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Rich Man, Poor Man (miniseries)
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It was produced by Universal Television and was the second time programming of this nature had been attempted. The first TV miniseries, QB VII, had aired — also on ABC — in 1974 and these projects proved to be a critical and ratings success and were the forerunner for similar projects based on literary works, such as Roots and Shōgun. The film stars Peter Strauss, Nick Nolte and Susan Blakely and it spawned the sequel Rich Man, Poor Man Book II, which aired from September 1976 through March 1977. The network repeated the original series Tuesday nights at 9, 00pm from May to June 1977, rudy was the titular rich man, a well-educated and very ambitious entrepreneur who triumphed over his background and constructed a corporate and political empire. Poor man Tom was a rebel who eventually turned to boxing to support himself, axel and Mary were their parents, and Julie Prescott was Rudys lifelong sweetheart who eventually married him. Later, another important character appears, the dangerous and eccentric Falconetti, lifelong nemesis of the Jordache Brothers, while the first series spans a twenty year period between 1945 and 1965, the second series begins in 1968. The series became a success in the countries that aired it. Dean Riesner wrote all twelve episodes, and direction was shared by Bill Bixby, David Greene, the musical score was composed by Alex North, who was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special. Notes Rich Man, Poor Man at the Internet Movie Database
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Lake Success, New York
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Lake Success is a village and a part of Great Neck in Nassau County, New York in the United States. The population was 2,934 at the 2010 census, Lake Success is in the Town of North Hempstead on northwest Long Island. Lake Success was the home of the United Nations from 1946 to 1951. It was the home of Canon U. S. A. Inc, Canon U. S. A. has since moved its corporate headquarters to Melville, New York. Lake Success derives its name from a lake of the same name which according to village lore had a Native American name of Sucut. William K. Vanderbilt II bought land around the lake in the early 20th Century for a home, the village was incorporated in 1926. During World War II the plant had 22,000 employees, after the war, part of the plant became the temporary headquarters of the United Nations from 1947 to 1952, while its headquarters building in New York City was being built. The 1,500, 000-square-foot facility continued to be used by companies to build defense products over ensuing decades. When it was purchased by Lockheed Martin in the late 1990s, in 2000 National RE/sources acquired the 94-acre campus from Lockheed and converted it to a multi-tenant office park called i. park. Most of the village is part of the Great Neck School District, Lake Success is the city of license for popular regional dance/Hot Adult Contemporary radio station WKTU, although the station is based in Manhattan along with other Clear Channel stations. It borders the Little Neck neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens, the geographical position of Lake Success is 40°46′13″N 73°42′48″W. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has an area of 1.9 square miles. As of the census of 2000, there were 2,797 people,798 households, the population density was 1,487.3 people per square mile. There were 824 housing units at a density of 438.2 per square mile. The racial makeup of the village was 78. 94% White,4. 76% African American,15. 16% Asian,0. 04% Pacific Islander,0. 25% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 1. 18% of the population. 12. 4% of all households were made up of individuals and 9. 9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.86 and the average family size was 3.11. In the village, the population was out with 20. 1% under the age of 18,4. 1% from 18 to 24,15. 8% from 25 to 44,24. 3% from 45 to 64. The median age was 52 years, for every 100 females there were 80.1 males
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New York (state)
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New York is a state in the northeastern United States, and is the 27th-most extensive, fourth-most populous, and seventh-most densely populated U. S. state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south and Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont to the east. With an estimated population of 8.55 million in 2015, New York City is the most populous city in the United States, the New York Metropolitan Area is one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. New York City makes up over 40% of the population of New York State, two-thirds of the states population lives in the New York City Metropolitan Area, and nearly 40% lives on Long Island. Both the state and New York City were named for the 17th-century Duke of York, the next four most populous cities in the state are Buffalo, Rochester, Yonkers, and Syracuse, while the state capital is Albany. New York has a diverse geography and these more mountainous regions are bisected by two major river valleys—the north-south Hudson River Valley and the east-west Mohawk River Valley, which forms the core of the Erie Canal. Western New York is considered part of the Great Lakes Region and straddles Lake Ontario, between the two lakes lies Niagara Falls. The central part of the state is dominated by the Finger Lakes, New York had been inhabited by tribes of Algonquian and Iroquoian-speaking Native Americans for several hundred years by the time the earliest Europeans came to New York. The first Europeans to arrive were French colonists and Jesuit missionaries who arrived southward from settlements at Montreal for trade, the British annexed the colony from the Dutch in 1664. The borders of the British colony, the Province of New York, were similar to those of the present-day state, New York is home to the Statue of Liberty, a symbol of the United States and its ideals of freedom, democracy, and opportunity. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. On April 17,1524 Verrazanno entered New York Bay, by way of the now called the Narrows into the northern bay which he named Santa Margherita. Verrazzano described it as a vast coastline with a delta in which every kind of ship could pass and he adds. This vast sheet of water swarmed with native boats and he landed on the tip of Manhattan and possibly on the furthest point of Long Island. Verrazannos stay was interrupted by a storm which pushed him north towards Marthas Vineyard, in 1540 French traders from New France built a chateau on Castle Island, within present-day Albany, due to flooding, it was abandoned the next year. In 1614, the Dutch under the command of Hendrick Corstiaensen, rebuilt the French chateau, Fort Nassau was the first Dutch settlement in North America, and was located along the Hudson River, also within present-day Albany. The small fort served as a trading post and warehouse, located on the Hudson River flood plain, the rudimentary fort was washed away by flooding in 1617, and abandoned for good after Fort Orange was built nearby in 1623. Henry Hudsons 1609 voyage marked the beginning of European involvement with the area, sailing for the Dutch East India Company and looking for a passage to Asia, he entered the Upper New York Bay on September 11 of that year
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David Shire
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David Lee Shire is an American songwriter and composer of stage musicals, film and television scores. His other work includes the score of the 1985 film Return to Oz, and the musical scores of Baby, Big, Closer Than Ever. Shire is married to actress Didi Conn, Shire was born in Buffalo, New York, to Esther Miriam and Buffalo society band leader and piano teacher Irving Daniel Shire. Shire also co-fronted a jazz group at school, the Shire-Fogg Quintet and he was a member of the Pundits and Elihu and he graduated magna cum laude in 1959. Their first off-Broadway show, The Sap of Life, was produced in 1961 at One Sheridan Square Theater in Greenwich Village and he co-wrote The Village Stompers Washington Square with Bob Goldstein in 1963. Shire began scoring for television in the 1960s and made the leap to scoring films in the early 1970s. He was then married to actress Talia Shire, for whose brother Francis Ford Coppola he scored The Conversation, perhaps his best known score and he composed original music for Saturday Night Fever, and also worked on several disco adaptations including Night on Disco Mountain. He won the Academy Award for Best Song in 1979 for his and Norman Gimbels theme song for Norma Rae, It Goes Like It Goes. He was also nominated the year in the same category for Ill Never Say Goodbye, from the motion picture The Promise, with lyrics jointly written by Marilyn. In 1980 his song With You Im Born Again, recorded by Billy Preston and Syreeta, was a top five international hit, the Conversation featured a score for piano. On some cues, Shire took the sounds of the piano. The music is intended to capture the isolation and paranoia of protagonist Harry Caul, the score was released on CD by Intrada Records. The soundtrack album was the first-ever CD release by Film Score Monthly, the end titles contain a more expansive arrangement of the theme. Shires television scores have earned five Emmy nominations and he also composed themes for the television series Alice and McCloud and the 1976-1977 Danny Thomas situation comedy The Practice. Shires film and television scoring style is compared to his late counterpart. As a pit pianist, Shire played for the productions of both The Fantasticks and Funny Girl, eventually serving as Barbra Streisand’s accompanist for several years. He also intermittently conducted and arranged for her, and over a period of years she recorded five of his songs. All of these shows have had hundreds of regional and stock productions worldwide, a new musical entitled Take Flight premiered in London at the Menier Chocolate Factory in July 2007, with a separate production in Tokyo in November 2007
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Jason Schwartzman
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Coconut Records is a Los Angeles, California based indie pop musical solo project by Jason Schwartzman, which began in 2006. The debut album, Nighttiming, was released on Schwartzman’s Young Baby Records in 2007, the album had musical contributions by members of Incubus, as well as appearances by actresses Zooey Deschanel and Kirsten Dunst and Schwartzmans brother Robert. Coconut Records second release, Davy, was released in January,2009, Schwartzmans work has also been featured in many films and television programs. In 2009, he composed the song to his HBO series Bored to Death, in which he also starred. That same year, he contributed to the film score to the film Funny People with composer Michael Andrews. In 2012, Schwartzman composed the original soundtrack to the movie Goats with Woody Jackson. The original soundtrack is downloadable, as well as available in vinyl LP and his song, Microphone was featured in the 2012 coming of age comedy, LOL. Schwartzman has said in interviews during SXSW that he is currently writing new material for Coconut Records. Goats – he did the movie soundtrack in collaboration with Woody Jackson West Coast appears in the end of The O. C episode 10 season 4 Is This Sound Okay. Appears in James Francos Palo Alto Young Baby Records official site Coconut Records at Rhapsody Coconut Records at Facebook Coconut Records at Myspace
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Robert Schwartzman
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Robert Schwartzman is an American actor, musician, and film director, Schwartzman is also best known as the lead vocalist of the rock/pop band Rooney. He has also acted in the short black-and-white film Lick the Star and The Virgin Suicides, Schwartzman was born in Los Angeles, California, United States, he is the youngest of three boys of Talia Shire and the late producer Jack Schwartzman. His brother is Jason Schwartzman, lead singer of the band Coconut Records and his half-siblings are Stephanie Schwartzman, Schwartzman is of Jewish descent on his fathers side and of Catholic Italian descent on his mothers side. Schwartzman attended Windward School in Los Angeles, California, Schwartzman formed his band Rooney in his junior year of school in 1999. He left the band temporarily when he attended Eugene Lang College in New York City in 2001, Schwartzman wrote songs in his dorm room and flew home every month to perform new material for Rooney in his first semester at college. Most of the songs on the first Rooney album were written while in college and it was during this time that he realized that he wanted to go back to Los Angeles and pursue a professional career in music with Rooney. Shortly after he left school, he was signed to Geffen/Interscope records in early 2002, Rooney recorded their debut self-titled album in June 2002. They also were selected by Schwartzmans friend, Johnny Ramone, for the Ramones tribute album entitled Were A Happy Family, Rooney opened for Weezer during their headlining tour in the summer of 2002, it was their first national support slot. The next tour the band landed was with the band The Strokes, rooneys album was finally released in May 2003 and has since sold approximately 500,000 copies. The band had an appearance in an episode of The O. C. Their song Blueside was featured on the Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004 soundtrack, on November 16,2004 the band issued their first DVD, Spit & Sweat. The hour-long documentary features interviews with the band and live performances from Los Angeles, the DVD also includes the videos for Blueside, Im Shakin, and If It Were Up to Me. Following their 2006 summer tour, the band began the sessions for their second album. Three songs from sessions, were kept for their new album. On March 6,2007, the single When Did Your Heart Go Missing. was released on their official MySpace Page, the single also was used in commercials for the TV show Beauty and the Geek. The album was released to stores July 17,2007 and debuted at #42 on The Billboard Top 100 Albums chart, robert Schwartzman released his first solo album, Double Capricorn, on October 25,2011. All profits from the sale of the album will be donated to the Tibetan Healing Fund to help build a new birthing center and he scored the 2013 film Palo Alto with Devonte Hynes of Blood Orange. In 2016, Schwarzmann wrote and directed Dreamland, starring Johnny Simmons and it had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 14,2016
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Francis Ford Coppola
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Francis Ford Coppola, also credited as Francis Coppola, is a semi-retired American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is considered to have been a figure of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking. After directing The Rain People, he co-wrote the 1970 film Patton and he followed with The Godfather Part II in 1974, which became the first sequel to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. The Conversation, which he directed, produced and wrote, was released same year. He next directed 1979s Apocalypse Now, while notorious for its lengthy and strenuous production, the film was widely acclaimed for its vivid and stark depiction of the Vietnam War, winning the Palme dOr at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival. Coppola is one of only eight filmmakers to win two Palme dOr awards, while a number of Coppolas ventures in the 1980s and 1990s were critically lauded, he has never quite achieved the same commercial success with films as in the 1970s. His most well-known films released since the start of the 1980s are the dramas The Outsiders and Rumble Fish, the crime-drama The Cotton Club, and his movies The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, and Apocalypse Now are often ranked among the greatest films of all time. Coppola was born in Detroit, Michigan, to father Carmine Coppola, a flautist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Coppola is the second of three children, his older brother was August Coppola, his younger sister is actress Talia Shire. Born into a family of Italian immigrant ancestry, his grandparents came to the United States from Bernalda. His maternal grandfather, popular Italian composer Francesco Pennino, immigrated from Naples, Coppola received his middle name in honor of Henry Ford, not only because he was born in the Henry Ford Hospital but also because of his musician-fathers association with the automobile manufacturer. Contracting polio as a boy, Coppola was bedridden for periods of his childhood. Reading A Streetcar Named Desire at age 15 was instrumental in developing his interest in theater, eager to be involved in film-craft, he created 8mm features edited from home movies with such titles as The Rich Millionaire and The Lost Wallet. As a child, Coppola was a student, but he was so interested in technology. Trained initially for a career in music, he became proficient on the tuba, overall, Coppola attended 23 other schools before he eventually graduated from the Great Neck North High School. He entered Hofstra College in 1955 with a major in theater arts, there he was awarded a scholarship in playwriting. This furthered his interest in directing theater despite the disapproval of his father, Coppola was profoundly impressed after seeing Sergei Eisensteins October, Ten Days That Shook the World, especially with the movies quality of editing. It was at this time Coppola decided he would go into cinema rather than theater, Coppola also gives credit to the work of Elia Kazan and for its influence on him as a director. Amongst Coppolas classmates at Hofstra were James Caan, Lainie Kazan and he later cast Lainie Kazan in One from the Heart and Caan in The Rain People and The Godfather
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Nicolas Cage
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Nicolas Kim Coppola, known professionally as Nicolas Cage, is an American actor and producer. He has performed in leading roles in a variety of films, ranging from romantic comedies and he earned his second Academy Award nomination for his performance as Charlie and Donald Kaufman in Adaptation. In 2002, he directed the film Sonny, for which he was nominated for Grand Special Prize at Deauville Film Festival, Cage owns the production company Saturn Films and has produced films such as Shadow of the Vampire and The Life of David Gale. He has also appeared in National Treasure, Lord of War, Bad Lieutenant, Port of Call New Orleans, Films such as Ghost Rider and Knowing were box office successes. Cage has been criticized in recent years for his choice of roles. However, he starred in The Croods and Joe, both of which were warmly received by critics. Cage was born in Long Beach, California, to August Coppola, a professor of literature, and Joy Vogelsang and he was raised in a Catholic family. His father was of Italian descent and his mothers ancestry was German and his paternal grandparents were composer Carmine Coppola and actress Italia Pennino, and his paternal great-grandparents were immigrants from Bernalda, Basilicata. Cages two brothers are New York radio personality Marc The Cope Coppola and director Christopher Coppola and he attended Beverly Hills High School, which is known for its many alumni who became entertainers. He aspired to act from an age and also attended UCLA School of Theater, Film. His first non-cinematic acting experience was in a production of Golden Boy. He cites James Dean as the key inspiration for his career, saying, I saw him in Rebel Without a Cause, East of Eden. Nothing affected me—no rock song, no classical music—the way Dean affected me in Eden, I was like, Thats what I want to do. To avoid the appearance of nepotism as the nephew of Francis Ford Coppola, he changed his name early in his career to Nicolas Cage, inspired in part by the Marvel Comics superhero Luke Cage. Since his film debut with a role in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, opposite Judge Reinhold and Sean Penn, Cage has appeared in a wide range of films. He auditioned for the role of Dallas Winston in his uncles film The Outsiders, hintons novel, but lost to Matt Dillon. He was also in Coppolas films Rumble Fish and Peggy Sue Got Married, Cage has been nominated twice for an Academy Award, winning once for his performance as a suicidal alcoholic in Leaving Las Vegas. His other nomination was for his portrayal of real-life screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, despite these successes, most of his lower-profile films have performed poorly at the box office compared to his mainstream action/adventure roles
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Sofia Coppola
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Sofia Carmina Coppola is an American screenwriter, director, producer and actress. In 2003, she received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the comedy-drama Lost in Translation, in 2010, with the drama Somewhere, she became the first American woman to win the Golden Lion, the top prize at the Venice Film Festival. Her father is director, producer and screenwriter Francis Ford Coppola, sofia Coppola was born in New York City, New York, the youngest child and only daughter of set decorator/artist Eleanor Coppola and director Francis Ford Coppola. Her father is of Italian descent, at fifteen, she interned with Chanel. Coppola is a 1989 graduate of St. Helena High School and she later attended Mills College and the California Institute of the Arts. After dropping out of college, Coppola started a line called Milkfed. Coppolas acting career, marked by frequent criticisms of nepotism, began while she was an infant, the best known of these early roles is her appearance in The Godfather as the infant Michael Francis Rizzi in the baptism scene. Coppola responded to a question about her role in The Godfather Part III in a 2013 interview, I didnt really think about the public aspect of it. People felt very attached to the Godfather films, I grew up with them being no big deal. I mean, I understand theyre great films but and it makes sense that people would have an opinion about it but I got a lot of attention I wasnt expecting. I was going to art school anyway so I was able to get back to what I was doing and it was before the Internet so magazines would come out but then the next month they were gone. There wasnt even as much paparazzi around then and she has since been quoted as saying that she was not hurt by the criticism from her role in The Godfather Part III, because she never especially wanted an acting career. Coppolas first short film was Lick the Star and it played many times on the Independent Film Channel. She made her film directing debut with The Virgin Suicides. It received critical acclaim upon its premiere in North America at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival and was released later that year and her second feature was Lost in Translation. Coppola won the Academy Award for her screenplay and three Golden Globe Awards including Best Picture Musical or Comedy. Her win for best original screenplay in 2003 made her a third-generation Oscar winner, in 2004, Coppola was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Her third film was the biopic Marie Antoinette, adapted from the biography by British historian Antonia Fraser, Kirsten Dunst plays the title character, who marries King Louis XVI, played by Jason Schwartzman, Coppolas cousin
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The Godfather (novel)
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Constanzia Connie Corleone is a fictional character in The Godfather, a novel by Mario Puzo and the 1972 film The Godfather. In the film, Connie is portrayed by Talia Shire, the sister of director Francis Ford Coppola, Shire was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Connie Corleone in The Godfather Part II. Born in 1925, Connie is the youngest child and only daughter of mafia don Vito Corleone and she is the sister of Sonny, Fredo and Michael Corleone. She marries Sonnys friend Carlo Rizzi and her father was very displeased that Connie married a man who was not only half northern Italian, but also had a criminal history. He only agreed to the marriage on condition that they hold an old-style Sicilian wedding, Carlo, who Puzo characterizes as a punk sore at the world, periodically abuses and cheats on Connie in frustration at being shunted aside by the Corleone family. The night of their wedding turned out to be a harbinger of things to come, after one particularly bad beating, Connie complains to her father, who refuses to help. The book reveals that in truth, Vito was outraged at how Carlo treated Connie, connies family grow to resent Carlo and his mistreatment of Connie, especially her oldest brother Sonny. One day, when Sonny visits Connie, he finds her in tears, Sonny chases and beats up Carlo in the street, threatening to kill Carlo if he hurts Connie again. Corleone rivals Emilio Barzini and Philip Tattaglia recruit Carlo to bring Sonny into the open, Carlo has a mistress call the house and a fight with Connie ensues that ends with Carlo again beating Connie. Connie calls the Corleone compound asking Sonny for help, an enraged Sonny drives off alone to help Connie, leaving his bodyguards following in a separate car. At a toll booth Sonny is shot and killed by Barzinis Tommy gun-wielding men, Michael returns from Sicily and takes Sonnys place as Vitos heir apparent. When Vito dies, Michael becomes the new Don and avenges Sonnys murder by having the heads of the Five Families killed, Connie flies into a rage when she finds out Carlo is dead and blames Michael, denouncing him in front of his wife Kay. In The Godfather Part II, Connie has remarried, divorced and she remains bitter toward Michael and announces that she intends to marry Merle Johnson, which Michael disapproves of. At the end of the film, Connie returns for her mothers funeral and she intercedes on Fredos behalf after Michael disowns him for conspiring with Corleone rival Hyman Roth, pleading with Michael to forgive him. Michael publicly appears to forgive Fredo, Connie later says that Fredo had drowned, unaware that Michael had him killed. After Michael and Kay divorce, Connie helps care for Michaels two children, Anthony and Mary, in a flashback at the end of the film, it is revealed that Sonny introduced her to Carlo in 1941 during Vitos birthday party. In The Godfather Part III, Connie is very close to her nephew Vincent Mancini, Connie encourages Michael to bring Vincent into the Corleone family and support him in his feud with Joey Zasa. When Michael suffers a stroke and recuperates in the hospital Connie
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The Godfather
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The Godfather is a 1972 American crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and produced by Albert S. Ruddy, based on Mario Puzos best-selling novel of the same name. It stars Marlon Brando and Al Pacino as the leaders of a fictional New York crime family, the story, spanning 1945 to 1955, chronicles the family under the patriarch Vito Corleone, focusing on the transformation of Michael Corleone from reluctant family outsider to ruthless mafia boss. Paramount Pictures obtained the rights to the novel for the price of $80,000, Studio executives had trouble finding a director, as their first few candidates turned down the position. They and Coppola disagreed over who would play characters, in particular Vito. Filming was done on location and completed earlier than scheduled, the musical score was composed primarily by Nino Rota with additional pieces by Carmine Coppola. The film was the film of 1972 and was for a time the highest-grossing film ever made. It won the Oscars for Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay and its seven other Oscar nominations included Pacino, James Caan, and Robert Duvall for Best Supporting Actor and Coppola for Best Director. It was followed by sequels The Godfather Part II and The Godfather Part III, the Godfather is widely regarded as one of the greatest films in world cinema and one of the most influential, especially in the gangster genre. It was selected for preservation in the U. S, in 1945, at his daughter Connies wedding, Vito Corleone hears requests in his role as the Godfather, the Don of a New York crime family. Vitos youngest son, Michael, who was a Marine during World War II, introduces his girlfriend, Kay Adams, Woltz refuses until he wakes up in bed with the severed head of his prized stallion. Wary of involvement in a new trade that risks alienating political insiders. Suspicious, Vito sends his enforcer, Luca Brasi, to spy on them, however, a Tattaglia button man garrotes Brasi during Brasis first meeting with Bruno Tattaglia and Sollozzo. Later Sollozzo has Vito gunned down in the street, then kidnaps Hagen, with Corleone first-born Sonny in command, Hagen is pressured to persuade Sonny to accept Sollozzos deal, then released. The family receives fish wrapped in Brasis bullet-proof vest, indicating that Luca sleeps with the fishes, Vito survives, and at the hospital Michael thwarts another attempt on his father, Michaels jaw is broken by NYPD Captain Marc McCluskey, Sollozzos bodyguard. Sonny retaliates with a hit on Tattaglias son, Michael plots to murder Sollozzo and McCluskey, on the pretext of settling the dispute, Michael agrees to meet them in a Bronx restaurant. There, retrieving a planted handgun, he kills both men, despite a clampdown by the authorities, the Five Families erupt in open warfare and Vitos sons fear for their safety. Michael takes refuge in Sicily, and his brother, Fredo, is sheltered by the Corleones Las Vegas casino partner, Sonny attacks his brother-in-law Carlo on the street for abusing his sister and threatens to kill him if it happens again. When it does, Sonny speeds to their home, but is ambushed at a toll booth
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Rocky (film series)
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Rocky is a series of boxing films based on the eponymous, fictional character Rocky Balboa, played in each film by Sylvester Stallone. The films by order of date are, Rocky, Rocky II, Rocky III, Rocky IV, Rocky V, Rocky Balboa. The film series has grossed more than US$1 billion at the box office. All of the films were written by Stallone except for Creed, the original film and the fifth installment were directed by John G. Avildsen, Creed was directed by Coogler, and Stallone directed the others. At the same time, Rocky successfully courts Adrian Pennino, a shy woman with an alcoholic brother. But when heavyweight champion of the world Apollo Creed chooses Rocky at random as his opponent in a title fight, with Adrians support and Mickey becoming his trainer and manager, Rocky fights for his self-respect. Soon after proving himself, even with a decision loss to Apollo Creed. He marries Adrian and begins spending the money he earned from the match, but after he fails at both endorsements and a series of low-wage jobs, Rocky realizes the only way he can survive is to begin boxing again. Creed on the hand, faces criticism from fans to overcome the fight. As a result, he taunts Rocky publicly into a rematch, in the fifteenth round, Rocky knocks Creed to the ground, falling to the canvas himself in the process. Both fighters struggle to get to their feet, but only Rocky is successful, for the first time, Rocky is declared the World Heavyweight Champion. After winning the title, Rocky takes advantage of his newfound wealth and fame, appearing in multiple advertisements and television programs. After defending the title multiple times, he is prepared to retire, Rocky, after dealing with Mickeys heart attack before the fight, is overpowered by the stronger, hungrier Lang and is knocked out in the second round. Mickey passes away after the fight, and former rival Apollo Creed steps in, training Rocky to fight more in Creeds old style and use more guile, in the rematch, Rocky outboxes Lang, tiring the stronger fighter out and eventually knocking him out in the third round. After the fight, Apollo calls in his favor for training Rocky, the film ends as they each throw their first punch. After winning back the title from Clubber Lang, Rocky decides to spend time with his family. However, destiny has other plans for him which doesnt allow him to leave the ring, a new fighter from the USSR, Ivan Drago, has emerged and challenges Rocky to an exhibition match. Apollo fights instead, and the beating he takes from Drago ends with Apollo dying in Rockys arms in the ring as Drago coldly watches, to avenge Apollo, Rocky challenges Drago to a match, which is to be held on Christmas Day in Moscow
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The Godfather Part II
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The Godfather Part II is a 1974 American crime film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola from a screenplay co-written with Mario Puzo, starring Al Pacino and Robert De Niro. The Godfather Part II opened to mixed reviews critics, many of whom praised its cinematography while finding its nonlinear narrative disorganized. It was nominated for eleven Academy Awards, however, and became the first sequel to win for Best Picture and its six Oscar wins included Best Director for Coppola, Best Supporting Actor for De Niro and Best Adapted Screenplay for Coppola and Puzo. Pacino won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor, both The Godfather Part II and its predecessor remain highly influential films in the gangster genre, and the former has been reevaluated. In 1997, the American Film Institute ranked it as the 32nd-greatest film in American film history, some have deemed it superior to the 1972 original. It was selected for preservation in the U. S. National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 1993, being deemed culturally, historically, the Godfather Part III, a later sequel, was released in 1990. In 1901, the family of nine-year-old Vito Andolini is killed in Corleone, Sicily, Vito escapes to New York City and is registered as Vito Corleone on Ellis Island. In 1958, during his sons First Communion party at Lake Tahoe, Corleone caporegime Frank Pentangeli is dismayed that Michael will not help him defend his Brooklyn territory against the Rosato brothers, who work for Michaels business partner Hyman Roth. That night, Michael leaves Nevada after surviving an assassination attempt at his home, in 1917, Vito Corleone lives in New York with his wife Carmela and son Sonny. He loses his job due to the nepotism of local extortionist Don Fanucci, Michael suspects Roth of planning the assassination, but meets with him in Miami and feigns ignorance. In New York, Pentangeli attempts to maintain Michaels façade by making peace with the Rosato family, on New Years Eve, he tries to have Roth and Roths right-hand man Johnny Ola killed, but Roth survives when Michaels bodyguard is discovered and shot by police. Michael accuses his brother Fredo of betrayal after Fredo inadvertently reveals that hed met with Ola previously, batista abruptly abdicates due to rebel advances, during the ensuing chaos, Michael, Fredo, and Roth separately escape to the United States. Back home, Michael learns that his wife Kay has miscarried, three years later, Vito and Carmela have had two more sons, Fredo and Michael. Vitos criminal conduct attracts the attention of Fanucci, who extorts him and his partners, Clemenza and Salvatore Tessio, wish to avoid trouble by paying in full, but Vito insists that he can convince Fanucci to accept a smaller payment by making him an offer he wont refuse. During a neighborhood festa, he stalks Fanucci to his apartment, in Washington, D. C. a Senate committee on organized crime is investigating the Corleone family. Having survived the attempt on his life, Pentangeli agrees to testify against Michael, who he believes had double-crossed him. Now a respected figure in his community, Vito is approached for help by a widow who is being evicted. After an unsuccessful negotiation with Vito, the landlord asks around, learns of Vitos reputation
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Rocky
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Rocky is a 1976 American sports drama film directed by John G. Avildsen and both written by and starring Sylvester Stallone. Rocky starts out as a club fighter, and later gets a shot at the world heavyweight championship. The film also stars Talia Shire as Adrian, Burt Young as Adrians brother Paulie, Burgess Meredith as Rockys trainer Mickey Goldmill, the film received many positive reviews and turned Stallone into a major star. In 2006, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. Rocky is considered to be one of the greatest sports films ever made and was ranked as the second-best in the genre, after Raging Bull, the film has spawned six sequels, Rocky II, Rocky III, Rocky IV, Rocky V, Rocky Balboa, and Creed. Stallone portrays Rocky in all six sequels, wrote the first five, in late 1975, the heavyweight boxing world champion, Apollo Creed, announces plans to hold a title bout in Philadelphia during the upcoming United States Bicentennial. However, he is informed five weeks from the date that his scheduled opponent is unable to compete due to an injured hand. With all other potential replacements booked up or otherwise unavailable, Creed decides to spice things up by giving a local contender a chance to face him. He settles on Rocky Balboa, a failed Southpaw boxer from an Italian neighborhood of Philadelphia, Rocky meets with promoter Miles Jergens, presuming Creed is seeking local sparring partners. Rocky reluctantly agrees to the match, which will pay him $150,000, at the same time, Rocky begins a relationship with Adrian, a clerk at the local pet store. He gradually gains the shy Adrians trust, culminating in a kiss and her alcoholic brother Paulie becomes jealous of Rockys success, but Rocky calms him by agreeing to advertise his meatpacking business at the fight. The night before the match, Rocky starts to lose confidence after touring the arena and he confesses to Adrian that he does not expect to win, but is content to go the distance against Creed and prove himself to everyone. On New Years Day, the boxing match begins, with Creed making a dramatic entrance dressed as George Washington. Taking advantage of his overconfidence, Rocky knocks him down in the first round—the first time that Creed has ever knocked down. Humiliated, Creed takes Rocky more seriously for the rest of the fight, as the match progresses, Creeds superior skill is countered by Rockys apparently unlimited ability to absorb punches, and his dogged refusal to be knocked out. As the final round bell sounds, with both locked in each others arms, they promise to each other that there will be no rematch. As Jergens declares Creed the winner by virtue of a decision, Adrian and Rocky embrace and profess their love to each other. Wepner was TKOd in the 15th round of the match by Ali, despite the fact that the match motivated Stallone to begin work on Rocky, he has subsequently denied that Wepner provided any inspiration for the script
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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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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
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The Academy Award for Best Supporting 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 supporting role while working within the film industry. At the 9th Academy Awards ceremony held in 1937, Gale Sondergaard was the first winner of award for her role in Anthony Adverse. Initially, winners in both supporting acting categories were awarded instead of statuettes. Beginning with the 16th ceremony held in 1944, however, winners received full-sized statuettes, currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the actors branch of AMPAS, winners are selected by a plurality vote from the entire eligible voting members of the Academy. Since its inception, the award has given to 78 actresses. Dianne Wiest and Shelley Winters have received the most awards in this category with two awards each, despite winning no awards, Thelma Ritter was nominated on six occasions, more than any other actress. As of the 2017 ceremony, Viola Davis is the most recent winner in category for her role as Rose Maxson in Fences. In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of release in Los Angeles County. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, University of Toronto Press, inside Oscar, The Unofficial History of the Academy Awards. New York, United States, Ballantine Books, oscars. org Oscar. com The Academy Awards Database
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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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Anton Coppola
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Antonio Anton Coppola is an American opera conductor and composer. Coppola started his career at the age of eight with the Metropolitan Opera Children’s Chorus, at the age of 9 he was in the Mets debut of Turandot. He served as a bandmaster during World War II, conductor at Radio City Music Hall. He earned a degree and a masters degree in composition from Manhattan School of Music and received honorary Doctorates from the University of Tampa. Coppolas first marriage was to Marion Jane Miller, a dancer, with whom he had one child. After their divorce, he wed Almarinda Drago, also a ballet dancer and he turned 100 in March 2017. Among his works are a concerto, a symphony, and Sacco and Vanzetti. In the 1950s and 1960s, Coppola was the director of six Broadway musicals, including Silk Stockings, Bravo Giovanni. He conducted two film scores, 1990s The Godfather Part III and 1992s Dracula and he appeared in the former, shown conducting Cavalleria rusticana in the Teatro Massimo of Palermo. At the Seattle Opera in 1970, Coppola led the premiere of Carlisle Floyds Of Mice. Coppola helped to found Opera Tampa in 1996 and served as its Founding Artistic Director, among his numerous productions with the company was the world premier of Sacco and Vanzetti on March 17,2001. He retired from the position in 2012, Coppola was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Puccini Foundation and recognized by the Italian government as Cavaliere, Gran Ufficiale. Coppola collaborated with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, also known as Orchestra Verdi and this recording was later re-released with additional tracks recorded by Pappano and the Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden. In 2008, Opera Tampa announced that an award was to be established in his name, Coppola himself was recipient of the award in 2012, the year of his retirement. The Godfather Part III - Conductor of Cavalleria Rusticana Coppola family tree St. Petersburg Times, “A well-conducted life” Herald-Tribune, forum, Anton Coppola, Sacco and Vanzetti, opera “A Night of Stars”. Retrieved February 28,2013 Oussama Zahr, Opera News, Vol 76, No.11. Retrieved February 28,2013 Anton Coppola at the Internet Movie Database Anton Coppola at the Internet Broadway Database Sacco and Vanzetti documentary featuring an interview with Anton Coppola
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Rocky Balboa
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Robert Rocky Balboa, Sr. is the title character of the Rocky series. The character was created by Sylvester Stallone, who portrayed him in all seven Rocky films. He is depicted as an everyman who started out by going the distance and overcoming obstacles that had occurred in his life, the character is widely considered to be Stallones most iconic role and is often considered the role that started his film career. He received critical acclaim for his performance in the first movie, earning Academy Award, Robert Rocky Balboa was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 6,1945. He was the child in a Roman Catholic Italian-American family. The surname Balboa/Valboa originates from a Galician-speaking town in Northwestern Spain and this encouraged him to take up boxing. He trained very hard so he could grow up to be like his idol Rocky Marciano. Unable to live on the pay of club fights, and being unable to find work anywhere else, Rocky got a job as a collector for Tony Gazzo. By late 1975, Rocky had fought in 64 fights, winning 44, Rocky was proud that he never had his nose broken in a professional fight. His nickname is The Italian Stallion, spawning from his Italian-American heritage, the film begins on November 25,1975, in the slums of the Kensington section of Philadelphia. Rocky Balboa is fighting Spider Rico in a boxing ring called the Cambria Fight Club inside a chapel. In the second round, Rico hits Balboa with a headbutt, enraged, Rocky delivers a vicious barrage of punches, knocking Rico out. The next day, Rocky stops by the pet store and tries to talk to the shy pet-shop worker Adrian Pennino. Adrian is very shy and scared of Rockys tough appearance, afterwards, Rocky goes to collect a loan for his boss Tony Gazzo. Even though the client didnt have all the money, Rocky didnt break his thumb, later, Rocky stops by the local boxing gym and finds that he lost his locker to a contender. Unknown to him, the owner and grizzled former boxer, Mickey Goldmill, doesnt hate him. When Rocky leaves for home that night, he sees a girl named Marie, hanging around a bad crowd. On the way, Rocky lectures her about staying away from the wrong people, however, once they get to her house she tells Rocky Screw you, creepo
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Kiss the Bride (2002 film)
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Kiss the Bride is a 2002 film about an Italian family, directed by Vanessa Parise. The film takes place in Westerly, Rhode Island, the hometown of director/actor/writer/producer Parise, the story centers around a traditional Italian-American family with four daughters with completely different personalities. Danni, one of the sisters, is about to be the first of the sisters to walk down the aisle and that is, if her three sisters wont stop it. Niki, Chrissy and Toni return home for the long overdue family reunion, niki brings her Jewish boyfriend along, the lesbian Toni is accompanied by her biker girlfriend Amy, and Chrissy, who is too busy for a boyfriend, brings her brand new Porsche. The sisters reek of over-achievement and insecurity and subconsciously long for the approval and love of their domineering father
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I Heart Huckabees
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I ♥ Huckabees is a 2004 American philosophical comedy-drama film directed and produced by David O. Russell, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jeff Baena. A self-named existential comedy, I ♥ Huckabees follows a couple of detectives, as the different investigations cross paths, their rival and nemesis tries to drag their clients into her own views on the meaning of their lives. It also features the debuts of Jonah Hill and Ger Duany. Albert Markovski is a man who heads the local chapter of an environmental group. One of their current projects is an attempt to stop the building of a new Huckabees store, Albert is a rival of Brad Stand, a shallow power executive at Huckabees. Brad infiltrates Open Spaces and charismatically displaces Albert as the leader, Dawn Campbell is Brads live-in girlfriend and the face and voice of Huckabees, she appears in all of the stores commercials. After seeing the same conspicuous stranger three times, Albert contacts two existential detectives, Bernard and Vivian Jaffe, the detectives offer Albert their optimistic brand of existentialism—they name it universal interconnectivity —and spy on him, ostensibly to help him solve the coincidence. Bernard and Vivian introduce Albert to Tommy Corn, an obsessively anti-petroleum firefighter, Tommy is assigned to Albert as his other. Tommy grows dissatisfied with the Jaffes, feeling that they are not helping him and she teaches them to disconnect their inner beings from their daily lives and their problems, to synthesize a non-thinking state of pure being. In order to prove her point, Caterine takes Albert to go and have sex in the woods, Tommy finds out about the two of them being together and feels hurt. Caterine tells him that they found each other all of the human suffering. Tommy rejects this idea and leaves them furious and lost, meanwhile, in Brads further attempts to undercut Albert, he and Dawn meet with and are influenced by Bernard and Vivian. All the storylines collide when Brads house catches fire, while the fire trucks get stuck in a traffic jam, Tommy comes on his bicycle to put out the fire, which incidentally trapped Dawn inside. As he saves her life, the two fall in love, meanwhile, Brad despairs at the destruction of his house, the symbol of his material success. Albert attains a sort of enlightenment when he synthesizes the two opposing outlooks of the Jaffes and Vauban to realize the truth of everything. Brad, meanwhile, is fired from Huckabees, leaving him rudderless, Albert reveals to Brad that he burned Brads jet skis, and the fire spread to the house. Having realized this, he refers Brad to Caterine, hoping she will help him as she did Albert, Albert and Tommy talk later about everything that has happened. As the two talk, Caterine and the Jaffes watch them, concluding that they can close both of their cases, in an interview with the SuicideGirls website, director Russell said in response to the question How do you describe I Heart Huckabees
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Homo Erectus (film)
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The film premiered at the 2007 Slamdance Film Festival in January 2007. Ishbo is the son of Mookoo, the leader of a tribe of cavemen. Ishbo is smarter than most of his tribesmen, but awkward and nerdy, Ishbo also has had a lifelong crush on his childhood friend, Fardart. Much to his dismay, immediately after he expresses his love to her she is clubbed by Thudnik. Ishbo himself has never clubbed a woman, having his set on Fardart his whole life. After Fardart is betrothed to Thudnik, Ishbo begins to believe that he will never club a woman and he at first is too attached to her to consider clubbing another woman, and is further discouraged after a particularly ill-fated attempt at clubbing. Ishbo becomes quite depressed, a feeling which is escalated by his failure to prove useful on a mammoth hunt. He falls into a pile of mammoth dung, then is eaten by the mammoth. During an attempt on Mookoos life, it is revealed that their rival tribe and they train for battle but are bested by their enemies, who kill Mookoo and carry off Fardart, who disguised herself as a man to take part in the fight. Thudnik orders a retreat and they return to their home cave, unable to convince the rest of the tribe to stay and fight, Ishbo decides to set out to avenge his father and rescue Fardart on his own. Thudnik declares him an enemy and swears to him if he sees him again. On the way he gets lost, sees a vision of his father, and stumbles upon a tribe of Amazon cavewomen and his reward is freedom, but only if he agrees to impregnate all the Amazons, starting with their Queen. He is at first eager to do so, however he is unable to perform the task as his heart belongs to Fardart. Offended that he has turned down a gift which many men have died trying to achieve, eventually he reaches the cave of the Binadrak tribe and spots Fardart. Surprisingly, she does not wish to be rescued, as her captors have supplied her with fine furs, plentiful food, and an attractive bone necklace. The tribe then rises up and chases him, whereupon they meet the Amazon tribe and eventually his own tribe. The three groups together eventually chase him off the edge of a cliff, where he delivers a monologue to the audience before reaching the ground. The final scene is in a museum, where a group of school children are being given a guided tour
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The Dunwich Horror (film)
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The Dunwich Horror is a 1970 independent supernatural horror film from American International Pictures directed by Daniel Haller and produced by Roger Corman. The film was based on the story of the same name by H. P. Lovecraft with a script co-written by Curtis Hanson, the leading role was offered to Peter Fonda, but he turned it down. Instead, Dean Stockwell played the role of Wilbur Whateley, the film was shot in Mendocino, California. The film begins with the groaning of a woman, the camera slowly pans to show two elderly women and an elderly man who are watching a woman writhe and moan with the pain of childbirth on a bed in an old-fashioned looking bedroom. She is then led out of the room by the elderly man and he gives the book to his student Nancy Wagner to return to the library. She is followed by a stranger, who introduces himself as Wilbur Whateley. Whateley asks to see the book, and though it is closing time, Whateleys perusal of the book is cut short by Armitage, who has researched Wilburs familys sordid past. His warnings about the Whateleys go unheeded by Nancy, who decides to give Wilbur a ride back to Dunwich after he misses his bus, at a gas station on the outskirts of town, Nancy first encounters the ill-esteem in which the locals hold Wilbur. Once back at the Whateley house, she meets Old Whateley and her car is then disabled and she is drugged by the younger Whateley. She decides under the influence of hypnosis and drugs to spend the weekend, the duo does not abandon Nancy, however. They investigate further and discover that Wilburs mother, Lavinia is still alive, the town doctor, Cory informs Armitage that Lavinia delivered twins when Wilbur was born, but one was stillborn, though he was not there for the delivery and never saw the body. The childbirth was very traumatic and Lavinia lost her mind during it, in the meantime, on the advice of the locals, Elizabeth enters the Whateley house looking for Nancy. She opens a door, and releases a creature that kills her. Upon Wilbur and Nancys return, Old Whateley confronts them about the presence of the girls car. Wilbur takes him to the cemetery for a decidedly non-Christian burial. As the story draws to a close, an unfolding of events occurs. Wilburs twin runs amok in Dunwich, killing several people, Lavinia dies in the asylum, looking much older than her 45 years
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Gas-s-s-s
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Gas-s-s-s is a 1970 motion picture produced and released by American International Pictures. It was producer Roger Cormans final film for AIP, after a long association, the movie is a post-apocalyptic dark comedy, about survivors of an accidental military gas leak, of an experimental agent that kills everyone on Earth over the age of twenty-five. The lead characters, Coel and Cilla, were played by Robert Corff and Elaine Giftos, country Joe McDonald makes an appearance, as spokesman AM Radio. In Dallas, at the Southern Methodist University, news comes in about a gas which has escaped from a military facility and it starts killing everyone over 25. Hippie Coel meets and falls in love with Cilla and they discover a Gestapo-like police force will be running Dallas and flee into the country. Their car is stolen by some cowboys and they then meet music fan Marissa, her boyfriend Carlos, Hooper, and his girlfriend Coralee. Marissa leaves Carlos, who finds a new girlfriend, the group meet Edgar Allan Poe who drives around on a motorbike with a girl on the back. They then have an encounter with some bikers who play golf, after which they attend a dance and concert where AM Radio is performing, Coel sleeps with Zoe but Cilla is not jealous. Coel, Cilla and their friends arrive at a commune where it seems humankind can start fresh. Then a football team attacks them, Coel and Cilla are reunited with all their friends, and there is a big party where everyone gets along. Armitage later recalled, The film was financed by American International Pictures, Corman says filming commenced using a first draft, which was rewritten constantly throughout the shoot. Roger Corman was angry about what AIP did to the film and he later wrote, Samuel Z. Arkoff of AIP recalled it differently, The film premiered in New York as part of a retrospective on Roger Cormans work. According to Samuel Z. Arkoff, when Gas-s-s-s was released, it was promoted with ads that proclaimed, the picture didnt make any money. It was the last film Corman directed for AIP, although he went on to produce Boxcar Bertha for them, Gas-s-s-s found a fresh airing on late night television in the 1980s. In 2005 it was issued on DVD, as a feature with Wild in the Streets. Club Review of film at Variety
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The Christian Licorice Store
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The Christian Licorice Store is a 1971 film drama directed by James Frawley. It stars Beau Bridges and Maud Adams, the unusual title is based on lyrics from the song Pleasant Street by Tim Buckley. Promising tennis pro Franklin Cane lives in Los Angeles and is mentored by his coach, Jonathan J. C. Carruthers, who warns him of the perils of success. J. C. advises him to concentrate on his game and not on outside interests and he wins a tournament in Houston and has a one-night stand there with a girl, cheating on Cynthia Vicstrom, the photographer he has been seeing. Things are going well for Cane until one day J. C. dies peacefully in his sleep, a distraught Cane begins going to wild California parties and spending time on Hollywood interests, neglecting Cynthia and his tennis. Cynthia breaks up him and begins seeing Monroe, a film director who has fallen for her. Cane leaves a party with a girl hes just met, drives down the Pacific Coast Highway at a rate of speed, then crashes. The next time she turns on a TV, Cynthia sees him in the hair-spray ad
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The Outside Man
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The Outside Man is a 1972 French thriller set in Los Angeles, directed by Jacques Deray and starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Ann-Margret, Roy Scheider, and Angie Dickinson. French hitman Lucien Bellon has been hired by mobsters to kill Victor, Bellon goes to Victors home, in Los Angeles, and shoots him point-blank. Bellons luggage and passport are stolen, meanwhile, on television, news accounts of the murder allude to the police seeking not a French killer but an American one. Bellon stays in Los Angeles to discover the truth, apparently, another hit man named Lenny has been hired to kill Bellon. Along the way, Bellon encounters a woman named Nancy. As he attempts to save his own life, Bellon hijacks a car and holds a woman, Jean-Louis Trintignant as Lucien Bellon Ann-Margret as Nancy Robson Angie Dickinson as Jackie Kovacs Roy Scheider as Lenny Georgia Engel as Mrs
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Old Boyfriends
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Old Boyfriends is a 1979 American drama film directed by Joan Tewkesbury and written by Paul Schrader and Leonard Schrader. The film stars Talia Shire, Richard Jordan, Keith Carradine, John Belushi, John Houseman, the film was released on April 13,1979, by Embassy Pictures. Dianne Cruise is psychiatrist who is suffering with an identity crisis, in an attempt to learn about herself Dianne goes on a road trip to reconnect with three of her old boyfriends
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Prophecy (film)
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Prophecy is a 1979 American science fiction horror film directed by John Frankenheimer and written by David Seltzer. It stars Robert Foxworth, Talia Shire and Armand Assante, a novelization of the film, written by Seltzer as well, was also published, with the tagline A Novel of Unrelenting Terror. Tracking two lost lumberjacks through the night, a team nearly follows a hound over a cliff. Two men rappel down to retrieve the fallen hound, but they are killed, the third, hearing screams down below, rappels down to investigate where he finds his teammates dead and is killed by an unseen creature. Dr. Robert Verne is fed up dealing with the squalor of city tenements. He accepts a job from the Environmental Protection Agency to write a report on an operation near the Androscoggin River in Maine. The loggers are in a dispute with the local American Indian Opies, Dr. Vernes wife Maggie accompanies him on the trip. She is pregnant, but is apprehensive to tell her husband as he against having children, when flying in, they meet Travis Nelson and his two children Paul and Kathleen who are embarking on a trek into the wilderness. They also meet paper mill director Bethel Isely, who is to be their host and he tells them about his missing rescue team and lays the blame at Opies. The heavy is armed with a chainsaw while Hawks has only a double-bit axe, the scuffle ends with Hawks laid on the ground with the chainsaw nearly at his throat, causing the Opies to relent and let the cars pass. Verne and Maggie are then shocked by the incident, while fishing, Verne sees a huge salmon devour a duck. Later, they are attacked in their cabin by a deranged raccoon where he kills it, the next day Hawks and his wife Ramona approach Dr. Verne about their side of the story. If Verne is concerned about the environment then he should include the people in his assessment, something is causing the people to be ill such as still births, mental illness and birth defects. Hawks takes Verne and Maggie to the home of Hector MRai, Hector claims to have seen Katahdin and describes him as part of everything in Gods creation. Verne sees plant roots growing on the surface that should be underground, Hawk nets a bullfrog-sized tadpole from the water to show Verne, Hector has cigarette burns on his hand, as the evidence mounts, the idyllic setting gradually takes on a sinister hue. Verne and Maggie tour the mill to look for incriminating evidence. Isely tells them that the water is tested for purity. As they leave, Verne however notices mercury deposits on Maggies boots and it has long been used in logging as a fungicide due to its cheap value and it will not show up in Iselys water purity tests because it sinks to the bottom
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Rocky II
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Rocky II is a 1979 American sports drama film written, directed by, and starring Sylvester Stallone. It is the sequel to the 1976 film Rocky, and was the last installment in the series that was distributed solely by United Artists. Stallone, Carl Weathers, Tony Burton, Burgess Meredith, Burt Young, the Ring magazine heavyweight championship belt makes its first appearance in the series. Released on June 15,1979, the film was followed by Rocky III in 1982, on New Years Day in 1976, Apollo Creed has successfully defended his heavyweight title in a split decision. He and Rocky are taken to the same hospital, Apollo challenges Rocky to a rematch, but Rocky declines and retires from professional boxing. His girlfriend Adrian supports his choice, and so do his doctors, who reveal that he will require surgery for a detached retina, which could lead to permanent blindness. In a private moment, Rocky goes to see a recuperating Apollo and she happily accepts, and they marry in a small ceremony. Soon after, Rocky and Adrian happily learn that Adrian is pregnant, meanwhile, fueled by hate mail, Apollo becomes obsessed with the idea that a rematch is the only way to prove that Rockys performance was simply a fluke. Rocky at first seems unaffected by Apollos smear campaign, but his inexperience with money causes him to run into financial problems. After several unsuccessful attempts to find employment, Rocky visits Mickey Goldmill, his trainer and manager, at first, Mickey declines, concerned about Rockys health, but he soon accepts after Apollo publicly insults Rocky. Adrian confronts Rocky about the danger of returning to boxing and reminds him of the risk to his eyesight, Rocky argues that he knows nothing else, so this is the only way he can provide. Adrian, furious at Rocky for breaking his promise, refuses to support him, Rocky and Mickey begin training, but Rocky is not focused on the job at hand due to Adrians disapproval. Adrians brother, Paulie, confronts his sister about not supporting her husband, but she faints during the confrontation and is rushed to the hospital, despite being premature, the baby is healthy, but Adrian falls into a coma. Rocky blames himself for what has happened and refuses to leave Adrians bedside until she wakes up, and will not go to see his new baby until they can see it together. The night of the match arrives, and Apollo has made a goal of beating Rocky in no more than two rounds to prove the first match going the full fifteen rounds was a fluke. Although the match once again progresses to the fifteen rounds. However, Apollos obsession with knocking Rocky out leads him to trade blows with Rocky rather than play it safe, just before the match is about to end in a draw, Rocky manages to get back up by the count of ten. Rocky wins the match by a knockout and becomes the champion of the world
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Windows (film)
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Windows is a 1980 erotic thriller film starring Talia Shire, Joseph Cortese and Elizabeth Ashley, directed by Gordon Willis. Willis was the cinematographer of some of the most acclaimed films of the 1970s, among them The Godfather, All the Presidents Men, Annie Hall and this would be his only attempt at directing a movie. Emily Hollander is the subject of an obsession of Andrea Glassen. Emily, a shy, recently divorced woman, lives alone in a New York apartment, a man forces his way into her apartment and performs a bizarre rape. He forces her to make sounds of erotic satisfaction, capturing them on his tape recorder and she reports the attack to the police, and while they are interviewing her, Andrea stops by to comfort her. Emily seeks safety by moving to an apartment in another section of the city, however, while she is moving out, the same man tries to attack her again. This time Andrea conveniently passes by, and is able to prevent the man from entering Emilys apartment and it becomes apparent that Andrea is not the helpful neighbor that she seems. For starters, she has the recording that was made during Emilys first attack, Andrea has developed an erotic fascination with Emily, apparently developed as she observed Emily through the apartments windows. She hired a driver to perform the attacks, with the purpose of gaining the recording. Unaware of the situation, Emily continues to view Andrea as a friend and she also begins a relationship with the policeman who responded to her case. At this intrusion into her fantasy, Andrea becomes increasingly unhinged and she takes to spying on Emily through a telescope. When Emily unwittingly hails a taxi driven by the man who assaulted her. She finally realizes who the man is and asks him to stop at a phone booth and she calls the police, who, amazingly, advise her to get back into the taxi and engage the man in harmless conversation until they can arrive to assist her. With the taxi driver getting arrested and confessing to the plot, Emily. Andrea professes her love for Emily, but Emily slaps her hard on the face and tells a devastated and her ordeal over, Emily greets the detective at her front door. David Denby attacked the film, saying Windows exists only in the fantasies of men who hate lesbians so much they will concoct any idiocy in order to slander them. Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert selected the film as one of their dogs of the year in a 1980 episode of Sneak Previews, Gordon Willis admitted the film had been a mistake, and later said of directing that he didnt really like it. Ive had a relationship with actors, he reflected, but I can do what I do
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Rocky III
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Rocky III is a 1982 American sports drama film written, directed by, and starring Sylvester Stallone. It is the installment in the Rocky film series. The movie features returning co-stars Carl Weathers, Burgess Meredith, Talia Shire, Rocky III also marks the film debuts of Mr. T as James Clubber Lang, and of professional wrestler Hulk Hogan as the supporting character Thunderlips. Rocky III is the first installment in the series to be distributed by MGM/UA rather than United Artists alone, in 1980, United Artists, who owned the rights to the Rocky films, made Heavens Gate, a film which cost $44 million and made only $3 million. In response, United Artists owner, Transamerica, sold United Artists to MGM, three years after winning the heavyweight championship over Apollo Creed, Rocky Balboa has had a string of ten successful title defenses and has seen his fame, wealth and celebrity increase. He even has time to participate in a charity event against the world wrestling champion. Meanwhile, Rockys manager Mickey worriedly eyes a young and hungry contender rapidly rising through the ranks named James Clubber Lang, while unveiling a statue of himself at the steps by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Rocky is publicly challenged by Lang, now the number-one contender. Lang accuses Rocky of intentionally accepting challenges from lesser opponents, and after he makes a sexual remark toward Rockys wife Adrian, Mickey initially wants no part of it. Pressed by Rocky, Mickey confesses that Rockys title reign was aided by Mickey deliberately handpicking Rockys opponents, Rockys Las Vegas-style training camp is filled with distractions and, despite his promise to Mickey, Rocky is clearly overwhelmed by fame and doesnt take the challenge seriously. In contrast, Lang trains with ruthless determination and vigor, Lang and Rocky meet at Philadelphias Spectrum. A brawl breaks out backstage, in which Mickey is violently shoved by Lang, causing him to suffer a heart attack, a now distraught Rocky wants to call the fight off, but Mickey angrily urges him on while he stays in the dressing room. By the time of the match, Rocky is both enraged and severely distracted by his mentors condition, after the match, Rocky returns to the dressing room and witnesses Mickey dying. Rocky mourns over Mickeys death afterwards, at first, Rocky is too demoralized to put forth his best efforts, which leaves Apollo concerned, but regains after Adrian helps him come to terms with Mickeys death. Apollo then trains Rocky at the gym where he trained, Tough Gym in Los Angeles. The rematch takes place at Madison Square Garden, Apollo lends Rocky his American flag trunks that he wore during their first match. As the match is under way, Rocky sprints from his corner, fighting with a level of skill and spirit that no one, including Lang, as a result, Rocky completely dominates the first round, demonstrating his new-found speed. After the bell rings, Lang is in a fit of rage and has to be restrained by his trainers, as a result, Lang goes down for the count and Rocky re-claims the heavyweight championship title. Afterwards, Rocky fulfills Apollos vague big favor, a rematch with him at Mickeys gym
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Rocky IV
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Rocky IV is a 1985 American sports drama film written, directed by, and starring Sylvester Stallone. The film co-stars Dolph Lundgren, Burt Young, Talia Shire, Carl Weathers, Tony Burton, Brigitte Nielsen, Rocky IV remained the highest grossing sports movie for 24 years before it was overtaken by The Blind Side. It is the fourth and most financially successful entry in the Rocky film series, in the film, the Soviet Union and their top boxer make an entrance into professional boxing with their best athlete Ivan Drago, who initially wants to take on World champion Rocky Balboa. Rockys best friend Apollo Creed decides to fight him instead, but is beaten in the ring. Enraged, Rocky decides to fight Drago in the Soviet Union to avenge his friend and defend the honor of his country, critical reception was mixed, but the film earned $300 million at the box office. This film marked Carl Weathers final appearance in the series, the films success led to a fifth entry released on November 16,1990. Ivan Drago, a Russian Soviet boxer, arrives in the United States with his wife, Ludmilla, and his manager, Nicolai Koloff, takes every opportunity to promote Dragos athleticism as a hallmark of Soviet superiority. Motivated by patriotism and a desire to prove himself, Apollo Creed challenges Drago to an exhibition bout. Rocky has reservations, but agrees to train Apollo despite his misgivings about the match and he asks Apollo whether the fight is against the Soviet, or you against you. During a press conference regarding the match, hostility sparks between Apollo and Dragos respective camps, the boxing exhibition takes place at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas. Apollo enters the ring in an over-the-top patriotic entrance with James Brown performing Living in America complete with showgirls, the bout starts tamely with Apollo landing several punches that have no effect on Drago. It soon turns serious though, as Drago starts to retaliate with devastating effect. By the end of the first round, Rocky and Apollos trainer, Duke, plead with him to give up, but Apollo refuses to do so, Drago continues to pummel him in the second round, Duke begs Rocky to throw in the towel. Eventually, Drago lands one final punch that knocks Apollo out, in the immediate aftermath, Drago displays no sense of remorse commenting to the assembled media, If he dies, he dies. Enraged by guilt and the Russians cold indifference, Rocky challenges Drago himself, Dragos camp agrees to an unsanctioned 15-round fight in the Soviet Union on Christmas Day, an arrangement meant to protect Drago from the threats of violence he has been receiving in America. Rocky travels to the USSR without Adrian, setting up his base in Krasnogourbinsk with only Duke. To prepare for the match, Drago uses high-tech equipment, steroid enhancement, Adrian arrives unexpectedly to give Rocky her support after initially refusing to travel to the Soviet Union because of her worry that Rocky would be killed like Apollo. Drago is introduced with an elaborate, patriotic ceremony and the crowd is squarely on Dragos side
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Rad (film)
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Rad is a 1986 American film about BMX racing. The film was written by Sam Bernard and Geoffrey Edwards and directed by Hal Needham and it stars Bill Allen and Lori Loughlin. Parts of this movie were filmed in Cochrane, Alberta, Canada, high School and Bowness Park, both in Calgary, Alberta. The films story focuses on Cru Jones, a young BMX racer who lives in a town with his mother and sister. Cru is faced with a decision, the qualifying races for Helltrack are the same day as his SATs. However, winning Helltrack means $100 grand, a new Chevrolet Corvette, Cru chooses the latter option, ignoring his mothers wishes. The Helltrack race is endorsed by the city and a duplicitous Duke Best, president of The Federation of American Bicyclists, racers from all around come to the small town for the Helltrack and Cru meets Christian Hollings, who becomes Crus romantic interest. Christian and Cru meet at the high school dance where, instead of dancing like the other couples. Cru and his friends come up with an idea for him to still enter the race. Using the $10,000 Cru won from qualifying, they start up Rad Racing, however, days before the race Best changes the rules yet again claiming any company sponsoring a racer must be worth $50,000. During Helltrack, Duke Best gets the Reynolds twins to try to take out Cru, in the final lap, Bart, who leads the race, slows down so that he and Cru can face each other one-on-one in the final stretch. Cru ultimately wins Helltrack, and Bart Taylor is kicked off the Mongoose team, in the final scene Cru offers Taylor a spot in Rad Racing. The film received negative reviews during its release, if only he had listened to mom – but who can blame him for preferring his bicycle. On the website Rotten Tomatoes, Rad was given a Rotten rating of 0%, the lowest possible score from critics, conversely, the audience rating stands at 91%. Guardian writer Nick Evershed found it had the largest discrepancy between audience and critical reception in the Rotten Tomatoes database, from a pool of 10,000 movies analyzed. The film was released on VHS and LaserDisc in 1986, where the film found a following. On February 9,2014, it was released for download at the iTunes Store. Farnhams Break the Ice was featured on a special list of the best songs from 80s action film montages that appeared on music website, Rad at the Internet Movie Database Rad at Rotten Tomatoes Rad at Box Office Mojo Bill Allens Book
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Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star
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Hyper Sapien, People from Another Star is a 1986 film directed by Peter R. Hunt and starring Dennis Holahan, Ricky Paull Goldin, Sydney Penny, Keenan Wynn, and Rosie Marcel. The next morning, the aliens befriend a ranchers son named Dirt while hes out riding fences on his motorcycle, robyn shows off her bike-riding skills and the quartet go to visit Dirts grandparents. After Kirbi beats Grandpa at poker, the drinks an can of gasoline. Later, Kirbi keeps feeding the goats even though Grandpa wants him to feed the chickens, Grandpa then shows Kirbi how to shoot Coors cans with a gun while he complains about how much the world has changed. This is the movie in which actor Keenan Wynn appears. Though the movie takes place in rural Wyoming, it was filmed in Calgary, hyper Sapien, People from Another Star at the Internet Movie Database
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New York Stories
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New York Stories is a 1989 anthology film, it consists of three shorts with the central theme being New York City. The first is Life Lessons, directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Richard Price, the second is Life Without Zoë, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and written by Coppola with his daughter, Sofia Coppola. The last is Oedipus Wrecks, directed, written by and starring Woody Allen, the film was screened out of competition at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival. Rosanna Arquette is Paulette, his apprentice/assistant and former lover, Lionel is still infatuated with her, but Paulette wants only his tutelage, which makes things difficult since they live in the same studio-loft. Paulette dates other people, including a performance artist and a painter and these deliberate provocations on Paulettes part make Lionel insanely jealous — and fuel his creativity. Lionel and Paulette, it clear, have been using each other, Lionel using her sexually, Paulette using him as a means of entry to the higher spheres of the New York social. Paulette wants to give up and go home to her parents, Lionel pours his anxiety and repressed passion into his work. Paintings around the studio show visual metaphors from relations past, stormy skies, burning bridges, Lionel realizes that he needs the emotional turmoil of his destructive relationships in order to fuel his art. In the last scene, at the art exhibit, Lionel meets another young woman. He persuades her to become his assistant, and potentially his lover, Zoë is a schoolgirl who lives in a luxury hotel. She helps return to an Arab princess a valuable piece of jewelry that the princess had given to Zoës father and had been subsequently stolen, Zoë tries to reconcile her divorced mother, a photographer, and father, a flute soloist. New York lawyer Sheldon Mills has problems with his critical mother Sadie Millstein. Sheldon complains constantly to his therapist about her, wishing aloud that she would just disappear, Sheldon takes his shiksa fiancée, Lisa, to meet his mother, who immediately embarrasses him. The three, as well as Lisas children from a marriage, go to a magic show. His mother is invited on stage to be a part of the magicians act and she is put inside a box that has swords stuck through it and she disappears, just as she is supposed to, but then she never reappears. Although he is furious at first, this development turns out to be great for Sheldon because, with her out of his life, but soon, to his horror, his mother reappears in the sky over New York City. She begins to annoy Sheldon and Lisa by constantly talking to strangers about his most embarrassing moments and this puts a strain on his relationship with Lisa, who leaves him. Sheldon is persuaded by his psychiatrist to see a psychic, Treva, trevas experiments fail, but Sheldon falls for her, possibly finding her to be very similar to his mother
