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Menston
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Menston is a village and civil parish in the county of West Yorkshire, England. Along with Burley in Wharfedale, part of Menston is within Wharfedale Ward in the borough of the City of Bradford. The remainder of Menston is in the Leeds City Council area and it has a population of 4,660, reducing to 4,498 at the 2011 Census. Menstons Anglican parish church is dedicated to St John the Divine, other notable buildings include the former High Royds Hospital and St. Marys Menston Catholic Academy, both of which are in the Leeds part of Menston. The site of High Royds Hospital, originally the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum and this is a reflection of Menstons growing size. In the past 20 years there has increased demand for much needed housing in the area. The population of Menston has been steadily increasing, as a result, Menston primary school, which was threatened with closure in the 1980s, has increased student numbers. It lies on the A65, approximately ten miles north-west of the centre of Leeds and 9 miles north of Bradford centre, Menston also has a railway station between Guiseley and Burley on the Wharfedale Line, with direct trains to Leeds, Bradford Forster Square and Ilkley. There are bus services to Leeds, Otley and Wetherby, Menston once had rail links to Otley, via the Arthington to Menston Line. Highroyds is mentioned in the Kaiser Chiefs song of the name, from the album. The Kaiser Chiefs met and formed in the class at St Marys Catholic High School. Menston is home to club, Menston Town FC who currently play in the Wharfedale Triangle Division 2 after being established in 2010. Paul Jewell, a footballer and the former manager of Bradford City, Sheffield Wednesday, Wigan Athletic. Dean Windass, the former Bradford City and Hull City footballer, Nick Hodgson, Nick Baines and Simon Rix, all members of the rock band, the Kaiser Chiefs, met while attending St. Marys Roman Catholic High School in Menston. Menston Village Alternative Menston website Menston at DMOZ St. Marys Menston Catholic Voluntary Academy St Johns church, Menston Menston information from local councillor Matt Palmer Menston Town FC
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Berlin
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Berlin is the capital and the largest city of Germany as well as one of its constituent 16 states. With a population of approximately 3.5 million, Berlin is the second most populous city proper, due to its location in the European Plain, Berlin is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. Around one-third of the area is composed of forests, parks, gardens, rivers. Berlin in the 1920s was the third largest municipality in the world, following German reunification in 1990, Berlin once again became the capital of all-Germany. Berlin is a city of culture, politics, media. Its economy is based on high-tech firms and the sector, encompassing a diverse range of creative industries, research facilities, media corporations. Berlin serves as a hub for air and rail traffic and has a highly complex public transportation network. The metropolis is a popular tourist destination, significant industries also include IT, pharmaceuticals, biomedical engineering, clean tech, biotechnology, construction and electronics. Modern Berlin is home to world renowned universities, orchestras, museums and its urban setting has made it a sought-after location for international film productions. The city is known for its festivals, diverse architecture, nightlife, contemporary arts. Since 2000 Berlin has seen the emergence of a cosmopolitan entrepreneurial scene, the name Berlin has its roots in the language of West Slavic inhabitants of the area of todays Berlin, and may be related to the Old Polabian stem berl-/birl-. All German place names ending on -ow, -itz and -in, since the Ber- at the beginning sounds like the German word Bär, a bear appears in the coat of arms of the city. It is therefore a canting arm, the first written records of towns in the area of present-day Berlin date from the late 12th century. Spandau is first mentioned in 1197 and Köpenick in 1209, although these areas did not join Berlin until 1920, the central part of Berlin can be traced back to two towns. Cölln on the Fischerinsel is first mentioned in a 1237 document,1237 is considered the founding date of the city. The two towns over time formed close economic and social ties, and profited from the right on the two important trade routes Via Imperii and from Bruges to Novgorod. In 1307, they formed an alliance with a common external policy, in 1415 Frederick I became the elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg, which he ruled until 1440. In 1443 Frederick II Irontooth started the construction of a new palace in the twin city Berlin-Cölln
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Alexandra Maria Lara
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Alexandra Maria Lara is a Romanian-German actress best known for her roles in Downfall, Control, Youth Without Youth, The Reader, and Rush. Born in Bucharest, Lara is the child of Valentin Plătăreanu, a Bucharest actor. When she was four her family decided to flee to West Germany to escape Nicolae Ceauşescus regime in Communist Romania, although the family had originally planned to emigrate to Canada, they settled down in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, before eventually moving to Berlin. After graduating at the Französisches Gymnasium Berlin in 1997, Lara went on to acting under the management of her father, co-founder of the Theaterwerkstatt Charlottenburg. By sixteen, she was playing lead roles in various television dramas, since then her career has developed. In 2007 she also appeared as journalist Annik Honoré in the film Control, in 2008, she served as a member of the Cannes Film Festival jury. She played a role in Greek director Theo Angelopouloss 2008 film The Dust of Time, opposite Irène Jacob. She has also appeared in several French productions, including Napoléon, more recently, she appeared in The Reader and Der Baader Meinhof Komplex which were both nominated for the 81st Academy Awards. In August 2009, Lara married English actor Sam Riley, with whom she acted in the films Control, in January 2014, she gave birth to their first child, a boy. In addition to her native Romanian, Lara is fluent in German, English, official website Alexandra Maria Lara at the Internet Movie Database Interview
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Biographical film
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A biographical film, or biopic, is a film that dramatizes the life of a non-fictional or historically-based person or people. Such films show the life of a person and the central characters real name is used. Because the figures portrayed are actual people, whose actions and characteristics are known to the public, biopic roles are considered some of the most demanding of actors and actresses. Biopic scholars include George F. Custen of the College of Staten Island, Custen, in Bio/Pics, How Hollywood Constructed Public History, regards the genre as having died with the Hollywood studio era, and in particular, Darryl F. Zanuck. On the other hand, Binghams 2010 study Whose Lives Are They Anyway, ellen Cheshires Bio-Pics, a life in pictures examines UK/US films from the 1990s and 2000s. Each chapter reviews key films linked by profession and concludes with further viewing list, christopher Robé has also written on the gender norms that underlie the biopic in his article, Taking Hollywood Back in the 2009 issue of Cinema Journal. The Hurricane is not a documentary but a parable, some biopics purposely stretch the truth. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind was based on game show host Chuck Barris widely debunked yet popular memoir of the same name, Kafka incorporated both the life of author Franz Kafka and the surreal aspects of his fiction. The Errol Flynn film They Died with Their Boots On tells the story of Custer but is highly romanticized, casting can be controversial for biographical films. Casting is often a balance between similarity in looks and ability to portray the characteristics of the person, anthony Hopkins felt that he should not have played Richard Nixon in Nixon because of a lack of resemblance between the two. The casting of John Wayne as Genghis Khan in The Conqueror was objected to because of the American Wayne being cast as the Mongol warlord. Egyptian critics criticized the casting of Louis Gossett, Jr. an African American actor, also, some objected to the casting of Jennifer Lopez in Selena because she is a New York City native of Puerto Rican descent while Selena was Mexican-American. Biographical novel Biography in literature List of biographical films
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Control (2007 film)
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Control is a 2007 British biographical film about the life of Ian Curtis, singer of the late-1970s English post-punk band Joy Division. It is the first feature directed by Anton Corbijn, who had worked with Joy Division as a photographer. The screenplay by Matt Greenhalgh was based on the biography Touching from a Distance by Curtis widow Deborah, Tony Wilson, who released Joy Divisions records through his Factory Records label, also served as a co-producer. Curtis bandmates Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, and Stephen Morris provided incidental music for the soundtrack via their post-Joy Division incarnation New Order. Control was filmed partly on location in Nottingham, Manchester, and Macclesfield, including areas where Curtis lived, alexandra Maria Lara plays Honoré, while James Anthony Pearson, Joe Anderson, and Harry Treadaway play Sumner, Hook, and Morris, respectively. The film also features Toby Kebbell as band manager Rob Gretton and it went on to win five British Independent Film Awards including Best Film, Best Director for Corbijn, Most Promising Newcomer for Riley, and Best Supporting Actor for Kebbell. Ian Curtis and Debbie Woodruff marry in 1975 in their town of Macclesfield at ages 19 and 18. Ian retreats from domestic life, preferring to write poetry in solitude, on June 4,1976 they attend a Sex Pistols concert with Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, and Terry Mason, who are starting a band. Mesmerized by the concert, Ian volunteers to be their singer and they name themselves Warsaw, and Terry moves into a managerial role with the addition of drummer Stephen Morris. The band debuts 19 May 1977 and soon rename themselves Joy Division, Ian and Debbie finance their first EP, An Ideal for Living. During his job as an employment agent, Ian witnesses a seizure suffered by Corinne Lewis, unsatisfied with the brief mention Joy Division receives from television host Tony Wilson, Ian demands that he put the band on his programme. In April 1978 Joy Division plays a battle of bands, impressing Tony and Rob Gretton and they perform Transmission on Tonys programme and sign to his Factory Records label, Tony signs the contract using his own blood. In December 1978 Ian suffers a seizure on the way back from the bands first London gig, He is diagnosed with epilepsy and prescribed medications that leave him drowsy, learning that Corinne Lewis has died of a seizure, he pens Shes Lost Control about her. He begins to neglect Debbie, who gives birth to their daughter Natalie in April 1979, Ian quits his job to go on tour, leaving Debbie to work and care for the baby. Ian admits to Belgian journalist Annik Honoré that he is miserable at home, the two begin having an affair during Joy Divisions January 1980 European tour. On returning home, Ian tells Debbie he is if he still loves her. During the rehearsing of Love Will Tear Us Apart, Rob informs the band that they will be departing 19 May for a tour of the United States, Debbie finds evidence of Ians infidelity and confronts him. He promises that the affair is over, but continues to see Annik during the recording of Closer in Islington, Ian suffers a seizure mid-performance and is comforted by Annik, who admits she is falling in love with him
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Ian Curtis
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Ian Kevin Curtis was an English singer-songwriter and musician. He is best known as the singer and lyricist of the post-punk band Joy Division. Joy Division released their album, Unknown Pleasures, in 1979 and recorded their follow-up, Closer. Curtis was known for his voice, dance style, and songwriting filled with imagery of desolation, war, emptiness. Curtis was born on 15 July 1956, at the Memorial Hospital in Stretford and he grew up in Macclesfield in Cheshire, and from an early age he exhibited talent as a poet. He was awarded a scholarship at the age of 11 by the Kings School, despite this, he was not a dedicated pupil and did not further his education beyond O-level. Curtis was a shoplifter throughout his childhood and he had an interest in music in his teens but couldnt afford to purchase records, leading him to stealing albums from Macclesfield town centre, hiding them underneath a grey coat. He was also forced to do service by visiting the elderly as part of a school scheme. While there, he would steal prescription drugs from residents and then take them with his friends and he once had his stomach pumped after taking too many. After leaving high school, Curtis focused on the pursuit of art, literature and he was employed in a variety of jobs, including being a civil servant in Manchester and, later, Macclesfield. On 23 August 1975, Curtis married a friend, Deborah Woodruff at St Thomas Church. He was 19 and she was 18 and their daughter Natalie was born on 16 April 1979. In 1976 at a Sex Pistols gig, Curtis met Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook and they were trying to form a band, and Curtis immediately proposed himself as singer and lyricist. The trio then tried unsuccessfully to recruit several drummers before selecting Stephen Morris as their final member, initially, the band was called Warsaw, but as their name conflicted with that of another group, Warsaw Pakt, they changed it to Joy Division. The moniker was derived from a 1955 novel The House of Dolls, which featured a Nazi concentration camp with a sexual slavery wing called the Joy Division. The cover of the bands first EP depicted a drawing of a Hitler Youth beating a drum and the A-side contained a song, Warsaw, while performing with Joy Division, Curtis became known for his quiet and awkward demeanour, as well as a unique dancing style. Although predominantly a singer, Curtis also played guitar on a handful of tracks, at first Curtis played Sumners Shergold Masquerader, but in September 1979 he acquired his own guitar, a Vox Phantom Special VI which had many built-in effects used both live and in studio. After Curtis death, Sumner inherited the guitar and used it in several early New Order songs, Curtis began suffering epileptic fits around 1978, and his condition worsened throughout 1979 and 1980 amid the pressure of performances and touring
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On the Road (film)
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On the Road is a 2012 adventure drama film directed by Walter Salles. The executive producer was Francis Ford Coppola, filming began on August 4,2010, in Montreal, Quebec, with a $25 million budget. On May 23,2012, the film premiered in competition for the Palme dOr at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, the film received mixed early reviews after it premiered at the film festival. The film also premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival in September, in 1947 New York, on the day his father is buried, Sal Paradise is out with his friend Carlo Marx who is, like him, an aspiring writer. Theyre invited by common friend Chad to meet young car thief from Denver Dean Moriarty along with Deans 16-year-old wife Marylou, Sal and Carlo befriend Dean, smoking marijuana with him and visiting a jazz nightclub where they meet saxophonist Walter, who also befriends them. Sal teaches Dean how to write before Dean leaves for Denver with Carlo, after much contemplation, writers block, and a solemn visit to his fathers grave, Sal decides to join his friends in Denver and embarks on the road for the first time. There, Sal meets Camille, an art student for whom Dean is divorcing Marylou. Carlo starts to question his sexuality, and Carlo and Dean start an affair, Carlo, Sal, Camille, and Dean visit a bar where Dean plays Ive Got the World on a String on the jukebox, and Camille bonds with Sal. Carlo tells Sal he thinks he might be gay, and he plans to travel to Africa, Sal leaves aboard a bus and meets Terry. The two travel to California, where Terry works on cotton fields with her family while Sal helps, Sal and Terry have a brief affair before Sal, realizing he isnt made to work in the fields, heads back home. In December 1948, Dean, Marylou, and Ed Dunkel arrive at Sals sisters home in North Carolina, Sals family feeds the trio, who havent eaten for 30 hours, and the next day the trio, Sal, and Sals mother drive back to New York. The guys and Marylou celebrate New Years Eve at Carlos place, later, Dean convinces Sal to partake in a threesome with him and Marylou. Sal starts kissing Marylou, but Deans presence makes him nervous, following this, Dean and Marylou have sex, while Sal listens in the other room. The next day, they ride off to California and leave Ed at Bulls, when they arrive in San Francisco, Dean drives to Camilles place, leaving Sal and Marylou to rent a room, where the two have sex. The next morning, Marylou leaves to return to her sailor fiancé in Denver, and Sal goes over to visit Dean and Camille, Sal and Dean visit a nightclub, leaving Camille alone to deal with the children. When they return home, she kicks Dean out, Sal and Dean travel to Denver in search of Deans father, but have no luck finding him. They then travel back to New York with a tall, thin salesman from whom Dean tries to get money in exchange for sex, Dean succeeds, which gives him and Sal enough money to get where they need to go. Eight months later, Dean asks Sal if he would like to drive to Mexico, when they arrive a kid gets high with them and leads them to a whorehouse, where Dean and Sal dance and have sex with some of the prostitutes
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Jack Kerouac
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Jack Kerouac was an American novelist and poet. He is considered a literary iconoclast and, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, Kerouac is recognized for his method of spontaneous prose. Thematically, his work covers such as Catholic spirituality, jazz, promiscuity, Buddhism, drugs, poverty. He became a celebrity and, with other beats, a progenitor of the hippie movement. In 1969, aged 47, Kerouac died from bleeding due to long-term alcohol abuse. Since his death, Kerouacs literary prestige has grown, and several previously unseen works have been published, Jack Kerouac was born on March 12,1922 in Lowell, Massachusetts, to French Canadian parents, Léo-Alcide Kéroack and Gabrielle-Ange Lévesque. There is some confusion surrounding his name, partly because of variations on the spelling of Kerouac and his reason for that statement seems to be linked to an old family legend that the Kerouacs had descended from Baron François Louis Alexandre Lebris de Kerouac. Kerouacs baptism certificate lists his name simply as Jean Louis Kirouac, Kerouacs father Leo had been born into a family of potato farmers in the village of Saint-Hubert-de-Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec. Jack also had stories on the etymology of his surname, usually tracing it to Irish, Breton. In one interview he claimed it was from the name of the Cornish language, another version was that the Kerouacs had come to Cornwall from Ireland before the time of Christ and the name meant language of the house. In still another interview he said it was an Irish word for language of the water, Kerouac, derived from Kervoach, is the name of a town in Brittany in Lanmeur, near Morlaix. Jack Kerouac later referred to 34 Beaulieu Street as sad Beaulieu, the Kerouac family was living there in 1926 when Jacks older brother Gerard died of rheumatic fever, aged nine. This deeply affected four-year-old Jack, who would say that Gerard followed him in life as a guardian angel. This is the Gerard of Kerouacs novel Visions of Gerard and he had one other sibling, an older sister named Caroline. Kerouac was referred to as Ti Jean or little John around the house during his childhood, Kerouac spoke French until he learned English at age six, he did not speak English confidently until his late teens. He was a child who was devoted to his mother. She was a devout Catholic, who instilled this deep faith into both her sons, Kerouac would later say that his mother was the only woman he ever loved. After Gerard died, his mother sought solace in her faith, while his father abandoned it, wallowing in drinking, gambling, and smoking
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On the Road
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On the Road is a novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, based on the travels of Kerouac and his friends across America. It is considered a work of the postwar Beat and Counterculture generations, with its protagonists living life against a backdrop of jazz, poetry. The idea for On the Road, Kerouacs second novel, was formed during the late 1940s in a series of notebooks and it was first published by Viking Press in 1957. After several film proposals dating from 1957, the book was made into a film, On the Road, produced by Francis Ford Coppola. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked On the Road 55th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century, the novel was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. After Kerouac dropped out of Columbia University, he served on several different sailing vessels before returning to New York to write and he met and mixed with Beat Generation figures Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, and Neal Cassady. Between 1947 and 1950, while writing what would become The Town, Kerouac carried small notebooks, in which much of the text was written as the eventful span of road trips unfurled. He started working on the first of several versions of the novel as early as 1948, however, he remained dissatisfied with the novel. In a letter to a student in 1961, Kerouac wrote, Dean and I were embarked on a journey through post-Whitman America to FIND that America and it was really a story about 2 Catholic buddies roaming the country in search of God. The manuscript was typed on what he called the continuous, 120-foot scroll of tracing paper sheets that he cut to size. The roll was typed single-spaced, without margins or paragraph breaks, in the following years, Kerouac continued to revise this manuscript, deleting some sections and adding smaller literary passages. On the Road was championed within Viking Press by Malcolm Cowley and was published by Viking in 1957, besides differences in formatting, the published novel was shorter than the original scroll manuscript and used pseudonyms for all of the major characters. Viking Press released an edited version of the original manuscript titled On the Road, The Original Scroll. This version has been transcribed and edited by English academic and novelist Dr. Howard Cunnell, the collection included 10 manuscript pages of an unfinished version of On the Road, written on January 19,1951. The date of the writings makes Kerouac one of the earliest known authors to use colloquial Quebec French in literature, the original scroll of On The Road was bought in 2001 by Jim Irsay for $2.43 million. It has occasionally made available for public viewing, with the first 30 feet unrolled. Between 2004 and 2012, the scroll was displayed in a number of museums and libraries in the United States, Ireland, and it was exhibited in Paris in the summer of 2012 to celebrate the movie based on the book. The novel contains five parts, three of them describing road trips with Moriarty, the novel is largely autobiographical, Sal being the alter ego of the author and Dean standing for Neal Cassady
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