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Gabriel Byrne
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Gabriel James Byrne is an Irish actor, film director, film producer, writer, cultural ambassador and audiobook narrator. His acting career began in the Focus Theatre before he joined Londons Royal Court Theatre in 1979, Byrnes screen debut came in the Irish soap opera The Riordans and the spin-off show Bracken. Byrne has also produced films, including the Academy Award–nominated In the Name of the Father. One of Byrnes most identifiable roles is that of Dr. Paul Weston in the HBO drama In Treatment, for which he won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for two Emmy Awards and two Satellite Awards. Byrne, the first of six children, was born in Walkinstown, Dublin 12, Dublin, Republic of Ireland, the son of a cooper and soldier, Dan, and a hospital nurse, Eileen from Elphin, County Roscommon. He has four siblings, Donal, Thomas, Breda, and Margaret, another, Marian, Byrne was raised a strict Roman Catholic and educated in Ardscoil Éanna in Crumlin, where he later taught Spanish and History. About his early training to become a priest, he said in an interview, I spent five years in the seminary, I realised subsequently that I didnt. He attended University College Dublin, where he studied archaeology and linguistics and he played soccer in Dublin with Stella Maris. In January 2011, he spoke in an interview on The Meaning of Life about being abused by priests during his childhood. Byrne worked in archaeology when he left UCD and he maintained his love of his language, later writing the first television drama in Irish, Draíocht, on Irelands national Irish-language television station, TG4, when it began broadcasting in 1996. Before becoming an actor, Byrne had many jobs, including archaeologist, cook and he started acting at age 29, and began his career on stage with the Focus Theatre and the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. He later joined the Performing Arts Course in Sandymount Dublin 4, Byrne came to prominence on the final season of the Irish television show The Riordans, subsequently starring in his own spin-off series, Bracken. His first play for television was Michael Feeney Callans Love Is and he made his film debut in 1981, as King Uther Pendragon in John Boormans King Arthur epic, Excalibur. In 1983, he appeared with Richard Burton in the miniseries Wagner, co-starring Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, in 2007 Gabriel Byrne topped Kerry Film Festivals jury lineup. Upon his return to theatre in 2008, he appeared as King Arthur in Camelot with the New York Philharmonic from 7 to 10 May, following the footsteps of veteran actors Richard Burton and Richard Harris. Byrne was cast in an adaptation of Flann OBriens metafictional novel At Swim-Two-Birds, alongside Colin Farrell. Actor Brendan Gleeson was set to direct the film, in October 2009, however, Gleeson expressed fear that, should the Irish Film Board be abolished as planned by the Irish State, the production might fall through. Byrne starred as therapist Dr. Paul Weston in the critically acclaimed HBO primetime weeknight series In Treatment from 2008 to 2010
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Gabriel Byrne in 2010
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Lena Olin
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Lena Maria Jonna Olin is a Swedish actress. She has been nominated for acting awards, including a Golden Globe for The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Other well-known films in which she has appeared include Chocolat, directed by her husband Lasse Hallström, Queen of the Damned, Casanova, Olin was also a main cast member in the second season of the television series Alias. Olin starred in the Swedish sitcom Welcome to Sweden, Olin, the youngest of three children, was born in Stockholm, Sweden, Europe. She is the daughter of actress Britta Holmberg and director Stig Olin and she studied acting at Swedens National Academy of Dramatic Art. In October 1974, at age 19, Olin was crowned Miss Scandinavia 1974 in Helsinki, Olin worked both as a substitute teacher and as a hospital nurse before becoming an actress. Ingmar Bergman cast Olin in Face to Face, in 1980, Olin was one of the earliest winners of the Ingmar Bergman Award, initiated in 1978 by the director himself, who was also one of the two judges. Olins international debut in a role on film was in Bergmans After the Rehearsal. Two years earlier, she had appeared in a role in the same directors Fanny. In 1989, Olin earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her work in Enemies, A Love Story, Olin and director Lasse Hallström collaborated on the film Chocolat, which received five Academy Award nominations, and on Casanova. From 2002 to 2006, Olin appeared opposite Jennifer Garner in her first American television role ever, for her work on the series, Olin received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in 2003. She left the show after her first and only season, this was, however, in 2005, Olin returned to Sweden for a brief period of filming and starred in a supporting role in Danish director Simon Stahos film Bang Bang Orangutang. An upcoming project is said to be Daughter of the Queen of Sheba, from the mid 1970s through the end of the 1980s, Olin was for many years the partner of Swedish actor and Royal Dramatic Theatre colleague Örjan Ramberg. They had a son, Auguste Rahmberg, the relationship ended in the late 1980s. In 1992, Olin met film director Lasse Hallström in Sweden, two years later, in 1994, they married in Hedvig Eleonora Church in Stockholm. Olin lives in New York City with her husband and children, Alias Lena Olin at the Internet Movie Database Lena Olin at the TCM Movie Database
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Olin in 2015
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Olin and husband Lasse Hallström in 2013
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Claire Danes
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Claire Catherine Danes is an American actress. She is the recipient of three Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. In 2012, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world, Danes gained recognition with her role as Angela Chase in the acclaimed 1994 teen drama series My So-Called Life. The role won her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress and she made her film debut the same year in Little Women. From 1998 to 2000, Danes attended Yale University before dropping out to return to acting and she appeared in an Off-Broadway production of The Vagina Monologues in 2000, and made her Broadway debut playing Eliza Doolittle in the 2007 revival of Pygmalion. She is married to actor Hugh Dancy, with whom she has one child, Danes was born in Manhattan, New York, the daughter of a sculptor and printmaking artist, Carla Danes, and a photographer, Christopher Danes. She has a brother, Asa, who is a lawyer. Danes parents met when they were studying at the Rhode Island School of Design, during Danes childhood her father worked as a general contractor for 20 years, working on residential buildings in a company he ran called Overall Construction in New York. He also worked as a photographer and computer consultant and he is the son of Gibson Andrew Danes, a former dean of the Yale School of Art and Architecture from 1958 to 1968. Danes is named after her grandmother, Claire Danes, who died in 1953. The family lived in a loft on Crosby Street. 3 and PS11 for elementary school and Professional Performing Arts School for junior high school, Danes attended the New York City Lab School for Collaborative Studies in New York City. She attended The Dalton School for one year of school before moving with her parents to Santa Monica. Danes said they moved two days after the 1994 Northridge earthquake, Danes graduated from the Lycée Français de Los Angeles in 1997. In 1998, Danes went to Yale University, director Oliver Stone wrote a letter of recommendation. After studying for two years as a major, she dropped out to focus on her film career. Danes started studying dance when she was six years old, Danes took dance classes from Ellen Robbins at Dance Theater Workshop and acting classes at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute at the age of ten. She appeared in theater and video productions in New York City, although she continued to dance, Danes said that her focus shifted to acting by the time she was nine years old
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Danes at the 2015
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Danes in Toronto, for a
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Danes at the
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Mili Avital
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Mili Avital is an Israeli-American actress. That year she moved to New York and started to work almost immediately in America and she has maintained her career in both countries since. Avital was born in Jerusalem, the daughter of graphic designers Noni and she was raised in Tel Aviv and Raanana. She attended the Thelma Yellin High School of Arts in Givatayim and she moved to New York in 1994, and continues to reside there with her husband, screenwriter Charles Randolph, and their two children, Benjamin and Fanny. Avital served as a member of the Board of Governors of the University of Haifa from 2009 to 2013, in 1993 she arrived in New York City to study acting at the Circle in the Square Theatre School. The following year, discovered by an agent while working as a waitress, she was cast as the lead in Stargate,1994. In 1999, she portrayed a Bosnian rape victim in the episode of the long-running NBC legal drama, Law & Order. Avital appeared in three episodes of the series, Parasites, Manhattan Vigil, and Depravity Standard. She also appeared in the Law & Order, Criminal Intent episode Palimpsest and her television work includes Scheherazade in the Emmy-nominated ABC miniseries Arabian Nights to rave reviews, Jon Avnet’s Uprising, and After the Storm. In 2009-2010 Avital appeared in the FX TV show Damages, in a role as the mistress to the husband of Patty Hewes. She recently appeared in the 2012 ABC television series 666 Park Avenue, in theater, Avital played Cordelia in King Lear at the Electric Lodge,2006, directed by Patsy Rodenburg. Her directorial debut, a short documentary I Think Myself I am All the Time Younger, as one of the most highly regarded actresses in her native Israel, Avital has achieved international success with her diverse starring roles in film and television. She began her career on stage, during her senior year in high school. Avital was first introduced to Israeli audiences in the role of Yaels Friends. She won the 1992 Israeli Film Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her first feature film role, Avital stars in Prisoners of War, a Keshet prime-time Israeli TV series, on which the American television series Homeland is based. Avital was nominated for Best Actress in a Drama Series for her work, the massively successful show won Best Drama Series in the Israeli TV Awards. Avital recently completed a series, Landing on Their Feet, for Keshet. Mili Avital at the Internet Movie Database
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Mili Avital in Me'ever Layam in 1992
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Daniel Lapaine
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Daniel Lapaine is an Australian stage, film and television actor, currently residing in London. He also works as a writer and director, born in Sydney, Australia, Lapaine graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1992. He first came to prominence In 1994 when he played David Van Arckle in P. J. Hogans Muriels Wedding, since then he has worked internationally in film, theatre and television and is now based in London. In theatre he most recently he played Bassanio in The Merchant of Venice at Shakespeares Globe, Other theatre credits include the parts of Trip in Other Desert Cities and Eilert Lovborg in Ibsens Hedda Gabler at the Old Vic, opposite Sheridan Smith. He played Leontes in The Winters Tale at the Sheffield Crucible, Kurt in The Dance of Death at the Donmar at the Trafalgar Studios and George in All My Sons in the West End, opposite David Suchet. At the Royal Court he appeared in Scenes from the Back of Beyond and F***ing Games, in 2011, he appeared in The Entire History of You, an episode of the anthology series Black Mirror. Lapaines recent film work includes Katherine Bigelows Oscar-winning Zero Dark Thirty, Last Chance Harvey opposite Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson and Shanghai, opposite John Cusack. He played the role in Pathes The Abduction Club and Miramaxs Elephant Juice, as well as memorable appearances in Brokedown Palace opposite Claire Danes. He has also appeared in other films including 54, Dangerous Beauty, Polish Wedding. Lapaine has worked extensively in television and he is currently filming the second series of Catastrophe for Channel 4 and Amazon Prime, in which he plays the part of Dave. Entertainment Weekly named Catastrophe the best new comedy of the year and he recently portrayed King Charles II in the upcoming Canal + series Versailles. In 2009, he portrayed Neil Armstrong in the television film Moon Shot and he also played Hector in Helen of Troy opposite Rufus Sewell. Lapaine also wrote and directed the Australian feature film 48 Shades, based on the 1999 novel 48 Shades of Brown by Nick Earls, the film was released in Australia by Buena Vista in 2006. In 1998, Lapaine met English actress Fay Ripley at a party hosted by mutual friends, neither of them thought the other was interested in dating and they drifted apart. After meeting again on a trip in New York, they began dating and they married in October 2001 in a ceremony in Tuscany, Italy. In October 2002, Ripley gave birth to their first child and she gave birth to their second child, a son whom they named Sonny, in October 2006. Daniel Lapaine at the Internet Movie Database
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Fox Searchlight Pictures
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Slumdog Millionaire is also Searchlights largest commercial success, with over $377 million of box office receipts, against a production budget of only $15 million. The most notable of the releases under these banners include Bill Cosby, Himself, Eating Raoul, The Gods Must Be Crazy, Reuben, Reuben, and Ziggy Stardust, in 2006, a sub-label, Fox Atomic, was created to produce and/or distribute genre films. Fox Atomic closed down in 2009, the Fox Searchlight Pictures logo is quite similar to the regular 20th Century-Fox logo, with even Alfred Newmans fanfare music accompanying it. The animation was used for Fox Videos third logo
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Logo used as of 2013
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Sundance Film Festival
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The Sundance Film Festival, a program of the Sundance Institute, is an American film festival that takes place annually in Park City, Utah. With 46,660 attendees in 2016, it is the largest independent film festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, as well as at the Sundance Resort, the 2017 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 19 to January 29,2017. Sundance began in Salt Lake City in August 1978, as the Utah/US Film Festival in an effort to more filmmakers to Utah. It was founded by Sterling Van Wagenen, John Earle, the 1978 festival featured films such as Deliverance, A Streetcar Named Desire, Midnight Cowboy, Mean Streets, and The Sweet Smell of Success. The festival also highlighted the work of filmmakers who worked outside the Hollywood system. The jury of the 1978 festival was headed by Gary Allison, and included Verna Fields, Linwood G. Dunn, Katharine Ross, Charles E. Sellier Jr. Mark Rydell, and Anthea Sylbert. More than 60 films were screened at the festival that year, also that year, the first Frank Capra Award went to Jimmy Stewart. The festival also made a profit for the first time, in 1980, Catania left the festival to pursue a production career in Hollywood. Several factors helped propel the growth of Utah/US Film Festival, first was the involvement of actor and Utah resident Robert Redford, who became the festivals inaugural chairman. By having Redfords name associated with the festival, it received great attention, secondly, the country was hungry for more venues that would celebrate American-made films as the only other festival doing so at the time was the USA Film Festival in Dallas. Response in Hollywood was unprecedented as major studios did all they could to contribute their resources, in 1981, the festival moved to Park City, Utah, and changed the dates from September to January. It was called the US Film and Video Festival, in 1984, the now well-established Sundance Institute, headed by Sterling Van Wagenen, took over management of the US Film Festival. The branding and marketing transition from the US Film Festival to the Sundance Film Festival was managed under the direction of Colleen Allen, Allen Advertising Inc. by appointment of Robert Redford. In 1991 the festival was renamed the Sundance Film Festival, after Redfords character The Sundance Kid from the film Butch Cassidy. The majority of the screenings, including the festivals premieres. The 2013 Sundance London Festival was held April 25–28,2013, Sundance London 2014 took place on April 25–27,2014 at the O2 arena. The Sundance London 2015 Festival was cancelled in an announcement on January 16,2015, Sundance London will return to London in 2016 from June 10–12 at Picturehouse Cinema in Londons West End
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Berlin Film Festival
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The Berlin International Film Festival, also called the Berlinale, is one of the worlds leading film festivals and most reputable media events. It is held annually in Berlin, Germany, founded in West Berlin in 1951, the festival has been celebrated annually in February since 1978. With around 300,000 tickets sold and 500,000 admissions it is considered the largest publicly attended film festival based on actual attendance rates. Up to 400 films are shown in sections, representing a comprehensive array of the cinematic world. Around twenty films compete for the called the Golden and Silver Bears. Since 2001 the director of the festival has been Dieter Kosslick, the European Film Market, a film trade fair held simultaneously to the Berlinale, is a major industry meeting for the international film circuit. The trade fair serves distributors, film buyers, producers, financiers, the Berlinale Talent Campus, a week-long series of lectures and workshops, gathers young filmmakers from around the globe. It partners with the festival itself and is considered to be a forum for upcoming artists, the festival, the EFM and other satellite events are attended by around 20,000 professionals from over 130 countries. More than 4200 journalists are responsible for the exposure in over 110 countries. At high-profile feature film premieres, movie stars and celebrities are present at the red carpet, the Berlinale has established a cosmopolitan character integrating art, glamour, commerce and a global media attention. The Berlin International Film Festival was founded in West Berlin in 1951, alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca opened the first Berlinale. Although the film had premiered in 1940, many Germans had been unable to watch it until after the war ended, since 1978 the festival has been celebrated annually in February. The next-to-most recent festival, the 66th Berlinale, was held from 11 February to 21 February 2016, meryl Streep presided over the international jury. Joel and Ethan Coens film Hail, Caesar. was selected to open the festival, the Golden Bear was awarded to the Italian documentary Fire at Sea, directed by Gianfranco Rosi. The 67th Berlin International Film Festival was held February 9 to February 19,2017, the festival is composed of seven different film sections. Films are chosen in each category by a director with the advice of a committee of film experts. Categories include, Competition, comprises feature-length films yet to be released outside their country of origin, films in the Competition section compete for several prizes, including the top Golden Bear for the best film and a series of Silver Bears for acting, writing and production. Panorama, comprises new independent and arthouse films that deal with controversial subjects or unconventional aesthetic styles, films in the category are intended to provoke discussion, and have historically involved themes such as LGBT issues
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Berlinale Palace, the main venue at
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Venues of the festival are spread throughout the central city districts
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The Berlinale Palast is the venue for the competition premieres
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Polish American
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Polish Americans are Americans who have total or partial Polish ancestry. There are an estimated 9.5 million Polish Americans, representing about 3% of the U. S. population, Polish Americans are the largest Slavic ethnic group in the United States, second largest Central and Eastern European group and the eighth largest immigrant group overall. The first Polish settlers arrived at Walter Raleighs failed Roanoke Colony in 1585, in 1608 Polish settlers came to the Virginia Colony as skilled craftsmen. Two early immigrants, Kazimierz Pułaski and Tadeusz Kościuszko, led armies in the Revolutionary War and are remembered as national heroes, overall, more than one million Poles and Polish subjects have immigrated to the United States, primarily during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Many immigrants were classified as Russian, German, and Austrian by the U. S. Complicating the U. S, the Polish American Cultural Center places a figure of Americans who have some Polish ancestry at 19-20 million. Some Jews from Poland even assimilated into cities which were Polish bastions in order to conceal their Jewish identities, from 1870 to 1914, Poles and Polish subjects formed a significant part of the wave of immigration from Germany, Imperial Russia, and Austria Hungary. The main Ethnically-Polish-American organizations were founded because of high Polish interest in the Catholic church, parochial schools, since 1914, the United States has seen a small amount of emigration from Poland, and the coming of age of numerous generations of fully assimilated Polish Americans. The income levels have gone up from well below average, to above average, outside of Republican and Democratic politics, politics such as those of Agudath Israel of America, a branch of Poalei Agudat Yisrael, have heavily involved Polish-Jewish Americans. Lopata argues that Poles differed from most ethnics in America, in several ways, first, they did not plan to remain permanently and become Americanized. Instead, they came temporarily, to money, invest. Their intention was to ensure for themselves a desirable social status in the old world, however, many of the temporary migrants had decided to become permanent Americans. Many found manual labor jobs in the mines of Pennsylvania and the heavy industries, of the Great Lakes cities of Chicago, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Buffalo, Milwaukee, Cleveland. The U. S. Therefore, some say, of the 10 million Polish Americans, Therefore, the actual amount of Americans of at least partial Polish ancestry, could be well over 10 million. In the 2011 United States Census Bureaus Population Estimates, there are between 9,365,239 and 9,530,571 Americans of Polish descent, historically, Polish-Americans have assimilated very quickly to American society. Between 1940 and 1960, only 20 percent of the children of Polish-American ethnic leaders spoke Polish regularly, in the early 1960s,3,000 of Detroits 300,000 Polish-Americans changed their names each year. Language proficiency in Polish is rare in Polish-Americans, as 91. 3% speak English only. In 1979, the 8 million respondents of Polish ancestry reported that only 41.5 percent had single ancestry, whereas 57. 3% of Greeks, 52% of Italians and Sicilians, and 44% of Ukrainians had done so. By educational attainment, the U. S. Census estimates that 37. 6% have bachelors degrees or higher, the median household income for those of Russian ancestry has been reported as higher on the U. S. Census, at $70,310
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Hamtramck, Michigan
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Hamtramck is a city in Wayne County of the U. S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 22,423, Hamtramck is surrounded by the city of Detroit except for a small portion of the western border that touches the similarly surrounded city of Highland Park. Known in the 20th century as a vibrant center of Polish American life and culture and it was originally known as Hamtramck Township. Hamtramck was originally settled by German farmers, but Polish immigrants flooded into the area when the Dodge Brothers plant opened in 1914, Poles used to make up a large proportion of the population. It is sometimes confused with Poletown, a traditional Polish neighborhood, as of the 2010 American Community Survey,14. 5% of Hamtramcks population is of Polish origin, in 1970, it was 90% Polish. Over the past thirty years, a number of immigrants from the Middle East, South Asia. As of the 2010 American Community Survey, the foreign born population stood at 41. 1%. The population was 43,355 in the 1950 Census, and 18,372 in 1990, Hamtramck was primarily farmland, although the Detroit Stove Works employed 1,300 workers to manufacture stoves. By the mid-1920s, 78% of the residents of Hamtramck owned their own houses or were buying their houses, around that time, the factory workers made up 85% of Hamtramcks heads of households. Of those factory workers, half were not skilled, in 1910, the newly founded Dodge Main assembly plant created jobs for thousands of workers and led to additional millions of dollars in the city. Dodge Main quickly expanded and became important to Hamtramck, before the construction of Dodge Main, Hamtramck was a largely rural town. With the Dodge Main assembly plant also came a large Polish population, the influx of Polish immigrants pushed the incumbent German politicians. It was at point that Hamtramck was considered a Polish-American town. Elections in November 2015 made the city the first to elect a Muslim-majority council in the country, according to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.09 square miles, all land. Hamtramck is mostly surrounded by Detroit except a small border with the city of Highland Park. Hamtramck lies about 5 miles from the center of Detroit, the I-75 freeway roughly runs along this citys western border and I-94 runs near its southern border. Hamtramck flourished from 1910 to 1920 as thousands of European immigrants, the city has grown increasingly ethnically diverse but still bears many reminders of its Polish ancestry in family names, street names and businesses. A recent survey found 26 native languages spoken by Hamtramck schoolchildren, the citys motto was A League of Nations
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Hamtramck Fire Department
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Asian Mart (
Bengali: এশিয়ান মার্ট), a Bengali food store
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Yemeni mural by Dasic Fernandez
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Kristen Bell
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Kristen Anne Bell is an American actress and singer. She began her career starring in stage productions and attended the Tisch School of Arts in New York. In 2001, she made her Broadway debut as Becky Thatcher in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, in 2004, she had a supporting role in the film Spartan and received praise for her first leading performance in Gracies Choice. Bell gained critical acclaim for her first major role as the character in the teen noir drama television series Veronica Mars. For her performance she was awarded a Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television and she reprised the eponymous role in the 2014 film continuation of the series. During her time on Veronica Mars, Bell appeared as Mary Lane in the film Reefer Madness, The Movie Musical, in 2007, Bell joined the cast of the sci-fi series Heroes, playing the character Elle Bishop, for which she was nominated for a Saturn Award. In 2008, she had her film role as the title character in Forgetting Sarah Marshall. She has since appeared in a number of films, such as Couples Retreat, When in Rome, You Again. Bell garnered further recognition for voicing Princess Anna in the Disney film Frozen, the short film Frozen Fever, and she also starred as the female lead on the Showtime series House of Lies. Since 2016, she has starred in the role of Eleanor Shellstrop on the NBC comedy series The Good Place. Bell married actor Dax Shepard in 2013, with whom she has two daughters, Kristen Anne Bell was born on July 18,1980, and was raised in Huntington Woods, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. Her mother, Lorelei, is a nurse, and her father, Tom Bell. Her parents divorced when she was two old, and she has two half-sisters from her fathers second marriage. She also has two stepsisters and two stepbrothers from her mothers second marriage and her mother is of Polish descent and her father has German, Scottish and Irish ancestry. Bell stated that she did not like her first name at the age of four, Bells mother convinced her to go by her middle name of Anne instead, she used the name Annie until high school. Bell once broke both her wrists at the time playing street hockey with friends. Just before her year of high school, Bells parents decided to pull her from the public school system. She then attended Shrine Catholic High School in nearby Royal Oak, in 1998, the year she graduated, Bell was named the yearbooks Best Looking Girl by senior class vote
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Bell at the
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Bell at the 2008
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St. Florian Church (Hamtramck, Michigan)
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St. Florian Church is a Roman Catholic Church at 2626 Poland Street in Hamtramck, Michigan. The church was designed by Ralph Adams Cram of the firm Cram, St. Florians parish consists of predominantly Polish members whose families were immigrants from Poland and settled in Hamtramck after Dodge opened an automobile factory in 1910. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit recognized the need for a church to serve Polish residents, services were initially held in a storefront. The influx of Polish immigrants created a need for churches, ground was broken for a church building in March 1908. The cornerstone was laid on July 12,1908, and the dedication was held on January 10,1909, as the congregation grew the original building quickly became inadequate. Parishioners amassed $500,000 to build a larger sanctuary, Cram, who is best known for popularizing Gothic architecture in the United States, was chosen to design the building. He created a magnificent modified English Gothic structure that won an award from American Architect magazine in 1929, Cram used modern construction techniques that included building on a steel frame and using bricks on the exterior. Construction on the present edifice began in January 1926 and the church was consecrated on October 21,1928, nearly 5,000 people turned out for the dedication of the building. The cornerstone is in both Latin and Polish, in both its opulence and scale, it is a monumentally grand Polish Cathedral style building. The churchs spire rises nearly 200 ft above the street and was designed to stand in stark contrast to the smokestacks of Hamtramcks industrial environment, St. Florian is the tallest building in Hamtramck, and its silhouette is used in the citys logo. The church is taller than the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament which houses the seat of the Detroit archdiocese and it seats 1,200 and the altar was made in Italy. The front facade has a broad Gothic Arch flanked by twin spires notable for the impression they give of lightness and delicateness, exceptional brickwork is arrayed in a varied horizontal bands. The interior consists of the nave of six bays topped by a rib vault, the vault is blue with vines painted at the groins. The main aisle is flanked by two smaller aisles, at the Clerestory level of each bay is a small rose window and on the sides are large stained glass windows. The stained glass work is striking and fitting, and was manufactured by Kase Company in its New York studio. The structure is dominated by a rose window above the organ loft. In each window flanking the nave, the design uses images depicting a familiar narrative story, one window includes the figure of Nicolaus Copernicus, the astronomer who challenged the Catholic Churchs traditional view that the earth is the center of the universe. The altar windows depict five Polish saints — Casimir, Florian, Hedwig, Hyacinth, the nave windows illustrate the joyful and glorious mysteries of the rosary, and other vignettes from the life and teachings of Jesus Christ
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St. Florian Historic District
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Streetscape in front of St. Florian.
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Religious landmarks along Woodward Ave. (address #)
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Roman Catholicism in Poland
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There are 41 Catholic dioceses of the Latin Church and two of the Greek Church in Poland. These comprise about 10,000 parishes and religious orders, there are 33 million Catholics however, this survey bases the number of adherents on the number of infants baptized. The primate of the Church is Wojciech Polak, Archbishop of Gniezno, according to 2014 statistical yearbook,85. 8% of Polands population is Catholic. Ever since Poland officially adopted Latin Christianity in 966, the Catholic Church has played an important religious, during times of foreign oppression the Catholic Church was a cultural guard in the fight for independence and national survival. For instance, the Polish abbey in Częstochowa, which resisted a siege in the Swedish invasion of Poland in the 17th century. The 1978 election of Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyła as Pope John Paul II strengthened the ties of identification, John Pauls visits to Poland became rallying points for both the faithful and galvanized opposition to the Soviet regime. His beatification in 2011 and canonization three years later further instilled pride and joy in the Polish people. In 2013, Pope Francis, John Paul IIs 2nd successor, announced that World Youth Day, in 2013 a succession of child sex abuse scandals within the church, and the poor response by the church, became a matter of some public concern. The church resisted demands to pay compensation to victims, the CIA Factbook gives a number of 87. 2% belonging to the Roman Catholic Church in 2012. Throughout Europe the rates of religious observance has steadily decreased, Poland has also been following this trend, however, it still remains one of the most devoutly religious countries in Europe. Polish Catholics participate in the more frequently than their counterparts in most Western European. A2009 study by the Church itself revealed that 80% of Poles go to confession at least once a year, tarnów is the most religious city in Poland, and Łódź is the least. The southern and eastern parts of Poland are more active in their religious practices than those of the West, the majority of Poles continue to declare themselves Roman Catholic. At the same time, however, this results from the fact that since 20042.1 million Poles have emigrated to Western Europe. The Centre for Public Opinion Research regularly conducts surveys on religious practice in Poland, meanwhile, 94% of Poles consider themselves to be religious believers, while only 6% of Poles claim that they are non-believers. Easter continues to be an important holiday for Polish Catholics, a CBOS opinion poll from April 2014 found the following, Archdiocese Diocese Latin names of dioceses in italics. There are 31,000 state-paid religious education teachers, the government partially subsidises the Church for Catholic schools, historic Church buildings, and salaries for public and private religious teachers. This totals about 2 billion zł, according to Cardinal Kazimierz Nycz, money from money given by people including voluntary and semi-mandatory, religious events and other, is more than 6 billion zł
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Monument in
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May crowning
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May Devotions to the Blessed Virgin Mary refers to special Marian devotions held in the Catholic Church during the month of May honoring the Virgin Mary as the Queen of May. These services may take place inside or outside, a May Crowning is a traditional Roman Catholic ritual that occurs in the month of May. A number of traditions link the month of May to Mary, alfonso X of Castile in the 13th century wrote in his Cantigas de Santa Maria about the special honoring of Mary during specific dates in May. Eventually, the month was filled with special observances and devotions to Mary. The origin of the conventional May devotion is still relatively unknown, herbert Thurston identifies the seventeenth century as the earliest instance of the adoption of the custom of consecrating the month of May to the Blessed Virgin by special observances. It is certain that this form of Marian devotion began in Italy, around 1739, witnesses speak of a particular form of Marian devotion in May in Grezzano near Verona. In 1747 the Archbishop of Genoa recommended the May devotion as a devotion for the home, specific prayers for them were promulgated in Rome in 1838. From Rome the practice spread to the other Jesuit colleges and thence to nearly every Catholic church of the Latin rite, in Rome by 1813, May devotions were held in as many as twenty churches. From Italy, May devotions soon spread to France, in Belgium, the May devotions, at least as a private devotion, were already known by 1803. In his 1965 encyclical, Mense Maio, Pope Paul VI identified the month of May as a time to incorporate special prayers for peace into traditional May devotions. There is no structure as to the content of a May devotion. It usually includes the singing of Marian anthems, readings from scriptures, although prayers likely include the recitation of the Hail Mary, the rosary itself is not usually a part of this particular devotion. The last devotion on May 31 is often followed by a solemn procession, some May devotions may take place outside in a forest or a dedicated special place. One particular practice characteristic of May devotions is the May Altar, with the development of May Altars in churches, the custom spread to set up this type of altar also in the home. What a sweet sight - most pleasing to God - when, at eventide, the Christian home resounds with the frequent repetition of praises in honor of the High Queen of Heaven. Then the Rosary, recited in the family, assembled before the image of the Virgin, in a union of hearts, the parents and their children. It unites them piously with those absent and those dead, Pope Pius XII, recognizing traditional precedents, proclaimed the Queenship of Mary through his encyclical, Ad Caeli Reginam. While May devotions may differ in countries, the Marian title Queen of May exists in several countries as manifested in Marian songs
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DVD region code
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This is achieved by way of region-locked DVD players, which will play back only DVDs encoded to their region. The American DVD Copy Control Association also requires that DVD player manufacturers incorporate the regional-playback control system, however, region-free DVD players, which ignore region coding, are also commercially available, and many DVD players can be modified to be region-free, allowing playback of all discs. DVDs may use one code, a combination of codes, every code or no codes, DVDs in Hispanophone Latin America and Mexico use both the region 1 and region 4 codes. DVDs sold in the Baltic states use both region 2 and 5 codes, Region 0 is widely used by China and the Philippines. Most DVDs in India combine the region 2, region 4, European region 2 DVDs may be sub-coded D1 to D4. D1 are the United Kingdom–only releases, D2 and D3 are not sold in the UK and Ireland, any combination of regions can be applied to a single disc. For example, a DVD designated Region 2/4 is suitable for playback in Western Europe, Oceania, so-called Region 0 and ALL discs are meant to be playable worldwide. The term Region 0 also describes the DVD players designed or modified to incorporate Regions 1–6, thereby providing compatibility with most discs, regardless of region. This apparent solution was popular in the days of the DVD format. This system is known as Regional Coding Enhancement, the scheme was deployed on only a handful of discs. The disc contained the program material region coded as region 1. But it also contained a video loop of a map of the world showing the regions, which was coded as region 2,3,4,5. The intention was that when the disc was played in a non-region 1 player and this played the aforementioned video loop of a map, which was impossible to escape from, as the user controls were disabled. However, the scheme was fundamentally flawed, as a player tries to play a disc using the last region that worked with the previously inserted disc. If it cannot play the disc, then it tries another region until one is found that works, RCE could thus be defeated by briefly playing a normal region 1 disc, and then inserting the RCE protected region 1 disc, which would now play. RCE caused a few problems with genuine region 1 players, some manufacturers of DVD players now freely supply information on how to disable regional lockout, and on some recent models, it appears to be disabled by default. Computer programs such as DVD Shrink, Digiarty WinX DVD Ripper Platinum can make copies of region-coded DVDs without RCE restriction, One purpose of region coding is controlling release dates. A practice of movie marketing threatened by the advent of home video is to release a movie to cinemas
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DVD
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DVD is a digital optical disc storage format invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. The medium can store any kind of data and is widely used for software. DVDs offer higher capacity than compact discs while having the same dimensions. Pre-recorded DVDs are mass-produced using molding machines that physically stamp data onto the DVD, such discs are a form of DVD-ROM because data can only be read and not written or erased. Blank recordable DVD discs can be recorded using a DVD recorder. Rewritable DVDs can be recorded and erased many times, DVDs containing other types of information may be referred to as DVD data discs. The OED also states that in 1995, The companies said the name of the format will simply be DVD. Toshiba had been using the name ‘digital video disk’, but that was switched to ‘digital versatile disk’ after computer companies complained that it left out their applications, Digital versatile disc is the explanation provided in a DVD Forum Primer from 2000 and in the DVD Forums mission statement. There were several formats developed for recording video on optical discs before the DVD, Optical recording technology was invented by David Paul Gregg and James Russell in 1958 and first patented in 1961. A consumer optical disc data format known as LaserDisc was developed in the United States and it used much larger discs than the later formats. CD Video used analog video encoding on optical discs matching the established standard 120 mm size of audio CDs, Video CD became one of the first formats for distributing digitally encoded films in this format, in 1993. In the same year, two new optical disc formats were being developed. By the time of the launches for both formats in January 1995, the MMCD nomenclature had been dropped, and Philips and Sony were referring to their format as Digital Video Disc. Representatives from the SD camp asked IBM for advice on the system to use for their disc. Alan E. Bell, a researcher from IBMs Almaden Research Center, got that request and this group was referred to as the Technical Working Group, or TWG. On August 14,1995, an ad hoc group formed from five computer companies issued a release stating that they would only accept a single format. The TWG voted to both formats unless the two camps agreed on a single, converged standard. They recruited Lou Gerstner, president of IBM, to pressure the executives of the warring factions, as a result, the DVD specification provided a storage capacity of 4.7 GB for a single-layered, single-sided disc and 8.5 GB for a dual-layered, single-sided disc
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Box Office Mojo
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Box Office Mojo is a website that tracks box office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way, founded in 1999. In 2008, Box Office Mojo was bought by the Internet Movie Database, the website is widely used within the film industry as a source of data. From 2002–11, Box Office Mojo had forums popular with film fans, on October 10,2014, the websites URL was redirected to Amazons IMDB. com website for one day, but the website returned the following day without explanation. Brandon Gray began the site in 1999, in 2002, Gray partnered with Sean Saulsbury and grew the site to nearly two million readers. In July 2008, the company was purchased by Amazon. com through its subsidiary, Box Office Mojo had forums with more than 16,500 registered users. On November 2,2011 the forums were closed along with any user accounts. Tracking is still very closely to the day by day, actual tabulation of distributors. The site also creates an overall chart, combining all box office returns from around the world, excluding the United States. The overall weekend chart currently tracks the Top 40 films as well as approximately fifty additional films with no ranking, the site additionally has yearly and all time features for its various territories. Box Office Mojo was as of June 2009 reporting limited data from overseas and is work on improvements, most of the international charts have not been updated since November 2014. On October 10,2014, all traffic to Box Office Mojo was redirected to IMDbs box office page, queries about the closure to IMDb and Amazon representatives were met with no response. Neither Brandon Gray, who founded the website but left several years ago after its sale to Amazon, nor Ray Subers, on Ray Subers Twitter account, he revealed the websites return, but also stated he would not answer any questions pertaining to closure. Subers subsequently left the website seven months later
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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database
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AllMovie
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AllMovie is an online guide service website with information about films, television programs, and screen actors. As of 2013, AllMovie. com and the AllMovie consumer brand are owned by All Media Network, AllMovie was founded by popular-culture archivist Michael Erlewine, who also founded AllMusic and AllGame. The AllMovie database was licensed to tens of thousands of distributors and retailers for point-of-sale systems, websites, the AllMovie database is comprehensive, including basic product information, cast and production credits, plot synopsis, professional reviews, biographies, relational links and more. AllMovie data was accessed on the web at the AllMovie. com website and it was also available via the AMG LASSO media recognition service, which can automatically recognize DVDs. In late 2007, Macrovision acquired AMG for a reported $72 million, the AMG consumer facing web properties AllMusic. com, AllMovie. com and AllGame. com were sold by Rovi in August 2013 to All Media Network, LLC. The buyers also include the founders of SideReel and Ackrell Capital investor Mike Ackrell. All Media Network offices are located in San Francisco, California, AllMusic AllGame SideReel All Media Network Official website
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Turner Classic Movies
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Turner Classic Movies is an American movie-oriented basic cable and satellite television network owned by the Turner Broadcasting System subsidiary of Time Warner. TCM is headquartered at the Techwood Campus in Atlanta, Georgias Midtown business district, historically, the channels programming consisted mainly of featured classic theatrically released feature films from the Turner Entertainment film library – which comprises films from Warner Bros. However, TCM now has licensing deals with other Hollywood film studios as well as its Time Warner sister company, Warner Bros. and occasionally shows more recent films. The channel is available in United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Latin America, France, Spain, Nordic countries, Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific. In 1986, eight years before the launch of Turner Classic Movies, concerns over Turner Entertainments corporate debt load resulted in Turner selling the studio that October back to Kirk Kerkorian, from whom Turner had purchased the studio less than a year before. As part of the deal, Turner Entertainment retained ownership of MGMs library of films released up to May 9,1986, Turner Broadcasting System was split into two companies, Turner Broadcasting System and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and reincorporated as MGM/UA Communications Co. The film library of Turner Entertainment would serve as the form of programming for TCM upon the networks launch. After the library was acquired, MGM/UA signed a deal with Turner to continue distributing the pre-May 1986 MGM and to begin distributing the pre-1950 Warner Bros. film libraries for video release. Turner Classic Movies debuted on April 14,1994, at 6,00 p. m. Eastern Time, the date and time were chosen for their historical significance as the exact centennial anniversary of the first public movie showing in New York City. The first movie broadcast on TCM was the 1939 film Gone with the Wind, at the time of its launch, TCM was available to approximately one million cable television subscribers. AMC had broadened its content to feature colorized and more recent films by 2002. In the early 90s AMC abandoned its format, leaving TCM as the only movie-oriented cable channel to devote its programming entirely to classic films without commercial interruption. In 1996, Turner Broadcasting System merged with Time Warner, which besides placing Turner Classic Movies, in March 1999, MGM paid Warner Bros. and gave up the home video rights to the MGM/UA films owned by Turner to Warner Home Video. In 2008, TCM won a Peabody Award for excellence in broadcasting, in April 2010, Turner Classic Movies held the first TCM Classic Film Festival, an event – now held annually – at the Graumans Chinese Theater and the Graumans Egyptian Theater in Hollywood. In 2007, some of the films featured on TCM were made available for streaming on TCMs website. The networks programming season runs from February until the following March of each year when a retrospective of Oscar-winning and Oscar-nominated movies is shown, called 31 Days of Oscar. Turner Classic Movies presents many of its features in their original aspect ratio whenever possible – widescreen films broadcast on TCM are letterboxed on the standard definition feed. TCM also regularly presents widescreen presentations of films not available in the format on any video release
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Robert Osborne at the 73rd Annual Peabody Awards
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Rotten Tomatoes
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Rotten Tomatoes is an American review aggregator website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by Senh Duong and since January 2010 has been owned by Flixster, in February 2016, Rotten Tomatoes and its parent site Flixster were sold to Comcasts Fandango. Warner Bros. retained a minority stake in the merged entities, since 2007, the websites editor-in-chief has been Matt Atchity. The name, Rotten Tomatoes, derives from the practice of audiences throwing rotten tomatoes when disapproving of a stage performance. From early 2008 to September 2010, Current Television aired the weekly The Rotten Tomatoes Show, featuring hosts, a shorter segment was incorporated into the weekly show, InfoMania, which ended in 2011. In September 2013, the website introduced TV Zone, a section for reviewing scripted TV shows, Rotten Tomatoes was launched on August 12,1998, as a spare-time project by Senh Duong. His goal in creating Rotten Tomatoes was to create a site where people can get access to reviews from a variety of critics in the U. S. As a fan of Jackie Chans, Duong was inspired to create the website after collecting all the reviews of Chans movies as they were being published in the United States, the first movie whose reviews were featured on Rotten Tomatoes was Your Friends & Neighbors. The website was an success, receiving mentions by Netscape, Yahoo. and USA Today within the first week of its launch. They officially launched it on April 1,2000, in June 2004, IGN Entertainment acquired rottentomatoes. com for an undisclosed sum. In September 2005, IGN was bought by News Corps Fox Interactive Media, in January 2010, IGN sold the website to Flixster. The combined reach of both companies is 30 million unique visitors a month across all different platforms, according to the companies, in May 2011, Flixster was acquired by Warner Bros. In early 2009, Current Television launched the version of the web review site. It was hosted by Brett Erlich and Ellen Fox and written by Mark Ganek, the show aired every Thursday at 10,30 EST on the Current TV network. The last episode aired on September 16,2010 and it returned as a much shorter segment of InfoMania, a satirical news show that ended in 2011. By late 2009, the website was designed to enable Rotten Tomatoes users to create, one group, The Golden Oyster Awards, accepted votes of members for different awards, as if in parallel to the better-known Oscars or Golden Globes. When Flixster bought the company, they disbanded the groups, announcing, in the meantime, please use the Forums to continue your conversations about your favorite movie topics. As of February 2011, new community features have been added, for example, users can no longer sort films by fresh ratings from rotten ratings, and vice versa
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Hamtramck Public Schools
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Hamtramck Public Schools is a public school district based in the city of Hamtramck, Michigan in Greater Detroit. The district has the Schools of Choice program, which allows students to enroll in district schools. As of 2011 the official rate is 62%. In 2011 the United Way for Southeastern Michigan arranged a program, funded by a $27.1 million General Motors Foundation grant, intended to improve the graduation rate. After Hamtramck became a municipality in 1922, every member of the Hamtramck Board of Education was a Pole, in 1925, of the school districts 7,526 students, about 5,400 were ethnic Polish. Half of the ethnic Polish students were non-US citizens, by the mid-1920s, of the school-attending children in Hamtramck 66% attended public schools. The public schools typically had 45 students per classroom while the schools in Hamtramck had 70 students per classroom. In the early 1920s the annual rate of Hamtramck Public Schools buildings was 27% while non-public schools had an annual growth rate of 6% in that period. In the 1920s the Polish language became a part of the curriculum at Hamtramck Public Schools, in 1925655 students attended Hamtramck High School. Therefore, the age group 7 to 12 had the largest Catholic school enrollment, after the critical period ended, many students returned to public school. In 1925 the public schools had 1,467 students of ages 14–15 while the schools had 217 students aged 14 and 15. In a period in the 20th Century, 8% of HPS teachers were Polish, in February 2003 the district had an annual budget of $35 million and had 3,800 students. In April 2003, George Ward, an assistant prosecutor with the government of Wayne County, Michigan. The investigation described how the district spent $80,003 and took 18 months to build the Veterans Memorial Park picnic pavilion and it originally had been purchased as a picnic shelter kit at a home-improvement chain store for $2,000. In 2003, a plan for the improvement of the district was revealed. The Detroit News, that year, described the district as troubled, in June 2004 the Detroit News called the financial situation of the district troubled. On Thursday June 24,2004, the Michigan Department of Education sent a team of academic and financial experts to conduct reviews of the school system. The Detroit News stated that under Michigan law, the first step for the state to take in order to take over the operations of a district would be to conduct a financial review
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Hamtramck High School
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Hamtramck High School is a public high school in Hamtramck, Michigan, United States in Metro Detroit, named after Colonel Jean François Hamtramck. It is a part of Hamtramck Public Schools, Hamtramck High School was originally located on Wyandotte and Hewitt Streets. In 1925655 students attended Hamtramck High School, in November 1939 Hamtramck High lost to Detroit Catholic Central High School 20-0, in a high school football game at Keyworth Stadium. There were 11,402 people who paid to attend this match, in 1970 it moved to the former Copernicus Junior Middle School. Scott Foundation and Science and Engineering Fair of Metropolitan Detroit, Hamtramck High School has been also been awarded many grants including a Grant from General Motors in 2010. In 2010 a student from Hamtramck High received the prestigious and highly exclusive Scholarship, as of 2010 there were 200 fourth-year students. The school is adjacent to various side streets, artie May, who served as the head American football coach beginning in 1957 and coached various sports until around 1997, had himself played American football when he was a student at Hamtramck High. May helped develop the Hamtramck High School Community Center, in a 9-year period ending in about 1959 the Hamtramck tennis team members were state champions, and the team won the 1957-1958 National Interscholastic Tennis Champsionship. As of that year Jean Hoxie was the tennis coach, the graduating Class of 2010, as they advanced through school, raised money through car washes, bake sales, and an improved comedy show to host a high school prom for their class. Ike Blessitt, former MLB player John Brisker, former NBA player declared legally dead after going missing in Uganda, willie Fleming, former professional Canadian Football League player and member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame. For Faith and Fortune, The Education of Catholic Immigrants in Detroit, university of Illinois Press, January 1,1998. Official home page Hamtramck historical football game-by-game results since 1950
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Hanley International Academy
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Hanley International Academy is a PreK-8 charter school in Hamtramck, Michigan in Greater Detroit. Prior to opening its new building, the school occupied two separate buildings, the school operates under a contract with Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan. Students are required to wear school uniforms, the school began in August 2005. From 2005 to 2006 the student population increased from around 200 to 400, in 2006 Nikki Doby, the business manager of the charter school, said that the influx of the students resulted from the addition of one grade level and the opening of a new building. One of the used by Hanley was originally St. Florian Elementary School. As of 2006 many of the students at the school were recent immigrants. The fandom of the Detroit Tigers became a force for the immigrant students. Prior to the opening of its current campus, the school occupied two buildings, grades Pre-K through 2 attended the Hanley Street campus, and grades 3-8 attended the Poland Street campus. In 2011 the schools current campus opened and it was the first new school building in Hamtramck in over 75 years, the last new school building opened in 1935. Since the opening of the current campus, all grade levels attend the same campus, the current campus, on Denton Street, has 65,000 square feet of space. The 45 classroom building has a capacity of 750 pupils, previously grades K-2 were in the Hanley Street Building and 3-6 were in the Poland Street Building
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Hamtramck Disneyland
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Hamtramck Disneyland is a yard art folk art located in Hamtramck, Michigan owned by a man named Dmytro Szylak. Hamtramck Disneyland was started in 1992 and came to be finished in 1999 and it is built on a 30-foot backyard on top of two adjacent garages. Dmytro was born in Ukraine, and also lived in Germany. As he immigrated over to the United States he worked for General Motors, so Dmytro began piling together different objects some old, some new, and some bought, while others were hand crafted. This towering structure stands tall above his house, and garage, over the course of 12 years, Dmytro continued to add different pieces to his work which from how it started has grown to be a collage. The notion of building his artwork began when Dmytro Szylak, a Ukrainian immigrant, after working 32 years, Szylak began to search for a hobby which led to the creative idea of building Hamtramck Disneyland. To spend his time and with the idea of bringing something new to the city. In 1992, when Szylak started building his work in his backyard, neighbors and the city officials were against Szylak’s idea of constructing an artwork in his garage rooftop. Szylak has been honored by the mayor of Hamtramck and his art works have displayed in many local art shows. In 2006 Bruce Weber shot a photo shoot with Kate Moss for Women’s Wear magazine in the site, dymtro Syzlak died on 1 May 2015 at the age of 92. As of June 2015, the future of the work was uncertain - his estate was tied up in probate court. The site went on the market on 3 March 2016 and was bought by a local group, the houses consist have four flats - three will be rented out to defray costs and the other would be for an artist in residence. Restoration work was planned to being immediately, the work is a collaboration of various ordinary objects put together to form a towering structure. The creator of this collage, Dmytro Szylak, used these objects to create his own interpretation of Disneyland, decorated with various objects ranging from mechanical fan propellers, plastic horses, and a massive handmade jet aircraft. The major theme that seemed very much evident throughout the collage was a carnival theme, one would notice that Dmytro has a reoccurring design throughout the entire structure. He used plastic horses for a carousel, the primary colors he chose to use were yellow, blue and red. These three colors were on many of the structures, which would signify his heritage, Dmytro is born Ukrainian and he uses the yellow and blue colors on his project to show his pride for his home country. He also uses yellow and red for some of his propellers seeing as he resided in Germany before immigrating to America
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