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Sundance Film Festival
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The Sundance Film Festival, a program of the Sundance Institute, is an American film festival that takes place annually in Park City, Utah. With 46,660 attendees in 2016, it is the largest independent film festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, as well as at the Sundance Resort, the 2017 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 19 to January 29,2017. Sundance began in Salt Lake City in August 1978, as the Utah/US Film Festival in an effort to more filmmakers to Utah. It was founded by Sterling Van Wagenen, John Earle, the 1978 festival featured films such as Deliverance, A Streetcar Named Desire, Midnight Cowboy, Mean Streets, and The Sweet Smell of Success. The festival also highlighted the work of filmmakers who worked outside the Hollywood system. The jury of the 1978 festival was headed by Gary Allison, and included Verna Fields, Linwood G. Dunn, Katharine Ross, Charles E. Sellier Jr. Mark Rydell, and Anthea Sylbert. More than 60 films were screened at the festival that year, also that year, the first Frank Capra Award went to Jimmy Stewart. The festival also made a profit for the first time, in 1980, Catania left the festival to pursue a production career in Hollywood. Several factors helped propel the growth of Utah/US Film Festival, first was the involvement of actor and Utah resident Robert Redford, who became the festivals inaugural chairman. By having Redfords name associated with the festival, it received great attention, secondly, the country was hungry for more venues that would celebrate American-made films as the only other festival doing so at the time was the USA Film Festival in Dallas. Response in Hollywood was unprecedented as major studios did all they could to contribute their resources, in 1981, the festival moved to Park City, Utah, and changed the dates from September to January. It was called the US Film and Video Festival, in 1984, the now well-established Sundance Institute, headed by Sterling Van Wagenen, took over management of the US Film Festival. The branding and marketing transition from the US Film Festival to the Sundance Film Festival was managed under the direction of Colleen Allen, Allen Advertising Inc. by appointment of Robert Redford. In 1991 the festival was renamed the Sundance Film Festival, after Redfords character The Sundance Kid from the film Butch Cassidy. The majority of the screenings, including the festivals premieres. The 2013 Sundance London Festival was held April 25–28,2013, Sundance London 2014 took place on April 25–27,2014 at the O2 arena. The Sundance London 2015 Festival was cancelled in an announcement on January 16,2015, Sundance London will return to London in 2016 from June 10–12 at Picturehouse Cinema in Londons West End
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Malibu, California
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Malibu is a beach city in Los Angeles County, California, situated 30 miles west of Downtown Los Angeles. Known for its Mediterranean climate, a 21-mile strip of the Malibu coast incorporated in 1991 into the City of Malibu, the area is known for being the home of Hollywood movie stars, people in the entertainment industry, and other affluent residents. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 12,645, signs around the city proclaim 27 miles of scenic beauty, referring to the historical 27-mile Malibu coast spanning from Tuna Canyon west to Point Mugu in Ventura County. Most Malibu residents live within a few hundred yards of Pacific Coast Highway, for many residents of the unincorporated canyon areas, Malibu has the closest commercial centers and are included in the Malibu zip codes. The city is bounded by Topanga to the east, the Santa Monica Mountains to the north, the Pacific Ocean to the south. Nicknamed the Bu by surfers and locals, beaches along the Malibu coast include Surfrider Beach, Zuma Beach, Malibu Beach, Topanga Beach, Point Dume Beach, County Line and they named it Humaliwo or the surf sounds loudly. The citys name derives from this, as the Hu syllable is not stressed, explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo is believed to have moored at Malibu Lagoon, at the mouth of Malibu Creek, to obtain fresh water in 1542. The Spanish presence returned with the California mission system, and the area was part of Rancho Topanga Malibu Sequit—a 13 and that ranch passed intact to Frederick Hastings Rindge in 1891. Few roads even entered the area before 1929, when the state won another court case, by then May Rindge was forced to subdivide her property and begin selling and leasing lots. In 1926, in an effort to selling land to stave off insolvency. At its height, Malibu Potteries employed over 100 workers, and produced decorative tiles which furnish many Los Angeles-area public buildings, the factory, located one-half mile east of the pier, was ravaged by a fire in 1931. Although the factory reopened in 1932, it could not recover from the effects of the Great Depression. A distinct hybrid of Moorish and Arts and crafts designs, Malibu tile is considered highly collectible. Fine examples of the tiles may be seen at the Adamson House and Serra Retreat, the unfinished building was sold to the Franciscan Order in 1942 and is operated as a retreat facility, Serra Retreat. It burned in the 1970 fire and was using many of the original tiles. Most of the Big Rock Drive area was purchased in 1936 by William Randolph Hearst and he sold the lower half of his holdings there in 1944 to Art Jones. Jones was one of the prominent early realtors in Malibu, starting with the leases of Rindge land in Malibu Colony. He was also the owner/part-owner of the Malibu Inn, Malibu Trading Post, mcAnany Way is named after him
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Debra Winger
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Debra Lynn Winger is an American actress. She has been nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, for An Officer and a Gentleman, Terms of Endearment, and Shadowlands. She won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress for Terms of Endearment, and her other film roles include Urban Cowboy, Legal Eagles, Black Widow, Betrayed, Forget Paris, and Rachel Getting Married. In 2012, she made her Broadway debut in the production of the David Mamet play The Anarchist. Debra Lynn Winger was born in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, into an Orthodox Jewish family, to Robert Winger, a packer, and Ruth. With time on her hands to think about her life, she decided that, if she recovered, she would move to California, wingers first acting role was as Debbie in the 1976 sexploitation film Slumber Party 57. Her next role was as Diana Princes younger sister Drusilla in three episodes of ABCs TV series, Wonder Woman, the producers had wanted her to appear more often, but she refused, fearing that the role would hurt her fledgling career. This was followed by a guest role in Season 4 of the TV drama Police Woman in 1978. In 1982 she co-starred with Nick Nolte in Cannery Row and with Richard Gere in An Officer and a Gentleman, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress twice more, for Terms of Endearment in 1983 and for Shadowlands in 1993 and her performance in A Dangerous Woman earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress. Over the years Winger acquired a reputation for being outspoken and sometimes difficult to work with. She has expressed her dislike of An Officer and a Gentleman, for which she refused to do any publicity, and several other of her films, commenting on her past attitudes, Winger said in 2009, Most bad behavior comes from insecurity. Even though I loved what I was doing, I didnt always know I could pull it off, but in my defense, I never fought about the size of my trailer or things like that, it was always about the work. When Barbara Walters interviewed Bette Davis in 1986, Davis said I see a great deal of myself in Debra Winger. Winger was going to play Peggy Sue in Peggy Sue Got Married but was forced to back out just before production began when she injured her back in a bicycle accident, the injury affected her ability to work for several months afterward. She was cast in the role in A League of their Own. It was later reported that the main reason Winger chose to leave the film was her refusal to work with singer/actress Madonna. Other starring roles during this period included Legal Eagles, Made in Heaven, Everybody Wins, The Sheltering Sky, Leap of Faith, Black Widow, Betrayed, Wilder Napalm, in 1995 Winger decided to take a hiatus from acting
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Academy Award
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The various category winners are awarded a copy of a golden statuette, officially called the Academy Award of Merit, which has become commonly known by its nickname Oscar. The awards, first presented in 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, are overseen by AMPAS, the awards ceremony was first broadcast on radio in 1930 and televised for the first time in 1953. It is now live in more than 200 countries and can be streamed live online. The Academy Awards ceremony is the oldest worldwide entertainment awards ceremony and its equivalents – the Emmy Awards for television, the Tony Awards for theater, and the Grammy Awards for music and recording – are modeled after the Academy Awards. The 89th Academy Awards ceremony, honoring the best films of 2016, were held on February 26,2017, at the Dolby Theatre, in Los Angeles, the ceremony was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and was broadcast on ABC. A total of 3,048 Oscars have been awarded from the inception of the award through the 88th, the first Academy Awards presentation was held on May 16,1929, at a private dinner function at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel with an audience of about 270 people. The post-awards party was held at the Mayfair Hotel, the cost of guest tickets for that nights ceremony was $5. Fifteen statuettes were awarded, honoring artists, directors and other participants in the industry of the time. The ceremony ran for 15 minutes, winners were announced to media three months earlier, however, that was changed for the second ceremony in 1930. Since then, for the rest of the first decade, the results were given to newspapers for publication at 11,00 pm on the night of the awards. The first Best Actor awarded was Emil Jannings, for his performances in The Last Command and he had to return to Europe before the ceremony, so the Academy agreed to give him the prize earlier, this made him the first Academy Award winner in history. With the fourth ceremony, however, the system changed, for the first six ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned two calendar years. At the 29th ceremony, held on March 27,1957, until then, foreign-language films had been honored with the Special Achievement Award. The 74th Academy Awards, held in 2002, presented the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, since 1973, all Academy Awards ceremonies always end with the Academy Award for Best Picture. The Academy also awards Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, see also § Awards of Merit categories The best known award is the Academy Award of Merit, more popularly known as the Oscar statuette. The five spokes represent the branches of the Academy, Actors, Writers, Directors, Producers. The model for the statuette is said to be Mexican actor Emilio El Indio Fernández, sculptor George Stanley sculpted Cedric Gibbons design. The statuettes presented at the ceremonies were gold-plated solid bronze
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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
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The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It is given in honor of an actor who has delivered a performance in a supporting role while working within the film industry. At the 9th Academy Awards ceremony held in 1937, Walter Brennan was the first winner of award for his role in Come. Initially, winners in both supporting acting categories were awarded instead of statuettes. Beginning with the 16th ceremony held in 1944, however, winners received full-sized statuettes, currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the actors branch of AMPAS, winners are selected by a plurality vote from the entire eligible voting members of the Academy. Since its inception, the award has given to 72 actors. Brennan has received the most awards in this category with three awards, Brennan, Jeff Bridges, Robert Duvall, Arthur Kennedy, Jack Nicholson, and Claude Rains were nominated on four occasions, more than any other actor. As of the 2017 ceremony, Mahershala Ali is the most recent winner in category for his role as Juan in Moonlight. In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of release in Los Angeles County. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, University of Toronto Press, ISBN 978-1-55002-574-3. org The Academy Awards Database Oscar. com Complete Downloadable List of Academy Award Nominees
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Ordinary People
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Ordinary People is a 1980 American drama film that marked the directorial debut of actor Robert Redford. The film stars Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch, the story concerns the disintegration of an upper-middle class family in Lake Forest, Illinois, following the death of one of their sons in a boating accident. The screenplay by Alvin Sargent was based upon the 1976 novel Ordinary People by Judith Guest, the film received six Academy Award nominations and won four, the Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Director for Redford, Adapted Screenplay for Sargent, and Supporting Actor for Hutton. In addition, it won five Golden Globes, Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Director, Best Actress in a Drama, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Screenplay. The Jarretts are a family in suburban Chicago trying to return to normal life after the death of one teenaged son. Conrad has recently returned home from a stay in a psychiatric hospital. He feels alienated from his friends and family and begins seeing a psychiatrist, Berger learns that Conrad was involved in a sailing accident in which his older brother, Buck, whom everyone idolized, died. Conrad now deals with post-traumatic stress disorder and survivors guilt, Conrads father, Calvin, awkwardly tries to connect with his surviving son and understand his wife. Conrads mother, Beth, denies her loss, hoping to maintain her composure and restore her family to what it once was and she appears to have loved her older son more, and because of the suicide attempt, has grown cold toward Conrad. She is determined to maintain the appearance of perfection and normality, Conrad works with Dr. Berger and learns to try to deal with, rather than control, his emotions. He starts dating a student, Jeannine, who helps him to begin to regain a sense of optimism. Conrad, however, still struggles to communicate and re-establish a normal relationship with his parents and schoolmates, including Stillman and he cannot seem to allow anyone, especially Beth, to get close. Beth makes several constrained attempts to appeal to Conrad for some semblance of normality and she is consistently more interested in getting back to normal than in helping her son heal. Mother and son often argue while Calvin tries to referee, generally taking Conrads side for fear of pushing him over the edge again. Things come to a climax near Christmas, when Conrad becomes furious at Beth for not wanting to take a photo with him, afterward, Beth discovers Conrad has been lying about his after-school whereabouts. This leads to an argument between Conrad and Beth in which Conrad points out that Beth never visited him in the hospital. Beth replies, Buck never would have been in the hospital, Beth and Calvin take a trip to see Beth’s brother in Houston, where Calvin confronts Beth, calling her out on her attitude. Conrad suffers a setback when he learns that Karen, a friend of his from the hospital, has committed suicide
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Taps (film)
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Taps is a 1981 American drama film starring George C. Scott and Timothy Hutton, with Ronny Cox, Tom Cruise, Sean Penn and Evan Handler in supporting roles. Hutton was nominated for a Golden Globe award in 1982, the film was directed by Harold Becker from a screenplay by Robert Mark Kamen, James Lineberger, and Darryl Ponicsan, based on Devery Freemans 1979 novel Father Sky. The original music score was composed by Maurice Jarre, the film follows a group of military school students who decide to take over their school in order to save it from closing. This was Cruises second film role, following an appearance in Endless Love. Bunker Hill Military Academy has just concluded another school year, Cadet Brian Moreland, a junior, meets privately with the academy commandant, retired Brigadier General Harlan Bache. Bache promotes Moreland to Cadet Major, the paramount rank at BHMA, Bache also reflects on the time when he was a cadet at West Point, as well as a graduate of BHMA prior to that, and how he dreads his forthcoming retirement. Moreland is congratulated first by his friend Cadet Captain Alex Dwyer, as well as by Cadet Captain David Shawn, Shawn leads a celebration in the hallway. The commencement is celebrated with a parade and pass and review, following the ceremonies, General Bache announces that BHMAs board of trustees is selling the school to real estate developers. The school will open for one year in order to allow the seniors to graduate. The delay gives many cadets hope that BHMA can be saved, Bache also hopes that the institute can be saved, as he remarks to Moreland We are here, and the condos are not. The graduation ceremony is followed by a ball that evening, outside the gates, a brawl erupts when several local teenagers harass the cadets, which escalates into one local assaulting a sentry. General Bache tries to break up the fight, but his pistol is seized by one of the teens. Although the magazine had been removed, a round was still in the chamber, Bache is arrested and charged with manslaughter. However, the trauma of the event combined with the arrest triggered a heart attack, the board of trustees closes BHMA immediately. Since Bache is ill, Moreland meets with the officers of the cadet corps, the Dean of Students arrives with the local Sheriff to empty the armory. They find the weapons in the hands of an armed cadre led by Major Moreland, who demands to meet with General Bache, the Dean and Sheriff are escorted off the campus by armed cadets, who secure the perimeter. More cadets are sent to a warehouse for the purpose of restocking BHMAs provisions. As Dwyer is fixing the engine, townies surround the truck, Shawn fires several bursts from his M16 into the air, dispersing the mob
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The Falcon and the Snowman
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The Falcon and the Snowman is a 1985 American spy drama film directed by John Schlesinger. It is loosely based on a story about two young American men, Christopher Boyce and Andrew Daulton Lee, who sold U. S. security secrets to the Soviet Union. The Falcon and the Snowman is based on the life story of two men from wealthy Californian families, who sold classified government information to the Soviet Union during the mid-1970s. S. Boyce becomes disillusioned with the U. S. government through his new position, frustrated by this duplicity, Boyce decides to repay his government by passing classified secrets to the Soviets. Lee is an addict and minor smuggler, sometimes called the Snowman. As the pair become increasingly involved with espionage, Lees ambition to create a major espionage business coupled with his drug use began alienating the two from each other. Alex, their Soviet handler, becomes increasingly reluctant to deal through Lee as the middleman because of Lees periods of irrationality, Boyce wants to end the espionage so that he can resume a normal life with his girlfriend Lana and attend college. He meets with Lees KGB handler to explain the situation, Lee is desperate to regain the Soviets regard after realizing that the KGB no longer needs him as a courier now that they have direct contact with Boyce. Lee is observed tossing a note over the fence at the Soviet embassy in Mexico City and he is arrested by Mexican police, and a U. S. Foreign Service officer accompanies him to the police station, when the police search his pockets and find film and a postcard, they produce pictures of the same location that was on the postcard, showing officers surrounding a dead man on the street. The Foreign Service officer explains that the Mexican police are trying to implicate him with the murder of a policeman, the police drag away Lee and torture him. Hours later, he reveals that he is a Soviet spy, the real reason the police had been ordered to detain him. Told by the Mexican police that he will be deported, Lee is offered a choice of where to be sent, Lee suggests Costa Rica, but the choice is merely between the Soviet Union and the United States. Lee reluctantly agrees to go back to America and is arrested as he walks across the border, knowing that he too will soon be captured, Boyce releases his pet falcon named Fawkes in a field and then sits down to wait. Moments later, U. S. Marshals and FBI agents surround, the movie ends with both Lee and Boyce in prisoner jumpsuits and shackles, flanked on either side by officers escorting them to prison. Before the credits is mentioned that Lee was convicted for a sentence and Boyce. Timothy Hutton as Christopher Boyce Sean Penn as Andrew Daulton Lee Pat Hingle as Mr. Boyce Joyce Van Patten as Mrs. Boyce Rob Reed as Boyce child Richard Dysart as Dr. Lee Priscilla Pointer as Mrs. S. Customs Official Jennifer Runyon as Carole Daniel McDonald Clay Marvin J and this is a movie about spies, but it is not a thriller in any routine sense of the word
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The Dark Half (film)
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The Dark Half is a 1993 American horror film adaptation of the Stephen King novel of the same name. The author of literary novels under his own name, Thad Beaumont is better known for the bestselling suspense-thrillers he writes under the pen name George Stark. Beaumont wishes to retire the Stark name and symbolically buries Stark in a mock grave, however, Stark has become a physical entity and is terrorizing Beaumonts family and friends after he emerges from the grave. Stark then kills local photographer Homer Gamache and steals his truck, when the police suspect Thad of murdering Gamache, he tries to convince Sheriff Alan Pangborn of Castle Rock, Maine he had nothing to do with it. After putting an all-points bulletin on Clawson, who was accused of the death of Homer and they find a message on the wall, written in Clawsons blood, The sparrows are flying again. Thad starts to think that he may have a connection to the killer. While in his office, Thad begins to receive messages from Stark and he and his family start to receive threatening phone calls from Stark. Pangborn initially suspects the phone calls are a prank by Thad until Stark begins to describe how he is going to kill Thads family, state Police find Homers truck with Thads fingerprints all over it. For some reason, Stark wants to live after he appeared in a set of Beaumonts best selling books, Beaumont writes, but he is not alone in suspecting something strange, Sheriff Pangborn is equally suspicious and continues investigating. Thad begins to realize that Stark is, in fact, his brother who died at child birth. His mother never told him about the twin, until a doctor tells him that Stark is a fraternal twin that was living inside Thads brain. Stark arrives, kills the doctor, and blames Thad for the crime, a local friend realizes that Stark is an entity controlled by the books that Thad wrote, and that he will do anything he can to stop him. Stark kidnaps Thads wife Liz and his children, and makes a deal with Thad, Finishing a book that has Stark living in the real world, while writing the book, Thad notices Stark is healing himself with his own writings. Thad and Stark get into a fight, which ends with Thad stabbing Stark in the neck with a pencil, thinking that it is over, Stark decides to kill Thads children instead. Sheriff Pangborn arrives and unties Liz, who says that Thad, however, a huge flock of sparrows comes and tears Stark apart, and take him back to hell where he belongs. The sparrows are agents of Satan, that come to collect evil souls that were not allowed to live, Thad and Liz are spared, and they along with Pangborn, watch as the sparrows disappear into the night. Notable in the film are the chapel in the Old Main, seen at the beginning of the film as Beaumonts classroom, members of the faculty and student body served as extras in the film. The residence featured in the film is a located on Maple Avenue in the Edgewood neighborhood of Pittsburgh
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Archie Goodwin (character)
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Archie Goodwin is a fictional character in Rex Stouts mysteries. The witty narrator of all the stories, he recorded the cases of his boss, Nero Wolfe, Archie is Wolfes live-in assistant in the private investigation business Wolfe runs out of his comfortable and luxurious New York City brownstone house on West 35th Street. Wolfe rarely leaves the brownstone, so Archie does most of the actual investigating, followed by reporting his findings to Wolfe, Archie is a skilled observer and has trained his memory so that he can make verbatim reports, oral or typewritten, of extended conversations. He claims to be able to type six to seven pages per hour on average, because Wolfe is largely ignorant of and uninterested in the logistics of the world outside his house, he relies on Archie for various kinds of information and judgments of a practical nature. Wolfe also turns to Archie for opinions regarding the personalities of the women connected with a case, Archies bedroom is on the third floor of the brownstone, and he owns all of the furniture within it. Under his bed is a gong that is part of a system designed to sound if anyone gets too close to Wolfes bedroom door or windows at night. He typically eats his breakfast in the kitchen, and lunch, however, if he must hurry to keep an appointment, he will eat in the kitchen or at a restaurant because Wolfe hates to see anyone rush through a meal. In addition to work, Archie also handles Wolfes bookkeeping and banking, types his correspondence. His salary is $200 per week, however later it is $400 per week, Archies hobbies include dancing, poker, and baseball. He was a fan of the New York Giants until they relocated to San Francisco in 1957, when moving around Manhattan on business, he often prefers to walk rather than using Wolfes car or taking taxis. Unlike his employer, Archie has only two conspicuous eccentricities, his drink is milk, and he always knows the exact time. Regardless of what year the story takes place, Archie and the principal characters in the corpus do not age. Archie is in his early 30s and he was born on October 23 in Chillicothe, Ohio. At age 12 he lived in Zanesville, in The Rubber Band, Archie mentions a sister in Ohio who once sent him silk pajamas for his birthday. Rex Stout was never concerned with consistency in the Wolfe books. In Fer-de-Lance, he comments that his parents died when he was a child, the most concentrated — but suspect — biography of Archie comes from Too Many Women, in which Mrs. Jasper Pine has his background investigated. She tells Archie that his fathers name is James Arner Goodwin, that his mothers name is Leslie. Archie never mentions the brothers and second sister in the series
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A Nero Wolfe Mystery
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A Nero Wolfe Mystery is a television series adapted from Rex Stouts classic series of detective stories that aired for two seasons on A&E. Set in New York City sometime in the 1940s–1950s, the period drama stars Maury Chaykin as Nero Wolfe. A distinguishing feature of the series is its use of a repertory cast to play non-recurring roles, a Nero Wolfe Mystery was one of the Top 10 Basic Cable Dramas for 2002. The series won praise for its production values and jazzy score by Michael Small. A total of 20 episodes were produced over the two-season run, eight of Stouts novels were adapted into two-hour broadcasts, while 12 of his short stories were filmed as one-hour episodes. Nero Wolfe was produced for A&E by Jaffe/Braunstein Films, one of the first production companies to use high-definition video for television. Although the second season was shot in HD, none of the home video releases of the series has been issued in HD. Archie Goodwin introduces Nero Wolfe as a man who thinks hes the worlds greatest detective, grandly obese and famously eccentric, Wolfe is a genius who lives in—and rarely leaves—a large and comfortably furnished brownstone he owns on West 35th Street in Manhattan. Wolfe maintains a schedule of reading, tending his 10,000 orchids in the rooftop plant rooms. The wardrobe, cars, furnishings and music place A Nero Wolfe Mystery primarily in the 1940s–1950s and it is technically a whodunit series, but like the original Rex Stout stories Nero Wolfe is less concerned with plot than with the interplay between its characters. I think thats something thats appreciated by Nero Wolfe fans, said Maury Chaykin, if you become focused on the crime, I think youre kind of in the wrong place. Its more the enjoyment of the characters and their eccentricities, the series was preceded by the original film The Golden Spiders, A Nero Wolfe Mystery, a Jaffe/Braunstein Films production that aired on A&E March 5,2000. Veteran screenwriter Paul Monash adapted Rex Stouts 1953 novel, and Bill Duke directed, A&E initially planned that The Golden Spiders would be the first in a series of two-hour mystery movies featuring Nero Wolfe. The high ratings and critical praise garnered by The Golden Spiders prompted A&E to consider a one-hour drama series. We were so pleased with the reception of the movie that we said, Maybe theres a show, said Allen Sabinson, A&Es senior vice president for programming. I dont believe we were thinking, or Maury Chaykin and Timothy Hutton were thinking and these are not people who do series. What happened was they had such a time, I think they fell in love with their characters. Maury Chaykin is the armchair detective Nero Wolfe, a genius with little patience for people who come between him and his devotion to food, books and orchids
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Turner Network Television
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TNT is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner. As of July 2015, TNT is available to approximately 94.259 million cable, satellite and telco households in the United States. The channel launched at 8 p. m. Eastern Time on October 3,1988 with a performance of The Star Spangled Banner. Its inaugural telecast was the 1939 classic film Gone with the Wind and it was said that the movie was chosen as the channels first program because it was Turners favorite movie. It would also serve as the first program aired on sister channel Turner Classic Movies, incidentally, Gone With the Wind had its premiere held in Atlanta, Georgia, Turners hometown and the headquarters of the channels corporate parent, Turner Broadcasting System. The city served as the setting for the film, TNT was initially a vehicle for older movies and television shows, but slowly began to add original programming and newer reruns. At one point, Monday Nitro was regularly the highest-rated weekly program on cable television, the program beat Monday Night Raw, the flagship show of the World Wrestling Federation, in the ratings for 83 consecutive weeks from 1996 to 1998. The channel was known for its late night programming. One such program was MonsterVision, a Saturday night B movie showcase that aired from 1993 to 2000 It featured a Godzilla movie marathon at the end of every month. This running joke culminated in a Friday the 13th all-night Halloween marathon in 1998, the Rudy and Gogo World Famous Cartoon Show, which ran from 1995 to 1997, was an original childrens program on the channel featuring classic Warner Bros. MGM, and Popeye shorts, hosted by a pair of a marionette. In 1998, TNT dropped all of its cartoons, relegating those shows to Cartoon Network. Most of the series and shorts that were dropped would also serve as the core of Boomerang. During the 1990s, TNT scheduled an afternoon block that included Due South, Kung Fu, The Legend Continues, Lois & Clark, The New Adventures of Superman. In 1998, TNT took over production of the fifth and final season of Babylon 5 from the Prime Time Entertainment Network after the syndication block ceased operations. The following year, TNT produced the Babylon 5 spinoff series Crusade, in 2001, TNT debuted what became its most successful original series at the time, Witchblade, which ran for two seasons, ending in 2002. On June 12,2001, TNT underwent a rebrand, with the introduction of a new logo designed by Trollbäck + Company as well as a new slogan. The slogan emphasized the new focus on dramatic programming, including sports and off-network syndicated dramas such as Law & Order, NYPD Blue, ER
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Leverage (TV series)
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Leverage is an American television drama series, which aired on TNT from December 7,2008, to December 25,2012. The series was produced by Electric Entertainment, a company of executive producer. Season 1 consists of 13 episodes, which writers John Rogers and Chris Downey, Leverage moved to Sunday for season 3, which began on June 20,2010. Leverage was renewed for a season on July 30,2010. It premiered on June 26,2011, and ran for 18 episodes,10 in the summer, the continuation of season 4 began on Sunday, November 27,2011, at 9 pm EST on TNT. On August 12,2011, Leverage was renewed for a fifth season, Season 5 premiered July 15,2012. Leverage was canceled on December 21,2012, amid falling ratings, the final episode, which was produced as a possible series finale, aired on December 25,2012. On January 9,2013, Leverage won Favorite Cable TV Drama at the 39th Peoples Choice Awards, nathan Nate Ford is a former insurance investigator and the leader of a team staging elaborate cons for clients victimized by those holding wealth and influence to avoid legal reprisal. After a successful heist, Dubenich withholds their payment and attempts to have killed, whereupon they implicate him in a bribery attempt. Thereafter, they practice similar deceptions to avenge civilians who cannot use the system to redress their grievances. Subplots include Nates struggle with alcoholism, his relationship with grifter Sophie Devereaux. The team operates free of scrutiny as Leverage Consulting & Associates, until Nates former colleague, James Sterling, attempts their capture. In response, they steal a collection of art from Nates former boss, Ian Blackpoole, returning it in exchange for Blackpoole being kicked out of his own company. As season 3 begins, Ford is in prison and the attempts to free him. At the seasons end, Moreau is imprisoned in San Lorenzo, Nate refuses this offer, and his suspicions are justified when Latimer is revealed to be working with Victor Dubenich against the team. After a series of extremely intricate confidence tricks, the project is revealed and carried off. The seasons final episode, broadcast on Christmas Day 2012, also reveals drastic changes in the lives and dynamics of the team, most episodes follow a set story structure, After meeting the client, the Leverage team researches the villains to find a weakness to exploit. Each con, either as originally planned or as complications develop, towards the end of each episode, the villains seem to get the upper hand, only to be outwitted by the team
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Jim Hutton
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He is the father of actor Timothy Hutton. Hutton was born in Binghamton, New York, the son of Helen and Thomas R. Hutton, Huttons parents divorced while he was an infant, and he never knew his father. Hutton was expelled from five high schools due to problems but had excellent grades. After starting his school newspapers sports column, he earned a scholarship in journalism from Syracuse University and he was expelled from Syracuse after driving a bulldozer through a bed of tulips. Hutton then enrolled at Niagara University where he began pursuing an acting career, Hutton served in the United States Army and starred in over forty Army training films before going to Berlin to serve in special service. Hutton personally founded the American Community Theater by spearheading the renovation of theaters abandoned during World War II and he established the first English-speaking theater in Berlin. Hutton was performing in theater in Germany while with the United States Army when he was spotted by American film director Douglas Sirk. Sirk used him in a role in a film and secured him the promise of a contract with Universal Studios. When Hutton got out of the Army that contract expired, One of his earliest screen appearances was in an episode of The Twilight Zone, in which he co-starred with Rod Taylor. He appeared with Prentiss in The Honeymoon Machine late in 1960, followed by 1961s Bachelor in Paradise starring Bob Hope and Lana Turner, in 1966, Hutton gained a wider audience in Walk, Dont Run with Samantha Eggar and Cary Grant. Due to his tall, gangly frame and the quality of his delivery. In addition to being a comedic actor, Hutton also took on dramatic roles. He returned to more straight comedic roles in 1965s The Hallelujah Trail also starring in 1967s Whos Minding the Mint. In 1968, Hutton appeared in the John Wayne war drama, The Green Berets, in which Hutton played a Special Forces sergeant in a mix of comedy and drama, also in 1968, Hutton appeared with John Wayne in Hellfighters, playing the role of Greg Parker. The movie was based on the career of oil-well firefighter Red Adair. One of his last leading roles was in the horror film Psychic Killer. Huttons co-star in the series was David Wayne, who portrayed his widowed father, ellery, a writer of murder mysteries, assisted his father as an amateur, each week solving an actual murder case. Near the end of each story before revealing the solution, he would break the wall by giving the audience a brief review of the clues
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American Film Institute
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The American Film Institute is an American film organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the moving picture arts in America. AFI is supported by funding and public membership. The institute is composed of leaders from the film, entertainment, business, a board of trustees chaired by Sir Howard Stringer and a board of directors chaired by Robert A. Daly guide the organization, which is led by President and CEO Bob Gazzale. Prior leaders were founding director George Stevens, Jr. and Jean Picker Firstenberg. <ref>AFI Board of Trustees etc. American Film Institute. October 2014. Retrieved December 24,2014. </ref>Two years later, in 1967, AFI was established, supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Motion Picture Association of America and the Ford Foundation. The institute established a program for filmmakers known then as the Center for Advanced Film Studies. The institute moved to its current eight-acre Hollywood campus in 1981, the film training program grew into the AFI Conservatory, an accredited graduate school. AFI educates audiences and recognizes excellence through its awards programs and 10 Top 10 Lists. In 1969, the established the AFI Conservatory for Advanced Film Studies at Greystone. The first class included filmmakers Terrence Malick, Caleb Deschanel and Paul Schrader, mirroring a professional production environment, Fellows collaborate to make more films than any other graduate level program. Admission to AFI Conservatory is highly selective, with a maximum of 140 graduates per year, in 2013, Emmy and Oscar-winning director, producer and screenwriter James L. Brooks joined AFI as Artistic Director of the AFI Conservatory where he provides leadership for the film program. Brooks artistic role at the AFI Conservatory has a legacy that includes Daniel Petrie, Jr. Robert Wise. Award-winning director Bob Mandel served as Dean of the AFI Conservatory for nine years, jan Schuette took over as Dean in 2014. AFI Conservatorys alumni have careers in film, television and on the web and they have been recognized with all of the major industry awards – Academy Award, Emmy Award, guild awards, and the Tony Award. The AFI Catalog, started in 1968, is a web-based filmographic database, early print copies of this catalog may also be found at your local library. Each year the AFI Awards honor the ten outstanding films and ten outstanding television programs, the awards are a non-competitive acknowledgement of excellence. The Awards are announced in December and a luncheon for award honorees takes place the following January. The juries consisted of over 1,500 artists, scholars, critics and historians, with movies selected based on the films popularity over time, historical significance, citizen Kane was voted the greatest American film twice. AFI operates two film festivals, AFI Fest in Los Angeles, and AFI Docs in Silver Spring, Maryland, AFI Fest is the American Film Institutes annual celebration of artistic excellence
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and is a part of the Boston metropolitan area. According to the 2010 Census, the population was 105,162. As of July 2014, it was the fifth most populous city in the state, behind Boston, Worcester, Springfield, Cambridge was one of the two seats of Middlesex County prior to the abolition of county government in 1997, Lowell was the other. The site for what would become Cambridge was chosen in December 1630, because it was located safely upriver from Boston Harbor, Thomas Dudley, his daughter Anne Bradstreet, and her husband Simon, were among the first settlers of the town. The first houses were built in the spring of 1631, the settlement was initially referred to as the newe towne. Official Massachusetts records show the name capitalized as Newe Towne by 1632, the original village site is in the heart of todays Harvard Square. In the late 19th century, various schemes for annexing Cambridge itself to the city of Boston were pursued and rejected, in 1636, the Newe College was founded by the colony to train ministers. Newe Towne was chosen for the site of the college by the Great and General Court primarily—according to Cotton Mather—to be near the popular, in May 1638 the name of the settlement was changed to Cambridge in honor of the university in Cambridge, England. Hooker and Shepard, Newtownes ministers, and the colleges first president, major benefactor, in 1629, Winthrop had led the signing of the founding document of the city of Boston, which was known as the Cambridge Agreement, after the university. It was Governor Thomas Dudley who, in 1650, signed the charter creating the corporation which still governs Harvard College, Cambridge grew slowly as an agricultural village eight miles by road from Boston, the capital of the colony. By the American Revolution, most residents lived near the Common and Harvard College, with farms and estates comprising most of the town. Coming up from Virginia, George Washington took command of the volunteer American soldiers camped on Cambridge Common on July 3,1775, most of the Tory estates were confiscated after the Revolution. On January 24,1776, Henry Knox arrived with artillery captured from Fort Ticonderoga, a second bridge, the Canal Bridge, opened in 1809 alongside the new Middlesex Canal. The new bridges and roads made what were formerly estates and marshland into prime industrial and residential districts, in the mid-19th century, Cambridge was the center of a literary revolution when it gave the country a new identity through poetry and literature. Cambridge was home to some of the famous Fireside Poets—so called because their poems would often be read aloud by families in front of their evening fires, the Fireside Poets—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, and Oliver Wendell Holmes—were highly popular and influential in their day. Cambridge was incorporated as a city in 1846, the citys commercial center began to shift from Harvard Square to Central Square, which became the downtown of the city around this time. The coming of the railroad to North Cambridge and Northwest Cambridge then led to three changes in the city, the development of massive brickyards and brickworks between Massachusetts Ave. For many decades, the citys largest employer was the New England Glass Company, by the middle of the 19th century it was the largest and most modern glassworks in the world
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Berkeley, California
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Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California. It is named after the 18th-century Anglo-Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley and it borders the cities of Oakland and Emeryville to the south and the city of Albany and the unincorporated community of Kensington to the north. Its eastern border with Contra Costa County generally follows the ridge of the Berkeley Hills, the 2010 census recorded a population of 112,580. It also has the Graduate Theological Union, one of the largest religious studies institutions in the world and it is one of the most politically liberal cities in the United States. The site of todays City of Berkeley was the territory of the Chochenyo/Huchiun band of the Ohlone people when the first Europeans arrived, other artifacts were discovered in the 1950s in the downtown area during remodeling of a commercial building, near the upper course of the creek. The first people of European descent arrived with the De Anza Expedition in 1776, today, this is noted by signage on Interstate 80, which runs along the San Francisco Bay shoreline of Berkeley. The De Anza Expedition led to establishment of the Spanish Presidio of San Francisco at the entrance to San Francisco Bay, luis Peralta was among the soldiers at the Presidio. For his services to the King of Spain, he was granted a vast stretch of land on the east shore of San Francisco Bay for a ranch, luis Peralta named his holding Rancho San Antonio. The primary activity of the ranch was raising cattle for meat and hides, eventually, Peralta gave portions of the ranch to each of his four sons. What is now Berkeley lies mostly in the portion that went to Peraltas son Domingo, with a little in the portion that went to another son, no artifact survives of the Domingo or Vicente ranches, but their names survive in Berkeley street names. However, legal title to all land in the City of Berkeley remains based on the original Peralta land grant, the Peraltas Rancho San Antonio continued after Alta California passed from Spanish to Mexican sovereignty after the Mexican War of Independence. The lands of the brothers Domingo and Vicente were quickly reduced to reservations close to their respective ranch homes, the rest of the land was surveyed and parceled out to various American claimants. Politically, the area that became Berkeley was initially part of a vast Contra Costa County, on March 25,1853, Alameda County was created from a division within Contra Costa County, as well as from a small portion of Santa Clara County. The area of Berkeley was at this period mostly a mix of land, farms and ranches. It was not yet Berkeley, but merely the part of the Oakland Township subdivision of Alameda County. In 1866, Oaklands private College of California looked for a new site, according to the Centennial Record of the University of California, In 1866…at Founders Rock, a group of College of California men watched two ships standing out to sea through the Golden Gate. Although the philosophers name is pronounced bark-lee, the pronunciation of the name has evolved to suit American English as burk-lee. The College of Californias College Homestead Association planned to raise funds for the new campus by selling off adjacent parcels of land, to this end, they laid out a plat and street grid that became the basis of Berkeleys modern street plan
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Guys and Dolls
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Guys and Dolls is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. The premiere on Broadway was in 1950 and it ran for 1200 performances and won the Tony Award for Best Musical. The musical has had several Broadway and London revivals, as well as a 1955 film adaptation starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Guys and Dolls was selected as the winner of the 1951 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Guys and Dolls was conceived by producers Cy Feuer and Ernest Martin as an adaptation of Damon Runyons short stories and these stories, written in the 1920s and 1930s, concerned gangsters, gamblers, and other characters of the New York underworld. Runyon was known for the dialect he employed in his stories, mixing highly formal language. Frank Loesser, who had spent most of his career as a lyricist for movie musicals, was hired as composer, George S. Kaufman was hired as director. When the first version of the book, or dialogue, written by Jo Swerling was deemed unusable, Feuer. Loesser had already much of the score to correspond with the first version of the book. Burrows would recall as follows, Frank Loessers fourteen songs were all great, later on, the critics spoke of the show as integrated. The word integration usually means that the composer has written songs that follow the story line gracefully, well, we accomplished that but we did it in reverse. The character of Miss Adelaide was created specifically to fit Vivian Blaine into the musical, when Loesser suggested reprising some songs in the second act, Kaufman warned, If you reprise the songs, we’ll reprise the jokes. A pantomime of never-ceasing activities depicts the hustle and bustle of New York City, three small-time gamblers, Nicely-Nicely Johnson, Benny Southstreet, and Rusty Charlie, argue over which horse will win a big race. The band members of the Save-a-Soul Mission, led by the pious and beautiful Sergeant Sarah Brown, call for sinners to Follow the Fold, Nicely and Bennys employer, Nathan Detroit, runs an illegal floating crap game. Due to local policeman Lt. Brannigans strong-armed police activity, he has only one likely spot to hold the game. However, the owner, Joey Biltmore, requires a $1,000 security deposit, Nathan hopes to get $1,000 by winning a bet against Sky Masterson, a gambler willing to bet on virtually anything. Nathan proposes a bet which he believes he cannot lose, Sky must take a doll of Nathans choice to dinner in Havana, Sky agrees, and Nathan chooses Sarah Brown. At the mission, Sky claims he wants to be saved and he offers Sarah a deal, He will bring the mission one dozen genuine sinners if she will accompany him to Havana the next night. Sarah rebuffs him, telling him that she plans to fall in love with an upright, Sky replies that he plans on being surprised when he falls in love
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2008 Toronto International Film Festival
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The 2008 Toronto International Film Festival, was held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. This 33rd annual festival was from September 4 to September 13,2008, the opening night gala was the World War I romantic epic Passchendaele from Canadian director Paul Gross. Scheduled is The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond, based on a rediscovered Tennessee Williams screenplay, TIFF screened 312 films from 64 countries. These include 249 features, most of which were North American and/or world premieres, neil Burger world premiered The Lucky Ones a character study of U. S. soldiers on an unplanned road trip, starring Tim Robbins. The Brits are also represented with Happy-Go-Lucky directed by Mike Leigh. Despite showing fewer films than last year, among the 249 features,116 are premieres and 61 are first features, Films from as many as 64 countries were screened, with more than 340,000 admissions expected. Canadian Open Vault, which highlights a restored Canadian film. With the film Fifty Dead Men Walking, Rose McGowan expressed support for the cause of the Irish Republican Army, after starring in Fifty Dead Men Walking, she was quoted as saying I imagine had I grown up in Belfast, I would 100% have been in the IRA. My heart just broke for the cause, violence is not to be played out daily and provide an answer to problems, but I understand it. Her comments were attacked by the original author Martin McCartlend, mcCartland had general objections against the film, but approved of an out of court settlement, believed to be in the region of £20.000. T. com - coverage of TIFF08 with news, reviews, blogs, photos and videos Variety,10,2008 Cannes winners trot to Toronto, Fest unveils first pics in slate Variety, by Jennie Punter, Jun. 26,20082008 Toronto International Film Festival at IMDB
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Donna Reed
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Donna Reed was an American film and television actress and producer. Her career spanned more than 40 years, with performances in more than 40 films and she is well known for her role as Mary Hatch Bailey in Frank Capras 1946 film Its a Wonderful Life. In 1953, she received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Lorene Burke in the war drama From Here to Eternity and she received numerous Emmy Award nominations for this role and the Golden Globe Award for Best TV Star in 1963. She was born Donna Belle Mullenger on a farm near Denison, Iowa, the eldest of five children, she was raised as a Methodist. After graduating from Denison High School, Reed planned to become a teacher and she decided to move to California to attend Los Angeles City College on the advice of her aunt. While attending college, she performed in stage productions but had no plans to become an actress. After receiving several offers to screen test for studios, Reed eventually signed with MGM, in 1941 after signing with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Reed made her film debut in The Get-Away opposite Robert Sterling, she was billed as Donna Adams. MGM soon changed her name to Donna Reed, as there was feeling during World War II. She starred in The Courtship of Andy Hardy and had a role with Edward Arnold in Eyes in the Night. In 1943, she appeared in The Human Comedy with Mickey Rooney and her girl-next-door good looks and warm onstage personality made her a popular pin-up for many GIs during World War II. She personally answered letters from many GIs serving overseas, in 1945, Reed struggled with an English accent and with a passive, underwritten role as Gladys Hallward in the first cinema adaptation of the Oscar Wilde novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray. In 1946, she was lent to RKO Pictures for the role of Mary Bailey in Frank Capras Its a Wonderful Life. The film has since named as one of the 100 best American films ever made by the American Film Institute and is regularly aired on television during the Christmas season. Following the release of Its a Wonderful Life, Reed appeared in Green Dolphin Street with Lana Turner, in 1949 she expressed a desire for better roles. Several years later, she performed in Scandal Sheet, in 1953, Reed played the role of Alma Lorene Burke, girlfriend of Montgomery Clifts character, in the World War II drama From Here to Eternity. The role earned Reed an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for 1953, from 1958 to 1966, Reed starred in The Donna Reed Show, a television series produced by her then-husband, Tony Owen. The show featured her as Donna Stone, the wife of pediatrician Alex Stone and mother of Jeff, the show ran for eight seasons on ABC. Reed won a Golden Globe Award and earned four Emmy Award nominations for her work on the series, Reed described her show as a realistic picture of small town life with an often humorous twist
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Valerie Bertinelli
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Valerie Anne Bertinelli is an American actress. Bertinelli was born in Wilmington, Delaware, to Nancy and Andrew Bertinelli and her father is of Italian descent and her mother is of English descent. She has three brothers, David, Patrick and Drew and she had an elder brother, Mark, who died at 17 months from an accidental poisoning before Valerie was born. Because of the career, the family frequently moved. She attended Granada Hills High School, the show debuted in late 1975. For the shows first season, Bertinelli was 15 years old, Bertinelli appeared in 208 out of the 209 episodes before the show left the airwaves on May 28,1984. They talked about actors who had left the show as well as Phillips drug problem, after One Day at a Time, Bertinelli continued to act. In 2001, she joined the cast of Touched by an Angel, opposite Roma Downey and Della Reese, Bertinelli, who had some struggles with being overweight, lost a total of 50 lb as of March 2009, and became a spokesperson for the Jenny Craig weight-loss program. She appeared in several Jenny Craig commercials, although Bertinelli is compensated for her Jenny Craig appearances, she considers herself a health and weight-loss activist rather than a hired weight-loss spokesperson. In 2008 she released the autobiography, Losing It, And Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time, in 2009 she wrote a follow-up book Finding It, And Satisfying My Hunger for Life without Opening the Fridge. On March 4,2010, Bertinelli appeared as guest co-host on ABCs The View in the absence of Whoopi Goldberg, as of 2010 she stars in the TV Land series Hot in Cleveland, a situation comedy which debuted in June 2010. The shows second season aired in January 2011, and in February 2011 it was renewed for a third season, after a successful, six-season run, the final episode aired on June 3,2015. Bertinelli is also the host of the hit show Kids Baking Championship on Food Network, the show follows young children as they bake pastries and other desserts. Bertinelli hosts alongside Duff Goldman, punny cake artist, and the show is currently in its third season, on August 22,2012, Bertinelli received the 2, 476th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Bertinelli married Eddie Van Halen on April 11,1981 and they divorced on Dec.20,2007. In May 2010, Bertinelli announced her engagement to financial planner Tom Vitale and they were married on January 1,2011, in Malibu, California. She wore a dress made especially for her by the designer David Meister, Bertinelli ran in the April 2010 Boston Marathon to benefit the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute there, completing it in a time of 5,14,37. In 2014 she appeared on Who Do You Think You Are. commercials Production companies Tuxedo Limited Bertinelli, Inc
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Hal Linden
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Hal Linden is an American stage and screen actor, television director and musician. Linden began his career as a big band musician and singer in the 1950s, after a stint in the United States Army, he began an acting career where he first worked in summer stock and off-Broadway productions. Linden found success on Broadway when he replaced Sydney Chaplin in the musical Bells Are Ringing, in 1971, he won a Best Actor Tony Award for his portrayal of Mayer Rothschild in the musical The Rothschilds. In 1974, he landed his role as the title character in the television comedy series Barney Miller. The role earned him seven Primetime Emmy Award and three Golden Globe Award nominations, during the series run, Linden also hosted two educational series, Animals, Animals, Animals and FYI. He won two special Daytime Emmy Awards for the latter series, Linden won a third Daytime Emmy Award for a guest-starring role on CBS Schoolbreak Special in 1995. Linden has since continued his career on the stage, in films and he released his first album of pop and jazz standards, Its Never Too Late, in 2011. Hal Linden was born on March 20,1931, in The Bronx and he is the youngest son of Frances and Charles Lipshitz, a Lithuanian Jew who immigrated to the United States in 1910 and later owned his own printing shop. His older brother, Bernard, became a professor of music at Bowling Green State University, Linden attended Herman Ridder Junior High School and the High School of Music and Art, going on to study music at Queens College, City University of New York. He later enrolled in Baruch College and then City College of New York where he received a Bachelor of Arts in business, during his youth, Linden aspired to be a big band bandleader. Before embarking on a career in music, he decided to change his name stating, Swing and he decided on the name Hal Linden, after seeing the name on the water tower while passing through Linden, New Jersey. During the 1950s, he toured with Sammy Kaye, Bobby Sherwood, Linden played the saxophone and clarinet and also sang. He enlisted in the United States Army in 1952 where he was sent to Fort Belvoir, while in Fort Belvoir, a friend recommended that he see the touring production of Guys and Dolls playing in Washington, D. C. After seeing the show, Linden decided to become an actor, Linden found success after replacing Sydney Chaplin in the Broadway production of Bells Are Ringing in 1958. He made a breakthrough on the New York stage in 1962 when he was cast as Billy Crocker in the revival of Cole Porters Anything Goes. Lindens career slowed in the 1960s, during this time, he dubbed English dialogue for various foreign films, did voiceover work for commercials and sang jingles. His career was revived in the 1970s when he was cast as Mayer Rothschild in the 1971 musical The Rothschilds, the role earned him a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. In 1973, he co-starred opposite Tony Lo Bianco in the NBC television film Mr. Inside/Mr, the film was intended to be the pilot for a proposed series but was not picked up by the network
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Golden Globe
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Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign. The annual ceremony at which the awards are presented is a part of the film industrys awards season. The 74th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film, the 1st Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best achievements in 1943 filmmaking, was held in January 1944, at the 20th Century-Fox studios. Subsequent ceremonies were held at venues throughout the next decade, including the Beverly Hills Hotel. In 1950, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association made the decision to establish an honorary award to recognize outstanding contributions to the entertainment industry. Recognizing its subject as a figure within the entertainment industry. The official name of the award became the Cecil B. In 1963, the Miss Golden Globe concept was introduced, in its inaugural year, two Miss Golden Globes were named, one for film and one for television. The two Miss Golden Globes named that year were Eva Six and Donna Douglas, respectively, in 2009, the Golden Globe statuette was redesigned. It was unveiled at a conference at the Beverly Hilton prior to the show. The broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards, telecast to 167 countries worldwide, generally ranks as the third most-watched awards show each year, behind only the Oscars, gervais returned to host the 68th and 69th Golden Globe Awards the next two years. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosted the 70th, 71st and 72nd Golden Globe Awards in 2015, the Golden Globe Awards theme song, which debuted in 2012, was written by Japanese musician and songwriter Yoshiki Hayashi. On January 7,2008, it was announced due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. The ceremony was faced with a threat by striking writers to picket the event, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was forced to adopt another approach for the broadcast. In acting categories, Meryl Streep holds the record for the most competitive Golden Globe wins with eight, however, including honorary awards, such as the Henrietta Award, World Film Favorite Actor/Actress Award, or Cecil B. DeMille Award, Barbra Streisand leads with nine, additionally, Streisand won for composing the song Evergreen, producing the Best Picture, and directing Yentl in 1984. Jack Nicholson, Angela Lansbury, Alan Alda and Shirley MacLaine have six awards each, behind them are Rosalind Russell and Jessica Lange with five wins. Meryl Streep also holds the record for most nominations with thirty, at the 46th Golden Globe Awards an anomaly occurred, a three way-tie for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
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A Long Way Home
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A Long Way Home is the ninth studio album of new recordings by Dwight Yoakam. It reached No.11 on the Billboard Country Album, with two of its tracks charting on the Hot Country Singles chart,17, while These Arms peaked at No.57. Yoakam wrote all the songs on the album himself, all songs written by Dwight Yoakam
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Brenda Vaccaro
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Brenda Buell Vaccaro is an American stage, television, and film actress. Vaccaro was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Italian American parents Christine M. and Mario A. Vaccaro, a restaurateur. She was raised in Dallas, Texas, where her parents co-founded Marios Restaurant, in 1943, converting it from Dutchs Café, and where Vaccaro graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School. Vaccaros Broadway credits include The Affair, Cactus Flower, How Now, Dow Jones, The Goodbye People, the version of The Odd Couple. The husky-voiced actress is a three-time Tony Award nominee, for Best Featured Actress in a Play, Best Actress in a Musical, and Best Actress in a Play. Vaccaro appeared with Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight in the 1969 film Midnight Cowboy, for her performance in the 1975 film adaptation of Jacqueline Susanns Once Is Not Enough she gained an Academy Award nomination and won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress. D. McCloud, The Streets of San Francisco, The Love Boat, St. Elsewhere, Murder, She Wrote, The Golden Girls, Columbo, Touched by an Angel, Friends, The King of Queens, and Nip/Tuck. She was nominated for an Emmy Award three times and won for Best Supporting Actress in Comedy-Variety, Variety or Music for The Shape of Things in 1974 and she supplied the voice for Johnny Bravos mother Bunny Bravo in the animated cartoon series. She was the first voice of Jays s ex-wife Ardeth on The Critic and she made an appearance on The Smurfs as Scruple, an apprentice of Gargamel, opposite Paul Winchell. Brenda Vaccaro at the Internet Broadway Database Brenda Vaccaro at the Internet Movie Database
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George C. Scott
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George Campbell Scott was an American stage and film actor, director, and producer. Scott believed that every performance was unique and could not be compared to others. George Campbell Scott was born in Wise, Virginia, the son of Helena Agnes and his mother died just before his eighth birthday, and he was raised by his father, an executive at Buick. As an adult, he tried on many occasions to write a novel, Scott joined the United States Marine Corps, serving from 1945 to 1949. He was assigned to 8th and I Barracks in Washington, DC, in which capacity he taught English literature and his primary duty, however, was as an honor guard for military funerals at Arlington National Cemetery. He later said his duties at Arlington led to his drinking, after his military service, Scott enrolled in the University of Missouri, where he majored in journalism and then became interested in drama. His first public appearance on stage was as the barrister in a university production of Terence Rattigans The Winslow Boy, during rehearsals for that show, he made his first stage appearance—in a student production of Noël Cowards Hands Across the Sea, directed by Jerry V. Tobias. He graduated from the university in 1953 with degrees in English, Scott first rose to prominence for his work with Joseph Papps New York Shakespeare Festival. In 1958, he won an Obie Award for his performances in Children of Darkness, for As You Like It and he was on Broadway the following year, winning critical acclaim for his portrayal of the prosecutor in The Andersonville Trial by Saul Levitt. This was based on the trial of the commandant of the infamous Civil War prison camp in Andersonville. His performance earned him a mention in Time, in 1970, Scott directed a highly acclaimed television version of this same play. It starred William Shatner, Richard Basehart, and Jack Cassidy, Scott continued to appear in and sometimes direct Broadway productions throughout the 1960s. The most commercially successful show in which he worked was Neil Simons Plaza Suite, the show was composed of three separate one-act plays all using the same set, with Scott portraying a different lead character in each act, it ran for 1,097 performances. He made many appearances, including an episode of NBCs The Virginian, in the episode The Brazen Bell. That same year, he appeared in NBCs medical drama The Eleventh Hour and he appeared opposite Laurence Olivier and Julie Harris in Graham Greenes The Power and the Glory in a 1961 television production. In 1963, Scott starred in the television drama series East Side/West Side. He portrayed a New York City social worker, along with co-stars Cicely Tyson, Scott was a major creative influence on the show, resulting in conflicts with James T. Aubrey, the head of CBS. The Emmy Award-winning program had a series of prominent guest stars, the portrayal of challenging urban issues made attracting advertisers difficult, not helped by the limited distribution
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Sean Penn
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Sean Justin Penn is an American actor, filmmaker, and political activist. He has won two Academy Awards, for his roles in the mystery drama Mystic River and the biopic Milk, Penn began his acting career in television with a brief appearance in episode 112 of Little House on the Prairie, directed by his father Leo Penn. He became known as a prominent leading actor with the drama Dead Man Walking, for which he earned his first Academy Award nomination, Penn made his feature film directorial debut with The Indian Runner, followed by the drama film The Crossing Guard and the mystery film The Pledge. Penn directed one of the 11 segments of 110901 September 11 and his fourth feature film, the biographical drama survival movie Into the Wild, garnered critical acclaim and two Academy Award nominations. In January 2016, Penn published an interview with Mexican drug lord Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán in Rolling Stone, Penn was born in Los Angeles County, California, to actor and director Leo Penn, and actress Eileen Ryan. His older brother is musician Michael Penn and his younger brother, actor Chris Penn, died in 2006. His paternal grandparents were Ashkenazi Jewish emigrants from Lithuania and Russia, while his mother is a Catholic of Irish, Penn was raised in a secular home and attended Santa Monica High School. He began making films with some of his childhood friends, including actors Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen. Penn appeared in a 1974 episode of the Little House on the Prairie television series as an extra when his father, Leo, Penn launched his film career with the action-drama Taps, where he played a military high school cadet. A year later, he appeared in the hit comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High, in the role of surfer-stoner Jeff Spicoli, next, Penn appeared as Mick OBrien, a troubled youth, in the drama Bad Boys. The role earned Penn favorable reviews and jump-started his career as a serious actor, Penn played Andrew Daulton Lee in the film The Falcon and the Snowman, which closely followed an actual criminal case. Lee was a drug dealer by trade, convicted of espionage for the Soviet Union and originally sentenced to life in prison. Penn starred in the drama At Close Range which received critical acclaim and he stopped acting for a few years in the early 1990s, having been dissatisfied with the industry, and focused on making his directing debut. The Academy Awards first recognized his work in nominating him for playing a racist murderer on death row in the drama film Dead Man Walking and he was nominated again for his comedic performance as an egotistical jazz guitarist in the film Sweet and Lowdown. He received his nomination after portraying a mentally handicapped father in I am Sam. Penn finally won for his role in the Boston crime-drama Mystic River, in 2004, Penn played Samuel Bicke, a character based on Samuel Byck, who in 1974 attempted and failed to assassinate President Richard Nixon, in The Assassination of Richard Nixon. The same year, he was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts, next, Penn portrayed governor Willie Stark in an adaptation of Robert Penn Warrens classic 1946 American novel All the Kings Men. The film was a critical and commercial failure, named by a 2010 Forbes article as the biggest flop in the last five years, the film also earned Penn his fifth nomination and second win for the Academy Award for Best Actor
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Tom Cruise
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Thomas Cruise Mapother IV, known professionally as Tom Cruise, is an American actor and producer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and has won three Golden Globe Awards and he started his career at age 19 in the film Endless Love. After portraying supporting roles in Taps and The Outsiders, his first leading role was in the romantic comedy Risky Business, Cruise became a full-fledged movie star after starring as Pete Maverick Mitchell in the action drama Top Gun. One of the biggest movie stars in Hollywood, Cruise starred in more successful films in the 1980s, including the dramas The Color of Money, Cocktail, Rain Man. In 2012, Cruise was Hollywoods highest-paid actor,16 of his films grossed over $100 million domestically,22 have grossed in excess of $200 million worldwide. In 2002, Cruise won the Saturn Award for Best Actor for Vanilla Sky, in 2003, he won an AFI Movie of the Year Award for The Last Samurai and an Empire Award for Best Actor for Minority Report. Cruise is an advocate for the Church of Scientology and its associated social programs. Cruise was born in Syracuse, New York, the son of Mary Lee, a special teacher, and Thomas Cruise Mapother III. He has three sisters, Lee Anne, Marian, and Cass and they are of English, German, and Irish ancestry. One of Cruises paternal great-great-great-grandfathers, Patrick Russell Cruise, was born in north County Dublin in 1799, he married Teresa Johnson in County Meath and they left Ireland for the United States that same year and settled in New York. They had a daughter, Mary Paulina Russell Cruise, whose son Thomas Cruise Mapother was Cruises great-grandfather, a cousin, William Mapother, is also an actor, he and Cruise have appeared in five films together. Cruise grew up in poverty, and had a Catholic upbringing. The family was dominated by his father, whom Cruise has described as a merchant of chaos. Cruise has said that he was beaten by his father, whom he has called a bully and he stated, He was the kind of person where, if something goes wrong, they kick you. It was a lesson in my life—how hed lull you in, make you feel safe and then. For me, it was like, Theres something wrong with this guy, Cruise spent part of his childhood in Canada. His family moved to Beacon Hill, Ottawa, in late 1971 so that Cruises father could take a position as a consultant with the Canadian Armed Forces. There, Cruise attended the newly opened Robert Hopkins Public School for much of grade four, in grade four, Cruise first became involved in drama, under the tutelage of George Steinburg
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Iceman (1984 film)
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Iceman is a 1984 American science fiction film from Universal Studios. The screenplay was written by John Drimmer and Chip Proser, and was directed by Fred Schepisi, the cast included John Lone, Timothy Hutton, Lindsay Crouse and Danny Glover. It was filmed in color with Dolby sound and ran for 100 minutes, the DVD version was released in 2004. Anthropologist Stanley Shephard is brought to a base when explorers discover the body of a prehistoric man who has been frozen in a block of ice for 40,000 years. After thawing the body to perform an autopsy, scientists discover to their amazement a real possibility to revive him, the scientists place the caveman in an artificial, simulated environment for study. The caveman quickly discovers the modern apparatus and environmental controls, Shephard believes that the cavemans culture may provide clues to learning about the human bodys adaptability, citing ceremonies such as firewalking and the Sun Dance. Shephards affinity with the caveman grows to the degree that he begins to defend the right to be considered a human being. Despite opposition from the rest of the staff, Shephard initiates an encounter with the caveman, Shephard names him Charlie after the iceman introduces himself as Char-u. Shephard and Charlie bond, but it becomes obvious to the anthropologist that Charlie misses his world, an eminent linguist is brought to the Arctic base to help understand Charlies language. As Shephard begins to communicate with Charlie, he realizes that he never be able to help Charlie understand that the world. This fact is even more poignant when Shephard introduces Charlie to a female colleague. Assuming that the woman is Shephards mate, Charlie makes chalk marks which indicate that he likely was a man with children before he was frozen. Shephard strives to understand what motivates Charlie and why, of all the cavemen, at one point, Shephard begins to sing Heart of Gold, inspiring Charlie to sing one of his own songs. Shouting the word Beedha over and over, he lifts his arms towards the helicopter in a sign of obvious worship, even though the helicopter pulls away from the dome, Shephard knows that Charlie can now think of nothing else. Charlie escapes after watching Shephard exit the biosphere and in a panic of seeing unfamiliar modern devices and believing there are enemies, spears Maynard, one of the bases technicians. Recapturing Charlie, the scientists, led by Dr. Singe, focus on what they can learn from him. They attempt to re-freeze the iceman in order to study the effect of thawing on Charlies physiology, the incident goes awry as Charlie nearly dies in the attempt. Shephard has long known that Charlie has a dimension and now sees that he was on a dreamwalk pilgrimage
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Daniel (1983 film)
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Daniel is a 1983 British-American drama film which was adapted by E. L. Doctorow from his 1971 novel The Book of Daniel. It was directed by Sidney Lumet, the film was based on the life story of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were convicted as spies and executed by the United States government in 1953 for giving nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union. This story follows their fictionalized son as he attempts to out the truth. Paul and Rochelle Isaacson are played by Mandy Patinkin and Lindsay Crouse and their son Daniel is played by Timothy Hutton, his wife Phyllis by Ellen Barkin, and their daughter Susan by Amanda Plummer. In actuality, the Rosenbergs had two sons, Michael and Robert, ed Asner and Maria Tucci also appear in the film. Daniel received mixed reviews and was not a box office success upon its limited release and it currently holds a 43% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Daniel at the Internet Movie Database Daniel at AllMovie Daniel at Rotten Tomatoes
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Turk 182
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Turk 182. is a 1985 American action comedy-drama film starring Timothy Hutton, Robert Urich, Kim Cattrall, Robert Culp and Peter Boyle. It is also one of the first movies to receive a PG-13 rating, 34-year-old firefighter Terry Lynch lives with his 20-year-old brother Jimmy in New York City. Theyve spent most of their lives taking care of each other as both of their parents are deceased. Terry, while off duty, rushes from a bar into an apartment fire to rescue a young girl. The force of the stream pushes Terry, with the child in his arms, through a window and some four stories down, the girl is uninjured, but Terry is seriously hurt. Six months later, and after countless rejections from welfare, workers compensation and others, believing Terry was behind the vandalism, the police, led by Lieutenant Ryan, Tylers chief security officer, come to Hoolys, the brothers hangout, to arrest Terry. When Terry, drunk and high on pills, takes a swing at Ryan, Jimmy goes to Battery Park to again confront Mayor Tyler at his anti-graffiti speech, but is pushed away by police. The Daily News ran a story about Tom Zimmerman, former public works commissioner, Turk 182. and hacking into a scoreboard computer at Giants Stadium during halftime of a football game at which Tyler and New Yorks governor make an appearance. But Jimmy soon develops a motive for his actions, impressing Danny. When Jimmy and Danny return to his apartment after the Giants game, Jimmy goes back out for pizza, looking through photo albums in their keepsake trunk, she finds an award for Terry with a nameplate on the front bearing Terrys nickname Turk. When she finds Terrys firemans cap with badge number 182 on it, Jimmy returns to find a thoroughly impressed Danny waiting for him in his bed, and the two make love. Police Detective Kowalski opens up a file on Turk 182. When Jimmy and Danny visit Terry in the hospital, Terry tells Jimmy that hes going to try to kill himself again when he is cut out of his body cast, after spotting Kowalski and Ryan waiting outside his apartment, Jimmy decides to reveal himself as Turk. But when he and Danny arrive at the Daily News building they find themselves waiting in line behind several other characters all claiming to be Turk. Just as Jimmy leaves in exasperation he is intercepted by a TV reporter who suggests that if Jimmy is the real Turk, on the evening news, a reporter reveals Jimmy as Turk 182, but describes him as a disgruntled civil servant seeking a pension. Angered that the interview was not aired and he is being called a nut case, Jimmy decides to put Turk to rest once and for all, Mayor Tyler appears at a dedication ceremony for the 75th anniversary of the Queensboro Bridge. Ryan, his job now on the line after the Giants Stadium debacle, clamps down security on, with all local media on hand, the mayor throws the switch lighting up the bridge sign. The lettering on the bridge, which is supposed to say Queensboro 19091984, instead reads gibberish, Jimmy, Ryan dispatches all police to climb up in the scaffolding to catch Jimmy, but they cannot reach him because Jimmy greased all the bridges lower girders
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Made in Heaven (1987 film)
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Made in Heaven is a 1987 feature film directed by Alan Rudolph, script from Bruce A. Evans and Raynold Gideon, and produced by Lorimar Productions. The film stars Timothy Hutton and Kelly McGillis and has cameos by Tom Petty, Ric Ocasek, Ellen Barkin, an additional character known only as Emmett in the film was played by Debra Winger, who acted as a chain-smoking male angel. The original music score was composed by Mark Isham, the film was marketed with the tagline How in Heaven did they meet. How on Earth will they find each other, made in Heaven concerns two souls who cross paths in Heaven and then attempt to reconnect once they are reborn on Earth. The film was released on VHS format as well as digital stereo LaserDisc format in 1987, in 2009, the film made its DVD debut as part of the Warner Archive Collection. In a small Pennsylvania town in 1957, Mike Shea dreams of escaping small town life, but Brenda leaves him with his motor running and Mike takes off alone. Along the way, he rescues a woman and her children from a river and he finds himself in Heaven, where his Aunt Lisa greets him, and explains the rules and regulations. Once in the realm, Mike falls in love with a heavenly guide named Annie Packert. Their love is interrupted because Annie has not yet earned her wings on Earth, she must leave on a tour of duty. Mike is beside himself with despair, but the powers, in the form of Emmett Humbird, chain-smoking and sporting an orange crew-cut. Mike can return to Earth, with the stipulation neither he nor Annie will remember each other and he then has thirty years in which they must find each other again. Made In Heaven, Original Motion Picture Soundtrack was released through Elektra Records on LP and cassette, martha Davis - We Never Danced R. E. M. - Romance Ric Ocasek - I Still Want You Luther Vandross - Theres Only You The Nylons - Up the Ladder to the Roof Buffalo Springfield - Mr
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Q&A (film)
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Q & A is a 1990 American crime film written and directed by Sidney Lumet, based on a novel by New York State Supreme Court judge Edwin Torres. It stars Nick Nolte, Timothy Hutton and Armand Assante, mike Brennan, a tough, crude, decorated NYPD detective, has a hidden dark side as well as a partnership with certain figures of organized crime. Brennan shoots and kills a small-time Puerto Rican criminal and then threatens witnesses to testify that he acted in self-defense. The Commissioner of Police Kevin Quinn assigns the case to Deputy Attorney Aloysius Al Francis Reilly, Reilly collects Brennans deposition, who claims to have been acting on a tip from an informant and was forced to shoot in self-defense. Reillys case leads him to a Puerto Rican crime boss called Bobby Tex and she ended their relationship years ago after interpreting Als reaction of surprise as racist when she introduced him to her father, a black man. Al tries to rekindle their past romance, but she rejects him because with Bobby, Al, along with detectives Sam Chappie Chapman and Luis Valentin, has doubts about the dynamics of the event, knowing the environment of the Puerto Rican underworld. Investigations reveal a link between Quinn and Brennan, while the latter goes on the trail of Montalvo, the witness who can disprove his testimony of self-defense. Brennan tries threatening Valentin and bribing Chappie for help in finding Montalvo, meanwhile, Bobby Tex is invited by the Mafia to step aside, as Brennans support is still useful to them. Bobby, in turn, begins looking for Montalvo to use as leverage against Brennan, at the same time he begins to shut down his business in order to retire to private life with Nancy. Bobby finds Montalvo before Brennan, and together they leave for Puerto Rico, where the smuggler owns a mansion, here he is joined by Al, called secretly to give him an important information about the case. Al, after informing Bloomenfeld, goes to the island, where it is revealed that Quinn was once part of Bobbys gang, and participated in a murder. Brennan appears to be hunting down all of the former members on Quinns orders. Brennan is forced to go along with it because Quinn is holding an abuse of authority charge over him, even the Mafia intends to close accounts with both Bobby and Brennan, whose position is becoming increasingly untenable. They fail in an attempt to kill Bobby, who has announced his retirement, Brennan then slices the boats fuel line and waits for Bobby to arrive. A phone call made by Al saves Nancy at the last moment, Al procures an arrest warrant for Brennan but fails to catch him at the airport. He returns to the DAs office to find Brennan waiting for him. Brennan reveals the truth about Als father to Al, that his father was a bagman and a bigot, who was sort of a line to keep minorities down, Brennan is then shot dead by another officer. Feeling betrayed and disillusioned, Al trashes his desk and office, Hutton said, In many cases the hands of the officer on the street are tied
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The Cars
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The Cars are an American rock band that emerged from the new wave scene in the late 1970s. The Cars were at the forefront in merging 1970s guitar-oriented rock with the new synthesizer-oriented pop that was becoming popular. The Cars were named Best New Artist in the 1978 Rolling Stone Readers Poll and their debut album, The Cars, sold six million copies and appeared on the Billboard 200 album chart for 139 weeks. As of 2001, the Cars have sold over 23 million albums in the United States, the band broke up in 1988, and Ocasek later discouraged talk of a reunion. Orr died in 2000 from pancreatic cancer, in 2005, Easton and Hawkes joined with Todd Rundgren to form a spin-off band, the New Cars, which performed classic Cars and Rundgren songs alongside new material. The original surviving members reunited in 2010 to record a new album, Move Like This, in 2015, they were nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Before the Cars, members of the band performed together in different incarnations. Ric Ocasek and Benjamin Orr met in Cleveland, Ohio in the 1960s after Ocasek saw Orr performing with his band the Grasshoppers on the Big 5 Show, a local musical variety program. The two were in bands in Columbus, Ohio and Ann Arbor, Michigan before re-locating to Boston in the early 1970s. In Boston, Ocasek and Orr, along with lead guitarist Jas Goodkind, formed a Crosby, Stills and they released one album, Hows the Weather, on Paramount Records in 1973 that failed to chart. After Milkwood, Ocasek and Orr formed the group Richard and the Rabbits, the band included Greg Hawkes, who had studied at the Berklee School of Music and had played saxophone on Milkwoods album. Hawkes left to tour with Martin Mull and His Fabulous Furniture, Ric Ocasek and Ben Orr then performed as an acoustic duo called simply Ocasek and Orr at the Idler coffeehouse in Cambridge. Some of the songs they played became the early Cars songs, later, Ocasek and Orr teamed up with guitarist Elliot Easton in the band Capn Swing. Capn Swing also featured drummer Glenn Evans, later followed by Kevin Robichaud, and a bass player. Benjamin Orr was the lead vocalist and did not play an instrument, Capn Swing soon came to the attention of WBCN disc jockey Maxanne Sartori, who began playing songs from their demo tape on her show. After being rejected by record labels, Ocasek got rid of the bass player and drummer. Orr took over on bass and Robichaud was replaced by David Robinson, Robinson had also played in DMZ and the Pop. Hawkes returned to play keyboards and the band became The Cars, a nine-song demo tape was recorded in early 1977 and soon Just What I Needed was getting heavy airplay on Boston radio stations WBCN and WCOZ
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Drive (The Cars song)
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Drive is a 1984 song by The Cars, the third single from the bands Heartbeat City album released in March 1984 and their biggest international hit. Written by Ric Ocasek, the track was sung by bassist Benjamin Orr and produced by Robert John Mutt Lange with the band. Upon its release, Drive became The Cars highest charting single in the United States, peaking at No.3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, on the Adult Contemporary chart, the song went to No.1. It reached No.4 in West Germany, No.6 in Canada, No.5 in the UK, following the concert it was re-released in the UK and peaked at No.4 in August 1985. In a retrospective review of the single, AllMusic journalist Donald A. Guarisco praised the song for being a ballad that matches heartfelt songwriting to an alluring electronic soundscape. The music reflects the tone with a lovely melody that rises. The music video was directed by actor Timothy Hutton and features model and actress Paulina Porizkova, ultimately left alone, the woman cries and laughs hysterically for a time before visiting the nightclub. Hutton later recalled that his directing the video came about because he was living next to Elliot Roberts and they were listening to tracks from the then-unreleased album Heartbeat City and Hutton told Roberts he was particularly impressed by the track Drive. At that time, everybody was making videos and it was the height of MTV, and when you made a record, you were also thinking about the video. I talked to Elliott about how much I liked that song “Drive, ” and I started describing all the different ways I thought they could go with it, and he said, “You know, everything you’re saying sounds really interesting. Do you mind if… Would you be up for me passing that concept along to Ric Ocasek. ”So he got back to me the day and said, “Ric. We love your idea, your take on it. ”And about a month later, Hutton and Ric Ocasek became friends which led to the latter being cast in Made in Heaven. The song was used in the 2007 film Transformers, playing on the radio in Sam Witwickys car and it was also used in the series Everybody Hates Chris, in the episode Everybody Hates the Car. The song was covered in 1984 by British entertainer Des OConnor on his album Des OConnor Now, Australian band The Paradise Motel released a cover as a single in 1999. This was used in the 2001 Noah Taylor film He Died with a Felafel in His Hand, New Zealand band Strawpeople covered the song in 2000, featuring the vocals of Bic Runga. The song peaked at number 7 on the New Zealand charts, in 2001, the German rock band Scorpions covered the song on their live unplugged album Acoustica. A cover by Ziggy Marley of Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers was featured in the 2004 film 50 First Dates, in 2005, American band Deftones recorded an exclusive cover of the song for iTunes. In 2010, Australian actor/singer Jason Donovan recorded a version of Drive for his covers album Soundtrack of the 80s
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Elizabeth McGovern
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Elizabeth Lee McGovern is an American film, television, and theater actor, and musician. She received an Academy Award nomination for her role as Evelyn Nesbit in the 1981 film Ragtime. She is also known for her performance as Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham in the British drama series Downton Abbey, for which she has been nominated for an Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award. The McGovern family moved to Los Angeles, where her father accepted a position with the law school at UCLA. Her younger sister is the novelist Cammie McGovern, agent Joan Scott saw her performance in The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder, was impressed by her talent, and recommended she take acting lessons. McGovern studied at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, then at The Juilliard School in New York City. In 1980, while studying at Juilliard, McGovern was offered a part in what became her first film, Ordinary People, in which she played the girlfriend of troubled teenager Conrad Jarrett. The following year she completed her education at the American Conservatory Theatre and Juilliard. In 1981 she earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Evelyn Nesbit in the film Ragtime, in 1984, she starred in Sergio Leones gangster epic Once Upon a Time in America as Robert De Niros romantic interest Deborah Gelly. She teamed with Michael Caine in 1990s A Shock to the System, in a 1994 comedy, The Favor, McGovern played a woman who cheats on her boyfriend by becoming her married best friends proxy in a tryst with a man the friend has fantasized about. McGovern appeared in a number of films in the 2000s, including Woman in Gold, McGovern has appeared in several television productions, mostly in the UK. In 1999 and 2000 McGovern played Marguerite St, just in a BBC television series loosely based on the novel The Scarlet Pimpernel. On American TV, she appeared in a 2006 episode of Law & Order, Special Victims Unit titled Harm, in which her character of Dr. Faith Sutton was a psychiatrist accused of complicity in detainee abuse. In May 2007, she played Ellen Doubleday, Daphne du Mauriers paramour, in Daphne, in December 2008, McGovern appeared as Dame Celia Westholme in Appointment with Death, an episode of Agatha Christies Poirot. In the same year, she appeared in the three-part BBC comedy series Freezing, written by James Wood, first broadcast on BBC Four, it was also shown on BBC2 in February 2008. McGovern played an American expatriate actress named Elizabeth, living in Chiswick with her husband, played by Hugh Bonneville. From 2010 to 2015, she portrayed Cora, Countess of Grantham, wife of Robert, in 2008 she began fronting the band Sadie and the Hotheads at The Castle pub venue in Portobello Road, London. The band released an album of songs she developed with The Nelson Brothers, the album also includes Ron Knights on bass and Rowan Oliver, borrowed from Goldfrapp, as drummer for the recording sessions
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A.R. Gurney
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Albert Ramsdell Gurney Jr, sometimes credited as Pete Gurney, is an American playwright, novelist and academic. He is known for works including The Dining Room, Sweet Sue, Love Letters and his series of plays about upper-class WASP life in contemporary America have been called penetratingly witty studies of the WASP ascendancy in retreat. His parents had three children, of which Gurney was the middle, Evelyn Gurney, who married Miller, Albert Ramsdell Gurney, Jr. and Stephen S. Gurney Gurney attended the Nichols School in Buffalo and graduated from St. Pauls School in Concord, New Hampshire. He attended Williams College, graduating in 1952, and the Yale School of Drama, graduating in 1958, after which he began teaching Humanities at MIT. His maternal grandparents were Elbridge G. Spaulding and Marion Caryl Ely. Ely was the daughter of William Caryl Ely, in 1959, following graduation from Yale, Gurney taught English and Latin at a day school, Belmont Hill School, in Belmont, Massachusetts for one year. He then joined Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Professor of Humanities, from 1960 until 1996 and he began writing plays such as Children and The Middle Ages while at MIT, but it was his great success with The Dining Room that allowed him to write full-time. Since The Dining Room, Gurney has written a number of plays, while at Yale, Gurney also wrote the musical, Love in Buffalo, this was the first musical ever produced at the Yale School of Drama. Since then, he is known to be a prolific writer and his first play in New York, which ran for just one performance in October 1968, The David Show, premiered at the Players’ Theater on MacDougal Street. The play was cut after its first show by sneers from the entire press except for two enthusiasts, Edith Oliver in The New Yorker and another from the Village Voice. His 2015 play, Love and Money, is about a woman making plans to dispose of her fortune, and the twists that ensue. It was also produced in Buffalo by the Kavinoky Theatre and he appeared in several of his plays including The Dining Room and most notably Love Letters. Gurneys plays often explore the theme of a declining upper-class White Anglo-Saxon Protestant WASP life in contemporary America, the Wall Street Journal has called his works penetratingly witty studies of the WASP ascendancy in retreat. Several of his works are based on his patrician upbringing, including The Cocktail Hour. In his 1988 play, The Cocktail Hour, the character that tells her playwright son that theater critics dont like us. They think were all Republicans, all superficial and all alcoholics, the New York Times described the play as witty observations about a nearly extinct patrician class that regards psychiatry as an affront to good manners, underpaid hired help as a birthright. Gurney added that he was a man in Buffalo. My father could never mention it, and it affected the family well into the generation as a dark. It made my father and his father desperate to be accepted, to be conventional and it made them commit themselves to an ostensibly easy bourgeois world
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Mary-Louise Parker
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Mary-Louise Parker is an American actress and author. Parker is also the recipient of the 2001 Tony Award for Best Actress for her performance in the Broadway play Proof and she also starred in When We Rise. Parker was born in Fort Jackson, South Carolina, the youngest of four children, she is the daughter of Caroline Louise and John Morgan Parker, a judge who served in the U. S. Army. Her ancestry includes Swedish, English, Scottish, Scots-Irish, German, because of her fathers career, Parker spent parts of her childhood in Tennessee and Texas, as well as in Thailand, Germany, and France. She described her childhood as unhappy, further noting that, My parents did everything they could, I had books, clothes, a home and a warm bed. She graduated from Marcos de Niza High School in Tempe, Arizona, Parker majored in drama at the North Carolina School of the Arts and graduated in 1986. Parker got her start in acting with a role on the soap opera Ryans Hope, in the late 1980s, Parker moved to New York. After a few roles, she made her Broadway debut in a 1990 production of Craig Lucas Prelude to a Kiss. She moved with the production when it transferred from its origin Off-Broadway, Parker won the Clarence Derwent Award for her performance and was nominated for a Tony Award. In addition, she appeared alongside Matthew Modine in Tim Hunters The Maker, Parkers theater career continued when she appeared in Paula Vogels 1997 critical smash How I Learned to Drive, with David Morse. In the late 1990s, she appeared in independent films, including Let the Devil Wear Black. She starred alongside Sidney Poitier in the 1999 movie The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn, on December 7,2003, HBO aired a six-and-a-half-hour adaptation of Tony Kushners acclaimed Broadway play Angels in America, directed by Mike Nichols. Parker played Harper Pitt, the Mormon Valium-addicted wife of a closeted lawyer, for her performance, Parker received Golden Globe and Emmy awards for Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries. Parker took the role that had been Mia Farrows on screen. The production, directed by Mark Brokaw, earned Parker another nomination for a Tony Award for Best Actress in 2005, in November 2005, Parker was the subject of a career exhibition at Boston University, where memorabilia from her career were donated to the Universitys library. In that category, she defeated the four leads of Desperate Housewives and she dedicated the award to the late John Spencer, known for his work as Leo McGarry on The West Wing. After receiving the award, Parker stated, Im really in favor of legalizing marijuana, I dont think its that controversial. In March 2007, Parker played the role in the television film The Robber Bride
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Barnard Hughes
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Bernard Aloysius Kiernan Barnard Hughes was an American actor of television, theater and film. Hughes became famous for a variety of roles, his roles came after middle age. Hughes was born in Bedford Hills, New York, the son of Irish immigrants Marcella Madge and he attended La Salle Academy and Manhattan College in New York City. Hughes served in the United States Army during World War II, Hughes was married to actress Helen Stenborg. They married on April 19,1950, and remained married until his death, Hughes was five days shy of his ninety-first birthday when he died. The Hugheses had two children, the theatre director Doug Hughes, and a daughter, Laura, Hughes and his wife are interred at Church of the Transfiguration, Episcopal in New York City. Hughes changed the e in his first name to an a to help his career on the advice of a numerologist. Through high school and college, Hughes worked a series of odd jobs, including a stint as a dockworker and he auditioned for the Shakespeare Fellowship Repertory company in New York City on the advice of a friend, and ended up joining the company for two years. Hughes played more than 400 theatre roles, including the one for which he was perhaps most famous and he won Broadways 1978 Tony Award as Best Actor for his portrayal of the title role, in 1988 he recreated the role for the film Da. On screen, he appeared in the transcription of Hamlet. Cold Turkey The Hospital, Tron, Maxie, The Lost Boys, Da - the screen reprise of his most successful stage-role, Doc Hollywood and the big success Sister Act 2, Back in the Habit. He also played the old man who gave a ride to Felix, Hughes appeared on TV in such series as Naked City, The Secret Storm, Dark Shadows, Love Story, Blossom, and Homicide, Life on the Street. Hughes made three appearances in The Bob Newhart Show as the father of Dr. Robert Hartley, Hughes sang Danny Boy in one episode of the latter series. He also made an appearance as The King in the PBS mini-series Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Hughes also made recurring appearances on daytime dramas including Guiding Light and he also did voice-overs for television commercials advertising Kix cereal. The Young Doctors The Borgia Stick Midnight Cowboy Wheres Poppa, Dr. Cooks Garden Cold Turkey The Pursuit of Happiness The Hospital Rage Sisters The UFO Incident Oh, God. First Monday in October Tron Best Friends Maxie Where Are the Children, Barnard Hughes at the Internet Movie Database Barnard Hughes at the Internet Broadway Database Barnard Hughes at the Internet Off-Broadway Database Barnard Hughes at AllMovie
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Everybody's All-American (film)
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Everybodys All-American is a 1988 American sports drama film directed by Taylor Hackford and based on the novel Everybodys All-American by longtime Sports Illustrated contributor Frank Deford. The film covers 25 years in the life of a football hero. It stars Dennis Quaid, Jessica Lange, Timothy Hutton and John Goodman, Gavin Grey is a 1950s star athlete known by the moniker The Grey Ghost, who plays football at a Louisiana university. His campus girlfriend Babs Rogers, nephew Donnie who also goes by the nickname Cake, as his college days come to an end, Gavin ends up marrying Babs, starts a family, and gets drafted by a professional football team. Lawrence opens a sports bar in Baton Rouge. Everyone is pleased for Gavin, including his friendly rival Narvel Blue, reality quickly sets in for Gavin as life in the NFL is difficult, competition fierce, and the schedule grueling. Gavin is a running back for the Washington Redskins. Concurrently, Lawrence has accrued a number of gambling debts and he is later murdered amid an episode of organized crime, creating more debts for Gavin and Babs, who had invested in Lawrences business. Babs does her best to keep up with her husbands career and mood swings, a sympathetic Donnie finds her frustrated and lonely, as his lifetime attraction to her brings them together for a brief extramarital affair. Gavins financial setbacks encourage Babs to seek a job from Narvel to manage his restaurant, age and injuries result in Gavin being traded, benched, then forced into retirement. He enters a business relationship with entrepreneur Bolling Kiely, whom he despises. Donnie moves on with his life, becoming an author and getting engaged to a woman named Leslie Stone, while supporting Gavin. A despaired figure in the end, Gavin mends his relationship with Babs as he spends his withdrawal from professional sports reminiscing about his athletic youth. Filming was stopped for weeks when Dennis Quaid had his collarbone broken by former New England Patriots cornerback Tim Fox during filming, footage of Quaid rolling in pain on the sidelines of the snow game appears in the finished film. A key scene featuring a candlelight parade involving large numbers of extras was filmed, on the steps of the Louisiana State Capitol, the game scenes were shot in LSUs Tiger Stadium during the halftimes of actual LSU games. The goalposts were altered to resemble the vintage H posts as needed during filming, vertical posts were moved in place for the bottom portion of the H, and a multi-colored fabric covering was used to conceal the center upright. Upon completion of filming, the posts and fabric were retracted so as not to interfere with the LSU games. In late 1993, LSU installed a model of the vintage posts permanently in the stadium
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