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Brentwood, Essex
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Brentwood is a town in and the principal settlement of the Borough of Brentwood, in the county of Essex in the East of England. It is located in the London commuter belt,20 miles east-north-east of Charing Cross, according to the 2011 Census the town had a population of 49,463. It is a town with a small but expanding shopping area. Beyond this are residential developments surrounded by countryside and woodland. Brentwood has been twinned since 1978 with Roth, Germany and since 1994 with Montbazon and it also has a relationship with Brentwood, Tennessee in the United States. The name was assumed by antiquaries in the 1700s to derive from a corruption of the burnt and wood. However, brent was the middle English for burnt, the name describes the presumed reason for settlement in the part of the Forest of Essex that would have covered the area, where the main occupation was charcoal burning. An alternative meaning of brent is holy one, which could refer to the dedicated to Thomas Becket. Rather, it is believed that despite the Roman road between London and Colchester passing through, the Saxons were the earliest settlers of the area. Robert Graves, in his book Claudius the God, refers to Brentwood as the site of the battle where Claudius defeated the Ancient Britons in 44 AD, however, Graves also states that names and places in the book are sometimes fictitious. The borough began as a clearing in the middle of a dense forest, created by fire, giving it the name of Burntwood. A chapel was built in or around 1221, and in 1227 a market charter was granted, the new township, occupying the highest ground in the parish, lay at the junction of the main London-Colchester road with the Ongar-Tilbury road. The ruin stands in the centre of the street, next to the tourist information office. Pilgrims Hatch, or Pilgrims gate, was named from pilgrims who crossed through on their way to the chapel. It is likely, however, that Brentwoods development was due chiefly to its main position, its market. Early industries were connected mainly with textile and garment making, brewing, during the Peasants Revolt of 1381, Brentwood was the meeting place for some of the instigators, such as John Ball and Jack Straw. They, apparently, met regularly in local pubs and inns, Bampton insisted that the peasants pay what was demanded of them. The peasants refused to pay and a riot ensued as Bampton attempted to arrest the peasants, the peasants moved to kill Bampton, but he managed to escape to London
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England
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England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west, the Irish Sea lies northwest of England and the Celtic Sea lies to the southwest. England is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east, the country covers five-eighths of the island of Great Britain in its centre and south, and includes over 100 smaller islands such as the Isles of Scilly, and the Isle of Wight. England became a state in the 10th century, and since the Age of Discovery. The Industrial Revolution began in 18th-century England, transforming its society into the worlds first industrialised nation, Englands terrain mostly comprises low hills and plains, especially in central and southern England. However, there are uplands in the north and in the southwest, the capital is London, which is the largest metropolitan area in both the United Kingdom and the European Union. In 1801, Great Britain was united with the Kingdom of Ireland through another Act of Union to become the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. In 1922 the Irish Free State seceded from the United Kingdom, leading to the latter being renamed the United Kingdom of Great Britain, the name England is derived from the Old English name Englaland, which means land of the Angles. The Angles were one of the Germanic tribes that settled in Great Britain during the Early Middle Ages, the Angles came from the Angeln peninsula in the Bay of Kiel area of the Baltic Sea. The earliest recorded use of the term, as Engla londe, is in the ninth century translation into Old English of Bedes Ecclesiastical History of the English People. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, its spelling was first used in 1538. The earliest attested reference to the Angles occurs in the 1st-century work by Tacitus, Germania, the etymology of the tribal name itself is disputed by scholars, it has been suggested that it derives from the shape of the Angeln peninsula, an angular shape. An alternative name for England is Albion, the name Albion originally referred to the entire island of Great Britain. The nominally earliest record of the name appears in the Aristotelian Corpus, specifically the 4th century BC De Mundo, in it are two very large islands called Britannia, these are Albion and Ierne. But modern scholarly consensus ascribes De Mundo not to Aristotle but to Pseudo-Aristotle, the word Albion or insula Albionum has two possible origins. Albion is now applied to England in a poetic capacity. Another romantic name for England is Loegria, related to the Welsh word for England, Lloegr, the earliest known evidence of human presence in the area now known as England was that of Homo antecessor, dating to approximately 780,000 years ago. The oldest proto-human bones discovered in England date from 500,000 years ago, Modern humans are known to have inhabited the area during the Upper Paleolithic period, though permanent settlements were only established within the last 6,000 years
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Anna Paquin
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Anna Helene Paquin is a Canadian-born New Zealand actress. As a child, she beat 5000 candidates for the role of Flora McGrath in Jane Campions romantic drama film The Piano, despite having had little to no acting experience prior to getting the role. For her performance, she received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at the age of 11 and she played mutant superheroine Rogue in multiple films of the X-Men franchise and was nominated for a Saturn Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her performance in the first installment. Paquin is also known for playing the role of Sookie Stackhouse in the HBO vampire drama television series True Blood. Paquin has been married since 2010 to actor Stephen Moyer, with whom she has two children, Paquin has two older siblings, Andrew, a director, and Katya, whose partner is the Green Party of New Zealands former co-leader Russel Norman. Paquin is of Dutch, French and Irish descent, Paquins family moved to New Zealand when she was four. She attended the Raphael House Rudolf Steiner School until she was eight or nine and her musical childhood hobbies in New Zealand included playing the viola, cello and piano. She also participated in gymnastics, ballet, swimming and downhill skiing, while in New Zealand, Paquin attended Hutt Intermediate School. She graduated from Windward School in June 2000 and completed the schools Community Service requirement by working in a soup kitchen and she studied at Columbia University for one year but has since been on a leave of absence to continue her acting career. Director Jane Campion was looking for a girl to play a main role in The Piano, set to film in New Zealand. Paquins sister read the ad and went to try out with a friend, when The Piano was released in 1993 it was lauded by critics, won prizes at a number of film festivals, and eventually became a popular film among a wide audience. Paquins debut performance in the film earned her the 1993 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at the age of 11, making her the second-youngest Oscar winner in history, behind Tatum ONeal. The Piano was made as a independent film and wasnt expected to be widely known. However, she was invited to the William Morris Agency, and she systematically refused them, but she did appear in three commercials for the phone company MCI in 1994. She later made a series of commercials for Manitoba Telecom Systems in her birth city of Winnipeg. She also appeared as a voice in a book entitled The Magnificent Nose in 1994. In 1996, she appeared in two films, the first role was as young Jane in Jane Eyre. The other was a part in Fly Away Home playing a young girl who, after her mother dies, moves in with her father
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Bill Compton (The Southern Vampire Mysteries)
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William Erasmus Bill Compton is a fictional character from the The Southern Vampire Mysteries/Sookie Stackhouse series by author Charlaine Harris. He is a vampire and is introduced in the first novel in the series, Dead Until Dark, in the fifth season of the television adaption, Bill plays the role of the main antagonist. In the book series, Bill was born on April 9,1840 and he lived in Bon Temps, Louisiana, and fought for the South during the Civil War. He was a farmer with three children. On November 20,1868, some years after the war, he was made a vampire by Lorena, with whom he had a long and stormy relationship. Later in the series, Bill discovers that he is related to the Bellefleur family in Bon Temps. In Living Dead in Dallas Bills middle name is given as Thomas, at the end of the first novel, Dead Until Dark, Bill is concerned about the power of Area Five sheriff Eric over him and Sookie. He decides to apply for that areas investigator position and he gets it and it was revealed that Bill works for Queen Sophie-Anne and she has sent him to Bon Temps to investigate Sookie Stackhouses telepathic abilities. Bill is also the creator of a database in which all the vampires in North America are listed along with their significant information. Vampires from other areas of the world, such as Peru, have provided information for this database. The database itself has been controversial because of security issues and is only available for purchase to other vampires. While most older vampires have good memories, Bills ability to recall precise details, faces and conversations is reputed to be exceptional, even among other long-lived supernaturals. Sookie Stackhouse In the first book, Dead Until Dark, Bill has returned to his home in Bon Temps. After briefly meeting Sookie at her place of work, Merlottes bar, Sookie saves Bill from being drained by the Rattrays, Bill later saves Sookie by giving her his blood when the Rattrays seek revenge. They subsequently embark on Sookies first serious romantic relationship, Sookie has to endure a fair amount of dislike from the Bon Temps locals. Sookie and Bills relationship falls apart when Bill is called back to his maker, Lorena, Bill continues to appear in the novels, but his relationship with Sookie is not romantic in nature, and by the events of Dead Reckoning he has become a trusted friend. Lorena Ball In the third book, Club Dead, Lorena is introduced as Bills maker and they were lovers since Bill became a vampire and they had an intense relationship. They broke up eighty years ago, in this novel, Bill tells Sookie that he had gone to Jackson because Lorena had called him and he was obeying her summons
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HBO
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Home Box Office is an American premium cable and satellite television network that is owned by Time Warner through its respective flagship company Home Box Office, Inc. HBO is the oldest and longest continuously operating pay television service in the United States, in 2014, HBO had an adjusted operating income of US$1.79 billion, compared to the US$1.68 billion it accrued in 2013. HBO has 49 million subscribers in the United States and 130 million worldwide as of 2016, the network provides seven 24-hour multiplex channels, including HBO Comedy, HBO Latino, HBO Signature and HBO Family. It launched the streaming service HBO Now in April 2015, and has over 2 million subscribers in the United States as of February 2017. In addition to its U. S. subscriber base, HBO distributes content in at least 151 countries, HBO subscribers generally pay for an extra tier of service that includes other cable- and satellite-exclusive channels even before paying for the channel itself. Cable providers can require the use of a converter box – usually digital – in order to receive HBO, many HBO programs have been syndicated to other networks and broadcast television stations, and a number of HBO-produced series and films have been released on DVD. The new system, which Dolan named Sterling Information Services, became the first urban underground cable system in the United States. In that same year, Time-Life, Inc. purchased a 20% stake in Dolans company, in the summer of 1971, while on a family vacation in France, Charles Dolan began to think of ideas to make Sterling Manhattan profitable. He came up with the concept for a television service. Dolan later presented his idea to Time-Life management, though satellite distribution seemed only a distant possibility at the time, he persuaded Time-Life to back him on the project. To gauge whether consumers would be interested in subscribing to a pay television service, in a meeting of Dolan and some Time-Life executives who were working on the project, various other names were discussed for the new service. Home Box Office launched on November 8,1972, however, HBOs launch came without fanfare in the press, as it was not covered by any local or national media outlets. Home Box Office distributed its first sports event immediately after the film, Four months later in February 1973, Home Box Office aired its first television special, the Pennsylvania Polka Festival. Home Box Office would use a network of relay towers to distribute its programming to cable systems throughout its service area. Sterling Manhattan Cable continued to lose money because the company had only a small base of 20,000 customers in Manhattan. Time-Life dropped the Sterling name and the company was renamed Manhattan Cable Television under Time-Lifes control in March 1973, Gerald Levin, who had been with Home Box Office since it began operations as its vice president of programming, replaced Dolan as the companys president and chief executive officer. In September 1973, Time-Life, Inc. completed its acquisition of the pay service. HBO would eventually increase its fortunes within two years, by April 1975, the service had around 100,000 subscribers in Pennsylvania and New York state, in 1974, they settled on using a geostationary communications satellite to transmit HBO to cable providers throughout the United States
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True Blood
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True Blood is an American dark fantasy horror television series produced and created by Alan Ball and based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries series of novels by Charlaine Harris. Now they are struggling for equal rights and assimilation, while anti-vampire organizations begin to gain power, the show was broadcast on the premium cable network HBO, in the United States, and was produced by HBO in association with Balls production company, Your Face Goes Here Entertainment. The series premiered on September 7,2008 and concluded on August 24,2014, the first five seasons received highly positive reviews, and both nominations and wins for several awards, including a Golden Globe and an Emmy. Throughout the series, other creatures are introduced, among them shapeshifters, werewolves, faeries, witches. The series revolves around Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic human-faerie hybrid known as a halfling, Sookie is a waitress at Merlottes Bar and Grill, owned by Sam Merlotte in the small Louisiana town of Bon Temps. Sam is a shapeshifter, though this secret is hidden from most of the town. Series creator Alan Ball had previously worked with the cable channel HBO on Six Feet Under, in October 2005, after Six Feet Under wrapped, Ball signed a two-year agreement with HBO to develop and produce original programming for the network. True Blood became the first project under the deal, after Ball became acquainted with Charlaine Harris Southern Vampire Mystery books. One day, while early for an appointment, Ball was browsing through a Barnes & Noble bookshop and came across Dead Until Dark. He read the entries that followed and became interested in bringing vision to television, however, Harris already had two other adaptation options for the books. She said she chose to work him, though, because really got me. Thats how he convinced me to go with him, I just felt that he understood what I was doing with the books. The projects hour-long pilot was ordered concurrently with the finalization of the development deal, and was written, directed. Cast members Paquin, Kwanten and Trammell were announced in February 2007, the pilot was shot in the early summer of 2007 and was officially ordered to series in August, at which point Ball had already written several more episodes. Production on the series later that fall, with Brook Kerr. Two more episodes of the series had been filmed before the 2007-08 Writers Guild of America strike shut down production of the 12-episode first season until 2008, ideas of redemption and forgiveness are also explored, and thus the sequence progresses from morning to night and culminates in a baptism. The title sequence was created by the independent film company Digital Kitchen, the sequence also features images and themes of death and rebirth, the circle of life. A Venus fly-trap can be seen engulfing a frog, while a rotting foxs head is sped up to reveal maggots feeding off the corpse
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Comprehensive school
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A comprehensive school is a secondary school or middle school that is a state school and does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude. This is in contrast to the school system, where admission is restricted on the basis of selection criteria. The term is used in relation to England and Wales. About 90% of British secondary school pupils now attend comprehensive schools and they correspond broadly to the public high school in the United States and Canada and to the German Gesamtschule. Comprehensive schools are primarily about providing an entitlement curriculum to all children, a consequence of that is a wider ranging curriculum, including practical subjects such as design and technology and vocational learning, which were less common or non-existent in grammar schools. In addition, government initiatives such as the City Technology Colleges, a problem with this is whether the quotas should be taken from a normal distribution or from the specific distribution of attainment in the immediate catchment area. In the selective system, which survives in several parts of the United Kingdom, admission is dependent on selection criteria. Although comprehensive schools were introduced to England and Wales in 1965, in principle, comprehensive schools were conceived as neighbourhood schools for all students in a specified catchment area. Finland has used comprehensive schools after 5th grade since the 1970s, since the 1970s, everyone has been required to complete the same nine grades of peruskoulu, from the ages of 7 to 16. This change was modeled on the British comprehensive school, which goes from the ages of 11 to 16, from the ages of 16 to 19, students go either to vocational school or high school. The division of the peruskoulu into a school and upper school has been discontinued. Germany has a school known as the Gesamtschule. While some German schools such as the Gymnasium and the Realschule have rather strict entrance requirements and they offer college preparatory classes for the students who are doing well, general education classes for average students, and remedial courses for those who arent doing that well. In most cases students attending a Gesamtschule may graduate with the Hauptschulabschluss, the percentage of students attending a Gesamtschule varies by Bundesland. In the State of Brandenburg more than 50% of all students attended a Gesamtschule in 2007, the Mittelschule is a school in some States of Germany that offers regular classes and remedial classes but no college preparatory classes. In some States of Germany, the Hauptschule does not exist, students may be awarded the Hauptschulabschluss or the Mittlere Reife but not the Abitur. There is some controversy about comprehensive schools, Gesamtschule senior students of average mathematical ability found themselves in the upper half of their class and had an average grade of Three Plus. When a central Abitur examination was established in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, the comprehensives do not help students achieve I am sick and tired of the comprehensive schools blaming their problems on the social class origins of their students
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Hutton, Essex
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Hutton is a town in south Essex. It has good links to Central London via Shenfield train station which is just 1 mile from Hutton, Brentwood town centre lies 3 miles to the west. The area can be split between modest housing estates and the largely affluent Hutton Mount. There are two wards named Hutton both in the Borough of Brentwood, the name given to the Training School or Residential Home situated near the village of Hutton for destitute children from the district of Poplar in the east end of London. Capable of housing anything from 400 -700 children at any one time, like much of London during the Victorian era the Borough of Poplar faced high poverty levels. As the 19th century drew to a close the workhouses and orphanages in the borough were trying to cope with significant overcrowding, the cost of the project caused uproar in the Houses of Parliament when it first opened. Some MPs complained that with their parquet flooring and central heating the buildings were more of the levels of a public school like Eton than an orphans training school. A Royal visit followed in 1918, the placement of such an establishment was controversial with the local residents. The hostility dragged out some time, with the referred to as outsiders. Towards the end of the 20th century this attitude is regarded as having mellowed, the administration of Hutton Poplars passed to the London County Council in the 1920s subsequently opening its doors to children from all parts of East and North London. Several thousand children passed through its gates over the six decades. The creation of the Greater London Council in 1966 replacing the London County Council resulted in the London Borough of Hackney taking administrative control of the residential home. Charged with emptying it of non Hackney residents and ultimately selling it off to property developers children began leaving for smaller establishments in, Hackney continued to house its children there until 1982. Hutton Poplar remained open until 1982, the buildings then witnessed various fates under Essex County Council. The swimming pool was demolished despite local residents pleas for it to become a facility for the wider community, the school hall, known as Bishops Hill, has been maintained as an Adult Community Learning centre for the Mid Essex Adult Community College. Hutton Poplar Hall was restored in 1991 and may now be hired from Brentwood Borough Council, the new housing development on the old site was modelled largely on the original layout with houses forming an oval around central open spaces. The Essex Dining Hall remains as a village hall. Whit Monday was traditionally a day when former residents were encouraged to visit for the annual open fete day. A reunion still takes place in the Essex dining hall on Whit Monday every year, centenary celebrations took place in 2006
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Fowey
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Fowey is a small town, civil parish and cargo port at the mouth of the River Fowey in south Cornwall, England. The town has been in existence since before 1300, the estuary of the River Fowey forms a harbour which enabled the town to become an important trading centre. Privateers also made use of the sheltered harbourage, the Lostwithiel and Fowey Railway brought China clay here for export. The Domesday Book survey at the end of the 11th century records manors at Penventinue and Trenant, circa 1300 the prior granted a charter to people living in Fowey itself. A group of known as the Fowey Gallants were given licence to seize French vessels during the Hundred Years War. In the 14th century the harbour was defended by 160 archers, after these were withdrawn, despite these defences the town was attacked by French forces in 1457. Place House, by the church, was defended against the French. This building still exists, but much remodelled, a small castle was built on St Catherine’s Point, the western side of the harbour entrance, around 1540. The defences proved their worth when a Dutch attack was beaten off in 1667, in August, a Royalist army surrounded Essex’s troops and King Charles I himself viewed Fowey from Hall Walk above Polruan, where he came close to being killed by a musket shot. On 31 August, the Parliamentarian cavalry forced their way through the Royalist lines and retreated towards Saltash, leaving the foot soldiers to be evacuated by sea from Fowey. Essex and some officers did indeed escape, but the majority of the surrendered a few days later near Golant and were then marched to Poole. The fortunes of the harbour became much reduced, with going to Plymouth. Fishing became more important, but local merchants were often appointed as privateers, tin, copper and iron mines, along with quarries and china clay pits became important industries in the area, which led to improvements at rival harbours. West Polmear beach was dug out to become Charlestown harbour circa 1800, Joseph Austen shipped copper from Caffa Mill Pill above Fowey for a while before starting work on the new Par harbour in 1829. Meanwhile, a tower was erected on the Gribben Head by Trinity House to improve navigation into Fowey. The Fowey Harbour Commissioners were established by an Act of Parliament in 1869, to develop, both of these railways initially carried just goods, but on 20 June 1876, a passenger station was opened on the CMR on land reclaimed from Caffa Mill Pill. The Lostwithiel line closed at the end of 1879 but was reopened by the CMR as a standard line in 1895. Passenger trains from Par were withdrawn after 1934 and from Lostwithiel in 1965, the Par line was subsequently converted to a dedicated roadway for lorries bringing china clay from Par after which all trains had to run via Lostwithiel
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Cornwall
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Cornwall is a ceremonial county and unitary authority area of England within the United Kingdom. It is bordered to the north and west by the Celtic Sea, to the south by the English Channel, Cornwall has a population of 551,700 and covers an area of 3,563 km2. Cornwall forms the westernmost part of the south-west peninsula of the island of Great Britain, and this area was first inhabited in the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic periods. It continued to be occupied by Neolithic and then Bronze Age peoples, there is little evidence that Roman rule was effective west of Exeter and few Roman remains have been found. In the mid-19th century, however, the tin and copper mines entered a period of decline, subsequently, china clay extraction became more important and metal mining had virtually ended by the 1990s. Traditionally, fishing and agriculture were the important sectors of the economy. Railways led to a growth of tourism in the 20th century, however, the area is noted for its wild moorland landscapes, its long and varied coastline, its attractive villages, its many place-names derived from the Cornish language, and its very mild climate. Extensive stretches of Cornwalls coastline, and Bodmin Moor, are protected as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Cornwall is the homeland of the Cornish people and is recognised as one of the Celtic nations, retaining a distinct cultural identity that reflects its history. Some people question the present constitutional status of Cornwall, and a nationalist movement seeks greater autonomy within the United Kingdom in the form of a devolved legislative Cornish Assembly. On 24 April 2014 it was announced that Cornish people will be granted minority status under the European Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities. The modern English name Cornwall derives from the concatenation of two ancient demonyms from different linguistic traditions, Corn- records the native Brythonic tribe, the Cornovii. The Celtic word kernou is cognate with the English word horn. -wall derives from the Old English exonym walh, the Ravenna Cosmography first mentions a city named Purocoronavis in the locality. This is thought to be a rendering of Duro-cornov-ium, meaning fort of the Cornovii. The exact location of Durocornovium is disputed, with Tintagel and Carn Brea suggested as possible sites, in later times, Cornwall was known to the Anglo-Saxons as West Wales to distinguish it from North Wales. The name appears in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in 891 as On Corn walum, in the Domesday Book it was referred to as Cornualia and in c.1198 as Cornwal. Other names for the county include a latinisation of the name as Cornubia, the present human history of Cornwall begins with the reoccupation of Britain after the last Ice Age. The area now known as Cornwall was first inhabited in the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic periods and it continued to be occupied by Neolithic and then Bronze Age people. The Common Brittonic spoken at the time developed into several distinct tongues
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Richard Wilson (Scottish actor)
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Richard Wilson OBE is a Scottish actor, theatre director and broadcaster. He played Victor Meldrew in the BBC sitcom One Foot in the Grave, a later role was as Gaius, the court physician of Camelot, in the BBC drama Merlin. Wilson was born in Greenock, Scotland and he studied science subjects at Greenock Academy, then did his National Service with the Royal Army Medical Corps, serving in Singapore. He worked in a laboratory at Stobhill Hospital in Glasgow as a research assistant and he trained at RADA and then appeared in repertory theatres in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Manchester. He initially turned down the role of Victor Meldrew and it was almost offered to Les Dawson before Wilson changed his mind, Wilson was awarded the OBE for services to drama as a director and actor in 1994. In April 1996, he was elected Rector of the University of Glasgow for a term of three years, Wilson has worked for the gay rights campaign group Stonewall and the Labour Party. He is one of the patrons of Scottish Youth Theatre, Wilson is also a long-time supporter of the charity Sense and in 2007 hosted their annual award ceremony. He is also one of the patrons of the London childrens charity. The narration of The Man Who Called Himself Jesus, from Strawbs eponymous first album, was performed by Wilson, wilsons biography, One Foot on the Stage, The Biography of Richard Wilson, was written by James Roose-Evans. He is a supporter of the Labour Party, and he recorded the partys manifesto for the 2010 General Election. Wilson was a supporter of his football club, Greenock Morton. He is a patron of the Manchester United Supporters Trust, Wilson has been a campaigner for gay rights for many years, and he came out as gay in a Daily Mail interview in March 2013. Wilson is good friends with his One Foot in the Grave co-star Angus Deayton and it was reported on 12 August 2016 that Wilson had suffered a heart attack. He had been due to reprise the role of Victor Meldrew in a show at the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Crown Court – as a barrister, a Harlots Progress Would I Lie to You. Roose-Evans, One Foot on the Stage, The Biography of Richard Wilson Richard Wilson at the Internet Movie Database The Official Richard Wilson Archive Exclusive Interview with Richard Wilson
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Prunella Scales
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Scales was born in Sutton Abinger, Surrey, the daughter of Catherine, an actress, and John Richardson Illingworth, a cotton salesman. She attended Moira House Girls School, Eastbourne, Scales parents moved their family to Bucks Mill near Bideford in Devon in 1939 during World War II. Scales started her career in 1951 as an assistant stage manager at the Bristol Old Vic, throughout her career, Scales has often been cast in comic roles. Her early work included the second UK adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, Hobsons Choice, Room at the Top and her career break came with the early 1960s sitcom Marriage Lines starring opposite Richard Briers. She played Queen Elizabeth II in Alan Bennetts A Question of Attribution, in 1973, Scales was cast with Ronnie Barker in One Mans Meat which formed part of Barkers Seven of One series, also for the BBC. For ten years, Prunella appeared with Jane Horrocks in advertisements for UK supermarket chain Tesco, in 1996, Scales starred in the television film, Lord of Misrule, alongside Richard Wilson, Emily Mortimer and Stephen Moyer. The film was directed by Guy Jenkins and filming took place in Fowey in Cornwall, in 1997, Scales starred in Chris Barfoots science-fiction film short Phoenix which was first aired in 1999 by NBC Universals Sci Fi Channel. Scales played The Client, a government minister funding inter-genetic time travel experiments. The same year she played Dr. Minny Stinkler in the comedy film Mad Cows, in 2000 she appeared in the film The Ghost of Greville Lodge as Sarah. In 2003, she appeared as Hilda, she who must be obeyed, wife of Horace Rumpole in four BBC Radio 4 plays, Scales and West toured Australia at the same time in different productions. Scales appeared in a show called An Evening with Queen Victoria. Also in 2003, she voiced the role of Magpie. In 2006, she appeared alongside Academy Award winners Vanessa Redgrave, on 16 November 2007, Scales appeared in Children in Need, reprising her role as Sybil Fawlty, the new manager who wants to take over Hotel Babylon. She appeared in the audio play The Youth of Old Age, produced in 2008 by the Wireless Theatre Company and she appeared in a production of Carries War, the Nina Bawden novel, at the Apollo Theatre in 2009. John Cleese said in an interview on 8 May 2009 that the role of Sybil Fawlty was originally offered to Bridget Turner and she starred in the 2011 British live-action 3D family comedy film Horrid Henry, The Movie as the titular characters Great Aunt Greta. Prunella Scales appeared in an audio story, Dandruff Hits the Turtleneck, written by John Mayfield. She starred in a Virgin Short Stranger Danger alongside Roderick Cowie in 2012, in 2013 she made a guest appearance in the popular BBC radio comedy Cabin Pressure as Wendy Crieff, the mother of Captain Martin Crieff. Alongside West, she has appeared in Great Canal Journeys for Channel 4, stuart Heritage, writing for The Guardian in November 2016, commented that it is ultimately a work about a devoted couple facing something huge together
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Prince Valiant (1997 film)
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It is a loose adaptation of the long-running Prince Valiant comic strip of Hal Foster, some panels of which were used in the movie. In it, Valiant must battle the Vikings and a sorceress to save the kingdom. The story is based on the myth of King Arthur, a young, inexperienced squire Valiant, masquerading as Sir Gawain, is sent to accompany the Welsh princess Lady Ilene, a guest at Camelot, on her way back home. The usurper is killed by his evil brother Thagnar. During final confrontation, with the help of Thules rightful ruler Boltar, Morgan is destroyed, Thagnar is slain, the editor took his name off after the German producers recut the picture taking out two main story lines, all religious aspects, and most of the humor. He blames this on the director, who he says seemed intent on partying all night long and giving roles to his friends, the film was generally poorly received. Some other reviews, however, were more positive, according to Sunday Mail, movie critics have been arguing for years over Prince Valiant, which was even called one of the worst films ever. On the other hand, The Telegraph included it among top ten Arthurian films in 2014, Prince Valiant Prince Valiant at the Internet Movie Database Prince Valiant at Rotten Tomatoes Prince Valiant at AllMovie
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Prince Valiant
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Prince Valiant in the Days of King Arthur, or simply Prince Valiant, is a long-running American comic strip created by Hal Foster in 1937. It is an adventure that has told a continuous story during its entire history. Currently, the strip appears weekly in more than 300 American newspapers, according to its distributor, Edward, the Duke of Windsor, called Prince Valiant the greatest contribution to English literature in the past hundred years. The format does not employ word balloons, instead, the story is narrated in captions positioned at the bottom or sides of panels. Events depicted are taken from various periods, from the late Roman Empire to the High Middle Ages. While drawing the Tarzan comic strip, Foster wanted to do his own original newspaper feature, King Features manager Joseph Connelly eventually renamed it Prince Valiant. In 1936, after research, Foster pitched his concept to William Randolph Hearst. Hearst was so impressed that he gave Foster ownership of the strip, Prince Valiant began in full-color tabloid sections on Saturday February 13,1937. The first full page was strip #16, which appeared in the Sunday New Orleans Times Picayune, the internal dating changed from Saturday to Sunday with strip #66. The full-page strip continued until 1971 when strip #1788 was not offered in full-page format—it was the last strip Foster drew, the strip continues today by other artists in a half page format. Valiant is a Nordic prince from faraway Thule, located near Trondheim on the Norwegian west coast, early in the story, Valiant arrived at Camelot, where he became friends with Sir Gawain and Sir Tristram. Earning the respect of King Arthur and Merlin, he became a Knight of the Round Table, on a Mediterranean island, he met the love of his life, Aleta, Queen of the Misty Isles, whom he later married. He fought the Huns with his powerful Singing Sword, Flamberge, Val traveled to Africa and to America and helped his father regain his lost throne of Thule, usurped by the tyrant Sligon. When the strip started in 1937, Val was five years old, the first episodes followed the youth through the wild Fens district of Britain with his father, the deposed King Aguar of Thule. When Val encountered the witch Horrit, she predicted he would have a life of adventure, arriving home, Val discovered that his mother had died. As a boy, Val fights a ‘dragon’ that looks a lot like a plesiosaur, when they all at length succeed in killing the beast, Val is outraged that Gawain would still seek to have the man tried before King Arthur. The young prince naturally speaks up in his outrage before the king, his queen Guinevere. Val becomes Gawain’s squire and almost immediately accompanies him on a quest, during which Gawain is captured, on the trip, Gawain is seriously wounded, and the large panel where Val finally gets him back to Camelot is Foster’s first genuine visual show-stopper in the strip
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Hal Foster
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Harold Rudolf Foster, better known as Hal Foster, was a Canadian-American comic book artist and writer best known as the creator of the comic strip Prince Valiant. His drawing style is noted for a level of draftsmanship. Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Foster rode his bike to the United States in 1919 and began to study in Chicago, in 1928, he began one of the earliest adventure comic strips, an adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughss Tarzan. In 1937, he created his signature strip, the weekly Prince Valiant, the strip featured Fosters dextrous, detailed artwork, Foster eschewed word balloons, preferring to have narration and dialogue in captions. Leyendecker was an influence on Foster. Fosters Tarzan comic strip, adapted from Edgar Rice Burroughss novels, Foster returned to do the Tarzan Sunday strip beginning September 27,1931, continuing until Burne Hogarth took over the Sunday Tarzan on May 9,1937. He soon grew tired of working on an adaptation and began planning his own creation, Prince Valiant premiered on February 13,1937, continuing for decades. In 1944, Foster and his wife Helen moved from Topeka to Redding Ridge, in 1954, the couple was seen on televisions This Is Your Life. In 1971, the Fosters retired to Spring Hill, Florida, in 1967, Woody Gelman revived some of Fosters earlier work for his Nostalgia Press. In 1970, Foster was suffering from arthritis and began planning his retirement and he had several artists draw Sunday pages before choosing John Cullen Murphy as his collaborator and permanent replacement in 1971. Murphy drew the strip from Foster scripts and pencil sketches, Foster stopped illustrating the Prince Valiant pages in 1975. Foster attended the Comic Art Convention in 1969, and the OrlandoCon in 1974 and 1975, Foster was 73 when he was elected to membership in Great Britains Royal Society of Arts, an honor given to very few Americans. Foster died in Spring Hill in 1982, Foster is a seminal figure in the history of comics, especially action-adventure strips. Harvey argues that Foster and Flash Gordon artist Alex Raymond created the standard by which all such comic strips would henceforth be measured. Foster was an influence on this generation, many of whom went on to become iconic. Joe Kubert called Foster, Raymond and Milton Caniff the “three saints” of comic art in the 1930s and 40s. Several sources have identified early work by Joe Simon, Jack Kirby and Bob Kane as swipes from Foster, Kirby also stated that the character design for Etrigan the Demon was an homage to Foster, taken from a Prince Valiant strip. Wally Wood was obsessed with Fosters work, and began copying his newspaper strips at the age of two, frank Frazetta called Fosters work on Tarzan “perfection, a landmark in American twentieth-century art that will never be surpassed
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Ron Perlman
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Ronald N. Ron Perlman is an American actor and voice actor. His mother, Dorothy, was an employee, and his father, Bertram Bert Perlman, was a jazz drummer. Perlman said in 1988, It was not a bad childhood, I was terribly overweight as a young kid, and it was sort of a low self image. He cited this experience as one thing that attracts him to roles where he portrays these sorts of deformed people who are very endearing, Perlman is of Hungarian Jewish and Polish Jewish descent. His parents are Jewish, and he had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony, Perlman attended George Washington High School and Lehman College in 1971, which did not have a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre available at that time. He has said that he and his father were close and that it was his father, after seeing Perlman in a college production of Guys and Dolls. Perlman later said, So, he gave me permission to be an actor, Perlman attended the University of Minnesota, where he graduated with a masters degree in theater arts in 1973. Perlman started his career as a actor, appearing in various productions. Annaud later revealed that when he contacted Perlman to ask him about playing Salvatore in The Name of the Rose and this earned him a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series in 1989. He went on to roles in many films and television series throughout the 1980s and 1990s as well as the 2000s. His appearances in television series include Highlander, The Series, The Outer Limits, The Magnificent Seven, and Hand of God and he played his first leading film role in 1995, when he played One in Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caros French-language The City of Lost Children. In 2003, Perlman starred in a commercial for Stella Artois beer and this commercial, which was called Devils Island, won a Silver Award at the 2003 British Advertising Awards. He got another leading role in 2004 when he played the title role in the comic book adaptation Hellboy. Perlman reprised his role as Hellboy in the straight to DVD animated features Hellboy, Sword of Storms and Hellboy, Blood and Iron as well as Hellboy II, The Golden Army, released on July 11,2008. In 2008, Perlman joined the cast of the TV show Sons of Anarchy on FX playing Clay Morrow, Perlman is known for playing roles that require extensive make-up, some to the point where his entire body is covered or his face requires full facial prosthetics. Moreau where he plays a half man/half animal, Star Trek, Nemesis in which he is the Reman viceroy. He even gave his Beauty and The Beast co-star Armin Shimerman advice when Shimerman was going to be in full-facial prosthetics guest-starring as a Ferengi on Star Trek, The Next Generation. Perlman also has a career as a voice actor in addition to his onscreen acting, having portrayed characters in numerous video games
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Katherine Heigl
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Katherine Marie Heigl is an American actress, film producer and former fashion model. She played Izzie Stevens on ABCs medical drama Greys Anatomy from 2005 to 2010, Heigl has also had a prominent film career, with appearances in Knocked Up,27 Dresses, The Ugly Truth, Killers, Life As We Know It and New Years Eve. She played the role on the short-lived NBC television series State of Affairs from 2014 to 2015. Heigl started her career as a model with Wilhelmina Models before turning her attention to acting. She made her debut in That Night and later appeared in My Father the Hero as well as Under Siege 2. From 1999 to 2002, Heigl co-starred as Isabel Evans on the television series Roswell, additionally, she has established herself as a cover model, appearing in numerous publications including Maxim, Vanity Fair and Cosmopolitan. Heigl is married to singer Josh Kelley, with whom she has two adopted daughters and a biological son, Heigl was born in Washington, D. C. in Columbia Hospital for Women. She is the youngest of four children of Nancy, a manager, and Paul Heigl. Her father is of German and Irish descent, and her mother is of German ancestry and her siblings are Meg, Jason, and Holt. In 1986, her older brother Jason died of injuries suffered in a car accident and his organs were donated by his family after death. Her brothers death led Heigls parents to convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, when Heigl was nine, an aunt visiting the family decided to take a number of photographs of her. After returning to her home in New York, her aunt sent the photos to a number of modeling agencies, within a few weeks, she signed with Wilhelmina Models as a child model. Soon after signing with the agency, a client slated Heigl for use in an advertisement where she made her debut. At the time, she was earning $75 an hour posing for Sears, Heigl first appeared in a national television spot for Cheerios cereal. During this time, Heigl continued to attend New Canaan High School, balancing her film, Heigl dropped out of New Canaan High School after her sophomore year to pursue her career in Hollywood. In 1995, she starred in the Steven Seagal action thriller Under Siege 2, Heigl portrayed a 16-year-old traveller on a train across a mountain pass to visit the grave of her deceased father with uncle Casey Ryback, an ex-SEAL counter-terrorist expert. The main plotline has the train hijacked by mercenaries in Colorado, much of her work in the film was opposite Morris Chestnut, Sandra Taylor and Everett McGill. Despite an increased focus on acting, she still modeled extensively, after her high school graduation in 1997, she moved into a four-bedroom house in Malibu Canyon, California with her mother, who also became her manager
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Fox Broadcasting Company
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The Fox Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is owned by the Fox Entertainment Group subsidiary of 21st Century Fox. It is the third largest major network in the world based on total revenues, assets. Launched on October 9,1986 as a competitor to the Big Three television networks, Fox and its affiliated companies operate many entertainment channels in international markets, although these do not necessarily air the same programming as the U. S. network. Most viewers in Canada have access to at least one U. S, the network is named after sister company 20th Century Fox, and indirectly for producer William Fox, who founded one of the movie studios predecessors, Fox Film. Fox is a member of the North American Broadcasters Association and the National Association of Broadcasters, 20th Century Fox had been involved in television production as early as the 1950s, producing several syndicated programs. Following the demise of the DuMont Television Network in August of that year after it became mired in financial problems. 20th Century Fox would also produce original content for the NTA network, KTTV in Los Angeles, KRIV in Houston, WFLD-TV in Chicago, and KRLD-TV in Dallas. In October 1985, 20th Century Fox announced its intentions to form a television network that would compete with ABC, CBS. The plans were to use the combination of the Fox studios, organizational plans for the network were held off until the Metromedia acquisitions cleared regulatory hurdles. Then, in December 1985, Rupert Murdoch agreed to pay $325 million to acquire the remaining equity in TCF Holdings from his original partner, Marvin Davis. These first six stations, then broadcasting to a reach of 22% of the nations households. Except for KDAF, all of the original owned-and-operated stations are part of the Fox network today. Like the core O&O group, Foxs affiliate body consisted of independent stations. The Fox Broadcasting Company launched at 11,00 p. m. Eastern and its inaugural program was a late-night talk show, The Late Show, which was hosted by comedian Joan Rivers. By early 1987, Rivers quit The Late Show after disagreements with the network over the creative direction. The network expanded its programming into prime time on April 5,1987, with Children and the sketch comedy series The Tracey Ullman Show. Fox added one new show per week over the several weeks, with the drama 21 Jump Street. On July 11, the network rolled out its Saturday night schedule with the premiere of the drama series Werewolf
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Ryan Kwanten
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Ryan Christian Kwanten is an Australian actor. He played Vinnie Patterson from 1997 to 2002 in the Australian soap opera Home, after his stint ended, he joined the American teen drama series Summerland, portraying Jay Robertson. In 2008, he was cast as Jason Stackhouse in True Blood, Kwanten was born in Sydney, the son of Kris, a Lifeline op shop coordinator, and Eddie Kwanten, a worker at NSW Maritime. Kwanten has two brothers, Mitchell, a musician, and Lloyd, a doctor and he attended St Pauls College in Manly and later earned a degree in commerce from the University of Sydney. Kwanten began acting on the television shows A Country Practice, Hey Dad. in 1997, he joined the cast of the Australian soap opera Home and Away, playing lifeguard Vinnie Patterson. He eventually chose to leave the series in 2002, shortly after his character married, Kwanten had previously guested on the serial as Robbie Taylor in 1994. Moving to the United States, Kwanten was cast as Jay Robertson in Summerland and he appeared in the films Flicka, with Maria Bello, Alison Lohman, and Tim McGraw, and Dead Silence, a horror film in which he played the leading role. In 2009, he starred in the film Dont Fade Away with Mischa Barton, in 2010, Kwanten role the voice of Kludd in the animated-epic film Legend of the Guardians, The Owls of GaHoole. Kwanten played the role of Jason Stackhouse in the HBO series True Blood, based on Charlaine Harris The Southern Vampire Mysteries series of novels and he stars in the psychological thriller Red Hill, which was directed by Patrick Hughes. Kwanten earned one of the roles in the Joe Lynch comedy-horror film Knights of Badassdom along with Steve Zahn, Summer Glau. In October 2010, it was announced that Kwanten will play Charles Manson in an upcoming, yet-to-be-titled biopic, in 2012, he appeared in MysteryGuitarMans video Dual Action. In 2013, Kwanten played Marvel character Eddie Brock/Venom in the short film Truth in Journalism and portrayed Conall in the adventure film Northmen. In 2015 Kwanten voiced the role of Blinky Bill, a Koala in Blinky Bill the Movie based on the childrens book by Dorothy Wall. Ryan Kwanten at the Internet Movie Database From vampires to superheroes, Ryan Kwanten talks Griff the Invisible
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Deborah Ann Woll
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Deborah Ann Woll is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Jessica Hamby on the HBO drama series True Blood, and currently portrays Karen Page in the Netflix drama series Daredevil, The Defenders, and The Punisher. She has also starred in the films Mothers Day, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You, Catch.44, Ruby Sparks, Woll was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York City. Her father is an architect and her mother, Cathy Woll, is a teacher at the Berkeley Carroll School. She attended the Packer Collegiate Institute for high school, and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from USC School of Dramatic Arts at the University of Southern California and she also trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. Woll is of Irish and German descent, in 2008, Woll landed her breakout role as Bill Comptons vampire progeny, Jessica Hamby, on the HBO fantasy drama television series True Blood. She originally joined as a character in the first season. In 2009, she and her True Blood co-stars won the Satellite Award for Best Cast – Television Series at the 14th annual ceremony, Woll maintained the role of Jessica until the series ending in 2014. In 2009, she made a guest appearance on an episode of Law & Order, Special Victims Unit, in 2010, Woll made her feature film debut in the psychological horror Mothers Day, directed by Darren Lynn Bousman. In 2011, she starred in the supernatural thriller Little Murder, the sports drama Seven Days in Utopia, the action film Catch.44, the following year, she co-starred in the romantic comedy-drama film Ruby Sparks. In 2013, she performed at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in the play Parfumerie, alongside Eddie Kaye Thomas and that same year, Woll joined the cast of the drama film The Automatic Hate. In 2015, she starred in the independent romantic drama film Forever, since 2015, Woll has portrayed Karen Page in the Marvel Cinematic Universe series Daredevil for Netflix. She will reprise the role as a regular on The Punisher, scheduled to premiere in 2017, scott, suffers from choroideremia, a condition that ultimately results in blindness. She uses her celebrity status to raise awareness of the disease. She has been quoted as saying that Scotts bravery in fighting his disability has inspired courage in her own battle with celiac disease, celiac disease is an autoimmune disorder that can occur in genetically predisposed people where the ingestion of gluten leads to damage of the small intestine. List of people diagnosed with celiac disease Deborah Ann Woll at the Internet Movie Database Deborah Ann Woll on Twitter
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Rutina Wesley
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Rutina Wesley is an American film, stage, and television actress best known for her roles as Tara Thornton on the HBO series True Blood and Nova Bordelon on the OWN series Queen Sugar. Wesley was born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada and her father, Ivery Wheeler, is a professional tap dancer, and her mother, Cassandra Wesley, was a showgirl. She attended high school at the Las Vegas Academy of International Studies, Performing and she studied dance at Simba Studios and the West Las Vegas Arts Center. While at the Las Vegas Academy, Wesley missed several other auditions for college training programs and was accepted by the University of Evansville in Indiana. She was hesitant in joining the university because of a lack of minorities in the state, after earning her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre Performance in 2001, her grandmother suggested that she do a nursing course, but Wesley insisted on pursuing her education. She joined the Juilliard School in 2001 and graduated in May 2005, at Juilliard, she became close friends with her future co-star Nelsan Ellis. In December 2006, Wesley was featured in David Hares Broadway play The Vertical Hour, in 2007, Wesley also appeared in The Public Theater production of In Darfur by playwright Winter Miller, co-starring Heather Raffo, Aaron Lohr among others. Wesley had a role in 2005 film Hitch, which was edited in the final cut. However, she made her on debut in the lead role in 2007 film How She Move. The character Raya Green, who enters a step dancing competition to secure funds for her education, was inspired by Tony Manero, prior to the shooting of the film, Wesley underwent a five-week dance rehearsal period. Portraying a woman of Jamaican descent, she also took dialect coaching for the role, Wesley auditioned for the role Tara Thornton in the HBO series True Blood in 2007 and secured the part after creator Alan Ball chose her because was the first person who showed vulnerable side. In June 2011, it was reported that Wesley will star in the biopic Left To Tell based on Immaculée Ilibagizas bestselling memoir about the Rwandan Genocide, in January 2015, it was announced that Wesley had been cast in a recurring role on NBCs critically acclaimed drama series Hannibal. She portrayed Reba McClane, a woman who enters into a relationship with Francis Dolarhyde. Wesley has been cast as Liza Warner in the season of Arrow. In 2016, Wesley was cast as character in the Oprah Winfrey Network drama series, Queen Sugar produced by Ava DuVernay. Wesley divides her time between Los Angeles and Astoria, Queens, in 2005, she married her former Juilliard classmate Jacob Fishel, an actor. Wesley filed for divorce on August 16,2013, citing irreconcilable differences, Rutina Wesley at the Internet Movie Database Rutina Wesley at MSN Movies Rutina Wesley at Rotten Tomatoes
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Nelsan Ellis
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Nelsan Ellis is an American film and television actor and playwright. Ellis was born in Harvey, Illinois, near Chicago, when Ellis and his siblings were younger, their mother, a single parent after her divorce from her childrens father, broke down over the death of her brother. Ellis and his siblings became wards of the state as a result and they were then raised in Bessemer, Alabama, by their grandmother. In Alabama, Ellis attended Jess Lanier High School for a year and he moved back to Illinois at age 15, where he lived with his maternal aunt, and in 1997 he graduated from Thornridge High School in Dolton, Illinois. He joined the United States Marines at the age of 17, following this, Ellis attended Illinois State University, where he was a National Champion in Duo Interpretation, among other successes, at the National Forensic Association national tournament. And was accepted for enrollment at the Juilliard Schools Drama Division when he was 21 where he befriended True Blood-colleague Rutina Wesley, Ellis earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Juilliard in 2004. In 2007, Ellis was cast as Lafayette Reynolds in the pilot for True Blood, as a short order cook at Merlottes, a dealer, a member of Jason Stackhouses road crew. The pilot was shot in the summer of 2007 and was officially ordered to series in August. Production on the series later that fall. In casting, Alan Ball had concerns that the characters sexuality would be a dominating trait, nelsan Ellis says that it took him a few episodes to find the character. Ellis says that he based many of Lafayettes mannerisms on his mother and his sister, I have more makeup on than any of the females in the cast. Once they get me with the fake eyelashes and the eye makeup, I listen to some Rihanna, the series premiered on September 7,2008 and concluded on August 24,2014, comprising seven seasons and 80 episodes. In 2008, Ellis received a Satellite Award from the International Press Academy for best supporting actor in a series for his role as Lafayette Reynolds. In 2009, he was nominated for a Scream Award for Best Supporting Actor for True Blood, in 2012, Ellis was cast as Martin Luther King, Jr. in a supporting performance in Lee Daniels The Butler. The Butler received mostly positive reviews critics, with a 71% rating on the film critic aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes. On October 21,2013, Ellis joined the cast of Get on Up and he portrayed Bobby Byrd, Browns long-time friend. Get on Up was met with reviews from critics. The film currently has a rating of 80% on the aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes, based on 150 reviews
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London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
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The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art is a drama school situated in the west of London, United Kingdom. LAMDA is the oldest drama school in the UK, lAMDAs president is Timothy West and its Principal is Joanna Read. It is registered as a company under the name LAMDA Ltd, there is an associate organisation in America under the name LAMDA in America, Inc. previously known as The American Friends of LAMDA. LAMDA accredited examinations at Level 3 or above are recognised within the UCAS Tariff system, as an affiliate of the Conservatoire for Dance and Drama, LAMDA receives funding from the Higher Education Funding Council for England. This means that eligible UK/EU students are able to access loans to assist with their tuition fees, in addition, LAMDA and the Conservatoire have a range of scholarships and bursaries available. The London Academy of Music was founded by Henry Wylde in 1861, providing training for, and examinations in, various musical disciplines was originally the dominant purpose of the institution. However, providing instruction in spoken English quickly became an area of the Academy’s work. In the 1880s, LAMDA began offering speech examinations to the public, since then, these examinations have been refined and developed into a comprehensive system of performance evaluation. LAMDA Examinations has emerged as the largest Speech and Drama Board in the United Kingdom, later the Hampstead Academy was also amalgamated. The name was changed to the current name in 1935, under the direction of Wilfrid Foulis, in 1939, it was moved from London due to the war, when it reopened in 1945, it no longer provided musical training. The past few years have witnessed important growth for the Academy, a move to a larger and more visible home on the Talgarth Road in West London has enabled LAMDA to further develop the campus and training facilities for its students. Furthermore, in June 2004, the Academy became an affiliate of the Conservatoire for Dance, LAMDA regularly presents productions at the Lyric Hammersmith, Riverside Studios and the Linbury Studio Theatre. Edward Akrout – Angélica Aragón - Richard Armitage – Colin Baker – Jim Broadbent – Kim Cattrall – Sam Claflin – Dominic Cooper – Brian Cox – Benedict Cumberbatch – James D’Arcy –, W. E
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Royal Shakespeare Company
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The Royal Shakespeare Company is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. The companys home is in Stratford-upon-Avon, where it has recently redeveloped its Royal Shakespeare, the theatres re-opened in November 2010, having closed in 2007. The new buildings attracted 18,000 visitors within the first week, performances in Stratford-upon-Avon continued throughout the Transformation project at the temporary Courtyard Theatre. The 2011-season began with performances of Macbeth and a re-imagined lost play The History of Cardenio, the fiftieth birthday season also featured The Merchant of Venice with Sir Patrick Stewart and revivals of some of the RSCs greatest plays, including a new staging of Marat/Sade. For the London 2012 Festival as part of the Cultural Olympiad, in 2013 the company began live screenings of its Shakespeare productions – called Live from Stratford-upon-Avon – which are screened around the world. In 2016, the company collaborated with Intel and The Imaginarium Studios to stage The Tempest, John Wards Birmingham-based company, the Warwickshire Company of Comedians, agreed to perform it. A surviving copy of the records that the company performed Othello. The first building erected to commemorate Shakespeare was David Garricks Jubilee Pavilion in 1769, the first permanent commemorative building to Shakespeares works in the town was a theatre built in 1827, in the gardens of New Place, but has long since been demolished. The RSCs history began with the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, which was the brainchild of a local brewer and he donated a two-acre site by the River Avon and in 1875 launched an international campaign to build a theatre in the town of Shakespeares birth. The theatre, a Victorian-Gothic building seating just over 700 people, opened on 23 April 1879, with a performance of Much Ado About Nothing, a title which gave ammunition to several critics. From 1919, under the direction of William Bridges-Adams and after a slow start, the theatre received a Royal Charter of Incorporation in 1925, which gave it status. On the afternoon of 6 March 1926, when a new season was about to commence rehearsals, fire broke out, and the mass of half-timbering chosen to ornament the interior provided dry tinder. By the following morning the theatre was a blackened shell, the company transferred its Shakespeare festivals to a converted local cinema. Fund-raising began for the rebuilding of the theatre, with generous donations arriving from philanthropists in America, george Bernard Shaw commented that her design was the only one that showed any theatre sense. Her modernist plans for an art deco structure came under fire from many directions, later it came under the direction of Sir Barry Jackson in 1945, Anthony Quayle from 1948 to 1956 and Glen Byam Shaw 1957–1959, with an impressive roll-call of actors. Scotts building, with minor adjustments to the stage, remained in constant use until 2007 when it was closed for a major refit of the interior. Timeline,1932 – new Shakespeare Memorial Theatre opens, abutting the remains of the old,1961 – chartered name of the corporation and the Stratford theatre becomes ‘Royal Shakespeare. ’1974 – The Other Place opened, created from a prefabricated former store/rehearsal room in Stratford. 1986 – the Swan Theatre opened, created from the shell of the 1879 Memorial Theatre,1991 – Purpose-built new Other Place, designed by Michael Reardon, opens
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Romeo and Juliet
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Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. It was among Shakespeares most popular plays during his lifetime and along with Hamlet, is one of his most frequently performed plays, today, the title characters are regarded as archetypal young lovers. Romeo and Juliet belongs to a tradition of tragic romances stretching back to antiquity. The plot is based on an Italian tale translated into verse as The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet by Arthur Brooke in 1562, Shakespeare borrowed heavily from both but expanded the plot by developing a number of supporting characters, particularly Mercutio and Paris. Believed to have written between 1591 and 1595, the play was first published in a quarto version in 1597. The text of the first quarto version was of quality, however. Shakespeares use of his dramatic structure has been praised as an early sign of his dramatic skill. The play ascribes different poetic forms to different characters, sometimes changing the form as the character develops, Romeo, for example, grows more adept at the sonnet over the course of the play. Romeo and Juliet has been adapted numerous times for stage, film, musical, during the English Restoration, it was revived and heavily revised by William Davenant. David Garricks 18th-century version also modified several scenes, removing material then considered indecent, Performances in the 19th century, including Charlotte Cushmans, restored the original text and focused on greater realism. John Gielguds 1935 version kept very close to Shakespeares text and used Elizabethan costumes, the play, set in Verona, Italy, begins with a street brawl between Montague and Capulet servants who, like their masters, are sworn enemies. Prince Escalus of Verona intervenes and declares that further breach of the peace will be punishable by death, later, Count Paris talks to Capulet about marrying his daughter Juliet, but Capulet asks Paris to wait another two years and invites him to attend a planned Capulet ball. Lady Capulet and Juliets nurse try to persuade Juliet to accept Pariss courtship, meanwhile, Benvolio talks with his cousin Romeo, Montagues son, about Romeos recent depression. Benvolio discovers that it stems from unrequited infatuation for a girl named Rosaline, one of Capulets nieces, persuaded by Benvolio and Mercutio, Romeo attends the ball at the Capulet house in hopes of meeting Rosaline. However, Romeo instead meets and falls in love with Juliet, Juliets cousin, Tybalt, is enraged at Romeo for sneaking into the ball but is only stopped from killing Romeo by Juliets father, who does not wish to shed blood in his house. Romeo makes himself known to her and they agree to be married, with the help of Friar Laurence, who hopes to reconcile the two families through their childrens union, they are secretly married the next day. Tybalt, meanwhile, still incensed that Romeo had sneaked into the Capulet ball, Romeo, now considering Tybalt his kinsman, refuses to fight. Mercutio is offended by Tybalts insolence, as well as Romeos vile submission, Mercutio is fatally wounded when Romeo attempts to break up the fight
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X-Men (film)
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X-Men is a 2000 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name, distributed by 20th Century Fox. It is the first installment in the X-Men film series, followed by X2 in 2003 and X-Men and it depicts a world in which a small proportion of people are mutants, whose possession of superhuman powers makes them distrusted by normal humans. Development for X-Men began as far back as 1984 with Orion Pictures, at one point James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow were in discussions. The film rights went to 20th Century Fox in 1994 and various scripts and film treatments were commissioned from Andrew Kevin Walker, John Logan, Joss Whedon, and Michael Chabon. Singer signed to direct in 1996, with rewrites by Ed Solomon, Singer, Tom DeSanto, Christopher McQuarrie and Hayter in which Beast. X-Men marks the Hollywood debut of actor Hugh Jackman, who was a choice for Wolverine. Filming took place from September 22,1999 to March 3,2000, X-Men was released to positive reviews and was a financial success, starting the X-Men film franchise and spawning a reemergence of superhero films. In 1944 German-occupied Poland, young Erik Lehnsherr is separated from his parents upon entering a concentration camp, while trying to reach them, he causes a set of metal gates to bend towards him before being knocked out by guards. Senator Robert Kelly attempts to pass a Mutant Registration Act in Congress, present are the mutants Lehnsherr and the telepathic Professor Charles Xavier. Seeing Lehnsherr in attendance, Xavier becomes concerned with how he will respond to the Registration Act, in Meridian, Mississippi, 17-year-old Marie DAncanto accidentally puts her boyfriend into a coma upon kissing him, her mutant ability to absorb the powers and life force of others manifesting. She runs away home and adopts the name Rogue. In Alberta she meets a mutant named Logan, also known as Wolverine, while on the road together, they are attacked by a mutant named Sabretooth, and mutants Cyclops and Storm arrive and save them. Wolverine and Rogue are brought to Xaviers mansion and school for mutants in Westchester County, Xavier tells Logan that Lehnsherr, also known as Magneto, has taken an interest in Wolverine, and he asks him to stay while Xaviers mutants, the X-Men, investigate why. Rogue meanwhile enrolls in the school, Senator Kelly is abducted by Magnetos allies Toad and the shapeshifter Mystique. Magneto uses Kelly as a test subject for a machine powered by his abilities that regenerates a field of radiation. When Rogue uses her power on Wolverine in view of her classmates, she is convinced by Mystique that Xavier is angry with her, Xavier uses his mutant-locating machine Cerebro to find Rogue at a train station, and the X-Men go to retrieve her. Meanwhile Mystique enters Cerebro and sabotages it, at the train station, Magneto reveals he does not want Wolverine but Rogue, whom he abducts. Kelly arrives at Xaviers school and Xavier reads his mind to learn about Magnetos machine, realizing the strain of powering it nearly killed Magneto, the group deduces he intends to transfer his powers to Rogue and use her to power it at the cost of her life
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Sookie Stackhouse
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Sookie Stackhouse is a fictional character and protagonist of The Southern Vampire Mysteries book series, written by Charlaine Harris. In HBOs television adaptation, True Blood, Sookie is portrayed by Anna Paquin, Sookie was created by Charlaine Harris. Harris stated that she decided to shake up writing style by trying something new, the author said that to do this she would include all the elements I loved, mystery, the supernatural, bloody adventure, and a dash of romance. And since people had told me for years that I had a sense of humor, I thought it would be interesting to try to include that in the book. Harris went on to establish the protagonist of the series, when naming the character Harris decided to use her grandmothers best friends name because it was a fine old Southern nickname, I thought it would do well for my heroine. And Stackhouse just flowed right after it, Sookie, Sooky, Sukie, Sukey, Sook etc. are historical Southern U. S. regional nicknames for Susannah or Susan. Harris wanted to write from the point of view of a human, Harris then decided she would have to establish a reason sensible Sookie would do such a crazy thing which led to her giving Sookie the power of telepathy. In an interview Harris stated that making Sookie telepathic is the worst thing I could think of to do to anybody and she explained this further saying it would just be absolutely horrible to know what people really thought about you. Harris felt that there are elements of Sookie in me—or, more correctly. I wish I were as brave as she is, Harris said that when writing for Sookie it is second nature to me to step into Sookies skin. Anna Paquin was cast in the HBO television adaptation True Blood, I think she does a great job, but shes just not my Sookie. Sookie, a telepath and waitress working in Merlottes Bar and Grill in Bon Temps and she meets and falls in love with Bill Compton, a vampire to whom she is attracted partly because she cannot read his mind. Sookie saves Bill from Denise and Mack Rattray who intend to drain their victims blood for use as a narcotic, Sookie is later attacked by the Rattrays but Bill saves Sookie and kills her attackers. Several murders occur in Bon Temps with Sookies brother Jason and Bill both becoming suspects due to the presence of fang marks on the victims and to their previous relationships with Jason. After Jason is arrested, Sookie visits a bar, Fangtasia. Sookie meets vampire sheriff Eric Northman who discovers the waitress telepathy, Sookie uses this ability to help Eric discover that vampire Long Shadow has been embezzling from Fangtasia. A confrontation ensues and Eric saves Sookies life by staking Long Shadow when he attacks her, Sookie discovers her Gran, Adele, has been murdered. Bill leaves to improve his position in the vampire hierarchy, Sookie discovers that her boss, Sam, is a shape-shifter
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Malibu, California
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Malibu is a beach city in Los Angeles County, California, situated 30 miles west of Downtown Los Angeles. Known for its Mediterranean climate, a 21-mile strip of the Malibu coast incorporated in 1991 into the City of Malibu, the area is known for being the home of Hollywood movie stars, people in the entertainment industry, and other affluent residents. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 12,645, signs around the city proclaim 27 miles of scenic beauty, referring to the historical 27-mile Malibu coast spanning from Tuna Canyon west to Point Mugu in Ventura County. Most Malibu residents live within a few hundred yards of Pacific Coast Highway, for many residents of the unincorporated canyon areas, Malibu has the closest commercial centers and are included in the Malibu zip codes. The city is bounded by Topanga to the east, the Santa Monica Mountains to the north, the Pacific Ocean to the south. Nicknamed the Bu by surfers and locals, beaches along the Malibu coast include Surfrider Beach, Zuma Beach, Malibu Beach, Topanga Beach, Point Dume Beach, County Line and they named it Humaliwo or the surf sounds loudly. The citys name derives from this, as the Hu syllable is not stressed, explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo is believed to have moored at Malibu Lagoon, at the mouth of Malibu Creek, to obtain fresh water in 1542. The Spanish presence returned with the California mission system, and the area was part of Rancho Topanga Malibu Sequit—a 13 and that ranch passed intact to Frederick Hastings Rindge in 1891. Few roads even entered the area before 1929, when the state won another court case, by then May Rindge was forced to subdivide her property and begin selling and leasing lots. In 1926, in an effort to selling land to stave off insolvency. At its height, Malibu Potteries employed over 100 workers, and produced decorative tiles which furnish many Los Angeles-area public buildings, the factory, located one-half mile east of the pier, was ravaged by a fire in 1931. Although the factory reopened in 1932, it could not recover from the effects of the Great Depression. A distinct hybrid of Moorish and Arts and crafts designs, Malibu tile is considered highly collectible. Fine examples of the tiles may be seen at the Adamson House and Serra Retreat, the unfinished building was sold to the Franciscan Order in 1942 and is operated as a retreat facility, Serra Retreat. It burned in the 1970 fire and was using many of the original tiles. Most of the Big Rock Drive area was purchased in 1936 by William Randolph Hearst and he sold the lower half of his holdings there in 1944 to Art Jones. Jones was one of the prominent early realtors in Malibu, starting with the leases of Rindge land in Malibu Colony. He was also the owner/part-owner of the Malibu Inn, Malibu Trading Post, mcAnany Way is named after him
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Twin
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Twins are two offspring produced by the same pregnancy. Twins can be either monozygotic, meaning that they develop from one zygote, in fraternal twins, each twin is fertilized by its own sperm cell. In contrast, a fetus that develops alone in the womb is called a singleton, the human twin birth rate in the United States rose 76% from 1980 through 2009, from 18.9 to 33.3 per 1,000 births. In Central Africa there are 18–30 twin sets per 1,000 live births, in Latin America, South Asia, and Southeast Asia, the lowest rates are found, only 6 to 9 twin sets per 1,000 live births. North America and Europe have intermediate rates of 9 to 16 twin sets per 1,000 live births, Multiple pregnancies are much less likely to carry to full term than single births, with twin pregnancies lasting on average 37 weeks, three weeks less than full term. Women who have a history of fraternal twins have a higher chance of producing fraternal twins themselves. There is no genetic link for identical twinning. Other factors that increase the odds of having fraternal twins include maternal age, fertility drugs and other fertility treatments, nutrition, the vast majority of twins are either dizygotic or monozygotic. Less common variants are discussed further down the article, the rates for singletons vary slightly by country. For example, the sex ratio of birth in the US is 1.05 males/female, while it is 1.07 males/female in Italy. However, males are more susceptible than females to die in utero. Zygosity is the degree of identity in the genome of twins, dizygotic or fraternal twins usually occur when two fertilized eggs are implanted in the uterus wall at the same time. When two eggs are fertilized by two different sperm cells, fraternal twins result. The two eggs, or ova, form two zygotes, hence the terms dizygotic and biovular. Fraternal twins are, essentially, two siblings who happen to be born at the same time, since they arise from two separate eggs fertilized by two separate sperm, just like ordinary siblings. This is the most common type of twin, dizygotic twins, like any other siblings, have an extremely small chance of having the same chromosome profile. Even if they happen to have the same profile, they will always have different genetic material on each chromosome. Like any other siblings, dizygotic twins may look similar, particularly given that they are the same age, however, dizygotic twins may also look very different from each other
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Venice, Los Angeles
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Venice is a residential, commercial and recreational beachfront neighborhood on the Westside of the Californian city of Los Angeles. Venice was founded in 1905 as a resort town. It was an independent city until 1926, when it merged with Los Angeles, today, Venice is known for its canals, beaches, and the circus-like Ocean Front Walk, a two-and-a-half-mile pedestrian-only promenade that features performers, mystics, artists and vendors. Venice, originally called Venice of America, was founded by tobacco millionaire Abbot Kinney in 1905 as a resort town,14 miles west of Los Angeles. He and his partner Francis Ryan had bought two miles of oceanfront property south of Santa Monica in 1891 and they built a resort town on the north end of the property, called Ocean Park, which was soon annexed to Santa Monica. After Ryan died, Kinney and his new partners continued building south of Navy Street, tourists, mostly arriving on the Red Cars of the Pacific Electric Railway from Los Angeles and Santa Monica, then rode the Venice Miniature Railway and gondolas to tour the town. But the biggest attraction was Venices mile-long gently sloping beach, cottages and housekeeping tents were available for rent. The population soon exceeded 10,000, the town drew 50,000 to 150,000 tourists on weekends. Attractions on the Kinney Pier became more amusement-oriented by 1910, when a Venice Miniature Railway, Aquarium, Virginia Reel, Whip, Racing Derby, and other rides and game booths were added. Since the business district was allotted only three streets, and the City Hall was more than a mile away, other competing business districts developed. Unfortunately, this created a political climate. Kinney, however, governed with a hand and kept things in check. When he died in November 1920, Venice became harder to govern, with the amusement pier burning six weeks later in December 1920, and Prohibition, the towns tax revenue was severely affected. The Kinney family rebuilt their amusement pier quickly to compete with Ocean Parks Pickering Pleasure Pier, when it opened it had two roller coasters, a new Racing Derby, a Noahs Ark, a Mill Chutes, and many other rides. By 1925 with the addition of a coaster, a tall Dragon Slide, Fun House. Several hundred thousand tourists visited on weekends, in 1923 Charles Lick built the Lick Pier at Navy Street in Venice, adjacent to the Ocean Park Pier at Pier Avenue in Ocean Park. Another pier was planned for Venice in 1925 at Leona Street, for the amusement of the public, Kinney hired aviators to do aerial stunts over the beach. One of them, movie aviator and Venice airport owner B. H. DeLay and he also initiated the first aerial police in the nation, after a marine rescue attempt was thwarted
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Peter O'Toole
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Peter Seamus OToole was a British-Irish stage and film actor. He achieved international recognition playing T. E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia for which he received his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor, in 2002, OToole was awarded the Academy Honorary Award for his career achievements. He was additionally the recipient of four Golden Globe Awards, one British Academy Film Award, some sources give his birthplace as Connemara, County Galway, Ireland, while others cite St James University Hospital, Leeds, England. Peter had a sister, Patricia. He grew up in the Hunslet, south Leeds, son of Constance Jane Eliot, a Scottish nurse, and Patrick Joseph Spats OToole, when OToole was one year old, his family began a five-year tour of major racecourse towns in Northern England. He was brought up as a Catholic, I used to be scared stiff of the nuns, their whole denial of womanhood – the black dresses and the shaving of the hair – was so horrible, so terrifying. Of course, thats all been stopped, theyre sipping gin and tonic in the Dublin pubs now, and a couple of them flashed their pretty ankles at me just the other day, he said. Upon leaving school OToole obtained employment as a trainee journalist and photographer on the Yorkshire Evening Post, as reported in a radio interview in 2006 on NPR, he was asked by an officer whether he had something he had always wanted to do. His reply was that he had wanted to try being either a poet or an actor. At RADA, he was in the class as Albert Finney, Alan Bates. OToole described this as the most remarkable class the academy ever had, OToole began working in the theatre, gaining recognition as a Shakespearean actor at the Bristol Old Vic and with the English Stage Company, before making his television debut in 1954. He first appeared on film in 1959 in a role in The Day They Robbed the Bank of England. OTooles major break came when he was chosen to play T. E. Lawrence in Sir David Leans Lawrence of Arabia, after Marlon Brando proved unavailable and his performance was ranked number one in Premiere magazines list of the 100 Greatest Performances of All Time. The role introduced him to US audiences and earned him the first of his eight nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor, T. E. Lawrence, portrayed by OToole, was selected in 2003 as the tenth-greatest hero in cinema history by the American Film Institute. OToole was one of several actors to be Oscar-nominated for playing the role in two different films, he played King Henry II in both Becket and The Lion in Winter. OToole played Hamlet under Laurence Oliviers direction in the production of the Royal National Theatre in 1963. He demonstrated his comedic abilities alongside Peter Sellers in the Woody Allen-scripted comedy Whats New Pussycat and he appeared in Seán OCaseys Juno and the Paycock at Dublins Gaiety Theatre. In 1969, he played the role in the film Goodbye, Mr. Chips
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Quills
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Quills is a 2000 American-British-German period film directed by Philip Kaufman and adapted from the Obie award-winning play by Doug Wright, who also wrote the original screenplay. Inspired by the life and work of the Marquis de Sade and it stars Geoffrey Rush as de Sade, Joaquin Phoenix as the Abbé du Coulmier, Michael Caine as Dr. Royer-Collard, and Kate Winslet as laundress Madeleine Maddie LeClerc. Well received by critics, Quills garnered numerous accolades for Rush, including nominations for an Oscar, BAFTA, the film was a modest art house success, averaging $27,709 per screen its debut weekend, and eventually grossing $17,989,277 internationally. Several years later, the Marquis is confined to the asylum for the insane at Charenton, the Marquis has been publishing his work through laundress Madeleine Maddy LeClerc, who smuggles manuscripts through an anonymous horseman to a publisher. The Marquis latest work, Justine, is published on the market to great success. Meanwhile, the Abbé teaches Madeleine to read and write and resists his attraction to her. Madeleine reads the Marquis de Sades stories to her fellow workers, whilst Madeleine is fascinated by the Marquis de Sade she remains reluctant to give into his advances. The Abbé and Marquis converse on the Marquis inappropriate advances on young women, Dr. Royer-Collard arrives, informing the Abbé that the Marquis therapeutic writings have been distributed for public consumption. He presents the Abbé with the ultimatum of silencing the Marquis or Charenton will be shut down by order of the Emperor, the Abbé rejects Royer-Collards offers of several aggressive archaic treatments and asks to speak with the Marquis himself, who promptly swears obedience. Royer-Collard takes his leave for the time being and travels to the Panthemont Convent in Paris to retrieve his promised bride and they are given a run-down chateau by the Emperor, with a handsome young architect, Prouix, on hand for its renovation. The hasty marriage incites much gossip at the asylum, prompting the Marquis to write a farce to be performed at a public exhibition, the audacious play, a shockingly straightforward parallel of the good doctors own misogynist domination of his virginal bride, is titled The Crimes of Love. The performance is interrupted when the inmate Bouchon molests Madeleine off-stage, the Abbé is seen publicly comforting Madeleine. Royer-Collard shuts down the theater and demands that the Abbé do more to control the Marquis. Infuriated, the Abbé confiscates the Marquis quills and ink, the Marquiss wife visits him and he takes out his frustration at not being able to write on her, she retaliates by asking a surprised Dr Royer-Collard that the Marquis be entombed forever. They discuss that the gains from the Marquiss books could be used to effect his salvation, in other words. The lack of writing implements results in more subversive behaviour from the Marquis, including a written in wine on bedsheets. This results in further deprivation, eventually leaving the Marquis naked in an empty cell, Charlotte, one of the maids, reveals that Madeleine has been helping the Marquis. Madeleine is whipped on the order of Dr. Royer-Collard until the Abbé stops him by offering himself instead, the Abbé decides that Madeleine must be sent away
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Princess of Thieves
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Co-starring in the film are Malcolm McDowell as the Sheriff, Jonathan Hyde as Prince John, Stuart Wilson as Robin Hood, Del Synnott as Froderick, and Stephen Moyer as Philip. The movie was directed by Peter Hewitt and filmed in Romania, the films plotline draws inspiration from the classic Robin Hood legend, which has been adapted many times for screen. The film picks up years after the events of the Robin Hood legend, centering on Robins daughter, Gwyn. As Maid Marian has died and Robin Hood is perpetually away battling in the Crusades and she has grown up to be a strong-willed young woman with a talent for archery, much like her father. Her only friend is the sweet but plain Froderick, who clearly is in love with her, upon the death of King Richard the Lionheart, Robin returns to see that the proper man takes Richards place as King of England. However, Robin is quickly foiled and imprisoned by his enemies and it is then up to Gwyn to save the day. Though she does fortuitously cross paths with the prince, she is not aware of his identity for much of the film, after freeing her father, Gwyn along with her father and Prince Philip stop the coronation of Prince John. In the end when Philip is about to be crowned as king, Gwyn with a heavy heart tells him that she can serve and work for him. Robin later explains that he stayed out of Gwyns life to protect her from the life he leads and he then proposes a partnership between the two of them to serve Philip, with the only condition being that she take her orders from him alone. She agrees, and at the end they are seen together leading Robins Men, side by side
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Undiscovered
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Undiscovered is a 2005 film directed by Meiert Avis. The plot is about a group of aspiring entertainers who intend to establish their careers in Los Angeles, released on August 26,2005, the film received a largely negative reception, holding an 8% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 73 reviews. The film also had the record for largest percentage drop-off in ticket sales from its opening weekend to its second weekend in release,86. 4%. The film was originally called Wannabe, but was retitled prior to release, undiscovered was the first significant film role for Ashlee Simpson, who had previously acted on the television series 7th Heaven before launching a singing career. Undiscovered is also the name of one of Simpsons songs, the track from her debut album Autobiography. The DVD and VHS of the film was released on December 26,2005, an aspiring New York model, Brier falls in love at first sight with a struggling musician, Luke when they cross paths on a subway train. Having achieved success as a model, she decides to move to L. A. to launch an acting career and she wanted to become a dancer but it didnt work out. With the support of her agent and sometimes surrogate mom, Carrie, she lands a spot in a class where she befriends another would-be actress. While out on the town, Brier crosses paths with Luke once again in a club called The Mint. The two girls realize that he is actually a good musician, and they decide to help him. As his profile rises, so do the demands of his new career
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88 Minutes
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Filming began in the Vancouver area on October 8,2005, and wrapped up in December 2005. In 2007 the film was released in various European countries, in May 2007, Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group paid $6 million to acquire North American and select international distribution rights of 88 Minutes. The group released this film in the United States theatrically on April 18,2008, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Jack Gramm testifies at the trial of suspected serial murderer Jon Forster, dubbed The Seattle Slayer by police. After receiving his conviction by the jury, Forster taunts Gramm, saying Tick-tock, nine years later, as Forsters execution date approaches, several similar torture murders with very similar circumstances occur. On the way to his class, Gramm receives a call from someone using software to distort their voice. He later reports the call to his secretary Shelly and has her put together a risk assessment profile of potential perpetrators, Gramm receives another threatening phone call while teaching and becomes suspicious of his students, particularly Mike Stempt. The Dean of students, Carol Johnson, interrupts the class to evacuate the building due to a threat called in. As he evacuates the lecture hall, Gramm finds a written threat on the projector in the classroom as well as on his car. Gramm then is met by his teaching assistant Kim Cummings who offers to help him find the person thats been targeting him. In the stairwell of the garage, Gramm comes upon one of his students, Lauren Douglas, attacked by an unknown assailant. Gramm and Kim go to his condo where a package has been delivered, the package contains an old audio tape of his kid sister, Katie, begging for her life, and her subsequent murder. The shooter flees through the crowd outside after an alarm is triggered in the building. A few minutes after, Gramms car explodes, having been riddled with a bomb. Renting a cab, Gramm explains to Kim that his sister was killed years ago when he left her alone in his apartment while he attended an important meeting. Next, Gramm and Kim visit Sara Pollard, the woman Gramm was with the night before, Carol calls Gramm and makes comments suggesting that she is the killer and demands Gramm meet her at his office. Shelly arrives at Saras apartment and advises Gramm she suspects Lauren was the one who stole the tape of Gramms sisters death. Kim disappears from the apartment and later calls Gramm with a similar to Carols. Through prison visitation records, Gramm deduces that Forsters appeals attorney Lydia Doherty is actually Lauren using a pseudonym, Lauren threatens Gramm and forces him to confess on tape that he gave false testimony at Forsters trial
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Restraint (film)
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Restraint is a 2008 Australian thriller film, directed by David Denneen, written by Dave Warner and starring Stephen Moyer, Travis Fimmel and Teresa Palmer. The film was shot on location around New South Wales, Australia in mid-2005, working titles during production were Ravenswood, Guests and Power Surge. It also features a cameo by Vanessa Redgrave, two fugitives from justice, Dale and Ron, take hostage Andrew, an agoraphobic art dealer who might have a dark past of his own. All three soon find themselves participants in a game of survival, before the narrative begins, Ron has killed Dales boss, the owner of a strip club. On the run, the kill a gas station attendant who sees the body in the trunk of their car. Stumbling across Andrews magnificent country estate, the plan to hide out there until the search for them abates. Ron, impulsive and out of control, abuses and threatens to kill Andrew, Andrew proposes to give them AU40,000 dollars and valuable jewelry to aid their getaway. Someone, though, must go to the bank to retrieve the goods, Andrew suggests Dale do it, posing as his fiancée, Gabrielle. Dale, as Gabrielle, drives to town and twice enters the bank without creating suspicion. While Dale is gone, Andrew tells Ron that Gabrielle had left him after having an affair with his father and being paid by him to leave, he subsequently hired a hit man to kill his father. To persuade Ron to leave him alive, he offers leverage in the form of a photo that proves he had his father killed, while allegedly retrieving the photo, Andrew manages to lock Ron in the cellar, but Ron escapes and regains the upper hand. Dale returns and the couple prepare to leave, Ron again makes a move to kill Andrew, Dale, who has been partly seduced by Andrew and his way of life, grabs their shotgun and shoots at Ron, without realizing that he has left the gun unloaded. Ron knocks Dale out and leaves her in a locked car filling with exhaust, Andrew manages to save her and wound Ron, reviving, Dale deals Ron a death blow. With Ron dead, Andrew moves to call the police, Dale stops him by re-assuming her pose as Gabrielle, and, prompted by Andrew, by telling him in Gabrielles voice that she loves him. They make love—again, with Dale coached to speak in Gabrielles voice, afterwards, in an ambiguous ending, Andrew plays Wagner downstairs alone and seems to celebrate, while Dale gazes forlornly out the houses top-floor window. The film was shot in late 2005 near Goulburn and Camden in New South Wales, Stephen Moyer was imported from the UK to support his two Australian co-stars. The film was meant to be released in May 2006 by Accent Entertainment. Multiple test screenings resulted in the running time being reduced from 120 to 90 minutes
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Priest (2011 film)
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Priest is a 2011 American post-apocalyptic dystopian sci-fi action horror film starring Paul Bettany as the title character. The film, directed by Scott Stewart, is based on the Korean comic of the same name by Hyung Min-woo. In an alternate world, humanity and vampires have warred for centuries, after the last Vampire War, a veteran Warrior Priest lives in obscurity with other humans inside one of the Churchs walled cities. When the Priests niece is kidnapped by vampires, the Priest breaks his vows to hunt them down and he is accompanied by the nieces boyfriend Hicks, who is a wasteland sheriff, and a former Warrior Priestess. The film first entered development in 2005, when Screen Gems bought the script by Cory Goodman. In 2006 Andrew Douglas was attached to direct and Gerard Butler was attached to star and they were eventually replaced by Stewart and Bettany in 2009 and filming started in Los Angeles, California, later in the year. The film changed release dates numerous times throughout 2010 and 2011 and it was especially pushed back from 2010 to 2011 to convert the film from 2D to 3D. It was released in the United States and Canada on May 13,2011, a centuries long war between humans and vampires has devastated the planets surface and led to a theocracy under an organization called The Church. They constructed giant walled cities to protect mankind and developed a group of elite warriors, the majority of the vampires were killed, while the remainder were placed in reservations. With the war over, the Clergy disbanded the Priests, outside the walled cities, some humans seek out a living, free from the totalitarian control of the Church. Priest is approached by Hicks, the sheriff of Augustine, a free town, Priest learns that his brother and his wife, Shannon - Priests girlfriend before he entered the priesthood - were mortally wounded in a vampire attack, and Priests niece, Lucy, was kidnapped. Hicks asks for Priests help in rescuing Lucy, Priest asks the Clergy to reinstate his authority, but Church leader Monsignor Orelas does not believe the vampire story and refuses. Priest defiantly leaves the city and Orelas sends three Priests and a Priestess to bring him back. After a fierce battle, the pair discovers that most of the vampires have taken shelter in Sola Mira, Priestess joins them at Sola Mira, revealing a bond with Priest. The trio destroys a Hive Guardian vampire, then discover that the vampires have bred a new army, the other three Priests have arrived at Jericho just as night falls and an armored train arrives, unleashing hundreds of vampires upon the population. The vampires are led by a powerful and mysterious human wearing a black hat, when the three Priests reject Black Hats offer to join him, he kills them all. The next morning, Priest, Priestess and Hicks arrive in Jericho and discover the town empty, Priest and Priestess share an intimate moment where she makes her move, hoping that now that Shannon has died, he would no longer feel bound to her. Priest, who is not over Shannon, gently refuses
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The Caller (2011 film)
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The Caller is a supernatural thriller directed by Matthew Parkhill and written by Sergio Casci, starring Rachelle Lefevre, Stephen Moyer and Lorna Raver. The movie was filmed entirely in Puerto Rico, the Gala Premiere of the movie was on August 23,2011 at Metro Cinema in Puerto Rico. When troubled divorcee Mary Kee sets up home in her new apartment, struck by its antique charm, she gives it a place of pride in her home. Before long, Mary begins to receive phone calls from a mysterious. Over time, she discovers that the caller is a woman named Rose, however, when Rose claims to be calling from the past, Mary begins to question her new friends motives. As Roses phone calls become ever more disturbing, Marys sense of terror escalates, feeling haunted in her own home, she cuts all contact with Rose. Enraged by Marys betrayal, Rose threatens to exact her terrible revenge, not on Mary in the present but on Mary as a child in the past. Mary finally realizes that she will have to kill Rose in order to save herself, but how can she kill someone living in the past. Rose pours hot grease on the young Mary Kee causing the adult Mary Kee to wretch with her new burn scars. After this Mary Kee tries to kill Rose by inviting her to a party at a bowling alley she knew would catch fire and burn. Rose misses the bus and the plan fails, so Rose has the young Mary talk to the adult Mary on a day that the old Rose attempted to barge in, Rachelle Lefevre as Mary Kee Stephen Moyer as John Guidi Gladys Rodríguez as Mrs. The Caller at the Internet Movie Database Interview with Mathew Parkhill about The Caller at subtitledonline. com
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The Double (2011 film)
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The Double is a 2011 American spy film, directed by Michael Brandt and starring Richard Gere and Topher Grace. It was released on October 28,2011, two FBI agents are conducting surveillance at a warehouse. As a U. S. senator Dennis Darden walks out of the door, he is approached by an assassin from behind who slits his throat, the agents rush to the scene to find the man dead. However, they could not identify the assassin as he committed the murder in darkness, later, CIA officers arrive on the scene and take charge. Retired operative Paul Shepherdson is summoned by CIA director Tom Highland to look into the murder and he is introduced to a young FBI agent, Ben Geary who is an expert on a former Soviet operative known as Cassius. Geary reasons that Cassius is the due to his signature throat-slitting method. Paul and Ben visit Brutus, one of Cassiuss proteges, who had locked up in prison. They provide him with a radio and leave, the prisoner then swallows the batteries from the radio and fakes a poisoning/upset stomach. Upon arriving at a hospital, he regurgitates and spits out the batteries, overpowers the medical staff, in the basements garage, he is attacked by Paul, who reveals himself to be Cassius himself, the very operative who had previously trained the fugitive. He then moves to eliminate young FBI agent Ben too, only stopping when interrupted by Bens wife - hes unable to murder him in face of his family, upon investigating the crime scene, Ben grows increasingly suspicious of Paul. Meanwhile, a Russian terrorist and murderer, Bozlovski, has entered the U. S, as the investigation deepens, Paul warns Ben to pull out, due to the possibility of harm not only to himself but his family. Ben, who has become obsessed with the idea that Paul is Cassius, meanwhile, Paul tries to contact Bozlovski in a factory where he escapes after an intense firefight. Ben examines another throat-slitting murder of Bozlovskis associate at the site and is now convinced Paul is indeed Cassius. Paul has now tracked down Bozlovski to a shipyard warehouse, a while later, Ben also arrives at the building. After being confronted with the evidence, Paul confesses everything, Paul then confronts Ben with the fact that Ben is a Russian spy, which Paul learned at one of Bens informant drop-offs. He is able to convince Ben that Bozlovski is the actual threat, when Ben reveals that he has plans to return to Russia after this is over, Paul tries to convince him to stay in the FBI and with the family he has grown to love. Together they hunt down Bozlovski inside the shipyards warehouse, Bozlovski attacks Paul and Ben, and in the ensuing struggle, a mortally wounded Paul slits Bozlovskis throat using his garrote-watch. However, Paul himself later succumbs to his own injuries, as the only witness, FBI agent Ben relays the incident to his superiors and claims that Bozlovski was Cassius, thereby securing Pauls reputation and recognizing his heroism
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The Barrens (film)
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Template, Missing ifnromation The Barrens is a 2012 American horror film written and directed by Darren Lynn Bousman and starring Stephen Moyer and Mia Kirshner. The film was released under different titles in several European territories, e. g. as Jersey Devil in the German-speaking countries and as The Forest in France, in the UK the film was shown on The Horror Channel in January 2015 as Devil in the Woods. Two young campers walk together through the woods, commenting that there are no animals or birds around and they discover a pile of mutilated deer carcasses left on the trail. They are chased by a deer that drops dead in front of them. Something sounding like a swarm of birds is heard approaching. Richard Vineyard, his wife Cynthia, his daughter Sadie, and they want to leave civilization behind and bond as a family in the Barrens, a forest in southern New Jersey. On the way to the campsite, they see a mutilated deer crossing the road and they stay in a crowded commercial campsite full of obnoxious campers who are not inclined to abandon civilization, cell phones and loud music abound. While setting up his tent, Richard has a flashback to an event from his childhood that occurred in the Barrens. Later that evening, when a fellow camper tells a story of the Jersey Devil, Richard overreacts, much to the embarrassment of the rest of the family. That night, Richard has a nightmare in which he is being chased through a field by something unseen and he is awakened by Cynthia in the middle of the forest, having actually run from their tent while asleep. He accuses his wife of infidelity, she doesnt understand his suspicion, Cynthia returns to the tent and Richard goes for a walk. He sees a deer carcass fall from a tree, several facts are revealed in conversation the next day. Richard is taking medication for a wound received before they left home. Cynthia is stepmother to his children, one of the campers involved in the prank the previous night is missing. The hikers from the scene were found dead the previous week. Richard, who appears weakened by pain, leads his family deeper into the forest to a new camp site, while resting, Danny finds the disemboweled corpse of the missing camper but says nothing. Richard begins hallucinating and becomes irritable and they find a campsite containing a decomposed dog and furs hanging to dry, but no people. They decide to set up camp there, Richard disposes of the dog, and discovers that another camper, Ryan, has been following them and is communicating secretly with Sadie by cell phone
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