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2012 Toronto International Film Festival
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The 37th annual Toronto International Film Festival was held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 6 and September 16,2012. TIFF announced the films that were accepted on August 21,2012, looper directed by Rian Johnson was selected as the opening film. On 17 September 2012, it was announced that David O. Russells comedy film, the film, in which Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence appear as neurotic lovers obsessed with their exes, is based on a novel by Matthew Quick. The festival director, Piers Handling, stated that the film is an emotional story. Ben Afflecks Argo was the runner-up for the prize
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Festival poster
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Daly City, California
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Daly City is the largest city in San Mateo County, California, United States, with an estimated 2014 population of 106,094. Located immediately south of San Francisco, it is named in honor of businessman, archaeological evidence suggests the San Francisco Bay Area has been inhabited as early as 2700 BC. People of the Ohlone language group occupied Northern California from at least the 6th century, seven years later, in 1776, an expedition led by Juan Bautista de Anza selected the site for the Presidio of San Francisco, which José Joaquín Moraga would soon establish. Later the same year, the Franciscan missionary Francisco Palóu founded the Mission San Francisco de Asís, as part of the founding, the priests claimed the land south of the mission for sixteen miles for raising crops and for fodder for cattle and sheep. In 1778, the priests and soldiers marked out a trail to connect San Francisco to the rest of California, at the top of Mission Hill, the priests named the gap between San Bruno Mountain and the hills on the coast La Portezuela. La Portezuela was later referred to as Dalys Hill, the Center of Daly City, during Spanish rule, the area between San Bruno Mountain and the Pacific remained uninhabited. Upon independence from Spain, prominent Mexican citizens were granted land parcels to establish large ranches, Rancho Buri Buri was granted to Jose Sanchez in 1835 and covered 14,639 acres including parts of modern-day Colma, Burlingame, San Bruno, South San Francisco, and Millbrae. Rancho Laguna de la Merced was 2,219 acres acres, following the Mexican Cession of California at the end of the Mexican–American War the owners of Rancho Laguna de La Merced tried to claim land between San Bruno Mountain and Lake Merced. An 1853 US government survey declared that the area was in fact government property. There was a land rush as settlers, mainly Irish established ranches in farms in parts of what is now the neighborhoods of Westlake, Serramonte. A decade later, several families left as increase in the fog density killed grain, the few remaining families switched to dairy and cattle farming as a more profitable enterprise. In the late 19th century as San Francisco grew and San Mateo County was established, Daly City also gradually grew including homes, Daly City served as a location where San Franciscans would cross over county lines to gamble and fight. As tensions built in approach to the American Civil War, California was divided between pro-slavery, and Free Soil advocates, two of the main figures in the debate were US Senator David C. Broderick, a Free Soil advocate and David S. Terry who was in favor of extension of slavery into California. Quarreling and political fighting between the two led to a duel in the Lake Merced area at which Terry mortally wounded Broderick. The site of the duel is marked with two shafts were the men stood, and designated is California Historical Landmark number 19. On the morning of April 18,1906 a major earthquake struck just off the coast of Daly City near Mussel Rock. After quake and subsequent fire destroyed many San Franciscans homes, they left to temporary housing on the ranches of the area to the south, including the large one owned by John Daly
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Part of Daly City with
San Bruno Mountain and the San Francisco neighborhood of Crocker Amazon in the background.
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Mission San Francisco de Asís (Mission Dolores)
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Displaced victims of the SF earthquake, in front of a temporary tent shelter.
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Cow Palace
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Lawn Dogs
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Lawn Dogs is a 1997 British-American fantasy-drama film directed by John Duigan and starring Mischa Barton and Sam Rockwell. The film tells the story of a young girl from a gated community who befriends a landscape worker. Written by Naomi Wallace, the film was released by Rank Organisation, the film uses the folktale of Baba Yaga as a prominent plot device. Although filmed in Louisville and Danville, Kentucky in the United States, Lawn Dogs won numerous film awards at film festivals in Europe and met with critical acclaim, in particular for Bartons performance. Recently having recovered from heart surgery, Devon is encouraged by her parents to make friends. An imaginative child, Devon imagines her life to be like the fable of Baba Yaga, during a family barbecue, Devon explores her fathers car in their garage. She finds her fathers handgun in the compartment of his SUV. Brett discovers her and with the gun and attempts to molest Devon in the garage. She tells her parents about the incident, but then insists that Brett was only trying to tickle her, clare begins to notice Devons apparent friendship with Trent when he comes to do lawn work at their house, and becomes alarmed. Meanwhile, Brett and Sean terrorize Trent by pouring sugar in the tank of his lawnmower. Devon and Trents friendship continues to grow, and the two go to visit Trents mother and his father, a Korean War veteran who is dying of a lung disease, after leaving Trents parents house, Trent and Devon go for a drive in the country. While stopped in a field, Devon insists that since the two are best friends, she can show him her surgical scar on her chest. She asks him to touch it to his reluctance, and then demands that he show her his abdominal scar which he sustained in a shooting, after showing each other their scars, the two see Seans dog running through the field, having escaped. While trying to chase the dog down in the truck, they run him over. Trent kills the injured dog in spite of Devons pleas for him not to. Assuming that Trent molested her, Morton drives out to Trents property with Devon, assisted by Sean, the three men confront Trent while Devon sits in the car. Morton and Sean take turns beating Trent, and Morton accuses him of raping Devon. Morton attacks Trent with a piece of wood, beating him to the ground, and hands it to Sean, as Sean bleeds on the ground, Devon urges Trent to leave, and they say their goodbyes. Time Out praised Duigan in that he maintains an atmosphere where dream is a step from nightmare
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Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
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Confessions of a Dangerous Mind is a 2002 biographical spy comedy film depicting the life of popular game show host and producer Chuck Barris, who claimed to have also been an assassin for the CIA. The film was George Clooneys directorial debut, was written by Charlie Kaufman, and starred Sam Rockwell, Julia Roberts, Drew Barrymore, Columbia Pictures had planned to produce a film adaptation of Barriss memoir of the same name in the late 1980s. When the film rights were purchased by producer Andrew Lazar, Kaufman was commissioned to write a new script, Bryan Singer at one point planned to direct the film with Johnny Depp in the lead role, but the production was canceled. The production resumed when Clooney took over directing duties, Barris remained heavily involved in production in an attempt to portray the film from his point of view. To accommodate the $30 million budget, Clooney convinced Drew Barrymore, the film was released to respectful reviews from critics and was modestly successful at the box office. Rockwell, in particular, was praised for his acting and won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 2003 Berlin International Film Festival. Tired of being rejected by the women he lusts after. He moves back to Philadelphia and becomes Dick Clarks personal assistant on American Bandstand in 1961 and he writes the successful song Palisades Park and becomes romantically involved with a woman named Penny Pacino. Chuck is given permission to pitch the concept for The Dating Game at ABC and he is given $7,500 to create a television pilot, but ABC abandons the idea in favor of Hootenanny. One night after Barris is kicked out of a bar for fighting, he is approached by CIA agent Jim Byrd, returning from a mission in Mexico, Barris finds that Penny has become a hippie. Meanwhile, ABC green-lights The Dating Game, and by 1967 the show is a phenomenon, on a CIA mission in Helsinki, Finland, he meets female operative Patricia Watson. He finds more success back home when The Newlywed Game goes on air and he and Penny decide to move to Los Angeles, but Barris is cautious of marriage, much to Pennys dismay. In 1970, Byrd convinces Barris to go on a mission to East Berlin to assassinate Hans Colbert, Barris is introduced to German-American agent Keeler, whom he helps to kill Colbert. However, he is captured by the KGB and, after some weeks, in 1976, Barris creates The Gong Show and becomes famous as its host. Keeler is murdered and Byrd warns Barris of a mole in the agency and his TV shows are canceled due to poor ratings, and Penny threatens to leave after catching him cheating on her. One night, Barris finds Byrd sitting atop the board of his backyard pool. Byrd reveals to Barris why he was chosen by the CIA to become an assassin, he is the son of a killer and had been raised as a girl by his mother. Barris threatens Byrd, and after Byrd is killed moments later, faced with the unpleasant truth about himself, Barris begins to spiral out of control
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Theatrical release poster
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Matchstick Men
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Matchstick Men is a 2003 American black comedy crime film directed by Ridley Scott. Based on Eric Garcias 2002 novel of the name, the film stars Nicolas Cage, Sam Rockwell. The film premiered on September 2,2003 at the 60th Venice International Film Festival and was released in the United States on September 12,2003 and it received generally positive reviews but was a box office bomb, grossing just $65 million against its $62 million budget. Roy Waller is a con artist residing in Los Angeles with severe tourettes syndrome, alongside his partner and protégé Frank Mercer, Roy operates a fake lottery, selling overpriced water filtration systems to unsuspecting customers. After Roy experiences a violent panic attack, Frank suggests he see a psychiatrist, Klein provides Roy with medication, and in therapy has Roy recall his past relationship with his ex-wife, Heather, who was pregnant during the time of the divorce. At Roys behest, Klein informs Roy that he called Heather and found out that Roy has a 14-year-old daughter, Roy and Angela meet, and her youthful energy rejuvenates him. Roy thus agrees to work with Frank on a con, their target is Chuck Frechette. One night, Angela unexpectedly arrives at Roys house, saying that she has had a fight with her mother and she explores his belongings and causes him to rethink his life, which he mentions during therapy with Klein. Angela returns home one night, leading to an argument between the two. During dinner, Roy admits that he is a con artist, Roy goes bowling with Angela but is interrupted when Frank reveals that Chucks flight to the Caymans has been updated to that day instead of Friday as planned. Roy then learns that Angela was arrested a year earlier, Roy proclaims that he needs Angela in his life but that he would have to change his lifestyle, much to Franks disappointment. Roy and Angela return from one night to find Chuck waiting for them with a gun. Angela shoots Chuck and Roy sends her off with Frank into hiding until the matter can be sorted out, as Roy prepares to take care of Chucks body, Chuck suddenly springs to life and knocks Roy unconscious. Roy awakens in a hospital, where the police inform him that Chuck eventually died from the gunshot and Frank, Klein appears and Roy gives him the password to his bank account, ordering him to give the money to Angela when she is found. As he begins to realize that Frank pulled a con on him, while speaking with Heather, Roy learns the truth, Heather miscarried their child. There is no Angela, the girl he thought was his child was actually Franks accomplice. One year later, Roy has become a salesman at a carpet store. Roy confronts Angela but ultimately forgives her, realizing that he is happier as an honest man
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Matchstick Men: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Choke (film)
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Choke is a 2008 black comedy film written and directed by Clark Gregg. The film stars Sam Rockwell and Anjelica Huston, production took place in New Jersey in 2007. It premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and was purchased by Fox Searchlight Pictures for distribution, the film was released on September 26,2008 and the DVD was released on February 17,2009. The film is based on the 2001 novel of the name by Chuck Palahniuk. Victor Mancini is a sex addict who works as a reenactor of life in Colonial America and he works with his best friend, Denny, who is also a reformed sex addict. To support his mother, Ida, Victor cons others by intentionally choking at restaurants to get money from his rescuers. When he visits his mother one day, he meets Dr. Paige Marshall and she convinces Victor to have sex with her so she can have his child and save his mother. Victor never knew his father and is anxious to obtain the information from his mother and he asks Denny to pose as him and ask her questions. Denny agrees and reveals that Victors mother kept a diary, Victor finds it, but it is in Italian. Paige tells Victor she can read Italian and agrees to translate the diary, Victor and Paige try several times to have sex, but Victor cannot maintain an erection. After discussing it with Denny, he realizes he loves Paige and she then reveals to him that his mother may have fled Italy because she stole Jesus foreskin, and used its cells to conceive Victor, making him the Second Coming. He is reluctant to believe but, in the end, accepts Paiges assertion, however, his mother finally recognizes him and tells him that she stole him as a baby and she has no idea who his real parents are. As she tells him this, he feeds her chocolate pudding, while Paige tries to resuscitate Victors mother, a hidden band around her wrist falls into Victors view, revealing that she is actually a patient in the hospital—not a doctor. Paige then reveals that she was admitted to the hospital years ago, in a catatonic state, as she was a former medical student, the nurses allowed her to wear a white coat, as it calmed her down. Paige, a patient, checks herself out without saying goodbye to Victor. After his mothers funeral, Victor boards a plane and he goes to the bathroom and the door opens to reveal Paige joining him. Sam Rockwell as Victor Mancini, a sex addict who cons people in order to fund the care of his hospitalized mother. Jonah Bobo as young Victor Anjelica Huston as Ida Mancini, Victors mother. Kelly Macdonald as Paige Marshall Brad William Henke as Denny, Victors best friend and he is thrown out of his parents house and becomes Victors roommate
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Promotional poster
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Moon (film)
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Moon is a 2009 British science fiction drama film co-written and directed by Duncan Jones. The film follows Sam Bell, a man who experiences a crisis as he nears the end of a three-year solitary stint mining helium-3 on the far side of the Moon. It was the debut of director Duncan Jones. Kevin Spacey voices Sams robot companion, GERTY, Moon premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and was released in selected cinemas in New York and Los Angeles on 12 June 2009. The release was expanded to additional theatres in the United States, Moon was modestly budgeted and grossed just under $10 million worldwide but was well received by critics. Rockwells performance found praise as did the scientific realism and plausibility. It won numerous film critic and film awards and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best British Film. In 2035, Lunar Industries has made a fortune after an oil crisis by building Sarang Station, the facility is fully automated, requiring only a single human to maintain operations, oversee the harvesters, and launch canisters bound for Earth containing the extracted helium-3. Currently, Sam Bell nears the end of his work contract at Sarang Station. Chronic communication problems have disabled his live feed from Earth and limit him to occasional recorded messages from his wife Tess and his only companion is an artificial intelligence named GERTY, who assists with the bases automation and provides comfort for him. Two weeks before his return to Earth, Sam suffers from hallucinations of a teenage girl, one such image distracts him while he is out recovering a helium-3 canister from a harvester, causing him to crash his lunar rover into the harvester. Rapidly losing cabin air from the crash, Sam falls unconscious in the rover, Sam awakes in the base infirmary with no memory of the accident. He overhears GERTY receiving instructions from Lunar Industries to prevent him leaving the base. His suspicions aroused, he manufactures a fake problem to persuade GERTY to let him outside and he travels to the crashed rover, where he finds his unconscious doppelgänger. He brings the double back to the base and tends to his injuries, the two Sams start to wonder if one is a clone of the other. After a heated argument and physical altercation, they together coerce GERTY into revealing that they are clones of the original Sam Bell. GERTY activated the newest clone after the crash, and convinced him that he was at the beginning of his three-year contract. The two Sams search the facility, discovering a vault containing hundreds of hibernating clones
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Sam Rockwell and
Duncan Jones at the 2009
Tribeca Film Festival screening
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Seven Psychopaths
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Seven Psychopaths is a 2012 crime black comedy film written and directed by Martin McDonagh. It stars Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson, and Christopher Walken, with Tom Waits, Abbie Cornish, Olga Kurylenko, the film marks the second collaboration between McDonagh, Farrell, and Ivanek, following 2008s In Bruges. The film was a co-production of the United States and the United Kingdom, Seven Psychopaths had its world première on 7 September 2012 at the Toronto International Film Festival. It was released in the United States and Canada on 12 October 2012, Marty Faranan is a struggling writer who dreams of finishing his screenplay, Seven Psychopaths. Martys best friend, Billy, makes a living by kidnapping dogs, Billys partner-in-crime is Hans Kieslowski, a religious man with a cancer-stricken wife, Myra. Marty writes a story for another psychopath, the Quaker, who stalks his daughters killer for decades, driving the killer to suicide, Billy suggests Marty use the Jack of Diamonds killer, perpetrator of a recent double murder, as one of the seven psychopaths in his script. Billy places an advertisement in the newspaper inviting psychopaths to call, a man named Zachariah Rigby approaches Marty and shares his story, with the condition that the movie includes a message to his partner in crime. Billy and Hans steal a Shih Tzu named Bonny, unaware that it is the pet of Charlie Costello. Charlies thugs, led by Paulo, discover Hans connection to the kidnapping and they threaten to kill Marty and Hans, but the Jack of Diamonds killer arrives and shoots the thugs. Charlie traces Myra to the ward and kills her after she refuses to tell him anything. Billy goes to Costellos house to meet his girlfriend, Angela, after Billy reveals to her that he kidnapped Bonny, she calls Charlie to tell him. Billy, after finding out that Charlie killed Myra, shoots Angela in retaliation, Charlie arrives at Billys address and discovers many packs of playing cards with the jack of diamonds missing, and realizes Billy is the Jack of Diamonds killer. Marty, Billy and Hans leave the city with Bonny, Hans reveals that he was the Quaker and survived his attempted suicide. Marty unknowingly wrote his story after hearing it from a drunken Billy, the trio drive into the desert and set up camp. Billy suggests Seven Psychopaths end with a shootout between the psychopaths and Charlies forces. Marty and Hans see a headline saying that Billy is wanted in connection with the Jack of Diamonds killings, Marty confronts Billy, who reveals that he assumed the Jack of Diamonds persona to give Marty inspiration. Disillusioned, Marty tells Billy they must go home, meanwhile, Hans has a vision of Myra and talks to her. She tells him that she is in a place, leading Hans to question his belief in the afterlife
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Theatrical release poster
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The Green Mile (film)
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The Green Mile is a 1999 American fantasy crime drama film written and directed by Frank Darabont and adapted from the 1996 Stephen King novel of the same name. The film is told in a format and stars Tom Hanks as Paul Edgecomb and Michael Clarke Duncan as John Coffey with supporting roles by David Morse, Bonnie Hunt. The film also features Dabbs Greer, in his final film, the film tells the story of Pauls life as a death row corrections officer during the Great Depression in the United States, and the supernatural events he witnessed. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards, Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor for Michael Clarke Duncan, Best Sound, in a Louisiana assisted-living home in 1999, Paul Edgecomb begins to cry while watching the film Top Hat. In 1935, Paul supervises officers Brutus Howell, Dean Stanton, Harry Terwilliger, Paul is suffering from a severe bladder infection and receives John Coffey, a physically imposing but mentally challenged black man, into his custody. John had been sentenced to death after being convicted of raping and murdering two white girls, one of the other inmates is a Native-American named Arlen Bitterbuck, who is charged with murder and is the first to be executed. Percy demonstrates a severe sadistic streak but, as the nephew of Louisianas First Lady, is beyond reproach and this last affliction he releases into Percy, who under its influence shoots another prisoner, mass murderer William Wharton, dead. John then reveals the story psychically to Paul, but when doing so releases his energy into Paul. Meanwhile, Percy is committed to the insane asylum, distraught over the notion of executing an innocent man, John tells Paul that he does in fact wish to die as he views the world as a cruel place. Mentioning that he had never seen a movie before, John watches Top Hat with the guards as a last request. John is executed that night but refuses the customary hood as he is afraid of the dark, Paul concludes his story by telling Elaine that Johns was the last execution that he and Brutus supervised, following Coffeys execution they both took jobs in the juvenile system. Elaine realizes that, since he had a son in 1935. Paul reveals that he is in fact 108 years of age, not only is he still alive, so is Dels mouse, Mr. Jingles. Paul then muses that if Johns power could make a live for as long as Mr. Jingles has. Hanks and Darabont met at an Academy Award luncheon in 1994, Stephen King stated he envisioned Hanks in the role and was happy when Darabont mentioned his name. Morse had not heard about the script until he was offered the role and he stated he was in tears by the end of it. Darabont wanted Cromwell from the start, and after he read the script, Duncan credited his casting to Bruce Willis, with whom he had worked on the film Armageddon one year earlier. According to Duncan, Willis introduced him to Darabont after hearing of the call for John Coffey
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Theatrical release poster by
Drew Struzan
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Galaxy Quest
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Galaxy Quest is a 1999 American comedy science fiction film directed by Dean Parisot and written by David Howard and Robert Gordon. Mark Johnson and Charles Newirth produced the film for DreamWorks Pictures, enrico Colantoni stars as the leader of an alien race who ask the actors for help, believing the shows adventures were real. The films supporting cast features Robin Sachs as the warlord Sarris, justin Long makes his feature film debut as an obsessed fan of the television show. The film received praise and reached cult status through the years, becoming popular with Star Trek fans, staff. The film was included in Readers Digests list of The Top 100+ Funniest Movies of All Time, the former cast of the once-popular television space-adventure series Galaxy Quest spend most of their days attending fan conventions and promotional stunts. During one event, Nesmith is approached by Mathesar and others calling themselves Thermians and request his assistance, after Nesmith spends the night drinking heavily, the Thermians arrive to pick up a hungover Nesmith in the limo he had requested. Unaware that they are truly octopoidal aliens, using technology to appear human, aboard their ship in deep space, Nesmith goes through the motions of commanding the ship and asks to be returned home. When they send him back to Earth via a transporter, Nesmith realizes that it is all real and he races to meet his cast, accidentally bumping into Brandon and misplacing a Thermian communicator Mathasar gave him with Brandons fan-made replica. Nesmith eagerly relates his experience to the crew, who think he is drunk again and they are all transported to a perfect reproduction of the NSEA Protector in deep space, and are shocked by the reality of the situation. Mathesar begs the crew to command the Protector, as Nesmiths previous actions have enraged Sarris, while they were able to recreate the ship from the broadcast episodes, the Thermians have no idea how to pilot it. The crew hesitantly take the controls, and despite their ineptitude, after the second encounter with Sarris ship, they barely evade his attack by flying through a minefield, severely damaging the ship. The humans take a shuttle to a planet to find a replacement beryllium sphere as a new power source. They manage to secure the sphere after a run-in with the alien species on the planet. Once back aboard the Protector, they find that Sarris and his soldiers have captured the ship, Sarris interrogates the humans, discovering they are only actors, and recognizes that the Thermians have no concept of fiction, believing the show to have been real. Sarris sets the Protector to self-destruct and departs, leaving a few soldiers to guard the humans. Nesmith and DeMarco then set off into the bowels of the ship to stop the sequence, using help from Brandon. Having finally accepted their roles on the ship and gained confidence in themselves, Nesmith and his crew use the minefield as a weapon against Sarris ship and they prepare to head to Earth when Sarris, who has transported over at the last moment, starts killing the crew. A desperate Nesmith activates the Omega 13, which reverses time far enough for him to knock out Sarris and they near a wormhole to return the humans home via the command module, and Nesmith assures Mathesar he has the ability to command the Protector along with the other Thermians
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Theatrical release poster
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Frost/Nixon (film)
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Frost/Nixon is a 2008 British-American historical drama film based on the 2006 play of the same name by Peter Morgan, who also adapted the screenplay. The film tells the story behind the Frost/Nixon interviews of 1977, after the Watergate scandal of 1972 and his subsequent resignation in 1974,400 million worldwide watch Nixon leave the White House. Among them is British journalist David Frost, currently recording a talk show in Australia, nixon’s literary agent, Irving Swifty Lazar, believes the interview would be an opportunity for Nixon to salvage his reputation, and to make some money. Lazar demands $500,000, and ultimately gets $600,000, after persuading his friend and producer John Birt that the interviews would be a success, Frost and Birt travel to California to meet with Nixon. On the plane to California, Frost flirts with a woman called Caroline Cushing. Frost struggles to sell the interviews to U. S. networks and he hires two investigators — Bob Zelnick and James Reston Jr. — to help him prepare, along with Birt. Frost is not clear on what he wants from the interview, under scrutiny by Nixons post-presidential chief of staff, Jack Brennan, Frost and Nixon embark on the first three recording sessions. Behind the scenes, Frosts editorial team is nervous about the interviewers technique, four days before the final session, which will center on Watergate, Frost receives a phonecall from an inebriated Nixon. Frost gains new insight into his subject, while Nixon assures Frost that he will do everything in his power to emerge the victor from the final interview, the conversation spurs Frost into action. He works relentlessly for three days to prepare, while Reston pursues a lead at the Federal Courthouse in Washington, as the final recording begins, Frost ambushes Nixon with damning transcripts of a conversation between Nixon and Charles Colson that Reston dug up in Washington. As his own team watches in horror from a room, Nixon admits that he did unethical things, adding, When the President does it. A stunned Frost is on the verge of inducing a confession when Brennan bursts in, after the interview, Frost and Caroline pay a farewell visit to Nixon at his villa. Frost thanks Nixon for the interviews and Nixon, graciously admitting defeat, thanks Frost in return and wishes him well and he also for the first time addresses Frost by his first name. Nixon watches Frost and Caroline Cushing leave and then leans over a railing of his villa, an epilogue states that the interviews were wildly successful and that Nixon never escaped controversy until his death in 1994. Frank Langella as Richard Nixon Michael Sheen as David Frost Kevin Bacon as Jack Brennan Oliver Platt as Bob Zelnick Sam Rockwell as James Reston Jr. To prepare for his role as Richard Nixon, Frank Langella visited the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, California, on the set, the cast and crew addressed Langella as Mr. President. Frost/Nixon had its premiere on October 15,2008 as the opening film of the 52nd annual London Film Festival. It was released in three theaters in the United States on December 5 before expanding several times over the following weeks and it was released in the United Kingdom and expanded into wide status in the United States on January 23,2009
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Conviction (2010 film)
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Conviction is a 2010 legal drama film directed by Tony Goldwyn, written by Pamela Gray, and starring Hilary Swank and Sam Rockwell. The film premiered on September 11,2010, at the Toronto International Film Festival and was released in the US on October 15,2010. The film is based on the story of Betty Anne Waters. The story unfolds in flashbacks, and the film opens with the scene of the brutal 1980 murder of Katharina Brow in Ayer, in many ways, Betty Annes life revolves around her brother, who is now in jail for the murder. Despite Kennys knack for getting in trouble, they have always been close, after the murder, Kenny is initially brought in for questioning by Sergeant Nancy Taylor, but released. Two years later, based on new testimony from two witnesses, Kenny is arrested and tried, the evidence presented at Kennys trial is entirely circumstantial, but he is convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole. The three main witnesses against him are Sergeant Taylor, his ex-wife Brenda, and ex-girlfriend Roseanna, three years later, Betty Anne lives with her husband, Rick and two sons, Richard and Ben. She is frantic that she has not heard from Kenny, who calls her every week from prison, Betty Anne decides to go back to school and become a lawyer so she can exonerate him, but her husband is skeptical and unsupportive, and eventually they split up. As Betty Anne struggles with being a working mother attending law school, flashbacks reveal that her mother was callous and uncaring, forcing Kenny and Betty Anne to fend for themselves. The two were close, but frequently got into trouble, and were eventually taken away from their mother. She contacts attorney Barry Scheck from the Innocence Project, the backlog of cases will mean waiting at least 18 months unless she can pass the Bar exam and find the blood evidence from Kennys trial herself to have it tested. At first she is stonewalled, then told the evidence was destroyed, but she refuses to give up, finally the DNA results come back and establish that the blood was not Kennys. Kenny is convinced no matter what, the authorities will find a way to keep him in prison to avoid admitting their mistake. Betty Anne is heartbroken again, but refuses to give up after Barry advises her that their discovery not only proves Kennys innocence, Betty Anne, Abra, and Barry Scheck visit the other two main trial witnesses, Kennys ex-wife and his ex-girlfriend. Both tearfully confess that Sergeant Nancy Taylor coerced and threatened them into perjuring themselves at Kennys trial, with an affidavit from Kennys ex-wife and the DNA evidence, Kennys conviction is vacated and he is freed from prison after 18 years in June 2001. He is able to reconnect with his daughter, and is reunited with his sister and her sons. Betty Anne continues to work at the pub and is still a part of the Innocence Project, helping to prevent other wrongful convictions, while the real murderer of Katharina Brow has never been found. Azrael Paredes - Intern Jordan Moratsuchi - Law Student Eric McCoy - Wiley Michele Messmer - Katharina Brow Production began in February 2009, in Dexter, filming also took place in Ann Arbor, Howell, Pinckney, Chelsea and Ypsilanti
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Iron Man 2
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Directed by Jon Favreau and written by Justin Theroux, the film stars Robert Downey Jr. Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Scarlett Johansson, Sam Rockwell, Mickey Rourke, and Samuel L. Jackson. Following the successful release of Iron Man in May 2008, Marvel Studios announced, in July of that same year Theroux was hired to write the script, and Favreau was signed to return and direct. Downey, Paltrow and Jackson were set to reprise their roles from Iron Man, in the early months of 2009, Rourke, Rockwell and Johansson filled out the supporting cast, and filming took place from April to July of that year. Like its predecessor the film was mostly in California, except for a key sequence in Monaco. Iron Man 2 premiered at the El Capitan Theatre on April 26,2010, the film received generally positive reviews and was commercially successful, grossing over $623.9 million at the worldwide box office. The DVD and Blu-ray were released on September 28,2010, the third installment of the Iron Man series, Iron Man 3, was released on May 3,2013. In Russia, the media covers Tony Starks disclosure of his identity as Iron Man, Ivan Vanko, whose father Anton Vanko has just died, sees this and begins building a miniature arc reactor similar to Starks. Six months later, Stark is a superstar and uses his Iron Man suit for peaceful means and he reinstitutes the Stark Expo to continue his father Howards legacy. The palladium core in the arc reactor that keeps Stark alive and powers the armor is slowly poisoning him, Stark competes in the Monaco Historic Grand Prix, where he is attacked in the middle of the race by Vanko who wields electrified whips. Stark dons his Mark V armor and defeats Vanko, but the suit is severely damaged, Vanko explains his intention was to prove to the world that Iron Man is not invincible. Impressed by Vankos performance, Starks rival, Justin Hammer, fakes Vankos death while breaking him out of prison, during what he believes is his final birthday party, Stark gets drunk while wearing the Mark IV suit. Disgusted, U. S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel James Rhodes dons Starks Mark II prototype armor, the fight ends in a stalemate, so Rhodes confiscates the Mark II for the U. S. Air Force. Approaches Stark, revealing Rushman to be Agent Natasha Romanoff and that Howard Stark was a S. H. I. E. L. D. Fury explains that Vankos father jointly invented the arc reactor with Stark, the Soviets sent Anton to the gulag. Fury gives Stark some of his fathers old material, a message in the diorama of the 1974 Stark Expo proves to be a diagram of the structure of a new element. With the aid of his computer J. A. R. V. I. S, when he learns Vanko is still alive, he places the new element in his arc reactor and ends his palladium dependency. At the Expo, Hammer unveils Vankos armored drones, led by Rhodes in a weaponized version of the Mark II armor. Stark arrives in the Mark VI armor to warn Rhodes, Hammer is arrested while Romanoff and Starks bodyguard Happy Hogan go after Vanko at Hammers factory
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Theatrical release poster
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Downey, Johansson and Rockwell promoting the film at the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con International.
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The Way, Way Back
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The Way, Way Back is a 2013 American comedy film written and directed by Nat Faxon and Jim Rash in their directorial debut. The film stars Liam James, Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Allison Janney, AnnaSophia Robb, Sam Rockwell and Maya Rudolph, with Rob Corddry, Amanda Peet, Faxon and it premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. Trent emotionally disparages Duncan, often making comments and gestures that are belittling, Steph in turn is equally rude and snobby towards Duncan and she seems to be spoiled by Trent, who in contrast to his treatment of Duncan seems to let her do whatever she wants. On the way to the house, Trent asks Duncan to rate himself on a scale of one to ten. They arrive at the house and are greeted by the neighbors, the gregarious, hard-drinking Betty, her children Susanna and Peter. Later that evening, Duncan and Susanna have a conversation from their adjacent porches. Duncan discovers a small bicycle in the garage of the beach house. At a pizza restaurant, he runs into the staff of Water Wizz and he meets Owen who is playing Pac-Man, and eventually Owen takes Duncan under his wing and shows him around the park. Duncan meets the colorful, rag-tag group of employees, Caitlin, Lewis. Several kids at the water park speak reverently of a pass in the tube slide. Owen hires Duncan for odd jobs at Water Wizz, outside the park, Duncan is continually neglected by his mother, Pam, who indulges in drinking, staying out at night, and smoking marijuana with other adult vacationers. Later that night, Duncan witnesses Trent and Joan kissing by the side of the house, Pam begins to suspect Trent and Joan are having an affair, but Trent convinces her nothing is going on. Later, Duncan confronts Pam in front of friends and neighbors and tells her to face up to Trents affair, Trent in turn tells Duncan his divorced father does not want him. Susanna follows him and comforts Duncan out on the beach, Duncan attempts to kiss Susanna, but she moves away, which makes him become even more upset. Accompanied by Peter, Duncan sneaks away to Water Wizz where Owen is throwing a going away party for Lewis, after spending all night with his friends at Water Wizz, Duncan is still at the park the next morning, refusing to leave. Owen confronts him and asks him why he does not want to go home, Duncan opens up to Owen about his relationship with Trent and how the water park is the only place where he feels happy and accepted. He tells Duncan there is a big world out there, when Duncan arrives back at the beach house, Pam tells him they are leaving with Trent and Steph. Betty and her kids arrive to say their goodbyes, Susanna finally kisses Duncan, admitting that she was just surprised when she avoided his kiss earlier
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Theatrical release poster
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Poltergeist (2015 film)
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Poltergeist is a 2015 American 3D supernatural horror film directed by Gil Kenan and written by David Lindsay-Abaire. A remake of the 1982 film of the name, the film stars Sam Rockwell, Rosemarie DeWitt, Jared Harris. It was released on May 22,2015 by 20th Century Fox and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Eric and Amy Bowen are a married couple looking to buy a house for themselves and their three children, 16-year-old daughter, Kendra, their 9-year-old son, Griffin, and 6-year-old daughter, Madison. Eric was recently laid off, but they are shown a house that has come on the market that fits their price range, so they purchase it. The first night, they hear noises in the walls. In the middle of the night, lights and electronic devices start turning on and off, the commotion wakes Griffin, and he goes downstairs and finds Maddie talking to an unknown presence inside the television. She tells Griffin someone is coming, and he attempts to unplug the TV, Maddie then tells the family, Theyre here while touching their TV screen that has the ghosts hands pressing against the other side of the screen. The following evening, Eric and Amy go to dinner with their friends and they learn that their house was built on an old cemetery, but the bodies were moved to a better neighborhood. Griffin notices the clown dolls seem to be moving by themselves, one clown doll attacks him, but he destroys it and escapes from his bedroom. He finds Maddie in her room, scared, crouching in a corner, Maddie is then lured into her closet and becomes lost in an unending void. As she sees her bedroom drifting away further, she is dragged into the darkness by ghosts, Griffin, while running around the house, is grabbed by the branches of the old tree outside their house, which pulls him out to be hanging on the tree. Amy and Eric arrive home to see Griffin being tossed around in the tree branches, the family hears Maddies voice emanating from the television. Amy reaches at the screen while Maddies static hand is seen to be touching Amys hand on the other side of the screen. Amy and Griffin visit the Paranormal Research department for help, the staff sets up equipment in the house, and install GPS devices on everyone in the house. While trying to contact Maddie, Eric is ambushed in the closet by a ghost resembling her, the investigators realize that this haunting is a poltergeist. The lead investigator, Dr. Brooke Powell, decides to call occult specialist, Carrigan explains that Maddie is a possible psychic, able to communicate with spirits. He reveals that the ghosts are trapped and are angry because only the headstones were moved to the new cemetery, but the bodies remained, Carrigan comes up with a plan to get Maddie back. He anchors a rope in Maddies room and tosses it into the vortex and they attempt to use Griffins toy drone to guide Maddie out, but it is immediately destroyed by the ghosts when inside the portal
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Theatrical release poster
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The New York Times
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The New York Times is an American daily newspaper, founded and continuously published in New York City since September 18,1851, by The New York Times Company. The New York Times has won 119 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other newspaper, the papers print version in 2013 had the second-largest circulation, behind The Wall Street Journal, and the largest circulation among the metropolitan newspapers in the US. The New York Times is ranked 18th in the world by circulation, following industry trends, its weekday circulation had fallen in 2009 to fewer than one million. Nicknamed The Gray Lady, The New York Times has long been regarded within the industry as a newspaper of record. The New York Times international version, formerly the International Herald Tribune, is now called the New York Times International Edition, the papers motto, All the News Thats Fit to Print, appears in the upper left-hand corner of the front page. On Sunday, The New York Times is supplemented by the Sunday Review, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times Magazine and T, some other early investors of the company were Edwin B. Morgan and Edward B. We do not believe that everything in Society is either right or exactly wrong, —what is good we desire to preserve and improve, —what is evil, to exterminate. In 1852, the started a western division, The Times of California that arrived whenever a mail boat got to California. However, when local California newspapers came into prominence, the effort failed, the newspaper shortened its name to The New-York Times in 1857. It dropped the hyphen in the city name in the 1890s, One of the earliest public controversies it was involved with was the Mortara Affair, the subject of twenty editorials it published alone. At Newspaper Row, across from City Hall, Henry Raymond, owner and editor of The New York Times, averted the rioters with Gatling guns, in 1869, Raymond died, and George Jones took over as publisher. Tweed offered The New York Times five million dollars to not publish the story, in the 1880s, The New York Times transitioned gradually from editorially supporting Republican Party candidates to becoming more politically independent and analytical. In 1884, the paper supported Democrat Grover Cleveland in his first presidential campaign, while this move cost The New York Times readership among its more progressive and Republican readers, the paper eventually regained most of its lost ground within a few years. However, the newspaper was financially crippled by the Panic of 1893, the paper slowly acquired a reputation for even-handedness and accurate modern reporting, especially by the 1890s under the guidance of Ochs. Under Ochs guidance, continuing and expanding upon the Henry Raymond tradition, The New York Times achieved international scope, circulation, in 1910, the first air delivery of The New York Times to Philadelphia began. The New York Times first trans-Atlantic delivery by air to London occurred in 1919 by dirigible, airplane Edition was sent by plane to Chicago so it could be in the hands of Republican convention delegates by evening. In the 1940s, the extended its breadth and reach. The crossword began appearing regularly in 1942, and the section in 1946
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Cover of The New York Times (November 15, 2012), with the headline story reporting on
Operation Pillar of Defense.
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First published issue of New-York Daily Times, on September 18, 1851.
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The Times Square Building, The New York Times ' publishing headquarters, 1913–2007
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The New York Times newsroom, 1942
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Humphrey Bogart
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Humphrey DeForest Bogart was an American screen and stage actor whose performances in 1940s films noir such as The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, and The Big Sleep earned him status as a cultural icon. Bogart began acting in 1921 after a hitch in the U. S. Navy in World War I and little success in various jobs in finance, gradually he became a regular in Broadway shows in the 1920s and 1930s. When the stock market crash of 1929 reduced the demand for plays, Bogarts breakthrough as a leading man came in 1941 with High Sierra and The Maltese Falcon. His last film was The Harder They Fall, during a film career of almost 30 years, Bogart appeared in more than 75 feature films. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Bogart as the greatest male star of Classic American cinema, over his career, he received three Academy Award nominations for Best Actor, winning one. Bogart was born on Christmas Day,1899, in New York City, Belmont was the only child of the unhappy marriage of Adam Watkins Bogart, a Canandaigua, New York innkeeper, and his wife, Julia, a wealthy heiress. The name Bogart comes from the Dutch surname Bogaert, Belmont and Maud married in June 1898, he was a Presbyterian, of English and Dutch descent, and she was an Episcopalian of English heritage, and a descendant of Mayflower passenger John Howland. Young Humphrey was raised in the Episcopal faith, but was non-practicing for most of his adult life, the corrected January birthdate subsequently appeared—and in some cases, remains—in many otherwise authoritative sources. Sperber and Eric Lax documented, however, that Bogart always celebrated his birthday on December 25, Lauren Bacall confirmed in her autobiography that his birthday was always celebrated on Christmas Day, adding that he joked that he was cheated out of a present every year because of it. Bogarts father, Belmont, was a cardiopulmonary surgeon and his mother, Maud, was a commercial illustrator who received her art training in New York and France, including study with James McNeill Whistler. Later she became art director of the fashion magazine The Delineator and she used a drawing of baby Humphrey in a well-known advertising campaign for Mellins Baby Food. In her prime, she made over $50,000 a year, then a vast sum, the Bogarts lived in a fashionable Upper West Side apartment, and had an elegant cottage on a 55-acre estate on Canandaigua Lake in upstate New York. As a youngster, Humphreys gang of friends at the lake would put on theatricals, Humphrey had two younger sisters, Frances and Catherine Elizabeth. His parents were busy in their careers and frequently fought, very formal, they showed little emotion towards their children. Maud told her offspring to call her Maud not Mother, when pleased she lapped you on the shoulder, almost the way a man does, Bogart recalled. I was brought up very unsentimentally but very straightforwardly, a kiss, in our family, was an event. Our mother and father didnt glug over my two sisters and me. As a boy, Bogart was teased for his curls, tidiness, the pictures his mother had him pose for, the Little Lord Fauntleroy clothes she dressed him in
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Bogart in a publicity photo, 1945
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Birthplace plaque
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Bogart in the 1934 original theatrical trailer for
The Petrified Forest
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Still from the
Invisible Stripes trailer
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East Village, Manhattan
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East Village is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan. Its boundary to the north is Gramercy Park and Stuyvesant Town, to the south by the Lower East Side and it has also been the site of protests and riots. The area that is known as the East Village was originally a farm owned by Dutch Governor-General Wouter van Twiller. Wealthy townhouses dotted the dirt roads for a few decades until the great Irish, from roughly the 1850s to first decade of the 20th century, the neighborhood has the third largest urban population of Germans outside of Vienna and Berlin, known as Klein Deutschland. It was Americas first foreign language neighborhood, hundreds of political, social, sports and recreational clubs were set up during this period, and some of these buildings still exist. However, the vitality of the community was sapped by the General Slocum disaster on June 15,1904, later waves of immigration also brought many Poles and, especially, Ukrainians to the area, creating a Ukrainian enclave in the city. Since the 1890s there has been a large concentration roughly from 10th Street to 5th Street, the post-World War II diaspora, consisting primarily of Western Ukrainian intelligentsia, also settled down in the area. Several churches, including St. Roosevelt Drive, until the mid-1960s, the area was simply the northern part of the Lower East Side, with a similar culture of immigrant, working class life. In the 1950s, the migration of Beatniks into the neighborhood later attracted hippies, musicians, the area was dubbed the East Village, to dissociate it from the image of slums evoked by the Lower East Side. Newcomers and real estate brokers popularized the new name, and the term was adopted by the media by the mid-1960s. In 1966 a weekly newspaper, The East Village Other, appeared, in 1966, Andy Warhol promoted a series of multimedia shows, entitled The Exploding Plastic Inevitable, and featuring the music of the Velvet Underground, in a Polish ballroom on St. On June 27,1967, the Electric Circus opened in the space with a benefit for the Childrens Recreation Foundation whose chairman was Bobby Kennedy. The Grateful Dead, The Chambers Brothers, Sly and the Family Stone, on March 8,1968, Bill Graham opened the Fillmore East in what had been a Yiddish Theatre on Second Avenue at East 6th Street in the Yiddish Theater District. The venue quickly became known as The Church of Rock and Roll, the Fillmore East closed in 1971. CBGB, the nightclub considered by some to be the birthplace of music, was located in the neighborhood. No Wave and New York hardcore also emerged in the areas clubs, few icons of the punk scene remain in the neighborhood as it changed. Richard Hell lives in the apartment he has lived in since the 1970s. Over the last 100 years, the East Village and the Lower East Side have contributed significantly to American arts and culture in New York
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1st Avenue, looking north at 10th Street
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Former German-American Shooting Society Clubhouse at 12
St Mark's Place (1885). East Village once had a sizable
Little Germany, an area within which this building is located.
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A wall in the East Village, featuring a mural of two men
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Patti Smith, seen here in
Copenhagen in 1976, is one of the many poets, musicians and artists who got their start in the East Village
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Improv comedy
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Improvisational theatre exists in performance as a range of styles of improvisational comedy as well as some non-comedic theatrical performances. It is sometimes used in film and television, both to develop characters and scripts and occasionally as part of the final product. Improvisational techniques are used extensively in drama programs to train actors for stage, film. However, the skills and processes of improvisation are used outside of the context of performing arts. It is sometimes used in psychotherapy as a tool to gain insight into a persons thoughts, feelings, the earliest well documented use of improvisational theatre in Eastern history is found in the Atellan Farce of Africa 391 BC. From the 16th to the 18th centuries, commedia dellarte performers improvised based on an outline in the streets of Italy. Some people credit American Dudley Riggs as the first vaudevillian to use audience suggestions to create improvised sketches on stage, Spolin influenced the first generation of modern American improvisers at The Compass Players in Chicago, which led to The Second City. Her son, Paul Sills, along with David Shepherd, started The Compass Players, following the demise of the Compass Players, Paul Sills began The Second City. They were the first organized troupes in Chicago, and the modern Chicago improvisational comedy movement grew from their success. Many of the current rules of comedic improv were first formalized in Chicago in the late 1950s and early 1960s, initially among The Compass Players troupe, which was directed by Paul Sills. From most accounts, David Shepherd provided the vision of the Compass Players. Mike Nichols, Ted Flicker, and Del Close were her most frequent collaborators in this regard, during this time, Forsberg trained many of the performers who went on to star on The Second City stage. Simultaneously, Keith Johnstones group The Theatre Machine, which originated in London, was touring Europe and this work gave birth to Theatresports, at first secretly in Johnstones workshops, and eventually in public when he moved to Canada. Toronto has been home to a rich improv tradition, in 1984, Dick Chudnow founded ComedySportz in Milwaukee, WI. Expansion began with the addition of ComedySportz-Madison, in 1985, the first Comedy League of America National Tournament was held in 1988, with 10 teams participating. The league is now known as World Comedy League and boasts a roster of 24 international cities, in San Francisco, The Committee theater was active in North Beach during the 1960s. It was founded by alumni of Chicagos Second City, Alan Myerson, when The Committee disbanded in 1972, three major companies were formed, The Pitchell Players, The Wing, and Improvisation Inc. The only company that continued to perform Closes Harold was the latter one and its two former members, Michael Bossier and John Elk, formed Spaghetti Jam in San Franciscos Old Spaghetti Factory in 1976, where shortform improv and Harolds were performed through 1983
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An improvisational comedy troupe performing a shortform game based on direction from the audience; in this case spoofing a hard rock band performing a song made up on the spot.
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Three improvisers performing longform improv comedy at the Gorilla Tango Theatre in Chicago.
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Margaret Cho
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Margaret Moran Cho is an American stand-up comedian, actress, fashion designer, author, and singer-songwriter. Cho is best known for her stand-up routines, through which she critiques social and political problems, especially regarding race and she has created music videos and has her own clothing line of crotchless underwear for men and women. Cho has also frequently supported LGBT rights and has won awards for her efforts on behalf of women, Asians. As an actress, she has acted in roles as Charlene Lee in Its My Party. Cho was part of the cast of the TV series Drop Dead Diva on Lifetime Television, in which she appeared as Teri Lee, Cho was born into a Korean family in San Francisco, California. To say it was a melting pot — thats the least of it and it was a really confusing, enlightening, wonderful time. Chos parents, Young-Hie and Seung-Hoon Cho, ran Paperback Traffic and her father writes joke books and a newspaper column in Seoul, South Korea. Between the ages of five and twelve, Cho was sexually molested by a family friend and she often skipped class and got bad grades in ninth and tenth grades, resulting in her expulsion from Lowell High School. After Cho expressed an interest in performance, she auditioned and was accepted into the San Francisco School of the Arts, while at the school, she became involved with the schools improvisational comedy group alongside actors Sam Rockwell and Aisha Tyler. At age 15, she worked as a phone sex operator, after doing several shows in a club adjacent to her parentss bookstore, Cho launched a stand-up career and spent several years developing her material in clubs. Chos career began to build after appearances on television and university campuses, in 1992, she appeared on the unsuccessful Golden Girls spin-off The Golden Palace in a small role. In 1994, Cho won the American Comedy Award for Best Female Comedian, in 2010, on The View, she discussed her nervousness about doing The Golden Palace and thanked the late Rue McClanahan for her help with rehearsing. She also secured a spot as opening act for Jerry Seinfeld, at this approximate time, she was featured on a Bob Hope special. That same year, ABC developed and aired a sitcom based on Chos stand-up routine and her rapid weight loss, done to modify her appearance by the time the pilot episode was filmed, caused serious kidney failure. The show suffered criticism from within the U. S, east Asian community over its perception of stereotyping. Producers told Cho at different times during production both that she was too Asian and that she was not Asian enough, at one point during the course of the show, producers hired a coach to teach Cho how to be more Asian. Much of the humor was broad and coarse, and at times, stereotypical portrayals of her close Korean relatives, the show was canceled after suffering from poor ratings and the effect of major content changes over the course of its single season. After the shows 1995 cancellation, Cho became addicted to drugs, Cho hosted the New Years Rockin Eve 95 show with Steve Harvey
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Cho in 2009
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Cho doing stand-up in June of 2005.
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Cho at
Los Angeles LGBT pride parade in 2011.
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Cho performing
burlesque at the 2006
Miss Exotic World Pageant.
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Aisha Tyler
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Aisha Tyler is an American talk show host, actress, comedian, author, producer, writer, and director. She is known for portraying Andrea Marino in the first season of Ghost Whisperer, voicing Lana Kane in Archer and she is a co-host of CBSs The Talk, and the current host of Whose Line is it Anyway. Tyler was born in San Francisco, California, the daughter of Robin Gregory, a teacher, and James Tyler, the family spent one year in Ethiopia, and later spent time living in an Ashram in the US. Her parents amicably divorced when she was 10 and she was raised by her father while her sister was raised by their mother. She pursued an early interest in comedy at McAteer High School in San Francisco, Tyler attended high school with Sam Rockwell, and Margaret Cho. She had a crush on Rockwell, and followed him into acting class one day, leading to her interest in improv, Tyler graduated from Dartmouth College in 1992. She was a member of The Tabard, a co-ed fraternity, at Dartmouth, she co-founded and sang in the Dartmouth Rockapellas, an all-female a cappella group devoted to spreading social awareness through song. After briefly working for a San Francisco advertising firm, she toured the country pursuing a career before moving to Los Angeles in 1996. Tyler has devoted a significant amount of her time to independent projects, including a role in the play Moose Mating and she also wrote, directed, and starred in the independent short film The Whipper. Moving into acting, Tyler featured in Friends as Dr. Charlie Wheeler, Joeys and then Ross girlfriend and she also filmed her own sitcom pilot for CBS, which was not picked up. In 2007, she filmed the thriller Death Sentence and the crime drama Black Water Transit and she also continues to appear on television, with appearances on Boston Legal, Reno 911. The Boondocks, and as a guest film critic on several episodes of At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper, Tyler has moved into print media as a regular contributor to Glamour, Jane, and Entertainment Weekly magazines. Her first book, Swerve, A Guide to the Sweet Life for Postmodern Girls, was released in January 2004, Tyler plays on the World Poker Tour in the Hollywood Home games for the Futures Without Violence charity. She also made a guest appearance on Kanye Wests single Slow Jamz, Tyler appeared in a nude pictorial, along with other celebrities, in the May 2006 issue of Allure. The annual Nude Issue raises money to combat skin cancer, in May 2009, it was announced that ABC had given Tyler her own talk show pilot, The Aisha Tyler Show. In early May 2010, she presented the Welcome to the Beta video for Halo and she also voiced a minor character in the game. In 2009, she began her starring role voicing Lana Kane in the FX series Archer, in August 2010, Tyler began appearing in a recurring guest spot on The Stephanie Miller Show. The segment is named Tuesdays With Tyler, Tyler appears either in studio or via the phone when she is not otherwise committed to one of her acting roles
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Tyler at the 2014
Comic-Con International
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Tyler singing at a
Barnes & Noble bookstore in New York
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The Talk co-hosts
Julie Chen, Aisha Tyler,
Sharon Osbourne,
Sara Gilbert, and
Sheryl Underwood in 2012
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Outward Bound
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Outward Bound is an international, non-profit, independent outdoor-education organization with approximately 40 schools around the world and 200,000 participants per year. Outward Bound programs aim to foster the growth and social skills of participants by using challenging expeditions in the outdoors. The first Outward Bound school was opened in Aberdovey, Wales in 1941 by Kurt Hahn, Outward Bound grew out of Hahns work in the development of the Gordonstoun school and what is now known as the Duke of Edinburghs Award. Outward Bounds founding mission was to give young seamen the ability to survive harsh conditions at sea by teaching confidence, tenacity, perseverance, James Martin Hogan served as warden for the first year of the school. This mission was established and then expanded by Capt. J. F, freddy Fuller who took over the leadership of the Aberdovey school in 1942 and served the Outward Bound movement as senior warden until 1971. Peter Willauer led the founding of the Hurricane Island Outward Bound School with Miners mentorship, the first Outward Bound program for females was conducted in 1951. Fuller was seconded to the USA in the sixties to help establish the Colorado Outward Bound School, Outward Bound USA. Some of the more notable Outward Bound teachers include James Kielsmeier, Stan Hugill, Tom Kennerley, Paul Petzoldt, rheault, Karl Rohnke, Peter Willauer, and Willi Unsoeld. The name Outward Bound derives from an expression that refers to the moment a ship leaves the harbor. This is signified by Outward Bounds use of the nautical flag, JF Fuller adapted the Outward Bound motto, To Serve, To Strive and not To Yield, from the poem Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson. Tis not too late to seek a newer world, since its founding in the middle of the last century, Outward Bound has encouraged individuals to test their physical and emotional limits in challenging outdoor adventure programs. The experiences are always life-changing, they are a means of building inner strength, Outward Bound operates 40 schools in various countries and reports serving over 200,000 students each year. The Compass Rose serves as the logo for almost all the schools around the world, the cumulative effect of these experiences leads to a reorganisation of the self-conceptions and information the learner holds about him/herself. The learner will then continue to be oriented to further learning. In a typical class, participants are divided into small patrols under the guidance of one or more instructors, the first few days, often at a base camp, are spent training for the Outdoor recreation activities that the course will contain and in the philosophy of Outward Bound. After initial confidence-building challenges, the heads off on an expedition. As the group develops the capacity to do so, the instructors ask the group to make its own decisions
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An Outward Bound excursion at
Lake Superior Provincial Park,
Ontario,
Canada
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The
Blue Peter nautical flag indicates that a vessel is "outward bound". Outward Bound schools use and raise this flag to symbolise the journey starting for OB students at the start of a programme.
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Horror film
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Horror film is a film genre that seeks to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on their fears. Inspired by literature from authors like Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, the macabre and the supernatural are frequent themes. Horror may also overlap with the fantasy, supernatural fiction and thriller genres, Horror films often deal with viewers nightmares, fears, revulsions and terror of the unknown. Plots within the genre often involve the intrusion of an evil force, event. Another of his projects was 1898s La Caverne maudite. Japan made early forays into the genre with Bake Jizo and Shinin no Sosei. The era featured a slew of literary adaptations, with the works of Poe and Dante, in 1908, Selig Polyscope Company produced Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In 1910, Edison Studios produced the first filmed version of Frankenstein, the macabre nature of the source materials used made the films synonymous with the horror film genre. Before and during the Weimar Republic era, German Expressionist filmmakers would significantly influence later productions, the first vampire-themed movie, Nosferatu, was made during this period, though it was an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stokers Dracula. Other European countries also, contributed to the genre during this period, though the word horror to describe the film genre would not be used until the 1930s, earlier American productions often relied on horror themes. Some notable examples include The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Phantom of the Opera, The Cat and the Canary, The Unknown, and The Man Who Laughs. Many of these films were considered dark melodramas because of their stock characters and emotion-heavy plots that focused on romance, violence, suspense. The trend of inserting an element of macabre into American pre-horror melodramas continued into the 1920s, directors known for relying on macabre in their films during the 1920s were Maurice Tourneur, Rex Ingram, and Tod Browning. Ingrams The Magician contains one of the first examples of a mad doctor and is said to have had a influence on James Whales version of Frankenstein. The Unholy Three is an example of Brownings use of macabre and unique style of morbidity, he remade the film in 1930 as a talkie, during the early period of talking pictures, Universal Pictures began a successful Gothic horror film series. Tod Brownings Dracula was quickly followed by James Whales Frankenstein and The Old Dark House, some of these films blended science fiction with Gothic horror, such as Whales The Invisible Man and featured a mad scientist, mirroring earlier German films. Frankenstein was the first in a series of remakes which lasted for years, the Mummy introduced Egyptology as a theme, Make-up artist Jack Pierce was responsible for the iconic image of the monster, and others in the series. Universals horror cycle continued into the 1940s with B-movies including The Wolf Man, the once controversial Freaks, based on the short story Spurs, was made by MGM, though the studio disowned the completed film, and it remained banned, in the UK, for thirty years
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A famous scene from one of the first notable horror films,
Nosferatu (1922)
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Lon Chaney, Sr. in
The Phantom of the Opera.
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Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's monster in
Bride of Frankenstein (1935).
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Christopher Lee starred in several British horror films of the era, shown here in 1958's
Dracula.
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Clownhouse
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Clownhouse is a 1989 American slasher film written and directed by Victor Salva, starring Nathan Forrest Winters, Brian McHugh, and Sam Rockwell in his film debut. The plot concerns three young brothers home alone who fall under attack from three escaped mental patients disguised as clowns and it was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize in the dramatic category at the 1989 Sundance Film Festival. The story follows Casey, a boy whose life is constantly influenced by his intense fear of clowns. His two older brothers, Geoffrey and Randy, are mostly disobliging, one night, the three boys are left alone when their mother visits relatives, so they decide to visit a local circus for a night of amusement, despite Caseys uncontrollable coulrophobia. While at the circus, Casey innocently visits a fortune teller despite Randys better judgment, as the boys return from the circus, a shaken Casey thinks his nightmare is over, but it has only just begun. When the clowns target their home, Casey is forced to face his fears once, Casey and his brothers are locked inside their isolated farmhouse and the power is turned off. The officers tell Casey that everything will be if he goes back to sleep. The three boys are forced to band together in a fight for survival during a deadly game of cat and mouse where they try to outwit the killers. Randy mockingly dresses up as a clown, disbelieving of Caseys claims that clowns are inside the house and his plan to jump out at Geoffrey and Casey is cut short after he is stabbed by one of the clowns. Geoffrey manages to kill the first clown by hitting him with a plank, knocking him down a flight of stairs. Later on, after tricking the clown, Casey and Geoffrey push another clown out a window to his death, Casey and Geoffrey find Randy unconscious in a closet and drag him into another room. Geoffrey is then attacked and presumably killed by the final clown, Casey manages to hide for the time being, but after the clown leaves, Casey accidentally steps on a noise-making toy, alerting the clown of his presence. The film ends with narration, No man can hide from his fears, as they are a part of him. Nathan Forrest Winters as Casey Brian McHugh as Geoffrey Sam Rockwell as Randy Tree as Lunatic Cheezo Bryan Weible as Lunatic Bippo David C, to shoot the movie, Coppola gave Salva the same cameras George Lucas had used to make American Graffiti. The film was made, in part, at Coppolas home in Napa Valley, the film was shown at the Sundance Film Festival in January 1989, and released theatrically on June 1,1989 in the United States. Clownhouse has received mixed reviews from film critics, on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film currently has a 40% approval score based on 5 reviews, with an average rating of 5. 7/10. Commercial videotapes and magazines containing child pornography were found at his home. Salva served 15 months of a 3-year-prison term, and was released on parole, Winters came forward again in 1995, when Salvas film Powder was released
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Clownhouse
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Francis Ford Coppola
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Francis Ford Coppola, also credited as Francis Coppola, is a semi-retired American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is considered to have been a figure of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking. After directing The Rain People, he co-wrote the 1970 film Patton and he followed with The Godfather Part II in 1974, which became the first sequel to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. The Conversation, which he directed, produced and wrote, was released same year. He next directed 1979s Apocalypse Now, while notorious for its lengthy and strenuous production, the film was widely acclaimed for its vivid and stark depiction of the Vietnam War, winning the Palme dOr at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival. Coppola is one of only eight filmmakers to win two Palme dOr awards, while a number of Coppolas ventures in the 1980s and 1990s were critically lauded, he has never quite achieved the same commercial success with films as in the 1970s. His most well-known films released since the start of the 1980s are the dramas The Outsiders and Rumble Fish, the crime-drama The Cotton Club, and his movies The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, and Apocalypse Now are often ranked among the greatest films of all time. Coppola was born in Detroit, Michigan, to father Carmine Coppola, a flautist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Coppola is the second of three children, his older brother was August Coppola, his younger sister is actress Talia Shire. Born into a family of Italian immigrant ancestry, his grandparents came to the United States from Bernalda. His maternal grandfather, popular Italian composer Francesco Pennino, immigrated from Naples, Coppola received his middle name in honor of Henry Ford, not only because he was born in the Henry Ford Hospital but also because of his musician-fathers association with the automobile manufacturer. Contracting polio as a boy, Coppola was bedridden for periods of his childhood. Reading A Streetcar Named Desire at age 15 was instrumental in developing his interest in theater, eager to be involved in film-craft, he created 8mm features edited from home movies with such titles as The Rich Millionaire and The Lost Wallet. As a child, Coppola was a student, but he was so interested in technology. Trained initially for a career in music, he became proficient on the tuba, overall, Coppola attended 23 other schools before he eventually graduated from the Great Neck North High School. He entered Hofstra College in 1955 with a major in theater arts, there he was awarded a scholarship in playwriting. This furthered his interest in directing theater despite the disapproval of his father, Coppola was profoundly impressed after seeing Sergei Eisensteins October, Ten Days That Shook the World, especially with the movies quality of editing. It was at this time Coppola decided he would go into cinema rather than theater, Coppola also gives credit to the work of Elia Kazan and for its influence on him as a director. Amongst Coppolas classmates at Hofstra were James Caan, Lainie Kazan and he later cast Lainie Kazan in One from the Heart and Caan in The Rain People and The Godfather
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Francis Ford Coppola at the 2011
San Diego Comic-Con International
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Francis Ford Coppola at the
1996 Cannes Film Festival
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Francis Ford Coppola at the
2001 Cannes Film Festival.
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Palazzo Margherita in
Bernalda, owned by Coppola
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American Zoetrope
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American Zoetrope is a privately run American film studio, centred in San Francisco and founded by Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas. Opened on December 12,1969, American Zoetrope was an early adopter of digital filmmaking, including some of the earliest uses of HDTV, four films produced by American Zoetrope are included in the American Film Institutes Top 100 Films. American Zoetrope-produced films have received 15 Academy Awards and 68 nominations, initially located in a warehouse on Folsom Street, the companys headquarters have since 1972 been in the historic Sentinel Building, at 916 Kearny Street in San Franciscos North Beach neighbourhood. Coppola named the studio after a zoetrope he was given in the late 1960s by the filmmaker and collector of early film devices, Zoetrope is also the name by which Coppolas quarterly fiction magazine, Zoetrope, All-Story, is often known. American Zoetrope is now owned entirely by Coppolas son and daughter, directors Roman Coppola and it also administers the Zoetrope Virtual Studio, a complete motion picture production studio for members only. Filmmaker members can workshop a wide range of arts, including music, graphics, design. In the building lobby Coppola operates a small Italian café, Cafe Zoetrope, featuring Inglenook Estate wine, the neighborhood is well known for its cafes and its writers. Coppola wrote much of the screenplay for The Godfather in the nearby Caffe Trieste, official website Zoetrope All-Story – The website of the quarterly fiction magazine Cafe Zoetrope – The website of Cafe Zoetrope
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American Zoetrope is located in the
Sentinel Building
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Cafe Zoetrope at ground level of the building
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San Francisco
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San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California. It is the birthplace of the United Nations, the California Gold Rush of 1849 brought rapid growth, making it the largest city on the West Coast at the time. San Francisco became a consolidated city-county in 1856, after three-quarters of the city was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire, San Francisco was quickly rebuilt, hosting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition nine years later. In World War II, San Francisco was a port of embarkation for service members shipping out to the Pacific Theater. Politically, the city votes strongly along liberal Democratic Party lines, San Francisco is also the headquarters of five major banking institutions and various other companies such as Levi Strauss & Co. Dolby, Airbnb, Weebly, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Yelp, Pinterest, Twitter, Uber, Lyft, Mozilla, Wikimedia Foundation, as of 2016, San Francisco is ranked high on world liveability rankings. The earliest archaeological evidence of habitation of the territory of the city of San Francisco dates to 3000 BC. Upon independence from Spain in 1821, the became part of Mexico. Under Mexican rule, the system gradually ended, and its lands became privatized. In 1835, Englishman William Richardson erected the first independent homestead, together with Alcalde Francisco de Haro, he laid out a street plan for the expanded settlement, and the town, named Yerba Buena, began to attract American settlers. Commodore John D. Sloat claimed California for the United States on July 7,1846, during the Mexican–American War, montgomery arrived to claim Yerba Buena two days later. Yerba Buena was renamed San Francisco on January 30 of the next year, despite its attractive location as a port and naval base, San Francisco was still a small settlement with inhospitable geography. The California Gold Rush brought a flood of treasure seekers, with their sourdough bread in tow, prospectors accumulated in San Francisco over rival Benicia, raising the population from 1,000 in 1848 to 25,000 by December 1849. The promise of fabulous riches was so strong that crews on arriving vessels deserted and rushed off to the gold fields, leaving behind a forest of masts in San Francisco harbor. Some of these approximately 500 abandoned ships were used at times as storeships, saloons and hotels, many were left to rot, by 1851 the harbor was extended out into the bay by wharves while buildings were erected on piles among the ships. By 1870 Yerba Buena Cove had been filled to create new land, buried ships are occasionally exposed when foundations are dug for new buildings. California was quickly granted statehood in 1850 and the U. S. military built Fort Point at the Golden Gate, silver discoveries, including the Comstock Lode in Nevada in 1859, further drove rapid population growth. With hordes of fortune seekers streaming through the city, lawlessness was common, and the Barbary Coast section of town gained notoriety as a haven for criminals, prostitution, entrepreneurs sought to capitalize on the wealth generated by the Gold Rush
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San Francisco and the
Golden Gate Bridge from
Marin Headlands
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Mission San Francisco de Asís (Mission Dolores)
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1853
United States Coast Survey Map
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Francis Samuel Marryat, Hilltop of San Francisco, California, Looking toward the Bay, 1849. M.& N. Hanhart Chromolithograph
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The Equalizer
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The Equalizer is an American crime drama television series, originally airing on CBS from fall 1985 until late-spring 1989. The series combined elements of the spy film, private investigator/police procedural drama, actors Robert Lansing and Keith Szarabajka had regular parts in the show. People in need find him through a classified ad, Got a problem. When he begins this business in the episode, it is revealed that the nickname Equalizer was bestowed on him by another operative by the name of Brahms. His contacts are also prone to human foibles, ranging from egotism to domestic problems, McCall himself is divorced, a lost dad long estranged from his son, Scott. Scott comes back into his life as an adult who is at first bitterly critical of his fathers world. McCall also lost a woman he was in love with, an operative named Manon Brevard. Many episodes focus on McCall interacting with Control, the head of the Manhattan office of the secret organization for which McCall used to work. In later episodes Richard Jordan joined the cast as fellow equalizer Harley Gage in order to reduce the workload on Woodward, Gage is a retired intelligence operative, and former colleague of McCall. Robert Mitchum also filled in for Woodward at the beginning of time in a two part episode. Mitchum portrayed Richard Dyson, who like Robert Lansings character was a control, as a general rule, however, the people answering the newspaper ad were unremarkable, average, and unknown. McCalls car, weapons, and other gadgetry at times feature significantly as elements in the plot, the show had quite a number of notable guest stars, many of whom became major stars within a few years of their appearances. Eight-year-old Macaulay Culkin appeared in one episode as a kidnap victim, nine-year-old Melissa Joan Hart appeared as a young girl whom McCall protected from her ex-con father. Christian Slater appeared as a student in the episode Joyride. Kevin Spacey played a police officer. John Goodman played a father who was tricked by co-worker Joe Morton into taking part in a robbery. Goodmans frequent co-star Steve Buscemi appeared in the episode, which marks the first time the two were onscreen together. Stewart Copeland, who composed the theme song and much of its music
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The Equalizer
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NYPD Blue
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NYPD Blue is an American police procedural drama television series set in New York City, exploring the struggles of the fictional 15th Precinct detective squad in Manhattan. Each episode typically intertwines several plots involving an ensemble cast, the series was originally broadcast on the ABC network, debuted on September 21, 1993‚ and aired its final episode on March 1,2005. It was ABCs longest-running primetime one-hour drama series until Greys Anatomy surpassed it in 2016, in 1997, True Confessions, written by Art Monterastelli and directed by Charles Haid, was ranked #36 on TV Guides 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time. Produced by 20th Century Fox and Steven Bochco Productions, film production took place in the greater Los Angeles area. The show did film in New York but only for shots that used New York landmarks. In the final season the show was filmed only in Los Angeles to save money, exterior shots of the 15th Precinct used the former 9th Precinct building on Fifth Street in New York City, also used for Kojak. Once it was demolished, the façade was recreated on a Los Angeles lot, the show was initially a vehicle for David Caruso. John Kelly was the character, and the first season revolved around him. Promo shots for the show depicted Caruso in the foreground and other first-season characters set off behind him, Season 2 saw the departure of John Kelly, and the show was thereafter built around an ensemble cast. His co-stars included Jimmy Smits as Det, Bobby Simone, Rick Schroder as Det. Danny Sorenson, and Mark-Paul Gosselaar as Det, John Clark, Jr. John Kelly and Andy Sipowicz are detectives in the 15th squad. Sipowicz is the partner but is an alcoholic who drinks on the job as well as off-duty. Kelly has an affection for his partner but becomes increasingly exasperated by Sipowiczs behavior. In addition to his alcoholism, Sipowicz is a negative, misogynist. In the pilot, Sipowicz is shot by a suspect he had attacked and humiliated earlier and this leads to his decision to sober up and save his job. While Sipowicz is recuperating, the lieutenant, Arthur Fancy, teams Kelly with a young cop from Anti-Crime. Kellys personal life is as frenetic as his professional life and he is reluctantly going through a divorce from his wife, Laura, and is embarking on an affair with a uniformed cop, Janice Licalsi. To complicate matters further, Licalsis police officer father is on the payroll of mob boss Angelo Marino, Licalsi, in an attempt to protect her father, has been ordered to do a hit on Kelly
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Original cast (from left): Caruso, Franz, Stringfield, McDaniel, Turturro, and Brenneman
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Main cast of Season 3
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Main cast at the beginning of Season 7 of NYPD Blue, l-r Thompson, Delaney, Brochtrup, Franz, Turturro, Schroder, McDaniel, Clapp
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Last Exit to Brooklyn
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Last Exit to Brooklyn is a 1964 novel by American author Hubert Selby Jr. The novel has become a classic because of its harsh, uncompromising look at lower class Brooklyn in the 1950s and for its brusque. It was the subject of an important obscenity trial in the United Kingdom and was banned in Italy, last Exit to Brooklyn is divided into six parts that can, more or less, be read separately. Each part is prefaced with a passage from the Bible, Another Day, Another Dollar, A gang of young Brooklyn hoodlums hang around an all-night cafe and get into a vicious fight with a group of US Army soldiers on leave. The Queen Is Dead, Georgette, a sassy transvestite hooker, is out of the family home by her brother. And Baby Makes Three, An alcoholic father tries to keep spirits and maintain his family’s marriage traditions after his daughter becomes pregnant and then marries Tommy. Tralala, The title character of an earlier Selby short story, she is a young Brooklyn prostitute who makes a living propositioning sailors in bars, in perhaps the novel’s most notorious scene, she is brutally gang-raped after a night of heavy drinking. Strike, Harry, a machinist in a factory, becomes an official in the union. A closeted homosexual, he abuses his wife, molests his infant son and he gains a temporary status and importance during a long strike, and uses the unions money to entertain the young street punks and buy the company of drag queens. Landsend, Described as a coda for the book, this presents the intertwined. Last Exit to Brooklyn was written in a style that ignores most conventions of grammar. Selby wrote most of the prose as if it were a story told from one friend to another at a bar rather than a novel, using coarse and he used slang-like conjunctions of words, such as tahell for to hell and yago for you go. The paragraphs were often written in a stream of consciousness style with many parentheses, Selby often indented new paragraphs to the middle or end of the line. Last Exit to Brooklyn started as The Queen is Dead, one of short stories Selby wrote about people he had met around Brooklyn while working as a copywriter. The piece was published in three magazines in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Tralala also appeared in The Provincetown Review in 1961 and drew intense criticism. The pieces later evolved into the book, which was published in 1964 by Grove Press. Critics praised and censured the publication, poet Allen Ginsberg said that it will explode like a rusty hellish bombshell over America and still be eagerly read in a hundred years
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First edition
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990 film)
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a 1990 American action film directed by Steve Barron, based on the comic book characters of the same name. The film stars Judith Hoag, Elias Koteas, and the voices of Brian Tochi, Robbie Rist, Josh Pais and Corey Feldman as the four title characters. Under the leadership of mutated rat, Splinter, and together with their new-found allies April ONeil and Casey Jones, they fight back and it was followed by two sequels, entitled The Secret of the Ooze in 1991 and Turtles in Time in 1993. On an ordinary night, she comes across thieves stealing from a van and is attacked. She is rescued and one of her rescuers leaves behind a sai when the police arrive to collect the tied up criminals. In the storm sewers, four anthropomorphic turtles return to their home and meet with their master Splinter. Raphael admits he lost his weapon, and when the others order pizza he leaves in disguise to see a movie, after leaving the movie, he encounters Casey Jones who tries to exact justice on a pair of muggers by beating them with sporting implements. After a brief stand off between the two, Casey takes off into the city and Raphael loses his temper, returning home, Splinter confronts Raphael about his temper. April is attacked in the subway by members of the Foot and she is knocked unconscious while trying to fend them off but is saved by Raphael, who takes her back to their home. After calming her down, Splinter explains their origins and introduces her to Raphael, Michelangelo, Donatello, unfortunately, Raphael had been followed by a member of the Foot. After the turtles take April home, and spend some time over pizza, they return to find their home demolished, with nowhere else to turn, they return to Aprils apartment. Later, Charles confronts Danny for being arrested for stealing and Danny runs away into the subway and he escapes to a warehouse on Lairdman Island, the hideout for the teenaged thieves of the Foot. It is revealed that Splinter is there, held prisoner by The Shredder, Danny gives The Shredder his information on the Turtles. After a heated argument between Leonardo and Raphael, Raphael goes up to the roof of Aprils building and is attacked by dozens of Foot Clan members, the fight moves into the building, where April and the others are attacked after Raphael is thrown down a skylight window. The numbers cause the floor to give way, and they continue their battle in the basement, after Foot reinforcements arrive, overwhelming the turtles, Casey appears, having seen Raphael earlier on the roof and he helps even the odds. In the melee, with Raphael in a coma, the building catches fire, retreating to an abandoned farm Aprils family owns, April learns that Charles has fired her from the TV station. Raphael awakens from his coma and makes amends with Leonardo, after receiving visions from Splinter, Leonardo and the rest decide it is time to return to the city. Meanwhile, Danny encounters Splinter, whose kindness casts doubts on his decision to betray the Turtles and he goes to hide in the Turtles den, and is there when they return
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North American release poster
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Jim Henson on set with the suit actors.
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Private detective
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A private investigator, a private detective, or inquiry agent, is a person who can be hired by individuals or groups to undertake investigatory law services. Private detectives/investigators often work for attorneys in civil and criminal cases, official law enforcement tried many times to shut it down. In 1842, police arrested him in suspicion of unlawful imprisonment, Vidocq later suspected that it had been a set-up. He was sentenced to five years and fined 3, 000-francs, Vidocq is credited with having introduced record-keeping, criminology, and ballistics to criminal investigation. He made the first plaster casts of shoe impressions and he created indelible ink and unalterable bond paper with his printing company. His form of anthropometrics is still used by French police. He is also credited for philanthropic pursuits – he claimed he never informed on anyone who had stolen for real need, after Vidocq, the industry was born. Much of what private investigators did in the days was to act as the police in matters for which their clients felt the police were not equipped or willing to do. A larger role for new private investigative industry was to assist companies in labor disputes. Some early private investigators provided armed guards to act as a private militia, in the United Kingdom, Charles Frederick Field set up an enquiry office upon his retirement from the Metropolitan Police in 1852. Field became a friend of Charles Dickens, and the latter wrote articles about him, in 1862, one of his employees, the Hungarian Ignatius Paul Pollaky, left him and set up a rival agency. In the United States, Allan Pinkerton established the Pinkerton National Detective Agency - a private detective agency - in 1850, Pinkerton became famous when he foiled a plot to assassinate then President-elect Abraham Lincoln in 1861. Pinkertons agents performed services which ranged from undercover investigations and detection of crimes, to plant protection and it is sometimes claimed, probably with exaggeration, that at the height of its existence, the Pinkerton National Detective Agency employed more agents than the United States Army. Allan Pinkerton hired Kate Warne in 1856 as a private detective, during the union unrest in the US in the late 19th century, companies sometimes hired operatives and armed guards from the Pinkertons. In the aftermath of the Homestead Riot of 1892, several states passed so-called anti-Pinkerton laws restricting the importation of private security guards during union strikes. Pinkerton agents were hired to track western outlaws Jesse James, the Reno brothers, and the Wild Bunch, including Butch Cassidy. The Pinkerton agencys logo, an eye embellished with the words We Never Sleep, many private detectives/investigators with specialized academic and practical experience also work with defense attorneys on capital punishment and other criminal defense cases. Many others are insurance investigators who investigate suspicious claims, before the advent of no-fault divorce, many private investigators were hired to search out evidence of adultery or other conduct within marriage to establish grounds for a divorce
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1904 illustration of
Sherlock Holmes, arguably the world's most famous fictional private detective.
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Rolling Stone
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Rolling Stone is an American biweekly magazine that focuses on popular culture. It was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner, who is still the publisher. It was first known for its coverage and for political reporting by Hunter S. Thompson. In the 1990s, the magazine shifted focus to a readership interested in youth-oriented television shows, film actors. In recent years, it has resumed its traditional mix of content, Rolling Stone magazine was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and Ralph Gleason. To get it off the ground, Wenner borrowed $7,500 from his own family and from the parents of his soon-to-be wife, Jane Schindelheim. The first issue carried a date of November 9,1967. Some authors have attributed the name solely to Dylans hit single, At Gleasons suggestion, Rolling Stone initially identified with and reported the hippie counterculture of the era. In the very first edition, Wenner wrote that Rolling Stone is not just about the music, in the 1970s, Rolling Stone began to make a mark with its political coverage, with the likes of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson writing for the magazines political section. Thompson first published his most famous work Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas within the pages of Rolling Stone, where he remained a contributing editor until his death in 2005. In the 1970s, the magazine also helped launch the careers of prominent authors, including Cameron Crowe, Lester Bangs, Joe Klein, Joe Eszterhas, Patti Smith. It was at point that the magazine ran some of its most famous stories. One interviewer, speaking for a number of his peers, said that he bought his first copy of the magazine upon initial arrival on his college campus. In 1977, the magazine moved its headquarters from San Francisco to New York City, editor Jann Wenner said San Francisco had become a cultural backwater. During the 1980s, the magazine began to shift towards being an entertainment magazine. Music was still a dominant topic, but there was increasing coverage of celebrities in television, films, the magazine also initiated its annual Hot Issue during this time. Rolling Stone was initially known for its coverage and for Thompsons political reporting. In the 1990s, the changed its format to appeal to a younger readership interested in youth-oriented television shows, film actors
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Cee Lo Green,
Adam Levine,
Christina Aguilera, and
Blake Shelton, on the cover of the February 1, 2012, issue of Rolling Stone
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Miller beer
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The company has brewing facilities in Albany, Georgia, Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, Fort Worth, Texas, Irwindale, California, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Trenton, Ohio. The joint venture ended after the SABMiller operation was acquired by Anheuser-Busch InBev on October 10,2016, the new company is called Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV. For the consumer, and for employees, the change to 100 percent ownership by Molson Coors will not be apparent in the U. S. according to Jon Stern, the good news is that none of this impacts Milwaukee or Wisconsin. Miller Lite, Coors light, Miller High Life and Leinenkugels --, Miller Brewing Company was founded in 1855 by Frederick Miller after emigrating from Hohenzollern, Germany in 1854 with a unique brewers yeast. Initially, he purchased the small Plank Road Brewery in Milwaukee for $2300, the brewerys location in the Miller Valley in Milwaukee provided easy access to raw materials produced on nearby farms. In 1855, Miller changed its name to Miller Brewing Company, the enterprise remained in the family until 1966. In 1966, the conglomerate W. R. Grace and Company bought Miller from Mrs. Lorraine John Mulberger and her family, in 1969, Philip Morris bought Miller from W. R. Grace for $130 million, outbidding PepsiCo. In 2006, Miller Brewing purchased Sparks and Steel Reserve brands from McKenzie River Corporation for $215 million cash, Miller had been producing both brands prior to this purchase. In 2007, SABMiller and Molson Coors combined their U. S. operations in a joint venture called MillerCoors, SABMiller owned 58% of the unit, which operated in the United States but not in Canada, where Molson Coors is strongest. Molson Coors owned the rest of the joint venture, but the companies had equal voting power. Consequently, on October 11,2016, SABMiller in the U. S. sold its interests in MillerCoors to Molson Coors who had been its partner in the joint venture, in Canada, Molson Coors regained the right to make and market Miller Genuine Draft and Miller Lite. In the U. S. however, the change in ownership of MillerCoors/Miller Brewing Company will not be apparent to consumers or to employees, Miller bought the rights to the Hamms Brewery brands. Icehouse, Icehouse is an ice lager, in 2017, the packaging changed to specify 6. 9% alcohol by volume. Icehouse EDGE, Icehouse EDGE is an ice lager/malt liquor and was introduced in June 2012, Red Dog, Although popular during the mid- to late-1990s, Red Dog faded into near obscurity near the start of the 21st century. However, since 2005 it has been returning to stores, Miller has been a motorsport sponsor since the 1980s. In the CART World Series, the company has sponsored drivers such as Al Unser, Danny Sullivan, Roberto Guerrero, Bobby Rahal and it also sponsored the Miller 200 race at Mid-Ohio. In NASCAR Cup Series, Miller has sponsored Bobby Allison from 1983 to 1988, Dick Trickle in 1989, Rusty Wallace from 1990 to 2005, Kurt Busch from 2006 to 2010, and Brad Keselowski since 2011. Allison won the 1983 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, and Keselowski won the 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, also, the company has sponsored the Miller High Life 500, Miller 500, Miller High Life 400, Miller 400, Miller 300, Miller 200 and Miller 150 races
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Miller Valley contains the Miller Brewing Company in Wisconsin.
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Miller Brewing Company
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Miller Genuine Draft
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The Miller Brewery complex in
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Box of Moonlight
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Box of Moonlight is a 1996 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Tom DiCillo and starring John Turturro, Sam Rockwell, Lisa Blount and Catherine Keener. Al Fountain is a methodic and somewhat neurotic engineer, on the way home from work after leaving his construction site, he takes a side trip for nostalgias sake in the woodland area. There he meets Buck The Kid, a character who gives him a new perspective on his life. The Kid, aka Buck/Bucky Catherine Keener, rental Car Lot Attendant The hotel that Turturros character stays at during his trip is still an actual operating hotel in Maryville, Tennessee, that is still named the 411 Motel, on Hwy 411. Many of the scenes were shot in South Knoxville near Seymour, the wrestling scenes that Al and The Kid watch were filmed during an actual Smoky Mountain Wrestling event with Buddy Landell as the good guy and Headbanger Thrasher as Saddam Insane in 1995. Most of the driving scenes were filmed in East and North Knoxville, Maryville. Many of the routes are not consistent, the 1998 Lions Gate release includes a secret commentary by Tom DiCillo that is not listed on the packaging. Box of Moon Light at the Internet Movie Database
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Theatrical release poster
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Davy Crockett
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David Davy Crockett was a 19th-century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier, and politician. He is commonly referred to in culture by the epithet King of the Wild Frontier. He represented Tennessee in the U. S. House of Representatives, Crockett grew up in East Tennessee, where he gained a reputation for hunting and storytelling. After being made a colonel in the militia of Lawrence County, Tennessee, in 1825, Crockett was elected to the U. S. Congress, where he vehemently opposed many of the policies of President Andrew Jackson, most notably the Indian Removal Act. Crocketts opposition to Jacksons policies led to his defeat in the 1831 elections and he won again in 1833, then narrowly lost in 1835, prompting his angry departure to Texas shortly thereafter. In early 1836, Crockett took part in the Texas Revolution and was killed at the Battle of the Alamo in March, Crockett became famous in his own lifetime for larger-than-life exploits popularized by stage plays and almanacs. After his death, he continued to be credited with acts of mythical proportion and these led in the 20th century to television and movie portrayals, and he became one of the best-known American folk heroes. The Crocketts were of Irish, English, Scottish, and French-Huguenot ancestry, antoine married Louise de Saix and immigrated to Ireland with her, changing the family name to Crockett. Their son Joseph Louis was born in Ireland and married Sarah Stewart, Joseph and Sarah immigrated to New York, where their son William David was born in 1709. William and Elizabeths son David was born in Pennsylvania and married Elizabeth Hedge and they were the parents of William, David Jr. Robert, Alexander, James, Joseph and John, the father of David Crockett who died at the Alamo. John was born c.1753 in Frederick County, Virginia, the family moved to Tryon County, North Carolina c. In 1776, the moved to northeast Tennessee, in the area now known as Hawkins County. John was one of the Overmountain Men who fought in the Battle of Kings Mountain during the American Revolutionary War. While John was away as a volunteer in 1777, David and Elizabeth were killed at their home near todays Rogersville by Creeks. Johns brother Joseph was wounded in the skirmish and his brother James was taken prisoner and held for seventeen years. John married Rebecca Hawkins in 1780, when their son David was born August 17,1786, they named him after Johns father. David was born in what is now Greene County, Tennessee, close to the Nolichucky River, John continually struggled to make ends meet, and in 1792, the Crocketts moved to a tract of land on Lick Creek. Selling that tract of land in 1794, John moved the family to Cove Creek, a flood destroyed the gristmill and the Crockett homestead
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David "Davy" Crockett
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Commemorative stone
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Replica cabin at Crockett birthsite
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Contract of marriage for David Crockett and Margaret Elder, October 21, 1805
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Mischa Barton
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Mischa Anne Barton is a British-American film, television, and stage actress, and occasional fashion model. She began her career on the stage, appearing in Tony Kushners Slavs. She made her debut with a guest appearance on the American soap opera All My Children. She then voiced a character on the Nickelodeon cartoon series KaBlam and her first major film role was as the protagonist of Lawn Dogs, an acclaimed drama co-starring Sam Rockwell. She continued acting, appearing in major box office such as the romantic comedy, Notting Hill and M. Night Shyamalans psychological thriller. She also starred in the acclaimed indie crime drama Pups. Barton later appeared in the independent drama, Lost and Delirious and guest-starred as Evan Rachel Woods girlfriend on ABCs Once and she is known for her role as Marissa Cooper in the Fox television series The O. C. for which she received two Teen Choice Awards. The role catapulted Barton into mainstream fame, and Entertainment Weekly named her the It Girl of 2003, Barton has since appeared in the comedy remake St Trinians, the Richard Attenborough-directed drama Closing the Ring and Assassination of a High School President. She returned to television, starring in the short-lived Ashton Kutcher-produced CW series, The Beautiful Life, in 2012, she returned to the stage, performing in the Irish production of Steel Magnolias. Barton was born in Hammersmith, London, to an Irish mother, Nuala, a photographer, and an English father, Paul Marsden Barton, Bartons grandfather on her mothers side was an Irish language professor at the University of Belfast. She has two sisters, younger Hania Barton and elder Zoe, a barrister in London, Barton has stated that she briefly attended St. Pauls Girls School in Hammersmith, but her fathers work took the family to New York City when Barton was five years old. In 2006, ten days after her birthday, she became a naturalised citizen of the United States. She has retained her British citizenship and she has stated, I like people to discern that Im an English-Irish girl who grew up in New York City and who moved around a lot with her dads job. Barton began acting at the age of eight, co-starring in the Off-Broadway premiere of the 1994 play, vincent Canby of The New York Times praised Bartons so fine and chillingly authoritative performance. New York magazine also praised her as a little girl. She appeared in several other Off-Broadway productions, taking a role in James Lapines Twelve Dreams alongside Marisa Tomei at Lincoln Center. Canby again praised Barton, noting that she has a sweet gravity as the doomed Emma, in 1996 Barton had a supporting role in Catherine Butterfields Where the Truth Lies which opened at New Yorks Irish Repertory Theatre. The New York Times also remarked that the child actresses Brittany Boyd and Mischa Barton are already smart enough not to overplay the naivete
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Barton in London, 2006
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Gated community
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Gated communities usually consist of small residential streets and include various shared amenities. For smaller communities, this may be only a park or other common area, for larger communities, it may be possible for residents to stay within the community for most daily activities. Gated communities are a type of common interest development, but are distinct from intentional communities, some gated communities, usually called guard-gated communities, are staffed by private security guards and are often home to high-value properties, and/or are set up as retirement villages. Some gated communities are secure enough to resemble fortresses and are intended as such, amenities available in a gated community depend on a number of factors including geographical location, demographic composition, community structure, and community fees collected. When there are subassociations that belong to associations, the master association may provide many of the amenities. In general, the larger the association the more amenities that can be provided, amenities also depend on the type of housing. For example, single-family-home communities may not have a swimming pool. A condominium, on the hand, may offer a community pool. Such a place is a town with its own infrastructure. The purpose of such a community is to protect its residents from exterior violence, the same philosophy is seen on closed buildings and most shopping centres. In Pakistan, gated communities are located in big as well as cities and are considered standard of high quality living. Defence Housing Authority and Bahria Town are major private gated community developers and administrators, the assets of Bahria Town itself are worth $30 billion. Most gated communities in Pakistan have public parks, schools, hospitals, shopping malls, gymnasiums, in Argentina, they are called barrios privados or just countries and are often seen as a symbol of wealth. However, gated communities enjoy dubious social prestige, while most gated communities have only houses, some bigger ones, such as Nordelta, have their own hospital, school, shopping mall, and more. In post-segregation South Africa, gated communities have mushroomed in response to levels of violent crime. They are broadly classified as security villages or enclosed neighborhoods, some of the newest neighborhoods being developed are almost entirely composed of security villages, some with malls and few other essential services. In part, property developers have adopted this response to counter squatting, which local residents due to associated crime. They are popular in southern China, namely the Pearl River Delta Region, in Saudi Arabia, gated communities have existed since the discovery of oil, mainly to accommodate families from Europe or North America
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Entrance to the Paradise Village Grand Marina Villas,
Nuevo Vallarta,
Nayarit,
Mexico.
Gated community
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A guarded, gated community located in
Saskatoon,
Saskatchewan,
Canada
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A gated community near
Ezeiza, a suburb of
Buenos Aires,
Argentina
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Protective spikes in 'security-zone' communities
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Kentucky
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Kentucky, officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state located in the east south-central region of the United States. Kentucky is one of four U. S. states constituted as a commonwealth, originally a part of Virginia, in 1792 Kentucky became the 15th state to join the Union. Kentucky is the 37th most extensive and the 26th most populous of the 50 United States, Kentucky is known as the Bluegrass State, a nickname based on the bluegrass found in many of its pastures due to the fertile soil. One of the regions in Kentucky is the Bluegrass Region in central Kentucky. In 1776, the counties of Virginia beyond the Appalachian Mountains became known as Kentucky County, the precise etymology of the name is uncertain, but likely based on an Iroquoian name meaning the meadow or the prairie. Kentucky is situated in the Upland South, a significant portion of eastern Kentucky is part of Appalachia. Kentucky borders seven states, from the Midwest and the Southeast, West Virginia lies to the east, Virginia to the southeast, Tennessee to the south, Missouri to the west, Illinois and Indiana to the northwest, and Ohio to the north and northeast. Only Missouri and Tennessee, both of which border eight states, touch more, Kentuckys northern border is formed by the Ohio River and its western border by the Mississippi River. The official state borders are based on the courses of the rivers as they existed when Kentucky became a state in 1792, for instance, northbound travelers on U. S.41 from Henderson, after crossing the Ohio River, will be in Kentucky for about two miles. Ellis Park, a racetrack, is located in this small piece of Kentucky. Waterworks Road is part of the land border between Indiana and Kentucky. Kentucky has a part known as Kentucky Bend, at the far west corner of the state. It exists as an exclave surrounded completely by Missouri and Tennessee, Road access to this small part of Kentucky on the Mississippi River requires a trip through Tennessee. The epicenter of the powerful 1811–12 New Madrid earthquakes was near this area, much of the outer Bluegrass is in the Eden Shale Hills area, made up of short, steep, and very narrow hills. The Jackson Purchase and western Pennyrile are home to several bald cypress/tupelo swamps, located within the southeastern interior portion of North America, Kentucky has a climate that can best be described as a humid subtropical climate. Temperatures in Kentucky usually range from daytime summer highs of 87 °F to the low of 23 °F. The average precipitation is 46 inches a year, Kentucky experiences four distinct seasons, with substantial variations in the severity of summer and winter. The highest recorded temperature was 114 °F at Greensburg on July 28,1930 while the lowest recorded temperature was −37 °F at Shelbyville on January 19,1994, due to its location, Kentucky has a moderate humid subtropical climate, with abundant rainfall
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Narrow country roads bounded by stone and wood plank fences are a fixture in the Kentucky
Bluegrass region.
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Kentucky's regions (click on image for color-coding information.)
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The
Eastern Kentucky Coalfield is known for its rugged terrain.
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Stephen King
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Stephen Edwin King is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. His books have more than 350 million copies, many of which have been adapted into feature films, miniseries, television shows. King has published 54 novels, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman and he has written nearly 200 short stories, most of which have been collected in book collections. Many of his stories are set in his state of Maine. His novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption was the basis for the movie The Shawshank Redemption which is regarded as one of the greatest films of all time. King has received Bram Stoker Awards, World Fantasy Awards, and his novella The Way Station was a Nebula Award novelette nominee. In 2003, the National Book Foundation awarded him the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters and his short story The Man in the Black Suit received the O. Henry Award. In 2015, King was awarded with a National Medal of Arts from the United States National Endowment for the Arts for his contributions to literature, King was born September 21,1947, in Portland, Maine. His father, Donald Edwin King, was born circa 1913 in Peru, Indiana, when Donald was born, his surname was Pollock, but as an adult, he used the surname King. Kings mother, Nellie Ruth, was born in Scarborough, Maine, Donald and Nellie were married July 23,1939, in Cumberland County, Maine. The family moved to De Pere, Wisconsin, Fort Wayne, Indiana, when King was 11, the family returned to Durham, Maine, where his mother cared for her parents until their deaths. She then became a caregiver in a residential facility for the mentally challenged. King was raised Methodist and remains religious as an adult, as a child, King apparently witnessed one of his friends being struck and killed by a train, though he has no memory of the event. His family told him that leaving home to play with the boy, King returned, speechless. Only later did the family learn of the friends death, some commentators have suggested that this event may have psychologically inspired some of Kings darker works, but King makes no mention of it in his memoir On Writing. King related in detail his primary inspiration for writing fiction in his non-fiction Danse Macabre. King compares his uncles successfully dowsing for water using the bough of a branch with the sudden realization of what he wanted to do for a living. King told Barnes & Noble Studios during a 2009 interview, I knew that Id found home when I read that book, King attended Durham Elementary School and graduated from Lisbon Falls High School, in Lisbon Falls, Maine
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Stephen King in February 2007
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King's home in
Bangor
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Moon (2009 film)
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Moon is a 2009 British science fiction drama film co-written and directed by Duncan Jones. The film follows Sam Bell, a man who experiences a crisis as he nears the end of a three-year solitary stint mining helium-3 on the far side of the Moon. It was the debut of director Duncan Jones. Kevin Spacey voices Sams robot companion, GERTY, Moon premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and was released in selected cinemas in New York and Los Angeles on 12 June 2009. The release was expanded to additional theatres in the United States, Moon was modestly budgeted and grossed just under $10 million worldwide but was well received by critics. Rockwells performance found praise as did the scientific realism and plausibility. It won numerous film critic and film awards and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best British Film. In 2035, Lunar Industries has made a fortune after an oil crisis by building Sarang Station, the facility is fully automated, requiring only a single human to maintain operations, oversee the harvesters, and launch canisters bound for Earth containing the extracted helium-3. Currently, Sam Bell nears the end of his work contract at Sarang Station. Chronic communication problems have disabled his live feed from Earth and limit him to occasional recorded messages from his wife Tess and his only companion is an artificial intelligence named GERTY, who assists with the bases automation and provides comfort for him. Two weeks before his return to Earth, Sam suffers from hallucinations of a teenage girl, one such image distracts him while he is out recovering a helium-3 canister from a harvester, causing him to crash his lunar rover into the harvester. Rapidly losing cabin air from the crash, Sam falls unconscious in the rover, Sam awakes in the base infirmary with no memory of the accident. He overhears GERTY receiving instructions from Lunar Industries to prevent him leaving the base. His suspicions aroused, he manufactures a fake problem to persuade GERTY to let him outside and he travels to the crashed rover, where he finds his unconscious doppelgänger. He brings the double back to the base and tends to his injuries, the two Sams start to wonder if one is a clone of the other. After a heated argument and physical altercation, they together coerce GERTY into revealing that they are clones of the original Sam Bell. GERTY activated the newest clone after the crash, and convinced him that he was at the beginning of his three-year contract. The two Sams search the facility, discovering a vault containing hundreds of hibernating clones
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Theatrical release poster
Moon (2009 film)
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Sam Rockwell and
Duncan Jones at the 2009
Tribeca Film Festival screening
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Tribeca Film Festival
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The mission of the festival is to enable the international film community and the general public to experience the power of film by redefining the film festival experience. The Tribeca Film Festival was founded to celebrate New York City as a filmmaking center. In 2006 and 2007, the Festival received over 8600 film submissions, the Festivals program line-up includes a variety of independent films including documentaries, narrative features and shorts, as well as a program of family-friendly films. The Festival also features panel discussions with personalities in the entertainment world, past artists of the Artists Awards program have included Chuck Close, Alex Katz, and Julian Schnabel. The festival now draws an estimated three million people—including often-elusive celebrities from the worlds of art, film, and music—and generates $600 million annually, the inaugural festival launched after 120 days of planning with the help of more than 1,300 volunteers. It was attended by more than 150,000 people and featured several up-and-coming filmmakers, the 2003 festival brought more than 300,000 people. It became one of the venues of the festival, in an effort to serve its mission of bringing independent film to the widest possible audience, in 2006, the Festival expanded its reach in New York City and internationally. In New York City, Tribeca hosted screenings throughout Manhattan as the Festivals 1, internationally, the Festival brought films to the Rome Film Fest. As part of the celebrations in Rome, Tribeca was awarded the first ever Steps and Stars award, presented on the Spanish Steps. A total of 169 feature films and 99 shorts were selected from 4,100 film submissions, the festival featured 90 world premieres, nine international premieres,31 North American premieres,6 U. S. premieres, and 28 New York City premieres. In 2009, Rosenthal, Hatkoff and De Niro were named number 14 on Barrons list of the worlds top 25 philanthropists for their role in regenerating TriBeCas economy after September 11, as of 2010, the festival is run as a business by Tribeca Enterprises. Andrew Essex has been the CEO of Tribeca Enterprises since January,2016, in 2011, L. A. Noire became the first video game to be recognized by the Tribeca Film Festival. com,02.23.2013
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New York Governor
David Paterson opens the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival
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Tribeca Film Festival
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Festival founders
Jane Rosenthal and
Robert De Niro.
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The marquee of Tribeca Cinemas
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William Shakespeare
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William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the worlds pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called Englands national poet, and the Bard of Avon and his extant works, including collaborations, consist of approximately 38 plays,154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright, Shakespeare was born and brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children, Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Sometime between 1585 and 1592, he began a career in London as an actor, writer. He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613, at age 49, Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were primarily comedies and histories, which are regarded as some of the best work ever produced in these genres. He then wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, including Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, in his last phase, he wrote tragicomedies, also known as romances, and collaborated with other playwrights. Many of his plays were published in editions of varying quality and it was prefaced with a poem by Ben Jonson, in which Shakespeare is hailed, presciently, as not of an age, but for all time. In the 20th and 21st centuries, his works have been adapted and rediscovered by new movements in scholarship. His plays remain highly popular and are studied, performed. William Shakespeare was the son of John Shakespeare, an alderman and a successful glover originally from Snitterfield, and Mary Arden and he was born in Stratford-upon-Avon and baptised there on 26 April 1564. His actual date of birth unknown, but is traditionally observed on 23 April. This date, which can be traced back to an 18th-century scholars mistake, has proved appealing to biographers because Shakespeare died on 23 April 1616 and he was the third child of eight and the eldest surviving son. At the age of 18, Shakespeare married 26-year-old Anne Hathaway, the consistory court of the Diocese of Worcester issued a marriage licence on 27 November 1582. The next day, two of Hathaways neighbours posted bonds guaranteeing that no lawful claims impeded the marriage, twins, son Hamnet and daughter Judith, followed almost two years later and were baptised 2 February 1585. Hamnet died of unknown causes at the age of 11 and was buried 11 August 1596, after the birth of the twins, Shakespeare left few historical traces until he is mentioned as part of the London theatre scene in 1592. The exception is the appearance of his name in the bill of a law case before the Queens Bench court at Westminster dated Michaelmas Term 1588 and 9 October 1589
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The
Chandos portrait, artist and authenticity unconfirmed.
National Portrait Gallery, London.
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John Shakespeare's house, believed to be
Shakespeare's birthplace, in
Stratford-upon-Avon.
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Shakespeare's coat of arms, as it appears on the rough draft of the application to grant a coat-of-arms to John Shakespeare. It features a spear as a
pun on the family name.
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Shakespeare's funerary monument in Stratford-upon-Avon.
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The Gong Show
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The Gong Show was an amateur talent contest franchised by Sony Pictures Television to many countries. It was broadcast on NBCs daytime schedule from June 14,1976, through July 21,1978, the show was produced by Chuck Barris, who also served as host for the NBC run and from 1977 to 1980 in syndication. The programs frequent judges included Jaye P. Morgan, Jamie Farr, Arte Johnson, Rip Taylor, Phyllis Diller, Anson Williams, Steve Garvey and Rex Reed. If any judge considered an act to be bad, he or she could force it to stop by striking a large gong. Most of the performers took the gong with sheepish good grace, Barris would then ask the judge in question why they gonged the act. Originally, panelists had to wait 20 seconds before they could gong an act, in order this was extended to 30 seconds. Some performers deliberately ended their acts before the time had elapsed. In other cases, a judge would gong an act before its time was up, Barris would overrule the gong. When an act was on the verge of being gonged, the laughter and they would stand up slowly and heft their mallets deliberately, letting everyone know what was coming. Sometimes, pantomimed disputes would erupt between judges, as one would attempt to obstruct another from gonging the act. The camera would cut back and forth between the performers onstage, and the struggle over their fate. Some acts were so bad that they were Gang-Gonged, with two or even all three judges striking the gong at once. On rare occasions, judges found an act so terrible that they would go onstage, hand a mallet to the performer, and lead him/her back to the table to gong him/herself out. Any act that survived without being gonged was given a score by each of the three judges on a scale of 0 to 10, for a possible score of 30. On the NBC series, the contestant who achieved the highest combined score won the prize, a check for $516.32. The syndicated series top prize was originally $712.05 and later increased to $716.32, in the event of a tie, three different tiebreakers were used at various times during the shows run. Originally the studio audience determined the winner by applause, but this was changed to a decision by the producers. When Barris announced the score, a midget in formal wear would run onstage
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The Gong Show
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Chuck Barris in 1976
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Chuck Barris
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Charles Hirsch Chuck Barris was an American game show creator, producer, and host. He was best known for hosting The Gong Show, and creating The Dating Game, Barris was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on June 3,1929, the son of Edith and Nathaniel Barris, a dentist. His uncle was singer, songwriter, and actor Harry Barris and he graduated in 1953 from Drexel University where he was a columnist for the student newspaper, The Triangle. Barris also became involved in the music industry and he produced pop music on records and television, but his most successful venture was writing Palisades Park. Recorded by Freddy Cannon, it peaked at No.3 on the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks, the biggest hit of Cannons career, Barris also wrote or co-wrote some of the music that appeared on his game shows. Barris was promoted to the daytime programming division at ABC in Los Angeles and was put in charge of deciding which game shows ABC would air, Barris told his bosses that the producer/packagers pitches of game show concepts were worse than Barris own ideas. They suggested that he quit his ABC programming job and become a producer, Barris formed his production company Chuck Barris Productions on June 14,1965. Barris became successful during 1965 with his first game show creation, The Dating Game, on this show, which was hosted by Jim Lange, three bachelors or bachelorettes competed for the favor of a contestant of the opposite sex blocked from their view. The contestants sexy banter and its flower power-motif studio set were a revolution for the game show genre, the show would air for eleven of the next fifteen years and be revived twice in the 1980s and 1990s. The next year Barris began The Newlywed Game, originally created by Nick Nicholson and E. Roger Muir, the combination of the newlywed couples humorous candor and host Bob Eubankss sly questioning made the show another hit for Barris. The show is the longest lasting of any developed by his company, running for a total of 19 full years on first run TV, network, Game Show Network airs a current version with Sherri Shepherd. Interviewed on the NPR program Wait Wait, dont Tell Me. on August 1,2009, Barris said that The Newlywed Game was the easiest program he had developed, All I needed was four couples, eight questions, and a washer-dryer. The last was his most successful program other than a game show, the somewhat shy Barris rarely appeared on camera, though he once dashed onto the set of The New Treasure Hunt to throw a pie at emcee Geoff Edwards. However, Barris became a figure in 1976 when he produced and served as the host of the talent show spoof The Gong Show. The shows cult following far outstripped the two years it spent on NBC and the four years it ran in syndication. As with some of Barris other projects, it was at one point possible to see The Gong Show twice daily, a relatively uncommon feat in the years prior to cable TVs expansion into the commercial market. The planned host of the NBC show was John Barbour, who did not understand the shows concept, Barris scrapped Barbour at the last minute, in order to save the show, Barris followed the advice of an NBC executive that he should host his show. Barris jokey, bumbling personality, his accentuated hand-clapping between sentences, and his catchphrases were the antithesis of the smooth TV host, dubbed Chuckie Baby by his fans, Barris was a perfect fit with the shows goofy, sometimes wild amateur performers and its panel of three judges
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Barris on
The Gong Show in 1976
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Barris at
Drexel University in 2010
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George Clooney
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George Timothy Clooney is an American actor, filmmaker, and activist. He has received three Golden Globe Awards for his work as an actor and two Academy Awards, one for acting in Syriana and the other for co-producing Argo, in 1999, he took the lead role in Three Kings, a well-received war satire set during the Gulf War. In 2001, Clooneys fame widened with the release of his biggest commercial success, the heist comedy remake Oceans Eleven, in 2013, he received the Academy Award for Best Picture for producing the political thriller Argo. He is the person who has been nominated for Academy Awards in six different categories. In 2009, Clooney was included in Times annual Time 100 as one of the Most Influential People in the World and he is also noted for his political activism, and has served as one of the United Nations Messengers of Peace since January 31,2008. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Clooney was born in Lexington, Kentucky. His mother, Nina Bruce, was a beauty queen and city councilwoman and his father, Nick Clooney, is a former anchorman and game show host who hosted AMC for five years in the late 1990s. Clooney has Irish, German, and English ancestry and his maternal great-great-great-great-grandmother, Mary Ann Sparrow, was the half-sister of Nancy Lincoln, mother of President Abraham Lincoln. Clooney has a sister named Adelia. His aunt was the cabaret singer and actress Rosemary Clooney. Through Rosemary, his cousins include actors Miguel Ferrer, Rafael Ferrer, and Gabriel Ferrer, Clooney was raised a strict Roman Catholic, but said in 2006 that he does not know if he believes in Heaven, or even God. He has said, Yes, we were Catholic, big time, whole family and he began his education at the Blessed Sacrament School in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky. He attended St. Michaels School in Columbus, Ohio, then Western Row Elementary School in Mason, Ohio, from 1968 to 1974, and St. Susanna School in Mason, the Clooneys moved back to Kentucky when George was midway through the seventh grade. In middle school, Clooney developed Bells palsy, a condition that partially paralyzes the face, the malady went away within a year. In an interview with Larry King, he stated that yes and it takes about nine months to go away. It was the first year of school, which was a bad time for having half your face paralyzed. After his parents moved to Augusta, Kentucky, Clooney attended Augusta High School and he has stated that he earned all As and a B in school, and was an enthusiastic baseball and basketball player. He tried out to professional baseball with the Cincinnati Reds in 1977
George Clooney
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Clooney at a ceremony for
John Wells in January 2012
George Clooney
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George Clooney cast his hands and shoes in the
Grauman's Chinese Theatre in 2007.
George Clooney
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George Clooney at the premiere of
The Men Who Stare at Goats in the
2009 Toronto International Film Festival
George Clooney
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Clooney in
Abéché, Chad, in January 2008 with the UN
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Nicolas Cage
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Nicolas Kim Coppola, known professionally as Nicolas Cage, is an American actor and producer. He has performed in leading roles in a variety of films, ranging from romantic comedies and he earned his second Academy Award nomination for his performance as Charlie and Donald Kaufman in Adaptation. In 2002, he directed the film Sonny, for which he was nominated for Grand Special Prize at Deauville Film Festival, Cage owns the production company Saturn Films and has produced films such as Shadow of the Vampire and The Life of David Gale. He has also appeared in National Treasure, Lord of War, Bad Lieutenant, Port of Call New Orleans, Films such as Ghost Rider and Knowing were box office successes. Cage has been criticized in recent years for his choice of roles. However, he starred in The Croods and Joe, both of which were warmly received by critics. Cage was born in Long Beach, California, to August Coppola, a professor of literature, and Joy Vogelsang and he was raised in a Catholic family. His father was of Italian descent and his mothers ancestry was German and his paternal grandparents were composer Carmine Coppola and actress Italia Pennino, and his paternal great-grandparents were immigrants from Bernalda, Basilicata. Cages two brothers are New York radio personality Marc The Cope Coppola and director Christopher Coppola and he attended Beverly Hills High School, which is known for its many alumni who became entertainers. He aspired to act from an age and also attended UCLA School of Theater, Film. His first non-cinematic acting experience was in a production of Golden Boy. He cites James Dean as the key inspiration for his career, saying, I saw him in Rebel Without a Cause, East of Eden. Nothing affected me—no rock song, no classical music—the way Dean affected me in Eden, I was like, Thats what I want to do. To avoid the appearance of nepotism as the nephew of Francis Ford Coppola, he changed his name early in his career to Nicolas Cage, inspired in part by the Marvel Comics superhero Luke Cage. Since his film debut with a role in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, opposite Judge Reinhold and Sean Penn, Cage has appeared in a wide range of films. He auditioned for the role of Dallas Winston in his uncles film The Outsiders, hintons novel, but lost to Matt Dillon. He was also in Coppolas films Rumble Fish and Peggy Sue Got Married, Cage has been nominated twice for an Academy Award, winning once for his performance as a suicidal alcoholic in Leaving Las Vegas. His other nomination was for his portrayal of real-life screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, despite these successes, most of his lower-profile films have performed poorly at the box office compared to his mainstream action/adventure roles
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Cage at the
Deauville Film Festival in 2013
Nicolas Cage
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Nicolas Cage
Nicolas Cage
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Cage at the 66th
Venice Film Festival in September 2009
Nicolas Cage
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Cage at the 2011
San Diego Comic-Con International
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Ridley Scott
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Sir Ridley Scott is an English film director and producer. Scott is known for his atmospheric, highly concentrated visual style and his films are also known for their strong female characters. Scott has been nominated for three Academy Awards for Directing, in 1995, both Ridley and his brother Tony received the BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Contribution To Cinema. In 2003, Scott was knighted for his services to the British film industry, in a 2004 BBC poll Scott was named the tenth most influential person in British culture. In 2015 he received a doctorate from the Royal College of Art in London. Scott was born in South Shields, County Durham, North East England, to Elizabeth and he was brought up in an army family, so for most of his early life, his father – an officer in the Royal Engineers – was absent. His elder brother, Frank, joined the British Merchant Navy when he was still young, during this time the family moved around, living in Cumberland in North West England, Wales and Germany. He had a brother, Tony, who also became a film director. He studied at Grangefield Grammar School and West Hartlepool College of Art from 1954 to 1958, Scott went on to study at the Royal College of Art in London, contributing to college magazine ARK and helping to establish the college film department. For his final show, he made a black and white film, Boy and Bicycle. In February 1963 Scott was named in title credits as Designer for the BBC television programme Tonight, about the severe winter of 1963. After graduation in 1963, he secured a job as a set designer with the BBC, leading to work on the popular television police series Z-Cars. He was originally assigned to design the second Doctor Who serial, The Daleks, however, shortly before Scott was due to start work, a schedule conflict meant he was replaced by Raymond Cusick. In 1965, he began directing episodes of series for the BBC, only one of which. In 1968, Ridley and Tony Scott founded Ridley Scott Associates, a nostalgia themed television advertisement that captured the public imagination, it was voted the UKs all-time favourite commercial in a 2006 poll. In the 1970s the Chanel No.5 brand needed revitalisation having run the risk of being labelled as mass market, five members of the Scott family are directors, and all have worked for RSA. His brother Tony was a film director whose career spanned more than two decades, his sons Jake and Luke are both acclaimed directors of commercials, as is his daughter, Jordan Scott. Jake and Jordan both work from Los Angeles, Luke is based in London, in 1995, Shepperton Studios was purchased by a consortium headed by Ridley and Tony Scott, which extensively renovated the studios while also expanding and improving its grounds
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Ridley Scott in 2012.
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Matchstick Men (film)
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Matchstick Men is a 2003 American black comedy crime film directed by Ridley Scott. Based on Eric Garcias 2002 novel of the name, the film stars Nicolas Cage, Sam Rockwell. The film premiered on September 2,2003 at the 60th Venice International Film Festival and was released in the United States on September 12,2003 and it received generally positive reviews but was a box office bomb, grossing just $65 million against its $62 million budget. Roy Waller is a con artist residing in Los Angeles with severe tourettes syndrome, alongside his partner and protégé Frank Mercer, Roy operates a fake lottery, selling overpriced water filtration systems to unsuspecting customers. After Roy experiences a violent panic attack, Frank suggests he see a psychiatrist, Klein provides Roy with medication, and in therapy has Roy recall his past relationship with his ex-wife, Heather, who was pregnant during the time of the divorce. At Roys behest, Klein informs Roy that he called Heather and found out that Roy has a 14-year-old daughter, Roy and Angela meet, and her youthful energy rejuvenates him. Roy thus agrees to work with Frank on a con, their target is Chuck Frechette. One night, Angela unexpectedly arrives at Roys house, saying that she has had a fight with her mother and she explores his belongings and causes him to rethink his life, which he mentions during therapy with Klein. Angela returns home one night, leading to an argument between the two. During dinner, Roy admits that he is a con artist, Roy goes bowling with Angela but is interrupted when Frank reveals that Chucks flight to the Caymans has been updated to that day instead of Friday as planned. Roy then learns that Angela was arrested a year earlier, Roy proclaims that he needs Angela in his life but that he would have to change his lifestyle, much to Franks disappointment. Roy and Angela return from one night to find Chuck waiting for them with a gun. Angela shoots Chuck and Roy sends her off with Frank into hiding until the matter can be sorted out, as Roy prepares to take care of Chucks body, Chuck suddenly springs to life and knocks Roy unconscious. Roy awakens in a hospital, where the police inform him that Chuck eventually died from the gunshot and Frank, Klein appears and Roy gives him the password to his bank account, ordering him to give the money to Angela when she is found. As he begins to realize that Frank pulled a con on him, while speaking with Heather, Roy learns the truth, Heather miscarried their child. There is no Angela, the girl he thought was his child was actually Franks accomplice. One year later, Roy has become a salesman at a carpet store. Roy confronts Angela but ultimately forgives her, realizing that he is happier as an honest man
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Theatrical release poster
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Matchstick Men: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Entertainment Weekly
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Entertainment Weekly is an American magazine, published by Time Inc. that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books and popular culture. Different from celebrity-focused publications like Us Weekly, People, and In Touch Weekly, EW primarily concentrates on entertainment media news, however, unlike Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, which are aimed at industry insiders, EW targets a more general audience. The first issue was published on February 16,1990, the cover price was $1.95 The title word entertainment was not capitalized on the cover until mid-1992 and has remained so since. By 2003, the weekly circulation averaged 1.7 million copies per week. In March 2006, managing editor Rick Tetzeli oversaw an overhaul of EWs graphics, Entertainment Weekly follows a typical magazine format by featuring a letters to the editor and table of contents in the first few pages, while also featuring advertisements. While many advertisements are unrelated to the entertainment industry, the majority of ads are typically related to up-and-coming television and these beginning articles open the magazine and as a rule focus on current events in pop culture. First Look, subtitled An early peek at some of Hollywoods coolest projects, is a spread with behind-the-scenes or publicity stills of upcoming movies. The Hit List, written each week by critic Scott Brown, highlights ten major events, Typically, there will be some continuity to the commentaries. This column was written by Jim Mullen and featured twenty events each week. The Hollywood Insider is a section that reports breaking news in entertainment. It gives details, in the columns, on the most-current news in television, movie. The Style Report is a section devoted to celebrity style. Because its focus is on celebrity fashion or lifestyle, it is rich in nature. Recently, the converted to a new format, five pictures of celebrity fashions for the week. A spin-off section, Style Hunter, which finds reader-requested articles of clothing or accessories that have appeared in pop culture recently, appears frequently. The Monitor is a two-page spread devoted to events in celebrity lives with small paragraphs highlighting events such as weddings, illnesses, arrests, court appearances. Deaths of major celebrities are typically detailed in a one-half- or full-page obituary titled Legacy and this feature is nearly identical to sister publication Peoples Passages feature. Harris column focuses on analyzing current popular-culture events, and is generally the most serious of the columns, harris has written about the writers strike and the 2008 presidential election, among other topics
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