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[ { "docid": "8ee8d7c70a6af562beb58ca276e4c98c", "text": "Jimmy Carter James Earl Carter Jr. ( born October 1 , 1924 ) is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 . A member of the Democratic Party , he served as the Governor of Georgia prior to his election as president . Carter has remained active in public life during his post-presidency , and in 2002 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the Carter Center . Carter joined the United States Navy after graduating high school , serving on nuclear submarines . He left the Navy in 1953 to return to Georgia , where he worked as a peanut farmer . From 1963 to 1967 , Carter served in the Georgia State Senate . In 1970 , Carter won election as Governor of Georgia , defeating former Governor Carl Sanders in the Democratic primary . He served as governor from 1971 to 1975 . Despite being little-known outside of Georgia at the start of the campaign , Carter won the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination . In the general election , Carter defeated incumbent Republican President Gerald Ford in a relatively close election . On his second day in office , Carter pardoned all evaders of the Vietnam War drafts . During Carter 's term as President , two new cabinet-level departments , the Department of Energy and the Department of Education , were established . He established a national energy policy that included conservation , price control , and new technology . In foreign affairs , Carter pursued the Camp David Accords , the Panama Canal Treaties , the second round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks ( SALT II ) , and the return of the Panama Canal Zone to Panama . On the economic front he confronted persistent `` stagflation '' , a combination of high inflation , high unemployment and slow growth . The end of his presidential tenure was marked by the 1979 -- 1981 Iran hostage crisis , the 1979 energy crisis , the Three Mile Island nuclear accident , and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan . In response to the invasion , Carter ended détente , escalated the Cold War , and led the international boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow . In 1980 , Carter faced a primary challenge from Senator Ted Kennedy , but Carter won re-nomination at the 1980 Democratic National Convention . Carter lost the general election in an electoral landslide to Republican nominee Ronald Reagan . Polls of historians and political scientists usually rank Carter as a below average president . In 2012 , he surpassed Herbert Hoover as the longest-retired president in U.S. history , and he is also the first president to mark the 40th anniversary of his inauguration . He set up the Carter Center in 1982 as his base for advancing human rights . He has also traveled extensively to conduct peace negotiations , observe elections , and advance disease prevention and eradication in developing nations . Additionally , Carter is a key figure in the Habitat for Humanity project and he has written several books about various topics . In reference to current political views , he has criticized some of Israel 's actions and policies in regards to the Israeli -- Palestinian conflict and has advocated for a two-state solution . He has vigorously opposed the Supreme Court 's decision in Citizens United v. FEC to strike down limits on campaign spending by corporations and unions , saying that the U.S. is `` no longer a functioning democracy '' and now has a system of `` unlimited political bribery . ''", "title": "" } ]

[ { "docid": "bfc201293475e261a8145d0713ea4684", "text": "United States Congress The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States consisting of two chambers : the Senate and the House of Representatives . The Congress meets in the Capitol in Washington , D.C. Both senators and representatives are chosen through direct election , though vacancies in the Senate may be filled by a gubernatorial appointment . Members are usually affiliated to the Republican Party or to the Democratic Party , and only rarely to a third party or as independents . Congress has 535 voting members : 435 Representatives and 100 Senators . The House of Representatives has six non-voting members in addition to its 435 voting members . These members can , however , sit on congressional committees and introduce legislation . These members represent Washington , D.C. , Puerto Rico , American Samoa , Guam , the Northern Mariana Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands . The members of the House of Representatives serve two-year terms representing the people of a single constituency , known as a `` district '' . Congressional districts are apportioned to states by population using the United States Census results , provided that each state has at least one congressional representative . Each state , regardless of population or size , has two senators . Currently , there are 100 senators representing the 50 states . Each senator is elected at-large in their state for a six-year term , with terms staggered , so every two years approximately one-third of the Senate is up for election .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "9b868b28c29458285d33010ccaaa920d", "text": "Troy Carter (New Orleans) Troy Anthony `` C '' Carter ( born October 26 , 1963 ) is the District 7 member of the Louisiana State Senate who formerly served on the New Orleans City Council . In the November 21 runoff election , Carter defeated his fellow Democrat , Jeff Arnold , who is a term-limited former state representative for the Algiers neighborhood of New Orleans . In 1994 , he was elected to represent District C on the city council , having become the first African-American to represent that portion of the city since Reconstruction . He served until 2002 , when he unsuccessfully sought the office of mayor . Carter was eliminated in the 2002 primary election by Ray Nagin ( the final winner ) and Richard Pennington . Carter previously represented District 102 in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1992 to 1994 , when he was elected to the city council . He was an unsuccessful candidate for Louisiana 's 2nd congressional district seat in 2006 against then-incumbent William J. Jefferson . Carter is a graduate of Xavier University of Louisiana , where he majored in business administration and political science . Carter was initiated into the Beta Iota Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi while a student at Xavier . He embarked on graduate studies in Pittsburgh at Carnegie-Mellon University 's School of Urban and Public Affairs . He has been a political science instructor at his alma mater , Xavier . Carter received 12,935 votes ( 56.8 percent ) in the 2015 runoff election to Arnold 's 9,852 ( 43.2 percent ) . The position opened with the retirement of the two-term Senator David Heitmeier .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "90885f3a016e534eef8b7c570a78245d", "text": "United States presidential election in Connecticut, 1976 The 1976 United States presidential election in Connecticut took place on November 2 , 1976 . All 50 states and The District of Columbia , were part of the 1976 United States presidential election . Connecticut voters chose eight electors to the Electoral College , who voted for President and Vice President . Connecticut was won by the Republican nominees , incumbent President Gerald Ford of Michigan and his running mate Senator Bob Dole of Kansas . Ford and Dole defeated the Democratic nominees , Governor Jimmy Carter of Georgia and his running mate Senator Walter Mondale of Minnesota . Ford narrowly carried Connecticut with 52.06 % of the vote to Carter 's 46.90 % , a victory margin of 5.16 % .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "d9c485965412c2e8661f5cb749d91b58", "text": "Herding Cats: A Life in Politics Herding Cats : A Life in Politics is a book written by U.S. Senator Trent Lott , a Republican from Mississippi . Published by HarperCollins Publishers , Inc. on August 23 , 2005 , the book spans 320 pages . The major points of the book are Lott 's childhood in Grenada and Pascagoula , Mississippi , including his struggles with his alcoholic father ; his election to Congress ; his years in the House of Representatives during the Nixon , Carter , and Reagan administrations ( including his service as Minority Whip in that body ) ; and his service in the Senate , especially his service as Majority Leader during the Clinton and Bush Administrations . He recounts the formative events of his youth and the stories from his political life . From his decision to support Gerald Ford over Ronald Reagan in the 1976 Republican primary to his working partnership with Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle during the Clinton impeachment and the September 11 attacks in 2001 , Lott traces the inner workings of congressional life . One major focus of the book is the comments Lott made at the birthday party of Sen. Strom Thurmond in 2002 and the subsequent intense media coverage , which eventually led to his resignation as the Senate Majority Leader in December 2002 . Lott names several figures who he believes orchestrated his downfall , including members of President George W. Bush 's administration , such as then-Secretary of State , Colin Powell , and former Federal Emergency Management Agency ( FEMA ) head Joe Allbaugh ( who Lott claims has admitted that he intended to bring Lott down as Majority Leader ) ; as well as the successor to Lott as Majority Leader , Sen. Bill Frist . Lott suggests that his forced resignation was a `` strategic plan '' devised by Bush and others who wanted Frist to take his place , since Frist supported key White House policies like the Medicare expansion , which Lott opposed . Lott notes , however , that his response to the Thurmond controversy played poorly in the media . Lott wrote in the book that Frist betrayed him by not telling him about Frist 's decision to run for majority leader beforehand . Lott says he took Frist as his protégé , as Frist had no political/public experience when he was first elected to the Senate . Some suggested that Lott 's book , which portrayed Frist in a negative light , was designed to impede Frist 's possible presidential campaign , but Frist did not run . Lott indicated in the book that he had repaired his relationship with Frist to some extent . Lott also emphasizes his years as Majority Whip in the House and his years as Majority Leader in the Senate , where Lott claims to have built an efficient vote-getting organization and played a key role in several legislative accomplishments , including the Reagan-era budget cuts and tax cuts , and welfare reform and the tobacco settlement during the Clinton years . This emphasis may tie into Lott 's ambition to rejoin the Senate Republican Leadership .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "1e78fc13e9dcdcc19c13659826cf165f", "text": "John Carter (South Carolina politician) John W. Carter ( September 10 , 1792 -- June 20 , 1850 ) was a U.S. Representative from South Carolina . Born on the Black River , near Camden , in what is now Kershaw County , South Carolina , Carter was graduated from South Carolina College ( now the University of South Carolina ) at Columbia in 1811 . He studied law , was admitted to the bar in 1814 and commenced practice in Camden , South Carolina . He served as commissioner in equity 1814 -- 1820 . Carter was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Seventeenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James Blair . He was reelected as a Jackson Republican to the Eighteenth Congress and as a Jacksonian to the Nineteenth and the Twentieth Congresses and served from December 11 , 1822 , to March 3 , 1829 . He resumed the practice of law in Camden and moved to Georgetown , D.C. , in 1836 , and died there June 20 , 1850 .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "04d51fb8610ee8c2fafc38a0172549bb", "text": "Michael Carter (politician) Michael Carter ( died November 1954 ) was an Irish politician and farmer . He was first elected to Dáil Éireann at the June 1927 general election as a Farmers ' Party Teachta Dála ( TD ) for the Leitrim -- Sligo constituency . He lost his seat at the September 1927 general election . He stood as an independent candidate at the 1932 general election but was not elected . Carter was an auctioneer and valuer and was also involved in the Ancient Order of Hibernians , once holding the position of Leitrim county president . He was elected to Leitrim County Council in 1911 . From 1926 to 1934 , he was chairman of Leitrim County Council . He died at Ruskey , Carrick-on-Shannon , County Leitrim , in November 1954 , at `` over 80 years of age '' .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "c7d9b8ef364371cce7fa433974e1f153", "text": "Dean of the United States Senate The Dean of the United States Senate is an informal term for the Senator with the longest continuous service , regardless of party affiliation . This is not an official position within the Senate , although customarily ( since 1945 ) the longest-serving member of the majority party serves as President pro tempore . The current Dean is Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "e13fad644262b1b8943e584051071407", "text": "United States presidential election in Montana, 1980 The 1980 United States presidential election in Montana took place on November 4 , 1980 throughout all 50 states and D.C. , which was part of the 1980 United States presidential election . Voters chose 4 representatives , or electors to the Electoral College , who voted for President and Vice President . Montana overwhelmingly voted for the Republican nominee , Governor Ronald Reagan , over the Democratic nominee , President Jimmy Carter . Reagan won Montana by a landslide margin of 24.39 % .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "88eb9eac283afd5d04e26066874e042a", "text": "William Smith (South Carolina senator) William Smith ( 1762June 26 , 1840 ) was chosen as a Democratic-Republican to the U.S. Senate representing South Carolina in 1816 . The legislature declined to re-elect him when his term expired in 1823 . He was narrowly chosen senator in 1826 and was again replaced in 1831 . Smith was one of the first Southerners to argue , at the time of the Missouri Compromise in 1820 , that slavery was a positive good ; nevertheless , he opposed John C. Calhoun 's doctrine and tactic of nullification . In 1828 , seven electors from Georgia chose him for vice president , instead of Calhoun , the Democratic nominee . He was also a splinter candidate for vice president in 1836 : Virginia refused to accept Richard Mentor Johnson as the Democratic vice presidential candidate , and voted for the ticket of Martin Van Buren and William Smith , putting Johnson two electoral votes short of a majority ; the Senate chose Johnson . In 1832 , he moved to Louisiana , having lost his political base in South Carolina . In 1836 , he moved on to Huntsville , Alabama , and was elected to the Alabama House of Representatives for Madison County from August 1 , 1836 , holding that seat for the rest of his life . On March 3 , 1837 , outgoing President Andrew Jackson nominated Smith to the Supreme Court . The Senate confirmed Smith 's nomination by a vote of 23 -- 18 ; nevertheless , Smith declined to serve .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "5b2e793b10177d4d3dd502427b8ce92c", "text": "Jimmy Douglass Jimmy Douglass ( also known as The Senator ) is an American four-time Grammy winning recording engineer and record producer , whose prolific career has spanned more than four decades .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "362b802e8b823875893315c9a1fd6697", "text": "United States presidential election in Florida, 1980 In the 1980 United States presidential election , Florida was won overwhelmingly by the Republican candidate , former California governor Ronald Reagan , over Democratic incumbent Jimmy Carter . Reagan won by a wide 17.02 % margin , a particularly strong performance in this conservative leaning state . John B. Anderson , a liberal Republican congressman from Illinois who ran as an independent candidate , had Florida give him his strongest performance in a southern state by winning 5.14 % of the popular vote . Florida , along with Virginia , were one of only two southern states to give Anderson over 5 % of the vote . Although Carter lost Florida , he is the last Democrat to win a majority of counties in the state 's northern region .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "a49c7c5eb3653a87a043375d006e0b41", "text": "United States presidential election in Illinois, 1976 The 1976 United States presidential election in Illinois was held on November 2 , 1976 . Gerald Ford won Illinois with 50.10 % percent of the vote , but lost the general election to Jimmy Carter of Georgia . This is the last election where a Democrat won the White House without carrying Illinois .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "b8a6cd369574e9aae08886f4677951e9", "text": "List of honors and awards received by Jimmy Carter U.S. President Jimmy Carter ( born 1924 ) has received numerous accolates , awards , and honorary degrees . Several places , institutions , and other things have been named for him .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "cac9e042742af51bb872c53f2782c895", "text": "Bobby Carter Robert E. `` Bobby '' Carter ( October 7 , 1939 -- January 5 , 2015 ) was an American politician and schoolteacher from Tennessee .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "21d3a695057d72713913d95b100c7dc6", "text": "Wendell H. Ford Wendell Hampton Ford ( September 8 , 1924 -- January 22 , 2015 ) was an American politician from the Commonwealth of Kentucky . He served for twenty-four years in the U.S. Senate and was the 53rd Governor of Kentucky . He was the first person to be successively elected lieutenant governor , governor and United States senator in Kentucky history . The Senate Democratic whip from 1991 to 1999 , he was considered the leader of the state 's Democratic Party from his election to governor in 1971 until his retirement from the Senate in 1999 . At the time of his retirement , he was the longest-serving senator in Kentucky 's history , a mark which was then surpassed by Mitch McConnell in 2009 . Born in Daviess County , Kentucky , Ford attended the University of Kentucky , but his studies were interrupted by his service in World War II . After the war , he graduated from the Maryland School of Insurance and returned to Kentucky to help his father with the family insurance business . He also continued his military service in the Kentucky Army National Guard . He worked on the gubernatorial campaign of Bert T. Combs in 1959 , and became Combs ' executive assistant when Combs was elected governor . Encouraged to run for the Kentucky Senate by Combs ' ally and successor , Ned Breathitt , Ford won the seat and served one four-year term before running for lieutenant governor in 1967 . He was elected on a split ticket with Republican Louie B. Nunn . Four years later , Ford defeated Combs in an upset in the Democratic primary en route to the governorship . As governor , Ford made government more efficient by reorganizing and consolidating some departments in the executive branch . He raised revenue for the state through a severance tax on coal and enacted reforms to the educational system . He purged most of the Republicans from statewide office , including helping Walter `` Dee '' Huddleston win the Senate seat vacated by the retirement of Republican stalwart John Sherman Cooper . In 1974 , Ford himself ousted the other incumbent senator , Republican Marlow Cook . Following the rapid rise of Ford and many of his political allies , he and his lieutenant governor , Julian Carroll , were investigated on charges of political corruption , but a grand jury refused to indict them . As senator , Ford was a staunch defender of Kentucky 's tobacco industry . He also formed the Senate National Guard Caucus with Missouri senator Kit Bond . Chosen as Democratic party whip in 1991 , Ford considered running for floor leader in 1994 before throwing his support to Connecticut 's Christopher Dodd . He retired from the Senate in 1999 and returned to Owensboro , where he taught politics to youth at the Owensboro Museum of Science and History .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "3c76d94a5c0dbd8b044c8ae236fd33a6", "text": "Carter Harrison Carter Harrison may refer to : Carter Henry Harrison I ( ~ 1727 -- 1793/1794 ) , member of the Virginia House of Delegates Carter Henry Harrison ( 1853 -- 1936 ) , member of the Virginia House of Delegates Carter Bassett Harrison ( c. 1756 -- 1808 ) , U.S. Representative from Virginia Carter Bassett Harrison ( 1811 -- 1839 ) , son of U.S. President William Henry Harrison Carter Harrison , Sr. ( 1825 -- 1893 ) , mayor of Chicago , 1879 -- 1887 & 1893 Carter Harrison , Jr. ( 1860 -- 1953 ) , mayor of Chicago , 1897 -- 1905 & 1911 -- 1915", "title": "" }, { "docid": "e9cd1d9558f73c3a3f491941e4d33337", "text": "List of United States Senators in the 26th Congress by seniority This is a complete list of members of the United States Senate during the 26th United States Congress listed by seniority , from March 4 , 1839 to March 3 , 1841 . Order of service is based on the commencement of the senator 's first term . Behind this is former service as a senator ( only giving the Senator seniority within his or her new incoming class ) , service as Vice President , a House member , a Cabinet secretary , or a governor of a state . The final factor is the population of the senator 's state . Senators who were sworn in in the middle of the two-year congressional term ( up until the last senator who was not sworn in early after winning the November 1840 election ) are listed at the end of the list with no number .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "6fd7c683a05e14b8cb85e7be596a3b06", "text": "Jimmy Wilson (politician) James H. Wilson , known as Jimmy Wilson ( January 31 , 1931 -- November 19 , 1986 ) was a pro-business Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1972 to 1976 , who is most remembered in politics for having switched affiliation to the Republican Party in 1978 and then coming within 266 disputed votes of winning a historically Democratic seat in the U.S. House of Representatives .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "4aa33665aeb70a3a06868df50c5725ed", "text": "Bob McFarland For the National Security Advisor under U.S. President Ronald W. Reagan , see Robert McFarlane . Millard Robert `` Bob '' McFarland ( born June 12 , 1941 ) , is an attorney and lobbyist in Arlington and Austin , Texas , who served from 1983 to 1991 as a Republican member of the Texas State Senate from District 10 , then parts of Dallas , Denton , and Tarrant counties . From 1977 to 1983 , McFarland served in the Texas House of Representatives from the former districts 32-B and 32-D in Tarrant County . In 1959 , McFarland graduated from Arlington High School . He received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Texas at Arlington . He then procured his Juris Doctor from Southern Methodist University School of Law , since known as the Dedman School of Law . McFarland was admitted to the bar in 1966 . McFarland was cited for achievement in the publication Texas Business . In 1981 , he received the G. J. Sutton Memorial Leadership Award and was named `` Legislator of the Year '' by the Texas Municipal League . In civic affairs , McFarland is a former director of the Tarrant County Humane Society and the Arlington Civic Chorus . He is Roman Catholic . In 1979 , 1981 , 1983 and 1985 , McFarland was ranked among the `` Ten Best Legislators '' from both chambers by Texas Monthly magazine . In 1989 , McFarland was one of five senators to serve as the President Pro Tempore , having succeeded his regional colleague , Hugh Q. Parmer in that position . In 1986 , McFarland objected when the Texas Select Committee on Higher Education , a group appointed by Governor Mark Wells White to consider streamlining of the state 's colleges and universities , proposed that the University of Texas at Arlington be re-defined as a `` comprehensive university , '' with an emphasis on teaching , instead of research . Many UTA faculty and students believed that the change would have eliminated doctoral programs at the institution . McFarland , a UTA `` Distinguished Alumnus '' , declared the select committee recommendation `` an over-my-dead-body situation . '' Soon political support was manifested throughout Arlington and Tarrant County . The mission of UTA was clarified to include `` achieving excellence in all academic areas -- teaching , research , and public service . '' McFarland said the controversy brought hundreds of letters and telephone calls and showed him that `` there are people out there willing to get involved and support UTA . '' Then State Representative Kent Grusendorf , also of Arlington , joined McFarland in rallying to the defense of their common alma mater . As a two-term departing state representative , McFarland succeeded Senator William C. Meier , a Democrat from Euless in Tarrant County who switched to Republican affiliation and ran unsuccessfully in 1982 against U.S. Representative Jim Mattox for Attorney General of Texas . Mark White vacated the attorney 's general office after one term to challenge , successfully , Republican Governor Bill Clements . In 1991 , McFarland was succeeded in the Senate by Chris Harris , also of Arlington , who subsequently was shifted into neighboring District 9 . Bob McFarland Park , part of which is heavily wooded , is operated at 410 East Embercrest Drive by the Arlington Parks and Recreation Department and named in his honor .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "338e014d5461ab655a9d56711bd2fa25", "text": "Democrats for Nixon Democrats for Nixon was a campaign to promote Democratic support for the then-incumbent Republican President Richard Nixon in the 1972 presidential election . The campaign was led by the former Democratic governor of Texas , John Connally . Connally , who was serving as the United States Secretary of the Treasury , announced that he would be supporting Nixon for re-election and would spend his time until the elections working on behalf of the incumbent . A Democrat who had been Governor of Texas and United States Secretary of the Navy under John F. Kennedy , Connally formally announced the formation of the organization in August 1972 . Polling cited by Connally indicated that as many as 20 million Democrats would cross over to vote for Nixon and invited `` all those millions of Democrats who realize that in this Presidential election President Nixon is simply the better choice '' . Connally stated that he was troubled by Senator George McGovern 's campaign and felt that the Democratic party `` is becoming an ideological machine closed to millions who have been the party 's most loyal and steadfast members '' under McGovern 's leadership . The committee included Mayor Beverly Briley of Nashville , Tennessee , former Governor of Florida Farris Bryant , Mayor of Boston John F. Collins , Mayor Thomas G. Dunn of Elizabeth , New Jersey , Teamsters president Frank Fitzsimmons , Governor of Virginia Mills E. Godwin , Jr. , Mayor of Miami , Florida David T. Kennedy and Leonard Marks who had previously headed the United States Information Agency . A fundraising target of as much as $ 3 million was set for the organization . Connally also announced that Jeno Paulucci , a frozen food distributor who had been closely involved as a fundraiser for Hubert H. Humphrey in his presidential bids , would serve as head of a group encouraging independent voters to choose Nixon . In a September 1972 article in The New York Times , Connally was quoted as saying that increasing numbers of traditionally Democratic voters were leaving the fold because they `` are afraid of George McGovern '' because of his proposals for major cutbacks in defense spending and in the number of U.S. troops serving in Europe . Connally insisted that `` it is in the best interests of this country that the president be re-elected this year '' .", "title": "" } ]

[ { "docid": "823d0a461cd25fea71472abcf5bef8d2", "text": "Eat Pray Love Eat Pray Love is a 2010 American biographical romantic comedy-drama film starring Julia Roberts as Elizabeth Gilbert , based on Gilbert 's best-selling memoir Eat , Pray , Love . Ryan Murphy co-wrote and directed the film , which opened in the United States on August 13 , 2010 .", "title": "" } ]

[ { "docid": "3527aeb914fbe4e9bd4f9f10d032c304", "text": "Lucky and Squash Lucky and Squash is an 2012 American children 's book written by Jeanne Birdsall and illustrated with watercolor paintings by Jane Dyer published by Harper . The two eponymous characters are dogs based on Birdsall 's and Dyer 's actual dogs , Cagney and Scuppers , a Boston Terrier and a Tibetan Terrier respectively . Lucky and Squash received generally positive reviews . A School Library Journal article praises Birdsall 's writing , describing the story as funny , sweet , heartwarming , and suspenseful . A Publishers Weekly review refers to Lucky and Squash as almost being `` Emma meets Ferris Bueller 's Day Off with wagging tails '' and states that Birdsall 's `` genial , intimate storytelling instantly establishes a bond with readers '' . A Booklist reviewer compares the story 's dog characters to Pyramus and Thisbe , lovers in Ovid 's Metamorphoses who , frustrated by being separated by a wall , conspire to run away together . An article in Kirkus Reviews calls the illustrations charming and says that they `` have all the clever details that are Dyer 's signature touch '' .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "8dbf26bbc64b6903c6338f41f16a5df7", "text": "Parallel Play (book) Parallel Play is a memoir by Tim Page , originally issued , over the author 's objections , as Parallel Play : Growing Up With Undiagnosed Asperger 's . ( The subtitle was dropped after the first edition . ) Published in 2009 by Doubleday , Parallel Play describes Page 's early life , growing up in Storrs , Connecticut , where he was regularly described as a genius and became known as a precocious filmmaker through the documentary A Day With Timmy Page . Yet he was personally remote , an underachiever in school and subject to depression and anxiety throughout his life . Eventually , he became a writer and critic and won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1997 . Three years later , he was diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome , which Page describes as `` one of those rare clinical confirmations met mostly with relief '' as it explained many of the difficulties he had experienced growing up . In August 2007 , a 5000-word article entitled Parallel Play was published in The New Yorker . The article was specifically about Page 's Asperger Syndrome . The book is more general , covering Page 's personal quirks , his drug-taking in youth , and a fatal accident in which he was a passenger . In his preface to the Anchor Books edition , Page disavowed the `` Undiagnosed Asperger 's '' subtitle and described Parallel Play as a `` quirky memoir that could have been subtitled ` Old Records and Silent Movies ' , ` Eastern Connecticut in the 1960s ' , or , to borrow a line from the Three Stooges , ` Loco Boy Makes Good ' . ''", "title": "" }, { "docid": "d2294747650bb85db6cb82763e390068", "text": "Josiah Gilbert Holland Josiah Gilbert Holland ( July 24 , 1819 -- October 12 , 1881 ) was an American novelist and poet who also wrote under the pseudonym Timothy Titcomb . He helped to found and edit Scribner 's Monthly ( afterwards the Century Magazine ) , in which appeared his novels , Arthur Bonnicastle , The Story of Sevenoaks , Nicholas Minturn . In poetry he wrote `` Bitter Sweet '' ( 1858 ) , `` Kathrina '' , the lyrics to the Methodist hymn `` There 's a Song in the Air '' , and many others .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "a81688b7aba58f5049603588fbaf3513", "text": "Elizabeth Craze Elizabeth Craze received a new heart in 1984 at the age of 2 years , 10 months . The operation was performed at Stanford Hospital , Stanford , California by the team of Norman Shumway , one of the early pionerers of heart transplant surgery . Although considered almost conventional today , in the early 1980s heart transplants ( in children especially ) were anything but routine . At the time of Elizabeth 's procedure , an ethics committee was formed at Stanford to review the advantages and disadvantages of possible surgery for her . It was not known at the time if a donated heart would `` continue to grow along with her body . '' Her family pleaded for the surgery as Elizabeth was gravely ill and weighed only 23 pounds . A decision to proceed was reached by the committee and the donor was a young girl from Utah who had been the victim of a car crash . Elizabeth had three siblings who died of heart failure in infancy , and she was diagnosed at only 4 months old . Her surviving sibling , older brother Andrew , had a heart transplant at the age of 16 . His operation preceded Elizabeth 's by one year , and Andrew was instrumental in pleading her case before the ethics committee . Craze , at the time of the operation and as of 2011 , is the youngest known surviving patient to have received a heart transplant . She has had to rely on various medications her whole life with some devastating side effects , including needing a kidney transplant surgery at the age of 15 . However , friends and family have noted that to look at Elizabeth now , one would never know of these struggles as she seems very healthy . `` Lizzy '' has been able to lead a normal life enjoying activities such as playing junior high school volleyball , and attending Whittier College . She was an active member of the Ionian Society , a local sorority , and went on to graduate in 2004 . In 2009 , Elizabeth was in IT for Facebook in Palo Alto , California , and celebrated the 25th anniversary of her surgery with a trip to Yosemite National Park and a short cruise to Mexico . Elizabeth was featured in the Spring/Summer 2012 Children 's Cardiomyopathy Foundation newsletter . In 2013 Lizzy 's boyfriend , Jeff Gibboney , proposed while the couple was backpacking in Yosemite . The couple was married in 2014 and they had a safari honeymoon in Tanzania . In October 2014 Lizzy celebrated her 30th anniversary of her surgery by raising money and awareness for Donate Life California and completing the Rock 'n' Roll Half-Marathon in San Jose . Lizzy is the only heart transplant recipient in America , and likely the world , to survive 30 years with the same donor heart she received as a toddler .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "dfdd3baccce39c4da041cbb8dafe4de4", "text": "Elizabeth Nickson Elizabeth Nickson is a Canadian writer and journalist . In the late 1980s and early 1990s , she was European bureau chief of Life magazine . In 2002 , Elizabeth Nickson 's column at the National Post was terminated due to a case of plagiarism . Canada 's National Post has dismissed a columnist due to concerns over plagiarism . The news broke in an Editor 's Note the paper ran on Friday : `` In freelancer Elizabeth Nickson 's column in the National Post of May 31 , 2002 , the following words should have been attributed to Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online : `` Kim Basinger is ` allergic ' to the sun and requires an assistant to carry an umbrella to protect her on the off chance she might be exposed to dangerous solar radiation . Sylvester Stallone once refused to continue with an interview until his hotel room was painted a more ` likable ' peach . Mike Myers almost quit the filming of Wayne 's World because he did n't have any margarine for his bagel . Sean Penn made an assistant swim the dangerous and polluted currents of New York 's East River just to bring him a cigarette . Jennifer Lopez is just one of the many stars who does not permit her employees to look her in the eyes . '' These sentences , as they appeared in Ms. Nickson 's column published two and a half years ago , were slightly revised from Mr. Goldberg 's original article that appeared a year earlier in 2001 . The National Post regrets the omission of the attribution to Mr. Goldberg and the National Review . While Ms. Nickson indicated that her failure to attribute the passage was inadvertent , the Post has decided to discontinue her weekly freelance column . ''", "title": "" }, { "docid": "959bd7930ea557bdbe9b33e8eea68a8d", "text": "The Edible Woman The Edible Woman is a 1969 novel that helped to establish Margaret Atwood as a prose writer of major significance . It is the story of a young woman whose sane , structured , consumer-oriented world starts to slip out of focus . Following her engagement , Marian feels her body and her self are becoming separated . As Marian begins endowing food with human qualities that cause her to identify with it , she finds herself unable to eat , repelled by metaphorical cannibalism . In a foreword written in 1979 for the Virago edition of the novel , Atwood described it as a protofeminist rather than feminist work . Atwood explores gender stereotypes through characters who strictly adhere to them ( such as Peter or Lucy ) and those who defy their constraints ( such as Ainsley or Duncan ) . The narrative point of view shifts from first to third person , accentuating Marian 's slow detachment from reality . At the conclusion , first person narration returns , consistent with the character 's willingness to take control of her life again . Food and clothing are major symbols used by the author to explore themes and grant the reader insight on each of the characters ' personalities , moods and motivations . Setting is used to identify differences between the characters ; for example , Duncan is encountered in a mundane laundromat , gloomy theatre or sleazy hotel . In comparison , Peter inhabits genteel bars and a sparkling new apartment . However these changing environments are also used to explore different angles of existence , contrasting a freer , wilder glimpse of life , with a civilised , gilded cage . This highlights the difficulties presented to women in the era , where freedom was synonymous with uncertainty but marriage presented problems of its own . This novel 's publication coincided with the rise of the women 's movement in North America , but is described by Atwood as `` protofeminist '' because it was written in 1965 and thus anticipated second wave feminism .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "aeeb743b3648d5de874daf898b0e773b", "text": "Elizabeth Merrick Elizabeth Merrick ( born 1973 ) is an American author , best known as the founder and director of the Grace Reading Series and as editor of the Random House anthology This is not chick lit . Merrick received a BA from Yale University , an MFA from Cornell University , and an MA in Creativity and Art Education from San Francisco State University . She has taught at New York University and Cornell and has received fellowships from the Saltonstall Foundation , the Ragdale Foundation , and VCCA . Merrick is also responsible for the independent publishing house Demimonde Books , which published Girly , Merrick 's first novel , released in December 2005 . She currently lives in New York City , where she works as a writing coach and runs the `` Elizabeth 's Workshops '' writing school .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "45bea368c68165017e820de7bde1f79c", "text": "Liz Murray Elizabeth Murray ( born ) is an American inspirational speaker who is notable for having been accepted by Harvard University despite being homeless in her high school years .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "fa5b902a50ae2d7b751941049b0c65ef", "text": "Love Family The Love Family , or the Church of Jesus Christ at Armageddon , was a U.S. communal religious movement led by Paul Erdman , who named himself Love Israel . The Love Family began in 1968 as one small communal household on Seattle 's Queen Anne Hill , and within the first ten years expanded to a network of communal homes and businesses . As more people arrived and settled in the surrounding neighborhood , Erdman , as the leader , continued to inherit land and homes ( from those who joined , primarily ) in other , more rural areas of Washington , Alaska and Hawaii . Most of the property is no longer under the control of Erdman , having been sold or returned to the original owners via litigation . Sources differ on the Love Family 's duration ; some claim that after a fractious conflict in 1984 , the community was reduced to a small fraction residing in suburban Bothell , Washington , while according to The Seattle Times and an article written by Serious Israel , the Love Family continued living on their 300 acre property in Arlington , Washington . The Love Family flourished on that acreage from 1984 until 2004 , when , according to the Seattle Times , some families moved to other , smaller properties . The Arlington commune supported both a local organic restaurant and an annual festival open to the public called the Garlic Festival , which drew healthy crowds to the property .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "813ada9efdebeef8fa4c0b8616ae0dda", "text": "God's Love We Deliver God 's Love We Deliver is an American non-profit organization which cooks and home-delivers nutritious , individually tailored meals to people in the New York City metropolitan area living with severe illness . The organization is headquartered in the SoHo neighborhood of the Manhattan borough of New York City , New York . Co-founded in 1986 by Ganga Stone and Jane Best , it began with meals ( delivered by bicycle ) which were donated by about fifty restaurants . As of 2011 , the organization brought over 4,000 meals a day to people living with severe illness .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "3714e66923cec736f947a9de7bd5357d", "text": "Love Story (novel) Love Story is a 1970 romance novel by American writer Erich Segal . The book 's origins lay in a screenplay that Segal wrote , and that was subsequently approved for production by Paramount Pictures . Paramount requested that Segal adapt the story into novel form as a preview of sorts for the film . The novel was released on February 14 , 1970 , Valentine 's Day . Portions of the story originally appeared in The Ladies ' Home Journal . Love Story became the top-selling work of fiction for all of 1970 in the United States , and was translated into more than 20 languages . The novel stayed for 41 weeks in The New York Times Best Seller list , reaching the top spot . A sequel , Oliver 's Story , was published in 1977 . The film ( Love Story ) was released on December 16 , 1970 .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "739481d3a1a4408980db7cea0746264d", "text": "Galileo's Daughter Galileo 's Daughter : A Historical Memoir of Science , Faith , and Love is a book by Dava Sobel . It is based on the surviving letters of Galileo Galilei 's daughter , the nun Suor Maria Celeste , and explores the relationship between Galileo and his daughter . It was nominated for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "fccccbecfd3d77a3f2e39a10bbe2fc26", "text": "Loving Memory Loving Memory is a 1971 drama film written and directed by Tony Scott , credited as Anthony Scott . This 57 minute film was made 12 years before Scott 's feature directorial debut , The Hunger .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "10f5344d00935e4d27a955064c362401", "text": "Julia Griggs Havey Julia Griggs Havey ( born 1962 ) is an American author of four diet books , written after her experience with obesity .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "17d23e50ccf7d413855f6deae69baada", "text": "Old Love (story) `` Old Love '' is a short story written by English author Jeffrey Archer . Published in 1980 in Archer 's A Quiver Full of Arrows by Hodder & Stoughton , it is the tale of two undergraduates at Oxford in the 1930s and their bitter rivalry that ends in a tragic love story . In 1987 , a play titled Love Song was produced by Richard Bennett based on the story .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "264a05f8318d97dcda87fbfc8c37d52a", "text": "Ellen Wittlinger Ellen Wittlinger ( born in Belleville , Illinois on October 21 , 1948 ) is an author for young adults , including Gracie 's Girl and the Printz Honor book Hard Love .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "0ea24173ce08fbdb19631629a5b90bba", "text": "Mary Susanne Edgar Mary Susannah Edgar was a Canadian author born in Sundridge , Ontario on May 23 , 1889 . Her schooling took her from Sundridge to Barrie High School and Havergal College , Toronto . She is the author of several books , one-act plays and hymns , the most famous of them being God Who Touchest Earth with Beauty , which has been translated into several languages and placed in hymnals around the world . She was the daughter of Joseph Edgar and Mary Little , from Sundridge , Ontario . In 1922 , she opened a girls ' camp near Sundridge on Lake Bernard , called Glen Bernard . Mary Edgar continued as the camp 's director until her retirement in 1956 . Her life was devoted to working with girls and camping through many local , provincial and national organizations . She was the author of many books , plays and hymns - One such hymn is `` O God of All the Many Lands '' . Mary S. Edgar died on September 17 , 1973 .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "4281e83125f8343bb4b90129936294da", "text": "Go Ask Alice Go Ask Alice is a 1971 fiction book about a teenage girl who develops a drug habit at age 15 , runs away from home , and eventually dies of a drug overdose . Attributed to `` Anonymous '' , the book is in diary form , and was originally presented as being the edited `` real diary '' of the unnamed teenage protagonist . Questions about the book 's authenticity and true authorship began to arise in the late 1970s , and it is now generally viewed as a work of fiction written by Beatrice Sparks , a therapist and author who went on to write numerous other books purporting to be real diaries of troubled teenagers . Some sources have also named Linda Glovach as a co-author of the book . Intended for a young adult audience , Go Ask Alice became a widely popular bestseller . It was initially praised for conveying a powerful message about the dangers of drug abuse , but more recently has been criticized as poorly written anti-drug propaganda and also as a literary hoax . Nevertheless , its popularity has endured , and as of 2014 it had remained continuously in print since its publication over four decades earlier . Go Ask Alice has also ranked among the most frequently challenged books for several decades due to its use of profanity and explicit references to sex and rape , as well as drugs . The book was adapted into the 1973 television film Go Ask Alice , starring Jamie Smith-Jackson and William Shatner . In 1976 , a stage play of the same name , written by Frank Shiras and based on the book , was also published .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "b06e2ab2c18df60c8d5fdc3d1fce51d8", "text": "Elizabeth Borton de Treviño Mary Elizabeth Victoria Borton de Treviño ( September 2 , 1904 -- December 2 , 2001 ) was an American author . Elizabeth was born in Bakersfield , California , to Carrie Louise Christensen and attorney Fred Ellsworth Borton . Her family were all enthusiastic readers ; Fred had published short stories and poems before becoming a lawyer . Elizabeth always wanted to become an author . She began writing poetry at age 6 , and had her first poem published at 8 . Her parents strongly encouraged her ambitions . She attended Stanford University , graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1925 with a bachelor 's degree in Latin American History . After finishing college , she moved to Massachusetts to study violin at the Boston Conservatory , then worked as a reporter . On August 10 , 1935 she married Luis Treviño Arreola y Gómez Sánchez de la Barquera ( b. August 5 , 1902 ) and moved to his hometown of Monterrey , Mexico . After their two sons , Luis Federico and Enrique Ricardo Treviño-Borton , were born , they lived in Monterrey for a time , then moved to Mexico City in 1941 . Their final move was to Cuernavaca , Morelos , known popularly as the `` City of Eternal Spring '' . Her book I , Juan de Pareja ( 1965 ) won the Newbery Medal in 1966 . It was inspired by her elder son Luis ' interest in art , particularly painting . Luis told her the story of the artist Diego Velázquez and his slave Juan de Pareja , model for one of Velázquez ' most famous paintings , whom Velázquez instructed in painting and later freed . After seeing the original of Velázquez ' painting of Juan , she was inspired to write about their relationship . Her younger son Enrique was the translator of the Spanish edition of the novel . Among her other novels are Nacar the White Deer , The Greek of Toledo , Casilda of the Rising Moon , El Güero : A True Adventure Story , Beyond the Gates of Hercules , and The Fourth Gift . She also wrote five of the `` Pollyanna '' books : Pollyanna in Hollywood , Pollyanna 's Castle in Mexico , Pollyanna 's Door To Happiness , Pollyanna 's Golden Horseshoe , and Pollyanna and the Secret Mission . Borton later wrote several memoirs of her life as an American who had married into a traditional Mexican family : the best-seller My Heart Lies South and its sequels , Where the Heart Is and The Hearthstone of My Heart . Her last book , Leona : A Love Story , was published in 1994 , when she was 90 . She died at 97 on December 2 , 2001 in Cuernavaca , Mexico . Her elder son Luis , an artist , never married . His brother Enrique , an attorney who lived in London for many years , married Sonia Rodríquez Vargas and had three children , Daniel Enrique , Elizabeth Victoria , and León Ricardo . Treviño 's novel The Music Within inspired American novelist Ray Downs ( Wind Across The Amazon ; One More Mission ) to become a writer . He was an English teacher at the Colegio Americano de Cuernavaca and visited Treviño often . Two of his students were Daniel Enrique and Elizabeth Victoria Treviño - Borton .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "62831f54c56a1bb59258e7740c4b8ef0", "text": "Erewhon Revisited Erewhon Revisited Twenty Years Later , Both by the Original Discoverer of the Country and by His Son ( 1901 ) is a satirical novel by Samuel Butler , forming a belated sequel to his Erewhon ( 1872 ) . The Cambridge History of English and American Literature judges that it `` has less of the free imaginative play of its predecessor ... but , in sharp brilliance of wit and criticism , in intellectual unity and coherence , it surpasses Erewhon '' . Erewhon , set in a thinly disguised New Zealand , ended with the escape of its unnamed protagonist from the native Erewhonians by balloon . In the sequel , narrated by his son John , we are told that our hero 's name is Higgs . Higgs returns to Erewhon and meets his former lover Yram , who is now the mother of his son George . He discovers that he is now worshipped as `` the Sunchild '' , his escape having been interpreted as an ascension into heaven , and that a church of Sunchildism has sprung up . He finds himself in danger from the villainous Professors Hanky and Panky , who are determined to protect Sunchildism from him . With George 's help Higgs escapes from their clutches and returns to England . The Swiftian device of setting his satire in a fictional culture enabled Butler , as the critic Elinor Shaffer has written , `` to analyse the phenomena of religion from their point of genesis , while disclaiming all responsibility for their uncanny parallels to certain known religions . '' It did not however make the road to publication any easier . When Butler submitted the manuscript to the respectable and long-established house of Longman , who had in recent years become his regular publishers , they rejected it for fear of offending their High Church clientele , even when Butler offered to pay the costs himself . On March 24 , 1901 he wrote to George Bernard Shaw , conceding that the book was `` far more wicked than Erewhon '' , and asking for his advice . Shaw replied recommending his own publisher , Grant Richards , and lost no time introducing Butler to him . The book duly came out under the Grant Richards imprint .", "title": "" } ]

[ { "docid": "ce07acf7d0c244460988d17eb3c8077a", "text": "Walt Disney Walter Elias Disney ( -LSB- ˈdɪzni -RSB- December 5 , 1901December 15 , 1966 ) was an American entrepreneur , animator , voice actor and film producer . A pioneer of the American animation industry , he introduced several developments in the production of cartoons . As a film producer , Disney holds the record for most Academy Awards earned by an individual , having won 22 Oscars from 59 nominations . He was presented with two Golden Globe Special Achievement Awards and an Emmy Award , among other honors . Several of his films are included in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress . Born in Chicago in 1901 , Disney developed an early interest in drawing . He took art classes as a boy and got a job as a commercial illustrator at the age of 18 . He moved to California in the early 1920s and set up the Disney Brothers Studio with his brother Roy . With Ub Iwerks , Walt developed the character Mickey Mouse in 1928 , his first highly popular success ; he also provided the voice for his creation in the early years . As the studio grew , Disney became more adventurous , introducing synchronized sound , full-color three-strip Technicolor , feature-length cartoons and technical developments in cameras . The results , seen in features such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ( 1937 ) , Fantasia , Pinocchio ( both 1940 ) , Dumbo ( 1941 ) and Bambi ( 1942 ) , furthered the development of animated film . New animated and live-action films followed after World War II , including the critically successful Cinderella ( 1950 ) and Mary Poppins ( 1964 ) , the latter of which received five Academy Awards . In the 1950s , Disney expanded into the amusement park industry , and in 1955 he opened Disneyland . To fund the project he diversified into television programs , such as Walt Disney 's Disneyland and The Mickey Mouse Club ; he was also involved in planning the 1959 Moscow Fair , the 1960 Winter Olympics , and the 1964 New York World 's Fair . In 1965 , he began development of another theme park , Disney World , the heart of which was to be a new type of city , the `` Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow '' ( EPCOT ) . Disney was a heavy smoker throughout his life , and died of lung cancer in December 1966 before either the park or the EPCOT project were completed . Disney was a shy , self-deprecating and insecure man in private , but adopted a warm and outgoing public persona . He had high standards and high expectations of those with whom he worked . Although there have been accusations that he was racist or anti-semitic , they have been contradicted by family members , employees and animation historians . His reputation changed in the years after his death , from a purveyor of homely patriotic values ( in the right ) to a representative of American imperialism ( in the left ) . Nevertheless , Disney is considered a cultural icon , particularly in the United States , where the company he co-founded is one of the world 's largest and best-known entertainment companies .", "title": "" } ]

[ { "docid": "feea4a89550e035c58d744efde7e9567", "text": "Animation stand An animation stand is a device assembled for the filming of any kind of animation that is placed on a flat surface , including cel animation , graphic animation , clay animation , and silhouette animation . Traditionally , the flat surface that the animation rests on is some kind of table that the animator sits at . Pegs made specifically for animation are embedded into the table , in at least two slots allowing the pegs to slide from side to side , permitting horizontal movement of images , but can also be easily fixed into position for the accurate positioning ( `` registration '' ) of the artwork . Opposite the animator is a series of supporting arms and supports , on top of which is mounted a film or video camera , pointing down toward the artwork , which films the artwork , frame-by-frame , as it is slowly moved and changed by the operator . The vertical positioning of the animation camera , always shooting down , is the main component that defines an animation stand , as opposed to a stop motion set-up , or other equipment arrangements for animation production . Animation stands can be homemade , from metal or wood , such as that owned by Los Angeles animator Mike Jittlov , and still accomplish impressive animation production ; or they can be elaborate ( and expensive ) professionally made precision systems that allow for the computerised movements of both the art and the camera , as has been traditionally used by professional animation studios and special effects facilities such as the Walt Disney studio ( famous for their Multiplane camera ) and George Lucas 's Industrial Light & Magic ( ILM ) facilities .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "f7178d2a6fee9c52972ad3fbd5c966aa", "text": "Marvel Productions Marvel Productions Ltd. , later known as New World Animation Ltd. , was the television and film studio subsidiary of the Marvel Entertainment Group , based in Hollywood , Los Angeles , California . It later became a subsidiary of New World Entertainment and eventually of News Corporation ( Fox Entertainment Group ) . Marvel Productions produced animated television series , motion pictures , and television specials such as Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends , The Incredible Hulk , My Little Pony : The Movie , The Transformers : The Movie , and G.I. Joe : The Movie as well as the Transformers and G.I. Joe : A Real American Hero television series . Most of Marvel Productions ' back catalog ( mostly non-Hasbro related productions ) is currently owned by The Walt Disney Company .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "6a69a9db544dfebd1ceab0575d8154cf", "text": "Film Booking Offices of America Film Booking Offices of America ( FBO ) , also known as FBO Pictures Corporation , was an American film studio of the silent era , a producer and distributor of mostly low-budget films . The business began in 1918 as Robertson-Cole ( U.S. ) , the American division of a British import -- export company and Robertson-Cole was formed by the English-born Harry F. Robertson and the American Rufus Sidman Cole . Robertson-Cole bought the Hallmark Exchanges ( formerly the Mutual Exchanges that became known as Exhibitors-Mutual Exchanges ) from Frank J. Hall in 1920 . Exhibitors-Mutual/Hallmark had distributed Robertson-Cole product , and acquiring the exchanges gave them the right to distribute their own films plus Hall 's product , with the exception of Charlie Chaplin reissues he had the rights to . Robertson-Cole initiated movie production in the United States in 1920 . That year , it incorporated Robertson-Cole Studios , Inc. and bought 460 acres in Santa Monica , California to establish a studio . The property , which became known as the `` R.C. Ranch '' , enabled Robertson-Cole to centralize movie production , which previously had been scattered . The movie company had relied on equipment rentals to produce motion pictures . Two years later , a corporate reorganization led to the company 's new name , with FBO becoming the official name of the distributing operation and Robertson-Cole Pictures Corp. the name of the production operation . In 1923 , the studio contracted with Western actor Fred Thomson , who would soon emerge as one of Hollywood 's most popular stars . Thomson was just one of numerous screen cowboys with whom FBO became identified . The studio , whose core market was America 's small towns , also put out many romantic melodramas , non-Western action pictures , and comedic shorts . In 1926 , financier Joseph P. Kennedy led a group that acquired the company . In June 1928 , using RCA Photophone technology , FBO became only the second Hollywood studio to release a feature-length `` talkie . '' A few months later , Kennedy and RCA chief David Sarnoff arranged the merger that created RKO , one of the major studios of Hollywood 's Golden Age .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "b5f4c32797741a74c1b25fa6d76b95ed", "text": "Toy Story (franchise) Toy Story is a computer animated film series and Disney media franchise that began with the original 1995 film , Toy Story , produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures . The franchise is based on the anthropomorphic concept that all toys , unknown to humans , are secretly alive , and the films focus on a diverse group of toys that feature a classic cowboy , Sheriff Woody , and modern spaceman , Buzz Lightyear . The group unexpectedly embark on adventures that challenge and change them . The first two films of the franchise were directed by John Lasseter , and the third by Lee Unkrich , who acted as the co-director of the second film ( together with Lasseter and Ash Brannon ) . Lasseter will return to direct the upcoming fourth film . All three films , produced on a total budget of $ 320 million , have grossed more than $ 1.9 billion worldwide . Each film set box office records , with the third included in the top 15 all time worldwide films . Critics have given all three films extremely positive reviews . Special Blu-ray and DVD editions of Toy Story and Toy Story 2 were released on March 23 , 2010 . They were also re-released in theaters as a Disney Digital 3-D `` double feature '' for at least two weeks in October 2009 . The series is the 24th highest-grossing franchise worldwide , the fifth highest-grossing animated franchise ( behind Shrek , Ice Age , Despicable Me and Madagascar ) , and is among the most critically acclaimed trilogies of all time . On November 1 , 2011 , all three Toy Story films were released in Disney Blu-ray 3D as a trilogy pack and as individual films .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "f8a75d85a4f1a8662762915dc433393a", "text": "Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress Walt Disney 's Carousel of Progress is an attraction located at the Magic Kingdom park at the Walt Disney World Resort . Created by both Walt Disney and WED Enterprises as the prime feature of the General Electric ( GE ) Pavilion for the 1964 New York World 's Fair , the attraction was moved to Tomorrowland at Disneyland in Anaheim , California as Carousel of Progress , remaining there from 1967 until 1973 . It was replaced in Disneyland by America Sings in 1974 , and reopened in its present home in Walt Disney World Resort 's Magic Kingdom in 1975 . Steeped in both nostalgia and ( In the past ) futurism , the attraction 's premise is an exploration of the joys of living through the advent of electricity and other technological advances during the 20th century via a `` typical '' American family . To keep it up with the times , the attraction has been updated five times ( in 1967 , 1975 , 1981 , 1985 , and 1993 ) and has had two different theme songs , both written by the Sherman Brothers ( Disney 's Academy Award-winning songwriting team ) . Various sources say Walt Disney himself proclaimed that the Carousel of Progress was his favorite attraction and that it should never cease operation . This can be somewhat supported by family and friends , who knew of his constant work on the attraction . Of all the attractions he presented at the 1964 -- 1965 New York World 's Fair , Disney seemed especially devoted to the Carousel of Progress . The Carousel of Progress holds the record as the longest-running stage show , with the most performances , in the history of American theater . It is one of the oldest attractions in the whole Walt Disney World Resort . It is also one of the only attractions at Walt Disney World to have been touched by Walt Disney himself .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "727ede2d4889f1ce1faad7fdd093d47d", "text": "ASIFA-Hollywood ASIFA-Hollywood , an American non-profit organization in Los Angeles , California , United States , is a branch member of the `` Association Internationale du Film d'Animation '' or `` ASIFA '' ( the International Animated Film Association ) . Its purpose is to promote the art of film animation in a variety of ways , including its own archive and an annual awards presentation , the Annie Awards . It is also known as the International Animated Film Society . Many branches of ASIFA exist throughout the world ; in the US there are chapters in San Francisco , New York City , Atlanta , Seattle , Washington , the Detroit area , and others , while internationally , organizations exist in Annecy , France , in Italy , and Japan . ASIFA also sponsors several animation film festivals throughout the world , including the ASIFA-Hollywood Student Animation Festival . ASIFA-Hollywood has the largest membership internationally of all other chapters , largely because the most popular cartoons ever produced were by studios and animation professionals located in the city of Burbank , which is also the location of the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Center . It includes a virtual archive , museum , library and research facility , containing the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive Project .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "683b93384d36c1c05900189251eb72e0", "text": "Virtual Magic Kingdom Virtual Magic Kingdom , also known as VMK , was a massively multiplayer online game developed by Walt Disney Parks and Resorts and Sulake Corporation and published by The Walt Disney Company . It was a virtual representation of the Disneyland style theme parks , containing areas and minigames which were based on real park scenery and attractions . It was launched as part of the Happiest Celebration on Earth promotional campaign to commemorate fifty years of Disney theme parks . The beta version opened publicly on May 23 , 2005 , with three virtual lands to explore : Main Street USA , Fantasyland , and Adventureland . This `` beta '' designation was removed on June 27 . The Tomorrowland game area was made available on October 5 , and Frontierland opened on December 12 . The rest of Tomorrowland opened on April 4 , 2006 , and New Orleans Square , the final land added , opened on January 8 , 2007 . VMK initially launched as an attachment to the Disneyland 50th-anniversary celebration , without long-term intentions , but it gained popularity and eventually became a long-term venture on its own . The target audience of the game was children between the ages of 8 and 14 , although VMK was designed to be enjoyed by guests of all ages . Due to the young age of the game 's target users , it was patrolled by paid staff who watched out for inappropriate behavior and language . Because of the need for human monitors , the time that the game was open had to be limited ; it was open to the public daily between 7:00 am -- 10:00 pm PST ( 10:00 am -- 1:00 am EST , 3:00 pm -- 6:00 am UTC ) . On May 21 , 2008 , the Virtual Magic Kingdom game was closed by Disney . Many fans asked Disney if VMK was going to reopen . This prompted Disney to post a message on the VMK homepage that the game was a promotion , and was closed , and that there were `` no plans '' to reopen VMK in any form . The VMK homepage now redirects to the main Disney games site .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "a42de0d43fdbc928ea4e5a27d26352b3", "text": "Joe Ranft Joseph Henry `` Joe '' Ranft ( March 13 , 1960 -- August 16 , 2005 ) was an American screenwriter , animator , storyboard artist , voice actor and magician who worked for Pixar Animation Studios and Disney at Walt Disney Animation Studios and Disney Television Animation . His brother , Jerome Ranft , is a sculptor who also worked on several Pixar movies . He received an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay nomination as one of the writers of Toy Story ( 1995 ) , and was also co-director on Cars ( 2006 ) , his final work .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "6b622f3dc01fda937c880cf3fb8f93a6", "text": "Frozen (franchise) Frozen is a Disney media franchise started by the 2013 American animated feature Frozen , which was directed by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee from a screenplay by Lee and produced by Peter Del Vecho , with songs by Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez . Walt Disney Animation Studios ' chief creative officer John Lasseter served as the film 's executive producer . The original film was inspired by the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale `` The Snow Queen '' . Since the film 's release in November 2013 , the franchise has expanded very rapidly . To date , the franchise includes various Disney theme park attractions , merchandise , video games , books , a Disney on Ice show , and a short animated film . Disney has also announced that it is working on a Broadway stage musical adaptation , an animated film sequel , and a new book series . In November 2014 , TheStreet.com explained that `` Frozen is no longer a movie , it 's a global brand , a larger than life franchise built around products , theme parks and sequels that could last into the next century '' . Boxoffice '' chief analyst Phil Contrino was quoted as saying `` it 's become massive '' .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "69d5dff6683a5fe51daa0188e62199c0", "text": "Innoventions (Epcot) Innoventions is a museum at Epcot in Walt Disney World , Florida . It focuses on technological advancements and their practical applications in everyday life . Innoventions is a portmanteau of the words `` innovation '' and `` invention '' . Innoventions first opened in 1994 which prominently displayed Sega Genesis , Sega Game Gear , Sega 32X , Sega CD , and Sega Pico games in an arcade style . There were some `` virtual reality '' displays ( which was basically more advanced video games at the time ) . Innoventions in Epcot replaced the original tenant of its two semi-circular buildings , CommuniCore . Epcot 's version is divided into two buildings known as Innoventions East and Innoventions West . In 1999 , Innoventions had a major renovation for the park 's Millennium Celebration , and added the subtitle `` The Road to Tomorrow '' . In 2007-2008 Innoventions underwent another major renovation , dropped the subtitle `` Road to Tomorrow , '' and changed its general aesthetic again while also launching the companion website innoventions.disney.com .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "a555543bd4385eb8516cdf76fa407514", "text": "Miramax Miramax ( also known as Miramax Films , stylized as MIRAMAX ) is an American entertainment company known for producing and distributing films and television shows . It is headquartered in Santa Monica , California . Miramax was founded in 1979 by Bob and Harvey Weinstein , and was a leading independent film motion picture distribution and production company before it was acquired by the Walt Disney Company on June 30 , 1993 . Shortly thereafter , Pulp Fiction was released . The Weinsteins operated Miramax with more creative and financial independence than any other division of Disney , until September 30 , 2005 when they decided to leave the company and founded The Weinstein Company . Miramax was sold by Disney to Filmyard Holdings , a joint venture of Colony Capital , Tutor-Saliba Corporation , and Qatar Investment Authority , in 2010 , ending Disney 's 17-year ownership of the studio . In 2016 , ownership was transferred to beIN Media Group .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "9aa619bab74d868011db13ece52eef92", "text": "Bernard Wolf Bernard `` Berny '' Wolf ( July 18 , 1911 -- September 7 , 2006 ) was an American animator and television producer . Wolf was born in New York City . His career in animation started in 1924 , when he began work as an inker on Paramount Studios ' Krazy Kat silent shorts as an Inker along with Dave Tendlar . He moved to Fleischer Studios shortly afterwards , where he was hired by Max Fleischer as an Inbetweener on Koko the Clown in the silent Out of the Inkwell series . In 1931 he was promoted to the position of Animator and worked with Seymour Kneitel on the Betty Boop cartoons . While much credit has been given to Grim Natwick for her creation , her transformation into the cute cartoon girl was due to the work of Berny Wolf , Seymour Kneitel , Roland Crandall , and Willard Bowsky , who continued working with her after Natwick left in early February 1931 to direct for Ub Iwerks on the west coast . It was at Fleischer Studios that he met Shamus Culhane and Al Eugster , with whom he would maintain a long personal and professional relationship . The three would leave Fleischer to work briefly for Ub Iwerks , where they worked alongside Grim Natwick . In 1935 Wolf , Eugster , and Culhane , moved to Walt Disney Studios . After working briefly in the Shorts Department , Wolf moved on to features . He was one of the animators of Jiminy Cricket in Pinocchio , and the Centaurs in Fantasia . His final work at Disney was on Dumbo ( 1941 ) . Wolf left Disney after the 1941 strike . He briefly provided uncredited work for Tex Avery at MGM before being drafted during World War II . Wolf was assigned to the First Motion Picture Unit , a group of former Hollywood personnel who created short educational films for the American military . After the war , Wolf worked briefly for animator Rudolph Ising before forming his own company , Animedia Inc. . Animedia produced animation for advertising and commercial films . The company also designed some of the costumes used at Walt Disney World , as well as animating segments for Sesame Street . Wolf folded Animedia in the 1970s in order to return to animation full-time . He produced several animated features for Hanna Barbera , including 1987 's The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones . . He was Producer of `` Bobby 's World '' for Film Roman , and was an uncredited Animator on `` Tom and Jerry : The Movie '' ( 1991 ) . He retired from animation in the 1990s , but continued to provide freelance animation pre-production for Fred Wolf Films , commercial design , including developing mascots for the MGM Grand hotel in Las Vegas . Wolf died in 2006 at the age of 95 .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "5fc10ab9ac0131b6979dffd4e53629f0", "text": "The International House of Mojo The International House of Mojo ( often called Mixnmojo ) is a website focused on LucasArts video games . It later expanded to cover studios founded by former LucasArts employees , including Double Fine Productions , Telltale Games , Autumn Moon Entertainment and Crackpot Entertainment . It was founded in 1997 by James Spafford and is among the longest-running `` fan sites '' on the internet . Mixnmojo once enjoyed an active relationship with LucasArts , and reviews have occasionally been quoted in the company 's marketing such as on the cover of the UK release of Monkey Island Special Edition Collection . The site was also referenced in the book Rogue Leaders : The Story of LucasArts , and staff has been interviewed by the gaming press . Developers highlighted by the site have often reciprocated its fondness . Tim Schafer of Double Fine Productions called Mixnmojo their `` friendly friends '' and praised the staff for their knowledge . At E3 2003 , in order to make light of an extended downtime the site was experiencing , staffers in attendance playfully cajoled then-producer Dan Pettit of LucasArts into appearing in a video painting him as complicit in the site 's technical woes . The site once even received permission from LucasArts to pull an elaborate April Fools prank that announced a fictional fifth Monkey Island installment ( at the time , the series only had four games ) complete with fake cover art and sound files of Dominic Armato performing dialog invented by the staff . Though created as an all-encompassing LucasArts site , Mixnmojo has always favored the studio 's original titles , particularly its classic graphic adventure games , over the more popular Star Wars products . This at times strained the relationship with the company . As the site featured the unregulated opinions of its contributors rather a unified editorial point of view , it quickly established an endearingly quirky , if occasionally abrasive , tone in its editorials and news posts . After the turn of the century , LucasArts began shifting away from original properties and the adventure genre in particular , culminating in the cancellation of Sam & Max : Freelance Police in 2004 . In response to this , Mixnmojo began broadening its coverage to include studios operated by LucasArts alumni that they believe continue the creative spirit abandoned by the original company . LucasArts was eventually shut down soon after Lucasfilm was purchased by Disney in 2012 . Its oldest fan site remains active as an information hub for LucasArts legacy titles , which have remained topical due to their continued influence , remakes and re-releases , as well as a news source for games produced by key LucasArts alumni .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "40959f8d3abb23b5b06a6c913ab273ac", "text": "Animation studio An animation studio is a company producing animated media . The broadest such companies conceive of products to produce , own the physical equipment for production , employ operators for that equipment , and hold a major stake in the sales or rentals of the media produced . They also own rights over merchandising and creative rights for characters created/held by the company , much like authors holding copyrights . In some early cases , they also held patent rights over methods of animation used in certain studios that were used for boosting productivity . Overall , they are business concerns and can function as such in legal terms . Currently there are about 201 animation studios dedicated to the production and distribution of animated films that are active . Few are actual production house where as others are corporate entities . Many of these animation studios help with the fulfillment of animation works for big brand names and have carried out outsourced projects including Nemo .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "1ea2b79112a0a5c8a1f775dd72cbc60c", "text": "Peter Schneider (film executive) Peter Schneider is an American film and theatrical producer , notable as the first president of Walt Disney Feature Animation for The Walt Disney Company from 1985 to 1999 , and was responsible for helping to turn the feature animation department around and creating some of the most critically acclaimed and highest grossing animated features that Disney released . These films included Who Framed Roger Rabbit ( 1988 ) , The Little Mermaid ( 1989 ) , Beauty and the Beast ( 1991 , the first animated feature to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture ) , Aladdin ( 1992 ) , and The Lion King ( 1994 , the highest domestic grossing animated film of all time until 2003 ) . Schneider also sealed the deal that created the highly successful partnership between Pixar and Disney . He was promoted to studio chief in 1999 . In 2001 , Schneider left Disney to form his own theater production company . His first major production , developed in association with Michael Reno , was Sister Act which opened at the London Palladium in 2009 . Peter graduated from Purdue University in 1972 with a theater degree . Along with producer Don Hahn , Schneider produced a documentary entitled Waking Sleeping Beauty in 2009 , which focused on the revival of Disney animation during the 1980s and early 1990s . Schneider is also a world champion bridge player , having won the World Transnational Open Teams Championship in 2005 . He possesses the title of World Bridge Federation ( WBF ) World Life Master ( WLM ) .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "1bf49f4fd331ffb611d4eb8ae0520a0f", "text": "Walt Disney World Dolphin The Walt Disney World Dolphin is a resort hotel designed by architect Michael Graves located between Epcot and Disney 's Hollywood Studios in the Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake , Florida , next to Disney 's BoardWalk Resort area . It opened on June 1 , 1990 and is joined to its sister hotel , the Walt Disney World Swan ( also designed by Graves ) by a palm-tree lined covered walkway crossing a lagoon . The Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin is a joint venture between the Walt Disney Company , Tishman Hotel Corporation , MetLife and Starwood Hotels and Resorts . The land the resort occupies is owned by the Walt Disney Company , while the buildings themselves are leased by Disney to the Tishman Hotel Corporation and MetLife but operated by Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide under the Sheraton Hotels brand . The Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin are a part of the Walt Disney Collection of resorts ; because of this they are Disney branded and guests of the resort have access to special Disney benefits available to Disney Resort Hotel guests only . The Dolphin and Swan share similar elements , but each has a distinctive appearance . The Dolphin is composed of a 257 ft tall triangular tower bisecting a 12-story rectangular mass with four 9-story wings on the Swan-side of the structure . The roof of each half of the main mass is adorned with a 56 ft tall Dolphin statue . On the main colored facade there is a turquoise banana-leaf pattern echoed by a similar wave pattern on the Swan . The statues on top of the Dolphin hotel are not mammalian dolphins , but a stylized version of a nautical dolphin , a common symbol used on old world nautical maps . The design of the creatures is based on Triton Fountain in Rome . In 2008 , The Walt Disney Dolphin Resort was awarded a One Palm Designation through the Florida Green Lodging Program established by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection . The Florida Green Lodging Program is a voluntary state initiative that provides the lodging industry with free technical assistance , encouraging hotels and motels to adopt cost-saving `` green '' practices that reduce waste , conserve natural resources and improve the bottom line .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "c50b0bfbf5ed4fa084f8cfbb70a5bd7b", "text": "List of Disney live-action shorts This is a listing of live-action motion picture shorts produced by Walt Disney or The Walt Disney Company , from 1921 to the present . This list only includes shorts which were initially released as individual shorts , which excludes the shorts that were originally released as part of Disney features in the 1950s and later re-released as individual shorts . This list also does not include shorts that do not contain any original stock footage . This list includes shorts with both live action and animation only if the majority of the short contains live action . This list does not include any trailers as they are usually edited from the features they are supposed to promote .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "4a913a508bcb016d99cd6c7e4975a6a1", "text": "Major film studio A major film studio is a production and film distributor that releases a substantial number of films annually and consistently commands a significant share of box office revenue in a given market . In the North American , Western , and global markets , the major film studios , often simply known as the majors , are commonly regarded as the six diversified media conglomerates whose various film production and distribution subsidiaries collectively command approximately 80 to 85 percent of U.S. and Canadian box office revenue . The term may also be applied more specifically to the primary motion picture business subsidiary of each respective conglomerate . The `` Big Six '' majors , whose operations are based in or around the Los Angeles neighborhood of Hollywood , are all centered in film studios active during Hollywood 's Golden Age of the 1930s and 1940s . In three cases -- 20th Century Fox , Warner Bros. , and Paramount -- the studios were one of the `` Big Five '' majors during that era as well . In two cases -- Columbia and Universal -- the studios were also considered majors , but in the next tier down , part of the `` Little Three '' . In the sixth case , Walt Disney Studios was an independent production company during the Golden Age ; it was an important Hollywood entity , but not a major . Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer , United Artists , and RKO were majors . Today , Disney is the only member of the Big Six whose parent entity is still located near Los Angeles ( actually , on Disney 's studio lot and in the same building ) . The five others report to conglomerates headquartered in New York City , Philadelphia , and Tokyo . Of the Big Six , Paramount is the only one still based in Hollywood , and Paramount and Fox are the only ones still located within the Los Angeles city limits , while Disney and Warner Bros. are located in Burbank , Columbia in Culver City , and Universal in the unincorporated area of Universal City . Most of today 's Big Six control subsidiaries with their own distribution networks that concentrate on arthouse pictures ( e.g. Fox Searchlight Pictures ) or genre films ( e.g. Sony 's Screen Gems ) ; several of these specialty units were shut down or sold off between 2008 and 2010 . The six major studios are contrasted with smaller production and/or distribution companies , which are known as independents or `` indies '' . The leading independent producer/distributors -- Lionsgate Films , The Weinstein Company , and former major studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer -- are sometimes referred to as `` mini-majors '' . From 1998 through 2005 , DreamWorks SKG commanded a large enough market share to arguably qualify it as a seventh major , despite its relatively small output . In 2006 , DreamWorks was acquired by Viacom , Paramount 's corporate parent . In late 2008 , DreamWorks once again became an independent production company ; its films were distributed by Disney 's Touchstone Pictures until 2016 , at which point distribution switched to Universal . The Big Six major studios are today primarily backers and distributors of films whose actual production is largely handled by independent companies -- either long-running entities or ones created for and dedicated to the making of a specific film . The specialty divisions often simply acquire distribution rights to pictures in which the studio has had no prior involvement . While the majors still do a modicum of true production , their activities are focused more in the areas of development , financing , marketing , and merchandising . Those business functions are still usually performed in or near Los Angeles , even though the runaway production phenomenon means that most films are now mostly or completely shot on location at places outside Los Angeles . Since the dawn of filmmaking , the U.S. major film studios have dominated both American cinema and the global film industry . U.S. studios have benefited from a strong first-mover advantage in that they were the first to industrialize filmmaking and master the art of mass-producing and distributing high-quality films with broad cross-cultural appeal . Today , the Big Six majors routinely distribute hundreds of films every year into all significant international markets ( that is , where discretionary income is high enough for consumers to afford to watch films ) . It is very rare , if not impossible , for a film to reach a broad international audience on multiple continents and in multiple languages without first being picked up by one of the majors for distribution .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "b6288fee2bd1021cbd3c2016ba584e22", "text": "Walt Disney Studios Walt Disney Studios may refer to : Walt Disney Studios ( division ) , the Walt Disney Company 's Studio Entertainment unit , which includes Disney 's motion picture studios , music labels , theatrical production company , and distribution companies . Walt Disney Studios ( Burbank ) , complex in Burbank , California , built in 1939 , which serves as the corporate headquarters for The Walt Disney Company . It is also a functioning film studio and hosts production facilities for Disney 's various entertainment businesses Walt Disney Animation Studios , the company 's main animation division . Animated films are released under the Walt Disney Pictures label Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures , the primary theatrical film distributor of Disney films in the USA and abroad Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment , the primary home media distributor of Disney films in the USA and abroad", "title": "" }, { "docid": "1345fa0f325b226ad6f23a1ce07c8a73", "text": "Donald Duck universe The Donald Duck universe is a fictional shared universe which is the setting of stories involving Disney cartoon character Donald Duck , as well as Daisy Duck , Huey , Dewey , and Louie , Scrooge McDuck , and many other characters . The world is a part of the Mickey Mouse universe , but is more detailed . Life in the Donald Duck universe centers on the city of Duckburg , usually located in the fictional U.S. state of Calisota , analogous to Northern California . The world also incorporates several other real and fictional locations , as well as historical figures and a fictional timeline , which is followed with varying degrees of consistency . Disney comics are the primary medium for Donald Duck stories . Contributors include Americans Carl Barks , Ted Osborne , Don Rosa , Tony Strobl , Al Taliaferro , and William Van Horn , as well as Italians Giovan Battista Carpi , Marco Rota , and Romano Scarpa . Other media includes short films in the Donald Duck series , children 's books such as Little Big Books and Little Golden Books , television series such as DuckTales ( 1987 -- 1990 ) and Darkwing Duck ( 1991 -- 1992 ) , and video games such as QuackShot ( 1991 ) , Goin ' Quackers ( 2000 ) , and DuckTales : Remastered ( 2013 ) . `` Donald Duck universe '' is not an official Disney term , but is sometimes used by fans . Don Rosa has also used the terms Barks Universe and Italian Duck Universe to describe different versions of the world 's continuity . The terms `` Barksian '' or `` Barksian facts '' has also been used to describe the canon of the Donald Duck universe , as many comic book creators and fans only consider the stories by Carl Barks as factual , since he is the creator of many of its major characters , locations and ideas . Don Rosa is an example of this when creating his comic book series The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck , with most of his stories being based on the works by Barks . Additionally , the stories by Al Taliaferro and Ted Osborne are also considered canon by many fans , being that they are the creators of Huey , Dewey and Louie and Grandma Duck , and part of their work precedes Barks ' work .", "title": "" } ]

[ { "docid": "6325fe342192054ba5df0861d99a0ae9", "text": "Grease (musical) Grease is a 1971 musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey with additional songs written by John Farrar ( movie and post revivals ) . Named after the 1950s United States working-class youth subculture known as greasers , the musical is set in 1959 at fictional Rydell High School ( based on William Howard Taft School in Chicago , Illinois ) and follows ten working-class teenagers as they navigate the complexities of peer pressure , politics , personal core values , and love . The score attempts to recreate the sounds of early rock and roll . In its original production in Chicago , Grease was a raunchy , raw , aggressive , vulgar show . Subsequent productions sanitized it and tamed it down . The show mentions social issues such as teenage pregnancy , peer pressure and gang violence ; its themes include love , friendship , teenage rebellion , sexual exploration during adolescence , and , to some extent , class consciousness/class conflict . Grease was first performed in 1971 in the original Kingston Mines nightclub in Chicago ( since demolished ) . Once opened , Grease was immediately well received by the public because it was created for nostalgia about the 1950s and as an escape from the intense and ongoing political and cultural issues through the 1960s . It served as an entertainment to everyone , reminded the baby boomers about their teens years , rode on the rising popularity of rock music in Broadway , and shed light on cultural truths about America . The show centred around authenticity and rawness , as is rock and roll . It boldly confronted people about social norms and rightly portrayed teenage rebellion , angst , and sexuality . Since the first performance it has been successful on both stage and screen , but the content has been diluted and its teenage characters have become less Chicago habitués and more generic . At the time that it closed in 1980 , Greases 3,388-performance run was the longest yet in Broadway history , although it was surpassed by A Chorus Line a few years later . It went on to become a West End hit , a successful feature film , two popular Broadway revivals in 1994 and 2007 , and a staple of regional theatre , summer stock , community theatre , and high school and middle school drama groups . It remains Broadway 's 15th longest-running show . Aspects of the stage play would be incorporated into the production 's 2016 live TV musical .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "92a5be6e3e737556868fcc1e74369f5d", "text": "Warren Casey Warren Casey ( April 20 , 1935 -- November 8 , 1988 ) was an American theatre composer , lyricist , writer , and actor . He is best known for being the writer and composer , with Jim Jacobs , of the stage and film musical Grease .", "title": "" } ]

[ { "docid": "33df8cdbcd549d4a5e96a40a8cd8d3c5", "text": "Theatre World Theatre World is the only ( first published in 1945 ) , comprehensive , annual pictorial and statistical record of American theatre in print publication , including Broadway , Off-Broadway , Off-Off-Broadway , and regional theatre , as well as a complete national theatrical awards section and obituaries . Including over 750 photographs , it is the definitive pictorial and statistical reference to each American theatrical season , and is referenced daily by industry professionals , students , historians , and theatre fans worldwide . Until 1998 , the Theatre World editorial staff administered the Theatre World Awards for Outstanding Broadway and off-Broadway debuts . First under the supervision of Theatre World founder Daniel Blum and then under John Willis , who took over the production of the Awards following Blum 's death in 1964 , the Theatre World Awards were first given to those recipients considered `` Promising Personalities . '' In 1998 , the Theatre World Awards were incorporated as a 501 ( c ) 3 nonprofit organization and are currently overseen by a board of directors independent of `` Theatre World . '' Theatre World is the recipient of a 2001 Tony Honor for Excellence in Theatre , presented by the American Theatre Wing , and on behalf of the publication , longtime editor-in-chief John Willis ( 1916-2010 ) accepted honors including the first Special Lucille Lortel Award , a Special Drama Desk Award , and the Broadway Theatre Institute ( now The Theatre Museum ) Lifetime Achievement Award . Theatre World is published annually by Theatre World Media and distributed by Applause Theatre and Cinema Books . The permanent editorial staff currently consists of Ben Hodges , editor in chief , and coeditor Scott Denny . Current editorial staff includes Adam Feldman of Time Out New York ( Broadway ) , Linda Buchwald TDF Stages ( Off-Broadway ) , Shay Gines New York Innovative Theatre Awards ( Off-Off-Broadway ) , and Diep Tran American Theatre Magazine ( Regional theatre ) .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "18c425739c8b3cb54b8feef9ec47c89c", "text": "About Time (play) About Time is a theatrical play written by playwright Tom Cole that debuted in 1990 Off Broadway at the John Houseman Theater . This two-character play featured an elderly couple , identified only as Old Man and Old Woman , chatting and arguing about matters around the subject of death . Directed by Tony Giordano , the play original production starred James Whitmore and Audra Lindley , described in a Mel Gussow review as an `` endearing couple '' who `` act their way through and around the slight play that Tom Cole has created for them '' . Lindley and Whitmore had been married to each other and divorced in 1979 , yet continued to perform with each other on stage . The play presents four short scenes , titled `` Breakfast '' , `` Lunch '' , `` Supper '' and `` Late Snack '' , with the play traditionally having an intermission between the second and third sets . Almost of the play revolves around food and meals , its preparation and consumption , set in the kitchen of their condo . The set , designed by Kent Dorsey , included a fully functional kitchen . The Old Woman laments how her advancing age has increased the amount of time she requires to prepare meals for Old Man 's demanding appetite , including his favorite dish of chopped vegetables with sour cream , while her need for food has only diminished . The couple talks about their past , providing some limited insights into the characters , with the Old Man describing how he operated a successful business but regrets not doing more to have helped the needy , though the play provides little about Old Woman and her past or the steps that led her to taking a subservient role in their marriage to her husband . The second-most discussed issue behind food is sex , with Gussow describing in his review how Old Woman believes `` that nymphomania may be her mania of choice '' . Gussow credited the director and cast for performing beyond the play 's flaws , noting how Whitmore was able to play a `` foxy pretender '' even with his face hidden behind a newspaper , while Lindley combined humor and sweetness in her performance . The play had been produced at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick , New Jersey in February 1990 under the title The Eighties , directed by Gregory S. Hurst with the same cast as Off-Broadway . An earlier version was produced in March 1983 at the Milwaukee Repertory Theater in Milwaukee , Wisconsin under The Eighties , or Last Love , with Megan Hunt and Emmettt O'Sullivan Moore in the two roles .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "a18ea6b9a00c4cc518f1947a3e80b5fb", "text": "Walter Wykes Walter Wykes ( born October 30 , 1969 ) is an American playwright . A graduate of the MFA playwriting program at the University of Nevada , Las Vegas , he has had over thirty plays produced across the United States and internationally . Four times he has received the American College Theater Festival 's Award for Excellence in Playwriting . Wykes is known for writing intense roles and dark subject matter . The bulk of his dramatic work has an absurdist or surrealist bent , creating a dreamlike or nightmarish atmosphere that reflects the sometimes senseless nature of the modern world .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "99120be6dd892de1cd84e52eff5ab785", "text": "Theatre Communications Group Theatre Communications Group ( TCG ) is a non-profit service organization dedicated to nurturing , strengthening and promoting professional non-profit theatre in the United States . As of 2014 , TCG has over 700 member theatres located in 47 states ; 172,000 individual members ; and 150 University , Trustee and other business affiliates . TCG is currently headquartered at 520 Eighth Avenue in mid-town Manhattan . TCG offers training , networking and research opportunities to its members , including their annual Fiscal Survey and the resulting publication , the TCG TheatreFacts Report . In addition , TCG awards over $ 2 million in grants each year to nonprofit theatres and individual theatre artists through philanthropic partnerships , including the MetLife/TCG A-ha ! Program . Each year , the organization hosts a number of events for its members on special topics in the nonprofit theatrical industry , including the Fall Forum for Governance in New York City and the annual TCG National Conference , held in a different American city each year . The organization also publishes American Theatre magazine and ARTSEARCH , a theatrical employment bulletin , as well as trade editions of play scripts , including ten winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama . TCG was awarded Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre in 2005 .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "5a8b740b20305355946bac11683ae022", "text": "Theatre Guild The Theatre Guild is a theatrical society founded in New York City in 1918 by Lawrence Langner , Philip Moeller , Helen Westley and Theresa Helburn . Langner 's wife , Armina Marshall , then served as a co-director . It evolved out of the work of the Washington Square Players . Its original purpose was to produce non-commercial works by American and foreign playwrights . It differed from other theaters at the time in that its board of directors shared the responsibility of choosing plays , management , and production . The Theatre Guild contributed greatly to the success of Broadway from the 1920s throughout the 1970s . The Guild has produced a total of 228 plays on Broadway , including 18 by George Bernard Shaw and seven by Eugene O'Neill . Other major playwrights introduced to theatre-going Americans include Robert E. Sherwood , Maxwell Anderson , Sidney Howard , William Saroyan , and Philip Barry . In the field of musical theatre , the Guild has promoted works by Richard Rodgers , teamed with both Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II , George and Ira Gershwin , Jule Styne , and Meredith Willson , all of which have become classics . Under President John F. Kennedy , the Guild was engaged to assemble a U.S. theatre company , headed by Helen Hayes , to tour the capitals of Europe and South America with works by Tennessee Williams , Thornton Wilder , and William Gibson . In 1968 , the Guild became involved in the travel field by taking 25 of its subscribers to European capitals to see plays . In 1975 , it instituted its Theatre At Sea program with a 17-day cruise aboard the Rotterdam with Hayes and Cyril Ritchard . Since then they have hosted more than thirty cruises , each with seven or eight performers . Among them have been Alan Arkin , Zoe Caldwell , Anne Jackson , Cherry Jones , Richard Kiley , Eartha Kitt , Patricia Neal , Lynn Redgrave , Gena Rowlands , Jean Stapleton , Eli Wallach , and Lee Roy Reams , who served as the program 's resident director . The last Broadway play produced by The Theatre Guild was State Fair in 1996 .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "0d4b359862450a7cf88cacc628c98e95", "text": "Bookwriter The bookwriter is the member of a musical 's writing team who creates the book -- the musical 's plot , character development , and dramatic structure . Essentially , the bookwriter is the playwright of the musical . He or she works very closely in collaboration with the lyricist and composer to create an integrated piece of drama . There is a common misconception that the bookwriter merely writes the dialogue ; though the book does include the musical 's spoken text , it is much more than that , defining and organizing the dramatic action of the entire piece , including action that is musicalized by the songwriter ( s ) . Even `` sung-through , '' `` operatic , '' or `` through-composed '' musicals , where there is little , if any , spoken text , require as much contribution from a bookwriter as do musicals with extensive dialogue scenes . The bookwriter is often also the musical 's lyricist , composer , or director . Category : Occupations in music", "title": "" }, { "docid": "16848118b0b8f91ed57bff1cf3e13fcb", "text": "Gerald Eades Bentley Gerald Eades Bentley ( September 15 , 1901 -- July 25 , 1994 ) was an American academic and literary scholar , best remembered for his seven-volume work , The Jacobean and Caroline Stage , published by Oxford University Press between 1941 and 1968 . That work , modeled on Edmund Kerchever Chambers ' classic four-volume The Elizabethan Stage , has itself become a standard and essential reference work on English Renaissance theatre . Bentley was born in Brazil , Indiana , the son of a Methodist clergyman . Originally intending to be a creative writer , he changed his career to literary scholarship during his graduate studies . He earned his B.A. at DePauw University ( 1923 ) , his M.A. in English at the University of Illinois ( 1926 ) , and his Ph.D. at the University of London ( 1929 ) , studying under Allardyce Nicoll . Bentley taught at the University of Chicago from 1929 to 1945 before accepting a position as Murray Professor of English at Princeton University in 1945 , where he served until his retirement in 1970 . He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1975 . In addition to his Jacobean and Caroline Stage , Bentley wrote a wide range of works on Shakespeare and other figures of the English Renaissance . His essay `` Shakespeare and the Blackfriars Theatre , '' originally published in the inaugural issue of the Shakespeare Survey in 1948 , has been widely reprinted . Bentley edited several works for modern editions , including Othello , and The Alchemist . In his obituary , the New York Times noted that he raised a literary stir in 1956 when he edited and wrote the preface to a hitherto unknown 1577 text called The Arte of Angling in which he noted several passages that reminded him of Isaac Walton 's later The Compleat Angler . The Times quotes D. E. Rhodes , a British authority on fishing literature , who defended Walton , saying , `` It seems to me unjust to accuse Izaak Walton of plagiarism , because plagiarism did not exist in the 17th century . All authors of that and earlier ages read what they liked and used what they liked of it without acknowledgment . '' Bentley was married first to Esther Felt , a significant colleague in his scholarly work , from 1927 until her death in 1961 . In 1965 , he married Ellen Voigt Stern , who died in 1990 . Bentley 's son and namesake from his first marriage , Gerald Eades Bentley Jr. , became a noted literary scholar in his own right , specializing in the career and works of William Blake . He spent most of his career at the University of Toronto .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "e5701b9e3fe366ebf41e3cf79638163b", "text": "Leigh Warren & Dancers Leigh Warren & Dancers is a contemporary dance company based in the South Australian capital of Adelaide . Formed in 1993 by Leigh Warren ( formerly of the Australian Dance Theatre ) , the company has toured internationally and won several awards . A number of dancers from the company performed in `` The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky '' ( 2001 ) .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "ba98f0768f6e0444922c69a6af09e3aa", "text": "Warren Leight Warren Leight ( born January 17 , 1957 ) is an American playwright , screenwriter , film director and television producer . He is best known for his work on Law & Order : Criminal Intent , Lights Out and the showrunner for In Treatment and Law & Order : Special Victims Unit . His play Side Man was a finalist for the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "e9952c29d67a527c29a9f1cad0c774b6", "text": "Kieron Barry Kieron Barry is a British playwright .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "61530edaff7f333637822dd292087f27", "text": "Vinnette Justine Carroll Vinnette Justine Carroll ( March 11 , 1922 -- November 5 , 2002 ) was an American playwright and actress , and the first African-American woman to direct on Broadway , with the 1972 musical Do n't Bother Me , I Ca n't Cope .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "331353a096a90b01d1b0433c61950a2a", "text": "Sharr White Sharr White is an American playwright . His plays have appeared on Broadway and Off-Broadway .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "a8297510517d822e4e2dd949eb38cb7d", "text": "Blairstown Theater Festival The Blairstown Theater Festival operated from December 2006 through November 2007 at historic Roy 's Hall ( also known as Roy 's Theatre ) , a former silent movie theater built in 1913 at 30 Main Street in Blairstown , New Jersey . On July 13 , 2007 , the company attracted considerable media attention when they presented three screenings of the classic horror film , Friday the 13th , which was shot in and around Blairstown in the fall of 1979 . Roy 's Hall appears in the film shortly after the opening credits . The company 's January 2007 production of Letters from the Inside was selected by The Star-Ledger as one of the top five new plays of the 2006 -- 2007 New Jersey theater season and actress Kelli Ambrose , who played Mandy in Letters from the Inside , was selected as one of the top five Best Leading Actresses in a Play . Among the other concerts and productions presented by the Blairstown Theater Festival were Nancy Anderson singing early Broadway songs backed by the Baroque Orchestra of North Jersey ( Baroque to Broadway ) , the Still River Band in Concert , Malachy McCourt and Jarlath Conroy in A Couple of Blaguards , Betsy Palmer and Will Hutchins in A.R. Gurney 's Love Letters , the New Jersey premiere of I Am Anne Frank , and concerts by cabaret performers KT Sullivan ( Vienna to Weimar ) , John O'Neil ( ` So Kaye ) , the Western Wind Vocal Ensemble ( Holiday Light ) , Cris Groenendaal ( Music of the Night ) , Jana Robbins ( One Hell of a Ride ! The Songs of Cy Coleman ) and jazz pianist Bill Mays and his Inventions Trio . The company also presented several film festivals with such classic titles as Gone with the Wind , Casablanca , Seven Samurai , Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein , A Night at the Opera , The Court Jester , -LSB- -LSB- Beauty and the Beast ( 1946 film ) | La Belle et la Bête -RSB- -RSB- , Black Orpheus , Mon Oncle , The Wages of Fear and La Strada . The Blairstown Theater Festival was not able to continue past its first season for several reasons . Most significantly , Blairstown Township suddenly increased the real estate taxes on the building by more than 680 % ( from $ 1,031.55 to $ 7,032.30 ) and the landlord decided to sell the theatre . A CD featuring highlights from the Blairstown Theater Festival 's season was released in February 2008 .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "895977c511392a53eafc838ef088dc01", "text": "Casey Kaplan Casey Kaplan is a contemporary art gallery in New York City , in the United States .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "debf74423a979e9a4634acf16da5d951", "text": "Bartley Campbell Bartley Theodore Campbell ( August 12 , 1843 -- July 30 , 1888 ) was an American playwright of the latter 19th century .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "aa643cbc5903ce20e90f52d7b779245e", "text": "Essay of Dramatick Poesie Essay of Dramatic Poesy by John Dryden was published in 1668 . It was probably written during the plague year of 1666 . Dryden takes up the subject that Philip Sidney had set forth in his Defence of Poesie ( 1580 ) and attempts to justify drama as a legitimate form of `` poetry '' comparable to the epic , as well as defend English drama against that of the ancients and the French . The treatise is a dialogue between four speakers : Eugenius , Crites , Lisideius , and Neander . The four speakers represented , respectively Charles Sackville ( Lord Buchhurst and later sixth Earl of Dorset ) , Sir Robert Howard -LSB- playwright and Dryden 's brother-in-law -RSB- , Sir Charles Sedley ( Edward Malone identified him as Lisideius ) and Dryden himself ( neander means `` new man '' and implies that Dryden , as a respected member of the gentry class , is entitled to join in this dialogue on an equal footing with the three older men who are his social superiors ) . On the day that the English fleet encounters the Dutch at sea near the mouth of the Thames , the four friends take a barge downriver towards the noise from the battle . Rightly concluding , as the noise subsides , that the English have triumphed , they order the bargeman to row them back upriver as they begin a dialogue on the advances made by modern civilization . They agree to measure progress by comparing ancient arts with modern , focusing specifically on the art of drama ( or `` dramatic poesy '' ) . The four men debate a series of three topics : ( 1 ) the relative merit of classical drama ( upheld by Crites ) vs. modern drama ( championed by Eugenius ) ; ( 2 ) whether French drama , as Lisideius maintains , is better than English drama ( supported by Neander , who famously calls Shakespeare `` the greatest soul , ancient or modern '' ) ; and ( 3 ) whether plays in rhyme are an improvement upon blank verse drama -- a proposition that Neander , despite having defended the Elizabethans , now advances against the skeptical Crites ( who also switches from his original position and defends the blank verse tradition of Elizabethan drama ) . Invoking the so-called unities from Aristotle 's Poetics ( as interpreted by Italian and refined by French scholars over the last century ) , the four speakers discuss what makes a play `` a just and lively imitation '' of human nature in action . This definition of a play , supplied by Lisideius/Orrery ( whose rhymed plays had dazzled the court and were a model for the new drama ) , gives the debaters a versatile and richly ambiguous touchstone . To Crites ' argument that the plots of classical drama are more `` just , '' Eugenius can retort that modern plots are more `` lively '' thanks to their variety . Lisideius shows that the French plots carefully preserve Aristotle 's unities of action , place , and time ; Neander replies that English dramatists like Ben Jonson also kept the unities when they wanted to , but that they preferred to develop character and motive . Even Neander 's final argument with Crites over whether rhyme is suitable in drama depends on Aristotle 's Poetics : Neander says that Aristotle demands a verbally artful ( `` lively '' ) imitation of nature , while Crites thinks that dramatic imitation ceases to be `` just '' when it departs from ordinary speech -- i.e. prose or blank verse . A year later , the two brothers-in-law quarreled publicly over this third topic . See Dryden 's `` Defense of An Essay of Dramatic Poesy '' ( 1669 ) , where Dryden tries to persuade the rather literal-minded Howard that audiences expect a play to be an imitation of nature , not a surrogate for nature itself .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "828eb4d6ea9bb2d42a702bf21a6d8478", "text": "Stage Right! Stage Right ! is a professional theatre company and performing arts school located in Greensburg , Pennsylvania . Established in 1998 as an organization for young people to take classes in musical theatre by Chris Rizk , Stage Right ! also became a professional theatre company in 1999 , established by artistic director Anthony Marino , Rizk 's brother . The company produces a full season of musicals , utilizing professional actors from the Pittsburgh theatre scene as well as students from their classes . In spring 2013 , Stage Right moved its studio a few blocks to a larger space at 105 W Fourth Street , Greensburg . The season is supplemented with many other opportunities to utilize the talents of the students , including an `` all-county musical '' featuring students from local high school theatre programs , children 's plays , summer camp productions , and Books Come Alive ! , a series of adaptations of children 's books performed at libraries throughout the area . The company is also notable for its annual production of The Rocky Horror Show every Halloween . Many of Stage Right ! 's students have had success in Pittsburgh Public Theater 's Shakespeare Monologue and Scene Contest , as well as going on to well-respected college theatre programs such as Carnegie Mellon University , Point Park University , New York University , Seton Hill University , Syracuse University , and Shenandoah University . Stage Right ! alums have also had success in professional theatre , working in such venues as York Theatre , Off the Wall Productions , Bricolage Production Company , Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre , Prime Stage Theatre , Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera , Pittsburgh Musical Theater , St. Vincent Summer Theatre , City Theatre , Terra Nova Theatre Group , MCC Theater , and 12 Peers Theater , as well as having had their work featured in the Pittsburgh New Works Festival .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "a723dd3ee691488d6d2a73a4998ebea7", "text": "Daniel Wise (playwright) Daniel S. Wise is an American playwright , director , producer and author .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "738be1ae11fb57dacecd6f8e1e8fbca5", "text": "Tony Lee Tony Lee is a British comics writer , screenwriter , audio playwright , and novelist .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "45885fa6849d086a1ae50c9d4e57bf62", "text": "Casey Clabough Casey Clabough ( pronounced `` Clay-bo '' ) , is an American writer , farmer , and professor in the Etowah Valley Writers MFA at Reinhardt University . Clabough was born in Richmond , Virginia , and raised primarily on a farm in Appomattox County , Virginia . However , he attributes his culture to the Appalachian roots of his family , who lived in the Smoky Mountains for over two hundred years and were one of the founding families of Gatlinburg , Tennessee . Clabough currently performs editorial work as series editor of the multi-volume `` Best Creative Nonfiction of the South '' ( Texas Review Press ) , as executive editor of the James Dickey Review , and as literature section editor of the Encyclopedia Virginia . Clabough has published over a hundred works in anthologies and periodicals , including the Sewanee Review , Virginia Quarterly Review , and Creative Nonfiction .", "title": "" } ]

[ { "docid": "3743852392d60fb7376dab61241cd779", "text": "The Promise (2016 film) The Promise is a 2016 American historical drama film directed by Terry George and starring Oscar Isaac , Charlotte Le Bon and Christian Bale , set in the final years of the Ottoman Empire . The film premiered on September 11 , 2016 , at the Toronto International Film Festival and was released in the United States on April 21 , 2017 , by Open Road Films . The Promise is about a love triangle that develops between Armenian medical student Mikael ( Isaac ) , an American journalist based in Paris named Chris ( Bale ) and an Armenian-born woman raised in France , Ana ( Le Bon ) , during the final years of the Ottoman Empire , and during the Armenian Genocide . The film was a box office bomb , grossing just $ 8 million against its $ 90 million budget , although the studio noted the main purpose of the film was to bring attention to the story , not make money .", "title": "" } ]

[ { "docid": "4bae39acafc717d1dc511e292d6102f3", "text": "Promise A promise is a commitment by someone to do or not do something . As a noun promise means a declaration assuring that one will or will not do something . As a verb it means to commit oneself by a promise to do or give . It can also mean a capacity for good , similar to a value that is to be realized in the near future . In the law of contract , an exchange of promises is usually held to be legally enforceable , according to the Latin maxim pacta sunt servanda .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "7fca9806549b52c2bd6b137a77ca1cc9", "text": "Promised Land (The Vampire Diaries) `` Promised Land '' is the 21st episode of the fifth season of the American series The Vampire Diaries and the series ' 110th episode overall . `` Promised Land '' was originally aired on May 8 , 2014 , on The CW . The episode was written by Rebecca Sonnenshine and directed by Michael Allowitz .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "466fa179779d944bc01227d49545b4aa", "text": "Macbeth (1971 film) Macbeth ( or The Tragedy of Macbeth ) is a 1971 British-American historical drama film directed by Roman Polanski and co-written by Polanski and Kenneth Tynan . A film adaptation of William Shakespeare 's tragedy of the same name , it retells the story of the Highland lord who becomes King of Scotland through treachery and murder . The film stars Jon Finch as the title character and Francesca Annis as Lady Macbeth , noted for their relative youth as actors . Themes of historic recurrence , greater pessimism and internal ugliness in physically beautiful characters are added to Shakespeare 's story of moral decline , which is presented in a more realistic style . The production , funded by Playboy Enterprises , was troubled by poor weather around the British Isles , and the film was a box office bomb . Polanski 's Macbeth was screened out of competition at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival . It was somewhat controversial for its depictions of graphic violence and nudity , but has also received positive attention , and was named Best Film by the National Board of Review .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "bc33d4ecc038ded10dc518897f6ba42a", "text": "The Journey (2016 film) The Journey is a 2016 British-Irish drama film directed by Nick Hamm and written by Colin Bateman . The film tells the true story of how political enemies , Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness , formed an unlikely friendship and changed the course of history . It stars Timothy Spall , Colm Meaney , Freddie Highmore , John Hurt , Toby Stephens , and Ian Beattie .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "c8cebf8bb1005ae1128b9e3ca77f9bc0", "text": "Strength and Honour Strength and Honour is a boxing film that was shot in Cork , Ireland . Filming took place in the city and county including Kinsale , Rochestown , Passage West and the un-opened maternity ward of the Cork University Hospital as well as the new airport . The film had its market premiere screening at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2007 , and won the `` Best Picture '' and `` Best Actor '' awards at the Boston Film Festival . It was released on November 20 , 2007 in Ireland and was tested on a limited capacity in the United States on December 7 , 2007 . It was given a 15A rating in Ireland . After the U.S. testing , the film was re-cut taking 13 minutes off it . In 2009 , the Film was selected to screen at the Writers Guild of America and received a review in the Los Angeles Times that described it as ` another Slumdog Millionaire ' . Later the same year , Michael Madsen and Mark Mahon appeared on the TODAY show in New York , as there was such strong word of mouth about the Film . On March 17 , 2010 , Mark Mahon and the film 's main cast were invited by Prince Albert of Monaco to a private Royal screening at the Palace of Monaco . The film 's tagline was : '' Wounds Heal , Scars Fade , Hope is for Everyone '' .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "1849ef964aa5bd2828570baf373cf007", "text": "Bohemian Rapture Bohemian Rapture or The Violin and the Dream ( Czech : Housle a sen ) is a 1947 Czech historical drama film directed by Václav Krska and starring Jaromír Spal , Václav Voska and Karel Dostal . The film portrays the life of the Czech violinist Josef Slavík , a contemporary of Frédéric Chopin , and a rival of Nicolo Paganini . In 1948 the film was released in the United States by the arthouse distributor Artkino . This release is sometimes treated as a separate film , but is simply an English-subtitled version of the Czech original . A New York Times review of the film was negative , criticising it as `` an unusual but decidedly confusing and unrewarding offering '' and attacking in particular its use of disjointed flashback sequences .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "af99d8a0f494fe6edd4f8eef429e2431", "text": "Sacrifice (2016 film) Sacrifice is a 2016 American thriller film that was written and directed by Peter A. Dowling , and starred Radha Mitchell and Rupert Graves . It was filmed in Ireland , Shetland , Scotland , and New York City . The film is based on the book Sacrifice by Sharon Bolton .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "ca22ac7cb718acabc226442ba432625f", "text": "Land of the Blind Land of the Blind is a 2006 British-American black comedy drama film starring Ralph Fiennes , Donald Sutherland , Tom Hollander and Lara Flynn Boyle . Land of the Blind is a dark political satire , based on several incidents throughout history in which tyrannical rulers were overthrown by new leaders who proved to be just as bad , if not worse , and subtle references are made to several such cases . The title is taken from the saying , `` In the land of the blind , the one-eyed man is king . '' Land of the Blind had its world premiere in competition at the International Film Festival Rotterdam , and was the Opening Night Gala film at the 2006 Human Rights Watch Film Festival in London . Its U.S. premiere was in competition at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival . The film sparked intense reaction during its festival run , attacked by both left and right , each of which saw the film as a critique of its position . Historical references in the film include Jean-Paul Marat ( from the French Revolution ) , Kim Jong-Il , Joseph Stalin , Benito Mussolini , Augusto Pinochet , Anastasio Somoza Debayle , François Duvalier , Rudolph Hess , Jean-Claude Duvalier , Lyndon B. Johnson , Julius Caesar ( from William Shakespeare 's play ) , Robert Mugabe , Ngo Dinh Diem , Idi Amin , the PIRA Maze prison protests , U.S. POWs in Vietnam , the Weathermen terrorist group , the Khmer Rouge , the 1979 Revolution in Iran , and the subsequent Cultural Revolution in that country .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "d0ec5fe6cd25bf6e5e12e9972dbd9f48", "text": "Factual film Factual film may refer to : Historical film Biographical film , a film that dramatizes the life of a non-fictional or historically-based person or people Film based on a true story Documentary film , a nonfictional motion picture intended to document some aspect of reality , primarily for the purposes of instruction , education , or maintaining a historical record", "title": "" }, { "docid": "a56ecd2b07d430a364f44ba3fad5be70", "text": "Restoration (1995 film) Restoration is a 1995 American historical drama film directed by Michael Hoffman . It stars Robert Downey , Jr. as a 17th-century medical student exploited by the king . The film , which is based on the novel of the same title by Rose Tremain , was filmed in Wales and won two Academy Awards .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "769ffae9224cf36707b4e65555b091bd", "text": "Deed A deed ( anciently `` an evidence '' ) is any legal instrument in writing which passes , affirms or confirms an interest , right , or property and that is signed , attested , delivered , and in some jurisdictions , sealed . It is commonly associated with transferring ( conveyancing ) title to property . The deed has a greater presumption of validity and is less rebuttable than an instrument signed by the party to the deed . A deed can be unilateral or bilateral . Deeds include conveyances , commissions , licenses , patents , diplomas , and conditionally powers of attorney if executed as deeds . The deed is the modern descendant of the medieval charter , and delivery is thought to symbolically replace the ancient ceremony of livery of seisin . The traditional phrase signed , sealed and delivered refers to the practice of seals ; however , attesting witnesses have replaced seals to some extent . Agreements under seal are also called contracts by deed or specialty ; in the United States , a specialty is enforceable without consideration . In some jurisdictions , specialties have a liability limitation period of double that of a simple contract and allow for a third party beneficiary to enforce an undertaking in the deed , thereby overcoming the doctrine of privity . Specialties , as a form of contract , are bilateral and can therefore be distinguished from covenants , which , being also under seal , are unilateral promises .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "af7a26bdc971e98c08a4f7988b13b543", "text": "I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School I Am a Promise : The Children of Stanton Elementary School is a 1993 documentary film about the pupils at Stanton Elementary School , an inner city school in Philadelphia . The film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for producers Alan and Susan Raymond . The husband and wife documentarians were also the cinematographer and editor ( Alan ) as well as director and narrator ( Susan ) for the film .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "78c165130938a0d1d0ad4f271a4afe18", "text": "Covenant (historical) In a historical context , a covenant applies to formal promises that were made under oath , or in less remote history , agreements in which the name actually uses the term ` covenant ' , implying that they were binding for all time . One of the earliest attested covenants between parties is the so-called Mitanni treaty , dating to the 14th or 15th century BC , between the Hittites and the Mitanni . Historically , certain treaties and compacts have been given the name `` covenant '' , most notably the Solemn League and Covenant that marked the Covenanters , a Protestant political organization important in the history of Scotland . The term ` covenant ' appears throughout Scottish , English and Irish history . The term covenant could be used in English to refer to either the Bundesbrief of 1291 , or the Pfaffenbrief of 1370 , documents which led to the formation of the Swiss state or `` Eidgenossenschaft '' . In this usage the German `` Eid '' is being translated as `` covenant '' rather than `` oath '' in order to reflect its written status .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "c215ca6014f158edb2e5c00f3fc6418e", "text": "The Four Musketeers (1974 film) The Four Musketeers ( also known as The Four Musketeers : Milady 's Revenge ) is a 1974 Richard Lester film that serves as a sequel to his The Three Musketeers , and covers the second half of Dumas ' 1844 novel The Three Musketeers . During production on The Three Musketeers , the producers realized that the project was so lengthy that they would not be able to complete it as initially intended -- as a roadshow epic with intermission -- and still achieve their announced release date . The decision was therefore made to split the project into two films , and thus the two halves were released as The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers some six months apart . Most of the actors were incensed that their work on the long shoot was used to make an entirely separate film , while they were only being paid for the work of one . Lawsuits were filed on behalf of those contributing to the film to gain the salaries and benefits associated with a second film that was not mentioned in the original contracts . All SAG actors ' contracts now have what is known as the `` Salkind clause '' , which stipulates how many films are being made . Fifteen years after completion of The Four Musketeers , much of the cast and crew reassembled to film The Return of the Musketeers ( 1989 ) , loosely based on Dumas ' Twenty Years After ( 1845 ) .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "050851b3346fae9922bf7847bd7da30b", "text": "The Forbidden Christ The Forbidden Christ ( Il Cristo proibito ) is a 1951 Italian drama film directed by Curzio Malaparte .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "cd49880c234fcf951b2608fa203ae2af", "text": "The Green Promise The Green Promise is a 1948 American film directed by William D. Russell . The film was co-produced by Houston oilman Glenn McCarthy and leading man Robert Paige to display the concept and meaning of the 4-H Club and highlight farming issues such as soil erosion , government programs , and individual enterprise . The title refers to a scene where the local preacher gives a sermon on a story from the Book of Exodus of God 's `` green promise '' to lead Moses into a land of milk and honey . The preacher reminds his congregation that the fulfillment of the promise requires faith , difficult journeys and open-mindedness . It is currently in the public domain .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "7e305a7d6c52b3a963460fb4f3632334", "text": "The Promise of New York The Promise of New York is a 2009 documentary film documenting some less-well-known candidates in the New York City 2005 mayoral race .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "1e424d015d034519e7c3e26f12f0d680", "text": "Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment Crisis : Behind a Presidential Commitment is a 1963 cinéma vérité documentary film directed by Robert Drew . The film centers on the University of Alabama 's `` Stand in the Schoolhouse Door '' integration crisis of June 1963 . Drew and the other filmmakers , including D. A. Pennebaker and Richard Leacock , were given expanded access to key areas , including United States President John F. Kennedy 's Oval Office and the homes of United States Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and Alabama Governor George Wallace . The film first aired on ABC television four months after the incident . In 2011 , it was added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "0980d9f38d09b28a09138ec1bebc95e8", "text": "The Sacrifice The Sacrifice ( Offret ) is a 1986 Swedish film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky . Starring Erland Josephson , it centers on a middle-aged intellectual who attempts to bargain with God to stop an impending nuclear holocaust . The Sacrifice was Tarkovsky 's third film as a Soviet expatriate , after Nostalghia and the documentary Voyage in Time , and was also his last , as he died shortly after its completion . Like 1972 's Solaris , it won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "4debceab3c80314b473057b47fa295f7", "text": "Christopher Plummer Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer ( born December 13 , 1929 ) is a Canadian theatre , film and television actor . After making his film debut in Stage Struck ( 1958 ) , Plummer went on to a successful film career , now spanning more than five decades . Some of his most notable film performances include : The Sound of Music ( 1965 ) , Battle of Britain ( 1969 ) , Waterloo ( 1970 ) , The Return of the Pink Panther ( 1975 ) , Murder by Decree ( 1979 ) , Dragnet ( 1987 ) , Star Trek VI : The Undiscovered Country ( 1991 ) , A Beautiful Mind ( 2001 ) , Nicholas Nickleby ( 2002 ) , National Treasure ( 2004 ) , The New World ( 2005 ) , Inside Man ( 2006 ) , Up ( 2009 ) , The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus ( 2009 ) , and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ( 2011 ) . In a career which includes substantial roles in each of the dramatic arts , Plummer is best known to film audiences as the aristocratic widower , Captain Georg von Trapp , in the musical film The Sound of Music ( 1965 ) , alongside Julie Andrews . Plummer has ventured into various television projects , including the miniseries The Thorn Birds ( 1983 ) . Plummer has notably portrayed several historical figures , including Arthur Wellesley , First Duke of Wellington in Waterloo ( 1970 ) , Rudyard Kipling in The Man Who Would Be King ( 1975 ) , Mike Wallace in The Insider ( 1999 ) , and Leo Tolstoy in The Last Station ( 2009 ) . Plummer has won numerous awards and accolades for his work , including an Academy Award , two Emmy Awards , two Tony Awards , a Golden Globe Award , a SAG Award , and a BAFTA Award . With his win at age 82 in 2012 for Beginners , Plummer is the oldest actor ever to win an Academy Award .", "title": "" } ]

[ { "docid": "d5193d190788e5710c8bf84a5a9d18c3", "text": "Winona Ryder Winona Ryder ( born Winona Laura Horowitz ; October 29 , 1971 ) is an American actress . One of the most profitable and iconic actresses of the 1990s , she made her film debut in the 1986 film Lucas . As Lydia Deetz , a goth teenager in Tim Burton 's Beetlejuice ( 1988 ) , she won critical acclaim and widespread recognition . After appearances in film and on television , Ryder continued her acting career with the cult film Heathers ( 1988 ) , a controversial satire of teenage suicide and high school life that has since become a landmark teen film . She later appeared in the coming of age drama Mermaids ( 1990 ) , earning a Golden Globe nomination , and in the same year appeared alongside Johnny Depp in Burton 's dark fairy-tale Edward Scissorhands ( 1990 ) , and shortly thereafter with Keanu Reeves in Francis Ford Coppola 's gothic romance Bram Stoker 's Dracula ( 1992 ) . Having played diverse roles in many well-received films in the mid to late 1980s and early 1990s , Ryder won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and an Academy Award nomination in the same category for her role in The Age of Innocence in 1993 , as well as another Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for her role in the literary adaptation of Little Women the following year . She later appeared in the Generation X hit Reality Bites ( 1994 ) , Alien : Resurrection ( 1997 ) , the Woody Allen comedy Celebrity ( 1998 ) , and Girl , Interrupted ( 1999 ) , which she also executive-produced . In 2000 , Ryder received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame , honoring her legacy in the film industry . Ryder 's personal life has attracted significant media attention . Her relationship with Johnny Depp in the early 1990s and a 2001 arrest for shoplifting were constant subjects of tabloid journalism . She has been open about her personal struggles with anxiety and depression . In 2002 , she appeared in the box office hit Mr. Deeds alongside Adam Sandler . In 2006 , Ryder returned to the screen after a brief hiatus , appearing in high-profile films such as Star Trek . In 2010 , she was nominated for two Screen Actors Guild Awards : as the lead actress in When Love Is Not Enough : The Lois Wilson Story and as part of the cast of Black Swan . She also reunited with Burton for Frankenweenie ( 2012 ) . Since 2016 , she has starred as Joyce Byers in the Netflix supernatural-horror series Stranger Things , for which she has garnered Golden Globe and SAG nominations .", "title": "" } ]

[ { "docid": "c7555a252c48b5ed6642e7f269597bbb", "text": "Winning Winning is a 1969 American motion picture starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward . The film is about a racecar driver who aspires to win the Indianapolis 500 . A number of racecar drivers and people associated with racing appear in the film , including Bobby Unser , Tony Hulman , Bobby Grim , Dan Gurney , Roger McCluskey , and Bruce Walkup .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "840a83010f17d9cacca91a84982ccf18", "text": "Stagecoach to Denver Stagecoach to Denver is a 1946 American Western ; one of Republic Pictures Red Ryder film series directed by R.G. Springsteen .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "9805cfda6b3725b9590c2c0272947beb", "text": "Duets (film) Duets is a 2000 American road trip film co-produced and directed by Bruce Paltrow and written by John Byrum . The motion picture features an ensemble cast co-starring Gwyneth Paltrow , Paul Giamatti , Maria Bello , Scott Speedman , Andre Braugher , Huey Lewis and Angie Dickinson , among others . The movie `` revolves around the little known world of karaoke competitions and the wayward characters who inhabit it . ''", "title": "" }, { "docid": "62af8f799649205188d2a460ede223d7", "text": "Rough Magic Rough Magic is a 1995 comedy film directed by Clare Peploe , starring Bridget Fonda and Russell Crowe . It was based on a novel by James Hadley Chase called Miss Shumway Waves a Wand , with the screenplay written by Robert Mundi , William Brookfield , and Clare Peploe .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "20b3aec6e05234834285d8d9945462ba", "text": "Breathless (1983 film) Breathless is a 1983 American drama film directed by Jim McBride and written by McBride and L. M. Kit Carson , starring Richard Gere and Valérie Kaprisky . It is a remake of the 1960 French film directed by Jean-Luc Godard and written by Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut , À bout de souffle ( known as Breathless in English ) and was released in France under the title A Bout de Souffle Made in USA . The original film is about an American girl and a French criminal in Paris . The remake is about a French girl and an American criminal in Los Angeles .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "e49937c5ffb97569a10c787b8e8785ba", "text": "Fine Gold (film) Fine Gold ( Oro Fino ) is a 1989 Spanish drama film directed by José Antonio de la Loma and starring Ted Wass , Stewart Granger and Lloyd Bochner . It depicts the ongoing feud between two winemaking families .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "d66b7d0ac2ba1c69e151792742cc51c0", "text": "List of American films of 1999 A list of American films released in 1999 . American Beauty won the Academy Award for Best Picture .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "4ae808983e874de171de7bb7906f1578", "text": "1985 Ryder Cup The 26th Ryder Cup Matches were held 13 -- 15 September 1985 at the Brabazon Course of The Belfry in Wishaw , Warwickshire , England . Team Europe won the competition for the first time by a score of 16 1/2 to 11 1/2 points . This marked the first U.S. loss since 1957 , previously the sole U.S. loss in fifty years . Europe took a two-point lead into the Sunday singles and increased their lead throughout Sunday . It fell to Sam Torrance to secure the winning margin when he holed a 22 ft putt on the 18th hole to defeat Andy North 1 up and go up 14 1/2 to 8 1/2 , a six-point margin with five matches on the course . This was the last Ryder Cup played in Europe that was not shown on live television in the United States . The USA Network first televised it in 1989 on cable with video provided by the BBC . NBC Sports took over live weekend coverage in 1991 in South Carolina , and 1993 marked the first time a major U.S. network televised it live from Europe .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "e61bc90d092b50e960c5d5691d7a3f4f", "text": "The Three Faces of Eve The Three Faces of Eve is a 1957 American mystery drama film presented in CinemaScope , based on a book by psychiatrists Corbett H. Thigpen and Hervey M. Cleckley , who also helped write the screenplay . It was based on their case of Chris Costner Sizemore , also known as Eve White , a woman they suggested might suffer from dissociative identity disorder ( multiple personality disorder ) . Sizemore 's identity was concealed in interviews and this film , and was not revealed to the public until 1975 . The film is directed by Nunnally Johnson . Joanne Woodward won the Academy Award for Best Actress , making her the first actress to win an Oscar for portraying three different personalities ( Eve White , Eve Black and Jane ) . The Three Faces of Eve also became the first film since 1936 to win the Best Actress award without getting nominated in another category after Bette Davis won for Dangerous .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "8f6f44b8fea223e948f2efb326a3ed6f", "text": "When a Man Loves a Woman (film) When a Man Loves a Woman is a 1994 American romantic drama film written by Al Franken and Ronald Bass , starring Andy García , Meg Ryan , Tina Majorino , Mae Whitman , Ellen Burstyn , Lauren Tom and Philip Seymour Hoffman . For her performance as an alcoholic mother , Ryan received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Best Female Actor in a Leading Role . The film 's title is taken from the song of the same name by Percy Sledge .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "f033ce1e85d910750805e07d4e791fa3", "text": "Women in Love (TV series) Women in Love is a British two-part television film , a combined adaptation by William Ivory of two D. H. Lawrence novels , namely The Rainbow ( 1915 ) and Women in Love ( 1920 ) . Directed by Miranda Bowen and produced by Mark Pybus , it features Saskia Reeves , Rachael Stirling , Rosamund Pike , Rory Kinnear , Joseph Mawle and Ben Daniels . It was first transmitted on BBC Four on 24 and 31 March 2011 . It was made by Company Pictures and filmed in South Africa . Instead of death in the Tyrolean Alps , Ivory sets the final scenes in South African diamond mines and desert sands where Gerald meets his demise . Other cast members included as Will Brangwen . Music by Chris Letcher .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "b82f405b8a335c38cbaa5f7f721e9ab6", "text": "Wine (1924 film) Wine was a 1924 American silent melodrama directed by Louis J. Gasnier , produced and released by Universal Pictures under their ` Jewel ' banner . The film featured Clara Bow in her first starring role . The film is now presumed lost .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "21f186e7bb9fea6d9a4591b460448272", "text": "Paint Your Wagon (film) Paint Your Wagon is a 1969 Western musical film starring Lee Marvin , Clint Eastwood , and Jean Seberg . The film was adapted by Paddy Chayefsky from the 1951 musical Paint Your Wagon by Lerner and Loewe . It is set in a mining camp in Gold Rush-era California . It was directed by Joshua Logan .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "06b4f758aec2c4aa77d5fbb9ceb9ae37", "text": "The Darwin Awards (film) The Darwin Awards is a 2006 American adventure comedy film based on the website of the same name . Written and directed by Finn Taylor , the film premiered January 25 , 2006 , at the Sundance Film Festival . The film features Joseph Fiennes , Winona Ryder , David Arquette , Juliette Lewis , Wilmer Valderrama , Chris Penn , Julianna Margulies , Robin Tunney , Lawrence Ferlinghetti , Brad Hunt , Adam Savage , Jamie Hyneman and Metallica . This was Chris Penn 's last movie before his death on January 24 , 2006 , the day before the film 's premiere . The film includes several full and partial re-enactments of `` Darwin Awards '' , the earliest of which were fictitious , most notably the debunked JATO Rocket Car story .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "015e28c8c4dc39858fae3737288827d1", "text": "Not as a Stranger Not as a Stranger is a 1955 Drama film produced and directed by Stanley Kramer based on the 1954 novel of the same name by Morton Thompson . The romantic melodrama novel was widely popular , topping that year 's list of bestselling novels in the United States . The film was Kramer 's directorial debut and featured Olivia de Havilland and Robert Mitchum in the lead roles , backed by a stellar supporting cast including Frank Sinatra , Gloria Grahame , Broderick Crawford , Charles Bickford , Lon Chaney , Jr. , Harry Morgan , and Lee Marvin . The film was released by United Artists . Sinatra had catapulted back into the limelight as the result of a supporting role for a film from a similarly popular novel , From Here to Eternity , two years earlier . Initially a minor box office success , Not as a Stranger is seldom seen today , never receiving widespread distribution on home video . It was first released on DVD in 1992 .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "d12cfd558631ecc9fcb6d8c459b7ff02", "text": "The Hotel New Hampshire (film) The Hotel New Hampshire is a 1984 British-Canadian-American comedy-drama film written and directed by Tony Richardson based on John Irving 's 1981 novel of the same name . The film stars Jodie Foster , Beau Bridges , Rob Lowe , and Nastassja Kinski , and also features Wilford Brimley , Amanda Plummer , Matthew Modine , and a young Seth Green in a supporting role . The film is a co-production from the United Kingdom , Canada , and the United States . In an introductory foreword that he wrote for a later edition of the novel , author Irving stated that he was thrilled when Richardson informed him that he wanted to adapt the book to the screen . Irving wrote that he was very happy with the adaptation , complaining only that he felt Richardson tried to make the film too faithful to the book , noting the manner in which Richardson would often speed up the action in an attempt to include more material onscreen .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "ec9e464cdd543bcaee80bce32117019c", "text": "Cutthroat Island Cutthroat Island is a 1995 romantic comedy action adventure film directed by Renny Harlin and written by Robert King and Marc Norman based on a story by Michael Frost Beckner , James Gorman , Bruce A. Evans , and Raymond Gideon . It stars Geena Davis , Matthew Modine , and Frank Langella . The film is an international co-production among companies in the United States , France , Germany , and Italy . The film had a notoriously troubled and chaotic production , involving multiple rewrites and recasts , and received mixed reviews , whereas the high production values , action sequences , shooting locations , and the musical score were praised . It is notable for being the largest box office bomb when adjusted for inflation , and was the last film from Carolco Pictures before its closure , until the company 's relaunch in 2015 .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "525076dabf52ad7cfdd808bc2720b79e", "text": "Wuthering Heights (2011 film) Wuthering Heights is a 2011 British romantic gothic , period drama film directed by Andrea Arnold and starring Kaya Scodelario as Catherine and James Howson as Heathcliff . The screenplay , written by Andrea Arnold and Olivia Hetreed , is based on Emily Brontë 's 1847 Wuthering Heights .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "61fdbf6028a1ac5c8c56c6231f9f06bf", "text": "Straight Talk Straight Talk is an 1992 American romantic comedy film directed by Barnet Kellman and starring Dolly Parton and James Woods . Parton did not receive solo star-billing in any other theatrically released films until the 2012 film Joyful Noise , alongside Queen Latifah . Her previous starring films had been 9 to 5 ( 1980 ) , The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas ( 1982 ) , Rhinestone ( 1984 ) , and Steel Magnolias ( 1989 ) .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "71e01b91cd0f83f1e28e19b47ecc22a8", "text": "Derby Day (1952 film) Derby Day is a 1952 British drama film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Anna Neagle , Michael Wilding , Googie Withers , John McCallum and Alfie Bass . An ensemble piece , it portrays several characters on their way to the Derby Day races at Epsom Downs Racecourse . It was an attempt to revive the success that Neagle and Wilding had previously had opposite each other , but it failed in this regard . In an effort to promote the film Wilcox arranged for Neagle to launch the film at the 1952 Epsom Derby . In the United States it was released as Four against Fate . While making the film Wilding began dating Elizabeth Taylor , who was in London filming Ivanhoe , and later became her second husband .", "title": "" } ]

[ { "docid": "f97e15c789e3003a42debdaea348de02", "text": "Dark Places (2015 film) Dark Places is a 2015 mystery thriller film directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner . The screenplay , by Paquet-Brenner , is based on Gillian Flynn 's 2009 novel of the same name . It stars Charlize Theron , Christina Hendricks , Nicholas Hoult , and Chloë Grace Moretz . The film was released in France on April 8 , 2015 , and in the United States on August 7 , 2015 , by A24 . It is the second film Theron and Hoult have collaborated on , after Mad Max : Fury Road .", "title": "" } ]

[ { "docid": "876022af87f647b87f58627e959d35fd", "text": "Dark City (1998 film) Dark City is a 1998 American-Australian neo-noir science fiction film directed by Alex Proyas . The screenplay was written by Proyas , Lem Dobbs and David S. Goyer . The film stars Rufus Sewell , Kiefer Sutherland , Jennifer Connelly , and William Hurt . Sewell plays John Murdoch , an amnesiac man who finds himself suspected of murder . Murdoch attempts to discover his true identity and clear his name while on the run from the police and a mysterious group known only as the `` Strangers '' . The majority of the film was shot at Fox Studios Australia . It was jointly produced by New Line Cinema and Mystery Clock Cinema . New Line Cinema distributed the theatrical release . The film premiered in the United States on February 27 , 1998 . The film was nominated for Hugo and Saturn Awards . For the theatrical release , the studio was concerned that the audience would not understand the film and asked Proyas to add an explanatory voice-over narration to the introduction . A director 's cut was released in 2008 , restoring and preserving Proyas 's original artistic vision for the film . Some critics have noted its similarities and possible influence on the Matrix series , which came out a year later .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "589d9f7a6afc3708d11fad4583bbc0b0", "text": "Utopian and dystopian fiction The utopia and its derivative , the dystopia , are genres of literature that explore social and political structures . Utopian fiction portrays a setting that agrees with the author 's ethos , having various attributes of another reality intended to appeal to readers . Dystopian ( or dystopic ) fiction ( sometimes combined with , but distinct from apocalyptic literature ) is the opposite : the portrayal of a setting that completely disagrees with the author 's ethos . Many novels combine both , often as a metaphor for the different directions humanity can take , depending on its choices , ending up with one of two possible futures . Both utopias and dystopias are commonly found in science fiction and other speculative fiction genres , and arguably are by definition a type of speculative fiction . More than 400 utopian works were published prior to the year 1900 in the English language alone , with more than a thousand others during the twentieth century .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "5f8909404abb1604eff3263751a901d6", "text": "Lord of Dark Places Lord of Dark Places is a novel by Hal Bennett . It deals with the events surrounding a black man from the south who moves to the north . It has been described as `` a satirical and all but scatological attack on the phallic myth '' , :", "title": "" }, { "docid": "292ae6ff1b368d2559e27141c36fa8b1", "text": "Byrne: A Novel Byrne is the English author Anthony Burgess 's last novel , published posthumously in 1995 . Composed mostly in the same ottava rima stanzas that Byron used for his Don Juan , the story follows the fortunes of Michael Byrne , an Irishman with some Spanish ancestors who settled in Ireland after a war between England 's Royal Navy and the Spanish Armada in the 16th century . He thought he was a kind of living myth And hence deserving of ottima rima , The scheme that Ariosto juggled with , Apt for a lecherous defective dreamer . He 'd have preferred a stronger-muscled smith , Anvilling rhymes amid poetic steam , a Sort of Lord Byron . Byron was long dead . This poetaster had to do instead . A painter and composer whose career is never as spectacular as his ambitions , and a determined womanizer who fathers children across the globe , Byrne becomes embroiled with the Nazi regime in 1930s Germany . A heavy task , but there was light relief In the Germanic ambience , boisterous , brash , Torchlit parades and pogroms , guttural grief In emigration queues , the smash and crash Of pawnshop windows by insentient beef In uniform , the gush of beer , the splash Of schnapps , the joy of being drunk and Aryan , Though Hitler was a teetotalitarian . Eventually he vanishes , presumed dead in Africa . But years later , his twin sons , now middle-aged , one a doubting priest , the other suffering from a debilitating disease , receive from Byrne , who is still alive , an invitation to London , where he will read his last will and testament .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "d06ac091cee4703432c47cabf02a45b7", "text": "Dancing in the Dark (novel) Dancing in the Dark is a 2005 novel by Kittitian-British writer Caryl Phillips that won the PEN Open Book Award ( formerly known as the Beyond Margins Award ) in 2006 . The novel reimagines the life of Bert Williams ( 1874 -- 1922 ) , the first black entertainer in the U.S. to achieve the highest levels of fame and fortune , while darkening his skin with burnt cork and `` playing the dim-witted ` coon ' on Broadway and elsewhere '' , a story that allows the author to deal with issues of race and identity that he also addressed in his novel A Distant Shore , as reviewer Tabish Khair notes : `` Dancing in the Dark explores the particular tensions of assuming a false identity which , in a racist society , would be considered the ` true ' identity of the player . This catches the performer in the double bind of using the actor 's art to confirm prejudices , which then blind their audiences to that art . '' The story also deals with `` the perils of self-invention , that have long plagued American culture '' .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "4bf2f509465c7aef2e0ddaa4571d6a11", "text": "The Cellar (novel) The Cellar is a 1980 horror novel by American author Richard Laymon . It was Laymon 's first published novel , and together with sequels The Beast House , The Midnight Tour , and the novella Friday Night in Beast House , forms the series known by fans of Laymon as `` The Beast House Chronicles . ''", "title": "" }, { "docid": "d7dd18328892a0d9fc75dd3b7d615760", "text": "The Dark Man (poem) `` The Dark Man '' is an early poem written by Stephen King when he was in college . It was later published in Ubris in 1969 . It served as the genesis for the character of Randall Flagg . An edition from Cemetery Dance Publications with illustrations from Glenn Chadbourne was released in July 2013 .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "f79b460d68c70bda8ea773d5bc8acbf4", "text": "Alone in the Dark (disambiguation) Alone in the Dark is the title of several works of fiction : Alone in the Dark , a series of video games and films Alone in the Dark ( 1992 video game ) , the first in the series of Alone in the Dark video games Alone in the Dark 2 ( 1993 video game ) , sequel to the first video game Alone in the Dark 3 ( 1994 video game ) , sequel to the second video game Alone in the Dark : The New Nightmare ( 2001 video game ) Alone in the Dark ( 2008 video game ) Alone in the Dark ( 2005 film ) , a 2005 horror movie loosely based on the video game series , directed by Uwe Boll and featuring Christian Slater , Tara Reid , and Stephen Dorff Alone in the Dark II ( film ) , a 2008 horror film sequel to the 2005 film Alone in the Dark ( 1978 film ) , or Solos en la madrugada , a 1978 Spanish movie directed by José Luis Garci Alone in the Dark ( 1982 film ) , a 1982 horror movie featuring Jack Palance , Donald Pleasence , and Martin Landau `` Alone in the Dark '' , a song by American thrash-metal band Testament from their 1987 album The Legacy `` Alone in the Dark '' , a song by John Hiatt from his 1987 album Bring the Family", "title": "" }, { "docid": "b2db924495b77cda3d37c2495986df87", "text": "Brimstone Press Brimstone Press was an Australian independent publisher of dark fiction ( horror and dark fantasy ) . Brimstone Press was established in 2004 by Angela Challis and Shane Jiraiya Cummings and was based in Western Australia . The first publication from Brimstone Press was Shadowed Realms , an online flash fiction horror magazine that was active from 2004 to 2007 . Authors published in Shadowed Realms include Terry Dowling , Richard Harland , Robert Hood , Poppy Z Brite , Stephen Dedman , Kurt Newton , Martin Livings , Lee Battersby , Paul Haines , Steven Cavanagh and Kaaron Warren . Shadowed Realms gained professional status from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America ( SFWA ) in 2005 and was nominated for the Best Collected Work Ditmar Award in 2006 . Brimstone Press also published HorrorScope : The Australian Dark Fiction Web Log , a news and review webzine . In December 2006 , Brimstone Press moved into book publication . Among their published anthologies are Shadow Box and the Australian Dark Fantasy & Horror series . Brimstone Press produced a newsstand-quality horror magazine , Black : Australia 's Dark Culture magazine which ran for three issues in 2008 . Many of Australia 's best-known horror writers including Rob Hood , Leigh Blackmore and others appeared in its pages . Several stories and projects published by Brimstone Press have won , or been nominated for , Australian and international literary awards .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "d559528b4c61f3504ad6735c7ccb5abe", "text": "A Small Place in Italy A Small Place in Italy is a travel memoir and autobiographical novel written by Eric Newby , author of The Last Grain Race and Slowly Down the Ganges . In 1967 , Eric Newby and his wife Wanda acquire an old run-down farmhouse in Italy , I Castagni ( The Chestnuts ) , in the foothills of the Apuan Alps on the borders of Liguria and northern Tuscany . The book is a personal memoir of the couple 's experiences in renovating the house , which had a tileless roof , a long-abandoned septic tank and a wealth of indigenous flora and fauna , as well as a vivid description of their neighbours and the lifestyle of country people in Italy at that time .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "da321c0d37dd34d064a313286ff15be8", "text": "List of The New York Times Manga Best Sellers The New York Times Best Seller list for manga published in the United States was introduced on March 5 , 2009 , along with two additional lists for hardcover and paperback graphic novels . The three lists are grouped under the `` Graphic Books '' category . Deborah Hoffman , an editor for the Best Seller lists , explained that the term `` Graphic Books '' was selected to create an `` inclusive and expansive '' list which can extend to works of both fiction and non-fiction . Journalist George Gustines announced , in his introduction of the new lists , `` Comics have finally joined the mainstream . '' The announcement was made the week the film Watchmen , based on the comic book of the same name , was released in movie theaters throughout the U.S. . The Best Seller lists are printed weekly in The New York Times Book Review magazine , which is published in the Sunday edition of The New York Times and as a stand-alone publication . Gustines explained the methodology used to determine the rankings : Rankings reflect sales of graphic novels -LSB- ... -RSB- at many thousands of venues where a wide range of books are sold nationwide . These include hundreds of independent book retailers ( statistically weighted to represent all such outlets ) ; national , regional and local chains ; online and multimedia entertainment retailers ; university , gift , supermarket , discount department stores and newsstands . In addition , these rankings also include unit sales reported by retailers nationwide that specialize in graphic novels and comic books . On multiple occasions , manga have been listed outside its designated list . Mike Kiley , then-Senior Vice President of the publisher Tokyopop , explained in 2010 that it has become more difficult to draw a distinguishing line between works that are manga and manga-inspired , such as Korean manhwa and American original English language ( OEL ) manga . A Drifting Life , an autobiographical manga by Yoshihiro Tatsumi , appeared on the May 3 , 2009 , Best Seller list for paperback graphic novels , where it ranked third . X-Men : Misfits , an original English manga based on the X-Men comic book franchise , ranked fifth at its debut on the August 30 , 2009 , paperback graphic novels list , and stayed on the chart for five consecutive weeks . The first volume of a manhwa adaptation of the popular vampire-themed Twilight novels by Stephenie Meyer remained on the hardcover graphic novels Best Seller list for 27 consecutive weeks in 2010 . In January 2017 , the Times decided to stop producing the separate manga best seller list .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "b9503d6ecfb41ad4a8bd817aae8a65e7", "text": "Dark Times: The Path to Nowhere Dark Times : The Path to Nowhere is the first story arc in the Dark Times series of comic books written by Mick Harrison from a plot by Welles Hartley . The first issue was published on November 8 , 2006 by Dark Horse Comics . The series is set in the Star Wars universe shortly after the events in Star Wars : Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith , and about 19 years before Star Wars Episode IV : A New Hope . The story begins in the days following the events in Purge by John Ostrander , and intertwines with the events of Dark Lord : The Rise of Darth Vader by James Luceno .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "29300cbee45a6765852951aaca49d747", "text": "Dark Horse (Brown novel) Dark Horse ( 2013 ) is a crime novel by Australian author Honey Brown . It won the Davitt Award for Best Adult Novel in 2014 .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "cd07ef206d521cc05bae95231a695f80", "text": "The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower The Dark Tower is the seventh novel in Stephen King 's Dark Tower series , published by Grant on September 21 , 2004 ( King 's birthday ) , and illustrated by Michael Whelan . It has four subtitles : REPRODUCTION , REVELATION , REDEMPTION , and RESUMPTION -- all but the second of these having been used as subtitles for previous novels in the series .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "b4cf811863a212b7c7a9fa906ed1e2db", "text": "Set in Darkness Set in Darkness is a 2000 crime novel by Ian Rankin . It is the eleventh of the Inspector Rebus novels . It won the 2005 Grand Prix du Roman Policier ( France ) under the title Du fond des ténèbres . The title comes from the poem `` The Old Astronomer '' by Sarah Williams . In an interview , Rankin linked the quote to the rise of a restored Scottish Parliament and the redemption of the Inspector in the novel .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "37b7f98709a68e69ce32034ae42253e8", "text": "David Mark (novelist) David John Mark ( born December 28 , 1977 ) is an English novelist and journalist , known for his DS Aector McAvoy series of crime fiction books . Mark 's debut novel , entitled Dark Winter , became one of Richard & Judy 's Book Club picks in 2012 , helping to raise its profile . It sat alongside novels such as Gone Girl and The Fault in Our Stars . To date , the book has sold hundreds of thousands of copies in all formats and it has been critically acclaimed around the world , as well as being translated into six languages . A major TV company optioned the series , with an eye to filming it in 2015 . Follow-up Original Skin was released in April 2013 . It continues the story of DS Aector McAvoy , a Scottish policeman based in Hull 's Serious And Organised Crime Unit , following him as he investigates suspicious deaths within the city 's sleazy underworld , while contending with changing politics within the force . The third novel , Sorrow Bound was also a critical success . Mark 's follow up , Taking Pity , was acclaimed around the world . Before signing his publishing deal with Quercus , Mark was a journalist specialising in crime reporting for a number of newspapers and agencies - most notably for the Yorkshire Post in their Hull office . He spent time as a showbusiness reporter for the Press Association , though he has claimed he loathed the experience . In 2015 , Mark switched to Mulholland Books , signing a three-book deal . Dead Pretty , released in 2016 , was a critical and commercial success , as was follow up Cruel Mercy . In September he will release his first historical novel , The Zealot 's Bones , under the name D.M.Mark . In 2018 , a stage adaptation of Dark Winter will receive its world premiere in Hull . He lives in central Beverley with his family .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "743dc39f9e132ddc46e03e2d195faedf", "text": "The Midnight Bell The Midnight Bell is a gothic novel by Francis Lathom . It was one of the seven `` horrid novels '' lampooned by Jane Austen in her novel Northanger Abbey . Dear creature ! How much I am obliged to you ; and when you have finished Udolpho , we will read the Italian together ; and I have made out a list of ten or twelve more of the same kind for you . Have you , indeed ! How glad I am ! What are they all ? I will read you their names directly ; here they are , in my pocketbook . Castle of Wolfenbach , Clermont , Mysterious Warnings , Necromancer of the Black Forest , Midnight Bell , Orphan of the Rhine , and Horrid Mysteries . Those will last us some time . Yes , pretty well ; but are they all horrid , are you sure they are all horrid ? -- Northanger Abbey , ch . 6 Subtitled `` A German Story , Founded On Incidents in Real Life '' it was first published in London by H. D. Symonds in 1798 . It concerns the quest of the hero , Alphonsus Cohenburg , to regain his estates and stolen identity after his parents are murdered by his villainous uncle . The young man becomes a soldier , then a miner before marrying his true love Lauretta only to see her kidnapped by bandits . The latter third is set in the quintessentially gothic Cohenburg castle and features tales of ghostly apparitions who turn out to be diabolical Roman Catholic priests , another common gothic trope . The Midnight Bell of the title calls the villainous monks to their dark meeting place .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "fdc87a89e237b27b844006ba1b66f56a", "text": "Carpenter's Gothic Carpenter 's Gothic is the title of the third novel by William Gaddis , published in 1985 by Viking . The title connotes a `` Gothic '' tale of haunted isolation , in a milieu stripped of all pretensions . Gaddis 's second-shortest novel , Carpenter 's Gothic relates the words and occasional actions , in one house , of an ex-soldier , confederate apologist , and pathological liar ; his neglected and ineffectual wife ; and a visitor with a mysterious past who resembles in many ways Gaddis himself . The book is notable mainly for its strict fugue-like nature , as each character pursues his own themes in conversation and in action , often without reference to anything said or done by the others .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "61e4f3ea00516e4e40d608bb6088b977", "text": "Atlanta Nights Atlanta Nights is a collaborative novel created in 2004 by a group of science fiction and fantasy authors , with the express purpose of producing an unpublishably bad piece of work , so as to test whether publishing firm PublishAmerica would still accept it . It was accepted ; after the hoax was revealed , the publisher withdrew its offer . The primary purpose of the exercise was to test PublishAmerica 's claims to be a `` traditional publisher '' that would only accept high-quality manuscripts . Critics have long claimed that PublishAmerica is actually a vanity press that pays no special attention to the sales potential of the books they publish since most of their revenue comes from the authors rather than book buyers . PublishAmerica had previously made some highly derogatory public remarks about science fiction and fantasy writers , because many of their critics came from those communities ; those derogatory remarks influenced the decision to make such a public test of PublishAmerica 's claims .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "a41e4a331eafea81d63bd3b732e383d9", "text": "Dark Descent Dark Descent is a 2002 film written and directed by Daniel Knauf .", "title": "" } ]

[ { "docid": "8b542fe4e96b37e8f639e5c365c6aff7", "text": "Grace Jones Grace Jones ( born 19 May 1948 ) is a Jamaican born singer , songwriter , lyricist , supermodel , record producer , and actress . Born in Jamaica , at age 13 she moved with her siblings to their parents ' home in Syracuse , New York . Jones began her modelling career in New York state , then in Paris , working for fashion houses such as Yves St. Laurent and Kenzo , and appearing on the covers of Elle and Vogue . She worked with photographers such as Helmut Newton , Guy Bourdin , and Hans Feurer , and became known for her distinctive androgynous appearance and bold features . In 1977 Jones secured a record deal with Island Records , initially becoming a star of New York City 's Studio 54-centered disco scene . In the early 1980s she moved toward a new wave style that drew on reggae , funk , post-punk , and pop music , frequently collaborating with both the graphic designer Jean-Paul Goude and the musical duo Sly & Robbie . Her most popular albums include Warm Leatherette ( 1980 ) , Nightclubbing ( 1981 ) , and Slave to the Rhythm ( 1985 ) . She scored Top 40 entries on the UK Singles Chart with `` Pull Up to the Bumper '' , `` I 've Seen That Face Before '' , `` Private Life '' , and `` Slave to the Rhythm '' . In 1982 , she released the music video collection A One Man Show , directed by Goude . Jones appeared in some low-budget films in the US during the 1970s and early 1980s . In 1984 she made her first mainstream appearance as Zula in the fantasy-action film Conan the Destroyer alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sarah Douglas , and subsequently appeared in the 1985 James Bond movie A View to a Kill as May Day . In 1986 she played a vampire in Vamp , and acted in and contributed a song to the 1992 Eddie Murphy film Boomerang . She appeared alongside Tim Curry in the 2001 film Wolf Girl . For her work in Conan the Destroyer , A View to a Kill , and Vamp , she was nominated for Saturn Awards for Best Supporting Actress . In 1999 , Jones ranked 82nd on VH1 's 100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll , and in 2008 , she was honored with a Q Idol Award . Jones influenced the cross-dressing movement of the 1980s and has been an inspiration for artists including Annie Lennox , Lady Gaga , Rihanna , Lorde , Róisín Murphy , Brazilian Girls , Nile Rodgers , Santigold , Basement Jaxx and Stanka Brljevic . In December 2016 , Billboard magazine ranked her as the 40th most successful dance artist of all time .", "title": "" } ]

[ { "docid": "b90ddee4090e4335476c8f58f52ad359", "text": "Grace Henderson Grace Henderson ( January 1861 -- October 30 , 1944 ) was a stage actress and prolific performer in silent motion pictures . She made her professional debut at McKiver 's Theatre in Chicago in 1877 .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "74c8b11fc5f85aee25ccdc2c582f5574", "text": "Claudia Wells Claudia Grace Wells ( born July 5 , 1966 ) is an American actress .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "d6124ceaba61cb4ad96d60613b524d3e", "text": "Gillian Armstrong Gillian May Armstrong ( born 18 December 1950 ) is an award-winning Australian feature film and documentary director , who specializes in period-drama . Her films often feature female perspectives and protagonists .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "75e9b699ba4893e25acc9e2c035ed849", "text": "Kentucky Jones Kentucky Jones is a half-hour comedy/drama starring Dennis Weaver as Kenneth Yarborough `` K.Y. or Kentucky '' Jones , D.V.M. , a recently widowed former horse trainer and active horse farm owner , who becomes the guardian of Dwight Eisenhower `` Ike '' Wong , a 10-year-old Chinese orphan , played by Ricky Der . Harry Morgan , previously of the CBS sitcoms December Bride and Pete and Gladys , was featured in the series as Seldom Jackson , a former jockey who assists Dr. Jones . Cherylene Lee appears as Annie Ng , Ike 's friend . Arthur Wong portrays Mr. Ng , Annie 's father . Keye Luke ( 1904-1991 ) stars as Mr. Wong , a friend of Dr. Jones . Nancy Rennick ( 1932-2006 ) appears as Miss Throncroft , a social worker . Kentucky Jones , which ran on NBC from September 19 , 1964 , to September 11 , 1965 , was the first of four television series starring Weaver after he left the role of the marshall 's helper Chester Goode on CBS 's western classic Gunsmoke . Richard Bull , who later portrayed the henpecked storekeeper Nels Oleson on NBC 's Little House on the Prairie , appeared twice on Kentucky Jones as Harold Erkel in episodes entitled `` The Victim '' and `` The Return of Wong Lee '' ( also with Malcolm Atterbury ) . Other selected episodes and guest stars include : `` Hello Ike '' , the series premiere , with Diane Brewster and Marlyn Mason as Doris Caine , `` Spare the Rod '' ( Paul Fix as Judge Perkins ) , `` Wildcat Soup '' ( Tyler McVey ) , `` Ike 's Song '' ( Pat Harrington , Jr. ) , `` The Big Shot '' ( Harry Townes ) , `` The Music Kids Make '' ( Philip Abbott and Robby Weaver ( born 1953 ) , Dennis Weaver 's son ) , `` The Big Speech '' ( Charles Lane ) , `` Feminine Intrusion '' ( Spring Byington , of December Bride and Laramie , as Mrs. Jolly , hired by Dr. Jones to cook a meal as payment of a debt ) , `` Most Precious Gold '' ( Strother Martin ; episode focuses on a camping trip ) , and `` Kentucky 's Vacation '' ( Yvonne Craig ) , the series finale . A Buzz Kulik Production in association with NBC , Kentucky Jones was filmed at Desilu Studios in Culver City , California . The series first aired on Saturdays at 8:30 Eastern from September 19 to December 26 . It switched to 7 p.m. on January 2 for the remainder of its run through September 11 , 1965 . Rebroadcasts began on April 17 . In the 8:30 slot , the program faced competition from the first season of the CBS sitcom Gilligan 's Island , with Alan Hale , Jr. , and Bob Denver , and the first half of ABC 's The Lawrence Welk Show . In the move to a half-hour earlier , having swapped time slots with The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo , CBS offered The Jackie Gleason Show , and ABC aired the science fiction series , The Outer Limits . In the second time slot , Kentucky Jones followed the NBC adventure series Flipper starring Brian Kelly . After Kentucky Jones , young Der ( born ca. 1954 ) acted only one more time , as Mickey in a 1965 episode `` So Long , Patrick Henry '' of NBC 's I Spy starring Bill Cosby and Robert Culp . In January 1967 , Harry Morgan advanced to Jack Webb 's second version of Dragnet in the role of Officer Bill Gannon , and later , on M * A * S * H as Col. Sherman T. Potter . In September of that year , Weaver starred with child actor Clint Howard in the CBS family drama Gentle Ben .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "e76e91231a6cca0dfe83c5833043eda8", "text": "Bridget Jones Bridget Jones is a franchise based on a fictional character of the same name . British writer Helen Fielding started her Bridget Jones 's Diary column in The Independent in 1995 , while chronicling the life of Jones as a thirtysomething single woman in London as she tries to make sense of life and love with the help of a surrogate `` urban family '' of friends in the 1990s . The column lampooned the obsession of women with women 's magazines such as Cosmopolitan and wider social trends in Britain at the time . Fielding published the novelisation of the column in 1996 , followed by a sequel in 1999 called Bridget Jones : The Edge of Reason . Both novels were adapted for the big screen in 2001 and 2004 , starring Renée Zellweger as Bridget Jones , and Hugh Grant and Colin Firth as the men in her life : Daniel Cleaver and Mark Darcy , respectively . After Fielding had ceased to work for The Daily Telegraph in late 1998 , the feature began again in The Independent on 4 August 2005 and finished in June 2006 . Helen Fielding released a third novel in 2013 , Bridget Jones : Mad About the Boy , which is set 14 years after the events of the second novel . The fictional character `` Bridget Jones '' was named on the 2016 Woman 's Hour Power List as one of seven women judged to have had the biggest impact on women 's lives over the past 70 years , alongside Margaret Thatcher , Barbara Castle , Helen Brook , Germaine Greer , Jayaben Desai and Beyoncé .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "21aab0c3bdfda32c53d1b2a630514d47", "text": "Sunshine Days `` Sunshine Days '' is the eighteenth and penultimate episode of the ninth season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files , and the series ' 200th episode overall . It originally aired on the Fox network on May 12 , 2002 . The entry was written and directed by executive producer Vince Gilligan . The episode is a `` monster-of-the-week '' episode , a stand-alone plot which is unconnected to the mythology , or overarching fictional history , of The X-Files . `` Sunshine Days '' earned a Nielsen household rating of 6.2 , was viewed by 6.5 million households , and 10.4 million viewers in its initial broadcast . It received mixed reviews from television critics . The show centers on FBI special agents who work on cases linked to the paranormal , called X-Files ; this season focuses on the investigations of John Doggett ( Robert Patrick ) , Monica Reyes ( Annabeth Gish ) , and Dana Scully ( Gillian Anderson ) . In this episode , Doggett , Reyes , Walter Skinner ( Mitch Pileggi ) and Scully stumble on to a bizarre murder case where the main suspect is a man with an unusual obsession for The Brady Bunch . Despite their initial differences -- both in investigative style and love of The Brady Bunch -- the four of them soon learn that the man 's telekinetic ability is the ultimate , undeniable proof of an X-File . The episode marked Gilligan 's second directorial effort , after season seven 's `` Je Souhaite '' . The Brady Bunch house set featured in the episode was completely rebuilt . According to Anderson , people came `` from all over Los Angeles '' to get their pictures taken on the set . In addition , it contained several elaborate effects . `` Sunshine Days '' was the final `` monster-of-the-week '' entry in the series ; the series finale , `` The Truth '' would deal with the series ' overarching alien colonization mythology .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "5389327bbecf220683cf3d8ae4d71120", "text": "Day One (Torchwood) `` Day One '' is the second episode of the first series of the British science fiction television series Torchwood . Directed by Brian Kelly , the episode was first broadcast on the digital channel BBC Three on 22 October 2006 with the series pilot , `` Everything Changes '' , and later repeated on terrestrial channel BBC Two on 25 October . It was the first work in the Doctor Who universe to be written by future Doctor Who showrunner Chris Chibnall . The episode centres on Gwen Cooper ( Eve Myles ) working her first case with Torchwood Three in Cardiff . A purple alien gas is loose in the city and takes Carys Fletcher ( Sara Gregory ) host ; the gas kills its victims by orgasm , leaving behind a pile of dust . Over the course of the episode , the team hunt for Carys before the gas kills her . In the end they track her down to a fertility clinic ; the gas leaves Carys to take Gwen host , but is stopped by a portable prison cell and dies out . Originally entitled `` New Girl '' , the episode was written to interpret Gwen 's `` first day in hell '' . On the sex gas , series creator Russell T Davies stated `` when we 're launching a new adult science fiction drama , it 's kind of inevitable you 're going to do the sex monster '' . The episode was filmed during a three - to four-week period in May 2006 , with much of it filmed before the first episode in the same production block . `` Day One '' was originally seen by 2.3 million viewers , making it one of the highest-rated BBC Three broadcasts of all time , but was met with generally mixed reviews .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "7f710cdad0736ac9f6440f27d5fda113", "text": "Gabrielle Daye Gabrielle Daye ( 2 October 1911 in Manchester , Lancashire -- 5 January 2005 in Essex ) was an English television actress , notable for her role as Mrs. Pring on Bless Me , Father . Other television appearances include Coronation Street ( as Beattie Pearson , 1961 , 1969 , 1971 , 1975 , 1981 , 1983 -- 84 ) , The War of Darkie Pilbeam ( 1968 ) , Persuasion ( 1971 ) , Survivors ( Long Live The King , 1977 ) , Dear Enemy ( 1981 ) , Juliet Bravo ( John the Lad , 1983 ) , Ever Decreasing Circles ( The Tea Party and The New Neighbour , 1984 ) , Bleak House ( 1985 ) and A Very British Coup ( 1988 ) . She also appeared in the feature films 10 Rillington Place ( 1971 ) , Sunday Bloody Sunday ( 1971 ) , Do n't Just Lie There , Say Something ! ( 1973 ) , In Celebration ( 1975 ) , Cry Wolf ( 1980 ) and No Surrender ( 1985 ) .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "468bbf41d484819041f6846b92830c65", "text": "Grace (Stargate SG-1) `` Grace '' is an episode from Season 7 of the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1 . Amanda Tapping won a Leo Award in the category `` Dramatic Series : Best Lead Performance - Female '' for this episode .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "e6dfc4e7f359839a4bce40bfacddf2f2", "text": "Sophie and the Rising Sun (film) Sophie and the Rising Sun is a 2016 American drama film written and directed by Maggie Greenwald . It is based on the 2001 novel Sophie and the Rising Sun by Augusta Trobaugh . The film stars Julianne Nicholson , Takashi Yamaguchi , Margo Martindale , Diane Ladd , Lorraine Toussaint and Karen Wheeling Reynolds . The film was released in theaters on January 25 , 2017 by Monterey Media .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "01ac3b808a820d20835904723044fd38", "text": "28 Days (film) 28 Days is a 2000 American comedy-drama film directed by Betty Thomas . Sandra Bullock plays Gwen Cummings , a newspaper columnist obliged to enter rehabilitation for alcoholism . The film costars Viggo Mortensen , Dominic West , Elizabeth Perkins , Steve Buscemi , and Diane Ladd .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "0f88e7354fd604c02c98ff7c838e24f7", "text": "Holly Goddard Jones Holly Goddard Jones is an American novelist and short story author .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "dda669ba67495add92a48fa395c2a76a", "text": "Nightclubbing (Grace Jones album) Nightclubbing is the fifth studio album by Jamaican singer Grace Jones , released on 11 May 1981 by Island Records . Recorded at Compass Point Studios with producers Alex Sadkin and Island Records ' president Chris Blackwell , as well as a team of session musicians rooted by rhythm section Sly & Robbie , the album marked her second foray into a new wave style that blends a variety of genres , including reggae , art pop , dub , synthpop and funk . The album comprises a mixture of cover versions from artists including Bill Withers , Iggy Pop and Ástor Piazzolla , and original songs , three of which were co-written by Jones . The album received positive reviews upon its release and continues to be praised by critics , with reviewers commending the singer 's unique sound and organic fusion of genres . The album entered in the top 10 in five countries , and became Jones ' highest-ranking record on the US Billboard mainstream albums and R&B charts . Six singles were released from the album , including the hits `` Pull Up to the Bumper '' and `` I 've Seen That Face Before ( Libertango ) '' . Critics and scholars have noted the album 's influence on popular music , especially how its unique sound has been emulated by both pop and alternative acts , and how the persona Jones adopted - deeply influenced by art and fashion - has had an enduring influence in modern female pop singers . Around the time of the album 's release , she adopted her characteristic androgynous look which would become popular in fashion . Nightclubbing is now widely considered Jones ' best studio album and the record that cemented her pop icon status .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "8c1d35c03826f591b8a88a07d8ee79d0", "text": "Elizabeth Eden Elizabeth Debbie Eden , born Ernest Aron ( August 19 , 1946 - September 29 , 1987 ) was an American trans woman who became notorious through her boyfriend John Wojtowicz , who attempted a bank robbery to pay for her sex reassignment surgery . The incident was made into the 1975 crime drama film Dog Day Afternoon directed by Sidney Lumet . The character Leon Shermer , played by Chris Sarandon , is loosely based on Eden .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "12cc40c78f7eb7a6a31d674779a00352", "text": "Gareth Jones (actor) Gareth Jones ( 6 June 1925 -- 30 November 1958 ) was a British actor , born in Lampeter , Wales , chiefly remembered for the circumstances of his death . During a live television broadcast of the Armchair Theatre play Underground on the ITV network in the UK on 30 November 1958 , Jones suffered a massive heart attack and died while off-camera between two of his scenes . Some contemporary news reports stated that he had suffered the heart attack while on camera , although most references claim that he was stricken while in a make-up chair , between scenes . However , actor Peter Bowles , also in the cast , recalled that `` During transmission , a little group of us was talking on camera while awaiting the arrival of Gareth Jones 's character , who had some information for us . We could see him coming up towards us , but we saw him fall . We had no idea what had happened , but he certainly was n't coming our way '' . Director Ted Kotcheff and the remaining cast were forced to improvise to carry the play to its conclusion , with producer Sydney Newman ordering Kotcheff to `` shoot it like a football match '' . Coincidentally , Jones 's character was to have suffered a heart attack during the play . Jones had appeared in three other Armchair Theatre plays in 1958 - `` Noon On Doomsday '' ( 6 July 1958 ) , `` Trial By Candlelight '' ( 22 June 1958 ) , and `` Miss Olive '' ( 6 April 1958 ) . Other TV appearances included the ITV Television Playhouse production of `` Thunder On Sycamore Street '' ( 11 October 1957 ) , the BBC Television adaptation of Under Milk Wood ( 9 May 1957 ) , the BBC series `` Onion Boys '' ( 1957 ) , and `` A Tale Of Two Cities '' ( 1957 ) . He earlier appeared in Dundee Repertory Theatre plays including `` Petticoat Influence '' ( 1952 ) , The Beaver Coat ( 1952 ) , `` The Hollow Crown '' ( 1952 ) , `` The Queen 's Husband '' ( 1952 ) , `` Young Madame Conti '' ( 1952 ) , and The Lark ( 1955 ) .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "d8919e38e45cd6203ed4f9a9e21d1bf1", "text": "Grace Period (NCIS) `` Grace Period '' is the 19th episode in the fourth season , and the 89th overall episode , of the American crime drama television series NCIS . It first aired on CBS in the United States on April 3 , 2007 . The episode is written by John Kelly and directed by James Whitmore , Jr. , and was seen by 13.79 million viewers . An NCIS team , led by Special agent Paula Cassidy , receives a tip about terrorist activity but it turns out to be a trap , resulting in the death of two agents . Cassidy , grief-stricken , begins blaming herself for what happened . Gibbs and his team are sent to investigate the deaths with Cassidy joining them during the investigation . While Ducky is sure that the man who Cassidy received the tip from was dead at least one day before the explosion even happened , Cassidy and Abby insist otherwise . The episode marks the final appearance of NCIS Special agent Paula Cassidy , who is killed when she sacrifices herself to stop a suicide bomber .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "451f05a3826b71f6322e8fdf90556a70", "text": "Another Happy Day Another Happy Day is a 2011 American black comedy-drama film written and directed by Sam Levinson . The film stars an ensemble cast including Ellen Barkin , Kate Bosworth , Ellen Burstyn , Thomas Haden Church , George Kennedy , Ezra Miller , Demi Moore , Siobhan Fallon Hogan , Michael Nardelli , Jeffrey DeMunn , and Diana Scarwid .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "bca6d8d7439dc8ae8d4d4ba6e30de667", "text": "Grace Kelly (disambiguation) Grace Kelly ( 1929 -- 1982 ) was an American actress who became Princess of Monaco . Grace Kelly may also refer to : Grace Kelly ( musician ) ( born 1992 ) , American jazz musician Grace V. Kelly ( 1877 -- 1950 ) , American artist `` Grace Kelly '' ( song ) , a 2007 song by Mika", "title": "" }, { "docid": "1aaae46f3293b107101a8c952f5d8977", "text": "Renée Jones Renée Jones ( born October 15 , 1958 ) is a former American dramatic actress . Jones is best known for playing Lexie Carver on NBC 's long-running soap opera Days of Our Lives , a role she began in 1993 . She has been nominated five times for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama Series for the role .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "70c79d1705dcd68563e6ddd74549cae7", "text": "May Day Eve `` May Day Eve '' is a short story written by Filipino National Artist Nick Joaquin . Written after World War II , it became one of Joaquin 's `` signature stories '' that became a classic in Philippine literature in English . Together with Joaquin 's other stories like The Mass of St. Sylvester , Doña Jeronima and Candido 's Apocalypse , May Day Eve utilized the theme of `` magic realism '' long before the genre was made a trend in Latin American novels . Published in 1947 , it is a story originally intended for adult readers , but has later become a required and important reading material for Filipino students .", "title": "" } ]

[ { "docid": "ace1d71f9460a823a978adeb174e5936", "text": "Lightning Point Lightning Point is an Australian television teen drama set in the modern day with fantasy elements . It was filmed on location at the Gold Coast in 2011 . The half-hour series is produced by Jonathan M. Shiff for Network Ten in association with Nickelodeon and German public broadcaster ZDF . It was re-broadcast on Network Ten in Australia on 22 June 2012 , and again on the same network from 5 July 2014 . The series premiered on TeenNick in the United States under its international title of Alien Surf Girls on 29 May 2012 , and aired on Nickelodeon in the United Kingdom from 23 July 2012 also as Alien Surf Girls . It was announced by co-star Jessica Green that the series will not return for a second season .", "title": "" } ]

[ { "docid": "e3d17a8eaf9cce962aa702aa4f08819d", "text": "Ghana Empire The Ghana Empire ( c. 400 until c. 1200 ) , properly known as Awkar ( Ghana or Ga ` na being the title of its ruler ) was located in what is now southeastern Mauritania and western Mali . Complex societies based on trans-Saharan trade with salt and gold had existed in the region since ancient times But the introduction of the camel to western Sahara in the 3rd century A.D. gave way to great changes in the area that became the Ghana Empire . By the time of the Muslim conquest of North Africa in the 7th century the camel had changed the ancient more irregular trade routes into a trade network running from Morocco to the Niger river . The Ghana Empire grew rich from this increased trans-Saharan trade in gold and salt allowing for larger urban centres to develop . It furthermore encouraged territorial expansion to gain control over the different trade-routes . When Ghana 's ruling dynasty began is uncertain ; it is mentioned for the first time in written records by Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī in 830 . In the 11th century the Cordoban scholar Abu Ubayd al-Bakri collected stories from a number of travelers to the region , and gave a detailed description of the kingdom . He claimed that the Ghana could `` put 200,000 men into the field , more than 40,000 of them archers '' and noted they had cavalry forces as well . As the empire declined it was finally made a vassal to the rising Mali Empire at some point in the 13th century . When the Gold Coast in 1957 became the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to regain its independence from colonial rule it was renamed in honor of the long gone empire from which the ancestors to the Akan people of modern-day Ghana are thought to have migrated .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "c41249b9904204250b1097176fed3c65", "text": "Tano River The Tano or Tanoé River is a river in Ghana . It flows for 400 kilometres from Techiman in Ghana to Ehy Lagoon , Tendo Lagoon and finally Aby Lagoon in Ivory Coast where it enters the Atlantic Ocean . The river forms the last few kilometres of the international land boundary between Ghana and Ivory Coast . Indigious local beliefs hold that Taakora , the highest of the Akan Gods on Earth lives at the source of the river . The last few individuals of Miss Waldron 's Red Colobus ( Piliocolobus badius waldronae ) , one of the world 's most threatened primates , are believed to live in the forest between the river and Ehy Lagoon . As of mid-2008 , this area is slated for logging by Unilever , with the aim to replace it with oil palm plantations .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "593aa7948c279439619f008eb458b16d", "text": "Comoé District Comoé District ( District du Comoé ) is one of fourteen administrative districts of Ivory Coast . The district is located in the southeast corner of the country , bordering Ghana to the east , Zanzan District to the north , Lacs District and Lagunes District to the west , and the Atlantic Ocean to the south . The capital of the district is Abengourou .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "4857127e81b3e63cdfc1c7df4e91dd6e", "text": "Agumatsa Range Agumatsa is a mountain range in Ghana which includes the country 's highest point , Mount Aduadu , and the nearby Mount Afadja . The popular tourist attraction , Wli waterfalls is within the range . The range also contains a conservation area , the Mount Afadja-Agumatsa Range .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "5119d7345f579bc07ab2723de5a12a46", "text": "Kifuka Kifuka is a village in South Kivu , Democratic Republic of the Congo . The village , located at 970 m altitude in a mountainous region , is the nearest populated place to the site which receives the most annual lightning strikes of any place worldwide ; the region is struck by 158 lightning bolts per square kilometer each year .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "ce34e546e7f6f67223ee8f331598a92a", "text": "Anyako Anyako is a town in the Volta Region of Ghana . It lies to the southern part of the Keta lagoon . The town is known for the Anyako Secondary School . ( Formerly known as Anlo Awoamefia school ) The school is a second cycle institution . Anyako is inhabited by people of the Ewe tribe and is the birthplace of artist El Anatsui . It is also a birthplace of : The 1st Inspector General of Police of Ghana John Willie Kofi Harley who was also a former foreign minister of Ghana ; and a member of the Presidential Commission that ruled Ghana during the military era of the National Liberation Council . Also hail from Anyako were The first Finance Minister of Ghana under Kwame Nkrumah , -LSB- Komla Agbeli Gbedemah -RSB- and The former Commissioner for Local Government in the Acheampong government , Col. B. K. Ahlijah", "title": "" }, { "docid": "5aa0ffd534126bb86f292a7f340f6a1c", "text": "Maputaland coastal forest mosaic The Maputaland coastal forest mosaic is an ecoregion of the subtropical moist broadleaf forests Biome , on the Indian Ocean coast of Southern Africa . It covers an area of 30,200 km2 in southern Mozambique , Swaziland , and the KwaZulu-Natal Province of South Africa . Mozambique 's capital Maputo lies within the ecoregion . The Maputaland coastal forest mosaic occupies the humid coastal strip along the Indian Ocean , inland to the Lebombo Mountains for much of its length . This is part of a strip of moist coastal forests that extend along Africa 's Indian Ocean coast from southern Somalia to South Africa . The northern limit of the ecoregion is north of the mouth of the Limpopo River , near Xai-Xai in Mozambique , where the forests transition to the Southern Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forest mosaic . The southern limit is near Cape St. Lucia in KwaZulu-Natal , where the Maputaland forests transition to the Kwazulu-Cape coastal forest mosaic . The ecoregion has a seasonally moist , tropical to subtropical climate . Rainfall ranges from 1000 mm per year near the coast to less than 600 mm per year inland . Most of the rain falls in the summer months . The coastal strip includes areas of wetland , the largest of which is Lake St. Lucia , the largest estuarine system in Africa .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "2d9fa2c5c22d3a07dfa00f6f3f6e901d", "text": "Denguélé District Denguélé District ( District du Denguélé ) is one of fourteen administrative districts of Ivory Coast . The district is located in the northwest corner of the country . The capital of the district is Odienné .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "7386bcc1345042eb3258b06b0e6897e1", "text": "Côte d'Opale Opal Coast ( fr : Côte d'Opale ) is a coast in northern France , on the English Channel , popular with tourists .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "f302989d6044a5fc5b61d94a331d7e43", "text": "Neighborhoods of Accra The city of Accra is officially divided into four geographical regions - North , West , East , Central - and eleven sub-metropolitan areas : Osu Klottey , Ablekuma North , Ablekuma South , Ayawaso Central , Ayawaso East , Ayawaso North , Ayawaso West , La , Okaikoi North , Okaikoi South , Abossey Okai , and Ashiedu Keteke . The word `` neighborhood '' can take on various official and unofficial meanings . There are , however , 50 official neighborhoods ( i.e. planned and unplanned anchor neighborhoods ) within the city limits of Accra . `` Neighborhoods '' exist on both large and small scales . Osu , Jamestown and Usshertown , established during the colonial era have well-defined boundaries by virtue of their siting around the respective forts of Christiansborg , James Fort , and Ussher Fort . The unplanned nature of the city has resulted in the development of slums and much smaller communities within officially recognized neighborhoods with a well-defined center but poorly identified extremities .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "951fc0b3080bfce554fe783935f0888e", "text": "Sunshine Coast, Queensland Sunshine Coast is a peri-urban area and the third most populated area in the Australian state of Queensland . Located 100 km north of the state capital Brisbane in South East Queensland on the Pacific Ocean coastline , its urban area spans approximately 60 km of coastline and hinterland from Pelican Waters to Tewantin . The estimated urban population of Sunshine Coast as at June 2015 was 302,122 , making it the 9th most populous in the country . The area was first settled by Europeans in the 19th century with development progressing slowly until tourism became an important industry . The area has several coastal hubs at Caloundra , Kawana Waters , Maroochydore and Noosa Heads . Nambour and Maleny have developed as primary commercial centres for the hinterland , although Maleny falls outside the urban area defined by the ABS that this article refers to .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "a73e97b55fec8dfaa441fb0e934dc6e4", "text": "Lightning (Atlanta) Lightning was a neighborhood just west of Downtown Atlanta , Georgia , north of the former extension of Magnolia Street , south of Simpson St. ( now Joseph E. Boone Blvd. ) and east of Northside Drive ( US 41 ) . It was razed to make way mostly for the expansion of the Georgia World Congress Center as well as the north end of the Georgia Dome . As of 1975 , east-west streets in Lighting were , from north to south : Simpson St. ( northern border ) , Tyler St. , Rock St. , Mayes St. , Thurmond St. Newton St. , Foundry St. , Magnolia St. ( southern border ) North-south streets in Lightning were , from west to east : Northside Dr. ( western border ) , Haynes St. , Mangum St. , Elliott St. ( eastern border ) .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "2ad5633346f578251bed02710052509d", "text": "Cinema of Kenya The cinema of Kenya refers to the film industry of Kenya . Although a very small industry in western comparison , Kenya has produced or been a location for film since the early 1950s when Men Against the Sun was filmed in 1952 . Although , in the United States , jungle epics that were set in the country were shot in Hollywood as early as the 1940s .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "898a706e8d1055d20c2c60e4ccdc91e2", "text": "List of populated places affected by the 2010 Haiti earthquake This is a list of populated places and structures affected by the 2010 Haiti earthquake , a magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake which occurred on 12 January 2010 , with an epicentre approximately 25 km west of Port-au-Prince , Haiti , and affected an estimated three million people . The Haitian government estimated that 230,000 people died , 300,000 were injured and 1,000,000 made homeless by the quake . The earthquake caused extensive damage to infrastructure in southwestern Haiti -- in February , Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive estimated that 250,000 residences and 30,000 commercial buildings had collapsed or were severely damaged . The deputy mayor of Léogâne , at the epicentre of the earthquake , reported that 90 percent of buildings in the city were destroyed and Léogâne had `` to be totally rebuilt . '' As much as 90 percent of Grand-Goâve was devastated , including all public buildings . In Gressier , 40 -- 50 percent of buildings were destroyed ; the same in the worst-affected areas of Carrefour . Jacmel , the capital of Sud-Est Department , also was heavily affected ; 70 percent of homes in the city were damaged according to the mayor of Jacmel , as well as the airport , hospital and city hall building . Many landmark buildings were damaged or destroyed , including the Presidential Palace , the National Assembly building ( Palais Législatif ) , the Supreme Court building ( Palais de Justice ) and the Holy Trinity and Port-au-Prince Cathedrals . Port-au-Prince 's main port and airport , the Port international de Port-au-Prince and Toussaint Louverture International Airport also suffered severe damage , as did Killick , the Haitian Coast Guard 's base in the capital city . The Ciné Institute , Haiti 's only film school , `` lost two buildings '' .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "3978e5ad21d5780537f2bbf926aa3a73", "text": "Sankarani River The Sankarani River is a tributary of the Niger River . Flowing northward from the Fouta Djallon highlands of Guinea , it crosses into southern Mali , where it joins the Niger approximately 40 km upstream of Bamako , the capital of Mali . It forms part of the Côte d'Ivoire -- Guinea and Guinea -- Mali borders . The Sankarani River watershed , traditionally well suited to crops and rich in iron and gold , covers some 35500 km2 , two-thirds of which are in Guinea , where it is joined by three tributaries : the Kourai , Yeremou and Dion Rivers . In Mali , it flows into the Niger River upstream of Bamako near the village of Kourouba . Construction of the Sélingué Dam began in 1980 , with the goal of supplying Bamako with electricity ; it was inaugurated on 13 December 1982 . It and the accompanying hydroelectric plant comprised the largest development project in Malian history up to that time . The plant has the capacity to produce 44.8 million kilowatt-hours of electricity . An irrigation scheme was also implemented , initially to compensate people who had to be moved ; it covered 1200 ha , split up among 1943 plot holders , or 60000 ha . The Sankanarni has a discontinuous floodplain over a distance of 170 km in Guinea . The river banks support gallery forests , though the Selingue Dam 's reservoir covered many of them . As of 2008 , more than a thousand fishermen catch `` between 400 and 1000 kg/day in peak season and 10 to 50 kg/day in low season ( March to May ) '' in the section of the river between the dam and the junction with the Niger . At the height of its power , from the 13th to 16th centuries CE , the capital of the ancient Mali Empire is believed to have been at Niani , on the banks of the Sankarani .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "2e979806df9a9af0cb1108f488955f9d", "text": "Football in Ivory Coast Football is a popular sport in Côte d'Ivoire . The national team won the Africa Cup of Nations in Senegal in 1992 . In 2006 they participated in the 2006 World Cup in Germany . The youth national teams have also done well in world championships , and the clubs from Côte d'Ivoire have won several continental titles . Among famous players from the country are Kolo Touré of Liverpool , Chelsea striker and former national team captain , Didier Drogba , Wilfried Bony and Yaya Touré of Manchester City , Gervinho and Seydou Doumbia of Roma , and Salomon Kalou of Hertha Berlin . The Ivory Coast national team won a second African cup of nations in 2015 .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "307b98832fe31ce4f4c47d82967b924f", "text": "Comoé National Park The Comoé National Park is a Biosphere Reserve and UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Zanzan and Savanes Districts of north-eastern Ivory Coast . It is the largest protected area in West Africa , with an area of 11,500 km2 , and ranges from the humid Guinea savanna to the dry Sudanian zone . This steep climatic north-south gradient allows the park to harbour a multitude of habitats with a remarkable diversity of life . Some animal and plant species even find their last sanctuary in some of the different savanna types , gallery forests , riparian grasslands , rock outcrops or forest islands . The park was initially added as a World Heritage Site due to the diversity of plant life present around the Comoé River , including pristine patches of tropical rain forest that are usually only found further south . As a well-eroded plain between two large rivers , the land in the area is home to relatively infertile soils and a moisture regime suitable to a richer biodiversity than surrounding areas . In 2003 it was added to the list of World Heritage Sites in Danger due to poaching , absence of management , overgrazing of the park by cattle , problems that intensified after the outbreak of the First Ivorian Civil War .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "e5a7c251bb8eef5a9abba931ed37b0e5", "text": "Laurent Gbagbo Laurent Gbagbo ( Gagnoa Bété : Gbagbo -LSB- -LSB- ɡ͡baɡ͡bo -RSB- -RSB- -LSB- loʁɑ̃ baɡbo -RSB- ; born 31 May 1945 ) was the President of Côte d'Ivoire from 2000 until his arrest in April 2011 . A historian by profession , as well as an amateur chemist and physicist , Gbagbo was imprisoned in the early 1970s and again in the early 1990s , and he lived in exile in France during much of the 1980s as a result of his union activism . Gbagbo founded the Ivorian Popular Front ( FPI ) in 1982 and ran unsuccessfully for President against Félix Houphouët-Boigny at the start of multi-party politics in 1990 . He also won a seat in the National Assembly of Côte d'Ivoire in 1990 . Gbagbo claimed victory after Robert Guéï , head of a military junta , barred other leading politicians from running in the October 2000 presidential election . The Ivorian people took to the streets , toppling Guéï . Gbagbo was then installed as President . Following the 2010 presidential election , Gbagbo challenged the vote count , alleging fraud . He called for the annulment of results from nine of the country 's regions . Alassane Ouattara was declared the winner and was recognized as such by election observers , the international community , the African Union ( AU ) , and the Economic Community of West African States . However , the Constitutional Council , which according to Article 94 of the Ivorian Constitution both determines disputes in and proclaims the results of Presidential elections , declared that Gbagbo had won . After a short period of civil conflict , Gbagbo was arrested by backers of Alassane Ouattara , supported by French Forces of `` Operation Unicorn '' . In November 2011 , he was extradited to the International Criminal Court , becoming the first head of state to be taken into the court 's custody .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "4ba72aa520f543d3521232f725e6d85f", "text": "Greenville, Liberia Greenville is the capital of Sinoe County in southeastern Liberia and lies on a lagoon near the Sinoe River and the Atlantic Ocean . It is located about 150 miles southeast of Monrovia . As of the 2008 national census , the population stood at 16,434 . A hoard of bronze Kru currency rings discovered in the Sinoe river at Greenville is now in the British Museum . The town was built in about 1838 by colonists of the Mississippi Colonization Society . Part of what was then the Mississippi-in-Africa colony ( now Sinoe County ) , Greenville was named after Judge James Green , one of the first Mississippi Delta planters to send a group of former slaves to Liberia . The town was destroyed in the Liberian Civil War but has since been rebuilt around a port for the local logging industry . Before the civil war , the town 's main exports were lumber , rubber , and agricultural products . The Sapo National Park lies near the town . Boats sail from Greenville to Monrovia and Harper . Greenville experiences on average 185 rainy days per year . The mean temperature of the town 's coolest month is 24 degrees Celsius and 27 degrees Celsius for its warmest month . Greenville has the third largest port in Liberia . The port has two quays ( 70 m and 180 m long respectively ) on the inner side of the breakwater for berthing facilities , with an existing water depth of 6 m below chart datum .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "5c12a5056db871e74d70a6746873724d", "text": "Niakaramandougou Niakaramandougou ( often referred to as Niakara ) is a town in north-central Ivory Coast . It is a sub-prefecture of and the seat of Niakaramandougou Department in Hambol Region , Vallée du Bandama District . Niakaramandougou is also a commune .", "title": "" } ]

[ { "docid": "4197fb3be9cf0fa3922734f29fbb5a4f", "text": "As You Like It (2006 film) As You Like It is a 2006 film written and directed by Kenneth Branagh , and based on the Shakespearean play of the same name . It stars Bryce Dallas Howard as Rosalind , David Oyelowo as Orlando De Boys , Romola Garai as Celia , Adrian Lester as Oliver De Boys , Alfred Molina as Touchstone , Kevin Kline as Jaques , Janet McTeer as Audrey , and Brian Blessed as Duke Frederick and his brother Duke Senior . Branagh moved the play 's setting from medieval France to a late 19th century European colony in Japan after the Meiji Restoration . Branagh filmed it at Shepperton Film Studios and at the never-before-filmed gardens of Wakehurst Place . The film is a production of The Shakespeare Film Company , financed by HBO Films . It is Kenneth Branagh 's first Shakespearean film shot in a Super 35 format .", "title": "" } ]

[ { "docid": "51b86c558ef0b81e01365d877543f6a1", "text": "Williamsburg (film) Williamsburg is a 2006 American independent film written , directed , and edited by Brad Saville , as a black and white feature length narrative comedy/drama that provides a satirical look at the lives of seven failing artists in Williamsburg , Brooklyn .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "94c2a6c179f786351fff21d3d393c379", "text": "Nina's Heavenly Delights Nina 's Heavenly Delights is a 2006 British drama Romance comedy film , directed by Pratibha Parmar . The film was released on 29 September 2006 in the United Kingdom , and on 21 November 2007 in the United States .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "5833d6e44c5474ba1ee796e31f93e186", "text": "Like for Likes Like for Likes ( Korean : 좋아해줘 ) is a 2016 South Korean romantic comedy film directed by Park Hyun-jin . It was released in South Korea on February 17 , 2016 by CJ Entertainment .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "94a4725e969f8b03d6efee965d7858df", "text": "2006 MTV Video Music Awards The 2006 MTV Video Music Awards aired live on August 31 , 2006 , honoring the best music videos from June 11 , 2005 , to June 26 , 2006 . The show was hosted by Jack Black at Radio City Music Hall in New York City . The 2006 Video Music Awards marked the first time viewers were able to vote for all performers ' categories ( Best Video ; Best Male , Female , and Group Videos ; and genre categories ) . Like previous years , the artistic categories ( Best Direction , Best Cinematography , etc. ) are still chosen by music industry professionals . The 2006 Awards also discontinued the major category Breakthrough Video . The show was criticized by fans and viewers as being uninteresting or lacking substance . The award ceremony 's ratings were down 28 % from the 8 million viewers it averaged in 2005 and down 45 % from the 10.3 million viewers it averaged in 2004 . Shakira and Red Hot Chili Peppers received the most nominations , with seven each . Avenged Sevenfold won Best New Artist and `` I Write Sins Not Tragedies '' , by Panic ! at the Disco , became the first video to win Video of the Year without winning a single other award since `` This Note 's for You '' by Neil Young in 1989 .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "36e501af2753e13986b9f22f8ee4d97b", "text": "As You Like It (1912 film) As You Like It is a 1912 silent short film based on the play by William Shakespeare , As You Like It . It was directed by J. Stuart Blackton , Charles Kent and or James Young and was produced by the Vitagraph Company . The film brings stage star Rose Coghlan to the screen for her motion picture debut and her costar is Maurice Costello . At 61 or 62 Coghlan is an older Rosalind than usual . Filmed mainly outdoors .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "4f138f5bb726378559b13c03ae8f6c03", "text": "Slumming (film) Slumming is a 2006 Austrian-Swiss comedy film directed by Michael Glawogger .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "860542f09d5c24d77f330948963df48a", "text": "List of Malayalam films of 2006 The following is a list of Malayalam films released in the year 2006 .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "701114f9f5afab4c74e99be273917cf9", "text": "Bondage (2006 film) Bondage is a 2006 film written and directed by Eric Allen Bell ( creator of Global One TV ) . The film had limited release in January 2006 .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "a1f7deadfaa275f35ce9b3aaac7d2ac1", "text": "Déjà Vu (2006 film) Déjà Vu ( stylised onscreen without accents ) is a 2006 American science fiction thriller film directed by Tony Scott , written by Bill Marsilii and Terry Rossio , and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer . The film stars Denzel Washington , Paula Patton , Jim Caviezel , Val Kilmer , Adam Goldberg and Bruce Greenwood . It involves an ATF agent who travels back in time in attempts to prevent a domestic terrorist attack that takes place in New Orleans and to save a woman with whom he falls in love . Filming took place in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina . The film was premiered in New York City on November 20 , 2006 , and released widely in the United States and Canada two days later on November 22 , 2006 . It received mixed reviews from critics , and earning $ 64 million in the United States and $ 180 million worldwide . It was the 23rd most successful film worldwide for 2006 . The film was nominated for five awards , and also won the Golden Reel Award .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "ca22ac7cb718acabc226442ba432625f", "text": "Land of the Blind Land of the Blind is a 2006 British-American black comedy drama film starring Ralph Fiennes , Donald Sutherland , Tom Hollander and Lara Flynn Boyle . Land of the Blind is a dark political satire , based on several incidents throughout history in which tyrannical rulers were overthrown by new leaders who proved to be just as bad , if not worse , and subtle references are made to several such cases . The title is taken from the saying , `` In the land of the blind , the one-eyed man is king . '' Land of the Blind had its world premiere in competition at the International Film Festival Rotterdam , and was the Opening Night Gala film at the 2006 Human Rights Watch Film Festival in London . Its U.S. premiere was in competition at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival . The film sparked intense reaction during its festival run , attacked by both left and right , each of which saw the film as a critique of its position . Historical references in the film include Jean-Paul Marat ( from the French Revolution ) , Kim Jong-Il , Joseph Stalin , Benito Mussolini , Augusto Pinochet , Anastasio Somoza Debayle , François Duvalier , Rudolph Hess , Jean-Claude Duvalier , Lyndon B. Johnson , Julius Caesar ( from William Shakespeare 's play ) , Robert Mugabe , Ngo Dinh Diem , Idi Amin , the PIRA Maze prison protests , U.S. POWs in Vietnam , the Weathermen terrorist group , the Khmer Rouge , the 1979 Revolution in Iran , and the subsequent Cultural Revolution in that country .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "a2efca8b050f448d2e3ddc0c2c52190f", "text": "60th Bodil Awards The 60th Bodil Awards were held on 25 February 2007 in Imperial Cinema in Copenhagen , Denmark , honouring the best national and foreign films of 2006 . A Soap won the award for Best Danish Film .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "e89d75728eddee2bb88a971fb4c4e568", "text": "Little Britain Productions Little Britain Productions is a television production company founded in 2006 . Little Britain Productions mainly produces comedies and documentaries about comedy .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "29ba38c6a9c005e1d41a56a639a71a02", "text": "Not Like Everyone Else Not Like Everyone Else is a 2006 television film that aired on Lifetime Television and starred Alia Shawkat , Illeana Douglas and Eric Schweig . It is based on a true story of events that happened to Brandi Blackbear in 1999 -- 2000 . This telefilm was shot in Shreveport , Louisiana .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "7cedccb653151030116e8fac8f5e3d95", "text": "Trailer Park Boys: The Movie Trailer Park Boys : The Movie , also known as Trailer Park Boys : The Big Dirty and simply Trailer Park Boys , is a 2006 Canadian crime dark comedy film based on the television series Trailer Park Boys . The film follows characters Ricky , Julian and Bubbles creating a plan for The Big Dirty , one last crime that will enable them to retire from their criminal lives . The film , like the series , was directed and produced by Mike Clattenburg , with Ivan Reitman as an executive producer . It was released in Canada on October 6 , 2006 , and a limited release in the United States began on January 25 , 2008 . It has developed into a cult film since then .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "ae76c71d1bb8cb46140f4f2a628641e0", "text": "Bamako (film) Bamako is a 2006 film directed by Abderrahmane Sissako , first released at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival on 21 May and in Manhattan by New Yorker Films on 14 February 2007 . The film depicts a trial taking place in Bamako , the capital of Mali , amid the daily life that is going on in the city . In the midst of that trial , two sides argue whether the World Bank and International Monetary Fund are guided by special interest of developed nations , or whether it is corruption and the individual nations ' mismanagement , that is guilty of the current financial state of many poverty-stricken African countries as well as the rest of the poor undeveloped world . Danny Glover , one of the film 's executive producers , also guest-stars as an actor in a Western film ( called Death in Timbuktu ) that some children are watching on the television in one scene .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "d369322010b6c4360dd40ad396e605c9", "text": "Raashtram Raashtram is a Malayalam language film . It was released in 2006 .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "a7512ebb030fc56583a0f553f03dd4c4", "text": "Enchanted (film) Enchanted is a 2007 American live-action/animated musical fantasy romantic comedy film , produced by Walt Disney Pictures with New York Academy Barry Sonnenfeld and Josephson Entertainment . Written by Bill Kelly and directed by Kevin Lima , the film stars Amy Adams , Patrick Dempsey , James Marsden , Timothy Spall , Idina Menzel , Rachel Covey , and Susan Sarandon . The plot focuses on Giselle , an archetypal Disney Princess , who is forced from her traditional animated world of Andalasia into the live-action world of New York City . Enchanted was the first Disney film to be distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures , instead of Buena Vista Pictures Distribution . The film is both a homage to , and a self-parody of , Disney 's animated features , making numerous references to Disney 's past works through the combination of live-action filmmaking , traditional animation , and computer-generated imagery . It marks the return of traditional animation to a Disney feature film after the company 's decision to move entirely to computer animation in 2004 . Composer Alan Menken and lyricist Stephen Schwartz , who had written songs for previous Disney films , produced the songs of Enchanted , with Menken also composing its score . The animation sequences were produced at James Baxter Animation in Pasadena . Filming of the live action segments took place around New York City . It premiered on October 20 , 2007 , at the London Film Festival before its wide release on November 21 , 2007 , in the United States . Enchanted was well-received critically , established Adams as a leading lady , and earned more than $ 340 million worldwide at the box office . It won three Saturn Awards , including Best Fantasy Film and Best Actress for Adams . Enchanted also received two nominations at the 65th Golden Globe Awards and three Best Original Song nominations at the 80th Academy Awards .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "226fdaa88892745fb2a5c3d63b742346", "text": "Rosalind (As You Like It) Rosalind is the heroine and protagonist of the play As You Like It ( 1600 ) by William Shakespeare . She is the beautiful daughter of the exiled Duke Senior and niece to his usurping brother Duke Frederick . Her father is banished from the kingdom which breaks her heart . She then meets Orlando , one of her father 's friends ' son and falls in love with him . After angering her uncle , she leaves his court for exile in the Forest of Arden . Disguised as a shepherd named Ganymede , Rosalind lives with her sweet and devoted cousin , Celia ( who is disguised as Ganymede 's sister , Aliena ) , and Duke Frederick 's fool Touchstone . Eventually , Rosalind is reunited with her father and married to her faithful lover , Orlando . Rosalind is one of Shakespeare 's most recognized heroines . Admired for her intelligence , quick wit , and beauty , Rosalind is a vital character in `` As You Like It . '' Most commonly seen next to her beloved cousin Celia , Rosalind is also a faithful friend , leader , and schemer . She stays true to her family and friends throughout the entire story , no matter how dangerous the consequences . Rosalind dominates the stage . Her true decision-making skills can be seen in the last scene of Act V ( 5 ) where she has to present herself as Rosalind to her father and to Orlando , but at the same time change Phebe 's opinion to marry Silvius . She is the main character of the play who extracts the clarity of important traits in other characters .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "6d27f6267de78157ff24ae239b3f7e7e", "text": "The Treatment (2006 film) The Treatment is an American romantic comedy film released in 2006 starring Chris Eigeman and Famke Janssen and produced and directed by Oren Rudavsky . It is based on a novel with the same title by Daniel Menaker .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "5c91e5b1bc15046d0a7da16af3797ffa", "text": "Heart Is... Heart is ... , also known as Hearty Paws , is a 2006 South Korean drama film directed by Park Eun-hyung and Oh Dal-kyun .", "title": "" } ]

[ { "docid": "bd798d0654910b53a7191b48316555d1", "text": "Jamaicans for Justice Jamaicans for Justice ( JFJ ) is a non-profit , non-partisan , non-violent volunteer citizens ' rights action group . Jamaicans for Justice ( JFJ ) was founded in 1999 in Kingston , Jamaica . The group was co-founded by Jamaican human rights activist Dr. Carolyn Gomes who in 2008 was awarded the United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights .", "title": "" } ]

[ { "docid": "ac2facde43d8047d37450d9a66611b26", "text": "Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 is a United States federal law providing funds to states that follow a series of federal protections , known as the `` core protections , '' on the care and treatment of youth in the justice system . The four `` core protections '' of the act are : Deinstitutionalization of Status Offenders ( DSO ) -- the deinstitutionalization of status offenders and non-offenders requires that youth who are runaways , truants or curfew violators can not be detained in juvenile detention facilities or adult jails ; `` Sight and Sound '' -- The `` Sight and Sound '' separation protection disallows contact between juvenile and adult offenders ( i.e. if juveniles are put in an adult jail or lock up under the limited circumstances the law allows for , they must be separated from adult inmates ) ; `` Jail Removal '' -- The `` Jail Removal '' disallows the placement of youth in adult jails and lock ups except under very limited circumstances ; Disproportionate Minority Confinement ( DMC ) -- The DMC provision requires states to address the issue of over-representation of youth of color in the justice system . The `` DSO '' and `` Sight and Sound '' protections were part of the original law in 1974 . The `` Jail Removal '' provision was added in 1980 in response to finding youth incarcerated in adult facilities resulted in `` a high suicide rate , physical , mental , and sexual assault , inadequate care and programming , negative labeling , and exposure to serious offenders and mental patients . '' The `` DMC '' requirement was added in the JJDPA in 1992 . The compliance of states towards the requirements of the JJDP Act is monitored by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention . , the `` vast majority '' of participating states comply with the first three requirements and are making strides towards the fourth . . With the exception of Wyoming , all states participate in the program .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "cd43d30f73f1f1e2caae0ce42d996a02", "text": "Barrel children Barrel children are children who are abandoned or `` left behind '' by their parents who are seeking a better life abroad . Dr. Claudette Crawford-Brown , the University of the West Indies academic who first described the phenomenon of barrel children , defines `` barrel children '' as those children who , while waiting in the Caribbean to migrate to their parents in the metropoles of North America and the United Kingdom , receive material resources in the form of food and clothing in lieu of direct care . Dr. Crawford-Brown , in her publication Who will save our children : The plight of the Jamaican child in the nineties , showed that these children have surrogate parents who are often unable to give them the emotional support and nurturance that they need , most of these children may be instead raised by grandparents or close relatives . The impact on these children of this type of neglect includes a range of emotional and behavioural problems including run-away behaviour , withdrawal , depression , and , in some cases , acting-out behaviour . The Trinidad and Tobago News said that for `` barrel children the psychological scars have been great and have been troubling factors unto the second , third and fourth generations . '' The Wellcome Trust discussed barrel children in an article focusing on violence in the Caribbean while it was the title and subject of a short film by Cara Elmslie Weir about a Trinidadian family split by migration , the parents `` sending barrels full of material goods '' from the U.S.A. to their children in Trinidad . UNICEF in Jamaica agreed that `` Migration of parents who seek more lucrative employment abroad has had a negative impact on Jamaican children . Some children are left in the care of strangers , neighbours or even older siblings who are still children . These so-called `` barrel children '' are left without parental guidance or adult supervision and with access to significant material resources in the form of cash remittances and barrels of clothing and toys sent by absentee parents . '' It has also been discussed in Caribbean Studies Journals , conferences on the Caribbean , the Trinidad Guardian and Trinidad Newsday . Discussing absent parents The Trinidad Guardian noted that `` At holiday time , they ship their barrels of love , disguised as brand-name sneakers and clothing , believing that these would make their children happy and make up for them being not around . But the fact remains that children are deprived of the real love of their parents . '' An article published in Newsweek by Brook Larmar entitled the `` Barrel Children '' dramatised the problem in its effects on one particular family . `` The cardboard barrel has been sitting empty in Marsha Flowers 's backyard for more than a month now , but the Jamaican teenager hangs onto it as though it were a sacred totem . And in a way , it is . Five years after her mother immigrated to the United States , leaving Marsha and two sisters to fend for themselves in a Kingston slum , the barrel is one of the few tangible signs of her mother 's love - and of her own frustrated desires . '' Blogs also exist highlighting the experiences of barrel children . Memories of a Caribbean Barrel Child was created by Dr. Anthony Salandy ( a native of Trinidad and Tobago ) to shed light of the experiences and outcomes associated with being a barrel child .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "24c74b6244e6a6a9ff45a34f7227d335", "text": "Jamaican Americans Jamaican Americans are Americans who have full or partial Jamaican ancestry . The largest proportion of Jamaicans live in New York City , which has various other Caribbean cultural elements such as food and music . There are also communities of Jamaican Americans residing in Philadelphia , Boston , South Florida , Tampa , Los Angeles , Orlando , Baltimore , Washington , D.C. , Atlanta , Cleveland , Western New York , Connecticut , and New Jersey . After 1838 , European colonies in the Caribbean with expanding sugar industries imported large numbers of immigrants to meet their acute labor shortage . Large numbers of Jamaicans were recruited to work in Panama and Costa Rica in the 1850s . After slavery was abolished in the United States in 1865 , American planters imported temporary workers , called `` swallow migrants '' , to harvest crops on an annual basis . These workers , many of them Jamaicans , returned to their countries after harvest . Between 1881 and the beginning of World War I , the United States recruited over 250,000 workers from the Caribbean , 90,000 of whom were Jamaicans , to work on the Panama Canal . During both world wars , the United States again recruited Jamaican men for service on various American bases in the region . The vast majority of Jamaican American are of black Afro-Caribbean descent .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "6ccf9e37235e37455fa12cfed9792774", "text": "Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted The Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted ( AIDWYC ) is a Canadian , non-profit legal organization with its headquarters in Toronto , Ontario . AIDWYC is committed to identifying , advocating for , and exonerating individuals who have been convicted of a serious crime which they did not commit and to preventing future wrongful convictions through education and justice system reform . AIDWYC was founded in 1993 by a group of volunteers who organized the Justice for Guy Paul Morin Committee . Applications to AIDWYC can be made by the convicted person or another interested party and/or through the recommendation of a lawyer . For many years AIDWYC was headed by Rubin `` Hurricane '' Carter who had himself been wrongly convicted in the United States .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "46f0450aecf7bd4d50266146859ff51b", "text": "Citizen's Justice Committee Citizen 's Justice Committee ( commonly known as CJC ) is an umbrella organization of various human rights organizations and is known for pro bono representing the 1984 anti-Sikh riots victims in their legal battle to gain justice .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "78c403341f0511145347f41b33d559f6", "text": "Artists for Peace and Justice Artists for Peace and Justice is a non-profit organization founded in 2009 by Paul Haggis that encourages peace and social justice and addresses issues of poverty and enfranchisement in communities around the world . The organization 's immediate goal is to serve the poorest communities in Haiti with programs in education , healthcare , and dignity .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "a56ac24473de49e1491453de7c5f606c", "text": "Jamaica Civil Service Association The Jamaica Civil Service Association is an association representing the civil servants of Jamaica .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "1011dd94b417a55e8dcfa860e8ad62ee", "text": "Ms. Foundation for Women The Ms. Foundation for Women is a non-profit organization for women in the United States . It is one of the first and largest women 's funds in the United States and has always had a deep commitment to diversity . The Ms. Foundation was founded in 1972 by Gloria Steinem , Patricia Carbine , Letty Cottin Pogrebin and Marlo Thomas . The Ms. Foundation was created to deliver funding and other strategic resources to organizations that elevated women 's and girl 's voices and solutions across race and class in communities nationwide.The Ms. Foundation works to identify and support emerging and established groups poised to act when and where change is needed . Its grants -- paired with skills-building , networking and other strategic opportunities -- enable organizations to advance women 's grassroots solutions across race and class and to build social movements within and across three areas : Economic Justice , Reproductive Justice and Safety . The organization also focuses its lobbying efforts on the state-level around those three areas .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "7055ca51f3c1cd32deaf2c48ce9b28bd", "text": "American Jewish World Service American Jewish World Service ( AJWS ) is a nonprofit , international development and human rights organization which supports community-based organizations in 19 countries in the developing world and works to educate the American Jewish community about global justice . It is the first and only Jewish organization dedicated solely to ending poverty and promoting human rights in the developing world . Its headquarters are in New York City . AJWS has received a Four Star rating from Charity Navigator since 2002 .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "66a5a404524a312b348cd2125a9f616b", "text": "Songs for Justice `` Songs for Justice '' is an charity compilation released by the non-profit company Rock For Justice , that fight against global poverty and social injustice , on 7 May 2013 .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "5609da00674104768dcff76a4aa2e554", "text": "Community service Community service is a non-paying job performed by someone or a group of people for the benefit of the public or its institutions . Performing community service is not the same as volunteering , since it is not always performed on a voluntary basis . It may be performed for a variety of reasons : It may be required by a government as a part of citizenship requirements , generally in lieu of military service . It may be required as a substitution of , or in addition to , other criminal justice sanctions -- when performed for this reason it may also be referred to as community payback . It may be mandated by schools to meet the requirements of a class , such as in the case of service-learning or to meet the requirements of graduating as class valedictorian . In the UK , it has been made a condition of the receipt of certain benefits , including disability-related ones . ( see Workfare in the United Kingdom ) In Sweden it 's a suspended sentence called `` samhällstjänst '' ( `` society service '' ) .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "af6d4877d7435273d5a9be136e26e5b5", "text": "WE Charity WE Charity , formerly known as Free The Children , is a worldwide development charity and youth empowerment movement founded in 1995 by human rights advocates Craig Kielburger and Marc Kielburger . The organization focuses on young people , with programs in Canada , the U.S. and U.K. for service learning and active citizenship , and international development projects in Asia , Africa and Latin America focused on children and education . The organization runs programs in approximately 10,000 schools in Canada , the U.S. and U.K. for service learning and active citizenship , with the aim of empowering youth to become socially engaged . The domestic youth empowerment work is funded by corporate sponsors and profits from the social enterprise , ME to WE . In 2013 , Charity Intelligence Canada awarded Free The Children its highest four-star rating , along with an A for the organization 's reporting of its `` social results '' . In July 2016 , Free The Children rebranded as WE Charity , part of WE .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "75789033f72be7ef2885a6a095ff3fee", "text": "Truth and Justice Commission The Truth and Justice Commission of Mauritius was an independent truth commission established in 2009 , which explored the impact of slavery and indentured servitude in Mauritius . The Commission was tasked to investigate the dispossession of land , and `` determine appropriate measures to be extended to descendants of slaves and indentured laborers . '' It was `` unique in that it -LSB- dealt -RSB- with socio-economic class abuses '' and explored the possibility of reparations . The inclusion of reparations , whether for individuals or communities , was a controversial decision within the country which aimed to correct inequality . The Commission attempted to cover more than 370 years , the longest period of time that a truth commission has ever covered . The Commission consisted of five members who were appointed by the then President Sir Anerood Jugnauth . The President selected Alex Boraine , the former deputy chair of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission , and four Mauritians to oversea the research and publication of a document consisting of 7 Volumes , and detailing over 3 centuries of Mauritian history . The Truth and Justice Commission documented the `` economics of colonialism , slavery , and indentured servitude , the experiences of indentured Africans , Indians , and French engagés , and living and working conditions on sugar estates . '' In order to aid Mauritians in reconciling the past the commission recommended : `` 1 ) memorializing slavery ; 2 ) a better understanding and more inclusive account of Mauritian history and culture ; 3 ) a better and increased protections of Mauritian heritage ; 4 ) a less racist and elitist society ; 5 ) a more democratic public life , and ; 6 ) empowerment of Mauritians of African and Malagasy origin , as well as other recommendations to increase economic and social justice , particularly related to land issues and equitable and judicious use of the environment . '' Many of these recommendations have yet to be acted upon .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "c104d7396a4ae8b9eccdf629917602ff", "text": "The Social Justice Committee of Montreal The Social Justice Committee of Montreal ( SJCM ) is a non-governmental organisation and registered charity in Canada . It works to address social injustice directed at the world 's impoverished peoples .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "414f79f179ca08ad9a836c1e12b10f25", "text": "Order of National Hero (Jamaica) The Order of National Hero is an honour awarded by the government of Jamaica . It is a part of the Jamaican honours system that has been in place since 1969 .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "744778947724aec1dcd7ac57f4e7d184", "text": "Alternatives Founded in 1994 , Alternatives , Action and Communication Network for International Development , is a non-governmental , international solidarity organization based in Montreal , Quebec , Canada . Alternatives works to promote justice and equality amongst individuals and communities worldwide . Active in over 35 countries , Alternatives supports local , community-based initiatives working towards the greater economic , social , and political rights of people and communities affected by poverty , discrimination , exploitation , and violence . The organization publishes the Le Journal des Alternatives newsletter , a publication inserted every three months in Montreal 's French paper Le Voir . Alternatives also publishes the Alternatives International Journal , a monthly publication in English distributed electronically . Alternatives Montreal is the headquarters of an International Federation consisting of nine NGOs spread across the world . Alternative-Niger , Alternatives Asia ( New Delhi ) , Alternative Information Center ( Jerusalem ) , Forum Macrocain des Alternatives Sud , Initiative Pour un Autre Monde , Institut Alternatives Terrazul , Khanya College , and Teacher Creativity Center .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "2ee02d7ce047adc4ec476385da24ad12", "text": "Campaign for Youth Justice The Campaign for Youth Justice ( CFYJ ) is a national campaign in the United States dedicated to ending the practice of trying , sentencing , and incarcerating children under age 18 in the adult justice system . Founded in 2005 , CFYJ has become a national clearinghouse on the issue of trying youth in adult court . It is also one of the leading advocates for the reauthorization of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act . CFYJ is an advocacy group with nonprofit status .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "e295d528dc2c5102bc5d19e88038b6c3", "text": "Jamaica–Malaysia relations Jamaica -- Malaysia relations refers to bilateral foreign relations between Jamaica and Malaysia . Neither country has a resident ambassador . Prime Minister , Portia Simpson Miller and Prime Minister of Malaysia , Dato Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi , have expressed satisfaction with the progress of bilateral relations between the two countries and have reaffirmed their commitment to strengthening these relations through the exchange of visits and co-operation in the economic , technological , shipping , health and educational sectors , among other areas . Both countries are also the members of Commonwealth of Nations , Group of 77 , Group of 15 and Non-Aligned Movement .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "ab4d7df9f0527f3f5267c275b26b8de2", "text": "Justice Not Crisis Justice Not Crisis is a direct action pressure group campaigning for more social housing in Birmingham , England .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "c7390ab03aaf14853187c66dbbeb0552", "text": "Alliance for Justice Alliance for Justice ( AFJ ) is a progressive judicial advocacy group in the United States . Founded in 1979 by current president Nan Aron , AFJ monitors federal judicial appointments . AFJ represents a coalition of 100 politically liberal groups that have an interest in the federal judiciary . According to the organization , `` AFJ works to ensure that the federal judiciary advances core constitutional values , preserves human rights and unfettered access to the courts , and adheres to the even-handed administration of justice for all Americans . ''", "title": "" } ]

[ { "docid": "2aff879d3ba11f768b17a0c97390a254", "text": "Sofía Vergara Sofía Margarita Vergara Vergara ( -LSB- soˈfi.a βerˈɣaɾa -RSB- ; born July 10 , 1972 ) is a Colombian-American actress and model . Vergara rose to prominence while co-hosting two television shows for Spanish-language television network Univisión in the late 1990s . Her first notable acting job in English was in the film Chasing Papi ( 2003 ) . Subsequently , she appeared in other films , including Four Brothers ( 2005 ) and two Tyler Perry films : Meet the Browns ( 2008 ) and Madea Goes to Jail ( 2009 ) , receiving an ALMA Award nomination for the latter . Vergara 's success on television has earned her roles in films The Smurfs ( 2011 ) , New Year 's Eve ( 2011 ) , Happy Feet Two ( 2011 ) , The Three Stooges ( 2012 ) , Escape from Planet Earth ( 2013 ) , Machete Kills ( 2013 ) , Chef ( 2014 ) , and Hot Pursuit ( 2015 ) . In 2012 , 2013 , and 2016 , she was the top-earning actress on US television . Vergara stars on the ABC series Modern Family as Gloria Delgado-Pritchett , for which she has been nominated for four Golden Globe Awards , four Primetime Emmy Awards , and seven Screen Actors Guild Awards . In 2014 , she was ranked as the 32nd most powerful woman in the world by Forbes .", "title": "" } ]

[ { "docid": "d965e1ab229fc344edeb47b264ec7d03", "text": "Ariel Award for Best Supporting Actress The Ariel Award for Best Supporting Actress ( Spanish : Premio Ariel a Mejor Coactuación Femenina ) is an award presented by the Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas ( AMACC ) in Mexico . It is given in honor of an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a supporting role while working within the Mexican film industry . In 1947 , the 1st and 2nd Ariel Awards were held , with Lilia Michel winning in both ceremonies for the films Un Beso en la Noche and Vértigo , respectively . With the exception of the years 1959 to 1971 , when the Ariel Awards were suspended , the award has been given annually . Nominees and winners are determined by a committee formed every year consisting of academy members ( active and honorary ) , previous winners and individuals with at least two Ariel nominations ; the committee members submit their votes through the official AMACC website . Since its inception , the award has been given to 47 actresses . Ana Ofelia Murguía and Isela Vega had received the most awards in this category with three Ariels each . Angélica Aragón , Katy Jurado , Ofelia Medina , Lilia Michel , Angelina Peláez , and Eileen Yáñez have been awarded twice ; Jurado was also the first Mexican actress to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the film Broken Lance ( 1954 ) . Murguía is the most nominated performer , with eight nominations , followed by Aragón with six . Nineteen films have featured two nominated performances for Best Supporting Actress , Una Familia de Tantas ( Eugenia Galindo and Martha Roth ) , Fin de Fiesta ( Ana Martín and Helena Rojo ) , Actas de Marusia ( Silvia Mariscal and Patricia Reyes Spíndola ) , Las Poquianchis ( Ana Ofelia Murguía and María Rojo ) , El Lugar Sin Límites ( Ana Martín and Lucha Villa ) , Que Viva Tepito ( Leonor Llausás and Rebeca Silva ) , Vidas Errantes ( Eugenia D'Silva and Josefina González de la Riva ) , Los Motivos de Luz ( Murguía and Dunia Zaldívar ) , Como Agua Para Chocolate ( Pilar Aranda and Claudette Maillé ) , Novia Que Te Vea ( Angélica Aragón and Verónica Langer ) , Dos Crimenes ( Leticia Huijara and Margarita Isabel ) , Mujeres Insumisas ( Regina Orozco and Lourdes Elizarrarás ) , Profundo Carmesí ( Julieta Egurrola and Verónica Merchant , Por Si No Te Vuelvo a Ver ( Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez and Angelina Peláez ) , Un Embrujo ( Luisa Huertas and Mayra Sérbulo ) , Mezcal ( Aída López and Sérbulo ) , Fuera del Cielo ( Martha Higareda and Isela Vega ) , Cinco Días Sin Nora ( Langer and Peláez ) , and Las Oscuras Primaveras ( Margarita Sanz and Cecilia Suárez ) ; Roth , Helena Rojo , Reyes Spíndola , María Rojo , Villa , Murguía , Maillé , Aragón , Isabel , Egurrola , Vega , and Peláez won the award . As of the 2016 ceremony , Adriana Paz is the most recent winner in this category for her role in Hilda .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "a33a138c77ff6e5680487fc04db55c9a", "text": "Caterina Lopez Caterina Marie Lopez ( born December 13 , 1987 ) , is an American model and actress .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "94cf47bcddb3a0747f9f75a9d57cc8a6", "text": "Bermúdez (telenovela) Bermúdez is a 2009 Colombian telenovela produced and broadcast by Caracol TV . It was initially released as Todas odian a Bermúdez ( `` All women hate Bermúdez '' ) .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "46d4f90010e47c56f237401066f2e980", "text": "Annabella Sciorra Annabella Gloria Philomena Sciorra ( -LSB- ˈʃoʊrə -RSB- , ; born March 29 , 1960 ) is an Italian-American actress . Her film roles include Cadillac Man ( 1990 ) , Jungle Fever ( 1991 ) , The Hand That Rocks the Cradle ( 1992 ) , Cop Land ( 1997 ) and What Dreams May Come ( 1998 ) . She was nominated for a 2001 Emmy Award for playing Gloria Trillo in The Sopranos ( 2001 -- 04 ) .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "2a064cc8aae2ca1f921c2b6fedc3e965", "text": "Victoria (Colombian telenovela) Victoria is the title of a Spanish-language telenovela about a woman who falls in love with a dashing younger man , when her marriage collapses around her . It is produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo and RTI Colombia . This limited-run series debuted in the U.S. on December 4 , 2007 , after La Esclava Isaura finished . Filmed in Bogotá , it stars Victoria Ruffo , Mauricio Ochmann , Arturo Peniche , and Andrea López .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "006173153758254672974532ab70623b", "text": "Silvia Süller Silvia del Carmen Süller ( born 10 February 1958 ) is an Argentine media and television personality , bombshell , occasional singer and ex glamour model . She 's the elder sister of television personality Guido Süller and ex soccer player Marcelo Süller , they both also well known in Argentina . Her first appearance on Argentine TV was on 30 March 1986 , in Silvio Soldán 's show Grandes Valores del Tango . She fell in love with the TV host and married him a few months later , having a baby , Christian Silvio , in 1991 . In 1987 , she had her first cosmetic surgery , a breast implant , which would help her in her future showgirl career . When she and Soldán split up in 1992 , she started her high-profile career , working as a showgirl in many theater shows with Argentine comedians such as Jorge Corona , Beto César , José Luis Gioia , Carlos Sánchez and Tristán , among others , throughout the 1990s and the early 2000s ( decade ) . She had a very successful showgirl career , though she defines herself as a `` show-woman '' . In 1997 she recorded a music album called Sullermanía . In 2007 , she took part in Bailando por un sueño ( literally `` Dancing for a dream '' ) a TV show very similar to Dancing with the Stars , being the first eliminated . Her life has been largely exposed in the media and the tabloids , so that the public could see her involved in a lot of scandals , including her ex-husband , ex mother-in-law , her parents , her brothers , her sister Norma and national celebrities such as Moria Casán o Jorge Rial . She has stated several times that she is a personal admirer of American star Marilyn Monroe ( she named her daughter after Monroe ) and Susana Giménez . On April 8 , 2011 , Süller was compared to British celebrity Katie Price in The Sun .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "c8e86b9e24f674fa29f46ea2d045aeaf", "text": "Juan Pablo Shuk Juan Pablo Shuk ( born 17 November 1965 ) is a Colombian actor who mainly works in Colombia and Spain . He is married to Spanish actress Ana de la Lastra . He graduated in 1984 form Colegio San Carlos in Bogotá , Colombia .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "95da2e0ca5d030c3853000827220e3cf", "text": "Sondra Currie Sondra Currie ( born Sandra Marie Currie ; January 11 , 1947 ) is an American actress .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "c935ee5367587c2b9fac3d4121466557", "text": "Carmen Zapata Carmen Margarita Zapata ( July 15 , 1927 -- January 5 , 2014 ) was an American actress . Zapata was born in New York City to Julio Zapata , a Mexican immigrant , and Ramona Roca , an Argentine . Zapata made her Broadway debut in the chorus of Oklahoma ! in 1946 . She appeared in over one hundred movies and shows , including Batman : The Animated Series , Married ... with Children , Sister Act , and she was Carmen Castillo in Santa Barbara . One of her longest-running roles was on the bilingual children 's program Villa Alegre , where for nine years she played the lead character , `` Doña Luz . '' In 1972 , Zapata co-founded the Screen Actors Guild Ethnic Minority Committee with actors Ricardo Montalban , Edith Diaz , and Henry Darrow . In 1973 , she co-founded the Bilingual Foundation of the Arts ( BFA ) with Cuban-born actress , playwright , and director Margarita Galban and Argentine-born award-winning set designer Estela Scarlata . In 1976 , Zapata joined Rodolfo Hoyos , Jr. , in starring roles in the 12-episode ABC situation comedy summer replacement series Viva Valdez , about a Mexican-American family living in East Los Angeles , California . In 2003 , Zapata received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame . She also sings in the song `` Te quiero puta '' by the German band Rammstein , on the album Rosenrot", "title": "" }, { "docid": "5e2e352ae0f1687c8c2e8b4c4b1c3936", "text": "¡Viva Hollywood! ¡ Viva Hollywood ! is a VH1 reality television program . Twelve Latino actors and Latina actresses compete for the role of `` America 's Numero Uno Telenovela Star '' . The winner will also receive a contract with Telemundo , the biggest telenovela production company in the United States .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "b4dfba0b915514d72ac6289b78d50f8e", "text": "Livia Brito Livia Brito ( born Livia Brito Pestana , July 21 , 1986 ) is a Cuban-born Mexican actress and model who gained popularity after making her acting debut in Televisa 's telenovela Triunfo del amor .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "34edb2ded980bc0e21668f5bec7e4a56", "text": "Teresa Ruiz (actress) Teresa Ruiz Lopez , known as Teresa Ruiz , is a Mexican American film actress and producer who is considered one of the most prominent and respected actress of Mexico ; has won several best actress awards at International film festivals . Ruiz is a Lifetime Member of the Actors Studio .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "7f142501e8e4a360d5cc2cdcb4e9e987", "text": "List of Sofia the First episodes Sofia the First is an American computer-animated television series that incorporates characters from the Disney Princess franchise . The series stars Ariel Winter as Sofia , a young girl who becomes a princess when her mother , Miranda , marries King Roland II of the kingdom of Enchancia . On April 14 , 2015 , the series was renewed for a fourth season by Disney Junior .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "07e5018e4ccb72087d85fcda8cd9ce68", "text": "Andrea Guasch Andrea Guasch ( born December 20 , 1990 ) is a Spanish actress , singer , and dancer . She started her artistic career when she was just 2 years old when she played the starred a commercial . When she was 4 , she started to receive tuition in classic ballet and jazz and then went on to study hip-hop , breakdance , tap dancing and contemporary dancing . In October 2007 , she passed the Royal Academy of Dance 's Intermediate examination with the grade of `` Merit '' . During her childhood , she took part in almost a hundred commercials and then embarked upon a career as an actress . Since she was 9 until today , she has enrolled in numerous acting , singing and dubbing courses and seminars at various specialised centres : Escola Memory , Eòlia , Magatzem d'Arts , Aules , Juan Carlos Corazza Studio ... She has played parts in several theatrical plays , La extraña señora Vernon ( 2002 ) , Mulato ( 2002 ) , Les obres completes de William Shakespeare ( 2003 ) , El lladre de fantasies ( 2003 ) and Arsénico por compasión ( 2004 ) . Also in the musicals , Annie , el musical ( 2002 ) and Peter Pan , el musical ( 2003 ) , in the television films Dalí etre Dieu ( 2001 ) and L'orquestra de les estrelles ( 2002 ) and in the feature films Seeing Double ( 2002 ) and El juego del ahorcado ( 2007 ) . She has played parts in several television series , Javier ya no vive solo ( 2003 ) , De Moda ( 2004 ) , El Comisario ( 2005 ) , MIR ( 2007 ) , Hospital Central ( 2007 ) , Cuenta Atrás ( 2007 ) , Cuéntame cómo pasó ( 2007 ) , Acusados ( 2008 ) . In 2006 , she played the leading role in the first season of Disney Channel 's teenage series Cambio de Clase ( As the Bell Rings in English ) , recording 52 episodes . In 2007 , she also recorded 9 short films for the same channel under the title Baila conmigo , showing how to dance the most popular choreographies featured in Disney Channel films . In April 2007 , she took part in the international Disney Channel Games held in Orlando , USA , with noteworthy performances in the `` Obstacles Race '' and the `` Football Game '' . That same year , she signed on for the second season of Cambio de Clase , recording 52 new episodes . In January 2008 , she was chosen to sing the Spanish version ( `` Nada es lo que parece ser '' ) of the song `` Everything is not what it seems '' , which is the opening melody of the Disney Channel series The Wizards of Waverly Place . A videoclip was filmed of this song which was broadcast on that channel . In April 2008 , Andrea took part in the Disney Channel Games again , playing with the yellow team `` The Comets '' . During the same year , she once again headed the cast of the third season of Cambio de Clase , with 40 new episodes which were broadcast on Disney Channel from 22 September 2008 . In August 2008 , she appeared in 2 episodes of the series `` Disney 's Kurze Pause '' ( the German version of Cambio de Clase ) , recorded in Munich , Germany . On 20 November , she was guest artist at the prize-giving gala for the drawings competition entitled `` Los derechos del niño '' ( Children 's rights ) organised by the Town Council of Sant Joan Despí ( Barcelona ) , held at the town 's `` Martí i Pol '' Auditorium . Subsequently , on 14 December , on the same stage , she took part in a hip-hop choreography and was also presenter at the `` Fes dansa '' festival organised in solidarity with the TV3 's annual charity fundraising programme La Marató . In December 2008 and January 2009 , she appeared in 3 episodes ( 8 , 9 and 13 ) of the television series Acusados . Subsequently , in June 2009 , she appeared in 2 episodes of the third season of the series Sin tetas no hay paraíso . Lastly , between October and December 2009 , she took part in the shooting of Punta Escarlata , a thriller series produced by Globomedia and Cuatro and which was scheduled for screening in the spring of 2010 . In 2009 , she also took part in several Disney Channel events : In the `` Princess Protection Program '' alongside Demi Lovato , in `` My Camp Rock , the final '' and in `` My Camp Rock , the final decision '' . She was also on the red carpet of the première of `` Hannah Montana , the film '' . In November , she took part in the documentary `` Living The Dream '' featuring the Jonas Brothers during their concerts in Bilbao and Madrid . In May 2009 , she enrolled on the course `` The organic creative process '' , given by John Strasberg , a well-known drama teacher , in Barcelona . In July 2009 , she enrolled on the course `` Giving voice to body and text '' given by John Wild at the Escuela Estudio Juan Carlos Corazza in Madrid . On 14 -- 22 September , se enrolled on the `` Actor Training Course '' conducted by Juan Carlos Corazza in Barcelona . From 1 January until the end of April 2010 , Andrea was at Los Angeles , California ( USA ) as a student at the New York Film Academy 's `` Eight-Week Acting for Film Workshop '' at Universal Studios . While she was at Los Angeles , she shared an apartment with the Peruvian actress and model Anahí de Cárdenas . During this period , Andrea worked with the Peruvian band Ádammo , who were in LA recording their second album , singing with them ` Siento que caigo ' and the English version ` Catch Me ' . These 2 songs were included in the group 's new album called ` Amber ' . Back at Spain , Andrea took part for the second year running in Disney Channel Spain 's My Camp Rock contest . Also with Disney , she was lead actress in a pilot episode for a new series La Gira . Shooting would start on this Spanish-developed and produced series for Disney Channel at the end of the same year . The first season consists of 26 episodes lasting 8 minutes each . On 22 June 2010 , Andrea was awarded the Sant Joan Despí prize on the occasion of the town 's annual recognition of individuals and/or organisations who have excelled in social , sports or cultural activities . Andrea received this distinction for her role in the Disney Channel series Cambio de Clase , among others . In February 2011 , Andrea travelled to Peru to appear at the ` Amber Fest ' ( a festival organised by Ádammo to promote the songs on its new album Amber ) , which was held on 22 February . During her stay in Peru , she also featured in the videoclips for ` Catch Me ' and ` Siento que caigo ' , filmed by the respected producer/director Percy Céspedez . On 4 March 2011 , Disney Channel screened the first episode of the new series La Gira , with high audience ratings . On 16 June , the Peruvian rock band Ádammo launched the videoclip sung with Andrea `` Siento que caigo '' and the English version `` Catch Me '' . On 20 July , the first episode of the thriller series Punta Escarlata was screened on Telecinco with high audience ratings . On 29 July , Disney Channel screened the first episode of the new adventures of `` Los Cuervo '' , with the title `` Pillados ! '' . In October 2011 , she featured in a series of commercials promoting the season `` Halloween on Disney Channel '' . The second season of `` La Gira '' was filmed during November and December , with the first episode scheduled for screening on 2 March 2012 .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "f56a630fd4a89e6df980c3c414bcc373", "text": "Susana Romero Susana Romero ( born Buenos Aires , 20 June 1958 ) is an Argentine actress , speaker , and vedette , and animal rights activist .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "78cf13b1fa106643dad25435b18743c8", "text": "Luis Enrique Vergara Luis Enrique Vergara made low-budget horror and monster movies from 1950 to 1971 . In attempt to please all film goers , he combined monsters and horror with action , sex , science fiction , and comedy . To save money , he often wrote the screenplay as well as producing the films from his Filmica Vergara Cinecomisiones , a film production company he founded in 1952 . During the two decades that Vergara wrote and produced films he worked with actors and actresses including Susana Dosamantes , Macaria , Altia Michel , Isela Vega , John Carradine , and Boris Karloff . He produced the last four films in which Boris Karloff appeared : The Snake People , The Incredible Invasion , Fear Chamber , and House of Evil . Bill Warren , the science-fiction historian , was on the set during the filming ; he reported that Vergara forced the director of the American sequences Jack Hill to tie down with a rope `` an early portable video camera to the top of the 35mm Mitchell he was using as his principal camera '' , a relatively early example of the `` video assist '' which is now standard practice in commercial film production . Due to his unexpected death , the release of the Karloff films was held up due to ownership rights of inheritance under Mexican law .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "ca37fbbe933ab2df49038ff9f2d73658", "text": "Gia Mantegna Gina `` Gia '' Cristine Mantegna ( born April 17 , 1990 ) is an American actress .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "dfa7f7becfbc4f45e7b68ece54db249b", "text": "Arcadia (magazine) Arcadia is a Colombian-based monthly magazine . The magazine offers articles on arts , literature and movies .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "15f4d6a0d7fdee6b9cfd0f366757e670", "text": "Úrsula Murayama Úrsula Murayama ( -LSB- ursula murajama -RSB- born 1972 in Mexico City , Mexico ) is a Mexican actress . She currently lives in Spain .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "38018e1c035985c8a5fac547c9b57e3b", "text": "Gossip Girl: Acapulco Gossip Girl : Acapulco is a Mexican teen drama television series , based on the American television series Gossip Girl . It was produced by El Mall and Warner Brothers International Television , with Pedro Torres serving as executive producer for the series . The first and only season , consisting of 25 episodes , debuted on the pay TV channel Golden Premier in Mexico on August 5 , 2013 . The television show was then broadcast in the United States on UniMás starting September 20 , 2013 , and on free-to-air channel Canal 5 starting November 11 , 2013 . The series starred Sofía Sisniega , Oka Giner , Diego Amozurrutia , Margarita Muñoz , Jon Ecker , Vadhir Derbez , and Macarena Achaga as the principal cast members . It was nominated as best series at the Premios TVyNovelas 2014 , but did n't win .", "title": "" } ]

[ { "docid": "abe306e5c05a3e8b97e367b0ed626499", "text": "Harry Potter (film series) Harry Potter is a British-American film series based on the Harry Potter novels by author J. K. Rowling . The series is distributed by Warner Bros. and consists of eight fantasy films , beginning with Harry Potter and the Philosopher 's Stone ( 2001 ) and culminating with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- Part 2 ( 2011 ) . A spin-off prequel series will consist of five films , starting with Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them ( 2016 ) . The Fantastic Beasts films mark the beginning of a shared media franchise known as J. K. Rowling 's Wizarding World . The series was mainly produced by David Heyman , and stars Daniel Radcliffe , Rupert Grint , and Emma Watson as the three leading characters : Harry Potter , Ron Weasley , and Hermione Granger . Four directors worked on the series : Chris Columbus , Alfonso Cuarón , Mike Newell , and David Yates . The screenplays were written by Steve Kloves , with the exception of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ( 2007 ) , which was written by Michael Goldenberg . Production took over ten years to complete , with the main story arc following Harry Potter 's quest to overcome his arch-enemy Lord Voldemort . Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows , the seventh and final novel in the series , was adapted into two feature-length parts . Part 1 was released in November 2010 , and Part 2 was released in July 2011 . Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ( 2004 ) is the only film in the series not among the 50 highest-grossing films of all time , with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- Part 2 , the highest-grossing film in the series and one of 30 films to gross over $ 1 billion , ranking at number 8 . Without inflation adjustment , it is the second highest-grossing film series with $ 8.5 billion in worldwide receipts .", "title": "" } ]

[ { "docid": "b2be0dbaec81a1795c544f50525e7bc8", "text": "Guy Fawkes (novel) Guy Fawkes first appeared as a serial in Bentley 's Miscellany , between January and November 1840 . It was subsequently published as a three-volume set in July 1841 , with illustrations by George Cruikshank . The first of William Harrison Ainsworth 's seven `` Lancashire novels '' , the story is based on the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 , an unsuccessful attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament . Ainsworth relied heavily on historical documents describing the trial and execution of the conspirators , of whom Fawkes was one , but he also embellished the known facts . He invented the character of Viviana Radcliffe , daughter of the prominent Radcliffe family of Ordsall Hallwho becomes Fawkes 's wifeand introduced supernatural elements into the story , such as the ability of the alchemist , John Dee , to raise the spirits of the dead . The novel 's themes deal with British politics and history , focusing on the events surrounding the 1605 plot to destroy Parliament . Ainsworth also introduced gothic elements , to add a terrifying component to the work . The novel was very popular , and marked the beginning of Ainsworth 's 40-year career in historical romances , but it was not universally admired . Edgar Allan Poe described the style of writing as `` turgid pretension '' .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "da321c0d37dd34d064a313286ff15be8", "text": "List of The New York Times Manga Best Sellers The New York Times Best Seller list for manga published in the United States was introduced on March 5 , 2009 , along with two additional lists for hardcover and paperback graphic novels . The three lists are grouped under the `` Graphic Books '' category . Deborah Hoffman , an editor for the Best Seller lists , explained that the term `` Graphic Books '' was selected to create an `` inclusive and expansive '' list which can extend to works of both fiction and non-fiction . Journalist George Gustines announced , in his introduction of the new lists , `` Comics have finally joined the mainstream . '' The announcement was made the week the film Watchmen , based on the comic book of the same name , was released in movie theaters throughout the U.S. . The Best Seller lists are printed weekly in The New York Times Book Review magazine , which is published in the Sunday edition of The New York Times and as a stand-alone publication . Gustines explained the methodology used to determine the rankings : Rankings reflect sales of graphic novels -LSB- ... -RSB- at many thousands of venues where a wide range of books are sold nationwide . These include hundreds of independent book retailers ( statistically weighted to represent all such outlets ) ; national , regional and local chains ; online and multimedia entertainment retailers ; university , gift , supermarket , discount department stores and newsstands . In addition , these rankings also include unit sales reported by retailers nationwide that specialize in graphic novels and comic books . On multiple occasions , manga have been listed outside its designated list . Mike Kiley , then-Senior Vice President of the publisher Tokyopop , explained in 2010 that it has become more difficult to draw a distinguishing line between works that are manga and manga-inspired , such as Korean manhwa and American original English language ( OEL ) manga . A Drifting Life , an autobiographical manga by Yoshihiro Tatsumi , appeared on the May 3 , 2009 , Best Seller list for paperback graphic novels , where it ranked third . X-Men : Misfits , an original English manga based on the X-Men comic book franchise , ranked fifth at its debut on the August 30 , 2009 , paperback graphic novels list , and stayed on the chart for five consecutive weeks . The first volume of a manhwa adaptation of the popular vampire-themed Twilight novels by Stephenie Meyer remained on the hardcover graphic novels Best Seller list for 27 consecutive weeks in 2010 . In January 2017 , the Times decided to stop producing the separate manga best seller list .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "07d32bf352d5cab135ba2c164601ac3c", "text": "Waverley Novels The Waverley Novels is a long series of novels by Sir Walter Scott ( 1771 -- 1832 ) . For nearly a century , they were among the most popular and widely read novels in all of Europe . Because Scott did not publicly acknowledge authorship until 1827 , the series takes its name from Waverley , the first novel of the series released in 1814 . The later books bore the words `` by the author of Waverley '' on their title pages . The Tales of my Landlord sub-series was not advertised as `` by the author of Waverley '' and thus is not always included as part of the Waverley Novels series .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "50a460dd4b191c74503b0eae967cc6a7", "text": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is a 2007 British-American fantasy film directed by David Yates and distributed by Warner Bros. . Pictures . It is based on the novel of the same name by J. K. Rowling . The film , which is the fifth instalment in the Harry Potter film series , was written by Michael Goldenberg ( making this the only film in the series not to be scripted by Steve Kloves ) and produced by David Heyman and David Barron . The story follows Harry Potter 's fifth year at Hogwarts as the Ministry of Magic is in denial of Lord Voldemort 's return . The film stars Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter , alongside Rupert Grint and Emma Watson as Harry 's best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger . It is the sequel to Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and is followed by Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince . Live-action filming took place in England and Scotland for exterior locations and Leavesden Film Studios in Watford for interior locations from February to November 2006 , with a one-month break in June . Post-production on the film continued for several months afterwards to add in visual effects . The film 's budget was reportedly between # 75 and 100 million ( $ 150 -- 200 million ) . Warner Bros. released the film in the United Kingdom on 12 July 2007 and in North America on 11 July , both in conventional and IMAX theatres ; it is the first Potter film to be released in IMAX 3D . As of April 2017 , Order of the Phoenix is the 39th-highest-grossing film of all time , and a critical and commercial success . The film opened to a worldwide 5-day opening of $ 333 million , fourteenth all-time , and grossed nearly $ 940 million total , second to Pirates of the Caribbean : At World 's End for the greatest total of 2007 . The film was nominated for two BAFTA Film Awards in 2008 .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "471988de30007725fde9ab307a52eab4", "text": "Culture of the United Kingdom The culture of the United Kingdom is influenced by the UK 's history as a developed island country , a liberal democracy and a major power ; its predominantly Christian religious life ; and its composition of four countries -- England , Wales , Scotland and Northern Ireland -- each of which has distinct customs , cultures and symbolism . The wider culture of Europe has also influenced British culture , and Humanism , Protestantism and representative democracy developed from broader Western culture . British literature , music , cinema , art , theatre , comedy , media , television , philosophy , architecture and education are important aspects of British culture . The United Kingdom is also prominent in science and technology , producing world-leading scientists ( e.g. Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin ) and inventions . Sport is an important part of British culture ; numerous sports originated in the country , including football . The UK has been described as a `` cultural superpower '' , and London has been described as a world cultural capital . The Industrial Revolution , which started in the UK , had a profound effect on the socio-economic and cultural conditions of the world . As a result of the British Empire , significant British influence can be observed in the language , law , culture and institutions of a geographically wide assortment of countries , including Australia , Canada , India , the Republic of Ireland , New Zealand , Nigeria , Pakistan , South Africa , the United States and English speaking Caribbean nations . These states are sometimes collectively known as the Anglosphere , and are among Britain 's closest allies . In turn the empire also influenced British culture , particularly British cuisine . The cultures of England , Scotland , Wales and Northern Ireland are diverse and have varying degrees of overlap and distinctiveness .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "d9e0b40ab107845dae5414e90e4c3615", "text": "Penguin Celebrations Penguin Celebrations was a book series released by Penguin Books in 2008 , Penguin re-released 36 modern popular works using Penguin 's distinctive late 1940s style , rebranded ` Penguin Celebrations ' . Following the 1940s style ; Green is for ` mystery ' , Orange for ` fantastic fiction ' , Pink for ` distant lands ' , Dark Blue for ` real lives ' and Purple for ` viewpoints ' . The ` Penguin Celebrations ' books are as follows : Fiction William Boyd - Any Human Heart Jonathan Coe - What a Carve Up ! Jonathan Safran Foer - Everything Is Illuminated Zoë Heller - Notes on a Scandal Nick Hornby - How to Be Good Marian Keyes - The Other Side of the Story Matthew Kneale - English Passengers Hari Kunzru - The Impressionist Marina Lewycka - A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian Meg Rosoff - How I Live Now Ali Smith - The Accidental Zadie Smith - White Teeth Sue Townsend - Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction Pat Barker - Regeneration Non-fiction Noam Chomsky - Hegemony or Survival Niall Ferguson - Empire Robin Lane Fox - The Classical World Malcolm Gladwell - Blink Brian Greene - The Fabric of the Cosmos Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner - Freakonomics James Lovelock - The Revenge of Gaia Eric Schlosser - Fast Food Nation Crime Donna Tartt - The Secret History P. D. James - A Certain Justice John Mortimer - Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders Alex Garland - The Beach Barbara Vine - The Chimney-sweeper 's Boy Travel and adventure Ryszard Kapuściński - The Shadow of the Sun Redmond O'Hanlon - Congo Journey Paul Theroux - Dark Star Safari Biography Charles Nicholl - Leonardo da Vinci : Flights of the Mind Claire Tomalin - Jane Austen : A Life Jeremy Paxman - The English Essays Alain de Botton - The Consolations of Philosophy Jeremy Clarkson - The World According to Clarkson Alistair Cooke - Letter from America", "title": "" }, { "docid": "50dbcde26a02896e5d0de897d034f4a0", "text": "Harry Palmer Harry Palmer is the protagonist of a number of films based on the unnamed main character from the spy novels written by Len Deighton . Michael Caine played Harry Palmer in three of the four films based on the four published novels featuring this character . Caine also starred as this character in two other films not directly based on Deighton 's novels .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "b8cdeaccd00bb2867e8043061d9f3211", "text": "Novel in Scotland The novel in Scotland includes all long prose fiction published in Scotland and by Scottish authors since the development of the literary format in the eighteenth century . The novel was soon a major element of Scottish literary and critical life . Tobias Smollett 's picaresque novels , such as The Adventures of Roderick Random and The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle mean that he is often seen as Scotland 's first novelist . Other Scots who contributed to the development of the novel in the eighteenth century include Henry Mackenzie and John Moore . There was a tradition of moral and domestic fiction in the early nineteenth century that included the work of Elizabeth Hamilton , Mary Brunton and Christian Johnstone . The outstanding literary figure of the early nineteenth century was Walter Scott , whose Waverley is often called the first historical novel . He had a major worldwide influence . His success led to a publishing boom in Scotland . Major figures that benefited included James Hogg , John Galt , John Gibson Lockhart , John Wilson and Susan Ferrier . In the mid-nineteenth century major literary figures that contributed to the development of the novel included David Macbeth Moir , John Stuart Blackie , William Edmondstoune Aytoun and Margaret Oliphant . In the late nineteenth century , a number of Scottish-born authors achieved international reputations , including Robert Louis Stevenson and Arthur Conan Doyle , whose Sherlock Holmes stories helped found the tradition of detective fiction . In the last two decades of the century the `` kailyard school '' ( cabbage patch ) depicted Scotland in a rural and nostalgic fashion , often seen as a `` failure of nerve '' in dealing with the rapid changes that had swept across Scotland in the industrial revolution . Figures associated with the movement include Ian Maclaren , S. R. Crockett and J. M. Barrie , best known for his creation of Peter Pan , which helped develop the genre of fantasy , as did the work of George MacDonald . Among the most important novels of the early twentieth century was The House with the Green Shutters by George Douglas Brown , which broke with the Kailyard tradition . John Buchan played a major role in the creation of the modern thriller with The Thirty-Nine Steps and Greenmantle . The Scottish literary Renaissance attempted to introduce modernism into art and create of a distinctive national literature . It increasingly focused on the novel . Major figures included Neil Gunn , George Blake , A. J. Cronin , Eric Linklater and Lewis Grassic Gibbon . There were also a large number of female authors associated with the movement , who included Catherine Carswell , Willa Muir , Nan Shepherd and Naomi Mitchison . Many major Scottish post-war novelists , such as Robin Jenkins , Jessie Kesson , Muriel Spark , Alexander Trocchi and James Kennaway spent most of their lives outside Scotland , but often dealt with Scottish themes . Successful mass-market works included the action novels of Alistair MacLean and the historical fiction of Dorothy Dunnett . A younger generation of novelists that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s included Allan Massie , Shena Mackay and Alan Spence . Working class identity continued to be explored by Archie Hind , Alan Sharp , George Friel and William McIlvanney . From the 1980s Scottish literature enjoyed another major revival , with figures including Alasdair Gray , James Kelman , Irvine Welsh , Alan Warner , Janice Galloway , A. L. Kennedy , Iain Banks , Candia McWilliam , Frank Kuppner and Andrew O'Hagan . In genre fiction Iain Banks , writing as Iain M. Banks , produced ground-breaking science fiction and Scottish crime fiction has been a major area of growth with the success of novelists including Frederic Lindsay , Quintin Jardine , Val McDermid , Denise Mina , Christopher Brookmyre , and particularly Ian Rankin and his Inspector Rebus novels . The most successful author of Scottish origins in recent years has been J. K. Rowling , author of the Harry Potter series .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "f8ca59b5de5102e23e34fcb01f94f4f4", "text": "Minerva Press Minerva Press was a publishing house , noted for creating a lucrative market in sentimental and Gothic fiction in the late 18th century and early 19th century . It was established by William Lane ( 1745 ? -1814 ) at No 33 Leadenhall Street , London , when he moved his circulating library there in about 1790 . Among his stable of writers were many female authors including Regina Maria Roche ( The Maid of Hamlet , 1793 ; Clermont , 1798 ) ; Mrs. Eliza Parsons ( The Castle of Wolfenbach , 1793 ; The Mysterious Warning , 1796 ) ; and Eleanor Sleath ( The Orphan of the Rhine , 1798 ) whose Gothic fiction is included in the list of the seven Northanger Horrid Novels , recommended by the character Isabella Thorpe in Jane Austen 's novel of similar name . Six of the Northanger Seven were published by Minerva . However many titles were anonymous , including such novels as Count Roderic 's Castle ( 1794 ) , The Haunted Castle ( 1794 ) , The Animated Skeleton ( 1798 ) and The New Monk ( 1798 ) , and the five novels of Helen Craik . Authors such as Emma Parker ( `` Emma de Lisle '' ) and Amelia de Beauclerc , who wrote for Minerva Press in the 1800s , are obscure today , and the market for Minerva 's books became negligible after the death of its charismatic founder . Lane was succeeded as proprietor of the Minerva Press by his partner , Anthony King ( A. K. ) Newman , who gradually dropped the Minerva name from his books ' title pages during the 1820s . Later books published by the press bear the imprint `` A. K. Newman & Co. . '' In the 20th century , the name Minerva Press was used by at least one publisher unconnected with the original firm .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "94486546ed2f068c6b7588250cf0b064", "text": "Alchemy in art and entertainment Alchemy has had a long-standing relationship with art , seen both in alchemical texts and in mainstream entertainment . Literary alchemy appears throughout the history of English literature from Shakespeare to modern Fantasy authors . Here , characters or plot structure follow an alchemical magnum opus . In the fourteenth century , Chaucer began a trend of alchemical satire that can still be seen in recent fantasy works like those of Terry Pratchett . Visual artists had a similar relationship with alchemy . While some of them used alchemy as a source of satire , others worked with the alchemists themselves or integrated alchemical thought or symbols in their work . Music was also present in the works of alchemists and continues to influence popular performers . In the last hundred years , alchemists have been portrayed in a magical and spagyric role in fantasy fiction , film , television , comics and video games .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "d9b0ea69d537ab8b524f02d9881645ec", "text": "Time's List of the 100 Best Novels Time 's List of the 100 Best Novels '' ' is an unranked list of the 100 best novels -- and ten best graphic novels -- published in the English language between 1923 and 2005 . The list was compiled by Time Magazine critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo . The list only includes works between 1923 ( when Time was first published ) and 2005 ( when the list was compiled ) . As a result , notable books such as Ulysses by James Joyce -- published before 1923 -- were ineligible for inclusion.Watchmen '' ( 1986 ) by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons appears on both the 100 Best Novels and 10 Best Graphic Novels lists , giving the combined lists 109 entries .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "ad47dc43670072898442977a55502324", "text": "Character (arts) A character ( sometimes known as a fictional character ) is a person or other being in a narrative work of art ( such as a novel , play , television series , or film ) . The character may be entirely fictional or based on a real-life person , in which case the distinction of a `` fictional '' versus `` real '' character may be made . Derived from the ancient Greek word χαρακτήρ , the English word dates from the Restoration , although it became widely used after its appearance in Tom Jones in 1749 . From this , the sense of `` a part played by an actor '' developed . Character , particularly when enacted by an actor in the theatre or cinema , involves `` the illusion of being a human person . '' In literature , characters guide readers through their stories , helping them to understand plots and ponder themes . Since the end of the 18th century , the phrase `` in character '' has been used to describe an effective impersonation by an actor . Since the 19th century , the art of creating characters , as practiced by actors or writers , has been called characterisation . A character who stands as a representative of a particular class or group of people is known as a type . Types include both stock characters and those that are more fully individualised . The characters in Henrik Ibsen 's Hedda Gabler ( 1891 ) and August Strindberg 's Miss Julie ( 1888 ) , for example , are representative of specific positions in the social relations of class and gender , such that the conflicts between the characters reveal ideological conflicts . The study of a character requires an analysis of its relations with all of the other characters in the work . The individual status of a character is defined through the network of oppositions ( proairetic , pragmatic , linguistic , proxemic ) that it forms with the other characters . The relation between characters and the action of the story shifts historically , often miming shifts in society and its ideas about human individuality , self-determination , and the social order .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "5adc5e84e1a9a2bd6ba76fef1b05f07f", "text": "A Wizard of Earthsea A Wizard of Earthsea is a young adult fantasy novel written by the American author Ursula K. Le Guin , first published by the small press Parnassus in 1968 . The novel received highly positive reviews , initially as a work for children , and later among a general audience as well . Set in the fictional archipelago of Earthsea , the story centers around a young mage named Ged , born in a village on the island Gont . Displaying great power while still a boy , he joins the school of wizardry , where his prickly nature drives him into conflict with one of his fellows . During a magical duel , Ged 's spell goes awry and releases a shadow creature that attacks him . The novel follows his journey as he seeks to be free of the creature . The book has often been described as a Bildungsroman or coming of age story , as it explores Ged 's process of learning to cope with power and come to terms with death . The novel also carries Taoist themes about a fundamental balance in the universe of Earthsea , which wizards are supposed to maintain , closely tied to the idea that language and names have power to affect the material world and alter this balance . Although the structure of the story is similar to that of a traditional epic , critics also described it as subverting this genre in many ways , such as by making the protagonist dark-skinned , in comparison to more typical white-skinned heroes . A Wizard of Earthsea is widely regarded as a classic of fantasy and young-adult literature and was one of the final recipients of the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award . The book was widely influential within the genre of fantasy ; Margaret Atwood , for instance , called A Wizard of Earthsea one of the `` wellsprings '' of fantasy literature . Le Guin would later write five subsequent books that , together with A Wizard of Earthsea , are referred to as the Earthsea Cycle : The Tombs of Atuan ( 1971 ) , The Farthest Shore ( 1972 ) , Tehanu ( 1990 ) , The Other Wind ( 2001 ) , and Tales from Earthsea ( 2001 ) . George Slusser has described the series as a `` work of high style and imagination '' .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "ab776c8e054188f0657ac63f8105ecf6", "text": "Film series A film series ( also referred to as a film franchise ) is a collection of related films in succession that share the same fictional universe , or are marketed as a series . Sometimes the work is conceived from the beginning as a multiple-film work , for example the Three Colours series , but in most cases the success of the original film inspires further films to be made . Individual sequels are relatively common , but are not always successful enough to spawn further installments . The Marvel Cinematic Universe is the highest grossing film series in unadjusted US Dollar figures surpassing the Harry Potter , Star Wars , James Bond , and Peter Jackson 's The Lord of the Rings series . However , `` Star Wars '' has the highest when adjusted for inflation .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "66cffade99f6ae0bbf0731716c9f8755", "text": "The Railway Series The Railway Series is a set of story books about a railway system located on the fictional Island of Sodor . There are 42 books in the series , the first being published in 1945 . Twenty-six were written by the Rev. Wilbert Awdry , up to 1972 . A further 16 were written by his son , Christopher Awdry ; 14 between 1983 and 1996 , and two more in 2007 and 2011 . Nearly all of The Railway Series stories were based upon real-life events . As a lifelong railway enthusiast , Awdry was keen that his stories should be as realistic as possible . The engine characters were almost all based upon real classes of locomotive , and some of the railways themselves were directly based upon real lines in the British Isles . Characters and stories from the books formed the basis of the children 's television series Thomas and Friends . Audio adaptations of The Railway Series have been recorded at various times under the title The Railway Stories .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "f93b81ebb17f4e03cd63813999068237", "text": "Harry Potter Alliance The Harry Potter Alliance ( also known as the HPA ) is a nonprofit organization run primarily by Harry Potter fans . It was founded by Andrew Slack in 2005 to draw attention to human rights violations in Sudan . Since then , the organisation 's campaigns have focused on topics such as literacy , United States immigration reform , economic justice , gay rights , sexism , labor rights , mental health , body image , and climate change . They have received recognition from many popular figures in the Harry Potter community and have been the subject of multiple academic studies on fan activism and civic engagement among youth .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "e710eacf95619fa95081e26d56a8075d", "text": "Inheritance Cycle The Inheritance Cycle is a young adult tetralogy of epic fantasy novels written by American author Christopher Paolini . Set in the fictional world of Alagaësia ( -LSB- æləˈɡeɪziə -RSB- ) , the novels focus on the adventures of a teenage boy named Eragon and his dragon , Saphira , as they struggle to overthrow the evil king Galbatorix . The series was originally intended to be a trilogy ( named the `` Inheritance Trilogy '' ) until Paolini announced on October 30 , 2007 , while working on the third novel , that he believed the story was too complex to conclude in just three books . The book series as a whole received mostly mixed to negative reviews by critics , but has gained both popularity and commercial success . The first book in the series , Eragon , was originally self-published by Paolini in 2001 , and subsequently re-published by Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers on June 25 , 2003 . The second book in the series , Eldest , was published by Knopf on August 23 , 2005 . Both were New York Times bestsellers . The third book in the series , Brisingr , was published by Knopf on September 20 , 2008 . The fourth and final book in the series , Inheritance , was published by Knopf on November 8 , 2011 . The series has sold 33.5 million copies worldwide . In 2006 , a feature film was released based on the first book in the cycle , Eragon , starring Ed Speleers , Jeremy Irons , John Malkovich and Djimon Hounsou . The film received generally negative reviews and closed as the 13th highest grossing fantasy-live action film within the United States .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "3eb115d130536377253a2d8de8bb75c1", "text": "Wicked Willow The Wicked Willow trilogy were three original novels based on the U.S. television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer . In the UK , an omnibus of the entire trilogy was later released .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "de592e967bc6f7d8e29eb17db7435a6d", "text": "Welsh literature in English Anglo-Welsh literature and Welsh writing in English are terms used to describe works written in the English language by Welsh writers . It has been recognised as a distinctive entity only since the 20th century . The need for a separate identity for this kind of writing arose because of the parallel development of modern Welsh-language literature ; as such it is perhaps the youngest branch of English-language literature in the British Isles . Welsh writers in English have traditionally favoured the short story form over the novel for two main reasons : in a society lacking sufficient wealth to support professional writers , the amateur writer was able to spare time only for short bursts of creativity ; and , like poetry , it concentrated linguistic delight and exuberance . However , the genre did not develop in these writers much beyond its origin in rural sketches . Satire was avoided , and , since the main market was London publishers , the short stories tended to focus on the eccentricities ( as seen from a metropolitan viewpoint ) of Welsh life .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "f3cd21922b8130b04ca28289fe232c44", "text": "Old English literature Old English literature or Anglo-Saxon literature , encompasses literature written in Old English , in Anglo-Saxon England from the 7th century to the decades after the Norman Conquest of 1066 . `` Cædmon 's Hymn '' , composed in the 7th century , according to Bede , is often considered the oldest extant poem in English , whereas the later poem , The Grave is one of the final poems written in Old English , and presents a transitional text between Old and Middle English . The Peterborough Chronicle can also be considered a late-period text , continuing into the 12th century . The poem Beowulf , which often begins the traditional canon of English literature , is the most famous work of Old English literature . The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle has also proven significant for historical study , preserving a chronology of early English history . In descending order of quantity , Old English literature consists of : sermons and saints ' lives ; biblical translations ; translated Latin works of the early Church Fathers ; Anglo-Saxon chronicles and narrative history works ; laws , wills and other legal works ; practical works on grammar , medicine , geography ; and poetry . In all there are over 400 surviving manuscripts from the period , of which about 189 are considered `` major '' . Besides Old English literature , Anglo-Saxons wrote a number of Anglo-Latin works .", "title": "" } ]

[ { "docid": "df495384c12d1c7d6728a6572444fb61", "text": "House of Lies House of Lies is an American comedy television series created by Matthew Carnahan . The show , which premiered on Showtime on January 8 , 2012 , is based on the book House of Lies : How Management Consultants Steal Your Watch and Then Tell You the Time , written by Martin Kihn , a former consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton . It follows a group of management consultants who stop at nothing to get business deals done . On May 17 , 2016 , Showtime canceled the series after five seasons , with the series finale airing June 12 , 2016 .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "0018e350813b98038979249a757f2ec0", "text": "Heroes (TV series) Heroes is an American psychological thriller science fiction television drama series created by Tim Kring that appeared on NBC for four seasons from September 25 , 2006 through February 8 , 2010 . The series tells the stories of ordinary people who discover that they had superhuman abilities , and how these abilities take effect in the characters ' lives as they work together to prevent catastrophic futures . The series emulates the aesthetic style and storytelling of American comic books , using multi-episode story arcs that build upon a larger , more encompassing narrative . The series was produced by Tailwind Productions in association with Universal Media Studios . It was filmed primarily in Los Angeles , California . Four complete seasons aired , ending on February 8 , 2010 . The critically acclaimed first season had a run of 23 episodes and garnered an average of 14.3 million viewers in the United States , receiving the highest rating for an NBC drama premiere in five years . The second season of Heroes attracted an average of 13.1 million viewers in the U.S. , and marked NBC 's sole series among the top 20 ranked programs in total viewership for the 2007 -- 2008 season . Heroes has earned a number of awards and nominations , including Primetime Emmy Awards , Golden Globes , People 's Choice Awards , and British Academy Television Awards . An online extension of the series , Heroes 360 Experience , later rebranded as Heroes Evolutions , was created to explore the Heroes universe and provides insight into the show 's mythology . Other official Heroes media include magazines , action figures , tie-in and interactive websites , a mobile game , a novel , clothing and other merchandise . In the fall of 2008 , NBC Digital Entertainment released a series of online content for the summer , including more original web content , wireless iTV interactivity , graphic novels available for mobile viewing and webisodes . A 13-episode miniseries entitled Heroes Reborn premiered on NBC on September 24 , 2015 . Additionally , comic book writer Cullen Bunn will be writing an ongoing comic book continuing Heroes , called Heroes : Season Five ; a release date and artist has yet to be determined .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "9dbc39bf64d5aedd40cf6caf450e23a7", "text": "Veronica Mars Veronica Mars is an American teen noir mystery drama television series created by screenwriter Rob Thomas . The series is set in the fictional town of Neptune , California , and stars Kristen Bell as the eponymous character . The series premiered on September 22 , 2004 , during television network UPN 's final two years , and ended on May 22 , 2007 , after a season on UPN 's successor , The CW , airing for three seasons total . Veronica Mars was produced by Warner Bros. . Television , Silver Pictures Television , Stu Segall Productions , and Rob Thomas Productions . Joel Silver and Rob Thomas were executive producers for the entire run of the series , while Diane Ruggiero was promoted in the third season . Veronica Mars is a student who progresses from high school to college while moonlighting as a private investigator under the tutelage of her detective father . In each episode , Veronica solves a different stand-alone case while working to solve a more complex mystery . The first two seasons of the series each had a season-long mystery arc , introduced in the first episode of the season and solved in the season finale . The third season took a different format , focusing on smaller mystery arcs that would last the course of several episodes . Thomas initially wrote Veronica Mars as a young adult novel , which featured a male protagonist ; he changed the gender because he thought a noir piece told from a female point of view would be more interesting and original . Filming began in March 2004 , and the series premiered in September to 2.49 million American viewers . The critically acclaimed first season 's run of 22 episodes garnered an average of 2.5 million viewers per episode in the United States . Veronica Mars appeared on a number of fall television best lists , and garnered several awards and nominations . During the series ' run , it was nominated for two Satellite Awards , four Saturn Awards , five Teen Choice Awards and was featured on AFI 's TV Programs of the Year for 2005 . Following the cancellation of the series , Thomas wrote a feature film script continuing the series . Warner Bros. opted not to fund the project at the time . On March 13 , 2013 , Bell and Thomas launched a fundraising campaign to produce the film through Kickstarter and attained the $ 2 million goal in less than eleven hours . They accumulated over $ 5.7 million via Kickstarter . The film was released on March 14 , 2014 .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "45b58b4b10d06e81854577d3ce785be9", "text": "The Good Place The Good Place is an American fantasy comedy television series created by Mike Schur . It premiered on September 19 , 2016 on NBC . The series focuses on Eleanor Shellstrop ( Kristen Bell ) , a recently deceased young woman who wakes up in the afterlife and is sent by Michael ( Ted Danson ) to `` The Good Place '' , a heaven-like utopia he designed , in reward for her righteous life . However , she quickly realizes that she was sent there by mistake , and must hide her morally imperfect behavioral past and present . William Jackson Harper , Jameela Jamil , and Manny Jacinto co-star as other residents of the Good Place , together with D'Arcy Carden as an artificial being helping the inhabitants . The Good Place has received critical acclaim since its premiere , with many praising its performances , writing , originality , setting , and tone . On January 30 , 2017 , NBC renewed the series for a second season of 13 episodes .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "24e5ff1bd04325a85cb8f314a6a9a498", "text": "NBC The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC ) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of NBCUniversal , a subsidiary of Comcast . The network is headquartered in the Comcast Building ( formerly known as the GE Building ) at Rockefeller Center in New York City , with additional major offices near Los Angeles ( at Universal City Plaza ) , Chicago ( at the NBC Tower ) and soon in Philadelphia at Comcast Innovation and Technology Center . The network is part of the Big Three television networks . NBC is sometimes referred to as the `` Peacock Network '' , in reference to its stylized peacock logo , which was originally created in 1956 for its then-new color broadcasts and became the network 's official emblem in 1979 . Founded in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America ( RCA ) , NBC is the oldest major broadcast network in the United States . In 1986 , control of NBC passed to General Electric ( GE ) -- which previously owned RCA and NBC until 1930 , when it was forced to sell the companies as a result of antitrust charges -- through its $ 6.4 billion purchase of RCA . Following the acquisition by GE ( which later liquidated RCA ) , Bob Wright served as chief executive officer of NBC , remaining in that position until his retirement in 2007 , when he was succeeded by Jeff Zucker . In 2003 , French media company Vivendi merged its entertainment assets with GE , forming NBC Universal . Comcast purchased a controlling interest in the company in 2011 , and acquired General Electric 's remaining stake in 2013 . Following the Comcast merger , Zucker left NBC Universal and was replaced as CEO by Comcast executive Steve Burke . NBC has thirteen owned-and-operated stations and nearly 200 affiliates throughout the United States and its territories , some of which are also available in Canada via pay-television providers or in border areas over-the-air ; NBC also maintains brand licensing agreements for international channels in South Korea and Germany .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "0d2a8709b92b8519760fa31d6756b8d1", "text": "Kristen Bell Kristen Anne Bell ( born July 18 , 1980 ) is an American actress and singer . She began her acting career starring in stage productions and attended the Tisch School of Arts in New York . In 2001 , she made her Broadway debut as Becky Thatcher in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and starred in the Broadway revival of The Crucible the following year . In 2004 , she had a supporting role in the film Spartan and received praise for her first leading performance in Gracie 's Choice . Bell gained critical acclaim for her first major role as the title character in the teen noir drama television series Veronica Mars ( 2004 -- 07 ) . For her performance she was awarded a Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television . She reprised the eponymous role in the 2014 film continuation of the series . During her time on Veronica Mars , Bell appeared as Mary Lane in the film Reefer Madness : The Movie Musical ( 2005 ) , a reprise of the role she had played in the New York musical upon which the film was based . In 2007 , Bell joined the cast of the sci-fi series Heroes , playing the character Elle Bishop , for which she was nominated for a Saturn Award . In 2008 , she had her breakout film role as the title character in Forgetting Sarah Marshall . She has since appeared in a number of comedy films , such as Couples Retreat ( 2009 ) , When in Rome ( 2010 ) , You Again ( 2010 ) , and The Boss ( 2016 ) . Bell garnered further recognition for voicing Princess Anna in the Disney film Frozen ( 2013 ) , the short film Frozen Fever ( 2015 ) , and the upcoming Frozen 2 . She also starred as the female lead on the Showtime series House of Lies . Since 2016 , she has starred in the main role of Eleanor Shellstrop on the NBC comedy series The Good Place . Bell married actor Dax Shepard in 2013 , with whom she has two daughters .", "title": "" } ]

[ { "docid": "f6a52afd0d9646e4210135ed0653f8fd", "text": "The Backyardigans The Backyardigans is a Canadian -- American CGI-animated musical TV series created by Janice Burgess . It is a co-production of animation studio Nelvana and Nickelodeon Animation Studios . The series debuted on May 7 , 2004 and ended on May 31 , 2010 ; reruns of The Backyardigans continued to air on the Nickelodeon family of channels in the United States until 2015 . The show airs on Treehouse TV in Canada . In 2015 , the first season was included as part of Nickelodeon 's Noggin app , a mobile application featuring episodes of older Nick Jr. programs . The series was based upon a live-action pilot produced in 1998 titled Me and My Friends .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "419b4c4463f16acb46f3a85cc7bfd9bd", "text": "Raising the Bar (2008 TV series) Raising the Bar is an American legal drama , which ran on TNT network from September 1 , 2008 to December 24 , 2009 .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "c01a8f9ed84f9bf9024a8e79a0df7d87", "text": "Jean Smart Jean Elizabeth Smart ( born September 13 , 1951 ) is an American film , television , and stage actress . After beginning her career in regional theater in the Pacific Northwest , she appeared on Broadway as Marlene Dietrich in Piaf in 1981 . Smart was later cast in a lead role as Charlene Frazier Stillfield on the CBS sitcom Designing Women , which she played from 1986 to 1991 . She was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for the 2000 Broadway revival of The Man Who Came to Dinner , and would go on to win two Emmy Awards for her role as Lana Gardener on the NBC sitcom Frasier ( 2000 -- 01 ) , and a third Emmy in 2008 for her role as Regina Newley on the ABC sitcom Samantha Who ? ( 2007 -- 09 ) . Her film credits include The Brady Bunch Movie ( 1995 ) , Guinevere ( 1999 ) , Sweet Home Alabama ( 2002 ) , I Heart Huckabees ( 2004 ) , and The Accountant ( 2016 ) . Between 2006 and 2007 , she portrayed Martha Logan on the series 24 , and later starred as Floyd Gerhardt on Noah Hawley 's critically acclaimed FX series Fargo ( 2015 ) , which earned her a Critics ' Choice Television Award as well as an Emmy Award nomination . Since 2017 , she stars in the FX series Legion , also by Hawley .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "39348eb6e5283ab612bae6db18e86307", "text": "Locations in Veronica Mars Veronica Mars is an American television series created by Rob Thomas . The series premiered on September 22 , 2004 , during UPN 's last two years , and ended on May 22 , 2007 , after a season on UPN 's successor , The CW Television Network . Set in the fictional town of Neptune , the series starred Kristen Bell as the title character , a student who progressed from high school to college during the series while moonlighting as a private investigator under the wing of her detective father .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "97d0cea2ef44d1d46faf4e833d3d4a5f", "text": "Kraft Music Hall (TV series) Kraft Music Hall is an umbrella title for several television series aired by NBC in the United States from the 1950s to the 1970s in the musical variety genre , sponsored by Kraft Foods , the producers of a well-known line of cheeses and related dairy products . Their commercials were usually announced by `` The Voice of Kraft , '' Ed Herlihy .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "1b830dc799a301180d4d9de6e33fd810", "text": "Kristen Wiig Kristen Carroll Wiig ( -LSB- ˈwɪɡ -RSB- born August 22 , 1973 ) is an American actress , comedian , writer , and producer . She is known for her work on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live ( 2005 -- 12 ) , and such films as Bridesmaids , The Martian , and Ghostbusters . Wiig was born in Canandaigua , New York , and raised in Lancaster , Pennsylvania , and Rochester , New York . Wiig attended the University of Arizona , where she majored in Fine Art . She later relocated to Los Angeles , where she broke into comedy as a member of the improvisational comedy troupe The Groundlings and made her television debut in 2003 . Wiig joined the cast of Saturday Night Live in 2005 and the following year she co-starred in the Christmas comedy film Unaccompanied Minors . After appearing in a series of supporting roles in comedy films such as Adventureland , Whip It , and Paul , she starred in and co-wrote the screenplay for Bridesmaids , which was both critically and commercially successful . Wiig received seven consecutive Emmy Awards nominations and has been nominated for an Annie Award for Voice Acting in a Feature Production for her work on Despicable Me 2 . In 2012 , Bridesmaids earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actress -- Musical or Comedy , as well as nominations for the Academy Award and BAFTA for Best Original Screenplay and a SAG Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Cast . She was also nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for her role as Cynthia Morehouse in the miniseries The Spoils of Babylon .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "2dae3442feec28426be40310cd86a962", "text": "In Case of Emergency (TV series) In Case of Emergency is an American half-hour sitcom television series shown on ABC in the United States . The series follows a group of high school acquaintances whose lives have not turned out as they hoped . It premiered on January 3 , 2007 , at 9:30 pm and ended on April 11 , 2007 . The pilot episode was directed by Jon Favreau and the cast included Jonathan Silverman , David Arquette , Lori Loughlin , Kelly Hu , and Greg Germann . ABC gave early renewal notices to several of its series on March 21 , 2007 but In Case of Emergency was not one of them . On April 12 , 2007 , ABC announced that the show had been officially cancelled , leaving one episode unaired , which has since been broadcast internationally .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "12c07b57b12648d84f747e2d7ac7f150", "text": "The Secret Life of the American Teenager The Secret Life of the American Teenager ( often shortened to Secret Life ) is an American teen drama television series created by Brenda Hampton . It first season aired on ABC Family on July 1 , 2008 and ran until June 3 , 2013 . The show was renewed for four additional seasons . The series received generally mixed reviews from mainstream critics when it began broadcasting , but was well received among female and teenage viewers . The pilot episode broke the record for the highest rated debut on ABC Family with 2.82 million viewers , a record previously held by Kyle XY . The season one finale brought in 4.50 million viewers , beating that night 's episode of Gossip Girl , which had less than half its usual number of viewers . Premiering to mostly positive reviews from critics and being well received among viewers , the second season of Secret Life opened with the largest audience for the series , posting a series high in total viewers with 4.68 million viewers ; in adults 18 -- 34 it was the number one scripted original premiere of Summer 2009 . Furthermore , the mid-season premiere became ABC Family 's most watched telecast of all time with viewers ages 12 -- 34 , with more than three million viewers watching . The show earned the Teen Choice Award for Choice Summer TV Show during its premiere season , and spawned a book entitled The Secret Diary of Ashley Juergens .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "f729fc194664b944c83c7c311cc74073", "text": "The Good Witch's Family The Good Witch 's Family is a 2011 Canadian/American family film and Hallmark Channel original movie written by G. Ross Parker and directed by Craig Pryce , The film stars Catherine Bell , Chris Potter , Catherine Disher , Matthew Knight , and Paul Miller . Family is the fourth film in the The Good Witch film series . The film premiered on Hallmark Channel October 29 , 2011 . The first film premiered January 19 , 2008 .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "b8ba1ac0b31f8704d298cb1f4ebc8c39", "text": "Carlson Young Carlson Young ( born ) is an American actress . She is known for her roles on Disney Channel 's As the Bell Rings , the film Premature , Comedy Central 's Key & Peele , and for her role as Brooke Maddox in the main cast of MTV 's Scream television series .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "89843ab919acbc70c147d37ff52755f4", "text": "Good Morning, Miss Bliss Good Morning , Miss Bliss ( also known as Saved by the Bell : The Junior High Years ) is an American teen sitcom that aired on the Disney Channel from 1988 to 1989 ( and later in syndication as part of the Saved by the Bell rerun package ) , starring Hayley Mills as a teacher at John F. Kennedy Junior High School in Indianapolis , Indiana . The show was the first program produced by a major television network for cable TV , in this case NBC having produced it for the Disney Channel .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "fd2d1904ff8b55e50756e468523da35a", "text": "Investigation Discovery (Canada) Investigation Discovery ( often abbreviated on-air as ID . ) is a Canadian English language Category B cable and satellite specialty channel that is owned by Bell Media . The channel primarily focuses on programming related to crime and justice . Originally launching as a Canadian version of Court TV , it was relaunched as a Canadian version of Investigation Discovery as part of a licensing arrangement with the owner of the flagship channel of the same name in the United States , Discovery Communications . Unlike Bell 's other Discovery-branded channels and Corus Entertainment 's Oprah Winfrey Network , Discovery Communications does not own a minority stake in Investigation Discovery .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "888a65a1f0dd52345201bf76a5c8e05b", "text": "List of When Calls the Heart episodes This is a list of episodes for When Calls the Heart , an American-Canadian television drama series , inspired by Janette Oke 's book of the same name from her Canadian West Series . Developed by Michael Landon Jr. , the series began airing on the Hallmark Channel in the United States on January 11 , 2014 , and on April 16 , 2014 on Super Channel in Canada . As of April 23 , 2017 , 39 episodes of When Calls the Heart have aired , concluding the fourth season . On April 24 , 2017 , Erin Kraków announced via the Hallmark Channel website that the show would return for a fifth season in 2018 .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "4ecc08acba7324dd2495c07aa1d5b685", "text": "Tone Bell Michael Anthony `` Tone '' Bell , II . ( born August 10 , 1983 ) is an American stand-up comedian and actor .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "76c0e754564babd4bbf9ccb4bca49662", "text": "List of Saved by the Bell episodes The following is a list of episodes for the NBC teen sitcom , Saved by the Bell . The series premiered on August 20 , 1989 and ended on May 22 , 1993 with 86 episodes produced spanning four seasons . The number of episodes was increased for syndication , adding re-purposed episodes of Good Morning , Miss Bliss ( excluding the pilot ) , the follow-up series Saved by the Bell : The College Years , and the TV movies Saved by the Bell : Hawaiian Style and Saved by the Bell : Wedding in Las Vegas ( broken into four episodes each ) . The total number of syndicated episodes is 126 , though the number aired varies by broadcaster . The storyline follows Zack Morris through junior high , high school and college , to his eventual marriage to Kelly Kapowski . The related series Saved by the Bell : The New Class maintains a separate storyline . The actual order is confused by the fact that DVD sets are in a different order than the air dates ( the DVDs are broken into 5 seasons instead of 4 ) . Note : Episode numbers in parentheses represent the order in the original series before extra episodes were added for syndication .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "6824999d0d9238675aadedc41b2404f3", "text": "Bravo (Canada) Bravo ( styled bravo ) is a Canadian English language Category A cable and satellite specialty channel that is owned by Bell Media . The channel was founded as a Canadian version of the U.S. channel Bravo ( which is now owned by NBCUniversal ) , and originally focused on performing arts , drama , and independent film . However , as with its U.S. counterpart , the channel has largely dropped its arts programming , and now focuses primarily on mainstream films and scripted series .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "050592e8d67997c29c783d549ac50f2c", "text": "A. Dean Bell A. Dean Bell is an American filmmaker . He is best known for the feature film drama What Alice Found , a Sundance Award-winner and New York Times `` Critic 's Pick . ''", "title": "" }, { "docid": "192676538f9350c2f33470ea6ce65fab", "text": "Husbands (TV series) Husbands is an American web series written and created by Brad Bell and Jane Espenson , which premiered September 13 , 2011 , via super syndication on streaming platforms such as Blip , YouTube and Roku . The series stars Brad Bell and Sean Hemeon as a newly married couple . Billed as the world 's first marriage equality comedy , Husbands is a modern look on the classic premise of the newlywed sitcom . The second season premiered August 15 , 2012 . After producing two seasons independently , it was announced that CW Seed had made a six-episode order for a third season of Husbands , which aired on August 15 , 2013 . No forthcoming seasons have since been announced .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "903dadd914dbaa71683551f0ba547470", "text": "Betty and Veronica (Veronica Mars) `` Betty and Veronica '' is the sixteenth episode of the first season of the American mystery television series Veronica Mars . Written by Diane Ruggiero and directed by Michael Fields , the episode premiered on UPN on March 29 , 2005 . The series depicts the adventures of Veronica Mars ( Kristen Bell ) as she deals with life as a high school student while moonlighting as a private detective . In this episode , Veronica investigates the mysterious disappearance of Neptune High 's mascot , a parrot named Polly , and eventually goes undercover at Neptune High 's rival , Pan High . Meanwhile , in flashbacks , Veronica deals with the aftermath of finding her mother ( Corinne Bohrer ) .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "5d207e820ec0ed7928ffea5e49946c60", "text": "Wedding Bell Blues (Gilmore Girls) `` Wedding Bell Blues '' is the thirteenth episode of the fifth season of the American comedy-drama series Gilmore Girls and the show 's 100th episode overall . Written and directed by series creator Amy Sherman-Palladino , the episode was originally broadcast on The WB in the United States on February 8 , 2005 . The episode features the renewal of vows by Emily ( Kelly Bishop ) and Richard Gilmore ( Edward Herrmann ) . Their daughter Lorelai Gilmore ( Lauren Graham ) and their granddaughter Rory Gilmore ( Alexis Bledel ) serve as maid of honor and best man , respectively . `` Wedding Bell Blues '' received positive reviews from television critics .", "title": "" } ]

[ { "docid": "8207672018a5f468f4148b848bcc0516", "text": "My Own Private Idaho My Own Private Idaho is a 1991 American independent adventure drama film written and directed by Gus Van Sant , loosely based on Shakespeare 's Henry IV , Part 1 , Henry IV , Part 2 , and Henry V , and starring River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves . The story follows two friends , Mike and Scott , as they embark on a journey of personal discovery that takes them to Mike 's hometown in Idaho and then to Italy in search of Mike 's mother . Van Sant originally wrote the screenplay in the 1970s , but discarded it after reading John Rechy 's 1963 novel City of Night and concluding that Rechy 's treatment of the subject of street hustlers was better than his own . Over the years , Van Sant rewrote the script , which comprised two stories : that of Mike and the search for his mother , and Scott 's story as a modern update of the Henry IV plays . Van Sant had difficulty getting Hollywood financing , and at one point considered making the film on a minuscule budget with a cast of actual street kids . After Van Sant sent copies of his script to Reeves and then Reeves showed it to Phoenix , both agreed to star in the film on each other 's behalf . My Own Private Idaho had its premiere at the 48th Venice International Film Festival , and received largely positive reviews from critics including Roger Ebert and those of The New York Times and Entertainment Weekly . The film was a moderate financial success , grossing over $ 6.4 million in North America , which was above its estimated budget of $ 2.5 million . Phoenix received several awards for his performance in the film , including the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the 1991 Venice Film Festival , Best Male Lead from the Independent Spirit Awards , and Best Actor from the National Society of Film Critics .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "3edd19028d174d4dc9d38ef407c24472", "text": "48th Venice International Film Festival The 48th annual Venice International Film Festival was held on 3 to 14 September 1991 .", "title": "" } ]

[ { "docid": "dc44239d6ab94c62e139e928ed9470e1", "text": "Idaho wine Idaho wine refers to wine made from the U.S. state of Idaho . Idaho has a long history of wine production with the first vineyards in the Pacific Northwest being planted here in the 1860s . Like in other areas Prohibition in the United States virtually wiped out the Idaho wine industry in the early twentieth century only to have it resurrected again in the 1970s .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "dbbee78d144d24ee85ebc519b19d6a37", "text": "Phoenix Film Festival Phoenix Film Festival is a festival that celebrates feature films and their creators . Started in 2000 , the annual celebration takes place in the city of Phoenix , Arizona . The festival is a showcase for feature and short films from all over the world .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "3748b5889330fc06e4e407548b67468a", "text": "IFC Films IFC Films is an American film production and distribution company based in New York City . It is an offshoot of IFC owned by AMC Networks . It distributes independent films and documentaries under its namesake , Sundance Selects and IFC Midnight brands . It operates the IFC Center .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "a2628164f22b7e380254180b7c7487ce", "text": "Comandante (film) Comandante is a political documentary film by American director Oliver Stone . In the film , Stone interviews Cuban leader Fidel Castro on a diverse range of topics . Stone and his film crew visited Castro in Cuba for three days in 2002 , and the film was released in 2003 , having its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival early that year . The film was partly produced by HBO and was planned for broadcast . Shortly before airtime , after Cuba executed three hijackers of a ferry to the United States and imprisoned more than 70 political dissidents , HBO pulled the program .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "04c45c4146a7793b6368da768dc4f8c3", "text": "Reel Theatres Reel Theatres is a movie theater chain in the United States owned by Casper Management -- an Idaho corporation -- that features independent and foreign films . It operates theaters in Idaho , Oregon and Utah .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "10c64458cf4c8fc627baaaa4c2c2bbd9", "text": "1969 Cannes Film Festival The 22nd Cannes Film Festival was held from 8 to 23 May 1969 . At this festival a new non-competitive section called `` Directors ' Fortnight '' is added , in response to the cancellation of the 1968 festival . The Grand Prix du Festival International du Film went to the If ... . by Lindsay Anderson . The festival opened with Sweet Charity , directed by Bob Fosse .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "ae87e2396a3029af6386e2dc0629d98b", "text": "2008 Slamdance Film Festival The 2008 Slamdance Film Festival took place in Park City , Utah from January 17 to January 25 , 2008 . It was the 14th iteration of the Slamdance Film Festival , an alternative to the more mainstream Sundance Film Festival . The Festival received over 3,500 submissions from 25 countries for less than 100 slots .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "2156ee44e53e650fabb63736ea43df73", "text": "Film1 Sundance Film1 Sundance ( also called Film1 Sundance Channel ) is a Dutch premium television channel . It 's the Dutch version of the American cable television network SundanceTV devoted to airing independent feature films , world cinema , documentaries , short films , television series , and original programs , such as news about the latest developments from each year 's Sundance Film Festival . The channel launched on 1 March 2012 and replaced the television channel Film1 Festival . All films are shown uncut and without commercial interruptions .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "b5846315912c65df06790496a1076012", "text": "2010 Sundance Film Festival The 26th annual Sundance Film Festival was held from January 21 , 2010 until January 31 , 2010 in Park City , Utah .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "b8973103f0a51c4c05014fd2e31fc21e", "text": "Real Women Have Curves Real Women Have Curves is a 2002 American comedy-drama film that takes place in East Los Angeles . It gained fame after winning the Audience Award for best dramatic film , and the Special Jury Prize for acting in the 2002 Sundance Film Festival . The film went on to receive the Youth Jury Award at the San Sebastian International Film Festival , the Humanitas Prize , the Imagen Award at the Imagen Foundation Awards , and Special Recognition by the National Board of Review . The film was directed by Patricia Cardoso , and stars a young America Ferrera as protagonist Ana García . The film is based on a play ( of the same title ) written by Josefina Lopez , who co-authored the screenplay for the film with producer George LaVoo . According to the Sundance Institute , the film gives a voice to young women who are struggling to love themselves and find respect in the United States .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "c3c02dc8f51390bd6086e83ac37cc6f8", "text": "The Cockettes (film) The Cockettes is a 2002 American documentary film . It was directed by Bill Weber and David Weissman , and produced by Weissman . Its subject is the 1960s-70s San Francisco performance group The Cockettes . The film debuted at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival , where it was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize . It went on to a limited theatrical release and to play the film festival circuit . The film received the LA Film Critics Award for Best Documentary of 2002 .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "5a606f16873a82b6cf613a4dc1174e58", "text": "Sun Valley Opera House The Sun Valley Opera House was built in 1937 in Sun Valley , Idaho , as a movie theater . The picturesque Opera House has a 344-seat capacity and a state-of-the-art sound system ( installed in 1999 ) . It is the site for special events and as well as nightly showing of first-run movies . It is located in the Sun Valley Village , near the Sun Valley Lodge and Sun Valley Inn . During the summer and winter seasons , the 1941 movie `` Sun Valley Serenade '' is shown free of charge daily at 5:00 pm . At other times of the year it is shown free of charge at 4:30 pm on Tuesdays , Thursdays , and Sundays .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "288371c85847f2d86e25bf29ae572991", "text": "Clear Cut: The Story of Philomath, Oregon Clear Cut : The Story of Philomath , Oregon is a 2006 American documentary film produced and directed by Peter Richardson . It was filmed in the city of Philomath , Oregon . The film made its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2006 .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "c30d0574a1d14c1aeae4019baa64c1bf", "text": "Mine Alone Mine Alone ( Sólo mía ) is a 2001 Spanish drama film directed by Javier Balaguer .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "4e9ac9522608f5a0ebe532c31de304ab", "text": "Eagle Pennell Eagle Pennell ( 28 July 1952 - 20 July 2002 ) was an American independent filmmaker . His film The Whole Shootin ' Match ( 1978 ) is often credited with inspiring Robert Redford to start the Sundance Institute . Born Glenn Irwin Pinnell in Andrews , Texas , Pennell grew up in Lubbock and College Station . He became interested in film as a teenager and would use his father 's Super 8 camera to shoot skits starring his brother and sisters . He graduated from A&M Consolidated High School . Pennell then attended the University of Texas at Austin majoring in Radio-Television-Film but dropped out in 1973 during his junior year to do film work . He changed his name while in his early twenties . His first name is supposedly based on the story that Pennell was once told his large nose looked like the beak of an eagle . His last name comes from 2nd Lt. Ross Pennell , a character from John Ford 's She Wore a Yellow Ribbon ( 1949 ) . Ford was one of his father 's favorite directors . Pennell 's first film was a short documentary titled Rodeo Cowboys . He co-organized Austin 's first film festival in April 1975 . He made his first narrative short film , A Hell of a Note , in 1977 . This short inspired his most notable film The Whole Shootin ' Match . In the early 1980s , Pennell moved to Houston , where he produced and directed his second feature film Last Night at the Alamo ( 1984 ) . Pennell 's last feature film , `` Doc 's Full Service '' , had its World Première at the SXSW Film Festival in 1994 . Pennell struggled with alcoholism and drug addiction for much of his adult life . For years before his death , he was intermittently homeless and often borrowed or begged for money . Pennell died in Houston and is buried in College Station .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "c074c81dccb7bb21a8b562630a392a05", "text": "Personal Velocity: Three Portraits Personal Velocity : Three Portraits is a 2002 American independent film written and directed by Rebecca Miller .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "383f683414572849c927d55424f578ff", "text": "Beverly Hills Film Festival The Beverly Hills Film Festival ( BHFF ) is a film festival in the United States founded in 2001 by independent filmmaker Nino Simone . The festival is an international competition dedicated to showcasing the art and talent of emerging filmmakers and screenplay writers from around the world . The festival lasts five days and is reportedly attended by more than 20,000 people a year . Venues include the AMPAS , Writers Guild , Chinese Theater and The Clarity Theatre . The festival winds up with the black tie awards ceremony . In 2013 the festival was launched internationally with an event in Tokyo . The BHFF emphasizes awards to first-time filmmakers . On the final night of the Festival , the jury ( usually made up of film professionals from all over the globe ) presents its awards , including the Golden Palm Award for best picture , at a black-tie gala at the Four Seasons Beverly Wilshire Hotel .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "32137e687b2e1271d8c3f4ca61a79815", "text": "Goats (film) Goats is a 2012 comedy-drama film directed by Christopher Neil and written by Mark Poirier based on his 2000 novel Goats . The film stars David Duchovny , Vera Farmiga , Graham Phillips , Keri Russell , Justin Kirk , and Ty Burrell . The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 24 , 2012 , and was given a limited release in the United States on August 10 , 2012 by Image Entertainment .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "0a55640024457900988c3b2aa9012214", "text": "The Dam Short Film Festival The Dam Short Film Festival is a film festival held annually in Boulder City , Nevada , typically in early February . Lee Lanier and Anita Lanier are the original co-founders of the festival . The festival is organized by the Dam Short Film Society , a non-profit 501 ( c ) 3 Nevada corporation . Past festival sponsors have included The Art Institutes , the Nevada Film Office , the Hacienda Hotel and Casino , and Cirque du Soleil . The Society receives annual grants from the National Endowment for the Arts via the Nevada Arts Council . Started in 2005 , the Dam Short Film Festival only screens films that run between 1 and 40 minutes . Generally , there are between 100 and 140 short films programmed each year . Although most of the festival shorts are submitted by student , independent , and other `` up-and-coming '' filmmakers , the stiff competition means many of the shorts have been produced involving film professionals . These have included Oscar-winner Louis Gossett Jr. in `` Window , '' Oscar-winner , Tom Hanks , William Shatner , and Michael York in `` Why Shakespeare ? '' , the late Bela Lugosi narrating an animation based on the Edgar Allan Poe classic `` The Tell-Tale Heart '' , Francesco Quinn in `` The Gnostic '' , and Robert Wagner and Lori Singer in `` Little Victim '' The short films are arranged into thematic programs , such as international drama , crime drama , dramedy , science-fiction , horror , comedy , avant-garde , underground , and animation . In addition to the regular screenings , the festival presents special showcases and retrospectives ; for example , the 2009 event featured a showcase dedicated to documentary filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt while 2008 included a program dedicated to animator Jim Blashfield The festival also presents parties , mixers , filmmaker panels , and Q&A sessions with attending filmmakers . In 2008 , the Festival moved to the historic 400-seat Boulder Theatre . The Theatre was built in 1931 and is currently owned by Desi Arnaz Jr. and his wife Amy . 2014 marked the 10th anniversary of the festival . At present , Lee Lanier serves as the Dam Short Film Society 's executive director while John LaBonney serves as festival director . The Society has a working board of directors that varies from 4 to 6 members .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "e93d816e77a9acdcc61b45cb010a4c79", "text": "Palm Springs Festival of Festivals Palm Springs Festival of Festivals used to take place in October/November Palm Springs , California . It was established in 2001 by Craig Prater , Executive Director , as a showcase of short and feature films as a challenge to the longer-standing Palm Springs International Film Festival , of which Prater had previously been director . The festival aimed to attract all ages of the community , with the inclusion of a four-day International Children 's Film Festival complete with a youth panel of jurors and awards created by elementary age children to acknowledge participants . All profits from the Children 's Festival were donated to the Children 's Museum of the Desert . The Palm Springs chapter of Women in Film sponsored the award ceremony . Awards included Best Female Director , Best New Director , The Hadassah Award , The Passion Latino Award , Best Jewish Film , The Diversity Awareness Award , Audience Awards and the Vision Award , given to the best digital film .", "title": "" } ]

[ { "docid": "02708d5259c774365bca0c0dbc01b71f", "text": "The Chainsmokers The Chainsmokers are an American DJ/producer duo consisting of Andrew Taggart and Alex Pall . The EDM-pop duo achieved a breakthrough with their 2014 song '' #Selfie '' , which was a top twenty single in several countries . Their debut EP , Bouquet was released in October 2015 and featured the single `` Roses '' , which reached the top 10 on the US Billboard Hot 100 . `` Do n't Let Me Down '' became their first top 5 single there and won the Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording at the 59th awards ceremony , while `` Closer '' became their first number-one single on the chart . They have also won an American Music Award and five iHeartRadio Music Awards . The duo 's second EP Collage was released in November 2016 , consisting of several previously released singles . Their debut studio album Memories ... Do Not Open was released in April 2017 .", "title": "" } ]

[ { "docid": "aabc0ecb9db1085600c3aa801c31ced1", "text": "The Highwaymen (country supergroup) The Highwaymen was a country music supergroup composed of four of the genre 's biggest artists well known for their pioneering influence on the outlaw country subgenre : Johnny Cash , Waylon Jennings , Willie Nelson , and Kris Kristofferson . Active as a group between 1985 and 1995 , these four artists recorded three major label albums as The Highwaymen : two on Columbia Records and one for Liberty Records . Their Columbia works produced three chart singles , including the number one `` Highwayman '' in 1985 . Between the years of 1996 and 1999 , Nelson , Kristofferson , Cash , and Jennings also provided the voice and dramatization for the Louis L'Amour Collection , a four CD box set of seven Louis L'Amour stories published by the HighBridge Company , although the four were not credited as `` The Highwaymen '' in this work . Besides the four formal members of the group , only one other vocal recording artist ever appeared on a Highwaymen recording : Johnny Rodriguez , who provided Spanish vocal on `` Deportee '' , a Woody Guthrie composition , from `` Highwayman '' . The four original members starred in a movie together : the 1986 film Stagecoach .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "c57e546050c34620a58de19546e13c48", "text": "Chain gang (disambiguation) A chain gang is a system of labor ( usually forced ) that involves groups of prisoners , chained together , doing menial labor . Chain gang may also refer to : Chain gang ( cycling ) , a group of cyclists in a close-knit formation , normally for the purposes of training The chain crew , the officials on the sidelines of an American football game who carry the first-down indicators connected by chains Chain Gang , fanclub name for WWE wrestler John Cena Chain ganging , a jargon term in the field of international relations describing the elevated probability for inter-state conflict A collective noun for a group of mayors , council chairmen and other civic dignitaries wearing their chains of office In music Chain Gang , an experimental punk rock band from New York City , best known for their '77 `` Son of Sam '' single and their '86 album/film soundtrack `` Mondo Manhattan '' Chain Gang ( song ) , a 1960 song by R&B singer Sam Cooke `` Chain Gang '' , a song by Bobby Scott in the 1950s `` Chain Gang '' , a B-side song to The Blue Hearts single `` Kiss Shite Hoshii '' `` Back on the Chain Gang '' , a song by The Pretenders `` Livin ' on a Chain Gang '' , a song by the heavy metal band Skid Row `` Chain Gang is the Click '' , a song by John Cena and tha Trademarc from their 2005 album You Ca n't See Me In film , radio and television I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang , a classic American movie that was based on a true story of a man who escaped twice from a prison chain gang in Georgia , USA The Chain Gang , a 1930 film by Walt Disney starring Mickey Mouse The Chain Gang ( radio series ) , a British radio series Chain Gang ( Only Fools and Horses ) , an episode of the BBC sit-com Only Fools and Horses Chain Gang , a 1950 film directed by Lew Landers and starring Douglas Kennedy . Chain Gang , a 1984 3D film In literature Chain Gang ( DC Comics ) `` Chain Gang '' , a poem by Patti Smith from her 1978 book Babel", "title": "" }, { "docid": "31150a09efb9180e65d98be150f92fa8", "text": "Jump 'N the Saddle Band Jump 'N the Saddle Band was a country pop group from Chicago , Illinois . They scored a regional hit with the novelty song `` The Curly Shuffle '' in 1983 , a tribute to The Three Stooges . As the tune gained popularity on radio , the group signed to Atlantic Records and released a self-titled album , composed mostly of covers , in 1984 . `` The Curly Shuffle '' became a major U.S. hit , peaking at No. 15 on the Billboard Hot 100 that year . The band entered into negotiations with Atlantic for a follow-up album in 1984 . The label wanted them to record the song `` Shaving Cream '' for their next single , which the band did not favor ; they recorded the song , but with added lyrics critical of the label , and were soon dropped . Their success was short lived , and the group never had nationwide exposure again . The band continued to play in the Chicago area , still doing shows into the 2000s .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "579f63a07bdfa1f180fc8cfec75ad601", "text": "American popular music American popular music has had a profound effect on music across the world . The country has seen the rise of popular styles that have had a significant influence on global culture , including ragtime , blues , jazz , swing , rock , bluegrass , country , R&B , doo wop , gospel , soul , funk , heavy metal , punk , disco , house , techno , salsa , grunge and hip hop . In addition , the American music industry is quite diverse , supporting a number of regional styles such as zydeco , klezmer and slack-key . Distinctive styles of American popular music emerged early in the 19th century , and in the 20th century the American music industry developed a series of new forms of music , using elements of blues and other genres of American folk music . These popular styles included country , R&B , jazz and rock . The 1960s and 1970s saw a number of important changes in American popular music , including the development of a number of new styles , such as heavy metal , punk , soul , and hip hop . Though these styles were not in the sense of mainstream , they were commercially recorded and are thus examples of popular music as opposed to folk or classical music .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "a102c161736ca4cf155c7bd12832eb32", "text": "Montgomery Gentry discography Montgomery Gentry is an American country music duo composed of Eddie Montgomery and Troy Gentry . Its discography comprises eight studio albums , four compilation albums , one extended play , and twenty-six singles . The duo made its debut in 1999 with the single `` Hillbilly Shoes , '' which went to number 13 on the Hot Country Songs charts , but did not reach Number 1 until mid-2004 , with `` If You Ever Stop Loving Me . '' The duo has sent four more singles to Number One for a total of five : `` Something to Be Proud Of '' ( 2005 ) , `` Lucky Man '' ( 2007 ) , `` Back When I Knew It All '' and `` Roll with Me '' ( both 2008 ) . Besides these , Montgomery Gentry has reached Top Ten with 10 additional hit singles . All 15 of these songs have also crossed over to the Billboard Hot 100 , where the duo 's highest peak is `` If You Ever Stop Loving Me '' at number 30 . Montgomery Gentry 's first , third and fourth albums -- 1999 's Tattoos & Scars , 2002 's My Town and 2004 's You Do Your Thing -- are all certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America ( RIAA ) for shipments of one million copies . 2001 's Carrying On , 2005 's Something to Be Proud Of : The Best of 1999 -- 2005 and 2006 's Some People Change are all certified gold .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "ab958f6911619b4fe73dc0ebfc685977", "text": "Rose's Pawn Shop Rose 's Pawn Shop is an Americana , rock , folk and bluegrass band from Los Angeles , California . Their debut album The Arsonist was released in May 2006 . The band tours several times each year throughout the United States but has recently put a hold on touring to record a new album coming 2013 . On their new album Gravity Well , the fiercely independent young quintet known as Rose 's Pawn Shop deliver a rousing , honest set that demonstrates exactly why this multi-talented , multi-instrumental L.A.-based fivesome has quickly risen from humble D.I.Y. origins to national notoriety , winning a fiercely loyal fan base in the process . The 12 new tunes that comprise Gravity Well -- produced by Ted Hutt , renowned for his work with the likes of the Dropkick Murphys , Gaslight Anthem and the Old Crow Medicine Show -- make it clear why Rose 's Pawn Shop has earned such a fervent following . The band 's catchy , anthemic songcraft channels the raw emotional power of America 's folk , country and bluegrass traditions and puts them through a modern filter , creating timelessly resonant music . Frontman Paul Givant 's heartfelt , engaging songwriting surveys such time-honored subjects as heartache , loss , regret and redemption , echoing centuries of musical tradition while still sounding wholly contemporary . Despite the lyrics ' often-dark subject matter , the music is consistently uplifting , thanks to the musicians ' infectious instrumental interplay and soaring three - and four-part harmonies . The ensemble makes innovative use of banjo , fiddle , mandolin and upright bass , while maintaining an edgy swagger . `` I think that this music exists on two different levels , '' notes singer , guitarist and main songwriter Givant , adding , `` The songs are passionate and emotional , and sometimes sad and heartbreaking . But at the same time , the energy of the music makes you want to get up and dance and release all of that pent-up energy . '' Rose 's Pawn Shop 's musical and emotional depth is apparent on such lyrically and melodically compelling new tunes as `` What Were You Waiting For ? , '' `` Staring At the Door '' and `` On the Brink , '' which merge equal amounts of country twang and punk adrenaline . Meanwhile , gentler numbers like `` Go Get Gone , '' `` Stay All Night '' and the cinematic title track explore more introspective territory , and a memorable reading of the Dock Boggs standard `` Country Blues '' affirms the group 's instinctive understanding of its vintage influences . Growing up in the 1990s , Paul Givant absorbed a wide array of music , yet he was drawn most deeply to traditional folk and bluegrass , and inspired by the music 's ability to illuminate the tragedies and triumphs of everyday life . The influence of those genres loomed large when Givant began writing songs himself . Through various mutual friendships , chance meetings and some help from Craigslist , Givant eventually connected with kindred musical spirits John Kraus , Tim Weed , Stephen Andrews and Christian Hogan , whose musical expertise , instrumental versatility and organic rapport were ideally suited to Givant 's expansive musical vision . `` The original intent , '' Givant explains , `` was to be kind of a bluegrass version of the Pogues , fusing bluegrass instrumentation and energy with rock and punk . That 's what our first album was like : gritty , high-energy and passionate , with a lot of instrumental virtuosity . But over time , we 've evolved to be more song-focused . I think we 've retained that original energy , but now we 're more focused on crafting our arrangements so the song can shine though . '' The nascent combo got its name after Rose , Givant 's ex-girlfriend and former bandmate , stole the band 's equipment from their rehearsal space and scattered their gear amongst various pawn shops throughout North Hollywood . Fortunately , the musicians were able to recover their gear , and soon forged a formidable musical chemistry that manifested itself in their highly charged live shows , and on their 2010 release Dancing on the Gallows . Rose 's Pawn Shop 's lineup solidified and began touring intensively in time to support Dancing on the Gallows , accumulating such landmarks as month-long residencies at New York 's Parkside Lounge and L.A. 's Redwood Bar , busking in New Orleans ' fabled Jackson Square , live radio sessions on such prestigious stations as KEXP in Seattle and WMBR in Boston , well-received appearances at various prestigious music festivals , and a slot opening for Jack White 's Raconteurs , at White 's invitation , at the Henry Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles . Dancing on the Gallows spent several weeks on CMJ 's influential album chart , while receiving extensive national and international airplay on college , AAA , country and alternative radio formats . Meanwhile , the band 's diligent roadwork -- which has taken them across North America several times , along with visits to the U.K. and Ireland -- has allowed Rose 's Pawn Shop to continue winning fans and friends across the nation and around the world . `` Our travels have had a big influence on our evolution , '' Givant states . `` Meeting other bands and meeting people from all over the world at our shows has had a big influence on our songwriting , and opened us up to new musical traditions . Seeing the world in general and being away from home for long periods of time has influenced many of our songs . It 's matured us , as people and as a band . '' Rose 's Pawn Shop 's ongoing musical journey yields considerable musical rewards on Gravity Well , making it clear that the band 's creative horizons are unlimited . `` We 've always been about the music and the songs , and the expression of the human experience through music , '' says Givant . `` But we 've matured as musicians over time , and I think that that 's been reflected in the music . We 've learned that we do n't all have to play crazy at all times , and we 've learned to pick our moments to shine and deliver the songs in the most clear , concise and passionate way possible . ''", "title": "" }, { "docid": "dff687b273b505bf4c188c2f9f31ad27", "text": "Drew Davis Band The Drew Davis Band was an American country music group established in 2001 by Drew Davis ( lead vocals , guitar ) , Mike Drake ( guitar , harmonica , fiddle ) , Loren Ellis ( banjo , guitar , mandolin , vocals ) , Jay Hawks ( drums ) , Mo Levone ( bass guitar , vocals ) , and Roger Malinkowski ( air guitar ) . In 2004 , the band competed in and won the Colgate Country Showdown ; shortly afterward , they were signed to Windswept Publishing , with a self-titled EP being released that year . Eventually , they were transferred to 903 Music , a short-lived record label founded by Neal McCoy ; upon the label 's closure in 2007 , the band was transferred to Lofton Creek Records . Both Mike Drake and Jay Hawks have since left the group . The band 's debut single , `` Back There All the Time '' , has entered the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts . It was included on both their self-titled EP and on their 2008 album Crossroads . Roger Malinowski left the band in 2009 . The Drew Davis Band was featured on an episode of Gene Simmons Family Jewels on August 9 , 2009 . The episode also featured a guest appearance by Trace Adkins .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "48dcac391765d4a11af316c0f62e3757", "text": "Mountain Soul Mountain Soul is the eleventh album of original recordings by Patty Loveless . The album was recorded between January and March 2001 and was released on June 26 in the United States . It first charted on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart on July 14 ( peaking on July 28 at # 19 ) , and remaining on the charts for 87 weeks until March 8 , 2003 . Other country superstars also have done `` You 'll Never Leave Harlan Alive '' such as Kathy Mattea and Brad Paisley . A follow up album , Mountain Soul II was released in September 2009 . The album also charted on the main Top Billboard 200 chart , Top Bluegrass Album chart and the Top Internet Albums chart . Rhapsody ranked the album # 9 on its `` Country 's Best Albums of the Decade '' list . Country Universe , ranked the album # 10 . Engine 145 country music blog list it # 6 on the `` Top Country Albums of the Decade '' list .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "74475b3e9cfe19db8866b34e6c566194", "text": "Pop punk Pop punk ( also known as punk-pop ) is a music genre that fuses elements of punk rock and pop music . It typically combines fast tempos , loud and distorted electric guitars , and power chord changes with pop-influenced melodies , vocal styles , and lyrical themes . Pop-influenced punk rock emerged in the mid-1970s with a music style that was stylistically similar to power pop . By the mid-1980s , several bands merged hardcore punk with pop music to create a new , faster pop punk sound such as Dag Nasty , the Nip Drivers , T.S.O.L. , Social Distortion , and the Descendents . Pop punk in the United States began to grow in popularity locally in California in the mid-to-late 1980s . Pop punk particularly thrived in California , where independent record labels adopted a do it yourself ( DIY ) approach to releasing music . By the mid-1990s , a few pop punk bands had started to sell millions of records and receive extensive radio and television airplay , such as Green Day . By 1994 , pop punk was quickly growing in mainstream popularity . The late 1990s , exemplified by the 1999 release of Blink-182 's Enema of the State , represented the genre 's mainstream peak , although some pop punk bands scored successful album chartings in the 2000s . In the mid-2000s , emo pop , a fusion genre combining emo and pop punk , became popular . By the end of the 2000s , the pop punk sound of the 1990s had largely waned in mainstream popularity .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "20ffcce6f1956fcc2a8a6bdb0677e4eb", "text": "In Pieces In Pieces is the fifth studio album by American country music artist Garth Brooks . It was released on August 31 , 1993 . It debuted at # 1 on the Billboard 200 and the Top Country Albums chart . It was also a huge hit outside the United States . In Great Britain it was Brooks ' highest placed album on the charts . It reached the top ten of the country album charts before it was issued officially ( due to imports from both the United States and Ireland ) . Critics felt that this would ruin the album 's sales once it was issued . However , when it was eventually issued in Britain in early 1994 it went to # 1 on the country charts and reached # 2 in the pop charts and also produced two top 40 hit singles on the British pop charts . The track `` Callin ' Baton Rouge '' was previously a # 37 peaking single in 1987 for the New Grass Revival , whose members back Brooks on his rendition . It was the first time the group had recorded together since they disbanded in 1989 . In an interview with BBC Radio DJ Richard Wooton , Brooks stated that the track `` The Cowboy Song '' ( which was composed in 1987 by Roy Robinson ) was found in a trash can by someone on his team who liked the song and played the track to him .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "6309f8b321535e30908e896ab45f6187", "text": "The Kinleys The Kinleys were an American country music duo composed of identical twin sisters Heather and Jennifer Kinley ( born November 5 , 1970 ) . Between 1997 and 2000 , they recorded two albums for the Epic Records label ( 1997 's Just Between You and Me and 2000 's II ) , also charting eight singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs charts in that timespan . A third album , All in the Family , was issued in 2004 on the independent Identical label .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "a96a787b6c2541af70ce52e531cd4101", "text": "Chain Reaction (1960s band) Chain Reaction , also known as The Strangeurs , was an American rock band from Yonkers , New York . They had two singles and were most notable for having lead singer Steven Tallarico ( Steven Tyler , as he would later come to be known ) . They started off as the Strangers , until finding a group who already had that name , switching to The Strangeurs as a result . After a line-up change they changed their name to Chain Reaction . Chain Reaction performed in concert as the opening act for such groups as The Beach Boys , The Byrds and The Yardbirds . The band 's 1966 song `` When I Needed You '' appeared on Aerosmith 's 1991 compilation box set album Pandora 's Box .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "511ea110705bc265a94e5f6d76346efb", "text": "Dancin' Cowboys `` Dancin ' Cowboys '' is a song written by David Bellamy , and recorded by American country music duo The Bellamy Brothers . It was released in May 1980 as the second single from the album You Could Get Crazy . `` Dancin ' Cowboys '' was The Bellamy Brothers third number one on the country chart . The single stayed at number one for one week and spent a total of fourteen weeks on the country chart .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "a3873b57c7f41159df30551212e4e202", "text": "Thomas Rhett Thomas Rhett Akins , Jr. ( born March 30 , 1990 ) , better known by his stage name Thomas Rhett , is an American country music singer and songwriter . He is the son of American country music singer and songwriter Rhett Akins . Rhett has released two studio albums for Big Machine Records ' Valory Music imprint : It Goes Like This ( 2013 ) and Tangled Up ( 2015 ) . These albums have produced ten singles on the Hot Country and Country Airplay charts , with seven reaching the No. 1 position on the latter : `` It Goes Like This '' , `` Get Me Some of That '' , `` Craving You '' , `` Make Me Wan na '' , `` Crash and Burn '' , `` Die a Happy Man '' , `` T-Shirt '' , and `` Star of the Show '' . In addition to much of his own material , Rhett has also written singles for Jason Aldean , Lee Brice , and Florida Georgia Line .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "c65a68f5f7810ed2439258abb4f0df53", "text": "Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal The Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal was awarded from 1970 to 2011 . The award has had several minor name changes : In 1970 the award was known as Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group From 1971 to 1981 it was awarded as Best Country Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group From 1982 to the present it has been awarded as Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal The award was discontinued after the 2011 Grammy Awards in a major overhaul of Grammy categories . From 2012 , all duo or group performances in the country category were shifted to the newly formed Best Country Duo/Group Performance category . Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were presented , for works released in the previous year .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "032d10ce382a57e29d2303fabf94f653", "text": "The Band Perry The Band Perry is an American music group composed of siblings Kimberly Perry ( lead vocals , guitar , piano ) , Reid Perry ( bass guitar , background vocals ) , and Neil Perry ( mandolin , drums , accordion , background vocals ) . They signed to Republic Nashville in August 2009 and released their self-titled debut album on October 12 , 2010 . From this album , `` If I Die Young '' reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs and Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks charts and has been certified 6x multi-platinum . Their second album , Pioneer , was released April 2 , 2013 . It produced additional number one singles in `` Better Dig Two '' and `` Done '' , plus the top 10 hits `` Do n't Let Me Be Lonely '' and `` Chainsaw '' . In the spring of 2016 , the trio parted ways with the Big Machine Label Group and later signed to Interscope Records . In July 2016 , Neil , Reid , and Kimberly appeared on Celebrity Family Feud .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "de122bbe3802c60f8fea3fd2d2c15cc5", "text": "Gene & Debbe Gene and Debbe were a pseudo-pop/country duo hailing from Nashville , Tennessee . They had some brief successes on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart . Gene Thomas ( born Gene Thomasson on 28 December 1937 , Palestine , Texas , died 26 August 2012 in Fredericksburg , Texas ) and had some minor success in the early 1960s with the songs `` Sometime '' and `` Baby 's Gone '' . After the latter , he dabbled in writing music for a few years . His songs have been performed or covered by numerous other country singers including Waylon Jennings , Kenny Rogers and Everly Brothers as well as Tina Turner ! the . After a few years , Gene met with aspiring crooner , Debbe Neville , ( or Nevills as some sources say ) . In an Everly Brothers style of harmonizing , they launched a career at Acuff-Rose music , singing romantic country style pop melodies . They were signed to a recording contract with the subsidiary of Hickory Records ( Sue Thompson , Don Gibson , The Newbeats etc. ) , TRX , where they recorded their two biggest hits , `` Go With Me '' and `` Playboy '' . The latter had an eventual combined sales figure of one million discs being awarded a gold record in June 1968 . After hitting the charts with `` Playboy '' at No. 17 , they both faded into chart ( but not musical ) obscurity . The couple produced one album Hear and Now ( catalogue number TRX LPS 1001 ) in 1968 , which is a rarity to find . It contains the single `` Playboy '' . Gene Thomas died on August 26 , 2012 of lung cancer at the age of 74 .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "7bd8af40bad9af60b6e40673b746a063", "text": "Country Music Association The Country Music Association ( CMA ) was founded in 1958 in Nashville , Tennessee . It originally consisted of only 233 members and was the first trade organization formed to promote a music genre . The objectives of the organization are to guide and enhance the development of Country Music throughout the world ; to demonstrate it as a viable medium to advertisers , consumers , and media ; and to provide a unity of purpose for the Country Music industry . However the CMA may be best known to most country music fans for its annual Country Music Association Awards broadcast live on network television each fall ( usually October or November ) . Initially , CMA 's Board of Directors included nine directors and five officers . Wesley Rose , president of Acuff-Rose Publishing , Inc. , served as CMA 's first chairman of the board . Broadcasting entrepreneur and executive Connie B. Gay was the founding president . Originally there were nine individual membership categories . The current 15 categories represent all facets of the music industry . Organizational memberships are also available . CMA membership is composed of those persons or organizations that are involved in Country Music , directly and substantially . The first CMA Awards ceremony was held in 1967 in Nashville . Sonny James and Bobbie Gentry hosted the event , which was not televised . The winner of the first `` Entertainer of the Year '' award was singer Eddy Arnold . `` Male Vocalist of the Year '' went to Jack Greene and `` Female Vocalist of the Year '' to Loretta Lynn . In 1968 , Roy Rogers and Dale Evans hosted the awards , which were presented at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville . ( The ceremony was filmed and televised on NBC a few weeks later . ) The first live telecast of the show was in 1969 . Annual awards are given in the following twelve categories : Entertainer of the Year , Male Vocalist , Female Vocalist , New Artist of the Year ( formerly the Horizon Award ) , Vocal Group , Vocal Duo , Single , Album , Song , Music Event , Music Video , and Musician . The CMA also gives a `` CMA Broadcast Award '' to country-formatted radio stations each year . Broadcast Awards are segmented based on market size , major market ( Arbitron Ranking 1 -- 25 ) , large market ( Arbitron Ranking 26 -- 50 ) , medium market ( Arbitron Ranking 51 -- 100 ) , and small market ( All other Markets ) . A single station can not win the award in consecutive years . In honor of the association 's 50th anniversary , MCA Nashville released a song called `` Forever Country '' .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "6e995f92eeb50944b1b983b7bcc3d62f", "text": "The O'Kanes The O'Kanes was an American country music duo , composed of Jamie O'Hara and Kieran Kane . Active between 1986 and 1990 , the duo recorded three albums for Columbia Records and charted seven singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles ( now Hot Country Songs ) charts , including the Number One `` Ca n't Stop My Heart from Loving You '' . Kane charted seven singles of his own in the early 1980s , and O'Hara won a Grammy Award for co-writing `` Grandpa ( Tell Me ` Bout the Good Ol' Days ) '' , a Number One hit for The Judds . After they disbanded in 1990 , both members pursued solo careers , and Kane founded a record label called Dead Reckoning Records .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "8ae76945e034ab179740db95296f9aed", "text": "Waycross (band) Waycross was an American country music duo composed of Ted Moxley and Ben Stennis . Moxley and Stennis met at a writer 's showcase in Nashville , Tennessee . Their debut single , `` Nineteen , '' peaked at number 54 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart in 2007 .", "title": "" } ]

[ { "docid": "4dde120acae90912db0cee6eb72d4ec7", "text": "Kurt Russell Kurt Vogel Russell ( born March 17 , 1951 ) is an American actor . He began acting on television in the western series The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters ( 1963 -- 64 ) . In the late 1960s , he signed a ten-year contract with The Walt Disney Company where , according to Robert Osborne , he became the studio 's top star of the 1970s . Russell was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor -- Motion Picture for his performance in Silkwood ( 1983 ) . During the 1980s , he starred in several films by director John Carpenter , including anti-hero roles such as army hero-turned-robber Snake Plissken in the futuristic action film Escape from New York ( 1981 ) , and its sequel Escape from L.A. ( 1996 ) , Antarctic helicopter pilot R.J. MacReady in the horror film The Thing ( 1982 ) , and truck driver Jack Burton in the dark kung-fu comedy action film Big Trouble in Little China ( 1986 ) , all of which have since become cult films . He was nominated for an Emmy Award for the television film Elvis ( 1979 ) , also directed by Carpenter . Russell starred in other films , including Overboard ( 1987 ) , Tombstone ( 1993 ) , Stargate ( 1994 ) , Death Proof ( 2007 ) , The Hateful Eight ( 2015 ) , and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol . 2 ( 2017 ) . He has joined The Fast and the Furious franchise since 2015 , having starred in Furious 7 and The Fate of the Furious .", "title": "" } ]

[ { "docid": "9eedcc74aabb0e20383b5de3e47a6fba", "text": "The Art of the Steal (2013 film) The Art of the Steal ( also called The Black Marks and The Fix ) is a Canadian comedy film written and directed by Jonathan Sobol . It stars Kurt Russell , Jay Baruchel , Chris Diamantopoulos , Matt Dillon , and Katheryn Winnick . It was shown at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "783c91f52eb7a0ecadf655482eefee1d", "text": "Toyota Center (Kennewick) The Toyota Center is a multi-purpose arena in the northwest United States , located in Kennewick , Washington . The arena opened in 1988 as the Tri-Cities Coliseum ; the name was changed in 2004 to the Three Rivers Coliseum to match the Three Rivers Convention Center , which was built next door in the same year . In October 2005 , a deal was reached between the city of Kennewick and Toyota , which agreed to pay $ 2 million over ten years for naming rights . The city uses the funds for needed improvements and upgrades to the facility . A smaller facility next door , built by the city in 1998 , was named `` Toyota Arena . '' In 2016 , the Kennewick Public Facilities District will put to the voters an expansion of what is now known as the Three Rivers Complex . This expansion is called The Link . The Link is an ambitious project , a $ 35 million project that would build a 2,300 seat theater , add 50,000 square feet of convention space , and renovate the Toyota Center .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "985336798cbcbd76be5345da017ba635", "text": "Dial Records (1946) Dial Records was an American record company and label that specialized first in bebop jazz and then in contemporary classical music . It was founded in 1946 by Ross Russell . Notable artists who recorded for Dial included Charlie Parker , who signed an exclusive one-year recording contract with Russell on 26 February 1946 , Miles Davis , Max Roach , and Milt Jackson . Dial Records were initially made for the Tempo Music Shop of Hollywood , California , but soon relocated to New York City . Labels of Dial Records said that they were `` Contemporary American Music '' , a dig at the traditionalist American Music Records label . In the summer of 1949 Ross Russell announced a change of focus , with the label turning to the release of classical music by contemporary composers . The first release in this new series was Béla Bartók 's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion . This series , titled the Library of Contemporary Classics , was inspired when Russell obtained the master tape of a recording of Arnold Schoenberg 's Chamber Symphony No. 1 from Blue Star Records in Paris , in lieu of payment for a number of Dial jazz masters for European distribution . Russell 's interests shifted focus again in 1953 , when he made field recordings of calypso music in the British , French , and Netherlands West Indies . This resulted in the Dial Ethnic Series ( Dial 400 label ) of ten ten-inch 33 1/3 rpm discs , issued between June and November 1953 . Dial also continued to release material from jazz sessions recorded earlier , but in 1954 Russell sold his jazz recordings to Concert Hall Records , sending them the master tapes , pressing lists , and log sheets on June 3 , 1954 . Mosaic Records released a limited edition box-set ( CD ) of Dial recordings called The Complete Dial Modern Jazz Sessions .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "abda6b65899e7bed9da63c0eeba4e343", "text": "Dances with Wolves Dances with Wolves is a 1990 American epic Western film directed by , produced by , and starring Kevin Costner . It is a film adaptation of the 1988 book of the same name by Michael Blake and tells the story of a Union Army lieutenant who travels to the American frontier to find a military post and his dealings with a group of Lakota Indians . Costner developed the film with an initial budget of $ 15 million . Dances with Wolves had high production values and won seven Academy Awards including Best Picture and the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture -- Drama . Much of the dialogue is spoken in Lakota with English subtitles . It was shot in South Dakota and Wyoming , and translated by Albert White Hat , the chair of the Lakota Studies Department at Sinte Gleska University . The film is credited as a leading influence for the revitalization of the Western genre of filmmaking in Hollywood . In 2007 , Dances with Wolves was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being `` culturally , historically , or aesthetically significant '' .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "781447f2b975739524dcdc15692f03b2", "text": "Breakdown (1997 film) Breakdown is a 1997 American adventure mystery thriller film directed and co-written by Jonathan Mostow . It stars Kurt Russell , J. T. Walsh and Kathleen Quinlan . The original music score was composed by Basil Poledouris . The film was produced by Dino De Laurentiis and Martha De Laurentiis , and released on May 2 , 1997 by Paramount Pictures .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "c66093be84194a24dd6dec34fa13903b", "text": "Dean Kruse Dean V. Kruse ( born September 21 , 1941 in Auburn , Indiana ) is a former auctioneer . He is also the former owner and CEO of Kruse International . Kruse started working in the local auction business founded by his father , Russell W. Kruse , and soon became the company 's president . Known to many as the `` Dean of Auctioneers , '' Kruse was once a well-respected member of the collector car hobby . A 1957 graduate of the Reppert School of Auctioneering in Decatur , Indiana , Kruse cried his 5,000 th auction in Houston in 1987 , and is reportedly one of the youngest men to even attain that goal . Kruse is a former Indiana State Senator , serving from 1966 to 1970 , and was elected at the age of 25 . He is a past president of the Indiana Auctioneer 's Association , and was elected as a member of their hall of fame , along with his father Russell and brother Dennis Kruse . Dean was responsible for negotiating the purchase of his auction company in 1999 by online auctioneer eBay which paid $ 275 million for Kruse International and Billpoint . The company was purchased back from eBay by Dean Kruse in 2002 . Kruse used part of the money he received from eBay to start two museums in Auburn ; the World War II Victory Museum and the Kruse Automotive Horse Power and Carriage Museum . On May 25 , 2010 , the Indiana Auctioneer Commission suspended Kruse 's auctioneer 's license for two years and permanently revoked the license of his company , Kruse , Inc. , after receiving complaints that he had been failing to pay those who sold items through his auctions .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "a3374c533b1753354dd23db56f4f35d7", "text": "Designated Player Rule The Designated Player Rule , nicknamed the Beckham Rule , was adopted as part of the salary cap regulations of Major League Soccer for the 2007 season . The rule allows each MLS franchise to sign players that would be considered outside of the team 's salary cap ( either by offering the player higher wages or by paying a transfer fee for the player ) , allowing MLS teams to compete for star players in the international soccer market . Clubs have the option to use allocation money against a player 's contract , so to avoid a player with a Designated Player level salary using one of the club 's Designated Player slots . As of December 2015 , there have been 114 designated players in the MLS . The rule is informally named after David Beckham , in anticipation of MLS teams signing lucrative deals with internationally recognized players of Beckham 's caliber . Beckham was the first player signed under this rule , signing a five-year contract with the Los Angeles Galaxy with guaranteed annual salary of $ 6.5 million .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "35d1f078866363b7f080031779fe6b47", "text": "Dayna Kurtz Dayna Kurtz is an American singer/songwriter . Her music is a blend of jazz , folk , pop and blues . She was named Female Songwriter of the Year in 1997 by the National Academy of Songwriters . Norah Jones ( who duets on Duke Ellington 's `` I Got It Bad And That Ai n't Good '' on Kurtz 's 2004 album `` Beautiful Yesterday '' ) and Bonnie Raitt have raved about Kurtz in interviews , and she 's performed on the radio shows World Café , Mountain Stage and NPR 's Morning Edition and Tell Me More . She has toured as a supporting act with Elvis Costello , Richard Thompson , Mavis Staples , Dr. John , B.B. King , Richie Havens , Rufus Wainwright , Keren Ann , Chris Whitley , and The Blind Boys of Alabama . Kurtz has recorded two Secret Canon albums , collecting obscure standards and blues and R&B gems originally recorded in the 1940s , 1950s and 1960s . Critic James Reed of the Boston Globe wrote in a review of Beautiful Yesterday that `` there 's no logical reason why singer-songwriter Dayna Kurtz is not a full-blown star '' . In 2015 Dayna Kurtz released Rise and Fall , which features `` You 're Not What I Needed ( But You 're All That I Want ) , '' which she called her `` Dan Penn '' song .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "6c67576118df9bb1370e0ea97b125da7", "text": "Ring of Honor Ring of Honor ( ROH ) is an American professional wrestling promotion , founded in 2002 by RF Video owner Rob Feinstein . From 2004 to 2011 , the promotion was under the ownership of Cary Silkin before being sold to the Sinclair Broadcast Group ( SBG ) , an American telecommunications company that operates the largest number of local television stations in the United States . ROH holds TV tapings , pay-per-view events , live events , and Internet pay-per-view events throughout the United States and Canada . It has also held shows in the United Kingdom and Japan . Annual shows include the Anniversary Show , Supercard of Honor ( held annually during WrestleMania weekend ) , Best in the World , Global Wars , Death Before Dishonor , Glory By Honor , and Final Battle ( the last show of the calendar year and ROH 's marquee event ) . ROH records all of its shows and sells them on DVD through mail order via its online store , and the DVDs have developed a fanbase for the promotion in the United States and beyond . In 2009 , ROH signed a television deal with HDNet , which aired shows every week until 2011 . As of September 2011 , ROH 's flagship broadcast Ring of Honor Wrestling has been syndicated by parent company Sinclair Broadcasting , and airs on Sinclair owned stations across the country . ROH is also broadcast on Samurai TV in Japan , and is the third-largest professional wrestling promotion in the United States , behind WWE and after Impact Wrestling . On June 22 , 2014 , ROH had its first live pay-per-view broadcast , Best in the World , from Nashville , Tennessee . It was followed-up on December 7 with their biggest show of the year Final Battle , from Terminal 5 in New York City . Their next pay-per-view aired March 1 , 2015 , which was their 13th Anniversary Show , from Las Vegas , Nevada .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "b40f83ddd9f417a361d257cc8c06cb43", "text": "Atomic Soul Atomic Soul is Symphony X 's lead singer Russell Allen 's debut solo album . It was released on April 26 , 2005 . The album is different from Symphony X 's harder , more progressive sound , and has been dubbed by many , including Allen himself , as `` Hard Rock '' . The album was released in 2005 on the InsideOut Music label . Allen played bass and keyboards on most tracks , along with vocals , but some of the tracks feature guests Robert Nelson on drums , Brendan Anthony and Jason Freudberg on guitars , Larry Salvatore on bass and Jens Johansson on keyboards . Also Allen 's bandmates Michael Romeo and Michael Pinnella , from Symphony X , are featured on the album .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "f42eac86be393e0c692f6fbdf2ddd438", "text": "Sign and trade In the National Basketball Association , a sign-and-trade agreement is a type of contract ( allowed by the collective bargaining agreement -LSB- CBA -RSB- ) wherein one franchise/team signs an unrestricted free agent player to a new contract , only to then immediately trade him to another team ( of the player 's choosing ) . This is typically done to enable the player to obtain a higher salary and/or greater number of years on their contract than NBA salary cap rules ordinarily allow the destination team , itself , to provide the player .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "ac21342197e686cc8393b9501873db47", "text": "The Baseball Network The Baseball Network was a short-lived television broadcasting joint venture between ABC , NBC and Major League Baseball . Under the arrangement , beginning in the 1994 season , the league produced its own in-house telecasts of games , which were then brokered to air on ABC and NBC . This was perhaps most evident by the copyright beds shown at the end of the telecasts , which stated `` The proceeding program has been paid for by the office of The Commissioner of Baseball '' . The Baseball Network was the first television network in the United States to be owned by a professional sports league . The package included coverage of games in primetime on selected nights throughout the regular season ( under the branding Baseball Night in America ) , along with coverage of the postseason and the World Series . Unlike previous broadcasting arrangements with the league , there was no national `` game of the week '' during the regular season ; these would be replaced by multiple weekly regional telecasts on certain nights of the week . Additionally , The Baseball Network had exclusive coverage windows ; no other broadcaster could televise MLB games during the same night that The Baseball Network was televising games . The arrangement did not last long ; due to the effects of a players ' strike on the remainder of the 1994 season , and poor reception from fans and critics over how the coverage was implemented , The Baseball Network would be disbanded after the 1995 season . While NBC would maintain rights to certain games , the growing Fox network became the league 's new national broadcast partner beginning in 1996 , with its then-parent company News Corporation eventually purchasing the Los Angeles Dodgers .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "e2dc04162db9a61eab8f441003fe8b56", "text": "The Deadly Tower The Deadly Tower , also known as Sniper , is a 1975 television film directed by Jerry Jameson . It stars Kurt Russell and Richard Yniguez .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "dd2dfdaa0d5399bafb656c0453673a86", "text": "Jack Russell (cricketer, born 1963) Robert Charles `` Jack '' Russell , MBE , ( born 15 August 1963 ) is a retired English international cricketer , now known for his abilities as an artist , as a cricket wicketkeeping coach , and a football goalkeeping coach .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "0c42d5acfb664ec5c266b4e33301a1b8", "text": "Russian World Studios Russian World Studios was founded in 1984 by Yuri Sapronov and Andrei Smirnov , and is one of the largest film and television production companies in the Russian market . As of 1992 , the company has produced or serviced over 400 film and television projects . The studio has worked with Sony Pictures Television International , Hallmark Entertainment , HBO Films , and Beacon Pictures . RWS offers a range of film production services as well as their own distribution department , which sells in-house film and TV series on the international market . The company 's film studios are located in Moscow and St. Petersburg . At the end of 2007 RWS joined JSFC `` Sistema '' , the largest diversified holding company in Russia . This new partnership has allowed RWS to focus on three main areas of growth : studio facilities , including the expansion of the new St. Petersburg studio ; production , including the expansion and efficient use of the content library ; and distribution of content across current and emerging media platforms .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "5f2a7f9a956093b86e201e5916fb213e", "text": "Frank Russell (basketball) Frank Russell ( born April 17 , 1949 ) is a retired professional basketball shooting guard who played one season in the National Basketball Association ( NBA ) as a member of the Chicago Bulls during the 1971 -- 72 season . He attended University of Detroit Mercy where he was drafted by the Bulls in the third round of the 1972 NBA Draft by the Bulls . His two brothers , Campy and Walker Russell also played in the NBA .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "9a7c94219e19a25f8477d6bb56074f1d", "text": "Steve Russell (computer scientist) Steve `` Slug '' Russell ( born 1937 ) is an American computer scientist most famous for creating Spacewar ! , one of the earliest video games .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "731863569f052d95ba3d9e22e91e80ee", "text": "Sick of It All discography Sick of It All is a New York hardcore band formed in 1986 and currently consists of brothers Lou Koller ( vocals ) and Pete Koller ( guitar ) , Armand Majidi ( drums ) and Rich Cipriano ( bass guitar ) . In the years since its inception , the band has released twelve studio albums , two live recordings , two compilation albums , two EPs , six singles and one documentary film . After recording a demo in 1987 and playing Sunday afternoon matinees at the famous CBGB 's , Sick of It All signed a record contract with Revelation Records , who released a self-titled 7 '' EP . In 1988 , the band terminated their contract with Revelation and signed with the now-defunct Relativity Records , who released their first two studio albums as well as a live EP . In 1993 , they decided to end their five-year relationship with Relativity and signed with East West Records . In 1998 , Sick of It All terminated their U.S. record contract for the fourth time and signed with Fat Wreck Chords . Around 2005 , they ended their seven-year relationship with Fat Wreck and signed to Abacus Recordings , who released one album for the band before the label went bankrupt . As of 2009 , Sick of It All is under contract to Century Media .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "c072d17bc39604cfd3fec626a12fb201", "text": "Kurtis Blow Kurtis Walker ( born August 9 , 1959 ) , professionally known by his stage name Kurtis Blow , is an American rapper and record producer . He is the first commercially successful rapper and the first to sign with a major record label . `` The Breaks '' , a single from his 1980 self-titled debut album , is the first certified gold record rap song . Throughout his career he has released 15 albums and is currently an ordained minister .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "f5419a7b0cd6aeb9ff9cf3d98f2ca17a", "text": "Russell Grant Russell John Dammerall Grant ( born 5 February 1951 ) is a British astrologer and media personality . He has written several books on astrology , provides syndicated newspaper horoscopes and operates premium rate astrology phone lines . In March 2010 , he began offering a `` Pet Psychic '' service . He is also the author of The Real Counties of Britain , and founded the Association of British Counties in 1989 . In recent years , Grant has participated in the ninth series of Strictly Come Dancing in 2011 and Celebrity MasterChef in 2014 .", "title": "" } ]

[ { "docid": "fbc367b6563e718bdaf353493b1b326f", "text": "The Man in the High Castle The Man in the High Castle ( 1962 ) is an alternative history novel by American writer Philip K. Dick . Set in 1962 , fifteen years after an alternative ending to World War II , the novel concerns intrigues between the victorious Axis Powers -- primarily , Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany -- as they rule over the former United States , as well as daily life under the resulting totalitarian rule . The Man in the High Castle won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1963 and the Tähtivaeltaja Award in 1993 . The book would later receive a two season 2015 TV adaptation also under the name , The Man in the High Castle . Reported inspirations include Ward Moore 's alternative Civil War history , Bring the Jubilee ( 1953 ) , various classic World War II histories , and the I Ching ( referred to in the novel ) . The novel features a `` novel within the novel '' comprising an alternate history within this alternate history wherein the Allies defeat the Axis ( though in a manner distinct from the actual historical outcome ) .", "title": "" } ]

[ { "docid": "d6263f9cc0a57f59345bff8ab906a89c", "text": "11/22/63 11/22/63 is a novel by Stephen King about a time traveler who attempts to prevent the assassination of President John F. Kennedy , which occurred on November 22 , 1963 ( the novel 's titular date ) . The novel was announced on King 's official site on March 2 , 2011 . A short excerpt was released online on June 1 , 2011 , and another excerpt was published in the October 28 , 2011 , issue of Entertainment Weekly . The novel was published on November 8 , 2011 and quickly became a number-one bestseller . It stayed on The New York Times Best Seller list for 16 weeks . 11/22/63 won the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Best Mystery/Thriller and the 2012 International Thriller Writers Award for Best Novel , and was nominated for the 2012 British Fantasy Award for Best Novel and the 2012 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel . The novel required considerable research to accurately portray the late 1950s and early 1960s . King commented on the amount of research it required , saying `` I 've never tried to write anything like this before . It was really strange at first , like breaking in a new pair of shoes . '' The novel was adapted into a 2016 Hulu television series , 11.22.63 .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "05d1a3b725269fe65a76a4abcce70fcc", "text": "The Handmaid's Tale The Handmaid 's Tale is a 1985 dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood . Set in a near-future New England , in a totalitarian theocracy that has overthrown the United States government , the novel explores themes of women in subjugation and the various means by which they gain individualism and independence . The novel 's title echoes the component parts of Geoffrey Chaucer 's The Canterbury Tales , which comprises a series of connected stories ( `` The Merchant 's Tale '' , `` The Parson 's Tale '' , etc. ) . The Handmaid 's Tale won the 1985 Governor General 's Award and the first Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1987 ; it was also nominated for the 1986 Nebula Award , the 1986 Booker Prize , and the 1987 Prometheus Award . The book has been adapted into a film ( 1990 ) , an opera ( 2000 ) , a TV series ( 2017 ) , and other media .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "72010d806d213c6fb0053d18439d653e", "text": "John Halifax, Gentleman (TV series) John Halifax , Gentleman is a British drama television series which originally aired on the BBC in five episodes in 1974 . It was an adaptation of the novel John Halifax , Gentleman by Dinah Craik . It was screened on the Sunday tea time slot on BBC One , which usually showed adaptations of classic novels .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "b8cdeaccd00bb2867e8043061d9f3211", "text": "Novel in Scotland The novel in Scotland includes all long prose fiction published in Scotland and by Scottish authors since the development of the literary format in the eighteenth century . The novel was soon a major element of Scottish literary and critical life . Tobias Smollett 's picaresque novels , such as The Adventures of Roderick Random and The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle mean that he is often seen as Scotland 's first novelist . Other Scots who contributed to the development of the novel in the eighteenth century include Henry Mackenzie and John Moore . There was a tradition of moral and domestic fiction in the early nineteenth century that included the work of Elizabeth Hamilton , Mary Brunton and Christian Johnstone . The outstanding literary figure of the early nineteenth century was Walter Scott , whose Waverley is often called the first historical novel . He had a major worldwide influence . His success led to a publishing boom in Scotland . Major figures that benefited included James Hogg , John Galt , John Gibson Lockhart , John Wilson and Susan Ferrier . In the mid-nineteenth century major literary figures that contributed to the development of the novel included David Macbeth Moir , John Stuart Blackie , William Edmondstoune Aytoun and Margaret Oliphant . In the late nineteenth century , a number of Scottish-born authors achieved international reputations , including Robert Louis Stevenson and Arthur Conan Doyle , whose Sherlock Holmes stories helped found the tradition of detective fiction . In the last two decades of the century the `` kailyard school '' ( cabbage patch ) depicted Scotland in a rural and nostalgic fashion , often seen as a `` failure of nerve '' in dealing with the rapid changes that had swept across Scotland in the industrial revolution . Figures associated with the movement include Ian Maclaren , S. R. Crockett and J. M. Barrie , best known for his creation of Peter Pan , which helped develop the genre of fantasy , as did the work of George MacDonald . Among the most important novels of the early twentieth century was The House with the Green Shutters by George Douglas Brown , which broke with the Kailyard tradition . John Buchan played a major role in the creation of the modern thriller with The Thirty-Nine Steps and Greenmantle . The Scottish literary Renaissance attempted to introduce modernism into art and create of a distinctive national literature . It increasingly focused on the novel . Major figures included Neil Gunn , George Blake , A. J. Cronin , Eric Linklater and Lewis Grassic Gibbon . There were also a large number of female authors associated with the movement , who included Catherine Carswell , Willa Muir , Nan Shepherd and Naomi Mitchison . Many major Scottish post-war novelists , such as Robin Jenkins , Jessie Kesson , Muriel Spark , Alexander Trocchi and James Kennaway spent most of their lives outside Scotland , but often dealt with Scottish themes . Successful mass-market works included the action novels of Alistair MacLean and the historical fiction of Dorothy Dunnett . A younger generation of novelists that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s included Allan Massie , Shena Mackay and Alan Spence . Working class identity continued to be explored by Archie Hind , Alan Sharp , George Friel and William McIlvanney . From the 1980s Scottish literature enjoyed another major revival , with figures including Alasdair Gray , James Kelman , Irvine Welsh , Alan Warner , Janice Galloway , A. L. Kennedy , Iain Banks , Candia McWilliam , Frank Kuppner and Andrew O'Hagan . In genre fiction Iain Banks , writing as Iain M. Banks , produced ground-breaking science fiction and Scottish crime fiction has been a major area of growth with the success of novelists including Frederic Lindsay , Quintin Jardine , Val McDermid , Denise Mina , Christopher Brookmyre , and particularly Ian Rankin and his Inspector Rebus novels . The most successful author of Scottish origins in recent years has been J. K. Rowling , author of the Harry Potter series .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "c13195d0f47d5d5740169f32f0768f7c", "text": "Oliver Twist (1985 TV serial) Oliver Twist is a 1985 BBC TV serial . It was directed by Gareth Davies , and adapted by Alexander Baron from the novel by Charles Dickens . It follows the book more closely than any of the other film adaptions .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "ad47dc43670072898442977a55502324", "text": "Character (arts) A character ( sometimes known as a fictional character ) is a person or other being in a narrative work of art ( such as a novel , play , television series , or film ) . The character may be entirely fictional or based on a real-life person , in which case the distinction of a `` fictional '' versus `` real '' character may be made . Derived from the ancient Greek word χαρακτήρ , the English word dates from the Restoration , although it became widely used after its appearance in Tom Jones in 1749 . From this , the sense of `` a part played by an actor '' developed . Character , particularly when enacted by an actor in the theatre or cinema , involves `` the illusion of being a human person . '' In literature , characters guide readers through their stories , helping them to understand plots and ponder themes . Since the end of the 18th century , the phrase `` in character '' has been used to describe an effective impersonation by an actor . Since the 19th century , the art of creating characters , as practiced by actors or writers , has been called characterisation . A character who stands as a representative of a particular class or group of people is known as a type . Types include both stock characters and those that are more fully individualised . The characters in Henrik Ibsen 's Hedda Gabler ( 1891 ) and August Strindberg 's Miss Julie ( 1888 ) , for example , are representative of specific positions in the social relations of class and gender , such that the conflicts between the characters reveal ideological conflicts . The study of a character requires an analysis of its relations with all of the other characters in the work . The individual status of a character is defined through the network of oppositions ( proairetic , pragmatic , linguistic , proxemic ) that it forms with the other characters . The relation between characters and the action of the story shifts historically , often miming shifts in society and its ideas about human individuality , self-determination , and the social order .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "754c37557a510e6272821563ae9db4ac", "text": "List of Castle episodes Castle is an American comedy-drama police procedural television series on ABC which was created by Andrew W. Marlowe . It stars Nathan Fillion as Richard Castle , a famous mystery novelist , and Stana Katic as NYPD detective Kate Beckett . The series premiered as a midseason replacement on March 9 , 2009 . On May 12 , 2016 , it was announced that , despite several cast members signing one-year deals for a potential ninth season , the show would be canceled instead .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "4c06ef519fc8bd04724911f6b65c715c", "text": "The Man from U.N.C.L.E. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is an American spy fiction television series broadcast on NBC . It follows secret agents , played by Robert Vaughn and David McCallum , who work for a secret international counter-espionage and law enforcement agency called U.N.C.L.E. Originally , co-creator Sam Rolfe wanted to leave the meaning of U.N.C.L.E. ambiguous so it could refer to either `` Uncle Sam '' or the United Nations . Concerns by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 's ( MGM ) legal department about using `` U.N. '' for commercial purposes resulted in the producers ' clarification that U.N.C.L.E. was an acronym for the United Network Command for Law and Enforcement . Each episode had an `` acknowledgement '' to the U.N.C.L.E. in the end titles . The series premiered on September 22 , 1964 and discontinued its run on January 15 , 1968 .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "95aab0e5b739dfd04e49502582711fee", "text": "Robotech (novels) In 1987 , the Robotech animated series was adapted into novel form by authors James Luceno and Brian Daley and published by Del Rey Books . Having previously collaborated on the animated series Galaxy Rangers , the pair 's Robotech novels were released under the unified pseudonym of `` Jack McKinney '' . Using fictitious epigraphs in the style of Dune , McKinney 's novels escaped the limitations inherent in the dubbed cartoon and fleshed out its chronology in greater detail ; most significantly , by adapting the storyline of the aborted sequel project , `` The Sentinels '' . The entire series lasted for twenty-one books , the first fifteen of which were later collected into five three-book omnibus compilations in the early 1990s . The original twelve novels were written to a tight twelve-month deadline , so that the books could be released one per month . Under this deadline , Daley and Luceno divided the Robotech timeline into twelve segments and worked on different segments simultaneously ( i.e. Daley wrote Book 1 while Luceno wrote Book 2 ) , then traded completed manuscripts for revision and style adjustments . As part of the research project , they watched the TV series many times , and consulted heavily with Carl Macek . The first two omnibus collections , comprising the entirety of the `` Macross Saga '' , were reissued in 2003 to tie in with the release of the Robotech : Battlecry video game . Then , in 2007 , the next two omnibus collections , covering the remainder of the television series , were re-released as tie-ins to the animated movie , Robotech : The Shadow Chronicles . However , a revision of the Robotech timeline made by Harmony Gold alongside the release of the movie caused some continuity clashes with the McKinney novels , which were relegated to a `` secondary '' position in Robotech canon . To work around this , the Southern Cross and Invid Invasion collections contain new appendices written by Robotech fan Jonathan L. Switzer correcting any newborn mistakes .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "d9ca4ce7fa5bca3caf2c8c51f9c63e13", "text": "List of high fantasy films and TV series This is a list of films and TV series in the high fantasy genre . High fantasy is defined by being set in an imaginary fantasy world rather than in our real , mundane world .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "5bb284b663116f61b7dbb6d059d47dd9", "text": "The Rebels (miniseries) The Rebels is a 1979 American made-for-television drama film/miniseries . It is based on the historical novel , The Rebels , written by John Jakes , originally published in 1975 . It is second in a series known as The Kent Family Chronicles or the American Bicentennial Series . The story mixes fictional characters with historical events and figures , to narrate the nascent United States of America during the time of the American Revolution . While it continues the story of Philip Kent , started in The Bastard , a large portion focuses on Judson Fletcher ( Don Johnson ) , a newly introduced character , as a different rebel . In 1979 , the novel was made into this television film by Operation Prime Time.The Rebels '' was preceded by the The Bastard , first in the series , and followed by The Seekers , third in the series .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "ad12222b1bc85d2929597e5b37544e76", "text": "An Englishman's Castle An Englishman 's Castle is a BBC television serial first broadcast in 1978 , written by Philip Mackie and directed by Paul Ciappessoni . The story was set in an alternate history 1970s , in which Nazi Germany won World War II and England is run by a collaborationist fascist government . Peter Ingram ( Kenneth More ) is a writer for a soap opera ( also called An Englishman 's Castle ) , which is set in London in 1940 during the fictional Nazi invasion and subsequent occupation .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "f7894d6c7cf0098eb7a170c80d013f37", "text": "Schloss Einstein Schloss Einstein is a long-running , popular German television series which is designed as a teenage soap opera . It portrays the lives of teenagers in Schloss Einstein ( Castle Einstein ) , a fictional boarding school . The intended audience is 10 - to 14-year-olds . The series combines the genres of comedy , action , drama ( e.g. , first love , problems with parents and schoolmates ) , and natural science . Scripts for the series are written by prominent television script writers .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "a7c869368465d192e0d67a5b79de3075", "text": "The Good Witch of the West is a series of fantasy novels by Noriko Ogiwara , published by Chuokoron-Shinsha . The series has been adapted into both a manga series and a thirteen episode anime television series broadcast in Japan in 2006 . The story revolves around a fifteen-year-old commoner who discovers that she is really a princess . The manga and novels were licensed for English language releases in North America by Tokyopop . After Tokyopop went out of business JManga began translating the manga and has progressed farther than TokyoPop did .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "268bd016155596360f01ca2eab67d9a1", "text": "Obsidian Fate Obsidian Fate is an original novel based on the U.S. television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "599c29dc8db300af7b59491c1385eaf0", "text": "Cranford (TV series) Cranford is a British television series directed by Simon Curtis and Steve Hudson . The teleplay by Heidi Thomas was adapted from three novellas by Elizabeth Gaskell published between 1849 and 1858 : Cranford , My Lady Ludlow , and Mr Harrison 's Confessions . ( `` The Last Generation in England '' was also used as a source . ) The series was transmitted in five parts in the UK by BBC One in November and December 2007 . In the United States , it was broadcast in three episodes by PBS as part of its Masterpiece Theatre series in May 2008 . Cranford returned with a two-part Christmas special Return to Cranford in 2009 .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "5457209712338c1e46d957f155aa12eb", "text": "The Day of the Triffids (1981 TV series) The Day of the Triffids is a British television series which was first aired by the BBC in 1981 . An adaptation by Douglas Livingstone of the 1951 novel by John Wyndham , the six half-hour episodes were produced by David Maloney and directed by Ken Hannam , with original music by Christopher Gunning . It premiered simultaneously in the UK and in Australia on ABC Television .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "187c4140abf5905d0515b92e5d37b6b2", "text": "Camelot (TV series) Camelot is a 2011 historical-fantasy-drama television series which premiered on 1 April 2011 . It was co-produced by the Starz cable network and GK-TV which began production during the summer of 2010 . The series , based on the Arthurian legend , was produced by Graham King , Morgan O'Sullivan and Michael Hirst . A special preview showing of the pilot episode `` Homecoming '' was aired on Starz Friday night , 25 February 2011 . On 30 June 2011 Starz announced it was not going to order new seasons of Camelot , citing significant production challenges , predominantly scheduling conflicts with some members of the cast , including Joseph Fiennes , Jamie Campbell Bower and Eva Green .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "65f7cd6b39ad1e714d80bc040ace736f", "text": "Wolf Hall (miniseries) Wolf Hall is a British television serial first broadcast on BBC Two in January 2015 . The six-part series is an adaptation of two of Hilary Mantel 's novels , Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies , a fictionalised biography documenting the rapid rise to power of Thomas Cromwell in the court of Henry VIII through to the death of Sir Thomas More , followed by Cromwell 's success in freeing the king of his marriage to Anne Boleyn . Wolf Hall was first broadcast in April 2015 in the United States on PBS and in Australia on BBC First . The series was a critical success and received eight nominations at the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards and three nominations at the 73rd Golden Globe Awards , winning for Best Miniseries or Television Film .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "a982da1fd0657a5589db23fa32ab89a2", "text": "Doctor Who Doctor Who is a British science-fiction television programme produced by the BBC since 1963 . The programme depicts the adventures of a Time Lord called `` The Doctor '' , an extraterrestrial being from the planet Gallifrey . He explores the universe in a time-travelling space ship called the TARDIS . Its exterior appears as a blue British police box , which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired . Accompanied by a number of companions , the Doctor combats a variety of foes , while working to save civilisations and help people in need . The show is a significant part of British popular culture , and elsewhere it has gained a cult following . It has influenced generations of British television professionals , many of whom grew up watching the series . The programme originally ran from 1963 to 1989 . There was an unsuccessful attempt to revive regular production in 1996 with a backdoor pilot , in the form of a television film titled Doctor Who . The programme was relaunched in 2005 , and since then has been produced in-house by BBC Wales in Cardiff . Doctor Who has also spawned numerous spin-offs , including comic books , films , novels , audio dramas , and the television series Torchwood ( 2006 -- 2011 ) , The Sarah Jane Adventures ( 2007 -- 2011 ) , K-9 ( 2009 -- 2010 ) , and Class '' ( 2016-present ) , and has been the subject of many parodies and references in popular culture . Twelve actors have headlined the series as the Doctor . The transition from one actor to another is written into the plot of the show with the concept of regeneration into a new incarnation -- an idea introduced in 1966 to allow the show to continue after the departure of original lead William Hartnell who was becoming very ill at the time . The concept is that this is a Time Lord trait through which the character of the Doctor takes on a new body and personality to recover from a severe injury or anything that would otherwise kill a normal person . Each actor 's portrayal differs , but all represent stages in the life of the same character and form a single narrative . The time-travelling feature of the plot means that different incarnations of the Doctor occasionally meet . The current lead , Peter Capaldi , took on the role after Matt Smith 's exit in the 2013 Christmas special `` The Time of the Doctor '' . In 2017 , Capaldi confirmed he would be leaving at the end of the tenth series , with his final appearance being the 2017 Christmas Special .", "title": "" } ]

[ { "docid": "4616dace12242646c58a9f5e57752290", "text": "Reds (film) Reds is a 1981 American epic drama film co-written , produced and directed by Warren Beatty . The picture centers on the life and career of John Reed , the journalist and writer who chronicled the Russian Revolution in his book Ten Days That Shook the World . Beatty stars in the lead role alongside Diane Keaton as Louise Bryant and Jack Nicholson as Eugene O'Neill . The supporting cast includes Edward Herrmann , Jerzy Kosinski , Paul Sorvino , Maureen Stapleton , Gene Hackman , Ramon Bieri , Nicolas Coster and M. Emmet Walsh . The film also features , as `` witnesses , '' interviews with the 98-year-old radical educator and peace activist Scott Nearing , author Dorothy Frooks , reporter and author George Seldes , civil liberties advocate Roger Baldwin , and the American writer Henry Miller , among others . Beatty was awarded the Academy Award for Best Director and the film was nominated for Best Picture , but lost to Chariots of Fire . Beatty , Keaton , Nicholson and Stapleton were nominated for Best Actor , Best Actress , Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress , respectively . Stapleton was the only one of the four to win . Beatty was also nominated , along with co-writer Trevor Griffiths , for Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay , but lost to Chariots of Fire . Beatty became the third person to be nominated for Academy Awards in the categories Best Actor , Director and Original Screenplay for a film nominated for Best Picture . In June 2008 , the American Film Institute revealed its `` Ten Top Ten '' -- the best ten films in ten `` classic '' American film genres -- after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community . Reds was acknowledged as the ninth best film in the epic genre .", "title": "" } ]

[ { "docid": "37ff6ce7869b9dc048efb743de3737d4", "text": "Récit Récit is a term for a subgenre of the French novel , describing a work in which the narrative calls attention to itself . Literary critic Roger Shattuck explains , `` During a récit , we are conscious of being at one remove from the action ; the very act of narration interferes and calls attention to itself . '' Examples of the récit include works by Benjamin Constant and Eugene Fromentin , Andre Gide , Maurice Blanchot , and Michel Leiris . According to Shattuck , The discomfort of the narrator in confronting his own effort of composition ( by now it should be apparent that narrator and author become indistinguishable ) has been inherited as one of the principal features of the recit . Critic Geoffrey Hartman describes the récit as `` a confessional narrative , a kind of dramatic monologue in prose ... '' Daniel Just writes of an ambiguity in the nature of the récit : For literary critics , the récit as a category became ... elusive -- at once too broad and too specific . Meaning a `` narrative '' in general , récit has been used as an indefinite notion embracing many prose genres , to the point when it ceases to be clear if it does not coincide with narrative literature as such . At the same time , it has also served to identify a stylistic specificity found in the select works of only a few writers . This latter use finds perhaps its most exemplary illustrations in André Gide 's L'Immoraliste and Albert Camus 's La Chute . Gide , in particular , was quite meticulous in differentiating between his novels and their complex view of life , and his récits that portray life from a single perspective . Blanchot 's insistence on the difference between the novel and the récit is equally scrupulous , but for other reasons . His emphasis on a strong generic meaning of the term récit -- which is evident in spite of the semantic overload this notion sometimes undergoes in his theoretical texts -- has nothing to do with the number of points of view represented in the story . For Blanchot , the récit is a distinct literary form whose uniqueness resides in its not merely stylistic but `` essential '' difference from the genre of the novel . Maurice Blanchot describes the récit as follows : If we regard the récit as the true telling of an exceptional event which has taken place and which someone is trying to report , then we have not even come close to sensing the true nature of the récit . The récit is not the narration of an event , but the event itself , the approach to that event , the place where that event is made to happen-an event which is yet to come and through whose power of attraction the récit can come into being , too .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "ad47dc43670072898442977a55502324", "text": "Character (arts) A character ( sometimes known as a fictional character ) is a person or other being in a narrative work of art ( such as a novel , play , television series , or film ) . The character may be entirely fictional or based on a real-life person , in which case the distinction of a `` fictional '' versus `` real '' character may be made . Derived from the ancient Greek word χαρακτήρ , the English word dates from the Restoration , although it became widely used after its appearance in Tom Jones in 1749 . From this , the sense of `` a part played by an actor '' developed . Character , particularly when enacted by an actor in the theatre or cinema , involves `` the illusion of being a human person . '' In literature , characters guide readers through their stories , helping them to understand plots and ponder themes . Since the end of the 18th century , the phrase `` in character '' has been used to describe an effective impersonation by an actor . Since the 19th century , the art of creating characters , as practiced by actors or writers , has been called characterisation . A character who stands as a representative of a particular class or group of people is known as a type . Types include both stock characters and those that are more fully individualised . The characters in Henrik Ibsen 's Hedda Gabler ( 1891 ) and August Strindberg 's Miss Julie ( 1888 ) , for example , are representative of specific positions in the social relations of class and gender , such that the conflicts between the characters reveal ideological conflicts . The study of a character requires an analysis of its relations with all of the other characters in the work . The individual status of a character is defined through the network of oppositions ( proairetic , pragmatic , linguistic , proxemic ) that it forms with the other characters . The relation between characters and the action of the story shifts historically , often miming shifts in society and its ideas about human individuality , self-determination , and the social order .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "697580c81479770dc6c70a31e36dd7f8", "text": "B movie A B movie is a low-budget commercial movie , but one that is not an arthouse film . In its original usage , during the Golden Age of Hollywood , the term more precisely identified films intended for distribution as the less-publicized bottom half of a double feature . Although the U.S. production of movies intended as second features largely ceased by the end of the 1950s , the term B movie continues to be used in the broader sense it maintains today . In its post -- Golden Age usage , there is ambiguity on both sides of the definition : on the one hand , the primary interest of many inexpensive exploitation films is prurient ; on the other , many B movies display a high degree of craft and aesthetic ingenuity . In either usage , most B movies represent a particular genre -- the Western was a Golden Age B movie staple , while low-budget science-fiction and horror films became more popular in the 1950s . Early B movies were often part of series in which the star repeatedly played the same character . Almost always shorter than the top-billed films they were paired with , many had running times of 70 minutes or less . The term connoted a general perception that B movies were inferior to the more handsomely budgeted headliners ; individual B films were often ignored by critics . Latter-day B movies still sometimes inspire multiple sequels , but series are less common . As the average running time of top-of-the-line films increased , so did that of B pictures . In its current usage , the term has somewhat contradictory connotations : it may signal an opinion that a certain movie is ( a ) a genre film with minimal artistic ambitions or ( b ) a lively , energetic film uninhibited by the constraints imposed on more expensive projects and unburdened by the conventions of putatively `` serious '' independent film . The term is also now used loosely to refer to some higher-budgeted , mainstream films with exploitation-style content , usually in genres traditionally associated with the B movie . From their beginnings to the present day , B movies have provided opportunities both for those coming up in the profession and others whose careers are waning . Celebrated filmmakers such as Anthony Mann and Jonathan Demme learned their craft in B movies . They are where actors such as John Wayne and Jack Nicholson first became established , and they have provided work for former A movie actors , such as Vincent Price and Karen Black . Some actors , such as Bela Lugosi , Eddie Constantine and Pam Grier , worked in B movies for most of their careers . The term B actor is sometimes used to refer to a performer who finds work primarily or exclusively in B pictures .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "1919d3c258f4fc9d700894379675ac01", "text": "Rebel Without a Cause Rebel Without a Cause is a 1955 American drama film about emotionally confused suburban , middle-class teenagers filmed in CinemaScope . Directed by Nicholas Ray , it offered both social commentary and an alternative to previous films depicting delinquents in urban slum environments . The film stars James Dean , Sal Mineo and Natalie Wood . The film was a groundbreaking attempt to portray the moral decay of American youth , critique parental style , and explore the differences and conflicts between generations . The title was adopted from psychiatrist Robert M. Lindner 's 1944 book , Rebel Without a Cause : The Hypnoanalysis of a Criminal Psychopath . The film itself , however , does not reference Lindner 's book in any way . Warner Bros. released the film on October 27 , 1955 . Over the years , the film has achieved landmark status for the acting of cultural icon James Dean , fresh from his Oscar nominated role in East of Eden and who died before the film 's release , in his most celebrated role . This was the only film during Dean 's lifetime in which he received top billing . In 1990 , Rebel Without a Cause was added to the Library of Congress 's National Film Registry as being deemed `` culturally , historically , and aesthetically significant '' .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "60863efdeef23d1616160ae30d5742df", "text": "New Objectivity (film) New Objectivity ( a translation of the German Neue Sachlichkeit , alternatively translated as `` New Sobriety '' or `` New matter-of-factness '' ) was an art movement that emerged in Germany in the early 1920s as a counter to expressionism . The term applies to a number of artistic forms , including film . In film , New Objectivity reached its high point around 1929 . It translated into realistic cinematic settings , straightforward camerawork and editing , a tendency to examine inanimate objects as a way to interpret characters and events , a lack of overt emotionalism , and social themes . The director most associated with the movement is Georg Wilhelm Pabst . Pabst 's films of the 1920s concentrate on subjects such as abortion , prostitution , labor disputes , homosexuality , and addiction . His cool and critical 1925 Joyless Street is a landmark of the objective style . Pabst 's 1930 pacifist sound film Westfront 1918 views the World War I experience in a bleak , matter-of-fact way . With its clear denunciation of war , it was soon banned as unsuitable for public viewing . Other directors in the style included Ernő Metzner , Berthold Viertel , and Gerhard Lamprecht . The movement ended essentially in 1933 with the fall of the Weimar Republic .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "ef1d3a98c81d39e94e9dc68e77c61b59", "text": "Genre Genre ( -LSB- ˈʒɒ̃rə -RSB- , -LSB- ˈʒɒnrə -RSB- or -LSB- ˈdʒɒnrə -RSB- from French genre -LSB- ʒɑ̃ʁ -RSB- , `` kind '' or `` sort '' , from Latin genus ( stem gener - ) , Greek γένος , génos ) is any form or type of communication in any mode ( written , spoken , digital , artistic , etc. ) with socially-agreed upon conventions developed over time . Genre is most popularly known as a category of literature , music , or other forms of art or entertainment , whether written or spoken , audio or visual , based on some set of stylistic criteria , yet genres can be aesthetic , rhetorical , communicative , or functional . Genres form by conventions that change over time as new genres are invented and the use of old ones is discontinued . Often , works fit into multiple genres by way of borrowing and recombining these conventions . Stand alone texts , works , or pieces of communication may have individual styles , but genres are amalgams of these texts based on agreed upon or socially inferred conventions . Some genres may be rigid with strictly adhered to guidelines while others may be very flexible . Genre began as an absolute classification system for ancient Greek literature . Poetry , prose , and performance each had a specific and calculated style that related to the theme of the story . Speech patterns for comedy would not be appropriate for tragedy , and even actors were restricted to their genre under the assumption that a type of person could tell one type of story best . In later periods genres proliferated and developed in response to changes in audiences and creators . Genre became a dynamic tool to help the public make sense out of unpredictable art . Because art is often a response to a social state , in that people write/paint/sing / dance about what they know about , the use of genre as a tool must be able to adapt to changing meanings . Genre suffers from the same ills of any classification system . Genre is to be reassessed and scrutinized and to weigh works on their unique merit . It has been suggested that genres resonate with people because of the familiarity , the shorthand communication , as well as the tendency of genres to shift with public mores and to reflect the zeitgeist . While the genre of storytelling has been relegated as lesser form of art because of the heavily borrowed nature of the conventions , admiration has grown . Proponents argue that the genius of an effective genre piece is in the variation , recombination , and evolution of the codes .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "8276569f80d187d88fc62b671a234f29", "text": "Green World Green World is a literary concept defined by critic Northrop Frye in The Anatomy of Criticism . In some comedies by William Shakespeare , the main characters escape the order of a city for a forested and wild setting adjacent to the city . This natural environment is often described as a green world . It is in this more loosely structured , fantastic environment that issues surrounding social order , romantic relationships , and inter-generational strife , which are a prominent part of the `` city world '' , become resolved , facilitating a return to the normal order . Recent literary critics drawn to ecocriticism have occasionally found the concept valuable to their work as well .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "64daf635e0704799258b62ebaea7c666", "text": "Art film An art film is typically a serious , independent film aimed at a niche market rather than a mass market audience . An art film is `` intended to be a serious artistic work , often experimental and not designed for mass appeal '' ; they are `` made primarily for aesthetic reasons rather than commercial profit '' , and they contain `` unconventional or highly symbolic content '' . Film critics and film studies scholars typically define an art film as possessing `` formal qualities that mark them as different from mainstream Hollywood films '' , which can include , among other elements , a sense of social realism ; an emphasis on the authorial expressiveness of the director ; and a focus on the thoughts , dreams , or motivations of characters , as opposed to the unfolding of a clear , goal-driven story . Film scholar David Bordwell describes art cinema as `` a film genre , with its own distinct conventions '' . Art film producers usually present their films at specialty theatres ( repertory cinemas , or , in the U.S. , `` arthouse cinemas '' ) and film festivals . The term art film is much more widely used in the United States , the UK and Australia than in Europe , where the term is more associated with `` auteur '' films and `` national cinema '' ( e.g. , German national cinema ) . Because they are aimed at small niche market audiences , they can rarely get the financial backing that will permit large production budgets , expensive special effects , costly celebrity actors , or huge advertising campaigns , as are used in widely released mainstream blockbuster films . Art film directors make up for these constraints by creating a different type of film , which typically uses lesser-known film actors ( or even amateur actors ) and modest sets to make films that focus much more on developing ideas or exploring new narrative techniques or film-making conventions . A certain degree of experience and knowledge are required to fully understand or appreciate such films . One mid-1990s art film was called `` largely a cerebral experience '' that one enjoys `` because of what you know about film '' . This contrasts sharply with mainstream `` blockbuster '' films , which are geared more towards escapism and pure entertainment . For promotion , art films rely on the publicity generated from film critics ' reviews , discussion of their film by arts columnists , commentators and bloggers , and `` word-of-mouth '' promotion by audience members . Since art films have small initial investment costs , they only need to appeal to a small portion of the mainstream viewing audiences to become financially viable .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "aa06bf9fc7ba5619a3f0f67b83196f05", "text": "Midwest Independent Film Festival The Midwest Independent Film Festival is the nation 's only film festival solely dedicated to the Midwest filmmaker . Only films from the eight-state Midwest region of Illinois , Indiana , Iowa , Michigan , Minnesota , Missouri , Ohio and Wisconsin are considered for screening . This film festival is also unique in that it is held throughout the year , presenting audiences with the finest independent films from the Midwest every first Tuesday of the month . The Midwest Independent Film Festival prides itself on showcasing emerging directors , powerful artistic visions , and strong cinematic stories . These exceptional films combine with an exciting social atmosphere and a state-of-the-art screening venue to create one of the premier festivals in the Midwest . The Midwest Independent Film Festival is hosted every first Tuesday of the month at Chicago 's Landmark Century Centre Cinema of Landmark Theatres . Sponsors include Resolution Digital Studios , Zacuto , Fletcher Chicago , Orbit Media Studios , O'Connor Casting , Flashpoint The Academy of Media Arts and Sciences , Zipcar , The Chicago Film Office , The Illinois Film Office , Zaroban Design , Crunch Fitness , Getty Images , Screen Magazine and Kodak . This festival is sometimes referred to as `` The Midwest Film Festival , '' `` The Midwest Indie , '' or simply `` The Midwest . ''", "title": "" }, { "docid": "16084ad0ec848cc03fd1a6ddcce41cba", "text": "Property of the Republic Property of the Republic ( -LSB- Достоя́ние респу́блики , Dostoyanie respubliki -RSB- ) is a 1971 Soviet two-part adventure film directed by Vladimir Bychkov . Detective story takes place during the Civil War in Russia . The picture was the 44th most attended domestic film in the Soviet Union .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "f66f28332c6af504520cb478779b0bbb", "text": "Gothic film The Gothic film is a film that is based on Gothic fiction or contains Gothic elements . Since various definite film genres -- including science fiction , film noir , thriller , and comedy -- have used Gothic elements , the Gothic film is challenging to define clearly as a genre . Gothic elements have also infused the horror film genre , contributing supernatural and nightmarish elements . To create a Gothic atmosphere , filmmakers have sought to create new camera tricks that challenge audiences ' perceptions . Gothic films also reflected contemporary issues . A New Companion to The Gothics Heidi Kaye said `` strong visuals , a focus on sexuality and an emphasis on audience response '' characterize Gothic films like they did the literary works . The Encyclopedia of the Gothic said the foundation of Gothic film was the combination of Gothic literature , stage melodrama , and German expressionism . In The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction , Misha Kavka says Gothic film is not an established genre , rather contributing Gothic images , plots , characters , and styles to films . These elements are often found in `` the broader category of horror '' . Kavka quotes William Patrick Day 's definition of the Gothic , '' -LSB- it -RSB- tantalizes us with fear , both as its subject and its effect ; its does so , however , not primarily through characters or plots or even language , but through spectacle '' . Cinema suits the Gothic definition in creating images that establish the spectacle .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "45f3d91c761b743fd65d4b493e8ceeac", "text": "Children's film A children 's film , or family film , is a film genre that contains children or relates to them in the context of home and family . Children 's films are made specifically for children and not necessarily for the general audience , while family films are made for a wider appeal with a general audience in mind . Children 's films come in several major forms like realism , fantasy , adventure , animation , war , musicals , and literary adaptations .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "279b5c255281a11cf5d877cd93868749", "text": "Profondo Rosso (soundtrack) The soundtrack to the film Deep Red was mainly composed and performed by the Italian progressive rock band Goblin . Director Dario Argento had originally contacted jazz pianist and composer Giorgio Gaslini to score the film , but he was unhappy with his output , deeming it `` awful '' . After failing to get Pink Floyd to write music for the film , Argento turned back to Italy and found Goblin . In the final score , only three of Gaslini 's original themes were retained ; however , in the film 's original theatrical release , Gaslini was given full composer credit for the entire score , while Goblin were wrongly credited only as performers -LSB- i.e. `` Music by Giorgio Gaslini , performed by Goblin '' -RSB- . This was corrected in subsequent home video releases .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "a91057b4bd680afe12cbc264c000aed5", "text": "Rumberas film The rumberas film ( in Spanish cine de rumberas ) was a film genre that flourished in Mexico , in the so-called Golden Age of Mexican cinema in the 1940s and 1950s . These movies starred rumberas , dancers who performed to popular Afro-Caribbean rhythms . With roots in various film styles , the genre is one of the most fascinating hybrids of international cinema . Today , thanks to their unique characteristics , they are considered cult films . The rumberas and the luchador films were two of Mexico 's contributions to international cinema . The rumberas film represented a social view of the world , focused on `` women of the night '' in the 1940s and 1950s , which confronted the moral and social conventions of their time , exhibiting a more realistic look at Mexican society . These were melodramas about the lives of these women , redeemed through exotic dance .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "a96720151a66d64c7483a386c3819d80", "text": "Digital intermediate Digital intermediate ( typically abbreviated to DI ) is a motion picture finishing process which classically involves digitizing a motion picture and manipulating the color and other image characteristics . It often replaces or augments the photochemical timing process and is usually the final creative adjustment to a movie before distribution in theaters . It is distinguished from the telecine process in which film is scanned and color is manipulated early in the process to facilitate editing . However the lines between telecine and DI are continually blurred and are often executed on the same hardware by colorists of the same background . These two steps are typically part of the overall color management process in a motion picture at different points in time . A digital intermediate is also customarily done at higher resolution and with greater color fidelity than telecine transfers . Although originally used to describe a process that started with film scanning and ended with film recording , digital intermediate is also used to describe color correction and color grading and even final mastering when a digital camera is used as the image source and/or when the final movie is not output to film . This is due to recent advances in digital cinematography and digital projection technologies that strive to match film origination and film projection . In traditional photochemical film finishing , an intermediate is produced by exposing film to the original camera negative . The intermediate is then used to mass-produce the films that get distributed to theaters . Color grading is done by varying the amount of red , green , and blue light used to expose the intermediate . This seeks to be able to replace or augment the photochemical approach to creating this intermediate . The digital intermediate process uses digital tools to color grade , which allows for much finer control of individual colors and areas of the image , and allows for the adjustment of image structure ( grain , sharpness , etc. ) . The intermediate for film reproduction can then be produced by means of a film recorder . The physical intermediate film that is a result of the recording process is sometimes also called a digital intermediate , and is usually recorded to internegative ( IN ) stock , which is inherently finer-grain than camera negative ( OCN ) . One of the key technical achievements that made the transition to DI possible was the use of the 3D look-up tables ( aka `` 3D LUTs '' ) , which could be used to mimic how the digital image would look once it was printed onto release print stock . This removed a large amount of skilled guesswork from the film-making process , and allowed greater freedom in the colour grading process while reducing risk . The digital master is often used as a source for a DCI-compliant distribution of the motion picture for digital projection . For archival purposes , the digital master created during the Digital Intermediate process can still be recorded to very stable high dynamic range yellow-cyan-magenta ( YCM ) separations on black-and-white film with an expected 100-year or longer life . This archival format , long used in the industry prior to the invention of DI , still provides an archival medium that is independent of changes in digital data recording technologies and file formats that might otherwise render digitally archived material unreadable in the long term .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "fddff19ac1068b5226e0b5f2075a65cf", "text": "List of teen films Teen film is a film genre targeted at teenagers and young adults in which the plot is based upon the special interests of teenagers and young adults , such as coming of age , first love , rebellion , conflict with parents , teen angst , and alienation . Some of these films are targeted at adults as well as teenagers . Teen films have been a trope of the cinema industry for decades since the 1950s . At this time , the film industry saw a greater market for teens with more disposable income and therefore more money to spend on leisure activities , largely going to films . Because of the boom in teen viewers , drive-in movie theaters were also very popular . However , even the silent era had teen films . Recently , online streaming services such as Netflix have created a resurgence in the `` tween '' and teenage-oriented film .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "1ecb935560d574b6be7f5d764aabfab8", "text": "Red Tide (band) Red Tide was formed in 1992 by guitarist/vocalist Jeff Wu , bassist Jeff Bennett , and drummer Justin Foley . Originally they started out primarily as a thrash metal band . In those early high school days they released 3 demos of pure hardcore/thrash metal . Red Tide went on to play the Simsbury High School Battle of the Bands in which they won 1st place . Noted as the first `` real '' metal band to play the event and the first band to play their own material vs covers . In 1995 Red Tide took a turn in their musical direction . This was the time they began to experiment with jazz and fusion . This brought the departure of Jeff Bennett and introduction of Andy Dickins on bass . The new line up began to write music with an emphasis of jazz fusion thrown in . They went on to record one demo entitled `` Expressions '' which showcased their new eclectic style . In 1996 Red Tide recruited Ian Kauffman on guitars . Now making the line up a 4 piece . They continued to incorporate jazz fusion into their brand of aggressive style of metal and went into the studio to record another demo entitled `` Hybrid '' . In 1997 Red Tide went into the studio to record their first full length `` Themes of the Cosmic Consciousness '' . This was a self-financed independent CD release . It gained in popularity through the help of the internet . In 1998 Andy Dickins leaves the band to pursue other interests . Finally in 2001 Red Tide released their last effort `` Type II '' . This included Blue on bass . Shortly after this release Red Tide disbanded in 2002 .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "d897ff2c19bd39533084592043cd8d83", "text": "Wiener Film Wiener Film ( German ; plural : Wiener Filme ; literally , `` Viennese film '' ) is an Austrian film genre , consisting of a combination of comedy , romance and melodrama in an historical setting , mostly , and typically , the Vienna of the late 19th and early 20th centuries . The Wiener Film genre was in production between the 1920s and the 1950s , with the 1930s as its high period .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "a15fcd521628b7a8b84f015eefa53ce4", "text": "Redacted (film) Redacted is a 2007 American war film written and directed by Brian De Palma . It is a fictional dramatization , loosely based on the 2006 Mahmudiyah killings in Mahmoudiyah , Iraq , when U.S. Army soldiers raped an Iraqi girl and murdered her along with her family . This film , which is a companion to an earlier film by De Palma , 1989 's Casualties of War , was shot in Jordan . Redacted premiered at the 2007 Venice Film Festival , where it earned a Silver Lion `` best director '' award . It was also shown at the Toronto International Film Festival , the New York Film Festival and the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema . The film opened in Spain , and in fifteen theaters in limited release in the United States on November 16 , 2007 . The film received mixed reactions from critics and a poor financial response in its limited U.S. release .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "98b3f2107f01cbaac5ebeef654965cf1", "text": "Acid Western Acid Western is a subgenre of the Western film that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s that combines the metaphorical ambitions of critically acclaimed Westerns , like Shane and The Searchers , with the excesses of the Spaghetti Westerns and the outlook of the 1960s counter-culture . Acid Westerns subvert many of the conventions of earlier Westerns to `` conjure up a crazed version of autodestructive white America at its most solipsistic , hankering after its own lost origins '' .", "title": "" } ]

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[ { "docid": "2193f1f28a63569eb2ce92bb642fd867", "text": "Australian Plate The Australian Plate is a major tectonic plate in the eastern and , largely , in the southern hemispheres . Originally a part of the ancient continent of Gondwana , Australia remained connected to India and Antarctica until approximately when India broke away and began moving north . Australia and Antarctica began rifting and completely separated roughly The Australian plate later fused with the adjacent Indian Plate beneath the Indian Ocean to form a single Indo-Australian Plate . However , recent studies suggest that the two plates have once again split apart and have been separate plates for at least 3 million years and likely longer . The Australian plate includes the continent of Australia , including Tasmania , as well portions of New Guinea , New Zealand , and the Indian Ocean basin .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "a4f9f7a36c379d2f39e1da6e71bf17a8", "text": "German New Guinea German New Guinea ( Deutsch-Neuguinea ) was the first part of the German colonial empire . It was a protectorate from 1884 until 1914 when it fell to Australian forces following the outbreak of the First World War . It consisted of the northeastern part of New Guinea and several nearby island groups . The mainland part of German New Guinea and the nearby islands of the Bismarck Archipelago and the North Solomon Islands are now part of Papua New Guinea . The Micronesian islands of German New Guinea are now governed as the Federated States of Micronesia , the Marshall Islands , Nauru , the Northern Mariana Islands and Palau . The mainland portion , Kaiser-Wilhelmsland , was formed from the northeastern part of New Guinea . The islands to the east of Kaiser-Wilhelmsland , on annexation , were renamed the Bismarck Archipelago ( formerly the New Britannia Archipelago ) and the two largest islands renamed Neu-Pommern ( `` New Pomerania '' , today 's New Britain ) and Neu-Mecklenburg ( `` New Mecklenburg , now New Ireland ) . Due to their accessibility by water , however , these outlying islands were , and have remained , the most economically viable part of the territory . With the exception of German Samoa , the German islands in the Western Pacific formed the `` Imperial German Pacific Protectorates '' . These were administered as part of German New Guinea and they included the German Solomon Islands ( Buka , Bougainville , and several smaller islands ) , the Carolines , Palau , the Marianas ( except for Guam ) , the Marshall Islands , and Nauru . The total land area of German New Guinea was 249500 km ² .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "bc24017f85ae2791b0d9940c4be741be", "text": "1812 in Australia", "title": "" }, { "docid": "61a491ea14314605be64b6bfe11dbb4a", "text": "Military history of New Zealand The military history of New Zealand is an aspect of the history of New Zealand that spans several hundred years . When first settled by Māori almost a millennium ago , there was much land and resources , but war began to break out as the country 's carrying capacity was approached . Initially being fought with close range weapons of wood and stone , this continued on and off until Europeans arrived , bringing with them new weapons such as muskets . Colonisation by Britain led to the New Zealand land wars in the 19th century in which settler and imperial troops and their Māori allies fought against other Māori and a handful of Pākehā . In the first half of the 20th century , New Zealanders of all races fought alongside Britain in the Boer War and both World Wars . In the second half of the century and into this century the New Zealand Defence Force has provided token assistance to the United States in several conflicts . New Zealand has also contributed troops extensively to multilateral peacekeeping operations .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "2079cbd1648be3fa2d516a70766ff867", "text": "Pangerang The Pangerang or Bangerang are the indigenous Australians who traditionally occupied much of what is now north-eastern Victoria stretching along the Murray River to Echuca and into the areas of the southern Riverina in New South Wales .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "d8d8f9ffe58725c12b5b826ebac46cad", "text": "Australian migration zone The Australian migration zone is a legal device created by the Australian government for the purpose of Australia 's visa policy and immigration policy . In the Australian migration zone , which covers such Australian controlled territories as the government may determine , a non-citizen must hold an Australian visa . Without such a visa , or a bridging visa , the alien is treated as an `` unauthorised arrival '' . Prior to 2001 , the Australian migration zone consisted of the mainland , and some external territories . To stem the flow of unauthorised arrivals into Australia , in September 2001 , the Australian government passed the Migration Amendment ( Excision from Migration Zone ) Act 2001 and the Migration Amendment ( Excision from Migration Zone ) ( Consequential Provisions ) Act 2001 which removed ( `` excised '' ) a number of external territories from the Australian migration zone for purposes relating to unauthorised arrivals . The effect of this change was to limit the ability of `` offshore entry persons '' to apply for a visa on arrival . The territories excised were Ashmore Island , Cartier Islands , Christmas Island , and Cocos Islands . After Australian Indian Ocean territories were excised , increasing numbers of asylum seekers attempted to reach the Australian mainland by-passing those islands , which are closer to Indonesia . To combat this tactic , on 30 October 2012 , the Australian government excised the entire Australian mainland from the Australian migration zone . The legislation to excise the mainland itself from the migration zone was passed by Parliament on 16 May 2013 . Before the excise , asylum seekers who reached the mainland by boat could not be sent offshore to Australian immigration detention facilities on Nauru or Papua New Guinea 's Manus Island for immigration processing .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "def83c499b8082bc88bf7b19f1a7b409", "text": "Great Southern (Western Australia) __ NOTOC __ The Great Southern Region is one of the nine regions of Western Australia , as defined by the Regional Development Commissions Act 1993 , for the purposes of economic development . It is a section of the larger South Coast of Western Australia and neighbouring agricultural regions . The region officially comprises the local government areas of Albany , Broomehill-Tambellup , Cranbrook , Denmark , Gnowangerup , Jerramungup , Katanning , Kent , Kojonup , Plantagenet and Woodanilling . The Great Southern Region has an area of 39007 km2 and a population of about 54,000 . Its administrative centre is the historic port of Albany . It has a Mediterranean climate , with hot , dry summers and cool , wet winters . The economy of the Great Southern Region is dominated by livestock farming and crop-growing . It has some of the most productive cereal grain and pastoral land in the state , and is a major producer of wool and lamb . Albany is a major fishing centre . The coast of the Great Southern Region has milder summer weather than areas on the west coast proper and is also a popular destination for holidaymakers , tourists , anglers and surfers . Albany is home to the Kalgan River which is associated with riverboats , from 1918 to 1935 with the Silver Star which lowered its funnel to get under a bridge , and today with the Kalgan Queen which lowers its roof to pass beneath the same bridge . Noongar people have inhabited the region for tens of thousands of years . European settlement began with the establishment of a temporary British military base , commanded by Major Edmund Lockyer , at King George Sound ( Albany ) on Christmas Day , 1826 . Albany is consequently regarded as the oldest European settlement in Western Australia .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "bd3034ca0602c500bc10a517bcf9c0a2", "text": "Western Province (Victoria) Western Province was a former electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council ( Australia ) , the upper house of the Parliament of Victoria . Victoria was a colony in Australia when Western Province was created . From Federation in 1901 , Victoria was a state in the Commonwealth of Australia . Western Province was one of the six original upper house Provinces of the bi-cameral Victorian Parliament created in November 1856 . Western Province was defined in the Victorian Constitution Act , 1855 , as : `` Including the Counties of Ripon , Hampden , Heytesbury , Villiers , Normanby , Dundas , and Follett . '' In 1882 , several new Provinces were created , including Nelson Province and Wellington Province , the numbers of members elected for Western Province was reduced to three from this time . Another redistribution in 1904 reduced the number of members to two . In 2006 , the Western Province ( along with all the other provinces in the Legislative Council ) was abolished and replaced by regions . All of the area covered by Western Province is contained in the larger Western Victoria Region .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "710112ae4524c2e33871fa9660e121fb", "text": "1894 Colonial Conference The Colonial Conference of 1894 was called by the government of Canada to continue discussion begun at the First Colonial Conference in 1887 on a proposal to lay a telegraph cable at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean to create a communications link between Canada and Australasia and , by extension , to the rest of the British Empire as part of what became referred to as the All Red Line network of cables throughout the Empire . The opening ceremonies were in the Senate Chamber in the Centre Block of the Canadian parliament buildings but day-to-day meetings occurred in the offices of the Minister of Trade and Commerce . The Earl of Jersey attended the conference as the representative of the British government and was instructed to listen and report back but not to make any commitments on behalf of the government . All self-governing British colonies were invited to send delegates with the exception of Newfoundland Colony . Western Australia and Natal Colony did not send representatives due to domestic priorities . The colony of Fiji was also invited due to its geographical location on the proposed route of the cable but declined . Delegates were sent to the conference by Canada , New Zealand , the Australian self-governing colonies of New South Wales , Queensland , South Australia , Tasmania and Victoria and the South African colony of Cape Colony . Unlike other colonial conference , the colonial delegates were cabinet ministers or legislators or government representatives rather than Prime Ministers . Resolutions were proposed to the conference and it was agreed that decisions would be made on the basis of `` one colony , one vote '' but the resolutions were not binding on the British government or the Colonial Office . In addition to discussing telecommunications issues , the conference also approved a resolution favouring preferential trade within the Empire , however , this resolution was opposed by Australia 's largest colonies , New South Wales and Queensland , who were suspicious the Canadian initiative seemed designed to undermine Australia 's protective tariffs . The proposal would be made again to the 1897 Colonial Conference but was not agreed to and would not be acted upon until the British Empire Economic Conference in 1932 .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "002967cf86b0e9a87178e7323df0093e", "text": "Western Desert cultural bloc The Western Desert cultural bloc or just Western Desert is a cultural region in central Australia covering about 600,000 square kilometres , including the Gibson Desert , the Great Victoria Desert , the Great Sandy and Little Sandy Deserts in the Northern Territory , South Australia and Western Australia . The Western Desert cultural bloc can be said to stretch from the Nullarbor in the south to the Kimberley in the north , and from the Percival Lakes in the west through to the Pintupi lands in the Northern Territory . The term is often used by anthropologists and linguists when discussing the 40 or so Aboriginal groups that live there , who speak dialects of one language , often called the Western Desert language . Apart from the Canning Stock Route and the Rabbit-proof fence , white contact with this part of Australia was very rare , until the 1960s : No one had been out there . The desert , as far as the Department -LSB- WA Dept of Suppy -RSB- was concerned ... was an unknown , as it was to the whole of Western Australia . The Warburton Ranges -LSB- were -RSB- as far as anybody got . People in those days knew absolutely nothing about Aborigines . ''", "title": "" }, { "docid": "05fbacc2f4506f172412f0cfe50067c4", "text": "Port Phillip District Special Surveys In August 1840 , the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners of the British Government decided to allow the purchase of land anywhere in the Port Phillip District of New South Wales -- now Victoria , Australia . Special Surveys could be requested to enable the purchase of 5120 acre , or eight square miles , for ₤ 1 per acre . This price was significantly below the value of the land at that time . To restrict the sale of valuable land , Governor Gipps introduced regulations in March 1841 that required the land to be more than 5 mi from a surveyed township , and to restrict the water-frontage to one mile ( 1.6 km ) per four square miles of area . Eight special surveys were advertised in June 1841 : Frederic Unwin 's survey at Templestowe , near Melbourne Henry Dendy 's survey at Brighton , near Melbourne William Rutledge 's survey at Kilmore John Orr 's survey near the Albert River , near Corner Inlet William Rutledge 's survey near the Albert River , near Corner Inlet Hugh Jamieson 's survey between Mount Martha and Arthur 's Seat on the Mornington Peninsula . Henry Elgar 's survey at Box Hill and Balwyn , near Melbourne John Reeve 's survey on the Tarra River , near Corner Inlet A survey for James Atkinson for 5120 acre near Port Fairy was advertised in 1843 . This survey had been delayed by disputes over the boundaries . Rutledge did not take up the Port Albert survey . In its place he purchased land near the present Koroit in western Victoria . Originally the five mile ( 8 km ) distance from Melbourne was taken from the declared outer boundary of Melbourne , Hoddle Street . This was later amended to the distance from the centre of Melbourne , apparently taken as the intersection of Swanston Street and Elizabeth Street . As a consequence , Unwin and Elgar were granted land nearer to the city . The original location of the special surveys are shown in maps of Port Phillip District by Russell and Hoddle , drawn in 1841 . The regulation was rescinded in August 1841 . The Unwin 's , Dendy 's and especially Elgar 's Special Surveys have had a lasting effect on the alignment of Melbourne subdivisions and roads as some boundaries did not conform to the one mile ( 1.6 km ) interval survey Section lines running north-south and east-west referenced from the survey datum at Batman 's Hill .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "ee1147a5f73e9c8d8c4722d6a5b1259e", "text": "Journals of the First Fleet EngvarB | date = January 2014 ) There are 20 known contemporary accounts of the First Fleet made by people sailing in the Fleet , including journals ( both manuscript and published ) and letters . The eleven ships of the Fleet , carrying over 1,000 convicts , soldiers and seamen , left England on 13 May 1787 and arrived in Botany Bay between 18 and 20 January 1788 before relocating to Port Jackson to establish the first European settlement in Australia , a penal colony which became Sydney . At least 12 people on the Fleet kept a journal of their experiences , some of which were later published , while others wrote letters home during the voyage or soon after their arrival in Australia . These personal accounts of the voyage were made by people including surgeons , officers , soldiers , ordinary seamen , and Captain Arthur Phillip , who commanded the expedition . Only one known account , that of James Martin , was by a transported convict . Their journals document the day to day experiences of those in the Fleet , and record significant events including the first contact between the European settlers and the Aboriginal people of the area . In 2009 , the manuscript journals were included in The Australian Memory of the World Register , a regional register associated with the UNESCO international Memory of the World programme .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "f28098c102d6859aa5305afd21414b4c", "text": "Hope Islands National Park Hope Islands National Park is a national park in Queensland ( Australia ) 1,521 km north-west of Brisbane . The park consists of four islands : East Hope and West Hope , Snapper Island and Struck Island . The Hope islands are situated approximately 37 km south-east of Cooktown and about 8 km offshore Struck Island is a rocky outcrop just off Thornton Beach and south of Cape Tribulation Snapper island is about two km long and is at the mouth of the Daintree River . It is about 20 km north of Port Douglas Access is via private vessel or by permitted commercial operators . The Hope islands were named by Lt James Cook in June 1770 , as his ship HMS Endeavour edged its way northward along the eastern Australian coastline during his first voyage in the Pacific . Cook had hoped to put ashore on the islands when they were first sighted 10 June 1770 , but found the surrounding water too shallow to bring Endeavour close . Later that night Endeavour struck a reef and narrowly avoided sinking ; Cook then stood her offshore while he searched for a point on the mainland upon which to beach her for repairs . Cook named them on 12 June as Endeavour headed further north , because `` we were always in hopes of being able to reach these Islands . ''", "title": "" }, { "docid": "e907392a67c5c3467c07050fa2945c07", "text": "Colony of New South Wales The colony of New South Wales was a colony of the British Empire from 1788 to 1901 , when it became a State in the federal Commonwealth of Australia on 1 January 1901 . At its greatest extent , the colony of New South Wales included the present-day Australian states of New South Wales , Queensland , Victoria , Tasmania , and South Australia , as well as New Zealand . The first `` responsible '' self-government of New South Wales was formed on 6 June 1856 with Sir Stuart Alexander Donaldson appointed by Governor Sir William Denison as its first Colonial Secretary which in those days accounted also as the Premier .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "aa3df386e038ee76ba9ec1639e4cb8c2", "text": "Pilbara The Pilbara ( -LSB- ˈpɪlbərʌ -RSB- or -LSB- ˈpɪlbrʌ -RSB- ) is a large , dry , thinly populated region in the north of Western Australia . It is known for its Aboriginal peoples ; its ancient landscapes ; the red earth ; its vast mineral deposits , in particular iron ore ; and as a global biodiversity hotspot for subterranean fauna . It is one of nine regions of the Regional Development Commissions Act 1993 , and is also a bioregion under the Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia ( IBRA ) . The region has an estimated population of 48,610 . The Pilbara covers an area of 502,000 km2 , which includes some of Earth 's oldest rock formations . It includes landscapes of coastal plains and mountain ranges with cliffs and gorges . The major settlements of the region are Port Hedland , Karratha and Newman . The three main ports in this region are Port Hedland , Dampier and Port Walcott . The area is known for its petroleum , natural gas and iron ore deposits , which contribute significantly to Australia 's economy . Other than mining , pastoral activities as well as fishing and tourism are the main industries .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "6b6df5f6496cab8bfbd1e1e1c05efcc9", "text": "British Overseas Territories The 14 British Overseas Territories ( BOT ) are territories under the jurisdiction and sovereignty of the United Kingdom . They are the parts of the British Empire that have not been granted independence or have voted to remain British territories . These territories do not form part of the United Kingdom and , with the exception of Gibraltar , are not part of the European Union . Most of the inhabited territories are internally self-governing , with the UK retaining responsibility for defence and foreign relations . The rest are either uninhabited or have a transitory population of military or scientific personnel . They share the British monarch ( Elizabeth II ) as head of state . The term `` British Overseas Territory '' was introduced by the British Overseas Territories Act 2002 , replacing the term British Dependent Territory , introduced by the British Nationality Act 1981 . Prior to 1 January 1983 , the territories were officially referred to as British Crown Colonies . With the exceptions of the British Antarctic Territory and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands ( which host only officials and research station staff ) and the British Indian Ocean Territory ( used as a military base ) , the Territories retain permanent civilian populations . Permanent residency for the 7,000 or so civilians living in the Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia is limited to citizens of the Republic of Cyprus . Collectively , the Territories encompass a population of about 250,000 people and a land area of about 667018 sqmi . The vast majority of this land area , 660000 sqmi , constitutes the almost uninhabited British Antarctic Territory , while the largest territory by population , Bermuda , accounts for almost a quarter of the total BOT population . At the other end of the scale , three territories have no civilian population ; the Antarctic territory , the British Indian Ocean Territory ( from which the Chagos Islanders were controversially removed ) and South Georgia . Pitcairn Islands , settled by the survivors of the Mutiny on the Bounty , is the smallest settled territory with 49 inhabitants , while the smallest by land area is Gibraltar on the southern tip of the Iberian peninsula . The United Kingdom participates in the Antarctic Treaty System and , as part of a mutual agreement , the British Antarctic Territory is recognised by four of the other sovereign nations making claims to Antarctic territory . Although the Crown dependencies of Jersey , Guernsey and the Isle of Man are also under the sovereignty of the British monarch , they are in a different constitutional relationship with the United Kingdom . The British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies are themselves distinct from the Commonwealth realms , a group of 15 independent countries ( and the United Kingdom ) which each also have Elizabeth II as their reigning monarch , and from the Commonwealth of Nations , a voluntary association of 52 countries mostly with historic links to the British Empire ( which also includes all Commonwealth realms ) . the Minister responsible for the Territories excluding the Falkland Islands , Gibraltar and the Sovereign Base Areas is Baroness Anelay , Minister of State for the Commonwealth and the UN . The other three territories are the responsibility of Sir Alan Duncan MP , Minister of State for Europe and the Americas .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "8c836114e5d1b60cee67ada046bb807d", "text": "Australian Capital Territory The Australian Capital Territory ( ACT ; formerly , `` The Territory for the Seat of Government '' and , later , the `` Federal Capital Territory '' ) is the federal district in the south east of Australia , enclaved within New South Wales . Its only city is Canberra , the capital city of Australia . Geographically , the territory is bounded by the Goulburn-Cooma railway line in the east , the watershed of Naas Creek in the south , the watershed of the Cotter River in the west , and the watershed of the Molonglo River in the north-east . The ACT also has a small strip of territory around the southern end of the Beecroft Peninsula , which is the northern headland of Jervis Bay . The need for a national territory was flagged by colonial delegates during the Federation conventions of the late 19th century . Section 125 of the Australian Constitution provided that , following Federation in 1901 , land would be ceded freely to the new Federal Government . The territory was transferred to the Commonwealth by the state of New South Wales in 1911 , two years prior to the naming of Canberra as the national capital in 1913 . The floral emblem of the ACT is the royal bluebell and the bird emblem is the gang-gang cockatoo . The economic activity of the Australian Capital Territory is heavily concentrated around Canberra . A stable housing market , steady employment and rapid population growth in the 21st century have led to economic prosperity and in 2011 CommSec ranked the ACT as the second best performing economic region in the country . This trend continued into 2016 , when the territory was ranked the third best performing out of all of Australia 's states and territories . There is a higher proportion of young adults in the region compared with other Australian states or territories . Approximately one-fifth of ACT residents were born outside of Australia , mainly in the United Kingdom . Almost one-fifth speak a language other than English at home , the most common being Chinese .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "c0428ce039db859733a2121c0cc7bad1", "text": "Pax Britannica Pax Britannica ( Latin for `` British Peace '' , modelled after Pax Romana ) was the period of relative peace in Europe ( 1815 -- 1914 ) during which the British Empire became the global hegemonic power and adopted the role of a global police force . Between 1815 and 1914 , a period referred to as Britain 's `` imperial century , '' around 10,000,000 sqmi of territory and roughly 400 million people were added to the British Empire . Victory over Napoleonic France left the British without any serious international rival , other than perhaps Russia in central Asia . When Russia tried expanding its influence in the Balkans , the British and French defeated it in the Crimean War ( 1854 -- 56 ) , thereby protecting the by-then feeble Ottoman Empire . Britain 's Royal Navy controlled most of the key maritime trade routes and enjoyed unchallenged sea power . Alongside the formal control it exerted over its own colonies , Britain 's dominant position in world trade meant that it effectively controlled access to many regions , such as Asia and Latin America . British merchants , shippers and bankers had such an overwhelming advantage over everyone else that in addition to its colonies it had an `` informal empire '' .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "31b72b3af940f8ac7f004945fe321e48", "text": "Racism in Australia Racism in Australia traces both historical and contemporary racist community attitudes , as well as political non-compliance and governmental negligence on United Nations human rights standard and incidents in Australia . Contemporary Australia is the product of multiple waves of immigration , predominantly from Great Britain and Ireland . Laws forbid racial and other forms of discrimination and protect freedom of religion . Demographic analysis indicates a high level of inter-ethnic marriage : according to the Australian Census , a majority of Indigenous Australians partnered with non-indigenous Australians , and a majority of third-generation Australians of non-English-speaking background had partnered with persons of different ethnic origin ( the majority partnered with persons of Australian or Anglo-Celtic background , which constitutes the majority ethnic grouping in Australia ) . In 2009 , about 25.6 per cent of the estimated resident population of Australia comprised those born overseas . Indigenous peoples of Australia , who had lived in Australia for at least 40,000 years before the arrival of British settlers in 1788 , were dispossessed from their land in 1788 by Britain , which claimed Eastern Australia as its own on the basis of the now discredited doctrine of terra nullius . Initially , indigenous Australians were in most states deprived of the rights of full citizenship of the new nation on grounds of their race and restrictive immigration laws were introduced to preference white European immigrants to Australia . Discriminatory laws against indigenous people and multiethnic immigration were dismantled in the early decades of the Post War period . A 1967 Referendum regarding Aboriginal rights was carried with over 90 % approval by the electorate . Legal reforms have re-established Aboriginal Land Rights under Australian law and in the early 21st century , indigenous Australians account for around 2.5 % of the population , owning outright around 20 % of all land . Intense focus on the impact of historical policies like the removal of mixed ethnicity Aboriginal children from their Aboriginal parent resulted in a bipartisan Parliamentary apology to Aborigines carried in 2008 . Aboriginal health indicators remain lower than other ethnic groups within Australia and again are the subject of political debate . Policies of multiculturalism were pursued in the post-war period and first Eastern and Southern European , then Asian and African immigration increased significantly . Legislation including the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 , the Commonwealth Racial Hatred Act ( 1995 ) and the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Act ( 1986 ) outlaw racial discrimination in the public sphere in Australia . In recent decades , anti-immigration political parties like the One Nation Party have received extensive media coverage , but only marginal electoral support and successive governments have maintained large , multiethnic programs of immigration . As in other Western nations , tensions in the aftermath of events like the September 11 attacks and Bali Bombing by radical Islamists contributed to strained ethnic relations in some Australian communities .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "cce97eb1ac8134f2087bee14be8901b6", "text": "South Australia–Victoria border dispute The border between the Australian state of South Australia and what is today the State of Victoria was established in 1836 by imperial letters patent `` as the 141st degree meridian of longitude east of Greenwich '' . In 1836 the land we now call Victoria was part of the colony of New South Wales , so the original Victorian border was actually drawn between the colonies of South Australia and New South Wales . Due to human error by numerous explorers and surveyors , it took more than 75 years and a protracted legal dispute before the precise placement of the border was settled , resulting in the forfeiture of more than 500 sqmi of territory from South Australia to Victoria .", "title": "" } ]

[ { "docid": "5ea9f5f8c264dae283d0a918e52c6dd5", "text": "Mission: Impossible Mission : Impossible is an American television series that was created and initially produced by Bruce Geller . It chronicles the missions of a team of secret government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force ( IMF ) . In the first season , the team is led by Dan Briggs , played by Steven Hill ; Jim Phelps , played by Peter Graves , takes charge for the remaining seasons . A hallmark of the series shows Briggs or Phelps receiving his instructions on a recording that then self-destructs , followed by the theme music composed by Lalo Schifrin . The series was filmed and financed by Desilu Productions , and aired on the CBS network from September 1966 to March 1973 . The series was revived in 1988 for two seasons on ABC , retaining only Graves in the cast . It also inspired a series of theatrical motion pictures starring Tom Cruise , beginning in 1996 .", "title": "" } ]

[ { "docid": "e78754c34aae65bd6ebbc9e2f6804fc2", "text": "The Atomic Job `` The Atomic Job '' is the fifth episode of the second season of the American television series Agent Carter , inspired by the films Captain America : The First Avenger and Captain America : The Winter Soldier , and the Marvel One-Shot short film also titled Agent Carter . It features the Marvel Comics character Peggy Carter as she tries to steal an atomic bomb , and is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe ( MCU ) , sharing continuity with the films of the franchise . The episode was written by Lindsey Allen and directed by Craig Zisk . Hayley Atwell reprises her role as Carter from the film series , and is joined by regular cast members James D'Arcy , Chad Michael Murray , and Enver Gjokaj . `` The Atomic Job '' originally aired on ABC on February 9 , 2016 , and according to Nielsen Media Research , was watched by 2.66 million viewers .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "d763240410adc4b7e91b929035503a48", "text": "Mind Games (TV series) Mind Games is an American drama television series created by Kyle Killen that aired on ABC . The show is about two brothers who run a problem solving firm called Edwards And Associates that employs solutions based on psychological manipulation . It premiered on February 25 , 2014 , and was canceled on March 27 , 2014 .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "72dd7e6210e8514eb2e1f0b0b100f738", "text": "List of former DuMont Television Network affiliates This is a partial list of affiliate stations of the DuMont Television Network , which operated in the United States from 1946 to 1956 . At its peak in 1954 , DuMont was affiliated with around 200 TV stations . In its later years , DuMont was carried mostly on poorly watched UHF channels or had only secondary affiliations on VHF stations . The DuMont affiliation ending dates listed here are somewhat tentative in several cases ; DuMont ended most operations on April 1 , 1955 , and honored network commitments until August 1956 . Many stations in the early years of television affiliated with more than one network . There were not enough local stations in most cities for each of the four major networks to have an affiliate , leading to the four networks ( as well as a number of smaller networks ) to fight for air time . Local TV stations were free to `` cherry-pick '' which programs they would broadcast . Many of DuMont 's `` affiliates '' carried very little DuMont programming , choosing to air one or two more popular programs ( such as Life Is Worth Living , which was aired by 169 stations during the 1953 -- 1954 season ) and/or sports programming on the weekends . Few stations carried the full DuMont program line-up . DuMont 's advertising revenues depended on being able to be viewed nationwide . As a result , the company made affiliation agreements which have been described as `` a crazy patchwork of deals '' . In many cities , DuMont was affiliated with more than one TV station in order to get more of its programming cleared for broadcast . No definitive list of affiliated stations from 1946 to 1956 exists , and many sources contradict one another . DuMont 's owned-and-operated stations are highlighted in yellow . The Paramount owned-and-operated stations , which did n't carry DuMont programs but were ruled DuMont O&O s by the FCC , are shown in pink .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "8fc6d7e860884b82da868b3ba07f211d", "text": "America's Most Wanted America 's Most Wanted is an American television program that was produced by 20th Television . At the time of its cancellation by the Fox television network , it was the longest-running program in the network 's history ( 24 years ) , a mark since surpassed by the long-running animated sitcom , The Simpsons . The show started off as a half-hour program on February 7 , 1988 . In 1990 , the show 's format was changed from 30 minutes to 60 minutes . The show 's format was reverted back to 30 minutes in 1995 , and then , to 60 minutes in 1996 . The following September , the show 's host , John Walsh , announced that it would resume later that year on the cable network Lifetime . After a brief run on Lifetime , however , on March 28 , 2013 the show was canceled again . This was reportedly due to low ratings and the level of royalty payments to Fox which holds the trademark and copyright . It was succeeded by John Walsh Investigates , a one-off special on Lifetime . The show featured actors portraying the crimes of dangerous fugitives , interspersed with on-camera interviews , and was narrated by Walsh himself . There was a toll-free hotline number where viewers could give information at 1-800-CRIME-TV . On May 2 , 2008 , the program 's website announced its 1,000 th capture ; as of March 30 , 2013 , 1,202 people have been captured because of AMW . Many of the series ' cases have some connection outside the United States or have not taken place in the United States at all . The series ' first international capture was in Nova Scotia in 1989 . With Walsh at the helm , America 's Most Wanted began to broaden its scope . In addition to the regular segments narrated by Walsh , the show began to make room for more segments and correspondents . The first two-hour quarterly special aired on Saturday , October 29 , 2011 on FOX . The second two-hour special aired on Saturday , December 17 , 2011 , the third two-hour special aired on Saturday , February 11 , 2012 , and the fourth and final two-hour special aired on Saturday , April 21 , 2012 . On July 13 , 2014 , a successor premiered on CNN called The Hunt with John Walsh , which adds more international stories to its predecessor .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "ac21342197e686cc8393b9501873db47", "text": "The Baseball Network The Baseball Network was a short-lived television broadcasting joint venture between ABC , NBC and Major League Baseball . Under the arrangement , beginning in the 1994 season , the league produced its own in-house telecasts of games , which were then brokered to air on ABC and NBC . This was perhaps most evident by the copyright beds shown at the end of the telecasts , which stated `` The proceeding program has been paid for by the office of The Commissioner of Baseball '' . The Baseball Network was the first television network in the United States to be owned by a professional sports league . The package included coverage of games in primetime on selected nights throughout the regular season ( under the branding Baseball Night in America ) , along with coverage of the postseason and the World Series . Unlike previous broadcasting arrangements with the league , there was no national `` game of the week '' during the regular season ; these would be replaced by multiple weekly regional telecasts on certain nights of the week . Additionally , The Baseball Network had exclusive coverage windows ; no other broadcaster could televise MLB games during the same night that The Baseball Network was televising games . The arrangement did not last long ; due to the effects of a players ' strike on the remainder of the 1994 season , and poor reception from fans and critics over how the coverage was implemented , The Baseball Network would be disbanded after the 1995 season . While NBC would maintain rights to certain games , the growing Fox network became the league 's new national broadcast partner beginning in 1996 , with its then-parent company News Corporation eventually purchasing the Los Angeles Dodgers .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "bd8c373c348b60904e86665cd42de481", "text": "Internet television in Australia Internet television in Australia is the digital distribution of movies and television content via the Internet . In Australia , Internet television is provided by five major pay-per-view providers , in addition to several niche television streaming services . Australia 's five major free-to-air television networks all offer catch up TV of previously broadcast content to watch via the Internet or via podcasts - drawing on both domestic and foreign content . A feature of Internet television is that a user can view TV or video on demand . Some distributors provide content as downloads , whiles other streaming media ; the main difference being that with downloads the end-user must have storage capacity for the content on their device and must wait for the download to be completed before the content can be viewed , while streamed content can be viewed almost immediately , but is not stored for a later second viewing . Whether downloaded or streamed , video files over the Internet are usually metered in Australia , with most ISPs setting download quotas which can limit the downloads that a subscriber can make without incurring additional costs . ISPs also provide plans with unlimited downloads . Some ISPs offer downloads on a quota-free basis for partnered television services , which is also known as `` unmetered '' content .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "099ee3a77bbfd07b11206802b6634ecd", "text": "Desperate Housewives Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama and mystery series created by Marc Cherry , and produced by ABC Studios and Cherry Productions . It originally aired for eight seasons on ABC , from October 3 , 2004 to May 13 , 2012 . Executive producer Cherry served as showrunner . Other executive producers since the fourth season included Bob Daily , George W. Perkins , John Pardee , Joey Murphy , David Grossman , and Larry Shaw . Set on Wisteria Lane , a street in the fictional town of Fairview in the fictional Eagle State , Desperate Housewives follows the lives of a group of women as seen through the eyes of their late friend and neighbor who committed suicide in the pilot episode . The storyline covers 13 years of the women 's lives over eight seasons , set between the years 2004 -- 2008 , and later 2013 -- 2017 ( the story arc includes a five-year passage of time , as well as flashbacks ranging from the 1980s to the 2020s ) . They work through domestic struggles and family life , while facing the secrets , crimes and mysteries hidden behind the doors of their -- on the surface -- beautiful and seemingly perfect suburban neighborhood . The series features an ensemble cast , headed by Teri Hatcher as Susan Mayer , Felicity Huffman as Lynette Scavo , Marcia Cross as Bree Van de Kamp , and Eva Longoria as Gabrielle Solis . Brenda Strong narrates the series as the late Mary Alice Young , appearing sporadically in flashbacks or dream sequences . Desperate Housewives was well received by viewers and critics alike . It won multiple Primetime Emmy , Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards . From the 2004 -- 05 through the 2008 -- 09 television seasons , its first five seasons were rated amongst the top ten most-watched series . In 2007 , it was reported to be the most popular show in its demographic worldwide , with an audience of approximately 120 million and was also reported as the third most watched television series in a study of ratings in twenty countries . In 2012 , it remained the most-watched comedy series internationally based on data from Eurodata TV Worldwide , which measured ratings across five continents ; it has held this position since 2006 . Moreover , it was the third highest revenue earning series for 2010 , with $ 2.74 million per half an hour . The show was ranked at number fifty-six on Entertainment Weekly `` New TV Classics '' list . In 2011 , it was confirmed that Desperate Housewives would conclude after its eighth season ; the series finale aired on May 13 , 2012 . By the end of the series , it had surpassed Charmed as the longest running hour-long television series featuring all female leads by two episodes .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "4a913a508bcb016d99cd6c7e4975a6a1", "text": "Major film studio A major film studio is a production and film distributor that releases a substantial number of films annually and consistently commands a significant share of box office revenue in a given market . In the North American , Western , and global markets , the major film studios , often simply known as the majors , are commonly regarded as the six diversified media conglomerates whose various film production and distribution subsidiaries collectively command approximately 80 to 85 percent of U.S. and Canadian box office revenue . The term may also be applied more specifically to the primary motion picture business subsidiary of each respective conglomerate . The `` Big Six '' majors , whose operations are based in or around the Los Angeles neighborhood of Hollywood , are all centered in film studios active during Hollywood 's Golden Age of the 1930s and 1940s . In three cases -- 20th Century Fox , Warner Bros. , and Paramount -- the studios were one of the `` Big Five '' majors during that era as well . In two cases -- Columbia and Universal -- the studios were also considered majors , but in the next tier down , part of the `` Little Three '' . In the sixth case , Walt Disney Studios was an independent production company during the Golden Age ; it was an important Hollywood entity , but not a major . Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer , United Artists , and RKO were majors . Today , Disney is the only member of the Big Six whose parent entity is still located near Los Angeles ( actually , on Disney 's studio lot and in the same building ) . The five others report to conglomerates headquartered in New York City , Philadelphia , and Tokyo . Of the Big Six , Paramount is the only one still based in Hollywood , and Paramount and Fox are the only ones still located within the Los Angeles city limits , while Disney and Warner Bros. are located in Burbank , Columbia in Culver City , and Universal in the unincorporated area of Universal City . Most of today 's Big Six control subsidiaries with their own distribution networks that concentrate on arthouse pictures ( e.g. Fox Searchlight Pictures ) or genre films ( e.g. Sony 's Screen Gems ) ; several of these specialty units were shut down or sold off between 2008 and 2010 . The six major studios are contrasted with smaller production and/or distribution companies , which are known as independents or `` indies '' . The leading independent producer/distributors -- Lionsgate Films , The Weinstein Company , and former major studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer -- are sometimes referred to as `` mini-majors '' . From 1998 through 2005 , DreamWorks SKG commanded a large enough market share to arguably qualify it as a seventh major , despite its relatively small output . In 2006 , DreamWorks was acquired by Viacom , Paramount 's corporate parent . In late 2008 , DreamWorks once again became an independent production company ; its films were distributed by Disney 's Touchstone Pictures until 2016 , at which point distribution switched to Universal . The Big Six major studios are today primarily backers and distributors of films whose actual production is largely handled by independent companies -- either long-running entities or ones created for and dedicated to the making of a specific film . The specialty divisions often simply acquire distribution rights to pictures in which the studio has had no prior involvement . While the majors still do a modicum of true production , their activities are focused more in the areas of development , financing , marketing , and merchandising . Those business functions are still usually performed in or near Los Angeles , even though the runaway production phenomenon means that most films are now mostly or completely shot on location at places outside Los Angeles . Since the dawn of filmmaking , the U.S. major film studios have dominated both American cinema and the global film industry . U.S. studios have benefited from a strong first-mover advantage in that they were the first to industrialize filmmaking and master the art of mass-producing and distributing high-quality films with broad cross-cultural appeal . Today , the Big Six majors routinely distribute hundreds of films every year into all significant international markets ( that is , where discretionary income is high enough for consumers to afford to watch films ) . It is very rare , if not impossible , for a film to reach a broad international audience on multiple continents and in multiple languages without first being picked up by one of the majors for distribution .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "4a8af8e45b68f7334d67b264f03fdb2c", "text": "List of The Middle episodes The Middle is a primetime American comedy series created by DeAnn Heline and Eileen Heisler for the ABC network . The Middle stars Patricia Heaton and Neil Flynn as Frankie and Mike Heck , a used-car saleswoman and the manager of a small mining firm respectively , who struggle to raise their children in the fictional middle-class town of Orson , Indiana . Their three children include the athletic but underachieving , slow-witted Axl ( Charlie McDermott ) , cluelessly unpopular daughter Sue ( Eden Sher ) , and frustrated , odd child-genius Brick ( Atticus Shaffer ) . The Hecks find themselves embroiled in somewhat unusual events as they attempt to navigate their day-to-day lives . The series was met with a positive reception from television critics when it premiered on September 30 , 2009 , with a score of 70 on the aggregated reviews website Metacritic . On March 3 , 2016 , ABC renewed the series for an eighth season . On January 25 , 2017 , ABC renewed the series for a ninth season .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "a7bfc8c83bab3446c5682373fb9cee09", "text": "1977–78 United States network television schedule This was the television schedule on all three United States television networks for the fall season beginning in September 1977 . All times are Eastern and Pacific . New fall series are highlighted in bold . Series ending their original runs are in italics . Each of the 30 highest-rated shows is listed with its rank and rating as determined by Nielsen Media Research . Yellow indicates the programs in the top 10 for the season . Cyan indicates the programs in the top 20 for the season . Magenta indicates the programs in the top 30 for the season . PBS , the Public Broadcasting Service , was in operation , but the schedule was set by each local station . On ABC , debuting news brief , airs all seven nights at 9:58 , pm .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "b9c8fcb24f1f2746d86b6294761bf670", "text": "A&E Networks A&E Networks ( branded as A+E Networks ) is an American media company that owns a group of television channels available via cable & satellite in the U.S. and abroad . A&E stands for Arts & Entertainment . The company is a joint venture with Hearst and Disney-ABC Television Group , a unit of the Disney Media Networks subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "b21ddaa1f05644beb97e1cf849bc8afb", "text": "The Army Hour The Army Hour was a radio news program in the United States , broadcast on NBC April 5 , 1942-Nov . 11 , 1945 . Planning for The Army Hour , with Col. Edward M. Kirby in charge , began soon after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor . Sponsored by the War Department and the U.S. Army , the program brought `` on-the-spot stories and demonstrations from Army bases and fields of battle '' to listeners back home in America . The program was `` an attempt to bring the reality of the war home to the American people through the power and immediacy of radio . '' One reviewer wrote in a newspaper that the secretary of war had compared The Army Hour broadcasts to `` full-scale military operations ... as far as communications are concerned , '' and the writer agreed . NBC 's investment was significant , also . In 1957 , CBS executive Lou Cowan ( who helped to develop The Army Hour while working with the Office of War Information ) said that the program was `` presented at an annual cost of a half-million dollars to the network -LSB- NBC -RSB- with no financial return . '' Radio historian John Dunning wrote that the program `` gave Americans their first in-depth look at the war and how it was being fought , '' and a 1942 article in the trade publication Billboard described it as `` a weekly official message and a source of authoritative information from the Army to the civilian population of the country ... '' In 1943 , another article in Billboard commented about Army Hour : `` excellent substitute for first-hand knowledge of war ; genuine picture of what loved ones are living thru ; calm and objective presentation of facts of war . ''", "title": "" }, { "docid": "0e3639c3e42780be8086e7be1445c26f", "text": "ABC Board The ABC Board is the body responsible for the operations of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation . It is made up of five to seven directors chosen by the Australian government and a Managing Director who is appointed by the Board itself . At various times , ABC staff have been granted rights to elect a nominee for appointment to the Board ; and as of April 2013 staff elected a nominee-director .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "f1ca55d84b3eaddc70b3ff92ad05eb01", "text": "WFAA WFAA , virtual channel and VHF digital channel 8 , is an ABC-affiliated television station serving the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex that is licensed to Dallas , Texas , United States . The station is owned by the Tegna Media subsidiary of Tegna , Inc. and maintains offices and secondary studio facilities located at the WFAA Communications Center Studios on 606 Young Street in downtown Dallas ( next to the offices of its former sister newspaper under the ownership of former parent company Belo , The Dallas Morning News ) , and operates a primary studio facility , which is used for the production of WFAA 's newscasts and also houses certain other business operations handled by the station , located in the Victory Park neighborhood , near Olive and Houston Streets ( next to the American Airlines Center ) in central Dallas ) ; the station maintains transmitter facilities located south of Belt Line Road in Cedar Hill . WFAA is the largest ABC-affiliated station by market size that is not owned and operated by the network through its ABC Owned Television Stations subsidiary , and the largest affiliate of any of the `` Big Four '' television networks ( ABC , NBC , CBS and Fox ) that is not owned by that respective network . It is also one of only two television stations in the Dallas-Fort Worth market ( along with CW affiliate KDAF ( channel 33 ) , which is owned by Tribune Broadcasting ) that is not owned by the corporate parent of its affiliated network .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "a0a08e3fdc857ffe657147d2ec19b4ba", "text": "ABC Rocks ABC Rocks is an American music video show broadcast on ABC from June 22 , 1984 to August 2 , 1985 . The thirty-minute show aired on Friday nights at midnight and featured popular rock videos by artists such as Prince , Billy Idol and David Bowie . It is notable as ABC 's attempt to produce a show comparable to cable 's MTV and NBC 's Friday Night Videos .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "6a8ef4fcb18457ddad5c358e41b9eb8b", "text": "ABC-TV ABC-TV may refer to : American Broadcasting Company , a radio and television network in the United States Australian Broadcasting Corporation 's ABC Television network ABC ( TV station ) , the ABC television station in Canberra Associated British Corporation , a defunct ITV company in the United Kingdom Asahi Broadcasting Corporation , a radio and television broadcaster in Osaka , Japan Associated Broadcasting Company , a radio and television network in the Philippines ABC ( Australian TV channel ) , the Australian television channel , formerly known as ABC1 ABC2 , the Australian digital television channel ABC Television , a television channel in Nepal", "title": "" }, { "docid": "82bec92ef171a33eb45f217c81fd573f", "text": "ABC News ABC News is the news division of the American Broadcasting Company ( ABC ) , owned by the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company . Its flagship program is the daily evening newscast ABC World News Tonight ; other programs include morning news-talk show Good Morning America , newsmagazine series Nightline , Primetime and 20/20 , and Sunday morning political affairs program This Week with George Stephanopolous .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "b63ac3f20e4c917d6e3379f129d43c59", "text": "Mission: Impossible 2 Mission : Impossible 2 ( stylized as M : I-2 ) is a 2000 American action spy film directed by John Woo and starring Tom Cruise , who also served as the film 's producer . It is the second installment in the Mission : Impossible film series . In the film , Ethan Hunt is recruited by the Impossible Missions Force ( IMF ) to find and destroy a dangerous biological weapon called `` Chimera '' from a rogue IMF agent named Sean Ambrose with the help of his new girlfriend , Nyah Nordoff-Hall . . Mission : Impossible 2 was released in theaters worldwide on May 24 , 2000 . It grossed more than $ 546.4 million worldwide , becoming the highest grossing film of 2000 . But the critical response was mixed ; praise was directed at Tom Cruise 's performance and the action sequences , but the plot and dialogue were criticized .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "18d223f3bc4831a2b83c5a5c76fa9c9d", "text": "Amerika (miniseries) Amerika is an American television miniseries that was broadcast in 1987 on ABC . The miniseries inspired a novelization entitled Amerika : The Triumph of the American Spirit . Amerika starred Kris Kristofferson , Mariel Hemingway , Sam Neill , Robert Urich , and a 17-year-old Lara Flynn Boyle in her first major role . Amerika was about life in the United States after a bloodless takeover engineered by the Soviet Union . Not wanting to depict the actual takeover , ABC Entertainment president Brandon Stoddard set the miniseries ten years after the event , focusing on the demoralized U.S. people a decade after the Soviet conquest . The intent , he later explained , was to explore the U.S. spirit under such conditions , not to portray the conflict of the Soviet coup . Described in promotional materials as `` the most ambitious American miniseries ever created , '' Amerika aired for 14 1/2 hours ( including commercials ) over seven nights ( beginning February 15 , 1987 ) , and reportedly cost US$ 40 million to produce . The miniseries was filmed in the Golden Horseshoe and southwestern Ontario Canadian cities of Toronto , London , and Hamilton , as well as various locations in the U.S. state of Nebraska -- most notably the small town of Tecumseh , which served as `` Milford , '' the fictional setting for most of the series . Donald Wrye was the executive producer , director , and writer of Amerika , while composer Basil Poledouris scored the miniseries , ultimately recording ( with the Hollywood Symphony Orchestra ) eight hours of music -- the equivalent of four feature films .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "0cf29467bcd01ee9665d63bb9954ebe9", "text": "Big Three television networks The Big Three television networks are the three major traditional commercial broadcast television networks in the United States : the American Broadcasting Company ( ABC ) , CBS ( formerly known as the Columbia Broadcasting System ) and the National Broadcasting Company ( NBC ) . Beginning in 1948 until the late 1980 's , the Big Three networks dominated U.S. television .", "title": "" } ]

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[ { "docid": "ae39c926f086b147efe25dc5157f4d91", "text": "Laguna Beach (season 3) The third season of Laguna Beach : The Real Orange County , an American reality television series , consists of 16 episodes and was broadcast on MTV . It aired from August 16 , 2006 , until November 15 , 2006 . The season was filmed primarily in Laguna Beach , California , with additional footage in Los Angeles . The executive producer was Tony DiSanto . Laguna Beach focuses on the lives of rich teenagers from Laguna Beach , California . During the season , Tessa Keller struggles to balance her school social life along with her best friend Raquel `` Rocky '' Donatelli . The pair attend Laguna Beach High School and Rocky tries to mend her friendship with fellow cast member Breanna Conrad which causes conflict between Tessa and Rocky . The girls often find themselves the target of the mean girls and popular clique leaders , Kyndra and Cami .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "e7ba7937e840868de3d240023a85b15a", "text": "Mário Franco Mário Franco ( born 20 October 1965 in Lisbon , Portugal ) is a dancer , doublebass player and a composer .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "8086f4d3e3ead73b56bbe161648d8d3d", "text": "Saturday Night (2010 film) Saturday Night is a 2010 documentary directed by James Franco . The film examines the production process of the NBC late-night live television sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live . Shot over a period of six days from December 1 -- 6 , 2008 , the film was originally a school assignment for Franco at New York University . The film premiered at the 2010 South by Southwest Film Festival on March 14 , 2010 , but was shelved for several years due to legal matters regarding its distributor and NBC . It was released on September 26 , 2014 on Hulu .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "f3280edcbf83c538b6f928301abe6b0a", "text": "Sister Mary McArthur Sister Mary McArthur is a fictional nun from the fictional convent Saint Peters Of The Sisters Of The Third Removed in Soho . She was created as a cabaret act by the actor , director and radio presenter Tim McArthur .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "63c8a8b80f3b9bed8a19fff73e63a0d0", "text": "Brett Tomko Brett Daniel Tomko ( born April 7 , 1973 ) is an American former professional baseball pitcher . He played in Major League Baseball ( MLB ) for the Cincinnati Reds , San Diego Padres , Seattle Mariners , St. Louis Cardinals , San Francisco Giants , Los Angeles Dodgers , New York Yankees , Oakland Athletics , Texas Rangers , and Kansas City Royals .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "a53ea96666f4be99d37a6df439028371", "text": "Franco Migliacci Francesco `` Franco '' Migliacci ( born in Mantua , 1 May 1930 ) is a lyricist , producer , and actor .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "c516f9770129d947b51c6c696596c6f8", "text": "Winter Sisters The three Winter Sisters from Hollis , New York were an acrobatic and tumbling act performing in vaudeville shows in the 1930s and 1940s . They performed with Jimmy Durante , the Ink Spots , Edith Piaf at her premiere US appearance at the Rialto Theatre in New York City , and other theatrical acts . The sisters were Effie , Mae , and Dorothy . Their father , Everett H. Winter , a physician , originally from Maine , died of cancer when the girls were very young and they went into performing to earn money . They traveled extensively all over the United States , Europe and South America performing with some of the greatest entertainers of the era . They entertained US armed forces troops while traveling with Bob Hope 's USO tour . They were also trained to be trick pony riders and performed in Billy Rose 's Broadway production of Jumbo . They performed at the Boulevard Room in the Conrad Hilton Hotel in Chicago , Illinois in the late 1940s . They received a note backstage asking them to meet a man after their performance . Mae eventually married him , had three children , and lived in the Chicago suburbs for over 40 years . Effie lived outside of New York City and Dorothy lives in Florida where she taught dance classes for many years . The youngest of the Winter sisters , Dorothy Winter Salazar , died on January 20 , 2014 in Gainesville , FL , according to Jones-Gallagher Funeral Home , Starke , FL . She had been a resident of Starke , FL and Keystone Heights , FL for many years . Category : Acrobats Category : Sibling trios Category : American circus performers", "title": "" }, { "docid": "a9f03a822634b565b3353f03a38faa8f", "text": "Tommy Harper Tommy Harper ( born October 14 , 1940 in Oak Grove , Louisiana ) is an American former Major League Baseball outfielder and third baseman . He played with the Cincinnati Reds ( 1962 -- 67 ) , Cleveland Indians ( 1968 ) , Seattle Pilots ( 1969 ) , Milwaukee Brewers ( 1970 -- 71 ) , Boston Red Sox ( 1972 -- 74 ) , California Angels ( 1975 ) , Oakland Athletics ( 1975 ) , and the Baltimore Orioles ( 1976 ) .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "91ac2973197e30b49048531a77a69eaa", "text": "Tom Gurl Four TG4 ( Tomgirls Forever ) was an American R&B quartet . The group consisted of members Keisha Henry , Davida Williams , Amber ( Ambee ) Streeter aka Sevyn Streeter , and Ashley Gallo .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "101cd78fcd6aeebfd51432e82ab22b84", "text": "Tainá Müller Tainá Müller ( born June 1 , 1982 ) is a Brazilian actress . She is the oldest of three sisters , actress Taiure Müller and MTV VJ Titi Müller .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "f5fb0bb80796ae28e20ded39e61c7906", "text": "Tom Barrett (baseball) Thomas Loren ( Tom ) Barrett ( born April 2 , 1960 in San Fernando , California ) is a former second baseman in Major League Baseball who played for the Philadelphia Phillies ( 1988 -- 1989 ) and Boston Red Sox ( 1992 ) . Barrett was a switch-hitter and threw right-handed . In a three-season career , Barrett posted a .202 batting average with nine runs and four RBI in 54 games played . After his playing career , Barrett managed two seasons in the Red Sox farm system . He managed the Sarasota Red Sox in and the Michigan Battle Cats in . Barrett 's older brother , Marty Barrett , is a former second baseman who played with the Boston Red Sox and San Diego Padres between 1982 and 1991 .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "e51b827d3267f7bca0747d608f5be9d4", "text": "Williams sisters rivalry Venus Williams and Serena Williams ( born June 17 , 1980 , and September 26 , 1981 , respectively ) are professional tennis players and sisters who have faced off 28 times in professional tournaments , most recently in the final of the 2017 Australian Open on 28 January 2017 , where Serena claimed a history-making 23rd grand slam . Serena leads their rivalry 17 -- 11 . Both Williams sisters have been ranked World No. 1 : Venus for a total of 11 weeks , beginning in February 2002 ; Serena for a total of 316 weeks , beginning in July 2002 . The Williams sisters are the only two women during the open era to play each other in four consecutive Grand Slam finals : from the 2002 French Open to the 2003 Australian Open . Serena won all four of these finals . Venus has won 49 singles titles over the course of her career , and Serena has won 72 . Although the rivalry is long established , and is very fierce in competition , the two sisters remain personally very close . They have won 22 titles when playing doubles together , including 14 Grand Slam titles and 3 Olympic gold medals .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "a43348206eed9edc87f371f325ac1e49", "text": "María Rosa Leggol Sister María Rosa Leggol , O.S.F. , is a Honduran Franciscan Religious Sister who has been called the `` Mother Teresa '' of Honduras . In the 1960s , she organized a group of homes to care for the abandoned and deprived children of that nation , which became organized as the Sociedad Amigos de los Niños ( SAN ) . Estimates of the number of the children helped through her labors since then are in the tens of thousands .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "781c6212226b61b21965cda1ee59c537", "text": "Dominican Sisters of Peace The Dominican Sisters of Peace is a congregation of Dominican Sisters of apostolic life , founded on Easter Sunday , April 12 , 2009 , from the union of seven former Dominican foundations . With general offices in Columbus , Ohio , the congregation holds legal incorporation in the state of Kentucky , home of the founding community of earliest historical origin . In 2012 , following a vote by their General Chapter , the Dominican Sisters of Catherine de ' Ricci became the eighth foundation to join the Dominican Sisters of Peace . 1822 : Dominicans of St. Catharine , founded in Washington County , ( later St. Catharine ) , Kentucky 1830 : Dominican Sisters of St. Mary of the Springs , founded in Somerset , Ohio ; moved to Columbus , Ohio 1868 1860 : Congregation of St. Mary , founded in New Orleans , Louisiana 1880 : Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine de ' Ricci , founded in Albany , New York ( later moved to Elkins Park , Pennsylvania ) 1902 : Dominican Sisters of Great Bend , Kansas , founded in Great Bend , Kansas 1927 : Eucharistic Missionaries of St. Dominic , founded in New Orleans , Louisiana , as the Missionary Servants of the Most Holy Eucharist ; incorporated into the Dominican Order in 1956 as the Eucharistic Missionaries of St. Dominic . 1929 : Sisters of St. Dominic of the Immaculate Heart of Mary , founded in Akron , Ohio 1950 : Congregation of St. Rose of Lima , founded in Oxford , Michigan . The process by which the original seven Dominican communities came together to form a new religious institute , a pontifical canonical union with formal recognition by the Vatican , is known as reconfiguration . As demographics changed following the cultural movements of the late 20th century , the seven congregations determined to collaborate in this manner so that their mission could be most effectively realized . All shared the Dominican charism and found support for this new endeavor in Perfectae Caritatis , one of the documents issued by the Second Vatican Council : `` Independent institutes and monasteries should , when opportune and the Holy See permits , form federations if they can be considered as belonging to the same religious family . Others who have practically identical constitutions and rules and a common spirit should unite , particularly when they have too few members . Finally , those who share the same or a very similar active apostolate should become associated , one to the other . '' The deliberations that led to the merger took place over a period of seven years , culminating in the inaugural General Chapter of April 15 -- 21 , 2009 . The first Leadership Team of the new congregation was elected during that General Chapter . At the time of the foundation of the new religious institute , the Dominican Sisters of Peace numbered more than 650 members , with more than 500 associates . As of 2017 , the community has 510 members , and over 600 lay associates .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "60dbd4318b3508891cdfacedf7883fed", "text": "Three Sisters (1970 Olivier film) Three Sisters is a 1970 British drama film starring Alan Bates , Laurence Olivier and Joan Plowright , based on the 1900 play by Anton Chekhov . Olivier also directed , with co-director John Sichel . The film was based on a theatre production that Olivier directed at the Royal National Theatre in 1967 . It had its U.S. release as part of the American Film Theatre series in 1974 . It was the final feature film directed by Olivier .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "21d9d9fd595511b3746ed42529b3e234", "text": "Franco Interlenghi Franco Interlenghi ( 29 October 1931 -- 10 September 2015 ) was an Italian actor . He made his acting debut at 15 in Vittorio De Sica 's 1946 Neorealist film Sciuscià . He has worked with great directors such as Alessandro Blasetti in Fabiola , Roberto Rossellini in Viva l'Italia ! and Il generale della Rovere , Federico Fellini in I vitelloni , Michelangelo Antonioni in I vinti , Mauro Bolognini in La notte brava and Luchino Visconti in his stage adaptation of Death of a Salesman . He also appeared in international films , such as Joseph L. Mankiewicz 's The Barefoot Contessa , Julien Duvivier 's Le petit monde de don Camillo , Charles Vidor 's A Farewell to Arms and the Italian-American co-production Ulysses , directed by Mario Camerini . With his wife , Antonella Lualdi , he had two children , one of whom is actress Antonellina Interlenghi . Franco Interlenghi died on 10 September 2015 , aged 83 .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "37d4ede7e67ddee6d40baa4e18f89fb9", "text": "Summer Phoenix Summer Joy Phoenix ( born Summer Joy Bottom ; December 10 , 1978 ) is an American actress , model and designer . She is the youngest sibling of actors/actresses Rain Phoenix , Joaquin Phoenix , Liberty Phoenix , and River Phoenix .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "ef58f168b56ce579eb5ff54c781a715a", "text": "Diana Franco Diana Franco was born in Cali , Colombia and in 1982 moved to New York City , where she lived and studied . In 1988 , in a nationwide televised competition , Franco was crowned Miss Colombia USA . Franco became a TV commercial and editorial model and in December 1990 appeared on her first cover of Cosmopolitan en Español . In Peru , La Modelo Latina Pageant 1991 awarded her La Silueta Diet-Coke title . In 1992 , Franco was approached to participate in Buscando Estrellas Con Budweiser , the Spanish-version of Star Search , where - once again -- won first place . Later that same year , Cover Girl Make-Up chose her to be one of the faces for their TV campaigns for the Hispanic market alongside of Barbara Palacios ( Miss Universe 1986 ) . After traveling and working around the world , including places such as Taipei , Istanbul and Hong Kong , Franco decided to stay in the U.S. to pursue her acting career in her native language.In 1992 Salvese Quien Pueda ( SQP ) , a weekly comedy show that aired on the Telemundo Network made her part of their regular cast . In SQP she developed and often played Vicky Bikini , a girl who always did her errands wearing only a bikini , high hills and a handbag so she would never have to make a line . Vicky Bikini soon became one of the shows most requested characters . In 1995 , Univision Network hired Franco as the female VJ for Caliente , one of its most widely seen weekend TV shows . Caliente gave Franco the opportunity to interact with her young Latino audience while traveling to exotic beaches around the world . Two years later , Franco was asked to be part of Edición Especial ( Telemundo Network ) , which earned her the anchor star status in the Spanish market . She was also in charged of hosting most of Telemundo 's specials for the network . In 1998 she landed the role of Sylvia La Rosen in Safe Harbor ( Aaron Spelling ) which aired in WB Network . Glamour en Español magazine recognized her with the Most Glamorous Woman Award 1998 and in 1999 People en Español places Franco as one of the `` 25 Most Beautiful People '' along with faces such as Salma Hayek and Ricky Martin . In 2002 , Franco traveled back to her native Colombia to portray Sandra , a cocaine manufacturer in the soap opera El Precio del Silencio ( Telefutura Network ) . In October 2006 , Franco had the opportunity to be part of the very-selected cast of the short film : Marrying God ( AFI ) where she played Maricela , the single mother of Lola played by Ashlyn Sanchez ( Crash ) and Ivy played by Alexa Vega ( Spy Kids ) . Franco has also developed the `` Life Style Specialist '' title , and is often featured in US Spanish TV station across the nation . In Pecados Ajenos , a Telemundo Studios production , Franco played Lola , the cellmate of Natalia - played by Lorena Rojas - and later , Oficial Joyer , in El Rostro de Analía alongside of Elizabeth Gutiérrez . At the end of 2009 , Franco was called to play Berta , a lonely bitter architect designer in the new version of Perro Amor , but due to a skiing accident , where she suffered several fractures , her role was eventually withdrawn . It took her several months to recuperate from her injuries . In 2010 , Franco became part of the selected cast of the new version of the Chilean soap opera , Alguien Te Mira ( 2010 ) , produced this time by Telemundo Television Studios in the USA . Franco portrays Dolores `` Lola '' Morandé , a housewife that has everything under control , except a couple of pounds of over weight , until she meets a very troubled woman that is determined to make her life miserable and hopes one day to take her place as the wife of her perfect husband .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "17208aec6963cc9c050e07194fb7b47a", "text": "Close to the Bone (Tom Tom Club album) Close to the Bone is an album by the Tom Tom Club that was released in 1983 . The Club 's musicians are Wally Badarou ; Tyrone Downie ; Chris Frantz ; Roddy Frantz ; Rupert Hine ; Raymond Jones ; Steve Scales ; Steven Stanley ; Alex Weir ; and sisters Lani , Laura , and Tina Weymouth . The album was released on compact disc for the first time on May 19 , 2009 , as a part of a two-CD deluxe package with the band 's first album , Tom Tom Club , as part of Universal Music 's deluxe editions series .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "b7d110cc31a3d8ba769f4061208d7802", "text": "Tom Hafey (baseball) Thomas Francis Hafey ( July 12 , 1913 -- October 2 , 1996 ) nicknamed `` Heave-O '' , was a Major League Baseball third baseman who played with the New York Giants and the St. Louis Browns in and . His brother Bud Hafey and cousin Chick Hafey also played in the Major Leagues .", "title": "" } ]

[ { "docid": "112db07b814e57b51ce110342e0a882d", "text": "Laadla (1994 film) Laadla ( translation : The Beloved Son ) is a Bollywood film released on 17 April 1994 , starring Sridevi , Anil Kapoor and Raveena Tandon . The film was notable because Divya Bharti was to star as the lead role Sheetal , filming most of the film . However , due to her untimely death in 1993 , Laadla was re-filmed with Sridevi in the lead role . Footage of late Divya Bharti as Sheetal is available on the internet . Laadla is the remake of Rajkumar 's blockbuster Kannada movie called Anuraga Aralithu ( 1986 ) . Laadla was a Box Office Hit dominated by Sridevi 's presence who was quite a big star at that time .", "title": "" } ]

[ { "docid": "8ffe634cb8b96a42c859e56a0f8c878f", "text": "Yaad Rakhegi Duniya Yaad Rakhegi Duniya is a 1992 Bollywood romantic comedy film directed by Deepak Anand on his debut . Starring Aditya Pancholi and Rukhsar , it premiered on 1 March 1992 in Mumbai . It is a remake of Telugu blockbuster Geethanjali directed by Mani Ratnam .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "0b2ec2c2e7ea758344a76d13b02f6421", "text": "Vaddu Bava Thappu Vaddu Bava Thappu ( English : No Brother-in-law it 's Wrong ) is a 1994 Telugu , comedy film produced by P.Purshothama Rao , C.Kalyan on Sri Ammulya Art Productions banner and directed by K.Ajay Kumar . Starring Rajendra Prasad , Ravali , Indraja in the lead roles and music composed by Vidyasagar . The film is the remake of the Marathi film Kiss Bai Kiss ( 1988 ) which was first remade in Hindi as Honeymoon ( 1992 ) . The film recorded as flop at box office .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "fe24d29f9ecd5547054bc088b3b68b53", "text": "Ranadheera Kanteerava Ranadheera Kanteerava is a 1960 Kannada historical drama biographical film directed by the editor-turned-director N. C. Rajan and written by G. V. Iyer . It is one of the most popular films of acclaimed Kannada actor Rajkumar , who plays the role of an emperor Kanthirava Narasaraja I of the Wodeyar dynasty , Mysore who was fondly named as Ranadheera Kanteerava . The film depicts the life of Kanteerava , who is known for his immense physical strength through wrestling . The film also stars Udaykumar , Balakrishna , Leelavathi , Narasimharaju and Sandhya in the prominent roles . The film was released at a time during the severe crisis in the Kannada film industry due to the financial constraints . This film was produced through a co-operative forum called `` Kannada Chalanachitra Kalavidara Sangha '' formed by actors Rajkumar , Balakrishna , Narasimharaju and acclaimed writer G. V. Iyer . Thus this was the first venture where Rajkumar turned producer for the film . The film . post release suffered an initial hitch as no distributor came forward to screen the film . Later it was released in a single `` Bharath '' theater and found huge collections drawing . This film screened at IFFI 1992 .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "ff336a2fa94342868fe216d1ca3c7577", "text": "Blaz4me Blaz4me is the second album by Natas , released on January 8 , 1994 . Allrovi reviewer Jason Birchmeier wrote `` like the Bomb Squad 's collage-like approach on It Takes a Nation to Hold Us Back and Dr. Dre 's neo-P-Funk sound on The Chronic , Esham crafts a particular aesthetic by endlessly raiding his record collection in classic postmodern fashion . Still , even if he unethically creates an innovative-for-its-time sound that merges Funkadelic guitar distortion with hard mid - '80s Def Jam-like beats , the often ridiculous lyrics ruin whatever validity the music may have . ''", "title": "" }, { "docid": "ae8d4ddc79b46ff339a513aed78c0fe0", "text": "Muthu Kaalai Muthu Kaalai is a 1995 Tamil drama film directed by Gokula Krishnan . The film features Karthik and Soundarya in lead roles . The film , produced by Raadhika Reddy , had musical score by Ilaiyaraaja and was released on 24 February 1995 to above average reviews .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "9587fa92bc57da76e35d9223419b3974", "text": "Salim (film) Salim is a 2014 Indian Tamil action thriller film directed by N. V. Nirmal Kumar , who was an associate to Bharathi Raja . It stars Vijay Antony and Aksha Pardasany . Produced by Studio 9 , Sri Green Productions and Vijay Antony Film Corporation , the film is a sequel to Vijay Antony 's debut film Naan ( 2012 ) . The film was released on 29 August 2014 .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "ff4240012ef6a3e42e31e35b58288876", "text": "List of Bangladeshi films of 1994 A list of Bangladeshi films released in 1994 .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "e930962f759a02366c1e505a0186bb0a", "text": "Dhadkan (1946 film) Dhadkan is a Bollywood film . It was released in 1946 .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "ea5df76380aeb06bc1da4975bf11cf6b", "text": "Naaraaz (1994 film) Naaraaz is a 1994 Hindi-language Indian feature film directed by Mahesh Bhatt , starring Mithun Chakraborty , Pooja Bhatt , Atul Agnihotri , Sonali Bendre and Gulshan Grover .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "f8513cb47860d34d0ac4f1de020e108c", "text": "Minnaram Minnaram ( Lighthouse / Beacon ) is a 1994 Indian Malayalam musical romantic drama film written and directed by Priyadarshan from a story by Cheriyan Kalpakavadi . The film stars Mohanlal , Shobana , Thilakan , Sankaradi , K. P. Ummer , Jagathy Sreekumar , Geetha Vijayan , Venu Nagavally , and Lalu Alex. It was produced by R. Mohan for Goodknight Films .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "cd9d68abe63ec97adb70b5fc30ed87cc", "text": "Rang Rang ( English : Colours , Hindi : रंग , Urdu : رنگ , ) is a 1993 Bollywood romance film , produced by Mansoor Ahmed Siddiqui on ANAS Films banner and directed by Talat Jani . Starring Kamal Sadanah and Divya Bharti in the lead roles and Jeetendra , Amrita Singh and Ayesha Jhulka in the supporting roles and music composed by Nadeem-Shravan . Leading actress Divya Bharti died three months before the film was released and it was dedicated to her memory . The film was recorded as hit at the box office . This was also Amrita Singh 's last film before her decade long hiatus from acting .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "278579c998a903369f5a292ddd46a14e", "text": "Vijaypath Vijaypath ( Path of Victory ) is a 1994 Bollywood action drama film starring Ajay Devgan , Tabu and Danny Denzongpa . The film was one of the hits of 1994 in India mainly due to its soundtrack composed by Anu Malik which became an instant superhit . Divya Bharti was originally meant to be the female lead but was replaced by Tabu after her death .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "09761d1d784975c5e9222ad2d8bcc042", "text": "Halunda Tavaru Halunda Tavaru is a 1994 Kannada drama movie starring Vishnuvardhan and Sithara in the lead roles . It was directed by D. Rajendra Babu and produced by Vizag Raju . The music and lyrics were written and composed by Hamsalekha . The film went on to become a musical blockbuster hit .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "072209d574eb24bfd21e8548db7586c1", "text": "Kramgoa låtar 11 Kramgoa låtar 11 is a 1983 Vikingarna studio album . The album was rereleased to CD in 1988 . and 1992 .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "626d62a34005d508498cd9459731c483", "text": "Nazar Ke Samne Nazar Ke Samne is an Indian film directed by Jagdish A. Sharma and released in 1994 . It stars Akshay Kumar , Farheen Mohamnad Rayeesuddin .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "636f57efe1511150cb7483c816c2e1b4", "text": "Gadibidi Aliya Gadibidi Aliya is a 1995 Indian Kannada comedy drama film , directed by Sai Prakash and produced by K. Raghava Rao . This film stars Shivrajkumar in a dual role , Malashri and Mohini in the lead roles whilst Jayamala and Srinath play other pivotal roles . The original score and soundtrack was composed by Koti for the lyrics of R. N. Jayagopal . The film is a remake of Telugu film Allari Alludu ( 1993 ) , starring Akkineni Nagarjuna , Meena and Nagma .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "f504297a7a30511208c7e8f11d0f7af5", "text": "Ailsa (film) Ailsa is a 1994 film directed by Paddy Breathnach . It stars Brendan Coyle and Andrea Irvine . It won an award at the 1994 San Sebastián International Film Festival .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "512e48396500e085146efa4a1b2626c3", "text": "Sing It To You (Lavinia Jones song) `` Sing It To You ( Dee-Doob-Dee-Doo ) '' is a 1994 single by South-African singer Lavinia Jones . This is also her debut-single and was released under Virgin Schallplatten GmbH , after 5 years searching for the right producer to release the track . It peaked on number 7 in Austria , number 45 in UK and on number 52 ( with 19 weeks on the charts ) in Germany .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "2f8e9fc492ed1916a71016f45fd34f03", "text": "Lahari Lahari is a 1982 Indian Malayalam film , directed by TK Ramchand . The film stars Prema , Radhakrishnan , Raghavan and Ramakrishnan in lead roles . The film had musical score by G. Devarajan .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "9035ee2c27304e87595cbfa85514ecf3", "text": "Kramgoa låtar 17 Kramgoa låtar 17 is a 1989 studio album by Vikingarna .", "title": "" } ]

[ { "docid": "b32b95bf5cf758eabea1cc9835f6946c", "text": "Marlon Brando Marlon Brando , Jr. ( April 3 , 1924 -- July 1 , 2004 ) was an American actor , film director and political activist . He is credited with bringing realism to film acting . He helped to popularize the Stanislavski system of acting , studying with Stella Adler in the 1940s . Brando is widely known for his Academy Award-winning performances as Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront ( 1954 ) and Vito Corleone in The Godfather ( 1972 ) , as well as his performances in A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1951 ) , Viva Zapata ! ( 1952 ) , Julius Caesar ( 1953 ) , The Wild One ( 1953 ) , Guys and Dolls ( 1955 ) , Sayonara ( 1957 ) , Reflections in a Golden Eye ( 1967 ) , Last Tango in Paris ( 1972 ) , and Apocalypse Now ( 1979 ) . Brando was also an activist for many causes , notably the Civil Rights Movement and various Native American movements . He initially gained acclaim and an Academy Award nomination for reprising the role of Stanley Kowalski in the 1951 film adaptation of Tennessee Williams ' play A Streetcar Named Desire , a role that he had originated successfully on Broadway . He received further praise for his performance as Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront , and his portrayal of the rebel motorcycle gang leader Johnny Strabler in The Wild One proved to be a lasting image in popular culture . Brando received Academy Award nominations for playing Emiliano Zapata in Viva Zapata ! ; Mark Antony in Joseph L. Mankiewicz 's 1953 film adaptation of Shakespeare 's Julius Caesar ; and Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver in Sayonara ( 1957 ) , an adaption of James Michener 's 1954 novel . Brando was included in a list of Top Ten Money Making Stars three times in the 1950s , coming in at number 10 in 1954 , number 6 in 1955 , and number 4 in 1958 . The 1960s proved to be a fallow decade for Brando . He directed and starred in the cult western film One-Eyed Jacks , a critical and commercial flop , after which he delivered a series of box-office failures , beginning with the 1962 film adaptation of the novel Mutiny on the Bounty . After 10 years , during which he did not appear in a successful film , he won his second Academy Award for playing Vito Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola 's The Godfather , a role critics consider among his greatest . The Godfather was then one of the most commercially successful films of all time . With that and his Oscar-nominated performance in Last Tango in Paris , Brando re-established himself in the ranks of top box-office stars , placing sixth and tenth in the Money Making Stars poll in 1972 and 1973 , respectively . Brando took a four-year hiatus before appearing in The Missouri Breaks ( 1976 ) . After this , he was content with being a highly paid character actor in cameo roles , such as in Superman ( 1978 ) and The Formula ( 1980 ) , before taking a nine-year break from motion pictures . According to the Guinness Book of World Records , Brando was paid a record $ 3.7 million ( $ million in inflation-adjusted dollars ) and 11.75 % of the gross profits for 13 days ' work on Superman . He finished out the 1970s with his controversial performance as Colonel Kurtz in another Coppola film , Apocalypse Now , a box-office hit for which he was highly paid and which helped finance his career layoff during the 1980s . Brando was ranked by the American Film Institute as the fourth-greatest movie star among male movie stars whose screen debuts occurred in or before 1950 . He was one of only three professional actors , along with Charlie Chaplin and Marilyn Monroe , named in 1999 by Time magazine as one of its 100 Most Important People of the Century . He died of respiratory failure on July 1 , 2004 , at age 80 .", "title": "" } ]

[ { "docid": "fde6abfa039cf5513e7c77c286298bd5", "text": "Ralph Cooper Ralph Cooper ( January 16 , 1908 -- August 4 , 1992 ) , was an American actor , screenwriter , dancer and choreographer . Cooper is best known as the original master of ceremonies and founder of amateur night at the Apollo Theater in Harlem , New York City in 1935 . He wrote , produced , directed and acted in ten motion pictures . Titles include , `` Duke Is Tops , '' `` Dark Manhattan , '' `` Gangsters on the Loose '' and `` Gang War . ''", "title": "" }, { "docid": "088cb32deadfe1f8dc6f2a86e30d9a2a", "text": "Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic At his death in 1927 , Payne Whitney bestowed the funds to build and endow the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic ( PWC ) on the Upper East Side of Manhattan . An eight story free-standing hospital , it was immediately affiliated with Cornell University 's medical school ( now Weill Cornell Medical College or Weill Cornell Medicine ) and with the New York Hospital ( now New York -- Presbyterian Hospital ) , both of which are adjacent to PWC . Payne Whitney was a large donor to the Hospital and Medical College , and it has been an issue of long speculation why he chose a psychiatric building to be his primary naming opportunity at New York-Cornell . The poet Robert Lowell wrote of his hospitalization at Payne Whitney , Marilyn Monroe was hospitalized there in early 1961 , and Mary McCarthy based her book , The Group , on her inpatient experience . The poet James Schuyler wrote about his experiences there in the eleven-poem series `` The Payne Whitney Poems '' which appeared in the New York Review of Books , August 17 , 1978 issue . In Woody Allen 's 1979 film , Manhattan , a character named Caroline Payne Whitney Smith is featured in a comedy sketch , where she and her husband are considered `` normal folks , '' except for the fact that she is a catatonic . The Payne Whitney building itself was torn down in the early 1990s to make way for an expansion of the New York-Presbyterian Hospital over the FDR Drive . Since that time , all clinical and research services at the two primary Cornell psychiatric campuses -- in Manhattan and in White Plains , New York -- have been named after Payne Whitney . The clinic also has an outpatient and Continuing Day Treatment Program in an off-campus building at East 61st Street and York Avenue on the Upper East Side of Manhattan . Payne Whitney Clinic and Weill Cornell Medical College have been home to some of the most notable psychiatrists in the country . Currently-affiliated psychiatrists and psychologists include Jack Barchas , Robert Michels , Otto F. Kernberg , James Kocsis , George Makari , Michael Posner , William Breitbart , and Theodore Shapiro . Previously-affiliated psychiatrists include Arnold Cooper , Frederic Flach , Benjamin Spock , Gerald Klerman , Robert Millman , Louis Jolyon West , David Silbersweig , Harry Tiebout , Mary Jane Sherfey , Helen Singer Kaplan , Allen Frances , and Paul McHugh . Payne Whitney has also been the `` voluntary faculty '' home to Roy Schafer , Richard Isay , Gail Saltz , and Daniel Stern , and the recent home of such senior scholars as David A. Hamburg and Beatrix Hamburg .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "f71aceba473923104a57866454b783fa", "text": "Stella Maris College of Quezon City Stella Maris College is a private , Catholic , learning institution run by the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary . It is located in Cubao , Quezon City , Philippines . Established in 1955 , it was once a school for girls but now accepts boys in its grade school and high school department . Founded by American Catholic missionary nuns , Stella Maris College is known for academic excellence . The grade school and high school departments provide training in mathematics , English , social sciences and natural sciences .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "f541e153fb72c381617771b6f4264e31", "text": "Stanley Theater (Utica, New York) The Stanley Theatre is a historic Baroque movie palace in Utica , New York . Over the years , it has gone through several changes of ownership , but has always been affiliated with Warner Brothers Pictures . Originally owned by the Stanley-Mark Strand Corporation chain , the Stanley Theatre ( and entire movie theatre chain ) was purchased three days before opening by Warner Brothers . The company was eager to showcase its products on as many screens as possible . The theatre opened on September 10 , 1928 , with the silent movie Ramona starring Dolores del Río . Thomas W. Lamb , a prolific theatre architect , designed the 2,963 seat cinema for the Mastbaum chain of theatres . The theatre was named for Stanley , one of the Mastbaum brothers . While Lamb and his firm designed over 300 theatres worldwide , he is considered to be somewhat of a local , having owned a camp in the Adirondacks . ( His great grandson lives in the Albany area today . ) The Stanley was built in less than 13 months on the expanding southern edge of downtown , some four blocks away from Utica 's theatre district . Unfortunately , all the theatres located there were razed during the Urban Renewal era of the 1960s and 70s . The Stanley remained open through all of this , though it suffered many years of benign neglect . In 1974 , when the threat of destruction became very real , the Central New York Community Arts Council ( renamed Stanley Center for the Arts in 2008 ) spearheaded a campaign to acquire the property , which it did for $ 135,000 . The design motif of the Stanley Theatre is dubbed `` Mexican Baroque '' because of its unique blend of styles . The terra cotta and tiled mosaic exterior shows the Mexican influence , while Habsburg lions , Indian faces , and a multitude of angels and cherubs grace the lavish gold leaf Baroque theatre interior . Moorish influence is also evident in the star-splashed ceiling and twisted columns flanking the stage . Legend has it that the grand entry staircase was designed to resemble the main staircase on the Titanic ocean liner . While the Stanley Theatre continued to be primarily a movie house , it introduced live events early in its history . Today it is host to the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Great Artists Series ( over 75 years ) ; Broadway Theatre League ( 50 years ) ; Utica Symphony ( over 60 years ) ; and the Mohawk Valley Ballet ( over 25 years ) . Notable early performers included legendary singers Marian Anderson , Ezio Pinza , Lily Pons , Jeanette MacDonald , and Gene Autry . Later illustrious entertainers included Chuck Mangione , Conway Twitty , Third Eye Blind , Diana Ross , Barry Manilow , and Harry Connick Jr. . The Stanley was also host to multiple appearances by Jerry Seinfeld , Wynton Marsalis , George Carlin , Itzhak Perlman , Bob Weir & RatDog ! , and B.B. King . More recent performances include Aretha Franklin and legendary songwriter Burt Bacharach . The Broadway Theatre League brought in National Touring productions of Cats ( musical ) , Annie , Evita , Sweeney Todd , and Barnum . The theater was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976 . It is significant for its relationship to the early movie industry and its distinctive architecture .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "1919d3c258f4fc9d700894379675ac01", "text": "Rebel Without a Cause Rebel Without a Cause is a 1955 American drama film about emotionally confused suburban , middle-class teenagers filmed in CinemaScope . Directed by Nicholas Ray , it offered both social commentary and an alternative to previous films depicting delinquents in urban slum environments . The film stars James Dean , Sal Mineo and Natalie Wood . The film was a groundbreaking attempt to portray the moral decay of American youth , critique parental style , and explore the differences and conflicts between generations . The title was adopted from psychiatrist Robert M. Lindner 's 1944 book , Rebel Without a Cause : The Hypnoanalysis of a Criminal Psychopath . The film itself , however , does not reference Lindner 's book in any way . Warner Bros. released the film on October 27 , 1955 . Over the years , the film has achieved landmark status for the acting of cultural icon James Dean , fresh from his Oscar nominated role in East of Eden and who died before the film 's release , in his most celebrated role . This was the only film during Dean 's lifetime in which he received top billing . In 1990 , Rebel Without a Cause was added to the Library of Congress 's National Film Registry as being deemed `` culturally , historically , and aesthetically significant '' .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "725c46586672c78dac93e97326fd83a4", "text": "AUDELCO AUDELCO , the Audience Development Committee , Inc. , was established in 1973 by the late Vivian Robinson to honor excellence in New York City African American Theatre through presentation of Vivan Robinson/AUDELCO Recognition Awards ( a.k.a. Viv awards ) . The awards were created to promote `` recognition , understanding and awareness of the arts in the African-American community '' . The AUDELCO Viv awards recognize the following , whether Broadway or off-Broadway : Productions by Black companies Shows written or directed by Blacks Black actors in shows AUDELCO has an office in Central Harlem , New York City The President is Grace Jones and the board of directors consistsof : A.Curtis Farrow ; Ralph Carter , Toni Peterson , Jacqueline Feffries ; Linda Armstrong ; Honorable Donna M. Mills ; Fred R.Powell ; Mary Seymour ; Dale Richardo Shields ; Terrence Spivey ; Ronald Stone Esq and Mary B. Davis Chair Emeritus . The organization has thousands of members , a newsletter , and a black theater collection of books , photos , slides and scripts as well as an extensive clipping file on black theater companies and productions . The AUDELCO awards are limited to productions mounted by professional , not-for-profit theater organizations which have been in existence for at least two years and have had a minimum of 500 hours of rehearsal , performance , or training . Additionally , productions have to have been performed over 12 times between September 1 of one year and August 31 of the next . Workshop productions and works-in-progress are not eligible . The AUDELCO Viv awards allow celebrities and everyday people to get to share their love of theater and their appreciation for the incredible performances , scripts , direction , costumes and sets that have been presented during the last theater season . Michael O'Hare was the first white actor to win this award presented by the black theater community of New York for his performance in the play `` Shades of Brown '' which examined the effects of apartheid in South Africa . ( Former AUDELOC awardees included , Kerry Washington ( AUDELCO 's first Rising star ) ; Samuel L. Jackson ; Phylicia Rashad ; Debbie Allen ; Denzel Washington , Barbara Montgomery , Sanaa Lathan and others ) .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "d02104a40736540e27e3e32e85dc188d", "text": "The Age of the Medici The Age of the Medici , originally released in Italy as L'età di Cosimo de Medici ( The Age of Cosimo de Medici ) , is a 1973 3-part TV series about the Renaissance in Florence , directed by Roberto Rossellini . The series was shot in English in the hope of securing a North American release , which it failed to achieve , and was later dubbed into Italian and shown on state television . The films are : Cosimo de Medici , The Power of Cosimo and Leon Battista Alberti : Humanism . It is Fred Ward 's debut role . Like several other TV series directed by Rossellini during the 1970s , The Age of the Medici is a form of docudrama , in which historical information is communicated via dramatized conversations between figures from history , and between ordinary people . They are unabashedly `` teaching films . '' As Dave Kehr explains , `` The dialogue is bluntly didactic , with characters telling one another things they would already know entirely for the benefit of the audience ... . Rossellini is n't asking his viewers to identify with his characters or become caught up in their personal dramas ... Instead he creates a detached perspective . '' Each scene plays out in a single long take , with the camera slowly moving and zooming to create different framings of the action , or , as Kehr puts it , `` to close in on details or investigate relationships '' . When the films debuted in New York 's Public Theater in 1973 , New York Times movie critic Vincent Canby noted that while not difficult , the austere style of the films , `` as well as Rossellini 's total lack of concern for what might be called performance , take some getting used to . Yet once you 've grasped the method and the rhythm of the films , they are a ravishingly beautiful experience '' : The actors make few attempts to act . They recite as they walk about magnificent locations , sounding and looking like ferociously gifted dress-extras . The talk has been rather flatly dubbed into English so that it 's not always possible to tell who is speaking.Forget these problems , though . The film is about what is being said and what you can see around and behind these figures . When you connect with The Age of the Medici , it has the effect of reducing every other film you 've seen recently to the status of an ornament .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "91fbfbff188422a7dbb2569630d544c0", "text": "Peer Schmidt Peer Eugen Georg Schmidt ( 11 March 1926 ; Erfurt , Weimar Germany -- 8 May 2010 ; Berlin ) was a German actor and voice actor . He is best known as the German voice of Gérard Philipe , Marlon Brando and Jean-Paul Belmondo .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "4aa737897dbb8eb97affa6f145fb3223", "text": "Aron Anazia Aron Anazia is a Designer and a Classically Trained ACTOR . From the town of Landover Hills , Aron has always had an interest for the Arts and Sciences . He would participate in Theatrical & Modeling performances but slowed down to focus more on the sciences , as he was placed in Advanced Chemistry courses in High School . So he applied to North Carolina Agricultural And Technical State University as a Chemistry Major . By his third year in University , Aron was featured in 4 out 4 of the Universities Major Theatrical productions as a Non-Theater Major . Aron also studied abroad , interned at the University Radio Station ( WNAA 90.1 ) , and Acted as a liaison between Capital records and his fellow students . After his study at North Carolina Agricultural And Technical State University , Aron decided to go to London to become a Classically trained Actor , thanks to the late-great Frankie Day A couple great Actors who have trained with this historically relevant training facility include : James Lithgow , Benedict Cummberbatch , Chiwetel Ejiofor , and David Oyelowo . Once in London , Aron yearned to experiment with the sciences again . From experimenting in brewery to Acting to Sonic Design , Aron yearned to excel inside and outside of the classroom . He then left the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts to film an independent ( experimental ) feature entitled `` You Changed The World . '' While filming in East Africa , Aron decided to do something considered a little off-center and decided to dabble in music back in the States again . While in the U.S , Aron connected with a lot of lost friends . While producing `` basement infused sonic designs '' Aron discovered a sound and a style that he decided to safeguard . With the support of his friends and family , he released a sonic collection entitled `` Training Music . '' As if that was n't enough , he then decided to retire from music production all together in order to produce ` Design Films . '", "title": "" }, { "docid": "b3c95d6b6f0e5fc404bce953042aa238", "text": "Film director A film director is a person who directs the making of a film . Generally , a film director controls a film 's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay ( or script ) while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of that vision . The director has a key role in choosing the cast members , production design , and the creative aspects of filmmaking . Under European Union law , the director is viewed as the author of the film . The film director gives direction to the cast and crew and creates an overall vision through which a film eventually becomes realized , or noticed . Directors need to be able to mediate differences in creative visions and stay within the boundaries of the film 's budget . There are many pathways to becoming a film director . Some film directors started as screenwriters , cinematographers , film editors or actors . Other film directors have attended a film school . Directors use different approaches . Some outline a general plotline and let the actors improvise dialogue , while others control every aspect , and demand that the actors and crew follow instructions precisely . Some directors also write their own screenplays or collaborate on screenplays with long-standing writing partners . Some directors edit or appear in their films , or compose the music score for their films .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "6a69a9db544dfebd1ceab0575d8154cf", "text": "Film Booking Offices of America Film Booking Offices of America ( FBO ) , also known as FBO Pictures Corporation , was an American film studio of the silent era , a producer and distributor of mostly low-budget films . The business began in 1918 as Robertson-Cole ( U.S. ) , the American division of a British import -- export company and Robertson-Cole was formed by the English-born Harry F. Robertson and the American Rufus Sidman Cole . Robertson-Cole bought the Hallmark Exchanges ( formerly the Mutual Exchanges that became known as Exhibitors-Mutual Exchanges ) from Frank J. Hall in 1920 . Exhibitors-Mutual/Hallmark had distributed Robertson-Cole product , and acquiring the exchanges gave them the right to distribute their own films plus Hall 's product , with the exception of Charlie Chaplin reissues he had the rights to . Robertson-Cole initiated movie production in the United States in 1920 . That year , it incorporated Robertson-Cole Studios , Inc. and bought 460 acres in Santa Monica , California to establish a studio . The property , which became known as the `` R.C. Ranch '' , enabled Robertson-Cole to centralize movie production , which previously had been scattered . The movie company had relied on equipment rentals to produce motion pictures . Two years later , a corporate reorganization led to the company 's new name , with FBO becoming the official name of the distributing operation and Robertson-Cole Pictures Corp. the name of the production operation . In 1923 , the studio contracted with Western actor Fred Thomson , who would soon emerge as one of Hollywood 's most popular stars . Thomson was just one of numerous screen cowboys with whom FBO became identified . The studio , whose core market was America 's small towns , also put out many romantic melodramas , non-Western action pictures , and comedic shorts . In 1926 , financier Joseph P. Kennedy led a group that acquired the company . In June 1928 , using RCA Photophone technology , FBO became only the second Hollywood studio to release a feature-length `` talkie . '' A few months later , Kennedy and RCA chief David Sarnoff arranged the merger that created RKO , one of the major studios of Hollywood 's Golden Age .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "628e4a781cfa3182b2cbba12e7c55943", "text": "World College West World College West was an undergraduate liberal arts college in Marin County , California . Founded by Dr. Richard M. Gray , it offered a program that integrated a grounding in the liberal arts with work-study and a required two-quarter `` World Study '' in a developing country . It opened with its first seven students on September 17 , 1973 . Fully accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges , World College West had programs in International Service and Development ( ISD ) , International Environmental Studies ( IES ) , Art and Society ( AS ) , and Meaning , Culture , and Change ( MCC ) . In later years , Business and International Business was added to the program line-up . ISD focused on the economic , political , and social development of `` Third World '' nations ; IES concentrated on the wise use and global conservation of natural resources ; AS examined the relationship between culture and the performing and visual arts ; and MCC focused on the variety of ways in which the world 's diverse cultures , through their systems of religion , philosophy , and tradition , give meaning and purpose to human life , and to the world around us . The college 's World Study Programs were established in China , Mexico , Nepal , India , Ghana , and Russia . Students could spend two quarters ( or six months ) studying in both an urban and rural setting in one of these countries . During the urban stay , students lived with a host family and attended regularly scheduled language , culture , and history classes . During the rural stay , students again lived with host families and conducted independent research studies while continuing to learn the country 's language . The college placed a special emphasis on work-study and internships , because the founders of the college believed that learning occurred best through `` disciplined reflection on experience '' . Once an area of study was selected , students were required to complete 480 internship hours in their field of study as part of their graduation requirement . During its first few years , the College leased space on the campus of the San Francisco Theological Seminary in San Anselmo , followed by several years in surplus army barracks at Fort Cronkhite on the Pacific Ocean . In the early 1980s the college moved to a permanent campus off U.S. Highway 101 in the rolling hills of northern Marin County , between Novato and Petaluma ( now the home of the Institute of Noetic Sciences ) . World College West closed due to inadequate funding in Fall of 1992 , the result of difficulties in succession after its founding president retired . The spirit of WCW lives on in Dick Gray 's successor institution Presidio World College . The hundreds of WCW alumni call themselves `` Westies '' . Category : Defunct universities and colleges in California Category : Educational institutions established in 1973 Category : Educational institutions disestablished in 1992 Category : Liberal arts colleges Category : Universities and colleges in Marin County , California Category :1973 establishments in California Category :1992 disestablishments in California", "title": "" }, { "docid": "8927453795ee6f0bcf65338245fff3b2", "text": "ACES Educational Center for the Arts ACES Educational Center for the Arts , or ECA , is an American public arts magnet high school located at 55 Audubon Street in New Haven , Connecticut , United States . The school is primarily located in the former Congregation Mishkan Israel synagogue with studio spaces across the street . The school has two theaters -- the Arts Hall in the main building , and the Little Theatre at 1 Lincoln Street -- and multiple gallery spaces throughout the main building . The school enrols approximately 260 students and is divided into five departments : Music , Dance , Theater , Creative Writing , and Visual Arts . Students take academic courses at their `` sending schools '' ( public high schools ) during the morning and attend classes within their departments during the afternoon from 1:00 to 4:00 , Monday through Thursday . Students may apply to up to three individual departments at a time and must prepare a portfolio , audition piece , or interview depending on the department to which they are applying . Accepted students may enroll at the beginning of any year of high school . ECA is based on the idea of artists teaching artists , employing working artists to teach high school students their art form of choice .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "72c51f9babc934fbc40439c63e9f567a", "text": "Stella Tennant Stella Tennant ( born 17 December 1970 ) is a British model . The granddaughter of Andrew Cavendish , 11th Duke of Devonshire and Deborah Mitford , one of the well-known aristocratic siblings the Mitford sisters , Tennant was born in Scotland and attended St Leonards School in St Andrews . Her parents are The Hon. Tobias William Tennant , son of the 2nd Baron Glenconner , and Lady Emma Cavendish . In 1993 , she attracted the attention of photographers such as Steven Meisel and Bruce Weber and soon achieved success as a fashion model , posing for magazines such as French , British and Italian Vogue as well as Harper 's Bazaar and Numero .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "ac04a0727bcba060176b51535990ebbd", "text": "Liberal arts college A liberal arts college is a college with an emphasis on undergraduate study in the liberal arts and sciences . A liberal arts college aims to impart a broad general knowledge and develop general intellectual capacities , in contrast to a professional , vocational , or technical curriculum . Students in a liberal arts college generally major in a particular discipline while receiving exposure to a wide range of academic subjects , including sciences as well as the traditional humanities subjects taught as liberal arts . Although it draws on European antecedents , the liberal arts college is strongly associated with American higher education , and most liberal arts colleges around the world draw explicitly on the American model . There is no formal definition of liberal arts college , but one American authority defines them as schools that `` emphasize undergraduate education and award at least half of their degrees in the liberal arts fields of study . '' Other researchers have adopted similar definitions . Although many liberal arts colleges are exclusively undergraduate , some also offer graduate programs that lead to a master 's degree or doctoral degree in subjects such as business administration , nursing , medicine , and law . Similarly , although the term `` liberal arts college '' most commonly refers to an independent institution , it may also sometimes refer to a university college within or affiliated with a larger university . Most liberal arts colleges outside of the United States follow this model .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "1af03b63d03a923361788a1c057feb73", "text": "The Legend of Valentino The Legend of Valentino is a 1975 American television film written and directed by Melville Shavelson . It deals with real life events about the actor and sex symbol of the 1920s Rudolph Valentino . It was broadcast by ABC on November 23 , 1975 .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "03316f8ab3f343f042836e1d2e1344a8", "text": "Josephine Forsberg Josephine Forsberg ( 28 January 1921 -- 3 October 2011 ) , ex-wife of film director Rolf Forsberg , was hired by Paul Sills and Viola Spolin to join the original Second City in 1959 as the female understudy and Spolin 's teaching assistant . She became an expert in improvisational techniques for the theater , and by the mid 1960s she had taken over most of Spolin 's and Sills 's classes , as well as Spolin 's children 's theater company . From that point on most of the young performers that wanted to go onto the Second City stage studied with Forsberg for at least a year . These included Bill Murray , Harold Ramis , Betty Thomas , Shelley Long , George Wendt , David Mamet , and Robert Townsend . In 1971 , Forsberg opened up an official school of improvisation called Players Workshop , hiring her nephew Martin de Maat and her daughter Linnea Forsberg to teach alongside her . In terms of accepting students who were not necessarily Second City actors learning the art of improvisation , but also including students from all walks of life and professional disciplines Players Workshop can arguably be called the first real school of Improvisation , with a class structure , syllabus , and graduation requirement , pre-dating loosely organized workshops created in the mid-1970s by Dudley Riggs ( Minneapolis , MN USA ) and Keith Johnstone ( Calgary , AB , Canada ) . It soon grew to the largest school of improv in the country , training people for the Second City stage through a six term ( 12 month ) course . In 1980 , her son Eric Forsberg joined Players Workshop as a director , where he worked with David Shepard to develop a competitive improv game which was later called The Improv Olympiad . One of Forsberg 's students , Charna Halpern , joined forces with David Shepard and helped to bring the Improv Olympiad to become one of Chicago 's foremost arena 's for new improvisers . In the late 1980s Charna Halpern and Del Close transformed the Improv Olympiad into the IO , using Del 's new improv format called The Harold , otherwise known as long form . Forsberg retired from teaching in 1993 , leaving Players Workshop to her daughter . Her nephew , Martin de Maat had become the creative director of the Second City Training Center which was growing in leaps and bounds , offering a tremendous competition to Players Workshop . In 2003 Players Workshop closed its doors . However , in 2007 , she was approached by her old friend and student Bill Murray to help teach the New York Giants improv , in the hopes of giving them an edge . At 86 years old she did just that . It was the first time that she had taught anyone in years . That year they won the Super Bowl . She returned to teach the New York Giants again in 2008 . Forsberg , along with her daughter Linnea , wrote `` Improvisation for Speech and Theater . '' It was published by Kendall Hunt Publishing in 2010 . Forsberg died on October 3 , 2011 .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "c450d4e504d3aa48ef0a64f5e39b379d", "text": "Reggio Emilia approach The Reggio Emilia approach is an educational philosophy focused on preschool and primary education ( Source pending ) . It was developed after World War II by a psychologist Loris Malaguzzi , and parents in the villages around Reggio Emilia in Italy . Following the war , people believed that children were in need of a new way of learning . The assumption of Malaguzzi and the parents was that people form their own personality during early years of development and that children are endowed with `` a hundred languages '' through which they can express their ideas . The aim of this approach is teaching how to use these symbolic languages ( e.g. , painting , sculpting , drama ) in everyday life . The program is based on the principles of respect , responsibility , and community through exploration and discovery in a supportive and enriching environment based on the interests of the children through a self-guided curriculum .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "7edcdd2b0904dd6bac088389e2bc468c", "text": "Stella Skopal Stella Skopal ( July 18 , 1904 -- December 24 , 1992 ) was a Croatian Jewish sculptor . Skopal was born in Zagreb on July 18 , 1904 . From 1924 to 1928 , she attended the Royal Academy of arts and crafts in Zagreb , at which she was taught by Hinko Juhn , Ivo Kerdić , Frano Kršinić and others . In 1929 , Skopal was elso educated in Vienna , and from 1933 to 1934 in a private school of Hertha Bucher . Skopal debuted in 1927 , with the ceramic sculpture of amorous couple which was modeled along the art lines of her professor Hinko Juhn . From 1927 to 1939 , she performed over twenty artistically very interesting fireplaces and stoves mainly for the upper class Jewish families in Zagreb . Among the most significant were those depicting virtuoso modeled female figures in dance , at the apartment of Blühweiss family in Domagojeva street 2 . In 1938 , Skopal was first in Croatia to create ceramic jewelry . At the beginning of 1940 to mid-1950 , created numerous ceramic tables of which only few were saved to this day . From 1951 to 1956 , she worked on the ceramic bottles , among others for the `` Maraska d.d. '' which produces liqueurs and spirits . For that she received a number of commendations , both at home and abroad . The largest part of her artistic oeuvre was committed to shaping ceramic items for the daily use such as : bowls , jars , services , vases , lamps , candlesticks , and others . During World War II , as a Jew , Skopal was placed in the ceramic factory `` Gabianelli '' in Treviso , Italy . After the capitulation of Italy , Skopal joined the Partisans . With the Partisans , she worked at the Bari allied military hospital and later in Cozzano as the ceramist . After the war , from 1945 to 1965 , Skopal worked as the professor at the School of applied arts in Zagreb . She taught the modeling and creating forms on the potter 's wheel . Many works of Stella Skopal disappeared without a trace during her lifetime , while others are kept at the Museum of Arts and Crafts , Croatian National Theatre and Croatian History Museum in Zagreb , Jewish Community Zagreb , Art Gallery in Split and private collectors . Skopal died on December 24 , 1992 and was buried at the Mirogoj Cemetery .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "1092dddfe783692f18d276cf43641853", "text": "Joyce Sparer Adler Joyce Sparer Adler ( December 2 , 1915 -- September 13 , 1999 ) was an American critic , playwright , and teacher . She was a founding member of the faculty of the University of Guyana , writer of important critical analyses of Wilson Harris and Herman Melville , and 1988 president of the Melville Society .", "title": "" } ]

[ { "docid": "d9b6f3ed806ac36d1cbcc32e337e2879", "text": "Tiger Woods Eldrick Tont `` Tiger '' Woods ( born December 30 , 1975 ) is an American professional golfer who is among the most successful golfers of all time . He has been one of the highest-paid athletes in the world for several years . Following an outstanding junior , college , and amateur career , Woods turned professional at the age of 20 , at the end of the summer in 1996 . By April 1997 he had already won his first major , the 1997 Masters . Woods won this tournament in a record-breaking performance , winning by 12 strokes while pocketing $ 486,000 . He first reached the number one position in the world rankings in June 1997 , after less than a year as a professional . Throughout the 2000s , Woods was the dominant force in golf ; from August 1999 to September 2004 ( 264 weeks ) and from June 2005 to October 2010 ( 281 weeks ) , Woods was the top-ranked men 's golfer in the world . From December 2009 to early April 2010 , Woods took leave from professional golf to focus on his personal life after he admitted infidelity . Despite attempts at reconciliation , he and his wife Elin Nordegren eventually divorced . His many alleged extramarital indiscretions were revealed by several women , through many worldwide media sources . This was followed by a loss of golf form , and his ranking gradually fell to a low of No. 58 in November 2011 . He ended a career-high winless streak of 107 weeks when he triumphed in the Chevron World Challenge in December 2011 . After winning the Arnold Palmer Invitational on March 25 , 2013 , he ascended to the No. 1 ranking once again , holding the top spot until May 2014 . Woods had back surgery in April 2014 and September 2015 and has struggled since to regain his dominant form . By March 29 , 2015 , Woods had fallen to # 104 , outside of the top 100 for the first time since 1996 . In May 2016 , Woods dropped out of the world top 500 for the first time in his professional career . Woods has broken numerous golf records . He has been World Number One for the most consecutive weeks and for the greatest total number of weeks of any golfer . He has been awarded PGA Player of the Year a record eleven times , the Byron Nelson Award for lowest adjusted scoring average a record eight times , and has the record of leading the money list in ten different seasons . He has won 14 professional major golf championships , the second-highest of any player ( Jack Nicklaus leads with 18 ) , and 79 PGA Tour events , second all time behind Sam Snead , who had 82 wins . He has more career major wins and career PGA Tour wins than any other active golfer . He is the youngest player to achieve the career Grand Slam , and the youngest and fastest to win 50 tournaments on tour . Additionally , Woods is only the second golfer ( after Nicklaus ) to have achieved a career Grand Slam three times . Woods has won 18 World Golf Championships , and won at least one of those events in each of the first 11 years after they began in 1999 . Woods and Rory McIlroy are the only golfers to win both The Silver Medal and The Gold Medal at The Open Championship .", "title": "" } ]

[ { "docid": "46a21380f1497d17a2be127f49b37df5", "text": "1995 Nike Tour graduates __ NOTOC __ This is a list of players who graduated from the Nike Tour in 1995 . The top ten players on the Nike Tour 's money list in 1995 earned their PGA Tour card for 1996 . * PGA Tour rookie for 1996 . T = Tied Green background indicates the player retained his PGA Tour card for 1997 ( finished inside the top 125 ) . Yellow background indicates player did not retain his PGA Tour card for 1997 , but retained conditional status ( finished between 126 -- 150 ) . Red background indicates the player did not retain his PGA Tour card for 1997 ( finished outside the top 150 ) .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "9f085e2b4b700c8acf58d4249fcbf647", "text": "1969 Ryder Cup The 18th Ryder Cup Matches were held 18 -- 20 September 1969 at the Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport , England . The competition ended in a draw at 16 points each , when America 's Jack Nicklaus conceded a missable three-foot ( 0.9 m ) putt to Britain 's Tony Jacklin at the 18th hole , in one of the most famous gestures of sportsmanship in all of sport . It was the first draw in Ryder Cup history , and the United States team retained the Cup . The matches were marred by considerable acrimony and unsportsmanlike behavior by players on both sides . Britain 's captain Eric Brown had instructed his players not to search for the opposition 's ball if it ended up in the rough . American Ken Still , in the first-day foursomes , had deliberately and regularly stood too close to Briton Maurice Bembridge as he was putting . During one of the fourballs on the second day , both captains had to come out and calm down the warring players . This led to Nicklaus conceding Jacklin 's final putt with the knowledge that the overall competition would end in a draw . On the previous hole , Jacklin sank a long eagle putt while Nicklaus missed his from 15 ft and the match was squared . Jacklin had won the Open Championship two months earlier at nearby Royal Lytham & St Annes to become the first British champion in eighteen years . After holing his final putt for par , Nicklaus picked up Jacklin 's ball marker and told him , `` I do n't think you would have missed it , but I was n't going to give you the chance , either . '' Playing in his first Ryder Cup at age 29 , Nicklaus ' gesture became known as `` the concession '' and marked the beginning of a lasting friendship between the two that has spanned nearly a half century . It was the inspiration for The Concession Golf Club in Florida near Sarasota , which was co-designed by Nicklaus and Jacklin . The two were opposing captains in the competition in 1983 and 1987 . The U.S. team had only two players with previous Ryder Cup experience , Billy Casper and Gene Littler . On the previous four teams , Arnold Palmer did not participate in 1969 , but returned in 1971 and 1973 .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "c42686df20072769355672c4afa0bf0c", "text": "1997 Masters (snooker) The 1997 Benson & Hedges Masters was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 2 and 9 February 1997 at the Wembley Conference Centre in London , England . Steve Davis won his third Masters title , nine years after his last win in 1988 , by defeating Ronnie O'Sullivan in the final . O'Sullivan , who was playing in his third consecutive Masters final , took an 8 -- 4 lead before Davis came back to win six successive frames and clinch the title with a 10 -- 8 victory . The final was notable for featuring snooker 's first ever streaker , 22-year-old secretary Lianne Crofts , who invaded the playing area at the beginning of the third frame . After stewards removed her from the arena , O'Sullivan amused the crowd by comically wiping the brow of veteran referee John Street , who was refereeing his final match of his career . The wild-card players included Paul Hunter , who won 3 Masters titles in 4 years . The highest break of the tournament was 130 made by Steve Davis .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "6cd8ab15816ec4a19a69fa61b5f2e869", "text": "1957 Masters Tournament The 1957 Masters Tournament was the 21st Masters Tournament , held April 4 -- 7 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta , Georgia . This was the first Masters played with a 36-hole cut . A field of 101 players started in the tournament , and 40 of them made the cut at 150 ( +6 ) . Doug Ford won his only Masters , three strokes ahead of runner-up Sam Snead , a three-time champion . Snead was the third round leader , but could only shoot even-par in a round that included six birdies and six bogeys . Ford was three strokes back after 54 holes , but was bogey-free on Sunday . On the final hole , Ford holed out from the bunker for birdie for his 66 ( -- 6 ) . This was Ford 's second and final major title ; he also won the 1955 PGA Championship . This year was the Masters debut of Gary Player , 21 , and he finished tied for 24th . He won three Masters , in 1961 , 1974 , and 1978 . Five-time British Open winner Peter Thomson finished fifth , his best career finish in the Masters . Two-time champion Ben Hogan had finished in the top ten in the last fourteen Masters that he had entered , but had 32 putts on Friday and missed the event 's first-ever cut by a stroke . It was the only cut he missed at Augusta ; in nine more Masters he had three top ten finishes , including his final appearance at age 54 in 1967 .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "1343377157b963ffa3e36a51d9538190", "text": "2000 PGA Championship The 2000 PGA Championship was the 82nd PGA Championship , held August 17 -- 20 at the Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville , Kentucky . It was the second time for the event at Valhalla , which hosted four years earlier in 1996 . Tiger Woods won his second straight PGA Championship and fifth major in a three-hole playoff over Bob May . Woods and May finished at 18 under par to set the PGA Championship record to par , later equaled by Woods in 2006 . It was the first time since 1937 that a PGA Championship title was successfully defended , and the first ever as a stroke play event . Woods and May were five shots ahead of third-place finisher Thomas Bjørn . Woods ' victory marked the first time since 1953 ( Ben Hogan ) that a player had won three major championships in the same calendar year ; Woods won the U.S. Open and the British Open in the previous two months for three consecutive majors . He won the Masters in April 2001 to complete the Tiger Slam of four consecutive majors . May opened with an even-par 72 then shot 66 ( − 6 ) in each of the final three rounds ; this was the only time he was in contention in a major championship . Designer of the course and five-time champion Jack Nicklaus , age 60 , made his final appearance at the PGA Championship . Playing with Woods , he needed an eagle on the 36th hole to make the cut ; his pitch shot missed by inches and he settled for birdie . Valhalla later hosted the Ryder Cup in 2008 , the first U.S. victory in nine years . The Senior PGA Championship was played at the course in 2004 and 2011 and the PGA Championship returned in 2014 .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "dd6b1f9dd2b5b596f60116130a542a82", "text": "Grand Slam Cup The Grand Slam Cup was a tennis tournament held annually at the Olympiahalle in Munich in Germany from 1990 through 1999 . The event was organized by the International Tennis Federation ( ITF ) , which invited the best-performing players in the year 's Grand Slam events to compete in the Grand Slam Cup . The tournament was created in 1990 and was played on indoor carpet courts . From 1990 to 1996 , it was held in December but was moved to the middle of autumn from 1997 to 1999 . From 1990 to 1997 the tournament was limited to male players . A women 's Cup was added in 1998 and was held simultaneously with the men 's Cup . Throughout its existence , the Grand Slam Cup was famous for paying out the highest prize money of any tournament in tennis . The winner for the first three years of the Cup received US$ 2 million in prize money , which dipped to $ 1.625 million in 1993 , rose to $ 1.875 million in 1996 and back to $ 2 million in 1997 before falling to $ 1.3 million in 1998 . If the Cup was won by a player who had also won a Grand Slam event that year they received a bonus of $ 1 million . Prize money for the winner of the two women 's Cups was fixed at $ 800,000 . The Cup was not recognized by the Association of Tennis Professionals ( ATP ) for the course of its run , and participants did not receive points in the ATP computer rankings nor have it credited as an official career title . Following the discontinuation of the Cup in 1999 , the ATP decided to give the event full recognition and added it to players ' lists of official titles . A compromise between the ITF and the ATP was announced on December 9 , 1999 which merged the Cup with the ATP Tour World Championship , the ATP 's year-end tournament also held annually in Germany , giving birth to the ATP World Tour Finals , an official tour event . A direct result of the merging of the two competitions can still be seen in the qualification rules for the ATP World Tour Finals , which included one notable difference from those of the ATP Tour World Championship . The Tour World Championship was meant to include the top eight players on the ATP computer rankings at the end of a season , even though this could mean the exclusion of a Grand Slam champion who had not been able to earn sufficient ranking points in the rest of the year . Present Finals rules ensure the participation of a Grand Slam champion who is unable to earn a top eight ranking at the end of the season and automatic qualification for the top seven players in the computer rankings . The eighth ranked player , however , qualifies only if all Grand Slam singles champions are among the top eight . Any Grand Slam event champion who is not in the top eight but is still in the top twenty is included to the detriment of the eighth ranked player . This situation occurred at the 2004 Tennis Masters Cup , where Andre Agassi , the 8th ranked player in the ATP Champions Race , was excluded from the event in favor of Gastón Gaudio , who had won that year 's French Open but was ranked 10th at the end of the year . Pete Sampras was the most successful player at this event winning two titles out of three final appearances .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "d42b1fcb571e76688356fe837e5e81a4", "text": "Official World Golf Ranking The Official World Golf Ranking is a system for rating the performance level of male professional golfers ( although there is no rule prohibiting women from being ranked ) . It was introduced in 1986 and is endorsed by the four major championships and six major professional tours , five of which are charter members of the International Federation of PGA Tours : PGA Tour European Tour Asian Tour ( not a charter member of the Federation ) PGA Tour of Australasia Japan Golf Tour Sunshine Tour Points are also awarded for high finishes on other tours : Web.com Tour , the official developmental tour for the PGA Tour Challenge Tour , the official developmental tour for the European Tour PGA Tour Canada , which became a full member of the Federation in 2009 under its former name of the Canadian Professional Golf Tour OneAsia Tour , not a member of the Federation , but a joint venture between two charter members and two other tours that became full members in 2009 Korean Tour , from 2011 PGA Tour Latinoamérica , from 2012 Asian Development Tour , the official developmental tour for the Asian Tour , from 2013 PGA Tour China , from 2014 Alps Tour , from July 2015 Nordic Golf League , from July 2015 PGA EuroPro Tour , from July 2015 ProGolf Tour , from July 2015 MENA Golf Tour , from April 2016", "title": "" }, { "docid": "c0d010524517984f3c3599ae669e3d6d", "text": "Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 is a golfing simulation video game in the PGA Tour series developed by EA Tiburon and published by Electronic Arts . It was released in 2010 for the PlayStation 3 , Wii , Xbox 360 and iOS . The game is the first in the series to support the PlayStation Move controller for the Sony PlayStation 3 . As with Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 , the Wii version utilizes Wii MotionPlus . This edition of Tiger Woods PGA Tour is the first to feature someone on the cover other than Tiger himself . The privilege was given to the Northern Irish golfer Rory McIlroy , who was the first person to win a PGA Tour event before their 21st birthday since Tiger Woods . McIlroy would later become the namesake of the PGA tour games .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "915449f4c47f3054a567445542fe8a15", "text": "1964 PGA Championship The 1964 PGA Championship was the 46th PGA Championship , played July 16 -- 19 at Columbus Country Club in Columbus , Ohio . Bobby Nichols won his only major title , three strokes ahead of runners-up Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer . Nichols led wire-to-wire after a first round 64 in the hometown of Nicklaus , who shot a 64 in the final round to gain his third runner-up finish in majors in 1964 . Ben Hogan , age 51 , competed at the PGA Championship for the first time since 1960 . Tied for fifth place after a third round 68 , he finished tied for ninth for his penultimate top ten in a major . His final top ten came at the 1967 Masters . Nichols ' winning score of 271 was the lowest to date at the PGA Championship , the seventh as a 72-hole stroke play championship . It stood as the record for thirty years , until Nick Price 's 269 in 1994 . The British Open was played the previous week in St Andrews , Scotland , one of five times in the 1960s that these two majors were played in consecutive weeks in July . The PGA Championship moved permanently to August in 1969 ( except 1971 , when it was played in late February ) .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "7f8c72f3a43f846bfe6bd67040fd1963", "text": "1998 Masters (snooker) The 1998 Benson & Hedges Masters was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 1 and 8 February 1998 at the Wembley Conference Centre in London , England . The final frame of final between Mark Williams and Stephen Hendry turned into a re-spotted black for the first time since Ray Reardon and John Spencer in the first final in 1975 . Hendry had led 9 -- 6 , before Williams tied it to 9 -- 9 . Williams was then trailing 56 -- 34 in the final frame , when he potted the brown and the remaining colours to tie the scores in the match , after Hendry missed the brown . They then played seven shots on the black in a match similar to the 1985 World Championship final between Dennis Taylor and Steve Davis . Hendry then missed an easy black in the middle pocket before Williams potted it on the top left pocket in to claim his fourth Masters title .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "ea8f7f7446ec4a5b1a6b80a764784335", "text": "2001 Players Championship The 2001 Players Championship was a golf tournament in Florida on the PGA Tour , held at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach , southeast of Jacksonville . It was the 28th Players Championship . Tiger Woods won the first of his two Players Championships , one stroke ahead of runner-up Vijay Singh . Because of bad weather , the tournament was completed on Monday , March 26 . In the final pairing with 54-hole leader Jerry Kelly , Woods played the final nine holes on Monday . Woods had won the previous three majors in 2000 ; he won the Masters Tournament two weeks later to hold all four major titles at once , the Tiger Slam , as well as this Players , an unofficial `` fifth major . '' He won his second Players a dozen years later in 2013 . Through 2016 , Woods is the only winner of the Players and Masters in the same calendar year ( 2001 ) , and he was the third Players champion to win a major in the same calendar year , joining Jack Nicklaus ( 1978 ) and Hal Sutton ( 1983 ) ; it expanded to four with Martin Kaymer in 2014 . Defending champion Sutton finished seven strokes back , in a tie for fifth place .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "04d78064db1cda24baeb2b212ecd28dc", "text": "1980 Masters Tournament The 1980 Masters Tournament was the 44th Masters Tournament , held April 10 -- 13 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta , Georgia . Seve Ballesteros , age 23 , won his first Masters and second major championship title , four strokes ahead of runners-up Jack Newton and Gibby Gilbert . Ballesteros had a seven stroke lead after 54 holes and extended it to ten strokes after the front nine of the final round at 16-under-par , eyeing the Masters record of 271 ( − 17 ) set by Jack Nicklaus in 1965 ( and equaled by Raymond Floyd in 1976 ) . A new record ( of 270 or lower ) was to be rewarded with a $ 50,000 bonus from Golf magazine . An hour later , after he found the water at 12 and 13 at Amen Corner , the lead had been reduced to three . Ballesteros regrouped with a birdie at 15 and parred the rest to shoot even-par 72 for the round and held on for the victory . Well back in the field on Sunday , Nicklaus , age 40 , was paired with Arnold Palmer , age 50 , which drew large galleries . Palmer shot 69 to finish at even par and T24 , Nicklaus had 73 to finish at 291 ( +3 ) and T33 . It was their first pairing at Augusta in five years and the first time Palmer had finished higher than Nicklaus there since 1967 . Nicklaus regrouped and won two majors in 1980 , the U.S. Open and the PGA Championship and was the runner-up the following April . Ballesteros , of Spain , was the first winner of the Masters from Europe , and won a second green jacket in 1983 . This was the final Masters with Bermuda and ryegrass greens , which were replaced with bentgrass following this tournament .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "bdd7ab2923d600ac8c1b361e08e34d0c", "text": "Steve Williams (caddy) Steve Williams , MNZM ( born 29 December 1963 ) is a New Zealander who has served as a caddy for several top professional golfers , most recently with Adam Scott . Williams is best known for having served as Tiger Woods ' caddy from 1999 to 2011 . Woods was the top-ranked golfer in the world for much of Williams ' tenure as his caddy .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "701437c8b773d3eb8743c0b1cb470c34", "text": "Ben Hogan William Ben Hogan ( August 13 , 1912 -- July 25 , 1997 ) was an American professional golfer , generally considered one of the greatest players in the history of the game . Born within six months of two other acknowledged golf greats of the 20th century , Sam Snead and Byron Nelson , Hogan is notable for his profound influence on golf swing theory and his legendary ball-striking ability . His nine career professional major championships tie him with Gary Player for fourth all-time , trailing only Jack Nicklaus ( 18 ) , Tiger Woods ( 14 ) and Walter Hagen ( 11 ) . He is one of only five golfers to have won all four major championships currently open to professionals ( the Masters Tournament , The Open ( despite only playing once ) , the U.S. Open , and the PGA Championship ) . The other four are Nicklaus , Woods , Player , and Gene Sarazen .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "9f5eb94dea6cf21695b9cdb4f477a1f2", "text": "2005 Masters Tournament The 2005 Masters Tournament was the 69th Masters Tournament , played from April 7 -- 10 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta , Georgia . Tiger Woods , 29 , won his fourth green jacket on the first hole of a playoff with Chris DiMarco . Rain was a factor the whole week , and delayed much of the play . The purse was $ 7.0 million with a winner 's share of $ 1.26 million . It was the ninth of Woods ' fourteen major championships . This Masters was the last as competitors for three former champions : Tommy Aaron ( 1973 ) , Billy Casper ( 1970 ) , and six-time winner Jack Nicklaus . Ryan Moore was low amateur at 287 ( − 1 ) , the best score by an amateur since 1978 , and earned an exemption to the 2006 tournament . Jerry Pate , a non-playing invitee , won the 46th Par-3 contest on Wednesday with a five-under 22 .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "d31798c4ebb1518fb61399d33ce55bb2", "text": "1940 Masters Tournament The 1940 Masters Tournament was the seventh Masters Tournament , held April 4 -- 7 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta , Georgia . Jimmy Demaret won the first of his three Masters titles , four strokes ahead of runner-up Lloyd Mangrum , the largest margin of victory until 1948 . The purse was $ 5,000 and the winner 's share was $ 1,500 . Mangrum shot an opening round 64 ( − 8 ) , a new course record by two strokes , and it stood for 46 years , until Nick Price 's 63 in 1986 , later equaled by Greg Norman in 1996 . Although all three of these players won major titles , none won a Masters .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "d59c1a19451448ec882f3e1827d11ce8", "text": "Len Mattiace Leonard Earl `` Len '' Mattiace ( born October 15 , 1967 ) is an American professional golfer on the PGA Tour . Mattiace was born in Mineola , New York . He attended Nease High School in Ponte Vedra , Florida . He graduated from Wake Forest University in 1990 with a degree in Sociology . While at Wake Forest , he played on the team that won the NCAA Division I Golf Championship in 1986 . He turned pro later in 1990 . Mattiace first gained notoriety when he surged into contention in the final round of the 1998 Players Championship . Trailing by one shot going into the par-3 17th hole , he hit his tee shot into the water , his third shot into a bunker , and his fourth shot into the water . He ended up with a quintuple-bogey 8 on the hole and finished in a tie for fifth , four strokes behind the eventual winner Justin Leonard . Mattiace 's career year was 2002 , when he earned wins at the Nissan Open and the FedEx St. Jude Classic . In 2003 , he contended for the The Masters Trophy by shooting a 65 in the final round which put him into a playoff with Mike Weir . On that first playoff hole , Mattiace found himself stymied by trees when his approach drifted offline . Weir needed only a bogey to secure the victory and Mattiace finished second , earning $ 648,000 in prize money . Shortly after the 2003 season , Mattiace 's career was threatened by a skiing accident and torn ACLs in both knees . Mattiace has been ranked in the top 50 of the Official World Golf Rankings , but has not been fully exempt on the PGA Tour since 2005 . Mattiace splits his time between the PGA Tour ( where he relies on past champion status for entries ) and Web.com Tour . He currently resides in Jacksonville , Florida . Mattiace is naturally left-handed but plays right-handed .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "0532552a7cfe9dddb256f034b4e1daf0", "text": "Alvis Woods Alvis `` Al '' Woods ( born August 8 , 1953 in Oakland , California ) is a former professional baseball player . He played all or part of seven seasons in Major League Baseball between 1977 and 1986 , primarily as a left fielder . He batted and threw left-handed . Woods was originally drafted by the Montreal Expos in 1971 , but did not sign until being drafted by the Minnesota Twins the following season . He spent several seasons in the minor leagues before being selected by the Toronto Blue Jays in the 1976 Major League Baseball expansion draft . Woods was on the Opening Day roster for the Blue Jays ' inaugural season . In his -- and the team 's -- first ever major league game , on April 7 , 1977 , he entered the game in the fifth inning as a pinch hitter for right fielder Steve Bowling . He proceeded to homer in his first at bat , on the fifth pitch he saw , off Chicago White Sox pitcher Francisco Barrios . He ended the 1977 season with a .284 batting average in 122 games as the regular Blue Jays left fielder . Woods enjoyed a good season in 1979 , appearing a career-high 132 games while hitting .278 with 33 extra-base hits . In 1980 , he recorded career highs in average ( .300 ) , home runs ( 15 ) and RBI ( 47 ) . The next two years he shared outfield duties with George Bell , Lloyd Moseby , Garth Iorg and Barry Bonnell , and also saw action as a designated hitter . Following the 1982 season , Woods was traded to the Oakland Athletics for Cliff Johnson . The A 's released him during spring training , and he re-signed to a minor league contract with the Blue Jays in July . He spent the next two seasons with the Triple-A Syracuse Chiefs , and was released by the Blue Jays at the end of the 1984 season . Woods returned to the Minnesota Twins for the 1985 season , spending the entire year with the Triple-A Toledo Mud Hens . He started 1986 with Toledo , but received a brief call-up in May , and again was brought up to the majors when rosters expanded in September . He became a free agent after the season , and subsequently retired . Overall , in a seven-season career , Woods was a .271 hitter with 35 home runs and 196 RBI in 618 games .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "fa86c234714f047fc17c76b03e1bc69c", "text": "1997 World Cup of Golf The 1997 World Cup of Golf took place 20 -- 23 November at the Kiawah Island Golf Resort , Ocean Course in Kiawah Island , South Carolina , U.S. . It was the 43rd World Cup . The tournament was a 72-hole stroke play team event ( 32 teams ) with each team consisting of two players from a country . The combined score of each team determined the team results . Individuals also competed for the International Trophy . The prize money totaled $ 1,500,000 with $ 400,000 going to the winning pair and $ 100,000 to the top individual . The Irish team of Pádraig Harrington and Paul McGinley won by five strokes over the Scottish team of Colin Montgomerie and Raymond Russell . Colin Montgomerie took the International Trophy by two strokes over Alex Čejka .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "4f2cfd7a771495ee858f9b1510df6736", "text": "1995 Masters Tournament The 1995 Masters Tournament was the 59th Masters Tournament , held April 6 -- 9 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta , Georgia . Ben Crenshaw won his second Masters championship , one stroke ahead of runner-up Davis Love III . It was an emotional victory for Crenshaw as it came just days after the death of his mentor , Harvey Penick . Crenshaw and Tom Kite attended the funeral in Texas on Wednesday and did not return to Augusta until that night , on the eve of the first round . The 1995 Masters marked the first major championship for Tiger Woods , who qualified as the 1994 U.S. Amateur champion . A 19-year-old college freshman at Stanford , he tied for 41st place and was the leading amateur , the only one to make the cut . Woods ' average driving distance was the longest in the tournament .", "title": "" } ]

[ { "docid": "2c16d7c9b7dc8cd778d3ad0b4c42b81a", "text": "Cher Cher ( -LSB- ˈʃɛər -RSB- born Cherilyn Sarkisian , May 20 , 1946 ) is an American singer and actress . Sometimes referred to as the Goddess of Pop , she has been described as embodying female autonomy in a male-dominated industry . She is known for her distinctive contralto singing voice and for having worked in numerous areas of entertainment , as well as adopting a variety of styles and appearances during her five-decade-long career . Cher gained popularity in 1965 as one-half of the folk rock husband-wife duo Sonny & Cher after their song `` I Got You Babe '' reached number one on the American and British charts . By the end of 1967 , they had sold 40 million records worldwide and had become , according to Time magazine , rock 's `` it '' couple . She began her solo career simultaneously , releasing in 1966 her first million-seller song , `` Bang Bang ( My Baby Shot Me Down ) '' . She became a television personality in the 1970s with her shows The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour , watched by over 30 million viewers weekly during its three-year run , and Cher . She emerged as a fashion trendsetter by wearing elaborate outfits on her television shows . While working on television , she established herself as a solo artist with the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart-topping singles `` Gypsys , Tramps & Thieves '' , `` Half-Breed '' , and `` Dark Lady '' . After her divorce from Sonny Bono in 1975 , Cher launched a comeback in 1979 with the disco-oriented album Take Me Home and earned $ 300,000 a week for her 198082 residency show in Las Vegas . In 1982 , Cher made her Broadway debut in the play Come Back to the Five and Dime , Jimmy Dean , Jimmy Dean and starred in the film adaptation of the same title . She subsequently earned critical acclaim for her performances in films such as Silkwood ( 1983 ) , Mask ( 1985 ) , and Moonstruck ( 1987 ) , for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress . She then revived her musical career by recording the rock-inflected albums Cher ( 1987 ) , Heart of Stone ( 1989 ) , and Love Hurts ( 1991 ) , all of which yielded several successful singles . She reached a new commercial peak in 1998 with the album Believe , whose title track became the biggest-selling single of all time by a female artist in the UK . It also features the pioneering use of Auto-Tune , also known as the `` Cher effect '' . Her 2002 -- 2005 Living Proof : The Farewell Tour became one of the highest-grossing concert tours of all time , earning $ 250 million . In 2008 , she signed a $ 180 million deal to headline the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas for three years . After seven years of absence , she returned to film in the 2010 musical Burlesque . Cher 's first studio album in 12 years , Closer to the Truth ( 2013 ) , became her highest-charting solo album in the U.S. to date at number three . Cher has won a Grammy Award , an Emmy Award , an Academy Award , three Golden Globe Awards , a Cannes Film Festival Award , and a special CFDA Fashion Award , among several other honors . Throughout her career , she has sold 100 million records worldwide , becoming one of the best-selling music artists in the music history . She is the only artist to date to have a number-one single on a Billboard chart in each decade from the 1960s to the 2010s . Outside of her music and acting , she is noted for her political views , philanthropic endeavors and social activism , including LGBT rights and HIV/AIDS prevention .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "80d978f5fdfd13f9d3b41cbb8433c5ee", "text": "Silkwood Silkwood is a 1983 American biographical drama film directed by Mike Nichols starring Meryl Streep , Cher and Kurt Russell . The screenplay by Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen was inspired by the life of Karen Silkwood . Silkwood was a nuclear whistleblower and a labor union activist who died in a suspicious car accident while investigating alleged wrongdoing at the Kerr-McGee plutonium plant where she worked . In real life , her death was vindicated in a victorious 1979 lawsuit , Silkwood v. Kerr-McGee , led by attorney Gerry Spence . The jury rendered its verdict of $ 10 million in damages to be paid to the Silkwood estate ( her children ) , the largest amount in damages ever awarded for that kind of case at the time . The Silkwood estate eventually settled for $ 1.3 million . Silkwood was shot largely in both New Mexico and Texas on a budget of $ 10 million . Factual accuracy was maintained throughout the script , with some incidents exactly parallel to the real-life experiences of Karen Silkwood . One scene in particular involved the activation of a radiation alarm at the plant . Silkwood herself had forty times the legal limit of radiation in her system . Streep had just finished filming Sophie 's Choice ( 1982 ) when production began . The film also marked a departure for some of its stars : it is noted for being one of the first `` serious '' works of Cher , who had been previously known mostly for her singing , and for Kurt Russell , who was at the time widely known for his work in the action genre . The film received positive reviews and was a box office success , with particular attention focused on the performances by the three leading actors . At the 56th Academy Awards , Silkwood received five nominations in total . Streep was nominated for a Best Actress award , while Cher received a nomination for Supporting Actress . Director Mike Nichols received a nomination in the Best Director category . After being out of print on DVD in the United States , the film is set to be released on Blu-ray in July 25 , 2017 .", "title": "" } ]

[ { "docid": "1bfaaff3cda69f8f5c91ea4d29ea2142", "text": "Virginia Cherrill Virginia Cherrill ( April 12 , 1908 -- November 14 , 1996 ) was an American actress best known for her role as the blind flower girl in Charlie Chaplin 's City Lights ( 1931 ) .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "b9ae2efd77b63b0cadf6c4498e0ba2af", "text": "Frankie Michaels Frankie Michaels ( born Francis Michael Chernesky ; May 5 , 1955 -- March 30 , 2016 ) was an American singer and actor of stage , film and television .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "efa2a5e1b9ef54997519a7b9bbba5bf9", "text": "Mohydeen Izzat Quandour IMDb pro Mohy Quandour | Resume | Photos Mohy Quandour M.I. Quandour About the Director Mohy Quandour director/producer and screenwriter and author , is a veteran award-winning filmmaker with over 30 years of film experience in Hollywood and in Europe . He cut his teeth in the film industry starting with advertising films at J. Walter Thompson and MPO studios in New York . Then moved to Hollywood in the early seventies and was best known for his Hollywood television work on such classics as Mannix and Bonanza . He went on to direct such films as `` Cold Wind '' , `` The Spectre of Edgar Allan Poe '' with Robert Walker and Cesar Romero , `` Lost in Chechnya '' and produced several award-winning documentaries such as `` The Last Horsemen '' and `` Musical Journey '' and others for European TV networks such as Tele Hashette , the BBC and channel One in France . Quandour is also an established author/novelist with 20 historical novels published worldwide . Most of his novels were translated and published in several languages including Arabic Turkish and Russian . His most recent film productions are `` Cherkess '' ( 2010 ) which won him best Director & Best Film awards at the Monaco International Film festival and `` The Prisoner '' ( 2011 ) filmed in Russia & the UK with Julie Cox and Andrei Cherneshev and `` A Facebook Romance '' in 2013 . Mohy Quandour combined his varied career between business and the creative fields , often interchanging between them over a period of 30 years . Quandour is also a classical music composer whose recent works are being performed in Japan and in many European venues ( youtube.com under Quandour ) . He is president and partner in the film production company Sindika Productions . ( www.sindikaproductions.com ) . His most popular literary works are ` The Kavkas Trilogy ' , ` Revolution ' , ` The Last Hunt ' . On 31 May 2005 Quandour was awarded the medal and prize of the Golden Cross in Moscow for his contributions to the `` Culture of the Fatherland '' . He was also awarded the title of `` Author of the people ( Narodni Pesatle ) in the Russian Federation on 5 April 2008 . Quandour divides his residence between Windsor , England and Istanbul , Turkey . Recent Films Cherkess Director/Screenplay Sindika Productions The Prsoner Director/Screenplay Sindika Productions A Facebook Romance Director/Screenplay Sindika Productions The Spectre of Edgar Allen Poe Director Cinerama Cold Wind Director/Screenplay Cintel Productions Education Stanford University & Claremont Graduate School , MA . MIS . Ph.D. , Studies : economics & history Awards Monaco International Film Festival , Best Director , Best screenplay , Best Film , 2010 Malatya ( Turkey ) International Film festival , Best Director 2012 Sindika Productions web page : This is a partnership between Mohy Quandour and his wife Luba Balagova . It is active in European and Middle Eastern co productions developing projects in Turkey , France and the UK . The company has been active since 2009 and has produced 3 features films as mentioned above . It is based in Windsor United Kingdom ( The Coach House , Burfiled Road , Old Windsor ) and Istanbul Turkey ( Elysium , 3 Kazem Orbay Cad . 24 , Bomanti Sisli , Istanbul ) web page : www.sindikaproductions.com", "title": "" }, { "docid": "9ee2c1002ffa558c2f77b0e7620eef87", "text": "If I Could Turn Back Time: Cher's Greatest Hits If I Could Turn Back Time : Cher 's Greatest Hits is the fourth U.S. compilation album by American singer-actress Cher , released on March 9 , 1999 by Geffen . In January 2000 , the album was certified Gold by the RIAA for selling more than 500,000 copies in the US . Billboard stated in November 2011 that the album has sold 955,000 copies in the US . It does not contain her last 1998 worldwide hit `` Believe '' .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "0c2ee1995bddb99a3d78a9eb30dd9f58", "text": "César Award for Best Supporting Actress The César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role ( French : César de la meilleure actrice dans un second rôle ) is one of the César Awards , presented annually by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma to recognize the outstanding performance in a supporting role of an actress who has worked within the French film industry during the year preceding the ceremony . Nominees and winner are selected via a run-off voting by all the members of the Académie .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "10659ac63fe05be6564369be94f39d08", "text": "38th César Awards The 38th Annual César Awards ceremony , presented by the French Academy of Cinema Arts and Techniques ( Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma ) , was held on 22 February 2013 , at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris . The ceremony was chaired by Jamel Debbouze , with Antoine de Caunes as master of ceremonies . Nominations were announced 25 January 2013 . Michael Haneke 's film Amour , nominated in ten categories , won in five , including Best Film , Best Director , Best Actor and Best Actress .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "43e2b647c69046ee60f820c05c5e9a4f", "text": "I Saw a Man and He Danced with His Wife `` I Saw A Man And He Danced With His Wife '' is the third single released by American singer/actress Cher from her 11th album Dark Lady . It reached at # 42 on the Billboard Hot 100 and # 3 on the Adult Contemporary chart .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "99654dc0d0e8dc0535399aed2cb7c6d8", "text": "Where Do You Go Where Do You Go may refer to : `` Where Do You Go '' ( Cher song ) `` Where Do You Go '' ( La Bouche song ) , also covered by No Mercy `` Where Do You Go '' , a song by Bryan Rice from Confessional `` Where Do You Go ? '' , a song by Frank Sinatra from No One Cares", "title": "" }, { "docid": "c8041bed47571c09ea5538878ad9a942", "text": "Jérôme Charvet Jérôme Charvet is a French actor who has appeared in films since 2005 .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "6b5dff9513bf01faf58e4cffc28d57ad", "text": "Bill Raymond William Joseph `` Bill '' Raymond ( born September 9 , 1938 ) is an American actor who has appeared in film , television and theatre since the 1960s .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "e0f845e1ca6319d4c7f1a80282985eef", "text": "Wot Cher! Knocked 'em in the Old Kent Road `` Wot Cher ! Knocked 'em in the Old Kent Road '' is a British music hall comedy song written in 1891 by the actor and singer Albert Chevalier . The score was by his brother and manager Charles Ingle . Chevalier developed a stage persona as the archetypal Cockney and was a celebrated variety artist , with the nickname of `` The Singing Costermonger '' . When first performed it was known simply as `` Wot Cher ! '' The song describes the sudden endowment of apparent wealth on a poor family . The song 's verse is in a minor key , and then the chorus moves into the relative major . It was sung by Shirley Temple in the 1939 film A Little Princess .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "e3461db7f78b68470280dc946e98e2e7", "text": "Yelena Chernykh Yelena Chernykh ( Cyrillic : Елена Черных ) ( August 24 , 1979 -- October 4 , 2011 ) was a Russian theatre actress . She has been called '' хрупкая красавица и вместе с тем необычайно выносливая актриса '' ( a fragile beauty and yet extraordinarily hardy actress ) .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "a9af04edb2a28f89abee8f806a985cec", "text": "Yves Vincent Yves Vincent ( 5 August 1921 -- 6 January 2016 ) was a French film and television actor .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "fc431dbb3c3e2428ff32f656635333bb", "text": "Sparkle (2012 film) Sparkle is a 2012 American musical film directed by Salim Akil and produced by Stage 6 Films , It was released on August 17 , 2012 , by TriStar Pictures . Inspired by The Supremes , Sparkle is a remake of the 1976 film of the same name , which centered on three singing teenage sisters from Harlem who form a girl group in the late 1960s . The remake takes place in Detroit , Michigan in the 1960s during the Motown era . The film stars Jordin Sparks , Derek Luke , Whitney Houston , Mike Epps , Cee Lo Green , Carmen Ejogo , Tika Sumpter , Tamela Mann and Omari Hardwick . Sparkle features songs from the original film written by soul musician Curtis Mayfield as well as new compositions by R&B artist R. Kelly . This film is the debut of R&B / pop singer and American Idol winner Jordin Sparks as an actress . Sparkle also marks Whitney Houston 's fifth and final feature film role before her death on February 11 , 2012 , three months after filming ended . The film is dedicated to her memory .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "f91f93418c5ebe3101f5c97a6ae90db7", "text": "Charan Raj Charan Raj is an Indian film actor , director , music director , film producer , and writer who primarily works in Tamil and other southern languages . Charan Raj is known for his outstanding performances in films like Gentleman , Pratighaat , Indrudu Chandrudu and Kartavyam . He was also a part of Rajanikanth hits Phool Bane Angaray , Veera , Dharma Dorai and Baasha . He had also been a regular in Kannada and Malayalam films . He debuted in Kannada films as a hero . Siddalingaiah is considered to be his godfather .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "03b892dfbbde0ae987879e019220acb1", "text": "Georgi Cherkelov Georgi Cherkelov : 25 June 1930 -- 19 February 2012 . Bulgarian stage and film actor . One of the most prominent names in the Bulgarian theater and cinema in the last decades . He became widely popular after the role of the anti-communist police inspector Velinski in the TV series At Every Kilometer ( 1969 ) . Cherkelov appeared in many of the major Bulgarian film productions . He played the leading roles in Men on a business trip ( 1969 ) , Toplo / Warmth ( 1978 ) , Socrates ( 1981 ) , The Judge ( 1986 ) . He was also in many German and Italian film co-productions . He has directed the TV film `` Last Stop -- Berlin '' ( 1983 ) .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "b4935218b3c826160127e42a327554be", "text": "The Assistant (2015 film) The Assistant ( original title : La Volante ) is a 2015 drama-thriller film directed by Christophe Ali and Nicolas Bonilauri and starring Nathalie Baye and Malik Zidi .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "aea07889966dfb281a017892f997edfe", "text": "Cherish (Seiko Matsuda album) Cherish is the forty-fifth studio album by Seiko Matsuda . It came in two different versions , a regular edition which contains the CD album and a first press special edition that contained the CD album plus a 36-page photobook . The album release was n't preceded by any single release , so all the songs in the album are new songs .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "2ea203ee49603537eda00c8ef1f85ba3", "text": "Child actor The term child actor or child actress is generally applied to a child acting on stage or in motion pictures or television , but also to an adult who began his or her acting career as a child ; to avoid confusion , the latter is also called a former child actor . Closely associated is teenage actor or teen actor , an actor who reached popularity as a teenager . Many child actors find themselves struggling to adapt as they become adults . Lindsay Lohan and Macaulay Culkin are two particular famous child actors who eventually experienced much difficulty with the fame they acquired at a young age ; Lohan 's career resumed after an interruption of several years . Many child actors also become successful adult actors as well , an example being Mickey Rooney 's career that included both the popular 1935 film A Midsummer Night 's Dream and the popular 2011 film The Muppets .", "title": "" }, { "docid": "a18cedc161cd87e4e5154b5ebc47c558", "text": "Cherré, Sarthe Cherré is a commune in the Sarthe department in the Pays de la Loire region in north-western France .", "title": "" } ]