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Colombia
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Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a transcontinental country largely situated in the northwest of South America, with territories in Central America. Colombia shares a border to the northwest with Panama, to the east with Venezuela and Brazil and to the south with Ecuador and it shares its maritime limits with Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Jamaica, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. It is a unitary, constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments, the territory of what is now Colombia was originally inhabited by indigenous peoples including the Muisca, the Quimbaya and the Tairona. The Spanish arrived in 1499 and initiated a period of conquest and colonization ultimately creating the Viceroyalty of New Granada, independence from Spain was won in 1819, but by 1830 the Gran Colombia Federation was dissolved. What is now Colombia and Panama emerged as the Republic of New Granada, the new nation experimented with federalism as the Granadine Confederation, and then the United States of Colombia, before the Republic of Colombia was finally declared in 1886. Since the 1960s the country has suffered from an asymmetric low-intensity armed conflict, Colombia is one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse countries in the world, and thereby possesses a rich cultural heritage. Cultural diversity has also influenced by Colombias varied geography. The urban centres are located in the highlands of the Andes mountains. Colombian territory also encompasses Amazon rainforest, tropical grassland and both Caribbean and Pacific coastlines, ecologically, it is one of the worlds 17 megadiverse countries, and the most densely biodiverse of these per square kilometer. Colombia is a power and a regional actor with the fourth-largest economy in Latin America, is part of the CIVETS group of six leading emerging markets and is an accessing member to the OECD. Colombia has an economy with macroeconomic stability and favorable growth prospects in the long run. The name Colombia is derived from the last name of Christopher Columbus and it was conceived by the Venezuelan revolutionary Francisco de Miranda as a reference to all the New World, but especially to those portions under Spanish and Portuguese rule. The name was adopted by the Republic of Colombia of 1819. When Venezuela, Ecuador and Cundinamarca came to exist as independent states, New Granada officially changed its name in 1858 to the Granadine Confederation. In 1863 the name was changed, this time to United States of Colombia. To refer to country, the Colombian government uses the terms Colombia. Owing to its location, the present territory of Colombia was a corridor of early human migration from Mesoamerica, the oldest archaeological finds are from the Pubenza and El Totumo sites in the Magdalena Valley 100 km southwest of Bogotá. These sites date from the Paleoindian period, at Puerto Hormiga and other sites, traces from the Archaic Period have been found
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CSI: Miami
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CSI, Miami is an American police procedural drama television series that premiered on September 23,2002, on CBS. CSI, Miami is executive produced by Carol Mendelsohn, Anthony E. Zuiker, the series ended on April 8,2012, after 10 seasons and 232 episodes. In 2006, BBC News published an article stating that CSI, Miami was the worlds most popular television series, the team is led by Lieutenant Horatio Caine, who, through his history as a bomb-disposal expert, has gained specialized knowledge in explosive forensics. Horatio believes that evil is and lives between the perpetrators of this evil and the people who try and come between that evil and the citizen. On April 17,2002, CBS Television Studios announced plans to launch a series originally titled CSI, Miami-Dade, on the location choice, co-creator Carol Mendelsohn stated that felt Miami was the most happening place Miami is so rich as a character. There are so many different cultures here all colliding, all that gives Miami an edge. Kim Delaney joined the following the pilot episodes broadcast. The series is produced by creators Carol Mendelsohn, Anthony E. Zuiker. Jerry Bruckheimer also executive-produces the series, in 2002, CSI executive producer Anthony Zuiker began casting for the then-unnamed Miami based spin-off. First cast was Emily Procter, as Calleigh Duquesne, regarding her decision to leave The West Wing and join Miami, Procter stated that It was like choosing between a boyfriend that wants to be with you casually or a man that says I love you. She described her character as a weird girl bright and very nerdy and she wears a lot of boot-cut corduroy pants and turquoise necklaces and looks like a hippie. I just like to pretend Im Velma in Scooby-Doo, adam Rodriguez, Rory Cochrane, and Khandi Alexander were cast alongside Procter, completing the supporting ensemble. For the lead, CBS suggested David Caruso, Zuiker, who stated that he had heard about the NYPD Blue thing, was initially hesitant. Elaborating, Zuiker stated that he sort of jumped in and said, Naw, the shows tough enough to get off the ground and I dont want to walk into any problems. And said, Yeah, well have him out for dinner. Caruso was later cast as Caine and he was the last pilot cast member to be contracted to series. Following the back-door pilot, Zuiker stated that he believed the series needed a more balance in terms of a leading woman. Executives offered Sela Ward the part of Megan Donner, a Lieutenant, Ward turned down the role, and producers later cast Kim Delaney
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CSI: Miami (season 7)
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The seventh season of CSI, Miami premiered on CBS on September 22,2008 and ended May 18,2009. The series stars David Caruso and Emily Procter, David Caruso as Horatio Caine, a Lieutenant and the Director of the MDPD Crime Lab. Emily Procter as Calleigh Duquesne, a veteran Detective, the CSI Assistant Supervisor, adam Rodriguez as Eric Delko, a CSI Detective and Wolfes partner. Jonathan Togo as Ryan Wolfe, a CSI Detective and Delkos partner, rex Linn as Frank Tripp, a senior homicide Detective. Eva LaRue as Natalia Boa Vista, a CSI Detective, megalyn Echikunwoke as Tara Price, the teams Medical Examiner. Khandi Alexander as Alexx Woods, a physician, sofia Milos as Yelina Salas, a Private Investigator. Johnny Whitworth as Jake Berkeley, an undercover MDPD Detective, evan Ellingson as Kyle Harmon, Horatios son. Elizabeth Berkley as Julia Winston, Kyles mother
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Fright Night (2011 film)
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Fright Night is a 2011 American comedy horror film directed by Craig Gillespie, and produced by Michael De Luca and Alison Rosenzweig. A remake of Tom Hollands Fright Night, the screenplay was adapted by Marti Noxon. The plot follows a boy who discovers that his neighbor is actually a vampire. The film held its premiere at The O2 in London on August 14,2011. It was produced by DreamWorks Pictures and Reliance Entertainment, and was released in the United States by Touchstone Pictures on August 19,2011 in Real D 3D, upon its release, Fright Night grossed $41 million against a production budget of $30 million. It received generally positive reviews, with praising its humor. Charley Brewster is a living in a suburb of Las Vegas, Nevada. Charleys old best friend, Edward Evil Ed Lee, informs him that many students have gone missing, including their other childhood friend, when Charley goes home after school, his mother, Jane, introduces him to Jerry Dandrige, their new neighbor. Fed-up and angry with Ed after he claims that Jerry is a vampire, Charley tells him hes crazy. On his way home, Ed is confronted by Jerry, who claims that he has been watching Ed and has been aware of Ed watching him. Jerry soon chases Ed into a pool and convinces him into believing that his life would be much better if he was a vampire. Ed succumbs and willingly allows Jerry to bite him, as Jerry begins to attack more people throughout the neighborhood, Charley sneaks into Jerrys house and finds out that he keeps his victims in secret rooms. Charley goes to Las Vegas magician Peter Vincent, an expert on vampires. Peter, however, doesnt take him seriously and kicks him out, Jerry comes to Charleys house and sets fire to it. Charley, Jane, and his girlfriend, Amy Peterson, flee through the desert in their minivan, Jerry catches up with them, but is wounded by Jane with a real estate sign stake. Jane is admitted to a hospital, where Charley is summoned by Peter, upon arriving at Peters penthouse Ed turns up. By now Ed has been transformed into a vampire and he aids Jerry in attacking Charley, Amy. As they fight, Ed lets all of his out on his opponent
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The Bold and the Beautiful
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The Bold and the Beautiful is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. Set in Los Angeles, California, the show centers upon the Forrester family, the program features an ensemble cast, headed by its longest-serving actors John McCook as Eric Forrester and Katherine Kelly Lang as Brooke Logan. Since its premiere, the show has become the most-watched soap in the world, as of 2010, it continues to hold on to the second-placed position in weekly Nielsen Ratings for daytime dramas. The Bold and the Beautiful has also won 31 Daytime Emmy Awards, including one for Outstanding Drama Series in 2009 and again in 2010, as well as in 2011. On September 7,2011, the series switched to high definition, making it the second-to-last American soap to make the switch, at the time. B&B was the last American soap opera to make the transition due to the cancellation of ABCs One Life to Live before it returned along with All My Children on April 29,2013. It is the youngest airing daytime soap opera in the United States, since December 2,2013, The Bold and the Beautiful now airs same day CBS repeats on Pop. Set in Los Angeles, California, The Bold and the Beautiful centers around the Forrester family, the young lovers hurried to get married after Stephanie became pregnant. It was discovered later, when the children were all adults. The pilot episodes of the focuses on the preparations of the wedding of the Forresters eldest son, Ridge, to Caroline Spencer Forrester. At this time Ridge has already become a designer and vice president of Forrester Creations. In an ironic twist of fate, Beth was Erics college girlfriend before he married Stephanie, Brookes life soon becomes a key element in the series. Originally from a background, her love affair with Ridge sets up much of the story-line. Every so often, Ridge and Brooke reunite only to break up due to various circumstances, in addition, the rivalry between Ridges mother Stephanie and Brooke plays a key role in the drama. Following one of her breakups with Ridge, Brooke marries his father Eric, Brooke gives birth to two of Erics children. They eventually divorce and Eric reconciles with Stephanie, Eric eventually marries Brooks sister, Donna Logan and legally adopts her son Marcus. They later divorce due to their familys bitter history, Felicia and Kristen Forrester choose to follow their own paths, leaving the family company to be run by Ridge, Thorne, Rick, Marcus, and their families. For many years, Spectra Fashions was Forresters main rival, headed by Sally Spectra, sallys daughter Macy Alexander, a singer, undergoes many traumas, most notably alcoholism
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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
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CSI, Crime Scene Investigation is a procedural forensics crime drama television series that premiered on CBS October 6,2000. The series, starring William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Laurence Fishburne, Ted Danson, the series concluded on September 27,2015, after 15 seasons, with a feature-length finale titled Immortality. The team is led by Gil Grissom, a socially-awkward forensic entomologist. Grissoms second-in-command, Catherine Willows, is a mother with a cops instinct. Born and raised in Vegas, Catherine was a stripper before being recruited into law enforcement, following Grissoms departure during the ninth season of the series, Catherine is promoted to Supervisor. After overseeing the training of new investigator Raymond Langston, Willows is replaced by D. B, Russell, and recruited to the FBI shortly thereafter. Russell is a man, a keen forensic botanist and a veteran of the Seattle Crime Lab. In the series season, Russell is reunited with his former partner Julie Finlay. During the 1990s, Anthony Zuiker caught producer Jerry Bruckheimers attention after writing his first movie script, Zuiker was convinced that there was a series in the concept, Bruckheimer agreed and arranged a meeting with the head of Touchstone Pictures. The studios head at the time liked the script and presented it to ABC, NBC and Fox executives. The head of development at CBS saw potential in the script, and the network had a pay-or-play contract with actor William Petersen. The networks executives liked the pilot so much that they decided to include it in their 2000 schedule immediately, airing on Fridays after The Fugitive. Initially it was thought that CSI would benefit from The Fugitive, which was expected to be a hit, formerly a co-production with the now-defunct Alliance Atlantis Communications, that companys interest was later bought by the investment firm GS Capital Partners, an affiliate of Goldman Sachs. CBS acquired AACs international distribution rights to the program, though the non-US DVD distribution rights did not change, the series is currently in syndication, and reruns are broadcast in the U. S. on the Spike and TV Land cable networks. The show has aired in reruns on the USA Network since January 14,2011, the CSI catalog has been exclusive to the whole NBC Universal portfolio since September 2014. Occasionally, the cast would still shoot on location in Las Vegas, other California locations include Verdugo Hills High School, UCLAs Royce Hall, Pasadena City Hall, and California State University, Los Angeles. While shooting took place primarily at Universal Studios in Universal City, California, CSIs theme song was, since season one, Who Are You, written by Pete Townshend with vocals by lead singer Roger Daltrey of The Who. In certain countries, to music licensing fees, a unique theme was used instead
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Good Work (talk show)
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Good Work is an American plastic surgery-themed talk show that premiered on April 14,2015 on the E. cable network. Good Work premiered on Tuesday, April 14,2015, in the United States on the E. cable network at 10/9pm ET/PT, following another plastic surgery-based series Botched, the talk show continued to air on Tuesday nights and concluded on May 19,2015. The series is additionally broadcast on local versions of the worldwide, in Australia, the series premiered on April 22,2015. Official website Good Work at the Internet Movie Database Good Work at TV Guide
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RuPaul
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RuPaul Andre Charles, known professionally by his mononym RuPaul, is an American actor, drag queen, television personality, and recording artist. Since 2009, he has hosted and produced the drag queen reality show RuPauls Drag Race, RuPaul was born and raised in San Diego and later moved to Atlanta to study performing arts. He settled in New York City where he became a fixture on the nightclub scene. RuPaul achieved international fame as a queen with the hit song Supermodel from his album Supermodel of the World. In 1996, he became a spokesperson for MAC Cosmetics, raising money for the Mac AIDS Fund, the same year, he landed his own talk show The RuPaul Show which ran for two years on VH1 before co-hosting the morning radio show on WKTU with Michelle Visage. He has since released albums including Foxy Lady, Champion, Glamazon. As an actor he has made appearances in films including Crooklyn, The Brady Bunch Movie, To Wong Foo, julie Newmar, But Im a Cheerleader and Hurricane Bianca. RuPaul has also published two books, Lettin It All Hang Out and Workin It and he is also a host on television shows Skin Wars, Good Work and Gay for Play Game Show Starring RuPaul. You can call me Regis and Kathie Lee, I dont care, just as long as you call me. RuPaul has also played men in a number of roles, in 1999, RuPaul was awarded the Vito Russo Award at the GLAAD Media Awards for work in promoting equality in the LGBT community. RuPaul was born in San Diego, California, on November 17,1960 and he was named by his mother, a Louisiana native. The Ru came from roux, which is the term for the base of gumbo and other creole stews, when his parents divorced in 1967, he and his three sisters lived with their mother, Ernestine Toni Charles. At the age of 15, he moved to Atlanta, Georgia, in the ensuing years, RuPaul struggled as a musician and filmmaker during the 1980s. He participated in cinema, helping create the low-budget film Star Booty. In Atlanta, RuPaul often performed at the Celebrity Club as a bar dancer or with his band, RuPaul also performed as a backup singer to Glen Meadmore along with drag queen Vaginal Davis. RuPauls first prominent United States national exposure came in 1989 with an extra role dancing in the video for Love Shack by The B-52s, in the early 1990s, RuPaul worked the Georgia club scene and was known by his full birth name. Initially participating in gender bender-style performances, RuPaul performed solo and in collaboration with other bands at several New York City nightclubs, most notably the Pyramid Club. He played opposite New York City drag performer Mona Foote in the one-act science-fiction parody My Pet Homo written and he appeared for many years at the annual Wigstock drag festival and appeared in the documentary Wigstock, The Movie
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Botched (TV series)
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Botched is an American reality television series that premiered on E. on June 24,2014. It follows doctors Terry Dubrow and Paul Nassif as they remedy extreme plastic surgeries gone wrong and its Sunday night debut on June 29,2014 was watched by 1.2 million viewers. Botcheds first season, consisting of eight episodes, ended on August 17,2014, a two-part reunion special hosted by Maria Menounos aired on October 26 and 27, and featured interviews with Dubrow, Nassif, and patients from the series. On August 5,2014, Botched was renewed for a second season, on June 7, it moved from its Tuesday,9 pm timeslot to Sunday,9 pm. The mid-season finale aired on July 12, the series was renewed for a third season on July 1. Three specials, titled Botched, Post Op, aired after the October 13,20 and 27 episodes and they were co-hosted by Nassif, Dubrow, and Dubrows wife, Heather Dubrow. In October 2015, the eight-episode spin-off series of Botched was announced entitled Botched by Nature, season 3 premiered on May 10,2016, starring both Dubrow and Nassif. Official website Botched at the Internet Movie Database Botched at TV Guide
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Eleventh Hour (U.S. TV series)
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Eleventh Hour is an American science-based drama television series, which is based on the 2006 British series of the same name. The series originally ran on CBS from October 9,2008 to April 2,2009, the series was a joint venture between Jerry Bruckheimer Television, Granada Television International and Warner Bros. Hood is the governments last line of defense, and it is his mission to keep scientific advances out of the hands of those with nefarious intentions, Special Agent Rachel Young, of the FBIs executive protection detail, is assigned to protect Hood. Both Dr. Hood and Special Agent Young are assisted by Special Agent Felix Lee, rufus Sewell as Dr. Jacob Hood – a science adviser to the FBI, called in to investigate crimes that may have a scientific explanation. Even though Hood is extremely brilliant, he gets lost in his own thoughts. Additionally, he not know how to drive well, leading Rachel to insist she do all the driving. Hood appears to be an atheist and is knowledgeable on a number of scientific and he nursed his wife, who died of cancer, throughout her illness. Marley Shelton as FBI Special Agent Rachel Young – Hoods handler, though she is employed to protect his life, she has also said that her job is to protect him from himself – something he makes very difficult for her. Hood might annoy her from time to time but she does care about his well-being, viewing his many techniques with a kind of exasperated affection, though she is embarrassed by. Rachel mainly gets annoyed when he gets too caught up in an investigation and does something stupid and it is noted throughout the series that Dr. Hood is her only friend, though male characters frequently flirt with her. She is the latest in a line of Hoods protectors, omar Benson Miller as FBI Special Agent Felix Lee – introduced later in the series when he asks to help Jacob Hood on a case. After solving the case, he asks to work with Hood full-time, Felix is given the job and works as somewhat of a scout, helping out the team with heading to the location and gathering the material they need by the time Hood and Young get there. Though he likes the job, Felix feels underappreciated due to the lack of praise for the amount of work he does, the original ITV version ran for four 90-minute episodes. Before the American remake series premiered, CBS ordered 13 one-hour episodes, the pilot episode was produced with a budget of four million dollars, and the remaining episodes were given approximately two million dollars each. Despite shooting Agro as a possible pilot, CBS premiered the series with its original $4 million pilot, Resurrection. Despite the absence of any supernatural or science fictional elements, some compared the series to The X-Files. Eleventh Hour debuted after CSI at 10,00 but at 11.6 million viewers retained only 50% of CSIs audience, the show came in second in its timeslot after the premiere of Life on Mars. Although Life on Mars lost 27% of its audience in its week, Eleventh Hour gained numbers and saw a further gain in its third week
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Nip/Tuck
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Nip/Tuck is an American television drama series created by Ryan Murphy, it aired on FX in the United States from July 18,2003 to March 3,2010. The series focuses on McNamara/Troy, a cutting-edge, controversial plastic surgery center—but, particularly its founders, Drs. Sean McNamara, each episode featured graphic, partial-depictions of the plastic surgeries of one or more patients. Much of the drama is derived from the tumultuous personal lives of its main characters. The show premiered on July 22,2003, and concluded on March 3,2010, while the show was initially set in Miami, at the end of the fourth season it was relocated to Los Angeles and many of the characters have followed along. The show has earned 45 award nominations, winning one Golden Globe, Series creator Ryan Murphy has said that the medical cases on the show are 100 percent based on fact. The drama is set in a surgery center, McNamara/Troy. On the other hand, partner Christian Troy uses his charm to bring in female candidates and conducts vain business deals. Sean takes his job seriously, he is found having to fix some of Christians mistakes. In its debut season, Nip/Tuck was the new series on American basic cable. The fifth season premiered on October 30,2007, though production was affected by the 2007 Writers Strike, accordingly, the second half of the fifth season was not screened until January 6,2009 in the U. S. Another 19 episodes were picked up by FX, airing on October 14,2009, following a 3-week hiatus for the Christmas holidays, the show resumed in January 2010 and concluded on March 3,2010 with its 100th episode. Nip/Tuck filmed its 100th and final episode on June 12,2009, without creator Ryan Murphy, the show inspired the creation of the plastic surgery reality show Dr.90210. Golden Globe Awards, Won – Best Television Series – Drama, Nominated – Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama Nominated – Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama. Golden Globe Awards, Nominated – Best Television Series – Drama Nominated – Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama, Emmy Awards, Won – Outstanding Makeup for a Series, Miniseries, Movie or a Special. Nominated – Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series Nominated – Outstanding Main Title Design Nominated – Outstanding Main Title Theme Music Nominated – Outstanding Makeup for a Series, viewer numbers of Nip/Tuck on FX. Nip/Tuck became an instant cable hit from its 2003 series premiere, for its third season, FX aired Nip/Tuck solely in the fall of 2005, instead of during the summer season like the two years prior. John Landgraf, president of FX, stated that such a move was a risk since it stacked up against the full barrage of fall network competition. Including Cherry Peck / Quentin Costa, three episodes of Nip/Tuck rank as the three most-watched scripted programs ever on FX, the second season finale, entitled Joan Rivers, which aired on October 5,2004, drew 5.2 million viewers
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Maxim (magazine)
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Maxim has a circulation of about 9 million readers each month. Maxim Digital reaches more than 4 million unique viewers each month, Maxim magazine publishes 16 editions, sold in 75 countries worldwide. Maxim has expanded into other countries, including Australia. It contains content not included in the print version and focuses on the general topics, along with exclusive sections such as the Girls of Maxim galleries. Maxim Video contains video clips of interviews, music videos, photo shoots, on February 5,2005, Maxim Radio, featuring male-oriented talk programming, debuted on Sirius Satellite Radio. Following the Sirius-XM merger in late 2008, the Maxim brand was dropped, the land was sold to MGM Mirage. As of April 23,2009 Dennis Publishing has announced that it no longer continue producing a print edition of Maxim in the UK. In July 2009, Maxim partnered with the UFC for the first-ever Maxim UFC Octagon Girl Search at the UFC Fan Expo,40 girls participated in the contest, and the winner was Natasha Wicks. Quadrangle Group gave up on its investment in Alpha Media Group in August 2009, in 2013, Alpha announced the sale of Maxim to the newly created Darden Media Group, but Darden was unable to raise the money. Calvin Darden, Jr. was later charged with fraud relating to the transaction. Between 2010 and 2012, Maxim eliminated two issues, going from 12 issues a year to 10, and decreased its circulation numbers by 20%, maximum Warrior debuted in 2011, as an online reality competition that tests ten of Americas most elite military operators in ten military-inspired challenges. The videos are available online and on the Maxim app on Xbox Live, several episodes feature Dakota Meyer, Maxims Military Advisor. Maximum Warrior is produced by Grand Street Media, on February 27,2014, entrepreneur Sardar Biglari, the founder of Biglari Holdings and Biglari Capital, purchased Maxim. We plan to build the business on multiple dimensions, he said at the time, during Lanphears tenure, the September 2015 issue featured actor Idris Elba on its cover, marking the first time that the magazine didnt have a woman on the cover. Lanphear left the magazine in November 2015, at one point last year, the staffer said, he decided to throw out a nearly-complete version of the December issue in order to completely redesign the magazine. On January 13,2016 Gilles Bensimon joined Biglari as a creative director. What drew me to Maxim was Sardars vision for the brand, the Centre described Maxim as consisting of sexist bravado and racist imagery. In 2006, Alok Jha of The Guardian criticized Maxim for encouraging excessive alcohol consumption, in June 2007, Israeli diplomat David Saranga invited Maxim to the country
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Empire (film magazine)
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Empire is a British film magazine published monthly by Bauer Consumer Media of Hamburg based Bauer Media Group. From the first issue in July 1989, the magazine was edited by Barry McIlheney, Bauer purchased Emap Consumer Media in early 2008. It is the biggest selling magazine in the United Kingdom and is also published in the United States, Australia, Turkey, Russia, Italy. Empire organises the annual Empire Awards which were sponsored by Sony Ericsson, the awards are voted for by readers of the magazine. Empire is populist in both approach and coverage and it reviews both mainstream films and art films, but feature articles concentrate on the former. As well as news, previews, and reviews, Empire has some other regular features. Each issue features a Classic Scene, a transcript from a film scene. The first such classic scene to be featured was the I could have been a scene from On the Waterfront. The regular Top 10 feature lists Empires choice of the top ten examples of something film-related, for example,10 Best Chase Scenes or 10 Best Movie Gags in The Simpsons. The Re. View section covers Blu-ray and DVD news and releases, Kim Newmans Movie Dungeon is a regular feature in the Re. View section, in which critic Kim Newman reviews the most obscure releases, mostly low budget horror movies. How much Is Pint of Milk presents celebrities answers to silly or unusual questions and this is intended as a guide to the chosen celebritys contact with reality, and as such can be more informative than a direct interview by reporting some surprising responses. Each magazine includes a Spine Quote, in which a relatively challenging quote is printed on the spine of the magazine, there are usually some obvious and obscure links from the quote to the main features of that months edition. Readers are invited to identify the source and the links to win a prize. Celebrity Mastermind is another regular in which a celebrity is given questions about the films they were in or they directed, celebrities range from Quentin Tarantino and Christopher Lee to John Carpenter and Michael Keaton. A regular feature since issue 167, the feature is a two-page essay on a film selected by Empire in the Re. View section. The selection of the films seem to be random and follow no specific pattern. Only a few issues since the first masterpiece feature have not featured one –169,179,196,197,198 and 246, Issue 240 had director Frank Darabont select 223 masterpieces. L. A. Confidential was featured twice, once in issue 191 and this list is as follows, Alien – Dinner chestburster The Omen – Glass decapitation An American Werewolf in London – Wolf transformation The Exorcist – Crucifix abuse Risky Business – Ready Ralph
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Digital Spy
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Digital Spy is a British entertainment and media news website launched in 1999. The site focuses on reporting breaking entertainment news related to movies, music, television, in addition to news articles there are regular reviews posted on popular films, theatre, and concerts. On 9 April 2008 it was announced that the website had been purchased by magazine publisher Hachette Filipacchi UK, on 1 August 2011, ownership of Hachette UK was sold to Hearst Magazines UK. As well as articles, the site also features forums, which went live in March 2000, representatives of several major companies, including Top Up TV, Joost, BSkyB, Goodmans, and Amstrad CEO Lord Alan Sugar are registered members who have posted on the forums. Iain Chapman launched the website, providing news, rumours. At the same time, Chris Butcher launched the ONfaq website, offering similar news, both sites proved to be popular, attracting a lot of attention from visitors eager for more news about these rapidly developing TV platforms. Very quickly, Iain and Chris discussed the idea of a merger of the two sites, to create the digiNEWS Network, on 28 February 1999 digiNEWS and ONfaq merged and were rebranded as sites of the new digiNEWS network. Both sites were redesigned with common branding, and new header graphics identifying the digiNEWS network, more sites continued to join the network - Chris Norriss cablenews, uk, Mark Hughes DVDNews and Neil Wilkes TV, uk. The network was growing, but technically it was disjointed, served from personal webspace from ISPs such as Freeserve. Discussions with website guru Jose Cardoso began, and work started on integrating the multitude of sites into a single portal. It was important for the new site to be accessible, so a. COM address was preferable, unfortunately the diginews. com address was already taken. After many many emails back and forth, the name Digital Spy was chosen, the new Digital Spy forums went live on 1 March 2000. They were built on the UBB forum platform, the new Digital Spy news portal went live on 19 May 2001, running on a custom-built content management system developed by Jose and called RAMS. In November 2015, Digital Spy hired ex editor of Heat Julian Linley in the role of editor-in-chief as the attempts to challenge BuzzFeed
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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database
