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Monte-Carlo Television Festival
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The Festival de Télévision de Monte-Carlo is an international festival and competition focusing on productions for television, founded 1961 and based in Monaco. By creating the Festival de Télévision de Monte-Carlo in 1961, Prince Rainier III of Monaco, wished to encourage a new art form, in the service of peace and understanding between men. Monacos international status ideally suited the Princes ambition, to television as an exceptional means of bringing cultures together. However, The Monter-Carlo Television Festival is above all, since the 1980s, an important opportunity for business. Prince Albert II of Monaco has been the Honorary President of the Festival since 1988, the Golden Nymph rewards – with a Golden Nymph or a selection of Special Prizes – the best TV programs and actors from all around the world. Throughout the Festival, international juries composed of distinguished industry professionals, each year, more than 30 countries are represented in the competition, with more than 60 programs selected for nomination. The Competition is open to all networks, distributors and production companies. S. H. The Festival de Télévision de Monte-Carlo closes with the glittering Golden Nymph Award Ceremony
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Golden Nymph Award
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Golden Nymph Award Ceremony
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Red Carpet
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Chicago
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Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third-most populous city in the United States. With over 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the state of Illinois, and it is the county seat of Cook County. In 2012, Chicago was listed as a global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. Chicago has the third-largest gross metropolitan product in the United States—about $640 billion according to 2015 estimates, the city has one of the worlds largest and most diversified economies with no single industry employing more than 14% of the workforce. In 2016, Chicago hosted over 54 million domestic and international visitors, landmarks in the city include Millennium Park, Navy Pier, the Magnificent Mile, Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Campus, the Willis Tower, Museum of Science and Industry, and Lincoln Park Zoo. Chicagos culture includes the arts, novels, film, theater, especially improvisational comedy. Chicago also has sports teams in each of the major professional leagues. The city has many nicknames, the best-known being the Windy City, the name Chicago is derived from a French rendering of the Native American word shikaakwa, known to botanists as Allium tricoccum, from the Miami-Illinois language. The first known reference to the site of the current city of Chicago as Checagou was by Robert de LaSalle around 1679 in a memoir, henri Joutel, in his journal of 1688, noted that the wild garlic, called chicagoua, grew abundantly in the area. In the mid-18th century, the area was inhabited by a Native American tribe known as the Potawatomi, the first known non-indigenous permanent settler in Chicago was Jean Baptiste Point du Sable. Du Sable was of African and French descent and arrived in the 1780s and he is commonly known as the Founder of Chicago. In 1803, the United States Army built Fort Dearborn, which was destroyed in 1812 in the Battle of Fort Dearborn, the Ottawa, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi tribes had ceded additional land to the United States in the 1816 Treaty of St. Louis. The Potawatomi were forcibly removed from their land after the Treaty of Chicago in 1833, on August 12,1833, the Town of Chicago was organized with a population of about 200. Within seven years it grew to more than 4,000 people, on June 15,1835, the first public land sales began with Edmund Dick Taylor as U. S. The City of Chicago was incorporated on Saturday, March 4,1837, as the site of the Chicago Portage, the city became an important transportation hub between the eastern and western United States. Chicagos first railway, Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, and the Illinois, the canal allowed steamboats and sailing ships on the Great Lakes to connect to the Mississippi River. A flourishing economy brought residents from rural communities and immigrants from abroad, manufacturing and retail and finance sectors became dominant, influencing the American economy. The Chicago Board of Trade listed the first ever standardized exchange traded forward contracts and these issues also helped propel another Illinoisan, Abraham Lincoln, to the national stage
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Clockwise from top:
Downtown Chicago, the
Chicago Theatre, the
'L',
Navy Pier,
Millennium Park, the
Field Museum, and the
Willis Tower.
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Traditional
Potawatomi costume on display at the
Field Museum
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A 1903 painting of Chicago in 1833
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An artist's rendering of the
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University of Missouri
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The University of Missouri is a public land-grant research university located in Columbia, Missouri, U. S. It was founded in 1839 as the first public institution of higher education west of the Mississippi River, as the largest university in the state, it enrolled 32,777 students in 2016, offering over 300 degree programs in 19 academic colleges in the 2014–2015 school year. It is the campus of the University of Missouri System, which also maintains campuses in Kansas City, Rolla. MU is one of the nations top-tier R1 institutions and one of the 34 public universities to be members of the Association of American Universities, there are more than 300,000 MU alumni living worldwide with over one half continuing to reside in Missouri. The university was ranked 103rd among national universities in the 2016 U. S. News & World Report rankings, starting in December 1953, it boasts the countrys only university-owned TV network affiliate, operated by the Missouri School of Journalism. In 1908, the worlds first school of journalism was founded by Walter Williams as the Missouri School of Journalism, the University of Missouri Research Reactor Center is the worlds most powerful university research reactor. MU is one of six public universities in the United States with a school of medicine, veterinary medicine, engineering, agriculture. The university also owns the University of Missouri Health Care system, the only athletic program that operates a NCAA Division I FBS football team in Missouri is known as the Missouri Tigers and competes as a member of the Southeastern Conference. The schools mascot, Truman the Tiger, is named after Missourian, according to the NCAA, the American tradition of homecoming was established at the university in 1911, the tradition has since been adopted nationwide. In 1839, the Missouri Legislature passed the Geyer Act to establish funds for a state university and it would be the first public university west of the Mississippi River. To secure the university, the citizens of Columbia and Boone County pledged $117,921 in cash, the land on which the university was eventually constructed was just south of Columbias downtown and owned by James S. Rollins. He was later called the Father of the University, as the first public university in the Louisiana Purchase, the school was shaped by Thomas Jeffersons ideas about public education. In 1862 the American Civil War forced the university to close for much of the year, residents of Columbia formed a home guard militia that became known as the Fighting Tigers of Columbia. They were given the name for their readiness to protect the city and university, in 1890, the universitys newly formed football team took the name the Tigers after the Civil War militia. In 1870 the institution was granted land-grant college status under the Morrill Act of 1862, the act led to the founding of the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy as an offshoot of the main campus in Columbia. It developed as the present-day Missouri University of Science and Technology, in 1888 the Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station opened. This grew to encompass ten centers and research farms around Missouri, by 1890 the university encompassed a normal college, engineering college, arts and science college, school of agriculture and mechanical arts. School of medicine, and school of law, on January 9,1892, Academic Hall, the institutions main building, burned in a fire that completely gutted the building, leaving little more standing than six stone Ionic columns
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Fire at
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Painting of the Red Campus soon after the construction of
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Francis Quadrangle, featuring the columns and
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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
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The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It is given in honor of an actor who has delivered a performance in a supporting role while working within the film industry. At the 9th Academy Awards ceremony held in 1937, Walter Brennan was the first winner of award for his role in Come. Initially, winners in both supporting acting categories were awarded instead of statuettes. Beginning with the 16th ceremony held in 1944, however, winners received full-sized statuettes, currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the actors branch of AMPAS, winners are selected by a plurality vote from the entire eligible voting members of the Academy. Since its inception, the award has given to 72 actors. Brennan has received the most awards in this category with three awards, Brennan, Jeff Bridges, Robert Duvall, Arthur Kennedy, Jack Nicholson, and Claude Rains were nominated on four occasions, more than any other actor. As of the 2017 ceremony, Mahershala Ali is the most recent winner in category for his role as Juan in Moonlight. In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of release in Los Angeles County. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, University of Toronto Press, ISBN 978-1-55002-574-3. org The Academy Awards Database Oscar. com Complete Downloadable List of Academy Award Nominees
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Walter Brennan was the first winner in this category for 1936's
Come and Get It; He would also win for his roles in
Kentucky (1938) and
The Westerner (1940).
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Van Heflin won in 1942 for his performance in
Johnny Eager.
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George Sanders won for his role in 1950's
All About Eve.
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Karl Malden won in 1951 for
A Streetcar Named Desire.
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Staff Sergeant
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Staff sergeant is a rank of non-commissioned officer used in the armed forces of several countries. It is also a rank in some police services. In origin certain senior sergeants were assigned to administrative, supervisory, as such they held seniority over sergeants who were members of a battalion or company, and were paid correspondingly increased wages. Their seniority was indicated by a crown worn above the three stripes on their uniform rank markings. In the Australian Army and Cadets, the rank of sergeant is being phased out. It was usually held by the quartermaster sergeant or the holders of other administrative roles. Staff sergeants are addressed as Staff Sergeant or Staff, never as Sergeant as it degrades their rank. Chief is another nickname though this is used for the company chief clerk. A staff sergeant ranks above sergeant and below warrant officer class 2, for further information, see Israel Defense Forces ranks. Soldiers who take a course may become staff sergeants earlier. The rank insignia is composed of three stripes with an embroidered fig leaf, a biblical motif, in the center of the rank insignia. Staff sergeants get a pay raise. A staff sergeant in the Singapore Armed Forces ranks above first sergeant and it is the second most senior specialist rank. Staff sergeants are addressed as Staff Sergeant or Staff, but never Sergeant, Staff sergeants may be appointed as company sergeant major if they are due for promotion to master sergeant. They are usually addressed as CSM in camp, although in the past they were referred to as Encik, the rank insignia consists of two chevrons pointing up and three chevrons pointing down, with the Singapore coat of arms in the middle. However, all three grades of Sergeants all don the same three chevrons insigna, the rank of Staff Sergeant exists in the Army, Air Force and the Marine Corps, and is equivalent to the Petty officer 2nd Class in the Navy. In the British Army, staff sergeant ranks above sergeant and below warrant officer class 2, the rank is given a NATO code of OR-7. The insignia is the crown above three downward pointing chevrons
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For the butterfly known as "Staff Sergeant", see
Athyma selenophora.
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Platoon (film)
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Platoon is a 1986 American war film written and directed by Oliver Stone, starring Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, and Charlie Sheen. It is the first film of a trilogy of Vietnam War films directed by Stone, followed by Born on the Fourth of July and Heaven & Earth. Stone wrote the screenplay based upon his experiences as a U. S. infantryman in Vietnam, Platoon was the first Hollywood film to be written and directed by a veteran of the Vietnam War. Platoon won the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1986, it also won Best Director for Oliver Stone, as well as Best Sound Mixing, in 1998, the American Film Institute placed Platoon at #83 in their AFIs 100 Years. In 1967, U. S. Army volunteer Chris Taylor arrives in Vietnam and is assigned to a platoon near the Cambodian border. Taylor is immediately sent out with Barnes, Elias and veteran soldiers on a night ambush for a North Vietnamese Army force. The NVA soldiers manage to get close to the sleeping Americans before a brief firefight ensues, Taylors fellow new recruit Gardener is killed, after his return from hospital, Taylor bonds with Elias and his circle of marijuana-smokers while remaining aloof from Barnes and his more hard-edged followers. During a subsequent patrol, three men are killed by traps and unseen assailants. Already on edge, the platoon is further angered when they discover an enemy supply, Elias then arrives, getting into a physical altercation with Barnes over the killing before Wolfe breaks it up and orders the supplies destroyed and the village razed. Taylor later prevents a gang-rape of two girls by some of Barnes men, on their next patrol, the platoon is ambushed and pinned down in a firefight, in which numerous soldiers are wounded. More men are wounded when Lieutenant Wolfe accidentally directs an artillery strike onto his own unit before Barnes calls it off, Elias takes Taylor and two other men to intercept flanking enemy troops. Barnes orders the rest of the platoon to retreat and goes back into the jungle to find Elias group, Barnes finds Elias alone and shoots him, then returns and tells the others that Elias was killed by the enemy. While the platoon is extracting via helicopter, they glimpse Elias, mortally wounded, emerging from the treeline and being chased by a group of North Vietnamese soldiers, noting Barnes anxious manner, Taylor realizes that he was responsible. At the base, Taylor attempts to talk his group into fragging Barnes in retaliation when Barnes, having them, enters the room. Taylor assaults the intoxicated Barnes but is quickly overpowered, Barnes cuts Taylor near his eye with a push dagger before departing. The platoon is sent back to the front line to maintain defensive positions and that night, a major NVA assault occurs, and the defensive lines are broken. Much of the platoon, including Wolfe and most of Barnes followers, are killed in the ensuing battle, during the attack, an NVA sapper, armed with explosives, destroys the battalion headquarters in a suicide attack. Now in command of the defense, Captain Harris orders his air support to all their remaining ordnance inside his perimeter
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Theatrical release poster by
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Major League (film)
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Made for $11 million, Major League grossed nearly $50 million in domestic release. Major League deals with the exploits of a version of the Cleveland Indians baseball team. Former Las Vegas showgirl Rachel Phelps has inherited the Cleveland Indians baseball team from her deceased husband. Phelps has received a deal to move the team to Miami. To do this, she replaces their existing players with aging veterans and inexperienced rookies, Phelps hires Lou Brown, a former coach from the Toledo Mud Hens, to manage the team. The team starts the season on a losing streak, the team rallies, bringing the Indians higher in the division standings. Phelps tries to demoralize the team by taking away their luxuries such as a jet, but the team still holds strong. Meanwhile, Taylor finds that his ex-girlfriend Lynn is living in Cleveland, when Phelps original plan falls through, she decides that she will purposely void the contract, despite the financial penalty, and will move the team to Miami regardless. Her plan is to get rid of the bad players and Brown, once they reach dead last, donovan relays this to Brown, who informs the team that no matter how well they do, they will be fired after the season. So, they work hard and reach the American League Championship so Phelps cant move the team or throw them out, the team succeeds in tying the division with the New York Yankees, leading to a one-game playoff to determine the title. In the playoff in Cleveland, the Yankees take an early lead, in the top of the 9th, with the bases loaded, Vaughn manages to strike out the Yankees best hitter, sending the Indians up to bat. With the game tied and the Indians with two outs, the speedy Willie Mays Hayes manages a single to get on base, Taylor steps up, and after signalling to Brown, calls his shot to center field. With the Yankees prepared for the play, Taylor instead bunts, allowing Hayes to make it to home safely. As the team celebrates, Taylor sees Lynn in the stands, the two rush to hug each other as the city celebrates the victory. The theatrical releases ending includes Rachel Phelps, apparently unable to move the team because of increased attendance, angry, an alternate ending on the Wild Thing Edition DVD shows a very different characterization of Phelps. Lou tenders his resignation and tells Phelps that he cant in good work for her after she sought to sabotage the team for her own personal gain. Phelps then tells him that, in fact, she loves the Indians, however, when she inherited the club from her late husband, it was on the brink of bankruptcy. She tells Lou that she felt that he was the right manager to bring the ragtag group together
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Theatrical release poster
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Looking for Mr. Goodbar (film)
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The film was written and directed by Richard Brooks. It stars Diane Keaton, Tuesday Weld, William Atherton, the film was a commercial success, earning $22.5 million, but received wildly mixed reviews. Author Rossner, for one, detested it, although she praised Diane Keatons performance, the film did garner Academy Award nominations for supporting actress Tuesday Weld and for the cinematography by William Fraker. Set in the mid-1970s, the traces the sexual awakening of Theresa Dunn. Theresa later finds out that her scoliosis is congenital and that her aunt had the condition and committed suicide, as a result. Theresa finds first love and loses her virginity with her older, married college professor Martin. Theresa takes a job teaching deaf children, and proves to be a gifted, with Katherines encouragement, she moves out of her parents home into her own apartment in the city. She begins to go clubbing at night and picks up men for one-night stands as a way of getting excitement and sexual fulfillment without commitment, always insisting that the men leave before morning. At one point he gives her a Quaalude pill which causes her to oversleep and arrive late for work the next day, angering her employer. Tony eventually becomes controlling and abusive, and Theresa breaks up with him and he then stalks and harasses her at the school where she works and makes threatening phone calls to her at night. Through her job, Theresa also meets and dates an Irish-American welfare caseworker named James and her parents approve of the responsible James, seeing him as a potential husband for Theresa. However, they do not have sex and James wants a traditional courtship and monogamous relationship, although James initially seems nice, over time he appears to become as controlling and disrespectful of Theresa as Tony was. After imagining what could happen if Tony were to call the police, Theresa gathers up all the drugs in her apartment, with the new year approaching, Theresa resolves to leave her clubbing and drug use behind and take control of her life. At Theresas apartment, Gary finds himself unable to attain an erection, Theresa asks him to leave, which Gary misinterprets as questioning his sexuality. In a rage, Gary attacks her, beats and rapes her, Theme from Looking for Mr. Goodbar – Carol Connors and Artie Kane Theme from Looking for Mr. Some found the film lurid and muddled, a review by Frank Rich for Time magazine criticized Brooks for making many crude miscalculations in adapting the novel. Roger Ebert gave the film 3 out of 4 stars, praising Keatons performance but lamenting the many loose ends and dead ends, john Simon noted that while the novel is set in New York City, the film is said to be located in San Francisco. He also noted that the character is made considerably prettier, thus reducing the principal sources of her insecurity
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Theatrical release poster
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The Dogs of War (film)
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The Dogs of War is a 1980 war film based upon the 1974 novel of the same name by Frederick Forsyth. Largely filmed in Belize, it was directed by John Irvin and starred Christopher Walken, in it a small mercenary unit of soldiers is privately hired to depose the president of a fictional African country so that a British tycoon can gain access to a platinum deposit. The title is based on a phrase from William Shakespeares play Julius Caesar, Cry, Havoc. having escaped from Central America, mercenaries Jamie Shannon, Drew, Derek, Michel, Terry and Richard, get an offer from a British businessman, Roy Endean. He is interested in resources in the small African nation of Zangaro. Shannon goes on a mission to Zangaros capital of Clarence. However, Shannon’s activities arouse the suspicions of the police and he is arrested, severely beaten and his wounds are treated by Dr. Okoye, a physician who was formerly a moderate political leader. North agitates for Shannon’s release and he is deported after two days of torture, when Shannon tells Endean that there is no chance of an internal coup, Endean offers him $100,000 to overthrow Kimba by invading Zangaro with a mercenary army. Endean intends to install a government led by Colonel Bobi. This would allow Endean to exploit the newly discovered platinum resources. Shannon refuses the offer and instead proposes to his wife that they start a new life in America. When she turns him down, he accepts Endeans offer on condition that he will have control of the operation. Provided with a million dollars for expenses, Shannon contacts some of his associates from Central America, the group illegally procures a supply of Uzi submachine guns, ammunition, rocket launchers, mines and other weapons from arms dealers. North encounters Shannon by chance and suspects him of being a CIA agent, Shannon asks Drew to scare North away without hurting him but instead North is killed by someone hired by Endean to follow Shannon and his crew. A furious Shannon kills the assassin in turn and leaves his body at Endeans house during a party held for Colonel Bobi. To transport the team to the coast of Zangaro, Shannon hires a small freighter, at sea, the team is joined by a group of Zangaron exiles trained as soldiers by a former mercenary colleague. Once ashore, the use their array of weapons to attack the military garrison where Kimba lives. Drew enters a shack in the courtyard and is killed by a young woman with a baby who shoots him in the back with a pistol. After the mercenaries storm the burning, bullet-scarred ruins of the garrison, Shannon blasts his way into Kimbas mansion, there he finds the dictator stuffing bricks of bills into a briefcase and kills him
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Theatrical release poster by
Tom Jung
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The Big Chill (film)
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The plot focuses on a group of baby boomer college friends who reunite after 15 years when one of their old comrades, Alex, commits suicide without warning. Kevin Costner was cast as Alex, but all scenes showing his face were cut, the Big Chill influenced the TV series thirtysomething. Earlier, however, the movie was adapted for television as the short-lived 1985 CBS comedy-drama series Hometown. At the funeral, Harold and Sarah are reunited with friends from the University of Michigan. Also present is Chloe, Alexs much younger girlfriend, after the burial, everyone goes from the cemetery to Harold and Sarahs vacation house, where they are invited to stay for the weekend. During the first night there, a bat flies into the attic while Meg, Sam later finds Nick watching television, and they briefly talk about Karen. The two then go into the kitchen and find Richard making a sandwich, and the three make small talk which turns into a discussion about responsibility and adulthood, at the end of the discussion, Richard states, Nobody said it was going to be fun. At least, nobody said it to me, the next morning Harold and Nick go jogging. Harold tells Nick that his shoe company is about to be bought out by a large corporation. Harold confides in Nick that Sarah and Alex had a five years earlier. Nick comforts Harold by saying, She didnt marry Alex, Richard returns home to look after his kids, but Karen decides to stay in South Carolina for the weekend. Nick, Harold, Michael and Chloe go for a drive, while Sam, Meg reveals to Sarah that she wants to have a child, and that she is going to ask Sam to be the father, knowing now that Nick cant. Out in the countryside, Harold listens to Michaels plans to buy a nightclub, Chloe takes Nick to the abandoned house that she and Alex were going to renovate. She tells him that he reminds her of Alex, to which Nick replies, during dinner, Sarah starts tearing up over Alex as the group talks about him. Harold puts Aint Too Proud to Beg by the Temptations on the stereo, while the others sit around and smoke marijuana, Meg asks Sam to father her baby, but he declines. The next morning Nick, Sam and Harold go jogging, harolds surprise arrives, sneakers for everyone to wear during the upcoming Michigan football game. The group, minus Nick, watches the game on TV, while Sarah tells Karen about her affair with Alex. During the game, Michael offers to father Megs child, alluding to the fact that they had sex in college during the March on Washington, at halftime, Chloe, Sam, Harold and Michael go outside to play touch football
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Theatrical release poster
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Eddie and the Cruisers
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Eddie and the Cruisers is a 1983 American film directed by Martin Davidson with the screenplay written by the director and Arlene Davidson, based on the novel by P. F. Kluge. The film was marketed with the tagline Rebel, a television reporter named Maggie Foley investigates the mysterious disappearance of legendary rock star Eddie Wilson. Flashbacks dramatize Eddies life and the rise and fall of his rock and roll band, Eddie, the band gets its start at a Somers Point, New Jersey club called Tony Marts. Not adept at writing lyrics, Eddie hires Frank Ridgeway aka Wordman to be the keyboard player and lyricist, over the protests of band manager Doc Robbins. Rounding out the Cruisers are saxophonist Wendell Newton, background singer and Eddies girlfriend Joann Carlino, the bands first album, Tender Years, became a major hit album. But recording their album, A Season in Hell, turns out to be a nightmare. Inspired by the bleak, fatalistic poetry of Arthur Rimbaud, Eddie pushes his bandmates beyond their limits, Eddie wants to be great, but bassist Sal replies, We aint great. Were just some guys from Jersey, Eddie makes this clear that if the band cannot be great, there is no reason to ever play music again. A Season in Hell is ultimately rejected by Satin Records on the grounds that it is dark, in the early morning hours, Eddies car crashes through the railing and over the Stainton Memorial Causeway. Eddie vanishes without a trace, his body never found, almost 20 years later, Satin re-releases the bands first album, which charts even higher than it did originally. A television documentary is soon in the works, exploring the mystery of the second album. All of the original Cruisers are set to participate in it except Eddie and Wendell Newton, the others are now living ordinary lives, Sal Amato fronts a Cruisers tribute band. Ridgeway is a high school English teacher in Vineland, Doc works as a radio disc jockey in Asbury Park. Joann is a choreographer in Wildwood, and Hopkins works in an Atlantic City casino. During the documentary interviews, the band expresses a desire to relive the past, for example, during a concert at Benton College, where Frank was once a student, Eddie ridicules Frank repeatedly by referring to him as Toby Tyler. The other Cruisers members share similar stories, Joann is able to complete the one piece of the puzzle that Frank could not, revealing what happened to the bands second album. After storming from the studio, Eddie brought her to the Palace of Depression and she reveals it was in fact she who took the master tapes for the album from Satin Records, hiding them in the Palace of Depression, where she felt they belonged. Frank and Joann go back to the Palace of Depression to retrieve the master tapes, a mystery man driving a blue 57 Chevy Bel Air convertible identical to Eddies arrives at the house and calls to Joann
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Theatrical release poster.
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Betrayed (1988 film)
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Betrayed is a 1988 American drama thriller film directed by Costa-Gavras, written by Joe Eszterhas, and starring Debra Winger and Tom Berenger. The plot is based upon the terrorist activities of American neo-Nazi and white supremacist Robert Mathews. Set in the American Midwest, the film begins with the murder of a Jewish radio host in Chicago, FBI undercover agent Catherine Weaver, alias Katie Phillips, sets out to infiltrate a farming community, suspected of harboring those responsible. After receiving a warm welcome from land-owner and farmer Gary Simmons, throwing caution to the wind, she falls in love with Simmons, a Vietnam War veteran who appears to command the respect of the local community. In too deep, Katie pleads with boss and mentor Michael Carnes to release her from the assignment, ultimately, she must betray either the man she loves or the country she has sworn to protect. Wingers performance was praised by reviewers, who felt she was successful in conveying complex. Critics of the point to a muddled and sometimes unbelievable unravelling of the plot. The opening sequence is based on the 1984 murder of Denver DJ Alan Berg. In a 1996 interview, Berenger named Betrayed as his favorite film, the film debuted at #2 at the box office, earning $5,534,787 and coming in behind the second weekend of A Nightmare on Elm Street 4, The Dream Master. The film would go on to gross $25,816,139 in the United States, American History X Green Room Imperium White supremist terrorism in the United States Betrayed at the Internet Movie Database Betrayed at Box Office Mojo Betrayed at Rotten Tomatoes
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Theatrical release poster
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The Field (film)
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The Field is a 1990 Irish drama film written and directed by Jim Sheridan and starring Richard Harris, John Hurt, Sean Bean, Brenda Fricker and Tom Berenger. It was adapted from John B, keanes 1965 play of the same name. Bull McCabe, an Irish farmer, dumps a dead donkey in a lake and it transpires that McCabes son, Tadhg, killed the donkey after discovering it had broken into the field the family has rented for generations. The donkeys owner blames Bull McCabe for the death and demands blood money, McCabe has a deep attachment to the rented field, which his family has cultivated and improved, from barren to now very productive, over a number of generations. The fields owner is a widow who, around the time of the 10th anniversary of the death of her husband and she decides to sell the field by public auction rather than to McCabe directly. Unknown to McCabe, Tadhg has been harassing the widow for years, on hearing there will be an auction McCabe goes to the village pub and announces that nobody would dare bid against him for my field. McCabe has constant doubts about Tadhgs ability to safeguard the field and his older son, Seamie, committed suicide when he was 13. McCabe blames himself for the death, as he told Seamie the field could support one family. McCabe and his wife have not spoken in the 18 years since the death, Peter, an American whose ancestors are from the area, arrives in the village. He has plans to build a plant in the area. Central to his plans is McCabes field, at the auction Peter repeatedly out-bids McCabe, forcing the price up to 80 pounds,30 pounds more than what McCabe can afford. Seeing the bidding war the widow stops the auction and insists there would be a new auction, knowing he cannot out bid Peter and seeing his cattle thrown off the field, McCabe goes to the rectory to confront Peter, and the parish priest who has been supporting him. McCabe now discovers Tadhgs actions, expelling him from the meeting and this includes the death of his mother while saving hay. Peter refuses to back down from his plans, in a desperate last attempt McCabe and Tadhg confront Peter at a waterfall he has just purchased, the night before the second auction. When Tadhg fails to defeat Peter in a fight, McCabe himself intervenes, Peter is killed, and upon realising this, McCabe has a mental break. He confuses Peter with his dead son Seamie, Tadhg flees to the Irish Traveller woman he has fallen for. He tells her he has killed Peter, and they make plans to run off together, McCabes close friend Bird ODonnell bids on behalf of McCabe and secures the field for 101 pounds at the second auction, unopposed. A Traveller boy spots the dead donkey floating in the lake and it inadvertently recovers the corpse of Peter
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Theatrical release poster
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Gettysburg (1993 film)
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The film stars Tom Berenger, Jeff Daniels, and Martin Sheen, its score was composed by Randy Edelman. Longstreet reports the information to General Lee, who is concerned that the army is moving on the word of an actor, as opposed to that of his cavalry chief, nonetheless, Lee orders the army to concentrate near the town of Gettysburg. Chamberlain speaks to the men, and is able to persuade all, buford sends word to I Corps commander Maj. Gen. John F. Reynolds to bring up reinforcements. Heths troops engage Bufords cavalry the following morning, July 1, Reynolds brings his corps forward, but is killed by a Confederate sharpshooter. The armies concentrate at their positions for the remainder of the first day. At Confederate headquarters at Seminary Ridge, Maj. Gen. Isaac R. Trimble angrily denounces Ewells inaction to Lee, and requests another assignment. On the second day, July 2, Col. Lee orders Longstreet to deploy his two divisions to take Little Round Top and the neighboring Big Round Top. Longstreet, despite his own protests to Lee, orders Hood to attack, at the summit of Little Round Top, Chamberlain and the 20th Maine fight off wave after wave of advancing Confederates, and begin running out of ammunition. Colonel Vincent is mortally wounded, and none of the three regiments in his brigade are able to provide support. Chamberlain orders his men to fix bayonets, and charge in a right wheel down the slope against the attacking Confederates, the attack successfully drives the Confederate assault back, and the Union flank holds. That evening, Stuart finally arrives, and Lee reprimands him for his out of contact. At the same time, Longstreets remaining division, under Maj. Gen. George Pickett, arrives on the field. For the third day, July 3, Lee decides to send three divisions - Picketts, Trimbles, and J. Johnston Pettigrews - to attack the center of the Union line at Cemetery Ridge, Lee nonetheless orders the attack to proceed. Despite heavy Confederate fire, Alexander is unable to make an impact upon the Union guns, the Confederate divisions march across the open field, and Hancock is wounded as he commands from the front line. One of Picketts brigades, commanded by Brig. Gen. Lewis Armistead, makes it over the stone wall, Picketts Charge ultimately fails, meeting with Longstreet that evening, Lee finally decides that they will withdraw. The film ends with the fates of the figures of the battle. Stuart Bo Brinkman as Major Walter H. Devin Donal Logue as Captain Ellis Spear Herb Mitchell as Sergeant Andrew J. Tozier Dwier Brown as Captain Brewer George Lazenby as General J. Johnston Pettigrew. Civil War buff Ted Turner has an appearance in one of the battle scenes as Colonel Waller T. Patton
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The Substitute
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The Substitute is a 1996 American crime thriller film directed by Robert Mandel and starring Tom Berenger, Ernie Hudson, Marc Anthony, William Forsythe, Raymond Cruz and Luis Guzmán. Jonathan Shale is a mercenary and a Vietnam veteran who returns home to Miami after a covert operation in Cuba in which three men from his platoon were killed. He surprises his girlfriend, Jane Hetzko at her apartment and is warmly welcomed, on the outside, Jane is a schoolteacher at inner-city Columbus High School, an institution with a considerable gang problem. She is particularly disliked by Juan Lacas, leader of the KOD gang, while jogging one morning, Jane is attacked and has her leg broken. Jane and Shale believe this to be related to the KOD, Shale arrives at Columbus High School and is, at first, taken back by the lowly conditions. He is unable to control his class of poorly-educated students on the first day, soon enough, he is able to take command of the students by displaying his combat self-defence techniques when students attack him. During this time, he befriends fellow schoolteacher Darrell Sherman and also crosses paths with Lacas, suspicious of odd conditions within the high school, Shale sets up surveillance cameras throughout the building. He discovers that Lacas orchestrated the attack on Jane and he also discovers that Lacas is secretly working with Rolle to distribute cocaine around Miami for a major narcotics ring. Shale and his team raid a drug deal, using the money to buy music. While Sherman initially denies Shales discovery, Sherman and a female student inadvertently witness the drugs being loaded into one of the school later that day. Sherman tells the student to warn Shale and Hetzko, and sacrifices himself by creating a distraction, Rolle, who at this point is aware of Shales interference orders a car accident for Shale, and sends Lacas after Hetzko. With the help of student, Lacas is killed and Shale saves Hetzko. Shale and his garrison the school grounds to enter combat against the remaining K. O. D. Members, a mercenary company led by Janus, and Rolle himself. Ultimately, Shale and Joey Six end up as the survivors of the battle. James Smith Ernie Hudson as Principal Claude Rolle Diane Venora as Jane Hetzko Marc Anthony as Juan Lacas Glenn Plummer as Mr and it peaked at #90 on the Billboard 200 and #18 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. The Substitute holds a rating of 41% on Rotten Tomatoes from 22 critics, roger Ebert gave the film one star out of four, writing, I am so very tired of this movie. I see it at least once a month, the title changes, the actors change, and the superficial details of the story change, but it is always about exactly the same thing, heavily armed men shooting at one another
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Training Day
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Training Day is a 2001 American neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Antoine Fuqua, written by David Ayer, and starring Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke. The story follows two LAPD narcotics officers over a 24-hour period in the neighborhoods of the LAPD Rampart Division. The film was released on October 5,2001 and grossed $104 million worldwide, Washingtons performance as Detective Alonzo Harris, a departure from his usual roles, was particularly praised and earned him an Oscar for Best Actor at the 74th Academy Awards. His co-star Ethan Hawke was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as rookie cop, riding around in Alonzos car, they begin the day by catching some college kids buying cannabis from a MS-13 gang member. After smoking it, Alonzo informs him that the weed was laced with PCP and they then pay a brief visit to Roger, an old friend of Alonzos who is also a drug dealer and former police officer. Back in the car, Jake notices a girl being sexually assaulted. Alonzo tells the girl to leave and allows the men to go free, Jake finds the girls wallet on the ground and takes it. Alonzo and Jake later apprehend a wheelchair-bound dealer named Blue, finding crack rocks, in exchange for his freedom, Blue reveals his associate, Kevin Sandman Miller, who is in prison. Alonzo takes Jake to Sandmans home in Watts, where he uses a search warrant to steal $40,000 from the premises. However, Sandmans wife realizes the scam and calls out to nearby gang members, for lunch, the duo visit Alonzos Salvadoran mistress, Sara, and their young son at Baldwin Village. Alonzo thus gives them Sandmans drug money for an arrest warrant, Alonzo then kills Roger and arranges for the scene to appear like a justified shooting. Jake refuses to cooperate and after being threatened, seizes Alonzos shotgun, however, Alonzo calms his associates and claims that the LAPD will run a blood test on Jake, the result of which he can falsify in exchange for Jakes cooperation. Alonzo drives Jake to the home of a Sureño named Smiley and he furtively abandons Jake as Jake reluctantly plays poker with Smiley and his fellow gang members. A tense conversation ensues in which Smiley reveals Alonzos situation, by midnight, Alonzo must pay $1 million to the Russian Mafia for killing one of their men in Las Vegas, or be killed himself. Jake realizes too late that Alonzo had paid Smiley to kill him, the gang search Jake to find the wallet dropped by the teenage girl, who is revealed to be Smileys cousin. Smiley calls her, who confirms that Jake risked his life to defend her, in gratitude, Smiley lets Jake go. Jake returns to Saras apartment and attempts to arrest Alonzo, but a gunfight and chase ensues, the local gang members and residents begin congregating to watch. Alonzo tries to get the crowd on his side by offering a reward to whoever kills Jake, Alonzo attempts to flee via Los Angeles International Airport, but is found and killed by Russian Mafia hitmen in a street shooting
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Inception
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Inception is a 2010 science fiction film written, co-produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan, and co-produced by Emma Thomas. The ensemble cast additionally includes Ellen Page, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Ken Watanabe, Tom Hardy, Dileep Rao, Cillian Murphy, Tom Berenger, after the 2002 completion of Insomnia, Nolan presented to Warner Bros. A written 80-page treatment about a horror film envisioning dream stealers based on lucid dreaming, the treatment was revised over 6 months and was purchased by Warner in February 2009. Inception was filmed in six countries, beginning in Tokyo on June 19 and its official budget was US$160 million, split between Warner Bros and Legendary. Nolans reputation and success with The Dark Knight helped secure the films $100 million in advertising expenditure, Inceptions première was held in London on July 8,2010, its wide release to both conventional and IMAX theaters began on July 16,2010. A box office success, Inception grossed over $800 million worldwide, the home video market also had strong results, with $68 million in DVD and Blu-ray sales. Inception opened to acclaim from critics, who praised its story, score and their latest target, Japanese businessman Saito, reveals that he arranged their mission himself to test Cobb for a seemingly-impossible job, planting an idea in a persons subconscious, or inception. To break up the energy conglomerate of ailing competitor Maurice Fischer, Saito wants Cobb to convince Fischers son and heir, Robert, in return, Saito promises to use his influence to clear Cobb of a murder charge, allowing Cobb to return home to his children. While dream-sharing with Cobb, Ariadne learns his subconscious houses an invasive projection of his late wife Mal, the first level is Yusufs dream of a rainy Los Angeles. The team abducts Fischer, but they are attacked by armed projections from Fischers subconscious, despite these setbacks, the team continues with the mission. Eames impersonates Fischers godfather, Peter Browning, to suggest Fischer reconsider his fathers will, Yusuf drives the van as the other dreamers are sedated into the second level. In the second level, a hotel dreamed by Arthur, Cobb convinces Fischer that he has been kidnapped by Browning, Cobb persuades him to go down another level to explore Brownings subconscious. The third level is a hospital on a snowy mountain dreamed by Eames. The team has to infiltrate it and hold off the guards as Cobb takes Fischer into the equivalent of his subconscious, Yusuf, under pursuit by Fischers projections in the first level, deliberately drives off a bridge and initiates his kick too soon. This removes the gravity of Arthurs level, forcing him to improvise a new kick that will synchronize with the van hitting the water, Mals projection emerges and kills Fischer, Cobb kills Mal, and Saito succumbs to his wounds, all three fall into Limbo. While Eames sets up a kick by rigging the hospital with explosives, Cobb and Ariadne enter Limbo to rescue Fischer, Cobb reveals to Ariadne that he and Mal went to Limbo while experimenting with the dream-sharing technology. Sedated for a few hours of time, they spent fifty years in dream time constructing a world from their shared memories. When Mal refused to return to reality, Cobb used a form of inception by reactivating her totem
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The cast at a premiere for the film in July 2010: From left to right: Cillian Murphy, Marion Cotillard, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Ken Watanabe, Michael Caine, and Leonardo DiCaprio
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Emma Thomas and Christopher Nolan answer questions about Inception. The husband and wife team produced the film through their company
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Marion Cotillard photographed by Studio Harcourt, Paris, in 1999. She plays Mal, a projection of Cobb's subconscious guilt about his beloved wife's suicide. Nolan described the character as "the essence of the
femme fatale "–a key trope in
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Roman Catholic
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The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church or the Universal Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.28 billion members worldwide. As one of the oldest religious institutions in the world, it has played a prominent role in the history, headed by the Bishop of Rome, known as the Pope, the churchs doctrines are summarised in the Nicene Creed and the Apostles Creed. Its central administration is located in Vatican City, enclaved within Rome, the Catholic Church is notable within Western Christianity for its sacred tradition and seven sacraments. It teaches that it is the one church founded by Jesus Christ, that its bishops are the successors of Christs apostles. The Catholic Church maintains that the doctrine on faith and morals that it declares as definitive is infallible. The Latin Church, the Eastern Catholic Churches, as well as such as mendicant orders and enclosed monastic orders. Among the sacraments, the one is the Eucharist, celebrated liturgically in the Mass. The church teaches that through consecration by a priest the sacrificial bread and wine become the body, the Catholic Church practises closed communion, with only baptised members in a state of grace ordinarily permitted to receive the Eucharist. The Virgin Mary is venerated in the Catholic Church as Queen of Heaven and is honoured in numerous Marian devotions. The Catholic Church has influenced Western philosophy, science, art and culture, Catholic spiritual teaching includes spreading the Gospel while Catholic social teaching emphasises support for the sick, the poor and the afflicted through the corporal and spiritual works of mercy. The Catholic Church is the largest non-government provider of education and medical services in the world, from the late 20th century, the Catholic Church has been criticised for its doctrines on sexuality, its refusal to ordain women and its handling of sexual abuse cases. Catholic was first used to describe the church in the early 2nd century, the first known use of the phrase the catholic church occurred in the letter from Saint Ignatius of Antioch to the Smyrnaeans, written about 110 AD. In the Catechetical Discourses of Saint Cyril of Jerusalem, the name Catholic Church was used to distinguish it from other groups that call themselves the church. The use of the adjective Roman to describe the Church as governed especially by the Bishop of Rome became more widespread after the Fall of the Western Roman Empire and into the Early Middle Ages. Catholic Church is the name used in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church follows an episcopal polity, led by bishops who have received the sacrament of Holy Orders who are given formal jurisdictions of governance within the church. Ultimately leading the entire Catholic Church is the Bishop of Rome, commonly called the pope, in parallel to the diocesan structure are a variety of religious institutes that function autonomously, often subject only to the authority of the pope, though sometimes subject to the local bishop. Most religious institutes only have male or female members but some have both, additionally, lay members aid many liturgical functions during worship services
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Saint Peter's Basilica,
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St. Peter's Basilica,
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Pope Francis, elected in the
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Traditional graphic representation of the Trinity: The earliest attested version of the diagram, from a manuscript of
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Irish people
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The Irish people are a nation and ethnic group native to the island of Ireland, who share a common Irish ancestry, identity and culture. Ireland has been inhabited for about 9,000 years according to archaeological studies, for most of Irelands recorded history, the Irish have been primarily a Gaelic people. Today, Ireland is made up of the Republic of Ireland, the people of Northern Ireland hold various national identities, including Irish, Northern Irish, British, or some combination thereof. The Irish have their own customs, language, music, dance, sports, cuisine, although Irish was their main language in the past, today the huge majority of Irish people speak English as their first language. Historically, the Irish nation was made up of kin groups or clans, there have been many notable Irish people throughout history. After Irelands conversion to Christianity, Irish missionaries and scholars exerted great influence on Western Europe, the 6th-century Irish monk and missionary Columbanus is regarded as one of the fathers of Europe, followed by saints Cillian and Fergal. The scientist Robert Boyle is considered the father of chemistry, famous Irish writers include Oscar Wilde, W. B. Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, Bram Stoker and James Joyce, notable Irish explorers include Brendan the Navigator, Robert McClure, Ernest Shackleton and Tom Crean. By some accounts, the first European child born in North America had Irish descent on both sides, many presidents of the United States have had some Irish ancestry. The population of Ireland is about 6.3 million, but it is estimated that 50 to 80 million people around the world have Irish forebears, historically, emigration from Ireland has been the result of conflict, famine and economic issues. People of Irish descent are mainly in English-speaking countries, especially the United Kingdom. There are also significant numbers in Argentina, Mexico and New Zealand, the United States has the most people of Irish descent, while in Australia those of Irish descent are a higher percentage of the population than in any other country. Many Icelanders have Irish and Scottish Gaelic forebears, in its summary of their article Who were the Celts. The National Museum Wales notes It is possible that genetic studies of ancient. However, early studies have, so far, tended to produce implausible conclusions from very small numbers of people and using outdated assumptions about linguistics, nineteenth century anthropology studied the physical characteristics of Irish people in minute detail. During the past 10,000 years of inhabitation, Ireland has witnessed some different peoples arrive on its shores, the ancient peoples of Ireland—such as the creators of the Céide Fields and Newgrange—are almost unknown. Neither their languages nor terms they used to describe themselves have survived, as late as the middle centuries of the 1st millennium the inhabitants of Ireland did not appear to have a collective name for themselves. Ireland itself was known by a number of different names, including Banba, Fódla, Ériu by the islanders, Iouerne and Hiverne to the Greeks, other Latin names for people from Ireland in Classic and Mediaeval sources include Attacotti and Gael
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Carrowmore tomb, circa 3000 BC
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Robert Boyle, Anglo-Irish scientist and
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Finnian of Clonard imparting his blessing to the "
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Irish Gaels in a painting from the 16th century
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Chicago Sun-Times
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The Chicago Sun-Times is a daily newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois. It is the paper of the Sun-Times Media Group. The Chicago Sun-Times is the oldest continuously published daily newspaper in the city and it began in 1844 as the Chicago Daily Journal, which was the first newspaper to publish the rumor, now believed false, that a cow owned by Catherine OLeary was responsible for the Chicago fire. The Evening Journal, whose West Side building at 17-19 S. Canal was undamaged, in 1929, the newspaper was relaunched as the Chicago Daily Illustrated Times. The modern paper grew out of the 1948 merger of the Chicago Sun, founded December 4,1941 by Marshall Field III, and the Chicago Daily Times. The newspaper was owned by Field Enterprises, controlled by the Marshall Field family, when the Daily News ended its run in 1978, much of its staff, including Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Mike Royko, were moved to the Sun-Times. During the Field period, the newspaper had a populist, progressive character that leaned Democratic but was independent of the citys Democratic establishment, although the graphic style was urban tabloid, the paper was well regarded for journalistic quality and did not rely on sensational front-page stories. It typically ran articles from the Washington Post/Los Angeles Times wire service, the advice column Ask Ann Landers debuted in 1943. Ann Landers was the pseudonym of staff writer Ruth Crowley, who answered readers letters until 1955, eppie Lederer, sister of Dear Abby columnist Abigail van Buren, assumed the role thereafter as Ann Landers. Kups Column, written by Irv Kupcinet, also made its first appearance in 1943, Jack Olsen joined the Sun-Times as editor-in-chief in 1954, before moving on to Time and Sports Illustrated magazines and authoring true-crime books. Hired as literary editor in 1955 was Hoke Norris, who covered the civil-rights movement for the Sun-Times. Jerome Holtzman became a member of the Chicago Sun sports department after first being a boy for the Daily News in the 1940s. He and Edgar Munzel, another longtime sportswriter for the paper, famed for his World War II exploits, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Bill Mauldin made the Sun-Times his home base in 1962. The following year, Mauldin drew one of his most renowned illustrations, two years out of college, Roger Ebert became a staff writer in 1966, and a year later was named Sun-Times film critic. He continued in this role for the remainder of his life, after the friend wrote a story about it, Grizzard fired Banks. With that, the employees union intervened, a federal arbitrator ruled for Banks and 13 months later. The articles received considerable publicity and acclaim, but a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize met resistance from some who believed the Mirage series represented a form of entrapment. In March 1978, the afternoon publication the Chicago Daily News, sister paper of the Sun-Times
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The November 19, 2008 front page of the Chicago Sun-Times
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Chuck Neubauer in the former Chicago Sun-Times newsroom, 1998.
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Current Chicago Sun-Times headquarters, located in the
River North Point building at 350 North Orleans Street
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Former Chicago Sun-Times headquarters with
Wrigley Building and
Tribune Tower
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Rich East High School
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Rich East High School or REHS is a public four-year high school located in Park Forest, Illinois, a southern suburb of Chicago in the United States. Rich Easts campus serves the cities of Park Forest, Matteson, Olympia Fields, Chicago Heights and it is a part of Rich Township District 227, which also includes Rich South High School and Rich Central High School. Rich East High school was the first of its district to open in 1952 and this was the schools name until the construction of Rich Central High School in 1961 and Rich South High School in 1972, which now make up the three schools of district 227. Rich East was originally held in the Faith United Protestant Church until Park Forest gave them the land to build the school. The land was open and given to them for free by the villagers of Park Forest because it was mostly composed of clay. Many old students remember that for years, cement had to be pumped underneath the schools main gym so that it would not sink. The Media Center, in the front of the building was built on unstable ground and after several days of rain, water would rise up into the carpet. The head librarian would scramble to save books, there is a lagoon on the campus. In nice weather, students would sit around it during lunch times, in the winter, if it froze enough, the surface would be smoothed and people would ice skate on it. The school yearbook was named The Lagoon after it, Rich East High School was originally predominately white with some African Americans. In the 1970s, the newspaper, The Reveillier, won numerous journalism awards for the quality of its writing. Some in the administration and on the school board tried unsuccessfully to censor and put other limits on the paper. Another notable fact about Rich East was that it had a working, student-run radio station in the 70s, parents from Rich East are also expected to participate. Students who are English-learners also have two options and they may group together in one self-contained class all day, or they can be pulled out of the classroom as a group for only part of the day. Other student resources are the school nurses, guidance counselors, peer counselors, psychologists, tutors, the media center and he later coached at the college level, which included leading the University of Michigan to the 1989 NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Championship. Craig Hodges was an assistant basketball coach with the school, gene Smithson, former Rich East coach, later became head mens basketball coach for Illinois State, where his record was 66-18, and for Wichita State, where his teams went 155-81. Official website Rich Township High School District 227 Climate, culture fuel student success at Rich East High School Rich East High School at GreatSchools. org History of District 227
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Leadership, Scholarship, Sportsmanship
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Park Forest, Illinois
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Park Forest is a village located south of Chicago in Cook and Will counties, Illinois, United States. As of the 2010 census, the village had a population of 21,975, Park Forest is bordered by Olympia Fields to the north, Chicago Heights to the east, University Park to the south, and Richton Park and Matteson to the west. This project, soon to be referred to as Park Forest, was to be developed by American Community Builders, the village of Park Forest was designed by Elbert Peets in the tradition of planned communities around the nation to provide housing for veterans returning from World War II. Studs Terkel, in his history of World War II, The Good War, says Park Forest. First he quotes an unnamed GI, The war changed our idea of how we wanted to live when we came back. We set our sights pretty high, I am now what youd call middle class. Terkel goes on, The suburb, until, had been the domain of the upper class. It was where the rich lived, the rest of us were neighborhood folk. At wars end, a new kind of came into being. Thanks to the GI bill, two new names were added to American folksay, Levittown and Park Forest, a new middle class had emerged. Until now, the many, even before the Depression, had had to scuffle from one payday to the next. Now everybody was getting a car, Park Forest was honored in 1954 as an All-America City for its citizens help in the creation of Rich Township High School, on Sauk Trail. It was awarded this honor again in 1976 for open housing and racial integration. A village landmark was the Park Forest Plaza, a regional shopping center of over 50 stores and restaurants which included Sears, Marshall Fields. In 1956, William Whyte, an editor at Fortune magazine, the book described how America had recently turned into a nation of employees who take the vows of organization life and who had become the dominant members of our society. Park Forest was one of the communities that figured most prominently in Whytes study of the life of the organization man. Although officially desegregated from its inception, Park Forests first African-American family took residence there in 1959, Park Forest is known for the Scenic 10, a 10-mile race held annually on Labor Day that attracts runners from around the globe. In 2008, the race was shortened to a 5-mile course to more local runners
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Major city
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Journalism
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Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the news of the day and that informs society to at least some degree. The word applies to the occupation, the methods of gathering information, journalistic media include, print, television, radio, Internet, and, in the past, newsreels. Concepts of the role for journalism varies between countries. In some nations, the media is controlled by a government intervention. In others, the media is independent from the government. In the United States, journalism is protected by the freedom of the clause in the First Amendment. The role and status of journalism, along with that of the media, has undergone changes over the last two decades with the advent of digital technology and publication of news on the Internet. Notably, in the American media landscape, newsrooms have reduced their staff and coverage as traditional media channels, such as television, for instance, between 2007 and 2012, CNN edited its story packages into nearly half of their original time length. This compactness in coverage has been linked to broad audience attrition, in the United States, journalism is produced by media organizations or by individuals. Bloggers are often, but not always, journalists, the Federal Trade Commission requires that bloggers who receive free promotional gifts, then write about products, must disclose that they received the products for free. This is to eliminate conflicts of interest and protect consumers, fake news is news that is not truthful or is produced by unreliable media organizations. Fake news is spread on social media. Readers can determine fake news by evaluating whether the news has been published by a news organization. In the US, a news organization is an incorporated entity, has an editorial board. All of these organizations have codes of ethics that members abide by, many news organizations have their own codes of ethics that guide journalists professional publications. The New York Times code of standards and ethics is considered particularly rigorous, when they write stories, journalists are concerned with issues of objectivity and bias. Some types of stories are intended to represent the authors own opinion, in a physical newspaper, information is organized into sections and it is easy to see which stories are supposed to be opinion and which are supposed to be neutral. Online, many of these distinctions break down, readers should pay careful attention to headings and other design elements to ensure that they understand the journalists intent
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Photojournalists photographing President Barack Obama
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Photo and broadcast journalists interviewing government official after a
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Walter Lippmann in 1914
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Columbia, Missouri
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Columbia /kəˈlʌmbiə/ is a city in the U. S. state of Missouri and the county seat of Boone County. Founded in 1818, it is home to the University of Missouri and is the city of the Columbia Metropolitan Area. It is Missouris fourth most-populous city, with a population of 119,108 in 2015. As a midwestern town, the city has a reputation for progressive politics, public art. At the center of Downtown is 8th Street, also known as the Avenue of the Columns, which connects Francis Quadrangle and Jesse Hall to the Boone County Courthouse, originally an agricultural town, the cultivation of the mind is Columbias chief economic concern today. Never a major center of manufacturing, the city depends on healthcare, insurance. Several companies, such as Shelter Insurance, Carfax, and Slackers CDs, cultural institutions include the State Historical Society of Missouri, the Museum of Art and Archaeology, and the annual True/False Film Festival. The Missouri Tigers, the only major college athletic program, play football at Faurot Field. The city is built upon the hills and rolling prairies of Mid-Missouri, near the Missouri River valley. Limestone forms bluffs and glades while rain carves caves and springs which water the Hinkson, Roche Perche, surrounding the city, Rock Bridge Memorial State Park, Mark Twain National Forest, and Big Muddy National Fish and Wildlife Refuge all form a greenbelt preserving sensitive and rare environments. The first humans were hunters who entered the area at least twelve thousand years ago. Later, woodland tribes lived in villages along waterways and built mounds in high places, the Osage and Missouria nations were expelled by the exploration of French traders and the rapid settlement of American pioneers. German, Irish, and other European immigrants soon joined, the modern populace is unusually diverse, over eight percent foreign-born. While White and Black remain the largest ethnicities, Asians are now the third-largest group, todays Columbians are remarkably highly educated and culturally midwestern, though traces of their Southern past remain. The city has called the Athens of Missouri for its classic beauty and educational emphasis. The Columbia area was part of the Mississippian culture and home to the Mound Builders. When European explorers arrived, the area was populated by the Osage, in 1678, La Salle claimed all of Missouri for France. The Lewis and Clark Expedition passed by the area on the Missouri River in early June 1804, in 1806, two sons of Daniel Boone established a salt lick 40 miles northwest of Columbia
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Jesse Hall and the columns on
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University of Missouri
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An aerial depiction of Columbia's downtown district in 1869. The large building on the right is University of Missouri Academic Hall.
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A busy day on Broadway in 1919.
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Downtown Columbia, facing southeast on Fifth St.
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Bachelor of Arts
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A Bachelor of Arts is a bachelors degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both. Bachelor of Arts degree programs take three to four years depending on the country, academic institution, and specific specializations, majors or minors. The word baccalaureus or baccalarium should not be confused with baccalaureatus, degree diplomas generally are printed on high-quality paper or parchment, individual institutions set the preferred abbreviation for their degrees. In Pakistan, the Bachelor of Arts degree can also be attained within two years as an external degree, in colleges and universities in Australia, New Zealand, Nepal and South Africa, the BA degree can be taken over three years of full-time study. Unlike in other countries, students do not receive a grade for their Bachelor of Arts degree with varying levels of honours. Qualified students may be admitted, after they have achieved their Bachelors program with an overall grade point average. Thus, to achieve a Bachelor Honours degree, a postgraduate year. A student who holds a Honours degree is eligible for entry to either a Doctorate or a very high research Master´s degree program. Education in Canada is controlled by the Provinces and can be different depending on the province in Canada. Canadian universities typically offer a 3-year Bachelor of Arts degrees, in many universities and colleges, Bachelor of Arts degrees are differentiated either as Bachelors of Arts or as honours Bachelor of Arts degree. The honours degrees are designated with the abbreviation in brackets of. It should not be confused with the consecutive Bachelor of Arts degree with Honours, Latin Baccalaureatus in Artibus Cum Honore, BA hon. de jure without brackets and with a dot. It is a degree, which is considered to be the equivalent of a corresponding maîtrise degree under the French influenced system. Going back in history, a three-year Bachelor of Arts degree was called a pass degree or general degree. Students may be required to undertake a long high-quality research empirical thesis combined with a selection of courses from the relevant field of studies. The consecutive B. cum Honore degree is essential if students ultimate goal is to study towards a two- or three-year very high research masters´ degree qualification. A student holding a Baccalaureatus Cum Honore degree also may choose to complete a Doctor of Philosophy program without the requirement to first complete a masters degree, over the years, in some universities certain Baccalaureatus cum Honore programs have been changed to corresponding master´s degrees. In general, in all four countries, the B. A. degree is the standard required for entry into a masters programme, in science, a BA hons degree is generally a prerequisite for entrance to a Ph. D program or a very-high-research-activity master´s programme
Bachelor of Arts
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A certificate or diploma evidencing the granting of a bachelor's degree
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Flight attendant
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Additionally, the job of a flight attendant revolves around safety to a much greater extent than those of similar staff on other forms of transportation. Flight attendants on board a flight collectively form a crew, as distinguished from pilots. The German Heinrich Kubis was the worlds first flight attendant, in 1912, Kubis first attended the passengers on board the DELAG Zeppelin LZ10 Schwaben. He also attended to the famous LZ129 Hindenburg and was on board when it burst into flames and he survived by jumping out a window when it neared the ground. Origins of the steward in transportation are reflected in the term chief steward as used in maritime transport terminology. The term purser and chief steward are often used interchangeably describing personnel with similar duties among seafaring occupations, due to international conventions and agreements, in which all ships personnel who sail internationally are similarly documented by their respective countries, the U. S. Merchant Marine assigns such duties to the steward in the overall rank. Imperial Airways of the United Kingdom had cabin boys or stewards, in the US, Stout Airways was the first to employ stewards in 1926, working on Ford Trimotor planes between Detroit and Grand Rapids, Michigan. Western Airlines and Pan American World Airways were the first US carriers to employ stewards to serve food, ten-passenger Fokker aircraft used in the Caribbean had stewards in the era of gambling trips to Havana, Cuba from Key West, Florida. Lead flight attendants would in many instances also perform the role of purser, steward, the first female flight attendant was a 25-year-old registered nurse named Ellen Church. Hired by United Airlines in 1930, she also first envisioned nurses on aircraft, other airlines followed suit, hiring nurses to serve as flight attendants, then called stewardesses or air hostesses, on most of their flights. In the United States, the job was one of only a few in the 1930s to permit women, two thousand women applied for just 43 positions offered by Transcontinental and Western Airlines in December 1935. Female flight attendants rapidly replaced male ones, and by 1936, they had all and they were selected not only for their knowledge but also for their characteristics. A1936 New York Times article described the requirements, The girls who qualify for hostesses must be petite, weight 100 to 118 pounds, height 5 feet to 5 feet 4 inches, age 20 to 26 years. Add to that the physical examination each must undergo four times every year. Three decades later, a 1966 New York Times classified ad for stewardesses at Eastern Airlines listed these requirements, A high school graduate,52 but no more than 59, weight 105 to 135 in proportion to height and have at least 20/40 vision without glasses. Appearance was considered as one of the most important factors to become a stewardess, in the United States, they were required to be unmarried and were fired if they decided to wed. The requirement to be a nurse on an American airline was relaxed as more women were hired
Flight attendant
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Flight attendant of
Austrian Airlines directing a passenger to his seat
Flight attendant
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Flight attendant, circa 1949–1950,
American Overseas Airlines, Flagship Denmark,
Boeing 377 Stratocruiser
Flight attendant
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An
EgyptAir flight attendant performing a
pre-flight safety demonstration
Flight attendant
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Aeroflot flight attendant, June 2013
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Eastern Airlines
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Eastern Air Lines was a major American airline from 1926 to 1991. Before its dissolution it was headquartered at Miami International Airport in an area of Miami-Dade County. Eastern was one of the Big Four domestic airlines created by the Spoils Conferences of 1930 and it had a near monopoly in air travel between New York and Florida from the 1930s and 1940s and dominated this market for decades afterward. Labor disputes and high debt loads strained the company in the late 1970s, Frank Lorenzo acquired Eastern in 1985 and moved many of its assets to his other airlines, including Continental Airlines and Texas Air. After continued labor disputes and a strike in 1989, Eastern ran out of money and was liquidated in 1991. USAir acquired 11 of Easterns 25 Boeing 757-225s, Eastern pioneered hourly air shuttle service between New York City, Washington, DC and Boston in 1961 as the Eastern Air Lines Shuttle. It took over the South American route network of Braniff International in 1982 and also served London, Eastern Air Lines was a composite of assorted air travel corporations, including Florida Airways and Pitcairn Aviation. In the late 1920s, Pitcairn Aviation won a contract to fly mail between New York City and Atlanta, Georgia on Mailwing single-engine aircraft, in 1929, Clement Keys, the owner of North American Aviation, purchased Pitcairn. In 1930, Keys changed the name to Eastern Air Transport. After being purchased by General Motors and experiencing a change in leadership after the Airmail Act of 1934, in 1938 World War I flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker bought Eastern from General Motors. The complex deal was concluded when Rickenbacker presented Alfred P. Sloan with a check for $3.5 million. In March 1939 Eastern had 15 weekday departures from Newark, two from Chicago to Miami, one from Tampa to Atlanta and one from Tallahassee to Memphis and those flights and their returns were Easterns whole scheduled operation. It fit on one page in the Airways Guide, then as later, Eastern was the fourth largest airline in the country by passenger-miles. Rickenbacker pushed Eastern into a period of growth and innovation, for a time, Eastern was the most profitable airline in the post-war era, never needing state subsidy. In the late 1950s, Easterns position was eroded by subsidies to rival airlines, on October 1,1959, Rickenbackers position as CEO was taken over by Malcolm A. MacIntyre, a brilliant lawyer but inexperienced in airline operations. Rickenbackers ouster was due to his reluctance to acquire jets. Like many others, he underestimated their appeal to the public, a new management team headed by Floyd D. Hall took over on 16 December 1963, and Rickenbacker left his position as Director and Chairman of the Board on December 31,1963, aged 73. In 1956 Eastern bought Colonial Airlines, giving the airline its first routes to Canada, in November 1959, Eastern Air Lines opened its Chester L. Churchill-designed Terminal 1 at New York Citys Idlewild International Airport
Eastern Airlines
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The Great Silver Fleet (1939)
Eastern Airlines
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Eastern Air Lines
Eastern Airlines
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Pitcairn Aviation's PA-7S CAM-19 Route Airmail aircraft
Eastern Airlines
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An Eastern Air Lines
DC-3, on display in the
National Air and Space Museum in
Washington, D.C.
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San Juan, Puerto Rico
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San Juan is the capital and most populous municipality in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 395,326 making it the 46th-largest city under the jurisdiction of the United States, San Juan was founded by Spanish colonists in 1521, who called it Ciudad de Puerto Rico. Puerto Ricos capital is the second oldest European-established capital city in the Americas, after Santo Domingo, today, San Juan is Puerto Ricos most important seaport, and is the islands manufacturing, financial, cultural, and tourism center. San Juan is also a city of the San Juan-Caguas-Fajardo Combined Statistical Area. In 1508, Juan Ponce de León founded the settlement which he called Caparra. In 1521, the settlement was given its formal name. On the other hand, the name for the island became the name for the city only after the occupation of the island by the United States. San Juan, as a settlement of the Spanish Empire, was used by merchant, because of its prominence in the Caribbean, a network of fortifications was built to protect the transports of gold and silver from the New World to Europe. Because of the cargoes, San Juan became a target of the foreign powers of the time. The city was witness to attacks from the English led by Sir Francis Drake in 1595 and by George Clifford, Earl of Cumberland, artillery from San Juans fort, El Morro, repelled Drake, however, Clifford managed to land troops and lay siege to the city. After a few months of English occupation, Clifford was forced to abandon the siege when his troops began to suffer from exhaustion, in 1625 the city was sacked by Dutch forces led by Captain Balduino Enrico, but El Morro withstood the assault and was not taken. The Dutch were counterattacked by Captain Juan de Amezquita and 50 members of the militia on land. The land battle left 60 Dutch soldiers dead and Enrico with a wound to his neck which he received from the hands of Amezquita. The Dutch ships at sea were boarded by Puerto Ricans who defeated those aboard, after a long battle, the Spanish soldiers and volunteers of the citys militia were able to defend the city from the attack and save the island from an invasion. On October 21, Enrico set La Fortaleza and the city ablaze, captains Amezquita and Andre Botello decided to put a stop to the destruction and led 200 men in an attack against the enemys front and rear guard. They drove Enrico and his men from their trenches and into the ocean in their haste to reach their ships, the British attack in 1797, during the French Revolutionary Wars, led by Sir Ralph Abercromby. His army laid siege to the city but was forced to withdraw in defeat as the Puerto Rican defenses proved more resilient than those of Trinidad. The USS Yale captured a Spanish freighter, the Rita in San Juan Bay, on May 9, Yale fought a brief battle with an auxiliary cruiser of Spain, name unknown, resulting in a Spanish victory
San Juan, Puerto Rico
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Ruins of Juan Ponce de León's residence at Caparra
San Juan, Puerto Rico
San Juan, Puerto Rico
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La Plaza, San Juan, ca. 1900
San Juan, Puerto Rico
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Shanty town along the Martín Peña Canal, 1973
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Soap opera
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A soap opera, soap, or soapie, is a serial drama on television or radio that examines the lives of many characters, usually focusing on emotional relationships to the point of melodrama. The term soap opera originated from such dramas being typically sponsored by soap manufacturers in the past, the first serial considered to be a soap opera was Painted Dreams, which debuted on October 20,1930 on Chicago radio station WGN. The first nationally broadcast radio soap opera was Clara, Lu, and Em, a crucial element that defines the soap opera is the open-ended serial nature of the narrative, with stories spanning several episodes. One of the features that makes a television program a soap opera. While Spanish language telenovelas are sometimes called soap operas, telenovelas have conflicts that get resolved, but with soap operas each episode ends with a promise that the storyline is to be continued in another episode. You spend more time even with the characters, the apparent villains grow less apparently villainous. Soap opera storylines run concurrently, intersect and lead into further developments, each episode may feature some of the shows current storylines, but not always all of them. Soap operas rarely bring all the current storylines to a conclusion at the same time, when one storyline ends, there are several other story threads at differing stages of development. Soap opera episodes typically end on some sort of cliffhanger, evening soap operas and those that air at a rate of one episode per week are more likely to feature the entire cast in each episode, and to represent all current storylines in each episode. Evening soap operas and serials that run for only part of the year tend to bring things to a dramatic end-of-season cliffhanger, the article explained that at that time, many prime time series lost money, while daytime serials earned profits several times more than their production costs. Fitting in with these characteristics, most soap operas follow the lives of a group of characters who live or work in a particular place, the storylines follow the day-to-day activities and personal relationships of these characters. These elements may be found across the gamut of soap operas, Due to the prominence of English-language television, most soap-operas are completely English. In many soap operas, in particular daytime serials in the US, Soap operas from the United Kingdom and Australia tend to focus on more everyday characters and situations, and are frequently set in working class environments. Many of the soaps produced in two countries explore social realist storylines such as family discord, marriage breakdown or financial problems. This diverges from US soap operas where such comedy is rare, UK soap operas frequently make a claim to presenting reality or purport to have a realistic style. Romance, secret relationships, extramarital affairs, and genuine hate have been the basis for many soap opera storylines, in US daytime serials, the most popular soap opera characters, and the most popular storylines, often involved a romance of the sort presented in paperback romance novels. Crimes such as kidnapping, rape, and even murder may go unpunished if the perpetrator is to be retained in the ongoing story, Australian and UK soap operas also feature a significant proportion of romance storylines. In Russia, most popular serials explore the romantic quality of criminal and/or oligarch life, in soap opera storylines, previously unknown children, siblings and twins of established characters often emerge to upset and reinvigorate the set of relationships examined by the series
Soap opera
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Publicity photo of
Rosemary Prinz as
Penny Hughes from
As the World Turns.
Soap opera
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A scene from EastEnders on Christmas Day 1986, watched by 30.15 million viewers. The story, in which
Den Watts served his wife
Angie with
divorce papers, was the highest-rated soap episode in British history, and the highest-rated program in the UK during the 1980s.
Soap opera
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Leah Thys, actress in the Belgian soap
Thuis. At the back Peter Rouffaer is visible.
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Tim Siegel (One Life to Live)
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This is a list of characters from the ABC Daytime soap opera, One Life to Live, that began their run between the shows pilot episode and the end of 1979. Becky Lee Abbott is a character on the ABC Daytime soap opera One Life to Live. The role was originated by Jill Voight in February 1977, a role she played through December 1978, Mary Gordon Murray stepped into the role in August 1979 and played Becky until May 1985. Murray later made several guest appearances in 1986,1988,1996,1998, Patricia Pat Ashley Lord is a fictional character on the ABC Daytime soap opera One Life to Live. The role was played by actress Jacqueline Courtney from the inception in April 1975 continually through its onscreen departure in December 1983. Steven Steve Burke is a character on the ABC Daytime soap opera One Life to Live. The role was originated by actor Bernard Grant in August 1970, herbert Herb Callison is a fictional character on the ABC Daytime soap opera One Life to Live. The character was played by actor Anthony Call from its inception in 1978 through its last regular appearance in 1992, Call reprised the role in 1993. Herb gains notoriety upon serving as the Llanview District Attorney during the Marco Dane murder trial against Victoria Viki Lord Riley, Viki who was ultimately acquitted, and which resulted in the shocking revelation that Karen Wolek was a prostitute involved with client and actual murderer Talbot Huddleston. Upon marrying Dorian at Llanfair in 1981, he adopts her daughter Cassie Reynolds, Herb and Dorian divorce in 1985, though the two remain close friends. Herb departs fictional Llanview in 1992, returning briefly for Christmas episodes in December 1993, Melinda Cramer is a fictional character on the ABC Daytime soap opera One Life to Live. The character debuted on April 30,1973 with leading series antagonist Dr. Dorian Cramer and she last appeared onscreen on August 2,2004, and died off-screen February 28,2010. Sisters Melinda and Dorian arrive in fictional Llanview in 1973, mentally-disturbed Melinda stabs Dorians lover, Mark Toland, in 1974, leading to her institutionalization. A recovered Melinda returns to Llanview in 1978, but soon sabotages Dorians new relationship with Dr. Peter Janssen, Melinda seems to win when she and Peter elope, but her obsessive-compulsive behavior returns. Resuming her career as a concert pianist, Melinda practices day and night and she becomes more unbalanced when a failed audition put a close to her musical ambitions. In 1979, Melinda checks herself into the Compton Clinic, Dorian then has Melinda declared mentally incompetent, by 1980, Peter hopes to marry Jenny Wolek Vernon, but couldnt divorce Melinda until she was mentally stable. After threatening Jenny with an opener and sinking further into psychosis. She is seen briefly in 1983, as Herb Callison visits her in order to learn the truth about Dorians past with David Reynolds
Tim Siegel (One Life to Live)
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Jeffrey Byron, final recast of Richard Abbott
Tim Siegel (One Life to Live)
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Nat Polen as Jim, with
Peggy Wood as Kate Nolan, and Amy Levitt as
Cathy, in 1970.
Tim Siegel (One Life to Live)
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Vernons, from left clockwise:
Julia Montgomery as Sam,
Farley Granger as Will, Teri Keane as Naomi, and
Jameson Parker as Brad, 1977
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One Life to Live
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Created by Agnes Nixon, the series was the first daytime drama to primarily feature ethnically and socioeconomically diverse characters and consistently emphasize social issues. One Life to Live was expanded from 30 minutes to 45 minutes on July 26,1976, One Life to Live heavily focuses on the members and relationships of the Lord family. In 2002, the series won an Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series, One Life to Live was the last American daytime soap opera taped in New York City. After nearly 43 years on the air, ABC canceled One Life to Live on April 14,2011. On July 7,2011, production company Prospect Park announced that it would continue the show as a web series after its run on ABC, but later suspended the project. The show taped its final scenes for ABC on November 18,2011, on January 7,2013, Prospect Park resumed its plan to continue One Life to Live as a daily 30-minute web series on Hulu and iTunes via The Online Network. The relaunched series premiered on April 29,2013, the new series was plagued with several behind-the-scenes problems, most notably a litigation between Prospect Park and ABC regarding the misuse of One Life to Live characters on General Hospital. On September 3,2013, Prospect Park suspended production of the series until the lawsuit with ABC was resolved, impressed with the ratings success of NBCs Another World, ABC sought out Another World writer Nixon to create a serial for them. One Life to Live would emphasize the ethnic and socioeconomic diversity of the characters in its fictional setting, Nixon would go on to create All My Children in 1970 and Loving in 1983. One Life to Lives first sponsor was the Colgate-Palmolive company, who also sponsored The Doctors, ABC bought the show from Nixon in December 1974 when they purchased all stock to her Creative Horizons, Inc. The show was originally a half-hour serial until it was expanded to 45 minutes on July 23,1976, One Life to Live is set in the fictional city of Llanview, a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Long-suffering heroine Viki weathered love and loss, widowhood, rape, divorce, stroke, and breast cancer, Viki also had heart problems and received a transplant from her dying husband Ben Davidson. Featured male protagonist Dr. Larry Wolek also appeared at the episode and for 36 years. The 1980s brought great success and rose to prominence Vikis sister, Tina. One Life to Live celebrated its 40th anniversary in July 2008 with the return of former cast members. Deceased characters and even creator Agnes Nixon appeared in a storyline in which Slezaks Viki dies and visits Heaven, Daytime Emmy-nominee Andrea Evans and others returned for a tribute to Tina Lords famous 1987 plunge over the Iguazu Falls and the 1990 royal wedding in fictional Mendorra. And like the 1988 Old West storyline in which the character Clint Buchanan steps back 100 years in the past, on July 21,2008, Robert S. This studio was made available by the move of sister serial All My Children to a facility in Los Angeles
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One Life to Live
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Diane Keaton
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Diane Keaton is an American film actress, director and producer. She began her career on stage and made her debut in 1970. Her next two films with Allen, Sleeper and Love and Death, established her as a comic actor and her fourth, Annie Hall, won her the Academy Award for Best Actress. Keaton subsequently expanded her range to avoid becoming typecast as her Annie Hall persona and she became an accomplished dramatic performer, starring in Looking for Mr. Goodbar and received Academy Award nominations for Reds, Marvins Room and Somethings Gotta Give. Some of her later films include Baby Boom, Father of the Bride, The First Wives Club. Keatons films have earned a gross of over US$1.1 billion in North America. In addition to acting, she is also a photographer, real estate developer, author, Diane Keaton was born as Diane Hall on January 5,1946, in Los Angeles, California. Her mother, Dorothy Deanne, was a homemaker and amateur photographer, her father, John Newton Ignatius Jack Hall, was a real estate broker, Keaton was raised a Free Methodist by her mother. Her mother won the Mrs. Los Angeles pageant for homemakers, Keaton has said that the theatricality of the event inspired her first impulse to be an actress, and led to her wanting to work on stage. She has also credited Katharine Hepburn, whom she admires for playing strong and independent women, Keaton is a 1964 graduate of Santa Ana High School in Santa Ana, California. During her time there, she participated in singing and acting clubs at school, after graduation, she attended Santa Ana College, and later Orange Coast College as an acting student, but dropped out after a year to pursue an entertainment career in Manhattan. Upon joining the Actors Equity Association, she changed her surname to Keaton, her mothers maiden name, for a brief time, she also moonlighted at nightclubs with a singing act. She would later revisit her nightclub act in Annie Hall and And So It Goes, Keaton began studying acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City. She has described her acting technique as, only as good as the person youre acting with, as opposed to going it on my own and forging my path to create a wonderful performance without the help of anyone. I always need the help of everyone, according to Jack Nicholson, She approaches a script sort of like a play in that she has the entire script memorized before you start doing the movie, which I dont know any other actors doing that. In 1968, Keaton became a member of the Tribe and understudy to Sheila in the original Broadway production of Hair. She gained some notoriety for her refusal to disrobe at the end of Act I when the cast performs nude, after acting in Hair for nine months, she auditioned for a part in Woody Allens production of Play It Again, Sam. After nearly being passed over for being too tall, she won the part, after being nominated for a Tony Award for Play It Again, Sam, Keaton made her film debut in Lovers and Other Strangers
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Keaton in 2011
Diane Keaton
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Keaton with
Woody Allen and
Jerry Lacy in the play
Play It Again, Sam (1969/1970)
Diane Keaton
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Keaton at the
White House with
Warren Beatty and First Lady
Nancy Reagan, December 1981
Diane Keaton
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Keaton in 2009.
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Paul Newman
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Paul Leonard Newman was an American actor. Newmans other films include The Hustler, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid as Butch Cassidy, The Sting, and The Verdict. Despite being colorblind, Newman won several championships as a driver in Sports Car Club of America road racing. He was a co-founder of Newmans Own, a company from which he donated all post-tax profits. As of 2016, these donations have totaled over US$460 million and he was also a co-founder of Safe Water Network, a nonprofit that develops sustainable drinking water solutions for those in need. In 1988, Newman founded the SeriousFun Childrens Network, a family of summer camps. Newman was born in Shaker Heights, Ohio, the son of Theresa and Arthur Sigmund Newman. Newmans father was Jewish, and was the son of Simon Newman and Hannah Cohn, immigrants from Hungary, Newman had no religion as an adult, but described himself as a Jew, saying its more of a challenge. Newmans mother worked in his fathers store, while raising Paul and his brother, Arthur. Newman showed an early interest in the theater, his first role was at the age of seven, playing the court jester in a school production of Robin Hood. At age 10, Newman performed at the Cleveland Play House in a production of Saint George and the Dragon, graduating from Shaker Heights High School in 1943, he briefly attended Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, where he was initiated into the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity. Newman served in the United States Navy in World War II in the Pacific theater, initially, he enrolled in the Navy V-12 pilot training program at Yale University, but was dropped when his colorblindness was discovered. Boot camp followed, with training as a radioman and rear gunner, qualifying in torpedo bombers in 1944, Aviation Radioman Third Class Newman was sent to Barbers Point, Hawaii. He later flew as a gunner in an Avenger torpedo bomber. As a radioman-gunner, his unit was assigned to the USS Bunker Hill along with other replacements shortly before the Battle of Okinawa in the spring of 1945, the pilot of his aircraft had an ear infection which kept their plane grounded. The rest of their squadron flew to the Bunker Hill, days later, a kamikaze attack on the vessel killed a number of service members, including the other members of his unit. After the war, Newman completed his Bachelor of Arts in drama and economics at Kenyon College in Gambier, shortly after earning his degree, he joined several summer stock companies, most notably the Belfry Players in Wisconsin and the Woodstock Players in Illinois. He toured with them for three months and developed his talents as a part of Woodstock Players and he later attended the Yale School of Drama for one year, before moving to New York City to study under Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio
Paul Newman
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Newman in The Prize (1963)
Paul Newman
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Paul Newman at the
1987 Cannes Film Festival
Paul Newman
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Newman in 2007
Paul Newman
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Newman at a political rally for
Eugene McCarthy in 1968
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a 1969 American Western film directed by George Roy Hill and written by William Goldman. The pair and Sundances lover, Etta Place, flee to Bolivia in search of a successful criminal career. In 2003, the film was selected for the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally, historically, the American Film Institute ranked Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid as the 49th-greatest American film on its 100 Years.100 Movies list. In late 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy is the affable, clever and his closest companion is the laconic dead-shot Sundance Kid. The two return to their hideout at Hole-in-the-Wall to discover that the rest of the gang, irked at Butchs long absences, have selected Harvey Logan as their new leader, Harvey challenges Butch to a knife fight over the gangs leadership. To celebrate, Butch and Sundance visit a brothel in a nearby town and watch, amused. They then visit Sundances lover, schoolteacher Etta Place, on the second train robbery, Butch uses too much dynamite to blow open the safe, blowing up the baggage car. Butch and Sundance finally elude their pursuers by jumping from a cliff into a river far below and they learn from Etta that the posse has been paid by Union Pacific head E. H. Harriman to remain on their trail until Butch and Sundance are both killed. Butch convinces Sundance and Etta that the three should escape to Bolivia, which Butch envisions as a robbers paradise, on their arrival there, Sundance is dismayed by the living conditions and regards the country with contempt, but Butch remains optimistic. They discover that they know too little Spanish to pull off a bank robbery, with her as an accomplice, they become successful bank robbers known as Los Bandidos Yanquis. However, their confidence drops when they see a man wearing a white hat, Butch suggests going straight, and he and Sundance land their first honest job as payroll guards for a mining company. However, they are ambushed by bandits on their first run and their boss. Butch and Sundance ambush and kill the bandits, the first time Butch has ever shot someone, Etta recommends farming or ranching as other lines of work, but they conclude the straight life isnt for them. Sensing they will be killed if they return to robbery, Etta decides to go back to the United States, Butch and Sundance steal a payroll and the mules carrying it, and arrive in a small town. A boy recognizes the brand and alerts the local police. They take cover in a building but are both wounded, after Butch makes a futile attempt to run to the mules in order to bring more ammunition. As dozens of Bolivian soldiers surround the area, Butch suggests the next destination should be Australia. The film ends with a freeze frame shot on the pair charging out of the building, guns blazing, William Goldman first came across the story of Butch Cassidy in the late 1950s and researched it on and off for eight years before sitting down to write the screenplay
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
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Theatrical release poster by Tom Beauvais
35.
Someone to Watch Over Me (film)
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Someone to Watch Over Me is a 1987 romance crime thriller film starring Tom Berenger and Mimi Rogers and directed by Ridley Scott. The films soundtrack includes the George and Ira Gershwin song from which the film takes its title, here sung by Sting, socialite Claire Gregory attends a party and art show sponsored by one of her oldest friends, Winn Hockings. Accompanying her is her boyfriend, Neil Steinhart. In another part of town, there is party, this one for newly appointed NYPD detective Mike Keegan. Winn is accosted by a partner, Joey Venza, who is angry because Winn had not come to him to borrow money for his new art studio. After a short argument, he stabs Winn to death, Claire witnesses the killing as she steps out of the elevator, she screams and is spotted by Venza. He pursues her, but she manages to get back into the elevator just in time, the police are called in and the new detective Keegan is there. He is a man, but immediately falls for Claire. Along with fellow cops, he is assigned to protect Claire until she can make a positive ID of Venza, Keegan is determined to protect Claire and goes to extremes to do so. Venza makes numerous threats and attempts on her life, nearly succeeding at one point, Keegan and his wife Ellie separate over his involvement in the case. He and Claire acknowledge their love but Keegan cannot bring himself to abandon his family. At the end, Venza, who draws out Keegan by taking his son hostage, is shot by Ellie, Claire breaks up with her staid boyfriend and intends to go to Europe to get over Keegan, who returns to his wife and son. Mike Keegan Mimi Rogers as Claire Gregory Lorraine Bracco as Ellie Keegan Jerry Orbach as Lt. Garber John Rubinstein as Neil Steinhart Andreas Katsulas as Joey Venza Tony Di Benedetto as T. J. Someone to Watch Over Me was a box office disappointment despite positive reviews, the film did better on VHS. Someone to Watch Over Me at the Internet Movie Database Someone to Watch Over Me at the TCM Movie Database Someone to Watch Over Me at AllMovie Someone to Watch Over Me at Rotten Tomatoes
Someone to Watch Over Me (film)
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Theatrical release poster
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Academy Awards
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The various category winners are awarded a copy of a golden statuette, officially called the Academy Award of Merit, which has become commonly known by its nickname Oscar. The awards, first presented in 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, are overseen by AMPAS, the awards ceremony was first broadcast on radio in 1930 and televised for the first time in 1953. It is now live in more than 200 countries and can be streamed live online. The Academy Awards ceremony is the oldest worldwide entertainment awards ceremony and its equivalents – the Emmy Awards for television, the Tony Awards for theater, and the Grammy Awards for music and recording – are modeled after the Academy Awards. The 89th Academy Awards ceremony, honoring the best films of 2016, were held on February 26,2017, at the Dolby Theatre, in Los Angeles, the ceremony was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and was broadcast on ABC. A total of 3,048 Oscars have been awarded from the inception of the award through the 88th, the first Academy Awards presentation was held on May 16,1929, at a private dinner function at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel with an audience of about 270 people. The post-awards party was held at the Mayfair Hotel, the cost of guest tickets for that nights ceremony was $5. Fifteen statuettes were awarded, honoring artists, directors and other participants in the industry of the time. The ceremony ran for 15 minutes, winners were announced to media three months earlier, however, that was changed for the second ceremony in 1930. Since then, for the rest of the first decade, the results were given to newspapers for publication at 11,00 pm on the night of the awards. The first Best Actor awarded was Emil Jannings, for his performances in The Last Command and he had to return to Europe before the ceremony, so the Academy agreed to give him the prize earlier, this made him the first Academy Award winner in history. With the fourth ceremony, however, the system changed, for the first six ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned two calendar years. At the 29th ceremony, held on March 27,1957, until then, foreign-language films had been honored with the Special Achievement Award. The 74th Academy Awards, held in 2002, presented the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, since 1973, all Academy Awards ceremonies always end with the Academy Award for Best Picture. The Academy also awards Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, see also § Awards of Merit categories The best known award is the Academy Award of Merit, more popularly known as the Oscar statuette. The five spokes represent the branches of the Academy, Actors, Writers, Directors, Producers. The model for the statuette is said to be Mexican actor Emilio El Indio Fernández, sculptor George Stanley sculpted Cedric Gibbons design. The statuettes presented at the ceremonies were gold-plated solid bronze
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Golden Globe Award
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Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign. The annual ceremony at which the awards are presented is a part of the film industrys awards season. The 74th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film, the 1st Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best achievements in 1943 filmmaking, was held in January 1944, at the 20th Century-Fox studios. Subsequent ceremonies were held at venues throughout the next decade, including the Beverly Hills Hotel. In 1950, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association made the decision to establish an honorary award to recognize outstanding contributions to the entertainment industry. Recognizing its subject as a figure within the entertainment industry. The official name of the award became the Cecil B. In 1963, the Miss Golden Globe concept was introduced, in its inaugural year, two Miss Golden Globes were named, one for film and one for television. The two Miss Golden Globes named that year were Eva Six and Donna Douglas, respectively, in 2009, the Golden Globe statuette was redesigned. It was unveiled at a conference at the Beverly Hilton prior to the show. The broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards, telecast to 167 countries worldwide, generally ranks as the third most-watched awards show each year, behind only the Oscars, gervais returned to host the 68th and 69th Golden Globe Awards the next two years. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosted the 70th, 71st and 72nd Golden Globe Awards in 2015, the Golden Globe Awards theme song, which debuted in 2012, was written by Japanese musician and songwriter Yoshiki Hayashi. On January 7,2008, it was announced due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. The ceremony was faced with a threat by striking writers to picket the event, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was forced to adopt another approach for the broadcast. In acting categories, Meryl Streep holds the record for the most competitive Golden Globe wins with eight, however, including honorary awards, such as the Henrietta Award, World Film Favorite Actor/Actress Award, or Cecil B. DeMille Award, Barbra Streisand leads with nine, additionally, Streisand won for composing the song Evergreen, producing the Best Picture, and directing Yentl in 1984. Jack Nicholson, Angela Lansbury, Alan Alda and Shirley MacLaine have six awards each, behind them are Rosalind Russell and Jessica Lange with five wins. Meryl Streep also holds the record for most nominations with thirty, at the 46th Golden Globe Awards an anomaly occurred, a three way-tie for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
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Sniper (1993 film)
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Sniper is a 1993 American action thriller starring Tom Berenger and Billy Zane as snipers on an assassination mission in Panama. It was shot in Queensland, Australia, and debuted at two in the United States. It initiated the Sniper film series and was followed by six sequels, Sniper 2, Sniper 3, Sniper, Reloaded, Sniper, Legacy, Sniper, Ghost Shooter and Sniper, Homeland Security. Master Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Beckett, Force Reconnaissance Marine, an experienced sniper, Papich, are on a mission to assassinate a Panamanian rebel leader in the jungle. Because they are extracted in daylight instead of at night, Papich is killed by a sniper, Beckett runs back under fire to carry Papichs body to the helicopter. Later, Beckett is paired up with a civilian, Richard Miller. Miller is a SWAT team sharpshooter, with no experience or confirmed kills to his name. While on the way to the area, Millers helicopter is attacked by a guerrilla. Miller is unable to take out the attacker, instead, the choppers dying gunner makes the kill, on the mission, Beckett insists on deviating from the plan that Miller was given. This, together with the fact that Miller has no experience or aptitude for jungle operations, uncertain of Millers reliability and skeptical about his kill while aboard the helicopter, he tells Miller to kill El Cirujano in order to prove himself. However, when the comes, Miller fails again by first firing a warning shot. Cirujano is able to dodge the shot by ducking under it into the river in which he has been swimming. In the ensuing firefight with the guerrillas, one of the Indians is killed. Although the Indians do not directly blame either Beckett or Miller, en route to the target, they realize they are being followed. They head to a village to contact their informant, a priest, Beckett speculates out loud that it is the work of El Cirujano, calling into question Millers credibility. That night, Beckett marks their track to bait the follower - the sniper that killed Papich - into a trap, the two men finally reach the generals hacienda. While waiting for their targets to emerge, they find Cirujano to be alive after all, Miller isnt hidden very well, and is spotted by one of the guards trying to sneak up on Miller. Beckett kills Millers attacker while Miller takes out the drug lord, having had to save Millers life instead of killing the general, Beckett insists on going back to take out the general
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Born on the Fourth of July (film)
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Born on the Fourth of July is a 1989 American war drama film adaptation of the best-selling autobiography of the same name by Vietnam War veteran Ron Kovic. Tom Cruise plays Ron Kovic, in a performance that earned him his first Academy Award nomination, Oliver Stone co-wrote the screenplay with Kovic, and also produced and directed the film. Stone wanted to film the movie in Vietnam, but because relations between the United States and Vietnam had not yet been normalized, it was filmed in the Philippines. The film is considered part of Stones trilogy of films about the Vietnam War—following Platoon and preceding Heaven & Earth. Born on the Fourth of July was nominated for eight Academy Awards and won two, for Best Director and Best Film Editing, it won four Golden Globe Awards. The film was a critical and commercial success, grossing $161,001,698 worldwide, in the summer of 1956 in Massapequa, Long Island, New York, 10-year-old Ron Kovic plays soldier in the woods and attends a Fourth of July parade. After watching President John F. Kennedys inaugural address, it inspires him to enlist in the Marines, later, Kovic attends an impassioned lecture about the Marine Corps. He decides to enlist and misses his prom because he is unable to secure a date with his love interest and he confronts her at the prom and has a dance with her on his last night before leaving. Now a Marine sergeant and on patrol during his second Vietnam tour in October 1967, Kovics unit kills a number of Vietnamese civilians in a village, during the retreat, Kovic accidentally kills one of the new arrivals to his platoon, a younger private first class named Wilson. During a firefight in January 1968, Kovic is critically wounded, Kovic desperately tries to walk again with the use of crutches and braces, despite repeated warnings from his doctors. In 1969, Kovic returns home, permanently in a wheelchair, though he tries to maintain his dignity as a United States Marine, Kovic gradually becomes disillusioned, despite being paralyzed, and resorts to alcohol. In Kovics absence, his younger brother Tommy has already become staunchly anti-war, during an Independence Day parade, Kovic shows signs of post-traumatic stress when firecrackers explode. When he is asked to give a speech, a baby in the crowd starts crying. Later, Kovic goes to visit Donna at her college in Syracuse, New York and he and Donna are separated when she and her fellow students are taken away by the police at her college for demonstrating against the Vietnam War. Ron goes to a bar, almost gets into a fight with a fellow Marine, after Ron has a heated argument with his mother, his father decides to send him to Mexico. He arrives in The Village of the Sun, which seems to be a haven for paralyzed Vietnam veterans and he has his first sexual experience with a prostitute, whom he believes he loves, until he sees her with another customer. He hooks up with another veteran, Charlie, and the two travel to what they believe will be a friendlier village. After annoying their taxicab driver, they end up stranded on the side of the road and they are picked up by a man with a truck and driven back to the Village of the Sun
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Shattered (1991 film)
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Shattered is a 1991 Hitchcockian neo-noir/psychological thriller starring Tom Berenger, Greta Scacchi, Bob Hoskins, Joanne Whalley and Corbin Bernsen. It was directed and written for the screen by Wolfgang Petersen, while driving at night along the northern California coast, architect Dan Merrick and wife Judith are involved in a car wreck. Dan suffers major injuries and brain trauma, resulting in psychogenic amnesia, after extensive plastic surgery, Dan returns home in Judiths care. Dan relies on close to him to help him restore his past, including his business partner Jeb Scott and Jebs wife. Dan has frequent flashbacks he believes to be events that led up to the car crash, Dan finds discrepancies in the stories about his former self. He stumbles upon photographs of Judith sleeping with another man, Dan finds an expensive bill to a pet store and follows up with its proprietor, Gus Klein. Gus says the payment was for services provided as an investigator to follow Judith. Judith arranges a meeting with Stanton and Dan follows her, Judith stops at an old shipwreck slated for removal by Dans company. Assuming the wreck is a key in remembering his past, Dan has its removal postponed, Jebs wife Jenny accuses Judith of planning the accident to eliminate Dan. As he works with Gus to keep tabs on his wife with a wiretap, Dan tails her to a hotel where she and Stanton are to meet, but Stanton leaves, after gunshots are fired from Stantons car, Dan and Gus crash while Stanton escapes. That night at home, Dan arms himself and lies in wait, at gunpoint, an intruder is revealed as Judith disguised as Stanton. She explains that Stanton is actually dead, killed by Dan on the night of the accident, Judith had intended to stop the affair with Stanton. Judith says she and Dan covered up the murder by disposing of Stantons body in the shipwreck, when Dan reveals he postponed the ships removal, Judith becomes hysterical and suggests they should flee. Dan receives a call from Jenny imploring him to see her. He is confronted at gunpoint by Gus, who thinks Dan must have murdered Stanton, pleading for his life, Dan convinces Gus to visit the shipwreck, where they find a chemical storage container. Dan dredges up a body of a man who looks exactly like himself, Dan realizes he is not Dan Merrick, he is Jack Stanton. An abusive Dan confronted his wife Judith with evidence of her infidelity and she called for help and Jack raced to her home, arriving too late to prevent her from shooting her husband. Jack wanted to go to the police, but Judith convinced him to cover up the murder, after doing so, Jack told Judith he wanted out of the relationship
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Sliver (film)
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Sliver is a 1993 erotic thriller film based on the Ira Levin novel of the same name about the mysterious occurrences in a privately owned New York high-rise apartment building. Phillip Noyce directed the film, from a screenplay by Joe Eszterhas, because of a major battle with the MPAA, the filmmakers were forced to make extensive reshoots before release. These reshoots actually necessitated changing the killers identity, the film stars Sharon Stone, William Baldwin and Tom Berenger. According to the movie, the tall and narrow building is located at 113 East 38th Street in Manhattan, placing it at 38th Street. The actual building used in the film is known as Morgan Court, located at 211 Madison Avenue New York, one block west, the building has since become a condominium development. It was built in 1985 and has 32 floors, while the movie made use of the buildings courtyard, the lobby was a Los Angeles film set. When he signed on to direct the film, Phillip Noyce remarked I liked the script a lot, or at least, I liked the idea of jumping on the Joe Eszterhas bandwagon. Carly Norris moves into an exclusive New York residential building, not long after the tenant, Naomi Singer. She immediately crosses paths with other tenants including the handsome Zeke, Carly and Zeke soon start meeting quite often, Carly eventually agrees to go to the gym with Zeke, who begins to turn her on by grabbing her hips while exercising. After hanging out for a while, they end up having sex, Carly is also being romantically pursued by Jack, a novelist who is another resident of her building. Two of Carlys neighbors die under suspicious circumstances, as she discovers more about Zeke and Jack, she begins to distrust both and also uncovers shocking secrets about other people who live around her. Carly eventually finds out that Jack killed Naomi because of his jealousy of Zeke, although she is both curious about and disturbed by the cameras, she sees footage of Zeke having sex with Naomi, as well as the murder of Naomi by Jack. Carly eventually destroys Zekes surveillance room and his video monitors, telling him to get a life before leaving him and he then veers the aircraft into the volcano as the end credits roll and leaves the audience to decide whether they survive. Preview audiences disliked the idea of the heroine turning immoral, all the film from the cameramen who actually crashed into a volcano in Hawaii and narrowly escaped death was removed. However, when Paramount released the version to video there was no male frontal nudity included. When originally released on VHS, the film was released in both an R-rated and an unrated version, in March 2006, to coincide with the theatrical release of Basic Instinct 2, which starred Stone, Sliver was released on DVD, this time unrated only. There are no features and although the film was presented theatrically in the 2.35 aspect ratio. In May 2006 an R-rated for-rent-only version was released to rental outlets, in 2013, the film was released on Blu-ray Disc, using the same matted 2.10 aspect ratio version of the R-rated theatrical cut
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Chasers (film)
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Chasers is a 1994 comedy film directed by Dennis Hopper, his last directorial effort before his death in 2010. It is about a pair of United States Navy shore patrollers who must escort a prisoner. Eddie Devane is a sailor who has carried out a number of inventory-related scams along with his partner-in-crime Howard. A day before his discharge, Eddie is assigned to escort a prisoner from the base at Camp Lejeune along with the authoritarian. Eddie is of course not pleased with this development, when Howard sees a grumpy-looking Eddie being escorted from his superiors office by a couple of other seaman, he thinks Eddie has been found out and arrested for his scams. In order to destroy evidence, he goes to Eddies desk and finds the money, Eddie and Rocks personalities clash many times during the trip to Camp Lejeune. When they reach their destination, they discover that the prisoner they are transporting is a pretty young woman, however, they soon discover that taking her back is no easy job when she attempts to escape disguised as a waitress at a diner but is caught. Later, she feigns the onset of her period and puts tampons inside the gas tank which leads to the van being stalled in the road. While walking, the come across an abandoned mine and accidentally fall down the shaft. They try to get out standing on each others shoulders, Toni gets out first, ditches them and runs away but has a change of heart later and comes back for them. They stay for the night in a motel while their van is being repaired and they converse and bond in a diner where it is revealed that Toni had first gone AWOL to visit her delinquent, drug-addicted brother in a hospital. When the authorities attempted to arrest her, she resisted and made attempts to escape. Her brother died while she was in prison and this makes them see her in anew light and understand the motivations behind her actions. Later in the night, Eddie finds out that Howard has taken all the money as well as the new car Eddie was planning to buy. He calls Howard, who says he was tired of being used and she seduces him and the two have sex. Next morning, Eddie wakes up and sees Toni run away and she steals the car of the man who picked her up. While giving her chase, Eddie and Rocks van accidentally climbs up an artificial volcano in an amusement park and falls down and they catch up with Toni only to discover that her brothers funeral is soon and she is running away with the intention of being present there. Frustrated with the situation, Rock and Eddie have a fistfight, then they journey to their base and hand Toni over
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General James Longstreet
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James Longstreet was one of the foremost Confederate generals of the American Civil War and the principal subordinate to General Robert E. Lee, who called him his Old War Horse. Longstreets talents as a made significant contributions to the Confederate victories at Second Bull Run, Fredericksburg. He also performed strongly during the Seven Days Battles, the Battle of Antietam and his performance in semiautonomous command during the Knoxville Campaign resulted in a Confederate defeat. He enjoyed a successful career working for the U. S. government as a diplomat, civil servant. His reputation in the South further suffered when he led African-American militia against the anti-Reconstruction White League at the Battle of Liberty Place in 1874, authors of the Lost Cause movement focused on Longstreets actions at Gettysburg as a primary reason for the Confederacys loss of the war. His reputation in the South was damaged for over a century and has recently begun a slow reassessment. James Longstreet was born on January 8,1821 in Edgefield District, South Carolina, jamess ancestor Dirck Stoffels Langestraet immigrated to the Dutch colony of New Netherland in 1657, but the name became Anglicized over the generations. Jamess father was impressed by his sons rocklike character on the plantation, giving him the nickname Peter. Longstreets father decided on a career for his son. At the age of nine, James was sent to live with his aunt and uncle in Augusta and his uncle, Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, was a newspaper editor, educator, and a Methodist minister. James spent eight years on his uncles plantation, Westover, just outside the city while he attended the Academy of Richmond County, James was a poor student academically and a disciplinary problem at West Point, ranking 54th out of 56 cadets when he graduated in 1842. Longstreet was commissioned a second lieutenant in the 4th U. S. Infantry. Longstreet spent his first two years of service at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, where he was joined by his friend. Soon after, Longstreet met his future first wife Maria Louisa Garland and she was the daughter of Longstreets regimental commander, Lt. Col. John Garland. They married in March 1848, after the Mexican-American War, at about the same time as Longstreet began courting Garland, Grant became acquainted with and courted Longstreets fourth cousin, Julia Dent, and the couple eventually married. Historians agree that Longstreet attended the Grant wedding on August 22,1848 in St. Louis, Grant biographer Jean Edward Smith asserted that Longstreet served as Grants best man at the wedding. Longstreet served with distinction in the Mexican-American War with the 8th U. S. Infantry, early in the war, he served as a lieutenant in Zachary Taylors army at the Battle of Monterrey in September 1846. He received brevet promotions to captain for Contreras and Churubusco and to major for Molino del Rey, Longstreet was a veteran member of the Aztec Club of 1847
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Equestrian statue of CSA General James Longstreet on his horse Hero in Pitzer Woods at Gettysburg National Military Park, Gettysburg, PA
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Cheers
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Cheers is an American sitcom that ran on NBC from September 30,1982 to May 20,1993, with a total of 270 half-hour episodes spanning over eleven seasons. The show was produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions in association with Paramount Network Television, the show was created by the team of James Burrows, Glen Charles, and Les Charles. The show is set in a bar named Cheers in Boston, Massachusetts, where a group of locals meet to drink, relax, the shows main theme song, written and performed by Gary Portnoy lent its famous refrain Where Everybody Knows Your Name as the shows tagline. After premiering on September 30,1982, it was canceled during its first season when it ranked almost last in ratings for its premiere. Cheers, however, eventually became a highly rated show in the United States, earning a top-ten rating during eight of its eleven seasons. The show spent most of its run on NBCs Thursday night Must See TV lineup and its widely watched series finale was broadcast on May 20,1993, and the shows 270 episodes have been successfully syndicated worldwide. Nominated for Outstanding Comedy Series for all eleven of its seasons on the air, the character Frasier Crane was featured in his eponymous spin-off show, which aired until 2004 and included guest appearances by virtually all of the major and minor Cheers characters. During its run, Cheers became one of the most popular series of all time and has received critical acclaim. In 1997, the episodes Thanksgiving Orphans and Home Is the Sailor, aired originally in 1987, were respectively ranked No.7, in 2002, Cheers was ranked No.18 on TV Guides 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time. In 2013, the Writers Guild of America ranked it as the eighth best written TV series, before the Cheers pilot Give Me a Ring Sometime was completed and aired in 1982, the series originally consisted of four employees in the first script. Neither Norm Peterson nor Cliff Clavin, regular customers of Cheers, were featured, in later years, Woody Boyd replaces Coach, who dies off-screen in season four to account for actor Nicholas Colasantos death. Frasier Crane starts as a character and becomes a permanent character. In season six, they added a new character Rebecca Howe, Lilith Sternin starts as a one-time character in an episode of season four, Second Time Around. After she appears in two episodes in five, she becomes a recurring character, and later featured as a permanent one for season ten. Ted Danson portrays Sam Malone, a bartender and an owner of Cheers, before the series began, he was a baseball relief pitcher for the Boston Red Sox nicknamed Mayday Malone until he became an alcoholic, harming his career. He has an on-again, off-again relationship with Diane Chambers, his class opposite, during their off-times, Sam has flings with many not-so-bright sexy women, yet fails to pursue a meaningful relationship and fails to seduce other women, such as intellectuals. After Diane is written out of the series, he tries to pursue Rebecca Howe, at the end of the series, he is still unmarried and recovering from sexual addiction with a help of Dr. Robert Suttons group meetings, advised by Frasier. Shelley Long portrays Diane Chambers, an academic, sophisticated graduate student, in the pilot Diane is abandoned by her fiancé, leaving her without a job, a man, or money
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Emmy Award
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An Emmy Award, or simply Emmy, recognizes excellence in the television industry, and corresponds to the Academy Award, the Tony Award, and the Grammy Award. Because Emmy Awards are given in various sectors of the American television industry, Regional Emmy Awards are also presented throughout the country at various times through the year, recognizing excellence in local and statewide television. In addition, International Emmys are awarded for excellence in TV programming produced, each is responsible for administering a particular set of Emmy ceremonies. The Los Angeles-based Academy of Television Arts & Sciences established the Emmy Award as part of an image-building and public relations opportunity. The first Emmy Awards ceremony took place on January 25,1949, at the Hollywood Athletic Club, shirley Dinsdale has the distinction of receiving the very first Emmy Award for Most Outstanding Television Personality, during that first awards ceremony. In the 1950s, the ATAS expanded the Emmys into a national event, in 1955, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences was formed in New York City as a sister organization to serve members on the East Coast, and help to also supervise the Emmys. The NATAS also established regional chapters throughout the United States, with each one developing their own local Emmy awards show for local programming, the ATAS still however maintained its separate regional ceremony honoring local programming in the Los Angeles Area. Originally there was only one Emmy Awards ceremony held per year to honor shows nationally broadcast in the United States, in 1974, the first Daytime Emmy Awards ceremony was held to specifically honor achievement in national daytime programming. Other area-specific Emmy Awards ceremonies soon followed, also, the International Emmy Awards, honoring television programs produced and initially aired outside the U. S. was established in the early 1970s. Meanwhile, all Emmys awarded prior to the emergence of these separate, in 1977, due to various conflicts, the ATAS and the NATAS agreed to split ties. However, they agreed to share ownership of the Emmy statue and trademark. With the rise of television in the 1980s, cable programs first became eligible for the Primetime Emmys in 1988. The ATAS also began accepting original online-only web television programs in 2013, the Emmy statuette, depicting a winged woman holding an atom, was designed by television engineer Louis McManus, who used his wife as the model. The TV Academy rejected a total of forty-seven proposals before settling on McManus design in 1948. The statuette has become the symbol of the TV Academys goal of supporting and uplifting the art and science of television, The wings represent the muse of art. When deciding a name for the award, Academy founder Syd Cassyd originally suggested Ike, however, Ike was also the popular nickname of World War II hero and future U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and the Academy members wanted something unique. Finally, television engineer and the third president, Harry Lubcke, suggested the name Immy. After Immy was chosen, it was feminized to Emmy to match their female statuette
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Rough Riders (film)
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The series prominently shows the bravery of the volunteers at the Battle of San Juan Hill, part of the Spanish–American War of 1898. It was released on DVD in 2006, the series originally aired on TNT with a four-hour running time, including commercials, over two consecutive nights during July 1997. In 1898 the US government decided to intervene on the side of the Cuban rebels in their struggle against Spanish rule, assistant Navy Secretary Theodore Roosevelt decides to experience the war first hand by promoting and joining a volunteer cavalry regiment. The regiment, later known as the Rough Riders, brings together volunteers from all corners of the nation and they include a stagecoach robber, Henry Nash, and patrician men. When Roosevelt and his men land on Cuba, they face ambush, intense enemy fire. Hamilton Fish Geoffrey Lewis – Eli James Parks – William Tiffany Dakin Matthews – Wadsworth Sr. Mark Moses – Capt and he had tried to make a film about Roosevelt and the Rough Riders for a number of years but nobody cared, he said. When I would pitch a film about Roosevelt and the Spanish-American War and they would say, Its not exactly a Western, and its not a war picture, so what is it. The last great Western of the 19th century and he makes a really good contrast to the way things are today. He put his money where his mouth was, tom Berenger had starred in Gettysburg for Ted Turner and was also a long time admirer of Roosevelt. Berenger pitched the idea of a series on the Rough Riders to Turner, giving him an outline. I see him as a force of nature, said Berenger, yet this incident in our history -- largely created by William Randolph Hearst and other yellow press barons -- took him to the White House. Berenger originally intended to play Colonel Leonard Wood, with Stephen Lang to play Roosevelt, Berenger said the mini series needs a couple other names. Itll be as fun as Gettysburg was to do. A bunch of guys playing a military unit. The casting director of Gettysburg told me she had 6,000 actors submissions for that production, there were a couple of big names who wanted to do it so badly they said, Just give me a couple of lines and a uniform - thats all I want. Hugh Wilson wrote the first draft and planned to direct, Berenger agreed to star and was executive producer. Eventually Wilson bowed out due to differences and Berenger suggested h be replaced by Milius. According to Milius, TNT executives said, Well let you make it if you can make it at price, write it quick
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was an American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, naturalist, and reformer who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909. As a leader of the Republican Party during this time, he became a force for the Progressive Era in the United States in the early 20th century. Born a sickly child with debilitating asthma, Roosevelt successfully overcame his health problems by embracing a strenuous lifestyle and he integrated his exuberant personality, vast range of interests, and world-famous achievements into a cowboy persona defined by robust masculinity. Home-schooled, he began a lifelong naturalist avocation before attending Harvard College and his first of many books, The Naval War of 1812, established his reputation as both a learned historian and as a popular writer. Upon entering politics, he became the leader of the faction of Republicans in New Yorks state legislature. Returning a war hero, he was elected governor of New York in 1898, the state party leadership distrusted him, so they took the lead in moving him to the prestigious but powerless role of vice presidential candidate as McKinleys running mate in the election of 1900. Roosevelt campaigned vigorously across the country, helping McKinleys re-election in a victory based on a platform of peace, prosperity. Following the assassination of President McKinley in September 1901, Roosevelt succeeded to the office at age 42, making conservation a top priority, he established a myriad of new national parks, forests, and monuments intended to preserve the nations natural resources. In foreign policy, he focused on Central America, where he began construction of the Panama Canal and he greatly expanded the United States Navy and sent the Great White Fleet on a world tour to project the United States naval power around the globe. His successful efforts to end the Russo-Japanese War won him the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize, elected in 1904 to a full term, Roosevelt continued to promote progressive policies, but many of his efforts and much of his legislative agenda were eventually blocked in Congress. Roosevelt successfully groomed his close friend, William Howard Taft, to succeed him in the presidency, after leaving office, Roosevelt went on safari in Africa and toured Europe. Returning to the United States, he became frustrated with Tafts approach, failing to win the Republican presidential nomination in 1912, Roosevelt founded his own party, the Progressive, so-called Bull Moose Party, and called for wide-ranging progressive reforms. The split among Republicans enabled the Democrats to win both the White House and a majority in the Congress in 1912, Republicans aligned with Taft nationally would control the Republican Party for decades. Frustrated at home, Roosevelt led an expedition to the Amazon basin. During World War I, he opposed President Woodrow Wilson for keeping the country out of the war, and offered his military services, although planning to run again for president in 1920, Roosevelt suffered deteriorating health and died in early 1919. Roosevelt has consistently ranked by scholars as one of the greatest American presidents. Historians admire Roosevelt for rooting out corruption in his administration, but are critical of his 1909 libel lawsuits against the World and his face was carved into Mount Rushmore, alongside those of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was born on October 27,1858, at East 20th Street in New York City and he was the second of four children born to socialite Martha Stewart Mittie Bulloch and glass businessman and philanthropist Theodore Roosevelt Sr
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Theodore Roosevelt at age 11
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Roosevelt's taxidermy kit
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Roosevelt as NY State Assemblyman, 1883
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Novalogic
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NovaLogic, Inc. is a software developer and publisher established in 1985 and based in Calabasas, California. The company was founded by current CEO John A. Garcia, garcias background in computer software started in Southern California in the early 1980s, when he worked at DataSoft. In October 2016 NovaLogic was bought out by THQ Nordic, originally, NovaLogic worked on new versions of previously published games. Taito America was a client of the company and most of Novalogics earliest games were PC conversions of Taito arcade games. The cancelled Philips CD-i sequel to Super Mario World, Super Marios Wacky Worlds, was in development by NovaLogic, in 1994, NovaLogic set up its European office in London, England. This office has subsequently closed down. Three years later, NovaLogic first launched its free online matchmaking service and this service allows for large online battles and stat tracking. After publishing several successful military-themed games, the company started NovaLogic Systems, Inc. on February 13,1996, novalogic then changed its claim to the largest FPS without a subscription fee, which fans of the venerable World War II Online quickly noted also was inaccurate. Ultimately the company settled for the title of largest modern combat FPS without a subscription, in 2008, publisher MTR Soft had displayed information about NovaLogics upcoming title Delta Force, Angel Falls. In December 2008, NovaLogic announced they have cut ties with MTR Soft, also in 2008, NovaLogic released an alpha build of the new NovaWorld 2.0 featuring much better in performance and features. In early 2009, NovaLogic released Delta Force 10th Anniversary Collection, on June 2,2009 Delta Force, Xtreme 2 was released simultaneously at retail and online via digital download. On October 31,2016, it was announced that the developer and publisher THQ Nordic had acquired all of NovaLogics assets. Comanche, Maximum Overkill Comanche, Global Challenge Comanche, Over the Edge Comanche CD Comanche 2 Comanche 2, Werewolf vs
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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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Stephen King in February 2007
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King's home in
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