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Manhattan
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Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and the citys historical birthplace. The borough is coextensive with New York County, founded on November 1,1683, Manhattan is often described as the cultural and financial capital of the world and hosts the United Nations Headquarters. Many multinational media conglomerates are based in the borough and it is historically documented to have been purchased by Dutch colonists from Native Americans in 1626 for 60 guilders which equals US$1062 today. New York County is the United States second-smallest county by land area, on business days, the influx of commuters increases that number to over 3.9 million, or more than 170,000 people per square mile. Manhattan has the third-largest population of New York Citys five boroughs, after Brooklyn and Queens, the City of New York was founded at the southern tip of Manhattan, and the borough houses New York City Hall, the seat of the citys government. The name Manhattan derives from the word Manna-hata, as written in the 1609 logbook of Robert Juet, a 1610 map depicts the name as Manna-hata, twice, on both the west and east sides of the Mauritius River. The word Manhattan has been translated as island of hills from the Lenape language. The United States Postal Service prefers that mail addressed to Manhattan use New York, NY rather than Manhattan, the area that is now Manhattan was long inhabited by the Lenape Native Americans. In 1524, Florentine explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano – sailing in service of King Francis I of France – was the first European to visit the area that would become New York City. It was not until the voyage of Henry Hudson, an Englishman who worked for the Dutch East India Company, a permanent European presence in New Netherland began in 1624 with the founding of a Dutch fur trading settlement on Governors Island. In 1625, construction was started on the citadel of Fort Amsterdam on Manhattan Island, later called New Amsterdam, the 1625 establishment of Fort Amsterdam at the southern tip of Manhattan Island is recognized as the birth of New York City. In 1846, New York historian John Romeyn Brodhead converted the figure of Fl 60 to US$23, variable-rate myth being a contradiction in terms, the purchase price remains forever frozen at twenty-four dollars, as Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace remarked in their history of New York. Sixty guilders in 1626 was valued at approximately $1,000 in 2006, based on the price of silver, Straight Dope author Cecil Adams calculated an equivalent of $72 in 1992. In 1647, Peter Stuyvesant was appointed as the last Dutch Director General of the colony, New Amsterdam was formally incorporated as a city on February 2,1653. In 1664, the English conquered New Netherland and renamed it New York after the English Duke of York and Albany, the Dutch Republic regained it in August 1673 with a fleet of 21 ships, renaming the city New Orange. Manhattan was at the heart of the New York Campaign, a series of battles in the early American Revolutionary War. The Continental Army was forced to abandon Manhattan after the Battle of Fort Washington on November 16,1776. The city, greatly damaged by the Great Fire of New York during the campaign, became the British political, British occupation lasted until November 25,1783, when George Washington returned to Manhattan, as the last British forces left the city
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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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Geographic coordinate system
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A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system used in geography that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols. The coordinates are chosen such that one of the numbers represents a vertical position. A common choice of coordinates is latitude, longitude and elevation, to specify a location on a two-dimensional map requires a map projection. The invention of a coordinate system is generally credited to Eratosthenes of Cyrene. Ptolemy credited him with the adoption of longitude and latitude. Ptolemys 2nd-century Geography used the prime meridian but measured latitude from the equator instead. Mathematical cartography resumed in Europe following Maximus Planudes recovery of Ptolemys text a little before 1300, in 1884, the United States hosted the International Meridian Conference, attended by representatives from twenty-five nations. Twenty-two of them agreed to adopt the longitude of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, the Dominican Republic voted against the motion, while France and Brazil abstained. France adopted Greenwich Mean Time in place of local determinations by the Paris Observatory in 1911, the latitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle between the equatorial plane and the straight line that passes through that point and through the center of the Earth. Lines joining points of the same latitude trace circles on the surface of Earth called parallels, as they are parallel to the equator, the north pole is 90° N, the south pole is 90° S. The 0° parallel of latitude is designated the equator, the plane of all geographic coordinate systems. The equator divides the globe into Northern and Southern Hemispheres, the longitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle east or west of a reference meridian to another meridian that passes through that point. All meridians are halves of great ellipses, which converge at the north and south poles, the prime meridian determines the proper Eastern and Western Hemispheres, although maps often divide these hemispheres further west in order to keep the Old World on a single side. The antipodal meridian of Greenwich is both 180°W and 180°E, the combination of these two components specifies the position of any location on the surface of Earth, without consideration of altitude or depth. The grid formed by lines of latitude and longitude is known as a graticule, the origin/zero point of this system is located in the Gulf of Guinea about 625 km south of Tema, Ghana. To completely specify a location of a feature on, in, or above Earth. Earth is not a sphere, but a shape approximating a biaxial ellipsoid. It is nearly spherical, but has an equatorial bulge making the radius at the equator about 0. 3% larger than the radius measured through the poles, the shorter axis approximately coincides with the axis of rotation
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State school
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State schools generally refer to primary or secondary schools mandated for or offered to all children without charge, funded in whole or in part by taxation. The term may refer to public institutions of post-secondary education. State education is inclusive, both in its treatment of students and in that enfranchisement for the government of public education is as broad as for government generally and it is often organized and operated to be a deliberate model of the civil community in which it functions. Although typically provided to groups of students in classrooms in a school, it may be provided in-home, employing visiting teachers. It can also be provided in non-school, non-home settings, such as shopping mall space, State education is generally available to all. In most countries, it is compulsory for children to school up to a certain age. In the case of private schooling, schools operate independently of the state, the funding for state schools, on the other hand, is provided by tax revenues, so that even individuals who do not attend school help to ensure that society is educated. In poverty stricken societies, authorities are often lax on compulsory school attendance because child labour is exploited and it is these same children whose income-securing labor cannot be forfeited to allow for school attendance. The term public education when applied to schools is not synonymous with the term publicly funded education. Government may make a policy decision that it wants to have some financial resources distributed in support of, and it may want to have some control over. Grants-in-aid of private schools and vouchers systems provide examples of publicly funded private education, conversely, a state school may rely heavily on private funding such as high fees or private donations and still be considered state by virtue of governmental ownership and control. In some countries, private associations or churches can operate schools according to their own principles, when these specific requirements are met, especially in the area of the school curriculum, the schools will qualify to receive state funding. Proponents of state education assert it to be necessary because of the need in society for people who are capable of reading, writing. In most industrialized countries, these views are distinctly in the minority, Government schools are free to attend for Australian citizens and permanent residents, whereas independent schools usually charge attendance fees. They can be divided into two categories, open and selective schools, the open schools accept all students from their government-defined catchment areas. Government schools educate approximately 65% of Australian students, with approximately 34% in Catholic, regardless of whether a school is part of the Government or independent systems, they are required to adhere to the same curriculum frameworks of their state or territory. The curriculum framework however provides for flexibility in the syllabus. Public or Government funded schools are found throughout Bangladesh and these schools mostly teach students from Year 1 to 10, with examinations for students in years 5,8, and 10
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Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan
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Hells Kitchen, also known as Clinton, is a neighborhood on the West Side of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. It is traditionally considered to be bordered by 34th Street to the south, 59th Street to the north, Eighth Avenue to the east, the area provides transport, medical, and warehouse infrastructure support to Midtowns business district. Once a bastion of poor and working class Irish Americans, Hells Kitchens location in Midtown has changed its personality since the 1970s, since the early 1990s, the area has been gentrifying, and rents have risen rapidly. Located close to both Broadway theaters and the Actors Studio training school, Hells Kitchen has long been a home to learning and practicing actors, the name Hells Kitchen generally refers to the area from 34th to 59th Streets. Starting west of Eighth Avenue and north of 43rd Street, city zoning regulations generally limit buildings to six stories, as a result, most of the buildings are older, and are often walk-up apartments. For the most part, the neighborhood encompasses the ZIP codes 10019 and 10036, the post office for 10019 is called Radio City Station, the original name for Rockefeller Center on Sixth Avenue. To the east, the neighborhood overlaps the Times Square Theater District to the east at Eighth Avenue, on its southeast border, it overlaps the Garment District also on Eighth Avenue. Here, two landmarks reside – the New Yorker Hotel and the dynamic Manhattan Center building, the northern edge of Hells Kitchen borders the southern edge of the Upper West Side. 57th Street is the boundary between the two neighborhoods. The southern boundary is at Chelsea, but the two overlap and are often lumped together as the West Side since they support the Midtown Manhattan business district. The traditional dividing line is 34th Street, the transition area just north of Madison Square Garden and Pennsylvania Station includes the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. The western border of the neighborhood is the Hudson River at the Hudson River Park, several explanations exist for the original name. An early use of the phrase appears in a comment Davy Crockett made about another notorious Irish slum in Manhattan and he was referring to the Five Points. Another explanation points to a building at 39th as the true original. A gang and a local dive took the name as well, a similar slum also existed in London and was known as Hells Kitchen. He referred to a particularly infamous tenement at 39th Street and Tenth Avenue as Hells Kitchen, according to this version, 39th Street between 9th and 10th Avenues became known as Hells Kitchen and the name was later expanded to the surrounding streets. Another version ascribes the origins to a German restaurant in the area known as Heils Kitchen. But the most common version traces it to the story of Dutch Fred the Cop, a veteran policeman, the rookie is supposed to have said, This place is hell itself, to which Fred replied, Hells a mild climate
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Avocation
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An avocation is an activity that someone engages in as a hobby outside their main occupation. There are many examples of people whose professions were the ways that made their livings. Occasionally, as with Lord Baden-Powell and others, people who pursue an avocation are more remembered by history for their avocation than for their professional career, many times a persons regular vocation may lead to an avocation. Many people involved with youth work pursue this as an avocation, but yield who will to their separation, My object in living is to unite My avocation and my vocation As my two eyes make one in sight. Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes, Is the deed ever really done For heaven, alter ego Otium Secret identity Vocation Volunteering Alex Preston. If you want to be a person, find something to do outside of work
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One Life to Live
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Created by Agnes Nixon, the series was the first daytime drama to primarily feature ethnically and socioeconomically diverse characters and consistently emphasize social issues. One Life to Live was expanded from 30 minutes to 45 minutes on July 26,1976, One Life to Live heavily focuses on the members and relationships of the Lord family. In 2002, the series won an Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series, One Life to Live was the last American daytime soap opera taped in New York City. After nearly 43 years on the air, ABC canceled One Life to Live on April 14,2011. On July 7,2011, production company Prospect Park announced that it would continue the show as a web series after its run on ABC, but later suspended the project. The show taped its final scenes for ABC on November 18,2011, on January 7,2013, Prospect Park resumed its plan to continue One Life to Live as a daily 30-minute web series on Hulu and iTunes via The Online Network. The relaunched series premiered on April 29,2013, the new series was plagued with several behind-the-scenes problems, most notably a litigation between Prospect Park and ABC regarding the misuse of One Life to Live characters on General Hospital. On September 3,2013, Prospect Park suspended production of the series until the lawsuit with ABC was resolved, impressed with the ratings success of NBCs Another World, ABC sought out Another World writer Nixon to create a serial for them. One Life to Live would emphasize the ethnic and socioeconomic diversity of the characters in its fictional setting, Nixon would go on to create All My Children in 1970 and Loving in 1983. One Life to Lives first sponsor was the Colgate-Palmolive company, who also sponsored The Doctors, ABC bought the show from Nixon in December 1974 when they purchased all stock to her Creative Horizons, Inc. The show was originally a half-hour serial until it was expanded to 45 minutes on July 23,1976, One Life to Live is set in the fictional city of Llanview, a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Long-suffering heroine Viki weathered love and loss, widowhood, rape, divorce, stroke, and breast cancer, Viki also had heart problems and received a transplant from her dying husband Ben Davidson. Featured male protagonist Dr. Larry Wolek also appeared at the episode and for 36 years. The 1980s brought great success and rose to prominence Vikis sister, Tina. One Life to Live celebrated its 40th anniversary in July 2008 with the return of former cast members. Deceased characters and even creator Agnes Nixon appeared in a storyline in which Slezaks Viki dies and visits Heaven, Daytime Emmy-nominee Andrea Evans and others returned for a tribute to Tina Lords famous 1987 plunge over the Iguazu Falls and the 1990 royal wedding in fictional Mendorra. And like the 1988 Old West storyline in which the character Clint Buchanan steps back 100 years in the past, on July 21,2008, Robert S. This studio was made available by the move of sister serial All My Children to a facility in Los Angeles
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School of Rock
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School of Rock is a 2003 American musical comedy film directed by Richard Linklater, produced by Scott Rudin and written by Mike White. It stars Jack Black, Joan Cusack, Mike White, Sarah Silverman, struggling rock singer and guitarist Dewey Finn is kicked out of his band and subsequently disguises as a substitute teacher at a prestigious prep school. After witnessing the musical talent in his students in their class, Dewey forms a band of fourth-graders to attempt to win the upcoming Battle of the Bands. The films supporting cast includes Joan Cusack, Sarah Silverman and Miranda Cosgrove, School of Rock was released on 3 October 2003 by Paramount Pictures, grossing $131 million worldwide on a $35 million budget. It was the highest grossing musical comedy of all time until it was overtaken in 2015 by Pitch Perfect 2, a stage musical adaptation opened on Broadway in December 2015, and a television adaptation for Nickelodeon premiered on March 12,2016. No Vacancy, a band, performs at a nightclub three weeks before auditioning for Battle of the Bands. Guitarist Dewey Finn creates on-stage antics, and a dive that abruptly ends the performance when the crowd doesnt catch him. The next morning, Dewey awakes in the apartment he lives in with Ned Schneebly and they inform him he must make up for his share of the rent, which is four months overdue, or move out. When Dewey meets No Vacancy at a session, he finds out that he has been replaced by another guitarist named Spider. Desperate, Dewey impersonates Ned and is hired, on his first day at the school, Dewey adopts the name Mr. S and spends his first day behaving erratically, confusing the class about lunch and giving them recess, much to their delight. The next day, Dewey overhears the kids in music class and he casts Zack Mooneyham as lead guitarist, Freddy Jones as drummer, cello player Katie on bass, Lawrence on keyboard, and himself as lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist. He assigns the rest for backup singers, groupies and roadies, the project eradicates teaching but helps the students embrace their talent. During one lesson, he teaches the kids that rock and roll is the way to stick it to the man, groupies Michelle and Eleni, with Summers approval, pitch the band name The School of Rock. Two weeks later, Dewey sneaks the band out to audition. When Freddy wanders off, Dewey retrieves him but the group is rejected because the bill is full, Summer leads the band to fake a terminal illness, successfully auditioning. The next day, Rosalie decides to check on Deweys teaching progress and she explains that a parents night will take place the day before Battle of the Bands. Dewey is finally exposed when Ned receives a paycheck from the school, Dewey confesses and begs Ned not to tell Patty, but she manages to reveal the truth out of Ned, and calls the police on Dewey. During the parents meeting, the question what Dewey was teaching until Ned, Patty, Rosalie
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Are We There Yet? (film)
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Produced by Revolution Studios and distributed by Columbia Pictures, the film was released theatrically on January 21,2005 to generally negative reviews from critics. However, the film grossed $98 million worldwide and sold 3.7 million DVDs, a sequel, Are We Done Yet. was released in 2007, to even worse reviews than its predecessor, and a television series featuring the films main characters premiered in 2010. The film opens up on Christmas night in Portland, Oregon, on his way to the door, however, he falls into several traps and is left a mess. The culprits of these traps are revealed to be a girl and boy named Lindsey and Kevin Kingston, the two are determined to keep her single until the two reconcile. When he reaches his Fine Sports Collectibles shop, he witnesses the woman of his dreams, on his way to talk to her, however, he is disgusted to find that she has two kids, Lindsey and Kevin. Later that night, he runs into her on his way home, after receiving an electric shock, he agrees to take her home, and once there, agrees to transport her wherever she needs to go. Once at her house, he meets Kevin and Lindsey for the second time and they go to the airport, where Kevin accidentally damages Nicks car door. Nick then yells at Kevin, making him cry, Nick is beaten by security after Kevin learns that corkscrews are illegal to bring on planes and ditches the item in Nicks jacket pocket. They then decide to use a train, where the two jump off the train to collect a missing item from Kevins doll just as Nick boards. This results in losing their luggage. They then reluctantly decide to drive, believing Nick is only a friend to their mother, the kids are tamed, but still misbehave and show Nick little respect. At a truck stop, the two learn from one of Nicks friends that he not only hates the two, but also lied about not having feelings for their mother. Once they get there, however, they learn that their father has not only moved on, discovering their fathers betrayal and abandonment, they warm up to Nick, as he does with them, when he tells them that he, too, was abandoned by his father. Along the rest of the trip, the three find themselves in several mishaps, but each setback only strengthens their relationship. At one point, Kevin has to get an asthma refill from a pharmacist working as a clown at a chaotic childrens New Years Eve party, and during this, Lindsey reveals her singing talent. However, their bond is tested when Nicks car is inadvertently set ablaze and explodes after Nick loses his keys. He angrily blames the kids by pretending it was their fault in destroying the Navigator and hurts them by saying Go ahead and cry, but calms down, reinstates it, and apologizes immediately afterwards. The trio tries to hitch a ride from Al Buck, but he leaves Nick behind and drives off, still thinking Nick is a kidnapper
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Nadia Azzi
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Nadia Azzi is an American classical pianist of Lebanese-Japanese origin. Fluent in Japanese and English, she began playing piano at age four and she currently resides in Los Angeles. Currently a student of the Colburn School, Azzi studies with Fabio Bidini and she had previously been a pre-college student of The Juilliard School, studying with Yoheved Kaplinsky, and graduated high school at the Professional Performing Arts School. Azzi had studied during the summer at the Aspen Music Festival and School, Yellow Barn Young Artists Program and she is on the Duke University Talent Identification Program listing for the most academically gifted students and is a member of the American Mensa. She actively promotes music through numerous programs and community services both in solo and chamber music performances. In 2010, she made her New York City debut performing at Carnegie Hall and she later returned to Carnegie Hall for performances on two other occasions. In the summer of 2010, Azzi had her European debut at the Teatro Communale in Sterzing and she also performed in many places in Aspen, Colorado. Azzis Canadian debut was featured on Radio Canada International and she was also featured exclusively on the Impromptu program on 98. 7WFMT. She most recently performed in Montreal on July 2014 at the Salle Bourgie with the Orchestre de la Francophonie under conductor Jean-Philippe Tremblay, in 2012, she made her debut at the Newport Music Festival. Also in 2012, Azzi played on NPRs From the Top radio program, koch Theater in Lincoln Center, Aspen Music Festival, and in Washington, D. C. by an invitation from the Florida House on Capitol Hill. Nadia appeared on Arabs Got Talent in 2015 and got the golden buzz from MBC Group TV Director Ali Jaber, co-host Raya Abirached dubbed her the golden girl. Jaber told her, Nadia, you are magnificent, you raise the name of Arabs, I am so very proud of you. She placed in the top 3 in the semi-final round, first prize in the Overall and the ART New Music Awards at the 2011 New Music National Young Artist Competition in Chicago, Illinois. Winner of the 2011 Tampa Bay Symphony Young Artist Competition, grand Prize Winner of the 2012 Crescendo International Music Competition. Petersburg Times Article Tampa Tribune Article Dunedin Beacon Article From the Top broadcast Pasco Tribune Article Talent Notes iaam
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Morena Baccarin
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Morena Silva de Vaz Setta Baccarin is a Brazilian American actress. She plays the role of Dr. Leslie Thompkins in the Fox television series Gotham, Baccarin was born in Rio de Janeiro, the daughter of Vera Setta, an actress, and Fernando Baccarin, a journalist. When she was seven, she moved with her family to Greenwich Village, New York, Baccarin attended Public School 41 and New York City Lab School for Collaborative Studies, where she and her future Homeland co-star Claire Danes were classmates. Baccarin landed her first film role in the improvised fashion-world comedy Perfume and this was followed by a lead role in Way Off Broadway. She served as Natalie Portmans understudy in the Central Park production of The Seagull, the science-fiction drama Firefly was Baccarins first television series, and she reprised her role of Inara Serra in the 2005 film Serenity. In February 2005, Baccarin provided the voice for Black Canary in multiple episodes of the animated series Justice League Unlimited and she also guest starred in three episodes of the television series The O. C. in 2006. Baccarin also appeared in the pilot episode of Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia, playing Carmen. It was announced in April 2006 that Baccarin would be playing the version of Adria. She first appeared in season 10 episode Counterstrike as adult Adria, Baccarin reprised her role as Adria in the movie Stargate, The Ark of Truth. In May 2009, Baccarin made her Off-Broadway debut in Theresa Rebecks television satire Our House at Playwrights Horizons in New York City and she landed the lead role of Anna, the leader of the alien Visitors, in ABCs 2009–11 series V, a remake of the 1984 series. In May 2011, shortly following the airing of the second season finale. That same month, Baccarin joined the cast of the Showtime television drama Homeland, on July 18,2013, she was nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series at the 2013 Primetime Emmy awards for her performance. Baccarin appeared alongside Melissa McCarthy in the 2015 action-comedy, Spy, in 2016, Baccarin appeared alongside Ryan Reynolds in the hit movie, Deadpool, as Vanessa Carlysle. Baccarin married American film producer and director Austin Chick in November 2011 and their son, Julius, was born on October 22,2013. Chick filed for divorce in July 2015, citing irreconcilable differences, on March 18,2016 Baccarin and Chicks divorce became official. In September 2015, Baccarin said in a legal declaration involving her divorce that she planned to marry her Gotham co-star, Ben McKenzie, the couple have a daughter, Frances Laiz Setta Schenkkan, born March 2,2016. Baccarin and McKenzie announced their engagement in November 2016, Morena Baccarin at the Internet Movie Database Morena Baccarin on Twitter Morena Baccarin interview
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Firefly (TV series)
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Firefly is an American space western drama television series created by writer and director Joss Whedon, under his Mutant Enemy Productions label. Whedon served as a producer, along with Tim Minear. The series is set in the year 2517, after the arrival of humans in a new system and follows the adventures of the renegade crew of Serenity. The ensemble cast portrays the nine characters who live on Serenity, Whedon pitched the show as nine people looking into the blackness of space and seeing nine different things. In this future, the two surviving superpowers, the United States and China, fused to form the central federal government, called the Alliance. According to Whedons vision, nothing will change in the future, technology will advance, but we still have the same political, moral. Firefly premiered in the U. S. on the Fox network on September 20,2002, by mid-December, Firefly had averaged 4.7 million viewers per episode and was 98th in Nielsen ratings. It was canceled after eleven of the fourteen produced episodes were aired, despite the relatively short life span of the series, it received strong sales when it was released on DVD and has large fan support campaigns. It won a Primetime Emmy Award in 2003 for Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series, TV Guide ranked the series at No.5 on their 2013 list of 60 shows that were Cancelled Too Soon. The series takes place in the year 2517, on a variety of planets, the TV series does not reveal whether these celestial bodies are within one star system, only saying that Serenitys mode of propulsion is a gravity-drive. The film Serenity makes clear that all the planets and moons are in one large system, the emigrants established themselves in this new star system, with dozens of planets and hundreds of moons. Many of these were terraformed, a process in which a planet or moon is altered to resemble Earth and this resulted in many of the border planets and moons having forbidding, dry environments, well-suited to the Western genre. The show takes its name from the Firefly-class spaceship, Serenity and it resembles a firefly in general arrangement, and the tail section, analogous to a bioluminescent insectoid abdomen, lights up during acceleration. The ship was named after the Battle of Serenity Valley, where Malcolm Reynolds, former sergeant in the Independents and it is revealed in Bushwhacked that the Battle of Serenity Valley is widely considered the loss which sealed the fate of the Independents. Throughout the series, the Alliance is shown to govern the system through an organization of core planets. The central planets are firmly under Alliance control, but the planets and moons resemble the 19th-century American West. Settlers and refugees on the worlds have relative freedom from the central government. In addition, the areas of space are inhabited by the Reavers
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Homeland (TV series)
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Homeland is an American crime thriller television series developed by Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa based on the Israeli series Prisoners of War, which was created by Gideon Raff. The series stars Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison, a Central Intelligence Agency officer with bipolar disorder, and Damian Lewis as Nicholas Brody, a U. S. Marine Corps Scout Sniper. Mathison had come to believe that Brody, who was held captive by al-Qaeda as a prisoner of war, was turned by the enemy, the series is broadcast in the U. S. on the cable channel Showtime, and is produced by Fox 21 Television Studios. It premiered on October 2,2011, the first episode was made available online, more than two weeks before the television broadcast, with viewers having to complete game tasks to gain access. On October 22,2013, Showtime renewed Homeland for a fourth season, on November 10,2014, Showtime renewed the series for a 12-episode fifth season that premiered on October 4,2015. On December 9,2015, the series was renewed for a sixth season, the sixth season debuted on January 15,2017. The series has also renewed for a seventh and eighth season. In Iraq, Carrie was warned by an asset that an American prisoner of war had been turned by al-Qaeda, Carries job grows complicated when her boss, Director of the Counterterrorism Center David Estes, calls Carrie and her colleagues in for an emergency briefing. Carrie comes to believe that Brody is the American prisoner of war whom her asset in Iraq was talking about, however, the federal government and her superiors at the CIA consider Brody a war hero. Later, another Marine, Tom Walker is also rescued casting doubt on which of the Marines is the suspected spy. Realizing it would be impossible to convince her boss to place Brody under surveillance, Carrie approaches the only other person she can trust, her mentor. The two must now work together to investigate Brody and prevent another terrorist attack on American soil, the second season follows Carrie and the CIA working with Brody to capture Abu Nazir. Discovering a video of Brodys confession during a CIA operation in Lebanon, Carrie and Saul, along with analyst Peter Quinn, Brody gives in to the CIA interrogation and is now an asset for the CIA, sending information to both sides. The downside of being an agent as well as a rising Congressman with the Vice Presidents support brings Brody closer to Carrie while worsening his relationship with his family. Brodys friend Mike tries to find the truth behind Tom Walkers death, seemingly free of being Nazirs man, Brody celebrates with Carrie at the CIA headquarters and both survive an explosion that kills Director Estes and many others. Brody then flees the U. S. with Carries help, Saul, who was attending the burying of Nazirs body at sea, is left to pick up the pieces. The beginning of season 3 presents the aftermath of a terrorist attack committed by Abu Nazirs people, Carrie is blamed for the CIAs failings as Senator Lockhart grills Saul, now Acting Director of the CIA, in front of the Senate Committee. However, it turned out to be part of a bigger plot and he later relayed the information to Carrie that the main perpetrator of the bombing was still in the U. S. and the CIA acted to bring the real bomber and the officers lawyers in for questioning
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Andrea Bowen
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Andrea Lauren Bowen is an American actress who is known for playing Julie Mayer on Desperate Housewives. She has won two SAG Awards, Bowen is of Welsh descent and made her Broadway debut in 1996 as Young Cosette/Young Eponine in Les Misérables. At six, she was the youngest actress ever to play the role, from 1996 to 2001 Bowen was a consistent presence on Broadway. She appeared in the company of the 1998 revival of The Sound of Music as Marta. Bowen was also a member of The Broadway Kids concert group, several of Bowens siblings have also been heavily involved in musical theatre, performing roles in various other Broadway shows. She briefly attended the Professional Performing Arts School in New York alongside best friend Sarah Hyland, from 2004 to 2012, Bowen portrayed Julie Mayer on Desperate Housewives. She currently models for Miss Selfridge and she has also had recurring or guest starring roles on such shows as One Tree Hill, Boston Public and Law & Order, Special Victims Unit. In the film Red Riding Hood she appears as one of The Three Ashleys, most recently, she played the role of Candace in the esoteric adventure film Eye of the Dolphin. She also starred in the Lifetime Original film Girl, Positive, an experience that allowed her to help spread the message among youth that HIV is something you can protect yourself from
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Desperate Housewives
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Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama and mystery series created by Marc Cherry, and produced by ABC Studios and Cherry Productions. It originally aired for eight seasons on ABC, from October 3,2004 to May 13,2012, executive producer Cherry served as showrunner. Other executive producers since the season included Bob Daily, George W. Perkins, John Pardee, Joey Murphy, David Grossman. The storyline covers 13 years of the womens lives over eight seasons, the series features an ensemble cast, headed by Teri Hatcher as Susan Mayer, Felicity Huffman as Lynette Scavo, Marcia Cross as Bree Van de Kamp, and Eva Longoria as Gabrielle Solis. Brenda Strong narrates the series as the late Mary Alice Young, appearing sporadically in flashbacks or dream sequences, Desperate Housewives was well received by viewers and critics alike. It won multiple Primetime Emmy, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards, from the 2004–05 through the 2008–09 television seasons, its first five seasons were rated amongst the top 10 most watched series. In 2012, it remained the most-watched comedy series based on data from Eurodata TV Worldwide. Moreover, it was the third-highest revenue earning series for 2010, the show placed #56 on Entertainment Weeklys New TV Classics list. In 2011, it was confirmed that Desperate Housewives would conclude after its eighth season, by the end of the series, it had surpassed Charmed as the longest running hour-long television series featuring all female leads by two episodes. The main mystery of the season is the suicide of Mary Alice Young. The second season premiered on September 25,2005, and its central mystery is that of new neighbor Betty Applewhite, Susans love life becomes even more complicated as her ex-husband Karl Mayer is engaged to Edie and is also started to incline towards Susan. Lynette goes back to her career in advertising while her husband Tom Scavo becomes a father, and Gabrielle decides to be faithful to Carlos. Paul is framed and sent to jail not for the murder he committed in the previous season, the third season premiered on September 24,2006. In the third season, Bree marries Orson Hodge, whose past, meanwhile, Lynette has to adjust to the arrival of Toms previously unknown daughter to the home. The Scavos also experience tension as Tom wants to start a pizzeria, Gabrielle goes through a rough divorce, but finally finds new love in Fairviews new mayor. After being run over by Orson in the season finale, Mike falls into coma. Edie sees her chance to make her move on Mike, Susan loses hope that Mikes memory will return and in the process moves on to a handsome Englishman whose wife is also in a coma, while her daughter Julie Mayer starts dating Edies nephew. Elderly neighbor Karen McCluskey hides something in her freezer, a shooting at the local grocery store leaves two characters dead and changes everyones lives forever
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Tru Collins
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Tru Collins is an American actress and indie-pop singer. She is known for her role of Julie on MTVs original high school comedy, Tru was born in Richmond, Virginia to five-time Emmy Award winning television journalist Reid Collins and choreographer Lindy Fisher. She attended Manhattans Professional Performing Arts School at 15 while studying classical piano, Collins began college with a songwriting scholarship from Universal and studied at New York University and The New School in New York City. In 2014, she guest starred on Showtimes period drama Masters of Sex opposite Michael Sheen and had a role in Spring Awakening. Tru has recurred as mean girl Julie on MTVs Awkward seasons 2 -5, as a singer, she performed with Grammy-winning soul singer Latrice Varrett, opening for Aretha Franklin at the Nokia Theatre Times Square in 2009. That year, TSO reached #12 on the Billboard charts for American Arena Tours, beating Taylor Swift, the tour grossed $47,395,108 and sold out 51 arenas. She has co-written songs with Rostrum Records artist Vali and Three 6 Mafias Juicy J, in 2012, Collins performed with DJ Ravi Drums, Kitara player Craig Dobbin, and rapper Wes Period at the Air Canada Centre Arena in Toronto. In 2015, Tru joined Steven Seagals blues band Thunderbox for a European tour and performed with ten-time Grammy Award winner George Benson at the Cognac Blues Passion Festival in Cognac, France. Her debut solo EP, Story of A Gypsy Child, from producer Jonny on the Rocks of Brooklyn bands Shinobi Ninja and her music video for the first single, Party Dress, was released via YouTube in February 2015. Media related to Tru Collins at Wikimedia Commons Trans Siberian Orchestra Official Website Youtube. com/TruLoveMusic Myspace. com/TruLoveMusic
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Trans-Siberian Orchestra
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The band gained in popularity when they began touring in 1999 after completing their second album, The Christmas Attic the year previous. In 2007, the Washington Post referred to them as an arena-rock juggernaut and described their music as Pink Floyd meets Yes, TSO has sold more than 10 million concert tickets and over 10 million albums. Both Billboard Magazine and Pollstar have ranked them as one of the top ten ticket-selling bands in the first decade of the new millennium. ONeill took his first steps into music in the 1970s when he started the progressive rock band Slowburn, for whom he was the lyricist. What was intended to be the debut album was recorded at Jimi Hendrixs Electric Lady Studios. Although Wittmans engineering was capturing the exact sound ONeill was hearing in his head, rather than releasing an album that he was not happy with, he shelved the project, but continued working in the industry at Contemporary Communications Corporation, company at the time. Over the years, ONeill continued to work as a writer, producer, manager, in 1996, he accepted Atlantic Records offer to start his own band. He built the band on a foundation created by the marriage of classical and rock music and he brought in Oliva, Kinkel, and Pitrelli to help start the project. ONeill has stated, My original concept was six rock operas, in the 1980s I was fortunate enough to have visited Russia. If anyone has ever seen Siberia, it is beautiful but incredibly harsh. The one thing that everyone who lives there has in common that runs across it in safety is the Trans-Siberian Railway. Life, too, can be beautiful but also incredibly harsh and unforgiving. It was a bit overly philosophical, but it sounded different. Their debut album, the first installment of the intended Christmas Trilogy, was an opera called Christmas Eve and Other Stories. It remains among their best-selling albums and it contains the instrumental Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24 which originally appeared on Savatages rock opera, Dead Winter Dead, a story about the Bosnian War. Their 1998 release The Christmas Attic, the sequel to Christmas Eve and this album produced the hit Christmas Canon, a take on Johann Pachelbels Canon in D major with lyrics and new melodies added. The Christmas Attic was first performed live in 2014, Beethovens Last Night was completed prior to Christmas Attic but not turned in to Atlantic Records until 1999 for release in 2000. The story begins when Mephistopheles appears before Beethoven, whom Paul ONeill refers to as the worlds first Heavy Metal Rock Star, of course Beethoven is horrified at the thought of eternal damnation, but the devil has an offer and the bargaining begins
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X-Men: Apocalypse
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X-Men, Apocalypse is a 2016 American superhero film based on the fictional X-Men characters that appear in Marvel Comics. It is the installment in the X-Men film series and a sequel to X-Men. The ancient mutant En Sabah Nur awakens in 1983 and plans to wipe out modern civilization and take over the world, leading the X-Men to try to stop him and defeat his team of renegade mutants. The film was announced by Singer in December 2013, with Kinberg, Dougherty, casting began in October 2014, while principal photography commenced in April 2015 in Montreal and ended in August of the same year. X-Men, Apocalypse premiered in London on May 9,2016, and was released in North America on May 27 in 3D and 2D, the film grossed over $543 million worldwide but received a polarised response from critics. En Sabah Nur, a powerful mutant believed to be the first of his kind, rules prehistoric Egypt until he is betrayed by his worshippers and his four lieutenants die preserving him. Awakening in 1983, he believes humanity has lost its way without his presence, aiming to destroy and remake the world, he recruits Cairo pickpocket Ororo Munroe, who can control the weather, and upgrades her power. Raven rescues Kurt and employs the services of black marketeer Caliban to transport him to America, En Sabah Nur recruits Calibans enforcer, Psylocke, who leads him to Angel. En Sabah Nur enhances both their powers, transforming Angels wings into metal, Alex Summers discovers that his younger brother Scott is manifesting a mutation for shooting optic beams. Alex takes Scott to Professor Charles Xaviers educational institute in Westchester County, New York, hoping that Xavier, Scott meets the telepathic and telekinetic Jean Grey, and the two develop an attraction. Raven brings Kurt to the institute, En Sabah Nurs powers cause disturbances around the world, leading Xavier and Alex to consult with CIA agent Moira MacTaggert, who has been researching the legend of Nur. In Communist Poland, the metal-controlling mutant Erik Lehnsherr lives with his wife and their young daughter and he uses his powers to save a coworker, prompting the Militia to capture him. When they accidentally kill Eriks family, he retaliates by executing them, En Sabah Nur later approaches the devastated Erik and takes him to Auschwitz, where Eriks power first manifested. Erik destroys the camp and joins him, En Sabah Nur remotely accesses Cerebro, a brainwave-amplifying device Xavier uses to locate mutants. Through it, he forces the telepathic Xavier to make the global superpowers launch their entire nuclear arsenals into space to prevent interference with En Sabah Nurs plan and he and his new lieutenants arrive at the mansion and kidnap Xavier. Attempting to stop them, Alex accidentally causes an explosion destroys the mansion. Colonel William Strykers forces subsequently capture Hank, Raven, Peter, and Moira, Scott, Jean and Kurt follow covertly, and liberate their comrades using Strykers mind-controlled and brainwashed experiment Weapon X, whose memories Jean partially restores. At En Sabah Nurs behest, Erik uses his powers to control the Earths magnetic poles, causing death, En Sabah Nur plans to transfer his consciousness into Xaviers body, and use Xaviers power to enslave every person on Earth
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Billy Crawford
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Billy Joe Ledesma Crawford, commonly known as Billy Crawford, is a Filipino-American singer, dancer, songwriter, actor and TV host. He is currently a talent of ABS-CBN, appearing as one of the hosts of Its Showtime, Billy Joe Ledesma Crawford was born in Manila, Philippines, to a Filipino mother from Jaro, Iloilo City named Mayette Ledesma, and an American father named Jack Crawford. Crawford was discovered at the age of 3 years, singing at a bowling alley that his mother often visited. He became a regular on an afternoon GMA Network television show called Thats Entertainment under the name Billy Joe. He attended the International Christian Academy in the Philippines until his departure for the US when he was 12 and balanced both his professional acting and his studies. Crawford acted in a few films before he moved to the United States where he started a career, performing mostly in the United Kingdom and France. His early career started in Dallas, Texas, where he lived and performed his singing, during this time, he legally changed his stage name to Billy Crawford. 217 Roosevelt Island Public School and then to Professional Performing Arts School in New York City with other famous professional children, such as Lee Thompson Young, Mandy Moore and Nina Sky. In 1995, he danced with Michael Jackson onstage when he was 13 years old as one of Jacksons back-up dancers at the 1995 MTV Video Music Awards and he recorded his first album called Billy Crawford when he was 15 years old. It went straight into the charts in the Philippines and Europe, Crawford was a success as a singer in France with the first single from his album Ride called Trackin. In 2001, it put Crawford at the top of the French charts, Trackin has sold 750,000 copies and was certified platinum, it reached a #1 position on sales charts and was #1 in the club charts. The song also made #1 in the Netherlands, #2 in Belgium, #3 in Switzerland and it had a great success in Germany and became #1 on the radio and club chart. His second single When You Think About Me, was also a huge success, by April 2002, Crawford was back on the scene with his second album, Ride. This was certified gold in France within just a few weeks, the album went on to achieve platinum status in the French market and a total of 600,000 copies has been sold to date. He left his old company, V2 records, wanting to expand his career into something bigger, Big City Tour Live is the live release DVD album from Crawford. The DVD was released in France in 2005 and it was directed by Michel Jankielewicz, produced by Yves El-Baze and distributed by UMG. The budget of this album was €150,000 and its Time is the fourth studio album by Billy Crawford. The album was released in year 2007 with its first single Like That, Groove is the fifth studio album by Billy Crawford
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It's Showtime (variety show)
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Its Showtime is a Philippine noontime variety show that premiered on October 24,2009, on ABS-CBN. The show broadcasts from the ABS-CBN Studios at the ABS-CBN Broadcasting Center in Quezon City, the show is also broadcast worldwide through The Filipino Channel. Its Showtime is the live entertainment program in the Philippines to be broadcast with a true high-definition picture, after ASAP, sports programs. Its Showtime is also ABS-CBNs longest running variety show after Student Canteen, Kalatog Pinggan. Sang Linggo nAPO Sila, MTB, Wowowee, Pilipinas Win Na Win, on October 24,2009, Showtime premiered as a morning program, airing before the networks noontime shows, and served as the replacement for Pilipinas, Game KNB. following its successful 8-year run. The original cast consisted of Vhong Navarro, Anne Curtis, Kim Atienza, Jugs Jugueta and Teddy Corpuz, during the third season, the show added previously evicted judges Billy Crawford and Karylle as hosts. In its first four seasons Showtimes competition format was that three groups, each made up of two to members, perform a single performance, either a song and/or dance number. After the groups performance, the give an collective yes or no to the group. If the judges give a yes, the group is considered part of the main contest, a no means exclusion of the group from the main contest. This segment was removed during season 2, in season 3, during the February 16,2011, episode the segment returned, but with no random selection. Instead the group performs on stage. The group with the highest average score from the judges wins, all winners throughout the whole week perform in the weekly finals. Whoever wins in the weekly finals gets the chance to compete in the monthly finals, lastly, all the monthly finalists compete in the seasons grand finals. Aside from the talent competition, Showtime also aired quick, short-term segments that offer cash prizes to the studio audience, on January 1,2011, the show was moved to the noontime slot temporarily. It returned to its time slot on February 12,2011. On January 28,2012, the show aired an episode to end its two-year competition format as Showtime. On February 6,2012, it debuted as a noontime show. Its Showtime was also aired previously on Studio 23 and CgeTVs website during its relaunch week, the show retained all of its hosts, including Vice Ganda, while adding former judges Jhong Hilario, Ryan Bang and Coleen Garcia
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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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My So-Called Life
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My So-Called Life is an American teen drama television series created by Winnie Holzman and produced by Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz. It originally aired on ABC from August 25,1994, to January 26,1995, the critically acclaimed but short-lived show ended in a cliffhanger with the expectation that it would be picked up for an additional season, but it was officially canceled on May 15,1995. The show was praised for its portrayal of adolescence and the commentary of its central character and my So-Called Life dealt with major social issues of the mid-1990s, including child abuse, homophobia, teenage alcoholism, homelessness, adultery, school violence, censorship, and drug use. The title of the show alludes to the perception of meaninglessness that many teenagers experience, the show depicts the teenage years as being difficult and confusing rather than a light, fun-filled time. Angela Chase, played by Claire Danes, is a 15-year-old sophomore at Liberty High School in Three Rivers, Pennsylvania and she is attempting to discover and assert her identity. To do this, she distances herself from her past and pulls away from her parents and her friends, Sharon Cherski. In their place, she befriends Rayanne Graff and Rickie Vasquez, Angela has a crush on Jordan Catalano and admires him from afar, they later begin dating and eventually break up. With these new relationships, Angela finds herself in precarious and sometimes dangerous situations, despite temptation, she remains levelheaded, Angela narrates 17 of the 19 episodes in voice-over. Alicia Silverstone auditioned before Danes and impressed producer Edward Zwick, who wanted to cast her as Angela, she was also emancipated and his partner Marshall Herskovitz thought, however, that Silverstone was too beautiful to play a conflicted teenager uncertain of herself. Danes audition impressed both, but as she was 13 and had to school, after her casting. Patricia Patty Chase, played by Bess Armstrong, is Angelas mother, unlike many TV mothers, she is the main breadwinner and, at the beginning of the series, employs her husband. She is opinionated and often expresses her strongly held beliefs, which at one point leads to a confrontation with the mother of Rayanne. Enrique Rickie Vasquez, played by Wilson Cruz, is Rayanne Graffs other best friend and he is a gay 15-year-old boy being raised by his uncle, who physically and emotionally abuses him. Rickie wears eyeliner and bright clothing and feels most at home in the bathroom with Rayanne. When his uncle kicks him out of the house, he is fostered briefly by the Chases, he is fostered by gay English teacher Richard Katimski. Brian Krakow, played by Devon Gummersall, has a crush on Angela and is longtime friends with both her and Sharon. Despite his high IQ and insight into characters, he lacks emotional intelligence and is socially awkward. This tends to him from his peers
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Melonie Diaz
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Melonie Diaz is an American actress who has appeared in many independent films, including four shown at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Diaz was born in New York City, and was raised along with her sister on the Lower East Side. She became interested in acting at the Henry Street Settlement and subsequently attended the Professional Performing Arts School in Manhattan. S,122, and the New York City Fringe Festival. Television work at this time included an episode of Law & Order and a pilot for Queens Supreme. She was subsequently cast by Jamie Babbit in the role of Anna in Itty Bitty Titty Committee as well as a role in Hamlet 2, Be Kind Rewind. She appeared in the Mary J. Blige video We Got Hood Love which debuted on May 10,2010, in 2012, she starred in the indie romantic comedy, She Wants Me with Josh Gad and Kristen Ruhlin. In a hyped-up, Woody Allen, Annie Hall-type film, she plays a girl who caught in a love triangle between aspiring artists and a celebrity. In 2013, she appeared in Fruitvale Station, a based on the shooting of Oscar Grant. The film premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, where it earned the U. S, grand Jury Prize, Dramatic and the Audience Award, U. S. Dramatic. The film had its premiere at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. For her work in the movie she was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female and she has expressed a desire to return to Tisch in order to complete her degree in filmmaking, citing director Kathryn Bigelow as an inspiration. In 2014 she appeared briefly on an episode of Girls as Season and that same year she appeared in Ryan Piers Williams film X/Y alongside America Ferrera as well as The Cobbler starring Adam Sandler. Melonie Diaz at the Internet Movie Database Diaz’s Top Indie Flicks
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Raising Victor Vargas
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Raising Victor Vargas is a 2002 American comedy-drama film directed by Peter Sollett, written by Sollett and Eva Vives. The film follows Victor, a Lower East Side teenager, as he deals with his family, including his strict grandmother, his bratty sister. Along the way he tries to win the affections of Judy, in a subplot, Judys friend Melonie is depicted in her own romantic adventure. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, Victor is a teenager growing up in the Lower East Side of New York City. He is a young man, very sure of himself in his love life. He lives in an apartment with his strict grandmother, bratty sister Vicki, and his younger brother Nino. At the beginning of the film, Victor is found in the bedroom of Fat Donna, word quickly spreads throughout the community amongst his friends, although Victor continuously denies it happened. As this is a threat to his reputation, he sets his sights on the beautiful girl of the neighborhood. Judy is a young woman who is continuously hit on by men in her neighborhood. When Victor comes on to her, she lies, telling him she has a man. When Victor finds out this isnt true, he enlists the help of Judys little brother Carlos, on the condition that Victor introduce him to Victors sister Vicki, Judy ultimately says yes to Victors advances to keep her safe from the other boys that harass and follow her constantly. During this time, Carlos has a crush on Vicki and we also see Judys friend Melonie and her romantic dealings with Harold, Victors friend. Their romance ultimately results in their sleeping together, and Melonie reveals to Harold the real reasons why Judy agreed to go out with Victor, Harold tells Victor, who goes to confront Judy. When Victor invites her over to dinner at his house, she believes hes doing so to impress his family, things go wrong when Victors grandmother recognizes the lipstick on the glass from Judys earlier visit to their apartment, and becomes irate. Judy leaves, the grandmother tells Victor if he goes after the girl that she change the locks. He goes after her, of course, ultimately, they decide to stay together, with Victor saying that he invited her to see his family to see who he really is. When Victor returns to his apartment, the grandmother has not kicked him out and he makes peace with her, and the family is able to come together with a greater understanding of each other as individuals, and as a family unit. The film was adapted from Solletts 2000 autobiographical short film Five Feet High, shooting took place on location in the Lower East Side, where spacing concerns necessitated the use of 16mm film cameras
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The Young and the Restless
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The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, first broadcast on March 26,1973, The Young and the Restless was originally broadcast as half-hour episodes, five times a week. The show expanded to one-hour episodes on February 4,1980, in 2006, the series began airing encore episodes weeknights on SOAPnet until 2013, when Y&R moved to TVGN. Pop still airs the episodes on weeknights, starting July 1,2013. The series is syndicated internationally. The Young and the Restless originally focused on two families, the wealthy Brooks family and the working class Foster family. After a series of recasts and departures in the early 1980s, all the characters except Jill Foster. Bell replaced them with the new families, the Abbotts. Over the years, other such as the Newmans, Winters. Despite these changes, one storyline that has endured through almost the entire run is the feud between Jill Abbott and Katherine Chancellor, the longest rivalry on any American soap opera. Since its debut, The Young and the Restless has won nine Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Drama Series and it is also currently the highest-rated daytime drama on American television. As of 2008, it had appeared at the top of the weekly Nielsen ratings in that category for more than 1,000 weeks since 1988. As of December 12,2013, according to Nielsen ratings, The Young, on January 15,2014, the series was in the middle of its final year of its 2010 contract, and was renewed by CBS through 2017. Y&R is also a show to the Bells other soap opera The Bold. To compete with the youthful ABC soap operas, All My Children, One Life to Live, William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell created The Young and the Restless in 1972 for the network under the working title, The Innocent Years. We were confronted with the very disturbing reality that young America had lost much of its innocence, innocence as we had known and lived it all our lives had, in so many respects, ceased to exist. They changed the title of the series to The Young and the Restless because they felt it reflected the youth, the Young and the Restless began airing on March 26,1973, replacing the canceled soap opera, Where the Heart Is. Bell worked as writer from the debut of the series until his retirement in 1998
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Jesse Eisenberg
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Jesse Adam Eisenberg is an American actor, author and playwright. Born and raised in New York City, Eisenberg began acting in plays at an early age, in 2006, Eisenberg won the Vail Film Festival Rising Star Award for his role in The Living Wake. In 2009, he starred in the comedy-drama film Adventureland with Kristen Stewart and the horror comedy Zombieland with Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin, and Woody Harrelson. He then played Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in the 2010 film The Social Network, for which he received nominations for awards, including the BAFTA, Golden Globe. He also starred in Holy Rollers, which was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Since then, he has gone on to voice the character, Blu, a male Spixs macaw, in the animated films Rio and Rio 2. Eisenberg then starred in two films by Woody Allen, To Rome with Love and Café Society, and the magician heist film Now You See Me, Eisenberg has contributed pieces to The New Yorker and McSweeneys websites. He has written and starred in three plays for the New York stage, Asuncion, The Revisionist, and The Spoils, Eisenbergs first book, Bream Gives Me Hiccups, and Other Stories, a short story collection, was released in September 2015. Eisenberg was born in Queens, New York, and grew up in East Brunswick and his mother, Amy, who now teaches cross cultural sensitivity in hospitals, previously worked as a clown at childrens parties and choreographer for a Catholic high school for 20 years. His father, Barry Eisenberg, drove a taxicab, then owned and worked at a hospital, Jesse Eisenberg is Jewish and was brought up in a secular Jewish family that originated in Poland and Ukraine. He attended the East Brunswick Public Schools at Frost School, Hammarskjold Middle School, and Churchill Junior High School, Eisenberg then transferred to the High School of Performing Arts in New York. When he was a senior, he received his role in the independent comedy-drama film Roger Dodger. His work in the film prevented Eisenberg from enrolling at New York University, Eisenberg struggled to fit in at school due to an anxiety disorder, and began acting in plays at an early age. At 13, he understudied the role of Young Scrooge in a version of A Christmas Carol starring Tony Randall. Eisenberg made his first professional role in Arje Shaws off-Broadway play, The Gathering and he stated, When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as youre given a prescribed way of behaving. Pre-fame, Eisenberg got into trouble with Woody Allens lawyers, as a teenager he penned a play about how Allen came to change his name and managed to get the script to Allens people. Instead of a seal of approval, Eisenberg received two cease and desist letters, ironically, Eisenberg went on to star in two films directed by Allen, To Rome with Love, and Café Society. Eisenberg made his debut in the series Get Real, from 1999 to 2000
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Academy Awards
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The various category winners are awarded a copy of a golden statuette, officially called the Academy Award of Merit, which has become commonly known by its nickname Oscar. The awards, first presented in 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, are overseen by AMPAS, the awards ceremony was first broadcast on radio in 1930 and televised for the first time in 1953. It is now live in more than 200 countries and can be streamed live online. The Academy Awards ceremony is the oldest worldwide entertainment awards ceremony and its equivalents – the Emmy Awards for television, the Tony Awards for theater, and the Grammy Awards for music and recording – are modeled after the Academy Awards. The 89th Academy Awards ceremony, honoring the best films of 2016, were held on February 26,2017, at the Dolby Theatre, in Los Angeles, the ceremony was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and was broadcast on ABC. A total of 3,048 Oscars have been awarded from the inception of the award through the 88th, the first Academy Awards presentation was held on May 16,1929, at a private dinner function at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel with an audience of about 270 people. The post-awards party was held at the Mayfair Hotel, the cost of guest tickets for that nights ceremony was $5. Fifteen statuettes were awarded, honoring artists, directors and other participants in the industry of the time. The ceremony ran for 15 minutes, winners were announced to media three months earlier, however, that was changed for the second ceremony in 1930. Since then, for the rest of the first decade, the results were given to newspapers for publication at 11,00 pm on the night of the awards. The first Best Actor awarded was Emil Jannings, for his performances in The Last Command and he had to return to Europe before the ceremony, so the Academy agreed to give him the prize earlier, this made him the first Academy Award winner in history. With the fourth ceremony, however, the system changed, for the first six ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned two calendar years. At the 29th ceremony, held on March 27,1957, until then, foreign-language films had been honored with the Special Achievement Award. The 74th Academy Awards, held in 2002, presented the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, since 1973, all Academy Awards ceremonies always end with the Academy Award for Best Picture. The Academy also awards Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, see also § Awards of Merit categories The best known award is the Academy Award of Merit, more popularly known as the Oscar statuette. The five spokes represent the branches of the Academy, Actors, Writers, Directors, Producers. The model for the statuette is said to be Mexican actor Emilio El Indio Fernández, sculptor George Stanley sculpted Cedric Gibbons design. The statuettes presented at the ceremonies were gold-plated solid bronze
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The Social Network
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The Social Network is a 2010 American biographical drama film directed by David Fincher and written by Aaron Sorkin. It stars Jesse Eisenberg as founder Mark Zuckerberg, along with Andrew Garfield as Eduardo Saverin and Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker, neither Zuckerberg nor any other Facebook staff were involved with the project, although Saverin was a consultant for Mezrichs book. The film was released in the United States by Columbia Pictures on October 1,2010, the Social Network received widespread acclaim, with critics praising its direction, screenplay, acting, editing and score. Rolling Stones Peter Travers said The Social Network is the movie of the year, but Fincher and Sorkin triumph by taking it further. Lacing their scathing wit with a sadness, they define the dark irony of the past decade. It was also Roger Eberts selection for the best film of the year, the film also received awards for Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Original Score at the 68th Golden Globe Awards. In October 2003, 19-year-old Harvard University student Mark Zuckerberg is dumped by his girlfriend Erica Albright, after traffic to the site crashes parts of Harvards computer network, Zuckerberg is given six months of academic probation. However, Facemashs popularity attracts the attention of Harvard upperclassmen and twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, the trio invites Zuckerberg to work on Harvard Connection, a social network featuring the exclusive nature of Harvard students and aimed at dating. Saverin provides $1,000 in seed funding, allowing Mark to build the website and they raise their complaint with Harvard President Larry Summers, who is dismissive and sees no value in either disciplinary action or Thefacebook website itself. Saverin and Zuckerberg meet fellow student Christy Lee, who asks them to Facebook me, as Thefacebook grows in popularity, Zuckerberg extends the network to Yale University, Columbia University and Stanford University. Lee arranges for Saverin and Zuckerberg to meet Napster co-founder Sean Parker and he also suggests dropping the The from Thefacebook, just calling it Facebook. At Parkers suggestion, the moves to Palo Alto, with Saverin remaining in New York to work on business development. After Parker promises to expand Facebook to two continents, Zuckerberg invites him to live at the house he is using as company headquarters, meanwhile, Saverin objects to Parker making business decisions for Facebook and freezes the companys bank account in the resulting dispute. He later relents when Zuckerberg reveals that they have secured $500,000 from angel investor Peter Thiel and he confronts Zuckerberg and Parker about it, and Saverin vows to sue Zuckerberg for all the companys shares before being ejected from the building. As a result, Saverins name is removed from the masthead as co-founder, later, a cocaine possession incident involving Parker and his attempt to place the blame on Saverin finally convinces Zuckerberg to cut ties with him. Throughout the film, the narrative is intercut with scenes from depositions taken in the Winklevoss twins and Saverins respective lawsuits against Zuckerberg, the Winklevoss twins claim that Zuckerberg stole their idea, while Saverin claims his shares of Facebook were unfairly diluted when the company was incorporated. After everyone leaves, Zuckerberg is shown sending a friend request to Albright on Facebook, screenwriter Aaron Sorkin said, What attracted me to had nothing to do with Facebook. The invention itself is as modern as it gets, but the story is as old as storytelling, I got a 14-page book proposal that Ben Mezrich had written for his publisher for a book he was going to call The Accidental Billionaires
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Jessica Lee Goldyn
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Jessica Lee Goldyn is an American Broadway actress who performed in the revival of A Chorus Line as Val. She played the role of Cassie from August 10,2008 opposite Mario Lopez who played the character Zack. Goldyn had been an understudy for the character of Cassie. Goldyn appeared in The Paper Mill Playhouse rendition of Chorus Line in the role of Cassie from October 7 through October 28,2012. Goldyn grew up in Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey where she spent her early years dancing and she attended the Professional Performing Arts School in New York but never graduated. Instead she received her GED after getting hired in a non-Equity tour of Fosse, Goldyn has trained with the New Jersey Ballet Company and has been a student and instructor at the Worth Tyrrell Studios. Goldyn was a Childrens Foundation for the Arts grant recipient from 1998-2003, goldyns professional debut was in the ensemble of Gypsy at the Paper Mill Playhouse in September 1998. Goldyn has been credited in various roles over the years, Goldyn has previously played the Chorus Line character Cassie before, as well as Val in addition to roles in Sweet Charity and Pippin. Goldyn made her Broadway debut on October 5,2006 when she opened as Val in the revival of A Chorus Line, Goldyn is one of the few original cast members who closed the show, by then as Cassie. In 2015, Goldyn returned to Broadway in Finding Neverland at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, Goldyn has been cast in the upcoming Broadway production of Tuck Everlasting, opening April 26,2016 at the Broadhurst Theatre. Goldyn portrayed Ivy in On the Town as part of New York City Centers 2008-2009 Encores, part of a city-wide celebration this season of Leonard Bernsteins 90th birthday who wrote the original score for On the Town. Goldyn starred opposite Justin Bohon as Chip, Christian Borle as Ozzie, the other female romantic counterparts of the three sailors on shore leave in the Big Apple were Leslie Kritzer as Hildy Esterhazy and Jennifer Laura Thompson as Claire DeLoone. On the Town first opened in 1944 at the Adelphi Theatre, Goldyn portrayed Polly in the Maine State Music Theatre production of Crazy for You in July 2009 alongside Tony Yazbeck from her Chorus Line days. From July 30,2009 to August 9, Goldyn choreographed Sweet Charity at The Mac-Haydn Theatre in Chatham,2010, Goldyn was returned to Paper Mill Playhouse as Tiger Lilly in their production of Peter Pan. This ran from June 2 till June 27, in August 2010 Jessica replaced Felicia Finley as Lola in Damn Yankees at the John W. Engeman Theater in Northport
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A Chorus Line
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A Chorus Line is a musical with music by Marvin Hamlisch, lyrics by Edward Kleban and a book by James Kirkwood, Jr. and Nicholas Dante. Centred on seventeen Broadway dancers auditioning for spots on a chorus line, a Chorus Line provides a glimpse into the personalities of the performers and the choreographer as they describe the events that have shaped their lives and their decisions to become dancers. Following several workshops and an Off-Broadway production, A Chorus Line opened at the Shubert Theatre on Broadway July 25,1975, an unprecedented box office and critical hit, the musical received twelve Tony Award nominations and won nine, in addition to the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It remains the sixth longest-running Broadway show ever, a Chorus Lines success has spawned many successful productions worldwide. It began a run in the West End in 1976 and was revived on Broadway in 2006. The show opens in the middle of an audition for an upcoming Broadway production, the formidable director Zach and his assistant choreographer Larry put the dancers through their paces. Every dancer is desperate for work, after the next round of cuts,17 dancers remain. Zach tells them he is looking for a dancing chorus of four boys. He wants to more about them, and asks the dancers to introduce themselves. With reluctance, the reveal their pasts. The stories generally progress chronologically from early life experiences through adulthood to the end of a career, the first candidate, Mike, explains that he is the youngest of 12 children. He recalls his first experience with dance, watching his sisters dance class when he was a pre-schooler, Mike took her place one day when she refused to go to class—and he stayed. Bobby tries to hide the unhappiness of his childhood by making jokes, as he speaks, the other dancers have misgivings about this strange audition process and debate what they should reveal to Zach, but since they all need the job, the session continues. Zach is angered when he feels that the streetwise Sheila is not taking the audition seriously, opening up, she reveals that her mother married at a young age and her father neither loved nor cared for them. When she was six, she realized that ballet provided relief from her family life, as did Bebe. The scatter-brained Kristine is tone-deaf, and her lament that she could never sing is interrupted by her husband Al finishing her phrases in tune. Mark, the youngest of the dancers, relates his first experiences with pictures of the anatomy and his first wet dream. The 410 Connie laments the problems of being short, and Diana Morales recollects her horrible high school acting class, Don remembers his first job at a nightclub and Judy reflects on her problematic childhood while some of the auditionees talk about their opinion of their parents
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Sarah Hyland
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Sarah Jane Hyland is an American actress. Born in New York, Hyland attended the Professional Performing Arts School in Manhattan, followed by roles in the films Private Parts, Annie. Alongside Modern Family, Hyland is also known for her roles in the films Struck by Lightning, Scary Movie 5, Vampire Academy, Hyland was born in Manhattan, New York, the daughter of actors Melissa Canaday and Edward James Hyland. She is the sister of actor Ian Hyland and she attended the Professional Performing Arts School in Manhattan. Hyland has been acting since her first role as Howard Sterns daughter in the film Private Parts in 1997 and she went on to portray such roles as Molly in the 1999 television remake of Annie, and Maddie Healy in Lipstick Jungle on NBC. Hyland is featured in an Olive Garden commercial along with actress Molly Culver, in 2011, Hyland co-starred in the Disney Channel Original Movie Geek Charming. In 2012, Hyland appeared in the film Struck by Lightning, in September 2012, it was announced that she would be part of a Nintendo 3DS ad campaign. Dianna Agron and Gabby Douglas are part of the campaign as well, Hyland was diagnosed with kidney dysplasia as a young child and received a kidney transplant in April 2012. Sarah Hyland at the Internet Movie Database Sarah Hyland at the Internet Broadway Database Sarah Hyland on Twitter
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Modern Family
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Pritchetts family includes his second wife, his son and his stepson, as well as his two adult children and their spouses and children. Christopher Lloyd and Steven Levitan conceived the series while sharing stories of their own modern families, Modern Family employs an ensemble cast. The series is presented in mockumentary style, with the characters frequently talking directly into the camera. The series premiered on September 23,2009, and the season premiered on September 21,2016. Modern Family was acclaimed by critics throughout its first season, although reception has become more mixed as the series has progressed and it has so far won a total of 22 Emmy awards from 75 nominations. It also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy in 2011, the broadcast syndication rights to the series were sold to USA Network and 10 Fox affiliates and CW affiliate WLVI for a fall 2013 premiere. The success of the led to it being the tenth-highest revenue-generating show for 2012. Modern Family revolves around three different types of living in the Los Angeles area who are interrelated through Jay Pritchett and his children, Claire Dunphy. Jays daughter Claire was a homemaker, but has returned to the world, she is married to Phil Dunphy. They have three children, Haley Dunphy, a stereotypical teenage girl, Alex Dunphy, a nerdy, smart middle child, and Luke Dunphy. Jays lawyer son Mitchell and his husband Cameron Tucker have an adopted Vietnamese daughter, as the name suggests, this family represents a modern-day family and episodes are comically based on situations which many families encounter in real life. Dotted lines indicate a relationship through adoption or marriage. Note, The series has also had recurring characters. Reid Ewing appeared in episodes as Haleys boyfriend Dylan. Shelley Long appeared in the first two seasons and occasionally thereafter as DeDe Pritchett, Jays ex-wife and Claire and Mitchells mother, nathan Lane appeared during the second and fifth season as Cameron and Mitchells flamboyant friend Pepper Saltzman. Adam DeVine appeared as Andy Bailey, Jay and Glorias Manny, Phils assistant, stella, Jay and Glorias dog, has appeared in most episodes, played first by Brigitte and then by Beatrice. Larry, Mitchell and Camerons cat, is played by Frosty, as creators Christopher Lloyd and Steven Levitan retold stories about their families, they realized that the stories could be the basis for a show. They started working on the idea of a family being observed in a mockumentary-style show and they later decided that it could be a show about three families and their experiences
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Lipstick Jungle (TV series)
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Lipstick Jungle is an American comedy-drama television series created by DeAnn Heline and Eileen Heisler for NBC Universal Television Studio. The hour-long series was based on the novel of the same name by Candace Bushnell. The pilot was directed by Gary Winick, george had been personally cast by Bushnell, but left in early 2007 when she was offered the HBO series In Treatment. The show premiered on February 7,2008 as a mid-season replacement taking over ERs spot at 10,00 pm Eastern/9,00 pm Central, the series was slated to have 13 episodes per season. However, due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, the first season also competed indirectly with ABCs Cashmere Mafia, created by Bushnells former creative partner from Sex and the City, Darren Star. On February 24,2008, NBC ordered six additional scripts of Lipstick Jungle, on April 2,2008, NBC renewed Lipstick Jungle for a second season when they announced their Fall 2008 lineup. The second season premiered on September 24, airing at 10,00 pm Eastern/9,00 pm Central on Wednesdays, one month later, NBC announced that Lipstick Jungle would move to Fridays at 10,00 pm Eastern/9,00 pm Central effective October 31,2008. On November 13,2008, rumors emerged that NBC would cancel the show due to low ratings but it was unclear if the remaining episodes would be aired in the current time slot. On November 21,2008, NBC moved Lipstick Jungle to Fridays at an hour earlier 9,00 pm Eastern/8,00 pm Central beginning December 5, for the remainder of the season. On January 9,2009, the last produced episode of Lipstick Jungle aired, on January 15,2009, it was announced the show was not yet canceled and could be brought back for episodes based on how the new pilots were received. On February 25,2009, the future of Lipstick Jungle was once put in limbo when it was announced that Lindsay Price was cast in the pilot for ABCs new drama Eastwick. However, had Lipstick Jungle received a third season pick-up from NBC. On March 28,2009, Entertainment Weekly reported that the show was officially canceled, Lipstick Jungle is a dramedy following the professional and personal lives of three best friends, all of whom are top professionals in their respective careers. Victory Ford is a designer, Nico Reilly is the editor-in-chief of Bonfire Magazine. These three powerful women are there to support one another and navigate the crazy, romantic. Season 1 of Lipstick Jungle began airing on September 22,2008 on Mondays at 10 pm, the network soon brought in a name for their Monday night schedule, I Heart NY Mondays, as both shows are set in New York. The second season of the show airing immediately after the first runs seven episodes had finished. The series was broadcast on Living in the UK, TG4 in the Republic of Ireland, Domashniy in Russia, CTV Television Network aired the show in Canada, and broadcast by TV3 in New Zealand
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The Hard Times of RJ Berger
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The Hard Times of RJ Berger is an American television comedy series created by David Katzenberg and Seth Grahame-Smith for MTV. The shows central character is RJ Berger an unpopular sophomore at the fictional Pinkerton High School in Ohio who has a large penis. Bergers two best friends are Miles Jenner, whose ambitions for popularity cause him to clash with Berger, and goth girl Lily Miran, bergers love interest is Jenny Swanson, a cheerleader who is involved with Max Owens, a popular jock and bully. The show is presented as a coming of age story and has described by Katzenberg and Grahame-Smith as a blend of the television series The Wonder Years. The pilot episode premiered on June 6,2010, and the first season of 12 episodes concluded August 23,2010. MTV renewed The Hard Times of RJ Berger for a season, which premiered on March 24,2011, and concluded on May 30,2011. The Hard Times of RJ Berger originated from a film with a similar premise titled The Tale of RJ, written and directed by David Katzenberg. The Tale of RJ was described by The New York Times as a homage to Boogie Nights. MTV executives were interested in developing scripted television series around the time Katzenberg, in June 2009, MTV announced multiple series in development, including Hard Times. It was described as an irreverent half-hour coming-of-age series in which unpopular fifteen-year-old RJ Berger becomes infamous when his gift is revealed to his school. Paul Iacono was cast as the character that May. Series creators Katzenberg and Grahame-Smith were the showrunners for both seasons, credited as executive producers, I direct some episodes and David directs some episodes, but we’re both there, every day. In regards to the content of the series, Grahame-Smith said that it’s an elevated, comedic world that this kid lives in, he’s surrounded by these archetypes, and he’s the one semi-centered character in the middle of it all. I feel like, the more absurd that you are, the more you have to some things in reality. You have to earn that absurdity, even though our show has one animated segment in every episode, even the live-action is like a cartoon, just with the way people carry on. He is in love with Jenny Swanson, but was too shy to proclaim his love for her, as he is afraid of her boyfriend and he is forced into the limelight when during a basketball game, his shorts fall down and his large penis is exposed. He was originally reluctant to date because his large penis once caused a girl to choke while performing oral sex on him, after being exposed, he decides to take advantage of his popularity to win Jenny over. In the season 1 finale, he agrees to have sex with Lily and he and Jenny start dating in the second season, though their attempts at intimacy are regularly foiled by Max and a vengeful Lily
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Fame (2009 film)
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Fame is a 2009 American musical drama film and a loose remake of the 1980 film of the same name. It was directed by Kevin Tancharoen and written by Allison Burnett and it was released on September 25,2009 in the US, Canada, Ireland, and the UK. The film follows NYC talents attending the New York City High School of Performing Arts, debbie Allen, who portrays the school principal Angela Simms, is the only person to appear in the original movie, the subsequent television show, and this production. During the opening scenes in auditions and orientation, it is told that in 1936, in 1948, the School of Performing Arts was created to provide training in performance skills to students who wished to prepare for professional careers in dance, music or drama. Students learn on the first day of classes that their teachers expect them to know everything, in dance class, the teacher Ms. Kraft is worried about Kevins dancing, but is easily impressed by Alice. In acting class, Jenny feels uncomfortable to let loose and be crazy like everyone else, in music class, Mr. Cranston gives Victor pointers, while Denise plays the music perfectly on the piano. Malik reveals that his mother doesnt even know that he is coming to the school because she works three jobs and would never notice. Just before freshman year ends, it shows Malik at his apartment, his finding his report card. She is angry but he continues to go to the school, the year closes after she goes to work and leaves Malik standing alone. As the new year begins, it shows the dancers all practicing in a circle. In music class, Victor is having trouble sticking to the music, and adds his own spin on whatever he is playing. In theater class, Malik talks about his sister, Ayanna. Malik then leaves, stating hes going to be famous. Meanwhile, Denise is playing her piano, but then starts to sing, assuming she is alone. When she leaves, it is revealed to the audience that Malik was watching the whole time and he brings her to Victor and convinces her to sing for the album that they are producing. She agrees to it, as long as her father doesnt find out. At a Halloween party, Malik plays the song, but says the vocals are anonymous, upsetting Denise, later, Joy is in Central Park drinking beer. She gets up and does a rap, vomiting at the end of it, Neil captures this in his documentary and presents it to the class
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Mark Indelicato
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Indelicato was born in Philadelphia, the son of Lynn and Mark Indelicato, Sr. He is of three quarters Italian and one quarter Puerto Rican descent and he was trained at The Actors Center in that city, and is a student at Dupree School of Music in Linwood, New Jersey. He also attended the Professional Performing Arts School, before moving back to Los Angeles, on his Twitter page, Indelicato stated Im officially a pescetarian. Indelicato was featured in an episode of the Disney Channel Original Series The Suite Life of Zack & Cody in a special High School Musical-themed episode. On October 27,2008, Indelicato performed the part of Boq for the Wicked Day 5th Anniversary Concert on Broadway in New York City as well and he performed again at the Gershwin Theatre on February 28,2009 for the Defying Inequality benefit. He starred as the Artful Dodger in the CLO production of Oliver and he appeared on a special episode of Dr. Phil about teens who were being bullied after coming out. He shared his experience when he received death threats and verbal abuse from people for his role on Ugly Betty. Mark Indelicato at the Internet Movie Database From Broadway World BroadwayWorld. com interview with Mark Indelicato, October 21,2008
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Ugly Betty
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Ugly Betty is an American comedy-drama television series developed by Silvio Horta, which was originally broadcast on ABC between 2006 and 2010. It revolves around the character Betty Suarez who, despite her lack of style, the series is based on Fernando Gaitáns Colombian telenovela Yo soy Betty, la fea, which has had many other international adaptations. It was produced by Silent H, Ventanarosa, and Reveille Productions partnered with ABC Studios and executive produced by Salma Hayek, Silvio Horta, Ben Silverman, Jose Tamez, and Joel Fields. The pilot was filmed in New York, seasons one and two were filmed in Los Angeles and seasons three and four in New York City, during its first three seasons, it aired on Thursday nights, where it was mostly successful. However, viewership dropped significantly in the third season, particularly in the important 18–49 age group. In October 2009, the series was moved to Fridays, where it had trouble finding an audience, since the shows cancellation, it has gained a cult following. With the end of the series, there was talk of a push by Ana Ortiz and America Ferrera for an Ugly Betty movie. Two years later, on May 16,2006, ABC announced that Ugly Betty would be part of the 2006–2007 North American season lineup as a weekly hour-long series, the initial order was for 13 episodes. ABC also allowed its affiliates to show free off-air screenings to the public at various events ahead of the shows debut, in addition the network screened the debut episode on the web and made the episodes available for download on iTunes after their initial airings on January 5,2007. The encore episodes also have run on ABC Family and SOAPnet, on October 13,2006, ABC ordered a full season pick-up for the series, beyond the original 13 ordered at the May Upfronts due to its premiere ratings. ABC originally announced 22 episodes for the season 1, but increased the number of episodes by one to 23, the season finale is the episode called East Side Story. On March 21,2007, ABC renewed the series for a second season, although he joined NBC as their new entertainment head, Ben Silverman remained co-executive producer on the show, but in a limited role. In November 2007, the cast of the series made headlines when they threw their support behind the 2007 Writers Strike by joining them on the line in solidarity. On February 11,2008, ABC picked up Ugly Betty for the 2008–09 television season, unfortunately on the day the renewal was announced, two of the shows executive producers, Marco Pennette and James Hayman, were let go. The departure of Pennette and Hayman added to the constant off-camera turnovers on the series, including the exiting or firing of five writers. In a Q&A from TV Guide, Michael Ausiello criticized the decision, saying that someone saw fit to fix what wasnt broken and praised the two men for writing several of the shows best episodes. As a result of the strike, creator Silvio Horta delayed plans for a musical episode, Four days later on February 16,2008, ABC picked up Ugly Betty for the 2008–09 television season. On March 12,2008, Horta inked a two-year, seven-figure deal with ABC Studios, on April 17,2008, the shows podcast, which was usually presented in audio and hosted by stars Urie and Newton, became available on video for the first time
