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text: Due to the requirements of filming in an "alternate reality", as well as different seasons, the exterior set was extremely adaptable. RKO studio's head of special effects, Russell Shearman, developed a new compound using water, soap flakes, foamite, and sugar to create "chemical snow" for the film. Before then, movie snow was usually made from untoasted cornflakes, which were so loud when stepped on that dialogue had to be redubbed afterwards.


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text: Filming started on April 15, 1946, and wrapped on July 27, 1946, exactly on deadline for the 90-day principal photography schedule.


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text: Only two locations from the film survive. The first, the swimming pool that was unveiled during the high-school dance sequence, is located in the gymnasium at Beverly Hills High School and is still in use . The second is the "Martini home" in La Cañada Flintridge, California. RKO's movie ranch in Encino was razed in 1954.


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text: The scene where young George saves his brother Harry from drowning was different in an early draft of the script. The boys play ice hockey on the river (which is on Potter's property) as Potter watches with disdain. George shoots the puck, but it goes astray and breaks the "No Trespassing" sign and lands in Potter's yard. Potter becomes irate and his gardener releases attack dogs, which cause the boys to flee. Harry falls in the ice and George saves him with the same results.


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text: In another draft, after he unsuccessfully attempts to consult his father about Mr. Gower and the pills, George considers asking Uncle Billy, but he is on the phone with the bank examiner. Billy lights his cigar and throws his match in the wastebasket. George turns to Tilly (who, along with Eustace, are his cousins, although not Billy's kids), but she is on the phone with her friend, Martha. She says, "Potter's here, the bank examiner's coming. It's a day of judgment." The wastebasket suddenly catches fire and Billy cries for help. Tilly runs in and puts the fire out with a pot of coffee. George decides to deal with the Gower situation by himself.


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text: According to Bobbie Anderson, in the confrontation between Mr. Gower and young George, H. B. Warner slapped him for real and made his ear bleed, reducing him to tears. Warner hugged him after the scene was shot.


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text: Composer Dimitri Tiomkin had written "Death Telegram" and "Gower's Deliverance" for the drugstore sequence, but Capra elected to forgo music in those scenes. Tiomkin had worked on many of Capra's previous films, but those changes, and others, led to a falling out between the two men. Tiomkin felt as though his work was being seen as a mere suggestion. In his autobiography "Please Don't Hate Me", he called the incident, "an all around scissors job".


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text: In the scene where Uncle Billy gets drunk at Harry and Ruth's welcome home/newlyweds' party and staggers away off camera, a crash is heard off screen. Mitchell, as Uncle Billy, yells, "I'm all right! I'm all right!", implying that Uncle Billy had knocked into some trash cans. A technician had actually knocked over some equipment; Capra left in Mitchell's impromptu ad lib and rewarded the technician with $10 (equal to $141.84 in 2021), thanking him for his 'sound improvement'.


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text: According to rare stills that have been unearthed, several sequences were filmed but subsequently cut. Alternative endings were also considered. Capra's first script had Bailey fall to his knees to recite "The Lord's Prayer" (the script also called for an opening scene with the townspeople in prayer). Feeling that an overly religious tone undermined the emotional impact of the family and friends rushing to George's rescue, the closing scenes were rewritten.


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text: Capra found the film's original cinematographer Victor Milner slow and pretentious, and hired Joseph Walker. When Harry Cohn demanded that Walker return to Columbia Pictures to shoot a film for one of the studio's female stars, Walker trained Joseph Biroc to be his replacement. Although working with three cinematographers was difficult for Capra, in Walker's opinion it turned out very well because the scenes each cinematographer shot were so different that they did not have to match each other's visual styles.


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text: According to a 2006 book, "A spate of movies appeared just after the ending of the Second World War, including "It's a Wonderful Life" (1946) and "Stairway to Heaven" (1946), perhaps tapping into so many people's experience of loss of loved ones and offering a kind of consolation." "It's a Wonderful Life" premiered at the Globe Theatre in New York on December 20, 1946, to mixed reviews. While Capra thought the contemporary critical reviews were either universally negative, or at best dismissive, "Time" said, ""It's a Wonderful Life" is a pretty wonderful movie. It has only one formidable rival (Goldwyn's "The Best Years of Our Lives") as Hollywood's best picture of the year. Director Capra's inventiveness, humor, and affection for human beings keep it glowing with life and excitement."


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text: Bosley Crowther, writing for "The New York Times", complimented some of the actors, including Stewart and Reed, but concluded, "the weakness of this picture, from this reviewer's point of view, is the sentimentality of it—its illusory concept of life. Mr. Capra's nice people are charming, his small town is a quite beguiling place and his pattern for solving problems is most optimistic and facile. But somehow, they all resemble theatrical attitudes, rather than average realities."


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text: The film, which went into general release on January 7, 1947, placed 26th ($3.3 million) in box-office revenues for 1947 (out of more than 400 features released), one place ahead of another Christmas film, "Miracle on 34th Street". The film was supposed to be released in January 1947, but was moved up to December 1946 to make it eligible for the 19th Academy Awards held in March 1947. This move was seen as worse for the film, as 1947 did not have quite the stiff competition as 1946. If it had entered the 1947 awards, its strongest competitor would have been "Miracle on 34th Street". The number-one grossing movie of 1947, "The Best Years of Our Lives", made $11.5 million.


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text: On May 26, 1947, the Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a memo stating, "With regard to the picture "It's a Wonderful Life", [redacted] stated in substance that the film represented rather obvious attempts to discredit bankers by casting Lionel Barrymore as a 'scrooge-type' so that he would be the most hated man in the picture. This, according to these sources, is a common trick used by Communists. [In] addition, [redacted] stated that, in his opinion, this picture deliberately maligned the upper class, attempting to show the people who had money were mean and despicable characters." Film historian Andrew Sarris observed as "curious" that "the censors never noticed that the villainous Mr. Potter gets away with robbery without being caught or punished in any way".


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text: In 1990, "It's a Wonderful Life" was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in their National Film Registry.


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text: In 2002, Channel 4 in the United Kingdom ranked "It's a Wonderful Life" as the seventh-greatest film ever made in its poll "The 100 Greatest Films". The channel airs the film to British viewers annually on Christmas Eve.


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text: In June 2008, AFI revealed its "10 Top 10", the best 10 films in 10 "classic" American film genres, after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community. "It's a Wonderful Life" was acknowledged as the third-best film in the fantasy genre.


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text: Somewhat more iconoclastic views of the film and its contents are occasionally expressed. In his review for "The New Republic" in 1947, film critic Manny Farber wrote, "To make his points, [Capra] always takes an easy, simple-minded path that doesn't give much credit to the intelligence of the audience", and adds that it has only a "few unsentimental moments here and there". Wendell Jamieson, in a 2008 article for "The New York Times" which was generally positive in its analysis of the film, observing that far from being simply a sweetly sentimental tale, it "is a terrifying, asphyxiating story about growing up and relinquishing your dreams, of seeing your father driven to the grave before his time, of living among bitter, small-minded people. It is a story of being trapped, of compromising, of watching others move ahead and away, of becoming so filled with rage that you verbally abuse your children, their teacher, and your oppressively perfect wife."


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text: In a 2010 essay for "Salon", Richard Cohen described "It's a Wonderful Life" as "the most terrifying Hollywood film ever made". In the "Pottersville" sequence, he wrote, George Bailey is not seeing the world that would exist had he never been born, but rather "the world as it does exist, in his time and also in our own". Nine years earlier, another "Salon" writer, Gary Kamiya, had expressed the opposing view that "Pottersville "rocks!"", adding: "The gauzy, Currier-and-Ives veil Capra drapes over Bedford Falls has prevented viewers from grasping what a tiresome and, frankly, toxic environment it is ... We all live in Pottersville now."


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text: The film's elevation to the status of a beloved classic came three decades after its initial release, when it became a television staple during Christmas season in 1976. This came as a welcome surprise to Frank Capra and others involved with its production. "It's the damnedest thing I've ever seen", Capra told "The Wall Street Journal" in 1984. "The film has a life of its own now, and I can look at it like I had nothing to do with it. I'm like a parent whose kid grows up to be President. I'm proud ... but it's the kid who did the work. I didn't even think of it as a Christmas story when I first ran across it. I just liked the idea." In a 1946 interview, Capra described the film's theme as "the individual's belief in himself" and that he made it "to combat a modern trend toward atheism". It ranked 283rd among critics, and 107th among directors, in the 2012 "Sight & Sound" polls of the greatest films ever made.


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text: The film's positive reception has continued. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 94% based on 85 reviews, with an average rating of 9.00/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "The holiday classic to define all holiday classics, "It's a Wonderful Life" is one of a handful of films worth an annual viewing." On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating to reviews, the film has a score 89 out of 100, based on 17 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".


title: It's a Wonderful Life

text: Many filmmakers have praised the film, ranging from Steven Spielberg, Akira Kurosawa, Frank Darabont and David Lynch. Spielberg once said of the film: ""It’s a Wonderful Life" shows that every human being on this Earth matters -- and that’s a very powerful message." Orson Welles played Mr. Potter in the made-for-television remake "It Happened One Christmas"; when asked by Henry Jaglom what he thought of the movie, Welles said, "There's no way of hating that movie".


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text: Prior to its Los Angeles release, Liberty Films mounted an extensive promotional campaign that included a daily advertisement highlighting one of the film's players, along with comments from reviewers. Jimmy Starr wrote, "If I were an Oscar, I'd elope with "It's a Wonderful Life" lock, stock and barrel on the night of the Academy Awards". The "New York Daily Times" published an editorial that declared the film and James Stewart's performance to be worthy of Academy Award consideration.


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text: "The Best Years of Our Lives", a drama about servicemen attempting to return to their pre-World War II lives, won most of the awards that year, including four of the five for which "It's a Wonderful Life" was nominated. (The award for "Best Sound Recording" was won by "The Jolson Story".) "The Best Years of Our Lives," directed by William Wyler, Capra's business partner along with George Stevens in Liberty Films, was also an outstanding commercial success, ultimately becoming the highest-grossing film of the decade, in contrast to the more modest initial box-office returns of "It's a Wonderful Life".


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text: "It's a Wonderful Life" received a Golden Globe Award for Capra as Best Motion Picture Director. He also won a "CEC Award" from the Cinema Writers Circle in Spain, for "Mejor Película Extranjera" (Best Foreign Film). Jimmy Hawkins won a "Former Child Star Lifetime Achievement Award" from the Young Artist Awards in 1994; the award recognized his role as Tommy Bailey as igniting his career, which lasted until the mid-1960s.


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text: Liberty Films was purchased by Paramount Pictures, and remained a subsidiary until 1951. In 1955, M. & A. Alexander purchased the movie. This included key rights to the original television syndication, the original nitrate film elements, the music score, and the film rights to the story on which the film is based, "The Greatest Gift". National Telefilm Associates took over the rights to the film soon thereafter.


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text: A clerical error at NTA prevented the copyright from being renewed properly in 1974. Despite the lapsed copyright, television stations that aired it still had to pay royalties because—though the film's images had entered the public domain—the film's story was still restricted as a derivative work of the published story "The Greatest Gift", whose copyright Philip Van Doren Stern had renewed in 1971. The film became a perennial holiday favorite in the 1980s, possibly due to its repeated showings each holiday season on hundreds of local television stations. It was mentioned during the deliberations on the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998.


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text: In 1993, Republic Pictures, which was the successor to NTA, relied on the 1990 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in "Stewart v. Abend" (which involved another Stewart film, "Rear Window") to enforce its claim to the copyright. While the film's copyright had not been renewed, Republic still owned the film rights to "The Greatest Gift"; thus, the plaintiffs were able to argue its status as a derivative work of a work still under copyright. That year, Republic made a deal with Turner Broadcasting System, authorizing only three airings of the movie, all on cable's TNT and TBS. However, the studio's attempt to reassert control was widely ignored since there were still some existing distribution deals that Republic had to honor.


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text: In 1994, the studio sold exclusive television rights to NBC. "We're thrilled that we will have the opportunity to broadcast this picture," said NBC Entertainment President Warren Littlefield at the time. "We will broadcast the original director's cut in black and white, full-length, the way Frank Capra intended this picture to be seen."


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text: NBC traditionally shows it during the holidays after Thanksgiving and on Christmas Eve. Paramount (via parent company Viacom's 1998 acquisition of Republic's then-parent, Spelling Entertainment) once again has distribution rights for the first time since 1955.


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text: Due to all the above actions, this is one of the few RKO films not controlled by Turner Entertainment/Warner Bros. in the US. It is also one of two Capra films Paramount owns despite not having originally released it—the other is "Broadway Bill" (originally from Columbia, remade by Paramount as "Riding High" in 1950).


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text: Director Capra met with Wilson Markle about having Colorization Inc. colorize "It's a Wonderful Life" based on an enthusiastic response to the colorization of "Topper" from actor Cary Grant. The company's art director, Brian Holmes, prepared 10 minutes of colorized footage from "It's a Wonderful Life" for Capra to view, which resulted in Capra signing a contract with Colorization Inc., and his "enthusiastic agree[ment] to pay half the $260,000 cost of colorizing the movie and to share any profits" and giving "preliminary approval to making similar color versions of two of his other black-and-white films, "Meet John Doe" (1941) and "Lady for a Day" (1933)".


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text: However, the film was believed to be in the public domain at the time, and as a result, Markle and Holmes responded by returning Capra's initial investment, eliminating his financial participation, and refusing outright to allow the director to exercise artistic control over the colorization of his films, leading Capra to join in the campaign against the process.


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text: Three colorized versions have been produced. The first was released by Hal Roach Studios in 1986. The second was authorized and produced by the film's permanent owner, Republic Pictures, in 1989. Both Capra and Stewart took a critical stand on the colorized editions. The Hal Roach color version was re-released in 1989 to VHS via Video Treasures. A third, computer-colorized version was produced by Legend Films in 2007 and has been released on DVD, Blu-ray, and streaming services.


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text: Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, when the film was still under public domain status, "It's a Wonderful Life" was released on VHS by a variety of home video companies. Among the companies that released the film on home video before Republic Pictures stepped in were Meda Video (which would later become Media Home Entertainment), Kartes Video Communications (under its Video Film Classics label), GoodTimes Home Video, and Video Treasures (now Anchor Bay Entertainment). After Republic reclaimed the rights to the film, all unofficial VHS copies of the film still in the hands of video distributors were supposed to have been destroyed.


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text: Artisan Entertainment (under license from Republic) took over home video rights in the mid-1990s. Artisan was later sold to Lions Gate Entertainment, which continued to hold US home video rights until late 2005, when they reverted to Paramount, which also owns video rights throughout Region 4 (Latin America and Australia) and in France. Video rights in the rest of the world are held by different companies; for example, the UK rights were once with Universal Studios, but have since reverted to Paramount.


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text: In 1993, due in part to the confusion of the ownership and copyright issues, Kinesoft Development, with the support of Republic Pictures, released "It's a Wonderful Life" as one of the first commercial feature-length films on CD-ROM for the Windows PC (Windows 3.1). Antedating commercial DVDs by several years, it included such features as the ability to follow along with the complete shooting script as the film was playing.


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text: Given the state of video playback on the PC at the time of its release, "It's a Wonderful Life" for Windows represented another milestone, as the longest-running video on a computer. Prior to its release, Windows could play back only about 32,000 frames of video, or about 35 minutes at 15 frames per second. Working with Microsoft, Kinesoft was able to enhance the video features of Windows to allow for the complete playback of the entire film—all of this on a PC with a 486SX processor and 8 MB of RAM.


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text: "Computer Gaming World" said in April 1994, "The picture quality still has a way to go before it reaches television standards", but was "a noble effort" that would "please fans of the film".


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text: The film has seen multiple DVD releases since the availability of the format. In the autumn of 2001, Republic issued the film twice, once in August, and again with different packaging in September of that same year. On October 31, 2006, Paramount released a newly remastered "60th Anniversary Edition". On November 13, 2007, Paramount released a two-disc "special edition" DVD of the film that contained both the original theatrical black-and-white version, and a new, third colorized version, produced by Legend Films using the latest colorization technology. On November 3, 2009, Paramount re-released the previous DVD set as a "Collector's Edition" and debuted a Blu-ray edition, also containing both versions of the film.


title: It's a Wonderful Life

text: On October 29, 2019, the film was released for the first time on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray, along with digital copy featuring a new Dolby Vision transfer.


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text: The film was twice adapted for radio in 1947, first on "Lux Radio Theater" (March 10) and then on "the Screen Guild Theater" (December 29), then again on the "Screen Guild Theater" broadcast of March 15, 1951. James Stewart and Donna Reed reprised their roles for all three radio productions. Stewart also starred in the May 8, 1949 radio adaptation presented on the "Screen Directors Playhouse".


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text: A musical stage adaptation of the film, titled "A Wonderful Life", was written by Sheldon Harnick and Joe Raposo. This version was first performed at the University of Michigan in 1986, but a planned professional production was stalled by legal wrangling with the estate of Philip Van Doren Stern. It was eventually performed in Washington, DC, by Arena Stage in 1991, and had revivals in the 21st century, including a staged concert version in New York City in 2005 and several productions by regional theatres.


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text: Another musical stage adaptation of the film, titled "It's a Wonderful Life – The Musical", was written by Bruce Greer and Keith Ferguson. This version premiered at the Majestic Theatre, Dallas, Texas, in 1998. It was an annual Christmas show at the theater for five years. It has since been performed at venues all around the United States.


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text: In July 2019, it was revealed that another stage musical adaptation was in development with music and lyrics by Paul McCartney (making his musical theatre debut), lyrics and book by Lee Hall and produced by Bill Kenwright. The musical was set to debut late 2020, but is still yet to be announced.


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text: A 1986 skit on "Saturday Night Live" features William Shatner introducing the "lost ending" of "It's a Wonderful Life" in which George Bailey (Dana Carvey) and the citizens of Bedford Falls discover that Mr. Potter (Jon Lovitz) has stolen George's money and take turns beating him up in his office.


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text: In 1992, the final episode of "Tiny Toon Adventures" parodied "It's A Wonderful Life" entitled "It's A Wonderful Tiny Toon Christmas". In it, Buster Bunny feels sad after the failure of his play and wishes he had never become a Tiny Toon, so a guardian angel shows Buster what life would have been like without him.


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text: The film was also adapted into a play in two acts by James W. Rodgers. It was first performed on December 15, 1993, at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School. The play opens with George Bailey contemplating suicide and then goes back through major moments in his life. Many of the scenes from the movie are only alluded to or mentioned in the play rather than actually dramatized. For example, in the opening scene, Clarence just mentions George having saved his brother Harry after the latter had fallen through the ice.


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text: "It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play", a stage adaptation presented as a 1940s radio show, was adapted by Joe Landry and has been produced around the United States since 1997. The script is published by Playscripts, Inc.


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text: In 1997, PBS aired "Merry Christmas, George Bailey", taped from a live performance of the 1947 "Lux Radio Theatre" script at the Pasadena Playhouse. The presentation, which benefited the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, featured an all-star cast, including Bill Pullman as George, Nathan Lane as Clarence, Martin Landau as Mr. Potter, Penelope Ann Miller as Mary, and Sally Field as Mother Bailey.


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text: In 2002, the television film "It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie" premiered on NBC. The film is an homage to "It's a Wonderful Life". In the film, Kermit the Frog wishes that he had never been born.


title: It's a Wonderful Life

text: Tony Palermo's 2005 stage adaptation has the story presented as actors making a radio-play complete with them making live sounds effects


title: It's a Wonderful Life

text: Philip Grecian's 2006 radio play based on the film "It's a Wonderful Life" is a faithful adaptation, now in its third incarnation, that has been performed numerous times by local theatres in Canada.


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text: "The Last Temptation of Clarence Odbody" is a 2011 novel written by John Pierson. The novel imagines the future lives of various characters if George had not survived his jump into the river.


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text: Scenes from the film are seen in the 2016 documentary "", where Abacus Federal Savings Bank founder and chairman Thomas Sung talked about how "It's a Wonderful Life" influenced him.


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text: A stage-adaptation of the story was presented at The Tower Theatre in Winchester in December 2016 by Blue Apple Theatre with Lawrie Morris in the role of George Bailey. This is believed to be the first time an actor with an intellectual disability (Lawrie Morris had Down's Syndrome) has had the role.


title: It's a Wonderful Life

text: A new "cinematic audio" adaptation by David Ossman of the Firesign Theatre was produced and directed by Ossman and his wife Judith Walcutt of Otherworld Media in December 2019 at the Whidbey Island Center for the Arts. Their version combined elements of traditional and radio theatre, with costumes, sets, makeup, and lighting effects, as well as live music, live sound effects, and over 20 microphones.


title: It's a Wonderful Life

text: In 1990, the made-for-television film "Clarence" stars Robert Carradine in a new tale of the helpful angel, Clarence Odbody.


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text: A purported sequel was in development for a 2015 release, and was to be called "It's a Wonderful Life: The Rest of the Story". It was to be written by Bob Farnsworth and Martha Bolton and follow the angel of George Bailey's daughter Zuzu (played once again by Karolyn Grimes), as she teaches Bailey's evil grandson how different the world would have been if he had never been born. Producers were considering directors and hoped to shoot the film with a $25–$35 million budget in Louisiana early in 2014.


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text: The film had been announced as being produced by Star Partners and Hummingbird Productions, neither of which are affiliated with Paramount, owners of the original film (Farnsworth claimed that "It's a Wonderful Life" was in the public domain). Later, a Paramount spokesperson claimed that they were not granting permission to make the film; "To date, these individuals have not obtained any of the necessary rights, and we would take all appropriate steps to protect those rights", the spokesperson said. No further developmental plans have since arisen.


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text: It is commonly believed that the characters of Bert and Ernie on "Sesame Street" were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the cabdriver. However, in a correction for the 1999 "Annual Xmas Quiz" in the "San Francisco Chronicle", which made this claim, series writer Jerry Juhl confirmed that, per producer Jon Stone, the shared names were merely a coincidence. Despite this, the 1996 holiday special "Elmo Saves Christmas" references the rumor, during a scene where Bert and Ernie walk by a TV set, which is playing the movie. The pair are surprised by the line: "Bert! Ernie! What's the matter with you two guys? You were here on my wedding night!"


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text: The angelic figures depicted at the beginning of the film is an images of Stephan's Quintet, a group of four interacting galaxies.


title: Taye Diggs

text: Scott Leo "Taye" Diggs (born January 2, 1971) is an American stage and film actor. He is known for his roles in the Broadway musicals "Rent" and "Hedwig and the Angry Inch", the TV series "Private Practice" (2007-2013), "Murder in the First" (2014-2016), and "All American" (2018-), and the films "How Stella Got Her Groove Back" (1998), "Brown Sugar", "Chicago" (both 2002), "Malibu's Most Wanted" (2003), and "The Best Man" (1999) and its sequel, "The Best Man Holiday" (2013).


title: Taye Diggs

text: Diggs was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in the South Wedge neighborhood of Rochester, New York. His mother, Marcia (née Berry), was a teacher and actress, and his father, Andre Young, is a visual artist. When he was a child, his mother married Jeffries Diggs, whose surname Taye took. His nickname, Taye, comes from the playful pronunciation of Scotty as "Scottay". He is the oldest of five children. He has two brothers, Gabriel and Michael, and two sisters, Christian and Shalom. He attended Allendale Columbia School in Rochester and later transferred to School of the Arts. He received a BFA in musical theater in 1993 from Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts.


title: Taye Diggs

text: Diggs performed many times at the popular Lakes Region Summer Theatre in Meredith, New Hampshire. He also spent the summer of 1992 at the New London Barn Playhouse in New London, New Hampshire. His Broadway debut was in the ensemble cast of the 1994 Tony Award-winning revival of the musical "Carousel". In 1995, he also performed as a dancer in "Sebastian's Caribbean Carnival" at Tokyo Disneyland.


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text: In 1996, Diggs originated the role of the landlord Benny in Jonathan Larson's Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning "Rent", which also starred his future wife, Idina Menzel. After "Rent", he appeared as Mr. Black opposite Menzel's character of Kate in Andrew Lippa's off-Broadway production of "The Wild Party" at Manhattan Theatre Club. Diggs also played The Bandleader in the 2002 film version of the long-running Broadway revival of "Chicago" and filled in as Billy Flynn on Broadway. He also temporarily filled in for Norbert Leo Butz (an original "Rent" standby) as the love interest Fiyero of Menzel's Elphaba character in "Wicked".


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text: Diggs then moved from stage to television with a role on the soap opera "Guiding Light". In 1998, he made his film debut in "How Stella Got Her Groove Back", which brought Diggs much acclaim and exposure. The following year, he played a tantric sex god in Doug Liman's "Go", and AWOL groom in the coming-of-age drama "The Wood" alongside Omar Epps. Malcolm D. Lee's "The Best Man" features Diggs as the title character, an author and best friend of the groom (portrayed by Morris Chestnut).


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text: He also starred in the 1999 remake of William Castle's "House on Haunted Hill". Diggs was featured in an episode of "America's Next Top Model" helping the contestants through an acting challenge. Another notable role of his was on the comedy-drama "Ally McBeal" as a lawyer named Jackson Duper who was the love interest of the character Renee Raddick and the possible love interest of the Ling Woo character.


title: Taye Diggs

text: Diggs portrayed the title character on the short-lived UPN television series "Kevin Hill" which despite critical acclaim was not renewed for a second season. He reprised the role of Benny for the 2005 "Rent" film. Diggs is featured on the following cast recordings: "Carousel" 1994 revival cast; "Rent" 1996 original Broadway cast; "The Wild Party" original off-Broadway cast. He also sings on the "Rent" film soundtrack. In 2002, he reprised his role as the Bandleader in the film adaptation of "Chicago", and also played opposite Christian Bale as Bale's partner/antagonist Brandt in the dystopian sci-fi thriller "Equilibrium".


title: Taye Diggs

text: In 2003, Diggs appeared on the TV show "Punk'd" after being tricked by Ashton Kutcher, while getting a check-up at a "Punk'd"-operated doctor's office. In early 2006, Diggs guest-starred for several episodes as Will Truman's love interest, James, on the eighth season of "Will & Grace". In May, ABC picked up his pilot, "Day Break", in which he portrayed a detective trapped in the same day and forced to relive it to clear his name of murder; the show debuted in mid-November 2006, but was abruptly canceled due to poor ratings. Although his film and television career continue to move forward, he still returns to the stage frequently. He was seen opposite James McDaniel in Charles Fuller's "A Soldier's Play" at Second Stage Theatre in New York.


title: Taye Diggs

text: Diggs co-starred as Sam Bennett opposite Kate Walsh in "Private Practice", the spin-off of "Grey's Anatomy", which ran for six seasons from 2007 until 2013. Diggs had a guest role on "The West Wing" as a Secret Service agent in charge of the security detail for the President's daughter. He then guest-starred on "Grey's Anatomy" again in a "Grey's Anatomy"/"Private Practice" crossover event. Diggs had a major role in the live action adaptation of the comic "" (2011). He also narrated the ESPN Films documentary "The Fab Five" about University of Michigan basketball players Chris Webber, Juwan Howard, Jalen Rose, Jimmy King, and Ray Jackson. Diggs is one of the stars of the independent film drama "Between Us" that won the grand jury prize at the 2012 Bahamas International Film Festival among its other festival appearances.


title: Taye Diggs

text: From 2014 until 2016, Diggs starred in the TNT serial crime drama "Murder in the First" with Kathleen Robertson. The show ran for three seasons.


title: Taye Diggs

text: Diggs is the author of four children's books, "Mixed Me!" (2015), "Chocolate Me" (2015), "I Love You More Than..." (2018), and "My Friend!" (2021), all illustrated by Shane Evans (artist).


title: Taye Diggs

text: Diggs performed the role of the titular character Hedwig in the Broadway production of "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" at the Belasco Theatre from July 22, 2015, until the production's closing on September 13, 2015.


title: Taye Diggs

text: Diggs has twice appeared on Paramount Network’s reality competition series "Lip Sync Battle" and is the show's only two-time winner. In a third season episode against Ne-Yo, Diggs sang his competitor’s song “Let Me Love You (Until You Learn to Love Yourself)” and then performed as Madonna for round two’s performance of "Vogue". In his next appearance, the fourth season’s Christina Aguilera tribute episode, he competed against Erika Jayne, performing “Beautiful” and "Candyman".


title: Taye Diggs

text: Diggs hosted the game show "Hypnotize Me" with hypnotist Keith Barry, based on Barry's British program "You're Back in the Room". "Hypnotize Me" was originally shot for broadcast on FOX in 2016, but never aired on the network. The eight-episode series was eventually broadcast on The CW, in the summer of 2019.


title: Taye Diggs

text: Diggs married actress Idina Menzel, his "Rent" co-star, on January 11, 2003. Their son, Walker Nathaniel Diggs, was born on September 2, 2009. In 2013, Diggs and Menzel separated after ten years of marriage. Their divorce was finalized on December 3, 2014.


title: Taye Diggs

text: Diggs is the co-artistic director of a dance company, Dre.dance, with fellow Broadway veteran and School of the Arts alumnus Andrew Palermo. Taye Diggs is currently engaged to "" star Apryl Jones, who is the mother of singer Omarion's children.


title: Emraan Hashmi

text: Emraan Anwar Hashmi (; born 24 March 1979) is an Indian actor who appears predominantly in Hindi cinema. Hashmi debuted in 2003 with the crime thriller film "Footpath" and subsequently appeared in films include "Murder" (2004), "Kalyug" (2005), "Gangster" (2006) and gained acclaimed as starring in the action film "Awarapan" (2007). Hashmi has received several Filmfare Awards nominations.


title: Emraan Hashmi

text: Before venturing into acting, Hashmi worked as an assistant director for the horror film "Raaz" (2002). During the same decade, he became a huge sensational and established leading actor with many successful romantic thrillers like "Zeher" (2005), "Aashiq Banaya Aapne" (2005), "Aksar" (2006) and "Gangster" (2006). His other critically and commercially successful films include "Jannat" (2008), "" (2009), "Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai" (2010), "The Dirty Picture" (2011), "Murder 2" (2011), "Shanghai" (2012), "Jannat 2" (2012), "Raaz 3" (2012) and "Ek Thi Daayan" (2013).


title: Emraan Hashmi

text: Hashmi was born on 24 March 1979, in Mumbai, Maharashtra into a Muslim family. His father, Syed Anwar Hashmi, is a businessman, who also acted in the 1968 film "Baharon Ki Manzil", and his mother, Maherrah Hashmi, was a homemaker. His paternal grandfather, Syed Shauqat Hashmi, migrated to Pakistan after the partition of India, while his grandmother, Meherbano Mohammad Ali (known by her screen name Purnima), was an actress, who stayed in India. Meherbano Mohammad Ali later married producer-director Bhagwan Das Varma, making Bhagwan Das Emraan’s step grandfather and Emraan a part of the Varma family. Emraan is also a part of the Bhatt family because Meherbano was the sister of Shirin Mohammad Ali, the mother of producers Mahesh Bhatt and Mukesh Bhatt, who are thus Hashmi's uncles. Hashmi is the cousin of director Mohit Suri, with whom he has collaborated in several films. His other cousins are actresses Pooja Bhatt and Alia Bhatt, while another cousin is actor Rahul Bhatt. Hashmi studied at the Jamnabai Narsee School. After graduating from Jamnabai, he attended Sydenham College in Mumbai. Hashmi later earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Mumbai.


title: Emraan Hashmi

text: Hashmi made his acting debut in 2003, with Vikram Bhatt's thriller "Footpath". Co-starring alongside Aftab Shivdasani and Bipasha Basu, he portrayed the role of Raghu Shrivastav, a gangster. His performance in the film was appreciated by critics; Gaurav Malani described him as the "scene-stealer" and praised his mannerisms. The following year he featured in Anurag Basu's erotic thriller "Murder" with Mallika Sherawat and Ashmit Patel. Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama said about his performance: "Emraan Hashmi is fantastic in a role that seems tailor made for him. Enacting the role of an obsessive lover with flourish, there's no denying that the narrative gets a major impetus thanks to Emraan's performance." "Murder" emerged as a financial success, with a domestic total of , becoming the ninth-highest-grossing film of the year in India.


title: Emraan Hashmi

text: Hashmi next starred in Anurag Basu's romance, "Tumsa Nahin Dekha", opposite Dia Mirza. While shooting the film, Basu was diagnosed with blood cancer, so producer-director Mahesh Bhatt completed it. Although the film did not succeed at the box office, his portrayal of Daksh Mittal (a young millionaire who falls in love with a bargirl) was generally well received. A review of his performance in BBC Online noted that he was "becoming fabulous with every film."


title: Emraan Hashmi

text: Hashmi then took a supporting role in Mohit Suri's thriller "Kalyug", alongside Kunal Khemu, Smilie Suri, Amrita Singh, Ashutosh Rana and Deepal Shaw. Based on the sex industry, the film depicted the devastating effect that non-consensual pornographic films have on the subjects. Hashmi featured as Ali Bhai, a man who runs a sex shop. His performance garnered positive reviews from critics, with Taran Adarsh writing: "Emraan Hashmi makes a brief appearance and the actor is, like always, highly competent." "Kalyug" was a moderate success in India.


title: Emraan Hashmi

text: Hashmi's first film in 2006 was Anant Mahadevan's thriller "Aksar" with Udita Goswani and Dino Morea. The film was a profitable production, but met with negative reviews from critics. He next appeared in Anurag Basu's romantic thriller "Gangster", co-starring Kangana Ranaut and Shiney Ahuja. The film was a box-office success, grossing over in India. Hashmi received positive reviews for his portrayal of an undercover detective called Aakash; Rediff.com's Raja Sen wrote, "His character is an understated one, and Hashmi manages to keep it that way. There is no unnecessary bluster or melodrama, and he does a pretty believable job. There is something lazy about his acting, by which I mean he makes the job look easy." For the film, Hashmi received his first Filmfare nomination for Best Performance in a Negative Role. He then acted in the crime thriller "The Killer" (adapted from the 2004 film "Collateral") and the romance "Dil Diya Hai". Both these films failed critically and commercially.


title: Emraan Hashmi

text: In 2007, Hashmi appeared in three films. He first starred in the comedy "Good Boy Bad Boy" alongside Tusshar Kapoor, Isha Sharvani and Tanushree Dutta. The film flopped at the box office and received unfavourable reviews. He then featured opposite Mrinalini Sharma and Shriya Saran in Mohit Suri's romantic thriller "Awarapan". Hashmi was cast as the protagonist Shivam, a gangster with a tragic past. Writing for the "Hindustan Times", critic Khalid Mohamed described it as "intense and believable". Subhash K Jha wrote: "... Emraan Hashmi [is] an actor who conceals more than he reveals on screen. There is an inherent pain in his personality that this film taps better than anything he has done earlier. This film marks the emergence of a major talent." His final release of the year was the thriller "The Train", which also underperformed. Only Awarapan was both a commercial and critical success becoming the best film of his career.


title: Emraan Hashmi

text: His only film in 2008 was Kunal Deshmukh's "Jannat", a love story set against the backdrop of match fixing. Co-starring alongside Sonal Chauhan, Javed Sheikh and Sameer Kochhar, Hashmi was cast as Arjun Dixit, a bookmaker. His performance was appreciated by critics; Taran Adarsh commented that "[t]he actor displays the gamut of emotions with aplomb, he changes expressions like a chameleon changes colors. "Jannat" is yet another turning point in his career." The film emerged as a commercial success in India, with revenues of over .


title: Emraan Hashmi

text: In 2009, Hashmi appeared in Mohit Suri's supernatural horror "Raaz – The Mystery Continues", alongside Kangana Ranaut and Adhyayan Suman. The film's domestic collection exceeded , and emerged as a success. Hashmi's portrayal of a painter attracted favourable reviews; "The Times of India"'s Nikhat Kazmi wrote: "Emraan Hashmi is fast emerging as the Colin Farrell of Indian cinema: completely mercurial, eclectic and unpredictable. As the brooding, prescient painter, who paints death on his canvas and falls in love with one of subjects, he is suitably aggrieved, desperate and afraid." He then starred opposite Soha Ali Khan in Kunal Deshmukh's "Tum Mile", a love story set against the backdrop of the 2005 Maharashtra floods. The film performed poorly at the box office.


title: Emraan Hashmi

text: The following year, Hashmi featured in Milan Luthria's period action-drama "Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai" with an ensemble cast including Ajay Devgan, Randeep Hooda, Kangana Ranaut and Prachi Desai. The picture, which depicted the rise of organised crime in Mumbai, saw Hashmi play Shoaib Khan, a character inspired by real-life gangster Dawood Ibrahim. With a domestic revenue of over , "Once Upon A Time in Mumbaai" emerged as a hit, and received a positive critical reception. For his performance, Hashmi earned positive reviews from critics and received a Best Supporting Actor nomination at the 56th Filmfare Awards. Blessy Chettiar of "Daily News and Analysis" described him as "top class". Komal Nahta remarked: "This is easily Emraan's best performance so far. If he is cute in the romantic scenes, he is believably tough in the action and dramatic scenes." His next release was Mohit Suri's action-thriller "Crook", based on the violence against Indians in Australia controversy. However, the film performed poorly and was panned by critics.


title: Emraan Hashmi

text: In 2011, Hashmi first appeared in Madhur Bhandarkar's romantic comedy "Dil Toh Baccha Hai Ji", alongside Ajay Devgan, Omi Vaidya, Shazahn Padamsee, Tisca Chopra and Shruti Hassan. The film underperformed and received mixed reviews from critics, as did Hashmi's performance. He next featured in Mohit Suri's slasher thriller "Murder 2", alongside Jacqueline Fernandez, Prashant Narayanan and Sulagna Panigrahi. The film, as well as his performance generated mixed reviews from critics. Shubhra Gupta of "The Indian Express" wrote: "Hashmi gets to do what he does best, glowering at the men, bedding the ladies, and towards the end, going head to head with the bad guy [...] he goes through the film with his usual smart one-liners containing equal amounts of bluster and fluster." Despite this, "Murder 2" was a major success; with a domestic revenue of over , the film emerged as a blockbuster.


title: Emraan Hashmi

text: Hashmi's final film in 2011 was Milan Luthria's biopic "The Dirty Picture", featuring Vidya Balan as the controversial Indian actress Silk Smitha, alongside Naseeruddin Shah and Tusshar Kapoor. He was cast as Abraham, the narrator, who proclaims himself to be the protagonist's biggest enemy. The film opened to critical acclaim and Hashmi's performance was appreciated; CNN-IBN's Rajeev Masand wrote: "Emraan Hashmi is appropriately restrained as Abraham, a director who believes in film as art, and who abhors the idea of inserting steamy numbers in his movie to lure in the crowds." However, several critics were sceptical about his role in the film; Soumyadipta Banerjee from "Daily News and Analysis" considered it "out of place". "The Dirty Picture" emerged as a commercial success with a worldwide revenue of over .


title: Emraan Hashmi

text: In 2012, Hashmi appeared in Kunal Deshmukh's crime thriller "Jannat 2" with Randeep Hooda and Esha Gupta. It was initially titled "Informer", but was later changed to the current title, making it a follow-up film to "Jannat" (2008). The film generated mixed reviews from critics, though it was a success at the box office. He then starred alongside Abhay Deol, Prosenjit Chatterjee and Kalki Koechlin in Dibakar Banerjee's "Shanghai", an adaptation of writer Vassilis Vassilikos's novel "Z" and the 1969 French film of the same name. Set in a fictional town called Bharat Nagar, the political thriller traced corruption in India. The film opened to critical acclaim, and Hashmi received unanimous praise for his portrayal of Joginder Parmar, a videographer who sometimes shoots porn films. Madhureeta Mukherjee of "The Times of India" wrote that Hashmi "looks the part and pulls off an act he should be proud of." Raja Sen described it as one of his best performances and wrote: "Emraan Hashmi, delivers a knockout punch as he masters a complicated role" and called it as "the year's finest, bravest and most consistent performance." He received his second Best Supporting Actor nomination at the 58th Filmfare Awards for his performance.


title: Emraan Hashmi

text: Hashmi's next appearance was for Vikram Bhatt's supernatural horror "Raaz 3D", alongside Bipasha Basu and Esha Gupta. Though a commercial success, the film and his performance received mostly negative reviews; critic Kunal Guha commented: "[Hashmi] takes his role as seriously as he could but his efforts couldn't exorcise the devilishly terrible plot from spelling doom for this film." Lisa Tsering of "The Hollywood Reporter" wrote: "The swarthy Hashmi [...] does a forgettable job. His final film of the year was Shamin Desai's delayed thriller "Rush", which failed at the box office.


title: Emraan Hashmi

text: In 2013, Hashmi was first seen in Ekta Kapoor and Vishal Bhardwaj's supernatural thriller "Ek Thi Daayan", alongside Konkona Sen Sharma, Huma Qureshi and Kalki Koechlin. Critical opinion on the film was mostly positive, and Hashmi's performance also drew appreciation. Saibal Chatterjee of NDTV mentioned that Hashmi "gives the character of the haunted magician just that – a haunted feel that is just apt," whilst Shubhra Gupta called his performance "consistent", adding that he "is a performer who keeps getting better".


title: Emraan Hashmi

text: Hashmi's second appearance was for Raj Kumar Gupta's comic-thriller "Ghanchakkar", opposite Vidya Balan. Critics were divided in their judgment of the film, as well as Hashmi's performance. Sneha May Francis of Emirates 24/7 wrote that "Emraan Hashmi spins one of his acting career's most understated, yet imposing performances. He crafts [his character's] predicaments – his anger, frustration and suspicions – with effortless charm." Rajeev Masand was more critical of his performance, reflecting that he "struggles to shine under the limited scope of his role." At the box office, both "Ek Thi Daayan" and "Ghanchakkar" underperformed. In 2014, Hashmi firstly starred in Kunal Deshmukh's "Raja Natwarlal" and Rensil D'Silva's "Ungli", both of which flopped at the box office, with the latter being Hashmi's 5th consecutive failure at the box office. He played the leading role in Academy Award winning director Danis Tanović's "Tigers", which premiered at 2014 Toronto International Film Festival and was later released digitally on the on-demand platform ZEE5 in November 2018.


title: Emraan Hashmi

text: In 2015, Hashmi appeared in two films. "Mr. X" was a disaster at the box office, along with negative reviews, the other being the long-awaited "Hamari Adhuri Kahani", opposite Vidya Balan for the third time. It was commercially average despite getting mixed reviews by critics, although it received positive reactions from the audience.


title: Emraan Hashmi

text: His next film "Azhar" was released on 13 May 2016 to mixed reviews. He then appeared in Vikram Bhatt's "", which is the fourth film in the "Raaz film series" and was released on 16 September 2016. "Raaz Reboot" was an average grosser at the box office. His next movie "Baadshaho", directed by Milan Luthria, in which he co-starred alongside Ajay Devgan, Ileana D'Cruz, Esha Gupta and Vidyut Jammwal, was released on 1 September 2017. He began shooting for "Captain Nawab" in late 2017 but it was reported in early 2018 that it was kept on hold. As of October 2018, Hasmi then appeared in "Bard of Blood", a web-television series based on the namesake book by Bilal Siddiqui. Produced by Shah Rukh Khan, the web-series was released on Netflix. In January 2019, he starred in Soumik Sen's crime drama "Why Cheat India", another box-office flop. As of July 2019, Hashmi is shooting for supernatural thriller film "Ezra", a remake of 2017 Malayalam film of the same name.


title: Emraan Hashmi

text: In February 2021, Emraan Hashmi was featured in romantic song 'Lut Gaye'. Presented by T-Series, directed by Radhika Rao and Vinay Sapru. Sung by Jubin Nautiyal.


title: Emraan Hashmi

text: In 2021, his three films; "Mumbai Saga", a crime thriller by Sanjay Gupta alongside John Abraham, "Chehre" alongside Amitabh Bachchan, in which he is playing a business tycoon Karan Oberai, and horror flick "Dybbuk" with Nikita Dutta, were released in 19 March 27 August, and 29 October respectively.


title: Emraan Hashmi

text: Hashmi married Parveen Shahani in an Islamic wedding ceremony in December 2006 after a six and a half-year relationship. The couple have a son, Ayaan Hashmi, who was born on 3 February 2010. On 15 January 2014, Ayaan was diagnosed with first-stage cancer. Five years later, in 2019 January, Ayaan Hashmi was declared cancer free.


title: Emraan Hashmi

text: While Hashmi's father is Muslim and his mother was Christian, Hashmi was brought up as a Muslim and says he is a "firm believer in God". His mother, Maherrah Hashmi, died on 11 March 2016, Hashmi cancelled one day shoot of his film "Azhar", when he got to know about his mother's demise. He did not want to delay the shoot of "Azhar" any further and also wanted to occupy his mind with work. So, he returned to the sets the soonest he could. In 2016, Hashmi launched the auto-biographical book called "Kiss of Life", which was based on his son's journey of cancer.


title: Dilraba Dilmurat

text: Dilraba Dilmurat (; ; born on June 3, 1992), known in Chinese as Dilireba (;), is a Chinese actress, host, dancer, singer and model of Uyghur ethnicity.


title: Dilraba Dilmurat

text: In 2001, when she was nine years old, her father brought her to Xinjiang Art Middle School to take the entrance exam. At the time, she thought it was an interest class. Later, when she got an offer from the school, she realized she would be going to a dance school for the next six years.


title: Dilraba Dilmurat

text: In 2007, she graduated from the Xinjiang Arts Institute and became a member of the Xinjiang Song and Dance Troupe.


title: Dilraba Dilmurat

text: In 2009, she studied at Northeast Normal University in Jilin for one year. During this time, she received third place at a local singing contest.


title: Dilraba Dilmurat

text: In 2010, she enrolled in the performance department of Shanghai Theater Academy, majoring in drama, film and television. In the same year, she auditioned for director Lu Chuan’s new project "The Last Supper".


title: Dilraba Dilmurat

text: In 2013, Dilraba made her acting debut in the television drama "Anarhan", playing the lead role. The drama was nominated for Outstanding Television Series at the 30th Flying Apsaras Awards.


title: Dilraba Dilmurat

text: In 2014, she signed with Jay Walk Studio and starred in the web series "V Love", produced by the company. The same year, Dilraba gained recognition for her role as Fuqu in the hit fantasy drama "Swords of Legends".


title: Dilraba Dilmurat

text: In 2015, Dilraba starred in the romantic comedy "Diamond Lover", winning acclaim for her role as a sassy pop-star. She won the Audience's Favorite Newcomer award at the 7th China TV Drama Awards for her performance.


title: Dilraba Dilmurat

text: In 2016, Dilraba was cast in the leading role for the youth sports drama "Hot Girl". She won the Outstanding New Actress award at 2016 ENAwards for her performance in the series.


title: Dilraba Dilmurat

text: In 2017, Dilraba played the leading role in the romantic comedy "Pretty Li Huizhen", a remake of South Korean drama "She Was Pretty". The series was popular during its run and has over 7 billion views online and she won Most Popular Actress award and Audience's Choice for Actress award at the China TV Golden Eagle Award for her performance. She also starred in the fantasy romance series "Eternal Love" as a fox fairy. The drama gained explosive popularity in China as well as internationally, and led to increased recognition and popularity for Dilraba. For the role, she received a Best Supporting Actress nomination at the Shanghai Television Festival.


title: Dilraba Dilmurat

text: That same year, she had her first big screen leading role in romantic comedy film "Mr. Pride vs Miss Prejudice". Her performance earned her the Best New Actress award at the 2016 China Britain Film Festival. She then starred in the historical romance drama "The King's Woman", and fantasy film "Namiya", the Chinese adaptation of Japanese novel "Miracles of the Namiya General Store". Dilraba won the Newcomer award at the Golden Phoenix Awards for her performance in "Namiya".


title: Dilraba Dilmurat

text: In 2017, Dilraba also joined the fifth season of "Keep Running" as a cast member, earning increased popularity for her variety stint. "Forbes China" listed Dilraba on their 30 Under 30 Asia 2017 list which consisted of 30 influential people under 30 years old who have had a substantial effect in their fields.


title: Dilraba Dilmurat

text: In 2018, Dilraba starred in the romantic comedy film "21 Karat". She then starred in the wuxia romance drama "The Flame's Daughter" alongside Vic Chou. In the same year, the science fiction romance comedy drama "Sweet Dreams" alongside Deng Lun was premiered. The series’ concurrent TV viewership ratings ‘broke 1%’, with an average of 1.018% in 52 cities and had reached 6 billion online views before the drama wrapped its run. Due to her rising popularity, Dilraba was crowned the Golden Eagle Goddess at the 12th China Golden Eagle TV Art Festival.


title: Dilraba Dilmurat

text: In 2018, after surpassing 40 million followers on Weibo it was announced that Dilraba has an independent studio under Jay Walk Studio.


title: Dilraba Dilmurat

text: In 2019, Dilraba appeared on the CCTV New Year's Gala for the first time, performing the song item "China Happy Events". Dilraba also joined the fifth season of "Go Fighting!" as a regular cast member.


title: Dilraba Dilmurat

text: In January 2020, Dilraba starred in the fantasy romance "Eternal Love of Dream", reprising her role as Fengjiu from "Eternal Love". The same year, she starred in the workplace romance drama "Love Advanced Customization", portraying a fashion designer.


title: Dilraba Dilmurat

text: In June 2020, Dilraba was ranked by Statista as the second-most-popular celebrity on Douyin, with 55.6 million followers. Dilraba later starred in the historical fantasy film "Saga of Light" portraying Chang'e.


title: Dilraba Dilmurat

text: In 2021, she starred in the historical drama "The Long Ballad", portraying Li Changge. This series brought her a further rise in popularity. Dilraba later starred in "You Are My Glory" as Qiao Jingjing alongside Yang Yang. The series was a commercial success and gained 4 billion views throughout its run.


title: Dilraba Dilmurat

text: In 2022, she was cast in "The Blue Whisper" alongside Ren Jialun and in the "Legend of Anle" alongside Gong Jun.


title: Dilraba Dilmurat

text: Dilraba is considered one of the most in-demand brand ambassadors in China due to numerous endorsement deals ranging from food and beverage, basic commodities, beauty and retail products, to mobile applications and technological products. She also endorses several international brands like L'oreal and Mikimoto. P&G's Whisper saw a rise in sales after engaging Dilraba as their spokesperson. In 2018, Dilraba ended her contract with Dolce & Gabbana after a racist ad incident in China.


title: Dilraba Dilmurat

text: In 2021, as an Uyghur from Xinjiang, Dilraba publicly voiced her support for cotton produced in Xinjiang after several international companies announced they will not purchase cotton from the region due to concerns of forced labor of Uyghurs. Her actions were echoed by most other Chinese celebrities cutting ties with those brands.


title: Dilraba Dilmurat

text: In 2015, Dilraba joined the Network tree planting and greening project initiated by China Green Foundation's Action for Protecting Nature. In the same year, she was invited to participate in the "dressing together to help love" public welfare activity held by BAZAAR Star Charity Night, and all the charity sale funds obtained from the event were donated.


title: Dilraba Dilmurat

text: In 2016, Dilraba participated in the MAKEAPROMISE campaign to help the children who suffer from wars, diseases, and natural disasters. The campaign is held by UNICEF and Louis Vuitton, aimed to support more children in need around the world.


title: Dilraba Dilmurat

text: In 2017, Dilraba participated in the online charity auction initiated by BAZAAR Star Charity Night, and she donated a silver waist chain to fundraise more money for having more ambulances in remote cities in China.


title: Dilraba Dilmurat

text: In 2018, Dilraba participated in the public welfare project to support the "Medical Insurance for Diseases", helping to alleviate China’s health and poverty issues. She saved 25 million children in 585 poverty counties from being impoverished due to illness. In March, Dilraba call on more people to pay attention to the education of adolescent girls in China. In November, Dilraba was invited by Alibaba company to become a public welfare star in poverty alleviation in China, and invited everyone in the country to join her in helping the revitalization of her home region of Xinjiang.


title: Dilraba Dilmurat

text: In 2019, Dilraba was invited to join a media action named “China YOUNG”, and she was nominated as one of the leaders of the campaign. In September, together with reporters from "Global" magazine, Dilraba followed the Forestry and Grassland Bureau of Tibet to go deep into the "Qiangtang Plateau" to explore the local protection actions of wild animals.


title: Dilraba Dilmurat

text: On June 7, 2020, while Dilraba was on a variety show to promote products from impoverished farmers in Hunan, a male audience member went on stage, tapped her on the shoulder, got down on one knee and proposed to her with a ring. Wang Han, the show's host, stepped in between them and asked the crew to escort him off the stage. The man had reportedly been stalking her for half a year. Chinese netizens criticised the lax security measures and on June 10, expressed their outrage when authorities at Changsha only gave him 7 days' detention as punishment. Further condemnation followed after the man showed a lack of remorse when released.


title: Mayor of Kingstown

text: Mayor of Kingstown is an American crime thriller television series created by Taylor Sheridan and Hugh Dillon. The series premiered on November 14, 2021, on Paramount+. In February 2022, the series was renewed for a second season which is set to premiere on January 15, 2023.


title: Mayor of Kingstown

text: According to the Paramount+ description of the series, ""Mayor of Kingstown" follows the powerful McLusky family, power brokers in Kingstown, Michigan, where the business of incarceration is the only thriving industry. Tackling themes of systemic racism, corruption, and inequality, the series provides a stark look at their attempt to bring order and justice to a town that has neither."


title: Mayor of Kingstown

text: The project was first announced in January 2020, when Paramount Network ordered the series. By February 2021, the series was transferred over to the Paramount+ streaming service, with Jeremy Renner cast to star. The next month, Dianne Wiest joined the cast, with Emma Laird, Derek Webster and Taylor Handley added in April. Series co-creator Hugh Dillon joined the cast alongside Pha'rez Lass and Tobi Bamtefa in May. Kyle Chandler was revealed to have joined the cast in August following the release of a teaser poster for the series, while Aidan Gillen and Hamish Allan-Headley were added to the main cast. On February 1, 2022, Paramount+ renewed the series for a second season.


title: Mayor of Kingstown

text: Filming on the first season took place from May 17 to October 4, 2021 at Stratagem Studios in Toronto, Hamilton, Ontario, Burlington, Ontario and in Kingston, Ontario, mainly the Kingston Penitentiary.


title: Mayor of Kingstown

text: In June 2022, filming for the second season took place at the Lampe Marina and Presque Isle Bay near Erie, Pennsylvania.


title: Mayor of Kingstown

text: The 10-episode first season of "Mayor of Kingstown" premiered on November 14, 2021 on Paramount+. The first two episodes had their linear premiere on November 21 and 28, 2021 on Paramount Network, where it was originally supposed to air. The second season is scheduled to premiere on January 15, 2023 on Paramount+.


title: Mayor of Kingstown

text: The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports a 32% approval rating with an average rating of 5.8/10, based on 25 critic reviews. The website's critics consensus reads, "Despite campaigning with a strong pedigree, "Mayor of Kingstown" botches its reelection chances by giving constituents too much gloom and grit and not enough reasons to care." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 54 out of 100 based on 15 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".


title: Mayor of Kingstown

text: During its debut in the US, which was simulcast on cable as a means of promotion, the series drew 2.6 million viewers linearly, making it Paramount Network's most-watched scripted premiere since 2018.


title: Drew Carey

text: Drew Allison Carey (born May 23, 1958) is an American comedian, actor and game show host. After serving in the U.S. Marine Corps and making a name for himself in stand-up comedy, he gained stardom in his own sitcom, "The Drew Carey Show", and as host of the U.S. version of the improv comedy show "Whose Line Is It Anyway?", both of which aired on ABC. He then appeared in several films, television series, music videos, a made-for-television film, and a computer game. He has hosted the game show "The Price Is Right" since October 15, 2007 on CBS.


title: Drew Carey

text: Carey is interested in a variety of sports and has worked as a photographer at U.S. National Team soccer games. He is a minority owner of the Major League Soccer team Seattle Sounders FC, which won the MLS Cup, first in 2016 and again in 2019. He briefly participated in professional wrestling, entering the 2001 Royal Rumble, and was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2011.


title: Drew Carey

text: Carey was born on May 23, 1958 to Lewis and Beulah Carey. He is the youngest of three brothers (Neil, 1946–2010 and Roger, born 1952) and was raised in the Old Brooklyn neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio. When Drew was eight years old, his father died from a heart attack. Drew played the cornet and trumpet in the marching band of James Ford Rhodes High School from which he graduated in 1975.


title: Drew Carey

text: He continued on to college at Kent State University (KSU) and was a part of Delta Tau Delta Fraternity. He was expelled twice for poor academic performance. He left KSU after three years. Upon leaving the university, Carey enlisted into the United States Marine Corps Reserve in 1980 and served for six years as a field radio operator in the 25th Marine Regiment in Ohio. He moved to Las Vegas for a few months in 1983 and for a short time worked as a bank teller and a waiter at Denny's.


title: Drew Carey

text: In 1985, he began his comedy career by following up on a suggestion by David Lawrence (a disc jockey friend who had been paying Carey to write jokes for Lawrence's radio show in Cleveland) to go to the library and check out books on how to write jokes. The following year, after winning an open mic contest, he became Master of Ceremonies at the Cleveland Comedy Club. He performed at comedy clubs over the next few years in Cleveland and Los Angeles. His first national exposure was competing in the 1988 "Star Search". Carey was working as a stand-up comedian when he appeared on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" in November 1991. His performance that night impressed Carson, who invited Carey to the couch next to his desk; this was considered a rare honor for any comedian. In that same year, Carey joined the "14th Annual Young Comedians Special" on HBO and made his first appearance on "Late Night with David Letterman". In 1994, Carey wrote his own stand-up comedy special, "Drew Carey: Human Cartoon", which aired on Showtime and won a CableACE Award for Best Writing.


title: Drew Carey

text: His early stand-up career led to supporting roles on television shows during which he developed the character of a hapless middle-class bachelor. In 1993, Carey had a small role in the film "Coneheads" as a taxi passenger. In 1994, Carey co-starred with John Caponera in "The Good Life", a short-lived sitcom on NBC. After the show was cancelled, Bruce Helford, a writer on the show, hired Carey as a consultant for the television show "Someone Like Me".


title: Drew Carey

text: After their stint on "Someone Like Me", Carey and Helford developed and produced the storyline for "The Drew Carey Show". The sitcom revolved around a fictionalized version of Carey, as he took on the stresses of life and work with his group of childhood friends. The show premiered on September 13, 1995, on ABC. In his autobiography, Carey revealed his frustration with having to deal with censors and being unable to employ the off-color humor common in his stand-up routines. Carey initially earned $60,000 per episode in the first seasons, then renegotiated for $300,000. By the final season, he was earning $750,000 per episode. The show had high ratings for its first few seasons, but declining ratings and increasing production costs (around $3 million per episode) precipitated its cancellation. The program had a total of 233 episodes over its nine-year run and Carey was one of four actors to appear in every episode.


title: Drew Carey

text: While still starring in "The Drew Carey Show", Carey began hosting the American version of the improvisational comedy show "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" in 1998. He would announce the improv cast, direct the games and usually involve himself in the final game of the episode. The show ran for a total of 220 episodes until cancellation in 2006 (it returned with host Aisha Tyler in 2013). In 1998, the New York Friars' Club made Carey the newest inductee of the group's Comedy Central Roast. His friend Ryan Stiles (who costarred in "The Drew Carey Show" and "Whose Line Is It Anyway?") served as the roastmaster. Carey's income from "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" and "The Drew Carey Show" led to his inclusion on the "Forbes" list of highest-paid entertainers of 1998, at 24th with $45.5 million.


title: Drew Carey

text: For the WB's 2004–2005 prime time schedule, Carey co-produced and starred in "Drew Carey's Green Screen Show", a spin-off of "Whose Line Is It Anyway?". It was canceled by the WB, but picked up shortly afterward by Comedy Central. The show's premise relied on the use of a green screen for some of the actors' improv interaction with each other. Animation on the screen was visible to the live audience and it was also inserted during post-production for the television audience.


title: Drew Carey

text: In April 2011, Carey began hosting a primetime improv show, called "Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza". It was filmed at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada, and first aired on April 11. The show took on the premise of "Whose Line?" and "Drew Carey's Green Screen Show" in that it features many of the same performers from both shows and did improv based on audience-provided suggestions.


title: Drew Carey

text: Carey was one of the founders of the Improv All-Stars, a group of eleven actors who perform in unscripted skits. The group joined Carey in all three of his improv shows, "Whose Line Is It Anyway?", "Drew Carey's Green Screen Show", and "Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza", and some members had major roles or guest-starred on "The Drew Carey Show". The Improv All-Stars travel on comedy tours performing at comedy clubs throughout the United States.


title: Drew Carey

text: Beginning in 2007, Carey began hosting game shows, beginning with his April selection as host of the CBS game show pilot "Power of 10". The show ran from August 7, 2007 to January 23, 2008 and aired twice weekly during the late summer and early fall. Each game featured contestants predicting how a cross-section of Americans responded to questions covering a wide variety of topics in polls conducted by CBS.


title: Drew Carey

text: After taping the pilot episode for "Power of 10", Carey was contacted by CBS about replacing Bob Barker who had earlier announced his own retirement as host of "The Price Is Right". After initially turning down the offer, Carey announced on "Late Show with David Letterman" that he would succeed Barker as host of the program beginning in the fall of 2007. His first episode of "The Price Is Right" was taped on August 15, 2007 and his shows began airing on October 15, 2007. In response to replacing Barker as host of the game show, Carey stated "You can't replace Bob Barker. I don't compare myself to anybody... It's only about what you're doing and supposed to do, and I feel like I'm supposed to be doing this." When Carey began hosting, the set, theme music, and show logo were updated. Carey has retained the application of Barker's closing comment about spaying and neutering pets. In 2022, Carey celebrated his fifteenth anniversary as host of the show.


title: Drew Carey

text: Carey began appearing in commercials for restaurants in the late 1990s in Canada with The Great Root Bear, but his two-year contract with A&W Food Services of Canada was cut short in November 1998 after an episode of "The Drew Carey Show" featured McDonald's. As a result of his dismissal, Carey sued A&W for compensation.


title: Drew Carey

text: Disney's Hollywood Studios (then "Disney-MGM Studios"), part of Walt Disney World Resort in Florida, debuted a 12-minute attraction in 1999 titled "Sounds Dangerous!". In the show, a camera follows Carey through a day as an undercover detective. When his video camera fails, the audience is left in complete darkness wearing earphones following his adventure through sound cues. The attraction is now closed.


title: Drew Carey

text: In 2000, Carey was given a cameo appearance in the "" expansion pack of the computer game "The Sims". To make him appear, the characters in the game must throw a successful party, which causes Carey to arrive in a limo and join the festivities. Carey is a fan of "The Sims" series and during one April Fool's episode of "The Drew Carey Show" a scene takes place completely within "The Sims". Carey made several other cameo appearances in music videos, including "Weird Al" Yankovic's 1999 video for "It's All About the Pentiums" and Fountains of Wayne's 2004 video for "Mexican Wine", giving an introduction to the video as if it were on a stage.


title: Drew Carey

text: Although primarily known for his television work, Carey has done limited film work with his first appearance in 1993's "Coneheads". His next film was the 2000 television film "Geppetto" which debuted on "The Wonderful World of Disney". The film, an adaptation of "Pinocchio", included actor Wayne Brady who had joined Carey on his improv shows. Carey took singing lessons to prepare for the role. In 2005, Carey appeared in three films: the animated film "Robots" where he provided a voice-over for the character Crank; "The Aristocrats" where he retold a dirty joke along with other celebrities; and the documentary "Fuck" where he was interviewed.


title: Drew Carey

text: Carey provided the entertainment for the 2002 Annual White House correspondents' dinner. Once Carey completed his stand-up routine for the 1,800 guests, President George W. Bush, noting Carey's improv work, made a joke of his own: "Drew? Got any interest in the Middle East?" In 2003, he joined Jamie Kennedy to host the WB's live special "Play for a Billion". In September 2003, Carey led a group of comedians, including Blake Clark and "The Drew Carey Show"'s Kathy Kinney, on a comedy tour of Iraq.


title: Drew Carey

text: On June 8, 2006, "Drew Carey's Sporting Adventures" debuted on the Travel Channel. In this series, Carey traveled throughout Germany to photograph multiple FIFA World Cup soccer games while he immerses himself in the culture of the towns and states he visits. In early 2008, Carey appeared in Matt Groening's "The Simpsons" as part of the episode "All About Lisa" as a guest on the "Krusty the Clown Show". He also surfaced in the second season of "Community" playing a well-liked former boss to Jeff Winger.


title: Drew Carey

text: On March 4, 2014, it was announced on "Good Morning America" that Carey would compete on the season 18 of "Dancing with the Stars". He was partnered with professional dancer Cheryl Burke. The couple was eliminated on the sixth week of competition, finishing in 8th place.


title: Drew Carey

text: Carey has also been a longtime host on SiriusXM channel, Little Steven's Underground Garage (Ch. 21) where for 10 years he hosted a three-hour radio show called "Drew Carey's Friday Night Dance Party" which aired the last Friday of every month. In August 2018, Carey turned his monthly show into a weekly show called "The Friday Night Freak Out" which airs every Friday from 8:00pm to 11:00pm ET on SiriusXM.


title: Drew Carey

text: In 2018, Carey appeared in an episode of "NCIS" as a retired Marine. His character was a sergeant, the last rank he held in real life. Real pictures of him in dress blues and everyday garb were on the plasma screen in the squadroom.


title: Drew Carey

text: In 2020, Carey appeared as a contestant on the third season of "The Masked Singer" as "Llama". He was the second to be eliminated.


title: Drew Carey

text: In 2021, Carey participated in "Celebrity Wheel of Fortune" alongside Teri Hatcher and Chrissy Metz. He beat his fellow competitors in the first bonus round, but failed to solve the final bonus round puzzle.


title: Drew Carey

text: Carey has routinely written throughout his career. He wrote his own material in his early stand-up career before writing sitcoms. In 1997, Carey published his autobiography, "", wherein he shared memories of his early childhood and of his father's death when he was eight. He also revealed that he was once molested, had suffered bouts of depression, and had made two suicide attempts by swallowing a large amount of sleeping pills. The book discusses his college fraternity years while attending Kent State University and his professional career up to that time. The book featured large amounts of profanity and, as the title suggests, includes multiple dirty jokes (there is one at the start of each chapter) and references to beer. The book was featured on "The New York Times" bestseller list for three months.


title: Drew Carey

text: Carey can sometimes be seen on the sidelines of U.S. National Team soccer games as a press photographer. His images are sold via wire services under the pseudonym "Brooks Parkenridge". He was at the 2006 FIFA World Cup in the summer of 2006, for his television show "Drew Carey's Sporting Adventures".


title: Drew Carey

text: Carey adopted his crew cut hairstyle while serving in the United States Marine Corps. He underwent refractive surgery to correct his vision and, for a time, did not require glasses, but continued to wear them for purposes of recognition and celebrity identity. On the May 17, 2006 episode of "Jimmy Kimmel Live!," he revealed that when he turned 40, he developed a need for bifocals.


title: Drew Carey

text: Carey proposed to Nicole Jaracz in 2007 and is a father figure to Connor, her son from a previous relationship. The couple did not wed and called off their engagement in 2012.


title: Drew Carey

text: In January 2018, Carey announced his engagement to sex therapist Amie Harwick. They ended their engagement that November but remained close. On February 15, 2020, Harwick was found dead in a Hollywood Hills neighborhood and her ex-boyfriend was subsequently arrested on suspicion of her murder.


title: Drew Carey

text: After suffering chest pains while filming "The Drew Carey Show" in August 2001, Carey underwent a coronary angioplasty.


title: Drew Carey

text: Although his weight was a comedic topic throughout his sitcom and improv shows, in 2010 he began a diet and exercise plan and lost considerable weight, which he also claimed had cured his Type 2 diabetes. He had cataract surgery in 2020.


title: Drew Carey

text: Carey expressed his distaste for the Bush administration's management of the Iraq War, specifically on the September 14, 2007, episode of "Real Time with Bill Maher". He made donations to Ron Paul's presidential campaign for the 2008 election. On the September 26, 2008, episode of "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson", Carey defined "libertarian" to host Craig Ferguson as "a conservative who still gets high." In 2016, he supported Libertarian Party presidential candidate Gary Johnson in his run for office, and was made an Honorary Chair of the campaign for California.


title: Drew Carey

text: Carey has voiced his political beliefs in several interviews, and in 1998, led a "smoke-in" in defiance of California's newly passed no-smoking ordinance inside bars and restaurants. He has hosted a series of mini-documentaries, "The Drew Carey Project," on Reason.tv, an online project of Reason Foundation, a libertarian-oriented nonprofit think tank on whose board of trustees he sits. The first episode, "Gridlock", addresses private highway ownership and was released on October 15, 2007. Other episodes discuss topics such as eminent domain, urban traffic congestion, and medical marijuana.


title: Drew Carey

text: Carey endorsed and donated money to Joe Biden in the 2020 United States Presidential Election. Earlier in the cycle, he also donated to Tulsi Gabbard and Bill Weld.


title: Drew Carey

text: Carey is a devoted fan of the U.S. National Soccer Team, Cleveland Browns, Cleveland Cavaliers, Cleveland Guardians, and the Columbus Blue Jackets. In 1999, Carey was part of the pregame ceremonies at the first game of the return of the Browns, televised on ESPN. Carey attended the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany and the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. Carey is a minority owner of the Seattle Sounders FC who began play in Major League Soccer on March 19, 2009, and won two MLS Cups (2016, 2019). Carey is a fan of FC Barcelona and of the Scottish team Rangers. In 2006, he was a season ticketholder for the Los Angeles Galaxy.


title: Drew Carey

text: Carey has shown his support for the Cleveland baseball team by throwing the first pitch at an August 12, 2006 game against the Kansas City Royals. He was rewarded by them for being "the greatest Indians fan alive" with a personal bobblehead doll made in his likeness that was given to fans. Carey responded to his bobblehead likeness by saying "Bobblehead Day, for me, is as big as getting a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame."


title: Drew Carey

text: In 2001, Carey was the first television actor to enter World Wrestling Federation's 30-man "Royal Rumble" match, which he did to promote an improv comedy pay-per-view at the time. He appeared in a few backstage segments before his brief participation in the match. Upon entering the ring, Carey stood unopposed for more than half a minute, but after the next entrant, Kane, refused a monetary bribe, Carey eliminated himself from the match by jumping over the top rope and retreating from ringside. On April 2, 2011, Carey was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame by Kane.


title: Drew Carey

text: Carey competed against five other celebrities in the first celebrity edition of the 2003 World Poker Tour. He placed fifth, beating the only other actor, Jack Black. Carey won $2,000 for his charity.


title: Drew Carey

text: On May 15, 2011, Carey completed the Marine Corps Historic Half Marathon in 1:57:02; then, on September 4, 2011, completed the Disneyland Half Marathon in 1:50:46. On October 30, 2011, he finished the Marine Corps Marathon with a chip time of 4:37:11, placing 10,149th out of 20,940.


title: Drew Carey

text: Carey is a supporter of libraries crediting them for beginning his successful comedy career. On May 2, 2000, in a celebrity edition of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire", he selected the Ohio Library Foundation to receive his $500,000 winnings. He later went on to win an additional $32,000 on the second celebrity "Millionaire", making him one of the biggest winning contestants on "Millionaire" who did not win the top prize. He also has played on the World Poker Tour in the Hollywood Home games for the Cleveland Public Library charity. In June 2007, he offered to donate up to $100,000 (in $10,000 increments) to the Mooch Myernick Memorial Fund if anybody could beat him at the video game FIFA Soccer 07 for the Xbox 360. He dared five players from both the U.S. Men's and Women's National Teams to compete against him. Carey ended up donating $100,000, plus $60,000 for losing two games out of the six he played.


title: Drew Carey

text: In October 2009, Carey made a bid of $25,000 in a charity auction for the @drew Twitter account. He later increased his offer to $100,000 if the number of followers of his account @DrewFromTV reached 100,000 by the end of the auction. In an interview with CBS News, he said he would instead donate $1 million to the charity Livestrong Foundation if his follower count reached one million by December 31, 2009.


title: Drew Carey

text: In September 2014, Carey promised $10,000 to help find the perpetrators of a faked "ice bucket challenge" involving an autistic 14-year-old Ohio boy who, instead of being doused in ice cubes and water, received a shower of feces, urine, tobacco spit, and cigarette butts. Shortly thereafter, celebrities Donnie Wahlberg, Jenny McCarthy and Montel Williams matched Carey's offer. Several teens were eventually charged and admitted to the prank, though they denied that there was feces in the bucket or that they knew the victim was diagnosed with autism.


title: Drew Carey

text: Carey has starred in only a few television shows and films, but has made numerous guest-star appearances in a variety of sitcoms and comedy shows.


title: Anne with an E

text: Anne with an E (initially titled Anne for its first season within Canada) is a Canadian television series loosely adapted from Lucy Maud Montgomery's 1908 classic work of children's literature, "Anne of Green Gables". It was created by Moira Walley-Beckett for CBC and stars Amybeth McNulty as orphan Anne Shirley, Geraldine James as Marilla Cuthbert, R. H. Thomson as Matthew Cuthbert, Dalila Bela as Diana Barry and Lucas Jade Zumann as Gilbert Blythe.


title: Anne with an E

text: The series premiered on March 19, 2017, on CBC and on May 12 internationally on Netflix. It was renewed for a second season in August 2017 and for a third season in August 2018. Shortly after the third season was released in 2019, CBC and Netflix announced the series had been canceled.


title: Anne with an E

text: "Anne with an E" received positive reviews and won Canadian Screen Award for Best Dramatic Series in both 2017 and 2018. The series tackles a range of issues such as orphaning, child abandonment, psychological trauma, social issues such as conformity, gender inequality, racism, religion, homosexuality, bullying and freedom of speech.


title: Anne with an E

text: In 1896, elderly brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert (who live together as they never married) decide to adopt an orphan boy to help out around their ancestral farm of Green Gables, on the outskirts of the Canadian town of Avonlea, Prince Edward Island. When Matthew goes to pick the child up at the railway station, he finds 13-year-old Anne Shirley, an imaginative, bright, high-spirited, and talkative girl, instead. Anne was orphaned when her parents died when she was a few months old, and lived as a servant in various households before being placed in an orphanage.


title: Anne with an E

text: While Matthew decides he would like her to stay, Marilla does not trust Anne, given her status as an unknown orphan and the perceived uselessness of a young girl. Her distrust appears confirmed when Marilla cannot locate a brooch, thus leading her to believe that Anne is a thief. The Cuthberts send her away, thus "returning" her to the orphanage. While she does arrive back at the orphanage, she is terrified to enter, haunted by the bullying she had endured there, and returns to the train station. Meanwhile, Marilla discovers that the brooch had been misplaced rather than stolen and that discovery leads her to understand that Anne is not a thief. Matthew consequently finds Anne and convinces her to return to Green Gables, where she is officially made part of their family. However, Anne continues to face bullying from students in the Avonlea school and class-based discrimination from Diana's parents and others in the community. Anne once again returns and attempts to gain acceptance by the rest of Avonlea, using her survival mechanisms of intelligence, problem-solving abilities, and imagination.


title: Anne with an E

text: The first season was first aired on CBC on March 19, 2017. It premiered on Netflix on May 12, 2017. Titles of the season are quotes from Charlotte Brontë, "Jane Eyre".


title: Anne with an E

text: The entire second season premiered on Netflix on July 6, 2018, before premiering on CBC on September 23, 2018. Titles of the season are quotes from George Eliot, "Middlemarch".


title: Anne with an E

text: The third season was first aired on CBC on September 22, 2019. It premiered on Netflix on January 3, 2020. Titles of the season are quotes from Mary Shelley, "Frankenstein".


title: Anne with an E

text: The production companies are listed as Northwood Anne, Northwood Entertainment and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The executive producers are Miranda de Pencier and series creator Moira Walley-Beckett.


title: Anne with an E

text: According to de Pencier, the adaptation of the novel for this television series was intended to provide a different look and feel compared to past productions; they were aiming for a "documentary level of realism", as reflected in the extraordinary detail which has gone into the design of sets and costumes.


title: Anne with an E

text: Besides the show itself having a larger number of female characters than male, women serving as executive producer and showrunner, the series has several female directors. Every writer on the series is also female; showrunner Moira Walley-Beckett scripted the entire first season, and was joined by a team of women writers in seasons 2 and 3.


title: Anne with an E

text: Approximately 1800 girls on three continents auditioned for the role of Anne Shirley through an open casting call. Amybeth McNulty was chosen for her ability to deliver dialogue which is "incredibly thick and dynamic and beautiful", according to Miranda de Pencier. Walley-Beckett describes her as at once "luminous", transparent, smart, soulful and emotional. According to an interview with McNulty, an Irish Canadian whose career on stage has included roles in "Annie", "The Sound of Music", and "Oliver!", and on screen in "Agatha Raisin" and "Clean Break", her audition for "Anne" "consisted of talking to trees, chatting with flowers and building thrones out of twigs."


title: Anne with an E

text: The series was occasionally filmed on Prince Edward Island but, for budgetary reasons, it was primarily filmed in Southern Ontario, at a Toronto studio, at outdoor locations in or near Toronto including Black Creek Pioneer Village, in Waterloo Region at locations including Doon Pioneer Village, Castle Kilbride, New Hamburg, Cambridge, and in communities such as Millbrook, Pickering, Orono, Hamilton, and Caledon.


title: Anne with an E

text: The opening theme is the song "Ahead by a Century" performed and originally composed by Canadian band The Tragically Hip. The series underscore is composed by Amin Bhatia and Ari Posner.


title: Anne with an E

text: While "many classic moments [of the novel] are dutifully re-created," Walley-Beckett constructed "Anne with an E" with "a darker undercurrent" than previous adaptations of "Anne of Green Gables". She envisioned Anne as an antihero, adding original backstories to her adaptation that emphasized the impact of bullying, class-based discrimination, social isolation, and consequent PTSD on the construction of Anne's character (themes hinted at, but never elaborated upon, in the original novel). Walley-Beckett further states: "In this day and age, themes of identity, prejudice, bullying, being an outsider, searching for a way to be accepted and how to belong are entirely topical and super relevant, and those are themes that are built into the story of "Anne Shirley". She went on to call Anne Shirley an "accidental feminist", and how she "really wanted to tell this story now". Amybeth McNulty (who portrays Anne) also stated that, "people might think [the new scenes] are quite graphic ... but I think it was time to be honest.”


title: Anne with an E

text: For the second season, according to what she called her "master plan", Walley-Beckett introduced an entirely new character of her own, Bash, to reflect the racial diversity present in and around Charlottetown at the time of the novel, with a view to representing a community absent from previous adaptations, achieving this by having Gilbert travel on a steamship and meet with the new character in Trinidad: "Bash is the vehicle to explore intolerance and inequality, even more when he goes to The Bog, when he learns that other black people live there." Walley-Beckett explained: "The Bog is the community that's just outside of Charlottetown, where people of color were marginalized and had their own community there."


title: Anne with an E

text: In the third season, topics such as identity, feminism, bullying and gender parity were explored. The third season also focused on residential schools and treatment of Indigenous people in Canada's history.


title: Anne with an E

text: The series initially premiered on March 19, 2017, on CBC and aired on a weekly basis, the season finale airing on April 30, 2017. The series debuted on Netflix on May 12, 2017, under the title "Anne with an E".


title: Anne with an E

text: On August 3, 2017, CBC and Netflix renewed the series for a 10-episode second season, which premiered on Netflix on July 6, 2018, and on CBC on September 23, 2018. CBC adopted the "Anne with an E" name beginning in the second season.


title: Anne with an E

text: In August 2018, CBC and Netflix renewed the series for a 10-episode third season, which premiered on September 22, 2019, on CBC and was released on Netflix on January 3, 2020.


title: Anne with an E

text: CBC president Catherine Tait stated in October 2019 that it would no longer involve itself in co-productions with Netflix, as they constitute deals "that hurt the long-term viability of our domestic industry". A day after the third season concluded its Canadian run and despite statements from CBC previously expressing "no doubt that Canadians will continue to fall in love with this beautiful and heartwarming series for seasons to come," Netflix and CBC announced the show's cancellation the morning after the season three finale aired in Canada, marketing the season three release on Netflix as the show's "final season."


title: Anne with an E

text: Alternate reasons for cancellation were given on November 27 in response to a Twitter campaign to save the show, namely a lack of audience growth in the 25–54 age range, which fans on Twitter and Facebook have challenged by questioning how CBC tracks viewers' ages, and the fact their CBC Gem app does not ask for personal information. Despite the CBC indicating that Netflix had agreed that the third season would be the show's last, fans started a concerted online and offline campaign, much of it led by Twitter fans through the hashtag #renewannewithane.


title: Anne with an E

text: There were some fans who attempted to flood and bombard unrelated CBC and Netflix posts with the #renewannewithane hashtag (and general commentary regarding renewal) leading the CBC to block them from commenting on future posts. Netflix has never responded to campaign efforts.


title: Anne with an E

text: A petition was started by fans to protest the cancellation of the show, and is currently the largest petition ever started by a fanbase for a cancelled television show. Some fans also created an informative website for other fans where they can keep up to date on renewal efforts.


title: Anne with an E

text: Fans also crowdfunded to erect billboards in an effort to garner attention of current and potential new viewers, but also other television networks and the press. In January 2020 a set of billboards were put on display at the centre of Yonge and Dundas Square in Toronto, and shortly after another large billboard was on display in Times Square, New York City. The fans followed this successful run with another several days of billboards in Toronto, using various art and imagery done by fans of the show from various parts of the world. Many of the cast and crew, including Amybeth and Moira, visited the billboards in person and posted on their social media pages.


title: Anne with an E

text: Palak Jayswal gives the entire series five out of five stars and notes that while classic works of literature are often best left intact, "Anne with an E" offers a useful case study of when "the remake of a classic is done better than the original". She suggests that while "the Netflix adaptation is brutal", its portrayal is one that is "realistic of what life was like during the time period for an orphan girl". She thus states that "the reason this show is so successful is its ability to not only bring the original story to life but to add to it in a truly authentic way". Erin Maxwell concurs, arguing that in contrast to "Tiger King", ""Anne with an E" might be the most wholesome and engaging TV show that no one in America is talking about. But it is definitely a show that needs to be consumed, discussed, and re-watched just as appreciatively". She also notes that "there are occasional changes in the narrative and attempts to be 'woke', but it wisely doesn't derail much from the original story". Chad Jones qualifies the entire series as a "cool" adaptation of the novel, noting that "from the theme song by The Tragically Hip to the assortment of timely issues – racism, feminism, bullying – that may have been hinted at in the book but have definitely been brought to the fore by creator Moira Walley-Beckett, this is not your grandmother's "Green Gables"". Jon Hersey at "The Objective Standard" writes, "If you can stand a tearjerker—and if you enjoy art that glorifies imagination, individualism, free inquiry, and the passionate pursuit of values—you may just fall in love with Walley-Beckett's "Anne with an E"".


title: Anne with an E

text: On Rotten Tomatoes season 1 has an approval rating of 83% based on 29 critic reviews. The site's critical consensus states: ""Anne with an E" uses its complex central character to offer a boldly stylish, emotionally resonant spin on classic source material that satisfies in its own right." The series has received a rating of 79 on Metacritic based on fifteen reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".