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Miami International Film Festival
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The Miami International Film Festival is an annual film festival in Miami, Florida, that showcases independent American and international films with a special focus on Ibero-American films. The stated mission of the Miami International Film Festival is to bridge cultural understanding, the Festival debuted in November 1978, under director J. Hunter Todd. It lasted 10 days and presented approximately 100 feature films and 300 shorter works, in 1983, it went under the Film Society of Miami, and under director Nat Chendiak held its first revamped edition in February 1984. Chendiak acted as director of the festival in the early years, control of the festival was assumed by Florida International University in 1999. Conflict emerged between Chendiak and Florida International University over the direction of the festival, and when his ran out on 2001 Chendiak chose to leave. Miami-Dade College took over in late 2003 after Florida International University lost $20 million in state funding, since 2006, the beginning of the ten-day festival has shifted to early March. The Festival has now grown to become a global festival with an annual attendance of over 70,000. The Festival is held for 10 consecutive days, opening annually on the first Friday of March, in 2014, the festival introduced MIFFecito, a fall presentation. The following year, the festival rebranded it to GEMS, a 4-day event held in October to present the jewels of the fall season, jaie Laplante became director of programming in 2011. The Film Festivals website Wissot, Lauren, the Miami International Film Festival 2011
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Miami International Film Festival
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Nelsonville, Ohio
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Nelsonville is a city in northwestern York Township, Athens County, Ohio, United States. It is sixty miles southeast of Columbus, the population was 5,392 at the 2010 census. It is the town of Hocking College. Nelsonville is located at 39°27′19″N 82°13′32″W, along the Hocking River, one of the main streets, Canal Street, is located over where the old Hocking Canal once ran. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 5.00 square miles. Nelsonville is located on U. S. Route 33, a bypass was completed in December 2013 for the city. As of the census of 2010, there were 5,392 people,1,969 households, the population density was 1,102.7 inhabitants per square mile. There were 2,257 housing units at a density of 461.6 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 94. 2% White,2. 8% African American,0. 5% Native American,0. 3% Asian,0. 1% Pacific Islander,0. 4% from other races, and 1. 7% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1. 4% of the population,36. 3% of all households were made up of individuals and 9. 2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.24 and the family size was 2.96. The median age in the city was 25.1 years. 17. 4% of residents were under the age of 18,32. 4% were between the ages of 18 and 24,24. 4% were from 25 to 44,16. 7% were from 45 to 64, and 9% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 54. 8% male and 45. 2% female, the residents of Nelsonville are served by the Nelsonville-York City School District and Nelsonville-York High School. They are also served by the Athens County Public Libraries with branches in Albany, Athens, Chauncey, Coolville, Glouster, Nelsonville, first settled in 1814 by the Daniel Nelson, Nelsonville was incorporated in 1838 with Charles Cable as its first mayor. The founding Daniel Nelson was so photogenic that he was run out of his own town, Nelsonville blossomed into a classic Appalachian town by the mid-19th century, relying on the extractive industries of coal, clay and salt. Like many large mining towns, Nelsonville was home to a hotel, The Dew House. The large amount of extracted from the Nelsonville area earned Nelsonville the nickname Little City of Black Diamonds
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Downtown Nelsonville's public square in 2006
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Star brick sidewalk
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Stuart's Opera House
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Rocky Brands outlet store
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Matthew Broderick
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Matthew Broderick is an American actor and singer. Broderick has won two Tony Awards, one for Best Featured Actor in a Play for Brighton Beach Memoirs and he was also nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his role in The Producers, but lost to his co-star Nathan Lane. As of 2016, Broderick is the youngest winner of the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. Broderick was born in Manhattan, New York, the son of Patricia, a playwright, actress, and painter, and James Broderick and his father was a Catholic of Irish, and some English, descent. Broderick attended grade school at City and Country School and high school at Walden School, Brodericks first major acting role came in an HB Studio workshop production of playwright Horton Footes On Valentines Day, playing opposite his father, who was a friend of Footes. Broderick commented on the effects of that review in a 200460 Minutes II interview, Before I knew it, and suddenly, all these doors opened. And its only because Mel Gussow happened to come by right before it closed and happened to like it, all these things have to line up that are out of your control. He followed that with the role of Eugene Morris Jerome in the Neil Simon Eugene Trilogy including the plays, Brighton Beach Memoirs and his first film role was also written by Neil Simon. Broderick debuted in Max Dugan Returns and his first big hit film was WarGames, a summer hit in 1983, in which he played the main role of David Lightman, a Seattle teen hacker. This was followed by the role of Philippe Gaston in Ladyhawke, Broderick then won the role of the charming, clever slacker in the 1986 film Ferris Buellers Day Off. At the age of 23, Broderick played a school student who, with his girlfriend and best friend, plays hooky. The film remains a 1980s comedy favorite today, and is one of Brodericks best known roles. ), also in 1987, he played Air Force research assistant Jimmy Garrett in Project X. In 1988, Broderick played Harvey Fiersteins gay lover, Alan, in the 1989 film Glory, he received favorable reviews for his portrayal of the American Civil War officer Robert Gould Shaw, whom Broderick incidentally physically resembled at the time. He won recognition for two dark comedy roles, the first was that of a bachelor in The Cable Guy with Jim Carrey. The second was that of a school teacher in Alexander Paynes Election with Reese Witherspoon. In the latter production, he played Leopold Leo Bloom, an accountant who co-produces a musical designed to fail, Broderick reprised the role in the 2005 film adaptation of the same name. Broderick was reunited with his co-star from The Lion King and The Producers, Nathan Lane, in The Odd Couple and he appeared on Broadway as a college professor in The Philanthropist, running April 10 through June 28,2009. He returned to the Broadway stage in Spring 2012, to star in the musical Nice Work If You Can Get It, Broderick met actress Sarah Jessica Parker through her brother
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Broderick at the 2009 premiere of
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Broderick in Sweden during his promotion of
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Broderick with
Sanaa Lathan at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Wonderful World
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Broderick and his wife
Sarah Jessica Parker in 2009.
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Timothy Britten Parker
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Timothy Britten Parker, also known as Toby, is an American actor. Parker was born in Iowa City, Iowa and raised in Cincinnati and he moved to New York City with his family in 1977 as he began pursuing his professional career. Toby is one of eight children and he has three brothers and four sisters, most of whom also have careers in the entertainment industry, including siblings Sarah Jessica Parker and Pippin Parker. In October 1976, Parker made his Broadway debut as an understudy at the Morosco Theatre in a revival of the play The Innocents, adapted and directed by Harold Pinter. In 1978, Toby was cast in Runaways, which made its Off-Broadway premiere at The Public Theater and later moved to Broadway at the Plymouth Theatre. He was in the original cast of The Visit at Criterion Center Stage Right in 1992, where he played the roles of Ottilie Schill, Pedro Cabral, and Wechsler. In 1996, Toby joined Anthony Rapp, Adam Pascal, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Taye Diggs, Wilson Jermaine Heredia and his roles included Gordon in Life Support, the man in Christmas Bells, Mr. Grey in La Vie Boheme, and others. His voice can be heard on Rents original Broadway cast recording, Toby appeared with the rest of the cast to perform Seasons of Love and La Vie Boheme at the 1996 Tony Awards. Among the four awards the show won that evening was a Tony Award for Best Musical, the original cast has reunited to celebrate the shows 5th and 10th anniversaries in special one-night concerts. Since 1991, Parker has had a role as a Forensics Technician on Law & Order with Rent co-star Jesse L. Martin. Parker originated the role of Doctor Dillamond on the First National US Tour of the musical Wicked and he left the cast on March 5,2006 to join the shows sit-down production in Chicago, replacing Steven Skybell on March 28,2006. He left the Chicago cast on December 10,2006, Parker then originated the role of Doctor Dillamond in the Los Angeles sit-down production, which opened on February 21,2007, following previews on February 10. He played his final performance on May 25,2008 and was replaced by David de Vries and he reprised the role in the Broadway production, beginning performances on September 2,2008, again replacing Steven Skybell. On October 27,2008, he appeared in The Yellow Brick Road Not Taken and he played Doctor Dillamond in early drafted scenes that were cut from the final version of the musical. After over two years in the Broadway company, making him the longest-running Broadway Dillamond to date, he played his final performance October 31,2010 and was replaced by Tom Flynn. After a year away from the show and Doctor Dillamond, Parker returned to the role in the Second National US Tour company and he replaced Martin Moran on December 20,2011, and he played his last show on September 30,2012. From March 20 through April 14,2013, he returned to the first touring production, on September 23,2014, he returned to the show on Broadway replacing K. Todd Freeman as Dillamond, where he is currently starring as of January 2015. Along with eleven other artists, including his brother Pippin Parker
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Timothy Britten Parker, 2007
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Carrie Bradshaw
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She is a semi-autobiographical character created by Candace Bushnell, who published the book Sex and the City, based on her own columns in the New York Observer. On the HBO series, Bradshaw is a New York City newspaper columnist, fashionista, and later, freelance writer for Vogue and her weekly column, Sex and the City, provides the title, storylines, and narration for each episode. When the series premiered, the character was praised by critics for being an example of an independent woman in the vein of Mary Tyler Moore. Carrie writes a column called Sex and the City for fictional newspaper. The column focuses on Carries sexual escapades and those of her close friends and it provides Carrie with a certain amount of recognition in the city. People who read her column occasionally describe her as their icon, in the third season, her column is optioned for a film produced by Matthew McConaughey. In the fifth season, some of her columns are compiled into a book, at the end of season four, Carrie begins to write freelance articles for Vogue. Although she initially has trouble dealing with Enid, her abrasive, demanding editor at Vogue, she does find her feet, Carrie is notoriously led by her emotions. She seeks acceptance from Mr. Big and others, just tell me Im the one she urges Mr. Big at the end of Season 1, worried about his refusal to introduce her to his mother. She often behaves in a selfish manner but unless her self-involvement is pointed out by friends, she is apt to blame this on her tendency to get Carried Away, a phrase coined by Mr. Big in Season 2. The result is a flawed but relatable character due to the humor with which she tackles stereotypical issues within male–female relationships. Carrie is a smoker and when she smokes, she is mostly seen with Marlboro Lights. She tries to quit in seasons 3 and 4 using the Nicotine patch while dating Aidan, because of this, she repeatedly expresses doubts that she is the type to get married and raise a family. Carrie is a resident of the borough of Manhattan in New York City and she lives in a brownstone on the Upper East Side at the fictional house number of 245, on East 73rd Street, between Park and Madison. In the initial episodes of the first season, Carries apartment is seen to be above a shop somewhere near the vicinity of Madison Avenue. By approximately the fourth episode, the facade of a series of brownstones adjacent to hers is adopted. The first episode features a different apartment from the one used for the next 93 episodes. In the real life, the building with the stairs is 66 Perry Street
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Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw
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AnnaSophia Robb played Carrie Bradshaw as a teenager in the Carrie Diaries TV series
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HBO
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Home Box Office is an American premium cable and satellite television network that is owned by Time Warner through its respective flagship company Home Box Office, Inc. HBO is the oldest and longest continuously operating pay television service in the United States, in 2014, HBO had an adjusted operating income of US$1.79 billion, compared to the US$1.68 billion it accrued in 2013. HBO has 49 million subscribers in the United States and 130 million worldwide as of 2016, the network provides seven 24-hour multiplex channels, including HBO Comedy, HBO Latino, HBO Signature and HBO Family. It launched the streaming service HBO Now in April 2015, and has over 2 million subscribers in the United States as of February 2017. In addition to its U. S. subscriber base, HBO distributes content in at least 151 countries, HBO subscribers generally pay for an extra tier of service that includes other cable- and satellite-exclusive channels even before paying for the channel itself. Cable providers can require the use of a converter box – usually digital – in order to receive HBO, many HBO programs have been syndicated to other networks and broadcast television stations, and a number of HBO-produced series and films have been released on DVD. The new system, which Dolan named Sterling Information Services, became the first urban underground cable system in the United States. In that same year, Time-Life, Inc. purchased a 20% stake in Dolans company, in the summer of 1971, while on a family vacation in France, Charles Dolan began to think of ideas to make Sterling Manhattan profitable. He came up with the concept for a television service. Dolan later presented his idea to Time-Life management, though satellite distribution seemed only a distant possibility at the time, he persuaded Time-Life to back him on the project. To gauge whether consumers would be interested in subscribing to a pay television service, in a meeting of Dolan and some Time-Life executives who were working on the project, various other names were discussed for the new service. Home Box Office launched on November 8,1972, however, HBOs launch came without fanfare in the press, as it was not covered by any local or national media outlets. Home Box Office distributed its first sports event immediately after the film, Four months later in February 1973, Home Box Office aired its first television special, the Pennsylvania Polka Festival. Home Box Office would use a network of relay towers to distribute its programming to cable systems throughout its service area. Sterling Manhattan Cable continued to lose money because the company had only a small base of 20,000 customers in Manhattan. Time-Life dropped the Sterling name and the company was renamed Manhattan Cable Television under Time-Lifes control in March 1973, Gerald Levin, who had been with Home Box Office since it began operations as its vice president of programming, replaced Dolan as the companys president and chief executive officer. In September 1973, Time-Life, Inc. completed its acquisition of the pay service. HBO would eventually increase its fortunes within two years, by April 1975, the service had around 100,000 subscribers in Pennsylvania and New York state, in 1974, they settled on using a geostationary communications satellite to transmit HBO to cable providers throughout the United States
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The RCA Satcom domestic communication satellite launched on December 13, 1975, spurred the
cable television industry to unprecedented heights – with the assistance of HBO.
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Filmmaker
Alexandra Pelosi and former
New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey at the New York City premiere of Pelosi's HBO documentary about McGreevey,
Fall to Grace, in March 2013.
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Example of Festival's monthly guide provided to subscribers (January 1988).
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Emmy Award
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An Emmy Award, or simply Emmy, recognizes excellence in the television industry, and corresponds to the Academy Award, the Tony Award, and the Grammy Award. Because Emmy Awards are given in various sectors of the American television industry, Regional Emmy Awards are also presented throughout the country at various times through the year, recognizing excellence in local and statewide television. In addition, International Emmys are awarded for excellence in TV programming produced, each is responsible for administering a particular set of Emmy ceremonies. The Los Angeles-based Academy of Television Arts & Sciences established the Emmy Award as part of an image-building and public relations opportunity. The first Emmy Awards ceremony took place on January 25,1949, at the Hollywood Athletic Club, shirley Dinsdale has the distinction of receiving the very first Emmy Award for Most Outstanding Television Personality, during that first awards ceremony. In the 1950s, the ATAS expanded the Emmys into a national event, in 1955, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences was formed in New York City as a sister organization to serve members on the East Coast, and help to also supervise the Emmys. The NATAS also established regional chapters throughout the United States, with each one developing their own local Emmy awards show for local programming, the ATAS still however maintained its separate regional ceremony honoring local programming in the Los Angeles Area. Originally there was only one Emmy Awards ceremony held per year to honor shows nationally broadcast in the United States, in 1974, the first Daytime Emmy Awards ceremony was held to specifically honor achievement in national daytime programming. Other area-specific Emmy Awards ceremonies soon followed, also, the International Emmy Awards, honoring television programs produced and initially aired outside the U. S. was established in the early 1970s. Meanwhile, all Emmys awarded prior to the emergence of these separate, in 1977, due to various conflicts, the ATAS and the NATAS agreed to split ties. However, they agreed to share ownership of the Emmy statue and trademark. With the rise of television in the 1980s, cable programs first became eligible for the Primetime Emmys in 1988. The ATAS also began accepting original online-only web television programs in 2013, the Emmy statuette, depicting a winged woman holding an atom, was designed by television engineer Louis McManus, who used his wife as the model. The TV Academy rejected a total of forty-seven proposals before settling on McManus design in 1948. The statuette has become the symbol of the TV Academys goal of supporting and uplifting the art and science of television, The wings represent the muse of art. When deciding a name for the award, Academy founder Syd Cassyd originally suggested Ike, however, Ike was also the popular nickname of World War II hero and future U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and the Academy members wanted something unique. Finally, television engineer and the third president, Harry Lubcke, suggested the name Immy. After Immy was chosen, it was feminized to Emmy to match their female statuette
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TV producer
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Actress
Dana Delany holding an Emmy, 1992
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TV producer and writer
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Brazilian actress and TV host
Fernanda Lima holding
Rede Globo 's six medals of nominations to the International Emmys in 2012
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Golden Globe Award
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Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign. The annual ceremony at which the awards are presented is a part of the film industrys awards season. The 74th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film, the 1st Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best achievements in 1943 filmmaking, was held in January 1944, at the 20th Century-Fox studios. Subsequent ceremonies were held at venues throughout the next decade, including the Beverly Hills Hotel. In 1950, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association made the decision to establish an honorary award to recognize outstanding contributions to the entertainment industry. Recognizing its subject as a figure within the entertainment industry. The official name of the award became the Cecil B. In 1963, the Miss Golden Globe concept was introduced, in its inaugural year, two Miss Golden Globes were named, one for film and one for television. The two Miss Golden Globes named that year were Eva Six and Donna Douglas, respectively, in 2009, the Golden Globe statuette was redesigned. It was unveiled at a conference at the Beverly Hilton prior to the show. The broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards, telecast to 167 countries worldwide, generally ranks as the third most-watched awards show each year, behind only the Oscars, gervais returned to host the 68th and 69th Golden Globe Awards the next two years. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosted the 70th, 71st and 72nd Golden Globe Awards in 2015, the Golden Globe Awards theme song, which debuted in 2012, was written by Japanese musician and songwriter Yoshiki Hayashi. On January 7,2008, it was announced due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. The ceremony was faced with a threat by striking writers to picket the event, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was forced to adopt another approach for the broadcast. In acting categories, Meryl Streep holds the record for the most competitive Golden Globe wins with eight, however, including honorary awards, such as the Henrietta Award, World Film Favorite Actor/Actress Award, or Cecil B. DeMille Award, Barbra Streisand leads with nine, additionally, Streisand won for composing the song Evergreen, producing the Best Picture, and directing Yentl in 1984. Jack Nicholson, Angela Lansbury, Alan Alda and Shirley MacLaine have six awards each, behind them are Rosalind Russell and Jessica Lange with five wins. Meryl Streep also holds the record for most nominations with thirty, at the 46th Golden Globe Awards an anomaly occurred, a three way-tie for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
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The Golden Globe statuette
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Screen Actors Guild Awards
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The statuette given, a nude male figure holding both a mask of comedy and a mask of tragedy, is called The Actor. It is 16 inches tall, weighs over 12 pounds, is cast in solid bronze, SAG Awards have been one of the major awards events in Hollywood since 1995. It is considered an indicator of success at the Academy Awards, the awards have been telecast since 1998 on TNT, and since 2007 have been simulcast on TBS. The inaugural SAG Awards aired live on February 25,1995 from Universal Studios Stage 12, the second SAG awards aired live from the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, while subsequent awards have been held at the Shrine Exposition Center
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Trophy of the award
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Annie (musical)
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Annie is a Broadway musical based upon the popular Harold Gray comic strip Little Orphan Annie, with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and the book by Thomas Meehan. The original Broadway production opened in 1977 and ran for six years. It spawned numerous productions in many countries, as well as national tours, the musicals songs Tomorrow and Its the Hard Knock Life are among its most popular musical numbers. In 1933, eleven-year-old Annie is in the Municipal Girls Orphanage, along with Molly, Kate, Tessie, Pepper, July, when Molly awakes from a bad dream, angering Pepper and Duffy, July tells them to hush up and eventually gets into a fight with Pepper. Annie gets up and tells everyone to go back to sleep, Molly then asks if Annie could read her note from when her parents left her at the orphanage. Duffy and Pepper are yet again annoyed, along with Kate, Pepper and Duffy imitate Annies acting as if they were her parents. Annie decides to escape to find her parents, but is caught by Miss Hannigan and she is angered by this and forces all the girls to vigorously clean the orphanage. Shortly after, Mr. Bundles, the man, comes in to pick up the blankets. While Miss Hannigan is flirting with him, Annie climbs into the laundry basket, once Miss Hannigan realizes she is gone, the other orphans express their frustration. Annie successfully escapes, running into a stray dog. As she comforts him, she tells him of better days yet to come, the dog catcher is after him, so she pretends the dog is hers by calling him Sandy. Though at first unsuccessful, she convinces the dog catcher, and she later finds a Hooverville, where people made homeless by the Great Depression have come together as a community. However, a policeman named Lt. Ward, who had been sent by Miss Hannigan, catches Annie, Grace Farrell, assistant to the billionaire Oliver Warbucks, comes to the orphanage asking for an orphan to come to his mansion for the Christmas holiday. Because Annie was in Miss Hannigans office, Grace asks to take her, once she has left, Miss Hannigan explodes with her hatred for all the girls in the orphanage. Meanwhile, at the Warbucks Mansion, the staff welcomes Annie with open arms, when Oliver Warbucks comes back, though, he is very moody and not too happy to have an orphan in his mansion. He asks Grace to take Annie to a movie, but she persuades him to come too, as he and Annie begin to like each other, they enjoy a fabulous night in New York City. Back at the orphanage, Miss Hannigans brother, Rooster, and his girlfriend, Lily, Miss Hannigan mentions that Annie is staying at a billionaires house, and they think they could use this situation to their advantage, though they do not yet know how. Warbucks sees the locket around Annies neck, and buys her a new one from Tiffany & Co and he debates taking her under his wing, because he doesnt know much about children, but he decides he loves her and gives her the locket
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Original Broadway Windowcard
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Andrea McArdle, Reid Shelton and Sandy, 1977.
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Footloose (1984 film)
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Footloose is a 1984 American musical drama film directed by Herbert Ross. It tells the story of Ren McCormack, an upbeat Chicago teen who moves to a town in which, as a result of the efforts of a local minister, dancing. The film is based on events that took place in the small, rural. Ren McCormack, a raised in Chicago, moves with his mother to the small town of Bomont to live with his aunt. Soon after arriving, Ren befriends Willard Hewitt, and from him learns the city council has banned dancing and rock music. He soon begins to fall for a teenage girl named Ariel, who has an abusive boyfriend, Chuck Cranston, and a strict father, Shaw Moore. After trading insults with Chuck, Ren is challenged to a game of chicken involving tractors, Ren wins when his shoelace becomes stuck and prevents him from jumping from the tractor. Rev. Moore distrusts Ren, and he grounds Ariel, forbidding her to see him, Ren and his classmates want to do away with the no-dancing law and have a senior prom. Later, Ren teaches Willard to dance, although Reverend Moore is moved, the council votes against Rens proposal. Vi, Moores wife, is supportive of the movement and explains to Moore that he cannot be everyones father, and she also says that dancing and music are not the problem. Moore feels betrayed that even his wife does not believe in him, however, he has a change of heart after seeing some of the townsfolk burning books that they think are dangerous to the youth of the community. Realizing the situation has gotten out of hand, Moore stops the book-burning, rebukes the book-burners, and sends them home to think about what they are doing. The following Sunday, Moore asks his congregation to pray for the school students putting on a senior prom. Shaw and Vi listen outside, dancing for the first time in years, Chuck and his friends arrive and start a fight with Willard, who with Ren knocks them out. The movie ends with Ren, Ariel, Willard, Rusty, michael Cimino was hired by Paramount to direct the film when negotiations with Ross initially stalled. Tom Cruise and Rob Lowe were both slated to play the lead, the casting directors were impressed with Cruise because of the famous underwear dance sequence in Risky Business, but he was unavailable for the part because he was filming All the Right Moves. Lowe auditioned three times and had dancing ability and the neutral teen look that the wanted. Bacon had been offered the role for the Stephen King movie Christine at the same time that he was asked to do the screen test for Footloose
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Theatrical movie poster
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Kevin Bacon portrayed Ren McCormack.
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The Heidi Chronicles
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The Heidi Chronicles is a 1988 play by Wendy Wasserstein. The play won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, a workshop production at Seattle Repertory Theatre was held in April 1988, directed by Daniel J. Sullivan. The play premiered Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons on November 18,1988 and it then transferred to Broadway at the Plymouth Theatre, opening on March 9,1989 and closing on September 1,1990, after 622 performances. Both productions were directed by Sullivan, the set design was by Thomas Lynch, costume design by Jennifer von Mayrhauser and lighting design by Pat Collins. The cast starred Joan Allen as Heidi, Boyd Gaines as Peter, sarah Jessica Parker was featured in three small roles off-Broadway, those roles were played by Cynthia Nixon for the Broadway run. Replacement actors on Broadway included Christine Lahti, Brooke Adams, and Mary McDonnell as Heidi, David Hyde Pierce as Peter, two Broadway Heidis married the actor who played opposite them as Scoop, Joan Allen and Peter Friedman and Brooke Adams and Tony Shalhoub. The first major production mounted after Wassersteins death in January 2006 was at the Berkshire Theatre Festival in August and September 2006, featuring Kate Jennings Grant. On September 30,2011, produced by The English Theatre of Rome and directed by Gaby Ford, a revival opened on Broadway on February 23,2015 in previews, at the Music Box Theatre. The cast featured Elisabeth Moss in the role, Bryce Pinkham as Peter Patrone and Jason Biggs as Scoop Rosenbaum. The play opened officially on March 19, the production was originally scheduled to play through August 9,2015 but closed on May 3 due to low ticket sales. The plot follows Heidi Holland from high school in the 1960s to her career as an art historian more than twenty years later. The plays main themes deal with the role of women during this time period. Heidi meets Scoop at a Eugene McCarthy rally where he tries to woo her with knowledge and she seems unenthused and lies about her name to Scoop but is soon convinced as she realizes Scoop is a very intelligent, attractive man despite his egotistical ways. The scene in which they first meet ends with a passionate kiss and it is ambiguously implied that Heidi may have been a virgin at the time. Although they dont work out romantically, the chemistry between Scoop and Heidi is insatiable and they go on to be lifelong friends, Heidi realizes that not marrying does not mean she cannot be a mother and takes matters into her own hands. She chooses to adopt a child on her own, the New York Times critic Mel Gussow wrote of the Playwrights Horizon production, Ms. Wasserstein has always been a clever writer of comedy. This time she has been exceedingly watchful about not settling for easy laughter, and this is not to suggest, however, that The Heidi Chronicles is ever lacking in humor. The new Jerry Seinfeld sitcom pilot that premiered on NBC in July 1989 was entitled The Seinfeld Chronicles as an homage to Wassersteins zeitgeist-dominating play, the shows title was quickly shortened to Seinfeld
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The Heidi Chronicles
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L.A. Story
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L. A. Story is a 1991 American satirical romantic fantasy comedy-drama film written by and starring Steve Martin, and directed by Mick Jackson. Set in Los Angeles, California, it relates a series of episodes in the life of an L. A. TV weather forecaster. It includes surreal sequences in which he is offered romantic advice flashed to him by a freeway sign, the movie blends romantic comedy with fantasy and satire elements that both satirize and celebrate L. A. culture. The soundtrack includes three songs by Enya, On Your Shore and Exile and Epona, Harris K. Telemacher is a TV meteorologist living in Los Angeles. He is in a relationship with his social-climbing girlfriend Trudi. He wants to find meaning and magic in his life, having grown increasingly weary of what he sees as the rather shallow. At a luncheon with a group of friends, he meets Sara, driving home that night, his car breaks down on the freeway. He notices that a freeway traffic condition sign seems to be displaying messages intended solely for him and it offers him cryptic advice on his love life throughout the movie. He begins to fall for Sara, but she is conflicted because she has pledged to reconcile with her ex-husband, Roland, feeling that a relationship with Sara is unlikely, Harris begins dating SanDeE*, a ditzy aspiring spokesmodel, whom he meets at a clothing store. After his first date with her, Harris discovers that Trudi has been cheating on him for three years with his agent, the discovery leads him to pursue his romantic interest in Sara. This is complicated by his new relationship with SanDeE* and by Saras feeling of obligation to Roland, by the conclusion, he has successfully wooed Sara – with some encouragement and advice from the sign. Martin and Tennant were real-life husband and wife at the time of the films production, L. A. Story was a box office success. The film earned $6.6 million during its opening weekend, L. A. Story received positive reviews from critics. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 94% approval rating and rating average score of 7.4 out of 10 based on 33 reviews, experience, and only one film per director was allowed on the list. American Film Institute recognition, AFIs 100 Years,100 Laughs — Nominated L. A. Story at the Internet Movie Database L. A. Story at Box Office Mojo L. A. Story at Rotten Tomatoes L. A. Story at Metacritic
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Theatrical release poster
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Honeymoon in Vegas
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Honeymoon in Vegas is a 1992 comedy film directed by Andrew Bergman and starring Nicolas Cage, James Caan and Sarah Jessica Parker. Jack Singer has sworn to his mother while she was on her deathbed that he would never get married, years later, he goes back on his promise and proposes to his girlfriend, Betsy, and quickly arranges a Las Vegas marriage. They check into the Ballys Hotel, before the wedding, however, a wealthy professional gambler, Tommy Korman, sees Betsy and notices a striking resemblance to his beloved late wife. After getting Korman to agree to no sex, the couple agrees. Jack tries desperately to get Betsy back and discovers that Tommy has taken her to Hawaii, the gambler also has a taxi driver friend, Mahi Mahi, and asks him to keep Jack as far as possible from him and Betsy. Jack discovers this, steals the taxi, and sees Betsy outside the Kauai Club, after Dr. Molar bails Jack out of jail, Mahi Mahi meets him outside and admits that Korman left for Vegas with Betsy and has convinced her to marry him. Mahi races Jack to the airport, Betsy decides she cannot go through with the wedding and escapes from Tommy. Meanwhile, after changing many planes and finding himself stuck in San Jose, Jack tries frantically to find a flight to Vegas. Finally, he finds a group about to depart for Vegas, Jack now realizes that he will have to skydive from 3,000 feet in order to get to Betsy. Jack eventually is able to overcome his fear and lands and spots Betsy, also included are the ramblings of Chief Orman when Mahi Mahi takes Jack to his Chiefs shack instead of Kormans beach side mansion. The score is by David Newman, viva Las Vegas - Bruce Springsteen Hound Dog - - Jeff Beck and Jed Leiber Are You Lonesome Tonight. A musical stage version of the movie was written by Jason Robert Brown, a Broadway-bound production was expected to debut in Toronto in November 2012, starring Tony Danza as Tommy Korman. However, the Toronto premiere was canceled, and production was transferred to the Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey instead with Danza remaining, the Paper Mill production opened on September 26,2013 and ran through October 27. The musical began previews on Broadway at the Nederlander Theatre on November 18,2014, direction is by Gary Griffin with choreography by Denis Jones. The cast features Tony Danza, Rob McClure and Brynn OMalley, Honeymoon in Vegas at the Internet Movie Database Honeymoon in Vegas at Box Office Mojo Honeymoon in Vegas at Rotten Tomatoes The Flying Elvi
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Hocus Pocus (1993 film)
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It follows the villainous trio of witches, who are inadvertently resurrected by a male teenager as a virgin in Salem, Massachusetts. The film became a film, largely from annual airings on Disney Channel. In 1693 on October 31st, during the Salem witch trials, Thackery Binx sees his sister, Emily Binx. There, the Sanderson sisters, Winifred, Sarah and Mary, cast a spell on Emily to absorb her youth and regain their own, Binx confronts the witches who transform him into an immortal black cat to live with his guilt at not saving Emily. Binx guards the cottage to ensure no one summons the witches,300 years later on October 31st,1993, Max Dennison moves from Los Angeles to Salem with his family, including his sister Dani. While exploring the town, he and Dani meet Allison, whose family owns the Sanderson cottage as a museum, Max suggests that they go there and impress Allison, but promised Dani to go trick-or-treating. The children escape, while Max steals Winifreds spell book on advice from Binx, the witches pursue them to a cemetery, where Winifred raises her unfaithful lover Billy Butcherson as a zombie to chase them on foot. The witches try to acclimate to the 20th century, but are horrified when they discover Halloween, the witches plan to achieve their goals or else they will be disintegrated on sunrise. They pursue the children across town using Marys enhanced sense of smell, Max, Allison and Dani find their parents at a Halloween party at the town hall, where Winifred enchants the partygoers to dance and sing until they die. At Jacob Bailey High School, the trap the witches in a kiln to burn them alive. While the children celebrate, the witches curse revives them, and they kidnap Dani and Binx after Max, Sarah then uses her siren-like voice to mesmerize Salems children and lure them to the Sandersons cottage. Max and Allison rescue Dani and Binx by tricking the witches into believing sunrise came an hour early, back at the cemetery, Max runs into Billy, who cuts open his stitched up mouth and insults Winifred, joining Max to protect Dani. The witches attack and Winifred attempts to out the soul from Dani with the single vial of potion she retrieved from her cauldron. Binx leaps on Winifred and knocks the potion out of her hand into Maxs, rather than smashing the vial, Max drinks it and apparently makes himself a sacrifice. As the sun rises, Winifred is unable to drain Maxs life force from him after falling into the hallowed ground, and soon turns to stone and is disintegrated to dust along with her sisters. As the satisfied Billy returns to his grave, Binx dies freeing his soul, thanking Max, Dani and Allison for help, during the end credits, the exhausted partygoers are freed from the spell and return home. Back at the cottage, Jay and Ernie, two teenagers who earlier tormented Max and Dani with their bullying, remain imprisoned in their cages while passing the time singing Row Your Boat. Unbeknownst to them, Winifreds spellbook opens its eye to seek its master, the Sanderson Sisters Bette Midler as Winifred Winnie Sanderson, the leader of the Sanderson sisters and the oldest
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Ed Wood (film)
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Ed Wood is a 1994 American biographical period comedy-drama film directed and produced by Tim Burton, and starring Johnny Depp as cult filmmaker Ed Wood. The film concerns the period in Woods life when he made his films as well as his relationship with actor Bela Lugosi. Sarah Jessica Parker, Patricia Arquette, Jeffrey Jones, Lisa Marie, the film was conceived by writers Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski when they were students at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Due to scheduling conflicts with Airheads, Lehmann had to vacate the directors position, Ed Wood was originally in development at Columbia Pictures, but the studio put the film in turnaround over Burtons decision to shoot in black-and-white. Ed Wood was taken to the Walt Disney Studios, which produced the film through the studios Touchstone Pictures division, the film was released to critical acclaim, but was a box office bomb, making only $5.9 million against an $18 million budget. It won two Academy Awards, Best Supporting Actor for Landau and Best Makeup for Rick Baker, Ve Neill, in 1952, Ed Wood is struggling to join the film industry. Upon hearing of an announcement in Variety magazine that producer George Weiss is trying to purchase Christine Jorgensens life story, Weiss explains that Varietys announcement was a news leak, and it is impossible to purchase Jorgensens rights. The producer decides to fictionalize the film, titled I Changed My Sex, Ed tries to convince Weiss that he is perfect to direct the film because he is a transvestite, but is unsuccessful since Weiss wants a director with experience. Ed meets his longtime idol Bela Lugosi and the two become friends, wanting to restart his fading career, Lugosi expresses interest in being part of the film. Wood persuades Weiss to let him direct the film by convincing him that having a star in the film would sell tickets, and they could sign Bela for a low price. Ed and Weiss argue over the title and subject matter, Weiss has the poster printed. Weiss allows Ed to shoot whatever he wants as long as the film meets the required length, Ed takes to film production with an unusual approach, shooting only one take per scene, giving actors very little direction and using stock footage to fill in gaps. The movie is released to critical and commercial failure, angering Weiss, because of this, Ed is unsuccessful in getting a job at Screen Classics, but Eds girlfriend, Dolores Fuller, tells him that he should try financing his next film independently. Ed is unsuccessful in finding money for Bride of the Atom, Ed meets Loretta King, who he thinks has enough money to fund Bride of the Atom and ends up casting her as the lead instead of Dolores as planned. Filming begins, but is halted when it is revealed that Loretta is actually poor, and Ed has no money to continue production. Ed convinces meat packing industry tycoon Don McCoy to take over funding the film, who agrees as long as the film stars his son Tony as the leading man and the film ends with an explosion. The filming finishes with the title being changed to Bride of the Monster, but Dolores breaks up with Ed after the party because of his circle of friends, his work. Bela attempts to conduct a double suicide with Ed after the government cuts off his unemployment, Bela checks himself into rehab, and Ed meets Kathy OHara, who is visiting her father there
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The First Wives Club
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The First Wives Club is a 1996 American comedy film, based on the best-selling 1992 novel of the same name by Olivia Goldsmith. Narrated by Diane Keaton, it stars Keaton, Goldie Hawn, scott Rudin produced and Hugh Wilson directed, the film was distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film became a surprise box-office hit following its North American release, eventually grossing $181,490,000 worldwide, mostly from its domestic run, despite receiving mixed reviews. It developed a cult following particularly among middle-aged women, and the actresses highest-grossing project of the decade helped revitalize their careers in film, at Middlebury College in 1969, four young friends, Annie MacDuggan, Elise Elliot, Brenda Morelli, and Cynthia Swann, are graduating. As graduation gifts, valedictorian Cynthia presents the girls with matching Bvlgari pearl necklaces, as the graduates take a commemorative picture of the four of them, Cynthia makes Annie, Brenda and Elise promise that they will always be there for each other throughout the remainder of their lives. In the present time, the four friends eventually lose touch with one another, now wealthy and living in a luxurious penthouse, she gives her maid her own Bulgari pearl necklace, and has the maid mail letters to them. Her former friends arent doing much better, Annie, meanwhile, is separated, suffering extreme self-esteem issues, Brenda is divorced, left for a younger woman, depressed, and struggling financially. Elise, whose husband left her for a younger woman, is now an aging alcoholic movie actress who has become a plastic-surgery addict to keep her career afloat. Shortly thereafter, the three friends receive the letters that Cynthia mailed to them before her suicide. Brenda finds out through her uncle Carmine who has Mafia connections that Morty is guilty of tax fraud, while Annie makes a plan to revive her advertising career. However, as their plan moves through, things start to fall apart when they find out that Bill has no checkered past and nothing for them to use against him. Elise, feeling sorry for herself, gets drunk which results in her and Brenda hurling vicious insults at each other. As a result, the wives manage to uncover information revealing that Bills mistress is actually a minor, the film ends with a celebration at the new Cynthia Swann Griffin Crisis Center for Women. While outside the center Bill meets Shelly and the two start to flirt, the film concludes with the three women joyfully singing Lesley Gores hit You Dont Own Me. This sequence was choreographed by Patricia Birch and her assistant choreographer was Jonathan Cerullo, after Aaron sleeps with her and then leaves her for her young therapist, she decides to band together with Brenda and Elise to form the First Wives Club. Annie learns the Aaron is having problems with his advertising firm partners through the help of her daughter, michele Brilliant as Young Brenda Goldie Hawn as Elise Eliot-Atchison, a former one-time Oscar-winning actress, now an alcoholic and heavy smoker relegated to B movies due to her unprofitable age. Her husband, Bill, who left her for woman, is suing for alimony and insisting that all of their joint assets be sold. She liquidates their assets, and gives the money to Annie so she can buy out her husbands partners, juliehera Destefano as Young Cynthia Stephen Collins as Aaron Paradis, Annies conflicted husband and CEO of an advertising agency, who leaves his wife for their therapist, Leslie Rosen
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The Family Stone
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The Family Stone is a 2005 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Thomas Bezucha. Overwhelmed by the reception, she begs her sister to join her for emotional support. The Family Stone was released in North America on November 26,2005 and was a critical and commercial success. While Parker was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her performance, Keaton, Nelson, in addition, McAdams was awarded a Teen Choice Award the following year. Meredith, feeling very much an outsider during the Christmas holidays with Everetts family, opts to stay at the local inn instead of with the family, Everett finds himself attracted to the more outgoing Julie. Distraught, Meredith attempts to drive off but crashes the car, the two end up at a local bar where, after several drinks, Meredith begins to enjoy herself. She invites Amys high school flame and local paramedic, Brad Stevenson, the following morning, when she awakens in Bens bed, she incorrectly assumes their night of revelry ended with the two having sex together. Christmas proves to be a day of accusations, recriminations, self-discoveries, Sybil, who originally refused Everetts request for his grandmothers ring, reconsiders her position and offers it to him, but, by now, his feelings for Meredith have shifted to her sister. In a moment of emotional confusion – or clarity – he asks Julie to try on the ring, when Julie and Meredith lock themselves in the bathroom to get the ring off, they assume Everett is about to propose to Meredith. The family exchanges gifts, and Meredith, oblivious to Sybils failing health, everyone is touched by her gesture, and Meredith relaxes slightly, but, when Everett asks to talk to her, she demurs again and again until she blurts out that she will not marry him. He counters that he didnt plan to ask her, Meredith breaks down in front of the family. All the personality conflicts come to a head, and everyone begins the process of healing, one year later, the family reunites at the Stone house. Meredith and Ben are a couple, as are Everett and Julie and Amy, Everetts brother Thad and his partner Patrick have adopted a baby boy named Gus, and Everetts other sister, Susannah, has had her baby. It is hinted that Sybil died and she is referenced as the family gathers with family Christmas ornaments around the tree. The framed photograph of Sybil is on the next to the tree. The Stones Diane Keaton as Sybil Stone, the familys strong-willed, a breast cancer survivor, she deals with the recurrence of the fatal illness. Playing the glue that holds the family together, Keaton was the first actor approached to star in the film, with her attachment to the project, Bezucha and London were able to recruit other actors from their wish list. Keaton has stated that she was drawn to her role
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Failure to Launch
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Failure to Launch is a 2006 American romantic comedy film directed by Tom Dey, and starring Matthew McConaughey and Sarah Jessica Parker. The film focuses on a 35-year-old man who lives in the home of his parents and shows no interest in leaving the life his parents. It was released on March 10,2006 and grossed over $128 million, Tripp, a 35-year-old man, is still living with his parents Al and Sue, in Baltimore. Tripps best friends Demo and Ace are also living in their parents homes. Al and Sue are fascinated when their friends, whose adult son recently moved away from home, the expert is Paula, who believes that men continue to live at home because they have low self-esteem. Her approach is to establish a relationship with the man to build his confidence, however, upon meeting Tripp, she finds that he does not fit any of her previous profiles, having normal social skills and no problems with self-esteem. After an awkward encounter with his parents, Paula thwarts his attempt to dump her and has sex with him and she and Tripp find themselves sailing unfamiliar waters and confide in their friends. Paulas vocation exasperates her roommate Kit, who believes that Paula took the job because she once had her heart broken by a man who lived with his parents. Paula, on the hand, is shocked when she finds out why Tripp lives at home, his life collapsed when his fiancée suddenly died. Ace discovers what is going on and blackmails Paula for a date with Kit, although Kit is more attracted to Demo, she, Ace then outs Paula to Demo, who in turn reveals all to Tripp. Tripp angrily confronts his parents, and breaks up with Paula, wracked with guilt, Paula refunds Al and Sues money. After an awkward confrontation, Tripp manages to forgive his parents, tripps parents and friends devise a plan to reconcile the two lovers. They tie up and gag Tripp and lock him and Paula together in a room, Paula pours her heart out to him, and he finally forgives her.6 million, ranking first in the United States box office results for that weekend. The film grossed a total of around $90 million in the United States box office, the film received negative reviews from critics, gaining only 24% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 143 reviews. Film critic Richard Roeper stated the film was completely unbelievable, some otherwise negative reviews singled out Zooey Deschanels performance as the films highlight. Stephanie Zacharek of Salon wrote that Even with a small role. Parasite single Boomerang Generation Twixters Official website Failure to Launch at the Internet Movie Database Failure to Launch at Rotten Tomatoes Failure to Launch at Box Office Mojo
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Isabelle Wright
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Glee is a musical comedy-drama television series that aired on Fox in the United States for six seasons from 2009 to 2015. It focuses on the school glee club New Directions competing on the show choir competition circuit, while its members deal with relationships, sexuality. For the second season, formerly recurring cast members Mike OMalley, Heather Morris, in the third season the main cast remained at fifteen, with Harry Shum, Jr. and Darren Criss promoted to it, while Gilsig and OMalley no longer received star billing. The fourth season began with fourteen in the main cast, with Chord Overstreet being promoted, the fifth season saw the biggest change, with Monteiths death, and Morris, Riley, Salling and Shum all being switched to recurring status. The series has many supporting characters, including faculty members, students, Broadway stars including Idina Menzel, John Lloyd Young, Jonathan Groff, Phoebe Strole and Kristin Chenoweth have been featured in guest roles. A number of the actors were cast directly from Broadway. In casting Glee, series creator Ryan Murphy sought out actors who could identify with the rush of starring in theatrical roles, the role of Rachel was written specifically for Michele. Chris Colfer had originally auditioned to play Artie Abrams, auditioning actors with no theatrical experience were required to demonstrate their ability to sing and dance. Cory Monteith has deemed his casting spot on as his lack of training is reflected in the abilities of his character. Kevin McHale came from a background, having previously been part of the group Not Like Them. He auditioned with the song Let It Be and tested alongside Colfer, McHale explained that the diversity of the casts backgrounds reflects the range of different musical styles within the show itself, Its a mix of everything, classic rock, current stuff, R&B. Even the musical theater stuff is switched up, Jane Lynch was originally intended to have a recurring role in the show, but became a series regular when a Damon Wayans pilot she was working on for ABC fell through. Dianna Agron was the last primary actor to be cast, having won the only days before the pilot began filming. Agron auditioned for Glee coming from a background in dancing and acting, Agron said in a 2009 interview pertaining to her casting session, I nearly bailed on my audition for the show. With her wholesome good looks, Agron certainly looked the part, Agron said in an interview, They told me to come back with straight hair and to dress sexier. Later that week, I started work, Agron auditioned with Frank Sinatras Fly Me to the Moon. The Glee producers said we really lucked out in finding Agron to play Quinn, arthur Artie Abrams is a guitarist and paraplegic manual wheelchair user. McHale described Artie as a nerd who loves the glee club wholeheartedly, Artie uses a wheelchair due to a spinal cord injury he received in a car crash at the age of eight
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Original Glee cast members: (clockwise from back left)
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Kevin McHale,
Lea Michele,
Dianna Agron,
Amber Riley,
Jenna Ushkowitz,
Chris Colfer and
Cory Monteith
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Jane Lynch and
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Patrick Gallagher played football coach Ken Tanaka
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Charice Pempengco portrays Sunshine Corazon
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Fox Broadcasting Company
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The Fox Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is owned by the Fox Entertainment Group subsidiary of 21st Century Fox. It is the third largest major network in the world based on total revenues, assets. Launched on October 9,1986 as a competitor to the Big Three television networks, Fox and its affiliated companies operate many entertainment channels in international markets, although these do not necessarily air the same programming as the U. S. network. Most viewers in Canada have access to at least one U. S, the network is named after sister company 20th Century Fox, and indirectly for producer William Fox, who founded one of the movie studios predecessors, Fox Film. Fox is a member of the North American Broadcasters Association and the National Association of Broadcasters, 20th Century Fox had been involved in television production as early as the 1950s, producing several syndicated programs. Following the demise of the DuMont Television Network in August of that year after it became mired in financial problems. 20th Century Fox would also produce original content for the NTA network, KTTV in Los Angeles, KRIV in Houston, WFLD-TV in Chicago, and KRLD-TV in Dallas. In October 1985, 20th Century Fox announced its intentions to form a television network that would compete with ABC, CBS. The plans were to use the combination of the Fox studios, organizational plans for the network were held off until the Metromedia acquisitions cleared regulatory hurdles. Then, in December 1985, Rupert Murdoch agreed to pay $325 million to acquire the remaining equity in TCF Holdings from his original partner, Marvin Davis. These first six stations, then broadcasting to a reach of 22% of the nations households. Except for KDAF, all of the original owned-and-operated stations are part of the Fox network today. Like the core O&O group, Foxs affiliate body consisted of independent stations. The Fox Broadcasting Company launched at 11,00 p. m. Eastern and its inaugural program was a late-night talk show, The Late Show, which was hosted by comedian Joan Rivers. By early 1987, Rivers quit The Late Show after disagreements with the network over the creative direction. The network expanded its programming into prime time on April 5,1987, with Children and the sketch comedy series The Tracey Ullman Show. Fox added one new show per week over the several weeks, with the drama 21 Jump Street. On July 11, the network rolled out its Saturday night schedule with the premiere of the drama series Werewolf
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Glee (TV series)
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Glee is an American musical comedy-drama television series that aired on the Fox network in the United States from May 19,2009, to March 20,2015. In subsequent seasons, the main cast has expanded to fourteen and fifteen members, the series was created by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, and Ian Brennan, the latter of whom first conceived of Glee as a film. The three wrote all of the episodes for the first two seasons, and Murphy and Falchuk initially served as the shows main directors. The pilot episode was broadcast on May 19,2009, subsequent seasons aired in September through May. The sixth and final season aired from January to March 2015, Glee features on-screen performance-based musical numbers that were selected by Murphy, who aimed to maintain a balance between show tunes and chart hits, and produced by Adam Anders and Peer Åström. Songs covered in the show were released through the iTunes Store during the week of broadcast, the music of Glee has been a commercial success, with over thirty-six million digital single sales and eleven million album sales worldwide through October 2011. The series merchandise also includes DVD and Blu-ray releases, an iPad application, during its first season, Glee received generally favorable reviews from critics, with Metacritics weighted average of 77 out of 100 based on eighteen critical reviews. The show was chosen by Fox to fill the coveted time slot that followed the networks coverage of Super Bowl XLV in 2011. After 121 episodes and over 728 music performances, Glee came to an end on March 20,2015, the series focuses on a high school show choir, also known as a glee club, in the fictional William McKinley High School in Lima, Ohio. Will Schuester takes over the club after the former teacher Sandy Ryerson is fired for inappropriate contact with a male student. The seasons stories revolve around the same Glee club members as first season, with Santana Lopez and Brittany Pierce added to the main cast, Season 3 follows the club through wins at Sectionals and Regionals competitions, before they win the Nationals competition in Chicago. The characters deal with identity, adoption, domestic abuse, teenage suicide, bullying, disabilities, texting while driving, college. The McKinley High class of 2012 graduates at the end of the season, in the meantime, Rachel Berry and Kurt Hummel navigate NYADA and their lives as aspiring performers, plus their relationships with Finn and Blaine. Issues during the season include sex, bulimia, gender identity, child molestation, dyslexia, school violence, former main cast members Emma Pillsbury and Quinn Fabray were credited as guest stars, while previously recurring glee club member Sam Evans was promoted to the main cast. Season 5, unlike previous seasons, continues the school begun in the previous season. The show then jumps several months forward in time and deals entirely with the lives in New York City for the remainder of the season. Throughout this season, the club and its alumni deal with relationships, death and mourning, body image, gay bashing, intimacy, and other social issues. Several main cast members dropped to recurring guest stars as of season, Amber Riley as Mercedes, Mark Salling as Puck, Harry Shum Jr. as Mike
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Matthew Morrison was cast after Murphy spent three months observing actors on Broadway.
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A promotional balloon for Glee in New York City.
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Brooklyn
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Brooklyn is the most populous borough of New York City, with a Census-estimated 2,636,735 residents in 2015. It borders the borough of Queens at the end of Long Island. Today, if New York City dissolved, Brooklyn would rank as the third-most populous city in the U. S. behind Los Angeles, the borough continues, however, to maintain a distinct culture. Many Brooklyn neighborhoods are ethnic enclaves, Brooklyns official motto, displayed on the Borough seal and flag, is Eendraght Maeckt Maght which translates from early modern Dutch as Unity makes strength. Since 2010, Brooklyn has evolved into a hub of entrepreneurship and high technology startup firms. The history of European settlement in Brooklyn spans more than 350 years, the neighborhood of Marine Park was home to North Americas first tidal mill. It was built by the Dutch, and the foundation can be seen today, however, the area was not formally settled as a town. Many incidents and documents relating to this period are in Gabriel Furmans early compilation, what is today Brooklyn left Dutch hands after the final English conquest of New Netherland in 1664, a prelude to the Second Anglo–Dutch War. The English reorganized the six old Dutch towns on southwestern Long Island as Kings County on November 1,1683 and this tract of land was recognized as a political entity for the first time, and the municipal groundwork was laid for a later expansive idea of Brooklyn identity. On August 27,1776 was fought the Battle of Long Island, the first major engagement fought in the American Revolutionary War after independence was declared, and the largest of the entire conflict. British troops forced Continental Army troops under George Washington off the heights near the sites of Green-Wood Cemetery, Prospect Park. The fortified American positions at Brooklyn Heights consequently became untenable and were evacuated a few days later, One result of the Treaty of Paris in 1783 was the evacuation of the British from New York City, celebrated by residents into the 20th century. The New York Navy Yard operated in Wallabout Bay for the entire 19th century, the first center of urbanization sprang up in the Town of Brooklyn, directly across from Lower Manhattan, which saw the incorporation of the Village of Brooklyn in 1817. Reliable steam ferry service across the East River to Fulton Landing converted Brooklyn Heights into a town for Wall Street. Ferry Road to Jamaica Pass became Fulton Street to East New York, Town and Village were combined to form the first, kernel incarnation of the City of Brooklyn in 1834. Industrial deconcentration in mid-century was bringing shipbuilding and other manufacturing to the part of the county. Each of the two cities and six towns in Kings County remained independent municipalities, and purposely created non-aligning street grids with different naming systems and it later became the most popular and highest circulation afternoon paper in America. The publisher changed to L. Van Anden on April 19,1842, on May 14,1849 the name was shortened to The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, on September 5,1938 it was further shortened to Brooklyn Eagle
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Clockwise from top left:
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Currier and Ives print of Brooklyn, 1886.
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Kohen
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Kohen or cohen is the Hebrew word for priest used colloquially in reference to the Aaronic priesthood. Jewish kohanim are traditionally believed and halakhically required to be of direct descent from the biblical Aaron. The term is used colloquially in Orthodox Judaism in reference to modern day descendants of Aharon, during the existence of the Temple in Jerusalem, kohanim performed the daily and holiday duties of sacrificial offerings. Today, kohanim retain a lesser though distinct status within Rabbinic and Karaite Judaism, in the Samaritan community, the kohanim have remained the primary religious leaders. The noun kohen is used in the Torah to refer to priests, the Hebrew noun kohen is most often translated as priest, whether Jewish or pagan, such as the priests of Baal or Dagon, though Christian priests are referred to in Hebrew by the term komer. The word derives from a Semitic root common, at minimum, to the Central Semitic languages, as a starkly different translation the title worker, Rashi on Exodus 29,30 and servant Targum to Jeremiah 48,7, have been offered as a translation as well. Some have attempted to resolve this contradiction by suggesting that, although the priest does enjoy specific privileges. The status of priest kohen was conferred on Aaron, the brother of Moses, during the 40 years of wandering in the wilderness and until the Holy Temple was built in Jerusalem, the priests performed their priestly service in the portable Tabernacle. Their duties involved offering the daily and Jewish holiday sacrifices, and blessing the people in a Priestly Blessing, in a broader sense, since Aaron was a descendant of the Tribe of Levi, priests are sometimes included in the term Levites, by direct patrilineal descent. However, not all Levites are priests, when the Temple existed, most sacrifices and offerings could only be conducted by priests. The Torah mentions Melchizedek king of Salem, identified by Rashi as being Shem the son of Noah, the second is Potiphera, priest of Heliopolis, then Jethro, priest of Midian both pagan priests of their era. When Esau sold the birthright of the first born to Jacob, Rashi explains that the priesthood was sold along with it, because by right the priesthood belongs to the first-born. Only when the first-born sinned in the incident of the calf, the priesthood was given to the Tribe of Levi. Aaron received the priesthood along with his children and any descendants that would be born subsequently, however, his grandson Phinehas had already been born, and did not receive the priesthood until he killed the prince of the Tribe of Simeon and the princess of the Midianites. Thereafter, the priesthood has remained with the descendants of Aaron, in every generation when the Temple was standing, one kohen would be singled out to perform the functions of the High Priest. His primary task was the Day of Atonement service, another unique task of the high priest was the offering of a daily meal sacrifice, he also held the prerogative to supersede any priest and offer any offering he chose. Although the Torah retains a procedure to select a High Priest when needed, in the absence of the Temple in Jerusalem, prior to that time, the priestly courses numbered a mere eight. This newly instated a cycle of courses, or priestly divisions
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A group of kohanim studying the
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Keilim in anticipation of the rebuilding of the
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Large crowds congregate on
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Western Wall to receive the priestly blessing.
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Blessing gesture depicted on the gravestone of rabbi Meschullam Kohn (1739–1819), who was a kohen.
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The Suleiman ben Pinhas al-Cohen family of
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Salem witch trials
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The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. The trials resulted in the executions of twenty people, fourteen of them women, twelve other women had previously been executed in Massachusetts and Connecticut during the 17th century. Despite being generally known as the Salem Witch Trials, the hearings in 1692 were conducted in several towns, Salem Village, Salem Town, Ipswich. The most infamous trials were conducted by the Court of Oyer and Terminer in 1692 in Salem Town, the episode is one of Colonial Americas most notorious cases of mass hysteria. It has been used in political rhetoric and popular literature as a cautionary tale about the dangers of isolationism, religious extremism, false accusations. It was not unique, but a Colonial American example of the broader phenomenon of witch trials in the early modern period. Many historians consider the effects of the trials to have been highly influential in subsequent United States history. According to historian George Lincoln Burr, the Salem witchcraft was the rock on which the theocracy shattered, at the 300th anniversary events in 1992 to commemorate the victims of the trials, a park was dedicated in Salem and a memorial in Danvers. In November 2001, the Massachusetts legislature passed an act exonerating all of those convicted and listing them by name, in January 2016, the University of Virginia announced its Gallows Hill Project team had determined the execution site in Salem, where the nineteen witches had been hanged. The city owns the site and is planning a memorial to the victims, in Against Modern Sadducism, Joseph Glanvill claimed that he could prove the existence of witches and ghosts of the supernatural realm. Glanvill wrote about the denial of the resurrection, and the spirits. In his treatise, Glanvill claimed that men should believe in witches and apparitions, if they doubted the reality of spirits, they not only denied demons. Glanvill wanted to prove that the supernatural could not be denied, works by men such as Glanvill and Cotton Mather tried to prove that demons were alive. The earliest recorded execution was that of Alse Young in 1647 in Hartford. Historian Clarence F. Jewett included a list of people executed in New England in The Memorial History of Boston, Including Suffolk County. New England had been settled by religious refugees seeking to build a pure and they lived closely with the sense of the supernatural. The original 1629 Royal Charter of the Massachusetts Bay Colony was vacated in 1684, Andros was ousted in 1689 after the Glorious Revolution in England replaced the Catholic James II with the Protestant co-rulers William and Mary. At the same time tensions erupted between English colonists settling in the Eastward and French-supported Wabanaki Indians of that territory in what came to be known as King Williams War
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The central figure in this 1876 illustration of the courtroom is usually identified as
Mary Walcott.
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Governor Sir
William Phips (1651–1695)
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A map of
Salem Village, 1692
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Reverend
Cotton Mather (1663–1728)
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Cincinnati
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Cincinnati is a city in the U. S. state of Ohio that serves as county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located on the side of the confluence of the Licking with the Ohio River. With a population of 298,550, Cincinnati is the third-largest city in Ohio and its metropolitan statistical area is the 28th-largest in the United States and the largest centered in Ohio. The city is part of the larger Cincinnati–Middletown–Wilmington combined statistical area. In the 19th century, Cincinnati was an American boomtown in the heart of the country, it rivaled the larger cities in size. Throughout much of the 19th century, it was listed among the top 10 U. S and it was by far the largest city in the west. By the end of the 19th century, with the shift from steamboats to railroads drawing off freight shipping, trade patterns had altered and Cincinnatis growth slowed considerably. Cincinnati is home to two sports teams, the Cincinnati Reds, the oldest franchise in Major League Baseball. The University of Cincinnati, founded in 1819, is one of the 50 largest in the United States, Cincinnati is known for its historic architecture. In the late 1800s, Cincinnati was commonly referred to as Paris of America, due mainly to such ambitious projects as the Music Hall, Cincinnatian Hotel. The original surveyor, John Filson, named it Losantiville, in 1790, Arthur St. Ethnic Germans were among the early settlers, migrating from Pennsylvania and the backcountry of Virginia and Tennessee. General David Ziegler succeeded General St. Clair in command at Fort Washington, after the conclusion of the Northwest Indian Wars and removal of Native Americans to the west, he was elected as the mayor of Cincinnati in 1802. Cincinnati was incorporated as a city in 1819, exporting pork products and hay, it became a center of pork processing in the region. From 1810 to 1830 its population tripled, from 9,642 to 24,831. Completion of the Miami and Erie Canal in 1827 to Middletown, Ohio further stimulated businesses, the city had a labor shortage until large waves of immigration by Irish and Germans in the late 1840s. The city grew rapidly over the two decades, reaching 115,000 persons by 1850. Construction on the Miami and Erie Canal began on July 21,1825, the first section of the canal was opened for business in 1827. In 1827, the canal connected Cincinnati to nearby Middletown, by 1840, during this period of rapid expansion and prominence, residents of Cincinnati began referring to the city as the Queen City
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Downtown Cincinnati from
Devou Park in
Covington, Kentucky
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Cincinnati in 1812 with a population of 2,000
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Cincinnati in 1841 with the Miami and Erie Canal in the foreground.
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Cincinnati in 1862, a lithograph in
Harper's Weekly.
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Ballet
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Ballet /ˈbæleɪ/ is a type of performance dance that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia. It has since become a widespread, highly technical form of dance with its own based on French terminology. It has been influential and has defined the foundational techniques used in many other dance genres. Becoming a ballet dancer requires years of training, Ballet has been taught in various schools around the world, which have historically incorporated their own cultures to evolve the art. Ballet may also refer to a dance work, which consists of the choreography. A well-known example of this is The Nutcracker, a ballet that was originally choreographed by Marius Petipa. Ballets are choreographed and performed by trained artists, the word came into English usage from the French around 1630. Ballet originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th and 16th centuries before being spread from Italy to France by an Italian aristocrat, Catherine de Medici, in France, ballet developed even further under her aristocratic influence. The dancers in these early court ballets were mostly noble amateurs, Ballets in this period were lengthy and elaborate and often served a political purpose. Ornamented costumes were meant to impress viewers and restricted freedom of movement. The ballets were performed in large chambers with viewers on three sides, French court ballet reached its height under the reign of King Louis XIV. Known as the Sun King, Louis symbolized the brilliance of France, in 1661 Louis founded the Académie Royale de Danse to establish standards and certify dance instructors. In 1672, Louis XIV made Jean-Baptiste Lully the director of the Académie Royale de Musique from which the first professional ballet company, Lully is considered the most important composer of music for ballets de cour and instrumental to the development of the form. Ballet went into decline in France after 1830, though it continued to develop in Denmark, Italy, the arrival in Europe on the eve of First World War of the Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev, revived interest in the ballet and started the modern era. The Russian choreographer Michel Fokine challenged tradition and called for reforms that reinvigorated ballet as an art form, in the 20th century, ballet had a wide influence on other dance genres, and subgenres of ballet have also evolved. In the United States, choreographer George Balanchine developed what is now known as neoclassical ballet, other developments include contemporary ballet and post-structural ballet. Also in the century, ballet took a turn dividing it from classical ballet to the introduction of modern dance. Stylistic variations have emerged and evolved since the Italian Renaissance, early, classical variations are primarily associated with geographic origin
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Classical bell tutus in The Dance Class by
Degas, 1874
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Anna Pavlova in
Giselle, wearing a romantic tutu
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Scene from act 4 of
Swan Lake,
Vienna State Opera, 2004
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Harlequin and
Columbina from the mime theater at
Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Dobbs Ferry, New York
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Dobbs Ferry is a village in Westchester County, New York. The population was 10,875 at the 2010 census, the Village of Dobbs Ferry is located in, and is a part of, the town of Greenburgh. The village ZIP code is 10522, most of the Village falls into the boundaries of the Dobbs Ferry Union Free School District. Dobbs Ferry was ranked seventh in the list of the top 10 places to live in New York State for 2014 according to the national real estate brokerage Movoto. Dobbs Ferry is also the first village in New York State certified as a Climate Smart Community, Dobbs Ferry was named after Jeremiah Dobbs, a descendent of William Dobbs, of Swedish and Dutch ancestry whose family ran a ferry service that traversed the Hudson River at this location. Jeremiah was a fisherman and settled near the part of what is now Dobbs Ferry. He used a style of boat known at that day as a periauger, from this primitive ferry the village took its name. Dobbs Ferry played a role in the American Revolutionary War. The position of the village opposite the northernmost end of The Palisades gave it importance during the war, but on August 14,1781, a communication was received from French Admiral Comte de Grasse in the West Indies, which caused Washington to change his strategy. Washingtons new strategy, adopted and designed in mid-August 1781, at the encampment of the allied armies, the village was originally incorporated in 1873 as Greenburgh, but the name was changed to Dobbs Ferry in 1882. The current local government of Dobbs Ferry is headed by Mayor Hartley S. Connett, the Estherwood and Carriage House, Hyatt-Livingston House, South Presbyterian Church, and United States Post Office are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. As of the census of 2000, there were 10,622 people,3,792 households, the population density was 4,350.0 people per square mile. There were 3,941 housing units at a density of 1,614.0 per square mile. The racial makeup of the village was 80. 70% White,7. 38% African American,0. 08% Native American,7. 56% Asian,0. 09% Pacific Islander,1. 93% from other races, and 2. 26% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 7. 00% of the population, of all households,27. 6% were made up of individuals and 8. 4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.55 and the family size was 3.13. In the village, the population was out with 26. 0% under the age of 18,7. 3% from 18 to 24,27. 4% from 25 to 44,24. 1% from 45 to 64. The median age was 39 years, for every 100 females there were 95.7 males
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Location of Dobbs Ferry, New York
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Dobbs Ferry, New York
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Planned community
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A planned community, or planned city, is any community that was carefully planned from its inception and is typically constructed in a previously undeveloped area. This contrasts with settlements that evolve in an ad hoc fashion. Land use conflicts are less frequent in these communities, the term new town refers to planned communities of the new towns movement in particular, mainly in the United Kingdom. It was also common in the European colonization of the Americas to build according to a plan either on ground or on the ruins of earlier Native American cities. C. in the United States. In Egypt, a new capital city east of Cairo has been proposed, the federal administrative centre of Malaysia, Putrajaya, is also a planned city. Abu Dhabi and some of the recently built cities in the Persian Gulf region are also planned cities, prior to the boom, these were just villages or towns. The city of Gaborone was planned and constructed in the 1960s, in 2012, President Teodoro Obiang decided to move the capital to a new jungle site at Oyala. Konza Technology City is a city that is hoped to become a hub of African science. The capital, Abuja, is a city and was built mainly in the 1980s. Upon completion, the new city which is still under development is anticipating 250,000 residents, centenary City, in the Federal Capital Territory, is another planned smart city under development. The city is designed to become a major tourist attraction to the country, a list of Nigerian cities and neighbourhoods that went through a form of planning are as follows, Abuja, one of the most populous planned cities, and the fastest growing city in the world. Ikeja, the capital of Lagos State Lekki, a new city in Lagos State Lekki Free Zone, a trade zone in the Lekki Orange Island. Victoria Island in Lagos, Lagos State A number of cities were set up during the apartheid-era for a variety of ethnic groups, Planned settlements set up for white inhabitants included Welkom, Sasolburg and Secunda. Additionally the majority of settlements in South Africa were planned in their early stages, some settlements were also set up for non whites such as the former homeland capital of Bhisho. Naypyidaw is the capital of Myanmar, also known as Burma and it is administered as the Naypyidaw Union Territory, as per the 2008 Constitution. On 6 November 2005, the capital of Burma was officially moved to a greenfield 3.2 km west of Pyinmana, and approximately 300 km north of Yangon. The capitals official name was announced on 27 March 2006, Burmese Armed Forces Day, much of the city was still under construction as late as 2012. As of 2009, the population was 925,000, which makes it Burmas third largest city, after Yangon, famous examples are Changan in Tang dynasty and Beijing
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Partizánske in
Slovakia – an example of a typical planned industrial city founded in 1938 together with a shoemaking
factory in which practically all adult inhabitants of the city were employed.
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Brasília at night from
ISS.
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Plan of
Fredericia (Denmark) in 1900- the city founded in 1650.
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A planned community in the
Negev
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Roosevelt Island
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Roosevelt Island is a narrow island in New York Citys East River. It lies between Manhattan Island to its west and the borough of Queens on Long Island to its east, and is part of the borough of Manhattan. Running from the equivalent of East 46th to 85th Streets on Manhattan Island, it is about 2 miles long, with a width of 800 feet. Together with Mill Rock, Roosevelt Island constitutes Manhattans Census Tract 238, which has an area of 0.279 sq mi. It had a population of 11,661 as of the 2010 United States Census, the island was called Minnehanonck by the Lenape and Varkens Eylandt by New Netherlanders, and during the colonial era and later as Blackwells Island. It was known as Welfare Island when it was used principally for hospitals and it was renamed Roosevelt Island in 1971 after Franklin D. Roosevelt. Roosevelt Island is owned by the city, but was leased to the state of New Yorks Urban Development Corporation for 99 years in 1969, most of the residential buildings on Roosevelt Island are rental buildings. There is also a cooperative and a condominium building, One rental building has left New York States Mitchell-Lama Housing Program, though current residents are still protected. Three other buildings are now working toward privatization, including the cooperative, in 1637, Dutch Governor Wouter van Twiller purchased the island, then known as Hog Island, from the Canarsie Indians. Through the 19th century, the island housed several hospitals and a prison, by 1839, the New York City Lunatic Asylum opened, including the Octagon Tower, which still stands but as a residential building, it was renovated and reopened in April 2006. The asylum, which was designed by Alexander Jackson Davis, at one point held 1,700 inmates, in 1852, a workhouse was built on the island to hold petty violators in 220 cells. In 1861, prisoners completed construction of Renwicks City Hospital, which served both prisoners and New York Citys poorer population, seventeen years later, in 1889, the Chapel of the Good Shepherd, designed by Frederick Clarke Withers, opened. By 1895, inmates from the Asylum were being transferred to Wards Island, the Asylum was renamed Metropolitan Hospital. However, the last convicts were not moved off the island until 1935, the 20th century was a time of change for the island. The Queensboro Bridge started construction in 1900 and opened in 1909, it passed over the island, in 1921, Blackwells Island was renamed Welfare Island after the City Hospital on the island. In 1930, an elevator to transport cars and passengers on Queensboro Bridge started to allow vehicular. In 1939, Goldwater Memorial Hospital, a care facility, opened. As late as August 1973, though, another passenger elevator ran from the Queens end of the bridge to the island, more changes came in the latter half of the century
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Main Street on Roosevelt Island
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The 1889
Chapel of the Good Shepherd in modern surroundings
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Roosevelt Island, in the East River (center, running from left to right), in 1981, with Manhattan behind and Queens in front.
New Jersey is in the background.
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The Octagon interior, mid 20th century
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