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New York City
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The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over an area of about 302.6 square miles. Located at the tip of the state of New York. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has described as the cultural and financial capital of the world. Situated on one of the worlds largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, the five boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island – were consolidated into a single city in 1898. In 2013, the MSA produced a gross metropolitan product of nearly US$1.39 trillion, in 2012, the CSA generated a GMP of over US$1.55 trillion. NYCs MSA and CSA GDP are higher than all but 11 and 12 countries, New York City traces its origin to its 1624 founding in Lower Manhattan as a trading post by colonists of the Dutch Republic and was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The city and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. It has been the countrys largest city since 1790, the Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a symbol of the United States and its democracy. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. Several sources have ranked New York the most photographed city in the world, the names of many of the citys bridges, tapered skyscrapers, and parks are known around the world. Manhattans real estate market is among the most expensive in the world, Manhattans Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere, with multiple signature Chinatowns developing across the city. Providing continuous 24/7 service, the New York City Subway is one of the most extensive metro systems worldwide, with 472 stations in operation. Over 120 colleges and universities are located in New York City, including Columbia University, New York University, and Rockefeller University, during the Wisconsinan glaciation, the New York City region was situated at the edge of a large ice sheet over 1,000 feet in depth. The ice sheet scraped away large amounts of soil, leaving the bedrock that serves as the foundation for much of New York City today. Later on, movement of the ice sheet would contribute to the separation of what are now Long Island and Staten Island. The first documented visit by a European was in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzano, a Florentine explorer in the service of the French crown and he claimed the area for France and named it Nouvelle Angoulême. Heavy ice kept him from further exploration, and he returned to Spain in August and he proceeded to sail up what the Dutch would name the North River, named first by Hudson as the Mauritius after Maurice, Prince of Orange
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Pound Ridge, New York
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Pound Ridge is a town in Westchester County, New York, United States. The population was 5,104 at the 2010 census. The town is located in the corner of the county, bordered by Stamford, Connecticut, to the south, Bedford, New York, to the west and Lewisboro, New York, to the north. In the early seventeenth century Pound Ridge was inhabited by Native Americans who spoke the Munsee language and were members of the Wappinger Confederacy, the geographical boundaries of the tribes within the Confederacy are unclear. Pound Ridge has been listed as within the territory of the Kitchawong, Siwanoy. These claims are not necessarily exclusive as tribal boundaries were not fixed, interaction with Europeans caused Indians to change their settlement locations over time. Furthermore, the territories listed in sales to Europeans by particular tribal chiefs are not strict guides to the boundaries of control or occupancy. The Siwanoy are generally agreed to have lived along the north Long Island Sound Coast with a range extending from Hell Gate to Norwalk. The Tankiteke appear to have occupied eastern Westchester County and Fairfield County, the territory of the Kitchawong is thought to have extended from the Croton River to Anthonys Nose along the Hudson and some distance east from the river. In March 1644 a Wappinger Confederacy village in present-day Pound Ridge was attacked by a force of 130 Dutch. This event is now known as the Pound Ridge Massacre, the attackers surrounded and burnt the village in a night attack killing between 500 and 700 Indians. The dead included 25 members of the Wappinger tribe, with the remainder being either Tankiteke or Siwanoy or both, the New Netherland force lost one man killed and fifteen wounded. More casualties were suffered in this attack than in any single incident in the war. Shortly after the battle four Wappinger Confederacy sachems arrived in the English settlement of Stamford to sue for peace, the territory of modern Pound Ridge was first permanently settled by Europeans in 1718 in the present-day Long Ridge Road area. Long Ridge Road was originally an Indian path and had used by the first settlers of Bedford. Although the very first settlers were from Huntington on Long Island, a large portion of Pound Ridge was included in the town of North Castle when it was incorporated in 1721. A member of the historically prominent Lockwood family first purchased land in Pound Ridge in 1737, the Scofield family first settled in the area in 1745 and the first Fancher settled in the area in 1758. Roads in the town bear the name of each of these families
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Catholic University of America
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The Catholic University of America is a private university located in Washington, D. C. in the United States. It is a university of the Catholic Church in the United States. Established in 1887 as a graduate and research center following approval by Pope Leo XIII on Easter Sunday, the university began offering undergraduate education in 1904. In addition, it was ranked in the top 10 of the best Catholic colleges in the country and it was described as one of the 25 most underrated colleges in the United States. CUAs programs emphasize the arts, professional education, and personal development. The school stays closely connected with the Catholic Church and Catholic organizations, the American Cardinals Dinner is put on by the residential U. S. cardinals each year to raise scholarship funds for CUA. The university has a history of working with the Knights of Columbus. The university has been visited three times by sitting popes, Pope John Paul II visited on October 7,1979. On April 16,2008, Pope Benedict XVI gave an address at the campus about Catholic education and academic freedom. Pope Francis visited on September 23,2015 during his trip to the United States, at the Second Plenary Council of Baltimore in 1866, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops first discussed the need for a national Catholic university. At the Third Plenary Council on January 26,1885, bishops chose the name The Catholic University of America for the institution. In 1882 Bishop John Lancaster Spalding went to Rome to obtain Pope Leo XIIIs support for the university, on April 10,1887 Pope Leo XIII sent James Cardinal Gibbons a letter granting permission to establish the university. By developing new leaders and new knowledge, the university was intended to strengthen, the founders wished to emphasize the Churchs special role in United States. They believed that scientific and humanistic research, informed by faith and they wanted to develop a national institution that would promote the faith in a context of religious freedom, spiritual pluralism, and intellectual rigor. The university was incorporated in 1887 on 66 acres of land next to the Old Soldiers Home. President Grover Cleveland was in attendance for the laying of the cornerstone of Divinity Hall, now known as Caldwell Hall, on May 24,1888, as were members of Congress, at the end of the second term, lectures on canon law were added. The first students were graduated in 1889, in 1876 with the opening of the Johns Hopkins University, American universities began dedicating themselves to graduate study and research in the Prussian model. CUA was the channel through which the modern university movement entered the American Catholic community
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Actor
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An actor is a person who portrays a character in a performance. Simplistically speaking, the person denominated actor or actress is someone beautiful who plays important characters, the actor performs in the flesh in the traditional medium of the theatre, or in modern mediums such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is ὑποκριτής, literally one who answers, the actors interpretation of their role pertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is playing themselves, as in forms of experimental performance art, or, more commonly, to act, is to create. Formerly, in societies, only men could become actors. When used for the stage, women played the roles of prepubescent boys. The etymology is a derivation from actor with ess added. However, when referring to more than one performer, of both sexes, actor is preferred as a term for male performers. Actor is also used before the name of a performer as a gender-specific term. Within the profession, the re-adoption of the term dates to the 1950–1960s. As Whoopi Goldberg put it in an interview with the paper, Im an actor – I can play anything. The U. K. performers union Equity has no policy on the use of actor or actress, an Equity spokesperson said that the union does not believe that there is a consensus on the matter and stated that the. subject divides the profession. In 2009, the Los Angeles Times stated that Actress remains the term used in major acting awards given to female recipients. However, player remains in use in the theatre, often incorporated into the name of a group or company, such as the American Players. Also, actors in improvisational theatre may be referred to as players, prior to Thespis act, Grecian stories were only expressed in song, dance, and in third person narrative. In honor of Thespis, actors are commonly called Thespians, the exclusively male actors in the theatre of ancient Greece performed in three types of drama, tragedy, comedy, and the satyr play. Western theatre developed and expanded considerably under the Romans, as the Western Roman Empire fell into decay through the 4th and 5th centuries, the seat of Roman power shifted to Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire. Records show that mime, pantomime, scenes or recitations from tragedies and comedies, dances, from the 5th century, Western Europe was plunged into a period of general disorder
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Chris Sarandon
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He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as Leon Shermer in Dog Day Afternoon. Sarandon was born and raised in Beckley, West Virginia, the son of restaurateurs Christopher Chris Sarandon and his father, whose surname was originally Sarondonethes, was born in Istanbul, Turkey, of Greek ancestry, his mother is also of Greek ancestry. He graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Beckley and he earned a degree in speech at West Virginia University. He earned his masters degree in theater from The Catholic University of America in Washington, while attending CUA, he married classmate Susan Tomalin during 1967. After graduating, they both pursued acting careers, with Susan taking his surname as her name and performing with the name Susan Sarandon. After graduation, he toured with numerous companies and became much involved with regional theatre. During 1968, Sarandon relocated to New York City, where he obtained his first television role as Dr. Tom Halverson for the series The Guiding Light and he also had a series of television roles, some of which corresponded to his affinity for the classics. He also had roles in the thriller movie Lipstick and as a demon in the movie The Sentinel and these were followed by another mainstream success as the vampire-next-door in the horror movie Fright Night. He starred in the 1986 TV movie Liberty, which addressed the making of New York Citys statue of Liberty, during 1992, he played Joseph Curwen/Charles Dexter Ward in The Resurrected. Sarandon appeared in TV again with a role as Dr. Burke on NBCs long-running medical drama ER. During 1991 he performed on Broadway in the short-lived musical Nick & Nora with Joanna Gleason and they have appeared together in a number of movies, including Edie & Pen, American Perfekt and Let the Devil Wear Black. During the 2000s he made guest appearances in several TV series, notably as the Necromancer demon, Armand, in Charmed, during 2006 playing Signor Naccarelli in the six-time Tony award-winning Broadway musical play The Light in the Piazza at Lincoln Center. Most recently he appeared in Cyrano de Bergerac as Antoine de Guiche, with Kevin Kline, Jennifer Garner and he is on the Advisory Board for the Greenbrier Valley Theatre in Lewisburg, West Virginia. org
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Tim Robbins
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Timothy Francis Tim Robbins is an American actor, screenwriter, director, producer, activist and musician. He is well known for his portrayal of Andy Dufresne in the drama film The Shawshank Redemption. Robbins was born in West Covina, California, and raised in New York City and he is the son of Mary Cecelia, an actress, and Gilbert Lee Robbins, a musician, folk singer, actor, and former manager of The Gaslight Cafe. Robbins has two sisters, Adele and Gabrielle, and a brother, David and he moved to Greenwich Village with his family at a young age, while his father pursued a career as a member of the folk music group, The Highwaymen. Robbins started performing in theater at age twelve and joined the club at Stuyvesant High School. He spent two years at SUNY Plattsburgh and then returned to California to study at the UCLA Film School, after graduation from college in 1981, Robbins founded the Actors Gang, an experimental theater group, in Los Angeles with actor friends from his college softball team. In 1982, he appeared as domestic terrorist Andrew Reinhardt in three episodes of the television program St. Elsewhere, in 1985, he guest-starred in the second episode of the television series Moonlighting, Gunfight at the So-So Corral. He also took parts in films, such as the role of frat animal Mother in Fraternity Vacation. He played in The Love Boat, as a version of one of the characters in retrospection about the Second World War. His breakthrough role was as pitcher Ebby Calvin Nuke LaLoosh in the 1988 baseball film Bull Durham which he co-starred with Susan Sarandon and Kevin Costner. He received critical acclaim and won the Best Actor Award at Cannes for his role as an amoral film executive in Robert Altmans 1992 film The Player. He made his directorial and screenwriting debut with 1992s Bob Roberts, Robbins then starred alongside Morgan Freeman in the critically acclaimed The Shawshank Redemption, which was based on Stephen Kings novella. Robbins has written, produced, and directed films with strong social content, such as the critically acclaimed capital punishment saga Dead Man Walking, starring Sarandon. The film earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Director and his next directorial effort was 1999s Depression-era musical Cradle Will Rock. Robbins has also appeared in mainstream Hollywood thrillers, such as 1999s Arlington Road and 2001s Antitrust, and in films such as The Hudsucker Proxy, Nothing to Lose. Robbins has also acted in and directed several Actors Gang theater productions, Robbins won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar and the SAG Award for his work in Mystic River, as a man traumatized from having been molested as a child. In 2005, he won the 39th annual Man of the Year Pudding Pot Award given by the Hasty Pudding Theatricals of Harvard. His most recent acting roles include a blind man who is nursed to health by a psychologically wounded young woman in The Secret Life of Words
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Eva Amurri
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Eva Maria Olivia Amurri Martino, known professionally as Eva Amurri Martino, is an American film and television actress. Amurri Martino was born in New York City, to Italian director Franco Amurri and she attended Friends Seminary for middle school, and graduated from Saint Anns School in Brooklyn, New York, and Brown University. Amurri Martino had a role in the 2002 film The Banger Sisters, in which her mother starred and she guest-starred, along with her mother, on an episode of Friends in Season 7 Episode 15 in which she is slapped by Sarandon. In 2004, she appeared in Saved and she guest-hosted Attack of the Show with Kevin Pereira. She had a role in the season of the Showtime series Californication, where she played Jackie. Amurri Martino played the role in the 2008 film Middle of Nowhere. In 2009, she appeared as Shelly in the episode The Playbook of How I Met Your Mother, Amurri Martino starred in the thriller film Isolation, directed by Stephen T. Kay. In 2010, she appeared in the Fox series House as Nicole in the episode The Choice, in 2012, she appeared in Happy Madison Productions Thats My Boy as young Mary McGarricle. Her mother also appeared in the film as McGarricles older self, Amurri married former Major League Soccer player and current NBC Sports broadcaster Kyle Martino on October 29,2011. They have two children, a daughter and a son, in August 2015, Amurri Martino revealed they had a miscarriage at nine weeks. Amurri Martino is a resident of Pound Ridge, New York. Eva Amurri at the Internet Movie Database Eva Amurri at AllMovie Eva Amurri on Twitter
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Academy Awards
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The various category winners are awarded a copy of a golden statuette, officially called the Academy Award of Merit, which has become commonly known by its nickname Oscar. The awards, first presented in 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, are overseen by AMPAS, the awards ceremony was first broadcast on radio in 1930 and televised for the first time in 1953. It is now live in more than 200 countries and can be streamed live online. The Academy Awards ceremony is the oldest worldwide entertainment awards ceremony and its equivalents – the Emmy Awards for television, the Tony Awards for theater, and the Grammy Awards for music and recording – are modeled after the Academy Awards. The 89th Academy Awards ceremony, honoring the best films of 2016, were held on February 26,2017, at the Dolby Theatre, in Los Angeles, the ceremony was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and was broadcast on ABC. A total of 3,048 Oscars have been awarded from the inception of the award through the 88th, the first Academy Awards presentation was held on May 16,1929, at a private dinner function at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel with an audience of about 270 people. The post-awards party was held at the Mayfair Hotel, the cost of guest tickets for that nights ceremony was $5. Fifteen statuettes were awarded, honoring artists, directors and other participants in the industry of the time. The ceremony ran for 15 minutes, winners were announced to media three months earlier, however, that was changed for the second ceremony in 1930. Since then, for the rest of the first decade, the results were given to newspapers for publication at 11,00 pm on the night of the awards. The first Best Actor awarded was Emil Jannings, for his performances in The Last Command and he had to return to Europe before the ceremony, so the Academy agreed to give him the prize earlier, this made him the first Academy Award winner in history. With the fourth ceremony, however, the system changed, for the first six ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned two calendar years. At the 29th ceremony, held on March 27,1957, until then, foreign-language films had been honored with the Special Achievement Award. The 74th Academy Awards, held in 2002, presented the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, since 1973, all Academy Awards ceremonies always end with the Academy Award for Best Picture. The Academy also awards Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, see also § Awards of Merit categories The best known award is the Academy Award of Merit, more popularly known as the Oscar statuette. The five spokes represent the branches of the Academy, Actors, Writers, Directors, Producers. The model for the statuette is said to be Mexican actor Emilio El Indio Fernández, sculptor George Stanley sculpted Cedric Gibbons design. The statuettes presented at the ceremonies were gold-plated solid bronze
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British Academy Film Awards
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The British Academy Film Awards are presented in an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts to honour the best British and international contributions to film. Between 2008 and 2016, the ceremony was held in central London at the Royal Opera House, the 70th British Academy Film Awards were held on 12 February 2017 at the Royal Albert Hall in London. British Academy of Film and Television Arts was founded in 1947 as The British Film Academy, by David Lean, Alexander Korda, Carol Reed, Charles Laughton, Roger Manvell and others. BAFTA stated charitable purpose is to support, develop and promote the art forms of the image, by identifying and rewarding excellence, inspiring practitioners. In addition to awards ceremonies BAFTA runs a year-round programme of educational events including film screenings. BAFTA is supported by a membership of about 6,000 people from the film, television, the Academys awards are in the form of a theatrical mask designed by American sculptor Mitzi Cunliffe, which was commissioned by the Guild of Television Producers in 1955. The ceremony previously took place in April or May and since 2002 it takes place in February in order to precede the Oscars. The awards are open to all nationalities, though there is an award for Outstanding British Film. Only UK films are eligible for the categories of The British Short Film, the Awards ceremony is delayed broadcast on British television the same evening, and across the world for example its shown on BBC America in the United States. It has been broadcast in colour since 1970, the award ceremony is held in London. From 2000 to 2007 the ceremonies took place at the flagship Odeon cinema in Leicester Square, between 2008 and 2016, the ceremonies took place at the Royal Opera House. The 70th Awards in 2017 were held at the Royal Albert Hall, until 2012, the mobile network Orange sponsored the awards and starting in 2013 Oranges parent company, EE, began sponsorship. British Academy of Film and Television Arts British Academy Television Awards Official website BAFTA Awards database Museum of Broadcast Communications, BAFTA IMDB, BAFTA
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Action Against Hunger
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Action Against Hunger is a global humanitarian organization committed to ending world hunger. The organization helps malnourished children whilst providing communities with access to safe water, Action Against Hunger was established in 1979 by a group of French doctors, scientists, and writers. Nobel Prize-winning physicist Alfred Kastler served as the organizations first chairman, the group initially provided assistance to Afghanistan refugees in Pakistan, famine-stricken Ugandan communities, and Cambodian refugees in Thailand. It expanded to address additional humanitarian concerns in Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Action Against Hungers Scientific Committee pioneered the therapeutic milk formula, now used by all major humanitarian aid organizations to treat acute malnutrition. As a result, the mortality rate of severely malnourished children under the age of five has been reduced from 25% to 5%. A few years later, therapeutic milk was repackaged as ready-to-use therapeutic foods and these bars allow for the treatment of malnutrition at home, and do not require any preparation or refrigeration. Action Against Hunger – USA was established in 1997, the international network currently has headquarters in five countries – France, Spain, the United States, Canada, and the UK. Its four main areas of work include nutrition, food security, water and sanitation, Action Against Hungers Restaurants Against Hunger Campaign partners with leaders from the food and beverage industry to bring attention to global hunger. Each year, the campaign funds and support for Action Against Hungers programs
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Joe (1970 film)
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Joe is a 1970 drama film distributed by Cannon Films and starring Peter Boyle, Dennis Patrick and Susan Sarandon in her film debut. The film was directed by John G. Avildsen, advertising executive Bill Compton, his wife Joan, and daughter Melissa are a wealthy family living in New Yorks Upper East Side. Melissa has been living with her drug dealer boyfriend, after Melissa overdoses and is sent to a hospital, Compton goes to her boyfriends apartment to get her clothes. He confronts and kills the boyfriend in a fit of rage, at a nearby bar he hears factory worker Joe Curran ranting about how he hates hippies, and blurts out that he just killed one. Joe reacts favorably, but Compton says it was a joke, a few days later, Joe sees a news report about a drug dealer found slain a few blocks from the bar. He calls Compton and meets him, at first Compton is wary that Joe may be attempting blackmail, but Joe assures him that he admires Compton for killing the drug dealer. They become friends, and Compton and his wife have dinner at Joes house with his wife, Melissa escapes from the hospital and returns to the family apartment, where she overhears her father discussing the murder. She storms out of the apartment house, saying to Compton, What are you gonna do, Compton tries to restrain her, but she breaks away. Joe and Compton search for her, and meet a group of hippies at a bar in downtown Manhattan and they join the hippies at an apartment, where the hippies share their drugs and girlfriends with the pair. They then abscond with drugs brought by Compton, which he had taken from the dealer, as well as Joes. Joe beats one of the girls until she tells him that their boyfriends often spend time in an upstate commune, Joe and Compton drive to that commune, with Joe bringing rifles. In a confrontation at the commune, Joe and Compton kill all the hippies there, the film has garnered both critical acclaim and box office success. Produced on a budget of only $106,000, it grossed over $19.3 million in the United States. Joe received mostly positive reviews critics, earning an 86% Fresh rating on the review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes. Norman Wexlers screenplay received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay, when Peter Boyle saw audience members cheering the violence in Joe, he refused to appear in any other film or television show that glorified violence. This included the role of Jimmy Popeye Doyle in The French Connection, the role would earn Gene Hackman the Oscar for Best Actor. Boyle nevertheless played a ruthless gangster four years later in Crazy Joe, Joe inspired the creation of other tough, working class characters in 70s films and TV shows, including the character of Archie Bunker on the TV show All in the Family. In the 1980s, there were rumors that Peter Boyle might appear in a sequel to Joe, Cannon Films periodically took out ads for unmade sequels to Joe
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Zelda Fitzgerald
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Zelda Fitzgerald was a novelist, American socialite, and the wife of American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. Born in Montgomery, Alabama, she was noted for her beauty and high spirits and she and Scott became emblems of the Jazz Age, for which they are still celebrated. The immediate success of Scotts first novel This Side of Paradise brought them into contact with high society, Ernest Hemingway, whom Zelda disliked, blamed her for Scotts declining literary output, though her extensive diaries provided much material for his fiction. After being diagnosed with depression, she was increasingly confined to specialist clinics. Zelda died 7 years later in a fire at her hospital in Asheville, a 1970 biography by Nancy Milford was on the short list of contenders for the Pulitzer Prize. In 1992, Zelda was inducted into the Alabama Womens Hall of Fame and her life was dramatized in the 2017 TV series Z, The Beginning of Everything. Born in Montgomery, Alabama, Zelda Sayre was the youngest of six children and her mother, Minerva Buckner Minnie Machen, named her after characters in two little-known stories, Jane Howards Zelda, A Tale of the Massachusetts Colony and Robert Edward Francillons Zeldas Fortune. The family was descended from settlers of Long Island, who had moved to Alabama before the Civil War. By the time of Zeldas birth, the Sayres were a prominent Southern family. S and her siblings were Anthony Dickinson Sayre, Jr. Marjorie Sayre, Rosalind Sayre and Clothilde Sayre. As a child, Zelda Sayre was extremely active and she danced, took ballet lessons and enjoyed the outdoors. In 1914, Sayre began attending Sidney Lanier High School and she was bright, but uninterested in her lessons. Her work in ballet continued into high school, where she had a social life. She drank, smoked and spent much of her time with boys, a newspaper article about one of her dance performances quoted her as saying that she cared only about boys and swimming. She developed an appetite for attention, actively seeking to flout convention—whether by dancing the Charleston, or by wearing a tight, flesh-colored bathing suit to fuel rumors that she swam nude. Her fathers reputation was something of a safety net, preventing her social ruin, consequently, Sayres antics were shocking to many of those around her, and she became—along with her childhood friend and future Hollywood starlet Tallulah Bankhead—a mainstay of Montgomery gossip. Her ethos was encapsulated beneath her high-school graduation photo, Why should all life be work, lets think only of today, and not worry about tomorrow. Zelda first met the future novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald in July 1918, when he had volunteered for the army, Scott began to call her daily, and came into Montgomery on his free days. He talked of his plans to be famous, and sent her a chapter of a book he was writing and he was so taken by Zelda that he redrafted the character of Rosalind Connage in This Side of Paradise to resemble her
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a 1975 musical comedy horror film directed by Jim Sharman. The screenplay was written by Sharman and Richard OBrien based on the 1973 musical stage production The Rocky Horror Show, music, book, the production is a parody tribute to the science fiction and horror B movies of the 1930s through early 1970s. The film stars Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Richard OBrien himself, and Barry Bostwick along with cast members from the original Royal Court Theatre, Roxy Theatre, and Belasco Theatre productions. The story centres on a young engaged couple whose car breaks down in the rain near a castle where they seek a telephone to call for help, the castle is occupied by strangers in elaborate costumes celebrating an annual convention. They discover the head of the house is Frank N. Furter, the couple is seduced separately by the mad scientist and eventually released by the servants who take control. The film was shot in the United Kingdom at Bray Studios and on location at an old country estate named Oakley Court, a number of props and set pieces were reused from the Hammer horror films. Although the film is both a parody and tribute to many of the science fiction and horror films, costume designer Sue Blane conducted no research for her designs. Blane stated that costumes from the film have affected the development of punk rock fashion trends such as ripped fishnets. Although largely critically panned on release, it soon became known as a midnight movie when audiences began participating with the film at the Waverly Theater in New York City in 1976. Audience members returned to the cinemas frequently and talked back to the screen and began dressing as the characters, at almost the same time, fans in costume at the Kings Court Theater in Pittsburgh began performing alongside the film. This shadow cast mimed the actions on screen above and behind them, still in limited release four decades after its premiere, it is the longest-running theatrical release in film history. It is often close to Halloween. Today, the film has an international following. It was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 2005, the films creative team also produced Shock Treatment in 1981, a standalone feature using the characters of Brad and Janet and featuring some of the same cast. Seeking a telephone, the walk to a nearby castle where they discover a group of strange. They are soon swept into the world of Dr. Frank N. Furter, the ensemble of convention attendees also includes servants Riff Raff, his sister Magenta, and a groupie named Columbia. In his lab, Frank claims to have discovered the secret to life itself and his creation, Rocky, is brought to life. The ensuing celebration is interrupted by Eddie who rides out of a deep freeze on a motorcycle
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Academy Award for Best Actress
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The Academy Award for Best Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It is given in honor of an actress who has delivered a performance in a leading role while working within the film industry. The 1st Academy Awards ceremony was held in 1929 with Janet Gaynor receiving the award for her roles in 7th Heaven, Street Angel, and Sunrise. Currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the branch of AMPAS. In the first three years of the awards, actresses were nominated as the best in their categories, at that time, all of their work during the qualifying period was listed after the award. The following year, this unwieldy and confusing system was replaced by the current system in which an actress is nominated for a performance in a single film. Starting with the 9th ceremony held in 1937, the category was officially limited to five nominations per year, one actress has been nominated posthumously, Jeanne Eagels. Only three film characters have been nominated more than once in this category, elizabeth I of England, Leslie Crosbie in The Letter, and Esther Blodgett in A Star is Born. Six women on the list have received an Honorary Academy Award for their acting, they are Greta Garbo, Barbara Stanwyck, Mary Pickford, Deborah Kerr, Gena Rowlands, since its inception, the award has been given to 74 actresses. Katharine Hepburn has won the most awards in this category, with four Oscars, meryl Streep, who has a total of 20 Oscar nominations, has been nominated in this category on 16 occasions, resulting in two awards. As of the 2017 ceremony, Emma Stone is the most recent winner in category for her role as Mia Dolan in La La Land. In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of release in Los Angeles County. For the first five ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned twelve months from August 1 to July 31, for the 6th ceremony held in 1934, the eligibility period lasted from August 1,1932 to December 31,1933
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Atlantic City (1980 film)
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Atlantic City is a 1980 French-Canadian romantic crime film directed by Louis Malle. Filmed in late 1979, it was released in France and Germany in 1980, the script was written by John Guare. It stars Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon, Kate Reid, Robert Joy, Hollis McLaren, Michel Piccoli, Sally is a young waitress in an Atlantic City casino who has dreams of becoming a blackjack dealer in Monte Carlo. Dave convinces Lou to sell the cocaine for him, but as Lou sells the first batch, Lou is left with the remaining cocaine and continues to sell to impress Sally, whom he has long pined for, with money. Sally and Lou make love one day, but she returns to her apartment to find it trashed, she has tracked down by Daves killers. They leave, but Lou laments not being able to protect her, Sally is fired from the casino when her late husbands criminal record is discovered. Lou sells the remainder of the cocaine, while both Sally and the mobsters discover Lous affiliation with Dave, the mobsters corner them one night, but are killed when Lou produces a gun and shoots them. He and Sally then steal their car and leave the city and that night, from a hotel outside Atlantic City, they watch the TV news reporting on the killing. A police sketch of the suspect is shown, Lou is overjoyed with relief and pride. He confesses to Sally that this was the first time he had killed anyone. At a motel during the night, Lou takes the phone to the bathroom to call Grace, Lou returns to Atlantic City to be with Grace and continue selling a portion of the cocaine that he had stashed away. Atlantic City was filmed on location in and around Atlantic City and South Jersey, Philadelphia, although filmed in the United States, the film was a co-production between companies based in France and Canada. Aside from Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon, and local extras, the film allowed Canadian actors such as Kate Reid and Al Waxman to successfully transition into American film and television roles. The production companies allotted Louis Malle the money to make a film with the stipulation that it be made before the year 1979 ended, the three met over dinner in early 1979 to work out quirks in the script and began shooting within a few months. Principal photography commenced on October 31,1979 and moved swiftly along finishing by December 30,1979 just in time for the end of the year. Malle filmed at a time in that he was able to capture old Atlantic City, gambling was still in its early stages there. Most of the old resorts and entertainment piers were still standing. Within a couple of years of the filming, most of old hotels would fall victim to the wrecking ball as they were replaced with new casinos
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Thelma & Louise
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Thelma & Louise is a 1991 American road film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Callie Khouri. It stars Geena Davis as Thelma and Susan Sarandon as Louise, the supporting cast include Harvey Keitel, Michael Madsen, and Brad Pitt, whose career was launched by the film. The film became a critical and commercial success, receiving six Academy Award nominations, Scott was nominated for Best Director, and both Sarandon and Davis were nominated for Best Actress. At its release the film stirred controversy, at the intersection of several genres, it is now considered a classic. It influenced other films and artistic works, and became a landmark of feminist film, in 2016, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry, finding it culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. Two friends, Thelma Dickinson and Louise Sawyer, set out for a vacation to take a break from their dreary lives in Arkansas. Thelma is married to a man, Darryl, while Louise works as a waitress in a diner. They head out in Louises 1966 Ford Thunderbird convertible and they stop for a drink at a roadhouse where Thelma meets and dances with Harlan Puckett. Thelma starts to feel sick, so Harlan takes her outside into the lot to get some fresh air. He starts kissing her and taking her clothes off, Thelma resists, but Harlan slaps her and begins to rape her. Louise finds them and threatens to shoot Harlan with a gun that Thelma brought with her, Harlan stops, but as the women walk away, he yells profanities and insults them. Thelma wants to go to the police, but Louise says that because Thelma was drunk and had been dancing with Harlan, afraid that she will be prosecuted, Louise decides to go on the run and Thelma reluctantly accompanies her. Louise is determined to travel from Oklahoma to Mexico, but refuses to go through Texas, something happened to her in Texas years earlier, but she refuses to say exactly what. Heading west, they come across a young man named J. D. Louise contacts her boyfriend Jimmy Lennox and asks him to transfer her life savings to her. When she goes to pick up the money, she finds that Jimmy has come to see her to deliver the money in person, Thelma invites J. D. into her room and learns he is a thief who has broken parole. They sleep together, and J. D. describes how he conducted his hold-ups, at the same time, Jimmy asks Louise to marry him, but she declines. In the morning, Thelma tells Louise about her night with J. D, when they return to the motel room, they discover J. D. has stolen Louises life savings and fled
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The Client (1994 film)
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The Client is a 1994 American legal thriller film directed by Joel Schumacher, and starring Susan Sarandon, Tommy Lee Jones, and Brad Renfro. It is based on the novel of the name by John Grisham. The film was released in the United States on July 20,1994, eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his little brother, Ricky, are smoking cigarettes in the woods near their home when they encounter Mob lawyer Jerome Clifford. Clifford tells Mark that he is about to kill himself to avoid being murdered by Barry The Blade Muldano, Ricky becomes catatonic after witnessing the suicide and is hospitalized. Authorities–and the Mob–realize that Clifford may have told Mark where a Louisiana senator who was murdered by Muldano is buried, Mark meets Regina Reggie Love, a lawyer and recovering alcoholic, who agrees to represent him. They quickly run afoul of Reverend Roy Foltrigg, a celebrated, in the meantime, it is revealed that Sulari never authorized Muldano to kill the senator and wants Muldano to uncover how much the boys know. Muldano is also ordered to move the body, but currently he is unable to because it is buried in Cliffords boathouse, Foltrigg continues to use legal means to get Mark to reveal where the body is hidden, while Sulari orders Muldano to kill the children and Reggie. He also orders the body to be moved once the investigation at Cliffords home is concluded, Mark is threatened in a hospital elevator by a member of the Mafia, and is unable to talk to Foltrigg. Mark and Reggie go to New Orleans to confirm that the body is on Cliffords property, Reggie intends to use this information to broker a deal with Foltrigg to get Ricky specialized medical care and place the family in the witness protection program. Reggie and Mark arrive at Cliffords house the night as Muldano. They are digging up the body, but a melee follows when Mark, Muldano and the others flee after Reggie trips the neighbors alarm. Foltrigg agrees to Reggies demands in exchange for information about the bodys location, before the Sway family leaves to restart their lives under new identities, Mark and Reggie share a heartfelt goodbye. Although not explicitly stated, Sulari has had enough of Muldano, with the body recovered, Foltrigg is a lock-in for the media headlines he craves, and mentions that he intends to run for governor. The film was a success, earning $92,115,211 at the North American domestic box office. The film received positive reviews. Rotten Tomatoes retrospectively collected reviews from 35 critics to give the film a score of 80%, roger Ebert gave the film a score of 2.5 out of 4. For her work in the film, Sarandon was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress, ^ Spelled Muldanno in the original novel. The Client at the Internet Movie Database The Client at AllMovie
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Dead Man Walking (film)
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Sister Helen Prejean establishes a special relationship with Matthew Poncelet, a prisoner on death row in Louisiana, acting as his spiritual adviser after carrying on correspondence with him. Matthew Poncelet has been in prison for six years, awaiting his execution after being sentenced to death for killing a teenage couple, Poncelet, held in the Louisiana State Penitentiary, committed the crimes with a man named Carl Vitello, who was sentenced to life imprisonment. As the day of his execution comes closer, Poncelet asks Sister Helen, with whom he has corresponded and he is arrogant, sexist, and racist, not even pretending to feel any kind of remorse. He affirms his innocence, insisting Vitello killed the two teenagers, convincing an experienced attorney to take on Poncelets case pro bono, Sister Helen tries to have his sentence commuted to life imprisonment. After many visits, she establishes a relationship with him. At the same time, she gets to know Poncelet’s mother, Lucille, the families do not understand Sister Helens efforts to help Poncelet, claiming she is taking his side. Instead they desire absolute justice—his life for the lives of their children, Sister Helen’s application for a pardon is declined. Poncelet asks Sister Helen to be his spiritual adviser through the day of execution, Sister Helen tells Poncelet that his redemption is possible only if he takes responsibility for what he did. Just before he is taken from his cell, Poncelet admits to Sister Helen that he killed the boy, as he is prepared for execution, he appeals to the boys father for forgiveness and tells the girls parents he hopes his death brings them peace. Poncelet is executed by lethal injection and later given a proper burial, the murdered boys father attends the ceremony still filled with hate, but shortly after begins to pray with Sister Helen, ending the film. His brother, David Robbins, composed the score, the film was well received by critics. Rotten Tomatoes gives it a 95% positive rating based on reviews from 57 critics, metacritic gives it a rating of 80/100 based on reviews from 26 critics, indicating Generally favorable reviews. Hal Hinson of The Washington Post commented, What this intelligent, balanced, roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film four stars, his highest rating, and called it absorbing, surprising, technically superb and worth talking about for a long time afterward. At the Golden Globes, Sarandon and Penn received nominations for their acting while Robbins received one for best screenplay, at the 46th Berlin International Film Festival, Penn won the Silver Bear for Best Actor. With a budget of $11 million, the film grossed $39,387,284 domestically and $43,701,011 internationally, in 2002, Tim Robbins, who adapted the book for the film, also wrote a stage version of Dead Man Walking
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Pretty Baby (1978 film)
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Pretty Baby is a 1978 American historical drama film directed by Louis Malle, and starring Brooke Shields, Keith Carradine, and Susan Sarandon. The screenplay was written by Polly Platt, the plot focuses on a 12-year-old prostitute in the red-light district of New Orleans at the turn of the 20th century. The title of the film is inspired by the Tony Jackson song, Pretty Baby, although the film was mostly praised by critics, it caused significant controversy due to its depiction of child prostitution and the nude scenes of Brooke Shields, who was 12 years old. Hattie has given birth to a boy and has a 12-year-old daughter, Violet. When photographer Ernest J. Bellocq comes with his camera, Hattie and he asks to be allowed to take photographs of the women. Madame Nell agrees only after he offers to pay, Bellocq becomes a fixture in the brothel, photographing the prostitutes, mostly Hattie. His activities fascinate Violet, though she believes he is falling in love with her mother, Violet is a restless child, frustrated by the long, precise process Bellocq must go through to pose and take pictures. Nell decides that Violet is old enough for her virginity to be auctioned off, after a bidding war among regulars, Violet is bought by an apparently quiet customer. This first sexual experience is unpleasant, Hattie, meanwhile, aspires to escape prostitution. She marries a customer and leaves for St. Louis without her daughter, Hattie promises to return for Violet, once she’s settled and has broken the news to the new spouse. Violet runs away from the brothel after being punished for some hijinks and she appears on Bellocq’s doorstep and asks him if he will sleep with her and take care of her. He initially says no, but then the two become lovers, in some ways, their relationship resembles one between a parent and child, with Bellocq standing in for Violets absent mother. Bellocq even buys Violet a doll, telling her that every child should have a doll, Bellocq is entranced by Violet’s beauty, youth, and photogenic face. She is frustrated by Bellocq’s devotion to his photography, as much as he is frustrated by her lack of maturity, Violet eventually returns to Nell’s after quarreling with Bellocq, but social reform groups are forcing the brothels of Storyville to close. Bellocq arrives to wed Violet, ostensibly to protect her from the larger world, two weeks after the wedding, Hattie and her husband arrive from St. Louis to collect Violet, claiming that her marriage is illegal without their consent. Bellocq does not want to let Violet go, Violet asks if he will go with her and her family. Upon hearing that she does in fact want to go with them, he lets her leave him, realizing that schooling. ABC Records released a soundtrack of the films score, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Original Music Score in the Adaptation Score category
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The Hunger (1983 film)
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The Hunger is a 1983 British-American erotic horror film directed by Tony Scott, and starring Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, and Susan Sarandon. It is the story of a triangle between a doctor who specialises in sleep and aging research and a vampire couple. The film is a adaptation of the 1981 novel of the same name by Whitley Strieber, with a screenplay by Ivan Davis and Michael Thomas. The film was screened out of competition at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival, Miriam Blaylock is a vampire, promising specially chosen humans eternal life as her vampire lovers. As the film begins, her companion is John, a talented cellist whom she married in 18th century France, in a night club in New York, they connect with a young couple who they bring home and feed upon by slashing their throats with a bladed Ankh pendant. The bodies are disposed of by an incinerator in the basement of John and Miriams elegant New York townhouse, approximately 200 years after his turning, John begins suffering insomnia and ages years in only a few days. John realizes Miriams promise that periodically killing and feeding upon human victims would give him eternal youth was only true, he will have eternal life. Sarah assumes that John is a hypochondriac or mentally unbalanced and ignores his pleas for help, as John leaves the clinic in a rage, Sarah is horrified to see how rapidly he is aging. John rebuffs her once she tries to help him, one of the Blaylocks students, Alice Cavender, drops by their townhouse to say that she cannot attend the next days lesson. In a last attempt to regain his youth, John murders and feeds upon Alice, John begs Miriam to kill him and release him from the agony of his decrepit body. Weeping, Miriam tells him there is no release, after John collapses in the basement, Miriam carries him into the attic full of coffins and places him in one. Like John, Miriams former vampire lovers suffer an eternal living death, helplessly moaning, later, a police official comes to the residence, looking for the missing Alice. Miriam feigns ignorance and claims that her husband is in Switzerland, Sarah comes looking for John at his home but only finds Miriam, who now feels alone after losing both John and Alice. The two have an encounter, during which Miriam bites her arm and some of Miriams blood enters Sarahs body. Miriam attempts to initiate Sarah in the necessities of life as a vampire, Sarah returns home and goes out to dinner with Tom, who becomes argumentative about her 3-hour disappearance at the Blaylock residence, of which she is strangely quiet. The next day at the lab, the team investigates Sarahs blood by Toms authority, confused, Sarah returns to confront Miriam about her sudden changes. Still reeling from the effects of her transformation, Sarah allows Miriam to put her to bed in a guest room. Tom arrives on Miriams doorstep, trying to find Sarah, Miriam shows him to the upstairs bedroom
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The Witches of Eastwick (film)
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The Witches of Eastwick is a 1987 American comedy-fantasy film based on John Updikes novel of the same name. Directed by George Miller, the film stars Jack Nicholson as Daryl Van Horne, alongside Cher, Michelle Pfeiffer, alexandra Medford, Jane Spofford, and Sukie Ridgemont are three dissatisfied women living in the picturesque town of Eastwick, Rhode Island. The three friends all have lost their husbands, unaware that they are witches, the women unwittingly form a coven where they have weekly get-togethers and share their fantasies about ideal men. A mysterious man arrives in town and stirs up trouble by buying the towns landmark property, the arrival of this enigmatic stranger fascinates the townsfolk, all except for Felicia Alden, the devoutly religious wife of newspaper editor Clyde Alden, Sukies boss. Felicia senses that this man is up to no good, one night, at one of Janes music recitals, the strange man appears and makes a spectacle of himself, which leads to more gossip. After the recital, Jane receives a bouquet of flowers with the initial D written on it and this sparks Sukies memory, finally revealing the mans name as Daryl Van Horne. However, as chaos over the name spreads through the crowd, Sukies bead necklace inexplicably breaks and falls to the floor, causing Felicia to trip down a large staircase, the following day, Daryl sets out to seduce Alex. As he converses with her, he says insensitive, disgusting, appalled, she tells him off, refuses his amorous advances, and begins to walk out. Before she opens the door, he speaks to her, manipulating her emotions until she eventually agrees, the next morning, Daryl visits the shy and insecure Jane. As the two sit down and share polite conversation, Jane explains that the Lennox Mansion was built on a site where alleged witches were burned at the stake, the following week, Daryl invites all three of the women to his mansion, his sights now on Sukie. Later, as envy and rivalry emerge among the women, they inadvertently levitate a tennis ball, finally aware of their magical abilities, the women agree to share Daryl. As the women spend time at Daryls mansion, Felicia spreads rumors about their indecency. Alex, Jane, and Sukie become social outcasts, as the witches begin to question their loyalty to Daryl, he causes them to unknowingly cast a spell against Felicia. Later that night, while ranting to her husband about Daryl being the Devil, horrified by her uncontrollable behavior, Clyde kills her with a fire poker. After Felicias death, the three women become fearful of their powers and agree to each other and Daryl until the situation has quieted down. Upset by this abandonment, Daryl uses his own powers to bring their worst fears to life, Alex awakens to a bed full of snakes, Janes body begins rapidly aging, and Sukie experiences sudden, agonizing pain. Realizing the only way to get rid of Daryl is by using witchcraft against him, the next morning, Daryl sets out to buy bagels and ice cream, as per the request of the three women. While he is out of the mansion, Alex uses wax & Daryls hair to create a doll in his image
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Bull Durham
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Bull Durham is a 1988 American romantic comedy sports film. The film stars Kevin Costner as Crash Davis, a catcher brought in to teach rookie pitcher Ebby Calvin Nuke LaLoosh about the game in preparation for reaching the major leagues. Baseball groupie Annie Savoy romances Nuke but finds herself attracted to Crash. Also featured are Robert Wuhl and Trey Wilson, as well as popular baseball clown Max Patkin, even so, many cast members accepted salaries lower than their usual requirements due to their enthusiasm for the material. Costner was cast because of his athletic ability. During filming, Costner was able to hit two home runs while the cameras were rolling, Bull Durham was a commercial success, grossing over $50 million in North America, well above its estimated budget, and was a critical success as well. Sports Illustrated ranked it the #1 Greatest Sports Movie of all time, the Moving Arts Film Journal ranked it #3 on its list of the 25 Greatest Sports Movies of All-Time. In addition, the film is ranked #55 on Bravos 100 Funniest Movies and it is also ranked #97 on the American Film Institutes 100 Years.100 Laughs list, and #1 on Rotten Tomatoes list of the 53 best-reviewed sports movies of all time. Crash immediately begins calling Ebby by the nickname of Meat. Annie flirts with both Crash and Ebby and invites them to her house, but Crash walks out, saying hes too much a veteran to try out for anything. Before he leaves, Crash further sparks Annies interest with a memorable speech listing the things he believes in, ending with I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days. Despite some animosity between them, Annie and Crash work, in their own ways, to shape Ebby into a big-league pitcher, Annie plays mild bondage games, reads poetry to him, and gets him to think in different ways. Crash forces Nuke to learn not to think by letting the catcher make the pitching calls, Crash also talks about the pleasure of life in The Show, which he briefly lived for the 21 greatest days of my life and to which he has tried for years to return. After a rough start, Nuke becomes a dominant pitcher by mid-season, by the end of the movie, Nuke is called up to the majors. This incites jealous anger in Crash, who is frustrated by Nukes failure to recognize all the talent he was blessed with, Nuke leaves for the big leagues, Annie ends their relationship, and Crash overcomes his jealousy to leave Nuke with some final words of advice. The Bulls, now having no use for his mentor, release Crash, Crash then presents himself at Annies house and the two consummate their attraction with a weekend-long lovemaking session. Crash then leaves Annies house to seek a further minor-league position, Crash joins another team, the Asheville Tourists, and breaks the minor-league record for career home runs. We see Nuke one last time, being interviewed by the press as a major leaguer, Crash then retires as a player and returns to Durham, where Annie tells him shes ready to give up her annual affairs with boys
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White Palace (film)
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White Palace is a 1990 American romantic drama film directed by Luis Mandoki and starring Susan Sarandon, James Spader, Jason Alexander, Kathy Bates, Steven Hill, Jeremy Piven, and Renee Taylor. It was written by Ted Tally and Alvin Sargent, based on an novel by Glenn Savan. It centers on the relationship between a young upper middle class widower who falls in love with a middle-aged working class waitress in St. Louis. The original music score was composed by George Fenton, the film is marketed with the tagline The story of a younger man and a bolder woman. 27-year-old St. Louis advertising executive, Max Baron, has shut himself off from the world in the two years since the auto accident that killed his wife Janey. On the way to his friends party, Neil, Max picks up 50 burgers from a diner called White Palace. At the party, he discovers that the order is six burgers short and, to the ridicule of his friends, in a moment that defines his initial character, Max declares, Its the principle. He is roundly mocked by his cohorts, at the White Palace diner, after a heated exchange occurs between Max and a 43-year-old waitress, Nora Baker, she exasperatedly refunds him. Max returns to the party but leaves upset and heads to a bar, drunk, she flirts with him, but he pushes her advances away and starts to leave. She senses hes upset, asks why, and discovers his wife died in a car crash and she discloses that she lost her young son to leukemia. The connection prevents him from leaving and they have a few drinks and eventually he gives her a lift home to East St. Louis, but drunkenly crashes his car into her mailbox. She invites him to spend the night at her house, with the couch as his bed, Max starts dreaming about his late wife, then wakes up to find Nora performing fellatio on him. They end up having passionate sex, after visiting his wifes grave on the second anniversary of her death, Max returns to White Palace to watch a busy Nora from a distance. He visits her at home with the pretext of replacing the broken mailbox, Max becomes more relaxed and cheerful around Nora and at his work, but remains reluctant to reveal their relationship to his family and friends. At one point, he gets frustrated that all he and Nora do are sit and she firmly reminds him of their differences in age and social backgrounds. Nora is angry after Max has lied to her about his friend Neils wedding and they argue about how Max keeps their relationship a secret and that he is probably ashamed of being seen with her. Noras sister, Judy, meets Max the following day and explains to him, in Noras absence, how they were abandoned as children, Judy also explains that Noras son drowned. While at the supermarket with Nora, Max leaves her at the counter and runs into Neils wife, Rachel, at Maxs apartment, Nora hears a message on his answering machine inviting them to the Horowitzs for Thanksgiving
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Little Women (1994 film)
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Little Women is a 1994 American family drama film directed by Gillian Armstrong. The screenplay by Robin Swicord is based on the 1868 Louisa May Alcott novel of the same name. It is the feature film adaptation of the Alcott classic, following silent versions released in 1917 and 1918, a 1933 George Cukor-directed release. It was released exclusively on December 21,1994, and was released four days later on December 25,1994. The film focuses on the March sisters, beautiful Meg, tempestuous Jo, tender Beth, and romantic Amy, with their father away fighting in the war, the girls struggle with major and minor problems under the guidance of their strong-willed mother, affectionately called Marmee. As a means of escaping some of their problems, the sisters revel in performing in plays written by Jo in their attic theater. Living next door to the family is wealthy Mr. Laurence, whose grandson Theodore, nicknamed Laurie, moves in with him and becomes a close friend of the March family, particularly Jo. Mr. Laurence becomes a mentor for Beth, whose exquisite piano-playing reminds him of his deceased daughter, Mr. March is wounded in the war and Marmee is called away to nurse him. While Marmee is away, Beth contracts scarlet fever from a neighbors infant, awaiting Marmees return, Meg and Jo send Amy away to live in safety with their Aunt March. Prior to Beths illness, Jo had been Aunt Marchs companion for several years, when Beths condition worsens, Marmee is summoned home and nurses her to recovery just in time for Christmas. Mr. Laurence gives his daughters piano to Beth, Meg accepts John Brookes proposal, four years pass, Meg and John marry, and Beths health is deteriorating steadily. Laurie graduates from college, proposes to Jo and asks her to go to London with him, Jo later deals with the added disappointment that Aunt March has decided to take Amy, who is now sixteen, with her to Europe instead of her. Crushed, Jo departs for New York City to pursue her dream of writing and experiencing life, in Europe, Amy is reunited with Laurie. She is disappointed to find he has become dissolute and irresponsible, in return, he bitterly rebukes her for courting one of his wealthy college friends in order to marry into money. He leaves Amy a letter asking her to wait for him while he works in London for his grandfather, Jo is summoned home to see Beth, who finally dies of the lingering effects of scarlet fever that have plagued her for the past four years. Grieving for her sister, Jo retreats to the comfort of the attic, upon its completion, she sends it to Professor Bhaer. Meanwhile, Meg gives birth to twins Demi and Daisy, a letter from Amy informs the family Aunt March is too ill to travel, so Amy must remain in Europe with her. In London, Laurie receives a letter from Jo in which she informs him of Beths death and mentions Amy is in Vevey, Laurie immediately travels to be at Amys side
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Stepmom (film)
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Stepmom is a 1998 comedy-drama directed by Chris Columbus and starring Julia Roberts, Susan Sarandon, and Ed Harris. Sarandon won the San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress and Harris won the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor, sharing the win with his role in The Truman Show. Jackie and Luke Harrison are a divorced New York City couple struggling to help their children Anna, Luke, an attorney, is living with his new girlfriend, Isabel Kelly, a successful fashion photographer several years his junior. Isabel behaves with contempt tempered by caution around Jackie, believing she overcompensates for her divorce by spoiling her children, Jackie, a former publisher turned stay-at-home mom, gives Isabel a cold reception, seeing her as an overly ambitious career woman. She also continues to harbor malice towards Luke, as seen in a confrontation about Isabel, after a long string of arguments and hurt feelings involving Isabel, Jackie, and Anna, Luke proposes to Isabel, making her Anna and Bens soon-to-be official stepmother. Jackie is diagnosed with lymphoma, which is discovered to be terminal, Luke and Jackie later tell the children about the engagement, and Anna is furious. Jackie tells Luke and the children about her illness, resulting in Anna storming out and that night Jackie shows that she can be fun by dancing and singing with Anna and Ben. Isabel and Anna continue to clash, Isabel gets the children a golden retriever puppy, and Anna says that she is allergic to dogs. Surprised, Isabel apologizes and says that her father didnt tell her that, after another argument between the two, Anna takes the dog inside her room, indicating she lied about her allergy. Eventually, Isabel and Annas relationship improves and they start to bond over painting, when Isabel teaches Anna how to paint trees. Jackie and Isabel disagree repeatedly, largely over Isabels parenting, Ben goes missing on Isabels watch and Jackie claims that she has never lost him, which she later admits to be untrue. When Anna has problems with a boy she liked, the two women give opposite advice, causing more tension between Jackie and Isabel. They manage to establish a truce, as they come to terms that Isabel will soon step into the role of a surrogate mother. The two women finally bond when Isabel reveals her admiration of Jackies maternal instincts, while Jackie in turn praises Isabels hipness as a means to connect with Anna. Isabel finally lets her guard down when she tells Jackie her biggest fear is that on Annas wedding day, Jackie says her own fear is that Anna will forget her. Jackie explains to Isabel that, while Jackie will always have their past, the film ends with the family celebrating Christmas. Jackie, who is bedridden, is visited in her room by Ben, individually, Jackie tells her children that though she will die, she will remain with them as long as they remember her. Later that day, Isabel is taking a portrait of Luke
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Enchanted (film)
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Enchanted is a 2007 American live-action/animated musical fantasy romantic comedy film, produced by Walt Disney Pictures with New York Academy Barry Sonnenfeld and Josephson Entertainment. Written by Bill Kelly and directed by Kevin Lima, the film stars Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey, James Marsden, Timothy Spall, Idina Menzel, Rachel Covey, and Susan Sarandon. The plot focuses on Giselle, an archetypal Disney Princess, who is forced from her traditional animated world of Andalasia into the world of New York City. Enchanted was the first Disney film to be distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures and it marks the return of traditional animation to a Disney feature film after the companys decision to move entirely to computer animation in 2004. Composer Alan Menken and lyricist Stephen Schwartz, who had songs for previous Disney films, produced the songs of Enchanted. The animation sequences were produced at James Baxter Animation in Pasadena, filming of the live action segments took place around New York City. It premiered on October 20,2007, at the London Film Festival before its release on November 21,2007. Enchanted was well-received critically, established Adams as a leading lady and it won three Saturn Awards, including Best Fantasy Film and Best Actress for Adams. Enchanted also received two nominations at the 65th Golden Globe Awards and three Best Original Song nominations at the 80th Academy Awards and she enlists her loyal henchman Nathaniel to keep Edward distracted. Giselle, a woman, dreams of meeting a prince. Edward hears Giselle singing and sets off to find her, Nathaniel sets free a captured troll to kill Giselle, but Edward rescues her in time. When they meet, they fall in love and plan to get married the following day. Meanwhile, Robert, a lawyer, prepares to propose to his longtime girlfriend Nancy. Robert and Morgan encounter Giselle on their way home, and Robert begrudgingly allows Giselle to stay the night at their apartment at the insistence of Morgan, Narissa sends Nathaniel to follow and impede Edward. In a restaurant, Narissa appears to Nathaniel in a soup pot, Pip eavesdrops but is unable to communicate with Edward, as animals cannot speak outside of Andalasia. Nathaniel keeps Pip silenced by imprisoning him in various containers, meanwhile, after Giselle summons vermin to clean Roberts apartment, Nancy arrives to take Morgan to school. She meets Giselle and then angrily leaves assuming Robert was unfaithful, Robert is initially upset but spends the day with Giselle, knowing she is vulnerable in the city. Giselle questions Robert about his relationship with Nancy and helps the pair reconcile by sending Nancy an invitation to the King and she also begins to win Robert over with her sunny disposition and optimism, even inadvertently helping one of his clients reconcile with his wife
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The Lovely Bones (film)
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The Lovely Bones is a 2009 supernatural drama film directed by Peter Jackson and stars Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci, Michael Imperioli, and Saoirse Ronan. Jackson and his producer partners acquired the rights independently and developed a script on their own, principal photography began in October 2007 in New Zealand and Pennsylvania, United States. After DreamWorks left the project, Paramount became the sole distributor. The films trailer was released on August 4,2009, the Lovely Bones was first released on December 26,2009, in New Zealand, and then internationally in January 2010. The films North American release date was changed multiple times, with a release on December 11,2009. In the films opening weekend, in limited release, it grossed $116,616, the Lovely Bones grossed over $44 million in North America. In 1973, 14-year-old Susie Salmon dreams about becoming a photographer, one day, Ray, a boy she has a crush on, approaches her at school and asks her out. As Susie walks home through a cornfield, she runs into her neighbor, George Harvey, inside, Susie becomes uncomfortable and attempts to leave, when he grabs her, the scene fades until she is seen rushing past classmate Ruth Connors, apparently fleeing Harveys den. The Salmons become worried when Susie fails to return home from school and her father, Jack, searches for her, while her mother, Abigail, waits for the police. In town, Susie sees Jack, but he does not respond to her when she calls, Susie runs home to find Harvey soaking in a bathtub. After seeing her hanging on the sink faucet near a bloody shaving razor. Screaming, she is pulled into the In-Between, that is neither Heaven nor Earth, from there, Susie watches over her loved ones, unable to let go despite the urging of her new afterlife friend, Holly. Investigating Susies disappearance with Detective Fenerman, Jack thinks Susie was murdered by someone she knew and he researches neighbors and comes to think Harvey is the killer. Fenerman is unable to find any evidence pinpointing Harvey as a suspect, Susies sister, Lindsey, agrees with Jacks suspicions, but their casework takes a toll on Abigail, and Jack invites Abigails alcoholic mother, Lynn, to move in with them. Feeling alienated from her husband, Abigail leaves for California, one night, Jack, carrying a bat, trails Harvey into the cornfield. However, Jack accidentally stumbles across Susies friend, Clarissa and her boyfriend, who mistakenly thinks his girlfriend is being assaulted, nearly bludgeons Jack to death as Harvey watches from a hiding spot. As Jack recuperates, Lindsey breaks into Harveys house looking for evidence that he killed Susie, upstairs, she finds a notebook containing a sketch of the den, a lock of Susies hair, and news articles about Susies disappearance. Harvey returns home and almost catches Lindsey in his house, not wishing to spoil her parents reunion, she gives the book to her grandmother, who contacts the police
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Tammy (film)
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Tammy is a 2014 American comedy film directed and co-written by Ben Falcone and produced, co-written by, and starring Melissa McCarthy as the title character. The film also stars Susan Sarandon, Allison Janney, Gary Cole, Mark Duplass, Dan Aykroyd, the film received negative reviews from critics, but was a box office success, grossing over $100 million from a $20 million budget. In Murphysboro, Illinois, Tammy Banks strikes a deer on the way to her job at Topper Jacks, once she arrives at Topper Jacks, her supervisor, Keith Morgan, is forced to fire her for her frequent tardiness. Upon leaving, Tammy indignantly contaminates and steals food, after her car stalls on the way home on Illinois Route 13, she walks home to find her husband, Greg, eating a romantic meal with their neighbor, Missi. Upset, Tammy leaves and walks two doors down to her parents house and she tells her mother, Deb, about her plans to leave and takes her grandmother Pearls car. Tammy initially refuses but ultimately agrees when Pearl proves that she has a sum of cash. Tammy has beer with Pearl, and the morning they wake up near a park where Pearl convinces Tammy not to go back home. Pearl wants to go to Niagara Falls with Tammy since she hadnt gone as a child, along the way the two stop in a bar in Louisville, Kentucky, Tammy meets Earl Tillman and his son Bobby, and Earl hooks up with Pearl. Tammy and Bobby begin to make a connection as Pearl and Earl drunkenly make out in the car. Bobby gives Tammy his number to him so he can pick up Earl. Back at the hotel, Tammy is forced to sleep outside, the next morning, Bobby picks up Earl, and the two leave. Tammy, infuriated with Pearl, leaves her, but returns after feeling guilty, Tammy and Pearl are arrested after Pearl gets caught buying a case of beer for two teenagers as well as shoplifting a pint of whiskey for herself. Tammy is released, but Pearl stays at the jail for possessing illegal prescription drugs, to bail out Pearl, Tammy robs a Topper Jacks, where she converses with employees Becky and Larry. Finally having obtained the money, she rushes to the prison to bail Pearl out, with the help of Pearls wealthy lesbian cousin Lenore, they destroy the car to hide the evidence from the robbery. The two then stay at the home of Lenore and her wife, Susanne, at a 4th of July party thrown at the house, Pearl gets drunk and humiliates Tammy by making rude comments about her weight and appearance in front of all the guests. She tells Tammy that if she wants to make things better for herself she needs to work hard to make it happen, later in the morning, Tammy brings coffee to Pearl, who is presumably asleep outside. After repeatedly trying to wake her, Pearl does not wake up and she, Lenore, and Susanne grieve Pearls death, but Pearl suddenly awakens, much to everyones shock. Pearl was actually due to the large amount of alcohol she drank the previous night
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Broadway theatre
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Along with Londons West End theatres, Broadway theatres are widely considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world. The Theater District is a popular tourist attraction in New York City, the great majority of Broadway shows are musicals. They presented Shakespeare plays and ballad operas such as The Beggars Opera, in 1752, William Hallam sent a company of twelve actors from Britain to the colonies with his brother Lewis as their manager. They established a theatre in Williamsburg, Virginia and opened with The Merchant of Venice, the company moved to New York in the summer of 1753, performing ballad operas and ballad-farces like Damon and Phillida. The Revolutionary War suspended theatre in New York, but thereafter theatre resumed in 1798, the Bowery Theatre opened in 1826, followed by others. Blackface minstrel shows, a distinctly American form of entertainment, became popular in the 1830s, by the 1840s, P. T. Barnum was operating an entertainment complex in lower Manhattan. In 1829, at Broadway and Prince Street, Niblos Garden opened, the 3, 000-seat theatre presented all sorts of musical and non-musical entertainments. In 1844, Palmos Opera House opened and presented opera for four seasons before bankruptcy led to its rebranding as a venue for plays under the name Burtons Theatre. The Astor Opera House opened in 1847, booth played the role for a famous 100 consecutive performances at the Winter Garden Theatre in 1865, and would later revive the role at his own Booths Theatre. Other renowned Shakespeareans who appeared in New York in this era were Henry Irving, Tommaso Salvini, Fanny Davenport, lydia Thompson came to America in 1868 heading a small theatrical troupe, adapting popular English burlesques for middle-class New York audiences. Thompsons troupe called the British Blondes, was the most popular entertainment in New York during the 1868–1869 theatrical season, the six-month tour ran for almost six extremely profitable years. Theatre in New York moved from downtown gradually to midtown beginning around 1850, in 1870, the heart of Broadway was in Union Square, and by the end of the century, many theatres were near Madison Square. Broadways first long-run musical was a 50-performance hit called The Elves in 1857, New York runs continued to lag far behind those in London, but Laura Keenes musical burletta The Seven Sisters shattered previous New York records with a run of 253 performances. It was at a performance by Keenes troupe of Our American Cousin in Washington, the production was a staggering five-and-a-half hours long, but despite its length, it ran for a record-breaking 474 performances. The same year, The Black Domino/Between You, Me and the Post was the first show to call itself a musical comedy, Tony Pastor opened the first vaudeville theatre one block east of Union Square in 1881, where Lillian Russell performed. Comedians Edward Harrigan and Tony Hart produced and starred in musicals on Broadway between 1878 and 1890, with book and lyrics by Harrigan and music by his father-in-law David Braham. They starred high quality singers, instead of the women of repute who had starred in earlier musical forms. Plays could run longer and still draw in the audiences, leading to better profits, as in England, during the latter half of the century, the theatre began to be cleaned up, with less prostitution hindering the attendance of the theatre by women
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Drama Desk Award
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Broadway productions were excluded until the 1968–69 award season. The awards are considered a significant American theatre distinction and they debuted the presentations of the Vernon Rice Awards. The name honors the New York Post critic Vernon Rice, who had pioneered Off-Broadway coverage in the New York press, the name was changed for the 1963–1964 awards season to the Drama Desk Awards. In 1974, the Drama Desk became incorporated as a not-for-profit organization, in 1975, the Drama announcement of winners included the nominees as well. The Drama Desk has more than 100 members, including critics, reporters and editors who cover New York theater. Membership consists of two categories, Active membership and Participating Membership, all of the Drama Desk officers and Nominating Committee members perform their various services for the organization on a voluntary basis. The Nominating Committee generally meets twice a month to discuss the many eligible shows members are responsible for seeing and they then nominate the productions on which the entire membership will vote. What sets the organization apart is that the awards are voted on by people only without any vested interests in the results. Previous winners include Bernadette Peters, Dustin Hoffman, Al Pacino, over the last 36 years, the Drama Desk Awards have contributed to the ongoing success of major stars, playwrights and designers, while also identifying newcomers. The Drama Desk was the first New York theater organization to give awards to talents such as Edward Albee, Wendy Wasserstein, plays like Driving Miss Daisy, Other Peoples Money, Steel Magnolias, and The Boys in the Band built momentum with the help of Drama Desk wins. In 2010 William Wolf was announced as the President of Drama Desk, the current managing executive producer of the Drama Desk Awards is Gretchen Shugart, and the president of the Drama Desk is Charles Wright. David Barbour is chairperson of the nominating committee, in keeping with its original mission, the organization sponsors guest panel luncheons with theater professionals. Panels address topics of current interest, covering the season on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway, with the aim of prompting informative and stimulating discussion
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Exit the King
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Exit the King is an absurdist drama by Eugène Ionesco that premiered in 1962. It is the third in Ionescos Berenger Cycle, preceded by The Killer and Rhinocéros, in the other plays of the Berenger Cycle, Berenger appears as a depressed and insecure everyman who is prone to sentimentality. In Exit the King, he is the solipsistic and belligerent King Berenger the First who was apparently at one point able to command nature, according to his first wife he is over four hundred years old. He is informed early in the play that he is dying, and he has lost the power to control his surroundings and is slowly losing his physical capabilities as well. Through much of the play, he is in denial of his death, Berenger’s first wife, Marguerite, along with the Doctor, tries to make Berenger face the reality of his impending death. Berenger’s second wife, Marie, sympathetically attempts to keep Berenger from the pain of knowing his death is imminent, the king lapses into Berenger’s normal sentimentality and eventually accepts that he is going to die. The characters disappear one by one, eventually leaving the king, now speechless, Marguerite and then the king disappear into darkness as the play ends. Exit the King is unusual among Ionesco’s works in that the plot is linear, often in Ionescos plays, the stage is filled with more and more objects or characters, in Rhinoceros, for example, there are gradually more and more rhinoceroses. In this play, however, the kingdom and all the characters slowly disappear, likewise, the language is generally more straight forward and comprehensible, eschewing Ionesco’s tendency toward abundant clichés and nonsense. Ionesco told Claude Bonnefoy in a 1966 interview that Exit the King did not originate in a dream as many of his plays did, he’s given up the avant-garde, he’s turning classical. It wasn’t a question of choosing between classicism and the avant-garde, I had quite simply written in a different style because I was on a different level of consciousness”. Ionesco also said the play was composed while he was ill and he was inspired partly by a childhood obsession with death in which Ionesco believed one could simply avoid being sick and live forever. Exit the King was written to be a kind of lesson in death, “I told myself that one could learn to die, that I could learn to die, that one can also help other people to die. This seems to me to be the most important thing we can do and this play is an attempt at an apprenticeship in dying”. Les Essif in Empty Figure on an Empty Stage points out that Exit the King comes closest of all Ionesco’s plays to the paradigm of absurdism established by Samuel Beckett, the vertical axis of the subjective abyss runs counter to the horizontality of the external world”. The play was filmed for television in 1978 in a directed by Yves-André Hubert. A production of Exit the King was mounted by Company B in 2007 directed by Neil Armfield, the production also formed part of the 2007 Malthouse Theatre season in Melbourne and was one of the plays in the VCE curriculum drama students could choose to analyse. The play opened on Broadway in an engagement at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, with previews starting March 7,2009, opening March 26
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Emmy Award
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An Emmy Award, or simply Emmy, recognizes excellence in the television industry, and corresponds to the Academy Award, the Tony Award, and the Grammy Award. Because Emmy Awards are given in various sectors of the American television industry, Regional Emmy Awards are also presented throughout the country at various times through the year, recognizing excellence in local and statewide television. In addition, International Emmys are awarded for excellence in TV programming produced, each is responsible for administering a particular set of Emmy ceremonies. The Los Angeles-based Academy of Television Arts & Sciences established the Emmy Award as part of an image-building and public relations opportunity. The first Emmy Awards ceremony took place on January 25,1949, at the Hollywood Athletic Club, shirley Dinsdale has the distinction of receiving the very first Emmy Award for Most Outstanding Television Personality, during that first awards ceremony. In the 1950s, the ATAS expanded the Emmys into a national event, in 1955, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences was formed in New York City as a sister organization to serve members on the East Coast, and help to also supervise the Emmys. The NATAS also established regional chapters throughout the United States, with each one developing their own local Emmy awards show for local programming, the ATAS still however maintained its separate regional ceremony honoring local programming in the Los Angeles Area. Originally there was only one Emmy Awards ceremony held per year to honor shows nationally broadcast in the United States, in 1974, the first Daytime Emmy Awards ceremony was held to specifically honor achievement in national daytime programming. Other area-specific Emmy Awards ceremonies soon followed, also, the International Emmy Awards, honoring television programs produced and initially aired outside the U. S. was established in the early 1970s. Meanwhile, all Emmys awarded prior to the emergence of these separate, in 1977, due to various conflicts, the ATAS and the NATAS agreed to split ties. However, they agreed to share ownership of the Emmy statue and trademark. With the rise of television in the 1980s, cable programs first became eligible for the Primetime Emmys in 1988. The ATAS also began accepting original online-only web television programs in 2013, the Emmy statuette, depicting a winged woman holding an atom, was designed by television engineer Louis McManus, who used his wife as the model. The TV Academy rejected a total of forty-seven proposals before settling on McManus design in 1948. The statuette has become the symbol of the TV Academys goal of supporting and uplifting the art and science of television, The wings represent the muse of art. When deciding a name for the award, Academy founder Syd Cassyd originally suggested Ike, however, Ike was also the popular nickname of World War II hero and future U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and the Academy members wanted something unique. Finally, television engineer and the third president, Harry Lubcke, suggested the name Immy. After Immy was chosen, it was feminized to Emmy to match their female statuette
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Friends
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Friends is an American television sitcom, created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which aired on NBC from September 22,1994, to May 6,2004, lasting ten seasons. With an ensemble cast starring Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer, the series was produced by Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions, in association with Warner Bros. The original executive producers were Kevin S. Bright, Marta Kauffman, Kauffman and Crane began developing Friends under the title Insomnia Cafe between November and December 1993. They presented the idea to Bright, and together they pitched a seven-page treatment of the show to NBC, after several script rewrites and changes, including a title change to Six of One and Friends Like Us, the series was finally named Friends. Filming took place at Warner Bros, All ten seasons of Friends ranked within the top ten of the final television season ratings, ultimately reaching the No.1 spot with its eighth season. Friends received acclaim throughout its run, becoming one of the most popular shows of all time. The series was nominated for 62 Primetime Emmy Awards, winning the Outstanding Comedy Series award in 2002 for its eighth season. The show ranked no.21 on TV Guides 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time, in 1997, the episode The One with the Prom Video was ranked no.100 on TV Guides 100 Greatest Episodes of All-Time. In 2013, Friends ranked no.24 on the Writers Guild of Americas 101 Best Written TV Series of All Time, Rachel Green flees her wedding day and seeks out childhood friend Monica Geller, a New York City chef. Episodes typically depict the friends comedic and romantic adventures and career issues, the six characters each have many dates and serious relationships, such as Monica with Richard Burke and Ross with Emily Waltham. The series featured six main characters throughout its run, Jennifer Aniston portrays Rachel Green, Rachel first moves in with Monica in season one after nearly marrying Barry Farber, whom she realizes she does not love. Rachel and Ross Geller are later involved in a relationship throughout the series. Rachel’s first job is as a waitress at the coffeehouse Central Perk, Rachel and Ross have a daughter named Emma in The One Where Rachel Has a Baby, Part Two at the end of season eight. In the final episode of the series, Ross and Rachel finally confess their love for each other, Courteney Cox portrays Monica Geller, the mother hen of the group and a chef, known for her perfectionist, bossy, competitive, and obsessive-compulsive nature. Monica is often teased by the others for having been extremely overweight as a child. Monica works as a chef in various restaurants throughout the show, Monica’s first serious relationship is with long-time family friend Richard Burke, who is twenty-one years her senior. The couple maintains a relationship for some time, until Richard expresses that he does not want to have children. Lisa Kudrow portrays Phoebe Buffay, a masseuse and self-taught musician
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Malcolm in the Middle
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Malcolm in the Middle is an American television sitcom created by Linwood Boomer for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series was first broadcast on January 9,2000, and ended its run on May 14,2006. The series received critical acclaim and won a Peabody Award, seven Emmy Awards, one Grammy Award, the series follows a family of six, and later seven, and stars Frankie Muniz in the lead role of Malcolm, a somewhat normal boy who tests at genius level. While he enjoys his intelligence, he despises having to take classes for gifted children, jane Kaczmarek is Malcolms overbearing, authoritarian mother, Lois, and Bryan Cranston plays his immature but loving father, Hal. Christopher Masterson plays eldest brother Francis, a rebel who, in earlier episodes, was in military school. Justin Berfield is Malcolms dimwitted older brother Reese, a bully who tortures Malcolm at home. Younger brother Dewey, bitter about his childhood, smart. At first, the focus was on Malcolm, but as the series progressed. A fifth son, Jamie, was introduced as a baby at the end of Season 4, Malcolm in the Middle was produced by Satin City and Regency Television in association with Fox Television Studios. The show has proven popular worldwide and has been syndicated in 57 countries, in the United States, it had been syndicated during the day on FX and at night on Nickelodeons sister channel TeenNick, as well as local stations. Its also currently being syndicated by IFC every Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday mornings at 8, since 2015, the show airs on Comedy Central. In Ireland it aired on TV3s sister channel 3e and it was also syndicated on Network Ten from 2009 to 2010 and on Eleven from February 2011 in Australia and on Comedy Central in India. In Canada, episodes were shown on the Global Television Network, the show received universal acclaim from critics and proved an extremely popular draw for the network. It was placed No.88 on Entertainment Weeklys New TV Classics list, set in a suburban neighborhood in the fictional Tri-County Area, Malcolm in the Middle is about a boy named Malcolm and his dysfunctional family. The show stars Frankie Muniz as Malcolm, the third of four boys, his brothers, the first, Francis, was sent away to military school, leaving at home his three brothers, Reese, Malcolm, and Dewey, Malcolm being the middle child still at home. In season four, the character Jamie was added to the show as the fifth son, the show centered on Malcolm dealing with the rigors of being a child and enduring the eccentricities of his life early on. Emulating the style of hour-long dramas, this show was shot on film instead of video. Another distinctive aspect of the show is that the open of every episode is unrelated to the main story
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Bernard and Doris
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Bernard and Doris is a 2006 film directed by Bob Balaban. The film premiered at the Hamptons International Film Festival on October 17,2007 and was broadcast by HBO on February 9,2008 and it has been released on DVD. In 1987, Doris Duke, considered the wealthiest woman in the world, hires Bernard Lafferty and he explains a six-month gap in his employment history was due to health issues, a euphemism for time spent in rehab to deal with his addiction to alcohol. He assures Doris, who suspects the truth, he is capable of performing his duties without any problems. Despite Bernards growing affection for Doris, the brash and often crude Doris thinks little of him, Doris teaches Bernard about horticulture, especially the care of orchids, and he takes control of the operation of her various households during her frequent long absences. Bernard himself enjoys tending the home and making sure things are in their correct order, the first time his sexuality is questioned is when he peers at Doriss much younger lover playing the piano in his underwear. In the greenhouse, Doris flirts with him, telling him belly dancing is a form of seduction, Bernard tentatively informs her that he swings in the other direction. Doris encourages him to tone down his dress and wear brighter colors. Doris begins to take Bernard with her on her world tours, during this time, they grow closer, and Doris begins to favor him among everyone else. Also, whenever Doris is mentioned in newspapers, we see Bernard cutting them out of the newspapers, Doris begins to spend more time with Bernard, and at one point attempts to seduce him. When Bernard backs away, Doris questions him, I dont get it and you dont fuck me, you dont steal from me. So what do you want from me, to which Bernard answers, I want to take care of you, Miss Duke. As the two become closer and Bernard becomes more relaxed, he begins to drink again, initially with discretion, Doris suffers a stroke, and Bernard returns to take full control of her life. In order to humor her—and to indulge his own proclivities—Bernard wears her makeup, jewelry, one evening, Doris tells Bernard what she wants him to do after she dies, and a tearful Bernard promises he will perform her requests. Doriss smile fades and she him, I must really be crazy to believe a fucker like you. Meanwhile, Bernard tries to keep attorney and economic advisor Waldo Taft away from Doris, Taft dislikes and distrusts Lafferty enough to have offered him $500,000 to leave his position in the past. However, Taft encourages Doris to hire a live-in nurse, although Doriss faith and trust in Bernard cannot be shaken, she agrees to hire a nurse, which Bernard is very unhappy about. Eventually, he convinces her to not hire a nurse, instead taking care of her himself, a while later, Bernard gives a very sick Doris her medicine and injection before putting her to bed, and she dies that night
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You Don't Know Jack (film)
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The film was shot in the New York boroughs of Queens, Staten Island and Brooklyn, as well as Detroit, Michigan, and surrounding areas. The film was nominated for Outstanding Made for Television Movie at the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards. The film focuses on the life and work of physician-assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian and his aim was to help the hopeless patients who are suffering debilitating pain to commit suicide effortlessly. Al Pacino as Dr. Pacino also won the Golden Globe Award, official website You Dont Know Jack at AllMovie You Dont Know Jack at the Internet Movie Database You Dont Know Jack at Rotten Tomatoes
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Bette Davis
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Ruth Elizabeth Bette Davis was an American actress of film, television, and theater. After appearing in Broadway plays, Davis moved to Hollywood in 1930, however, her early films for Universal Studios were unsuccessful. She joined Warner Bros. in 1932 and established her career with several critically acclaimed performances, in 1937, she attempted to free herself from her contract. Although she lost the legal case against the studio, it marked the beginning of the most successful period of her career. Until the late 1940s, she was one of American cinemas most celebrated leading ladies, known for her forceful, Davis gained a reputation as a perfectionist who could be highly combative and confrontational. She clashed with executives and film directors as well as many of her co-stars. Her forthright manner, idiosyncratic speech and ubiquitous cigarette contributed to a public persona, Davis was the co-founder of the Hollywood Canteen, and was the first female president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Her career went through periods of eclipse, and she admitted that her success had often been at the expense of her personal relationships. Married four times, she was widowed and three times divorced, and raised her children as a single parent. In 1999, Davis was placed second behind Katharine Hepburn on the American Film Institutes list of the greatest female stars of classic Hollywood cinema. Bettys younger sister, Barbara Harriet Bobby, was born October 25,1909, at 55 Ward Street in Somerville, Massachusetts, in 1915, Daviss parents separated and Betty and Bobby attended a Spartan boarding school called Crestalban in Lanesborough, which is located in the Berkshires. In 1921, Ruth Davis moved to New York City with her daughters, Betty changed the spelling of her name to Bette after Honoré de Balzacs La Cousine Bette. Davis attended Cushing Academy, a school in Ashburnham, Massachusetts. In 1926, she saw a production of Henrik Ibsens The Wild Duck with Blanche Yurka and Peg Entwistle, Davis later recalled for Al Cohn of Newsday, The reason I wanted to go into theater was because of an actress named Peg Entwistle. She auditioned for admission to Eva LeGalliennes Manhattan Civic Repertory, but was rejected by LeGallienne who described her attitude as insincere, upon graduating from Cushing Academy, Bette enrolled in John Murray Andersons Dramatic School. In 1929, Davis was chosen by Blanche Yurka to play Hedwig, after performing in Philadelphia, Washington and Boston, she made her Broadway debut in 1929 in Broken Dishes, and followed it with Solid South. In 1930, Davis moved to Hollywood to screen test for Universal Studios, Davis and her mother traveled by train to Hollywood and arrived on December 13,1930. She would later recount her surprise that nobody from the studio was there to meet her at the train, in fact, a studio employee had waited for her, but left because he saw nobody who looked like an actress
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FX (TV channel)
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FX is an American basic cable and satellite television channel launched on June 1,1994, based in Los Angeles, California and owned by 21st Century Fox through FX Networks, LLC. FXs programming primarily includes original drama and comedy series, and reruns of theatrical films, as of July 2015, FX is available to approximately 94,006,000 pay television households in the United States. In addition to the flagship U. S. network, the FX name is licensed to a number of related pay television channels in various countries around the world, FX, originally stylized as fX, launched on June 1,1994. Broadcasting from an apartment in Manhattans Flatiron District, fX was one of the first forays into large-scale interactive television. FX had two taglines during this period, TV Made Fresh Daily and The Worlds First Living Television Network, the live shows were each mostly focused on one broad topic. Shows included Personal fX, The Pet Department, Under Scrutiny with Jane Wallace, other notable fX personalities included Karyn Bryant and Orlando Jones, who were panelists on Sound fX. The channel prided itself on its interactivity with viewers, FX, in 1994, was an early adopter of the internet, embracing e-mail and the World Wide Web as methods of feedback. Select viewers were allowed to spend a day at the apartment, the first incarnation of fX was not available on Time Warner Cable, one of the major cable systems in New York City, where its programming originated. TWC would not carry the channel until September 2001, the live shows gradually disappeared one by one until only Personal fX remained. Breakfast Time was moved to the Fox network and renamed Fox After Breakfast in mid-1996 and it underwent several format changes, but never found a substantial audience and was canceled less than a year later. By the time that all programming was dropped, the channel focused entirely on its classic television shows until its relaunch in mid-1997. Personal fX remained on the refocused FX until May 1,1998, FX vacated the apartment in the summer of 1998 and the channels operations were streamlined with the other Fox-owned cable channels. In early 1997, fX was relaunched as FX, Fox Gone Cable, during the first few years after its relaunch, FX was known for little else than airing reruns of such Fox shows as The X-Files and Married. With Children, as well as 20th Century Fox-produced shows such as M*A*S*H, the channel also added Major League Baseball games to its lineup at that time, and eventually expanded its sports programming to include NASCAR races in 2001. In the summer of 1998, FX debuted three original series, Bobcats Big Ass Show, Instant Comedy with the Groundlings and Penn & Tellers Sin City Spectacular, all three series were cancelled the following year. Soon after its relaunch, the Fox Gone Cable tagline was dropped, by 1999, new original programs were added with the debut of shows such as Son of the Beach and The X Show. Beginning in 2002, the channel emerged as a force in original cable programming, gaining both acclaim and notoriety for edgy dramas. That year, FX debuted the police drama The Shield, which became a breakout hit, both shows were lauded by critics, and achieved equal success with viewers
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