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Peekskill, New York
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Peekskill, officially the City of Peekskill, is a city in the New York City metropolitan area, Westchester County, New York, in the United States. Peekskill is situated on a bay along the east side of the Hudson River, the population was 23,583 during the 2010 census. This community was known to be an early American industrial center, primarily for its iron plow, the Binney & Smith Company, now makers of Crayola products, started as the Peekskill Chemical Company at Annsville in 1864. Peekskills manufacturing base operated well into the late 20th century, with the Fleischmann Company making yeast by-products under the Standard Brands corporate name, in September 1609, Henry Hudson, captain of the Halve Maen, anchored along the reach of the Hudson at Peekskill. His firstmate noted in the log that it was a very pleasant place to build a town. After the establishment of the province of New Netherland, New Amsterdam resident Jan Peeck made the first recorded contact with the Lenape people of this area, the date is not certain, but agreements and merchant transactions took place, formalized in the Rycks Patent Deed of 1684. The name Peekskill derives from a combination of Mr. Peeks surname, located on the north bank of the Annsville Creek as it empties into the Hudson, Fort Independence combined with Forts Montgomery and Clinton to defend the Hudson River Valley. Fort Independence was built in August 1776, while Forts Montgomery, Fort Hill Park, the site of Camp Peekskill, contained five barracks and two redoubts. European style settlement took place slowly in the early 18th century, by the time of the American Revolution, the tiny community was an important manufacturing center from its various mills along the several creeks and streams. These industrial activities were attractive to the Continental Army in establishing its headquarters here in 1776, the mills of Peeks Creek provided gunpowder, leather, planks, and flour. Slaughterhouses were important for food supply, the river docks allowed transport of supply items and soldiers to the several other fort garrisons placed to prevent British naval passage between Albany and New York City. Officers at Peekskill generally supervised placing the first iron link chain between Bear Mountain and Anthonys Nose in the spring of 1777, though Peekskills terrain and mills were beneficial to the Patriot cause, they also made tempting targets for British raids. The most damaging attack took place in spring of 1777. Another British operation in October 1777 led to destruction of industrial apparatus. On leaving New Windsor in June,1781, Washington established his quarters, for a short time, Peekskills first legal incorporation of 1816 was reactivated in 1826 when Village elections took place. The Village was further incorporated within the Town of Cortlandt in 1849, an effigy of Robeson was lynched in the town. The artists were able to plan a concert in nearby Van Cortlandtville on a farm owned by a Holocaust survivor. The publicity drew a crowd of around 20,000, and it was one of the earliest performances of Pete Seegers If I Had a Hammer, Robeson sang surrounded by union guards and volunteers from the audience as protection against other snipers
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Historic District
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Seal
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Fort Independence on the Hudson, depicted on
Sir Henry Clinton 's battle map of 6 Oct. 1777
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Eastern redoubt on Fort Hill Park
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London
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London /ˈlʌndən/ is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom. Standing on the River Thames in the south east of the island of Great Britain and it was founded by the Romans, who named it Londinium. Londons ancient core, the City of London, largely retains its 1. 12-square-mile medieval boundaries. London is a global city in the arts, commerce, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcare, media, professional services, research and development, tourism. It is crowned as the worlds largest financial centre and has the fifth- or sixth-largest metropolitan area GDP in the world, London is a world cultural capital. It is the worlds most-visited city as measured by international arrivals and has the worlds largest city airport system measured by passenger traffic, London is the worlds leading investment destination, hosting more international retailers and ultra high-net-worth individuals than any other city. Londons universities form the largest concentration of education institutes in Europe. In 2012, London became the first city to have hosted the modern Summer Olympic Games three times, London has a diverse range of people and cultures, and more than 300 languages are spoken in the region. Its estimated mid-2015 municipal population was 8,673,713, the largest of any city in the European Union, Londons urban area is the second most populous in the EU, after Paris, with 9,787,426 inhabitants at the 2011 census. The citys metropolitan area is the most populous in the EU with 13,879,757 inhabitants, the city-region therefore has a similar land area and population to that of the New York metropolitan area. London was the worlds most populous city from around 1831 to 1925, Other famous landmarks include Buckingham Palace, the London Eye, Piccadilly Circus, St Pauls Cathedral, Tower Bridge, Trafalgar Square, and The Shard. The London Underground is the oldest underground railway network in the world, the etymology of London is uncertain. It is an ancient name, found in sources from the 2nd century and it is recorded c.121 as Londinium, which points to Romano-British origin, and hand-written Roman tablets recovered in the city originating from AD 65/70-80 include the word Londinio. The earliest attempted explanation, now disregarded, is attributed to Geoffrey of Monmouth in Historia Regum Britanniae and this had it that the name originated from a supposed King Lud, who had allegedly taken over the city and named it Kaerlud. From 1898, it was accepted that the name was of Celtic origin and meant place belonging to a man called *Londinos. The ultimate difficulty lies in reconciling the Latin form Londinium with the modern Welsh Llundain, which should demand a form *lōndinion, from earlier *loundiniom. The possibility cannot be ruled out that the Welsh name was borrowed back in from English at a later date, and thus cannot be used as a basis from which to reconstruct the original name. Until 1889, the name London officially applied only to the City of London, two recent discoveries indicate probable very early settlements near the Thames in the London area
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Palace of Westminster,
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The name London may derive from the
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State University of New York at Purchase
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State University of New York at Purchase also known as Purchase College, State University of New York is a public four-year college located in Purchase, New York, United States. It is one of 13 comprehensive colleges in the State University of New York system, Purchase College was ranked 9 in U. S. News & World Reports 2016 listing of top public liberal arts colleges. The college was listed as one of Kiplingers 100 Best Public College Values in 2016 and it was also listed in that publications 2014 list of Best Values in Small Colleges. The Princeton Review included Purchase College in its 2015 list of The Best 379 Colleges. Purchase College confers the degrees, Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Bachelor of Music, Master of Arts, Master of Fine Arts. Similarly, the BFA and MusB studies culminate in an exhibition, film. Masters degree programs culminate in a thesis and the MFA and MM culminate in an exhibition, recital, the land that would become Purchase College was first settled by the Thomas family in 1734. John Thomas served as an assemblyman in colonial New York from 1743-1776 and he served as a judge for the Court of Common Pleas in Westchester and a Muster-Master. Judge Thomas was a supporter of American independence. On March 22,1777, Thomas was imprisoned by the British, John Thomas sons, John Thomas, Jr. and Thomas Thomas, also fought for American independence. Thomas Thomas was later appointed a General and he is buried at the Thomas family graveyard, which is located behind the Neuberger Museum of Art on the campus of Purchase College. A tall, white stone obelisk commemorates General Thomas and his family, as of 2016, Purchase College had 4,188 undergraduate students with freshman enrollment of 694. 56% of Purchases student body is female, 15% of the colleges students come from outside of New York state and 2. 5% of its students are international. Purchase has a rate of 41% and a student-teacher ratio of 15,1. 62% of Purchase students receive need-based financial aid and the college has an endowment of $63.9 million, Purchase College was ranked the ninth-best public liberal-arts college in U. S. News & World Reports 2016 college rankings. Kiplinger ranked the school as the 76th Best Value in Public Colleges in 2016 and it was also listed as one of the 100 Best Value Public Colleges for the years 2013 and 2014 by the Princeton Review. The Princeton Review rated the schools theatre as the twelfth best, Purchase was also listed as one of the Princeton Reviews top 380 colleges for 2016. Newsweek ranked the student body as the thirteenth most liberal in 2012
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Purchase College's main plaza. All academic and service buildings centrally located on the newly renovated plaza.
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Purchase College campus at dusk
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Purchase College was originally a 500-acre estate and working farm in the 1700s.
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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
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The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It is given in honor of an actor who has delivered a performance in a supporting role while working within the film industry. At the 9th Academy Awards ceremony held in 1937, Walter Brennan was the first winner of award for his role in Come. Initially, winners in both supporting acting categories were awarded instead of statuettes. Beginning with the 16th ceremony held in 1944, however, winners received full-sized statuettes, currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the actors branch of AMPAS, winners are selected by a plurality vote from the entire eligible voting members of the Academy. Since its inception, the award has given to 72 actors. Brennan has received the most awards in this category with three awards, Brennan, Jeff Bridges, Robert Duvall, Arthur Kennedy, Jack Nicholson, and Claude Rains were nominated on four occasions, more than any other actor. As of the 2017 ceremony, Mahershala Ali is the most recent winner in category for his role as Juan in Moonlight. In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of release in Los Angeles County. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, University of Toronto Press, ISBN 978-1-55002-574-3. org The Academy Awards Database Oscar. com Complete Downloadable List of Academy Award Nominees
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Walter Brennan was the first winner in this category for 1936's
Come and Get It; He would also win for his roles in
Kentucky (1938) and
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Van Heflin won in 1942 for his performance in
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George Sanders won for his role in 1950's
All About Eve.
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Karl Malden won in 1951 for
A Streetcar Named Desire.
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The Lovely Bones (film)
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The Lovely Bones is a 2009 supernatural drama film directed by Peter Jackson and stars Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci, Michael Imperioli, and Saoirse Ronan. Jackson and his producer partners acquired the rights independently and developed a script on their own, principal photography began in October 2007 in New Zealand and Pennsylvania, United States. After DreamWorks left the project, Paramount became the sole distributor. The films trailer was released on August 4,2009, the Lovely Bones was first released on December 26,2009, in New Zealand, and then internationally in January 2010. The films North American release date was changed multiple times, with a release on December 11,2009. In the films opening weekend, in limited release, it grossed $116,616, the Lovely Bones grossed over $44 million in North America. In 1973, 14-year-old Susie Salmon dreams about becoming a photographer, one day, Ray, a boy she has a crush on, approaches her at school and asks her out. As Susie walks home through a cornfield, she runs into her neighbor, George Harvey, inside, Susie becomes uncomfortable and attempts to leave, when he grabs her, the scene fades until she is seen rushing past classmate Ruth Connors, apparently fleeing Harveys den. The Salmons become worried when Susie fails to return home from school and her father, Jack, searches for her, while her mother, Abigail, waits for the police. In town, Susie sees Jack, but he does not respond to her when she calls, Susie runs home to find Harvey soaking in a bathtub. After seeing her hanging on the sink faucet near a bloody shaving razor. Screaming, she is pulled into the In-Between, that is neither Heaven nor Earth, from there, Susie watches over her loved ones, unable to let go despite the urging of her new afterlife friend, Holly. Investigating Susies disappearance with Detective Fenerman, Jack thinks Susie was murdered by someone she knew and he researches neighbors and comes to think Harvey is the killer. Fenerman is unable to find any evidence pinpointing Harvey as a suspect, Susies sister, Lindsey, agrees with Jacks suspicions, but their casework takes a toll on Abigail, and Jack invites Abigails alcoholic mother, Lynn, to move in with them. Feeling alienated from her husband, Abigail leaves for California, one night, Jack, carrying a bat, trails Harvey into the cornfield. However, Jack accidentally stumbles across Susies friend, Clarissa and her boyfriend, who mistakenly thinks his girlfriend is being assaulted, nearly bludgeons Jack to death as Harvey watches from a hiding spot. As Jack recuperates, Lindsey breaks into Harveys house looking for evidence that he killed Susie, upstairs, she finds a notebook containing a sketch of the den, a lock of Susies hair, and news articles about Susies disappearance. Harvey returns home and almost catches Lindsey in his house, not wishing to spoil her parents reunion, she gives the book to her grandmother, who contacts the police
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Theatrical release poster
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Jackson at 2009
Comic-Con film festival. At the festival Jackson discussed The Lovely Bones and screened a clip from it.
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Monk (TV series)
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Monk is an American comedy-drama detective mystery television series created by Andy Breckman and starring Tony Shalhoub as the eponymous character, Adrian Monk. It originally ran from 2002 to 2009 and is primarily a police procedural series, the series was produced by Mandeville Films and Touchstone Television in association with Universal Television. The series debuted on July 12,2002, on USA Network and it continued for eight seasons, with the final season concluding on December 4,2009. Adrian Monk was a brilliant detective for the San Francisco Police Department until his wife, Trudy, was killed by a car bomb in a parking garage, in a later episode, he discovers the bomb was truly meant for Trudy. He later believes that Trudys death was part of a conspiracy that she had uncovered during her time as a journalist. Trudys death led Monk to suffer a nervous breakdown and he was then discharged from the force and became a recluse, refusing to leave his house for three and a half years. Until the final episode, Trudys death was Monks only unsolved case and he is finally able to leave the house with the help of his nurse, Sharona Fleming. Monks compulsive habits are numerous, and a number of phobias compound his situation, Monk has 312 fears, some of which are milk, ladybugs, harmonicas, heights, imperfection, claustrophobia, driving, food touching on his plates, messes and risk. He however had a breakthrough from claustrophobia later in the series, the OCPD and plethora of phobias inevitably lead to very awkward situations and cause problems for Monk and anyone around him as he investigates cases. These same personal struggles, particularly the OCPD, are what aid him in solving cases, such as his memory, specific mindset. In one episode entitled Mr. Monk and His Biggest Fan, in another episode, he tries to conquer his fears by doing various activities which involved his phobias. Captain Leland Stottlemeyer and Lieutenant Randy Disher call on Monk when they have trouble with an investigation, Stottlemeyer is often irritated by Monks behavior but respects his friend and former colleagues amazing insight and observational abilities, as does Disher. Ever since childhood, Monks obsessive attention to detail allowed him to spot tiny discrepancies, find patterns, something someone says or does usually triggers Monk to make the connection. In his spare time, Monk continues to search for information about his wifes death and he dedicates his life to solving other murders because he feels this is fixing disorder in the world. He becomes especially intrigued when a woman is killed, or when someone is killed with some type of bomb, because this reminds him of Trudys murder. In the middle of three, Sharona decides to remarry her ex-husband and move back to New Jersey, prompting Mr. Monk to hire Natalie Teeger as his new assistant. Natalie is a widow and mother of a daughter, Julie. Monk discovers Natalie when she is involved in a murder case herself, in Mr. Monk, Monk has a brother Ambrose and a half-brother, Jack, Jr. whom Monk never knew about until his father tells him in season five
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Jason Gray-Stanford,
Traylor Howard and
Tony Shalhoub sign autographs at
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Grammy Award
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A Grammy Award, or Grammy, is an honor awarded by The Recording Academy to recognize outstanding achievement in the mainly English-language music industry. The annual presentation ceremony features performances by prominent artists, and the presentation of awards that have a more popular interest. It shares recognition of the industry as that of the other performance awards such as the Emmy Awards, the Tony Awards. The first Grammy Awards ceremony was held on May 4,1959, to honor, following the 2011 ceremony, The Academy overhauled many Grammy Award categories for 2012. The 59th Grammy Awards, honoring the best achievements from October 2015 to September 2016, was held on February 12,2017, the Grammys had their origin in the Hollywood Walk of Fame project in the 1950s. The music executives decided to rectify this by creating a given by their industry similar to the Oscars. This was the beginning of the National Academy of Recording Arts, after it was decided to create such an award, there was still a question of what to call it, one working title was the Eddie, to honor the inventor of the phonograph, Thomas Edison. They finally settled on using the name of the invention of Emile Berliner, the gramophone, for the awards, the number of awards given grew and fluctuated over the years with categories added and removed, at one time reaching over 100. The second Grammy Awards, also held in 1959, was the first ceremony to be televised, the gold-plated trophies, each depicting a gilded gramophone, are made and assembled by hand by Billings Artworks in Ridgway, Colorado. In 1990 the original Grammy design was revamped, changing the traditional soft lead for a stronger alloy less prone to damage, Billings developed a zinc alloy named grammium, which is trademarked. The trophies with the name engraved on them are not available until after the award announcements. By February 2009,7,578 Grammy trophies had been awarded, the General Field are four awards which are not restricted by genre. Album of the Year is awarded to the performer and the team of a full album if other than the performer. Record of the Year is awarded to the performer and the team of a single song if other than the performer. Song of the Year is awarded to the writer/composer of a single song, Best New Artist is awarded to a promising breakthrough performer who releases, during the Eligibility Year, the first recording that establishes the public identity of that artist. The only two artists to win all four of these awards are Christopher Cross, who won all four in 1980, and Adele, who won the Best New Artist award in 2009 and the other three in 2012 and 2017. Other awards are given for performance and production in specific genres, as well as for other such as artwork. Special awards are given for longer-lasting contributions to the music industry, the many other Grammy trophies are presented in a pre-telecast Premiere Ceremony earlier in the afternoon before the Grammy Awards telecast
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Grammy Awards
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New York (state)
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New York is a state in the northeastern United States, and is the 27th-most extensive, fourth-most populous, and seventh-most densely populated U. S. state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south and Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont to the east. With an estimated population of 8.55 million in 2015, New York City is the most populous city in the United States, the New York Metropolitan Area is one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. New York City makes up over 40% of the population of New York State, two-thirds of the states population lives in the New York City Metropolitan Area, and nearly 40% lives on Long Island. Both the state and New York City were named for the 17th-century Duke of York, the next four most populous cities in the state are Buffalo, Rochester, Yonkers, and Syracuse, while the state capital is Albany. New York has a diverse geography and these more mountainous regions are bisected by two major river valleys—the north-south Hudson River Valley and the east-west Mohawk River Valley, which forms the core of the Erie Canal. Western New York is considered part of the Great Lakes Region and straddles Lake Ontario, between the two lakes lies Niagara Falls. The central part of the state is dominated by the Finger Lakes, New York had been inhabited by tribes of Algonquian and Iroquoian-speaking Native Americans for several hundred years by the time the earliest Europeans came to New York. The first Europeans to arrive were French colonists and Jesuit missionaries who arrived southward from settlements at Montreal for trade, the British annexed the colony from the Dutch in 1664. The borders of the British colony, the Province of New York, were similar to those of the present-day state, New York is home to the Statue of Liberty, a symbol of the United States and its ideals of freedom, democracy, and opportunity. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. On April 17,1524 Verrazanno entered New York Bay, by way of the now called the Narrows into the northern bay which he named Santa Margherita. Verrazzano described it as a vast coastline with a delta in which every kind of ship could pass and he adds. This vast sheet of water swarmed with native boats and he landed on the tip of Manhattan and possibly on the furthest point of Long Island. Verrazannos stay was interrupted by a storm which pushed him north towards Marthas Vineyard, in 1540 French traders from New France built a chateau on Castle Island, within present-day Albany, due to flooding, it was abandoned the next year. In 1614, the Dutch under the command of Hendrick Corstiaensen, rebuilt the French chateau, Fort Nassau was the first Dutch settlement in North America, and was located along the Hudson River, also within present-day Albany. The small fort served as a trading post and warehouse, located on the Hudson River flood plain, the rudimentary fort was washed away by flooding in 1617, and abandoned for good after Fort Orange was built nearby in 1623. Henry Hudsons 1609 voyage marked the beginning of European involvement with the area, sailing for the Dutch East India Company and looking for a passage to Asia, he entered the Upper New York Bay on September 11 of that year
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British general
John Burgoyne surrenders at
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1800 map of New York from
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The
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Katonah, New York
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Katonah is one of three hamlets and census-designated places within the town of Bedford, Westchester County, in the U. S. state of New York, specifically northern Westchester. The Katonah CDP had a population of 1,679 at the 2010 census, Katonah is named for Chief Katonah, an American Indian from whom the land of Bedford was purchased by a group of English colonists. Founded with the name Whitlockville, the changed its name, and later was moved to its present site in 1897. More than 50 buildings were moved from the old site to New Katonah, the move was originally ordered to start in 1894, but litigation delayed the process by almost three years. Eleven-year-old child named B. Robertson wrote the following to a magazine on March 2nd,1897. The villages of Kirbyville and New Castle Corners were also condemned by the city but were never moved, during the American Revolution military battles or skirmishes did not take place in the area that is now the Village of Katonah. However, most local men joined the Continental side, with some joining the New York 4th Regiment of the Line and most joining the local Militia. Though the Bedford Township lay in what was called Neutral Ground, supposedly not molested by military of either side, the Katonah Village Historic District, and St. Lukes Episcopal Church are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The John Jay Homestead and Stepping Stones, home of Bill and Lois Wilson, Katonah is classified as a hamlet, with no legal status as an administrative jurisdiction. The Katonah post office serves portions of the towns of Bedford, Lewisboro, Katonah was identified as a census-designated place for the first time in 2010. According to the 2010 United States census, the CDP of Katonah had a population of 1,679 people. In 2010, half of the Katonah ZIP codes population resided in the town of Bedford,36. 9% in Somers and 12. 9% in Lewisboro. Within the Katonah CDP, there were 1,679 people,589 households, the population density was 2,398.6 per square mile. There were 619 housing units at a density of 884. 3/sq mi. The racial makeup of the CDP was 87. 1% White,2. 5% African American,0. 2% Native American,2. 6% Asian,5. 4% some other race, hispanic or Latino of any race were 11. 9% of the population. 17. 5% of all households were made up of individuals, the average household size was 2.83, and the average family size was 3.24. In the CDP, the population was out with 29. 5% under the age of 18,5. 1% from 18 to 24,24. 1% from 25 to 44,31. 7% from 45 to 64. The median age was 40.6 years, for every 100 females there were 88.0 males
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Looking north along Katonah Avenue
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Moving from Old Katonah to New
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The
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Downtown Katonah near The Blue Dolphin
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Chappaqua, New York
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Chappaqua /ˈtʃæpəkwɑː/ is a hamlet and census-designated place in the town of New Castle, in northern Westchester County, New York. It is on 0.45 square miles of land on the east bank of the Hudson River, the hamlet is served by the Chappaqua station of the Metro-North Railroads Harlem Line. In the New York State Legislature it is within the New York State Assemblys 93rd district, in Congress the village is in New Yorks 17th District. Chappaqua was founded by a group of Quakers in the 1730s and was the home of Horace Greeley, New-York Tribune editor, since the late 1990s, President Bill and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have lived there. In the early 1730s a group of Quakers moved north from Purchase, New York and they built their homes on Quaker Street and held their meetings at the home of Abel Weeks. Their meeting house was built in 1753 and still holds meetings each Sunday. The area around the house, known as Old Chappaqua Historic District, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. Horace Greeleys home, known as Rehoboth and built by Greeley himself and it is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places along with Chappaqua Railroad Depot and Depot Plaza, Church of Saint Mary the Virgin and Greeley Grove, and the Greeley House. Various spellings were used for the name they heard Native Americans use for their valley and it was an Algonquian word, shah-pah-ka, and it meant the rustling land or the rattling land, or a place where nothing is heard but the rustling of the wind in the leaves. The Quakers spelled it Shapiqua, Shapaqua, Shapequa, Shappaqua and their meeting was often referred to as the Shapequa Meeting as early as 1745. On March 18,1791, the government of New York decided to split the large town of North Castle into two smaller towns, one of which was named New Castle. The border was drawn from the southwest corner of Bedford to the northeast edge of Mount Pleasant, New Castles borders have remained the same since 1791, except for a small piece of land received from Somers in 1846 and the secession of Mount Kisco in 1978. Chappaqua had great streams such as the Saw Mill River and Roaring Brook and these bodies of water powered mills to crush corn and press oil from beans. The eastern half of Chappaqua was very suitable for farming, the majority of the Quaker settlers of Chappaqua were farmers. The popular farming industry also helped give way to Chappaquas high milk production, other popular industries from Chappaqua included shoes, hardware, vinegar, pickles, eyeglasses, and furniture. Many early homes and businesses were demolished in the 1904 Chappaqua tornado, in 1846 when the New York and Harlem Railroad extended through Chappaqua, business became centered on the new train station. These businesses included a hotel, livery stables, a public library, the railroad enabled commuters to travel to New York City and back each day. According to the 2010 United States Census, the CDP has an area of 0.45 square miles
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Downtown Chappaqua from the
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Location of Chappaqua, New York
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Car 2062, a 2013 Chevrolet Tahoe
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Calabria
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Calabria, known in antiquity as Bruttium and formerly as Italia, is a region in Southern Italy and forms the traditionally conceptualized toe of the Italian Peninsula which resembles a boot. The capital city of Calabria is Catanzaro and its most populated city, and the seat of the Regional Council of Calabria, is Reggio Calabria in the Province of Reggio Calabria. The region is bordered to the north by the Basilicata Region, to the west by the Tyrrhenian Sea, the region covers 15,080 km2 and has a population of just under 2 million. The demonym of Calabria in English is Calabrian, in ancient times Calabria was referred to as Italy. The Romans later extended the name to cover Southern Italy and then the entire peninsula, the region is a long and narrow peninsula which stretches from north to south for 248 km, with a maximum width of 110 km. Some 42% of Calabrias area, corresponding to 15,080 km2, is mountainous, 49% is hilly and it is surrounded by the Ionian and Tyrrhenian seas. It is separated from Sicily by the Strait of Messina, where the narrowest point between Capo Peloro in Sicily and Punta Pezzo in Calabria is only 3.2 km, three mountain ranges are present, Pollino, La Sila and Aspromonte. All three mountain ranges are unique with their own flora and fauna, the Pollino Mountains in the north of the region are rugged and form a natural barrier separating Calabria from the rest of Italy. Parts of the area are heavily wooded, while others are vast and these mountains are home to a rare Bosnian Pine variety, and are included in the Pollino National Park. The highest point is Botte Donato, which reaches 1,928 metres, the area boasts numerous lakes and dense coniferous forests. La Sila also has some of the tallest trees in Italy which are called the Giants of the Sila, the Sila National Park is also known to have the purest air in Europe. The Aspromonte massif forms the southernmost tip of the Italian peninsula bordered by the sea on three sides and this unique mountainous structure reaches its highest point at Montalto, at 1,995 metres, and is full of wide, man-made terraces that slope down towards the sea. In general, most of the terrain in Calabria has been agricultural for centuries. The lowest slopes are rich in vineyards and citrus fruit orchards, the Diamante citron is one of the citrus fruits. Moving upwards, olives and chestnut trees appear while in the regions there are often dense forests of oak, pine, beech. Calabrias climate is influenced by the sea and mountains, mountain areas have a typical mountainous climate with frequent snow during winter. Erratic behavior of the Tyrrhenian Sea can bring heavy rainfall on the slopes of the region, while hot air from Africa makes the east coast of Calabria dry. The mountains that run along the region also influence the climate, the east coast is much warmer and has wider temperature ranges than the west coast
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View of Calabria from satellite
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Cliff at
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Pollino National Park
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La Sila National Park
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Florence
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Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the Metropolitan City of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants, Florence was a centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of the time. It is considered the birthplace of the Renaissance, and has called the Athens of the Middle Ages. A turbulent political history includes periods of rule by the powerful Medici family, from 1865 to 1871 the city was the capital of the recently established Kingdom of Italy. The Historic Centre of Florence attracts 13 million tourists each year and it was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1982. The city is noted for its culture, Renaissance art and architecture, the city also contains numerous museums and art galleries, such as the Uffizi Gallery and the Palazzo Pitti, and still exerts an influence in the fields of art, culture and politics. Due to Florences artistic and architectural heritage, it has been ranked by Forbes as one of the most beautiful cities in the world, in 2008, the city had the 17th highest average income in Italy. Florence originated as a Roman city, and later, after a period as a flourishing trading and banking medieval commune. According to the Encyclopædia Britannica, it was politically, economically, and culturally one of the most important cities in Europe, the language spoken in the city during the 14th century was, and still is, accepted as the Italian language. Starting from the late Middle Ages, Florentine money—in the form of the gold florin—financed the development of all over Europe, from Britain to Bruges, to Lyon. Florentine bankers financed the English kings during the Hundred Years War and they similarly financed the papacy, including the construction of their provisional capital of Avignon and, after their return to Rome, the reconstruction and Renaissance embellishment of Rome. Florence was home to the Medici, one of European historys most important noble families, Lorenzo de Medici was considered a political and cultural mastermind of Italy in the late 15th century. Two members of the family were popes in the early 16th century, Leo X, catherine de Medici married king Henry II of France and, after his death in 1559, reigned as regent in France. Marie de Medici married Henry IV of France and gave birth to the future king Louis XIII, the Medici reigned as Grand Dukes of Tuscany, starting with Cosimo I de Medici in 1569 and ending with the death of Gian Gastone de Medici in 1737. The Etruscans initially formed in 200 BC the small settlement of Fiesole and it was built in the style of an army camp with the main streets, the cardo and the decumanus, intersecting at the present Piazza della Repubblica. Situated along the Via Cassia, the route between Rome and the north, and within the fertile valley of the Arno, the settlement quickly became an important commercial centre. Peace returned under Lombard rule in the 6th century, Florence was conquered by Charlemagne in 774 and became part of the Duchy of Tuscany, with Lucca as capital. The population began to again and commerce prospered
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A collage of Florence showing the
Galleria degli Uffizi (top left), followed by the
Palazzo Pitti, a sunset view of the city and the
Fountain of Neptune in the
Piazza della Signoria
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A wooden model of Florence as it would have probably looked during Roman times, showing the ancient amphitheatre
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The façade of the Cathedral
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Leonardo da Vinci statue outside the
Uffizi Gallery.
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Ving Rhames
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Rhames was born in Harlem, New York City, New York, the son of Reather, a homemaker, and Ernest Rhames, an auto mechanic. His parents were raised as sharecroppers in South Carolina, named after the late NBC journalist, Irving R. Levine, Irving Rhames also grew up in Harlem. He entered New Yorks High School of Performing Arts, where he discovered his love of acting, after high school, he studied drama at SUNY Purchase, where fellow acting student Stanley Tucci gave him his nickname Ving. Rhames later transferred to the Juilliard Schools Drama Division where he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1983, Rhames first appeared on Broadway in the play The Boys of Winter in 1984. Rhames played Dr. Peter Bentons brother-in-law on the TV medical drama ER and he played ace computer hacker Luther Stickell opposite Tom Cruise in Brian De Palmas Mission, Impossible. In 1997 Rhames portrayed the character of Nathan Diamond Dog Jones in the popular film Con Air, Rhames won a Golden Globe in 1998 for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film in HBOs Don King, Only in America. At the ceremony Rhames gave his award to fellow nominee Jack Lemmon, saying, I feel that being an artist is about giving, Lemmon was clearly touched by the gesture as was the celebrity audience who gave Lemmon a standing ovation. Lemmon, who tried unsuccessfully to give the back to Rhames. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced later that they would have a duplicate award prepared for Rhames and that moment was #98 on E. s 101 Awesome Moments in Entertainment. The New York Times lauded Rhames for the act, writing that in doing so he demonstrated his capacity for abundant generosity, Rhames appeared in Striptease as the wisecracking bodyguard Shad, Bringing Out the Dead, then reprised his Luther Stickell role for Mission, Impossible II. Rhames has also appeared in a series of commercials for RadioShack. In March 2005, Rhames played the role on a new Kojak series. The bald head, lollipops, and Who loves ya, baby, catchphrase remained intact, but little else remained from the Savalas original. Rhames voiced the part of Tobias Jones in the computer game Driver 3. Rhames reprised his role in Mission, Impossible III, had an appearance in Mission, Impossible – Ghost Protocol. He is the only actor besides Tom Cruise to appear in all five Mission, Impossible films. It was announced that he would have a role in the Aquaman-based show Mercy Reef, however due to the integration of The WB and UPN for the new network, CW, Mercy Reef was not picked up. Rhames played a homosexual, possibly also homicidal, firefighter who comes out of the closet in I Now Pronounce You Chuck and he narrates the BET television series American Gangster
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Colleen Dewhurst
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Colleen Rose Dewhurst was a Canadian-American actress known most for theatre roles, and for a while as the Queen of off-Broadway. In her autobiography, Dewhurst wrote, I had moved so quickly from one production to the next that I was known, at one point. This title was not due to my brilliance but rather because most of the plays I was in closed after a run of anywhere from one night to two weeks, I would then move immediately into another. She was an interpreter of the works of Eugene ONeill on the stage, and her career also encompassed film, early dramas on live television. Colleen Dewhurst was born June 3,1924 in Montreal, Quebec to housewife Frances Marie, Fred Dewhurst was the owner of a chain of confectionery stores, and wife Frances father had been a celebrated athlete in Canada where he had played football with the Ottawa Rough Riders. The family became naturalized as U. S. citizens before 1940, colleens mother was a Christian Scientist, a faith Colleen also embraced. The Dewhursts moved to Massachusetts in 1928 or 1929, staying in Boston, Dorchester, Auburndale, later they moved to New York City, and then to Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin. Around this time, her parents separated, Dewhurst went on to attend Milwaukee-Downer College for two years before moving to New York City to pursue an acting career. One of Dewhursts most significant stage roles was in the 1974 Broadway revival of ONeills A Moon for the Misbegotten as Josie Hogan and she previously won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in 1961 for All the Way Home. She later played Katharina in a 1956 production of Taming of the Shrew for Joseph Papp and she wrote, With Brooks Atkinsons blessing, our world changed overnight. Suddenly in our audience of neighbors in T-shirts and jeans appeared men in white shirts, jackets and ties and we were in a hit that would have a positive effect on my career, as well as Joes, but I missed the shouting. She played Shakespeares Cleopatra and Lady Macbeth for Papp and, years later, Dewhurst and George C. Scott met while working together in 1958, in Children of Darkness, while they were both married to other people. She appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Hour in Night Fever in 1965, josé Quintero directed her in ONeills Long Days Journey into Night and Mourning Becomes Electra. She appeared in Edward Albees adaptation of Carson McCullers Ballad of the Sad Cafe and she appeared in 1962 as Joanne Novak in the episode I Dont Belong in a White-Painted House in NBCs medical drama, The Eleventh Hour, starring Wendell Corey and Jack Ging. In 1977, Woody Allen cast her in his film Annie Hall as Annies mother, in 1972, she played a madam, Mrs. Kate Collingwood, in The Cowboys, which starred John Wayne. Dewhurst died before the character of Marilla could be out and her final scenes were picked up off the editing-room floor. Dewhurst won a total of two Tony Awards and four Emmy Awards for her stage and television work and she was president of the Actors Equity Association from 1985 until her death from cervical cancer in 1991. Dewhurst was married to James Vickery from 1947 to 1960 and she married and divorced George C. Scott twice
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Dewhurst in The Trial of Susan B. Anthony, 1971
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Dewhurst (right) guest-starring on
The Big Valley in 1966 with
Barbara Stanwyck (left)
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Dewhurst's summer home at
Fortune Bridge, Prince Edward Island was built by the playwright
Elmer Blaney Harris. It is now a private inn. (August 2008)
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Campbell Scott
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Campbell Scott is an American actor, director, producer, and voice artist. Scott was born on July 19,1961, in New York City and he graduated from Lawrence University in 1983. In 1990, Scott played a role in the ground-breaking film Longtime Companion. In the following year, Scott co-starred in the movie Dying Young alongside Julia Roberts and he also appeared in the 1992 Cameron Crowe movie Singles alongside Bridget Fonda and Kyra Sedgwick, and in 1996, he teamed up with Stanley Tucci to direct the film Big Night. The film met with acclaim and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. For their work, Scott and Tucci won both the New York Film Critics Circle Award and the Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best New Director. In 2002, he was awarded the Best Actor prize from the National Board of Review for his performance in Roger Dodger. Scott starred in Six Degrees on ABC in 2006, in 2005-2006, Scott served as the reader for the audiobook versions of Stephen Kings bestsellers The Shining and Cell. In 2007, Scott lent his voice for the narration of a Chevron Corporation television ad, as well as the critically acclaimed Iraq War documentary film, next up for Scott was the 2009 drama Handsome Harry. Scott also had a role on the USA drama Royal Pains. On August 28,2009, TVGuide. com confirmed Scott was cast for the season of Damages. Scott was a regular, playing Joe Tobin, the son of indicted Bernie Madoff-like Louis Tobin. The season aired from January to April 2010, in May 2010, Scott provided the voice-over for a new Häagen-Dazs TV commercial called Ode to Flavor. The ad was created by Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, directed by Noah Marshall with art direction by Croix Cagnon and he played the role of Richard Parker, the father of Peter Parker, in the 2012 film The Amazing Spider-Man. Scott reprised his role in the 2014 film The Amazing Spider-Man 2, from December 2015 to March 2016, Scott appeared as Lloyd Dallas in the Broadway revival of Noises Off. Scott has two sons, Malcolm and Callan and he lives with his family in northwest Connecticut. Campbell Scott at the Internet Movie Database Campbell Scott at the Internet Broadway Database Campbell Scott at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
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Scott at the 2009
Tribeca Film Festival for the premiere of
Handsome Harry
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Yale Repertory Theatre
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In the process it has become one of the first distinguished regional theatres. Located at the edge of Yales main downtown campus, it occupies the former Calvary Baptist Church, some successful works were transferred to commercial theaters. Benjamin Mordecai served as managing director from 1982 to 1993, Victoria Nolan has served in capacity since 1993. Calvary Baptist Church was erected in 1846 in the Gothic revival architectural style on a plot of land that was the home of Richard Platt. Upon redundancy, the church was controlled by Yale University, which was served by a nondenominational chapel. Yale Dramatic Association Official website Yale Repertory Theatre at the Internet Broadway Database
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The Yale Repertory Theatre, viewed from the Architecture Dept.
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The Pelican Brief (film)
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The Pelican Brief is a 1993 American legal political thriller based on the novel of the same name by John Grisham. Directed by Alan J. Pakula, the film stars Julia Roberts in the role of law student Darby Shaw. Music was composed by James Horner and this was the last film to feature Pakula as a producer and writer before his death. Two Supreme Court justices are assassinated by the professional assassin Sam Khamel, tulane University Law School student Darby Shaw writes a legal brief detailing her theory on why they were killed and under whose orders. She delivers it to her law professor, mentor and secret lover Thomas Callahan and he gives a copy to his friend Gavin Verheek, attorney and special counsel to the Director of the FBI. Callahan is killed by a car bomb, Darby escapes because she refuses to enter the car with her lover and is subsequently attacked by an unknown assailant. Realizing that her brief was accurate, she goes into hiding, Darbys computer, disks and files have disappeared from her home, where she is also attacked but manages to escape. She contacts Verheek again and they arrange to meet, but Verheek is murdered by Khamel who impersonates his victim, however before Khamel can kill Darby too, he is shot and killed by an unknown agent. A court appeal to prevent such harm is expected to reach the Supreme Court, Darby visits White & Blazevich, pretending to have an appointment with Morgan, and is told he had been killed. Suspecting that his murder was related to the information, she. Darby visits the bank to retrieve the contents of the box, after barely escaping death by a car bomb, they reach the Washington Herald building where they review the documents and a videotape recovered from Morgans box. The tape confirms Morgans discovery that Mattiece ordered the assassination of the Justices, with this evidence, Grantham writes his story. He gives the FBI a chance to comment and FBI Director Voyles confirms the Pelican Brief was delivered to the White House. Off the record, he reveals the President ordered the FBI to back off, CIA agents were investigating Mattiece, a plane is arranged for Darby to flee the country. Grantham deflects speculation that Darby is fictional, but does agree that she is almost too good to be true, Darby smiles as the screen cuts to black. The film does not contain the murder of Matthew Barr and therefore not show the primary antagonist. Gray Grantham is Caucasian in the book and he is portrayed by Denzel Washington, an African-American, in the film. The villains continue their hot pursuit as Darby Shaw opens the box, putting a bomb in Gray Granthams car
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Theatrical release poster
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Beethoven (film)
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Beethoven is a 1992 family comedy film, directed by Brian Levant and starring Charles Grodin and Bonnie Hunt as George and Alice Newton. The film is the first in the series of Beethoven films and it was written by John Hughes and Amy Holden Jones. The story centers on a St. Bernard dog named after the composer Ludwig van Beethoven, joseph Gordon-Levitt made his film debut as Student #1. It features music composed by Ludwig van Beethoven, the film has developed a small cult following. A group of puppies are stolen from a pet store by two thieves, the St. Bernard escapes and sneaks into the Newtons home. The workaholic father, George Newton, doesnt want the responsibility of owning a dog, but his wife, Alice, Emily plays a portion of Ludwig van Beethovens Fifth Symphony, he barks along and they name him Beethoven. George, jealous of the affection Beethoven receives, feels neglected as the family fawns over the dog, Beethovens antics ruin a barbecue he is hosting for Brad and Brie, venture capitalists looking to invest in and secretly swindle him out of his car freshener firm. The family takes Beethoven to a veterinarian, Dr. Herman Varnick, for a medical examination. They are unaware that he is involved in unethical and deadly animal experimentation and he actually requires large-skulled dogs such as St. Bernards for an ammunition test. Dr. Varnick visits the Newton home under the guise of doing a follow-up exam on Beethoven and he puts fake blood on his arm and hits Beethoven until he leaps on him. He tells George that Beethoven has to be euthanized or he will press charges, Emily, who saw Dr. Varnick hit him, protests that the attack was fake, but George, fearing for his familys safety, reluctantly takes him to Dr. Varnicks office. It is on the way there that George discovers his own affections for him, he remembers his father had to take their dog to the vet to be euthanized and he fears that his own family will hate him now for taking Beethoven to be put down. When he returns home with the empty leash and collar, his family leaves the table rather than remain with him. After recognizing the childrens sadness and having a conversation with Alice, the family goes to Dr. Varnicks office, George notices that Dr. Varnick has no bite marks on his arm and punches him. The family follows Dr. Varnick to his warehouse, Beethoven breaks free but is recaptured by Harvey and Vernon, while Alice calls the police. George crashes through the skylight just as Dr. Varnick prepares to shoot Beethoven, before he can, a captive Jack Russell Terrier bites him in the crotch, causing him to fire a shot in the air. During the fight, Ted drives the car into the building, launching numerous syringes into Varnick, as the family frees all the captive dogs, they notice Harvey and Vernon trying to escape and send the dogs after them. They escape into a junkyard, only to be attacked by a pack of Dobermans guarding it, Dr. Varnick, Harvey, and Vernon are arrested for animal abuse
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Theatrical release poster
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Kiss of Death (1995 film)
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Kiss of Death is a 1995 crime American thriller film starring David Caruso, Samuel L. Jackson, Nicolas Cage, Helen Hunt, Ving Rhames, and Stanley Tucci, directed by Barbet Schroeder. The film is a loosely based remake of the 1947 film noir classic of the same name that starred Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy. It was screened out of competition at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival, like the original Kiss of Death, the film was released by 20th Century Fox. Jimmy Kilmartin is a living in Astoria in the New York City borough of Queens, trying to stay clean. Bev leaves Jimmy alone to go to an AA meeting, while she is gone, Jimmy is awoken by his cousin Ronnie who is in desperate need of a driver to help him move some stolen cars. Jimmy tries to eject Ronnie, knowing that he could go back to prison just for being seen with him, Ronnies right ring finger is broken, and he confesses that if Jimmy does not help him move the cars, Little Junior Brown will kill him. Little Junior Brown is an asthmatic psychopath, enraged that they are so behind schedule, he insists that Ronnie move the four trucks full of stolen cars in a caravan, instead of staggering them to avoid detection. The caravan draws the attention of the police, and when they arrive at the Brooklyn Navy Yard to unload the cars, during the arrests, Jimmys passenger shoots at the police. The bullet goes through Jimmys hand and just below the eye of Detective Calvin Hart. The lawyer for the Brown crime family, Jack Gold, promises Jimmy that Bev will be taken care of if he takes the rap without naming his co-conspirators. Ronnie shorts Bev on her allowance, giving her only $150 of the $400 a week that the Browns intended for her, Bev agrees to work for Ronnie at his chop shop just south of Shea Stadium. On her first day, she witnesses Ronnie beating a man who tried to sell him a stolen car and she drinks a Rolling Rock, and goes with Ronnie to Baby Cakes, the strip club owned by the Browns. She drinks vodka and wakes the morning in Ronnies bed. Horrified at her relapse, she out of Ronnies house. She drives head-on into a semi-truck in the street and dies, given a supervised release for her funeral, Jimmy listens to Ronnies lame explanation for why Bev died in his car. Bevs sister Rosie explains that she never returned home the night before her death, convinced of Ronnies complicity in Bevs death, Jimmy agrees to turn states witness. He names all of the involved in the Navy Yards fiasco. When the cops arrest everyone but Ronnie, the Browns are convinced that he is the snitch, Little Junior Brown visits Ronnies shop and proceeds to beat Ronnie to death in his office as retaliation
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Promotional film poster
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Road to Perdition
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Road to Perdition is a 2002 American crime film directed by Sam Mendes. The screenplay was adapted by David Self from the novel of the same name by Max Allan Collins. The film stars Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Jude Law, the plot takes place in 1931, during the Great Depression, following a mob enforcer and his son as they seek vengeance against a mobster who murdered the rest of their family. Filming took place in the Chicago area, Mendes, having recently finished 1999s acclaimed American Beauty, pursued a story that had minimal dialogue and conveyed emotion in the imagery. Cinematographer Conrad L. Hall took advantage of the environment to create symbolism for the film, for which he won several awards, the film explores several themes, including the consequence of violence and father-son relationships. The film was released on July 12,2002, and eventually grossed over $180 million worldwide, the cinematography, setting, and the lead performances by Hanks and Newman were well received by critics. A home media release debuted on February 25,2003, in 1931, during the Great Depression, Michael Sullivan, Sr. is an enforcer for Irish mob boss John Rooney in Rock Island, Illinois. Rooney raised the orphan Sullivan and loves him more than his own biological son, Rooney sends Connor and Sullivan to meet with disgruntled associate Finn McGovern, but Connor shoots McGovern, resulting in Sullivan gunning down McGoverns men. Sullivans twelve-year-old son Michael, Jr. had hidden in his fathers car, despite Sullivan swearing his son to secrecy and Rooney pressuring Connor to apologize for the reckless action, Connor murders Sullivans wife Annie and younger son Peter. At the same time, he sends Sullivan to an ambush at a speakeasy, Sullivan realizes its a set-up, kills two men at the bar, and escapes. He goes to Chicago with his son to seek Al Capone, for work and to discover the location of Connor, capones underboss Frank Nitti rejects Sullivans proposals, before informing Rooney of the meeting. Rooney reluctantly allows Nitti to dispatch assassin Harlen Maguire, who is also a crime scene photographer, Maguire tracks him and his son to a roadside diner, but fails to kill Sullivan, realizing Maguires intentions, Sullivan escapes through the bathroom and punctures Maguires car tire before fleeing. In reaction to the hit, Sullivan begins robbing banks that hold Capone’s money. Sullivan is impeded when the mob withdraws its money, so he visits Rooneys accountant Alexander Rance at his hotel, the encounter is a set-up, with Rance stalling Sullivan until Maguire enters with a shotgun. In the ensuing crossfire, Rance is killed, Maguire is injured by flying glass shards, when his father collapses from his wound, Michael Jr. drives his father to a farm, where a childless elderly couple help him recover. Sullivan bonds with his son and discovers from the ledgers that Connor has been embezzling from his father for years, as the Sullivans depart, they give the couple much of the stolen money. Sullivan confronts Rooney with the information while they attend Mass, Rooney already knew about the embezzlement and that Connor was likely to die, if not by Sullivans hand then by the Chicago Outfit once Rooney dies. He still refuses to give up his son and he encourages Sullivan to leave with his son
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Theatrical release poster
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Cinematographer Conrad Hall set up atmospheric lighting similar to that found in the paintings of
Edward Hopper
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Big Night
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Big Night is a 1996 American motion picture drama with comedic overtones directed by Campbell Scott and Stanley Tucci. Produced by David Kirkpatrick and Jonathan Filley for the Samuel Goldwyn Company and it was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and the Grand Special Prize at the Deauville Film Festival. Scott and Tucci won the New York Film Critics Circle Award, Tucci and Joseph Tropiano won the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay. Tucci heads the cast, with Tony Shalhoub, Minnie Driver, on the New Jersey Shore in the 1950s, two Italian immigrant brothers from Abruzzo own and operate a restaurant called Paradise. One brother, Primo, is a brilliant, perfectionist chef who chafes under their few customers expectations of Americanized Italian food and their uncles offer for them to return to Rome to help with his restaurant is growing in appeal to Primo. The younger brother, Secondo, is the restaurant manager, a man enamored of the possibilities presented by their new endeavor, despite Secondos efforts and Primos magnificent food, their restaurant is failing. Secondos struggles as a businessman render him unable to commit to his girlfriend Phyllis, and he has recently been sleeping with Gabriella and her husbands eponymous restaurant, Pascals, has succeeded despite the mediocre, uninspired food served there. Desperate to keep Paradise afloat, Secondo asks Pascal for a loan, Pascal demurs, repeating a past offer for the brothers to work for him. This Secondo refuses to do, he and his brother want their own restaurant, Primo pours his heart into every dish, lavishing care and great expertise on the cooking. As they wait for Prima and his entourage to arrive, the diners indulge in the exquisite food, hours pass, however, and it becomes apparent that the famous singer is not coming. Phyllis catches Secondo and Gabriella kissing and runs off to the beach, at Gabriellas insistence, Pascal admits that he never called Louis Prima, thus ending the party. Secondo follows Phyllis to the beach where they have a final quarrel, Primo and Secondo have a fiery, heart-wrenching argument, chafing at their mutual differences. Secondo denies him, saying they never work for him. As dawn breaks, Secondo silently cooks an omelette, when done, he divides it among three plates, giving one to Cristiano, their waiter, and eating one himself. Primo hesitantly enters, and Secondo hands him the last plate and they eat without speaking, and lay their arms across one anothers shoulders. Alberto N. Pisani Robert W. Castle, woman Singer Big Night was very well received by critics and currently holds a 96% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Big Night at the Internet Movie Database Big Night at Box Office Mojo Heaven and Hell in Big Night
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Theatrical release poster
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Murder One (TV series)
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Murder One is an American legal drama television series that first aired on the ABC network in the United States in 1995. The series was created by Steven Bochco, Charles H. Eglee, like many of Bochcos previous series, Murder One was produced in association with 20th Century Fox Television. In 1997, TV Guide ranked the first episode, Chapter 1, in its first season, the series starred Daniel Benzali as defense attorney Theodore Hoffman, a criminal litigator and the principal of his own firm, Hoffman and Associates. Backed by a cadre of associates, Hoffman was a gruff. Patricia Clarkson played his wife, Annie, somewhat unusually for a television drama of its time, the first season of the series revolved around a single high-profile criminal case. Stanley Tucci played Richard Cross, a charming but morally ambiguous philanthropist, Bobbie Phillips played Julie Costello, the murder victims sister and the girlfriend of Richard Cross. For the duration of one, Hoffman defended Neil Avedon. During the first part of the season, Hoffmans associates also handled smaller cases which were wrapped up within one episode. While there were many plot twists and misdirections, fundamentally the entire season consisted of one case for Hoffman & Associates. In the second season, Benzali was replaced by Anthony LaPaglia as Jimmy Wyler, the second season also featured this type of seriality, to a limited extent, three unrelated trials, over 18 episodes. The serial nature of the drama may have been problematic, leaving viewers who either missed episodes or did not see the series from its premiere at a loss. As a result, from half way through the first season. Following somewhat disappointing ratings, ABC and Bochco revamped the show significantly for the 1996–97 season, gone were Benzali and his character as well as many of the shows former regulars including Clarkson, Gedrick, Tucci and Dylan Baker. The producers brought in LaPaglia as the new owner of the firm after Hoffman retired in an attempt to save his marriage, the second season of the show was far less successful than the first. Other cast members brought in for the season included D. B. ABC did broadcast all the episodes filmed, and the plot was prematurely wrapped up in the final episode, ABC ordered the final six episodes air as a three-night mini-series in the spring of 1997. But, as the hopes for series renewal diminished, the three-night mini-series was rescheduled for the less-viewed Memorial Day weekend, the series was dropped at the end of the 96–97 season. Over its two-year run, ABC aired 41 original episodes of this series, the first season of Murder One has aired several times on cable networks such as A&E and Court TV in the United States
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The major cast of Murder One
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Richard Cross (Murder One)
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Murder One is an American legal drama television series that first aired on the ABC network in the United States in 1995. The series was created by Steven Bochco, Charles H. Eglee, like many of Bochcos previous series, Murder One was produced in association with 20th Century Fox Television. In 1997, TV Guide ranked the first episode, Chapter 1, in its first season, the series starred Daniel Benzali as defense attorney Theodore Hoffman, a criminal litigator and the principal of his own firm, Hoffman and Associates. Backed by a cadre of associates, Hoffman was a gruff. Patricia Clarkson played his wife, Annie, somewhat unusually for a television drama of its time, the first season of the series revolved around a single high-profile criminal case. Stanley Tucci played Richard Cross, a charming but morally ambiguous philanthropist, Bobbie Phillips played Julie Costello, the murder victims sister and the girlfriend of Richard Cross. For the duration of one, Hoffman defended Neil Avedon. During the first part of the season, Hoffmans associates also handled smaller cases which were wrapped up within one episode. While there were many plot twists and misdirections, fundamentally the entire season consisted of one case for Hoffman & Associates. In the second season, Benzali was replaced by Anthony LaPaglia as Jimmy Wyler, the second season also featured this type of seriality, to a limited extent, three unrelated trials, over 18 episodes. The serial nature of the drama may have been problematic, leaving viewers who either missed episodes or did not see the series from its premiere at a loss. As a result, from half way through the first season. Following somewhat disappointing ratings, ABC and Bochco revamped the show significantly for the 1996–97 season, gone were Benzali and his character as well as many of the shows former regulars including Clarkson, Gedrick, Tucci and Dylan Baker. The producers brought in LaPaglia as the new owner of the firm after Hoffman retired in an attempt to save his marriage, the second season of the show was far less successful than the first. Other cast members brought in for the season included D. B. ABC did broadcast all the episodes filmed, and the plot was prematurely wrapped up in the final episode, ABC ordered the final six episodes air as a three-night mini-series in the spring of 1997. But, as the hopes for series renewal diminished, the three-night mini-series was rescheduled for the less-viewed Memorial Day weekend, the series was dropped at the end of the 96–97 season. Over its two-year run, ABC aired 41 original episodes of this series, the first season of Murder One has aired several times on cable networks such as A&E and Court TV in the United States
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The major cast of Murder One
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Sundance Film Festival
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The Sundance Film Festival, a program of the Sundance Institute, is an American film festival that takes place annually in Park City, Utah. With 46,660 attendees in 2016, it is the largest independent film festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, as well as at the Sundance Resort, the 2017 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 19 to January 29,2017. Sundance began in Salt Lake City in August 1978, as the Utah/US Film Festival in an effort to more filmmakers to Utah. It was founded by Sterling Van Wagenen, John Earle, the 1978 festival featured films such as Deliverance, A Streetcar Named Desire, Midnight Cowboy, Mean Streets, and The Sweet Smell of Success. The festival also highlighted the work of filmmakers who worked outside the Hollywood system. The jury of the 1978 festival was headed by Gary Allison, and included Verna Fields, Linwood G. Dunn, Katharine Ross, Charles E. Sellier Jr. Mark Rydell, and Anthea Sylbert. More than 60 films were screened at the festival that year, also that year, the first Frank Capra Award went to Jimmy Stewart. The festival also made a profit for the first time, in 1980, Catania left the festival to pursue a production career in Hollywood. Several factors helped propel the growth of Utah/US Film Festival, first was the involvement of actor and Utah resident Robert Redford, who became the festivals inaugural chairman. By having Redfords name associated with the festival, it received great attention, secondly, the country was hungry for more venues that would celebrate American-made films as the only other festival doing so at the time was the USA Film Festival in Dallas. Response in Hollywood was unprecedented as major studios did all they could to contribute their resources, in 1981, the festival moved to Park City, Utah, and changed the dates from September to January. It was called the US Film and Video Festival, in 1984, the now well-established Sundance Institute, headed by Sterling Van Wagenen, took over management of the US Film Festival. The branding and marketing transition from the US Film Festival to the Sundance Film Festival was managed under the direction of Colleen Allen, Allen Advertising Inc. by appointment of Robert Redford. In 1991 the festival was renamed the Sundance Film Festival, after Redfords character The Sundance Kid from the film Butch Cassidy. The majority of the screenings, including the festivals premieres. The 2013 Sundance London Festival was held April 25–28,2013, Sundance London 2014 took place on April 25–27,2014 at the O2 arena. The Sundance London 2015 Festival was cancelled in an announcement on January 16,2015, Sundance London will return to London in 2016 from June 10–12 at Picturehouse Cinema in Londons West End
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Sundance Film Festival
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Golden Globe Award
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Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign. The annual ceremony at which the awards are presented is a part of the film industrys awards season. The 74th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film, the 1st Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best achievements in 1943 filmmaking, was held in January 1944, at the 20th Century-Fox studios. Subsequent ceremonies were held at venues throughout the next decade, including the Beverly Hills Hotel. In 1950, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association made the decision to establish an honorary award to recognize outstanding contributions to the entertainment industry. Recognizing its subject as a figure within the entertainment industry. The official name of the award became the Cecil B. In 1963, the Miss Golden Globe concept was introduced, in its inaugural year, two Miss Golden Globes were named, one for film and one for television. The two Miss Golden Globes named that year were Eva Six and Donna Douglas, respectively, in 2009, the Golden Globe statuette was redesigned. It was unveiled at a conference at the Beverly Hilton prior to the show. The broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards, telecast to 167 countries worldwide, generally ranks as the third most-watched awards show each year, behind only the Oscars, gervais returned to host the 68th and 69th Golden Globe Awards the next two years. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosted the 70th, 71st and 72nd Golden Globe Awards in 2015, the Golden Globe Awards theme song, which debuted in 2012, was written by Japanese musician and songwriter Yoshiki Hayashi. On January 7,2008, it was announced due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. The ceremony was faced with a threat by striking writers to picket the event, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was forced to adopt another approach for the broadcast. In acting categories, Meryl Streep holds the record for the most competitive Golden Globe wins with eight, however, including honorary awards, such as the Henrietta Award, World Film Favorite Actor/Actress Award, or Cecil B. DeMille Award, Barbra Streisand leads with nine, additionally, Streisand won for composing the song Evergreen, producing the Best Picture, and directing Yentl in 1984. Jack Nicholson, Angela Lansbury, Alan Alda and Shirley MacLaine have six awards each, behind them are Rosalind Russell and Jessica Lange with five wins. Meryl Streep also holds the record for most nominations with thirty, at the 46th Golden Globe Awards an anomaly occurred, a three way-tie for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
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The Golden Globe statuette
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Adolf Eichmann
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Otto Adolf Eichmann was a German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer and one of the major organisers of the Holocaust. In 1960, Eichmann was captured in Argentina by Mossad, Israels intelligence service, following a widely publicised trial in Israel, he was found guilty of war crimes and hanged in 1962. After an unremarkable career, Eichmann briefly worked for his fathers mining company in Austria. He worked as an oil salesman beginning in 1927, and joined the Nazi Party. Eichmann drew up plans for a Jewish reservation, first at Nisko in south-east Poland and later in Madagascar, as the Nazis began the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, their Jewish policy changed from emigration to extermination. To co-ordinate planning for the genocide, Heydrich hosted the regimes administrative leaders at the Wannsee Conference on 20 January 1942, Eichmann collected information for Heydrich, attended the conference, and prepared the minutes. Eichmann and his staff became responsible for Jewish deportations to extermination camps, after Germany invaded Hungary in March 1944, Eichmann oversaw the deportation of much of that countrys Jewish population. Most of the victims were sent to Auschwitz concentration camp, where 75 to 90 per cent were murdered upon arrival, by the time the transports were stopped in July 1944,437,000 of Hungarys 725,000 Jews had been killed. Historian Richard J. Evans estimates that between 5.5 and 6 million Jews were killed by the Nazis, after Germanys defeat in 1945, Eichmann fled to Austria. He lived there until 1950, when he moved to Argentina using false papers, information collected by Mossad, Israels intelligence agency, confirmed Eichmanns location in 1960. During the trial, Eichmann did not deny the veracity of the Holocaust or his role in organising it, found guilty on many of the charges, he was sentenced to death by hanging and executed on 1 June 1962. Otto Adolf Eichmann, the eldest of five children, was born in 1906 to a Calvinist Protestant family in Solingen and his parents were Adolf Karl Eichmann, a bookkeeper, and Maria, a housewife. The elder Adolf moved to Linz, Austria, in 1913 to take a position as manager for the Linz Tramway and Electrical Company. After the death of Maria in 1916, Eichmanns father married Maria Zawrzel, Eichmann attended the Kaiser Franz Joseph Staatsoberrealschule in Linz, the same high school Adolf Hitler had attended some 17 years before. He played the violin and participated in sports and clubs, including a Wandervogel woodcraft and he left without attaining a degree and joined his fathers new enterprise, the Untersberg Mining Company, where he worked for several months. From 1925 to 1927 he worked as a clerk for the Oberösterreichische Elektrobau AG radio company. Next, between 1927 and early 1933, Eichmann worked in Upper Austria and Salzburg as district agent for the Vacuum Oil Company AG. During this time, he joined the Jungfrontkämpfervereinigung, the section of Hermann Hiltls right-wing veterans movement
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Adolf Eichmann in 1942
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Adolf Eichmann's
Lebenslauf (résumé) attached to his application for promotion from SS-
Hauptscharführer to SS-
Untersturmführer in 1937
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Memorial at a bus stop near the site of Eichmann's office, Referat IV B4 (Office of Jewish Affairs) at Kurfurstenstrasse 115, now occupied by a hotel.
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Hungarian woman and children arrive at
Auschwitz-Birkenau, May or June 1944 (photo from the
Auschwitz Album)
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Conspiracy (2001 film)
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Conspiracy is a BBC/HBO television film which dramatizes the 1942 Wannsee Conference. The film delves into the psychology of Nazi officials involved in the Final Solution of the Jewish Question during World War II, branagh won an Emmy Award for Best Actor, and Tucci was awarded a Golden Globe for his supporting role as Eichmann. As the film opens, various officials from different German agencies arrive and it is quickly established by those present that there is a significant Jewish problem, in that the Jews of Europe cannot be efficiently contained, nor can they be forced onto other countries. Kritzinger interrupts at several points to opine that the meeting is pointless, given that the Jewish Question had previously been settled, a discussion follows of the possibilities of sterilization, and of the exemptions for mixed race Jews who have one or more non-Jewish grandparents. At this point, Stuckart loses his temper and insists that a legal framework is paramount. He also chides Klopfer for his portrayal of Jews as subhuman beasts, simultaneously painting his own picture of Jews as clever, manipulative. When the meeting reconvenes, Heydrich steers the discussion in the direction of wholesale extermination using gas chambers, Eichmann now describes the method that will be used, i. e. the gassing of Jews. Many have already been killed in specially-designed trucks and his figures include tens of thousands of victims and he even describes their bodies as coming out pink, at which point one of the officials is suddenly taken ill. He later puts it down to a bad cigar, a break is called and this time it is Kritzingers turn to be taken aside and intimidated by Heydrich, who warns that Kritzinger is influential but not invulnerable. Heydrich tells Kritzinger that he not only consent but active support. Heydrich then recalls and concludes the meeting, giving clear directives that the SS are to be obeyed in all matters relating to the elimination of the Jews and he also asks for explicit assent and support from each official, one by one. After giving careful instructions on the secrecy of the minutes and notes of the meeting, they are adjourned, in the evening twilight, a stunned Kritzinger remarks to General Hofmann, It is night in Moscow already. Soon it will be dark here, do you think we will ever see the dawn in our lifetime. As the servants at the villa tidy away the remains of the meeting, and the officials depart, the movie ends with the house tidied up and all records of the meeting destroyed as if it had never happened. Stanley Tucci as SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann, Head of RSHA IV B4, colin Firth as SS-Brigadeführer Dr Wilhelm Stuckart, State Secretary, Reich Ministry for the Interior. Ian McNeice as SS-Oberführer Dr Gerhard Klopfer, State Secretary, Party Chancellery, kevin McNally as Martin Luther, Undersecretary and SS liaison, Foreign Ministry. David Threlfall as Ministerialdirektor Dr Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger, Deputy Head, ewan Stewart as Dr Georg Leibbrandt, Head of Political Department, Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories. Brian Pettifer as Gauleiter Dr Alfred Meyer, Deputy Reich Minister, nicholas Woodeson as SS-Gruppenführer Otto Hofmann, Chief of the SS Race and Settlement Main Office
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The Evacuation
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HBO
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Home Box Office is an American premium cable and satellite television network that is owned by Time Warner through its respective flagship company Home Box Office, Inc. HBO is the oldest and longest continuously operating pay television service in the United States, in 2014, HBO had an adjusted operating income of US$1.79 billion, compared to the US$1.68 billion it accrued in 2013. HBO has 49 million subscribers in the United States and 130 million worldwide as of 2016, the network provides seven 24-hour multiplex channels, including HBO Comedy, HBO Latino, HBO Signature and HBO Family. It launched the streaming service HBO Now in April 2015, and has over 2 million subscribers in the United States as of February 2017. In addition to its U. S. subscriber base, HBO distributes content in at least 151 countries, HBO subscribers generally pay for an extra tier of service that includes other cable- and satellite-exclusive channels even before paying for the channel itself. Cable providers can require the use of a converter box – usually digital – in order to receive HBO, many HBO programs have been syndicated to other networks and broadcast television stations, and a number of HBO-produced series and films have been released on DVD. The new system, which Dolan named Sterling Information Services, became the first urban underground cable system in the United States. In that same year, Time-Life, Inc. purchased a 20% stake in Dolans company, in the summer of 1971, while on a family vacation in France, Charles Dolan began to think of ideas to make Sterling Manhattan profitable. He came up with the concept for a television service. Dolan later presented his idea to Time-Life management, though satellite distribution seemed only a distant possibility at the time, he persuaded Time-Life to back him on the project. To gauge whether consumers would be interested in subscribing to a pay television service, in a meeting of Dolan and some Time-Life executives who were working on the project, various other names were discussed for the new service. Home Box Office launched on November 8,1972, however, HBOs launch came without fanfare in the press, as it was not covered by any local or national media outlets. Home Box Office distributed its first sports event immediately after the film, Four months later in February 1973, Home Box Office aired its first television special, the Pennsylvania Polka Festival. Home Box Office would use a network of relay towers to distribute its programming to cable systems throughout its service area. Sterling Manhattan Cable continued to lose money because the company had only a small base of 20,000 customers in Manhattan. Time-Life dropped the Sterling name and the company was renamed Manhattan Cable Television under Time-Lifes control in March 1973, Gerald Levin, who had been with Home Box Office since it began operations as its vice president of programming, replaced Dolan as the companys president and chief executive officer. In September 1973, Time-Life, Inc. completed its acquisition of the pay service. HBO would eventually increase its fortunes within two years, by April 1975, the service had around 100,000 subscribers in Pennsylvania and New York state, in 1974, they settled on using a geostationary communications satellite to transmit HBO to cable providers throughout the United States
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The RCA Satcom domestic communication satellite launched on December 13, 1975, spurred the
cable television industry to unprecedented heights – with the assistance of HBO.
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Filmmaker
Alexandra Pelosi and former
New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey at the New York City premiere of Pelosi's HBO documentary about McGreevey,
Fall to Grace, in March 2013.
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Example of Festival's monthly guide provided to subscribers (January 1988).
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Screen Actors Guild Awards
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The statuette given, a nude male figure holding both a mask of comedy and a mask of tragedy, is called The Actor. It is 16 inches tall, weighs over 12 pounds, is cast in solid bronze, SAG Awards have been one of the major awards events in Hollywood since 1995. It is considered an indicator of success at the Academy Awards, the awards have been telecast since 1998 on TNT, and since 2007 have been simulcast on TBS. The inaugural SAG Awards aired live on February 25,1995 from Universal Studios Stage 12, the second SAG awards aired live from the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, while subsequent awards have been held at the Shrine Exposition Center
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Trophy of the award
