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Paul Heller
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Paul Heller is a British-American film producer residing in Southern California. His best movies known include Enter the Dragon, My Left Foot, The Annihilation of Fish, Skin Games, Hot Potato, The Promise, The Barony, Black Belt Jones, and David and Lisa. His debut as a producer was David and Lisa, which received two Oscar nominations and innumerable awards. He was the producer of 1990s Oscar winner, My Left Foot. Hellers commitment to quality films has been the hallmark of his career. His film, The Eavesdropper won acclaim as Best Film at Mar del Plata and it was also nominated for Best Foreign Film at the French Awards, as was his film Secret Ceremony, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Mia Farrow. In that role he is able to combine the goal of making quality films with his love of hands-on involvement in the process of film-making, a process that has so far created and developed over 30 feature films and numerous projects in allied fields. In 1973, Heller founded Sequoia Pictures, Inc. a production house affiliated with Warner Bros. The companys first production was Enter the Dragon, the film that set off the explosion of interest in the martial arts genre, eleven more films followed with an unprecedented financial success rate. He was the ground breaker in the cable TV feature market, producing the first made-for-cable feature film, Falcons Gold, Heller now only makes pictures that delight him from the first reading of the script. Following The Annihilation of Fish, is another film with writer-director Bruce Robinson, Heller first has produced a television movie Wait Until Dark, which is distributed by Warner Bros. and HBO in 1982. In the same year, he has produced CBS Television and Showtimes Falcons Gold, in 1998, he was involved in ABCs David and Lisa, produced with Oprahs Harpo Productions. During this time, Heller renewed his interest in teaching promising young students of film, Heller was approached by the American Film Institute to develop a producing program for their new school in Los Angeles, the American Film Institute Center for Advanced Studies. He had previously taught Film and Television Design at both New York University and Columbia University, and founded the Community Film Workshop Council with the American Film Institute. This was followed, over the years, by lectures at conferences and he currently heads the Education and Outreach Committee of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Los Angeles. He is a member of the United Scenic Artists, the Directors Guild, in October 2010, Heller made an opening remark for the Koyamada Foundations United States Martial Arts Festival at the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center in Redondo Beach, California. Heller serves as the Board of Directors of the Koyamada Foundation, Heller has been a pioneer in the field of multimedia and theatrical presentations. Heller at the Internet Movie Database Paul Heller at Hollywood. com at Archive. is
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Danielle Steel
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Based in California for most of her career, Steel has produced several books a year, often juggling up to five projects at once. All her novels have been bestsellers, including those issued in hardback and her formula is fairly consistent, often involving rich families facing a crisis, threatened by dark elements such as prison, fraud, blackmail and suicide. Steel has also published fiction and poetry, as well as raising funds for the treatment of mental disorders. Her books have been translated into 28 languages, with 22 adapted for television, Steel was born Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-Steel in New York City, the only child of Norma da Câmara Stone dos Reis and John Schulein-Steel. Her father was a German Jewish immigrant, a descendant of owners of Löwenbräu beer and her mother, born in Portugal, was the daughter of a diplomat. Steel was raised Catholic and had wanted to be a nun during her early years. She spent much of her childhood in France, where from an early age she was included in her parents dinner parties, giving her an opportunity to observe the habits and lives of the wealthy and famous. Her parents divorced when she was eight, however, and she was raised primarily in New York City and Europe by her father, Steel started writing stories as a child, and by her late teens had begun writing poetry. In 1965, when she was 18, Steel married French-American banker Claude-Eric Lazard, while a young wife, and still attending New York University, Steel began writing, completing her first manuscript the following year, when she was 19. After the birth of their daughter, Beatrix, in 1966, a magazine client was highly impressed with her freelance articles and encouraged her to focus on writing and suggested she write a book, which she did. She later moved to San Francisco, and worked for Grey Advertising, after nine years of marriage and many years of separation, Steel and Lazard divorced. In 1972 her first novel, Going Home, was published, the novel contained many of the themes that her writing would become known for, including a focus on family issues and human relationships. The heroine of Going Home was a single mother. While still married to Lazard, Steel met Danny Zugelder while interviewing an inmate in a prison near Lompoc, California and he moved in with Steel when he was paroled in June 1973, but returned to prison in early 1974 on robbery and rape charges. After receiving her divorce from Lazard in 1975, she married Zugelder in the prison canteen and she divorced him in 1978, but the relationship spawned Passions Promise and Now and Forever, the two novels that launched her career. Steel married her husband, William George Toth, the day after her divorce from Zugelder was finalized. She was already 8 1⁄2 months pregnant with his child, Nicholas, with the success of her fourth book, The Promise, she became a participant in San Francisco high society while Toth, a former drug addict, was left out. Steel married for the time in 1981, to vintner John Traina
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Kathleen Quinlan
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Kathleen Denise Quinlan is an American film and television actress. Her other film appearances include Airport 77, The Promise, The Runner Stumbles, Sunday Lovers, Sunset, Claras Heart, The Doors, Breakdown, and Breach. Quinlan was born in Pasadena, California, the daughter of Josephine, a military supply supervisor, and Robert Quinlan and she was raised in Mill Valley, California, where she attended Tamalpais High School, studied drama and began her acting career. She has been married to actor Bruce Abbott since April 12,1994, Quinlan made her film debut in George Lucas 1973 nostalgic look at the early 60s, American Graffiti at the age of 19. As a young actress, she guest-starred in several 1970s television series, including Police Woman, Ironside, kathleen Quinlan at the Internet Movie Database
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Stephen Collins
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Stephen Weaver Collins is an American actor, writer, director, and musician. He played Eric Camden on the television series 7th Heaven. He also played the roles of Captain Will Decker in Star Trek, The Motion Picture and he also appeared in a supporting role in the TV series Revolution as Dr. Gene Porter, father of Elizabeth Mitchells character Rachel Matheson. Collins was born on October 1,1947, in Des Moines, Iowa, the son of Madeleine and Cyrus Stickney Collins, Collins was raised with his two older brothers in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, and attended Amherst College, graduating cum laude. He played bass guitar and rhythm guitar in a number of rock, Collins is probably best known for his role as Eric Camden in the television drama series 7th Heaven. He is also known for portraying captain/commander Willard Decker in Star Trek and he also played the lead role opposite Lauren Hutton in the made-for-TV movie The Rhinemann Exchange, based on Robert Ludlums bestselling novel. Collins has co-starred with Diane Keaton in two movies, The First Wives Club and Because I Said So, in the 2010–11 television season, Collins starred in the short-lived ABC series No Ordinary Family. He also appeared as a love interest for Ron Rifkins character Saul Holden, on ABCs Brothers & Sisters. He also appeared in eight of The Office playing Andy Bernards dad in the episode Garden Party. In 2013, Collins began appearing in the NBC series Revolution as Dr. Gene Porter, Collins was married to Marjorie Weinman from 1970 to 1978. He married actress Faye Grant in 1985 and they had a daughter, Kate, in 1989. Collins filed for divorce from Grant in 2012, the divorce was finalized in January 2015. Collins is an Episcopalian as well as a practitioner of Transcendental Meditation and has part in the advanced TM Yogic Flying technique since 1980. Until October 2014, he had been a national co-director of the Committee for Stress-Free Schools, a Los Angeles Police Department spokesperson stated Collins had been investigated by the department in 2012 after receiving a claim from 40 years earlier regarding sexual abuse. The LAPD further stated their investigation did not allow them to substantiate the allegation, in a December 2014 interview with People magazine, Collins admitted he had inappropriate sexual conduct with three female minors in 1973,1982, and 1994. Collins is the author of two novels, Eye Contact and Double Exposure
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Beatrice Straight
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Beatrice Whitney Straight was an American theatre, film and television actress and a member of the prominent Whitney family. She was an Academy Award and Tony Award winner, Straight made her Broadway debut in 1939 in The Possessed. Her other Broadway roles included Viola in Twelfth Night, Catherine Sloper in The Heiress, for her role as Elizabeth Proctor in the 1953 production of The Crucible, she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. For the 1976 film Network, she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and she was on screen for five minutes and two seconds, the shortest performance ever to win an Academy Award for acting. She also received an Emmy Award nomination for the 1978 miniseries The Dain Curse, Straight also appeared as Mother Christophe in The Nuns Story and Dr. Lesh in Poltergeist. S. Her maternal grandfather was political leader and financier William Collins Whitney, in 1918, when Straight was four years old, her father died in France of influenza during the great epidemic while serving with the US Army during World War I. Following her mothers remarriage to British agronomist Leonard K. Elmhirst in 1925 and it was there that Straight was educated at Dartington Hall and began acting in amateur theater productions. Straight returned to the United States and made her Broadway debut in 1939 in the play The Possessed. Most of her work was in the classics, including Twelfth Night, Macbeth. Kildare, Ben Casey, The Defenders, Route 66, Mission, Impossible, further television performances include the role of Hippolyta in the Wonder Woman series, and Marion Hillyard, the icy, controlling mother of Stephen Collins in The Promise. Straight worked infrequently in film and is remembered best for her role as a devastated wife confronting husband William Holdens infidelity in Network. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance which, at five minutes and her most widely seen film appearance after Network was the role of the paranormal investigator Dr. Martha Lesh in the 1982 horror film Poltergeist. On February 22,1942, Straight married Louis Dolivet, Free French Leader, in Polk County, at the time, Dolivet was a speaker at the National Farm Institute and Straight was in the middle of the mid-west road show of Twelfth Night. Her mother, Dorothy Elmhirst and stepfather, Leonard K. Elmhirst attended the wedding, along with her brother Michael Straight and his wife, Belinda Crompton. Dolivet was in the French Air Force until June 1940 and was the co-editor of The Free World, at the time of the wedding, her elder brother, Whitney Straight, had been missing since August 1941, when his plane was shot down on the French coast. Straight obtained a divorce from Dolivet in Reno, Nevada on May 24,1949 and they married in 1949 and remained married until Cooksons death in 1990. Peter had two children from his previous marriage, Peter Cookson, Jr. and Jane Copland, the boy was found by Straights second husband, Cookson. Straight reportedly suffered from Alzheimers disease in her last years, in 2001, she died from pneumonia in Northridge, Los Angeles, at the age of eighty-six
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Laurence Luckinbill
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Laurence George Luckinbill is an American actor, playwright and director. He has worked in television, film and theatre, doing duty in the latter by writing, directing and starring in stage productions. Luckinbill was born in Fort Smith, Arkansas, the son of Agnes and he is the uncle of film directors Lana and Lilly Wachowski, the children of his sister, Lynne. He is married to actress Lucie Arnaz, daughter of Lucille Ball and they have three children together, Simon, Joseph and Katharine. Arnaz and Luckinbill have toured together in theatrical productions such as Theyre Playing Our Song and he also has two sons from his previous marriage to actress Robin Strasser, Nicholas and Benjamin. On television, he started out with roles on the now-defunct American soap operas Where the Heart Is and he starred as espionage agent Glenn Garth Gregory in the 1972-73 ABC dramatic television series, The Delphi Bureau. He has performed in episodes of television series, including Law & Order, Barnaby Jones, Columbo and Murder. He played Lillian Hellmans lawyer in the TV movie Dash and Lilly and his 1961 Broadway debut was in A Man for All Seasons. He starred in Pavel Kohouts 1976 Broadway play Poor Murderer at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre and his theater career has included writing and directing. Luckinbill has written and performed in several shows, including, Hemingway, Teddy. He has also starred in productions of Lyndon, which he did not write. One production was at the LBJ Museum in Austin, Texas and he appeared in the drama film The Boys in the Band, reprising the role of Hank, which he originated on stage. He portrayed Mr. Spocks half-brother Sybok in Star Trek V, sean Connery was originally contacted to star in the role, but was busy with Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. William Shatner discovered Luckinbill by chance, channel surfing late one night, when Shatner called to offer him the role, Luckinbill accepted immediately Other film appearances include Such Good Friends, The Promise and Cocktail. He also narrated the documentary Moonwalk One
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William Prince (actor)
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Prince was born in Nichols, New York, the son of Myrtle, a nurse, and Gorman Prince, who worked in sales. Prince attended Cornell University, which he left in his year to join a Federal Theatre tour of The Taming of the Shrew. He served an apprenticeship with the Barter Theater in Abingdon, Virginia and he then joined Maurice Evanss company, appearing in minor Shakespearean roles. His star began to rise after actress Eva Le Gallienne, responding to a letter, gave him an audition for the part of Richard in a revival of Eugene ONeills Ah. He got the part and caught the eye of the critics and his breakthrough came a year later, in 1942, with the role of Private Quizz West in Maxwell Andersons play The Eve of St. Mark. He was soon signed to a Hollywood contract, and appeared in Destination Tokyo, Objective Burma, after a mostly undistinguished movie career in the late 1940s, Prince worked primarily in television the following decade, having moved back to New York in the interim. It was there, in 1947, that Prince became one of the members of The Actors Studio. Two of his most notable roles were as Christian de Neuvillette in the 1950 Cyrano de Bergerac. He also gained acclaim for his portrayal of patriarch Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy in the 1977 teleplay Johnny. Returning to Broadway, he took leading roles in John Loves Mary and he appeared as Orlando in As You Like It, with Katharine Hepburn, and as Christopher Isherwood in I Am a Camera. In 1963, he played Charles Marsden in the Actors Studio production of Strange Interlude and he took leading roles in several plays by Edward Albee, beginning with The Ballad of the Sad Cafe in 1963. He appeared opposite Angela Lansbury in Counting the Ways and Listening in 1977, during the 1970s, 1980s and into the early 1990s, Prince made guest appearances on dozens of primetime television series and miniseries including Captains and the Kings, Aspen, and George Washington. He also reunited with Cyrano star Jose Ferrer for the made-for-television films The Rhinemann Exchange, in the latter, Ferrer played attorney for petitioner Gideon, Abe Fortas, and Prince was seen as one of the Supreme Court Justices. In 1992 he appeared on the long-running NBC drama Law & Order in the episode The Working Stiff, William Prince died October 8,1996, at Phelps Memorial Hospital in Tarrytown, New York. He was 83, and lived in Dobbs Ferry, New York at the time of his death. Prince was survived by his wife, Augusta Dabney Prince, a sister, Charlotte, William Prince at the Internet Movie Database William Prince at the Internet Broadway Database In Loving Memory Of William Prince
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Michael O'Hare
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Robert Michael OHare, Jr. – known professionally as Michael OHare – was an American actor who performed on stage and television. He was best known for playing Commander Jeffrey Sinclair in the science fiction television series Babylon 5, robert Michael OHare, Jr. was born in Chicago, Illinois. He attended Harvard University, where he majored in English literature and he studied at the Juilliard School of Drama, and with Sanford Meisner. He appeared on a range of shows, including Trapper John, M. D. T. J. Hooker, Kate & Allie, The Equalizer, Tales from the Darkside. In 1992, he was cast in the role of Commander Jeffrey Sinclair in the science fiction television series Babylon 5. He appeared throughout the shows first season in 1994, and made guest appearances in the second and he had two guest roles on Law & Order, but retired from acting and rarely made public appearances. As Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski describes it, during the filming of the first season of Babylon 5, halfway through filming, his hallucinations worsened. It became increasingly difficult for OHare to continue working, his behavior was becoming increasingly erratic, and he was often at odds with his colleagues. Straczynski offered to suspend the show for months to accommodate treatment, however OHare feared that such a hiatus would put the series at risk. Straczynski agreed to keep OHares condition secret to protect his career, and OHare agreed to complete the first season and his departure from the cast was announced without explanation, except that it was mutual and amicable. His treatments were only partially successful and he reappeared in a cameo appearance early in season two and returned in season three for a double episode which closed his characters story arc. At that time, Straczynski promised to keep OHares condition secret to his grave and he made no further appearances on Babylon 5. On September 28,2012, Straczynski posted that OHare had suffered an attack in New York City five days earlier. Eight months later, Straczynski revealed the circumstances of OHares departure from Babylon 5 at a presentation about the series at the Phoenix Comicon. Players Man and Superman A Few Good Men The Crucible Michael OHare at Find a Grave Michael OHare at the Internet Broadway Database Michael OHare at the Internet Movie Database
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David Shire
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David Lee Shire is an American songwriter and composer of stage musicals, film and television scores. His other work includes the score of the 1985 film Return to Oz, and the musical scores of Baby, Big, Closer Than Ever. Shire is married to actress Didi Conn, Shire was born in Buffalo, New York, to Esther Miriam and Buffalo society band leader and piano teacher Irving Daniel Shire. Shire also co-fronted a jazz group at school, the Shire-Fogg Quintet and he was a member of the Pundits and Elihu and he graduated magna cum laude in 1959. Their first off-Broadway show, The Sap of Life, was produced in 1961 at One Sheridan Square Theater in Greenwich Village and he co-wrote The Village Stompers Washington Square with Bob Goldstein in 1963. Shire began scoring for television in the 1960s and made the leap to scoring films in the early 1970s. He was then married to actress Talia Shire, for whose brother Francis Ford Coppola he scored The Conversation, perhaps his best known score and he composed original music for Saturday Night Fever, and also worked on several disco adaptations including Night on Disco Mountain. He won the Academy Award for Best Song in 1979 for his and Norman Gimbels theme song for Norma Rae, It Goes Like It Goes. He was also nominated the year in the same category for Ill Never Say Goodbye, from the motion picture The Promise, with lyrics jointly written by Marilyn. In 1980 his song With You Im Born Again, recorded by Billy Preston and Syreeta, was a top five international hit, the Conversation featured a score for piano. On some cues, Shire took the sounds of the piano. The music is intended to capture the isolation and paranoia of protagonist Harry Caul, the score was released on CD by Intrada Records. The soundtrack album was the first-ever CD release by Film Score Monthly, the end titles contain a more expansive arrangement of the theme. Shires television scores have earned five Emmy nominations and he also composed themes for the television series Alice and McCloud and the 1976-1977 Danny Thomas situation comedy The Practice. Shires film and television scoring style is compared to his late counterpart. As a pit pianist, Shire played for the productions of both The Fantasticks and Funny Girl, eventually serving as Barbra Streisand’s accompanist for several years. He also intermittently conducted and arranged for her, and over a period of years she recorded five of his songs. All of these shows have had hundreds of regional and stock productions worldwide, a new musical entitled Take Flight premiered in London at the Menier Chocolate Factory in July 2007, with a separate production in Tokyo in November 2007
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Universal Pictures
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Universal Pictures is an American film studio owned by Comcast through the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group division of its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal. The company was founded in 1912 by Carl Laemmle, Mark Dintenfass, Charles O. Baumann, Adam Kessel, Pat Powers, William Swanson, David Horsley and its studios are located in Universal City, California, and its corporate offices are located in New York City. Universal Pictures is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America and is one of Hollywoods Big Six studios. Universal Studios was founded by Carl Laemmle, Mark Dintenfass, Charles O. Baumann, Adam Kessel, Pat Powers, William Swanson, David Horsley, Robert H. Cochrane, one story has Laemmle watching a box office for hours, counting patrons and calculating the days takings. Within weeks of his Chicago trip, Laemmle gave up dry goods to buy the first several nickelodeons, for Laemmle and other such entrepreneurs, the creation in 1908 of the Edison-backed Motion Picture Trust meant that exhibitors were expected to pay fees for Trust-produced films they showed. Soon, Laemmle and other disgruntled nickelodeon owners decided to avoid paying Edison by producing their own pictures, in June 1909, Laemmle started the Yankee Film Company with partners Abe Stern and Julius Stern. Laemmle broke with Edisons custom of refusing to give billing and screen credits to performers, by naming the movie stars, he attracted many of the leading players of the time, contributing to the creation of the star system. In 1910, he promoted Florence Lawrence, formerly known as The Biograph Girl, the Universal Film Manufacturing Company was incorporated in New York on April 30,1912. Laemmle, who emerged as president in July 1912, was the figure in the partnership with Dintenfass, Baumann, Kessel, Powers, Swanson, Horsley. Eventually all would be out by Laemmle. Following the westward trend of the industry, by the end of 1912 the company was focusing its efforts in the Hollywood area. On March 15,1915, Laemmle opened the worlds largest motion picture production facility, Universal City Studios, studio management became the third facet of Universals operations, with the studio incorporated as a distinct subsidiary organization. Unlike other movie moguls, Laemmle opened his studio to tourists, Universal became the largest studio in Hollywood, and remained so for a decade. However, it sought an audience mostly in towns, producing mostly inexpensive melodramas, westerns. In its early years Universal released three brands of feature films — Red Feather, low-budget programmers, Bluebird, more ambitious productions, and Jewel, their prestige motion pictures. Directors included Jack Conway, John Ford, Rex Ingram, Robert Z. Leonard, George Marshall and Lois Weber, despite Laemmles role as an innovator, he was an extremely cautious studio chief. Unlike rivals Adolph Zukor, William Fox, and Marcus Loew and he also financed all of his own films, refusing to take on debt. Character actor Lon Chaney became a card for Universal in the 1920s
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Yeh Vaada Raha
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Yeh Vaada Raha is a 1982 Hindi film starring Shammi Kapoor, Poonam Dhillon, Tina Munim and Rishi Kapoor. It is based on Danielle Steels novel and had once been adapted into the American film The Promise, Vikram Rai Bahadur is the only son of Mrs. Sharda, and sole heir to a vast business and estate. While vacationing with his friend, Raja in Kashmir he meets a beautiful girl named Sunita. Sunita was a singer and had also got a contract to sing on Radio, she tells Vikram and also asked him to sing with her. Soon he proposes marriage to her, and she accepts, Vikram goes back to Delhi, to ask his mothers permission and blessings to marry Sunita, but she refuses telling VIcky about Sunitas parents and past. Also saying that if her name is joined to theirs, their business will suffer as Sunitas presence is inauspicious and his mothers words anger Vikram and he goes back to Kashmir and tells Sunita they will have a quiet temple wedding. On their way to the temple their vehicle meets with an accident against a truck, while Raja sustains minor injuries, Vikram is badly hurt and hospitalized, and Sunitas face is severely disfigured. Mrs. Sharda goes to see Sunita and offers her money to stay away from Vikram and she tells Sunita about her disfigurement and emotionally blackmails her by saying think how Vikram would live with an ugly and disfigured girl like her. Hearing this Sunita agrees to stay away from Vikram but says she doesnt want Shardas money. Sunita is transferred to a hospital in Delhi, where Sunitas local doctor, Dr. Sahni together with a doctor in the Delhi hospital, on the day that she leaves, Vikram regains consciousness and asks for Sunita, But his mother tells him that Sunita is dead. Months pass and Vikram longs for Sunita, not eating properly, not living his life, meanwhile in these months Dr Mehra is doing his job beautifully, he fixes Sunitas disfigured face and gives her a new face. She quickly recovers, and cannot wait to give the news to Vikram. Vikram is unable to recognize Sunita and she believes that he has forgotten her and she returns home with her new father and decides to change her name to Kusum Mehra, to begin life anew. After the engagement party it is reviled that Vikram is making an orphanage in the memory of Sunita in Kashmir. It will be called Srimati Sunita Rai Bahadur Anathalay which means Mrs. Sunita Rai Bahadur orphanage, Vikram decides that he will fund his Orphanage with his own funds and does not wish to let his mothers money play any role in its building or running. To earn money he decides to sing in stage performances as Sunita used to ask him to sing with her. On one such performance Sunita aka Kusum and Dr. Mehra come to the not knowing that Vikram is the artist performing. Kusum hears him singing a song dedicated to love but feels insulted that someone who has forgetting his love would sing a song for love, so she begins to sing against him despite promising herself that she would never sing again
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Love Story (1970 film)
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Love Story is a 1970 American romantic drama film written by Erich Segal, who was also the author of the best-selling novel of the same name. It was directed by Arthur Hiller and starred Ali MacGraw and Ryan ONeal, alongside John Marley, Ray Milland, and Tommy Lee Jones in his film debut in a minor role. A tragedy, the film is considered one of the most romantic by the American Film Institute and is #37 in the list of highest-grossing films in Canada and it was followed by a sequel, Olivers Story, starring ONeal with Candice Bergen. Oliver Barrett IV comes from an American upper-class East Coast family and is heir to the Barrett fortune and he attends Harvard University, where he is very active in ice hockey. At the library, Oliver meets Jennifer Jenny Cavalleri, a quick-witted and she mocks him, calling him preppy and jock. Oliver finds charm and truth in her comments and they quickly fall in love, despite their differences. Jenny reveals her plans for the future, which include studying in Paris, Oliver is upset that he does not figure in those plans. He wants to marry Jenny and proposes, after she accepts, she is driven to the Barrett mansion to meet the old guard parents. Oliver reassures her that their class differences wont matter, however, his parents are clearly not impressed and are judgmental. Later, at the Harvard club Olivers father tells him that he cut him off financially if he marries Jenny. Oliver storms out of the dining hall, upon graduation from college, the two students decide to marry against the wishes of Olivers father, who severs ties with his son. The wedding is modern and contains no religious denomination, Jennys widowed father attends, although he also has concerns about their social differences. Without his fathers support, the couple struggle to pay Olivers way through Harvard Law School. Jenny gets work as a private-school teacher and they rent the top floor of a triple decker near the Law School. Oliver graduates third in his class, winning $500, and takes a position at a respectable New York law firm and they eventually move into a doorman building, which contrasts greatly with their Cambridge digs. The 24-year-olds are ready to start a family, but when they fail to conceive they consult a medical specialist, after many tests, Oliver is informed that Jenny is terminally ill. Her exact condition is never stated explicitly, but she appears to have leukemia, as instructed by his doctor, Oliver attempts to live a normal life without telling Jenny of her condition, but she finds out after confronting her doctor about her recent illness. Oliver buys tickets to Paris but she declines, wanting only time with him, soon after she begins costly cancer therapy, Oliver is desperate enough over the mounting expenses to seek financial relief from his father
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Boston
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Boston is the capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. Boston is also the seat of Suffolk County, although the county government was disbanded on July 1,1999. The city proper covers 48 square miles with a population of 667,137 in 2015, making it the largest city in New England. Alternately, as a Combined Statistical Area, this wider commuting region is home to some 8.1 million people, One of the oldest cities in the United States, Boston was founded on the Shawmut Peninsula in 1630 by Puritan settlers from England. It was the scene of several key events of the American Revolution, such as the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, the Battle of Bunker Hill, and the Siege of Boston. Upon U. S. independence from Great Britain, it continued to be an important port and manufacturing hub as well as a center for education, through land reclamation and municipal annexation, Boston has expanded beyond the original peninsula. Its rich history attracts many tourists, with Faneuil Hall alone drawing over 20 million visitors per year, Bostons many firsts include the United States first public school, Boston Latin School, first subway system, the Tremont Street Subway, and first public park, Boston Common. Bostons economic base also includes finance, professional and business services, biotechnology, information technology, the city has one of the highest costs of living in the United States as it has undergone gentrification, though it remains high on world livability rankings. Bostons early European settlers had first called the area Trimountaine but later renamed it Boston after Boston, Lincolnshire, England, the renaming on September 7,1630 was by Puritan colonists from England who had moved over from Charlestown earlier that year in quest of fresh water. Their settlement was limited to the Shawmut Peninsula, at that time surrounded by the Massachusetts Bay and Charles River. The peninsula is thought to have been inhabited as early as 5000 BC, in 1629, the Massachusetts Bay Colonys first governor John Winthrop led the signing of the Cambridge Agreement, a key founding document of the city. Puritan ethics and their focus on education influenced its early history, over the next 130 years, the city participated in four French and Indian Wars, until the British defeated the French and their Indian allies in North America. Boston was the largest town in British America until Philadelphia grew larger in the mid-18th century, Bostons harbor activity was significantly curtailed by the Embargo Act of 1807 and the War of 1812. Foreign trade returned after these hostilities, but Bostons merchants had found alternatives for their investments in the interim. Manufacturing became an important component of the economy, and the citys industrial manufacturing overtook international trade in economic importance by the mid-19th century. Boston remained one of the nations largest manufacturing centers until the early 20th century, a network of small rivers bordering the city and connecting it to the surrounding region facilitated shipment of goods and led to a proliferation of mills and factories. Later, a network of railroads furthered the regions industry. Boston was a port of the Atlantic triangular slave trade in the New England colonies
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Atlantic Ocean
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The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the worlds oceans with a total area of about 106,460,000 square kilometres. It covers approximately 20 percent of the Earths surface and about 29 percent of its surface area. It separates the Old World from the New World, the Atlantic Ocean occupies an elongated, S-shaped basin extending longitudinally between Eurasia and Africa to the east, and the Americas to the west. The Equatorial Counter Current subdivides it into the North Atlantic Ocean, in contrast, the term Atlantic originally referred specifically to the Atlas Mountains in Morocco and the sea off the Strait of Gibraltar and the North African coast. The Greek word thalassa has been reused by scientists for the huge Panthalassa ocean that surrounded the supercontinent Pangaea hundreds of years ago. The term Aethiopian Ocean, derived from Ancient Ethiopia, was applied to the Southern Atlantic as late as the mid-19th century, many Irish or British people refer to the United States and Canada as across the pond, and vice versa. The Black Atlantic refers to the role of ocean in shaping black peoples history. Irish migration to the US is meant when the term The Green Atlantic is used, the term Red Atlantic has been used in reference to the Marxian concept of an Atlantic working class, as well as to the Atlantic experience of indigenous Americans. Correspondingly, the extent and number of oceans and seas varies, the Atlantic Ocean is bounded on the west by North and South America. It connects to the Arctic Ocean through the Denmark Strait, Greenland Sea, Norwegian Sea, to the east, the boundaries of the ocean proper are Europe, the Strait of Gibraltar and Africa. In the southeast, the Atlantic merges into the Indian Ocean, the 20° East meridian, running south from Cape Agulhas to Antarctica defines its border. In the 1953 definition it extends south to Antarctica, while in later maps it is bounded at the 60° parallel by the Southern Ocean, the Atlantic has irregular coasts indented by numerous bays, gulfs, and seas. Including these marginal seas the coast line of the Atlantic measures 111,866 km compared to 135,663 km for the Pacific. Including its marginal seas, the Atlantic covers an area of 106,460,000 km2 or 23. 5% of the ocean and has a volume of 310,410,900 km3 or 23. 3%. Excluding its marginal seas, the Atlantic covers 81,760,000 km2 and has a volume of 305,811,900 km3, the North Atlantic covers 41,490,000 km2 and the South Atlantic 40,270,000 km2. The average depth is 3,646 m and the maximum depth, the bathymetry of the Atlantic is dominated by a submarine mountain range called the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. It runs from 87°N or 300 km south of the North Pole to the subantarctic Bouvet Island at 42°S, the MAR divides the Atlantic longitudinally into two halves, in each of which a series of basins are delimited by secondary, transverse ridges. The MAR reaches above 2000 m along most of its length, the MAR is a barrier for bottom water, but at these two transform faults deep water currents can pass from one side to the other
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Skyscraper
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A skyscraper is a tall, continuously habitable building having multiple floors. When the term was used in the 1880s it described a building of 10 to 20 floors. Mostly designed for office, commercial and residential uses, a skyscraper can also be called a high-rise, for buildings above a height of 300 m, the term supertall can be used, while skyscrapers reaching beyond 600 m are classified as megatall. One common feature of skyscrapers is having a steel framework that supports curtain walls and these curtain walls either bear on the framework below or are suspended from the framework above, rather than resting on load-bearing walls of conventional construction. Some early skyscrapers have a frame that enables the construction of load-bearing walls taller than of those made of reinforced concrete. Modern skyscrapers walls are not load-bearing, and most skyscrapers are characterized by surface areas of windows made possible by steel frames. However, skyscrapers can have curtain walls that mimic conventional walls with a surface area of windows. Modern skyscrapers often have a structure, and are designed to act like a hollow cylinder to resist wind, seismic. To appear more slender, allow less wind exposure, and transmit more daylight to the ground, many skyscrapers have a design with setbacks, a relatively big building may be considered a skyscraper if it protrudes well above its built environment and changes the overall skyline. The maximum height of structures has progressed historically with building methods and technologies, the Burj Khalifa is currently the tallest building in the world. High-rise buildings are considered shorter than skyscrapers, the first steel-frame skyscraper was the Home Insurance Building in Chicago, Illinois in 1885. Even the scholars making the argument find it to be purely academic and this definition was based on the steel skeleton—as opposed to constructions of load-bearing masonry, which passed their practical limit in 1891 with Chicagos Monadnock Building. What is the characteristic of the tall office building. The force and power of altitude must be in it, the glory and it must be every inch a proud and soaring thing, rising in sheer exaltation that from bottom to top it is a unit without a single dissenting line. Some structural engineers define a highrise as any vertical construction for which wind is a significant load factor than earthquake or weight. Note that this criterion fits not only high-rises but some other tall structures, the word skyscraper often carries a connotation of pride and achievement. A loose convention of some in the United States and Europe draws the limit of a skyscraper at 150 m or 490 ft. The tallest building in ancient times was the 146 m Great Pyramid of Giza in ancient Egypt and it was not surpassed in height for thousands of years, the 14th century AD Lincoln Cathedral being conjectured by many to have exceeded it
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San Francisco
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San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California. It is the birthplace of the United Nations, the California Gold Rush of 1849 brought rapid growth, making it the largest city on the West Coast at the time. San Francisco became a consolidated city-county in 1856, after three-quarters of the city was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire, San Francisco was quickly rebuilt, hosting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition nine years later. In World War II, San Francisco was a port of embarkation for service members shipping out to the Pacific Theater. Politically, the city votes strongly along liberal Democratic Party lines, San Francisco is also the headquarters of five major banking institutions and various other companies such as Levi Strauss & Co. Dolby, Airbnb, Weebly, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Yelp, Pinterest, Twitter, Uber, Lyft, Mozilla, Wikimedia Foundation, as of 2016, San Francisco is ranked high on world liveability rankings. The earliest archaeological evidence of habitation of the territory of the city of San Francisco dates to 3000 BC. Upon independence from Spain in 1821, the became part of Mexico. Under Mexican rule, the system gradually ended, and its lands became privatized. In 1835, Englishman William Richardson erected the first independent homestead, together with Alcalde Francisco de Haro, he laid out a street plan for the expanded settlement, and the town, named Yerba Buena, began to attract American settlers. Commodore John D. Sloat claimed California for the United States on July 7,1846, during the Mexican–American War, montgomery arrived to claim Yerba Buena two days later. Yerba Buena was renamed San Francisco on January 30 of the next year, despite its attractive location as a port and naval base, San Francisco was still a small settlement with inhospitable geography. The California Gold Rush brought a flood of treasure seekers, with their sourdough bread in tow, prospectors accumulated in San Francisco over rival Benicia, raising the population from 1,000 in 1848 to 25,000 by December 1849. The promise of fabulous riches was so strong that crews on arriving vessels deserted and rushed off to the gold fields, leaving behind a forest of masts in San Francisco harbor. Some of these approximately 500 abandoned ships were used at times as storeships, saloons and hotels, many were left to rot, by 1851 the harbor was extended out into the bay by wharves while buildings were erected on piles among the ships. By 1870 Yerba Buena Cove had been filled to create new land, buried ships are occasionally exposed when foundations are dug for new buildings. California was quickly granted statehood in 1850 and the U. S. military built Fort Point at the Golden Gate, silver discoveries, including the Comstock Lode in Nevada in 1859, further drove rapid population growth. With hordes of fortune seekers streaming through the city, lawlessness was common, and the Barbary Coast section of town gained notoriety as a haven for criminals, prostitution, entrepreneurs sought to capitalize on the wealth generated by the Gold Rush
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Melissa Manchester
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Melissa Manchester is an American singer-songwriter and actress. Beginning in the 1970s, her songs have carried by adult contemporary radio stations and she has also appeared as an actress on television, in films, and on stage. Manchester was born in The Bronx, a borough of New York City and her father was a bassoonist for the New York Metropolitan Opera. Her mother was one of the first women to design and found her own clothing firm, Manchester hails from a Jewish background. Manchester started a career at an early age. She studied songwriting at New York University with Paul Simon, Manchester played the Manhattan club scene where she was discovered by Barry Manilow who introduced her to Bette Midler. In 1971 she became a member of the Harlettes, the singers for Midler. Manchester made a speaking appearance as Yoko Ono on the 1972 album National Lampoon Radio Dinner, on the track entitled Magical Misery Tour. Her debut album, Home to Myself, was released in 1973, two years later, Manchesters album Melissa produced her first top ten hit, Midnight Blue, which enjoyed 17 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 charts. The songs peak-position was #6 for the week of August 9,1975 and she also performed the song live on Burt Sugarmans television series Midnight Special in 1974. Manchester collaborated with Kenny Loggins to co-write Loggins 1978 hit duet with Stevie Nicks and she would later record this for her 1979 Melissa Manchester album. She guest-starred on the CBS-TV daytime soap opera Search for Tomorrow to teach a main character, who played a singer-songwriter, the essentials of the craft. In 1979, Manchester reached #10 with her version of Peter Allens Dont Cry Out Loud, in 1979, she performed two nominated songs on the Academy Awards show, Ill Never Say Goodbye and Through the Eyes of Love. The winning song that year was It Goes Like It Goes, the song itself reached #4 in Cash Box and #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart as well as #10 Adult Contemporary. Manchester continued to place singles on the Adult Contemporary charts throughout the 1980s, another top 10 entry on the AC chart was a 1989 updating of Dionne Warwicks Walk on By. The single was pulled from album Tribute, which honored some of the singers that influenced her style, in 1992 she sang the title song for the animated musical, Little Nemo, Adventures In Slumberland written by the Sherman Brothers and accompanied by the London Symphony Orchestra. In 2004, Manchester returned with her first album in 10 years, while touring to support the album, she was praised for her still powerful voice and for reinventing while staying true to what made popular. She appeared as herself during a two-day guest appearance on the ABC-TV daytime soap General Hospital to sing the song for Robin Scorpio and her AIDS-afflicted boyfriend Stone Cates
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Academy Awards
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The various category winners are awarded a copy of a golden statuette, officially called the Academy Award of Merit, which has become commonly known by its nickname Oscar. The awards, first presented in 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, are overseen by AMPAS, the awards ceremony was first broadcast on radio in 1930 and televised for the first time in 1953. It is now live in more than 200 countries and can be streamed live online. The Academy Awards ceremony is the oldest worldwide entertainment awards ceremony and its equivalents – the Emmy Awards for television, the Tony Awards for theater, and the Grammy Awards for music and recording – are modeled after the Academy Awards. The 89th Academy Awards ceremony, honoring the best films of 2016, were held on February 26,2017, at the Dolby Theatre, in Los Angeles, the ceremony was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and was broadcast on ABC. A total of 3,048 Oscars have been awarded from the inception of the award through the 88th, the first Academy Awards presentation was held on May 16,1929, at a private dinner function at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel with an audience of about 270 people. The post-awards party was held at the Mayfair Hotel, the cost of guest tickets for that nights ceremony was $5. Fifteen statuettes were awarded, honoring artists, directors and other participants in the industry of the time. The ceremony ran for 15 minutes, winners were announced to media three months earlier, however, that was changed for the second ceremony in 1930. Since then, for the rest of the first decade, the results were given to newspapers for publication at 11,00 pm on the night of the awards. The first Best Actor awarded was Emil Jannings, for his performances in The Last Command and he had to return to Europe before the ceremony, so the Academy agreed to give him the prize earlier, this made him the first Academy Award winner in history. With the fourth ceremony, however, the system changed, for the first six ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned two calendar years. At the 29th ceremony, held on March 27,1957, until then, foreign-language films had been honored with the Special Achievement Award. The 74th Academy Awards, held in 2002, presented the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, since 1973, all Academy Awards ceremonies always end with the Academy Award for Best Picture. The Academy also awards Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, see also § Awards of Merit categories The best known award is the Academy Award of Merit, more popularly known as the Oscar statuette. The five spokes represent the branches of the Academy, Actors, Writers, Directors, Producers. The model for the statuette is said to be Mexican actor Emilio El Indio Fernández, sculptor George Stanley sculpted Cedric Gibbons design. The statuettes presented at the ceremonies were gold-plated solid bronze
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Ice Castles
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Ice Castles is a 1978 American romantic drama film directed by Donald Wrye and starring Lynn-Holly Johnson and Robby Benson. A paperback novelization of the screenplay, by Leonore Fleischer, was released in conjunction with the film and it is the story of Alexis Lexie Winston, a young figure skater, and her rise and fall from super stardom. Tragedy strikes when, following an accident, Lexie loses her sight. She eventually perseveres and begins competing in figure skating again, the work was filmed on location in Colorado and Minnesota. Its theme song Through the Eyes of Love, performed by Melissa Manchester, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 52nd Academy Awards, a remake, also directed by Wrye, was released direct to video in 2010. Alexis Lexie Winston is a girl from a small town in Iowa who dreams of becoming a champion figure skater. Her boyfriend, Nick Peterson, dreams of being a hockey player, coached by a family friend and former skater, Lexie enters a regional championship over her fathers protests. There she is discovered by a coach who sees her potential despite a lack of training. Over her fathers objections, Lexie moves from her home in Waverly, Iowa to train at the legendary Broadmoor World Arena in Colorado Springs, Lexie proves and enhances her skating abilities and qualifies for the senior championship level. Lexies life changes drastically in the process and she becomes a star, alienates her boyfriend and begins dating an older man, Brian, who is a television broadcaster, following her training. Lexie becomes uncomfortable with the changes in her life and in herself, Lexie leaves a party for skating sponsors and goes down to the outdoor rink nearby to skate. Her coach and the party goers notice her, and are watching through the windows as Lexie skates and she attempts a difficult triple jump, but lands off the ice onto a set of tables and chairs that are chained together near the edge of the rink. Lexie suffers a head injury, with a blood clot in her brain that robs her of her eyesight. She can see light and blurry shapes. The doctor is uncertain if her injury is permanent, Lexie goes home and becomes a recluse. Nick, who resents her affair with Brian, demands that she get out of the house. Despite their mutual resentment and Lexies depression, they work through their estrangement, with help from Nick, her father Marcus and original coach Beulah, Lexie begins to believe she can still fulfill her dreams. She is virtually blind, but can see the boards at the edge of the rink
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52nd Academy Awards
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The 52nd Academy Awards were presented April 14,1980, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. Among the nominees for Best Supporting Actor were 8 year-old Justin Henry—the youngest Best Supporting Actor nominee ever—and 79-year-old Melvyn Douglas and this was the largest age difference between two competing actors in Oscar history until 2013. Ironically, their age difference was partially the reason why Douglas did not attend the Oscars that night, winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface and indicated with a double dagger
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Norma Rae
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The film stars Sally Field in the title role, Beau Bridges as Norma Raes husband, Sonny, and Ron Leibman as union organizer Reuben Warshowsky. The movie was written by Harriet Frank, Jr. and Irving Ravetch and it is based on the true story of Crystal Lee Sutton, which was told in the 1975 book Crystal Lee, a Woman of Inheritance by New York Times reporter Henry P. Leifermann. Sally Field won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal as Norma Rae Webster, Norma Rae also won an Oscar award for best song plus six other nominations. The film was selected for inclusion in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 2011. Norma Rae Webster is a worker in a cotton mill that has taken too much of a toll on the health of her family for her to ignore their poor working conditions. After hearing a speech by a New York union organizer, Reuben Warshowsky and this causes conflict at home when Norma Raes husband, Sonny, says shes not spending enough time in the home. Despite being pressured by management, when confronted, Norma Rae takes a piece of cardboard, writes the word UNION on it, stands on her work table, one by one, the other workers stop their mill machines, and eventually, the entire room becomes silent. After all the machines have been switched off, Norma Rae is taken to jail but is freed by Reuben and she then decides to talk to her children and tell them the story of her life. After discussing it with Reuben, Sonny tells Norma theres no other woman in his mind, Norma Rae then successfully orchestrates an election to unionize the factory, resulting in a victory for the union. The story is based on Crystal Lee Suttons life as a worker in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina. Her actual protest in the mill is the scene in the film where she writes the sign UNION, although Sutton was fired from her job, the mill was unionized, and she later went to work as an organizer for the textile union. Norma Rae was filmed on location in Opelika, Alabama, the mill scenes were shot at the Opelika Manufacturing Corp. and the motel scenes were filmed at The Golden Cherry Motel. The film Norma Rae won Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role and it was also nominated for Best Picture and for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium. The film was nominated to the Palme dOr at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival and Field was awarded Best Actress, in Cannes. In 2011, Norma Rae was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant
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Jennifer Warnes
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Jennifer Jean Warnes is an American singer, songwriter, arranger and record producer. Warnes was born in Seattle, Washington, and raised in Anaheim and her desire and ability to sing came early, at age seven she was offered her first recording contract, which her father turned down. She sang in church and local pageants until age 17 when Warnes was offered a scholarship to Immaculate Heart College. She chose to sing folk music as it became popularized by Joan Baez in the mid-1960s, in 1968, after a few years with musical theatre and clubs, she signed with Parrot Records and recorded her first LP. That year, she joined the cast of the television show The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, soon, however, she returned to her birth name. In November 1968, Warnes portrayed the lead in the Los Angeles. She had a related UK single release as Jennifer on London HLU10278 in June 1969 with Let The Sunshine In and Easy to Be Hard, in 1971, she met Canadian songwriter and poet Leonard Cohen, and the two remained lifelong friends. Warnes later recorded a critically acclaimed album of Cohen songs. In 1972, she released her album, Jennifer, which was produced by John Cale and was completely unavailable after the LP was deleted until it was finally reissued in Japan in 2013. Warnes recorded the song It Goes Like It Goes for the 1979 motion picture Norma Rae, the song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Her 1979 single I Know A Heartache When I See One was a Top 10 Country hit, Warnes recorded the Randy Newman composition One More Hour for the 1981 motion picture Ragtime. This became her second song performance nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song, Warnes teamed up with Joe Cocker to record Up Where We Belong for the 1982 motion picture An Officer and a Gentleman. Written by Buffy Sainte-Marie, Will Jennings and Jack Nitzsche, the won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. The song also won Warnes and Cocker the Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal and it was released as a single and hit No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It stands as Warnes biggest selling disc, being certified platinum for over two sales in the United States. The same year, she recorded a performance of James Taylors Millworker for the American Playhouse PBS production of Working. Warnes teamed with Bill Medley to record The Time of My Life for the 1987 motion picture Dirty Dancing and this marked the third song performed by Warnes to win the Academy Award for Best Original Song and second for the Golden Globe Award in the same category. The song also won Warnes and Medley the Grammy Award for Duo or Group with Vocal and it reached No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent four consecutive weeks at No.1 on the Adult Contemporary chart
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Ogie Alcasid
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Herminio Jose Lualhati Alcasid, Jr. known as Ogie Alcasid is a Filipino singer-songwriter, television presenter, comedian, parodist, and actor. He is currently the President of OPM and Commissioner of the Edsa People Power Commission, Ogie was a former batch member of all male singing group Kundirana batch 1985 after Gary V. in 1985. Alcasids television career started as one of the hosts of comedy show Small Brothers on ABS-CBN in 1992. He appeared on comedy programs such as ABS-CBNs Mana Mana, ABCs Tropang Trumpo, GMA Networks Bubble Gang, QTVs Ay, Robot. He also branched out as a show host, beginning in ABS-CBNs Game Na Game Na in 1995. He hosted Fastbreak, a basketball game show on IBC13 in 2002 and Celebrity Duets. He was a host on SOP Rules and he got his big break in Hanggang Kailan, his first drama show, and also sang its main theme with Aiza Seguerra. Since 1995, he moved to GMA Network, leaving ABS-CBN, Alcasid is recently the judge in Pinoy Idol. and hosted such game shows as Da Big Show and Hole In The Wall. In 2013, he left GMA Network and moved to TV5, in 2016, he returned to his home network, ABS-CBN. He joined Tawag Ng Tanghalan on Its Showtime as a judge and he was also a current judge of Your Face Sounds Familiar, Kids, replacing Jed Madela, before he returned to ABS-CBN, his contract on TV5 had expired. He later appeared on several GMA Network shows as a guest and he appeared as a guest on Yan Ang Morning, Sunday Pinasaya, and on Eat Bulaga. as a guest judge. He was a special guest in Sarap Diva, hosted by his wife, Regine Velasquez-Alcasid, Alcasid debuted as a singer in 1989 with the release of his self-titled album. Ogie Alcasid reached gold status, while his debut single Nandito Ako was awarded Song of the Year by local radio station Magic 89.9. He has since released 18 albums, including a Christmas album, a live album and he has received a total of twelve gold records, three platinum records, and three double platinum records. Boy Pick Up The Movie Album I Do Bidoo Bidoo Raketeros 2013, Heavens Best Entertainment & Star Cinema - Ogies 1st Star Cinema Movie I Do Bidoo Bidoo, Ako Pa.2000 Aliw Awards Best Male Performance in Music Lounges, Bars, Clubs and Restaurants. 2000 Awit Awards Best Ballad Recording,2000 Awit Awards Song of the Year. 2000 RX93.1 OPM Male Artist of the Year 2001 Star Awards Best Movie Theme Song of The Year 2001 Famas Best Movie Theme Song of the Year,2001 Best Male Music Video Award in the MTV Pilipinas 2001. 2001 Best Song Music Video Award in the MTV Pilipinas 2001,2001 Tanyag Na Ulirang Ama from National Mothers and Fathers Day Foundation, Inc.2001 Aliw Awards Best Male Performance in Music Lounges, Bars, Clubs and Restaurants
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Regine Velasquez
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Regine Velasquez-Alcasid is a Filipina singer with a 4-5 vocal octaves. Velasquez won the Grand Prize at the 1989 Asia Pacific Singing Contest in Hong Kong, in 1994, Polygram Records produced her first Asia wide-released album, Listen Without Prejudice. It is considered as Velasquez most successful album to date, selling more than 700,000 copies in Asia alone, the album has sold over 100,000 units in the Philippines,300,000 units in China and 20,000 in Thailand. In 2000, Velasquezs music video In Love With You, a duet with Jacky Cheung, landed at the #1 spot in MTV Asias Top 20 Asian Videos. On the eve of the new millennium, as part of BBCs Millennium Special 2000 Today, Velasquez, together with some 2,000 Filipino youth, sang the Philippine millennium theme and this was broadcast by BBC to 67 countries reaching almost a billion viewers. At age 21, Velasquez is the first Asian solo performing artist to stage a concert at the Carnegie Hall in New York. In 2002, she is the first Filipino to win at the MTV Asia Awards held in Singapore as Favorite Artist Philippines, the following year, she won the same award at the 2003 MTV Asia Awards. In 2003, she is the first Filipino artist to have a CNN Talk Asia special interview with Lorraine Hahn, in 2012, Velasquez had the honor of being the first Filipino artist to stage asolo concert at the SM Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay, Philippines. Her movie Pangako, Ikaw Lang earned her Box-Office Queen title, Regine Velasquez is the first child of Teresita and Gerardo Velasquez, born in Tondo, Manila. Her family moved to Hinundayan, Southern Leyte, where Velasquez studied at the Hinundayan Central School, Music figured largely in her early development, due to her parents, and at six Velasquez participated in a nationally-televised amateur singing competition, The Tita Bettys Childrens Show. Her piece, Buhat Nang Kitay Makilala, won third place, Velasquez continued to compete in more singing competitions in small towns around the country. By the age of nine, Velasquez and her family had moved to Balagtas, Bulacan and she later studied at St. Lawrence Academy, where she won Vocal Solo and Vocal Duet awards for her school at the annual BULPRISA competition. At fourteen, Velasquez entered the division of Ang Bagong Kampeon. She won a contract with OctoArts, recording the single Love Me Again as Chona Velasquez and she then joined OPM, an organization of Filipino singers, performing in music lounges all over Metro Manila. At the behest of friend and fellow OctoArts recording artist, Pops Fernandez, Velasquez guested on GMA 7s Variety TV show, Martin Nievera, Fernandezs then husband and co-host of the show, suggested to Velasquez that she drop the name Chona and use Regine as her performing name. That year, her father resigned from his job as a construction estimator to fully attend to his daughters blossoming career, Viva Records signed Velasquez to a contract in 1987, releasing her self-titled debut album Regine. The album contained the songs Kung Maibabalik Ko Lang, Isang Lahi and her first regularly televised performances were musical variety shows with ensemble casts, such as ABS-CBNs Triple Treat and the Sunday variety show Teen Pan Alley. Velasquez and Alleys Janno Gibbs continued to collaborate throughout the years, creating the musical Kenkoy at Rosing, recording the cover song Magkasuyo Buong Gabi, in 1989, Velasquez was chosen to represent the Philippines at the Asia-Pacific Singing Contest in Hong Kong
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Philippines
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The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is a sovereign island country in Southeast Asia situated in the western Pacific Ocean. It consists of about 7,641 islands that are categorized broadly under three main geographical divisions from north to south, Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao, the capital city of the Philippines is Manila and the most populous city is Quezon City, both part of Metro Manila. The Philippines has an area of 300,000 square kilometers, and it is the eighth-most populated country in Asia and the 12th most populated country in the world. As of 2013, approximately 10 million additional Filipinos lived overseas, multiple ethnicities and cultures are found throughout the islands. In prehistoric times, Negritos were some of the archipelagos earliest inhabitants and they were followed by successive waves of Austronesian peoples. Exchanges with Chinese, Malay, Indian, and Islamic nations occurred, then, various competing maritime states were established under the rule of Datus, Rajahs, Sultans or Lakans. The arrival of Ferdinand Magellan in Homonhon, Eastern Samar in 1521 marked the beginning of Hispanic colonization, in 1543, Spanish explorer Ruy López de Villalobos named the archipelago Las Islas Filipinas in honor of Philip II of Spain. With the arrival of Miguel López de Legazpi from Mexico City, in 1565, the Philippines became part of the Spanish Empire for more than 300 years. This resulted in Roman Catholicism becoming the dominant religion, during this time, Manila became the western hub of the trans-Pacific trade connecting Asia with Acapulco in the Americas using Manila galleons. Aside from the period of Japanese occupation, the United States retained sovereignty over the islands until after World War II, since then, the Philippines has often had a tumultuous experience with democracy, which included the overthrow of a dictatorship by a non-violent revolution. It is a member of the United Nations, World Trade Organization, Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum. It also hosts the headquarters of the Asian Development Bank, the Philippines was named in honor of King Philip II of Spain. Spanish explorer Ruy López de Villalobos, during his expedition in 1542, named the islands of Leyte, eventually the name Las Islas Filipinas would be used to cover all the islands of the archipelago. Before that became commonplace, other such as Islas del Poniente. The official name of the Philippines has changed several times in the course of its history, during the Philippine Revolution, the Malolos Congress proclaimed the establishment of the República Filipina or the Philippine Republic. From the 1898 Treaty of Paris, the name Philippines began to appear, since the end of World War II, the official name of the country has been the Republic of the Philippines. The metatarsal of the Callao Man, reliably dated by uranium-series dating to 67,000 years ago is the oldest human remnant found in the archipelago to date and this distinction previously belonged to the Tabon Man of Palawan, carbon-dated to around 26,500 years ago. Negritos were also among the archipelagos earliest inhabitants, but their first settlement in the Philippines has not been reliably dated, there are several opposing theories regarding the origins of ancient Filipinos
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Singing
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Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist, Singers perform music that can be sung with or without accompaniment by musical instruments. Singing is often done in an ensemble of musicians, such as a choir of singers or a band of instrumentalists, Singers may perform as soloists, or accompanied by anything from a single instrument up to a symphony orchestra or big band. Singing can be formal or informal, arranged or improvised and it may be done as a form of religious devotion, as a hobby, as a source of pleasure, comfort, or ritual, as part of music education, or as a profession. Excellence in singing requires time, dedication, instruction, and regular practice, if practice is done on a regular basis then the sounds can become more clear and strong. Professional singers usually build their careers around one specific genre, such as classical or rock. They typically take voice training provided by teachers or vocal coaches throughout their careers. Though these four mechanisms function independently, they are coordinated in the establishment of a vocal technique and are made to interact upon one another. During passive breathing, air is inhaled with the diaphragm while exhalation occurs without any effort, exhalation may be aided by the abdominal, internal intercostal and lower pelvis/pelvic muscles. Inhalation is aided by use of external intercostals, scalenes and sternocleidomastoid muscles, the pitch is altered with the vocal cords. With the lips closed, this is called humming, humans have vocal folds which can loosen, tighten, or change their thickness, and over which breath can be transferred at varying pressures. The shape of the chest and neck, the position of the tongue, any one of these actions results in a change in pitch, volume, timbre, or tone of the sound produced. Sound also resonates within different parts of the body and an individuals size, Singers can also learn to project sound in certain ways so that it resonates better within their vocal tract. This is known as vocal resonation, another major influence on vocal sound and production is the function of the larynx which people can manipulate in different ways to produce different sounds. These different kinds of function are described as different kinds of vocal registers. The primary method for singers to accomplish this is through the use of the Singers Formant and it has also been shown that a more powerful voice may be achieved with a fatter and fluid-like vocal fold mucosa. The more pliable the mucosa, the more efficient the transfer of energy from the airflow to the vocal folds, Vocal registration refers to the system of vocal registers within the voice. A register in the voice is a series of tones, produced in the same vibratory pattern of the vocal folds
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Actor
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An actor is a person who portrays a character in a performance. Simplistically speaking, the person denominated actor or actress is someone beautiful who plays important characters, the actor performs in the flesh in the traditional medium of the theatre, or in modern mediums such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is ὑποκριτής, literally one who answers, the actors interpretation of their role pertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is playing themselves, as in forms of experimental performance art, or, more commonly, to act, is to create. Formerly, in societies, only men could become actors. When used for the stage, women played the roles of prepubescent boys. The etymology is a derivation from actor with ess added. However, when referring to more than one performer, of both sexes, actor is preferred as a term for male performers. Actor is also used before the name of a performer as a gender-specific term. Within the profession, the re-adoption of the term dates to the 1950–1960s. As Whoopi Goldberg put it in an interview with the paper, Im an actor – I can play anything. The U. K. performers union Equity has no policy on the use of actor or actress, an Equity spokesperson said that the union does not believe that there is a consensus on the matter and stated that the. subject divides the profession. In 2009, the Los Angeles Times stated that Actress remains the term used in major acting awards given to female recipients. However, player remains in use in the theatre, often incorporated into the name of a group or company, such as the American Players. Also, actors in improvisational theatre may be referred to as players, prior to Thespis act, Grecian stories were only expressed in song, dance, and in third person narrative. In honor of Thespis, actors are commonly called Thespians, the exclusively male actors in the theatre of ancient Greece performed in three types of drama, tragedy, comedy, and the satyr play. Western theatre developed and expanded considerably under the Romans, as the Western Roman Empire fell into decay through the 4th and 5th centuries, the seat of Roman power shifted to Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire. Records show that mime, pantomime, scenes or recitations from tragedies and comedies, dances, from the 5th century, Western Europe was plunged into a period of general disorder
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Barbra Streisand
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Barbara Joan Barbra Streisand is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker. She is among a group of entertainers who have been honored with an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award. Streisand is one of the music artists of all time, with more than 68.5 million albums in the United States. She starred in the critically acclaimed Funny Girl, for which she won the Academy Award, with the release of Yentl in 1983, Streisand became the first woman to write, produce, direct, and star in a major studio film. The film won an Oscar for Best Score and a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Musical, Streisand received the Golden Globe Award for Best Director, the first woman to win that award. The RIAA and Billboard recognize Streisand as holding the record for the most top 10 albums of any recording artist. According to Billboard, Streisand holds the record for the female with the most number one albums, Billboard also recognizes Streisand as the greatest female of all time on its Billboard 200 chart and one of the greatest artists of all time on its Hot 100 chart. Barbara Joan Streisand was born on April 24,1942, in Brooklyn, New York and her mother had been a soprano singer in her youth and considered a career in music, but later became a school secretary. Her father was a school teacher at the same school. Streisands family was Jewish, her grandparents emigrated from Galicia and her maternal grandparents from the Russian Empire. Her father earned a degree from City College of New York in 1928 and was considered athletic. As a student, he spent his summers outdoors, once working as a lifeguard, hed try anything, his sister Molly said. He married Ida in 1930, two years after graduating, and became a respected educator with a focus on helping underprivileged. In August 1943, a few months after Streisands first birthday, her father died suddenly at age 34 from complications from an epileptic seizure, the family fell into near-poverty, with her mother working as a low-paid bookkeeper. As an adult, Streisand remembered those early years as always feeling like an outcast, explaining and her mother tried to pay their bills but could not give her daughter the attention she craved, When I wanted love from my mother, she gave me food, Streisand says. Streisand recalls that her mother had a voice and sang semi-professionally on occasion. During a visit to the Catskills when Streisand was thirteen, she told Rosie ODonnell, she and that session was the first time Streisand ever asserted herself as an artist, which also became her first moment of inspiration as an artist. She has a brother, Sheldon, and a half-sister
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What Matters Most
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What Matters Most is the thirty-third studio album by Barbra Streisand. The album is Streisands collection of songs by her longtime friends Alan Bergman, the first disc contains Bergman songs not previously recorded by Streisand, while the second disc contains previously recorded Bergman songs. In promotion of the album, Streisands February performance at the MusiCares Person of the Year benefit was made available to view on the Starbucks Digital Network between August 23 and 30. All lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman, except That Face, lyrics by Alan Bergman, what Matters Most on Amazon What Matters Most on iTunes What Matters Most at AllMusic
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Endless Love (1981 film)
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Endless Love is a 1981 American romantic drama film based on Scott Spencers 1979 novel of the same name. The film is directed by Franco Zeffirelli, and stars Brooke Shields, the screenplay was written by Judith Rascoe. The original music score was composed by Jonathan Tunick, the film was released in July 1981 and received negative reviews, with critics comparing it unfavourably to the novel. Spencer disliked it, believing the filmmakers to have missed the point of the book, the film was a moderate box-office success, and its theme song, performed by Diana Ross and Lionel Richie and also called Endless Love, became a #1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. It spent nine weeks at #1 and received Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for Best Original Song, along with five Grammy nominations, in suburban Chicago, teenagers Jade Butterfield and David Axelrod fall in love after they are introduced by Jades brother Keith. Jades family is known in their community for a lifestyle, allowing them to develop an all-consuming and passionate relationship. In contrast to the openness of her family, Davids home life is dull, one night, Jades mother Ann sneaks downstairs, and upon seeing Jade and David make love by the fireplace, starts living through them vicariously. Jades father Hugh, however, watches the couple with increasing unease, Jades nightly trysts begin negatively impacting her grades and her ability to sleep. She attempts to steal one of her fathers prescription sleeping pills but is caught in the act and this is the last straw for Hugh and he insists David stop seeing Jade until the end of the school term in 30 days. Although David initially causes a scene, Ann gently coaxes him into agreeing, telling him not to let Hugh do something hell regret. Inspired by this story, David starts a fire on the Butterfields front porch and walks away briefly but by the time he returns and he rushes to warn the family but he is too late, the entire house is lost. Nevertheless, he continues to write daily, but his letters are not sent due to the order to not contact Jade. His parents pull strings to have him released early, much to Hughs chagrin, David receives his many letters upon his exit, and upon realizing why Jade never wrote back, decides to pursue her even though he knows full well that it will violate his parole. In the meantime, following the loss of their home, the Butterfield family has moved from Chicago to Manhattan, in Manhattan, Ann tries to seduce David, but he refuses which leaves her rather nonplussed. When Ann isnt looking, David thumbs through her address book to see where Jade is, on his way over, Hugh sees David on the street and while chasing him, is hit by a car and killed. Hughs new wife Ingrid Orchester, catches up to the scene just in time to witness David flee, Keith comes home to find the pair together again and angrily informs Jade that David is at fault for their fathers death. Jade refuses to believe it at first but when David confirms it she becomes horrified and hides behind Keith, Keith fights him off until the police arrive and arrest David. Sentenced to prison, David seems doomed never to see Jade again, Jade tells her mother at her fathers lakeside funeral that no one will ever love her the way David does, and Ann speaks her understanding and approval
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The Delinquents (1989 film)
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The films screenplay by Clayton Frohman and Mac Gudgeon is based on Criena Rohans book of the same name. The film was released international, including the United Kingdom, Finland, Sweden, Netherlands, the film was released in Australia on 21 December 1989 to mixed reviews from critics. It grossed $3,370,650 at the box office in Australia, the film was notable as being the debut for pop singer Minogue. Lola and Brownie are teenagers in the Australian town of Bundaberg during the 1950s and they fall in love, but because of their age must fight their parents and welfare, who try to keep them apart. Lola falls pregnant and the couple runs away so they can keep their baby, Lolas mother and the police find them and take Lola home. Brownie joins the crew of a ship so he can sail the coast, meanwhile, Lola is forced to have an abortion by her mother in Brisbane. After an argument with her mother about Brownie and the abortion, Lola moves to Melbourne, becomes a waitress, Lola is reunited with Brownie after he visits the bar where Lola works whilst on shore leave. She returns with Brownie to his ship and they spend the night together in Brownies cabin, after the ship docks, Lola and Brownie attend a party held by a young couple, Lyle and Mavis. They are squatting in the property with their daughter, Sharon and she and Brownie are told that they are not allowed to see or contact each other for one year. During Lolas stay in the community placement, a charge of Aunts visits the house. During this visit, Lola collects the mail and, after a conversation with the postman. Lola and the fight, and Lola runs away. Finding her mother drunk and unsympathetic, Lola returns to Lyle and Sharons home, only to be arrested and taken to a young offenders institution to restart, during this time, a riot is started by the other inmates. After her 18th birthday, Lola is released from jail and is reunited with Brownie. They return to the house, where Lola discovers that Mavis is heavily pregnant with her, Lola wants Brownie to quit his job as a sailor, and stay with her, however, Brownie is unsure and confides in Bosun about his dilemma. The birth does not go well and both Mavis and the baby die, although Lola and Brownie offer to adopt Mavis surviving daughter, they are unable to as they are unmarried. Lyle leaves the child with Lola to give to social services as she will be placed into foster care, Lyle subsequently leaves after telling Lola he intends to travel the world and taking on odd jobs to make ends meet while stopping off at different locations on his travels. He also tells Lola that he is too devastated by recent events to remarry or have another family, en route to the welfare office, Brownie sees Lola and Sharon in the taxi and runs after them
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Random Harvest (film)
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Random Harvest is a 1942 film based on the 1941 James Hilton novel of the same name, directed by Mervyn LeRoy. Claudine West, George Froeschel and Arthur Wimperis adapted the novel for the screen, the film departed from the novel in several significant ways, as it proved nearly impossible to translate to film otherwise. It starred Ronald Colman as a shellshocked, amnesiac World War I soldier and Greer Garson as his love interest and it was an instant commercial success. Its seven Academy Award nominations included nods for Colman, supporting actress Susan Peters, director Mervyn LeRoy, Garson, whose performance was well-received, was ineligible for the Academy Award for Best Actress, as she had already been nominated that year for her role in Mrs. Miniver. John Smith is a British officer who was gassed and became shell shocked in the trenches during the First World War and he is confined to an asylum as an unidentified inmate because he has lost his memory and has trouble speaking. When the war ends, jubilation erupts in the town of Melbridge. With no one to him, Smith simply wanders off. In town, he is befriended by singer Paula and she guesses he is from the asylum but as he seems harmless, she arranges for him to join her travelling theatrical group. After an incident that threatens to bring unwanted attention, Paula takes Smith away to a country village. Smithy, as Paula calls him, discovers a literary talent, Paula remains home with their newborn baby while Smithy goes to Liverpool, for a job interview with a newspaper. There, he is struck by a taxi, when he regains consciousness, his past memory is restored but his life with Paula is now forgotten. He is Charles Rainier, the son of a wealthy businessman, none of his meagre possessions, including a key, provide any clue how he got there from the battleground of France. Charles returns home on the day of his fathers funeral, to the familys amazement as he had given up for dead. Fifteen-year-old Kitty, the stepdaughter of one of Charles siblings, becomes infatuated with her uncle, Charles wants to return to college but the mismanaged family business needs him and he puts off his own desires to safeguard the jobs of the many employees and to restore the family fortune. After a few years, a newspaper touts him as the Industrial Prince of England, meanwhile, Paula has been searching for her Smithy. Their son having died as an infant, she returns to work as a secretary, one day, she sees Charless picture in a newspaper and manages to become his executive assistant, calling herself Margaret, hoping that her presence will jog his memory. Her confidante and admirer, Dr. Jonathan Benet, warns her that revealing her identity would only cause Charles to resent her, as Kitty grows up, she sends Charles love letters. Margaret has Smithy declared legally dead, seven years having elapsed since he left her, however, a hymn that Kitty is considering for their upcoming wedding triggers a vague memory in Charles
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AllMovie
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AllMovie is an online guide service website with information about films, television programs, and screen actors. As of 2013, AllMovie. com and the AllMovie consumer brand are owned by All Media Network, AllMovie was founded by popular-culture archivist Michael Erlewine, who also founded AllMusic and AllGame. The AllMovie database was licensed to tens of thousands of distributors and retailers for point-of-sale systems, websites, the AllMovie database is comprehensive, including basic product information, cast and production credits, plot synopsis, professional reviews, biographies, relational links and more. AllMovie data was accessed on the web at the AllMovie. com website and it was also available via the AMG LASSO media recognition service, which can automatically recognize DVDs. In late 2007, Macrovision acquired AMG for a reported $72 million, the AMG consumer facing web properties AllMusic. com, AllMovie. com and AllGame. com were sold by Rovi in August 2013 to All Media Network, LLC. The buyers also include the founders of SideReel and Ackrell Capital investor Mike Ackrell. All Media Network offices are located in San Francisco, California, AllMusic AllGame SideReel All Media Network Official website
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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database
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I Never Sang for My Father
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It stars Melvyn Douglas, Gene Hackman, Dorothy Stickney, Estelle Parsons, Elizabeth Hubbard, Lovelady Powell and Conrad Bain. The movie was adapted by Robert Anderson from his play and directed by Gilbert Cates and it was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Best Actor in a Supporting Role and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium. The film opens with Gene Garrison picking up his parents at the airport and he drives them home and spends the evening with them. The barbs of his father, Tom, roll back in his mind as he drives home, Gene seeks solace in the arms of his mistress, who pines for a more serious relationship with him. Soon after, his mother suffers an attack and is hospitalized. Gene visits her at the hospital and he finds his father pacing in the waiting room. Tom asks Gene to go to the Rotary Club with him, when Genes mother dies, he helps his father shop for a casket. His sister Alice arrives on without her husband and kids and she gradually explains to Gene that Toms failing memory and health will require constant care either in a nursing home or with live-in assistance. She broaches the idea with their father who rejects it outright, the conversation brings up old tensions about his disinheritance of Alice over her choice of a spouse. Alice leaves Gene to deal with their father by himself, Genes girlfriend Peggy arrives for a visit. She is charmed by Tom and offers to relocate to New York to live with Gene and that night, Gene and his father reminisce together over old photographs. Toms love for his son comes shining through in their conversation, Gene confesses that he never sang the tune for his father, but Tom recalls otherwise. Gene tells Tom that he is thinking about moving to California to be with Peggy, Tom becomes irate at the notion, feeling abandoned. Gene leaves the house with Peggy and never comes back, the film was shot in various locations, including Southern California and the Great Neck - Douglaston area of New York. It would lead to other films on the subject, including the movies The Savages, roger Ebert summarized the film in his review before concluding, These bare bones of plot hardly give any hint of the power of this film
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Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
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Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams is a 1973 Technicolor film which tells the story of a New York City housewife who rethinks her relationships with her husband, her children and her mother. The movie stars Joanne Woodward, Martin Balsam, Sylvia Sidney and Tresa Hughes, was written by Stewart Stern, summer Wishes, Winter Dreams garnered nominations for Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role and Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Rita Walden is a depressed middle-aged New Yorker, always tired, Rita is prone to nightmares, and when she does dream more pleasant thoughts, they are of her childhood on the family farm. She is constantly bickering with her mother, her sister Betty and her grown-up daughter Anna, Rita is also estranged from her son Bobby, upon whom she is in denial about his homosexual-orientation. Harry thinks that a European vacation would help Rita clear her mind, although Rita faces some crises on the trip, much of her thoughts do clear after seeing Harry revisit Bastogne, his first time there since his World War II battle days
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The Last Married Couple in America
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The Last Married Couple in America is a 1980 comedy film released in the US. It was directed by Gilbert Cates, whose most successful film Oh, book II, was released in the same year. This is the last completed theatrical release Natalie Wood made before her death in 1981, life is going along smoothly for Jeff and Mari Thompson but not for any other couple they know, or so it seems. Everyone they know is getting divorced and their life is disrupted when a new woman, Barbara, comes into it and begins a fling with Jeff, which causes Mari to contemplate an affair of her own. The theme song to this movie is We Could Have It All, the song became a hit on the adult contemporary charts of Canada and the U. S. It was written by Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel, the Last Married Couple in America at the Internet Movie Database The Last Married Couple in America at AllMovie
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Oh, God! Book II
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Book II is a 1980 American comedy film and a sequel to the 1977 film Oh, God. It was directed by Gilbert Cates, and stars George Burns, Suzanne Pleshette, David Birney, joyce Brothers and Hugh Downs also made cameo appearances in the film. Book II was followed by Oh, God, Burns was the only cast member who appeared in more than one of the films. In this sequel, God asks the help of 11-year-old Tracy Richards to help promote Himself, Tracy creates the slogan Think God and soon has her friends spreading the message by posters, graffiti and other ways. But Tracys parents and psychiatrists think the girl is just insane. God is the one that can straighten out the situation. One of the scenes showed God riding a motorcycle, with Tracy riding in the sidecar, where there were scenes that showed nobody on the motorcycle. Charles Benson, School Principal Hans Conried, book II at the Internet Movie Database Oh, God
