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East Orange, New Jersey
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East Orange is a city in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. The city was the states 20th most-populous municipality in 2010, after having been the states 14th most-populous municipality in 2000, according to the United States Census Bureau, the city had a total area of 3.924 square miles, all of it land. East Orange shares borders with Newark to the east and south, South Orange to the southwest, Orange to the west, unincorporated communities, localities and place names located partially or completely within the city include Ampere and Brick Church. East Orange is officially divided into five wards, but is unofficially divided into a number of neighborhoods. The station was named in honor of André-Marie Ampère, a pioneer in electrodynamics, roughly bounded by Bloomfield to the North, Lawton Street & Newark to the east, 4th Avenue to the south, and North Grove Street to the West. Greenwood, So named after Greenwood avenue and the teen streets that run through it and it is often grouped together with Ampere. This area was disturbed by the construction of Interstate 280. The Grove Street Station of the former DL & W Railroad was located here at Grove, roughly bounded by 4th Avenue to the North, North 15th Street/Newark to the East, Eaton Place/NJ Transit Morris & Essex Lines, and North Grove Street to the West. Presidential Estates, Recently designated due to the streets in this area being named after early presidents of the United States. There are many large houses situated on streets lined with very old, roughly Bounded by Bloomfield to the North, Montclair-Boonton Line and North Grove Street to the East, Springdale Avenue to the South and the Garden State Parkway to the West. Elmwood Located in the part of the city. The area holds one of the surviving Carnegie Libraries, the Elmwood Branch of the East Orange Public Library, doddtown, Named after John Dodd who founded and surveyed the area of the Watsessing Plain. The former campus of Upsala College is located here and it was converted into the new East Orange Campus High School on the east side of Prospect Street, and an adjacent new housing subdivision. Roughly bounded by Bloomfield to the North, the Garden State Parkway to the south, Park Avenue to the South, as of the census of 2010, there were 64,270 people,24,945 households, and 14,742 families residing in the city. The population density was 16,377.1 per square mile, there were 28,803 housing units at an average density of 7,339.5 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 4. 13% White,88. 51% Black or African American,0. 39% Native American,0. 72% Asian,0. 06% Pacific Islander,3. 69% from other races, and 2. 50% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 7. 93% of the population,35. 8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11. 1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.53 and the family size was 3.33
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Al Robbins
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Dr. Albert Al Robbins is a fictional medical doctor in the CBS crime drama CSI, Crime Scene Investigation, portrayed by actor Robert David Hall. Al has appeared in every episode since Who Are You. with the exception of Still Life from season six, Albert Al Robbins was raised by his mother, who was also a registered nurse. Consequently, Al spent most of his childhood in hospital environments, from a very early age, he was able to understand the cycle of life and as a young man graduated with a Masters Degree in Physiology from Johns Hopkins University. At a young age, Al was hit head-on by a drunk driver and he walks with the use of prosthetic limbs and a crutch. Als accident runs parallel to an accident that Hall had at age 32. Robbinss first appearance was in the Season One episode Who Are You and he became a series regular from Season Three onwards. Dr. Albert Robbins is the Chief Medical Examiner of the Las Vegas Police Department, working in conjunction with Dr. Gil Grissom. Since Grissoms departure, Robbins has been shown to be developing a sort of friendship with new CSI Raymond Langston. Due to his age and disability he usually sends his assistant David Phillips to examine the body on site, Robbins has a good working relationship with his colleagues. He acts as a mentor to Phillips, especially in Season 3 when Phillips performs his first exhumation. In the season nine premiere, For Warrick, an obviously distraught Robbins tells the team that he is going to have the day shift coroner do the postmortem on his friend, little was revealed of Robbinss personal life for the first several seasons. He was a twin, though the other was stillborn and his mother attributed his career choice to spending so many days next to a dead body. He is married with at least three children, according to the episode Overload, the youngest child was born in 1987. He is also terrified of rats, and suits up in a suit before hunting for an escaped rat in the mortuary in the season seven episode Lab Rats. In the season 12 episode Genetic Disorder, it was revealed that he and his wife Judy are grandparents as their daughter Pam just had a baby boy and that their cat was named Cinder. Robbins has a fondness for coffee, specifically macchiatos and plays guitar in a band he has formed with the day shift coroner. He also keeps an album of photos of celebrities who have died in Las Vegas and wound up on his table, including Tupac Shakur. He walks with a limp and uses crutches because of his prosthetic legs and it is not clear what happened to him, although it is probably due to the accident with a drunk driver which resulted in the amputation of both his legs
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Television program
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It may be a single production, or more commonly, a series of related productions. A limited number of episodes of a show may be called a miniseries or a serial or limited series. Television series are without a fixed length and are divided into seasons or series. While there is no defined length, U. S. industry practice has traditionally favored longer television seasons than those of other countries, a one-time broadcast may be called a special, or particularly in the UK a special episode. A television film is a film that is initially broadcast on television rather than released in theaters or direct-to-video, a program can be either recorded, as on video tape, other various electronic media forms, played with an on-demand player or viewed on live television. Television programs may be fictional, or non-fictional and it may be topical, or historical. They could be primarily instructional or educational, or entertaining as is the case in situation comedy, a drama program usually features a set of actors playing characters in a historical or contemporary setting. The program follows their lives and adventures, except for soap opera-type serials, many shows especially before the 1980s, remained static without story arcs, and the main characters and premise changed little. If some change happened to the characters lives during the episode, because of this, the episodes could be broadcast in any order. Since the 1980s, there are series that feature progressive change to the plot. For instance, Hill Street Blues and St. Elsewhere were two of the first American prime time television series to have this kind of dramatic structure. While the later series, Babylon 5 is an example of such production that had a predetermined story running over its intended five-season run. In 2012, it was reported that television was growing into a component of major media companies revenues than film. Some also noted the increase in quality of television programs. When a person or company decides to create a new series, they develop the elements, consisting of the concept, the characters, the crew. Then they offer it to the networks in an attempt to find one interested enough to order a prototype first episode of the series. They want very much to get the word out on what types of shows they’re looking for, to create the pilot, the structure and team of the whole series must be put together. If the network likes the pilot, they pick up the show to air it the next season, sometimes they save it for mid-season, or request rewrites and further review
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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
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CSI, Crime Scene Investigation is a procedural forensics crime drama television series that premiered on CBS October 6,2000. The series, starring William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Laurence Fishburne, Ted Danson, the series concluded on September 27,2015, after 15 seasons, with a feature-length finale titled Immortality. The team is led by Gil Grissom, a socially-awkward forensic entomologist. Grissoms second-in-command, Catherine Willows, is a mother with a cops instinct. Born and raised in Vegas, Catherine was a stripper before being recruited into law enforcement, following Grissoms departure during the ninth season of the series, Catherine is promoted to Supervisor. After overseeing the training of new investigator Raymond Langston, Willows is replaced by D. B, Russell, and recruited to the FBI shortly thereafter. Russell is a man, a keen forensic botanist and a veteran of the Seattle Crime Lab. In the series season, Russell is reunited with his former partner Julie Finlay. During the 1990s, Anthony Zuiker caught producer Jerry Bruckheimers attention after writing his first movie script, Zuiker was convinced that there was a series in the concept, Bruckheimer agreed and arranged a meeting with the head of Touchstone Pictures. The studios head at the time liked the script and presented it to ABC, NBC and Fox executives. The head of development at CBS saw potential in the script, and the network had a pay-or-play contract with actor William Petersen. The networks executives liked the pilot so much that they decided to include it in their 2000 schedule immediately, airing on Fridays after The Fugitive. Initially it was thought that CSI would benefit from The Fugitive, which was expected to be a hit, formerly a co-production with the now-defunct Alliance Atlantis Communications, that companys interest was later bought by the investment firm GS Capital Partners, an affiliate of Goldman Sachs. CBS acquired AACs international distribution rights to the program, though the non-US DVD distribution rights did not change, the series is currently in syndication, and reruns are broadcast in the U. S. on the Spike and TV Land cable networks. The show has aired in reruns on the USA Network since January 14,2011, the CSI catalog has been exclusive to the whole NBC Universal portfolio since September 2014. Occasionally, the cast would still shoot on location in Las Vegas, other California locations include Verdugo Hills High School, UCLAs Royce Hall, Pasadena City Hall, and California State University, Los Angeles. While shooting took place primarily at Universal Studios in Universal City, California, CSIs theme song was, since season one, Who Are You, written by Pete Townshend with vocals by lead singer Roger Daltrey of The Who. In certain countries, to music licensing fees, a unique theme was used instead
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Tustin High School
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Tustin High School is a public high school located in Tustin, California, United States. The schools mascot is the Tiller, Tustin High is a part of Tustin Unified School District and was originally established in 1921 as Tustin Union High School. Tustin High School is a California Distinguished School, in 2015, it was recognized as a California Gold Ribbon School, an award given to top high schools in the state for its academic success, positive school environment, and innovative learning centers. It has been recognized by Newsweek magazine seven years in a row as one of the top 600 public high schools in the United States, Tustin High School is the oldest school in the district, with the second oldest having been built in 1963. In 1927, a new wing was added, and then a large gymnasium, the football stadium and 440 track were constructed in the mid-1940s. The stadium and field were later named Northrup Field after Orville Northrup, who taught woodshop and physical education, in 1966, the original building was judged to be unsafe in case of an earthquake. It took wreckers 10 days to demolish the structure during July of that year, in 1972, the Tustin Union High School District merged with Tustin Elementary School District to create the Tustin Unified School District. Tustin High is a California Distinguished School and has recognized by Newsweek magazine as one of the top 600 high schools in the nation. Tustin High School is located on 29 acres of land in the middle of the city of Tustin, todays campus consists of 22 single-story buildings, a two-story science building and 17 portable classrooms. The campus includes two fields, two softball fields, a discus field and two gymnasiums. It also houses the District football field, an Olympic-sized swimming pool and our strong bond can neer be broken, Form’d in Tustin High, Far surpassing wealth unspoken, Seal’d by friendships tie. High school life is best at passing, Gliding swiftly by, Then let us pledge in work and deed, Alma Mater, Alma Mater Deep graven on each heart, Shall be found unwav’ring true When we from school shall part. In June 2008, the Tustin school board approved a plan that would guide the possible renovations of Tustin High School or the construction of a new campus. The plan would include a new building, a 2-story science center, a sports pavilion. The estimated cost of the renovation was put at around $150 million, the Sports Pavilion was finished in the summer of 2012, costing $11 million. It seats 2500 students and faculty within 29,000 square feet of space, the new facility houses four-sided bleachers, and can be formatted either as three basketball or volleyball practice courts, or a college sized basketball court or main volleyball court. In December 2012, reconstruction at Northrup Stadium and swimming complex began, the updated stadium includes a synthetic field, nine-lane synthetic track, concessions building, a 1000-seat visitor bleacher and 1000-seat home bleacher. The new $1.7 million swimming complex includes an Olympic-sized pool, new scoreboard, bleachers, in February 2016, Tustin High broke ground on a new humanities building, housing English and language courses
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California
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California is the most populous state in the United States and the third most extensive by area. Located on the western coast of the U. S, California is bordered by the other U. S. states of Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona and shares an international border with the Mexican state of Baja California. Los Angeles is Californias most populous city, and the second largest after New York City. The Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nations second- and fifth-most populous urban regions, California also has the nations most populous county, Los Angeles County, and its largest county by area, San Bernardino County. The Central Valley, an agricultural area, dominates the states center. What is now California was first settled by various Native American tribes before being explored by a number of European expeditions during the 16th and 17th centuries, the Spanish Empire then claimed it as part of Alta California in their New Spain colony. The area became a part of Mexico in 1821 following its war for independence. The western portion of Alta California then was organized as the State of California, the California Gold Rush starting in 1848 led to dramatic social and demographic changes, with large-scale emigration from the east and abroad with an accompanying economic boom. If it were a country, California would be the 6th largest economy in the world, fifty-eight percent of the states economy is centered on finance, government, real estate services, technology, and professional, scientific and technical business services. Although it accounts for only 1.5 percent of the states economy, the story of Calafia is recorded in a 1510 work The Adventures of Esplandián, written as a sequel to Amadis de Gaula by Spanish adventure writer Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo. The kingdom of Queen Calafia, according to Montalvo, was said to be a land inhabited by griffins and other strange beasts. This conventional wisdom that California was an island, with maps drawn to reflect this belief, shortened forms of the states name include CA, Cal. Calif. and US-CA. Settled by successive waves of arrivals during the last 10,000 years, various estimates of the native population range from 100,000 to 300,000. The Indigenous peoples of California included more than 70 distinct groups of Native Americans, ranging from large, settled populations living on the coast to groups in the interior. California groups also were diverse in their organization with bands, tribes, villages. Trade, intermarriage and military alliances fostered many social and economic relationships among the diverse groups, the first European effort to explore the coast as far north as the Russian River was a Spanish sailing expedition, led by Portuguese captain Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, in 1542. Some 37 years later English explorer Francis Drake also explored and claimed a portion of the California coast in 1579. Spanish traders made unintended visits with the Manila galleons on their trips from the Philippines beginning in 1565
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University of California, Los Angeles
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The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university in the Westwood district of Los Angeles, California, United States. It became the Southern Branch of the University of California in 1919 and it offers 337 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines. UCLA enrolls about 31,000 undergraduate and 13,000 graduate students, and had 119,000 applicants for Fall 2016, including transfer applicants, the university is organized into six undergraduate colleges, seven professional schools, and four professional health science schools. Fourteen Nobel laureates, three Fields Medalists, two Chief Scientists of the U. S. Air Force and three Turing Award winners have been faculty, researchers, or alumni, the university was elected to the Association of American Universities in 1974. The Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2015–2016 ranked UCLA 16th in the world for academics, in 2015-2016, UCLA ranked 12th in the world by the Academic Ranking of World Universities and 31st in the 2016/17 QS World University Rankings. UCLA student-athletes compete as the Bruins in the Pac-12 Conference, the Bruins won 126 national championships, including 113 NCAA team championships, more than any other university. UCLA student-athletes, coaches and staff won 251 Olympic medals,126 gold,65 silver and 60 bronze, UCLA student-athletes competed in every Olympics since 1920 with one exception, and won a gold medal in every Olympics that the United States participated in since 1932. The State Normal School at Los Angeles opened on August 29,1882, the facility included an elementary school where teachers-in-training could practice their technique with children. That elementary school is related to the present day version, UCLA Lab School, in 1887, the school became known as the Los Angeles State Normal School. In 1914, the moved to a new campus on Vermont Avenue in East Hollywood. However, David Prescott Barrows, the new President of the University of California, the same legislation added its general undergraduate program, the College of Letters and Science. After the athletic teams entered the Pacific Coast conference in 1926, the Southern Branch student council adopted the nickname Bruins, in 1927, the Regents renamed the Southern Branch the University of California at Los Angeles. In the same year, the state broke ground in Westwood on land sold for $1 million, less than one-third its value, by real estate developers Edwin and Harold Janss, the campus in Westwood opened to students in 1929. The original four buildings were the College Library, Royce Hall, the Physics-Biology Building, the first undergraduate classes on the new campus were held in 1929 with 5,500 students. A timeline of the history can be found on its website, during its first 32 years, UCLA was treated as an off-site department of UC. As such, its presiding officer was called a provost, in 1951, UCLA was formally elevated to co-equal status with UC Berkeley, and its presiding officer Raymond B. Allen was the first chief executive to be granted the title of chancellor. The appointment of Franklin David Murphy to the position of Chancellor in 1960 helped spark an era of growth of facilities. By the end of the decade, UCLA had achieved distinction in a range of subjects
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Academic degree
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An academic degree is a qualification awarded on successful completion of a course of study in higher education, normally at a college or university. These institutions commonly offer degrees at various levels, typically including bachelors, master’s and doctorates, often alongside other academic certificates, and professional degrees. The most common degree is the bachelors degree, although in some countries lower qualifications are titled degrees while in others a higher-level first degree is more usual. The degrees awarded by European universities—the bachelor’s degree, the licentiate, the degree. The doctorate appeared in medieval Europe as a license to teach at a medieval university and its roots can be traced to the early church when the term doctor referred to the Apostles, church fathers and other Christian authorities who taught and interpreted the Bible. The right to grant a licentia docendi was originally reserved to the church required the applicant to pass a test, to take oath of allegiance. The Third Council of the Lateran of 1179 guaranteed the access – now largely free of charge – of all able applicants, at the university, doctoral training was a form of apprenticeship to a guild. The traditional term of study before new teachers were admitted to the guild of Master of Arts, originally the terms master and doctor were synonymous, but over time the doctorate came to be regarded as a higher qualification than the master degree. The earliest doctoral degrees reflected the historical separation of all higher University study into three fields. Over time, the D. D. has gradually become less common outside theology, Studies outside theology, law, and medicine were then called philosophy, due to the Renaissance conviction that real knowledge could be derived from empirical observation. The degree title of Doctor of Philosophy is of a later time. Studies in what once was called philosophy are now classified as sciences and humanities, Master of Arts were eligible to enter study under the higher faculties of Law, Medicine or Theology, and earn first a bachelors and then master or doctors degrees in these subjects. Thus a degree was only a step on the way to becoming a qualified master – hence the English word graduate. The naming of degrees eventually became linked with the subjects studied, scholars in the faculties of arts or grammar became known as master, but those in theology, medicine, and law were known as doctor. As study in the arts or in grammar was a prerequisite to study in subjects such as theology, medicine and law. The practice of using the doctor for PhDs developed within German universities. The French terminology is tied closely to the meanings of the terms. The baccalauréat is conferred upon French students who have completed their secondary education
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English literature
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However, until the early 19th century, it only deals with the literature of the United Kingdom and Ireland. It does not include literature written in the languages of Britain. The English language has developed over the course of more than 1,400 years, the earliest forms of English, a set of Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the fifth century, are called Old English. Middle English began in the late 11th century with the Norman conquest of England, early Modern English began in the late 15th century with the introduction of the printing press to London and the King James Bible as well as the Great Vowel Shift. Through the influence of the British Empire, the English language has spread around the world since the 17th century. 450, after the withdrawal of the Romans, and ending soon after the Norman Conquest in 1066. These works include such as epic poetry, hagiography, sermons, Bible translations, legal works. In all there are about 400 surviving manuscripts from the period, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of annals in Old English, from the 9th century, that chronicle the history of the Anglo-Saxons. The poem Battle of Maldon also deals with history and this is a work of uncertain date, celebrating the Battle of Maldon of 991, at which the Anglo-Saxons failed to prevent a Viking invasion. Oral tradition was strong in early English culture and most literary works were written to be performed. Epic poems were popular, and some, including Beowulf, have survived to the present day. Beowulf is the most famous work in Old English, and has achieved national status in England. The only surviving manuscript is the Nowell Codex, the date of which is debated. Beowulf is the title, and its composition is dated between the 8th and the early 11th century. Cædmon is the earliest English poet whose name is known, and it is also one of the earliest recorded examples of sustained poetry in a Germanic language. The poem, The Dream of the Rood, was inscribed upon the Ruthwell Cross, Two Old English poems from the late 10th century are The Wanderer and The Seafarer. Classical antiquity was not forgotten in Anglo-Saxon England, and several Old English poems are adaptations of late classical philosophical texts, the longest is King Alfreds 9th-century translation of Boethius Consolation of Philosophy. After the Norman conquest of England in 1066, the form of the Anglo-Saxon language became less common. Under the influence of the new aristocracy, French became the language of courts, parliament
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Percussion
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A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater, struck, scraped or rubbed by hand, or struck against another similar instrument. The percussion family is believed to include the oldest musical instruments, the percussion section of an orchestra most commonly contains instruments such as timpani, snare drum, bass drum, cymbals, triangle and tambourine. However, the section can also contain non-percussive instruments, such as whistles and sirens, percussive techniques can also be applied to the human body, as in body percussion. On the other hand, keyboard instruments, such as the celesta, are not normally part of the percussion section, Percussion instruments may play not only rhythm, but also melody and harmony. Percussion is commonly referred to as the backbone or the heartbeat of an ensemble, often working in close collaboration with bass instruments. In jazz and other popular ensembles, the pianist, bassist, drummer. Most classical pieces written for full orchestra since the time of Haydn and Mozart are orchestrated to place emphasis on the strings, woodwinds, however, often at least one pair of timpani is included, though they rarely play continuously. Rather, they serve to provide additional accents when needed, in the 18th and 19th centuries, other percussion instruments have been used, again generally sparingly. The use of percussion instruments became more frequent in the 20th century classical music, in almost every style of music, percussion plays a pivotal role. In classic jazz, one almost immediately thinks of the rhythm of the hi-hats or the ride cymbal when the word swing is spoken. Because of the diversity of instruments, it is not uncommon to find large musical ensembles composed entirely of percussion. Rhythm, melody, and harmony are all represented in these ensembles, music for pitched percussion instruments can be notated on a staff with the same treble and bass clefs used by many non-percussive instruments. Music for percussive instruments without a pitch can be notated with a specialist rhythm or percussion-clef. The word percussion has evolved from Latin terms, percussio, as a noun in contemporary English it is described in Wiktionary as the collision of two bodies to produce a sound. Hornbostel–Sachs has no high-level section for percussion, Most percussion instruments are classified as idiophones and membranophones.1 Concussion idiophones or clappers, played in pairs and beaten against each other, such as zills and clapsticks. 111.2 Percussion idiophones, includes many percussion instruments played with the hand or by a mallet, such as the hang, gongs and the xylophone. 21 Struck drums, includes most types of drum, such as the timpani, snare drum, (Included in most drum sets or 412. Stringed instruments played with such as the hammered dulcimer
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Los Angeles
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Los Angeles, officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L. A. is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California. With a census-estimated 2015 population of 3,971,883, it is the second-most populous city in the United States, Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated county in the United States. The citys inhabitants are referred to as Angelenos, historically home to the Chumash and Tongva, Los Angeles was claimed by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo for Spain in 1542 along with the rest of what would become Alta California. The city was founded on September 4,1781, by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 following the Mexican War of Independence, in 1848, at the end of the Mexican–American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thereby becoming part of the United States. Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4,1850, the discovery of oil in the 1890s brought rapid growth to the city. The completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, delivering water from Eastern California, nicknamed the City of Angels, Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, and sprawling metropolis. Los Angeles also has an economy in culture, media, fashion, science, sports, technology, education, medicine. A global city, it has been ranked 6th in the Global Cities Index, the city is home to renowned institutions covering a broad range of professional and cultural fields, and is one of the most substantial economic engines within the United States. The Los Angeles combined statistical area has a gross metropolitan product of $831 billion, making it the third-largest in the world, after the Greater Tokyo and New York metropolitan areas. The city has hosted the Summer Olympic Games in 1932 and 1984 and is bidding to host the 2024 Summer Olympics and thus become the second city after London to have hosted the Games three times. The Los Angeles area also hosted the 1994 FIFA mens World Cup final match as well as the 1999 FIFA womens World Cup final match, the mens event was watched on television by over 700 million people worldwide. The Los Angeles coastal area was first settled by the Tongva, a Gabrielino settlement in the area was called iyáangẚ, meaning poison oak place. Gaspar de Portolà and Franciscan missionary Juan Crespí, reached the present site of Los Angeles on August 2,1769, in 1771, Franciscan friar Junípero Serra directed the building of the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, the first mission in the area. The Queen of the Angels is an honorific of the Virgin Mary, two-thirds of the settlers were mestizo or mulatto with a mixture of African, indigenous and European ancestry. The settlement remained a small town for decades, but by 1820. Today, the pueblo is commemorated in the district of Los Angeles Pueblo Plaza and Olvera Street. New Spain achieved its independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, during Mexican rule, Governor Pío Pico made Los Angeles Alta Californias regional capital
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Gil Grissom
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Gilbert Arthur Gil Grissom, Ph. D. is a fictional character on the CBS crime drama CSI, Crime Scene Investigation, portrayed by William Petersen. Grissom is a forensic entomologist and, for the series first nine seasons and he appeared in 198 episodes, and was replaced by Laurence Fishburne and, later, Ted Danson. Following his departure from the main cast, Petersen reprised his role on five occasions. Voice Season 09, Turn, Turn, Turn Season 13, Wild Flower, Dead Air On Screen Season 11, The Two Mrs. Grissoms Petersen also guest starred in Immortality, CSIs feature-length series finale. Anthony E. Zuiker, who created the show, loosely based Grissom on real life Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department criminalist Daniel Holstein, Zuiker was fascinated by Holstein, who, like Grissom, kept maggots and pigs blood in his refrigerator. Holstein works as a consultant for the show, the name Gil came from one of the actors hobbies, fishing. In 2000, CBS had bought the script from Zuiker, and Nina Tassler, CBSs head of drama development, passed it on to Petersen. Petersen has said that many TV shows were offered to him over the years, however, he was impressed with the complexity of Grissoms character, and he decided to audition. It was the second time Petersen portrayed a forensic scientist, having portrayed Will Graham in the 1986 film Manhunter, Gil Grissom first appears in CSI, Crime Scene Investigation on the pilot episode. William Petersen did not appear during the six episode Gum Drops. This episode was going to be how Grissom was convinced that an abduction victim was still alive. When Petersens nephew died, he flew home and was unavailable for the filming of the episode, also in 2007, the character appeared in a two part crossover with another CBS series, Without a Trace. It was the episode of the sixth season entitled Where. The plot of the crossover between CSI and Without a Trace involved a serial killer that had eluded capture in Nevada and had escaped to New York City, Gil Grissom was brought in to assist in the apprehension. Gilbert Arthur Gil Grissom was born on August 17,1956, as a child to a middle-class family in Santa Monica. Grissoms father taught botany at a college and passed his enthusiasm for natural sciences onto his son. His father died when Grissom was 9 years old, Grissom recalls the day his father died to Catherine Willows in the episode Still Life, He came home from school, one hot humid day, laid down on the couch. I was watching TV, my mom brought in some cold drinks, no one would tell me why
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Semi-trailer truck
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A semi-trailer truck, more commonly called a semi truck, is the combination of a tractor unit and one or more semi-trailers to carry freight. A semi-trailer attaches to the tractor with a fifth wheel hitch, the result is that both tractor and semi-trailer will have a distinctly different design than a rigid truck and trailer. The tractor unit typically has two or three axles, those built for hauling heavy-duty commercial-construction machinery may have as many as five, the most common tractor-cab layout has a forward engine, one steering axle, and two drive axles. The fifth-wheel trailer coupling on most tractor trucks is movable fore and aft, ubiquitous in Europe, but less common in North America since the 1990s, is the cabover engine configuration, where the driver sits next to, or over the engine. With changes in the US to the length of the combined vehicle. Cabovers were difficult to service, as the cab could not be lifted on its hinges to a full 90-degree forward tilt, Trucks average from 4 to 8 miles per US gallon, with fuel economy standards requiring better than 7 miles per US gallon efficiency by 2014. The cargo trailer usually has tandem axles at the rear, each of which has wheels, or eight tires on the trailer. In the US it is common to refer to the number of hubs, rather than the number of tires. The combination of eight tires on the trailer and ten tires on the tractor is what led to the moniker eighteen wheeler, many trailers are equipped with movable tandem axles to allow adjusting the weight distribution. To connect the second of a set of doubles to the first trailer, and to support the front half of the second trailer and this has one or two axles, a fifth-wheel coupling for the rear trailer, and a tongue with a ring-hitch coupling for the forward trailer. Individual states may further allow longer vehicles, known as longer combination vehicles, Long Combination Vehicle types include, Doubles, Two 28.5 ft trailers. Turnpike Doubles, Two 48 ft trailers, Rocky Mountain Doubles, One 40 to 53 ft trailer and one 28.5 ft trailer. In Canada, a Turnpike Double is two 53 ft trailers, and a Rocky Mountain Double is a 50 ft trailer with a 24 ft pup, future Long Combination Vehicles under consideration and study for the U. S. MAP-21 transportation bill are container doubles. The US federal government, which regulates the Interstate Highway System, does not set maximum length requirements. Tractors can pull two or three if the combination is legal in that state. Weight maximums are 20,000 lb on an axle,34,000 lb on a tandem. There is a width of 8.5 ft and no maximum height. Roads other than the Interstates are regulated by the individual states, maximum weight varies between 80,000 lb to 171,000 lb, depending on the combination
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Gasoline
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Gasoline /ˈɡæsəliːn/, known as petrol /ˈpɛtrəl/ outside North America, is a transparent, petroleum-derived liquid that is used primarily as a fuel in internal combustion engines. It consists mostly of organic compounds obtained by the distillation of petroleum. On average, a 42-gallon barrel of oil yields about 19 US gallons of gasoline when processed in an oil refinery. The characteristic of a gasoline blend to resist igniting too early is measured by its octane rating. Gasoline is produced in several grades of octane rating, sometimes, gasoline also contains ethanol as an alternative fuel, for economic or environmental reasons. Gasoline, as used worldwide in the vast number of combustion engines used in transport and industry, has a significant impact on the environment. Gasoline may also enter the environment uncombusted, as liquid and as vapors, from leakage and handling during production, transport and delivery, from tanks, from spills. As an example of efforts to control leakage, many storage tanks are required to have extensive measures in place to detect. Gasoline contains benzene and other known carcinogens, Gasoline inhalation can produce an intense high, however the practice is thought to cause severe organ damage, including mental retardation. The first automotive combustion engines, so-called Otto engines, were developed in the last quarter of the 19th century in Germany, the fuel was a relatively volatile hydrocarbon obtained from coal gas. With a boiling point near 85 °C, it was suited for early carburetors. The development of a spray nozzle carburetor enabled the use of less volatile fuels, further improvements in engine efficiency were attempted at higher compression ratios, but early attempts were blocked by knocking. In the 1920s, antiknock compounds were introduced by Thomas Midgley Jr. and Boyd and this innovation started a cycle of improvements in fuel efficiency that coincided with the large-scale development of oil refining to provide more products in the boiling range of gasoline. In the 1950s oil refineries started to focus on high octane fuels, the 1970s witnessed greater attention to the environmental consequences of burning gasoline. These considerations led to the out of TEL and its replacement by other antiknock compounds. Subsequently, low-sulfur gasoline was introduced, in part to preserve the catalysts in modern exhaust systems, Gasoline is the term that is used in North America to refer to the most popular automobile fuel. The Oxford English Dictionary dates the first use to 1863, when it was spelled gasolene and it was never a trademark, although it may have been derived from older trademarks such as Cazeline and Gazeline. Variant spellings of gasoline had been used to refer to raw petroleum since the 16th century, Petrol is the preferred term in most Commonwealth countries
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Prosthesis
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In medicine, a prosthesis is an artificial device that replaces a missing body part, which may be lost through trauma, disease, or congenital conditions. A persons prosthetics should be designed and assembled according to the patients appearance, for instance, a patient may need a transradial prosthesis, but need to choose between an aesthetic functional device, a myoelectric device, a body-powered device, or an activity specific device. The patients future goals and economical capabilities may help choose between one or more devices. Craniofacial prostheses include intra-oral and extra-oral prostheses, extra-oral prostheses are further divided into hemifacial, auricular, nasal, orbital and ocular. Intra-oral prostheses include dental prostheses such as dentures, obturators, limb prostheses include both upper- and lower-extremity prostheses. A transradial prosthesis is a limb that replaces an arm missing below the elbow. Two main types of prosthetics are available, cable operated limbs work by attaching a harness and cable around the opposite shoulder of the damaged arm. The other form of prosthetics available are myoelectric arms and these work by sensing, via electrodes, when the muscles in the upper arm move, causing an artificial hand to open or close. In the prosthetic industry a trans-radial prosthetic arm is referred to as a BE or below elbow prosthesis. Lower-extremity prostheses provide replacements at varying levels of amputation and these include hip disarticulation, transfemoral prosthesis, knee disarticulation, transtibial prosthesis, Symes amputation, foot, partial foot, and toe. The two main subcategories of lower extremity prosthetic devices are trans-tibial and trans-femoral, a transfemoral prosthesis is an artificial limb that replaces a leg missing above the knee. Transfemoral amputees can have a difficult time regaining normal movement. In general, a transfemoral amputee must use approximately 80% more energy to walk than a person with two whole legs and this is due to the complexities in movement associated with the knee. In the prosthetic industry a trans-femoral prosthetic leg is often referred to as an AK or above the knee prosthesis, a transtibial prosthesis is an artificial limb that replaces a leg missing below the knee. A transtibial amputee is usually able to regain normal movement more readily than someone with an amputation, due in large part to retaining the knee. Lower extremity prosthetics describes artificially replaced limbs located at the hip level or lower, in the prosthetic industry a trans-tibial prosthetic leg is often referred to as a BK or below the knee prosthesis. Prosthetics have been mentioned throughout history, the earliest recorded mention is the warrior queen Vishpala in the Rigveda. The Egyptians were early pioneers of the idea, as shown by the wooden toe found on a body from the New Kingdom, roman bronze crowns have also been found, but their use could have been more aesthetic than medical
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Film
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A film, also called a movie, motion picture, theatrical film or photoplay, is a series of still images which, when shown on a screen, creates the illusion of moving images due to the phi phenomenon. This optical illusion causes the audience to perceive continuous motion between separate objects viewed rapidly in succession, the process of filmmaking is both an art and an industry. The word cinema, short for cinematography, is used to refer to the industry of films. Films were originally recorded onto plastic film through a photochemical process, the adoption of CGI-based special effects led to the use of digital intermediates. Most contemporary films are now fully digital through the process of production, distribution. Films recorded in a form traditionally included an analogous optical soundtrack. It runs along a portion of the film exclusively reserved for it and is not projected, Films are cultural artifacts created by specific cultures. They reflect those cultures, and, in turn, affect them, Film is considered to be an important art form, a source of popular entertainment, and a powerful medium for educating—or indoctrinating—citizens. The visual basis of film gives it a power of communication. Some films have become popular worldwide attractions by using dubbing or subtitles to translate the dialog into the language of the viewer, some have criticized the film industrys glorification of violence and its potentially negative treatment of women. The individual images that make up a film are called frames, the perception of motion is due to a psychological effect called phi phenomenon. The name film originates from the fact that film has historically been the medium for recording and displaying motion pictures. Many other terms exist for a motion picture, including picture, picture show, moving picture, photoplay. The most common term in the United States is movie, while in Europe film is preferred. Terms for the field, in general, include the big screen, the screen, the movies, and cinema. In early years, the sheet was sometimes used instead of screen. Preceding film in origin by thousands of years, early plays and dances had elements common to film, scripts, sets, costumes, production, direction, actors, audiences, storyboards, much terminology later used in film theory and criticism apply, such as mise en scène. Owing to the lack of any technology for doing so, the moving images, the magic lantern, probably created by Christiaan Huygens in the 1650s, could be used to project animation, which was achieved by various types of mechanical slides
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Starship Troopers (film)
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Starship Troopers is a 1997 American satirical military science fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Edward Neumeier. It originally came from a script called Bug Hunt at Outpost Nine. The story follows a soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry. Ricos military career progresses from recruit to NCO and finally to officer against the backdrop of a war between mankind and an insectoid species known as Arachnids. The only theatrically released film in the Starship Troopers franchise, it received reviews from critics on release. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects at the 70th Academy Awards in 1998, Verhoeven says his satirical use of irony and hyperbole is playing with fascism or fascist imagery to point out certain aspects of American society. Of course, the movie is about Lets all go to war, in 2012, Slant Magazine ranked the film #20 on its list of the 100 Best Films of the 1990s. In the 23rd century, humanity has become a space-faring civilization, while colonizing new planets, humans have encountered an insectoid species known as Arachnids or Bugs, with their home being the distant world Klendathu. The bugs appear to be more than savage, unrelenting killing machines. In the Federation, citizenship is a privilege, earned by performing such activities as military service, John Johnny Rico, his girlfriend Carmen Ibanez and best friend Carl Jenkins attend high school in Buenos Aires. Fellow student Isabel Dizzy Flores is in love with Rico, and they all enlist in the Federal Service after graduation, despite Ricos parents disapproving of military service and wanting him to enroll at Harvard University instead. Carmen becomes a pilot assigned to the battleship Rodger Young. Rico enlists in the Mobile Infantry, expecting to be with Carmen, but is surprised to find Dizzy, at Mobile Infantry training, Career Sgt. Rico is later promoted to leader after showing initiative and quick thinking during training exercises. He later receives a Dear John letter from Carmen, as she desires a career with the fleet and now serves under Ricos high-school sports rival, Zander Barcalow. Following a live-fire training incident that kills one of Ricos squad and causes another to quit out of guilt, Rico rescinds his resignation and remains with the Infantry as an invasion force is deployed to Klendathu. The first strike on Klendathu is a disaster, with hundreds of thousands of casualties. Rico is severely wounded in the leg and mistakenly classified KIA, Rico, Ace and Dizzy are reassigned to the Roughnecks, an elite unit commanded by Lt. Jean Rasczak, Ricos former high-school teacher
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The Negotiator
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The Negotiator is a 1998 American action thriller film directed by F. Gary Gray, and stars Samuel L. Jackson and Kevin Spacey as two hostage lieutenants. When Roman goes for another meeting, he finds Roenick murdered seconds before other police arrive, matters become worse for Roman when Internal Affairs investigator Terence Niebaum, whom Roenicks informant suspected of involvement in the embezzlement, is assigned to investigate the murder. Roman is forced to surrender his gun and badge and his colleagues are doubtful of his protests of innocence, with embezzlement and homicide charges pending, Roman storms into Niebaums office and demands answers about who set him up. When Niebaum refuses to answer, Roman takes Niebaum, his administrative assistant Maggie, police commander Grant Frost, Sabian clashes with the CPD but is given temporary command of the unit after they hastily attempt a breach that goes awry, resulting in additional officers becoming Romans hostages. Roman trades Frost to Sabian in exchange for restoring the buildings electricity and he also discovers recordings of wiretaps, including a conversation that suggests Roenick was meeting his informant before he was killed. Sabian, using the information Roman provided, claims to have located Roenicks informant in a bid to get Roman to release the hostages, Roman realizes Sabian is bluffing when Niebaums files reveal Roenick himself was the IAD informant. When Roman threatens to throw Niebaum out of an office window, when Niebaum confronted the guilty officers, he received a bribe from them to cover up their crimes, but does not know who the inside ringleader is. Roman single-handedly fights them off using the flashbangs he seized from the officers in the previous failed breach, believing that Sabian and the police cannot resolve the situation, the FBI assume jurisdiction over the operation. The FBI cease negotiations, relieve Sabian of his command, Sabian now believes in Romans innocence and gives him a chance to prove his case, while the FBI and SWAT raid the building and rescue the hostages, Roman escapes disguised in a SWAT uniform. Roman and Sabian proceed to Niebaums house, but are unable to find the wiretaps, the police arrive and the corrupt officers enter the house but they back off as Frost enters and tries to talk Roman down. Sabian observes Frost discreetly taking one of the guns and realizes that Frost is the ringleader of the conspiracy, in front of Frost, Sabian seemingly shoots Roman dead and offers to destroy the evidence they have uncovered in return for a cut of Frosts take. Frost agrees and effectively makes a full admission to his crimes, when Frost exits the house, he discovers Roman had feigned death and used a police radio microphone to broadcast his confession to the police surrounding the area. Frost attempts suicide but is disarmed and arrested with the corrupt officers. As Roman is loaded into an ambulance, Sabian gives him back his badge, the film is dedicated to J. T. Walsh, who died several months before the films release. The building used for the IAD office is 77 West Wacker Drive, when it was made, The Negotiators $50 million budget was the highest ever given to an African-American director. This films conspiracy plotline is based on the pension fund scandal in the St. Louis Police Department in the late 1980s. The film received a positive critical response and a score of 75% on Rotten Tomatoes. The Negotiator at the Internet Movie Database The Negotiator at AllMovie The Negotiator at Rotten Tomatoes The Negotiator at Metacritic The Negotiator at Box Office Mojo
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The West Wing
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The West Wing is an American serial political drama television series created by Aaron Sorkin that was originally broadcast on NBC from September 22,1999, to May 14,2006. The West Wing was produced by Warner Bros, for the first four seasons, there were three executive producers, Aaron Sorkin, Thomas Schlamme, and John Wells. The West Wing received acclaim from critics, as well as praise from political science professors, in total, The West Wing won three Golden Globe Awards and 26 Emmy Awards, including the award for Outstanding Drama Series, which it won four consecutive times from 2000 through 2003. In the years since its run, it has appeared on lists of the greatest television dramas ever made. The Writers Guild of America also ranked it #10 in its 101 Best-Written TV Series list, the West Wing employed a broad ensemble cast to portray the many positions involved in the daily work of the federal government. The President, the First Lady, and the Presidents senior staff, numerous secondary characters, appearing intermittently, complement storylines that generally revolve around this core group. Sam Seaborn is the Deputy Communications Director and he departs the White House following the re-election of President Bartlet to run for Congress. He is recruited to become Santos Deputy Chief of Staff at the series end, mandy Hampton is Josh Lymans ex-girlfriend and a media consultant contracted by the Bartlet administration. She departs without explanation following the first season, charlie Young is originally the Personal Aide to the President and later a Deputy Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff. He is in a relationship with Zoey Bartlet, at the series end he begins to study law at Georgetown. She succeeds Leo McGarry as Chief of Staff and departs White House at the end of the Bartlet administration, post-series, she marries Danny Concannon and has a child. He is fired from the Bartlet administration during a leak investigation and he has twin children with his ex-wife who is a congresswoman from Maryland. Leo McGarry, Bartlets close personal friend and Chief of Staff, following a heart attack, he becomes Counselor to the President, and later the Democratic Candidate for Vice President. Josh Lyman, is the Deputy Chief of Staff to Leo McGarry and C. J. Cregg, when Santos is elected, Josh becomes White House Chief of Staff. Josiah Jed Bartlet is the President of the United States, an economist by training, he is a former Congressman and Governor from New Hampshire who unexpectedly won the Democratic Party nomination. He suffers from multiple sclerosis, a fact he hides from the electorate. Donna Moss is the Senior Assistant to Josh Lyman and she later departs to be a spokesperson for the Russell campaign and then the Santos campaign. Upon Santos election, she becomes Chief of Staff to the First Lady, abbey Bartlet is the First Lady, Jeds wife, and a physician
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L.A. Law
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L. A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC, from September 15,1986, to May 19,1994. The series often also reflected social tensions between the senior lawyer protagonists and their less well-paid junior staff. In addition to its main cast, L. A. Sanders, James Avery, Gates McFadden, Bryan Cranston, pounder, Kevin Spacey, Richard Schiff, Carrie-Anne Moss, William H. Macy, Stephen Root, Christian Slater, and Lucy Liu. Several episodes of the show included celebrities such as Vanna White, Buddy Hackett. The show was popular with audiences and critics, and won 15 Emmy Awards throughout its run, four of which were for Outstanding Drama Series. The series was set in and around the fictitious Los Angeles-based law firm McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney and Kuzak, the exteriors for the law firm were shot at the Citigroup Center in downtown Los Angeles, which was known as the 444 Flower Building at the time. The show often combined humor and drama in the same episode. In the pilot episode of the series, only the back and hand of law partner Chaney, one of Chaneys final acts was to hire a new secretary, who began work on the morning Chaneys body is discovered. Later in that episode, in front of his partners, friends and his wife, the secretary at Chaneys eulogy reveals that she is transsexual, Chaney had been financially supporting her gender transition, and hired her as part of her real life test. She is then fired from her job by Douglas Brackman. This once caused problems when a client used him to set up her husband to be murdered, a running gag during Harry Hamlins tenure was to have his character, Michael Kuzak, always shown picking, scrutinizing, and eating pastries or fruit at the morning staff meetings. He was the one who ate from the mountains of food provided. To some extent, the sexual peccadilloes of almost the entire cast would become fodder for episodes of the series. After Grace van Owen makes a comment that Michael Kuzak would have to be a monkey before shed be interested in him, Douglas Brackman becomes involved with a sex therapist. Benny Stulwicz, an intellectually disabled clerk at the office, has sex with the disabled daughter of a client of the firm. Leland McKenzie and Rosalind Shays, antagonists, secretly become lovers, Douglas Brackman, their boss, is also arrested in the mayhem of the riots as he is on his way to get remarried. In one scene later in the series, the writers enacted an inside joke, in her final scene, the character of Rosalind Shays steps into the empty shaft and falls to her death. The name Chaney remains in the name of the law firm, despite changes in personnel
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G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (1985 TV series)
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Joe, A Real American Hero is a half-hour American animated television series based on the toyline from Hasbro and the comic book series from Marvel Comics. The cartoon had its beginnings with two five-part mini-series in 1983 and 1984, then became a series that ran in syndication from 1985 to 1986. The popularity of these led to the production of a five-part G. I. Joe mini-series which aired in 1983, the plot centers on the titular M. A. S. S. Device, a powerful matter-transporter, and G. I, Joe and Cobras race around the world to acquire the three catalytic elements which power the machine. Both mini-series were written by Ron Friedman, Joe was promoted to an ongoing series in 1985, with an initial order for a first season of 55 more episodes. The season was edited by Steve Gerber. A second season of 30 episodes followed in 1986, beginning with a fourth story, Arise, Serpentor. Slaughter as a member of G. I, for this season, Buzz Dixon replaced Steve Gerber as story editor. Joe, The Movie, a film version of the series, was intended to be released theatrically followed by The Transformers. However, the movie encountered unexpected production delays which allowed the Transformers feature to be released first, due to the poor box office performances of the Transformers and My Little Pony films, G. I. Joe was relegated to direct-to-video status and it was released on VHS on April 20,1987 and was later split into a 5-part mini-series for television syndication. The Movie follows up on the events of Season 2, revealing that Cobra Commander is actually an agent of a civilization known as Cobra-La led by a half-serpent humanoid named Golobulus. In addition to Cobra-La, two new sub-teams were introduced within the Joe Team, the Rawhides and the Renegades, both composed of characters introduced during the toylines 1987 lineup, Marvel Productions would continue to produce animated commercials for the toyline and comic books after G. I. Joe, The Movie, which was intended to set up Season 3, however, the company never got around to produce a third season, as they ended up losing the license to competing animation company DiC during pre-production. Michael Charles Hill, who wrote episodes of the show, had already proposed an outline for Season 3 that wouldve followed the events of The Movie. Joe series premiered in 1989 with a five-part mini-series titled Operation and it was turned into a regular series, airing from 1990 to 1992, lasting two seasons for a total of 44 episodes. The DiC series followed the continuity as the earlier Sunbow series
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Class Action (film)
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Class Action is a 1991 American drama thriller film directed by Michael Apted. Gene Hackman and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio star, Laurence Fishburne, Colin Friels, Fred Dalton Thompson, the film was entered into the 17th Moscow International Film Festival. The story is about a lawsuit concerning injuries caused by a defective automobile, the suit takes on a personal dimension because the injured plaintiffs attorney, Jedediah Tucker Ward discovers that the automobile manufacturers attorney Maggie Ward is his estranged daughter. The central premise of the film is roughly analogous to the surrounding the Ford Pinto. A1977 article in Mother Jones alleged Ford was aware of the flaw, refused to pay for a redesign. The magazine obtained a cost-benefit analysis that it said Ford had used to compare the cost of repairs against the cost of settlements for deaths, injuries, the document became known as the Ford Pinto Memo. The film received positive reviews, it currently holds a 75% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It holds a 58/100 on Metacritic, indicating mixed or average reviews
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Life Goes On (TV series)
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Life Goes On is an American television series that aired on ABC from September 12,1989, to May 23,1993. Reruns aired on The Family Channel from 1992 until about 1995, FX from about 1995 until about 1998, and PAX from 1998 until about 1999. The show centers on the Thatcher family living in suburban Chicago, Drew, his wife Elizabeth, and their children Paige, Rebecca, and Charles, Life Goes On was the first television series to have a major character with Down syndrome. The drama featured the Thatcher family, whose son, Charles Corky Thatcher, has Down syndrome, tony Award-winning stage actress Patti LuPone played the mother Elizabeth and Bill Smitrovich played the father Drew. Eldest sister Paige Thatcher was played by Monique Lanier during the 1989–1990 seasons, Beccas boyfriend and Corkys buddy, Tyler Benchfield, was played by Tommy Puett. Jerry Berkson was Libbys quirky boss, in the last two seasons, Beccas boyfriend Jesse McKenna was played by Chad Lowe. Executive Producer Michael Braverman first cast Chris Burke in the 1987 television movie Desperate, based on Bravermans favorite book, after seeing Burkes work, ABC executives asked Braverman to create a show around Burke. The show is set in the Chicago suburb Glenbrook, Illinois, the name itself is a blend of the real suburbs served by the school, Glenview and Northbrook. Each episodes opening credits end with a shot of Arnold, the family dog, apparently forgotten by the family in their rush to get ready for the day, he sits forlornly in the kitchen with his empty food bowl in his mouth and lets it drop to the floor. During the shows first year, the focus was on Corky. Much of the show examined the challenges of a family whose son had Down Syndrome, the Thatchers sought to have Corky interact with regular society after spending years socializing him amongst other kids with Down syndrome in special classes. In addition, during the first three seasons, episodes included Tyler Benchfield, Beccas high school crush, who also had a brother with Down syndrome, Corky eventually got a job as an usher at a local movie theater. He later found a girlfriend, Amanda Swanson, who also had Down Syndrome, by the second season, the writers had begun to expand the shows scope beyond Corky, and the third and fourth seasons centered on Becca and a new character named Jesse. Jesse, a junior, met Becca through the theatre department. As the two friends, Jesse told Becca he was HIV-positive. Tyler became a prominent figure in Beccas life, and was jealous of Beccas closeness with Jesse. The character of Tyler was soon out of the show. Much to the surprise of those around them, Becca and Jesse began a relationship despite his HIV, the writers began to explore life with HIV through Jesses character, and the difficulties the disease causes with romantic relationships
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Once Upon a Forest
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Once Upon a Forest is a 1993 animated film based on the Furlings characters created by Rae Lambert. A Hanna-Barbera/HTV Cymru/Wales production released by 20th Century Fox, the film was directed by Charles Grosvenor and it tells the story of three forest denizens that go on an expedition to cure their friend, Michelle, who became sick from chemical fumes. The films environmental theme divided critics at the time of its release, along with the animation, the film was a box office bomb, grossing US$6.6 million against a budget of $13 million. The story opens in a forest known as Dapplewood, where Furlings live alongside their teacher, the four Furlings central to the story are Abigail, a woodmouse, Edgar, a mole, Russell a hedgehog and a badger named Michelle, who is Cornelius niece. One day, the Furlings go on a trip through the forest with Cornelius, Russell is almost run over by a careless driver, who throws away a glass bottle that shatters in the middle of the road. Cornelius orders the Furlings to forget the road and their ends with a boat ride. Michelle panics and runs to her home to find her parents, breathing in the gas, Abigail risks her own life and saves a comatose Michelle, but can do nothing for Michelles parents. The Furlings go to Cornelius house nearby for shelter after they find their homes deserted, there, Cornelius tells the Furlings of his past encounter with humans that claimed the lives of his parents, hence why he is fearful of all human beings. He says he needs two herbs to save Michelles life, lungwort and eyebright, with limited time, the Furlings head off for their journey the next day. There, they meet the bully squirrel Waggs, and Willy, after getting the eyebright, they discover that the lungwort is on a giant cliff making it inaccessible by foot. Russell suggests they use Cornelius airship, the Flapper-Wing-a-Ma-Thing, to get to the lungwort, the Furlings manage to get the lungwort after a dangerous flight up the cliff, then steer their airship back for Dapplewood. They crash-land back in the forest after a storm, and bring the herbs to Michelle, a group of humans appear and the animals, thinking the humans mean them harm, escape through the backdoor of Cornelius house. Edgar gets separated from the group and gets caught in an old trap, when one of the workers finds him, the animals are surprised when he frees Edgar and destroys the trap, revealing the men are cleaning up the gas. The group, especially Cornelius, realize that there are humans in the world. The next day, she appears unresponsive but a tear from Cornelius awakens her from her coma. Cornelius sees the Flapper-Wing-a-Ma-Thing and becomes amazed on how the Furlings have grown-up, the Furlings families and many of the other inhabitants arrive as well, except for Michelles parents, who died in the gas accident, but Cornelius promises to do his best on taking care of her. The Furlings happily reunite with their families, who are relieved to see that their children are alright, Michelle asks Cornelius if anything will ever be the same again. Cornelius looks at the trees in the forest and says to her that if everyone works as hard to save Dapplewood as the Furlings did to save Michelle
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Beverly Hills, 90210
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It is the first of five television series in the Beverly Hills,90210 franchise. The show was created by Darren Star and executive producers Charles Rosin followed in later seasons by Aaron Spelling, E. Duke Vincent, Paul Waigner, Steve Wasserman, the 90210 in the title refers to one of the citys five ZIP codes. Beverly Hills,90210 was named one of the Best School Shows of All Time by AOL TV, the series became one of Foxs top shows when it began its next season that fall. The show also had many cast changes, with Garth, Spelling, Ian Ziering, the show followed the dramatic lives of its characters through high school, college, and ultimately the adult world, while introducing several additional characters as its seasons progressed. It is the show produced by Aaron Spelling, airing slightly longer than Dynasty. Shannen Doherty left the show at the end of the fourth season, dohertys character, Brenda Walsh, was written off the show as moving to London to attend school at the Royal Academy for Dramatic Arts. While the characters absence was originally described as only being for a year, she never returned and she was replaced with former Saved by the Bell star Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, who played the bad-girl character Valerie Malone. Dohertys departure from the show would be the longest the continuity had seen with a lead cast member not making another guest appearance after they had left the show. Spanning for a time of 14 years, Brenda Walsh was not seen in any 90210 incarnation until September 2,2008, in which she reprised her role in the CWs spinoff,90210. Doherty appeared as Brenda Walsh in the 2008 spin-off series,90210, along with former costars Jennie Garth, Tori Spelling, Ann Gillespie, Gabrielle Carteris left the show following the fifth season. Her character, Andrea Zuckerman, changed radically from high school to college, in high school, Andrea was the brainy editor of the West Beverly Blaze, had a crush on Brandon, and secretly lived out of district. During the fourth season, Andrea becomes pregnant, and gets married to someone she knows before the year is out. Her plot lines chronicled the struggles of trying to juggle college, marriage, the character eventually headed to Yale University. After her original five-year contract ended, Carteris voluntarily left the show for her own self-titled talk show, Carteris returned to the show for guest appearances during the sixth, eighth and tenth seasons. Both actors left the following the fifth season at the end of their original five-year contracts. During the high school years of the show, Jim and Cindy Walsh played secondary roles, offering advice to Brenda and Brandon, along with their friends and they generally spent most of their time reacting to various things that Brenda, Brandon and later Valerie did. Following the fifth season, both characters left Beverly Hills for Hong Kong, making occasional guest appearances in the sixth, seventh and eighth seasons, even though all the Walshes eventually left the show, the Walsh home continued to play a central role in the series. The show explained this by having Brandon tell Steve his parents had given the light for Steve to keep living in the house
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Andersonville (film)
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The film is loosely based on the diary of John Ransom, a Union soldier imprisoned there. His line on escaping prisoners is similar to the book. The film begins with a group of Union soldiers being captured and forced to surrender at Cold Harbor, Virginia and they are transported to prisoner-of-war Camp Sumter, near Andersonville, Georgia. With every able-bodied man required for fighting, young teenagers and old men are used as guards, at one watch tower, manned by two young guards, a Union soldier offers money for some corn. He is instructed to step over the dead line fence and approach the tower to trade. But reluctantly, compelled by need, the soldier steps over the line, as the story unfolds, the unit captured at the beginning of the film ally with some inmates, and help them by working on their tunnel under the stockade wall. Eventually it is complete, but one man tries to inform the guards and he is captured and TT is cut into his forehead as a warning. The escape is attempted one night, and all well until the last man is spotted and shot. In a very time, most escapees are back in the camp. The situation with the Raiders eventually becomes unbearable, as group after group of new prisoners are targeted upon arrival, night raids are made, with possessions being taken from tents and prisoners injured or killed by the Raiders. After a banjo is stolen, one man fights to get it back but is badly beaten, things progressively get worse until finally one man decides he has seen enough of the vultures out to rob and murder the new boys. He rallies support from the groups, and within minutes hundreds of his comrades are charging the Raiders camp. A massive and deadly riot ensues, in the end the Raiders are beaten, stolen goods are redistributed to their owners, but many want them all hanged outright. But upon the insistence of a few, a request for a trial is made to Captain Wirz. A trial is held, with a made up of new internees. As the film ends, an announcement is made by Wirz that all prisoners are to be exchanged – the surviving Federal soldiers leave the camp, filing past their dead comrades on the way to the trains. Against a view of the present-day Andersonville National Cemetery, the movies end coda reads, In 1864–5, the men who walked to the trains were taken to other prisons, where they remained until the war ended. After the war, Wirz was hanged, the soldier to be tried and executed for war crimes committed during the Civil War
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The Practice
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The Practice is an American legal drama created by David E. Kelley centering on the partners and associates at a Boston law firm. The Practice focused on the law firm of Robert Donnell and Associates, plots typically featured the firms involvement in various high-profile criminal and civil cases that often mirror current events. Conflict between legal ethics and personal morality was a recurring theme, Kelley claimed that he conceived the show as something of a rebuttal to L. A. Law and its romanticized treatment of the American legal system and legal proceedings. At the start of the series, attorney Bobby Donnell employs associate attorneys Ellenor Frutt, Eugene Young, Lindsay Dole, by the fourth episode, Bobbys friend Jimmy Berluti is hired as an associate. Before that, Jimmy is a working as a loan officer. When he falsifies loan documents to help Bobbys struggling practice, he loses his job, Bobby maintains sole control over the firm until an ultimatum by Lindsay motivates him to name Ellenor, Eugene, Lindsay, and Rebecca as junior partners. To maintain control over the firm, Bobby writes into the charter that each received one vote in partnership meetings. While this decision prevents Lindsays power play from becoming ugly, it causes some tension when Bobby and Lindsay later become romantically involved. The partnership agreement also initially alienates Jimmy who feels insulted that he was the one on staff not named a partner. This is exacerbated by the fact that Rebecca is made partner despite her being the receptionist, Rebecca earns her law degree in Season 3, and Jimmy is eventually made partner at the end of Season 7. Bobby and his associates all share a friendship with A. D. A, Helen Gamble, who even shares a brief romance with Bobby – all highly unusual, considering how often Helens job places her in opposition to the firm. While the strategy is effective, it would occasionally backfire once the D. A. s office grew familiar with the strategy. This tactic invariably causes great distress for the attorney employing the plan when they know that the target is most likely innocent. Thus, in cases, Plan B is used only as a last resort. In 2003, Bobby Donnell leaves the firm, fearing he had become the blue-chip lawyer he had long resented and he names Eugene as senior partner. Along with Ellenor, Eugene decides to make Jimmy a full partner and extends an offer to Lindsay, and her associate Claire Wyatt to return to the firm. This occurred at the end of seven, at the end of which most of the cast was fired for budgetary reasons as ABC agreed to renew the show only if the budget per episode was drastically cut. Season eight began with half the original cast missing
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The Gene Generation
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The Gene Generation is a 2007 Biopunk science fiction film about an assassin who battles DNA hackers. The film was directed by Pearry Reginald Teo, and stars Bai Ling, Parry Shen, Faye Dunaway, in a futuristic world, Michelle lives everyday battling with DNA Hackers who use their skills to hack into peoples bodies and kill them. She is an assassin, battling her past demons and trying to keep her younger and extroverted brother, Jackie, when Jackie gets involved in a petty crime of robbery, he propels himself into the world of DNA Hackers, Shylocks and Gang Fights. Wanting the respect that the world has never given to him makes it harder for Jackie to peel himself away from the underground trades, against the hopes of his sister. Michelle always wanted to leave the city and lead a calm, the soundtrack for the film features various tracks by Combichrist, Encephalon and Tribal Machine, while the score was composed by Scott Glasgow with additional music by Ronan Harris of VNV Nation. The score was released on CD by the Varèse Sarabande label in March 2009. The following tracks are listed at the end of the film, On February 4,2010, it was revealed that a sequel, The Gene Generation, filming was due to begin in March 2010 and be completed by September 2010. However, since this announcement there have no further details on the status of the production. Official website The Gene Generation at the Internet Movie Database The Gene Generation Soundtrack Review
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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database
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The West Wing (season 1)
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The first season of the American political drama television series The West Wing aired in the United States on NBC from September 22,1999 to May 17,2000 and consisted of 22 episodes. Rob Lowe as Sam Seaborn, Deputy White House Communications Director Moira Kelly as Mandy Hampton, Media Consultant Dulé Hill as Charlie Young, several episodes feature the White House desperately digging for a backdoor through which to pass a particular piece of legislation. This powerlessness ends in Let Bartlet Be Bartlet when Leo and the president finally agree to any battle they believe to be important. The season ends with an assassination attempt with an ominous call over a Secret Service radio. The first season of The West Wing received positive reviews, and scored a Metacritic rating of 79 out of 100, the first season received 18 Emmy Award nominations for the 52nd Primetime Emmy Awards, winning a total of 9 awards. Thomas Del Ruth received a nomination from the American Society of Cinematographers for the pilot episode
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The West Wing (season 2)
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The second season of the American political drama television series The West Wing aired in the United States on NBC from October 4,2000 to May 16,2001 and consisted of 22 episodes. The second season made frequent use of flashbacks, revealing Bartlets campaign for the presidency in the prior to events covered in the first season. Aaron Sorkin originally planned to have such flashbacks as a part of the entire season. The second season had star billing for eight major roles, seven of these were filled by returning main cast members from the first season, while Moira Kelly departed the cast at the end of the previous season. Rob Lowe once again receives star billing, while Martin Sheen receives the, the rest of the ensemble, now including previously recurring Janel Moloney, are credited alphabetically. Rob Lowe as Sam Seaborn, Deputy Communications Director Dulé Hill as Charlie Young and it covers a wider legislative array than the first season does, and presents issues including the rights of hate groups and the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. In this season, The West Wing characters are shown as being capable of legislating thanks to an increased approval rating. Also vital to this theme is the new doctrine for legislating laid out in the first season episode Let Bartlet Be Bartlet, the multiple sclerosis arc becomes central late in the second season as staff members are introduced one-by-one to the Presidents ailment and the public made aware. This theme remains central to the entire series, Mrs. Landingham, the longtime secretary of President Bartlet, dies in the penultimate episode, 18th and Potomac. In the final episode, Two Cathedrals, Mrs. Landinghams funeral is central as is the question of whether the President will run for re-election, the second season received 18 Emmy Award nominations for the 53rd Primetime Emmy Awards, winning a total of 8 awards. Thomas Del Ruth won an award from the American Society of Cinematographers for the episode Noël
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Allison Janney
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Allison Brooks Janney is an American actress. A seven-time Primetime Emmy Award winner for her work, her first four Emmy wins were for her role as C. J. Cregg on the NBC drama The West Wing. In 2014, she won the Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Margaret Scully on the Showtime series Masters of Sex. In 2014 and 2015, she won the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as Bonnie Plunkett on the CBS sitcom Mom. Janney, who won a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in the summer of 1984 and she won Drama Desk Awards for the 1997 Broadway revival of A View From the Bridge, and the 2009 original Broadway production of the musical 9 to 5. She also received Tony Award nominations for both, Janney was born in Boston, Massachusetts and raised in Dayton, Ohio. She is the daughter of Macy Brooks, an actress and homemaker. She is one of three siblings, Janney attended The Miami Valley School in Dayton, where she was named a distinguished alumna in 2004, and the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut. She then attended Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, at Kenyon, she studied with Paul Newman, an alumnus of Kenyon. He directed her in a play as the event of the schools newly dedicated Bolton Theater. Newman and his wife Joanne Woodward encouraged Janney to continue acting and she then went on to train at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York and did summer programs at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. She attended The Neighborhood Playhouse the same years as actor Dylan McDermott, Janneys first role on television was in the short-lived black-and-white faux-1940s comedy Morton & Hayes, she appeared in two episodes of the 1991 CBS series as Eddie Hayes wife. She then moved on to soap operas, she first played Vi Kaminski for a time on As the World Turns, following up with a two-year role as Ginger, one of the Spaulding maids. In the spring of 1994, she appeared in the finale of Law & Order. She was also a cast member on the radio show A Prairie Home Companion, in 2006, she had roles in the feature films Margaret and Over the Hedge. In 1999, she was cast in the role of press secretary C. J. Cregg on the television drama The West Wing. She was also nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in the 2003 and 2006 Primetime Emmys, Janney won two Screen Actors Guild awards for Best Actress in a dramatic series, in 2001 and 2002. The cast of The West Wing won the Screen Actors Guild award for Best Ensemble in a series the same two years
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Rob Lowe
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Robert Hepler Lowe is an American actor. He came to prominence in the 1980s, playing teen and young adult roles in such as The Outsiders, Oxford Blues, St. Elmos Fire. However, he continued acting in less prominent film roles, and went on to roles in television series such as The West Wing, Brothers & Sisters. Lowe was born in Charlottesville, Virginia, the son of Barbara Lynn, a schoolteacher and native of Ohio, and Charles Davis Lowe and his parents divorced when Lowe and his younger brother, actor Chad, were very young. As a result of a virus during infancy, he is deaf in his right ear, Lowe was baptized into the Episcopal church. He is of German, English, Irish, Scottish, on the show Who Do You Think You Are. Lowe found out one of his ancestors, Christopher East, was a Hessian soldier. His ancestor was fighting under the command of Colonel Johann Gottlieb Rall and was captured at the American Victory at Trenton, as an American POW, his ancestor was given a choice, and took the option to stay in the US. Lowe was raised in a traditional setting in Dayton, Ohio, attending Oakwood Junior High School, before moving to the Point Dume area of Malibu, California. Lowe attended Santa Monica High School, as did fellow actors Emilio Estevez, Charlie Sheen, Robert Downey, Jr. Sean Penn and his breakthrough role was his big screen debut in 1983, when he and Emilio Estevez were cast in Francis Ford Coppolas The Outsiders. Lowe played the role of Sodapop Curtis, the brother of the main character Ponyboy Curtis, Lowe and Estevez reunited in St. Elmos Fire, making them the two more prominent actors from the group known as the Brat Pack. He then received his second Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role as the mentally disabled Rory in Square Dance, in August,1987 he performed on stage, playing Baron Tusenbach in Chekovs The Three Sisters at The Williamstown Theatre Festival. Lowe is well known for playing Sam Seaborn in the television series The West Wing from 1999 to 2003 and his performance in the show garnered Lowe a Primetime Emmy Award nomination and two Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Actor in a Drama Series. Lowe was drawn to the role because of his love of politics, and his longstanding personal relationship with Martin Sheen. When the show premiered, Seaborn was considered the lead, Lowe and series creator Aaron Sorkin soon found themselves at odds over the networks meddling with the show, most notably the network demanding changes in the Sam Seaborn character. Eventually, Lowe left the series, not long before Sorkin, during the final season of The West Wing, Lowe returned to his role of Sam Seaborn, appearing in two of the final four episodes. In 2011, Lowe appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show and stated that he left the show because he did not feel he was being respected, after leaving the show, Lowe was the star and executive producer of a failed NBC drama, The Lyons Den. In 2004, he tried again in a series entitled Dr. Vegas, in 2005, he starred as Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee in a London West End production of Sorkins play A Few Good Men, the first time the two had worked together since The West Wing
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Janel Moloney
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Janel Wallace Moloney is an American actress. Born in Woodland Hills, California, Moloney is the niece of actress Christine Ebersole, presidential campaign, she was an active supporter of John Kerrys presidential campaign and made public appearances on its behalf. Moloney has a child by composer Marcelo Zarvos and her early work included television guest roles on ER, Sports Night, The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. and Murder, She Wrote. Starting in 1999, Moloney had a role on The West Wing as Donna Moss, assistant. Moloney was originally credited only as a guest star, but she appeared in episode of the first season. From the second season onward, Moloney was listed in the main credits, Moloney has received two Emmy Award nominations, one in 2002 and one in 2004, for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama. Moloney appeared in the television film Bang Bang Youre Dead with Thomas Cavanagh and Randy Harrison and she played the part of Amber Frey in the made-for-TV movie Amber Frey, Witness for the Prosecution, broadcast May 25,2005 on CBS. In 2007, Moloney played Dana Chase, who has a relationship with Tommy Caffee in six episodes of the 2nd season of Brotherhood, in 2008, Moloney appeared in one episode of House M. D. In 2008, she guest-starred in an episode of 30 Rock, Moloney appeared in the 3rd installment of the Lstudio. com Web Series Puppy Love. In 2009, she appeared in the US series Life on Mars as Professor Pat Olsen in the episode Revenge of the Broken Jaw and she also appeared in the episode Faithfully of Law & Order, Criminal Intent as Allison Wyler. In 2007, Moloney made her Off-Broadway stage debut as Theresa in the Playwrights Horizons production 100 Saints You Should Know, written by Kate Fodor and she appeared in the Off-Broadway play Love, Loss, and What I Wore in September through October 2,2011. Moloney starred in the 2010 feature film Armless, as Anna and she made a brief appearance as Earlene in the 1995 Walter Hill directed western Wild Bill, and appears in the 2013 film Concussion. Janel Moloney at the Internet Movie Database Janel Moloney Listing, Internet Off-Broadway Database
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Richard Schiff
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Richard Schiff is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for playing Toby Ziegler on The West Wing, Schiff made his directorial debut with The West Wing, directing an episode entitled Talking Points. He is on the National Advisory Board of the Council for a Livable World. Schiff was born on May 27,1955, in Bethesda, Maryland, and was raised there, Schiff dropped out of high school, but later obtained an equivalency diploma. In 1973, he studied briefly at The City College of New York and he moved to Colorado, where he found employment cutting firewood. Returning to New York in 1975, he began to study acting at CCNY and was accepted into their theater program, Schiff and his family are Jewish. He directed several plays, including Antigone in 1983 with a just-graduated Angela Bassett. In the mid-1980s Schiff decided to try his hand at acting and he was seen by Steven Spielberg in an episode of the TV drama High Incident and was cast in The Lost World, Jurassic Park. His career began a climb that led to his co-starring role as White House Communications Director Toby Ziegler on Aaron Sorkins award-winning television series The West Wing. Schiff became known for his reclusive and intense approach to his craft as well as his low-key delivery style, in 1995, Schiff portrayed a lawyer in Se7en. In 1996, he guest starred on the TV series ER, in 1996, he portrayed a corrupt probation officer in City Hall along with Al Pacino and John Cusack. Schiff portrayed a doctor alongside Eddie Murphy in the 1998 Dr. Dolittle remake, gen. Robert Laurel Smith in the 1998 HBO TV movie The Pentagon Wars, based on the real-life development of the US Armys Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle. That same year, Schiff appeared in the movie Deep Impact, Schiff appeared in one episode of Becker during its first season. In 2001, he acted in the movie Whats the Worst That Could Happen, starring Martin Lawrence and Danny DeVito. He played the part of the tough Mr. Turner in I Am Sam opposite Sean Penn and Michelle Pfeiffer, Schiff appeared in Ray as Jerry Wexler, shaving his beard for the role. After working on The West Wing for 6 seasons, Schiff chose to leave the series, when NBC chose to end the series, Schiff continued his appearances until the end of the shows run in May 2006, though he appeared only briefly in the series finale. That same year, he starred alongside Peter Krause in Civic Duty, Schiff had a cameo appearance as himself in the second-season finale of the series Entourage. The scene has Schiff at lunch with his agent Ari Gold and he appeared again as a fictionalised version of himself in Entourage
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Martin Sheen
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Other notable films in Sheens career include Gandhi, Gettysburg, The Departed, and The Amazing Spider-Man. He also starred in the television series The West Wing as President Josiah Bartlet, in film, Sheen has won the Best Actor award at the San Sebastián International Film Festival for his performance as Kit Carruthers in Badlands. Willard in Apocalypse Now earned a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor, Sheen received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1989. Born and raised in the United States by immigrant parents, he adopted the stage name Martin Sheen to help him gain acting parts and he is the father of four children, all of whom are actors. Although known as an actor, Sheen also has directed one film, Cadence, appearing alongside sons Charlie, Sheen has narrated, produced, and directed documentary television, earning two Daytime Emmy awards in the 1980s. In addition to film and television, Sheen has been active in liberal politics, Sheen was born in Dayton, Ohio, the son of Mary-Ann and Francisco Estévez Martínez. During birth, Sheens left arm was crushed by forceps, giving him limited lateral movement of that arm, both of Sheens parents were immigrants, his mother from Borrisokane, County Tipperary, Ireland, and his father was born in Salceda de Caselas, Galicia, Spain. After moving to Dayton in the 1930s, his father was a factory worker/machinery inspector at the National Cash Register Company, Sheen grew up on Brown Street in the South Park neighborhood, one of ten children. Due to his fathers work, the family lived in Bermuda on St. Johns Road, Pembroke, Martin was the first child to be born in Dayton, Ohio, after the family returned from Bermuda. Sheen contracted polio as a child and had to remain bedridden for a year and his doctors treatment using Sister Kennys method helped cure him and he regained use of his legs. When he was years old, Sheens mother died. The family was able to remain together with the assistance of Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Dayton, raised as a Catholic, he graduated from Chaminade High School. At fourteen years, he organized a strike of golf caddies while working at a golf club in Dayton. He complained about the golfers, They often used obscene language in front of us and we were little boys and they were abusive. And they, for the most part, were upstanding members of the community, Sheen was drawn to acting at a young age, but his father disapproved of his interest in the field. Despite his fathers opposition, Sheen borrowed money from a Catholic priest and moved to New York City in his early twenties and he spent two years in the Living Theatre company. It was in New York that he met the legendary Catholic activist Dorothy Day, Sheen deliberately failed the entrance examination for the University of Dayton so that he could pursue his acting career. He adopted his name, Martin Sheen, from a combination of the CBS casting director, Robert Dale Martin, who gave him his first big break
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John Spencer (actor)
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John Spencer was an American actor. He won an Emmy Award in 2002 for his role as White House Chief of Staff Leo McGarry on the NBC political drama series The West Wing, Spencer was born John Speshock, Jr. in New York City, and was raised in Totowa, New Jersey. He was the son of blue-collar parents Mildred, a waitress, Spencers father was of Irish and Czech descent, while his mother was of Ukrainian and Rusyn ancestry. With his enrollment at the Professional Childrens School in Manhattan in 1963, Spencer found himself sharing classes with such students as Liza Minnelli. He attended Fairleigh Dickinson University, but did not complete a degree, Spencer often referred to himself as a dyed-in-the-wool liberal and described Franklin Delano Roosevelt as one of his heroes. Spencer began his career on The Patty Duke Show. He won an Obie Award for the 1981 off Broadway production of Still Life, about a Vietnam War veteran and he became a full-fledged supporting actor with the hit 1990 courtroom thriller Presumed Innocent portraying a tough, veteran homicide detective, starring opposite Harrison Ford. The same year, Spencer joined the cast of the television series L. A. Law, playing rumpled, pugnacious, Spencers work also extended to video games, portraying the role of Captain Hugh Paulsen in the 1995 video game Wing Commander IV, The Price of Freedom. In 1999, Spencer was cast as White House Chief of Staff Leo McGarry on the hit NBC political drama series The West Wing, McGarry was later a senior staff consultant to President Josiah Bartlet and a vice presidential candidate until his death in 2005. Both Spencer and McGarry were recovering alcoholics, Spencer died of a heart attack in a Los Angeles hospital on December 16,2005, four days before his 59th birthday. He was survived by his partner of 5 years, actress Patricia Mariano, at Spencers private funeral, his West Wing castmate, Kristin Chenoweth, sang the musical number For Good from the Broadway musical Wicked. Spencers remains were interred at Laurel Grove Memorial Park in his hometown of Totowa, Spencers name remained in the opening credits throughout the remainder of the shows season. A tribute to Spencer, read by the shows lead Martin Sheen, was delivered at the start of episode 10 of the final season, John Spencer at the Internet Movie Database
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Bradley Whitford
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Whitford was nominated for three consecutive Emmy Awards from 2001 to 2003 for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his role on The West Wing, winning the award in 2001. This role has garnered him three consecutive Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role. He received a second Emmy Award in 2015 for his role in Transparent and he was an occasional columnist for The Huffington Post, until November 2009. Whitford was born in Madison, Wisconsin, the son of Genevieve Louie, between the ages of three and fourteen, he lived in Wayne, Pennsylvania. His mother, a poet, resided in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, Whitford graduated from Madison East High School in 1977. He majored in English and Theater at Wesleyan University, Whitford then attended the Juilliard Schools Drama Division as a member of Group 14, which also included actor Thomas Gibson. Whitford first appeared on television in 1985 in an episode of The Equalizer and his film debut was in the 1986 film Doorman. He made his Broadway theatre debut in 1990 playing Lt. Jack Ross and this was the beginning of a recurring working relationship between Whitford and Sorkin. Whitford also made a guest appearance on ER in the Emmy award-winning March 1995 episode Loves Labor Lost, Whitford joined the cast of Sorkins The West Wing as Josh Lyman with the shows premiere in 1999. For his role, he won an Emmy Award in 2001 for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, Whitford also wrote two episodes of the series. After The West Wing ended in May 2006, Whitford appeared in Sorkins later series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip playing the role of Danny Tripp and he appeared in the British drama Burn Up on the BBC in July 2008. He starred on Broadway in Boeing-Boeing which began in previews on April 19,2008 and he left the show in September 2008, and was succeeded in the role by Greg Germann. He co-starred in the Joss Whedon/Drew Goddard horror film The Cabin in the Woods, filmed in 2009, in 2010, Whitford starred as Dan Stark in the Fox TV comedy The Good Guys opposite Colin Hanks where he played an unorthodox, almost-out-of-control cop with a mustache. In 2011, Whitford guest starred in In Plain Sight on USA Network as a man combatting paranoia and he appeared in the season three finale of The Mentalist as a minion of and decoy for the long-sought nemesis of Patrick Jane, Red John. He also appeared on Law & Order, Los Angeles as a lawyer, in 2013, Whitford played Pete Harrison in the ABC comedy Trophy Wife which was canceled after one season and will guest star in the ABC drama Castle in early 2015. Whitford was married to fellow Wisconsin native, actress Jane Kaczmarek and they lived in San Marino, California with their three children. In 2007, the family appeared in advertisements for the 2008 Chrysler Town. On June 19,2009, the announced that they were filing for divorce after 16 years of marriage
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The West Wing (season 3)
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The season premiere was delayed by the September 11,2001 terrorist attacks in the United States. I didnt know how to write it anymore and it was a constant search for what I wasnt doing that used to make the show work. Maybe there was a way to make it work, I wasnt able to find it in twenty-two episodes. The third season had star billing for nine major roles, eight of these were filled by returning main cast members from the second season. Rob Lowe once again receives star billing, while Martin Sheen receives the, the rest of the ensemble, now including previously recurring Stockard Channing, are credited alphabetically. Channing is only credited for the episodes in which she appears, rob Lowe as Sam Seaborn, the Deputy Communications Director Stockard Channing as Abbey Bartlet, the First Lady Dulé Hill as Charlie Young, the Personal Aide to the President Allison Janney as C. J. Two special episodes, not part of the continuity, were produced to complement the series and were broadcast on NBC. Both episodes ran within the season and were included on the seasons DVD. Written by series creator Aaron Sorkin and directed by Christopher Misiano, the episode pushed the scheduled season premiere back a week and encouraged viewers to donate to charity—profits from the episode and cast members weekly pay were also donated. The episode was written and produced in record time—less than three weeks—and aired on October 3,2001, although timely and well-intentioned, the episode was criticized for being condescending and preachy. The documentary won a Primetime Emmy Award in 2002 for Outstanding Special Class Program, the third season received 21 Emmy Award nominations for the 54th Primetime Emmy Awards, the most-nominated season, winning a total of 4 awards. The series won its third consecutive award for Outstanding Drama Series and Allison Janney also won her third consecutive award, this time in the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series category. John Spencer and Stockard Channing each won for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series and Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, respectively, after being nominated twice before. Paris Barclay and Alex Graves were each nominated for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series, thomas Del Ruth won an award from the American Society of Cinematographers for the episode Bartlet for America
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Six Feet Under (TV series)
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Six Feet Under is an American drama television series created and produced by Alan Ball. It premiered on the cable network HBO in the United States on June 3,2001 and ended on August 21,2005. The show depicts members of the Fisher family, who run a home in Los Angeles. The series traces these characters lives over the course of five years, the ensemble drama stars Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall, Frances Conroy, Lauren Ambrose, Freddy Rodriguez, Mathew St. Patrick, the series was produced by Actual Size Films and The Greenblatt/Janollari Studio, and was shot on location in Los Angeles and in Hollywood studios. Six Feet Under received widespread acclaim, particularly for its writing and acting. Regarded by many as one of the greatest TV dramas of all time, it has since included on TIME magazines All-TIME100 TV Shows. It has also described as having one of the finest series finales in the history of television. It won numerous awards, including nine Emmy Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and a Peabody Award. The show stars Peter Krause as Nathaniel Samuel Nate Fisher, Jr. whose funeral director father dies and bequeaths to him and his brother, David, the Fisher clan also includes widow, Ruth, and daughter, Claire. Other regulars include mortician and family friend, Federico Diaz, Nates on-again/off-again girlfriend, Brenda Chenowith, on one level, the show is a conventional family drama, dealing with such issues as interpersonal relationships, infidelity, and religion. At the same time, the show is distinguished by its focus on the topic of death. The show also utilises dark humor and surrealism running throughout, sometimes, the characters converse with other, recurring deceased characters, most notably Nathaniel Fisher, Sr. The shows creator, Alan Ball, avers that this represents the characters internal dialogues expressed in the form of external conversations. Although overall plots and characters were created by Alan Ball, there are conflicting reports on how the series was conceived, in one instance, Ball stated that he came up with the premise of the show after the deaths of his sister and father. However, in an interview, he intimates that HBO entertainment president Carolyn Strauss proposed the idea to him. Ball stated in an interview, The show focuses on human mortality, the nature of life and death feeding off of each other. Throughout its five-season, 63-episode run, major characters experience crises which are in relation to their environment
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Lauren Ambrose
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Lauren Ambrose is an American actress and singer. She is known for her roles as Claire Fisher in Six Feet Under. Her film credits include Cant Hardly Wait and Psycho Beach Party and she is the lead singer of the ragtime band Lauren Ambrose and the Leisure Class. Ambrose was born Lauren Anne DAmbruoso in New Haven, Connecticut and she is the daughter of Anne, an interior designer, and Frank DAmbruoso, a caterer. She is of Italian descent on her fathers side and German, English, Ambrose attended Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Connecticut, Wilbur Cross High School, High School in the Community, and the ACES Educational Center for the Arts in New Haven. She is also an opera singer who studied voice and opera at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. Ambrose began her career in New York theater, mainly in Off-Broadway productions and her first film role was In & Out, which was followed by a more prominent role in the high school comedy Cant Hardly Wait. She was the lead, Florence Chicklet Forrest, in the cult favorite Psycho Beach Party. Ambrose began her role on Six Feet Under in early 2001 and she was nominated for the Best Actress in a Supporting Role Emmy Award twice, following the 2002 and 2003 seasons of the critically acclaimed drama. In 2006, Ambrose made her Broadway debut in the Lincoln Center Theater revival of Awake, in 2007, she appeared as Juliet in the Public Theaters Shakespeare in the Park performance of Romeo and Juliet at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, to great critical acclaim. She appeared as Ophelia in the 2008 performance of Hamlet for Shakespeare in the Park, Ambrose returned to Broadway in Exit the King at the Ethel Barrymore Theater on Broadway, opposite Geoffrey Rush and Susan Sarandon. Ambrose provided the voice of monster KW in Where the Wild Things Are, in 2011, Ambrose appeared in seven of the ten episodes of Torchwood, Miracle Day. She played Jilly Kitzinger, a sweet-talking PR genius with a heart of stone whos just cornered the most important client of her career …, for her performance as Kitzinger, Ambrose received a Saturn Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress In Television. Ambrose is the singer of Lauren Ambrose and the Leisure Class. They have performed several times at Joes Pub and charity events, Ambrose has been married to professional photographer Sam Handel of Needham, MA since September 2001. Lauren Ambrose at the Internet Movie Database Lauren Ambrose at the Internet Broadway Database Lauren Ambrose at the Internet Off-Broadway Database Lauren Ambrose at AllMovie
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Frances Conroy
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Frances Hardman Conroy is an American actress. She is best known for playing Ruth Fisher on the television series Six Feet Under and her work on the show won her acclaim and several awards, including a Golden Globe and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. Conroy subsequently portrayed The Angel of Death, Myrtle Snow, Gloria Mott, and Mama Polk on four seasons of the show, Asylum, Coven, Freak Show. For her performance in Coven, she was nominated again for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie, as of 2015, Conroy stars as Dawn in the Hulu original series Casual. Conroy was born in Monroe, Georgia, the daughter of Ossie Hardman and her father, who was of Irish descent, was a business executive, and her mother also worked in business. During the 1971–72 school year she was a student at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and she moved to New York City to study drama at the Neighborhood Playhouse and the Juilliard School. She was a member of Juilliards Drama Division Group 6 which also included Kevin Conroy, Kelsey Grammer, Harriet Sansom Harris, one of her first film appearances was as a Shakespearean actress in Woody Allens 1979 classic, Manhattan. In 1980, she made a well received Broadway debut in Edward Albees The Lady From Dubuque. Conroy had a role in the 1984 movie Falling in Love. In 1988 she appeared as the daughter of Burt Lancasters dying patriarch in Rocket Gibraltar. Also in 1988 she appeared in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels in a minor role, during the series run, Conroy won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama in 2004. She was also nominated for four Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series awards, the series ended in 2005, having aired 63 original episodes. In 2008, she landed a guest role in ABCs Desperate Housewives as Virginia Hildebrand, along with many guest appearances on television in the mid-2000s, she was cast in a recurring role on How I Met Your Mother, as Barney Stinsons mother Loretta Stinson. And in 2010, Conroy portrayed the character Angie Dinkley in the animated show Scooby-Doo, in 2010, Conroy played Madylyn, the wife of Robert De Niros character Jack Mabrey, in the John Curran thriller Stone. In the same year, Conroy played the role of Peggy Haplin in the short-lived ABC drama series Happy Town. In 2011, she was cast in a new series for FX entitled American Horror Story. Conroy was one of two actresses, the other being Alexandra Breckenridge, playing a woman named Moira OHara. When the season came to an end in 2011, it was announced that the show was intended to be an anthology series, during this time, Conroy was nominated for a fifth Primetime Emmy Award in the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie category
