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Academy Awards
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The various category winners are awarded a copy of a golden statuette, officially called the Academy Award of Merit, which has become commonly known by its nickname Oscar. The awards, first presented in 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, are overseen by AMPAS, the awards ceremony was first broadcast on radio in 1930 and televised for the first time in 1953. It is now live in more than 200 countries and can be streamed live online. The Academy Awards ceremony is the oldest worldwide entertainment awards ceremony and its equivalents – the Emmy Awards for television, the Tony Awards for theater, and the Grammy Awards for music and recording – are modeled after the Academy Awards. The 89th Academy Awards ceremony, honoring the best films of 2016, were held on February 26,2017, at the Dolby Theatre, in Los Angeles, the ceremony was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and was broadcast on ABC. A total of 3,048 Oscars have been awarded from the inception of the award through the 88th, the first Academy Awards presentation was held on May 16,1929, at a private dinner function at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel with an audience of about 270 people. The post-awards party was held at the Mayfair Hotel, the cost of guest tickets for that nights ceremony was $5. Fifteen statuettes were awarded, honoring artists, directors and other participants in the industry of the time. The ceremony ran for 15 minutes, winners were announced to media three months earlier, however, that was changed for the second ceremony in 1930. Since then, for the rest of the first decade, the results were given to newspapers for publication at 11,00 pm on the night of the awards. The first Best Actor awarded was Emil Jannings, for his performances in The Last Command and he had to return to Europe before the ceremony, so the Academy agreed to give him the prize earlier, this made him the first Academy Award winner in history. With the fourth ceremony, however, the system changed, for the first six ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned two calendar years. At the 29th ceremony, held on March 27,1957, until then, foreign-language films had been honored with the Special Achievement Award. The 74th Academy Awards, held in 2002, presented the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, since 1973, all Academy Awards ceremonies always end with the Academy Award for Best Picture. The Academy also awards Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, see also § Awards of Merit categories The best known award is the Academy Award of Merit, more popularly known as the Oscar statuette. The five spokes represent the branches of the Academy, Actors, Writers, Directors, Producers. The model for the statuette is said to be Mexican actor Emilio El Indio Fernández, sculptor George Stanley sculpted Cedric Gibbons design. The statuettes presented at the ceremonies were gold-plated solid bronze
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Courtney Love
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Courtney Michelle Love is an American singer, actress, writer, and visual artist. Prolific in the punk and grunge scenes of the 1990s, Love has enjoyed a career that spans four decades and she rose to prominence as the frontwoman of the alternative rock band Hole, which she formed in 1989. Love has drawn attention for her uninhibited live performances and confrontational lyrics. The daughter of Hank Harrison and psychotherapist Linda Carroll, Love had an itinerant early life and she spent her formative years in San Francisco and Portland, Oregon, where she was in a series of short-lived bands before being cast in two films by British director Alex Cox. After forming Hole in 1989, she received attention from underground rock press for the groups debut album. Holes second release, Live Through This, gave her high-profile renown with critical accolades, in 1995, Love returned to acting, earning a Golden Globe Award nomination for her performance as Althea Leasure in Miloš Formans The People vs. Larry Flynt, which established her as a mainstream actress, the following year, she saw further mainstream success with the release of Holes third album, Celebrity Skin, which was nominated for multiple Grammy Awards. Love continued to work as an actress into the early 2000s, appearing in pictures such as Man on the Moon and Trapped, before releasing her first solo album, Americas Sweetheart. That project became Nobodys Daughter, which was released in 2010 as a Hole album, between 2014 and 2015, she released two solo singles and returned to acting in the network series Sons of Anarchy and Empire. Love has also had endeavors in writing, co-creating and co-authoring three volumes of a manga, Princess Ai, between 2004 and 2006, as well as a memoir, Dirty Blonde, The Diaries of Courtney Love. In 2012, she premiered an exhibit of mixed media visual art titled And Shes Not Even Pretty. Love was born Courtney Michelle Harrison on July 9,1964 in San Francisco, California, the daughter of Linda Carroll and Hank Harrison, Loves godfather is the founding Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh. Her mother, who was adopted as a child, was revealed to be the biological daughter of novelist Paula Fox. Loves great-grandmother was screenwriter Elsie Fox, Love is of Cuban, English, German, Irish, and Welsh descent. Loves mother, who was studying to be a psychologist, had her in therapy by the age of two. In 1970, her mother moved the family to the community of Marcola, Oregon. She described her parents household as being full of hairy, wangly-ass hippies running around naked Gestalt therapy and my mom was also adamant about a gender-free household, no dresses, no patent leather shoes, no canopy beds, nothing. Love attended a Montessori school in Eugene, where she struggled academically and had trouble making friends, at age nine, a psychologist noted that she exhibited signs of autism
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The People vs. Larry Flynt
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Larry Flynt is a 1996 American biographical drama film directed by Miloš Forman and starring Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love, and Edward Norton. It chronicles the rise of pornographic magazine publisher and editor Larry Flynt and his subsequent clash with religious institutions, the film was written by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski. Though not a success, the film was lauded by critics. In 1952, 10-year-old Larry Flynt is selling moonshine in Kentucky, twenty years later, Flynt and his younger brother, Jimmy, run the Hustler Go-Go club in Cincinnati. With profits down, Flynt decides to publish a newsletter for the club, the newsletter soon becomes a full-fledged magazine, but sales are weak. After Hustler publishes nude pictures of former first lady Jackie Kennedy Onassis, Flynt becomes smitten with Althea Leasure, a stripper who works at one of his clubs. With Althea and Jimmys help, Flynt makes a fortune from sales of Hustler, with his success comes enemies - as he finds himself a hated figure of anti-pornography activists. He argues with the activists, saying that murder is illegal, however, he continues, sex is legal, but if you take a picture of that act, you can go to jail. He becomes involved in several prominent court cases, and befriends a young lawyer, in 1975, Flynt loses a smut-peddling court decision in Cincinnati but is released from jail soon afterwards on a technicality. Ruth Carter Stapleton, a Christian activist and sister of President Jimmy Carter, seeks out Flynt, Flynt seems moved and starts letting his newfound religion influence everything in his life, including Hustler content. In 1978, during trial in Georgia, Flynt and Isaacman are both shot by a man with a rifle while they walk outside a courthouse. Isaacman recovers, but Flynt is paralyzed from the waist down, wishing he was dead, Flynt renounces God. Because of the emotional and physical pain, he moves to Beverly Hills and spirals down into depression, during this time, Althea also becomes addicted to painkillers and morphine. In 1983, Flynt undergoes surgery to deaden several nerves in his back damaged by the bullet wounds and he returns to an active role with the publication, which, in his absence, had been run by Althea and Jimmy. Flynt is soon in court again for leaking videos relating to the John DeLorean entrapment case and he later wears an American flag as an adult diaper along with an army helmet, and wears T-shirts with provocative messages such as I Wish I Was Black and Fuck This Court. After spitting water at the judge Flynt is sent to a psychiatric ward, Flynt publishes a satirical parody ad in which Jerry Falwell tells of a sexual encounter with his mother. Falwell sues for libel and emotional distress, Flynt countersues for copyright infringement, because Falwell copied his ad. The case goes to trial in December 1984, but the decision is mixed, as Flynt is found guilty of inflicting emotional distress, by that time, Althea has contracted HIV, which proceeds to AIDS
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Joan Allen
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Joan Allen is an American actress who has worked in theatre, film and television. She won the 1988 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her Broadway debut in Burn This and she is also a three-time Academy Award nominee, receiving Best Supporting Actress nominations for Nixon and The Crucible, and a Best Actress nomination for The Contender. Allen began her career in 1977 with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Her New York stage credits include And a Nightingale Sang and The Heidi Chronicles and she starred in the ABC drama The Family. Allen, the youngest of four children, was born in Rochelle, Illinois, the daughter of Dorothea Marie, a homemaker, and James Jefferson Allen and she has an older brother, David, and two older sisters, Mary and Lynn. Allen attended Rochelle Township High School, and was voted most likely to succeed, Allen began her performing career as a stage actress and on television before making her film debut in the movie, Compromising Positions. She became a member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company ensemble in 1977 when John Malkovich asked her to join, shes been a member ever since. In 1984, she won a Clarence Derwent Award for her portrayal of Hellen Stott in And a Nightingale Sang, in 1989, Allen won a Tony Award for her Broadway debut performance in Burn This. She also starred in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Heidi Chronicles and she received Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress for her roles as Pat Nixon in Nixon and as Elizabeth Proctor, a woman accused of witchcraft, in The Crucible. She was also nominated for Best Actress for her role in The Contender, in which she played a politician who becomes the object of scandal. She had starring roles in the drama The Ice Storm, directed by Ang Lee, in 2001, Allen starred in the mini-series The Mists of Avalon on TNT and earned an Emmy nomination for the role. In 2005, she received positive notices for her leading role in the comedy/drama The Upside of Anger. She played CIA Department Director Pamela Landy in The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum, Allen appeared in Death Race, playing a prison warden. In 2009, Allen starred as Georgia OKeeffe in Lifetime Television’s 2009 biopic chronicling the artist’s life, Allen returned to Broadway in March 2009, when she played the role of Katherine Keenan in Michael Jacobs play Impressionism opposite Jeremy Irons at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. Allen voiced the character Delphine in Bethesda Softworks 2011 video game The Elder Scrolls V and she also lent her voice talents in the Thomas Nelson audio Bible production known as The Word of Promise. In this dramatized audio, Alexander played the character of Deborah, in 2015, Allen signed for the leading role in the ABC drama series, The Family, playing the role of villainous and manipulative mayor and matriarch of her family. In 1990 Allen married actor Peter Friedman and they divorced in 2002 but live close to each other to share time with their daughter, Sadie, born in 1994
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The Crucible (1996 film)
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The Crucible is a 1996 drama film written by Arthur Miller adapting his play of the same title, inspired by the Salem witchcraft trials. Much of the filming took place on Choate Island in Essex, despite the films lacklustre box office performance, Arthur Miller was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and Joan Allen received a nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Ryders performance was also the subject of critical praise, early one morning in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692, some young village girls meet in the woods with a Barbadian slave named Tituba. One of the girls, Abigail Williams, kills a chicken and drinks the blood and they are discovered by Abigails uncle, Reverend Samuel Parris. As the girls run away, Parris daughter Betty falls over unconscious, Parris questions Abigail about the events that took place in the woods, Betty will not awaken, nor will Ruth, the daughter of Thomas and Ann Putnam, who were also dancing. This strikes Mrs. Putnam hard as she had seven children before Ruth who died at childbirth. The Parris household is also visited by Giles Corey, who suspects that the children are just acting out, Abigail still loves Proctor, but Proctor realizes his mistake and leaves her. The Putnams and Reverend Parris believe that Betty and Ruth are demonically possessed, to save herself and the other girls from punishment, Abigail claims that Tituba was working with the devil. After a whipping, Tituba confesses to being a witch, and is saved from being hanged, struck by their new power, the other girls begin naming other women whom they saw with the devil, including Elizabeth Proctor, John Proctors wife. John, determined not to give his former lover her vengeance, insists that his servant, Mary Warren, one of the afflicted girls, although Mary Warren is frightened of Abigail, she eventually agrees. In the court, Francis Nurse gives a list of names of people who vouch for the accused, in response, the judges order that all on the list be arrested and brought in for questioning. Giles Corey insists that when Ruth Putnam accused Rebecca Nurse, Mr. Putnam was heard to tell his daughter that she had won him a gift of land. Corey refuses to name the person who heard this remark, meanwhile, Mary Warren insists she only thought she saw spirits but is later cowed by the other girls into recanting her recantation. Elizabeth Proctor says she is pregnant and will be spared from death until the baby is born, the other girls are called in and asked if they were lying about the witchcraft but cause a commotion, screaming that Mary Warren is putting a spell on them. To demonstrate that Abigail is not innocent, John confesses to having had an affair with her and he claims that Abigail accused Elizabeth in order to get rid of her so that she could marry him. Abigail denies the accusation to protect her reputation, so Elizabeth is called in to see if the accusation is true, however, not knowing that John confessed and wanting to save his reputation, she lies. To save herself from being hanged as a witch, Mary Warren accuses John of witchcraft, when asked if he will return to God, John despairingly yells I say God is dead. And is arrested as a witch, John agrees and writes the confession
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Stockard Channing
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Stockard Channing is an American stage, film and television actress. She is known for playing Betty Rizzo in the film Grease and she won a Daytime Emmy Award in 2004 for her role in Jack. Her film appearances include The Fortune, The Big Bus, The Cheap Detective, Heartburn, Up Close & Personal, Practical Magic and she also played the recurring role of Veronica Loy on the CBS drama The Good Wife. Channing was born in New York City, the daughter of Mary Alice, who came from a large Brooklyn-based Irish Catholic family, and Lester Napier Stockard and her sister is Lesly Stockard Smith, former mayor of Palm Beach, Florida. She grew up on the Upper East Side, Channing is an alumna of The Madeira School, a Virginia boarding school for girls, which she attended after starting out at The Chapin School in New York City. She studied History and Literature at Radcliffe College and graduated in 1965, Channing started her acting career with the experimental Theatre Company of Boston, she performed in the groups Off-Broadway 1969 production of the Elaine May play Adaptation/Next. She performed in a revival of Arsenic and Old Lace directed by Theodore Mann as part of the Circle in the Square at Fords Theatre program in 1970, in 1971, she made her Broadway debut in Two Gentlemen of Verona — The Musical, working with playwright John Guare. She landed her first leading role in the 1973 television movie The Girl Most Likely to, a black comedy written by Joan Rivers about an ugly duckling woman made newly beautiful by plastic surgery after an auto accident vows murderous revenge on all who had scorned her. She had her cheeks puffed out with cotton and her nose was wadded, too, to make it thick, very thick eyebrows were drawn on her face and she wore padded clothes to make her look fat. Making her look beautiful was easy, the TV movie has gone on to enjoy cult status, becoming available on DVD in 2005. After a few parts in feature films, Channing co-starred with Warren Beatty. On May 22,1977, Stockard along with Ned Beatty starred in the pilot for the short-lived TV series Lucan, Lucan, played by Kevin Brophy, was a 20-year-old who spent the first 10 years of his life running wild in the forest. After being raised by wolves, Lucan strikes out on his own in search of his identity, in 1977, at the age of 33, Channing took on the role of high school teenager Betty Rizzo in the hit musical Grease. The film was released in 1978 and her performance earned her the Peoples Choice Award for Favorite Motion Picture Supporting Actress, Channing starred in two short-lived sitcoms on CBS in 1979 and 1980, Stockard Channing in Just Friends and The Stockard Channing Show. In both shows, she co-starred with actress Sydney Goldsmith, who played her best friend in both, when her Hollywood career faltered after these failures, Channing returned to her theatre roots. Channing then took the part of the mother in the 1981 Long Wharf Theater production of Peter Nichols A Day in the Death of Joe Egg. She reprised the role in the Roundabout Theater Company production, first Off-Broadway in January 1985 and then on Broadway in March 1985, Channing continued her return to the stage by teaming up again with playwright John Guare. She received Tony Award nominations for her performances in his plays, The House of Blue Leaves and Six Degrees of Separation, the Alan Ayckbourn play Woman in Mind received its American premiere Off-Broadway in February 1988 at the Manhattan Theatre Club
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Moll Flanders (1996 film)
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Moll Flanders is a 1996 film starring Robin Wright and Morgan Freeman. The film was directed by Pen Densham, the original music score was composed by Mark Mancina. The film is based on the novel of the name by Daniel Defoe. The daughter of a thief, young Moll is placed in the care of a nunnery after the execution of her mother, however, the actions of an abusive priest lead Moll to rebel as a teenager, escaping to the dangerous streets of London. Further misfortunes drive her to accept a job as a prostitute from the conniving Mrs. Allworthy and it is there that Moll first meets Hibble, who is working as Allworthys servant but takes a special interest in the young womans well-being. With his help, she retains hope for the future, ultimately falling in love with an unconventional artist who promises the possibility of romantic happiness, a problem many critics had was with the movie largely throwing out the original Defoe story and structuring it like Forrest Gump. Roger Ebert gave the three stars and said of the film its an original, Densham took only the name, the period, and a few notions from Defoe. The film was released in 1996, but still uses a 1995 copyright notice in the closing credits, Moll Flanders at the Internet Movie Database Moll Flanders at AllMovie
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Miranda Richardson
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Miranda Jane Richardson is an English stage, film and television actress. She made her film debut playing Ruth Ellis in Dance with a Stranger in 1985 and went on to receive Academy Award nominations for Damage, for Damage, she won the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress. She has also won Golden Globe Awards for Enchanted April and the TV film Fatherland, Richardson began her career on stage and made her West End debut in the 1980 play Moving. She received a Best Actress Olivier Award nomination for the 1987 Royal Court production of A Lie of the Mind. On television, she has starred in Blackadder, A Dance to the Music of Time, Merlin, The Lost Prince, and the sitcom The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle. Her other films include Empire of the Sun, The Crying Game, The Apostle, Sleepy Hollow, Snow White, The Fairest of Them All, Spider, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, and Made in Dagenham. Richardson was born in Southport, to Marian Georgina, a housewife, and William Alan Richardson, a marketing executive and her London stage debut was in Moving at the Queens Theatre in 1981. She returned to the London stage in May 2009 to play the role in Wallace Shawns new play. Richardson has said that she prefers new work rather than the classics because of the history which goes with them. In 1985, Richardson made her debut as Ruth Ellis. Around the same time, Richardson played a comedic Queen Elizabeth I, aka Queenie, following Dance with a Stranger, Richardson turned down numerous parts in which her character was unstable or disreputable, including the Glenn Close role in Fatal Attraction. In this period, she appeared in Empire of the Sun, in an episode of the TV series The Storyteller, she played a witch. Meanwhile, she had returned in guest roles in one each in Blackadder the Third. She returned to play Queenie in the Christmas special Blackadders Christmas Carol and, later and her portrayal of a troubled theatre goer in Secret Friends was described as a miniature tour de force. Miranda Richardsons finest hour, all in ten minutes, Richardson has appeared in a number of high-profile supporting roles in film, including Vanessa Bell in The Hours, Lady Van Tassel in Sleepy Hollow and Patsy Carpenter in The Evening Star. She also won acclaim for her performances in The Crying Game and Enchanted April and she received Academy Award nominations for her performances in Damage and Tom & Viv. Her film credits also include Kansas City, The Apostle and Wah-Wah, in 2002, she performed a triple-role in the thriller Spider. Richardson also appeared as Queen Rosalind of Denmark in The Prince and Me, in 2005, she appeared in the role of Rita Skeeter, the toxic Daily Prophet journalist in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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The Evening Star
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The script is by Larry McMurtry, based on his novel, and Robert Harling, who also served as director. The story takes place fifteen years after the original, following the characters from 1988 to 1993. It focuses on Auroras relationship with her three grandchildren, her late daughter Emmas best friend Patsy and her longtime housekeeper Rosie. Along the way Aurora enters into a relationship with a man, while watching the world around her change as old friends pass on. Miranda Richardson co-stars as a Houston divorcee and Auroras rival, Patsy Carpenter, juliette Lewis plays Auroras rebellious granddaughter, Melanie Horton, with Marion Ross as Auroras housekeeper and Bill Paxton as Auroras psychiatrist and lover. The movie was Ben Johnsons last, in a career spanned over 60 years. The film is dedicated to him, jack Nicholson returns in an extended cameo appearance, playing the role he played in Terms of Endearment, retired astronaut Garrett Breedlove. Years have passed since the death of her daughter, Emma, younger grandson Teddy now has a girlfriend and a son. Melanie, is all but grown and still living with Aurora at home, Auroras only true companion is housekeeper Rosie, particularly now that a man shes been spending time with, the General, is a friend, not a romance. Her late daughters old friend, Patsy, still has a home in Houston and thinks of herself as Auroras friend now, dispensing advice to Melanie, Rosie is being courted by an elderly gentleman named Arthur, who has bought astronaut Garrett Breedloves former house next door. On seeing how lonely Aurora obviously is, Rosie tricks her into seeing a counselor, Jerry. Thoroughly unprofessional in almost every way, Jerry jumps into a situation with Aurora himself. However, he has a motive, which she soon learns. Aurora is cheered up only by a visit from Garrett. Needing a cause, Aurora decides to charge after Melanie moves to California to try to become an actress. She is peeved to discover that Patsy has exactly the same idea, Melanie succeeds in landing a role on a television show. Aurora comes home to a new problem, however, when it turns out that Rosie is critically ill and she is left once more facing the prospect of being alone. Roger Ebert, in his Chicago Sun-Times review of Dec.27,1996, described The Evening Star as a completely unconvincing sequel, the Evening Star at the Internet Movie Database The Evening Star at AllMovie The Evening Star at Box Office Mojo The Evening Star at Rotten Tomatoes
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Kate Winslet
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Kate Elizabeth Winslet, CBE, is an English actress and singer. Winslet is the recipient of an Academy Award, an AACTA Award, three BAFTA Awards, a BIFA Award, four Golden Globe Awards, a Grammy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. She is the youngest person to receive six Academy Award nominations, with seven nominations in total, in addition, she has won awards from the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts and European Film Academy, among others, and the Honorary César Award in 2012. Brought up in Berkshire, Winslet studied drama from childhood and began her career in British television in 1991 and she made her film debut in Heavenly Creatures, for which she received praise. She garnered recognition for her role in Sense and Sensibility before achieving global stardom with the epic romance Titanic. Winslets performances in Iris, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Finding Neverland, Little Children, Revolutionary Road, The Dressmaker, in 2008, film critic David Edelstein described her as the best English-speaking film actress of her generation. Winslets greatest commercial successes since Titanic include the romantic comedy The Holiday, the animated film Flushed Away, in addition to acting, Winslet has narrated documentaries and childrens books. She was awarded the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children in 2000 for narrating Listen to the Storyteller and she has also provided her vocals to soundtracks of her films, including the single What If from Christmas Carol, The Movie. Divorced from two directors, Jim Threapleton and Sam Mendes, Winslet is currently married to businessman Ned Rocknroll. Kate Elizabeth Winslet was born in Reading, Berkshire, England to Sally Anne, a barmaid, and Roger John Winslet and she has two sisters, Beth and Anna, and one brother, Joss Winslet. Winslet began studying drama at the age of 11 at the Redroofs Theatre School, a independent school in Maidenhead, Berkshire. At the age of 12, Winslet appeared in an advertisement directed by filmmaker Tim Pope for Sugar Puffs cereal. Pope said her naturalism was there from the start, Winslet made her television debut with a co-starring role in the BBC childrens science fiction serial Dark Season. This role was followed by appearances in the made-for-TV film Anglo-Saxon Attitudes in 1992, the sitcom Get Back, in 1992, Winslet attended a casting call for Peter Jacksons Heavenly Creatures in London. Winslet auditioned for the role of Juliet Hulme, a teenager who assists in the murder of the mother of her best friend, Pauline Parker. The film included Winslets singing debut, and her a version of Sono Andati. The film was released to reviews in 1994 and won Jackson. Winslet was awarded the Empire Award and London Film Critics Circle Award for British Actress of the Year for her performance, the Washington Post writer Desson Thomson commented, As Juliet, Winslet is a bright-eyed ball of fire, lighting up every scene she’s in
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Hamlet (1996 film)
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Hamlet is a 1996 Shakespearean tragedy film adaptation of William Shakespeares play Hamlet, adapted for the screen and directed by Kenneth Branagh, who also stars in the titular role as Prince Hamlet. Other notable appearances include Robin Williams, Gérard Depardieu, Jack Lemmon, Billy Crystal, Rufus Sewell, Charlton Heston, Richard Attenborough, Judi Dench, John Gielgud, the film is notable as the first unabridged theatrical film version of the play, running just over four hours. The longest screen version of the prior to the 1996 film was the 1980 BBC made-for-television version starring Jacobi as the title character. The plays setting is updated to the 19th century, but its Elizabethan English remains the same, Blenheim Palace is the setting used for the exterior grounds of Elsinore Castle and interiors were all photographed at Shepperton Studios, blended with the footage shot at Blenheim. Hamlet was also the last major motion picture to be filmed entirely on 70 mm film until 2012. Hamlet was highly acclaimed by the majority of critics and has been regarded as one of the best Shakespeare film adaptations ever made, however, it was not a box office success, grossing just under $5 million on a budget of $18 million. The film received four Academy Award nominations for the 69th Academy Awards for Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Original Score, the film follows the plot of the original play. Kenneth Branagh as Prince Hamlet, the storys protagonist and Prince of Denmark and he is the son of the late King Hamlet and heir to the throne of Denmark. At first, Hamlet is mournful of his fathers death and dissatisfied with his mothers remarriage to Claudius. However, Hamlet is later told by the ghost of his father King Hamlet that Claudius murdered him, upon knowing this crime, Hamlet is sworn to avenge his fathers murder. Branaghs interpretation of the role, by his own admission, was considerably less neurotic than others. During the scenes in which Hamlet pretends to be insane, Branagh portrayed the Prince as manic, derek Jacobi as King Claudius, the storys antagonist and brother of the late king. He murdered his brother Hamlet by pouring poison into his ear while he slept and he then quickly usurps his brothers title and quickly marries his widow. At first, believing Hamlet to be mad by the loss of his father and rejection from Ophelia, when Claudius later learns Hamlet knows of the murder, he tries to use Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two of Hamlets schoolmates, to have his nephew murdered. Although Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are more willing to serve Claudius. Richard Briers as Polonius, the Lord Chamberlain, an impertinent busy-body, Polonius believes Hamlet to be mad and convinces Claudius to join him in spying on the prince. He is eventually murdered while eavesdropping by Hamlet, who mistakes him for Claudius, kate Winslet as Ophelia, noblewoman of Denmark and daughter of Polonius. Ophelia was the romantic interest of Hamlet, until advised by her father Polonius and she is eventually driven mad by both Hamlets rejection and her fathers murder and drowns herself
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Julianne Moore
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Julianne Moore is an American actress, prolific in films since the early 1990s. She is particularly known for her portrayals of emotionally troubled women in independent and Hollywood films, and has received many accolades, including the 2014 Academy Award for Best Actress. After studying theatre at Boston University, Moore began her career with a series of television roles, from 1985 to 1988, she was a regular in the soap opera As the World Turns, earning a Daytime Emmy for her performance. Her film debut was in Tales from the Darkside, The Movie, Moore first received critical attention with Robert Altmans Short Cuts, and successive performances in Vanya on 42nd Street and Safe continued this acclaim. Starring roles in the blockbusters Nine Months and The Lost World, Moore received considerable recognition in the late 1990s and early 2000s, earning Oscar nominations for Boogie Nights, The End of the Affair, Far from Heaven and The Hours. In the first of these she played a 1970s pornographic actress, in addition to acting, Moore has written a series of childrens books about a character named Freckleface Strawberry. She is married to director Bart Freundlich, with whom she has two children, Moore was born Julie Anne Smith on December 3,1960, at the Fort Bragg army installation in North Carolina. Her father, Peter Moore Smith, was a paratrooper in the United States Army during the Vietnam War and her mother, Anne, was a psychologist and social worker from Greenock, Scotland, who emigrated to the United States in 1951 with her family. Moore has a sister, Valerie, and a younger brother. She considers herself half Scottish and claimed British citizenship in 2011 to honor her deceased mother, Moore frequently moved around the United States as a child, due to her fathers occupation. She was close to her family as a result, but has said she never had the feeling of coming from one particular place. The family lived in locations, including Alabama, Georgia, Texas, Panama, Nebraska, Alaska, New York, and Virginia. The constant relocating made her a child, and she struggled to establish friendships. Despite these difficulties, Moore later remarked that an itinerant lifestyle was beneficial to her career, When you move around a lot. I would change, depending on where I was and it teaches you to watch, to reinvent, that character can change. When Moore was 16, the moved to Frankfurt, Germany. She was clever and studious, a good girl. She had never considered performing, or even attended the theatre and she appeared in several plays, including Tartuffe and Medea, and with the encouragement of her English teacher she chose to pursue a theatrical career
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Boogie Nights
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Boogie Nights is a 1997 American drama film written, produced and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. The film is an expansion of Andersons mockumentary short film The Dirk Diggler Story and it stars Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds, Don Cheadle, John C. Reilly, William H. Macy and Heather Graham, the film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 11,1997 and was released on October 10,1997, and garnered critical acclaim. It was also nominated for three Academy Awards, including Best Original Screenplay for Anderson, Best Supporting Actress for Moore, the films soundtrack also received acclaim. In 1977, Eddie Adams is a high-school dropout living with his stepfather and emotionally abusive, alcoholic mother in Torrance, after having an argument with his mother about his girlfriend and sex life, Adams moves in with Horner at his San Fernando Valley home. Adams gives himself the screen name Dirk Diggler, and becomes a star because of his looks, youthful charisma. His success allows him to buy a new house, a wardrobe. With friend and fellow porn star Reed Rothchild, Dirk pitches a series of successful action-themed porn films, Dirk works and socializes with others from the porn industry, and they live carefree lifestyles in the late 1970s disco era. Dirk and Reed begin using cocaine, due to Dirks drug use, he finds it increasingly difficult to achieve an erection, falls into violent mood swings and becomes upset with Johnny Doe, a new leading man Jack recruited. In 1983, after having an argument with Jack, Dirk is fired, and he and Reed leave to start a rock and roll career along with Scotty, a boom operator who loves Dirk. One of these projects involves Jack and Rollergirl riding in a limousine, when one man recognizes Rollergirl as a former high-school classmate, he insults her and Jack, who both attack and leave the injured man on the sidewalk as the crew drives away. Leading lady Amber Waves, who took Dirk under her wing when he joined Jacks stable of actors, the court determines she is an unfit mother, due to her involvement in the porn industry, prior criminal record and cocaine addiction. Buck Swope marries fellow porn star Jessie St. Vincent, who becomes pregnant, because of his past, Buck is disqualified from a bank loan and cannot open his own stereo-equipment store. That night, he himself in the middle of a holdup in which the clerk, the robber. Buck escapes with the money that the robber demanded, having squandered their money on drugs, Dirk and Reed cannot pay a recording studio for demonstration tapes they believe will enable them to become music stars. Desperate for money, Dirk resorts to prostitution, but is assaulted and robbed by three men, Dirk, Reed and their friend Todd attempt to scam drug dealer Rahad Jackson, by selling him a half-kilo of baking soda as cocaine. Dirk and Reed decide to leave before Rahads bodyguard inspects it, but Todd fails to steal money from Rahad, Dirk and Amber prepare to start filming again. Boogie Nights is based on a short film that Anderson made while he was still in high school called The Dirk Diggler Story
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Minnie Driver
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Amelia Fiona Minnie Driver is an English actress and singer-songwriter. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Gus van Sants Good Will Hunting, Driver was born in Marylebone, London. Her mother, Gaynor Churchward, is a designer and former couture model. Her parents never married, as her father was married to another throughout his relationship with her mother. Her parents separated when Minnie was six years old and she was sent to Bedales School, Hampshire as a boarder. Ronald Driver moved to Barbados, where Minnie spent her school holidays and she later attended the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, and Collingham College, an independent college in Kensington. Drivers television debut was in a 1991 TV advertisement for Right Guard deodorant, Driver also made her stage debut in 1991, supplementing her income by performing as a jazz vocalist and guitarist. She appeared on British television with comedians Steve Coogan and Armando Iannucci, Driver gained broader public attention when she played the lead role in Circle of Friends in 1995. She followed this with supporting roles in GoldenEye, Sleepers and Grosse Pointe Blank and she played opposite Matt Damon as Skylar in the drama Good Will Hunting, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and a Screen Actors Guild Award. In 1998, Driver starred in Sandra Goldbachers film The Governess and that same year, she co-starred opposite Christian Slater and Morgan Freeman in the action thriller, Hard Rain. Driver has also worked on several animated features, voicing Jane in Disneys 1999 version of Tarzan, in 2003 and 2004, she had a recurring role on Will & Grace as Lorraine Finster, the nemesis of Karen Walker and daughter of Karens lover, Lyle Finster. In March 2007, Driver made her return to television in the FX Network show The Riches and she was nominated for an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award as Best Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 2007 and 2008, respectively. She was scheduled to appear in The Simpsons Movie, although her appearance was cut from the final version, Driver appeared in the January 2010 episode of Modern Family entitled Moon Landing. She also starred in the television series The Deep and appeared in Conviction, in the comedy-drama Barneys Version, winning a Genie Award for Best Supporting Actress. In October 2013, Driver started filming for The Crash, starring alongside Frank Grillo, AnnaSophia Robb, Dianna Agron, John Leguizamo, Ed Westwick, Mary McCormack, Christopher McDonald and Maggie Q. The film is directed by Aram Rappaport and produced by Hilary Shor, Atit Shah, the Crash releases January 13,2017. Driver landed the role in the ABC sitcom Speechless, playing the mother of three children, one of whom has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair. The series debuted in the 2016–17 TV season, Driver began making music during boarding school
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Good Will Hunting
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Good Will Hunting is a 1997 American drama film, directed by Gus Van Sant, and starring Robin Williams, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Minnie Driver and Stellan Skarsgård. Through his therapy sessions, Will re-evaluates his relationships with his best friend, his girlfriend and himself, facing the significant task of confronting his past, the film received positive reviews and was a financial success. It grossed over US$225 million during its run with only a modest $10 million budget. It was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including the Academy Award for Best Picture, after Williams death in 2014, it was ranked at number 53 in The Hollywood Reporters 100 Favorite Films list. When Professor Gerald Lambeau posts a difficult problem as a challenge for his graduate students, Will solves the problem anonymously. As a challenge to the genius, Lambeau posts an even more difficult problem. Will solves the problem, but then flees the scene when Lambeau catches him, at the bar, Will meets Skylar, a British student about to graduate from Harvard, who plans on attending medical school at Stanford. The next day, as Will and his friends fight a gang at the court, police arrive. Lambeau visits his court appearance and notices Wills intellect in defending himself and he arranges for him to forgo jail time if he agrees to study mathematics under Lambeaus supervision and participate in therapy sessions. Will tentatively agrees, but treats his first few therapists with mockery, in desperation, Lambeau calls on Dr. Sean Maguire, his estranged college roommate, who now teaches psychology at Bunker Hill Community College. Unlike other therapists, Sean actually challenges Wills defense mechanisms, and after a few unproductive sessions, Will begins to open up. Will is particularly struck by Seans story of how he met his wife by giving up his ticket to the game six of the 1975 World Series. Sean neither regrets his decision, nor does he regret the final years of his marriage and this encourages Will to build a relationship with Skylar, though he lies to her about his past and is reluctant to introduce her to his friends or show her his rundown neighborhood. Will also challenges Sean to take a look at his own life. Skylar asks Will to move to California with her, but he refuses and tells her he is an orphan, will breaks up with Skylar and later storms out on Lambeau, dismissing the mathematical research he has been doing. Sean points out that Will is so adept at anticipating future failure in his relationships that he deliberately sabotages them in order to avoid emotional pain. Chuckie tells Will that he disapproves of Will laying bricks for a living like the rest of his friends, will walks in on a heated argument between Sean and Lambeau over his potential. Sean and Will share and find out that they were victims of child abuse
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Ashley Judd
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Ashley Judd is an American actress and political activist. She grew up in a family of performing artists as the daughter of country music singer Naomi Judd. While she is best known for an acting career spanning more than two decades, she has increasingly become involved in global humanitarian efforts and political activism. She starred as Rebecca Winstone in the 2012 television series Missing, in 2010, she earned a one-year mid-career masters degree in public administration from Harvards Kennedy School of Government. She is a well known Kentucky Wildcats mens basketball fan, being present at most games, Judd was born in Granada Hills, California. She is the daughter of Naomi Judd, a country singer and motivational speaker, and Michael Charles Ciminella. Ashleys elder sister, Wynonna, is also a country music singer and her paternal grandfather was of Sicilian descent, and her paternal grandmother was a descendant of Mayflower pilgrim William Brewster. At the time of her birth, her mother was unemployed, the following year, her mother took Ashley back to Naomis native Kentucky, where Judd spent the majority of her childhood. She also went to school in Marin County, California as a child, Judd attended 13 schools before college, including the Sayre School, Paul G. Blazer High School and Franklin High School in Tennessee. She briefly tried modeling in Japan during a school break, an alumna of the sorority Kappa Kappa Gamma at the University of Kentucky, she majored in French and minored in anthropology, art history, theater, and womens studies. She spent a semester studying in France as part of her major and she graduated from the UK Honors Program and was nominated to Phi Beta Kappa, but did not graduate with her class. Forgoing her commitment to join the Peace Corps, after college she drove to Hollywood, during this time, she worked as a hostess at The Ivy restaurant and lived in a Malibu rental house, which burned down in 1993. Around that time, her half-sister Wynonna Judd leased her a historic farmhouse and 10 acres of land in Williamson County and she moved to Tennessee and lived near her mother Naomi and sister Wynonna. Judd appeared as Ensign Robin Lefler, a Starfleet officer, in two 1991 episodes of Star Trek, The Next Generation, Darmok and The Game, from 1991 to 1994, she had a recurring role as Reed, the daughter of Alex, on the NBC drama Sisters. She made her film debut with a small role in 1992s Kuffs. In 1993, Judd fought for and was cast in her first starring role playing the character in Victor Nuñezs Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize dramatic winner Ruby in Paradise. On her way to the audition, she was so nervous about getting a role that she defined her life. From the first three sentences, I knew it was written for me, she told the San Jose Mercury News
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Kiss the Girls (1997 film)
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Kiss the Girls is a 1997 American neo noir psychological thriller film directed by Gary Fleder and starring Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd, and Cary Elwes. The screenplay by David Klass is based on the best-selling novel Kiss the Girls by James Patterson, a sequel titled Along Came a Spider was released in 2001. Washington, D. C. detective and forensic psychologist Alex Cross heads to Durham, North Carolina when his niece Naomi and he learns from the local police, including Detective Nick Ruskin, that Naomi is the latest in a series of young women who have vanished. Soon after his arrival, one of the women is found dead, bound to a tree in a desolate forest. When she awakens from a state, Kate discovers that she is being held captive by a masked man calling himself Casanova. She manages to escape and is injured when she jumps from a cliff. After she recuperates, she joins forces with Cross to track down her sadomasochist captor and this means there is time to rescue the other imprisoned women, just as long as they remain subservient. Clues lead them to Los Angeles, where a series of kidnappings and murders have been credited to Dr. William Rudolph. Cross deduces he is working in collusion with rather than imitating his East Coast counterpart, but his efforts to capture and question him are foiled when Rudolph escapes. Upon returning to North Carolina, he traces up the river and alerted by a gunshot discovers the underground hideaway used by, as well as the identity of. Rudolph is revealed to be Casanovas partner, the actual Casanova escapes, while Rudolph is shot by Cross. Cross then rescues the women, including Naomi. After all that has happened, Kate invites Cross to dinner at her house to get away from work, Ruskin drops by Kates house, and sends home the two officers guarding her. While Cross is at getting ready, he discovers that Ruskins signature on the arrest warrants matches that of Casanova. Cross tries calling Kate to inform her that Ruskin is the real Casanova, while conversing with Ruskin, Kate becomes suspicious of his creepy elaborations. Ruskin then drops his Southern accent, revealing his true self to her, after a fight and attempted rape, Kate manages to handcuff him to the oven. Ruskin slashes Kates arm with a kitchen knife, in attempting to free himself, Ruskin pulls the oven away from the wall, breaking open the gas pipe. Ruskin takes out a lighter, which would cause an explosion due to the leaking gas, Cross shows up and tries to talk him down but when this fails, has to shoot Ruskin through a milk carton so the muzzle blast from his pistol does not ignite the gas
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Debbi Morgan
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Deborah Ann Debbi Morgan is an American film and television actress. She is also known for her roles as the Seer in the fourth and fifth seasons of Charmed, in film, she received critical acclaim for her performance as Mozelle Batiste-Delacroix in Eves Bayou. Morgan was born in Dunn, Harnett County, North Carolina, the daughter of Lora, a teacher and she has a younger sister, Terry. She moved to New York City when she was three months old and her father died of leukemia when she was eight, and she was raised by her mother, who worked as a secretary and a typing instructor at Junior High School 80 in the Bronx. Morgans earliest film role was in the movie Cry Uncle. in 1971 and she played the role of Dite. Morgans earliest recurring role was on Whats Happening, from 1976 to 1977 as Diane Harris, and also appeared on Good Times. Her most famous role was Angie Baxter Hubbard on the soap opera All My Children and her portrayal of Angie struck a chord with many Black viewers across America. Angie and her love interest, Jesse Hubbard, became the first African-American supercouple on the daytime serials, in 1989, Morgan won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. She and Williams also co-hosted a music show titled New York Hot Tracks in the mid-1980s. After leaving All My Children, Morgan played the role of Chantal Marshall on the NBC soap opera, Generations and she then reprised her role as Angie Hubbard on ABCs Loving in 1991. In 1995, she brought the character to The City. From 1997 to 1998, she also played Dr. Ellen Burgess on Port Charles, in the 1980s and 1990s, Morgan became a de facto symbol for the possibilities for black women as all of her soap opera roles involved her playing a successful doctor. Morgan garnered much acclaim from critics for her portrayal of clairvoyant Mozelle Batiste Delacroix in director Kasi Lemmons drama film Eves Bayou. For her portrayal, she won a Chicago Film Critics Association Award and an Independent Spirit Award and was nominated for an Image Award. She later left soap operas and began her career with roles in Shes All That, The Hurricane, Love & Basketball, Woman Thou Art Loosed, Coach Carter, Relative Strangers. On television, she had roles in The Practice, Strong Medicine, Boston Public, Providence, from 2002 to 2003, Morgan played lead character Lora Gibson, opposite Lea Thompson, on the Lifetime drama series For the People. She also played the role of the Seer in the fourth and fifth seasons of Charmed, Morgan, returned to All My Children in January 2008, after 10 years after leaving daytime television. In May 2009 and 2011, she was nominated for the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, in 2013, Morgan starred in the internet version of All My Children, reprising her role of Angie Hubbard
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Eve's Bayou
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Eves Bayou is a 1997 American drama film written and directed by Kasi Lemmons, who made her directorial debut with this film. Samuel L. Jackson served as a producer and starred in the film with Lisa Nicole Carson, Jurnee Smollett, Lynn Whitfield and Meagan Good. Eve Batiste, a 10-year-old girl, lives in a prosperous Creole-American community in Louisiana with her younger brother Poe and her older sister Cisely, a pretty girl who is just entering puberty. Their parents are Roz and Louis, a doctor in Louisianas colored community who claims descent from the French aristocrat who founded the town of Eves Bayou. One night after a party, Eve accidentally witnesses her father having sex with Matty Mereaux. However, Cisely, who has an affectionate relationship with her father. The unreliability of memory and observation remain important themes throughout the film, the summer quickly becomes a chaotic and stressful one for the Batiste family. Eves relationship with her parents becomes more strained as she discovers evidence of her fathers serial infidelity. Cisely comes into conflict with both her sister and mother as she enters puberty and tries to navigate the difficult transition to adulthood, particularly with regard to her appearance, Roz eventually begins to suspect her husbands infidelity, prompting conflict between the two as well. During the chaotic summer, Eve often seeks refuge with her Aunt Mozelle who works as a fortune teller, after Eve has a confusing vision of something terrible happening, Mozelle informs her that the gift of second sight runs in their family. Meanwhile, Eve, angered by her fathers infidelity, begins to tease Matty Mereauxs husband Lenny with her knowledge about it, one day Cisely confides in Eve the secret of why shes been so moody. She tells the story that one night, after their parents had an argument, Cisely went to comfort her father and he. Enraged, Eve seeks a local witch, Elzora, to commission a voodoo spell to put a curse on her father. While on her way to visit the witch, Eve runs into Lenny Mereaux, in the conversation, she alludes to a possible tryst between his wife Matty and her father. Eve is under the impression that she is going to receive a doll of her father. When returning to the witch to get her doll, she is informed there is no doll. In an attempt to save him, Eve rushes to bring her father home, at the same time, a drunken Lenny arrives to take Matty home. After a confrontation, Lenny and Matty leave the bar, after Louis says goodbye to Matty, Lenny shoots and kills Louis
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Sigourney Weaver
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Susan Alexandra Sigourney Weaver is an American actress and film producer. Following her film debut as a character in Annie Hall. She reprised the role in three sequels, Aliens, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, Alien 3 and she is also known for her starring roles in the box-office hits Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II, and Avatar. Weaver was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for the 1980 Off-Broadway play Das Lusitania Songspiel and she also received Academy Award nominations for both films. For her role in the 1997 film The Ice Storm, she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, additionally, she has received three Emmy Award nominations and won two Saturn Awards. Weaver acquired the nickname of the Sci-Fi Queen for her numerous contributions to film history. Other popular works she has appeared in include Galaxy Quest, Futurama, WALL-E, Paul, The Cabin in the Woods, Finding Dory and she returned to Broadway in 2013 to star in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Weaver was born in Manhattan, New York City, the daughter of Elizabeth Inglis, an actress, and her uncle, Doodles Weaver, was a comedian and actor. Her mother was English, from Colchester, Essex, and her father, who was American, had English, Scottish, Weaver began using the name Sigourney Weaver in 1963 after a minor character in Chapter 3 of F. Scott Fitzgeralds novel The Great Gatsby. Weaver attended the Ethel Walker School, a preparatory school in Simsbury. She also attended The Chapin School and The Brearley School, Sigourney was reportedly 5 10½ tall by the age of 14, although she only grew another inch during her teens to her adult height of 5 11½. In 1967, at the age of 18, Weaver visited Israel, Weaver later acted in original plays by her friend and classmate Christopher Durang. She later appeared in an Off-Broadway production of Durangs comedy Beyond Therapy in 1981, weavers first role is often said to be in Woody Allens 1977 comedy Annie Hall playing a minor role opposite Allen. She reprised the role in the three sequels of the Alien movie franchise, Aliens, Alien 3 and Alien, Resurrection. Ty Burr of The Boston Globe states, One of the pleasures of Alien is to watch the emergence of both Ellen Ripley as a character and Sigourney Weaver as a star. She followed the success of Alien appearing opposite Mel Gibson in The Year of Living Dangerously released to critical acclaim, by the end of the decade, Weaver appeared in two of her most memorable and critically acclaimed performances. In 1988, she starred as Dian Fossey in Gorillas in the Mist, the same year she appeared opposite Harrison Ford in a supporting role as Katharine Parker in the film Working Girl. Weaver won Golden Globe awards for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress for her two roles that year and she gave birth to her daughter Charlotte Simpson taking a few years break from the movie business and focusing on her family
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The Ice Storm (film)
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The Ice Storm is a 1997 American drama film directed by Ang Lee, based on the 1994 novel of the same name by Rick Moody. The film features an ensemble cast of Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Tobey Maguire, Christina Ricci, Elijah Wood, Katie Holmes, Glenn Fitzgerald, Jamey Sheridan, the film opened in the United States on September 26,1997. Its release was limited and it ultimately grossed US$8 million on a budget of US$18 million, a special two-disc DVD set was released as part of the Criterion Collection on March 18,2008. Set over Thanksgiving weekend,1973, the film centers around two families, the Hoods and their neighbors, the Carvers, Ben, dissatisfied in his marriage and with the futility of his career, is having an affair with Janey. Elena is bored with her life and is looking to expand her thinking but is unsure of how to do so, Wendy enjoys sexual games with her school peers, as well as both Carver boys. Paul has fallen for a classmate, Libbets, at the school he attends. As the party progresses, Ben becomes drunk, when Janey chooses the keys of a handsome young man, Ben attempts to protest but trips and knocks his head on the coffee table, leading Jim to realize that his wife and Ben are having an affair. Ben, in his embarrassment, retreats to the bathroom where he remains for the rest of the evening, the remaining key party participants are paired off and leave together with only Jim and Elena remaining. She retrieves Jims keys from the bowl and returns them to him, after debating the issue, Jim and Elena leave together, engaging in a quick, clumsy sexual encounter in the front seat of Jims car. Jim, regretting the line he and Elena have just crossed, Wendy decides to make her way to the Carvers to see Mikey, but he has decided to go out into the ice storm, so she and Sandy climb into bed together and remove their clothes. They drink from a bottle of vodka and Wendy tries to him, however. Paul is invited to Libbets apartment in Manhattan, though upon arriving, is disappointed to learn that Francis was also invited. The three drink beer and listen to music, Francis and Libbets also take prescription pills found in Libbets mothers medicine cabinet, Paul decides to leave, just narrowly making the train about to leave for New Canaan. Meanwhile, Mikey, out walking in the storm, is enchanted by the beauty of the trees and he slides down an icy hill then sits on a guardrail to rest. A moment later a line, broken by a fallen tree, connects with the guardrail. Jim and Elena become stuck, due to a downed tree, Elena walks in on her daughter in bed with Sandy and orders her to get dressed. Janey had also returned home earlier and curled up on her bed in the position without bothering to take off her party clothes. Although it is not revealed what transpired between Janey and her key partner, she is exhausted and sad
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Kimberly Elise
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Kimberly Elise Trammel, professionally known as Kimberly Elise, is an American film and television actress. She made her film debut in Set It Off. During her career, Elise has appeared in such as John Q. The Manchurian Candidate, Diary of a Mad Black Woman, The Great Debaters, For Colored Girls, Elise also starred in the CBS crime drama series, Close to Home, and in 2013 began starring in the VH1 comedy-drama series, Hit the Floor. Elise was born as Kimberly Elise Trammel in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the daughter of Erma Jean, a school teacher, and Marvin Trammel. She attended The American Film Institute as a Directing Fellow and at the University of Minnesota earned a BA in Mass Communications, elises first film was Set It Off, in which she played one of four women who resort to robbing a bank for money. She received critical acclaim for her role in film, and in 1997. A relative unknown at the time, she conveyed her anonymity upon receiving the award by saying and her performance helped her land a role the next year in Beloved alongside Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover. She is often compared to a young Cicely Tyson, whom she resembles and she made guest appearances on the situation comedy Girlfriends in 2003, in which she played an HIV-positive woman. In 2004, she appeared in Woman Thou Art Loosed portraying Michelle and this role won her a Black Reel award for Best Actress. She also appeared in John Q, The Manchurian Candidate and Diary of a Mad Black Woman, from 2005 to 2007, she was part of the main cast of the CBS crime drama Close to Home, playing the Marion County, Indiana prosecutor Maureen Scofield. Her character was killed off in the last episode of the series, the series was cancelled on May 2007. Her most recent film role was in Tyler Perrys For Colored Girls, while the film itself received mixed to negative reviews, her performance was praised by many critics. One journalist described her as the great lost Best Supporting Actress contender of the 2010 season, since 2013 Kimberly is part of the cast of VH1s new series Hit The Floor. Elise was married to Maurice Oldham from 1989 to 2005, the couple had two daughters, Ajableu Arial Oldham and Butterfly Rose Oldham. Maurice Oldham died from a blood clot in 2007. Elises maternal descent is of the Songhai people, Elise is vegan and has worked with PETA to promote the lifestyle
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Dancing at Lughnasa (film)
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Dancing at Lughnasa is a 1998 Irish-British-American period drama film adapted from the Brian Friel play of the same title, directed by Pat OConnor. The movie competed in the Venice Film Festival of 1998 and it won an Irish Film and Television Award for Best Actor in a Female Role by Brid Brennan. It was also nominated for 6 other awards, including the Irish Film and Television Award for Best Feature Film, everything the viewer need know about Kate Mundy, the woman she plays here, is written on that prim, lonely face and its flabbergasted gaze. Peter Travis of Rolling Stone magazine wrote that a luminous cast reveals long-buried feelings, Meryl Streep finds the expansive soul behind prim schoolteacher Kate. And she is matched by Kathy Burkes bawdy Maggie, Brid Brennans secretive Agnes, Sophie Thompsons slow-witted Rose and Catherine McCormacks bold Christina, darrell Johnston, the youngest of the cast was also nominated for a best young actor in a supporting role. A crowning achievement given this was his first real introduction to a Hollywood screen, Kathy Burke received a nomination for Best Supporting Actress - Drama from the International Press Academy. A display of mementos from the filming is on display at the St. Connells Museum in Glenties
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American History X
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The film was released in the United States on October 30,1998 and was distributed by New Line Cinema. The film tells the story of two brothers from Venice, Los Angeles who become involved in the neo-Nazi movement, the older brother serves three years in prison for voluntary manslaughter, changes his beliefs and tries to prevent his brother from going down the same path. The film is told in the style of nonlinear narrative, made on a budget of $20 million, the film grossed $24 million at the worldwide box office. Critics mostly praised the film and Nortons performance, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, in September 2008, Empire magazine named it the 311th Greatest Movie of All Time. High school student Danny Vinyard receives an assignment from his history teacher Mr. Murray to write a paper on any book which relates to the struggle for human rights, knowing Murray is Jewish, Danny writes his paper on Adolf Hitlers Mein Kampf. A few years prior, Danny and Dereks father Dennis Vinyard was murdered by drug dealers after being sent on a call to fight a fire in a drug den. In a television interview conducted after Denniss death, Derek erupts in a long racist tirade, shortly thereafter, Cameron Alexander and Derek form a white supremacist gang called the D. O. C. As a skilled player, Derek is reluctantly dragged into a 3-on-3 game against several members of the Crips in which the prize is control of the recreation center basketball courts. After winning with his friends, Derek leads a gang of skinheads to attack a supermarket owned by a Korean that included African-American. Dereks mother Doris invites Murray, whom she is dating, home for dinner, Derek is given a job in the prison laundry and assigned to be the partner of Lamont, a black man who is serving six years for the putative assault of a police officer. The pair later develop a rapport from their love of basketball. Derek joins the Aryan Brotherhood, but after about a year, as punishment, he is restrained, beaten, and sodomised in the shower by the Aryan Brotherhood members, Derek recovers and is visited by Sweeney, whom he asks for help to be paroled. Sweeney informs him of Dannys involvement with neo-Nazis, and warns that he is on the path as Derek. Derek further distances himself from the Aryan Brotherhood and spends the remainder of his time in prison alone, finally realizing the error of his ways, Derek leaves prison a changed man. Upon arriving home, he finds that Danny has a D. O. C, tattoo and tries to persuade him to leave the gang. After leaving the party, Derek tells Danny about his experience in prison, the next morning, Danny finishes his paper, which reflects on why he had adopted Nazi values and why they were deeply flawed. Derek gets ready for a meeting with his parole officer, Derek walks Danny to school before his meeting, and on their way they stop at a diner. Sweeney and a police officer tell Derek that his friend Seth Ryan, Derek arrives at the school and mourns for Danny
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Thandie Newton
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Melanie Thandiwe Thandie Newton is an English actress. She also currently portrays DCI Roz Huntley in Series 4 of the BBC One police procedural series Line of Duty, Newton was born in Westminster, London, England, the daughter of Nyasha, a Zimbabwean, and Nick Newton, an English laboratory technician and artist. Her birthplace has been reported to be Zambia in some biographies. The name Thandiwe means beloved in Ndebele, Zulu, Xhosa or siSwati, according to Newton, her mother is a Shona princess. Regarding her childhood, Newton remarked at a TED conference, From about the age of 5, I was aware that I didnt fit, I was the black, atheist kid in the all-white, Catholic school run by nuns. Newton was brought up in London and Penzance, Cornwall and studied dance at the Tring Park School for the Performing Arts, between 1992 and 1995, Newton attended Downing College, Cambridge, where she studied social anthropology. After the film Flirting, Newton played a house slave Yvette in the Brad Pitt/Tom Cruise film Interview with the Vampire. The film also starred Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover, Newton then starred as Nyah Hall, again opposite Cruise, in Mission, Impossible II. Her next role was in the low-budget film It Was an Accident, written by her husband, between 2003 and 2005, Newton played Makemba Kem Likasu, love interest and later wife of Dr. John Carter on the American television series ER. She reprised the role for the finale in 2009. In 2004, she appeared in The Chronicles of Riddick. Newton won a BAFTA award for Best Supporting Actress in 2006 for her role in Crash and she played Chris Gardners wife, Linda Gardner, in The Pursuit of Happyness. Also in 2006, Newton performed on radio in a version of Cinderella. In 2007, Newton co-starred with Eddie Murphy in the comedy Norbit as his love interest, Newton next portrayed U. S. National Security Advisor-turned Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in W. Oliver Stones film biography of President George W. Bush. The film was released 17 October 2008, Newton was an introducer at Wembley Stadium on 7 July 2007, for the UK leg of Live Earth. She was due to introduce Al Gore to the concert, but he was delayed, first Daughter Laura Wilson in 2012, a disaster film directed by Roland Emmerich and released 13 November 2009. In July 2011, Newton delivered a TED Talk on Embracing otherness and she discussed finding her otherness as a child growing up in two distinct cultures, and as an actress playing many different selves. In 2012, she starred alongside Tyler Perry in the drama film Good Deeds
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Lynn Redgrave
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Lynn Redgrave, OBE was an English actress. A member of the Redgrave family, Lynn trained in London before making her debut in 1962. By the mid-1960s, she had appeared in films, including Tom Jones and Georgy Girl which won her a New York Film Critics Award and nominations for an Academy Award. In 1967, she made her Broadway debut and performed in stage productions in New York while making frequent returns to Londons West End. She performed with her sister Vanessa in Three Sisters in London and she made a return to films in the late 1990s in films such as Shine and Gods and Monsters for which she received another Academy Award nomination. Redgrave is the person to have been nominated for all of the Big Four American entertainment awards without winning any of them. Redgrave was born in Marylebone, London, to actors Sir Michael Redgrave and her sister is actress Vanessa Redgrave, her brother was actor and political activist Corin Redgrave. Her grandfather was silent screen leading man Roy Redgrave, after training in Londons Central School of Speech and Drama, Redgrave made her professional debut in a 1962 production of A Midsummer Nights Dream at the Royal Court Theatre. Following a tour of Billy Liar and repertory work in Dundee, she made her West End debut at the Haymarket, hunters The Tulip Tree with Celia Johnson and John Clements. During that time, she appeared in such as Tom Jones, Girl with Green Eyes, The Deadly Affair. For the last of these roles, she gained the New York Film Critics Award, the Golden Globe, in 1967, she made her Broadway debut in Black Comedy with Michael Crawford and Geraldine Page. London appearances included Michael Frayns The Two of Us with Richard Briers at the Garrick, David Hares Slag at the Royal Court, in 1974, she returned to Broadway in My Fat Friend. There soon followed Knock Knock with Charles Durning, Mrs. Warrens Profession with Ruth Gordon, and Saint Joan. In the 1985-86 season, she appeared with Rex Harrison, Claudette Colbert, in 1983, she played Cleopatra in an American television version of Antony and Cleopatra opposite Timothy Dalton. In 1988, she narrated a television documentary, Silent Mouse. In the early winter of 1991, she starred with Stewart Granger, highlights of her early film career also include The National Health, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex*, The Happy Hooker, and Getting It Right. In the United States, she was seen on television series as Teachers Only, House Calls, Centennial. She also starred in BBC productions such as The Faint-Hearted Feminist, A Woman Alone, Death of a Son, Calling the Shots, and Fighting Back
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Gods and Monsters (film)
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Not to be confused with Justice League, Gods and Monsters. Gods and Monsters is a 1998 British-American drama film that recounts the last days of the life of troubled film director James Whale and it stars Ian McKellen as Whale, along with Brendan Fraser, Lynn Redgrave, Lolita Davidovich and David Dukes. The film was directed and written by Bill Condon, based on Christopher Brams novel Father of Frankenstein and it won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, and was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role and Best Actress in a Supporting Role. The film features reconstructions of the filming of Bride of Frankenstein, the title comes from a line in Bride of Frankenstein, in which the character Dr. Pretorius toasts Dr. Frankenstein, To a new world of gods and monsters. The story has also adapted as a play of the same name which premiered in London at the Southwark Playhouse in February 2015. The story opens in the 1950s, after the Korean War, it has more than a decade since James Whale, director of Frankenstein. He lives with his housemaid, Hanna, who loyally cares for him. Whale slips into his past, and indulges in his fantasies, reminiscing about gay pool parties and also sexually teasing an embarrassed, Whale battles depression, at times contemplating suicide, as he realizes his life, his attractiveness, and his health are slipping away. Whale befriends his young, handsome gardener and former Marine, Clayton Boone, the two men bond while discussing their lives and dealing with Whales spells of disorientation and weakness from the strokes. Boone, impressed with Whales fame, watches The Bride of Frankenstein on TV as his friends mock the movie, his friendship with Whale, and Whales intentions. Boone assures Whale that he is straight and receives assurance from Whale that there is no sexual interest, Boone later returns with the agreement that no such locker room discussions occur again. Boone is invited to escort Whale to a party hosted by George Cukor for Princess Margaret, there, a photo op has been arranged for Whale with his Monsters, Boris Karloff and Elsa Lanchester from ancient movie fame. A sudden rain storm becomes an excuse to leave, back at Whales home, Boone needs a dry change of clothes. Whale can only find a sweater, so Boone wears a towel wrapped around his waist, Whale decides to try to sketch Boone one more time. After some minutes, he shows his sketches to Boone, disclosing that he has lost his ability to draw. After Boone drops his towel to pose nude, Whale makes him wear a World War I gas mask and then uses the opportunity to make an advance on Boone. Boone becomes enraged and attacks Whale, who confesses that this had been his plan, Boone refuses, puts Whale to bed, then sleeps downstairs. The next morning, Hanna is alarmed when she cant find Whale, prompting a search by Boone, Boone finds Whale floating dead in the pool, as a distraught Hanna runs out clutching a suicide note
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Boys Don't Cry (film)
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Boys Dont Cry is a 1999 American romantic drama film directed by Kimberly Peirce and co-written by Peirce and Andy Bienen. The film also stars Chloë Sevigny, Peter Sarsgaard, Brendan Sexton III, after reading about the case while in college, Peirce conducted extensive research for a screenplay, which she worked on for almost five years. The script took dialogue directly from footage in the 1998 documentary The Brandon Teena Story. Many actors sought the lead role during a three-year casting process before Swank was cast. Swank was chosen because her personality seemed similar to Teenas, Sevigny initially auditioned for the role of Brandon, but Peirce could not picture her playing a man, so she was ultimately cast as Teenas girlfriend Lana. Most of the characters were based on real-life people, others were composites. Filming occurred during October and November 1998 in the Dallas, Texas area, the producers initially wanted to film in Falls City, Nebraska, where the real-life events had taken place, however, budget constraints meant that principal photography had to occur in Texas. The film premiered at the New York Film Festival on October 8,1999, however, some people who had been involved with Brandon in real life criticized the film for not portraying the events accurately. Boys Dont Cry was nominated for awards, at the 72nd Academy Awards in 2000, Swank was awarded the Academy Award for Best Actress. The pair were also nominated at the 57th Golden Globe Awards, Boys Dont Cry, which dealt with controversial issues, was initially assigned an NC-17 rating but was later reclassified to an R rating. It was released on video in September 2000. Brandon Teena is a trans man whose birth name was Teena Renae Brandon. When Brandon is discovered to be transgender by a former girlfriends brother, soon after, he is involved in a bar fight and is evicted from his cousins trailer. Brandon moves to Falls City, Nebraska, where he befriends ex-convicts John Lotter and Tom Nissen, Brandon becomes romantically involved with Lana, who is initially unaware of his biological sex and troubled past. The two make plans to move to Memphis, where Brandon will manage Lanas karaoke singing career, eventually, during a date night which ends with them having sex, Lana discovers that Brandon is actually biologically female, but continues to be intimate with him. The police detain Brandon on charges that arose prior to his relocation, Lana bails Brandon out and asks why he was placed in a womens prison. Brandon attempts to lie to her, saying he was born a hermaphrodite and will receive a sex change. However, while Brandon is in prison, Candace finds a number of documents listing Brandons birth name, Teena Brandon, Tom and John violently confront Brandon, forcing him to remove his pants and reveal his genitals. They try to make Lana look, but she shields her eyes, after this confrontation, Tom and John drag Brandon into Johns car and drive to an isolated location, where they beat and rape him
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Erykah Badu
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Erica Erykah Abi Wright, better known as Erykah Badu, is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, disc jockey, activist, and actress. Badus career began after opening a show for DAngelo in 1994 in her hometown, record label executive Kedar Massenburg was highly impressed with her performance and her first album, Baduizm, was released on February 11,1997. It spawned three singles, On & On, Next Lifetime and Otherside of the Game, the album was certified triple Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. Badus first live album, Live, was released on November 18,1997 and was certified double Platinum by the RIAA, Badus second studio album, Mamas Gun, was released on October 31,2000. It spawned three singles, Bag Lady, which became her first top 10 single on the Billboard Hot 100 peaking at #6, Didnt Cha Know. the album was certified Platinum by the RIAA. Badus third album, Worldwide Underground, was released on September 16,2003 and it generated three singles, Love of My Life, Danger and Back in the Day with Love becoming her second song to reach the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #9. The album was certified Gold by the RIAA, Badus fourth album, New Amerykah Part One, was released on February 26,2008. It spawned two singles, Honey and Soldier, New Amerykah Part Two was released in 2010 and fared well both critically and commercially. It contained the lead single Window Seat, which led to controversy. Influenced by R&B, 1970s soul, and 1980s hip hop and her work has often been compared to jazz great Billie Holiday. Early in her career, Badu was recognizable for her eccentric style and she was a core member of the Soulquarians. As an actress, she has played a range of supporting roles in movies including Blues Brothers 2000, The Cider House Rules. She also speaks at length in the documentaries Before the Music Dies, Erykah Badu was born Erica Abi Wright in Dallas, Texas on February 26,1971. Her mother raised her, her brother Eevin, and her sister Nayrok alone after their father, to provide for her family, the childrens paternal grandmother often helped to look after them while Badus mother, Kolleen Maria Wright, worked as an actress in theatrical productions. Influenced by her mother, Badu had her first taste of business at the age of four. By the age of 14, Badu was free-styling for a radio station alongside such talent as Roy Hargrove. In her youth, she had decided to change the spelling of her first name from Erica to Erykah, the term kah signifies the inner self. She adopted the surname Badu because it is her favorite jazz scat sound, also, among the Akan people in Ghana, it is the term for the 10th-born child
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The Cider House Rules (film)
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The Cider House Rules is a 1999 American drama film directed by Lasse Hallström, based on John Irvings novel of the same name. The film won two Academy Awards, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, along with four nominations at the 72nd Academy Awards. Irving documented his involvement in bringing the novel to the screen in his book, irving won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, while Michael Caine won his second Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Homer Wells, an orphan, grows up in a Maine orphanage directed by kindly, Homer is returned twice by foster parents, his first foster parents thought he was too quiet and the second parents beat him. Dr. Larch is addicted to ether and also secretly terminates pregnancies for women, conditions at the orphanage are very sparse, but the children are treated with love and respect, and they are like an extended family. Each night before they go to sleep, Dr. Larch says, Goodnight you Princes of Maine, as both encouragement and a kind of blessing. Homer, the oldest among the orphans, is bright, helpful and even-tempered, so Larch trains him in obstetrics and abortions as an apprentice. Homer disapproves of abortions, and although he has been trained by Larch in the field, after several years, Homer is very skillful and confident in performing obstetrical duties and Larch wants Homer to take over his position after he retires. But Homer finds this impossible, both because he lacks formal medical education and because he wants to see more of the world than just the orphanage. Homer leaves the orphanage with Candy Kendall and her boyfriend, Wally Worthington, Wally is a pilot on leave from his service. Wallys mother owns the Worthington family apple orchard where Homer settles in as a worker, Homer lives on the Worthington estate in a bunkhouse called the Cider House. Wally leaves to fight in World War II, Homer is exempt from military service because Dr. Larch has diagnosed that he has a heart condition. While Wally is away, Homer and Candy have an affair and he goes to work picking apples with Arthur Roses team. Arthur and his team are migrant workers who are employed seasonally at the orchard by the Worthingtons but are illiterate, consequently, they feel that they can ignore these rules. Homer and Candy become much closer during this period of harvest and spend time together. Homer decides that he must help Rose, and agrees to perform an abortion, a few days later, when Rose Rose tries to run away, her father notices and goes to say goodbye, Rose stabs him and flees. Arthur then makes his own injury worse, and as a last request asks Homer and another worker to tell the police that his death was a suicide, Wally returns from Burma a paraplegic, and although she loves Homer, Candy decides to go where she is most needed. Immediately following this decision, Homer learns that Dr. Larch has succumbed to an accidental ether overdose, eventually, Homer decides he too should go where he is most needed and returns to the orphanage, where he is greeted joyously by both the children and staff
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Toni Collette
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She is a recipient of six AACTA Awards, one Emmy Award and one Golden Globe Award, and has been nominated twice for a BAFTA Award and once for both an Academy Award and a Tony Award. Collettes acting career began in the early 1990s with comedic roles in such as Spotswood and Muriels Wedding. Collette returned to Broadway in Will Enos The Realistic Joneses, for which she earned a Drama Desk Special Award, Toni Collett was born in Blacktown, a suburb in Western Sydney, the daughter of Judith, a customer-service representative, and Bob Collett, a truck driver. She has two brothers, Ben and Christopher. She was born under the surname Collett, but added an e at the end for her stage name and her biological paternal grandfather was an American serviceman whose name Toni does not know. From an early age, Collette showed a talent for acting and she faked an appendicitis when she was eleven, and was so convincing that doctors removed her appendix, although tests showed nothing wrong with it. She attended Blacktown Girls High School until the age of 16 and her first acting role was onstage in the musical Godspell in Sydney in her early teens. Collette made her debut in 1990, in a guest appearance on the Seven Network drama series A Country Practice. In 1992, she made her film debut as part of the ensemble comedy-drama Spotswood, which starred Anthony Hopkins. Collette soon rocketed to international notice with her performance in the role for Muriels Wedding in 1994. She won the Australian award for Best Actress as Muriel, her first of five Australian Film Institute awards, in 1996, she was part of the ensemble cast of the comedy, Così, and had a leading role in Emma as the naïve Harriet Smith. She has also received acclaim on Broadway, starring as Queenie in Michael John LaChiusas musical work. For this role, Collette was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical, Collette turned down the title role in Bridget Joness Diary because she was committed to perform on Broadway at the time. In 1999, she was nominated for an Academy Award for her role as the mother of a boy in the U. S. film The Sixth Sense. In 2000, she was the voice of Meg Bluegum Bunyips mother in The Magic Pudding based on the childrens book by Norman Lindsay. Collette won the Australian Film Institute award for Best Actress for her performance, in 2004, Collette starred with Nia Vardalos and David Duchovny in the musical comedy Connie and Carla, released by Universal Studios. Collettes only film in 2005 was In Her Shoes, a comedy-drama about the relationship between two sisters and their estranged grandmother, co-starring Cameron Diaz and Shirley MacLaine. In 2006, Collette starred in Little Miss Sunshine, a movie about a familys trip to a childrens beauty pageant
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The Sixth Sense
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The Sixth Sense is a 1999 American supernatural horror-thriller film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. The film tells the story of Cole Sear, a troubled, isolated boy who is able to see and talk to the dead, and an equally troubled child psychologist who tries to help him. The film established Shyamalan as a writer and director, and introduced the public to his traits. Released by Hollywood Pictures on August 6,1999, the film was received well, critics highlighted the performances, its atmosphere, the film was the second-highest-grossing film of 1999, grossing about $293 million domestically and $672 million worldwide. Dr. Malcolm Crowe, a child psychologist in Philadelphia, returns one night with his wife, Anna. Anna tells Crowe that everything is second to his work, a young man then appears in their bathroom, and accuses Crowe of failing him. Crowe recognizes him as Vincent Grey, a patient whom he treated as a child for hallucinations. Vincent shoots his former doctor before killing himself, the next fall, Crowe begins working with another patient, nine-year-old Cole Sear, whose case is similar to Vincents. Crowe becomes dedicated to the boy, though he is haunted by doubts over his ability to him after his failure with Vincent. Meanwhile, he and his wife seldom, if ever, speak or do anything together, Crowe feels he must help Cole in order to rectify his failure to help Vincent and reconcile with his wife. Coles mother, Lynn worries about his stamina, especially after seeing signs of physical abuse. Cole eventually confides his secret to Crowe, he sees ghosts, at first, Crowe thinks Cole is delusional and considers dropping his case. Remembering Vincent, the psychologist listens to an audiotape from a session with Vincent when he was a child, on the tape, when Crowe leaves the room, Vincent begins crying. Turning up the volume, Crowe hears a man begging for help in Spanish, and now believes that Cole is telling the truth. He suggests to Cole that he should try to find a purpose for his gift by communicating with the ghosts, at first, Cole is unwilling since the ghosts terrify and sometimes even threaten him, but he finally decides to attempt helping. Cole talks to one of the ghosts, a girl named Kyra who recently died after a chronic illness. He goes with Crowe to her reception at her home, where Kyra directs him to a box holding a videotape. The tape shows Kyras mother poisoning her daughters food, by proving she was a victim of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, Cole has saved Kyras younger sister, the mothers next victim
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Jessica Lange
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Jessica Phyllis Lange is an American actress who has received worldwide acclaim for her work in film, theater, and television. In 2016, Lange became the twenty-second thespian in history to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting, Lange was discovered by producer Dino De Laurentiis while modeling part-time for the Wilhelmina modelling agency. She made her film debut in his 1976 remake of the 1933 action-adventure classic King Kong, for which she won her first Golden Globe Award. In 2010, she won her first Primetime Emmy Award for her portrayal of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis famed aunt, Big Edie, in addition to acting, Lange is a photographer with three published works. She has also been a parent and currently holds a Goodwill Ambassador position for UNICEF, specializing in HIV/AIDS in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Lange was born in Cloquet, Minnesota, on April 20,1949 and her father, Albert John Lange, was a teacher and traveling salesman, and her mother, Dorothy Florence, was a housewife. She has two sisters, Ann and Jane, and a younger brother, George. Her paternal ancestry originates in Germany and the Netherlands, while her maternal ancestry originates in Finland, due to the nature of her fathers professions, her early home life was chaotic. Her family moved over a dozen times to various towns and cities in Minnesota before settling back down in her hometown, in 1967, she received an art scholarship to study art and photography at the University of Minnesota, where she met and began dating Spanish photographer Paco Grande. After the two married in 1971, Lange left college to pursue a bohemian lifestyle, opting to travel throughout the United States. The couple then moved to Paris, where they drifted apart, while in Paris, Lange studied mime theatre under the supervision of Étienne Decroux, and joined the Opéra-Comique as a dancer. While sharing an apartment with Jerry Hall and Grace Jones, she was discovered by fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez, in 1973, she returned to the States and began work in New York City as a waitress at the Lions Head Tavern in Greenwich Village. While modelling, Lange was discovered by Hollywood producer Dino De Laurentiis, who was looking to cast his next leading lady, Lange made her professional film debut in 1976s King Kong, beating out actresses Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn for the role of damsel in distress. However, renowned film critic Pauline Kael praised her, noting, Lange went on to win the 1976 Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year. She would remain a favorite of Kaels, who would comment, She has a facial structure that the camera yearns for. A year later, she was contacted by director Bob Rafelson regarding a project on which he was working with Jack Nicholson, after his meeting with Lange, he wrote her name down on a piece of paper, placed it in an envelope, and sealed it. After several meetings and auditions with other actresses, the choice was between Lange and Meryl Streep. In the end, Rafelson offered Lange the lead role opposite Nicholson in his remake of the film noir
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Titus (film)
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Titus is a 1999 Italian-American-British film adaptation of William Shakespeares revenge tragedy Titus Andronicus, about the downfall of a Roman general. Starring Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lange, it was the first theatrically-released feature film adaptation of the play, the film was made by Overseas Filmgroup and Clear Blue Sky Productions and released by Fox Searchlight Pictures. It was the directorial debut of Julie Taymor, who co-produced. It was produced by Jody Patton, Conchita Airoldi and executive produced by Paul G. Allen, a boy eating lunch in a 1950s-style kitchen plays war with his surrounding toys. A bomb blast outside the window frightens him under the table from where he is rescued and taken to an Amphitheatre, an army resembling the Terracotta Army enters, Romans under the command of Titus Andronicus, the general at the center of the play, return victorious from war. They bring back as spoils Tamora, Queen of the Goths, her sons, Titus sacrifices Tamoras eldest son, Alarbus, so the spirits of his 21 dead sons might be appeased. Tamora eloquently begs for the life of Alarbus, but Titus refuses her plea, caesar, the Emperor of Rome, dies. His sons Saturninus and Bassianus squabble over who will succeed him, the Tribune of the People, Marcus Andronicus, announces the peoples choice for new emperor is his brother, Titus. He refuses the throne and hands it to the emperors eldest son Saturninus. The new emperor states he will take Lavinia, Titus daughter, as his bride to honor and she is already betrothed to Saturninus brother, Bassianus, who steals her away. Tituss surviving sons aid in the run for the Pantheon. Titus, angry with his sons because in his eyes theyre being disloyal to Rome, the new emperor, Saturninus, dishonors Titus and marries Tamora instead. Tamora persuades the Emperor to feign forgiveness to Bassianus, Titus and his family and postpone punishment to a later day, during a hunting party the next day, Tamoras lover, Aaron the Moor, meets Tamoras sons Chiron and Demetrius. The two argue over which should take advantage of the newly-wed Lavinia. Aaron easily persuades them to ambush Bassianus and kill him in the presence of Tamora and Lavinia, Lavinia begs Tamora to stop her sons, but Tamora refuses. Chiron and Demetrius throw Bassianuss body in a pit, as Aaron directed them, then take Lavinia away, to keep her from revealing what she saw and endured, they cut out her tongue as well as her hands, replacing them with tree branches. When Marcus discovers her, he begs her to reveal the identity of her assailants, Lavinia leans towards the camera, Aaron brings Titus sons Martius and Quintus and frames them for the murder of Bassianus with a forged letter outlining their plan to kill him. Later on, Marcus takes Lavinia to her father, whos overcome with grief and he and his remaining son Lucius begged for the lives of Martius and Quintus, but the two are found guilty and are marched off to execution
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Sissy Spacek
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Mary Elizabeth Sissy Spacek is an American actress and singer. She began her career in the early 1970s and first gained attention for her role in the film Badlands and she went on to receive further Oscar nominations for her roles in Missing, The River and Crimes of the Heart. Coal Miners Daughter and Crimes of the Heart also won her the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy. A six-time Oscar nominee, she received her nomination for In the Bedroom, which also won her a third Golden Globe. Her other films include 3 Women, Raggedy Man, JFK, Affliction, The Straight Story, Tuck Everlasting, Nine Lives, Spacek also played matriarch Sally Rayburn in the Netflix thriller series Bloodline. The show was canceled in 2016, airing its third and final season in 2017, Spacek was born on December 25,1949, in Quitman, Texas, the daughter of Virginia Frances and Edwin Arnold Spacek Sr. a county agricultural agent. Her mother, who was of Polish, English and Irish descent, was from the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, at age 6, she performed on stage for the first time, appearing in a local talent show. Although her birth name was Mary Elizabeth, from birth, she was always called Sissy by her brothers which led to her stage name and she attended Quitman High School and was named homecoming queen at her senior prom. Spacek was greatly affected by the death of her close eighteen-year-old brother, Robbie, in 1967 from leukemia when she was seventeen, Spacek used the personal tragedy as a tool to be fearless in her acting career, I think it made me brave. Once you experience something like that, you’ve experienced the ultimate tragedy, and if you can continue, nothing else frightens you. That’s what I meant about it being rocket fuel – I was fearless in a way, maybe it gave more depth to my work because I had already experienced something profound and life-changing. Spacek worked for a time as a model and as an extra at Andy Warhols Factory. She appeared in a role in his film Trash. With the help of her cousin, actor Rip Torn, she enrolled in Lee Strasbergs Actors Studio and her first credited role was in the cult classic Prime Cut, in which she played Poppy, a girl sold into sexual slavery. The role led to work, which included a guest role in The Waltons. Spacek received international attention after starring in Terrence Malicks Badlands, in which she played Holly, the films narrator, Spacek has described Badlands as the most incredible experience of her career. On the set of Badlands, Spacek met art director Jack Fisk, Spaceks iconic and career-defining role came in Brian De Palmas film Carrie, in which she played Carietta Carrie White, a shy, troubled high school senior with telekinetic powers. Spacek had to work hard to persuade director de Palma to engage her for the role
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The Straight Story
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The Straight Story is a 1999 internationally co-produced biographical road drama film directed by David Lynch. The film was edited and produced by Mary Sweeney, Lynchs longtime partner and co-worker and she co-wrote the script with John E. Roach. The film is based on the story of Alvin Straights 1994 journey across Iowa. Alvin is an elderly World War II veteran who lives with his daughter Rose, when he hears that his estranged brother Lyle has suffered a stroke, Alvin makes up his mind to go visit him and hopefully make amends before he dies. The film was a success and garnered audience acclaim, although the overall gross proved less than expected. Reviewers praised the intensity of the performances, particularly the realistic dialogue which film critic Roger Ebert compared to the works of Ernest Hemingway. It received a nomination for the Palme dOr at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival, Alvin Straight has not shown up to his regular bar meeting with his friends. He is eventually found lying on his floor at home, although he insists that he just needs a bit of getting up. His daughter Rose takes her reluctant father to see a doctor and he also tells Alvin that he should start using a walker. Alvin refuses, and does not tell Rose, Alvin then learns that his brother Lyle has suffered a stroke. Alvins first attempt fails, after experiencing difficulty starting the old mowers motor, he doesnt get far before the machine breaks down. Alvin arranges for his mower to be transported home on a flatbed truck. At the John Deere dealer, he purchases a newer replacement lawn tractor from a salesman who is generous but describes Alvin as being a smart man and he passes a young female hitchhiker who later approaches his campfire and says that she could not get a ride. In conversation, Alvin astutely deduces that she is pregnant and has run away from home, Alvin tells the hitchhiker about the importance of family by describing a bundle of sticks that is hard to break. The next day Alvin emerges from the trailer to find that his friend has left him a bundle of sticks tied together. Alvin enjoys watching a rainstorm from the shelter of an abandoned farmhouse, the next scene shows Alvin as a huge group of RAGBRAI cyclists race past him. Although the film takes place in September, the journey was in July. He later arrives at the camp and he is greeted with applause
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Charlize Theron
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Charlize Theron is a South African and American actress and film producer. Theron became a U. S. citizen in 2007, while retaining her South African citizenship, in the late 2000s, she moved into the field of producing, both in television and film. In 2006, she produced the documentary East of Havana and she had producing credits on the films The Burning Plain and Dark Places, both of which she starred in. In 2012, she played Queen Ravenna in Snow White and the Huntsman and Meredith Vickers in Prometheus and she reprised her role of Queen Ravenna in the 2016 follow-up film The Huntsman, Winters War. In 2016, Time Magazine named her in the annual Time 100 most influential people list, Theron was born in Benoni, in the then-Transvaal Province of South Africa, the only child of Gerda Jacoba Aletta and Charles Jacobus Theron. Second Boer War figure Danie Theron was her great-great-uncle and she is from an Afrikaner family, and her ancestry includes Dutch, as well as French and German, her French forebears were early Huguenot settlers in South Africa. Theron is an Occitan surname pronounced in Afrikaans as and she grew up on her parents farm in Benoni, near Johannesburg. On 21 June 1991, Therons father, an alcoholic, physically attacked her mother, the shooting was legally adjudged to have been self-defence, and so her mother faced no charges. Theron attended Putfontein Primary School, a period during which she has said she was not fitting in, at thirteen, Theron was sent to boarding school and began her studies at the National School of the Arts in Johannesburg. Although Theron is fluent in English, her first language is Afrikaans, although seeing herself as a dancer, Theron at 16 won a one-year modelling contract at a local competition in Salerno and with her mother moved to Milan, Italy. After Theron spent a year modelling throughout Europe, she and her mother moved to the US, in New York, she attended the Joffrey Ballet School, where she trained as a ballet dancer until a knee injury closed this career path. As Theron recalled in 2008, I went to New York for three days to model, and then I spent a winter in New York in a windowless basement apartment. I was broke, I was taking class at the Joffrey Ballet, I realized I couldnt dance anymore, and I went into a major depression. My mom came over from South Africa and said, Either you figure out what to do next or you come home, at 19, Theron flew to Los Angeles, on a one-way ticket her mother bought for her, intending to work in the film industry. During the initial months there, she went to a Hollywood Boulevard bank to cash a cheque her mother had sent to help with the rent, when the teller refused to cash it, Theron engaged in a shouting match with him. Upon seeing this, talent agent John Crosby, waiting behind her, handed her his business card and subsequently introduced her to casting agents and she later fired him as her manager after he kept sending her scripts for films similar to Showgirls and Species. After several months in the city, she made her debut with a non-speaking role in the horror film Children of the Corn III. Her first speaking role was a supporting but significant and attention-garnering part as a hitwoman in 2 Days in the Valley
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Debbie Reynolds
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Mary Frances Debbie Reynolds was an American actress, singer, businesswoman, film historian, and humanitarian. In 1959, she released her first pop album, titled Debbie. She starred in How the West Was Won, and The Unsinkable Molly Brown and her performance as Brown earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Her other films include The Singing Nun, Divorce American Style, Charlottes Web, Mother, and In & Out. Reynolds was also a cabaret performer, in 1979 she founded the Debbie Reynolds Dance Studio in North Hollywood, which still operates today. In 1969 she starred on television in the The Debbie Reynolds Show, in 1973 Reynolds starred in a Broadway revival of the musical Irene and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical. She was also nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for her performance in A Gift of Love, at the turn of the millennium, Reynolds reached a new younger generation with her role as Aggie Cromwell in Disneys Halloweentown series. In 1988 she released her autobiography titled, Debbie, My Life, in 2013, she released a second autobiography, Unsinkable, A Memoir. She served as president of The Thalians, a dedicated to mental health causes. Reynolds continued to perform successfully on stage, television, and film into her eighties, in January 2015, Reynolds received the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. In 2016, she received the Academy Awards Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, on December 28,2016, Reynolds was hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center following a medical emergency, which her son Todd Fisher later described as a severe stroke. She died from the stroke that afternoon, one day after the death of her daughter Carrie Fisher. Reynolds was born on April 1,1932, in El Paso, Texas, to Maxene Minnie and Raymond Francis Ray Reynolds and she was of Scottish-Irish and English ancestry and was raised in a strict Nazarene church. She had a two years her senior. Reynolds was a Girl Scout, once saying that she wanted to die as the worlds oldest living Girl Scout and her mother took in laundry for income, while they lived in a shack on Magnolia Street in El Paso. And Im trying to inculcate in my children the same sense of values and her family moved to Burbank, California in 1939. When Reynolds was a student at Burbank High School in 1948. Soon after, she had a contract with Warner Bros and acquired the nickname Debbie via Jack L. Warner, One of her closest high school friends said that she rarely dated during her teenage years in Burbank
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Mother (1996 film)
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Mother is a 1996 comedy-drama film directed by Albert Brooks, co-written by Brooks with Monica Johnson, and starring Brooks and Debbie Reynolds as son-and-mother. Brooks portrays a novelist who moves back home with his mother after his second divorce, Mother was Reynoldss first major film role in over 20 years. The film earned positive reviews and was Brookss most financially successful film as a director, John Henderson is a successful science fiction writer who is finalizing his second divorce. He is perplexed by the issues he has with women, realizing that his wives and his sports agent brother Jeff thinks John is oversensitive to their mothers criticism, while John believes that their mother favors Jeff. Their relationship is characterized by constant bickering and power struggles, both are strongly committed to their respective points of view. John believes shes overly critical of him, while Beatrice contends that he blames her unfairly for his personal failings, a rare bright spot in their relationship appears appears when she takes an interest in his word processor and impresses John with her fast, flawless typing. Beatrice seems surprised by Johns interest in her life and is reluctant to go all that. When Beatrice cancels her plans to travel to visit her son Jeff, Jeff has a meltdown and she tells him that he may needs to evaluate his relationship with his mother just as much as John. John and Beatrice go to the zoo, where they reach some common ground. When they return home Jeff is waiting, so upset by the aborted visit, all three argue and Jeff leaves alone, John satisfied that Jeffs the sickie and that hes pretty darn healthy to begin with. John is surprised that she would call someone she is intimate with not important, John meets Charles, who knows a lot about John because, as he tells John, Beatrice brags about him when hes not around. While alone at the house, John discovers a box of novel, John realizes now that his mothers passive aggression towards him and not Jeff stems from the fact that Jeffs business career was never a reminder of her unfulfilled ambitions. Beatrice admits that Johns observations are correct, leading to a warm reconciliation, the film ends with John meeting a single female fan of his novels, and Beatrice beginning to write a story based on Johns moving in with her. McGinley as Carl Vanessa A. Brooks then asked his good friend Carrie Fisher if she could send the script to her mother, Debbie Reynolds, Reynolds hadnt had a starring role since the late 1960s. Mother was filmed on location in and around the Sausalito, Greenbrae, the exterior of Beatrices house and street was shot in Studio City. Mother received mostly positive reviews critics, and holds a 90% rating on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. The dialogue in Mother is written so carefully that some lines carry two or three nuances. The audience laughter wasnt a reaction to obvious punchlines, wrote Ebert, Mother remains Brooks highest-grossing directorial effort to date, earning $19.1 million at the box office
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Lauren Bacall
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Lauren Bacall was an American actress and singer known for her distinctive voice and sultry looks. Bacall began her career as a model, before making her debut as a lady with Humphrey Bogart in the film To Have and Have Not in 1944. She co-starred with John Wayne in his film, The Shootist. Bacall also worked on Broadway in musicals, earning Tony Awards for Applause and her performance in The Mirror Has Two Faces earned her a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination. A month before her 90th birthday, Bacall died in New York City after a stroke, soon after her birth, Bacalls family moved to Brooklyns Ocean Parkway. Through her father, she was a relative of Shimon Peres, Peres has stated, In 1952 or 1953 I came to New York. Lauren Bacall called me, said that she wanted to meet and we sat and talked about where our families came from, and discovered that we were from the same family. But Im not exactly sure what our relation is and it was she who later said that she was my cousin, I didnt say that. Her parents divorced when she was five, she took the Romanian form of her mothers last name. She no longer saw her father and formed a close bond with her mother. In 1941 Bacall took lessons at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and she made her acting debut on Broadway in 1942, at age 17, as a walk-on in Johnny 2 X4. By then, she lived with her mother on Bank Street, Greenwich Village, as a teenage fashion model she appeared on the cover of Harpers Bazaar, as well as in magazines such as Vogue. She was noted for her grace, tawny blonde hair. Though Diana Vreeland is often credited with discovering Bacall for Harpers Bazaar and he had first met Bacall at Tonys, a club in the East 50s. De Gunzburg suggested that Bacall stop by his Bazaar office the next day and he then turned over his find to Vreeland, who arranged for Louise Dahl-Wolfe to shoot Bacall in Kodachrome for the March 1943 cover. The Harpers Bazaar cover caught the attention of Hollywood producer and director Howard Hawks wife Slim, Hawks asked his secretary to find out more about her, but the secretary misunderstood and sent Bacall a ticket to come to Hollywood for the audition. After meeting Bacall in Hollywood, Hawks immediately signed her to a contract with a weekly salary of $100. He changed her first name to Lauren, and she chose Bacall as her screen surname, Slim Hawks also took Bacall under her wing, dressing Bacall stylishly and guiding her in matters of elegance, manners and taste
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The Mirror Has Two Faces
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The Mirror Has Two Faces is a 1996 American romantic comedy-drama film produced and directed by Barbra Streisand, who also stars. The film also stars Jeff Bridges, Pierce Brosnan, George Segal, Mimi Rogers, Brenda Vaccaro, Streisand, Marvin Hamlisch, Robert John Mutt Lange, and Bryan Adams composed the films theme song, I Finally Found Someone, Streisand sang it on the soundtrack with Adams. Rose Morgan, a shy, plain, middle-aged English literature professor at Columbia University, shares a home with her vain, overbearing mother Hannah. When her attractive sister Claire starts making preparations for her wedding to Alex. Gregory Larkin, a Columbia Mathematics teacher, feels sex complicates matters between men and women, since he seems to all his rational perspective as soon as he is aroused. Claire reads the ad and answers on behalf of Rose, after a series of mishaps, they begin dating and he is impressed by her wit and knowledge and seems to be fascinated by her quirks and mannerisms, which usually drive people crazy. She is also fascinated by the dashing math professor and even helps him improve his teaching techniques and he proposes marriage, on condition that it will be largely platonic, with occasional sex only if she needs it. The prospect of spending the rest of her life as a spinster living with her mother seems far worse than a marriage on those conditions. Roses attraction to Gregory grows, and one night she attempts to seduce him and he had hoped that by then she had given up on the idea of sex, though he admits he initially raised its possibility. He abruptly breaks off their attempt at physical intimacy when he finds himself becoming truly aroused, when her husband returns, he finds a very different woman waiting for him and is too startled to express his feelings. She admits that she made a mistake in accepting their passionless marriage, all the while, Rose realizes that everyone, including herself, is now behaving differently towards her altered self, though not always to her liking. In her review in the New York Times, Janet Maslin called the films first hour light and amusing but added, beguiling as she can be in ugly duckling roles, she becomes insufferable as this storys gloating swan. The overkill of The Mirror Has Two Faces is partly offset by Ms. Streisands genuine diva appeal, the camera does love her, even with a gun to its head. And shes able to wring sympathy and humor from the first half of this role, the film also has a big asset in Ms. Bacall. Her lines with trademark tart panache. and cuts an elegant, roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times said the film approaches the subject of marriage warily and with wit, like a George Bernard Shaw play. Its rare to find a film that deals intelligently with issues of sex and love, instead of just assuming that everyone on the screen and in the audience shares the same popular culture assumptions. Its rare, too, to find such verbal characters in a movie, in the San Francisco Chronicle, Edward Guthmann described the film as a silly affirmation fantasy. Uses to prove shes really beautiful, funny and worthy of being loved, hasnt she returned to the theme of Homely Girl Redeemed, and crowned herself the victor, countless times
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Goldie Hawn
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Goldie Jeanne Hawn is an American actress, director, producer, and occasional singer, who rose to fame on televisions Rowan & Martins Laugh-In. She is the mother of actors Oliver Hudson, Kate Hudson and Wyatt Russell and she founded The Hawn Foundation in 2003. Hawn was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for the role in the 1980 film Private Benjamin. She is set to star in her first film in 15 years with a role in Snatched. Hawn was born in Washington, D. C. the daughter of Laura, a jewelry shop/dance school owner, and Edward Rutledge Hawn and she was named after her mothers aunt. Her father was a Presbyterian of German and English descent, her mother was Jewish, the daughter of immigrants from Hungary, and Hawn was raised Jewish. Hawn has often said to descend from Edward Rutledge, the youngest signatory of the Declaration of Independence. Hawn began taking ballet and tap dance lessons at the age of three, and danced in the corps de ballet of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo production of The Nutcracker in 1955. She made her debut in 1961, playing Juliet in a Virginia Shakespeare Festival production of Romeo. By 1964, she ran and taught in a ballet school, in 1964, Hawn made her professional dancing debut in a production of Can-Can at the Texas Pavilion of the New York Worlds Fair. She began working as a professional dancer a year later and appeared as a dancer in New York City. Her next role, which brought her to international attention, was as one of the regular cast members on the 1968–1973 sketch comedy show, Rowan & Martins Laugh-In. On the show, she would break out into high-pitched giggles in the middle of a joke. Noted equally for her attitude as for her bikini and painted body. Her Laugh-In persona was parlayed into three film appearances in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Cactus Flower, Theres a Girl in My Soup. After Hawns Academy Award win, her career took off. She starred in a string of average and successful comedies starting with Theres a Girl in My Soup, $. She continued proving herself in the league with the 1974 satirical dramas The Girl from Petrovka and The Sugarland Express
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Everyone Says I Love You
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Set in New York City, Venice and Paris, the film features singing by actors not usually known for their singing. The emotions of an extended family in Manhattan are followed in song from NY to Paris. Various friends, lovers, acquaintances, and relatives act, interact, and sing, in New York, Venice, the film takes classic songs and fits them into an updated scenario, and in some cases with unexpected dance routines. The choreography is lively and the actors and actresses do not look like professional dancers and her voice was dubbed by Allen regular Olivia Hayman. The title song was written by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, Allen is a well-known Groucho Marx fan. Marxs theme song from Animal Crackers Hooray for Captain Spaulding is featured, the film was released theatrically in North America on 8 December 1996 on three screens. Its opening weekend gross was $131,678 and it ended its North American run with $9,759,200. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 79% fresh rating, based on 43 reviews, the sites consensus states, A likable, infectious musical, Woody Allens Everyone Says I Love You is sometimes uneven but always toe-tapping and fun. Janet Maslin wrote a positive review in the New York Times, describing the film as a delightful. The film was nominated for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy at the 54th Golden Globe Awards, Everyone Says I Love You at the Internet Movie Database Everyone Says I Love You at Virtual History
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Sarah Jessica Parker
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Sarah Jessica Parker is an American actress, producer, and designer. She is known for her role as Carrie Bradshaw on the HBO television series Sex. She won two Emmy Awards for the show, one for Outstanding Comedy Series in 2001 and another for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 2004. For this role, she won four Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress in a Comedy Series. She reprised the role in the films, Sex and the City and Sex, Parker made her Broadway debut at the age of 11 in the 1976 revival of The Innocents, before going on to star in the title role of the Broadway musical, Annie, in 1979. She appeared in the 1984 films Footloose and Firstborn, and returned to Broadway in the 1989 play, The Heidi Chronicles. Other film roles include, L. A. Story, Honeymoon in Vegas, Hocus Pocus, Ed Wood, The First Wives Club, The Family Stone, and Failure to Launch. In 2012, Parker returned to television for the first time since Sex and she is currently starring in the HBO series, Divorce. Sarah Jessica Parker was born in Nelsonville, Ohio, the daughter of Barbara Parker, a school operator and teacher, and Stephen Parker. She was one of a total of eight children from her parents marriage, after her parents divorce, her mother married Paul Forste, a truck driver and account executive who was a part of Parkers life from an early age. Parkers father, a native of Brooklyn, is Jewish, his familys surname was Bar-Kahn. Parkers mother is of German, and some English, descent, through her mother, Parker is descended from Esther Elwell, Parker has identified culturally with her fathers religion, Judaism, although she has had no religious training. She has said that even while her family lived in Cincinnati, as a young girl, Parker trained in singing and ballet, and was soon cast in the Broadway revival of William Archibalds The Innocents. Her family moved to Cincinnati and then to Dobbs Ferry, New York, near New York City, There, her mother and stepfather helped Parker develop her career as a child actress. In 1977, the moved to the newly opened planned community on Roosevelt Island. The family later moved to Englewood, New Jersey, where Parker attended Dwight Morrow High School, Parker and four siblings appeared in a production of The Sound of Music at the outdoor Municipal Theatre in St. Louis, Missouri. Parker held the role for a year, in 1982, Parker was cast as the co-lead of the CBS sitcom Square Pegs. The show lasted just one season, but Parkers performance, as a shy teen who showed hidden depths, was well received
