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Aaron Sorkin
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Aaron Benjamin Sorkin is an American screenwriter, producer, and playwright. Sorkins trademark rapid-fire dialogue and extended monologues are complemented, in television, Sorkin was born in Manhattan, New York City, to a Jewish family, and was raised in the New York suburb of Scarsdale. His mother was a schoolteacher and his father a lawyer who had fought in WWII. Bill, both his sister and brother went on to become lawyers. His paternal grandfather was one of the founders of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, Sorkin took an early interest in acting. Before he reached his teenage years, his parents were taking him to the theatre to see such as Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Sorkin attended Scarsdale High School where he involved in the drama. In eighth grade he played General Bullmoose in the musical Lil Abner, in Scarsdale Highs senior class production of Once Upon a Mattress, Sorkin played Sir Harry. He served as president in his junior and senior year at Scarsdale High School. In 1979, Sorkin attended Syracuse University, in his freshman year he failed a class that was a core requirement. It was a setback because he wanted to be an actor. Determined to do better, he returned in his sophomore year and you have the capacity to be so much better than you are, he started saying to me in September of my senior year. He was still saying it in May, on the last day of classes, he said it again, and I said, How. and he answered, Dare to fail. Ive been coming through on his ever since. One weekend, while housesitting at a place he found an IBM Selectric typewriter, started typing, and felt a phenomenal confidence. He continued writing and eventually put together his first play, Removing All Doubt, which he sent to his old Syracuse theatre teacher, Arthur Storch, in 1984, Removing All Doubt was staged for drama students at his alma mater, Syracuse University. After that, he wrote Hidden in This Picture which debuted off-off-Broadway at Steve Olsens West Bank Cafe Downstairs Theatre Bar in New York City in 1988, the contents of his first two plays got him a theatrical agent. Producer John A. McQuiggan saw the production of Hidden in This Picture, Sorkin got the inspiration to write his next play, a courtroom drama called A Few Good Men, from a phone conversation with his sister Deborah
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Jeff Daniels
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One of his most notable roles is Harry Dunne in the buddy comedy Dumb and Dumber opposite Jim Carrey, a role he reprised in the 2014 sequel Dumb and Dumber To. He received Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Actor for his performances in The Purple Rose of Cairo, Something Wild and The Squid, Daniels work outside of the film industry has received similar acclaim and accolades as to his work on screen. He has received a number of nominations for his work on stage, including Tony Award nominations for Best Actor for his roles in the plays God of Carnage. He is the founder and current executive director of the Chelsea, Daniels was born in Athens, Georgia, to Marjorie J. and Robert Lee Bob Daniels. He spent the first six weeks of his life in Georgia, where his father was then teaching and his father owned the Chelsea Lumber Company and was also a onetime mayor of Chelsea. He attended Central Michigan University and participated in the theater program. Daniels performed in New York in The Shortchanged Review at Second Stage Theatre and it was the first show of the inaugural season for Second Stage Theatre. Daniels has starred in a number of New York productions, on and off Broadway. On Broadway, he has appeared in Lanford Wilsons Redwood Curtain, A. R. Gurneys The Golden Age and Wilsons Fifth of July, for which he was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Best Supporting Actor. Off-Broadway, he received a Drama Desk nomination for Wilsons Lemon Sky, and he returned to the stage in 2009, appearing in Broadways God of Carnage opposite Hope Davis, James Gandolfini and Marcia Gay Harden. In 1991, he founded the Purple Rose Theatre Company, a stage company in Chelsea. Daniels has written more than a dozen plays for the company, in 2016, Daniels received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his performance in Blackbird, opposite Michelle Williams. Daniels made his debut in Miloš Formans Ragtime in 1981. His next film, the Oscar-winning Terms of Endearment, in which he played Debra Wingers callow and he garnered a Golden Globe nomination as the star of The Purple Rose Of Cairo, directed by Woody Allen. It was the last film that inspired the name for the company he established. Daniels earned his second Golden Globe nomination for starring in Jonathan Demmes Something Wild as an unassuming businessman swept up into a night by a mysterious woman. Daniels then starred in the horror–comedy Arachnophobia in 1990, the next year, Daniels starred in two films. His next notable role was as Colonel Joshua Chamberlain in Gettysburg, Daniels reprised the role of Chamberlain ten years later in the prequel film Gods and Generals
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John Gallagher Jr.
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He also played Johnny in Green Days Broadway musical, American Idiot, Lee in the 2011 Broadway production of Jerusalem, and Edmund in the 2016 Broadway revival of Long Days Journey Into Night. He portrayed Jim Harper in Aaron Sorkins drama series The Newsroom, starred in the HBO mini-series Olive Kitteridge, Gallagher was born in Wilmington, Delaware, and was raised there with his two older sisters. His parents, John Gallagher, Sr. and June Gallagher, are folk musicians and he eventually went on to play in numerous bands, including Not Now Murray, What Now, Annies Autograph, and Old Springs Pike. Before and throughout his Spring Awakening run, he was in Old Springs Pike, on January 23,2008, his fellow band members announced his departure. The next day, Gallagher made an announcement confirming his departure on his MySpace page. Old Springs Pike later officially changed their name to The Spring Standards, Gallagher played Tom Sawyer as a child actor at the Delaware Childrens Theatre. Gallagher has appeared in three plays by playwright David Lindsay-Abaire and he also appeared in the Manhattan Theatre Club Production of the David Marshall Grant play Current Events. Gallagher originated the role of Moritz Stiefel in Spring Awakening on Broadway after performing the role Off-Broadway and in workshops at Lincoln Center. The rock musical, with music by Duncan Sheik and a book and lyrics by Steven Sater premiered Off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theatre Company on May 19,2006, Spring Awakening opened on Broadway at the Eugene ONeill Theatre on December 10,2006. Gallagher won the 2007 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical for his performance, on December 16,2007, he left Spring Awakening and was succeeded two days later by Blake Bashoff. Gallagher starred in productions of the dramas, Port Authority, by Conor McPherson, both plays were productions of the Atlantic Theater Company, the same theater that premiered Spring Awakening. Gallagher starred in American Idiot, a based on the Green Day album of the same name, along with fellow Spring Awakening alumni Brian Charles Johnson. American Idiot premiered in Berkeley, California at the Berkeley Repertory Theater on September 4,2009, the shows run ended on November 15,2009. It began previews on Broadway at the St. James Theatre March 24,2010 and it was later nominated for three 2010 Tony Awards, of which it won two. Gallagher played Johnny, or Jesus of Suburbia, Gallagher departed American Idiot on February 27,2011 and was succeeded by Van Hughes The shows run ended on April 24,2011. After leaving American Idiot, Gallagher was featured in the Broadway production of The Royal Court Theatres Jerusalem, the production was directed by Ian Rickson, and opened on April 21,2011 at the Music Box Theatre. He played the role of Lee until leaving the production on July 17,2011 and he starred as Edmund Tyrone in Roundabout Theatre Companys revival of Eugene ONeills Long Days Journey into Night, alongside Jessica Lange and Gabriel Byrne. Film credits include Pieces of April, Woody Allens Whatever Works, Jonah Hex, The Heart Machine, Kenneth Lonergans Margaret, in 2016, he starred in the thriller film 10 Cloverfield Lane
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Alison Pill
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Alison Pill is a Canadian actress. A former child actress, Pill began her career at age twelve, appearing in numerous films and she transitioned to adult roles and her breakthrough came with the television series The Book of Daniel. That same year, she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her performance in The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Pill was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Her father, a financier, is Estonian, Pill attended Vaughan Road Academy, where she enrolled in the Interact program, designed for students interested in dance, music, athletics, and theatre. She decided to embark on a career when she was 10 years old. As a member of the Toronto Childrens Chorus, she was chosen to one of their performances. Her mother tried to discourage Alison by getting her a job as a performer on the series Kung Fu. By the time she was 11, shed played a guest role on an episode of the kids series The New Ghostwriter Mysteries. At 12, she landed roles in two TV movies and a mini-series, a guest appearance on the TV series PSI Factor, Pill played roles in four more TV movies before the age of fourteen. She landed the role of young Lorna in the ABC-TV biopic Life with Judy Garland, Me and My Shadows in 2001, based on the memoir by Garlands daughter and that year, Pill also played Sissy Spaceks daughter in the TV flick Midwives. In 2003, she played Katie Holmes sister in the indie feature Pieces of April, Pill won the lead in the CTV-TV movie Fast Food High, about a teenager who gets a job at a fast food restaurant and tries to set up a union. She also landed a role in Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen in 2003. Pill ventured off into stage acting, with the New York City staging of None of the Above as the first item in her theater credential and this was followed by The Distance From Here, On the Mountain, Blackbird, Mauritius. In 2006, she starred as Grace Webster in the short-lived NBC drama The Book of Daniel and that same year, she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her performance as Mairead in Martin McDonaghs The Lieutenant of Inishmore. Because of her work schedule, Pills schooling was done through a program for youngsters in the business. Since graduating from school, Pill moved to New York to pursue a career in theatre. Pill had a supporting role as campaign manager Anne Kronenberg in the Oscar-winning 2008 film Milk. In 2009, she performing with Erin Hill & her Psychedelic Harp playing the Twilight Zone-inspired Meredith Moon and The Real North Pole sci-fi Christmas Harp, she was cast as April on In In Treatment
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Thomas Sadoski
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Thomas Sadoski is an American stage, film, and television actor. He is best known for his role as Matt Short in the television series Life in Pieces. Sadoski was born in New Haven, Connecticut and raised in College Station and he is a fan of the Baltimore Ravens and Baltimore Orioles sports teams. Sadoski attended the University of North Texas in Denton, TX for one semester and he graduated from New Yorks Circle in the Square Theatre School in 1998. Sadoski married Kimberly Hope in 2007, Sadoski began dating actress Amanda Seyfried in early 2016. He confirmed his engagement to Seyfried on September 12,2016, the couple married on March 12,2017. On March 24,2017, it was announced that the couple had welcomed a baby girl and it marked the first of many productions with the New York-based theatre company. He has appeared in many Broadway and Off-broadway productions as well as productions in regional theaters. In 2008 he originated the role of Greg in Neil LaButes play reasons to be pretty for MCC Theatre alongside The Newsroom co-star Alison Pill. I always thought that was life, that there were always shades of gray. The play was named Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play by the Outer Critics Circle in 2011, Sadoski has also been seen on Broadway alongside Ben Stiller, Edie Falco, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Alison Pill in John Guares House of Blue Leaves. Sadoski made his film debut in 2000 in Amy Heckerlings romantic-comedy Loser. In 2011 Sadoski was cast as a lead in Aaron Sorkins HBO series The Newsroom, previous television work includes multiple guest starring roles in 3 of the Law & Order franchise shows as well as an arc on As the World Turns as drug dealer Jesse Calhoun. In January 2011 Stephen Kings audiobook recording of Mile 81 was released for which Thomas Sadoski was the narrator, audioFile magazine said of his work, Sadoski’s matter-of-fact narration of the monsters deeds makes the tale that much more unnerving to hear. Publishers Weekly agreed saying, Thomas Sadoski provides smooth, matter-of-fact narration that acts as a counterpoint to the chilling and unnerving story line
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Dev Patel
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Dev Patel is an English actor. Patel went on to star in the successful romantic comedy The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and its 2015 sequel, the fantasy film The Last Airbender. His portrayal of Neal Sampat on the HBO television series The Newsroom earned him a NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. In 2015, Patel starred as the mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan in the biopic The Man Who Knew Infinity, and the following year he played Saroo Brierley in the drama Lion. For the latter, he won the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor and was nominated for the Golden Globe, Critics Choice Award, SAG Award, and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Dev Patel was born on 23 April 1990 in Harrow, the son of Anita, a worker, and Raj. His parents are Indian Hindus, though they were born in Nairobi, where there is a significant Indian community, they emigrated to England separately in their teens. Patel was raised in the Hindu faith, Patel grew up in the Rayners Lane district of Harrow and attended Longfields Middle School. He had his first acting role as Sir Andrew Aguecheek in the production of Twelfth Night. He was given the Best Actor award for his performance, Patel later attended Whitmore High School, receiving an A* in GCSE Drama for his self-penned portrayal of a child in the Beslan school siege. His drama teacher Niamh Wright has stated, Dev was a student who quickly impressed me with his innate ability to communicate a wide variety of characters imaginatively and creatively. He was awarded full marks for his GCSE performance to a live audience and he completed his AS Levels in PE, Biology, History, and Drama in 2007 at Whitmore High School while working on Skins. Patel said that he was bloody energetic as a child, and he started training at the Rayners Lane Academy of Taekwondo in 2000. He competed regularly in national and international championships, including the 2004 AIMAA World Championships in Dublin, where he won a bronze medal. The World Championships took place in October 2004, when he was a red belt competing in the division against other red. He made it to the semi-finals, where he lost to Irish black belt Niall Fitzmaurice in a close and tough fight. He later gained a 1st dan black belt in March 2006, in 2006, Patel began his acting career when he auditioned for the E4 teen drama television series Skins. Patels mother saw the ad in a newspaper and took him to the audition even though he had a science exam the next day
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Olivia Munn
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Lisa Olivia Munn is an American actress and model. She was credited as Lisa Munn in her career, but since 2006. Munn began her career in television journalism before becoming an actress. In 2006, Munn starred as Mily Acuna on the series Beyond the Break and she co-hosted Attack of the Show. From 2006 to 2010 and was a correspondent on The Daily Show from 2010 to 2011, Munn has also had supporting roles in various films and television series since 2004. She played the character Sloan Sabbith on the television series The Newsroom from 2012 to 2014 and appeared in the sequel film X-Men, Lisa Olivia Munn was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Her mother, Kimberly Schmid, was born and raised in Vietnam and her father, Winston Barrett Munn, is an American of English, Irish and German descent. Her mother was a Vietnamese refugee and fled to Oklahoma after the Vietnam War, after college, her mother married Winston. When Munn was two old, her mother remarried to a member of the United States Air Force. Although the family relocated many times, Munn was predominantly raised on Yokota Air Base near Tachikawa in Tokyo, Japan, during this time, she appeared in a number of local theater productions and later became a model in the Japanese fashion industry. Her mother and stepfather divorced, and she moved back to Oklahoma, Munn attended the University of Oklahoma, majoring in journalism and minoring in Japanese and dramatic arts. After graduating, she became an intern at the NBC affiliate in Tulsa, in 2004, Munn interned at Fox Sports Networks and worked as a sideline reporter for college football and womens basketball. She has gone on to say that she disliked the experience, explaining I was trying to be something I wasnt, soon after she moved to Los Angeles, Munn was cast in a small role in the direct-to-video horror film Scarecrow Gone Wild. She appeared in rock band Zebraheads music video for their song Hello Tomorrow as the love interest of the lead singer Justin Mauriello, Munn also appeared in National Lampoons Strip Poker, which was filmed at Hedonism II, a naturist resort in Negril, Jamaica, with Kato Kaelin. The films aired on DirecTV and In Demand pay-per-view, in late 2005, Munn began her role as teen surfer Mily Acuna over two seasons of the television drama Beyond the Break on The N network. She enjoys surfing and continues to practice the sport and she originally auditioned for the role of Kai Kealoha, but the producers wanted a local girl. She also appeared in the film The Road to Canyon Lake, in 2006, Munn moved on to the G4 network, where she began co-hosting Attack of the Show. With Kevin Pereira on April 10 and she replaced departing host Sarah Lane
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Sam Waterston
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Samuel Atkinson Sam Waterston is an American actor, producer and director. He has been nominated for multiple Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, BAFTA and Emmy awards, having starred in over eighty film and he has also starred in numerous stage productions. AllMovie historian Hal Erickson characterized Waterston as having cultivated a following with his quietly charismatic. Waterston received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2010 and was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 2012, Waterston, the third of four siblings, was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His mother, Alice Tucker, a painter, was of English ancestry. His father, George Chychele Waterston, was an immigrant from Leith, Scotland, Waterston attended both the Brooks School, a boarding school in North Andover, Massachusetts, where his father taught, and the Groton School in Groton, Massachusetts. He entered Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, on a scholarship in 1958, after graduating from Yale, he attended the Clinton Playhouse for several months. Waterston also attended the Sorbonne in Paris and the American Actors Workshop, the classically trained Waterston has numerous stage credits to his name. For example, he played an award-winning Benedick in Joseph Papps production of William Shakespeares Much Ado About Nothing and he continues live theater work during the summers, often seen acting at places like Long Wharf Theatre and the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven. Waterston made his debut in 1965s The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean. He starred as Tom in a 1973 television film adaptation of Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie, the film also featured Michael Moriarty, whom Waterston later replaced as the Executive Assistant District Attorney on Law & Order. One of his roles was opposite Jeff Bridges in the western comedy Rancho Deluxe in 1975. Other films include Savages, The Great Gatsby, Journey Into Fear, Capricorn One, Heavens Gate, Hopscotch, in 1985, he co-starred in Robert Prestons final television film with Mary Tyler Moore, Finnegan Begin Again. Also with Moore, Waterston played the role in Lincoln. Other roles include Assault at West Point with Samuel L. Jackson, Mindwalk, The Man in the Moon, Waterston is a six-time Emmy Award nominee, as well as a winner of the Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards. Aside from Law & Order, other roles include D. A. Forrest Bedford in Ill Fly Away. He also had a role in an episode segment on the TV series Amazing Stories called Mirror Mirror. In 1994, Waterston debuted as Executive Assistant District Attorney Jack McCoy in the season of the television series Law & Order
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Thomas Newman
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Thomas Montgomery Newman is an American composer best known for his many film scores. Newman has been nominated for fourteen Academy Awards and three Golden Globes, and has won two BAFTAs, six Grammys and an Emmy Award, Newman was honored with the Richard Kirk award at the 2000 BMI Film and TV Awards. The award is given annually to a composer who has made significant contributions to film, born in Los Angeles, California, he is the youngest son of Mississippi-born Martha Louis Montgomery and composer Alfred Newman, who won nine Academy Award for Best Original Score. During their upbringing, Martha herded her sons into violin lessons in the San Fernando Valley every weekend, while at Yale, he met composer Stephen Sondheim, who became an early mentor. Newman and his wife, Ann Marie, have three children and they reside in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles. At first, Newman was more interested in musical theater than in film composition, Lionel, who succeeded Alfred as music director for 20th Century Fox, gave Thomas his first scoring assignment on a 1979 episode of the series The Paper Chase. In 1983, John Williams, who was a friend of both Alfred and Lionel, invited Newman to work on Return of the Jedi, orchestrating the scene where Darth Vader dies. Afterwards Newman met in New York producer Scott Rudin, who invited him to compose the score for Reckless, in 1992, Newman composed the score to Martin Brests film Scent of a Woman. In 1994, he got his first Academy Award nominations with the scores to The Shawshank Redemption and he also scored the film The War. In 1996, he scored Diane Keatons Unstrung Heroes, receiving yet another Oscar nomination, in 1998, he scored Robert Redfords The Horse Whisperer as well as Meet Joe Black. In 1999, Newman composed the score to Sam Mendes first feature film American Beauty, Newman believed the score helped move the film along without disturbing the moral ambiguity of the script, saying It was a real delicate balancing act in terms of what music worked to preserve that. This was his first collaboration with Mendes, and he would go on to all of the directors subsequent films except for the comedy-drama Away We Go. He received a fourth Oscar nomination for this score, and although he lost again, he did receive a Grammy and a BAFTA. His critical and commercial success has continued in the years with his scores for films such as Meet Joe Black, The Green Mile, Erin Brockovich, In the Bedroom. He was nominated consecutively for a further three Academy Awards, for Road to Perdition, Finding Nemo, and Lemony Snickets A Series of Unfortunate Events, however, he lost on each occasion to Elliot Goldenthal, Howard Shore, and Jan A. P. Kaczmarek respectively. He was again nominated for an Oscar for scoring Steven Soderberghs The Good German, at the Oscar ceremony, he appeared in the opening segment by Errol Morris, who jokingly stated that Newman had been nominated for and failed to win an Oscar eight times. Newman replied, No, Ive failed seven but this will be my eighth, and indeed, he again lost and his first score since The Good German was for the 2008 animated film WALL-E, collaborating for the second time with director Andrew Stanton. The film won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, Newman received two Oscar nominations, one for Best Original Score, and another for Best Original Song for Down to Earth, which he co-wrote with Peter Gabriel
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Alan Poul
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Alan Mark Poul is an American film and television producer and director. Poul served as producer for the HBO original series, Six Feet Under. He directed four episodes of the series from two through five. He later directed the pilot for CBS series Swingtown, of which he directed a total of four episodes and he also directed the 2010 CBS Films romantic comedy The Back-Up Plan, originally titled Plan B. He signed a new deal with HBO in April 2011 and he is an executive producer Aaron Sorkins The Newsroom. He has also directed five episodes of the show in the first two seasons, vagabond Stars 1978 Pre-Broadway, Berkshire Theatre Festival. Starring, Lewis Stadlen, Marilyn Sokol, Robert M. Rosen aka Robert Ozn, Paul Kreppel Alan Poul at the Internet Movie Database
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Paul Lieberstein
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Paul Bevan Lieberstein is an American screenwriter, actor and television producer. A Primetime Emmy Award winner, he is best known as writer, producer and he served as the series showrunner from seasons five to eight. However, in October 2012, it was announced that NBC was not accepting the spin-off series, Lieberstein also worked as producer on the third and final season of the television drama series The Newsroom. Lieberstein grew up in Westport, Connecticut, the son of Judith, afterwards, he attended Hamilton College, where he joined Chi Psi, and graduated in 1989 with a major in economics. An interesting footnote is that Lieberstein wrote into the storyline of several references to the fact that Andy Bernard was a Chi Psi from Cornell. Making the effete Andy Bernard a Chi Psi from Cornell was intentional and his first job after graduation was as an auditor at Peat Marwick International, a job that only lasted six months. He followed that with work in his fathers law firm. His sister Susanne is the president of programming at MTV and is married to Greg Daniels and his brother, Warren Lieberstein, was married to Angela Kinsey. Lieberstein was married for a time, to Janine Serafin Poreba, on July 19,2008. His cousin is Paul Faust, on whom the character Cool Guy Paul was based, in a SuicideGirls interview, Lieberstein noted that as an actor, which is just a very small percentage of me, I don’t feel Toby while I’m writing. It’s the hardest of the characters to access, liebersteins first Emmy Award was as a producer, sharing a 1999 Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program for his work on King of the Hill. Liebersteins work on The Office has resulted in numerous awards, in June 2007, Lieberstein shared in a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Broadband Program – Comedy, for his work on The Office, Accountants webisodes. As co-executive producer, he shared a 2006 Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series, Lieberstein received an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts degree from Hamilton College on May 22,2011
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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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New York City
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The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over an area of about 302.6 square miles. Located at the tip of the state of New York. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has described as the cultural and financial capital of the world. Situated on one of the worlds largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, the five boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island – were consolidated into a single city in 1898. In 2013, the MSA produced a gross metropolitan product of nearly US$1.39 trillion, in 2012, the CSA generated a GMP of over US$1.55 trillion. NYCs MSA and CSA GDP are higher than all but 11 and 12 countries, New York City traces its origin to its 1624 founding in Lower Manhattan as a trading post by colonists of the Dutch Republic and was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The city and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. It has been the countrys largest city since 1790, the Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a symbol of the United States and its democracy. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. Several sources have ranked New York the most photographed city in the world, the names of many of the citys bridges, tapered skyscrapers, and parks are known around the world. Manhattans real estate market is among the most expensive in the world, Manhattans Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere, with multiple signature Chinatowns developing across the city. Providing continuous 24/7 service, the New York City Subway is one of the most extensive metro systems worldwide, with 472 stations in operation. Over 120 colleges and universities are located in New York City, including Columbia University, New York University, and Rockefeller University, during the Wisconsinan glaciation, the New York City region was situated at the edge of a large ice sheet over 1,000 feet in depth. The ice sheet scraped away large amounts of soil, leaving the bedrock that serves as the foundation for much of New York City today. Later on, movement of the ice sheet would contribute to the separation of what are now Long Island and Staten Island. The first documented visit by a European was in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzano, a Florentine explorer in the service of the French crown and he claimed the area for France and named it Nouvelle Angoulême. Heavy ice kept him from further exploration, and he returned to Spain in August and he proceeded to sail up what the Dutch would name the North River, named first by Hudson as the Mauritius after Maurice, Prince of Orange
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HBO
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Home Box Office is an American premium cable and satellite television network that is owned by Time Warner through its respective flagship company Home Box Office, Inc. HBO is the oldest and longest continuously operating pay television service in the United States, in 2014, HBO had an adjusted operating income of US$1.79 billion, compared to the US$1.68 billion it accrued in 2013. HBO has 49 million subscribers in the United States and 130 million worldwide as of 2016, the network provides seven 24-hour multiplex channels, including HBO Comedy, HBO Latino, HBO Signature and HBO Family. It launched the streaming service HBO Now in April 2015, and has over 2 million subscribers in the United States as of February 2017. In addition to its U. S. subscriber base, HBO distributes content in at least 151 countries, HBO subscribers generally pay for an extra tier of service that includes other cable- and satellite-exclusive channels even before paying for the channel itself. Cable providers can require the use of a converter box – usually digital – in order to receive HBO, many HBO programs have been syndicated to other networks and broadcast television stations, and a number of HBO-produced series and films have been released on DVD. The new system, which Dolan named Sterling Information Services, became the first urban underground cable system in the United States. In that same year, Time-Life, Inc. purchased a 20% stake in Dolans company, in the summer of 1971, while on a family vacation in France, Charles Dolan began to think of ideas to make Sterling Manhattan profitable. He came up with the concept for a television service. Dolan later presented his idea to Time-Life management, though satellite distribution seemed only a distant possibility at the time, he persuaded Time-Life to back him on the project. To gauge whether consumers would be interested in subscribing to a pay television service, in a meeting of Dolan and some Time-Life executives who were working on the project, various other names were discussed for the new service. Home Box Office launched on November 8,1972, however, HBOs launch came without fanfare in the press, as it was not covered by any local or national media outlets. Home Box Office distributed its first sports event immediately after the film, Four months later in February 1973, Home Box Office aired its first television special, the Pennsylvania Polka Festival. Home Box Office would use a network of relay towers to distribute its programming to cable systems throughout its service area. Sterling Manhattan Cable continued to lose money because the company had only a small base of 20,000 customers in Manhattan. Time-Life dropped the Sterling name and the company was renamed Manhattan Cable Television under Time-Lifes control in March 1973, Gerald Levin, who had been with Home Box Office since it began operations as its vice president of programming, replaced Dolan as the companys president and chief executive officer. In September 1973, Time-Life, Inc. completed its acquisition of the pay service. HBO would eventually increase its fortunes within two years, by April 1975, the service had around 100,000 subscribers in Pennsylvania and New York state, in 1974, they settled on using a geostationary communications satellite to transmit HBO to cable providers throughout the United States
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Emmy Award
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An Emmy Award, or simply Emmy, recognizes excellence in the television industry, and corresponds to the Academy Award, the Tony Award, and the Grammy Award. Because Emmy Awards are given in various sectors of the American television industry, Regional Emmy Awards are also presented throughout the country at various times through the year, recognizing excellence in local and statewide television. In addition, International Emmys are awarded for excellence in TV programming produced, each is responsible for administering a particular set of Emmy ceremonies. The Los Angeles-based Academy of Television Arts & Sciences established the Emmy Award as part of an image-building and public relations opportunity. The first Emmy Awards ceremony took place on January 25,1949, at the Hollywood Athletic Club, shirley Dinsdale has the distinction of receiving the very first Emmy Award for Most Outstanding Television Personality, during that first awards ceremony. In the 1950s, the ATAS expanded the Emmys into a national event, in 1955, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences was formed in New York City as a sister organization to serve members on the East Coast, and help to also supervise the Emmys. The NATAS also established regional chapters throughout the United States, with each one developing their own local Emmy awards show for local programming, the ATAS still however maintained its separate regional ceremony honoring local programming in the Los Angeles Area. Originally there was only one Emmy Awards ceremony held per year to honor shows nationally broadcast in the United States, in 1974, the first Daytime Emmy Awards ceremony was held to specifically honor achievement in national daytime programming. Other area-specific Emmy Awards ceremonies soon followed, also, the International Emmy Awards, honoring television programs produced and initially aired outside the U. S. was established in the early 1970s. Meanwhile, all Emmys awarded prior to the emergence of these separate, in 1977, due to various conflicts, the ATAS and the NATAS agreed to split ties. However, they agreed to share ownership of the Emmy statue and trademark. With the rise of television in the 1980s, cable programs first became eligible for the Primetime Emmys in 1988. The ATAS also began accepting original online-only web television programs in 2013, the Emmy statuette, depicting a winged woman holding an atom, was designed by television engineer Louis McManus, who used his wife as the model. The TV Academy rejected a total of forty-seven proposals before settling on McManus design in 1948. The statuette has become the symbol of the TV Academys goal of supporting and uplifting the art and science of television, The wings represent the muse of art. When deciding a name for the award, Academy founder Syd Cassyd originally suggested Ike, however, Ike was also the popular nickname of World War II hero and future U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and the Academy members wanted something unique. Finally, television engineer and the third president, Harry Lubcke, suggested the name Immy. After Immy was chosen, it was feminized to Emmy to match their female statuette
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The West Wing
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The West Wing is an American serial political drama television series created by Aaron Sorkin that was originally broadcast on NBC from September 22,1999, to May 14,2006. The West Wing was produced by Warner Bros, for the first four seasons, there were three executive producers, Aaron Sorkin, Thomas Schlamme, and John Wells. The West Wing received acclaim from critics, as well as praise from political science professors, in total, The West Wing won three Golden Globe Awards and 26 Emmy Awards, including the award for Outstanding Drama Series, which it won four consecutive times from 2000 through 2003. In the years since its run, it has appeared on lists of the greatest television dramas ever made. The Writers Guild of America also ranked it #10 in its 101 Best-Written TV Series list, the West Wing employed a broad ensemble cast to portray the many positions involved in the daily work of the federal government. The President, the First Lady, and the Presidents senior staff, numerous secondary characters, appearing intermittently, complement storylines that generally revolve around this core group. Sam Seaborn is the Deputy Communications Director and he departs the White House following the re-election of President Bartlet to run for Congress. He is recruited to become Santos Deputy Chief of Staff at the series end, mandy Hampton is Josh Lymans ex-girlfriend and a media consultant contracted by the Bartlet administration. She departs without explanation following the first season, charlie Young is originally the Personal Aide to the President and later a Deputy Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff. He is in a relationship with Zoey Bartlet, at the series end he begins to study law at Georgetown. She succeeds Leo McGarry as Chief of Staff and departs White House at the end of the Bartlet administration, post-series, she marries Danny Concannon and has a child. He is fired from the Bartlet administration during a leak investigation and he has twin children with his ex-wife who is a congresswoman from Maryland. Leo McGarry, Bartlets close personal friend and Chief of Staff, following a heart attack, he becomes Counselor to the President, and later the Democratic Candidate for Vice President. Josh Lyman, is the Deputy Chief of Staff to Leo McGarry and C. J. Cregg, when Santos is elected, Josh becomes White House Chief of Staff. Josiah Jed Bartlet is the President of the United States, an economist by training, he is a former Congressman and Governor from New Hampshire who unexpectedly won the Democratic Party nomination. He suffers from multiple sclerosis, a fact he hides from the electorate. Donna Moss is the Senior Assistant to Josh Lyman and she later departs to be a spokesperson for the Russell campaign and then the Santos campaign. Upon Santos election, she becomes Chief of Staff to the First Lady, abbey Bartlet is the First Lady, Jeds wife, and a physician
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7 July 2005 London bombings
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The explosions were caused by homemade organic peroxide-based devices packed into backpacks. The bombings were followed two weeks later by a series of attempted attacks that failed to cause injury or damage, the 7 July attacks occurred the day after London had won its bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games, which had highlighted the citys multicultural reputation. The train had left Kings Cross St. Pancras about eight minutes earlier, at the time of the explosion, the trains third car was approximately 100 yards along the tunnel from Liverpool Street. The parallel track of the Hammersmith & City line between Liverpool Street and Aldgate East was also damaged in the blast, the train had left Kings Cross St. Pancras about eight minutes previously. There were several other nearby at the time of the explosion. Two other trains were at Edgware Road, a train on platform 2. A third bomb was detonated on a 6-car London Underground 1973 Stock Piccadilly line deep-level Underground train, number 311, the device exploded approximately one minute after the service departed Kings Cross, by which time it had travelled about 500 yards. The explosion occurred at the rear of the first car of the train—number 166—causing severe damage to the rear of car as well as the front of the second one. The surrounding tunnel also sustained damage and it was originally thought that there had been six, rather than three, explosions on the Underground network. The bus bombing brought the total to seven, this was clarified later in the day. Police also revised the timings of the blasts, initial reports had indicated that they occurred during a period of almost half an hour. This was due to initial confusion at London Underground, where the explosions were believed to have been caused by power surges. An early report, made in the minutes after the explosions, involved a person under a train, while another described a derailment. A code amber alert was declared by LU at 09,19, as the tunnel contains two parallel tracks, it is relatively wide. The two explosions on the Circle line were able to vent their force into the tunnel. The Piccadilly line is a tunnel, up to 30 m below the surface and with narrow single-track tubes. This confined space reflected the blast force, concentrating its effect, earlier, the bus had passed through the Kings Cross area as it travelled from Hackney Wick to Marble Arch. At its final destination, the bus turned around and started the route to Hackney Wick
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Economics
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Economics is a social science concerned chiefly with description and analysis of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work, consistent with this focus, textbooks often distinguish between microeconomics and macroeconomics. Microeconomics examines the behaviour of elements in the economy, including individual agents and markets, their interactions. Individual agents may include, for example, households, firms, buyers, macroeconomics analyzes the entire economy and issues affecting it, including unemployment of resources, inflation, economic growth, and the public policies that address these issues. Economic analysis can be applied throughout society, as in business, finance, health care, Economic analyses may also be applied to such diverse subjects as crime, education, the family, law, politics, religion, social institutions, war, science, and the environment. At the turn of the 21st century, the domain of economics in the social sciences has been described as economic imperialism. The ultimate goal of economics is to improve the conditions of people in their everyday life. There are a variety of definitions of economics. Some of the differences may reflect evolving views of the subject or different views among economists, to supply the state or commonwealth with a revenue for the publick services. Say, distinguishing the subject from its uses, defines it as the science of production, distribution. On the satirical side, Thomas Carlyle coined the dismal science as an epithet for classical economics, in this context and it enquires how he gets his income and how he uses it. Thus, it is on the one side, the study of wealth and on the other and more important side, a part of the study of man. He affirmed that previous economists have usually centred their studies on the analysis of wealth, how wealth is created, distributed, and consumed, but he said that economics can be used to study other things, such as war, that are outside its usual focus. This is because war has as the goal winning it, generates both cost and benefits, and, resources are used to attain the goal. If the war is not winnable or if the costs outweigh the benefits. Some subsequent comments criticized the definition as overly broad in failing to limit its subject matter to analysis of markets, there are other criticisms as well, such as in scarcity not accounting for the macroeconomics of high unemployment. The same source reviews a range of included in principles of economics textbooks. Among economists more generally, it argues that a particular definition presented may reflect the direction toward which the author believes economics is evolving, microeconomics examines how entities, forming a market structure, interact within a market to create a market system
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Jane Fonda
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Jane Fonda is an American actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model and fitness guru. She is a two-time Academy Award winner and two time BAFTA Award winner, in 2014, she was the recipient of the American Film Institute AFI Life Achievement Award. Fonda made her Broadway debut in the 1960 play There Was a Little Girl and she rose to fame in 1960s films such as Period of Adjustment, Sunday in New York, Cat Ballou, Barefoot in the Park and Barbarella. Her first husband was Barbarella director Roger Vadim, a seven-time Academy Award nominee, she received her first nomination for They Shoot Horses, Dont They and went on to win two Best Actress Oscars in the 1970s for Klute and Coming Home. Her other nominations were for Julia, The China Syndrome, On Golden Pond and her other major competitive awards include an Emmy Award for the 1984 TV film The Dollmaker, two BAFTA Awards for Julia and The China Syndrome and four Golden Globe Awards. In 1982, she released her first exercise video, Jane Fondas Workout and it would be the first of 22 workout videos released by her over the next 13 years which would collectively sell over 17 million copies. Divorced from second husband Tom Hayden, she married billionaire media mogul Ted Turner in 1991, Fonda was divorced from Turner in 2001. She returned to acting with her first film in 15 years, subsequent films have included Georgia Rule, The Butler, This Is Where I Leave You and Youth. She also released another five exercise videos between 2010 and 2012 and she stars with Lily Tomlin, Sam Waterston and Martin Sheen in the Netflix original series Grace and Frankie, which premiered in 2015. Fonda was a political activist in the counterculture era during the Vietnam War. She was famously and controversially photographed sitting on a gun on a 1972 visit to Hanoi. She has also protested the Iraq War and violence against women, Fonda serves on the board of the organization. Jayne Seymour Fonda was born in New York City, the daughter of actor Henry Fonda, according to her father, their surname came from an Italian ancestor who immigrated to the Netherlands in the 1500s. There, they intermarried and began to use Dutch given names and she also has English, Scottish, and French ancestry. She was named after the wife of Henry VIII, Jane Seymour. She has a brother, Peter, who is also an actor, and a maternal half-sister, Frances de Villers Brokaw, whose daughter is Pilar Corrias, the owner of the Pilar Corrias Gallery in London. In 1950, when Fonda was twelve, her mother committed suicide while undergoing treatment at Craig House psychiatric hospital in Beacon, later that year, Fondas father married socialite Susan Blanchard, just nine years his daughters senior, this marriage ended in divorce. At 15 Fonda taught dance at Fire Island Pines, New York and she attended Greenwich Academy in Greenwich, Connecticut
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Chris Messina
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Chris Messina is an American actor and film director. He has appeared in supporting roles in such as Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Argo, Julie & Julia, Ruby Sparks, Celeste and Jesse Forever. He won critical acclaim for his performance in the film The Giant Mechanical Man. On television, he is known for his roles as Chris Sanchez in Damages, Messina was born in Northport, New York. He studied theater in school, and attended Marymount Manhattan College. He studied acting privately with teachers around Manhattan, and started his career as an off-Broadway actor and he has appeared in episodes of the television series Law & Order, Third Watch, and Medium. He had a role in the fifth and final season of the HBO drama series Six Feet Under as Ted Fairwell. His film credits include Rounders, The Siege, Youve Got Mail and he starred in an HBO pilot Anatomy of Hope, directed by J. J. Abrams. Simon Callow also starred, but the pilot was not picked up to series, in October 2007, Daily Variety named him as one of ten actors to watch. He starred in Devil, under the direction of John Erick Dowdle and Drew Dowdle, for producer M. Night Shyamalan and Universal Pictures. In April 2010, Monogamy, directed by Dana Adam Shapiro and starring Messina and Rashida Jones, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, Messina joined the cast of Damages for its fourth and fifth seasons. He played a character on HBOs The Newsroom. Messina is a regular on the Hulu sitcom The Mindy Project. In 2014, Messina played the role of a spouse in the music video for Sam Smiths Im Not the Only One. That same year, he directed the independent drama, Alex of Venice, starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Don Johnson and he co-starred in friend Ben Afflecks crime drama Live by Night, which was released in December 2016. Messina was married to actress Rosemarie DeWitt sometime between the late 1990s and the early 2000s, but the two soon after. Messina and producer Jennifer Todd have two sons, Milo and Giovanni, born in 2008 and 2009, respectively, Chris Messina at the Internet Movie Database Chris Messina at the Internet Broadway Database Chris Messina at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
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Terry Crews
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Terry Alan Crews is an American actor and former American football player. He currently appears as NYPD Sergeant Terry Jeffords in the Fox sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine, as an actor, Crews has played Julius on the UPN/CW sitcom Everybody Hates Chris and Nick Kingston-Persons in the TBS sitcom Are We There Yet. He has also been the host of the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. He has also appeared in a number of films, including White Chicks, Idiocracy, Crews was born in Flint, Michigan, the son of Patricia and Terry Crews Sr. He grew up in a strict Christian household, where he was raised mainly by his mother, as a defensive end for the WMU Broncos, Crews earned All-Conference honors and won the 1988 Mid-American Conference Championship. Crews was drafted by the Los Angeles Rams in the 11th round of the 1991 NFL Draft and his career included stints with the Rams, the San Diego Chargers, the Washington Redskins, and the Philadelphia Eagles. After retiring from the NFL in 1997, Crews moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career and he had held a long-standing ambition to work in the film industry, but up until then had no plans to pursue acting, simply wanting to be involved in some way. A year earlier he had co-written and co-produced the independent feature film Young Boys Incorporated, filmed in Detroit, a self-funded production with an anti drug message, which drew on his own observations as well as those of his friends and family. Despite describing it as a film, he credits the experience with getting him interested in the industry. In 1999, Crews auditioned for a role as an athlete in the syndicated game show Battle Dome. He played T–Money for two seasons until its cancellation in 2001, the audition process and the opportunity to perform in front of an audience made him realize that he wanted to pursue acting as a career. However he failed to land another acting job for the two years. Appearances in commercials, films and music soon followed. His break out role came in Friday After Next starring Ice Cube, having never taken acting classes, he instead simply asked himself what the audience wanted, and believes this ultimately brought him success. He now believes acting is what he was born to do and would not wish to have any other career, despite the physically demanding nature of the work. Based on his performance in White Chicks, in 2004 Adam Sandler changed a role in The Longest Yard to give it to Crews, who had auditioned for another part in the film. His role as Julius, the father on the UPN/CW sitcom on Everybody Hates Chris brought Crews wider public recognition, since Everybody Hates Chris, Crews has had main roles as the husband/father Nick Kingston-Persons in the TBS sitcom Are We There Yet. This contrast has also led to sustained work as part of various noted humorous Old Spice TV commercials, Crews cites the many similarities between acting and professional football, including the structure and expectations, as helping his transition between the two careers
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David Harbour
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David Harbour is an American actor who has performed in film, television, and the theatre. He currently stars in the Netflix TV Series Stranger Things as main character Police Chief Jim Hopper, Harbour went to Byram Hills High School in Armonk, New York along with other actors Sean Maher and Eyal Podell He graduated from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire in 1997. Harbour got his start on Broadway in 1999 in the revival of The Rainmaker and made his television debut in 1999 in an episode of Law & Order. He appeared again in 2002 in an episode of Law & Order and he played the recurring role of MI6 agent Roger Anderson in the ABC television series Pan Am. In 2005, he was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance in a production of Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf. He is known for his role as CIA agent Gregg Beam in Quantum of Solace, as Shep Campbell in Revolutionary Road and he also received praise for his role as Paul Devildis on a 2009 episode of Law & Order, Criminal Intent. His other film credits include Brokeback Mountain, The Green Hornet, End of Watch, in 2013, he played a small role of a head doctor in the American TV series Elementary. He has also played the role of Elliot Hirsch in The Newsroom between 2012 and 2014. In 2014 he played the character of Dr. Reed Akley in the first season of the historical drama series Manhattan. Harbour currently plays the role of Chief Jim Hopper on the Netflix original series Stranger Things. Nominated,2005 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf. com
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News presenter
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They may also be a working journalist, assisting in the collection of news material and may, in addition, provide commentary during the program. News presenters most often work from a studio or radio studio. The role of the news presenter developed over time, classically, the presenter would read the news from news copy which he may or may not have helped write with a producer or news writer. This was often taken almost directly from services and then rewritten. Prior to the era, radio-news broadcasts often mixed news with opinion. These presenters were referred to as commentators, the last major figure to present commentary in a news broadcast format in the United States was Paul Harvey. With the development of the 24-hour news cycle and dedicated cable news channels, many anchors also write or edit news for their programs, although modern news formats often distinguish between anchor and commentator in an attempt to establish the character of a news anchor. The mix of news and commentary varies depending on the type of program. In 1948, anchor man was used in the game show Who Said That. to refer to John Cameron Swayze, the anchor term then became commonly used by 1952 to describe the most prominent member of a panel of reporters or experts. The term anchorman also was used to describe Walter Cronkites role at the Democratic and Republican National Conventions, the widespread claim that news anchors were called cronkiters in Swedish has been debunked by linguist Ben Zimmer. Anchors occupy a role in news broadcasts. Some argue anchors have become sensationalized characters whose identities overshadow the news itself, while others cite anchors as necessary figureheads of wisdom and truth in the news broadcast. Brian Williams, a minor character in NBCs sitcom 30 Rock. A criticism levied against the role of anchor stems from this dynamic, regurgitat or reproduc the report of others. Differentiating them from the occupations of journalists and on-site reporters. The identity of a particular anchor seems to influence viewer perception less than the presence of an anchor in general. More specifically, the media may do an important social good when using the techniques of dramaturgy to make governance more interesting to people than would be the case otherwise. At the same time, however, there is an important difference between drama and democracy, with the former requiring spectators and the latter participants
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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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David Krumholtz
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David Krumholtz is an American actor. He played Charlie Eppes in the CBS drama series Numbers and he played Seth Goldstein in Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle and its two sequels, Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay and A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas. He is also known for his role as Bernard the Elf in The Santa Clause and its sequel, additionally, he is known for his role as Mr. Universe in the 2005 film Serenity and played Michael the AV geek in 10 Things I Hate About You. In 2016, he provided the voice for Kareem Abdul Lavash in the animated film Sausage Party. Krumholtz was born in Queens, New York City and he is the son of Judy, a dental assistant, and Michael Krumholtz, a postal worker. He grew up in a very working-class, almost poor Jewish family and his mother moved from Hungary to the U. S. in 1956, and his paternal grandparents emigrated from Poland. At the age of 13, Krumholtz followed his friends to an audition for the Broadway play Conversations with My Father. When he tried out, he won the role of Young Charlie, with Judd Hirsch, Tony Shalhoub and Jason Biggs, who was also making his Broadway debut. Soon after his run on Broadway, Krumholtz co-starred in two films, Life With Mikey with Michael J. Fox and Addams Family Values with Christina Ricci. For his role in Mikey, David was nominated for a 1993 Young Artist Award, however, for unknown reasons, he did not reprise the role of Bernard in The Santa Clause 3, The Escape Clause. In 1994, Krumholtz co-starred in his first television series, Monty, with Henry Winkler, Krumholtz later starred in several short-lived series over the years. Along the way, he had the opportunity to work with Jason Bateman, Tom Selleck, Jon Cryer, in 2005, he finally found television success with the CBS series Numbers. Along with his roles on television, Krumholtz made guest appearances on ER as schizophrenic patient Paul Sobriki, as well as on Law & Order, Undeclared, Lucky. He broke out of the movie genre with The Ice Storm, directed by Ang Lee. In 1999, David starred as Michael Eckman in the teen movie 10 Things I Hate About You with Larisa Oleynik, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Julia Stiles. That same year, he portrayed a completely different teen character – that of Yussel and it was the role of Yussel that brought Krumholtz to the attention of actor and filmmaker Edward Burns, who cast him in the independent film Sidewalks of New York. Playing the romantic and slightly obsessed Benny, Krumholtz was on a path to larger and his first role as a leading man was in the romantic comedy You Stupid Man, opposite Milla Jovovich. Although never released theatrically in the United States, You Stupid Man, Krumholtz carried his first leading role in a released American film when he starred Big Shot, Confessions of a Campus Bookie, which premiered on FX Networks
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Hope Davis
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Hope Davis is an American actress. She has starred in such as About Schmidt and American Splendor. For her role in the original Broadway production of God of Carnage in 2009 and she has also received two Emmy Award nominations, for her 2009 television roles in the series In Treatment and in the film The Special Relationship. Davis, second of three children, was born in Englewood, New Jersey, the daughter of Joan, a librarian, and William Davis, an engineer. Davis has described her mother as a storyteller who would take Davis. Davis was raised in Tenafly, New Jersey and graduated in 1982 from Tenafly High School and she was a childhood friend of Mira Sorvino, with whom she wrote and acted in backyard plays. Davis graduated from Vassar College with a degree in cognitive science and she is married to actor Jon Patrick Walker. They have two daughters, Georgia and Mae, Davis made her debut as a dramatic actress in the 1990 film Flatliners, starring as William Baldwins fiancée. She then appeared in the hit film Home Alone in a role as a Parisian airport receptionist. Later, she starred in independent films such as The Daytrippers and these led her to roles in Hollywood films such as the thriller Arlington Road, and About Schmidt. In 2003, she starred opposite Paul Giamatti in the adaptation of the Harvey Pekar comic American Splendor as the comic book version of Pekars real-life wife. For this role, Davis won the New York Film Critics Circle award and was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, in 2009, she was cast as Hillary Clinton in the BBC / HBO film The Special Relationship, released in 2010. She has received a nomination for Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie for her performance as Clinton. Her major stage debut came after she starred in the Wisdom Bridge/Remains Theater co-production of David Mamets play Speed-the-Plow for Joel Schumacher with William Petersen in Chicago in 1992. Later, she had roles in the New York premiere of Rebecca Gilmans Spinning into Butter in 2000. This was a segment of the sound-only production Theater of the New Ear, the title actually refers to Daviss character leaving the theater. Mia is a successful, unmarried malpractice attorney who returns to therapy with Dr. Paul Weston after a 20-year absence because of a lack of stability in her personal life, Davis also starred in an NBC short-lived drama series called Deadline with Oliver Platt in 2001. She played the ex-wife to Platts character at a newspaper giant, Davis also starred in the short-lived NBC television drama, Allegiance, where she plays Katya OConnor, an ex-KGB agent
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Gossip columnist
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A gossip columnist is someone who writes a gossip column in a newspaper or magazine, especially a gossip magazine. Some gossip columnists broadcast segments on radio and television, Gossip columnists have a reciprocal relationship with the celebrities whose private lives are splashed about in the gossip columns pages. Newspaper and magazine editorial policies normally require gossip columnists to have a source for all of their allegations, in the mid-1960s, rulings by the United States Supreme Court made it harder for the media to be sued for libel in the U. S. The court ruled that only occurred in cases where a publication printed falsehoods about a celebrity with “reckless disregard” for the truth. A celebrity suing a newspaper for libel must now prove that the published the falsehood with actual malice. Moreover, the court ruled that only factual misrepresentation is libel, thus if a gossip columnist writes that they “. think that Celebrity X is an idiot, ” the columnist does not face a risk of being sued for libel. He became the most feared journalist of his era, in Hollywoods golden age in the 1930s and 1940s, gossip columnists were courted by the movie studios, so that the studios could use gossip columns as a powerful publicity tool. During this period, the film studios had stables of contractually obligated actors. From the 1930s through the 1950s, the two best-known - and competing - Hollywood gossip columnists were Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons, well-timed leaks about a stars purported romantic adventures helped the studios to create and sustain the publics interest in the studios star actors. Having fallen into ill-repute after the heyday of Hopper and Parsons and these mainstream gossip columns provide a light, chatty glimpse into the private lives and misadventures of the rich and famous. Notable gossip columnists include, Gossip columns that are not named after a specific columnist, along with the source, include, 3am — Daily Mirror. My Lips Are Sealed, Confessions of a Gossip Columnist
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Natalie Morales (actress)
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Natalie Morales is an American actress. She starred in the ABC Family series The Middleman and had a role on the first season of the USA Network series White Collar. In 2010, she appeared in the feature films Wall Street, Money Never Sleeps, Morales also had a starring role in the Fox comedy series The Grinder. She also had a role on the NBC sitcom Parks. A native of Kendall, Florida, Morales is of Cuban descent and she attended St. Agatha Catholic School while growing up, and then went to Southwest Miami Senior High School. She participated in the University of Miamis Dow Jones Minority High School Journalism Workshop, Morales had a guest appearance on CSI, Miami in 2006, and played a character in Pimp My Ride that year, a video game version of the MTV television series. Her first major role was in The Middleman, a dramedy which aired on the ABC Family network for one season. She starred as Wendy Watson, the series was adapted from the comic book, Morales also starred in and executive produced a Web series, titled Quitters. The series was a selection of the 3rd annual ITVFest in Los Angeles in August 2008. In 2009, Morales joined the cast of the USA Network television series White Collar for the first season and she portrayed Lauren Cruz, a junior FBI agent. Morales appeared in Oliver Stones 2010 film, Wall Street, Money Never Sleeps and she was cast as Chelsea Handlers best friend in Are You There, Chelsea. But left the series when the cast was replaced for creative reasons, Morales also appeared on Aaron Sorkins HBO drama, The Newsroom, guest-starring as Kaylee, the girlfriend of Dev Patel’s character, Neal. In 2013, Morales joined the cast of Trophy Wife as Meg, in 2015 she joined the cast of the Fox series The Grinder. In 2017 it was announced that she would appear in episodes of the NBC series Powerless. Morales appeared as Detective Ann Garcia in the Netflix series Santa Clarita Diet, natalie Morales at the Internet Movie Database
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New York (magazine)
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New York is a bi-weekly magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style generally, and with a particular emphasis on New York City. Founded by Milton Glaser and Clay Felker in 1968 as a competitor to The New Yorker, it was brasher and less polite, and established itself as a cradle of New Journalism. Since its redesign and relaunch in 2004, the magazine has won more National Magazine Awards than any other publication and it was one of the first dual-audience lifestyle magazines, and its format and style have been emulated by some other American regional city publications. In 2009, its paid and verified circulation was 408,622 and its websites—NYmag. com, Vulture. com, The Cut, and Grub Street—receive visits from more than 14 million users per month. New York began life in 1963 as the Sunday-magazine supplement of the New York Herald Tribune newspaper, edited first by Sheldon Zalaznick and then by Clay Felker, the magazine showcased the work of several talented Tribune contributors, including Tom Wolfe, Barbara Goldsmith, and Jimmy Breslin. Soon after the Tribune went out of business in 1966–67, Felker and his partner, Milton Glaser, gerald Goldsmith, and reincarnated the magazine as a stand-alone glossy. Joining them was managing editor Jack Nessel, Felkers number-two at the Herald Tribune, New Yorks first issue was dated April 8,1968. Among the by-lines were many names from the magazines earlier incarnation, including Breslin, Wolfe, and George Goodman. Within a year, Felker had assembled a team of contributors who would come to define the magazines voice, Breslin became a regular, as did Gloria Steinem, who wrote the city-politics column, and Gail Sheehy. Harold Clurman was hired as the theater critic, Alan Rich covered the classical-music scene. Gael Greene, writing under the rubric The Insatiable Critic, reviewed restaurants, Woody Allen contributed a few stories for the magazine in its early years. The magazines regional focus and innovative illustrations inspired numerous imitators across the country, the office for the magazine was on the top floor of the old Tammany Hall clubhouse at 207 East 32nd Street, which Glaser owned. Wolfe, a contributor to the magazine, wrote a story in 1970 that captured the spirit of the magazine, Radical Chic. The article described a benefit party for the Black Panthers, held in Leonard Bernsteins apartment, in a collision of high culture, in 1972, New York also launched Ms. magazine, which began as a special issue. New West, a magazine on New Yorks model that covered California life, was also published for a few years in the 1970s. As the 1970s progressed, Felker continued to broaden the magazines editorial vision beyond Manhattan, covering Richard Nixon, twenty years later, Cohn admitted that hed done no more than drive by Odysseys door, and that hed made the rest up. It was a problem of what Wolfe, in 1972, had labeled The New Journalism. In 1976, the Australian media baron Rupert Murdoch bought the magazine in a hostile takeover, a succession of editors followed, including Joe Armstrong and John Berendt
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Marcia Gay Harden
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Marcia Gay Harden is an American actress. Her film breakthrough was in the 1990 Coen brothers-directed Millers Crossing and she followed this with roles in films including Used People, The First Wives Club, and Flubber. For her performance as artist Lee Krasner in the 2000 film Pollock and she earned another Academy Award nomination for her performance as Celeste Boyle in Mystic River. Other notable film roles include American Gun, and 2007s The Mist, Harden made her Broadway debut in 1993, starring in Angels in America, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award. She returned to Broadway in 2009 as Veronica in God of Carnage and her performance won her the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. She was nominated for her second Primetime Emmy Award for her performance in the 2009 television film The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler, in September 2015, she began starring in the CBS medical drama Code Black, in which she plays the lead role of Dr. Leanne Rorish. Harden, one of five children, was born in La Jolla, California, the daughter of Texas natives Beverly, a housewife, and Thad Harold Harden, one of Hardens brothers is named Thaddeus, as is her former husband. Hardens family frequently moved because of her fathers job, living in Japan, Germany, Greece, California, Hardens first film role was in a 1979 student-produced movie at the University of Texas. Throughout the 1980s, she appeared in television programs, including Simon & Simon, Kojak. She appeared in the Coen brothers Millers Crossing, a 1930s mobster drama in which she first gained wide exposure, even so, at the time, living in New York City, she had to go back to doing catering jobs because I didnt have any money. In 1992, she played actress Ava Gardner alongside Philip Casnoff as Frank Sinatra in the made for TV miniseries Sinatra, throughout the 1990s, she continued to appear in films and television. In 1993, Harden debuted on Broadway in the role of Harper Pitt in Tony Kushners Angels in America, the role earned her critical acclaim and she received a Tony Award nomination. The winner in that category was Debra Monk in Redwood Curtain, Harden was awarded the 2000 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of painter Lee Krasner in Pollock. In 2003, she was nominated in the same category for Mystic River. Harden guest-starred as FBI undercover agent Dana Lewis posing as a white-supremacist in Raw, in 2007, this role earned Harden her first Emmy Award nomination for best guest actress in a drama series. She reprised the role in the eighth season premiere and again in the twelfth season episode Penetration as a rape victim. In 2007, Harden appeared in films, including Sean Penns critically acclaimed Into the Wild. Also in 2007 she shared top billing with Kevin Bacon in Rails & Ties, in 2008, she appeared in Home playing a woman who has had a mastectomy
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Litigator
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A lawsuit is a vernacular term for a suit, action, or cause instituted or depending between two private persons in the courts of law. The term refers to any proceeding by a party or parties against another in a court of law, the defendant is required to respond to the plaintiffs complaint. A declaratory judgment may be issued to prevent future legal disputes, a lawsuit may involve dispute resolution of private law issues between individuals, business entities or non-profit organizations. The conduct of a lawsuit is called litigation, the plaintiffs and defendants are called litigants and the attorneys representing them are called litigators. The term litigation may also refer to criminal trial, rules of criminal or civil procedure govern the conduct of a lawsuit in the common law adversarial system of dispute resolution. The details of the procedure differ greatly from jurisdiction to jurisdiction and these rules of the particular procedures are very important for litigants to know, because the litigants are the ones who dictate the timing and progression of the lawsuit. Litigants are responsible to obtain the result and the timing of reaching this result. Though the majority of lawsuits are settled before reaching a state of trial. This is particularly true in federal systems, where a court may be applying state law. About 98 percent of cases in the United States federal courts are resolved without a trial. Lawsuits can become complicated as more parties become involved. Within a single lawsuit, there can be any number of claims, each of these participants can bring any number of cross claims and counterclaims against each other, and even bring additional parties into the suit on either side after it progresses. In reality however, courts typically have power to sever claims. A court can do if there is not a sufficient overlap of factual issues between the various associates, separating the issues into different lawsuits. The official ruling of a lawsuit can be misleading because post-ruling outcomes are often not listed on the internet. Cases such as this illustrate the need for more information than mere internet searches when researching legal decisions. While online searches are appropriate for many situations, they are not appropriate for all. The following is a description of how a lawsuit may proceed in a common law jurisdiction
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First Amendment to the United States Constitution
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It was adopted on December 15,1791, as one of the ten amendments that constitute the Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights was originally proposed to assuage Anti-Federalist opposition to Constitutional ratification, initially, the First Amendment applied only to laws enacted by the Congress, and many of its provisions were interpreted more narrowly than they are today. Beginning with Gitlow v. New York, the Supreme Court applied the First Amendment to states—a process known as incorporation—through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The Supreme Court overturned English common law precedent to increase the burden of proof for defamation and libel suits, commercial speech, however, is less protected by the First Amendment than political speech, and is therefore subject to greater regulation. The Free Press Clause protects publication of information and opinions, in Near v. Minnesota and New York Times v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment protected against prior restraint—pre-publication censorship—in almost all cases. The Petition Clause protects the right to all branches and agencies of government for action. In addition to the right of assembly guaranteed by this clause, eight of the other thirteen states made similar pledges. However, these declarations were generally considered mere admonitions to state legislatures, after a brief debate, Masons proposal was defeated by a unanimous vote of the state delegations. For the constitution to be ratified, however, nine of the thirteen states were required to approve it in state conventions, opposition to ratification was partly based on the Constitutions lack of adequate guarantees for civil liberties. Constitution was eventually ratified by all thirteen states and this language was greatly condensed by Congress, and passed the House and Senate with almost no recorded debate, complicating future discussion of the Amendments intent. The First Amendment, along with the rest of the Bill of Rights, was submitted to the states for ratification on September 25,1789, and adopted on December 15,1791. In Reynolds v. United States the Supreme Court used these words to declare that it may be accepted almost as a declaration of the scope. Congress was deprived of all power over mere opinion, but was left free to reach actions which were in violation of social duties or subversive of good order. In these two sentences is found the distinction between what properly belongs to the church and what to the State. Originally, the First Amendment applied only to the federal government, Massachusetts, for example, was officially Congregationalist until the 1830s. Neither can pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions, in the words of Jefferson, the clause against establishment of religion by law was intended to erect a wall of separation between church and State. That wall must be high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach, in Torcaso v. Watkins, the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution prohibits states and the federal government from requiring any kind of religious test for public office
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Hamish Linklater
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Hamish Linklater is an American actor, known for playing Matthew Kimble in The New Adventures of Old Christine and Andrew Keanelly in The Crazy Ones. He is the son of dramatic vocal trainer Kristin Linklater, Linklater was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, the son of Kristin Linklater and James Lincoln Cormeny. His mother is a Scottish-born Professor of Theatre and Chair of the Acting Division at Columbia University, a single mother, she raised her son partly in the Berkshires, where she was a founder of the Shakespeare & Company drama troupe. Her son was eight years old when he began doing small Shakespearean roles and his maternal grandparents were Marjorie and Eric Linklater, who was a Scottish novelist of part Swedish origin and one of the founders of the Scottish National Party. His uncles are journalist Magnus Linklater and writer Andro Linklater, Linklater graduated in 1994 from Commonwealth School in Boston and attended Amherst College. While first establishing himself on the stage, he made his debut in 2000s Groove. That was followed by his role as CNN correspondent Richard Roth in the HBO movie Live from Baghdad and he has since appeared in numerous movies, including Fantastic Four. He had a role on the television show American Dreams as well as Gideons Crossing. He was second-in-line to play Logan on Dark Angel, but the role went to Michael Weatherly, from 2006 until 2010 he was a main cast member in the CBS sitcom The New Adventures of Old Christine, as the brother of Christine, played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus. In July 2006, Linklater appeared in Keith Bunins The Busy World Is Hushed opposite Jill Clayburgh off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons and he played Hamlet at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, California and the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, Connecticut. On Halloween 2007, Linklater appeared in an episode of Pushing Daisies on ABC and he also completed the film The Violent Kind. He appeared in The Public Theaters 2009 production of Twelfth Night at Shakespeare in the Park as Sir Andrew Aguecheek, opposite Anne Hathaway, Audra McDonald, in 2011, he starred with Miranda July in The Future. He made his Broadway debut in October 2011 in Theresa Rebecks new play Seminar opposite Alan Rickman, Jerry OConnell, Lily Rabe, in 2013, he played Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca in the Jackie Robinson biopic film 42. Linklater also joined the cast of Aaron Sorkins The Newsroom in a recurring role and he remained for six episodes, until earning the role of Andrew Keanelly on the CBS series The Crazy Ones, which premiered in September 2013. Linklater married playwright Jessica Goldberg in January 2002, they divorced in 2012, Linklater is in a long-term relationship with actress Lily Rabe. In December 2016, it was announced the couple were expecting their first child together, Hamish Linklater at the Internet Movie Database Hamish Linklater at TV. com Hamish Linklater at the Internet Broadway Database Hamish Linklater at Internet Off-Broadway Database
