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Pittsburgh
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Pittsburgh is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States, and is the county seat of Allegheny County. The city proper has a population of 304,391. The metropolitan population of 2,353,045 is the largest in both the Ohio Valley and Appalachia, the second-largest in Pennsylvania, and the 26th-largest in the U. S. The city features 30 skyscrapers, two inclines, a fortification and the Point State Park at the confluence of the rivers. Aside from steel, Pittsburgh has led in manufacturing of aluminum, glass, shipbuilding, petroleum, foods, sports, transportation, computing, autos, and electronics. For part of the 20th century, Pittsburgh was behind only New York and Chicago in corporate headquarters employment, Americas 1980s deindustrialization laid off area blue-collar workers and thousands of downtown white-collar workers when the longtime Pittsburgh-based world headquarters moved out. The area has served also as the federal agency headquarters for cyber defense, software engineering, robotics, energy research. The area is home to 68 colleges and universities, including research and development leaders Carnegie Mellon University, the region is a hub for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, sustainable energy, and energy extraction. Pittsburgh was named in 1758 by General John Forbes, in honor of British statesman William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham. The current pronunciation, which is unusual in English speaking countries, is almost certainly a result of a printing error in some copies of the City Charter of March 18,1816. The error was repeated commonly enough throughout the rest of the 19th century that the pronunciation was lost. After a public campaign the original spelling was restored by the United States Board on Geographic Names in 1911. The area of the Ohio headwaters was long inhabited by the Shawnee, the first known European to enter the region was the French explorer/trader Robert de La Salle from Quebec during his 1669 expedition down the Ohio River. European pioneers, primarily Dutch, followed in the early 18th century, Michael Bezallion was the first to describe the forks of the Ohio in a 1717 manuscript, and later that year European fur traders established area posts and settlements. In 1749, French soldiers from Quebec launched an expedition to the forks to unite Canada with French Louisiana via the rivers, during 1753–54, the British hastily built Fort Prince George before a larger French force drove them off. The French built Fort Duquesne based on LaSalles 1669 claims, the French and Indian War, the North American front of the Seven Years War, began with the future Pittsburgh as its center. British General Edward Braddock was dispatched with Major George Washington as his aide to take Fort Duquesne, the British and colonial force were defeated at Braddocks Field. General John Forbes finally took the forks in 1758, Forbes began construction on Fort Pitt, named after William Pitt the Elder while the settlement was named Pittsborough
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Actor
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An actor is a person who portrays a character in a performance. Simplistically speaking, the person denominated actor or actress is someone beautiful who plays important characters, the actor performs in the flesh in the traditional medium of the theatre, or in modern mediums such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is ὑποκριτής, literally one who answers, the actors interpretation of their role pertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is playing themselves, as in forms of experimental performance art, or, more commonly, to act, is to create. Formerly, in societies, only men could become actors. When used for the stage, women played the roles of prepubescent boys. The etymology is a derivation from actor with ess added. However, when referring to more than one performer, of both sexes, actor is preferred as a term for male performers. Actor is also used before the name of a performer as a gender-specific term. Within the profession, the re-adoption of the term dates to the 1950–1960s. As Whoopi Goldberg put it in an interview with the paper, Im an actor – I can play anything. The U. K. performers union Equity has no policy on the use of actor or actress, an Equity spokesperson said that the union does not believe that there is a consensus on the matter and stated that the. subject divides the profession. In 2009, the Los Angeles Times stated that Actress remains the term used in major acting awards given to female recipients. However, player remains in use in the theatre, often incorporated into the name of a group or company, such as the American Players. Also, actors in improvisational theatre may be referred to as players, prior to Thespis act, Grecian stories were only expressed in song, dance, and in third person narrative. In honor of Thespis, actors are commonly called Thespians, the exclusively male actors in the theatre of ancient Greece performed in three types of drama, tragedy, comedy, and the satyr play. Western theatre developed and expanded considerably under the Romans, as the Western Roman Empire fell into decay through the 4th and 5th centuries, the seat of Roman power shifted to Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire. Records show that mime, pantomime, scenes or recitations from tragedies and comedies, dances, from the 5th century, Western Europe was plunged into a period of general disorder
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Garn Stephens
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Garn Stephens is an American film, television and theatre actress and writer. She is known for her roles in television series Phyllis and horror film Halloween III, Stephens began her career on stage as a theatre actress. She performed as Estelle in the stage play Fathers Day in 1971. In 1972 she played the original character Jan in the Broadway production of Grease and her role in the musical is perhaps one of her best known performances. She made many television guest appearances throughout her career lasted almost twenty years. In 1975 she made her first appearance on the series Wide World Mystery, the following year, Stephens received a leading role on the Golden Globe-winning television sitcom Phyllis, with Cloris Leachman. The series was the second spin-off from The Mary Tyler Moore Show and she did not receive another leading role in a television series. From the late seventies until the nineties, Stephens appeared in several top rated television series including Charlies Angels, Family Ties, Falcon Crest. During her career, Stephens starred in three feature films, in 1975 she appeared in The Sunshine Boys with Walter Matthau and George Burns, and Jakes M. O. She is best known for the role as Marge Guttman in the 1982 horror film Halloween III, Season of the Witch, carpenter later offered her the role in Halloween III. In 1983 she had written for an episode of medical drama series St. Elsewhere and her writing credits include Trapper John, M. D. Stephens was formerly married to actor Tom Atkins and she lived with musician Stuart Niemi, with whom she has one child, Stuart Baird Niemi. She is currently writing crime/mystery stories, writer Garn Stephens at the Internet Movie Database Garn Stephens at the Internet Broadway Database Garn Stephens at AllMovie
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Americans
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Americans are citizens of the United States of America. The country is home to people of different national origins. As a result, Americans do not equate their nationality with ethnicity, although citizens make up the majority of Americans, non-citizen residents, dual citizens, and expatriates may also claim an American identity. See Names for United States citizens. S, virgin Islands and Northern Mariana Islands in the 20th century. It also includes influences of African-American culture, westward expansion integrated the Creoles and Cajuns of Louisiana and the Hispanos of the Southwest and brought close contact with the culture of Mexico. Large-scale immigration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries from Southern and Eastern Europe introduced a variety of elements, immigration from Asia, Africa, and Latin America has also had impact. A cultural melting pot, or pluralistic salad bowl, describes the way in which generations of Americans have celebrated and exchanged distinctive cultural characteristics, in addition to the United States, Americans and people of American descent can be found internationally. As many as seven million Americans are estimated to be living abroad, the United States of America is a diverse country, racially, and ethnically. Some other race is also an option in the census and other surveys, people of European descent, or White Americans, constitute the majority of the 308 million people living in the United States, with 72. 4% of the population in the 2010 United States Census. They are considered people who trace their ancestry to the peoples of Europe, the Middle East. Of those reporting to be White American,7,487,133 reported to be Multiracial, with largest combination being white, additionally, there are 29,184,290 White Hispanics or Latinos. Non-Hispanic Whites are the majority in 46 states, there are four minority-majority states, California, Texas, New Mexico, and Hawaii. In addition, the District of Columbia has a non-white majority, the state with the highest percentage of non-Hispanic White Americans is Maine. The largest continental ancestral group of Americans are that of Europeans who have origins in any of the peoples of Europe. This includes people via African, North American, Caribbean, Central American or South American and Oceanian nations that have a large European diaspora, the Spanish were the first Europeans to establish a continuous presence in what is now the United States. Martín de Argüelles born 1566, San Agustín, La Florida, was the first person of European descent born in what is now the United States. Twenty-one years later, Virginia Dare born 1587 Roanoke Island in present-day North Carolina, was the first child born in the Thirteen Colonies to English parents. 8% of the total population, Hispanic or Latino Americans constitute the largest ethnic minority in the United States. They form the second largest group after non-Hispanic Whites in the United States, hispanic/Latino Americans are very racially diverse, and as a result form an ethnic category, rather than a race
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Horror film
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Horror film is a film genre that seeks to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on their fears. Inspired by literature from authors like Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, the macabre and the supernatural are frequent themes. Horror may also overlap with the fantasy, supernatural fiction and thriller genres, Horror films often deal with viewers nightmares, fears, revulsions and terror of the unknown. Plots within the genre often involve the intrusion of an evil force, event. Another of his projects was 1898s La Caverne maudite. Japan made early forays into the genre with Bake Jizo and Shinin no Sosei. The era featured a slew of literary adaptations, with the works of Poe and Dante, in 1908, Selig Polyscope Company produced Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In 1910, Edison Studios produced the first filmed version of Frankenstein, the macabre nature of the source materials used made the films synonymous with the horror film genre. Before and during the Weimar Republic era, German Expressionist filmmakers would significantly influence later productions, the first vampire-themed movie, Nosferatu, was made during this period, though it was an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stokers Dracula. Other European countries also, contributed to the genre during this period, though the word horror to describe the film genre would not be used until the 1930s, earlier American productions often relied on horror themes. Some notable examples include The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Phantom of the Opera, The Cat and the Canary, The Unknown, and The Man Who Laughs. Many of these films were considered dark melodramas because of their stock characters and emotion-heavy plots that focused on romance, violence, suspense. The trend of inserting an element of macabre into American pre-horror melodramas continued into the 1920s, directors known for relying on macabre in their films during the 1920s were Maurice Tourneur, Rex Ingram, and Tod Browning. Ingrams The Magician contains one of the first examples of a mad doctor and is said to have had a influence on James Whales version of Frankenstein. The Unholy Three is an example of Brownings use of macabre and unique style of morbidity, he remade the film in 1930 as a talkie, during the early period of talking pictures, Universal Pictures began a successful Gothic horror film series. Tod Brownings Dracula was quickly followed by James Whales Frankenstein and The Old Dark House, some of these films blended science fiction with Gothic horror, such as Whales The Invisible Man and featured a mad scientist, mirroring earlier German films. Frankenstein was the first in a series of remakes which lasted for years, the Mummy introduced Egyptology as a theme, Make-up artist Jack Pierce was responsible for the iconic image of the monster, and others in the series. Universals horror cycle continued into the 1940s with B-movies including The Wolf Man, the once controversial Freaks, based on the short story Spurs, was made by MGM, though the studio disowned the completed film, and it remained banned, in the UK, for thirty years
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Thriller film
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Thriller film, also known as suspense film or suspense thriller, is a film genre that falls under the general thriller genre. The thriller films key characteristics are excitement and suspense, the suspense element, found in most films plots, is particularly exploited by the filmmaker in this genre. Tension is created by delaying what the audience sees as inevitable, a strict definition of the thriller film is that the films overarching goal is to build tension in audiences as the film approaches its climax. Tension is built through situations that are menacing or where escape seems impossible, Life is typically threatened in thriller film, such as when the protagonist does not realize entering a dangerous situation. Thriller films characters conflict with other or with an outside force. Thriller films are typically hybridized with other genres, there exist adventure thrillers, science fiction thrillers, Western thrillers, Thriller films also share a close relationship with horror films, both eliciting tension. In plots about crime, thriller films focus less on the criminal or the detective, common themes include terrorism, political conspiracy, pursuit, or romantic triangles leading to murder. Alfred Hitchcocks first thriller was his silent film, The Lodger. His next thriller was Blackmail, his and Britains first sound film and his notable thrillers in the 1930s include The Man Who Knew Too Much and The 39 Steps. 326 —this film would be an inspiration for the future James Bond films, the German film M, directed by Fritz Lang, starred Peter Lorre as a criminal deviant who preys on children. Hitchcock continued his suspense-thrillers, directing Foreign Correspondent, the Oscar-winning Rebecca, Suspicion, Saboteur and Shadow of a Doubt, notable non-Hitchcock films of the 1940s include The Spiral Staircase and Sorry, Wrong Number. In the 1950s, Hitchcock added technicolor to his thrillers, now with exotic locales and he reached the zenith of his career with a succession of classic films such as, Strangers on a Train, Dial M For Murder with Ray Milland, Rear Window and Vertigo. Non-Hitchcock thrillers of the 1950s include The Night of the Hunter —Charles Laughtons only film as director—and Orson Welless crime thriller Touch of Evil, director Michael Powells Peeping Tom featured Carl Boehm as a psychopathic cameraman. After Hitchcocks classic films of the 1950s, he produced Psycho about a lonely, mother-fixated motel owner, J. Lee Thompsons Cape Fear, with Robert Mitchum, had a menacing ex-con seeking revenge. A famous thriller at the time of its release was Wait Until Dark by director Terence Young, john Boormans Deliverance followed the perilous fate of four Southern businessmen during a weekends trip. In Francis Ford Coppolas The Conversation, a bugging-device expert systematically uncovered a covert murder while he himself was being spied upon, Peter Hyams science fiction thriller Capricorn One proposed a government conspiracy to fake the first mission to Mars. His notable films include Sisters, Obsession, which was inspired by Vertigo, Dressed to Kill. Other films include Curtis Hansons The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and Unlawful Entry, detectives/FBI agents hunting down a serial killer was another popular motif in the 90s
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William Peter Blatty
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William Peter Blatty was an American writer and filmmaker best known for his 1971 novel The Exorcist and for the Academy Award-winning screenplay of its film adaptation. He also wrote and directed the sequel The Exorcist III, following completion of his masters degree in 1954, he joined the United States Air Force, where he worked in the Psychological Warfare Division. After service in the air force, he worked for the United States Information Agency in Beirut, some of his other notable works are the novels Elsewhere, Dimiter and Crazy. Blatty was born on January 7,1928, in New York City and he was the fifth and youngest child of Lebanese immigrants, Mary, a devout Catholic and the niece of a bishop, and Peter Blatty, a cloth cutter. His parents separated when he was a toddler, roosevelt when the President was cutting the ribbon for the Queens–Midtown Tunnel, telling him, For when you have company. He lived at 28 different addresses during his childhood because of nonpayment of rent and we never lived at the same address in New York for longer than two or three months at a time, Blatty told The Washington Post in 1972. Eviction was the order of the day and he attended Brooklyn Preparatory, a Jesuit school, on a scholarship and graduated as class valedictorian in 1946. He later attended Georgetown University on a scholarship, where he earned his bachelors degree in English in 1950, while studying for his masters degree at George Washington University, Blatty took menial jobs. Initially unable to find a job in teaching, he worked as a vacuum cleaner salesman, a beer truck driver. He earned his masters in English literature from the George Washington University in 1954 and he then enlisted in the United States Air Force, where he ultimately became head of the Policy Branch of the USAF Psychological Warfare Division. Mustering out of the Air Force, he joined the United States Information Agency and worked as an editor based in Beirut, in the 1950s, Blatty worked as the public relations director at Loyola University of Los Angeles and as a publicity director at the University of Southern California. He published his first book, Which Way to Mecca, Jack, in 1960, a humorous look at both his early life, and his work at the United States Information Agency in Lebanon. Thereafter, he never held a regular job and he then published the comic novels, John Goldfarb, Please Come Home. I, Billy Shakespeare, and Twinkle, Twinkle, Killer Kane and it was at this point that Blatty began a collaboration with director Blake Edwards, writing scripts for comedy films such as, A Shot in the Dark, What Did You Do in the War, Daddy. Gunn, and Darling Lili, a musical starring Julie Andrews, other screenplays include the film adaptation of John Goldfarb, Please Come Home. and The Great Bank Robbery. The book sold more than 13 million copies in the United States alone and was translated into over a dozen languages and he later adapted it with director William Friedkin into the film version. Blatty went on to win an Academy Award for his Exorcist screenplay, as well as Golden Globes for Best Picture and it also became the first horror film ever to be nominated for the best picture Oscar. The film was a commercial flop despite critical acclaim, Movie critic Jerry Stein called it a masterpiece in The Cincinnati Post, and Peter Travers described it as the finest large-scale American surrealist film ever made in People magazine
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John Carpenter
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John Howard Carpenter is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, musician, editor and composer. Although Carpenter has worked in film genres, he is most commonly associated with horror, action. Most films in Carpenters career were initially commercial and critical failures, with the exceptions of Halloween, The Fog, Escape from New York. However, many of Carpenters films from the 1970s and the 1980s have come to be viewed as cult classics, and he has been acknowledged as an influential filmmaker. Cult classics that Carpenter directed include, Dark Star, Assault on Precinct 13, The Thing, Christine, Big Trouble in Little China, Prince of Darkness, They Live and In the Mouth of Madness. He released his first studio album Lost Themes in 2015, Carpenter was born January 16,1948 in Carthage, New York, the son of Milton Jean and Howard Ralph Carpenter, a music professor. He and his moved to Bowling Green, Kentucky in 1953. In a beginning film course at USC Cinema in 1969, Carpenter wrote and directed an 8-minute short film, the film was rediscovered in the USC archives in 2011 and proved interesting because it revealed elements that would appear in his later film, Halloween. The short film was blown-up to 35mm, sixty prints were made, and his first major film as director, Dark Star, was a science fiction black comedy that he cowrote with Dan OBannon. Carpenters efforts did not go unnoticed as much of Hollywood marveled at his abilities within the confines of a shoestring budget. Carpenters next film was Assault on Precinct 13, a low-budget thriller influenced by the films of Howard Hawks, as with Dark Star, Carpenter was responsible for many aspects of the films creation. He not only wrote, directed and scored it, but also edited the film under the pseudonym John T. Chance. Carpenter has said that he considers Assault on Precinct 13 to have been his first real film because it was the first movie that he shot on a schedule. The film marked the first time Carpenter worked with Debra Hill, Carpenter assembled a main cast that consisted of experienced but relatively obscure actors. The film received a reassessment in the United States, where it is now generally regarded as one of the best exploitation films of the 1970s. Carpenter both wrote and directed the Lauren Hutton thriller Someones Watching Me and this TV movie is the tale of a single, working woman who, shortly after arriving in L. A. discovers that she is being stalked. Halloween was a hit and helped give birth to the slasher film genre. Carpenter said of the concept, Halloween night
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Richard Donner
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Richard Donner is an American film director and producer. After directing the horror film The Omen, Donner became famous for directing the first modern film, Superman. Donner later went on to such films such as The Goonies and Scrooged, while reinvigorating the buddy film genre with Lethal Weapon. He and his wife, producer Lauren Shuler Donner, own the production company The Donners Company, in 2000, he received the Presidents Award from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films. Film historian Michael Barson writes that Donner is one of Hollywoods most reliable makers of action blockbusters, Donner was born Richard Donald Schwartzberg in the Bronx, to Jewish parents, Hattie and Fred Schwartzberg. His father owned a furniture manufacturing business. Donner started his career with hopes of acting but quickly moved into directing commercials and he moved into television in the late 1950s, directing some episodes of the Steve McQueen western serial Wanted, Dead or Alive and the Chuck Connors western The Rifleman. In his early career as a director he worked on TV commercials and over twenty-five television series including Have Gun Will Travel, The Fugitive, get Smart, The Man from U. N. C. L. E. The Wild Wild West, Gilligans Island, Kojak, Tales from the Crypt and The Twilight Zone, Donner directed his first feature film in 1961, X-15, which starred Charles Bronson and Mary Tyler Moore. It was not until seven years later, however, that he directed his film, Salt and Pepper, with Sammy Davis Jr. His break-through film was The Omen, a supernatural thriller made in the wake of the success obtained by The Exorcist, the film stars Gregory Peck, David Warner and Lee Remick. It became the fifth highest-grossing movie of 1976, in 1978, Donner directed Superman, The Movie, starring Christopher Reeve in the title role. The film became a hit worldwide, projecting both Reeve and Donner to international fame, co-stars included Margot Kidder as Lois Lane, Marlon Brando as Jor-El and Gene Hackman as archvillain Lex Luthor. It succeeded at the box office, grossing $134 million domestically, principal photography of Superman included filming of its first sequel, Superman II. Donner filmed most of Superman II with the expectation he would complete the sequel after the release of Superman, despite the first films success, Donner was fired from Superman II. Throughout the filming of Superman and Superman II, Donner had a relationship with executive producers Alexander Salkind and Ilya Salkind. Following Donners dismissal, Marlon Brandos scenes were removed from Superman II, Gene Hackman refused to return for re-shoots, consequently, all the Lex Luthor scenes that appear in Superman II were filmed by Donner, although Donner received no onscreen credit for directing. Rotten Tomatoes summary states that Superman II meets, if not exceeds, Donner continued to promote the view his contribution was superior to rest of the series
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Stephen King
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Stephen Edwin King is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. His books have more than 350 million copies, many of which have been adapted into feature films, miniseries, television shows. King has published 54 novels, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman and he has written nearly 200 short stories, most of which have been collected in book collections. Many of his stories are set in his state of Maine. His novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption was the basis for the movie The Shawshank Redemption which is regarded as one of the greatest films of all time. King has received Bram Stoker Awards, World Fantasy Awards, and his novella The Way Station was a Nebula Award novelette nominee. In 2003, the National Book Foundation awarded him the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters and his short story The Man in the Black Suit received the O. Henry Award. In 2015, King was awarded with a National Medal of Arts from the United States National Endowment for the Arts for his contributions to literature, King was born September 21,1947, in Portland, Maine. His father, Donald Edwin King, was born circa 1913 in Peru, Indiana, when Donald was born, his surname was Pollock, but as an adult, he used the surname King. Kings mother, Nellie Ruth, was born in Scarborough, Maine, Donald and Nellie were married July 23,1939, in Cumberland County, Maine. The family moved to De Pere, Wisconsin, Fort Wayne, Indiana, when King was 11, the family returned to Durham, Maine, where his mother cared for her parents until their deaths. She then became a caregiver in a residential facility for the mentally challenged. King was raised Methodist and remains religious as an adult, as a child, King apparently witnessed one of his friends being struck and killed by a train, though he has no memory of the event. His family told him that leaving home to play with the boy, King returned, speechless. Only later did the family learn of the friends death, some commentators have suggested that this event may have psychologically inspired some of Kings darker works, but King makes no mention of it in his memoir On Writing. King related in detail his primary inspiration for writing fiction in his non-fiction Danse Macabre. King compares his uncles successfully dowsing for water using the bough of a branch with the sudden realization of what he wanted to do for a living. King told Barnes & Noble Studios during a 2009 interview, I knew that Id found home when I read that book, King attended Durham Elementary School and graduated from Lisbon Falls High School, in Lisbon Falls, Maine
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George A. Romero
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His other works contributed include The Crazies, Creepshow, Martin, Monkey Shines, and The Dark Half. Romero was born in the New York City borough of The Bronx, to a Cuban-born father and his father has been reported as born in A Coruña, with his family coming from the Galician town of Neda, although Romero once described his father as of Castilian descent. His father worked as a commercial artist, Romero was raised in the Bronx, and would frequently ride the subway into Manhattan to rent film reels to view at his house. Romero attended Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, after graduating in 1960, he began his career shooting short films and commercials. One of his commercial films was a segment for Mister Rogers Neighborhood in which Rogers underwent a tonsillectomy. With nine friends, Romero formed Image Ten Productions in the late 1960s, directed by Romero and co-written with John A. Russo, the movie became a cult classic and a defining moment for modern horror cinema. Among the inspiration for Romeros filmmaking, as told to Robert K. Elder in an interview for The Film That Changed My Life, was the 1951 British film, The Tales of Hoffmann. It was the filmmaking, the fantasy, the fact that it was a fantasy and it had a few frightening and it was really a movie for me, and it gave me an early appreciation for the power of visual media—the fact that you could experiment with it. He was doing all his tricks in-camera, and they were sort of obvious and that made me feel that, gee, maybe I could figure this medium out. It was transparent, but it worked, three films that followed were less popular, Theres Always Vanilla, Jacks Wife / Season of the Witch and The Crazies were not as well received as Night of the Living Dead or some of his later work. Like many of his films, they were shot in or around Pittsburgh, in 1978, Romero returned to the zombie genre with Dawn of the Dead. Shot on a budget of just $500,000, the film earned over $55 million worldwide and was named one of the top cult films by Entertainment Weekly in 2003, Romero made the third entry in his Dead Series with Day of the Dead. Romero updated his original screenplay and executive produced the remake of Night of the Living Dead directed by Tom Savini for Columbia/TriStar in 1990. Savini is also responsible for the makeup and special effects in many of Romeros films including Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Creepshow, Romero had a cameo appearance in Jonathan Demmes Academy Award-winning The Silence of the Lambs in 1991 as one of Hannibal Lecters jailers. In 1998, he directed a commercial promoting the videogame Resident Evil 2 in Tokyo. The 30-second advertisement featured the two main characters, Leon S. Kennedy and Claire Redfield, fighting a horde of zombies while in Raccoon Citys police station. The project was obvious territory for Romero, the Resident Evil series has been influenced by the Dead Series. The commercial was rather popular and was shown in the weeks before the actual release
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The Fog
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The Fog is a 1980 American horror film directed by John Carpenter, who also co-wrote the screenplay and created the music for the film. It stars Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Atkins, Janet Leigh, the Fog was Carpenters first theatrical film after the success of his 1978 horror film Halloween, which also starred Jamie Lee Curtis. Although initially given mixed reviews, the film has gained a positive reception in later years and has achieved a following years since its release. A remake of the film was made in 2005, as the Californian coastal town of Antonio Bay is about to celebrate its 100th anniversary, paranormal activity begins to occur at the stroke of midnight. Town priest Father Malone is in his church when a piece of masonry falls from the wall, revealing a cavity containing an old journal and it reveals that in 1880, six of the founders of Antonio Bay deliberately sank and plundered a clipper ship named the Elizabeth Dane. The ship was owned by Blake, a man with leprosy who wanted to establish a leper colony nearby. Gold from the ship was used to build Antonio Bay and its church, meanwhile, three fishermen are out at sea when a strange, glowing fog envelops their trawler. The fog brings with it the Elizabeth Dane, carrying the vengeful revenants of Blake, meanwhile, town resident Nick Castle is driving home and picks up a young hitchhiker named Elizabeth Solley. As they drive towards town, all the trucks windows inexplicably shatter, the following morning, local radio DJ Stevie Wayne is given a piece of driftwood by her son Andy, it is inscribed with the word DANE, and Andy says he found it on the beach. Intrigued, Stevie takes it with her to the lighthouse where she broadcasts her radio show and she sets the wood down next to a tape player that is playing, but the wood inexplicably begins to seep water, causing the tape player to short out. A mysterious mans voice emerges from the tape player swearing revenge, Stevie quickly extinguishes the fire, but then sees that the wood once again reads DANE and the tape player begins working normally again. After locating the missing trawler, Nick and Elizabeth find the corpse of Dick Baxter with his eyes gouged out, the other two fishermen are missing, one of whom is the husband of Kathy Williams, who is overseeing the towns centennial celebrations. While Elizabeth is alone in the room, Baxters corpse rises from the autopsy table. As Elizabeth screams, Nick and coroner Dr. Phibes rush back into the room where they see the corpse lifeless again on the floor, upon which it has carved the number 3. That evening, as the celebrations begin, local weatherman Dan calls Stevie at the radio station to tell her that another fog bank has appeared and is moving towards town. As they are talking, the fog gathers outside the weather station and he answers it and is slaughtered by the revenants as Stevie listens in horror. As Stevie proceeds with her show, the fog starts moving inland, disrupting the towns telephone. Using a back-up generator, Stevie begs her listeners to go to her house, as the fog envelops Stevies house, the revenants kill her sons babysitter, Mrs. Kobritz
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The Ninth Configuration
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The Ninth Configuration is a 1980 American film directed by William Peter Blatty. It is based on Blattys novel The Ninth Configuration, which was itself a reworking of a version of the novel, first published in 1966 as Twinkle, Twinkle. The initial 1966 publication of the featured a exclamation mark at the end of the title, while all subsequent publications saw it removed. The first half of the film has the predominant tone and style of a comic farce, in the second half, the film becomes darker as it delves deeper into its central issues of human suffering, sacrifice and faith. The film also frequently blurs the line between the sane and insane, sometime in the 1970s, toward the end of the War in Vietnam, a large castle is used by the US Government as an insane asylum for military personnel. Among the many patients there is an astronaut, Billy Cutshaw. Colonel Kane, a member of a United States Marine Corps special unit. He meets Colonel Fell, who helps Kane acclimate himself to the eccentricities of the patients, Kane pays special attention to Cutshaw, repeatedly asking him why he did not want to go to the moon. Cutshaw refuses to answer but instead gives him a St. Christopher medal, Kane falls asleep in his office and has a nightmare. When recounting it, he explains to Fell that they are the nightmares of his brother Vincent, later, Cutshaw talks with another patient about Kane. Cutshaw suspects that Kane is crazy himself and he asserts that psychiatrists often go crazy and have the highest suicide rate of any profession. Cutshaw talks with Kane again, and they debate God and the idea there is a divine plan. Cutshaw demands that Kane recall one concrete example of pure self-sacrifice from his personal experience, Kane takes Cutshaw to a church service, which Cutshaw interrupts with several outbursts, and Kane momentarily hallucinates. After returning to the castle, Cutshaw thanks Kane and asks him to him a sign as proof of an afterlife should Kane die first. When Kane meets with a new patient, the patient calls him Killer Kane, and Kane flashes back to Vietnam, the soldier urges Kane to leave, and he screams. In the present, Kane collapses, unconscious, Fell explains to the staff that Kane is Vincent Killer Kane and suffered a breakdown in Vietnam. When Fell, who is Kanes brother Hudson, was dispatched back to America, Kane created a new persona for himself – a healer, like his brother. Subconsciously hoping to heal people to make up for his murders, realizing Kanes mental state, the Army psychiatric staff maintained the charade and sent him to Fells hospital under the pretext of being its commanding officer
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Escape from New York
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Escape from New York is a 1981 American dystopian science fiction action film co-written, co-scored and directed by John Carpenter. The film is set in the then near-future of 1997 in a crime-ridden United States that has converted Manhattan Island in New York City into a security prison. Ex-soldier and now federal prisoner Snake Plissken is given only 24 hours to find the President of the United States, Carpenter wrote the film in the mid-1970s as a reaction to the Watergate scandal. After the success of Halloween, he had enough influence to begin production and filmed it mainly in St. Louis, Debra Hill and Larry J. Franco served as the producers. The film was co-written by Nick Castle, who collaborated with Carpenter previously by portraying Michael Myers in Halloween, Escape from New York was released in the United States on July 10,1981. The film received reviews from critics and was a commercial success. It was nominated for four Saturn Awards, including Best Science Fiction Film, the film became a cult classic and was followed by a sequel, Escape from L. A. which was also directed and written by Carpenter, and starring Russell. In 1988, following a 400% increase in crime, the United States Government has turned Manhattan into a giant maximum-security prison, a 50-foot containment wall surrounds the island and routes out of Manhattan have been dismantled or mined, while armed helicopters patrol the rivers. In 1997, while travelling to a summit between the United States, China and the Soviet Union, Air Force One is hijacked by a domestic terrorist posing as a stewardess. The President is given a bracelet and his briefcase handcuffed to his wrist. He makes it to a pod, and lands in Manhattan just before Air Force One crashes. Police are dispatched to rescue the President, Snake is sent into Manhattan in a stealth glider, landing atop the World Trade Center. He tracks the Presidents life-monitor bracelet to a theatre, only to find it on the wrist of an insane old man. He meets Cabbie, who takes Snake in his taxi cab to Harold Brain Hellman, an advisor to the Duke based in the New York Public Library. Snake forces Brain and his girlfriend Maggie to lead him to the Dukes compound at Grand Central Station and he finds the President and tries to free him, but is captured by the Dukes men. While Snake is forced to fight in a death match with Slag. As Snake kills Slag, the Duke learns of Brains treachery, Snake, Brain, Maggie, and the President race to the World Trade Center in an attempt to use Snakes glider to escape from Mahattan. After a group of crazies destroy it, the returns to the street and encounters Cabbie
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Creepshow
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Creepshow is a 1982 American black comedy horror anthology film directed by George A. Romero and written by Stephen King, making this film his screenwriting debut. The films ensemble cast included Hal Holbrook, Adrienne Barbeau, Fritz Weaver, Leslie Nielsen, Ted Danson, the film was shot on location in Pittsburgh and its suburbs, including Monroeville, where Romero leased an old boys academy to build extensive sets for the film. The film consists of five short stories, the film is an homage to the EC and DC horror comics of the 1950s, such as House of Mystery, House of Secrets, Tales from the Crypt, The Vault of Horror, and The Haunt of Fear. In order for the film to give viewers a comic book feel, the film earned $21,028,755 in the US. It has since become a cult film among horror fans, a young boy named Billy gets yelled at and slapped by his father, Stan, for reading a horror comic titled Creepshow. Stan reminds his wife that he had to be hard on Billy because he not want their son to be reading such crap. The first story, Fathers Day, is a story by King written for the film. When she accidentally spills her whiskey bottle in front of the headstone, suddenly, Nathans putrefied, maggot-infested corpse emerges from the burial plot in the form of a revenant who has come back to claim the Fathers Day cake he never got. Based on the short story Weeds, Jordy Verrill, a dimwitted backwoods yokel, thinks that a newly discovered meteorite will provide enough money from the local college to pay off his $200 bank loan. As the meteorite is too hot to touch, he douses it with water, causing it to crack open and he then finds himself being overcome by a rapidly spreading plant-like organism that begins growing on his body. Jordy is eventually cautioned by the ghost of his father not to take a bath, but when the itching from the growth on his skin becomes unbearable, Jordy succumbs to temptation and collapses into the bathwater. By the next morning, Jordy and his farm have been covered with dense layers of the hideous alien vegetation. In despair, he reaches for a shotgun and blows the top of his head off and he explains that they have a chance of survival—if they can hold their breath long enough for the sand to loosen once the seawater covers them, they could break free and escape. Vickers sets up closed-circuit TV cameras so he can watch them die from the comfort of his beach house. However, Richard is in for a surprise of his own when the two lovers he murdered return as a pair of waterlogged, seaweed-covered revenants intent on revenge. He tries to shoot them, but they remind him, You cant shoot us dead, Richard, the final scene reveals that Richard is now the one buried in the beach, facing the approaching tide— and the sight of two sets of footprints disappearing into the surf. While the tide is rising, he laughs hysterically, his sanity shattered by the experience, the frame freezes into animation and the flipping comic pages stop on the title of the next story, one of the longer entries at nearly 30 minutes. Based on the short story The Crate, a college custodian, Mike, drops a quarter and finds a wooden storage crate, hidden under some basement stairs for 147 years
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Halloween III: Season of the Witch
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Halloween III, Season of the Witch is a 1982 American science fiction horror film and the third installment in the Halloween film series. It is the first film to be written and directed by Tommy Lee Wallace, John Carpenter and Debra Hill, the creators of Halloween, returned as producers. It, in fact, treats the first film as a fictional film and it also departs from the slasher genre which the first two installments were part of, instead featuring a witchcraft theme with science fiction aspects and parallels to old Celtic fairy tales. However, after the disappointing critical reception and box-office gross, Michael Myers was brought back six years later in Halloween 4. The frequency of violence and gore is less than that of Halloween II. As with other films in the series, suspense and dramatic tension is a key theme, the dramatic element of violence against young children, something often taboo even for horror films, is explored. Produced on a budget of $2.5 million, Halloween III grossed $14.4 million at the box office in the United States, in addition to weak box office returns, most critics gave the film negative reviews. One critic suggests that if Halloween III was not part of the Halloween series, then it would simply be a fairly nondescript eighties horror flick, no worse and no better than many others. Some cultural and film historians have read significance into the plot, linking it to criticism of large corporations. On October 23, shop owner Harry Grimbridge runs along a road in Northern California. He makes it to a gas station clutching a Silver Shamrock jack-o-lantern mask and he is driven to the hospital by station attendant Walter Jones, all the while rambling, Theyre going to kill us. At the hospital, Grimbridge is placed in the care of Dr. Dan Challis and that night, another mysterious man in a suit enters Grimbridges hospital room, kills him, then goes to his car and immolates himself. The next morning, Grimbridges daughter Ellie arrives to identify her fathers remains, Ellie and Challis agree to investigate his murder, leading them to the small town of Santa Mira, California. The motel manager explains that Conal Cochran and his company, Silver Shamrock Novelties, while signing the motel register, Challis learns that Grimbridge stayed at the same motel. Other motel guests include shop owners Marge Guttman and Buddy Kupfer, Buddys wife Betty, and their son Little Buddy, Guttman finds a microchip on the back of a Silver Shamrock button, and is fatally electrocuted after poking it with a hairpin. Challis and Ellie learn of Guttmans accident, and Challis attempts to help but is forced away by a group of men dressed in lab coats who drive away in a van with Marges body. The next morning, Challis and Ellie tour the factory with the Kupfers and discover Grimbridges car there and they return to the motel but cannot contact anyone outside the town. While Challis attempts to phone for the authorities, Ellie is kidnapped by the men in suits, Challis pursues them, breaks into the factory, and discovers that the men in suits are androids created by Cochran
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Night of the Creeps
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Night of the Creeps is a 1986 American science fiction horror comedy film written and directed by Fred Dekker, starring Tom Atkins, Jason Lively, Steve Marshall and Jill Whitlow. The film is an earnest attempt at a B movie and a homage to the genre, while the main plot of the film is related to zombies, the film also mixes in takes on slashers and alien invasion films. Night of the Creeps did not perform well at the box office, in 1959, on board a spacecraft, two aliens race to keep an experiment from being released by a third member of the crew. The seemingly possessed third alien shoots the canister into space where it crashes to Earth, nearby, a college man takes his date to a parking spot when they see a falling star and investigate. It lands in the path of a criminally insane mental patient. As his date is attacked by the maniac, the boy finds the canister, from which a small slug-like thing jumps out. Twenty-seven years later, Chris Romero pines over a love lost, during pledge week at Corman University, Chris spots a girl, Cynthia Cronenberg, and falls instantly in love. To get her attention, he decides to join a fraternity, cynthias boyfriend, who heads the Beta Epsilon fraternity, tasks them with stealing a cadaver from the university medical center and depositing it on the steps of a sorority house. Chris and J. C. find a corpse in a secret room. The corpse makes its way back to the sorority house where he picked up his date twenty-seven years ago, there, his head splits open and releases more of the slugs. Cameron finds the body, interpreting the condition of the head as the result of an axe wound in the face, the next day, the fraternity brothers confront Chris and J. C. who they believe to be responsible for the previous nights incident. They are then taken in for questioning by the police, based on the testimony of a janitor that witnessed them running out of the university medical center, screaming like banshees, they confess to breaking in but deny moving the corpse. That night, a dead attendant rises from his slab and runs into the same janitor, Cynthia attempts to convince Chris and J. C. that the attacks are zombie-related, but they are skeptical. When J. C. sees Cynthia leaning on Chris shoulder, as Chris walks Cynthia back to the sorority house, he runs into Det. Cameron explains to Chris that the escaped lunatics 1959 victim was his ex-girlfriend, Cameron reveals that he buried the body under what is now the sorority house, he gets a call that the same axe-wielding lunatic has killed the house mother. Cameron blows off the head with his shotgun, which releases more slugs. The next night, while everyone prepares for a formal dance, J. C. says that the slugs have incubated in his brain, but he has discovered that they are susceptible to heat. Cameron, who was in the midst of a suicide attempt and they arrive at the sorority house just as Cynthia breaks up with Brad, who has become possessed
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Lethal Weapon
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Lethal Weapon is a 1987 American buddy cop action film directed by Richard Donner, produced by Joel Silver, and written by Shane Black. It stars Mel Gibson and Danny Glover alongside Darlene Love, Ebonie Smith, Gary Busey, the film was released on March 6,1987. Upon its release, Lethal Weapon grossed over $120 million against a budget of $15 million. It spawned a franchise that includes three sequels and a television series, LAPD Homicide Sergeant Roger Murtaugh, shortly after his 50th birthday, is partnered with Sergeant Martin Riggs, a transfer from narcotics. Murtaugh and Riggs quickly find themselves feuding with each other, autopsy reports show Amanda to have been poisoned with drain cleaner, making the case a possible homicide. Hunsaker tells Murtaugh that he was concerned about his daughters involvement in drugs, prostitution, and pornography, Murtaugh and Riggs go to see Amandas pimp, but find a drug lab on the premises, leading to a shootout. Riggs kills the pimp and saves the life of Murtaugh, who starts to tolerate his new partner, though the case seems closed, Riggs is aware that the only witness to Amandas apparent suicide was Dixie, another prostitute who was working away from her normal streets. They go to see her at her home, but it explodes as they approach it, Hunsaker had been laundering the money, but wanted to get out, and when McAllister found out hed contacted Murtaugh, the general had Amanda killed. As they talk, Joshua arrives in a helicopter and kills Hunsaker, shadow Company attempts to kill Riggs in a drive-by shooting, but he is saved by a bullet-proof vest. Murtaugh and Riggs fake his death to gain the upper hand, shadow Company later kidnaps Murtaughs daughter Rianne and demand Murtaugh turn himself over to them for her return. Murtaugh and Riggs plan an ambush at the exchange at El Mirage Lake with Riggs providing sniper support and their cover blown, McAllister and Joshua attempt to escape separately. Joshua manages to get away, but McAllister ends up crashing his car on Hollywood Boulevard and is killed when hand grenades in the car detonate, Murtaugh and Riggs race to Murtaughs home, knowing Joshua will be after his family. They arrive in time to him, and Riggs beats him in a violent fist fight on the front lawn. As officers arrive to take Joshua away, he breaks free and grabs a gun, after visiting his wifes grave, Riggs spends Christmas with the Murtaughs, having become best friends with Murtaugh and bonding with the rest of the family. Riggs also gives Murtaugh a symbolic gift, an unfired hollow-point bullet which he had been saving to commit suicide, as he does not need it anymore. Mel Gibson as Martin Riggs Danny Glover as Roger Murtaugh Gary Busey as Joshua Mitchell Ryan as Gen. Stephanie Woods Ed ORoss as Mendez Lycia Naff as Dixie Jimmie F. The protagonists would be everymen policemen, guys shuffling in a town like Los Angeles searching for something noble as justice when theyre just guys in washed, according to Black, his original first draft of the script was very different and much darker than the final film. It was 140 pages long and both the plot and characters were different, and action scenes were much bigger
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Maniac Cop
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Maniac Cop is a 1988 American action horror film directed by William Lustig and written by Larry Cohen. It stars Tom Atkins, Bruce Campbell, Laurene Landon, Richard Roundtree, William Smith, Robert ZDar, ZDar plays the title character, a murderous ex-cop returned from the dead, who is pursued by his former co-workers. It was released on May 13,1988, and grossed $671,382 from a budget of $1.1 million, despite negative reviews on release, Maniac Cop has become a cult film. It was followed by two sequels, Maniac Cop 2 and Maniac Cop III, Badge of Silence, a remake is in the works. In New York City, a waitress on her way home is assaulted by two muggers and seeks aid from an officer, who breaks her neck. Unfortunately, this causes panic and dissent among the city and results in innocent patrolmen being shot to death or avoided on the streets by paranoid people. Ellen Forrest, who suspects that her husband Jack may be the Maniac Cop, follows him to a motel, distraught, Ellen runs out of the room, and is slain by the murderer. Jack is arrested under suspicion of murder, but McCrae believes Jack has been framed, McCrae gets Jack to tell him about his relationship with Mallory, who is attacked by the Maniac Cop while working undercover as a prostitute. Mallory and McCrae fight off the killer, who is cold even through his gloves and does not appear to breathe, though they shoot him several times. Mallory hides out in McCraes apartment while he investigates Sally Noland, McCrae follows Noland to a warehouse, where she meets with the Maniac Cop and refers to him as Matt. Returning to police headquarters, McCrae discovers files on Matthew Cordell, while McCrae is looking into his past, Cordell flashes back to being mutilated and killed in a shower room in Sing Sing. When McCrae and Mallory visit Jack, they tell him that they think Cordell is the real killer, McCrae leaves to go to the clerical room, and he is attacked by Sally, who is in hysterics, convinced that Cordell is going to turn on her. After finding a policeman hanging in a noose, Sally is grabbed by Cordell, hearing the commotion, Jack and Mallory break out of the interrogation room and find the corpses of numerous officers strewn about the halls of the building. Jack tells Mallory to go to McCraes car while he searches for Cordell, Jack, who looks like the one responsible for the carnage to responding officers, flees with Mallory. The two go to see Sing Sings medical examiner, who admits that while he was preparing to autopsy Cordell, the examiner secretly released Cordell into Sallys care, convinced he was completely brain dead. During the 50th Annual St. Patricks Day Parade, Jack waits outside as Mallory warns Commissioner Pike and Captain Ripley about Cordell, Cordell stabs Pike and Ripley to death, then targets Mallory, knifing the policeman left to guard her. Mallory escapes through a window, while Jack is arrested and placed in a van, Mallory and another officer chase the van, which Cordell takes to his warehouse hideout, running over the watchman on the way in. Cordell attacks Mallory and Jack, kills the officer
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Two Evil Eyes
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Two Evil Eyes is a 1990 horror film, written and directed by Dario Argento and George A. Romero. The two had worked together on the immensely popular Dawn of the Dead in 1978. The film is split into two separate tales, both based largely on the works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Facts in the Case of M, both of the tales were filmed in and take place in contemporary Pittsburgh. Jessica Valdemar, an attractive 40-year-old woman, rides in a taxi to the downtown Pittsburgh office of Steven Pike, her elderly husband’s lawyer, with some paperwork for Mr. Pikes approval. Jessica doesn’t like the procedure, but Robert wants it done because he used to have a romance with Jessica, the next day, Jessica goes to a bank where she withdraws $300,000 and stores it in a safe. But then, Mr. Valdemar goes into cardiac arrest and dies while under another hypnosis spell, not wanting to reveal his death just yet, Robert and Jessica carry his body to the basement where they hide it in a freezer. The next morning, Jessica and Robert wake up and also hear the noises coming from the basement. Upon checking the body, they hear Ernest Valdemar’s voice coming from the still body claiming that his soul is alive, Valdemar tells them that he sees others in the dark void looking at him. Valdemar tells Robert to wake him up and free him from his hypnotic state, in a panic, Jessica shoots Valdemar’s corpse and wants to bury the body and skip town with the money they have. Jessica shoots him, but he keeps on coming, Robert finally tells Valdemar that he’s going to wake him and free him from his hypnosis. But after doing so by counting to five, Valdemar tells Robert that its too late to him for without his body as a conduit. Exclaims Valdemar, who falls dead. Robert then steals all the cash that Jessica had stored in the safe, Robert goes back to his apartment in downtown Pittsburgh, where he puts himself under a hypnotic sleep. But then, the ghostly Others enter his apartment and kill him by shoving the hypnotic digital counter into his chest, the ghosts then form themselves into one large mass-like mist and enter Roberts dead body. Several days later, the led by Detective Grogan arrive at Robert’s apartment to answer complaints about a strange smell. Grogan finds the apartment ransacked and the stolen cash scattered everywhere, but just then, the horribly decomposed body of Robert, under the control of the Others, appears and attacks Grogan, telling him that there is nobody to wake him up. Rod Usher makes his entrance in a building decorated with the remains of dismantled corpses. A naked woman bound to a table, sliced in two by a huge pendulum-like blade
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Bob Roberts
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Bob Roberts is a 1992 American-British satirical mockumentary film written, directed by, and starring Tim Robbins. It tells the rise of Bob Roberts, a politician who is a candidate for an upcoming United States Senate election. Roberts is well financed, due mainly to past business dealings, and is known for his music. The film is Robbins directorial debut, and is based on a segment of the same name. Bob Roberts takes place in Pennsylvania in 1990 and it depicts a fictitious senatorial race between a conservative Republican folk singer, Bob Roberts, and the incumbent Democrat, Brickley Paiste. The film is shot through the perspective of Terry Manchester, a British documentary filmmaker who is following the Roberts campaign. Through his lens we see Roberts travel across the state, performing songs about drug users, lazy people, as the campaign continues, Paiste remains in the lead until a scandal arises involving him and a young woman who was seen emerging from a car with him. Paiste claims that she was a friend of his granddaughter whom he was driving home, throughout the campaign, reporter Bugs Raplin attempts to use the documentary being made about Roberts as a way to expose him to the public as a fraud. Raplin believes that Roberts anti-drug charity, Broken Dove, is connected to an old Central Intelligence Agency drug trafficking scheme, as the election approaches, Roberts is asked to appear on a networks sketch comedy show. When Roberts announces that he not be playing the song he had originally proposed. This new song out to be nothing more than a thinly veiled campaign endorsement. As Roberts is leaving the studio, he is shot by a would-be assassin. Following the incident, Raplin contends that Roberts was never actually shot, the campaign is boosted by public support following the assassination attempt, and Roberts wins the election with 52 percent of the vote. Although Roberts claims that his wounds have left him paralyzed from the waist down, while Terry Manchester is interviewing Roberts supporters outside the new Senators hotel, a boy runs up shouting, Hes dead, hes dead, they got him. When Manchester asks him what he is talking about, the boy shouts, the films style is drawn from a number of real and mock documentaries, and its shots are crafted to create this effect, in many cases through the use of hand-held cameras. Much of Robbins commentary is addressed at the role of the media in election campaigns, Bob Roberts currently holds a 100% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 36 reviews, with an average rating of 7. 5/10. American Film Institute recognition, AFIs 100 Years,100 Laughs - Nominated Bob Roberts at the Internet Movie Database Bob Roberts at Box Office Mojo Bob Roberts at Rotten Tomatoes
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Striking Distance
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Striking Distance is a 1993 American action thriller film starring Bruce Willis as Pittsburgh Police homicide detective Thomas Hardy. The film co-stars Sarah Jessica Parker, Dennis Farina, and Tom Sizemore and it was directed by Rowdy Herrington and written by Herrington and Marty Kaplan. The film was shot on location throughout Pittsburgh, its title was Three Rivers. Thomas Hardy, a Pittsburgh Police homicide detective, has broken the ranks by informing on his partner and cousin, Jimmy Detillo, for using excessive force. While attending the Policemens Ball with his father, Vince Hardy, as Tom and Vince pursue the killers vehicle, the vehicles collide and both roll down an embankment. When Tom regains consciousness, he learns his father has been shot dead, Police arrest a criminal named Douglas Kesser as the Strangler. Later, rather go to prison, Jimmy climbs to the top of the 31st Street Bridge. Two years later, Tom is drinking heavily and has been reassigned to the River Rescue Squad and his cousin Danny, Jimmys brother, has stepped down from the force and also drinks heavily. Called to the scene of a dump, Tom finds the victim is an ex-girlfriend. Tom receives a call similar to ones left by the Polish Hill Strangler, the nurse screams before she is shot. Detective Eddie Eiler, who hates Tom for turning in Jimmy, Tom is met with strong opposition by his uncle, Captain Nick Detillo, after suggesting the Strangler is back. Tom goes to the precinct and steals the Strangler file in order to conduct an unauthorized investigation, soon after, the body of another of Toms ex-girlfriends is found. Tom attends the Policemans Ball, where he is unpopular with all most police. When a drunken cousin Danny starts acting belligerent, a fistfight occurs between Tom and Eiler which is broken up by Jo, later that night, the two partners fall in love and have sex at Hardys boathouse. Outside the docks, an unseen person silently observes the lovemaking, on patrol, Tom and Jo stumble upon the scene of someone dumping what appears to be a wrapped body off a bridge. Tom destroys the car but the unidentified individual escapes. Divers retrieve the only to find it to merely a bunch of rugs. While Jo stumbles upon Toms investigation notes of the Stangler, Eiler informs Nick he suspects Tom, Nick discloses Tom has been under scrutiny by Internal Affairs
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Drive Angry
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Drive Angry is a 2011 American fantasy action film starring Nicolas Cage and Amber Heard, and directed by Patrick Lussier. It was released on February 25,2011, shot in 3-D, the film was met with a mixed reception and grossed almost $29 million. King believes that if he kills the baby, he will unleash Hell over Earth, after interrogating and murdering some of Kings followers, Milton discovers that the ritual will take place in Stillwater, an abandoned prison in Louisiana. He heads there, but stops by a diner, where he meets Piper, a waitress. Miltons car is damaged in the pursuit, so he sabotages Pipers car, entering her room, Piper walks in on her boyfriend, Frank, having sex with another woman. Piper beats up the woman and assaults Frank, getting knocked to the ground, Milton, in a phone booth nearby, hears the commotion and comes to Pipers aid, kicking Frank in the face as he is about to continue assaulting Piper, and punching Frank repeatedly. Milton steals his car, taking Piper along with him driving to Stillwater, meanwhile, a supernatural operative of Satan, The Accountant, arrives on Earth with the mission to bring Milton back to Hell and take the gun back. At a shady hotel, Milton is attacked by King and his men, who heard about his return, the Accountant appears with the police and chases after Milton and Piper, who are chasing after Kings van. Milton uses The Godkiller to shoot the Accountant out of the road and they then follow King to a church, only to find it filled with Kings followers. Piper is kidnapped and Milton is shot in the eye and left for dead, inside, Piper breaks free and fights King before jumping out of the RV and onto Miltons car. King then disables the car by shooting its engine. Milton and Piper then meet Miltons friend Webster, who provides them a new car, Piper discovers that Milton is literally undead and had to abandon his daughter to protect her from his former companions, which is why she was so easily manipulated by King. Webster reveals that he died 10 years prior in a shootout, and she also discovers that the Godkiller was stolen by Milton from Satan himself and has the power to completely destroy ones soul, preventing it from going to either Heaven or Hell. Milton tells Webster to stay behind, not wishing him to die, with the help of the Accountant, they evade the troops of Sheriff Cap and finally arrive at Stillwater. While Milton slaughters Kings men before they can sacrifice the child, King eventually gets the upper hand on Milton and savagely beats him. Piper fires the Godkiller at King, but misses and hits one of his few surviving men instead and she is knocked out by the guns recoil. King orders one of his servants to murder the child. However, the woman, who had been caring for the baby ever since King stole her, finds herself unable to carry out the deed, the Accountant attracts Kings attention, allowing Milton to grab the Godkiller and shoot King, destroying his soul
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Pennsylvania
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Pennsylvania /ˌpɛnsᵻlˈveɪnjə/, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state located in the northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The Appalachian Mountains run through its middle, Pennsylvania is the 33rd largest, the 5th most populous, and the 9th most densely populated of the 50 United States. The states five most populous cities are Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown, Erie, the state capital, and its ninth-largest city, is Harrisburg. Pennsylvania has 140 miles of shoreline along Lake Erie and the Delaware Estuary. The state is one of the 13 original founding states of the United States, it came into being in 1681 as a result of a land grant to William Penn. Part of Pennsylvania, together with the present State of Delaware, had earlier been organized as the Colony of New Sweden and it was the second state to ratify the United States Constitution, on December 12,1787. Independence Hall, where the United States Declaration of Independence and United States Constitution were drafted, is located in the states largest city of Philadelphia, during the American Civil War, the Battle of Gettysburg, was fought in the south central region of the state. Valley Forge near Philadelphia was General Washingtons headquarters during the winter of 1777–78. Pennsylvania is 170 miles north to south and 283 miles east to west, of a total 46,055 square miles,44,817 square miles are land,490 square miles are inland waters, and 749 square miles are waters in Lake Erie. It is the 33rd largest state in the United States, Pennsylvania has 51 miles of coastline along Lake Erie and 57 miles of shoreline along the Delaware Estuary. Cities include Philadelphia, Reading, Lebanon and Lancaster in the southeast, Pittsburgh in the southwest, the tri-cities of Allentown, Bethlehem, the northeast includes the former anthracite coal mining communities of Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Pittston City, and Hazleton. Erie is located in the northwest, the state has 5 regions, namely the Allegheny Plateau, Ridge and Valley, Atlantic Coastal Plain, Piedmont, and the Erie Plain. Straddling two major zones, the majority of the state, with the exception of the corner, has a humid continental climate. The largest city, Philadelphia, has characteristics of the humid subtropical climate that covers much of Delaware. Moving toward the interior of the state, the winter climate becomes colder, the number of cloudy days increase. Western areas of the state, particularly locations near Lake Erie, can receive over 100 inches of snowfall annually, the state may be subject to severe weather from spring through summer into fall. Tornadoes occur annually in the state, sometimes in large numbers, the Tuscarora Nation took up temporary residence in the central portion of Pennsylvania ca. Both the Dutch and the English claimed both sides of the Delaware River as part of their lands in America
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Howard Hawks
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Howard Winchester Hawks was an American film director, producer and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era. Critic Leonard Maltin called him the greatest American director who is not a household name, Hawks was a versatile director whose career included comedies, dramas, gangster films, science fiction, film noir, and westerns. His most popular films include Scarface, Bringing Up Baby, Only Angels Have Wings, His Girl Friday, To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep, Red River, The Thing from Another World, and Rio Bravo. His frequent portrayals of strong, tough-talking female characters came to define a type—the Hawksian woman and his work has influenced some of the most popular and respected directors such as Martin Scorsese, Robert Altman, John Carpenter, and Quentin Tarantino. Howard Winchester Hawks was born in Goshen, Indiana, the child of Frank W. Hawks, a wealthy paper manufacturer, and his wife, Helen. Hawkss family on his fathers side were American pioneers and his ancestor John Hawks had emigrated from England to Massachusetts in 1630. The family eventually settled in Goshen and by the 1890s was one of the wealthiest families in the Midwest, Hawkss maternal grandfather, C. W. Howard, had homesteaded in Neenah, Wisconsin in 1862 at age 17. Within 15 years he had made his fortune in the paper mill. Frank Hawks and Helen Howard met in the early 1890s and married in 1895, Howard Hawks was the eldest of five children and his birth was followed by Kenneth Neil Hawks, William Bellinger Hawks, Grace Louise Hawks and Helen Bernice Hawks. In 1898, the moved to Neenah, Wisconsin where Frank Hawks began working for his father-in-laws Howard Paper Company. Between 1906 and 1909, the Hawks family began to more time in Pasadena. Gradually they began to only their summers in Wisconsin before permanently moving to Pasadena in 1910. The family settled in a house down the street from Throop Polytechnic Institute, Hawks was an average student at school and did not excel in sports, but by 1910 had discovered coaster racing, an early form of soapbox racing. In 1911, Hawkss youngest sibling Helen died suddenly of food poisoning, from 1910 to 1912, Hawks attended Pasadena High School. But in 1912, the Hawks family moved to nearby Glendora, California, while in New England, Hawks often attended the theaters in nearby Boston. In 1914, Hawks returned to Glendora and graduated from Pasadena High School that year and that same year, Hawks was accepted to Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where he majored in mechanical engineering and was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. In 1916, Hawkss grandfather, C. W. Howard, bought him a Mercer race car and it was at this time that Hawks first met Victor Fleming, allegedly when the two men raced on a dirt track and caused an accident. Fleming had been an auto mechanic and early aviator when his old friend Marshall Neilan recommended him to film director Allan Dwan as a good mechanic
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The Thing from Another World
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The film stars Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan, Robert Cornthwaite, and Douglas Spencer. James Arness plays The Thing, but he is difficult to recognize in costume, the film is based on the 1938 novella Who Goes There. The storyline concerns a U. S. Air Force crew and scientists who find a flying saucer. Returning to their remote research outpost with the body in a block of ice, they are forced to defend themselves against this malevolent. A United States Air Force crew is dispatched from Anchorage, Alaska at the request of Dr. Carrington and they have evidence that an unknown flying craft has crashed in their vicinity, so reporter Ned Scott tags along for the story. Dr. Carrington later briefs Captain Hendry and his airmen, following erratic magnetic pole anomalies, the crew and scientists fly to the crash site where the mysterious craft lies buried beneath refrozen ice. As they spread out to outline the general shape, the men realize they are standing in a circle. They try de-icing the buried craft with thermite heat bombs, but only ignite its metal alloy and their Geiger counter then points to a slightly radioactive frozen shape buried nearby in the refrozen ice. They excavate a large block of ice around what appears to be a body and fly it to the research outpost, just as a major storm moves in. Some of the want to thaw out the body. Later, Corporal Barnes takes the second watch over the ice block and to avoid looking at the body within, as the ice slowly melts, the Thing inside revives, Barnes panics and shoots at it with his sidearm, but the alien escapes into the raging storm. The Thing is attacked by sled dogs and the airmen recover a severed arm, a microscopic examination of a tissue sample reveals that the arm is vegetable rather than animal matter, demonstrating that the alien is a very advanced form of plant life. As the arm warms to ambient temperature, it some of the dogs blood covering it. Seed pods are discovered in the palm, the Air Force personnel believe the creature is a danger to all of them, but Dr. Carrington is convinced that it can be reasoned with and has much to teach them. Carrington deduces their visitor requires blood to survive and reproduce and he later discovers the body of a dead sled dog hidden in the outposts greenhouse. Carrington has Dr. Voorhees, Dr. Olsen and Dr. Auerbach stand guard overnight, Carrington secretly uses blood plasma from the infirmary to incubate seedlings grown from the alien seed pods. The strung-up bodies of Olsen and Auerbach are discovered in the greenhouse, Dr. Stern is almost killed by the Thing but escapes. Hendry rushes to the greenhouse after hearing about the bodies, and is attacked by the alien, Hendry slams the door on the Things regenerated arm as it tries to grab him
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United States Navy
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The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U. S. Navy is the largest, most capable navy in the world, the U. S. Navy has the worlds largest aircraft carrier fleet, with ten in service, two in the reserve fleet, and three new carriers under construction. The service has 323,792 personnel on duty and 108,515 in the Navy Reserve. It has 274 deployable combat vessels and more than 3,700 operational aircraft as of October 2016, the U. S. Navy traces its origins to the Continental Navy, which was established during the American Revolutionary War and was effectively disbanded as a separate entity shortly thereafter. It played a role in the American Civil War by blockading the Confederacy. It played the role in the World War II defeat of Imperial Japan. The 21st century U. S. Navy maintains a global presence, deploying in strength in such areas as the Western Pacific, the Mediterranean. The Navy is administratively managed by the Department of the Navy, the Department of the Navy is itself a division of the Department of Defense, which is headed by the Secretary of Defense. The Chief of Naval Operations is an admiral and the senior naval officer of the Department of the Navy. The CNO may not be the highest ranking officer in the armed forces if the Chairman or the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The mission of the Navy is to maintain, train and equip combat-ready Naval forces capable of winning wars, deterring aggression, the United States Navy is a seaborne branch of the military of the United States. The Navys three primary areas of responsibility, The preparation of naval forces necessary for the prosecution of war. The development of aircraft, weapons, tactics, technique, organization, U. S. Navy training manuals state that the mission of the U. S. Armed Forces is to prepare and conduct prompt and sustained combat operations in support of the national interest, as part of that establishment, the U. S. Navys functions comprise sea control, power projection and nuclear deterrence, in addition to sealift duties. It follows then as certain as that night succeeds the day, that without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, the Navy was rooted in the colonial seafaring tradition, which produced a large community of sailors, captains, and shipbuilders. In the early stages of the American Revolutionary War, Massachusetts had its own Massachusetts Naval Militia, the establishment of a national navy was an issue of debate among the members of the Second Continental Congress. Supporters argued that a navy would protect shipping, defend the coast, detractors countered that challenging the British Royal Navy, then the worlds preeminent naval power, was a foolish undertaking. Commander in Chief George Washington resolved the debate when he commissioned the ocean-going schooner USS Hannah to interdict British merchant ships, and reported the captures to the Congress
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Duquesne University
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Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit is a private Catholic university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. In 1911, the became the first Catholic university in Pennsylvania. It is the only Spiritan institution of education in the world. Duquesne has since expanded to over 10,000 graduate and undergraduate students within a self-contained 49-acre hilltop campus in Pittsburghs Bluff neighborhood, the school maintains an associate campus in Rome and encompasses ten schools of study. The university hosts international students more than 80 countries although most students — about 80% — are from Pennsylvania or the surrounding region. Duquesne is considered a university with high research activity institution by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. There are more than 79,000 living alumni of the university including two cardinals and the current bishop of Pittsburgh, the Duquesne Dukes compete in NCAA Division I. Duquesne mens basketball appeared twice in national games in the 1950s. The Pittsburgh Catholic College of the Holy Ghost was founded on October 1,1878 by Fr, Joseph Strub and the Holy Ghost Fathers, who had been expelled from Germany during Otto von Bismarcks Kulturkampf six years earlier. When the college was founded, it had six faculty members and 40 students, the college obtained its state charter in 1882. Students attended classes in a space above a bakery on Wylie Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh. Duquesne established itself at its current location on the Bluff and built the original red brick Old Main in 1885. At the time, it was the highest point on the Pittsburgh skyline, on May 27,1911, under the leadership of Fr. Martin Hehir, the College became the first Catholic institution of learning in Pennsylvania to become a university. The year 1913 saw the university record its first woman graduate, in 1914, the graduate school was established. The 1920s were a time of expansion for the developing university, the campus grew to include its first single-purpose academic building, Canevin Hall, as well as a gymnasium and a central heating plant. Institutionally, the school grew to include the School of Pharmacy in 1925, a School of Music in 1926, and a School of Education in 1929. In 1928 the university celebrated its anniversary and was able to rejoice in the fact that it was now both financially solvent and enrollment had reached an all-time high
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Gamma Phi
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It is notable as being one of the forerunners in the African American Collegiate Fraternal scene. The colors of Gamma Phi was blue and white with the flower of the organization being a white carnation. The group was the fraternity on campus until the year 1912. Charles F. Potter the fraternity historian stated in the Forcean yearbook of 1923 that the fraternity was for a time merely local. The fraternity grew to at least three chapters, and existed on and off for years, but the last known documentation of this fraternity occurred in 1947. History of North American fraternities and sororities List of African-American Greek and fraternal organizations
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Fraternity
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A fraternity, fraternal order or fraternal organisation is an organisation, a society or a club of men associated together for various religious or secular aims. Fraternity in the Western concept developed in the Christian context, notably with the orders in the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages. Members are occasionally referred to as a brother or - usually in religious context - Frater or Friar, additionally, in modern times, it sometimes connotes a secret society, especially regarding freemasonry, odd fellows and various academic and student societies. There are mixed male and female fraternities and fraternal orders, as well as female religious orders and societies. Notable modern fraternities or fraternal orders that with time have evolved to more or less permit female members, include some grand lodges operating among freemasons, there are known fraternal organizations which existed as far back as ancient Greece and in the Mithraic Mysteries of ancient Rome. Analogous institutions developed in the medieval period called confraternities, which were lay organizations allied to the Catholic Church. The development of fraternal orders was especially dynamic in the United States. There have been hundreds of organizations in the United States. This led to the period being referred to as the Golden age of fraternalism, in 1944 Arthur M. Schlesinger coined the phrase a nation of joiners to refer to the phenomenon. Alexis de Tocqueville also referred to the American reliance on private organization in the 1830s in Democracy in America, there are many attributes that fraternities may or may not have, depending on their structure and purpose. On college campuses, fraternities may be divided into groups, social, service, professional, trade unions also grew out of fraternities such as the Knights of Labor. The ability to organize freely, apart from the institutions of government, the development of fraternities in England can be traced from guilds that emerged as the forerunners of trade unions and friendly societies. These guilds were set up to protect and care for their members at a time there was no welfare state. Various secret signs and handshakes were created to serve as proof of their membership allowing them to visit guilds in distant places that are associated with the guild they belong. When Henry VIII broke from the Roman Catholic Church, he viewed the guilds as supporters of the Pope, later, Elizabeth I appropriated apprenticeships away from guilds, and by the end of her reign most guilds had been suppressed. The suppression of trade guilds removed an important form of social and financial support from ordinary men and women. In London and other cities, some Guilds survived by adapting their roles to a social support function. Eventually, these groups evolved in the early 18th century into more philosophical organizations focused on brotherly love, among guilds that became prosperous are the Freemasons, Odd Fellows and Foresters
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Broadway theatre
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Along with Londons West End theatres, Broadway theatres are widely considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world. The Theater District is a popular tourist attraction in New York City, the great majority of Broadway shows are musicals. They presented Shakespeare plays and ballad operas such as The Beggars Opera, in 1752, William Hallam sent a company of twelve actors from Britain to the colonies with his brother Lewis as their manager. They established a theatre in Williamsburg, Virginia and opened with The Merchant of Venice, the company moved to New York in the summer of 1753, performing ballad operas and ballad-farces like Damon and Phillida. The Revolutionary War suspended theatre in New York, but thereafter theatre resumed in 1798, the Bowery Theatre opened in 1826, followed by others. Blackface minstrel shows, a distinctly American form of entertainment, became popular in the 1830s, by the 1840s, P. T. Barnum was operating an entertainment complex in lower Manhattan. In 1829, at Broadway and Prince Street, Niblos Garden opened, the 3, 000-seat theatre presented all sorts of musical and non-musical entertainments. In 1844, Palmos Opera House opened and presented opera for four seasons before bankruptcy led to its rebranding as a venue for plays under the name Burtons Theatre. The Astor Opera House opened in 1847, booth played the role for a famous 100 consecutive performances at the Winter Garden Theatre in 1865, and would later revive the role at his own Booths Theatre. Other renowned Shakespeareans who appeared in New York in this era were Henry Irving, Tommaso Salvini, Fanny Davenport, lydia Thompson came to America in 1868 heading a small theatrical troupe, adapting popular English burlesques for middle-class New York audiences. Thompsons troupe called the British Blondes, was the most popular entertainment in New York during the 1868–1869 theatrical season, the six-month tour ran for almost six extremely profitable years. Theatre in New York moved from downtown gradually to midtown beginning around 1850, in 1870, the heart of Broadway was in Union Square, and by the end of the century, many theatres were near Madison Square. Broadways first long-run musical was a 50-performance hit called The Elves in 1857, New York runs continued to lag far behind those in London, but Laura Keenes musical burletta The Seven Sisters shattered previous New York records with a run of 253 performances. It was at a performance by Keenes troupe of Our American Cousin in Washington, the production was a staggering five-and-a-half hours long, but despite its length, it ran for a record-breaking 474 performances. The same year, The Black Domino/Between You, Me and the Post was the first show to call itself a musical comedy, Tony Pastor opened the first vaudeville theatre one block east of Union Square in 1881, where Lillian Russell performed. Comedians Edward Harrigan and Tony Hart produced and starred in musicals on Broadway between 1878 and 1890, with book and lyrics by Harrigan and music by his father-in-law David Braham. They starred high quality singers, instead of the women of repute who had starred in earlier musical forms. Plays could run longer and still draw in the audiences, leading to better profits, as in England, during the latter half of the century, the theatre began to be cleaned up, with less prostitution hindering the attendance of the theatre by women
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Los Angeles
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Los Angeles, officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L. A. is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California. With a census-estimated 2015 population of 3,971,883, it is the second-most populous city in the United States, Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated county in the United States. The citys inhabitants are referred to as Angelenos, historically home to the Chumash and Tongva, Los Angeles was claimed by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo for Spain in 1542 along with the rest of what would become Alta California. The city was founded on September 4,1781, by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 following the Mexican War of Independence, in 1848, at the end of the Mexican–American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thereby becoming part of the United States. Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4,1850, the discovery of oil in the 1890s brought rapid growth to the city. The completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, delivering water from Eastern California, nicknamed the City of Angels, Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, and sprawling metropolis. Los Angeles also has an economy in culture, media, fashion, science, sports, technology, education, medicine. A global city, it has been ranked 6th in the Global Cities Index, the city is home to renowned institutions covering a broad range of professional and cultural fields, and is one of the most substantial economic engines within the United States. The Los Angeles combined statistical area has a gross metropolitan product of $831 billion, making it the third-largest in the world, after the Greater Tokyo and New York metropolitan areas. The city has hosted the Summer Olympic Games in 1932 and 1984 and is bidding to host the 2024 Summer Olympics and thus become the second city after London to have hosted the Games three times. The Los Angeles area also hosted the 1994 FIFA mens World Cup final match as well as the 1999 FIFA womens World Cup final match, the mens event was watched on television by over 700 million people worldwide. The Los Angeles coastal area was first settled by the Tongva, a Gabrielino settlement in the area was called iyáangẚ, meaning poison oak place. Gaspar de Portolà and Franciscan missionary Juan Crespí, reached the present site of Los Angeles on August 2,1769, in 1771, Franciscan friar Junípero Serra directed the building of the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, the first mission in the area. The Queen of the Angels is an honorific of the Virgin Mary, two-thirds of the settlers were mestizo or mulatto with a mixture of African, indigenous and European ancestry. The settlement remained a small town for decades, but by 1820. Today, the pueblo is commemorated in the district of Los Angeles Pueblo Plaza and Olvera Street. New Spain achieved its independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, during Mexican rule, Governor Pío Pico made Los Angeles Alta Californias regional capital
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The Detective (1968 film)
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Co-stars include Lee Remick, Jacqueline Bisset, Jack Klugman, William Windom and Robert Duvall, with a script by Academy Award-winning screenwriter Abby Mann. Here, the detective in question is Joe Leland, who is trying to juggle marital issues with a case that seemed to be open-and-shut at first. The Detective was Sinatras fourth collaboration with director Douglas, having worked together on Young at Heart, Robin and the 7 Hoods, Tony Rome, and then later Lady in Cement. New York City police detective Joe Leland is called to the home of a victim who has been beaten to death. Puzzled and disgusted, the police on call are left bemused, few leads are found, other than the fact that a house-mate of the victim remains conspicuous by his absence. All the while notions about the sexuality and personal interests warp the ideals of the officers assigned to the task. Leland tries to remain focused on the case dealing with the breakdown of his marriage to wife Karen. Eventually, the victims housemate is identified as Felix Tesla, and he is tracked down by Leland. A psychologically disturbed Tesla cracks until eventually Leland coaxes a confession out of him and this results in extensive publicity, a promotion for Leland and the electric chair for Tesla, which distresses Leland because it is clear to him that Tesla is insane. Later, across town, a man kills himself by jumping from the rooftop of a racetrack. The case goes unnoticed until the wife of the man, Norma MacIver, comes to Lelands office and asks him to look into it. Leland and partner Dave Schoenstein follow leads, a psychiatrist, Dr. Roberts, clearly knows more about the dead man, Colin MacIver, than hes willing to reveal. The therapist also is familiar with Karen Leland, whose infidelity is putting a strain on the detectives home life. Leland soon learns that powerful interests in the city do not want him to ask questions. The incorruptible detective presses on, at risk to his career and life and this was the last straw for Sinatra, who had the divorce papers publicly served on Farrow on her films set. Their divorce became final in August 1968, putting an end to a romance of barely two years. Released on May 28,1968 The Detective was a box office success, becoming the 20th highest earning film of the year with $6.5 million taken in box office rentals, critical reception was mostly good while Sinatra delivered one of his most intense and dedicated acting performances. The Hollywood Reporter would comment, Sinatra has honed his laconic, roger Ebert praised his performance and the concept of the film, stating, It is pretty clear that Sinatra wanted The Detective to be as good a movie as he could manage
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Frank Sinatra
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Francis Albert Sinatra was an American singer, actor, and producer who was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century. He is one of the music artists of all time. Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, to Italian immigrants, Sinatra began his career in the swing era with bandleaders Harry James. Sinatra found success as a solo artist after he signed with Columbia Records in 1943 and he released his debut album, The Voice of Frank Sinatra, in 1946. Sinatras professional career had stalled by the early 1950s, and he turned to Las Vegas and his career was reborn in 1953 with the success of From Here to Eternity, with his performance subsequently winning an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor. Sinatra released several critically lauded albums, including In the Wee Small Hours, Come Fly with Me, Only the Lonely and Nice n Easy. Sinatra left Capitol in 1960 to start his own label, Reprise Records. It was followed by 1968s collaboration with Duke Ellington, using his Las Vegas shows as a home base, he toured both within the United States and internationally until a short time before his death in 1998. Sinatra forged a successful career as a film actor. After winning an Academy Award for From Here to Eternity, he starred in The Man with the Golden Arm and he appeared in various musicals such as On the Town, Guys and Dolls, High Society, and Pal Joey, winning another Golden Globe for the latter. Toward the end of his career, he associated with playing detectives. Sinatra would later receive the Golden Globe Cecil B, on television, The Frank Sinatra Show began on ABC in 1950, and he continued to make appearances on television throughout the 1950s and 1960s. While Sinatra never formally learned how to read music, he had a natural, intuitive understanding of it, a perfectionist, renowned for his impeccable dress sense and cleanliness, he always insisted on recording live with his band. His bright blue eyes earned him the popular nickname Ol Blue Eyes, Sinatra led a colorful personal life, and was often involved in turbulent affairs with women, such as with his second wife Ava Gardner. He went on to marry Mia Farrow in 1966 and Barbara Marx in 1976, Sinatra had several violent confrontations, usually with journalists he felt had crossed him, or work bosses with whom he had disagreements. He was honored at the Kennedy Center Honors in 1983, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Ronald Reagan in 1985, Sinatra was also the recipient of eleven Grammy Awards, including the Grammy Trustees Award, Grammy Legend Award and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. After his death, American music critic Robert Christgau called him the greatest singer of the 20th century, Francis Albert Sinatra was born on December 12,1915, in an upstairs tenement at 415 Monroe Street in Hoboken, New Jersey. He was the child of Italian immigrants Antonino Martino Marty Sinatra
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Halloween (franchise)
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Halloween is an American horror franchise that consists of ten films, novels, comic books, merchandise, and a video game. The franchise predominately focuses on the character of Michael Myers who was committed to a sanitarium as a child for the murder of his older sister. Fifteen years later, he escapes to stalk and kill the people of Haddonfield, Michaels killings occur on the holiday of Halloween, on which all of the films primarily take place. The films collectively grossed over $366 million at the box-office worldwide, the original Halloween, released in 1978, was written by John Carpenter and Debra Hill, and directed by Carpenter. The sequels have had various writers and directors attached to them, Michael Myers is the antagonist in all of the films except Halloween III, Season of the Witch, the story of which has no direct connection to any other film in the series. Carpenter, who had a hand in writing the first sequel, has not had any involvement with the rest of the films. The film series is ranked fourth at the United States box office—in adjusted 2008 dollars—when compared to other American horror franchises, the first Halloween film is credited with beginning a long line of slasher films inspired by Alfred Hitchcocks Psycho. The franchise began when the first novel appeared less than a year after the release of the first film, in 2007, director Rob Zombie produced a remake of the 1978 film. A direct sequel to the 2007 remake was released two years later, the original Halloween, written and directed by John Carpenter, tells the story of Michael Myers as he stalks and kills teenage babysitters on Halloween night. The film begins with six-year-old Michael killing his teenage sister Judith on Halloween 1963 in the town of Haddonfield. He is subsequently hospitalized at Smiths Grove Sanitarium, fifteen years later, Michael escapes and returns to his hometown where he stalks Laurie Strode and her friends as they babysit. The film ends with Michael being shot six times by his psychiatrist, Halloween II picks up where the events of Halloween left off. Michaels body is missing from the front lawn, where he fell when Loomis shot him, Michael follows Laurie to the local hospital, killing everyone who gets between him and Laurie. The story reveals that Laurie is actually Michaels sister, she was given up for adoption as an infant, Michael corners Loomis and Laurie in an operating room, where Loomis causes an explosion as Laurie escapes. Michael, engulfed in flames, stumbles out of the room toward Laurie before finally falling dead, Michael Myers does not appear in Halloween III, Season of the Witch. This installment follows the story of Dr. Challis as he tries to solve the murder of a patient in his hospital. He, along with the patients daughter Ellie, travels to the town of Santa Mira. Cochran is using his Silver Shamrock Halloween masks to achieve his goal, Challis contacts the television stations and convinces all but one of the station managers to remove the commercial
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and he is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and American literature as a whole, and he was one of the countrys earliest practitioners of the short story. Poe is generally considered the inventor of the fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a difficult life. Poe was born in Boston, the child of two actors. His father abandoned the family in 1810, and his mother died the following year, thus orphaned, the child was taken in by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Virginia. They never formally adopted him, but Poe was with them well into young adulthood, tension developed later as John Allan and Edgar repeatedly clashed over debts, including those incurred by gambling, and the cost of secondary education for the young man. Poe attended the University of Virginia for one semester but left due to lack of money, Poe quarreled with Allan over the funds for his education and enlisted in the Army in 1827 under an assumed name. It was at time that his publishing career began, albeit humbly, with the anonymous collection of poems Tamerlane and Other Poems. With the death of Frances Allan in 1829, Poe and Allan reached a temporary rapprochement, however, Poe later failed as an officer cadet at West Point, declaring a firm wish to be a poet and writer, and he ultimately parted ways with John Allan. Poe switched his focus to prose and spent the several years working for literary journals and periodicals. His work forced him to move among several cities, including Baltimore, Philadelphia, in Richmond in 1836, he married Virginia Clemm, his 13-year-old cousin. In January 1845, Poe published his poem The Raven to instant success and his wife died of tuberculosis two years after its publication. For years, he had been planning to produce his own journal The Penn, Poe and his works influenced literature in the United States and around the world, as well as in specialized fields such as cosmology and cryptography. Poe and his work appear throughout popular culture in literature, music, films, a number of his homes are dedicated museums today. The Mystery Writers of America present an award known as the Edgar Award for distinguished work in the mystery genre. He was born Edgar Poe in Boston on January 19,1809 and he had an elder brother William Henry Leonard Poe, and a younger sister Rosalie Poe. Their grandfather David Poe Sr. had emigrated from Cavan, Ireland to America around the year 1750, Edgar may have been named after a character in William Shakespeares King Lear, a play that the couple were performing in 1809
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Bruiser (film)
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Bruiser is a 2000 French horror-thriller film written and directed by George A. Romero and starring Jason Flemyng, Peter Stormare and Leslie Hope. Bruiser was the first film directed by Romero since the 1993 film The Dark Half, in contrast to his previous films, which were shot in and around Pittsburgh, Bruiser was filmed in Toronto. Henry Creedlow is a businessman who lives a life, his high-strung. Henry drives to a train station where he meets with his best friend. Apparently, Jimmy has invested some money for Henry, and Henrys return is much lower than he thought, waking up from his fantasy, Henry boards the train with Jimmy. Henry works at a magazine company called Bruiser. While at the office, everyone is at a meeting deciding on which model should be on the magazines latest issue. The sleazy and reprehensible boss, Miles Styles, mocks Henrys choice in front of him and that Saturday, there is a party for the workers at Miles and Rosies house. The cynical Janine goes off not wanting to speak to the weak-willed Henry, Rosie finishes the mask and adds it to her garden of lost souls in the backyard. She asks Henry to paint a design on the featureless mask, Henry sees Miles and his wife across the pool in a very intimate moment. While driving home later that evening, Henry confronts Janine about what he saw as her making the moves onto his boss. Incredibly, Janine hardly seems to care and she tells the distraught Henry that he is so weak-willed, Janine tells Henry, Youre going no place. When they arrive home, Henry then has another fantasy about Janine pulling the car into the garage, Janine gets back into the car and drives off into the night, leaving Henry all alone. Henrys entire face has inexplicably transformed into a faceless image, when Henry tries removing the mask he cuts himself. Henry hides when Katie, his maid, arrives to clean the house. Henry watches the maid as she fills her purse and bag with silver and other items from his house, when Katie begins taking cash out of Henrys wallet that is left on a counter, Henry reveals himself and confronts his kleptomaniac maid about stealing from him. Henry attacks and beats her to death with the bag filled with stolen silver items and he wraps the body up in plastic and hides again when Janine comes home. Henry overhears a conversation in which Janine tells the person on the other line that she is going to leave Henry
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The Monster Squad
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The Monster Squad is a 1987 horror comedy film written by Shane Black and Fred Dekker and directed by Dekker, Peter Hyams was one of the executive producers. It was released by Tri-Star Pictures on August 14,1987, the film features the Universal Monsters, led by Count Dracula. They, in turn, combat a group of kids out to keep them from controlling the world. The Monster Squad is a club of pre-teenagers who idolize classic monster-movies and they hold meetings at a tree-clubhouse in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The diary describes, in detail, an amulet that is composed of concentrated good. One day out of every century, as the forces of good and evil reach a balance, nevertheless, Dracula seeks to obtain the amulet so that he can take control of the world and plunge it into darkness. Dracula then steals a crate from a B-25 Mitchell in flight, containing Frankensteins monster, however, Frankensteins monster is reluctant to aid Dracula, and wanders into the forest where he encounters Phoebe. Rather than being afraid, she shows him the kindness he has always sought, after Phoebe proves to the Monster Squad that Frankensteins monster is not evil, he chooses to help the boys instead of Dracula. The amulet turns out to be buried in a room beneath a house that Dracula and the other monsters now occupy. The secret room is littered with wards which prevent the monsters from taking it, the Monster Squad finds and removes the amulet and narrowly escape Draculas grasp. The German informs them that the incantation must be read by a female virgin, as midnight approaches, the Squad makes their way to a local cathedral to make their last stand. Unfortunately, the doors to the cathedral are locked, so the incantation must be read on the stoop and they enlist Patricks beautiful elder sister Lisa to help them, as shes the only virgin they know. Unfortunately, with running out, the incantation fails since Lisa is actually not a virgin anymore. In the ensuing battle, Draculas consorts, the Mummy, the Gill-man, Dracula arrives and is about to kill Phoebe when Frankensteins monster intervenes, impaling him on a wrought-iron fence. Phoebe finishes the incantation, opening the portal which begins to consume the bodies of the monsters, Dracula, still alive, attempts to drag Sean in with him. Sean impales Dracula with a stake, then Van Helsing appears, having briefly escaped from Limbo. Although Phoebe tries to hold him, Frankensteins monster is also sucked into the portal. The portal then closes, ensuring the worlds safety, in the aftermath, the United States Army arrives on the scene, having received a letter from Squad member Eugene earlier on asking for their help against the monsters
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Thriller (genre)
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Thriller is a broad genre of literature, film and television, having numerous subgenres. Thrillers are characterized and defined by the moods they elicit, giving viewers heightened feelings of suspense, excitement, surprise, anticipation, successful examples of thrillers are the films of Alfred Hitchcock. Thrillers generally keep the audience on the edge of their seats as the plot builds towards a climax, the cover-up of important information is a common element. Literary devices such as red herrings, plot twists, and cliffhangers are used extensively, a thriller is usually a villain-driven plot, whereby he or she presents obstacles that the protagonist must overcome. Homers Odyssey is one of the oldest stories in the Western world and is regarded as a prototype of the thriller. Thrillers may be defined by the mood that they elicit. In short, if it thrills, it is a thriller, as the introduction to a major anthology explains, Suspense is a crucial characteristic of the thriller genre. It gives the viewer a feeling of pleasurable fascination and excitement mixed with apprehension, anticipation and tension and these develop from unpredictable, mysterious and rousing events during the narrative, which make the viewer or reader think about the outcome of certain actions. Suspense builds in order to make those final moments, no matter how short, the suspense in a story keeps the person hooked to reading or watching more until the climax is reached. In terms of expectations, it may be contrasted with curiosity. The objective is to deliver a story with sustained tension, surprise, the second type of suspense is the. anticipation wherein we either know or else are fairly certain about what is going to happen but are still aroused in anticipation of its actual occurrence. According to Greek philosopher Aristotle in his book Poetics, suspense is an important building block of literature, common methods and themes in crime and action thrillers are mainly ransoms, captivities, heists, revenge, kidnappings. Common in mystery thrillers are investigations and the whodunit technique, common elements in dramatic and psychological thrillers include plot twists, psychology, obsession and mind games. Common in horror thrillers are serial killers, stalking, deathtraps, elements such as fringe theories, false accusations and paranoia are common in paranoid thrillers. Threats to entire countries, spies, espionage, conspiracies, assassins, the themes frequently include terrorism, political conspiracy, pursuit, or romantic triangles leading to murder. Plots of thrillers involve characters which come into conflict with other or with outside forces. The protagonist of these films is set against a problem, no matter what subgenre a thriller film falls into, it will emphasize the danger that the protagonist faces. While protagonists of thrillers have traditionally been men, women characters are increasingly common
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Genre
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Genre is any form or type of communication in any mode with socially-agreed upon conventions developed over time. Genres form by conventions that change over time as new genres are invented, often, works fit into multiple genres by way of borrowing and recombining these conventions. Stand alone texts, works, or pieces of communication may have individual styles, some genres may be rigid with strictly adhered to guidelines while others may be very flexible. Genre began as a classification system for ancient Greek literature. Poetry, prose, and performance each had a specific and calculated style that related to the theme of the story. Speech patterns for comedy would not be appropriate for tragedy, in later periods genres proliferated and developed in response to changes in audiences and creators. Genre became a tool to help the public make sense out of unpredictable art. Because art is often a response to a state, in that people write/paint/sing/dance about what they know about. Genre suffers from the ills of any classification system. Genre is to be reassessed and scrutinized and to works on their unique merit. While the genre of storytelling has been relegated as lesser form of art because of the heavily borrowed nature of the conventions, proponents argue that the genius of an effective genre piece is in the variation, recombination, and evolution of the codes. The term genre is used in the history and criticism of visual art. These are distinguished from staffage, incidental figures in what is primarily a landscape or architectural painting, Genre painting may also be used as a wider term covering genre painting proper, and other specialized types of paintings such as still-life, landscapes, marine paintings and animal paintings. The concept of the hierarchy of genres was a one in artistic theory. It was strongest in France, where it was associated with the Académie française which held a role in academic art. Genres may be determined by technique, tone, content. Genre should not be confused with age category, by which literature may be classified as adult, young adult. They also must not be confused with format, such as novel or picture book
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Mel Gibson
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Mel Colmcille Gerard Gibson AO is an American actor and filmmaker. He was born in Peekskill, New York, and moved with his parents to Sydney, Australia and he studied acting at the Australian National Institute of Dramatic Art. During the 1980s, he founded Icon Entertainment, a company which independent film director Atom Egoyan has called. Director Peter Weir cast him as one of the leads in the critically acclaimed World War I drama Gallipoli, the film also helped to earn Gibson the reputation of a serious, versatile actor. He later directed and produced the successful and controversial, biblical drama film The Passion of the Christ. He received further critical notice for his work of the action-adventure film Apocalypto. Gibson was born in Peekskill, New York, the sixth of eleven children, and the son of Hutton Gibson, a writer. One of Gibsons younger brothers, Donal, is also an actor, because of his mother, Gibson retains dual Irish and American citizenship. Mel was twelve years old at the time, Gibson was educated by members of the Congregation of Christian Brothers at St Leos Catholic College in Wahroonga, New South Wales, during his high school years. Gibson gained very favorable notices from critics when he first entered the cinematic scene. In 1982, Vincent Canby wrote that Mr. Gibson recalls the young Steve McQueen, I cant define star quality, but whatever it is, Mr. Gibson has it. Gibson has also likened to a combination Clark Gable and Humphrey Bogart. Gibsons roles in the Mad Max series of films, Peter Weirs Gallipoli, later, Gibson expanded into a variety of acting projects including human dramas such as Hamlet, and comedic roles such as those in Maverick and What Women Want. He expanded beyond acting into directing and producing, with, The Man Without a Face, in 1993, Braveheart, in 1995, The Passion of the Christ, in 2004, jess Cagle of Time compared Gibson with Cary Grant, Sean Connery, and Robert Redford. Connery once suggested Gibson should play the next James Bond to Connerys M. Gibson turned down the role, Gibson studied at the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney. The students at NIDA were classically trained in the British-theater tradition rather than in preparation for screen acting. As students, Gibson and actress Judy Davis played the leads in Romeo and Juliet, and Gibson played the role of Queen Titania in an experimental production of A Midsummer Nights Dream. After graduation in 1977, Gibson immediately began work on the filming of Mad Max, but continued to work as a stage actor, and joined the State Theatre Company of South Australia in Adelaide
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Danny Glover
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Danny Lebern Glover is an American actor, film director, and political activist. He is well known for his role as Roger Murtaugh in the Lethal Weapon film series, The Color Purple, To Sleep with Anger. He also has prominent supporting roles in Silverado, Witness, Predator 2, Saw, Shooter,2012, Death at a Funeral, Beyond the Lights, and Dirty Grandpa. He has appeared in other movies, television shows, and theatrical productions. Glover was born in San Francisco, the son of Carrie and his parents, who worked as postal workers, were highly active in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, working to advance equal rights. Glovers mother, daughter of a midwife, was born in Louisville, Georgia and graduated from Paine College in Augusta, as an adolescent and a young adult, Glover suffered from epilepsy but has not suffered a seizure since age 35. He attended George Washington High School in San Francisco and he attended San Francisco State University in the late 1960s but did not graduate. SFSU later awarded him an honorary degree, Glover trained at the Black Actors Workshop of the American Conservatory Theater. Glover originally worked in city administration working on community development before transitioning to theater and he has said, I didnt think it was a difficult transition. Acting is a platform that can become a conveyer for ideas, art is a way of understanding, of confronting issues and confronting your own feelings—all within that realm of the capacity it represents. It may have been a leap of faith for me, given not only my learning disability, I felt all the things that someone thats 63 or 64 feels and with my own diminished expectations of who I could be would feel. Whether its art, acting or theater that Ive devoted myself to I put more passion and his first theater involvement was with Conservatory Theater, a regional training program in San Francisco. Glover also trained with Jean Shelton at the Shelton Actors Lab in San Francisco, in an interview on Inside the Actors Studio, Glover credited Jean Shelton for much of his development as an actor. Deciding that he wanted to be an actor, Glover resigned from his city administration job, later he once again starred with Busey in the blockbuster Predator 2. He also starred as the husband to Whoopi Goldbergs character Celie in the celebrated literary adaptation The Color Purple, in 1994 he made his directorial debut with the Showtime channel short film Override. Also in 1994, Glover and actor Ben Guillory founded the Robey Theatre Company in Los Angeles, focusing on theatre by, during his career, he has made several cameos, appearing, for example, in the Michael Jackson video Liberian Girl of 1987. Glover earned top billing for the first time in Predator 2 and that same year he starred in Charles Burnetts To Sleep with Anger, for which he won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead. In addition, Glover has been an actor in many childrens movies
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Gary Busey
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William Gary Busey is an American actor of film and television. Busey also made guest appearances on shows such as Gunsmoke, Walker, Texas Ranger, Law & Order, Scrubs. For portraying Buddy Holly in The Buddy Holly Story, Busey was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor, in 2014, he lampooned his public image through a series of advertisements for Amazon Fire TV. Busey was born in Goose Creek, Texas, the son of Sadie Virginia, a homemaker, and Delmer Lloyd Busey and he graduated from Nathan Hale High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1962. While attending Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kansas, on a football scholarship and he then transferred to Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma, where he quit school just one class short of graduation. Busey began his business career as a drummer in The Rubber Band. For his skits on Uncanny Film Festival, Busey drew on his American Hero, belligerent, when he told Gailard Sartain his character needed a name, Sartain replied, Take three, Teddy, Jack and Eddy. He played in a band called Carp, which released one album on Epic Records in 1969, Busey continued to play several small roles in both film and television during the 1970s. In 1975, as the character Harvey Daley, he was the last person killed on the series Gunsmoke, in 1974, Busey made his major film debut with a supporting role in Michael Ciminos buddy action caper Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, starring Clint Eastwood and Jeff Bridges. In 1976, he was hired by Barbra Streisand and her producer-boyfriend Jon Peters to play Bobby Ritchie, road manager to Kris Kristoffersons character in the remake film A Star is Born. On the DVD commentary of the film, Streisand says Busey was great, in 1978, he starred as rock legend Buddy Holly in The Buddy Holly Story with Sartain as The Big Bopper. In the same year he starred in the small yet acclaimed drama Straight Time and the surfing movie Big Wednesday. In the 1980s, Buseys roles included the acclaimed western Barbarosa. Cab and Insignificance, and the Stephen King adaptation Silver Bullet and he played one of the primary antagonists opposite Mel Gibson and Danny Glover in the action comedy Lethal Weapon. In the 1990s, he had prominent supporting roles in action films such as Predator 2, Point Break. He also appeared in Rookie of the Year, The Firm, Black Sheep, Lost Highway, Busey sang the song Stay All Night on Saturday Night Live in March 1979, and on the Late Show with David Letterman in the 1990s. In 2003, Busey starred in a Comedy Central reality show, in 2005, he also voiced himself in an episode of The Simpsons and appeared in the popular miniseries Into the West. Busey controversially appeared in the 2006 Turkish nationalist film Valley of the Wolves, Iraq, in 2007, he appeared as himself in a prominent recurring role on HBOs Entourage, in which he parodied his eccentric image, ultimately appearing on three episodes of the show
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Bruce Willis
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Walter Bruce Willis is an American actor, producer, and singer. His career began on the Off-Broadway stage and then in television in the 1980s and he is known for his role of John McClane in the Die Hard series. He has appeared in over 60 films, including Color of Night, Pulp Fiction,12 Monkeys, The Fifth Element, Armageddon, The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Sin City, Red, The Expendables 2, and Looper. Willis married actress Demi Moore in 1987, and they had three daughters, including Rumer, before their divorce in 2000, since 2009, he has been married to model Emma Heming, with whom he has two daughters. Willis was born Walter Bruce Willis on March 19,1955, in the town of Idar-Oberstein and his father, David Willis, was an American soldier. His mother, Marlene, was German, born in Kassel, Willis is the oldest of four children, he has a sister, Florence, and a brother, David. His brother Robert died of cancer in 2001, aged 42. After being discharged from the military in 1957, Williss father took his back to Carneys Point Township. Willis has described himself as having come from a line of blue collar people. His mother worked in a bank and his father was a welder, master mechanic, Willis attended Penns Grove High School in his hometown, where he encountered issues with a stutter. He was nicknamed Buck-Buck by his schoolmates, after high school, Willis took a job as a security guard at the Salem Nuclear Power Plant and transported work crews at the DuPont Chambers Works factory in Deepwater, New Jersey. After working as an investigator, Willis turned to acting. He enrolled in the Drama Program at Montclair State University, where he was cast in the production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Willis left school in his year and moved to New York City. Willis left New York City and headed to California to audition for television shows. In 1984, he appeared in an episode of the TV series Miami Vice, in 1985, he was the guest actor in the first episode of the 1980s revival of The Twilight Zone, Shatterday. He auditioned for the role of David Addison Jr. of the television series Moonlighting, competing against 3,000 other actors for the position, during the height of the shows success, beverage maker Seagram hired Willis as the pitchman for their Golden Wine Cooler products. The advertising campaign paid the rising star between $5–7 million over two years, in spite of that, Willis chose not to renew his contract with the company when he decided to stop drinking alcohol in 1988
