in Belgium and France and April 27,2007, Cris Johnson can see into his future. He can only see two minutes ahead, with the exception of a vision he once had of a woman walking into a diner, knowing no details other than the time, he goes to the diner twice each day at 8,09 to await her arrival. He works as a magician in Las Vegas, where he supplements his income with gambling, using his powers to win against the house. Cris draws the attention of FBI agent Callie Ferris, who has figured out his ability, before she can approach Cris, his gambling draws the attention of casino security. He stops an imminent robbery, yet is chased by security agents, using his ability to forecast the actions of his pursuers, he eludes them and the Las Vegas police. Ferris tracks Cris to his home, but he escapes after foreseeing her arrival, later that night, the casinos security chief is approached by two of the terrorists, is interrogated about Johnson and is then killed. The following morning, Cris is at the diner again when he sees Liz Cooper and it turns out that not only can Cris see the future, but he can also see how his actions can affect that future. After envisioning different approaches—all of which fall flat—he intervenes when Lizs ex-boyfriend arrives, knowing that she is heading for Flagstaff, Arizona, Cris charms her into giving him a ride. Ferris follows, while the terrorists decide to kill him, a washed-out road forces Cris and Liz to spend the night in a motel. With the weapon tracked to Los Angeles, Ferris convinces her superiors to let her bring Cris in, the terrorists follow in the hope that the agents will lead them to Cris. Ferris confronts Liz near the hotel, claiming Cris is a dangerous sociopath, Ferris asks Liz to drug Cris so that they can bring him in peacefully. Instead, Liz warns Cris, who tells her his secret, when she asks why he will not help the FBI stop the terrorists, he explains his limitations, noting the exception for events involving her. Asking for Liz to wait for him, he tries to escape from the FBI agents but is captured after saving Ferris from logs tumbling down the side of a mountain, unable to kill Cris, the terrorists kidnap Liz instead. In custody, Cris is strapped to a chair with his eyes held open, Cris escapes from captivity and races to the parking garage where she will be killed. Pursuing him to the garage, Ferris promises to save her as long as Cris will help stop the bomb. Using his ability, Cris helps the FBI track the terrorists to the port where they are based, when they arrive, Cris is able to walk right up to the terrorist leader and avoid being hit, by seeing where the bullets will go and dodging them
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William Friedkin
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Some of his other films include Sorcerer, Cruising, To Live and Die in L. A. Jade, Rules of Engagement, The Hunted, Bug, and Killer Joe. Friedkin was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Rachael and his father was a semi-professional softball player, merchant seaman, and mens clothing salesman. His mother, whom Friedkin called a saint, was an operating room registered nurse and his parents were Jewish emigrants from Ukraine. His grandparents, parents, and other relatives fled Ukraine during a particularly violent anti-Jewish pogrom in 1903, Friedkins father was somewhat uninterested in making money, and the family was generally lower middle class while he was growing up. According to film historian Peter Biskind, Friedkin viewed his father with a mixture of affection, according to his memoir, The Friedkin Connection, Friedkin had the utmost affection for his father. Friedkin attended public schools in Chicago and he enrolled at Senn High School, where he played basketball well enough to consider turning professional. Friedkin was not a student and barely received grades good enough to graduate. According to Friedkin, this was because of promotion and not because he was bright. Friedkin began going to movies as a teenager, and has cited Citizen Kane as one of his key influences. Several sources claim that Friedkin saw this picture as a teenager, but Friedkin himself says that he did not see the film until 1960. Only then, Friedkin says, did he become a true cineaste, among the movies which he saw as a teenager and young adult were Les Diaboliques, The Wages of Fear, and Psycho. Televised documentaries, such as his Second City documentary A Tale of Two Cities, 1960s Harvest of Shame and he began working in the mail room at WGN-TV immediately after high school. Within two years, he started his career doing live television shows and documentaries. His efforts included The People vs. Paul Crump which won an award at the San Francisco International Film Festival and its success helped Friedkin get a job with producer David L. Wolper. As mentioned in Friedkins voice-over commentary on the DVD re-release of Alfred Hitchcocks Vertigo, Friedkin directed one of the last episodes of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour in 1965, Hitchcock admonished Friedkin for not wearing a tie while directing. In 1965 Friedkin moved to Hollywood and two later released his first feature film, Good Times starring Sonny and Cher. Which I am telling you, is unwatchable, Friedkin, however, did not want to be known as an art house director, but rather for action and serious drama through stories about an America upended by crime, hypocrisy, the occult, and amorality. All of which he mounted up into his films to reflect what was going on in an America that was changing in the wake of Vietnam, the Sexual Revolution, in 1971, his The French Connection was released to wide critical acclaim
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Friedkin in 2012 at the
Deauville American Film Festival
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Gene Barry
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Gene Barry was an American stage, screen, and television actor. Barry was born Eugene Klass on June 14,1919, in New York City, Barry grew up in Brooklyn and attended New Utrecht High School. On October 22,1944, at age 25, Barry married Betty Claire Kalb, Kalb was an actress known by the stage name Julie Carson. Barry chose his name in honor of John Barrymore and made his Broadway debut as Captain Paul Duval in the 1942 revival of Sigmund Rombergs The New Moon. In 1950, Barry began appearing on TV with the NBC Television Opera Theatre, in 1955, he appeared on the CBS Television anthology series Appointment with Adventure. While the show was canceled in 1956, Barrys character—a ladies man with expensive tastes—served as the model for three shows in which he starred. Bat Masterson, a recounting of the life of the real-life U. S. Marshal, gambler. In his next TV series, Burkes Law, Barry played a homicide investigator who was chauffeured in his limousine as he solved crimes. This series was broadcast on ABC-TV from September 20,1963, for his performance in it, Barry won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in 1965. In 1966, the year of the series, the title of the show changed to Amos Burke. According to his co-star Gary Conway, who played Det, tilson in the series, the two actually had a lot of fun, on- and off-camera, despite having some difficulties with each other. After Conway left the show, he remained friends with Barry, Barrys third TV series was called The Name of the Game, in which he played the sophisticated publisher of a family of magazines, and he was one of three lead characters on the series. The other two actors were Robert Stack and Tony Franciosa, who rotated with Barry week by week as the primary character in each weeks program. This series was shown by NBC from 1968 to 1971, one of the magazines that Barrys character published was called People magazine, several years before the actual People magazine entered publication. Shortly before the filming of The Name of the Game series began, Barry played the villain—a wealthy psychiatrist— in Prescription, Murder, in 1972, Barry starred in the ITV television series The Adventurer, along with Barry Morse and Catherine Schell. He played Gene Bradley, a government agent of independent means, Barry returned to Broadway acting on two occasions—in 1962 in The Perfect Setup, and in 1983 in the Broadway premiere of the musical La Cage aux Folles. For his portrayal of Georges, Barry was nominated for a Tony Award, for his contribution to live theatre, Gene Barry received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 6555 Hollywood Boulevard. In 1994, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs, California, Barry died on December 9,2009 at Sunrise Senior Living in Woodland Hills, California, at the age of ninety
Gene Barry
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Barry in 1959.
Gene Barry
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Gene Barry as
Bat Masterson
Gene Barry
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With
Robert Stack and
Tony Franciosa in
The Name of the Game (1968-1971)
28.
McCloud (TV series)
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McCloud is an American television police drama that aired on NBC from 1970-77. The series starred Dennis Weaver, and for six of its seven years on the air it aired as part of the NBC Mystery Movie wheel series that was produced for the network by Universal Television. The show was centered on Deputy Marshal Sam McCloud of Taos, New Mexico, the first choice for the role of McCloud was Fess Parker, who turned it down. Universal hired the highly experienced Dennis Weaver and this premise of a cowboy in the big city was more or less adapted from the 1968 Don Siegel film, Coogans Bluff, starring Clint Eastwood. Herman Miller was responsible for the story of Coogans Bluff and co-wrote the screenplay with Dean Riesner, indeed, Miller is credited as the creator of McCloud. Coogans Bluff reflects Richard Thorpes 1942 film Tarzans New York Adventure, like Coogan, McCloud galloped the length and breadth of Manhattan, and the sight of McCloud on horseback riding down the middle of a busy street became one of the series most famous images. The following fall, the network commissioned a new wheel series, NBC ordered two new series, McMillan & Wife and Columbo, to fill the wheel and all three became part of the new NBC Mystery Movie series, which aired on Wednesday nights. The series became a hit, finishing at number 14 for Nielsen ratings for the 1971–1972 season, NBC then decided to try another competitive move and relocated McCloud, along with McMillan and Columbo, to Sunday nights for the following fall. The Mystery Movie series was a bigger draw on Sundays. Starting in the season in the fall of 1974, the episodes were two hours long, but were dropped again to 90 minutes for the seventh and final season starting in the fall of 1976. The 46th and last episode, McCloud Meets Dracula, was aired on April 17,1977, Weaver received Emmy nominations in 1974 and 1975 for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series. The executive producer was Glen A. Larson, who wrote for the series, as did Peter Allan Fields, Lou Shaw, Jimmy Sangster. Larson won an Edgar Award for The New Mexican Connection, in 1989, Weaver reprised the role in a made-for-television movie, The Return of Sam McCloud, in which his character was now a United States Senator. It first aired on November 12,1989, Diana Muldaur returned to reprise her role as McClouds love interest, Chris Coughlin. McClouds attire, typically consisting of a coat or Western jacket, bolo tie and cowboy hat. That New Yorkers might mistake him for a naïf because of his appearance occasionally worked to his advantage and he would often allay suspicion of his motives by insisting he was in New York to observe and learn. Under his jacket or coat, he wore a khaki uniform shirt with a brown star-shaped uniform patch with gold trim on left sleeve. There was a circle in the center with the number 33
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McCloud
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The NBC Sunday Mystery Movie program worked on a rotating basis – one per month from each of its shows. Top left:
Dennis Weaver in McCloud. Top right:
Richard Boone in
Hec Ramsey. Bottom left:
Peter Falk in
Columbo. Bottom right:
Rock Hudson in
McMillan & Wife.
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Banacek
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Banacek is an American detective TV series starring George Peppard that aired on the NBC network from 1972 to 1974. The series was part of the rotating NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie anthology and it alternated in its time slot with several other shows but was the only one to last beyond its first season. Peppard played Thomas Banacek, a suave, Polish-American freelance investigator based in Boston and he then collected from the insurance companies 10% of the insured value of the recovered property. Though the hippopotamus has no sting, the man would prefer to be sat upon by the bee. A truly wise man never plays leapfrog with a unicorn, when a wolf is chasing your sleigh, throw him a raisin cookie, but dont stop to bake a cake. Just because the cat has her kittens in the oven doesnt make them biscuits and you can read all the books in the library my son, but the cheese will still stink after four days. No matter how warm the smile on the face of the Sun, part of the joke was that Ralph Manza as Banaceks chauffeur Jay Drury, would often ask What does it mean, Boss. Banacek also had an agreement with his chauffeur for a 10% share of Banaceks 10% if he solved the crime. Mr. Drury was never at a loss for a solution which Banacek would always manage to shoot down with his very next line. Another recurring gag was for other characters to mispronounce his name, often, particularly in the case of rivals, the name Banaczek is actually quite rare in Poland. Also featured were Murray Matheson as rare-bookstore owner and information source Felix Mulholland and Christine Belford as Carlie Kirkland, Banaceks sometime-lover, Felix was the series only character to ever call Banacek by his first name. Banaceks success as an investigator allowed him to live well and he had a mansion at 85 Mt. Vernon Street, on Beacon Hill in Boston. He had a limousine and driver and he owned and drove an antique 1941 Packard convertible. He had a radio telephone in each of his cars at a time when these devices were uncommon. Banacek was intelligent, well-educated, cultured and suave and he was an unapologetic ladies man who enjoyed the company of beautiful women, but he was street-smart and could engage in violent hand-to-hand fighting if the moment called for it. Banacek borrowed elements of both characters and plot points, in general the series was shot on the Universal Studios backlot, though location scenes were filmed around Los Angeles in areas that could pass for Boston, or rural areas near there. The episode titled If Max Is So Smart, Why Doesnt He Tell Us Where He Is. was shot on location at the California Institute of the Arts around the time the school first opened. Ten Thousand Dollars A Page was filmed at the Pasadena Art Museum, later known as the Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, a customized 1969 American Motors AMX was built by George Barris for the second regular season episode
Banacek
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Peppard and guest star
Linda Evans, 1974.
30.
TV Guide
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In 1948, he printed New York City area listings magazine The TeleVision Guide. Silent film star Gloria Swanson, who then starred of the variety series The Gloria Swanson Hour. Wagner later began publishing regional editions of The TeleVision Guide for New England, five years later, he sold the editions to Walter Annenberg, who folded it into his publishing and broadcasting company Triangle Publications, but remained as a consultant for the magazine until 1963. The national TV Guides first issue was released on April 3,1953. The inaugural cover featured a photograph of Lucille Balls newborn son Desi Arnaz, Jr. with a photo of Ball placed in the top corner under the issues headline. The magazine was published in digest size, which remained its printed format for 52 years. The launch as a magazine with local listings in April 1953 became an almost instant success, with TV Guide becoming the most read. The initial cost of issue was 15¢ per copy. In addition to subscriptions, TV Guide was sold at the counters of grocery stores nationwide. Until the 1980s, the pieces included in each issue were promoted in a television commercial. Over the decades, the shape of the TV Guide logo has changed to reflect the modernization of the television screen, at first, the logo had various colored backgrounds until the familiar red background became the standard in the 1960s with occasional changes used for special editions. The magazine was first based in an office in downtown Philadelphia, before moving to more spacious national headquarters in Radnor. The color section was sent to regional printers to be wrapped around the local listing sections. It was under Triangles ownership of WFIL-TV that Dick Clark and American Bandstand came to popularity, most listing entries in the log included program genres after the programs title, while its running time was listed in the synopses. Originally, the majority of programs listed in the log each issue featured brief synopses, except for local and national newscasts, in addition, black-and-white ads for programs scheduled to air on broadcast stations – and later, cable channels – during prime time were included within the listings. A regular feature of the section was Close-Up, which provided expanded reviews of select programs airing each day. The advent of television would become hard on TV Guide. Channels that were listed also differed, depending on the edition, as the years went on, more cable channels were added into the listings of each edition
TV Guide
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