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Rochester, New York
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Rochester is a city on the southern shore of Lake Ontario in the western portion of the U. S. state of New York, and the seat of Monroe County. The citys population was the third largest — after New York City. This area, which is part of the Western New York region, had a population of 1,079,671 at the time of the 2010 Census, a Census estimate of July 1,2012, raised that number to 1,082,284. Rochester was one of Americas first boomtowns, and rose to prominence as the site of many mills along the Genesee River. Several of the universities have renowned research programs. In addition, Rochester is the site of important inventions and innovations in consumer products. Until 2010, the Rochester metropolitan area was the second-largest regional economy in New York State, internal Revenue Service, after the New York City metropolitan area. Rochesters GMP has since ranked just below that of Buffalo, New York, the 25th edition of the Places Rated Almanac rated Rochester as the most livable city in 2007, among 379 U. S. metropolitan areas. In 2010 Forbes rated Rochester as the third-best place to raise a family, in 2012 Kiplinger rated Rochester as the fifth-best city for families, citing low cost of living, top public schools, and a low jobless rate. Of the 19 places in the United States named Rochester at least eight were named directly after Rochester, New York, having been founded or settled by former residents. These include Rochester, Indiana, Rochester, Texas, Rochester, Iowa, Rochester, Kentucky, Rochester, Michigan, Rochester, Minnesota, Rochester, Nevada, and Rochester, Ohio. The Seneca tribe of Native Americans lived in and around Rochester until they lost their claim to most of land in the Treaty of Big Tree in 1797. Settlement before the Seneca tribe is unknown, development of modern Rochester followed the American Revolution, and forced cession of their territory by the Iroquois after the defeat of Great Britain. Allied with the British, four major Iroquois tribes were forced from New York. As a reward for their loyalty to the British Crown, they were given a land grant on the Grand River in Canada. Rochester was founded shortly after the American Revolution by a wave of English-Puritan descended immigrants from New England who were looking for new agricultural land and they would be the dominant cultural group in Rochester for over a century. They chose the site because its three cataracts on the Genesee offered great potential for water power, beginning in 1811, and with a population of 15, the three founders surveyed the land and laid out streets and tracts. In 1817, the Brown brothers and other landowners joined their lands with the Hundred Acre Tract to form the village of Rochesterville, by 1821, Rochesterville was the seat of Monroe County
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Haskell Wexler
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Haskell Wexler, ASC was an American cinematographer, film producer and director. Wexler was judged to be one of historys ten most influential cinematographers in a survey of the members of the International Cinematographers Guild. Wexler was born to a Jewish family in Chicago in 1922 and his parents were Simon and Lottie Wexler, whose children included Jerrold, Joyce and Yale. He attended the progressive Francis Parker School, where he was best friends with Barney Rosset, after a year of college at the University of California, Berkeley and a tour in the United States Merchant Marine during World War II, Wexler decided to become a filmmaker. Based in Chicago, Wexler made many documentaries, including The Living City, Wexler briefly made industrial films in Chicago, then in 1947 became an assistant cameraman. Wexler worked on features and shorts, low-budget docu-dramas such as 1959s The Savage Eye, televisions The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. He made ten films with director Saul Landau, including Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang, which aired on PBS and won an Emmy Award. Other notable documentaries shot and co-directed by Wexler included Brazil, A Report on Torture and The CIA Case Officer and The Sixth Sun, in 1963, Wexler served as the cinematographer on his first big-budget film, Elia Kazans America, America. Kazan was nominated for a Best Director Academy Award, Wexler worked steadily in Hollywood thereafter. Wexler was cinematographer of Mike Nichols screen version of Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf. for which he won the last Academy Award for Best Cinematography handed out. The following year had Wexler as the cinematographer for the Oscar-winning detective drama, In the Heat of the Night and his work was notable for being the first major film in Hollywood history to be shot in color with proper consideration for a person of African descent. Wexler recognized that standard lighting tended to produce too much glare on that kind of dark complexion, accordingly, Wexler toned it down to feature Poitier with better photographic results. Wexler was fired as cinematographer for Milos Formans 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest and replaced by Bill Butler. However, Forman said he had terminated Wexler over mere artistic differences. ”However, he won a second Oscar for Bound for Glory, a biography of Woody Guthrie, whom Wexler had met during his time in the Merchant Marine. Bound for Glory was the first feature film to use of the newly invented Steadicam. Wexler was also credited as additional cinematographer on Days of Heaven, Wexler was featured on the soundtrack of the film Underground, recorded on Folkways Records in 1976. He worked on throughout his career. The documentary Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang earned an Emmy Award, Wexler also directed fictional movies. Medium Cool, a film written by Wexler and shot in a cinéma vérité style, is studied by film students all over the world for its breakthrough form
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Medium Cool
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Medium Cool is a 1969 American drama film written and directed by Haskell Wexler and starring Robert Forster, Verna Bloom, Peter Bonerz, Marianna Hill and Harold Blankenship. It takes place in Chicago in the summer of 1968 and it was notable for Wexlers use of cinéma vérité-style documentary filmmaking techniques, as well as for combining fictional and non-fictional content. The movie was met with acclaim from numerous critics, including Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel of Siskel & Ebert. The movie was named one of the greatest movies of 1969. Robert Forster was also met with acclaim for his performance. In 2003, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally, historically, john Cassellis is a television news cameraman. As viewers we are presented with such as violence as spectacle, political and social discontent, extreme racism. The film is constantly juggling documentary footage with feature film image, Cassellis is seemingly hardened to ethical and social issues, he is more concerned with his personal life and pursuing audience-grabbing stories. Yet once Cassellis finds out that his news station has been providing the stories and information gathered by the cameramen and news journalists to the FBI, the news station creates an excuse to fire him, and Cassellis is let go. But he soon finds another job free-lancing at the Convention, in the course of his television job Cassellis meets Eileen and her son, Harold, who had moved from West Virginia to Chicago. Eileen is a mother whose husband according to their son is in Vietnam. Eileen tells Cassellis that her husband is dead, but it is whether she really knows that to be the case. While unemployed, Cassellis spends a lot of time with them and her son has gone missing and she is desperately seeking Cassellis for help, but he is filming the convention. As a result, the story and real-life brutality merge. The director explained that he planned his principal filming schedule to coincide with the convention, the 1968 Democratic National Convention protest activity resulted in a riot. Following this, Casselliss and Eileens paths converge in the middle of a protest, as they drive to an undisclosed location, unaware that Harold has returned home, Cassellis accidentally crashes the car into a tree, killing Eileen and critically injuring himself. The final scene, echoing the first, is of a passing driver stopping to photograph the accident, the cooler the medium, the more someone has to uncover and engage in the media in order to fill in the blanks. The film questions the role and responsibilities of television and its newscasts, the music in the film was assembled by guitarist Mike Bloomfield
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The Delta Force
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The Delta Force is a 1986 American action–thriller starring Chuck Norris and Lee Marvin as leaders of an elite squad of Special Forces troops based on the real life U. S. Army Delta Force unit. It was directed by Menahem Golan and featured Martin Balsam, Joey Bishop, Robert Vaughn, Steve James, Robert Forster, Shelley Winters, the film was produced in Israel. Two sequels were produced entitled Delta Force 2, The Colombian Connection, the Delta Force was inspired by the hijacking of TWA Flight 847. Operation Eagle Claw is being aborted after a helicopter crash. Delta Force evacuating to their C-130 transports, among them is Captain Scott McCoy, who, against orders, rescues his wounded comrade, Peterson, from the burning helicopter before the team finally evacuates. McCoy expresses his disgust for the politicians and the hierarchy that forced the mission to launch despite the risks. Five years later, a group of Lebanese terrorists hijack American Travelways Flight 282, during the crisis, they separate the Jewish passengers from the Americans by forcing the flight attendant to identify them. She is hesitant to do so because of her German heritage, a Catholic priest OMalley joins the Jews in solidarity. Unbeknownst to the authorities, the Jewish hostages are taken off the plane and transported to a militant-controlled area of Beirut. The plane departs for Algiers, where the release the female hostages. Meanwhile, Delta Force, led by Colonel Nick Alexander and McCoy are deployed to resolve the crisis, once the female hostages are evacuated, they launch their assault, only to discover too late that there are additional hijackers on board. When the Delta Force blow their cover, Abdul kills a United States Navy Diver named Tom Hale and he then forces the pilots to return to Beirut and takes the remaining male passengers with him. Upon returning to Beirut, the transport the passengers to a separate location. Using a sympathetic Greek Orthodox priest, Israeli Army Intelligence prepares an operation to free the hostages, in a prolonged campaign against the terrorists, the Delta Force bide their time to identify the terrorist leaders and locate the hostages. Once the hostages are located, the Delta Force assault the terrorist holdouts, freeing the hostages, during the battle, McCoy, Peterson and their team hunt for Abdul and the Jewish hostages. They kill most of the militants but Abdul gravely injures Peterson, while the commandos tend to Peterson, McCoy chases Abdul and tracks him down to an abandoned home. He then engages him into a vicious fight, breaking Abduls arm. As the terrorist leader prepares to shoot McCoy, he is killed when McCoy launches a rocket into his car, with the hostages and rescue teams secured, the team seizes Flight 282 by secretly infiltrating the airfield through a cotton field
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Quentin Tarantino
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Quentin Jerome Tarantino is an American director, writer, and actor. His career began in the late 1980s, when he wrote and directed My Best Friends Birthday and its popularity was boosted by his second film, Pulp Fiction, a black comedy crime film that was a major success both among critics and audiences. Judged the greatest film from 1983–2008 by Entertainment Weekly, many critics, for his next effort, Tarantino paid homage to the blaxploitation films of the 1970s with Jackie Brown, an adaptation of the novel Rum Punch. Tarantino directed Death Proof as part of a feature with friend Robert Rodriguez. His long-postponed Inglourious Basterds, which tells the fictional alternate history story of two plots to assassinate Nazi Germanys political leadership, was released in 2009 to positive reviews, after that came 2012s critically acclaimed Django Unchained, a Western film set in the antebellum era of the Deep South. It became the film of his career so far, making over $425 million at the box office. Tarantinos films have garnered critical and commercial success. He has received industry awards, including two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTA Awards and the Palme dOr, and has been nominated for an Emmy and a Grammy. He was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by Time in 2005, Filmmaker and historian Peter Bogdanovich has called him the single most influential director of his generation. In December 2015, Tarantino received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the film industry, Tarantino was born on March 27,1963 in Knoxville, Tennessee, the son of Connie McHugh and Tony Tarantino. His father is of Italian descent, and his mother has English and Irish ancestry, Quentin was named after Quint Asper, Burt Reynolds character in the CBS series Gunsmoke. Quentins mother met his father during a trip to Los Angeles and she married him soon after, to gain independence from her parents, but the marriage did not last. Connie Tarantino left Los Angeles, and moved to Knoxville, where her parents lived, in 1966, Tarantinos mother, after finishing her nursing studies, moved back to Los Angeles with her then three-year-old son. They lived in the South Bay, in the part of the city. Tarantinos mother married musician Curtis Zastoupil soon after coming to Los Angeles, and the moved to Torrance. Zastoupil encouraged his love of movies, and accompanied him to film screenings. Tarantinos mother allowed him to see movies with adult content, such as Carnal Knowledge, after his mother divorced Zastoupil in 1973, and received a misdiagnosis of Hodgkins lymphoma, Tarantino was sent to live with his grandparents in Tennessee. He remained there for six months to a year, before returning to California
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Jackie Brown
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Jackie Brown is a 1997 American crime thriller film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. The film, Tarantinos third feature-length production, is an adaptation of Elmore Leonards 1992 novel Rum Punch and it is the first film that Tarantino has adapted from a previous work, and stars Pam Grier in the title role. The film pays homage to 1970s blaxploitation films, particularly the films Coffy and Foxy Brown, the films supporting cast includes Robert Forster, Robert De Niro, Samuel L. Jackson, Bridget Fonda, and Michael Keaton. It was Tarantinos third film following Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, Grier and Forster were both veteran actors but neither had performed a leading role in many years. Jackie Brown revitalized both actors careers, the film garnered Forster an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor and Golden Globe Award nominations for Jackson and Grier. Jackie Brown is an attendant for a small Mexican airline. Ordell learns that another of his couriers, Beaumont Livingston, has been arrested, assuming that Livingston will become an informant in order to avoid jail time, Ordell arranges for bail with bondsman Max Cherry, then coaxes Livingston into a car trunk and murders him. Initially refusing to cut a deal, she is sent to jail which alerts Ordell that she also be a threat to inform. Having received payment from Ordell, Max picks up Jackie from the jail, Ordell arrives at Jackies house intending to murder her but she surprises him by pulling a gun surreptitiously taken from the glove compartment of Maxs car. Jackie negotiates a deal with Ordell to pretend to help the authorities while smuggling in $550,000 of Ordells money, enough to allow him to retire. To carry out this plan, Ordell is counting on Melanie Ralston, an unambitious, stoned surfer girl with whom he lives, and Louis Gara, a friend and former cellmate. Unaware of Jackie and Ordells plan to smuggle in $550,000, Nicolette, unbeknownst to all, Jackie plans to double-cross everyone and keep $500,000 for herself. She recruits Max to assist with her plan and offers him a cut, in the Del Amo Mall on the day of the transfer, Jackie enters a dressing room to try on a new suit. Instead, the bag she gives Melanie contains only $50,000, Jackie then feigns despair as she calls Nicolette and Dargus out from hiding, claiming Melanie took all the money and ran. In the parking lot, Melanie mocks Louis until he loses his temper, Ordell is livid when he discovers that most of the money is gone, and he realizes that Jackie is to blame. When Louis mentions that during the hand-off he saw Max Cherry in the stores department and thought nothing of it, Ordell kills Louis. Ordell turns his anger toward Max, who informs him that Jackie is frightened for her life and is waiting in Maxs office to hand over the money, a menacing Ordell holds Max at gunpoint as they enter the darkened office. Jackie suddenly yells that Ordell has a gun, and Nicolette jumps from a hiding place and shoots him dead
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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
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The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It is given in honor of an actor who has delivered a performance in a supporting role while working within the film industry. At the 9th Academy Awards ceremony held in 1937, Walter Brennan was the first winner of award for his role in Come. Initially, winners in both supporting acting categories were awarded instead of statuettes. Beginning with the 16th ceremony held in 1944, however, winners received full-sized statuettes, currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the actors branch of AMPAS, winners are selected by a plurality vote from the entire eligible voting members of the Academy. Since its inception, the award has given to 72 actors. Brennan has received the most awards in this category with three awards, Brennan, Jeff Bridges, Robert Duvall, Arthur Kennedy, Jack Nicholson, and Claude Rains were nominated on four occasions, more than any other actor. As of the 2017 ceremony, Mahershala Ali is the most recent winner in category for his role as Juan in Moonlight. In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of release in Los Angeles County. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, University of Toronto Press, ISBN 978-1-55002-574-3. org The Academy Awards Database Oscar. com Complete Downloadable List of Academy Award Nominees
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Reflections in a Golden Eye (film)
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Reflections in a Golden Eye is a 1967 film directed by John Huston based on the 1941 novel of the same name by Carson McCullers. It deals with elements of repressed sexuality, both homosexual and heterosexual, as well as voyeurism and murder, the film starred Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor. The film was unsuccessful at the box office, the film tells of six central characters, their failures, obsessions and darkest desires. Set at a US Army post in the South in the 1940/50s, it features Major Weldon Penderton, other central characters are Lieutenant Colonel Morris Langdon and his depressed wife Alison, the Langdons houseboy Anacleto, and Private Ellgee Williams. Major Penderton assigns Private Williams to clear some foliage at his private officers quarters instead of his duty of maintaining the horses and stables. Pendertons wife, Leonora prepares to go riding with Lt. Col. Langdon. Their affair is revealed, as well as Leonoras strong bond with her horse Firebird, Williams is shown to be sympathetic to all the horses in the stable. One day while riding, Langdon, Leonora and Penderton see Williams riding nude, Penderton is critical of this to Leonora but his secret interest in the free-spirited Williams is clear. Leonora and Penderton have an argument that night, in which Leonora taunts Penderton. Williams watches them from outside the house, and from then on spies on them and he eventually breaks into the house and watches Leonora sleep at night. As he continues this practice, Williams starts to go through Leonoras belongings, especially her lingerie, Penderton takes Leonoras horse and rides wildly into the woods, passing the naked Williams at high speed. Penderton falls off, catching his foot in the stirrup, and is dragged for a distance, in a fit of uncontrollable rage, he beats the horse. Williams appears still naked, and takes the horse, as Penderton stands mute in the woods, Williams brings the horse back to the stable to tend its wounds. Penderton returns to the house, locked in his room while the party goes on outside, upon finding out about her horse, Leonora interrupts her party and in front of the guests repeatedly strikes her husband in the face with her riding crop. Penderton becomes infatuated with Williams and starts to him around the camp. After her newborn infant died, Alison Langdon mutilated herself while deeply depressed, alisons only bonds now are with her effeminate Filipino houseboy Anacleto and with Capt. Murray Weincheck, a cultured and sensitive soldier who is being harassed out of the army by his superiors. Aware of her husbands adultery, Alison decides to divorce him, however, after witnessing Williams in Leonoras room, she becomes traumatized. When she tries to him, Langdon commits her to a sanatorium
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The Black Hole
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The Black Hole is a 1979 American science fiction film directed by Gary Nelson and produced by Walt Disney Productions. The music for the film was composed by John Barry, nearing the end of a long mission exploring deep space, the spacecraft USS Palomino is returning to Earth. The Palomino crew discover a hole in space with a spaceship nearby. The ship is identified as the long-lost USS Cygnus, the ship McCraes father served aboard when it went missing, deciding to investigate, the Palomino encounters a mysterious null gravity field surrounding the Cygnus. The Palomino crew cautiously boards the Cygnus and soon encounters the ships commander, Dr. Hans Reinhardt, aided by a crew of faceless, black-robed android drones and his sinister-looking robot Maximilian, Reinhardt explains that he has lived all alone on the Cygnus for years. After the ship encountered a field and was disabled, he ordered the human crew to return to Earth. Reinhardt then reveals that he has spent the past 20 years studying the black hole, only Durant believes it is possible and asks to accompany Reinhardt on the trip. McCraes father had led the mutiny and was killed, using telepathy, V. I. N. CENT tells Kate the truth about what happened. When Kate tells Durant, he removes the reflective faceplate from a drone to reveal the face of a crew member. Appalled, Durant tries to flee the bridge with Kate, Reinhardt takes Kate prisoner, ordering his sentry robots to take her to the ships hospital bay to be lobotomized. Just as the process begins, Holland rescues Kate, along with V. I. N. CENT, meanwhile, fearing the situation is escalating dangerously, Booth attempts to escape alone in the Palomino. Reinhardt orders the craft shot down, but the weapons fire sends the ship crashing into the Cygnus, a meteor storm then destroys the starboard generator. Without its null-gravity bubble, the Cygnus starts to break apart under the black holes huge gravitational forces, Reinhardt and the Palomino survivors separately plan their escape aboard a small probe ship used to study the black hole. Reinhardt orders Maximilian to go and prepare the ship, but then a large viewscreen falls on Reinhardt. His lobotomized crew stand motionless as he struggles helplessly, Maximilian confronts the others and fatally damages B. O. B. Moments before he himself is damaged by V. I. N. CENT, Holland, Pizer, McCrae and V. I. N. CENT reach the probe ship and launch, only to discover the controls locked onto a flightpath that takes them into the black hole. Next, a floating, angelic figure with long flowing hair passes through a cathedral-like arched crystal tunnel. The probe ship carrying Holland, Pizer, McCrae and V. I. N. CENT then emerges from a hole and is last seen flying through space towards a planet near a bright star
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Alligator (film)
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Alligator is a 1980 American horror film directed by Lewis Teague and written by John Sayles. It stars Robert Forster, Robin Riker, and Michael V. Gazzo and it also includes an appearance by actress Sue Lyon in her last screen role to date. The film received praise from critics for its intentional satirizing, a direct-to-video sequel was released in 1991, entitled Alligator II, The Mutation. Despite the title, this film shared no characters or actors with the original, a tabletop game based on the film was distributed by the Ideal Toy Company in 1980. A teenage girl purchases a baby American alligator while on vacation with her family at a tourist trap in Florida. After the family home to Chicago, the alligator, named Ramón by the girl, is promptly flushed down the familys toilet by her surly, animal-phobic father. Twelve years later, the alligator survives by feeding on covertly discarded pet carcasses and these animals had been used as test subjects for an experimental growth formula intended to increase agricultural livestock meat production. However the project was abandoned due to the side effect of massively increasing the animals metabolism. Louis, has gained a reputation for being lethally unlucky for his assigned partners, as David works on this new case, his boss Chief Clark brings him into contact with reptile expert Marisa Kendall, the girl who bought the alligator years earlier. The two of them edge into a romantic relationship, and during a visit to Marisas house. Davids reputation as a partner-killer is confirmed when the gator snags a young cop, Kelly and this changes when obnoxious tabloid reporter Thomas Kemp goes snooping in the sewers and supplies graphic and indisputable photographic evidence of the beast at the cost of his own life. The story quickly garners public attention, and a hunt for the monster is called for. The ensuing hunt continues, including the hiring of pompous big-game hunter Colonel Brock to track the animal, the alligator also kills the groom. Marisa and David finally lure the alligator into the sewers before setting off explosives on the alligator, as the film ends with David and Marisa walking away after the explosion, a drain in the sewer spits out another baby alligator, having a repeating cycle all over again. Location shooting took place in and around Los Angeles, although commentary on the Lions Gate Entertainment DVD gives the location as Chicago, the police vehicles in the film appear to have Missouri license plates. When the young Marisa returns home with her family from their vacation in Florida, later, the voice of a newscaster identifies Marisa as a native of our city, implying the location is a city in Missouri other than St. Louis. Bryan Cranston worked as an assistant on this film, in charge of making and rigging the alligator guts for the films finale. The film has received mixed to positive reviews both during and since its release, on Rotten Tomatoes, it holds a 67% approval rating with an average of 5. 3/10 based on 9 reviews
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Me, Myself & Irene
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Me, Myself & Irene is a 2000 American black comedy film directed by the Farrelly brothers, and starring Jim Carrey and Renée Zellweger. Chris Cooper, Robert Forster, Richard Jenkins, Daniel Greene, Anthony Anderson, Jerod Mixon and this was also Carreys first role in a 20th Century Fox film. Charlie Baileygates is a veteran Rhode Island State Police trooper who has taken advantage of by others. In the present, Charlie has raised as his own the triplets, Jamal, Lee Harvey, and Shonté Jr, likewise geniuses, Charlie is continually abused by others. As a result of years of treatment, Charlie develops a split personality named Hank to deal with the confrontations Charlie avoids. Emerging whenever Charlie is under stress, Hank is an over-the-top, rude. A psychiatrist prescribes medication to keep Charlies Hank personality at bay, believing that Charlie needs a vacation, his commanding officer orders him to escort Irene Waters from Rhode Island to Massena, New York, because she reportedly committed a hit-and-run. Charlie keeps Irene safe, and they flee, accidentally leaving his medication behind, meanwhile, the FBI suspects that Charlie is responsible for the murder of the EPA agent. FBI agents begin pursuing him and Irene, as do crooked police officers in Dickies pay, Boshane, the chase becomes a media spectacle, alerting Charlies sons to his predicament. Charlie and Irene decide to return to Rhode Island, developing a bond along the way, though Irene is taken by Charlies personality, the frequent emergences by Hank worry her, though his more aggressive personality keeps them out of trouble. Along the way pick up Casper aka Whitey, an albino waiter from a restaurant who claims he killed his entire family in the past. While stopping at a motel, Charlie discovers how he might be able to suppress Hank and goes to have a conversation with Irene about it, the next morning, Hank reveals that actually it was he who slept with Irene. They board a train back to Rhode Island, Dickie boards the same train, unable to rely on his henchmen to stop Charlie and Irene. He kidnaps her, and Charlie gives chase, working together with Hank to save her, Hank then appears to try to stop Charlie from rescuing her, but Charlie finally stands up for himself against his own fears, thus permanently nullifying Hank. As Charlie tries to wrestle her back and disarm Dickie on a bridge, Dickie is then hit from behind by a lawn dart thrown by Casper, killing him. Charlie and Irene fall from the bridge into a river below, regrouping with Casper, Charlie apologizes for making him kill again, but Casper reveals he made up his backstory due to the fact that Charlie talked too much at the motel and scared him. The police arrive but quickly learn of Irenes plight and the corrupt cops working for Dickie, Gerke is arrested, Charlie is congratulated for bringing him to justice, and Irene is cleared of the charges against her. Irene prepares to leave Rhode Island when she is pulled over by the police, but this only to be a diversion to allow Charlie to propose marriage to her
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Mulholland Drive (film)
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Mulholland Drive is a 2001 neo-noir mystery film written and directed by David Lynch and starring Justin Theroux, Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Ann Miller, and Robert Forster. It tells the story of an actress named Betty Elms, newly arrived in Los Angeles. The story includes several other seemingly unrelated vignettes that eventually interlock, as well as some surreal, originally conceived as a television pilot, a large portion of the film was shot in 1999 with Lynchs plan to keep it open-ended for a potential series. After viewing Lynchs version, however, television executives rejected it, Lynch then provided an ending to the project, making it a feature film. The half-pilot, half-feature result, along with Lynchs characteristic style, has left the meaning of the films events open to interpretation. Lynch has declined to offer an explanation of his intentions for the narrative, leaving audiences, critics and he gave the film the tagline A love story in the city of dreams. Mulholland Drive launched the careers of Watts and Harring and was the last feature film to star veteran Hollywood actress Ann Miller and it is now widely regarded as one of Lynchs finest works, and as one of the greatest films of the 21st century. A. O. Scott of The New York Times writes that some might consider the plot an offense against narrative order. The film is a liberation from sense, with moments of feeling all the more powerful for seeming to emerge from the murky night world of the unconscious. A dark-haired woman is the survivor of a car crash on Mulholland Drive. Injured and in shock, she makes her way down into Los Angeles, later that morning, an aspiring actress named Betty Elms arrives at the apartment, which is normally occupied by her aunt. Betty is startled to find the woman, who has amnesia, to help the woman remember her identity, Betty looks in Ritas purse, where she finds a large amount of money and an unusual blue key. At a diner called Winkies, a man tells his companion about a nightmare in which he dreamt there was a figure behind the diner. When they investigate, the figure appears, causing the man with the nightmare to collapse in fright, elsewhere, director Adam Kesher has his film commandeered by mobsters, who insist that he cast an unknown actress named Camilla Rhodes as the lead in his film. Kesher resists, but after being out of his house when he finds his wife cheating on him, he learns that his bank has closed his line of credit. He agrees to meet a mysterious figure called The Cowboy, who urges him to cast Camilla Rhodes for his own good, later, a bungling hit man attempts to steal a book full of phone numbers and leaves three people dead. While trying to more about Ritas accident, Betty and Rita go to Winkies and are served by a waitress named Diane. They find Diane Selwyn in the book and call her
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The Descendants
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The Descendants is a 2011 American comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Payne. The screenplay by Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash is based on the novel of the name by Kaui Hart Hemmings. Matthew Matt King is a Honolulu-based attorney and the trustee of a family trust of 25,000 pristine acres on Kauai. The land has great value, but is also a family legacy. While Matt has always managed his own finances, most of his cousins have squandered their inheritances. With the trust expiring in seven years due to the rule against perpetuities, amidst these discussions, a boating accident has rendered Matts wife, Elizabeth, comatose. Doctors determine that Elizabeths coma is irreversible and her living will directs all life support to be discontinued, when Matt tells Alex, she reveals that she caught Elizabeth having an affair before the accident, causing a major rift between mother and daughter. Two close family friends tell Matt that Elizabeth was unhappy and wanted to him for her lover, Brian Speer. After Matt arranges for friends to bid Elizabeth goodbye, he decides Speer should also have an opportunity and he and the girls, and also Alexs slacker boyfriend Sid, travel to Kauai to find Brian. While there, Matts cousin, Hugh mentions that Brian is brother-in-law to Don Hollitzer, Brian stands to make a small fortune from the sales commission. Matt confronts Brian and informs him Elizabeth is dying and offers him an opportunity to see her one last time. Brian declines, admitting that although Elizabeth was in love him, it was only a fling to him, he loves his wife, Julie. When Elizabeth is disconnected from life support, her father, Scott admonishes Matt for not being a more generous, choosing not to disclose the details of her affair to Scott, Matt agrees, but Sid and Alex both unexpectedly defend Matt. At the King family meeting, Matt overrules the majority of his cousins who favor selling to Hollitzer, Matt decides to keep the land and look for a different solution to the problem posed by the rule against perpetuities. Shocked, Hugh tells Matt that he and the other cousins will take action if Matt refuses to sell. After learning of Brians affair with Elizabeth and realizing that he will not visit, Julie comes to the hospital and she tearfully admits to Elizabeth that she wants to hate her for trying to destroy her family, but that she forgives her. Matt finally comes to terms with his wifes betrayal and her impending death and he tenderly kisses her goodbye, followed by Alex and Scottie, and later, scatter Elizabeths ashes in the ocean off Waikiki. The film concludes with the three at home sitting together sharing ice cream and watching television, all wrapped in the Hawaiian quilt Elizabeth had been lying in, the film began its on-location shoot in Hawaii on March 15,2010
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Olympus Has Fallen
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Olympus Has Fallen is a 2013 American action thriller film. The film depicts a North Korean-led guerrilla assault on the White House and it is the first installment in the Has Fallen franchise. The film was released on March 22,2013, by FilmDistrict and received mixed critical reception, Olympus Has Fallen was one of two films released in 2013 that dealt with a terrorist attack on the White House, the other being White House Down. A sequel titled London Has Fallen was released on March 4,2016 and it was announced that another sequel, Angel Has Fallen, is in the works. Former Army Ranger Mike Banning is the lead U. S, Secret Service agent assigned to head the U. S. Banning maintains a personal, friendly relationship with President Benjamin Asher, First Lady Margaret, eighteen months later, having been removed from the presidential detail, Banning works at Treasury headquarters. The group is aided by members of the prime ministers own detail, including Dave Forbes. Asher and several top officials are held hostage in the White House bunker, before his own death, detail agent Roma alerts the Director of the Secret Service Lynne Jacobs that Olympus has fallen. To accomplish this, he requires the access codes to a system in the bunker called Cerberus, Asher orders the other two officials to reveal their codes to save their lives, certain that he will not give up his code. During the initial assault by Kangs forces, Banning joins the White Houses defenders, authorized to proceed, Banning’s first act is to save Connor, whom Kang plans to use to force Asher to reveal his Cerberus code. Banning finds Connor hiding in the walls, thanks to the training he had given him, Banning begins reconnaissance and reduces the terrorists numbers. Banning kills Forbes, first convincing the traitor to report to Kang that Banning is dead, meanwhile, Army Chief of Staff General Edward Clegg convinces Trumbull to order an aerial SEAL assault on the White House. Kang discovers the assault force and activates the Hydra 6, an advanced anti-aircraft system built by the military, discovering the system, Banning advises Trumbull and Clegg to abort the mission, but the new weapon system annihilates most the assault force before Banning can stop it. Kang retaliates for the infiltration by killing Vice President Charlie Rodriguez, with his forces dwindling, Kang fakes his and Ashers death by sacrificing several of his men and the remaining hostages. However, Banning sees through his ruse, as Kang would never go down without fighting, Kang eventually cracks Asher’s code using brute-force attack and activates Cerberus. As Kang and his men attempt to escape, Banning ambushes them. During the fight, Asher tries to free from Kangs grip and is subsequently shot by him in the stomach. Banning and Kang confront each other and a fight breaks out
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London Has Fallen
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London Has Fallen is a 2016 American action thriller film directed by Babak Najafi and written by Creighton Rothenberger, Katrin Benedikt, Chad St. John and Christian Gudegast. It is the installment in the Has Fallen franchise. Filming began on October 24,2014, in London, a Christmas break started in November with filming resuming in February 2015. The film was released on March 4,2016, by Focus Features under their recently revived Gramercy Pictures label, a second sequel, titled Angel Has Fallen, is expected to start production in 2017. After arriving via Air Force One at Stansted Airport, Banning pushes the Presidents arrival forward, directing Marine One to take them to Somerset House and then by car to St Pauls Cathedral. As they arrive, several attacks coordinated by Barkawis son Kamran are carried out by terrorists disguised as Metropolitan Police, the Queens Guardsmen, and other first responders. At St Pauls, despite suffering heavy losses, Banning helps get Asher and Jacobs to cover when the disguised terrorists turn on them, and they manage to race back to Somerset House. Marine One takes off with two escorts, but terrorists with Stinger missiles take out the escorts before damaging Marine One, though Asher and Banning are fine, Jacobs has been fatally wounded, and she makes Banning promise to get back at the perpetrators before she dies. Banning leads Asher to the London Underground as most of the power, including its CCTV, is disabled. They learn that Wilson was poisoned to death to lure the leaders to London, knowing that Barkawi has spent years planning, Trumbull orders the staff to review Barkawis known associates to find a lead. He also supports Chief Inspector Kevin Hazards decision to stand down all first responders, Banning leads Asher to a nearby MI6 safehouse, pausing at street level long enough to relay a message to Trumbull via satellite monitoring. Banning and Asher meet MI6 agent Jacqueline Jax Marshall, who briefs them on the situation, upon discovering Barkawis involvement, Asher explains that Barkawi survived the airstrike, with his daughter and son-in-law among the casualties. Jax plays back a message she received from Trumbull regarding extraction, Banning has Jax evacuate while he distracts the terrorists long enough to drive off with Asher. They are side-swiped by a truck, and the terrorists drag Asher off to an unknown location, while interrogating a terrorist, Banning is saved by the combined Delta Force/SAS squad who had been en route for extracting the President. Banning joins the squad as they assault the building. As Asher and Banning are safely escorted out for extraction, Trumbull contacts Barkawi, informs him that they have recovered the President, Barkawi is killed by a second drone strike, despite his vows that the war will continue. Meanwhile, after restoring the CCTV access, Jax discovers that Barkawi had been aided by MI5 Intelligence Chief John Lancaster, two weeks after the attack on London, Banning is home spending time with Leah and their newborn child, named Lynne after his deceased boss. He sits in front of his laptop and contemplates sending his letter of resignation, on TV, Trumbull speaks regarding the recent events, leaving an inspiring message that the United States will prevail
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Banyon
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Banyon is a detective series broadcast in the United States by NBC as part of its 1972-73 television schedule, though a standalone two-hour television movie was broadcast first in March 1971. The series was a Quinn Martin Production, the first-ever show Martin made for the NBC network, Banyon was a period drama set in the late 1930s in Los Angeles. It concerned the life of private investigator Miles C, Banyon, a tough-but-honest detective who would accept essentially any case for US$20/day. Located in the complex as Banyons office was the secretarial school operated by Peggy Revere. Banyons police acquaintance with the Los Angeles Police Department was the cynical Lieutenant Pete McNeil, Banyon was unable to find an adequate audience and lost in the Nielsen ratings to American Broadcasting Companys Love, American Style and movies on CBS and was canceled midseason. Despite the shows life, Quentin Tarantino liked Forsters performance as the title character so much that he hired him for the feature film Jackie Brown many years later. It is one of the few Quinn Martin shows not owned currently by CBS/Republic Pictures and it is also one of only two QM shows to bill a cast member above the title. Brooks, Tim and Marsh, Earle, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows Banyon at the Internet Movie Database
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Heroes (TV series)
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Heroes is an American psychological thriller science fiction television drama series created by Tim Kring that appeared on NBC for four seasons from September 25,2006 through February 8,2010. The series emulates the style and storytelling of American comic books, using multi-episode story arcs that build upon a larger. The series was produced by Tailwind Productions in association with Universal Media Studios and it was filmed primarily in Los Angeles, California. Four complete seasons aired, ending on February 8,2010, the second season of Heroes attracted an average of 13.1 million viewers in the U. S. and marked NBCs sole series among the top 20 ranked programs in total viewership for the 2007–2008 season. Heroes has earned a number of awards and nominations, including Primetime Emmy Awards, Golden Globes, Peoples Choice Awards, and British Academy Television Awards. An online extension of the series, Heroes 360 Experience, later rebranded as Heroes Evolutions, was created to explore the Heroes universe, other official Heroes media include magazines, action figures, tie-in and interactive websites, a mobile game, a novel, clothing and other merchandise. A 13-episode miniseries entitled Heroes Reborn premiered on NBC on September 24,2015, additionally, comic book writer Cullen Bunn will be writing an ongoing comic book continuing Heroes, called Heroes, Season Five, a release date and artist has yet to be determined. Originally, Kring designed the series to have an ever-shifting cast, in its first season, the show features an ensemble cast of twelve main characters making it the third largest cast in American primetime television behind Desperate Housewives and Lost. In episode eleven of the first season, Jack Coleman, who portrays Noah Bennet, was upgraded from a role to become the twelfth full-time cast member. Simone Deveaux was the first major character to be written out, DL became a guest star after the events of the first seasons finale, making two appearances throughout season two. Isaac Mendez was also written out, dying at the hands of Sylar, Two recurring characters from season one, Sylar, portrayed by Zachary Quinto, and Ando Masahashi, portrayed by James Kyson Lee, were upgraded to main characters in season two. Starting in season two, recurring character Angela Petrelli, portrayed by Cristine Rose, was promoted to a main character, Elle, Adam, and Micah were removed from the main cast. Monica Dawson did not appear after scenes including her were cut, Niki was also written out but actress Ali Larter remained on the show portraying a new character Tracy Strauss, Nikis triplet sister with the power to freeze objects with a touch. For season four, a new character Samuel Sullivan, portrayed by Robert Knepper, was added, originally cast as a recurring part, the part was changed to a starring role. Deanne Bray was also added as Emma Coolidge, the woman who had enhanced synesthesia including the ability to create a siren song. The plot of Heroes is designed to be told in a way similar to the way books are told. Each season of Heroes contains one or two volumes, there are several main story lines in each volume. As the main plots develop, smaller, more stories are told within them
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Breaking Bad
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Breaking Bad is an American crime drama television series created and produced by Vince Gilligan. The show originally aired on the AMC network for five seasons, from January 20,2008 and it tells the story of Walter White, a struggling high school chemistry teacher diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. The title is from a Southern colloquialism meaning to raise hell, Breaking Bad is set and was filmed in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Walters family consists of his wife Skyler and children, Walter, Jr. the show also features Skylers sister Marie Schrader, and her husband Hank, a Drug Enforcement Administration agent. Walter hires lawyer Saul Goodman, who connects him with private investigator and fixer Mike Ehrmantraut and in turn Mikes employer, the final season introduces the characters Todd Alquist and Lydia Rodarte-Quayle. Breaking Bad is widely regarded as one of the greatest television series of all time, by the time the series finale aired, the series was among the most-watched cable shows on American television. In 2013, Breaking Bad entered the Guinness World Records as the most critically acclaimed show of all time, Breaking Bad was created by Vince Gilligan, who spent several years writing the Fox series The X-Files. Gilligan wanted to create a series in which the protagonist became the antagonist, Television is historically good at keeping its characters in a self-imposed stasis so that shows can go on for years or even decades, he said. When I realized this, the next step was to think. He added that his goal with Walter White was to him from Mr. Chips into Scarface. The show title is based on a Southern colloquialism meaning, among other things, raising hell, according to Time entertainment editor Lily Rothman, the term has a broader meaning and is an old phrase which connotes more violence than raising hell does. As the series progressed, Gilligan and the staff of Breaking Bad made Walter increasingly unsympathetic. Gilligan said during the run of the series, Hes going from being a protagonist to an antagonist and we want to make people question who theyre pulling for, and why. Cranston said by the season, I think Walts figured out its better to be a pursuer than the pursued. Hes well on his way to badass, while still pitching the show to studios, Gilligan was initially discouraged when he learned of the existing series Weeds and its similarities to the premise of Breaking Bad. While his producers convinced him that the show was different enough to still be successful, the network ordered nine episodes for the first season, but the 2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike limited the production to seven episodes. Once Gilligan recognized that this would mean wed always have to be avoiding the Sandia Mountains in shots directed toward the east and it was shot primarily on 35 mm film, with digital cameras employed as needed for additional angles, point of view shots and time-lapse photography. Breaking Bad reportedly cost $3 million per episode to produce, higher than the average cost for a cable program
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Granite State (Breaking Bad)
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Granite State is the fifteenth episode of the fifth season of the American television drama series Breaking Bad, and the 61st and penultimate episode of the series. Written and directed by Peter Gould, it aired on AMC in the United States, Saul Goodman is brought by the extractor, Ed, to the basement of his vacuum repair shop. There he finds Walt, who paid for extraction. Walt asks Saul to put him in contact with hitmen so he can kill Jack and his men and recover his other barrels of money, Saul tells Walt that by giving himself up, Skyler might still keep their house instead of losing it to the authorities. Walt can only think of doing so once his entire wealth is recovered and given to his family, even though the police are monitoring their communication. Walt attempts to coerce Saul into coming with him, but Saul refuses, saying that he is no longer a lawyer, Walt attempts to threaten him further but is subdued by a coughing fit. No longer intimidated, Saul bids Walt farewell and leaves for his new life in Nebraska, Jacks gang raids Marie Schraders house and finds Jesses confession tape. The gang wants to kill Jesse, but Todd needs him to cook more meth in order to impress Lydia, shortly after, they break into Walts house and threaten Skyler not to reveal Lydias involvement, to which a shaken Skyler complies. Lydia visits Todd and wants to end their operation because of all the heat, at Jacks base of operations, Jesse uses a paper clip to unlock his chains and tries to run, but he is captured. The gang punishes him by taking him to Andreas house and forcing him to watch Todd kill her and they threaten to kill Brock if he disobeys again. Walt is taken by Ed to his new location, a cabin in the woods of northern New Hampshire. He is told that hell be caught if he chooses to leave the cabin, Walt is tempted from the first day to walk out, but doesnt. A few months later, in a state, Walt has a full beard. Ed arrives on his visit to drop off food and supplies, including an assortment of eyeglasses. Ed tells Walt that Skyler has returned to using her name, that she works as a part-time taxi dispatcher to earn money. There is a manhunt for Walt, and his abandoned house is now in ruins. A lonely Walt pays Ed $10,000 to stay for an extra hour, later, Walt stuffs $100,000 into a cardboard box and leaves the cabin. He goes into a bar and pays the barmaid to call Walt Jr. s school pretending to be Marie
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Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
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Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is a United States traveling circus company billed as The Greatest Show on Earth. The Ringling brothers had purchased Barnum & Bailey Ltd. following Baileys death in 1906, in 1967, Irvin Feld and his brother Israel, along with Houston Judge Roy Hofheinz bought the circus from the Ringling family. In 1971, the Felds and Hofheinz sold the circus to Mattel, since the death of Irvin Feld in 1984, the circus has been a part of Feld Entertainment, an international entertainment firm headed by Kenneth Feld, with its headquarters in Ellenton, Florida. The show traditionally begins with the singing the national anthem. With weakening attendance and high operating costs, Feld Entertainment announced the circus would close in May 2017 after 146 years. In 1875, Dan Castello and William Cameron Coup persuaded P. T. Barnum to lend his name and financial backing to the circus they had created in Delavan. Barnums Great Traveling Museum, Menagerie, Caravan, and Hippodrome, the moniker Greatest Show on Earth was added later. Independently of Castello and Coup, James Anthony Bailey had teamed up with James E. Cooper to create the Cooper, Barnum attempted to buy the elephant. They eventually agreed to combine their shows on March 28,1881, in 1882, the combined Barnum & Bailey Circus was successful with acts such as Jumbo, advertised as the worlds largest elephant. Barnum died in 1891 and Bailey then purchased the circus from his widow, Bailey continued touring the eastern United States until he took his circus to Europe. That tour started on December 27,1897, and lasted until 1902, in 1884, five of the seven Ringling brothers had started a small circus in Baraboo, Wisconsin. This was about the time that Barnum & Bailey were at the peak of their popularity. Similar to dozens of small circuses that toured the Midwest and the Northeast at the time and their circus rapidly grew and they were soon able to move their circus by train, which allowed them to have the largest traveling amusement enterprise of that time. Baileys European tour gave the Ringling brothers an opportunity to move their show from the Midwest to the eastern seaboard, faced with the new competition, Bailey took his show west of the Rocky Mountains for the first time in 1905. He died the year, and the circus was sold to the Ringling Brothers. The Ringlings purchased the Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth in 1907, by that time, Charles Edward Ringling and John Nicholas Ringling were the only remaining brothers of the five who founded the circus. They decided that it was too difficult to run the two circuses independently, and on March 29,1919, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows debuted in New York City, the posters declared, The Ringling Bros. Worlds Greatest Shows and the Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth are now combined into one record-breaking giant of all exhibitions, Charles E. Ringling died in 1926, but the circus flourished through the Roaring Twenties
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Italian Americans
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Italian Americans are an ethnic group comprising Americans who have full or partial ancestry from Italy, especially those who identify with that ancestry, along with their cultural characteristics. Italian Americans are the fourth largest European ethnic group in the United States, about 5.5 million Italians immigrated to the United States from 1820 to 2004. Immigration began in earnest during the 1870s, when more than twice as many Italians immigrated than during the five previous decades altogether. The 1870s were followed by the greatest surge of immigration, which occurred in the period between 1880 and 1914 and brought more than 4 million Italians to America. This period of large scale immigration ended abruptly with the onset of the First World War in 1914 and, except for one year, further immigration would be greatly limited by a number of restrictive laws passed by Congress in the 1920s. Approximately 84% of the Italian immigrants came from Southern Italy and Sicily, after unification, the Italian government initially encouraged emigration to relieve economic pressures in the South. After the American Civil War, which resulted in over a million killed or wounded, immigrant workers were recruited from Italy. In the United States, most Italians began their new lives as manual laborers in Eastern cities, mining camps, Italian Americans gradually moved from the lower rungs of the economic scale in the first generation to a level comparable to the national average by 1970. By 1990, more than 65% of Italian Americans were managerial, professional, the Italian-American communities have often been characterized by strong ties with family, the Catholic Church, fraternal organizations and political parties. Today, over 17 million Americans claim Italian ancestry, third only to Brazil with 31 million, and Argentina, Italians and their descendants in America have helped to shape the country and, in turn, have adapted to it. They have gained prominence in politics, sports, the media, the arts, the culinary arts. Italian navigators and explorers played a key role in the discovery, exploration, christopher Columbus, the explorer who first reached the Americas in 1492–1504, was Italian. Another notable Italian explorer, Amerigo Vespucci, who explored the east coast of South America between 1499 and 1502, is the source of the name America. Englands claims in North America were based on the voyages of the Italian explorer John Cabot, in 1524 the Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano was the first European to map the Atlantic coast of todays United States, and to enter New York Bay. In 1539, Marco da Nizza, explored the territory later became the states of Arizona. In the 17th century, Henri de Tonti, together with the French explorer LaSalle, De Tonti founded the first European settlement in Illinois in 1679, and in Arkansas in 1683. With LaSalle, he co-founded New Orleans, and was governor of the Louisiana Territory for the next 20 years and his brother Alphonse de Tonty, with French explorer Antoine Cadillac, was the co-founder of Detroit in 1701, and was its acting colonial governor for 12 years. Spain and France were Catholic countries and sent many missionaries to convert the native population, included among these missionaries were numerous Italians
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English people
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The English are a nation and an ethnic group native to England, who speak the English language. The English identity is of medieval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Angelcynn. Their ethnonym is derived from the Angles, one of the Germanic peoples who migrated to Great Britain around the 5th century AD, England is one of the countries of the United Kingdom. Collectively known as the Anglo-Saxons, they founded what was to become England along with the later Danes, Normans, in the Acts of Union 1707, the Kingdom of England was succeeded by the Kingdom of Great Britain. Over the years, English customs and identity have become closely aligned with British customs. The English people are the source of the English language, the Westminster system and these and other English cultural characteristics have spread worldwide, in part as a result of the former British Empire. The concept of an English nation is far older than that of the British nation, many recent immigrants to England have assumed a solely British identity, while others have developed dual or mixed identities. Use of the word English to describe Britons from ethnic minorities in England is complicated by most non-white people in England identifying as British rather than English. In their 2004 Annual Population Survey, the Office for National Statistics compared the ethnic identities of British people with their national identity. They found that while 58% of white people in England described their nationality as English and it is unclear how many British people consider themselves English. Following complaints about this, the 2011 census was changed to allow respondents to record their English, Welsh, Scottish, another complication in defining the English is a common tendency for the words English and British to be used interchangeably, especially overseas. In his study of English identity, Krishan Kumar describes a common slip of the tongue in which people say English, I mean British. He notes that this slip is made only by the English themselves and by foreigners. Kumar suggests that although this blurring is a sign of Englands dominant position with the UK and it tells of the difficulty that most English people have of distinguishing themselves, in a collective way, from the other inhabitants of the British Isles. In 1965, the historian A. J. P. Taylor wrote, When the Oxford History of England was launched a generation ago and it meant indiscriminately England and Wales, Great Britain, the United Kingdom, and even the British Empire. Foreigners used it as the name of a Great Power and indeed continue to do so, bonar Law, by origin a Scotch Canadian, was not ashamed to describe himself as Prime Minister of England Now terms have become more rigorous. The use of England except for a geographic area brings protests and this version of history is now regarded by many historians as incorrect, on the basis of more recent genetic and archaeological research. The 2016 study authored by Stephan Schiffels et al, the remaining portion of English DNA is primarily French, introduced in a migration after the end of the Ice Age
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Irish people
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The Irish people are a nation and ethnic group native to the island of Ireland, who share a common Irish ancestry, identity and culture. Ireland has been inhabited for about 9,000 years according to archaeological studies, for most of Irelands recorded history, the Irish have been primarily a Gaelic people. Today, Ireland is made up of the Republic of Ireland, the people of Northern Ireland hold various national identities, including Irish, Northern Irish, British, or some combination thereof. The Irish have their own customs, language, music, dance, sports, cuisine, although Irish was their main language in the past, today the huge majority of Irish people speak English as their first language. Historically, the Irish nation was made up of kin groups or clans, there have been many notable Irish people throughout history. After Irelands conversion to Christianity, Irish missionaries and scholars exerted great influence on Western Europe, the 6th-century Irish monk and missionary Columbanus is regarded as one of the fathers of Europe, followed by saints Cillian and Fergal. The scientist Robert Boyle is considered the father of chemistry, famous Irish writers include Oscar Wilde, W. B. Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, Bram Stoker and James Joyce, notable Irish explorers include Brendan the Navigator, Robert McClure, Ernest Shackleton and Tom Crean. By some accounts, the first European child born in North America had Irish descent on both sides, many presidents of the United States have had some Irish ancestry. The population of Ireland is about 6.3 million, but it is estimated that 50 to 80 million people around the world have Irish forebears, historically, emigration from Ireland has been the result of conflict, famine and economic issues. People of Irish descent are mainly in English-speaking countries, especially the United Kingdom. There are also significant numbers in Argentina, Mexico and New Zealand, the United States has the most people of Irish descent, while in Australia those of Irish descent are a higher percentage of the population than in any other country. Many Icelanders have Irish and Scottish Gaelic forebears, in its summary of their article Who were the Celts. The National Museum Wales notes It is possible that genetic studies of ancient. However, early studies have, so far, tended to produce implausible conclusions from very small numbers of people and using outdated assumptions about linguistics, nineteenth century anthropology studied the physical characteristics of Irish people in minute detail. During the past 10,000 years of inhabitation, Ireland has witnessed some different peoples arrive on its shores, the ancient peoples of Ireland—such as the creators of the Céide Fields and Newgrange—are almost unknown. Neither their languages nor terms they used to describe themselves have survived, as late as the middle centuries of the 1st millennium the inhabitants of Ireland did not appear to have a collective name for themselves. Ireland itself was known by a number of different names, including Banba, Fódla, Ériu by the islanders, Iouerne and Hiverne to the Greeks, other Latin names for people from Ireland in Classic and Mediaeval sources include Attacotti and Gael
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Bachelor of Arts
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A Bachelor of Arts is a bachelors degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both. Bachelor of Arts degree programs take three to four years depending on the country, academic institution, and specific specializations, majors or minors. The word baccalaureus or baccalarium should not be confused with baccalaureatus, degree diplomas generally are printed on high-quality paper or parchment, individual institutions set the preferred abbreviation for their degrees. In Pakistan, the Bachelor of Arts degree can also be attained within two years as an external degree, in colleges and universities in Australia, New Zealand, Nepal and South Africa, the BA degree can be taken over three years of full-time study. Unlike in other countries, students do not receive a grade for their Bachelor of Arts degree with varying levels of honours. Qualified students may be admitted, after they have achieved their Bachelors program with an overall grade point average. Thus, to achieve a Bachelor Honours degree, a postgraduate year. A student who holds a Honours degree is eligible for entry to either a Doctorate or a very high research Master´s degree program. Education in Canada is controlled by the Provinces and can be different depending on the province in Canada. Canadian universities typically offer a 3-year Bachelor of Arts degrees, in many universities and colleges, Bachelor of Arts degrees are differentiated either as Bachelors of Arts or as honours Bachelor of Arts degree. The honours degrees are designated with the abbreviation in brackets of. It should not be confused with the consecutive Bachelor of Arts degree with Honours, Latin Baccalaureatus in Artibus Cum Honore, BA hon. de jure without brackets and with a dot. It is a degree, which is considered to be the equivalent of a corresponding maîtrise degree under the French influenced system. Going back in history, a three-year Bachelor of Arts degree was called a pass degree or general degree. Students may be required to undertake a long high-quality research empirical thesis combined with a selection of courses from the relevant field of studies. The consecutive B. cum Honore degree is essential if students ultimate goal is to study towards a two- or three-year very high research masters´ degree qualification. A student holding a Baccalaureatus Cum Honore degree also may choose to complete a Doctor of Philosophy program without the requirement to first complete a masters degree, over the years, in some universities certain Baccalaureatus cum Honore programs have been changed to corresponding master´s degrees. In general, in all four countries, the B. A. degree is the standard required for entry into a masters programme, in science, a BA hons degree is generally a prerequisite for entrance to a Ph. D program or a very-high-research-activity master´s programme
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University of Rochester
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The University of Rochester is a private, nonsectarian, research university in Rochester, New York. The university grants undergraduate and graduate degrees, including doctoral and professional degrees, the university has six schools and various interdisciplinary programs. The University of Rochester is particularly noted for its Eastman School of Music, the university is also home to the Institute of Optics, founded in 1929, the first educational program in the US devoted exclusively to optics. Rochesters Laboratory for Laser Energetics is home to the second most energetic fusion laser in the world, the University of Rochester, across all of its schools and campuses, enrolls approximately 5,600 undergraduates and 4,600 graduate students. Its 158 buildings house over 200 academic majors, additionally, Rochester is the largest employer in the Greater Rochester area and the sixth largest employer in New York. The University of Rochester was founded in 1850 as a Baptist-sponsored institution, the impetus to form the university came primarily from the town of Hamilton, New York, which has been home to Colgate University since 1819. In 1848, the Baptist Education Society planned to move Colgate University to the city of Rochester, but was halted by legal action in Hamilton. Dissenting Colgate trustees, faculty, and students founded the University of Rochester with a charter granted from the Regents of the University of the State of New York on January 31,1850, classes began that November, with approximately 60 students enrolling, including 28 transfers from Madison. In 1853, the campus moved east to a location on what is now University Avenue. Local businessman and Congressman Azariah Boody donated 8 acres of land for the new campus, UR would remain on this campus until the current River Campus was constructed in 1930, and the university continues to own a small part of the University Avenue campus. The first female students were admitted in 1900, the result of an effort led by Susan B, during the 1890s, a number of women took classes and labs at the university as visitors but were not officially enrolled nor were their records included in the college register. President David Jayne Hill allowed the first woman, Helen E. Wilkinson, to enroll as a normal student, thirty-three women enrolled among the first class in 1900, and Ella S. Wilcoxen was the first to receive a degree, in 1901. When the River Campus was completed in 1930, male students moved there while the students remained on the University Avenue campus until 1955. Major growth occurred under the leadership of Rush Rhees, during his 1900-1935 tenure, during this time, George Eastman became a major donor, giving more than $50 million to the university. The first Ph. D. was awarded in 1925, in 1955, the separate colleges for men and women were merged into The College. In 1958, three new schools were created in engineering, business administration, and education, during World War II, Rochester was one of 131 colleges and universities nationally that took part in the V-12 Navy College Training Program which offered students a path to a Navy commission. The plan also revised the undergraduate curriculum significantly, creating the current system with one required course. In the mid-1980s, the University commissioned a study to determine if the name of the institution should be changed, reports of the latter conclusion led to controversy and criticism in the Rochester community
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Bye Bye Birdie
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Bye Bye Birdie is a stage musical with a book by Michael Stewart, lyrics by Lee Adams and music by Charles Strouse. Originally titled Lets Go Steady, Bye Bye Birdie is set in 1958, the story was inspired by the phenomenon of popular singer Elvis Presley and his draft notice into the Army in 1957. The rock star characters name, Conrad Birdie, is play on the name of Conway Twitty. Twitty is best remembered today for his career as a country music star. The original 1960–1961 Broadway production was a Tony Award–winning success and it spawned a London production and several major revivals, a sequel, a 1963 film, and a 1995 television production. The show also became a choice for high school and college productions. The producer Edward Padula had the idea for a musical initially titled Lets Go Steady, Padula contracted with two writers, and Charles Strouse and Lee Adams wrote seven songs for their libretto. Padula, Strouse and Adams sought Gower Champion as director/choreographer, who until that time had choreographed only a few musicals, however, Champion did not like the book and the writers were fired, with Michael Stewart then hired. Stewart wrote a version titled Love and Kisses, which focused on a couple thinking of divorce. The something more had been there in the newspaper. After brainstorming, Stewart and Adams came up with the idea of a rock-and-roll singer going off to the army, agent and songwriter Albert Peterson finds himself in trouble when hip-thrusting rock and roll superstar Conrad Birdie is drafted into the Army. Alberts secretary and sweetheart, Rose Rosie Alvarez, comes up with a publicity stunt to have Conrad Birdie record. She makes Albert promise to give up the business and to start teaching English at schools. They plan to have Birdie sing Alberts new song One Last Kiss, the lucky girl chosen randomly from Conrads fan club is fifteen-year-old Kim MacAfee from Sweet Apple, Ohio. All the teenagers in Sweet Apple are catching up on the latest gossip about Kim MacAfee, Kim, excited to have a boyfriend, reflects on how happy she is with her maturity. She quits the Conrad Birdie fan club over the phone because of the new milestone happening in her life, meanwhile, Conrad, Albert, and Rose set off to Sweet Apple to prepare for the event. Albert advises her to be optimistic, soon, reporters arrive with questions for Conrad, but Rosie, Albert, and the girls answer for him, pushing away tabloids. Conrad receives a heros welcome in Sweet Apple, and Hugo worries that Kim likes Conrad more than she likes him, Conrad shocks the towns parents and drives the teenage girls crazy with his performance of Honestly Sincere, which causes all of the girls to faint
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The Stalking Moon
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The Stalking Moon is a 1968 western film in Technicolor starring Gregory Peck and Eva Marie Saint. It is directed by Robert Mulligan and based on the novel of the name by T. V. Olsen. U. S. Army soldiers round up a group of Indians, surprisingly, they find among them a white woman and her half-Indian son. Sam Varner is a scout retiring from the Army to his ranch in New Mexico and he agrees to escort Sarah Carver and her son after she begs him. She wants to leave rather than wait five days for a military escort. Sam takes them to a coach stop called Hennessy. The boy runs away during the night, Varner and Sarah go looking for him as a dust storm begins. They find the boy and then hole up to wait out the storm, when they return to the station, everyone there is dead, killed by the boys Indian warrior father, Salvaje. Salvaje is greatly feared even among his own people - and with reason, he is known to be a silent. Salvaje means Ghost in Apache, or in their own tongue, He Who Is Not Here, Sam is upset that Sarahs impatience to leave has cost the people at the station their lives. When the stagecoach does arrive, Sam puts Sarah and her son on it and he trades government letters of transport for train tickets to Topeka, Kansas. After some careful consideration, Sam decides to invite Sarah and her son to him to his ranch where she can cook for him and an old man, Ned. Sam sells his horse and they take the train to New Mexico, Sarah and her son are not talkative despite Sams best efforts. His friend Nick, a scout he has been friends with for ten years. Nick tells him that Salvaje killed everyone at Silverton and even killed Sams old horse and its apparent that Salvaje is coming to the ranch to retake his son. Ned goes outside to feed his dog and finds it killed with an arrow, in a blind rage, he runs into the trees after Salvaje. Sam tries to bring him back, but cant find him, shortly after, he hears Neds death scream. Sam decides to go after Salvaje and create an opportunity for Nick to get a clear shot, but, when Sam is being tracked, Nick jumps up to warn him and Salvaje kills him
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Vigilante (film)
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Vigilante is a 1983 American vigilante film directed by William Lustig. It stars Robert Forster and Fred Williamson, Eddie Marino is a factory worker in New York City. He has a wife named Vickie and a son named Scott. Eddies friend and co-worker, Nick, and two other co-workers, Burke and Ramon, have formed a vigilante group because Nick. Nick and his group are also tired of the police, because the police fail to protect people. Nicks group has support of residents of the neighborhood who indirectly help them. In one example, a local thug stalks and chases a woman to a rooftop of an apartment building where the thug robs. An old lady who witnesses the thug says nothing to the police, Nick and his friends forcibly grab the thug off the streets and place him in their van and drive away. The thug is later found dead in a vacant lot with all of his arms and legs broken, frederico Rico Melendez, the leader of a Puerto Rican street gang, is arrested for the crime. Assistant District Attorney Mary Fletcher seeks a lengthy sentence, since New York does not have the death penalty. Nick tries to convince Eddie to join the group, but Eddie turns Nick down. Nicks lack of faith in the system is correct when Rico is set free after his right-hand man, Prago. Enraged, Eddie attacks the judge and is sentenced to 30 days in jail, with Eddie in jail, the vigilante group tracks down the source of the drugs in their neighborhood. After roughing up a drug dealer and torturing his supplier. Meanwhile, in prison, Eddie befriends an inmate named Rake who saves him from being raped in the showers. As soon as Eddie is released from jail, he joins the group so he can track down and kill Rico, Prago. Eddie, Nick, Burke and Ramon confront Rico in his seedy apartment, an unmoved Eddie shoots him dead, but narrowly escapes death when Ricos girlfriend attempts to shoot him, she wounds Burke instead, and Nick kills her in self-defense. Upon hearing about Ricos murder, Prago takes over command of the gang, the following night, Prago and the gang ambush a police car and kill both cops
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Like Mike
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Like Mike is a 2002 American comedy film directed by John Schultz and written by Michael Elliot and Jordan Moffet. It was produced by NBA Productions and features appearances by NBA players. The film was released on July 3,2002, by 20th Century Fox, Calvin Cambridge and his two best friends, Murph and Reg Stevens, live in an orphanage. Murph is the youngest of the trio, and has a close bond with Calvin. At night they all have to sell chocolate for the orphanage director, Stan Bittleman, after each home game of the NBA team. Calvin meets the teams coach, who is impressed by Calvins knowledge of basketball and honesty about the chocolates, inside a thrift store donation box, Calvin finds a pair of old sneakers that were used by Michael Jordan. Calvins sneakers are taken by a bully named Ox who throws them onto an overhead power line. When Calvin tries to retrieve them that night in a rainstorm he is shocked by a lightning bolt, Calvin and his friends attend the basketball game between the Knights and the Minnesota Timberwolves. After the second quarter ends, the star player, Tracy Reynolds. Calvins ticket number is called and he goes one on one with Tracy, Calvin ends the contest with a dunk after bouncing the ball off the backboard. Reg and the crowd give Calvin a standing ovation, Calvin is signed to a one-day contract by the Knights. Calvin prepares for his first game with the Knights, but realizes that he is not there to play, when the Knights play the San Antonio Spurs they start losing badly and Coach Wagner decides to let Calvin play in the fourth quarter. Calvin leads a comeback against the Spurs and they win, which leads to Calvin getting a season contract, Reynolds becomes his mentor since Calvin is a minor. Calvin brings teamwork to the Knights and makes one of the best teams in the league. Tracy starts to respect Calvin after Calvin gets himself into trouble when making sure that Tracy didnt miss curfew, Bittleman signs a contract with the team that all of Calvins money will go to him until Calvin is eighteen, or adopted. When the second option is about to become true, Bittleman grows desperate and steals Calvins shoes, after convincing Ox and his cohorts that Bittleman is selfish, Ox takes the shoes out of Bittlemans safe. The kids head to the arena with Calvins sneakers, Bittleman escapes and sends goons after Calvin in a failed attempt to steal the shoes back. Calvin makes it to the arena with the shoes after the 3rd quarter ends with Vince Carter, in the 4th quarter of the last regular season, Calvin is put into the game by the coach and the Knights start to make a comeback
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Lucky Number Slevin
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Set in New York City, the plot focuses on the paths of Slevin Kelevra, Lindsey, two feuding crime lords known as The Boss and The Rabbi, and a mysterious hitman known as Mr. Goodkat. During the opening credits, two bookies are separately ambushed and murdered by their unseen killers, elsewhere, a man is killed by a sniper. To set an example to make sure nobody else would try to bet on a fixed race, Goodkat concludes that a Kansas City Shuffle is a misleading double bluff, and so tricks and kills the young man, before loading his body into a truck. In New York City, Slevin Kelevra is staying in his friend Nick Fishers apartment and, upon being visited by Nicks neighbor Lindsey, discusses Nicks disappearance and why his apartment was unlocked. Lindsey suggests that Nick may be missing and, after she leaves, Slevin then returns to the apartment, but is kidnapped again by two Jewish henchmen working for The Rabbi. The Rabbi also mistakes Slevin for Nick, and also demands he repay a gambling debt. Slevin returns to The Boss and agrees to kill The Fairy, Slevin and Lindsey go out to dinner, where Slevin arranges a date with The Fairy. Slevin is approached by Detective Brikowski, who is investigating The Boss, the detective hassles him again later and Slevin reveals his full name. Slevin then brings the bus terminal victims body, revealed to be Nick, together, they blow up the apartment and the bodies, faking Slevins death in the process. Goodkat and Slevin kidnap The Boss and The Rabbi, with both awakening restrained in The Bosss penthouse, Slevin appears and explains the overarching twist, Slevin is Henry, the son of the ill-fated Max, and the mobsters who killed Max were The Boss and The Rabbi. Goodkat is revealed as the assassin hired to kill young Henry, twenty years later, Goodkat and Slevin killed The Boss son and both mobsters bookies, stealing the bookies ledgers in the process. After finding that Nick owed a great deal of money to both sides, they killed him and stole his identity, after revealing his plan, Slevin suffocates The Rabbi and The Boss by taping plastic bags over their heads, killing them the same way they killed his father. Since Lindsey earlier photographed Goodkat for Slevin, Goodkat shoots her to protect his identity. Sometime later at the bus terminal, Slevin is met by Lindsey, Goodkat appears, aware of the trickery, since Goodkat spared Slevin as a boy, he sympathizes and agrees to let her live. The film closes with a flashback to Goodkat deciding not to kill Henry, Lucky Number Slevin opened in 1,984 theaters in North America and grossed $7,031,921, with an average of $3,544 per theater and ranking #5 at the box office. The film ultimately earned $22,495,466 domestically and $33,813,415 internationally for a total of $56,308,881, above its $27 million budget. The film received mixed reviews critics and has a Rotten score of 51% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 153 reviews. The critical consensus states Trying too hard to be clever in a Pulp Fiction kind of way, the film also has a score of 53 out of 100 on Metacritic based on 36 critics indicating mixed or average reviews
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Firewall (film)
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Firewall is a 2006 American-Australian crime thriller film directed by Richard Loncraine and written by Joe Forte. The film stars Harrison Ford as a banker who is forced by criminals, led by Paul Bettany, the film was a box office disappointment and received negative reviews from critics. Jack Stanfield is chief of security of Landrock Pacific Bank in downtown Seattle and he is visited by a collection agency, claiming he owes $95,000 to their online gambling site. Believing the incident is due to an identity theft, Jack entrusts a colleague to take care of the claim and he goes out for a drink with Harry Romano who introduces him to Bill Cox, a potential partner. After they leave, Cox follows Jack into his car and forces him to home at gunpoint. At home, Jack finds his wife Beth and two children unharmed, but under surveillance by Coxs henchmen, the next morning, Jack is given instruction to transfer $10,000 each from the banks 10,000 largest depositors to Coxs bank account. Cox rigs Jack with a camera and microphone to make sure he cannot ask for help without them knowing, at Landrock Bank, Cox visits Jack, reintroducing himself as Bill Redmond, a potential partner. Cox asks Jack to give him a tour of the security system. On the way home, Jack attempts to bribe a henchman to betray Cox. At home, Jack attempts an escape with his family, in retaliation, Cox gives Jacks son Andy a cookie containing nut products, sending him into an anaphylactic shock. Cox withholds the treatment, until Jack acquiesces to their plan, the next day, Cox forces Jack to fire his secretary Janet, fearing that she is growing suspicious. Jack initiates a wire transfer to send the money to Coxs offshore accounts, before leaving, Jack uses an employees camera phone to a picture of the account information on the screen. Cox then begins wiping his tracks and he forces Jack to delete security data and surveillance tapes, and use a virus to cripple the buildings system. Returning home, Jack finds the house empty except for Liam, realizing Cox has no intention of letting him live, Jack kills Liam. He tries to call Harry, but his colleague doesnt answer, Jack goes to Harrys house to inquire about Cox. However, Cox kills Harry with the gun he had confiscated from Jack. Beth, held at gunpoint, leaves a message suggesting an affair on Harrys answering machine and this implicates Jack in Harrys death. In addition, the false $95,000 debts will be considered motive for Jack embezzling the banks money, Jack turns to the only ally he has left, his secretary Janet
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The Hunt for the BTK Killer
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The Hunt for the BTK Killer is a 2005 biographical telefilm directed by Stephen T. Kay. First shown on CBS it is based on the story of Dennis Rader killing ten people from 1974 to 1991. Though the events take place in Wichita, Kansas, the film was made in Nova Scotia, Dennis Rader John Dunsworth. Raders Pastor The Hunt for the BTK Killer at the Internet Movie Database
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Serial killer
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Different authorities apply different criteria when designating serial killers, while most set a threshold of three murders, others extend it to four or lessen it to two. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, for example, defines serial killing as a series of two or more murders, committed as separate events, usually, but not always, by one offender acting alone. The murders may be attempted or completed in a fashion. Serial killing is not the same as mass murdering, nor is it spree killing, however, there is ample evidence the term was used in Europe and the U. S. earlier. The German term and concept were coined by the influential Ernst Gennat, psychopathic behavior that is consistent with traits common to some serial killers include sensation seeking, a lack of remorse or guilt, impulsivity, the need for control, and predatory behavior. They were often abused—emotionally, physically and/or sexually—by a family member, a disproportionate number exhibit one, two, or all three of the Macdonald triad of predictors of future violent behavior, Many are fascinated with fire setting. They are involved in activity, especially in children who have not reached sexual maturity. More than 60 percent, or simply a large proportion, wet their beds beyond the age of 12 and they were frequently bullied or socially isolated as children or adolescents. For example, Henry Lee Lucas was ridiculed as a child, kenneth Bianchi was teased as a child because he urinated in his pants, suffered twitching, and as a teenager was ignored by his peers. Some were involved in petty crimes, such as fraud, theft, vandalism, often, they have trouble staying employed and tend to work in menial jobs. The FBI, however, states, Serial murderers often seem normal, have families and/or a steady job, other sources state they often come from unstable families. Studies have suggested that serial killers generally have an average or low-average IQ, although they are often described, a sample of 202 IQs of serial killers had a median IQ of 89. There are exceptions to these criteria, however, for example, Harold Shipman was a successful professional. He was considered a pillar of the community, he even won a professional award for a childrens asthma clinic and was interviewed by Granada Televisions World in Action. Dennis Nilsen was an ex-soldier turned civil servant and trade unionist who had no criminal record when arrested. Neither was known to have exhibited many of the tell-tale signs, vlado Taneski, a crime reporter, was a career journalist who was caught after a series of articles he wrote gave clues that he had murdered people. Russell Williams was a successful and respected career Royal Canadian Air Force Colonel who was convicted of murdering two women, along with fetish burglaries and rapes, Many serial killers have faced similar problems in their childhood development. Family, or lack thereof, is the most prominent part of a childs development because it is what the child can identify with on a regular basis
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Dennis Rader
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Dennis Lynn Rader is an American serial killer who murdered ten people in Sedgwick County, Kansas, between 1974 and 1991. He is also known as the BTK Killer or the BTK Strangler, BTK stands for Bind, Torture, Kill, which was his infamous signature. He sent letters describing the details of the murders to police, after a hiatus in the 1990s to the early 2000s, Rader resumed sending letters in 2004, leading to his 2005 arrest and subsequent guilty plea. He is currently serving 10 consecutive life sentences at El Dorado Correctional Facility in Kansas, Dennis Rader is the oldest of four sons born to Dorothea Mae Rader and William Elvin Rader. Though born in Pittsburg, Kansas, he grew up in Wichita, according to many reports, including his confessions, as a child he tortured animals. He also had a fetish for womens underwear and stole underpants from his victims. Rader spent 1966–1970 in the United States Air Force, upon discharge he moved to Park City. He worked in the department of Leekers IGA supermarket in Park City with his mother. He married Paula Dietz on May 22,1971, and they had two children, Rader attended Butler County Community College in El Dorado, earning an associate degree in electronics in 1973. He then enrolled at Wichita State University and graduated in 1979 with a bachelors in administration of justice, Rader worked as an assembler for the Coleman Company, an outdoor supply company. Rader was a census field operations supervisor for the Wichita area in 1989 and he became a dogcatcher and compliance officer in Park City. In this position, neighbors recalled him as being sometimes overzealous, One neighbor complained he euthanized her dog for no reason. On March 2,2005, the Park City council terminated Raders employment for failure to report to work or to call in and he had been arrested for the murders five days earlier. Rader was a member of Christ Lutheran Church and had been elected president of the church council and he was also a Cub Scout leader. On July 26,2005, after Raders arrest, his wife was granted an immediate divorce, all of Raders known crimes occurred in Kansas. He killed ten people in total and collected items from each murder scene and he also intended to kill others, notably Anna Williams,63, who in 1979 escaped death by returning home much later than he expected. Rader explained during his confession that he became obsessed with Williams and was livid when she evaded him. He spent hours waiting at her home but became impatient and left when she did not return home from visiting friends
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Fastlane (TV series)
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Fastlane is an American action/crime drama series that was broadcast on Fox from September 18,2002 to April 25,2003. On August 14,2005 G4 began rebroadcasting the complete series, after finishing its initial run on the network, Fastlane stopped airing on G4. Fastlane also aired on TVOne sometime around 2006, van Ray and Deaqon Hayes are two mismatched cops teamed together by shady vixen police lieutenant, Wilhelmina Billie Chambers, in a secretive undercover division of the Los Angeles Police Department. Operating with the motto Everything we seize, we keep, given criminal covers, the officers use all of the resources at their disposal to apprehend dangerous criminals while walking the line between cop and criminal. The series consisted of episodes, forty-five minutes each, plus an unaired pilot which ended up being very similar to the first episode broadcast. Episodes 13 and 14 form a story, while episodes 21 and 22 form a two-part story ending on a cliffhanger which sees Billie Chambers kidnapped and forced to do drugs. As the series was canceled at that point due to the costs of each episode. Each episode cost the two studios making it $2.6 million, the shows hallmarks—unconventional cinematography, pyrotechnics, guest appearances, licensed soundtracks, supercars and other exotic vehicles—were the root cause of the exorbitant production costs. The show was canceled because of high production costs and the ratings drop it suffered from being moved from Wednesday nights to Friday nights. Warner Home Video released Fastlane, The Complete Series on DVD as a six disc set on July 8,2008 in the Region 1, the soundtrack was significantly altered for the DVD release due to licensing issues. Episodes are cropped to be in the original 4,3 format rather than the 16,9 widescreen format as they appeared on television. The complete series was instant streaming on Netflix until the summer of 2011 when it was taken off for unknown reasons, Fastlane at the Internet Movie Database Fastlane at TV. com
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Elmore Leonard
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Elmore John Leonard Jr. was an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. His earliest novels, published in the 1950s, were Westerns, among his best-known works are Get Shorty, Out of Sight, Swag, Hombre, Mr. Majestyk, and Rum Punch. Leonards writings include short stories became the films 3,10 to Yuma and The Tall T. Leonard was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of Flora Amelia and Elmore John Leonard, because his father worked as a site locator for General Motors, the family moved frequently for several years. In 1934, the family settled in Detroit, enrolling at the University of Detroit in 1946, he pursued writing more seriously, entering his work in short story contests and sending it off to magazines. He graduated in 1950 with a degree in English and philosophy. A year before he graduated, he got a job as a writer with Campbell-Ewald Advertising Agency. Leonard got his first break in the market during the 1950s. Leonard had his first success in 1951 when Argosy published the short story Trail of the Apaches, during the 1950s and early 1960s, he continued writing Westerns, publishing more than 30 short stories. He wrote his first novel, The Bounty Hunters, in 1953, five of his westerns were turned into major movies before 1972, The Tall T,3,10 to Yuma, Hombre, Valdez Is Coming, and Joe Kidd. He went on to write seventeen novels and stories in the mystery, crime, in 1985, his breakout novel, Glitz was published. At the time of his death he had tens of millions of copies of his novels. Among his later movies are Jackie Brown which is a homage to the author’s trademark rhythm and pace, Get Shorty and he married Beverly Clare Cline in 1949, and they had five children together—three daughters and two sons—before divorcing in 1977. His second marriage in 1979, to Joan Leanne Lancaster, ended with her death in 1993, later that same year, he married Christine Kent, and they divorced in 2012. Leonard spent the last years of his life with his family in Oakland County and he suffered a stroke on July 29,2013. Initial reports stated that Leonard was recovering, but on August 20,2013, Leonard is survived by his five children,13 grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren. Commended by critics for his gritty realism and strong dialogue, Leonard sometimes took liberties with grammar in the interest of speeding the story along. In his essay Elmore Leonards Ten Rules of Writing he said, My most important rule is one that sums up the 10, If it sounds like writing and he also hinted, I try to leave out the parts that readers tend to skip
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NBC
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The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is the flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The network is part of the Big Three television networks, founded in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America, NBC is the oldest major broadcast network in the United States. Following the acquisition by GE, Bob Wright served as executive officer of NBC, remaining in that position until his retirement in 2007. In 2003, French media company Vivendi merged its entertainment assets with GE, Comcast purchased a controlling interest in the company in 2011, and acquired General Electrics remaining stake in 2013. Following the Comcast merger, Zucker left NBC Universal and was replaced as CEO by Comcast executive Steve Burke, during a period of early broadcast business consolidation, radio manufacturer Radio Corporation of America acquired New York City radio station WEAF from American Telephone & Telegraph. Westinghouse, a shareholder in RCA, had an outlet in Newark, New Jersey pioneer station WJZ. This station was transferred from Westinghouse to RCA in 1923, WEAF acted as a laboratory for AT&Ts manufacturing and supply outlet Western Electric, whose products included transmitters and antennas. The Bell System, AT&Ts telephone utility, was developing technologies to transmit voice- and music-grade audio over short and long distances, the 1922 creation of WEAF offered a research-and-development center for those activities. WEAF maintained a schedule of radio programs, including some of the first commercially sponsored programs. In an early example of chain or networking broadcasting, the station linked with Outlet Company-owned WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island, AT&T refused outside companies access to its high-quality phone lines. The early effort fared poorly, since the telegraph lines were susceptible to atmospheric. In 1925, AT&T decided that WEAF and its network were incompatible with the companys primary goal of providing a telephone service. AT&T offered to sell the station to RCA in a deal that included the right to lease AT&Ts phone lines for network transmission, the divisions ownership was split among RCA, its founding corporate parent General Electric and Westinghouse. NBC officially started broadcasting on November 15,1926, WEAF and WJZ, the flagships of the two earlier networks, were operated side-by-side for about a year as part of the new NBC. On April 5,1927, NBC expanded to the West Coast with the launch of the NBC Orange Network and this was followed by the debut of the NBC Gold Network, also known as the Pacific Gold Network, on October 18,1931. The Orange Network carried Red Network programming, and the Gold Network carried programming from the Blue Network, initially, the Orange Network recreated Eastern Red Network programming for West Coast stations at KPO in San Francisco. The Orange Network name was removed from use in 1936, at the same time, the Gold Network became part of the Blue Network. In the 1930s, NBC also developed a network for shortwave radio stations, in 1927, NBC moved its operations to 711 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, occupying the upper floors of a building designed by architect Floyd Brown
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Arthur Petrelli
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This is a list of fictional characters in the television series Heroes, the Heroes graphic novels, and the Heroes webisodes. Characters are listed by recent appearances and title credit order, in its inaugural season, Heroes featured an ensemble cast of fourteen main characters. During the first season, the NBC Heroes cast page listed ten characters among the cast, Leonard Roberts arrived later, for the second season of the show, Santiago Cabrera, Tawny Cypress, and Leonard Roberts left the main cast. Anders was originally meant to be a character, but was promoted to a series regular prior to the start of the season. He is credited as a guest star for the first four episodes of season two, for the third season, Cristine Rose, recurring in the first two seasons, was promoted to series regular. David Anders, Kristen Bell, and Noah Gray-Cabey were taken off the main cast, additionally, Dana Davis was no longer part of the main cast, with scenes involving her in the third season being cut. For the fourth season, a new character Samuel Sullivan was added as a series regular, originally cast as a recurring part, the part had been changed to a starring role. Dania Remirez left the main cast as well, charlene Charlie Andrews, portrayed by Jayma Mays, is a waitress at the Burnt Toast Diner in Midland, Texas, where Hiro Nakamura and Ando Masahashi stop to eat on their road trip to New York. Charlie and Hiros relationship is the subject of the novel Heroes, during Six Months Ago, after accidentally traveling back in time six months while trying to save her life, Hiro steadily falls in love with her and she with him and she teaches him English. However, Charlie has a blood clot in her brain that will turn into an aneurysm. He is unwillingly returned to his own time, depressed over his inability to save Charlie which affects his powers for the rest of the season. In season 4, after learning that he is dying, Hiro becomes determined once more to save Charlie, referring to her as his true love, Hiro is able to stop Sylar and send his past self back six months to ensure their relationship. However, after the two are reunited, Charlies blood clot starts to develop into an aneurysm and she comes close to dying, desperate, Hiro enlists Sylars help to save her in exchange for information on his personal future. Charlie storms out, but eventually returns to Hiro and she is then kidnapped by Arnold on the orders of Samuel Sullivan and displaced in time to force Hiro to cooperate. In Brave New World, Hiro is finally reunited with Charlie and she reveals the location and date she was transported to, but refuses Hiros offer to go back in time and retrieve her as she has lived a wonderful life. Accepting this, Hiro says a final goodbye to Charlie and teleports away with Ando to stop Samuel, Charles Deveaux, portrayed by Richard Roundtree, is the wealthy father of Simone Deveaux, and one of the founding members of the Company. He owns the Deveaux Society, which opened with the goal to fund causes that bettered the world, and the Deveaux Building, at the beginning of the series, he is under Peter Petrellis care due to his failing health, and he has recently lapsed into a coma. Charles believes that Peter is like a son to him, and Charles believes that Peters love and compassion can change the world, in Nothing to Hide, Charles and Peter telepathically share a dream in which they fly
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AMC (TV channel)
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AMC is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by AMC Networks. The channels programming, similar to that of FXM, primarily consists of released films. The channels name originally stood for American Movie Classics, but since 2002 the full name has been de-emphasized as a result of a shift in its programming. As of July 2015, AMC was received by approximately 94,832,000 households in the United States that subscribe to a pay television service. In March 2015, Dish Networks Sling TV announced it would begin making AMC channels available to cord cutters, including AMC, BBC America, IFC, SundanceTV. American Movie Classics, as AMC was originally known, debuted on October 1,1984 as a premium channel, AMC was originally operated as a joint venture between Rainbow Media and cable television provider Tele-Communications Inc. During its early years, it was not uncommon for AMC to host a marathon of Marx Brothers films, in 1987, the channel began to be carried on the basic cable tiers of many cable providers. By 1989, AMC was available to 39 million subscribers in the U. S, on December 1,1990, AMC began operating on a 24-hour-a-day schedule. Beginning in 1993, AMC presented an annual Film Preservation Festival to raise awareness of, portions of the festival were often dedicated to all-day marathons focusing on a single performer. During its fifth year in 1998, Scorsese credited the Festival for creating not only a greater awareness. In 1996, curator of the Museum of Modern Art Mary Lee Bandy called the Festival the most important public event in support of film preservation. By its tenth anniversary in 2003, the Festival had raised $2 million from the general public, the following year, Time Warner also attempted to acquire at least part of Liberty Medias stake in AMC. Turner owns rights to the RKO Radio Pictures film library and licensed RKOs films to AMC in a deal that was slated to last through 2004. Under the terms of the deal, AMC would obtain the RKO titles in exclusive windows, around this time, General Electric/NBC owned a stake in AMC – which it divested in the early 2000s. From 1996 to 1998, AMC aired its first original series, Remember WENN, the show was well received by both critics and its enthusiastic fans, but was abruptly cancelled after its fourth season following management changes at the channel. Despite a well publicized campaign to save the series, the show was not renewed for its originally scheduled fifth season. One popular AMC program was American Pop. which ran from 1998 to 2003, the majority of the films presented on AMC during the 1990s had originally been released by Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Columbia Pictures, and Universal Studios. The channel also showed classic silent films
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Walter White (Breaking Bad)
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Walter Hartwell White Sr. also known by his clandestine alias Heisenberg, is a fictional character and the main protagonist of Breaking Bad. He is portrayed by Bryan Cranston and he left Gray Matter abruptly, selling his shares for $5,000, soon afterward, the company made a fortune, much of it from his research. Walt subsequently moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he became a school chemistry teacher. Breaking Bad begins on Walters 50th birthday, when he is diagnosed with Stage IIIA lung cancer, after this discovery, he resorts to manufacturing methamphetamine and drug dealing to ensure his familys financial security after his death. Series creator Vince Gilligan has described his goal with Walter White as turning Mr. Chips into Scarface, Walts evolution from mild-mannered school teacher and family man to ruthless criminal mastermind and murderer is the shows central focus. Cranston contributed greatly to the creation of his character, including Walts backstory, physical appearance, and personality traits. Cranston won four Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, following his fourth win, Cranston tied Dennis Franz for the most wins in the categorys history. He is the first man to win a Critics Choice, Golden Globe, Primetime Emmy, SAG, in the Spanish-language remake Metástasis, his character is renamed Walter Blanco and is portrayed by Diego Trujillo. Walter White was born on September 7,1959, as seen on some of his personal papers and he was an only child and his father died when he was six years old. Walt studied chemistry at the California Institute of Technology, where he conducted research on proton radiography that helped a team win a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1985, after graduate school, Walt founded the firm Gray Matter Technologies with Elliott Schwartz, his former classmate and close friend. Around this time, Walt dated his lab assistant, Gretchen and he left both Gretchen and Gray Matter Technologies, selling his financial interest in the company for $5,000. Gretchen and Elliott later married and made a fortune, much of it from Walts research, though they remain friendly, Walt secretly resents both Gretchen and Elliott for profiting from his work. At the age of 50, Walt works as a school chemistry teacher in Albuquerque, New Mexico, providing instruction to uninterested. Walt and his wife Skyler have a son named Walter Jr. who has cerebral palsy. Skyler is also pregnant with their child, Holly, who is born at the end of season two. Walts other family includes Skylers sister, Marie Schrader, her husband, Hank, who is a DEA agent, and his mother, who is never seen. On his 50th birthday, Walt goes on a ridealong with Hank as he busts a crystal meth ring and he sees one of his former students, Jesse Pinkman, fleeing the scene, and deduces that Jesse is part of the operation. The next day, Walt faints at the car wash, and is taken to a hospital, there, he is told he has lung cancer
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Triple Nine Society
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This generally corresponds to an IQ of 146 or greater with a standard deviation of 15,149 or greater using a standard deviation of 16, and 173 or greater with a standard deviation of 24. As of January 2016, TNS reported over 1,700 members residing in 50 countries, TNS members communicate with one another online through email lists, a Facebook group, two Yahoo. Groups, a LinkedIn group and a scheduled weekly IRC chat, European members have established a group in XING, the Triple Nine Society was founded in 1978 on democratic principles. Executive Committee Officers serve for terms, six by election. Voting for Officers occurs from February 1 through March 1 inclusive, Triple Nine encourages members to freely express their views in keeping with the Societys commitment to friendship and intellectual growth. The preamble to the Triple Nine Society constitution follows below, Official website Global General Gathering of the Triple Nine Society website Denver Post feature on Triple Nine Society
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Justine (1969 film)
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Justine is a drama film directed by George Cukor and Joseph Strick. It was written by Lawrence B. Marcus and Andrew Sarris, set in Alexandria in 1938, a young British schoolmaster named Darley meets Pursewarden, a British consular officer. Pursewarden introduces him to Justine, the wife of an Egyptian banker, Darley befriends her, and discovers she is involved in a plot against the British, the goal of which is to arm the Jewish underground movement in Palestine. He did some location shooting there, then got into fights with the executives at Fox and with star Anouk Aimee. When he did not hire others for the film as ordered by the studio and slept on the set while working on one of Aimees scenes, they fired him and he proceeded to bring the film to Hollywood where the remainder of the film was finished. It became a flop and received critical reviews. Some scenes were shot at Ennejma Ezzahra, a palace at Sidi Bou Said, list of American films of 1969 Justine at the Internet Movie Database
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Cover Me Babe
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Cover Me Babe is a 1970 drama film about a young filmmaker who will do anything to get a studio contract. The film was directed by Noel Black, and stars Robert Forster, the title song was written by Fred Karlin and Randy Newman, and performed by BREAD. A second song by Bread also appeared on the soundtrack, Tony Hall is a film-school student who does not care to make conventional films. His first avant-garde effort features Melisse, who soon becomes Tonys lover, seeking a grant, Tony is steered to Paul, whos a Hollywood agent, but he continues to reject the notion of making movies that conform to the norm. Tony shoots realistic footage of a couple making love in a car, a derelict and he alienates all eventually, and is alone in the end
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The Don Is Dead
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The Don Is Dead is a 1973 crime drama film directed by Richard Fleischer. Frank is the son of an organized-crime boss. He plans a heroin deal with the help of brothers Tony and Vince, after the death of his father, a mob war breaks out between two rival families. One is run by Don Angelo, but he not get the support of the brothers, Tony and Vince. He begins a romance with Franks young and beautiful fiancee, Ruby, the Don Is Dead has the attributes of some lively, pithily accented performances that are adult and effectively natural. As the embattled don who is finally felled by a stroke, not a gun, Quinn is moodily menacing, list of American films of 1973 The Don Is Dead at the Internet Movie Database
