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Kyra Sedgwick
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Kyra Minturn Sedgwick Bacon is an American actress and producer. She is best known for her role as Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson on the TNT crime drama The Closer. Sedgwicks role in the series won her a Golden Globe Award in 2007, the series ended on August 13,2012, following the completion of its seventh season. She is also known for her role as Madeline Wuntch on the successful sitcom Brooklyn Nine Nine. Sedgwick was nominated for a Golden Globe award for her performance in Something to Talk About and she also has one of the starring roles in the critically acclaimed 2016 comedy-drama movie The Edge of Seventeen. Sedgwick was born in New York City, the daughter of Patricia, a teacher and educational/family therapist, and Henry Dwight Sedgwick V. Her father was Episcopalian and of English heritage, and her mother was Jewish, Sedgwick has identified herself as Jewish and has stated that she participates in Passover seders. Sedgwick is also a sister of actor Robert Sedgwick, half-sister of jazz guitarist Mike Stern, the first cousin once removed of actress Edie Sedgwick, and she is also the aunt of R&B/pop singer George Nozuka and his younger singer-songwriter brother Justin Nozuka. Sedgwicks parents separated when she was 4 and divorced when she was 6, her mother subsequently married Ben Heller, Sedgwick went to high school with Matthew Broderick. When both were guests on WWHL, both revealed they actually dated on and off, Broderick even went as far to say he knows Sedgwicks mother well. Sedgwick graduated from Friends Seminary and attended Sarah Lawrence College before transferring to the University of Southern California, Sedgwick made her debut at the age of 16 on the television soap opera Another World. In 1988 she made an impression in a TV version of Lanford Wilsons Lemon Sky. She starred in the Emmy Award–winning 1992 made-for-TV film Miss Rose White as a Jewish immigrant who comes to terms with her ethnicity and she played the parts of Mae Coleman in 2003s Secondhand Lions and Stella Peck in the 2007 film The Game Plan. She also starred alongside her husband Kevin Bacon in the 2004 film The Woodsman and she dubbed the voice of Batwoman in the animated movie Batman, Mystery of the Batwoman. Sedgwick starred in the television series The Closer from 2005 to 2012, in 2007 she began earning roughly US$300,000 per episode. Over the life of the series she was nominated for and won awards for her starring role as Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson. She received a Golden Globe award in 2007 for her performance as lead actress, in 2009, Sedgwick was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television. The Closer ended on August 13,2012, following the completion of its seventh season, a sequel series starring most of the same cast called Major Crimes continues in its place
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J. K. Simmons
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Jonathan Kimble J. K. Simmons is an American actor and voice actor. In television, he is known for playing Dr. Emil Skoda on the NBC series Law & Order, neo-Nazi Vernon Schillinger on the HBO prison-drama Oz and his film roles include J. Jonah Jameson in Sam Raimis Spider-Man trilogy and music instructor Terence Fletcher in 2014s Whiplash. He is also known for voicing Cave Johnson in the video game Portal 2, Tenzin in The Legend of Korra, Stanford Pines in Gravity Falls, Kai in Kung Fu Panda 3, and Mayor Lionheart in Zootopia. Simmons also reprised his role as J. Jonah Jameson in various Marvel animated series and he has also appeared in a series of television commercials for Farmers Insurance. Jonathan Kimble Simmons was born on January 9,1955 in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, the son of Patricia, an administrator, and Donald William Simmons, in 1965, when he was 10 years old, his family moved to Worthington, Ohio. In 1973, when he was 18, they moved to Missoula, Montana, the younger Simmons graduated from the University of Montana in 1978 with a music degree. During his tenure, he was part of the music-oriented fraternity Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia. Later, Simmons moved to Seattle and became a member of the Seattle Repertory Theatre, on Broadway, Simmons played Benny Southstreet in the 1992 revival of Guys and Dolls. In 1994 he sang roles in the Wagner opera satire. He also played the role of Jigger in a revival of Carousel with the Houston Grand Opera and he also stars as Ralph Earnhardt, the father of race-car driver Dale Earnhardt, in 3, The Dale Earnhardt Story. He plays Will Pope, Assistant Chief of the LAPD, in the series The Closer. In an interesting precursor to his joining the Law & Order cast as Skoda, Simmons appeared in Homicide, Life on the Street, portraying a criminal in a Law & Order cross-over episode. Other roles include that of a general in the television sitcom Arrested Development. He played B. R. in the film Thank You for Smoking and has been praised for his performance in Juno as Mac McGuff, in all three of Sam Raimis Spider-Man films, Simmons played J. Jonah Jameson, editor-in-chief of the newspaper Daily Bugle. In 2008, he played a CIA superior in Burn After Reading and he also appeared in I Love You, Man. Simmons starred in films produced or directed by his friend Jason Reitman, including Thank You for Smoking, Juno, Up in the Air. In 2013, he had a role as Mr. Jervis in Reitmans film Labor Day. He voices Tenzin, an Airbending master and the son of Aang and Katara and he starred as blind lawyer Mel Fisher in Growing Up Fisher
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Corey Reynolds
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Corey Reynolds is an American musical theatre, television, and film actor known for originating the role of Seaweed in the Broadway adaptation of Hairspray, and for the TNT crime show The Closer. Reynolds was born in Richmond, Virginia, where he attended Monacan High School before moving to California to pursue his acting career and he got his start at Paramount Kings Dominion performing in various shows. While living in California, he was cast in a production of the revue Smokey Joes Cafe. After this run, he went to New York City and auditioned for various shows and he was originally cast in Hairsprays ensemble, but was offered the role of Seaweed after three readings. For this role, he was nominated for a Tony Award and Drama Desk Award, Reynolds guest starred on Without a Trace and appeared in The Guardian prior to his role in The Closer. To research this role, Reynolds drew on his past career in security, Reynolds has appeared in films such as The Terminal, Red Tails, and Straight Outta Compton. Corey Reynolds at the Internet Movie Database Corey Reynolds at the Internet Broadway Database Interview
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G. W. Bailey
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Bailey is an American stage, television and film actor. He currently stars in the TNT series Major Crimes, a spinoff of The Closer, Bailey was born in Port Arthur, Texas. He went to Thomas Jefferson High School in Port Arthur with Janis Joplin and he started college at Lamar University in nearby Beaumont and transferred to Texas Tech University in Lubbock. His film debut was in A Force of One, an early Chuck Norris film and he then got his breakout role as Rizzo in M*A*S*H. He also did a star making turn as Tom Berengers sidekick in Rustlers Rhapsody and he returned to college in 1993, and graduated from Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas in May 1993, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Theatre. For the 1999–2000 school year, he was the Artist-in-Residence, in the late 1990s he starred in three of TNTs acclaimed The Bible Series films, Solomon, Jesus, and Saint Paul aka Paul The Apostle. Since 2001, Bailey has served as the Executive Director of the Sunshine Kids Foundation and he has been a volunteer for more than 15 years since being introduced to the organization by his goddaughter, who was diagnosed with leukemia. Bailey - Museum of the Gulf Coast, Port Arthur, TX
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Anthony Denison
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Anthony John Sarrero, also known by his stage name Anthony Denison, is an American actor. The eldest of three, he was born and raised in New York Citys Harlem. He worked for John Hancock Insurance as an insurance agent in Poughkeepsie, New York, while pursuing his acting career, starring in several stage productions in the New Paltz, New York. His stage surname Denison was taken from his friend Jan Denison during his days as an actor and director at a theater in the late 1970s. Denison is most recently known for his role as Detective Andrew Flynn in The Closer and he is well known for his role as mob boss Ray Luca on the NBC crime drama Crime Story. He appeared in Season 1, Episode 3, of Charmed as the father of the Halliwell sisters, in 2005, he appeared on Criminal Minds as Sgt. He played Detective Buroughs in Karla and he had a recurring role as Aldo Burrows on the Fox series Prison Break. In 2000, he played the role of a killer for hire in Walker, Denison embodied Government Investor in the 2011 Frankie Muniz superhero caper Pizza Man. Anthony John Denison at the Internet Movie Database
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Jon Tenney
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Jonathan Frederick Jon Tenney is an American actor. He played Special Agent Fritz Howard in TNTs The Closer and continues in its spinoff Major Crimes, Tenney was born in Princeton, New Jersey. His mother, Dr. Lillian Sandra Baum was a psychiatrist and his father and his maternal grandparents were Polish Jewish immigrants, while his paternal forebears were of English ancestry. He received his B. A. degree from Vassar College in 1984 and he later attended The Juilliard Schools Drama Division as a member of Group 19. Tenney made his debut in a touring production of Mike Nichols The Real Thing. He worked steadily on and off-Broadway, and in regional theater, at New York City, his stage credits include Biloxi Blues, The Substance of Fire and The Heiress. Series with Tenney as a regular were canceled on all four major networks, later, he portrayed Dr. Simon Craig, a love interest of Nora Walker in Brothers & Sisters. In 2013, he starred with Rebecca Romijn in TNTs King & Maxwell, as Sean King, the series was canceled after one season. In 2014, he was cast in a role on Shonda Rhimes drama series Scandal. Tenney appeared in films, including the villainous CEO of Benbrook Oil Company in Free Willy 2, The Adventure Home. He also starred in roles for some films, including Tombstone, Beverly Hills Cop III, Nixon, Music from Another Room. He also appeared in John Cameron Mitchells film, Rabbit Hole and he portrayed Martin Jordan in the 2011 superhero film Green Lantern. Tenney was married to Teri Hatcher from 1994 to 2003, and had a daughter and he married producer Leslie Urdang on June 16,2012. Jon Tenney at the Internet Movie Database
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Raymond Cruz
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He currently stars on the series Major Crimes, a spinoff of The Closer, reprising the role of Sanchez. Cruz was raised in East Los Angeles, California, and is of Mexican ancestry and he attended East Los Angeles College and is fully literate and fluent in both Spanish and English. He grew up in a neighborhood that regularly saw gang activity, a reality he brings to his roles, particularly as Sanchez and he has said that becoming interested in American literature early in life is how he avoided the gangs himself. He appeared as Chuey, a member from the Vatos Locos. In 2005, he played Chino in Havoc and he appeared in Gremlins 2, The New Batch, credited as The Messenger, and in Training Day as a gang member named Sniper. He played a Los Angeles firefighter in Collateral Damage and he had guest roles in the Star Trek, Deep Space Nine episode The Siege of AR-558, the X-Files episode El Mundo Gira, and the second season of 24. He also made an appearance as the father of a girl in CSI. He played a short-lived but well-known role as Tuco Salamanca, a violent and he later reprised the role of Tuco in the Breaking Bad spin-off, Better Call Saul. He had a role as Paco on My Name Is Earl. Raymond Cruz at the Internet Movie Database
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Mary McDonnell
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Mary Eileen McDonnell is an American film, stage, and television actress. She received Academy Award nominations for her roles as Stands With A Fist in Dances with Wolves, McDonnell is well known for her performances as President Laura Roslin in Battlestar Galactica, the First Lady in Independence Day, and Rose in Donnie Darko. She currently stars as Captain Sharon Raydor on the TNT series Major Crimes, McDonnell was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and was raised in Ithaca, New York. She is the daughter of Eileen and John Jack McDonnell, a computer consultant and her siblings are Jane, Sally, Judith, Jackie, and John. McDonnell won an Obie Award for Best Actress in 1981 for her work in the play Still Life, on Broadway, she has performed in productions of Execution of Justice, The Heidi Chronicles, and Summer and Smoke. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the role, mcDonnells role in Passion Fish brought her another Academy Award nomination, this time for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Her other notable films include Grand Canyon, Sneakers, Independence Day, McDonnell also starred with Patrick Swayze in the 1988 movie, Tiger Warsaw. In 1997 she played the judge in the film 12 Angry Men, the film also featured future Battlestar Galactica castmate Edward James Olmos. On television, McDonnell had her first regular part in 1980 on the soap opera As the World Turns and she starred in 1984 on the short-lived medical comedy E/R, alongside Elliott Gould and George Clooney. Coincidentally, she guest-starred in 2001 on the NBC medical series of the name, ER. She was nominated for an Emmy Award for her role on the show as Eleanor Carter, the mother of Dr. John Carter played by Noah Wyle and she played Dr. Virginia Dixon, a surgeon with Asperger syndrome for three episodes of Greys Anatomy in 2008 and 2009. In 2003, McDonnell starred in the mini-series Battlestar Galactica as Laura Roslin, the mini-series led to the subsequent weekly series, with McDonnell reprising her Laura Roslin role. The series ended in March 2009, McDonnell took part in a special session entitled Battlestar Galactica at the 2009 World Science Festival. The session also included Michael Hogan, as well as scientists Nick Bostrom, in 2011, she appeared in the role of Kate Roberts, the mother of Emma Robertss character in Scream 4. McDonnell received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series in 2011 for the role, mcDonnells character is the lead in the spin-off, Major Crimes, which debuted August 13,2012, after The Closer wrapped up its final season in the summer of 2012. McDonnell is married to actor Randle Mell, and currently resides in Pacific Palisades, McDonnell and Mell have two children together, Michael Mell and Olivia Mell
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Warner Bros. Television
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Television is the television production arm of Warner Bros. Entertainment, itself part of Time Warner, as of 2015, it is the worlds largest television production company measured by revenue and library. Its most notable TV shows include Friends, ER, The West Wing, Smallville, Supernatural, The Big Bang Theory, The Wire and Full House. The division was started on March 21,1955 with its first and most successful head being Jack L. Warners son-in-law William T. Orr. ABC had major success against its competition with Walt Disneys Disneyland TV series, WB formally entered television production with the premiere of its self-titled anthology series Warner Bros. The one-hour weekly show featured rotating episodes of series based on the WB films, Casablanca and Kings Row. One such segment for Rebel Without a Cause featured Gig Young notably talking about road safety with James Dean, with only Cheyenne being a success, Warner Bros. ended the ten-minute promotions of new films and replaced Warner Bros. Presents with a series titled Conflict. It was felt that Conflict was what the series lacked. Conflict showed the pilots for Maverick and 77 Sunset Strip, the company also produced Jack Webbs Red Nightmare for the U. S. Department of Defense that was later shown on American television on Jack Webbs General Electric True. During a Hollywood television writers strike, Warner Bros. reused many plots from its films and this was another example of imitating Warner Bros B Pictures who would remake an A film and switch the setting. Two of the most popular stars, James Garner and Clint Walker, Garner never returned to the Warners fold during this period. Successful Warners television stars found themselves in leading roles of many of the films with no increase in salary. Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. was simultaneously the lead of 77 Sunset Strip, in a role on Maverick. Edd Byrnes and Troy Donahue would go on to become teen heartthrobs, Warners also contracted established stars such as Ray Danton, Peter Breck, Jeanne Cooper and Grant Williams. These stars often appeared as guest stars, sometimes reprising their series role in another TV series, the stars appeared in Warner Bros. Some stars such as Connie Stevens, Edd Byrnes, Robert Conrad, depending on the particular show, William Lava or David Buttolph would compose the music, with lyrics by Stan Jones or Paul Francis Webster, among others. For the crime shows, it was up to the team of Jerry Livingston and Mack David, who also scored the themes for the sitcom Room for One More
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TNT (U.S. TV network)
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TNT is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner. As of July 2015, TNT is available to approximately 94.259 million cable, satellite and telco households in the United States. The channel launched at 8 p. m. Eastern Time on October 3,1988 with a performance of The Star Spangled Banner. Its inaugural telecast was the 1939 classic film Gone with the Wind and it was said that the movie was chosen as the channels first program because it was Turners favorite movie. It would also serve as the first program aired on sister channel Turner Classic Movies, incidentally, Gone With the Wind had its premiere held in Atlanta, Georgia, Turners hometown and the headquarters of the channels corporate parent, Turner Broadcasting System. The city served as the setting for the film, TNT was initially a vehicle for older movies and television shows, but slowly began to add original programming and newer reruns. At one point, Monday Nitro was regularly the highest-rated weekly program on cable television, the program beat Monday Night Raw, the flagship show of the World Wrestling Federation, in the ratings for 83 consecutive weeks from 1996 to 1998. The channel was known for its late night programming. One such program was MonsterVision, a Saturday night B movie showcase that aired from 1993 to 2000 It featured a Godzilla movie marathon at the end of every month. This running joke culminated in a Friday the 13th all-night Halloween marathon in 1998, the Rudy and Gogo World Famous Cartoon Show, which ran from 1995 to 1997, was an original childrens program on the channel featuring classic Warner Bros. MGM, and Popeye shorts, hosted by a pair of a marionette. In 1998, TNT dropped all of its cartoons, relegating those shows to Cartoon Network. Most of the series and shorts that were dropped would also serve as the core of Boomerang. During the 1990s, TNT scheduled an afternoon block that included Due South, Kung Fu, The Legend Continues, Lois & Clark, The New Adventures of Superman. In 1998, TNT took over production of the fifth and final season of Babylon 5 from the Prime Time Entertainment Network after the syndication block ceased operations. The following year, TNT produced the Babylon 5 spinoff series Crusade, in 2001, TNT debuted what became its most successful original series at the time, Witchblade, which ran for two seasons, ending in 2002. On June 12,2001, TNT underwent a rebrand, with the introduction of a new logo designed by Trollbäck + Company as well as a new slogan. The slogan emphasized the new focus on dramatic programming, including sports and off-network syndicated dramas such as Law & Order, NYPD Blue, ER
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Major Crimes
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Major Crimes is an American television police procedural series starring Mary McDonnell. It is a successor spin-off of The Closer and premiered on TNT August 13,2012, on December 15,2015, TNT renewed the series for a 13-episode fifth season, airing on Mondays at 10,00 p. m. On June 22,2016, TNT ordered eight episodes for season five. Major Crimes was renewed for a 13-episode sixth season on January 18,2017, following the departure of Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson from the Los Angeles Police Department, Captain Sharon Raydor is selected as the new head of its Major Crimes Division. Throughout Season 1, she faces the challenge of earning the trust and loyalty of her officers, ambitious young detective Amy Sykes also joins the Major Crimes Division. Raydor decides to house Rusty Beck, the key witness for the Stroh case, in her own home, in Season 2, Deputy District Attorney Emma Rios is introduced as part of the prosecution team on the Stroh case. The series also stars previous cast members from The Closer such as G. W. Bailey, Tony Denison, Michael Paul Chan, Raymond Cruz, Phillip P. Keene, Robert Gossett, Jonathan Del Arco and Jon Tenney. On December 10,2010, TNT announced that the seventh season of The Closer. The channel said the decision to retire the show was made by Kyra Sedgwick, on January 30,2011, the media announced the final season would add six episodes to the usual 15-episode order, the final six being the build toward a possible spin-off series. On May 18,2011, TNT announced the spin-off, entitled Major Crimes, Season 2 premiered on June 10,2013. The series was renewed for a season of 15 episodes on August 15,2013. On July 18,2014, TNT renewed Major Crimes for a 15-episode fourth season, later expanded to 23 episodes, as of March 22,2017,89 episodes of Major Crimes have aired. Major Crimes received a score of 65/100 and generally favorable based on 17 critics at Metacritic. Newsdays Verne Gay gave the series a B+ grade, calling it sharply written, acted and directed, adding producers now have to turn an antagonist into a full-time protagonist. Robert Lloyd of the Los Angeles Times called the series a nice balance between the tragic and comic, citing Mary McDonnells performance as modulated and cool, but with a blue-flame intensity. The first episode, helped by the episode of The Closer airing beforehand, had 9.5 million viewers. Its first season ratings were the highest for any new show on cable, Major Crimes airs on TNT in the United States. In Canada, it began airing on Super Channel on August 22,2012, in Australia it airs on 9Gem
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Television in the United States
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Television is one of the major mass media of the United States. The peak ownership percentage of households with at least one television set occurred during the 1996–97 season, individual broadcast television stations in the U. S. transmit on either VHF channels 2 through 13 or UHF channels 14 through 51. Over-the-air and subscription television networks, however, are not required to file for a license to operate, channels are usually sold in groups, rather than singularly. A la carte subscription services in the U. S, the United States has a decentralized, market-oriented television system, particularly in regard to broadcast television. The nation has a public television service known as the Public Broadcasting Service. Local media markets have their own stations, which may either be affiliated with or owned and operated by a television network. Arrangements in which television stations carried more than one network on its main signal were more common between the 1940s and the 1960s, although some continued as late as 2010. However unlike in other countries, to ensure local presences in television broadcasting, the international programming model is used in the U. S. The five major U. S. broadcast television networks are the National Broadcasting Company, CBS, the American Broadcasting Company, the Fox Broadcasting Company and the CW Television Network. The first and elder three began as radio networks, NBC and CBS respectively began operations in 1924 and 1927, weekday schedules on ABC, CBS, and NBC affiliates tend to be similar, with programming choices sorted by dayparts. Network daytime schedules consist of shows and soap operas, although one network – CBS – still carries game shows. Syndicated talk shows are shown in the afternoon, followed by additional local newscasts in the early evening time period. ABC, CBS and NBC offer network news programs each evening, local newscasts or syndicated programs fill the prime access hour or half-hour, and lead into the networks prime time schedules, which are the days most-watched three hours of television. The traditional prime time runs from 8,00 to 11,00 p. m. in the Eastern. Hour and leave that hour for their affiliates to provide programming of their own, later in the evening, drama series of various types air. Sunday is the night on American television, with many of TVs most popular shows airing on that night. At the end of time, another local news program is broadcast. Saturday mornings usually feature network programming aimed at children, while Sunday mornings include a form of public affairs program known as the Sunday morning talk shows, both of these help fulfill stations legal obligations, respectively to provide educational childrens programs and public service programming
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Brenda Leigh Johnson
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Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson is a fictional character featured in TNTs The Closer. She heads the Major Crimes Division of the Los Angeles Police Department and she is portrayed as an intelligent, determined, exacting woman. The character has a tendency to offend coworkers and other involved in her cases but is skilled at determining the facts of a crime, compelling confessions. Brendas parents are Clay and Willie Rae Johnson and her father was a career officer in the U. S. Air Force, now retired. She grew up traveling from base to base with her father and her parents were both Southerners who retired to Atlanta. During season two, Brenda celebrated her 40th birthday, while living in Washington, D. C. Brenda was trained as an interrogator by the CIA, after joining the MPD, she became involved with her married boss, Will Pope. After refusing to leave his wife, Pope broke up with Brenda, however, he later divorced that wife to marry his next wife, Estelle. During this time, Brenda also met Fritz Howard, an FBI agent then working in D. C. who transferred to Los Angeles 3½ years before the show begins. Thus, Fritz left D. C. for L. A. slightly before Brenda left D. C. for Atlanta, Fritz knew about Brenda and Popes relationship in D. C. Next, Brenda was a captain with the Atlanta Police Department and her then-husband made false allegations of her having had an affair with a younger police officer, which resulted in an ethics investigation while she was a member of the APD. Brenda believed that her husband did this because he was jealous of the time she dedicated to her work, the marriage was difficult, and they divorced soon afterward. After being cleared of the violation, Brenda sought a new job. She was offered a position with Homeland Security but declined the offer so that she could head the LAPDs new Priority Homicide Division, Brendas friend Assistant Chief Will Pope was responsible for her coming to the LAPD and is again her boss. His motivation in wanting her for the job was that the failed to provide cases the prosecutors could win. During her first case, Brenda is told that she not be able to obtain DNA results from the LAPD for many weeks. Fritz notices that the results are for Brenda and personally delivers them, Brenda and Fritz later become involved and eventually marry. In 2012, Deputy Chief Johnson retired from the LAPD and took a job as Chief of the Los Angeles County District Attorney Bureau of Investigation
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Los Angeles Police Department
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The Los Angeles Police Department, officially the City of Los Angeles Police Department, is the law enforcement agency for the city of Los Angeles, California, United States. With 9,843 officers and 2,773 civilian staff, it is the third-largest municipal police department in the United States, after the New York City Police Department, the department serves an area of 498 square miles and a population of 4,030,904 people. The LAPD has been fictionalized in numerous movies, novels, the department has also been associated with a number of controversies, mainly concerned with racism, police brutality, and police corruption. The first specific Los Angeles police force was founded in 1853, as the Los Angeles Rangers, the Rangers were soon succeeded by the Los Angeles City Guards, another volunteer group. Neither force was particularly efficient and Los Angeles became known for its violence, gambling, the first paid force was created in 1869, when six officers were hired to serve under City Marshal William C. Warren. By 1900, under John M. Glass, there were 70 officers, in 1903, with the start of the Civil Service, this force was increased to 200. During World War II, under Clemence B, horrall, the overall number of personnel was depleted by the demands of the military. Despite efforts to maintain numbers, the police could do little to control the 1943 Zoot Suit Riots, Parker advocated police professionalism and autonomy from civilian administration. However, the Bloody Christmas scandal in 1951 led to calls for civilian accountability, under Parker, LAPD created the first SWAT team in United States law enforcement. Officer John Nelson and then-Inspector Daryl Gates created the program in 1965 to deal with threats from radical organizations such as the Black Panther Party operating during the Vietnam War era. The old headquarters for the LAPD was Parker Center, named former chief William H. Parker. The new headquarters is the new Police Administration Building located at 100 W. 1st St. immediately south of Los Angeles City Hall, the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners also known as the Police Commission, is a five-member body of appointed officials which oversees the LAPD. The board is responsible for setting policies for the department and overseeing the LAPDs overall management, the Chief of Police reports to the board, but the rest of the department reports to the chief. The Office of the Inspector General is an independent part of the LAPD that has oversight over the department’s internal disciplinary process and it was created by the recommendation of the Christopher Commission and it is exempt from civil service and reports directly to the Board of Police Commissioners. The current Inspector General is Alexander A. Bustamante who was formerly an Assistant United States Attorney, the OIG receives copies of every complaint filed against members of the LAPD as well as tracking specific cases along with any resultant litigation. The OIG also conducts audits on select investigations and conducts regular reviews of the system in order to ensure fairness. As well as overseeing the LAPDs disciplinary process, the Inspector General may undertake special investigations as directed by the Board of Police Commissioners, the Office of the Chief of Police is the administrative office comprising the Chief of Staff and the Employee Relations Group. The majority of the LAPDs approximately 10,000 officers are assigned within the Office of Operations, an Assistant Chief, currently First Assistant Chief Michel Moore, commands the office, and reports directly to the chief of police
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Atlanta
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Atlanta is the capital of and the most populous city in the U. S. state of Georgia, with an estimated 2015 population of 463,878. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, home to 5,710,795 people, Atlanta is the county seat of Fulton County, and a small portion of the city extends eastward into DeKalb County. In 1837, Atlanta was founded at the intersection of two lines, and the city rose from the ashes of the American Civil War to become a national center of commerce. Atlantas economy is considered diverse, with dominant sectors that include logistics, professional and business services, media operations, Atlanta has topographic features that include rolling hills and dense tree coverage. Revitalization of Atlantas neighborhoods, initially spurred by the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, has intensified in the 21st century, altering the demographics, politics. Prior to the arrival of European settlers in north Georgia, Creek Indians inhabited the area, standing Peachtree, a Creek village located where Peachtree Creek flows into the Chattahoochee River, was the closest Indian settlement to what is now Atlanta. As part of the removal of Native Americans from northern Georgia from 1802 to 1825, the Creek ceded the area in 1821. In 1836, the Georgia General Assembly voted to build the Western, the initial route was to run southward from Chattanooga to a terminus east of the Chattahoochee River, which would then be linked to Savannah. After engineers surveyed various possible locations for the terminus, the zero milepost was driven into the ground in what is now Five Points. A year later, the area around the milepost had developed into a settlement, first known as Terminus, and later as Thrasherville after a merchant who built homes. By 1842, the town had six buildings and 30 residents and was renamed Marthasville to honor the Governors daughter, later, J. Edgar Thomson, Chief Engineer of the Georgia Railroad, suggested the town be renamed Atlantica-Pacifica, which was shortened to Atlanta. The residents approved, and the town was incorporated as Atlanta on December 29,1847, by 1860, Atlantas population had grown to 9,554. During the American Civil War, the nexus of multiple railroads in Atlanta made the city a hub for the distribution of military supplies, in 1864, the Union Army moved southward following the capture of Chattanooga and began its invasion of north Georgia. On the next day, Mayor James Calhoun surrendered Atlanta to the Union Army, on November 11,1864, Sherman prepared for the Union Armys March to the Sea by ordering Atlanta to be burned to the ground, sparing only the citys churches and hospitals. After the Civil War ended in 1865, Atlanta was gradually rebuilt, due to the citys superior rail transportation network, the state capital was moved from Milledgeville to Atlanta in 1868. In the 1880 Census, Atlanta surpassed Savannah as Georgias largest city, by 1885, the founding of the Georgia School of Technology and the citys black colleges had established Atlanta as a center for higher education. In 1895, Atlanta hosted the Cotton States and International Exposition, during the first decades of the 20th century, Atlanta experienced a period of unprecedented growth. In three decades time, Atlantas population tripled as the city expanded to include nearby streetcar suburbs
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Georgia (U.S. state)
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Georgia is a state in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1733, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies, named after King George II of Great Britain, Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2,1788. It declared its secession from the Union on January 19,1861 and it was the last state to be restored to the Union, on July 15,1870. Georgia is the 24th largest and the 8th most populous of the 50 United States, from 2007 to 2008,14 of Georgias counties ranked among the nations 100 fastest-growing, second only to Texas. Georgia is known as the Peach State and the Empire State of the South, Atlanta is the states capital, its most populous city and has been named a global city. Georgia is bordered to the south by Florida, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean and South Carolina, to the west by Alabama, the states northern part is in the Blue Ridge Mountains, part of the Appalachian Mountains system. Georgias highest point is Brasstown Bald at 4,784 feet above sea level, Georgia is the largest state entirely east of the Mississippi River in land area. Before settlement by Europeans, Georgia was inhabited by the mound building cultures, the British colony of Georgia was founded by James Oglethorpe on February 12,1733. The colony was administered by the Trustees for the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia in America under a charter issued by King George II. The Trustees implemented a plan for the colonys settlement, known as the Oglethorpe Plan. In 1742 the colony was invaded by the Spanish during the War of Jenkins Ear, in 1752, after the government failed to renew subsidies that had helped support the colony, the Trustees turned over control to the crown. Georgia became a colony, with a governor appointed by the king. The Province of Georgia was one of the Thirteen Colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution by signing the 1776 Declaration of Independence, the State of Georgias first constitution was ratified in February 1777. Georgia was the 10th state to ratify the Articles of Confederation on July 24,1778, in 1829, gold was discovered in the North Georgia mountains, which led to the Georgia Gold Rush and an established federal mint in Dahlonega, which continued its operation until 1861. The subsequent influx of white settlers put pressure on the government to land from the Cherokee Nation. In 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act into law, sending many eastern Native American nations to reservations in present-day Oklahoma, including all of Georgias tribes. Despite the Supreme Courts ruling in Worcester v. Georgia that ruled U. S. states were not permitted to redraw the Indian boundaries, President Jackson and the state of Georgia ignored the ruling. In 1838, his successor, Martin Van Buren, dispatched troops to gather the Cherokee
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Central Intelligence Agency
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As one of the principal members of the U. S. Intelligence Community, the CIA reports to the Director of National Intelligence and is focused on providing intelligence for the President. Though it is not the only U. S. government agency specializing in HUMINT and it exerts foreign political influence through its tactical divisions, such as the Special Activities Division. Despite transferring some of its powers to the DNI, the CIA has grown in size as a result of the September 11 attacks. In 2013, The Washington Post reported that in fiscal year 2010, the CIA has increasingly expanded its roles, including covert paramilitary operations. One of its largest divisions, the Information Operations Center, has shifted focus from counter-terrorism to offensive cyber-operations, when the CIA was created, its purpose was to create a clearinghouse for foreign policy intelligence and analysis. Today its primary purpose is to collect, analyze, evaluate, and disseminate foreign intelligence, warning/informing American leaders of important overseas events, with Pakistan described as an intractable target. Counterintelligence, with China, Russia, Iran, Cuba, the Executive Office also supports the U. S. military by providing it with information it gathers, receiving information from military intelligence organizations, and cooperates on field activities. The Executive Director is in charge of the day to day operation of the CIA, each branch of the military service has its own Director. The Directorate has four regional groups, six groups for transnational issues. There is a dedicated to Iraq, regional analytical offices covering the Near East and South Asia, Russia and Europe, and the Asian Pacific, Latin American. The Directorate of Operations is responsible for collecting intelligence. The name reflects its role as the coordinator of intelligence activities between other elements of the wider U. S. intelligence community with their own HUMINT operations. This Directorate was created in an attempt to end years of rivalry over influence, philosophy, in spite of this, the Department of Defense recently organized its own global clandestine intelligence service, the Defense Clandestine Service, under the Defense Intelligence Agency. This Directorate is known to be organized by regions and issues. The Directorate of Science & Technology was established to research, create, many of its innovations were transferred to other intelligence organizations, or, as they became more overt, to the military services. For example, the development of the U-2 high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft was done in cooperation with the United States Air Force, the U-2s original mission was clandestine imagery intelligence over denied areas such as the Soviet Union. It was subsequently provided with signals intelligence and measurement and signature intelligence capabilities, subsequently, NPIC was transferred to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
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Interrogation
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Interrogation is interviewing as commonly employed by law enforcement officers, military personnel, and intelligence agencies with the goal of eliciting useful information. Interrogation may involve an array of techniques, ranging from developing a rapport with the subject. There are multiple techniques employed in interrogation including deception, torture, increasing suggestibility, a persons suggestibility is how willing they are to accept and act on suggestions by others. Interrogators seek to increase a subjects suggestibility, methods used to increase suggestibility may include moderate sleep deprivation, exposure to constant white noise, and using GABAergic drugs such as sodium amytal or sodium thiopental. Sleep deprivation, exposure to noise, and the use of drugs may greatly inhibit a detainees ability to provide truthful. Deception can form an important part of effective interrogation, see case law on trickery and deception. As noted above, traditionally the issue of deception is considered from the perspective of the engaging in deception towards the individual being interrogated. The major aim of this technique is to investigate to what extent verbal and non-verbal features of liars’ and truth-tellers’ behaviour change during the course of repeated interrogations and it has shown that liars displays significantly fewer smiles, self-manipulations, pauses, and less gaze aversion than truth-tellers. The paper talks about three different approaches to non-verbal deceptive behaviour, the emotional, the cognitive and the attempted control approach, emotional approach suggests that a liar can feel either guilt, fear or excitement, and that each emotional state will lead to a specific set of behaviours. The rationale behind the approach is that lying is a more cognitively complex task than telling the truth. Hence, it is predicted that liars will, for example, make more speech disturbances, finally, the attempted control approach proposes that a liar will try to control his or her behaviour in order to appear as normal and as honest as possible. It also talks about how liars try to remember what they have said in previous interrogations and it can be speculated that the ‘rehearsal-strategy’ used by liars will promote consistency, while the more re-collective nature of the truth-tellers’ memory will undermine consistency. Good cop/bad cop is a technique in which the officers take different sides. The bad cop takes a stance on the subject. This allows for the cop to sympathize with and defend the subject. The idea is to get the subject to trust the good cop, the Reid Technique is a trademarked interrogation technique widely used by law enforcement agencies in North America. The technique has been criticized for being difficult to apply across cultures, there is no means of obtaining the truth from those who have the strength to resist says Ulpian, while others unable to withstand the pain will tell any lie rather than suffer it. The use of torture as an investigative technique waned with the rise of Christianity since it was considered antithetical to Christs teachings, and in 866 Pope Nicholas I banned the practice
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Los Angeles
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Los Angeles, officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L. A. is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California. With a census-estimated 2015 population of 3,971,883, it is the second-most populous city in the United States, Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated county in the United States. The citys inhabitants are referred to as Angelenos, historically home to the Chumash and Tongva, Los Angeles was claimed by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo for Spain in 1542 along with the rest of what would become Alta California. The city was founded on September 4,1781, by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 following the Mexican War of Independence, in 1848, at the end of the Mexican–American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thereby becoming part of the United States. Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4,1850, the discovery of oil in the 1890s brought rapid growth to the city. The completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, delivering water from Eastern California, nicknamed the City of Angels, Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, and sprawling metropolis. Los Angeles also has an economy in culture, media, fashion, science, sports, technology, education, medicine. A global city, it has been ranked 6th in the Global Cities Index, the city is home to renowned institutions covering a broad range of professional and cultural fields, and is one of the most substantial economic engines within the United States. The Los Angeles combined statistical area has a gross metropolitan product of $831 billion, making it the third-largest in the world, after the Greater Tokyo and New York metropolitan areas. The city has hosted the Summer Olympic Games in 1932 and 1984 and is bidding to host the 2024 Summer Olympics and thus become the second city after London to have hosted the Games three times. The Los Angeles area also hosted the 1994 FIFA mens World Cup final match as well as the 1999 FIFA womens World Cup final match, the mens event was watched on television by over 700 million people worldwide. The Los Angeles coastal area was first settled by the Tongva, a Gabrielino settlement in the area was called iyáangẚ, meaning poison oak place. Gaspar de Portolà and Franciscan missionary Juan Crespí, reached the present site of Los Angeles on August 2,1769, in 1771, Franciscan friar Junípero Serra directed the building of the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, the first mission in the area. The Queen of the Angels is an honorific of the Virgin Mary, two-thirds of the settlers were mestizo or mulatto with a mixture of African, indigenous and European ancestry. The settlement remained a small town for decades, but by 1820. Today, the pueblo is commemorated in the district of Los Angeles Pueblo Plaza and Olvera Street. New Spain achieved its independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, during Mexican rule, Governor Pío Pico made Los Angeles Alta Californias regional capital
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Megacity
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A megacity is usually defined as a metropolitan area with a total population in excess of ten million people. A megacity can be a metropolitan area or two or more metropolitan areas that converge. The terms conurbation, metropolis and metroplex are also applied to the latter, as of 2017, there are 37 megacities in existence. The largest of these are the areas of Tokyo and Shanghai, each of these having a population of over 30 million inhabitants. Tokyo is the worlds largest metropolitan area, while Shanghai has the worlds largest city proper population, the UN predicts there will be 41 megacities by 2030. This is the list of worlds largest cities and metropolitan areas by population as of 2016, the term megacity entered common use in the late 19th or early 20th centuries, one of the earliest documented uses being by the University of Texas in 1904. Initially the United Nations used the term to describe cities of 8 million or more inhabitants, in 1800, only 3% of the worlds population lived in cities, a figure that rose to 47% by the end of the twentieth century. In 1950, there were 83 cities with populations exceeding one million, by 2007, the UN forecasts that todays urban population of 3.2 billion will rise to nearly 5 billion by 2030, when three out of five people will live in cities. This increase will be most dramatic on the continents, Asia. Surveys and projections indicate that all urban growth over the next 25 years will be in developing countries, one billion people, almost one-seventh of the worlds population, now live in shanty towns. In many poor countries overpopulated slums exhibit high rates of disease due to conditions, malnutrition. By 2030, over 2 billion people in the world will be living in slums, over 90% of the urban population of Ethiopia, Malawi and Uganda, three of the worlds most rural countries, already live in slums. By 2025, Asia alone will have at least 30 megacities, including Mumbai, India, Shanghai, China, Delhi, India, Tokyo, Japan and Seoul, lagos, Nigeria has grown from 300,000 in 1950 to an estimated 15.2 million today. For almost five hundred years, Rome was the largest, wealthiest and its population passed one million people by the end of the 1st century BC. Baghdad was likely the largest city in the world shortly after its foundation in 762 AD until the 930s. Chinese capital cities Changan and Kaifeng also experienced population booms during prosperous empires. From around 1825 to 1918 London was the largest city in the world, with the population growing rapidly, in 1950, New York City was the only urban area with a population of over 10 million. Geographers had identified 25 such areas as of October 2005, as compared with 19 megacities in 2004 and this increase has happened as the worlds population moves towards the high urbanization levels of North America and Western Europe
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Prime Suspect
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Prime Suspect is a British police procedural television drama series. The series focuses on a no-nonsense female Detective Chief Inspector, Jane Tennison, in later series, Tennison is reassigned to rotating duties, including a Vice Squad in Soho, and a Gang squad in Manchester. She is promoted to Detective Superintendent shortly thereafter, the first series features sexism in the workplace as a significant subplot and a barrier to the investigation. Tennisons difficulty in achieving a balance between her work and her life outside the job and her difficulty in maintaining stable relationships are a theme within the series. Toward the end of Prime Suspect 3 she arranges to have her pregnancy terminated and it is set mostly in London and the outer areas, with series 5 being set in Manchester. Prime Suspects format is multiple episodes, each number represents a case, which runs around 3½ hours, usually aired in two parts or four parts. Prime Suspect 4 was an exception at slightly over 5 hours with three separate cases, the first five series were produced at a steady pace of one roughly every eighteen months until Mirren left the role, supposedly to avoid typecasting. She returned to the character after a seven-year gap, Prime Suspect was produced by Granada Television for the ITV network between 7 April 1991 and 22 October 2006. Prime Suspect 4 through 7 were co-produced by WGBH Boston for its Masterpiece Mystery anthology series, the music score for the first five series was done by Academy Award-winning composer Stephen Warbeck, who was nominated for a BAFTA for Prime Suspect series one. The following year, Allan Cubitts teleplay for Prime Suspect 2 brought the series a second Edgar, Prime Suspect 3 was awarded a Peabody Award in 1993 for its realistic scenes and dialogue. The series garnered multiple BAFTA Awards, Emmy Awards, Golden Globe Awards, helen Mirren as Jane Tennison, a Detective Chief Inspector, and later a Detective Superintendent. Tennison is the series protagonist, and the audience follow her career as she investigates cases in both London and Manchester and she is a skilled Detective, battling to prove herself in the male-dominated world of policing. Mirren described Tennison as extremely directed, ambitious, talented and very uncompromising, she is, as a result, after a fruitful career as a Senior Investigating Officer, Tennison retires from policing at the series end. The actors listed below are those who appeared in two or more cases and this list is not definitive, and as such, single-case appearances are not noted. In summer of 2015, ITV announced plans for a prequel, Prime Suspect 1973. The series is based on the book Tennison by Lynda La Plante and has adapted by Glen Laker. It tells the story of a 22 year old Jane Tennison as a young WPC officer investigating her first murder case, the series began airing on March 2,2017. The role of Tennison is played by Stefanie Martini, in interviews, Sedgwick has acknowledged that the show owes a debt to the British crime drama, and that her admiration for that show and for Mirren were factors that first interested her in the role
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Helen Mirren
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Dame Helen Lydia Mirren DBE is an English actor. The Audience was written by Peter Morgan, who also wrote The Queen, Tingle, Gosford Park, Calendar Girls, The Last Station, Hitchcock, and The Hundred-Foot Journey. She played Victoria Winslow in the action-comedy films Red and Red 2, in 2003, she was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for Services to the Performing Arts. In 2013, Mirren was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and she was born Helen Lydia Mironoff at Queen Charlottes and Chelsea Hospital in Hammersmith, west London, the daughter of Kathleen Kitty Alexandrina Eva Matilda and Vasily Petrovich Mironoff. Her mother was English and her father was Russian, originally from Kuryanovo, Mirrens paternal grandfather, Colonel Pyotr Vasilievich Mironov, was in the Imperial Russian Army and fought in the 1904 Russo-Japanese War. He later became a diplomat, and was negotiating a deal in Britain when he. The former diplomat became a London cab driver to support his family and his son, Helen Mirrens father, anglicised the family name to Mirren in the 1950s and changed his name to Basil Mirren. He played the viola with the London Philharmonic before World War II, Mirrens mother was a working-class Londoner from West Ham, East London, and was the 13th of 14 children born to a butcher whose own father had been the butcher to Queen Victoria. Mirren considers her upbringing to have been very anti-monarchist, Mirren was the second of three children, she was born three years after her older sister, Katherine, and also had a younger brother, Peter Basil. Mirren was brought up in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, aged eighteen, she auditioned for the National Youth Theatre and was accepted. By the time she was 20, she was playing Cleopatra in the NYT production of Antony and Cleopatra at the Old Vic, as a result of her work for the National Youth Theatre, Mirren was invited to join the Royal Shakespeare Company. She also appeared in four productions, directed by Braham Murray for Century Theatre at the University Theatre in Manchester, in 1970, the director/producer John Goldschmidt made a documentary film, Doing Her Own Thing, about Mirren during her time with the Royal Shakespeare Company. The film was made for ATV and shown on the ITV Network in the UK and she then rejoined the RSC, playing Lady Macbeth at Stratford in 1974 and at the Aldwych Theatre in 1975. According to Beauman, there were no repercussions for this rebuke of the RSC. Her performance earned her the London critics Plays & Players Best Actress award, beginning in November 1975, Mirren played in West End repertory with the Lyric Theatre Company as Nina in The Seagull and Ella in Ben Travers new farce The Bed Before Yesterday. In 1981, she returned to the Royal Court for the London premiere of Brian Friels Faith Healer, – Michael Coveney, Financial Times, April 1983. On 15 February 2013, at the West Ends Gielgud Theatre she began a turn as Elizabeth II in the World Premiere of Peter Morgans The Audience, the show was directed by Stephen Daldry. In April she was named best actress at the Olivier Awards for her role, a further stage breakthrough came in 1994, in an Yvonne Arnaud Theatre production bound for the West End, when Bill Bryden cast her as Natalya Petrovna in Ivan Turgenevs A Month in the Country
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USA Today
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USA Today is an internationally distributed American daily middle-market newspaper that serves as the flagship publication of its owner, the Gannett Company. Founded by Al Neuharth on September 15,1982, it operates from Gannetts corporate headquarters on Jones Branch Drive in McLean, Virginia and it is printed at 37 sites across the United States and at five additional sites internationally. USA Today is distributed in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, with an international edition distributed in Canada, Asia and the Pacific Islands, Gannett formally announced the launch of the paper on April 20,1982. USA Today began publishing on September 15,1982, initially launching in the Baltimore and Washington, on July 2,1984, the newspaper switched from a largely black-and-white to a color publication, featuring full color photography and graphics in all four sections. On April 8,1985, the paper published its first special bonus section, a 12-page section called Baseball 85, on May 6,1986, USA Today began printing production of its international edition in Switzerland. On April 15, USA Today launched an international printing site. On August 28,1995, an international publishing site was launched in Frankfurt, Germany, to print. On October 4,1999, USA Today began running advertisements on its front page for the first time. The paper launched a sixth printing site for its international edition on May 15,2000, in Milan, Italy, followed on July 10 by the launch of a printing facility in Charleroi. That November, USA Today migrated its operations from Gannetts previous corporate headquarters in Arlington, in 2010, USA Today launched the USA Today API for sharing data with partners of all types. On August 27,2010, USA Today announced that it would undergo a reorganization of its newsroom and it also announced that the paper would shift its focus away from print and place more emphasis on its digital platforms and launch of a new publication called USA Today Sports. On September 14,2012, USA Today underwent the first major redesign in its history, to accomplish this goal, Gannett migrated its newspaper and television station websites to the Presto platform and the USA Today site design throughout 2013 and 2014. On January 4,2014, USA Today acquired the book and film review website, on September 3,2014, USA Today announced that it would lay off roughly 70 employees in a restructuring of its newsroom and business operations. In October 2014, USA Today and OpenWager Inc. entered into a partnership to release a Bingo app called USA TODAY Bingo Cruise, USA Today is known for synthesizing news down to easy-to-read-and-comprehend stories. In the main edition circulated in the United States and some Canadian cities, each consists of four sections, News, Money, Sports. The international edition of the paper features two sections, News and Money in one, with Sports and Life in the other, atypical of most daily newspapers, the paper does not print on Saturdays and Sundays, the Friday edition serves as the weekend edition. USA Today prints each complete story on the front page of the section with the exception of the cover story. The cover story is a story that requires a jump
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Will Pope
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Assistant Police Chief Will Pope is a fictional character featured in TNTs The Closer, portrayed by J. K. Pope is the Assistant Chief for Operations of the Los Angeles Police Department, despite bringing Brenda Leigh Johnson in for the job, he doesnt seem to want to let her actually do her work. He had an affair with Johnson when they worked together in Washington. After he ended it, he divorced his first wife to marry a woman named Estelle and this history causes some personal tension between the two of them. In season six, Pope expects to be on the short list to become the new Chief of Police, when Tommy Delk is named Chief, Pope is assigned to the traffic division and considers quitting the force. When Delk suddenly dies, Pope is named Interim Chief, to the surprise of many, Pope seems to still harbor feelings for Johnson, and he acts jealous of her relationship with Fritz Howard. Pope commands the authority of his team, and the department detectives generally respect him, closing cases and convicting criminals is his first priority, even if it means he has to take the heat from his superiors. He always defends his team and is more willing to take the blame for them. Pope can be something of a chameleon, often playing both sides of the fence to get what he wants, unlike Brenda, he plays along with law enforcement politics in order to keep the department running smoothly. Although he can be overly controlling, he has a spot for Brenda and is always eager to please her. When she first transfers to the LAPD, for example, Pope readily defends her against the other detectives complaints, and he is often fiercely protective of her
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David Gabriel
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Detective Sergeant David Gabriel is a fictional character featured in TNTs The Closer, portrayed by Corey Reynolds. Gabriel was a Sergeant in the Los Angeles Police Departments Priority Homicide Division and he was promoted to Detective during season five. He is seen as Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnsons right-hand man, Gabriel is a bright young officer eager to make his mark in the department. One of his strengths is he can defer to someone else when provided with a well thought-out reason to do so, as a consequence, he was one of the first to accept Deputy Chief Johnson. Commander Taylor has tried to recruit him from Johnson at least once, Gabriel confesses to Deputy Chief Johnson that he and Detective Irene Daniels are dating, Brenda initially did not receive this well, but she eventually comes to terms with it. Gabriel expresses an interest in entering politics and deftly provides a solution to avoid budget cuts, after the latter incident, Johnson suspends him for 10 days without pay. Friendly and polite, Gabriel is one of the few officers who was accepting and he is highly organized, ambitious and intelligent. Although Gabriel is eager to please Deputy Chief Johnson now that she is his superior, he is outspoken, Gabriel can be polite and loyal to a fault and many of the detectives accuse him of being a suck-up. He doesnt take well and craves constant reassurance and recognition from his superiors. Gabriel started off as a cop with the LAPD and moved on to work in Robbery-Homicide under then-Captain Taylor. With Taylors encouragement, he received a Masters in Public Administration from the University of Southern California and he enthusiastically campaigned to gain his current position on the newly formed Priority Homicide Division. Before Johnson joined the LAPD, Sgt, Gabriel was staunchly loyal to Commander Taylor. However, the Commanders attempts to undermine Johnson caused Gabriel to lose respect for him, Gabriel admires Deputy Chief Johnsons interrogation skills and looks to her as a mentor, although he accuses her of not complimenting him enough. He goes above and beyond to please the Deputy Chief, whether that means driving her around Los Angeles or caring for her cats newborn kittens while shes out of town. At the end of four, Gabriel has broken up with Daniels. Their squabbling becomes enough of a distraction for the squad that Daniels has to be transferred to another department, in season 5, Gabriel takes the detectives exam and is laterally promoted to Detective II. In season 7, it is revealed that Gabriels girlfriend is the mole feeding inside information about Major Crimes to defense attorney Peter Goldman. He subsequently transfers out of the Division at the end of season 7 and is made the LAPD Liaison Officer to the Los Angeles County District Attorney Bureau of Investigation, the following are the medals and service awards fictionally worn by Detective Gabriel
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Russell Taylor (The Closer)
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Assistant Chief Russell Taylor was a fictional character featured in TNTs The Closer, portrayed by Robert Gossett. Commander Taylor is the Commanding Officer of the Los Angeles Police Departments Robbery-Homicide Division and he is also one of two characters on the show who have real-life equivalents on the LAPD, although his rank is one step higher. A hard worker who has risen through the ranks, he is resentful of Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnsons status. He does what he can to undermine her at every turn, in The Closer spinoff, Major Crimes, Taylor becomes the Assistant Chief of Operations for the LAPD. In the episode White Lies, Part I, Taylor is killed in the line of duty during a courtroom shooting and he worked his way up to Captain after 21 years with the LAPD. Before Brenda Johnson transferred to Los Angeles, Taylor headed up the Priority Homicide Division and he was removed from that position when too many celebrity cases were handed to the DA with less than compelling evidence. At the end of season 1, Taylor was promoted to the rank of Commander by Chief Pope in return for dropping a conduct unbecoming an officer complaint against Deputy Chief Johnson. Since his promotion, Taylor appears to be willing to work with Johnson and even has asked for her help in a few cases. After Assistant Chief Pope was appointed Chief of Police, Commander Taylor was promoted to Assistant Chief of Operations, in Major Crimes, he introduces a new policy of making deals with criminals rather than going to trial to save money. While this is initially unpopular with the squad, except Captain Sharon Raydor, in White Lies, Part 1, white supremacist Dwight Darnell opens fire on a courtroom while on trial for murder. Taylor is shot multiple times before Darnell is brought down by Sharon Raydor, despite the best efforts of Doctor Morales, Taylor dies of his wounds. The Major Crimes squad are deeply affected by his death despite their differences with him, tough and extremely ambitious, Taylor earned the loyalty of his detectives by helping them gain advanced education and promotions. Taylor has demonstrated resentment and insecurity ever since he was taken off the Priority Homicide Squad and was passed up for a promotion. He is extremely unhappy about Brenda Johnsons joining the LAPD as Deputy Chief, manipulative and power hungry, Taylor isnt above tampering with an investigation or lying to undercut Johnson. The only thing more important to Taylor than demoralizing Johnson is being promoted, because of his malicious behavior, Taylor is beginning to lose the respect of many detectives who formerly admired him. It was most evident in Lt. Taylor was temporarily given control of the detectives in the Priority Homicide Division while Dep, Taylor, however, grew to respect Chief Johnsons abilities when she helped solve the murder of his family friends son. As time has passed the two have worked together and the animosity between their divisions has decreased considerably. Following the departure of Chief Johnson, Taylor is promoted to Assistant Chief and he refused to send a detective due to budget problems, but compromised by using his connections at the Boston PD to get the suspects missing persons file for her
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Louie Provenza
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Detective Lieutenant Louie Provenza is a fictional character from TNTs television crime dramas The Closer and Major Crimes. He has been featured on the show in all aired seven seasons, the character was created by James Duff, and is portrayed by G. W. Bailey. It is said that captains and above are allowed to address him by his first name. He is also the member of his academy class still on active duty with the rest having retired by the beginning of season 2 of Major Crimes. Provenza is a Lieutenant II on the Los Angeles Police Department, a veteran of the Robbery/Homicide unit, he is selected to join the Priority Homicide Division. Initially, Provenza has no love for Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson than any of the rest of the unit. A seasoned veteran of the Robbery/Homicide unit, Provenza is selected to join the elite Priority Homicide Squad in the beginning of the series, Provenza has served in the LAPD for over thirty years. In 2013 it is revealed that he is the last member of his LAPD Academy class who is serving on the department. Provenza reveals that he was married four times, and in five he falls in love with another woman. It doesnt work out, but in Major Crimes season 3 he meets a woman named Patrice who can match wits with him and with whom he is in a relationship. In the Risk Assessment of Major Crimes, Provenza reveals that his motivation for becoming an officer is he wanted to help people but hates fire. He also states that he enjoys bossing people around as another reason, Provenza is injured during a shooting incident in the murder room in the second season. He and Johnson are both put on following the incident. He and Lt. Andy Flynn have a close, albeit sometimes caustic, after four divorces, Provenza apparently has several children—he complains about paying a lot of child support. In Next of Kin Part 1 he also mentions having a grandson, pope sympathizes with him, having made a similar arrangement with his own first wife. Lt. Provenza is the ranking officer serving in the Major Crimes Division under the units commanding officer. He is almost always in command at a scene or in the field if Captain Raydor is not present. His years of experience as a give him keen insight on criminal behavior which serves the MCD well while working cases
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Andy Flynn (The Closer)
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Detective Lieutenant I Andrew Flynn is a fictional character featured on TNTs crime drama The Closer. He was created by James Duff and portrayed by Tony Denison, Andy has been featured as a main character on the show for all seven seasons. Originally a member of the LAPD Robbery/Homicide Division, he was sent to assist Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnsons team by Commander Taylor, in the episode Homewrecker, Flynn identifies himself in the opening crime scene video sequence as Andrew Flynn, PhD. An influential man, Flynn has the ability to persuade fellow detectives and officers into taking his side on political and he originally preferred to take the easy way out when it comes to solving crimes, which led to mistakes. When in trouble, he tries to talk his way out of it by asking and answering a series of rhetorical questions which inevitably make things worse. Flynn can sometimes be disloyal and sometimes fails to keep his word and he has difficulty keeping secrets to himself, and he perpetually has a toothpick in his mouth. Flynn has a temper and can be protective of his coworkers and daughter. After then-Captain Taylor accused him of botching an old case, Flynn began to realize that his commanding officer was not as loyal as he previously thought, angered by Taylors accusations, Flynn decided that he wanted to permanently join Johnsons team after she defends him in the matter. Although he initially looked for ways to sabotage Dep, Chief Johnson, Flynn now has a growing respect for her, and increasingly works with her, rather than against her. He is close to Lt. Provenza and he was an alcoholic and a participant in Alcoholics Anonymous and is trying to make amends with his family. He has been sober for 10 years and now prefers to drink cranberry juice with soda, in the episode Dial M for Provenza he mentions that Provenza has been married four times, but he has been married only twice. During the 7 seasons of The Closer both Flynn and Provenza remained unmarried, Flynn has an adult daughter named Nicole from whom he is estranged. Flynn initially refused to go to her wedding when she wanted him and her step-father who Flynn hates to walk her down the aisle. However, Captain Sharon Raydor convinced him to go and he took her as his date, since then, he seems to have developed a closer relationship with Nicole with her even visiting him once for a while. While Flynn initially had a relationship with Captain Sharon Raydor. However, the two maintained they were just friends to his daughter Nicole despite Rusty Beck pointing out just how often they have dinner, Flynn and Raydor seemed surprised by this and Raydor asked Rusty about it and he told her theyre not dating several times a month. In Snitch, Flynn decides to ask Raydor out on a proper date and they are now in a romantic relationship. In White Lies, Part 3, Andy suffers a heart attack and he is shown to have survived in Heart Failure and is on desk duty until he is cleared by his doctor
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States, which simultaneously serves as the nations prime federal law enforcement agency. Operating under the jurisdiction of the U. S. Department of Justice, Intelligence Community and reports to both the Attorney General and the Director of National Intelligence. A leading U. S. counterterrorism, counterintelligence, and criminal investigative organization, although many of the FBIs functions are unique, its activities in support of national security are comparable to those of the British MI5 and the Russian FSB. At an FBI field office, a senior-level FBI officer concurrently serves as the representative of the Director of National Intelligence. Despite its domestic focus, the FBI also maintains a significant international footprint and these overseas offices exist primarily for the purpose of coordination with foreign security services and do not usually conduct unilateral operations in the host countries. The FBI can and does at times carry out secret activities overseas, just as the CIA has a domestic function. The FBI was established in 1908 as the Bureau of Investigation and its name was changed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1935. The FBI headquarters is the J. Edgar Hoover Building, located in Washington, in the fiscal year 2012, the Bureaus total budget was approximately $8.12 billion. In 1896, the National Bureau of Criminal Identification was founded, the 1901 assassination of President William McKinley created an urgent perception that America was under threat from anarchists. The Departments of Justice and Labor had been keeping records on anarchists for years, the Justice Department had been tasked with the regulation of interstate commerce since 1887, though it lacked the staff to do so. It had made little effort to relieve its staff shortage until the breakage of the Oregon land fraud scandal at approximately the turn of the 20th Century, President Roosevelt instructed Attorney General Charles Bonaparte to organize an autonomous investigative service that would report only to the Attorney General. Bonaparte reached out to other agencies, including the Secret Service, for personnel, on May 27,1908, the Congress forbade this use of Treasury employees by the Justice Department, citing fears that the new agency would serve as a secret police department. Again at Roosevelts urging, Bonaparte moved to organize a formal Bureau of Investigation, the Bureau of Investigation was created on July 26,1908, after the Congress had adjourned for the summer. Attorney General Bonaparte, using Department of Justice expense funds, hired thirty-four people, including veterans of the Secret Service. Its first Chief was Stanley Finch, Bonaparte notified the Congress of these actions in December 1908. The bureaus first official task was visiting and making surveys of the houses of prostitution in preparation for enforcing the White Slave Traffic Act, or Mann Act, in 1932, the bureau was renamed the United States Bureau of Investigation. The following year it was linked to the Bureau of Prohibition, in the same year, its name was officially changed from the Division of Investigation to the present-day Federal Bureau of Investigation, or FBI. J. Edgar Hoover served as Director from 1924 to 1972, a combined 48 years with the BOI, DOI, Hoover was substantially involved in most major cases and projects that the FBI handled during his tenure
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Michael Tao (The Closer)
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Detective Lieutenant Michael Tao is a fictional character featured in TNTs The Closer and its spin-off Major Crimes, portrayed by Michael Paul Chan. Tao is a detective on the Los Angeles Police Departments Priority Homicide Department, intelligent and well-educated, Tao is a talented expert in all forms of technology, computers and electronics. He sometimes baffles the other detectives, Provenza and Flynn, especially and he has a tendency to say Holy crap. When he is surprised or nervous, Tao, of Chinese ancestry, has a Japanese wife, and a 16-year-old son, Kevin, as well as two other unnamed sons. Tao speaks some Japanese, but he can neither read nor speak Chinese, while he was on vacation in Hawaii in season 2, Gabriel was providing information on a case to the squad and was describing grass wherein an altercation took place. Because he was trying to describe the grass and was coming off a little geeky. Tao enjoys snacks while on duty, and he frequently offers these to Deputy Chief Johnson even though Johnson is trying to cut back on her snacking. In one episode wherein Johnson was getting somewhat emotional about a case, Tao was on the LAPDs Scientific Investigation Division. He was promoted to lieutenant and reassigned to the newly created Priority Homicide Squad and it has been revealed Tao attended one year of medical school, allowing him to provide the team with some medical expertise. He had wanted to be a doctor but realized that doctors spent more time protecting themselves than others so he quit medical school, during the Major Crimes episode Open Line, Tao is forced to fatally shoot a suspect, something that clearly affects him greatly
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Julio Sanchez (The Closer)
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Detective II Julio Sanchez is a fictional character featured in TNTs The Closer, portrayed by Raymond Cruz. Julio is a Detective on the Los Angeles Police Departments Major Crimes Division, fluent in both Spanish and English, Sanchez is an expert on Latino gangs. He has a temper and often yells at suspects in the interrogation room. He also can be crude and chauvinistic, though constantly flirting with the younger women detectives, Sanchez wears a wedding band. He has one brother who is dead and another in prison after getting involved with gangs and it seems at first that he is married, but in Brenda and Fritzs wedding video, he reveals that he has been a widower for six years. In season four episode Sudden Death, Julio Sanchezs brother is shot to death by a member on the sidewalk near his home because he was believed to be part of a rival gang. Once the case is closed, Julio confesses to Provenza that he had given his brother the hat that the killers mistook for a symbol of a rival gang affiliation, later in the season, Sanchez is shot three times by bullets intended for Provenza. Sanchez survives, after five surgeries and shoulder reconstruction, and is back on the force via Chief Johnsons recommendation in that seasons Good Faith, Julio Sanchez continues as a main/regular character on Major Crimes. Having previously been shot in an episode of The Closer, Sanchez was shot again in Two Options, in Risk Assessment, Julio explains to Rusty Beck that he wanted to become a cop after his cat got murdered and he wanted to catch the killers. Julio tells Rusty he did put the men away for attempted murder and rape and they got life in prison as they were on their third strike. Sanchez is shown to get emotional at times in cases regarding children, in Flight Risk, Sanchez was completely devastated when two young children were found murdered and was one of the most affected of the squad. When they interrogate the killer, Sanchez attacks him but is in tears as he does so, Julio refuses to believe the man and only reports his claims due to procedure. The man is murdered and Julio is shocked to learn the man was innocent as hed claimed. The squad are able to catch the killer and Julio informs the mans ill grandmother of his innocence. To help make up for his mistake, Julio reopens the investigations into the murders of the mans father and uncle which had been unsolved for over twenty years. In season threes Party Foul, a man the squad suspects of murdering a young man. The young man tells him that what it means is that before meeting Juliet, Romeo was in love with another girl, the young man is no Romeo as he would never do that to the girl he loves. Upon hearing that, Sanchez softens towards the man and twists his wedding ring, showing he feels the same about his deceased wife
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Sharon Raydor
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Captain Sharon ODwyer Raydor is a fictional character on the police procedural drama The Closer, and the protagonist of its spinoff, Major Crimes. She is portrayed by Mary McDonnell, Sharon was estranged from her husband Jack, an attorney who moved to Las Vegas to gamble, by season three of Major Crimes, the two are divorced. They have two children, Richard William Ricky and Emily Raydor. In Down the Drain, Sharon adopts Rusty Beck, the witness against serial rapist/murderer Phillip Stroh. As of season 4, she is in a relationship with Andy Flynn, Captain Raydor originally joined the police force as a way to put her husband through law school, with the intention that he would reciprocate. Those plans fell through, however, once she got pregnant and had kids and she came to realize as a police officer that she enjoyed enforcing the law a lot more than practicing it. A few months out of the academy, then-patrol officer Raydor was involved in an officer-involved shooting. She attended mandatory counseling sessions afterwards, and although she thought she didnt want counseling, over time, they have gradually come to respect each other, and Raydor is instrumental in Brendas candidacy for Chief of Police. In one episode, Sharon states that she wrote most of the rules that the division used in its investigations. In Season 7 of The Closer, Raydor is charged with auditing the Major Crimes Division in the wake of a suit filed against Chief Johnson. After Chief Johnsons departure at the end of The Closer, Captain Raydor is named her successor as Commanding Officer of the Major Crimes Division, due to the LAPDs freeze on promotions, however, she is not promoted to Commander as she was promised by Chief Will Pope. While this is Taylors new policy, Sharon agrees with it as she wants to put the criminals away, however, Sharon has proved shrewd at the deal-making process and is good at getting a good sentence for the criminals or tricking them into confessing. In one instance, Sharon convinces DDA Rios to make a deal with a murderer on a charge while not bringing up the murder. Rios was reluctant as the man would only get four years in prison, after the man signed his deal, Sharon revealed that he had just confessed to stealing the murder weapon in one of his burglaries and that the murder scene matched his MO, entrapping him. The man panicked and confessed, claiming panic in the crime despite his lawyers protests though no one believed him due to the brutality of the crime. g. Sharon has also proven herself to be good at finding little clues that can lead to the killer. In one case, while searching for a man who had murdered three people and kidnapped three more, Sharon noted that the cat was a frequent runaway but was always found. She realized the owners had two GPS locator chips embedded in the cat, one from before they entered the witness protection program and one after
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Angie Dickinson
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Angie Dickinson is an American actress. Dickinson has appeared in more than 50 films, including Oceans 11, The Sins of Rachel Cade, Jessica, Captain Newman, M. D. The Killers, The Art of Love, The Chase, Point Blank, Pretty Maids All in a Row, The Outside Man, and Big Bad Mama. As lead actress, she starred in Brian De Palmas 1980 erotic crime thriller Dressed to Kill, Dickinson, the second of four daughters, was born Angeline Brown in Kulm, North Dakota, the daughter of Fredericka and Leo Henry Brown. Her family is of German descent and she was raised Roman Catholic and her father was a small-town newspaper publisher and editor, working on the Kulm Messenger and the Edgeley Mail. In 1942, her moved to Burbank, California, where she attended Bellarmine-Jefferson High School. The previous year, she had won the Sixth Annual Bill of Rights essay contest and she then studied at Immaculate Heart College, Los Angeles, and at Glendale Community College, becoming a business graduate by 1954. Taking a cue from her father, she had intended to be a writer. While a student from 1950–52, she worked as a secretary at Lockheed Air Terminal in Burbank and she became Angie Dickinson in 1952, when she married football player Gene Dickinson. Dickinson entered a beauty pageant in 1953 and placed second, the exposure brought her to the attention of a television industry producer, who asked her to consider a career in acting. She studied the craft and a few years later was approached by NBC to guest-star on a number of variety shows and she soon met Frank Sinatra, who became a lifelong friend. She later was cast as Sinatras wife in the film Oceans 11, on New Years Eve 1954, Dickinson made her television acting debut in an episode of Death Valley Days. This led to roles in productions as Matinee Theatre, Buffalo Bill Jr. In the story line, Harry vowed never to go to prison and was shot to death while escaping, in 1957, she was cast as Amy Bender in Richard Boones series Have Gun-Will Travel in the episode A Matter of Ethics. She played the sister of a man who was killed and who wanted the murderer lynched, in 1958, she was cast as Laura Meadows in the episode The Deserters of an ABC/Warner Bros. Western series, Colt.45, with Wayde Preston and that year, she also played the role of defendant Mrs. Fargo in the Perry Mason episode The Case of the One-Eyed Witness. Dickinson went on to create characters in Mike Hammer, Wagon Train. In 1965, she had a role as Carol Tredman on NBCs Dr. Kildare
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Police Woman (TV series)
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Police Woman is an American television police drama starring Angie Dickinson that ran on NBC for four seasons, from September 13,1974, to March 29,1978. Based on a screenplay by Lincoln C. Hilburn, the show revolves around Sgt, Pepper Anderson, an undercover police officer working for the Criminal Conspiracy Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department. Sergeant William Bill Crowley was her superior, and Pete Royster and Joe Styles were the other half of the undercover team that investigated everything from murders to rape. In many episodes, Pepper went undercover in order to get enough to the suspects to gain valuable information that would lead to their arrest. Although Dickinsons character was called Pepper, sources differ as to the given name of the character. Most sources give the legal name as Suzanne. Others give it as Leanne or Lee Ann, the Police Story episode entitled The Gamble, which serves as a pilot for Police Woman, gives Dickinsons characters name as Lisa Beaumont. This TV series had 91 episodes and each episode was 60 minutes, flowers of Evil was the eighth episode of season one, airing November 8,1974. In it, Pepper investigates a trio of lesbians who run a retirement home while robbing and murdering the elderly residents, Gay and lesbian groups protested the episode, calling its portrayal of lesbianism stereotypical and negative. A group of lesbian activists zapped NBCs corporate offices a week after the episode aired, following negotiations with activists NBC agreed in 1975 not to rebroadcast the episode. Flowers of Evil is available on the season 1 DVD box set, Police Woman became the first successful hour-long drama series in American primetime television history to feature a woman in the starring role. This helped to make Dickinson a household name, Dickinson would win a Golden Globe award, and receive three Emmy nominations for the role. Police Woman caused an avalanche of applications for employment from women to police departments around the United States, in February 1976, President Gerald Ford re-scheduled a Tuesday press conference so as not to delay an episode of Police Woman, reportedly his favorite show. On March 7,2005, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment released Season 1 of Police Woman on DVD in Region 1, factory announced that they had acquired the rights to the series, and plan to release additional seasons on DVD. They subsequently released Season 2 on February 7,2012, several episodes from the first season are available to view for free in Minisode format on Crackle. Alternate Channels, The Uncensored Story of Gay and Lesbian Images on Radio, Police Woman at the Internet Movie Database Police Woman at TV. com
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Cagney & Lacey
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Cagney & Lacey is an American television series that originally aired on the CBS television network for seven seasons from March 25,1982 to May 16,1988. The series was set in a version of Manhattans 14th Precinct. For six consecutive years, one of the two actresses won the Emmy for Best Lead Actress in a Drama, a winning streak unmatched in any major category by a show. Producer Barney Rosenzweig was influenced by the feminist movement through his then-girlfriend Barbara Corday, after learning through Haskell that there had never been a female buddy film, Rosenzweig sought to make one, a comedy initially titled Newman & Redford. Avedon & Corday wrote the script, no studio wanted to make the film, so Corday considered taking it to television. Rosenzweig took the script, removed the plot, and took it to all networks. The movie was picked up as a series, first airing with six episodes as a midseason replacement in the spring of 1982. Barney Rosenzweig and Barbara Corday initially refused to change Christine Cagney from a tough, witty, shortly into Glesss tenure on the program, Rosenzweig and Corday compromised with the network brass. Charles and Maureen soon separated after Christine and her brother Brian were born, Al Waxman co-starred as Cagney and Laceys good-natured and sometimes blustery supervisor, Lt. Bert Samuels. Carl Lumbly, and Martin Kove played, respectively, fellow detectives Marcus Petrie, Sidney Clute played veteran detective Paul La Guardia. John Karlen co-starred as Mary Beths husband, Harvey Lacey, and Tony La Torre and Troy Slaten played their sons, Harvey Lacey, Jr. and Michael Lacey, Harvey Atkin played desk sergeant Ronald Coleman. Jason Bernard originally had the role of Deputy Inspector Marquette during the first two seasons. When the show was back in March 1984 following its second cancellation. Inspector Knelman, who lasted the duration of the series, in the fourth season, Christine entered into a relationship with Sgt. Dory McKenna, who battled a drug addiction, after a tumultuous courtship, Christine left him and soon after took up with a more stable suitor, David Keeler, a local attorney. One of the most significant cast changes occurred early in the season, upon the death of Sidney Clute in October 1985. LaGuardia had retired from the 14th Precinct and had moved to New Jersey with a new female companion less than half his age, Clute had completed filming a few episodes of the 1985-86 season prior to his death. In his honor, the producers kept Clutes name in the credits for the rest of the series
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Paul Levinson
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Paul Levinson is an American writer and professor of communications and media studies at Fordham University in New York City. His novels, short fiction, and non-fiction works have translated into sixteen languages. Levinson has been interviewed more than 500 times on local, national and international television and radio as a commentator on media, popular culture, and science fiction. He is frequently quoted in newspapers and magazines around the world and his op-eds have appeared in major papers as The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, New Yorks Newsday. He was interviewed in a weekly spot early Sunday mornings on KNX-AM Radio in Los Angeles, from 2006 to 2008 on media-related news events. He hosts four podcasts and maintains several blogs, in April 2009, The Chronicle of Higher Education named him one of Twitters top ten High Fliers. In 1985 he co-founded Connected Education, offering courses for Masters credit. He served as president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America from 1998 to 2001 and he has been a professor of communication and media studies at Fordham University since 1998, he was chair of the department from 2002 to 2008. Prior to his career, Levinson was a songwriter, singer and record producer in the late 1960s and early 1970s, with recordings by the Vogues, Donna Marie of the Archies. As a radio producer he worked with Murray the K and Wolfman Jack, Levinsons work is influenced by Isaac Asimov, Thomas Jefferson, John Stuart Mill, Marshall McLuhan, Harold Innis, Karl Popper, Carl Sagan, and Donald T. Campbell. His doctoral dissertation, Human Replay, A Theory of the Evolution of Media, was mentored by Neil Postman. His work has translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Polish, Romanian, Macedonian, Croatian, Russian, Turkish, Farsi. An acclaimed writer, Levinson has received nominations for the Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, Prometheus, Edgar. His novella Loose Ends was a 1998 finalist for a Hugo, a Sturgeon, and his novel The Silk Code won the Locus Award for Best First Novel of 1999. The central character of The Silk Code, NYPD forensic detective Dr. Phil DAmato, made his first appearance in Levinsons novelette, DAmato returned in The Copyright Notice Case novelette, The Mendelian Lamp Case novelette, and in subsequent novels The Consciousness Plague, and The Pixel Eye. An adaptation of Levinsons The Chronology Protection Case was nominated by the Mystery Writers of America for the Edgar Award for Best Play of 2002, Levinsons next novel was The Plot To Save Socrates, a time travel story. Entertainment Weekly magazine called it challenging fun and his subsequent novel is Unburning Alexandria, a sequel to The Plot To Save Socrates. The first two chapters of Unburning Alexandria appeared as a novelette in the November 2008 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact, the next novel in the series, Chronica, was published in December 2014
