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New York City, New York
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The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over an area of about 302.6 square miles. Located at the tip of the state of New York. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has described as the cultural and financial capital of the world. Situated on one of the worlds largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, the five boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island – were consolidated into a single city in 1898. In 2013, the MSA produced a gross metropolitan product of nearly US$1.39 trillion, in 2012, the CSA generated a GMP of over US$1.55 trillion. NYCs MSA and CSA GDP are higher than all but 11 and 12 countries, New York City traces its origin to its 1624 founding in Lower Manhattan as a trading post by colonists of the Dutch Republic and was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The city and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. It has been the countrys largest city since 1790, the Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a symbol of the United States and its democracy. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. Several sources have ranked New York the most photographed city in the world, the names of many of the citys bridges, tapered skyscrapers, and parks are known around the world. Manhattans real estate market is among the most expensive in the world, Manhattans Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere, with multiple signature Chinatowns developing across the city. Providing continuous 24/7 service, the New York City Subway is one of the most extensive metro systems worldwide, with 472 stations in operation. Over 120 colleges and universities are located in New York City, including Columbia University, New York University, and Rockefeller University, during the Wisconsinan glaciation, the New York City region was situated at the edge of a large ice sheet over 1,000 feet in depth. The ice sheet scraped away large amounts of soil, leaving the bedrock that serves as the foundation for much of New York City today. Later on, movement of the ice sheet would contribute to the separation of what are now Long Island and Staten Island. The first documented visit by a European was in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzano, a Florentine explorer in the service of the French crown and he claimed the area for France and named it Nouvelle Angoulême. Heavy ice kept him from further exploration, and he returned to Spain in August and he proceeded to sail up what the Dutch would name the North River, named first by Hudson as the Mauritius after Maurice, Prince of Orange
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Clockwise, from top:
Midtown Manhattan,
Times Square, the
Unisphere in
Queens, the
Brooklyn Bridge,
Lower Manhattan with
One World Trade Center,
Central Park, the
headquarters of the United Nations, and the
Statue of Liberty
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New Amsterdam, centered in the eventual
Lower Manhattan, in 1664, the year
England took control and renamed it "New York".
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The
Battle of Long Island, the largest battle of the
American Revolution, took place in
Brooklyn in 1776.
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Broadway follows the Native American Wickquasgeck Trail through Manhattan.
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Manhunter (film)
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Manhunter is a 1986 American crime horror film based on the novel Red Dragon by Thomas Harris. Written and directed by Michael Mann, it stars William Petersen as FBI profiler Will Graham, also featured are Tom Noonan as serial killer Francis Dollarhyde, Dennis Farina as Grahams FBI superior Jack Crawford, and Brian Cox as incarcerated killer Hannibal Lecktor. The film focuses on Graham coming out of retirement to lend his talents to an investigation on Dollarhyde, in doing so, he must confront the demons of his past and meet with Lecktor, who nearly counted Graham amongst his victims. The film features heavily stylized use of color to convey this sense of duality, and the nature of the characters similarity has been explored in academic readings of the film. It was the first film adaptation of Harris Hannibal Lecter novels, as well as the first adaptation of Red Dragon, opening to mixed reviews, Manhunter fared poorly at the box office at the time of its release, making only $8.6 million in the United States. However, it has been reappraised in recent reviews and now enjoys a more favorable reception. Its resurgent popularity, which may be due to adaptations of Harris books and Petersens success in CSI. Will Graham is a former FBI criminal profiler who has retired because of a breakdown after being attacked by a cannibalistic serial killer. Graham is approached at his Florida home by his former FBI superior Jack Crawford, having found the killers fingerprints, Graham meets with Crawford. They are accosted by tabloid journalist Freddy Lounds, with whom Graham has a bitter history, Graham pays a visit to Lecktor, a former psychiatrist, in his cell and asks for his insight into the killers motivations. After a tense conversation, Lecktor agrees to look at the case file, a little later, Lecktor contrives and manages to obtain Grahams home address by deceit during his phone privileges. Graham travels to the first crime scene in Birmingham, Alabama, where he is contacted by Crawford, Crawford also patches Graham through to Frederick Chilton, Lecktors warden, who has found a note in Lecktors personal effects. Reading it, they realize it is from the Tooth Fairy, Crawford brings Graham to the FBI Academy at Quantico, where a missing section of the note is analyzed to determine what Lecktor has removed. It is found to be an instruction to communicate through the section of the National Tattler. After a sting operation fails to catch the killer, Lounds is kidnapped by the Tooth Fairy, Lounds is forced to tape-record a statement before being set on fire in a wheelchair and killed, his flaming body rolled into the parking garage of the National Tattler as a warning. Graham is told by Crawford that they have cracked Lecktors coded message to the Tooth Fairy—it is Grahams home address with an instruction to kill the family, Graham rushes home to find his family safe but terrified. After the FBI moves Grahams family to a house, he tries to explain to his son Kevin why he had retired previously. At his job in a St. Louis film lab, Francis Dollarhyde—The Tooth Fairy—approaches a blind co-worker, Reba McClane and they go to Dollarhydes home, where Reba is oblivious to the fact that Dollarhyde is watching home-movie footage of his planned next victim
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The use of heavily tinted scenes was a deliberate technique to evoke different moods in the audience. Top: Will and Molly Graham are lit with Spinotti's "romantic blue". Bottom: Francis Dollarhyde sits in "subversive" green.
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Gettysburg (1993 film)
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The film stars Tom Berenger, Jeff Daniels, and Martin Sheen, its score was composed by Randy Edelman. Longstreet reports the information to General Lee, who is concerned that the army is moving on the word of an actor, as opposed to that of his cavalry chief, nonetheless, Lee orders the army to concentrate near the town of Gettysburg. Chamberlain speaks to the men, and is able to persuade all, buford sends word to I Corps commander Maj. Gen. John F. Reynolds to bring up reinforcements. Heths troops engage Bufords cavalry the following morning, July 1, Reynolds brings his corps forward, but is killed by a Confederate sharpshooter. The armies concentrate at their positions for the remainder of the first day. At Confederate headquarters at Seminary Ridge, Maj. Gen. Isaac R. Trimble angrily denounces Ewells inaction to Lee, and requests another assignment. On the second day, July 2, Col. Lee orders Longstreet to deploy his two divisions to take Little Round Top and the neighboring Big Round Top. Longstreet, despite his own protests to Lee, orders Hood to attack, at the summit of Little Round Top, Chamberlain and the 20th Maine fight off wave after wave of advancing Confederates, and begin running out of ammunition. Colonel Vincent is mortally wounded, and none of the three regiments in his brigade are able to provide support. Chamberlain orders his men to fix bayonets, and charge in a right wheel down the slope against the attacking Confederates, the attack successfully drives the Confederate assault back, and the Union flank holds. That evening, Stuart finally arrives, and Lee reprimands him for his out of contact. At the same time, Longstreets remaining division, under Maj. Gen. George Pickett, arrives on the field. For the third day, July 3, Lee decides to send three divisions - Picketts, Trimbles, and J. Johnston Pettigrews - to attack the center of the Union line at Cemetery Ridge, Lee nonetheless orders the attack to proceed. Despite heavy Confederate fire, Alexander is unable to make an impact upon the Union guns, the Confederate divisions march across the open field, and Hancock is wounded as he commands from the front line. One of Picketts brigades, commanded by Brig. Gen. Lewis Armistead, makes it over the stone wall, Picketts Charge ultimately fails, meeting with Longstreet that evening, Lee finally decides that they will withdraw. The film ends with the fates of the figures of the battle. Stuart Bo Brinkman as Major Walter H. Devin Donal Logue as Captain Ellis Spear Herb Mitchell as Sergeant Andrew J. Tozier Dwier Brown as Captain Brewer George Lazenby as General J. Johnston Pettigrew. Civil War buff Ted Turner has an appearance in one of the battle scenes as Colonel Waller T. Patton
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Gods and Generals (film)
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Gods and Generals is a 2003 American period war drama film written and directed by Ronald F. Maxwell. It is an adaptation of the 1996 novel of the name by Jeffrey Shaara. The film stars Stephen Lang as Stonewall Jackson, Jeff Daniels as Lieutenant Colonel Joshua Chamberlain and it also follows Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and Winfield Scott Hancock. Chamberlain is a Maine college professor who is appointed a Lieutenant Colonel, the film prominently features the Battles of Bull Run, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville. The films original running time clocked in at nearly 6 hours, the longer version featured the Battle of Antietam as well as an entire plot following the American actor and future assassin John Wilkes Booth and his colleague Henry Harrison. Major Jackson, who is a professor at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington at the outset of the war, Jackson is asked by a retreating General Barnard Bee for assistance against the Federal army who is pursuing them after a brief stand on Matthews Hill. In rallying his troops, Bee launches the name of Stonewall into history. Jackson maintains steadfast discipline in his ranks during the battle despite suffering a wound to his hand from a spent ball. He is called to battle at the Union invasion of Fredericksburg, the Southern forces lead a fighting retreat as the Union army crosses the river and storms the town, and there are scenes of the subsequent looting of Fredricksburg by the Union Army. Outside the city, Lee, Longstreet and Jackson have prepared a defense on Maryes Heights outside the town. Several Union brigades, including the Irish Brigade, attempt to cross a field and attack the wall. At one point, two Irish units are forced into battle against one another, to the anguish of a Southern Irishman who believes he is killing his kin. Chamberlain leads an attack against Jacksons defenses, led by Brig. Gen. Armistead. Chamberlain and the defeated Union soldiers depart Fredericksburg, Jackson and Lee return to the city, and Lee is confronted by an angry senior citizen whose house has been destroyed by Union artillery. Jackson spends the rest of the winter at a plantation, Moss Neck Manor. Later, Jackson discovers the child has died from scarlet fever, a soldier asks why he weeps for this child but not for the thousands of dead soldiers, and another soldier states that Jackson is weeping for everyone. Jackson is soon reunited with his wife and newborn child just before the Battle of Chancellorsville, outside Chancellorsville, Lee identifies that the southern army faces an opposing force almost twice their size. Jackson calls upon his chaplain, Beverly Tucker Lacy who knows the area, Jackson then leads his forces in a surprise attack on an unprepared Union 11th Corps
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Public Enemies (2009 film)
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Public Enemies is a 2009 American biographical mob drama film directed by Michael Mann and written by Mann, Ronan Bennett and Ann Biderman. It is an adaptation of Bryan Burroughs non-fiction book Public Enemies, Americas Greatest Crime Wave, Burrough originally intended to make a television miniseries about the Depression-era crime wave in the United States, but decided to write a book on the subject instead. Mann developed the project, and some scenes were filmed on location where certain events depicted in the film occurred, after killing Charles Floyd, FBI agent Melvin Purvis is promoted by J. Edgar Hoover to lead the hunt for bank robber John Dillinger. Purvis shares Hoovers belief in using scientific methods to battle crime, in between a series of bank robberies, Dillinger meets Billie Frechette at a restaurant and woos her by buying her a fur coat. Frechette falls for Dillinger even after he reveals his identity, Purvis leads a failed ambush at a hotel where he believes Dillinger is staying, and an agent is killed by Baby Face Nelson, who escapes with Tommy Caroll. Purvis requests that Hoover bring in professional lawmen who know how to catch criminals dead or alive, police arrest Dillinger and his gang in Tucson, Arizona, after a fire breaks out at the Hotel Congress, where they are staying. Dillinger is extradited to Indiana, where Sheriff Lillian Holley has him locked up in the Lake County Jail in Crown Point, Dillinger and other inmates use a fake gun to escape. Dillinger is unable to see Frechette, who is under tight surveillance, Carroll goads Dillinger into robbing a bank in Sioux Falls with Baby Face Nelson. During their escape, both Dillinger and Carroll are shot, and they have to leave Carroll behind, the group retreats to the Little Bohemia Lodge in Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin and realize their haul is significantly less than Nelson said it would be. Dillinger hopes he can free the rest of his gang from prison, including Pierpont and Makley, Purvis and his men apprehend Carroll and torture him to learn the gangs location. Purvis organizes an ambush at Little Bohemia, Dillinger and Hamilton escape separately from the rest of the gang. Agents Winstead and Hurt pursue Dillinger and Hamilton through the woods, trying to escape, Nelson, Shouse, and Van Meter hijack a Bureau car, killing Purvis partner Carter Baum in the process. After a car chase, Purvis and his men kill Nelson, Dillinger meets Frechette, telling her he plans to commit one more robbery that will pay enough for them to escape together. When Dillinger drops her off at a tavern he thinks is safe, Frechette is beaten during interrogation to learn Dillingers whereabouts, which she does not reveal, Purvis and Winstead eventually arrive and intervene. Dillinger agrees to participate in a robbery with Alvin Karpis. He receives a note from Billie through her lawyer, Louis Piquett, through Zarkovich, Purvis enlists the help of madam and Dillinger acquaintance Anna Sage, threatening her with deportation if she does not cooperate. She agrees to set up Dillinger, who she believes will come to hide out with her, Dillinger and Sage see Manhattan Melodrama at the Biograph Theater. After the film, Purvis signals other agents upon seeing them leave, Dillinger spots the police but is shot before he can draw his gun
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Theatrical release poster
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Cotillard at the film's
Paris premiere
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The
Biograph Theater and (adjoining businesses) redressed for the film.
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Farmer's & Merchants Bank, redressed for the film.
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Tony Award
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The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Award, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at a ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway productions and performances, and an award is given for regional theatre, several discretionary non-competitive awards are also given, including a Special Tony Award, the Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre, and the Isabelle Stevenson Award. The awards are named after Antoinette Tony Perry, co-founder of the American Theatre Wing, the rules for the Tony Awards are set forth in the official document Rules and Regulations of The American Theatre Wings Tony Awards, which applies for that season only. It also forms the fourth spoke in the EGOT, that is someone who has won all four awards, the Tony Awards are also considered the equivalent of the Laurence Olivier Award in the United Kingdom and the Molière Award of France. From 1997 to 2010, the Tony Awards ceremony was held at Radio City Music Hall in New York City in June and broadcast live on CBS television, except in 1999, in 2011 and 2012, the ceremony was held at the Beacon Theatre. From 2013 to 2015, the 67th, 68th, and 69th ceremonies returned to Radio City Music Hall, the 70th Tony Awards were held on June 12,2016 at the Beacon Theatre. The 71st Tony Awards will be held on June 11,2017, as of 2014, there are 24 categories of awards, plus several special awards. Starting with 11 awards in 1947, the names and number of categories have changed over the years, some examples, the category Best Book of a Musical was originally called Best Author. The category of Best Costume Design was one of the original awards, for two years, in 1960 and 1961, this category was split into Best Costume Designer and Best Costume Designer. It then went to a category, but in 2005 it was divided again. For the category of Best Director of a Play, a category was for directors of plays. A newly established non-competitive award, The Isabelle Stevenson Award, was given for the first time at the ceremony in 2009. The award is for an individual who has made a contribution of volunteered time and effort on behalf of one or more humanitarian. The category of Best Special Theatrical Event was retired as of the 2009–2010 season, the categories of Best Sound Design of a Play and Best Sound Design of a Musical were retired as of the 2014-2015 season. Performance categories Show and technical categories Special awards Retired awards The award was founded in 1947 by a committee of the American Theatre Wing headed by Brock Pemberton. The award is named after Antoinette Perry, nicknamed Tony, an actress, director, producer and co-founder of the American Theatre Wing, who died in 1946. As her official biography at the Tony Awards website states, At Jacob Wilks suggestion, proposed an award in her honor for distinguished stage acting, at the initial event in 1947, as he handed out an award, he called it a Tony
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Designed by
Herman Rosse, 1949
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Former logo
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James Cameron
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James Francis Jim Cameron is a Canadian filmmaker, director, producer, screenwriter, inventor, engineer, philanthropist, and deep-sea explorer. He first found success with the science fiction action film The Terminator. He then became a popular Hollywood director and was hired to write and direct Aliens and he found further critical acclaim for his use of special effects in Terminator 2, Judgment Day. After his film True Lies Cameron took on his biggest film at the time, Titanic, despite Avatar being his only movie made to date in 3D, Cameron is the most successful 3D film-maker in terms of box-office revenue. In the time between making Titanic and Avatar, Cameron spent several years creating many documentary films and co-developed the digital 3D Fusion Camera System, described by a biographer as part scientist and part artist, Cameron has also contributed to underwater filming and remote vehicle technologies. On March 26,2012, Cameron reached the bottom of the Mariana Trench and he is the first person to do this in a solo descent, and is only the third person to do so ever. In total, Camerons directorial efforts have grossed approximately US$2 billion in North America, not adjusted for inflation, Camerons Titanic and Avatar are the two highest-grossing films of all time at $2.19 billion and $2.78 billion respectively. Cameron also holds the achievement of having directed two of the three films in history to gross over $2 billion worldwide, in March 2011, he was named Hollywoods top earner by Vanity Fair, with estimated 2010 earnings of $257 million. Cameron was born in 1954 in Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canada, the son of Shirley, an artist and nurse, and Phillip Cameron and his paternal great-great-great-grandfather emigrated from Balquhidder, Scotland, in 1825. Cameron grew up in Chippawa, Ontario, and attended Stamford Collegiate School in Niagara Falls and his family moved to Brea, California in 1971, when Cameron was 17 years old. He dropped out of Sonora High School, then attended Brea Olinda High School to further his secondary education, Cameron enrolled at Fullerton College, a two-year community college, in 1973 to study physics. He switched to English, then dropped out before the start of the fall 1974 semester, next, he worked several jobs, including as a truck driver, writing when he had time. That way I could sit down and read it, and if theyd let me photocopy it, Cameron quit his job as a truck driver to enter the film industry after seeing Star Wars in 1977. When Cameron read Syd Fields book Screenplay, it occurred to him that science and art was possible. They raised money, rented camera, lenses, film stock and they dismantled the camera to understand how to operate it and spent the first half-day of the shoot trying to figure out how to get it running. He was the director, writer, producer, and production designer for Xenogenesis and he then became a production assistant on a film called Rock and Roll High School, though uncredited, in 1979. While continuing to educate himself in film-making techniques, Cameron started working as a miniature-model maker at Roger Corman Studios, making rapidly produced, low-budget productions taught Cameron to work efficiently and effectively. He soon found employment as an art director in the sci-fi movie Battle Beyond the Stars and he did special effects work design and direction on John Carpenters Escape from New York, acted as production designer on Galaxy of Terror, and consulted on the design of Android
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Cameron in June 2012
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Cameron in September 1986
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The producing team behind Aliens, James Cameron and Gale Ann Hurd
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Cameron promoting Avatar during the 2009
San Diego Comic-Con
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Avatar (2009 film)
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The expansion of the mining colony threatens the continued existence of a local tribe of Navi – a humanoid species indigenous to Pandora. The films title refers to a genetically engineered Navi body with the mind of a remotely located human that is used to interact with the natives of Pandora, Development of Avatar began in 1994, when Cameron wrote an 80-page treatment for the film. Work on the language of the films extraterrestrial beings began in 2005, Avatar was officially budgeted at $237 million. Other estimates put the cost between $280 million and $310 million for production and at $150 million for promotion, the film made extensive use of new motion capture filming techniques, and was released for traditional viewing, 3D viewing, and for 4D experiences in select South Korean theaters. The stereoscopic filmmaking was touted as a breakthrough in cinematic technology and it also became the first film to gross more than $2 billion and the best-selling film of 2010 in the United States. Avatar was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, following the films success, Cameron signed with 20th Century Fox to produce three sequels, making Avatar the first of a planned tetralogy. On April 14,2016, Cameron confirmed that there were now plans for four sequels, Avatar 2 was scheduled for release in December 2018 before being delayed, with the sequels following in December 2020,2022, and 2023, respectively. By 2154, humans have depleted Earths natural resources, leading to an energy crisis. The Resources Development Administration mines for a valuable mineral – unobtanium – on Pandora, Pandora, whose atmosphere is poisonous to humans, is inhabited by the Navi, 10-foot tall, blue-skinned, sapient humanoids who live in harmony with nature and worship a mother goddess called Eywa. Dr. Grace Augustine, head of the Avatar Program, considers Sully an inadequate replacement, witnessing an auspicious sign, she takes him to her clan, whereupon Neytiris mother Moat, the clans spiritual leader, orders her daughter to initiate Jake into their society. When Grace learns of this, she herself, Jake. Over the following three months, Jake grows to sympathize with the natives, while trying to warn the Navi, Jake confesses to being a spy and the Navi take him and Grace captive. Seeing this, Quaritchs men destroy Hometree, killing Neytiris father, Moat frees Jake and Grace, but they are detached from their avatars and imprisoned by Quaritchs forces. Pilot Trudy Chacón, disgusted by Quaritchs brutality, carries them to Graces outpost, to regain the Navis trust, Jake connects his mind to that of Toruk, a dragon-like predator feared and honored by the Navi. Jake finds the refugees at the sacred Tree of Souls and pleads with Moat to heal Grace, the clan attempts to transfer Grace from her human body into her avatar with the aid of the Tree of Souls, but she dies before the process can be completed. Supported by the new chief Tsutey, who acts as Jakes translator, Jake speaks to unite the clan, noticing the impending gathering, Quaritch organizes a pre-emptive strike against the Tree of Souls, believing that its destruction will demoralize the natives. On the eve of battle, Jake prays to Eywa, via a connection to the Tree of Souls. Quaritch prepares to slit the throat of Jakes avatar, but Neytiri kills Quaritch, humans Sam Worthington as Jake Sully, a disabled former Marine who becomes part of the Avatar Program after his twin brother is killed
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Theatrical release poster
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Jake's avatar and Neytiri. One of the inspirations for the look of the Na'vi came from a dream that Cameron's mother had told him about.
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Pandora's floating "Hallelujah Mountains" were inspired in part by the Chinese
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Cameron pioneered a specially designed camera built into a 6-inch boom that allowed the facial expressions of the actors to be captured and digitally recorded for the animators to use later.
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Actors Studio
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The Actors Studio is a membership organization for professional actors, theatre directors and playwrights at 432 West 44th Street in the Hells Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded October 5,1947, by Elia Kazan, [[Cheryl Crawford, lee Strasberg joined later and took the helm in 1951 until his death on February 17,1982. It is currently run by Al Pacino, Ellen Burstyn, the Studio is best known for its work refining and teaching method acting. The approach was developed by the Group Theatre in the 1930s based on the innovations of Konstantin Stanislavski. While at the Studio, actors work together to develop their skills in an environment where they can take risks as performers without the pressure of commercial roles. After an initial meeting held on October 5,1947, at the Labor Stage, before settling in its current location in 1955, the Studio moved regularly over an eight-year period, In January 1948, it was a dance studio on East 59th Street. In April of that year, a move to the CBS Building at 1697 Broadway, near 53rd Street, established some semblance of stability and this it did at the Malin Studios at 1545 Broadway, room 610. This arrangement would persist throughout the 1954-1955 theatrical season, even as the Studio was acquiring and renovating its current venue, in 1955 it moved to its current location in the former Seventh Associate Presbyterian Church, built in 1859. From September 1994 through May 2005, the Studio collaborated with The New School in the education of masters-level theatre students at the Actors Studio Drama School, after ending its contact with the New School, the Actors Studio established The Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University in 2006. ISBN 0-02-542650-8 Foster Hirsch, A Method to their Madness, The History of the Actors Studio, New York, WW Norton & Co Inc,1984. ISBN 0-393-01783-4 Shelly Frome, The Actors Studio, a History, david Garfield research files on the Actors Studio, 1947-2003, held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
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The Actors Studio building on West 44th Street in Manhattan, a converted church
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New York City
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The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over an area of about 302.6 square miles. Located at the tip of the state of New York. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has described as the cultural and financial capital of the world. Situated on one of the worlds largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, the five boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island – were consolidated into a single city in 1898. In 2013, the MSA produced a gross metropolitan product of nearly US$1.39 trillion, in 2012, the CSA generated a GMP of over US$1.55 trillion. NYCs MSA and CSA GDP are higher than all but 11 and 12 countries, New York City traces its origin to its 1624 founding in Lower Manhattan as a trading post by colonists of the Dutch Republic and was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The city and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. It has been the countrys largest city since 1790, the Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a symbol of the United States and its democracy. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. Several sources have ranked New York the most photographed city in the world, the names of many of the citys bridges, tapered skyscrapers, and parks are known around the world. Manhattans real estate market is among the most expensive in the world, Manhattans Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere, with multiple signature Chinatowns developing across the city. Providing continuous 24/7 service, the New York City Subway is one of the most extensive metro systems worldwide, with 472 stations in operation. Over 120 colleges and universities are located in New York City, including Columbia University, New York University, and Rockefeller University, during the Wisconsinan glaciation, the New York City region was situated at the edge of a large ice sheet over 1,000 feet in depth. The ice sheet scraped away large amounts of soil, leaving the bedrock that serves as the foundation for much of New York City today. Later on, movement of the ice sheet would contribute to the separation of what are now Long Island and Staten Island. The first documented visit by a European was in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzano, a Florentine explorer in the service of the French crown and he claimed the area for France and named it Nouvelle Angoulême. Heavy ice kept him from further exploration, and he returned to Spain in August and he proceeded to sail up what the Dutch would name the North River, named first by Hudson as the Mauritius after Maurice, Prince of Orange
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Clockwise, from top:
Midtown Manhattan,
Times Square, the
Unisphere in
Queens, the
Brooklyn Bridge,
Lower Manhattan with
One World Trade Center,
Central Park, the
headquarters of the United Nations, and the
Statue of Liberty
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New Amsterdam, centered in the eventual
Lower Manhattan, in 1664, the year
England took control and renamed it "New York".
New York City
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The
Battle of Long Island, the largest battle of the
American Revolution, took place in
Brooklyn in 1776.
New York City
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Broadway follows the Native American Wickquasgeck Trail through Manhattan.
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Jewish
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The Jews, also known as the Jewish people, are an ethnoreligious group originating from the Israelites, or Hebrews, of the Ancient Near East. Jews originated as a national and religious group in the Middle East during the second millennium BCE, the Merneptah Stele appears to confirm the existence of a people of Israel, associated with the god El, somewhere in Canaan as far back as the 13th century BCE. The Israelites, as an outgrowth of the Canaanite population, consolidated their hold with the emergence of the Kingdom of Israel, some consider that these Canaanite sedentary Israelites melded with incoming nomadic groups known as Hebrews. The worldwide Jewish population reached a peak of 16.7 million prior to World War II, but approximately 6 million Jews were systematically murdered during the Holocaust. Since then the population has risen again, and as of 2015 was estimated at 14.3 million by the Berman Jewish DataBank. According to the report, about 43% of all Jews reside in Israel and these numbers include all those who self-identified as Jews in a socio-demographic study or were identified as such by a respondent in the same household. The exact world Jewish population, however, is difficult to measure, Israel is the only country where Jews form a majority of the population. The modern State of Israel was established as a Jewish state and defines itself as such in its Declaration of Independence and its Law of Return grants the right of citizenship to any Jew who requests it. The English word Jew continues Middle English Gyw, Iewe, according to the Hebrew Bible, the name of both the tribe and kingdom derive from Judah, the fourth son of Jacob. The Hebrew word for Jew, יְהוּדִי ISO 259-3 Yhudi, is pronounced, with the stress on the syllable, in Israeli Hebrew. The Ladino name is ג׳ודיו, Djudio, ג׳ודיוס, Djudios, Yiddish, ייִד Yid, ייִדן, Yidn. The etymological equivalent is in use in languages, e. g. but derivations of the word Hebrew are also in use to describe a Jew, e. g. in Italian. The German word Jude is pronounced, the corresponding adjective jüdisch is the origin of the word Yiddish, in such contexts Jewish is the only acceptable possibility. Some people, however, have become so wary of this construction that they have extended the stigma to any use of Jew as a noun, a factual reconstruction for the origin of the Jews is a difficult and complex endeavor. It requires examining at least 3,000 years of ancient human history using documents in vast quantities, as archaeological discovery relies upon researchers and scholars from diverse disciplines, the goal is to interpret all of the factual data, focusing on the most consistent theory. In this case, it is complicated by long standing politics and religious, Jacob and his family migrated to Ancient Egypt after being invited to live with Jacobs son Joseph by the Pharaoh himself. The patriarchs descendants were later enslaved until the Exodus led by Moses, traditionally dated to the 13th century BCE, Modern archaeology has largely discarded the historicity of the Patriarchs and of the Exodus story, with it being reframed as constituting the Israelites inspiring national myth narrative. The growth of Yahweh-centric belief, along with a number of practices, gradually gave rise to a distinct Israelite ethnic group
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Jamaica Estates, Queens
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Jamaica Estates is an upper middle class neighborhood located in the New York City borough of Queens. Within Queens Community District 8, Jamaica Estates is served by Queens Community Board 8 and it is bounded by Union Turnpike to the north, Hillside Avenue to the south, Utopia Parkway and Homelawn Street to the west, and 188th Street to the east. The main road through the neighborhood is Midland Parkway, the surrounding neighborhoods are Jamaica Hills to the west, Jamaica to the southwest, Hollis to the southeast, Queens Village further to the east, and Fresh Meadows and Hillcrest to the north. The area is characterized by homes and a multitude of trees. Midland Parkway, a boulevard with a wide, landscaped median strip whose renovation was completed in 2007, is the areas main artery. The neighborhood consists of mostly upper-middle-class residents, most houses are single-family detached homes in the Tudor, Craftsman, Cape Cod, or Mediterranean styles. Out of 14,000 residents, 45% are foreign-born, in the 2000 United States Census, 43% of residents were white, Bangladeshis comprise 11% of residents, while Filipinos make up 10%, Haitians 7%, Guyanese 5%, and Russians 4%. A population of over 1,000 Bukharan Jews live in the area, Jamaica Estates was created in 1907 by the Jamaica Estates Corporation, which developed the hilly terminal moraines 503 acres, while preserving many of the trees that had occupied the site. The company was founded by Ernestus Gulick and Felix Isman, both of Philadelphia, Jamaica Estates now has significant Modern Orthodox Jewish American and South Asian American populations. The latter has been affected by the wave of mortgage foreclosures that began in 2008. The only apartments and multi-family housing lie near the border within a few blocks from. The shopping corridors are along Hillside Avenue and Union Turnpike, in 2007, following the damage of the roof of the Historic Gatehouse in Hurricane Isabel, the restoration and beautification of the Gatehouse and Malls was completed. The Jamaica Estates Association, founded in 1929, continues as an active, an Historical Plaque was unveiled April 23,2010, on the Midland Mall by The Aquinas Honor Society of the Immaculate Conception School and by the sponsor of the plaque, Senator Frank Padavan. Immaculate Conception School is on the corner of Midland Parkway and Dalny Road, the Summit School has their High School campus on 188th Street and Grand Central Parkeay. The school first opened in Lake Success, but relocated in 1950 to Parkway Village, from its 1975 founding to around 1980, The Japanese School of New York was located in Jamaica Estates, at 187-30 Grand Central Parkway. The New York City Subways IND Queens Boulevard Line serves the station at the lines Jamaica–179th Street terminal station, as well as the penultimate 169th Street local station. The neighborhood is served by the Q1, Q2, Q3, Q36, Q46 local bus lines on Hillside Avenue, the Q30 and Q31 buses on Utopia Parkway. Numerous express buses to Manhattan also stop on Union Turnpike, in contrast to much of Queens, most streets in Jamaica Estates do not conform to the rectangular street grid and follow topographic lines, the most notable example being Midland Parkway
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Jamaica Estates World War II Memorial
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Jamaica Estates Historical Plaque
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Addisleigh Park
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Swarthmore College
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Swarthmore College is a private liberal arts college located in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania,11 miles southwest of Philadelphia. Founded in 1864, Swarthmore was one of the earliest coeducational colleges in the United States, the school was organized by a committee of Quakers from three Hicksite yearly meetings, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and New York. Swarthmore was established to be a college. under the care of Friends, by 1906, Swarthmore dropped its religious affiliation, becoming officially non-sectarian. Swarthmore is a member of the Tri-College Consortium, a cooperative arrangement among Swarthmore, Bryn Mawr, in addition, the College is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania through the Quaker Consortium, allowing for students to cross-register for classes at all four institutions. The name Swarthmore has its roots in early Quaker history, in England, Swarthmoor Hall near the town of Ulverston, Cumbria, was the home of Thomas and Margaret Fell in 1652 when George Fox, fresh from his epiphany atop Pendle Hill in 1651, came to visit. The visitation turned into an association, as Fox persuaded Thomas. Swarthmoor was used for the first meetings of what became known as the Religious Society of Friends, the College was founded in 1864 by a committee of Quakers who were members of the Philadelphia, New York and Baltimore Yearly Meetings of the Religious Society of Friends. Edward Parrish, was its first president, lucretia Mott, and Martha Ellicott Tyson, were among those Friends, who insisted that the new college of Swarthmore be coeducational. Edward Hicks Magill, the president, served for 17 years. In the early 1900s, the College had a major collegiate American football program during the period of the soon-to-be nationwide sport. During World War II, Swarthmore was one of 131 colleges and universities nationally that took part in the V-12 Navy College Training Program, wolfgang Köhler, Hans Wallach and Solomon Asch were noted psychologists who became professors at Swarthmore, a center for Gestalt psychology. Both Wallach, who was Jewish, and Köhler, who was not, had left Nazi Germany because of its policies against Jews. Köhler came to Swarthmore in 1935 and served until his retirement in 1958, Wallach came in 1936, first as a researcher, and also teaching from 1942 until 1975. Asch, who was Polish-American and had immigrated as a child to the US in 1920, joined the faculty in 1947 and served until 1966, Swarthmores Oxbridge tutorial-inspired Honors Program allows students to take double-credit seminars from their junior year and often write honors theses. Seminars are usually composed of four to eight students, students in seminars will usually write at least three ten-page papers per seminar, and often one of these papers is expanded into a 20–30 page paper by the end of the seminar. At the end of their year, Honors students take oral. Usually one student in each discipline is awarded Highest Honors, others are either awarded High Honors or Honors, rarely, each department usually has a grade threshold for admission to the Honors program. Uncommon for an arts college, Swarthmore has an engineering program in which at the completion of four years work
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Parrish Hall, named in honor of the first president,
Edward Parrish, (1822-1872), contains the admissions, housing, and financial aid offices, along with dormitories on the upper floors.
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Parrish Hall, the original building of the College and an unofficial symbol of Swarthmore.
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Parrish Hall from Magill Walk.
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ΦΣΚ's Phi Chapter, at Swarthmore, circa 1944
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Jacksonville University
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Jacksonville University is a private university in Jacksonville, Florida, United States. JUs student body represents more than 40 U. S. states. As a Division I university, it is home to 19 sports teams, known as the JU Dolphins, as well as intramural sports, among the top majors declared by JU students are aviation management, biology, nursing, business and marine science. The school was founded in 1934 by William J. Porter, originally known as William J. Porter University, it began as a private two-year college. Since a permanent site had not yet been acquired, classes were held on the floor of the First Baptist Church Educational Building in downtown Jacksonville. Sixty students were enrolled in Porter Universitys first year of operation, the school changed its name to Jacksonville Junior College in 1935. In 1947 the administration purchased land in Jacksonvilles Arlington neighborhood on which to establish the current campus, the first building was completed in 1950 and classes officially began. The same year the school received accreditation as a two-year college from the Southern Association of Colleges. In 1958 Jacksonville Junior College merged with the Jacksonville College of Music, in 1959 the first four-year class graduated, and in 1962 JU received full accreditation as a four-year school from SACS. The 1960s saw the university grow substantially as enrollment increased, dormitories were built, in 1970 the Jacksonville University Dolphins mens basketball team, under star center Artis Gilmore, went to the NCAA Division I Championship. However, the opening of the public University of North Florida in 1973 eroded JUs enrollment, other University publications to have chronicled JU history throughout the decades include the JU Navigator, the Riparian, and The Wave magazine. Jacksonville University offers more than 70 majors and programs at the level, as well as 23 Masters and doctorate degree programs. M. A. M. A. T. and Master of Business Administration, JU has the second-largest Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps program in the nation and the longest-running in Florida. Jacksonville is a military- and veteran-friendly town, and is home to three military installations. It is also an approved Yellow Ribbon School and is home to the Jacksonville University Veterans, University staff and administration includes many distinguished veterans from multiple branches of the U. S. military. The College of Fine Arts, with its integrated Alexander Brest Museum, undergraduate programs include dance, theatre, music, and visual arts. Graduate programs are available in Choreography and Visual Arts, the College of Fine Arts annual Artist Series is open to the public and offers more than 20 concerts, events and exhibitions per season. The Davis College of Business received its AACSB accreditation in January 2010, the program is the third largest in the nation, behind Spartan School in Tulsa, Oklahoma and the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach
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The main entrance of Jacksonville University
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Seal of Jacksonville University
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Dolphins football team at practice
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Northeastern University
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Northeastern University is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, established in 1898. It is categorized as an R1 institution by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, the university offers undergraduate and graduate programs on its main campus in the Fenway-Kenmore, Roxbury, South End, and Back Bay neighborhoods of Boston. The university has satellite campus in Charlotte, North Carolina, Seattle, Washington, an additional satellite campus will open in Toronto, Canada in late 2016. The universitys enrollment is approximately 18,000 undergraduate students and 7,000 graduate students, Northeastern features a cooperative education program that integrates classroom study with professional experience on seven continents and a comprehensive study abroad program. In 2011, the university opened the George J. Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security, the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex opened in early 2017. Northeastern is a large, highly residential university, most students choose to live on campus but upperclassmen have the option to live off campus. More than 75% of Northeastern students receive some form of financial aid, in the 2015–16 school year, the university offered $239 million in grant and scholarship assistance. The universitys sports teams, the Northeastern Huskies, compete in NCAA Division I as members of the Colonial Athletic Association in 18 varsity sports, mens Track and Field has won the CAA back to back years in 2015 and 2016. In 2013, mens basketball won its first CAA regular season championship, mens soccer won the CAA title for the first time, in 1903, the first Automobile Engineering School in the country was established followed by the School of Commerce and Finance in 1907. In 1916, a bill was introduced into the Massachusetts Legislature to incorporate the institute as Northeastern College, after considerable debate and investigation it was passed in March 1916. On March 30,1917, Frank Palmer Speare was inaugurated as the new Colleges first President, five years later the school changed its name to Northeastern University to better reflect the increasing depth of its instruction. In March 1923, the University secured general degree granting power from the Legislature, with the exception of the A. B. the S. B. the College of Liberal Arts was added in 1935. Two years later the Northeastern University Corporation was established, with a board of trustees composed of 31 University members and 8 from the YMCA, in 1948 Northeastern separated itself completely from the YMCA. Following World War II Northeastern began admitting women, in the postwar educational boom the University created the College of Education, University College, and the Colleges of Pharmacy and Nursing. The College of Criminal Justice followed, then the College of Computer Science, by the early 1980s the one-time night commuter school had grown to nearly 60,000 enrollees. By 1989–1990 University enrollment had reduced to about 40,000 full, part-time, and evening students, following the retirement of President Kenneth Ryder 1989 the University adopted a slow and more thoughtful approach to change. Historically, it had been accepting between 7,500 and 10,000 students per year based on applications of about 15,000 to 20,000 with acceptance rates between 50% and 75% depending on program. Attrition rates were huge, with a 25% freshmen dropout rate and graduation rate below 50%, when President John Curry left office in 1996 the university population had been systematically reduced to about 25,000
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The
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Robert J. Shillman Hall constructed in 1995
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Northeastern's historic
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Woodstock Film Festival
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The festival takes place each fall in the towns of Woodstock, Rosendale, Rhinebeck, Saugerties and Kingston, in the height of fall foliage. Their sister organization, the Hudson Valley Film Commission promotes sustainable economic development by attracting and supporting film, video, with offices located in the heart of Woodstock, NY, the first fiercely independent inaugural festival ran September 21–24,2000. It included workshops, documentaries, concerts and films all over the world. The second annual event was held despite falling only nine days after the attacks of September 11,2001. Now in its 18th year, the Woodstock Film Festival has garnered the praise of the industry and is noted as being one of the top 50 film festivals in the world. Programming between approximately 125 films, concerts, panels and parties each year, WFF draws films from the far reaches of Siberia to locally shot films right in the Hudson Valley, NY. With categories of programming such as, shorts, animation, music videos, focus on music, exposure, world cinema, the 2017 festival will take place October 11-15,2017. The festival has featured many high-powered members of the film community and these have included industry executives, network and cable executives, record label executives, writers, entertainment lawyers, producers, and critics. The Woodstock Film Festival is a festival that offers cash. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, Filmmaker Les Blank Trailblazer recipients have included professionals in the entertainment industry who have made an impact in their craft. Past recipients have included Robin Bronk CEO of the Creative Coalition, marketing and distribution guru Bob Berney, Ted Hope, James Schamus, Ted Sarandos, Jonathan Sehring, the last award was given out in 2011. The Woodstock Film Festival continues the spread of independent film year round with film screenings, the festival also holds a yearly Career Day, focused on bringing direct insight from the film world to aspiring students. The Woodstock Film Festival has presented workshops and seminars designed to stimulate. Additionally, local film production opportunities, made available through the Hudson Valley Film Commission have provided career opportunities
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Promotional poster for the 2007 festival.
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Daniel Inouye
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Daniel Ken Dan Inouye was a United States Senator from Hawaii from 1963 to 2012. Inouye also served as chairman of the U. S. Senate Committee on Appropriations, Inouye fought in World War II as part of the 442nd Infantry Regiment. He lost his arm to a grenade wound and received several military decorations, including the nations highest military award. Returning to Hawaii, he earned a law degree and was elected to Hawaiis territorial House of Representatives in 1953, and to the territorial Senate in 1957. When Hawaii achieved statehood in 1959, Inouye was elected as its first member of the U. S. House of Representatives, Inouye was the most senior U. S. senator at the time of his death. He is one of the longest-serving U. S, senators in history, second only to Robert Byrd. Inouye was the first Japanese American to serve in the U. S. House of Representatives and he never lost an election in 58 years as an elected official, and exercised an exceptionally large influence on Hawaii politics. At the time of his death, Inouye was the second-oldest sitting U. S. senator, seven and one-half months younger than Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey and he was a Medal of Honor recipient and a posthumous recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Daniel Inouye was born on September 7,1924, in Honolulu, Hawaii and he was a Nisei Japanese American, the son of a Japanese immigrant father and a mother whose parents had migrated from Japan. He grew up in the Bingham Tract, a Chinese-American enclave in the predominantly Japanese American community of Mōʻiliʻili in Honolulu, Inouye graduated from Honolulus President William McKinley High School. During the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Inouye served as a medical volunteer, in 1943, when the U. S. Army dropped its enlistment ban on Japanese Americans, Inouye curtailed his premedical studies at the University of Hawaii and enlisted in the Army. He volunteered to be part of the segregated all-Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat Team and this army formation was mostly made up of second-generation Japanese Americans from Hawaii and the mainland. Inouye was promoted to sergeant within his first year, and he was assigned as a platoon sergeant and he received a battlefield commission to second lieutenant for his actions there, becoming the youngest officer in his regiment. He continued to carry the coins throughout the war in his pocket as good luck charms. On April 21,1945, Inouye was grievously wounded while leading an assault on a heavily defended ridge near San Terenzo in Tuscany, Italy, called the Colle Musatello. The ridge served as a strongpoint of the German fortifications known as the Gothic Line, as he led his platoon in a flanking maneuver, three German machine guns opened fire from covered positions 40 yards away, pinning his men to the ground. Inouye stood up to attack and was shot in the stomach, ignoring his wound, he proceeded to attack and destroy the first machine gun nest with hand grenades and his Thompson submachine gun. As his squad distracted the third machine gunner, Inouye crawled toward the final bunker, Inouyes horrified soldiers moved to his aid, but he shouted for them to keep back out of fear his severed fist would involuntarily relax and drop the grenade
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Inouye as a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army
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President Obama speaking at the funeral service for the late Senator Daniel Inouye.
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Death of a Salesman (1985 film)
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The film follows the script of the 1949 play almost exactly and originally premiered on CBS on August 16,1985. The film earned 10 Emmy nominations at the 38th Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony and 4 Golden Globe nominations at the 43rd Golden Globe Awards ceremony, winning 3 and 1, Willy Loman returns home exhausted after a canceled business trip. Worried over Willys state of mind and recent car crash, his wife Linda suggests that he asks his boss Howard Wagner to allow him to work in his city so he will not have to travel. Willy complains to Linda that their son Biff, who is visiting, has yet to make good on his life, despite Biffs promise as an athlete in high school, he flunked senior year math and never went to college. Biff and his brother Happy, who is visiting, reminisce about their childhood together. They discuss their fathers mental degeneration, which they have witnessed by his constant vacillations, the next day, Willy goes to ask Howard for a job in town while Biff goes to make a business proposition, but neither are successful. Willy gets angry and ends up getting fired when Howard tells him that he needs a rest, Biff waits hours to see a former employer who does not remember him and turns him down. Biff impulsively steals a fountain pen, Willy then goes to the office of his neighbor Charley, where he runs into Charleys son Bernard. Happy, Biff, and Willy meet for dinner at a restaurant, Happy tries to get Biff to lie to their father. Biff tries to him what happened as Willy gets angry. Willy had been in a hotel on a trip with a young woman named Miss Francis when Biff unexpectedly arrived and realized that Willy was cheating on Linda. From that moment, Biffs view of his father and all of his fathers cherished hopes and dreams for him changed irrevocably, Biff leaves the restaurant in frustration, followed by Happy and two girls that Happy has picked up. They leave a confused and upset Willy behind in the restaurant, when they later return home, their mother angrily confronts them for abandoning their father while Willy remains talking to himself outside. Biff goes outside to try to reconcile with Willy and he tells his father he loves him. Rather than listen to what Biff actually says, Willy realizes that his son has forgiven him, however, at the funeral, Biff retains his belief that he does not want to become a businessman. Happy, on the hand, chooses to follow in his fathers footsteps. William Willy Loman, A self-deluded traveling salesman and he is 63 years old and very unstable and insecure, tending to imagine events from the past as if they are real. He vacillates between different perceptions of his life, Willy seems childlike and relies on others for support
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DVD cover
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Dustin Hoffman
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Dustin Lee Hoffman is an American actor and a director, with a career in film, television, and theatre since 1960. Hoffman has been known for his portrayals of antiheroes and vulnerable characters. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1980 for Kramer vs. Kramer, and in 1989 for Rain Man. Widely considered one of the finest actors in history, Hoffman first drew praise for starring in the play, Eh. for which he won a Theatre World Award. This achievement was followed by his breakthrough 1967 film role as Benjamin Braddock. Since that time, Hoffmans career has largely focused on the cinema, with sporadic returns to television. Hoffmans notable films include, Midnight Cowboy, Little Big Man, Straw Dogs, Papillon, Lenny, Marathon Man, All the Presidents Men, Kramer vs. Kramer, Tootsie, Rain Man, Hook and he made his directorial debut in 2012, with Quartet. Along with 2 Academy Award wins, Hoffman has been nominated for 5 additional Academy Awards and he has won 4 BAFTAs,3 Drama Desk Awards,2 Emmy Awards, and a Genie Award. Hoffman received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1999, and the Kennedy Center Honors Award in 2012, Dustin Lee Hoffman was born on August 8,1937 in Los Angeles, California, the second son of Lillian and Harry Hoffman. His father worked as a supervisor at Columbia Pictures before becoming a furniture salesman. Hoffman was named after stage and silent screen actor, Dustin Farnum and his older brother, Ronald, is a lawyer and economist. Hoffman is Jewish, from an Ashkenazi family of immigrants from Ukraine, Poland and his upbringing was non-religious, and he has said, I don’t have any memory of celebrating holidays growing up that were Jewish, and that he had realized he was Jewish at around age 10. Hoffman graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1955 and enrolled at Santa Monica College with the intention of studying medicine. He left after a year to join the Pasadena Playhouse, although when he told his family about his career goal and he also took classes at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City. Hoffman initially hoped to become a classical pianist, having studied piano during much of his youth, while at Santa Monica College, he also took an acting class, which he assumed would be easy, and caught the acting bug. He recalls, I just was not gifted in music, now an aspiring actor, he spent the next ten years doing odd jobs, being unemployed, and struggling to get any available acting roles. He composed a song called Shooting the Breeze and Bette Midler wrote the words and his first acting role was at the Pasadena Playhouse, alongside future Academy Award-winner, Gene Hackman. After two years there, Hackman headed for New York City, with Hoffman soon following, Hoffman, Hackman and Robert Duvall lived together in the 1960s, all three of them focused on finding acting jobs
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Dustin Hoffman in 1968
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Hoffman in 1968
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Hoffman on the set of Lenny (1974)
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Willy Loman
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Loman is a 63-year-old travelling salesman from Brooklyn with 34 years of experience with the same company who endures a pay cut and a firing during the play. He has difficulty dealing with his current state and has created a world to cope with his situation. This does not keep him from multiple suicide attempts, Willy Loman is an aging suburban Brooklyn, New York salesman whose less than spectacular career is on the decline. He has lost the youthful verve of his past and his camaraderie has faded away and his business knowledge is still at its peak, but without his youth and heartiness, he is no longer able to leverage his personality to get by. Time has caught up with him, according to Charles Isherwood, Loman is the plays dominant character because It is his losing battle against spiritual and economic defeat that provides the narrative spine of the play. Loman is a representation of millions of white collar employees who outlived their corporate usefulness. He lives in a world with delusions about how popular, famous, influential and successful he is and his wife not only allows these delusions, but also she buys into them, somewhat. His misplaced values of importance and popularity were shaken to the core by his ability to leverage those self-perceived traits successfully as he grew older. Lomans world crumbles around him during the play, the play begins with the 63-year-old Loman dealing with a recent paycut after 34 years on the job at a time when he is having difficulty meeting his financial responsibilities. In the second act, he deals with being fired, the firing was at the hands of the son of the person who had hired him 36 years prior. In the play, Loman reveals his past in scenes from his memory that the audience is challenged to judge for accuracy, Loman had succeeded in large part due to popularity, which is a value he attempted to instill in his sons. Cobbs tragic portrait of the salesman is acting of the first rank. Although it is familiar and folksy in the details, it has something of the manner in the big size. United Press International critic Rick Du Brow described Loman as. the aging failure of a salesman who has wasted his life by living in a world of delusions, willie is described as a suffering. middle-aged man at the end of his emotional rope. Lowry described the production as depicting the end of a man when his world is shattered. Creator Arthur Miller described the role as one for a character in a small physical body. Lomans Brooklyn accent is part of the challenge of the role, in 1950, Miller described Loman as a man who upon hearing societys thundering command to succeed found himself staring at a failure in the mirror. The Amazon. com editorial review by Ali Davis states that Willy Loman is a salesman desperately hustling for a living even as he slides into old age
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Detail of the original 1949
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Lee J Cobb (Willy), seated, with
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Cameron Mitchell (Happy) in the 1949 production of Death of a Salesman
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Hannibal Lecter
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Dr. Hannibal Lecter is a character in a series of suspense novels by Thomas Harris. Lecter was introduced in the 1981 thriller novel Red Dragon as a forensic psychiatrist, the novel and its sequel, The Silence of the Lambs, feature Lecter as one of the primary antagonists after the two serial killers in both novels. In the third novel, Hannibal, Lecter becomes a protagonist and his role as the antihero occurs in the fourth novel, Hannibal Rising, which explores his childhood and development into a serial killer. The first film adapted from the Harris novels was Manhunter which features Brian Cox as Lecter, in 1991, Anthony Hopkins won an Academy Award for his portrayal of the character in The Silence of the Lambs. He would reprise the role in Hannibal in 2001 and in an adaptation of Red Dragon made in 2002 under the original title. The NBC television series Hannibal debuted in 2013, and focuses on the development of the relationship between Lecter and Will Graham, an FBI profiler, in the series, Lecter is portrayed by Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen, who won a Saturn Award for his performance. In 2003, Hannibal Lecter was chosen by the American Film Institute as the #1 movie villain, in June 2010, Entertainment Weekly named him one of the 100 Greatest Characters of the Last 20 Years. Red Dragon firmly states that Lecter does not fit any known psychological profile, in The Silence of the Lambs, Lecters keeper, Dr. Frederick Chilton, claims that Lecter is a pure sociopath. In the film adaptation of The Silence of the Lambs, protagonist Clarice Starling says of Lecter, in the novel The Silence of the Lambs, Barney Matthews, an orderly at the facility where Lecter is imprisoned, claims that the only thing Lecter fears is boredom. All media in which Lecter appears portray him as brilliant, cultured and sophisticated, with refined tastes in art, music. He is frequently depicted preparing gourmet meals from his victims flesh, the most famous example being his admission that he ate a census takers liver with some fava beans. He is well-educated and speaks several languages, including Italian, German, Russian, Polish, French, Spanish and he is deeply offended by rudeness, and frequently kills people who have bad manners. Prior to his capture and imprisonment, he was a member of Baltimore, Marylands social elite, in The Silence of the Lambs, Lecter is described through Starlings eyes, small, sleek, and in his hands and arms she saw wiry strength like her own. The novel also reveals that Lecters left hand has a condition called mid ray duplication polydactyly, in Hannibal, he performs plastic surgery on his own face on several occasions, and removes his extra digit. Lecters eyes are a shade of maroon, and reflect the light in pinpoints of red and he has small white teeth and dark, slicked-back hair with a widows peak. He also has a sense of smell, in The Silence of the Lambs. He has a memory and a fondness for the method of loci, he has constructed in his mind an elaborate memory palace with which he relives memories. In the backstory of 1981s Red Dragon, FBI profiler Will Graham interviews Lecter about one of his patients who was murdered by a serial killer, realizing that Graham is on to him, Lecter creeps up behind Will and slashes him with a linoleum knife, nearly disemboweling him
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Sir Anthony Hopkins, the only actor to play Lecter in multiple films.
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Four on-screen versions of Hannibal Lecter (clockwise from top left):
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Dr. Alfredo Ballí Treviño, the real-life inspiration for Lecter, according to Thomas Harris.
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Freddy Lounds
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Freddy Lounds is a fictional character in the Hannibal Lecter series, created by author Thomas Harris. Lounds first appears in the 1981 novel Red Dragon as a foil to protagonist Will Graham who is murdered by primary antagonist Francis Dolarhyde. Harris describes Lounds as lumpy and ugly and small, with buck teeth and they wanted the information he could get, but they didnt want Freddy. They paid him top scale, which is not very much if you have to buy women. They patted his back and told him he had a lot of balls, resentful of this treatment, Lounds goes into tabloid journalism, receiving much higher pay and better treatment for writing popular but factually questionable news stories. The death of Lounds is reflected as a consequence of his having only a modicum of understanding of people with desires unlike his own. In the novel Red Dragon, Lounds attempts to elicit information from Will Graham as Graham investigates serial killer Francis Dolarhyde, whom Lounds has sensationally publicized as The Tooth Fairy. Graham despises Lounds, who had sneaked into Grahams hospital room after Graham was attacked by Lecter and taken pictures of his wounds, Lounds becomes aware of secret correspondence between the killer and the now-imprisoned Lecter, and sneaks onto a crime scene to get information. He is caught, however, and threatened with imprisonment unless he cooperates with the investigation, hoping to lure Dolarhyde into a trap, Graham gives Lounds an interview in which he blatantly misrepresents the killer as an impotent homosexual and the product of incest. This infuriates Dolarhyde, who kidnaps Lounds, glues him to a wheelchair, shows him slides of his victims. Dolarhyde then shows his face to Lounds, bites his lips off and sets him on fire, Lounds eventually dies in the hospital, but not before providing information to aid in the hunt for Dolarhyde. Lecter sends Graham a note congratulating him on Lounds death, which implies that the Tooth Fairys murder of reporter Freddy Lounds is at least a sort of wish-fulfillment for Graham. Lounds appeared in the 1986 film Manhunter, which was based on the novel, the character did not appear in the 1991 sequel, The Silence of the Lambs, but was again portrayed in the 2002 film Red Dragon, this time by Philip Seymour Hoffman. Lounds mutilation at Dolarhydes hands is not shown in the film Manhunter, in the film, Dolarhyde puts something in his mouth that can not clearly be seen and taunts Lounds, before utting to an exterior night shot of the killers house. Lets Loundss distant, muffled screams tell the real story, the 2002 film adaptation of Red Dragon, however, retains the original scene from the novel, and shows Dolarhyde biting Lounds lips off in close-up. In the 2013 television series Hannibal, Lounds was recast as a shifty redheaded female, Fredricka Freddie Lounds, in this continuity, the character is a tabloid blogger who runs a true crime website called TattleCrime, and who reports on some of the murders investigated by Will Graham. Chorostecki noted in interviews that the Lounds of the TV series differed from earlier portrayals in a number of ways, contrary to the slovenliness of previous portrayals, Chorostecki noted that this version of Lounds was fresh and central and so high fashion, she always looks her best. In the series, Lounds is introduced in the episode Amuse-Bouche, in that episode, Lounds snoops around a crime scene, and around Lecters office, to write a story about Graham
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Three on-screen versions of Freddy Lounds (clockwise from top left):
Stephen Lang,
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Crime Story (TV series)
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Crime Story is an American television drama, created by Chuck Adamson and Gustave Reininger, that premiered in 1986 on NBC, where it ran for two seasons. The show premiered with a two-hour pilot — a movie which had been exhibited theatrically — and was watched by over 30 million viewers and it was scheduled to follow Miami Vice on Friday nights, continuing to attract a record number of viewers. NBC then moved the show to Tuesdays at 10 pm opposite ABCs Moonlighting, hurting its ratings to the point that NBC ordered its cancellation after two seasons. Set in the early 1960s, the series depicted two men — Lt. Mike Torello and mobster Ray Luca — with a drive to destroy each other. Torello, his friend Ted Kehoe, and Luca had grown up in Chicagos The Patch neighborhood, also called Little Italy or Little Sicily and the haunt of the Forty-Two Gang. The first season ended with Ray Luca and Pauli Taglia on the lam, hiding from Torello in a Nevada desert shack, which is located in an atomic bomb test area. An A-Bomb explodes, presumably obliterating Luca and Taglia, in one of the most memorable cliffhangers in television history, the first season follows Chicago Police detective Lt. Mike Torello and his pursuit of organized crime from Chicago to Las Vegas, circa 1963-64. At the beginning of the series Torello is the head of the Major Crimes Unit, at the center of Torellos crosshairs is rising young mobster Ray Luca. Initially Luca is an independent thief and killer whose crew, which includes Pauli Taglia and Frank Holman, specializes in robberies, burglaries and home invasions. Through his connection to Chicago crime boss Phil Bartoli, Luca catches the attention of national crime figure Manny Weisbord, Luca impresses Weisbord with his desire to leave the streets and move up in the management ranks of organized crime. He assigns one of his men, Max Goldman, to be a middleman between himself and Luca, Luca tells Weisbord and Bartoli of his plan to take over the Las Vegas bookmaking operation of Noah Ganz. He is told to negotiate a deal, but instead instigates the theft of Ganzs gambling book, however, this backfires when Torello gets wind of it and catches Frank Holman in the act, which results in the book falling into the hands of MCU. When a crime war threatens to break out with Ganzs organization, Weisbord, in typical fashion Luca solves the problem by massacring Ganz and his thugs. Torello finally manages to get a solid murder indictment against Luca, meanwhile, Holman, who escaped custody only to be hunted down again, has made a deal with U. S. federal prosecutor Harry Breitel to provide information about the mob in exchange for immunity. Among his lies is a story that he paid off Chicago cop Mike Torello. The murders of Ted Kehoe, a friend of Torello with ties to the organization. Torello finds himself being investigated by Breitel and the feds for corruption, at a bar Luca casually asks straight-laced public defender David Abrams, whose father once had mob connections, for advice. That advice leads Luca to subpoena Torello to testify for the defense at his trial, Abrams is furious when he discovers the result of his conversation with Luca, who has also tried to convince Abrams to work for him
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Anthony Denison (left, as Ray Luca) and Dennis Farina (as Lt. Mike Torello)
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The Fugitive (TV series)
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The Fugitive is an American drama series created by Roy Huggins. It was produced by QM Productions and United Artists Television and it aired on ABC from 1963 to 1967. David Janssen starred as Richard Kimble, a physician who is convicted of his wifes murder. En route to death row, Kimbles train derails over a switch, allowing him to escape and begin a search for the real killer. At the same time, Dr. Kimble is hounded by the authorities, the Fugitive aired for four seasons, and a total of 120 51-minute episodes were produced. The first three seasons were filmed in black and white, the season was in color. The Fugitive was nominated for five Emmy Awards and won the Emmy for Outstanding Dramatic Series in 1966, in 2002, it was ranked No.36 on TV Guides 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time. TV Guide named the one-armed man No.5 in their 2013 list of The 60 Nastiest Villains of All Time, in the series first season, the premise was summarized in the opening title sequence of the pilot episode as follows, Name, Richard Kimble. Richard Kimble has been tried and convicted for the murder of his wife, but laws are made by men, carried out by men, and men are imperfect. Proved guilty, what Richard Kimble could not prove was that moments before discovering his wifes body, a man who has not yet been found. Richard Kimble ponders his fate as he looks at the world for the last time, but in that darkness, fate moves its huge hand. This title sequence was shortened for the remainder of the first season as follows, The name, the destination, Death Row, state prison. The irony, Richard Kimble is innocent, proved guilty, what Richard Kimble could not prove was that moments before discovering his murdered wifes body, he saw a one-armed man running from the vicinity of his home. Richard Kimble ponders his fate as he looks at the world for the last time, but in that darkness, fate moves its huge hand. Falsely convicted for the murder of his wife. reprieved by fate when a train wreck freed him en route to the death house, freed him to hide in lonely desperation. Freed him to search for a man he saw leave the scene of the crime. Freed him to run before the pursuit of the police lieutenant obsessed with his capture. It was not until episode 14, The Girl from Little Egypt, a series of flashbacks reveals the fateful night of Helen Kimbles death, and for the first time offers a glimpse of the One-Armed Man
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David Janssen as The Fugitive
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The Fugitive
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Janssen as Richard Kimble with
Clint Howard, 1965.
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Barry Morse as Gerard in the pilot episode, 1963.
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Last Exit to Brooklyn (film)
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Last Exit to Brooklyn is a 1989 German-British drama film directed by Uli Edel and adapted by Desmond Nakano from Hubert Selby Jr. s novel of the same name. A group of prostitutes, union workers, and drag queens all lead difficult lives within an existence of drugs, crime, there had been several attempts to adapt Last Exit to Brooklyn into a film prior to this version. One of the earliest attempts was made by producer Steve Krantz and animator Ralph Bakshi, Bakshi had sought out the rights to the novel after completing Heavy Traffic, a film which shared many themes with Selbys novel. Selby agreed to the adaptation, and actor Robert De Niro accepted the role of Harry in Strike, according to Bakshi, the whole thing fell apart when Krantz and I had a falling out over past business. It was a disappointment to me and Selby, Selby and I tried a few other screenplays after that on other subjects, but I could not shake Last Exit from my mind. Some scenes for the film were shot at Monteros Bar and Grill, Bakshi referred to Edels film as being like a hot dog without mustard, saying that the film was done horribly
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Theatrical release poster
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A Few Good Men (play)
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A Few Good Men is a play by Aaron Sorkin, first produced on Broadway by David Brown in 1989. It tells the story of military lawyers at a court-martial who uncover a conspiracy in the course of defending their clients. Sorkin adapted his work into a screenplay for a 1992 film directed by Rob Reiner, produced by Brown and starring Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, the film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, and the Golden Globe for Best Screenplay. She was going to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base to defend a group of Marines who had close to killing a fellow Marine in a hazing ordered by a superior officer. Sorkin took that information and wrote much of his story on cocktail napkins while bartending at the Palace Theatre on Broadway, several former Navy JAG lawyers have been proposed as the model for the character of Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee, USN, JAG Corps. These include Donald Marcari, David Iglesias, and Walter Bansley III, the court martial was Macaris first big court case. However, in a statement released by his spokeswoman, Sorkin said, “The character of Dan Kaffee in ‘A Few Good Men’ is entirely fictional and was not inspired by any particular individual. ”Once Sorkin completed a draft, his theatrical agent sent it to producer David Brown who wanted the film rights. Sorkin sold Brown the rights, getting Brown to agree to also produce A Few Good Men as a play, a Few Good Men had its world premiere at the Heritage Repertory Theatre at the University of Virginias Department of Drama on September 19,1989. It then transferred to the Kennedy Center and it starred Tom Hulce as LTJG Kaffee, Megan Gallagher as LCDR JoAnne Galloway, Clark Gregg as Lt. Jack Ross, Stephen Lang as Col Jessep, and Robert Hogan as Capt. Replacement actors included Timothy Busfield and Bradley Whitford as Lt. Jack Ross, Perry King, Michael OHare, and Ron Perlman as Jessep, and Pamela Blair as Galloway. A national touring company performed through 1992 with Michael OKeefe as LTJG Kaffee, Alyson Reed as LCDR Galloway, in January 1993 A Few Good Men had its premiere in German language at the Volkstheater, Vienna, Austria. In the following years this production went on tour and was all over Germany, Switzerland. The stage show was directed by David Esbjornson, in 2006, the Hudson Shakespeare Company of New Jersey staged a production as part of their second stage for modern shows. The tour was presented in city courtrooms, directed by Jon Ciccarelli and featured notable NYC actors such as Jon Crefeld as LTJG Kaffee and Charles J. Roby as Col. Jessup. Jensen Ackles appeared as LTJG Kaffee alongside Lou Diamond Phillips as Col Jessep in a production of the play at the Casa Mañana Theatre, in Fort Worth, Texas and it has also been performed in London, Oxford and Portsmouth by amateur groups. A Hungarian production of the play was performed at Madách Szinház and it was directed by Imre Kerényi, starring Sándor Czvetkó, Éva Kerekes and Gábor Koncz. By the Book Theatre produced the play November 25,2014 to December 6,2014 at the McManus Studio Theatre, London, the production won 4 Brickenden Awards including Outstanding Drama. A live telecast production is slated to air on NBC in 2017, the Broadway production earned Megan Gallagher a 1990 Theatre World Award and a Best Actor nomination for Tom Hulce at the 44th Tony Awards
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The cast of A Few Good Men at the
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Jack Nicholson
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John Joseph Jack Nicholson is an American actor and filmmaker, who has performed for over 60 years. Nicholson is known for playing a range of starring or supporting roles, including satirical comedy, romance and dark portrayals of antiheroes. In many of his films, he has played the eternal outsider, Nicholsons 12 Academy Award nominations make him the most nominated male actor in the Academys history. Nicholson has won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice, one for the drama One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest and he also won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the comedy-drama Terms of Endearment. Nicholson is one of three actors to win three Academy Awards. Nicholson is one of two actors to be nominated for an Academy Award for acting in every decade from the 1960s to the 2000s. He has won six Golden Globe Awards, and received the Kennedy Center Honor in 2001, in 1994, he became one of the youngest actors to be awarded the American Film Institutes Life Achievement Award. He played Jack Torrance in Stanley Kubricks horror film The Shining, the Joker in Tim Burtons superhero film Batman, other films include the legal drama A Few Good Men, the Sean Penn-directed mystery film The Pledge, and the comedy-drama About Schmidt. Nicholson was born on April 22,1937, in Neptune City, New Jersey, Nicholsons mother was of Irish, English, and German descent. She married Italian-American showman Donald Furcillo in 1936, before realizing that he was already married, biographer Patrick McGilligan stated in his book Jacks Life that Latvian-born Eddie King, Junes manager, may have been Nicholsons biological father, rather than Furcillo. Other sources suggest June Nicholson was unsure of who the father was, in 1974, Time magazine researchers learned, and informed Nicholson, that his sister, June, was actually his mother, and his other sister, Lorraine, was really his aunt. By this time, both his mother and grandmother had died, on finding out, Nicholson said it was a pretty dramatic event, but it wasnt what Id call traumatizing. I was pretty well psychologically formed. Nicholson grew up in Neptune City, New Jersey and he was raised in his mothers Roman Catholic religion. Before starting high school, his family moved to an apartment in Spring Lake, nick, as he was known to his high school friends, attended nearby Manasquan High School, where he was voted class clown by the Class of 1954. He was in every day for a whole school year. A theatre and an award at the school are named in his honor. In 2004, Nicholson attended his 50-year high school reunion accompanied by his aunt Lorraine and he served a tour of duty in the Air National Guard. Nicholson first came to Hollywood in 1954, when he was 17 and he took a job as an office worker for animators William Hanna and Joseph Barbera at the MGM cartoon studio
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Nicholson in 1976
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Nicholson as Wilbur Force in
The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
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in Chinatown (1974)
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Jack Nicholson with
Vladimir Putin in 2001
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George Pickett
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George Edward Pickett was a career United States Army officer who became a major general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He is best remembered for his participation in the futile and bloody Confederate offensive on the day of the Battle of Gettysburg that bears his name. Pickett graduated last out of 59 cadets in the United States Military Academy class of 1846 and he served as a second lieutenant in the United States Army during the Mexican–American War, and is noted for his service in the Battle of Chapultepec in September 1847. After this, he served in the Washington Territory, and eventually reached the rank of captain, Pickett participated in the Pig War of 1859. Near the beginning of the American Civil War, he enlisted in the Confederate States Army and he commanded a brigade that saw heavy action during the Peninsula Campaign of 1862. Pickett was wounded at the Battle of Gainess Mill on June 27 and his division was lightly engaged at the Battle of Fredericksburg, and, along with most of Longstreets Corps, missed the Battle of Chancellorsville while participating in the Suffolk Campaign in 1863. During the Gettysburg Campaign, his division was, much to Picketts frustration, however, it was one of three divisions under the command of General Longstreet to participate in a disastrous assault on Union positions on July 3, the final day of the battle. The attack has given the name Picketts Charge. In February 1864, Pickett commanded the Confederate forces at the Battle of New Bern, on April 1,1865, he was defeated while in overall command of Confederate troops at the Battle of Five Forks. Following the war, Pickett feared prosecution for his execution of deserters and he returned to Virginia in 1866, where he died at age 50 in 1875. Legend says that after the war he remained bitter and dwelt extensively upon the loss of his men at Gettysburg, George Edward Pickett was born in his grandfathers shop in Richmond, Virginia on January 16,1825. He was the first of the eight children of Robert and Mary Pickett, a prominent family of Old Virginia of English origins and he was the cousin of future Confederate general Henry Heth. He went to Springfield, Illinois, to law. Legend has it that Picketts appointment was secured for him by Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln, as an Illinois state legislator, could not nominate candidates, although he did give the young man advice after he was accepted. Pickett was actually appointed by Illinois Congressman John T. Stuart, a friend of Picketts uncle, Pickett was popular as a cadet at West Point. It is a position held with some backhanded distinction, referred to today as the goat, Picketts cousin Henry Heth graduated last in the Class of 1847. Pickett was commissioned a second lieutenant in the 8th Infantry Regiment. He soon gained recognition in the Mexican–American War when he carried the American colors over the parapet during the Battle of Chapultepec in September 1847
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General Pickett
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Confederate Major General George E. Pickett
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Thure de Thulstrup 's Battle of Gettysburg, showing Pickett's Charge.
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Pickett's grave site at Hollywood Cemetery
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Ike Clanton
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Joseph Isaac Ike Clanton was a member of a loose association of outlaws known as the The Cowboys that clashed with lawmen Wyatt, Virgil and Morgan Earp as well as Doc Holliday. Ike Clanton filed murder charges against the Earps and Doc Holliday but after a 30-day preliminary hearing, Ike Clanton was implicated in the attempted assassination of Virgil Earp on December 30,1881 but other Cowboys provided an alibi and he was released. Six years later Clanton was killed attempting to flee when he was shot by a lawman seeking to arrest him for cattle-rustling, born in Callaway County, Missouri, Joseph Isaac Ike Clanton was one of seven children of Newman Haynes Clanton, and his wife Mariah Sexton Clanton. His father worked at times as a day laborer, a miner, a farmer, and by the late 1870s. Ike stayed with the family when they moved to Tombstone, Arizona Territory, at that time, Newman Clanton was living with his sons Phin, Ike, and Billy. By 1878 Ike was running a small lunch counter at the Tombstone Mill site, by 1881, however, he was working on his fathers ranch at Lewis Springs, about 12 miles west of Tombstone and 5 miles from Charleston. The Clantons and their hands and associates were known as the Cowboys. They were accused of cattle rustling from across the U. S. –Mexico border, as well as acts of banditry. Ike Clantons notoriety is based largely on his conflict with Wyatt Earp, the Earps and the Clantons had political, personal, and legal differences and the animosity between them grew throughout 1881. The Cowboys supported incumbent Sheriff Charles Shibell while the Earps supported his opponent Bob Paul in the November 1880 election, Ike Clanton repeatedly boasted in public, drank heavily, and had a quick temper. He was well known for talking too much, in November 1879, shortly after arriving in Tombstone, Wyatt Earp had a horse stolen. Sheriff Johnny Behan later testified that the incident had angered Ike Clanton, after he was passed over by Johnny Behan for the position of undersheriff, Wyatt thought he might beat him in the next Cochise County election. He thought catching the March 15,1881 robbers of the Benson Stage would help him win the sheriffs office. Wyatt later said that on June 2,1881 he offered the Wells, Fargo & Co. reward money, according to Wyatt, the plan was foiled when the three suspects, Leonard, Head and Crane, were killed in unrelated incidents. In the summer of 1881, Clanton got into an argument with gambler Denny McCann, on the morning of June 9,1881, they were drinking in an Allen Street saloon when Clanton insulted McCann. McCann slapped Clanton, who left and fetched his pistol, McCann did the same and the two met on the street in front of the Wells, Fargos and Co. office. They had already drawn their weapons when Tombstone Marshal Virgil Earp stepped between them, preventing a shooting, the Clanton Ranch grew into a successful enterprise. During his testimony after the shootout at the O. K. However, the Clantons were reputed to be among a group of outlaw Cowboys who crossed the border into Mexico where they stole cattle and re-sold them to the hungry miners in Cochise County
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Ike Clanton, c. 1881. Photo by
C. S. Fly.
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Sheriff Johnny Behan
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Supporting rural interests
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Tombstone (film)
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Tombstone is a 1993 American western film directed by George P. The film is based on events in Tombstone, Arizona, including the Gunfight at the O. K. Corral and it depicts a number of western outlaws and lawmen, such as Wyatt Earp, William Brocius, Johnny Ringo, and Doc Holliday. Tombstone was released by Hollywood Pictures in theatrical release in the United States on December 24,1993. The film was a success, and for the Western genre it ranks number 14 in the list of highest-grossing films since 1979. Critical reception was positive, but the film failed to garner award nominations for production merits or acting from any mainstream motion picture organizations. The film opens with a prologue about the films setting, the old west. After the prologue, members of the gang known as the Cochise County Cowboys, led by William Curly Bill Brocius, ride into a Mexican town. They then proceed to massacre the assembled policemen in retribution for killing two of their gang members. Shortly before being shot in cold blood, a local priest warns them that their acts of murder and savagery will be avenged, referencing the biblical fourth horseman. Wyatt Earp, a peace officer with a notable reputation, reunites with his brothers Virgil and Morgan in Tucson, Arizona. There they encounter Wyatts long-time friend Doc Holliday, who seeks relief from his worsening tuberculosis, Josephine Marcus and Mr. Fabian are also newly arrived with a traveling theater troupe. Meanwhile, Wyatts common-law wife, Mattie Blaylock, is becoming dependent on laudanum, the Cowboys are identifiable by the red sashes worn around their waist. Wyatt, though no longer a lawman, is pressured to help rid the town of the Cowboys as tensions rise, Curly Bill begins shooting aimlessly after a visit to an opium house and is told by Marshal Fred White to relinquish his firearms. Curly Bill instead shoots the dead, although likely by accident. The arrest infuriates Ike Clanton and the other Cowboys, Curly Bill stands trial, but is found not guilty due to a lack of witnesses. Virgil, unable to tolerate lawlessness, becomes the new marshal and this leads to the legendary Gunfight at the O. K. Corral, in which Billy Clanton and other Cowboys are killed. Virgil and Morgan are wounded, and the allegiance of county sheriff Johnny Behan with the Cowboys is made clear, as retribution for the Cowboy deaths, Wyatts brothers are ambushed, Morgan is killed, while Virgil is left handicapped. A despondent Wyatt and his family leave Tombstone and board a train, with Clanton and Frank Stilwell close behind, Wyatt sees that his family leaves safely, and then surprises the assassins
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Theatrical release poster
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Tombstone: Complete Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Kurt Russell
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Kurt Vogel Russell is an American actor. He began acting on television in the western series The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, in the late 1960s, he signed a ten-year contract with The Walt Disney Company where, according to Robert Osborne, he became the studios top star of the 1970s. Russell was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for his performance in Silkwood. A and he was nominated for an Emmy Award for the television film Elvis, also directed by Carpenter. Russell starred in films, including Overboard, Tombstone, Stargate, Death Proof. Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, Russell is the son of actor Bing Russell and he has three sisters, Jill, Jamie and Jody. In 1969, he graduated from Thousand Oaks High School in southern California and his sister Jill is the mother of baseball player Matt Franco. On April 24,1963, Russell guest starred in the ABC series Our Man Higgins and he played Peter Hall in the 1963 episode Everybody Knows You Left Me on the NBC medical drama about psychiatry The Eleventh Hour. Later, he played the character in the ABC western series The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters. In NBCs The Virginian, he played the mistaken orphan whose father was an outlaw played by Rory Calhoun who was still alive, Russell played a similar role as a kid named Packy Kerlin in the 1964 episode Blue Heaven for the western series Gunsmoke. He appeared in five episodes of Daniel Boone in various roles, at age 13, Russell played the role of Jungle Boy on an episode of CBSs Gilligans Island, which aired on February 6,1965. He guest-starred on ABCs western The Legend of Jesse James, in 1966, Russell played a 14-year-old Indian boy, Grey Smoke, adopted by the Texas Rangers in the episode Meanwhile, Back at the Reservation of the NBC western series Laredo. In the story line, he works for a gang, but the Rangers take him under their wing. In 1966, Walt Disney wrote Kurt Russell on a piece of paper as his final words, in January 1967, Russell played Private Willie Prentiss in the episode Willie and the Yank, The Mosby Raiders in Walt Disneys Wonderful World of Color. While filming the Sherman Brothers theatrical film musical The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band, flippen and Tom Tryon appeared in the episode Charade of Justice of the NBC western series The Road West starring Barry Sullivan. In a March 1966 episode of CBSs Lost in Space entitled The Challenge, he played Quano, in 1971, he co-starred as a young robber released from jail, alongside James Stewart in Fools Parade. Later, he guest-starred in an episode of Room 222 as an high school student who assumed the costumed identity of Paul Revere to warn of the dangers of pollution. In 1966, Russell was signed to a contract with The Walt Disney Company, where he became, according to Robert Osborne. Russell, like his father, had a baseball career, while in the field turning the pivot of a double play early in the season, the incoming runner at second base collided with him and tore the rotator cuff in Russells right shoulder
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Russell in 2015
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Russell in 2005
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Russell at the
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Val Kilmer
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Val Edward Kilmer is an American actor. Originally a stage actor, Kilmer became popular in the mid-1980s after a string of appearances in comedy films, then the cult classic Real Genius, as well as the military action film Top Gun and the fantasy film Willow. Kilmer was born December 31,1959, in Los Angeles, the son of Gladys Swanette and Eugene Dorris Kilmer and his parents divorced in 1968 when he was 8 years old. In 1977 Kilmers younger brother Wesley drowned in a pool at age 15. Kilmers grandfather was a miner in New Mexico, near the border with Arizona. His mother was of Swedish descent and his fathers ancestry included English, Scots-Irish, French and German. Kilmer attended Berkeley Hall School, a Christian Science school in Los Angeles and he attended Chatsworth High School with Kevin Spacey and Mare Winningham, and also attended the Hollywood Professional School. He became the youngest person at the time to be accepted into the Juilliard Schools Drama Division, on May 5,2012, Kilmer was awarded an honorary doctorate of Fine Arts from William Woods University. In 1981, while at Juilliard, Kilmer co-authored and starred in the play How It All Began, Kilmer turned down a role in Francis Ford Coppolas 1983 film The Outsiders, as he had prior theatre commitments. In 1983 he appeared off Broadway in The Slab Boys with Kevin Bacon, also in 1983, Kilmer self-published a collection of his own poetry entitled My Edens After Burns, that included poems inspired by his time with Pfeiffer. The book of poems is difficult to obtain, and expensive, even second-hand copies fetch $300 and his big break came when he received top billing in the comedy spoof of spy movies Top Secret. Where he played an American rock and roll star, Kilmer sang all the songs in the film and released an album under the film characters name, Nick Rivers. While garnering more substantial roles and prestige, he gained a reputation as a ladies man, dating numerous women, some many years older, including Cher. During a brief hiatus, he backpacked throughout Europe before going on to play the character in the 1985 comedy Real Genius. He turned down a role in David Lynchs Blue Velvet before being cast as naval aviator Iceman in the action film Top Gun alongside Tom Cruise, Top Gun grossed a total of $344,700,000 worldwide and made Kilmer a major star. Kilmer starred in the Colorado Shakespeare Festival production of Hamlet]] in 1988, in 1989, Kilmer played the lead in both Kill Me Again, again opposite Whalley, and in TNTs Billy the Kid. After several delays, director Oliver Stone finally started production on the film The Doors, Kilmer spoke with Oliver Stone early on, concerned about what he might want to do with the story because Kilmer didnt believe in or want to promote substance abuse. Kilmer saw Morrison as having picked the wrong heroes, who had different issues, Kilmer saw Morrisons story as one that could be told a thousand different ways and didnt want to tell it by playing the role in the style of drugs, with which Oliver Stone agreed
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Kilmer at the
2005 Cannes Film Festival
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Kilmer in June 2005
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Kilmer with
50 Cent at the
AMAs 2009
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Kilmer reigning as
Bacchus; parade in New Orleans during Mardi Gras in 2009
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Arthur Miller
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Arthur Asher Miller was an American playwright, essayist, and figure in twentieth-century American theater. Among his most popular plays are All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible and he also wrote several screenplays and was most noted for his work on The Misfits. The drama Death of a Salesman has been numbered on the short list of finest American plays in the 20th century alongside Long Days Journey into Night, Miller was often in the public eye, particularly during the late 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s. During this time, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee, in 1980, Miller received the St. Louis Literary Award from the Saint Louis University Library Associates. He received the Prince of Asturias Award and the Praemium Imperiale prize in 2002, Miller was born on October 17,1915, in Harlem, in the New York City borough of Manhattan, the second of three children of Augusta and Isidore Miller. His father was born in Radomyśl Wielki, Galicia, and his mother was a native of New York whose parents arrived from that town. Isidore owned a clothing manufacturing business employing 400 people. He became a wealthy and respected man in the community, the family, including his younger sister Joan Copeland, lived on West 110th Street in Manhattan, owned a summer house in Far Rockaway, Queens, and employed a chauffeur. In the Wall Street Crash of 1929, the family lost almost everything and moved to Gravesend, as a teenager, Miller delivered bread every morning before school to help the family. After graduating in 1932 from Abraham Lincoln High School, he worked at menial jobs to pay for his college tuition. At the University of Michigan, Miller first majored in journalism and worked for the student paper and it was during this time that he wrote his first play, No Villain. Miller switched his major to English, and subsequently won the Avery Hopwood Award for No Villain, the award brought him his first recognition and led him to begin to consider that he could have a career as a playwright. Rowe provided realistic feedback along with much-needed encouragement, and became a lifelong friend, in 1937, Miller wrote Honors at Dawn, which also received the Avery Hopwood Award. After his graduation in 1938, he joined the Federal Theater Project and he chose the theater project despite the more lucrative offer to work as a scriptwriter for 20th Century Fox. However, Congress, worried about possible Communist infiltration, closed the project in 1939, Miller began working in the Brooklyn Navy Yard while continuing to write radio plays, some of which were broadcast on CBS. In 1940, Miller married Mary Grace Slattery, the couple had two children, Jane and Robert. Miller was exempted from service during World War II because of a high-school football injury to his left kneecap. 1940 was also the year his first play was produced, The Man Who Had All the Luck won the Theatre Guilds National Award, the play closed after four performances with disastrous reviews
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Miller's second wife, Marilyn Monroe, in her final completed film,
The Misfits (1961).
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While newsmen take notes, Chairman Dies of House Committee Investigating Un-American Activities reads and proofs his letter replying to Pres. Roosevelt's attack on the Committee, Oct. 26, 1938
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Chicago
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Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third-most populous city in the United States. With over 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the state of Illinois, and it is the county seat of Cook County. In 2012, Chicago was listed as a global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. Chicago has the third-largest gross metropolitan product in the United States—about $640 billion according to 2015 estimates, the city has one of the worlds largest and most diversified economies with no single industry employing more than 14% of the workforce. In 2016, Chicago hosted over 54 million domestic and international visitors, landmarks in the city include Millennium Park, Navy Pier, the Magnificent Mile, Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Campus, the Willis Tower, Museum of Science and Industry, and Lincoln Park Zoo. Chicagos culture includes the arts, novels, film, theater, especially improvisational comedy. Chicago also has sports teams in each of the major professional leagues. The city has many nicknames, the best-known being the Windy City, the name Chicago is derived from a French rendering of the Native American word shikaakwa, known to botanists as Allium tricoccum, from the Miami-Illinois language. The first known reference to the site of the current city of Chicago as Checagou was by Robert de LaSalle around 1679 in a memoir, henri Joutel, in his journal of 1688, noted that the wild garlic, called chicagoua, grew abundantly in the area. In the mid-18th century, the area was inhabited by a Native American tribe known as the Potawatomi, the first known non-indigenous permanent settler in Chicago was Jean Baptiste Point du Sable. Du Sable was of African and French descent and arrived in the 1780s and he is commonly known as the Founder of Chicago. In 1803, the United States Army built Fort Dearborn, which was destroyed in 1812 in the Battle of Fort Dearborn, the Ottawa, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi tribes had ceded additional land to the United States in the 1816 Treaty of St. Louis. The Potawatomi were forcibly removed from their land after the Treaty of Chicago in 1833, on August 12,1833, the Town of Chicago was organized with a population of about 200. Within seven years it grew to more than 4,000 people, on June 15,1835, the first public land sales began with Edmund Dick Taylor as U. S. The City of Chicago was incorporated on Saturday, March 4,1837, as the site of the Chicago Portage, the city became an important transportation hub between the eastern and western United States. Chicagos first railway, Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, and the Illinois, the canal allowed steamboats and sailing ships on the Great Lakes to connect to the Mississippi River. A flourishing economy brought residents from rural communities and immigrants from abroad, manufacturing and retail and finance sectors became dominant, influencing the American economy. The Chicago Board of Trade listed the first ever standardized exchange traded forward contracts and these issues also helped propel another Illinoisan, Abraham Lincoln, to the national stage
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Clockwise from top:
Downtown Chicago, the
Chicago Theatre, the
'L',
Navy Pier,
Millennium Park, the
Field Museum, and the
Willis Tower.
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Traditional
Potawatomi costume on display at the
Field Museum
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A 1903 painting of Chicago in 1833
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An artist's rendering of the
Great Chicago Fire of 1871
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Goodman Theatre
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The Goodman Theatre is a professional theater company located in Chicagos Loop. A major part of the Chicago theatre scene, it is the citys oldest currently active nonprofit theater organization, part of its present theater complex occupies the landmark Harris and Selwyn Theaters property. The Goodman was founded in 1925 as a tribute to the Chicago playwright Kenneth Sawyer Goodman, the opening ceremony on October 20,1925 featured three of Kenneth Sawyer Goodmans plays, Back of the Yards, The Green Scarf, and The Game of Chess. Two nights later the theater presented its first public performance, John Galsworthys The Forest, in 2000, the company moved into its new building at 170 N. Dearborn in Chicagos theater district. It has two fully modern auditoriums, named the Albert and the Owen, after two members of the Goodman family who continue to be major donors. In August, Associate Artistic Director Michael Maggio died and they renamed the Michael Merritt Award for young designers the Michael Maggio Emerging Designer Award in his honor, in 1992, the theatre company received the Regional Theatre Tony Award, joining Steppenwolf Theatre as Chicago-based recipients of the award. The Goodman has also won many Joseph Jefferson awards, with the production of Radio Golf in 2007, the Goodman became the first theater to mount a production of each of the ten plays in August Wilsons Pittsburgh cycle. The theater has presented A Christmas Carol annually in December since the 1970s, the Light in the Piazza, I Am My Own Wife, and Rabbit Hole. “Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, Plays and Cultural Work in an Institutional Theatre. ”Chicagos Goodman Theatre, thomas Wood Stevens Contributions to American Art Theatre With Emphasis on the Kenneth Sawyer Goodman Memorial Theatre, 1922-1930, PhD dissertation, The Louisiana State University,1973. Official website 20347,77902,73504,77899 Goodman Theatre at the Internet Broadway Database Kenneth Sawyer Goodman Papers and Goodman Family Papers at The Newberry Library
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The Goodman Theatre
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Goodman Theatre Center
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John Patrick Shanley
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John Patrick Shanley is an American playwright, screenwriter, and theatre and film director. His play Doubt, A Parable won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama as well as the 2005 Tony Award for Best Play and he won the 1988 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his film Moonstruck. Shanley was born into an Irish-American family in The Bronx, New York City and his mother worked as a telephone operator, and his father was a meat-packer. The neighborhood Shanley grew up in was considered very rough and his academic career did not begin well, but ultimately he graduated from New York University with honors. He was heavily influenced by one of his first teachers, Sister Margaret McEntee, while at Cardinal Spellman High School he saw two school productions that influenced him. The Miracle Worker and Cyrano de Bergerac, after his Freshman year at New York University, he was put on academic probation. He then enlisted in the United States Marines, serving in a stateside post during the Vietnam War, following his military service, he wrote a novel, then burned it, and returned to the university with the help of the G. I. Bill, and by supporting himself with a series of jobs, elevator operator, house painter, furniture mover, locksmith and he graduated from New York University as valedictorian in 1977. Shanley is the author of more than 23 plays, which have translated and performed around the world. He has often directed his own productions and he has also written for film, his second film, Moonstruck, stars Nicolas Cage and Cher, and won three Academy Awards, including one for his screenplay. In 1990, Shanley directed his script of Joe Versus the Volcano, Shanley also wrote two songs for the movie, Marooned Without You and The Cowboy Song. He wrote the screenplay for the film Congo, which was based on the Michael Crichton book. His play Doubt, A Parable ran on Broadway from March 31,2005 to July 2,2006 and won four 2005 Tony Awards, the Drama Desk Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Shanley directed the 2008 film version, which starred Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and Viola Davis. In 2012, Shanley wrote the libretto for a version of Doubt, A Parable. Until then, his experience with opera was not extensive, he had attended a few performances and had listened to recordings, as he worked on the libretto, using many lines that come directly from the play, he describes that his enthusiasm for the form grew. Also in 2012, his play Storefront Church ran Off-Broadway in a production by the Atlantic Theater Company, the play concerns Bronx residents whose lives become tangled in unexpected ways when a mortgage goes sour. Storefront Church was also put up by San Francisco Playhouse in San Francisco in December 2013 where it was well received
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The Bronx Is Burning
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The Bronx Is Burning is a television drama that debuted on ESPN on July 10,2007, after the 2007 MLB Home Run Derby. It is an eight-episode mini-series adapted from Jonathan Mahlers best-selling book, Ladies and Gentlemen, the series is produced by ESPN Original Entertainment in conjunction with Tollin/Robbins Productions. Filming began on September 18,2006, in Connecticut and New York, the 2007 debut of the series marked the 30th anniversary of the 1977 World Series win for the Yankees, the first under Steinbrenner. After airing on ESPN, the episodes were placed ABC on Demand, the central theme of the adaptation is the 1977 New York Yankees against the backdrop of New York City. Yankee superstar Reggie Jackson and manager Billy Martin are locked in a state of warfare. Jackson was a foil for the scrappy Martin, the hero of New Yorks fed-up white working class and a powerful reminder of the less complicated past of the team. While owner George Steinbrenner was providing General Patton-style leadership, he was intent on keeping his promise to the people of New York of delivering a World Series title, however, the burning of tenement housing in New York City in the 1970s was the end-game of urban renewal. After a building was redlined, it was deemed unsuitable for sale in the eyes of the banking industry. A buildings owner could not sell his building unless he received a cash payment, landlords were forced to maintain a building without being able to afford to keep it. Taxes collected by the city were greater than what could be charged to tenants, with nobody paying cash to buy the building, and no way to sell the building to a conventional buyer, the landlords only recourse was to set it on fire. Episodes were filmed in New London, Waterford and Norwich in Connecticut as well as in New York City, the series soundtrack consisted of songs by The Ramones. The series has been lauded for maintaining the historical accuracy reflected by its literary source, in this context, it lampoons Martins actual firing in 1978, not threats of such during the 1977 season. com
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San Diego Comic-Con International
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San Diego Comic-Con International is a multi-genre entertainment and comic convention held annually in San Diego, California. The name, as given on its website, is Comic-Con International, San Diego and it is a four-day event held during the summer at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego. On the Wednesday evening prior to the opening of the event, there is a preview for professionals, exhibitors. Comic-Con International also produces two other conventions, WonderCon, held in Los Angeles, and the Alternative Press Expo and it is also the home of the Will Eisner Awards. In 2010, it filled the San Diego Convention Center to capacity with more than 130,000 attendees, the convention was founded in 1970 by Shel Dorf, Richard Alf, Ken Krueger, Mike Towry, Barry Alfonso, Bob Sourk, and Greg Bear. Detroit, Michigan-born, comics fan Shel Dorf, had, in the mid-1960s, mounted the Detroit Triple-Fan Fairs, one of the first commercial comics-fan conventions. When he moved to San Diego, California, in 1970, he organized a convention on March 21,1970. Dorf went on to be associated with the convention as president or manager, variously, Alf co-chaired the first convention with Krueger and became chairman in 1971. Following the initial gathering, Dorfs first three-day San Diego comics convention, other locations in the conventions early years included the El Cortez Hotel, the University of California, San Diego, and Golden Hall, before being moved to the San Diego Convention Center in 1991. I was quietly walking the floor stunned and in awe of just how much bigger it really was, the convention is organized by a panel of 13 board members,16 to 20 full-time and part-time workers, and 80 volunteers who assist via committees. Comic Con International is an organization, and proceeds of the event go to funding it, as well as the Alternative Press Expo. The convention logo was designed by Richard Bruning and Josh Beatman in 1995, in September 2010, the convention announced that it would stay in San Diego through 2015. In 2015, working with Lionsgate, a channel was created to host Comic-Con related content. According to the San Diego Convention and Visitors Bureau, the convention has a regional economic impact of $162.8 million. Along with panels, seminars, and workshops with comic book professionals, there are previews of upcoming feature films, like most comic-book conventions, Comic-Con features a large floorspace for exhibitors. These include media companies such as studios and TV networks, as well as comic-book dealers. And like most comics conventions, Comic-Con includes an area, as well as the Artists Alley where comics artists can sign autographs. Despite the name, artists alleys can include writers and even models, academics and comic industry professionals annually hold the Comics Arts Conference at Comic-Con, presenting scholarly studies on comics as a medium
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Signs outside Hall H
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Comic-Con International: San Diego: Creator
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Comic Con crowds in 2011 as seen from a helicopter – Panorama.
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Comic-Con crowd inside the second floor of the convention center in 2011 awaiting the exhibition hall to open.
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John Dillinger
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John Herbert Dillinger was an American gangster in the Depression-era United States. He operated with a group of men known by some as the Dillinger Gang or Terror Gang, which was accused of robbing 24 banks and four police stations, among other activities. He courted publicity and the media of his time ran exaggerated accounts of his bravado and colorful personality, styling him as a Robin Hood figure, causing the government to demand federal action. In response, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover developed a more sophisticated Bureau as a weapon against organized crime, using Dillinger, after evading police in four states for almost a year, Dillinger was wounded and returned to his fathers home to recover. He returned to Chicago in July 1934 and met his end at the hands of police, on July 22,1934, the police and the Division of Investigation closed in on the Biograph Theater. Federal agents, led by Melvin Purvis and Samuel P. Cowley and he drew a Colt Model 1908 Vest Pocket and attempted to flee, but was shot four times and killed. John Dillinger was born on June 22,1903, in Indianapolis, Indiana, according to some biographers, his German grandfather, Matthias Dillinger, emigrated to the United States in 1851 from Metz, in the region of Lorraine, then under French sovereignty. Matthias Dillinger was born in Gisingen, near Dillingen in present-day Saarland, John Dillingers parents had married on August 23,1887. Dillingers father was a grocer by trade and, reportedly, a harsh man, in an interview with reporters, Dillinger said that he was firm in his discipline and believed in the adage spare the rod and spoil the child. Dillingers older sister, Audrey, was born March 6,1889 and their mother died in 1907 just before his fourth birthday. Audrey married Emmett Fred Hancock that year and they had seven children together and she cared for her brother John for several years until their father remarried in 1912 to Elizabeth Lizzie Patel. They had three children, Hubert, born 1912, Doris M. and Frances Dillinger, reportedly, Dillinger initially disliked his stepmother, but he eventually came to fall in love with her. The two eventually began a relationship that lasted 3 years, as a teenager, Dillinger was frequently in trouble with the law for fighting and petty theft, he was also noted for his bewildering personality and bullying of smaller children. He quit school to work in an Indianapolis machine shop, although he worked hard at his job, he would stay out all night at parties. His father feared that the city was corrupting his son, prompting him to move the family to Mooresville, Indiana, Dillingers wild and rebellious behavior was unchanged, despite his new rural life. In 1922, he was arrested for theft, and his relationship with his father deteriorated. Dillinger then returned to Mooresville where he met Beryl Ethel Hovious, the two were married on April 12,1924. He attempted to settle down, but he had difficulty holding a job, Dillinger was unable to find a job and began planning a robbery with his friend Ed Singleton
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Utah after her modernization
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FBI photograph of the Biograph Theater taken July 28, 1934, six days after the shooting, the only night "
Murder in Trinidad " played.
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A Dillinger
death mask made from an original mold, and eyebrow hair, on display at the
Crime Museum in Washington, D.C. Note the bullet exit mark below the right eye.
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The Men Who Stare at Goats
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The Men Who Stare at Goats is a non-fiction work by Jon Ronson concerning the U. S. Armys exploration of New Age concepts and the potential military applications of the paranormal. The title refers to attempts to kill goats by staring at them, the book is companion to a three-part TV series broadcast in Britain on Channel 4—Crazy Rulers of the World —the first episode of which is also entitled The Men Who Stare at Goats. The same title was used a time for a loose feature film adaptation in 2009. These include the First Earth Battalion Operations Manual and a spy unit established by Army Intelligence at Fort Meade, Maryland. He examines, and dispenses with, several candidates for the master sergeant who was reported to have killed a goat simply by staring at it. A martial arts instructor named Guy Savelli claims to be the one, in the middle third of the book, the author leaps to the present day—i. e. 2004, just after the Abu Ghraib abuse revelations—and attempts to make connections between the military programs and the abuses resulting from the post-9/11 War on Terror. This includes the use of the childrens song Barney & Friends on Iraqi prisoners-of-war, a purported linking element is the alleged use of music and subliminal messaging at the 1993 Waco siege and other FBI operations. Another is the private business franchises and consultancies that retired members of the unit later pursued as civilians. A connection is proposed between these privatized psychics and the mass-suicide of members of the Heavens Gate cult in 1997. Ronson spends time with Olsons son Eric as he attempts to uncover the mystery of his fathers death, the narrative ends with the suggestion that the psychic warriors are now back in business working for the U. S. military again, possibly in support of assassinations. Wheaton, retired U. S. Stubblebines psychic headhunter, later president of the Monroe Institute James V. S, the New York Times Janet Maslin stated that Ronson sets up his book perfectly. It moves with wry, precise agility from crackpot to crackpot in its search for the essence of this early New Age creativity, some critics, however, were skeptical of what they considered Ronsons shaky logic and some of his bolder assertions. Alex Heards review in U-T San Diego was subtitled Goats tries hard to link psychic-spy projects from the past to todays events, in many instances, he wrote. there isnt a link. Instead theres a progression of occurrences that dont connect in a meaningful way, the result is a strange new blend, Conspiracy theory meets Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. Youre left feeling like youve been told a shaggy-goat story. The 2004 series Crazy Rulers of the World was aired in three parts, Part 1, The Men Who Stare at Goats Part 2, Funny Torture Part 3, a fictionalized feature film version of the book was released in 2009 under the same name. Grant Heslov directed from a script by Peter Straughan, the movie is set in Iraq, but was filmed in Comerío Street, Bayamón, Puerto Rico and at the New Mexico Military Institute
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The Men Who Stare at Goats
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Jeff Bridges
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Jeffrey Leon Jeff Bridges is an American actor, singer, and producer. He comes from a prominent acting family and appeared on the television series Sea Hunt, with his father, Lloyd Bridges and brother, Beau Bridges. His other films include Tron, Jagged Edge, The Fabulous Baker Boys, The Fisher King, Fearless, The Big Lebowski, Seabiscuit, Iron Man, Tron, Legacy, jeffrey Leon Bridges was born on December 4,1949, in Los Angeles, California. He is the son of show business parents, actor Lloyd Bridges and actress and his older brother, Beau Bridges, is also an actor. He has a sister, Lucinda, and had another brother, Garrett. His maternal grandfather was an English emigrant from Liverpool, Bridges and his siblings were raised in the Holmby Hills section of Los Angeles. Growing up, Bridges shared a relationship with his brother Beau. He graduated from University High School in 1967, at age 17, Jeff toured with his father in a stage production of Anniversary Waltz. After graduating from school, Bridges moved to New York City. Also, after turning 18, Bridges joined the United States Coast Guard Reserve, Bridges made his first screen appearance at the age of almost two years in The Company She Keeps in 1951. In his youth, Bridges and brother Beau made occasional appearances on their fathers show Sea Hunt, in 1969, he played Cal Baker, a Jobs Corps crew member, in the TV series Lassie episode Success Story. In 1971, he played the lead role Mike in the TV movie In Search of America and his first major role came in the 1971 film The Last Picture Show, for which he garnered a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He co-starred in the 1972 critically acclaimed boxing film Fat City. He was nominated again for Best Supporting Actor for his performance opposite Clint Eastwood in the 1974 film Thunderbolt, in 1976, he starred as the protagonist Jack Prescott in the first remake of King Kong, opposite Jessica Lange. This film was a success, earning $90 million worldwide, more than triple its $23 million budget. One of his roles was in the 1982 science fiction film Tron, in which he played Kevin Flynn. The same year, he starred in Kiss Me Goodbye. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1984 and he was also acclaimed for his roles in the thriller Against All Odds and the crime drama Jagged Edge
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Bridges at Comic Con 2013
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Jeff Bridges at an event for
The Giver in 2014
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Bridges at the premiere of
The Men Who Stare at Goats, during the
2009 Toronto International Film Festival
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Bridges at the
2010 Independent Spirit Awards
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Kevin Spacey
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Kevin Spacey Fowler, better known as Kevin Spacey, is an American actor, film director, producer, screenwriter, and singer. He began his career as an actor during the 1980s before obtaining supporting roles in film. In Broadway theatre, Spacey won a Tony Award for his role in Lost in Yonkers and he was the artistic director of the Old Vic theatre in London from 2004 until stepping down in mid-2015. Since 2013, Spacey has played Frank Underwood in the Netflix political drama series House of Cards, Spacey was born in South Orange, New Jersey, to Kathleen Ann, a secretary, and Thomas Geoffrey Fowler, a technical writer and data consultant. He has two siblings, a sister, Julie, and a brother, Randy. He has English, Swedish, and Welsh ancestry and his family relocated to Southern California when Spacey was four years old. He attended Northridge Military Academy, Canoga Park High School, and then Chatsworth High School in Chatsworth, California, where he graduated co-valedictorian of his class in 1977. At Chatsworth, Spacey starred in the senior production of The Sound of Music. He took Spacey as his stage name, several reports have incorrectly suggested that he took his name in tribute to actor Spencer Tracy, combining Tracys first and last names. He had tried to succeed as a comedian for several years, before attending the Juilliard School in New York City, during this time period, Spacey performed stand-up comedy in bowling alley talent contests. Spaceys first professional appearance was as a spear carrier in a New York Shakespeare Festival performance of Henry VI. The following year, he made his first Broadway appearance, as Oswald in a production of Henrik Ibsens Ghosts, then he portrayed Philinte in Molières The Misanthrope. In 1984, he appeared in a production of David Rabes Hurlyburly, next came Anton Chekhovs The Seagull. In 1986, he appeared in a production of Sleuth in a New Jersey dinner theatre, Lemmon in particular would become a mentor to Spacey. He made his first major appearance in the second-season premiere of Crime Story. Although his interest soon turned to film, Spacey remained actively involved in the theater community. In 1991, he won a Tony Award for his portrayal of Uncle Louie in Neil Simons Broadway hit Lost in Yonkers, Spaceys father was unconvinced that Spacey could make a career for himself as an actor, and did not change his mind until Spacey became well-known. Some of Spaceys early roles include a widowed eccentric millionaire on L. A. Law, the television miniseries The Murder of Mary Phagan, opposite Lemmon, and he earned a fan base after playing the criminally insane arms dealer Mel Profitt on the television series Wiseguy
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Spacey at
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Spacey in 2006
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Spacey at HBO Post Emmys Party, 2008
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Ewan McGregor
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Ewan Gordon McGregor OBE is a Scottish actor. His first professional role was in 1993, when he won a role in the Channel 4 series Lipstick on Your Collar. Camerlengo Father Patrick McKenna in Angels and Demons, Dr. Alfred Jones in the romantic comedy-drama Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, and Lumière in an adaptation of Beauty. He received Golden Globe nominations for Best Actor – Musical or Comedy for both Moulin Rouge, and Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. McGregor has also starred in productions of Guys and Dolls. He was ranked number 36 on Empire magazines The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time list in 1997, in a 2004 poll for the BBC, McGregor was named the fourth most influential person in British culture. He has been involved in charity work and has served as an ambassador for UNICEF UK since 2004, in 2016, he received the BAFTA Britannia Humanitarian Award. McGregor was born in Perth, Scotland and brought up in Crieff and his mother, Carol Diane, is a retired teacher of Crieff High School and latterly deputy head teacher of Kingspark School in Dundee. His father, James Charles Stewart Jim McGregor, is a physical education teacher and careers master of Morrisons Academy. He has a brother, Colin, who is a former Tornado GR4 pilot in the Royal Air Force. He is the nephew of actor Denis Lawson and actress Sheila Gish, McGregor attended the independent Morrisons Academy in Crieff. In 1993, six months prior to his graduation from Guildhall, the same year, he starred in the BBC adaptation of Scarlet and Black with a young Rachel Weisz, and made his film debut in Bill Forsyths Being Human. In 1994, McGregor performed in the thriller Shallow Grave, for which he won an Empire Award, and his international breakthrough followed in 1996 with the role of heroin addict Mark Renton in Boyles Trainspotting, an adaptation of Irvine Welshs novel of the same name. McGregor played the romantic lead role in the 1998 British film Little Voice. While the prequels received criticism from Star Wars fans, McGregors performance was widely acclaimed and his uncle, Denis Lawson, had played Wedge Antilles in the original trilogy. In 2001, he starred in Moulin Rouge, as the young poet Christian, who falls in love with the terminally-ill courtesan Satine, played by Nicole Kidman. McGregor reprised his role of Obi-Wan Kenobi for the subsequent prequel Star Wars, in 2003, he starred alongside Renée Zellweger in Down With Love. He also portrayed the younger Edward Bloom in the acclaimed film Big Fish alongside Albert Finney, Jessica Lange, Alison Lohman
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McGregor in 2012
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McGregor at the premiere of
The Men Who Stare at Goats at the
Toronto International Film Festival in September 2009
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George Clooney
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George Timothy Clooney is an American actor, filmmaker, and activist. He has received three Golden Globe Awards for his work as an actor and two Academy Awards, one for acting in Syriana and the other for co-producing Argo, in 1999, he took the lead role in Three Kings, a well-received war satire set during the Gulf War. In 2001, Clooneys fame widened with the release of his biggest commercial success, the heist comedy remake Oceans Eleven, in 2013, he received the Academy Award for Best Picture for producing the political thriller Argo. He is the person who has been nominated for Academy Awards in six different categories. In 2009, Clooney was included in Times annual Time 100 as one of the Most Influential People in the World and he is also noted for his political activism, and has served as one of the United Nations Messengers of Peace since January 31,2008. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Clooney was born in Lexington, Kentucky. His mother, Nina Bruce, was a beauty queen and city councilwoman and his father, Nick Clooney, is a former anchorman and game show host who hosted AMC for five years in the late 1990s. Clooney has Irish, German, and English ancestry and his maternal great-great-great-great-grandmother, Mary Ann Sparrow, was the half-sister of Nancy Lincoln, mother of President Abraham Lincoln. Clooney has a sister named Adelia. His aunt was the cabaret singer and actress Rosemary Clooney. Through Rosemary, his cousins include actors Miguel Ferrer, Rafael Ferrer, and Gabriel Ferrer, Clooney was raised a strict Roman Catholic, but said in 2006 that he does not know if he believes in Heaven, or even God. He has said, Yes, we were Catholic, big time, whole family and he began his education at the Blessed Sacrament School in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky. He attended St. Michaels School in Columbus, Ohio, then Western Row Elementary School in Mason, Ohio, from 1968 to 1974, and St. Susanna School in Mason, the Clooneys moved back to Kentucky when George was midway through the seventh grade. In middle school, Clooney developed Bells palsy, a condition that partially paralyzes the face, the malady went away within a year. In an interview with Larry King, he stated that yes and it takes about nine months to go away. It was the first year of school, which was a bad time for having half your face paralyzed. After his parents moved to Augusta, Kentucky, Clooney attended Augusta High School and he has stated that he earned all As and a B in school, and was an enthusiastic baseball and basketball player. He tried out to professional baseball with the Cincinnati Reds in 1977
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Clooney at a ceremony for
John Wells in January 2012
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George Clooney cast his hands and shoes in the
Grauman's Chinese Theatre in 2007.
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George Clooney at the premiere of
The Men Who Stare at Goats in the
2009 Toronto International Film Festival
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Clooney in
Abéché, Chad, in January 2008 with the UN
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Audiobook
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An audiobook is a recording of a text being read. A reading of the text is noted as unabridged, while readings of a reduced version. Spoken audio has been available in schools and public libraries and to an extent in music shops since the 1930s. Many spoken word albums were made prior to the age of videocassettes, DVDs, compact discs and it was not until the 1980s that the medium began to attract book retailers, and then book retailers started displaying audiobooks on bookshelves rather than in separate displays. In 1994, the Audio Publishers Association established the term audiobook as the industry standard, Spoken word recordings first became possible with the invention of the phonograph by Thomas Edison in 1877. Phonographic books were one of the original applications envisioned by Edison which would speak to people without effort on their part. The initial words spoken into the phonograph were Edisons recital of Mary Had a Little Lamb, one early listener complained that he would need a wheelbarrow to carry around talking books recorded on discs with such limited storage capacity. By the 1930s close-grooved records increased to 20 minutes making possible longer narrative, the first test recordings in 1932 included a chapter from Helen Kellers Midstream and Edgar Allan Poes The Raven. The organization received approval for exemption from copyright and free postal distribution of talking books. M. Delafield, Cora Jarrett, Rudyard Kipling, John Masefield, Macdonald mobilized the women of the Auxiliary under the motto Education is a right, not a privilege. In 1952, Macdonald established recording studios in seven cities across the United States. Caedmon Records was a pioneer in the business, it was the first company dedicated to selling spoken work recordings to the public and has been called the seed of the audiobook industry. Caedmon was formed in New York in 1952 by college graduates Barbara Holdridge and their first release was a collection of poems by Dylan Thomas as read by the author. The original 1952 recording was a selection for the 2008 United States National Recording Registry, Listening Library was also a pioneering company, it was one of the first to distribute childrens audiobooks to schools, libraries and other special markets, including VA hospitals. It was founded by Anthony Ditlow and his wife in 1955 in their Red Bank, New Jersey home, like Caedemon, Listening Library and Spoken Arts benefited from the new technology of LPs, but also increased governmental funding for schools and libraries beginning in the 1950s and 60s. Cassette tapes were invented in 1963 and a few libraries, such as the Library of Congress, however, during the 1970s, a number of technological innovations allowed the cassette tape wider usage in libraries and also spawned the creation of new commercial audiobook market. In the early 1970s, instructional recordings were among the first commercial products sold on cassette, there were 8 companies distributing materials on cassette with titles such as Managing and Selling Companies and Executive Seminar in Sound on a series of 60-minute cassettes. His company, the Maryland-based Recorded Books, followed the model of Books on Tape but with higher quality studio recordings, Recorded Books and Chivers Audio Books were the first to develop integrated production teams and to work with professional actors
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Caption reads: "The phonograph at home reading out a novel." From Daily Graphic (New York), April 2, 1878. Less than a year after the invention of the phonograph, this drawing offered a future vision. Novels however would remain impractical for phonographs until the 1930s.
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An audiobook collection in a library
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Example of an audio studio of professional readings.
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Duel (1971 film)
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Duel is a 1971 television thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg in his full-length film directing debut and written by Richard Matheson, based on Mathesons short story of the same name. It stars Dennis Weaver as a terrified motorist stalked on a remote, David Mann is a middle-aged salesman driving on a business trip. He encounters a rusty, old tanker truck on a highway in the California desert, traveling slower than the speed limit. Mann passes the truck, but the truck then roars past him, Mann overtakes and passes again, the truck blasts its horn and Mann leaves it in the distance. Mann pulls into a gas station, and shortly after the truck arrives, Mann phones his wife, who is upset with him after an argument the previous night. They discuss him picking a fist fight with someone, giving a link to the truck driver. Several times, the truck driver blasts his air horn, seemingly impatient at waiting to be served by the attendant who is attending to Mann, the gas station attendant refills Manns car and mentions that it needs a new radiator hose, but Mann refuses the repair. Back on the road, the truck catches up, passes, after antagonizing Mann for some time, the unseen driver waves him past, indicating that it is safe to pass. But Mann attempts to pass and almost strikes an oncoming vehicle and he realizes that the truck driver is trying to trick him into a fatal crash, so he passes the truck again, using an unpaved turnout next to the highway. The truck tailgates Mann at high speeds, forcing him to maintain his speed to avoid being rear-ended, the truck bumps him several times, then Mann drives his car off the road and collides with a fence opposite a diner. The truck continues down the road, and Mann enters the diner to compose himself, returning from the restroom, he is shocked to see the truck parked outside. Mann studies the diner patrons and confronts the man who he believes is the driver, offended. The pursuing truck leaves seconds later indicating that its driver was never inside the diner, Mann leaves the diner and stops to help a stranded school bus, but his front bumper becomes caught underneath the buss rear bumper. The truck appears at the end of a tunnel, Mann panics, manages to free his car, and flees. To Manns shock and slight chagrin, the truck starts the bus by giving it a push-start to get it moving, shortly after, Mann is stopped at a railroad crossing when the truck pushes his car toward the path of an oncoming freight train. The train passes just in time, Mann crosses the tracks, Mann finds it waiting for him farther down the road. Mann stops at a gas station to call the police and refuel his car. When he steps into a booth, the truck drives into it, Mann jumps clear just in time before getting into his car and speeding away
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Promotional poster (re-release version)
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The
Peterbilt 281 tanker truck
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David Mann (Weaver) being chased by the truck.
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The surviving truck, a 1960
281 at a 2010 truck show, displayed with a
Plymouth Valiant.
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Richard Matheson
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Richard Burton Matheson was an American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres. Matheson also wrote 16 television episodes of The Twilight Zone for Rod Serling, including Nightmare at 20,000 Feet and he adapted his 1971 short story Duel as a screenplay directed by a young Steven Spielberg, for the television film of the same name that year. Six more of his novels or short stories have been adapted as motion pictures — The Shrinking Man, Hell House, What Dreams May Come, Bid Time Return, A Stir of Echoes. Lesser movies based on his work include two from his early noir novels — Cold Sweat, based on his novel Riding the Nightmare, Matheson was born in Allendale, New Jersey, to Norwegian immigrants Bertolf and Fanny, who divorced when he was 8. Matheson subsequently was raised in Brooklyn, New York by his mother and his early writing influences were the film Dracula, novels by Kenneth Roberts, and a poem he saw in the newspaper The Brooklyn Eagle, where at age 8 he would publish his first short story. After returning home, he attended the Missouri School of Journalism at the University of Missouri and it is the tale of a monstrous child chained by its parents in the cellar, cast as the creatures diary in poignantly non-idiomatic English. Later that year he placed stories in the first and third numbers of Galaxy Science Fiction and his first anthology of work was published in 1954. Between 1950 and 1971, he produced dozens of stories, frequently blending elements of the fiction, horror. He was a member of the Southern California Sorcerers in the 1950s and 1960s, which included Charles Beaumont, Ray Bradbury, George Clayton Johnson, William F. Nolan, Jerry Sohl, Duel was adapted into the 1971 TV movie of the same name. Mathesons first novel to be published, Someone Is Bleeding, appeared from Lion Books in 1953, in 1960, Matheson published The Beardless Warriors, a non-fantastic, autobiographical novel about teenage American soldiers in World War II. It was filmed in 1967 as The Young Warriors though most of Mathesons plot was jettisoned and his other early novels include The Shrinking Man and a science fiction vampire novel, I Am Legend. Matheson wrote screenplays for television programs including the Westerns Cheyenne, Have Gun – Will Travel. His Death Ship episode was a metaphysical statement that went well beyond pure television entertainment. For all of Mathesons Twilight Zone scripts, he wrote the introductory. He adapted five works of Edgar Allan Poe for Roger Cormans Poe series, including House of Usher, The Pit and the Pendulum and he wrote the Star Trek episode The Enemy Within. Three of his stories were filmed together as Trilogy of Terror. Other Matheson novels turned into films in the seventies include Bid Time Return. In the 1980s Matheson published the novel Earthbound, wrote several screenplays for the TV series Amazing Stories, Matheson published four western novels in this decade, plus the suspense novel Seven Steps to Midnight and the blackly comic locked-room mystery novel, Now You See It
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Matheson in 2008
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Stephen King
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Stephen Edwin King is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. His books have more than 350 million copies, many of which have been adapted into feature films, miniseries, television shows. King has published 54 novels, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman and he has written nearly 200 short stories, most of which have been collected in book collections. Many of his stories are set in his state of Maine. His novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption was the basis for the movie The Shawshank Redemption which is regarded as one of the greatest films of all time. King has received Bram Stoker Awards, World Fantasy Awards, and his novella The Way Station was a Nebula Award novelette nominee. In 2003, the National Book Foundation awarded him the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters and his short story The Man in the Black Suit received the O. Henry Award. In 2015, King was awarded with a National Medal of Arts from the United States National Endowment for the Arts for his contributions to literature, King was born September 21,1947, in Portland, Maine. His father, Donald Edwin King, was born circa 1913 in Peru, Indiana, when Donald was born, his surname was Pollock, but as an adult, he used the surname King. Kings mother, Nellie Ruth, was born in Scarborough, Maine, Donald and Nellie were married July 23,1939, in Cumberland County, Maine. The family moved to De Pere, Wisconsin, Fort Wayne, Indiana, when King was 11, the family returned to Durham, Maine, where his mother cared for her parents until their deaths. She then became a caregiver in a residential facility for the mentally challenged. King was raised Methodist and remains religious as an adult, as a child, King apparently witnessed one of his friends being struck and killed by a train, though he has no memory of the event. His family told him that leaving home to play with the boy, King returned, speechless. Only later did the family learn of the friends death, some commentators have suggested that this event may have psychologically inspired some of Kings darker works, but King makes no mention of it in his memoir On Writing. King related in detail his primary inspiration for writing fiction in his non-fiction Danse Macabre. King compares his uncles successfully dowsing for water using the bough of a branch with the sudden realization of what he wanted to do for a living. King told Barnes & Noble Studios during a 2009 interview, I knew that Id found home when I read that book, King attended Durham Elementary School and graduated from Lisbon Falls High School, in Lisbon Falls, Maine
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Stephen King in February 2007
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King's home in
Bangor
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Joe Hill (writer)
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Joseph Hillstrom King, better known by the pen name Joe Hill, is an American author and comic book writer. He has published four novels—Heart-Shaped Box, Horns, NOS4A2 and The Fireman—and a collection of stories titled 20th Century Ghosts. He is also the author of the book series Locke & Key. He is the son of authors Stephen and Tabitha King, Hill was born in 1972 to authors Tabitha and Stephen King. He was born in Hermon, Maine and grew up in Bangor and his younger brother Owen is also a writer. At age 9, Hill appeared in the 1982 film Creepshow, directed by George A. Romero, after achieving a degree of independent success, Hill publicly confirmed his identity in 2007 after an article the previous year in Variety broke his cover. Hill is a past recipient of the Ray Bradbury Fellowship, in October 2007, Hills mainstream US and UK publishers reprinted 20th Century Ghosts, without the extras published in the 2005 slipcased versions, but including one new story. Hills first novel, Heart-Shaped Box, was published by William Morrow/HarperCollins on February 13,2007, the novel reached number eight on the New York Times bestseller list on April 1,2007. On September 23,2007, at the thirty-first Fantasycon, the British Fantasy Society awarded Hill the first ever Sydney J. Bounds Best Newcomer Award, Hills first professional sale was in 1997. Hill is also the author of Locke & Key, a book series published by IDW Publishing. The first issue, released on February 20,2008, sold out of its publication run in one day. A collection of the series in limited form from Subterranean Press sold out within 24 hours of being announced, Hills second novel, Horns, was published on February 16,2010. A film based on the novel was released in 2014, NOS4A2, his third novel, was published on April 30,2013. The novel peaked at five on the New York Times Best Seller list. Hills fourth novel called The Fireman was released on May 17,2016, as well,52 lettered hard covers and 150 numbered soft covered chapbooks were signed by Hill. Fanboyz, a script, was written for Spider-Man Unlimited 8. The story was illustrated by Seth Fisher, thumbprint, first published in Postscripts #10 in 2007, was reprinted as a chapbook in summer 2008 to accompany the anthology Subterranean, Tales of Dark Fantasy published by Subterranean Press
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Hill at
San Diego Comic-Con International in July 2014
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