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Spanish naming customs
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Spanish naming customs are historical traditions for naming children practised in Spain. According to these customs, a persons name consists of a name followed by two family names. The first surname is usually the fathers first surname, and the second the mothers first surname, in recent years, the order of the surnames can be reversed at birth if it is so decided by the parents. Currently in Spain, people bear a single or composite given name, a composite given name comprises two single names, for example Juan Pablo is considered not to be a first and a second forename, but a single composite forename. The two surnames refer to each of the parental families, traditionally, a persons first surname is the fathers first surname, and the second one is the mothers first surname. From 2013, if the parents of a child are unable to agree on order of surnames, the law also grants a person the option, upon reaching adulthood, of reversing the order of their surnames. Each surname can also be composite, the parts usually linked by the y or e. For example, a name might be Juan Pablo Fernández de Calderón García-Iglesias, consisting of a forename, a paternal surname. There are times when it is impossible, by inspection of a name, for example, the writer Sebastià Juan Arbó was alphabetised by the Library of Congress for many years under Arbó, assuming that Sebastiá and Juan were both given names. However, Juan was actually his first surname, to resolve questions like this, which typically involve very common names, one must consult the person involved, or legal documents. A man named José Antonio Gómez Iglesias would normally be addressed as either señor Gómez or señor Gómez Iglesias instead of señor Iglesias, because Gómez is his first surname. Furthermore, Mr. Gómez might be addressed as José Antonio, José, Pepe, Antonio, or Toño Jose, Joselito, Josito, Joselillo, Josico or Joselín, Antoñito, Tonín or Nono. Very formally, he could be addressed with an honorific as don José Antonio or don José, colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez is sometimes incorrectly referred to in English media as Mr. Márquez, when it should be Mr. García Márquez or, simply, Mr. García. It is not unusual, when the first surname is very common, for example, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero is often called simply Zapatero, the name he inherited from his mothers family, since Rodríguez is a common surname and may be ambiguous. The same occurs with another former Spanish Socialist leader, Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, with the poet and dramatist Federico García Lorca, as these peoples paternal names are very common, they are often called with their maternal names. It would nonetheless be a mistake to index José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero under Z as Zapatero, a practical option to spare an explanation is using a single surname composed of two separate words. Parents choose their childs name, which must be recorded in the Registro Civil to establish his or her legal identity. With few restrictions, parents can now choose any name, common sources of names are the parents taste, honouring a relative, the General Roman Calendar nomina, legislation in Spain under Franco legally limited cultural naming customs to only Christian and typical Spanish names
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Barranquilla
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Barranquilla is a city and municipality located in northern Colombia. It is the major city in South America that was populated before its formal foundation. Barranquilla is located near the Caribbean Sea, the city is located in the Atlántico Department, of which it is the capital. Barranquilla lies strategically next to the delta of the Magdalena River,7.5 kilometres from its mouth at the Caribbean Sea, serving as port for river and it is also the main industrial, shopping, educational and cultural centre of the Caribbean Region of Colombia. The city is the core of the Metropolitan Area of Barranquilla, which includes the municipalities of Soledad, Galapa, Malambo. Barranquilla was legally established as a town on April 7,1813, Barranquilla became Colombias principal port, and with its level of industrialization and modernity earned the city the nickname Colombias Golden Gate. As government investment increased in other Colombian cities, Barranquillas national position was eclipsed, ernesto Cortissoz International Airport, built in Barranquilla in 1919, was the first airport in South America. The city is served by domestic and international flights, Barranquillas name refers to the canyons that existed in the area adjacent to the Magdalena, where the city arose. During the Spanish colonization of the Americas, the name barranca was common in coastal communities and this name was probably derived from an alteration of Aragon. In 1921, President Marco Fidel Suárez called the city the Pórtico Dorado de la República in recognition of its importance as a port since the late 19th century. In 1946, opening the 5th Central American and Caribbean Games, Barranquilla is also known as La Arenosa, so named by the president of New Granada, Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera, during his stay in Barranquilla in 1849. Curramba, la Bella was also used to refer to Barranquilla by journalist Juan Eugenio Cañavera in Bogotá in the mid-twentieth century. The la Bella part was assigned by fellow journalist Roger Araújo as a counterweight to the word Curramba, the thinker Agustín Nieto Caballero called Barranquilla Ciudad de los Brazos Abiertos and Enrique Ancízar, president of the Colombian Society of Agriculture, called it Faro de América. Flag In 1811, the patriots who won the Independence of the Cartagenas adopted the current flag and it consists of three rectangles, red being the outermost, then yellow, and green in the center. Red symbolizes the blood of patriots, yellow, the sun of freedom and hope, and green, in the centre, there is an eight-pointed silver star which symbolizes the eight provinces of the confederacy. The flag was carried by Simon Bolívar during the campaign of Lower Magdalena in 1812, in 1814, the Congress of Tunja adopted it as the emblem of the United Provinces of New Granada. In 1910, the Council approved the flag for Barranquilla, the lyrics were written by the poet Amira de la Rosa and the music is of Panama, by Simón Urbina. Other symbols The flowers Hibiscus rosa-sinensis, and Tabebuia rosea, unlike other cities in Colombia such as Cartagena or Bogotá D. C
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Miami
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Miami is a seaport city at the southeastern corner of the U. S. state of Florida and its Atlantic coast. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, Miamis metro area is the eighth-most populous, Miami is a major center, and a leader in finance, commerce, culture, media, entertainment, the arts, and international trade. In 2012, Miami was classified as an Alpha−World City in the World Cities Study Groups inventory, in 2010, Miami ranked seventh in the United States in terms of finance, commerce, culture, entertainment, fashion, education, and other sectors. It ranked 33rd among global cities, in 2008, Forbes magazine ranked Miami Americas Cleanest City, for its year-round good air quality, vast green spaces, clean drinking water, clean streets, and citywide recycling programs. According to a 2009 UBS study of 73 world cities, Miami was ranked as the richest city in the United States, Miami is nicknamed the Capital of Latin America and is the largest city with a Cuban-American plurality. Miami has the third tallest skyline in the U. S. with over 300 high-rises, Downtown Miami is home to the largest concentration of international banks in the United States, and many large national and international companies. The Civic Center is a center for hospitals, research institutes, medical centers. For more than two decades, the Port of Miami, known as the Cruise Capital of the World, has been the number one cruise port in the world. It accommodates some of the worlds largest cruise ships and operations, Metropolitan Miami is the major tourism hub in the American South, number two in the U. S. after New York City and number 13 in the world, including the popular destination of Miami Beach. The Miami area was inhabited for thousands of years by indigenous Native American tribes, the Tequestas occupied the area for a thousand years before encountering Europeans. An Indian village of hundreds of people dating to 500–600 B. C. was located at the mouth of the Miami River, in 1566 the explorer, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, claimed it for Spain. A Spanish mission was constructed one year later in 1567, Spain and Great Britain successively controlled Florida, and Spain ceded it to the United States in 1821. In 1836, the US built Fort Dallas as part of its development of the Florida Territory and attempt to suppress, the Miami area subsequently became a site of fighting during the Second Seminole War. Miami is noted as the major city in the United States conceived by a woman, Julia Tuttle, a local citrus grower. The Miami area was known as Biscayne Bay Country in the early years of its growth. In the late 19th century, reports described the area as a promising wilderness, the area was also characterized as one of the finest building sites in Florida. The Great Freeze of 1894–95 hastened Miamis growth, as the crops of the Miami area were the ones in Florida that survived. Julia Tuttle subsequently convinced Henry Flagler, a tycoon, to expand his Florida East Coast Railway to the region
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Florida
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Florida /ˈflɒrᵻdə/ is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, Florida is the 22nd-most extensive, the 3rd-most populous, and the 8th-most densely populated of the U. S. states. Jacksonville is the most populous municipality in the state and is the largest city by area in the contiguous United States, the Miami metropolitan area is Floridas most populous urban area. The city of Tallahassee is the state capital, much of the state is at or near sea level and is characterized by sedimentary soil. The climate varies from subtropical in the north to tropical in the south, the American alligator, American crocodile, Florida panther, and manatee can be found in the Everglades National Park. It was a location of the Seminole Wars against the Native Americans. Today, Florida is distinctive for its large Cuban expatriate community and high population growth, the states economy relies mainly on tourism, agriculture, and transportation, which developed in the late 19th century. Florida is also renowned for amusement parks, orange crops, the Kennedy Space Center, Florida has attracted many writers such as Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Ernest Hemingway and Tennessee Williams, and continues to attract celebrities and athletes. It is internationally known for golf, tennis, auto racing, by the 16th century, the earliest time for which there is a historical record, major Native American groups included the Apalachee, the Timucua, the Ais, the Tocobaga, the Calusa and the Tequesta. Florida was the first part of the continental United States to be visited and settled by Europeans, the earliest known European explorers came with the Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León. Ponce de León spotted and landed on the peninsula on April 2,1513 and he named the region La Florida. The story that he was searching for the Fountain of Youth is a myth, in May 1539, Conquistador Hernando de Soto skirted the coast of Florida, searching for a deep harbor to land. He described seeing a wall of red mangroves spread mile after mile, some reaching as high as 70 feet. Very soon, many smokes appeared along the whole coast, billowing against the sky, the Spanish introduced Christianity, cattle, horses, sheep, the Spanish language, and more to Florida. Both the Spanish and French established settlements in Florida, with varying degrees of success, in 1559, Don Tristán de Luna y Arellano established a settlement at present-day Pensacola, making it the first attempted settlement in Florida, but it was abandoned by 1561. Spain maintained tenuous control over the region by converting the tribes to Christianity. The area of Spanish Florida diminished with the establishment of English settlements to the north, the English attacked St. Augustine, burning the city and its cathedral to the ground several times. Florida attracted numerous Africans and African-Americans from adjacent British colonies who sought freedom from slavery, in 1738, Governor Manuel de Montiano established Fort Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose near St
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Colombian nationality law
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It is defined by Article 96 of the Constitution of Colombia and the Law 43-1993 as modified by Legislative Act 1 of 2002. Everyone born in Colombia acquires Colombian nationality, as long as at least one parent is either a Colombian citizen or resident. A child born outside Colombia who has at least one Colombian parent can be registered as a Colombian national by birth, a person who has lived in Colombia as a permanent resident for five years may apply for naturalization with the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. The person is expected to pass a test related to Colombian history, geography. A Spanish language test is required for people who are not native Spanish speakers. Those who have a degree from a Colombian university or are over 65 years old are exempt from these tests. Colombian nationality law acknowledges that a Colombian by birth or by naturalization as well can also have other nationalities, a person who renounced their Colombian nationality may recover it later. Nevertheless, certain government positions are barred for those with dual citizenship, Colombia law differentiates between nationality and citizenship. The 98th article of the Colombian constitution establishes that Colombian citizens are those nationals that are 18 years of age or older, Colombian citizens are allowed to vote on elections and exercise the public action of unconstitutionality
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United States nationality law
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Article I, section 8, clause 4 of the United States Constitution expressly gives the United States Congress the power to establish a uniform rule of naturalization. The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 sets forth the requirements for the acquisition of. Felons can vote in over 40 states, and in at least 2 while incarcerated, felons can also serve jury duty if approved. Some U. S. citizens have the obligation to serve in a jury, if selected, citizens are also required to pay taxes on their total income from all sources worldwide, including income earned abroad while living abroad. U. S. taxes payable may be reduced by credits for foreign income taxes regardless of the length of stay abroad. The United States Government also insists that U. S. citizens travel into and out of the United States on a U. S. passport, regardless of any other nationality they may possess. Male U. S. citizens from 18–25 years of age are required to register with the Selective Service System at age 18 for possible conscription into the armed forces. Although no one has been drafted in the U. S. since 1973, armed Forces, and will perform work of national importance under civilian direction. In some cases, the USCIS allows the oath to be taken without the clauses regarding the first two of these three sworn commitments, there are various ways a person can acquire United States citizenship, either at birth or later on in life. In the case of United States v. Wong Kim Ark,169 U. S, as of 2015, the United States includes all inhabited territories except American Samoa and Swains Island. INA301 and INA301 state, and one of whom has had a residence, the FAM states no amount of time specified. A persons record of birth abroad, if registered with a U. S. consulate or embassy, is proof of citizenship and they may also apply for a passport or a Certificate of Citizenship as proof of citizenship. A person born on or after November 14,1986, is a U. S. citizen if all of the following are true, a persons record of birth abroad, if registered with a U. S. consulate or embassy, is proof of citizenship. Such a person may apply for a passport or a Certificate of Citizenship to have a record of citizenship. Such documentation is often useful to prove citizenship in lieu of the availability of an American birth certificate, different rules apply for persons born abroad to one U. S. citizen before November 14,1986. United States law on this subject changed multiple times throughout the century. A person who was not born a U. S. citizen may acquire U. S. citizenship through a known as naturalization. Also during those 60 months if the permanent resident was outside of the U. S. for a continuous period of 6 months or more they are disqualified from naturalizing
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Joe Manganiello
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Joseph Michael Joe Manganiello is an American actor, director, producer, author and philanthropist. In 2011, he was voted Favorite Pop-Culture Werewolf of All Time by the readers of Entertainment Weekly, Manganiello has appeared in films such as Magic Mike, What to Expect When Youre Expecting, and Sabotage. In late 2013, he became an author when his first book. He is active with charities, including Childrens Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC. Manganiello was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of Susan, of Armenian, Austrian, and Croatian descent and he was raised in Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania. He has a brother, Nicholas. Growing up, he was the captain of his football, basketball and he won the role of Jud Fry in his schools senior year production of Oklahoma. And was involved with the schools TV studio and he would borrow equipment to make films with his friends, and became interested in acting to become a better filmmaker. He was not accepted, so he enrolled at the University of Pittsburgh and he reapplied to Carnegie Mellon a year later, and was one of 17 students accepted into the acting program. He performed in productions and wrote, produced, and acted in a student film entitled Out of Courage 2. He graduated in 2000 with a BFA in acting and he traveled to New York and Los Angeles through his university to participate in group auditions, which provided him contacts in the entertainment business. He moved to Los Angeles, California after graduating from Carnegie Mellon and he quickly signed with a talent agent, and three days later, he auditioned for the role of Peter Parker in the Sam Raimi-directed film Spider-Man. He landed the role of Eugene Flash Thompson, Peter Parkers nemesis and he reprised the role several years later, making a brief cameo at the end of Spider-Man 3. Manganiello began finding work in television, playing Tori Spellings boyfriend on VH1s So Notorious in 2006, and guest starred on Las Vegas, Jake in Progress and that year, he also played an Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor in the CBS television pilot Edison. In 2007, he appeared in the Scrubs episode My No Good Reason and he also played Officer Litchman, the love interest to Linda Cardellinis character, for a four-episode arc on NBCs ER. He played The Chick Magnet in May 2007 at the New York City premiere of Skirts & Flirts, a monologue by Gloria Calderon Kellett, which was a finalist for HBOs Aspen Comedy Festival. He played Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire for the West Virginia Public Theatre in 2008 and he starred as Leo Belraggio, a New York jazz musician, in the west coast premiere of Terrence McNallys Unusual Acts of Devotion in June 2009. The play was staged at the La Jolla Playhouse at the University of California in San Diego and he worked with the noted playwright and director Leonard Foglia while creating his role in 2008 at the Ojai Playwrights Conference
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Univision
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Univision is an American Spanish language broadcast television network that is owned by Univision Communications. Univision is headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, and has its studios, production facilities. In recent years, the network has reached viewership parity with the five major English language U. S. television networks, Univision is available on cable and satellite television throughout most of the United States, with local stations in over 60 markets with large Hispanic and Latino populations. Chief operating officer Randy Falco has been in charge of the company since the departure of Univision Communications president, the new owners helped to turn around the stations fortunes by heavily investing in programming. Televisas ownership interest in SIN transferred posthumously from Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta to his son, Emilio Azcárraga Milmo, in Chicago, SIN moved its programming from WCIU-TV to new full-time affiliate WSNS-TV in July 1985. After WSNS was sold to Telemundo in 1988, what had become Univision moved its programming back to WCIU-TV, wGBO-TV became an Univision-owned station in January 1995. to operate the network and its stations. The Federal Communications Commission and SINs competitors had long questioned whether the relationship between SIN and the Azcárraga family was impermissibly tight, both the FCC and other Spanish-language broadcasters had long suspected that Televisa was merely using Nicolas to skirt FCC rules prohibiting foreign ownership of broadcast media. The FCC and the U. S. Justice Department eventually encouraged a sale of the network to a properly constituted domestic organization, joaquin Blaya, the networks new chief executive officer, would sign agreements to carry two programs that would change the face of the network. He signed contracts to develop programs hosted by Cristina Saralegui and Chilean-born Mario Kreutzberger – better known as Don Francisco – for the network. It also prohibited the use of English in its programming or advertisements, in 1988, Blaya also substantially ramped up production of American-based programs on Univisions lineup, reducing the share of programming imported from Latin America on its schedule. With this, the network began producing programs with an audience in mind, resulting in Univisions schedule consisting of 50% foreign programming. During Flores tenure as host of TV Mujer, the remained the #1 daytime show on Spanish-language television. Telemundos Dia a Dia, which debuted prior to the premiere of TV Mujer, TV Mujer inspired a series of other programs, including Hola, America and Al Mediodia, which never garnered the ratings of the original concept and were ultimately cancelled. However, the networks began to wane following the Hallmark purchase. The network opted to replace the Mexican-produced serials with novelas produced in South America, however, to make matters worse, with limited revenue from advertising, the sale to Hallmark left Univision with a huge debt load to cover. On April 8,1992, Hallmark sold Univision to a group that included Los Angeles-based investor A. 5% stake in the station group, the deal placed Univision under common ownership with competing cable channel Galavisión, which the Azcárraga-run Grupo Televisa owned at the time. KMEX became the first Spanish-language television station ever to outperform English-language network stations and that year, Univision also acquired KXLN, the first Spanish-language television station in the Houston market. Perenchio also implemented new programming requirements in which programs were no longer allowed to run 20 minutes over their allotted timeslot
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Four Brothers (film)
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Four Brothers is a 2005 American crime thriller film directed by John Singleton. The movie stars Mark Wahlberg, Tyrese Gibson, André Benjamin, the film was shot in Detroit, Michigan, Regent Park, in the East End of Toronto, Ontario, and Hamilton, Ontario. The movie plot is based on the classic Western The Sons of Katie Elder. The seemingly random murder of their mother, Evelyn Mercer, at a Highland Park, Michigan convenience store, brings four brothers back home to Detroit. Originally under the impression the crime was a simple robbery-gone-wrong, the soon discover that the robbery was merely a cover for what was, in fact. After this revelation, Bobby, Angel, Jeremiah and Jack Mercer track down the hired guns who killed Evelyn, refusing to say anything, they are unceremoniously executed by Bobby and Angel. The next day, Detroit Police Lieutenant Green and Detective Fowler confront the brothers about the murders, Lieutenant Green warns them that their interference with Evelyn’s case is ill-advised, and that it will eventually put them in over their heads. After confronting Jeremiah about the revelation of his business and benefiting from Evelyns life insurance. In his effort to restore his business and relieve pressure from himself, as for the life insurance, Jeremiah explains that the money went directly to him for his daughters, because he paid all of Evelyns bills while his other brothers were not around. Back at their home, during a confrontation with Jeremiah, Sweet’s men attack the brothers, Jack is shot and killed during the attack. Bobby finds one of the still alive and questions him about who sent them. He almost spares the gunman but is offended when the gunman mumbles Thank God, when Lieutenant Green arrives, he tells them not to worry about any legal ramifications, assuring them that it will go down as self-defense. He also informs them that Evelyn filed a report regarding Victor Sweet and his involvement in Jeremiahs affairs. Green warns the brothers to stay out of the matter and let him handle Fowler, later at a bar Green confronts Fowler, hitting him and ordering Fowler to hand in his badge. They walk out of the bar, and Fowler kills Green, meanwhile, the remaining brothers devise a plan to buy Victor Sweet off with the $400,000 from their mothers life insurance. When Sweet accepts, Angel sets off for Fowlers, arriving at Fowlers, he subdues him. Jeremiah then goes to meet Sweet, while Angels girlfriend, Sofi, heads to the police station, hearing the sirens in the distance, Fowler thinks they are coming for Angel, until Angel opens his jacket showing a wire. Angel claims the whole conversation was taped, including Fowlers admission that he killed Green, the police arrive at Fowlers in full force, and Fowler gets the upper hand on Angel
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Tyler Perry
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Tyler Perry is an American actor, comedian, filmmaker, writer, and songwriter, specializing in the gospel genre. Perry wrote and produced stage plays during the 1990s and early 2000s. In 2011, Forbes named him the highest paid man in entertainment, Perry is known for both creating and performing as the Madea character, a tough elderly black woman. Perry also creates films, some produced as live recordings of stage plays, Perry is estimated to have earned around US$75 million by 2008. Many of Perrys stage-play films have been adapted as professional films. Perry has also created several shows, his most successful of which is Tyler Perrys House of Payne. On October 2,2012, Perry struck an exclusive partnership with Oprah Winfrey. The partnership was largely for the purposes of bringing scripted television to the OWN network, Perry has created multiple scripted series for the network, the most successful being The Haves and the Have Nots. As of 2014, The Haves and the Have Nots has given OWN its highest ratings to date. The series has also referred to as being one of OWNs biggest success stories with its weekly dose of soapy fun, filled with the typical betrayals, affairs, manipulations. Perrys work has earned enough serious attention to lead to the publishing of a book about him and his work. Perry was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, as Emmitt Perry Jr. the son of Willie Maxine Perry and Emmitt Perry, Perry once said his fathers answer to everything was to beat it out of you. As a child, Perry once went so far as to attempt suicide in an effort to escape his fathers beatings, in contrast to his father, his mother took him to church each week, where he sensed a certain refuge and contentment. At age 16, he had his first name legally changed from Emmitt to Tyler in an effort to distance himself from his father, a DNA test Perry took in the 2010s stated that Emmitt Sr. was not Perrys biological father. While Perry did not complete school, he earned a GED. This comment inspired him to himself to a career in writing. He soon started writing a series of letters to himself, which became the basis for the musical I Know Ive Been Changed. Around 1990, Perry moved to Atlanta, where two years later I Know Ive Been Changed was first performed at a community theater, financed by the 22-year-old Perrys $12,000 life savings
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Meet the Browns (film)
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Tyler Perrys Meet the Browns is a 2008 romantic comedy-drama film released by Lionsgate on March 21,2008. The film was based on the play of the name by Tyler Perry. In Chicago, Brenda Brown-Davis is a single mother of three. One day she receives a letter stating that her father, whom she has never met, has died, on the same day, the plant where she and her friend Sheryl closes so she loses her job which adds to her existing financial difficulties. As they discuss how they will get by, Brenda is approached by Miss Mildred, Miss Mildred is upset that Brenda has not been paying for daycare and states that she will no longer watch Tosha. Later, they all go to Mike Jrs school basketball game where he is a star, a scout, Harry, takes notice of Mike Jr and comes to his house to speak to him about his future and ends up asking Brenda out. Brenda has no interest in hearing about the possibility of going pro and she takes her daughter to Miss Mildred and begs for her to watch the girl so she can go get money from her ex and pay the woman back. Miss Mildred relents and Brenda and Sheryl go to the site where Mike Sr works. It is revelaed that Brenda has never received any assistance from her ex, Brenda decides to take her children to Georgia to attend her fathers funeral. She is met by his children who were unaware of her existence. As she gets to know her newfound relatives, she is surprised to run into Harry, at dinner, it is revealed that the eldest son of Pop Brown, LB, was the only one who knew about Brenda. The family now recognize Brenda as one of their own and offer their support, Brenda and her children return to Chicago. Mike Sr has considered Brendas words and attempts to take an interest in his sons life but is not willing to provide much assistance. Mike Jr rejects him and leaves, in an attempt to make money to help his mothers situation, he turns to his friend Calvin who is a drug dealer. Harry sees Mike Jr selling drugs and counsels him, while Harry and Brenda go on a date, Mike Jr tells his friend that he no longer wants to take part in illegal activities and he is shot. This leads to a breakdown in the relationship between Brenda and her ex. Harry reaches out to the Browns to ask for help in getting her fathers old place for her and her kids and they renovate the home and surprise Brenda. Despite this gesture, Brendas insecurities and family gossip lead to her doubts about Harrys motives
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Madea Goes to Jail
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Madea Goes to Jail is a 2009 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Tyler Perry, which was based on his 2006 play. The play and the deal with Perrys signature character Madea going to prison for her uncontrollable anger management problems. The film was released on February 20,2009, after a high-speed freeway police chase results in Mabel Madea Simmons arrest, she is placed in an anger management course, and admits her permanent license suspension. Returning home from court, Madea finds a party taking place in her house hosted by her brother, Joe Simmons, however, Madea is not amused by the festivities and uses a machine gun to scare the party goers away. Madea consults with Doctor Phil McGraw for anger management, but does not cooperate with McGraw, returning home, Madea, needing to buy groceries, calls Cora to drive her to the store, but Cora declines, angering Madea. Joe predicts that Madea will get into if she goes to the store. At Kmart, a woman steals the parking space that Madea was about to take, so she commandeers a truck to remove the womans car from the space. Madea is arrested and brought to court again, where Judge Greg Mathis sentences her to prison for five to ten years, meanwhile, assistant district attorney Joshua Hardaway is on the fast track to career success. He is prosecuting a young prostitute and drug addict, Candace Candy Washington, Linda threatens to leave Josh, telling him that he should only socialize with a higher class of people. Just before Madeas trial, Ellen asks Josh how he knows Candace and he tells Ellen that they were close friends from childhood through college, until one night when he took her to a party. He ended up going on a date and leaving Candace behind at the party, after Josh asks Ellen to help Candace, Ellen gets her a job interview, but it results in sexual harassment by the interviewer, who Candace kicks in the groin before storming out. Linda tells him to keep his mouth shut or shell tell the head A. D. A. that Chuck cheated on his bar exam to get his job, Candace returns to prostitution, until she is arrested by an undercover policeman. Due to Lindas falsifying of her file, the judge gives her a seventeen-year prison sentence, when Candace ends up in prison, she discovers that Donna and Madea are there as well. Madea is shocked when she meets her cellmate, a seemingly insane serial killer named T. T. who is serving a sentence for murdering 18 men. While in prison, Madea befriends Candace, and comes to her defense when she is harassed by Big Sal. Candace, Madea, T. T. and Donna attend a class taught by Ellen at the prison, during a lesson about forgiveness, Madea notices that some of the inmates would rather play victim instead of taking the blame for their crimes. She tells the class they need to stop seeing themselves as victims and forgive those who led them on the bad paths theyve been on, as they werent the ones who ended up in jail. Candace held on to her anger at him for so long, she forgot how to move on, but with everything she learned from Ellen and Madea, she finally decides to forgive Josh and pick up the pieces of her life
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The Smurfs (film)
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The Smurfs is a 2011 American 3D live-action/computer-animated comedy film loosely based on The Smurfs comic book series created by the Belgian comics artist Peyo. It was directed by Raja Gosnell and stars Hank Azaria, Neil Patrick Harris, Jayma Mays and Sofía Vergara, with Jonathan Winters and Katy Perry as the voices of Papa Smurf and it is the first CGI/live-action hybrid film produced by Sony Pictures Animation and in The Smurfs duology. During early production, the film was known as The Smurfs Movie, the film tells the story of the Smurfs as they get lost in New York, and try to find a way to get back home before Gargamel catches them. Filming began in March 2010 in New York City, after having the release date changed three times, Columbia Pictures released The Smurfs on July 29,2011. Box office analysts predicted the film would tie with Cowboys & Aliens. The Smurfs reached the $500 million milestone in the weekend of September 23–25,2011, a sequel, titled The Smurfs 2, was released on July 31,2013. As the Smurfs get ready for the Blue Moon Festival, Papa Smurf sees in his cauldron a vision of Clumsy Smurf reaching for a dragon wand, not wanting this vision to come true, Papa Smurf disallows Clumsy to pick Smurf Roots. Clumsy disobeys Papa and ends up unintentionally leading Gargamel and Azrael to the village, the Smurfs all flee for their lives while Clumsy unknowingly runs towards the Forbidden Falls, with Papa Smurf, Smurfette, Grouchy, Brainy and Gutsy running after him. They find him at the edge of a cliff, and while trying to help him up, to make matters worse, Gargamel and Azrael follow and the Smurfs end up in the apartment of Patrick and Grace Winslow, a married and expectant couple and their Basset Hound Elway. After clarifying things, the Winslows befriend them and allow them to stay in their apartment, the next day, needing to find a star gazer, the Smurfs follow Patrick to his workplace at Anjelou Cosmetics, misunderstanding the previous explanation of his job as fortune-telling. He calls Grace to pick them up, Gargamel manages to bust out of jail with the aid of flies. By that time, Papa Smurf manages to calculate the night he, but first, he must figure out the spell to do so. Patrick tells them there is an old bookstore in the city near Anjelou Cosmetics as he bonds with the Smurfs after sending what he believed to be his finished advertisement to be published. However, the day, Patrick learns that Clumsy accidentally attached a blue-moon themed side project. Forced to search on their own, the Smurfs find the store and find the book L’Histoire des Schtroumpfs by researcher Peyo, containing the spell to turn the moon blue. But learning of their location, Gargamel sneaks into the bookstore and finds a dragon wand, transferring his magic into it as he uses it to capture Papa Smurf as he sends the others to safety. At Belvedere Castle, after increasing the dragon wands power with bits of Papa Smurfs beard, Gargamel finds himself facing all the Smurfs, as the Smurf army battles Gargamel, Smurfette defeats Azrael and saves Papa Smurf before they join the fray. Though Gargamel attempts to break the Smurfs by killing Papa, Patrick saves him while Gutsy knocks the dragon out of the wizards hand
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New Year's Eve (2011 film)
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Some of the cast of New Years Eve had previously appeared in Valentines Day, including Biel, Kutcher and Elizondo. New Years Eve was released on December 9,2011 and was reviewed by film critics. Despite critical panning, the film was a box office success, on New Years Eve, Vice-President of the Times Square Alliance Claire Morgan is making the final arrangements for the ball drop with the help of her friend Police Officer Brendan. Pauls sister Kim Doyle is having trouble with her teenage daughter Hailey who wants to spend New Years Eve with her friends and he also prepares to perform at the Ahern Records ball, where he rekindles his feelings for his ex-girlfriend, Laura. In the early evening, one of the LED panels on the Times Square Ball malfunctions, jamming the ball and forcing Claire to call Kominsky, an electrician who the company had fired a few weeks prior. Kominsky repairs the ball before midnight, and, in gratitude, Claire leaves him in charge of the operation, meanwhile, Nurse Aimee has a video conference with her husband Chino, a soldier serving in Afghanistan. Stan passes away just after the ball drops and a chorus of Auld Lang Syne, paul helps Ingrid complete all the items on her list, and she gives him the tickets. Meanwhile, Randy and Elise bond, and, as they are about to kiss, Randy notices she forgot her rubber band and rushes to give it to her. At Times Square, Jensen leaves midway during his show to return to the Ahern Ball to apologize to Laura, with Jensen gone, Elise is called to replace him and attracts the attention of the crowd. She kisses Randy, and they start a romantic relationship, griffin and Tess have their baby and, although it is born first, they allow James and Grace to have the bonus after discovering they already have two other children to provide for. Meanwhile, after being forbidden from attending the celebration, Hailey runs away to Times Square, heartbroken, she meets and is comforted by her mother. Seth finds them and apologizes, claiming the girl stole a kiss from him and her mother allows her to go to an after-party. Kim then goes to a restaurant to meet Sam, who had succeeded in delivering his speech and she is the mysterious woman he met one year prior, and they finally discover each others names. New Years Eve was panned by critics, on Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 7% based on 135 reviews with an average rating of 3. 1/10. The sites critical consensus reads, Shallow, sappy, and dull, on Metacritic, the film has a score of 22 out of 100 based on 30 critics, indicating generally unfavorable reviews. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film a grade of B+ on an A+ to F scale. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times said, New Years Eve is a dreary plod through the sands of time until finally the last grain has trickled through the hourglass of cinematic sludge. How is it possible to more than two dozen stars in a movie and find nothing interesting for any of them to do
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Happy Feet Two
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Happy Feet Two is a 2011 Australian-American 3D computer-animated family musical comedy film directed, produced and co-written by George Miller. It is the sequel to Millers 2006 film Happy Feet and it features Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Hugo Weaving, Magda Szubanski and Anthony LaPaglia reprising their roles from the first film. Common also replaced Fat Joe as Seymour, the original cast is joined by new characters voiced by Hank Azaria, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, and Sofía Vergara. Kennedy Miller Mitchell and Dr. D Studios from Sydney, Australia, produced the film, the film was released with a Looney Tunes short called I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat starring Sylvester Cat and Tweety Bird. The film received mixed reviews and lost $40 million, resulting in the closure of Millers Dr. D Studios. Erik, son of the penguins Mumble and Gloria, is unable to dance like the other penguins, Erik and his two best friends, Bodicea and Atticus, follow Ramon to Adélie-Land and find that Adélie-Land has been ruled by a God-like penguin named Sven. Sven is actually a puffin in Adélie-Land who survived the loss of his native fishing grounds due to his miraculous ability to fly, Erik instantly becomes enamored with Sven, who takes a liking to him. Sven and Lovelace tell the others that they were saved by humans, the two eventually flee and end up on Antarctica, where Sven performs his first miracle by revealing moss to the local penguins. Sven uses his power of Sven Think to help Ramon find a mate, Ramon instantly falls in love with Carmen, another Adélie penguin who is uninterested. Mumble follows the chicks footprints to Adélie-Land and orders them to return to Emperor-Land, Sven sends Erik back to Emperor-Land with Mumble. Meanwhile, a couple of krill are in the midst of a swarm, will is an adventurous and existentialist krill determined to discover what lies beyond the swarm. His friend, Bill, reluctantly follows him to ensure his safety, once separated from the swarm, Will and Bill realize that krill are at the bottom of the food chain, created to be eaten. Inspired, Will ventures out to evolve and move up the chain by eating a real creature instead of being eaten. Mumble tells Erik that he is unique to the world and that he will find his calling. While trying to cross a perilous ice bridge, the penguins encounter Elephant Seal Bryan the Beach Master, suddenly the ice gives away and Bryan is trapped in a deep crevice below the ice. Mumble sets out to free Bryan by luring a leopard seal to chase him down, seeking acceptance from Erik, Mumble is devastated to learn Erik attributed the feat of courage to Sven Think. Bryan returns to the elephant seal beach. When the penguins return to Emperor-Land they discover that a large iceberg has trapped the emperor penguin population below large walls of ice, Bo ventures out to Adélie-Land to recruit the help of Ramon, the Amigos and the Adélie penguins to bring fish to the doomed Emperor penguins
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The Three Stooges (2012 film)
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The Three Stooges, also known as The Three Stooges, The Movie, is a 2012 American comedy film based on the film shorts of the mid-20th century comedy trio of the same name. The film was produced, written and directed by the Farrelly brothers and it stars Chris Diamantopoulos, Sean Hayes, and Will Sasso, re-creating the eponymous characters played by Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Howard. The films story places the Stooges in a modern setting, after over a decade of casting problems, principal photography took place from May to July 2011. The film was released on April 13,2012 and it has been criticized for anti-Catholicism and bigotry. The film is composed of three acts, which are referred to as episodes, in 1977, the children at the Sisters of Mercy Orphanage are playing soccer with an old soda can in the front yard. But then, Sister Mary-Mengele, the meanest nun in the orphanage gets their attention by telling them to go inside, the kids sing Everybody is Special, but she tells them to shut up and go to work. Later, Moe, Larry and Curly are dumped on the doorstep of the orphanage as babies, ever since, the trio have wreaked havoc in the place, leaving the nuns who run it utterly terrified, especially Sister Mary-Mengele who has always hated the trio. The couple, the Harters, decides to pick Moe, but when he requests Larry and Curly to join him, he is dropped back off at the orphanage, and they choose Teddy instead. 25 years later in 2012, the trio are adults and are living at the orphanage. Monsignor Ratliffe arrives to give everyone an important message, after Monsignor Ratliffe tells Mother Superior that the orphanage is going to close, she tells Sister Mary-Mengele to get the trio. Sister Mary-Mengele demands Mother Superior tell them whos responsible for the foreclosure of the orphanage, however, the three stooges injure Sister Mary-Mengele. They head to Mother Superior until they cause Monsignor Ratliffe to fall on top of the nuns, Monsignor Ratliffe gets attacked by Moe, Larry and Curly, who think that Monsignor Ratliffe was making out with the nuns. Monsignor Ratliffe is not going to any of them either. Why didnt you say so. and they take off their blue worksuit revealing their shirts and shorts and present themselves to be adopted. When they are informed that the orphanage will be shutting down unless they can come up with $830,000 in 30 days, the trio volunteers to go out and try to raise the money somehow. Sister Rosemary and the Stooges sing This Little Light of Mine, some of the nuns think that the trio will not be able to succeed because the only people they know are nuns and kids, but Mother Superior thinks otherwise. A subplot involves a woman named Lydia, who wants to kill her husband so she can be with her lover, Mac and she offers to pay the trio the money they need to take care of the job. They botch the job and leave the supposed husband in traction in the hospital, when they try to visit to finish the job, they are chased by the cops throughout the hospital and escape by jumping off the roof using a fire hose
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Escape from Planet Earth
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The film was released on February 15,2013. This was the first Rainmaker Entertainment film released in theaters and it was also Jessica Albas voice debut in an animated feature. The film earned $74.6 million on a $40 million budget, the film opens with Scorch Supernova, an alien on a mission to rescue captured babies from the Gnarlachs. He rescues them just in time before the Gnarlachs wake up, Scorch then returns to Planet Baab where he is known as a famous hero and a love interest for anchorwoman Gabby Babblebrook while at BASA his brother Gary works. Garys son Kip is a big fan of his uncle Scorch, soon, Gary receives a message from Lena Thackleman, the head of BASA, that Scorch will be sent to the Dark Planet due to a SOS call. Scorch decides to go on the mission to the Dark Planet, also, no alien has ever returned from the dark planet. After further arguing, Gary finally says that he wont be helping Scorch, Gary then goes home to his wife Kira and Kip only to find out that Scorch has already gone on the mission to the Dark Planet, while Kip is watching it on live TV in excitement. Scorch arrives on Earth and lands in the desert and finds a 7-Eleven convenience store, Scorch is then tranquilized and captured by General Shanker Saunderson, the malevolent general of the US Army, and is taken to Area 51 where aliens from other planets are held. After finding that this has happened, Kip wants to go rescue Scorch but Gary discourages him, Kip is angry and goes to his room. Gary goes to Kips room to apologize and admit that he is sorry about Scorch, when Gary flips Kips blanket open, instead of seeing Kip, he sees his dog and that Kips window is open. Knowing that Kip is going to try and save Scorch, he rushes to BASA with Kira wearing his rocket boots and they arrive to find that Kip is about to take off in a ship. Gary manages to cancel the launch sequence, but he re-activates the sequence so Gary himself can rescue Scorch and he soon arrives on the Dark Planet. As soon as he arrives his ship immediately activates a self-destruct sequence and he then arrives at the same store that Scorch arrived at earlier. Gary goes inside there, but is spotted by two owners inside named Hawk and Hammer, both Gary and the two men get freaked out by each other and try to hide from each other. After the owners realize that Gary is not a hostile alien, Gary takes it but drinks it too fast and gets brain freeze. Afterwards, Shankers men break into the store and capture Gary, Gary is then taken to Shankers office where he is quickly removed after Shanker receives an incoming call. It is then revealed that Lena is an ally of Shankers as she has sent him a source known as blubonium and is in love with him as he puts on an Elvis Presley-like wig when contacting her. With these technologies made by the aliens, Shanker had made deals with companies like Apple Inc, facebook, Google, and Pixar to distribute the technologies to them
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Machete Kills
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Machete Kills is a 2013 American action-comedy film written and directed by Robert Rodriguez. It is a sequel to Machete, and the film based on a Grindhouse fake trailer. Vanessa Hudgens, Alexa Vega, William Sadler, Marko Zaror, the film follows the titular ex-federal as he is recruited by the U. S. President to stop an arms dealer and a revolutionary. The film was released on October 11,2013, failing to recoup its budget of $20 million, critics cited the overuse of plot points, poorly produced CGI, and the out-of-place science fiction elements. Machete Cortez and Sartana Rivera attempt to capture weapon dealers who have been supplying the Mexican drug cartels, the military men are then all killed by the gangsters, who in turn are wiped out by another intervening party. Its leader murders Sartana while Machete is arrested by corrupt Sheriff Doakes, Doakes unsuccessfully tries to hang Machete but the President of the US, Rathcock, intervenes. Machete agrees and travels to San Antonio, where he meets his handler Blanca Vasquez and she sends him to Acapulco to meet a young woman, Cereza, who can lead him to Mendez. Machete finds her in a run by her mother, Madame Desdemona. She takes him to Mendezs associate, Zaror, who kills Cereza before taking Machete to Mendezs base of operations, there, Machete learns that Mendez has wired the missiles launch device to his heart and triggered its launch in 24 hours. If he dies, the missile fires, after killing Zaror he captures Mendez, intending to escort him to US and find a way to disarm the missile. Machete learns that Mendez is an agent who tried to expose his corrupt superiors. The trauma drove him insane, creating his split personalities and leading him to join forces with the missiles creator, shortly thereafter, a hit is put out on them. Machete is targeted by Madame Desdemona and her assassins, including a shapeshifting hitman called El Camaleón. Machete and Mendez manage to reach the US and kill Doakes and Clebourne only to be caught by a reborn Zaror, Zaror decapitates Mendez and Machete is riddled with bullets. Machete wakes up to himself in a healing tank. He is taken to meet Zarors benefactor—corrupt businessman, inventor and Star Wars fan Luther Voz, Machete then escapes with help from Luz, who had heard about the hit on Machete. She informs him that the one who can disarm Mendezs heart is Machetes old enemy. Machete contacts Vasquez, who instructs him to meet her at a rendezvous point, arriving there, Machete is betrayed and ambushed by Vasquez, who is in league with Voz
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Chef (film)
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He reconnects with his ex-wife and invites their young son to join him in driving the truck back to LA while selling Cubanos in various cities along the way. Favreau wrote the script after directing several films, wanting to go back to basics. Food truck owner and chef Roy Choi served as a co-producer and oversaw all of the menus, principal photography took place in July 2013 in Los Angeles, Miami, Austin and New Orleans. Chef premiered at South by Southwest on March 7,2014 and was released theatrically on May 9,2014 by Open Road Films. It grossed over $45 million at the box office and was received by critics, who praised Favreaus direction and writing, as well as the films story. Miami-born Carl Casper is the chef of Gauloise in Brentwood. While popular with his staff and hostess Molly, the restaurant owner Riva wants Carl to stick to tired classics rather than innovative dishes. Carl has a relationship with his tech-savvy preteen son Percy. On Twitter, Carl insults Ramsey for the review, not realizing that his reply is public, Carl comes up with an inspirational new menu that his staff loves and invites Ramsey to a rematch. After a confrontation with Riva as the owner wants the old menu again, Carl walks out. At home, he prepares the menu he wanted to serve to Ramsey, Carls assistant becomes the interim chef and even the regular dishes become a disaster. Ramsey again starts to tweet negatively about Carl, leading Carl to go to the restaurant, videos featuring Carls meltdown go viral, and his professional credibility evaporates. Molly and Inez encourage him to run a food truck and he accepts Inezs invitation to Miami, where he spends some quality time with Percy and rediscovers his love for Cuban cuisine. Inezs ex-husband Marvin offers him a food truck, and Carl reluctantly accepts. He also finds out that Marvin and Inez spent some time together after his divorce from Inez and he and Percy bond while restoring the truck and buying groceries and Carl buys him a chefs knife. Martin, his friend from Gauloise, turns down his restaurant promotion to work with Carl, the three drive the food truck across the country back to Los Angeles, serving top-quality Cuban sandwiches and yuca fries. Back in Los Angeles, Carl realizes the importance of his relationship with his son and accepts Percys enthusiastic offer to help out on weekends and holidays. Ramsey visits the truck to explain that he wrote the bad review as he knew Carls creativity did not suit a restaurant which had been serving the same menu for years and he leaves with an offer to bankroll a new restaurant
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Hot Pursuit (2015 film)
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Hot Pursuit is a 2015 American action comedy film directed by Anne Fletcher and written by David Feeney and John Quaintance. Starring Reese Witherspoon and Sofía Vergara, the film was released on May 8,2015, Rose Cooper is a San Antonio Police Department officer whose work ethic is too intense. Coopers name has become a verb synonymous with screw-ups, following such as overreacting when the mayors son yells Shotgun. Setting him on fire by tasing him while he carried an alcoholic drink and her ineptness in the field has her assigned to the evidence locker. Coopers commanding officer, Captain Emmett, gives her an assignment to join Deputy US Marshal Jackson, protecting Felipe Riva. Riva must go to Dallas to testify against notorious cartel leader Vicente Cortez, at the Riva home, a pair of masked assassins and a different pair of Hispanic assassins kill Jackson and Felipe while Cooper and Daniella are upstairs. Daniella grabs one suitcase, containing many pairs of shoes studded with diamonds. When Daniella later tries to run off, Cooper handcuff herself to her, the ladies are found by Coopers fellow officers Dixon and Hauser. When Cooper notices a tattoo that reveals the officers are one of the assassin teams, the ladies escape and head for Dallas, where Daniella can testify against Cortez. The ladies learn that Cooper is now labelled a fugitive, fleeing with Daniella, a truck plows into the car, spraying hidden cocaine everywhere. Cooper gets the truck driver to drop them at a clothing store, when the pair of Hispanic assassins show up, the ladies stow away in a trailer hooked to a pickup truck. When the truck stops, Cooper tries to steal it when the owner, Red, Daniella escapes, but comes back for Cooper and pretends to be her lesbian lover. She uncomfortably gropes Cooper, briefly distracting Red until he shoots off his finger. Cooper and Daniella grab a pickup and drive away, the ladies continue bonding, with Cooper admitting that her by-the-books nature has made it difficult to find a man. They are surprised to find a man sleeping in the back of the truck, Randy is a felon with an ankle bracelet due to viciously assaulting his sisters abusive boyfriends. Cooper agrees to take off the bracelet in return for Randys help, Daniella is pleased to see Randy flirting with Cooper. Stopping at a hotel for the night, Cooper cuffs Daniella to the bedpost while she goes to Randys room for food and she walks in on him naked and eventually succumbs to his charms and kisses him. Cooper goes back to her room to find Daniella aiming Coopers gun at her, Daniella explains that her bag of shoes have $4 million in real diamonds, revealing Cortez money laundering method
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American Broadcasting Company
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The network is headquartered on Columbus Avenue and West 66th Street in Manhattan, New York City. There are additional offices and production facilities elsewhere in New York City, as well as in Los Angeles and Burbank. Since 2007, when ABC Radio was sold to Citadel Broadcasting, ABC originally launched on October 12,1943, as a radio network, separated from and serving as the successor to the NBC Blue Network, which had been purchased by Edward J. Noble. It extended its operations to television in 1948, following in the footsteps of established broadcast networks CBS, in the mid-1950s, ABC merged with United Paramount Theatres, a chain of movie theaters that formerly operated as a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures. Leonard Goldenson, who had been the head of UPT, made the new television network profitable by helping develop, in 1996, most of Capital Cities/ABCs assets were purchased by The Walt Disney Company. The television network has eight owned-and-operated and over 232 affiliated television stations throughout the United States, most Canadians have access to at least one U. S. ABC News provides news and features content for radio stations owned by Citadel Broadcasting. In the 1930s, radio in the United States was dominated by three companies, the Columbia Broadcasting System, the Mutual Broadcasting System and the National Broadcasting Company. The last was owned by electronics manufacturer Radio Corporation of America, in 1938, the FCC began a series of investigations into the practices of radio networks and published its report on the broadcasting of network radio programs in 1940. The report recommended that RCA give up control of either NBC Red or NBC Blue, at that time, the NBC Red Network was the principal radio network in the United States and, according to the FCC, RCA was using NBC Blue to eliminate any hint of competition. Once Mutuals appeals against the FCC were rejected, RCA decided to sell NBC Blue in 1941, the newly separated NBC Red and NBC Blue divided their respective corporate assets. Investment firm Dillon, Read & Co. offered $7.5 million to purchase the network, Edward John Noble, the owner of Life Savers candy, drugstore chain Rexall and New York City radio station WMCA, purchased the network for $8 million. Due to FCC ownership rules, the transaction, which was to include the purchase of three RCA stations by Noble, would require him to resell his station with the FCCs approval, the Commission authorized the transaction on October 12,1943. Soon afterward, the Blue Network was purchased by the new company Noble founded, Noble subsequently acquired the rights to the American Broadcasting Company name from George B. Meanwhile, in August 1944, the West Coast division of the Blue Network, both stations were then managed by Don Searle, the vice-president of the Blue Networks West Coast division. The ABC Radio Network created its audience slowly, the network also became known for such suspenseful dramas as Sherlock Holmes, Gang Busters and Counterspy, as well as several mid-afternoon youth-oriented programs. S. From Nazi Germany after its conquest, to pre-record its programming, while its radio network was undergoing reconstruction, ABC found it difficult to avoid falling behind on the new medium of television. To ensure a space, in 1947, ABC submitted five applications for television station licenses, the ABC television network made its debut on April 19,1948, with WFIL-TV in Philadelphia becoming its first primary affiliate
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Modern Family
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Pritchetts family includes his second wife, his son and his stepson, as well as his two adult children and their spouses and children. Christopher Lloyd and Steven Levitan conceived the series while sharing stories of their own modern families, Modern Family employs an ensemble cast. The series is presented in mockumentary style, with the characters frequently talking directly into the camera. The series premiered on September 23,2009, and the season premiered on September 21,2016. Modern Family was acclaimed by critics throughout its first season, although reception has become more mixed as the series has progressed and it has so far won a total of 22 Emmy awards from 75 nominations. It also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy in 2011, the broadcast syndication rights to the series were sold to USA Network and 10 Fox affiliates and CW affiliate WLVI for a fall 2013 premiere. The success of the led to it being the tenth-highest revenue-generating show for 2012. Modern Family revolves around three different types of living in the Los Angeles area who are interrelated through Jay Pritchett and his children, Claire Dunphy. Jays daughter Claire was a homemaker, but has returned to the world, she is married to Phil Dunphy. They have three children, Haley Dunphy, a stereotypical teenage girl, Alex Dunphy, a nerdy, smart middle child, and Luke Dunphy. Jays lawyer son Mitchell and his husband Cameron Tucker have an adopted Vietnamese daughter, as the name suggests, this family represents a modern-day family and episodes are comically based on situations which many families encounter in real life. Dotted lines indicate a relationship through adoption or marriage. Note, The series has also had recurring characters. Reid Ewing appeared in episodes as Haleys boyfriend Dylan. Shelley Long appeared in the first two seasons and occasionally thereafter as DeDe Pritchett, Jays ex-wife and Claire and Mitchells mother, nathan Lane appeared during the second and fifth season as Cameron and Mitchells flamboyant friend Pepper Saltzman. Adam DeVine appeared as Andy Bailey, Jay and Glorias Manny, Phils assistant, stella, Jay and Glorias dog, has appeared in most episodes, played first by Brigitte and then by Beatrice. Larry, Mitchell and Camerons cat, is played by Frosty, as creators Christopher Lloyd and Steven Levitan retold stories about their families, they realized that the stories could be the basis for a show. They started working on the idea of a family being observed in a mockumentary-style show and they later decided that it could be a show about three families and their experiences
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Gloria Delgado-Pritchett
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Modern Family, an American TV comedy series, revolves around three families that are interrelated through Jay Pritchett, his son Mitchell Pritchett, and his daughter Claire Dunphy. The families meet for family functions, around the neighborhood, Philip Harold Phil Dunphy is Claires husband of 20 years who sees himself as the cool dad. He dotes on his wife Claire and constantly tries to find ways to bond with his three kids and he is seen as very competitive, one example being his nature of always beating his son at basketball. He has a very juvenile attitude, and is referred to by Claire as the kid married to and he uses a parenting method that he calls peerenting, which is a combination of talking like a peer but acting like a parent. He is an estate agent who is very confident in his work. Phil has a case of coulrophobia, which is first revealed when despite Mitchells objection, Cameron comes to Lukes party dressed as a clown. This may stem from Phils having found a dead clown in the woods when he was a child, Phil appears to love home repair yet never seems to get around to any of the jobs requested by Claire. Throughout Season 1, his project is fixing the step. He at times shows a sort of affection for Gloria. He says, however, he would never stray from Claire, although Gloria did kiss him during a segment at a basketball game in the final episode of Season 1. He is also staring at her when she does something that makes Phil think she is sexy, in college, he was a cheerleader at Fresno State and his birthday is on April 3. He seems oblivious as to what he says by miscalculating the consequences of his expressions, such as Phil Dunphy is no straight guy or If you aint white, you aint right. He is often looking for approval from Jay because Jay generally does not openly show approval of anyone, Phil is always reminding Jay of when he fixed his wireless printer, trying to show Jay that he can be manly. In the Season 3 episode Dude Ranch, Phil shows considerable skill both on horseback and with a shotgun. In moments of acute adversity or shock in which most people would curse or swear, Phil utters humorous exclamations, references to such as. Etc. or he might make a historical reference such as John Philip Sousa and it is revealed in Tableau Vivant that Phil had once tried to break up with Claire but didnt have the courage to do so. A running gag in the show has Phil is running up the stairs and tripping on a loose step, Ty Burrell had received many positive reviews for his performance. Hank Stuever from the Washington Post wrote, A standout performance from Ty Burrells new twist on the doofus-dad stereotype
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Golden Globe Award
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Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign. The annual ceremony at which the awards are presented is a part of the film industrys awards season. The 74th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film, the 1st Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best achievements in 1943 filmmaking, was held in January 1944, at the 20th Century-Fox studios. Subsequent ceremonies were held at venues throughout the next decade, including the Beverly Hills Hotel. In 1950, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association made the decision to establish an honorary award to recognize outstanding contributions to the entertainment industry. Recognizing its subject as a figure within the entertainment industry. The official name of the award became the Cecil B. In 1963, the Miss Golden Globe concept was introduced, in its inaugural year, two Miss Golden Globes were named, one for film and one for television. The two Miss Golden Globes named that year were Eva Six and Donna Douglas, respectively, in 2009, the Golden Globe statuette was redesigned. It was unveiled at a conference at the Beverly Hilton prior to the show. The broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards, telecast to 167 countries worldwide, generally ranks as the third most-watched awards show each year, behind only the Oscars, gervais returned to host the 68th and 69th Golden Globe Awards the next two years. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosted the 70th, 71st and 72nd Golden Globe Awards in 2015, the Golden Globe Awards theme song, which debuted in 2012, was written by Japanese musician and songwriter Yoshiki Hayashi. On January 7,2008, it was announced due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. The ceremony was faced with a threat by striking writers to picket the event, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was forced to adopt another approach for the broadcast. In acting categories, Meryl Streep holds the record for the most competitive Golden Globe wins with eight, however, including honorary awards, such as the Henrietta Award, World Film Favorite Actor/Actress Award, or Cecil B. DeMille Award, Barbra Streisand leads with nine, additionally, Streisand won for composing the song Evergreen, producing the Best Picture, and directing Yentl in 1984. Jack Nicholson, Angela Lansbury, Alan Alda and Shirley MacLaine have six awards each, behind them are Rosalind Russell and Jessica Lange with five wins. Meryl Streep also holds the record for most nominations with thirty, at the 46th Golden Globe Awards an anomaly occurred, a three way-tie for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
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Screen Actors Guild Award
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The statuette given, a nude male figure holding both a mask of comedy and a mask of tragedy, is called The Actor. It is 16 inches tall, weighs over 12 pounds, is cast in solid bronze, SAG Awards have been one of the major awards events in Hollywood since 1995. It is considered an indicator of success at the Academy Awards, the awards have been telecast since 1998 on TNT, and since 2007 have been simulcast on TBS. The inaugural SAG Awards aired live on February 25,1995 from Universal Studios Stage 12, the second SAG awards aired live from the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, while subsequent awards have been held at the Shrine Exposition Center
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Roman Catholic
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The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church or the Universal Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.28 billion members worldwide. As one of the oldest religious institutions in the world, it has played a prominent role in the history, headed by the Bishop of Rome, known as the Pope, the churchs doctrines are summarised in the Nicene Creed and the Apostles Creed. Its central administration is located in Vatican City, enclaved within Rome, the Catholic Church is notable within Western Christianity for its sacred tradition and seven sacraments. It teaches that it is the one church founded by Jesus Christ, that its bishops are the successors of Christs apostles. The Catholic Church maintains that the doctrine on faith and morals that it declares as definitive is infallible. The Latin Church, the Eastern Catholic Churches, as well as such as mendicant orders and enclosed monastic orders. Among the sacraments, the one is the Eucharist, celebrated liturgically in the Mass. The church teaches that through consecration by a priest the sacrificial bread and wine become the body, the Catholic Church practises closed communion, with only baptised members in a state of grace ordinarily permitted to receive the Eucharist. The Virgin Mary is venerated in the Catholic Church as Queen of Heaven and is honoured in numerous Marian devotions. The Catholic Church has influenced Western philosophy, science, art and culture, Catholic spiritual teaching includes spreading the Gospel while Catholic social teaching emphasises support for the sick, the poor and the afflicted through the corporal and spiritual works of mercy. The Catholic Church is the largest non-government provider of education and medical services in the world, from the late 20th century, the Catholic Church has been criticised for its doctrines on sexuality, its refusal to ordain women and its handling of sexual abuse cases. Catholic was first used to describe the church in the early 2nd century, the first known use of the phrase the catholic church occurred in the letter from Saint Ignatius of Antioch to the Smyrnaeans, written about 110 AD. In the Catechetical Discourses of Saint Cyril of Jerusalem, the name Catholic Church was used to distinguish it from other groups that call themselves the church. The use of the adjective Roman to describe the Church as governed especially by the Bishop of Rome became more widespread after the Fall of the Western Roman Empire and into the Early Middle Ages. Catholic Church is the name used in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church follows an episcopal polity, led by bishops who have received the sacrament of Holy Orders who are given formal jurisdictions of governance within the church. Ultimately leading the entire Catholic Church is the Bishop of Rome, commonly called the pope, in parallel to the diocesan structure are a variety of religious institutes that function autonomously, often subject only to the authority of the pope, though sometimes subject to the local bishop. Most religious institutes only have male or female members but some have both, additionally, lay members aid many liturgical functions during worship services
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Colombia
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Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a transcontinental country largely situated in the northwest of South America, with territories in Central America. Colombia shares a border to the northwest with Panama, to the east with Venezuela and Brazil and to the south with Ecuador and it shares its maritime limits with Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Jamaica, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. It is a unitary, constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments, the territory of what is now Colombia was originally inhabited by indigenous peoples including the Muisca, the Quimbaya and the Tairona. The Spanish arrived in 1499 and initiated a period of conquest and colonization ultimately creating the Viceroyalty of New Granada, independence from Spain was won in 1819, but by 1830 the Gran Colombia Federation was dissolved. What is now Colombia and Panama emerged as the Republic of New Granada, the new nation experimented with federalism as the Granadine Confederation, and then the United States of Colombia, before the Republic of Colombia was finally declared in 1886. Since the 1960s the country has suffered from an asymmetric low-intensity armed conflict, Colombia is one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse countries in the world, and thereby possesses a rich cultural heritage. Cultural diversity has also influenced by Colombias varied geography. The urban centres are located in the highlands of the Andes mountains. Colombian territory also encompasses Amazon rainforest, tropical grassland and both Caribbean and Pacific coastlines, ecologically, it is one of the worlds 17 megadiverse countries, and the most densely biodiverse of these per square kilometer. Colombia is a power and a regional actor with the fourth-largest economy in Latin America, is part of the CIVETS group of six leading emerging markets and is an accessing member to the OECD. Colombia has an economy with macroeconomic stability and favorable growth prospects in the long run. The name Colombia is derived from the last name of Christopher Columbus and it was conceived by the Venezuelan revolutionary Francisco de Miranda as a reference to all the New World, but especially to those portions under Spanish and Portuguese rule. The name was adopted by the Republic of Colombia of 1819. When Venezuela, Ecuador and Cundinamarca came to exist as independent states, New Granada officially changed its name in 1858 to the Granadine Confederation. In 1863 the name was changed, this time to United States of Colombia. To refer to country, the Colombian government uses the terms Colombia. Owing to its location, the present territory of Colombia was a corridor of early human migration from Mesoamerica, the oldest archaeological finds are from the Pubenza and El Totumo sites in the Magdalena Valley 100 km southwest of Bogotá. These sites date from the Paleoindian period, at Puerto Hormiga and other sites, traces from the Archaic Period have been found
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Miami, Florida
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Miami is a seaport city at the southeastern corner of the U. S. state of Florida and its Atlantic coast. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, Miamis metro area is the eighth-most populous, Miami is a major center, and a leader in finance, commerce, culture, media, entertainment, the arts, and international trade. In 2012, Miami was classified as an Alpha−World City in the World Cities Study Groups inventory, in 2010, Miami ranked seventh in the United States in terms of finance, commerce, culture, entertainment, fashion, education, and other sectors. It ranked 33rd among global cities, in 2008, Forbes magazine ranked Miami Americas Cleanest City, for its year-round good air quality, vast green spaces, clean drinking water, clean streets, and citywide recycling programs. According to a 2009 UBS study of 73 world cities, Miami was ranked as the richest city in the United States, Miami is nicknamed the Capital of Latin America and is the largest city with a Cuban-American plurality. Miami has the third tallest skyline in the U. S. with over 300 high-rises, Downtown Miami is home to the largest concentration of international banks in the United States, and many large national and international companies. The Civic Center is a center for hospitals, research institutes, medical centers. For more than two decades, the Port of Miami, known as the Cruise Capital of the World, has been the number one cruise port in the world. It accommodates some of the worlds largest cruise ships and operations, Metropolitan Miami is the major tourism hub in the American South, number two in the U. S. after New York City and number 13 in the world, including the popular destination of Miami Beach. The Miami area was inhabited for thousands of years by indigenous Native American tribes, the Tequestas occupied the area for a thousand years before encountering Europeans. An Indian village of hundreds of people dating to 500–600 B. C. was located at the mouth of the Miami River, in 1566 the explorer, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, claimed it for Spain. A Spanish mission was constructed one year later in 1567, Spain and Great Britain successively controlled Florida, and Spain ceded it to the United States in 1821. In 1836, the US built Fort Dallas as part of its development of the Florida Territory and attempt to suppress, the Miami area subsequently became a site of fighting during the Second Seminole War. Miami is noted as the major city in the United States conceived by a woman, Julia Tuttle, a local citrus grower. The Miami area was known as Biscayne Bay Country in the early years of its growth. In the late 19th century, reports described the area as a promising wilderness, the area was also characterized as one of the finest building sites in Florida. The Great Freeze of 1894–95 hastened Miamis growth, as the crops of the Miami area were the ones in Florida that survived. Julia Tuttle subsequently convinced Henry Flagler, a tycoon, to expand his Florida East Coast Railway to the region
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Pepsi
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Pepsi is a carbonated soft drink produced and manufactured by PepsiCo. Originally created and developed in 1893 and introduced as Brads Drink, it was renamed as Pepsi-Cola on August 28,1898 and it is currently known in North America alternatively as Pepsi-Cola as of 2014. The drink Pepsi was first introduced as Brads Drink in New Bern, North Carolina, United States, in 1893 by Caleb Bradham and it was renamed Pepsi Cola in 1898 after the root of the word dyspepsia and the kola nuts used in the recipe. The original recipe also included sugar and vanilla, Bradham sought to create a fountain drink that was appealing and would aid in digestion and boost energy. In 1903, Bradham moved the bottling of Pepsi-Cola from his drugstore to a rented warehouse and that year, Bradham sold 7,968 gallons of syrup. The next year, Pepsi was sold in bottles. In 1909, automobile race pioneer Barney Oldfield was the first celebrity to endorse Pepsi-Cola, describing it as A bully drink. refreshing, invigorating, the advertising theme Delicious and Healthful was then used over the next two decades. In 1926, Pepsi received its first logo redesign since the design of 1905. In 1929, the logo was changed again, assets were sold and Roy C. Megargel bought the Pepsi trademark. Megargel was unsuccessful, and soon Pepsis assets were purchased by Charles Guth, Loft was a candy manufacturer with retail stores that contained soda fountains. He sought to replace Coca-Cola at his stores fountains after Coke refused to him a discount on syrup. Guth then had Lofts chemists reformulate the Pepsi-Cola syrup formula, on three separate occasions between 1922 and 1933, The Coca-Cola Company was offered the opportunity to purchase the Pepsi-Cola company, and it declined on each occasion. The original trademark application for Pepsi-Cola was filed on September 23,1902 with registration approved on June 16,1903, in the applications statement, Caleb Bradham describes the trademark and indicated that the mark was in continuous use for his business since August 1,1901. The Pepsi-Colas description is a syrup for soda water. The trademark expired on April 15,1904, a second Pepsi-Cola trademark is on record with the USPTO. The federal status for the 1905 trademark is registered and renewed and is owned by PepsiCo of Purchase, in 2014, the 1940 wordmark was used again and replacing the current wordmark on many cans. During the Great Depression, Pepsi gained popularity following the introduction in 1936 of a 12-ounce bottle, coming at a time of economic crisis, the campaign succeeded in boosting Pepsis status. From 1936 to 1938, Pepsi-Colas profits doubled, Pepsis success under Guth came while the Loft Candy business was faltering
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Gloria Estefan
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Gloria Estefan is a Cuban-American singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman. She started off her career as the singer in the group called Miami Latin Boys which was eventually known as Miami Sound Machine. Estefans breakthrough success with Conga in 1985 made her known worldwide and it won the grand prix in the 15th annual Tokyo Music Festival in Japan. In the middle of 1988 she and the band got their first number-one hit for the song Anything for You, in March 1990, Estefan had a severe accident in her tour bus. She made her comeback in March 1991 with a new world tour and her 1993 Spanish-language album Mi Tierra won the first of her three Grammy Awards for Best Tropical Latin Album. It was the first number-one album on the Billboard Top Latin Albums chart and it was also the first Diamond album in Spain. Many of her songs like Rhythm Is Gonna Get You, 1-2-3, Get On Your Feet, Here We Are, Coming Out of the Dark, Bad Boy, party Time and a remake of Vicki Sue Robinsons Turn the Beat Around became international hits, with chart-topping scores. Estefan has sold an estimated 100 million records worldwide, including 31.5 million in the United States alone and she has won seven Grammy Awards. Estefan also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, in 2015, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her contributions to American music. Estefan also won an MTV Video Music Award, and two ACE Awards and she was honored with the American Music Award for Lifetime Achievement as well as being named BMI Songwriter of the Year. She was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and has received multiple Billboard Awards and she is also on the list of VH1 top 100 Greatest Artists of All Time, and in Billboards Top 100 Greatest Artists Of All time. Estefan was born Gloria María Milagrosa Fajardo García in Havana, Cuba, to José Fajardo and Gloria García, prior to the Cuban Revolution, her father was a Cuban soldier and a bodyguard for the wife of Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. The Fajardo family fled to Miami, Florida as a result of the Cuban Revolution, shortly after they moved to the United States, Glorias father joined the US military and fought in the Vietnam War and moved to Houston after his participation in the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion. Estefan was raised Catholic and attended St. Michael-Archangel School and Our Lady of Lourdes Academy in Miami, Estefan father became ill after returning from Vietnam and Gloria helped her mother, Gloria Fajardo, care for him. Her mother worked as a schoolteacher for the Dade County Public School system, Gloria Estefan graduated from college in 1979 with a BA in psychology, with a minor in French, from the University of Miami. Estefan became a citizen of the United States in 1974, under the name Gloria Garcia Fajardo. Estefan became romantically involved with the Miami Sound Machines band leader, Emilio Estefan, as she later revealed, he was my first and only boyfriend. She and Emilio married on September 2,1978 and they have a son, Nayib and a daughter Emily
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The Paperboy (2012 film)
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The Paperboy is a 2012 American drama film starring Matthew McConaughey, Zac Efron, John Cusack, Nicole Kidman and David Oyelowo. Directed by Lee Daniels, it is based on the 1995 novel The Paperboy by American author Pete Dexter, the film competed for the Palme dOr at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and received Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for Kidmans performance. An idealistic reporter, Ward Jansen, and his brother, Jack Jansen, investigate the events surrounding a murder in an effort to exonerate a man on death row. Van Wetter has been jailed for the murder of a local sheriff. Call had previously stomped Van Wetters handcuffed cousin to death, Van Wetter is now awaiting execution. In prison Van Wetter regularly receives correspondence from her, the Jansen brothers dislike their fathers new girlfriend. Jack is the paperboy after having been expelled from college for vandalism and his only real friend is the family maid, Anita, who brought him and Ward up after their mother left them. The movies plot unfolds as Anita, for a fee, smokes and describes the events to an unseen reporter. The evidence against Van Wetter is inconsistent and the writers are confident that if they can expose Van Wetter as a victim of redneck justice then their story will benefit them greatly, meanwhile, Jack has fallen in love with Charlotte, who only desires Van Wetter. Anita realizes that Jack can never stop thinking of Charlotte as she is his first love, one day, with some information from Van Wetter, the Jansens travel to the swamp to meet Van Wetters uncle Tyree, who has evidence that Van Wetter did not commit the crime. Charlotte alerts Jack, who saves his brother, during Wards time in the hospital, Yardley prints the news article despite not getting all the facts right. Yardley also reveals he had some time before gotten drunk and given Ward sexual favors, Van Wetter is eventually released from prison and takes Charlotte away to the swamp to live with him. She is of course unhappy and sends a letter to Jack she made a mistake, during the wedding, Jack reads the letter, and realizing Charlotte is not there that something is wrong. A barely recovered Ward and Jack go to save Charlotte, Van Wetter and Charlotte argue about her going to the wedding. He actually kills her as Jack and Ward are en route to save her, when Jack and Ward confront Van Wetter, Wards throat is cut, and after being pursued through the swamp by a machete wielding Van Wetter, Jack dives into the swamp water. He evades Van Wetter during the night, who returns to his shack and finds Charlottes body gone, Jack is seen leaving in his boat with the bodies of Charlotte and Ward. Van Wetter is then arrested for these murders, convicted, as the credits roll, Anita reveals that Jack meets his mother for the first time as a young adult when she attends Wards funeral, and that he never got over his first love. W. Jansen Ned Bellamy as Tyree Van Wetter After the critical acclaim for his previous film Precious, however he decided to pass on these stating that I couldn’t get off on it and stating that he instead with what my spirit told me to do
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Lee Daniels
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Lee Louis Daniels is an American film and television producer and director. He produced Monsters Ball and directed Precious, which received six Academy Award nominations, including Best Director, in 2012, Daniels directed The Butler, a historical fiction drama featuring an ensemble cast portraying unique events on the 20th century presidents of the United States at the White House. Daniels is also a co-creator, executive producer and director of the television series Empire and Star, Daniels was born on Christmas Eve,1959, the son of Clara Watson and William L. Daniels, in Philadelphia. He graduated from upscale, suburban Radnor High School in 1978 and he couldnt afford film school, so he started in a liberal arts college in Missouri but realized it wasnt for him, and started working as a receptionist in a nursing agency in California. Realizing he could do it on his own, he quit the job and he sold the company and went to work casting actors using his skills from casting nurses. He began his career in entertainment as a director and manager after a chance meeting with a Hollywood producer, working on such projects as Under the Cherry Moon. The documentary My Big Break features Daniels early in his career when he was managing actor Wes Bentley who starred as Ricky Fitts in American Beauty, in the documentary, Daniels comments on Bentleys reluctance to capitalize on his newfound celebrity status. Lees father, Philadelphia police officer William Daniels, was, as Daniels says, killed in the line of duty when Lee was a teenager, in 1975. Daniels has been open about his father being violent and physically abusive towards him. Daniels younger sister Leah is a casting director and he also has four younger brothers. Monsters Ball, the production of Lee Daniels Entertainment, was a critical. Halle Berry won the Oscar for Best Actress, the film was nominated for Best Original Screenplay. Daniels 2004 production The Woodsman, starring Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick and Mos Def, former president Bill Clinton persuaded Daniels to produce public service announcements to encourage young people of color to vote. The campaign was launched in March 2004 and featured Grammy winners actor/musician LL Cool J, Daniels first directorial effort, 2006s Shadowboxer, debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival. It starred Helen Mirren, Cuba Gooding, Jr. Stephen Dorff, Vanessa Ferlito, MoNique, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and it was nominated for Best New Director at the San Sebastian Film Festival. Along the way they meet Krystal, a singer who flees her controlling husband to join them on their journey. His 2009 film Precious told the story of an obese, illiterate and she has been impregnated twice by her father, Carl, and suffers long-term physical, sexual and emotional abuse from her unemployed mother, Mary. Carey also appeared, in the role of a social worker, the film screened at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and went on to garner widespread acclaim
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Farrelly brothers
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Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly, collectively referred to as the Farrelly brothers, are American screenwriters and directors. The brothers were raised in Cumberland, Rhode Island and are of Irish descent, following college they pursued careers as television writers, notably for Seinfeld. Each of the brothers first four films has a plot centering around a road trip and these trips all originate in Rhode Island, except for Kingpin which begins in Pennsylvania. Their films make frequent use of slapstick and toilet humor, and are populated with blunt. Many of their films contain flashback scenes show how a character was affected by a traumatic event. The brothers are noted for their soundtracks, which typically feature diverse selections of classic and contemporary power pop. Sports are a feature of their films and they have often cast sports stars for bit parts and cameo appearances including Cam Neely, Roger Clemens, Brett Favre, Anna Kournikova. The brothers have been praised and critiqued for the way they use the subject of disability in their films. Peter Farrelly has commented, The problem is not that we look down on these people and they frequently depict able-bodied people as stupid, while disabled people are either more aspirational or gifted. Peter Farrelly has published books including Outside Providence and The Comedy Writer, the Farrelly brothers have collaborated on the following films, Peter Farrelly at the Internet Movie Database Bobby Farrelly at the Internet Movie Database
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YouTube
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YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. The service was created by three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—in February 2005, Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion, YouTube now operates as one of Googles subsidiaries. Unregistered users can watch videos on the site, while registered users are permitted to upload an unlimited number of videos. Videos deemed potentially offensive are available only to registered users affirming themselves to be at least 18 years old, YouTube earns advertising revenue from Google AdSense, a program which targets ads according to site content and audience. YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, Hurley had studied design at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and Chen and Karim studied computer science together at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Karim could not easily find video clips of either event online, Hurley and Chen said that the original idea for YouTube was a video version of an online dating service, and had been influenced by the website Hot or Not. YouTube began as a venture capital-funded technology startup, primarily from an $11.5 million investment by Sequoia Capital between November 2005 and April 2006, YouTubes early headquarters were situated above a pizzeria and Japanese restaurant in San Mateo, California. The domain name www. youtube. com was activated on February 14,2005, the first YouTube video, titled Me at the zoo, shows co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo. The video was uploaded on April 23,2005, and can still be viewed on the site, YouTube offered the public a beta test of the site in May 2005. The first video to reach one million views was a Nike advertisement featuring Ronaldinho in November 2005. Following a $3.5 million investment from Sequoia Capital in November, the site grew rapidly, and in July 2006 the company announced that more than 65,000 new videos were being uploaded every day, and that the site was receiving 100 million video views per day. The site has 800 million unique users a month and it is estimated that in 2007 YouTube consumed as much bandwidth as the entire Internet in 2000. The choice of the name www. youtube. com led to problems for a similarly named website, the sites owner, Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment, filed a lawsuit against YouTube in November 2006 after being regularly overloaded by people looking for YouTube. Universal Tube has since changed the name of its website to www. utubeonline. com, in October 2006, Google Inc. announced that it had acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion in Google stock, and the deal was finalized on November 13,2006. In March 2010, YouTube began free streaming of certain content, according to YouTube, this was the first worldwide free online broadcast of a major sporting event. On March 31,2010, the YouTube website launched a new design, with the aim of simplifying the interface, Google product manager Shiva Rajaraman commented, We really felt like we needed to step back and remove the clutter. In May 2010, YouTube videos were watched more than two times per day. This increased to three billion in May 2011, and four billion in January 2012, in February 2017, one billion hours of YouTube was watched every day
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Forbes.com
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Forbes is an American business magazine. Published bi-weekly, it features articles on finance, industry, investing. Forbes also reports on related subjects such as technology, communications, science, politics and its headquarters is located in Jersey City, New Jersey. Primary competitors in the business magazine category include Fortune and Bloomberg Businessweek. The magazine is known for its lists and rankings, including its lists of the richest Americans. Another well-known list by the magazine is The Worlds Billionaires list, the motto of Forbes magazine is The Capitalist Tool. Its chairman and editor-in-chief is Steve Forbes, and its CEO is Mike Perlis, Forbes, a financial columnist for the Hearst papers, and his partner Walter Drey, the general manager of the Magazine of Wall Street, founded Forbes magazine on September 15,1917. Forbes provided the money and the name and Drey provided the publishing expertise, the original name of the magazine was Forbes, Devoted to Doers and Doings. Drey became vice-president of the B. C. Forbes Publishing Company, while B. C. Forbes became editor-in-chief, B. C. Forbes was assisted in his later years by his two eldest sons, Bruce Charles Forbes and Malcolm Stevenson Forbes. Bruce Forbes took over on his fathers death, and his strengths lay in streamlining operations, during his tenure, 1954–1964, the magazines circulation nearly doubled. On Malcolms death, his eldest son Malcolm Stevenson Steve Forbes Jr. became President and Chief Executive of Forbes, between 1961 and 1999 the magazine was edited by James Michaels. In 1993, under Michaels, Forbes was a finalist for the National Magazine Award. com, a 2009 New York Times report said,40 percent of the enterprise was sold. For a reported $300 million, setting the value of the enterprise at $750 million, according to Mark M. Edmiston of AdMedia Partners, Its probably not worth half of that now. The companys headquarters moved to the Newport section of downtown Jersey City. In November 2013, Forbes Media, which publishes Forbes magazine, was put up for sale and this was encouraged by Elevation Partners, of whom were minority shareholders. Sales documents prepared by Deutsche Bank revealed that the publishers 2012 EBITDA was $15 million, Forbes reportedly sought a price of $400 million. In July 2014, Forbes sold a majority of itself to Integrated Whale Media Investments, Steve Forbes and his magazines writers offer investment advice on the weekly Fox TV show Forbes on Fox and on Forbes On Radio. Other company groups include Forbes Conference Group, Forbes Investment Advisory Group, from the 2009 Times report, Steve Forbes recently returned from opening up a Forbes magazine in India, bringing the number of foreign editions to 10
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People (magazine)
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People is an American weekly magazine of celebrity and human-interest stories, published by Time Inc. With a readership of 46.6 million adults, People has the largest audience of any American magazine, People had $997 million in advertising revenue in 2011, the highest advertising revenue of any American magazine. In 2006, it had a circulation of 3.75 million and it was named Magazine of the Year by Advertising Age in October 2005, for excellence in editorial, circulation and advertising. People ranked #6 on Advertising Ages annual A-list and #3 on Adweeks Brand Blazers list in October 2006, the magazine runs a roughly 50/50 mix of celebrity and human-interest articles. Peoples website, People. com, focuses on celebrity news, in February 2015, the website broke a new record,72 million unique visitors. People is perhaps best known for its special issues naming the Worlds Most Beautiful, Best & Worst Dressed. The magazines headquarters are in New York and it maintains editorial bureaus in Los Angeles, for economic reasons it closed bureaus in Austin, Miami, and Chicago in 2006. In December 2016, LaTavia Roberson engaged in a feud with People after alleging they misquoted and misrepresented her interview online. The concept for People has been attributed to Andrew Heiskell, Time Inc. s chief executive officer at the time, the founding managing editor of People was Richard B. Stolley, an assistant managing editor at Life and the journalist who acquired the Zapruder tapes of the John F. Kennedy assassination for Time Inc. in 1963. Peoples first publisher was Richard J. Durrell, another Time Inc. veteran, Stolley characterized the magazine as getting back to the people who are causing the news and who are caught up in it, or deserve to be in it. Our focus is on people, not issues, stolleys almost religious determination to keep the magazine people-focused contributed significantly to its rapid early success. It is said that although Time Inc. pumped an estimated $40 million into the venture, initially, the magazine was sold primarily on newsstands and in supermarkets. To get the magazine out each week, founding staff members regularly slept on the floor of their offices two or three nights each week and severely limited all non-essential outside engagements. The premier edition for the week ending March 4,1974 featured actress Mia Farrow, then starring in the movie The Great Gatsby and that issue also featured stories on Gloria Vanderbilt, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and the wives of U. S. Vietnam veterans who were Missing In Action, the magazine was, apart from its cover, printed in black-and-white. The initial cover price was 35 cents, the core of the small founding editorial team included other editors, writers, photographers and photo editors from Life magazine, which had ceased publication just 13 months earlier. This group included managing editor Stolley, senior editors Hal Wingo, Sam Angeloff and Robert Emmett Ginna, writers James Watters and Ronald B
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The Hollywood Reporter
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Headquartered in Los Angeles, THR is part of the Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group, a group of properties that includes Billboard and SpinMedia. It is owned by Eldridge Industries, a company owned by an executive of its previous owner. Under Janice Min, a faltering THR was relaunched in 2010 as a weekly print magazine with a revamped, continuously updated website, as well as mobile. THR was founded in 1930 by William R, billy Wilkerson as Hollywoods first daily entertainment trade newspaper. The first edition appeared on September 3,1930, and featured Wilkersons front-page Tradeviews column, the newspaper appeared Monday to Saturday for the first 10 years, except for a brief period, then Monday to Friday from 1940. Wilkerson ran the THR until his death in September 1962, although his final column appeared 18 months prior, from the late 1930s, Wilkerson used THR to push the view that the industry was a communist stronghold. In particular, he opposed the screenplay writers trade union, the Screen Writers Guild, in 1946 the Guild considered creating an American Authors Authority to hold copyright for writers, instead of ownership passing to the studios. Wilkerson devoted his Tradeviews column to the issue on July 29,1946 and he went to confession before publishing it, knowing the damage it would cause, but was apparently encouraged by the priest to go ahead with it. The column contained the first industry names, including Dalton Trumbo and Howard Koch, on became the Hollywood blacklist. Eight of the 11 people Wilkerson named were among the Hollywood Ten who were blacklisted after hearings in 1947 by the House Un-American Activities Committee. In 1997 THR reporter David Robb wrote a story about the newspapers involvement, for the blacklists 65th anniversary in 2012, the THR published a lengthy investigative piece about Wilkersons role, by reporters Gary Baum and Daniel Miller. The same edition carried an apology from Wilkersons son, W. R. Wilkerson III and he wrote that his father had been motivated by revenge for his thwarted ambition to own a studio. Wilkersons wife, Tichi Wilkerson Kassel, took over as publisher and she sold the paper on April 11,1988, to Affiliated Publications, parent company of Billboard Publications, for $26.7 million. Robert J. Dowling became THR president in 1988 and editor-in-chief, Dowling brought in Alex Ben Block as editor in 1990, and editorial quality of both news and specials steadily improved. Block and Teri Ritzer dampened much of the coverage and cronyism that had infected the paper under Wilkerson. After Block left, former editor at Variety, Anita Busch, was brought in as editor between 1999 and 2001. Busch was credited with making the paper competitive with Variety, tony Uphoff assumed the publisher position in November 2005. Uphoff was replaced in October 2006 by John Kilcullen, the publisher of Billboard, Kilcullen was a defendant in Billboards infamous dildo lawsuit, in which he was accused of race discrimination and sexual harassment
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Billboard (magazine)
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Billboard is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries. It publishes pieces involving news, video, opinion, reviews, events and it is also known for its music charts, including the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard 200, tracking the most popular singles and albums in different genres. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm, and operates several TV shows, Billboard was founded in 1894 by William Donaldson and James Hennegan as a trade publication for bill posters. Donaldson later acquired Hennegens interest in 1900 for $500, in the 1900s, it covered the entertainment industry, such as circuses, fairs and burlesque shows. It also created a service for travelling entertainers. Billboard began focusing more on the industry as the jukebox, phonograph. Many topics it covered were spun-off into different magazines, including Amusement Business in 1961 to cover outdoor entertainment so that it could focus on music. After Donaldson died in 1925, Billboard was passed down to his children and Hennegans children, until it was sold to investors in 1985. The first issue of Billboard was published in Cincinnati, Ohio, on November 1,1894 by William Donaldson, initially, it covered the advertising and bill posting industry and was called Billboard Advertising. At the time, billboards, posters and paper advertisements placed in public spaces were the means of advertising. Donaldson handled editorial and advertising, while Hennegan, who owned Hennegan Printing Co. managed magazine production, the first issues were just eight pages long. The paper had columns like The Bill Room Gossip and The Indefatigable, a department for agricultural fairs was established in 1896. The title was changed to The Billboard in 1897, after a brief departure over editorial differences, Donaldson purchased Hennegans interest in the business in 1900 for $500, to save it from bankruptcy. That May, Donaldson changed it from a monthly to a paper with a greater emphasis on breaking news. He improved editorial quality and opened new offices in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, London and he also re-focused the magazine on outdoor entertainment like fairs, carnivals, circuses, vaudeville and burlesque shows. A section devoted to circuses was introduced in 1900, followed by more prominent coverage of events in 1901. Billboard also covered topics including regulation, a lack of professionalism, economics and it had a stage gossip column covering the private lives of entertainers, a tent show section covering traveling shows and a sub-section called Freaks to order. According to The Seattle Times, Donaldson also published articles attacking censorship, praising productions exhibiting good taste
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Hollywood Walk of Fame
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The Walk of Fame is administered by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and maintained by the self-financing Hollywood Historic Trust. It is a popular tourist destination, with a reported 10 million visitors in 2003, as of 2017, the Walk of Fame comprises over 2,600 stars, spaced at 6-foot intervals. The monuments are coral-pink terrazzo five-point stars rimmed with brass inlaid into a charcoal-colored terrazzo background, in the upper portion of each star field the name of the honoree is inlaid in brass block letters. Below the inscription, in the half of the star field. Approximately 20 new stars are added to the Walk each year, special category stars recognize various contributions by corporate entities, service organizations, and special honorees, and display emblems unique to those honorees. The moons are silver and grey terrazzo circles rimmed in brass on a square pink terrazzo background, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce credits E. M. Stuart, its volunteer president in 1953, with the original idea for creating a Walk of Fame. Stuart reportedly proposed the Walk as a means to maintain the glory of a community whose name means glamor, Harry Sugarman, another Chamber member and president of the Hollywood Improvement Association, receives credit in an independent account. A committee was formed to flesh out the idea, and a firm was retained to develop specific proposals. By 1955 the basic concept and general design had been agreed upon, multiple accounts exist for the origin of the star concept. By another account, the stars were inspired, by Sugarmans drinks menu, which featured celebrity photos framed in gold stars. In February 1956 a prototype was unveiled featuring a caricature of an example honoree inside a star on a brown background. The committees met at the Brown Derby restaurant, and included such prominent names as Cecil B, deMille, Samuel Goldwyn, Jesse L. Lasky, Walt Disney, Hal Roach, Mack Sennett, and Walter Lantz. A requirement stipulated by the audio recording committee specified minimum sales of one million records or 250,000 albums for all music category nominees. The committee soon realized that many important recording artists would be excluded from the Walk by that requirement, as a result, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences was formed for the purpose of creating a separate award system for the music business. The first Grammy Awards were presented in Beverly Hills in 1959, construction of the Walk began in 1958 but two lawsuits delayed completion. The first was filed by local property owners challenging the legality of the $1.25 million tax assessment levied upon them to pay for the Walk, along with new street lighting, in October 1959 the assessment was ruled legal. The second lawsuit, filed by Charles Chaplin, Jr. sought damages for the exclusion of his father, chaplins suit was dismissed in 1960, paving the way for completion of the project. Woodwards name was one of eight drawn at random from the original 1,558, the other seven names were Olive Borden, Ronald Colman, Louise Fazenda, Preston Foster, Burt Lancaster, Edward Sedgwick, and Ernest Torrence
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Human Rights Campaign
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The Human Rights Campaign is the largest LGBT civil rights advocacy group and political lobbying organization in the United States. The organization has a number of legislative initiatives as well as supporting resources for LGBT individuals, the Human Rights Campaigns leadership includes President Chad Griffin. Steve Endean, who had worked with a previously established Gay Rights National Lobby from 1978, in 1983, Vic Basile, at the time one of the leading LGBT rights activists in Washington, D. C. was elected as the first executive director. In October 1986, the HRC Foundation was formed as a non-profit organization, tim McFeeley, a Harvard Law School graduate, founder of the Boston Lesbian and Gay Political Alliance, and a co-chair of the New England HRC Committee, was elected the new executive director. Total membership was then approximately 25,000 members, in 1992, HRC endorsed a presidential candidate for the first time, Bill Clinton. In March 1993, HRC began a new project, National Coming Out Day, from January 1995 until January 2004, Elizabeth Birch served as the executive director of the HRC. Under her leadership, the more than quadrupled its membership to 500,000 members. In 1995, the dropped the word Fund from its name. That same year, it underwent a complete reorganization, the HRC Foundation added new programs such as the Workplace Project and the Family Project, while HRC itself broadly expanded its research, communications, and marketing/public relations functions. The organization also unveiled a new logo, an equal sign inside of a blue square. As part of the surrounding the Millennium March on Washington. Billed as a concert to end hate crimes, Equality Rocks honored hate crime victims and their families, such as featured speakers Dennis and Judy Shepard, the parents of Matthew Shepard. The event included Melissa Etheridge, Garth Brooks, Pet Shop Boys, k. d. lang, Nathan Lane, Rufus Wainwright, Albita Rodríguez, Elizabeth Birchs successor, Cheryl Jacques, resigned in November 2004 after only 11 months as executive director. Jacques said she had resigned over a difference in management philosophy, in March 2005, HRC announced the appointment of Joe Solmonese as the president. He served in that position until stepping down in May 2012 to co-chair the Barack Obama presidential campaign, on March 10,2010, the first legally recognized same-sex weddings in the District of Columbia were held at the headquarters of the Human Rights Campaign. On August 9,2007, HRC and Logo TV co-hosted a forum for 2008 Democratic presidential candidates dedicated specifically to LGBT issues, in 2010, HRC lobbied for the repeal of the United States ban on HIV-positive peoples entry into the country for travel or immigration. In September 2011, it was announced that Joe Solmonese would step down as president of HRC following the end of his contract in 2012, Griffin took office on June 11,2012. In 2012, HRC said that it had raised and contributed $20 million to re-elect President Obama, in 2013, HRC conducted a postcard campaign in support of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act
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CoverGirl
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CoverGirl is an American cosmetics brand founded in Maryland, United States, by the Noxzema Chemical Company and acquired by Procter & Gamble in 1989 and later acquired by Coty in 2016. The Noxell Company advertised this cosmetics line by allowing girls, fashion models, actresses. CoverGirl makes up for lack of individual customer service by providing a wide variety of cosmetics available at reasonable prices. In 1963, model Jennifer ONeill signed on as CoverGirl spokeswoman at the age of sixteen and her unprecedented thirty-year endorsement of the product catapulted CoverGirl into the top-selling makeup line in the country. Cybill Shepherd was one of CoverGirls earliest models, appearing in several print, in contrast to the made-up looking fashion models of the late 1960s, Shepherd demonstrated a fresh, wholesome look, appealing to a younger consumers taste. These advertisements established the look that CoverGirl would become associated with. CoverGirls first product line, Clean Makeup, launched in 1961 and it was nominated Americas best cosmetic brand. Originally offering only six products, it was advertised as being a medicated face makeup as it used Noxzemas medicated ingredients of camphor, menthol, sales of the line increased during 1985 due to an advertising campaign featuring supermodel Christie Brinkley. In 1997, Covergirl launched what is now the slogan, “Easy, breezy, beautiful…” This was their best way to express how their products were. It eventually led to an increase of sales, and a audience of teenage girls was effectively targeted. The products of the line are still in production, and continue changing as new ideas come along, CoverGirl was one of the largest global brands to conduct animal testing but that is no longer the case. In January 2010, Procter & Gamble launched Clean Makeup for Clean Water, Dania Ramirez is the newest spokesmodel for CoverGirls Clean Makeup Sensitive formula, a campaign for CoverGirls partnership with Childrens Safe Drinking Water. With the help of the Clean Makeup line, CoverGirl has donated $500,000 to the program, CoverGirl is sold primarily in drugstores, convenience stores, and supermarkets. Maybelline Cosmetics, is CoverGirls biggest competition, as both companies market to similar groups of consumers, and sell their products at similar prices, examples of more expensive cosmetic competitors sold in drugstores and supermarkets include Revlon, Almay, Neutrogena, LOréal, and Max Factor. Less expensive competitors in drugstores include NYC Cosmetics and Wet n Wild Cosmetics, in 1992, Cover Girl became the first major cosmetic company to sign a black model to an exclusive contract. Today most major brands have one or more black models or celebrities under contract, many successful models have represented CoverGirl Cosmetics, including Tyra Banks and Carrie Tivador. Singers and actresses, like Katy Perry, Brandy, Molly Sims, Faith Hill, Queen Latifah, Rihanna, Keri Russell, Taylor Swift, Dania Ramirez, and Drew Barrymore have also represented the cosmetic line. Because of Jennifer ONeills successful thirty-year relationship with CoverGirl as spokeswoman, Christie Brinkley modeled for the company for 25 years, the longest running cosmetics contract of any model in history
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Diet Pepsi
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Diet Pepsi and Diet Pepsi Classic Formula Blend are no-calorie carbonated cola soft drinks produced by PepsiCo, introduced in 1964 as a variant of Pepsi-Cola with no sugar. In the 1960s and 1970s its competition consisted of Tab, produced by The Coca-Cola Company, Diet Coke was a later entrant to the diet cola market, though shortly after entering production in 1982 it became the primary competing diet cola to Diet Pepsi. While the U. S. represents the largest single market for Diet Pepsi, the beverage composition, flavor variations and packaging varies based on the country of production. In some countries—primarily in Eastern Europe—the product is labeled and sold under the name Pepsi Light, in the UK it was called Pepsi Diet to bring it inline with the European version, until 2015 when it was renamed Diet Pepsi once again. Diet Pepsi was originally created in the US under the name Patio in 1963, following a positive reception attributed to the shifting dietary habits and preferences among the Baby Boom Generation at the time, the drink was re-branded as Diet Pepsi the following year. It became the first diet cola to be distributed on a scale in the United States. Distribution was extended to the UK in 1983, where it is referred to as Diet Pepsi. Distribution has since expanded to countries around the world, though an alternate name is used in certain countries. In Italy, Czech Republic, Poland Argentina, Spain Greece, Turkey, Russia, Ukraine, and Brazil, the beverage is known as Pepsi Light. As of 2010, Diet Pepsi represented a 5.3 percent share of all carbonated soft drink sales in the United States, in the same year, Diet Coke was recorded as having a 9.9 percent market share. Additional variations of Diet Pepsi have been introduced over the years, a caffeine-free version of Diet Pepsi is also produced. The availability and brand identification of Diet Pepsi flavor variants varies by country, in addition to Diet Pepsi, PepsiCo produces other low-calorie colas known as Pepsi Max and Pepsi ONE. These products, however, are marketed separately, and are not labeled under the Diet Pepsi brand. In the United States, Diet Pepsi is marketed as having zero calories and it is also positioned as having no carbohydrates, as represented in the primary slogan, which as of 2011 is 0 carbs. Though Diet Pepsi is represented worldwide as a low- or no-calorie beverage, in Canada, the ingredient listing reads, carbonated water, caramel color, phosphoric acid, aspartame, sodium benzoate, caffeine, flavor, acesulfame potassium, citric acid, dimethylpolysiloxane. In the composition of all no-calorie carbonated colas, a sweetener is used in place of sugar. In December 2012, an AP article reported that Diet Pepsi was changing its sweetener to sucralose ahead of a rebranding of the soft drink set for January 2013. In 2015, some people on Facebook and Twitter expressed their distaste for the new fomula, Pepsi plans to revive its aspartame formulation, as Diet Pepsi Classic Sweetener Blend for US markets in September 2016
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