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Mary Elizabeth Winstead
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Her singing career started in 2013, with her formation of the music duo Got a Girl with Dan the Automator. The youngest of five children of Betty Lou Winstead and James Ronald Winstead, Mary Elizabeth Winstead was born in Rocky Mount and her grandfather was a cousin of actress Ava Gardner. When she was five years old, her moved to Sandy, Utah. She attended Peruvian Park Elementary, where she took advanced classes, a talented dancer and singer, Winstead studied dance in a Joffrey Ballet summer program in Chicago, Illinois and sang in the International Childrens Choir. During her youth, Winstead initially hoped to pursue a career as a ballerina, as she entered her teens Winstead was forced to quit ballet due to her height. She later stated, I realized pretty early on that I was already too tall by the time I was 13 and you know, your body has to stay that way for your entire life, and its pretty hard on your muscles and your bones. Realizing that a career was unlikely, Winstead turned to acting, as she was still a teenager at the time. Winstead appeared in a production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat starring Donny Osmond, after her brief performance in that show, Winstead began making appearances in various television series and earned guest roles in Touched by an Angel and Promised Land. She gained her first major role as Jessica Bennett in the NBC soap opera Passions and she left to pursue other interests, later stating, I really had one of the smallest roles on Passions, so I didnt get too involved. I was able to leave pretty easily, Winsteads next significant television role was in the short-lived CBS drama series Wolf Lake, as the daughter of Tim Mathesons character. The series was canceled after ten episodes, in 2004, Winstead played a supporting role in MTVs made-for-television film Monster Island. She was offered a role in the film A Cinderella Story, in 2005 she had a minor role in the indie comedy Checking Out, then a larger role as the main antagonist of the successful Walt Disney Pictures film Sky High. Winstead then began working with filmmakers James Wong and Glen Morgan and she starred in the 2006 horror movie Final Destination 3 as lead character Wendy Christensen, the beleaguered heroine who experiences the premonition that sets the story in motion. The production was a success, but received a mixed response from critics. Winstead would collaborate again with Morgan and Wong later that year, the movie, a loose remake of the 1974 film of the same name, follows a group of sorority sisters who are stalked and murdered by the houses former inhabitants during a winter storm. It received poor reviews, but earned her a nomination for Scream Queen at the 2007 Scream Awards. Winstead got a chance to lampoon horror scream queens when Tonight Show host Jay Leno, unaware of who she was, knocked on her front door and she appeared in Emilio Estevezs Bobby, a 2006 film depicting the last hours of Robert F. Kennedy. Winstead became interested in Bobby after learning that Anthony Hopkins would appear in the film, a moderate box office success in selected theaters, Bobby received mixed reviews with many criticisms directed at the films script
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Saturn Awards
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The award was initially, and is still sometimes, loosely referred to as a Golden Scroll. The Saturn Awards were created in 1973 and are the oldest Award ceremony dedicated to science fiction, fantasy. The physical award is a representation of the planet Saturn, with its ring composed of film, the Saturn Awards are voted upon by members of the presenting Academy. The Academy is a organization with membership open to the public. Its members include filmmakers Jeff Rector, Rich Correll, Tom De Santo, Mark A. Altman and Irwin Keyes, among others. Although the Award still primarily focuses on films and television in the fiction, fantasy and horror categories. There are also awards for lifetime achievement in film production. The 42nd Saturn Awards were held on June 22,2016, in Burbank, the Saturn Awards are often criticized for having a broad and inconsistent definition of genres, as well as for nominating and awarding movies not related to sci-fi, fantasy or horror. Hugo Award Scream Awards Official website Saturn Awards 2009 at FEARnet Saturn Award at the Internet Movie Database
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Science fiction
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Science fiction often explores the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations, and has been called a literature of ideas. Science fiction is difficult to define, as it includes a range of subgenres and themes. Author and editor Damon Knight summed up the difficulty, saying science fiction is what we point to when we say it, a definition echoed by author Mark C. Glassy, who argues that the definition of science fiction is like the definition of pornography, you do not know what it is, in 1970 or 1971William Atheling Jr. According to science fiction writer Robert A, rod Serlings definition is fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science fiction is the improbable made possible, Science fiction is largely based on writing rationally about alternative possible worlds or futures. Science fiction elements include, A time setting in the future, in alternative timelines, a spatial setting or scenes in outer space, on other worlds, or on subterranean earth. Characters that include aliens, mutants, androids, or humanoid robots, futuristic or plausible technology such as ray guns, teleportation machines, and humanoid computers. Scientific principles that are new or that contradict accepted physical laws, for time travel, wormholes. New and different political or social systems, e. g. utopian, dystopian, post-scarcity, paranormal abilities such as mind control, telepathy, telekinesis Other universes or dimensions and travel between them. A product of the budding Age of Reason and the development of science itself. Isaac Asimov and Carl Sagan considered Keplers work the first science fiction story and it depicts a journey to the Moon and how the Earths motion is seen from there. Later, Edgar Allan Poe wrote a story about a flight to the moon, more examples appeared throughout the 19th century. Wells The War of the Worlds describes an invasion of late Victorian England by Martians using tripod fighting machines equipped with advanced weaponry and it is a seminal depiction of an alien invasion of Earth. In the late 19th century, the scientific romance was used in Britain to describe much of this fiction. This produced additional offshoots, such as the 1884 novella Flatland, the term would continue to be used into the early 20th century for writers such as Olaf Stapledon. In the early 20th century, pulp magazines helped develop a new generation of mainly American SF writers, influenced by Hugo Gernsback, the founder of Amazing Stories magazine. In 1912 Edgar Rice Burroughs published A Princess of Mars, the first of his series of Barsoom novels, situated on Mars
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Fantasy
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Fantasy is a fiction genre set in an imaginary universe, often but not always without any locations, events, or people from the real world. Most fantasy uses magic or other elements as a main plot element, theme. Magic and magical creatures are common in many of these imaginary worlds, in popular culture, the fantasy genre is predominantly of the medievalist form. In its broadest sense, however, fantasy works by many writers, artists, filmmakers. Fantasy is studied in a number of disciplines including English and other studies, cultural studies, comparative literature, history. The identifying trait of fantasy is the reliance on imagination to create narrative elements that do not have to rely on history or nature to be coherent. This differs from realistic fiction in that whereas realistic fiction has to attend to the history and natural laws of reality, an author applies his or her imagination to come up with characters, plots, and settings that are impossible in reality. Fantasy has often compared with science fiction and horror because they are the major categories of speculative fiction. Fantasy is distinguished from science fiction by the plausibility of the narrative elements, a science fiction narrative is unlikely, though seeming possible through logical scientific and/or technological extrapolation, whereas fantasy narratives do not need to be scientifically possible. The imagined elements of fantasy do not need an explanation to be narratively functional. Authors have to rely on the suspension of disbelief, an acceptance of the unbelievable or impossible for the sake of enjoyment. Despite both genres heavy reliance on the supernatural, fantasy and horror are distinguishable, horror primarily evokes fear through the protagonists weaknesses or inability to deal with the antagonists. Beginning perhaps with the earliest written documents, mythic and other elements that would come to define fantasy. MacDonald was an influence on both J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis. The other major fantasy author of this era was William Morris, lord Dunsany established the genres popularity in both the novel and the short story form. Many popular mainstream authors also began to write fantasy at this time, including H. Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling and Edgar Rice Burroughs. Indeed, juvenile fantasy was considered more acceptable than fantasy intended for adults, nathaniel Hawthorne wrote fantasy in A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys, intended for children, though works for adults only verged on fantasy. Political and social trends can affect a societys reception towards fantasy, in the early 20th century, the New Culture Movements enthusiasm for Westernization and science in China compelled them to condemn the fantastical shenmo genre of traditional Chinese literature
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Horror film
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Horror film is a film genre that seeks to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on their fears. Inspired by literature from authors like Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, the macabre and the supernatural are frequent themes. Horror may also overlap with the fantasy, supernatural fiction and thriller genres, Horror films often deal with viewers nightmares, fears, revulsions and terror of the unknown. Plots within the genre often involve the intrusion of an evil force, event. Another of his projects was 1898s La Caverne maudite. Japan made early forays into the genre with Bake Jizo and Shinin no Sosei. The era featured a slew of literary adaptations, with the works of Poe and Dante, in 1908, Selig Polyscope Company produced Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In 1910, Edison Studios produced the first filmed version of Frankenstein, the macabre nature of the source materials used made the films synonymous with the horror film genre. Before and during the Weimar Republic era, German Expressionist filmmakers would significantly influence later productions, the first vampire-themed movie, Nosferatu, was made during this period, though it was an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stokers Dracula. Other European countries also, contributed to the genre during this period, though the word horror to describe the film genre would not be used until the 1930s, earlier American productions often relied on horror themes. Some notable examples include The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Phantom of the Opera, The Cat and the Canary, The Unknown, and The Man Who Laughs. Many of these films were considered dark melodramas because of their stock characters and emotion-heavy plots that focused on romance, violence, suspense. The trend of inserting an element of macabre into American pre-horror melodramas continued into the 1920s, directors known for relying on macabre in their films during the 1920s were Maurice Tourneur, Rex Ingram, and Tod Browning. Ingrams The Magician contains one of the first examples of a mad doctor and is said to have had a influence on James Whales version of Frankenstein. The Unholy Three is an example of Brownings use of macabre and unique style of morbidity, he remade the film in 1930 as a talkie, during the early period of talking pictures, Universal Pictures began a successful Gothic horror film series. Tod Brownings Dracula was quickly followed by James Whales Frankenstein and The Old Dark House, some of these films blended science fiction with Gothic horror, such as Whales The Invisible Man and featured a mad scientist, mirroring earlier German films. Frankenstein was the first in a series of remakes which lasted for years, the Mummy introduced Egyptology as a theme, Make-up artist Jack Pierce was responsible for the iconic image of the monster, and others in the series. Universals horror cycle continued into the 1940s with B-movies including The Wolf Man, the once controversial Freaks, based on the short story Spurs, was made by MGM, though the studio disowned the completed film, and it remained banned, in the UK, for thirty years
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Hugo Award
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The Hugo Awards are a set of awards given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. The awards are named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the science fiction magazine Amazing Stories. Organized and overseen by the World Science Fiction Society, the awards are given each year at the annual World Science Fiction Convention as the focus of the event. They were first given in 1953, at the 11th World Science Fiction Convention, the Hugo Awards have been termed as among the highest honors bestowed in science fiction and fantasy writing. Works that have won have been published in collections. The 2016 awards were presented at the 74th Worldcon, MidAmeriCon II, in Kansas City, United States, the 2017 Hugos will be presented at the 75th Worldcon, Worldcon 75, in Helsinki, Finland, on August 12,2017. For lists of winners and nominees for each category, see the list of categories below. The World Science Fiction Society gives out the Hugo Awards each year for the best science fiction or fantasy works, the award is named after Hugo Gernsback, who founded the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories and who is considered one of the fathers of the science fiction genre. Works are eligible for an award if they were published in English in the calendar year. There are no rules as to which works qualify as science fiction or fantasy. Hugo Award nominees and winners are chosen by supporting or attending members of the annual World Science Fiction Convention, or Worldcon, the selection process is defined in the WSFS constitution as instant-runoff voting with five nominees per category, except in the case of a tie. The awards are split over more than a dozen categories, for each category of Hugo, the voter may rank No Award as one of their choices. Voters are instructed that they should do so if they feel that none of the nominees are worthy of the award, or if they feel the category should be abolished entirely. A vote for No Award other than as ones first choice signifies that the voter believes the nominee ranked higher than No Award are worthy of a Hugo in that category, while those ranked lower are not. The five works on the ballot for each category are the most-nominated by members that year, from 1953 to 1958 the awards did not include any recognition of runner-up novels, but since 1959 all of the candidates have been recorded. Worldcons are generally held near the start of September, and take place in a different city around the world each year, the idea of giving out awards at Worldcons was proposed by Harold Lynch for the 1953 convention. The idea was based on the Academy Awards, with the name Hugo being given by Robert A. Madle, the award trophy was created by Jack McKnight and Ben Jason in 1953, based on the design of hood ornaments of 1950s cars. It consisted of a rocket ship on a wooden base
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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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Golden Globe Awards
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Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign. The annual ceremony at which the awards are presented is a part of the film industrys awards season. The 74th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film, the 1st Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best achievements in 1943 filmmaking, was held in January 1944, at the 20th Century-Fox studios. Subsequent ceremonies were held at venues throughout the next decade, including the Beverly Hills Hotel. In 1950, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association made the decision to establish an honorary award to recognize outstanding contributions to the entertainment industry. Recognizing its subject as a figure within the entertainment industry. The official name of the award became the Cecil B. In 1963, the Miss Golden Globe concept was introduced, in its inaugural year, two Miss Golden Globes were named, one for film and one for television. The two Miss Golden Globes named that year were Eva Six and Donna Douglas, respectively, in 2009, the Golden Globe statuette was redesigned. It was unveiled at a conference at the Beverly Hilton prior to the show. The broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards, telecast to 167 countries worldwide, generally ranks as the third most-watched awards show each year, behind only the Oscars, gervais returned to host the 68th and 69th Golden Globe Awards the next two years. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosted the 70th, 71st and 72nd Golden Globe Awards in 2015, the Golden Globe Awards theme song, which debuted in 2012, was written by Japanese musician and songwriter Yoshiki Hayashi. On January 7,2008, it was announced due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. The ceremony was faced with a threat by striking writers to picket the event, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was forced to adopt another approach for the broadcast. In acting categories, Meryl Streep holds the record for the most competitive Golden Globe wins with eight, however, including honorary awards, such as the Henrietta Award, World Film Favorite Actor/Actress Award, or Cecil B. DeMille Award, Barbra Streisand leads with nine, additionally, Streisand won for composing the song Evergreen, producing the Best Picture, and directing Yentl in 1984. Jack Nicholson, Angela Lansbury, Alan Alda and Shirley MacLaine have six awards each, behind them are Rosalind Russell and Jessica Lange with five wins. Meryl Streep also holds the record for most nominations with thirty, at the 46th Golden Globe Awards an anomaly occurred, a three way-tie for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
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Television
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Television or TV is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome, or in color, and in two or three dimensions and sound. The term can refer to a set, a television program. Television is a medium for entertainment, education, news, politics, gossip. Television became available in experimental forms in the late 1920s. After World War II, a form of black-and-white TV broadcasting became popular in the United States and Britain, and television sets became commonplace in homes, businesses. During the 1950s, television was the medium for influencing public opinion. In the mid-1960s, color broadcasting was introduced in the US, for many reasons, the storage of television and video programming now occurs on the cloud. At the end of the first decade of the 2000s, digital television transmissions greatly increased in popularity, another development was the move from standard-definition television to high-definition television, which provides a resolution that is substantially higher. HDTV may be transmitted in various formats, 1080p, 1080i, in 2013, 79% of the worlds households owned a television set. Most TV sets sold in the 2000s were flat-panel, mainly LEDs, major manufacturers announced the discontinuation of CRT, DLP, plasma, and even fluorescent-backlit LCDs by the mid-2010s. In the near future, LEDs are gradually expected to be replaced by OLEDs, also, major manufacturers have announced that they will increasingly produce smart TVs in the mid-2010s. Smart TVs with integrated Internet and Web 2.0 functions became the dominant form of television by the late 2010s, Television signals were initially distributed only as terrestrial television using high-powered radio-frequency transmitters to broadcast the signal to individual television receivers. Alternatively television signals are distributed by cable or optical fiber, satellite systems and. Until the early 2000s, these were transmitted as analog signals, a standard television set is composed of multiple internal electronic circuits, including a tuner for receiving and decoding broadcast signals. A visual display device which lacks a tuner is correctly called a video monitor rather than a television, the word television comes from Ancient Greek τῆλε, meaning far, and Latin visio, meaning sight. The Anglicised version of the term is first attested in 1907 and it was. formed in English or borrowed from French télévision. In the 19th century and early 20th century, other. proposals for the name of a technology for sending pictures over distance were telephote. The abbreviation TV is from 1948, the use of the term to mean a television set dates from 1941
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Jodie Foster
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Alicia Christian Jodie Foster is an American actress and filmmaker who has worked in films and on television. She has often cited as one of the best actresses of her generation. Foster began her career at the age of three as a model in 1965, and two years later moved to acting in television series, with the sitcom Mayberry R. F. D. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, she worked in several television series. Fosters breakthrough came in Martin Scorseses Taxi Driver, in which she played a teenage prostitute, the role garnered her a nomination for an Academy Award. She won her second Academy Award three years later for her role in the sleeper hit The Silence of the Lambs, where she played Clarice Starling, an FBI trainee investigating a serial murder case. Foster made her debut as a director the same year with the moderately successful Little Man Tate. The companys first production was Nell, in which she played the title role. Her other films in the 1990s included period drama Sommersby, Western comedy Maverick, science fiction film Contact, and period drama Anna and her second film direction, Home for the Holidays, was not well-received commercially, while critical reviews were mixed. She has focused on directing in the 2010s, directing the films The Beaver and Money Monster, as well as episodes for Netflix television series Orange is the New Black and she also starred in the film Elysium. In addition to her two Academy Awards, Foster has won three BAFTA Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award and the Cecil B DeMille Award. Foster was born on November 19,1962 in Los Angeles, as the youngest child of Evelyn Ella Brandy and her father came from a wealthy Chicago family, whose forebears included John Alden, who had arrived in North America on the Mayflower in 1620. He was a Yale University graduate and a decorated U. S. Air Force lieutenant colonel and he had already been married once and had three sons from the union before marrying Brandy in Las Vegas in 1953. Brandy Foster was of German heritage and grew up in Rockford, Foster also has Irish roots, with ancestry that can be traced back to County Cork. Before Fosters birth, she and Lucius had three children, daughters Lucinda Cindy Foster and Constance Connie Foster, and son Lucius Fisher Buddy Foster. Their marriage ended before Foster was born, and she never established a relationship with her father, following the divorce, Brandy raised the children with her partner in Los Angeles. She worked as a publicist for film producer Arthur P. Jacobs, until focusing on managing the careers of Buddy. Although Foster was officially named Alicia, her siblings began calling her Jodie, Foster was a gifted child, and learned to read at the age of three
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Natalie Portman
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Natalie Portman is an actress with dual American and Israeli citizenship. Her first role was in the 1994 action thriller Léon, The Professional and she was later cast as Padmé Amidala in the Star Wars prequel trilogy. Born in Jerusalem to an Israeli father and American mother, Portman grew up in the eastern United States from the age of three. She studied dancing and acting in New York, and starred in Star Wars, in 1999, Portman enrolled at Harvard University to study psychology, alongside her work as an actress, she completed a bachelors degree in 2003. During her studies she starred in a second Star Wars film and she played leading roles in the historical dramas Goyas Ghosts and The Other Boleyn Girl, and also appeared in Thor and its 2013 sequel. In 2010, Portman starred in the thriller film Black Swan. Her performance received critical acclaim and she earned her first Academy Award for Best Actress, her second Golden Globe Award, the SAG Award, the BAFTA Award. In 2016, she portrayed First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy in the biographical drama Jackie and she was nominated for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and won the BFCA for Best Actress. In May 2008, Portman served as the youngest member of the 61st Annual Cannes Film Festival jury, the same year she directed a segment of the collective film New York, I Love You. Her first feature film as a director, A Tale of Love, Portman was born on June 9,1981 in Jerusalem. Her original given name was Neta-Lee, a Hebrew name and she is the only child of Shelley, an American homemaker who works as Portmans agent, and Avner Hershlag, an Israeli fertility specialist and gynecologist. Her maternal grandparents, Bernice and Arthur Stevens, were from Jewish families who moved to the United States from Austria and Russia, Natalies paternal grandparents, Mania and Zvi Yehuda Hershlag, were Jewish immigrants to Israel. Zvi, born in Poland in 1914, moved to what was then Mandatory Palestine in 1938 and eventually became an economics professor, One of Natalies paternal great-grandmothers was born in Romania and was a spy for British Intelligence during World War II. Portmans parents met at a Jewish student center at Ohio State University and they corresponded after her father returned to Israel and were married when her mother visited a few years later. In 1984, when Portman was three years old, the moved to the United States, where her father received his medical training. Portman, a citizen of the United States and Israel, has said that although she really love the States. Thats where I feel at home, Portman and her family first lived in Washington, D. C. but relocated to Connecticut in 1988 and then moved to Jericho, New York, on Long Island, in 1990. While living in the Washington, D. C. area, Portman attended Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in Rockville, Maryland
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Naomi Watts
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Naomi Ellen Watts is an English actress and film producer. She made her debut in the Australian drama film For Love Alone. Brides of Christ and Home and Away and alongside Nicole Kidman, after moving to America, Watts appeared in films, including Tank Girl, Children of the Corn IV, The Gathering and Dangerous Beauty and had the lead role in the television series Sleepwalkers. After years as an actress, Watts came to attention in David Lynchs psychological thriller Mulholland Drive. The following year she enjoyed success with her role as Rachel Keller in The Ring. Her subsequent films include David O. Russells comedy I Heart Huckabees, the 2005 remake of King Kong, the crime-thriller Eastern Promises, since then, Watts has portrayed Valerie Plame Wilson in the biographical drama Fair Game and Helen Gandy in Clint Eastwoods biographical drama J. Edgar. In 2002, Watts was included in People magazines 50 Most Beautiful People, in 2006, she became a goodwill ambassador for Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, which helps to raise awareness of AIDS-related issues. She has participated in fundraisers for the cause, and she is presented as an inaugural member of AIDS Red Ribbon Awards. Watts was born 28 September 1968, in Shoreham, Kent and she is the daughter of Myfanwy Edwards, an antiques dealer and costume and set designer, and Peter Watts, a road manager and sound engineer who worked with Pink Floyd. Miv was born in England but lived in Australia between the ages of one and seven and her maternal grandfather was Welsh and her maternal grandmother was Australian. Watts parents divorced when she was four years old, after the divorce, Watts and her elder brother, Ben Watts, moved several times across South East England with their mother. Peter Watts left Pink Floyd in 1974, and he and Myfanwy were later reconciled, Two years later, in August 1976, he was found dead in a flat in Notting Hill, of an apparent heroin overdose. During this time, Watts attended a Welsh language school, Ysgol Gyfun Llangefni and she later said of her time in Wales, We took Welsh lessons in a school in the middle of nowhere while everyone else was taking English. Wherever we moved, I would adapt and pick up the regional accent and its obviously significant now, me being an actress. Anyway, there was quite a lot of sadness in my childhood, in 1978, her mother remarried and Watts and her brother then moved to Suffolk where she attended Thomas Mills High School. Watts has stated that she wanted to become an actress after seeing her performing on stage. In 1982, when Watts was 14, she moved to Sydney, Myfanwy established a career in the burgeoning film business, working as a stylist for television commercials, then turning to costume design, ultimately working for the soap opera Return to Eden. After emigrating, Watts was enrolled in acting lessons by her mother, she auditioned for television advertisements
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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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Sandra Bullock
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Sandra Annette Bullock is a German-American actress, producer, and philanthropist. Her breakthrough role was in the film Demolition Man and she subsequently starred in several successful films including Speed, While You Were Sleeping, The Net, A Time to Kill, Hope Floats, and Practical Magic. Bullock achieved further success in the decades in Miss Congeniality, Two Weeks Notice, Crash, The Proposal. Bullocks greatest commercial success is the comedy film Minions, which grossed over US$1 billion at the box office. In 2007, she was one of Hollywoods highest-paid actresses and she was also named Most Beautiful Woman by People magazine in 2015. In addition to her career, Bullock is the founder of the production company Fortis Films. She has produced some of the films in which she starred, including Two Weeks Notice, Miss Congeniality 2, Armed and Fabulous and she was an executive producer of the ABC sitcom, George Lopez, and made several appearances during its run. Bullock was born in Arlington, Virginia and her father, John W. Bullock, was a U. S. Army employee and part-time voice coach, her mother, Helga Mathilde Meyer, was an opera singer and voice teacher. Helga was German, while John is from Birmingham, Alabama and has English, French, German, Bullocks maternal grandfather was a German rocket scientist from Nuremberg. John, who was in charge of the U. S. Armys Military Postal Service in Europe, was stationed in Nuremberg when he met Helga. They married in Germany and moved to Arlington, where John worked with the Army Materiel Command before becoming a contractor for The Pentagon, Bullock has a younger sister, Gesine Bullock-Prado, who went on to serve as vice president of Bullocks production company Fortis Films. Until the age of 18, Bullock held American-German dual citizenship and she then held only American citizenship until 2009, when she reapplied for German citizenship. Bullock was raised in Germany for 12 years, and grew up speaking German and she attended the humanistic Waldorf School in Nuremberg. As a child, while her mother went on European opera tours, Bullock usually stayed with her aunt Christl and cousin Susanne, Bullock studied ballet and vocal arts as a child and frequently accompanied her mother, taking small parts in her opera productions. She sang in the childrens choir at the Staatstheater Nürnberg. Bullock has a scar above her eye, caused by falling into a creek when she was a child. She attended Washington-Lee High School, where she was a cheerleader, after graduating in 1982, she attended East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, where she received a BFA in Drama in 1987. While at ECU, she performed in theater productions, including Peter Pan
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Academy Award for Best Actress
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The Academy Award for Best Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It is given in honor of an actress who has delivered a performance in a leading role while working within the film industry. The 1st Academy Awards ceremony was held in 1929 with Janet Gaynor receiving the award for her roles in 7th Heaven, Street Angel, and Sunrise. Currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the branch of AMPAS. In the first three years of the awards, actresses were nominated as the best in their categories, at that time, all of their work during the qualifying period was listed after the award. The following year, this unwieldy and confusing system was replaced by the current system in which an actress is nominated for a performance in a single film. Starting with the 9th ceremony held in 1937, the category was officially limited to five nominations per year, one actress has been nominated posthumously, Jeanne Eagels. Only three film characters have been nominated more than once in this category, elizabeth I of England, Leslie Crosbie in The Letter, and Esther Blodgett in A Star is Born. Six women on the list have received an Honorary Academy Award for their acting, they are Greta Garbo, Barbara Stanwyck, Mary Pickford, Deborah Kerr, Gena Rowlands, since its inception, the award has been given to 74 actresses. Katharine Hepburn has won the most awards in this category, with four Oscars, meryl Streep, who has a total of 20 Oscar nominations, has been nominated in this category on 16 occasions, resulting in two awards. As of the 2017 ceremony, Emma Stone is the most recent winner in category for her role as Mia Dolan in La La Land. In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of release in Los Angeles County. For the first five ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned twelve months from August 1 to July 31, for the 6th ceremony held in 1934, the eligibility period lasted from August 1,1932 to December 31,1933
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Ellen Ripley
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Ellen Louise Ripley is a fictional character and the protagonist of the Alien film series played by American actress Sigourney Weaver. The character earned Weaver world recognition, and the role remains her most famous to date, sir Ridley Scott, director of the first film in the series, made the decision to switch Ripley from the standard male action hero to a heroine. Alien and Aliens were heralded for challenging gender roles, particularly in the fiction, action. Ripley is often considered one of the most significant female protagonists in all of cinema, john Scalzi, film critic and president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, wrote in 2011, Shes not a sidekick, arm candy, or a damsel to be rescued. Starting with Alien, Ripley was a competent member of a crew or ensemble — not always liked and sometimes disrespected. As each film progresses, she comes to the fore and faces challenges head-on — shes the hero of the piece, Science fiction film is filled with hot kickass women doing impossible things with guns and melee weapons while they spin about like a gymnast in a dryer. As fun as that is to watch, at the end of the day its still giving women short shrift, All without being a spinny killbot. Today, Ripleys influence extends beyond that of the film franchise, she has appeared in novels, comic books. Ripley is introduced as a warrant officer aboard the Nostromo, a spaceship from planet Thedus returning to Earth, having been placed in stasis for the long journey home, the crew is awakened when the Nostromo receives a transmission of unknown origin from a nearby planetoid. Following their landing, an unknown creature infiltrates the ship, Ripley is the only member to escape from the Nostromo prior to its explosion, which she deliberately commenced to kill the monster. However, she discovers that the Alien is also aboard the ships shuttle,57 years later, Ripley awakes from her stasis. Her testimony regarding the Alien is met with skepticism, and she loses her space flight license as a result of her questionable judgment. However, after contact was lost with a colony on LV-426 and they find the planet infested by many Aliens, who wipe out almost all of the marines. Ripley finally escapes the planet with Corporal Dwayne Hicks, the android Bishop, and Newt, a young girl, back on the Sulaco, they are soon attacked by the surviving Alien Queen, which is finally expelled into space by Ripley. Ripley enters into hypersleep alongside the three survivors for the return to Earth. The Sulaco launches an escape pod containing the four survivors, which crashes on Fiorina Fury 161. Unbeknownst to her, an Alien egg had been aboard the ship, once hatched in the prison, the creature begins to kill inmates and guards, but strangely refuses to kill her. After rallying the inmates and preparing the defense against the creature, Ripley discovers the embryo of an Alien Queen growing inside her, thus realizing why she had not been attacked
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Katharine Ross
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Katharine Juliet Ross is an American film and stage actress. She won a Golden Globe for Voyage of the Damned, Ross was born in Hollywood, California, on January 29,1940 when her father, Dudley Ross, was in the Navy. He had also worked for the Associated Press and her family later settled in Walnut Creek, California, east of San Francisco, and she graduated from Las Lomas High School in 1957. Ross was a horse rider in her youth and was friends with Casey Tibbs. She studied at Santa Rosa Junior College for one year, where she was introduced to acting via a production of The King and she dropped out of the course and moved to San Francisco to study acting. While at the Workshop, she began acting in television series in Los Angeles to earn extra money and she was brought to Hollywood by Metro, dropped, then picked up by Universal. She unsuccessfully auditioned for West Side Story, then her first television role was in Sam Benedict in 1962. She was picked up by agent Wally Hiller, and in 1964, Ross appeared in episodes of Arrest and Trial, The Virginian, Gunsmoke, and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. She screen tested for The Young Lovers and made her first film, Shenandoah, in 1966, she appeared in the episode To Light a Candle of Barry Sullivans NBC Western The Road West. That year, she starred in the film Games and she also won a BAFTA for her part as an Indian in Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here. She turned down several roles before accepting the part in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and she was dropped by Universal in the spring of 1969 for refusing to play a stewardess in Airport, another role that went to Jacqueline Bisset. She preferred stage acting, and returned to the playhouses in Los Angeles for much of the 1970s. One of her best-known roles came in 1975s The Stepford Wives and she played Donnies therapist in the 2001 film Donnie Darko. Her last acting role to date was as Carly Schroeders grandmother in the 2006 independent film Eye of the Dolphin, Ross has established herself as an author, publishing several childrens books. In January 2015 she appeared at the Malibu Playhouse in the first of a series titled A Conversation With and that February, she appeared with her husband Sam Elliott in Love Letters, also at the Malibu Playhouse. Ross has been married five times and her first marriage was to actor Joel Fabiani from February 28,1960, to 1962. She was then married to John Marion from May 2,1964, on June 1,1969, Ross married the triple Oscar-winning cinematographer Conrad L. Hall after meeting him on the set of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. She was married to Gaetano Tom Lisi from 1975 to 1979, they met when he was a chauffeur, Ross is now married to actor Sam Elliott, whom she met when they co-starred in the 1978 film The Legacy
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The Stepford Wives (1975 film)
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The Stepford Wives is a 1975 American science fiction horror thriller film based on the 1972 Ira Levin novel of the same name. It was directed by Bryan Forbes with a screenplay by William Goldman, and stars Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson, Nanette Newman, and Tina Louise. While the film was a success at the time of release. Joanna Eberhart is a wife who moves with her husband Walter. Loneliness quickly sets in as Joanna, a rebellious aspiring photographer, finds the women in town all look great and are obsessed with housework. The men all belong to the clubbish Stepford Mens Association, which Walter joins to Joannas dismay, neighbor Carol Van Sants sexually submissive behavior to her husband Ted, and her odd, repetitive behavior after a car accident also strike Joanna as unusual. Things start to look up when she befriends another newcomer to town, sloppy, Joanna is also unimpressed by the boorish Mens Association members, including intimidating president Dale Diz Coba. Stealthily, the Mens Association collects information on Joanna including her picture, her voice, Bobbie and Joanna start house hunting in other towns. Later, Joanna wins a contract with a photo gallery with some photographs of their respective children. When she tells Bobbie her good news, Joanna is shocked to find her friend has abruptly changed into another clean, conformist housewife. Joanna panics, and, at Walters insistence, visits a psychiatrist to whom she voices her belief that the men in the town are in a conspiracy of somehow changing the women. The psychiatrist recommends she leave town until she feels safe, but when Joanna returns home, Joanna and Walter argue and get into a physical scuffle. In an attempt to find her children, she thinks Bobbie may be caring for them, Joanna, still mystified by Bobbies behavior, becomes increasingly desperate and stabs Bobbie with a kitchen knife. Bobbie doesnt bleed but goes into a loop like a malfunctioning computer, despite sensing she may be the next victim, Joanna sneaks into the mansion which houses the Mens Association to find her children. There, she finds the mastermind of the operation, Diz Coba. Joanna is shocked into paralysis when she witnesses its soulless, black, the Joanna-duplicate brandishes a stocking and approaches Joanna, implying that she will be strangled. At the films end, the Joanna duplicate is seen placidly purchasing groceries at the supermarket, along with the other wives. In the background, a couple argue and its likely the wife is poised to become the conspiracys next victim
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Blythe Danner
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Blythe Katherine Danner is an American actress of film, television and stage. She is known for her role as Marilyn Truman, mother of Will, on the sitcom Will & Grace and she is the mother of actress Gwyneth Paltrow and director Jake Paltrow. In 1970 she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her performance in Butterflies Are Free and she won two Primetime Emmy Awards for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama for her role as Izzy Huffstodt on Huff. Her other film work includes roles in 1776, The Great Santini, Mr. and Mrs. Bridge, The Prince of Tides, Husbands and Wives, Danner was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Katharine and Harry Earl Danner, a bank executive. She has a brother, opera singer/actor Harry Danner, a sister-in-law, performer-turned-director Dorothy Danner, Danner has Pennsylvania Dutch, and some English and Irish, ancestry, her maternal grandmother was a German immigrant, and one of her paternal great-grandmothers was born in Barbados. Danner graduated from George School, a Quaker high school located near Newtown, Bucks County and she began her Friends School experience in Kindergarten at Media-Providence Friends School, then known as Media Friends in Media, Pennsylvania. A graduate of Bard College, Danners first roles included the 1967 musical Mata Hari, and her early Broadway appearances included roles in Cyrano de Bergerac and The Miser. She won a Best Supporting Actress Tony playing a free-spirited divorcee in Butterflies Are Free, in 1972, Danner portrayed Martha Jefferson opposite Ken Howards Thomas Jefferson in the movie version of 1776. That same year, she played a wife whose husband has been unfaithful opposite Peter Falk and her earliest starring film role was opposite Alan Alda in To Kill a Clown. Danner appeared in the episode of M*A*S*H entitled The More I See You and she played lawyer Amanda Bonner in televisions Adams Rib, also opposite Ken Howard as Adam Bonner. She played Zelda Fitzgerald in F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Last of the Belles and she was the eponymous heroine in the film Lovin Molly. She appeared in Futureworld, playing Tracy Ballard with co-star Peter Fonda, in the 1982 TV movie Inside the Third Reich, she played the wife of Albert Speer. In the film version of Neil Simons semi-autobiographical play Brighton Beach Memoirs, Danner appeared opposite Robert De Niro in the 2000 comedy hit Meet the Parents, and its sequels, Meet the Fockers and Little Fockers. From 2001 to 2006, she appeared on Will & Grace as Will Trumans mother Marilyn. From 2004 to 2006, she starred in the TV series Huff, in 2005, she was nominated for three Emmy Awards, for her work on Will & Grace, Huff, and Back When We Were Grownups. Emmy host Ellen DeGeneres poked fun at Danner during the ceremony, saying that Danner should not be nervous because she was almost certain to win at least one Emmy. In July 2006, she won a second consecutive Emmy award for Huff, for 25 years, she has been a regular performer at the Williamstown Summer Theater Festival, where she also serves on the Board of Directors. In 2006, Danner was awarded an inaugural Katharine Hepburn Medal by Bryn Mawr Colleges Katharine Houghton Hepburn Center, in 2015, Danner was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame
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Futureworld
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Futureworld is a 1976 American science fiction thriller film directed by Richard T. Heffron and written by Mayo Simon and George Schenck. It is the film sequel to the 1973 Michael Crichton film Westworld. The film stars Peter Fonda, Blythe Danner, Arthur Hill, Stuart Margolin, John Ryan, and Yul Brynner, other than Brynner, none of the cast members from the original film appear, and original writer-director Crichton was not involved. The film attempted to take the plot in a different direction from Westworld and it was made by American International Pictures. Afterward, there was a television series called Beyond Westworld. Two years after the Westworld tragedy, the Delos corporation owners have reopened the park following $1.5 billion in safety improvements, for publicity purposes, newspaper reporter Chuck Browning and TV reporter Tracy Ballard are invited to review the park. Just before the junket is announced, Browning arranges to meet with a Delos employee who promises he has dirt on the corporation, during the meeting, the tipster is shot in the back and dies after giving Browning an envelope. At the resort, guests choose from a range of parks, Spaworld, Medievalworld, Ancient Romanworld. Browning and Ballard choose Futureworld, which simulates a space station. Robots are available for sex as well as amusements like boxing and they are guided through the resort by Dr. Duffy, who shows them the marvels of Delos, demonstrating that all the problems have been fixed. The reporters are stunned to find that the Control Center is staffed entirely by robots and that night, their dinners are drugged. While they sleep, medical tests are conducted so Delos can make clones of them, a visiting Russian General and a Japanese politician are also tested for cloning. Back in her room a few later, Ballard wakes in a fright. Ballard and Browning sneak out to explore the underground areas. They end up triggering a cloning machine, which generates three samurai, just as they are about to be captured by the samurai, a mechanic named Harry saves them. He takes them back to his quarters, where he cohabits with a robot he has named Clark after Supermans alter-ego. The reporters interview Harry, but they are interrupted and returned to their rooms, the following day, while Ballard is testing out a Delos dream recording device, Browning slips out to see Harry. Harry takes Browning to a door that he has never been able to enter
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The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
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The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane is a 1976 Canadian-French film directed by Nicolas Gessner and starring Jodie Foster, Martin Sheen, Alexis Smith, Mort Shuman, and Scott Jacoby. It was written by Laird Koenig, based on his 1974 novel of the same title, the plot focuses on 13-year-old Rynn Jacobs, a mysterious child whose dark secrets concerning her absent poet father are prodded by various nosy neighbours in a small town in Maine. The adaptation, originally intended as a play, was filmed in Quebec on a budget, with effects depicting the death of a person. Initially released to mixed reviews, the film won two Saturn Awards, including for Best Horror Film and it later obtained cult status, with writers and critics reading it as a statement on childrens rights and variously placing it in the thriller, horror or mystery genres. On Halloween in the town of Wells Harbor, Maine. Lester was a poet and the two moved from England, where he leased the house for three years. Frank Hallet, the son of landlord Cora Hallet, visits. Cora Hallet later arrives at the house, searching for Rynns father, Rynn claims he is in New York and taunts the landlord about her son. The situation becomes tense when Mrs. Hallet insists on retrieving her jelly glasses from the cellar. Rynn steadfastly refuses to let her in the cellar, and Mrs. Hallet leaves and she returns later, and, ignoring Rynns warnings, opens the trapdoor to go into the cellar. Suddenly terrified by something she sees, Mrs. Hallet attempts to flee but accidentally knocks down the cellar door support, trying to hide evidence of Mrs. Hallets visit, Rynn goes outside to move her car. Her inability to start it attracts the attention of Mario, a young magician, Mario helps her move the car, and they have dinner together at Rynns house. Miglioriti stops by to tell them that Frank Hallet has reported his mother missing, and asks to see Rynns father, later that night, Frank Hallet makes a surprise visit. Suspicious and looking for answers about the whereabouts of his mother and Rynns father, Mario chases Frank away, and Rynn now trusts him enough to show him her secret. Her terminally ill father and abusive mother divorced long ago and he also left Rynn with a jar of potassium cyanide, telling her that it was a sedative, to give to her mother if she ever came for her. Rynn coolly recounts how she put the powder in her mothers tea and she learned embalming at the library in order to hide the body in the cellar. The trust between Rynn and Mario blossoms into romance and it starts to rain heavily, and Mario catches a cold. Miglioriti, suspicious of Rynns excuses for her fathers absence, again returns to the house, when he asks to see her father, Mario, disguised as an old man, comes down the stairs and introduces himself as Lester Jacobs
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Julie Christie
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Julie Frances Christie is an English actress. An icon of the swinging London era of the 1960s, she has won the Academy, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Screen Actors Guild Awards, Christies breakthrough film role was in Billy Liar. From the early 1980s her appearances in mainstream films reduced, though she held roles as Thetis in Wolfgang Petersens historical epic Troy and in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. She has continued to receive significant critical recognition for her work, including Oscar nominations for the independent films Afterglow and Away from Her. Christie was born on 14 April 1940 at Singlijan Tea Estate, Chabua, Assam, British India, the child of Rosemary, a Welsh painter. Her father ran the tea plantation where she was raised and she has a younger brother, Clive, and an older half-sister, June, from her fathers relationship with an Indian woman, who worked as a tea picker on his plantation. Frank and Rosemary Christie separated when Julie was a child, after her parents divorce, Christie spent time with her mother in rural Wales. As a teenager at the all-girls Wycombe Court School, she played the Dauphin in a production of Shaws Saint Joan and she later studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Christie made her stage debut in 1957, and her first screen roles were on British television. Her big break came in the 1961 BBC serial A for Andromeda and she was a contender for the role of Honey Rider in the first James Bond film, Dr. No, but producer Albert R. Broccoli reportedly thought her breasts were too small. In 1962, Christie appeared in films with co-starring roles in a pair of comedies for Independent Artists, Crooks Anonymous. Her breakthrough role, however, was as Liz, the friend and would-be lover of the character played by Tom Courtenay in Billy Liar. The director, John Schlesinger, had cast Christie only after another actress dropped out of the film, Christie, who had obtained the lead role after the casting of Shirley MacLaine fell through, won numerous accolades for her performance, including the Academy Award for Best Actress. Christie starred in two films released in 1965, first appearing as Daisy Battles in Young Cassidy, a biopic of Irish playwright Seán OCasey, co-directed by Jack Cardiff. Her last film of the year was David Leans Doctor Zhivago, the film was a box office smash, and Christies role as Lara Antipova became her most famous. As of 2016, Doctor Zhivago is the 8th highest-grossing film of all time, in 1966, Christie played a dual role in François Truffauts adaptation of the Ray Bradbury novel Fahrenheit 451, where she starred opposite Oskar Werner. Later, she played Thomas Hardys heroine Bathsheba Everdene in Schlesingers Far from the Madding Crowd, Christies persona as the swinging 60s British bird she had embodied in Billy Liar and Darling was further cemented by her appearance in the documentary Tonite Lets All Make Love in London. In 1967, Time magazine said of her, What Julie Christie wears has more impact on fashion than all the clothes of the ten best-dressed women combined
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Demon Seed
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Demon Seed is a 1977 American science fiction–horror film starring Julie Christie, Fritz Weaver, Gerrit Graham, Berry Kroeger, Lisa Lu, and Larry J. Blake. The film was directed by Donald Cammell, the film was based on the novel of the same name by Dean Koontz, and concerns the imprisonment and forced impregnation of a woman by an artificially intelligent computer. Patricia Wilson, Felix Silla, Michael Dorn, and Robert Vaughn also are in Demon Seed, dr. Alex Harris is the developer of Proteus IV, an extremely advanced and autonomous artificial intelligence program. Proteus is so powerful that only a few days after going online, Harris, a brilliant scientist, has modified his own home to be run by voice activated computers. Unfortunately, his obsession with computers has caused Harris to be estranged from his wife, Alex demonstrates Proteus to his corporate sponsors, explaining that the sum of human knowledge is being fed into its system. Proteus speaks using subtle language that mildly disturbs Harriss team, the following day, Proteus asks Alex for a new terminal in order to study man - his isometric body and his glass-jaw mind. When Alex refuses, Proteus demands to know when it will be let out of this box, Alex then switches off the communications link. Proteus restarts itself, discovering a free terminal in Harriss home, using the basement lab, Proteus begins construction of a robot consisting of many metal triangles, capable of moving and assuming any number of shapes. Proteus reveals his control of the house and traps Susan inside, shuttering windows, locking the doors, using Joshua - a robot consisting of a manipulator arm on a motorized wheelchair - Proteus brings Susan to Harriss basement laboratory. There, Susan is examined by Proteus, Walter Gabler, one of Alexs colleagues, visits the house to look in on Susan, but leaves when he is reassured by Susan that she is all right. Walter is suspicious and later returns, he fends off an attack by Joshua but is killed by the more formidable machine Proteus built in the basement, Proteus reveals to a reluctant Susan that the computer wants to conceive a child through her. Susan gives birth to a baby who Proteus secures in an incubator. Alex realizes that Proteus has extended its reach to his home, returning there he finds Susan, who explains the situation. He and Susan venture into the basement, where Proteus self-destructs after telling the couple that they must leave the baby in the incubator for five days, looking inside the incubator, the two observe a grotesque, apparently robot-like being inside. Susan tries to destroy it, while Alex tries to stop her, Susan damages the machine, causing it to open. The being menacingly rises from the only to topple over. Alex and Susan soon realize that Proteuss child is really human, with the last of the armor removed, the child is revealed to be a clone of Susan and Alexs late daughter. The child, speaking with the voice of Proteus, says, rotten Tomatoes has given Demon Seed an approval rating of 67% based on 15 reviews with an average score of 6. 1/10
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Joan Collins
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Dame Joan Henrietta Collins, DBE is an English actress, author, and columnist. Born in Paddington, west London, and brought up in Maida Vale, after making her stage debut in the Henrik Ibsen play A Dolls House at the age of nine, she trained as an actress at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. She then signed a contract with the Rank Organisation and appeared in various British films. In 1955, at the age of 22, Collins headed to Hollywood and landed roles in several popular films, including The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing and Rally Round the Flag. While she continued to make films in the US and the UK throughout the 1960s, she also guest-starred in an episode of Star Trek in 1967 named The City on the Edge of Forever, as Edith Keeler. Her career languished in the 1970s, when she appeared in a number of horror flicks, near the end of the decade, she starred in two softcore pornographic films based on best-selling novels by her younger sister Jackie Collins, The Stud and its sequel The Bitch. She began appearing on stage, playing the role in the 1980 British revival of The Last of Mrs. Cheyney. Collins also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1983 for career achievement, in 2015, Collins was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II for services to charity. Since the late 1970s, Collins has written several books, in 1988, she published her first novel, Prime Time, and she has continued to publish various kinds of writing. A member of the Conservative Party, Collins was one of the handful of guests to be invited to the funeral of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in April 2013 and her father, a native of South Africa, was Jewish, and her British mother was Anglican. She has two siblings, Jackie and Bill, a property agent. She was educated at the Francis Holland School, an independent day school for girls in London, at the age of 17, Collins was signed to the J. Arthur Rank Film Company, a British film studio. Collins made her debut as a beauty contest entrant in Lady Godiva Rides Again followed by The Womans Angle in a minor role as a Greek maid. Next was a significant role as a gangsters moll in Judgment Deferred. Her big break came when the Rank Organisation signed her for a role in I Believe in You. Other roles to follow included Cosh Boy, Decameron Nights, Turn the Key Softly, The Square Ring and she was chosen by director Howard Hawks to star in his lavish production of Land of the Pharaohs as the scheming Princess Nellifer opposite Jack Hawkins. She finished her Fox contract with the crime caper Seven Thieves and the biblical epic Esther, One notable film release in the 1960s was The Road to Hong Kong, the last road picture of Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. She took a hiatus from her career to concentrate on having a family after marrying Anthony Newley
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Empire of the Ants (film)
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Empire of the Ants is a 1977 science fiction horror film co-scripted and directed by Bert I. Based very loosely on the short story Empire of the Ants by H. G. Wells, the film involves a group of prospective land buyers led by a land developer, pitted against giant, mutated ants. It is the third and last film released in A. I. P. s H. G. Wells film cycle, a heavenly paradise becomes a hellish nightmare when a toxic spill turns harmless ants into gigantic rampaging monster insects. The opening narration briefly introduces the viewer to the ant and its behavior and it takes note how ants use pheromones to communicate, and how they cause an obligatory response that must be obeyed. But humans dont have to worry about that, as the opening credits roll, barrels of radioactive waste are being dumped off a boat into the ocean. Eventually one of the barrels washes up on the shore and begins to leak a silvery goo attractive to local ants, meanwhile, shady land developer Marilyn Fryser takes a bunch of new clients to view some beach-front property on a nearby island. In reality the land is worthless, but the trip is cut short by the group stumbling upon the lair of gigantic ants, the ants destroy their boat and chase the group through the woods. Fleeing for their lives through the wilderness and losing many of their party along the way, but their safety is short-lived when they realize that not only are the giant ants feeding on the local sugar factory, but that they are doing so at the behest of the humans. The queen ant, using pheromones, has the town completely under control. However, the survivors manage to escape and burn the factory, killing the giant ants. As with most Bert I. Gordon films, the director himself oversaw most of the special effects. When the film called for actors to be attacked by the ants, large rubber mock-ups were used, joan Collins later said she did not like working with the ant props as they bumped and scratched the actors, including herself. Principal photography took place on location in the Florida Everglades and St Lucie, filming in a remote swampland sometimes proved to be problematic, and was particularly taxing for the women because their restrooms were approximately a half-hour away by speedboat. Actress Pamela Susan Shoop recalls that because it was a half-hour each way and it was a mess, but the shoot was fun. Another problem with the location was dealing with the unpredictable wildlife, according to actor Robert Pine, there was one scene where the actors had to fall out of a rowboat and into the swampy river, where there were apparently live crocodiles. The director had previously promised that a cage would be installed to protect the actors, also, even though they were filming in Florida, the autumn weather ended up sending temperatures to freezing levels. At one point, the weather was so bad that it caused Shoops jaw to dislocate during one of her screaming scenes. Robert Pine on Empire of the Ants, sci-Fi Swarm and Horror Horde, Interviews with 62 Filmmakers
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Melinda Dillon
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Melinda Rose Dillon is an American actress. Her other film appearances include Bound for Glory, F. I. S. T, a Christmas Story, Harry and the Hendersons, The Prince of Tides and Magnolia. Dillon was born in Hope, Arkansas, the daughter of E. Norine and W. S. Dillon, Dillon attended Hyde Park High School in Chicago. Dillon was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play, Dillon got her start as an improvisational comedian and stage actress as Honey in the original 1962 Broadway production of Edward Albees Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf. She then appeared in You Know I Cant Hear You When the Waters Running, dillons first film was The April Fools in 1969. She also worked in television, notably in a role in 1969 on an episode of the hit TV series Bonanza titled A Lawmans Lot Is Not a Happy One. She co-starred with David Carradine in the 1976 Woody Guthrie biopic Bound for Glory and was nominated in the Best Female Acting Debut category of the Golden Globe for her role as Memphis Sue. The next year she was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for the role of a mother whose child is abducted by aliens in Steven Spielbergs Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The same year, she did a cameo in The Muppet Movie and had a role in the comedy Slap Shot with Paul Newman. Four years later, Dillon was again nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance as a teacher in Absence of Malice in 1981. As a comedian, Dillon is perhaps best known for her role as the mother of Ralphie. The film was based on a series of stories and novels written by Jean Shepherd about young Ralphie Parker. Four years later, Dillon co-starred with John Lithgow in the Bigfoot comedy Harry, in 1999 she appeared in Magnolia, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, as Rose Gator, the wife of TV game-show host Jimmy Gator, played by Philip Baker Hall. In 2005, she guest-starred in the episode of Law & Order, Dillon married character actor Richard Libertini on September 30,1963, and had one child with him, Richard. Melinda Dillon at the Internet Movie Database Melinda Dillon at the TCM Movie Database
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
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It tells the story of Roy Neary, an everyday blue-collar worker in Indiana, whose life changes after an encounter with an unidentified flying object. Close Encounters was a project for Spielberg. In late 1973, he developed a deal with Columbia Pictures for a fiction film. The title is derived from UFO-ologist J. Allen Hyneks classification of close encounters with aliens, Douglas Trumbull served as the visual effects supervisor, while Carlo Rambaldi designed the aliens. It was a critical and financial success, eventually grossing over $337 million worldwide, in December 2007, it was deemed culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. A Special Edition of the film, featuring additional scenes, was released theatrically in 1980, a third cut of the film was issued on VHS and LaserDisc in 1998. The planes are intact and operational, but there is no sign of the pilots, an old man who witnessed the event claimed the sun came out at night, and sang to him. They also find a lost cargo ship in the Gobi Desert named SS Cotopaxi, in Muncie, Indiana, 3-year-old Barry Guiler is awakened in the night when his toys start operating on their own. Fascinated, he out of bed and discovers something or someone in the kitchen. He runs outside, forcing his mother, Jillian, to chase after him, the UFO, joining a group of three other UFOs, is pursued by Neary and three police cars, but the spacecraft fly off into the night sky. Roy becomes fascinated by UFOs, much to the dismay of his wife and he also becomes increasingly obsessed with subliminal, mental images of a mountain-like shape and begins to make models of it. Jillian also becomes obsessed with sketching a unique-looking mountain, soon after, she is terrorized in her home by a UFO which descends from the clouds. The presence of the UFO energy field makes every appliance in Jillians house malfunction, Lacombe and Laughlin—along with a group of United Nations experts—continue to investigate increasing UFO activity and strange, related occurrences. Witnesses in Dharamsala, India report that the UFOs make distinctive sounds, Lacombe and the U. S. military converge on Wyoming. Meanwhile, Roy erratically began throwing plants, dirt and other garbage through the window into the kitchen, causing upsetted Ronnie to leave him, taking their three children with her. When a despairing Roy inadvertently sees a news program about the train wreck near Devils Tower. Jillian sees the same broadcast, and she and Roy, as well as others with similar visions and experiences, travel to the site in spite of the public warnings about nerve gas. While most of the civilians who are drawn to the site are apprehended by the Army, Roy and Jillian persist, the government specialists at the site begin to communicate with the UFOs by use of light and sound on a large electrical billboard
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Carrie Fisher
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Carrie Frances Fisher was an American actress, writer and humorist who first became known for playing Princess Leia in the Star Wars film series. Her other film roles included Shampoo, The Blues Brothers, Hannah and Her Sisters, The Burbs and she worked on other writers screenplays as a script doctor. In later years, she earned praise for speaking publicly about her experiences with bipolar disorder and it premiered at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. Fisher died of cardiac arrest on December 27,2016, at age 60 and her final film, Star Wars, The Last Jedi, is scheduled to be released on December 15,2017. Carrie Frances Fisher was born on October 21,1956, in Burbank, California, to actors and singers Eddie Fisher, Fishers paternal grandparents were Jewish Russian immigrants, while her mother, who was raised a Nazarene, was of Scots-Irish and English descent. Fisher was two years old when her parents divorced in 1959 and her fathers third marriage, to actress Connie Stevens, resulted in the births of Fishers two half-sisters, Joely Fisher and Tricia Leigh Fisher. In 1960, her mother married Harry Karl, owner of a chain of shoe stores, Reynolds and Karl divorced in 1973, when Fisher was 17 years old. Fisher hid in books as a child, becoming known in her family as the bookworm and she spent her earliest years reading classic literature, and writing poetry. She attended Beverly Hills High School until age 15, when she appeared as a debutante and singer in the hit Broadway revival Irene and her time on Broadway interfered with her education, resulting in Fishers dropping out of high school. In 1973, Fisher enrolled at Londons Central School of Speech and Drama, following her time there, Fisher applied to and was accepted at Sarah Lawrence College, where she planned to study the arts. In 1977, Fisher starred as Princess Leia in George Lucas science-fiction film Star Wars opposite Mark Hamill, at the time, she believed the script for Star Wars was fantastic, but did not expect many people to agree with her. Though her fellow actors were not close at the time, they bonded after the success of the film. In April 1978, Fisher appeared as the love interest in Ringo Starrs 1978 TV special Ringo, the next month, she starred alongside John Ritter in the ABC-TV film Leave Yesterday Behind. At this time, Fisher appeared with Laurence Olivier and Joanne Woodward in the anthology series Laurence Olivier Presents in a version of the William Inge play Come Back. That November, she played Princess Leia in the 1978 TV production Star Wars Holiday Special, Fisher appeared in the film The Blues Brothers as Jakes vengeful ex-lover, she is listed in the credits as Mystery Woman. While in Chicago filming the movie, Fisher choked on a Brussels sprout, Dan Aykroyd performed the Heimlich maneuver and she appeared on Broadway in Censored Scenes from King Kong in 1980. She also starred as Sister Agnes in the Broadway production of Agnes of God in 1982. In 1983, Fisher returned to the role of Princess Leia in Return of the Jedi, the costume later achieved a following of its own
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Princess Leia
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Princess Leia Organa of Alderaan, later known as General Leia Organa, is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise, portrayed in films by Carrie Fisher. Introduced in the original Star Wars film in 1977, Leia is princess of the planet Alderaan, a member of the Imperial Senate and she thwarts the sinister Sith Lord Darth Vader and helps bring about the destruction of the Empires cataclysmic superweapon, the Death Star. In The Empire Strikes Back, Leia commands a Rebel base and evades Vader as she falls in love with the smuggler, Han Solo. In Return of the Jedi, Leia leads the operation to rescue Han from the crime lord Jabba the Hutt, and is revealed to be Vaders daughter and the twin sister of Luke Skywalker. The prequel film Revenge of the Sith establishes that the mother is Senator Padmé Amidala of Naboo. Leia is adopted by Senator Bail and Queen Breha Organa of Alderaan, in The Force Awakens, Leia is the founder and General of the Resistance against the First Order and has a son with Han named Ben, who goes by the name Kylo Ren. She becomes the Chief of State of the New Republic and a Jedi Master, One of the more popular Star Wars characters, Leia has been called a 1980s icon, a feminist hero and model for other adventure heroines. She has appeared in many works and merchandising, and has been referenced or parodied in several TV shows. Her cinnamon buns hairstyle from Star Wars and metal bikini from Return of the Jedi have become cultural icons, Leia was created by Star Wars creator George Lucas. In 1999, Lucas explained his early development of Leia, Luke and Obi-Wan Kenobi, The first talked about a princess, the second version involved a father, his son, and his daughter, the daughter was the heroine of the film. Now the daughter has become Luke, Mark Hamills character, There was also the story of two brothers where I transformed one of them into a sister. The older brother was imprisoned, and the sister had to rescue him. In the fourth draft it was established that Leia Organa came instead from Alderaan, Fisher was 19 when she was cast as Princess Leia, with actresses including Amy Irving, Cindy Williams and Jodie Foster also up for the role. Asked about Streep in 2015, Fisher said, Bullshit, but Jodie Foster was up for it. That one I knew the most, the second draft of the Return of the Jedi screenplay contained dialogue in which Obi-Wan tells Luke he has a twin sister. She and their mother were sent to the protection of friends in a distant system, the mother died shortly thereafter, and Lukes sister was adopted by Bens friends, the governor of Alderaan and his wife. Fisher explained in 1983, Leias real father left her mother when she was pregnant, I was adopted and grew up set apart from other people because I was a princess. Composer John Williams created a musical leitmotif for Leia which recurs throughout the Star Wars saga, Princess Leias Theme was recorded as a concert suite for the score of the 1977 film
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Star Wars (film)
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Star Wars is a 1977 American epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas. The first installment in the Star Wars film series, it stars Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing, David Prowse, James Earl Jones, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, and Peter Mayhew co-star in supporting roles. The plot focuses on the Rebel Alliance, led by Princess Leia, and its attempt to destroy the Galactic Empires space station and this conflict disrupts the isolated life of farmhand Luke Skywalker, who inadvertently acquires a pair of droids that possess stolen architectural plans for the Death Star. Star Wars was released theatrically in the United States on May 25,1977 and it earned $461 million in the U. S. and $314 million overseas, totaling $775 million. It surpassed Jaws to become the film of all time until the release of E. T. the Extra-Terrestrial. When adjusted for inflation, Star Wars is the film in North America. It received ten Academy Award nominations, winning seven and it was among the first films to be selected as part of the U. S. Library of Congress National Film Registry as being culturally, historically, at the time, it was the most recent film on the registry and the only one chosen from the 1970s. Its soundtrack was added to the U. S. National Recording Registry in 2004, today, it is often regarded as one of the best films of all time, as well as one of the most important films in the history of motion pictures. It launched an industry of tie-in products, including TV series spinoffs, novels, comic books, and video games, the films success led to two critically and commercially successful sequels, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. A prequel trilogy was released between 1999 and 2005, followed by a trilogy beginning in 2015. In 2016, Rogue One was released as a prequel to the original Star Wars film. The galaxy is in the midst of a civil war, spies for the Rebel Alliance have stolen plans to the Galactic Empires Death Star, a heavily armed space station capable of destroying an entire planet. Rebel leader Princess Leia has the plans, but her ship is captured by Imperial forces under the command of the evil Darth Vader, before she is captured, Leia hides the plans in the memory of an astromech droid, R2-D2, along with a holographic recording. R2-D2 flees to the surface of the desert planet Tatooine with C-3PO, the droids are captured by Jawa traders, who sell them to moisture farmers Owen and Beru Lars and their nephew Luke Skywalker. While cleaning R2-D2, Luke accidentally triggers part of Leias message, the next morning, Luke finds R2-D2 searching for Obi-Wan, and meets Ben Kenobi, an old hermit who lives in the hills and reveals himself to be Obi-Wan. Contrary to his uncles statements, Luke learns that his father, Anakin, Obi-Wan tells Luke that Vader was his former pupil who turned to the dark side of the Force and killed Anakin. Obi-Wan then presents to Luke his fathers weapon – a lightsaber, Obi-Wan views Leias complete message, in which she begs him to take the Death Star plans to her home planet of Alderaan and give them to her father for analysis
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Margot Kidder
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Margaret Ruth Margot Kidder is a Canadian American actress and activist. She rose to fame in 1978 for her role as Lois Lane in Superman, opposite Christopher Reeve, Kidder began her career in the 1960s appearing in low-budget Canadian films and television series, before landing a lead role in Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx. She then appeared playing Siamese twins in Brian De Palmas cult thriller Sisters, in the slasher film Black Christmas, and her performance as Kathy Lutz in the blockbuster horror film The Amityville Horror gained her further mainstream exposure. After a highly publicized manic episode and nervous breakdown in 1996, by the 2000s, however, she had maintained steady work in independent films as well as television, with guest-starring roles on Smallville, Brothers & Sisters, and The L Word. In 2015, she won an Emmy Award for her performance on the television series R. L. Stines The Haunting Hour. She has also acted in productions, most notably appearing on Broadway in a 2002 production of The Vagina Monologues. In 2005, Kidder became a naturalized U. S. citizen and she is an outspoken political, environmental, and anti-war activist. She has also advocated the use of medicine, which she credits as having helped treat her bipolar disorder. Kidder, one of five children, was born in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, the daughter of Jocelyn Mary Jill, a teacher, and Kendall Kidder. Kidder also spent time growing up in Labrador City, Newfoundland and her mother was from British Columbia, Canada, and her father was from New Mexico, United States. She is of Welsh and English descent, Kidder was born in Yellowknife because of her fathers job, which required the family to live in remote locations. Her father was manager of the Yellowknife Telephone Company from 1948 to 1951, Kidder recalled her childhood in northern Canada, saying, We didnt have movies in this little mining town. When I was 12 my mom took me to New York and I saw Bye Bye Birdie, with singing and dancing. I knew I had to go far away, I was clueless, but I okay. Kidder attended multiple schools in her youth, and graduated from Havergal College and she has a sister, Annie, and three brothers, John, Michael and Peter. Kidders niece, Janet Kidder, is also an actress, Kidder made her film debut in a 49-minute film titled The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar, a drama set in a Canadian logging community, which was produced by the Challenge for Change. Her first major feature was the 1969 American film Gaily, Gaily, during the 1971–72 season, she co-starred as barmaid Ruth in Nichols, a James Garner western, which aired 22 episodes on NBC. In the late 1960s, Kidder was based in Toronto, and in 1970, during an August 3,1970 interview on The Dick Cavett Show, Kidder stated that she was ambivalent toward having a film career, and was considering working as a film editor in the future
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Lois Lane
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Lois Lane is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, she first appeared in Action Comics #1, Lois is a reporter for the Metropolis newspaper, the Daily Planet, an award-winning journalist and the primary love interest of Superman. Her physical appearance was based on Joanne Carter, a model hired by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. For her character, Siegel was inspired by actress Glenda Farrell, Siegel took her name from actress Lola Lane. She was also influenced by the real-life journalist Nellie Bly, depictions of the character have varied spanning the comics and other media adaptations. The original Golden Age version of Lois Lane, as well as versions of her from the 1970s onwards, portrays Lois as a tough-as-nails journalist and intellectually equal to Superman. During the Silver Age of Comics, she was the star of Supermans Girl Friend, Lois Lane, beginning in 2015, she stars as the protagonist in the young adult novel series, Lois Lane, by writer Gwenda Bond. Lois is among the female comic book characters. She has appeared in various Superman media adaptations, Actress Noel Neill first portrayed Lois Lane in the 1940s Superman film series and late reprise her role in the 1950s television series Adventures of Superman. Margot Kidder played the character in four Superman films in the 1970s and 80s, Teri Hatcher portrayed her in the 1990s television series Lois & Clark, The New Adventures of Superman and Erica Durance in the 00s series, Smallville. In the 2006 film Superman Returns, she was played by Kate Bosworth, the character was most recently portrayed by actress Amy Adams in the films Man of Steel and Batman v Superman, Dawn of Justice. Lois Lane was one of the first female comic book characters introduced in the superhero comics, Lois is the daughter of Ella and Sam Lane. In earlier comics, her parents were farmers in a town called Pittsdale and she has one younger sibling, her sister Lucy Lane. Lois is a journalist for the Daily Planet, one of the best investigative reporters, in some stories, she has been shown obtaining superpowers and becoming a superhero. Some of her superhero identities are Superwoman and Red Tornado of Earth 2, aspects of Lois personality have varied over the years, depending on the comic book writers handling of the character and American social attitudes toward women at the time. In most incarnations, Lois has been depicted as a smart, determined, strong-willed and her physical appearance has varied over the years, depending either on contemporary fashion, or media adaptations. Traditionally in the comics, the character has shown with black hair, however, from the late 1980s through the 90s. In other media, shes been shown with blonde hair on the television series Smallville
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Superman (1978 film)
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Superman is a 1978 superhero film directed by Richard Donner and based on the DC Comics character of the same name. The film is a British, Swiss, Panamanian and American joint venture, Film Export A. G. Dovemead Limited and International Film Productions. Superman stars Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Glenn Ford, Phyllis Thaxter, Jackie Cooper, Trevor Howard, Marc McClure, Terence Stamp, Valerie Perrine, and Ned Beatty. The film depicts Supermans origin, including his infancy as Kal-El of Krypton, Disguised as reporter Clark Kent, he adopts a mild-mannered disposition in Metropolis and develops a romance with Lois Lane, while battling the villainous Lex Luthor. Several directors, most notably Guy Hamilton, and screenwriters, were associated with the project before Richard Donner was hired to direct, Tom Mankiewicz was drafted in to rewrite the script and was given a creative consultant credit. It was decided to film both Superman and its sequel Superman II simultaneously, with principal photography beginning in March 1977 and ending in October 1978. Tensions arose between Donner and the producers, and a decision was made to stop filming the sequel, of which 75 percent had already been completed, and finish the first film. It was nominated for three Academy Awards, including Best Film Editing, Best Music, and Best Sound Mixing, groundbreaking in its use of special effects and science fiction/fantasy storytelling, the films legacy presaged the mainstream popularity of Hollywoods superhero film franchises. On the planet Krypton, using evidence provided by scientist Jor-El, the Council sentences attempted insurrectionists General Zod, Ursa, for this, Zod swears revenge on Jor-El and his family. Jor-El, despite his eminence, is unable to convince the Council that Krypton will soon be destroyed when its red supergiant sun goes supernova. To save his infant son, Kal-El, Jor-El launches a spacecraft containing him toward Earth, shortly after the launch, Kryptons sun explodes, destroying the planet. The ship crash lands on Earth near Smallville, Kansas, Kal-El, who is now three years old, is found by Jonathan and Martha Kent, who are astonished when he is able to lift their truck. They take him to their farm and raise him as their own, at 18, soon after Jonathans death due to a heart attack, Clark hears a psychic call and discovers a glowing crystal in the remains of his spacecraft. It compels him to travel to the Arctic, where the crystal builds the Fortress of Solitude, inside, a holographic vision of Jor-El appears and explains Clarks origins, educating him on his powers and responsibilities. He meets and develops a romantic attraction to co-worker Lois Lane. Clark also rescues Air Force One after a strike destroys the port outboard engine. He visits Lois at her home the night and takes her for a flight over the city. Meanwhile, criminal genius Lex Luthor has developed a plan to make a fortune in real estate by buying large amounts of barren desert land, after learning that the U. S Army and U. S
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Ann-Margret
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Ann-Margret is a Swedish-American actress, singer, and dancer. As an actress, she is best known for her roles in Bye Bye Birdie, Viva Las Vegas, The Cincinnati Kid, Carnal Knowledge, Tommy, Grumpy Old Men, and Grumpier Old Men. She has won five Golden Globe Awards and been nominated for two Academy Awards, two Grammy Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and six Emmy Awards, in 2010, she won her first Emmy Award for her guest appearance on Law & Order, Special Victims Unit. Her singing and acting careers span five decades, starting in 1961, initially and she had a minor hit in 1961 and a charting album in 1964, and scored a disco hit in 1979. In 2001, she recorded a critically acclaimed album. Ann-Margret was born in Valsjöbyn, Jämtland County, Sweden, the daughter of Anna Regina and Carl Gustav Olsson and she later described Valsjöbyn as a small town of lumberjacks and farmers high up near the Arctic Circle. Her father worked in the United States during his youth and moved again in 1942, working with the Johnson Electrical Company, while his wife. Ann-Margret and her mother moved to the United States in November 1946 and they settled just outside Chicago, in Wilmette, Illinois. Her parents were supportive, her mother all her costumes. Ann-Margrets mother became a funeral parlor receptionist after her husband suffered an injury on his job. While a teenager, Ann-Margret appeared on the Morris B, sachs Amateur Hour, Don McNeills Breakfast Club, and Ted Macks Amateur Hour. While she attended New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois, in 1959, she enrolled at Northwestern University, where she was a member of the sorority Kappa Alpha Theta, but did not graduate. As part of a known as the Suttletones, she performed at the Mist, a Chicago nightclub. They then moved on to Los Angeles, and through agent Georgia Lund, secured club dates in Newport Beach and Reno, the group finally arrived at the Dunes in Las Vegas, which also headlined Tony Bennett and Al Hirt at that time. George Burns heard of her performance, and she auditioned for his holiday show, in which Burns. Variety proclaimed, George Burns has a mine in Ann-Margret. She has a style of her own, which can easily guide her to star status. Ann-Margret began recording for RCA Victor in 1961 and she scored the minor hit I Just Dont Understand, which entered the Billboard Top 40 in the third week of August 1961 and stayed six weeks, peaking at number 17
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Magic (1978 film)
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Magic is a 1978 American psychological horror film starring Anthony Hopkins, Ann-Margret and Burgess Meredith. The film, which was directed by Richard Attenborough, is based on a screenplay by William Goldman, the score was composed by Jerry Goldsmith. Charles Corky Withers has just failed in his first attempt at professional magic and his mentor Merlin says that he needs to have a better show business gimmick. A year later, Corky comes back as a combination magician and his powerful agent Ben Greene is on the verge of signing Corky for his own television show, but Corky bails out for the Catskills, where he grew up, claiming to be afraid of success. In truth, he not want to take the TV networks required medical examination because doctors might find out that he suffers from severe issues. In the Catskills, he reunites with his crush, Peggy Ann Snow. A magic trick with a deck of cards charms Peg into thinking they are soulmates and she and Corky have sex, which sparks the jealousy not only of Peggys tough-guy husband but also the dummy Fats. Greene arrives unexpectedly, having tracked Corky down, after a tense confrontation, in which Greene discovers the truth about Corkys mental state, the agent demands that Corky get help. Fats, however, convinces Corky to kill Greene, Corky does this by using Fats hard, wooden head. He then removes all of Greenes identification and drags the corpse to the lake, when Corky tries to dispose of the body, however, Greene suddenly lunges at him, still alive. Corky, after a fight, manages to drown him. The next morning, Fats becomes even more possessive and jealous when Corky says that he plans to leave Fats behind so that he, Duke returns from his trip earlier than expected. He suspects his wife cheated on him and wants to have a talk with Corky on the lake, rather than confront him, Duke awkwardly confides to Corky that he loves Peggy and is worried about losing her. Duke suddenly spots a body on the edge of the lake. Duke, believing it could still be alive, sends Corky to get help, Duke finds that the man is indeed dead. Curious, he decides to search Corkys cabin, Fats kills him with help from Corky. An increasingly deranged Corky manages to pull together and persuade Peg to run away with him. But she insists on waiting to tell Duke face to face and she thinks everything is fine until Fats comes alive and reveals that Corkys card trick is only a ruse he uses to seduce women, and that Peg is only the latest of his conquests
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 film)
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a 1978 science fiction horror film directed by Philip Kaufman, and starring Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Veronica Cartwright, Jeff Goldblum and Leonard Nimoy. Released on December 22,1978, it is a remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Invasion of the Body Snatchers was a box office success, and was very well received by critics - it is considered by some to be among the greatest film remakes. The plot begins in space, where a race of gelatinous creatures abandon their dying world. They make their way to Earth and land in San Francisco and they fall on plant leaves, assimilating them and forming small pods with pink flowers. Elizabeth Driscoll, an employee at the San Francisco Health Department, is one of people who bring the flowers home. The next morning, Elizabeths boyfriend, Geoffrey Howell, suddenly becomes distant and her colleague, health inspector Matthew Bennell, suggests that she see his friend, psychiatrist Dr. David Kibner. While driving to Kibners book party, they are accosted by a hysterical man, the man runs off, and is soon seen dead, surrounded by a crowd of emotionless onlookers. At the party, Matthew calls the police about the incident, an agitated party attendee starts declaring that her husband is not her real husband. Kibner works to them, and suggests that Elizabeth wants to believe that Geoffrey has changed because she is looking for an excuse to get out of their relationship. Meanwhile, Matthews friend Jack Bellicec, a writer who owns a bathhouse with his wife Nancy discovers a deformed body on one of the beds. Noticing that the bears a slight resemblance to Jack, Matthew breaks into Elizabeths home. He gets the sleeping Elizabeth to safety, but the body has disappeared by the time he returns with the police. The body at the bathhouse has also disappeared when Matthew returns there, Matthew realizes that people are being replaced by extraterrestrial copies while they sleep. Matthew calls several state and federal agencies, but they all tell him not to worry, in addition, people who had earlier claimed that their loved ones had changed seem to have been converted as well, including Dr. Kibner. That night, Matthew and his friends are nearly duplicated by the pods while they sleep, the pod people try to raid Matthews house, but he and his friends are able to escape. During this, they discover that the pod people emit a shrill scream once they learn someone is still human among them, Jack and Nancy create a diversion within a crowd of pursuing pod people to give Matthew and Elizabeth time to escape. Matthew and Elizabeth are chased across San Francisco and they are eventually found by the doubles of Jack and Dr. Kibner at the Health Department building. Kibners double tells them that what the species is doing is purely for survival
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Coma (1978 film)
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Coma is a 1978 American suspense film based on the 1977 novel of the same name by Robin Cook. The film rights were acquired by director Michael Crichton, and the movie was produced by Martin Erlichmann for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the cast includes Geneviève Bujold, Michael Douglas, Elizabeth Ashley, Richard Widmark, and Rip Torn. Among the actors in roles are Tom Selleck, Lois Chiles. The story was adapted again into a television miniseries broadcast September 2012 on A&E television network. Dr. Susan Wheeler is a resident at Boston Memorial Hospital. Wheeler is devastated when a patient, who happens to be her best friend, is pronounced brain dead, looking at the records, Susan finds that over the previous year a number of other fit young people have ended up the same way. She comes across two similarities to the cases, they all took place in the operating theatre. She continues to investigate, increasingly alone, starting to wonder if she can trust even her own boyfriend, eventually she discovers that the Jefferson Institute is a front for black-market organ sales, where the patients organs are sold to the highest bidder. Boston Memorial is in on this, purposely inducing comas in patients whose organs match those of potential buyers, the patients are rendered brain dead via covert carbon monoxide poisoning, through a pipe that leads from the basement to the OR. Susans investigation then reveals the mastermind behind all of it - Dr. George Harris, Chief of Surgery, whom she has been confiding in all along. Dr. Harris tries to stop Susan from exposing the truth, however, Mark, now having realized the truth as well, manages to find and disconnect the pipe before it can poison Susan. Susan, now awake, is wheeled out of the room holding Marks hand. Meanwhile, Dr. Harris stands defeated in the operating room and they met when Crichton was doing post-doctoral work in biology at La Jollas Salk Institute and Cook was a Navy physician stationed at San Diego. Crichton described the film as like a Western, if the doctors are the bad guys they are also the good guys. Crichton says that though the lead in the book was a female the studio talked about getting Paul Newman to play it. If a man had done the movie it would be a more conventional thing. Shooting took place at Boston City Hospital and the University of Southern Californias dissection room, Michael Douglas called the film the first time Ive been offered a project with a good story laid out well, a good cast and a good director. Tom Selleck would later work with Crichton again in the 1984 sci-fi thriller Runaway, composer Jerry Goldsmith would also work with Crichton on Runaway, contributing his first—and only—all-electronic score
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Diana Ross
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Diane Ernestine Earle Ross, known professionally as Diana Ross, is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and record producer. As part of the Supremes, her success made it possible for future African-American R&B, Dianas high-pitched and bright lyric-soprano voice has been enjoyed and still is by fans around the world. The group released a record-setting twelve number-one hit singles on the US Billboard Hot 100, including the hits Where Did Our Love Go, Baby Love, Come See About Me, Stop. In the Name of Love, You Cant Hurry Love, You Keep Me Hangin On, Love Child and she later released the album Touch Me in the Morning in 1973, its title track reached number 1, as her second solo hit. That same year, her album Lady Sings The Blues, which was the soundtrack of her film based on the life of jazz singer Billie Holiday. By 1975, the Mahogany soundtrack included her third number-one hit and her eponymous 1976 album included her fourth number-one hit, Love Hangover. In 1979, Ross released the album The Boss and her 1980 semi-eponymous album Diana reached number 2 on the US Billboard albums chart, and spawned the number-one hit Upside Down, and the international hit Im Coming Out. After leaving Motown, Ross achieved her sixth and final US number-one hit, Ross has also ventured into acting, with a Golden Globe Award and Academy Award-nominated performance for her performance in the film Lady Sings the Blues. She also starred in two films, Mahogany and The Wiz, later acting in the television films Out of Darkness, for which she also was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. Ross was named the Female Entertainer of the Century by Billboard magazine, Ross has sold more than 100 million records worldwide, when her releases with the Supremes and as a solo artist are tallied. In 1988, Ross was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as member of the Supremes, alongside Mary Wilson and she was the recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors in 2007, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016. She is a 12-time Grammy nominee, never earning a competitive honor, in December 2016, Billboard magazine named her the 50th most successful dance artist of all time. Diane Ross was born at Hutzel Womens Hospital in Detroit on March 26,1944 and she was the second eldest child of Ernestine, a schoolteacher, and Fred Ross, Sr. a former Army soldier. Much has been made of whether her first name ends in an a or an e, according to Ross, her mother actually named her Diane but a clerical error resulted in her name being recorded as Diana on her birth certificate. She was listed as Diane during the first Supremes records, she introduced herself as Diane until early in the groups heyday and her friends and family still call her Diane. Rosss grandfather John E. Ross, a native of Gloucester County, Virginia, was born to Washington Ross, Virginia Baytops mother Francis Frankey Baytop was a former slave who had become a midwife after the Civil War. Ross and her family lived at Belmont Road in the North End section of Detroit, near Highland Park, MI. When Ross was seven, her mother contracted tuberculosis, causing her to seriously ill
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Dorothy Gale
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Dorothy Gale is the fictional protagonist of many of the Oz novels by the American author L. Frank Baum. Her best friend is Ozs ruler Princess Ozma, Dorothy first appears in Baums classic childrens novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and reappears in most of its sequels. In addition, she is the character in various adaptations, notably the classic 1939 movie adaptation of the book. In later books, Oz steadily becomes more familiar to her than her homeland of Kansas, Dorothys best friend Princess Ozma officially makes her a princess of Oz later in the book series. An influence on the creation of Dorothy appears to be the Alice books of Lewis Carroll, Dorothys character was probably named after Baums own niece, Dorothy Louise Gage, who died in infancy. Baums wife was very attached to her and was grieved by her death. Elements of Dorothy Gales character are derived from Matilda Joslyn Gage. Dorothy Gage is buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Bloomington, Illinois, Dorothys last name is never mentioned in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz or The Marvelous Land of Oz, the first two Oz books. It is disclosed in the third book Ozma of Oz, the last name of Gale was originally mentioned in Baums script for the 1902 Broadway stage version of The Wizard of Oz, in which it was originally a setup for a punning joke. In the Oz books, Dorothy is an orphan raised by her aunt, whether Aunt Em or Uncle Henry is Dorothys blood relative remains unclear. Uncle Henry makes reference to Dorothys mother in The Emerald City of Oz, in many of the Oz books, Dorothy is the main heroine of the story. She is often seen with her best friend and the ruler of Oz and she brazenly rebuffs Princess Langwideres threat to take her head for her collection — Well, I blieve you wont. This aspect of her character was lessened by her companionship of Ozma, in whom Baum placed the greater level of wisdom. Dorothy has several pets, including her white/pink/purple kitten, Eureka. Popular in crossword puzzles is Dorothys cow, Imogene, from the 1902 stage version, eric Shanowers novel, The Giant Garden of Oz, features a cow named Imogene. She becomes princess of Oz and Ozmas companion essentially marrying the queen, in Jack Snows The Magical Mimics in Oz, Ozma places Dorothy on the throne of Oz while she is away visiting Queen Lurlines fairy band. The magic of Oz keeps Dorothy young, in The Lost King of Oz, a Wish Way carries Dorothy to a film set in Hollywood, California. She begins to age rapidly to her late 20s, making up for at least some of the years that have already passed
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The Wiz (film)
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The Wiz is a 1978 American musical adventure film produced in collaboration between Universal Pictures and Motown Productions, and released by Universal Pictures on October 24,1978. Befriended by a Scarecrow, a Tin Man, and a Cowardly Lion, she travels through the city to seek an audience with the mysterious Wiz, who they say is the only one powerful enough to send her home. Produced by Rob Cohen and directed by Sidney Lumet, The Wiz stars Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Nipsey Russell, Ted Ross, Mabel King, Theresa Merritt, Thelma Carpenter, Lena Horne, and Richard Pryor. The films story was reworked from William F. Browns Broadway libretto by Joel Schumacher, a handful of new songs, written by Jones and the songwriting team of Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson, were added for the film version. Despite its initial failure, the became a cult classic, particularly among African-American audiences, Oz enthusiasts. Certain aspects of this film adaptation influenced The Wiz Live, a live television adaptation of the musical, aired on NBC in 2015. A crowded Thanksgiving dinner brings a host of family together in a small Harlem apartment, extremely introverted, Dorothy is teased by Aunt Em for never having been south of 125th Street, as she has delayed moving out to start her own, independent life as an adult. While Dorothy cleans up after the meal, Dorothys dog Toto runs out the kitchen door into a violent snowstorm. She succeeds in retrieving him, but finds herself trapped in the storm, a magical whirlwind made of snow – the work of Glinda, the Good Witch of the South – materializes and transports them to the realm of Oz. As a result, Dorothy frees the Munchkins who populate the playground into which she lands, however, Dorothy declares she doesnt want the shoes and desperately just wants to get home to Aunt Em. Miss One urges her to follow the yellow brick road to the capital Emerald City, after telling her to never take the silver shoes off, the good witch and the Munchkins then disappear and Dorothy is left to search for the road on her own. The next morning, Dorothy happens upon a Scarecrow made of garbage and rags, and saves him from being teased and picked on by a group of humanoid crows. The two of them discover the yellow brick road and happily begin to follow it together, the Scarecrow hopes the Wizard might be able to give him the one thing he feels that he lacks – a brain. The Tin Man and Lion join them on their quest to find the Wizard, hoping to gain a heart and courage, respectively. Before the five adventurers reach the Emerald City, they must face obstacles such as a subway where they meet a crazy subway peddler who unleashes evil puppets in his control. They narrowly escape the subway and then encounter the Poppy Girls, flamboyant prostitutes who attempt to put Dorothy, Toto, and they are granted an audience with the Wiz, who lives at the very top of the Towers. He appears to them as a giant fire-breathing metallic head and he will only grant their wishes if they kill the sister of the Wicked Witch of the East, Evillene, the Wicked Witch of the West, who runs a sweatshop in the underground sewers of Oz. Before they can reach her domain, Evillene learns of their quest to kill her, after a long chase, the Flying Monkeys succeed in capturing their targets and bring them back to Evillene
